with any other character, and the box turns red. Only a '4' is allowed.
 - Delete the other character, and type a '4' in the Test box. It turns green. Add a second character—anything you like. The Test box turns red. Only a single character is allowed.
Now, let's modify the regex by taking away its '^' and '$' characters. Click the Clear button to clear both boxes, and type '4' (you remembered about the no quotes, didn't you?) into the Regex box. It turns green, indicating a valid regex. Now, we have the same regex as before, except without the beginning-of-line and end-of-line specifications. It reads: "Match any string that contains a '4'."
Now, let's experiment with the modified regex:
 - Type a 4 into the Test box, just as before. It, too, turns green, indicating a match.
 - Type any character after the '4' in the Test box. The Test box remains green! That's because the string still contains a '4'.
 - Delete the characters in the Test box and type in any character. The Test box turns red, since the string doesn't contain a '4'. Now type in a '4'. The box turns green.
In short, the '^' and '$' characters specify an exact match. In most validations, we need exact matches; that's why the '^' and '$' characters are so important. You will almost always use them in regex validators.
Some Useful Validations
So far we haven't done any validations that we can really use. So, let's build up to that now. Enter the following in the Regex box:
Now, type any single digit into the Test box. The box is green. But if you type another digit, it turns red. That's because the regex reads: "Match any string that consists of a single digit between 0 and 9." The '[0-9]' code (called a character class) specifies a single digit, which can be any digit between zero and nine.
Let's add some flexibility. Add an asterisk after the closing bracket of the character class, so that the regex looks like this:
The regex now reads: "Match any string that consists of a sequence of zero or more digits". Notice that the Test box is green—that means empties are allowed, as indicated by our "zero or more" reading of the regex.
To verify, type in any number of digits in the Test box. It stays green. But type in any other character, and the box turns red. What we have just done is create a regex that can validate a text box as containing an integer.
Clear the boxes, and enter the same regex again. Now, replace the asterisk with a plus sign. Now the regex reads: "Match any string that consists of a sequence of one or more digits". Empty strings are now disallowed.
When you change the asterisk to a plus sign, the empty Test box should turn red, since empties are no longer allowed. Otherwise, the box behaves just as it did before. The only difference between the asterisk and the plus sign is that the asterisk allows empties, and the plus sign doesn't. As we will see later, these symbols can be applied to an entire regex, or to part of a regex. We will see how, when we look at grouping.
Optional Elements
The validators we worked with in the last section will validate integers, but not real numbers. Use either of the preceding regexes, and enter the following number: '123.45'. The box turns red as soon as you enter the decimal point. So, we need some way to accommodate decimals.
Let's try this regex:
The backslash-period that we added changes the meaning of the regex to: "Match any string that contains a sequence of one to any number of digits, followed by a decimal point." By the way, we had to enter backslash-period because the period is a special character in regular expressions. Putting the backslash in front of the period 'escapes' it, indicating that we mean a literal period, and not the special character.
Type '123.45' into the Test box. This time, the box should be red until you enter the decimal point. Then it turns green, until you enter the 4, when it turns red again. Clearly, we have some more work to do.
The Test box turned red until you hit the decimal point because it is a required character. No matter how many numbers you enter, they must be followed by a decimal point. That would work fine for a completion validator, but it won't work for a key-press validator. In that case, we want to allow the period, but not require it.
The solution is to make the period optional. We do that by putting a question mark after the period, like this:
Try it in Regex Tester, entering 123.45 once again. The Test box will stay green until you type the '4', at which point it will turn red again. We have taken care of the decimal-point problem, but we still need to do something about the numbers that follow it.
Our problem is that the decimal point is the last item specified in the pattern. That means, nothing can come after it. But we want more numbers to come after it! Then we should add them to our pattern, like this:
Try that pattern in the Regex box, and type '123.45' in the Test box. The box should be red when it is empty, but green when an integer or a real number is typed into it. Note that for the decimal portion of the number, we used an asterisk, instead of a plus sign. That means, the decimal portion can have zero elements—we have, in effect, made the decimal portion of the number optional, as well.
There is only one problem that remains. Let's assume we have a text box that we need to validate for a real number, and that an empty is not allowed for this text box. Our current validators will do the job for a completion validator, but not for a key-press validator. Why not?
Try this: select after the number in the Test box, then backspace until you remove the last digit. When you do, the box turns red. That means, if the user starts entering a number, then deletes it by backspacing, a glyph is going to pop up. To the user, that's a bug. What it means for us is that we need slightly different regexes for the two validators. The key-press regex should disallow empties, but the completion regex needs to allow them.
To do that, change the plus sign in the regex to an asterisk, so that the regex looks like this:
Now, the Test box is green, even when it is empty. Use this modified regex in the key-press validator. This approach gives us the best of both worlds; the user gets immediate feedback while entering the number, and empties are flagged as errors without getting in the user's way.
Validator pairs
The preceding examples point out the need for validator pairs. In many cases, we need a key-press validator to ensure that no invalid characters are entered, and a separate completion validator to ensure that the field matches whatever pattern is required.
Groups and Alternates
By now, you should be getting the hang of simple validators. Regular expressions are as powerful as you want them to be—they constitute a language all their own. But as you have seen, you can get started with just a few elements. Here are some other handy elements of regular expression syntax:
Groups: Parentheses are used to group items. Here is a regex for the comma-delimited list of integers I mentioned earlier:
Here is how to read it: "Match any string that contains zero or more groups of integers. Each group consists of zero or more digits, and may be followed by a comma." The parentheses set the boundaries for the group. Note that the asterisk after the closing parenthesis means the entire group may repeat zero or more times.
Alternates: Sometimes, we need 'either-or' logic in our validations. For example, we may want to allow commas, or commas followed by spaces. We can't do that with our current regex. In the Test box, try entering a space after one of the commas. The Test box turns red, because space characters aren't allowed by the pattern.
We can modify the pattern to allow spaces, by using a feature known as alternates. Alternates are specified by using the pipes (|) character within a group. Here is how the last regex looks when we allow a comma-space combination as an alternative to a simple comma:
^([0-9]*(,|, )?)*$
Note that there is a space after the second comma in the regex. The group with the commas now reads: "…followed by a comma, or a comma and a space…"
Now, type in a comma-delimited list of integers with a space after each comma. The Test box stays green, so long as you enter only a single space after each comma.
But suppose you want to let the user type an unlimited number of spaces after each comma? Here is an opportunity to test yourself. See if you can modify the last regex to allow unlimited spaces. Don't peek at the answer until you have given it a try.
The simple answer is to add an asterisk after the space in the alternate group:
^([0-9]*(,|, *)?)*$
That regex will work, but we can tweak it a bit to make it more elegant. The comma-space-aster


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ESI UK at theDevelop3D Live Show
Come and visit ESI's newest VR technology.
Looking to showcase the current activity within the world of industrial visualisation, ESI UK will present IC.IDO with a Head Mounted Display (HMD) on a HTC Vive.
Virtual Reality has been used by the world's leading Automotive OEM's for over a decade, come and try IC.IDO the virtual engineering tool and how HMD's could benefit your design process and business today.
Why Immersive Virtual Engineering on HMD?
Designs might "look good on paper" and onscreen but problems are always found during the initial prototype build phases. Conducting virtual reality reviews of your 3D CAD product and process during the normal project creation gateways allows more than just viewing your 3D CAD data at 1:1 scale.
Take the opportunity to see first-hand how engineers over the world are using VR to evaluate their designs virtually to understand integration issues and make decisions to common engineering questions:
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COMES, pleading. In a plea, the defendant says, "And the said C D, by E F, his attorney, comes, and defends, &c. The word comes, venit, expresses the appearance of the defendant, in court. It is taken from the style of the entry of the proceedings on the record, and formed no part of the viva voce pleading. It is, accordingly, not considered as, in strictness, constituting a part of the Plea. 1 Chit. Pl. 411; Steph. Pl. 432.
COMES, offices. A Count. An officer during the middle ages, who possessed civil and military authority. Sav. Dr. Rom. Moy. age, n. 80.
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Which famous people have you outlived?
Prince Johann Georg of Saxony
Died when: 69 years 137 days
Star Sign: Cancer
Prince Johann Georg Pius Karl Leopold Maria Januarius Anacletus of Saxony, Duke of Saxony (Full German name: Prinz Johann Georg Pius Karl Leopold Maria Januarius Anacletus von Sachsen, Herzog zu Sachsen) (born 10 July 1869 in Dresden, Saxony; died 24 November 1938 at Schloss Altshausen in Altshausen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany) was the sixth child and second-eldest son of George of Saxony and his wife Maria Anna of Portugal and a younger brother of the Kingdom of Saxony's last king, Frederick Augustus III of Saxony. Johann Georg was a well-known arts expert and an avid art collector.


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The dome, constructed in 1881, originally housed a 12-inch Clark
refractor. The two foot wide dome slit was widened to accomodate the
1-m Nickel reflector. The new slit is not overly generous for the
Nickel, with only a few inches of clearance on each side when the
telescope is centered. Also, the slit does block part of the aperture
(maximum occultation of about 40%) when the telescope is at zenith
distances less than 6.9 degrees.
During regular operations the dome is slaved to the telescope to ensure that the telescope aperture is not blocked. Dome tracking of the telescope is enabled with the DomeAuto setting in the POCO telescope control software. It is also possible to manually position the dome via the POCO software (select DomeHold and use the Manual Dome function) or via a manual rocker switch in the Nickel dome (you must select DomeFloor in POCO to position the dome using the rocker switch).
The dome shutter can be opened or closed remotely via the naux_fe software or manually from a control box mounted on the dome itself (see Figure 2). The Dome shutter button is the bottom of the switches and simply pushing it once will open or close the shutter (it is actually a garage door opener that activates the dome shutter). Occasionally the shutter will fail to open or close fully, usually due to wind blowing on the shutter. Often a second or third try to open/close the dome will be successful. If it continues to fail to open or close fully, try rotating the dome to another location and try again.
The windscreen (Figure 3) is controlled with the naux_fe software. It may also be moved manually with the three position toggle switch (shown in Figure 2). The toggle switch has three positions: up moves the windscreen up, down moves it down, and the central position stops its motion. The software control has three buttons, intuitively labeled Up, Down, and Stop.
The windscreen is quite good at reducing wind shake of the telescope, but caution should be observed when using the windscreen at wind speeds greater than about 30 mph. When the telescope is not in use, the windscreen should be stowed in its full up position.
There are both white and red lights in the dome. The light switch and dimmer for the red light are next to the door. The lower white lights also have a switch by the door or can be controlled from naux_fe. Observers using the Nickel from a remote site may want to turn on these lights to check the state of the telescope and dome via the video cameras before moving the telescope or if they perceive any problems with telescope or dome motion or control.
There is a second set of brighter lights mounted on the rotating dome. Their power switch is located on the dome shutter controller (see Figure 2). These lights are not remotely controlled.
Dome Flat Field Screen
The dome has a flat field screen that can be used with either the dome flats lamp or the telescope lamps. Either way the dome needs to be rotated +38 degrees in azimuth and the telescope needs to be at least Dec -05:00:00. A standard flats position is Dome Az 218, Telescope HA 0, Dec -05:00:00.
Figure 1: Photo Courtesy of Laurie Hatch
Figure 2: Shutter and Windscreen Control
Flat Field Screen
A flat field screen (Figure 3) is mounted to the left of the dome slit. The windscreen may also be used as a flat field screen. The flat field screen is recommended when taking direct imaging flat fields, particularly with the bluer filters. For spectral flats we recommend using the windscreen because of flexure of the instrument and fringing at the red end of the detector. Using the windscreen enables you to get an appropriate spectral flat field no matter what the position of the telescope.
Figure 3: Windscreen and Flat Field Screen

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Examines alleged unnecessary cardiac procedures at St. Joseph London
LONDON, Ky. (Feb. 19, 2013) — St. Joseph London Hospital is taking heat over accusations of performing medically unnecessary cardiac catheterizations and other invasive cardiac procedures, and a look at the health data by a Kentucky physician suggests that the phenomenon is broader and reflects cultural problem in Eastern Kentucky.
An examination of health data by Dr. Peter Hasselbacher, a retired internist and professor emeritus at the University of Louisville, confirmed that St. Joseph London performed a large number of invasive heart procedures for such a relatively small, rural hospital. Many patients have sued the hospital, alleging unnecessary procedures, notes a story in The Courier-Journal.
And when the hospital came under federal supervision, the frequency of its most commonly performed stent-angioplasty procedure dropped by 37 percent, Hasselbacher reports on his Kentucky Health Policy Institute blog.
As the number of St. Joseph London procedures dropped sharply, there was a more dramatic increase in catheterizations and angioplasties statewide. From 2010 to 2011, the number of the most commonly reported angioplasties in Kentucky increased from 12,803 to 22,688, a 77 percent increase, reports Hasselbracher.
This map showing how many people living in each of Kentucky's counties underwent a percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) in 2010. This is the most common invasive cardiac procedure in Kentucky and is used to prevent and treat heart attacks.
These rates are based on where people live, rather than where they go to the hospital, and the counties with the highest rates are in Appalachia.
Hasselbacher calls Eastern Kentucky is "an angioplasty factory" and says the phenomenon can't be be fully explained by the simple fact that people in the region are sicker than those in the rest of the state; he offers another explanation.
"It is my belief that a major, perhaps even the major segment of the economy of Eastern Kentucky revolves around the getting of disability and the keeping of disability" and its government benefits, Hasselbacher writes. "As other industries such as coal and tobacco have faded in importance, the pursuit of disability, medically justified and not, has drained away resources from medical services into an ersatz unemployment and social support program."
Hasselbacher says he doesn't wish to imply that the people of Eastern Kentucky are morally distinguishable from the rest of us, or that their health-care professionals are any less professional. He acknowledges that the region has had an uphill struggle for many years, and it is easy for providers to fall into the trap of wanting to do everything and anything to help patients.
"A culture has evolved in which being sick or just having a diagnosis of being sick is a gateway to economic security for people and professionals alike," Hasselbacher writes. "Some patients, doctors, hospitals, and lawyers wittingly or unwittingly support that process. Doing medially unnecessary diagnostic testing and treatment is part of that culture. It is also good for business."
Read more here.
Kentucky Health News is an independent news service of the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, based in the School of Journalism and Telecommunications at the University of Kentucky, with support from the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky.


What does the word number mean?
Usage examples for number
 1. She gave Shirley the telephone number. – The Valley of the Giants by Peter B. Kyne
 2. What a number of things had happened within the last two hours! – The Room in the Dragon Volant by J. Sheridan LeFanu
 3. There were also a number of girls. – The Boys' Life of Mark Twain by Albert Bigelow Paine
Each person working in the medical industry sometimes needs to know how to define a word from medical terminology. For example - how to explain number? Here you can see the medical definition for number. Medical-dictionary.cc is your online dictionary, full of medical definitions.


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Geographical Research in the Field (Human Geography Overseas Field Course)
Module code: GY2153
Module co-ordinator: Dr Margaret Byron
During this module students will develop the skills required to undertake research in human geography, including how to review the literature and come up with their own research questions, how to formulate aims and objectives of their research, select appropriate methodological approaches, consider and address moral and ethical dimensions of research, plan and undertake fieldwork and other forms of data generation, and construct a research proposal.
The module will also involve a field trip to an overseas location where students will be required to apply and develop their research skills, as well as evaluate theoretical ideas in human geography in relation to understanding practices and processes impacting a specific place and the people connected with this place.
The module will lead to the submission of a full dissertation research proposal that will be the basis of students' dissertation research. A dissertation advisor will be available to discuss the develop of their research plans. The research proposal is a qualifying element of this module and a minimum mark of 40% is required in order for the module to be passed.
Intended Learning Outcomes
At the end of this module, typical students should be able to:
- Identify a focussed and viable geographical research project via a literature review
- Develop a research question
- Write a research proposal, showing a firm grasp of how to design a research methodology and to recognise and appreciate the moral and ethical issues involved in undertaking research
- Use appropriate fieldwork techniques for description and analysis of geographical features and collect data relevant to specific research questions and theories
- Design and undertake an independent piece of fieldwork
Teaching and Learning Methods
Lectures, Seminars, Field Courses & Visits, Independent Research and Independent Study.
Dissertation research proposal and essay.

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python – Dump a NumPy array into a csv file
python – Dump a NumPy array into a csv file
numpy.savetxt saves an array to a text file.
import numpy
a = numpy.asarray([ [1,2,3], [4,5,6], [7,8,9] ])
numpy.savetxt(foo.csv, a, delimiter=,)
You can use pandas. It does take some extra memory so its not always possible, but its very fast and easy to use.
import pandas as pd
pd.DataFrame(np_array).to_csv(path/to/file.csv)
if you dont want a header or index, use to_csv(/path/to/file.csv, header=None, index=None)
python – Dump a NumPy array into a csv file
tofile is a convenient function to do this:
import numpy as np
a = np.asarray([ [1,2,3], [4,5,6], [7,8,9] ])
a.tofile(foo.csv,sep=,,format=%10.5f)
The man page has some useful notes:
This is a convenience function for quick storage of array data.
Information on endianness and precision is lost, so this method is not
a good choice for files intended to archive data or transport data
between machines with different endianness. Some of these problems can
be overcome by outputting the data as text files, at the expense of
speed and file size.
Note. This function does not produce multi-line csv files, it saves everything to one line.
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A study performed by an international team led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), a centre supported by the "la Caixa" Foundation, reports a link between exposure to blue light at night and higher risk of developing breast and prostate cancer. Blue light is a range of the visible light spectrum emitted by most white LEDs and many tablet and phone screens. The results have been published in Environmental Health Perspectives.
"WHO's International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has classified night shift work as probably carcinogenic to humans. There is evidence pointing to an association between exposure to artificial light at night, disruption of the circadian rhythm, and breast and prostate cancers. With this study we sought to determine whether night exposure to light in cities can affect the development of these two types of cancer", explains Manolis Kogevinas, ISGlobal researcher and coordinator of the study. "We know that depending on its intensity and wave length, artificial light, particularly in the blue spectrum,
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Local/State building codes mandate the supply of fresh air to classrooms. Most designs adhere to these requirements through mechanical HVAC systems. For buildings that depend upon natural ventilation in which fresh air is supplied through windows, care must be taken to account for ambient conditions, i.e., air temperature, humidity, and wind velocity and direction, that can strongly affect the amount of fresh air. For classroom with multiple windows the question is which windows to open at any given time. This paper describes the measurement of air flow in a simple classroom and the use of CFD simulation to predict the circulation of air with an aim of determining if such a simulation may be used to define optimal window opening schedules.
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facilities.
- Coordination with home and community based clinical service providers as appropriate to support a beneficiary's 's psychosocial needs and functional deficits.
- Enhanced opportunities for a beneficiary and any relevant caregiver to communicate with the practitioner regarding the beneficiary's care through, not only telephone access, but also through the use of secure messaging, internet or other asynchronous non face-to-face consultation methods.Similarly, we remind stakeholders that in the CY 2014 final rule, we established particular billing requirements for CCM services that require the practitioner to:
- Inform the beneficiary about the availability of the CCM services from the practitioner and obtain his or her written agreement to have the services provided, including the beneficiary's authorization for the electronic communication of the patient's medical information with other treating providers as part of care coordination.
- Document in the patient's medical record that all of the CCM services were explained and offered to the patient, and note the beneficiary's decision to accept or decline these services.
- Provide the beneficiary a written or electronic copy of the care plan and document in the electronic medical record that the care plan was provided to the beneficiary.
- Inform the beneficiary of the right to stop the CCM services at any time (effective at the end of a 30-day period) and the effect of a revocation of the agreement on CCM services.
- Inform the beneficiary that only one practitioner can furnish and be paid for these services during the 30-day period. With the addition of the electronic health record element that we are proposing, we believe that these elements of the scope of service for CCM services, when combined with other important federal health and safety regulations, provide sufficient assurance that Medicare beneficiaries receiving CCM services will receive appropriate services. However, we remain interested in receiving public feedback regarding any meaningful elements of the CCM service or beneficiary protections that may be missing from these scope of service elements and billing requirements. We encourage commenters, in recommending additional possible elements or safeguards, to provide as much specific detail as possible regarding their recommendations and how they can be applied to the broad complement of practitioners who may furnish CCM services under the PFS."
Federal Register Vol 79 No. 133 July 11, 2014
Darn it. Let's get this right. Health Care for All is not just a need that we all have (like I need to go to the bathroom). Health Care is not just a right that we can march in the street for and demand because it's implied in our Declaration of Independence and Constitution. It's not something that just the neglected should fight for (as their right). It's a moral mandate that covers all of us and should be embraced by all of us.
Peter Bach has stirred the pot with his recent article, "Cancer: Unpronounceable Drugs, Incomprehensible Prices". Apologists for the drug industry like to argue that new anti-cancer drug, Zykadia (generic=ceritinib) is far superior to the current $11,000/month drug, Xalcori (crizotinib) and is therefore worth $13,000/month. At present the main argument for this superiority refers back to The New England Journal of Medicine article whose lead author has been an advisor and consultant to the company that makes the drug. If further evidence verifies the superiority it doesn't argue that our medical system can afford the ever-growing list of multi-thousand dollar drugs. See the Hepatitis C treatment, Sovaldi, at $30,000/month for a total of $84,000 a treatment.
Bach rightly concludes that, "Regardless of the estimate, the pricing of new drugs for cancer and now other common diseases has come unglued from the rationale the industry has long espoused. Instead, pricing is explained by a phenomenon of increasing boldness by the industry against a backdrop of regulators and insurers who have no legal authority to dictate or even propose alternative pricing models.". At present the model is that the companies charge what they do "because they can". That won't work. This free market cliché is unsustainable. The best (?only) solution lies in a medical payment system that gives universal coverage and the power of negotiated pricing with the drug companies. At another time we'll discuss the lack of transparency of that industry when discussing the true cost of new drug research.
This last January two cancer specialists published an article explaining "Why Oncologists Should Support Single-Payer National Health Insurance". In his Huffington Post Blog, Dr. John Geyman discusses this problem and points out that not only is the ACA is powerless to control drug prices but it is also unable to control the cost-shifting that is exposing all of us to unsupportable medical costs. Every person concerned with the future of health care and the economy in the United States should read these critiques. The future is now.
The single payer movement in the U.S. is built around the concept of an "improved Medicare for all". The "improved" part of that message recognizes that our present Medicare system needs some revisions to make it a valid vehicle to provide universal health care. Some of the major areas of concern are the control over fraud and abuse, the contrary incentives of the fee for service system, the disappearance of the primary care workforce, and the uncontrolled costs of prescription medications and durable goods. Solution to many other aberrations in our delivery of health care will have to wait for single payer.
Tackling some of these problems now can help ready us for producing a winner out of the starting gate. This includes working to improve quality of medical care. But trying to move forward illuminates the same problem that prevented the Affordable Care Act from achieving quality and cost-saving while providing comprehensive insurance coverage, viz., the political power of the various stakeholders and lack of any immunity from micromanagement by congress and the administration.
We need to get our voices heard as we work on the triple goals to:
- Improve Medicare
- Improve the quality of medical care
- Create Single Payer Medicine
These goals provide a set of action points for realizing the "Triple Aim" of improving the individual experience of care; improving the health of populations; and reducing the per capita costs of care for populations. (_URL_
Charles Ornstein's article in Upshot _URL_ discusses one more example of the unethical dealings of the pharmaceutical industry. An old drug (ACTH) with a newer brand name (Acthar) is reaping profits with no evidence that it gives any better results than inexpensive cortisone-type pills and injections.
When I started medical practice in 1964 a common treatment for arthritis and other inflammatory conditions was the ACTH shot. ACTH is adrenocorticotropic hormone, a hormone which we all have in our bodies. It is made by our pituitary gland and is responsible for the feedback mechanism that regulates the cortisone output by our own adrenal glands. ACTH causes us to increase our own output of cortisone. That reduces swelling and makes inflamed tissue feel better. In 1964 that was the rationale for using it. But then came along the oral cortisone preparations such as prednisone (which costs about 1 cent a pill to make) and ACTH was no longer used (I think it used to cost about $5.00 for a shot that worked for 1-2 weeks).
But Questor came along in 2001 and bought the drug and began marketing it without any proof of benefit or effectiveness over prednisone. They have now worked the price up to $32,000 for a 5 dose vial. This story is just an example of a pharmaceutical world of lying, greed, cheating, fraud, graft, bribery, and corruption.* These are not things that can be controlled by the "free market". Like it or not; this industry has to be put under strong government control. We need not be hood-winked by the old clichés about stifling research and innovation. Very little of that goes on in the pharmaceutical industry which spends 19 times as much on promotion as they do on research. And a lot of basic research is paid for by the NIH. The high costs of drugs in general could be reined in by restructuring and empowering the Federal Drug Administration and allowing Medicare and health exchange plans to negotiate drug prices. These could be two more steps in creating an improved Medicare for all.
The drug companies have a license to steal…and they use it.
*For additional information on the corruption involved read Andrew Pollack's article: _URL_
Karen Ignagni, the President/CEO of AHIP in discussing the astronomic price of Gilead's HepC drug, Sovaldi ($84,000 for a 12 week course at $1,000 a pill):
"The reality is that the company in this case is asking for a blank check, and we can't give anyone anymore a blank check in the health care system – whether it's a pharmaceutical company, a hospital, a device manufacturer […] because it will blow up family budgets; it will blow up state Medicaid budgets; it will blow up employer benefit costs; and it will wreak havoc on the federal debt. So we now have to step back and say, is the hallmark of innovation higher pricing" (1)
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Harvard Physicist Sets Record Straight on Internet Carbon Study
A Harvard researcher spent much of Monday setting the record straight about his research and how it relates to Google's energy consumption. A Sunday Times of London story reported that conducting two Google searches generates as much carbon dioxide as boiling water, though the researcher denies singling out Google.
A story in the Sunday Times of London sent Google's public relations machine into an advanced search for answers. The Times reporters wrote about a new Harvard study that examines the energy impact of Web searches. The story's lead paragraph: "Performing two Google searches from a desktop computer can generate about the same amount of carbon dioxide as boiling a kettle for a cup of tea, according to new research."
One problem: the study's author, Harvard University physicist Alex Wissner-Gross, says he never mentions Google in the study. "For some reason, in their story on the study, the Times had an ax to grind with Google," Wissner-Gross told TechNewsWorld. "Our work has nothing to do with Google. Our focus was exclusively on the Web overall, and we found that it takes on average about 20 milligrams of CO2 per second to visit a Web site."
And the example involving tea kettles? "They did that. I have no idea where they got those statistics," Wissner-Gross said.
Was Google Burned by Energy Story?
The Times story is giving Google a chance to talk about the company's green initiatives and its efforts to pursue cleaner energy technologies on several fronts, Google spokesperson Jamie Yood said. "This comes from the top, from (cofounders) Larry (Page) and Sergey (Brin), who are really dedicated to this. There's an acknowledgment that Google is using energy and on the business front it makes sense to get this energy cost as low as possible," Yood told TechNewsWorld. "And on the environmental front, they are passionate about climate change and are really involved. They recognize that if we're going to use energy, let's try to figure out how to do this as minimally as possible."
That includes the use of biodiesel shuttles and electric cars to and from its Mountain View, Calif., campus, offering bikes for employees to ride from building to building on that campus, and using recyclable materials throughout those buildings. And when it comes to its server farms, "we do believe we have the most energy efficient data centers."
Google takes exception on its Official Google blog to the statistics quoted in the Times story regarding the energy used to Web search vs. boiling a kettle of water. A speedy search uses less energy, the company claims; about the same amount of energy as the human body uses in about 10 seconds.
Google has asked to see a copy of the study, and Wissner-Gross says he is more than happy to send them one.
One of the Times article's authors had interviewed a Google engineer "whose job is to look at data centers to make sure they're more energy efficient, and he didn't really use any of his material," Yood said.
Google's Side of Things
Greenpeace doesn't really focus on the energy efficiencies used by Google or Web companies in general, said spokesperson Daniel Kessler. It is more focused on electronics products, the toxic materials used and company recycling initiatives. However, Google gets high marks for its green efforts in Washington D.C., Kessler said. "I commend Google for its lobbying and the legislative work they're doing when it comes to clean energy," Kessler told TechNewsWorld. "In the whole tech sector, they're really on the forefront on taking action regarding the climate."
Google's data centers burn through a lot of energy in the course of providing answers to search queries around the world, and the cheapest form of that energy right now is coal, said Roger Kay, principal at Endpoint Technologies Associates, who keeps a close eye on the environmental policies at IT companies.
"It's taking that electricity bill they've got and kind of making it a proportion of the total expenditure of the generation of electricity, and then allocating that as a cost to Google and saying that's their responsibility, their piece of it," Kay told TechNewsWorld. "It's just modeling, a modeling exercise that may not necessarily be a reflection of reality."
The location of the information needed in a Web search may also play a part, Kay said. "If you're looking for the latest on Brad Pitt, then that's likely to be stored in multiple servers towards the edge of the network, where it will be an easy search. Google through its traffic management knows a lot of people are interested in that. But if you want to read Cicero's works, which haven't been read for a while, you may have to go deep into the network."
The Researcher's Take
Wissner-Gross, who manages the Web site CO2stats.com to help educate people about energy efficiencies on the Internet, has been inundated with press requests since the Times story was published. The Times quoted him correctly in the story as saying, "A Google search has a definite environmental impact" and "Google operates huge data centers around the world that consume a great deal of power," he confirmed.
"I don't think anybody would disagree with those statements," Wissner-Gross said. "Everything online has a definite environmental impact. I think everybody can agree on that, including Google."
There's a difference between regular servers and those used in advanced data centers, Wissner-Gross said, and he acknowledges that Google would have a financial interest in maintaining an energy-efficient infrastructure. "Energy consumption may be a higher fraction of infrastructure costs for large companies like Google than the hardware itself."
In between answering reporters' e-mails and appearing on CNBC, Wissner-Gross has had a lot of time to think about why the Sunday Times focused on Google in its story. "The short answer is, it's a really easy way to sell papers. Google is a very successful company and it's a very easy way to get readership by making grandiose claims about them."


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Free Press Features UVM Engineering Research to Create More Permeable Pavement, Reducing Water Runoff
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Mandar Dewoolkar, associate professor of engineering, and his research team explain their work to the Burlington Free Press -- an effort to create a permeable concrete surface that helps prevent erosion and water pollution by absorbing rainwater. With a stretch of Trinity Campus parking lot as their lab, the team used an innovative, modular design of pre-cast and cured concrete slabs installed on a bed of gravel, with embedded gauges to monitor changes in the concrete's permeability, fluctuations in the water table and salinity. Read the story...


this painting the ermine has black spots over its entire body resembling heraldic ermine.
Folklore and mythology[edit]
In Irish mythology, stoats were viewed anthropomorphically as animals with families, which held rituals for their dead. They were also viewed as noxious animals prone to thieving, and their saliva was said to be able to poison a grown man. To encounter a stoat when setting out for a journey was considered bad luck, but one could avert this by greeting the stoat as a neighbour.[39] Stoats were also supposed to hold the souls of infants who died before baptism.[40] In the folklore of the Komi people of the Urals, stoats are symbolic of beautiful and coveted young women.[41] In the Zoroastrian religion, the stoat is considered a sacred animal, as its white winter coat represented purity. Similarly, Mary Magdalene was depicted as wearing a white stoat pelt as a sign of her reformed character. One popular European legend had it that a white stoat would die before allowing its pure white coat to be besmirched. When it was being chased by hunters, it would supposedly turn around and give itself up to the hunters rather than risk soiling itself.[42]
Fur use[edit]
Stoat skins are prized by the fur trade, especially in winter coat, and used to trim coats and stoles. The fur from the winter coat is referred to as ermine. There is also a design, also called ermine, which is inspired by the winter coat of the stoat but which is painted onto other furs, such as rabbit.[43] In Europe these furs are a symbol of royalty and high status; the ceremonial robes of members of the UK House of Lords and the academic hoods of the universities of Oxford and Cambridge are traditionally trimmed with ermine[43] although in practice rabbit or fake fur is now often used instead due to expense or animal rights concerns. Prelates of the Catholic Church still wear ecclesiastical garments featuring ermine (a sign of their status equal to that of the nobility). Cecilia Gallerani is depicted holding an ermine in her portrait, Lady with an Ermine. Henry Peacham's Emblem 75, which depicts an ermine being pursued by a hunter and two hounds, is entitled "Cui candor morte redemptus" ("Purity bought with his own death"). Peacham goes on to preach that men and women should follow the example of the ermine and keep their minds and consciences as pure as the legendary ermine keeps its fur.[44]
Ermine were also valued by the Tlingit and other indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast. They could be attached to traditional regalia and cedar bark hats as status symbols, or they were also made into shirts.[45]
The stoat was a fundamental item in the fur trade of the Soviet Union, with no less than half the global catch coming from within its borders. The Soviet Union also contained the highest grades of stoat pelts, with the best grade North American pelts being comparable only to the 9th grade in the quality criteria of former Soviet stoat standards. However, stoat harvesting never became a specialty in any Soviet republic, with most stoats being captured incidentally in traps or near villages. Stoats in the Soviet Union were captured either with dogs or with box-traps or jaw-traps. Guns were rarely used, as they could damage the pelt.[46]
 1. ^ a b c Reid, F. & Helgen, K. (2008). Mustela erminea. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 21 March 2009. Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is of least concern
 3. ^ "100 of the World's Worst Invasive Species". Invasive Species Specialist Group.
 4. ^ a b Coues 1877, pp. 124–125
 5. ^ a b Johnston 1903, p. 160
 6. ^ Harris & Yalden 2008, p. 456
 7. ^ a b Kurtén 1968, pp. 101–102
 8. ^ Kurtén 1980, p. 150
 9. ^ Macdonald 1992, p. 205
 10. ^ Harris & Yalden 2008, p. 458
 12. ^ a b c Heptner & Sludskii 2002, p. 1010
 13. ^ Merriam 1896, pp. 12–13
 14. ^ Merriam 1896, p. 15
 15. ^ a b Merriam 1896, pp. 11–12
 16. ^ Heptner & Sludskii 2002, p. 1014
 17. ^ a b c Harris & Yalden 2008, p. 459
 18. ^ a b Heptner & Sludskii 2002, p. 1012
 19. ^ Heptner & Sludskii 2002, p. 1013
 20. ^ Heptner & Sludskii 2002, p. 1011
 21. ^ a b Heptner & Sludskii 2002, p. 997
 22. ^ Coues 1877, pp. 117–121
 23. ^ Heptner & Sludskii 2002, p. 999
 24. ^ a b c d e Harris & Yalden 2008, p. 457
 25. ^ a b Heptner & Sludskii 2002, p. 1002
 26. ^ a b c d e Harris & Yalden 2008, pp. 460–461
 27. ^ Heptner & Sludskii 2002, p. 998
 28. ^ Harris & Yalden 2008, pp. 464–465
 29. ^ Heptner & Sludskii 2002, pp. 1021–1022
 30. ^ Harris & Yalden 2008, p. 461
 31. ^ Heptner & Sludskii 2002, p. 1018
 32. ^ a b c d Harris & Yalden 2008, p. 463
 33. ^ a b Verts & Carraway 1998, p. 417
 34. ^ Heptner & Sludskii 2002, p. 1020
 35. ^ King, Carolyn (1984). Immigrant Killers. Auckland, NZ: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-558121-0.
 36. ^ Purdey, D. C.; C. M. King, B Lawrence (2004). "Age structure, dispersion and diet of a population of stoats (Mustela erminea) in southern Fiordland during the decline phase of the beechmast cycle". New Zealand Journal of Zoology (The Royal Society of New Zealand) 31 (3): 205–225. doi:10.1080/03014223.2004._PHONE_. Retrieved 2009-11-30.
 37. ^ "Stoats decimating takahe in Fiordland". 4 March 2008. Retrieved 23 April 2011.
 38. ^ a b c Harris & Yalden 2008, p. 466
 39. ^ Monaghan, Patricia (2004) The encyclopedia of Celtic mythology and folklore: Facts on File library of religion and mythology, page 426, Infobase Publishing, ISBN 0-8160-4524-0
 40. ^ Daniels, Cora Linn & Stevans, C. M. Encyclopedia of Superstitions, Folklore, and the Occult Sciences of the World, Volume 2 (2003), The Minerva Group, Inc., ISBN 1-4102-0915-6
 41. ^ Laakso, Johanna (2005) Our otherness: Finno-Ugrian approaches to women's studies, or vice versa, Volume 2 of Finno-Ugrian studies in Austria, LIT Verlag Münster, ISBN 3-8258-8626-3
 42. ^ Sax, Boria (2001) The mythical zoo: an encyclopedia of animals in world myth, legend, and literature, ABC-CLIO, ISBN 1-57607-612-1
 43. ^ a b "A house of traditions". BBC News. January 19, 1999.
 44. ^ The Minerva Britanna Project
 45. ^ Tlingit Ermine-Skin Shirt (Daa dugu k'oodas')
 46. ^ Heptner & Sludskii 2002, pp. 1029–1030
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Eat (or drink) your vegetables: Make smoothies to maximize the lutein in spinach
May 06, 2019 03:40 PM
Spinach, one of the healthiest vegetables available, and it contains a high amount of lutein. The best way to get this lutein is to blend it in a smoothie or add it to a green juice. Because lutein is fat-soluble and stored in the immune cells, the researchers for this study were looking for ways to boost lutein levels in the blood and take advantage of its many health benefits. The research team that came from Sweden used Spinach to understand this process and they processed spinach in various ways, examining various heating and steaming methods to best bolster lutein content in spinach. They found that heating makes spinach to lose its lutein content and the more it is boiled, the more lutein that is lost. They found that the best way to consume spinach to preserve its lutein content is to take it cold. Therefore that is why adding spinach to smoothies is recommended for maximum consumption of lutein in spinach.
"There are many different ways of preparing spinach, but a recent study suggests that blending it in a smoothie or adding it to your green juice is the best way to maximize its lutein content."
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After Watching This Video, Say Goodbye To The Stones In The Kidney And Bladder!!
June 23, 2017 12:14 PM
Even bladder and kidney stones can be cured through herbal remedies! The first cure discussed is the bladder cherry. By simmering this fruit in water and drinking the resulting liquid one can prevent the formation of stones in the bladder and kidneys. Next, other cures are discussed using natural and readily available ingredients such as pomegranate, honey and blueberries. Several different recipes for cures are given, so you can choose which one is best suited for your unique situation.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeQwNE-ZTPM&rel=0
"Cherry bladder is incredibly effective in the treatment of kidney stones."
Horrible Cramps? Marijuana Might Just Be the Answer
March 16, 2017 06:44 PM
Marijuana may be better than any other pain remedy. It is safer than ibuprofen and more effective than a heating pad or chocolate. There has not been enough studies on it to confirm this, however it has been shown the for menstrual cramps, pot is better than anything else over the counter. The way the pot is taken makes no difference in the pain management. It can be smoked, rubbed on skin in an oil or eaten.
Read more: Horrible Cramps? Marijuana Might Just Be the Answer
Active Manuka Honey The Secret Ingredient In Anti Aging Skin Care
February 16, 2017 07:59 AM
Active Manuka honey is the secret ingredient in anti aging skincare. It has remarkable Heating abilities that a lot of people are fawning over. A few years ago, this remedy was not even heard of. Now it has gained a ton of popularity. It is the product of a manuka bush, which is a wild shrub in New Zealand.
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12 Foods You Should Never Eat
February 03, 2017 10:19 AM
We all know there are many foods and beverages that aren't good for you. But did you know that there are 12 foods you should never eat? You might be surprised by some of the items in this list. Find out what these foods are and why they should be removed from your diet immediately.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BMOuihhfVY
"Heating juice denatures the chemicals makeup of vitamins and minerals and unless it is truly raw it is little more than flavored fructose."
Too much heat in the kitchen may increase your risk of heart disease
November 14, 2016 04:54 PM
The high temperatures you are cooking your food at may actually lead to heart disease. Cooking food at very high temperatures can actually create new compounds that are harmful to us. Specifically, the oils and how hot they get may actually be the culprits. By just Heating and frying alone you could be turning those healthy vegetables into deadly bites full of extra chemicals instead.
"If you're a fan of a well-seared steak or a crisp fried samosa, you may need to pace yourself, as a new study has found that you could be increasing your risk of heart disease."
Beware: You could be poisoning yourself by reheating these five foods
October 28, 2016 11:59 AM
Many people depend upon leftovers to supply lunchboxes and delicious hassle-free meals, but not all of the foods that you prepare should be reheated. ReHeating these foods may prove to be very dangerous for any member of your family, causing illness. What are the foods that you shouldn't reheat? Read this article to learn five foods you may be reHeating now.
"Making enough home-cooked food to last a few days sounds like a great idea on the surface because you can quickly microwave it, but the truth is that reHeating certain foods can actually make you and your family quite ill."
The Dangers of Vegetable Oil
More often than not, when we see the words vegetable oil, we assume that it is good for us since vegetables are essentially beneficial for the body. The truth of the matter is that this kind of oil is mostly derived from seeds such as sunflower, soybean and corn, not from any kind of vegetable at all. Aside from this, their extraction requires a process that uses up a lot of energy and is not good for the environment.
Unsaturated fats, otherwise known as trans fats, are fats that are usually solid at room temperature but processed in such a way that they are not when they come in the form of oils derived from seeds. These contribute to diabetes, heart disease, cancer and obesity. The sad part is that although there are so many calls to action regarding minimizing the presence of trans fats in food; there is very little that has been done regarding their presence in vegetable oils. How trans fats were developed or discovered will show how scary it actually is. It was discovered while looking for an alternative to tallow which is an ingredient for candle wax. It was cheap and convenient to harness and use. The reason why it is widely used is because of its extended shelf life. It can also be reused several dozen times for frying without changing flavor or adding a rancid taste to the food fried in it.
The process of extracting the oils from their sources requires a lot of Heating and, for some, even exposure to acids and metals which contribute to the "mutation" that these oils undergo. Hydrogenated vegetable oil confuses our bodies into thinking that they are good for us. This is mainly due to the processes that changes their form. HVO alters the structure of our cells, making them weak and lowering the good cholesterol as well as raising the bad. Our bodies welcome these fats and do not treat them as a danger although their presence does, in fact, increase the risk of heart disease, diabetes and other diseases.
Vegetable oils can also cause imbalances in the composition of our fatty acids. Omega 3 and omega 6 fatty acids are not produced by our bodies. Therefore, we need to supplement these from our diets and daily consumption in pretty much the same amounts to balance their presence in the body. Polyunsaturated fats from HVO that causes the mutation in our cell membranes can lead to oxidative chain reactions which are harmful to our cells. In essence, our cells are made weak and the chances of alterations to our DNA are increased. Omega 6 is abundant in HVO because it helps to slow the deterioration of the vegetable oil. It can cause an imbalance to the cell membrane causing inflammation in various parts of the body. One component of Omega 6 that is highly dangerous is linoleic acid. It has been linked to obesity, high levels of bad cholesterol and even damage to the brain's hypothalamus.
These are just a few of the dangers that come with using so called vegetable oils. These dangers are kept under wraps because of the massive income that the food industry will lose if it changes the oils used for cooking and preparing food.
November 24, 2012 10:28 AM
History of Green Tea.
Green tea originated in China and it has been used as a beverage and for medicinal reasons in China and most of Asia. In Asia besides China, green tea is common in Japan, Korea, Vietnam and Thailand. The book written by 'Lu Yu' from the Tang Dynasty in China is to date considered as the most important book in the history of Green tea. The book is called the " Cha Jing" or "Tea Classic". It was written between 600 and 900 AD.
The book details the medicinal qualities of green tea which include, Easing effects on alcohol, curing blotchiness, acting as a stimulant, quenching thirst, curing the beriberi disease, eliminating indigestion, improving the brain and urinary functions and also preventing fatigue. Green tea was used in Asia to help in almost everything, that is from, helping to heal wounds and bleeding to regulating the body temperatures and blood sugars. It was even used to promote digestion.
Recently, green tea has become popular in the west where Black tea was mainly consumed. Green tea today is being used as a raw material for extracts mostly used in beverages, dietary supplements, healthy foods and even in cosmetic items. Green tea


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Rethinking the Transition to Capitalism: Taking the Assumption of Sel Interested Behavior Seriously
While undergoing a transition to capitalism in the 1990s, the Russian economy collapsed. A factor contributing to the collapse was the shock therapy policy advice of western experts. These experts, relying on mainstream economic theory, ignored the unique characteristics of transition periods between economic systems. A Hobbesian critique of the underlying assumptions of mainstream economics is offered. We argue that a Hobbesian approach, focusing on the dynamics of struggles over the rules of the economic game would be very useful for understanding the transition to capitalism in Russia. An important Hobbesian thesis is that attempts to change the rules of the economic game without a robust state apparatus to enforce those rules leads not to capitalist prosperity but to the war of all against all.


Reflection formula
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In mathematics, a reflection formula or reflection relation for a function f is a relationship between f(a − x) and f(x). It is a special case of a functional equation, and it is very common in the literature to use the term "functional equation" when "reflection formula" is meant.
Reflection formulas are useful for numerical computation of special functions. In effect, an approximation that has greater accuracy or only converges on one side of a reflection point (typically in the positive half of the complex plane) can be employed for all arguments.
Known formulae[edit]
The even and odd functions satisfy simple reflection relations around a = 0. For all even functions,
f(-x) = f(x),\,\!
and for all odd functions,
f(-x) = -f(x).\,\!
A famous relationship is Euler's reflection formula
\Gamma(z)\Gamma(1-z) = \frac{\pi}{\sin{(\pi z)}}\!
for the Gamma function Γ(z), due to Leonhard Euler.
There is also a reflection formula for the general n-th order polygamma function ψ(n)(z),
\psi^{(n)} (1-z)+(-1)^{n+1}\psi^{(n)} (z) = (-1)^n \pi \frac{d^n}{d z^n} \cot{(\pi z)} \,
which springs trivally from the fact that the polygamma functions are defined as the derivations of the \ln \Gamma and thus its reflection formula is inherited to them.
The Riemann zeta function ζ(z) satisfies
\frac{\zeta(1-z)}{\zeta(z)} = \frac{2\, \Gamma(z)}{(2\pi)^{z}} \cos\left(\frac{\pi z}{2}\right),\,\!
and the Riemann Xi function ξ(z) satisfies
\xi(z) = \xi(1-z). \,\!
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Our Company has timely concluded the second phase of the study concerning the design of nourishment and protection works at the beachfront of hotel units Athena Pallas Village and Elea Village managed by ACROTEL group. The hotels are located along the Nikiti coast, Chalkidiki.
The second phase involved a sediment transport study by means of numerical modeling for each place. The studies intended to optimise the design of beach nourishment and erosion mitigation measures proposed in the preliminary stage, as well as, the impact assessment of the proposed works to the surrounding environment.
The wind and wave characteristics in the project were extracted from regional Skiron and WAM models and spanned between years 2001 and 2010. The simulation of sediment transport was carried out with the TMS (Telemac-Mascaret System) suite, which relies on the coupling of wave propagation models (TOMAWAC and ARTEMIS), hydrodynamic model (TELEMAC2D) and sediment transport model (SISYPHE).
The setting up the model was carried out using the bathymetric and morphological data collected at Phase A of the study, which included bathymetric and photographic survey, as well as the results of sediment grading analysis of samples taken from the seabed. The modeling accounted for grain size distribution, spatial distribution and availability of sediment in the study area, as well as spatial distribution of the respective friction coefficients based on the nature of the seabed. Simulating the natural conditions as accurately as possible, enhances the accountability of the results.


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A project for lighting control has been developed by request of Helvar Russia and their certified partner, Sones Group.
to develop an intuitive and stylish interface for lighting control at such facilities as offices, production and storage facilities, and adjacent territories.
According to their requirements the interface is to perform several functions:
- lighting control of various zones, rooms (on / off, dimming, switching on lighting presets);
- display of the current state of lighting devices and their brightness level;
- turning the lighting on and off on a schedule;
- displaying information about out-of-order light fixtures;
- displaying information about electricity consumption in different zones for different periods of time.


Generating random numbers in PowerShell
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When creating PowerShell scripts, very often we need to generate random numbers to use in several scenarios. In Today's post, we are going a couple of examples how to use it.
Solution
The easiest way to use random is typing random and a random number will be generated, however, we have some flexibility to get random numbers based on our requirements.
We can use the Get-Random cmdlet and provide the maximum and minimum values to define the range to return a number within that defined boundaries, as depicted in the image below.
Get-Random -Maximum 50 -Minimum 30
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A good example to use random is when using Start-Sleep and we want to add some random delays. In the example below, we create a random number between 5 and 15, and we add 6 and start a delay (in that example of 16 seconds).
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Use spatial types
Last modified on December 28, 2012 10:45
DevForce provides limited support for EF 5 spatial types. Spatial types are supported in 2-tier and n-tier .NET 4.5 applications: they are not supported in Silverlight, Windows Store or Windows Phone applications - platforms where the CLR types in System.Data.Spatial are not defined.
Overview
Spatial types - DbGeography and DbGeometry - were introduced in Entity Framework 5 and can be used in applications targeting .NET 4.5.
Spatial types can be used in both Code First and EDMX-based models.
Code First model
Let's look at a simple example, based on the EF documentation.
We define a simple Code First entity with a property of DbGeography type:
C#
[ProvideEntityAspect]
public class University {
 public int UniversityID { get; set; }
 public string Name { get; set; }
 public DbGeography Location { get; set; }
}
The EntityManager looks like this:
C#
public class SpatialTestEntityManager : EntityManager {
 public EntityQuery<University> Universities { get; set; }
}
We can now create and save these entities:
C#
var mgr = new SpatialTestEntityManager();
mgr.AddEntity(new University() {
 Name = "Graphic Design Institute",
 Location = DbGeography.FromText("POINT(-122.336106 47.605049)")
 });
mgr.AddEntity(new University() {
 Name = "School of Fine Art",
 Location = DbGeography.FromText("POINT(-122.335197 47.646711)")
 });
mgr.SaveChanges();
And we can query them:
C#
var myLocation = DbGeography.FromText("POINT(-122.296623 47.640405)");
var university = (from u in mgr.Universities
 orderby u.Location.Distance(myLocation)
 select u).FirstOrDefault();
Console.WriteLine("The closest University to you is: {0}.", university.Name);
EDMX-based model
We can also use spatial types in an EDMX-based model. This sample is also based on EF documentation.
We'll point our EDMX to the database created in our Code First sample above, but you can instead take a Model First approach to create the University entity we saw above.
Note the type of the Location property is Geography:
spatial1.JPG
The generated code for the Location property:
C#
/// <summary>Gets or sets the Location. </summary>
[DataMember]
[Bindable(true, BindingDirection.TwoWay)]
[Editable(true)]
[Display(Name="Location", AutoGenerateField=true)]
public System.Data.Spatial.DbGeography Location {
 get { return PropertyMetadata.Location.GetValue(this); }
 set { PropertyMetadata.Location.SetValue(this, value); }
}
You can query and save these entities as usual.
C#
var mgr = new SpatialTestEntityManager();
mgr.AddEntity(new University() {
 Name = "Graphic Design Institute",
 Location = DbGeography.FromText("POINT(-122.336106 47.605049)")
 });
mgr.AddEntity(new University() {
 Name = "School of Fine Art",
 Location = DbGeography.FromText("POINT(-122.335197 47.646711)")
 });
mgr.SaveChanges();
var myLocation = DbGeography.FromText("POINT(-122.296623 47.640405)");
var university = (from u in mgr.Universities
 orderby u.Location.Distance(myLocation)
 select u).FirstOrDefault();
Console.WriteLine("The closest University to you is: {0}.", university.Name);
Troubleshooting
 - To use spatial types in an n-tier application you will need to add the spatial types as known types. You can easily do this by implementing the IKnownTypeProvider interface:
 C#
 public class SpatialKnwonTypeProvider : IdeaBlade.EntityModel.IKnownTypeProvider {
 public IEnumerable<Type> AddKnownTypes() {
 return new[] { typeof(System.Data.Spatial.DbGeography) };
 }
 }
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Lack of Slumber:
We know how critical the "slumber" is when it comes to our progress and progress. Our pituitary gland generates the major quantity of HGH during slumber so its just make feeling that "Lack of Slumber" will definitely prevent you from rising taller simply because it only signifies depriving your system of a big quantity of the HGH it generates. So, make confident that you are acquiring at minimum 8 hours of slumber each night.
Also Considerably Carbohydrate:
When I was a baby, I keep in mind my mother and father usually advised me "Try to eat far more rice if you want to grow taller quickly" but unidentified to me and my mother and father at that time, as well a lot carbohydrates really stunts individual's peak. Though, it give us whole lot of energy, as well a lot of it has stunting effect simply because it raises the insulin levels in our system. Surge of insulin tends to swap off the GH generation. This is the cause why Asian nations around the world that usually have as well a lot carbohydrate in their diet like rice and corn have these types of a brief common peak compare to other nations around the world.
Cigarette Cigarette smoking:
Cigarette Cigarette smoking is also one particular detail that end your peak from escalating. When you are using tobacco the amount of oxygen in your blood decreases when at the very same time the destructive substances that cigarette generates like the carbon monoxide boosts. We know how critical the oxygen is when it comes to our health. Carbon monoxide robs your brain, muscle mass and system tissue of oxygen poorly impacting the health and of course our body's progress. Apart from its stunting effect, cigarette using tobacco can also lead emphysema, lung cancer, and hearth illness. So if you are using tobacco, superior end it now prior to it potential customers to these diseases.
Ingesting Soda is also one particular detail that can also prevent you from rising taller. Carbonated drinks deplete calcium in our bone. And aside from that, soda also incorporates loads of phosphorous that poorly impacts your body's calcium absorption. So getting calcium dietary supplements when consuming soda isn't going to aid. It is like you are not getting calcium at all. We know how critical the calcium to our bone's progress. So continue to be absent from carbonated drinks if you want to grow taller normally.
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Foundation of Anthropology Collections
The first Aboriginal artefacts were acquired in 1835
Museums are dedicated to collecting, caring, studying and exhibiting the objects of lasting value and interest. Collections are the museum's essence. The Australian Museum was established in 1827 but the beginning of its collections cannot be precisely dated. Probably the Museum already had some collections when William Holmes was appointed Museum Keeper in 1829. Three years later some collections were accessible for public viewing, when Dr George Bennett visited the 'Sydney Museum' [Australian Museum] in 1832. In his opinion the best in 'presentation and numbers' was the collection of birds, followed by mammals and reptiles. Bennett recommended extending the collections by the addition of 'native weapons, utensils and other specimens of the arts as existing among Aborigines' (Wanderings in New South Wales … London 1834, p. 67-9). In 1835 Bennett himself became Secretary and Curator of the Museum, a role similar to a director. He set out to 'extend the collections' and presided over the acquisitions of the first 'native weapons'.
In 1835 Thomas Livingstone Mitchell, Surveyor General presented to the Museum 23 Aboriginal artefacts (and 64 birds) gathered on his expedition to western New South Wales. In 1836, retired captain, Philip Parker King and Commander Morgan Lewis donated about 50 artefacts collected during their rescue expedition to Torres Strait.
King was a member of the first Museum Board of Trustees (the Committee of Superintendence of the Australian Museum and Royal Botanic Gardens) and made his donation to the institution he was appointed to foster. Mitchells' artefacts were probably the first anthropology collections ever acquired by the Australian Museum.
Dr Stan Florek, Database Manager


Agri people
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For the ancient tribe, see Agri (Maeotae).
Total population
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Sudh-Agri, Das-Agri, Urap-Agri[2]
Marathi, agri
Hinduism (80%), Buddhism (19%), Christianity (0.8%), Islam (0.2%)
Agris of Salsette (c. _PHONE_).
The Agri people (Sanskrit/Marathi/Hindi: आग्री ) are historically an Indo-Aryan ethnic group native to the Raigad and Thane Districts and the suburban area of Mumbai in Maharashtra.They are also present in Rajasthan, Delhi, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Gujarat, Daman and Diu
The Agri people are traditionally salt-makers but now settled in Agriculture and Fishing. They are vegetarian as well as non-vegetarian with their daily diet consisting of Bhakri (rice bread), steamed rice with daal, bhaji(veg). They speak Marathi at home as well as outside and use the Devanagari script.
They worship all Hindu gods, particularly Khandoba and Bhairoba. Each village has a god or goddess and each family has a god or goddess of the kulas e.g. Khanderao for Dhumals, Bhavani or Shiva for the Bhoirs, etc.
No dowry is observed strictly in this community. Giving of dowry as well as acceptance of dowry both are considered to be taboo.
The name Agri (spell it Agari) comes from Agar, a salt-pan. The Agris are an ethnic community native to Mumbai, Thane, Raigad, Nashik, Ratnagiri Districts mainly. They are the original residents of the Mumbai region. The major profession of these people is Salt making. Thus the name evolved from it.
The following legend is given for what it is worth. Two sons, Agla and Mangla, were born to the sage Agasti; the former the ancestor of the Agris, the latter of the Mangelas (fishermen). The first was told to support himself by the manufacture of salt from the sea, the latter by fishing. The god Parashuram, intending to throw back the sea, was prevented by the intervention of the Agri and Mangela women. At their request he consented to throw it back only 27 miles and the strip thus formed become the Konkan.
There is another legend to the effect that they are the musicians of Ravan, the demon-king of South India, who in reward for good services settled them in the Konkan.
The people of this section also belong to the Brahmin caste. The famous Chirner Andolan made by Agris in 1930 served as force to invoking "Kul Kaida" by government. It means who cultivate the land will be the real owner of the land and system of Jamindari was abolished. It benefited every Kul of Maharashtra.
On the other hand, states that Agri are subdivision of the Kunbi and subgroup of the koli. At present they are distributed in Rajasthan, Delhi, Dadra and Nagar Haveli (Amli, Agriwad, Vaghchhipa), Gujarat (Karajgam, Barai, Goima) and Maharashtra.
The Agri of Maharashtra are also known as Agle, Patharvat and Kharpatil. They are concentrated in Nashik, Ratnagiri, Raigad and Thane Districts and the suburban areas of Bombay city. The population of Agri in Bombay Province, according to the 1931 census, was 265,285. They speak the Indo-Aryan language Marathi at home as well as outside and use the Devanagri script.
Three major districts of Maharashtra, namely Thane, Raigad and Mumbai, are shelters of Agri Samaj. Salt making, fishery at the sea coast and farming of rice are the major occupations of this community. Rice bread, steamed rice with daal(varan-bhaji) and sometimes fish is their daily diet. They celebrate Ganesh Utsav,Gopal Kala, Navratri, Hanuman Jayanti and Ram Navmi and funfairs with lots of fun and devotion.
Agri Samaj consists of people getting their bread from farming, salt making and fishing as these being their main occupation. Not just men but women also help in earning the daily bread. Women take care of their house as well as manage the professional transactions. This is the major reason why there is no dowry systems experience in this community.
Marriages are celebrated with fun and enjoyment. Haladi, a ceremony held on previous day of marriage, is celebrated by rubbing wet ground turmeric on bride/ groom as well as other member of family; and also by dancing freely. Dowry system is not observed in this community.
Now-a-days,Agri people are more business oriented.People have extensive real estate property which was earlier used for farming.They are fond of Gold.
In Maharashtra, there are mainly four districts (Raigad, Thane, Navi Mumbai, Nashik and Mumbai) where we can see people of Agri Samaj. The actual business of Agri people is fishing, salt production and paddy farming. They have Rice and Bhakari as their food. 'Ganesh Utsav' which comes in the'marathi' month of Bhadrapad, the fare of RamNavami, Hanuman Jayanti and Navratri are some of their main festivals. Along with this, Agri Samaj believes in all the cultures.The main thing of Agri Samaj is that they do not believe in Dowry system.
The origin of Agri Samaj is farming. This is a culture of hard-working people and the farmers who love the nature. All men and women work together for their homes, fields and salt production. Along with togetherness we can see equality in the Men and Women of Agri Samaj.
Gavachi Jatara[edit]
There is a major attraction to Jatra in this community. Jatra is nothing but fun-fair. Mostly celebrated in the Chaitra month of the Hindu Calendar, fun-fair in agri samaj is the symbol of their communal integrity. Generally these village fun-fairs are celebrated for worshipping the village.
Generally these village fun-fairs are celebrated for worshipping the village goddess so that the goddess protects these villagers from all sorts of natural calamities and disasters. The village goddess is worshipped by elderly and young people of the village. During such funfair people in other villages are also invited and there is colourful and pleasant and loving atmosphere. The major food eaten on this day is deliciously cooked meat with nicely baked bhakris. Also lots of sweet is sold in fun-fair of expressing the happiness.
There are different types of stalls for bangles, cosmetics, food items, sweets, games. For children there are giant wheels, merry go round. There is a chance for the ladies and young girls to roam freely without any botherance and fright. People do lots of shopping for themselves, their children and friends and enjoy a lot.
Ganesh Chaturthi[edit]
Hindus have major devotion towards Lord Ganpati. Similarly Agri Samaj also worships Ganpati wholeheartedly. Ganesh Utsav is celebrated for worshipping Gauri and Ganpati Bhagwan. This Utsav is celebrated in the month of Bhadrapad. During this period farmers and fishermen don't have much work to do. So this festival is celebrated for a longer time in a relaxing mood.
Lots of preparation are done before Ganesh Chaturthi. Ganesh Chathurthi is the day when the people bring a Ganpati (statue of Lord Ganesh) at their home. They make lots of decoration. Some people celebrate this feast for 5,7,10,21 or even for 30 days.
Jaagran is observed during this feast. Jaagran is celebrated by worshipping God wholeheartedly and without sleep. Many guests come for visiting these days. On the last day of the Utsav the Ganesh moorti is released in the sea or river or lake with lots of happiness and celebration.
Nowadays birth of Lord Ganesha is also celebrated in Magha Month which is called as Ganesh Jayanti in most of the Agri Families.
Holi is celebrated in the month of phalgun according to Hindu mythology. This day is celebrated for destroying bad nature in mind and he hate betrayal animity, anger, jealousy and encouraging love, happiness all bad thought in mind are removed. On this day a huge born fire is related & this born fire is worshipped ladies & gents elders & young together.
puri, puran poli, karanji, ladu, anarcee are cooked in every house. Barks of mango tree are generally need for the bonfire village people sing songs for goddess of holi. They also dance to express their fairness and happiness. This program is continued full late night
Narali Poornima[edit]
Narali Poornima is the most important and major festival of Agri Samaj. According to Hindu Mythology this feast arrives in Shravan month. Actually Agri and Koli communities mainly depend on fishery as their main occupation i.e. they are closely related to sea. This is the major reason behind this


Mitigate & Remediate – Don't Skip Either in Incident Response
As security professionals, we hear about mitigation and remediation on a daily basis. However, these are terms that are commonly confused with each other.
As security professionals, we hear about mitigation and remediation on a daily basis. However, these are terms that are commonly confused with each other. In incident response, Mitigation is to minimize the damage of the threat; it is the first thing you do when you realize you have a problem. Remediation happens when the threat is eradicated, and the goal is to get things back to the way they should be.
For example, if there is a compromised device on a network, a mitigation measure could be to block the connection between the compromised asset and their command and control center. A remediation measure would be to identify the malware and clean up the machine. The issue arises when, due to the abundance of threats, we may be overlooking how critical the remediation step really is, and its long-term effect if we skip it. By avoiding the remediation step, security teams are inadvertently allowing thousands of infected devices to make continuous attempts to contact adversarial infrastructureeven if those contacts are interrupted, the attempts will continue. Mitigation alone could make teams believe that the problem is solved when it is only giving them a false sense of security. Let's explore why mitigation is not enough on its own.
 1. Mitigation is only the first step: Mitigation should be used as a way to gain time but not as an end itself. Depending on your cyber defense, blocking, isolating, or shutting down may be enough to prevent damage and give your security team time to eliminate the threat.
 2. Mitigation generates a false sense of security: When you block malware connections or isolate a compromised asset it is normal to feel that your organization is now secure. But what happens if by mistake someone in your team changes the firewall rules, or the malware contacts a new C&C that is not blocked, or if a global situation, like the COVID19 pandemic, forces all your employees to change location overnight?
 3. Mitigation should be part of a containment strategy: According to NIST "containment strategies vary based on the type of incident. For example, the strategy for containing an email-borne malware infection is quite different from that of a network-based DDoS attack". That means that you need to design your containment strategy based on each type of attack and take into consideration factors such as potential damage, evidence preservation, service availability, and more.
Which is better: mitigation or eradication in incident response?
Both. You need to mitigate to gain time and eradicate to ensure that the compromise cannot affect the organization. Your goal in the eradication phase is to eliminate all components of the incident (eg: deleting malware or disabling breached accounts) and identify and block the entry points of the compromise to avoid the same compromise in the future if possible.
With Lumu it is easy to see if the compromise has been eradicated. You can go to Activity, search for the specific compromise, and see when was the last contact. If you see a contact after it was eradicated there are 2 possibilities. Either it was not effectively eradicated from the affected machines, or it managed to affect new machines.
Screenshot from the Lumu portal of Activity Details used for mitigation and remediation in incident response
Another critical step that is often forgotten is the post-incident activity. In this phase, it is crucial to identify the lessons learned during the incident response phase, so as to avoid similar compromises in the future. You can use the NIST Computer Security Incident Handling Guide to understand more about this process.
You should not choose mitigation or eradication. You must do both as they are part of the incident response process. Mitigation is like taking a pain pill, and eradication is curing what is actually causing the pain.
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A Study Of The Test Method Of Coating Adherence Of
A layer of uniform and stable coating with a suitable thickness is needed for the hot side of refractories used in the burning zones of cement rotary kilns. the coating can protect the refractories and prolong its service life. therefore, it is essential for the refractories used in the burning zone to form coating. in this paper, the mechanism of coating behaviour was analyzed, and the.
Rotary Cement Kiln Refractory Rongsheng Refractory
Alkaline refractory bricks are mainly used in rotary cement kiln sintering zone, transition zone and kiln hood. spinel brick is one of the main lining materials for large size rotary cement kilns, it gradually replaces magnesite chrome brick and is widely used in transition zone, cooling zone and kiln hood, or even sintering zone.
Cement Kiln Refractory Archives Rs Kiln Refractory Bricks
Based on the working condition of rotary cement kiln components, corresponding refractory materials should be chosen to meet the production requirement and obtain ideal cost performance. unloading port and unloading belt: unloading belt usually adopts 7080 highalumina brick, thermal shock resistant high alumina brick, spinel brick, chromebrick.
Causes Of Damage To Cement Rotary Kiln And Lcdri Cn
The damage of the refractory lining of the rotary kiln often affects the continuity of production. it is one of the common equipment accidents. the causes of the defects include design structure, refractory quality, masonry quality and operation and maintenance.
Coating And Burnability Of Clinker | Springerlink
Abstract. coating plays a very important role on the refractory life in burning zone, of the rotary kiln, where the condition is most arduous. the mechanism of coating formation and the stability of coating largely determine the refractory life.
Burner Pipes Refractory Products | Cement Industry | Resco
Burner pipes introduce fuel into the cement kiln where it ignites, creating heat for the process. refractory castables line the outside of the burner pipe leading into the rotary kiln. these castables require proper refractoriness, good thermal shock resistance, alkali resistance, and strong abrasion resistance.. selecting the right hightemperature refractory helps create an improved burner.
Modeling Of Rotary Kiln In Cement Industry
Cement production is a highly energyintensive process, and the rotary kiln is the most important part of the process. having a comprehensive model of the kiln in order to reduce manufacturing costs, better performance can be created. in this paper, the influence processes in a simulated cement rotary kiln and operating parameters on the output of the study were to develop and validate the.
Refractory Material Solutions Of Cement Rotary Kiln
Currently, according to relevant researches, manufacturing processes and practical operation experiences, refractory materials for differernt parts of rotary cement kiln are suggested. (1). the sintering zone and bilateral transition zone with stable coating should adopt magnesia bricks, which include magnesia chrome brick, low chromium and.
Damage Of Refractory Bricks Lined In Cement Rotary Kilns
Damage of refractory bricks lined in cement rotary kilnson df refratek have been producing basic refractories raging from burned magnesia brick, magnesia checker brick,magnesia chrome brick, corundum chrome brick,magnesia spinel brick,magneisa hercynite brick to monolithic refractories since the day of the supply high quality products to industries such as.
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For certain configurations of undercut ground, overhangs or rock instabilities, it can prove necessary or interest to create an absolute foot stop via filling in a reinforced concrete support In this case, creating reinforced concrete buttresses / 'buttons' is a solution to the problem. The foot stop can be scaled in a way which takes into account the total support it needs to provide or it can be scaled to act along with the support of nailing higher up.
To create a good base for future works, the construction needs to confirm the ground's bearing capacity and, where necessary, the works. This can be created by micropiles at the bedrock of the future stop.
Equally, it needs to be taken into account that the buttress / button will be constructed according to a chosen final geometry, realized by the use of a 'tailormade' casing. It is therefore indispensable to use during the construction horizontal nails / tie-rods. These have the double function of firstly allow the casing to be kept in place during pouring and secondly, offering a decisive way to keep good connections between the buttress / ground afterwards. (This means avoiding the effects of vertical surges transferred horizontally).
Significant numbers of buttresses can be constructed. However, it is crucial to maintain pouring heights over successive cuts, in line with the resistance of the casing used.
Different exterior claddings allow for the use of different amounts of concrete at different locations and in different contexts.
There are also options to:
- Leave the formwork rough
- Use plastering mortar / lime plaster
- Paint to the desired color
- Integrate facing with 'real' dressed stone
- Integrate facing via reconstituted facing stone
- Integrate facing stone via a metal trellis soldered with gabions


Wave Arts Tube Saturator review
 - $150
A circuit modelled tube preamp
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Our Verdict
Tube Saturator's stunning sound makes a convincing argument for circuit modelling being the future of analogue emulation.
 - Cutting-edge software design. Great enhancing effect. Provides limiting when pushed hard. Natural-sounding EQ. Automatic gain when using Drive knob.
 - High CPU hit.
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Wave Arts' previous output has comprised high-quality mixing, mastering and restoration plug-ins, but its latest, Tube Saturator, finds the company in analogue emulation territory.
Mimicking popular 12AX7-based tube preamp designs, it also includes three-band Baxandall-style EQ, a 'fat' mode for extra grit, and 64-bit internal processing. To achieve all this, Wave Arts has used circuit modelling (on which more later), resulting in a considerable CPU hit.
Although pretty basic to look at, plenty of thought has gone into Tube Saturator's features. First up, the Baxandall EQ has been used because it delivers natural-sounding high and low shelves that are more like gentle slopes than shelves, similar to the tone controls on a hi-fi. There's also a peaking mid band, which is broad and, again, sounds natural.
All frequencies are fixed (100Hz and 1kHz transition frequencies for the shelves and 800Hz centre for the peak) and the gain's range is +/-12dB. Also significant is that the EQ sits before the preamp, enabling it to influence which frequencies are driven.
The 'fat' control modifies the bias of the first triode amplifier, resulting in increased gain and saturation. Finally, increasing the drive increases input gain and reduces output gain, and there's a manual output gain control, if needed.
In use
With completely flat settings, we found that Tube Saturator had no discernible effect, but on cranking up the controls the interrelated nature of things became more apparent. Even with the Drive at zero, switching on the EQ circuit has a subtle effect on the low-end, thinning things out a little. The EQ itself is very pleasing and although the high and low shelves are great for sweetening, we were particularly impressed by the mid-range and its ability to musically boost or cut that often congested area around 800Hz.
Changes are subtle until you crank the Drive up to 4, beyond which there's more obvious even harmonic content. For held sounds, this is perceived as increased higher frequencies. For impulse sounds, such as kicks and snares, this starts out having an enhancing effect, but as you push things further, the saturation limits the peaks, eventually sounding slightly compressed.
Combining EQ and drive can be fun and although the EQ isn't of the parametric variety, we found it possible to sculpt individual sounds quite well. Finally, Tube Saturator is great for treating stereo sounds, such as drum busses and overall mixes, adding even harmonic enhancement and, if pushed, some limiting.
Circuit modelling
Wave Arts' prototype versions of Tube Saturator used typical emulation methods, effectively joining the individual processing functions required. However, this didn't properly represent the interrelatedness of the twin triode preamp design, which led the company to pursue component-level circuit simulation. This uses a set of non-linear differential equations to calculate specific node points in the circuit at each sampling period.
This is very CPU-intensive, and not only that, but the CPU hit is proportional to the number of nodes cubed, so a more complex circuit with twice as many nodes would equate to eight times the CPU hit!
We found that a mono instance of Tube Saturator running at 44.1kHz registered just under a third on the CPU meter for one core of an Intel Mac 3GHz CPU. However, using a stereo instance doubles that, and higher sampling frequencies will multiply it further, so remember that 'freeze' button!
Initially, we were a little sceptical of such a 'boutique', purist plug-in, but we'll admit to being won over by Tube Saturator's wonderful sound. It's ideal for a range of sound-sculpting and mastering jobs and the results demonstrate just how good analogue emulations can be using the circuit-modelling methodology. And if you have a powerful computer, the CPU hit isn't really so debilitating.
Our audio demo features Tube Saturator at work on:
1. Synth bass: gradually increasing drive to maximum, switch in fat mode then reduce drive back to zero. Next, EQ with high, mid and low bands gradual boost then cut. EQ and drive combined to produce a nice enhanced bass sound.
2. Snare drum and kick drum: snare then kick, trying various EQ and drive settings.
3. Drum kit mix: trying various drive and EQ settings to produce a sweetened kit sound.
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The Almeda Fire was a wake-up call
. Accelerating climate change coupled with flammable vegetation and homes have put Ashland in a dangerous situation. Fortunately, we are working on all fronts and upcoming controlled burns under the Ashland Forest Resiliency Project (AFR) are a critical piece of the puzzle. Research points
to burning as a critical component of fire safety and forest health.
With the onset of wet weather, controlled burning could begin soon at high elevations and will continue through spring.To keep you informed on our burning, Ashland Forest Resiliency is using updated smoke communication protocols thanks to your ongoing input. COVID-19 health and safety measures are in place in coordination with Oregon Health Authority.
To receive non-emergency burning and smoke alerts:
- Text WATERSHED in the message line to 888777 for non-emergency notifications
- Register for the AFR email list at _URL_
- Follow AFR on Facebook at _URL_
- Or find us on Twitter @ashlandforest
- Smokewise Ashland has information to help protect you and your family should smoke affect the community.
- Learn where AFR Partners will conduct burns in 2020-2021 on the controlled burn map.
- Visit fireadaptedashland.org to take actions now for your home and family.
Ashland Forest Resiliency partners include Lomakatsi Restoration Project, The Nature Conservancy, Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest and The City of Ashland. AFR is a fifteen-year stewardship project designed to reduce the risk of severe wildfire in the watershed and to protect water quality, older forests, wildlife, people, property and quality of life.


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the stage for its future growth.
- Patience then became our companion as we awaited the growth of our cactus, monitoring its progress with anticipation.
- Lastly, the fruits of our labor were reaped, or rather, the cactus was harvested, marking the successful completion of our mission.
Encouragement to Experiment and Learn
I encourage you to take these basic steps and experiment further. Minecraft is a sandbox of unlimited potential, and you never know what unique discoveries lie ahead. Play around with different planting locations and configurations, or try intertwining your cactus farm with other plantations, like sugarcane or wheat. The essence of Minecraft lies in its freedom to create, innovate and learn.
Remember, every master was once a beginner. So don't be disheartened if your initial attempts don't yield the desired results. Continue nurturing your green thumb and before you know it, you'll be a pro at not only growing cacti but also other crops in Minecraft.
I hope you've found this guide insightful and I look forward to hearing about your adventures and successes in the world of Minecraft farming. Happy planting!