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Words of Faint Praise
Today's topic is not very academic, but is worth discussing in relation to the American dialect(s). I've lived as an American my whole life, and something I find endlessly fascinating about our speech are 'faint praise words.' These are non-committal congratulations and compliments that, when you think about it, don't much compliment or congratulate anything. Words such as:
1.) Cool. This is still the reigning king of such pleasantries. Ostensibly an old jazz term, 'cool' once meant something hip or trendy. (And still does, of course). However, it's become a half-hearted platitude in all kinds of contexts. 'I'm going to an antiques fair this weekend' might prompt a 'That sounds really cool.' I doubt the respondent in this interchange actually thinks antiquing is hip.
'Cool,' I would surmise, originally derived from a sense of laid-back joie de vivre. We still use the word in this way, for example when we tell an angry person to 'keep their cool,' meaning to 'cool' one's passions. Which is why the word is somewhat strange in the context of praise or enthusiasm. It suggests something agreeable, not exciting. Which is perhaps Americans why adapted …
2.) Awesome. This word doesn't much change from its dictionary meaning, keeping its definition of something awe-inspiring. However, the ubiquity of the word in contemporary American English robs it of much of its gusto. We say 'This pasta is awesome,' 'My apartment is awesome,' or 'Your job in insurance adjustment sounds awesome.' Are any of these things mind-blowingly impressive? Not necessarily. In essence, this is the inverse of 'cool;' In the case of 'awesome,' we take a word conveying breathtaking excitement and make it surprisingly banal.
One of the unfortunate results of this reappropriation of 'awesome' is that when one requires use of the word in its traditional sense it is easily misinterpreted. A classical music critic might write of Faure's 'awesome Requiem,' and while the word makes sense in this context, it can be interpreted as alarmingly off-the-cuff by contemporary readers. Such is language evolution.
3.) Neat. I can think of few words laced with as much withering neutrality as 'neat.' When we describe an experience as 'neat,' as in 'We had a really neat time at the zoo,' we are suggesting something that is quite literally clean, ordered and convenient. There is nothing dangerous or exciting about something that is 'neat.' Rather, it's something pleasant, non-threatening, and uncomplicated. And of course, the word's more human-applicable cousin is …
4.) Nice. On occasion, I've heard both the terms 'Seattle nice' and 'Minnesota nice' refer to their respective localities. Neither equate to outgoing, gregarious demeanors. Rather, we refer to Minnesota and Seattle, two of America's more Scandinavian-influenced cultures, as having a mixture of surface friendliness and cold weather reserve.
'Nice' is decidedly unsexy, which is why it's something we Americans are very ambivalent about being called. 'Girls don't like nice guys' is a common (and decidedly misogynistic) refrain, which exemplefies our strange attitudes about niceness. We all want to be nice, but don't necessarily want what comes with it. And so, again, we use 'nice' to denote something we feel very neutrally about.
So what's with all these words? Pragmatically speaking, they seem to serve the purpose of withholding judgement in as pleasant a way as possible. That's not to say I have any problem with you going to the zoo, just that I am not particularly
interested in the fact that you are going to the zoo, and so interject with a meaningless, 'Going to the zoo sounds awesome.'
I don't mean to suggest this kind of thing only exists in America. Far from it. I'm fairly certain all the above pleasantries have made their way into the British Isles and elsewhere.
But I am reminded of all this when I hear a common British observation: that we Americans are 'direct' in our language. In fact, our tendency to use the polite words above suggests we may be indirect in a rather different way. Rather than buffeting our statements with a lot of 'rather's and 'quite's, we Americans seem to codify specific words so they are understood by all parties to be inexpressive of actual emotion.
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20 Responses to Words of Faint Praise
At times, I still hear "cool" and "awesome" used for entirely positive things. It's all down to context and tone.
However, there's a distinctly neutral use of "cool" that I hear among young American men, especially among southerners and AAVE speakers: "It's cool" or "that's cool" as a way of indicating that an error does not need to be remedied and/or as a response to an apology to indicate that the speaker has no hard feelings towards the target. It can, like most any of the other stock responses in this situation, also have a subtext of temporary irritation or carry outright sarcasm.
That's kind of an old-ish usage. "That's cool" meaning "fuggedaboutit."
Sean Riley says:
Another phrase which has the same meaning as that and is used by AAVE speakers where I live is "you're straight" or "you straight". I really like that phrase.
Park SB says:
"Which is perhaps Americans why adapted …"
Did you mean "why Americans adapted"?
No, he meant it in the way that makes no sense (?????)
No, I don't think you understand: he made a mistake and I was correcting him. The writers of most blogs I visit want you to correct their mistakes and will even thank you for doing so. Thanks for the Internet sarcasm though. It amused me greatly.
I mean it as a compliment, and since I have spent a lot of time in Minnesota, went to college there, and grew up nearby, I'd take "Minnesota nice" as a compliment – an accurate compliment in that it describes behavior that is pleasant and appropriate, not too stingy and not overblown.
I'd have a similar take on "neat" as in "that's a neat trick." I'm saying I like it, and that it might be a useful technique.
It would be interesting to do a survey – maybe on Survey Monkey – to see how people react to these terms. I'm guessing that "cool" is still pretty groovy and that awesome is quite positive even though the phenomenon in question no longer inspires awe.
Now, when you've defended your doctoral dissertation, you'd like to hear your colleagues say it was fantastic or at least fascinating. You probably would be disappointed if they say it was nice or neat, so the aspect of faint praise is a possibility.
Each of these terms is interesting in terms of semantic changes over time. Terms narrow, broaden, shift and tend to weaken over time. Nice started as silly/foolish, then timid, then fussy, then delicate, then precise, then agreeable.
Neat began as clean/pure, then elegant, then very good (now just OK?).
Sooryan FM says:
Awesome and awful come from the same word, but one word kept the E while the other didn't.
Well, I guess when you're *full* of awe, you've had too much of a good thing, eh?
"Interesting" has long since ceased to mean anything of the sort. In about half of the cases I hear it, it's practically a poor actor's way of trying to veil discomfort or unhappiness (especially with gifts). The other half of the time it means "I don't agree with what's been said at all, but I don't want to talk about it any more than we already have, so I'll implicitly draw attention to its real or imagined uniqueness and leave it at that."
Another related phenomenon is kindly prefacing everything with "really" then retracting that sentiment (out of fear or because it was insincere) by also prefacing everything with "kind of". "Wow, that was really kind of cool."
I think these words can change pretty fast. I remember "neat!" being a pretty genuine word on TV and in speech in the 1990s. I assume at one point that "fine" (Hey, son, how was school today? Fine.) meant something other than "there are no problems that concern you, now leave me alone and stop asking questions".
If I hear anyone utter "oh yeah?" when i'm trying to tell them a story, I know they arent listening, or care…how?..because I do it too!!
I see "cool" (especially) also used as simply a placeholder that gets the speaker away from listening to someone to saying what he/she wants to say.
I've seen the same phenomenon, amplified, with the word "so" (I'd love to see this examined further). Time after time lately, in radio or TV interviews, the interviewer will introduce the concept behind, say, an author's book, and the author will begin answering with the word "so" ("So the first thing you need to understand about the financial crisis is…") where "so" makes no sense: it's not the "effect" of a "cause" articulated by the interviewer; it's just a clumsy way of saying, "I'm talking now," with an uncomfortable sense that the previous speaker was just wasting our time. (I hope this is coming across the way I intend. I don't have a ready example, but it seems very pervasive—with Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert's guests, for example.)
Yup Tom, it's all over the BBC here in Britain and it's really annoying. I think you describe perfectly how using 'so' to start a sentence can denigrate the previous speaker and I also feel it's a bit pretentious, as if what the new speaker is about to say encompasses really difficult concepts that others might not readily understand unless we are prompted that this is the important bit to listen to, with the use of 'so'.
Lane says:
I took a look at the rise of "awesome" (and its offshoot "awful") here,
http://moreintelligentlife.com/content/ideas/robert-lane-greene/just-awesome
It seems the dulling of once-powerful words is pretty inevitable. Terrible/terrific, fantastic, horrible, etc. Airplane food would not have been "terrible" three centuries ago (and not only because there were no airplanes).
Meta says:
How about the internet saying, "cool story, bro"? There, "cool" means something like gaelsano described with "interesting": "What you said is not interesting or relevant enough to justify the long time that you took to talk about it. However, it would be rude of me to say so, and I would rather drop the subject altogether, so I will say something mildly positive that barely meets my obligations of politeness as a conversational partner." But, of course, the "cool" in "cool story, bro" is supposed to be transparently false. "Cool story, bro" is unambiguously negative and a little rude. This makes it very well suited to the internet, where more rudeness is tolerated, but not so much to face-to-face conversations.
Appealing and appalling seem like a better pair. 😉
Nice is one of my favourite pejoratives, for specific situations. Whenever pedantic prescriptivists get all prissy about words changing their meaning and insist on sticking to the "original" definition, I tell them to stop being so nice. I can't think of a word that better illustrates the way words evolve, starting off as a pejorative, wending its way through several levels of compliment and then, through overuse being stripped of any meaning to the pint where it is once again a pejorative, albeit of a different kind from its origin.
Mudge says:
I wrote my own little rant about this back in August:
http://kitchenmudge.wordpress.com/2011/08/17/hes-doing-that-again/
Larry S says:
Like many things in language, this is complicated, because I've also heard "nice" used in a definitely positive sense in the last few years, especially by males around my age (22) and younger. An example would be if I made a good shot in golf (which would never happen), one of my friends might say, "Niiiiiiice!"
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Q: transforming a transaction data to binary matrix format with R I have a transaction dataset like this:
transaction data
I used "arules" package to transform it to transaction data.
transactions <- read.csv("transactions.csv",header=TRUE,sep=",")
 agg <- split(transactions$item,transactions$TransID)
 ready <- as(agg,"transactions")
Now I need a csv file on my desktop which is a binary matrix form: Transactions in the rows and items in the columns: 0 and 1 values in the matrix like this:  binary matrix format
I used write function in the "arules" package but could not have it.

A: Your data
transID <- c(48864208,48864208,48864266,48864266,48864266,48864266,48864276,48864276,
             48864276,48864276,48864282,48864282,48864282,48864282,48864282,48864282,
             48864282,48864282,48864282,48864296,48864296,48864300,48864300,48864300,
             48864300,48864300,48864300,48864300,48864300,48864300)
item <- c("dinner","cleaning","breakfast","breakfast","drink","dinner","dinner",
          "dinner","dinner","dinner","breakfast","snack","snack","snack","breakfast",
          "dinner","dinner","breakfast","dinner","dinner","dinner","fruit","fruit",
          "fruit","dinner","breakfast","breakfast","drink","cleaning","dinner")
head(data.frame(transID,item))
 transID      item
1 48864208    dinner
2 48864208  cleaning
3 48864266 breakfast
4 48864266 breakfast
5 48864266     drink
6 48864266    dinner

use table function, and ifelse for transform the table in binary matrix
tab = table(transID,item)
tab
binarymat = ifelse(tab > 0,1,0)
print(binarymat)
# use write.csv function
write.csv(binarymat,"binarymat.csv")

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Hemodialysis After MRI with Gadolinium Could Prevent NSF in Some Kidney Patients
Patients Who Undergo Hemodialysis Following Exposure to Gadolinium During an MRI May Be At Less Risk. A new study indicates that some kidney patients who undergo hemodialysis following exposure to gadolinium contrast dyes during an MRI may be at less risk of developing nephrogenic systemic fibrosis (NSF). The study, conducted by researchers at Weill Medical College of Cornell University and Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, was recently published in the journal "Radiology".
NSF is debilitating, and sometimes fatal disease, that affects people with pre-existing kidney diseases who have undergone MRI studies that involve gadolinium contrast dyes. There is currently no cure for NSF and no one understands its specific cause. The disorder is characterized by high blood pressure, burning, itching, swelling and hardening of the skin. Other symptoms include red or dark patches on the skin; pain deep in the hip bones or ribs and muscle weakness. NSF can progress to the point of causing severe stiffness in joints, and it can lead to death.
The evidence that gadolinium contrast agents play a role in the development of NSF is fast becoming irrefutable. Dutch scientists made the first connection between NSF and gadolinium in 2006. Since then, researchers at Yale University have reported that 95-percent of those with NSF had undergone a Magnetic Imaging Resonance (MRI) procedure that involved a gadolinium contrast dye two to three months before their symptoms appeared. Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital also have found that kidney patients who had undergone MRIs with gadolinium contrast dyes were 10 times more likely to develop NSF than patient who had not been exposed to such agents.
In 2007, the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) asked the manufacturers of gadolinium contrast dyes to add a black box warning to the product labels about its association with NSF. The FDA also warned that patients with kidney disease should avoid gadolinium contrast agents.
For the study detailed in Radiology, researcher analyzed cases of biopsy-confirmed NSF among all patients who received a gadolinium-based contrast agent between January 1, 1997, and June 30, 2007. In total, there were 31 biopsy-confirmed cases of NSF in 10 men and 21 women. The patients ranged in age from 13 to 82 years.
Hemodialysis Helped Prevent NSF In Patients
The researchers found that hemodialysis helped prevent NSF in patients with an estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR)- a measure of kidney function – of less than 15 mL/min. Increased risk of NSF was associated with patients with an eGFR of less than 30 mL/min who received a higher dose of gadolinium contrast dye, and who also experienced acute renal failure, delayed hemodialysis after contrast agent injection, proinflammatory events, and hyperphosphatemia, a condition where there is abnormally elevated level of phosphate in the blood.
The study also found that the dosage level of the gadolinium agent played a role in the development of NSF. The occurrence NSF after gadolinium-based contrast agent administration without screening for renal function were 0 of 74,124 patients with a standard gadolinium dose and 15 (0.17%) of 8,997 patients with the high dose. The incidence associated with the high dose increased to 0.4% in the patients who received hemodialysis and increased to 8.8% in patients who had an eGFR less than 15 mL/min but had not received hemodialysis treatment.
Eleven of 69 patients with acute renal failure who received a high dose when their creatinine level was increasing developed NSF when hemodialysis was delayed for more than two days.
The authors of the study concluded that the chances of a patient developing NSF could be lessened by first identifying those with eGFR in the range of 30 mL/min or less. Those patients should receive a lower dose (no more than 0.1 mmol/kg). Finally, the authors wrote that patients "who have acute renal failure with increasing serum creatinine levels or who are in a dialysis regimen at the time of gadolinium-based contrast agent administration should undergo hemodialysis shortly after the gadolinium-enhanced MR examination."
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AMES, Ia. — Brett Medders has faced a number of battles throughout his career, from academics problems to finding a way to contribute as a walk-on.
The Iowa State wide receiver will once again face more adversity. Medders will miss the remainder of the season after suffering a torn ACL during the week.
Things were just starting to turn around for Medders, who had a breakout game during Iowa State's win against Iowa earlier this season. He finished with three receptions for 27 yards and made a key fourth quarter grab that helped set up Iowa State's game-winning field goal.
"I don't care if I catch a million ball or zero balls," Medders said earlier this season. "I just care if we come out with the win and do whatever I can for that to happen."
The 6-foot-3, 200-pound junior is at least the third Cyclone player to suffer a season-ending ACL injury, joining receiver QuentonBundrage and center Ben Loth on the sidelines.
Other players out for the season include offensive lineman Jacob Dunning with a ruptured patellar tendon, and special teams star and linebacker Levi Peters with a ruptured Achilles.
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After appearing in just one game in 2013, the 6-foot-3, 200-pound junior began making a name for himself by becoming a fan favorite with his inspiring story.
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What are friends for? Jevohn Miller honored Peters by wearing his No. 35 during Iowa State's game against seventh-ranked Baylor.
Peters suffered a season-ending Achilles tendon injury in a loss to Kansas State on Sept. 6.
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Mandu are dumplings usually filled with minced meat, tofu, green onions, garlic, soy or mung bean sprouts, and noodles made from sweet potato starch. They can be served as an appetizer, a snack, or eaten as picnic food. In Korea many different varieties of Mandu can be found in market stalls or restaurants, purchased from street vendors, or made at home.
Omit meat and add 1/2 additional package of tofu for vegetarian variety.
Traditional: Soak the noodle in cold water for at least one hour.
Fast: Boil 1/2 quart water. Rinse noodle in cold tap water then add to boiling water. Boil for 2 to 3 minutes or until limp(soft). Remove from heat and drain. Rinse with cold tap water and drain thoroughly. Chop into very small pieces (mince) and set aside.
Place the tofu in cheesecloth or a clean lintless towel, wrap, and squeeze out as much moisture as possible, then crumble into a large mixing bowl.
Repeat the process with the ground beef, then the kimchi(if used).
Finely chop (mince) and add to bowl.
Add the remaining filling ingredients (including chopped noodles) to the bowl and mix well.
Cover and refrigerate the rest of the filling mix.
Lightly dust a large sheet of wax paper, tin foil, or plastic sheeting with corn or potato starch.
Set a small dish of water close to your work area.
Place some of the dumpling wraps on a small cutting board or wax paper.
Place about 1 teaspoon of the filling mix in the center of the wrap.
Dip your finger or a small basting brush into the water and lightly wet the outside edges of the wrap.
Fold the top over until the edges are even, then press to seal starting on either the left or right, and removing as much air as possible. Or use a 3 1/2 inch dumpling press.
Set the mandu on the dusted foil/waxed paper while you stuff the remaining wraps, refilling your small bowl until all the filling is used.
Freeze any mandu that you do not intend to cook.
Place the mandu to be frozen on a cookie/baking sheet so that they are not touching. Set the sheet in your freezer.
Once they are frozen, the mandu may be placed into zip lock style freezer bags and returned to the freezer.
Thaw frozen mandu before cooking.
A stove top or electric steamer is recommended, but you can improvise with a large soup/stock pot that can be covered, and any type of flat bottomed metal sieve or strainer that has legs or risers to keep the bottom above water level.
Electric steamers: Add water and pre-heat according to manufacturers instructions.
Stove Top Steamer: Add water to level line or one inch below the bottom of the steaming tray and bring to full boil.
Line the steaming tray with cheesecloth and place one layer of mandu, evenly spaced, not touching, onto the cloth.
Place the tray in the steamer, cover, and cook fresh or thawed mandu for 10 to 12 minutes.
Serve steamed mandu with dipping sauce.
Pour vegetable oil into a non-stick skillet until there is an unbroken coating on the bottom.
Heat over medium high heat until the oil is very hot, then place a single layer of mandu into the skillet. Do not overlap.
Cook the mandu until the bottom is a golden brown then turn them over.
Add about 2 tablespoons water to the pan, then quickly cover and cook for another 3 minutes.
Place the mandu in a serving or warming dish and repeat the procedure until the desired number of mandu is cooked.
Cooked mandu may be held in a warm oven until cooking is complete.
Serve the mandu with dipping sauce.
Thaw frozen mandu to room temperature.
A deep fryer is reccommended, but you may use a wok or standard cooking pot.
Pre Heat 2 to 4 cups vegetable oil to 365 degrees (amount of oil used depends on the size of your fryer, use a sufficient amount to completely submerge the mandu, approximately 2 inch depth) Make sure that oil level is at least 2 inches below the top of your fryer.
If you don't have a deep fry or candy thermometer you can test the oil with a pinch of bread or wooden toothpick. Drop the bread or toothpick into the hot oil, if it immediately begins to bubble, the oil is hot enough.
Place several mandu into the hot oil using a metal slotted spoon or small metal strainer with a handle.
–CAUTION: DO NOT DROP MANDU INTO THE OIL!!– Serious burns or fire could result.
Cook mandu until golden brown, remove from oil, and place in a metal straining basket or paper towel lined plate. Fried mandu may moved to an oven safe dish and kept in warm oven until all frying is complete.
Serve fried mandu with dipping sauce.


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Both courses around the venue are inconvenient for public transportation, so we recommend you to come by car.
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This study har aimed to examine why there are still so few women working full time as firefighters in the Swedish municipal firefighting services, even though there has been a political goal for about twenty years to increase gender equality in firefighting. The study uses a structured focused comparison of two groups of municipal firefighting organizations to compare them against each other in order to understand why they differentiate, and identify factors that has made some organizations more successful than others. The study uses Lundquist's (1987) simplified actor model's three factors, understand-can-will, to explain the failed implementation. The study concludes that the simplified actor model can be used to explain differences in implementation and to identify factors that have led to successful implementation, and that the most important one seems to be the understanding of the problem. However, they seem to enable each other in a way that makes it impossible to say that they could create successful implementation if one was lost.
policy implementation, gender equality, municipal firefighting services, Sweden, the simplified actor model.


Finding the perfect wedding dress or outfit is nothing short of an art form. But once you've found it (and bought it and worn it and taken hundreds of photos in which you look amazing in it), a wedding dress can be a memento that's hard to know what to do with. One option is to turn that unused dress into perfectly usable cash, which—thanks to the powers of the internet—has never been more possible. Here are a few spots where you can sell a wedding dress online.
The visibility and organization of Pre-Owned Wedding Dresses makes it a win, but we also love the fact that it doesn't take a commission—only a one-time listing fee. Fees run at $25 for wedding dresses and $5 for bridesmaid dresses and wedding accessories.
Another commission-free site is Still White, which gets bonus points for its easy-to-navigate interface. Listings are either $20 or $30 each, depending on whether you opt for premium features.
If the thought of posting, editing, and fielding a million questions about your listing sounds a little too demanding, Nearly Newly Wed might be your perfect solution. While the site takes a 40% commission based on sale price, its expert team handles literally every step of the process, making the cut well worth it—especially if you're exhausted from wedding planning and are eager to outsource remaining items on their to-do lists.
We love Poshmark, and not just because it's a great place to sell wedding dresses. The site is one of the best places to find consignment designer clothing and accessories. It's easy to use and charges just 20% of the sale price with no listing fees.
While we're in the broader resale clothing category, it's worth mentioning eBay in any discussion of reselling dresses. Many brides shop here because it's such a well-known source, which could mean higher visibility for your item. On top of that, the site only takes 10% of the final sale price.
Once Wed is a convenient site to buy or sell a wedding dress. One of its best features is that, aside from its optional premium version, the site's completely free. This is also a good platform for selling used bridesmaid dresses and wedding accessories.
Another free site to sell your wedding dress is Ruffled. Its "Recycle Your Wedding" page, which operates securely in conjunction with PayPal, provides a helpful venue for not only selling your wedding gown but also for selling wedding décor, party favors, paper goods, and more.
Up next, read on for simple wedding jewelry for the minimal bride.


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Alassane Dialy Ndiaye, né le  à Yenne (Région de Dakar), est un homme politique sénégalais, ingénieur des télécommunications, qui fut ministre de la République du Sénégal de 1988 à 2000 sous la présidence d'Abdou Diouf, puis ministre d'État auprès du Président de la République, président de la Commission nationale de la connectivité, sous la présidence d'Abdoulaye Wade, de 2010 à 2012.

Biographie
Il est issu d'une famille de chefs traditionnels lebous, et est marié depuis 1964.

Diplômes
Il fait ses études primaires à Bargny (Région de Dakar), ses études secondaires aux lycées Maurice Delafosse et Van Vollenhoven de Dakar, comme interne, puis ses études supérieures en France (classes préparatoires scientifiques au lycée Saint-Louis de Paris, Maîtrise ès Mathématiques (Université de Paris), DEA de Physique du solide, puis intègre l'École nationale supérieure des télécommunications ( Paris ) : Ingénieur Principal, spécialisé dans les télécommunications par satellite.

Carrière professionnelle
En 1971 il devient le premier Africain spécialisé dans les Télécommunications spatiales, participant activement à la mise en place de la Station terrienne de télécommunications par satellite de Gandoul (Sénégal), la première du genre sur le continent africain, (inaugurée le  par le Président Senghor) et à la formation de nombreux ingénieurs et techniciens africains.

En 1978 l'essentiel des communications internationales du Sénégal est automatisé. Au début des années 1980, le site de Gandoul est choisi par la NASA, pour abriter la station de contrôle et de communications de la navette spatiale. Sa participation aux premiers essais de la navette est reconnue par la NASA.

En , alors Directeur de Telesenegal, il rédige un rapport, très discuté, adressé au Président de la République sur la nécessité de rassembler les Télécommunications dans une entité unique (à l'époque Telesenegal gérait les Télécoms internationales, les Télécoms intérieures relevant de l'OPT, Office des Postes et Télécommunications), réflexion qui aboutit aux Journées Nationales des Télécoms, qu'il préside en , et à la création de la Société nationale des télécommunications du Sénégal (Sonatel).

En , il est le Directeur Général-fondateur de la Sonatel, société d'État fonctionnant comme une entreprise de type privé. Il y réalise un important programme de modernisation du réseau :

 numérisation du réseau,
 transmission de données par paquets-SENPAC,
 utilisation de l'énergie solaire sur les voies de transmission,
 arrivée du téléphone dans le monde rural
 introduction des « télécentres » qui fleurirent jusqu'aux points reculés du pays.

Carrière politique
Il sera conjointement Secrétaire Général de la Coordination du Parti Socialiste à Sébikotane, Secrétaire Général de l'Union Départementale de Rufisque, Membre du Comité Central du Parti socialiste, membre du Bureau politique pendant douze ans, élu plusieurs fois député à l'Assemblée nationale du Sénégal.

En , il est nommé Ministre de l'Équipement. Il fera adopter le système d'immatriculation des véhicules, encore applicable aujourd'hui.

En 1991, il devient Ministre de l'Industrie et de l'Artisanat (création du Fonds de Promotion Economique, destiné à la constitution d'un réseau de PMI sénégalaises). Il réalise le premier recensement des artisans du Sénégal. En 1992, il devient également chargé du Commerce.

En 1993, il reçoit en plus, le portefeuille de l'Énergie et des Mines dans le second gouvernement de Habib Thiam. Il initie un vaste programme de promotion de la recherche minière, et lance l'initiative de la fusion des sociétés de l'industrie phosphatière, avec le soutien de la Caisse centrale de coopération économique française : fusion entre la Compagnie sénégalaise des phosphates de Taïba (CSPT) et les Industries chimiques du Sénégal (ICS).

De 1995 à , il est chargé du Ministère de la Pêche et des Transports maritimes. Il instaure un nouveau Code de la Pêche, introduisant pour la première fois au Sénégal le « repos biologique », et de nouvelles mesures tendant à améliorer la sécurité en mer (gilets de sauvetage rendus obligatoires, aide de l'État aux artisans pour leur acquisition). Il élabore, avec les pêcheurs industriels, artisans, mareyeurs et femmes transformatrices, le programme décennal de développement de la pêche : la construction de quais de pêche, et d'unités de conservation de produits halieutiques, sur tout le littoral sénégalais, de Saint-Louis au Cap Skirring.

En , avec le départ du Président Abdou Diouf, il interrompt une carrière ministérielle de douze années et prend ses distances avec la nouvelle direction du Parti socialiste.

Il fonde en  le Club de Recherche Prospective CRP 2012, dont l'objectif est, à partir de l'analyse impartiale des données culturelles, historiques, scientifiques, économiques et politiques, d'imaginer des futurs possibles pour le Sénégal. Le CRP 2012 regroupe actuellement par cooptation près de 250 cadres de sensibilités politiques et sociales, de formations et d'expériences diverses.

Le , il est nommé ministre d'État auprès du Président de la République, et président de la Commission nationale de la connectivité.

Distinctions
 Membre de l'Académie internationale d'astronautique (depuis 1987, premier Africain)
 Vice-président de l'Académie des sciences et techniques du Sénégal (président de la section Sciences/Techniques), membre du Comité exécutif de l'Inter Academy Panel de 2003 à 2010, vice-président du Réseau euro-méditerranéen des académies des sciences (2010)
 Membre de la Commission indépendante mondiale sur les océans
 Président de la SENACTIM
 Commandeur de l'ordre national du Mérite (France)
 Chevalier de l'ordre national du Mérite (Sénégal)
 Chevalier de l'ordre national (Côte d'Ivoire)
 Chevalier de l'ordre national du Lion du Sénégal

Sources
 Babacar Ndiaye et Waly Ndiaye, Présidents et ministres du Sénégal, Dakar, 2006
 Journal officiel de la République du Sénégal
 Le Soleil
 Le Monde, , la nouvelle équipe
 Jeune Afrique

Références

Naissance en octobre 1942
Naissance au Sénégal
Élève de l'École nationale supérieure des télécommunications de Paris
Ingénieur sénégalais
Ingénieur en télécommunications
Ministre sénégalais de l'Artisanat
Ministre sénégalais des Infrastructures
Ministre sénégalais de l'Industrie
Ministre sénégalais de la Pêche
Ministre sénégalais des Transports
Personnalité du Parti socialiste (Sénégal)
Membre de l'Académie internationale d'astronautique
Commandeur de l'ordre national du Mérite

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2394-3661, Volume-4, Issue-5, May 2017 The Effect of Image Resolution on the Geometric Correction of Remote Sensing Satellite Images Mohamed Tawfik, Hassan Elhifnawy, Ayman Ragab, Essam Hamza  Abstract—Geometric distortion due to sensor and/or environmental error sources represent a big problem in the final reported accuracy of captured satellite images.
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1 if m ≤ t (c) Rewrite your answer to part (b) as a geometric series to obtain the result.
In that case, the wave propagation can be studied as optical propagation and then various method can be used like Geometrical Optics (GO) and Geometric Theory of Diffraction (GTD) or Uniform Theory of Diffraction (UTD).
4.Spread the Style You can create a spiritedly modern room by opting for geometric prints from the accent pillows to draperies, from the rug to the headboards.
It aims at identifying the real geometric parameters, that are mainly responsible for pose deviations.
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Abstract The squaring Pi is a number that is obtained following the general logical sense of using the component parameters of the corresponding geometric figures for getting with direct mathematical formulas the final value of this number Pi.
The lab will require the creation of a base geometric class, called Shape, and two sub classes, Circle and Rectangle, that are derived public from the class Shape.
CGUnit5 Computer Graphics and Visualization UNIT - 5 10CS65 5 Hrs GEOMETRIC OBJECTS AND TRANSFORMATIONS – II Transformations in homogeneous coordinates Concatenation of transformations OpenGL transformation matrices Interfaces to three-dimensional applications Quaternions.
jewelry this spring want more geometric than ever.
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So in a sense an exul is essentially the exiled data from a geometric structure that is not discovered from conventional (differential or algebraic) geometric tools.
Figure 4 shows how, from this geometric construction, the squaring of the circle is achieved.