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Harold E. Edgerton—"Doc" Edgerton and His Laboratory Notebooks
By Jimena Canales
Front cover of notebook 31, in use January 11, 1973–August 17, 1975.
Page 88 from notebook 8, in use June 1, 1937–April 16, 1938.
Page 47 from notebook 1, in use June 18, 1948–February 7, 1950.
Page 122 from notebook 7, in use April 28, 1936–May 27, 1937.
Page 79 from notebook T-3, in use January 20–July 13, 1932.
Page 100 from notebook 9, in use April 18, 1938–June 12, 1939.
Page 3 from notebook 10, in use June 13, 1939–September 17, 1940.
Page 42 from notebook 9, in use April 18, 1938–June 12, 1939.
Page 73 from notebook 25, in use April 29, 1938–May 14, 1960.
Page 78 from notebook EE, in use December 8, 1948–April 8, 1951.
"Let a cannon-bullet pass through a room, and in its way take with it any limb or fleshy part of man." This dramatic scenario was envisaged by the great Enlightenment thinker John Locke in 1689. The bullet, he reasoned, "must touch one part of the flesh first, and another after, and so in succession." But the action would happen so instantaneously that no one would be able to "perceive any succession, either in the pain or sound of so swift a stroke." Our rational minds tell us that rapid events occur in a certain order, even though this order cannot be perceived. Since Locke's early speculations, generations of researchers have worked hard to understand an increasingly fast-paced world. With the help of electronic flash, photographers were able to arrest Locke's imagined projectile in midair: in the 1930s, Harold E. "Doc" Edgerton, working at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, captured a rifle's bullet flying at the vertiginous speed of 2,700 feet per second. The first use of flash is usually attributed to one of the inventors of photography, William Henry Fox Talbot. In 1851 Talbot used a simple electric spark to illuminate a moving target—a page of the London Times that was pinned on a rapidly rotating wheel. To his amazement, the resulting photograph was legible. At the turn of the century, the British physicist A. M. Worthington used sparks to illuminate splashing drops, and in France during the 1920s the Seguin brothers developed the "stroborama"— a machine made first with mercury and then with neon arc lamps. As scientists extended the field of flash illumination beyond the spark, they increased the range of their visual studies.
Edgerton's first announcement of strobe technologies appeared in a 1931 issue of the journal Electrical Engineering. James R. Killian, a young science writer (later president of MIT and one of Dwight Eisenhower's most trusted scientific advisors), was immediately fascinated by strobe lights. For more than forty years, Edgerton and Killian worked as a team: one taking the photographs and the other writing about the "meaning of the pictures."
Page 151 from notebook 26, in use May 14, 1960–January 18, 1962.
In 1932 Edgerton's images were published in Technology Review, a student-run MIT journal edited by Killian, who also wrote the preface to Edgerton's first book about strobe technology, the handsomely illustrated Flash! Seeing the Unseen by Ultra High-Speed Photography (1939). When the United States joined World War II, Edgerton went on active duty; his night-reconnaissance work (using a 40,000-watt-per-second xenon flash) won him the Medal of Freedom. Upon returning home, he cofounded a highly lucrative defense-contract business from which he and his partners made a munificent living. Among their many endeavors, they developed a shutterless "rapatronic" ("rapid" and "electronic") camera that was able to photograph the first stages of superfast nuclear explosions. In 1954 Killian and Edgerton republished Flash!. The original 1939 edition had included a photograph of a golf club hitting a ball; in the later volume this image was replaced with one of an atomic bomb explosion. While much had changed during a decade and a half of war and Cold War, Killian's preface to the book was unaltered. Edgerton was, Killian noted there, "first of all a scientist and an electrical engineer, investigating, measuring, seeking new facts about natural phenomena." Nonetheless, Killian also insisted that "these pictures are not only facts, but new aesthetic experiences," which he compared to Edward Weston's cypress trees and rocks, Edward Steichen's sunflowers, and Alfred Stieglitz's clouds and hands. He described Edgerton's images as "literal transcriptions" of nature, broadly fitting within a realist theory of representation. They were, Killian asserted, "scientific records" written in a "universal language for all to appreciate."
For Edgerton himself, strobe photographs were something else: records of the unforeseen and the unexpected. As he would put it decades later: "A good experiment is simply one that reveals something previously unknown to the student." Many aspiring young engineers arrived at his MIT Strobe Lab believing otherwise: "Some students expect the results to prove the initial assumption, but I have always empathized with the student who sees new discoveries and knowledge that were not anticipated flowing from the laboratory." According to Edgerton, there was "no such thing as a 'perfect' result or a complete study of the phenomenon." His laboratory notebooks, filled with notes, handscrawled diagrams, and snapshots documenting his work, reveal the flowing stage of production—often referred to as "science in action"—which belies the static, "ready-made" outcome presented at the end. In contrast to the published photographs, those in his lab notebooks show a different behind-the-scenes spectacle: most interestingly, scientists (including Edgerton himself) working their machines. Killian was not concerned with the production process of science or with unexpected results that could suddenly surface in real time. For a number of like-minded thinkers—including Aristotle and Albert Einstein—time was as predictable as space. Edgerton's machines "manipulate time as the microscope or telescope manipulates space," Killian wrote. Modern science " enabled us to see and understand by contracting and expanding not only space but time."
Edgerton was not as optimistic as Killian. "Although I've tried for years to photograph a drop of milk splashing on a plate with all the coronet's points spaced equally apart, I have never succeeded." But he was hardly disappointed: "In many ways, unexpected results are what have most inspired my photography."
Page 46 from notebook 19, in use June 18, 1948–February 7, 1950.
Edgerton expected the unexpected. In 1952 came an ultimate case in point: in approximately ten nanoseconds, one of the handheld cameras he and his associates had developed captured the initial stages of the first hydrogen bomb explosion, which obliterated Elugelab Island, part of the Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands of the Pacific. Even those who had witnessed atomic tests were stunned by the bomb's capacity for destruction: the explosion was more than twenty times the size of the Hiroshima fireball. Not only was Elugelab vaporized, but life on the surrounding islands was destroyed. Radiation blanketed most of the atoll, and hundreds of natives expelled from the island were left with nowhere to return to. As in Locke's seventeenthcentury description, the pain on the ground did not match with the knowledge of the succession of events—this time on a scale never before imagined.
Jimena Canales is associate professor of the history of science at Harvard University. She is the author of A Tenth of a Second: A History (University of Chicago press, 2010) and numerous articles on the history of science, film, photography, art, and architecture.
All images courtesy MIT Libraries, Institute Archives and Special Collections, Harold Eugene Edgerton Papers, Cambridge, Massachusetts. All rights reserved.
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Q: How to build OpenCv with extra contrib modules I am trying to build OpenCV to include OpenCV contrib modules which is in a repository. I am following the instructions in this link, but i could not understand the cmd commands which is i mentioned in the section titled "cmd commands" as follows.
cmd commands:
$ cd <opencv_build_directory>
$ cmake -DOPENCV_EXTRA_MODULES_PATH=<opencv_contrib>/modules
<opencv_source_directory>
$ make -j5

here are my attempts to get the cmd commands as mentioned above running:
1-concerning the opencv_build_directory: i just created it by myself and named it 'build' as shown in the image in the section titled "OpenCV3.0.0 source"
2-concerning the opencv_source_directory: i think it should be "OpenCV-android-sdk" as shown in the image section titled "OpenCV3.0.0 source"
3- for the cmd command '$ cd ' i set it as follows:
c:\xxxx\libs\OpenCV-3.0.0-android-sdk-1\OpenCV-android-sdk\build>

4- for the cmd command '$ cmake -DOPENCV_EXTRA_MODULES_PATH=/modules' iset it as follows:
 cmake -DOPENCV_EXTRA_MODULES_PATH=opencv_contrib-master/modules OpenCV-
 android-sdk

the entire command i type in the cmd is:
c:\xxxx\libs\OpenCV-3.0.0-android-sdk-1\OpenCV-android-
sdk\build>cmake -DOPENCV_EXTRA_MODULES_PATH=opencv_contrib-
master/modules OpenCV-android-sdk

but after running it, i get:
CMake Error: The source directory "C:/xxxx/libs/OpenCV-3.0.0-
android-sdk-1/OpenCV-android-sdk/build/OpenCV-android-sdk" does not
exist.
Specify --help for usage, or press the help button on the CMake GUI.

please help me to build the path correctly as stated in the linke mentioned
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I am trying to install opencv contrib modules on android through android Studio
OpenCV3.0.0 source

OpenCV-contrib source:

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In Latest M&A Trend, 'Family' Matters
This article originally appeared in Inside Radio on Oct. 13, 2015.
When Petrus Holding Company made a substantial investment in Connoisseur Media in July, the news garnered headlines in part due to the family name behind the investment firm. Petrus is run by the family of Ross Perot, Jr., son of the former presidential candidate and businessman with an estimated net worth of $4.1 billion. But the investment may be more notable as part of a growing radio trend, the rise of so-called "family offices."
In the deals, investment companies operate for the benefit of one family and its close allies. Among them are Michael and Greg Frischling's Steel City Media. The family-owned, second-generation, Pittsburgh-based operator marked its 30th anniversary last year with a $105.5 million acquisition of Wilks Broadcasting's Kansas City cluster. "There are more of these out there than people realize," says broker Glenn Serafin. "What I hear from most radio broadcasters is that they want to be better, not necessarily bigger."
Chris Rowe, managing director at FourBridges Capital Advisors, also anticipates more family-based radio dealmaking. "A lot of the mom and pops will transition into larger regional broadcasters," he predicts. As Baby Boomer-aged independent operators retire, "some of these mom and pops will be looking for their option to sell," Rowe says. "And while there aren't a lot of buyers in small markets, there are pockets of opportunity."
Rowe also anticipates more private equity-backed radio companies, such as Community Broadcasters' $2.5 million deal to buy 12 radio stations, 10 FM translators and three TV station construction permits from Miller Communications in South Carolina. Northwood Ventures, a Long Island, NY-based venture capital firm, provided the financing.
"As long as there is a lot of capital out there, low interest rates and a relatively decent economy where you can get good ad rates, that will propel the dealmaking forward," Rowe says.
From Serafin's vantage point, radio remains an attractive investment opportunity. "Radio is ubiquitous. It is the original wireless medium. It is agile in adapting to change. Programming is affordable. There are large pools of talent, both sales and air talent," he says. "Profit margins can be very high compared to most other business. And we get terrific tax treatment. What's not to like?"
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"Summer never ends, it just changes places." I always feel a little sad this time of year, but these wonderful words help me face the change of seasons in an optimistic tone. You don't say good-bye to summer, just au revoir, you let it go just for a while, for others to enjoy its magic too. It's been a beautiful summer and, even if we couldn't take a proper vacation because of work, there have been many one-day or weekend getaways and road trips, which filled me with the enthusiasm and joy I used to feel on summer holiday as a child.
• The Venice Film Festival is at its 70th edition. August 28th – September 7th.
• How can designers cope with the endless newness demanded of fashion? Why the nonstop spring-prefall-fall-resort parade? Read more about the new speed of fashion here.
• One of the most awaited collaborations this coming fall (September 15th) is 3.1 Phillip Lim for Target. I would love this floral blouse and this leather jacket for my wardrobe.
• Who's for a simple Moroccan dinner?
Natalia, I am sorry to hear that about your summer. I've had my highs and lows, but summer always has a uplifting effect on me. I'm like a fish in the water in summer. But the change of seasons if always exciting and, bit by bit, I start to look forward to autumn.
I love the children photos— so sweet and really true to the summer mindset! Off to check out the Moroccan dinner!
Oh what an absolutely beautiful article in T Magazine about beauty and youth and ageing… loved it (i will borrow it for my In The Schedule links at the end of the week!). It's so funny- the other day I read where someone said '70 is the new 55!'…everyone is trying to validate themselves to a younger generation as if, if they really said I love being '70' it would be all wrong! We all age ,it happens, and I don't yet the fascination with looking younger. Years ago, youth couldn't wait to grow old (turning 16/ 18/ 21 was a big event).. now everyone north of 30 wants to be 21 again! For me, I love 46 and the best time is now, and tomorrow and the next day! Women beat themselves up alot don't they?
I've saved that intereview with Isabel Marant also! Love her and she's totally my kind of thinker.
I know the feeling! True, it's an 'au revoir', but I'm not ready to say goodbye to summer, or at least not on my blog and I'll try to be inspired by the this season for at least another couple of weeks…Regarding the 3.1 Phillip Lim for Target collaboration, there are so many great looks (perfect for work!) and it's a pity that it will not be available in Europe!
I know, it's such a pity that the 3.1 Phillip Lim for Target collection won't be available here.


On page 333 of this memoir--which covers the first 40 years of Gore Vidal's life--"Palimpsest" finally clicks into place. It's 1959, and Vidal has been taking a sabbatical from fiction; his first novel, "Williwaw," a succes d'estime of 1946, has been followed by "The City and the Pillar," a succes de scandale thanks to its homosexual theme, and other books, but his best sellers, from "Julian" and "Burr" to "Myra Breckinridge," lie ahead.
He has just had a Broadway hit with his play "The Best Man," in which a Nixonesque presidential aspirant and his idealistic, indecisive rival duke it out at a political convention. An earlier play, "Visit to a Small Planet," has been widely produced and has just been made into a (terrible) movie with Jerry Lewis, and Vidal has also written the screenplay for Tennessee Williams' "Suddenly, Last Summer." His stepbrother-in-law, John F. Kennedy, is headed for the Democratic presidential nomination, and Vidal himself--the grandson of Sen. Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma (and cousin of our current vice president)--is thinking of running as a Democrat for Congress from New York State's 29th District.
In order to secure the blessing of Eleanor Roosevelt, he goes to Hyde Park, where, arriving unannounced at Val-Kill Cottage, he discovers the former First Lady in a bathroom, "standing in front of the toilet bowl. She gave a startled squeak. `Oh dear!' Then, resignedly, `Well, now you know everything.' She stepped aside, revealing a dozen gladiolas she had been arranging in the toilet bowl. `It keeps them fresh.' "
From gladiolas to glad-handing, E.R. teaches him about the political ways of the world, and he proceeds to the Democratic Convention (Kennedy wins) and his own Congressional race (he loses). Along the way he and John Kenneth Galbraith and Arthur Schlesinger--"awash in rum" at a victory dinner--debate which of them will tell the candidate to stop saying "between you and I"; the Kennedy camp gets him to spread disinformation about JFK's health; and Bobby Kennedy (whom he describes as "a McCarthyite Torquemada") develops an intense loathing for him.
After so many pages full of deliciously gossipy but rather self-involved reminiscence, this chapter--and the next one, which chronicles a visit Vidal made to the Kennedys' Hyannisport compound in 1961--are a relief. Finally, it seems, Vidal is describing something, or someone, that he finds more absorbing than himself. Until then, though, what marks his recital of the events and personages that have filled his life is his feeling that "I had never wanted to meet most of the people I had met. . . . If you have known one person, you have known them all."
An odd credo for a novelist and still more for a memoirist. Most memoirists would kill for Vidal's cast of characters. There are his grandparents--the senator, blinded in a series of boyhood mishaps ("the odds are very much against losing an eye in an accident," says his grandson, "but to lose two is positively Lloydsian"), and his wife, Dot, who brought the 15-year-old Gore to live with them when their daughter's marriage to Hugh D. ("Hughdie") Auchincloss, soon to become Jacqueline Bouvier's step-father, was breaking up. There's his mother, Nina Gore, a beautiful, manipulative, mendacious drunk who, after divorcing Eugene Vidal (Gore's father) and Auchincloss, married Air Force Gen. Robert Olds.
There's Anais Nin, a chronic liar who "preferred boys . . . to men" and with whom Vidal had an extended relationship--although (he is careful to tell us) he was never in love with her. There's Tennessee Williams, (who said of JFK and Jackie, whom Vidal had taken him to meet, "The American people will never elect those two. They're far too attractive.") There's Truman Capote, too--another literary wunderkind of the late '40s and early '50s, whom Vidal later sued for libel. And there are Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward (the latter of whom Vidal almost married, ostensibly to bring the former to the altar) and Jack Kerouac (with whom Vidal had a bittersweet one-night stand) and E.M. Forster, Saul Bellow, Leonard Bernstein, Princess Margaret, Edith Sitwell, Andre Gide, Norman Mailer and others too numerous to mention.
Vidal's portraits of them are frequently as devastating as they are brief: He's a master at drive-by character assassination. He quotes Lee Radziwill's first husband as saying that Lee "went perhaps too far, you know? Like going to bed with Jack in the room next to mine . . . and then boasting about it."
As for Bellow: "I could never tell Saul's wives apart. He always seemed to be married to Platonic-model woman, with a tendency to nag: `Of course you forgot to pick up the yogurt after I especially asked you to. . . ' " The aforementioned Capote ("That season I was keeping track of Capote's lies") is later described as giving "an interview--his principal art form, as it proved."
Vidal claims that his "Rosebud"--the key that makes a pattern of the random events and personages of his life--is his doomed love for Jimmie Trimble, a blond, athletic youth who was killed at Iwo Jima. Perhaps Paradise Lost always seems unreal, but the sad truth is that Jimmie, whose life intersected with Vidal's only briefly, is the least interesting character in this book. Revealingly, part of his attraction for Vidal was their physical similarity: "I saw my other half in Jimmie Trimble." Instead of a window into Vidal's soul, Jimmie provides only a mirror. What looks back at us is elegant and amusing but ultimately unsatisfying.


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Increased Government Scrutiny of Large Tech Companies Increases at Both Federal and State Levels and Internationally
The anti-trust action brought by the U.S. Department of Justice during October of last year was not the first time federal regulators considered taking action against Google.
Newly revealed documents from a 2011-2013 Federal Trade Investigation revealed by Politico also focused on potential anti-competitive behavior by the search engine giant in relation to some of the same contractual relationships targeted by the current suit as well as other practices that may have impacted competitors such as Yelp and eBay. A follow up article by Politico has noted the bipartisan congressional support for renewed investigative activity.
Bipartisan support also exists in attempting to curb the power of tech companies on various issues including online privacy, digital advertisements and app-store fees in the legislatures of states such as Arizona, Maryland and Virginia, which a recent Wall Street Journal article has examined.
As we are still in relatively earlier stages when it comes to regulating the digital economy, state laws in this area can have an outsized impact such as the privacy law passed by California in 2018.
As regulatory efforts increase, large tech companies have increased their lobbying efforts, including at the local level.
Internationally, in a major development, after Britain's Supreme Court recently ruled that certain drivers for App-based driver and delivery companies must be classified as 'workers' entitled to a minimum wage and vacation time, Uber stated yesterday that it would classify its British drivers as such.
This is the latest in Uber and other similar companies' ongoing legal battles and is a major reversal after they had been successful in passing Proposition 22 in California last year, which created an exemption from requiring it and other App-based driver and delivery companies from classifying drivers as employees, and instead allowed them to classify drivers as less protected independent contractors.
It should be noted that the British classification of 'worker' constitutes a middle ground between a full employee and an independent contractor. Such middle ground does not exist in the U.S..
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Today fashion is all about business: Designer Rina Dhaka
The Hans India
26 Jan 2017 11:38 PM GMT
She was considered one of the promising young faces when she burst on to the Indian fashion scene in the 1980s and today has clients like Naomi Campbell, Martha Marzotto and Uma Thurman, to name a few.
She was considered one of the promising young faces when she burst on to the Indian fashion scene in the 1980s and today has clients like Naomi Campbell, Martha Marzotto and Uma Thurman, to name a few. Designer Rina Dhaka says when she joined the industry, there was no concept of money or trade and the world of Indian fashion was a different one altogether.
In an interview, the designer reflected upon the changes in the fashion industry. "When we came in, there was no concept of money or trade. We came in because there was art and craft and fun, and we wanted to make clothes between a muse and the fact that late (designer) Rohit Khosla in a beautiful house in Maharani Bagh had a 1,000 sq ft place for a single tailor who made my clothes. There was no bill ever, we just made them and worked from show to show.
"It was a different world altogether. We did these shows aiming to dress up the models; nobody in the fashion industry cared about the audience, nobody cared about why we were doing it. Today, the concept has really changed, it's all about business. And some designers, as a result, have done extremely well," Dhaka told.
The designer has showcased her work at The Louvre Paris, Metropolitan museum, New York, London, Mauritius, South Africa, Dubai, Singapore, Hong Kong and the US. She has been retailing in the US, Munich, Hong Kong and in over 20 boutiques within India and abroad.
Dhaka, known for contemporary women's wear, has recently launched an exclusive line for multi-designer boutique Amaare in the capital.
She considers herself lucky to have arrived in the industry in the "non-commercial phase of fashion".
"I was lucky because we came up during a non-commercial phase of fashion. We had great space to work in. It was great how we felt parallel to Andy Warhol in the 1960s, when the art revolution began. We had our own revolution where there was a Hauz Khas village in Delhi that wasn't so crowded.
"We were a few designers, all were friends, lived in each other's houses. Nobody thought of each other as competition. It was a joy to be with each other. We're still the same," she said of her contemporaries.
As a founder board member of the Fashion Design Council of India (FDCI), the country's apex fashion body, and as a board member on the Crafts Council of India, she is happy with the way young designers are working nowadays. "I love the work of young designers we see these days.
It's so out-of-the-box and so phenomenal. It's incredible and a treat for the ones who make it to this level and whose work can be seen by us. Basically, that means they have gone through the struggle and have produced enough for you to see their collection out there," Dhaka said.
How about the fascination for Bollywood fashion among the masses?
"I'm a bit tired of this Bollywood aping actually. The stylists decide what the Bollywood celebrities wear these days, then the media, which is backed as a nexus between stylists, the PR companies... Blindly, millions of people are following it, and it is a bit odd for me."
And the aping of designer brands in the local market?
"It's a big war out there. There is a world of exhibitions ... which has competition from a parallel world and then you go down to a Big Bazaar or online websites which are selling products worth Rs 499. It's going to boomerang. I don't know when, but it will," said the ace designer.
The designer ended up the conversation by saying that she also wants to work with Bollywood, and would love to work with some of the younger stars like Sushant Singh Rajput and Ranbir Kapoor.
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Before all the hub-bub of the Business Brief, we brought you a story about the official Katamari website,
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Inside Tiffany & Co.'s sparkling Blue Book
Tiffany & Co. Shows in New York a new Blue Book. The company's chief gemologist and vice-president of High Jewelery Melvyn Kirtley, reveals the details.
The debut Blue Book of Tiffany & Co. Released in 1845, just eight years after the foundation of the company itself. There was initially no poetry - it really was an annual catalog presented in a blue cover with new unique ornaments inside. And not only decorations: each book reflected the fashion of its era: it was possible to meet here a fan of silver with mother of pearl (1845), and a precious theatrical binoculars (1890), and a bicycle made of sterling silver (1894). All the famous designers of the American house noted their chapter in the Blue Book: Donald Claflin, Paloma Picasso, Jean Michel Schlumberger, and Elsa Peretti ... The last two chapters of the "book" (already long ago turned from a catalog into a virtual "edition" of precious Works - in 2015 and 2016 - wrote the then director of Tiffany & Co. By the design director Francesca Amfitheatrof, they were called The Art of The Sea and The Art of Transformation. Further, the transformation took place in the company itself: Amfitheatrof finished her work at the jewelry house, and on February 1 of this year Reed Krakoff joined the creative director of the company.
In the new Blue Book, which is now presented, there are a lot from Francesca (and the collection became her swan song on the post of artistic director of Tiffany & Co.), but most importantly, it still mo stly comes from Tiffany & Co. After all, no matter how any designer reinterprets the heritage of the company, over the years the jewelry house has preserved its unique and recognizable style, even though the book was always written in different manner.
Among the new features of the Blue Book - cockt ail rings with a central stone, framed by a complex vegetative motif © PRESS-SERVICE TIFFANY & CO.
The publication of 2017 The Art of the Wild ("Art of the Element") was divided into six parts: Whispers of the Rain Forest, Miracle Berry, The Falls, Leaves of the Sun, Feathered Cloak and the seemingly most diffuse and all-encompassing, but in fact referring to the second name of the tropical flower of the New World of Brunfelsia - Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow ("Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow"). And although each chapter has its own themes and symbols - twisted leaves in Whispers of the Rain Forest, bright colors and cabochons of exotic berries in Miracle Berry, asymmetry and cascades in The Falls - division is still rather conventional, all the chapters of the collection are mixed like wild forest. One of the most spectacular objects - something reminiscent of the aesthetics of tribal ornaments or even traditional skirts of American tribes, a three-dimensional necklace made of platinum with diamonds and a lot of gold leaf-pendants. There are also wide rigid bracelets, and large cocktail rings.
And everywhere - rare stones. As the chief gemologist Tiffany & Co. tells. And Vice President for High Jewelry Melvyn Kirtley: "We are looking for the perfect diamonds and colored gems around the world ... We are not just looking for some new or interesting stones, we always strive to find the best from the existing." Among the results of the aspirations is a 54-carat rubellite in a bracelet from the part Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, amazingly yellow diamonds in Whispers of the Rain Forest earrings, magnificent pearls of the southern seas.... Of gemmological rarities, elbaite, a valuable species of tourmaline. It is distinguished by its multicolor with transitions from green to red, pink, blue (there are fewer transitions of other shades). 13-carat elbait became the center of the ring from the part of Feathered Cloak, another elbaite decorated a brooch-bird from the same part of the collection. These beautiful exotic birds - rare representatives of fauna in the collection. They, as well as butterflies and dragonflies can be seen on the jewelry watches presented with ornaments. Tiffany & Co. seems to be seriously digging into the theme of wildlife and was absolutely in its element.
On the eve of the premiere of the new Blue Book, the main gemologist Tiffany & Co. And vice-president of High Jewelery, Melvyn Kirtley reveals the details.
- When and how did the work on the new collection begin?
"A little over a year ago." For us, the normal cycle of creating the Blue Book collection is from one year to 18 months. It starts with finding interesting stones, of course, we work in close contact with the team of designers. Jewelry is created in different ways: at first we find an interesting stone, and then designers come up with a design for them, while we are looking for other stones under the sketch already done by designers. We look at thousands of stones to find the only suitable one.
- How many ornaments in the new The Art of The Wild was created around the stones?
- Several. For example, the 26-carat rich yellow (fancy vivid yellow) "pillow-cut" diamond was used in rings with the leaves of the palm. Or Ceylon 51-carat unheated blue sapphire - it was also made the central element of the ring and surrounded by a diamond pave. Usually such large rare stones are set in a necklace, but we decided that this should be a ring - the person who buys it should always see him on his own, admire the beauty.
- All these stones you were looking for specifically for the collection or, as is the case with many jewelry houses, some lay in the safe and waited for their time - a suitable idea, a suitable design?
- All have been found for The Art of The Wild, and it's a common practice for us.
- What is the main difference of approach to the choice of stones of Tiffany & Co. in comparison with other jewelry houses?
"We have more strict selection!" We are always looking for the best from the existing ones, while others - and, especially, colored gemstones - often make compromises. For example, they can use stones with inclusions that are completely unacceptable for us. In addition, all the stones in our country are undergoing a lot of laboratory tests, not all of them are examined so thoroughly.
- For years of your work in Tiffany & Co. What kind of stones would you single out as the most incredible ones - those that you saw?
- Of course, there are a lot of them! And it's very difficult to choose - but still I'll try. First I remember a green and blue diamond, it was straight Tiffany! We gave him the name Tiffany Anniversary Blue. And installed in a very concise design ring.
- You started working at Tiffany & Co., were engaged in sales, and then became a gemologist, right?
- Yes! I became a gemologist just because I started working for Tiffany & Co. I was fascinated by the precious stones! Well, I decided to go to study at the GIA (Gemological Institute of America).
- What are your favorite jewels in the new collection?
"The ring with the sapphire, of which I have already spoken, and besides - the brooch-birds, they are amazing. They have a character, and the quality of performance is simply incredible. For me it's not just brooches, but miniature sculptures. I would like to have one - I would not wear it, of course, I would put it on the pillow on the table next to the bed and admire it.
Blue Book Tiffany & Co. 2017 © PRESS-SERVICE TIFFANY & CO.
- Do you buy a lot of rough stones and do you redecorate a lot for decoration?
- We buy uncut diamonds and work on them ourselves, and cut colored precious stones.
- You are an Englishman, what was it like moving to New York for work?" Did you feel yourself here, as in the song "Englishman in New York"?
- I felt! But in London I feel myself now, like New Yorker. For me, moving to the US and starting work at Tiffany & Co. have become a very special experience, I do not regret my choice at all! Very few companies in the world offer both fashionable jewelry for a few hundred dollars, and high jewelry for millions. Tiffany & Co. is truly unique.


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Exchanges are message routing agents, which are defined per virtual host within the rabbitMQ system. When program/application (Known as Producer) connect to RabbitMQ server to publish a message, it first sends the message to an exchange. After receiving a message, exchange routes them to different message queues with help of header attributes, bindings, and routing keys. It should be noted that messages are not published directly to a queue, instead, it is first send to an exchange and then exchange routes them to different message queues.
Binding :- It is a link between a queue and an exchange.
Routing key :- It is a message attribute that the exchange can looks at, to decide how to route the message to queues. The routing key is like an address for the message.
Exchanges, connections and queues can be configured with parameters such as durable, temporary, and auto delete during creation.
Durable Exchange :- It will survive server restarts and will last until they are explicitly deleted.
Temporary Exchanges :- It will exist until RabbitMQ is shutdown.
Auto Deleted Exchanges :- It will exist till the last bound object unbound from the exchange.
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Direct Exchange :- A direct exchange routes messages to queues based on message routing key. The routing key is a message attribute in the message header added by the producer. The default exchange for direct exchange is "amq.direct". For detailed explanation and code example, you can visit RabbitMQ – Direct Exchange.
Topic Exchange :- A topic exchange route messages to queues based on the wildcard match between routing key and routing pattern specified during the binding of the queue. The default exchange for topic exchange is "amq.topic". For detailed explanation and code example, you can visit RabbitMQ – Topic Exchange.
Fanout Exchange :- A fanout exchange copies the message and routes it to all the queues bound to it. The default exchange for fanout exchange is "amq.fanout". For detailed explanation and code example, you can visit RabbitMQ – Fanout Exchange.
Headers Exchange :- A headers exchange route messages to queues based on message header values (key-value pair) instead of routing key. The default exchange for headers exchange is "amq.headers". For detailed explanation and code example, you can visit RabbitMQ – Headers Exchange.
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Canada is not immune to Capitol Hill riots: Marcus Kolga in the Toronto Star
While Canada is not immune from the political unrest witnessed in the United States, we may still minimize the risk by developing a comprehensive strategy to address information warfare and foreign interference, writes Marcus Kolga in the Toronto Star.
By Marcus Kolga, January 12, 2020
Last week, Canadians watched in horror as a violent mob smashed their way into the U.S. Capitol — never believing that the same could one day happen in Ottawa. During and after the riot, they shared amusing social media memes of a map of Canada being sawed away from America and joked about Canada paying for their own wall with the U.S.
We would be wise to check that smugness.
Growing discontent among Canadians in various regions is being stoked by malign foreign actors who amplify disinformation and conspiracy theories on both the far-left and far-right. Left unaddressed, trust in our democratic institutions will erode and lead to a deeply polarized society not unlike what we are seeing in the United States and some European countries over recent years.
The warning signs are clear.
Extremist groups, conspiracy theorists and fringe media platforms have taken advantage of the fear and frustration brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic to attract new followers. Their blunt-force rhetoric satiates emotions that have been stripped raw by the pandemic, promoting anger at elected officials, media and ultimately each other.
As Canadians desperately seek to come to terms with the devastating psychological and financial effects of COVID-19, conspiracy movements offer simple explanations — regardless of factualness — and an outlet for their anxiety and rage.
Wild anti-government conspiracy theories have been shared on tens of thousands of Twitter accounts, accusing Chrystia Freeland and Justin Trudeau of being traitors, who have used COVID-19 to assist Germany save the New World Order, for example.
Supporters of the Western Canadian separatist movement, WEXIT, have shared memes that include a group of camouflaged militiamen carrying assault rifles asking, "Wonder how many people would actually answer the call to step up and take our rights and freedoms back …. The time to fight is coming sooner than later."
QAnon, the popular and dangerously divisive U.S. conspiracy theory movement, also has a following in Canada. The group had infamously claimed in 2016 that Hillary Clinton was running a child sex trafficking ring out of the basement of a Washington, D.C. pizza parlour.
Now QAnon flags have been spotted flying at several Canadian COVID antimask rallies. One of the leaders of the Washington riot, pictured in fur and a horned hat, identified himself as a QAnon "shaman."
Compounding all of this are malign foreign actors, including the Russian and Chinese governments and their supporters, who amplify these polarizing narratives and inject their own disinformation to further pollute our information environment.
As the EU warned in March of last year, the Kremlin's goal over the past 10 months has been "to aggravate the public health crisis in Western countries ... in line with the Kremlin's broader strategy of attempting to subvert European societies."
As bad as this might be, it gets worse when elected officials, like President Trump, repeat and amplify false claims and conspiracy theories.
In Canada, an Ontario MPP recently claimed that Canada is converting COVID quarantine sites into internment camps and has also attended several antimask rallies, undermining the efforts of federal and provincial health officials. Such irresponsible behaviour, based on cynical political calculations, lend legitimacy to the seditious narratives that empower those who seek to destabilize our society.
The trajectory is painfully clear.
The defence of our democracy requires a long-term, whole-of-society strategy that includes the co-ordinated participation of governments, civil society and media in order to build long-term resilience against this threat — something our governments have failed to do.
We should begin with our children, by providing them Scandinavian-style early digital media education to provide them with the tools to critically assess the information they consume.
Elected officials, their staff and civil servants should be provided ongoing training on digital media literacy and the detection of foreign influence operations. We should learn from our allies, like Taiwan, who have successfully detected and defended against disinformation attacks.
The events of the past week underscore social media's role in the breakdown of our social cohesion. While a last-minute ban on Donald Trump's account by Facebook and Twitter was wise, it represents but a tiny bandage on a gaping existential wound that is killing Western democracy.
All of the social media giants, including Google, continue to facilitate and enable foreign state disinformation and conspiracy theorists by providing them platforms, audiences and even revenue streams.
While Canada is not immune from the political unrest witnessed in the United States, we may still minimize the risk by developing a comprehensive strategy to address information warfare and foreign interference.
Marcus Kolga is the director of DisinfoWatch.org and is a senior fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute's Centre for Advancing Canada's Interests Abroad.
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It's not easy making sense out of a lot of "noise" in data, which is why I think you see conflicting answers about how to "best" approach large datasets. It's like two different approaches to fishing.
Some experts say you need to relax, take a tackle box, see what bites and adjust accordingly. Others are much more Type A: They come with bait designed to snare large-mouth bass and they fish accordingly.
It's a tough balancing act. On one hand, you don't want to think so small you miss what Big Data has to offer. On the other, you also don't want to "dig tons of dirt to discover an ounce of gold," as IBM recently described it.
It should be an academic question because ideally, you'd be able to do both. But when it comes to data, many organizations have it, want it, but can't manage it. We're like Tantalus, standing in a river of water, and not a drop to drink.
Consider these telling stats from the Harvard Business Review: 85 percent of organizations reported that they have Big Data initiatives planned or in progress … but only 17 percent rank their ability to use the data and analytics to transform their business as more than adequate or world-class.
"The majority of companies are on the sidelines because they think they can't readily access the data they have, they don't have in house tools or talent to analyze it and don't have the ability to put the data to use anyway," writes Matthew Crowl in a recent CAN blog post.
One answer may be the graph database, which uses nodes, properties and edges rather than traditional indexing to store data. In other words, it allows you to create a graph of connections between people, objects and data.
I recently received a briefing from Objectivity on its Oct. 1 release of InfiniteGraph version 3.0. The demo included a demonstration on how police might use two phone numbers — one from an arrested suspect and the other a number that person called — to detect crime patterns, including drug rings, fraud, money laundering and even terrorism.
One way you could use the graph database is if you wanted to map a route from San Francisco to New York based on shipping preferences — weight, length, cargo content — a graph database could tell you what's the best, cheapest route, while eliminating any options that wouldn't be able to handle the cargo.
While it allows you to ask specific questions, it also is very open-ended in terms of presenting further relationships. For instance, the demo traced the connections between the two phone numbers — and all the calls in between — but it could also allow you to explore degrees from that relationship — for instance, what if you want to look at the circle of calls with 5 degrees of separation versus 7?
Patterns quickly become apparent, Guzenda explained. A circle of connections that only call each other is likely to indicate a terrorist cell, for instance, he said.
The original system took anywhere from four to 20 or more hours to run a query. Guzenda managed to show it within mere minutes.
In the marketing world, relationships can be used to expand something like MCI's friends and family calling plan.
Most organizations have graph data that could be used, whether it's logistics, operational, financial transactions or other hierarchical data, he explained.
"The data is in there, it's just a matter of having a way to represent it and look at it properly," he said.
The Oct. 1 release of InfiniteGraph v. 3.0 includes boosts to scalability and performance to distributed environments. A recent test scaled InfiniteGraph 3.0 to more than a billion nodes and edges in less than 30 minutes, according to Objectivity.
The new version also includes faster querying using flexible placement algorithms, which also increases index performance; distributed parallel navigation; a faster filtering tool for the graph view; support for predefined navigation policies; and a free 60-day trial period.
If you're interested in learning more about graph databases as an option for exploring Big Data, Wikipedia maintains a list of other graph database solutions.


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Q: Viewing PDF file in Windows Form application I am using axAcroPDF to view PDF files in in my win form application. Whenever I try to run the app I get an empty messagebox like in the image below.
Does anyone know why? To load the PDF file I added this code to a button
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A: I don't know if this answer can help you: I was doing the same work with Adobe Reader 9 and it gave me the same messagebox. Then I switch to Adobe Reader 10 and the message box disappears and my application works normally.
here is my code
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        dlg.Filter = "pdf files (*.pdf) |*.pdf;";
        dlg.ShowDialog();
        if (dlg.FileName != null)
        {
            axAcroPDF1.setShowToolbar(true);
            axAcroPDF1.LoadFile(dlg.FileName);
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