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Bonner Denton
Professor, Galileo Circle Fellow
Degrees and Appointments
B.S. 1967, Lamar State College of Technology
B.A. 1967, Lamar State College of Technology
Ph.D. 1972, University of Illinois
Analytical Division of the American Chemical Society Award for Distinguished Service in the Advancement of Analytical Chemistry, 2016
Notable People in Mass Spectrometry. In: Michael L. Gross and Richard M. Caprioli, editors-in-chief, Keith A. Nier, Alfred L. Yergey, and P. Jane Gale, volume editors. The Encyclopedia of Mass Spectrometry, vol. 9B, pp. 55-56. San Diego: Elsevier., 2015
Honorary Membership in the Society for Applied Spectroscopy, 2014
Lifetime Achievement Award, Scientific Detectors in Astronomy Conference, 2013
Fellow, American Chemical Society, 2011
R&D 100 Award, 2011
EAS Award for Outstanding Achievements in the Fields of Analytical Chemistry, 2009
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2006
Fellow, Society for Applied Spectroscopy, 2006
The latest technological advances in electronics, physics, optics, acoustics, mechanical engineering and computer science are being utilized to develop new and improved analytical spectrochemical techniques. A multifaceted but strongly interlocking program designed to elucidate fundamental phenomena occurring in systems employed for spectrochemical analysis is currently underway. Fundamental theoretical knowledge obtained in these studies is being applied toward the development of more accurate and sensitive analytical techniques.
Over the past twenty years, focal plane array detectors have brought an amazing revolution to analytical spectroscopy, providing increased sensitivity, dynamic range, and improved background correction. New generations of these detectors are being developed and applied to a variety of spectroscopic techniques, including fluorescence, phosphorescence, Raman, and atomic emission analysis. Raman spectroscopy utilizing advanced instrumental concepts, including far-UV laser excitation, is being investigated. Applications including pharmaceutical analysis, gem and mineral identification, and advanced techniques for process control are under study. Emphasis is currently being placed on approaches for rapid, sensitive simultaneous analysis of multiple trace level species.
A variety of projects are under way in the area of mass spectrometry, including the development of improved ion sources and sample introduction techniques. Advanced vacuum ultraviolet lasers are being utilized to provide selective photoionization of specified molecules and applied to chemotherapy research.
A program to develop new array detector technologies for mass spectrometry and ion mobility spectrometry is rapidly advancing. Current results promise to revolutionize detection schemes for both techniques.
Over the years Denton and his group have developed methodologies that are today widely used in the field of forensic science. He pioneered the development of high resolution array detector technology for both ultra-sensitive spectroscopic analysis and microscopic imaging. The high performance achievable in modern Raman, Fluorescence and Atomic Emission Spectroscopies, is directly traceable to contributions made by Denton and his research group. Currently Denton is applying new advanced detector innovations leading to the development of ultra-trace level explosives detection instrumentation capable of detecting small quantities of explosives at over forty-meters standoff distances.
In addition to developing analytical methodologies, the Denton Group is also active in applying modern analytical technologies to forensic science and ensuring that forensic scientists properly utilize analytical methodology.
Suzanne Bell, Sunita Sah, Thomas D. Albright, S. James Gates, M. Bonner Denton, and Arturo Casadevall, "A Call for More Science in Forensic Science," Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, published online: 12 April 2018.
Jason J. Amsden, Philip J. Herr, David M. W. Landry, William Kim, Raul Vyas, Charles B. Parker, Matthew P. Kirley, Adam D. Keil, Kristin H. Gilchrist, Erich J. Radauscher, Stephen D. Hall, James B. Carlson, Nicholas Baldasaro, David Stokes, Shane T. Di Dona, Zachary E. Russell, Sonia Grego, Steven J. Edwards, Roger P. Sperline, M. Bonner Denton, Brian R. Stoner, Michael E. Gehm, and Jeffrey T. Glass, "Proof of Concept Coded Aperture Miniature Mass Spectrometer Using a Cycloidal Sector Mass Analyzer, a Carbon Nanotube (CNT) Field Emission Electron Ionization Source, and an Array Detector," Journal of The American Society for Mass Spectrometry, published online: 19 October 2017.
Sunita Sah, Arturo Casadevall, Suzanne Bell, S. James Gates Jr., Thomas D. Albright, and M. Bonner Denton, "Forensic Science Must Be Scientific," Scientific American, 317 (4), 12, October 2017.
Jason J.Amsden, James B. Carlson, M. Bonner Denton, Shane Di Dona, Steven J. Edwards, Kristin H. Gilchrist, Jeffrey T. Glass, Sonia Grego, Stephen D. Hall, Charles B. Parker, Erich J. Radauscher, Zachary E. Russell, Roger P. Sperline, and Brian R. Stoner, "A miniature electron ionization source fabricated using microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) with integrated carbon nanotube (CNT) field emission cathodes and low-temperature co-fired ceramics (LTCC)," International Journal of Mass Spectrometry, 422, 162-169, doi:10.1016/j.ijms.2016.10.021, November 2017.
People v. Genrich, No. 2016 CA 651 (Colo. App. Feb. 9, 2017).
Michael J. Saka, Thomas Albright, Thomas L. Bohan, Barbara E. Bierer, C. Michael Bowers, Mary A. Bush, Peter J. Bush, Arturo Casadevall, Simon A. Cole, M. Bonner Denton, et al., "Forensic bitemark identification: weak foundations, exaggerated claims", J. Law Biosci, doi: 10.1093/jlb/lsw045, November 26, 2016
Brief for Petitioner, Richards v. Fox, 371 P.3d 195 (Cal. 4th 2016), 2015 WL 5779458.
M. Bonner Denton, "The Impact of Focal Plane Arrays on Chemical Analysis: Today and Tomorrow", Proceedings, Scientific Detectors in Astronomy Workshop, Florence, Italy, October 4-11, 2012.
Jan Lorincik, M. Bonner Denton, Roger P. Sperline, Erick T. Young, Peter Williams "Testing of a Micro Faraday Cup Array for Ion Detection in SIMS", Analytical Letters, 44: 6, 1050-1057, (2011).
Jeremy A. Felton, Gregory D. Schilling, Steven J. Ray, Roger P. Sperline, M. Bonner Denton, Charles J. Barinaga, David W. Koppenaal, and Gary M. Hieftje, "Evaluation of a fourth-generation focal plane camera for use in plasma-source mass spectrometry," Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, 26(2) 300-304 (2011).
Arnon A. Rubinshtein, Gregory D. Schilling, Steven J. Ray, Roger P. Sperline, M. Bonner Denton, Charles J. Barinaga, David W. Koppenaal, and Gary M. Hieftje, "Characterization of a third-generation Faraday-strip array detector coupled to a Mattauch-Herzog geometry mass spectrograph with a dc-glow discharge ionization source," Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, 25(5), 735-738 (2010).
Noeth, Louise Anne, "CES: Engineering Landspeed Vehicles", Cutting Edge Science, Lincoln Interactive, The National Network of Digital Schools, published online: Summer, 2010.
Gregory D. Schilling, Steven J. Ray, Arnon A. Rubinshtein, Jeremy A. Felton, Roger P. Sperline, M. Bonner Denton, Charles J. Barinaga, David W. Koppenaal, and Gary M. Hieftje, "Evaluation of a 512-Channel Faraday-Strip Array Detector Coupled to an Inductively Coupled Plasma Mattauch-Herzog Mass Spectrograph," Analytical Chemistry, 81 (13), 5467-5473 (2009).
J. S. Babis, R. P. Sperline, A. K. Knight, D. A. Jones, C. A. Gresham and M. B. Denton, "Performance evaluation of a miniature ion mobility spectrometer drift cell for application in hand-held explosives detection ion mobility spectrometers," Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, 395, No. 2, 411-419 (2009).
H. T. Edwards, C. Gatsonis, M. A. Berger, J. S. Cecil, M. B. Denton, M. Fierro, K. Kafadar, P. M. Marone, G. S. Mearns, R. S. Murch, C. Robertson, M. Schechter, R. Shaler, J. A. Siegel, S. N. Srihari, S. M. Wiederhorn, and R. Zumwalt "Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States: A Path Forward," Report of the National Research Council of the National Academies, Committee on Identifying the Needs of the Forensic Science Community, National Academies Press, Washington, D.C. (2009).
Gregory D. Schilling, Jacob T. Shelley, Jose A.C. Broekaert, Roger P. Sperline, M. Bonner Denton, Charles J. Barinaga, David W. Koppenaal and Gary M. Hieftje, "Use of an ambient ionization flowing atmospheric-pressure afterglow source for elemental analysis through hydride generation," Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, 24(1), 34-40 (2009).
C.J.S. Pommier, G.J. Redhammer, M.B. Denton, R.T. Downs, "Raman Spectroscopic and Visible Absorption Investigation of LiCrSi2O6 Pyroxene Under Pressure," Applied Spectroscopy, 62-7, 766-772 (2008).
Gregory D. Schilling, Francisco J. Andrade, James H. Barnes IV, Roger P. Sperline, M. Bonner Denton, Charles J. Barinaga, David W. Koppenaal, and Gary M. Hieftje, "Continuous Simultaneous Detection in Mass Spectrometry," Analytical Chemistry, 79 (20), 7662-7668 (2007).
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Advising for College Success: Policies, Practices, and Programs That Support Students on the Path to College Completion
understanding what we know and do not know about policies and practices to improve student
Network Lead Team
About the Research Study
To take stock of what we know about successful strategies to improve college completion and where gaps exist between research and current policy and practice, the College Completion Network Lead team is conducting a three-part study focused on interventions related to information and advising.
Systematic review: The team is conducting a systematic review of the research literature, documenting evidence of the effect of information and advising policies, practices, and programs on student outcomes. The team will determine whether this evidence is strong, moderate, or promising according to the levels of evidence defined in the Every Student Succeeds Act.
Scan: Drawing on the systematic review findings, the team is conducting a scan of information and advising policies, practices, and programs that colleges use to improve student outcomes. The scan incorporates a combination of Web searches and focus groups with key informants to form a holistic understanding of current information and advising policies, practices, and programs in place at colleges.
Gap analysis: The team is conducting a gap analysis, which involves comparing the findings from the scan to the findings from the systematic review to identify gaps in the research evidence.
The team will report findings from the systematic review, scan, and gap analysis in a series of communication activities tailored to different audiences.
Study period: March 2020 to December 2021
This project is supported by the Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education, through Grant R305N170003 to the American Institutes for Research.
Advising for College Success: A Systematic Review of the Evidence
Advising for College Success: Next Steps for Policymakers, Practitioners, and Researchers
College Completion Network Lead Study: Participant FAQ
About the Research Team
American Institutes for Research (AIR) brings together an interdisciplinary team of researchers with expertise in systematic evidence reviews and qualitative research to conduct this study. Among the researchers are former college advisors and administrators.
Amy Feygin, Ph.D.
Jennifer Poole, Ph.D.
Qualitative Research Lead
Mark Hatcher
Linda Choi
Christa Poindexter
Chelsea Ptak

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VCAT can review certain decisions made by the Victorian Institute of Teaching and the Victorian Registration and Qualifications Authority under the Education and Training Reform Act 2006.
caution, reprimand or disqualify you.
you are a leaseholder and are dissatisfied with the valuation of relevant Mildura schools land – you may be able to apply to VCAT to review the Valuer-General's decision.
If your registration has been refused, you must apply within 28 days after the Victorian Institute of Teaching gives notice of its refusal – see section 2.6.55(2)(a).
If determinations have been made by a hearing panel or by an inquiry, you must apply within three months after the Victorian Institute of Teaching gives notice of the decision – see section 2.55 (2)(b).
If you dispute the valuation of relevant land, or if you dispute decisions of the Authority relating to courses, accreditations, overseas exchange, etc. you must make your application within 28 days of the decision being made or, if you requested a statement of reasons, the day you received the statement or were notified the statement would not be given, whichever day is later. See sections 5.7A.12(2) and 4.8.1(2).


As the GDPR comes into effect, many marketers are scrambling to align their online marketing strategies to the regulation. Unfortunately, like most regulations, there are many requirements that are confusing or ambiguous; one of those is the treatment when requiring visitors to provide their contact information to receive access to restricted (gated) content, such as white papers and research.
Article 7 of the regulation is very clear when it comes to the collection of personal EU resident information: Consent must be clearly given for processing of personal data, the data subject must be made aware of how the information will be used, and they must have the ability to withdraw consent at any time.
Can Gated Content Really Be Considered a "Service"?
Until recently, there were many different interpretations of Article 7. Quid pro quo content doesn't necessarily constitute a contract or a service; many viewed it simply as an in-kind exchange and that visitors, if clearly made aware of the intent of data collection, could elect to simply not download the content.
The purpose of personal data processing [should not be] disguised nor bundled with the provision of a contract of a service for which these personal data are not necessary.
Even if the processing of personal data is based on consent of the data subject, this would not legitimize collection of data which is not necessary in relation to a specified purpose of processing and be fundamentally unfair. Any element of inappropriate pressure or influence upon the data subject (which may be manifested in many different ways) which prevents a data subject from exercising their free will, shall render the consent invalid.
The controller needs to demonstrate that it is possible to refuse or withdraw consent without detriment. For example, the controller needs to prove that withdrawing consent does not lead to any costs for the data subject and thus no clear disadvantage for those withdrawing consent.
If We Give Them a Choice, Why Does it Matter?
Is collection of personal data necessary to provide that service?
Will the data subject be at a detriment if they do not provide their personal data (in other words, would it be "fundamentally unfair")?
Will the data subject be at a detriment if they withdraw consent after providing their personal data?
On the surface, the service being provided seems obvious: Meaningful, proprietary guidance and research is the product. If this is in fact the service, then the collection of personal data is surely not necessary to provide that service. If the provider felt that the content was valuable, they could charge a fee for the service. However, this is not the same as asking for the personal data of EU residents that is protected under the GDPR. Additionally, while the data subject will not be at a detriment if they decide to withdraw consent sometime in the future (they will have already received the benefit of the service), they may be at a detriment initially if they decide not to provide their information and download the content, especially if the content has pertinent information that could be used by a competitor if that competitor chose to provide their information.
On the flip side, one could also argue that the actual service being provided in exchange for the data subject's contact information isn't the gated content, but actually the follow-up contact or subscription to other content (such as newsletters or blog articles). In this case, the GDPR would likely view the gated content as merely a ruse to convince the data subject to provide their information. In this context, "inappropriate pressure" is being applied to the data subject to coerce them to submit to data collection.
In both scenarios, the collection of a data subject's personal information violates the intent of the regulation. When assessing whether the subject's personal information was "freely given" the key question is whether they would have given it had they not felt compelled to do so to obtain access to the content. While this subject will continue to evolve over time and additional clarity will be provided with subsequent legal rulings, the consensus of the available information is that content cannot be provided under the sole requirement that data subjects provide personal information that is protected under GDPR and not necessary for fulfillment of the service.
Is This Really the End of Gated Content?
For businesses that do not operate in the EU or promote goods/services to EU residents, gated content can still be leveraged as a marketing strategy. This is also true if EU residents access your site but are not directly targeted (e.g., you do not market services in Europe but your site can be accessed from within the EU). For those businesses that are subject to the rules and regulations of the GDPR, there are only two options: Continue with business as usual or modify the approach to gated content.
Is it likely that an EU resident is going to file a complaint just because we asked for their e-mail address? It doesn't seem very plausible.
Is the EU even equipped to enforce the regulation at this point? We can't imagine that we would be high on their list of priorities.
Even if someone did report us, wouldn't such a minor infraction just result in a simple warning and corrective action plan? They aren't going to fine us 4% of revenue for an e-mail address.
For risk-tolerant companies, all of these are valid questions. And at the individual data subject level, gated content may not seem like a big risk. However, if a company experienced a data breach where all their marketing contact information was released, and it was found that this information was primarily collected via gated content forms, the penalties and fines could quickly escalate. The most important question, then, is how much is it worth to you?
Data subjects must be made aware that they are not required to provide their personal information in order to receive the content.
Data subjects must be made aware of the reasons for data collection, how their data will be used, and of their right to withdraw consent at any time.
Although most marketers will find that the number of data subjects willing to voluntarily provide their personal information will decline when not required to do so, they may also find that those that do elect to provide their information will be highly qualified and can lead to more targeted marketing. Additionally, it puts the onus on the content provider to have high quality, timely, and relevant information. If the content demonstrates value, visitors will come back for more and likely engage your company to provide products or services at some point.
Controllers that currently process data on the basis of consent in compliance with national data protection law are not automatically required to completely refresh all existing consent relations with data subjects in preparation for the GDPR. Consent which has been obtained to date continues to be valid in so far as it is in line with the conditions laid down in the GDPR.
So, there you have it. If your company is complying with the GDPR regulation, it is not necessary to do a complete refresh of data subject authorization for processing. With that said, it wouldn't hurt to demonstrate adherence to the spirit of the regulation by informing these data subjects that you have their data, as well as their rights under the new regulation.
If you would like to discuss GDPR compliance or have any questions related to this new regulation, Avalution can help. Please contact us today to learn more.
Ownership – Where Do Our Responsibilities Begin and End as Business Continuity Professionals?


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The Loge, 1882
31 7/16 × 25 1/8 in
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Overall: 79.8 x 63.8 cm (31 7/16 x 25 1/8 in.) framed: 111.1 x 95.3 cm (43 3/4 x 37 1/2 in.)
Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington
Mary Cassatt is widely acclaimed for her intimate scenes of mothers and children, such as Mother About to Wash Her Sleepy Child (1880), that are painted with quick brushstrokes in a pastel palette. Invited in 1877 by her friend and mentor Edgar Degas, Cassatt was one of three women—and the only American—to join a group of artists later known as the Impressionists, which included Claude Monet and Camille Pissaro. Influenced by the Japanese prints she collected, Cassatt developed a refined drawing style that blended European and Asian effects, increasingly creating figural compositions, like The Letter (1890), with flattened forms and harmonious color combinations.
Other works by Mary Cassatt
The Crocheting Lesson, 1902
Galerie d'Orsay
Forum Auctions
Gardner Held by His Mother, 1889
EastCoastArt
Margot wearing a Bonnett (No. 1), 1902
The Stocking, 1890
Drawing for "Lady in Black in a Loge, Facing Right" (Au Spectacle), 1879-80
Adelson Galleries
By The Pond (Breeskin 161; Mathews/Shapiro 21)
Faces of Impressionism, Portraits from American Collections, The Cleveland Museum of Art, HOLIDAY SALE $50 OFF THRU MAKE OFFER, unknown
David Lawrence Gallery
Group Portrait
Miss Grace Woodhouse, 1890
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Two Sisters (On the Terrace), 1881
"Inventing Impressionism" at the National Gallery, London (2015)
Reclining Nude, 1892-1892
Young Girl with an Apron, 1891
Harmony in Pink and Gray: Lady Meux, 1881
Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields
Reyer and the Washer Woman, 1877
The Railway, 1873
Mending the Nets, 1882
French, 1841–1895
Edward Lamson Henry


Lectures from the ESA Earth System Monitoring and Modelling Summer School are being livestreamed every morning from 30 July to 10 August 2018 (and recordings made available for replay).
Date: from 16 to 26 October 2018.
Registration dates: 18 May to 24 June (11.59 pm Argentina time).


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Democratic Republic of the Congo Basics
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Time: GMT +1 in the west (Kinshasa) and GMT +2 in the east.
Electricity: Electrical current is 220 volts, 50Hz. Various plugs are in use, but two-pin attachment plugs and round pin plugs with grounding are common.
Money: The official currency is the Congolese Franc (CDF). Credit cards and ATM facilities are very limited and usually only in Kinshasa. It is best to take US dollars in hard currency. Banks are closed on weekends and credit cards cannot be used to obtain cash advances. Currency denominations and exchange rates can change at short notice.
CDF100.00 = USD 0.06 GBP 0.05 CAD 0.08 AUD 0.09 ZAR 0.88 EUR 0.05 NZD 0.09
Note: These rates are not updated daily and should be used as a guideline only.
Language: French is the official language, but Lingala, Kingwana, Kikongo, Swahili and Tshiluba are also spoken.
Entry requirements for Americans: US nationals require a passport valid for the period of intended stay, and a visa, to enter the DRC.
Entry requirements for UK nationals: British nationals require a passport valid for the duration of intended stay, and a visa, to enter the DRC.
Entry requirements for Canadians: Canadian nationals require a passport valid for the duration of intended stay, and a visa, to enter the DRC.
Entry requirements for Australians: Australian nationals require a passport valid for the duration of intended stay, and a visa, to enter the DRC.
Entry requirements for South Africans: South African nationals require a passport valid for the duration of intended stay, and a visa, to enter the DRC.
Entry requirements for New Zealanders: New Zealand nationals require a passport valid for the duration of intended stay, and a visa, to enter the DRC.
Entry requirements for Irish nationals: Irish nationals require a passport valid for the duration of intended stay, and a visa, to enter the DRC.
Passport/Visa Note: All foreigners entering the DRC require a visa obtained in advance, as well as a yellow fever vaccination certificate. If there is no diplomatic representation in the country of origin, visas will only be granted on-arrival to passengers holding a pre-notification letter issued by the Direction Generale de Migration (DGM) officials. Visas issued by any country other than the home country of the traveller may be refused, unless there is no representation in the home country. Visas can be obtained on arrival if passengers have a letter issued by the Ministry of Interior and Security. Documents and tickets for return or onward travel are required. It is highly recommended that your passport has at least six months validity remaining after your intended date of departure from your travel destination. Immigration officials often apply different rules to those stated by travel agents and official sources.
Travel Health: Yellow fever vaccination is a requirement for entry for everyone over one year old, and vaccinations against cholera, meningitis, typhoid, and polio are highly recommended. There is a significant malaria risk throughout the country, and advice should be sought in advance about preventive measures. HIV/AIDS is prevalent. Rabies is common to the DRC, and monkeypox occurs, which is a virus usually transmitted to humans from infected ground squirrels and rodents. Regular outbreaks of pneumonic plague also occur, particularly in the district of Ituri, and is fatal if left untreated. The country has also experienced a number of ebola outbreaks over the last decade. The Centre Prive d'Urgence (CPU) clinic in Kinshasa is able to cope with basic health problems and to stabilise a patient after serious accidents. However, medical evacuation to South Africa (or elsewhere) would be advised as soon as possible. Outside Kinshasa, western standard medical facilities are practically non-existent. Visitors are advised to take their own basic medical supplies with them, as medicines are in short supply. Medical insurance with provision for emergency air evacuation is essential for visitors. All water should be regarded as contaminated, and milk is unpasteurised, therefore consume only imported bottled water and avoid dairy products.
Tipping: A 10 percent service charge is included in restaurant and hotel bills and further tipping is unnecessary. In general, tipping ( Mahtabish, meaning 'something extra') is expected.
Safety Information: The east and north east of the DRC are insecure and travellers should be cautious if travel to the region is necessary, particularly near the borders with Uganda and Rwanda. There is a high level of street crime and armed robbery, particularly in Kinshasa, where armed gangs or criminals posing as plain-clothes policemen regularly attack foreigners. Security officials have also been known to arrest foreigners and demand payment for their release. Do not display valuables on your person, walk the streets alone, or carry large amounts of money, and keep car doors and windows locked. Demonstrations and political gatherings should be avoided. Boats and ferries are poorly maintained and have low safety standards. *A funeral for the former opposition leader will take place 30 May to 1 June in Kinshasa. Visitors should note that there could be disruptions at this time, and should remain vigilant and avoid crowds and demonstrations.
Local Customs: Photography is technically illegal in the Democratic Republic of the Congo without a permit. Even with a permit though, one must never take photos of police or military personnel, official buildings, or motorcades. The Congolese may get very upset if you take pictures of them, or their children, without permission. At 6am and 6pm the national flag is raised and lowered, and all traffic and pedestrians are expected to stop for this ceremony, as well as for any official motorcade.
Business: By rights, the Democratic Republic of Congo should be one of Africa's richest countries owing to its abundance of natural resources, yet it has suffered from corrupt leadership and extensive civil war which has been detrimental to its economic development. But biodiversity, abundant natural resources, and agricultural potential offer many opportunities for foreign investment and companies are beginning to see this. Areas with potential for investment include mining, oil, energy, fishery, timber, railroads, and telecoms. The business community in the DRC is still developing, and the country is currently ranked among the most difficult for ease of doing business. Travellers must ensure business is conducted with the correct legal establishments, and it is crucial to work with a local attorney in order to avoid mistakes caused by unfair competition, scams, or simple ignorance. Most foreign investors will find that a good deal of homework combined with respect for the local culture will make them welcome in the DRC. The principal language used is French, and interpreters are available. It is important to establish a good personal relationship with business connections, as these relationships are often given preferential treatment. Business tends to be formal: men wear light suits while women should avoid trousers. Formal suits and ties are generally worn only when meeting dignitaries or government officials. Business hours are usually 8am to 4pm Monday to Friday, closing at 12pm on Saturdays.
Communications: The international dialling code for the DRC is +243 and the outgoing code is 00, followed by the relevant country code (e.g. 0044 for the United Kingdom). International direct dialling is available. Domestic telephone connections are unreliable. There are GSM 900 and 1800 networks with variable coverage and roaming agreements covering Kinshasa. There are some internet cafés in Kinshasa, but power failures can be a problem.
Duty Free: Visitors to the DRC may import 100 cigarettes or 50 cigars or 250g tobacco; one bottle of alcohol; perfume for personal use and a camera to be used for touristic purposes, without paying customs duty.


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Q: split an array and assign each elements to a new variable I have an array with n elements inside.
Each elements is composed by n rows (see the output)
I want to split this array and then I want to assign each elements of the array to a new variable.
I know that I can use the split() function, but then I don't know how to assign each split element to the new variable in an automatic way.
    array = ()
    for array in converted:
        array_single = np.array(converted, dtype = object)
    print(array_single)

np.split(array_single, len(array_single))

Output:
    [0     1
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      ..
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       ..
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      ..
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       99     1
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       Name: conv, Length: 103, dtype: int64], dtype=object), array([0     1
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The Variable Density Tunnel (VDT) was the second wind tunnel at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Langley Research Center. Proposed by German aerospace engineer, Max Munk in May, 1921, it was the world's first variable density wind tunnel and allowed for more accurate testing of small-scale models than could be obtained with atmospheric wind tunnels. It was actively used as a wind tunnel from 1923 until its retirement in the 1940s. Langley Research Center historian, James R. Hansen, wrote that the VDT provided results superior to the atmospheric wind tunnels used at the time and was responsible for making NACA, the precursor to NASA, "a world leader in aerodynamic research". It is now on display on the Langley grounds, near the old Reid Conference Center and is a National Historic Landmark.

Technical purpose
In order to accurately measure the aerodynamics of scale models, the density of the air used in a wind tunnel must also be scaled to replicate realistic conditions that would affect the full-scale aircraft.

The Reynolds number is a quantification of the complex behaviors of dynamic fluids and is calculated as the ratio of inertia forces to the viscous forces in the flow. The Reynolds number is defined as

where:
  is the density of the fluid (SI units: kg/m3)
  is the velocity of the fluid with respect to the object (m/s)
  is a characteristic linear dimension (m)
  is the dynamic viscosity of the fluid (Pa·s or N·s/m2 or kg/m·s)
  is the kinematic viscosity of the fluid (m2/s).

The wind tunnels that were used before the creation of the VDT could only operate at normal atmospheric pressures. As a result, scale models in early wind tunnels encountered air with Reynolds numbers that were off by a factor equal to the inverse of the model's scale (i.e. a 1:10 model would be off by a factor of 10). Without properly scaling the Reynolds number, the air flowing over a scale model would react very differently with a full-scale aircraft than it would in a wind tunnel. If a full-scale airfoil is to be simulated in a wind tunnel by a small-scale model, the Reynolds number can only be matched by increasing the velocity or its density or by decreasing its viscosity. The Variable Density Tunnel was designed and built to be pressurized; solving this issue by increasing the density of the air to raise the Reynolds number. The VDT was subsequently able to provide more accurate measurements of aerodynamic qualities because it was able to accurately replicate how air would respond at full-scale.

History

Origin
In 1920, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics brought Max Munk, a German aerospace engineer and student of Ludwig Prandtl at University of Göttingen, to work for them in America. After the end of the First World War, Munk required two presidential orders to work at NACA, and reportedly had difficulty adjusting to NACA's organizational structure, which was not as strictly defined as those in Germany. Regardless, he proposed his revolutionary Variable Density Tunnel design in the same year.

The large, steel pressure tank of the VDT was designed with a working pressure up to 20 atmospheres and was constructed by Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company in Newport News, Virginia. The tank was  long and  in diameter. The tank's wall was  thick. The tank required 85 tons (77.3 tonnes) of steel. The test section was  in diameter to match an existing NACA Wind Tunnel No. 1, which was an open-circuit tunnel operating at atmospheric pressure. The variable-density wind tunnel had a closed-circuit design with an annular return flow to minimize the volume of the tank.  A fan powered by a 250-hp motor could produce an air speed up to .

During a fire in 1927, the internal wooden test section of the VDT was destroyed and was rebuilt with an open-throat design before complications required it be rebuilt again with a closed-throat design. The VDT re-entered service in 1930 and continued to aid the Langley staff in measuring the aerodynamic qualities of airfoils until it was deemed obsolete in the 1940s and converted into a pressure tank for other wind tunnels. The VDT was decommissioned in 1978 and was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1985 because of its historical influence setting the foundation for the beginning of space flight.

Research usage

The tunnel was used for research for over 20 years, up to the 1940s. The VDT was mainly used to test airfoils as wing design was the most pressing problem in early aeronautics. Notably, the VDT produced the data for 78 classical airfoil shapes that were published in 1933 in "The Characteristics of 78 Related Airfoil Sections from Tests in the Variable-Density Wind Tunnel," NACA Technical Report 460. This data was used in designing American World War II aircraft such as the Douglas DC-3, the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, and the Lockheed P-38 Lightning. Additionally, the VDT served in testing thin airfoil designs and low-drag airfoils that were used to design the P-51 Mustang and reduced drag by close to two thirds.

National Historic Landmark Status

On October 3, 1985, the United States National Park Service recognized the Variable Density Tunnel as a National Historic Landmark. The nomination cited the VDT as responsible for establishing "NACA as a technically competent research organization...[rejuvenating] American aerodynamic research which in time led to the best aircraft in the world." The building in which it was originally located was demolished in 2014; the tank is now on display on the Langley grounds.

See also
Wind tunnels
Reynolds number
Fluid dynamics
NACA
Langley Research Center
Max Munk
Eastman Jacobs
List of National Historic Landmarks in Virginia
National Register of Historic Places listings in Hampton, Virginia

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Aviation: From Sand Dunes to Sonic Booms, a National Park Service Discover Our Shared Heritage Travel Itinerary
NASA Langley Cultural Resources: Variable Density Tunnel

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National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
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Quiver! Quaver! Shiver! Shake! Cats and snakes and owls make Pippa Mouse cringe and quake. But, when Pippa Mouse can't find her special Seder plate, she ventures out, questions each one; discovers that friends come in all shapes and sizes; and uncovers the whereabouts of her dish before the sun sets and the Passover holiday starts. A Joyful Tale of Courage and Friendship.
We may not love every story we write that gets published, but I absolutely, positively love this one To a rhythm that mirrors Pippa's purposeful preparation for the holiday and her determined search for the missing plate, I added rhyme and repetition…these are the three elements young kids hope to hear in a great read-aloud picture book.
THE ILLUSTRATIONS ARE JOYFUL! Artist Jill Weber poured out her talent and her heart into this book. How fortunate I am to be part of her critique group AND also her neighbor.
Super easy, especially for the youngest kids. All you need: a paper plate, a glue stick, pair of scissors, and a magazine or catalogue with pictures of food. Use the illustration of Pippa's Seder plate at the back of my book as a guide. For detailed instructions and many more Seder plate crafts, click here.
I'm dancing with joy that PIPPA'S PASSOVER PLATE is a PJ Library selection. They send the book to families all over the world. And guess what? They've created a parent guide of activities for kids on their website. You'll find another adorable easy-to-make Seder plate for young kids using a paper plate and cup cake liners.
I'm looking forward to sharing Pippa's Passover Plate with children everywhere. I'll be taking a copy with me on my trip and, when I return, illustrator Jill Weber and I will be doing several local book events. If you have an organization or group that would like to have an author-illustrator visit with Jill and me, please get in touch.
When I first had the idea for this writing challenge/contest, I didn't know it would blossom into such an amazing opportunity for aspiring authors.
March 2nd is the birthday of the incredible Theodore Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss. In 2016, I put together a little contest based on Random House founder Bennet Cerf's 1960 challenge to Seuss to write a children's book using only 50 words. And the classic Green Eggs and Ham was born. It's true that the story has over 700 words…but only 50 unique words.
My challenge is a bit different…you MAX WORD COUNT for the entire story is 50.
MAGIC HAPPENS WHEN YOU MAKE EVERY WORD COUNT.
And now it's time to DO IT AGAIN.
The contest officially opens on Friday, March 2nd, in a special post that day on my blog.
Between March 2nd and March 6th, post your story in the comments of the special contest post. If you want to, you can also post it on your blog (if you have one) and put the link in the comments , along with your story, so that people can come and visit your website.
Please make sure you put your name in the post as a byline to your story so we know who wrote it.
Deadline for posting the story in the comments of that contest post is March 6 at 11:59pm.
Winners? You betcha…and prizes, too! Critiques and classes and books. The book prizes are limited to USA addresses, please. But because I will be in New Zealand during the contest and Switzerland after, I'm not sure how promptly the winners will be announced. I'm hopeful that it will be within two weeks of the contest closing, but I might need more time if the internet doesn't cooperate or you ALL decide to participate (which would be BRILLIANT!). And my plan is to distribute the prizes AFTER I return to the states in April.
And now, I thank you so much for your time, my friends. I appreciate you wading through this long post. I hope you all love Pippa as much as I do. As I mention at the end of almost every Perfect Picture Book post, the greatest gift you can give your favorite authors is to buy their books, review their books, ask your local library to add the books to their collection, and tell your friends about the books – in person, or on your favorite social media channel.
I hope you all have a wonderful weekend. So much excitement in the wings. Tonight is a FB chat with Mira Reisberg and several authors who will be helping hone pitches. Then, on Monday, I turn 72…woo-hoo! And the week after that, I'm off to Sydney for the Australia/NZ SCBWI and the beginning of my round the world adventure. I'll be popping in to guest post on many of your favorite blogs: this Tuesday, I was Susanna Hill's Featured Debut Author and tonight I'll be with Mira Reisberg and friends, helping hone pitches in a FB chat; on the 19th, I'll be at Writer's Rumpus, answering questions for Kristi Call, and Wednesday I'll hop into visit Kellie Byrnes and her Queensland, Australia website. And next month, there will be many more appearances elsewhere and several Perfect Picture Book Friday and Will Write for Cookies posts right here. Stay tuned, my friends! You can check the itinerary post I did on February 2nd.
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Beautiful! They say you have to know the rules to break them. Anyways, I don't think there's a rule against making your own book PPBF. Good thinking.
Happy Birthday Pippa! Good for you Vivian and I love the post. Now to find that 50 word story I wrote awhile ago.
Thanks for popping in, Diane. And yes…definitely find it…and otherwise, write another…you've got about a month. 🙂 Oh, and I'll be with you…we can write stories together!
The only one who could call foul is Susanna, and given how many #PPBF posts/reviews you've done and celebrated for others, I think everyone will forgive you doing one for Pippa. It's a great book and a loving review. Happy Book Birthday.
Glad to hear you say that, Maria…thank you for the lovely birthday wishes and for always sharing everything I post!!!!
I also can't wait for your trip… i'm sure you'll post a lot during it… and I can't wait to hear about it after!! Take lots of pictures!!!
And I can't wait to read your #50PreciousWords, Sarah!
Hats off to you for breaking "the rules" and reviewing Pippa! Pippa is wonderful and everyone should know about it. Ooooh, I love the 50 word contest. I've done a 100 word story but this will be a new challenge. Best to you on your exciting adventure and yes, happy birthday to Pippa's Passover Plate!
Yay…I'm looking forward to reading your entry also, Liz. And thank you for being such a wonderful supporter of Pippa and of all my efforts!!!
your adventures wind up in future books!
Thank you so much, Beth…I'm packing for the third time tonight…hoping I can fit everything I think I need to take.
What happens when you have three Pippas on your shelf? You happily keep one for yourself and give the other two to your grandchildren! 🙂 Enjoy your adventure, Vivian! We will all be here rooting for you!
Well, my dear friend…you are amazing times three!!! So happy to have you in my life, Ellen!
Happy birthday, dear Vivian, to you next week & to Pippa! And safe travels on your around-the-world adventures!
I haven't been able to log into your site, (I think it was my error) but all seems to be working now! Yay! I don't want to miss the wonderful books you bring to us, and this one looks funny, informative and a wonderful addition to the children's book world! Congratulations!
Congratulations, Vivian, and happy book birthday to Pippa!! I can't wait to read it & I love Jill's art too!
Happy book birthday, Vivian and Pippa! I can't wait to read to read this lovely story! And I look forward to reading the #50PreciousWords entries, too!
Many, many congrats and hugs on Pippa's birthday! Enjoy your travels, seeing new sights, and meeting new friends!
Vivian – "Pippa's Passover Plate" is ADORABLE! I love the rhyme and repetition (and detested the snarky comment about repetition made by the Kirkus reviewer.) Have a wonderful time in Australia! I have been there and found them to be far more like Americans that the Brits (whom I also have visited and liked.) But the Australian humor is delicious. Safe travels to you and Essie.
I think it is perfectly acceptable and fun to share your new book. Maybe you'll start a new trend. I look forward to reading Pippa (and I like her name). You're having a great year and it's only February!
Happy Book Birthday ! And to Vivian too!
It's perfectly fine to share this book that you've written. Pippa is adorable, and I can't wait to hold this treasure of yours. Happy birthday to you and Pippa! And Happy Valentine's Day, too!
Looking forward to reading your new books, Vivian.
Hi Vivian, Next week I meet my new grand-niece Adina for the first time and will be bringing her books, among them PIPPA'S PASSOVER PLATE! Have fun in Australia.
Exciting that you are coming to New Zealand! I hope you love it! Let me know if you need any advice on things here.
Vivian, a question about #50preciouswords – is there a theme, or is whatever lands on our heart (and our keyboard)? Congratulation on Pippa and ALL of your good news!
I'm so proud of you for your accomplishments Vivian. You inspire me. I love your blog and your book. I will tweet it today!


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The Multiverse According to Ben: Is a Human Borg-Mind Inevitable?
The prospect of a "mind meld" with even our intimate partners is troubling. How many of our relationships would benefit from having our partners really know all our fantasies and deeper thoughts? We could share them now with speech, but we don't have to. For that matter, don't we have things buried in our own minds that we don't bring to consciousness? What if our partner delves into our unconscious? Maybe we could meld with a psychoanalyst who respected professional ethics and boundaries but not with our family. This would be an interesting topic for a science fiction book.
In general, after that sort of opening-up between people, there would initially be some reactions of surprise, shock, disturbance, etc. But then I bet much of the time, there would be a great feeling of relief. Like, "WHEW, I don't have to keep that stuff bottled up inside me anymore!!"
It's not about privacy, but about evolution as an isolated entity. So much meaning is derived from our understanding of being separate. So much culture is invented to express togetherness AS individuals.
My feeling is we do yearn for Ultimate Trust. So we no longer have to look over our backs or fear The Man or The Other. We have many traditions and customs that express our mutual interest in a pact of ego-sharing.
Yet, for all time we can shout prayers at God or Nation or Love... and never hear an answer back.
The proliferation of mobile devices and broadband are efforts to shorten the distance between us. To get ever tighter and huddled in against the terror of oblivion, around the fires of our cities in the cold night of the galaxy.
We have witnessed the frequency of brain stimulation via inter-communication accelerate nearly to the point of our capacity. Can we realistically handle much more? Our screens already have begun to exceed the resolution of optical perception. The age of "please wait.... loading" is rapidly disappearing. Do I really want to think at more than this current "rate"?
At least for this human, I sense my evolution from a brutal chain of survival that was the result of my individual prowess at Not Dying and successfully reproducing. My forty two years thus far has been constantly reminded of the limitations of our species, our bad habits, our baggage of War. In other worse, it is hard to imagine true Togetherness nor a path to it - unless you are talking about known metaphors and methods of organization (can we start a non-religion already?). Micro-Togetherness is possible and new tech will absolutely amplify it.
Finally, let me say I think you are also right. There is a certain feeling of inevitability that is beyond easy explanation. The signs are indeed there, a natural force of sorts.
I guess that modern society would be hard for a caveman to imagine -- until they actually saw it. Imagination sometimes has a hard time leaping too far beyond current reality.
But the beauty of exponential acceleration is that we can see radical changes, where reality way outpaces imagination, in decades rather than millennia !!
aren't corporations and political parties already a kind of mindplex in your sense? or even dumb proto-agis?
I'm surprised when people say BCI can lead to mind-melding in the foreseeable future. It seems to me about the same level of difficulty as uploading, and I wouldn't expect to see that without some assistance from a superintelligence.
Also, you seem to neglect the possibility that uploaded minds might want to meld. I expect they would find it much easier than meat-based humans.
We definitely need AGI uploading/mind melding before human mind melding. It seems that when humans band together for a common goal other than monetary, it is more likely to be negative. Like kkk or ISOS. Very negative banding together is based on strong emotions like hate or fear. Higher based banding together is more complex and harder to negotiate. Higher orders of meld would need to be based on the holistic overall value to the whole not just a sub group. So a much higher intelligence both intellectual and emotional is needed for really beneficial mind meld. Perhaps if humans could be upgraded first by genetic engineering then BCI could make mind melding be beneficial. That is not to say BCI won't come first but I think it could have very negative results. I suppose negative mind melds could be stopped by filtering from the cloud but if the values that are used are provided by human programmers then how can they agree on what is a right code? Society is very divided on moral codes and basic fundamentals. We need a higher order of emotional and intellectual first.
Black Mirror just did an episode of this. It was a disaster!


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06. Eddie Gale - The Rain
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14. Wayne Shorter - Indian Song
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Tesar opened Knife, located at the Highland Dallas hotel, to critical acclaim in May 2014. A reinvention of the steakhouse experience, the chef-driven restaurant features all-natural born and raised Texas beef, pork and lamb in dry-aged prime cuts and specialty cuts such as chuck flap, beef tongue and Akaushi beef. Named one of Eater National's "Most Anticipated Openings," Esquire magazine's "Best New Restaurants," Zagat's "Hottest New Restaurants," Maxim's "America's Best Steakhouse Specialties," D Magazine's "Best Steakhouse in Dallas" 2015 and 2016 and featured on Esquire Network's "Restaurant Revolution," Knife is Tesar's revolutionary steakhouse vision realized.
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Dr Radhakrishnan was a great philosopher, professor, and eventually statesman. He was a scholar of comparative religion and philosophy. There was a time in the late past when the western world views & writings were all about criticizing Oriental philosophies and ideologies. Some philosophers also stated that many Eastern Ideologies were inferior. At the same time, Eastern philosophers had never allowed these to become barriers to expose the truth and the deep meaning of our beliefs. Swami Vivekananda's 1893 speech upgraded the Eastern ideologies at the Parliament of Religions in Chicago. This speech of Swami Vivekananda is one of those instances. Our spiritual scholars where have captured these criticisms into the reality of all of it. Swami Vivekananda's works and Vedanta philosophy inspired Dr Radhakrishnan.
Teachers should be the best minds in the country.
Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
A lot of people came forward and pushed in the same direction to let the world witness the true essence of Hinduism. Some historians considered Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan as a giant defensive wall against the Uninformed Western Critic. His life story is almost everything about understanding the true meaning of the strong pillars upon which Hinduism has held its head high since the dawn of time.
EARLY MOMENTS OF LIFE
Dr Radhakrishnan was born on September 5, 1888, in a Telugu speaking Niyogi Brahmin family. His philosophy mostly concentrated on the roots of Advaita Vedanta. Sarvepalli was born in the Chittoor district in Madras Presidency (now Andhra Pradesh). However, his family recognized the village of Sarvepalli in the Nellore district. He gained primary education at K.V. High school. He attended Voorhees College, Vellore as a secondary school student. After school education, Radhakrishnan took up admission to Madras Christian College at the age of 17. He completed his school of philosophy in 1906. Sarvepalli later graduated with a master's degree from the same university. It was more luck than a choice that he chose philosophy that his cousin also studied the same one. His cousin gave him the books of philosophy that subsequently bore his interest.
HINDUISM & HIS PHILOSOPHY
In college, Dr Alfred George Hogg one of his professors used to criticize the Hindu Philosophical Culture. Radhakrishnan couldn't digest the same and in reply to "Vedanta has no room for ethics". Sarvepalli completed a thesis in M.A. on "Ethics of Vedanta & its mystical presuppositions". Later on, the same professor commended his work & impressed Sarvepalli on the same note. He told him that his criticism disturbed the faith on which he was given. The same criticism turned his direction to a detailed study of the Indian philosophical system & religion and continuous defence of Hinduism against the "Uninformed Western Criticism".
Besides, Dr Radhakrishnan viewed Professor Hogg as "My Distinguished Teacher". "He is one of the best men we had in recent years," Professor William Skinner, the principal of the college said to Radhakrishnan. The same eminence got him the first job in his college only. In reciprocation, he dedicated one of his earliest books to Professor William Skinner.
Dr Radhakrishnan married at the age of 16. He had 5 daughters & 1 son, Sarvepalli Gopal, who later became a prominent historian. His wife died in 1956, after spending 51 years of happily married life.
DR RADHAKRISHNAN: A TEACHER & PHILOSOPHER
Madras Presidency College's Department of Philosophy appointed Dr Radhakrishnan in April 1909. Later in 1918, Sarvepalli was a professor at Maharaja's college at the University of Mysore. His teaching techniques and humble & smart nature as a person gained him the unconditional love of his students. Dr Radhakrishnan wrote a number of articles like The Quest, Journal of Philosophy, International Journal of Moral Philosophy. Sarvepalli also wrote his Ist book on the Philosophy of Rabindranath Tagore, "Genuine Manifestation of Indian Life". Dr Sarvepalli wrote his IInd book in 1920, "The Reign of Religious Belief in Contemporary Philosophy". A true teacher proceeded to gain the love of his students always. In 1921, King George V Chair of Mental & Moral science at Calcutta University appointed Dr Radhakrishnan as a philosophy professor. Sarvepalli also represented at the Congress of Universities of the British Empire at Harvard in 1926.
Manchester College at Oxford University invited Dr Radhakrishnan once to deliver the Hibbert lecture (lecture on Theological matters) on the ideals of life in 1929. 'An Idealist View of Life' book subsequently published the same lecture. For his services to education, George V knighted Sarvepalli in June 1931 at Birthday honours. Although, later desisted to apply the title after Independence & used his academic title of "Doctor" only. From 1931 to 1936, Dr Sarvepalli remained the Vice-chancellor of Andhra University. In 1939, Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya invited him to work as Vice-chancellor of Banaras Hindu University (BHU). Dr Radhakrishnan remained in that office till January 1948.
DR RADHAKRISHNAN: POLITICS CAREER
After owning a successful & flourishing career in academics. Dr Radhakrishnan turned towards politics although Sarvepalli was never affiliated with any political party. In 1947, Dr Radhakrishnan represented India at UNESCO until 1952. Dr Radhakrishnan was the ambassador of India to the Soviet Union until 1952. The people of India elected Dr Radhakrishnan as a member of the constituent assembly of India. Sarvepalli proceeded on to become the Ist Vice President of India in 1952 & IInd President of India in 1962 and served in office till 1967. Neither Dr Radhakrishnan had a background in congress nor Sarvepalli was much active in the struggle against the Britishers. Some scholars regarded Dr Radhakrishnan as a "Politician in the shadow" for the same reason. Dr Sarvepalli is the only President who couldn't attend the Republic day parade due to sick health.
A life of joy and happiness is possible only on basis of knowledge.
As referred earlier, George V gave the knighthood to Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan in 1931 which he later ceased to use. In 1954, The Indian government awarded the Bharat Ratna to Dr Radhakrishnan. He was the Ist Indian to be honoured with the title after its introduction. British Royal order of merit in 1963 also granted honorary membership to Sarvepalli. Dr Sarvepalli was also the founder of Helpage India, an NPO for the elderly underprivileged.
A STORY BEHIND TEACHER'S DAY
When Dr Radhakrishnan was President of the Union of India. Some of his students requested him to permit them to celebrate his birthday. The President responded that he would be happy and privileged if his birthday would be celebrated as Teachers' day. From then on, his birthday is celebrated as Teachers' Day in India on 5 September every year.
His students always praised & adored Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan in all domains he served. Aside from the teacher's character, everyone adored his endeavour in person. Throughout his life, Dr Sarvepalli worked as a defensive wall for the real Hinduism & bridged the gap between the eastern & western worlds. Dr Radhakrishnan shaped the understanding of Hinduism in both India and westward. For his contribution to literature, Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was named for the Nobel prize 16 times. He was also nominated for the Nobel Peace prize 11 times. Walking in the footprints of Swami Vivekananda, Dr Radhakrishnan always resisted as a firm believer in Hinduism and its positive impact on the minds of people all over the globe.
Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan will forever be remembered as the beacon of real education and philosophy in India as well as abroad.
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Provides the properties and methods for the Bulk Insert task, which is the quickest way to copy large amounts of data into a SQL Server table or view. This class cannot be inherited.
For more information, see Bulk Insert Task.
Initializes a new instance of the BulkInsertTask class.
Gets or sets the number of rows in each batch.
Gets or sets a Boolean that indicates if you want to enforce table and column check constraints.
Gets or sets the code page of the data in the data file.
Gets or sets a value from the DTSBulkInsert_DataFileType enumeration that indicates the data-type value to use in the load operation.
Gets or sets a Boolean that indicates whether a task should determine whether breakpoints are enabled.
Gets or sets the name of the destination connection object.
Gets or sets the name of the destination table or view.
Returns a user-defined object. This field is read-only.
Gets or sets the field terminator for use in char and widechar data files.
Gets or sets a Boolean that indicates whether the insert triggers should be executed on the table during the operation.
Gets or sets the first row from which to start copying.
Gets or sets the full path of a format file.
Gets or sets a Boolean that indicates whether empty columns should retain a null value during the bulk load operation, or insert default values into the columns.
Gets or sets the number of the last row to copy.
Gets or sets the maximum number of errors that can occur before the bulk insert operation fails.
Gets or sets the row terminator for use in char and widechar data files.
Gets or sets the name of the source connection object.
Gets a String array that contains the Transact-SQL statement to run.
Gets or sets a Boolean that indicates whether tasks should suspend when they encounter a breakpoint. This value is set by the runtime engine for tasks and containers when a breakpoint is encountered.
Gets or sets a Boolean that indicates whether the table is locked during the bulk insert operation.
Gets or sets a Boolean that indicates whether the Bulk Insert task uses a format file.
Called by the run-time engine when a task or container is created, and is passed a BreakpointManager to enable the task to create, remove, and check the status of breakpoints. This method is called by the runtime and is not used in code.
Runs the Bulk Insert task.
Verifies that the Bulk Insert task component is correctly configured.


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Iteration 8: Rebecca May Johnson cooks the Internet
Food as kink, recipes as gossip, chicken soup
Some housekeeping this morning: if you're receiving this by email then you may note with alarm that it's a Monday, and maybe you've become subscribed to some paid part of the newsletter by mistake. Don't worry, this is not a mistake. I'm trialing out a new system of posting as I've long suspected a newsletter on Wednesday only provokes a feeling of 'oh not another one!' when Friday's hits your inbox. So I'm spacing them out a bit: Monday and Friday will be the two free slots. For the hardcore people with a paid subscription, you will notice no difference because the paid newsletter will go out on Wednesday. This week's will be an interview with the associate editor of Eater London, and the founder of In Digestion, James Hansen.
As the cookbook mini-season winds down, I will also start to bring back Season 2 which has been running since August. I have two more cookbook iterations left, so will run one a week in the run up to Christmas along with one article from Season 2, take a much needed break and pause subscriptions, and then return in the New Year with some new announcements and a news season.
If Fozia Ismail's newsletter last week on Hawa Hassan's In Bibi's Kitchen partially interrogated the idea that the purpose of certain cookbooks is to cook from them, then today's newsletter by Rebecca May Johnson maybe blows my whole remit apart. For Johnson, both the cookbook (a fixed, authoritative way of passing on a recipe), and the traditional structures of the family (less fixed, but no less authoritative), are being superseded by the informal sprawl of the Internet, and the random connections we make through it.
The truth is that many of us don't cook from cookbooks at all; an ingredient in our cupboard or fridge might provoke a WhatApp message to friends asking for advice or a recipe; the sight of a sandwich or a plate of pasta, glimpsed for a few seconds on Instagram, may inspire our own experiment; a passing tweet may lead to some DMs. In this sense, the Internet is a electronic version of a curiously archaic world, before the printing press, before books. Even Johnson's own blog, Dinner Document, is less a didactic recipe blog and more exactly what it says on the tin: a loose document of dinners and gestures, that someone 1000 years ago might have scribbled in margins or spread, in Johnson's words 'like gossip'; each recipe, like Homer before some villain decided to write him down, simply a retelling of a retelling of a retelling.
My experience is that anyone can teach you some thing, or a lot, about cooking. Because the primary measure of culinary knowledge is whether it brings pleasure to the body, and to what degree, it is inherently erotic, and has no authority in a text-only format. As with kinks, everyone has their preferences – a 'special way' to prepare toast, eggs or rice (or whatever) that amounts to an irrefutable insight, a piece of information that endures because of how it makes them feel.
Earlier this year I sent a Claudia Roden rice pudding recipe that I love to a few writers and asked them to cook it however they wanted and record the experience. They are not writers of cookery books (though some write about food in their poetry and essays) but I was interested to know how each of them would respond to the text. The recipe I sent them from Roden's Book of Jewish Food blossomed into many puddings, each differing from the others. I found their written accounts absorbing; hyper-specific details of cooking (smashed eggs, burnt pans, getting stoned) and the irritation and pleasure it provoked unexpectedly opened out into deeper truths, buried memory and self-revelation.
I realise eating it how ragged we've all been feeling. I have seconds.
C sits up with us and wants to feed himself, looking at his reflection in the back of the spoon as he does. Reiz kuggle. (Edwina Attlee)
The cooks' narratives retained an element of unmediated experience – or, to borrow Nuar Alsadir's phrase about poetry, 'a tracking of the grain, the body, emotions' – as the recipe text became movement before returning to language, weathered by their living through it.
The experiment was a formalisation of the way that good recipes pass from person to person like gossip. I passed on this recipe because of the occasions in my life in which its custard texture and plain richness have been participants. Gossip is a deeply affective (and effective) form of knowledge transmission, with every retelling taking on the mood and context of the teller. This is also how we teach each other important things, passing on our gestures and annotations.
In 'The Nourishing Arts', Luce Giard gives an account of the transmission of recipes down a traditional family structure:
Women bereft of writing who came before me, you who passed on to me the shape of your hands or the color of your eyes… As long as one of us preserves your nourishing knowledge, as long as the recipes of your tender patience are transmitted from hand to hand and from generation to generation, a fragmentary yet tenacious memory of your life itself will live on.
It is a beautiful, romantic passage of writing that tries to pay tribute to the complexity of culinary knowledge, which at every turn shifts between body and mind, gathering traces of each life it passes through. However, Giard's linear and conservative imagination of family and the hands that possess or share 'the nourishing arts' is a shortcoming. Although some say that the palate, each person's 'way of seeing' what they eat, is anchored in (and constrained by) a particular kind of origin story – the family history that Giard describes – I would say that the palate has a potential openness to un-commodified difference and a disregard for parochialism that I dream of seeing in politics.
This is where I would like to talk about the internet.
If I were to draw a diagram of the sources that have informed my cooking in the last six months, it would not look like a linear genealogy or a neat stack of books; it would look like a tangled web of people who I may or may not know. I have most frequently come by new recipes in the last decade through encountering them online, which is to say, through other people's advocacy of them. In The Five Senses, philosopher Michel Serres says that language suppresses the sense of taste, which is 'too close… too much its twin', and that taste is 'rarely conveyed well' in language. I agree that language makes a poor account of the senses, especially taste, sometimes 'allowing it no voice'. Serres goes so far as to call it oppression. But Serres was writing in 1985, since when there has been an exponential increase in the number of people writing about taste, thanks to the internet. Social media has embedded the activity of writing about food into everyday life, and while companies try to intrude, it is the flashes of reality and personal rituals that I love. Accounts of cooking and eating posted online at the precise moment they are unfolding are able to retain 'the grain, the body, emotions'. They offer a peep into the erotics of culinary knowledge: kinks of the palate writ large.
And so, this essay is an ode to the culinary knowledge of people online that I have glimpsed at between reports of state violence, memes, images of world-making protest, make-up advice and book releases. I am grateful for their privately honed methods and accidentally discovered pleasures; recipes given by friends and a remark about how to eat chips; a photo of a birthday party and a conversation with strangers about something unrelated. The dishes I see online are usually outside the context of canonical authority – and my response is physical first and rational second, led by desire towards something for which I haven't yet got the words.
I recently made fermented green tomatoes after seeing a photo of them on Olia Hercules's Instagram: pale green, flecked with red chilli. I gathered further information about the process from talking to Thom Eagle through direct messages. After I posted photos of the tomatoes being prepared, a friend messaged me via WhatsApp to discuss the recipe, intending to make some to use up her green tomatoes.
I plan to make Hainanese chicken rice soon after seeing Nina Mingya Powles discuss recipes for it on Twitter. I cooked a roast chicken a month or so ago having read Anna Tobias's account of making it in Sophie Davidson's TinyLetter, Women Cook for Me. A chat on Twitter with artist Tai Shani about buying pans yesterday, while I was standing at the stove skimming chicken stock, prompted me to make chicken soup with noodles today after she wrote this:
I love to make my Jewish chicken soup (it's kind of stock) keep 1/3 w fats 4 stock, have 1/3 Jewish home style w noodles and dill and the carrots, 1/3 becomes Tom Kha w glass noodles shredded chicken and oyster mushrooms it's best use of kitchen time
I ate the soup with toast made from Nigella Lawson's sandwich loaf recipe, buttered in a style my father likes – generously, then put in the oven to melt in. With the rest of the chicken, I cooked four dishes (and counting), each one a nodal point connecting fragments of other people's labour, hunger, and pleasure: recipes. Culinary knowledge was always already a network of desires straying beyond heteronormative transmission – which is to say, a reaching towards the other, an admission that intimacy with what is beyond us is what will nourish us.
1 raw chicken carcass – buy a chicken, remove the legs (divide into thighs and drumsticks if you want), wings, and breast and freeze in portions, or put in the fridge for another time
¼ celeriac, peeled
2 carrots, peeled
1 onion, halved
a few peppercorns, whole
a teaspoon of salt
Put the carcass and everything else into a pan and cover with water, 1 inch above the chicken, and bring to a simmer. Skim the top of any scum using a spoon, putting it into a bowl to rinse down the sink with hot water. Leave it to simmer for 1.5 hours on a low heat. Leave to cool overnight with the lid on.
chicken stock and whatever tiny shreds of chicken you can pull off the bird
a few carrots, peeled and cut into ½ cm rounds, then halved
a tablespoon of finely diced parsley
toast and butter
To make the soup: pre-heat the oven on a low heat to warm your bowls. Put a few ladles of stock into a smaller pan through a sieve – enough for you and one other person to have a bowl each. Pick any tiny bits of meat you can find from the carcass and add into the stock. Bring to a simmer and reduce for a few minutes. Peel 3–4 small carrots, slice into ½ cm rounds, and add in. Boil a pan of water and add 2 small nests of thin/medium egg noodles. Bring back to the boil then turn off the heat and leave for 3–4 minutes, draining when cooked (try one first). Make toast and butter it, and put in a warm oven along with your bowls.
When carrots are tender, finely chop a tablespoon of parsley and stir in. Taste for seasoning. Divide the drained noodles into warm bowls, ladle over the stock and garnish with parsley, making sure each person has equal amounts of carrots and chicken.
I didn't have dill but did have parsley and the light soup with flecks of chicken and sweet carrots was seasoned with rich salty toast; it was a very good midday rest.
Rebecca May Johnson is a writer and academic who you can find on Twitter and Instagram. She blogs at Dinner Document and is working on her first non-fiction book about pleasure and resistance in the kitchen. She was paid for this newsletter.
Viola BuitoniDec 7, 2020
Very lovely post and a sum of my experience as a cooking instructor. Thank you


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A fortunate son
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A lot has changed in Mom's world.
The world in 1949, the year of her birth, was a crazy place. Europe was rebuilding its continental economy, the Soviets were rattling their nuclear swords, the U.S. economy was in a wobbly transition from a wartime economy, new Communist governments threatened the alliance of western democracy and a relatively inexperienced former U.S. Senator from middle America was finding his way around the world stage.
A lot has not changed.
The world in 2009 is a crazy place, with Europe trying to restore its continental economy, the Russians (and Iranians and Koreans) rattling their nuclear swords, the U.S. economy in a wobbly transition from a boomtime economy, new Islamist movements threatening the underpinnings of democracy and a certainly inexperienced former U.S. Senator from middle America finding his way around the world as his stage.
Mom has changed, and has helped change people.
She still helps folks. Always has. Volunteers at her church. She works with young women struggling to make good decisions during an unplanned — and often unwanted — pregnancy. She works to protect children caught between family problems, the legal system and government bureaucracy.
She and Dad have helped people start businesses. She's opened up her home to foster kids. She worked as an around-the-clock caregiver when Lupus began to eat away at Grandma Tilley (her mother-in-law). Took care of her until the end.
For a few years she was active in politics, and ran for school board in a community that wasn't yet ready for a female to reach that level of decision making. And considering the quality of decision-making, Mom indeed had no business on the school board because she was overqualified, and likely wouldn't have been able to accommodate the men's level of competency without first suffering severe head trauma.
And people have changed around her.
Grandma and Grandpa Evans (her parents) both struggled with and died from Alzheimer's. Possibly the only thing more horrible than being of sound body and losing your mind is watching your parents suffer through that reality.
She changed her two children. Molded them, really. She tells of waking her 18-month old boy and holding him up to the television to watch historic episodes of the Apollo program sending men to the Moon. Am sure I welcomed the historic events by filling a diaper. ("Mom, we have a problem.")
Whether 18 months or 18 years, she never stopped fueling an interest in the world around me.
Sister has proven a capable and effective family leader with talents inherited and learned from Mom.
We children were fortunate Mom's tough-love style was never infected by the touchy-feely parenting the educated folks and Dr. Phil advocate. Punishment was consistent, certain and, judging through the more-focused lens of today, fair.
Her children were encouraged to read. Books were plenty and library trips were wonderful parts of the summer. We came together often at supper and had lively discussions about the world around us. It was made clear to her children that our calling in life was to be givers and not takers; to attempt to make better the world around us.
The aforementioned lessons learned were delivered through example rather than lecture. The example of doing more and talking less was indeed the most useful lesson.
Mom fights through the limits of life and tries to stay positive in the midst of her own health issues. It's the genetics. She's from the line that believed in hard work, personal accountability, responsible charity and strong faith. They mind their own, laugh when they can, cry when they can't, love who they trust and trust who they love.
Her children aren't perfect. They don't have to be. They're hers.
Mom is not perfect. She doesn't have to be. She's Mom.
And I'm fortunate beyond the average, and well beyond what's deserved.
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text:
package nessusCreator

import (
	"crypto/tls"
	"fmt"
	"github.com/kkirsche/nessusControl/api"
	"net/http"
	"net/http/httptest"
	"strings"
	"testing"
)

func TestLaunchScan(t *testing.T) {
	testServer := httptest.NewTLSServer(http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
		w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
		response := `{"scan_uuid": "3390954f-63b5-1604-78b9-94237d20c69fd45c9012e5d18f69"}`
		fmt.Fprintln(w, response)
	}))
	defer testServer.Close()

	transport := &http.Transport{
		TLSClientConfig: &tls.Config{InsecureSkipVerify: true},
	}

	httpClient := &http.Client{Transport: transport}

	port := strings.Split(testServer.URL, ":")[2]

	client := nessusAPI.NewUsernameClient("127.0.0.1", port, "testU", "testP", false)

	client, err := client.CreateSession(httpClient)
	if err != nil {
		t.FailNow()
	}

	creator := NewCreator("/some/place", client, httpClient, nil, false)
	createdScanCh := make(chan ScanData)

	go func(createdScanCh chan ScanData) {
		for i := 0; i < 5; i++ {
			scanSetting := struct {
				CreationDate           int    `json:"creation_date"`
				CustomTargets          string `json:"custom_targets"`
				DefaultPermisssions    int    `json:"default_permisssions"`
				Description            string `json:"description"`
				Emails                 string `json:"emails"`
				Enabled                bool   `json:"enabled"`
				ID                     int    `json:"id"`
				LastModificationDate   int    `json:"last_modification_date"`
				Name                   string `json:"name"`
				NotificationFilterType string `json:"notification_filter_type"`
				NotificationFilters    string `json:"notification_filters"`
				Owner                  string `json:"owner"`
				OwnerID                int    `json:"owner_id"`
				PolicyID               int    `json:"policy_id"`
				Rrules                 string `json:"rrules"`
				ScannerID              int    `json:"scanner_id"`
				Shared                 int    `json:"shared"`
				Starttime              string `json:"starttime"`
				TagID                  int    `json:"tag_id"`
				Timezone               string `json:"timezone"`
				Type                   string `json:"type"`
				UseDashboard           bool   `json:"use_dashboard"`
				UserPermissions        int    `json:"user_permissions"`
				UUID                   string `json:"uuid"`
			}{ID: 1}
			createdScanCh <- ScanData{CreatedScan: nessusAPI.CreateScanResponse{
				Scan: scanSetting,
			},
			}
		}
		close(createdScanCh)
	}(createdScanCh)

	launchedScanCh := creator.launchScan(createdScanCh)
	for launchedScanData := range launchedScanCh {
		if launchedScanData.LaunchedScan.ScanUUID != "3390954f-63b5-1604-78b9-94237d20c69fd45c9012e5d18f69" {
			t.FailNow()
		}
	}
}

func TestCreateScanJSON(t *testing.T) {
	testServer := httptest.NewTLSServer(http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
		w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
		response := `{"scan":{"container_id":0,"uuid":"template-9f6a69d0-709e-22b1-f696-e1de009f6a8faf787b8b14d3a111","name":"Example Scan","description":null,"policy_id":40,"scanner_id":1,"emails":null,"sms":null,"enabled":true,"use_dashboard":false,"dashboard_file":null,"scan_time_window":null,"custom_targets":"localhost","starttime":null,"rrules":null,"timezone":null,"notification_filters":null,"shared":0,"user_permissions":128,"default_permisssions":0,"owner":"testU","owner_id":3,"last_modification_date":1454379756,"creation_date":1454379756,"type":"public","id":41}}`
		fmt.Fprintln(w, response)
	}))
	defer testServer.Close()

	transport := &http.Transport{
		TLSClientConfig: &tls.Config{InsecureSkipVerify: true},
	}

	httpClient := &http.Client{Transport: transport}

	port := strings.Split(testServer.URL, ":")[2]

	client := nessusAPI.NewUsernameClient("127.0.0.1", port, "testU", "testP", false)

	client, err := client.CreateSession(httpClient)
	if err != nil {
		t.FailNow()
	}

	creator := NewCreator("/some/place", client, httpClient, nil, false)
	createScanCh := make(chan ScanData)

	go func(createScanCh chan ScanData) {
		for i := 0; i < 5; i++ {
			createScanCh <- ScanData{
				CreateScanJSON: nessusAPI.CreateScan{
					UUID: "TestUUID",
					Settings: nessusAPI.CreateScanSettings{
						Name:        "Request 1",
						Description: "Request 2",
						FolderID:    "1",
						ScannerID:   "2",
						PolicyID:    "3",
						TextTargets: "123.12.45.0/24",
						Launch:      "ONETIME",
						Enabled:     false,
						LaunchNow:   false,
					},
				},
			}
		}
		close(createScanCh)
	}(createScanCh)

	createScanResponseCh := creator.createScan(createScanCh)
	for createdScanResponseData := range createScanResponseCh {
		if createdScanResponseData.CreatedScan.Scan.UUID != "template-9f6a69d0-709e-22b1-f696-e1de009f6a8faf787b8b14d3a111" ||
			createdScanResponseData.CreatedScan.Scan.Name != "Example Scan" {
			t.FailNow()
		}
	}
}

func TestBuildCreateScanJSON(t *testing.T) {
	creator := Creator{}
	requestScanCh := make(chan ScanData)

	go func(requestScanCh chan ScanData) {
		for i := 0; i < 5; i++ {
			requestScanCh <- ScanData{
				RequestedScan: RequestedScan{
					RequestID: "123",
					Method:    "atomic",
					TargetIPs: []string{
						"192.168.2.0/24",
						"192.168.3.0/24",
						"192.168.4.0/24",
					},
				},
			}
		}

		close(requestScanCh)
	}(requestScanCh)

	createScanCh := creator.buildCreateScanJSON(requestScanCh)
	for createScanJSONData := range createScanCh {
		if createScanJSONData.CreateScanJSON.UUID != "ab4bacd2-05f6-425c-9d79-3ba3940ad1c24e51e1f403febe40" ||
			createScanJSONData.CreateScanJSON.Settings.Name != "Scan Request #123, Method: atomic" ||
			createScanJSONData.CreateScanJSON.Settings.Description != "Scan Request #123, Method: atomic" ||
			createScanJSONData.CreateScanJSON.Settings.FolderID != "65" ||
			createScanJSONData.CreateScanJSON.Settings.ScannerID != "1" ||
			createScanJSONData.CreateScanJSON.Settings.PolicyID != "54" ||
			createScanJSONData.CreateScanJSON.Settings.TextTargets != "192.168.2.0/24 192.168.3.0/24 192.168.4.0/24" ||
			createScanJSONData.CreateScanJSON.Settings.FileTargets != "" ||
			createScanJSONData.CreateScanJSON.Settings.Launch != "ONETIME" ||
			createScanJSONData.CreateScanJSON.Settings.Enabled != false ||
			createScanJSONData.CreateScanJSON.Settings.LaunchNow != false ||
			createScanJSONData.CreateScanJSON.Settings.Emails != "" {
			t.FailNow()
		}
	}
}

func TestScanMethodToPolicyID(t *testing.T) {
	creator := Creator{}
	policyID := creator.scanMethodToPolicyID("allportswithping")
	if policyID != "52" {
		t.FailNow()
	}

	policyID = creator.scanMethodToPolicyID("allportsnoping")
	if policyID != "53" {
		t.FailNow()
	}

	policyID = creator.scanMethodToPolicyID("atomic")
	if policyID != "54" {
		t.FailNow()
	}

	policyID = creator.scanMethodToPolicyID("pci")
	if policyID != "55" {
		t.FailNow()
	}

	policyID = creator.scanMethodToPolicyID("other")
	if policyID != "19" {
		t.FailNow()
	}
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub