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To mark World AIDS Day on Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012, more than 1,000 new posters from one of the world's largest AIDS education poster collections have been digitized and put online by archivists at the University of Rochester.
Launched online last October during the 30th anniversary year of the identification of HIV/AIDS, the exhibit from the Atwater AIDS Education Poster Collection draws from an assortment of more than 6,200 posters from more than 100 countries in 60 languages and dialects. While selections of the posters have been exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum of Art and other locations, once completed, the online collection will provide the first opportunity for the public to view the collection in its entirety.
Collected by retired physician Dr. Edward C. Atwater, an emeritus professor of medicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center, the posters provide a visual history of the first three decades of the HIV/AIDS crisis from 1981 to the present.
"When Dr. Atwater decided to donate the collection, he thought it was appropriate to donate it to the University's library because he felt it is not just a medical history, but a social and cultural history," said Melissa S. Mead, the university's John M. and Barbara Keil University Archivist and Rochester Collections Librarian.
"My hope is to show people the responses from various societies to a deadly disease. Looked at chronologically, the AIDS posters show how social, religious, civic, and public health agencies tailored their message to different groups," said Atwater, 86, a self-professed collector who lives in Rochester, N.Y. Depending on their audience, creators of the posters used stereotypes, scare tactics, provocative language, imagery, and even humor to educate the public about the disease.
More than 2,000 of the collection's posters are now online with additional posters being added on a regular basis. "A lot of these posters are in foreign languages and need translating. We are eager to have people send in translations and to send us suggestions for tagging, which will enable connections between posters that we haven't made ourselves," said Mead.
To access the Atwater AIDS education posters collection online visit http://aep.lib.rochester.edu/. In addition to the posters, the site contains research conducted by Rochester students who have used the collections, an introduction to the collection by Alexander Brier Marr, a doctoral student in visual and cultural studies, and links to additional AIDS educational resources.
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1Password was born ready for Mountain Lion
As you may have heard, Apple has a new kitty called Mountain Lion on the way, due out sometime in July. Apple's site naturally brags about things like "over 200+ new features" and "more, better, faster," but I'm sure your top question is: "but will 1Password be ready?!"
The short and sweet answer is: like Terry Benedict, 1Password was born ready. Ok, maybe's that's going a bit far. I mean, the first version of 1Password, released over six years ago, was actually born and raised on OS X 10.4 Tiger and missing a vowel. And a consonant.
So let me try this again: as of recent updates to both the Mac App Store and website versions, 1Password is ready for Mountain Lion and even Gatekeeper, a new OS X feature that gives you more control over what apps your Mac can run. If you want to learn more about Gatekeeper, our Chief Defender Against the Dark Arts penned a couple of posts to give you a general overview and more details on this important OS X addition in Mountain Lion.
Of course, your decision to upgrade to a major new OS release probably rests on a number of other apps being ready as well. After all, not every app can be ready on day one, so don't be afraid to do a little homework before taking the plunge. But as far as AgileBits factors in, you can rest assured that 1Password been ready for Mountain Lion for a while now!

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Rep. Joe Walsh and Tammy Duckworth had a debate the other day in their campaign for Walsh's seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, giving Walsh the opportunity to declare that he thought abortion should be illegal in all cases — including rape, incest and even the life of the mother:
Walsh said he was against abortion "without exception," including rape, incest and in cases in which the life or health of the mother was in jeopardy.
Asked by reporters after the debate if he was saying that it's never medically necessary to conduct an abortion to save the life of a mother, Walsh responded, "Absolutely."
"With modern technology and science, you can't find one instance," he said. "… There is no such exception as life of the mother, and as far as health of the mother, same thing."
This puts him on the extreme edge of the extreme edge of the anti-
abortion woman movement. But one would think that Walsh, who famously didn't pay his child support to the tune of more than $100,000, would be in favor of abortion so he doesn't get stuck paying for those kids.


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One of the Last River Boats
For centuries men have named their ships for their wives and their girlfriends, and even their daughters. Such was the case with the Oconee River's newest steamer which was christened one hundred and ten years ago last week. Many years ago, I picked up a copy of Thought You Might Be Interested in Knowing. I was. So, I started reading. On page four of the memoirs of D.T. Cowart, he states that the wrecked remains of The Clyde S. could be seen on the eastern bank of the Oconee River several hundred yards north of the river bridge.
I kept asking myself who was Clyde S.? I thought he may be one of the city's business leaders or perhaps one of the owners of the steamboat company to which the boat belonged. I soon learned that The Clyde S. was named for Clyde Smith, the daughter, and not the son, of Joseph E. "Banjo" Smith, Jr. and Caroline Isabella Blackshear Smith. Her father was one of the top three business leaders during the Golden Age of the Emerald City with ownership in dozens of businesses, houses, and commercial establishments in Dublin.
As one of The Emerald City's leading entrepreneurs, J.E. Smith hoped to enhance his own business interests by establishing his own river boat company, which he named the "Oconee Navigation Company." In the late summer of 1910, Smith hired William W. Ward, a veteran river boat captain and boat builder, to build the company's flag ship. Assisting Ward was D.W. Wyatt, who, with Ward, learned their craft from the recently deceased master boat builder of Oconee River steamers, Capt. John M. Graham. Graham built The Katie C., which would work in tandem with The Clyde S.
The Clyde S. was a flat-bottomed river boat, twenty-four feet in width and ninety-six feet in length. With its 140-ton capacity, Smith and his captain and general manager, J.F. Fitchett, hoped that the new boat would rejuvenate river boat traffic, despite the dominance of the multitude of railroads which cris-crossed the mid-Oconee River region and the emergence of the automobile.
On January 5, 1911, Mr. And Mrs. Smith, along with their son Eldridge and their daughter Clyde, went down to the company's wharf on the river to launch The Clyde S. It was a relatively cold day, but the weather was improving. Instead of the obligatory bottle of champagne, Clyde, just seven weeks shy of her tenth birthday, took a bottle of grape juice and smashed it across the prow of the boat near the top of the bow. After all, the Smiths were very good Methodists and a bottle of alcohol to christen their boat was simply out of the question.
After christening The Clyde S., Smith's workers set out to put the finishing touches on the light draught boat, which would run the entire navigable portion of the river with Dublin as its base. After her final inspection by Captains E.B. Fitzgerald and W.G. Lee, The Clyde S. set out on her maiden voyage on the morning of February 16, 1911. With a hundred tons of freight aboard, the light draught steamer headed south down the Oconee. Captains Fitzgerald and Lee, who have been coming to Dublin for nearly two decades, commented on the astonishing growth of the city and predicted the growth would continue for some time to come.
Accidents on the river were inevitable. Especially on the Oconee River, which despite the funding by state and national governments to clear the river of obstructions, was not as safe and reliable as river boat captains hoped that it would be. Within two months, The Clyde S. was rounding a bend as it approached Diamond Landing in the southern part of Laurens County. The boat hit a snag. A large gaping hole in her hull caused the boat to take on water. Captain Marcus M. Mobley acted quickly, ordering his hands to throw off all the cargo they could. A few hands jumped off and swam to the river bank to tie a rope to secure the sinking vessel. Captain Mobley ingeniously ordered his crew to take several mattresses which were aboard the boat and stuff them into the puncture to keep The Clyde S. from sinking. His plan worked. The ship was repaired in short order. After securing some of the cargo, the boat was underway toward its scheduled destination.
On July 19, 1911, the Milledgeville News reported that The Clyde S. was the first steamer to arrive in the port of Milledgeville. State officials, in selecting Milledgeville as the state capital just more than a century earlier, had figured that the city would be at the head of navigation of the Oconee. Their estimates were a bit short and river traffic never succeeded, a failure which led to the eventual removal of the capital to Atlanta, forty something years before The Clyde S. made it to Milledgeville.
Captain Mobley's crew unloaded two train car loads of barrel staves from the boat powered by a 50-horsepower engine. Milledgeville officials were ecstatic and hopeful that the arrival of the first steam powered engine to their city would mark a new prosperity for the Old Capital.
In 1915, The Clyde S. was rebuilt by Captain Mobley as the first Oconee River boat to be built for both passengers and freight. The practice of using freight boats to carry passengers had been suspended following the sinking of the HMS Titanic in 1912.
Eventually, The Clyde S. sank or was scuttled and her remains deposited on the Sand Bar, a name given to it a century earlier by the first settlers of northwestern Montgomery County and the first settlers of what would become Dublin.
The practice of using river boats virtually ended by the end of World War I. Although it appeared the use of freight boats on the Oconee was all but dead, the second Oconee River Bridge was designed in 1920 to contain a revolving pivot in the middle to allow river boats to pass through. But alas, river steamers would eventually disappear for ever.
Clyde Smith, the woman, went on to graduate at the top of her class at Wesleyan and to become one of the most beloved librarians in the history of the capital of North Carolina. I'll tell you more about her soon, so keep on reading and learn about more interesting pieces of our past.
P.S. If you have a story you are interested in, especially if I have not written about it. Let me know. I am always looking for rare, unusual and interesting clippings, letters, books, and oral stories which relate to our local history. You can contact me at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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One summer many years ago I went camping and for two months slept in a tent, peed in the woods and cooked over an open fire. There was no refrigerator, no bathroom, no running water. It was a memorable experience. When you have to build a fire before you can eat, cooking itself becomes a very meaningful process.
You have to have enough dry wood, both small pieces for kindling, and medium and large pieces to keep the fire going. You have to structure your firewood appropriately so that the spark can catch and the air can circulate easily. Once the fire is lit, it needs to be watched, fanned, poked and stirred, and new fuel added when needed. When the fuel has turned to coals, you are ready to cook.
As you can imagine, there were many false starts at the beginning. I had to learn about green wood and wet wood, soft wood and hard wood, the best shape to stack the kindling, how to fan the fire and how to be frugal with matches and lighters. At first, starting a fire was challenge, a labor, a problem to be solved.
But one day I had a small epiphany and the thought came into my head – the nature of fire is to burn. I thought about fire and what was needed. I had to have the appropriate fuel (dry enough and dense enough), I had to have the right amount of air (not too much or too little) and I had to have the initial spark.
If all three of these ingredients were present, fire was not only possible but inevitable. Why? Because the nature of fire is to burn. When the proper conditions are met, fire would be. The simple sentence had lifelong ramifications. If I could understand the 'nature' of something, I could understand its propensities and trajectory. I would have control of a sort over it.
Fire is a living thing that seeks self-expression. It is found in the bowels of the earth and the nucleus of the sun. It is primal spirit and is part of everything – from the tiniest atom to the greatest star, from an amoeba to a man. The same life spark that is in a distant star is in the cells of your heart.
Fire also has a unique and awful power – the power to transmute. It takes matter, breaks the atomic bonds that bind it together, and releases the light and heat that has been held within, perhaps for millennia.
It is no wonder that all of the primitive and ancient religions and philosophies have held fire as one of the four primal elements, and often times an expression of the Divine itself. Fire is to the spirit, as air is to the intellect, earth is to the physical and water is to the emotions. These elements are the Platonic counterparts of manifestation.
My insight into the nature of fire, prompted me to other analogies and questions. For example, the nature of fish is to swim, of birds to fly, of cats to hunt. I will not belabor the point because the comparison can be superficial, but it did lead me to ponder, if the nature of fire is to burn, what is the nature of man. What does man do that is uniquely his own.
I believe that the nature of man is 'to reflect,' a word whose original meaning is to bend back. I do not want to describe that reflection as 'thinking' for I see repetition, shallowness, self-centeredness and limitation in what is commonly referred to by those mental processes. But I do believe there is a higher level of thinking in which man 'bends back' his experience of life and creates the capacity for wonder, awe, appreciation, insight, creativity and wisdom. It is that which makes man unique.
I often hear people asking 'what is my purpose in life?' as if there was a unique job description that only they could fill; a purpose that would give meaning and definition to their lives. I don't think the answer is that specific. I believe the purpose of life is to be, to exist, to enjoy, to experience.
All of life is an expression of Energy/God/All That Is and there is nothing that Life/God needs. By definition, God needs nothing, not even worshippers. There is nothing absent or lacking that we, as individuals, need to fulfill or complete to make Life more whole. We are here for reasons of joy, not to labor or do penance or learn. This is not meant to be a school but a playground.
Fire needs fuel, air and a spark to burn. What are the conditions that man's nature needs? An openness to love, a capacity for gratitude and the humility to surrender to Life. Mankind's capacity for reflection provides the material universe with a higher consciousness. Through reflection we can not only connect with each other but with all of creation.
We do not need to look for the missing link of evolution; we are the missing link. Perhaps we are angels in training. One day we may all join hands and walk together out of this reality into another. That may be the day some call the Ascension, a time when all of creation will rejoice as one and give birth to a truly cosmic body.


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Differentiating between acute and chronic kidney disease
When dogs and cats have kidney disease, it can be a puzzle determining whether the problem has just developed or has been ongoing. These diagnostics can help you piece the puzzle together to make that distinction so you can provide optimal care and give owners the most accurate prognosis for their pets.
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Sniffle, sniffle. One of the hardest things about new motherhood, for me at least, was doing so much for my baby without much acknowledgement from him. It's all take and no give with newborns, you know? Sure, the fact that he was still alive meant that I was doing something right, but it's not like anyone was saying thanks or patting me on the back for middle-of-the-night nursing sessions or endless diaper changes. It got better as he learned to smile, and even better as he learned to speak. And now I get lots of I love you's and You're the best mom in the whole world's, thankfully. But back then, in those first weeks and months, well, not that I did any of it looking for thanks, but I'd hope that if I could have peeked into my baby's mind, I would have heard something like this:
"I think this is a good time to tell you you're doin' OK, Mom… I know we haven't known each other very long, but you seem like a real keeper… I want you to know how much I appreciate you. You know, right? How much I love you? You're doin' OK, Mom."
Check out this tissue-worthy video from JOHNSON'S Baby for Mother's Day, recognizing moms for the awesome job they do Every. Single. Day. And if you're up for it, please share the video—the company will donate $50,000 to Save the Children once they reach 500,000 views!
If your baby could talk, what do you think she'd tell you?


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Bang & Olufsen ICEpower® technology on MX239H has been developed specifically for compact media products to create excellent sound even in confined spaces. The superior sound quality is a result of innovative technology, ample power delivery, and months of optimizing and fine-tuning by audio engineers. Typically, powerful sound equals high energy consumption, but that's not the case with MX239H. The screen's embedded Class D MobileSound 3 technology is highly energy efficient, converting up to 92 % of power input to useful audio output.
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A young harling comes of age in the ruined City of Ghosts, unaware of his heritage and the secrets his father has kept for so long.In the city of Immanion, Calanthe has ousted Thiede from power and a new age has dawned for Wraeththukind; the reverberations of its arrival shake every corner of the earth. In the wake of this event, a remarkable child is conceived, affected by weird energies to become something more than the sum of his parents.The Tigron, Pellaz, is faced with the dilemma that something huge and terrifying threatens the new race of Wraeththu, just as it is trying to establish itself in the ruins of human civilisation. It is a threat from beyond earthly reality, and it is searching for avatars to work in its name.The Forest of Gebaddon is about to spew forth its captives, the disempowered Varrs. Their leader, Ponclast, is about to be transformed into a foe worthy of taking on the Tigron himself.The warring factions of Wraeththu must unite to protect their world, and Pellaz must venture into unimaginable new territories. Will he make the ultimate sacrifice to protect his people?
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Next U.S. Mars orbiter will focus on the planet's escaping atmosphere
The spectacular images NASA's Curiosity rover has returned from the surface of Mars reveal an ultra-dry environment, like the Mojave Desert after a 3-billion-year drought.
Data from Curiosity and its predecessors make clear that water ran there once and the planet probably was habitable. Over the eons, something happened. The next U.S. mission to Mars will look to the red planet's pink skies for clues as to what caused the Martian climate to change so dramatically.
"Today we see a cold, dry atmosphere," says Bruce Jakosky, principal investigator on the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (Maven) mission. "Where did the water go? Where did the carbon dioxide from an early thick atmosphere go? What really drove the climate change that we see evidence for on Mars?"
After examining the planet's surface in spectacular detail for decades, scientists are ready to dip into the atmosphere from orbit to expand the search. Drawing on heritage from earlier spacecraft that aero-braked to achieve orbit around Mars, Maven will use its bat-like solar arrays for stability as it skims through the thin upper atmosphere from elliptical orbit and makes the occasional "deep dive" for in-situ measurements.
"There are two places that the atmosphere can go," says Jakosky, a planetary scientist at the University of Colorado's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) in Boulder. "It can go down into the crust, and we don't see evidence for the big reservoir of crustal minerals that would be indicative that that's where it has gone. The other place it can go is up, and be lost to space. Most of the effort over the past several decades has focused on the surface and subsurface. We're the first mission devoted solely to understanding the upper atmosphere and the role of loss to space."
Set for launch on an Atlas V 401 in a 20-day window that opens Nov. 18, Maven is a relatively low-cost Scout-class mission. It was the only NASA mission to the red planet left standing after the agency bailed out of a three-year cooperative-exploration planning effort with the European Space Agency (AW&ST Feb. 20, 2012, p. 33).
Capped at $671 million—including the launch vehicle, reserves and an Electra UHF transceiver that will serve as a backup communications relay for future Mars surface missions—Maven has reached Kennedy Space Center on budget and schedule for final testing and integration with the Atlas. Jakosky and other mission managers attribute that achievement to heritage hardware and a willingness to resist "requirements creep" after NASA selected the mission in 2008.
"We gave serious consideration to a number of add-ons, but in the end we accepted none of them," says Jakosky. "The cost, the risk, the fact that it didn't benefit our mission—really, when you come in with a focused science mission for a Mars Scout-class mission, you have to do that. You have to pick and choose what you're going to do. One of the things that I'm proud of is that the original concept we proposed is what we're flying. We resisted science creep; we resisted engineering creep."
Also contributing to the relatively painless development was a high degree of commonality with previous interplanetary spacecraft, including the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), the twin Stereo solar probes, the solar-powered Juno mission to Jupiter and the twin Grail lunar-gravity mappers.
"We really wanted to take, not only the heritage of the designs from previous programs, but we also really wanted to maximize the heritage of the people and the heritage of the tools that they used, the procedures," says Guy Beutelschies, Maven program manager at mission prime contractor Lockheed Martin. "We really wanted to take all that and deliver a high-quality product while paying a lot of attention to the cost and the schedule."
The basic structure of the Maven spacecraft follows the same design as the MRO, which is orbiting the planet now. Essentially, it is a hexagon of composite panels with the propellant tank in the center and the rest of the components and instruments hung on the outside or on an articulated payload platform that swings out from the main body. The hydrazine tank is larger than the MRO's to accommodate the particular needs of the mission, and the arrays and high-gain antenna are fixed instead of gimbaled for the same reasons.
Similarly, the instrument suite draws on heritage hardware to minimize development time and expense. "Nothing is being done from scratch," says Jakosky. "Instrument development for the most part went smoothly."
The principal investigator credits the planetary science managers at NASA headquarters for helping the Maven team stay on schedule and budget by keeping a steady and adequate stream of funding flowing. Also contributing was the tight planetary launch window, which focused mission development on simplicity as much as did the cost cap.
"The planetary launch period really drives a sense of urgency on the team," says David F. Mitchell of Goddard Space Flight Center, the NASA project manager on Maven. "When you can launch any day of the year, every year, there can be a delay in making decisions sometimes. When we have approximately 20 days to launch, and then you stand down for 26 months, you're breaking the program. You're breaking it financially and, in the case of Bruce's science, you're breaking it because of the different timing with the solar cycle."
Maven will arrive at Mars on Sept. 22, 2014, assuming launch at the beginning of the planetary window. A 39-min. burn of its main thruster, followed by five orbital adjustment maneuvers, should leave the 903-kg (1,990-lb.) spacecraft in a 6,200 X 150-km (3,850 X 93-mi.) science-mapping orbit inclined 75 deg. to Mars's equator.
At that point, the Sun will be just past solar maximum, giving the science team a chance to watch how the atmosphere reacts as the Sun's influence wanes. It will also be a good time in the 11-year solar cycle for major solar storms, so the spacecraft is well-equipped to measure their impacts on the atmosphere.
"During our mission we're hoping to see a handful of major storm events hit Mars and see what the reaction is," Jakosky says. "If we are successful and are able to continue on in an extended mission, we have enough fuel to go from just after solar maximum to solar minimum and back up to solar maximum again. We may last as long as a decade."
Changes in solar activity will be crucial to the measurements Maven is designed to make at the interface between atmosphere and space. If the thick Martian atmosphere disappeared into space, taking most of the planet's water with it, that is where the action would have been.
"The working model that we have is one in which, early in the history of the Solar System, the more intense extreme ultraviolet light from the Sun, the more intense solar wind, was able to strip off the atmosphere," he says. "We think this happened very early. Prior to that, there was a thick atmosphere. Mars has a strong magnetic field that we see evidence today for it having been there 4 billion years ago. That magnetic field protected the planet; it stood off the solar wind, if you will, so it didn't hit the upper atmosphere and strip it off."
When Mars lost its magnetic field, the theory goes, it lost that protection and with it the environment that may have made it habitable.
"Although we can't measure how it happened 4 billion years ago, we can examine the same processes as they're operating today, and learn enough to allow us to extrapolate back to the early history, and to determine the integrated loss over time," says Jakosky.
Scout-class missions are managed from the beginning by the principal investigator, and Jakosky says he was fortunate in that he and his team "came as close as you can imagine to starting with a clean sheet—What do we want to learn? And what instruments can tell us what we need?"
In the end, the team selected eight instruments to study the upper atmosphere and ionosphere of Mars, and to conduct global remote sensing as the elliptical orbit moves toward and away from apogee.
The instrument suite consists of a Particles and Fields Package built by the Space Sciences Laboratory (SSL) at the University of California, Berkeley. Within the package are the Solar Wind Electron Analyzer (SWEA) to measure solar winds and electrons in the Martian ionosphere; the Solar Wind Ion Analyzer (SWIA), to measure solar wind and ion density and velocity in the planet's magnetosheath; the Suprathermal and Thermal Ion Composition (Static) instrument, which will measure ions in the atmosphere of Mars, including moderate energy escaping ions, and the Solar Energetic Particle (SEP) instrument to measure the impact of the solar wind on the planet's upper atmosphere.
The SWEA, SWIA, Static and SEP instruments all were provided by Berkeley's SSL. Also in the Particles and Fields Package are the Langmuir Probe and Waves (LPW) instrument supplied by LASP, which includes an extreme ultraviolet sensor. The LPW instrument will measure properties of the ionosphere, wave-heating in the upper atmosphere and extreme ultraviolet inputs into the atmosphere from the Sun. And Goddard Space Flight Center rounded out the package with a magnetometer, which will measure interplanetary solar wind and magnetic fields in the ionosphere.
Goddard also supplied a separate Neutral Gas and Ion Mass Spectrometer (Ngims) to measure the composition and isotopes of ions and thermal neutrals in the atmosphere. LASP completed the instrument suite with an Imaging Ultraviolet Spectrograph (IUVS) for global remote sensing of the upper atmosphere and ionosphere at Mars.
"We designed a mission that would be able to tell us about the upper atmosphere, science instruments that would be able to tell us about the composition and structure, the escaping processes, the energy inputs from the Sun that drive it all, and then we put it on a spacecraft that will do two things during the mission," says Jakosky. "It's in an elliptical orbit, so at the lower part of the orbit, at lower altitudes, it passes through the entire upper atmosphere and makes in-situ measurements. Then at the highest altitudes, we can do remote-sensing observations to extrapolate to global processes."
That unusual approach to exploring Mars from orbit drove the spacecraft design. Because Maven does not have the imagers that Jakosky calls "data hogs," with the exception of the IUVS, it can transmit all of its data back to Earth with two 5-hr. data dumps per week. Most of the time, the spacecraft will be set up with its reaction wheels to keep its fixed solar arrays pointed at the Sun. When it is time to transmit recorded data, controllers at the Lockheed Martin facility near Denver will slew the entire spacecraft so the high-gain antenna can link with the Deep Space Network for the call.
Five times during the nominal mission, which will last one Earth year, controllers will send the spacecraft into a "deep dive" for a look at the atmosphere closer to the planet. The two outer panels of the solar array wings are canted up to give the spacecraft more stability as it passes through the thicker atmosphere, but the spacecraft will not go deep enough to require thermal protection. Instead, it will be comparable to the "toe dips" that orbiters like the MRO made before plunging deeper into the atmosphere for aero-braking.
"Their toe dip is our deep dip," says Jakosky. "We're still going to walk down gently so we don't screw it up."
Controllers will be aided by periapsis time estimator software already uploaded to the MRO and baselined on Maven. It monitors the spacecraft's accelerometers and reaction wheels to determine where it is in its orbit based on actual conditions relative to the atmosphere, instead of relying on projections.
Science data will be collected at LASP, where university undergraduates sit on a console next to professional spacecraft controllers. Jakosky estimates it will take about three months to generate early results after orbit insertion and a 5.5-week calibration period. A more detailed report should be ready by the end of the nominal mission.
Still to be determined is whether it will be useful and possible to conduct any scientific measurements during the 10-month transit to Mars. "Everybody wants to, but it is not a requirement," says Jakosky.
There should be good opportunities to observe Comet Ison shortly after launch, but there is a critical trajectory-correction maneuver three weeks into the mission, and managers do not want serendipitous observations to interfere.
"It's going really well right now, but we've got to get to Mars," said Mitchell, the project manager, as technicians packed Maven for shipment from Lockheed Martin to Kennedy Space Center in July. "Anybody can look at the history of getting to Mars to see it isn't the best. So we're not complacent."
Tap the icon in the digital edition of AW&ST for more on Maven's instruments suite, or go to AviationWeek.com/maven


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Charlie's Irish Pub sells 4,000th Jameson of 2009
December 27th, 2009 – Charlie's Restaurant and Irish Pub at the Historic Water Street Inn is proud to announce that their 4,000th Jameson Irish Whiskey drink of 2009 was sold on December 23rd, 2009. Restaurant and Beverage Manager, A.J. Crotty, credits the increase in sales to "…the success of the '10 Great Ways to Get to Know Jameson' drink list, the introduction of the Charlie's Jameson Club, the naming of the patio bar 'The Jameson Bar' in June and our outstanding clients and staff who have been loyal to Charlie's and Jameson throughout the last year." Teresa Crespo was among a group of couples who helped count down to the 4,000th drink just before Christmas this year after a beautiful dinner in Charlie's Restaurant. Crespo's favorite Jameson drink, the Emerald Butterfly, a delicous combination of Jameson, Kahlua and Baileys served on the rocks, was the official 4,000th drink sold at Charlie's Pub. Crespo won a one night stay to a Two Room St. Croix Suite at the Water Street Inn, which features a double whirlpool, four-poster canopy bed, fireplace and river view, valued at $249. Crespo was also inducted as an honorary member of Charlie's Jameson Club, which entitles her to free Jameson througout 2010. Crotty has been tracking and counting the drinks since about mid-November, "I knew we were selling a lot of Jameson, but once I realized we were close to 4,000 it was decided we'd have to celebrate the occasion if we ever made it." Were there predictions for Jameson and Charlie's Irish Pub in 2010? Crotty was noted as saying he'd like to see 10,000 Jameson drinks for 2010. Slainte!
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Secrets of the Dead - Leonardo, The Man Who Saved Science
Leonardo da Vinci is well known for his inventions as well as his art. But new evidence shows that many of his ideas were realized long before he sketched them out in his notebooks - some even 1,700 years before. Was Leonardo a copycat?
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Skype Founders Claim eBay No Longer Has A Right To Skype's Core Tech
from the this-is-going-to-get-messy dept
There are a few interesting asides to all of this. First, it reminds me of how Zennstrom and Friis ended up in another lawsuit a few years back, also involving questions about licensing the core underlying technology of Skype. There's a lot of background here, and not all the details are clear (at all), but that original case involved the claim that Zennstrom and Friis used the same core underlying technology that they used to build Kazaa to build Skype. Way back, Zennstrom and Friis had created two operations: Kazaa and FastTrack, which created the underlying tech used in Kazaa. However, they also licensed FastTrack to a company called Streamcast, that made a product called Morpheus that competed with Kazaa in the file sharing space. Got that?
The folks at Streamcast insist that part of their contract with FastTrack was that they had a right of first refusal on buying the underlying technology. But then, all sorts of stuff happened, with Kazaa being sold off to a group in the South Pacific, but Zennstrom and Friis supposedly retaining some core technology which (Streamcast claims) they used to build Skype. Then, once Skype sold, Streamcast claimed that the whole thing was an elaborate shell game, but in selling the Skype underlying technology, Streamcast claimed that Zennstrom and Friis violated their agreement on having a right of first refusal on purchasing the technology.
Yet, now I'm left wondering if that original claim was true. If the current claim is that Joltid still "owns" the original technology and Skype/eBay only licensed it, then the technology itself might never have actually been sold (unless, we're talking about two separate core underlying technologies... which is possible).
Still... the bigger question? How the hell did eBay make a deal and not make sure it had either purchased (entirely) the core underlying technology or had a guaranteed perpetual license that couldn't be revoked? The eBay Skype purchase was bad enough already. Could it be even more ridiculous in that eBay didn't even properly purchase the technology in question? It seems preposterous to believe that a company could screw up an acquisition that monumentally, so you have to wonder if it's actually true.
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October 2006 Equipment Round-Up - Conveyors
Conveyors help bring speed and efficiency to food processing plants and operations.
Shaking it up
Impulse Compact is a family of small electromagnetic shaker conveyors designed specifically for tight fitting processing and packaging distribution lines that require precise metering and low maintenance drives. Suitable for product mixing lines, ingredient feeding and scale feeding, they start and stop quickly to accurately meter product. Dedicated solid-state controls allow conveying pan amplitudes to range from zero to 100 percent to adjust for different products or processing conditions. The electromagnetic shakers can be adjusted from low-stroke/high-cycle mode for gentle product handling to high-stroke/low-cycle mode for faster throughput or to handle heavier product. Sizes range from 8 to 15.7 in. wide and from 5 to 6.5 ft. long.
Key Technology; Walla Walla, Wash.
509-529-2161; www.key.net
Batch weighing included
An accurate batch weighing system for dry and powdered minor/micro-ingredients is an integral part of the Model MIS-1 conveyor system. It can handle multiple-size bins and can be reconfigured easily for formula changes. The system incorporates an electronic scale that can be either a platform-type with a removable container or a hopper-type with a bottom discharge gate. It has individually removable bins designed to allow quick exchange during recipe or formula changes -- which takes less than 5 mins. Each bin -- with capacities from 5 to 30 cu. ft. -- has three vertical sides and a single incline hopper with a minimum incline of 60°.
All-Con World Systems; Seaford, Del.
302-628-3380; www.all-con.com
Stronger at the splice
More than 85 percent of all flat-flex belt breaks occur at or near the splice joint, but the EZSplice System makes the spliced joint the strongest, rather than weakest, point on the belt. This belt splicing system is designed to extend the strength and life of the flat-flex, open-mesh stainless steel belt and the C-CureEdge belting. This system eliminates the weak points caused by the bending and weaving of a traditional splice, speeds installation time and dramatically increases belt life.
Wire Belt Co.; Londonderry, N.H.
603-644-2500; www.wirebelt.com
Versatile and vibratory
Suitable for all vibratory conveying applications, the Flexcentric conveyor uses a patented indirect long-stroke drive for uniform product spreading, rapid start/stop conveying and low maintenance reliability. It is suitable for heavy load conveying, spreading, aligning, singulating, scalping, inspection, removal of fines, surface water and oil and feeding product to single or multiple locations. The simple, mechanical drive has no gearbox, requires no lubrication and has very low rotational inertia.
Heat and Control Inc.; Hayward, Calif.
800-227-5980; www.heatandcontrol.com
Metric in the U.S.
The 1700 Series conveyor rollers are now available in select metric sizes in the U.S. The standardized, modular, cost-effective rollers can be ordered anywhere in the world in the appropriate size. Customers in the U.S. previously had difficulty when it came time to replace rollers on machines made in Europe. A universal roller series suitable for almost all applications, it features a shock absorbing, noise reducing plastic housing with a load capacity of up to 360 lbs., depending on materials and sizes.
Interroll Corp; Wilmington, N.C.
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Emphasis on sanitation
Safety, functionality, ergonomics, sanitation and durability are key features of the Next Generation Sanitary Conveyors. The latest in 3D engineering combined with the patented open frame design reduce horizontal surfaces to minimize moisture accumulation, allow tool-free disassembly for washing, and feature Silveron antimicrobial components. The new design eliminates rust, oxidation, and hidden cavities where contamination grows.
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Stainless conveyor
A new Stainless Steel Conveyor is fully rated for product washdown and can be wet-cleaned after production runs. The corrosion-resistant construction reduces wear and tear and extends conveyor component life over traditional designs. It uses a modular plastic belt conveying surface, eliminating the need for rollers and providing a continuous surface for product conveying. A wide variety of styles and optional features allow for flexibility in system design.
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Cocoa powder flows
The C-Series of vacuum conveyors can quickly move cocoa and other powders during food processing applications. It features a unique fluidizer option that creates a consistent, reliable flow to ensure the powder is transported without error. This prevents downtime from unscheduled stoppage of the machinery. The fluidizer option reduces friction between the powder and the base and between the powder particles themselves. This allows the cocoa powder to flow like water. Extremely sanitary and quiet, the conveyors can move up to 15 tons per hour.
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Writing literary fiction is a pursuit for neither the impatient nor the faint of heart. It takes years to learn the craft, then more years to break into the famously insular, heavily guarded world of high-level publishing. It's a slog, in short, punctuated by a steady drumbeat of rejection and self-doubt.
Chicago-area writer Christine Sneed learned all this the hard way. For most of the first decade of the new century, she wrote short story after short story, sending dozens of them out to literary magazines and mostly getting negative responses (or, worse, stony silence) in return. Once magazines did start accepting her work, it still happened only once or twice a year, the success rate hovering at less than 10 percent. She also wrote several novels, none of which advanced very far toward publication.
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"There were times when I thought, 'I'm spending my life on an activity that's not making me any money or bringing me much validation from the outside world,'" she recalls over a recent lunch at Heartland Café, a few El stops south of her home in Evanston. "If you sent out hundreds of résumés and you only got one or two job interviews, you might feel like there was something else you should be doing with your time."
But Sneed kept at it, teaching at DePaul, Loyola and Roosevelt universities, among other schools, to make ends meet. "I loved writing, and I lived simply — I didn't have a husband or children — so I didn't need a lot to keep going," recalls the writer, now a youthful-looking 41. "I always assumed it wouldn't happen overnight, but somehow I felt like it would eventually pay off — that over time I'd have less difficulty publishing things, and that someday I would publish a book. Maybe I was deluding myself."
But she wasn't. In 2008, Salman Rushdie ("The Satanic Verses," "Midnight's Children") selected her modern-day fairy tale "Quality of Life," about a young woman caught up in a May-December romance with a sinister, manipulative older man, for the annual "Best American Short Stories" anthology, placing Sneed in the rarefied company of Alice Munro, George Saunders, Jonathan Lethem, Tobias Wolff and other masters of the genre.
That same year, her book-length manuscript, "Portraits of a Few of the People I've Made Cry," won the Association of Writers & Writing Programs' Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction. The AWP sent the contest judge, Allan Gurganus, several boxes of manuscripts by hundreds of "talented and endearing writers," recalls Gurganus, author of the best-seller "Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All." "But one kept bobbing to the top of every pile. I found Christine Sneed's stories funny and heartbreaking at once. She has a forgiving, merciless eye. She seems to have known her characters for life and in their previous lives."
The collection, in turn, caught the eye of a New York literary agent, Lisa Bankoff of International Creative Management. "It was amazing," Bankoff says. "I was drawn by her language, her characters, and just the simple fact that in my experience, many short story collections are uneven — you tend to like one piece a lot more than the others. With her book of stories, they're all equally riveting and compelling, and they touch you in places that go deep. It indicated to me that this was someone who could and should sustain a novel."
Sneed, who prefers the short story form over that of the novel, wasn't so sure. "If I had my preference, I think I would be a short story writer, even though the pressure from New York — editors and agents — is to produce novels," she says. "The short story form is so compressed, close to a poem — self-contained and perfect, like a beautiful dress. A novel can be beautiful, too, but it has so many more moving parts, and so many more things can go wrong. I just like the purity of the story form, and your ability, in a collection, to have a fresh start every 20 or 30 pages. And with a short story, you spend a couple of weeks writing it, but a novel requires so much more commitment." She smiles. "Maybe that's why I'm not married."
But Sneed put aside her fear of commitment long enough to produce "Little Known Facts," to be published in the U.S. and Great Britain this week by Bloomsbury (which also brought out the paperback edition of "Portraits of a Few of the People I've Made Cry" last month). In "Little Known Facts" — about the travails of the friends, ex-wives and especially the adult children, Anna and Will, of a major Hollywood movie star named Renn Ivins — Sneed considers the corrosive effects of fame on those who live in its dazzling, toxic nimbus.
"It sounds like a bit of a potboiler — automatically when you write about Hollywood, there's the association of Jackie Collins and Sidney Sheldon, the big mass-market paperback novelists — but it's not at all," Sneed says. "I think some early readers on Amazon and Goodreads are expecting that, because the reviews are all over the place — they're like, 'This book is not what I expected.' I'm gritting my teeth right now, because they didn't read it the way it's intended to be read. It's a literary novel, and this is a topic that cries out for serious examination in fiction, because it's such an important part of our culture. What would it be like to be the child of someone like Harrison Ford or Paul Newman? It would be really hard, because you see them getting so much attention, so much of it unnatural. How are you treated, and how is your life affected by that? You have everything, materially, that you need, but maybe not at all emotionally. Especially if you're the child of a famous person, you're really in for it. A friend of mine who works in Hollywood says there's a joke there that if you were bad in one life, you come back as a star's child."
The topic has intrigued Sneed for years, dating to her teens, when she often got crushes on movie stars — "Christopher Reeve in 'Superman' being the first," she recalls with a smile. "It was such an interesting fantasy, imagining knowing movie stars and being their girlfriend. But as I got older, I realized that this would be such a nightmare. Being in a romantic relationship is hard enough, but if either person is famous, adding that extra pressure is extremely interesting to consider. The jealousy and the success — people assume that when you become wealthy, all your problems are solved, when in fact it just creates different problems. A couple of years ago I was thinking about that, and that was the moment when the match flared — the flashpoint that started me writing this novel."
Bloomsbury is rolling out the book with considerable fanfare, and Sneed is prepared to accept that as a result, dealing with the effects of fame might become less abstract for her in the foreseeable future. But she isn't counting on it. Her latest completed novel manuscript, "The Goddess Complex," was not accepted by Bloomsbury, in part because the publisher viewed the story, which has a college-age protagonist, as young-adult fiction. ("The jury's still out on that," Bankoff says.) "It just proves that you can struggle for years and then get a big break, but things are not necessarily easier after that," Sneed says. "I might still have to write another five novels before I publish another one. But I'm not going to be deterred."
Her friends expect no less. "She's a charming person, and sort of glamorous, but there's a strength in her, too," says her fellow Chicago fiction writer and Indiana University alum Adam McOmber ("This New & Poisonous Air," "The White Forest"). "She pushes herself through a lot of the obstacles that every writer goes through in that long incubation period that a career in fiction usually has, and I'm always impressed. Through all the waiting and all the setbacks, you have to believe that something good is going to happen, and Christine always does that."
And as a storyteller, of course, Sneed is more interested in plotlines with obstacles than those in which the heroine sails through unimpeded. She has empathy, but not necessarily an excess of sympathy, with her characters and herself. "I'm more interested in the disappointments than the successes," she says. "I really love my characters, but I let them make their mistakes ... because that's more interesting to write about, and because we all make mistakes, some of them more severe than others. I hope I don't seem unkind, but I like our flaws, which are what make us human."
Kevin Nance is a Chicago-based freelance writer whose works appears in the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Poets & Writers Magazine and elsewhere.
"Little Known Facts"
By Christine Sneed, Bloomsbury, 304 pages, $25
Christine Sneed will appear at several literary events throughout Chicago during the next several weeks.
For details, visit christinesneed.com.


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European Commission
Brussels, 10 July 2013
Investing in partnerships in research and innovation
Why is the European Commission proposing EU funding for research and innovation partnerships with the private sector and Member States under Horizon 2020?
Research and innovation are critical to create new, better paid and more durable jobs and sustainable economic growth, to improve quality of life and to boost Europe's global competitiveness. In certain well defined areas, formal partnerships with the private sector and/or with Member States is the most effective way of meeting the objectives of the new EU research and innovation programme Horizon 2020 in terms of major societal challenges and industrial leadership.
That is why the Commission has today tabled legislative proposals to establish a series of partnerships under Horizon 2020 with the industry and with the Member States.
What are these partnerships?
The public-private partnerships proposed today are in form of Joint Technology Initiatives (JTIs). They represent the joining of forces between the EU and industry and provide vital funding for large-scale, longer-term and high risk/reward research. They set out commitments, including financial commitments, over a seven year period from both the EU and from the industry partners. They each have clear objectives which need to be achieved by the Partnerships. JTIs bring together companies, universities, research laboratories, innovative SMEs and other groups and organisations around major research and innovation challenges. They establish their own strategic research and innovation agendas, bringing together companies, universities, research laboratories, innovative SMEs and other groups and organisations, and fund projects selected through open and competitive calls for project proposals. The JTIs are established under Article 187 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) and managed by dedicated entities called Joint Undertakings.
The Commission is proposing today to establish five of these JTIs under Horizon 2020 as well as a sixth public-private partnership (SESAR) in a different form.
Alongside these, the Commission proposes to establish four Joint Programmes with EU Member States. These are set up under Article 185 of the TFEU and help EU Member States to integrate and coordinate their own national research programmes to ensure better use of resources.
What are the benefits for Europe?
Partnerships in research and innovation are powerful and much needed tools to deliver on the objectives of Horizon 2020 for a number of reasons. They address strategic technologies that will underpin growth and jobs in in key sectors of a knowledge-based European economy. Over four million Europeans are currently employed in these sectors. They make funding more efficient by pooling financial, human and infrastructure resources and they aid in getting innovative technologies faster to the market. They also help make Europe a more attractive location for international companies to invest and innovation. The partnerships contribute to meeting many EU objectives including 3% of GDP invested in R&D and 20% of GDP coming from manufacturing by 2020.
The evaluations of the current JTIs show that they attract a high level of industrial participation including that of SMEs, they develop long-term commitments and strategies in research and innovation as well as interdisciplinary approaches to address complex problems.
What will these partnerships focus on?
Most of the investment will come through five JTIs. In line with the priorities of Horizon 2020, they will address some of the most pressing economic, societal and environmental challenges that Europe and the world are facing. More information about these initiatives can be found in dedicated fact sheets:
Besides these JTIs, the Commission is also proposing to extend the SESAR (Single European Sky ATM Research) project. This is the technical pillar of the Single European Sky initiative, which aims to modernise Air Traffic Management in Europe.
The four joint programmes with Member States and their aims are:
Who can participate in these Partnerships?
The Joint Technology Initiatives will all run competitive calls which are open to the participation of companies, SMEs, universities, research organisations and others, and where the best projects will be selected for funding through peer review. There are also opportunities for interested organisations to become new members of the Partnerships during the implementation.
What will be the budgets of these partnerships?
In total, this Innovation Investment Package represents an investment of €22 billion into Europe's future. Over the next seven years, the EU's contribution of €8 billion will mobilise €10 billion from the private sector and close to €4 billion from Member States.
The five JTIs are expected to mobilise a total investment of over €17 billion, of which the EU budget contribution will be up to €6.4 billion.
How will industry make financial commitments to the Partnerships?
The industry partners will make financial contributions in a number of ways depending on the specific nature of the Partnership. Industry will finance the activities of the JTI either through funding all or part of its own costs in participating in the projects selected through calls for proposals, or by financing additional activities outside the calls for proposals, or by contributing to the budgets of the calls for proposals. In all cases, the partners will also contribute half of the costs of running the Joint Undertaking which will manage the Partnership.
Innovation Investment Package - total investments (2014-20) (in € millions)
Are these partnerships a new idea, will they work?
Most of the partnerships were started and proved successful under the current 7th research framework programme. The legislative proposals presented today are necessary to re-establish the existing initiatives with new objectives and budgets under Horizon 2020 and to set up new ones.
All of the current partnerships have been the subject of independent evaluations and the recommendations from these evaluations have been used to improve the new partnerships.
How much has the EU spent on existing JTIs?
Under the 7th research framework programme, the JTIs represented a total EU contribution of €3.1 billion, matched by an industry investment of €4.7 billion. From the beginning of activities until 2012, they account for 587 funded projects in total which had a total of 4777 participants. In general, JTIs have proven to be successful in attracting a high level of industrial participation in their activities, including SMEs who represent about a quarter of the participants.
What have the current JTIs achieved?
The JTIs have only been fully operational for a limited time, but they are already having a positive impact. This shows that they can deliver on turning challenges into opportunities.
For example, the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen JTI has put in place a significant project portfolio of strategic importance and already introduced some early applications such as forklifts, small back-up power units and new types of hydrogen-powered buses to the market. Technologies developed or under development by the Clean Sky JTI, such as new types of aircraft wing, are estimated to be able to reduce aviation CO2 emissions by more than 20%. The Innovative Medicines Initiative JTI has scored a number of achievements such as discoveries that bring new hope to diabetes sufferers. And research by the ENIAC and ARTEMIS JTIs, which are being merged into the new ECSEL JTI, has resulted, for instance, in drastically higher efficiency of electric vehicles and much greater reliability of electronic systems used in transportation.
More information about the successes of the current initiatives can be found in dedicated factsheets.
What will be new under Horizon 2020?
The new JTIs are based on the new objectives under Horizon 2020 and build on the successful experience under FP7. The new JTIs represent a higher level of ambition with increased budgets and more challenging objectives in order to increase their impact. They incorporate major simplifications resulting from Horizon 2020 and through the use of simpler financial rules. The industry commitments to the JTIs are significantly higher than in FP7 and include additional activities that will be solely financed by the industry partners, in particular to help ensure the effective deployment of the new technologies.
When will the new Partnerships start?
The proposals will now need to be agreed by the Council of the EU and the European Parliament. They are also subject to the agreement of the overall legislation for Horizon 2020 by the European Parliament and the Council of the EU. The Commission has presented the legislative proposals today in order to allow the Council and the European Parliament sufficient time to reach agreements for the start of Horizon 2020 at the beginning of 2014.
Useful links:
Joint Technology Initiatives
Clean Sky: http://www.cleansky.eu/
Fuel Cells and Hydrogen: http://www.fch-ju.eu/
Innovative Medicines Initiative: http://www.imi.europa.eu/
Electronics (ECSEL) – ARTEMIS: http://www.artemis-ju.eu/ and ENIAC: http:/www.eniac.eu/
Bio-based Industries: http://bridge2020.eu/
Joint Programmes with Member States
European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership: http://www.edctp.org/
European Metrology Programme for Research and Innovation:
Eurostars: http://www.eurostars-eureka.eu/
Active and Assisted Living Research and Development Programme:
SESAR: http://www.sesarju.eu/
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