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Defect depth quantification using lock-in thermography
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Source:Quantitative InfraRed Thermography Journal, Volume 12, Number 1, p.37–52 (2015)
In this paper we explore the defect evaluation in austenitic stainless steel (SS) using Lock-in technique and the effect of modulation frequency on defect detectability. A review of international literature indicates that while such studies have been attempted on materials like Perspex and composites, studies on austenitic SS like AISI 316, which are widely used in nuclear and other process industries, have been limited. For depth quantification, blind frequency method and phase contrast method have been discussed. The one dimensional analytical modeling proposed by Bennett and Patty has been adopted in blind frequency method. The investigation on the effect of defect size and shape on blind frequency and phase contrast has been carried out. The phase contrast method for depth quantification was found to be appropriate.
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Escape from the castle's rotary tower with this exciting Quadrilla set featuring two transparent stairways. As the marbles make their way down the rail they sound three hanging bells.
- The quadrille series games by Hape are award winning - recognized by the International toy industry with awards such as the "Spiel gut" (good toy) Award and Oppenheim toy Portfolio Platinum award winner this game is sure to entertain
- Supports S. T. E. M learning - watch your child develop their imagination, problem solving skills, counting, color identification and more while playing while "escaping the castle walls".
- Prepare your child for the future - quadrille marble runs help children to develop spatial and reasoning abilities, and has even been highlighted as a developmental tool for computer programming by the wall street journal!
- Massive 102 piece set is interchangeable with other sets - quadrille components are fully interchangeable among sets and Use Standard 5/8" Or 16mm marbles. Escape from this castle's rotary tower with exciting quadrille set featuring two transparent stairways. As the marbles make their way down the rail they sound three hanging bells while they are on their journey.
- Made from a renewable resource - you want the very best for your child and Hape delivers! Our toys provide hours of endless entertainment while using non-toxic, renewable materials that can also be recycled! The toy is and safe for your child!


Clickers Not Charging - Pads Do Not Work or Light Up When Buttons Pressed
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This article applies to rechargeable ALL In Learning - ALL In Response (AIR) clicker systems where one or more pads stops charging, will not respond, and will not flash any lights when buttons are pressed.
Because of ALL In Learning's revolutionary charging system, AIR clickers should charge enough to register a response within a couple of minutes. When troubleshooting a possible charging problem, you don't have to wait overnight to see if a solution worked!
Problems with an Individual Clicker or Two?
If a pad will not show any lights when buttons are pressed, but all other pads appear to be charging, it may be defective. However, the rate of defective pads is incredibly low, so there could still be a problem with the charger that is not obvious because the other pads still have some charge left in them and this is simply the first to run down.
Troubleshooting a rechargeable pad:
 1. See the instructions below to be sure your charging base is charging correctly, and try charging the pad again. If it is one of the pads in the add-on side-storage rack, try moving it to the middle inside the charging base to see if it will charge better.
 2. Go to the Settings icon (looks like a gear) at the upper right of your ALL In Learning account, and click AIR Tools. Follow the on-screen prompts to diagnose whether the pad is in fact working and if so, get it responding to your receiver unit again.
Problems with Many Clickers at Once?
If all clickers are losing their charge and not recharging, it's likely caused by an issue with the power, the charger, or the adapter. Here are the troubleshooting steps:
 1. Make sure the pads are placed in the charger right-side-up.
 2. Make sure the electrical outlet on the wall has power. Often, users discover their outlet isn't working or has a switch that wasn't turned on. Plug in a lamp to double check the outlet. Try a different outlet altogether. It's surprising how often this is a problem!
 3. Confirm you are using the correct adapter. If another teacher has a system that is working fine, compare adapters with them. You can read the label on the "black box" section of the adapter, and see that it should say "Triad - Model WSU060-1250" or "V-Infinity Class 2 Power Supply - Model EPS060100." The adapter should have an output of 6.0v, and from 1.0A to 1.25A.
 4. With the adapter plugged in, you can lift up the charging station around the adapter plug and see a blue or red light inside.
 This can be a good sign, though it has happened that this light was shining even though the wrong adapter was being used and the pads wouldn't charge until the correct adapter was used.
 5. Can you try swapping your adapter with another teacher that is known to be working and see if it solves the problem? Adapters fail occasionally.
 6. Can you try swapping your charging station with another teacher that is known to be working and see if it solves the problem? This can show whether yours may be defective.
Note: On a full charge pads should give you 250-300 responses.
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If after these steps your pads are not charging and working, please contact technical support for further assistance at, and please include what steps you tried and what you discovered.
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Pedal Interceptor
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The Comma Pedal is used to provide acceleration and regen braking capability on Tesla cars running Openpilot that do not have iBooster installed.
The Comma Pedal is an accelerator pedal interceptor. It is a device that is inserted between a car's electronic accelerator pedal and the DU (Drive Unit). It detects the voltage from the accelerator pedal which represents the pedal's position. It then writes that same voltage back out to the DU as if the accelerator pedal had produced it. When Openpilot is engaged, Openpilot sends the virtual acceleration position through the Comma Pedal instead.
Without electric brakes (iBooster) the car only uses regenerative braking. This is not enough for suddent slowdowns. YOU MUST BE READY TO MANUALLY BRAKE AT ANY MOMENT.
The Comma Pedal is connected to the Giraffe on CAN3-EPAS usually using a Y adapter (that you have to make).
What it Does
The Comma Pedal has 4 main systems:
 1. 2 Analog to Digital Convertors
 - This is used to read the voltage from the car's accelerator pedal into the Comma Pedal's processor. The accelerator pedal produces an output Voltage between 0 and 5 Volts.
 2. 2 Digital to Analog Convertors
 - This is used to send voltage back to the car's DU as if the accelerator pedal had produced it.
 3. 1 CAN Bus
 - The CAN Bus is the car's communication network. The Comma Pedal communicates with Openpilot using the CAN Bus. It connects to the Tesla Giraffe on CAN3.
 4. 1 USB
 - This is used to program and monitor the Comma Pedal, itself.
When Openpilot is NOT engaged, the Comma Pedal reads the voltage from the accelerator pedal and just passes it along to the DU.
When Openpilot IS engaged with longitudinal control, the Comma Pedal gets accelerator commands from Openpilot and emulates a accelerator pedal to the DU.
The Comma Pedal is constantly sending the physical accelerator pedal's position to the CAN bus for Openpilot to read.
Obtaining a Comma Pedal (generic infor from Comma.ai wiki)
You cannot buy a pre-built comma pedal from Comma. Perhaps someone will begin selling them, but for now, you must either build it yourself (not recommended) Or have one fabricated through a service like Macrofab.
More information on HOW to do that will be added to this wiki in the future.
You can find an article written by a community member on how to build your own through MacroFab:
Comma Pedal: Building with MacroFab by Joshua F. Rountree
The information needed to build one is located in Comma's EON GitHub repo.
Wiring a Tesla Pedal
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In order to create your Tesla Pedal you need:
 - 1x Comma Pedal board
 - 1x set of WPT-929 connectors w/ or w/o wires
 - 1x JST2 male conenctor
 - 1x JST2 female connector (or you can buy this and cut it and you're done)
 - box to hold the board (I used this one from Amazon). You will need to cut some small openings on the sides (and in front of the RJ45) if you use this one.
Note: the two JST2s are needed only if you chose not to use an ethernet cable to conenct your Pedal to the Tesla Giraffe rev B.
Use the diagram to conenct the female WSP-929 pedal connector to the IN side of the pedal board and the male WSP-929 connector to the OUT side of the pedal connector.
To connect the CAN BUS from the Pedal to the Tesla Giraffe you can either use an Ethernet cable to connect the two RJ45 ports (if you have a Tesla Giraffe rev B) or you can use twised wire (preffered) to connect positions 3 and 6 of the fake-ethernet port of the pedal board to the two JST2 connectors (male and female). We need both because you will plug the female one in the Giraffe's EPAS connector and then the EPAS Harness into the male JSP2. Red should be CAN+ and black should be CAN- (that's the convention also used in the image showing the CAN wire soldered to pins 3 and 6 of the fake ethernet port on the pedal baord).
Flashing the firmware for Tesla Pedal
You have to use a Tesla specific firmware on the pedal in order to work for Tesla.
The firmware in my repo for the Tesla Pedal is located in /data/openpilot/panda/board/pedal_tesla. You can flash the pedal from your computer or from the EON (I did it from the EON). If you have a new board, it will automatically start in DFU mode. If not, you can enter the DFU mode either using a Panda Paw or by applying 5 volts to a special point on the board while conencting the board to USB (to power it up). That usually requires at least 2 people: one to keep the jumper for 5V in place and the other to connect the USB. Instructions on how to enter DFU mode were create by @jfrux.
Once in DFU mode, go to the pedal_tesla directory and run
make recover
Once the firmware flash complete, just reboot the pedal and you should be ready to go.
With 0.5.10 and beyond, there is a new way to flash the pedal via CAN messages which will be used for furture (if needed) upgrades. For now, there are no changes to the firmware for Pedal.
Installing the Tesla Pedal
To install the pedal, there are two steps:
 1. connecting the board to the accelerator pedal
 2. conencting the board to the Tesla Giraffe
This video for a similar product shows you what you have to do in order to install the pedal interceptror between the accelerator pedal and the car existing connector. Take your time and watch the video first. The process is not complicated if you just follow it step by step.
Once that is complete, disconnect the EPAS cable from the Tesla Giraffe and connect the female JSP2 from your pedal to the Giraffe. Then connect the EPAS cable to the male JSP2 from your pedal.
Using the Tesla Pedal
Without electric brakes (iBooster) the car only uses regenerative braking. This is not enough for suddent slowdowns. YOU MUST BE READY TO MANUALLY BRAKE AT ANY MOMENT.
Out of the box, OP will use the Tesla CC (with stalk spamming) to control CC. This in our OP implementation is called Adaptive Cruise Control or ACC. CC on Tesla only works above 18 MPH (29 km/h).
If you turn off the Tesla CC by pressing on the CC stalk, OP will switch to Tesla Pedal (PDL) mode. This will also provide you with adaptive cruise control by sending the right commands to your Tesla Pedal. Tesla pedal works down to 1 MPH, but be careful, regen brakes stop working at 5 MPH (8 km/h).
Once you get used to it and you don't care about ACC anymore, you can modify the config file to always use pedal
force_pedal_over_cc = True
Guides for Building / Troubleshooting Your Comma Pedal
Comma Pedal: Updating the Firmware over CAN by @jfrux Use this guide to update your Comma Pedal for compatibility with Openpilot v0.5.10+
Comma Pedal: Building with MacroFab by @jfrux
Comma Pedal: Flashing the Firmware by @jfrux


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DB2 Server for VSE & VM
DB2 Server for VSE & VM provides powerful relational database capabilities, distributed database access, automation of DBA tasks, numerous backup & recovery options, and more.
- Support for TCP/IP enables you to access your data from any client that supports TCP/IP over DRDA.
- The ability to restart TCP/IP support automatically after a TCP/IP outage keeps your data accessible to your clients.
- Support for stored procedures and stored procedure result sets gives you the ability to reduce the amount of data that flows across your network.
- VM Data Spaces Support (VMDSS) can dramatically increase the performance of DB2 Server for VM.
- The Data Restore Feature provides additional archiving and recovery capabilities.
- The Control Center lets you monitor many aspects of database operation.
- DataPropagator Capture support tracks logged activity on specifed tables, so that the DataPropagator Apply product can propagate those changes to replicas of those tables.


Elkhorn Coral
Common Name: Elkhorn Coral
Scientific Name: Acropora palmata
Elkhorn corals are members of the family Acroporidae. They have a unique growth pattern with exceptionally thick and sturdy antler-like branches. Elkhorn corals are usually fast growing with branches increasing by 5-10 cm per year. This coral also typically lives in areas of high wave action.


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Why the asterisk is a new symbol of pride
When academics generate data on race in higher education, they often include an asterisk next to the Native American category. That little mark lets researchers know the population is "statistically not significant," usually meaning roughly less than 1 percent of the student population.
In March, Stylus Publishing will release what is perhaps the most comprehensive collection of writing by Native American scholars to date: "Beyond the Asterisk: Understanding Native Students in Higher Education." With contributions from more than a dozen leading Native Americans in higher education, the new book examines the Native American college experience from almost every angle — from the first-year experience, to tribal colleges, to Native American Greek organizations and culturally sensitive housing.
"One of the things that constantly came up [for the Native American academics] was this concept of invisibility: in scholarship, research, data, curriculum and on the campuses," says Heather J. Shotton, the lead editor of the book. Shotton is a professor at Oklahoma University and a member of the Wichita and Affiliated Tribes. "For us, the idea was to offer some perspective on Native students, from Native professors."
Shotton is quick to point out that the Native experience is different from other minority groups.
"I think what separates Native students is that Native people are not just a racial or ethnic group. We are also considered a political group," she says. "We are citizens of sovereign nations — tribal nations, but also citizens of the United States."

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Making and forming aged cheese are often the easiest stages and ripening or aging cheeses from days to weeks to months or years is often the hardest part. This wiki article discusses aging equipment minimum and preferred requirements. Examples of Cheese Cave systems are discussed in the Wiki: Example Cheese Caves article.
Most cheese making recipes or methods require aging at steady temperatures and humidity levels to minimize shocks to the cheeses. The actual temperatures and humidity levels are dependent on the cheese type and method and are typically at a temperature of 10-13 C/50-55 F and at a relative humidity or 80-95%. The art of aging is called affinage in French and historically it was performed by a separate person called, again in French, an Affineur.
No one has this magic stable "Cheese Cave" conditions year round let alone within a 24 hour period thus unless you have ready access to an underground cave the hobby and artisan cheese maker will have to create this environment as do commercial cheese manufacturers, albeit on a larger scale. Note, if cheeses are highly impermeable sealed such as by vacuum bags or waxing, then external to the cheese humidity is no longer an issue.
Both the temperature and humidity are critical, in general:
- Temperature too low and the cheese will ripen too slowly.
- Temperature too high and the cheese will ripen too quickly and can go rancid.
- Humidity too low and the cheese will dry out and potential crack from uneven quick drying.
- Humidity too high and unwanted mold can quickly take root, often on the cheese surfaces.
The external environment to where you want to place your cheese cave and the type of cave dictates your heating/cooling and humidity add/remove requirements. For examples for temperature control, locating one in an uninsulated garage in Northern Canada would require heating most of the year and cooling for a short period in summer. Conversely locating one inside a heated and air-conditioned house with year round roughly stable temperatures of 72F / 21C or in a garage in the stable warm tropics of Brunei would result cooling being required all year round. For examples for humidity control, most systems require adding humidity as cooling normally dehydrates air, but some systems like a closed sealed freezer or fridge use indirect radiant cooling which as sealed can over time if located in an external medium-high humidity environment build up humidity to 100% resulting in water puddles inside the freezer which are a location for unwanted micro-organisms to grow.
- Made from easily cleanable low porosity food grade hygienic material so that they minimally harbour micro-organisms.
- Reasonably sealed to stop unwanted entrance of insects or animals yet allow some air movement in an out of the cave to allow the cheese to breath.
- A means of providing cooling or heating or both depending on the cheese caves external environment.
- A means of adding or removing excess humidity depending on the cheese caves external environment and how sealed the cave is.
- Large enough to house your cheeses for the planned length of time and any special ripening containers for surface mold type cheeses.
- Large enough to house your humidity control system, such as adjusting lids daily on food grade plastic containers, or having a bowl of water in your cave to add humidity, or having a bowl with a cloth towel wick draped over side or across fan, or for larger caves, having a humidifier inside your cave.
- How much energy you want to exert on maintaining your cheese cave's temperature and humidity over days to weeks to months or years.
- Your finances.
- Different cheese caves for cheeses that have different temperature and humidity aging requirements and if white or blue molds are intentionally being used.
- Closely weaved flat wire shelves to allow cheeses to breath on their bottoms vs glass shelves in many fridges or curved wire shelves in a wine cooler type fridge.
- Shelves that are adjustable height for efficiently storing different height cheeses.
- If using a fridge, a door without shelving as shelves for milk and salad dressing bottles do not fit cheeses well, and without salad drawer(s) as an inefficient use of space.


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one of a Native American people living near the Ottawa River in Canada, 1620s, from French Algonquin, perhaps a contraction of Algoumequin, from Micmac algoomeaking "at the place of spearing fish and eels." But Bright suggests Maliseet (Algonquian) elægomogwik "they are our relatives or allies."
Algonquian was the name taken late 19c. by ethnologists to describe a large group of North American Indian peoples, including this tribe. The Algonquin Hotel (59 W. 44th Street, Manhattan) opened 1902 and was named by manager Frank Case for the tribes that had lived in that area. A circle of journalists, authors, critics, and wits began meeting there daily in 1919 and continued through the twenties; they called themselves "The Vicious Circle," but to others they became "The Round Table."
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Hydrological models often require input data on soil-water retention (SWR), but obtaining such data is laborious and costly so that SWR in many places remains unknown. To fill the gap, a prediction of SWR using a pedotransfer function (PTF) is one of the alternatives. This study aims to select the most suitable existing PTFs in order to predict SWR for the case of the upper Bengawan Solo (UBS) catchment on Java, Indonesia. Ten point PTFs and two continuous PTFs, which were developed from tropical soils elsewhere, have been applied directly and recalibrated based on a small soil sample set in UBS. Scatter plots and statistical indices of mean error (ME), root mean square error (RMSE), model efficiency (EF) and Pearson's correlation (r) showed that recalibration using the Shuffled Complex Evolution-University of Arizona (SCE-UA) algorithm can help to improve the prediction of PTFs significantly compared to direct application of PTFs. This study is the first showing that improving SWR-PTFs by recalibration for a new catchment based on around 50 soil samples provides an effective parsimonious alternative to developing a SWR-PTF from specifically collected soil datasets, which typically needs around 100 soil samples or more.
- Java Island
- Pedotransfer function recalibration
- Soil-water retention
- Tropical upstream catchment

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MARQUETTE — There are many ways to get a message to someone. On Wednesday, students and others worked on creative ways to communicate.
The Northern Michigan School of Art and Design hosted Patagonia graphic designer Geoffrey Holstad for a workshop called "Cutting Through the Static." The workshop gave leaders of local nonprofits a chance to share ideas on how to make the city of Marquette more sustainable.
"It would be really cool if he was able to work with a group of students, and we connected them with some of our local non–profit environmental organizations and do an actual workshop where they work through some of those ideas on how to create effective messaging in a world that is so oversaturated with a lot of information."
Students broke into groups to brainstorm ideas, coming together collaboratively to expose problems and come up with solutions. Thursday, Holstad will host a presentation. The event is free and open to the public.


FAQ: How Much Does It Cost To Start A Poultry Farm In Nigeria?
How can I start a small poultry farm in Nigeria?
5 Steps To Starting A Poultry Farm In Nigeria
 1. Step 1 – Choose The Type Of Poultry Bird To Rear.
 2. Step 2 – Select A Suitable Farm Location/Site.
 3. Step 3 – Provide Good Housing And Shelter For The Birds.
 4. Step 4 – Feeding and Medication OF The Poultry BIRDS.
 5. Step 5 – Marketing and Sales of THE POULTRY Birds.
How much money does it take to start a chicken farm?
Generally speaking, it will cost you anywhere between 5,000 and 25,000 dollars to begin a small scale business in the poultry industry, and this includes the costs of your employees' salaries for the first three months of operation.
How much does it cost to build poultry houses?
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Is poultry farming profitable in Nigeria?
Poultry Farming in Nigeria is one of the most profitable agribusinesses in the Nigerian agriculture sector. It is a lucrative money making venture in Nigeria. As a result, there is an increased demand for local poultry products like chicken, turkey, eggs.
How much do I need to raise 100 broilers?
How many chickens do I need to make a profit?
How many chickens do you need to make a profit? It really depends on the demand in your area but I would say you need at least 16 chickens to make your enterprise worthwhile. Two hybrid chickens would give you a dozen eggs a week and 16 birds would give around 8 dozen eggs a week.
Is chicken farming profitable?
Is poultry a good business?
Poultry farming has proven already that it can be very lucrative. If you have the appropriate space and the knowledge, starting a small poultry farm could be a great source of income for your family. As a poultry farmer, you may also sell the eggs and feathers the birds produce.
What type of farming is the most profitable?
20 Most Profitable Small Farm Ideas
 2. Fish Farming.
 3. Dual Crop Farming.
 4. Dairy Farming.
 5. Herb Gardening.
 6. Bee Farming.
 7. Aquaponics.
 8. Microgreens Farming.
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How much money does a poultry farmer make a year?
The average pay for a Poultry Farmer is $30,742 a year and $15 an hour in the United States.
How much land do you need for chicken houses?
The rule of thumb for chickens is that they each need 3-4 square feet of coop floor space and then a minimum of ten square feet in an enclosed run.
How many bags of feed do I need for 500 broilers?
Like feeders, there are big drinkers which can cost about 500 -700 and the small ones between 170-200. Let's assume we're stocking 100 birds, for broilers, you'll need 16-20 bags of 25kg feed to feed them from day old to table size.
How many eggs can a layer lay in a day?
How much does it cost to start a pig farm in Nigeria?
Obviously, it is hard to calculate exactly how much money you might need to start your own pig farm. Depending on your scale of choice, you can start of from as little as ₦200,000. Your expenses should include buying land, building the pens, making the feed, buying your piglets and hiring a veterinarian.
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Air pollution is a growing health problem for urban populations in emerging economies. The present study examines the (cross-sectional) relation between blood pressure and particulate air pollution in schoolchildren of Lahore (Pakistan).
We recruited a sample of 8–12year-old children (mean age 9.9years; 45% girls) from two schools in Lahore situated in areas with low (n=79) and high (n=100) air pollution, respectively. During the study period (January-April 2009) particulate pollution [PM10 and PM2.5i.e. particles with aerodynamic diameters below 10μm or 2.5μm, respectively] was measured at the school sites with a laser operated device (Metone Aerocet 531). Blood pressure was measured, after 5 minutes of sitting rest, using an automated device (average of 5 consecutive measurements). Spot urine samples were also collected and concentrations of Na and K were measured.
Mean daily values of PM2.5 were 28.5μg/m3 (SD: 10.3) and 183μg/m3 (SD: 30.2), in the low and high pollution areas, respectively. Systolic and diastolic blood pressure were significantly higher in children living in the high pollution area (115.9/70.9mm Hg) than in the low pollution area (108.3/66.4mm Hg), independently of age, gender, height, weight, socio-economic status, passive smoking and the urinary concentrations of Na, K, and creatinine.
In 8–12year-old children, exposure to (traffic-related) air pollution was associated with higher systolic and diastolic blood pressure. These findings, if they persist, might have clinical relevance at older age.


Rythukosam TANA
TANA Agriculture Forum Programs
Abstract: TANA Agriculture forum has identified the following short and long term projects to support Andhra Pradesh and Telangana farmers. Agriculture forum is planning to execute these projects in two different phases with the support of TANA executive committee and sponsors. More details on the significance of each project, cost estimates, and sponsorship forms are included below.
Phase I: Time line: December 2016, during TANA tour to INDIA
 1. TANA-PPE: Distribute Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) kits to reduce the exposure of farmers/farm workers to toxic pesticides.
 Cost/kit: $12
 3. TANA-Crop Health Camps: Distribute GreenSeeker, a hand held crop nitrogen sensor that assesses crop health and make decisions regarding the amount of nitrogen fertilizer (e.g. urea) to be applied to the crop. This is a quick way of knowing the soil nitrogen status and nitrogen is a critical factor that effects crop yield and water quality
 Cost/unit: $500
 Phase II: Time line: TANA 2017 conference
 5. TANA-Soil Health Camps: Perform soil testing to reduce indiscriminate application of synthetic fertilizers and input costs to the farmer and leave lesser foot print on the environment. The cost estimates will be posted as committee makes progress on technical and feasibility details.
Phase I
Project 1: TANA-PPE
(Distribute Personal Protective Equipment kits to farmers/farm workers)
Importance of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)farmer-pesticideIn agriculture, a wide variety of pesticides are routinely used for controlling crop pests.
Major goalsAlthough these chemicals have been helpful in improving crop yields, they are toxic to humans if they are exposed to them. In villages, our farmers/farm workers apply chemicals using manual pesticide applicators without wearing appropriate PPE, thus exposing themselves to hazardous chemicals like organophosphates. A slow and repeated exposure to these chemicals causes "Chronic Toxicity". In short term such toxic effects may not be realized but long-term exposure to toxic chemicals will have huge implications on human health and leads to death. It's like death in slow motion
While we cannot help eliminate all exposure, we can reduce some of the exposure by providing simple protective equipment like gloves and goggles. TANA would like to distribute PPE Kits (Figure 2) to the pesticide handlers and farm workers in villages of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.
rythukosam-poster-3Project 2: TANA-Crop Health Camps
(Distribute GreenSeeker/Nitrogen Fertilizer Application Estimator)
Importance: In India, traditionally farmers apply nitrogen fertilizerhandheld-green-seeker-farmer (urea) uniformly as a blanket recommendation without considering crop type and/or soil nitrogen status to obtain higher crop yields. It has been proven that each crop has specific requirements for nitrogen fertilizer. Low nitrogen application will lead to poor yields. Whereas excessive nitrogen application does not benefit the crop, but increases input costs to the farmer/government and environment pollution. Water soluble nitrate is major component of urea drained into water bodies which is harmful to human and animal health. Furthermore, several factors, including soil type, farm practices, and crop rotations effect the availability of soil nitrogen for crop growth. For example, pulses add more nitrogen to the soil due to their nitrogen fixing ability and corn/rice uptake more nitrogen from the soil. Therefore, identification of optimal nitrogen requirement for each crop is critical to maximize crop yields, reduce input costs and environmental pollution.
In the United States, farmers use various technologies to determine nitrogen fertilizer requirements for optimal crop growth e.g, "GreenSeeker" (Developed by Trimble). GreenSeeker is hand held, user friendly, and cost effective crop sensor device (Figure. 3) that instantly measures crop health and provides a reading (e.g., 0.61), similar to measuring body temperature or blood pressure. The reading will be used to determine the amount of nitrogen fertilizer (urea) required from a reference chart specific for each crop.
Reduces input cost to farmers and subsidy cost to the Government
 - Reduces environmental pollution and protect human and animal health
 - Precision agriculture. As shown in Figure 4, this device can be used to develop a crop health map for the entire field using "Farm Scout App" (free) downloaded on a smart phone/iPad. Based on the field map, different rates of urea could be applied within a field rather than uniform/blanket application to the entire field.
Major goals: As a pilot project
 - 10 units will be distributed to reach stations to optimize conditions and test the applicability of
 Green Seeker on our crop varieties.
 TANA Agriculture forum will develop a Telugu version of easy to use manual for GreenSeeker.
Cost/Unit: $500 (GreenSeeker: $500)
Phase II
Soil Health Camps
(Soil Testing and Create awareness on importance of soil health)
Importance of Soil Testing
Soil is an important natural resource that provides essential nutrients required for crop growth. Humans without sound health cannot perform normal functions. Likewise, without having sound health, soil cannot provide favorable environment for optimal crop growth and leads to reduced crop yields. Like we perform routine health checkups to know the health status of our body, soil health needs to be tested periodically. In the past, unknowingly, farmers have taken care of soil health by following good cultural practices, such as applying manures and growing nitrogen fixing crops etc. As the technology has advanced, farmers are depending more on synthetic fertilizers and using them indiscriminately, without knowing what is deficient in the soil. The indiscriminate use of fertilizers not only wastes money but also contributes to environmental pollution. For example, if Phosphorus is low and Potash is high in the soil, one can take the money from Potash and put into Phosphorus. If both are high, fertilizer application can be minimized, which saves money and helps the environment. If both are low, both should be applied to bring their levels up to the levels required for optimal crop growth. Therefore, it is necessary to determine soil health periodically and the only way it can be done is by testing soils.
Benefits of Soil testing
 - Diagnoses whether there is too little or too much of a given nutrient in the soil.
 - Encourages optimal plant growth and increase crop yields by providing the best fertilizer (Nitrogen, Phosphorus, and Potash) recommendations.
 - Saves money that might otherwise be spent on unneeded fertilizer.
 - Reduces environmental pollution by reducing indiscriminate fertilizer application.
Major Gaps in the Current Soil Testing System
 1. Lack of awareness on the importance of soil testing
 3. We have well established soil testing laboratories. However, the biggest issue with soil testing in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana areas has been the turnaround time. Often times it takes several months before the soil test results are communicated to farmers. Hence, a farmer cannot take appropriate measures to correct defects in soils on time.
 5. Less efficient manual soil sample collection processes.
Major goals
TANA Agriculture committee is looking at various options to improve the efficiency of soil testing processes. Committee is hoping to identify a feasible technology to fill gaps in existing soil testing processes and create awareness on the importance of soil testing among farmers.
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A dog-leg is a sharp change in the orientation of a well bore due to shifting azimuth and/or inclination. Such shifts in a well orientation can make it difficult to run pipe and logging tools through an affected interval. Borehole images drawn from dog-leg sections are often degraded due to hole enlargement, tool marking of the wall and the effects of any stick and pull that may arise from the problem of threading a tool string around what is essentially a corner. Inspection of a well orientation survey will usually detail dog-leg severity, allowing its tie-in to image log quality.
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Construction offices are usually the most costly pieces of construction.
In a world where the average office space is often over five times more expensive than that of a hotel, this article explores how the office trailer can be the most efficient piece of infrastructure in a world of ever-growing infrastructure.
The office trailer and office building: An office trailer stands outside a construction office in Mumbai, India, in 2015.
The trailer's size is a major factor in its cost.
The average size of an office trailer in the U.S. is 1,823 square feet.
The median price per square foot in the United States is $4.45.
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The space inside an office building is divided by a garage.
A garage costs an average of $3.33 per square feet in the US.
In New Zealand, a garage can cost as little as $1.55 per square ft. In the United Kingdom, a parking garage can be as little $1 per square-foot.
A building's parking spaces are shared by several tenants.
The cost per parking space in the San Francisco Bay Area is $1,000 per month.
In London, the average price per parking spot is $2,500.
In India, the office is a common space.
A construction office's office space, on average, occupies about 70 square feet (9.4 square meters).
In New York, an office space occupying 50 square feet is about 2.5 times more common.
The length of a building's office area can vary widely depending on the location.
For example, a building in Mumbai has a typical office space length of 1,500 square feet, while in Seattle it can be 10 times longer.
The construction office has the lowest cost of all the components.
A typical office trailer costs about $2.50 per squarefoot.
An office is more durable than a building.
A large office trailer, which can be used to transport large equipment, such as computers, is more than six times more durable per square meter than a smaller office.
The amount of space a building has per employee can vary by location.
In large cities, the number of employees can be limited to around 100.
However, in the suburbs, it can easily be over 2,000.
A trailer can take up to 40 days to build.
It can take about 15 days to install the office on a new building.
The size of the office space can vary greatly.
For instance, in San Francisco, a one-bedroom office can be about 200 square feet with an average size apartment building of 200 square-feet.
In Toronto, a two-bedroom, one-bathroom office can comfortably house over 3,500 people.
A common office space in New Zealand is about 60 square feet for every square foot of building space.
In Britain, a similar space in London is just about 40 square feet per square square foot.
The number of people in an office can vary.
A small office can accommodate up to 200 people, while a large office can house about 200.
However in London, for example, the space can accommodate about 50 people.
It is common to see offices in cities with a mixed population of employees and office workers.
In Los Angeles, there are two-thirds of office workers, while one-third of office employees live in the city.
In Miami, about one-quarter of office staff live in Miami.
There are different types of office spaces in different cities.
The most common type of office space are garages.
A commercial garage costs about one million pounds ($1.4 million) per square metre.
An industrial garage is another 600,000 pounds ($3.5 million) for a large building.
In some cities, a commercial office space costs more than a hotel.
For this reason, it is common for office workers to rent a commercial space.
For large companies, office workers can rent office space for an average fee of about one and a half million pounds.
The main costs of building office space vary from city to city.
For a commercial building, the main cost is capital costs.
The city where the building is built can also have a larger influence on the cost of the building.
In Tokyo, a city with a population of just over 200,000, a typical capital cost of around 30,000 yen ($20,000) per month is paid by a commercial landlord.
However if the building was constructed in a city of over 100,000 people, the cost could easily reach 40,000 Japanese yen ($4,000).
The biggest cost is transportation costs.
Transportation costs can vary depending on where you live.
In Seattle, transportation is the biggest cost.
It costs about 40,700 yen ($3,000), in


Love handles form when your body stores energy as fat above your hips. To get rid of them you will need to burn this fat by doing exercise that uses a lot of calories. When you have an excessive amount of fat anywhere on your body, exercising that particular area with sit ups, bicep curls or squats will not help. These exercises are used to build muscle and enhance definition while getting rid of love handles requires simply burning off the fat.
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Your main goal when trying to get rid of body fat stores such as the love handles is to burn as many calories as you can. Sit ups, crunches, and twists build muscle but they burn an insignificant amount of calories.
When trying to get rid of your love handles, you need to lower your body fat percentage. A calorie restricted diet combined with high intensity cardiovascular exercise (running, biking, swimming, tennis, basketball) will force your body to use its fat stores for energy.
Running or walking for even small distances will do a lot more than hundreds of sit ups or crunches if your body fat percentage is high: as is found in people who have love handles.
You will need to engage in some sort of cardio 3 – 5 times per week at 30 – 60 minutes per session in order to lose body fat. Remember that exercising more often and longer will yield quicker results.
After your cardio routine is on a solid foundation (meaning you're following it without skipping any days: 3-5 times per week) you need to start targeting your oblique and abdominal muscles to show definition.
You can do this at the gym on machines or at home with your own body weight (sit ups, crunches, leg lifts, twists). Doing hundreds of sit ups everyday is wasteful so do not go overboard.
Remember that the main rule to getting rid of love handles (which are stores of fat) is giving your body less calories than it burns by eating less and exercising more. If your body burns 2,000 calories every day and you only give it 1,500 calories of food, it will be forced to use body fat stores to get those extra 500 calories.
The Bottom Line
If your exercise routine is good but you go home to a bad diet, your results will be significantly delayed. The quickest way to get rid of love handles is through a combination of diet and exercise, not just one of the two.
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KCMMB Concrete and Bridge Decks
Research performed by the University of Kansas in conjunction with many state DOTs indicates bridge decks should be treated differently than other outdoor concrete applications. Because of the importance of bridges to transportation and the difficulty caused by repair or replacement of bridges the KCMMB recommends that all mix designs for bridge decks be prepared by the consultant responsible for design of the structure. It should also be noted that the life of the bridge deck is not only influenced by the concrete mix design but also the construction of the deck.
As an example of a procedure for bridge deck design and construction the following links have been provided. These links are for a series of Kansas Department of Transportation Special Provisions for the design and construction of bridge decks. These Special Provisions are the result of joint research done by the University of Kansas and KDOT.


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When you design an actions pane control, it can be helpful to resize the control to the width of the task pane so that you can see exactly what the controls will look like when they are visible on the task pane. The actions pane control can be found in the New Items dialog box.
1. Create a new Excel Workbook solution using VSTO.
2. Right-click your Excel solution in Solution Explorer, point to Add, and then click New Item.
3. In the Add New Item dialog box, click Actions Pane Control, and then click Add. See Figure 5.3, presented earlier, for an example.
4. Expand the Size property for the control and set the width to 200.
You can add Windows Forms controls to the design surface of the actions pane control by dragging the controls from Toolbox.
5. Add two Label controls, and change the second label to resemble a text box by selecting a white background color, adding a border, and changing the AutoSize property to False (see Figure 5.4).
6. Keep the default name of the label (Label1) for the first label on the control, and change its Text property to Formatting of Active Cell.
7. Change the name of the second label to SelectionFont, set the Tex-tAlign property to MiddleCenter, and clear out any text.
You should also change the anchor of each of these controls so that the labels resize if the task pane is resized. Set the Anchor property to Top, Left, Right for each label. The code to add this actions pane control to the action pane should be added to the Startup event handler of ThisWorkbook. The variable to reference the control is created at the class level as a public variable so that you can access it from the worksheet using the Globals class.
8. Add the code in Listing 5.7 to the ThisWorkbook class, replacing the existing Startup event handler.
Listing 5.7. Displaying the actions pane control on the actions pane Public ActionsControl As New ActionsPaneControl1
Private Sub ThisWorkbook_Startup(ByVal sender As Object, _ ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Startup
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NDC replies Bawumia with 60 achievements of Mahama
The main opposition National Democratic Congress says they are ready for the comparison of achievements challenge being advanced by Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia.
The Vice President in a Facebook post Tuesday published what he says are 50 achievements of President Akufo-Addo which put him ahead of former President John Mahama in the upcoming polls.
The NDC in a counter statement Wednesday outlined what they say are 60 deliverables of the former President making him the better candidate for Ghanaians as they head for the polls in December.
Below is the NDC's list of Mahama's achievements
60 Credible Achievement of John Dramani Mahama government
 1. He deployed emergency plants and speed up the completion of ongoing plants resulted in the addition of more than 800 megawatts (MW) of power within 18-months.
 2. In addition to the Energy Sector Levy and ongoing works to restructure the legacy debt of the power utilities, which helped to stabilise the power situation.
Water and sanitation
On water, President Mahama increased investments in the provision of clean drinking water and cited the provision of boreholes, small town water systems and major urban water treatment projects as some initiatives that had significantly increased access to clean drinking water.
 1. The Teshie desalination plant,
 2. The Kpong water expansion project
 3. The ATMA project have expanded access to urban water supply in the capital, Accra.
 4. The Wa water supply project
 5. The 3Ks project, covering Kumawu, Konongo and Kwahu,
Roads and transport
John Mahama's tenure of office had some of the most massive investments in the road sector in the history of the country. Some of the road projects include;
 1. Achimota-Ofankor
 2. Awoshie-Pokuase
 3. Sofoline
 4. Tetteh Quarshie-Adenta.
Other projects include;
 1. The Kwame Nkrumah Interchange,
 2. The Kasoa overhead bridge
 3. The Airport Hills/Burma Camp network of roads,
15 The 37-El Wak-Trade Fair road.
 1. The NDC government invested more resources in continuing the Eastern corridor roads
 2. Asphalt overlay of roads in regional and district capitals
 3. Cocoa roads across the country
Other ongoing projects before leaving office includes;
 1. The Tema Motorway Roundabout decongestion project.
 2. New bridge from Flower Pot Roundabout on the Spintex Road over the Accra-Tema Motorway to East Legon.
Projects ready to commence, such as
 1. The Obetsebi-Lamptey interchange
 2. The Pokuase Interchange
 3. The Motorway expansion project.
 4. The TarkwaBogoso- Anyanfuri road
 5. Some Projects include;
Expansion of the Takoradi and Tema Harbours
Construction of Terminal(T3) of Kotoka International Airport
Sekondi -TakoradiKojokrom railway line
Central Markets in Kumasi and CapeCoast
 1. John Mahama's government inherited an economy that was running a high deficit, with increasing inflation and interest rates characterised by a rapidly depreciating currency.
He recalled the forum at Senchi and said it was an attempt to forge a consensus for a home-grown fiscal consolidation programme, noting that the outcome eventually became the basis for the International Monitory Fund (IMF) Extended Credit Facility (ECF) programme that the country was implementing.
 1. During his tenure in office, a large number of health professionals trained under his administration to improve the healthcare delivery system of the country.
Health Projects
 2. The expansion in the utilisation of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). In 2015, the out-patient utilisation of NHIS stood at 29 million, up from nine million in 2008.
The NHIS on the whole had also been improved under his administration to ensure that people, including the vulnerable, had access to quality healthcare.
Second phase of the Tamale Teaching Hospital Expansion Project
 1. Regional Hospitals: 420-bed Ridge Hospital Expansion Project, Bolgatanga Regional Hospital, 250-bed Ashanti Regional Hospital at Sewua-Kumasi
160-bed Upper West Regional Hospital
 1. Institutional Hospitals:
- 500-bed Military Hospital Project in Kumasi
- 104-bed Police Hospital Project, Accra
- 130-bed Maritime Hospital, Tema
 1. Polyclinics
Five polyclinics (Phase III) in the Brong Ahafo Region at Nkrankwanta, Wamfie, Kwatire, Techimantia and Bomaa.
 1. Health Centres
 1. CHPS Compounds
Out of 2,948 functional CHPS zones, 1,260 have been constructed.
 1. Eye Care Centre at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital
Social protection
 1. His administration helped cushioned the poor and vulnerable, many social protection programmes were introduced.
 2. The number of people benefitting from schemes such as the School Feeding Programme, the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) and the Eban card, had been expanded to cover majority of the poor and vulnerable population in the country.
 1. The John Mahama government continued to support the provision of free textbooks and uniforms to pupils in public schools, and it has restructured and enlarged the school feeding program.
 2. The provision of 10,000 free sandals to eligible pupils. This was his initiatives to follow through on raising the quality and inclusiveness of education for everyone in Ghana.
 3. The school shift system, through which pupils run shifts due to lack of adequate classrooms, has now been eliminated in many of our communities. In Wa, Sunyani, Tarkwa, Dansoman, Krachi Nchumuru in the Oti Region and many other areas, school children can no longer skip school to play truant in the name of the school shift system.
 4. In the area of Accelerated ICT Education, his administration improve upon ICT at the basic level, 81,000 basic school teachers were trained to enable them acquire the requisite skills in the use of ICT in teaching and learning.
A total of 54,500 laptops were procured and distributed to basic school teachers and 60,000 laptop computers were distributed to public schools across the country.
 1. A bills passed in his administration which includes Technical University Act, Act, 2016 (Act 992). This made some of the polytechnics changed to Technical Universities.
University of Environment and Sustainable Development (UESD),
The Chartered Institute of Taxation Act, 2016,
The National Commission for Tertiary Education Bill,
National Accreditation and Qualification Authority Bills, 2015,
Ghana Book Development Council Bill and The Chartered Institute of Bankers Bill, 2015.
 1. To facilitate the management of education delivery the Mahama led administration procured and distributed 500 vehicles to the educational institutions-senior high schools, universities, colleges of education and polytechnics.
 2. In terms of School Infrastructure – A total of 1,856 out of 2,578 basic school projects have been completed under the Schools Under Trees programme. The remaining was due for completion. A number of teachers bungalows, education offices, sanitation blocks and 203 out of 232 classroom blocks includes the SHS E block have been completed.
Under the Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD), the Mahama led administration rehabilitated 345 KG classrooms, constructed 1,347 KG blocks and provision of 1,875 KG tables and chairs.
Job creation must also be supported by the expansion of opportunities in the agricultural sector. There is the need to secure sufficient supplies of food at affordable prices. Following our strong commitment to the modernisation of agriculture;
 1. The government of Mahama increased the number of rice maize, yam harvesters. Additional emphasis has been put on grain storage facilities and the creation of bore holes for agricultural purposes.
 2. Agricultural mechanisation service centres was established.
 3. His achievements includes reviving cotton farming in the Northern Ghana.
 4. Between 2009 and 2011, the government also rehabilitated several irrigation dams in the Greater Accra, Volta, Ashanti and Brong Ahafo Regions.
 5. Ghana produced more than 1m tonnes of cocoa in 2011, a significant increase over the output in 2008, which stood at about 680,000 tonnes.
In line with Government's determination to develop sports infrastructure,
 1. The 15,000 seater capacity Cape Coast Stadium.
 2. Progressive prominence of Ghanaian sportswomen and men at the African Youth Games in Gaborone, Botswana in 2014, the Youth Olympics in Nanjing, China in 2014, the Commonwealth Youth Games in Apia, Samoa in 2015, and the All-Africa Games in Brazzaville, Congo in 2015.
 2. Keta Sea Defence Resettlement Housing Scheme.
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Multichannel Sampling of Signals With Finite Rate of Innovation
In this letter, we present a possible extension of the theory of sampling signals with finite rate of innovation (FRI) to the case of multichannel acquisition systems. The essential issue of a multichannel system is that each channel introduces different unknown delays and gains that need to be estimated for the calibration of the channels. We pose both the synchronization stage and the signal reconstruction stage as a parametric estimation problem and demonstrate that a simultaneous exact synchronization of the channels and reconstruction of the FRI signal is possible. We also consider the case of noisy measurements and evaluate the Cramér-Rao bounds (CRB) of the proposed system. Numerical results as well as the CRB show clearly that multichannel systems are more resilient to noise than the single-channel ones.
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 { "name": "puppetlabs/stdlib", "version_requirement": ">= 3.2.0 <5.0.0" },
 { "name": "puppetlabs/firewall", "version_requirement": ">= 0.4.0 <5.0.0" },
 ]
}
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Dependencies
Hard dependencies must be declared explicitly in your module's metadata.json file.
Soft dependencies should be called out in the README.md, and must not be enforced as a hard requirement in your metadata.json. A soft dependency is a dependency that is only required in a specific set of use cases. For an example, see the rabbitmq module.
Your hard dependency declarations should not be unbounded.
README
Your module should have a README in .md (or .markdown) format. READMEs help users of your module get the full benefit of your work.


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What Is Loofah Soap?
Loofah soap is soap which contains loofah, a plant product which is prized for its exfoliating properties. A bar of loofah soap can be used to wash and exfoliate at the same time in the shower or tub. Some bath supply stores sell loofah products, and it is also possible to make the soap at home, for people who like to do their own soap making.
There are several types of loofah soap. In the most basic, loofah is covered with glycerin in a melt and pour soap making process. This type of soap is very easy to make at home, as all that is required is a mold, a block of glycerin, and a piece of loofah. Once hardened, the soap can be cut into blocks for use. Some companies include a rope in their glycerin soap to provide something to hold on to, as glycerin is notoriously slippery.
Other soap makers embed loofah into different kinds of soap, such as castile soap, liquid soap, or cleansing cream. It is also possible to use shredded loofah for a more mild exfoliating soap. Soaps with shredded loofah tend to be more smooth, and they are often easier to manage. As the soap bar is used, the loofah will gradually wear away, unlike a soap bar with a solid wedge of loofah, which may start to protrude over time without wearing down, making the soap cumbersome to use.
On its own, loofah can be kind of difficult to manage. It tends to get very stiff with extended use, and it can start to attract mold and bacteria if it sits in the shower. By embedding loofah in soap, people can ensure that they change their loofahs regularly while enjoying ease of use. Regular changes don't just reduce the numbers of organisms camping out in the loofah: they also mean that people are using loofah which is still fresh, with lots of fiber for exfoliation, instead of older loofah, which tends to be smoother.
Some people like to make exfoliation a part of their regular skin care regimen. Loofah soap can make it easier to exfoliate on a regular basis, combining the soaping and exfoliating process for efficiency. This soap can also be very useful for removing embedded dirt and grime. Mechanics and other people who work in environments which tend to get greasy and dirty can use loofah soap to gently scrub their skin, and some loofah soap products are formulated specifically for people who work in dirty industries.
I tried using loofah soap, but it didn't lather very well. I went another route and used a combination of a soap for sensitive skin and an actual loofah.
I have a loofah soap pouch that I use for exfoliating. I simply slide my bar of soap into the slit, and the suds seep out through the mesh material.
The pouch is a loofah in itself. One side is rough, and this is the side I use to exfoliate my dead skin.
The other side is softer, and using it creates a great lather. So, one day, I can exfoliate, and the next, I can lather with soothing suds.
I find that it is good to use the loofah side only twice a week. That way, I don't irritate my skin.
Loofah soap feels so good on my skin, especially after a hard day of sweaty work. I love to use it in the summer to remove my tough spray-on sunscreen, which regular soap has trouble dissolving.
After I mow my yard, I have a combination of sweat, sunscreen, and grass particles covering my skin. I don't feel that regular soap is powerful enough to do the job. When I use loofah soap, I feel like I'm renewing my skin entirely.
It's also good to use less frequently in the winter, when dry, flaky skin becomes a problem. The loofah gets rid of the dead skin. I don't use it very often when it's cold, though, because my skin is already dry and sensitive then.
@Perdido – Most likely, if your soap doesn't state boldly on the label that it contains loofah, the beads are made from something else. Some exfoliating soaps use jojoba in their beads, but sadly, many companies are using plastic.
Unlike loofah and other plant products, the plastic microbeads do not break down naturally. So, when you throw a deteriorating bar of soap away, you have lots of plastic beads remaining, and these pollute the environment.
I always try to buy actual loofah soap. I don't want to be responsible for any more harm to our planet than I already have been.
Do all soaps that have scrubbing beads contain loofah? The only time I have heard the term "loofah" before was to describe a rough sponge that I scrub with in the shower, so I just assumed that every exfoliating product might contain it.
I have a bar of soap with microbeads for exfoliating, but I don't know what they are made of. They appear to be round and blue, and it feels really good to scrub my back with this soap, because it scratches the itch.
Are these microbeads made of loofah, or could they be made from something else? I would like to know what I am using on my skin.
I have been interested in handcrafted soap for a long time and I recently found a fantastic loofah soap recipe. It is easy to make, smells, wonderful and provides and gentle but effective exfoliation on the skin.
I have given a few bars away to my friends and they all love it. People think that it is not worth the time or the effort to try and make their own soap but you would be surprised. Many of my favorite bath and beauty products are things that I have made at home.
I think that regular exfoliation is crucial for healthy skin so I always keep a bar of loofah soap in my shower. Mine smells like lavender and green tea and it does wonders for my skin.
For a long time I use an exfoliating pad but I found that it was too harsh and it left my skin irritated. The loofah soap is a nice compromise. the abrasion is never too harsh and you have an instant infusion of soaps and moisturizers from the bar of soap. I am 43 but my skin look as good as it did in my 20s
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Golden Gate Highlands National Park
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|Golden Gate Highlands National Park|
IUCN category II ( national park)
|Location||Free State, South Africa|
|Area||340 km2 (130 sq mi)|
|Governing body||South African National Parks|
Golden Gate Highlands National Park is located in Free State, Republic of South Africa, near the Lesotho border. It covers an area of 340 km² (131.3 mi²). The park's most notable features are its golden, ochre, and orange-hued deeply eroded sandstone cliffs and outcrops, especially the Brandwag rock. Another feature of the area is the numerous caves and shelters displaying San rock paintings. Wildlife featured at the park includes mongooses, eland, zebras, and over 100 bird species. It is the Free State's only national park, and is more famous for the beauty of its landscape than for its wildlife. Numerous paleontology finds have been made in the park including dinosaur eggs and skeletons.
Geography and climate
"Golden Gate" refers to the sandstone cliffs that are found on either side of the valley at the Golden Gate dam. In 1875, a farmer called J.N.R. van Reenen and his wife stopped here as they travelled to their new farm in Vuurland. He named the location "Golden Gate" when he saw the last rays of the setting sun fall on the cliffs.
In 1963, 47.92 square kilometres (11,840 acres) were proclaimed as a national park, specifically to preserve the scenic beauty of the area. In 1981 the park was enlarged to 62.41 km² (15,420 acres) and in 1988 it was enlarged to 116.33 km² (28,746 acres). In 2004 it was announced that the park would be joined with the neighbouring QwaQwa National Park. The amalgamation of QwaQwa National Park was completed in 2007, increasing the park's area to 340 km² (84,016 acres).
The park is 320 km (200 mi) from Johannesburg and is close to the villages of Clarens and Kestell, in the upper regions of the Little Caledon River. The park is situated in the Rooiberge of the eastern Free State, in the foothills of the Maluti Mountains. The Caledon River forms the southern boundary of the park as well as the border between the Free State and Lesotho. The highest peak in the park (and also in the Free State) is Ribbokkop at 2,829 m (9,281 ft).
The park is located in the eastern highveld region of South Africa, and experiences a dry sunny climate from June to August. It has showers, hails and thunderstorms between October and April. It has thick snowfalls in the winter. The park has a relatively high rainfall of 800 mm (30 inches) per year.
The park is an area of rich highveld and montane grassland flora. It has more than fifty grass species and a large variety of bulbs and herbs. Each of these species has its own flowering time, meaning that veld flowers can be seen throughout the summer. The park also has Afromontane forests and high-altitude Austro-Afro Alpine Grassland, which is scarce in South Africa. The ouhout Leucosidea sericea, an evergreen species, is the most common tree in the park. Ouhout is a favourite habitat of beetles and 117 species occur on these trees in the park. The Lombardi poplars and weeping willows in the park are introduced species, but are kept because of their cultural and historic connection with the eastern Free State. Other exotic species in the park, for example wattle and bluegum, are systematically eradicated.
Instead of reintroducing one of the "Big Five" into the park, the sungazer lizard and water mongoose were reintroduced. Twelve species of mice, ten species of carnivores, and eight antelope species have been recorded in the park. The Grey rhebuck and the mountain reedbuck were present when the park was established.
Over 210 bird species have been observed in the park, including the rare Bearded Vulture and the endangered Cape Vulture and Bald Ibis.
Snakes and fishes
Seven snake species, including the puff adder, mountain adder, and rinkhals are found in the park.
Geology and palaeontology
The geology of the park provides very visual "textbook" examples of Southern Africa's geological history. The sandstone formations in the park form the upper part of the Karoo Supergroup. These formations were deposited during a period of aeolian deposition towards the end of the Triassic Period. At the time of deposition the climate of the area the park covers was becoming progressively drier until arid desert conditions set in, resulting in a land of dunes and sandy desert, with occasional scattered oases. The deposition of the sandstones ended when lava flowed out over the desert 190 million years ago.
The following sequence of geological formations are visible in the park (starting from the bottom): the Molteno Formation, Elliott Formation, Clarens Formation, and the Drakensberg Formation. The yellow-brown Golden Gate and Brandwag cliffs are made up of the Clarens formation. The layers in this formation are 140 to 160 metres (460 to 520 ft) thick. The Drakensberg formation comprises the basaltic lava that flowed over the desert. It forms the mountain summits in the park. On Ribbokkop it is 600 meters (2000 ft) thick. The Elliot Formation is a red mudstone where many dinosaur fossils have been found.
The oldest dinosaur embryos ever discovered were found in the park in 1978. The eggs were from the Triassic Period (220 to 195 million years ago) and had fossilised foetal skeletons of Massospondylus, a prosauropod dinosaur. More examples of these eggs have since been found in the park. Other fossils found in the park include those of advanced cynodontia (canine toothed animals), small thecodontia (animals with teeth set firmly in the jaw), bird-like and crocodile-like dinosaurs.
Accommodation in the park is available at Glen Reenen and Brandwag Rest camps. Caravaning and camping sites with all amenities are available at Glen Reenen camp. The hotel was formerly part of Brandwag camp, but since its recent refurbishment it is managed separately by SANParks as Golden Gate Hotel. The nearest town to Golden Gate Highlands National Park is Clarens (17 km to the west), but Phuthaditjhaba is also easily reached via a good tar road, driving through the access gate to the east of the park.


nlevels(age_bucket) .
creating z-scores for subset of rows
No need for a loop in this case. Use vectorization, instead. Let's consider the following simulated data: (not sure it will reproduce exactly your dataset, but hopefully you'll get the general idea)
dfrm <- data.frame(cond=gl(2, 1, 100, labels=LETTERS[1:2]),
 user=gl(50, 2, labels=paste("id", 1:20, sep="")),
 sensitivity=runif(100, 1, 5))
Computing z-scores is as simple as
dfrm$z.sensitivity <- scale(dfrm$sensitivity)
If you want z-scores conditional on cond, then you can do either
with(dfrm, tapply(sensitivity, cond, scale))
or, using plyr,
ddply(dfrm, c("cond"), transform, sensitivity.z = scale(sensitivity))
How to subset out some alphabetically arranged columns from a dataframe?
You can try something like this
dfrm <- data.frame(replicate(26, rnorm(10)))
colnames(dfrm) <- paste("COL", LETTERS, sep="_")
which(substr(colnames(dfrm), 5, 6) %in% LETTERS[3:6])
The last expression returns column number that match the letters C to F. See also match, and this related thread: Get column index from label in a data frame.
Which set of python libraries i should learn for AI and Data mining stuff
In addition to the scikit cited by @aix, you might want to take a look at the following libraries:
I'll really second investigating orange capabilities which is a full-featured application for data mining, but you can call it from external scripts, see e.g. the Beginning with Orange tutorial to get an idea.
Is there any publications about how to use association rules as SVM feature?
Here are some articles that might be (or not) relevant to your question:
 1. Keivan Kianmehr and Reda Alhajj. Effective Classification by Integrating Support Vector Machine and Association Rule Mining. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2006, Volume 4224/2006, 920-927
 2. He et al. Extracting rule from SVM based on association rules, in Rule extraction from support vector machines (Ed. J Diederich), Springer, 2008
You may also want to google articles related to what is known as associative classification.
data.frame with a column containing a matrix in R
The result you got (2 rows x 3 columns) is what is to be expected from R, as it amounts to cbind a vector (id, with recycling) and a matrix (m).
IMO, it would be better to use list or array (when dimensions agree, no mix of numeric and factors values allowed), if you really want to bind different data structures. Otherwise, just cbind your matrix to an existing data.frame if both have the same number of rows will do the job. For example
x1 <- replicate(2, rnorm(10))
x2 <- replicate(2, rnorm(10))
x12l <- list(x1=x1, x2=x2)
x12a <- array(rbind(x1, x2), dim=c(10,2,2))
and the results reads
> str(x12l)
List of 2
 $ x1: num [1:10, 1:2] -0.326 0.552 -0.675 0.214 0.311 ...
 $ x2: num [1:10, 1:2] -0.164 0.709 -0.268 -1.464 0.744 ...
> str(x12a)
 num [1:10, 1:2, 1:2] -0.326 0.552 -0.675 0.214 0.311 ...
Lists are easier to use if you plan to use matrix of varying dimensions, and providing they are organized in the same way (for rows) as an external data.frame you can subset them as easily. Here is an example:
df1 <- data.frame(grp=gl(2, 5, labels=LETTERS[1:2]),
 age=sample(seq(25,35), 10, rep=T))
with(df1, tapply(x12l$x1[,1], list(grp, age), mean))
You can also use lapply (for list) and apply (for array) functions.
save align.plot()
Can't you just use grid.arrange() (instead of align.plot()), and use standard png device instead of ggsave() which expect ggplot objects?
dsamp <- diamonds[sample(nrow(diamonds), 1000), ]
p1 <- qplot(carat, price, data=dsamp, colour=clarity)
p2 <- qplot(carat, price, data=dsamp, colour=clarity, geom="path")
library(gridExtra)
png("a.png")
grid.arrange(p1, p2) # add ncol=2 to arrange as two-column
dev.off()
What javascript libraries can make a radial convergence graph?
Two top-notch libraries for data visualization are
Which packages make good use of S4 objects?
I would go for kernlab, which additionally includes a lot of C code.
It comes with an handy vignette, detailing some of S4 concepts. (It doesn't seem to use roxygen for the documentation, though, but this is not the question here.)
What is the best bioinformatics book for a computer scientist?
I would suggest Bioinformatics, from Polanski and Kimmel (Springer, 2007). Very good introductory material on statistics, computer science as applied in bioinformatics. It also covers the necessary grounds in computational biology.
How to plot a violin scatter boxplot (in R)?
Try the vioplot package:
library(vioplot)
vioplot(rnorm(100))
(with awful default color ;-)
There is also wvioplot() in the wvioplot package, for weighted violin plot, and beanplot, which combines violin and rug plots. They are also available through the lattice package, see ?panel.violin.
How to capture R text+image output into one file (html, doc, pdf etc)?
Well, I just remind that I was using Asciidoc for short reporting or editing webpage. Now there's an R plugin ( ascii on CRAN), which allows to embed R code into an asciidoc document. The syntax is quite similar to Markdown or Textile, so you'll learn it very fast.
Output are (X)HTML, Docbook, LaTeX, and of course PDF through one of the last two backends.
Unfortunately, I don't think you can wrap all your code into a single statement. However, it supports a large number of R objects, see below.
> methods(ascii)
 [1] ascii.anova* ascii.aov* ascii.aovlist* ascii.cast_df*
 [5] ascii.character* ascii.coxph* ascii.CrossTable* ascii.data.frame*
 [9] ascii.default* ascii.density* ascii.describe* ascii.describe.single*
[13] ascii.factor* ascii.freqtable* ascii.ftable* ascii.glm*
[17] ascii.htest* ascii.integer* ascii.list* ascii.lm*
[21] ascii.matrix* ascii.meanscomp* ascii.numeric* ascii.packageDescription*
[25] ascii.prcomp* ascii.sessionInfo* ascii.simple.list* ascii.smooth.spline*
[29] ascii.summary.aov* ascii.summary.aovlist* ascii.summary.glm* ascii.summary.lm*
[33] ascii.summary.prcomp* ascii.summary.survfit* ascii.summary.table* ascii.survdiff*
[37] ascii.survfit* ascii.table* ascii.ts* ascii.zoo*
 Non-visible functions are asterisked
Is there a way to access Stata from eclipse?
None that I know. If you're a CLI junky or willing to use Emacs, you might find limited support through the ESS package and the ado-mode. This is what I used on Mac


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What is the significance of the veil in the Harry Potter series? What does it mean? Why is it never explained?
When asked, JK Rowling responded saying: It's been there as long as the Ministry itself.
As stated on the Veil page on the Harry Potter Wikia:
The veil is located deep within the Department of Mysteries, which contains many of mysteries of the wizarding world. I believe the significance of it is greater than the mystery it represents. As J.K. Rowling has said, "It's been there as long as the Ministry itself."
This artifact presents something historically significant, although it is impossible to say how. In the fifth movie and book, it is significant because Bellatrix shot a spell at Sirius and sent him through the veil, never to be seen again. In the movie, he was dead before he entered the veil, having taken an Avada Kedavra curse. In the book, the spell Bellatrix used may not have been the Killing Curse and so the veil may have been Sirius' cause of death, rather than a method of body disposal.


Camlik Steam Train Museum
Camlik is a small village in Selcuk which is known with a Steam Train Museum that was founded in 1991. There are 30 steam trains that are displayed in the museum made in Germany, England, French, the USA, Sweden and Czech Republic. Among them there's an English made locomotive that works with wood and there are only two of them in the world. There are also 4 cranes, water pumps, fuel transportation tank, 1 outdoor and 1 indoor passenger carriage and a repair shop. There is a toilet from 1850 and a tunnel of 900 meter long.
Choose one of the tours below to visit this site:
- Ephesus and Kirazli


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TogetherChat Submits Report to BMHS
Participants at the TogetherChat submitted a report of their discussions to Baltimore Mental Health Systems. This report identifies several barriers to communication that exist between mental health professionals and minor-attracted people, including self-interest, media sensationalizing, culturally enforced secrecy, drastic and ineffective legal policies, inaccurate stereotypes, the silencing of minor-attracted people who behave responsibly, misleading paradigms used to understand them, adversarial professional relationships, derogatory professional language, severe stigma, marginalization, and fear on both sides. The report describes how improved communication would contribute to the prevention of harm to minor-attracted adults and adolescents, the well-being of children, increased understanding by mental health professionals, and more effective and just policies.
The report proposes a variety of interventions, such as workshops to promote honest communication between the two groups and a change in the existing paradigm, the creation of an infrastructure of highly visible mental health services, a review and revision of professional language, the organizing of informal meetings held around the country where both groups could speak honestly about common concerns, and the formation of a working group that would disseminate accurate information to stakeholders. The report also identifies possible obstacles to these interventions and ways of working around them.
Finally, the report outlines plans for a workshop to be held by B4U-ACT in late fall or winter, with support from BMHS. The proposed workshop would involve interactive sessions where attendees work together toward the following goals:
 - To define the communication problem that exists between mental health professionals and minor attracted people in society
 - To promote understanding of the harmful consequences of this problem, and the benefits of eliminating the barriers to communication
 - To develop mutual empathy among mental health professionals and minor attracted people
 - To help mental health professionals see minor attracted people as diverse in their characteristics and behaviors
 - To form a working group that would develop and carry out plans to promote communication between the two groups over a period of time, and on a larger scale
The full report can be found here (Word document).
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The World Road Association (known as PIARC) was established in 1909 as a non-political, non-profit organization that aims to develop international cooperation and foster progress in the area of roads and road transport. PIARC brings together the road administrations of 121 governments and has members – individuals, companies, authorities and organizations – in more than 140 countries.
Principal PIARC activities include:
- Technical committees that pursue four-year work plans, conduct cooperative and joint studies, convene meetings, prepare reports and publications
- Major international events, such as World Road Congresses (every four years) and the Winter Road Congresses (also every four years, offset two years from the World Road Congresses.
The Transportation Association of Canada (TAC) serves as secretariat for the Canadian National Committee (CNC) of the World Road Association, while Transport Canada appoints the First Delegate to the PIARC Council.
Activities of the Canadian National Committee (CNC) include:
- disseminating communications and other information from PIARC and sharing Canadian information with PIARC for its dissemination to its other National Committees around the world
- organizing activities such as meetings, conferences and seminars
- assisting the First Delegate in identifying experts to participate in activities of PIARC technical committees and working groups
- promoting and administering CNC membership services in Canada
Membership on the Canadian National Committee is by individual, collective agency or regional authority. A Governing Task Force comprised of up to 22 CNC members reports to the TAC Board of Directors. The Governing Task Force typically meets in spring and fall, in conjunction with TAC's meeting cycle.
Create a PIARC account
Creating an account on the PIARC website is free, simple and without obligation. With an account, you can download some documents and subscribe to the PIARC newsletter.
By creating an account you gain access to:
- articles, publications (from sources such as the "Routes/Roads" magazine) and technical reports, all organized by knowledge base such as risk management;
- technical reports produced by one of the 20 PIARC technical committees;
- documents and proceedings from past international seminars and workshops;
- past Congress general reports; and
- a PIARC newsletter subscription.
Interested in gaining free access to a wealth of information on road transportation from an international perspective? Follow the steps outlined in the how-to guide.
While you are exploring the PIARC website, take note of these other useful resources that are available to everyone:
- Nine transportation dictionary resources including a dictionary of terms relating to roads and road safety as well as a lexicon.
- Links to other international transportation association websites.
- A manual of road tunnels.
- Descriptions and the option to purchase software related to: risk assessments for the transportation of dangerous goods through road tunnels (Quantitative Risk Assessment Model); and the analysis, planning, management and appraisal of road maintenance improvements and investment (HDM-4 from the International Study of Highway Development and Management).
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Combining microfluidics and FT-IR spectroscopy: towards spatially resolved information on chemical processes
This review outlines the combination of infrared spectroscopy and continuous microfluidic processes. FTIR spectroscopy gives access to the microscopic chemical composition of samples, which can be correlated with their macroscopic properties. This approach is widely used in chemistry or biology to get insights into reactive media. Meanwhile, the miniaturization of flow chemical reactors offers many advantages such as the small amount of products used or the versatility of the reactors. Coupling these two approaches creates major opportunities for the analytical field, although it raises additional challenges. Emphasis is placed on the most recent developments and limitations concerning the integration of infrared spectroscopy techniques within microfluidic devices, while current applications and future opportunities will be discussed.


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The hybrid wind-based pumped hydro storage system that absorbs the wind curtailment due to grid limitations is considered to be a solution to improve wind energy penetration and the cost-effectiveness of wind farms. An offshore wind-pumped hydro storage hybrid power system connected to thermal supplied main grid is proposed in this paper. The contribution of this paper can be summarized as follows: (1) a multi-objective dynamic economic optimization model for the proposed system based on evolutionary algorithms is established to optimize size for offshore wind-based pumped hydro storage system; (2) design parameters include the capacity of pump, turbine and reservoirs, and the key financial parameters such as wind power feed-in tariff and capacitor price of pumped hydro storage power station are also taken into account; and (3) examine the attainability of various objectives to analyze the influence on the operation and economic effectiveness. The results show that the optimizing size study is importance to test the economic feasibility of the system. The case study presented in this paper provides decision makers with the flexibility to choose the appropriate capacity installation under different expectations.
Keywords pumped hydro storage, hybrid power system, wind curtailment rate, capacity optimization, cost-effectiveness