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SADLY, Feedback must record the passing of a favourite academic author and faithful correspondent. Cleo Borzoi's copious output includes the classic "Harnessing angular kinetic energy from colossal cloned Rodentia: re-envisioning the hamster wheel model in green energy management" (described here on 15 June 2013).
On 11 June, the day on which she passed away, Cleo received an urgent query from the organisers of the 3rd Annual World Congress of Aquaculture and Fisheries in Dalian, China, about her planned presentation "Aquadog: Use of trained border collies to herd fish and protect them in vulnerable marine aquaculture facilities". Her literary executor, Phillip Clapham, notes that "the only thing stupider than a conference accepting a ridiculous paper authored by a dog is a conference accepting a ridiculous paper authored by a dead dog. Fear not, ...
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