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Pilot Rene Davis tips the black nose of the sleek Aero Commander down toward the river snaking through the pancake-flat land 1,000 feet below.
"It used to be called Rio de las Palmas, the River of Palms," his voice crackles through the headphones, barely audible above the roar of the plane's motors.
Through the early morning mist, there's no great abundance of palms to be seen lining the silvery river, but the water's span also looks a bit too slim to warrant its modern name: Rio Grande, the big river. From our bird's-eye view, the Rio Grande looks no more than a stone's throw in width, the watery equivalent of a backyard fence where neighbors lean to exchange informative tidbits.
In recent years, quite a few scientists with USDA's Agricultural Research Service have been "going to the fence" on a regular basis to talk to their Mexican counterparts about problems that affect the land on both sides of the Rio Grande.
There's always plenty to talk about, according to Edgar G. King, Jr., director of the ARS Subtropical Agricultural Research Laboratory. Pilot/photographer Davis works at this Weslaco, Texas, lab just 7 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border.
"Within about 80 miles of Weslaco, there are nine bridges and a ferry crossing that link the United States to Mexico," says King. "A lot of agricultural products go back and forth over those bridges every day.
"By working with the scientists in Mexico and sharing information," he says, "we benefit U.S. consumers by ensuring the agricultural commodities that come in are high-quality and safe, at a reasonable price, and in good supply. At the same time, our research facilitates the export of products such as apples to Mexico.
"For many years, there have been people like Whetten Reed of USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service and Luis Galan Wong of Mexico's Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon (UANL) at Monterrey, who have understood the value of this cooperation and worked hard to make it happen."
Entomologist Robert W. Jones, who is working on biodiversity studies at El Colegio de la Frontera Sur in Chiapas, Mexico, concurs on the importance of cooperative efforts across the border.
"Insect pests do not recognize political borders," Jones notes. "This means that to manage insect pests most effectively and with minimal environmental impact, we must consider both sides of the border as a single environmental unit."
Adds insect geneticist Nina M. Barcenas Ortega, "Mexico is the home of many natural enemies that control native pests in their natural environment. Collaborative research with American scientists allows the discovery of potential natural enemies for the development of sound integrated pest management tactics."
Barcenas is with Mexico's Colegio de Postgraduados en Ciencias Agricolas, which is located just east of Mexico City, at Texcoco.
A classic example of border-crossing pests is the boll weevil, estimated to cost the U.S. cotton industry $300 million annually.
"The cotton that we grow in the lower Rio Grande Valley originated in Mesoamerica—the Mayans and Aztecs used cotton fiber in their clothing," says King. "And the boll weevil originated in southern Mexico and parts of Central America, most likely on a tree called Hampea."
When, in the early 1890's, the boll weevil migrated northward to begin gnawing its way across the U.S. Cotton Belt, it was not, unfortunately, followed by any of the natural enemies that kept it in check on its native turf.
It wasn't until 1967 that USDA scientists brought from Mexico a little wasp with the big name, "Catolaccus grandis," as a potential biological control against the weevil. [See also "Evicting the Boll Weevil," Agricultural Research, March 1994, pp. 4-10.]
Tiny C. grandis displayed an impressive appetite for boll weevil larvae. But because practical means of rearing the wasp on boll weevils appeared to pose an insurmountable problem, there was no interest in mass-rearing it.
The starting point for a workable wasp diet, King believed, was a solid biological understanding of the wasp itself. That came to the Weslaco lab via Juan A. Morales-Ramos, a Mexican entomologist who is now with ARS on a temporary basis.
The task of developing a wasp diet was first tackled by ARS entomologist Antonio A. Guerra, in collaboration with scientists and students from the Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon at Monterrey.
Since September 1993, the artificial diet has been sufficiently improved at Weslaco by visiting Mexican scientist M. Guadalupe Rojas, Morales-Ramos, and King to produce wasps for field releases. This achievement is an important milestone in the biological control world.
This type of U.S.-Mexican teamwork in science isn't new. And it's not even particularly unusual, according to Charles A. Onstad, director for ARS' Southern Plains Area, headquartered at College Station, Texas.
"In the early 1990's, Floyd Horn [then director of the ARS Southern Plains Area and now USDA deputy undersecretary for research, education, and economics] asked all ARS scientists to document activity they had going on with Mexico," Onstad recalls. "He received a list of 50 or 60 projects that were already under way in ARS labs all over the country."
Among the leaders was the Weslaco lab, which has a long history of outstanding cooperation with Mexico's UANL, according to UANL Secretary General Reyes S. Tamez Guerra. "These cooperative research efforts have resulted in the training of new Mexican scientists, as well as the implementation of new technologies in the field of biological control of insect pests that damage several crops important to both countries," he says.
The flourishing U.S.-Mexico scientific partnerships became more formal, beginning in 1993 with a series of meetings between the national program staffs of both USDA and its Mexican equivalent, the Secretaria de Agricultura, Ganaderia, y Desarrollo Rural.
"Our scientists have gone to Mexico, met their scientists, and toured their facilities. Mexican scientists have come here to work with us on problems of mutual interest," says Onstad. "It's an equal partnership."
Another prime example of this partnership is the cotton breeding effort under way by ARS plant geneticist Charles G. Cook. Although Cook is based at Weslaco, he often works at Las Huestecas, near Tampico on Mexico's eastern coast.
There, in cooperation with Ernesto Salgado of the Institute Nacional de Investigaciones Forestales y Agropecuarias (INIFAP), Mexico's equivalent of USDA's Agricultural Research Service, Cook is trying to develop fast-growing cotton that might "outrun" some pest attacks.
"That far south in Mexico, they don't plant cotton until June or July. So when the cotton comes out of the ground, the insects are sitting there, waiting," Cook says. "If we could get cotton in and out quicker, we could reduce the amount of chemicals farmers have to spray to fend off those pests."
Cook and Salgado have produced several very short-season lines, including Texas 121, which offers another advantage of importance on both sides of the border.
"The leaves are hairless. This makes the plant less hospitable to whiteflies, because a plant's hairs give the insects someplace to attach their eggs and provide anchors for the larvae," Cook explains.
ARS entomologist Jimmy R. Raulston has long had his eye on a different pest: Helicoverpa zea. Also known as the corn earworm, cotton bollworm, soybean podworm, or tomato fruitworm, it costs U.S. farmers nearly $1 billion annually in crop losses and control expenses.
"There's a major migration of as many as 7 billion corn earworm moths out of Mexico's Rio Bravo area, usually in early June," says Raulston, who is based at Weslaco. "Rio Bravo is Mexico's biggest irrigated corn-growing region, with about half a million acres of corn planted each year." In Mexico, the Rio Grande is called Rio Bravo.
To gauge the threat to crops and provide an early warning to U.S. growers, Raulston and Jesus Loera, an INIFAP entomologist at Rio Bravo in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, routinely take soil samples from up to 120 Mexican fields, checking for developing earworm larvae. When those larvae mature into airworthy moths, the corn in the Mexican fields will be too old for their tastes, so they'll head for greener crops in the United States.
Raulston and fellow ARS entomologist Dale W. Spurgeon are also spending time these days investigating the boll weevil.
"Cotton producers in Texas plow down their harvested fields in September, and there's no cotton available for the insects until March or April," says Raulston. "So the weevils are without a host during a cool spell and go into diapause. That's a period of temporary dormancy, when normal development is arrested," he explains.
"But down in southern Tamaulipas, cotton is harvested in December and January and not planted again until June or July, so those weevils have to get through a hot, dry spell with no host plant. We need to find out the survival mechanisms of the Mexican weevils and whether they might come to the United States and interfere with efforts to eradicate the weevil here."
In cooperation with Loera, Raulston and Spurgeon have begun trapping boll weevils at 18 locations across Tamaulipas. A second set of traps is operated by INIFAP entomologist Jesus Vargas. Several of the traps are near Mexican schools where teachers and students help collect the insects for closer study at Weslaco and at ARS' Areawide Pest Management Laboratory at College Station, Texas.
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Craig L. Wiegand takes a broader view of Mexican agriculture—usually from about 400 miles up in space. A soil scientist in the ARS Remote Sensing Research Unit at Weslaco, Wiegand has used satellite images to determine soil salinity and agricultural potential of Mexican farm fields.
"In Mexico, there are about 14.8 million acres of irrigated land, of which about 4.9 million acres are salt-affected," Wiegand explains. "Salt is always naturally present in soil and in irrigation water. If you don't add enough water to leach the salt down, it gets left in the root zone. At the same time, if you over-irrigate soils that are poorly drained, a shallow saline water table forms."
Evidence of the salt's impact is visible in LANDSAT satellite images that register healthy plants as a deep-red color, with troubled areas depicted as progressively paler.
"We've been doing this kind of work with sugarcane in the United States since about 1992," Wiegand says. "Scientists from the Mexican Institute of Water Technology at Jiutepec saw our work and asked us to work with them."
In early 1994, Wiegand went to Mexico and helped select wheat fields there for use as benchmarks. The fields' soil salinity and grain yields were measured, then compared with satellite images to calibrate the images with the ground-level findings.
By running digitized information from the images through a production equation, the scientists translated the satellite's pictures into potential yield figures for all the wheat fields in an irrigation district.
"Being able to show the salinity in a field helps the farmer decide what to grow in that field," Wiegand says. "For example, wheat's more tolerant of salt than corn and can be grown in fields where corn won't grow."
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Leonard Lane's interest in Mexican soils is more down-to-earth. A hydrologist at ARS' Southwest Watershed Research Center at Tucson, Arizona, Lane has been studying Mexico's challenging Tepatate soils since the late 1980's.
"When the good soil in Mexico's highlands erodes, the volcanic ash that's beneath it solidifies like soft concrete—that's Tepatate," explains Lane.
"The farmers have to go in and break it up with bulldozers, then pulverize it. It will grow things, but not too well. Our problem is how to build the soil back up with long-term sustainable agriculture."
Information on the Tepatate soils of Mexico will be incorporated by ARS soil scientist L.D. Norton into USDA's Water Erosion Prediction Project (WEPP) at the ARS National Soil Erosion Research Laboratory at West Lafayette, Indiana.
"The purpose of WEPP is to predict erosion of various types of soils," says Lane. "Moving into these areas of Mexico gives us additional information for the database."
Licking the Tick—and Fruit Flies and Bee Mites
While much media attention has been lavished on the northward advances through Mexico of Africanized honey bees, those aren't the only winged denizens of Central America to capture ARS scientists' attention.
Back at Weslaco, entomologist Robert L. Mangan and coworkers in the Crop Quality and Fruit Insects Research Unit are concentrating on ways to combat fruit flies on crops ranging from citrus and avocados to more exotic mangos, guavas, and other tropical fruits.
"We have a field station at General Teran in the Mexican state of Nuevo Leon where we study the natural fruit fly population, test traps and sampling methods, and do anything that involves large numbers of insects," says Mangan.
"The Mexicans have also paid for us to build a forced hot-air chamber in Tapachula to do work on guava, which they're interested in," he says.
"You can bring citrus, mangos, and most other fruit into the United States and do the research here. But guava is so heavily infested with fruit flies that it can't be brought in, so the chamber had to be built down there. We already know hot air will kill the insects. We just don't know what the product will be like after that treatment," says Mangan.
ARS and Mexican scientists have also teamed up to combat pesticide-resistant ticks on cattle and tracheal and varroa mites in honey bees.
"In Mexico, the southern cattle tick, Boophilus microplus, has developed resistance to organophosphates and pyrethroids," notes entomologist John E. George, who is in the ARS Tick Research Unit at Kerrville, Texas.
"Right now, coumaphos is the only approved chemical for use in cattle-dipping vats at the U.S. Mexico border. If pesticide-resistant ticks were to be introduced across the border, we could lose control of these disease-spreading ticks rather quickly."
Before scientists can study pesticide-resistant ticks to see what makes them different, they must be able to quickly identify the pests. But current tests can take as long as 90 days to provide that identification.
"We started work about 2 years ago with INIFAP and Texas A&M University on developing molecular probes to detect whether a tick has the genes for pesticide resistance," says George.
"Also, the ARS Veterinary Entomology Laboratory at College Station is trying to determine the biochemical mechanisms that enable ticks to be resistant. I'm hopeful that within 3 years we'll have a probe that could give us the identifications we need in just a few days."
The Weslaco lab plays a key role in monitoring changes in populations of the much-publicized Africanized honey bee.
"We had a trap line along the U.S.-Mexican border and in central Tamaulipas, about 150 miles south of the border," recalls insect geneticist Anita M. Collins, formerly head of the Honey Bee Research Unit.
"Originally, the intent was to study the process of Africanization of a honey bee population. But the traplines also served as an early warning system for the United States, as far as the location of the Africanized bees. Now, from a scientific standpoint, we want to know how much interbreeding of Africanized and European honey bees is occurring in the Mexico-Texas area."
Body size measurements of captured bees are made in a Mexican lab in Ciudad Victoria. Then sampled bees are sent to Weslaco, where scientists use ARS-developed computer software to compare the bees for distinctions ranging from wingspans to differences in their honeycomb wax.
Mexico made bee history of another kind in 1980, with the discovery there of the first tracheal mites in the Western Hemisphere outside of Brazil and Colombia.
"Tracheal mites have been in bees in Europe since at least the turn of the century," says entomologist William T. Wilson of the Honey Bee Research Unit.
"But they eventually got into Brazil and Colombia—and finally Mexico—through people bringing in queen honey bees, probably from Europe."
Within a few months of Wilson's initial report in 1980 of the arrival of tracheal mites in Mexico, they had spread to half of Mexico's 32 states. By 1984, the mites were in U.S. bee colonies, where they now cause millions of dollars in damage annually.
In 1984, working with commercial beekeeper David Cardosa at Allende, Nuevo Leon, Wilson developed a treatment to kill the mites as bees breathed menthol vapors in the hive. Later, Wilson worked with Celina Garza of the Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon on use of formic acid, a synthetic version of a component of bee venom, as a fumigant against the mites.
"In all these various projects, we're looking for ways to more efficiently and economically protect American agriculture from exotic problems, promote export of U.S. products, and meet consumer demand for a wide array of food and fiber products," says deputy undersecretary Horn.
"Mexico is our neighbor. The Mexican people are a significant market for us, and clearly their fate is tied to ours. There are many advantages to this type of scientific teamwork." — By Sandy Miller Hays, ARS.
Robert L. Mangan is at the USDA-ARS Subtropical Agricultural Research Laboratory, 2413 East Highway 83, Bldg. 200, Weslaco, TX 78596; phone (956) 447-6316, fax (956) 447-6345.
John E. George is at the USDA-ARS Livestock Insects Research Laboratory, 2700 Fredericksburg Rd., Kerrville, TX, 78029-9184; phone (830) 792-0303, fax (830) 792-0302.
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The first essential for devising an appropriate artificial diet was knowledge about the chemical composition of immature boll weevils, the preferred diet of the Catolaccus grandis wasp.
Entomologist Guadalupe Rojas and ARS scientists learned that this parasitic wasp applies a venom to its host that changes the host's chemical makeup so it never matures. The venom also liquefies the internal portion of the host, making it easier to consume and digest.
The scientists have now simulated the composition of the liquefied boll weevil with synthetic chemicals. Feeding tests show that C. grandis wasps find the simulation to be acceptable. Using the artificial diet is greatly simplifying the mass-rearing of this biocontrol agent for boll weevils.
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Eminent Victorian Chess Players: Ten Biographies (edition 2012)
by Tim Harding
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Eminent Victorian Chess Players: Ten Biographies by Tim Harding
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Eminent Victorian Chess Players embraces a wealth of detail. The editorial apparatus is bracingly thorough, including multiple indices. The included games are all indexed by opening! The ten players treated are Evans, Staunton, Loewenthal, Bird, Skipworth, Steinitz, Blackburne, Zuckertort, Burn, and Gunsberg. Each of the biographies is a considerable work, reflecting extensive research. Although providing ample biographical context in each case, these are accounts of the men as players, teachers, and organizers of chess, with details on their other employment and their family lives all as a background to their chess accomplishments. Author Harding presumes the reader's knowledge and appreciation of the 20th-century game, and in the course of these biographies he provides many perspectives on the 19th-century chess milieu, with some intimations of how it differed from what came later. In particular, he traces the development of a British chess culture over the period studied.
The volume is a significant work of chess history, exhibiting at every turn the fruits of original research. I would recommend it without reservation to those with an interest in this particular field.
Eminent Victorian Chess Players: Ten Biographies by Tim Harding
I have played chess. I thought it would be fun to read about other players. So when this book became available through Early Reviewers at LibraryThing.com, I said why not and put in my request to receive it.
This book is packed with a lot of information of the ten subjects and quite a few games are illustrated.
If you want to learn more about the Victorian era of chess or the names; William Davies Evans, Howard Staunton, John Jacob Löwenthal, Henry Edward Bird, Arthur Bolland Skipworth, William Steinitz, Joseph Henry Blackburne, Johannes Herman Zukertort, Amos Burn, Isidor Arthur Gunsberg, mean anything to you, then I would Highly recommend reading this work.
Harding has put a lot of time and dedication to researching an accurate and interesting set of ten biographies of individuals skilled at arguably the greatest game ever created. So if any part of that boring sounding title is something you are interested in, you won't be disappointed by this book.
Harding introduced me to some basic terminology, and general insights such as the fact that positional play was relatively rare at this time, in favour of combination play and gambits. Apparently a common approach to a game was to try a known gambit: the typical response was to oppose it through a known refutation ("decline the gambit"), but if not then the outcome comes down to execution of the gambit or taking advantage of mistakes on either side. In some cases, players would try their hand at variations, or perhaps develop a novel approach (as noted here by the Evans Gambit). On top of this enters considerations of psychology, knowing what type of gambit rattles one's opponent, or perhaps whether it's advantageous to prolong the play in order to wear them out mentally. Many of the masters here evidently had a mental database of gambits and how to respond to them, and also basics on combination play to attempt to exploit weaknesses.
Not much time is devoted here to the finer points of strategy, except as evident in the annotated games (here presented in algebraic notation). That's understandable, but I'm at a severe disadvantage. I especially liked the Steinetz chapter as here Harding provided the most commentary on strategy and basic chess (but not much here, either).
I found myself wanting an animated form of game notation, so I would be able to see the play unfold, rather than build a mental picture of the board as described in the notation. Clearly chess enthusiasts are accustomed to that demand on them, and I suspect many databases or chess programs have such a feature.
Harding provides a good bit of background into Victorian London, at least that part visited by gentlemen; and the class consciousness evident in the friction between amateur (gentleman) players and professional players from the middle class. The nationalist chauvanism was evident, as well.
I've read several times that baseball's statistical archives are unmatched, but I wonder if anyone with a grounding in both baseball and chess has ever passed judgement. The foundation for a solid database in chess exists in the annotation of games. Undoubtedly important facts are not recorded (perhaps time of day the game played; particulars of the board or playing environment; Edo rating of the players for the year the game is played) but most if not all the essentials are there, and metrics could be devised based upon these, much like in sabremetrics.
An intriguing sub-theme is that of the chess automaton. Harding focuses upon Mephisto, as Gunsberg evidently was a key operator, but also outlines further detail in an appendix.
I need to follow this up with a readable book on chess fundamentals. And of course, play some chess.
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Last Chance Foods: Getting to Know Gooseberries
In the 1920s, New Yorkers grew 2,700 acres of gooseberries. These days, they are a fairly rare sight, even at farmers markets. In part, that's because growing gooseberries used to be illegal in New York State. The law was enacted in the early 1900s to prevent the spread of white pine blister rust. The federal version of the law was rescinded in 1966, and New York eventually followed suit in 2003.
Dr. Brent Ridge and Josh Kilmer-Purcell of the Cooking Channel show "The Fabulous Beekman Boys" are on a mission to help gooseberries make a comeback. "I think gradually it's catching on," said Ridge. "We're going to make gooseberry cronuts or something. It needs a trend, and we're going to start it."
Ridge and Kilmer-Purcell grow gooseberries on their farm, Beekman 1802, in Sharon Springs, N.Y. "They're like a tart green grape crossed with a plum," said Ridge. "When they're ripe off the vine, they're edible raw but, most times, they're cooked."
Gooseberries are just becoming ripe in upstate New York right now. The plants yield fruit for about two weeks, and the berries soften as they ripen on the bush.
While gooseberries may seem like a relatively obscure fruit these days, Kilmer-Purcell explained how that wasn't always the case. "Gooseberries became very, very popular in the 19th century, so much so they were almost a food fad," he said. "And they spawned gooseberry clubs in England, and there were actually a couple in America."
(Photo: Brent Ridge and Josh Kilmer-Purcell/Tate Tullier)
Gardeners would compete to see who could grow the largest gooseberry. The fruit, normally the size of a grape or smaller, could grow to the size of a small plum. Judges would use individual grains of sand portioned out with a feature to get exact measurements of the entries.
"In the middle of this craze, England began trading their gooseberries with America and America began trading them back," said Kilmer-Purcell. "And then... all heck broke loose. We got the blister rust; they got a mildew from our gooseberries." That signalled the end of the fruit's popularity but, now, gooseberries are back.
Ridge said that they're are often used in baked goods like gooseberry pies because sugar offsets the fruit's tartness. Kilmer-Purcell put a modern spin on a classic English dessert with his recipe for goat cheese gooseberry fool. (The recipe is below.)
"A fool is actually one of the oldest desserts on record," he said, adding that it dates back to the Elizabethan era. "It's basically a whipped cream that is made with stewed fruit... That sweetness of the fruit with the tangy sourness of the goat cheese and whipped cream is really delicious together."
Beekman 1802 Goat Cheese Gooseberry Fool
- 2 pints fresh or frozen gooseberries
- 1/2 C honey
- 1 C soft, fresh goat cheese
- 3 C heavy whipping cream
In a heavy skillet, heat the gooseberries and 1/4C of the honey over medium heat until the berries have burst and softened. (Approx 4 minutes.) Either mash mixture with fork, or puree. Let cool, and chill in refrigerator.
In stand mixer bowl, beat goat cheese with remaining 1/4C honey on medium speed until whipped and softened. Spoon mixture into separate medium mixing bowl. Pour heavy cream to the empty stand mixer bowl, and whip until barely thickened. (Don't whip until stiff, as one would traditional whipped cream.) Gently fold the whipped cream into the goat cheese honey mixture, and allow to chill thoroughly.
To serve, spoon gooseberry mixture into decorative stemmed glasses until about 1/3 full. Top with cream, honey and goat cheese mixture. Garnish with raw gooseberry, or its cousin — red or black currants.


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SUNNYVALE, Calif., Apr. 19, 2011 – Palo Alto Networks™, the network security company, today announced that NSS Labs awarded Palo Alto Networks the "Recommended" rating for passing all tests, including the TCP split-handshake spoof test, within its Network Firewall 2011 Comparative Test.
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In his short tenure at the helm in the Big Apple, New York Jets general manager John Idzik has wasted little time in making wholesale changes to the organization.
In the latest of sweeping front office modifications, the Jets will reportedly not renew the contracts of assistant general manager Scott Cohen and director of football administration Art Nassim. Both Nassim and Cohen were instrumental in building the Jets' consecutive runs to AFC Championship games in 2009 and 2010, but apparently wore out their welcome after Gang Green finished out of the playoffs for the second consecutive season.
With just a handful of holdovers from former general manager Mike Tannenbaum's reign in New York, Idzik seems determined to operate with a clean slate by hand-picking his executive staff. Earlier this offseason the Jets parted ways with several long-time scouts in an apparent shift in philosophy and vision. Gang Green's post-draft house cleaning had been rumored for weeks.
The Jets didn't hesitate to shakeup their leadership along the sidelines replacing offensive coordinator Tony Sparano with Marty Mornhinweg, defensive coordinator Mike Pettine with Dennis Thurman, offensive line coach Dave DeGuglielmo with former quarterbacks coach Mike Devlin and bringing in quarterbacks coach David Lee along with promoting Ben Kotwica to special teams coordinator following Mike Westhoff's departure.
With fresh faces across the coaching staff and front office, the 2013 version of the New York Jets are looking to shed the 'Circus' label by cleaning house and starting fresh. Rex Ryan and Dennis Thurman were among the few coaches who survived the offseason purge, and another subpar season could usher even more changes in Florham Park.


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The Eclipse Reconciler
One aspect of implementing a text editor in Eclipse that I've found to be tricky is the reconciler. In this post, I'll detail some of the lessons I've learned. I'm assuming you've gotten as far as creating a basic editor. The reconciler is a background process in your editor responsible for updating your model when the user takes a break from typing. The kinds of things it should update are:
- Elements displayed in the outline view
- Error markers
- Folding regions
Some editor programmers don't seem to know that the reconciler even exists. They usually take one of two approaches: update the entire model on every keystroke or update the model only when the user saves. Neither of these is very satisfying, especially for users familiar with editing Java in Eclipse. The former approach leads to poor performance on large files. The latter requires the user to save constantly to find out whether errors exist or get an up to date outline.
So, how does the reconciler work? The reconciler runs as a background thread in Eclipse. It sets a timer which will trigger a reconcile whenever it expires. Each time the user types a keystroke, the timer is reset. In this way, the user can type a great deal of text without being interrupted by the reconciling process. Once the user pauses, as all humans must, the reconciler's timer expires and the model is updated.
Creating a Reconciler
Eclipse uses the strategy pattern to separate the timer/keystroke logic from the details of updating your model. The MonoReconciler is the simplest implementation of the timer/keystroke logic. It is configured with an instance of IReconcilingStrategy which is responsible for updating your model, i.e. you implement this interface.
The basic procedure for setting up your reconciler and reconciling strategy are:
- Implement IReconcilingStrategy. You'll want to implement the non-incremental version of reconcile(), i.e. reconcile(IRegion partition). More on this below.
- In your editor's SourceViewerConfiguration, override getReconciler() to return an instance of MonoReconciler, initialized with an instance of your reconciling strategy and isIncremental set to false
That's it. Now when your editor is created, your reconciler will be initialized and the reconcile() method will be called whenever the user modifies the document. I usually store a reference to the editor itself in the strategy object.
The Reconciler Runs in Its Own Thread!
It's important to always remember that the reconciler runs in its own thread, as with most stuff in Eclipse. It's safe to access the document, but there are few other things you need to keep in mind:
- All SWT/JFace operations must be executed in the UI thread. So, if you want to update your outline view after a reconcile, you'll have to use Display.asyncExec().
- Your model also has to be thread safe. If it's being update in the reconciler thread and read from in the UI thread to update the outline view, you're going to need some synchronization.
- It is safe to add warning and error markers to the file from the reconciler thread
If your model is simple enough, one simple solution to this problem is to have the reconciler construct an entirely new model each time it runs and then pass it on to the editor with Display.asyncExec(). This way there are no shared objects between the threads and thus, no syncrhonization problems.
What if the user doesn't start typing right away?
After you've implemented your reconciler, everything will seem great. Great until you (or a user) decides to just view a file without editing it. They'll find that their outline view is not updated. Same with folding ranges, etc. The problem is that your reconciling strategy is not run until the document is actually modified. Go figure. If only there was a way to tell the reconciler, "Hey, how about an initial reconcile pass on the document right when it's opened?".
Fortunately, a friendly Eclipse programmer also thought of this question. Rather than implementing IReconcilingStrategy, try IReconcilingStrategyExtension. This adds an initialReconcile() method where you can do an … well, you get the idea.
What about the incremental reconciler?
If you poke around in the reconciler interfaces a bit you'll notice there are actually two modes of operation. The non-incremental mode simply tells you that the document has been modified with little additional information. The incremental mode tells you about what's changed in the document each time that reconcile() is called. It tells you when text has been added or removed and from where in the document. That sounds pretty useful!
On my last Eclipse editor project, I wanted to take advantage of this. If I knew which part of the document has changed, I could just reparse that section and update the affected model elements. I actually foolishly went through all the trouble of implementing this logic and then gave it a try. Things did not work as I expected. There is a fatal flaw in the incremental mode: By the time the reconciler is called, the document may have been modified further so all the modification information is provides is basically useless!
I believe this is caused by two factors. First, because it is multi-threaded, it's hard to lock the document and still maintain the "update in the background" semantics of the reconciler. Second, the incremental reconcile() method only provides information about a single modification, i.e. an insert or delete in the document. So if the user does the classic "insert character + down arrow" editing technique to say comment out a bunch of lines, the reconciler will get called for each individual change, but the document will already contain all the modifications when the first reconcile call is made. D'oh.
When I realized it works like this, I did a bunch of searches on Eclipse newsgroups, google code, etc. I came to the conclusion that either no one has ever actually used the incremental reconciler, or they have and then silently slunk back to the non-incremental version when the found this fatal flaw.
If I'm wrong about this, I'd love to hear why!


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TORONTO, March 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Pacific Rubiales Energy Corp. (TSX: PRE; BVC: PREC; BOVESPA: PREB) announced today that a commercial arbitration decision in Colombia has been rendered in connection with its dispute with Ecopetrol, S.A. ("Ecopetrol") regarding the interpretation of the high-prices clause ("PAP") of its Quifa Association Contract. The Company is evaluating the decision as it leaves open several unresolved issues. The Company is also evaluating all of its alternative remedies under Colombian laws and applicable international treaties. The Company's share of production in the Quifa SW field is 60% after royalties. This participation may decrease when the application of the PAP is triggered. On September 27, 2011, Ecopetrol and the Company agreed on an arbitration process to settle differences in the interpretation of the PAP clause in the Quifa Association Contract and its effect on their share of production. On March 13, 2013, the arbitration panel delivered its decision interpreting that the PAP formula should be calculated on 100% of the production of the Quifa SW field, instead of simply the Company's 60%. However, the arbitration panel expressly denied Ecopetrol's demand for an order for Pacific Rubiales to deliver the associated volumes of hydrocarbons as a result of its interpretation of the PAP formula. The arbitration decision is not yet firm nor does it provide enforceable remedies against the Company. In the event that the interpretation of the PAP formula by the arbitration panel becomes enforceable, the Company would be required to deliver an additional 1,393,252 bbl of oil to Ecopetrol, representing Ecopetrol's additional share in Quifa SW production from April 3, 2011 to December 31, 2012, which in any case would be delivered in kind from future production out of 10% of its daily net share of production of the Quifa SW field (as of today, approximately 2,270 bbl/d over a 20 month period). This additional volume has been recorded as an over-lift on the Company´s consolidated financial statements as at December 31, 2012. As a result of the above and under prudent accounting practice, a provision has been made in the Company´s 2012 year-end financials to account for cumulative amounts accrued as follows:


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Good morning from The Oval -- it's that time of year again.
The cameras are ready, the lights are working, and the stage is set -- President Obama delivers his annual State of the Union address at 9 p.m., eastern time.
The president is expected to focus on jobs and budget deficits in his speech, in an effort to strike what USA TODAY's Richard Wolf and Mimi Hall call a moderate tone.
Jobs and general uncertainty about the economy are the president's primary concern; with the unemployment rate at 9.4%, USA TODAY's Susan Page writes about how too many Americans have lost their optimism as well as their jobs.
Obama will also be speaking to a different kind of audience; USA TODAY's Gregory Korte writes about how congressional Democrats and Republicans plan to sit together as a sign of national unity, just a few weeks that after the Arizona mass shooting that killed six and wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz.
There will be an empty seat in the House chamber tonight to honor Giffords.
The president's State of the Union guests, sitting in the gallery with first lady Michelle Obama, will include the intern who saved Giffords' life, reports Donna Leinwand of USA TODAY.
The formal Republican response to Obama's speech will be delivered by Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., chairman of the House Budget Committee. The rising Republican star will discuss budget cuts.
And another prominent Republican, Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, will deliver a Tea Party version of the State of the Union.
USA TODAY will be covering the speech throughout the day and into the night, so keep checking our website.
In other news:
Russia is investigating a major terrorist attack at Moscow's airport that killed at least 35 people.
Obama climate adviser Carol Browner is leaving her post.
An historian is accused of altering an Abraham Lincoln document.
Former White House of Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel has been kicked off the Chicago mayoral ballot by a state court; he is appealing.
We're still running here at The Oval, so keep clicking in for news on the State of the Union and other news from the White House.
David's journalism career spans three decades, including coverage of five presidential elections, the Oklahoma City bombing, the 2000 Florida presidential recount and the 9/11 terrorist attacks. He has covered the White House for USA TODAY since 2005. His interests include history, politics, books, movies and college football -- not necessarily in that order. More about David
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"OB is one of the best workout guys I've seen. He really is concerned with getting players better and helping their development on and off the court."
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"Padraig O'Brien is one of the top developers of basketball talent in the Valley. His effectiveness with all levels from Pros to Young players is remarkable."
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i'm not that familiar with wordpress blogs, but after following an incoming link from wordpress, i landed on this blog called "kuwait blogs suck" who made a tribute to our blog! so here's the link and enjoy the hilarious hypothetical conversation with 965malls.
Archive for August, 2012
FLAMES!!Thursday, August 30th, 2012
Meeting our No 1 fan!Thursday, August 30th, 2012
we're not known to be very sociable, but this time we decided to meet our number one fan, TKG - actually, if it wasn't for the summer friends post, we probably wouldn't have been encouraged to meet.
anyways, we finally met at nestle marina mall for coffee, and our no 1 fan and commenter turned out to be a sweet heart - i was really impressed by his personality, his values and views on life - i was so relieved to see that not all young people are shallow, some of them have a great perspective on life and want to make a positive change - what is interesting, is that everything we talked about was reflected one way or the other in that beautiful wall next to us, every word was the topic of a conversation.. amazing!
TKG is also a blogger, a creative cook, a young guy with a dynamic mind, but if i allow myself to give him an advice it would be to enjoy his youth and leave the big, stressful issues till the coming years..
may be we should make this a trend, meeting regularly with our fans, it is very interesting to put a face to a name and get to know the people who comment on your blog - anyone interested?
great meeting you TKG, all the best in your job hunt!
A rare exception…Monday, August 27th, 2012
we often receive emails asking us to post news on a new blog, a new venture or some other weird stuff and we usually either ignore, reply negatively or write a post if the news is unique - this time there was no news, but quite a unique request from a guy called omar, who is basically looking for a good driver to race with him as a team, on a 24 hour kart race! i found the request so strange and unique i decided to make an exception and help him out, so here's his email:
"Hello my name is Omar, and I need some drivers to participate with me in a 24 hr kart race. I am taking this race seriously so there are some important things that I want from the driver:
- has experience in motor racing (important)
- someone fit
- over 18
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KD 6.5 for this??!!Sunday, August 26th, 2012
i was at salhia complex last thursday so i decided to stop by cafe royal for breafkast, though i had decided long time ago to boycott that place because of bad service - nevertheless, i wanted to check if things have improved, so i ordered the american breakfast without bacon - i was so shocked by the size of that portion, it felt as if i was having a kid's meal! i dropped the orange juice on my pants, so i basically had half the glass, but of course no one rushed to help me clean up, the waiters where simply watching!!
the worst thing was the price, kd 6.5 for this breakfast!! i swear mcdonald's breakfast is like 10 times better and may be 6 times less the price!!
anyways, i can confirm that the service is still as bad as it were a few months back and certainly not worth the bill!
Hallelujah!Saturday, August 25th, 2012
i was at the sheraton roundabout a couple of days ago so i took the road towards the church to see if the constructions were over - excuse the pun, but hallelujah!!! it's been probably 5 years now that this road was closed, i can't tell you the traffic it created especially on fridays as the christian community in kuwait assembles in that area for prayers & community functions.
personally, i'm ecstatic, i hated that traffic every friday!
When theft is left unpunished…Thursday, August 23rd, 2012
i read this article on arabtimes about a 13-year-old boy who managed to break into 17 cars during ramadan - the story could have been labeled as juvenile crimes news, but something was seriously wrong with that story as i read through it - can you imagine that this boy was sent away from iran by his father, to live with his mother in kuwait after many people started accusing him of theft!!
i can't believe this! so instead of straightening the boy, dad decides to export the problem to kuwait?? how irresponsible is that??
Mo'men now open in SalmiyaWednesday, August 22nd, 2012
back in a april, we wrote about mo'men replacing health stop soon, it seems that the egyptian fast food chain actually opened over eid - mo'men is quick service sandwich restaurant that opened in egypt back 1998 and grew to become a franchise with restaurants in bahrain, uae, sudan, malaysia, lybia and now kuwait.
i stopped by yesterday to try a few sandwiches, i ordered the filly cheese steak and a mix seafood sandwich - they were both very good, the bun is soft and the medium size is quite filling - i was a bit annoyed by the smell of the place, something was burning and it was suffocating! however the price does not suffocate at all, a medium combo meal + sandwich for kd 2.4!!
i will sure try other sandwiches at mo'men, if you happen to pass by salem almubarak street, the restaurant is located right after missoni hotel - hot number 1827700.
Awesome posters at Crepaway!Tuesday, August 21st, 2012
we were at crepaway broumana yesterday where we spotted these awesome advertisements - the first one above was in the washroom, and it basically says "for your ads in our toilets, wash your hands then contact us on email@example.com - i think this is quite funny!
on one of the restaurants walls, this hilarious banner says "we thought long and hard about what to write here" - love it!!
as for this banner on the exit door, it simply says "crazy world out there" - couldn't agree more!! brilliant copy, way to go crepaway!
A day on the beachMonday, August 20th, 2012
we took the kids to the beach the other day, a resort called "manar" in jounieh - the place is small, cute and neat, but mostly populated by elderly people and their grandchildren - for me, beach means the sea, sandy or rocky, preferably rocky - so the view above represents going to the beach and i love it.
as for the kids, going to the beach is a totally different experience, they prefer the pool and the springboard - for them the sea is scary and they prefer to stay away from its sands and rocks - not sure how to make them change their minds, this is a bit frustrating for me, they should develop a preference to the natural sandy beaches over the above fake environment.
the best view remains the mountains - quite a strategic spot from where we were sitting, from one side the beach, the other the mountains and the pools - i'll choose the mountains over the beach any day of the year!
Meet Shawarma JosephSunday, August 19th, 2012
there's this great shawarma place in beirut sin el-fil area, called joseph - joseph is a restaurant offering all kinds of sandwiches but the shawarma is simply exquisite! the chicken spit is so huge, i've never seen anything like it before - it's like 70 or 80 cm wide! as for the taste, it is awesome, one of the best in beirut - if you happen to pass by sin el-fil, do stop by joseph and try the shawarma.
by the way, I forgot to mention the "meghle", it's this yummy lebanese sweets usually made when a child is born, you can also find it at joseph's and it is absolutely awesome.
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Sacred Heart Primary School
Read on to learn about the Geology of the area around our school in Uganda, Africa.
Special thanks to Sr. Irene Cullen for
the pictures!
Most of Africa is a series of stable, ancient plateau surfaces, low in the north and west and higher (rising to more than 6,000 ft/1,830 m) in the south and east. The plateau is composed mainly of metamorphic rock that has been overlaid in places by sedimentary rock.Schist is a fault in weak sedimentary rock.Granite an igneous rock flows into those cracks. Gneiss rocks are also present. These rocks may have been granite, but heat and pressure changed them.The mineral grains in the rock were flattened through tremendous heat and pressure and are arranged in alternating patterns.
Here is a good site with animations and photos. It is made for children of 4th grade on to read: Rock Hounds
Sr. Irene Cullen says that, "The Masaka area of Uganda where our school is built is partly swamp, vegetation and savannah".Ugandan temperature varies little throughout the year, The climate is typical of countries at the equator but the temperature is cooled a bit by the altitude. Rainfall is greatest bordering Lake Victoria.
Some of our Geological information was gathered from this site: Geology and Geography
Note that much of the work is done by hand. The men are bringing up the loose dirt and rocks from the bottom of the pit by passing it from one person to another. They have a small bulldozer to level the dirt and rocks.
One of the supports for the columns.The support beams are made on the ground and lifted by the men into a cement base structure.
Map: Living Encyclopedia for Uganda
Masaka, where our school is located, is close to Lake Victoria. The Lake Victoria area is in between two rifts in the earth's crust. The whole area is on a plate that is heading east. Madagascar has already been separated from the continent of Africa this way. This process takes millions of years, so don't worry our new school is not going into a new ocean any time soon. See:African Geology
The cement is being smoothed for the foundation.
The bricks shown are made by hand by the men with the money raised from the students.
Here the classrooms are taking shape.
This is our new school!
The African Bishops have spoken out forcefully for the women of our continent. They are convinced that "to educate a woman is to educate a people."
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Troops scratch the 7-year-itch called Saddam
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The whine of turbine engines fills the skies over southside Savannah. The tarmac at Hunter Army Airfield seems to groan under the weight of C-5 transport planes, those flying behemoths that look big enough to swallow entire buildings and seem to defy gravity every time they take off.
Here we go again.
It seems like only yesterday when soldiers from Hunter and nearby Fort Stewart took to the skies on Uncle Sam Airways, bound for a sand trap of a place with beetles, scorpions and a huge amount of precious oil under the ground.
Actually, it was a little more than seven years ago
when about 15,000 local Army troops from Fort Stewart/Hunter left home and flew halfway around the globe to swat a pesky, but dangerous, Saddam Hussein. The Butcher of Baghdad was battered. But like a nasty 7-year itch, he's back to some of his old horrible tricks, like accumulating biological and chemical weapons that he has apparently tested on some of his own people.
Now it's up to the U.S. and its allies to again pull the bacon from the Iraqi fire.
President Clinton still talked last week about diplomatic solutions. So did the head of the United Nations. Meanwhile, the first of 3,000 soldiers from Fort Stewart/Hunter told their families good-bye and boarded airplanes. They went because it's their job. It's what they have been trained to do, and paid to do, and they do it well.
Last Wednesday, a four-star general from Washington visited Fort Stewart to help pump up the departing troops. He said the deployment was moving swiftly and smoothly because of the lessons learned during Operation Desert Storm in 1991.
But this was still the Army. Some things never change.
The same day the general was lauding the system, an Army lieutenant and a sergeant were pushing three loaded grocery carts through the checkout line at the Wal-Mart store in Chatham Plaza, just outside the fence around Hunter. The buggies were crammed with new Coleman lanterns, stoves and one portable sewing machine.
The lieutenant said they didn't have much choice except to go on a last-minute shopping spree to meet some of the soldiers' needs. He said they were being deployed so quickly that the Army's supply system could not keep up with all the demands.
Gulf War I and the events leading up to it were electric. When Maj. Gen. Barry McCaffrey stood on the steps of Savannah City Hall on Aug. 10, 1990, and said, ''The Army is on the move,'' everyone took notice and got anxious.
Maybe it was because so many troops had not been sent for a long time to such a hot spot, which was then occupied by the world's fourth largest army. Maybe people didn't know what to expect. Maybe the public had not been seduced by the notion that wars can be relatively bloodless affairs, thanks to smart bombs and guided missiles.
President Bush visited Fort Stewart at one point to speak to families of soldiers who were deployed to the Gulf. He promised to ''end the nightmare'' of Iraq's occupation of Kuwait. He pledged to bring all the troops home as soon as the conflict ended.
One of the finer moments of that period took place on Capitol Hill -- thoughtful, impassioned debate in Congress about whether American soldiers had any business fighting a war in the Middle East. U.S. Rep. Lindsay Thomas, the Democrat who represented Savannah and southeast Georgia's 1st District, voted in favor of deployment. He would later say that it was one of his toughest decisions.
Unfortunately, neither President Clinton nor Congress appears willing to press for an open, honest discussion in the same forum about the latest U.S. intentions in the Gulf. Instead, Clinton's image-makers would rather do an Oprah Winfrey imitation and stage town meetings in Heartland, USA, to find out what the ''real people'' have on their minds.
Last week's show in Columbus, Ohio, looked less like Oprah and more like Jerry Springer.
No one knows how long the troops will be gone this time. In 1990-91, most soldiers were away for about six months. Hinesville was a ghost town.
Much depends on U.S. objectives this time, which are fuzzier than Clinton's responses to the Kenneth Starr/Monica Lewinsky matter. Such uncertainty is troubling.
Saddam has already played the U.S. and the rest of the world like a yo-yo. Perhaps that was unexpected. Who could have guessed seven years ago that this megalomaniac had the kind of staying power to remain in control after Gulf War I decimated his country?
Now there is no excuse. The world knows what Saddam is like and what he is capable of doing. Clipping his yo-yo string so he doesn't pull it every seven years must be a goal.
Soldiers of the 3rd Infantry Division are capable of doing the hard part. But they don't pick these fights. That's up to Clinton and Congress.
Elected leaders must work out a way to finally end these 20-hour plane rides and the long-term deployments to godforsaken deserts. They must be all that they can be -- just like the young men and women who have no choice and are leaving on a wing and many prayers.
Tom Barton is the editorial page editor of the Morning News.
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On 3-2-1942, "Life" magazine published map diagrams detailing the plans of the Nazis to invade America shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor, which never ended up happening.
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This is a study for one of the paintings in a new series I will be doing. The Series will be titled "The Forbidden Landscape Series"
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Good combo for 2B hair
I've just recently started wearing my hair curly again, so I decided to try a rather odd mixture today and see what happened. I mixed Aura gel (from Sally's) and Paul Mitchell Super Skinny Serum (about 1/4 amt less than the Aura) and VIOLA! I had frizz free well-defined curls! :) Of course, I had to scrunch out some of the crunchiness from the Aura...but after that...frizz free well-defined curls!
Hope this helps somebody! Have a curly day!
I'll have to see about this super skinny serum stuff. I SO want to like Aura and have used it numerous ways, but I just don't think I'll ever find a good combo for it. The only one I've ever had any luck with is to mix it with a little bit of Biosilk RHG. I have a feeling the serum isn't CG, though, and I try to stay as CG as possible.
Glad this worked for your hair!
Do you actually mix them together in your hands or put one on then the other? Thanks,
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To report these for tax purposes you will record $100 as revenue, then $90 as cost of goods sold which will leave you with a net income of $10. Only the $10 is taxable, but you want to show how you got there.
This way, if you're audited your revenue matches your deposits.
By reporting the full amount as income, I believe we would pay local taxes on the full $100.00 as a business tax. Am I correct about the normal way local taxes are collected, or do they allow for a deduction of "Cost of Goods Sold"?
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I am thinking local Fairfax County business tax. On their business application they ask for "Gross Sales". Would we have $100 or $10 in gross sales in this example?
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The N4955A is an affordable and compact pattern generator remote head available in two-tap and four-tap de-emphasis configurations. Compatible with the N4965A Serial BERT controller, it is an ideal solution to test up to 12.5 Gb/s per channel for characterizing multi-lane serial data channels. The N4955A pattern generator supports PRBS, clock, and DC logic patterns and operates up to 12.5 Gb/s with differential of single-ended connections. The remote head allows the test equipment to be located very close to the device under test, eliminating the need for long cables that degrade signal quality.
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