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This is a feeder tutorial from the original post by Mike Snow (http://blogs.silverlight.net/blogs/msnow/archive/2009/05/16/79056.aspx)
Development Environments
- Visual Studio (2005, 2008, Express)
- Silverlight 3 development addons
- XAML Editor (if using 2005 & Express)
- Alot of patience
- Application = Refers to the Silverlight Application Project
- Webpage = Refers to the Sibling Web Application Project, if you elected to add it.
Create Project
- Goto File -> New -> Project
- Select "Silverlight Light Application
- Create a sibling Web Application to test your development
- Finished, verify that your Solution Explorer looks like this
- Add a new class to the Application project, and name it TerrainManager
- Once created, declare the class specific variables
Const TILE_WIDTH As Integer = 90 Private _mapCanvas As Canvas Private _groundLayer(,) As TerrainTile
- Pass a Canvas object to this class when it is instantiated
public sub New(mapCanvas as Canvas) me._mapCanvas = mapCanvas end sub
- Define a Method called CreateGroundLayer
public sub CreateGroundLayer(width as integer, height as integer) ... end sub
- Redimension the _groundLayer private variable to be the size of the height and width
ReDim me._groundLayer(height, width)
- create the height For loop
For y as integer = 0 to height-1 .. Next
- Inside the height Loop, declare the width For loop
For x as integer = 0 to width -1 .. Next
- Inside the width Loop, comes the meat and potatoes of this method
- Assign the current iteration values of width (x) and height(y) to the appropriate point in the _groundLayer array and define that location in the array as a new TerrainTile object with the specified width and height modified by the constant TILE_WIDTH
me._groundLayer(y,x) = new TerrainTile(x*TILE_WIDTH, y*TILE_WIDTH, TILE_WIDTH, TILE_WIDTH)
- Assign an image to that location in the array so the background has a visible layer to the user. This image path is relative to the Application project and not the Web Project. When all is said and done, the image will be compiled into the XAP file that is loaded into the Web Project for use in the Web project.
- Add the _groundLayer(,) array location to the _mapCanvas object that was passed to the class.
- Assign the current iteration values of width (x) and height(y) to the appropriate point in the _groundLayer array and define that location in the array as a new TerrainTile object with the specified width and height modified by the constant TILE_WIDTH
- Redimension the _groundLayer private variable to be the size of the height and width
- Add a Silverlight User Control file to the Application project, naming it TerrainTile.xaml
- Open TerrainTile.xaml document
- Remove the Grid Tag, that is already pre-loaded, and replace it with a Canvas tag. Again remember not to play with the UserControl tag and its attributes.
<Grid> --> <Canvas> .. </Grid> --> </Canvas>
- Inside the Canvas tag, add 2 Polygon tags with these attributes
Remeber to always name your objects, even in XAML as descriptive as possible since you will most likely be massaging them in the codebehind. Very similar to naming a TextBox object starting with a "txt" or "box". Try to be as descriptive as possible without going overboard.
<Polygon x:Name="UpperLeftPoly"> ... </Polygon> <Polygon x:Name="LowerRightPoly"> ... </Polygon>
- Inside each of the Polygon tags you will need to add a ImageBrush tag. These 2 tags you will be adding will define the area in which you will be drawing the image you defined earlier.
<Polygon x:Name="UpperLeftPoly"> <ImageBrush x:Name="UpperImage" /> </Polygon> <Polygon x:Name="LowerRightPoly"> <ImageBrush x:Name="LowerImage" /> </Polygon>
- Remove the Grid Tag, that is already pre-loaded, and replace it with a Canvas tag. Again remember not to play with the UserControl tag and its attributes.
- Open the TerrainTile.xaml.vb document
- Create the Constructor of the new XAML class.
The first line of all XAML constructors must be the Initialize Component. As this will basically Load the document before you operate on it.
Public Sub New(xPos as integer, yPos as integer, width as integer, height as integer) InitializeComponent() .. End Sub
- Define the UpperLeftPoly Polygon points
UpperLeftPoly.Points = new PointCollection UpperLeftPoly.Points.Add(New Point(xPos, yPos)) UpperLeftPoly.Points.Add(New Point(xPos + width, yPos)) UpperLeftPoly.Points.Add(New Point(xPos, yPos + height))
- Define the LowerRightPoly Polygon points
LowerRightPoly.Points = new PointCollection LowerRightPoly.Points.Add(New Point(xPos + width, yPos)) LowerRightPoly.Points.Add(New Point(xPos + width, yPos + height)) LowerRightPoly.Points.Add(New Point(xPos, yPos + height))
- Define the UpperLeftPoly Polygon points
- Define the SetImage method
Public Sub SetImage(imgResource as String) ... End Sub
- Define and declare the method variables
Dim imgUri as Uri = new Uri(imgResource, UriKind.Relative) Dim imgSrc as ImageSource
- Set the UpperImage ImageBrush object to an image
imgSrc = new Imaging.BitmapImage(imgUri) UpperImage.ImageSource = imgSrc
- Set the LowerImage ImageBrush object to an image
imgSrc = new Imaging.BitmapImage(imgUri) LowerImage.ImageSource = imgSrc
- Define and declare the method variables
- Create the Constructor of the new XAML class.
- Locate the "MainPage.xaml" File
- Change the Grid tag to Canvas
For now, dont worry about the UserControl tag and its attributes. I will be excluding the UserControl tag from the tutorial, since we are not going to be bothered with it for now. So just imply that if i reference the Canvas tag that it is surrounded by the UserControl tag.
<Grid> -> <Canvas> </Grid> -> </Canvas>
- Inside the Canvas tag, add a Content Control and a child control Canvas
This Tag will setup the basis of all the programming we will be doing. So remember what you name it in the x:Name attribute
<Canvas> <ContentControl x:Name="MapContent"> <Canvas x:Name="Map"></Canvas> </ContentControl> <Canvas>
- (Optional) Underneath the ContentControl, add a Grid tag
This is more to have an overlay, is not necessary but will allow you to layer static or dynamic information over the ContentControl
This will setup a table type grid over the background. If you clicked on the example above you noticed the area at the top-middle and left-center that had some instructions on how to move, this allows you to in theory layer a interface ontop of the background content.
For ease of use, i am including all of it, instead of going into details about the Grid tag.
<Canvas> <ContentControl ...>...</ContentControl> <Grid> <Grid.ColumnDefinition> <ColumnDefinition x:Name="colLeft" width="200" /> <ColumnDefinition x:Name="colCenter" width="400" /> <ColumnDefinition x:Name="colRight" width="200" /> </Grid.ColumnDefinition> <Grid.RowDefinition> <RowDefinition x:Name="rowHeader" MinHeight="100" /> <RowDefinition x:Name="rowBody" MinHeight="400" /> <RowDefinition x:Name="rowFooter" MinHeight="100" /> </Grid.RowDefinition> <StackPanel Background="AliceBlue" Grid.Column="1" Grid.Row="0" x:Name="pnlHeader"> <TextBlock Text="Silverlight 3D Demo" /> </StackPanel> <StackPanel Background="Yellow" Grid.Column="0" Grid.Row="1" x:Name="pnlMenu"> <TextBlock Text="To move Left:" /> <TextBlock Text="- Numpad 4, left arrow, A" /> <TextBlock Text="To move Up:" /> <TextBlock Text="- Numpad 8, up arrow, W" /> <TextBlock Text="To move Right:" /> <TextBlock Text="- Numpad 6, right arrow, D" /> <TextBlock Text="To move Down:" /> <TextBlock Text="- Numpad 2, down arrow, S" /> </StackPanel> </Grid> </Canvas>
- Change the Grid tag to Canvas
- Open the MainPage.xaml.vb code page
- Declare class variables
Dim _terrainMgr as TerrainManager Dim _mapOffsetX as Double = 0 Dim _mapOffsetY as Double = 0 Dim _scrollSpeed as Integer = 20
- Declare the KeyDown event
Private Sub MainPage_KeyDown(sender as Object, e as KeyEventArgs) Handles Me.KeyDown .. End Sub
- Define the key strokes to catch
Select Case e.Key Case Is = Numpad8, Key.W, Key.Up me._mapOffsetY += me._scrollSpeed Exit Select Case Is = Numpad2, Key.S, Key.Down me._mapOffsetY -= me._scrollSpeed Exit Select Case Is = Numpad6, Key.D, Key.Right me._mapOffsetX -= me._scrollSpeed Exit Select Case Is = Numpad4, Key.A, Key.Left me._mapOffsetX += me._scrollSpeed Exit Select End Select
- Assign the Offset value to the appropriate attribute for the CanvasContent
MapContent.SetValue(Canvas.LeftProperty, me._mapOffsetX) MapContent.SetValue(Canvas.TopProperty, me._mapOffsetY)
- Define the key strokes to catch
- Define the Loaded event
Private Sub MainPage_Loaded(sender as Object, e as RoutedEventArgs) Handles me.Loaded .. End Sub
- Initialize the TerrainManager and assign the object a size through the CreateGroundLayer method
me._terrainMgr = New TerrainManager(Map) me._terrainMgr.CreateGroundLayer(100,100)
- Initialize the TerrainManager and assign the object a size through the CreateGroundLayer method
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The BookWell, after nine months of hard work, the book is finally out! It's available both on Packt's site and Amazon.com. Getting up early every morning to write takes a lot of discipline, it takes even more to say "no" to enticing rabbit holes or herds of Yak with luxurious coats ripe for shaving ... (truth be told, I still did a bit of that).
The team I worked with at Packt was just amazing. Highly professional and deeply supportive, they were a complete pleasure with which to collaborate. It was the best experience I could have hoped for. Thanks, guys!
The technical reviewers for the book were just fantastic. I've stated elsewhere that my one regret was that the process with the reviewers did not have a tighter feedback loop. I would have really enjoyed collaborating with them from the beginning so that some of their really good ideas could have been integrated into the book. Regardless, their feedback as I got it later in the process helped make this book more approachable by readers, more consistent, and more accurate. The reviewers have bios at the beginning of the book -- read them, and look them up! These folks are all amazing!
The one thing that slipped in the final crunch was the acknowledgements, and I hope to make up for that here, as well as through various emails to everyone who provided their support, either directly or indirectly.
AcknowledgmentsThe first two folks I reached out to when starting the book were both physics professors who had published very nice matplotlib problems -- one set for undergraduate students and another from work at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. I asked for their permission to adapt these problems to the API chapter, and they graciously granted it. What followed were some very nice conversations about matplotlib, programming, physics, education, and publishing. Thanks to Professor Alan DeWeerd, University of Redlands and Professor Jonathan W. Keohane, Hampden Sydney College. Note that Dr. Keohane has a book coming out in the fall from Yale University Press entitled Classical Electrodynamics -- it will contain examples in matplotlib.
Other examples adapted for use in the API chapter included one by Professor David Bailey, University of Toronto. Though his example didn't make it into the book, it gets full coverage in the Chapter 3 IPython notebook.
For one of the EM examples I needed to derive a particular equation for an electromagnetic field in two wires traveling in opposite directions. It's been nearly 20 years since my post-Army college physics, so I was very grateful for the existence and excellence of SymPy which enabled me to check my work with its symbolic computations. A special thanks to the SymPy creators and maintainers.
Please note that if there are errors in the equations, they are my fault! Not that of the esteemed professors or of SymPy :-)
Many of the examples throughout the book were derived from work done by the matplotlib and Seaborn contributors. The work they have done on the documentation in the past 10 years has been amazing -- the community is truly lucky to have such resources at their fingertips.
In particular, Benjamin Root is an astounding community supporter on the matplotlib mail list, helping users of every level with all of their needs. Benjamin and I had several very nice email exchanges during the writing of this book, and he provided some excellent pointers, as he was finishing his own title for Packt: Interactive Applications Using Matplotlib. It was geophysicist and matplotlib savant Joe Kington who originally put us in touch, and I'd like to thank Joe -- on everyone's behalf -- for his amazing answers to matplotlib and related questions on StackOverflow. Joe inspired many changes and adjustments in the sample code for this book. In fact, I had originally intended to feature his work in the chapter on advanced customization (but ran out of space), since Joe has one of the best examples out there for matplotlib transforms. If you don't believe me, check out his work on stereonets. There are many of us who hope that Joe will be authoring his own matplotlib book in the future ...
Olga Botvinnik, a contributor to Seaborn and PhD candidate at UC San Diego (and BioEng/Math double major at MIT), provided fantastic support for my Seaborn questions. Her knowledge, skills, and spirit of open source will help build the community around Seaborn in the years to come. Thanks, Olga!
While on the topic of matplotlib contributors, I'd like to give a special thanks to John Hunter for his inspiration, hard work, and passionate contributions which made matplotlib a reality. My deepest condolences to his family and friends for their tremendous loss.
Quite possibly the tool that had the single-greatest impact on the authoring of this book was IPython and its notebook feature. This brought back all the best memories from using Mathematica in school. Combined with the Python programming language, I can't imagine a better platform for collaborating on math-related problems or producing teaching materials for the same. These compliments are not limited to the user experience, either: the new architecture using ZeroMQ is a work of art. Nicely done, IPython community! The IPython notebook index for the book is available in the book's Github org here.
In Chapters 7 and 8 I encountered a bit of a crisis when trying to work with Python 3 in cloud environments. What was almost a disaster ended up being rescued by the work that Barry Warsaw and the rest of the Ubuntu team did in Ubuntu 15.04, getting Python 3.4.2 into the release and available on Amazon EC2. You guys saved my bacon!
Chapter 7's fictional case study examining the Landsat 8 data for part of Greenland was based on one of Milos Miljkovic's tutorials from PyData 2014, "Analyzing Satellite Images With Python Scientific Stack". I hope readers have just as much fun working with satellite data as I did. Huge thanks to NASA, USGS, the Landsat 8 teams, and the EROS facility in Sioux Falls, SD.
My favourite section in Chapter 8 was the one on HDF5. This was greatly inspired by Yves Hilpisch's presentation "Out-of-Memory Data Analytics with Python". Many thanks to Yves for putting that together and sharing with the world. We should all be doing more with HDF5.
Finally, and this almost goes without saying, the work that the Python community has done to create Python 3 has been just phenomenal. Guido's vision for the evolution of the language, combined with the efforts of the community, have made something great. I had more fun working on Python 3 than I have had in many years.


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BOSTON, Mass. - A hard fought 3-0 (25-21, 25-19, 25-20) win over Babson College, followed by a 3-0 (22-25, 18-25, 24-26) loss to Colby-Sawyer College is how volleyball closed out day two of the 2013 Beacons Invitational Sunday afternoon at the Clark Athletic Center Gymnasium.
With the Sunday split the Beacons once again fall just under the .500 mark as they now stand at 11-12 after playing five matches in the span of two and half days. Of the five teams UMB faced four were ranked in New England.
Babson came into Sunday's match with the Beacons ranked 12th in New England, while the Chargers of Colby-Sawyer were ranked 14th on the most recent NEWVA Coaches poll.
In the Beacons lone win of the weekend senior Corrine Porter (Huntington Beach, Calif.) led the team with eight kills and a .400 hitting percentage. Junior Kirsten Morrison (North Reading, Mass.) scored seven kills on 13 attempts to finish with a .385 hitting percentage. Senior setter Megan Pollock (Wilton, Calif.) tallied 28 assists, while Porter and Elizabeth Glavan (Edina, Minn.) led the back row with a combined 28 digs respectively. At the net UMB tallied five blocks as a team and held the Beavers to a .132 hitting percentage.
The final match of the day saw Colby-Sawyer jump out to a 2-0 lead before the Beacons even knew what hit them. After earning a 25-22 win in the first game and a 25-18 win in the second Co-Head Coaches Mike Houlihan and Terry Condon decided to shake things up a little bit in the third.
In the final game of the tournament the Beacons saw freshmen Kimie Taketa (Torrance, Calif.), Jodie Munchbach (Dedham, Mass.), Cailin Fredrickson (Columbia, Md.), Lacee Kilgore (Grand Junction, Colo.), Pepper Baker (Tallahassee, Fla.), Julia Murphy (Canton, Mass.) and Glavan step onto the hardwood in front of their friends and family. Also making an appearance in the third game were sophomores Danni Marotto (Lancaster, N.Y.), Blair Boyer (Encinitas, Calif.), Bri Sousa (Swansea, Mass.) along with Pollock as UMB battled back-and-forth with the Colby-Sawyer starters.
The new faces did not back down to the challenge and actually pushed the Chargers to their limit. In total the score was tied 14 times and there was a match-high seven lead changes in the third game alone. Munchbach and Baker were at the forefront of the young group of Beacons as the duo combined for five kills respectively. With the libero jersey on, Taketa tallied 12 digs in just two games and received a combined nine Colby-Sawyer serves.
Despite taking a 24-21 lead in the third the Beacons were unable to hold off a surging Colby-Sawyer team as the Chargers rallied to take the 26-24 win, their second of the tournament.
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Tonight is Twelfth Night, which falls on January 5, as it is traditionally the night before the Twelfth Day of Christmas. It marks the coming of the Epiphany when the Three Wise Men were said to arrive at the stable where Jesus was born.
Since Victorian times, the tradition has been to take decorations down on Twelfth Night - so that would mean these must techinically come down tonight. There's some confusion though, with many people thinking of January 6 as being the Twelfth Night - if you count the days from the First Day of Christmas, which is Boxing Day.
So why, historically, is it deemed to fall on January 5, rather than the following day? The reason is that, in centuries past, the end of the day was when the sun came down - so the night was actually the beginning of the day. That has caused the confusion over whether it should be on January 5 or January 6.
For our ancestors, Christmas Day started at sunset on Christmas Eve and would continue until nightfall on the 25th, which began the Feast of Stephen - Boxing Day, as we now call it, which was the actual First Day of Christmas. If you follow that, the Twelfth Night of Christmas was the night before January 6.
For those who are superstitious and worrying about bad luck from leaving decorations up too long, it is worth remembering that in years gone by decorations were left up until Candlemas on February 2.
In times past, Twelfth Night was a big celebration, and a time to play practical jokes on your friends, family and neighbours - including hiding live birds in pies, as in the rhyme Sing a Song of Sixpence.
Food and drink were also specially eaten and drank.
In Britain, Twelfth Cakes were a rich, heavy fruitcake, which traditionally contained a bean. If you got it, you were King or Queen of the Bean and everybody had to obey your orders, often to do ridiculous things.
It was also a time to eat spicy, gingery foods.
Wassail is a kind of hot mulled cider, traditionally drunk. Wassailing refers to singing and drinking the health of trees on Twelfth Night, to awaken apple trees and scare away evil spirits, ensuring a good harvest in autumn.
Inside homes, yule logs were traditionally lit at the beginning of Christmas, and burned until the Twelfth Night, when its remains were kept to kindle next year's fire - and for good luck.
There have also been traditional Christmas plays, usually featuring the story of George and the Dragon. Shakespeare's Twelfth Night is believed to have been written around 1601/02 as entertainment for close to the Christmas season, and its plot of disguises and confusions seems to fit the spirit of the occasion.


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CLEVELAND (AP) - The Browns have agreed to contract terms with free agent wide receiver Miles Austin, insurance in case Pro Bowler Josh Gordon is suspended.
A two-time Pro Bowler, Austin was released by the Dallas Cowboys in March in a salary-cap move. The 29-year-old played in just 11 games last season because of injuries.
Miles had his best season in 2009, when he had 81 receptions for 1,320 yards and 11 touchdowns.
The Browns are making plans in the event they lose Gordon for an extended period. Last week, ESPN reported the 22-year-old is facing a one-year suspension for failing another drug test. Gordon has failed two previous tests and was suspended for the first two games last season for violating the NFL's substance abuse policy.
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Left foot, right foot, headers and penalties – Radamel Falcao had scored them all. All, that was, except for one type of goal: "I want to score from free-kicks!" the Atletico Madrid striker told FIFA.com a few months ago. "That's what I'm lacking and I'm going to give it a go. I hope I'll get my chance soon." That chance came on Sunday 21 October in the dying seconds of Atletico's league encounter with Real Sociedad. And he did not waste it.
Falcao is currently one of the most in-form No9s in world football, with 49 goals in 59 competitive games for Los Rojiblancos and five in six 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil™ qualifiers for Colombia. It is no surprise, then, that he is among the 23 candidates for the FIFA Ballon d'Or 2012, and is considered a strong contender for the prize. Will he take the much-coveted crown for the first time? "That's for others to say, not me," he said, distancing himself from the debate and acknowledging the quality of his fellow challengers.
When FIFA.com spoke exclusively with the man known as El Tigre, we could not pass up the opportunity to ask him for his tip for the prestigious prize. "That's a tough question!" he said. "I think there are several players who have done a lot this season to deserve it, thanks to their achievements with both their clubs and national sides. It could be Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo or Andres Iniesta. They are some of the players who have stood out in the past season."
There is, however, one category in which Falcao can name a clear winner. If it were up to him, the Colombian would award the FIFA World Coach of the Year for Men's Football award to Diego Simeone, his boss at Atletico Madrid. El Cholo is not on the final shortlist for the prize but he certainly made a strong case for inclusion, having led Atletico to glory in both the UEFA Europa League and the UEFA Super Cup. Falcao, perhaps unsurprisingly, was the star of the show in the Super Cup final, scoring a hat-trick in his side's superb victory over Chelsea.
There are several players who have done a lot this season to deserve it, thanks to their achievements with both their clubs and national sides.
"I think I'd give it to Diego Simeone, as he's had a great season. But this [decision] is also a very big responsibility," he smiled. "I'd choose El Cholo because I know him. He's helped us a great deal and I'm very grateful to him for everything. I don't know, have not worked with and have not really followed any of the other coaches, who I'm sure deserve to win it too," he added.
At the Zurich Kongresshaus on Monday 7 January, the winners of all these prizes and more will be revealed, including the FIFA Puskas Award for the best goal of 2012. When we asked Falcao, one of the most prolific strikers in the game, to tell us which of his many goals he would put forward for the accolade, he had little hesitation: "Probably the first goal I scored in the Europa League final. It was a beauty!" Indeed it was: his delightful left-footed dink over the onrushing Chelsea goalkeeper set Atletico on course for victory, and was in a similar mould to some of his other strikes this season for club and country.
We will have to wait until late November to find out which goals have made the final shortlist for the FIFA Puskas Award. But in the meantime, don't forget: you can play a big part in the outcome by casting your vote online at FIFA.com.
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Jennifer Hudson's half-brother Stephen Angelo Simpson allegedly stabbed his estranged wife's boyfriend in Michigan on Tuesday night, Aug. 19.
According to CBS affiliate WWMT, Simpson, 45, arrived at his wife's apartment, knocked on the door and repeatedly began stabbing her boyfriend, identified as Charlie. Police say Simpson, who apparently has a history of violence, stabbed Charlie multiple times, including in the face.
"[Charlie] said someone knocked on the door, he thought he was knocking on the door for somebody, and he started getting stabbed up," neighbor Torrey Hunt told the news outlet. The victim reportedly came to Hunt for help around 3 AM.
"I open the door and see blood everywhere," he said. "He was stabbed in his chin and his chest, he had puncture wounds in his chest and his arms and stuff. … I'm thinking he could die at any minute."
Another neighbor expressed concern that Simpson was looking for his wife, who was home at the time of the incident but hid in the bathroom.
"She locked herself in the bathroom until he left," Detective Adam DeBoer said. "It appears to be an ongoing feud over a woman."
According to WWMT, Simpson has been on probation after several violent incidents in the past — including assaulting his wife earlier this year. He was arrested in this stabbing incident and is facing felony charges, including attempted murder.
Charlie was treated at the hospital, where he received multiple stitches and was released. He is reportedly expected to recover.
Sadly, this is not the first time that Jennifer Hudson has had to deal with violence in her family. In 2008, her former brother-in-law murdered her mother, brother and nephew. In 2012, he was sentenced to serve three life sentences in prison without parole.
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The candidates exude power, supporters are campaigning hard, the issues are framed as vital, and the outcome is ultimately uncertain. That's the 2008 presidential campaign in a nutshell, but it also describes the contest shaping up between AC and DC for the hearts and minds of data center operators — and it's almost as political.
More than a century after DC bowed to AC as the most efficient method of electrical distribution, DC is getting a second look. But this time around, the ambitions of DC supporters are more narrowly focused. They're touting DC over AC as a way to make the facilities that house massive and power-ravenous data computing, storage, and communications systems more energy efficient. In a replay of the original AC-DC fight, however, AC supporters counter that tried-and-true AC, especially if it's optimized for efficiency, still reigns superior.
The battle is taking place against a backdrop of the surging "green" movement and an increased awareness of how much energy data centers use (and waste) because of how they're configured. Electrical engineering conferences, white papers, and demonstration projects that assess the comparable benefits of AC and DC for data centers have been proliferating. They've accelerated since 2006, when Congress directed the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Energy to oversee efforts to mitigate spiraling data center power consumption.
Has AC met its match?
DC has emerged as one possible fix, primarily because it would eliminate one of the biggest sources of energy loss and waste with AC — the multiple back-and-forth transformations and conditioning needed to step voltage down for use by IT equipment. By converting high-voltage AC to DC earlier, keeping it in DC form, and delivering it directly to rack-based servers, energy loss from conversion and the resultant heat that must be removed with cooling that also requires energy could be reduced. In fact, some studies peg energy savings as high as 30%.
But AC's defenders, including those who supply essential AC-system components like uninterruptible power supplies (UPSs) and power distribution units (PDUs), dispute findings that suggest even modest energy savings. They argue that many comparisons with AC don't factor in components that improve the efficiency of standard AC-fed systems, and fail to acknowledge additional infrastructure costs and a dearth of commercially available IT gear capable of working with a DC-based distribution system.
Electrical contractors and engineers serving the data center market are watching the AC-DC debate play out and formulating positions on the relative merits of both. Whether DC emerges as the solution or AC continues to dominate, both will be affected by the need to design and install electrical infrastructures that deliver greater energy efficiency without affecting performance and reliability.
One that's bullish on DC is Rosendin Electric. The San Jose, Calif.-based contractor, which does up to 15% of its business in the data center market, helped stage a 2006 DC-data center demonstration project sponsored by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory that put a positive spin on the technology. Based on that study and other research, Vice President of Engineering Bill Mazzetti says he sees DC as at least part of the solution for making data centers more energy efficient.
"DC is very nascent in the industry now, but we like it for a lot of reasons," he says. "You're dealing with maybe three levels of power conversion compared to five for AC, plus it's a more stable source of power. It can improve system efficiency, and also improve the availability of power and uptime for a data center."
Another contractor that also works in the data center market takes a more practical view of DC's prospects, however. Gary Schaeffer, president of Guarantee Electrical Co., St. Louis, believes that while DC could theoretically reduce energy consumption, it would be hard to implement on a broad scale.
"We don't have the infrastructure in place for DC, and at high voltages the design criteria aren't as readily familiar to engineers. Plus, there's no maintenance criteria that's been developed by groups like IEEE," he says. "Data centers have a tremendous amount of operating experience with AC voltages, but there's not even five years experience with something like 380V or 550V DC."
Data centers poised to move
Still, engineers who design and operate data centers have been taking a closer look at DC and other solutions because of the rising costs of operation with AC systems. Many prominent companies have been either participating in or closely watching prototype projects, and are deploying representatives to energy conferences featuring DC-data center technology presentations and roundtables. Some are coming away convinced DC is at least worth a closer look.
Gannett Co., Inc., a McLean, Va.-based media company, is evaluating high-voltage DC for its data centers. Michael Beard, special project manager in facilities management for the firm, says the emergence of new technologies has made DC appear more viable. He cites advances in direct DC-powered servers and high-voltage DC distribution systems as cause for optimism that DC can work.
One option being considered for new Gannett data centers, Beard says, is a system that would convert AC to 600VDC at the service entrance and transfer it to power conversion units, which would then convert it to usable 48V power. For an existing Web-hosting data center, he says the company is considering scrapping a 480VAC system that steps down voltage to 208V/120V and then to 48V. It would be replaced with the 48VDC system commonly used in telecom applications, which converts 480VAC to 48V in one step with a DC-UPS/rectifier.
"We're interested in moving to DC because, like other data centers, we have density issues," he says. "It would enable us to operate in a denser environment because we wouldn't have the heat dissipation problems that AC systems present. A lot of the distribution problems with DC are being solved, and it's now in a form factor where it looks deployable."
Those projects, however, would require substantial infrastructure work by electrical contractors, Beard concedes. In the retrofit, power distribution units would have to be disconnected, and a new system would have to be built to take 480V power to the racks. A 600V system would be even more involved, requiring the placement of a separate inverter unit to transform the AC power and installation of an extensive conduit infrastructure to carry power to the IT equipment racks.
Other data centers, however, are sticking with AC but are hoping to improve its efficiency. Guarantee Electrical is helping design and build a new data center for Sisters of Mercy Health System in St. Louis that will use a higher-voltage AC architecture endorsed by a leading supplier of AC-based power distribution gear. The design incorporates a 230/400V distribution system, generating what the supplier says are substantial savings compared to the standard 120/208V architecture.
"It looks like a solution that will save weight, space, and cabling and deliver better efficiency," says Schaeffer. "And it looks like there might be a big savings in operating expenses over a long period of time."
Stakeholders make their case
The architecture, based on one widely used in data centers outside of North America, is one that this particular manufacturer is touting in a bid to counter research that hails the benefits of DC over AC for data centers. In numerous white papers published on the subject, the supplier says DC's value, propriety, and feasibility are overrated. They argue that new AC system designs can deliver similar savings and performance at lower costs.
For instance, the company concludes in "Quantitative Comparison of High-Efficiency AC vs. DC Power Distribution For Data Centers" that a 380VDC architecture might only yield a 1% reduction in data center power consumption, compared to an optimized AC system, which would be a better choice.
"Because the efficiency of the most recent generation of correctly designed high-efficiency AC power distribution systems are so high to begin with, there is simply very little room for a DC alternative to provide a meaningful improvement," it reads. "Most customers can and should specify high efficiency into their new AC designs, and solutions are available today to achieve very high power distribution efficiency."
Nevertheless, DC proponents remain stalwart in their belief that it can deliver real savings. White papers published jointly by consulting firms, product manufacturers, and data center designers lay out equally detailed arguments for DC's superiority.
"DC Power for Improved Data Center Efficiency," published in January 2007 as part of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory research project into high-performance high-tech buildings that included a DC demonstration project, argues high-voltage DC for data centers is a sound concept.
"We were also able to conclusively demonstrate to the data center industry that DC delivery systems are viable, can be 20% or more efficient than current AC delivery systems, be more reliable, and potentially cost less in the long run," it states.
Meanwhile, a paper presented at the recent Texas Power Electronics Technology Conference by DC-backer Richard Baugh, a Locust Grove, Va., engineering consultant, offered details on savings with a 400VDC power architecture.
"Servers equipped with DC power supplies, instead of AC power supplies, operate with 20% to 40% less heat, reduce power consumption by up to 30%, increase server reliability, offer flexibility to installations and decrease maintenance requirements," it says, adding systems can use available off-the-shelf components.
As stakeholders continue to choose up sides in the AC-DC theoretical debate, issues of practicality, inertia, and fear of the unknown may ultimately determine whether data centers begin migrating to DC. More dispassionate observers, like Rajan Battish, an engineer and principal with the Applied Technology Group of RTKL Associates, Inc., a Baltimore data center designer, say it's unclear whether data centers will take the plunge. Without a critical mass, an impetus for change might not emerge, and the cost of DC architecture might remain too high.
"The problem for data centers is how do they know this is not just a fad," Battish says. "Data center power usage is definitely an issue, but most operators are risk averse — and aren't likely to take a lot of chances. Some of the DC prototypes we're looking at would require an ungodly amount of power, two-story facility solutions, and massive cabling and busways. DC may be more efficient, but at the end of the day the juice may not be worth the squeeze."
Zind is a freelance writer based in Lee's Summit, Mo.
Sidebar: The Different Flavors of DC
Installing a DC architecture in a data center involves more than just understanding fundamental differences between distributing AC and DC. It also requires understanding different DC solutions.
Three main configurations dominate discussion of DC for data centers.
This involves use of a DC-UPS rectifier to transform AC to DC. In a typical configuration, 480VAC is quickly stepped down to 48VDC in the rectifier and then shuttled to PDUs and outputted to rack power supplies.
Common in telecommunications applications, its advantages include minimal AC-DC conversions, translating to high efficiency, scalability, reliability due to a lack of static switches that can fail, and a high degree of familiarity. Downsides for large data centers include the need for large copper runs, large-gauge power cables and/or bus bars to minimize distribution losses, and an infrastructure designed for short voltage transport distances.
500V to 600VDC
In a 550V design, 480VAC would be converted to 550VDC in a rectifier, moved to a PDU, and stepped down to 48VDC in a DC-DC converter before being distributed to power supply units.
A relatively new concept, this solution may be more efficient than either 48VDC or some configurations of 480VAC, the most common architecture used in modern data centers. With fewer components needed (static switches aren't required), it may be more reliable than 480VAC. Main distribution buses are smaller than in 48VDC systems, and long distances are possible between the power room and IT gear because distribution losses are minimized. It is also highly compatible with 48VDC power distribution and IT gear.
Drawbacks for data centers include: a need for multiple converters to keep transport voltages high; costly and less widely available specialty components like rectifiers; and widespread unfamiliarity and a lack of safety standards.
In this configuration, current would enter a rectifier at 480VAC and exit at 380VDC, where it would remain as it moves through PDUs and power supply units.
An architecture being hailed as possibly the best, most-efficient DC solution, it offers fewer power conversion stages and less and smaller equipment than 480VAC. Small distribution buses translate to ease of transporting power over long distances, and paralleling UPS units may be less complex than in a 480VAC design.
Drawbacks include: a lack of commercially available gear such as power supply connectors and rectifiers designed to work in such a system; a lack of product safety or building electrical standards; and the need for extensive modification of computing equipment.


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President Barack Obama's decision to get the U.S. military involved in rescuing thousands of Iraqi minorities facing possible death on a besieged mountaintop is raising the inevitable question: Who's next?
The humanitarian mission Obama ordered is another key chapter in one of the central foreign policy sagas of his administration: the struggle between the humanitarian impulse and the president's cautious approach to use of military force abroad.
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Thursday night, Obama articulated a foreign policy doctrine that genocide is a moral imperative that justified military force.
( Also on POLITICO: Neocons to Obama: No half-measures)
"When we face a situation like we do on that mountain — with innocent people facing the prospect of violence on a horrific scale, when we have a mandate to help — in this case, a request from the Iraqi government — and when we have the unique capabilities to help avert a massacre, then I believe the United States of America cannot turn a blind eye," the president said.
It was the second time Obama chose U.S. military action to stave off a potential mass atrocity. And it has led to calls for the president to extend this doctrine to other countries, most notably Syria, where more than 100,000 people have reportedly been killed — many in brutal attacks by Syrian regime forces.
"I do not oppose the president's airstrikes in Iraq," former State Department official and New American Foundation president Anne-Marie Slaughter said. "What horrifies me is that we are willing to use airstrikes to kill terrorists but not to stop government terrorists [in Syria] from dropping barrel bombs on children."
While Obama ran for president on a campaign to get the U.S. out of Iraq at virtually any cost, he chose humanitarian-intervention advocate Samantha Power — a chronicler of U.S. inaction in Rwanda in the 1990s — as a key foreign policy adviser in his Senate office and on the same presidential campaign.
( Also on POLITICO: Obama's liberal problem)
The previous standout example of humanitarian intervention in the Obama administration was his decision in 2011 to authorize airstrikes to head off a potential massacre of civilians in Libya as the regime of strongman Muammar Qadhafi disintegrated. Obama reportedly acted there under heavy pressure from Power, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and U.S. allies like France and Britain, but he did have U.N. Security Council backing.
During Obama's time in office, there has been no forceful U.S. military response to ethnic-based killings in various parts of Africa, including the Central African Republic and the Sudan region. Instead, the administration has provided military advisers and logistics support, while trying to organize others to restore peace. And he has resisted calls for direct military intervention in Syria, having briefly promised it after the Assad regime apparently used chemical weapons but pulling back when a diplomatic solution was reached.
Administration officials found themselves peppered with questions Friday about why the president had approved airdrops and potential strikes against Islamic State militants surrounding the Yazidis in western Iraq while rejecting years of calls for no-fly zones or similar strikes to protect civilians in Syria.
At the State Department, spokeswoman Marie Harf seemed exasperated by reporters' questioning why the U.S. acted in Iraq but not elsewhere.
( Also on POLITICO: A test of genocide prevention)
"We cannot and we should not fix every problem everywhere around the world or get involved in every situation. Or do airstrikes or do a no-fly zone. We have to look at each situation individually," Harf said Friday. "We have a situation where tens of thousands of people could starve to death, and we have the ability to do something. We're going to do it."
"But you're not doing it in other places," said Lara Jakes of The Associated Press.
"There are scores of places where the U.S. Government could have acted to prevent genocide, to mention just two Rwanda and Darfur. … Why is it that you chose to stop a potential act of genocide in this one place when you have signally chosen not to prevent things that you have actively described as genocide in other places?" Reuters' Arshad Mohammed inquired.
Harf said the U.S. efforts in Iraq was broader than just protecting minorities, since Obama also gave orders allowing strikes on Islamic State in the Levant positions outside Erbil in addition to approving such strikes to facilitate relief for the besieged Iraqi sect running out of food and water on a mountaintop.


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br>Looks like some new modules plus an update of the complex random are on its way!
It also seems that everything is slowly starting to become red, except for the legacy stuff... Looks like gold is being phased out? I personally like the black and red most anyways.
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br>Probabilistic generator WITH SWING!!!?
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br>Cool! Whats new in complex random? was thinking of getting one. br> br>
br>wish we could get more of the ADDAC 502 Lissajous Curves and Expansion (502B) before releasing new products
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Gotta be careful what you wish for, I was thinking they miss an envelope all the time... br> br>
br>505 EG looks bad ass.. I am ready to order!!
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Cool! Whats new in complex random? was thinking of getting one.
By the looks of it: A fourth channel! br> br>
br>I'm wondering what "sustain time" is though
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br>Flo, without talking to André, this doesn't seem be be an ADSR in the normal sense. But more a 4 stage envelope in the vain of digital implementations, like he did in the VCC for example. The start point of the stage can be set freely, time tells how long it needs to the start point of the next stage and shape provides the response. If you set S start =R start and shape to linear, it should resemble a classic ADSR.
What i do not get about this module: how to you page between the 4 envelopes? Seems to me all 4 will use the same settings but can be triggered separately. Only makes sense in a 4 Poly setup. br> br>
br>Hey mate! Good to "see" you!
Yeah, but sustain is still not a "time" parameter, right? Looks like a printing mistake to me. It was a tongue-in-cheek remark anyways.
I was really wondering about how to page between them too though. Good point.
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br>Yeah, it has been a while... real life interfered 2014 with modular time and mood ... 2015 will be better
Flo, you have to let loose from the classic gated ADSR concept.
See it like 4 stages, where start point can be set freely.
And i bet it's designed for 1 shot using triggers only and not to follow gates. A clue are the trigger ins, no mention of gates anywhere. I'm sure it is no typo, but the 4 stages are designed to have the same controls. This implementation doesn't work well following gate signals. On top i guess the release stage will not drop to 0, as this would make trouble when cycling. As there would be an intermediate stage or jump between R and A. I think it would be much clearer if he would have called the stages 1,2,3,4 in place of ADSR, what leads to the wrong assumption this is a "normal" gated ADSR envelope.
the VCC came with this kind of envelopes and i had to bugger André to get gate following ones. But i never really managed to get them work as i wished for multiple reasons.
EDIT: i overlooked the mode switches Gate/Trig/Loop.
So André may have implemented a proper solution here to make the Envelope follow a gate. My experience with this type of envelopes from Addac is from 4 years ago...
And if this solution is software based and not hardware, then i want it released for the VCC as well
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Let me already mention that this is a digital based module but extremely different from all our previous modules. This module is based on a new ARM 32bit micro controller running at 168Mhz, in practive about 20x faster than our previous modules, so a huge improvement hardware wise.
Also all CV outputs are 16 bit resolution and all CV inputs sampled at 12bit.
And some explanations:
First with the GATE/TRIG/LOOP switches each voice can be set independently to behave as a standard gated ADSR, a one shot triggered envelope or in a loop. All these work in either AD or ADSR mode.
In loop mode the trigger input sets the envelope total time clock, it can run up to a frequency of 1000Hz which allows to track a squarewave from a VCO becoming a dynamic 4 voice 4 point "wavetable" VCO.
Clock All input can be used to clock all voices to the same source.
There's a bit more technical info about this that i'll go through in more detail later on.
Bjorn is right describing it as a 4 point trapeze generator instead of a standard ADSR, where and adsr always starts and end at 0V, main difference is that in the 505 the ATK. START VOLTAGE pot allows to set this to any voltage (0 +5v or -5v +5v).
Also those 8 switches marked EOD/1->2/EOC … and EOD/1<-4/EOC ... are internal retriggers, it can retrigger forward or backward 1->2, 4<-1 … so 1 triggers 2 or 1 triggers 4 and so on… this trigger can be set to happen at 2 moments, switch left and it will trigger at the End Of Decay (EOD) switch right for End of Cycle (EOC), centre position for no internal retrigger.
Allow me a bit more time to explain the inner workings of the Hold buttons which have several features like setting different pot settings for each voice independently and a morphing mode between previous and new settings (my favorite!). But will describe this in more detail later, full prototype is running on my desk right now, if all goes we'll be shipping the first units in a few weeks!
for pre-orders drop us an email!
Early birds price 380€
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br>Ah, you mean like a DX7 or D50 envelope, and the "ADSR" would be the times, while the "Start Voltage" would be the levels. That would make sense. And the labelling was kept to be accurate for the gate mode or something like that... I guess we'll know soonish.
Edit: And sooner than thought it looks!
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Yeah finally ARM based, it was time for this step!
Aha, the magic is hidden behind the hold buttons.
So now that i know that paging is possible and these are not common controls for all 4 ENVs i'm getting exited.
And the morph function sounds promising as well.
380 with or without VAT? If the module holds up to what you explained, i'll probably get one. It does what i always wanted from the VCC, didn't really mange to get it to work the way i wanted. The module would be perfect for my sound design studio rack, already half filled with red, gold and blue
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br>wow this looks incredible! I think it is a really really good decision to switch to the ARM processor, if the VCC is gonna be ARM equipped in the future, I might get one eventually
EDIT: the eg att. pack looks interesting, is it a commonly controlled four channel vca? br> br>
The VCC is discontinued, there's also no plans to release such module with the ARM processor, ARM developing platforms are not exactly designed for enthusiasts, if Arduino coding was already complex for some users ARM coding would be undecipherable for most.
The EG. attenuation pack is basically what you describe, 4 vcas with common controls including an offset specially useful for cv.
all the very best
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br>André, i know ARM based VCC would result in something different.
I'll get back to you on this in private. br> br>
br>So what's the status of availability on some of the highlighted above??:
I'm namely thinking about the 501 right now..... br> br>
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br>ah! lovely!
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br>Very eager to check it out
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br>How much HP is the 505 ? I've been looking for a quad ADSR and might be inclined to get this if the early-bird opportunity is still at large
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br>Modulargrid says 28hp, sounds about right I'd say. br> br>
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Modulargrid says 28hp, sounds about right I'd say.
it is
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NEW DELHI: To switch over to clean transport on a large scale, major investments, incentives and policies are being introduced across the globe. The Government in India has also accelerated its efforts to speed up the development, manufacturing and adoption of electric vehicles (EVs). The rush is on to join the Clean Revolution in the EV sector.
The Department of Heavy Industry and industry body, Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) under the national mission for electric mobility, has recently roped in a consulting firm to chart out a roadmap for promoting electric vehicles in India.
The report aims to find answers to what could be the best option for India to promote electric vehicles, such as what sort of policy intervention would be required, and which incentives should be given.
The data will be based on opinions from various stakeholders, including companies and about 7,000 people, and the findings will be made public at the annual convention of SIAM, to be held on September in New Delhi.
Earlier in the Budget presentation this year, the Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, proposed setting up a National Mission for hybrid and electric vehicles to encourage manufacturing and selling of alternative fuel-based vehicles in India.
Subsequently, a National Council for Electric Mobility headed by Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises Minister was set up, as well as a National Board for Electric Mobility which has been formed at the secretary level.
In order to promote alternative fuel vehicles, the Budget for 2011-12 proposed a cut in excise duty on the development and manufacturing of hybrid vehicle kits to 5% from the existing 10%, plus full exemption of customs and countervailing duty (CVD) on the import of special hybrid parts.
Last year, the government also announced incentives of up to 20% on the ex-factory prices of electric vehicles, which was as high as Rs 1 lakh for an electric car sold in India during the remaining part of the 11th Plan 2010-11 and 2011-12.
At present, existing barriers to greater adoption of EVs include the higher cost of EVs, challenges in battery technology, limited range of EVs, lack of infrastructure, consumer mindset and inadequate government support.
It is believed that in order to resolve these barriers and for electric mobility to take off, continued government intervention and support, collaboration amongst various stakeholders, long term commitment with clearly defined short term and long term objectives, and a synergized, holistic approach is critical.
Explaining how India awaits an EV revolution, Aditi Dass, Program Manager, Cities & Regions, said, "Despite several challenges, the Indian automobile market seems to have great potential for EVs, and the National Mission for hybrid and electric vehicles is expected to add further impetus to the EV market"


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What is depression?
The word 'depression' causes much confusion. It's often used to describe when someone is feeling 'low', 'miserable', 'in a mood' or having 'got out of bed on the wrong side'.
However, doctors use the word in two different ways. They can use it to describe the symptom of a 'low mood', or to refer to a specific illness, ie a 'depressive illness'. This factsheet relates to depression, the illness.
Doctors make a diagnosis of depression after assessing the severity of a person's low mood, other associated symptoms and the duration of the problem.
Depression is also treatable. You may need to see a doctor, but there are things you can do yourself or things you can do to help somebody suffering from the illness.
What you cannot do is 'pull yourself together' – no matter whether this is what you think you should be able to do or what other people tell you to do.
People who have experienced an episode of depression are at risk of developing another in the future. A small proportion may experience an episode of depression as part of a bipolar affective disorder (manic depression), which is characterised by episodes of both low and high moods.
Who gets depressed?
- Depression is very common. Almost anybody can develop the illness.
- Between 5 and 10 per cent of the population are suffering from the illness to some extent at any one time.
- Over a lifetime you have a 20 per cent, or one in five, chance of having an episode of depression.
- Women are twice as likely to get depression as men.
- Bipolar affective disorder is less common than depressive illness with a life-time risk of around one to two per cent. Men and women are equally affected.
Getting depression is not a sign of weakness. There are no particular 'personality types' that are more at risk than others.
What causes depression?
- We do not fully understand the causes of depression.
- Genes or early life experiences may make some people vulnerable.
- Stressful life events, such as losing a job or a relationship ending, may trigger an episode of depression.
- Depression can be triggered by some physical illnesses, drug treatments and recreational drugs.
It's often impossible to identify a 'cause' in many people, and this can be distressing for people who want to understand the reasons why they are ill.
However depression, like any illness, can strike for no apparent reason.
It's clear that there are definite changes in the way the brain works when a person is depressed.
- Modern brain scans that look at how 'hard' the brain is working have shown that some areas of the brain (such as at the front) are not working as well as normal.
- Depressed patients have higher than normal levels of stress hormones.
- Various chemical systems in the brain may not be working correctly, including one known as the serotonin or 5-HT system.
- Antidepressants may help to reverse these changes.
Symptoms of depression
Stress can lead to you to feeling 'down' and 'miserable'. What is different about a depressive illness is that these feelings last for weeks or months, rather than days.
In addition to feeling low most or all of the time, many other symptoms can occur in depressive illness (though not everybody has every one).
- Being unable to gain pleasure from activities that normally would be pleasurable.
- Losing interest in normal activities, hobbies and everyday life.
- Feeling tired all of the time and having no energy.
- Difficulty sleeping or waking early in the morning (though some feel that they can't get out of bed and 'face the world').
- Having a poor appetite, no interest in food and losing weight (though some people overeat and put on weight – 'comfort eating').
- Losing interest in sex.
- Finding it difficult to concentrate and think straight.
- Feeling restless, tense and anxious.
- Being irritable.
- Losing self-confidence.
- Avoiding other people.
- Finding it harder than usual to make decisions.
- Feeling useless and inadequate – 'a waste of space'.
- Feeling guilty about who you are and what you have done.
- Feeling hopeless – that nothing will make things better.
- Thinking about suicide – this is very common. If you feel this way, talk to somebody about it. If you think somebody else might be thinking this way, ask them about it – it will not make them more likely to commit suicide.
How is depression diagnosed?
Unfortunately, there's no brain scan or blood test that can be used to diagnose when a person has a depressive illness.
The diagnosis can only be made from the symptoms.
Generally speaking a diagnosis of depression will be made if a person has a persistently low mood that significantly influences their everyday life and has been present for two weeks or more, and there are also three or four or more other symptoms of depression (from those listed above).
Who treats people with depression?
- General practitioners (GPs), most commonly help treat people with depression.
- Patients may also be seen by counsellors, who are often attached to GP surgeries.
- If the diagnosis is unclear, or the person is particularly ill, the GP may refer the patient to a psychiatrist.
- Patients may be referred to community psychiatric nurses (CPNs) by their GP or psychiatrist.
- People suffering from depression may also be seen by CBT therapists and other psychotherapists.
Treatments for depression
Sometimes when we are going through a 'bad patch' in our life, it's enough to talk through our problems with a friend or relative.
However, this may not be enough and we may need to seek professional help.
The important thing to remember about depression is that it's treatable.
There are many different types of treatment. These include medication and talking therapies (psychotherapy).
- There are many different forms of psychotherapy.
- Simply talking to somebody or your doctor about your problems is a form of psychotherapy and can help greatly.
- It's far better to talk about your problems than 'bottling-up' your emotions.
- More formal psychotherapy includes counselling, cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) and dynamic psychotherapy or psychoanalysis.
As a general, rule psychotherapies are as effective as medication for the treatment of mild depression. However, for more severe illnesses, medication is likely to be needed but may be supplemented with psychotherapy.
Exactly which type of therapy a doctor recommends depends on the particular problems a patient is suffering from, the views of the patient and local availability of psychotherapy. There is some evidence to suggest that CBT is a particularly effective form of therapy.
- Antidepressant medication (for example fluoxetine, venlafaxine) helps to correct the 'low' mood and other symptoms experienced during depression.
- Antidepressants do not change your personality.
- Antidepressants are NOT addictive.
In the last twenty five years, a number of new antidepressant medications have become available. The main advantage of these new medications is that they have fewer side effects than the older antidepressants and so are easier to take.
Your doctor will choose which medication to prescribe for you based on the side-effects of the drugs and your particular symptoms. We do not fully understand how antidepressants work. However, they appear to act on chemicals in the brain to correct the abnormalities that cause the illness.
When taking medication, it's important to remember:
- to take your medication regularly
- you are unlikely to see any improvement in your symptoms for two to four weeks after starting the medication
- once you have started to respond, you should slowly improve over several weeks
- current World Health Organization guidelines recommend that patients continue to take their medication for six months after having recovered. This is to prevent a recurrence of the illness when the medication is stopped
- antidepressants are effective for both treating episodes of depression and also for preventing further episodes of illness. Some patients who have had severe or many episodes of illness are therefore recommended to take medication for a long time
- stopping to take medication once you feel well is a common cause of a return of the symptoms of depression. You should therefore only stop after discussion with your doctor
- generally coming off antidepressants is not a problem, though usually you should gradually reduce the dose of the medication over a few weeks rather than stopping abruptly. If you stop antidepressants abruptly you may notice anxiety, headaches, stomach upset, sleep disturbance or other symptoms.
What happens if you do not respond to treatment?
Some people unfortunately do not get better with simple straightforward treatments.
It may be that they need to try a higher dose or different antidepressants. A combination of medication and psychotherapy could also be helpful.
It may be necessary for these people to be referred to a psychiatrist for more specialised help. The psychiatrist will want to talk about the problems the person is suffering and find out about background information, such as work and family, previous health or emotional problems and current medication.
The psychiatrist may then recommend different treatments, including combining two antidepressants or adding a medication such as lithium when someone is already taking an antidepressants. Occasionally, it may be necessary for the person to be admitted to hospital if the depression is very severe. This is only necessary in about 1 in 100 patients with depression.
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
Most people do not like the idea of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). It's a treatment that is reserved only for patients who have severe depression, for which it's highly effective and can work faster than medication.
It involves having a brief anaesthetic, which sends the person to sleep for 5 to 10 minutes. While asleep, a muscle-relaxing drug is given and a small electric current is passed through the brain for a fraction of a second.
Once the person has woken, it takes half an hour or so to get over the effects of the anaesthetic.
ECT is only given under the close supervision of an anaesthetist, a psychiatrist and nursing staff.
Most commonly, ECT is administered twice a week and around 6 to 10 treatments are necessary to treat the depression, though an effect may be seen after the first one or two treatments.
There's no evidence that properly administered ECT damages the brain in any way.
What to do if you are depressed
- Talk to people about how you feel. Don't bottle things up. It is NOT a sign of weakness to get help for your problems, in the same way that it would not be to get medical help for a broken leg or a chest infection.
- Although you may not be able to do the things you normally would (such as work), try to keep active as much as you can. Lying in bed or sitting thinking about your problems can make them seem worse. Physical exercise can also help depression and keep your mind off your worries.
- Do not increase your alcohol intake to try and 'drown your sorrows' or help you sleep better. Alcohol will only make the depression worse and harder to treat.
- If you are having problems sleeping, try not to lie in bed thinking about your problems and anxieties. Do something to take your mind off your worries, such as reading or listening to the radio.
- Self-help books may be helpful. Check out the health section of any good bookshop.
- If you are feeling suicidal or desperate contact a voluntary sector organisation, such as the Samaritans.
- Always remember that you are suffering from an illness. It is not you being weak, and you can NOT simply 'pull yourself together'. Your illness is treatable. You are also NOT ALONE. Depression is extremely common.
What to do if you know somebody who is depressed
Sometimes people are not aware that they are depressed. This can happen when the depression comes on slowly.
In addition many people suffering from depression blame themselves for not coping as they normally would, rather than thinking there might be some illness that has caused them to be this way. The illness can make a person think that it would be a sign of weakness to seek help for their difficulties. If you think that this has happened to somebody, you should try to talk to him or her about it.
Also try to remember the following.
- Listening can really help.
- Avoid saying, 'pull yourself together' or other remarks that make the person think that it is their fault that they are ill.
- If the person's problems do not sort themselves out in a week or so, suggest that the person seek professional help. Remind the person that this is not a sign of weakness or of being a failure.
- Don't nag the person or try to get them to do what they normally would. Remember they are suffering from an illness.
- Remind the person that they have an illness, it's not their fault and they'll get better no matter how hopeless they feel.
- Try to help them avoid resorting to alcohol, which does not help the situation. If the person talks of harming themself or committing suicide, take this seriously. Insist that they see a doctor.
- Remember that it does NOT increase the chances of a person committing suicide to talk to them about it.
Based on a text by Dr Hamish McAllister-Williams, MRC clinical scientist, senior lecturer and honorary consultant psychiatrist
Last updated 01.06.2016


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A slice of indulgence!!....A classic Italian dessert, though my way of making not as authentic which uses Expresso & Kahlua, it still taste as delicious. This will not be served to my boy 'cos of caffeine & alcohol! At least he got to munch on the balanced sponge fingers ^-^....
Coffee Syrup:
- 100ml strong brewed coffee
- 100ml Bailey's Cream
- 1/2 tbsp rum essence
Cream Filling:
- 500g mascarpone cheese
- 6 tbsp icing sugar
- 2 tsp vanilla essence
- 30ml Bailey's Cream
- 1 1/2 tbsp gelatine (dissolve in 1/4 warm water)
- 250gm non-diary whipping cream
- 36 sponge fingers
- cocoa powder
- With a wire whisk, beat cheese with sugar till smooth, stir in gelatine mixture, vanilla essence and baileys.
- Using a electrical whisk, beat whipping cream till stiff peak formed.
- Fold in 1/3 of the whipped cream into cheese mixture. Pour the batter into the balanced whipped cream and fold till combined.
Assemble the cake...
One at a time, gently dip sponge fingers (sugar side) in the coffee syrup. Place each dipped sponge fingers over a lined pan. I used a 8.5" Tupperware square container. It fits 9 sponge fingers per row. The container able to fit in 2 rows nicely. Before placing in the sponge fingers , I lined the container with foil extending over the edge so that I am able to remove the cake easily later on.
Spoon over half of the cheese filling. Spread evenly and dust cocoa powder over the filling. Repeat with another layer of sponge fingers. Drizzle 1 tsp coffee syrup over each sponge finger and spoon over the remaining filling. Spread and smooth the top. Cover and refrigerate for at least 4 hours, preferably overnight.
Just before serving, unmold the cake and dust the top with cocoa powder.


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While I was at Thanksgiving with my family Thursday, quite a controversial play happened in the Houston Texans-Detroit Lions game.
You've probably seen and heard plenty about the play by now:
Houston's Justin Forsett ran for an 81-yard touchdown, despite it being clear that his knee and elbow had touched down during the play. Detroit head coach Jim Schwartz then threw a challenge flag, only NFL rules stipulate that all scoring plays get challenged anyway.
So, since Schwartz threw the flag and essentially created a duplicitous request for a review, everything is cool, right?
The NFL rules also stipulate that if a coach throws a challenge flag on a play that is automatically challenged, the review is negated and the play stands as originally called. On top of that, the offending challenger gets flagged for a 15-yard unsportmanlike conduct penalty.
This is a perfect example of the rules getting in the way of common sense.
You would think that the idea would be to get the call right, but the NFL seems more concerned with players and coaches doing things "their way," whether that way makes sense for the spirit of competition or the enjoyment of the fans.
13 Sports Rules That Should Be Changed Right Now
That debacle got me thinking about other rules in sports that are outdated, ineffective, unfair, or just plain stupid. What follows is a list of the most egregious examples I could think of with help from my colleagues here at MSF.
If I forgot a terrible rule, let me know in the comments or on Twitter. I mainly only watch the four major sports (yes, I'm including hockey, but its classification as a "major" sport is tenuous, at best), so it's possible I missed some stupid ones in other sports.
1. Throwing a Challenge Flag on an Automatically Reviewed Play (NFL)
Why not kick this off with the aforementioned rule that potentially cost the Lions the game on Thanksgiving?
I kind of already covered why this rule is stupid, but let me sum it up like this: with this rule, the NFL is basically saying "Sure, the referees may have missed the call, but we told you not to throw a challenge flag because we already planned on reviewing the play anyway. But you didn't listen, so forget getting the call right, we're going to let the ruling stand as incorrectly called and back your team up 15 yards on the next play. DON'T MESS WITH ROGER GOODELL."
2. The "Restricted Area" (NBA & NCAA Basketball)
The "restricted area" is the arc 4 feet in front of the basket (3 feet in college) which is marked by a painted arc. If an offensive player creates contact inside this area, the call is automatically a blocking foul, regardless of whether the defender has established correct position to take a charge.
In theory, this rule is in place to limit collisions under the basket and open up play near the rim (read: dunks).
I'm not a fan of flopping, which is often the result of guys trying to get a charge call, but I do think that good defense should be rewarded. If a player establishes the correct defensive position and the offensive players crashes into him, it should be a foul on the ball handler, regardless of where the contact occurs.
The other problem is that referees consistently struggle to get the calls correct, even with the circle. I think that except for very obvious contact by either player, a no-call would be best in many of these situations.
Many NBA players take advantage of this rule, crashing into defenders under the basket to draw contact and two free throws. My favorite NBA team is the Spurs, but even I admit that Tony Parker (and Manu Ginobili, in his younger days) abuses this rule as much as anyone not named LeBron or Dwyane.
3. Offsetting Technical/Personal Fouls (NBA, NFL & NCAA Basketball & Football)
We've all seen this a hundred times: a guy takes a cheap shot or roughs up another player, that player responds physically or verbally, and the official rings up both guys for technical fouls (basketball) or personal fouls (football).
I know that the heat of battle makes it tough to see every little ticky-tack push and shove during games, but I think the officials should decide who they think was the instigator or agressor in every such situation and levy the violation against that one player.
Offsetting double fouls are a cop-out and nothing more than the official saying "Hey guys, I don't care who started it or whose fault this whole thing is, knock it off."
4. The Designated Hitter (MLB)
I prefer the National League's way of having no designated hitter, but frankly I don't care whether baseball has a DH or not, as long as both leagues' rules are the same.
Doesn't it seem really stupid that we have completely different methodologies in the same sports league, and that the layout of teams is such that the conflicting methodologies must collide to determine the champion of the sport?
It's downright absurd to me that teams manage and play all season (with the exception of interleague road games) by a certain standard and then are forced to change when the games mean the most.
I prefer the N.L.'s take because it places an emphasis on smarter in-game managing (which, let's be honest, still doesn't seem that difficult) and each team has 9 players, just as the game has always dictated. The designated hitter, to me, would be like having a guy come off the bench to shoot free throws when a poor shooter gets fouled in basketball.
Whether MLB decides to go the A.L. or N.L. route, however, I don't care. Just make it the same in both leagues.
5. Stoppage Time (Soccer)
Soccer's biggest allure is its free-flowing nature. Having a clock that never stops allows the viewer to be engaged for the full 90 minutes. Plus, it's impressive the endurance that the players exhibit without having built-in rest breaks like every other sport.
What seems really dumb to me (and MSF's Josh Tinley, who pointed this out), though, is allowing the referee to arbitrarily add time at the end of the match to make up for all the time that the action was stopped for injuries, out of bounds, penalties, etc.
Wouldn't it be easier to just stop time if something is going to take an extended amount of time to resolve (say more than 1 minute)? This would mainly be helpful for injuries (flops notwithstanding), in which players might legitimately need a few minutes to get off the field and receive medical attention.
Then, the time could still be added at the end in a specific amount as recorded by a timekeeper during the pause in the action. This would eliminate the players and fans having no real idea when a game is going end and might heighten the excitement in close games where a last minute score could make the difference.
Granted, I'm far from a knowledgable soccer fan, but this seems obvious to me.
You've seen the five most egregious sports rules that should be changed immediately. Now learn about 8 more that should also be changed right now, including:
- The dumbest, most dangerous rule in hockey
- Two NBA rules that make zero sense at all (and have swung entire playoff series!)
- The NCAA Basketball rule with reasoning that basically contradicts what we know to be true about the sport.
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She was 97.
She and her family lived on Atascadero Street for many years and she worked for Dr. Koontz on Cable Street. She was also in the Job's Daughters International organization and was a Pink Lady at Sharp Cabrillo Hospital.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Cliff, and daughter Carol.
Her survivors — son Donal (wife Karen), daughter Rilla (husband Neil) and two grandchildren (Lisa and Mark) — will miss her.