Did Pavlov ever conduct experiments on political reporters? You have to wonder. If I read one more piece like this Dan Balz article in today's Post, I just might convert to the belief that bashing Al Gore whenever he speaks is a trained reflex.
But Gore also praises the president for winning unanimous support from the United Nations for a new resolution calling on Hussein to disarm. Asked why he had been so critical of Bush on Iraq at the very moment the administration was pursuing the U.N. resolution, Gore said that his critical speech had come before Bush initiated action at the United Nations. In reality, Gore criticized Bush on Iraq 11 days after the president spoke to the United Nations.
What's the story? That Gore got his timeline wrong? I wouldn't call that earthshaking news. After all, when it comes to Iraq, you can hardly accuse the President of being consistent. Following the endless flips and flops of Bush and his aides over the last few months would be enough to make the most rigorous observer misremember the facts.
We can't expect the Post to mention Bush every time it talks about Gore. But how about a little perspective? Claiming exoneration from having to worry about budget deficits all because of a joke the president never made seems a little more serious than, say, an off-the-cuff answer that misses the timing of a policy shift by ten days. And some of Bush's misstatements are even more breathtaking. I could go on. Some of us already have.
But dropping the Paint-by-Numbers™ approach to Gore would force the press to think, y'know, about the merits of his ideas. Seriously: who practices journalism that way these days?
Newsweek lobbed a bombshell tonight: Michael Isikoff reports that part of the funding for the Sept. 11 hijackings may have come from the Saudi government. Associates of the hijackers, according to the magazine's account, received thousands of dollars in funds through the bank account of the wife of Bandar bin Sultan, a longtime Saudi ambassador with a seemingly permanent perch on 'A' lists all over official Washington.
[S]ources (outside the White House) describe the financial records as "explosive" and say the information has spurred an intense, behind-the-scenes battle between congressional leaders and the Bush administration over whether evidence highly embarrassing to the Saudi government should be publicly disclosed — especially at a time that the White House is aggressively seeking Saudi support for a possible war against Iraq. "This is a matter of the foreign-policy interests of the United States," said another administration official, who cited the need to prevent a rift in the U.S.-Saudi relationship.
A matter of the "interests of the United States"? Oh. And I suppose this isn't?
This story could bolster the growing conception that some among our friends the Saudis have an interesting understanding of the word 'friendship.' It could also give ammunition to those who argue that the way to stop terrorism is to stop the funding at its source. That all depends, though, on whether our friends in the White House consider us mature enough to handle the news.
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Don't pity Max Cleland — he lost his job, but found true love. Bully for him.
Does Georgia law allow the new governor to call a referendum on bringing back the old state flag? I'm working on finding out. Stay tuned.
Dwight Meredith trains a floodlight on the fundamental dishonesty of conventional wisdom about Al Gore.
I waged guerrilla warfare against spam earlier in the year, setting up a Maginot Line-rivaling network of filters that whittled my e-mail intake down to a manageable handful. Now, just a few months later, I can open the progress window in Outlook Express and see 40 or more messages from a few hours' time pour into my Mac.com account.
I could tear my hair out. Spam all but nuked my Hotmail account a few months ago, and in my main accounts it comes in such torrents that I can delete blocks of 20 to 30 messages wholesale. Was this the promised efficiency the internet was supposed to bring to my life?
A program that Jason Levine mentions takes a step toward changing the ground rules — rather than forcing users to figure out how to block mail, the program would make companies certify that they never send spam. Kevin Werbach has discussed another method of self-defense: adopting whitelists that exclude e-mail from everyone but the senders whose e-mail you opt to accept.
I'm willing to experiment with that. I want to give the self-correcting filter in MacOS X a chance first, but unless that techique works, it may take radical surgery to keep spam from rendering my e-mail accounts useless.
The New Scientist is reporting yet another Microsoft© Windows™ security hole: a defect that can let a hacker disable security controls and hijack a user's computer. The company suggests that users protect themselves by deleting Microsoft from a file of "trusted" code publishers.
I'm not too worried. I stopped trusting Microsoft a long time ago.
Remember the days when Prince freaked people out and Michael Jackson was considered the wholesome one?
Don't Look Now, Here Comes Newt Gingrich . . .
. . . reviewing paperbacks on Amazon.com!
With a war book here, and a crime book there — here a book, there a book, everywhere a book book . . .
Expecting a snarky comment here? Sorry — no can do. I don't have the heart. He plugged a few books that really looked interesting, and the fact that he's just as eager to goof off at his computer like the rest of us bloggers seems, as Patrick Nielsen Hayden put it, fairly endearing.
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The title of this post actually name-checks a excellent negative ad from the congressional campaign of 1992; his opponent slammed him for bounced checks, a pay raise, and a $67,000 chauffeured limousine, all to the tune of "Mary Had a Little Lamb." The consultant behind that spot really needs to dig it out of the archives, make a streaming video with it, and put it up. It was that good.
Winter suits me well. I know that sounds nuts — I'm from Alabama, for Pete's sake! — but something about crisp air and cold wind makes me feel chipper.
This monsoon season that Atlanta has fallen into, though, I could do without. We've had such endless rain lately that I walk out of the front door every morning to find my car smothered under leaves with a dank, moldy haze. Yuck.
Today we had yet another gray afternoon, and I had to spend part of it locked up in a meeting with a man far too enamored of his own voice. I can usually handle prattle, but somewhere in the middle of his twenty-first or twenty-second monologue, I started thinking I'd rather be someplace different. Radically different.
Eze would hit the spot. Clear views, high mountains, great wine, no Republicans . . . what more do I need? If I could only afford the air fare . . .
Okay, so this talk of jetting off to France is just idle musing. But that's good for you! After all, I used to dream of having an office on One Infinite Loop, which is just as unlikely to happen as my spending next week in an easy chair on the Cote d'Azur. But it sounds like big fun, doesn't it?
A secret court upheld secret wiretaps the other day, and Anil Dash feels like busting out with glee.
Does the GOP cut taxes for the irresponsible hell of it? Of course not, according to Berkeley professor Brad DeLong — it's really the first step of a clever plot! Problem is, the Republicans might have been a little too clever . . .
Back to silly clichés of the Republican kind: that Charles Krauthammer sure is brave for facing the mortal threat that Barbra Streisand poses to the American way of life, eh?
überhawk Richard Perle just won the Nobel prize for obliviousness.
Glenn Reynolds tells us that President Bush is Harry Potter, and Beliefnet wonders whether Harry Potter is Jesus Christ. Anyone thinking through the transitive implications of that statement, please stop now.
Local blogger Todd Dominey goes to the Apple Store, but yieldeth not to temptation. Yea, verily!
Has anyone else noticed how much of a resemblance the logo for the Anti-Idiotarian Manifesto bears to the French flag? Oh, the irony . . .
Logo, you ask? Bien sur! What would a revolutionary worldwide movement be without a snappy logo?
1. A pundit or blogger is worth reading in inverse proportion to the frequency with which he or she uses the word "leftist."
2. A conservative pundit or blogger immediately loses whatever argument he or she is trying to make once they compare any Democrat in Congress to a socialist or Communist.
Fairness demands application of the same standards to liberal bloggers who rant about "the far right." I'm okay with that. But some conservative blogs out there have this rule written all over them. Let the hijinks begin!
The president's policies run the gamut from obnoxious to laughable, but I have a pet theory: that what we're witnessing right now is the apotheosis of a campaign finance system gone awry.
Everywhere you look — from the corporate responsibility dog-and-pony show at the Securities and Exchange Commission to the pending anti-environmentalist hoe-down in the Senate, from the maximum-security lockdown of the notes of the vice president's energy task force to the attempt to use the homeland security bill to absolve GOP-backing pharmaceutical companies of responsibility for harm inflicted by potentially defective vaccines — you see an administration totally unashamed to sell policies to the highest bidder. It's a dismal spectacle.
Fortunately, the corporate influence on the Bush administration is about as blatant as one could imagine. One would be hard put to envision more absurd circumstances than these, short of actually having Karl Rove running an open-air auction for naming rights to the Rose Garden. Consider it safe to say, in short, that we've hit bottom.
Now that we're here, though, the Democrats need to ponder an undertaking more ambtious than the usual cosmetic changes that sponge up the appearance of impropriety. Been there, done that. Been there since Watergate, in fact — and what can we show for the effort? McCain-Feingold? That's a Rube Goldberg contraption if ever I saw one, and the parties have already riddled the law with new loopholes to replace the old ones.
So why go that route again, and let hope triumph over cold experience? Forget about tinkering at the edges. Blow the campaign finance laws up and start afresh.
Sounds daft? Sure. Radical change usually does. But most good ideas sounded daft at the outset — in the end that hardly matters. Besides, the insurgent campaigns of recent years — Ross Perot, Ralph Nater, Jesse Ventura — demonstrate, if nothing else, that more that a few voters feel sick of the politics of tweedledee and tweedledum, and might vote for something completely different if given a chance.
Democrats have an opportunity to stoke popular outrage about the auctioneering going on at the highest levels of government. Anyone who tries it can count on getting laughed offstage, though, as long as voters believe the party is just out to make loot under the same rules itself. It will take a radical proposal to break through the public's cynicism — and I know just the one the party needs.
Sick of Ernst & Young buying the administration's accounting policies? Then how about telling the company that it's free to give Republicans however much it wants — but with the catch that no one but the firm itself gets to know about it? The check would go into a blind trust, which would bundle the donations every few days, deposit them, and wire the candidate a check for a lump sum.
The proposal wins on three fronts. Without knowing which nameless contributors to thank for their largesse, candidates would have a hard time determining whose checks might have bought what policies. As a flip-side bonus, candidates would also have a hard time trusting ostensible donors who might crawl through the woodwork to claim credit and ask for favors. Third, companies could use mandatory anonymity to shield themselves from the badgering of Rep. Tom DeLay and his fellow pay-to-play shakedown artists.
I've talked about these ideas once before, in a post in August. They're still well worth considering. In an age when the greatest guessing game in politics focuses on which Bush contributors get the quickest rewards for their loyalty, a proposal that does away with that spectacle might provide just the change in direction that disaffected voters are looking for.
A few months ago Mr. Rove compared his boss to Andrew Jackson. As some of us noted at the time, one of Jackson's key legacies was the "spoils system," under which federal jobs were reserved for political supporters. The federal civil service, with its careful protection of workers from political pressure, was created specifically to bring the spoils system to an end; but now the administration has found a way around those constraints.
We don't have to speculate about what will follow, because Jeb Bush has already blazed the trail. Florida's governor has been an aggressive privatizer, and as The Miami Herald put it after a careful study of state records, "his bold experiment has been a success — at least for him and the Republican Party, records show. The policy has spawned a network of contractors who have given him, other Republican politicians and the Florida G.O.P. millions of dollars in campaign donations."
It's dispiriting to give in to cynicism about a president's motives, but in the context of the administration's furtive attempts to nudge federal employees into Republican campaign activities — including this anecdote about Chief Justice Rehnquist's daughter — Krugman's theory has the ring of plausibility. Hard as it is to accept — an American president, selling government off to friends so he can run it as a fully owned subsidiary of his political machine? — that might happen unless Democrats put up a fight.


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Then and Now: Collecting Art and Exhibiting Cultures in Asia Conference, Lingnan University in Hong Kong, 20-21 May 2021
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Collecting art and exhibiting cultures have had a long and complex history, evolving with the ever-changing demands of society. On one hand, they are catalysts for enriching art historical narratives and contextualising art; on the other hand, they are practical activities as well as persistent scientific and socio-cultural processes.
Art collecting, involving object research, art valuation, connoisseurship and taste-formation, has been widely adopted in private collections, museums and other public institutions. Exhibiting cultures refers primarily in the case of museums and galleries to the spatial transformation of exhibition display as well as to visual methodologies. Their expanded notions have highlighted the connections between art and other realms, offering critical tools for revealing cultural debates of the past, politics, policies of an institution, and agencies of a cultural object or subject.
As a mega-region steering the global order, Asia has witnessed a phenomenal expansion of museums and art infrastructure in recent decades. The Then and Now: Collecting Art and Exhibiting Cultures in Asia conference focuses on the studies of collecting and exhibition practices in different sites of cultural production where our imagining of Asia takes place. It seeks to create an academic platform for scholars and professionals to present a variety of local and cross-cultural contexts and perspectives in Asia that contribute to art collecting, exhibition-making and the rewriting of their histories. It will reveal how collectors, curators, educators, collection archivists and policymakers from Hong Kong and other Asian cities deal with art, collections and relevant cultural institutions. The conference will also highlight the role of these actors in shaping the practice of art collecting and the historical discourse of exhibitions that span from the pre-modern era to the contemporary period.
Scholars, research students and professionals in the fields of art history, museum studies, visual studies, cultural management and Asian studies are invited to present cutting-edge research and participate in panel discussions. Topics may include, but are not limited to:
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September 24, 1947 - June 20, 2015
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Carol Deanette Durbin, 67, of Fort Scott, died Saturday Morning, June 20, 2015 at the Cox Medical Center in Springfield, Missouri. She was born in La Cygne, Kansas, on September 24, 1947 the daughter of Russell Stokes and Beatrice Imogene Willis Merriman. She married Ronald R. Durbin on October 9, 1965 in Fort Scott, he preceded her in death on April 15, 2010.
She worked as a C.N.A. for Arkhaven Nursing Home, for Key Work Clothes, Ward-Kraft Forms and Labels, Dayco and retired from Ennis Business Forms about 5 years ago.
She is survived by a daughter, Annette Durbin-Bogan of Pleasanton, Kansas, a son, Ron Durbin Jr. and his wife Shannon, of Arcadia, Kansas; four sisters, Marsha Lafferty of Fort Scott, Nina Merriman of Rich Hill, MO, Christy Rusk of Fort Scott, Liz Campbell of Parker, Kansas; two brothers, Kenneth Merriman of Fort Scott, Russell Merriman, Jr. also of Fort Scott; five grandchildren and three great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, Ronald R. Durbin Sr., 3 brothers, Everett, Keith and Steven Merriman, and 1 grandson.
The Mass of Christian Burial will be 10:00a.m., Wednesday, June 24, 2015 at the Mary Queen of Angels with Father Robert Wachter as Celebrant. The family will receive friends from 6:00 until 7:00p.m. Tuesday evening, June 23, 2015 at the Konantz-Cheney Funeral Home with a Rosary service following at 7:00p.m. Burial will be in the St. Michael's Catholic Cemetery in Fulton, Kansas. Memorial contributions may be made to the St. Mary's Catholic School and may be sent to, or left in the care of the Konantz-Cheney Funeral Home, 15 W. Wall St., P.O. Box 309, Fort Scott, Kansas 66701. Condolences may be emailed to [email protected]


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Agatha Raisin, private detective, resident in the Cotswold village of Carsely, should have been a contented and happy woman… But in M.C. Beaton's Pushing Up Daisies, things are about to get a little less cozy. Lord Bellington, a wealthy land developer, wants to turn the community garden into a housing estate. And when Agatha and her friend Sir Charles Fraith attempt to convince Lord Bellington to abandon his plans, he scoffs, "Do you think I give a damn about what a lot of pesky villagers want?" So it's no surprise that some in the town are feeling celebratory when Agatha finds his obituary in the newspaper two weeks later. The villagers are relieved to learn that Bellington's son and heir, Damian, has no interest in continuing his father's development plans. Except the death was apparently murder, and the police see Damian as suspect number one--though Agatha finds plenty of others when he hires her to find the real killer. The good news is that a handsome retired detective named Gerald has recently moved to town. Too bad he was seen kissing another newcomer… Soon, another murder further entangles Gerald and Agatha in a growing web of intrigue as they work with her team of detectives work to uncover the killer's identity.


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What I want to do or know I want to know if the Thermal Fishing Bob concept could work as an A...
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I want to know if the Thermal Fishing Bob concept could work as an Autonomous "SeaGlider" type robot.
A "SeaGlider" is a type of autonomous underwater vehicle that mimics a "porpoising" motion to propel itself through the water. The method uses far less energy than a conventional propeller-driven method and is being researched for long endurance vehicles.
An impressive, low-cost, DIY version called the SeaGlide has been developed as a school curriculum by the same organization that sponsored the (far less impressive IMHO) "Sea Perch" competition. The web site at http://www.seaglide.net/ includes a full lesson plan, BOM, 3D printable part files and Arduino firmware. All of which can be downloaded freely from this Dropbox-https://www.dropbox.com/sh/lattz1cupiqa6ai/AAD40WVk4Fu62y14ojnYm_D1a?dl=0 The fully functioning unit could be built for less than $100 depending on the availability of materials.
The SeaGlide already includes a "Sensor Pod" with an Arduino, temp sensor, pressure and even an RGB LED to indicate the vehicles water depth. So the vehicle could function in a manner similar to a Thermal Fishing Bob in its current configuration. The only issue is whether or not the diving motion would make a long exposure image that accurately reflects water temperature too difficult to capture. If it were possible to account for water temperature changes at different depths, then I imagine the diving motion would be an advantage, but I'm not sure how this would be accomplished.
Of course, the advantages of such a low-cost, autonomous vehicle could make it appealing for a wide variety of uses beyond thermal imaging. The arduino "sensor pod" allows for all kinds of device configurations...
I've wanted to build one myself for some time, but living as I do on the ocean, the vehicle is really more appropriate for rivers, ponds or other inland waterways where you could keep it from swimming away!
danbeavers commented over 7 years ago
I believe it would be better to just store the data and use dead reckoning between fixes. That assumes you get GPS on each surfacing.
ajawitz commented over 7 years ago
In that case, perhaps a better question would be about using the sensor pod as a platform for RIFFLE or other Open Water tools? The only problem with the GPS method, is it would either have to be highly accurate, or the sample area would have to be wider. This would be a problem because while the Seaglide can move autonomously, it can't NAVIGATE autonomously... A wide sample area would either require a really long leash or the addition of some kind of navigation capability. If it already has a GPS, then NAV would not be impossible and could probably be ported from Arduino-UAV sources like MultiWii. But AFAIK, it really can't control its direction very well in its present configuration. I don't think adding such a capability would be impossible either, but would likely require quite a bit more testing...
I reviewed the design and there is no port and starboard control. That could be accomplished by changing the center of gravity to the left or right. Nor does it have GPS. I don't believe high accuracy is needed though. By the way the GPS will only work on or near the surface.
mathew commented over 7 years ago
If flow/water speed and pressure/descent was being measured too then those measurements could be used to generate approximate locations between GPS waypoints.
Probably just pressure would be sufficient. I am not certain but there is probably a constant relationship between pressure change rate and speed/distance. That will probably require individual calibrations which may be accomplished via GPS fixes though.
I just remembered the other sensor that was being used was a digital compass to get both heading and pitch.
i wonder if it really would make sense then to base the navigation controls off of a flight controller IMU like the one I've been (very slowly) developing at- http://publiclab.org/notes/code4maine/08-05-2014/aerial-mapping-drone-for-under-60. Something like MultiWii would be easily modified since it is based on Arduino. Although the current iteration of my UAV project has abandoned the 8Bit Arduino in favor of a 32bit STM chip, it does include a cheap IMU called the GY-80, which includes a barometric pressure sensor, a digital compass and the MPU6050 10-DOF gyro/accel combo.
At this point however, I would strongly advise AGAINST using an STM over Arduino even if the 8Bit system severely limits capabilities... The enormous resources provided by the Arduino user-community outweighs the performance increase in ALMOST every situation I've yet tried...
Dan's response in the accompanying thread to this note in the discussion forum gave me an idea about retrieving the Glider in an ocean/large lake environment... What if the Glider could be configured to go into a "retrieval mode" where it surfaces and emits a locator signal via AIS? As readers may or may not be aware, I've been working on a low-cost method of receiving AIS signals at- http://publiclab.org/notes/ajawitz/06-11-2015/raspberry-pi-as-marine-traffic-radar. However, I know very little about what it takes to actually TRANSMIT... One thing I do know is there are many different classes of AIS transmissions assigned to different uses. So big commercial ships will use "Class A" transmissions, smaller vessels will use "Class B", Aids to Navigation use a dedicated class, search and rescue etc... AFAIK, one of these specifications has been set aside for "Scientific Research" but further information is hard to come by (chances are it has some kind of obscure acronym)... Anyway, I'm picturing something akin to the Slocum Glider where the tail of the vehicle can double as a flag/antenna in retrieval mode-
Or like this Glider from the University of Washington-
Challenges- AFAIK the SDR revolution only really extends to receiving radio signals and transmitting them is still quite complicated in terms of hardware and regulatory approvals... The closest thing to an SDR that can both receive and transmit is the HackRF but at over $300 this still hasn't quite hit the "affordable" mark...
Dan- Considering your background in both Glider research and amateur radio do you know anything about AIS specs for scientific research applications? If not can you recommend a good resource or place to start looking? Assuming the regulatory process itself doesn't prevent the development of a low-cost AIS transmitter for research purposes, are there any obvious reasons why such a device would be technically impossible?
I just can't resist the temptation to build one myself! Even though the DIY version is probably useless in an ocean environment, it just looks so tempting! Anyway, looking at the build instructions and the BOM one problem keeps popping up in that all the hardware components can only be ordered in bulk from McMaster-Carr. Seeing as you mostly only need one of each component (washers, nuts, bolts etc...) they only ship in packs of 100! I searched long and hard through Home Depot and Lowes and they don't seem to carry anything in those particular dimensions. The build instructions look pretty detailed, so its hard to tell which parts you can get away with using a different size. I guess I'll try printing out the printable parts first and then I can see what pieces need to fit.
One detail I really appreciate about the Seaglide project compared to something like OpenROV is the 3D Printed parts are mostly small enough to fit the build volume of the low-cost desktop 3D Printers (like the Printrbot SImple) that are finally entering the mass market. The only exception might be the "plunger" component which might be too tall for a desktop printers' Z-Axis...
This is a great question about bulk ordering. @mathew can you comment on this?
UPDATE 6/29/15:
I've managed to build most of the "buoyancy engine" with a large syringe, 3D printed parts, threaded drive bolts and metal "BBs" for ballast. I also got the right water bottle, and the Arduino Pro Mini.
Cross-referencing the BOM with inventories at local Home Depot etc... got me nowhere, so I just went ahead and printed out the 3D printable pieces of the buoyancy engine to serve as a reference point. Using this method I was able to find the drive bolt, brass nut and locking washer rather easily by fitting them into the printed space. The good news is the metal parts are relatively common. The bad news is none of my standard or micro size servos would fit the very specific dimensions of the printed parts. So now I have to wait until the servo with the proper dimensions arrives in a week...
The completed Buoyancy Engine with Servo Attached should look like this image from the official instructions
My initial impressions are that while very impressive, this is an unusually complex diy build in terms of the conceptual engineering involved. Its clear that it was designed by professional engineers as opposed to a casual tinkerer... At least as far as the buoyancy engine is concerned, this does mean that the materials used must closely match those of the original build as there is little room for alterations. This somewhat diminishes the DIY value of using common everyday objects when you really have to use the exact same water bottle, syringe, servo etc... Luckily, the parts are still relatively inexpensive and available online. I'm hoping the same rule does not apply to the "sensor pack" as this is where I would like to test some of the Open Water modules like RIFFLE.
One final observation... You can definitely tell this build came out of the Navy as more than any other DIY project I've ever worked with, I couldn't shake the feeling that I was building some kind of a bomb! Especially after loading the 3D printed cylinder with BBs for ballast and attaching what looked a lot like a triggering mechanism... Needless to say, I would avoid taking the completed glider through an airport...
I might have a temporary workaround for the control issue... At least until we can incorporate some kind of autonomous navigation... According to the instructions, the Glider should pretty much swim in a straight line. So if we need it to return, in theory it should only require one change of direction... A very low-tech solution would be to simply attach a long fishing reel to the front of the Glider. When the Glider is on its initial path, the reel will be set to slack and trail behind it. Once it reaches the end of the line the slack will tighten and the Glider will change direction. The line will then be carefully reeled back allowing the Glider to return on its own power. Alternately the line could be attached to the rear of the Glider but this would mean working against the its own propulsion motion. So rather than a "Thermal Fishing Bob" it would be more like a "Thermal Bobbing Fish"!!! You could even have some fun and pretend like you're fishing for robots!
Now that this project is taking on a life of its own, I figured it was time to give it, its own research note at- http://publiclab.org/notes/ajawitz/07-11-2015/buoyancy-driven-underwater-glider
Please do continue the discussion!
created by warren over 5 years ago
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Q: Is it possible to implement an interface into another interface with GraphQL? I want to make a deeper abstraction.
interface Person {
  name
}

interface SpecialPerson implements Person{
  name
  speciality
}

type PrettyAwesomPerson implements SpecialPerson{
  name
  speciality
  awesomeThings
}

Is something like this possible? The way I mentioned it is not working and I sadly cannot find a good documentation or another question to this

A: The spec currently does not allow this, but will in the near future. The RFC that introduces this feature has been merged, and the support is already present in the reference (JS) implementation.

A: The GraphQL spec now supports interfaces implementing other interfaces:

When defining an interface that implements another interface, the implementing interface must define each field that is specified by the implemented interface... Transitively implemented interfaces (interfaces implemented by the interface that is being implemented) must also be defined on an implementing type or interface.

This is available in the (JavaScript) reference implementation as of version 15.0.0. I don't believe the Java implementation supports it yet but should in the future.

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Q: Where do I find the name for my data context? I have this following code:
DefaultModel.RegisterContext(typeof(YourDataContextType),
                             new ContextConfiguration() {
                                 ScaffoldAllTables = true });

I know what does into the "yourdatacontexttype" but I cannot seem to find where it is.

A: It's usually the name of your .edmx file with 'Entities' appended, so if your edmx is called 'Foo' you're looking for FooEntities. This is of course under the assumption you use database first and have generated an .edmx from your db.
As found here, when you use Code First, you need the following:
Replace
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with
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Vet on call: Enemy within your goat herd.
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By DR JOSEPH MUGACHIAI was reviewing with my attachment students their experiences during their three months stay on my vet firm when my phone rang.It was Bob, a manager at a farm in Kiambu.
He reported that their goats were doing well for about four years but of late, he had noticed many kids were dying and the goats were gradually becoming smaller in size.I found Bob's call rather interesting because Eddy, one of the students, had wanted during the review to know if I had encountered cases of inbreeding in pigs, goats and sheep.
I informed Eddy he was either a prophet or a very lucky fellow. "Your attachment is ending tomorrow, you complain of lack of goat cases and now we have a case that appears genetic," I told him.
On the way to the farm, I briefed the students on the case report and we discussed the possible causes of the high mortality of kids and reduction in the body size of the goats. The students' integration of knowledge on the different aspects of veterinary medicine and practice had greatly improved during their attachment period.
They were able to list all the possible causes of the farmer's observation on his goat herd and then argue why some of the listed causes were unlikely to be the culprits on the farm. In short, the students had perfected the medical art of differential diagnosis.
This is the process by which the doctor is able to come up with the three to five most likely causes of a disease before and after seeing a case to finally make the confirmed diagnosis of the problem before deciding on the treatment or intervention required.Mike, who was the case team leader among the students, explained that it was most likely the goats were suffering from inbreeding.
I was impressed because the knowledge showed the students could explain complex scientific matters to lay people.brOnce on the farm, Bob led us to the enclosure where the goats were gathered.
The herd was made up of mainly the Small East African goat crossed with Galla goats and the dairy goat breeds of Saanen and Toggenburg. NEEDED DEWORMINGThe main breed characteristics were, however, the Small East African and Galla goats.
I explained to the students the situation was not unusual because the two are the predominant breeds of goats in Kenya.The students diagnosed the goats needed deworming because some of them were producing dung instead of the individual pellets that are typical of the animal's droppings.
Bob confirmed the goats had not been dewormed for the last four months.One goat kid was sickly and I treated it for nutritional imbalance and inadequate feeding.
I advised the manager to ensure the kid was fed on cattle milk since its mother was not having enough.Coming to the major complaint, Bob explained, "Doctor, my goats kids have been dying in increasing numbers over the last one year before they stop suckling.
This is decreasing the growth of my herd size and if unchecked, the goats may eventually get finished." He further said he had noticed that many of the kids that survive were not growing fast like before and their mature size was smaller than both parents.
I tasked the students to examine the goats and give me their herd and individual goat observations. They found that there were three large bucks which had definitely fathered about 25 goats in the herd of 40. The bucks were large, very healthy and obviously of good breeding material.
They weighed 70-80kg. There were 17 does (female goats) of varying ages and sizes and also 12 males of various ages and sizes.
The males were all much smaller than their fathers and they did not show the potential to grow to the same or approximate size. The students were able to predict that from the lengths of the bodies, the lengths of the bones of the legs and the development of long horns and beards.
All the males were entire, meaning they were not castrated.PREVENT INBREEDINGThere were only eight large females.
The others were smaller than their mothers. Bob confirmed no new goats had been brought from outside the herd in the last three years.
After the full herd examination and taking the complete history from Bob, the students concluded the goat herd was experiencing the early stages of inbreeding depression. Inbreeding occurs when animals that are closely related are bred deliberately or by chance.
Inbreeding depression is the occurrence of undesirable traits in the herd that threaten the performance and survival of the herd. Bob's goats were initially from three bucks and six does.
The first breeding pairs were unrelated. After the first generation of goats were born, some of the daughters bred with their fathers and the sons with their mothers because all the male off-springs and the original bucks were left entire.
Later, brothers and sisters were also breeding. Inbreeding brings out both desirable and undesirable traits in the off-springs.
However, most undesirable traits relate to economically unfavourable outcomes such as poor survival of the young, low growth rate, small body size, poor immunity and poor fertility in both males and females. These are the factors that then contribute to the diminishing body size and number of the goats in the herd.
To prevent inbreeding, a goat farmer needs to adopt good and simple breeding strategies that ensure that the goats are only bred with others that are not closely related. The highest level of relationship that is allowed in the goat herd is 6.
25 per cent. This translates to breeding a great grandfather buck with its great granddaughter or a great grandmother doe with its great grandson.
In small-scale goat production, the recommended strategy is to breed a buck with does at the rate of 25 to 40 does per buck, then remove the buck when its daughters attain breeding age and bring in new unrelated male. All males from each buck should be castrated before breeding age or removed from the herd.
In large-scale production, bucks can be rotated among herds of unrelated does and breeding bucks can also be selected from the various herds on the farm.I advised Bob to castrate all the males on the farm including the three dominant bucks and bring in a new unrelated breeding male.
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Breakfast: Top 5 RBs the Texans will face in 2016
Last week, I looked ahead to the start of the season with the top 5 quarterbacks the Texans will face in 2016. So, let's move forward with the top 5 running backs Houston will see this season.
Similar to the league dynamic, the league's running backs aren't quite at the level of the quarterbacks and pass catchers in the NFL currently. That might change in the next two or three years with the game-changing running backs that are in the college game. But, Leonard Fournette, Samaje Perine, Christian McCaffrey and company have some college work to do before entering the league.
If you made a list of the top ten RBs in the league, the Texans would avoid playing all but one or two on the list. No Todd Gurley. No Shady McCoy. No David Johnson. No Le'Veon Bell. No Doug Martin (THE MUSCLE HAMSTER!). Marshawn Lynch retired. That's all good news. The bad news? These five (and then some), including arguably the best back in the league, are on the schedule.5. Jeremy Hill, Bengals Hill flat out scares me every time the Texans play the Bengals. The problem is that he can be inconsistent and you just never know which Hill is on the field that day. In 2014, against Houston, he averaged nearly five yards per carry and ran for a touchdown. In 2015, though, the Texans held him to 15 yards on seven carries. He's such a load (6-1, 235 lb.) to bring down that if he gets rolling behind that Bengals offensive line, he can be difficult to stop for a full 60 minutes.
Demarco Murray/Derrick Henry, Titans**
Titans head coach Mike Mularkey said he wanted to be an exotic smash mouth team and the trade for Murray and the draft selection of Henry prove just that. Murray led the league in rushing in 2014 but struggled in Philadelphia last year, registering only 702 yards on 193 carries. Henry was the 2015 Heisman Trophy winner after rushing for 2,219 yards and 28 touchdowns.
3. T.J. Yeldon/Chris Ivory, Jaguars
Every time I'm on the radio in Jacksonville and I bring up the fact that the Jaguars have never faced Jadeveon Clowney and they always remind me that the Texans have never faced Yeldon, Henry's teammate at Alabama for two years. Yeldon did have a solid start to his career with 740 yards and 36 receptions out of the backfield. The Texans did see Ivory with the Jets last year, but he might be even more effective alongside Yeldon, formulating a strong 1-2 punch in Duval County.
2. Jamaal Charles, Chiefs
Although Charles missed a significant portion of the season with another knee injury, he should return 100 percent healthy to the Chiefs offense in 2016. That's scary. He can change the game in a heartbeat with his ability to get the edge, split a seam and take it to the house. He can also be such a tough matchup in the passing game. Keep this in mind... in 2012 after missing all of 2011 with an ACL tear, he had a career-best rushing season (1,509 yards). Combine all of those aspects and he's a definite top two back on this list.
1. Adrian Peterson, Vikings
All Peterson did in his return to the NFL was lead the league in rushing yards with 1,485 yards, his highest total since his 2,097 yard performance in 2012. Even with Teddy Bridgewater under center, he's the purple straw stirring the offensive drink in Minnesota and will do so for a while. The 31-year old, ten-year veteran showed no signs of slowing down any time soon and that's not great news for the Texans when they venture up to Minneapolis on October 9th.
The Houston Texans roster in photos.
DL, Mario Addison, #97
TE, Jordan Akins, #88
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DB, Grayland Arnold, #35
DL, Thomas Booker, #56
RB, Rex Burkhead, #28
OL, A.J. Cann, #60
LB, Blake Cashman, #53
DL, Maliek Collins, #96
WR, Brandin Cooks, #13
OL, Austin Deculus, #76
WR, Phillip Dorsett, #4
QB, Jeff Driskel, #6
K, Ka'imi Fairbairn, #7
DB, Jacobi Francis, #38
RB, Royce Freeman, #26
OL, Kenyon Green, #59.
DL, Rasheem Green, #92
DL, Jonathan Greenard, #52
FB, Troy Hairston, #34
LB, Jake Hansen, #49
LB, Christian Harris, #48
OL, Charlie Heck, #67
LB, Neville Hewitt, #43
DL, Kurt Hinish, #93
TE, O.J. Howard, #83
OL, Tytus Howard, #71
DL, Jerry Hughes, #55
P, Cameron Johnston, #11
TE, Brevin Jordan, #9
DB, Desmond King II, #25
LB, Christian Kirksey, #58
DL, Roy Lopez, #91
Michelle Watson/Michelle Watson/Houston Texans
OL, Justin McCray, #64
QB, Davis Mills, #10
WR, Chris Moore, #15
OL, Jimmy Morrissey, #79
DB, Eric Murray, #23
DB, Steven Nelson, #21
RB, Dare Ogunbowale, #33
DL, Ogbo Okoronkwo, #45
DB, Jonathan Owens, #36
DB, Jalen Pitre, #5
OL, Scott Quessenberry, #54
TE, Teagan Quitoriano, #84
LB, Jalen Reeves-Maybin, #44
WR, Amari Rodgers, #19
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DB, Tremon Smith, #1.
DB, M.J. Stewart, #29
DB, Tavierre Thomas, #37
OL, Laremy Tunsil, #78
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LB, Garret Wallow, #32
LS, Jon Weeks #46
Breakfast: Five storylines to watch in OTAs
Here are five storylines to watch during Texans OTAs.
Breakfast: WR Sammie Coates ready to contribute
WR Sammie Coates is excited to be a Texan, and explained why.
Breakfast: The Texans roster renovation
It's clear that the Texans roster has undergone a serious renovation.
Breakfast: Day 2 recap of Texans media days
The Houston Texans are officially getting in the swing of things when it comes to preparing for the 2018 season.
Breakfast: Texans media days recap
If seeing the Texans in full uniform doesn't get you pumped for September, we don't know what will.


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And yet he complains that he's treated like the subject of a crime novel.
The Obama administration is funding Iranian-fueled Islamic terrorism.
Forget all the double-talk and the dissembling by perhaps the most arrogant individual to ever occupy the Oval Office. Despite Barack Obama's insistence that the latest revelations about the $1.7 billion accord reached with the world's foremost state sponsor of terrorism amount to the "manufacturing of outrage," the stench of a heinous quid pro quo, at best — and the outright payment of a ransom for hostages at worst — cannot be avoided.
The agreement, which closed the books on a failed weapons deal reached just prior to the overthrow of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi during the 1979 Iranian revolution, was originally announced in January, and even then it was criticized as a ransom payment in exchange for five Americans held by Iran. Obama also asserted it was not part of the nuclear accord. "With the nuclear deal done, prisoners released, the time was right to resolve this dispute as well," he said at the White House on Jan. 17 — without mentioning the deal included $400 million in cash denominated in euros, Swiss francs and other currencies procured from the central banks of the Netherlands and Switzerland.
And not released prisoners. Exchanged prisoners, as in the release, or pre-trial pardon, of seven people of Iranian descent, three of whom had been imprisoned for attempting to provide Iran with advanced technology, along with the dismissal of arrest warrants against 14 others.
Nonetheless, the resolution of a 37-year-old dispute with a nation that has maintained a war footing against American interests throughout that entire period, and the simultaneous implementation of a nuclear accord, is being framed as strictly coincidental. "As we've made clear, the negotiations over the settlement of an outstanding claim … were completely separate from the discussions about returning our American citizens home," State Department spokesman John Kirby insisted. This despite U.S. officials admitting the Iranian prisoner negotiators wanted cash to show they had gotten something "tangible" for their efforts.
Moreover, a videotape emerged of a documentary broadcast in February on Iranian TV, showing footage of the money and emphasizing the idea that the mullahs viewed the transaction as "a win-lose deal that benefits the Islamic Republic of Iran and hurts the United States," according to English translations.
Those familiar with the Obama administration's modus operandi should expect State to be "looking into it" long after the media's increasing disinterest diminishes to zero.
Not exactly. As Saeed Ghasseminejad, a fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies discovered, Iran's Guardian Council increased the nation's 2016-2017 military budget by a whopping 90% over the previous year, with funding that included "$1.7 billion from a financial settlement reached in January," he wrote last June.
Even if one were to completely dismiss this discovery, the notion that funding — especially cash — isn't completely fungible is utterly absurd.
So is the notion Iran will "moderate" its behavior. Since the transaction, Iran has taken into custody three more Iranian-Americans, and four dual-nationality visitors from Canada, Britain and France. The whereabouts of former FBI agent Robert Levinson also remain a mystery. Iran has test-fired two long-range missiles with the phrase "Israel must be wiped out" painted on the sides. And despite impotent protests from the Pentagon, the Russians began delivery of the S-300 surface-to-air missile system to Tehran.
Moreover, the administration's reflexive stonewalling, and Leftmedia efforts to bury it, continue. "White House officials have declined to say whether the rest of the $1.7 billion payment … was also made in cash," The New York Times reported Friday — buried in the 13th paragraph of its article.
That's an astounding revelation, but Times will undoubtedly be joined by the rest of the calculatingly disinterested Leftmedia, eager to reduce this story to one of semantical distinctions, or "old news," as Hillary Clinton called it.


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Update: We've moved the screenshot of the level below the fold. Click through to see it!
Players have discovered the rumoured Diablo 3 secret level only a few days after the game's release. It's called Whimsyshire, and it's a playful poke in the ribs for anyone who accused the game of being too colourful back when its art style was originally unveiled. Whimsyshire is a neon-green children's cartoon complete with rainbows and playful little happy clouds. Hooray!
The portal to Whimsyshire is a glowing rainbow crevasse that can be unlocked during Act 1 of the game, provided that you've collected the right ingredients from elsewhere. Enemies range from ponies to Cuddle Bears, but don't be fooled: it's equivalent to an Act 4 dungeon and it'll turn your fresh character into a brightly-coloured smear without a second thought.
You can find a guide to opening Whimsyshire over at Diablowiki.net . Be warned, though: the steps cover all four acts, and contain spoilers. Whimsyshire isn't going anywhere: come back when you've finished your first run through the campaign.


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ARP (Address resolution protocol ). ARP is an ethernet layer 2 address, network hardware address (MAC).
The communication between nodes in the network established between source and destination through layer 2 address, i.e., MAC address , in the network the nodes share their MAC address through broadcast.
Every node in the network maintains an ARP cache table which consists of L2 and L3 addressing (IP address and associated MAC address).
To view ARP table, you can launch the command shell in a windows / terminal in Linux and run below command to the list ARP table.
ARP spoofing is a technique to manipulate the source and destination by doing ARP poisoning through ARP spoofing , the packet can be sniffed / captured & monitored.
Note: don't try this on any public, corporate or unauthorized networks . Performed only when you have authorization to do.
In our configuration guide we are going to show you packet sniffing & spoofing on Kali Linux.
Let's assume that you are having below nodes.
Attacker PC , In our guide we are using Kali Linux as an attacker machine in order to perform an ARP spoofing attack to victim PC and gateway .
The ARP spoofing attack will convince the victim machine to send all the packets to attacker machine.
The ARP spoofing attack on the gateway of victim PC , this will convince gateway to send back all the traffic to attacker PC.
ARP spoofing attack in Kali Linux , follow the below steps .
IP forwarder must be enabled , it's required to redirect traffic through attacker PC .
Request coming on port 80 will be redirected to user define port number . with the iptable nat rule the victim PC will get internet through attacker PC.
ARP spoof attacks on victim PC and associated gateway IP as shown below.
ARP spoof attacks at Victim Gateway as shown below.
sslstrip : packet sniffing tool which captures all the sensitive information like username , password ,email account and database user details.
The main executable script " , run below command to sniff the traffic of target PC "192.168.1.23 " and specify the port defined in iptable nat rule.
wait for a while to record sniffing data in logs /usr/share/sslstrip/sslstrip.log or you can use user define file to dump captured data. For more help on using different options with command, use below command.
Press Ctrl+D to stop the service and view the log file.
driftnet: GUI based tool which captures the screen shots of victim PC anything accessed from the browser .
Launch a tool by using below command. But make sure that you have GUI access or logged in GUI mode.
ettercap: Ettercap is the tool used for ARP spoof attack under Window or Linux operating system. It can be used as a command line or GUI.
-w : writes sniffed data to a file.


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Masayuki Kaï est un peintre japonais du , né en 1958 à Hiroshima. Il est actif en France depuis 1976.

Biographie
Peintre Néo-Supports/Surfaces, tout d'abord élève de Claude Viallat à l'École des beaux-arts Marseille (Marseille-Luminy, en 1976, Masayuki Kaï est diplômé en 1981. Il vit et travaille à Paris et à Aix-en-Provence.
Il figure à des expositions collectives, à partir de 1980, dont : Présence contemporaine, Aix-en-Provence ; Biennale de la jeune peinture méditerranéenne, Nice ; Salon Grands et Jeunes d'Aujourd'hui, Paris ; Salon de Mai, Paris ; Artistes japonais contemporains, Est Forum Junku, Paris. Il montre ses œuvres dans des expositions personnelles : 1980 galerie Yokota, Hiroshima ; 1980 Atelier 37, Marseille ; 1981 galerie Psyché, Martigues ; 1982 galerie Ginza Surugadai, Tokyo.
En 1984, il obtient le grand prix du seizième Festival international de la peinture à Cagnes-sur-Mer.

Technique de style
Marqué par les réflexions conduites par le groupe Supports/Surfaces sur la matérialité de la peinture, il peint, travaille la texture de la surface de ses « toiles » en les enfouissant un certain temps dans le sol, les déterre maculées comme un linceul, les lave, les découpe en figures géométriques qu'il refixe en les cousant méticuleusement sur un nouveau support, formant d'immenses plages informelles et délicates.

Bibliographie
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Notes et références

Peintre japonais
Naissance en 1958
Naissance à Hiroshima


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Kanelis: Texas Is Big Enough For Two Vet Schools
By John Kanelis • Mar 8, 2019
Texas Tech University is looking to add a veterinary medicine program to its graduate campus in Amarillo.
Texas is a big state, covering more than 268,000 square miles. It has 28 million residents and that number is skyrocketing.
It's big and getting bigger. Therefore, it seems to me that the state is large enough to have two colleges of veterinary medicine. Texas Tech University is seeking to build such a school in Amarillo. However, it is getting resistance to its initiative.
It is coming from a competing university system, the one based in College Station. Texas A&M University has the state's sole school of veterinary medicine and doesn't want Texas Tech to install such a school in Amarillo – or anywhere else for that matter.
Texas Tech wants to build the veterinary medicine school near its existing medical school campus on the western edge of Amarillo in the middle of the city's growing medical center complex.
Texas Tech is getting plenty of support from Amarillo and the rest of the Texas Panhandle. The Amarillo City Council has dedicated public funds to help grease Tech's effort. The Amarillo Economic Development Corporation has pledged $69 million to help Tech build the school. Private donations have come in varying sizes. For example, former Amarillo Mayor Jerry Hodge and his wife, Margaret, have pledged $10 million to the vet school, which appears on the verge of meeting its private fundraising goals, which should delight legislators who seek to find the best use for always-strapped public funds.
Against that backdrop, Texas A&M keeps arguing that the state doesn't need a second school of veterinary medicine. A&M Chancellor John Sharp – a former Democratic state senator from Victoria and a former comptroller of public accounts and a one-time member of the Texas Railroad Commission – has been lobbying his friends in the Legislature to turn away from Tech's proposal.
Meanwhile, Texas Tech has undergone its own bit of drama that some say is related to the school of veterinary medicine. Former Tech Chancellor Bob Duncan, another ex-state senator, was given a vote of no confidence by the Tech Board of Regents reportedly over his stewardship of the vet school campaign among other concerns. Duncan retired and has been succeeded by Tedd Mitchell as chancellor.
The battle over whether this new school of veterinary medicine becomes a reality really shouldn't even be a major matter. The state's agriculture-based economy is large enough to support a Texas Tech veterinary medicine school without putting A&M's longstanding veterinary medicine program in any jeopardy.
I simply am imploring the Legislature to green-light Texas Tech's effort. Let the construction begin on the new school of veterinary medicine. The Texas Panhandle economy will be better off for it.
So will the critters that will receive top-notch medical care from Texas Tech's vet school graduates.
Texas is large enough to accommodate two such schools. Honest. It is.
John Kanelis, former editorial page editor for the Amarillo Globe-News and the Beaumont Enterprise, is also a former blogger for Panhandle PBS in Amarillo. He is now retired, but still writing. Kanelis can be contacted via Twitter @jkanelis, on Facebook, or his blog, www.highplainsblogger.com. Kanelis' blog for KETR, "Piece of Mind," presents his views, and does not necessarily reflect the opinion of KETR, its staff, or its members.
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With a PhD in Physical Chemistry, Cynthia M. Trudell began her career in automotive engineering and management. Before her retirement in 2017 from PepsiCo as Executive Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer, she had held numerous executive positions in the automotive and marine industries. As General Motors' Vice President and the Chairman and President of Saturn Corporation, a wholly owned GM subsidiary, she became the first woman to head a car division at any US or foreign auto maker.
Cynthia M. Trudell ('74) is a trailblazer. At a time when women were rarely found in chemistry or engineering, she was studying both disciplines at Acadia. Twenty-five years later, she was first woman to head a car division at any US or foreign auto maker.
Following her PhD in Physical Chemistry and postdoctoral research at the University of Windsor (Ontario), Trudell began her career in the automotive industry, first with the Ford Motor Company and then with General Motors. During her 20 years with GM, she worked initially in a variety of engineering and manufacturing managerial positions, including plant manager roles in Canada and the USA. Later, she assumed a number of general management roles including President of IBC Vehicles, a joint venture between GM and Isuzu in England, and Vice President of GM and Chairman and President of Saturn Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of GM.
From 2001 to 2006, Trudell served as President of Sea Ray Group, a wholly owned subsidiary of Brunswick Corporation, before accepting a position at PepsiCo. In her role as Executive Vice President, Human Resources and Chief Human Resources Officer, Trudell was responsible for PepsiCo's global human resources function and the company's human capital management strategy until her retirement in 2017. Throughout her career, she remained a strong advocate for women in the corporate world.
Trudell currently serves on the Board of Directors for ISS, headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark. She also serves as a member of the Defense Business Board, advising the US Department of Defense on business process and management issues. From 2000 to 2007, she served on the PepsiCo Board of Directors before resigning to accept the HR management position. She has also served on the boards of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and the Pepsi-Cola Bottling Group (PBG) prior to PBG's merger with PepsiCo.
A member of Acadia's Chemistry Hall of Fame and the 2012 recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award, Trudell has garnered numerous honorary degrees including an Honorary Doctor of Science from Acadia in 2005.


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Reportage/ 13 October 2016
Three Days to Reach the Nearest Hospital
War victims in Afghanistan
by Vasja Badalič
"It happened in the end of August. The Taliban and government forces were fighting. A rocket hit our house. I don't know from which belligerent side it came from," said 44-year-old Nur Habib from Shahr-e-Kuna area in the vicinity of Pul-e-Khumri, the provincial capital of the northern province of Baghlan. The rocket that exploded on Nur Habib's front yard injured him and six members of his family. All of the seven victims were civilians. Three of them suffered minor injuries and were treated at a hospital in Pul-e-Khumri, while the other four – Nur Habib and his son and wife and wife's sister – were seriously wounded and had to be transferred to the better-equipped Emergency Hospital in Kabul.
Nur Habib, father of six, a painter by profession, was the most severely injured. Both the tibia and fibula in his left leg were fractured, while one bone was fractured in his right leg. "Before I came here, I spent a night at the hospital in Pul-e-Khumri. The doctors in Pul-e-Khumri suggested amputating my legs. I refused to allow them to do that. I decided to come to Kabul," recalled Nur Habib, lying in his hospital bed with both of his legs wrapped up in plaster.
The doctors treating him in Kabul said that he will fully recover. He will be able to walk again using both of his legs.
According to data collected by the United Nation Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), the number of civilian casualties has been steadily increasing over the past six years. In 2009, when UNAMA started documenting civilian casualties in Afghanistan, they recorded 3556 war-related injured civilians. In 2015, the number of injured civilians was 7457, which represented a nine percent increase from 2014.
"I first came here in 2009. It's hard seeing how the security situation is going from bad to worse. You never know what's going to happen. There is no feeling of security. The feeling is that at any moment something can happen," said Sara Salvigni, the medical coordinator at the Emergency Hospital in Kabul. She confirmed that the number of war victims treated at the hospital continued to increase this year. "In the first quarter of this year, we received 25 percent more patients than in the same period of last year," she said.
With three hospitals and dozens of small clinics across the country, Emergency, an international non-governmental organization based in Italy, remains the largest provider of free medical assistance to war victims in Afghanistan. In order to assist an increasing number of patients, the Kabul hospital opened last year three new operation theaters, operating 24/7, and an additional wing with 20 new beds, thus increasing the number of beds to 120 in total. When incidents with mass casualties occur, they also use the laundry room and physiotherapy room, in order to gain enough space for about 20 beds. "This usually happens once or twice a month," said Salvigni. One of the bloodiest attacks this year happened in late July, when a suicide bomber of the Islamic State – Khorasan, the Afghan branch of the Syria-based Islamic State, blew himself up at a demonstration in Kabul, killing 80 people and injuring more than 230. "About 50 people were transferred here. About 40 of them were severely injured and had to be hospitalized, while 10 people had superficial wounds," recalled Salvigni.
The Emergency hospital in Kabul primarily treats patients from nearby provinces such as Wardak, Logar, Parwan and Ghazni. But ever since the U.S. military air strike that demolished the Doctors Without Borders Hospital in Kunduz City in October 2015, an increasing number of war-related injured civilians started coming to Kabul from the northeastern provinces. Without the Doctors Without Borders trauma center in Kunduz city, which was the only trauma center in the northeast of the country, civilians with serious injuries now have to make the 330-kilometers long journey to Kabul, if they want to receive proper medical treatment. "Many hospitals were closed in Kunduz. When the road is open, people come here for treatment. Sometimes they need two or three days to reach our hospital," said Salvigni.
Aga Jan, 28, is a truck driver from Chelam village in Jani Khel district in the eastern province of Paktia. In late August, the Taliban launched an operation in which they tried to take control of the Jani Khel district. During the fighting, a mortar shell hit Aga Jan's house, allegedly fired by the government forces. "I was at home. I was standing outside my house when the mortar shell hit me," said Aga Jan, who has two wives and four children – three sons and a daughter. After he got injured, they first transferred him to Gardez city, the provincial capital of Paktia, from where they took him to the Emergency Hospital in Kabul.
The surgeons could not save his severely injured right arm, which has been amputated below the elbow, but they could successfully treat the wounds caused by pieces of shrapnel that hit him in his legs and abdomen. "I was the only one in my family who got injured in that incident. This was the first time that something like this happened," said Aga Jan, sitting on his hospital bed. The doctors said that he needed two or three weeks more to heal the wounds.
About 85 percent of patients treated by Emergency are male. About a third of the patients are under 18 years old. "The most common are bullet injuries. About 50 percent of our patients have bullet injures," said Salvigni. The second most common type of injury – about 30 percent – are shell injuries, which include injuries incurred in suicide attacks, air strikes, roadside bombs and rocket attacks. About 10 percent of the patients were wounded in landmine explosions, while the rest of them were stabbed.
Over the past two decades, the staff at Emergency worked hard to remain neutral in the conflicts that plagued the country. At their hospitals and clinics, they treat civilians and members of all belligerent parties. When they receive patients, they only ask them questions strictly related to the treatment. They ask patients where they come from, what kind of injury they suffered, and when they got injured. By staying neutral, Emergency staff are able to operate across both Taliban-controlled and government-controlled areas. "Everybody knows us. All belligerent sides allow us to pass through their checkpoints. The Taliban know we treat all patients. They respect us because we treat all patients," said Salvigni.
In this period of time, the main problem they have to face are road blocks. "Sometimes there are road blocks even around Kabul. In such cases, it takes a lot of time to reach the hospital," said Salvigni. In addition, ambulances cannot reach their destinations when the roads leading there are mined.
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Drugs, more specifically performance enhancing drugs such as steroids, have caused more than one athlete's accomplishments to be questioned. Many think asterisks should be placed beside many records set in the last few years because of the charges of drug use.
Beyond the use of drugs and the inequity on the field is the personal risk of partaking in these substances. More than one athlete has died at a very young age because of their misplaced desire and priority—to be on top, regardless of the ultimate cost. While these athletes may have "won" for a little while, they ultimately lost. They lost the respect of others, their records, and sometimes, their lives.
But this desire to be "on top" and have it "all" is not unique to athletes; their troubles just happen to occur in the public eye. Lives are destroyed every day because of misplaced goals and upside-down priorities.
As it basically says in the referenced verse, what good is to attain what-the-world-considers "the good life" if getting there requires you to sacrifice your principles and beliefs? You might fool the world for a while, but that's temporary; plus, you have to face yourself everyday—and you know the truth. But more importantly, you have to face God, and He knows everything.


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A level boxer takes swing at exam board
Geraldine Hackett, Education Correspondent
July 18 2004, 1:00am, The Sunday Times
Adam Mytton, 16, of Redditch, Worcestershire, a pupil at a comprehensive school, believes the decision by the Oxford, Cambridge and RSA (OCR) board to bar boxing is a breach of his human rights.
He has been given legal advice to this effect on the grounds that it allegedly curtails his ability to fulfil his potential in higher education.
He is awaiting the results of a decision by OCR last week to re-examine the ban before deciding whether to take the board to court.
The OCR has argued boxing is unacceptable because its purpose is "to inflict injury on an opponent". Mytton, who had to include football rather than boxing as part of his PE GCSE, said: "I want to study sport science at university and…


I know it sounds stupid, I mean it is after all just a small little tart pan. But I just love this simple straight design and I was looking in every shop and all over the internet but couldn't find it anywhere… Finally I found it here and once I had it in my hands I couldn't hold myself but ran into the kitchen and got baking.
And as so often I had no control over myself and ended up with two cakes. Oh self-control.
Anyway, my two recipes are actually based on the same pastry dough and filling but I added different flavors and toppings so I ended up with two completely different tarts. I loved them both, but today I want to show you a summer berry version with redcurrant on top of a cheesecake filling. You might recognize the cheesecake filling from the last time I made a cheesecake. This cheesecake I also topped with berries and I think this combination is just so delicious that it also works in form of a tart. The portions are smaller and the overall appearance is a bit more sophisticated, but still this tart is juicy, fresh and just delicious!
Mix together the quark, mascarpone, sugar and lemon juice and zest until smooth.
Combine the eggs together with the starch until the starch has dissolved, you don't want big lumps of starch.
Combine the egg-starch mixture with the cheese mixture and mix well and add it on top of the chilled pastry.
Wash the berries and drain them. Add them on top of the cream filling and sprinkle a tablespoon of sugar over them.
Bake the tart in a 200° (180°C Fan) oven for about 30 minutes until golden.
And wow, this tart looks amazingly fresh and summery. The filling kinda looks like custard, but when you look at the ingredients it's completely different. Does it taste kinda like a cheesecake? Either way, looks absolutely and utterly gorgeous. Pinning.
First time here and I must say that your photography is gorgeous!!! Never thought about making red currant tart – unique, creative and genius!!
This looks sooooo good. I want a piece :).
I have some red currants I was about to make jelly with but now that I have seen this…..!! Also really want one of those tins!


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Samba in Toronto: O Encontro de Baterias
April 14, 2013 / Jonathan
Toronto's samba bateria (drum corps) history dates back about 20 years. It's said the first samba drumming performance group evolved by way of a desire from within the Brazilian community to represent during the city's summer festivities. Many of the original players from the first project in the early '90s, Viva Brazil, remain active in samba groups in the city today.Throughout the early 2000s a few new baterias formed, and for about the last 10 years, four different groups in the city have co-existed as Toronto's interpreters and representatives of the Brazilian samba bateria tradition.This past April 7, the four groups came together to play as one bateria in a historic encontro, or meeting. The event was instigated by Negin Bahrami of Batucada Carioca, who was inspired by a bateria encontro between various samba schools in Rio.(Video below: TV news item in Portuguese) Bahrami -- who has traveled to Rio several times and has paraded in a top-level samba school bateria and with several samba blocos -- explains what inspired her to initiate the Encontro:
"The reason behind the event was to give people here who have never been to Rio a chance to experience a taste of what it feels like to be a part of a large bateria rehearsal the way it's done there -- generally between 150 - 300 players rehearsing one song [the school's Carnaval anthem] for the parade that year.
"In Rio, the samba schools and mestres are all friends (not rivals) and they invite each other to their quadras [rehearsal halls] as guest to perform. It is very common for players to play in more than one group and get together. It is a massive samba community and the only time they are in competition is when they parade through the Sambódromo (and even then it is in friendly competition).
"Samba is a passion there; it is community and unity. This is what I wanted to promote in Toronto, and by uniting the four groups, everyone was able to experience that vibe and energy that gives you goosebumps, with the heavy and powerful sound of a bateria made up of 100+ players."
After much gestation, the idea took flight with an initial meeting in fall 2012 between the four directors and some other key players. (Jon Medow, who is my co-director for Samba Elégua on this project, says it all reminded him of a mafia meeting -- a clandestine coming together of Toronto's samba bateria bosses!). The agreement was struck: They would participate in an Encontro de Baterias, the leaders agreeing to create a musical project everyone could work on to prepare something for all the groups to play together.The four samba bateria groups of Toronto that participated in the event and came all together for the first time are:Escola de Samba de Toronto (a.k.a. Toronto Samba School or TSS)Led by Alan Hetherington, the city's bateria pioneer who started things up for that first group, the "Escola" was the first Toronto outfit organized instruction in the samba bateria style. Many of Toronto's samba heads have participated, and the classes are offered through the Royal Conservatory of Music, where Hetherington also teaches other styles of samba percussion. Under his direction, the group has traveled to Brazil several times, and as an ensemble have performed, studied and recorded with professional Brazilian artists. The group mostly sticks to the samba-enredo and bateria styles, which Hetherington teaches with encyclopaedic knowledge and years of technique. They play some other Brazilian rhythms as well, and in fact have performed complex arrangements and time signatures, but for the most part this Escola de Samba keeps the rhythms traditional.Samba Squad As we have mentioned, Samba Squad are not samba purists. Founded and led by percussionist and teacher Rick Lazar, another old-schooler, Samba Squad is a powerhouse of diverse rhythms and perhaps the group that most represents Toronto's cultural diversity in its repertoire of rhythms. Samba Squad's projects are wide-ranging, from elaborately arranged recordings and stage shows like their recent CD release party (and turns performing with Jesse Cook) to an entire youth arts and music non-profit wing; Drum Artz studio, the org's home base, hosted the Encontro, and Samba Kidz, the youth performing/workshop group, incorporates entire steel pan racks into arrangements for samba, soca and more. Samba Squad has taught and nurtured many local players and samba addicts as well, and to the general populace of Toronto is one of the most visible samba baterias around. For more, read our recent article about Samba Squad and their latest album.Batucada CariocaThis group came onto the scene around 2003, a few years after Hetherington, while visiting Brazil, met Maninho Costa through samba school rehearsals. A native of the Ilha do Governador (Governor's Island) area of Rio de Janeiro, Costa has played in baterias since the age of seven -- his uncle, Odilon Costa, is one of Brazil's most respected bateria masters -- starting in the kids' baterias and moving to the elite levels as a teenager. Following an invitation from Hetherington, Costa visited Toronto in 2000 and 2001 as a performer for the annual Brazilian Ball fundraiser; after the 2001 event, he stayed, later starting his own project. Batucada Carioca began as a smaller group in 2003, and in 2004 grew into a larger bateria; the band plays samba music with an emphasis on the heavy percussive swing of the Rio bateria tradition, performing famous Carnaval anthems along with popular Brazilian tunes and a few other grooves. Check out more about Maninho Costa and Batucada Carioca in our previous article here.Samba EléguaPerhaps the most community-oriented samba project of the bunch, Samba Elégua was founded in 2001 as a free-to-join music group by Itay Keshet, then a student at University of Toronto (who directed the project's first five years or so), and to this day it has managed to survive without anyone paying for classes or rehearsals as a kind of volunteer-based samba percussion collective. Of the four groups, it is the one whose leadership and repertoire have likely changed the most over the course of its history (more than 10 individuals including Jon Medow, David Arcus, Raphi Roter and myself have led the group in performance). Like Samba Squad, Samba Elégua plays both Brazilian grooves and a number of fusion rhythms that represent the sounds of multicultural Toronto. In recent years, the group has reworked and developed a stronger bateria samba groove along with other expanded repertoire pieces. We posted about Samba Elégua's sound in a video-based blog entry here. With participation confirmed from the four groups, the "samba mafia bosses" agreed to try a samba-enredo arrangement for the Encontro, one that all groups could learn ahead of time.Eventually the tune was chosen: Araxá (full title: Araxá - Lugar Alto Onde Primeiro Se Avista o Sol), which was the Carnaval anthem performed in 1999 by Rio samba school Beija-Flor de Nilópolis.Once videos of the arrangement were posted online and made available to all, the groups had a few months to practice.Allow me to speak from my experience: for Samba Elégua at least it was the first time many players had performed samba in this format, the way it is in Rio and São Paulo's samba schools -- not just a samba groove, but everything fitting around a song. We spent months encouraging players to review the videos as posted for each instrument, and rehearsed the whole thing several times; this even meant incorporating amplified singing in Portuguese along with the rhythm, which was also a new experience for many group members. Finally the erratic spring weather seemed to clear a little for the big Sunday, and by the time everyone was assembled in the Drum Artz studio, we had more than 100 players, making it the largest samba bateria ever in Canada. (We are pretty sure! Did anyone call Guinness?)Among the many drummers, several of the original Viva Brazil players were on hand for the big day, including Rick Lazar, Alan Hetherington, and musicians and members of Samba Squad, Batucada Carioca and a range of other projects like Tony Pierre, Trevor Yearwood, Lyba Spring, Janet McClelland and Gord Sheard. The day involved warming up the bateria, playing the arrangement's breaks, and then getting into the song with guest musicians Carlos Cardozo on cavaquinho and Wagner Petrilli on guitar, plus another guitarist, Avital Zemer, who also photographed part of the event. Maninho Costa was the day's interprete or samba vocalist. After organizing the bateria into a formation, the leaders directed a successful run-through for over an hour or so, each section of instruments playing its parts of the arrangement, and everyone playing the arrangement's bossa or break together through several repetitions of the song (I would guess around 20-25 times). Things then moved to call and response breaks with the leaders of the groups calling on repeniques (the high-pitched drum played in the bateria style with one hand and one stick, which takes on the role of calling the bateria into the groove and hitting the loud call notes for the bateria to respond). The afternoon was nearly over, but it wouldn't have been complete without a parade, so everyone marched outside with their instruments and made a loud block party to finish the Encontro in true Brazilian samba bateria style. All in all it was a greatly successful event: Happy people with a new collective experience, new friends made and a samba bateria community that wants to make it happen again.This first Encontro was a hit for sure, and with everyone asking when the next one is, we say: Summer is coming, anything is possible and it seems it may only be a matter of time before the next Encontro de Baterias.All photos used with permission of photographers: Dave Burke and Avital Zemer
April 14, 2013 / Jonathan/
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Q: Get variable passed to switch statement This isn't the exact use scenario but I was wondering if it was possible to get the value passed to the switch statement without having to retype what is in the switch() part.
Example :
switch(someObject.withSomevalue*(Math.random()*11)) {
    case 1 : alert("one");
    // more cases here
    default: alert(theNumberThatWasPassed);
}

If we run the Math.random() again we'll get another random number that very well could meet one of the cases, so calling what aws called in the switch(x) statement isn't an option. I've been just storing it in a variable - x = someObject.withSomevalue*(Math.random()*11) - and then passing it to the switch that way switch(x), but I was wondering if it's possible to get the value passed to the switch within the switch statement.

A: As everyone else pointed out you have to save it in a variable. But you can do the following in the expression though I do not know how cross browser compatible this is:
  switch(x = <your expression>){
    //
    default:alert(x);
  }

and at least you save one line of code.

A: Just capture it into a variable before the switch and use that variable.
var myValue = someObject.withSomevalue*(Math.random()*11);
switch(myValue) {
    case 1 : alert("one");
    // more cases here
    default: alert(myValue);
}

A: This is the same as asking if you can find the values for if(Math.random()){...}. The answer is no, because they are language constructs, and not functions.

A: I would say your best bet would be to do what you currently are doing, and capture it into the variable before the switch statement. Is there any reason you would not want to do this besides saving a line of code?

A: Interesting... OP, I'm trying to look at your thought process.  Maybe just write out the code how you think it should look like (ignoring that it wouldn't work in the first place).
update:
At least in C/C++, you can just form another block to have the var only be accessible within the switch:

...
{
    var mySwitchVar = blah;
    switch(mySwitchVar) {
        case blah blah blah:
        default blah blah:
    }
}
...


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The categories defined below are limited to those referred to in these guidelines. The categorisation applies only to recommended therapeutic doses in women in the reproductive age group. In situations such as overdose, occupational exposure and others when the recommended dose is exceeded, it cannot be assumed that the classifications assigned to individual medicines are valid.
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Category B3 Drugs which have been taken by only a limited number of pregnant women and women of childbearing age, without an increase in the frequency of malformation or other direct or indirect harmful effects on the human fetus having been observed. Studies in animals have shown evidence of an increased occurrence of fetal damage, the significance of which is considered uncertain in humans.
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* Based on: Medicines in Pregnancy Working Party of the Australian Drug Evaluation Committee, 1999, Prescribing medicines in pregnancy. An Australian categorisation of risk of drug use in pregnancy, 4th edn, Therapeutic Goods Administration, Canberra (accessed 21.06.10) (PDF 568KB)