text: Hillel President Eric Fingerhut: Frequently Asked Questions Questions and Answers about Hillel's New President by Schusterman International Center |Jul 15, 2013|Comments Today, Hillel announced that Eric Fingerhut will serve as our new president and CEO. The appointment was approved on Sunday by the Hillel Board of Directors in New York. "I am honored to be joining such an esteemed and important organization," said Fingerhut. "Everything in my life has led to this moment -- my public service, my work on campuses and research centers across Ohio, and my lifelong devotion to Israel and the Jewish people. And so I couldn't be more thrilled." Read on for a list of questions and answers about Eric Fingerhut. Who is the new president of Hillel? The Board of Directors unanimously elected Eric Fingerhut to serve as its president on Sunday, July 14, 2013. Fingerhut was most recently a Corporate Vice President of Battelle's Education and STEM Learning business. He previously served as the Chancellor of the Ohio Board of Regents from early 2007 to 2011. From 1997 to 2006, Fingerhut served as an Ohio state senator, and from 1993 to 1994, he represented Ohio's 19th congressional district in the U.S. Congress. Fingerhut received a juris doctorate from Stanford University Law School and a bachelor's degree from Northwestern University. What are the duties of the president? The president is charged with leading the international organization by setting the agenda and priorities for more than 550 campuses, both in the US and worldwide. The search committee's description of the position is available at hillel.org/office-of-the-president What is Fingerhut's plan to meet stakeholders? Fingerhut met with the Board of Directors and members of Hillel's Board of Governors on July 14, and he will address the professional staff at the Schusterman International Center on Wednesday, July 17. He will then be introduced to hundreds of Hillel professionals and community organizations as they gather at Washington University in St. Louis at Hillel's annual Institute on July 29. Fingerhut plans to tour key campuses around the country and in Israel within his first 100 days in office. What is Fingerhut's involvement in the Jewish community? He is an active member of Ohio's Jewish and pro-Israel community, and is familiar to Jewish leaders and pro-Israel leaders nationally, thanks to his personal passion for Jewish life and his work as a public servant. He is the immediate past president of Congregation Agudas Achim in Columbus, and serves as chair of the Jewish Education and Identity committee of the Columbus Jewish Federation. What will Fingerhut's immediate plans be in his first days as president of Hillel? As his daily work with Hillel begins, Fingerhut will explore how the organization is meeting its mission to enrich the lives of Jewish students. He is excited to get to know the professional staff that is the backbone of Hillel, and to support their efforts to redouble the number of Jewish students who are engaging, experimenting and exploring Jewish life, learning and Israel. He is eager to meet the next generation of Jewish leaders on college campuses, and hear their stories firsthand. Is Fingerhut active on social media? Yes. He maintains his own Twitter account @eric_fingerhut and will be playing an instrumental role in the official social media efforts of Hillel on Twitter @HillelFJCL and Facebook at facebook.com/HillelFJCL. How can I arrange an interview? Requests should be directed to Ellen Goldstein, Vice President of Marketing and Communications at firstname.lastname@example.com; (202) 449-6534. Back to Top Tags: Hillel President FAQ Office of the President Eric Fingerhut {{Title}} [x] Add or, Select from existing Opening existing... Close existing Most popular tags Click to select: Show all2441Tags Show only most popular Opening all... {{Title}} ({{ItemsCount}})


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On "The Dragonfly"
Elizabeth Frank
In "The Dragonfly," . . . written sometime in the fall of 1961, she worked with short free-verse lines in a delicate line of Thoreauvian naturalism. Its inspiration was a picture postcard of a dragonfly Ruth Limmer had sent her from Detroit, but she wrote the poem on commission for the Corning Glass Company--wrote it to order, that is!--and a piece of Steuben Glass was carved to illustrate it. She was fond of the poem, which, she informed Miss Limmer, was completely "based on FACT."
from Louise Bogan. Copyright © 1985 by Elizabeth Frank
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It is important that Bogan wrote often of the body--bodily appetites, bodily knowledge, bodily resistance to inchoate or complexly organized coercion. Yet in her late poems the body is diffused, made benignly strange, at times a source of symbol in retrospect.
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In "The Dragonfly," for instance, the insect's body is "made of almost nothing / But of enough / To be great eyes / And diaphanous double vans." The body that she chooses to describe is translucent and finally a "husk," emptied out by having fully spent itself in its environment and through the short span of its allotted lifetime.
from Obsession and Release: Rereading the Poetry of Louise Bogan. Copyright © 1996 by Associated University Presses
Meg Boerema Gillette
The aggressive opening line of Louise Bogans 1963 The DragonflyYou are made of almost nothingseems almost an elaboration of the opening line of her 1923 WomenWomen have no wilderness in them. By their aggressiveness, both lines announce their poems oppositional climates. Though forty years and (of course) different topics separate The Dragonfly from Women, the poems resemble one another by their poetics of counter-assertion. In his headnote to Bogan, Cary Nelson describes Bogans deconstructive project, arguing Women mounts its feminist claims as counter-assertions, written against the grain of (and at work within) every patriarchal cliché about femininity (378). Like Women, Bogans The Dragonfly also performs a poetics of counter-assertion, here, writing itself into romantic discourse to undermine it from within.
The commission from the Corning Glass company, as reported by Elizabeth Frank, need not be the only impetus to The Dragonflys inception. Bogans poem also borrows unambiguously from Alfred Lord Tennysons 1833 poem of the same name, The Dragon-fly:
"Today I saw the dragon-fly
Come from the wells where he did lie.
An inner impulse rent the veil
Of his old husk: from head to tail
Came out clear plates of sapphire mail.
He dried his wings: like gauze they grew;
Thro' crofts and pastures wet with dew
A living flash of light he flew."
Bogan's poem repeats the husk and light imagery of Tennyson's poem: the "old husk" (line 4) of Tennyson reappears in the "with the other husks of summer" (line 21) of Bogan, and Tennysons "A living flash of light he flew" (line 8) echoes in Bogan's "light touches you" (line 10) and "you rocket into day" (line 17). These repetitions do more than suggest Bogan's familiarity with Tennyson's poem, they announce Bogan's poem as in dialogue with its forerunner.
But Bogans poem refuses the stability of Tennysons poem, rewriting the poetic utterance as one, not of reflection, but of production. In Bogans poem, there is no deliberate "Today I saw the dragon-fly" (line 1) steadying the speaker as strict observer. Instead, Bogans poem insists upon the instability of the speakers relationship to the dragonfly. While in Tennyson, the dragonfly has mass ("plates of sapphire mail" (line 5)), surface ("veil/Of his old husk" (lines 3-4)), and unity ("from head to tail" (line 5)), in Bogan, the dragonfly is translucent, "diaphanous" (line 4), and "made of almost nothing" (line 1). For Bogans poem then, there is no dragonfly outside of the production of the poem. The dragonfly is discursive, not material; the end of the poem is the end of the dragonfly as the poems end and the dragonflys death are simultaneous.
Insisting upon the dragonfly as a discursive construct, Bogans poem resists a romantic model of a reflective poetics since, in Bogans poem, there is no dragonfly outside of the poem for it to reflect. Instead, the dragonfly of Bogans poem is not an object to be represented by the poem, but is analogous to the performance of poem itself. By its apostrophic address, Bogan's "The Dragonfly" draws a comparison between the dragonfly it describes and the reader of the poem it creates. The addressee of the poem--the "you" of the poem--is at once the dragonfly nominally described, and the reader of the poem necessarily present. By the double valences of the word "you then, the poem's description of the dragonfly reads also as a description of the reader. The "great eyes" (line 3) are both the eyes that dominate the dragonfly's appearance and the eyes that allow the reader's performance. Its "design and purpose" (line 19) speaks both to the vitality of the dragonfly and the reader's interpretative experience. Likewise, the dragonflys correlative performance as a "Link between water and air" (line 8) applies both to the dragonfly's aquatic and terrestrial attractions (note: the dragonfly lives at the waters edge) and to the reader's double presence in and necessary negotiation of fiction and reality. To be a reader of this poem then is to be like the dragonfly, "to be ceaseless movement" (line 5), "twice born" (line 12), "split" (line 13). Hence, by the double valences of the word you, Bogans poem performs the very indeterminacy of movement that the poem describes, producing a reader who, like the poems dragonfly, has no place to land: "Earth repels you" (line 9).
Refusing the existence of a non-discursive dragonfly and emphasizing the indeterminacy of the poetic experience, Bogans The Dragonfly refuses the stability of Tennysons romantic subjectivity. In Bogans rewriting of The Dragon-fly, discourse does not reflect but produces. For Bogan, the dragonfly *is* the poem: not only is the dragonfly produced by the poem, butin the poems most emphatic insistence upon discursive productivitythe dragonfly is even made equivalent to the poetic experience itself.
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See monster trucks
Custom-designed trucks that are 12-feet tall and weigh 10,000 pounds will soar over or smash through obstacles at this weekend's Monster Jam at BMO Harris Bank Center, 300 Elm St., Rockford.
Show times are 7:30 p.m. Friday and 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday.
Tickets cost $5 to $36. For more information: 815-968-5222; thebmoharrisbankcenter.com; ticketmaster.com.
Laugh it up
Arty-Joke, a variety show benefiting Artists' Ensemble Theater, will be at 8 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday at Cheek Theatre in the Clark Arts Center of Rockford University, 5050 E. State St., Rockford.
Tickets cost $30. Patte Armato Lund will perform music and comedy. For more information: 815-394-5004; artistsensemble.org.
Watch cats at show
The 58th Annual Championship & Household Pet Show, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, will be at Forest Hills Lodge, 1601 West Lane Road, Loves Park.
Presented by the Rock Valley Cat Club and the American Cat Fanciers Association, the show features many breeds of cats being judged in four rings concurrently each day and a variety of vendors with cat-related items. Cost is $5, $4 for ages 6 to 12 years old and seniors. For more information: 815-877-8358; acfacat.com
Get close to sharks
A new traveling exhibit "Megalodon: Largest Shark that Ever Lived "begins Saturday and runs through April 29 is at Burpee Museum of Natural History, 737 N. Main St., Rockford.
Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, with some exceptions. Cost is $5, plus admission charge of $8, $7 for those ages 4 to 12 years old. The exhibit highlights the evolution, biology and misconceptions of the prehistoric shark species megalodon. It includes a 60-foot megalodon sculpture, fossil specimens, full-scale shark models, interactives and artifacts. For more information: 815-965-3433; burpee.org
Hear symphony perform Brahms
The Rockford Symphony Orchestra will perform Brahms' somber and majestic Tragic Overture at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Coronado Performing Arts Center, 314 N. Main St., Rockford.
Tickets cost $20 to $58; student tickets for those ages 22 years and younger are $7. For more information: 815-965-0049; rockfordsymphony.com.
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Commissioners honor three employees for 25 years of service
Superintendent Joe Penn says he doesnt use their first names. He knows Carrelli as "Reds," Monzo as "Grumpy" and Berenato as "Biddy". Is that what hell be called as a distinguished retired employee? Monzo and Carrelli attended the March Board of Commissioners' meeting to be recognized in person.


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Georgia's Health Service Struggling to Cope With High Rates of Hepatitis
February 14, 2013
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The country of Georgia is struggling with high rates of hepatitis C. The official statistics show that 200,000 of its people are infected with the hepatitis C virus (HCV), which translates to 6.7 percent of the population compared to 2.5 percent of individuals in the United States and less than 1 percent in northwestern Europe. Only approximately one in 10 Georgians with HCV infection receives treatment because of the high cost of treatment. Patients are offered one of the two antiviral drugs, interferon and ribavirin. The four-week treatment course with either drug costs US $6,000, a large amount of money in a country where the average monthly wage is 700 laris (US $415). A full examination costs almost twice that amount at 1.6000 laris (approximately US $966).
David Sergeenko, Georgia's health minister, acknowledged that there is no money in the state healthcare budget to cover the costs of treatment for that many people. He said that approximately 20 percent of the 200,000 individuals with HCV infection need antiviral treatment, which would cost the health department 800 million laris. Also, 1,000 people need liver transplants, which have to be done abroad at a cost of 300,000 to 500,000 euros each. However, even if the country spent its entire 650 million laris healthcare budget on treating HCV infection, it still would not meet its need.
Some doctors believe that the statistics of 200,000 HCV cases is incorrect as it is based on data from 2004, and that the number of cases is even higher. Georgia receives some help from international donors, but they only fund treatment for HIV patients who are coinfected with HCV.
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02.11.2013; Manana Vardiashvili
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Report: Child poverty numbers highest in years
Report: Child poverty numbers highest in years
OMAHA, Neb. —
Child poverty in Nebraska is at the highest level in a decade, according to a new Kids Count report from Voices for Children.
According to the report, 67,000 kids are living in poverty.
The report stated 1 percent of Nebraska kids are reported as being abused, which is more than the national average.
Nearly 6,000 kids entered the Child Welfare System in 2011, which is twice the national average, the report said.
According to the report, there are about 250 fewer foster-care homes, and 16 percent of kids in the system have been waiting for 5 or more years to be adopted.
The report suggest families need better access to government and community programs and that the programs in place aren't effectively helping families.


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Roll out the couch potato role models
Fall is here, that blessed time of year when all things "sports" grace TV screens like well-planned smorgasbords. The ultimate couch potatoes are in their glory for 24 sacred weeks until the game clock fills with zeros on Super Bowl Sunday and the world falls apart.
This weekend, while the kiddies enjoyed Halloween, the World Series, the Sony Tennis extravaganza, professional basketball, hockey and two days of wall-to-wall football filled TV screens everywhere. Fans and beer truck drivers were in a frothy frenzy of cliché-riddled sports chatter, spiked with cholesterol infested tailgate food.
Ahh — life is wonderful. Outof shape former jocks (mostly in their imagination) can stare at screens, fill stadium parking lots and adore their role models with impunity. They can cheer, shout and scream encouragement for their favorite teams while they boo the opposition at the top of their lungs.
All of the hoopla is, of course, much to the disgust of their wives, significant others, children and (gasp!) non-sports oriented, obviously unpatriotic, denizens of American society.
Hmmm . . . let's back up a moment. "Role models" — an interesting term. I believe the standard definition has something to do with a person whom followers choose to imitate.
I understand when aspiring young athletes admire professional baseball players, football players or other sports figures. As accomplished athletes, they set lofty examples for young players to follow.
But that's where the admiration, respect and inspiration should end. Professional athletes are mostly young adults still developing as human beings. Why should they be burdened with the responsibility of teaching children how to behave?
When did the "role model" term spill into the lives of these people outside of the athletic arena? It used to be that athletes were only criticized when their performances were less than stellar on the field, court or wherever they played their sport of choice. Now, they are scrutinized if they have an argument with their girlfriend or wife.
A few years ago, the basketball legend Charles Barkley said, "I am paid to create havoc on the basketball court. I am not paid to raise your kids."
I agree with that.
A professional athlete enjoys handsome compensation for expertise in manipulating a ball. If young people, talented enough to join the ranks of the professionals, want to admire gifted players, by all means — do so. Up and comers should be inspired by the best.
However, the majority of the young population should not be looking at professional athletes as models for how to conduct their lives.
Most professionals just honed inherent skills to high levels. We are human beings, and our physical make-up has generations of complex influences. We are not created equal. Obviously, levels of ability, both physically and intellectually, vary dramatically.
Nonetheless, young fans should not be blamed. They did not create this "role model" responsibility. How can we blame them when they are inundated with as much personal information about every athlete as the media can supply?
This morning's sports page reported more about Alex Rodriguez's personal, off-the-field history than about the outstanding job he's been doing in post-season play for the New York Yankees.
The featured football article focused on Brett Favre, the Minnesota Vikings' quarterback, and his rift with the Green Bay Packers. The outstanding performance he gave as a gifted 40-year-old professional football player in yesterday's contest appeared to be incidental information.
Dramatizing the personal lives of athletes, movie stars, TV and radio personalities, musicians and recording artists puts a burden of responsibility on those unfortunate people that is ill-deserved.
I do not agree with those who claim that they chose to be involved in high-profile occupations and "it" comes with the territory. No, "it" does not. "It" was created by an irresponsible media in a never-ending effort to sensationalize the mundane and sell news.
Think about it. Would you go to an English professor to learn how to play football? Then why expect a football player to teach a young fan how to be a good student?
However, young people do need role models. I suppose we could suggest pillars of the business community and those in high political office. Hmmm . . . no, that would never do. I was wrong. Stick with the athletes. They at least have discipline. Role models are hard to come by when you live in a system you can't understand.


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Competes in Moberly Invitational Tournament
Mexico Bulldogs golf team played in the Moberly Invitational on Tuesday finishing fifth. The scores included: Hannibal 309, Moberly 322, Fulton 334, Rock Bridge 347, Mexico 352, Kirksville 353, North Callaway 353 and Boonville 366.
"Conditions were not favorable, but the weather ended up cooperating in the end and a few of the players were able to rebound from a tough day of scoring last Saturday at the Hannibal Invitation," remarked MHS Coach John Knipfel.
Mexico is now 29-18 on the season. Weather permitting the Bulldogs will host Fulton and Fatima today at Arthur Hills Golf Course.
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It doesn't matter how old you get or what jobs you hold or how much you've adultified your life. There are certain things you miss from your youth, and in the top three of that category, for many people? Staying up all night doing something ridiculous.
Please. When's the last time you did that, and not as a chaperone to a slumber party or because your dog ate one too many pieces of bacon? (He's okay, right? Good.) What we're saying is this: Opportunities to greet the sunrise after laughing a lot of the night get fewer once you're given your official Grown-Up Identification Card.
American Cinematheque will have none of that nonsense, though. The movieheads throw an all-nighter each fall, just before Halloween. It's called the Dusk-to-Dawn Horrorthon, which tells you two things. One? It happens from when it gets dark to when it gets light basically, and scary movies are involved.
The dastardly date? Saturday, Oct. 26.
Hoo boy. And now for the sextet that'll screen. "Amityville II: The Possession" is up first, followed by "Kingdom of the Spiders," "The Fly," "Hell High," "The Car," and "The Sentinel."
Eek x 6.
There shall be free snackage between films and other horror-happy high jinks. Do people show in costume, too? People smart enough to stay up all night participating in something semi-silly and all-wonderful do.
Look, even if you don't go to this -- tickets are $20 each, for six movies, big whoa -- then vow to stay up for a good chunk of some upcoming night, when you can, doing not much of anything important. Call it a carefree part of our youths that we're permitted to visit, now and then.


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NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stock futures are moving sharply lower after GOP leaders unexpectedly postponed a vote on legislation that would raise taxes on wealthier Americans, bringing the country closer to the so-called fiscal cliff.
Dow Jones industrial futures are down 163 points to 13,104. The broader S&P futures have given up 19 points to 1,421.60. Nasdaq futures are down 34.50 points to 2,665.50.
House Speaker John Boehner conceded late Thursday that there were not enough votes from GOP lawmakers for his plan that would have allowed higher tax rates for loftier income ranges.
That went against a hardline pledge from House Republicans to prevent any such increase.
If no deal is reached, tax hikes will occur at the start of the year along with deep spending cuts, which could trigger a recession.


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The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits fell last week, but an upward revision to the prior week's figure suggested the labor market recovery remained gradual.
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Initial claims for state unemployment benefits fell 2,000 to a seasonally adjusted 339,000, the Labor Department said on Thursday. Claims for the prior week were revised to show 5,000 more applications received than previously reported.
Economists polled by Reuters had expected first-time applications to fall to 330,000 last week.
The four-week moving average for new claims, which irons out week-to-week volatility, dropped 5,750 to 344,000.
Lackluster domestic demand is preventing the labor market from generating stronger jobs growth that would decisively lower the unemployment rate.
Employers added 204,000 new jobs to the payrolls last month, but a 16-day government shutdown temporarily pushed the jobless rate up by a tenth of a percentage point to 7.3 percent, the Labor Department reported last week.
The claims report showed the number of people still receiving benefits under regular state programs after an initial week of aid was unchanged at 2.87 million in the week ended Nov. 2.


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Pedestrian Killed in Bangor's Airport Mall Parking Lot
A pedestrian was struck by a car and killed in Bangor's Airport Mall parking lot Saturday evening. Bangor police Sergeant Catherine Rumsey said in a press release that the person was deceased when officers arrived at the scene.
Police were called to the Union Street parking lot just before 8 p.m. Saturday. Few details have been released but the freezing rain that was falling made driving treacherous. The names of the deceased and the driver of the car have not been released.
We'll keep you updated as the information unfolds.


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Not only did I get to read and rate well over a 100 abstracts (I think it was 100, I can't remember for sure...it was a lot, trust me), I somehow "volunteered" to put together the Tools, Tools, Tools Sunday symposium. I have a problem saying no.
"Whatever. I'll make the most of it," I thought.
You bet. I'm gonna make this thing exactly how I want it. Thoughts and dreams began to form in my brain...we could do this, we could do that, a VM? Definitely! Discussions with the rest of the committee yielded some great ideas. I was leaning towards more of a concept drive day, you know, "Why do this with Tool A?" or some such nonsense (see, I was building it for myself). That's when Lewis intervened and reeled me back in a bit.
Restraining order aside, he reminded me, Tools! Tools! Tools!
"What's it about?"
"Oh...wait, tools?"
Recently, I seemed to call a bunch of people tools...if read out of context that is:
Cary Millsap, Christian Berg, Alex Gorbachev, Eddie Awad, Chen Shapira, Jake Kuramoto, Matt Topper, Lewis Cunningham, John Scott, Dimitri Gielis . . . I could go on and on. I encourage other Oracle people to add these tools to their repertoire.
Mr. Kallman [blog | twitter] was angry I didn't include him in that list. The original copy did list him, but it was shortened due to a shortage of space. Besides, he didn't ostracize himself by calling all those people tools.
Anyway, tools. Database tools. Database development tools. Got it.
So who's speaking?
Lewis and I will be doing the introduction. Of course I can't be in the room (50 foot radius).
Who else? I'm glad you asked.
- Cary Millsap [ blog | twitter ]
- Dominic Delmolino [ blog | twitter ]
- Jeff Smith [ blog | twitter ]
- Kris Rice [ blog | twitter ]
- Marc de Oliveira [ linkedin ]
- Sten Vesterli [ blog | twitter ]
- Sue Harper [ blog | twitter ]
Not in that order. You'll have to check out the page to see what they are talking about.
I'm excited, very excited.
Thanks to Lewis for giving me this opportunity and much thanks to all the participants for making my job easier (though I will reserve final judgement until it's over). :)


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Technologies that apply to Issues in the Development of Distributed Hypermedia Applications. (with an emphasis on released, royalty-free technologies). Don't forget to brows Mobile Code technologies.
Language support includes C, C++, Modula-3, python, Common Lisp and tcl. Java is in the works.
Obliq is a lexically-scoped untyped interpreted language that supports distributed object-oriented computation.
An Obliq computation may involve multiple threads of control within an address space, multiple address spaces on a machine, heterogeneous machines over a local network, and multiple networks over the Internet.
Obliq objects have state and are local to a site. Obliq computations can roam over the network, while maintaining network connections.
We want to take over the world. The internet badly needs a public domain software environment that allows the rapid construction of software tools using a modern programming language. Our goal is to build such a system using Scheme 48, an ultra-portable Scheme implementation which is easily interfaced to existing software written in other languages. Ian Horswill --- email@example.com
See also: my thoughts on scheme48 for collaborative engineering
Q: What happens when you QueryInterface on a CORBA object?
A: 22.214.171.124 CORBA::Composable::query_interface()
primary_interface is just QI on IUnknown(). "C++ style implementation inheritance is not possible." Bull-pucky. It's not expressible in MIDL, but it's usable (and useful!) as an implementation technique.
126.96.36.199 is goofy. "Com objects are either initialized empty or arbitrary". Not true: factories can export creation methods that take arguments. And the definition of object identity in COM is that QI on IUnknown for all interface pointers on the same object returns the same thing.
184.108.40.206 makes claims about reference counting in wide area apps. The M3 networked object Distributed GC algorithm has proven (theoretically and practically) to work, and it's based on reference counting (as I recall). I know the ILU network garbage collection strategy is based on reference counting. This claim doesn't seem to hold water. Their claims about pinging seem to attack the implementation, rather than the model (whereas they were not willing to give COM credit for persistence and identity, which do exist, though they are built to top, and not intrinsic). Hmm... IMonikerProvider seems to bridge the gap.
Exception mapping: extra arg. Yuk.
pointer is mapped to a sequence of one arg. Interesting. Sharing? Nope. Causes exception.
ANSA is building a set of tools to integrate a distributed object model into WWW. The objective is to provide a CORBA based environment from which the web appears to consist of a world of distributed CORBA objects.
Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl,comp.object Subject: Re: Q: Tcl CORBA extension Date: 17 Jul 1995 19:08:56 GMT Organization: Customer of EUnet Germany; Info: firstname.lastname@example.com
These systems are generally used to build LAN or enterprise distributed database applications.


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Board of Regents approves Reed Dasenbrock as UH Manoa vice chancellor for academic affairsUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
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"We're delighted that UH Mānoa will benefit from Dr. Dasenbrock's many years of impressive accomplishments and experience in higher education planning, administration and teaching. He will play a critical role in charting a future for our Mānoa campus that builds on our tradition of academic excellence during a challenging period of budget constraints," said Mānoa Chancellor Virginia Hinshaw. "We are also very grateful to Peter Quigley for his leadership as interim vice chancellor; he has moved many important initiatives forward and will continue to contribute substantially to Mānoa's academic affairs office."
Since 2007, Dasenbrock has served as the cabinet secretary in charge of New Mexico's Higher Education Department, the only such position in any state. As secretary, he exercised oversight over all state monies flowing to the 25 different institutions in the state and has worked closely with the institutions to develop statewide policies on higher education. He formerly served as provost, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, and professor of English at the University of New Mexico.
Also at last Friday's meeting, the BOR approved a proposal to establish a mandatory U-PASS fee to create a low-cost transportation option for students attending classes at the UH Mānoa campus. The request to establish the new fee was at the request of the Associated Students of the University of Hawaii (ASUH) and is supported by the vice chancellor for students. The fee would expand the existing optional U-PASS program to allow all Mānoa students to have unlimited student ridership on all routes of TheBus and improved inter-campus transportation services.
The proposed fee would be $20 per fall and spring semester, and assessed to undergraduate and graduate students regardless of credit load beginning as early as spring 2010 pending the completion of a Memorandum of Understanding between campus administrators and representatives of City and County of Honolulu's Oʻahu Transportation Services. It will be implemented for a two-year schedule and evaluated for continuation based upon increased ridership, improved intercampus transportation and student demand.
Campus-wide mandatory U-PASS transportation programs at peer and benchmark institutions demonstrated an average seven percent increase in public transportation ridership each year over a 10-year span. In addition, the proposed $20 amount per semester is significantly less than similar fees at 23 universities.
The BOR also authorized the establishment of a Bachelor of Business Administration in Entrepreneurship to be administered by the Shidler College of Business at UH Mānoa. The purpose of the program is to develop entrepreneurs in the state who are capable of identifying business opportunities, using cutting-edge analytical tools and problem-solving skills to both start new businesses and to implement processes for successfully operating these businesses.


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Tool Cabinet Grand Prize in Popular Woodworking Sweepstakes
I spent a good part of the summer designing and building this simple looking cabinet, the cover project for the December 2013 issue of Popular Woodworking Magazine. The issue should be on its way to subscribers in a week or two, and available on newsstands shortly after that.
The cabinet hangs on the wall, is about 2′ wide and 30″ tall. The outside is solid maple, dovetailed together and the front is a single door. It isn't light – but I built it like a tank because it holds a lot of weight. Inside there is a lot going on, because it is designed to hold a full complement of tools within easy reach. I think it's the kind of tool chest any woodworker would like to have, and in a few weeks, you can have a chance to own this very cabinet.
My new tool chest is the grand prize in our 31 Days of Christmas Sweepstakes. The contest opens for entries on December 1 and runs until December 31. There is a daily prize and all entries from the first 30 days will be eligible for the grand prize; the tool cabinet and a $1,000 Lee Valley Tools gift certificate. (Tools and aging woodworker shown in the photo not included).
Details about construction of the cabinet and the daily prizes are in the December issue, and our web people tell me that the information will soon appear on the 31 Days of Christmas Sweepstakes page. Entries don't open until December 1, but you can sign up now and get an e-mail reminder.


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A woman braces against the cold and blowing snow on Denver's 16th Street Mall, Dec. 4, 2013.
A wintry storm pushing through the Rockies and Midwest is bringing bitterly cold temperatures and treacherous driving conditions.
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Thursday's projected high is minus-6, falling to minus-10 by Saturday, with overnight lows to 24 below as a major winter storm bulldozed from the Rockies eastward.
The National Weather Service forecast a foot or more of snow in some areas of the Upper Midwest, with freezing rain possible for parts of the Great Lakes.
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Day one of E3 2013 has been and gone. We have seen New IPs, beloved franchises, Master Chief wearing a cloak, Sora's return, Snake riding on a horse, and Sony taking shots at Microsoft. It has been great, but now it is time to shift focus. Nintendo have always been out on their own, not following trends of the others and definitely carving their own path. This year's E3 will be no exception, as they have forgone the traditional E3 Press Conference in favor of a Nintendo Direct Video.
5 minutes to go. Bar has been set by MS and Sony. Let's see what Nintendo has up their sleeves.


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The 31-year-old commercial pilot will meet the 25 bachelorettes who hope to win his heart. Jake is looking forward to finding the right woman to share his live with. According to Jake, she must be intelligent, confident, energetic and spontaneous. He also admits to looking forward to being a father.
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Chapel Hill, N.C. - The Duke Blue Devils defeated their arch rival North Carolina 64-54 on Wednesday evening. It wasn't a pretty win but, if you are a Duke fan, the result was quite lovely.
Duke held the Tar Heels to their lowest point total during the Roy Williams era. North Carolina shot just 37% from the field as they dropped to 2-7 in conference and 13-11 overall.
The Blue Devils knocked down four buckets in a row down the stretch and that propelled them to their 20th win of the season against 4 losses. More importantly, Duke is in first place in the ACC with a 8-2 mark.
Duke senior standout Jon Scheyer nailed 5 of 9 three pointers while the Tar Heels were just 5 of 19 beyond the stripe. When Duke needed a score, Scheyer seemed to be there.
Kyle Singler continued his torrid three point shooting as well, missing just 1 of 5 enroute to 19 points and 9 rebounds. Nolan Smith was the only other Blue Devil in double figures, with 10 points to go with his team high 4 assists.
North Carolina was led by Will Graves with 13 points but Ed Davis was shut down by the Blue Devil defense, scoring just 4 points.
We'll have much more coverage coming, including interviews, so check back in a bit later.


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It took 90 minutes for the escape group to form and, perhaps because of the early exertions, the impetus was gone from the peloton once six men found themselves at the front of the 15th stage. From the halfway mark, it was obvious that the winner in Pau would be one of the six escapees. Four of the selection had previously enjoyed success at the Tour, with two of the Frenchman in the move – Thomas Voeckler and Pierrick Fedrigo – having claimed three stages each in the past. Once the escape was well clear the six opportunists: Voeckler, Fedrigo, along with Samuel Dumoulin, Christian Vande Velde, Dries Devenyns and Nicki Sorensen worked well together all the way to the final 10.5km. That's when there was a brief bout of attacking action that ultimately put Fedrigo in the lead along with Vande Velde. Unlike the finish in Le Cap d'Agde, however, the Garmin-Sharp escape representative didn't have the muscle to overcome his lead-out man. Fedrigo started the final sprint and stayed in front all the way to the line to take his second victory in Pau and his fourth stage success in the Tour.
The progress report
The 158.5km 15th stage from Samatan to Pau began at 1.50pm with 162 riders in the race. There were three small hills on an essentially flat course, they were: the cote de Lahite-Toupière (cat-4 at 107km), the cote de Simacourbe (cat-3 at 123.5km) and the cote de Monassut-Audiracq (cat-3 at 129km). The intermediate sprint was at the 101.5km mark (in Maubourguet).
Perpetual attacks for opening 55km
As soon as the stage began, the attacks started and they kept on going for the first hour. At 35, five men established the biggest gain; this quintet included: Costa (MOV), Millar (GRS), Arashiro (EUC), Grivko (AST) and Grabsch (OPQ). At the 30km mark, Chavanel abandoned the Tour citing illness, and Vincent Jerome (EUC) quit at the 52km mark. The average speed for the opening hour was 46.1km/h. Other aggressors early in the 15th stage were Vinokourov, Devenyns, Martin… but not until after 88 minutes of racing did the peloton ease off the pace of the chase. By then there was a group of five ahead. Voeckler (EUC), Vande Velde (GRS), Fedrigo (EUC), Devenyns (OPQ) and Dumoulin (COF) launched their bid at the 62km and, at 65km, they were 1'30" ahead of the bunch. Nicki Sorensen (STB) was the last rider to attack the bunch and he reached the front at 70km, he caught the leaders at 82km. Before the Dane joined the lead group, the five at the front posted an advantage of the day: 6'25" at 79km – and that seemed like it would be the maximum gain as the pace of the bunch picked up but it would blow out again later.
The chase begins… but without much impetus
The average speed of the second hour was 43.6km/h. After the feedzone (90km), Lotto-Belisol put two men at the front of the bunch. Sorensen led the escape over the line at the intermediate sprint. Lancaster (OGE), Bernaudeau (EUC) and van Hummel (VCD) quit during the third hour of stage 15. With 55km to go, the Lotto riders retreated to the peloton and the advantage of the escapees grew to 7'45" when the bunch reached the 45km to go mark. The Sky team had Knees and Eisel at the front, followed by Wiggins and they seemed content to give the escapees room to move; the advantage grew quickly for a while, up to 8'35" with the leaders inside the final 38km; 10'30" at 31km to go; 11'40" at 11km to go…
Fedrigo claims a fourth Tour stage win
The first attack from the lead group came from Sorensen with 10.5km to go but he was quickly chased down by the five other escapees. The day tried another surge with 8.5km to go but that only prompted Fedrigo into action and into the lead of the stage. He was successfully chased down by Vande Velde and this pair would cooperate for the final stanza of the stage, even swapping turns in the second-last kilometre when they had an advantage of 15". Fedrigo asked for a turn, Vande Velde obliged… then, a little after the 'flamme rouge' Fedrigo went to the front. He launched his sprint with the American right on his wheel but was never challenged and he claimed his fourth stage win at the Tour de France, his second in Pau (the first being in 2010). Fedrigo's other stage wins at the Tour were in Gap (2006) and Tarbes (2009).
The peloton continued to lose time all the way to the finish and, Greipel eventually led the bunch home 11'50" behind Fedrigo.
Wiggins finished near the front of the bunch in 22nd place and he will wear the yellow jersey in stage 16 on Wednesday, after the second rest day.


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Computer engineering major Katie Le '14 becomes the first Bronco to battle in the NCAA women's singles tourney.
Her first year at Santa Clara, Katie Le garnered acclaim as West Coast Conference freshman of the year. Instead of serving up a sophomore slump, her second year on the courts was a season of smashing firsts.
In the season that ended last May, the Milpitas native played every match at the No. 1 singles spot for the Broncos and finished with an 18–5 record. Her hard work—and a 10-match winning streak—earned her recognition as the West Coast Conference player of the year. And, in one Santa Clara first, she won All-WCC First Team honors for both her singles and doubles play.
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Computer engineering major Katie Le '14 becomes the first Bronco to battle in the NCAA women's singles tourney.


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Kitchen Spotlight: Angelique's Sunlit Breakfast Nook
Do you have an eating nook in your kitchen? We do, and we're currently plotting a facelift for it. So we were delighted to see this sun-drenched, colorful breakfast nook in Angelique's kitchen. Take a closer peek, and see the rest of her kitchen too!
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• See the full tour: Angelique's Crafty Bohemian Family Home at Apartment Therapy
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England coach Andy Flower revealed paceman Steven Finn will sit out the second Test against India with a thigh strain - and will face a second scan to assess the extent of the injury.
England will be without Ian Bell as they bid to bounce back from their first Test defeat in Ahmedabad as he has already returned home for the birth of his first child.
Flower explained Finn has aggravated his initial injury.
But if the scan shows no major problem tomorrow, he will be considered for an England Performance Programme match - with a view to returning in time for the final two Tests in Kolkata and Nagpur.
"Steven has been working hard to get back to full fitness," said the coach.
"He has unfortunately hurt his leg again, a couple of days ago, and is having another scan tomorrow.
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England will tread carefully with Finn, but remain optimistic.
"What we might do is send him off to the performance programme that arrived in India earlier this morning," added Flower.
"They've got a three-day game starting on the 27th. If he's ready for that, which is the last day of the second Test, we'll put him through his paces in that.
"If he comes through that well, he'll be available for the third and fourth Tests."
Bell, meanwhile, is celebrating the birth of son Joseph William.
Bell's wife Chantal gave birth yesterday, shortly before Bell arrived back in England despite leaving the first Test early once it became clear his son was on the way.


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Overtreatment of breast cancer and minimal screenings are two recent trends raising concerns among breast cancer specialists and other physicians.
One trend centers around controversial guidelines issued by the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force in 2009, which details that women over 74 only need a screening every two years. Specialists say since these guidelines were enforced, there has been a decline in mammogram screenings for women over that age group.
"We'll never see 1,000 out of 1,000 women getting a screening mammogram, but you'd like to see that number closer to 1,000, and certainly higher than 322," said Dr. David C. Levin, professor and chairman emeritus of the Department of Radiology at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, according to CBSNews.com.
Worried doctors, however, will have to wait to see if the drop in screenings makes any change in mortality statistics, since currently there's not enough data.
A recent study by the New England Journal of Medicine may also be a cause for the drop in women's screenings.
The study found one-third of breast cancer patients received treatment for a tumor that may not have been life threatening, according to Debra Sherman, a reporter for Reuters.
The American Cancer Society hasn't changed its guidelines to match the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force. The group says women over age 40 should receive annual screenings, according to Sherman.
"Our findings favor the American Cancer Society recommendations," Dr. Elizabeth Arleo of Weill Medical College of Cornell University told Sherman. Arleo studied the impact of the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force's new guidelines.
"In our book, it seems unacceptable to miss 19 percent of breast cancers, half of which were invasive," she said in the Reuters article.
One out of eight women in the United States will have invasive cancer in breast tissues during their lifetime, not just breast ducts, according to the American Cancer Society.
"We get questions all day long from patients and referring physicians on the appropriateness of screening mammography," Arleo told Michelle Castillo, reporter for the CBSNews article. "The inconsistent information is very confusing for everyone."
Misinformation from conflicting guidelines, or not being informed at all also appear to be growing trends.
Recent reports have shown that women who have breast cancer are opting to have a prophylactic mastectomy, while doctors like Dr. Jyoti Patel have said it is an "unnecessary surgery," according to an ABC News article.
This growing trend is another concern for breast cancer specialists because consumers drive it, Monica Morrow of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center said in an NPR article.
Out of 564 of women who underwent mastectomies because of a primary tumor, 53 percent chose to have a double mastectomy, according to a study conducted by Dr. Sarah Hawley at the University of Michigan.
"When researchers surveyed women about their choice of therapy, not surprisingly they found the main factor was fear that cancer would 'spread' to the healthy breast — even though, surgeon Morrow says, 'it's a misunderstanding that cancer spreads from breast to breast," wrote Richard Knox, a journalist for NPR.
"In the absence of data to explain the increase, concern has arisen about the potential for overtreatment, particularly given the relative rarity — about 1 percent — of contralateral disease as a site of recurrence," wrote Charles Bankhed in the ABC News article.
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LISBON, Portugal (AP) — The European Union's drug agency says new psychoactive substances continue to proliferate across the continent, with their volume, diversity and availability placing authorities under increasing pressure.
The annual European Drug Report published Tuesday said the agency identified more than 80 new chemical drugs last year, making a total of almost 250 detected over the past four years.
The new substances are not controlled under international law. They are widely sold as "legal highs," often over the Internet, and try to mimic the effects of controlled drugs such as cocaine or LSD. While some are manufactured in clandestine European laboratories, they are more often imported from China and India.
The Lisbon, Portugal-based agency said the use of established drugs such as heroin, cocaine and cannabis is broadly stable or in decline.


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Window blinds can be manually drawn using a cord, or automated through motorization. Controls for motorized blinds can be from a wall switch or keypad, remote control, or computer, eliminating the need for cords and allowing control of otherwise inaccessible windows. A number of modern homes are integrating blind control with central C-Bus solutions. This control provides ease-of-use and is effective for controlling blind operation to reduce heat loss during winter or minimize heat from the sun during summer.
Shoji blinds are based on Japanese Shoji screens and slide on a conventional panel blind track so the panels stack one-in-front of the other- they can stack to either or both sides of the window, inside or outside the recess. They are frequently used as room dividers or wardrobe doors.
The two overall types of window blinds are ready-made blinds and made to measure. Made-to-measure blinds are made to fit a given or measured window size. Ready-made blinds are manufactured in set sizes that can be cut down to fit any window. Window blinds can be classified broadly into six different categories: roller blinds (which do not have slats but consist of a single piece of material), Roman blinds, pleated blinds, Venetian blinds, Shoji Japanese blinds and vertical blinds.
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Projects in KPLAB
Research in KPLAB takes place in a number of projects, which are often run in close cooperation with excellence centers and research environments such as MOVIII, CADICS and LinkLab. The following projects (listed in alphabetical order) are actively being pursued.
Execution Monitoring
[Knowledge Processing Lab, UASTechnologies Lab]
The execution monitoring project aims to develop methods for detecting and classifying failures during plan execution, regardless of whether those failures result from mechanical problems, incorrect assumptions, or interference from other agents. For this purpose, TALplanner has been extended to allow the intended behavior of actions and plans over time to be specified as formulas in Temporal Action Logic (TAL) and to automatically extract such information from planning domains. At execution time, knowledge gathered from sensors is used by DyKnow to incrementally build partial logical models representing the actual development of the system and its environment over time. Violations of intended behavior are detected in a timely manner using formula progression.
» Read more about the Execution Monitoring project!
Logical Agents
[Knowledge Processing Lab]
The Logical Agents project builds an agent architecture based on automated reasoning in TAL. Each agent is equipped with a knowledge base, a database of logical formulas encoding background knowledge as well as memory. Automated theorem proving is used for reasoning with the content of the knowledge base, answering questions, and planning actions. Issues investigated in this project include the use of incompletely specified action timing, the generation of plans with infinite loops, and the integration of planning, execution, and plan revision.
» Read more about Logical Agents!
QET: Quantifier Elimination Techniques
[Knowledge Processing Lab]
Just as there are a number of techniques which reduce sentences in fragments of 1st-order logic to equivalent sentences in propositional logic via the application of quantifier elimination techniques, there are also quantifier elimination techniques which may be applied to reduce sentences in fragments of 2nd-order logic to equivalent sentences in 1st-order logic. Such techniques are studied in the Quantifier Elimination Project (QET). (Group: KPLAB, SCML)
» Read more about the QET project!
Reconfigurable Diagnosis Systems: FlexDx
[Knowledge Processing Lab]
Detecting and isolating multiple faults is a computationally intense task which typically consists of computing a set of tests, and then computing the diagnoses based on the test results. FlexDx is a reconfigurable diagnosis framework that reduces the computational burden by only running the tests that are currently needed. The method selects tests such that the isolation performance of the diagnostic system is maintained. The DyKnow knowledge processing middleware framework plays an important role by handling issues related to the dynamic addition and removal of tests, the ability to perform tests on historic data, and the combination of synchronous and asynchronous processing.
RoboCup Activities
[Knowledge Processing Lab]
One of KPLAB's members, Fredrik Heintz, has created a framework for developing RoboCup agents called RoboSoc. It is designed to encourage and simplify the modification, extension and sharing of RoboCup agents and is used in the AI Programming undergraduate course. The students taking the course develop and experiment with their own RoboCup simulation league teams, which would not be possible to do in such a limited timespan without the use of a framework.
» Read more about Robocup activities!
Stream-Based Reasoning
[Knowledge Processing Lab, UASTechnologies Lab]
Both deliberative and reactive parts of a robotic architecture, including functionalities for planning, fault detection and diagnosis, require timely access to information about the environment. Gathering such information is a complex process, often involving a multitude of information sources and processing techniques at varying levels of abstraction. DyKnow is a stream-based knowledge processing middleware service that helps organize knowledge processing for distributed robotic architectures in a coherent network of high-level knowledge processes communicating through streams.
» Read more about Stream-Based Reasoning!
TAL: Temporal Action Logics
[Knowledge Processing Lab]
The Temporal Action Logic (TAL) project focuses on modeling and reasoning about dynamic processes which arise due to interactions between physical or software artifacts and the complex dynamic environment in which they are situated, or among several physical artifacts situated in similar environments. The environments of interest may be characterized by the inability to provide complete representations of their dynamics due to their complexity.
The project includes development of temporal logics for reasoning about action, change and processes; the development of inference techniques for use in robotics systems; the development of visuallization tools to support this type of research; the application of temporal logics to planning, prediction, explanation and diagnosis; and development of tools to support the structuring of large narrative applications using object-oriented techniques.(Group: KPLAB)
» Read more about the TAL project!
[Knowledge Processing Lab, UAS Technologies Lab]]
TALplanner is a forward-chaining planner based on the use of rich domain knowledge in Temporal Action Logics (TAL) to constrain and prune the standard forward-chaining search tree. TALplanner can generate both concurrent and sequential temporal plans and has support for metric resource constraints. Plans can be annotated with constraints to be tested at execution time by an execution monitoring system, implemented as part of the DyKnow knowledge processing middleware service. The planner implementation is in active use in the UASTech UAV project and also serves as a basis for new research in extending the expressivity of plans and domain knowledge.
Troubleshooting of Automotive Systems
[Knowledge Processing Lab, Scania AB]
In the Troubleshooting of Automotive Systems project, we develop methods for efficient automatic troubleshooting of complex systems such as heavy trucks. Troubleshooting software should guide mechanics in a workshop in the process of finding and repairing vehicle faults, with the aim being to minimize the expected cost in terms of time and money. This problem can be modeled as a probabilistic planning problem where the vehicle to be repaired is a partially observable system. This project is run in close collaboration with the truck manufacturer Scania CV AB.
» Read more about Troubleshooting of Automotive Systems!
UAV Cooperation
[Knowledge Processing Lab, UASTechnologies Lab]
Under construction!
» Read more about this project!
UAV Relay
[Knowledge Processing Lab, UASTechnologies Lab]
A wide variety of applications for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) include the need for surveillance of distant targets, including search and rescue operations, traffic surveillance and forest fire monitoring. Communication ranges are often limited and line of sight may be required for high bandwidth without interruptions, which is problematic in urban or mountainous areas. Both problems can be handled using intermediate relay UAVs. The UAV Relay project aims at developing special purpose planners for the placement of such relays for single targets, multiple targets, and moving targets.
Previous projects in KPLAB
Many forms of deliberation used by autonomous agents, including prediction and planning, make use of formal models of the environment in which the agent operates. In many cases, a tradeoff must be made between accuracy and performance, where more detailed models may provide highly accurate results but are not always feasible given limited computational resources. In most cases, this tradeoff is fixed by humans when a system is designed. The DARE project – Dynamic Abstraction-driven Replanning and Execution – investigates methods where agents take over part of this responsibility in the context of interleaved task planning and execution for fully or partially observable stochastic domains, dynamically constructing planning models at varying levels of abstraction as required by the problem at hand.
The Heuristic Planning and Prediction Project (HPAP) revolved around the development of a set of domain-independent heuristics for automated planning.
» Read more about the HPAP project!
PARADOCS is a Prolog implementation of a reasoning system for a subset of TAL, that views Planning And Reasoning As DeductiOn with ConstraintS. It supports prediction from a fully instantiated set of actions, planning from the empty set of actions, and anything in between.
PARADOCS has been superseded by the Logical Agents project, which uses many of the insights gained through the development of PARADOCS.
The WITAS Unmanned Aerial Vehicle project (1997-2005) had the long term goal of designing and deploying intelligent autonomous aircraft. Though the WITAS project itself has finished, many of the research topics are still actively being pursued withing other projects. (Groups: KPLAB, CASL, SCML)
» Read more about the WITAS project!
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This wooded park with pond and wetlands is excellent for nature walks. Universally accessible trails and fishing.
Location: Off Route 4, Northwood
Phone: 603-436-1552
Activities: Hiking, fishing, biking, picnicking, snowmobiling, cross country skiing
Amenities: None - Wilderness Area
Operation Schedule: Year round
Acreage: 674.5 acres
Waterfront: Dammed brook created fishing pond.
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FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — For decades, this city in California's agricultural heartland relied exclusively on cheap, plentiful groundwater and pumped increasingly larger amounts from an aquifer as its population grew.
But eventually, the water table dropped by more than 100 feet, causing some of Fresno's wells to cave in and others to slow to a trickle. The cost of replacing those wells and extracting groundwater ballooned by 400 percent.
"We became the largest energy demand in the region — $11 million a year for electricity just to run the pumps," said Martin Querin, manager of the city's water division, which supplies 550,000 residents.
Fresno is just one player in a water war that's quietly being fought underground. Throughout the Central Valley — one of the world's most productive agricultural regions — farmers, residents and cities have seen their wells go dry. Those who can afford it have drilled deeper wells that can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Experts say water supplies have been strained by growing city populations and massive tracts of newly planted orchards and vineyards.
"Water levels are dropping dramatically in some areas. It's never been this bad," said Steve Arthur, vice president of Arthur and Orum Well Drilling.
The drops create concerns that groundwater is becoming unaffordable and that overuse could cause serious land subsidence, which can damage infrastructure such as roads.
"We can't keep over-pumping groundwater," said Peter Gleick, president of Pacific Institute, a nonpartisan research group in Oakland. "It's simply unsustainable and not economically viable in the long run."
California has few rules governing groundwater. While some basins limit pumping through management plans or court rulings, anyone can build a well and pump unlimited amounts in most of the state.
The U.S. Geological Survey has found in much of California — the San Joaquin Valley, the Central Coast and Southern California — more water has historically been pulled out of the ground than was replenished.
Climate change and droughts are putting additional pressure on aquifers, said USGS hydrologist Claudia C. Faunt. There also is a recent shift among California farmers to replace row crops such as tomatoes with orchards, which can't be scaled back in dry times.
On the west side of the Valley, massive farms whose surface water deliveries have been severely curtailed to protect fish in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta are increasingly relying on groundwater and digging deeper wells.
Farmers have also seen wells go dry east of Modesto in the Sierra foothills, where they've planted hundreds of thousands of acres of new orchards. They've been forced to drill new wells as deep as 800 feet.
"There are more straws taking water out of the basin," said Al Rossini, a third generation farmer from Oakdale.
And whoever has the longest straw — and the deepest pockets — is winning.
Some small farmers can't afford to drill deeper. Rural residents who rely on smaller wells for drinking, cooking and bathing are also feeling the brunt.
"Our well went dry, and we had to redrill," said Gerald Vieira, a retired Denair resident. Vieira paid $13,000 this summer for a new well — drilled 200 feet deeper than it had been before. A dozen of his neighbors also bought new wells.
Some farmers and urban districts are now trying to find solutions to prevent groundwater overuse.
Fresno plans to use a combination of surface, ground and treated wastewater and to greatly expand the city's program to replenish groundwater, and farmers in the Sierra foothills also plan to dig recharging ponds.
Meanwhile, many farmers and other water users say the state must build more storage, especially groundwater banks, to hold water during wet years.
"Water is like blood to the body," said Rossini. "Without water, California won't be the same state."
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End Grain: Past Imperfect
If anyone ever sees that, they're looking too closely.
By Robert W. Lang
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I spend a lot of time looking at antique furniture, often from below. My interest is pieces made about 100 years ago, from the Arts & Crafts period of the early 20th century. I share a passion with those who collect these pieces, but I look at them with a different eye. The lines and proportions draw me in, and I appreciate the rarity and value. But my mind isn't on the dollar value of any particular piece; I'm out to connect with the guy who made it way back when.
On tours of old houses I hold up the group by crawling under things for a closer look. At museums I set off alarms by getting too close or reaching out to touch when the guard is distracted. My fascination is with how these things go together, and I wonder what constraints of time, money and resources the original maker had to contend with. It's a reality check against the overload of information in print and online. It's one thing to read about how things should be done and quite another to look at the tangible legacy of someone's work.
My favorite moments are when I discover something that only a woodworker would recognize, details that fly over the head of the collector or curator. Building furniture involves compromise; the material and tools don't always cooperate, and the mind of the cabinetmaker isn't always as sharp as his chisels.
We strive for perfection, but when it escapes us we have decisions to make. As we build, each part becomes more valuable. Each dovetail, mortise or tenon cut in a piece of wood is an investment of time. When things don't work out, a painful choice must be made: Scrap the investment and start over or try to fix it so no one will know?
I'm no stranger to those choices, and when I look at old work I don't search for flaws, but now and then I come across one. Recently I was lying on the floor, pointing my camera up to record how a drawer was built and how it slid in and out of a cabinet. On my way out from under, I noticed a bump in a back leg, just below where a side rail connected. I took a closer look and realized what I was seeing.
On this piece, a side panel sat in a groove in the square leg. Below the panel, a rail joined the leg with a tenon. The mortise is in the groove, a deeper portion at the end. The bump I saw was in line with the panel, and I knew that the original builder had made a classic woodworking mistake.
Blog: See some of the pictures Bob has taken of period pieces: Green & Green chairs, Stickley Morris chairs and Stickley drawers.
From the December 2012 issue #201
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By David Alexander
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. Senate panel on Tuesday approved a controversial plan to improve the military's handling of sexual assault cases, backing draft legislation that would let prosecutors, rather than a victim's commander, decide if a sex offense should go to trial.
The proposal was one of a dozen sexual assault-related measures endorsed by the personnel panel of the Senate Armed Services Committee for inclusion in the National Defense Authorization Act, the annual legislation that sets policy for the U.S. military.
Approval of the proposal set the stage for a battle over the issue, which is opposed by senior defense officials, as the legislation makes its way through the full Armed Services Committee and then the entire Senate in the coming weeks.
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, a New York Democrat who chairs the personnel subcommittee, said the draft legislation "comprehensively addresses the issue of sexual assaults in the military." Gillibrand has been a prominent proponent of removing sexual assault prosecution from the chain of command.
Senator Lindsay Graham, the senior Republican on the panel, said lawmakers had agreed on 90 percent of the proposals but would take their disagreements over the remaining 10 percent of the measure to the full committee.
"The areas of disagreement are on taking the chain of command out of sexual assault cases," he said. "I don't think you ever quite solve a problem in the military without the chain of command buying into it and being held more accountable."
Senator Carl Levin, the Michigan Democrat who chairs the Armed Services Committee, has said he opposed Gillibrand's proposal and would offer an alternative that would provide for a review of any decision not to prosecute a sexual assault.
"It would be an alternative approach which those of us who favor it think is much more effective, frankly, to removing it from the chain of command, since you've got to rely on the chain of command to change the culture," Levin told reporters.
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has also opposed taking sexual assault prosecution decisions out of the chain of command. So have the military service chiefs, who say commanders should be held more accountable, not less, and removing responsibility from the chain of command would undermine order and discipline.
However, critics and victims charge that failure to deal with sexual assault in the military is a greater threat to order and discipline, and the armed services have repeatedly failed to address the issue effectively.
An annual Pentagon study recently estimated that unwanted sexual contact, from groping to rape, jumped by 37 percent in 2012 to 26,000 cases from 19,000 the previous year.
The report came amid a spate of high-profile military sexual assault cases, including some involving personnel who were specifically tasked with trying to prevent it.
The Army said on Tuesday that Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Miley, commander of the 49th Missile Defense Battalion at Fort Greely, Alaska, had been suspended following a misconduct investigation that began January 9.
Army officials declined to elaborate on the nature of the misconduct, but Alaska's senators have urged the military to investigate allegations that Miley had condoned adultery and fraternization at the base.
(Additional reporting by Patricia Zengerle; editing by Christopher Wilson)