Important facts about u.s. Travel document requirements
A travel document is basically an identification document issued by an international agency or government to facilitate the free movement of people or small groups of individuals across international borders, following specific international conventions. These documents are designed to serve a number of purposes, such as facilitating travel, administration and reception of international information and services. They also play a major role in immigration procedures. Here are some tips on how to create, maintain and file your travel document.
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Your travel documents include the name of the traveler, his or her date of departure, his or her place of destination, his or her passport and his or her registration number. The first three are mentioned in the convention's Articles of Agreement. When traveling outside the country, it is recommended that you carry a copy of this travel document with you to ensure smooth transitions at the customs checkpoints. This is because, unlike with a passport, you need not present your travel itinerary as proof of your travels. The copy should only contain relevant information regarding your departure, such as the country, date of departure, place of destination, and contact person(s).
Your document should include all the details regarding your trip, including your personal information, address, number of days away, intended destination, expected duration of your stay abroad, a list of all your personal belongings, and a list of all the countries you will be visiting during your trip. You should also include information regarding your ownership of property overseas, such as your full ownership of the property, its value, any loan or other assets owned by you, and other relevant information regarding your property and financial position. If you are traveling with family members, be sure to include their names, birth dates, and country of issuance, as well as any other relevant information they are related to. If you are traveling with a pet, enclose a photo of it. Also enclose copies of your passport for several countries.
While traveling abroad, there are several important documents to keep handy. One of the most important is the identity document, which serves many purposes for a traveler. It should have your photo, name, and country of issuance, as well as your itinerary. There are different types of documents that you can carry along with you, depending on your purpose. These include a passport, a flight ticket, a train ticket, and a bus ticket, or a ticket card.
Passport cards are used to prove your identity when traveling internationally. They are issued with your photograph and address, and can also contain a reservation receipt that allows the holder to track down and collect their documents upon arrival in a foreign country. A passport card serves as legal proof of your identity and that you are allowed to enter the country, while providing valid travel documentation proving your identity. For additional information on obtaining a passport card, and other passport-related documents, check out the State Department's website.
A trip cannot continue without at least a passport, so it is necessary to carry an identity document. The purpose of this document is to prove your identity and citizenship, which will entitle you to travel throughout the country free from any legal or financial constraints. If you are traveling between countries, it is necessary to have both a passport and visa for each country.
In addition to the identity document, there are some other travel documents that every traveler absolutely must have, especially if traveling internationally. Some of these are a money order or bank draft (which is needed for sending money abroad), a copy of your immunization records, a health certificate, and a copy of your personal information, such as your address and contact numbers. You may also need an emergency travel card or a foreign currency exchange card. This card proves that you are permitted to enter the country and pays for any insurance or processing fees, as well as any other transactions that are not covered by your insurance policy. For additional information on traveling internationally, check out the State Department's website.
After receiving the passport and all of your documents, it is important to follow the processes of the Department of State. This will guarantee that you receive a confirmation about your documents, which usually takes about one week. Then you will be able to apply for your U.S. tourist visa. The process itself can be confusing, so a professional should be consulted to help you with the application process. There are plenty of independent websites that specialize in the submission of your U.S. tourist visa application.
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The new generation of mass spectrometers from Thermo Scientific, Prima Pro (for process gas analysis) and Sentinel Pro (for atmospheric gas analysis – environment monitoring), released in 2010, presents unparalleled analytical performance to meet the demanding requirements of the steel plants today, providing a fast return of investment and safe operation.
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The advantages of the Prima Pro compared to the traditional instrumentation (gas chromatography and discrete analyzers) are notable in several aspects, such as reduced analysis time, better precision, and lower cost of ownership.

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The story and photographs are shared by the Trust with kind permission from Susan Jennifer Merskey (née Crann) and David Crann, niece and nephew of Ben Crann, with credit due to Ruth Merskey, Ben's great-niece.
Ben Crann was born on the 23rd March, 1913 in Leeds, West Yorkshire to parents who were Jewish immigrants from Russia escaping the pogroms and who had settled in Leeds in the 1890's.
Ben was one of four brothers and three sisters. His older brothers, Sam and Philip, went to University - Sam to study Maths, Philip to study Medicine. His younger brother, Leslie, was at this point still at school.
Family finances did not stretch to Ben going on to further academic education. Instead, he served a three-year apprenticeship at a local well-reputed firm of cabinet makers before following a career in that trade. He was a keen sportsman and played football for both the Leeds Maccabi team and for the Yorkshire Amateurs.
Ben in his Yorkshire Amateurs uniform, 1936
He went on tour to Palestine in 1936 with the Leeds Maccabi team – an almost unheard-of adventure at the time, especially as the Nazi movement in Germany was becoming more and more of a menace to European tranquillity. Ben was also a good tennis player and an accomplished bridge player: the latter will acquire an unanticipated poignancy later in this history. He was a good mixer and enjoyed a full social life. He never married and had no children.
All the brothers served in World War II with the sole exception of Philip who, as a general medical practitioner in a mining area, was in a reserved occupation.
It is believed that Ben enlisted on the 8th May, 1941 as a Private in the Pioneer Corps. On his Identification Form on enlistment, he was shown as 5ft 4ins tall, weighing 146lb, with blue eyes and brown hair. He was promoted to Lance-Corporal on the 19th August, 1941 and was confirmed in the rank of Corporal on the 22nd January, 1942.
Ben and Leslie, Officer Cadet Training Unit, 1943.
On the 1st January, 1943 he reported for the 21st Officer Cadets Course from 148 Training Brigade with the recommendation from his Commanding Officer: "CRANN. B is suited by personality and intelligence to be trained with a view to being commissioned". It is believed that his brother Leslie attended the same course at the same time. Ben received his Commission as Lieutenant with effect from the 25th February, 1943.
Ben, as did Sam and Leslie, came home on leave during the war years whenever he could. He is recalled as a gregarious and generous uncle by his nephews old enough to remember him.
L-R Leslie, Ben and Sam
The photo below is the last known one of Ben, taken on the 11th April 1944 whilst on leave.
The official record relating to the events of the 8th June, 1944 are contained in the recommendation for an award referring to Sergeant Arthur Stanwick (the Sergeant serving under Ben) which reads as follows:
"At about 04:30 hours on the 8th June 1944, the L.C.I. [Landing Craft, Infantry] carrying amongst others 1 Officer [Ben Crann] and 32 ORs [Other Ranks] of 164 Company Pioneer Corps… was struck by a torpedo and the officer was killed. Sergeant Stanwick immediately mustered the men on deck, called the roll and found all present. He then ascertained that the hold in which the officers were travelling had been hit and his own officer was missing. By his calm example he maintained strict order and discipline and when another landing craft came alongside, he superintended the transfer of his men and arms. On arrival at the beach, he again called the roll and checked that none were missing. He then ascertained the location of his company and re-joined it with all his men, and no loss of arms."
Ben was originally posted as missing, presumed drowned. One of his Sergeants – believed to be Sergeant Stanwick – was later to visit Philip with some of Ben's effects including his uniform, his Sam Browne belt and his revolver. It was on this occasion that Philip was told that there was no question of Ben having survived: the boat had received a direct hit. He was told that, at the time, Ben was playing bridge in the hold.
Although a full copy of the letter dated the 25th July, 1944 from Major L. A. L. Clark addressed to Flight-Lieutenant Crann (Sam) is set out below, Major Clark's comments are specific:
"I know that I'm expressing the feelings of my brother Officers when I say that his loss has been a tremendous blow to us.
Ben was a most zealous, efficient, and competent Officer with a high sense of responsibility, admired and respected by all with whom he came in contact."
The circumstances of his death were to be confirmed by Philip's brother-in-law, Horace Cohda, who wrote that he had seen the boat go down as he had been in the next boat in the flotilla. He added that he had wanted to have been in the same boat as Ben but there had been no room! Such are the vagaries of war.
A letter dated the 14th October 1944 from E. D. Lloyd of the Army Council was sent to Ben's father, Isaac Crann, at Philip's address: "in all the circumstances there can be no room for hope that your son survived."
On Army Form B199A, Ben's Honours and Rewards are listed at sub-paragraph (9): 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence Medal; War Medal 1939-45.
In the early 1990's a colleague of Leslie's daughter-in-law, Mandy Crann, found quite by coincidence an old newspaper lining the drawer of a cabinet in an antiques store. The paper was a copy of the Yorkshire Evening Post containing notification of Ben's death and a photograph of him.
As seems to have been so often the case in the aftermath of World War II, Ben's family found it difficult in the extreme to talk about him. It was just too painful. There was of course at that time no recognition of what was later identified as post-traumatic stress disorder: families and casualties were left largely to deal with their losses in their own way. Most of Ben's many nephews and nieces have no real knowledge of who he was as a person or indeed what his war experiences might have been other than this summary reveals.
The gravestone in Leeds recording the last resting place of Ben's mother (who died in 1953) includes a marker for Ben. That is the only physical evidence of his life other than the photographs and letters referred to above; a display cabinet that he had himself manufactured as a wedding-present for Philip; the inscription on Column 25 of the British Normandy Memorial; and the inscription on Panel 19 of the Memorial Wall (dedicated to the more than 1800 casualties of the Commonwealth Forces who died in Normandy and have no known graves) at the British Military Cemetery in Bayeux – the lintel of which bears the legend: "We, conquered by William, have set his Homeland free". A fitting epitaph for all those who, under British command, were to lose their lives in the liberation of Europe.
One of Ben's surviving nephews wrote the following lines after visiting the British Military Cemetery at Bayeux, Normandy. The lines are equally relevant to those whose names appear on the Normandy War Memorial:
"We, conquered by William, have set his Homeland free"
Lost, and is found:
a few sparse syllables etched
top left, Panel Nineteen,
on a wall of arches and of words –
an inventory of the untraced unburiable –
less than one mile
from the Bayeux Tapestry
on the path from Domesday to doomsday;
a theatre of headstones
that would make granite weep:
the unforgotten and the unforgettable.
In the corner of some foreign epitaph
he keeps his watch:
you should come see; come see,
tears in your pocket
and a handkerchief the size of France.
Army • LIEUTENANT
DIED 08 June 1944
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A focused crawler or topical crawler is a web crawler that attempts to download only web pages that are relevant to a pre-defined topic or set of topics. Topical crawling generally assumes that only the topic is given, while focused crawling also assumes that some labeled examples of relevant and not relevant pages are available.
The advantages to a focused crawler are that you spend less time, money & effort processing web pages that are unlikely to be of value. Subsequently it takes less time for the crawler to find areas in the web which are "target rich", in that they have a higher density of desirable, high value pages.
Scale Unlimited Focused Crawling
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It helps to start off with some terminology, before diving into the actual steps of the workflow.
- URL State database This database (often called a "CrawlDB") maintains one entry for each unique URL, along with status (e.g. "have we fetched this page yet?"), the page score of fetched pages, and the link score. The actual approach used for this database varies, depending on the scale of the crawl, the availability of a scalable column-based DB or key/value store, etc.
- Page score Every fetched page is processed by a page scorer. This calculates a numeric value for the page, where higher values correspond to pages that are of greater interest, given the focus of the crawl. A page scorer can be anything from a simple target term frequency calculation to a complex NLP (natural language processing) analyzer.
- Link score Every URL has a score that represents the sum of page scores from all pages which contain an outbound link that matches the URL. Page scores are divided up across all outbound links, thus the increase in a URL's link score from a page with many outbound links will be minimized.
- Fetched Pages database This is where all fetched pages are stored, using the URL as the key. Typically this isn't a real database, but rather an optimized, compressed read-only representation.
With terminology out of the way, we can discuss the steps in a focused crawl workflow.
- The first step is to load the URL State database with an initial set of URLs. These can be a broad set of top-level domains such as the 1.7 million web sites with the highest US-based traffic, or the results from selective searches against another index, or manually selected URLs that point to specific, high quality pages.
- Once the URL State database has been loaded with some initial URLs, the first loop in the focused crawl can begin. The first step in each loop is to extract all of the unprocessed URLs, and sort them by their link score.
- Next comes one of the two critical steps in the workflow. A decision is made about how many of the top-scoring URLs to process in this loop. The fewer the number, the "tighter" the focus of the crawl. There are many options for deciding how many URLs to accept – for example, based on a fixed minimum score, a fixed percentage of all URLs, or a maximum count. More sophisticated approaches include picking a cutoff score that represents the transition point (elbow) in a power curve.
- Once the set of accepted URLs has been created, the standard fetch process begins. This includes all of the usual steps required for polite & efficient fetching, such as robots.txt processing. Pages that are successfully fetched can then be parsed.
- Typically fetched pages are also saved into the Fetched Pages database.
- Now comes the second of the two critical steps. The parsed page content is given to the page scorer, which returns a value representing how closely the page matches the focus of the crawl. Typically this is a value from 0.0 to 1.0, with higher scores being better.
- Once the page has been scored, each outlink found in the parse is extracted.
- The score for the page is divided among all of the outlinks.
- Finally, the URL State database is updated with the results of fetch attempts (succeeded, failed), all newly discovered URLs are added, and any existing URLs get their link score increased by all matching outlinks that were extracted during this loop.
At this point the focused crawl can terminate, if sufficient pages of high enough quality (score) have been found, or the next loop can begin.
In this manner the crawl proceeds in a depth-first manner, focusing on areas of the web graph where the most high scoring pages are found.


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 - You may need to try a number of times in order to get this method right.
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 - Different vehicles may have different interior door designs, so this method may not work on all vehicles.
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 - In some vehicles you will need to pull the pin or bar back toward the rear of the car instead of up.
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 - Be careful not to damage the weather strip on the door.
 - You may need to re-bend the hook if you pull too hard on the wrong part inside the door.
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Girls learn about fun of science, math and engineering at camp
By Cheryl Cottrill, Executive Director of WiN-Canada
Have you ever mined chocolate chips from a cookie or made a machine from recycled materials that would make flavoured water?
Last week at the Girls in Real Life Science (GIRLS) Camp, 25 girls aged eight to 13 took on the role of scientists and inventors in a number of scienceand engineering-based activities. The day camp, run by Camp GEMS (_URL_) (Girls Engineering Math Science) took the girls though a week-long program incorporating engineering, math and science principles in a hands-on and fun environment. Bruce Power sponsored the camp through the local Women in Nuclear (WiN)-Bruce chapter (_URL_).
"The girls' collective intelligence and creativity was absolutely amazing as they brainstormed their way through various projects," said Bruce Power's Laurie Glover, a volunteer at the camp. "It was a great experience, watching these young minds solve complex problems together as a team."
Each day the girls began working on a group project called 'Rube Goldberg Machine' to design a machine that could perform an activity. By the end of the week the machines were able to pop balloons, turn on a fan, sharpen a pencil, dunk a ball, pour water into a cup and make flavoured water. All were very ingenious and creative projects!
A little science magic was worked into the morning program so the girls could impress their siblings and parents with disappearing pennies, exploding Mentos and Coke and changing the colour of milk with a Q-tip and soap.
The campers learned everything from chromatography – separating colours from M&M candy – to telling time using homemade sundials, to the economics of mining using chocolate chip cookies, and to designing and building a Popsicle stick house on a budget.
The biggest hit of the week was 'science tie and dye' when the girls brought white items of clothing and applied permanent markers and rubbing alcohol to create colourful designs.
Mentors from Bruce Power, Ontario Power Generation and Ian Martin Limited helped out each day, providing the girls with female role models who are successful in science and technology.
Additional information and pictures from the camp may be found on the WiN-Canada website at _URL_.
A second camp will run July 23-27 at the Whitney Crawford Community Centre in Tiverton. There are currently two spots available. For further information, contact Kate McKenzie at _EMAIL_ or call _PHONE_.

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Smoke signals is an early form of the optical telegraph, developed by the native North Americans and Chinese (as in the towers of the Great Wall.) By covering an open fire with a blanket, and suddenly removing it for a short time, a puff of smoke is generated. With some training, the sizes, shapes of, and intervals between these puffs can be controlled in a way that can be observed from a long distance, and used to carry information.
Apparent to anyone within its visual range, the smoke signal is not a standardized code that can be easily translated. Like other forms of communication, the signals are often of a predetermined pattern discerned by sender and receiver. Still, the smoke signal can abide by other universal patterns of communication. For example, as in other distress calls, a pattern of three would indicate a call for help.
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With Lochinvar on the cusp of a major housing boom, residents have expressed a number of concerns about the effects more development will have on flooding in their suburb.
They have voiced their opinions in the Draft Lochinvar Creek Flood Study - a comprehensive technical investigation of flood behaviour for the Lochinvar Creek catchment.
While the document is now on public exhibition and open for community scrutiny, some residents have already weighed in with their concerns.
The draft document reports that some home occupiers have called for improved drainage systems and better creek maintenance - something they believe could lessen the effects of flooding.
They are also concerned about additional development in the area and blamed the increased rate of rise in flood waters to be as a result of increasing residential development in surrounding areas - specifically upstream of Lochinvar.
April 2015 in particular resulted in significant flood damages, with several homes flooded above floor levelDraft Lochinvar Creek Flood Study
They are concerned that this will be dangerous to new residents and stretch the resources of community and emergency services during flood events.
A total of 254 properties are identified within the study area.
"There is a history of significant flooding over the entire catchment," the study said.
"Recent local storm events that caused flood damage and loss included February 1990, June 2007 (the "Pasha Bulker" storm), April 2015 and January 2016.
"April 2015 in particular resulted in significant flood damages, with several homes flooded above floor level," the draft study said.
The draft flood study will be on exhibition from April 1 to May 3 and can be viewed at Council's: Website maitland.nsw.gov.au, Citizen Service Centre 285-287 High Street, Maitland and city libraries.
A community drop-in session will be held on Tuesday, April 16 between 1pm and 5pm at Maitland Town Hall.
The session presents an opportunity for property owners and residents in the Lochinvar Creek catchment to speak directly with consultants and council staff about the study.


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Tax Planning for Small Contractors Under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the "Act") was passed by the House and Senate and signed by the President in December of 2017 with many provisions effective January 1, 2018. One provision is a huge win for construction contractors, particularly those with average revenues between $10,000,000 and $25,000,000. Tax planning just got a lot more interesting and complex for those in that window. The Act changed the definition of a small contractor exempt from the requirement to use the percentage-of-completion method (PCM) for long-term contracts from the pre-Act law, which provided an exception for construction companies with average annual gross receipts of $10 million or less in the preceding three years.
For contracts entered into after Dec. 31, 2017, the exception for small construction contracts from the requirement to use the PCM is expanded to apply to contracts for the construction or improvement of real property if the contract:
- is expected (at the time such contract is entered into) to be completed within two years of commencement of the contract and
- is performed by a taxpayer that (for the tax year in which the contract was entered into) meets the $25 million gross receipts test.
This is a benefit for those contractors that exceeded the $10,000,000 threshold previously and lost the ability to utilize a more beneficial method of recognizing revenues. Some of the available options for small contractors, include:
- Cash Method – The cash method of accounting can be used as an overall method of accounting and to account for long-term contracts. Income is recognized when cash is actually or constructively received, and expenses are generally deductible when paid.
- Accrual Method – The accrual method can be used for both an overall method of accounting and for long-term contracts. Income under the accrual method is generally recognized when the payment is received, payment is due, or payment is earned, whichever occurs first.
- Retentions under the Accrual Method – As a variation to the accrual method of accounting, a contractor can elect to exclude this retention from income until received or billable under the contract.
- Completed Contract Method – The completed contract method of accounting suspends both revenue and job costs until the completion of the job. The effect is to defer the contracts gross profit from inception until the contract is completed.
- Percentage of Completion Method (PCM) – Although not required, the small contractor has the option, like a large contractor, to use the percentage-of-completion method (PCM) of accounting for long-term contracts under §460(b).
For contractors between $10,000,000 and $25,000,000, the first step is to communicate with the tax preparer to determine the best available accounting method for long term contracts. The change in the threshold provides a unique opportunity for construction contractors to revert to a method utilized prior to becoming a large contractor, as previously defined. It also provides an opportunity to elect to utilize a different method of accounting if that is more beneficial currently.
Once the best method is determined, contractors should review prior tax filings to determine if any Form 3115 ("Application for Change in Accounting Method") was previously filed. Specifically, contractors should review the tax year in which their average revenues first exceeded $10,000,000 and they were no longer a small contractor. While Form 3115 was not required to change to the percentage of completion method in that year, many construction contractors filed one. If this was the case, Form 3115 will be required again in 2018 in order to change the method of accounting for exempt long-term contracts. If Form 3115 was not filed previously to change the method of accounting for long-term contracts, then the method of exempt long-term contracts will revert to the method in place before becoming a large contractor, and Form 3115 will not be required. It is important to note the use of this PCM exception for small construction contracts is applied on a cutoff basis for all similarly classified contracts. This means the change in method of accounting applies only to contracts entered into after the effective date of the change.
The third step would be to review each of the contracts, both short term and long term, before year end to effectively utilize the accounting methods in place. With the additional flexibility that the Act provides to an increased pool of small contractors, profitable contractors will have the ability to defer significant taxable income to future years. Proper planning can help cash flow by avoiding a large tax burden currently. The 2018 tax year is the year to take advantage of the opportunity!
It is highly recommended that each construction contractor review their financial situation to determine the best accounting method suitable for the specific needs of the company. Each contractor will also need to review prior filings to determine if a change in accounting method was filed in the year $10,000,000 of gross receipts was exceeded. This will be an indicator of whether additional filings will be required for 2018.
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Type Providers (F#)
Type Providers
An F# type provider is a component that provides types, properties, and methods for use in your program. Type providers are a significant part of F# 3.0 support for information-rich programming. The key to information-rich programming is to eliminate barriers to working with diverse information sources found on the Internet and in modern enterprise environments. One significant barrier to including a source of information into a program is the need to represent that information as types, properties, and methods for use in a programming language environment. Writing these types manually is very time-consuming and difficult to maintain. A common alternative is to use a code generator which adds files to your project; however, the conventional types of code generation do not integrate well into exploratory modes of programming supported by F# because the generated code must be replaced each time a service reference is adjusted.
The types provided by F# type providers are usually based on external information sources. For example, an F# type provider for SQL will provide the types, properties, and methods you need to work directly with the tables of any SQL database you have access to. Similarly, a type provider for WSDL web services will provide the types, properties, and methods you need to work directly with any WSDL web service.
The set of types, properties, and methods provided by an F# type provider can depend on parameters given in program code. For example, a type provider can provide different types depending on a connection string or a service URL. In this way, the information space available by means of a connection string or URL is directly integrated into your program. A type provider can also ensure that groups of types are only expanded on demand; that is, they are expanded if the types are actually referenced by your program. This allows for the direct, on-demand integration of large-scale information spaces such as online data markets in a strongly typed way.
F# contains several built-in type providers for commonly used Internet and enterprise data services. These type providers give simple and regular access to SQL relational databases and network-based OData and WSDL services and support the use of F# LINQ queries against these data sources.
Where necessary, you can create your own custom type providers, or reference type providers that have been created by others. For example, assume your organization has a data service providing a large and growing number of named data sets, each with its own stable data schema. You may choose to create a type provider that reads the schemas and presents the latest available data sets to the programmer in a strongly typed way.
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Walkthrough: Accessing a SQL Database by Using Type Providers (F#)
Explains how to use the SqlDataConnection type provider to access the tables and stored procedures of a SQL database based on a connection string for a direct connection to a database. The access uses a LINQ to SQL mapping.
Walkthrough: Accessing a SQL Database by Using Type Providers and Entities (F#)
Explains how to use the SqlEntityConnection type provider to access the tables and stored procedures of a SQL database, based on a connection string for a direct connection to a database. The access uses a LINQ to Entities mapping. This method works with any database but the example demonstrated is SQL Server.
Walkthrough: Accessing an OData Service by Using Type Providers (F#)
Explains how to use the ODataService type provider to access an OData service in a strongly typed way based on a service URL.
Walkthrough: Accessing a Web Service by Using Type Providers (F#)
Explains how to use the WsdlService type provider to access a WSDL web service in a strongly typed way based on a service URL.
Walkthrough: Generating F# Types from a DBML File (F#)
Explains how to use the DbmlFile type provider to access the tables and stored procedures of a SQLdatabase, based on a DBML file giving a Linq to SQL database schema specification.
Walkthrough: Generating F# Types from an EDMX Schema File (F#)
Explains how to use the EdmxFile type provider to access the tables and stored procedures of a SQL database, based on an EDMX file giving an Entity Framework schema specification.
Tutorial: Creating a Type Provider (F#)
Provides information on writing your own custom type providers.
Type Provider Security
Provides information about security considerations when developing type providers.
Troubleshooting Type Providers
Provides information about common problems that can arise when working with type providers and includes suggestions for solutions.
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PropertyList Service
The PropertyList service allows you to read and write property list files in all formats supported by the Core Foundation API: XML, binary, JSON, and OpenStep (read-only).
This service is only available on Darwin platforms such as iOS, macOS, tvOS, and watchOS.
Available operations
Constructor
PropertyList()
Allocates and returns a new PropertyList object.
clear
clear(): void
Voids the property list by deleting its internal object reference.
isEmpty
isEmpty(): boolean
Returns true if the property list has no internal object reference set, otherwise false.
format
format(): string
Returns the data format that the property list data was deserialized from. This property is set after calling readFromString or readFromFile. Possible return values include: "binary1", "json", "openstep", and "xml1". If the property list object is empty or the input format could not be determined, returns undefined.
readFromFile
readFromFile(filePath: string): void
Parses the file and stores the result in the property list. Throws an exception if an I/O error occurs or the input is in an invalid format.
readFromObject
readFromObject(obj: any): void
Sets the given object as the property list's internal object. format() will return undefined as this method does not deserialize a storage format.
readFromString
readFromString(input: string): void
Parses input and stores the result in the property list. This is most useful for initializing a property list object from the result of a JSON.stringify call. Throws an exception if the input is in an invalid format.
toObject
toObject(): any
Returns an object representing the property list.
toJSON
toJSON(style: string = "compact"): string
Returns a string representation of the property list in JSON format. Possible values for style include "pretty" and "compact". The default is compact.
toString
toString(format: string): string
Returns a string representation of the property list in the specified format. Possible values for format include: "json" (compact), "json-compact", "json-pretty", and "xml1". Currently, the OpenStep format is not supported. Throws an exception if the object cannot be written in the given format.
toXMLString
toXMLString(): string
Returns a string representation of the property list in XML format. This function is a synonym for toString("xml1").
writeToFile
writeToFile(filePath: string, format: string): void
Writes the property list to the file in the given format. Possible values for format include: "binary1", "json" (compact), "json-compact", "json-pretty", and "xml1". Currently, the OpenStep format is not supported for writing. Throws an exception if an I/O error occurs or the object cannot be written in the given format.
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Mortage Disclosure Act Federal Reserve Adds Interim Rule
From 30th January 2011 the Federal Reserve will introduce a new interim rule to the Mortgage Disclosure Act of 2008. The rule will mean that all mortgage lenders must disclose all the potential costs of the mortgage over its lifetime, and will be effective on all applications received from that date.
Consumer testing arranged by the Federal Reserve has revealed that many borrowers do not understand the implications of an interest rate rise on their payments, or how the end of an introductory offer rate period will cause their payments to rise. Many consumers also fail to understand the difference between an interest only loan and a loan which repays both the principal and interest.
The new rule means that mortgage lenders will have to clarify their product terms more clearly and introduces several measures which will simplify and disclose more financial information which will allow consumers to better judge if the mortgage payments are affordable if rates rise. The rule does not apply to fixed rate mortgages.
The changes which mortgage lenders must introduce include a statement that consumers are not guaranteed to be able to refinance in the future. Interest rates and payments must be clearly summarized in tabular format and adjustable mortgages must show the maximum interest rate and payment within the first five years of the mortgage. A statement must be placed directly above the interest rate and payment summary table explaining different payment options.
The payment costs must be itemized into how much is for interest and how much is payment of the principal. The Federal Reserve "believes that highlighting the relationship between the interest rate and payment will enhance consumers' understanding of loan terms."
In addition the mortgage lender must give a worst case scenario of a possible payment over the lifetime of a loan. Lenders must also disclose any balloon payments which may be attached to the loan, and the consequences of only making minimum payments.
The interim rule adds to the current Mortgage Disclosure Act aims of improving "informed use of credit resulting from consumers' awareness of the cost of credit." The hope is that if consumers' understand how their payments can be subject to change and that there is no guarantee of payments decreasing in the event of remortgaging they will be less likely to opt for an unaffordable mortgage.
The Federal Reserve welcomes comments regarding this interim rule before it is written into the current legislation.


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Make This No-Sew DIY Duster For a Few Dollars!
Mar 26 2014 - 6:06pm
Along with keeping your stuff free of buildup, this easy-to-make DIY [1] duster comes together without the need for a sewing machine. Just reach for your handy hot glue gun, a bit of fleece, and a wooden dowel, and you're on your way to making a reusable and cute duster. Costing only a few dollars, this homemade cleaning tool will help clear your house of dust and can be tossed in the wash when it's in need of refreshing.
What You'll Need:
 1. Gather the materials for making the duster. You can use any size dowel, but one that's around 1/2 inch in circumference works best. Wooden dowels are found at most craft or home goods stores.
 1. Fold the fleece in half, and then in half again, creating a square. Cut the folded edges to create four squares to use for the duster.
 1. Place one of the squares of fleece on your work area, and position the dowel so it's centered, leaving about two inches of fabric at the top of the dowel. Trace around the outside of the dowel with hot glue, leaving about a quarter of an inch of space between the dowel and glue line. Top with another fleece square, and press.
 1. To create the sides of the duster, fold the top half of the square of fleece toward the right. Place a line of hot glue along the dowel glue line, and press on another square of fleece, securing with more glue along the line as needed. Do the same for the other side.
 1. Use scissors to cut slits horizontally into the sides of the squares, cutting to the glue lines, about an inch apart. Once all the sides have been cut, make two cuts at the top of the square, above where the dowel would be in the duster.
 1. Now begin tying cut lengths of the fleece together, double-knotting one length to the closest underneath. Continue tying around the square. Flip the fleece over, and tie the second row of cuts.
 1. Slide the dowel back into the fleece, and secure by tying the two side knots together with a double knot at the base, from the left and right side. Do the same at the middle and top of the duster. Flip and do the same to the other side of the duster.
 1. To help keep the fleece in place, mark the base of the duster on the dowel with a pencil and then wrap, above the line, with the textured side of a velcro adhesive strip, which will grab onto the fleece.
 1. Your homemade duster is ready to help keep your house nice and clean. Simply toss in the wash to refresh when needed.
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Why do brains have a wrinkled surface
The brain of human beings and other smart animals have wrinkles. It has been observed that all animals do not have a wrinkled brain. For example the brains of frogs have a smooth surface. Evolution is responsible for the ugly wrinkles that our brain possesses. The folds and creases give it a distinct appearance whether we like it or not. The brain is like a modular kitchen. In a kitchen we need to keep so many different appliances, gadgets, utensils and store grocery items. All of us are not lucky to have infinite kitchen space. Human innovation has helped us in making kitchens where there is plenty of storage space that folds pretty easily and leaves room for us to move around. The same logic has been applied on our brain by the nature.
The wrinkled surface of the brain is the very basic proof of human intelligence. With evolution the brain improved and grew in size. The human brain can perform tasks that the brain of other animals cannot and this makes us superior than the rest of the species. Though the brain evolved and grew in size it did not have sufficient space to spread. If the skull got bigger too then it would become out of proportion and we will look odd. The brain sensed this and decided to change its looks.
The ridges on our brain are termed as gyri and the crevices are named sulci. The folds are there to accommodate the huge human brain inside the small skull. The brain plasticity is believed to accommodate new neurons and folds as we learn new things and make new memories. But this theory is yet to be proven in mammals. Human fetus develops the brain wrinkles within 40 weeks of pregnancy and we live with these wrinkles all our lives.
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People's Park Complex
Text by Eugene Tan
The Grand Dame of modern Chinatown. A chronologically representative initiation into the 'complex' typology, the building, with its mixed functions, echoes the atmosphere of the streets, brimming with locals and foreigners engaged in a curious mix of activity.
Situated in the heart of Chinatown, People's Park Complex holds a mixture of shops, offices and residential units. The largest retail complex along the Eu Tong Sen Street commercial belt, it was the first shopping mall of its kind in Southeast Asia, and would start a typological development trend in Singapore, the results of which are visible not only in Chinatown, but in other clusters such as Jalan Sultan and Bukit Timah's 7th Mile.
Beyond its architectural importance, People's Park Complex also represented the beginning of Design Partnership (now DP Architects). Following the dissolution of Malayan Architects Co-Partnership, the office consisting of William Lim, Tay Kheng Soon, and Koh Seow Chuan, was in its first year (1967) when it made a successful proposal for the new mixed-used development.
The integrated podium-tower block design stemmed from the architects' ideas on urban renewal – a desire for all activities of the city to be 'under one roof', allowing inhabitants to live, work and play all in one place, not unlike the traditional way of life in old Chinatown. This was fitting, since People's Park Complex was built on the site of Pearl's Market (or People's Market), a popular bazaar that was razed by a fire in 1956. Completed in 1973, the new Complex would go on to rehouse many of shops that were affected by the 1956 blaze.
Holding a selection of shops and offices, the podium block was a pioneering attempt at encapsulating the bustling lifestyle of the informal streets into a planned retail space. The architects were eager to retain the lost shophouse spirit of Pearl's Market, envisaging the entire Complex as a "Shophouse City". Arranged around two interlocking atria, the podium block accomplished the laudable feat of maintaining a clear organisation for intuitive navigation, while imbuing the experienced space with an exhilarating sense of animation and depth. As one weaved through the layers of spaces, shops and objects in a variety of combinations and sizes truly invoked the vibrancy of the old bazaar.
Above the hustle and bustle of the commercial podium, a simple slab block housed the residential units, providing inhabitants with light, air, and views of the city. A space on the roof was also designated for communal purposes, an early example of how parks and activities could be lifted into our Singapore sky. Unseen to most, is a luxurious penthouse (and rumoured home of the building's developer) located on the top two floors of the 103m building, replete with its own swimming pool, sauna, and gym.
Though it has survived several colourful rebirths, People's Park Complex originally took cues from the Brutalist architectural style popular at that time, and was finished in raw concrete. In the circular windows, distinctive profile, and hyper-articulated tower syncopation, one may also see an 'apprehensibility and coherence of the building as a visual entity' which contributes towards an 'image' - some defining qualities of Reyner Banham's idea of Brutalism. Apart from that, the 'city room' concepts embedded in the podium block also owed much to the ideas of the Metabolism movement in Japan, and when Metabolist group member Fumihiko Maki visited the site during construction, he famously exclaimed "We theorised and you people are getting it built!"
Today, Peoples Park Complex remains a commanding vision in the city centre, part of a vibrant interface between Chinatown MRT Station, OG Building and People's Park Complex Food Centre, forming a greater hub for the local community.


Over 200,000 Fish Found Dead in Argentine Lake
Environmental officials have several possible theories about what could have caused this, including insufficient oxygen in the water. That could have led to respiratory dysfunction or water contamination. Another possibility is that some sort of poisonous substance was dumped in the lake.
Because the lake supplies water to several nearby towns, the reservoir's water quality has been tested and the results will be announced in the upcoming days. Lake Ipizca, which attracts about 400 fishermen and water sports fans a week, will remain closed until this mystery has been solved.
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Child Safety Harness
A Child Safety Harness is designed for toddlers, allowing them the freedom to be a child but with a lot less worry for you.
Safety harnesses (also known as toddler leashes) help parents better control over busy toddlers, while still allowing them to explore the world on their own terms but within safe boundaries.
- Fully adjustable, easy to put on your child and easy to use while on-the-go
- Combine comfort with style with a range of various fun colors and designs
- Perfect for twins and triplets too, and ideal for all outings!
- Manufactured with SABS-approved materials.
- Printed design may differ slightly from the pictures


Tuesday, October 6, 2015
Seeking Self-Actualization in Software Development
Posted by Aaron Price
In the world of Scrum, you sometimes hear about teams being "self-actualized." This term is thrown around by thought leaders and practitioners, but what does it mean? "Self-actualization" refers to teams firing on all cylinders and being a "well-oiled machine"—or in plainer terms, achieving their full potential. The more important question, however, is how do we help teams achieve this elusive, optimal state?
I first heard the term self-actualization when studying psychology in college. There, I learned about the concept of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. In short, it is represented by a pyramid, with a person's most basic needs at the bottom and most complex and abstract needs at the top.
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From bottom to top, Maslow identified human needs as:
 - Physiological: Food, water, and sleep
 - Safety: Health, shelter, and resources
 - Social: Family, love, and companionship
 - Esteem: Achievement, respect by others, and respect for others
 - Self-actualization: To "become everything that one is capable of becoming," according to Abraham Maslow.
These needs apply just as much to professional work as it does to personal life. If we also accept that teams are simply groups of people, then it's fair to say that the Hierarchy of Needs can be applied to teams in a professional environment.
Let's look at how the needs at each level of Maslow's hierarchy can be fulfilled in a team-driven workplace using Kepware as an example.
 - Physiological: Free beverages and company lunches
 - Safety: Salary, work-life balance, health benefits, gym, safe work environment, and 401k program
 - Social: Open floor plan, company parties, and other social activities
 - Esteem: Regular feedback from supervisors and peers and product release celebrations
 - Self-actualization:...this one is hard!
Yes, self-actualization is by far the hardest need for a company to fulfill for a team because management cannot tell a team how to self-actualize. It is the work of the teamand only the teamto find their ideal form.
Scrum emphasizes that teams should be self-organizing. According to The Scrum Guide (the definitive set of Scrum rules), "Self-organizing teams choose how best to accomplish their work, rather than being directed by others outside the team." This is based on the theory that "the people who do the work are the highest authorities on how best to do it."
Does this mean that management is powerless to help their teams self-actualize? No.
A principle of the Hierarchy of Needs is that one cannot fulfill the needs higher on the pyramid until the levels below it are addressed. So what management can do is ensure that all of a team's needs below self-actualization are met, and then provide the autonomy needed for the team to engage on the journey to self-actualization. Ironically, giving teams such freedom can be harder than imposing a rigid process upon themespecially for organizations that are used to tightly managing teams. However, Kepware excels at providing exactly this freedom, not only allowing teams to use the Scrum framework to find their ideal state, but actively encouraging it.
The Hierarchy of Needs as Applied to Kepware
The most crucial tool that Scrum provides to help teams self-actualize is a recurring meeting called the "retrospective." During retrospectives, a team openly and honestly assesses their collective strengths, weaknesses, and ways to improve. Out of retrospectives come "experiments." In the context of Scrum, an experiment is a change to a team's process that is committed within a set time-box and then evaluated. If an experiment is a success, the team may permanently adopt it. If an experiment doesn't achieve the desired results, it is discarded and another experiment is run. This structure flows from one of the twelve Agile Principles that states "at regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its behavior accordingly." Using this trial-and-error approach, the team evolves much like an organism perfecting itself through iteration over time.
Scrum applies iteration toward team self-actualization in much the same way that it applies it to product development. By doing this, both the team and the product undergo regular inspections, on which improvements or course corrections are made. This continuous improvement is at the heart of Scrum; it is also a core value at Kepware that gives us the best possible shot at having healthy, self-actualized teams.
What Do You Think?
Does your company follow the Agile development philosophy? Use the comment field below to share your experiences and ask me any questions you have about our implementation. I hope to connect with you soon. In the meantime, please stay tuned for my next post, where I'll dig deeper into how sprint retrospectives are conducted and how they can be leveraged to maximize teams' productivity and happiness. Thanks for reading!


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As calls for more renewable energy continue to grow, wind energy is always in the news. Lean and Six Sigma methodologies are applied for improvements in the wind industry.
We'll look at a Lean application and a Six Sigma application and finish with a time-lapse video of a wind turbine installation.
Applying Lean Kaizen to Improve Scheduled and Unscheduled Wind Service Maintenance
An article from Wind Systems Magazine titled "Wanzek Applies Lean Kaizen Approach To Improving O&M" covers Wanzek Construction's Lean Kaizen process that addresses both scheduled and unscheduled wind service maintenance issues.
Wanzek Construction's approach led to renewed turbine performance, reduced time resources, improved output and substantial procedural improvements.
You can read the article here.
Six Sigma Applied to Improve Supply Chain and Logistics
In a paper titled "Improving Supply Chain and Logistics in the Wind Turbine Industry using Six Sigma" authors Abhishek Ashtagi, Pablo Ripodas, and Ahad Ali discuss the application of Six Sigma DMAIC to improve Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energies practices in the United States market.
The paper includes:
- Case Study Flowchart
- Project Charter
- SIPOC Diagram
- USA Market Opportunities and Suppliers
- USA Suppliers for Blades, Nacelles and Towers
- Blades, Nacelles, and Towers Price Comparisons
- Logistics FMEA
- Poka Yoke Chart
- Operating Rhythm Chart
The project goal to reduce the cost of wind turbine production by 10% was met through supplier selection.
You can access the paper here.
Video of Wind Turbine Installation
Watch this time-lapse video of Charlestown wind turbine installation from onsite studios.
You can view the video here.
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What is a quantum microphone? A quantum microphone detects sound at the quantum mechanics level. Quantum mics do so with a single-electron transistor (SET). A sound wave, known as surface acoustic waves, oscillate atoms underneath the quantum mic on a chip surface, which allows the SET to detect very low-level sound vibrations.


Neurogenic Communication Disorders
Neurogenic Communication Disorders
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There is currently considerable focus on psychosocial issues for persons with aphasia and their significant others. However, there has been little unifying work that brings diverse interdisciplinary perspectives together to understand the impact of aphasia and other neurogenic communication disorders on the social construction and mediation of self or identity. In this book, the authors explore this idea of social construction of self as it relates to the human need to create, share, and modify life stories, particularly when confronting major life changes. Their premise is that impaired communication can have a profound impact on oneas perception of self and oneas ability to negotiate the social reconstruction of self in the context of a neurological disorder. The nature and extent of impact varies, as seen in the bookas in-depth examination of narrative self for persons living with aphasia, ALS, Parkinsonas disease, and dementia, as well as those aging without impairment. The authors present theoretical grounding for using the concepts of self and the idea of a social and cultural tool kit that enables clients to interact with others and to define themselves in the context of those around them. The text moves from theory to qualitative analyses of living with neurogenic disorders to implications for clinical interventions for individual clients and their significant others.Not too late to take the sanitation test: Notes of a non-gifted academic from the working-class. ... New York: Routledge. ... from _URL_ fb/ cursos_area/cognit/unidad2/tema2/doc/ bruner_2004_lifeasnarrative.pdf Buckanbsp;...
Title:Neurogenic Communication Disorders
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had to find primary and secondary school data for years in which a 22-year-old would have been in the tested cohort. We therefore used 1996 as the first year in which we looked at high school graduation rates and 1992 as the earliest NAEP year because 4th, 8th, or 12th graders tested would have been 22 years old sometime between 2000 and 2010, and most individuals who turned 22 between 2000-2010 would have graduated from high school between 1996 and 2006.
 The NAEP tests 4th, 8th, and 12th grade students, though we excluded 4th graders from our data as only the 1992 NAEP 4th grade cohort would meet our age window.


Monday, November 17, 2014
High School Math Solutions – Polynomial Long Division Calculator
Polynomial long division is very similar to numerical long division where you first divide the large part of the number, multiply the answer by the divisor, subtract and continue dividing the reminder until the reminder is smaller than the divisor.
With polynomials you do the same, only now you have to divide the higher order terms (first term of the numerator divide by the first term of the denominator).
Let's start with a simple example (click here):
Here's another example this time with multiple iterations (click here):


KidZone History: France
History Facts
A misty Paris morning
Photographed by Leonard Cotte on Unsplash
France has a very long history as an independent nation and as part of various empires. It has had a significant impact on world affairs and culture. Some of the most famous historical events to ever happen have occured in or because of France.
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Laser pistol Prop's log
What it is :
The laser Pistol, Limited issue personal weapon for Starfleet personnel during 2260's. An advancement over the earlier Mk.1 pistol, this weapon featured an increase in power while retaining the size and weight of the previous model. As with the Mk.1 model, rotation of the forward triple barrel ring varied the intensity of the laser beam, the larger barrel providing the greatest intensity, but power was now regulated using the secondary barrel ring which would extend the length of the barrel tube to gain an increase in power.
The laser pistol was the first hand held weapon in Star Trek production history, however in-universe, following Star Trek: Enterprise's introduction of phase pistols, they might be seen as a step back in technology from the obviously named forerunner of hand phasers. However, laser pistols have also been shown used alongside phaser rifles suggesting they are perhaps an intermediate step used until phaser technology was available in a more compact form.
The original prop was designed and produced by Wah Chang's Project Unlimited, Inc. in 1964 for the pilot production, "The Cage". Close examination reveals the controls on the side are painted typewriter keys. The prop was slightly modified for its later appearances in "Where No Man Has Gone Before", "The Man Trap", and "What Are Little Girls Made Of?". They contained a tiny flip-up sight on top and the barrel could be extended with a twisting/ratcheting motion for greater power. This prop was modified by the addition of a wheel-like attachment on the back of the body of the weapon and a textured grip.
The Cage' Laser Pistol notably appeared in the Star Trek pilot episode bearing the same name. The TOS Laser Pistol Replica was made from scratch using all available picture and episodic references by master prop maker Michael Moore of HMS Creative Productions. This prop consists of a combination of black painted wood was used to create the handle, and a copper barrel with aluminium rings. Plexiglas emitters were placed on the front.
For the Star Trek collector that has to have it all and wants the very best, this Star Trek Cage Pistol Prop Replica could be the defining piece. Many can be found on sites such as E-bay and Amazon. Depending on used materials and quality, prices range from as low as 25€ up to almost 500€ .
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 tipc-socket - show TIPC socket (port) information
SYNOPSIS
 tipc socket list
OPTIONS
 Options (flags) that can be passed anywhere in the command chain.
 -h, --help
 Show help about last valid command. For example tipc socket --help will show socket
 help and tipc --help will show general help. The position of the option in the
 string is irrelevant.
DESCRIPTION
 A TIPC socket is represented by an unsigned integer.
 Bound state
 A bound socket has a logical TIPC port name associated with it.
 Connected state
 A connected socket is directly connected to another socket creating a point to
 point connection between TIPC sockets. If the connection to X was made using a
 logical port name Y that name will show up as connected to X via Y
EXIT STATUS
 Exit status is 0 if command was successful or a positive integer upon failure.
SEE ALSO
 tipc(8), tipc-bearer(8) tipc-link(8), tipc-media(8), tipc-nametable(8), tipc-node(8),
REPORTING BUGS
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AUTHOR
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 8. Geographical and Geomorphological Effects on Air Temperatures in the Columbia Basin's Signature Vineyards
 NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
 Olson, L.; Pogue, K. R.; Bader, N.
 2012-12-01
 The Columbia Basin of Washington and Oregon is one of the most productive grape-growing areas in the United States. Wines produced in this region are influenced by their terroir - the amalgamation of physical and cultural elements that influence grapes grown at a particular vineyard site. Of the physical factors, climate, and in particular air temperature, has been recognized as a primary influence on viticulture. Air temperature directly affects ripening in the grapes. Proper fruit ripening, which requires precise and balanced levels of acid and sugar, and the accumulation of pigment in the grape skin, directly correlates with the quality of wine produced. Many features control air temperature within a particular vineyard. Elevation, latitude, slope, and aspect all converge to form complex relationships with air temperatures; however, the relative degree to which these attributes affect temperatures varies between regions and is not well understood. This study examines the influence of geography and geomorphology on air temperatures within the American Viticultural Areas (AVAs) of the Columbia Basin in eastern Washington and Oregon. The premier vineyards within each AVA, which have been recognized for producing high-quality wine, were equipped with air temperature monitoring stations that collected hourly temperature measurements. A variety of temperature statistics were calculated, including daily average, maximum, and minimum temperatures. From these values, average diurnal variation and growing degree-days (10°C) were calculated. A variety of other statistics were computed, including date of first and last frost and time spent below a minimum temperature threshold. These parameters were compared to the vineyard's elevation, latitude, slope, aspect, and local topography using GPS, ArcCatalog, and GIS in an attempt to determine their relative influences on air temperatures. From these statistics, it was possible to delineate two trends of temperature variation
 9. Effects of temperature and photoperiod on daily activity rhythms of Lutzomyia longipalpis (Diptera: Psychodidae)
 PubMed Central
 2014-01-01
 Background Insect vectors have been established as models in Chronobiology for many decades, and recent studies have demonstrated a close relationship between the circadian clock machinery, daily rhythms of activity and vectorial capacity. Lutzomyia longipalpis, the primary vector of Leishmania (Leishmania) infantum in the New World, is reported to have crepuscular/nocturnal activity in the wild. However, most of these studies applied hourly CDC trap captures, which is a good indicative of L. longipalpis behaviour, but has limited accuracy due to the inability to record the daily activity of a single insect during consecutive days. In addition, very little is known about the activity pattern of L. longipalpis under seasonal variations of average temperature and day length in controlled laboratory conditions. Methods We recorded the locomotor activity of L. longipalpis males under different artificial regimes of temperature and photoperiod. First, in order to test the effects of temperature on the activity, sandflies were submitted to regimes of light/dark cycles similar to the equinox photoperiod (LD 12:12) combined with different constant temperatures (20°C, 25°C and 30°C). In addition, we recorded sandfly locomotor activity under a mild constant temperature (25°C with different day length regimes: 8 hours, 12 hours and 16 hours). Results L. longipalpis exhibited more activity at night, initiating dusk-related activity (onset time) at higher rather than lower temperatures. In parallel, changes of photoperiod affected anticipation as well as all the patterns of activity (onset, peak and offset time). However, under LD 16:08, sandflies presented the earliest values of maximum peak and offset times, contrary to other regimes. Conclusions Herein, we showed that light and temperature modulate L. longipalpis behaviour under controlled laboratory conditions, suggesting that sandflies might use environmental information to sustain their crepuscular
 10. Evaluation and projection of daily temperature percentiles from statistical and dynamical downscaling methods
 NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
 Casanueva, A.; Herrera, S.; Fernández, J.; Frías, M. D.; Gutiérrez, J. M.
 2013-08-01
 The study of extreme events has become of great interest in recent years due to their direct impact on society. Extremes are usually evaluated by using extreme indicators, based on order statistics on the tail of the probability distribution function (typically percentiles). In this study, we focus on the tail of the distribution of daily maximum and minimum temperatures. For this purpose, we analyse high (95th) and low (5th) percentiles in daily maximum and minimum temperatures on the Iberian Peninsula, respectively, derived from different downscaling methods (statistical and dynamical). First, we analyse the performance of reanalysis-driven downscaling methods in present climate conditions. The comparison among the different methods is performed in terms of the bias of seasonal percentiles, considering as observations the public gridded data sets E-OBS and Spain02, and obtaining an estimation of both the mean and spatial percentile errors. Secondly, we analyse the increments of future percentile projections under the SRES A1B scenario and compare them with those corresponding to the mean temperature, showing that their relative importance depends on the method, and stressing the need to consider an ensemble of methodologies.
 11. Short-term effects of air pollution on daily mortality and years of life lost in Nanjing, China.
 PubMed
 Lu, Feng; Zhou, Lian; Xu, Yan; Zheng, Tongzhang; Guo, Yuming; Wellenius, Gregory A; Bassig, Bryan A; Chen, Xiaodong; Wang, Haochen; Zheng, Xiaoying
 2015-12-01
 The deteriorating air quality in Chinese cities is attracting growing public concern. We conducted analyses to quantify the associations between daily changes in ambient air pollution and mortality in Nanjing, China. Daily mortality, air pollution, and meteorological data from 1 January 2009 to 31 December 2013 were collected. Over-dispersed Poisson regression models were used to evaluate the risk of daily non-accidental mortality and years of life lost (YLL) from exposure to respirable particulate matter (PM10) and gaseous pollutants (NO2, SO2). Stratified analysis was conducted to indentify the modifying effect of individual-level factors on the association between air pollutants and mortality. We found that interquartile range (IQR) increases in the two-day average of PM10, NO2 and SO2 were significantly associated with 1.6% [95% confidence interval (CI):0.7%-2.6%], 2.9% (95% CI: 1.7%-4.2%) and 2.4% (95% CI: 1.2%-3.6%) higher rates of non-accidental mortality; and related to YLL increases of 20.5 (95% CI: 6.3-34.8), 34.9 (95% CI: 16.9-52.9) and 30.3 (95% CI: 12.2-48.4) years, respectively; Associations between air pollution and mortality were more pronounced in the warm season than in the cool season. We conclude that the risks of mortality and YLL were elevated corresponding to an increase in current ambient concentrations of the air pollutants, and season may modify the effects of outdoor air pollution in Nanjing.
 12. Ambient air pollution and daily mortality in Anshan, China: a time-stratified case-crossover analysis.
 PubMed
 Chen, Renjie; Pan, Guowei; Kan, Haidong; Tan, Jianguo; Song, Weimin; Wu, Zhenyu; Xu, Xiaohui; Xu, Qun; Jiang, Cheng; Chen, Bingheng
 2010-11-15
 Few case-crossover studies were conducted in China to investigate the acute health effects of air pollution. We conducted a time-stratified case-crossover analysis to examine the association between air pollution and daily mortality in Anshan, a heavily-polluted industrial city in northeastern China. Daily mortality, air pollution, and weather data in 2004-2006 in Anshan were collected. Time-stratified case-crossover approach was used to estimate the effect of air pollutants (PM(10), SO(2), NO(2) and CO) on total and cardiopulmonary mortality. Controls were selected as matched days of the week in the same month. Potential effect modifiers, such as gender and age, were also examined. We found significant associations between air pollution and daily mortality from cardiovascular diseases in Anshan. A 10μg/m(3) elevation of 2-day moving average (lag 01) concentration in PM(10), SO(2), NO(2) and CO corresponded to 0.67% (95% CI: 0.29%, 1.04%), 0.38% (95% CI: -0.06%, 0.83%), 2.11% (95% CI: 0.22%, 4.00%) and 0.04% (95% CI: 0.01%, 0.


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Off-season fruits prove lucrative for Mekong Delta farmers
HCM CITY – Farmers in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta are increasingly growing fruits out of season and more efficiently.
In 二0 一 三 the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development had unveiled plans for growing five key fruits - dragon fruit, mango, rambutan, durian, and longan – during their off-season in the delta's 一 二 provinces and Cần Thơ City and the south - central province of Bình Thuận, the country's largest dragon fruit grower.
This is meant to help avoid oversupply during the regular season, thus ensuring prices never fall too low.
Lê Thanh Tùng, deputy head of the ministry's plant cultivation department, said the delta and Bình Thuận grow the five fruits off-season on up to 七 三, 八00ha of their 一 三 二, 二00ha under them.
Of the 七 三, 八00ha, dragon fruit accounts for 四 五, 一00ha, durian for 六, 三00ha, mango for 一 一, 二00ha, rambutan for 三, 一00ha, and longan for 八, 一00ha. This accounts for about 五 一 per cent of their total output.
The off-season fruits have 一. 五 – 二 times higher economic efficiency than seasonal ones, according to the ministry.
In recent years more and more farmers are adopting good agricultural practices (GAP) standards to grow fruits out of season.
For instance, during the main season durian is sold at orchards at VNĐ 三 五,000 – 四0,000 (US$ 一. 五 – 一. 七) per kilogra妹妹e while off-season fruits fetch VNĐ 六0,000 ($ 二. 六).
Durian is one of the delta's key fruits, and has seen high prices and demand in recent years.
Tiền Giang Province, the delta's largest fruit producer, has more than 一 三0,000ha under durian with an average yield of 二 五 tonnes per year.
Đào Ngọc Thoại, who owns a 一ha orchard in Cai Lậy District, said during the off-season the fruit fetches 一. 七 times the main-season income.
He has been harvesting around 二0 tonnes during the former each year, earning profits of more than VNĐ 一 billion ($ 四 三, 四00), he said.
To improve efficiency, research institutes, universities and relevant agencies have transferred techniques for growing fruits during the off-season to farmers, the ministry said.
The Southern Fruit Research Institute would continue to do research, it said.
The ministry has instructed provinces producing off-season fruits to help farmers develop links with companies to secure outlets for their output.
In the delta, Đồng Tháp and Vĩnh Long provinces and a part of Long An and Tiền Giang provinces grow dragon fruit, durian, rambutan, and longan during the off-season.
The ministry said the provinces of Bến Tre and Trà Vinh and a part of Vĩnh Long, Tiền Giang and Long An provinces should ensure there is sufficient irrigation water for fruits this year and to address problems like drought and saltwater intrusion into water bodies.
In the 二0 二0- 二 一 dry season, which usually lasts between last December and April, farmers took several measures to mitigate the impacts of saltwater intrusion on fruit cultivation like storing water in ponds, using rice straws, leaves and plastic sheets to cover tree roots to reduce water evaporation.
They also increased the use of organic fertilisers, lime and bio-products to tend trees, pruned branches, discarded a part of the flowers and young fruits their trees produced to enhance their ability to resist drought and saltwater.
In Tiền Giang, saltwater intrusion caused little damage to durian trees as farmers took effective measures to mitigate it, according to the province Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.
The province has also recovered nearly 一,000ha of durian plants and replanted nearly 二,000ha that were damaged by drought and saltwater in 二0 一 九 – 二0.
During that dry season nearly 四, 五00ha of orchards were severely damaged, with 三, 五00ha being a write-off.
The delta, the country's largest fruit producer, gradually increased its total area under fruits from 二 八 七, 三00ha in 二0 一0 to 三 七 七, 七00ha last year, or 三 三. 三 per cent of the country's total, according to the ministry.
The increase focused on dragon fruit, durian, pineapple, mango, grapefruit, banana, rambutan, jackfruit, and orange. – VNS


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I'm currently struggling with an issue regarding PhysicsNodes. I'm modelling a solar system, and I've created a class for my planets etc (see _URL_ that builds two spheres and a physics node for the planet. The physics node is attached directly to the bulletAppState in Main. The two spheres are attached to a Node within my planet class.
I initialise these objects within another class called SolarSystem. This has a method which creates a planet at a specific location, and a sun. These objects are then attached to a node internal to the SolarSystem object. Lastly the solar system node object is attached to my rootNode in Main.
So the basic node chain is:
Planet/Sun > Node in Planet object > Node in SolarSystem object > rootNode
To get my specific locations for planets/sun, I specify setLocalTranslation on the "Node in Planet Object". The node in my SolarSystem object gets attach at Vector3f.ZERO.
The problem I am running into now is that whilst my objects are showing up correctly. Only one of my Physics nodes is. I.e. I've created a solar system with 1 sun and 1 planet. They both show up fine, but only the physics node around my sun (at Vector3f.ZERO) is working. I can fly straight through my planet.
My questions would be:
- Am I doing things the right way with regard to my node chaining? Or should I be attaching everything directly to the rootNode?
- How can I debug my physics nodes? I've tried using .attachDebugShape() on them, but that doesn't show up.
Any help gratefully received!


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Encrypted plaintext password store
sala is a software that lets you store passwords and other bits of sensitive plain-text information to encrypted files on a directory hierarchy. The information is protected by GnuPG's symmetrical encryption.
Basic usage
Passwords are stored in a directory hierarchy, each file containing one secret, like this:
| |-- +webmail
| | |-- _USER_
| | '-- _USER_
| '-- +adminpanel
| '-- _USER_
'-- my-linux-box
 |-- _USER_
 '-- _USER_
I use a convention of naming directories after services and using _USER_ as the file name. If a service has groups, categories, subservices, etc., I use subdirectories whose names are prefixed with +. Of course, you can come up with your own scheme, for example if you want to hide the usernames, too.
To create a new password store, first create an empty directory, change into it, and invoke:
sala init
This command asks for the master passphrase you want to use for the store. It then initializes the password store by creating a long random key and encrypting it with the master passphrase.
Create a new password for service/_USER_:
 sala set service/_USER_
This command first asks you for the master passphrase, and then the secret that should be stored to the file service/_USER_. The intermediate directory service is created automatically.
To read the secret you just stored, invoke:
 sala get service/_USER_
This command asks again for the master passphrase, and outputs the secret.
All the files are just normal files, so you can safely remove or rename files if you want to.
The above commands can also be used on multiple files at once:
sala set service2/_USER_ service3/_USER_
sala get service2/_USER_ service3/_USER_
If no command is specified, sala assumes get if the first file exists and set otherwise. That is, the command:
sala foo/_USER_
reads the secret foo/_USER_ if the file exists, and creates a new secret otherwise. Note that this may not work as you expect for multiple files, as the existence of the first file determines whether to read or to write.
sala can be configured with an INI-style configuration file. sala tries to read the configuration from ~/.sala.conf and from sala.conf in the top directory of the password store. Neither of the files are required. If a configuration setting is specified in both files, the the latter takes precedence.
Here's the default configuration:
# All configuration settings are in the [sala] section.
# The cipher to use with GnuPG's symmetrical encryption.
# Run "gpg --version" to list supported ciphers.
cipher = AES256
# Master key length, in bytes
key-length = 64
# A shell command to run to generate password suggestions
password-generator = pwgen -nc 12 10
Changing cipher only affects secrets that are set after the configuration setting is changed, i.e. the old secrets will not automatically be re-encrypted.
Only sala init uses the key-length option. If you want the master key to be of a different size, make sure the configuration file exists before you run sala init.
The password-generator option is run through the shell to generate password suggestions. If the command fails (is not found or exits with non-zero exit status), its output is ignored. Othewise, the output should consist of one or more words separated with whitespace (space, tab, newline, etc.). These words are presented to the user as password suggestions by sala set.
Under the hood
sala uses GnuPG's symmetric encryption. All encrypted files are in the GnuPG plain text (armor) format.
When the password store is initialized, a very long, truly random key is generated and stored to the file.salakey. Only this "master key" is encrypted with your master passphrase. All the other files in the store are encrypted with the master key.
Install sala by invoking:
pip install sala
To install from source, invoke:
python install
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What Is Yukon Gold Potato?
Buying, Cooking, and Recipes
A skillet filled with roasted Yukon Gold potatoes
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The yellow-fleshed Yukon Gold potato is a great all-purpose potato, suitable for mashing, roasting, boiling, frying, and sautéing. When it comes to texture, this potato falls between the starchy russet and waxy red potato and has a naturally buttery flavor. Developed in Ontario, Canada, in the 1960s, the Yukon Gold potato now grows in other potato-growing regions, including Idaho.
What Is Yukon Gold Potato?
A Yukon Gold potato is a cross between a wild South American yellow potato and a North American white potato. Other gold-flesh potatoes are generally available from July through April, but Yukon Gold has a shorter availability season, usually from August through February. Its rosy pink eyes distinguish it from other thin-skinned yellow-flesh potatoes. It typically costs a bit more than standard white potatoes, russets, red potatoes, and other common gold potatoes, though generally less than fingerlings and other specialty varieties.
How to Cook With Yukon Gold Potato
Lightly scrub potatoes just prior to using them; do not wash potatoes before storing them as this introduces extra moisture and can hasten rot. The thin skin on Yukon Gold potato comes off easily, whether it's peeled before or after cooking. Leave it in its jacket when baking, steaming, or boiling, which prevents the flesh from crumbling when chopping or slicing the potato for use in a recipe. Peel it before proceeding with a recipe, or leave the skin intact for a more rustic and nutritious presentation.
What Does It Taste Like?
The concentrated flavor of buttery Yukon Gold potato means it tastes delicious, even with little seasoning. The flavor may even be described as a bit vegetal and slightly sweet.
Yukon Gold Potato Recipes
The versatility of Yukon Gold potato means it can substitute it for nearly any other potato in almost any dish. It holds together like red and other waxy potatoes, making it suitable for salads, but as mashers, it's on par with russets. Choose Yukon Gold when a dish would benefit from the pretty yellow color.
Where to Buy Yukon Gold Potato?
Yukon Gold potato is widely available at nearly any grocery store, health food store, or online grocery retailer. Make sure to look for packaging or signage that specifies Yukon Gold to distinguish it from other varieties of yellow-flesh potatoes. The potato may be packaged in 5- or 10-pound bags, or loose in bulk bins. Select potatoes that feel firm to the touch, with no bruised or bald spots, cuts, sprouts, or green areas. One potato with a soft spot or damaged area hastens the deterioration of the rest.
Potatoes grow easily in backyard gardens, too. The seeds from garden centers or online retailers are actual potatoes cultivated specifically as seed potatoes for planting.
Since they have slightly higher sugar content, gold potatoes do not store as well as russets. They need a cold environment, 40 F to 50 F, with an optimum 90 percent humidity. Storage below 33 F turns the starches into sugar. Store Yukon Gold potato in a paper bag (preferable) or perforated plastic bag in the refrigerator vegetable crisper drawer, away from onions, and use within several weeks. Or put the potato in a well-ventilated cold-storage area such as a root cellar, being careful to protect it from any light source.
Exposure to light turns potatoes green, resulting in bitterness. A chemical called solanine causes this discoloration, and can also lead to intestinal discomfort. When the level of solanine exceeds as little as 0.01 percent, potatoes can become toxic. It's OK to cut off small green areas and use the rest of the potato, but if more than half the flesh looks green, toss it.
Store leftover cooked potatoes in the refrigerator in an airtight container for up to three days. Another option: Freeze mashed gold potatoes in a sealed container with 1/2 inch of headspace; for best results, use them within three months. Reheat thawed mashed potatoes in the microwave or over low heat in a saucepan with 1 to 2 tablespoons of milk or water, while stirring constantly.
Nutrition and Benefits
A half-cup serving of cooked Yukon Gold contains no fat, cholesterol, or sodium. For a light 70 calories, it provides 3 grams of protein and 2 grams of fiber. Keep in mind, though, that added butter, salt, and other seasonings can quickly escalate the fat and calories. With 32 percent per serving, Yukon Gold delivers more vitamin C than standard baking potatoes and is similarly high in potassium. Eat the nutritious and high-in-fiber skin to capture the greatest benefits.


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Storm water can be collected from roofs, tarmac and landscaped areas. Depending on the collection, storage and possible contamination, the water may require treatment ranging from settling ponds to a proper water treatment plant.
Use will depend on water quality and could range from landscaping to vehicle and building washing, and toilet flushing. A crucial task of storm water management includes keeping water with tarmac residues from contaminating surface water courses.
Soil and land management
Soil, surface and ground water can be contaminated by storm water run-off, fuel spills, de-icing fluids and other spill incidents. Spill prevention and reaction to incidents are operational and environmental responsibilities.
Poorly planned land management can provide habitat that creates a bird and wildlife hazard.
There are many streams of solid waste at an airport including, municipal waste from concessions and passenger areas; waste from airfield operations and maintenance such as derelict equipment, pallets and hazardous materials like paint thinners; deplaned waste that might require incineration, and debris from construction and demolition.
Some streams are regulated, some materials can be recycled, and some can generate income.
The perception of the environmental impact by neighbouring residents can be as important as the physical effects. Fostering positive community relations can make a vital contribution to the mitigation of adverse environmental pressure resulting from airport operation.
The goals of an airport's community engagement programme should include establishing and maintain the trust of the community, because if the public does not believe the information provided, there is no foundation to achieve community engagement. This trust is built upon a long-term culture of honesty and transparency.
If communities can grant the airport permission to operate and grow, and airports can undertake sufficient voluntary measures, then overly restrictive regulation and court actions can be avoided.