means that little code is required to use them, although this comes at the expense of flexibility.
 Typically, these objects are used for simple tasks such as dragging a rectangle or creating a new line. Operations that involve moving the vertices of existing geometries require the feedback objects to be used instead. The TrackNew method takes two parameters: an IScreenDisplay object representing the ScreenDisplay to draw the rubber band and an ISymbol object for drawing the rubber band. If no symbol is given, the default symbol is used. The method returns a new geometry object - the type of geometry returned depends on the class that was used. RubberPolygon returns a polygon object. If the method fails to complete, that is, if you press the Esc key, then nothing is returned. The types of geometry that are returned for TrackNew by each rubber band object are as follows:
 The TrackExisting method also takes ScreenDisplay and Symbol parameters as well as IGeometry representing the input geometry. This last parameter represents the geometry to move on the screen and is passed by reference so that it can be altered by the rubberband operation. The method returns a Boolean, which will be true unless the operation was interrupted by the Esc key being pressed. The method will do nothing if the geometry that is passed in does not intersect the current mouse location. The types of geometry that are expected by TrackExisting for each rubber band object are as follows:
 - RubberCircle - Not implemented
 - RubberEnvelope - IEnvelope
 - RubberLine - IPolyline
 - RubberPoint - IPoint
 - RubberPolygon - IPolygon
 - RubberRectangularPolygon - IPolygon
 For additional information, see Sample: RubberBand zoom.
 The selection tracker objects are shown in the following diagram:
 The three types of selection tracker objects are as follows:
 - An envelope tracker allows you to move and resize the element. This functionality is implemented by the EnvelopeTracker object for all element types, including point, line, polygon, and group elements.
 - A vertex edit tracker allows you to move vertices of lines, polygons, curves, and curved text. This functionality is implemented by the LineTracker and PolygonTracker objects.
 - A callout tracker allows you to move a text callout. This functionality is implemented by the CalloutTracker object.
 The CancelTracker object is used by ArcObjects to monitor the Esc key (optionally, the space bar and mouse clicks as well) and terminate processes at your request.
 For additional information, see Selection trackers.
 A representation class is also called a feature class representation. It is associated with a collection of representation rules to symbolize features and store that information in the geodatabase. It allows the geometry and properties of features to be altered from the rule without disrupting the associated spatial data. Representations are representations of individual features participating in a representation class. RepresentationClass, RepresentationRules, and Representation are objects in the Geodatabase library.
 RepresentationRules is a collection of one or more individual RepresentationRule objects that are used to categorize features in a geodatabase into groups. A regular representation rule consists of multiple layers of basic symbols such as BasicMarkerSymbol, BasicLineSymbol, or BasicFillSymbol for drawing markers, line strokes, and fill patterns, respectively. All basic symbol classes implement the IBasicSymbol interface.
 More complex symbology can be achieved by including one or more geometric effects in a representation rule. A geometric effect is a dynamic process that alters geometry at draw time. It can even change geometry type. For example, point, line, or polygon geometries can be processed through GeometricEffectBuffer to produce buffer polygons around them.
 All representation rule objects support the IRepresentationRule interface. Use the LayerCount and Layer properties to get the total number of symbol layers and to retrieve individual symbol layers at a given index. The InsertLayer method can be used to insert a symbol layer into a representation rule. You can specify the index and basic symbol as input values. Use the RemoveLayer method to remove a specific symbol layer present in the representation rule given its index.
 RepresentationRule also implements IRepresentationRuleInit, which is useful for transforming a regular ArcGIS symbol to a basic symbol. Since only basic symbols are used to construct a representation rule, it is important to transform a regular symbol to a basic symbol to use it with representations.
 For additional information, see Cartographic representations.
 A basic marker symbol is used to draw marker symbols and has marker, size, and angle as its graphic attributes. These attributes can be managed using the IGraphicAttributes interface. The attributes are listed in the esriGraphicAttribute enumeration and are prefixed with esriGAMarker - for example, esriGAMarkerSize. All basic marker symbol classes implement IBasicMarkerSymbol, which has a single MarkerPlacement property.
 Marker placement objects are marker placement styles for placing markers. You can place single or multiple markers depending on the marker placement you choose. For example, MarkerPlacementOnPoint places a single marker over a point, while MarkerPlacementAlongLine places multiple markers along a line. The default marker placement for any basic marker symbol is MarkerPlacementOnPoint. Use IMarkerPlacement to create and manipulate the properties of placement styles.
 The esriMarkerPlacementAttributes enumeration lists graphic attributes for all marker placements where each attribute is prefixed with esriGA(name)(attribute), such as esriGAInsidePolygonGridAngle, where MarkerPlacementInsidePolygon is the marker placement style and GridAngle is its graphic attribute.
 Examples of basic marker symbols are shown in the following graphic:
 The following table lists the available marker placement styles along with their valid input geometry types and graphic attributes:
 Marker placement
 Valid input geometry
 Graphic attributes
 - Line
 - Polygon
 - Step
 - Endings
 - Control points
 - Angle to line
 - Line
 - Type
 - Offset
 - Angle to line
 - Line
 - Polygon
 - Number of positions
 - Begin gap
 - End gap
 - Flip all
 - Flip first
 - Angle to line
 - Polygon
 - X step
 - Y step
 - Grid angle
 - Shift odd rows
 - X offset
 - Y offset
 - Clipping
 - Line
 - Polygon
 - Position
 - Relative to
 - Angle to line
 - Point
 - X offset
 - Y offset
 - Line
 - Polygon
 - On end points
 - On control points
 - On regular vertices
 - Angle to line
 - Polygon
 - X offset
 - Y offset
 - Center method
 - Center clipping
 - Line
 - Polygon
 - Step
 - Endings
 - Control points
 - Random
 - Skew effect
 - Polygon
 - X offset
 - Y offset
 - Clipping
 - Line
 - Polygon
 - Step
 - Endings
 - Control points
 - Min zoom
 - Max zoom
 - Zoom number
 - Method
 - Offset
 A basic line symbol is used to draw stroke symbols. All basic line symbol classes implement IBasicLineSymbol, which has a single Stroke property. LineStroke has width, caps, joins, and color as its graphic attributes. These attributes can be manipulated using the IGraphicAttributes interface. The attributes are listed in the esriGraphicAttribute enumeration and are prefixed with esriGAStroke, such as esriGAStrokeWidth. Use ILineStroke to create and manipulate the properties of a new stroke symbol.
 A basic fill symbol is used to draw fill symbols. All basic fill symbol classes implement IBasicFillSymbol, which has a single FillPattern property. The three fill patterns and their graphic attributes are shown in the following table:
 Fill pattern
 Graphic attributes
 - Color
 - Color1
 - Color2
 - Pattern style
 - Interval
 - Percent
 - Algorithm
 - Angle
 - Color
 - Width
 - Angle
 - Step
 - Offset
 These attributes can be manipulated using the IGraphicAttributes interface. The attributes are listed in the esriGraphicAttribute enumeration and are prefixed with esriGA(fill pattern type), such as esriGASolidColorPatternColor. Use IFillPattern to create and manipulate the properties of a new Fill Pattern symbol.
 Fill patterns of BasicFillSymbol are shown in the following graphic from left to right: solid, hatch, and gradient:
 GeometricEffect and GeometricEffects
 Geometric effects are dynamic processes that alter the geometry of features. A single representation rule can contain multiple geometric effects, functioning in sequence to create complex symbols. When a single RepresentationRule object is applied with a chain of geometric effects, the end result of applying the chain of effects can be considered and managed as a single geometric effect. For this reason, the RepresentationRule class inherits both the IGeometricEffect and IGeometricEffects interfaces. The result of geometric effects applied on a rule are directly passed to all basic symbol layers present in the rule for drawing features. While IGeometricEffects is useful to browse through individual geometric effects participating in the rule, IGeometricEffect is useful to manage the chain of multiple geometric effects as a single geometric effect.
 For example, as shown in the following illustration, if there are two geometric effects - GeometricEffectDash and GeometricEffectOffset - applied on line strokes in sequential order, you can


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The User's Perspective
Interperiod Equity and What It Means to You
The notion of interperiod equity really should be pretty straightforward, but it is described in a variety of ways that sometimes seem similar and other times seem quite opposite. GASB Chairman Bob Attmore describes it as the state at which current-year taxpayers have provided adequate resources to pay for the cost of current-year services. Another way to look at it is as a state of equilibrium in which a government is neither deferring costs to the future nor using accumulated resources to provide current-period services. It is important to note that for financial reporting purposes, interperiod equity is a relevant metric to assess accountability rather than a goal that is expected to be met in any specific reporting period. For users of financial statements, the concept of interperiod equity is particularly important because it addresses the implications of fiscal decisions a government makes today but that may be felt well into the future.
A financial reporting objective related to both accountability and decision usefulness, interperiod equity makes its first appearance in GASB literature in Concepts Statement No. 1, Objectives of Financial Reporting. In that document, the GASB uses companion notions like "living within our means" and "balanced budget" and "fairness" to help illustrate the concept. The idea is that by achieving interperiod equity, taxpayers of today pay for the services that they receive and the burden of payment for services today is not shifted to taxpayers of the future. Of course, whether interperiod equity is achieved is a policy decision of the government. From a financial reporting perspective, the extent to which interperiod equity has been achieved can be indicated and a determination of whether taxpayer contributions are appropriate can be assessed.
In Concepts Statement No. 4, Elements of Financial Statements, the GASB added a description of interperiod equity as "the state in which current period inflows of resources equal current period cost of services." When this is achieved, it goes on to say, "the burden of the cost of [current period] services is borne by present-year taxpayers and revenue providers" rather than "shifted to future-year taxpayers or revenue providers through an increase in the level of borrowing" or paid from net resources accumulated in past periods. It is easy to understand why the GASB considers this a relevant metric to assess accountability.
Interperiod equity should not be interpreted as meaning that governments should live only from year to year, and not do financial planning for the long term. Again, that decision is based on the policies of the government. For example, many would argue that it is appropriate to use long-term debt to pay for capital assets, or to accumulate resources annually over many years to do so.
How the GASB's Standards Address Interperiod Equity
As an example of the relevance of this concept today, the GASB is currently examining its pension and other postemployment benefits (OPEB) standards to determine, among other things, whether the existing standards help financial report users to assess the degree to which interperiod equity has been achieved and, if not, consider if the standards should be amended to better allow for that assessment.
Let us be clear—GASB standards do not take a position on whether it is most appropriate to pay for all costs in the periods they are incurred, or to accumulate assets over time to make future payments, or to shift current costs to future periods. The standards are objective in this regard. Rather, because it is clearly important to many kinds of users to be able to tell if costs are being covered within a given period or not, the standards require reporting of information that allows users to make that assessment.
Furthermore, it should not be assumed that governments that pass a burden of debt down the road for future generations to contend with do so because they are unscrupulous. More commonly, the explanations may be found in the political pressures of annually balancing the budget or a lack of a full understanding about the long-term implications of the benefit promises that were made to employees. Statement No. 45, Accounting and Financial Reporting by Employers for Postemployment Benefits Other Than Pensions, was met with resistance from some corners when it was issued because it requires governments to recognize the costs of benefits as they are earned, rather than later when they are paid to retirees and to estimate and report the size of their long-term obligation. In retrospect, however, it has served to shine a spotlight on the magnitude of the costs of health insurance and other OPEB, allowing financial statement users a more comprehensively informed view of a government's financial commitments.
Interperiod equity is not limited to recognizing costs—expenditures or expenses—in the proper period, but also extends to revenues. A GASB pronouncement that addresses the concept of reporting revenues in their appropriate periods is Statement No. 48, Sales and Pledges of Receivables and Future Revenues and Intra-Entity Transfers of Assets and Future Revenues. Under the 1998 U.S. tobacco industry agreements with state governments that released the companies from present and future smoking-related liabilities, the companies agreed to make payments to the affected governments in perpetuity based on future tobacco sales. Some sought to securitize the money to be received in the future through bond sales. A question arose: Could they recognize all of the proceeds of the bond sales as revenue now? The Board concluded in Statement 48 that the answer is no from a financial reporting perspective—affected governments had to recognize the revenue over the periods to which the future inflows relate.
As governments seek ways to close budget gaps and meet capital investment needs, "public/private partnerships" are financing options that more and more governments are considering. The GASB is currently engaged in a project addressing service concession arrangements, which are a type of public/private partnership in which a public entity, like a state highway department, enters into an agreement with a private entity to build or operate a public asset, for example, a toll road. The project, for which a proposed Statement was issued in June (see the accompanying article), raises questions directly related to interperiod equity, including how inflows from upfront payments to the public entity should be recognized, and whether and how the government should report the property as a capital asset. In some circumstances, the GASB's approach to those questions involves amortizing such payments over the life of the contract or the capital asset.
The accrual basis of accounting itself is intended to ensure that costs and revenues are reported in keeping with the appropriate period and that the government is living within its means. Under full accrual, all flows of resources—and therefore all changes in net assets—during the year are recorded regardless of whether they involved cash flowing into our out of the government. When a government follows full accrual, it reports in each year's financial statements every transaction that occurs during the year that has an impact on its finances, even if cash did not change hands. The nature of this basis of accounting, then, is well-suited to allow users of financial statements to make judgments about what kind of job a government is doing with respect to interperiod equity.
The notion of fiscal sustainability considers whether a government is on a path that can be sustained into the future. Earlier this year, the United States Treasury Department published a report that concluded the current financial path the U.S. government is on is not fiscally sustainable. Without getting into the details, the current fiscal policies are projected to produce a relatively flat level of revenues in the next decades, but the corresponding debt service and entitlement program spending commitments are projected to grow by multiples over that same time horizon. During the course of the next generation, according to the projections, the federal government not only will lose its discretionary spending capacity, but also its ability to pay for entitlement programs will be severely challenged due to surging debt service payments.
The federal government has, until now, bridged its fiscal gaps by issuing additional debt rather than attempting to achieve interperiod equity. State and local governments, however, are generally required to balance budgets. The GASB has been studying the importance of the notion of fiscal sustainability to the users of state and local government financial reports and the kinds of information they use to assess it. The GASB will consider whether a project should be added to its current technical agenda to better address economic condition and fiscal sustainability reporting.
"What is to be done then?" you might ask. The purpose of this article is simply to bring these issues into focus and to show how this important concern of users is taken into account in standards of accounting and financial reporting. In keeping with the GASB's goals of improving transparency and providing better accountability, citizens and other users of financial statements ought to be able to look at financial reports and be able to discern the fiscal path a government is on.
For 25 years the GASB has worked to develop accounting standards for state and local governments that result in transparent financial reporting. At the same time, it has helped these entities to be more accountable to their citizens and taxpayers by giving them the tools to demonstrate their stewardship over the resources entrusted to them. A concept like interperiod equity is not in itself the solution, but it is certainly part of it.

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There's nothing worse than a hard and unripe avocado ruining your day.
A food tech startup called One Third unveiled a fruit scanner that can detect the ripeness of products at the Consumer Electronic Show (CES) in Las Vegas on Tuesday.
Using proprietary algorithms, the scanner can interpret the results of a near-infrared laser to determine an avocado's shelf life in real time.
Named for the fact that a third of all food produced worldwide is wasted, the company uses a cloud-based fresh produce scanner system that helps reduce food waste by predicting shelf life.
While the current generation of product scanners can only provide information on laboratory-specific tests such as sugar content and acidity, OneThird's device can tell you about freshness or potential shelf life.
This can reduce food waste in these situations by up to 25 percent on average.
"The astronomical amount of food that is wasted each year is heartbreaking, especially when so much is wasted in affluent countries. We've worked hard to develop technology to help address this ongoing global challenge that directly impacts food insecurity," said Marco Snikkers, CEO and Founder of OneThird.
"We are proud to have developed the first product that accurately and objectively predicts the shelf life of fresh produce. Interest has been overwhelming and we want to accelerate the global deployment of our technology'
The company manufactures two variants of the system, one for the end user in the product aisle and another for growers in the supply chain.
MORE: Stunning home with its own avocado orchard has gone on sale for £12.9million
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How can I detect if a PDF needs to be OCRd?
You just received 1000 PDFs from the other side which are a mix of PDFs created from Office applications and scans. Some of the documents might have been OCRd and some not.
How can you quickly detect which files need to be OCRd?
Further, how can you pull out and separate searchable and non-searchable PDFs?
I have written on this subject previously in my article "Is that PDF Searchable?" That post included information on how to test if individual documents are searchable and offered a basic way to detect searchability across files.
Why detecting searchability is hard?
When would you call a PDF searchable? When one word is searchable? When 100 words are searchable? When a page is searchable? When all the pages are searchble? What about pictures or text inside of pictures?
I've been doing some research and in this article I offer up another way to check for searchable text.
To accomplish this, we will use the Preflight feature of Acrobat Pro. Acrobat's Preflight feature offers hundreds of different tests including the ability to check for characters on the page. Preflight can be used on a single document or it can be automated using a batch sequence.
The following workflow isn't perfect, but I offer it here to legal professionals who want to experiment with it.
In this article, you'll learn how to create a Batch Sequence to run across folders of files which will:
 1. Separate searchable PDFs from non-searchable PDFs and place them in named folders
 2. Ignore non-PDF documents
 3. Create a Summary Report of searchability
About Preflight
Acrobat Pro's Preflight feature includes several hundred detection and fix-up operations.
Leonard Rosenthal, Adobe's Standards Evangelist, blogged about using Preflight to check for searchable text in his blog post on Checking a PDF for Searchable Text.
In that post, Leonard offered a custom preflight profile which tested for searchable text.
One oddity of how Preflight works is that when conditions are met, an error is generated. Leonard's Preflight Profile, in fact, errors when searchable text is found.
I certainly found this confusing at first, but once taken into account, it is very powerful indeed.
Read the Entire Article First
Before you crazy loading up that new discovery documents you just got in, read the entire article including the caveats at the end.
Step 1: Import the Preflight Profile
In order to test for searchability, you will will need to import a Preflight Profile.
 1. Download Leonard's Text Searchable Preflight Profile from the link below:
 Text Searchable.kfp (4K)
 - Open Acrobat Pro and any PDF document
 (Preflight won't be available until a document is open)
 - Choose Advanced> Preflight
 - Click the Options buttonClick the Options button
 - Choose Import Preflight Profile... from the Options menu
 - Locate the Text Searchable.kfp file you downloaded in Step 1 above and click the Open button.
 - Close the Preflight Window
Step 2: Create Sorting Folders
You will need to create two folders; one for the PDFs which are searchable and one for the PDFs that are not searchable.
 1. Create a new folder on your desktop. Change the folder name to "Searchable"
 2. Create a new folder on your desktop. Change the folder name to "Not Searchable"
Source File Folder
In case you haven't already, copy all of your source files (the PDF files you want to check) to a folder on your hard drive. Sub-folders within the main folder are not a problem.
Step 3: Create a Batch Sequence
In this step, you'll create a batch sequence that calls Preflight and places PDFs in the folders you created in Step 2.
 1. Choose Advanced>Document Processing> Batch Processing
 2. Click the New Sequence buttonNew Sequence Window
 3. Give the Sequence a name such as "No Searchable Text"No Searchable Text window
 4. Click the Select Commands... buttonSelect Commands
 5. The Select Commands window opens.
 A) From the list at left, choose Preflight
 B) Click the Add> button
 C) Click the Edit... buttonEdit Sequence Window
 6. The Preflight Setup Window opens:
 7. A) Choose "Text can be searched" from the list
 B) In On success, Enable the checkbox and Move PDF file option
 C) Set Success folder button to your"Not Searchable" folder"
 D) In On error, Enable the checkbox and Move PDF file option
 E) Set Error folder button to your"Searchable" folder"
 F) Enable reporting
 G) Click the Save buttonEdit Sequence Window
 8. Click OK to go back to the main Edit Sequence window.
 9. In the Edit Sequence window:
 A) Change "Run Commands on" to Selected Folder
 B) Click the Browse button and locate your source file folder
 C) Click Source File Options... and deselect all the file types
 See Source File Options window picture below
 D) Set to Output location to "Same folder as originals"Edit Batch Sequence
 Source File Options
 10. Click OK to exit the Edit Batch Sequence window
Step 4: Run the Batch Sequence
By now, you should have gathered up all your source files into the folder referenced above in Step 9-A. You also have folders on your desktop ready to receive searchable and non-searchable files.
Here's how to run the sequence:
 1. Choose Advanced>Document Processing> Batch Processing
 A) Select the "No Searchable Text" Sequence
 B) Click the Run Sequence buttonRun Sequence Window
 2. The Batch Sequence will run. If you have thousands of files, you will need to get a beverage.
Acrobat will move the files into your Searchable and Not Searchable folders. In the case of a duplicate filename, Acrobat will append a sequence number and won't overwrite the original.
When complete, a report will be generated.
Step 5: Looking at the Report and Some Caveats
The process will generate a PDF Portfolio report that looks like this:
Portfolio of Report
The cover sheet for the PDF Portfolio contains summary information about all the files.
Looking closer at this report, you can see which files passed the test (were not searchable, I know that sounds weird, but that's how it works) and which didn't:
Closeup of Report
If you click on the filename link, it will open the file.
Caveats: Understanding the Report
The yellow section above shows you how "texty" the file is. In the example above, 80 text blocks were found in the file. That's not the same as 80 words, however. Depending how the PDF was created, text could be grouped by word, sentence, paragraph or page.
This process does a good job helping you identify documents which have zero searchable words, especially those that were raw image-only scanned PDFs. If the report shows a checkmark, then you will want to OCR the document.
The script is not effective in these circumstances:
 - The PDF contains a mix of searchable and non-searchable pages. For example, if you combined a PDF output from Word and one you scanned.
 - The PDF hasn't been OCRd, but may be Bates Stamped
 Bates Stamps are searchable text and would be reported.
 - The PDF contains vector text that was converted to outlines. Since the characters were converted to graphics, they won't be searchable. You'll sometimes see files like this from CAD systems, illustration tools, or page layout programs.
But, I want to be sure...
Given the caveats above, you might just want to OCR everything. Follow the instructions in my Batch OCR using Acrobat Professional article.
Acrobat will skip any pages which don't need to be OCRd and process any pages that do.
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I have a 64bit C++ process that loads an AnyCPU C# DLL. Can this AnyCPU C# DLL can load 32bit C++ DLLs, or can it load only 64bit DLLs?
Thanks! :-)
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An AnyCPU DLL runs in the context of the calling process, which is x64 according to your question. If this AnyCPU DLL loads another DLL, this also runs in the context of the x64 calling process that loaded the AnyCPU DLL. This is the problem with running code across different platforms. If you want to run a 32 bit DLL by the x64process that calls the AnyCPU DLL, then you need to have create something called as the SURROGATE process - this is basically a x86(32 bit) process that can run and load the 32 bit DLL you want to access from the calling x64 process. Once you have this x86 process running, this x64 process can communicate with the x86 process (that has loaded x86 DLL) using Inter Process Communication, and the indirect calling of x86 DLL functions from x64 process can be achieved.
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You can only load dlls with the same bit-ness as the process. The Any CPU dll itself can be loaded in both 64 and 32 bit processes, but that doesn't mean in can load native 32bit dlls into a 64 bit process.
The only workaround I know is having a 32 bit helper process that loads your 32 bit dll and then communicate with that process.
 - other workaround is to have the AnyCPU assembly load the C++ DLL corresponding to the architecture – CharlesB Apr 26 '11 at 9:57
 - If you have a 64 bit version of the dll that's obviously the nicest solution. – CodesInChaos Apr 26 '11 at 10:05
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No, you can't load 32-bit DLLs into a 64-bit process.
AnyCPU means that the C# DLL can be loaded into either 32-bit or 64-bit processes, not that it can load DLLs of either bitness.
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A 32 bit DLL cannot be loaded in a 64 bit process.
I see a problem in your question: it is not possible is your AnyCPU assembly loads a 32bit C++ dll, since it makes the assembly specific to this architecture.
Making it AnyCPU means that it will dynamically load the DLL specific to the architecture on which it's running. This way it runs on Any CPU.
So in short, the assembly is wrongly marked as being AnyCPU.
 - 32 bit assembly will run on any CPU also. – David Heffernan Apr 26 '11 at 9:59
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About This Image
Mow-way (or Shaking Hand) was a Kotchateka Comanche chief who surrendered at Fort Bascom in 1869. Name and title in period pencil on recto of mount below image. See: Belous and Weinstein, Will Soule: indian Photographer at Fort Still, Oklahoma 1869-74, p.106 (for illustration) and p.112 (for information on Mow-way). He wears a large bear claw in his hair.
William S. "Will" Soule (August 28, 1836 – August 12, 1908) made his way west in 1867. At age 29, he was a wounded Civil War veteran looking for a way to improve his health. Upon his arrival at Fort Dodge in Kansas, he clerked in trader John E. Tappin's post store.
When Soule left for the west, he brought along equipment for landscape and portrait photography. He was well acquainted with photography through his employment, after his injury, with a photographic gallery in Chambersburg, PA, which was destroyed by fire in early 1867; and though his brother, John P. Soule, who established the Soule Photographic Company in Boston before the Civil War.
Soule's photograph of a scalping victim taken near Fort Dodge became his first published work. An engraving was made from his photograph, and it appeared in the January 16, 1869 issue of Harper's Weekly.
Soule left Fort Dodge for Camp Supply, Indian Territory, in the spring of 1869, and arrived in Fort Sill, Indian Territory, in late 1869 or early 1870. Soule became the post photographer at Fort Sill where he would remain for six years. Fort Sill was a military headquarters and an agency for several tribes, including the Kiowa, Wichita, and Comanche. Belous and Weinstein, in their book, Will Soule: Indian Photographer at Fort Sill, Oklahoma _PHONE_ (1969), indicate that most of Soule's Indian portraits were taken at or near Fort Sill, and they date them between 1870 and 1874.
Soule returned to Boston in late 1874 or early 1875, and partnered with W. D. Everett in the photographic business. His brother John P. Soule secured copyrights for many of the Indian portraits through the Library of Congress. Will Soule died in 1908.
According to Belous and Weinstein in their book, Will Soule: Indian Photographer at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, _PHONE_, 166 paper prints and 69 glass plate negatives have survived. Other repositories with various collections of Will Soule's work are included in the Huntington Library, the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, the Denver Public Library, and the Bureau of American Ethnology through the Fort Sill Artillery and Missile Center Museum. This collection of photographs was owned by A. A. Hyde of Wichita, a Wichita businessman, philanthropist and inventor of the world-renown ointment, Mentholatum.
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Made from approximately 14,000 pieces, Bloom is the first architectural application of a laminated metal material that includes nickel and manganese with a bit of iron.
Architecture has long been valued for its static nature and sense of permanence. Increasingly, however, architects are working to make buildings more responsive to their users and to the climate. Often this is accomplished through mechanical means, but architect Doris Kim Sung, principal of LA-based DOSU studio architecture, is looking at how building materials themselves can be responsive, integrating changeability into the structure itself.
The dramatic shell-like form of her recent pavilion, called Bloom, suggests, at first glance, that Sung is interested in cutting-edge digital design. While this is certainly the case, Bloom's true innovation happens more slowly, through the bending of its metal panels according to heat levels generated by the sun.
Commissioned by LA's Materials and Applications gallery, the project had to be lightweight, not touch the adjacent buildings, and not produce any harmful glare for neighbors. Despite its considerable dimensions—20 feet high by 25 feet wide by 40 feet long—Bloom weighs approximately 500 pounds. "Our bigger concern ended up being up-lift from the wind," she said.
Made from approximately 14,000 pieces, Bloom is, according to Sung, the first architectural application of the laminated metal material, which includes nickel and manganese with a bit of iron. The material is typically used in industrial applications. Sung first learned of this laminate metal after seeing it used for a lampshade by a Japanese designer. "I started thinking to myself, 'if this designer used it for a lamp, where the heat from the bulb causes it to curl, why couldn't it be responsive to the sun?'" she said. "As an architect, I'm always thinking about how buildings will perform."
The two metals have different heat coefficients, which cause the material to curl when heat is applied. Sung specified material that would begin to curl at 70 degrees (temperatures above 400 degrees will begin to pull the laminate apart). The outer side of the tiles has a higher percentage of manganese and iron, which quickly weathered into a rust color, while the inner side has a greater amount of nickel, giving it a silvery finish.
To generate the form, Sung worked with a variety of software, including Rhino for the initial design, which she then refined through the Rhino SMART Form plug-in to make the design as thin and light-weight as possible. From there, she used Ecotech to model how solar heat would move across the surface as well as the surface temperature of the structure. She then imported the design into Grasshopper, which allowed her to break the structure down into its thousands of component parts. She used LS-DYNA to model Bloom's structural integrity.
The 14,000 metal tiles have the same basic cruciform shape, however, the thickness and length of the "tails" varies, allowing differing degrees of curvature, and therefore differing levels of shade underneath the structure (depending, again, on how and where the solar heat hits the surface).
Sung worked with two different laser cutting facilities, which typically work for the aerospace industry, to fabricate the tiles: Precision Waterjet and Serra Laser Cutting. Volunteers and students then began the several month process of assembling the tiles into panels—by hand using rivets and nuts and bolts—which were then affixed to a lightweight aluminum frame. The frame and the panels support each other, creating a monocoque structure with a load-bearing skin.
For Sung, Bloom is just the beginning of what responsive architecture could be. Harnessing digital technology, advanced fabrication, and new materials point to dynamic new possibilities for the discipline.
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In order to improve the efficiency of the existing plunger grouting pump, a new grouting pump based on Wankel engine is proposed. The structure, principle and mathematical model of the Wankel pump were proposed. The efficiency of plunger pump and Wankel pump are analyzed, and the calculation formulas of mechanical, volumetric and hydraulic efficiency of Wankel pump are proposed. The efficiency characteristics of the wankel pump were studied experimentally, and a plunger pump and a Wankel pump of the same power are selected to compare their working efficiency under different working conditions. In general, ηm and ηv increased with increasing n until the load on the shaft was too large. At the same n, The smaller the outlet, the lower the efficiency. When the outlet is a, b and c, the wankel pump test data at n of 190 r/min, 160 r/min and 140 r/min is optimal. When the outlet is big such as a and b, Wankel pump performs higher flow and higher efficiency. However, when the outlet is small such as outlet c, plunger pump performs higher pressure and stable flow and efficiency.
Keywords Wankel pump, efficiency, experiment, grout pump


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Definition of medullar
a. - See Medullary. 2
The word "medullar" uses 8 letters: A D E L L M R U.
No direct anagrams for medullar found in this word list.
Words formed by adding one letter before or after medullar (in bold), or to adellmru in any order:
y - medullary
All words formed from medullar by changing one letter
Browse words starting with medullar by next letter

source: openbmb/Ultra-FineWeb


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There is complete lack of information on roosting behavior of the house swift, Apus affinis native to Chhattisgarh. Therefore, we studied the roosting behavior (exit and entry patterns from/to its roosting site) of the house swift. Attempts were also made to ascertain the modulatory role of environmental factors. We monitored the exit and entry timings of the house swift in the roosting site located on the busiest commercial area of Raipur city, India, for eight consecutive days, every month over a period of two years. The exit and entry timings showed positive relationship with the sunrise and sunset, respectively. The house swift exited tater and entered earlier in winter as compared with summer and monsoon seasons. A significant negative correlation between exit time and morning ambient temperature, and positive correlation between entry time and evening temperature was witnessed. Unlike exit time, the entry time was negatively associated with the humidity. The emry time was also associated with light intensity. In summary, we conclude that various environmental factors, viz., sunrise time, sunset time, temperature, humidity and light intensity are likely to produce statistically significant effect on roosting behavior of the house swift. This study is, however, inadequate to answer the following questions: (1) how the first bird of the colony determines that it is the time to fly out? (2) Is it the same individual that flies out first daily? Nonetheless, the findings of the present study may have important bearings on the safety of civil and military flights.
Cite this article:
Kankariya, Singh, Pati and Parganiha (2014). Temporal Pattern in Roosting Behavior of the House Swift, Apus a/finis with Reference to Environmental Factors - a Longitudinal Study. Journal of Ravishankar University (Part-B: Science), 27(1), pp. 41-50.


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The present study deals with bibliometric analysis of articles and references provided at the end of each article contributed in Indian Journal of Chemistry from 2005-2009. The analysis cover mainly the number of articles, authorship pattern, forms of document cited, etc. All the studies point towards the merit and weakness of the journal which will be helpful for its further development. This study showed that most of the contributions are India. The authorship pattern of the articles published during the period of study. Maximum number of articles were contributed by two authors. This study also showed that majority of the contributors preferred journals as the source of information which occupied the top position. All the studies point towards the merits and weakness of the journal which will be helpful for its further development.


Re: Hilbert envelope bandwidth
Dear Eckard Blumschein:
Here are my answers to some of your questions.
'Who introduced the term Hilbert envelope?'
The name Hilbert envelope was given by Dennis Gabor. The Hilbert
transform was introduced into electrical
 engineering literatures by Yuk Wing Lee around 1930. Actually 'Lee had
a difficult time convincing the
senior MIT faculty at his doctoral defense of the validity of the
relation. Ultimately it was Wiener's
endorsement of the concept that allowed the work to pass and Lee to
receive his degree. (See Therrien's 2002
article in IEEE Signal Processing Magazine.)
'How to get it? Will it work in ASR?'
To get the Hilbert envelope, the Hilbert operator in the time domain or
halfway rectifier followed by low pass
filtering would normally be used. A more interesting and practical way
is to model the envelope by an
all-pole model.
Linear prediction in spectral domain (LPSD), a duality of linear
prediction, was developed by Kumaresan
and Rao (JASA 1999). In the mean time, Athineos and Ellis (ASRU 2003),
following the idea of temporal
noise shaping, proposed frequency-domain linear prediction (FDLP) and
applied it successfully to ASR first.
Even more improvement of recognition accuracy was demonstrated in their
most recent paper (Athineos,
Hermansky and Ellis in ICSLP-04), where linear predictive temporal
patterns (LP-TRAP) were introduced.
'Is it important for speech perception?'
In order to understand the relative importance of temporal Hilbert
envelope and fine structure, Smith,
Delgutte, and Oxenham (letter to nature, 2002) performed the famous
chimaeric sounds experiments
and concluded that the envelope is most important for speech perception
with increasing number of filters.
However, some of the technical issues in the design of the experiments
make their conclusion quite dubious.
Any comments are welcome.
Yadong Wang
Yadong Wang, Postdoctoral Fellow
Cognitive Neuroscience of Language Lab
Dept. of Linguistics
1401 Marie Mount Hall
University of Maryland
College Park MD 20742
-----Original Message-----
Dear Yadong Wang,
Perhaps, I am not the only one here who would like to understand how
Hilbert envelope differs from temporal envelope and what "temporally
flattened" does mean. I am aware of Dan Ellis and others who calculate
squared Hilbert envelope as squared magnitude of the analytic signal in
order to depict hearing as determined by envelope and fine structure
within a number of frequency bands. Smith, Delgutte, and Oxenham (letter
to nature 2002) even spoke of an 'alternative signal decomposition by
Hilbert slowly varying envelope and rapidly varying fine time
structure'. Who introduced the term Hilbert envelope?
I respect those who create new tools. However, I cannot confirm that so
many confusing redundancy in theory is really justified. Let's tear down
a lot of unnecessary sophistication after restricting to either really
elapsed time or time to come after a given point. In other words, let's
abandon the wrong belief that complex calculus must be immediately
merged with frequency analysis. Complex modulator envelopes, as demanded
by Atlas, Li, and Thompson at ICASSP 2004, are only then necessary
prerequisites of unambiguous demultiplication if Fourier transform is
used instead of cosine transform. Isn't it absurd to declare the
modulating signal non-negative but operate with unreal negative
Incidentally, misconception concerning band-limitation is widespread in
science. It even led to'measurement' of signals propagating with
superluminal speed.
Eckard Blumschein


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ARCA to perform first flight of aerospike engine at Spaceport America
LAS CRUCES - ARCA Space Corporation has announced the first test-launch of its Demonstrator 3 space vehicle at Spaceport America in August. This will mark the first space flight of an aerospike rocket engine.
Aerospike rocket engines are described as significantly more fuel efficient than the current engines and could make launches attempting to bring satellite payloads to space more affordable.
Demonstrator 3 will perform a suborbital space flight up to an altitude of 100 kilometers above the New Mexico desert.
In March, ARCA introduced the Haas 2CA, a single-stage-to-orbit rocket equipped with the Executor Aerospike linear rocket engine. The rocket was developed in ARCA's Las Cruces facility.
The Haas 2CA is an orbital launcher aiming to operate on the small satellite market, estimated by Space Works and Eurostat at $5.3 billion over the next decade. Ground and vacuum tests will be conducted at White Sands Test Facility in conjunction with NASA. ARCA hopes to gain more data before the launch of the Haas 2CA, which is scheduled for 2018 from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.


Nigeria, Eq. Guinea sign oil fields deal
2002-04-03 17:34
Abuja - Nigeria and Equatorial Guinea on Wednesday signed an agreement for the unitisation of oil fields along their common maritime boundary.
Signing the agreement in Abuja, Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo and his Equatorial Guinea counterpart Obang Mbasogo said it was a testimony of the two countries' determination to solve all bilateral issues and encourage co-operation.
Obasanjo and Mbasogo called on officials of both countries and operators of Nigeria's TotalFinaElf fields and Equatorial Guinea's Exxon Mobil fields to ensure the smooth implementation of the protocol.
In his speech Obasanjo said that the agreements on the unitisation of the oil fields showed the determination of both countries to establish effective border management regime.
Such a regime, he added, would ensure a systematic approach to the exploration and exploitation of hydrocarbon resources along the two countries' maritime boundary line.
He said that they could work together to protect the economic and strategic interests in the Gulf of Guinea and added that the financial benefits would be used to improve the lives of citizens of both countries.
They also called on other African leaders to emulate their example and settle all boundary problems amicably.
Political analysts, however, question the timing of the agreement. They say that Nigeria is trying to refute neighbouring Cameroon's claims to the oil-rich Bakassi peninsula because it is a bigger country.
Nigeria and Cameroon concluded their five-week appearance at the International Court at the Hague last week, where they both stated their cases on the ownership of Bakassi. - Sapa-DPA


text: Arctic journey was an experiential exhibition series that was realized as a part of HumanSee research project at the University of Lapland in 2016. The exhibition series seeked to experiment the multisensory ways of presenting personal experiences in the Arctic and to invite exhibition visitors into the co-creation of the installations. By exploring the exhibition formats, this article asks what is the role of co-design process in the construction of an arctic experience. Two of the exhibition cases included co-creation sessions, where the creation of the arctic experience was taken into a closer experimentation through the co-design process. Through qualitative content analysis and discourse analysis, the research findings suggest that arctic experience, even when not connected to personal experiences in the actual arctic region, is a reflection of the personal understanding of the marginal context that brings the stories of an individual into the core of the experience.


ds_queue_dequeue
Dequeues the value from the head of the queue.
Syntax:
ds_queue_dequeue(id);
Argument Description
id The id of the queue to dequeue from.
Returns: Real, String, undefined
Description
This function will dequeue the head value off of the ds_queue, removing it from the queue and returning the value to be stored in a variable. If the queue is empty then the function will return the constant undefined, otherwise it will return the real or string value contained in the queue.
Example:
if !ds_queue_empty(move_queue)
 {
 var xx, yy;
 xx = ds_queue_dequeue(move_queue);
 yy = ds_queue_dequeue(move_queue);
 move_towards_point(xx, yy, 4);
 }
The above code checks the ds_queue indexed in the variable "move_queue" to see if it is empty, and if it is not, it then dequeues the two values from the head of the queue and use them to set a direction for movement.
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Understanding the US/Mexico Border through experiential education
Annunciation House has been working in El Paso/Ciudad Juarez since 1978 operating houses of hospitality for migrants and refugees. Annunciation House is a Catholic organization that accompanies the migrant, homeless, and economically vulnerable peoples of the border region through hospitality, advocacy, and education. It has an all volunteer staff who place themselves among these poor so as transform their understanding of what constitutes more just relationships between peoples, countries, and economies.
In the early 1990s Annunciation House developed the Border Awareness Experience (BAE). The objective of the BAE is to facilitate face to face meetings and encounters between participants and people and groups on both sides of the border. It intends to raise consciousness about the issues facing the border such as immigration, economic development, human rights, and social justice. The BAE also educates North Americans about our role and responsibilities in today's globalized world.
The US/Mexico border is a unique are where the 'First World' meets the 'Third World'. It is a region where multiple factors (social, political, economic, cultural, environmental) come into play. It is worth understanding for its own intrinsic value, but perhaps more importantly, we can learn much by seeing the border as a microcosm of today's globalized economy.
The El Paso and Ciudad Juarez metropolitan area is the biggest border community in the world. The combined population of both cities is close to 3 million people. Since 1964 Juarez has experienced enormous population growth due to the influx of maquiladora factories. These factories have provided jobs but also caused various social problems that afflict the city. El Paso and Ciudad Juarez are also one of the main entry points into the US for undocumented workers and drugs.
The BAE is an immersion experience. More than being an informational tour, it seeks to immerse the participants in the border culture and realities of the many people and groups that live and work here. The food that you will eat and the conditions which you will live in are as much a part of the experience as the people and groups that you will meet
What is a typical day on a BAE?
A typical day may include:
- Visiting the US Border Patrol
- Listening to the stories of migrants and refugees
- Touring a maquiladora
- Meeting human rights activists
- Staying in a migrant shelter
- All participants, regardless of faith, backgrounds, and beliefs are welcome.
- Cost is $80 per person per day.
- Pack lightly.
- Accommodation is dormitory style.
- Bedding is provided.
- Three meals a day will be provided. Food is simple but filling.
- US citizens will need a passport or original birth certificate.
- Non-US citizens will need correct documentation or visas.
- Daily reflections/debriefings are an integral part of the BAE.
- Spanish is not required since translation will be provided.
If you would like more information or would like to inquire about participating in a BAE please contact at the address below or through this email form:
815 Myrtle Ave,
El Paso, TX 79901
Phone: _PHONE_


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Bolivian Sign LanguagePrint
350 to 400 (1988 E. Powlison).
Cochabamba, La Paz, Riberalta, Santa Cruz.
Based on American Sign Language [ase] with necessary changes for borrowed Spanish lexical items. Some groups in La Paz and Santa Cruz use the same signs with some dialect signs from their own areas. There is evidence that Bolivian Sign Language is no more divergent from ASL [ase] than some dialects of ASL (Morgan 2004).
Originated by missionaries. Other deaf schools use only the oralist approach.


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Syracuse University Special Collections, John LaFarge, Timothy Cole, art, DeVinne, wood engraving, Scribner's Magazine
American Art and Architecture | Art and Design | History of Art, Architecture, and Archaeology | Modern Art and Architecture
This article traces the history of modern wood engraving, including the argument in the art world that took place regarding whether wood engraving could be considered "art" in the first place. As the art form gained popularity with print publishers due to its convenience and beauty, internal debates took place about which direction the art form should take, especially within the "New School" of wood engraving that had emerged. Research for the article was aided by Syracuse University's Special Collections.
Gokey, Edward A. "The New School of Wood Engraving." The Courier 25.1 (1990): 53-83.


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Public Garden Automation Project Circuit Diagram. This is a quick peek at the hardware portion of the DIY garden automation system I've been slowly building over the past. Schematic Circuit Diagram of Automatic Plant Watering & Irrigation System Automatic Plant As many people are facing a lot of problem watering the plants in the garden, especially when they away from Arduino Based Automated Plant Watering System: Automatic Plant Watering Block Diagram.
Critical Path: The tasks which define the completion date of the project. One of the essential tasks for IT projects leader or architects is to. Diagrams and charts are visual representations of information.
A circuit diagram (electrical diagram, elementary diagram, electronic schematic) is a graphical representation of an electrical circuit.
The timings are programmed in the microcontroller and the.
Microcontroller Based Public Garden Automation: An important task in agriculture fields and gardens is timely watering of crops and plants. The ultimate goal of the GardenBot project is to be a complete garden monitoring and automation system. The aim of this project is to implement a microcontroller based garden and agricultural field automation.


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Cameroon: Group training on safe use of pesticides in the Loum basin
- Posted by: Sandra Borma
- Category: Cameroon, News
On 14 and 15 July, COLEACP organised group training on the "Safe Use of Pesticides" for plant protection product applicators in the Loum basin. This training is part of the Standards and Trade Development Fund (STDF) project "Improvement of the sanitary and phytosanitary quality of Penja pepper in Cameroon to facilitate access to international markets" (STDF/PG/593).
Following this training, the participants are now able to carry out treatments according to good phytosanitary practices and to carry out the instructions:
- during dosing and before, during and after application, including the management of empty packaging
- regarding safety equipment
- on personal hygiene and equipment.
This technical and practical training took place in the classroom and in the field, using the educational animations developed by COLEACP.
Other training sessions will be held in the coming weeks in other production basins in order to train a maximum number of technicians on good phytosanitary practices for Penja pepper.
As a reminder, sustainable intensification is at the heart of COLEACP's programmes. It increases productivity while making a positive contribution to climate, ecosystems and the environment. We promote integrated pest management (IPM) and help producers control pests while minimising negative impacts on humans and the environment. Where plant protection products (PPPs) are an important part of an IPM system, COLEACP ensures that growers have access to appropriate, least harmful products and that they can use them safely.
This activity was organised within the framework of the Project to improve the sanitary and phytosanitary quality of Penja pepper in Cameroon, supported by the Standards and Trade Development Facility (STDF) project and implemented by COLEACP.


In this article, I will explain how to send an PowerShell DSC configuration up to Azure, how start the DSC compilation job and apply the configuration to an Azure virtual machine. Azure Automation DSC gives an admin the tooling to properly manage DSC. However, working with Azure Automation DSC is a little different than managing and applying DSC configurations on-premises.
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Desired State Configuration (DSC) is a useful component of PowerShell that allows system administrators, developers and anyone needing to quickly provision and configure infrastructure with code. Although only just introduced with PowerShell v4, DSC has already started catching on with forward-thinking companies looking for a better way to manage their environments.
However, one fact that those in the DSC space is that Microsoft never built great tooling around it. Microsoft has stated many times that DSC is a platform for other tools to leverage. It is not a tool itself but they did offer an option with Azure Automation DSC.
Prerequisites
To get started, you'll first need an Azure virtual machine already onboarded. You will also need the Azure Automation DSC PowerShell cmdlets available in the AzureRm PowerShell module. Those cmdlets can be installed by running Install-Module -Name AzurRm. Once you have the module installed, the virtual machine created and onboarded with DSC; you're now able to write DSC configurations locally and push them up to Azure Automation DSC with PowerShell.
Getting started
The first task with any Azure task using PowerShell is to authenticate to your subscription. The easiest way to do this is to use the Add-AzureRmAccount command. Once authenticated, we'll then ensure our Azure virtual machine is started. Notice below that my VM's name is LABDC and the resource group it's located in is simply Group.
$null = Get-AzureRmVM -Name LABDC -ResourceGroupName Group | Start-AzureRmVM
Sending the DSC configuration to Azure
Next, we'll need to send the DSC configuration we'd like to apply to the VM up to Azure Automation DSC. We can do this using the Import-AzureRmAutomationDscConfiguration command. Below I'm using the Azure Automation account I have previously created, specifying the path to the DSC configuration script and also publishing the script to the node that I have built the configuration for.
$params = @{
 AutomationAccountName = 'adamautomation'
 ResourceGroupName = 'Group'
 SourcePath = 'C:\NewTestEnvironment.ps1'
 Published = $true
 Force = $true
}
$null = Import-AzureRmAutomationDscConfiguration
Starting the DSC compilation job
Once the DSC configuration is on the Azure Automation DSC pull server, I then need to build an MOF file for our node. This is done in the background using the Start-AzureRmAutomationDscCompilationJob command.
$compParams = @{
 AutomationAccountName = 'adamautomation'
 ResourceGroupName = 'Group'
 ConfigurationName = 'NewTestEnvironment'
}
$CompilationJob = Start-AzureRmAutomationDscCompilationJob @compParams
## Wait for the DSC compile
while($CompilationJob.EndTime -eq $null -and $CompilationJob.Exception -eq $null)
{
 $CompilationJob = $CompilationJob | Get-AzureRmAutomationDscCompilationJob
 Start-Sleep -Seconds 3
}
Notice that I have another step in this process below the compilation job above. Because the compilation job takes a little bit and the Start-AzureRmAutomationDscCompilationJob immediately returns to the console even if not finished, I've chosen to incorporate my own Wait functionality by checking the compilation job's status every three seconds until finished. By doing this, I can ensure that no further action is taken until the compilation job is complete.
Assigning the DSC Configuration to the node
Once the MOF has been created on the pull server, we now need to assign the DSC configuration to the node. We do this using the Set-AzureRmAutomationDscNode command. This sets up the link between our Azure virtual machine and the DSC configuration we'd like to apply to it.
$nodeId = (Get-AzureRmAutomationDscNode -AutomationAccountName 'adamautomation' -ResourceGroupName 'Group' -Name $azrVmName).Id
$nodeParams = @{
 NodeConfigurationName = "NewTestEnvironment.TESTLABDC"
 ResourceGroupName = 'Group'
 Id = $nodeId
 AutomationAccountName = 'adamautomation'
 Force = $true
}
$node = Set-AzureRmAutomationDscNode @nodeParams
Invoking the new DSC Configuration
At this point, we could wait until the Azure VM pulls the new DSC configuration itself but I'm impatient so let's go ahead and force it to pull the new configuration right away. Because the VM is public, I'll need to get the public IP address to connect via PowerShell remoting. Since it's also in a workgroup, I have to configure my local system to trust the VM's public IP address. Once this is done, I can connect via PowerShell remoting and update the DSC configuration.
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## Find the public IP of the VM
$vm = Get-AzureRmVm -Name 'TESTLABDC' -ResourceGroupName 'Group'
$ipAddress = (Get-AzureRmPublicIpAddress -ResourceGroupName 'Group' -Name "TESTLABDC-ip").IpAddress
## Since the VM isn't in the same domain, need to trust it to connect via PS Remoting
Set-Item -Path wsman:\localhost\Client\TrustedHosts -Value $ipAddress -Force
## Create the credential with the local administrator username and password of the VM
$adminUsername = $vm.osProfile.AdminUsername
$adminPwd = ConvertTo-SecureString 'localadminpasswordhere' -AsPlainText -Force
$cred = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential ($adminUsername, $adminPwd)
## Force the DSC update to run with Update-DscConfiguration
Invoke-Command -ComputerName $ipAddress -ScriptBlock { Update-DscConfiguration -Wait -Verbose } -Credential $cred
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How is TMC calculated?
1 tmc ft is one thousand million cubic feet of water. 1 cusec is one cubic foot of water flow per second. It translates into 28.32 litres of water per second. via
How do you calculate Cusec and TMC?
Cusec is a measure of flow rate of water and is abbreviation for cubic feet per second (which is equivalent to a flow of 28.317 litres per second) and 11,000 cusecs flow for a day amounts to 1 TMC (thousand million cubic feet) water. via
How do you calculate Cusec liters?
Answer: 1 Cusec = 28.32 Litres. via
What is QSEC in dam?
Cusec is the informal shorthand for "cubic feet per second". It can be converted to 28.317 litres per second. Tmcft or TMC is the abbreviation for one thousand million cubic feet. It is equal to 2.83168466 x 10¹⁰ litres. via
What is TMC explain?
Tmcft, (Tmc ft), (TMC), (tmc), is the abbreviation of one thousand million cubic feet (1,000,000,000 = 109 = 1 billion), commonly used in India in reference to volume of water in a reservoir or river flow. via
How many Cusec is TMC?
Cusec is a measure of the flow rate of water and is the abbreviation for cubic feet per second (which is equivalent to a flow of 28.317 litres per second) and 11,000 cusecs flow for a day amounts to 1 TMC (thousand million cubic feet) water. via
What is the value of 1 cusec?
So 1 cusec unit equals 28.317 liters of liquid flow per second. This is elaborated as in one second the flow of water is 28.317 liters from the pipe or door of the dam we can say. So, the correct answer is "1 cusec = 28.317 liters". via
How dam water is measured?
Water is in motion means when water released in dams bigger units are used for the measure the volume of water in dams or reservoirs, or river flows are TMC or Cusecs. Cusecs are informed as cubic feet per second. Hence, Water released from dams is measured in Cusecs. via
How do you calculate water in a dam?
How many kg is cubic meter?
How many cubic meters are in a kilogram of water? 1 m3 / cu m = 1,000.00 kg wt. via
What are the measurements of water?
There are two basic units of water measurement from a water management perspective. For water that is in motion, cubic feet per second (cfs) is the unit of measure. For water that is stored or impounded, the acre-foot (af) is how water is measured. Cubic feet per second (cfs): via
How do you convert gallons to Cusec?
How many gallons per day in 1 cusec? The answer is 646316.88969744. We assume you are converting between gallon/day [US] and cusec. You can view more details on each measurement unit: gallons per day or cusec The SI derived unit for volume flow rate is the cubic meter/second. via
How is Borewell water capacity calculated?
Total well depth – measured distance from top to bottom of well. Water depth – measured distance of depth of water in the well. (Tie a weight to some string and drop it to the bottom of the well. Retrieve the string and measure the portion of the string that is wet.) via
What is TMC in medical abbreviation?
This page is all about Full Form, Long Form, abbreviation, acronym and meaning of the given term TMC. TMC Stands For : Total Midwifery Care | troop medical clinic | The Milkbone Club. via
What is the full form of TMC party?
The All India Trinamool Congress (abbr. AITC or TMC; translation: All India Grassroots Congress) is an Indian political party which is predominantly active in West Bengal. via
What is measurement unit of stored water?
For water that is in motion, cubic feet per second (cfs) is the unit of measure. For water that is stored or impounded, the acre-foot (af) is how water is measured. via
For which measure TMC is used?
answer: Tmcft, (Tmc ft), (TMC), (tmc), is the abbreviation of one thousand million cubic feet (1,000,000,000 = 109 = 1 billion), commonly used in India in reference to volume of water in a reservoir or river flow. via
How big is a cubic Litre?
A cubic decimetre (or litre) occupies a volume of 10 cm × 10 cm × 10 cm (see figure) and is thus equal to one-thousandth of a cubic metre. The original French metric system used the litre as a base unit. via
What is cusec in geography?
(i)Cusecs: The discharge of the volume of water flowing in the river is measured over time. When the water is measured in cubic feet per second, it is called cusecs. (ii)Cumecs : When the water flowing in the river is measured in cubic metre per second, it is called cumecs. via
What is the biggest dam in world?
World's Tallest Dam
Currently, the tallest dam in the world is Nurek Dam on the Vakhsh River in Tajikistan. It is 984 feet (300 meters) tall. Hoover Dam is 726.4 feet (221.3 meters) tall. via
What is one unit of water?
Answer: Each billing unit is 100 cubic feet of water which is equal to 748 gallons. via
What is the unit of water flow?
In water resources, flow is often measured in units of cubic feet per second (cfs), cubic meters per second (cms), gallons per minute (gpm), millions of gallons per day (MGD), or other various units. via
How do you calculate water spread area?
Multiply the length times the width to get the square feet of surface area. This value can be converted to acres by dividing by 43,560 ft2/acre. So, a pond that measures 150 feet long and 100 feet wide would have an area = 150 feet X 100 feet = 15,000 ft2 or 0.34 acres. via
How much water is a Megalitre?
One million litres. This definition applies to: Glossary for Water status: National Water Account 2010. via
How many water dams are in India?
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How many kg is 1m3 of concrete?
One cubic meter of concrete converted to kilogram equals to 2,406.53 kg - kilo. via
What is the weight of 1 cubic meter concrete?
One cubic metre of concrete weighs 2.5 Tonnes. Typically, 1m3 of concrete is made up of 350Kg of cement, 700Kg of sand, 1,200Kg of chippings and 150 Litres of water. via


What you need to know about the Land Owner Transparency Act
28 August 2019
This article was co-authored by James Stewart, an articling student in Gowling WLG's Vancouver office.
The Land Owner Transparency Act (British Columbia) ("LOTA" or the "Act") received royal assent on May 16, 2019 and will be in force once regulations are passed. LOTA is part of the government's efforts to bring enhanced visibility on the ownership of land in British Columbia. Once the Act is operational, individuals and entities who directly or indirectly hold beneficial interests in British Columbia land will be required to disclose specific information such as place of residence, SIN number, tax residency, etc. The disclosure requirements will apply to all parties who fundamentally own and control land including corporations, partnerships and trusts. A portion of the information collected will be made available and publically searchable by way of registry administered by the Province's Land Title and Survey Authority ("LTSA").
Who will be affected?
LOTA's disclosure requirements are wide-reaching. With certain exceptions, LOTA will affect anyone who currently holds or may acquire an interest in land in British Columbia (including any leased land where the term of the lease is more than 10 years). Reporting bodies and interest holders are obligated to comply with LOTA.
 1. Reporting Bodies
A reporting body is defined under LOTA as a relevant corporation, a trustee of a relevant trust or a partner of a relevant partnership. Such reporting bodies are required to file transparency declarations and/or transparency reports. There are three main types of reporting bodies, all of which are subject to certain reporting obligations: relevant corporations, relevant trusts and relevant partnerships:
 1. Relevant Corporations – LOTA defines relevant corporations as all corporations and limited liability corporations which have not been expressly excluded.
 2. Relevant Trusts – LOTA applies to all trusts unless they are excluded.
 3. Relevant Partnerships – LOTA captures all types of partnerships including general partnerships, limited partnerships, limited liability partnerships, professional partnerships, foreign partnerships, prescribed partnerships, or a legal relationship, created in another jurisdiction that is similar to any of the above-mentioned types of partnerships.
 1. Interest Holders
LOTA's disclosure obligations extend to individuals who are considered interest holders under the Act. Interest holders fall into three broad categories: a i) beneficial owner; ii) corporate interest holder; or iii) partnership interest holder:
 1. A Beneficial Owner – An individual is a beneficial owner if the individual:
 1. has a beneficial interest in land other than an interest that is contingent on the death of another individual; or
 2. has the power to revoke the relevant trust and receive the interest in land; or
 3. is a corporate interest holder (described below) in respect of a relevant corporation and the relevant corporation has a beneficial interest in land or the power to revoke the relevant trust and receive the interest in land.
 2. A Corporate Interest Holder – An individual is a corporate interest holder if the individual:
 1. has a beneficial or registered interest in a significant amount of shares of a corporation (defined as 10% or more of outstanding shares or 10% or more of the voting rights in a corporation); or
 2. has the rights or ability to directly or indirectly appoint the majority of the board of directors in a corporation or has the ability to significantly control an individual with the rights or ability to appoint or remove a majority of directors; or
 3. through jointly held interests, rights or abilities, meets the criteria set out in (a) or (b), in such case, all such individuals are considered cooperate interest holders.
 3. A Partnership Interest Holder – An individual is a partnership interest holder if the individual:
 1. is a partner in a relevant partnership; or
 2. is a corporate interest holder in a relevant corporation which is a partner in a relevant partnership
However, if the individual is a partner in a relevant partnership but does not have any interest, ability or rights in respect to an interest in land, then the individual will not be a partnership interest holder for the purposes of the Act.
What actions are required?
Three main situations trigger a reporting body's obligation to file under LOTA: i) the registration of a new interest in land at a land title office ("LTO"); ii) pre-existing interests in land; and iii) changes in interest holdings in land. When registering a new interest in land, the transferee must file a transparency declaration to disclose whether or not the transferee is a reporting body, and if so, which type of reporting body. The transferee is considered a reporting body it is also required to file a transparency report to disclose information about the reporting body itself and all relevant interest holders. If immediately before the coming into force of section 15 of LOTA, a relevant corporation, a trustee of a relevant trust, or a partner of a relevant partnership is a registered owner of land, then such corporation, trustee or partner must file a transparency report within a limited time period to be set by the LOTA regulations. If an entity becomes a reporting body or discovers a prior filing is inaccurate due to a change in the interest holder, the reporting body must file a transparency report within two months of the entity becoming a report body or being aware of the inaccurate information.
What information must be disclosed?
The following information must be disclosed in a transparency report by reporting bodies and interest holders:
 1. Interest Holders – Reporting bodies must report the following information regarding each of their interest holders: primary identification information (full name, citizenship status, location of principal residence, etc.), last known address; SIN number; tax number (if applicable); residency status for tax purposes; and a description of how they are an interest holder.
 2. Relevant Corporations – Relevant corporations must disclose the information described in (a) for all of its interest holders; the relevant corporation's business number, if any, within the meaning of the Income Tax Act (Canada); the incorporation, continuation, amalgamation or other identifying numbers given to the corporation by the jurisdiction in which they were incorporated; and the parcel identifier assigned to the land to which the transparency report relates.
 3. Relevant Trusts – The reporting body must disclose the information required in paragraph (a) above for each of the settlors of the relevant trust as well as the parcel identifier assigned to the land to which the report relates. In addition, the reference number of any relevant trust instruments must be disclosed.
 4. Relevant Partnerships – The relevant partnerships must disclose the partnership's primary identification information; business number under the Income Tax Act (Canada); and the identifying number, if any, issued to the partnership by the jurisdiction in which it was formed.
What information will be available on the public registry?
In an effort to enhance transparency, a searchable registry database will be make available to the public. The registry database will be maintained by the LTSA and will disclosed primary identification information in respect of interest holders and reporting bodies. There will also be a 90-day window before information is made public to allow for an application under LOTA to keep the primary identification information confidential in certain cases.
What inspections and demands for information can be made under the act?
Under LOTA, enforcement officers are permitted to carry out investigations to ensure compliance with the legislation. The enforcement officers are granted the power to: inspect records and other material or property that may relevant to the investigation; obtain personal information; remove records or other property for the purposes of conducting the investigation; and make copies or extracts of records.
There is a duty under LOTA to cooperate with the investigation, however, LOTA does not extend the powers of the officers to search the records of a lawyer if the lawyer claims such records are protected by solicitor-client privilege.
What are the penalties for non-compliance?
Non-compliance with LOTA can have significant consequences. If a party improperly submits or fails to submit the appropriate documents, the LTO has the authority to refuse registration of an interest in land. Apart from the refusal to register the land, direct contraventions of LOTA can result in administrative penalties.
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Vietnam cat meat trade revealed: Pets stolen, drowned, bludgeoned and boiled as appetite grows for animal flesh
More than a million cats are killed in Vietnam for their meat every year in a secretive, brutal and growing trade that risks spreading diseases to humans, an undercover investigation has found.
Pets and strays are stolen from the streets and even from people's homes, trafficked across the country without food or water, and slaughtered in unsanitary and agonising ways, according to campaigners.
Thieves have even clashed violently with cat owners, and in some cases have been reportedly killed in brawls.
The animals may be drowned, bludgeoned with a hammer, boiled alive or electrocuted, investigators for the Four Paws animal welfare organisation said. Their findings are based on months' worth of surveillance of holding areas, traffickers and restaurants, and speaking to traders.
A live cat is sold for around £5 a kg, and 1kg of raw meat costs £6.50. Restaurants offer dishes prepared with cat meat for about £5, the research found.
Black cats are worth even more: traders sell them alive for £6.50 a kg, and their meat can fetch £16.50 a kg.
Four Paws and the UK-based Change For Animals Foundation, which collaborated on the research, say cat meat dishes, known as "Little Tiger", are growing in popularity despite increasing pet ownership in Vietnam.
In January, a ban on slaughtering cats was scrapped, leading to a surge in demand for cat meat. It is especially popular in the north but is spreading south, as far as Ho Chi Minh City, the investigation found.
Earlier this year The Independent revealed how sales of dog and cat meat had risen in Vietnam and Cambodia since the outbreak of the coronavirus, because people believe it has "warming" properties that head off flu viruses.
Some restaurants buy animals directly from thieves and slaughter them on site, but most buy from wholesalers or slaughterhouses, according to the researchers. They believe the coastal tourist resorts of Da Nang and Hoi An in central Vietnam are hot spots for cat thefts.
"At the wholesalers we discovered many cats with collars — a clear sign that they were pets. During our research, we also met many pet owners who were desperately looking for their stolen cats," said Katherine Polak, a Four Paws expert and vet in Southeast Asia.
"Authorities usually turn a blind eye because they are often involved in the trade, either profiting from bribes or are consumers themselves."
Lola Webber, co-founder of Change For Animals Foundation, said: "In holding areas, wholesalers keep cats crammed into cages for days until they have enough to cover transport costs.
"Over hundreds of kilometres the cats are transported without water, food and sufficient ventilation to slaughterhouses scattered throughout Vietnam. Some wholesalers even use luggage compartments on regular passenger buses for the trafficking."
Up to 200 cats have been seen in cages on buses.
Many cats die of exhaustion, heat stroke, dehydration or injuries caused by their capture and transportation. After they are inhumanely killed, their fur is removed and the skin burned, before the carcasses are gutted and frozen.
Slaughterhouses are a perfect breeding ground for new diseases to emerge that could infect humans, with potentially catastrophic results, the campaigners say.
"Practices used in the cat meat trade could also potentially lead to the outbreak of zoonotic diseases, as we have seen with Covid-19, due to insanitary conditions, brutal and unhygienic treatment of animals, multi-species transport, holding and slaughtering facilities, and cross-border transportation and handling," said Dr Polak.
She said younger generations consider cat meat an exotic delicacy, but for older people, consumption is usually linked to customs, superstition and the lunar calendar. "Some locals are convinced that eating cat meat repels bad luck. Others eat it, especially from black cats, because they believe it has healing effects, although there is no scientific evidence for this."
The investigations identified northerly Hanoi and the Thai Binh province, with high numbers of restaurants, as popular places for eating the meat.
"We also know that many cats, often pre-killed and frozen, are coming in from Southern China as the cat population is decimated in Hanoi due to the trade," Dr Polak said.
"While the consumption of dog meat in Asia is increasingly being discussed in public, the equally brutal cat meat trade is still relatively unknown."
Two months ago a couple accused of poisoning dozens of pet dogs and cats with cyanide so that they could be butchered were arrested and charged with theft.
Four Paws and Change For Animals are calling on the Vietnamese government to reinstate the ban and strengthen laws to stop pet thefts.
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Low-Power and Low-Cost Dedicated Bit-Serial Hardware Neural Network for Epileptic Seizure Prediction System
This paper presents results of using a simple bit-serial architecture as a method of designing an extremely low-power and low-cost neural network processor for epilepsy seizure prediction. The proposed concept is based on a novel bit-serial data processing unit (DPU) which implements the functionality of a complete neuron and uses bit-serial arithmetic.
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Introduction: To compare long term glomerular filtration rate (GFR) outcomes of partial nephrectomy and radiofrequency ablation performed for renal malignancy.
Materials and methods: Renal function of 347 patients undergoing radiofrequency ablation (n = 142) or partial nephrectomy (n = 205) for renal malignancy between 1994 and 2011 were compared from a retrospective database at a single tertiary care center. Minimum 1 year of follow up was required, resulting in a mean follow up of 48.2 (SD +/- 28.2) months. Renal function was estimated using the Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration (CKD-EPI) equation. The primary study outcome was progression of Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) stage, calculated using the Kaplan-Meier life table method. Multivariate analysis was also conducted to determine the level of association between GFR decline and treatment modality.
Results: The 5 year freedom from CKD stage progression for radiofrequency ablation and partial nephrectomy was 85.4% (95% CI 76.8%-91.1%) versus 82.1% (95% CI 73.7%-88.1%) (p = 0.06). A longer follow up interval was associated with greater GFR decline, although hypertension, diabetes, age, and tumor size were not.
Conclusion: Radiofrequency ablation provides similar long term renal function preservation benefit as partial nephrectomy.


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How Ho Chi Minh's Body Is Kept Preserved
How Ho Chi Minh's Body Is Kept Preserved
How Ho Chi Minh's Body Is Kept Preserved
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 Avid collectors of weird and unusual experiences need to make their way to the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum in Hanoi to learn the fascinating story of how the beloved Vietnamese leader was embalmed following his death in September 1969.
 The grand tomb
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 The Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum in Hanoi, Vietnam © dronepicr/Flickr
 The Ho Chi Minh mausoleum was inaugurated in 1975 and was inspired by Lenin's Mausoleum in Russia. The columned exterior is made of grey granite while the eerily cold inside is constructed from red, black, and grey polished stone. The designers added distinctive Vietnamese architectural styles, such as the sloping roof, to differentiate it from the Russians'. One distinct element of each mausoleum is the same – and that is the preserved bodies of their respective leaders carefully looked after and centrally presented in a dimly lit glass case.
 The embalming process
 When Vietnam's beloved leader passed away of heart failure in 1969, officials began planning his preservation. They flew in a team of Russian scientists from the "Lenin Lab" who, as the nickname suggests, successfully preserved Lenin's body after his death in 1924. By the time Ho Chi Minh died the scientists had made significant strides in their experimental embalming routine.
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 A commemorative statue in Ho Chi Minh City © dronepicr/Flickr
 The team of scientists were flown in to Vietnam during the height of the Vietnam war and were taken to a top-secret temporary tomb lying north of the capital. There they began the long process of embalming Ho Chi Minh. American troops were actively searching for the leader's body; if they had captured it, it would have been the best bargaining tool to force Vietnamese soldiers to release American POW's. The Vietnamese knew this and kept Ho's body hidden in an underground chamber deep in the jungle.
 Eventually, war hostilities escalated and Ho's body had to be moved to a safer location. His body was transported some 15 km down the Red River (also known as the Hồng Hà and Sông Cái) and placed inside an enormous cave outfitted with air conditioners, electricity, running water and a full laboratory where the scientists carried out the rest of the lengthy embalming process. It wasn't until peace agreements were signed in 1975 that the mausoleum was inaugurated and Ho Chi Minh's body was securely laid inside the grand tomb. It is a place for devoted Vietnamese to honour their cherished leader; but, ironically, at the cost of denying Ho Chi Minh's wishes to be cremated.
 Post-embalming maintenance
 Keeping a body preserved for decades requires routine maintenance. The team who regularly tend to Lenin's corpse pay excruciating attention to detail to preserve Ho Chi Minh's body as well. "Uncle Ho" is reportedly sent back to Russia around October/November each year for a twoto three-month upkeep routine involving washing and re-embalming the body as well as carefully maintaining his facial features. The result is the near-immaculate, albeit a little plastic-looking, preservation of Vietnam's revered leader. Please note that photos and videos inside the mausoleum are strictly forbidden.
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 Ho Chi Minh's final resting place © David McKelvey/Flickr
 The Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum is open to tourists Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, from 7:30 am to 10:30 am, as well as Saturday and Sunday from 7:30 am to 11:00 am. It is closed on Mondays and Fridays. The earlier in the day you go, the better – regular lines are enormous!
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On February 20, 1962, astronaut John Glenn became the first American to achieve the first manned US orbital flight. But he wasn't alone. Accompanying him in his journey was a TAG Heuer stopwatch.
So history has been written; on that particular day, TAG Heuer became the first Swiss watchmaker in space.
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Is there a rule or something I can use to calculate a good number for max_connections, default_pool_size and max_client_conn?
The defaults are odd. PostgreSQL defaults to max_connections=100 while pgbouncer defaults to default_pool_size=20. Shouldn't default_pool_size always be higher than max_connections? Otherwise, what's the point? I thought pgbouncer was meant to let us handle more connections by lowering their overhead (by reusing PostgreSQL's connections). I'm confused.
I'm looking for advice similar to the ones found in PostgreSQL's wiki, like "this parameter should be ~50% of your memory".
I remember there was a spreadsheet for MySQL that would let you calculate these kind of parameters. It would be awesome to have something like that for PostgreSQL/pgbouncer.
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First, please read our canonical question on Capacity Planning.
The specific advice you're asking for is capacity planning advice, and you're going to have to work that out on your own, for your particular environment.
Second, You are looking at this wrong.
The amount of memory (or any other resource) you have doesn't dictate the number of connections you set, the number of connections you need dictates how beefy a server you must purchase.
The per-connection resource requirements are given in the manual in considerable detail, as well as discussed on the Wiki you linked to. Figure out what your environment needs (or make an educated guess) and ensure the hardware you are going to run on can handle what you're going to throw at it.
Specifically re: connection limits and pool size, you should have "enough" connections to meet your application's requirements - either on a single server or through a pool/bouncer.
"Enough" is a relative number: An application that makes (and continually reuses) one connection only requires one connection. An application that establishes a connection for each end-user who logs in requires as many DB connections as it has users.
The default values for both Postgres and pgbouncer are sensible as defaults:
 - 100 database connections is a lot for the typical person throwing Postgres into an environment.
 Developers probably won't need more than 10. Anyone else will know enough to increase the number.
 - 20 connections from pgbouncer per DB pool means you can get 4 pools pointing at one server and not overwhelm the default Postgres connection limit.
 It is possible to have multiple pooled resources in pgbouncer pointing at one back-end database, and you always want some available connections on your back-end servers.
If the defaults are not suitable for your environment you are expected to change them.
Remember that pooled connections does not mean "always tie up every database connection available".
The point of pgbouncer as you noted is to reuse connections. The efficiency gain here doesn't require that you tie up every available connection, merely that you don't disconnect, reconnect, re-negotiate SSL, re-authenticate to the database, and re-run your connection setup queries every time.
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I don't see the point of buying more hardware before configuring things properly. "Anyone else will know enough to increase the number". Well, where can I learn to know enough? I'm not finding much material about connections. Is it just trial and error? The spreadsheet I mentioned for MySQL used to work like a charm. Using more connections than the indicated by it would result in the server running out of memory. Right now I have 4GB, I was expecting to have to increase the defaults. Also, 20x4=80, what are the other 20 for? – ChocoDeveloper Feb 25 '13 at 17:42
_USER_ Please re-read my answer in its entirety (you're asking some things that I've already addressed), and spend a few minutes with the documentation I linked to. You are still looking at this backwards (see the first paragraph of my answer). Bear in mind that Postgres is NOT MySQL: You need to forget everything you think you know from your MySQL tuning experience. Postgres is more like Oracle. Study the manual, and proceed according to the instructions it gives you. – voretaq7 Feb 25 '13 at 18:00
Alright, thanks. – ChocoDeveloper Feb 25 '13 at 18:30
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