Portable tool cleans pipes and tubing

Portable tool cleans and polishes the external surfaces of tubes and pipes without contaminating the interior areas with loose particles. The tool is driven by an electric drill and is connected to a vacuum source that removes debris resulting from the cleaning and polishing action

Pipe cutting tool is useful in limited space

Portable pipe cutting tool is used in areas of limited space. The pipe is clamped in the tool and then cut by a rotating cutter assembly that is internally connected to a drive shaft engaged in the chuck of a portable electric drill. The tool is held in a fixed position during the cutting operation

Effects of Forward Error Correction on Communications Aware Evasion Attacks

Recent work has shown the impact of adversarial machine learning on deep neural networks (DNNs) developed for Radio Frequency Machine Learning (RFML) applications. While these attacks have been shown to be successful in disrupting the performance of an eavesdropper, they fail to fully support the primary goal of successful intended communication. To remedy this, a communications-aware attack framework was recently developed that allows for a more effective balance between the opposing goals of evasion and intended communication through the novel use of a DNN to intelligently create the adversarial communication signal. Given the near ubiquitous usage of forward error correction (FEC) coding in the majority of deployed systems to correct errors that arise, incorporating FEC in this framework is a natural extension of this prior work and will allow for improved performance in more adverse environments. This work therefore provides contributions to the framework through improved loss functions and design considerations to incorporate inherent knowledge of the usage of FEC codes within the transmitted signal. Performance analysis shows that FEC coding improves the communications aware adversarial attack even if no explicit knowledge of the coding scheme is assumed and allows for improved performance over the prior art in balancing the opposing goals of evasion and intended communications

Andrew Beatty, Varieties of Javanese Religion. An Anthropological Account

The title of this innovative volume on the “religion(s)” practised by east Javanese peasants recalls the lectures given at the beginning of the twentieth century by William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902?). James pioneered an empirical approach to comparative religion. One is also led here to measure the progress accomplished since that date by anthropological studies of religion. Andrew Beatty, although dealing with a single set of hamlets in a dictatorial political syste..

Creative Sanctions for Discovery Abuse in Texas.

Creative sanctions are necessary to deter litigants from abusing the discovery process. Under both the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure, creative sanctions are allowed and within a judge’s discretion. Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 37 and Texas Rule of Civil Procedure 215 provide judges a non-exhaustive list of available sanctions to deter abusive discovery practices. Nonetheless, discovery abuse has continued to escalate, and limited precedence exists in the field despite the increased use of sanctions. An unprecedented creative sanction was imposed by Judge Brotman of the District Court for the Virgin Islands. On appeal, however, the Third Circuit reversed the district court’s creative sanction imposing a $1 million contribution to the construction of a halfway house. Braden v. South Main Bank currently stands as the only Texas case on record in which a judge successfully imposed a creative sanction for discovery abuse. In Braden, the Texas Supreme Court upheld the trial court’s sanction requiring two attorneys to perform ten hours of community service. The Court ruled that a sanction will be upheld so long as it is enforced following litigation, is “just,” and there is a relationship between the offensive conduct and the sanction imposed. Based on the Texas Supreme Court’s holding in Braden, the Court should adopt Rule 215.7 which proposes to include creative sanctions such as completion of community service, mandating additional hours of continuing legal education, paying a monetary sum to a third party not directly involved with the present litigation, and requiring the abusive party to fund the creation of a legal education program on ethics and professionalism. Creative sanctions, not limited to the above, are essential to achieve the goals of compliance, deterrence, and punishment