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MurphyWasRight
Originally Posted by ST Dog
Configuration management is alive and well. Required for a DO-178 process (which is required for aviation). You even have to spell out how you will do it in planning documents, ostensibly before you start development. Changes are tracked, reviewed, connected to problem reports/change requests, etc. Lots of scrutiny.
The issue is does the code change trigger a safety review. DO-178 leaves it to the change maker or other reviewers to decide. But the guys writing the code and making those changes (and their management) don't really understand the airworthiness impact.
It is useful to keep in mind that as far as we know the MCAS software worked exactly as specified/designed/implemented.
No amount of SW process can catch a system level specification error so while important it is no a panacea for problems resulting from inadequate understanding and analysis at a global level.
What can help is a full fault tree analysis, done before the first accident. From other's comments this is done in aviation but not clear the rigour applied when 'minor' changes are made.
I have always been impressed at the ability of investigators ability to determine 'why it blew up' after the fact and often wondered what would result would be if the same resources and methodology was applied in advance.
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WHBM
Originally Posted by MurphyWasRight
This just reminds me of one of our own programmers' responses to a fault issue. "Works As Coded". Well of course it Works As Coded. All computer programs do. But the coding is fundamentally wrong.
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Water pilot
But the guys writing the code and making those changes (and their management) don't really understand the airworthiness impact.
Some of the later news makes me wonder how much they cared. Not that they are unfeeling monsters, but that they cared about something else more than airworthiness. Even the dullest manager involved in the whole MCAS hack debacle had to realize that they were making a plane that was less airworthy than its predecessor. "Oh, it is just like runaway trim" does not negate the fact that they have just made "runaway trim" much more likely, and they knew it.
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OldnGrounded
Location: Under the radar, over the rainbow
Originally Posted by WHBM
I think it would probably be more accurate to say that the design, requirements and/or verification were fundamentally wrong. As far as we know, at this point, the implementation -- the actual MCAS coding -- resulted in the system doing exactly what the coders were told to make it do -- which, under the perfectly-foreseeable but apparently unforeseen conditions of the two accident flights was to fly airplanes into the ground. This may seem like nitpicking but, in an environment where a large number of people who may not ever meet or even know about each other are involved in development, it's crucial to understand where in the process the fatal flaws were introduced and where they were missed.
It's very unlikely, for instance, that the actual code monkeys, either in-house or outsource/contracted, decided on their own initiative to take input from a single AoA vane. Software and systems architects are responsible for decisions at that level. And very senior people are responsible for decisions such as trying to address airframe design issues with software fixes.
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fergusd
Location: Wintermute
50 quid says that the MCAS system is a Machine Learning (ML) based solution rather than a traditional mathematical model based solution and this is the reason why 'it's all gone quiet' . . .
One can say no more . . .
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I think when MurphyWasRight said
"It is useful to keep in mind that as far as we know the MCAS software worked exactly as specified/designed/implemented"
he was meaning:
- the MCAS software worked exactly as specified.
- its design accurately matched the specification.
- its implementation accurately matched the design.
It seems a case of a specification being accurately implemented, rather than "the [MCAS] coding [being] fundamentally wrong".
Sadly, the risk-analysis of the specification was badly flawed.
As a retired s/w engineer I'm all too ready to criticise s/w SNAFUs, but I cannot see that this is one.
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I would put this in the software error category of failing to anticipate bad input, much like code that gets a packet that says that the remainder is 450 bytes long which then reads 450 bytes from the stream without verifying that there are actually that many bytes left in the stream. Anything that reads external data has to be able to anticipate bad input and do something appropriate in response. Just pretending that bad input is impossible or that somebody else will respond to it for you is not good design.
Originally Posted by Water pilot
Stick to the pilot monkeying . . . this is a very intentional systems design issue, not a software implementation issue . . . you are so far out of your depth you don't even know what depth means . . .
Originally Posted by fergusd
What an informed post. That is actually fairly funny, since you are probably unknowingly using software that I had a hand in writing.
Highly unlikely . . . your self elevated view of your own status is embarrassing to read and demonstrates everything that is wrong in this industry.
I stand by my comment, go whine to someone else.
Gee, I am not sure what your problem is. Perhaps you should take a break from the internet for awhile, I do that sometimes and find it refreshing. I don't suppose that you even know what IIS stands for so it I rather pointless to continue this part of the conversation.
To be clear, what any of us have done in the past really is not relevant to this discussion, our opinions should stand or fall on their own merits. I'm not sure why you are so opposed to the idea that software must be able to handle bad input; if we were perfect in that regard then there would be a lot fewer successful hacks. (Note that I'm not claiming that the projects that I worked on were that way, far from it if you know what IIS stands for.) It is a bit of a weak analogy to the MCAS problem but I lived through a time when we tended to ignore bad or unexpected input (I don't suppose that you know what strcmp() stands for?) and the software industry suffered greatly.
Not exact match to MCAS, at least in Lion AIr case the AOA value was in range..
The "bad packet check" is not possible in this case since there is (with a singe input) no way to check the data.
For the Ethiopian case the essentially maxed out value might have been detectable as unreasonable, although I don't know that as a fact.
Gets back to specification, adding a "reasonableness" filter can add robustness but can also cause problems if not correctly specified or implemented. It also adds complexity and testing overhead.
https://www.seattletimes.com/busines...urn-to-flight/
European aviation safety agency sets strict demands for Boeing 737 MAX return to flight
Sep. 4, 2019 at 6:53 pm Updated Sep. 4, 2019 at 7:24 pm
By Dominic Gates
Seattle Times aerospace reporter
Europe's aviation safety agency, which is conducting its own independent review of Boeing's grounded 737 MAX, is not satisfied with a key detail of Boeing's fix to the jet. It wants Boeing to do more to improve the integrity of the sensors that failed on the two fatal crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia, killing 346 people.
And it's demanding that Boeing demonstrate in flight tests the stability of the MAX during extreme maneuvers, not only with Boeing's newly updated flight-control system but also with that system switched off.
These were among the disclosures in a presentation Tuesday to the European Parliament by Patrick Ky, executive director of the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA). Ky listed what appear to be more stringent EASA requirements than those of its U.S. counterpart, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
Boeing has publicly said it hopes for FAA clearance for the MAX in October so that it can return to passenger service in the U.S. this year.
Typically, overseas regulators follow the FAA's lead. But after the MAX crashes revealed shortcomings in the FAA's certification process, that's no longer certain.
One of Ky's slides cited a letter EASA sent to the FAA on April 1, less than three weeks after the MAX was grounded, that laid out four conditions for it to allow the MAX to return to service.
The first condition stipulated is, "Design changes proposed by Boeing are EASA approved (no delegation to FAA)."
The second is that EASA complete an "additional and broader independent review" of the aircraft, beyond the specific design changes to the flight-control system that went haywire on the crash flights.
If the FAA moves ahead and clears the MAX to fly while EASA holds off until later, it would create an unprecedented divergence in worldwide regulation that would gravely complicate the schedules of many airlines flying internationally.
FAA approval would apply only to U.S. airlines flying domestically. European airlines flying the MAX, such as Norwegian Air, require clearance from EASA.
And it will put Boeing in a very awkward position if the FAA says the MAX is safe to fly while others hold back approval.
Both MAX crashes were initiated by faulty sensors that measure the plane's Angle of Attack, the angle between the oncoming air flow and the wing. That fault then activated a new flight-control system — a piece of software known as the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) — that on each of the crash flights repeatedly pushed the nose of the jet down.
Although Boeing has updated MCAS so that it now takes input from both Angle of Attack sensors on the MAX instead of only one, and won't operate if they disagree, Ky indicated EASA finds this insufficient.
One of his slides states that while Boeing's proposal has improved the Angle of Attack system, there is "still no appropriate response to Angle of Attack integrity issues."
And EASA wants stringent flight tests that prove the MAX's safety with or without MCAS.
Boeing engineers designed the original MCAS to smooth out the feel of the yoke in the pilot's hands during certain extreme high-speed turn and stall maneuvers.
Before the MAX is cleared to fly passengers again, both EASA and the FAA will require flight tests of the new updated software. In addition, Ky said, EASA will require Boeing to demonstrate the stability of the jet in flight tests that include high-speed turn and stall maneuvers with MCAS switched off.
The latter requirement should go some way to satisfying one gnawing public concern about the MAX. On the Internet, many Boeing critics have expressed concern that the jet is "inherently unstable" with engines that are too big, and that a software "band-aid" isn't good enough to fix that. The EASA requirement to fly safely without MCAS should demonstrate otherwise.
On Wednesday, the FAA declined to clarify if the EASA requirements are stricter or in line with its own.
"We aren't going to comment on specific details about ongoing discussions," the FAA said in a statement. "The FAA has a transparent and collaborative relationship with other civil aviation authorities as we continue our review of changes to software on the Boeing 737 MAX … Each government will make its own decision to return the aircraft to service based on a thorough safety assessment."
A safety official within the FAA, who asked for anonymity because he spoke without agency approval, said that the U.S. regulator has worked through the MAX approval process, looking for system flaws "with a fine-tooth comb, like they never have before."
"People know it's perhaps something they should have caught the first time around," he said. "They want to make sure it doesn't happen again."
Still, the official wasn't aware of any lingering concern at the FAA with the Angle of Attack sensor system. He said that the software and system changes Boeing has proposed have been all but agreed upon within the FAA and that only the level of pilot training that will be required remains undecided.
While U.S. pilots have said they are satisfied that some computer-based training is sufficient, overseas regulators may require full flight-simulator training. The FAA official said that both EASA and India's aviation regulator, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation, have so far balked at agreeing to computer-based training alone.
Ky's presentation confirms that, for EASA, the amount of pilot training required before the MAX flies passengers is still "a work in progress."
Ky said that EASA communicated to Boeing and the FAA in July a list of significant technical issues, which included system failures insufficiently monitored; forces needed to move the manual trim wheel too high; and a risk of crew confusion in some failure cases, especially an Angle of Attack single failure at takeoff.
A slide presenting the "latest status" of the process indicates that the pilot training and Angle of Attack system remain in play.
In a statement Wednesday, Boeing declined to comment on discussions with regulators. "We continue to work with the FAA and global regulators on addressing their concerns in order to safely return the MAX to service," the company said in a statement.
On Tuesday, Alexandre de Juniac — head of the International Air Transport Association, the global trade group representing the world's airlines — told Reuters in Chicago that "with the 737 MAX we are a bit worried … because we don't see the normal unanimity among international regulators that should be the case."
"We see a discrepancy that's detrimental to the industry," de Juniac added, urging regulators to make any changes to the single certification process "collectively," according to Reuters.
Ky's parliamentary presentation the same day, also briefly cited by Reuters, made that discrepancy plain.
Dominic Gates: 206-464-2963 or [email protected]; on Twitter: @dominicgates.
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TeachMe
Location: Seoul
WestJet just dropped Max until 2020.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/wes...ax-8-1.5268771
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United says it will allow passengers to avoid 737 Max flights
New York (CNN Business) United Airlines passengers fearful of boarding a Boeing 737 Max will be able to rebook flights for free once United starts flying the planes again.
"If you get to the gate and it's not an airplane you want to fly on for whatever reason, if it's a Max, we'll put you on another flight," said Andrew Nocella, the airline's chief commercial officer, at an investor conference Wednesday.
Nocella said it's probably too soon to tell what passenger reaction will be once the 737 Max returns to service. The Boeing jet has been grounded since March, following two fatal crashes that killed 346 people.
"We need to get through the recertification process, return the aircraft to service and see how things go," he said. "If somebody is uncomfortable getting on the aircraft... we want to make sure we can put them on a different aircraft."
A United (UAL) spokesman confirmed the rebooking would be done without the passengers being required to pay any change fee.
The story also discusses Delta's, American's and Southwest's policies.
DaveReidUK
From that Seattle Times article:
"People know it's perhaps something they should have caught the first time around," he [a safety official within the FAA] said.
Perhaps ???
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Fly Aiprt
Location: French Alps
The EASA requirement to fly safely without MCAS should demonstrate otherwise.
This demonstration will settle the matter of the airplane "not being unstable" etc. that Boeing and some observers have kept repeating.
The fact that Boeing has yet to perform this demonstration, which could have been done months ago with any of the grounded airplanes, is a cause for concern.
One wonders what the hundreds of test flights since the accidents have been for...
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infrequentflyer789
You'll lose. Given what is known about the hardware capabilities of the FCC, both CPU and memory, anyone who could shoehorn an ML solution into the spare capacity left after several decades of enhancements would be so damned good they couldn't possibly have ****ed up so damned bad. End of story.
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SteinarN
Originally Posted by Fly Aiprt
A couple months ago I tried to make a back-of-the-envelope calculation on what the elevator forces/positions would be in the 10-14 AOA region. Ofc I had to make several assumptions, like that the full 2,4 degrees MCAS authority would be needed to make the stick force/position in line with the stick force requirements. I didnt get much response other than the calculations had no value whatsoever.
Anyway, what my calculations was suggesting is that without MCAS the stick force is not only increasing as it should, when going from say 10 to 14 degrees AOA, but that the stick force needs to be relaxed towards zero force and the stick position needs to be brought to near neutral position when going from say 10 to 14 degrees AOA. Such a pitch behaviour is ofc very undesirable in the case of a non operable MCAS system at the same time as a low speed/high AOA event which could happen for a number of reasons.
I think that if this would be near what is actually happening, then this would be a very good reason for Boeing beeing very reluctant to disclose the pitch behaviour of the aircraft with non-operational MCAS system.
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Bend alot
Location: Tent
Originally Posted by SteinarN
I think that if this would be near what is actually happening, then this would be a very good reason for Boeing beeing very reluctant to disclose the behaviour of the aircraft with non-operational MCAS system.
MCAS was "invented" for a reason, it was then heavily modified for another reason.
MAX can not meet the requirements with inactive MCAS - so simple, but lets pull some wool.
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A great part of the prestige reached by the cradle of phonological research GRM de Paris is due to foreign researchers – Argentinians, to name some: Daniel Teruggi, Horacio Vaggione (I'm sure I'm forgetting somebody) and, as in this case, Beatriz Ferreyra.
After having studied harmony and analysis around 1962 with Nadia Boulanger, later on Beatriz approached electronical and concrete experimentations, and in 1967 she took part in the audio documentary "Solfège De L'Object Sonore" with Guy Reibel. Compositive goals like "Demeures Aquatiques" and "Medisances" date back right to the late Sixties, and they are gathered here. But we must linger right away on some of the features which were already taking shape in the kind of research that Ferreyra undertook and in the one which will invest the GRM production on a much larger scale. Already in 1966 Pierre Schaeffer managed to create a basis of sensible criteria to be used in sound analysis. In this reconaissance, the adoption of the Baschet brothers' sound sculptures is providential – they were added to the most usual equipments (tape recorders, microphones, filters, oscillators and so forth) and to the already large audio library inside the studio, even though such an apparent infatuation for the material, along with "difficult" terms like "reduced listening" (clearly related to the husserlian reduction), won't be able to delay some misunderstandings. Even Schaeffer himself wanted to clarify this a few years later: "The word 'concrete' did not label a source. […] In my mind, first of all this meant that all sounds were taken into consideration concerning all the qualities they included". So everything adds up, and somehow the precise purposes of a "phenomenology of listening" are noted. Terms like "spectres", "hauteurs", "timbre", "seuils temporels" and so on will end up creating an early acousmatic word ready to be welcomed by those composers (Parmegiani, Bayle and many more) who will make the Paris studio's fortune in the following years.
With such premises, it's easy to imagine this record's outcome. Thinking about it, the pieces supervised by Ferreira about morphology and "pronunciation" of the sounding object in the docu-manifesto already sounded like a declaration of intent. We could say that, in that moment, she was explaining herself more than anything else, and she would almost metaphorize her technical formulary in these following lines used to describe "Demeures Aquatiques": "I wanted to illustrate the perpetual attempt by the solid and the fluid to interpenetrate via this experimental approach through earth, sea and air: overlapping elements folding inwards, bursting as tiny particles toward soft and flat surfaces […] The impression of fixity conveyed by the obsessive repetition of a sounding object dissolves and breaks through this dialogue between sound entities of a different nature, eventually shifting into a movement".
Sensations of a sunk Atlantis – and in these continuous references to a certain "susceptible matter" we can find the sought and wanted link between empirical practice and scientific medium. Let's take into consideration the alchemic morphosis of "Un Fil Invisible" (2009) or the spherical harmonies of "Les Larmes De L'Inconnu" (2011), whose opening mass of doppler effects vaguely resembles a ligetian "Glissandi" to the nth degree (all right, it's not really the most fortunate piece by the Hungarian artist – whose classes in Darmstadt Beatriz would attend – but never mind). It's like this "sensitive intuition" was claiming the aesthetic expression as its own, taking it away from the rule of those "sensible criteria" and technical demonstrations. The sedentary eruditism becomes again prophetic divination.
After all, I don't think there are any doubts about the modernity and the appeal that these works can still raise, and many people will enjoy the fact that neither one of these two "catalog" tracks have been affected by time, or at least not too apparently (actually maybe only the electro-acoustic tall tale "Médisances" sounds like an intentionally rough pastiche, almost an acousmatic spoof, but because of some precise choices anyway).
In other words, this is anything but a museum piece. The credit may be equally taken by Ferreyra, who was fully aware already of the means used at the time (and maybe she can also thank her brief experience at RAI studios, where she probably became familiar with our famous nine oscillators… speaking of museum pieces…), by Jonathan Fitoussi with his digital restoration, and by Rashad Becker for what concerns manual labour. Finally, we also want to put in a good word for this operation which was set up by Mego along with the INA-GRM archive. If it's true that the second half of the 20th century has been characterized by a prolific research in the most various musical environments, the importance of such publications must be noted (that by the way are signified by a refined aesthetic style by Stephen O'Malley), because they mainly let us walk some paths backwards who would otherwise look like mazes.


The Dacotah Prairie Museum will host a holiday open house from 5 to 7 p.m. Tuesday. The public is invited to enjoy "lovely holiday music, glittering exhibits, treasures for sale, hot cider and cookies," according to a release. Visitors may "behold the sparkle of Christmas Tree Lane," where local organizations decorate trees in their own creative themes. Donations of nonperishable food items may be brought to benefit local food pantries, according to the museum. The Lamont Gallery will offer gingerbread creations and houses of every description.
A rodeo museum in South Dakota is planning a sculpture garden to recognize the state's saddle bronc champions. Officials at the Casey Tibbs South Dakota Rodeo Center in Fort Pierre said the garden and large sculpture of five-time world champion saddle bronc rider Billy Etbauer of Ree Heights will be unveiled on June 1. The garden will also serve as a gathering area for receptions and special events. Museum board member and project leader Tom Brown said that South Dakota has had more saddle bronc champions than any other state and the sculpture garden is a great way to preserve that heritage.
The Museum of Wildlife, Science and Industry in Webster is having its Charity Night March 5 at The Galley in Webster. The evening begins with a social hour and silent auction at 6 p.m., says the Reporter & Farmer. The event concludes with a buffet dinner at 7 p.m., followed by a live auction.
The Dacotah Prairie Museum hopes that a trip through Christmas Tree Lane is part of many people's holiday season. For the ninth Christmas season in a row, the museum's second floor education wing is filled with decorated trees and wreaths. The museum hopes that another holiday tradition involves people bringing nonperishable food items when they visit. Visitors simply place their donations in the designated space within the exhibit if they choose to help with this effort.
BROOKINGS - "Behind the Scenes" tours at the South Dakota State Agricultural Heritage Museum will offer an opportunity for the public to explore the mysteries of the museum. The tour, planned for 10 a.m. to noon July 16, will include the main building and galleries, basement work and collection storage space, and the large artifact storage barn. The event will show what goes into maintaining the galleries and processing the collections. Visitors will also see artifacts that are not currently on display and items in the storage room that are too large to fit in the museum.
"Drawn to the Land: Homesteading Dakota," a traveling exhibit from the South Dakota State Historical Society, is at the Museum of Wildlife, Science and Industry in Webster through Oct. 15. From 1860 to 1920, thousands of homesteaders poured into Dakota from across the country and overseas. Many stayed, making a home for themselves and their descendents. Others came for only a short while before selling out and moving on. For many South Dakotans, homesteading is an intimate family memory and stories of the "home place" are passed from generation to generation, according to a news release.
The Dacotah Prairie Museum will be closed Wednesday and Thursday as well as Jan. 1. The museum will be open regular hours all other days.
The Eureka Pioneer Museum is open for the season. The museum opened April 15 and remains open until Oct. 25. The hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Friday, 2 to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday and by appointment. For information, call 605-284-2711.
The Klein Museum in Mobridge has received funding from the South Dakota Humanities Council Board. The grant will fund "More Than a Visit: Taking a Museum Home With You where a guide and enhanced Web site will be available for patrons. "
The Dacotah Prairie Museum is seeking people willing to serve on its board of directors. The three-year terms begin in January. The board meets monthly to oversee the operation of the museum and set policy. Board members are appointed by the Brown County Commission upon recommendation by the museum board's executive committee. Potential members should have an interest in history and must be residents of Brown County. Call Sue Gates, museum director, at 605-626-7117 or sue.gates@browncounty.sd.gov.
Timber Lake: A celebration of life for Jim Nelson of Timber Lake will be held at 10 a.m. MDT Monday, Oct. 7, 2013, at the Timber Lake School Gym with Pastor Bryce Schaffer of New Hope Church of Timber Lake officiating. Visitation will be Sunday, Oct. 6, at Kesling Funeral Home in Mobridge from 4 to 7 p.m. CDT. James Frederick Nelson was born June 27, 1946, at Lemmon, to Fred and Emma (Sittner) Nelson. He passed away at Mobridge on Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013, less than three months after being diagnosed with esophageal cancer.
Elaine Gilbertson is secretary of the Museum of Wildlife, Science & Industry in Webster. The 23 buildings at the Museum of Wildlife, Science & Industry in Webster house unique exhibits of agricultural, military and pioneer life in northeast South Dakota. The Wallace Telephone Building, moved to the museum grounds in 1994, is being featured this fall, along with a traveling exhibit, "South Dakota Communicates," which is on loan from the South Dakota State Historical Society.
SPRAGUE, Neb. (AP) - College courses addressing agricultural illiteracy are just part of the proof that it's a problem. Yes, people who grow up in one of the most prominent settings for grain and livestock production in the United States don't know a Hereford from a Holstein, or a combine from a corn planter, or Roundup Ready from Eveready. But all is not lost. Part of the cure for the ignorance of Lincoln residents could be as close by as the Mitchell Family Museum. Knowing about the past, after all, is the first step to connecting with the present and the future.
When a Frank C. Ashford painting was sent to Minneapolis to be restored, the Dacotah Prairie Museum found it had one more Ashford painting than it thought. The museum has long owned an original Ashford oil painting called "Portrait of a Young Woman." With the support of the Yellow Brick Road Quester Club, the museum hired the Midwest Art Conservation Center in Minneapolis to restore "Portrait of a Young Woman." While the painting was in Minneapolis, the conservator removed the canvas from the frame to discover another painting of another young woman underneath.
A new art exhibition at the Dacotah Prairie Museum in Aberdeen, S.D., features Rapid City ceramic artist Deb Burckhard Messer and her horsehair pottery. The show, "Horsehair Pottery: Surface Design Discoveries," will be open on the second floor until July 7. Horsehair pottery is fabled to have come from ancient Indian tribes that wanted to preserve the spirit of their favorite horses at various stages of life. The pottery pieces are generally simple in shape and are fired at high temperatures to give the piece strength.
"Wash on Monday, Iron on Tuesday" is a special exhibit at the Museum of Wildlife, Science and Industry in Webster. The exhibit, which opens Friday, includes items that were used to do laundry and donated by people living in northeastern South Dakota. It runs through July 15 in the museum's Washnok Building. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 1 to 5 p.m. Sundays. For additional information, call the museum at 605-345-4751.
The paintings of Paul Peterson of Sturgis are on display at the Dacotah Prairie Museum's Lamont Gallery. The show, "Oscillating Landscapes," runs on the second floor until June 15. Peterson will attend the artist's reception June 15. Refreshments will be served at the gathering, which runs from 2 to 4 p.m. It is free, and all are welcome. "Twenty canvases of saturated color and reflecting spectacular prairie images comprise Peterson's show," said the museum.


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context of Homo naledi in the Dinaledi Chamber of the Rising Star Cave as presented in Dirks et al. (2015). In so doing we want to state from the onset that, contrary to what is claimed in Val (2016), Dirks et al. (2015) do not reject mass mortality or death trap scenarios as possible explanations but, based on currently available evidence, consider deliberate body disposal to be the most plausible reason for the deposit. We also want to remind colleagues that the Dinaledi collection is accessible to researchers upon application. We are committed to promoting best scientific practice by making all data available for independent inspection, including observations on hominin remains, and broaden debate. We note that Val has not yet studied the collections directly or visited the cave, but has based her comment on re-interpretations of data presented in Dirks et al. (2015).


How many people die per year in car crashes because they were talking on phones?
Cats keep jumping on my car, and leaving weird streaks on it. :( How do I repel them?
How do you remove the smell of cat urine from car upholstery and carpet?
About a week ago (on a Saturday) I had left my car in the driveway with the windows down. In the late afternoon I went out closed the windows and locked the car. In the morning, two days later (Monday), I went out to go to work and opened the door of the car to be greeted by my cat miaowing forlornly. Needless to say she left a bit of a mess in the car (she is fine, survived the ordeal, ready to do it again), fortunately not on the drivers side.A full car detail and two steam cleans of the upholstery later and I still cannot get rid of the smell. Fortunately the weather has been fine so I can drive with the windows and roof down (convertible), but there will come a day soon when I will have to drive all closed up.Does any one have some ideas on how to get rid of the smell?
What is your favirote muscle car?
How do u hotwire a car?
get into cars or trucks wit out key?
Reccos for a shop in Seattle, that will sell/install car security systems (other than Car Toys)?
Looking to get a car security system installed on a 1998 2-door Chevrolet Tahoe. Car Toys is quoting me way over what I should be paying (in my opinion), but don't know of any other shops in Seattle that I can get other quotes from. Suggestions?
Is it easy to the new carpet on your car yourself?
Do you think that we here on QnA should have a gathering once a year like the Saturn Car owners do?
Would we recognize one another? Would we wear our avatars in place of name badges? Where should it take place? And When?
What is the most important feature you must have when selecting a car?
When you buy/lease a new car, do you take what the dealer has, or special order the one you want?
I seem to have a white patch that is growing and the paint is fading on my car. How do I stop it?
The color is fading. The car is black and the white patch has grown in size in the past few months. What can I do to reverse the process?
Do they make an antenna (duples) which works for both cb and regular car radios?


Oh well. I'm here now, LOL.
Over the weekend we went to watch GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY. The movie doesn't officially come out in Australia until this weekend, but we purchased advanced tickets. We'd been looking forward to this movie for ages. Ever since the first time we watched the trailer, LOL.
Anyway. We went, we watched, and we all fell in love!
GotG has a bit of everything. It's filled with all the elements that make a movie worth watching over and over again. Actually, we're already making plans to go again as soon as the crowds die down a little. It really is an amazing rollercoaster ride full of fun and mayhem. With a lot of heart and terrific characters. There's something about GUARDIANS that really hits you. Something that hasn't left me since I saw it days ago. I really did fall in love with the setting, the characters, the world--everything. This is the kinda Sci-Fi I absolutely adore.
Speaking of Sci-Fi, did you read about my awesome RECAST news? In case you didn't, my super cool editor contracted the fourth instalment in my ongoing saga about the lives of very different people who have all somehow been affected by the cruel Jenks Maine and the Recast Arena.
What else have I been doing? Well, I've been watching the days go by much too quickly. There's always so much to do that the weeks are just whizzing past. :/ There really aren't enough hours in the day.
I did, however, finalise that short novel I mentioned a few weeks back. You know the one that I mentioned was a secret? Yeah, it's done and with my editor. So, fingers crossed.
The one thing that's fallen behind the last week is my reading. I have a bunch of books that I really can't wait to read but with the finalizing of the 50k story and sorting out my stationery trunk, plus trying to schedule some promo spots for next month, I just haven't had time to read. Boo.
That will have to change this week!
Also, we had a bit of unexpected trouble with Loki late last week. The poor kitty got blocked and we had to take him to the vet a few times. :( The vet knew exactly what was going on and took care of him, plus gave us some medicine for him and he seems to be back to normal. We were lucky to catch it early, and that his urine test came back normal. Phew. I was so worried about him. I really hope he's fully recovered now.


Hollywood, CA, United States (4E) – The blockbuster super black hero movie "Black Panther" officially passed "Titanic" to become the third top-grossing film of all time in the United States.
The megahit produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures blazed past James Cameron's 1997 smash hit on April 7 when it surpassed $665 million (unadjusted for inflation) at the U.S. box office. Black Panther is now the third highest-grossing title at the North American box office. Only two movies, both action/sci-fi, have done better: "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" ($936.7 million) in 2015 and "Avatar" ($760.5 million) in 2009.
Black Panther has grossed $1.29 billion worldwide since its release in the U.S. on Feb. 16. It's also the 10th-highest-grossing film of all time.
Its four-day opening weekend gross of $242.1 million and its three-day gross of $202 million in the United States were the second- and fifth-highest of all time, respectively, and the biggest debut by an African-American director (Ryan Coogler).
The film is the first big-budget studio release featuring a virtually all-black cast. It stars Chadwick Boseman as T'Challa/Black Panther, Lupita Nyong'o, Michael B. Jordan, Danai Gurira, Daniel Kaluuya, Letitia Wright, Winston Duke, Angela Bassett, Forest Whitaker and Andy Serkis.
The story, which is a tale of black power and black pride, follows T'Challa as he is sworn in as king of Wakanda, a hidden but technologically advanced nation in Africa home to the exotic metal vibranium, the source of Black Panther's powers.


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Q: Canvas JS issue with Angular5

import { Component, OnInit, ViewChild, ElementRef } from '@angular/core';
import * as CanvasJS from 'canvasjs';

@Component({
  selector: 'app-canvas-js',
  templateUrl: './canvas-js.component.html',
  styleUrls: ['./canvas-js.component.scss']
})
export class CanvasJsComponent implements OnInit {
canvasChartData: any;
  canvasChartDataCopy: number[];
  canvasChart: any;
  canvasChartContext: any;

  constructor() { }

  ngOnInit() {
  let dataPoints = [];
 let y = 0;
 for ( var i = 0; i < 10000; i++ ) {
  y += Math.round(5 + Math.random() * (-5 - 5));
  dataPoints.push({ y: y});
 }
 let chart = new CanvasJS.Chart("canvasjsContainer", {
  zoomEnabled: true,
   animationEnabled: true,
  exportEnabled: true,
  title: {
   text: "Performance Demo - 10000 DataPoints"
  },
  subtitles:[{
   text: "Try Zooming and Panning"
  }],
  data: [
  {
   type: "line",
   dataPoints: dataPoints
  }]
 });

 chart.render();
}
}

I tried the sample given in official website of Canvas JS with Angular5. Tried with npm install. But on build of angular application, giving build error as:
| export ColumnChart from '../charts/column';
| export StackedColumnChart from '../charts/stacked_column';
Not getting how to solve this issue. Using v1.8.0 of Canvas JS.

A: CanvasJS doesn't have official npm package published yet. The package that you are using through npm is not an official one but from a third party.
You can save CanvasJS library (canvasjs.min.js) in source folder of your project ('src/app' or 'src/app/assets/js' or 'src/app/lib') and import it to your app using import * as CanvasJS from './canvasjs.min' (path may vary based on file location like './assets/js/canvasjs.min' or './lib/canvasjs.min').
Here is a sample project  showing how to import CanvasJS Charts in your Angular 5 App.

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Retirement Communities - The Rest of Your Life Begins Now!
Senior-style living has come a long way in the past couple of decades. Each state has a range of retirement community options - from the Jimmy Buffet lifestyle-craze in Florida to mountaintop destinations replete with the tranquility and natural environment that many crave.
•Most retirement communities have endless lists of clubs and activities.
•Residents are generally like-minded and have similar interests.
•The community offers the support residents need.
•Fitness and wellness facilities are top notch.
•Philanthropy is a common focus.
•There is a general feeling of camaraderie.
If these are features you're looking for in a community, keep reading!
There are hundreds of retirement communities across the country. So, how do you find the one that's right for you? Location is the first thing to consider. Once you choose the region you want to live in, you can narrow your options further.
To some degree, the location you choose dictates the price range. If Florida is on your list of potential destinations, then you're in luck. Because, in this case, it pays to go where the crowd is.
As we all know, retirees flock to Florida every year. Subsequently, Florida retirement communities are abundant. Price points are competitive. And, communities strive to stand out by offering exceedingly better amenities. These reasons, and others, make exploring Florida retirement communities a great option.
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"Last year, it was really fun," said Fox, who says he made almost $800 over that weekend. "It was just me by myself and I was playing the acoustic guitar. I had guys rapping over it, and they were dancing, and the black girls were dancing, like 'throw a dollar in his case.' And this year you go out there and there's like a quarter of the people that there was last year."
Fox has lived in Myrtle Beach for the last 11 years and has played guitar since he was 12.
After having club feet as a kid, he had surgery to repair them. While in a wheelchair, he started playing the video game Guitar Hero "obsessively," and got a real guitar from his mother when she turned 12 years old.
Last year, it was really fun. It was just me by myself and I was playing the acoustic guitar.
Dennis Fox, busker
Fox makes most of his money through music and playing cards in Atlantic Beach and Cherokee.
"I don't really work," he said. "I've done a couple beach store jobs airbrushing, but that's not really my thing. I like music. I don't even like playing cards that much, I like playing music."
But Fox is saving his money and plans to go to school at the University of California, Berkeley to surround himself with other serious musicians. He's trying to save $40,000 and has almost half of it so far.
"After this summer I still won't have $40,000," said Fox. "I might be closer but the way it's looking, I won't be able to go until next year."
On an average night, Fox said, he makes between $150 and $200 for a few hours work, although he has some outlier nights where he could make as little as $40 and as much as $350.
Last Memorial Day weekend was his most profitable weekend ever as a street performer, playing for some of the "coolest people" he'd ever met, and getting one tip for $160, said Fox. But on Friday, he made only $54.
'It was dead last night," he said. "It's more crowded during the Saturday in the middle of June than that day."
Fox said that because of the traffic restrictions on Ocean Boulevard, bikers are heading other places like North Myrtle Beach.
"We need to take the barriers down, we need to stop being so racist," he said. "The only people who are shooting people are people in gangs and nothing we put up or any helmet laws we enact are going to stop that. These guys aren't gonna shoot anybody, they're just hanging out.
"Obviously there's a lot of bike gangs so eventually someone will get shot, but that's every bike week everywhere, somebody gets shot and it's very rarely an innocent person."
Christian Boschult: 843-626-0218, @TSN_Christian
Dennis Fox, right, plays guitar on Ocean Boulevard on Friday night. Christian Boschult cboschult@thesunnews.com
Musicians jam during Atlantic Beach Bikefest
Devil devils washed out crowd at Bikefest
Myrtle Beach Bike Rallies
Bike week traffic loop canceled for the third consecutive night
By David Wetzel
The Memorial Day Bike Week traffic loop has been canceled Sunday night in Myrtle Beach after police determined it wasn't needed based on traffic patterns. The loop along Ocean Boulevard goes 10 p.m.-2 a.m.
MORE MYRTLE BEACH BIKE RALLIES
'Can I get your number?': Pickup lines fly on Ocean Boulevard during Bikefest
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Bike week traffic loop called off for the second consecutive night
'Bad taste in their mouth': Do thinner crowds, fed-up bikers mean Bikefest is dying?
'I was expecting more traffic': Myrtle Beach cancels loop, not family's bike watch party
Welcome, bikers! Now that you're in Myrtle Beach, here's what you need to know


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Велика Расињица је насељено место у општини Расиња, до нове територијалне организације у саставу бивше општине Копривница, у Подравини, Хрватска.

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Исказује се као насеље од 1948. До 1981. исказивано под именом Велика Расиница.

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Ok, ok so it's not one of our usual storage solutions but it is another fab product from our designer friends in Germany.
Just like our Fatboy 'Edison Petit Lamp', our new Light To Go is a totally wireless portable rechargeable lamp that's ideal for kids bedrooms or for a bit of late night reading.
Better still it's 100% waterproof and looks very smat positioned on a patio table for late summer evenings.
The retro looking lamp is made from a translucent white plastic and when illuminated the whole piece radiates a warm uniform glow, which we think offers a refreshing take on the traditional side-table lampshade casting shadows and eliminates that messy power cable for a clean look.
Better still the Light To Go lamp can be charged using any USB cable (cable not included) and has 4 light settings from romantic dim to bright 'light the room' and the integrated power bank will last 14 hours without a recharge.
If you're looking for a neat bed or sofa side reading lamp or something funky for the kids bedrooms we heartily recommend the Light To Go as a cable-free solution to keep your space looking neat and tidy.


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Huitian adhesives facility to come online by end of 2016
Jane Ho,
A look inside Hutian's new polyurethane adhesives facility.
XIANGYANG, China—China's largest polyurethane adhesives maker Huitian New Materials expects to have full operation of its 10 kilotons per year single-component adhesives facility by the end of 2016.
Located at Huitian's manufacturing site in Xiangyang, the project started in April 2015 and received a $6.2 million investment. It had a successful trial run in December and has been running orders, with 30 percent capacity in operation currently.
The new facility is said to be the world's first fully automatic single-component PU adhesives line.
"Compared with existing facilities, the new line runs at a faster speed and only needs two or three employees to monitor it in the control room," Huitian Board Secretary Zhang Hongjian said.
Adhesives made here also have better performance in fineness, thixotropy and extrusion pressure compared with similar imported products, according to the company.
Last year Huitian saw a 16 percent jump in revenue to $150.5 million thanks to its further expansion into higher end adhesives for sectors such as auto windscreen, flexible packaging and wastewater treatment, said the company's preliminary 2015 annual results released in February.
Costs related to new product development and the construction of new facilities has caused a 24 percent drop in net profit to $12.8 million.
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The immune system generally immerge during cold weather. Although the weather itself has not been proven to cause these common ailments, it can increase other causing factors. The chill of cold weather drives people indoors, increasing person to person contact in close quarters, which readily spreads nasty viruses. Frigid temperatures also encourage people to become less active, since they are able to perform fewer activities outside, such as yard work and outdoor sports. These factors weaken the immune system, making the body more susceptible to illnesses. However, there are a few well known nutrients which can boost your immune system naturally together with a healthy balanced diet and physical outdoor activity.
Vitamin C and Zinc play important roles in immune function and the modulation of host resistance to infectious agents, reducing the risk, severity, and duration of infectious diseases. An adequate intakes of vitamin C and zinc ameliorate symptoms and shorten the duration of respiratory tract infections including the common cold.
Vitamin D3 plays a major role in your immune response, including helping your body produce over 200 antimicrobial peptides that help fight all sorts of infections. Your best defense against any disease is a robust immune system and optimizing your vitamin D levels is one crucial component of this.
Selenium is a powerful antioxidant and immune supportive mineral. Selenium stimulates the development and function of all types of white blood cells and enhances the ability of lymphocytes and NK cells, or killer cells, to activate and respond to invaders such as bacteria and viruses, including the flu.
Elderberry is used for its antioxidant activity to lower cholesterol, improve vision, boost the immune system, improve heart health and for coughs, colds, flu, bacterial and viral infections and tonsillitis. Elderberry juice was used to treat a flu epidemic in Panama in 1995.
Oregano oil is a powerful antimicrobial that can help fight off infections and boost your immune system. Oregano oil also has antibacterial, antiviral, and antifungal properties. It is alleviating sinus infections, killing parasites and fighting colds.
Maitake mushrooms contain some of the most powerful natural medicines on the planet, especially for boosting your immunity during cold and flu season. They have strong anti-inflammatory, antitumor, antibacterial, antiviral and antifungal properties.
Chlorella contains an impressive array of vitamins, minerals (A, D, E, K1, beta carotene, lutein, B vitamins, iron, calcium, potassium, phosphorus, magnesium, and zinc) an phytonutrients (chlorophyll). it has a wide variety of useful nutritional applications, which include supporting natural detoxification, digestive health, immune function, inflammation reduction, antioxidant function, estrogen balance, cholesterol metabolism, and circulation.
The best and easiest way of getting an adequate dose of those nutrients is by taking a dietary supplement daily over the winter months. I highly recommend Olive Leaf and Oregano Immune Wellness which contains all of the mentioned above immune boosters in the most pure and natural form.


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Q: Writing PyTest Unit Tests for Script that randomly samples dataframes? I am working on writing unit tests for a project of mine that processes data. However, I have some scripts that take CSVs, concatenate them with Pandas, and then randomly sample them to make train/dev/test sets for machine learning tasks.
I am writing unit tests that generate some random data CSVs from which to test for. But how can I create reference data for what SHOULD be returned from the script I am trying to test?
# Example of my test setup:

@pytest.fixture
def create_reference_input_data():
# Create some random CSV strings and make some test input data CSVs

@pytest.fixture
def create_reference_output_data():
# create some fake output data from the data that was created in create_reference_input_data()
# this output data should be like what I am expecting from the script I am testing
# I will be using this data to assert to what is produced from the script I am testing.
return reference_train_df, reference_test_df, reference_dev_df

def test_collect_data(create_reference_output_data):
# Run the script that I am testing for. It generates randomly sampled data from concatenated CSV datas like what would be created in create_reference_input_data() fixture.
# CSV data to make train/test/dev splitted CSV data.
test_data = collect_data(input_path, output_path, test_split = .10, dev_split = .20)

for file1_row, file2_row in zip(reference_output_data, test_data):
    assert file1_row == file2_row # assert lines of text are the same in reference and test

Hope this pseudocode makes some sense. I understand setting seeds and what not. But how can I manually create some test data for what my script SHOULD produce, and assert that it is what is actually produced when I call that script?


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Conduct a Referendum Now! British MPs Move Motion for Biafra Independence
The protests by the Indigenous People of Biafra received some attention in the British House of Commons, after two parliamentarians moved the motion, urging the Nigerian Government to organise a referendum.
In a motion called Early Day Motion 808 and titled Biafra Independence, Tom Elliot moved a motion that urged the British government to support the bid for the creation of a Biafra Republic by urging the Nigerian government to conduct a referendum.
The motion is that this "House recognises the calls for the independence of territories that constituted the Biafran republic."
"The Biafran issue could be improved with the co-operation of the Nigerian government by offering a referendum; and urges the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to use its diplomatic strength to assist in the resolution of this matter."
Danny Kinahan Tom Elliott
Elliott is a former British army officer who served during the conflict in Northern Ireland. He is a staunch opponent of Irish unification and gay rights and is a former leader of the UUP. He is married with two children.
The decision by the Supreme Council of Elders, of Indigenous People of Biafra, led by Eze Ozobu, to lobby the British Members of Parliament, is beginning to yield fruits.
Tom Elliott, an MP representing Fermanagh and South Tyrone, and Danny Kinahan, who represent South Antrim constituency, sponsored the motion. This came few weeks, after the British High Commissioner to Nigeria, said that the British Government would not support the Biafra agitation for self determination.
Tom Elliott, who is a member of Ulster Unionist Party, said:
http://www.parliament.uk/edm/2015-16/808
The motion, which was titled " Motion 808″ will be further discussed and debated after the Christmas break.
Reacting to the news, Gen. Joe Achuzia, the Secretary of the Supreme Council of Elders, of Indigenous People of Biafra, said that he wasn't surprised. He urged all Biafra agitators to remain peaceful. " There will be no more war, Biafra will be achieved through peaceful means. While we battle Nigeria in court, other diplomatic moves are being made to assert our rights for self determination, he added.
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Schrems II – Data transfers questioned again
By John Cahir on October 4, 2017
Posted in Cyber Risk & Data Privacy
In a much anticipated judgment, the Irish High Court yesterday decided to ask the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) to rule on the validity of Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs).
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The e-Privacy Regulation – What's new?
By Davinia Brennan on February 10, 2017
The European Commission has published its draft e-Privacy Regulation which, if adopted, will replace the existing e-Privacy Directive. The Regulation broadens the scope of the Directive, enhances the confidentiality of communications, and simplifies the rules on cookies and unsolicited electronic marketing.
The Regulation expands the scope of the e-Privacy Directive, which only applies to traditional telecoms providers. It is proposed that the Regulation will apply to any business that provides any form of online communication service, so all internet based voice and messaging services, will be subject to the new rules. The Regulation calls these providers "over-the-top communications service providers". So Skype, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Gmail, Viber and so forth, will all come within the Regulation's remit. This will ensure that these services guarantee the same level of confidentiality of communications as traditional telecoms operators.
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9th Annual Data Protection Conference
By Aoibheann Duffy on February 1, 2017
January 28th was European Data Protection Day and we marked the event by attending the 9th Annual Data Protection Conference which was held in the Aviva Conference Centre.
The two-day conference featured interactive workshops on the first day on 'Privacy by Design' and 'Conducting a Data Protection Audit'. The second day included a line-up of notable speakers who spoke on topics related to the theme of the conference; "GDPR – It's here, what's next". Dara Murphy, Minister of State for European Affairs, EU Digital Single Market and Data Protection spoke about his department's work in preparing for GDPR and the importance of having a strong, well-resourced Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (ODPC). The Minister also announced plans for a data summit in June this year.
A&L Goodbody's Claire Morrissey presented on "Legal Aspects of the GDPR" and took part in a lively Q&A session. Claire highlighted some of the key changes that the GDPR will bring including the need to demonstrate compliance, the new right of data portability, the new security reporting obligations and the ability for individuals to recover financial and non-financial loss (such as damages for distress or embarrassment in the event of inadvertent disclosure of personal data). She also offered some practical tips for ways in which businesses can prepare for the GDPR (some of which are available here).
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Child's Play: The Office of the Data Protection Commissioner releases Guidance Note on Connected Toys
By Neasa Ni Ghrada on January 31, 2017
The Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (the ODPC) has released a guidance note on connected toys (the Guidance Note). The Guidance Note highlights the possible data protection issues that might occur when children and parents use toys with microphones and cameras that have an ability to connect to the internet.
The ODPC warns of certain potential issues with the personification of connected toys, in particular dolls. Some of these toys provide an interactive experience by reacting to selected words. This may give the impression of an emotional response to what the child says or does. In some instances, these toys are enabled to collect and record these "conversations" between the child and the connected toy on apps, smartphones or tablets. The ODPC cautions that some of these connected toys' terms and conditions allow these potentially sensitive recordings to be shared with other companies and used for the basis of targeted advertising.
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WP29 Action Plan for 2017
By Davinia Brennan on January 18, 2017
The Article 29 Working Party (WP29) has released its Action Plan for 2017, setting out its priorities and objectives in the context of implementation of the EU GDPR for the year ahead. It has committed to finalize its work on topics undertaken in 2016 including guidelines on:
Certification;
Processing likely to result in
GDPR guidance on Data Portability, DPOs & Lead Supervisory Authority
By Davinia Brennan on December 16, 2016
The Article 29 Working Party has issued a press release and three sets of guidelines and FAQs on implementation of some key issues under the GDPR:
Guidelines and FAQs on the Right to Data Portability;
Guidelines and FAQs on Data Protection Officers (DPO); and
Guidelines and FAQs on the Lead Supervisory Authority.
It welcomes any comments from stakeholders on the guidelines until end January 2017. Guidelines on Data Privacy Impact Assessments and Certification are promised for 2017.
The guidance provides some interesting insights and should help organisations to comply with their new obligations under the GDPR. The guidelines on the Lead Supervisory Authority highlight that there will be more than one lead supervisory authority, where a company carries out several cross-border activities and the decisions on the means and purposes of processing are taken in different establishments. This means that companies will have to consider organising decision-making powers in respect of personal data processing activities in a single location, in order to avail of the "one-stop shop" mechanism.…
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ODPC publishes guidance on the GDPR
By Davinia Brennan on December 6, 2016
The ODPC has published guidance, The GDPR and You – Preparing for 2018, to help organisations prepare for the GDPR. It contains a checklist to provide companies with a practical starting point to ensure full compliance by May 2018. It is important for organisations to start taking steps to prepare now, to ensure that …
CJEU rules IP addresses may constitute personal data
By Davinia Brennan on October 26, 2016
On 19 October 2016, the CJEU ruled, in Breyer v Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Case C-582/14), that dynamic IP addresses may constitute "personal data" under the Data Protection Directive, where a website operator has the legal means of identifying the visitor by use of additional information held about him/her by the ISP. The decision confirms the stance taken by the Scarlet Extended (Case C-70/10) (at para. 51), where the CJEU essentially held that IP addresses are "personal data" because they allow those users to be precisely identified. However, that finding by the CJEU related to the situation in which the collection and identification of the IP addresses of internet users is carried out by ISPs.
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A&L Goodbody Guide on the EU General Data Protection Regulation
By Davinia Brennan on October 7, 2016
On 5th October 2016, our IP & Technology team hosted a seminar on the new EU General Data Regulation (GDPR), which takes effect from 25 May 2018. The Data Protection Commissioner, Helen Dixon, gave a keynote address at the event, which was followed by commentary from our IP and Technology Partners, John Whelan,…
The Central Bank of Ireland publishes new Cross Industry Guidance on IT and Cybersecurity Risks
By Neasa Ni Ghrada on September 23, 2016
On 13 September 2016, the Central Bank of Ireland (the CBI) published new guidance on IT risk management and cybersecurity for financial service firms. Publication of the Guidance follows the CBI's previous actions in relation to cyber risks in the funds, insurance and banking sectors (see previous blog here). The CBI acknowledges that IT plays an integral part in the supply of financial services and calls on Boards and Senior Management of regulated firms to recognise the ever increasing incidences of cyber-attacks and business interruptions. It requests such firms to acknowledge their responsibilities in this regard and prioritise IT security. This responsibility involves establishing and maintaining a resilient IT strategy, while ensuring that it aligns with the firm's general business strategy. It states that a robust oversight and engagement on IT matters at the Board and Senior Management level promotes an IT and security risk aware culture within the firm.…
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Last Call For Russian To Judgment, Con't
Talk about blast from the past: Even former Whitewater prosecutor Ken Starr thinks indictments and plea deals are coming from Mueller's investigation.
Ken Starr, the former independent counsel in the Whitewater and Monica Lewinsky scandals during Bill Clinton's presidency, predicted Saturday that there would likely be indictments in special counsel Robert Mueller's probe into Russia's election meddling.
"Given what we do know, especially given what happened this summer with respect to the FBI's intrusion into Paul Manafort's condominium, in light of the revelations that we've seen about General Flynn, I have a sense that there will in fact be indictments," Starr said on CNN's "Smerconish," referring to President Trump's former campaign chairman and his first national security adviser, respectively.
Starr said "there may be guilty pleas" in the investigation, and said the indictment of foreign nationals could take place.
"What I find very interesting … is in light of the information that is now coming out with respect to Russian attempts to influence both the national election and 21 different states, what I expect to see is serious consideration of indicting one or more foreign nationals," he said.
Which I believe too and have been telling you about for months now, but it's different coming from Starr, who isn't exactly a pal of Democrats these days, but hey, he has problems of his own of a sexual nature.
StupidiTags(tm): Criminal Stupidity, Legal Stupidity, Robert Mueller, Russia, Trump Regime
Listen All Y'All It's Sabotage
The Trump regime isn't even bothering to hide the fact that the goal now is what former Obama administration Medicare/Medicaid chief Andy Slavitt calls "synthetic repeal".
Much of the enforcement of ACA regulations are at the will of the executive branch, and Trump is doing everything he can to use those regulations to collapse the individual plan markets and force repeal of the law. Of course, doing so will wreck the country's insurance markets, plunge insurers into chaos, and jack up premiums on pretty much everyone.
But that's the point. Trump's biggest sabotage efforts so far will come next week with a new executive order that will almost certainly devastate health care coverage for millions.
President Donald Trump will sign an executive order next week to start lifting some insurance rules set by his predecessor's Affordable Care Act in the aftermath of the failed Republican bid to repeal the law, a senior administration official said Saturday.
The order is aimed at expanding insurance options for Americans who buy coverage on their own or work for a small employer, and would include broad instructions for agencies to explore ways to loosen regulations and potentially lower premiums, as well as looking at three specific areas of health insurance. It has been anticipated by industry officials and political observers in the days since the GOP repeal effort crashed.
Republicans have long contended that the insurance rules set by the 2010 health law, popularly dubbed Obamacare, have driven up premiums in the individual and small group markets, for healthier Americans especially. Democrats and supporters of the law typically counter that the rules have protected consumers from unwittingly buying shoddy products and helped subsidize the costs of sicker Americans.
Mr. Trump will order three agencies, the departments of Health and Human Services, Labor and Treasury, to take steps to make it easier for people to band together and buy insurance through "association health plans," the official said.
Such plans would in some ways be like large employer's health plans, subject to some restrictions set by the Affordable Care Act, including a ban on lifetime limits. But they would be free of other regulations, including the requirement that insurance plans cover a set package of benefits. These plans are popular with conservatives; some insurers fear that associations would peel off healthier and younger individuals and leave traditional insurance plans to cover sicker and older customers.
The president also will order the agencies to start winding back an Obama-era rule curbing coverage known as "short-term medical insurance," a low-cost but limited-protection option, and allow people to once again buy those plans for up to a year, the official said.
The Obama administration banned the sale of those plans that offered coverage for more than 90 days, arguing they were inadequate for people's needs. Some industry officials have pressed the administration to restore them, saying that when marketed honestly they can fit the needs of particular consumers currently priced out of buying the more generous coverage available as a result of the 2010 health-care overhaul.
In addition, the executive order would order agencies to expand health reimbursement accounts, employer-funded arrangements that employees can use to pay out-of-pocket medical costs and premiums. Obama-era guidance from 2013 had prevented pretax employer dollars in the arrangements from being used to buy health insurance on the individual market.
The three moves would represent the most substantive step the White House has taken to date in paring back Affordable Care Act rules using administrative powers. They don't go as far as many critics of the law would like but are likely to be followed by other steps, administration officials said.
The three steps combined would be a nightmare: they would recreate high-risk pools with little coverage and no guaranteed benefits other than catastrophic coverage and allow employers to move employee plans to that model,meaning millions of people would be dodging both the individual mandate and the penalty fee for not having insurance.
It would cause insurance rates for everyone else to skyrocket as a result, collapsing the markets for both individual plans and for employer-based plans too, meaning instead of real insurance, employers could offer health savings accounts for junk plans with no real coverage, and have to pay up front for the privilege (and lose the money at the end of the year if they didn't use it for health care).
In other words, it's a direct recipe for blowing up Obamacare and everyone knows it.
Democrats have characterized the effort as potentially sabotaging the consumer protections they set in the ACA, and they have won support from some insurance industry officials. The National Association of Insurance Commissioners has said it has concerns.
Some industry officials say that siphoning off healthier individuals from the existing insurance markets with the promise of skimpier benefits but lower premiums could further undermine those markets, increasing premiums ever more for the sicker, costlier enrollees that remain.
"Its aim is clearly to do with the pen what Congress wouldn't—eliminate pre-existing condition protections, essential benefit protections and lifetime caps and turn the ACA into a sparsely available high-risk pool," said Andy Slavitt, who was the Obama administration's top official at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Only garbage coverage plans would be available through the ACA, and everyone would suffer.
But again, that's the point.
StupidiTags(tm): GOP Stupidity, Medical Stupidity, Obama Derangement Syndrome, Obamacare, Trump Regime, Wingnut Stupidity
They Came Back Of Course
Actual Nazi Richard Spencer decided to come back to Charlottesville and reopen some old wounds by staging a (much smaller) surprise white supremacist rally in the city's Emancipation Park. About 30 people showed up, but that was enough for Spencer to start gloating and to give the game away
The group carried tiki torches and chanted "You will not replace us," by a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in the park. They also reportedly said, "we will be back."
"Hello Charlottesville, we're back and we're going to keep coming back. You will not replace us, you will not erase us," a protester on a megaphone said.
"The left wing establishment is built around anti-white policies," Spencer told the group.
The group also chanted "The South will rise again" and "Russia is our friend."
The rally comes less than two months after violence erupted in the town between "Unite the Right" protesters and counter protesters.
The alt-right rally, which was meant to protest the removal of the statue of Lee, reignited the debate over the future of Confederate statues and monuments across the country.
These guys want a bloody civil war, and nobody would benefit more from that than Moscow. The whole group of these jackasses are backed by Putin and the manipulation is so obvious it's painful, but our government is compromised so badly by the Russians now that there's not much we can do other than weather the storm.
In case there was any doubt as to whom Spencer is taking his orders from.
StupidiTags(tm): GOP Stupidity, Racist Stupidity, Russia, The Second Civil War, Wingnut Stupidity
Sunday Long Read: Perfecting The Dog Whistle
If you want to know what banished White House racist rabble-rouser Steve Bannon and his Boy Wonder Milo Yiannopoulos are up to after two-shirt Steve got booted over his little confab in Charlottesville this summer, it turns out that the pair of slimeballs have plenty of help spreading their message of hate from Silicon Valley techbros.
In August, after a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville ended in murder, Steve Bannon insisted that "there's no room in American society" for neo-Nazis, neo-Confederates, and the KKK.
But an explosive cache of documents obtained by BuzzFeed News proves that there was plenty of room for those voices on his website.
During the 2016 presidential campaign, under Bannon's leadership, Breitbart courted the alt-right — the insurgent, racist right-wing movement that helped sweep Donald Trump to power. The former White House chief strategist famously remarked that he wanted Breitbart to be "the platform for the alt-right."
The Breitbart employee closest to the alt-right was Milo Yiannopoulos, the site's former tech editor known best for his outrageous public provocations, such as last year's Dangerous Faggot speaking tour and September's canceled Free Speech Week in Berkeley. For more than a year, Yiannopoulos led the site in a coy dance around the movement's nastier edges, writing stories that minimized the role of neo-Nazis and white nationalists while giving its politer voices "a fair hearing." In March, Breitbart editor Alex Marlow insisted "we're not a hate site." Breitbart's media relations staff repeatedly threatened to sue outlets that described Yiannopoulos as racist. And after the violent white supremacist protest in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August, Breitbart published an article explaining that when Bannon said the site welcomed the alt-right, he was merely referring to "computer gamers and blue-collar voters who hated the GOP brand."
These new emails and documents, however, clearly show that Breitbart does more than tolerate the most hate-filled, racist voices of the alt-right. It thrives on them, fueling and being fueled by some of the most toxic beliefs on the political spectrum — and clearing the way for them to enter the American mainstream.
It's a relationship illustrated most starkly by a previously unreleased April 2016 video in which Yiannopoulos sings "America the Beautiful" in a Dallas karaoke bar as admirers, including the white nationalist Richard Spencer, raise their arms in Nazi salutes.
These documents chart the Breitbart alt-right universe. They reveal how the website — and, in particular, Yiannopoulos — links the Mercer family, the billionaires who fund Breitbart, to underpaid trolls who fill it with provocative content, and to extremists striving to create a white ethnostate.
They capture what Bannon calls his "killing machine" in action, as it dredges up the resentments of people around the world, sifts through these grievances for ideas and content, and propels them from the unsavory parts of the internet up to TrumpWorld, collecting advertisers' checks all along the way.
And the cache of emails — some of the most newsworthy of which BuzzFeed News is now making public — expose the extent to which this machine depended on Yiannopoulos, who channeled voices both inside and outside the establishment into a clear narrative about the threat liberal discourse posed to America. The emails tell the story of Steve Bannon's grand plan for Yiannopoulos, whom the Breitbart executive chairman transformed from a charismatic young editor into a conservative media star capable of magnetizing a new generation of reactionary anger. Often, the documents reveal, this anger came from a legion of secret sympathizers in Silicon Valley, Hollywood, academia, suburbia, and everywhere in between.
"I have said in the past that I find humor in breaking taboos and laughing at things that people tell me are forbidden to joke about," Yiannopoulos wrote in a statement to BuzzFeed News. "But everyone who knows me also knows I'm not a racist. As someone of Jewish ancestry, I of course condemn racism in the strongest possible terms. I have stopped making jokes on these matters because I do not want any confusion on this subject. I disavow Richard Spencer and his entire sorry band of idiots. I have been and am a steadfast supporter of Jews and Israel. I disavow white nationalism and I disavow racism and I always have."
He added that during his karaoke performance, his "severe myopia" made it impossible for him to see the Hitler salutes a few feet away.
Steve Bannon, the other Breitbart employees named in the story, and the Mercer family did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
Like all the new media success stories, Breitbart's alt-right platform depends on the participation of its audience. It combusts the often secret fury of those who reject liberal norms into news, and it doesn't burn clean.
Now Bannon is back at the controls of the machine, which he has said he is "revving up." The Mercers have funded Yiannopoulos's post-Breitbart venture. And these documents present the clearest look at what these people may have in store for America.
And folks, these are some ugly sins being put on display. Milo was the charismatic point man selling neo-Nazi snake oil, Klan "economic anxiety" and Bell Curve social engineering to like-minded folks in Hollywood and Silicon Valley, and he is very, very good at it. He packaged it as the "alt-right" and Bannon sold it for the Breitbart masses to help Trump. And his help covers the whole cast of characters, including our good friend Teddy Beale and Evil Chuck Johnson, as well as Richard Spencer and Andrew "weev" Aurenheimer and their crew of actual goddamn Nazis.
But let's not forget the real goal of this packaging and marketing of rancid white supremacy to the masses.
All this helped to put Trump in the White House.
"Make America Great Again" was and still is a racist dog whistle that is all about making white supremacy acceptable again, and Steve Bannon was chief strategist for the Trump campaign and the regime. His protege, Stephen Miller, is still Trump's chief speechwriter, still packaging and selling white supremacy today.
Pay close attention to hedge fund billionaire tech bro Robert Mercer and his family in this article too. It's clear they are the bankroll for Bannon and his merry band, and if there's a source of endless dark money and darker social manipulation on the net to market Trump's racism as "populism" it's Mercer. There's a brutal junction between tech and racism, and it was exploited to full effect in 2016. It will be exploited again in 2018 and 2020.
These are who America's leaders are because this is who we have always been: a country built on the exploitation of race and proud of doing so, punctuated by the long, slow fight for justice against it.
Never forget however that these assholes could not have come to power without the people that elected them, and were perfectly okay with white supremacy being the defining characteristic of the Republican party in 2017. Call them what they are.
These guys turned racist dog whistles into Trump campaign bullhorns, and they won because of it. This is why I will resist them, every day, in this blog and in other ways, until we are rid of them.
StupidiTags(tm): Andrew Breitbart, Racist Stupidity, Social Stupidity, Steve Bannon, Sunday Long Read, Technology Stupidity


At approximately 1415 Hours, on January 9, 2018, deputies responded to an accident involving one vehicle that crashed on private property near the intersection of WCR 57 and WCR 130.
When deputies arrived on scene they found a SUV rolled over in a ravine that was very difficult to reach due to the terrain. The sole occupant of the vehicle was determined to be deceased on scene.
The name of the victim and cause of death will be released by the Weld County Coroner's Office once they complete their full investigation.
We would like to thank Flight for Life, Larimer County Search and Rescue, Colorado State Patrol, Weld County Coroner's Office, and the Weld County Community members for helping in the process of this accident investigation.


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From foreign development to climate activism: Meet U of T's 2019 Loran Scholars
From left to right: Chan-min Roh, Abnash Bassi and Shiqi Xu (all photos by Johnny Guatto)
Chan-min Roh, Shiqi Xu and Abnash Bassi are three students who have shown leadership in high school and made a difference in their communities.
Now, the University of Toronto has welcomed them as Loran Scholars.
The three students were among just 35 students selected by the Loran Scholars Foundation from over 5,000 applicants for the prestigious scholarship program in 2019.
Offered to high school students in their graduating year with a minimum cumulative average of 85 per cent who demonstrate "character, service and the promise of leadership," the Loran Scholarship is valued at $100,000 and includes matching tuition waivers, an annual stipend of $10,000 and funding for summer internships.
Now, almost two months into their first year at U of T, here's a look at the journeys taken by Roh, Xu and Bassi to become student leaders:
Chan-min Roh, Regina
Roh, a Victoria College student, has a keen interest in politics and diplomacy. He was on the leadership team of the Saskatchewan Youth Parliament. As captain of his debate team, he participated in debate conferences as far away as Finland and China and says debate and public speaking "has been a big part of my life."
He also travelled to Tijuana, Mexico with his church to build houses for local families and was the captain of his soccer team.
Roh, who is currently in the Munk One program, says the small class options for first-years drew him to U of T.
"The Munk One allowed me to experience not only the big school environment of U of T, but also the small classroom setting," he said.
Roh is considering majoring in political science or contemporary Asian studies and hopes to one day work in the field of public policy or diplomacy.
Continuing his passion for debating, Roh has joined Hart House Debating Club. He is also involved with U of T's chapter of the HanVoice Support Association, an advocacy group for North Korean human rights, and a taekwondo club.
Shiqi Xu, North Vancouver, B.C.
Xu was student council president in high school and played piano for her school choir. Her passions also lie in animal rights and environmental issues.
She started a club that worked with the food service provider in her school's cafeteria to develop and promote "Meatless Monday" specials and increase the number of plant-based food options.
"Eventually, that spread to a school district-wide level as well," said Xu. "We connected with kids at other schools, where the same food service provider – Amaga Food – was incredibly supportive of the initiative and began serving specials at all the schools.
"We saw the sales increase as kids began to make more conscious food choices, whether it was for health, environmental, ethical or personal reasons."
Xu's activism was also trained on animal dissections. After she found out some students had a difficult time opting out of the animal dissection assignment in biology classes, Xu got over 250 of her peers to sign a petition calling for an opt-out policy on dissections and brought the demand forward to her school board, which resulted in her school district implementing a student-choice policy.
At U of T, Xu is in the engineering science program and has already gotten involved in the U of T Aerospace Team and the Chestnut Residence Council social commission.
Abnash Bassi, Delta, B.C.
Passionate about renewable energy and environmental issues, Bassi was drawn to U of T by the sense of community and the multidisciplinary nature of the engineering science program.
"I found it particularly interesting that, even in such a large community where there's three different campuses and each campus is pretty large, there's an ability to foster a sense of community across so many students," Bassi said.
As a high school student, Bassi was a climate action fellow with Be the Change Earth Alliance, a Vancouver-based charitable organization, and was co-president of her high school's sustainability club.
She led environmental workshops for neighbouring elementary schools and helped spearhead sustainability campaigns with other high schools.
"For me, growing up, my family always placed an emphasis on the interactions that I have with my surrounding environment," she said.
Bassi was also a member of Delta, B.C. Member of Parliament Carla Qualtrough's constituency youth council, participated in robotics competitions and coached basketball for elementary school students.
In her first year at U of T, Bassi has gotten involved with Engineers Without Borders, the U of T Aerospace Team and marched with fellow U of T students during the climate strike in September.
Tom Yun
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>>>You can read the configuration EEPROM, but the chip can't operate on the bus.
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>You omitted my suggestion to use my driver release.
>Trying the 2.4.19 kernel will _not_ get you a recent driver release.
Index #1: Found a Intel i82557/8/9 EtherExpressPro100 adapter at 0xd400.
Index #2: Found a Intel i82557/8/9 EtherExpressPro100 adapter at 0xd000.
This status is unusual for an activated interface.
The EEPROM checksum is correct.