FULTON, NY – Clayton W. Brewer, 87, of Fulton, passed away Tuesday December 29, 2015, at Crouse Hospital in Syracuse.
A native of Fulton, Clayt had owned and operated Brewer and Brewer since 1947.
He had served as a legislator in Oswego County for more than 30 years and was Highway, Health and Ways and Means chairman.
Clayt was an avid race fan, a member of the "Indy Bunch" and founded "Claytona" Quarter Midget Race Track in Volney.
Clayt was a member of Fulton Elks Club, Fulton Polish Home, Fulton Masonic Temple and Pathfinder Fish and Game Club.
He also enjoyed snowmobiling in his younger days.
He was predeceased by his wife, Mildred "Jeanie" Brewer, who passed away January 24, 2012.
Clayt will be greatly missed and forever loved by his children, Bonnie (Bob) MacIntyre, Jean (Mike) Bessette, Clayton II (Patti Arnold) and Becky (John Nauss) Beeman.; 12 grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; son-in-law, Marty Beeman; four-legged beloved babies, Gordie and Simon.
Services will be held 10 a.m. Saturday, January 9, at Foster Funeral Home, Fulton.
Burial will be at Fairdale Rural Cemetery.
Calling hours will be 4 to 7 p.m. Friday, January 8, at the funeral home, 910 Fay St., Fulton.
In lieu of flowers, Clayt's family suggests contributions be made to Oswego County Animal Welfare League, P.O. Box 442, Fulton, 13069.
Are thoughts and prayers are with you all…to a great man and agreater friend "Smilely" so long for now!!
He was a very nice man and he will be missed dearly at brewers. I loved the way he joked around.
An icon of the community and a friend I will dearly miss, there are no words to convey my sorrow.
Sorry for your loss. Prayers and blessings for him and the family.
Clayt was a good man. I haven't seen him much in the past 20 yrs but I do remember him being so nice whenever I got gas there or went into the garage. He always gave my kids lollipops. Bonnie, Jeanane,Clayt and Becky, I am sooo sorry for your loss.
Our deepest condolences to all….
We will miss him dearly…..
A great man and friend who had a heart of GOLD. Our thoughts and prayers are with the entire Brewer family. Until we meet again.
If there was a biography of Clayte Brewer I it would be a top ten best seller. My sincerest condolences.
So Very Sorry for your loss – and ours! Clayt was always there when we needed him, no matter the time, no matter the weather – we could always count on him. They don't make 'em like that any more! He will be missed!
It's hard to believe Clayt is gone, I still expect him to come out and pump my gas at Brewer & Brewer. When he got the "Claytona" built they tried to use it against him in the next election and it failed miserably, because everyone knew he did it for the kids. He was a character and there will never be another one like him. My deepest condolences to his family, they can proud of how many people he helped and the smiles he brought to so many faces.
Clayt and my dad were good friends in auto business and I am sure they are together working on engines for our Lord. Rest in peace to a gentleman and leader.
Very sorry for your loss, Clayt was a great guy, when you pulled into brewers you knew he was coming out with a smile and a joke. He will be greatly missed. My condolences to the family.
Becky clayt Jr and family. Clayt was sure a joker and remember the days at classic weekend.we will always have the memories…. He will be truly missed..our prayers are with you and your family….. . RIP CLAYT……..
A man of respect and honor, you will be missed. Our prayers are with you and your family. Thank you for all you have done for our community.
RIP Clayt! My sincerest sympathies to his family and friends, Clayt was a wonderful man. We will surely miss his smiling face at the credit union!
"there is only one place to get gas in this town and it is at Brewer and Brewer on Broadway". There would not be a 1/4 Midget race track in Volney if it were not for Clayt Brewer. May his legacy live on.
When you think of Fulton, New York – you automatically think of Clayt. He will not be forgotten especially all the lives he had touched one way or another.
Our deepest condolences. Such a great man.
We are so very sorry to hear of Clayt's passing. He was such a wonderful man, always had time for you no matter what..we were so blessed to have known him and he will be greatly missed.. He was a pillar of the community and greatly respected by all who knew him.
Our deepest sympathy goes out to the whole family.You will be missed, RIP dear man.
Yes we will miss Clayt. Honest men that work in politics are hard to find, Clayt was surely one. He lived his life for "The People" I will never forget him or the members of his family I have meet. He will for ever be miss in this community! RIP dear Friend!
Clayt was good to many people. I will miss him. He worked hard for many years, Rest in Peace my friend!
It brings great sadness to think of Clayt not being there at the station, He always had a smile and always called you hon. I will miss all our discussions about the times we served on the legislature. He loved his time there. May his family find peace with this great loss.


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Neues Museum, the Egyptian museum in Berlin
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Il Egyptian Museum of Berlin (in German Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung) is home to one of the world's most important collections of Egyptian artifacts. The collection is part of the New Museum.
Of all the museums on the Museumsinsel this was the second to be built, with the aim of housing the redundant collections of the Altes Museum. The museum presents today the treasures of the Egyptian Museum and the Papyrus collection together with the collections of the Museum of Prehistory and Protohistory and parts of the collection of ancient civilizations.
The structure of the building bears witness to the neoclassical architecture of museums in the 19th century. The building of the New Museum it is an important monument in the history of construction and technology: with its various iron constructions, it was the first monumental building in Prussia to apply the new techniques made possible by industrialization.
The museum interior itself is a rare remaining example of the style that was fashionable in Germany during the Prussian Kingdom.
The Neues Museum was born in the 18th century from the art collection of the Prussian kings. Alexander von Humboldt had recommended the creation of an Egyptian section, and the first objects were brought to Berlin in 1828 under Frederick William III. The museum was then closed in 1939 due to the war.
After the Second World War, during which it was heavily damaged, the Neues Museum was divided between East and West Berlin, only to reunite after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Beautifully restored by the famous architect David Chipperfield, the museum reopened its doors in October 2009.
The Egyptian collection
The wing of the Egyptian museum of the Neues Museum contains finds dating back to between 4000 BC and the period of Roman domination. The collection of the Egyptian Museum in Berlin is spread over three floors.
Al ground floor there is the so-called Archeological Promenade which represents the backbone of the museum. There are also three other areas, one dedicated to the Nile Valley, one dedicated to ancient Sudan and one dedicated to tombs and coffins.
Il first floor it is dedicated to the burial chambers and the artifacts found inside the temples, as well as a wing called "the man and the pharaoh", which presents the evolution over the centuries of the concept of human representation.
Il second floor finally, it is dedicated to sculptures, the papyrus collection, the Nefertiti room and the Egyptian city of Akhenaton.
The unmissable pieces
The most famous piece on display is the bust of Queen Nefertiti, exceptionally well preserved and brightly colored. The bust quickly became a world-renowned icon for the sculpture's ability to enhance female beauty.
Do not miss the Berlin green head, the so-called "Berlin green head", dating back to the late Egyptian period, where the Greek influence is clearly visible. The sculpture represents the head of a priest, carved in green stone. It is unusual that the statue, for the period in which it was made, does not reproduce a specific person, but rather turns out to be a symbol of wisdom and experience.
The Neues Museum is open from Monday to Sunday from 10.00 to 18.00, with opening until 20.00 on Thursdays. Admission to the various temporary exhibitions is not included in the basic ticket to visit the museum.
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Q: Help calculating this volume Being $x,y,z \geq 0$ , calculate the volume bounded by $\sqrt{x} + \sqrt{2y} + \sqrt{3z} = 1$
Thanks in advance for the help

A: As suggested, use $x=u^2,\ 2y=v^2\ \mbox{and}\ 3z=w^2$. Then your volume is
$$
V = \int \int \int \frac43 u v w \; du \;dv \;dw
$$
with $u,v,w > 0$ and $u + v + w \le 1$. The boundaries can be implemented by
$$
V = \int_0^{1} \int_0^{1-u} \int_0^{1-u-v} \frac43 u v w \; du \;dv \;dw
$$
so
$$
V = \frac46 \int_0^{1} \int_0^{1-u} u v (1-u-v)^2 \; du \;dv
$$
$$
V = \frac46 \frac{1}{12} \int_0^{1} u (u-1)^4 \; du =  \frac46 \frac{1}{12}  \frac{1}{30} =  \frac{1}{540} \simeq 0.00185
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Банатско-Вишничево () — село в Сербии, в общине Житиште, в Среднебанатском округе автономного края Воеводина, в историко-географической области Банат. По переписи населения Сербии 2002 года в селе проживали 384 жителя.

Село расположено на юго-востоке общины, имеет «крестообразную планировку».

Демография
В селе Банатско-Вишничево, по переписи 2002 года проживали 319 совершеннолетних жителей, средний возраст которых — 45,8 лет (44,0 года у мужчин и 47,4 года у женщин). В селе есть 148 домашних хозяйств, а среднее число жителей в домохозяйствах — 2,59.

По результатам трёх последних переписей населения наблюдается сокращение числа жителей.

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package org.apache.flink.orc;

import org.apache.flink.configuration.Configuration;
import org.apache.flink.core.fs.Path;
import org.apache.flink.table.plan.stats.ColumnStats;
import org.apache.flink.table.plan.stats.TableStats;
import org.apache.flink.table.planner.utils.StatisticsReportTestBase;
import org.apache.flink.table.types.DataType;
import org.apache.flink.table.utils.DateTimeUtils;

import org.junit.jupiter.api.BeforeEach;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.io.TempDir;

import java.io.File;
import java.math.BigDecimal;
import java.sql.Date;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;

import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;

/**
 * Test for statistics functionality in {@link OrcFileFormatFactory} which storage format is orc.
 */
public class OrcFormatStatisticsReportTest extends StatisticsReportTestBase {

    private static OrcFileFormatFactory.OrcBulkDecodingFormat orcBulkDecodingFormat;

    @BeforeEach
    public void setup(@TempDir File file) throws Exception {
        super.setup(file);
        createFileSystemSource();
        Configuration configuration = new Configuration();
        orcBulkDecodingFormat = new OrcFileFormatFactory.OrcBulkDecodingFormat(configuration);
    }

    @Override
    protected String[] properties() {
        List<String> ret = new ArrayList<>();
        ret.add("'format'='orc'");
        ret.add("'orc.compress'='snappy'");
        return ret.toArray(new String[0]);
    }

    @Test
    public void testOrcFormatStatsReportWithSingleFile() throws Exception {
        // insert data and get statistics.
        DataType dataType = tEnv.from("sourceTable").getResolvedSchema().toPhysicalRowDataType();
        tEnv.fromValues(dataType, getData()).executeInsert("sourceTable").await();
        assertThat(folder.listFiles()).isNotNull().hasSize(1);
        File[] files = folder.listFiles();
        assert files != null;
        TableStats tableStats =
                orcBulkDecodingFormat.reportStatistics(
                        Collections.singletonList(new Path(files[0].toURI().toString())), dataType);
        assertOrcFormatTableStatsEquals(tableStats, 3, 1L);
    }

    @Test
    public void testOrcFormatStatsReportWithMultiFile() throws Exception {
        // insert data and get statistics.
        DataType dataType = tEnv.from("sourceTable").getResolvedSchema().toPhysicalRowDataType();
        tEnv.fromValues(dataType, getData()).executeInsert("sourceTable").await();
        tEnv.fromValues(dataType, getData()).executeInsert("sourceTable").await();
        assertThat(folder.listFiles()).isNotNull().hasSize(2);
        File[] files = folder.listFiles();
        List<Path> paths = new ArrayList<>();
        assert files != null;
        paths.add(new Path(files[0].toURI().toString()));
        paths.add(new Path(files[1].toURI().toString()));
        TableStats tableStats = orcBulkDecodingFormat.reportStatistics(paths, dataType);
        assertOrcFormatTableStatsEquals(tableStats, 6, 2L);
    }

    @Test
    public void testOrcFormatStatsReportWithEmptyFile() {
        TableStats tableStats = orcBulkDecodingFormat.reportStatistics(null, null);
        assertThat(tableStats).isEqualTo(TableStats.UNKNOWN);
    }

    @Override
    protected Map<String, String> ddlTypesMap() {
        // now orc format don't support TIME(), BINARY(), VARBINARY() and
        // TIMESTAMP_WITH_LOCAL_TIME_ZONE types, so we remove these types.
        Map<String, String> ddlTypes = super.ddlTypesMap();
        ddlTypes.remove("timestamp with local time zone");
        ddlTypes.remove("binary(1)");
        ddlTypes.remove("varbinary(1)");
        ddlTypes.remove("time");
        return ddlTypes;
    }

    @Override
    protected Map<String, List<Object>> getDataMap() {
        // now orc format don't support TIME(), BINARY(), VARBINARY() and
        // TIMESTAMP_WITH_LOCAL_TIME_ZONE types, so we remove data belong to these types.
        Map<String, List<Object>> dataMap = super.getDataMap();
        dataMap.remove("timestamp with local time zone");
        dataMap.remove("binary(1)");
        dataMap.remove("varbinary(1)");
        dataMap.remove("time");

        return dataMap;
    }

    protected static void assertOrcFormatTableStatsEquals(
            TableStats tableStats, int expectedRowCount, long nullCount) {
        Map<String, ColumnStats> expectedColumnStatsMap = new HashMap<>();
        expectedColumnStatsMap.put(
                "f_boolean", new ColumnStats.Builder().setNullCount(nullCount).build());
        expectedColumnStatsMap.put(
                "f_tinyint",
                new ColumnStats.Builder().setMax(3L).setMin(1L).setNullCount(0L).build());
        expectedColumnStatsMap.put(
                "f_smallint",
                new ColumnStats.Builder().setMax(128L).setMin(100L).setNullCount(0L).build());
        expectedColumnStatsMap.put(
                "f_int",
                new ColumnStats.Builder()
                        .setMax(45536L)
                        .setMin(31000L)
                        .setNullCount(nullCount)
                        .build());
        expectedColumnStatsMap.put(
                "f_bigint",
                new ColumnStats.Builder()
                        .setMax(1238123899121L)
                        .setMin(1238123899000L)
                        .setNullCount(0L)
                        .build());
        expectedColumnStatsMap.put(
                "f_float",
                new ColumnStats.Builder()
                        .setMax(33.33300018310547D)
                        .setMin(33.31100082397461D)
                        .setNullCount(nullCount)
                        .build());
        expectedColumnStatsMap.put(
                "f_double",
                new ColumnStats.Builder().setMax(10.1D).setMin(1.1D).setNullCount(0L).build());
        expectedColumnStatsMap.put(
                "f_string",
                new ColumnStats.Builder().setMax("def").setMin("abcd").setNullCount(0L).build());
        expectedColumnStatsMap.put(
                "f_decimal5",
                new ColumnStats.Builder()
                        .setMax(new BigDecimal("223.45"))
                        .setMin(new BigDecimal("123.45"))
                        .setNullCount(0L)
                        .build());
        expectedColumnStatsMap.put(
                "f_decimal14",
                new ColumnStats.Builder()
                        .setMax(new BigDecimal("123333333355.33"))
                        .setMin(new BigDecimal("123333333333.33"))
                        .setNullCount(0L)
                        .build());
        expectedColumnStatsMap.put(
                "f_decimal38",
                new ColumnStats.Builder()
                        .setMax(new BigDecimal("123433343334333433343334333433343334.34"))
                        .setMin(new BigDecimal("123433343334333433343334333433343334.33"))
                        .setNullCount(nullCount)
                        .build());
        expectedColumnStatsMap.put(
                "f_date",
                new ColumnStats.Builder()
                        .setMax(Date.valueOf("1990-10-16"))
                        .setMin(Date.valueOf("1990-10-14"))
                        .setNullCount(0L)
                        .build());
        expectedColumnStatsMap.put(
                "f_timestamp3",
                new ColumnStats.Builder()
                        .setMax(
                                DateTimeUtils.parseTimestampData("1990-10-16 12:12:43.123", 3)
                                        .toTimestamp())
                        .setMin(
                                DateTimeUtils.parseTimestampData("1990-10-14 12:12:43.123", 3)
                                        .toTimestamp())
                        .setNullCount(0L)
                        .build());
        expectedColumnStatsMap.put(
                "f_timestamp9",
                new ColumnStats.Builder()
                        .setMax(
                                DateTimeUtils.parseTimestampData("1990-10-16 12:12:43.123", 3)
                                        .toTimestamp())
                        .setMin(
                                DateTimeUtils.parseTimestampData("1990-10-14 12:12:43.123", 3)
                                        .toTimestamp())
                        .setNullCount(0L)
                        .build());
        expectedColumnStatsMap.put(
                "f_timestamp_wtz",
                new ColumnStats.Builder()
                        .setMax(
                                DateTimeUtils.parseTimestampData("1990-10-16 12:12:43.123", 3)
                                        .toTimestamp())
                        .setMin(
                                DateTimeUtils.parseTimestampData("1990-10-14 12:12:43.123", 3)
                                        .toTimestamp())
                        .setNullCount(0L)
                        .build());

        // For complex types: ROW, ARRAY, MAP. The returned statistics have wrong null count
        // value, so now complex types stats return null.
        expectedColumnStatsMap.put("f_row", null);
        expectedColumnStatsMap.put("f_array", null);
        expectedColumnStatsMap.put("f_map", null);

        assertThat(tableStats).isEqualTo(new TableStats(expectedRowCount, expectedColumnStatsMap));
    }
}

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Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar has generated fresh controversy by claiming that the Aegean Sea and Cyprus lie within Turkey's territorial waters, according to reports Friday.
"We control the sea and the seabed. The seas. The Black Sea, the Aegean, the Eastern Mediterraenan which also includes Cyprus," Akar reportedly said.
"These areas lie within our sphere of interest… we have the responsibility of ensuring peace and calm," he was quoted as saying.


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Adrien-Victor-Marie Duboüays, marquis de la Bégassière (né le  à Verdun et mort le ) à Nancy est un général de division français et gouverneur Militaire de Toul (vers 1899).

Etats de service
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 1890 : colonel, chef d'escadron au 13e régiment d'artillerie et commandant de l'école de l'artillerie et du génie, à Versailles
 1891-1893 : colonel, commandant le 25e régiment d'artillerie
 1899 : général de division à Toul

Biographie
Né à Verdun le , Adrien-Victor-Marie Dubouays de la Bégassière est admis à l'École polytechnique en 1858 puis il entre à l'École d'application de Metz. A sa sortie de l'École, il est classé comme lieutenant au , puis au régiment d'artillerie à cheval de la Garde impériale, où il sert jusqu'à sa nomination au grade de capitaine en 1868.

Aide de camp du général Soleille en 1869, le capitaine de la Bégassière prend part à la campagne de 1870 et assiste à la bataille de Rezonville. Il est fait chevalier de la Légion d'honneur devant Metz.

Après la guerre, il commande une batterie du 8e régiment d'artillerie. De 1872 à 1878, il est aide de camp du général de Berckheim.

Chef d'escadron au 13e régiment d'artillerie en 1878, il est attaché en 1882 à l'état-major du 4e corps d'armée.

En 1891, il est placé à la tête du 25e régiment d'artillerie et reçoit, en 1893, les étoiles de général de brigade.

Désigné pour commander l'artillerie de la place et des forts de Lyon, le général de la Bégassière ne conserve ce poste que peu de temps ; il retourne au 6e corps et prend peu après le commandement de l'artillerie du 20e corps.

Il est nommé gouverneur de la place de Toul en 1897 et promu général de division la même année.

En 1899, il est chargé de l'inspection générale de l'artillerie des 10e et 11e corps.

Peu de temps après, le général de la Bégassière, est placé à la tête de la division d'occupation de Tunisie.

En 1903, atteint par la limite d'âge, le général de la Bégassière passe au cadre de réserve etdécède le ) à Nancy.

Généalogie
Il est fils de Jules du Boüays de la Bégassière (1804-1890), conservateur des Eaux et Forêts et Maire de Plœuc-sur-Lié et de Marie-Louise(1812-1891), fille de Henri, baron de Benoist  ;
Il épouse le  Jacqueline Caignart (°1853), fille du baron et sénateur Félicien de Saulcy et de la baronne Billing, infirmière-Major , Présidente du comité de Dinan et de la société de secours aux blessés militaires, dont:
Antoine (1874-1919), Secrétaire à l'Ambassade de France  x 1882  Frédérique Kuhlmann ;
François (1875-1914), Capitaine mort pour la France,  x 1900 Marie-Eugénie-Hélène(1876-1958), fille de Ferdinand de Lesseps ;
Yvonne (°1876) x Charles Accarias de Sérionne ;
 Il élève Auguste Grandjean (1839-1924), Colonel de l'Artillerie

La famille du Bouays de la Bégassière d'ancienne extraction chevaleresque de Bretagne (Saint-Malo) parait à la réformation de 1669 avec 10 générations.
Ses armes sont de gueules, à la croix d'argent, cantonnées de quatre croissants de même.

Distinctions
 Légion d'honneur : chevalier (31/05/1871), officier (12/07/1890), commandeur (10/07/1899)

Sources
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Notes et références

Général français du XXe siècle
Marquis
Naissance en mai 1838
Naissance à Verdun
Décès en janvier 1904
Décès à 65 ans
Décès à Nancy
Commandeur de la Légion d'honneur


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The American Red Cross participates in the national car donation campaign to raise awareness of the funds vehicle donations can provide for necessary services
WESTCHESTER, Ill., July 15, 2013 — Insurance Auto Auctions, Inc. (IAA), the leading salvage auto auction company and wholly owned subsidiary of KAR Auction Services, Inc. (NYSE: KAR), announced that the American Red Cross selected IAA's Donation Division as its national vehicle donation partner. The Red Cross will participate in the One Car One Difference® public awareness campaign to help increase the awareness vehicle donations can generate to support its mission.
"We are excited to be able to offer donors a new way to support the lifesaving services of the Red Cross," said Neal Litvack, chief development officer of the Red Cross.
Through this partnership, IAA will help translate vehicle donations into key funding dollars that will support the Red Cross efforts to prevent and alleviate human suffering in the face of emergencies wherever and whenever they may occur. The funds raised by a single donated vehicle will support the mission of the Red Cross and can make a difference in the lives of those served by the organization in times of emergencies.
"During challenging times, the ability to deliver critical services in a timely and effective manner is crucial. The IAA Donation Division and our One Car One Difference® campaign offers charities like the Red Cross a significant opportunity to generate much needed funds to support the vital services they provide to the public," said Tom O'Brien, chief executive officer at IAA. "We are pleased to partner with the Red Cross and provide the opportunities for their donors to make a difference through vehicle donation."
The American Red Cross shelters, feeds and provides emotional support to victims of up to 70,000 disasters a year than range from large disasters such as hurricanes and tornadoes to a home fire; supplies about 40 percent of the nation's blood; teaches First Aid, CPR and other skills that save lives; provides international humanitarian aid; and supports military members and their families.
Since 1994, the IAA Donation Division has provided non-profit organizations with complete donation processing services – a key differentiator in the marketplace that creates a streamlined approach for participants–which has fueled tremendous results. In 2010, well over 100 designated charities throughout North America benefitted from millions of dollars in vehicle donations through IAA's services. Over 90 percent of IAA vehicle donors said they would refer a friend to use IAA's unique services.
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Insurance Auto Auctions is the leading live and live-online salvage vehicle auction company and a wholly-owned subsidiary of KAR Auction Services, Inc. (NYSE: KAR). Headquartered in Westchester, Illinois, IAA has over 160 auction facilities throughout North America offering towing, financing and titling services. With the most auction facilities in North America, IAA provides registered buyers from around the globe with millions of opportunities to bid on and purchase donated and salvaged vehicles. Since 1982, IAA has sold millions of vehicles through its weekly auctions for insurance companies, fleet and rental companies, financing companies, charity organizations and the general public. IAA also leverages its business model to assist charitable organizations in the US through its One Car One Difference® campaign. To date IAA has provided millions of dollars in additional funding to charities by assisting in the processing of donated vehicles. Learn how we are making a difference by visiting www.1car1difference.com. With a talented team of over 2,000 employees, IAA is committed to providing customers with the highest level of services in the salvage auto industry. Go to www.IAA- Auctions.com to learn more, and follow IAA on Facebook and Twitter.
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The American Red Cross shelters, feeds and provides emotional support to victims of disasters; supplies about 40 percent of the nation's blood; teaches skills that save lives; provides international humanitarian aid; and supports military members and their families. The Red Cross is a not-for-profit organization that depends on volunteers and the generosity of the American public to perform its mission. For more information, please visit redcross.org or visit us on Twitter at @RedCross.


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The Student PIRGs' New Voters Project has launched early voting campaigns in several states in an effort to help young people turn out to vote this Election Season.
Since local partner, NCPIRG (North Carolina Public Interest Research Group) launched their get-out-the-vote efforts on campuses across the state, large initial turnout has been reported at the on-campus early voting sites.
"I'm so excited to see how many students went out to vote this year. Over the summer, the board of elections almost didn't give us an early voting site, but student government continued to push for it so our students, faculty, and staff had an easy way to vote," said Rachel Turner, a junior senator in the North Carolina State University Student Government.
"When we compare the 550 who voted in 2008 for the NC State precinct (01-01) to the over 13,000 at the early voting site for Talley in 2012, we can see how invaluable having the early voting site here has been. It's great to see young people exercising their right to vote," said Turner. The preliminary numbers show that early voting turnout for the precincts around NCSU (01-01, 01-23, 01-31) exceeds 2008 early voting numbers by almost 25%.
To launch early voting, NCPIRG hosted hipster-themed "I Voted Before It Was Cool" events at North Carolina State University and North Carolina Central University on Oct. 18 when the early voting sites opened. They held similar events at Appalachian State, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, Western Carolina University and University of North Carolina – Asheville when students returned from fall break the following week. Students who voted early took pictures wearing paper mustaches that say "I Voted" to show how voting can be "hip and cool."
"There's a lot of talk about young people being less motivated to vote in this year's election, but we know that reaching out to young people where they are can boost youth turnout," stated Renford Lynch, Campaign Coordinator for NCPIRG's non-partisan New Voters Project and sophomore statistics major at North Carolina State University.
In the next three days, students will urge thousands to the polls through proven on the-ground and on-line strategies.
In a push to harness mobile technology, leaders will ask students to become 'text out the vote' captains and send on-the-spot messages urging their friends to vote. Research published in 2007 by researchers at NCPIRG's New Voters Project, Princeton University and the University of Notre Dame found that text message reminders can increase turnout among young voters by four percentage points. Across North Carolina, NCPIRG has made over 69,000 GOTV reminder contacts to students. At North Carolina State alone, over 24,000 contacts were made, including 20,000 text message reminders.
"This site has made it convenient for students to walk up and vote, especially considering many students don't have a car to get to the voting sites on Election Day," said Ren Pridgeon, chief judge at precinct 01-35 and a lead poll worker at North Carolina State's early voting site. "I've been working the polls for almost 3 decades and I've seen more young people turn out at this early voting site than any other poll location – they come between classes and are often in a rush, but they take the time to vote here."
NCPIRG student leaders will also storm dorms, organize canvasses of student neighborhoods and group phone banks to contact as many students as possible in the days leading up to the election to remind them to cast a ballot.
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Bet on Trump's Approval Ratings to Drop Below 20%
By: Anas A. | Posted: December 15, 2018 | Updated: December 15, 2018
The overall approval rating of President Trump has generally remained above 40% in last two years. That is far less than previous presidents of the United States. You can bet on Trump's approval ratings to slump below 20%, if he faces indictment on collusion with Russia or if he welcomes Putin to the White House.
Bet on Trump's approval ratings to drop below 20% in his first term
President Trump's approval rating in December stands at 40%, according to both FiveThirtyEight and Gallup. However, in last two years the rating has fluctuated a lot. The lowest was 36.5% in December 2017, and the highest was 45.5% after Trump's inauguration in January.
Betting on Trump's approval ratings to drop below 20% in his first term is available until December 31, with odds of 3 at 22Bet Sportsbook. Approval ratings can drop if the Special Counsel Robert Mueller formally accuses Trump of collusion with Russia or if Trump meets with Russia's Putin in Washington.
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Russian agents approached at least 14 people in Trump's orbit during the campaign. That includes his children, his lawyer, his national security advisor and his business associates. The end of Mueller's investigation is expected to be near. If Trump is indicted, his approval rating will certainly drop down below 20%, and you can bet on that at 22Bet Sportsbook.
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It is true that voters often pick presidents based on the health of their wallets. According to online sportsbook news in Norway, Trump's healthy level of approval rating so far is due to the economy. Voters continue to give Trump credit on the 3.8% of unemployment rate, the economic growth, and the decline of terrorism.
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I remember watching him in "Whittle" on Channel 5, and in "Fluke" (the gameshow based purely on absolute chance) on channel 4, so I bought his "Tim Vine Live DVD" last year. It's genuinely one of the funniest things I own.
So I thought I'd use my internet contacts, (wink wink) and email him.
What a lovely bloke! He emailed me back the very next day, and agreed to my downright cheeky request for a quick interview.
80s : Can you sum yourself up in 5 words?
Tim : outgoing, lazy, happy, creative, scared.
80s : Can you make another word to describe yourself using 1 letter from each of the above 6 words?
80s : What have you been up to recently?
Tim : Editing a film i which i play an airline pilot.
80s : Any plans to release your recent 'Current Puns' tour on DVD?
Tim : yes. hopefully through my Tim Vine website by october or november.
80s : I'm guessing you'd have been about 10 at the start of the 80s. How did a typical 80s school summer holiday go for you?
Tim : staying in bed late and family holidays to newquay and time spent with my dog called mickey who is long since dead.
80s : What was the worst illness you had in the 80s?
80s : What was your fave 80s TV programme?
80s : What was the best 80s theme tune?
Tim : well starsky and hutch hit a bit of the early eighties so that.
80s : Can you hum it in a recognisable way?
Tim : yes. mmm mmmm mmmmmm mm m.
Tim : casio keyboard MT 40. i've still got it and still write songs on it.
80s : Aaah, songs. What was your favourite 80s song.
Tim : gold . spandau ballet.
80s : Did you used to tape the chart show off the radio, and make cassette compilations of your favourite songs?
Tim : no but i think my brother did and i borrowed those tapes.
80s : Were there any 80s TV programmes that you used to watch that made you scared?
Tim : no i was a teenager in the eighties.
80s : Punk or New Romantic?
Tim : punk middle class.
80s : Paddington or Top Cat?
80s : Mr. T or Hong Kong Phooey?
80s : Rubiks Cube or Spirograph?
80s : Summer Holidays or Christmas Holidays?
80s : Thanks for those Tim. Finally, just out of interest…. On your last DVD, you filmed your life for a month. When your garden was visited by neighbouring cats, you attempted to attached a 'trespasser' sticker onto cats heads. We saw you get one of them. Any news?
Tim : i've stopped doing that . it was too much effort. now i just wave at them from my window and they ignore me. i don't really like cats attitude.
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At 1:43 p.m. Sept. 24, a 39-year-old male student was upset in Curtiss Hall because his counseling appointment had been canceled twice in a row. He made a comment to someone that he should not be held legally responsible for what may happen as a result of the appointment being canceled. Officers followed up, and the student said he was just frustrated and the threat was not directed at SVSU.
At 6:32 p.m. Sept. 25, a 36-year-old female student reported that while walking across campus, she was approached by a white male with a red beard who indicated he was having a bad day and showed her his bloody knuckles. He followed her to Zahnow Library, where she able to get away from him.


Over the past week attention has been focused on platinum group metals as London hosted its annual Platinum Week activities. Platinum ETPs also saw increased attention with ETFS Physical Platinum seeing its largest inflows in six weeks…..
The ongoing strike action in South Africa is driving interest in the metal as the stalemate looks like it will persist for some time to come. Gold traded in a very tight range as US Fed minutes revealed little urgency in tightening policy while the Ukrainian crisis continued to drive safe haven buying.
ETFS Physical Platinum (PHPT) sees highest inflows in six weeks. With the strike in South Africa showing little sign of resolution, the platinum price rose 1.4% and US$6.1mn flowed into PHPT. Despite the three largest miners in South Africa using the Labour Court to mediate the wage dispute with Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU), Impala's CEO conceded that the strike could go on for longer. Johnson Matthey, published its latest forecast for the industry, projecting a 1.2mn oz supply deficit for platinum (from 0.9mn oz deficit last year) and a larger 1.6mn oz supply deficit for palladium (from 0.4mn oz last year). Even after the pay dispute is resolved there will be a lag before production can be ramped up to full capacity, prolonging the delay in getting supply to the market. It is clear that secondary supply is unable to catch up with the primary deficit, keeping the market very tight.
Profit-taking drives US$4.5mn of outflows from long WTI crude oil ETPs. US$3.5mn flowed out of ETFS WTI Crude Oil (CRUD), the highest in 13 weeks, while a further US$1mn withdrew from ETFS Daily Leveraged WTI Crude Oil (LOIL), the most in 5 weeks as WTI prices rose 2.2% over the week. Against analysts' expectations, total crude oil inventories in the US dropped sharply by 7.2 million barrels, the largest drawdown since early January. Last week's withdrawals could potentially mark the beginning of the seasonal drawdown ahead of the US summer driving season. An earlier-than-expected pick-up in oil demand would provide further support to the WTI price currently at around US$104/bbl.
Broad agriculture ETP sees largest outflows in a month as grain supply expectations rise. As most agricultural prices slipped, investors withdrew $5.6mn from ETFS Agriculture last week. The USDA's corn surplus forecast for 2014/15 and rain assisting US wheat production led to price declines of 1.5% and 2.8% respectively. Some investors saw the price moves as a buying opportunity, with US$3.1 of inflows into long corn ETPs (a 10 week high) and 2.5mn into long wheat ETPs (13 week high). The coffee price continued to fall last week (dropping 6.6%) as more market participants digested the report from Conab (Brazilian National Agricultural Supply Company) that showed that damage from the drought earlier this year was not as bad as feared.
US$3.4mn flowed out of long copper ETPs, the most in 11 weeks, driven by profit taking. Copper rose 0.3% last week, bringing its monthly gain to 4.1%. Last week's better-than-expected HSBC Chinese manufacturing PMI helped bolster the metal as the outlook for China's industrial demand improves. Given the heavy net short speculative positioning in the futures market we believe that copper has significant upside potential we target US$7500/MT as industry expectations of supply surplus this year will likely need to be trimmed.
Key events to watch this week. A relatively quiet will see focus placed on the US durable goods orders as a gauge for the strength of consumer demand for big-ticket items.


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In his speech, HE Nabil bin Amin Molla, GSO Secretary General, said that such celebrations are aimed at recalling the importance of consumer protection, enhancing the role of concerned parties in contributing to awareness raising and the importance of spreading consumer awareness and standardization culture among consumers of different age groups and social groups, and to develop legislations and Technical Regulations related to consumer protection against fraud, commercial misrepresentation and various improper commercial practices in order to ensure the safety of the consumer and to ensure that he receives the integrated information that helps him to take Making decisions on the goods or services available in the markets, stressing the great role played by standardization activities in protecting the health and safety of the consumer, and their significant impact on raising the standard of living and welfare of society.
Mr. Molla revealed that GSO has issued more than 23 thousand standards and Technical Regulations covering various goods and products in different sectors.
The occasion of the celebration of the Gulf Day for Consumer Protection was adopted on the recommendation of the Consumer Protection Committee of the General Secretariat of the (GCC), which was approved by the (GCC) Committee on Trade Cooperation at its 32 meeting on 31/5/2005. They start celebrating since March 1st 2006, under the slogan (consumer protection responsibility of all).
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AIBrain > NEWS > AIBrain Shows AI Can Also Be Creative Art / Palo Alto Festival of The Arts 2018
AIBrain Shows AI Can Also Be Creative Art
P August 30, 2018 – Palo Alto, CA, USA – AIBrain participated in this year's Palo Alto Festival of the Arts in downtown Palo Alto on University Ave. The company exhibited Fiona (Humanoid Robot, Tyche (AI Toy for Kids), and AI Music in showcasing how AI can enhance the artistic creativity of the human mind.
"We are here at this year's festival to show that everyday person can experience artificial intelligence to enhance the human mind in creativity in arts, music, and culture. AI is not just for the programmers but for everyone", said Dr. Richard Shinn, Founder & CEO at AIBrain, Inc.
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Palo Alto Festival of the Arts is now in its 37th year with over 300 artists to show their arts and crafts. The show drew well over 10,000 visitors during the 2-day event.
"I feel extremely proud to show the visitors that what we are working on is all about bringing technology, creative arts, and people closer together," said Richard Shinn.
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Founded in 2017, AIBrain AG is an artificial intelligence company with the goal of building fully autonomous AI by unifying the three essential aspects of intelligence, namely Problem Solving, Learning, and Memory. AIBrain delivers the full autonomy based on its breakthrough technologies: AICoRE (Adaptive Interactive Cognitive Reasoner), a fully autonomous cognitive AI & Memory Graph, AI memory encompassing both episodic and semantic knowledge. www.aibrain.com
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87% of survey respondents say if they were 18 years old again, they'd opt for a study field within STEM; 89% would focus on digital/online
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There is an increasing need for professionals in the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) domain, according to the latest findings of the Randstad Workmonitor survey. About 78 per cent of the respondents indicated that there is an increasing need for professionals in the STEM space. The survey also revealed that 89 per cent of the respondents believe that more students should focus on a career within STEM to find a steady career path.
A vast majority of the survey respondents (89 per cent) also agree that their employer should invest more resources in developing digital skills, thus highlighting that social and digital literacy are becoming major must-haves for new age employees. Additionally, 87 per cent of the survey respondents also indicated that if they were 18 years old again, they would opt for a study field within STEM and an even higher percentage (89 per cent) mentioned that they would focus on a study field within digital/online. An almost equivalent number of male and female respondents (more than 85 per cent) agreed with the above two statements.
With regard to the digitalization in their job, as many as 90 per cent of the survey respondents from India mentioned that they feel equipped and confident to deal with this trend. However, only 69 per cent expected that their job will be automated within the next 5 to 10 years.
Finding the right talent remains an issue for employers across the country. About 62 per cent of the respondents felt that their employer has trouble in finding the right talent today and 61 per cent even expect it to become increasingly difficult for their employer to find the right talent in the future as well, thus reinforcing the impact of the new war for talent that is continuing to be a serious impediment to India Inc. today.
Moorthy K Uppaluri, MD & CEO, Randstad India said, "India being a growing knowledge economy, the rise in demand for STEM professionals is nothing new. Traditionally, India has been producing a lot of graduates in the STEM domain, with around 40 per cent of the total graduates passing out from colleges each year with a STEM specialization. However, the priority of India Inc. is to ensure that the quality of talent being churned out is high and they are employable."
The Randstad Workmonitor was launched in 2003, and now covers 34 countries around the world, encompassing Europe, Asia Pacific, and the Americas. The Randstad Workmonitor is published four times a year, making both local and global trends in mobility regularly visible over time.
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Q: Xcode 4 - How do I get the .app file? I installed Xcode 4, it has very cool features.
I developed my new app with Xcode 4 and its time give it to client for their testing.
The problem is the that I am not able to get the .app file in finder. Under product category when I choose the .app file and right click on it there is no option for "show in finder".
I need that file so I can send it to client for testing. In the Xcode 3, the option was there.
Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks.

A: You need to use the Product->Archive function instead. You can then access the archive from Organiser. Share the archive and then save it to disk - this creates a .ipa file which can then be distributed for testing.
As ever though, comprehensive documentation on this matter from Apple will guide the way.

A: ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/{app name}/Build/Products/Deployment/

A: You could also select Product -> Build For -> Archiving, then expand the Products folder in the navigator, right-click the app and choose Show in Finder.


We woke up at 6:30am to the sudden warmth of the power going off, and being left with only the ceiling fans for relief. This seems to be a regular problem in India, and most hotels have a form of backup power to keep them going during dropouts.
We headed upstairs for breakfast on the roof at 8am, and had the included Continental breakfast that came with the room ( toast, eggs and jam ) for Liz, and cornflakes with Banana's for me.
We left at 9am and headed around the corner to the entrance to the Jain Temples.
Jain is an ancient form of Hinduism that is what you would describe as more strict in it's beliefs ( for example they only eat vegetables, no meat, and they do not believe in killing any animal, and this means they do not eat after dark ( as it will attract mosquitos which they may accidently swallow ) nor do they eat vegetables that grow in the ground ( for the same reason )).
There are 7 Jain Temples inside Jaisalmer Fort and they were allowed to build in the Fort during a time where they were being persecuted elsewhere in India, and they were only allowed in because they agreed to help fund the building of the Fort itself.
So we wandered around 4 of the temples in total, 3 which we could go into straight away, the 4th was closed until 11am. So we bought our 200R each tickets, left our shoes in a 'secure' shop next door ( where of course we would be required to have a look around later ) and headed into the first temple. As we were getting our tickets a man was very helpful in explaining what we needed to do and he then took us into the temples and guided us around, and through the beliefs of the Jain people. Of course as we had, by default, hired him we paid him a small fee at the end, but it was well worth it to have someone explain things and be able to ask questions as well. The insides of the temples are intricately carved with lots of little details to look at. After walking around the 3 temples ( actually 1 temple was just the second storey of the 1st temple ) we grabbed our shoes, Liz bought a wooden camel figurine ( 350R ) and we carried on wandering around the Fort.
We followed the eastern edge of the fort around, to various lookout points ( most of the fort wall has buildings / houses / hotels on it so there are not that many spots where you can get a view over the surrounding area ) and then to a cannon mounted at the eastern end of the Fort, and conveniently there was a cafe next door so we stopped for a drink. Then we carried on around the Fort, exploring the many little narrow alleys and lanes, some of which just lead to someones house.
We made it back around to the last Jain temple which we explored at 11:30am. This was similar to the other 3 but a bit larger. We bought some more water ( a 1L bottle for 40R ) then back to the hotel for a rest.
While it is very hot today it is nice not to the have the humidity, which in practical terms means as long as you are not in the sun it doesn't feel as hot as it does in Delhi.
We had lunch at the hotel in the shade on the roof, then got our stuff together for our Desert Safari.
We headed out west through town and then hit the countryside / desert and drove for a bit. After a while we stopped at a lake which was fed by rain water, but had been hollowed out of the ground to collect it. After about 20 minutes there we headed to a local village for a look around.
We found this part of the trip a bit awkward, as it turns out we were actually visiting the wife and kids of the tour leader, Hamad, and while it was interesting to look around it was not so much fun when the children of the village kept asking to look in our bags ( to see what they could souvenir ) or were straight out asking for money. A lot of the tour group were youngish women so of course they were drawn to the cute children and let them lead them around the village. Being a bit older and not so blinded by cute children we tried to stay out of their way, and avoid having anything taken from us. After about 1/2 an hour of this we jumped back in the jeeps and left. It was really interesting to see how they lived and what they had, but overall it wasn't fun.
We got to the camels at 5pm, after travelling off-road for a while to spot wildlife, and got straight up onto our seats for the next hour and a bit.
We had seen a few camels walking around on the drive out, but Hamad was very clear that there are no wild Camel in India, every camel is owned by someone.
We headed off across flat scrublands on the Camels ( although if you have ever ridden a camel you will know that it doesn't matter how flat the ground, the ride is always bumpy ). Most people had a camel each but some in the party were sharing. After a while we headed up into the sand dunes that are dotted all across the Thar desert, and went up and down these for a bit.
Riding the camel wasn't as uncomfortable as I thought it might be, but I was happy to get off ( or rather fall off into the sand, as the case may be ) after an hour and 15 minutes when we arrived near our camp site for the evening ( or the night for the rest of the party ).
We sat in the evening sun and breeze, watching the sun sink, watching a dung beetle roll away a fresh piece of camel poo ( we helped clear the path as he was trying to roll it straight through someone ), and relaxed. It was very peaceful and quiet.
At about 7pm we got called down to the camp for some snacks ( pakora mainly ) and water, and in Liz and my case a bottle of beer each ( for 250R / NZ$5 each ). We sat on some elevated sleeping frames and chatted to the 2 people running the French party, one was from Canada but born in France and the other was from France.
Tea was supposed to be served at 7:30pm but as we have already discovered in India that didn't mean much and we finally ate at 9pm. All of the food was prepared and cooked on site by the team of Jeep / Camel drivers, and they encouraged some of the guys to get involved and help make chapatis etc. It was very tasty, if a little sandy!
After dinner we sat for a while and looked at the stars, and chatted then at about 10pm we jumped in the Jeep, left the French group and headed back to Jaisalmer and back to our hotel.
We arrived back at 11:15pm, and got to bed about 12.


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Thurman vs. Garcia on March 4 to be on CBS
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A terrific match-up won't be on pay-per-view. Or even premium cable.
Danny Garcia's welterweight unification bout with Keith Thurman on March 4 at Barclays Center will be shown on network television on CBS, RingTV.com has learned.
The bout was long rumored to be on CBS instead of Showtime and the decision was finalized earlier this week, a source told RingTV.com. An announcement on the fight's television home was expected to take place at a press conference on Wednesday afternoon to formally announce the fight at Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
Thurman's showdown with Garcia is regarded as one of the top match-ups in boxing and the decision to put it on CBS will surely resonate with fans, who have been deluged with bouts on pay-per-view recently.


We all love to go for long drives with our spouse, family members and other known guys. Blessed are the people that enjoy moving in brand new cars. But all may not have sufficient money and may have to be content with their old vehicles itself. Those thinking to give new looks to their old cars often prefer getting them repainted.
> What is the need – First of all think about your specific need due to which you wish your old car to undergo repainting. Is it just to impress others or to hide the minor scratches or stains etc that have come up because of ill maintenance and accident? Making the vehicle to undergo full repaint may not be the wise option if denting and painting could suffice. Why spend hundreds of dollars just to cover up dents or stains etc. However, if the paint colour of the car exteriors has gone too dim and ugly, then do think of getting the vehicle painted in full.
> Total removal – Complete repainting of a car need the vehicle to be emptied in full. All the accessories and other things should be moved out from the car and its overall paint should also be eliminated with the perfect removal process. The engine and everything else should also be detached from the car before it is made to undergo repainting in full. Inexperienced paint shoppers may dupe you by just by painting only the exteriors of the car that would not last long. So be wise to take the vehicle to the professional painters that facilitate perfect car colour services and satisfy you in full.
> Be tolerant – Getting your sweet old car repainted requires you to be patient. Do not ever hurry and ask the paint shop manager to do the task just within one or two days. He or she may accede to your request but will not be able to get the repainting work done in perfect manners. If at all you cannot do without your car for few days, why not hire a taxi or ask your near and dear ones to drop you at your office in the morning and pick in the evening after office hours. The amount of work in repainting the car involves removal of the accessories, old paint and other tasks that take at least one week. Do show extra tolerance when you seek to repaint of your car.
> Payment – Giving new life to your old car by getting it painted once again requires much money that you have to pay to the providers of car colour services. Be wise to spare reasonable amount but never hesitate in asking the same to the company before signing the contract. Do not just run after money but hire the most competent concern that makes your car to look fresh.
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You will find it helpful to know what is going on inside your OpenFlow controller and its associated switch when implementing these exercises. This section contains a few tips that may help you out if you are using the Open vSwitch implementation provided with this tutorial. If you are using a hardware OpenFlow switch, your instructor can help you find equivalent commands.
A firewall observes the packets that pass through it, and uses a set of rules to determine whether any given packet should be allowed to pass. A stateless firewall does this using only the rules and the current packet. A stateful firewall keeps track of the packets it has seen in the past, and uses information about them, along with the rules, to make its determinations.
In this exercise, you will build a stateful firewall controller for TCP connections in OpenFlow. The first packet of each connection will be handled by the controller, but all other connection packets will be handled by the OpenFlow-enabled router or switch without contacting your controller. This design will allow you to write powerful firewall rule sets without unduly impacting packet forwarding speeds. Your controller will parse a simple configuration file to load its rules. Complete stateful firewalls often handle multiple TCP/IP protocols (generally at least both TCP and UDP), track transport protocol operational states, and often understand some application protocols, particularly those utilizing multiple transport streams (such as FTP, SIP, and DHCP). The firewall you will implement for this exercise, however, needs handle only TCP, and will not directly process packet headers or data.
Follow instructions in the DesignSetup step to build a firewall experiment topology. The specific host names allocated for your experiment will be different, but the topology will be isomorphic. The host labeled left in the figure is "behind" the firewall, implemented by the Open vSwitch host labeled switch. The host labeled router handles IP routing for the firewalled network, and every host on the other side of this router (the host labeled right being the only example on this topology; you may wish to add others for your testing and experimentation) are "outside" of the firewall.
The provided RSpec and the files it installs on the hosts it allocates will configure a complete, working network with an Open vSwitch running on the host labeled switch. The Open vSwitch switch is configured to connect to a controller on localhost (that is, the switch host), but no controller is started; until a controller is started on localhost, the Open vSwitch will act like a normal learning switch, forwarding all packets to the appropriate interface based on MAC address. Trema is installed in /opt/trema-trema-8e97343. Once you have implemented your switch, you can simply use this Trema install to run it and the Open vSwitch will obey its configuration.
You can test that the network configured correctly by waiting a few moments after Flack or Omni (or whatever GENI tool you are using) suggests that the sliver is ready, and running ping right from the host allocated for left or vice-versa. Since the fallback switch configuration will act like a normal learning switch, the ping packets should go through.
Items in angle brackets (<>) represent variable values, items in square brackets () represent optional syntax, and unquoted characters (e.g., the slash characters) represent themselves. The first subnet (IP address plus mask length) and port number are the subnet and port number of the host initiating the connection (that is, sending the first bare SYN), and the second subnet and port number are those of the host accepting the connection. IP addresses are specified as dotted quads (e.g., 192.168.1.0) and netmasks as bit lengths (e.g., 24). If a netmask is missing (the IP address for a given subnet is not followed by a slash and an integer), it is equivalent to /32. Port numbers are integers. Either or both of the IP address or port numbers may be replaced by the word any, equivalent to 0.0.0.0/0 in the case of IP address, or to any port number, in the case of port numbers.
All whitespace will be a single ASCII space character, all newlines will be a single ASCII newline character (0x0a) Empty lines (two newlines back-to-back) are permitted.
You will then find ['firewall.rb', 'fw.conf'] in ARGV when your controller's start method is invoked.
Priorities are going to be critical to the correct operation of your controller, so set them carefully. Higher priority rules match before lower priority rules, and the first matching rule is followed. See Section 3.4 of the OpenFlow specification for more details on flow matching.
Packets which do not match a rule on the controller should be denied. Because your initial device configuration eliminates most of these packets outright, your controller should not see a large number of these packets.
Because this firewall implementation cannot track the actual state of the TCP connections it is managing, removing accepted connections from the forwarding tables on the OpenFlow device must be handled by timers. OpenFlow rules can be removed by an idle timer as well as expired a fixed period after insertion. For this firewall, use an idle timer of 300 seconds.
Note that this approach to implementing a firewall has drawbacks. Because the OpenFlow controller does not, and can not efficiently, track the precise state of the TCP flow it is forwarding, the rules are a little bit sloppy. In particular, connections "in progress" when the firewall comes online are not differentiated from new connections created after the firewall is initialized, and connection closings can not be detected by the controller. The former can be managed by inspecting the packet headers included in the OFPT_PACKET_IN message when a connection is opened, but the latter cannot easily be mitigated. This means that connections with long idle times (and 300 s is not particularly unusual, in the long tail of TCP connection statistics!) will be disconnected unnecessarily, and new connections reusing recent four-tuples may be passed through the firewall without examination by the controller.
Then try to ping from left to right. Ping should go through since you allowed ICMP packets and ARP packets to pass.
If you are using the fw.conf we provided, try to run a TCP session from left to right using iperf using port 5001, 5002, 5003. Since in the fw.conf file we provided, we specifically allow TCP to go through port 5001 and 5002, but not port 5003, you should be able to see that iperf gives back throughput results for port 5001 and 5002 but not 5003.
Try play with the code as well as the fw.conf file to setup more rules, then verify your setting via iperf or telnet.
The following list of hints may help you design and debug your implementation more rapidly.
Remember that OpenFlow switches are an Ethernet switch first and foremost, and that not all packets on an Ethernet are IP. In particular, your hosts will require ARP in order to pass IP traffic through the switch!
You may pass ICMP packets without limitation, to make debugging easier.
The Trema Match class has a compare() method that accepts a Match argument and may be useful to you — consider the ExactMatch#from() method in conjunction.
For extra credit (if permitted by your instructor), generate TCP reset segment at the firewall to reset rejected connections.
OpenFlow controllers can also make complex flow decisions based on arbitrary state. This is one benefit to removing the controller from the network device — the controller is free to perform any computation required over whatever data is available when making decisions, rather than being constrained to the limited computing power and storage of the network device. For this exercise, you will extend the firewall described in Section 3.1 to include rudimentary denial of service prevention using this capability.
The extended firewall will perform flow matching as before, with one added check: if the number of existing flows allowed by a given rule exceeds the limit specified in the configuration, a new flow matching that rule will be denied. The number of existing flows matching a given rule is computed as the number of currently active flow matches in the OpenFlow device for that rule. You may wish to look into the OFPT_FLOW_REMOVED message for help in implementing this. If a connection rule specifies any as the flow limit, no limiting will be performed by the controller.
Note that the timeout-based nature of flow removal dictates that small connection limits will be quite limiting. Keep this in mind when testing your firewall!
You probably want to change the rule structure defined in function add_rule to add two members: limit and count to store the maximum number of active flows allowed and the current number of active flows.
You should also over-ride the function flow_removed to subtract count when-ever a flow rule expired.
To verify your implementation, use -P option in iperf to add TCP flows.
Load balancing in computer networking is the division of network traffic between two or more network devices or paths, typically for the purpose of achieving higher total throughput than either one path, ensuring a specific maximum latency or minimum bandwidth to some or all flows, or similar purposes. For this exercise, you will design a load-balancing OpenFlow controller capable of collecting external data and using it to divide traffic between dissimilar network paths so as to achieve full bandwidth utilization with minimal queuing delays.
An interesting property of removing the controller from an OpenFlow device and placing it in an external system of arbitrary computing power and storage capability is that decision-making for network flows based on external state becomes reasonable. Traditional routing and switching devices make flow decisions based largely on local data (or perhaps data from adjacent network devices), but an OpenFlow controller can collect data from servers, network devices, or any other convenient source, and use this data to direct incoming flows.
For the purpose of this exercise, data collection will be limited to the bandwidth and queue occupancy of two emulated network links.
Inside and Outside Nodes: These nodes can be any exclusive ProtoGENI PCs.
Switch: The role of the Open vSwitch node may be played either by a software Open vSwitch installation on a ProtoGENI node, or by the OpenFlow switches available in GENI — consult your instructor.
Traffic Shaping Nodes (Left and Right): These are Linux hosts with two network interfaces. You can configure netem on the two traffic shaping nodes to have differing characteristics; the specific values don't matter, as long as they are reasonable. (No slower than a few hundred kbps, no faster than a few tens of Mbps with 0-100 ms of delay would be a good guideline.) Use several different bandwidth combinations as you test your load balancer.
Aggregator: This node is a Linux host running Open vSwitch with a switch controller that will cause TCP connections to "follow" the decisions made by your OpenFlow controller on the Switch node.
See the tc and tc-tbf manual pages for more information on configuring tc token bucket filters as in the second command line. Use the tc qdisc change command to reconfigure existing links,instead of tc qdisc add.
The outgoing links in the provided lb.rspec are numbered 192.168.4.1 and 192.168.5.1 for left and right, respectively.
An example openflow controller that arbitrarily assigns incoming TCP connections to alternating paths can be found at load-balancer.rb (If you have already downloaded it, ignore this).
The goal of your OpenFlow controller will be to achieve full bandwidth utilization with minimal queuing delays of the two links between the OpenFlow switch and the Aggregator host. In order to accomplish this, your OpenFlow switch will intelligently divide TCP flows between the two paths. The intelligence for this decision will come from bandwidth and queuing status reports from the two traffic shaping nodes representing the alternate paths.
When the network is lightly loaded, flows may be directed toward either path, as neither path exhibits queuing delays and both paths are largely unloaded. As network load increases, however, your controller should direct flows toward the least loaded fork in the path, as defined by occupied bandwidth for links that are not yet near capacity and queue depth for links that are near capacity.
Because TCP traffic is bursty and unpredictable, your controller will not be able to perfectly balance the flows between these links. However, as more TCP flows are combined on the links, their combined congestion control behaviors will allow you to utilize the links to near capacity, with queuing delays that are roughly balanced. Your controller need not re-balance flows that have previously been assigned, but you may do so if you like.
The binding of OpenFlow port numbers to logical topology links can be found in the file /tmp/portmap on the switch node when the provided RSpec boots. It consists of three lines, each containing one logical link name (left, right, and outside) and an integer indicating the port on which the corresponding link is connected. You may use this information in your controller configuration if it is helpful.
You will find an example OpenFlow controller that arbitrarily assigns incoming TCP connections to alternating paths in the file load-balancer.rb. This simple controller can be used as a starting point for your controller if you desire. Examining its behavior may also prove instructive; you should see that its effectiveness at achieving the assignment goals falls off as the imbalance between balanced link capacities or delays grows.
The information you will use to inform your OpenFlow controller about the state of the two load-balanced paths will be gathered from the traffic shaping hosts. This information can be parsed out of the file /proc/net/dev, which contains a line for each interface on the machine, as well as the tc -p qdisc show command, which displays the number of packets in the token bucket queue. As TCP connections take some time to converge on a stable bandwidth utilization, you may want to collect these statistics once every few seconds, and smooth the values you receive over the intervening time periods.
The first word on the line is the "direction" of the interface — toward the inside or outside of the network diagram. The second is the interface name as found in /proc/net/dev.
You are free to communicate these network statistics from the traffic shaping nodes to your OpenFlow controller in any fashion you like. You may want to use a web service, or transfer the data via an external daemon and query a statistics file from the controller. Keep in mind that flow creation decisions need to be made rather quickly, to prevent retransmissions on the connecting host.
2. upload netinfo.py onto left and right node, then change the listening IP address in netinfo.py to the public IP address of left and right node respectively. i.e., replacing the following 0.0.0.0 in your netinfo.py file to the public IP address of the left/right node.
For more information about netinfo.py, please look at the comments in the file.
In the above code, function averages will return the weighted average number of bytes seen in the corresponding node, as well as the weighted average queue depth in terms of number of packets seen in the corresponding node.
This will give the netinfo.py enough time to collect network usage statistics from both left and right node so that the load-balancer can make the right decision.
Remember that the TCP control loop is rathers low — on the order of several round trip times for the TCP connection. This means your load balancing control loop should be slow.
You may wish to review control theory, as well as TCP congestion control and avoidance principles.
Without rebalancing, "correcting" a severe imbalance may be difficult or impossible. For testing purposes, add flows to the path slowly and wait for things to stabilize.
Some thoughts on reducing the flow count when load balancing via Open- Flow can be found in Wang et al. You are not required to implement these techniques, but may find them helpful.
Remember that the default OpenFlow policy for your switch or Open vSwitch instance will likely be to send any packets that do not match a flow spec to the controller, so you will have to handle or discard these packets.
You will want your load balancer to communicate with the traffic shaping nodes via their administrative IP address, available in the slice manifest.
If packet processing on the OpenFlow controller blocks for communication with the traffic shaping nodes, TCP performance may suffer. Use require 'threads', Thread, and Mutex to fetch load information in a separate thread.
The OpenFlow debugging hints from Section 3.1 remain relevant for this exercise.
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