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*There is a whole lot more to talk about, but those things will be talked about in future guides, or you can learn these more advanced things yourself as well.
*There is a whole lot more to talk about, but those things will be talked about in future guides, or you can learn these more advanced things yourself as well.
Revision as of 11:36, 7 July 2018
The purpose of this guide is to provide you with basic instructions on how to play 1v1, specifically ladder. It's implied that you have already read the Beginner's Guide to Forged Alliance, the Three Essential Habits for the New Player, and the Unit Micro guides and have a general understanding of the basic game mechanics and terms.
Basic strategy
You should start by building a land factory and following up with one of the basic build orders shown in the Beginner's Guide to Forged Alliance. Depending on the size of the map you spawned on, the queue of your first factory might vary greatly. If it is a 5x5 you will need some early engineers and units, but later on your first factory can mostly build tanks (assuming you can keep your engineers alive). On 10x10 maps you will require some more early engineers along with a few units, but later on the factory can just build engineers. On 20x20 maps your first factory can make only engineers, leaving the combat units for factories built later. Your first engineers should build the mexes in your base that your ACU will not, begin building a hydro if one is available, reclaim any large rocks/wrecks near your base, and begin expanding to mexes outside of your base. Expanding engineers are vulnerable to your opponent's units so they should have an escort. A single tank escorting an engineer should be enough early on, but do not forget to bring along a scout for extra vision and radar.
The very early portion of your build is now complete. You have completed your 2nd factory, and have one or two engineers expanding with escorts. What now? Depending on your build and on the map you may have some mass still stored up. Look at your ecobar and see how much mass you have remaining. If you have more than 100 mass stored up and are not losing mass rapidly, feel free to build an additional pgen and a land factory or if you chose to go for 2 land factories, 2-4 more pgens and an air factory.
So now your ecobar should be mostly out of mass, whether after your early build or after constructing some extra structures. Your ACU should leave your base now. There is no more mass to spend until your expanding engineers build more mexes or reclaim. But where should it go? Often there is a cluster of mexes somewhat close to your spawn, your ACU is perfect for securing that. Remember your ACU is about as strong as 20 tanks! Make sure when you leave your base that you will have some engineers ready in your base by the time you get mass, in a pinch you can build a factory with your ACU while it's on the way to the expansion, but you would rather not.
After a while you will get some mass from your newly built mexes, and you will have a couple engineers in your base waiting to use it. The best thing to spend your newly gained mass on at this point would be extra land factories. Be aware, as you spend more and more mass, you will need more and more energy. You should be generally okay if you build 1 pgen for every land factory you build from this point on. For each air factory you will need 4 adjacent pgens. You should also begin building a row of pgens at the back of your base with 1 or 2 engineers, these will satisfy your new engineers building things, various upgrades, etc. Sooner or later you will be spending more mass than you are gaining, at that point you will need to manage your economy. You can either pause or cancel projects, depending on your preference. The first thing to pause would be the engineers building pgens (assuming you aren't stalling power). If you are still stalling mass after pausing pgen production, pause engineers building factories and if you are still stalling a lot of mass, pause some of the factories. You can unpause them once you get more mass.
Now, let's talk about units. Let's move all the way back to those first combat units; they are defending your expanding engineers. You can also raid with them instead, but that leaves your engineers vulnerable, pick your poison. How about your units coming out of your newer land factories? The rally point from those factories should be somewhere central, with good access to both your and your opponent's expansions. That way your units are at least a bit closer to where you want them to be instead of being right in your base. The queue of your land factories should be 1 scout, 5 tanks. You can add an anti-air or an artillery unit if necessary.
You should find some use for the units you build, don't let them just sit somewhere doing nothing. Either send them to raid your opponent or protect your expansions. Once you start accumulating more units you can do more daring raids to your opponent's expansions, try not to waste the units though. Or if your opponent is raiding you, send your units to defend your expansions. Some PDs are okay at defence, but you shouldn't build too many of them, 1 or 2 on an expansion should be more than enough if you also send your units. Consider PD more of a support unit rather than your primary defense force. You can also take your ACU on the frontlines, its power as a combat unit should be used, but be careful. Keep your army close to it and if you are clearly winning, consider sending it back to your base so you don't accidentally get killed and lose the game.
If T1 land and air alone won't win you the game or you wish to gain a tech advantage or just build higher tier mexes, see below in "teching" for some advice on when it is okay to tech.
Early aggression
If you wish to be aggressive very early on, you can make some LABs. If you use LABs, make them somewhere in your first 5 units. They are considerably worse than tanks so they can mainly kill engineers without an escort. Consider pairing them with scouts to find engineers more easily.
Eco balance
Balancing mass
- As stated above, pausing the engineers constructing pgens and factories is a good way to get out of a small stall or at the very least make you stall less. You can use reclaim to build more stuff than your income would normally allow, just don't rely on it too much as you do not want to stall once the reclaim stops. Keep an eye on your ecobar and adjust your active buildpower (engineers) accordingly. If you need mass for a specific project (tech, upgrade, ecoing, emergency PD), you can temporarily pause something that is taking up a lot of mass, such as mex/factory upgrades or some of your land factories. Just be sure to unpause your factories and/or continue upgrading your economy once you complete the new project.
- If you decide to spend your mass by building T2 mexes, be ready to spend the mass once the mexes finish. A T2 mex will give you 6 mass per second, which is as much as 3 T1 mexes. You should make sure you are not only spending your newly gained mass on more and more mexes. You should prepare engineers for a project of your choosing. This could be units, factories, pgens, or ACU upgrades.
- The best way to avoid overflowing mass is to have large amounts of buildpower available (engineers).
Balancing power
- You want enough, but not too much. Why? Because the cost of pgens adds up, and every extra one you build will cost you mass you could have spent on something else. On maps with little mass, you may want to build a row of pgens with just 1 engineer. On maps with more mass, 2-3 engineers making a pgen line should be enough. On high mass maps 4-5 engineers on the pgen line is usually enough. If you stall power, you can take some idle engineers and build a few pgens with them to fix your stall (do note that they will also take power to construct pgens, so your power stall will get worse temporarily). When stalling power, it is often a good idea to pause air factories so you can get your pgens up faster. This is because air costs more energy while land costs more mass. You can also disable any radars you may have. Once your stall is fixed remember to unpause these things.
- If you find yourself overflowing power, you have a couple places where you can quickly spend large amounts of it. Air production and ACU upgrades are the two major ways to spend energy. For air you can assist an existing factory with engineers or build new air factories. Since air costs very little mass, it is a good way to use your extra energy without hurting your mass income too much. ACU upgrades are a bigger investment since you have to complete the upgrade to get the benefit and it means your ACU will not be active but they have the potential to be extremely strong.
- Take great care building T2 pgens once you gain access to them. They are quite expensive and building extra ones can make you stall enough for your opponent to take advantage of your smaller armies.
Map control
Half of the map belongs to you, the other half to your opponent. Not taking your own half is a sure way to lose the game. Your ACU can expand after your early build order to 1 or 2 expansions, depending on the map, and your escorted engineers will take the rest. However, your opponent will try to deny these expansions on your side of the map by raiding them and you should do the same. While your ACU is expanding, your units should be either defending your expansions or raiding your opponent's. Once your ACU is done expanding you can send it to attack your opponent (along with a land army of course).
It can be quite difficult to gain control of mexes that are on your opponent's side of the map, thus, it is often enough to just deny them from your opponent (raiding). If you can keep your expansions intact and raid some of your opponent's expansions, you will be in a good position to win the game. Sometimes people might sacrifice map control for higher tech or a snipe. If you are able to scout well, you can avoid these nasty surprises (more on that below).
Reclaim can be seen when holding down ctrl and shift. Reclaim gives you a brief mass boost. Two types of reclaim exist. The type that is there when you spawn, and that which is created as you fight (wrecks). Natural reclaim consists usually of a few big rocks and from a large amount of small rocks spread around. Sometimes there are some wrecks near the middle of the map. You can boost your early mass (you are able to build more in your base before you leave) with reclaim that is close to your base.
You can either reclaim manually (best saved for high-mass things), or with an attack move or patrol. Engineers with an attack move stop reclaiming if your storage gets too full but they will also become idle once the reclaim runs out. Patrolling engineers don't lose the order if your storage gets too full but they never stop patrolling.
Destroyed armies leave a lot of reclaim. It is in your best interests to reclaim as much of the wrecks as possible, especially if they are T2 or T3 wrecks. Any nearby engineers should head for the reclaim field and begin reclaiming it. If there is a lot of reclaim, you can build a factory near it and use it to build engineers that will use the factory attack move for extra range.
Wrecks that are in water lose far more of their original mass value compared to if the unit died on land.
Trees give a miniscule amount of mass and some power. You should concentrate on rocks and wrecks first and once they run out, you can start reclaiming trees.
When should you tech and what should you tech? Generally it's a good idea to do some teching if you don't lose anything while getting it. For example, you start building a T2 mex, but you start stalling and get less units. Now your opponent can raid your expansion of 3 or 4 T1 mexes. You get your T2 mex but you actually have less mass income than before. Same applies to T2 factories. One of your factories goes T2 (can't produce units while upgrading) and you also get less units because you stall. Your opponent can again raid your expansion. A temporary loss of an expansion is already quite bad but if you can't get it back, you can enter a downward spiral that you might never be able to recover from.
You might have noticed that teching usually causes stalling. It is often a good idea to tech when you have a fair bit of mass stored up, be it from reclaim or from poor eco management. Avoid teching in the first minutes of the game though. If you tech too early, your opponent might be able to overrun you with T1 units.
Scouts and radar will be providing all of your intel. Land scouts in your armies allow you to get more vision on the area you are moving to. This gives you some extra time to retreat from a larger army or from a PD before you take significant losses.
Air scouts allow you to see your opponent's base and expansions. This allows you to see his defences and tech without having to get too close with your armies. After the scout has completed it's initial scouting run, you can have it patrol somewhere so you get a bit more intel. It is important to react to what you see. Do you see a raid coming? Move units to defend. Is your opponent getting T2 land or navy? Get your own if you can't prevent him from getting it. Is he ecoing a lot? See if you can't raid one of his expansions.
Radar lets you see the immediate area around your expansions (and base). A T1 radar will give you some warning of enemy raids but it is not too useful in helping you raid. You can build radars on harder to reach places (plateaus, closed off areas) or you can build them close to your advancing armies. These will allow you to see more and aid you in raiding but they are vulnerable to bombers, and the forward radars will likely be lost once you retreat. You can later get T2 and T3 radars, which allow you to see further, but also cost more power to run.
General guidelines for different map sizes
Without water
- 5x5
Small maps where every mex matters, very dependent on map control so teching early is rarely a good idea, build order matters a lot. Often very good maps for auroras. Using ACU in combat is a must-do. General gameplay consists of spamming T1 land and gaining map control with a slow switch to t2 or ACU upgrade (if they are made at all).
- 10x10
Medium size maps with every aspect of the game included. Spam T1 to hold your part of the map or try to attack, T2 stage is reached nearly always and is most of the time the "main" stage of the game, but T3 can be reached with relative ease too. Teching mexes is a lot easier than on 5x5 because you have more mass to work with and the distance between you and your opponent is bigger. Air can be used but rarely as your main weapon, it's good for raiding and snipes though. Be careful and watch out for those pesky ACU upgrades from your opponent, as they can be a very effective tool to push with.
- 20x20
Big maps with no water are rare and each one of them is quite different in how it plays. Generally speaking air is important as it's a lot more mobile than land, but on some maps like Emerald Crater T1 land spam has proven to be a very effective weapon just because of how little mass there is to work with and how land units provide a much better tool for securing map control (air is good for raiding but not for holding). With big amounts of mass on maps like Ditch (the navy on it is irrelevant), it's very important to tech quickly since the amount of mass allows it.
With water
- 5x5
If the water doesn't have a steep shore and can be accessed by land, hover units are very good. So get your own hover or frigates. Fast ACU through the water to the enemy base is also good. If it's inaccessible its importance decreases and it plays more like a 5x5 with no water (Balvery Mountains for example). But on maps like "TAG Voi Vittu" you have mexes underwater so it's still necessary to hold navy.
- 10x10
For example eye of the storm and white fire. If there is a land connection, it can be used for raiding and attacking. Air can be used for killing mexes or for aiding navy with torpedo bombers. Usually winning navy on these maps wins you the game.
- 20x20
Plays somewhat like a 10x10 land map, except you swap land and navy. Most important thing is to grab the map, especially on an island based map like Roanoke Abyss. Thus it's important to not stall eco early on and get a fast transport. Then you can play a "normal" game with eco and navy. Ultimately the goal is to win navy, air and hover units shouldn't be neglected. (A more detailed explanation below.)
Most naval maps are 20x20 and require a transport rush (see this video). Usually there are multiple islands/land masses that must be dropped to get the mexes in a timely manner. After or during your expansion with transport(s), you will build some naval factories. Early frigates can raid your opponent's mexes that are on the very edge of his island(s) and raid his engineers building naval factories if he gets them up too late. Once you have a bit of T1 navy and your expansions are secure, you should get T2 navy. Destroyers are able to shell your opponent's navy from afar and they can also kill mexes that your frigates can't reach. Often the player who has the most destroyers will win the naval game. This requires a good economy (you need to make some T2 mexes sooner or later) and ample build power on your T2 naval factory (engineers). You must not forget frigates though. A destroyer requires an escort of frigates. The destroyers main power comes from its range. If many enemy frigates get close, it will die quickly. A mix of destroyers and frigates is needed. Torpedo bombers can be used to kill destroyers, allowing you to swing the game in your favour.
UEF players should build some shield boats once they get T2 navy, it will increase the survivability of your destroyers. They should also consider getting T3 navy and battlecruisers once they have enough mass income and time to upgrade the factory.
A note on submarines. While they are ok against frigates, they are bad at raiding shore mexes (bad deck gun, have to surface), and have very low damage, which can allow your opponent to wreak havoc on your naval yards with a frigate before your subs can kill it. All destroyers also have torpedoes that will quickly deal even with large submarine groups (UEF has the torpedo boat for this purpose).
Get T3 sonar once you can build T2 pgens. With seraphim you have to build T2 sonars around the map.
General strategy/tactics/approach tips
- Before attacking evaluate if the attack will pay off or the reclaim left from units will only feed your opponent.
- Try to always know what your opponent is up to, as then it's only a matter of knowing the counter to his actions and good micro/macro.
- Don't "learn" maps, instead learn the game. A good player with deep game understanding will do great on any map, a player that focuses on map learning won't improve nearly as fast.
- Use your faction's advantages. You will learn about them as you get more familiar with the game but a lot of them are already in different guides, including the ones I linked above.
- Don't overcommit with ACU. Even though not using your ACU for its firepower might seem as the mistake, and often it is so, in many cases it's too dangerous to use it aggressively, you need to "feel" when to play passively and when not.
- Build power is also a resource, sometimes killing a group of engineers can make more difference than raiding mexes.
How do I improve?
- You won't improve fast just by playing a lot. You have to learn the mechanics first. You should have them covered by now, if not - read Beginner's Guide to Forged Alliance, and play a couple games to get a feel for the game. Next step would be to read this guide.
- After every game go and watch the replay, see what caused you to lose and be honest with yourself. Watch replays of people ~300 rating above yourself, I would say it's the best range to learn from. Those players are clearly better but also don't have a massive difference from your gameplay so it's easy to pick up things from their games. You can also watch replays of high level 1v1s, but picking things up from them will be quite difficult, but they are often a good source of build orders.
- Watch POV streams and videos, those will help you pick up things you couldn't pick up yourself from watching replays. It's a great way to entertain yourself and learn by watching a different point of view.
- There is a whole lot more to talk about, but those things will be talked about in future guides, or you can learn these more advanced things yourself as well.


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Ingredients You'll Need
12 ounces fresh cranberries
1 navel orange, scrubbed and cut into 8 pieces
2 apples, peeled and cut into 8 pieces
3/4 to 1 cup natural sugar
1/3 cup chopped pecans
Wash the cranberries and remove any stems, bad cranberries, or inedible stuff you find.
Put half of the cranberries, orange (unpeeled), and apple into the food processor and pulse to chop coarsely.
Some larger pieces are okay, but nothing big enough to choke on.
Pour into a bowl and process the other half of the fruit.
Put it into a bowl, add the sugar to taste, and mix in the pecans.
Refrigerate it for a day or two to allow the flavors to develop
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Easy-Peasy Caprese Salad with Fresh Basil
This month I have a ton of fresh Basil filling up my little balcony. It's actually getting a little out of control, and so I decided that I needed to eat as much basil as possible. And so, here's an Easy-Peasy Caprese Salad with Fresh Basil Leaves to start. Enjoy!
Easy-Peasy Caprese Salad with Fresh Basil Leaves [Recipe at Bottom]
The Caprese Salad is a traditional Italian recipe. Insalata Caprese in Italian.
This salad recipe originates from Capri, an island located in the Tyrrhenian Sea, south of the Gulf of Naples in the Campania region of Italy. It's a popular tourist destination, along with the nearby and magical Amalfi Coast. This is a glorious summer destination, and the Caprese Salad is a glorious summer salad.
Keep it simple.
The reason this salad caught my attention as soon as I arrived in Italy, was because of its simplicity. The Italians have quite a simple approach to cooking, where they use fewer ingredients and let them shine. I love this less-is-more approach to cooking.
The Caprese Salad is so easy to make with so few ingredients, that you may be tempted to add something else. Instead, try it as is in its simple form. Taste each and every ingredient, and the beautiful combination together.
Use the freshest ingredients.
The main ingredients are simply Tomatoes, Mozzarella, and Basil. Dressed with Extra Virgin Olive Oil, salt and pepper. That's all you need.
How about growing your own?
Grow your own basil if you can. All you need is a medium sized pot, soil, and basil seeds or a little plant. It's really not difficult to grow fresh basil. And then you have your own free supply at home, to use whenever you want. I have been loving growing my own basil this year. I have 2 nice big pots and very happy basil. Now in summer, the basil has been growing quickly, and I've needed to prune my plants down regularly. This is making me eat more basil. After all the effort you put into growing it, you wouldn't want to waste it. That's what growing your own food does – It makes you appreciate it more and gets you eating more of it. 🙂
Helpful Tips:
Get the best quality ingredients that you can afford.
Get the best mozzarella you can afford. Fior di Latte is the normal mozzarella to use – this is cow's milk mozzarella. Check out what's on offer at the supermarket or deli, and do a little research before on the different types. No need to empty out your savings, but get a good quality. The mozzarella can make a big difference, and I'll even prefer to have less mozzarella as long as it's good quality.
My preference is Buffalo Milk Mozzarella (Mozzarella di Bufala) because I love it's more robust flavour. That said, I love cow's milk mozzarella too 🙂 See what you can find, and try different versions until you find your perfect combo.
The mozzarella should be room temperature. Generally, if you buying mozzarella, use it soon after, while it's nice and fresh. If you keep it over a few days, you can keep it refrigerated. Take it out of the fridge a few hours before using it, so that it can get to room temperature before using.
Use big fresh tomatoes that are red and ripe, but still firm to the touch. You want the tomatoes to still hold their shape when sliced. In Italy, there are specific tomatoes that are traditionally used called Fiasona Pomodori, and Pomodori Cuore di Bue. I have used the Pomodori Cuore di Bue tomatoes that they are great, as the tomatoes keep their shape nicely when sliced.
Use fresh sweet basil leaves. When adding them to your salad, don't cut or break the leaves up, as this can make them bitter. Rather leave them whole.
Enjoy the simplicity of this dish. Don't try to add extra ingredients. Instead, celebrate each of the few ingredients, and just how well they go together!
You can serve one big salad plate for everyone to eat off, or make smaller salad plates for individual people. I prefer making one big plate and adding a few extra whole mozzarella balls in the middle. See what works for you.
You can eat this salad in different ways as a main or side dish. Enjoy it as a main salad for lunch. Have it as a side salad with a protein, like a steak. Or you could have it along with olives, fresh bread and cured meats. In Italy, it is perfectly normal to have an Insalata Caprese as a main meal, especially as a Summer Lunch.
You can also add a squeeze of fresh lemon at the end to give it a little zing.
Time to get cooking!
I hope you enjoyed this post. Go on, try out this Easy Peasy Caprese Salad with Fresh Basil Leaves recipe below. Let me know what you think!
If you have any tips or comments to share, please do so in the comments below.
The Caprese Salad is a classic Italian recipe. This salad is the perfect mix of incredible simplicity and amazing flavour. It is so easy to make with very few ingredients but a whole lot of flavour. Eat it as a main salad meal or a side dish with protein. *This Caprese Salad Recipe serves 2 people as a full meal, but experiment to find your perfect amount.
Slice the tomatoes in nice thick slices. About 6-7mm. Lay them out in a circle on a plate.
Slice the mozzarella into similar thick pieces. Lay them in between the tomato slices. If you have bigger mozzarella balls, put 1 or more in the middle of the plate.
Add the basil leaves in between the mozzarella and tomato slices. Sprinkle the rest loosely over the plate.
Just before serving, season with salt and pepper and drizzle with Extra Virgin Olive Oil. Enjoy!
Optional: A squeeze of fresh lemon at the end to give it a little zing.
Slice the tomatoes in nice thick slices. About 6-7mm. Lay them out in a circle on a plate.
Slice the mozzarella into similar thick pieces. Lay them in between the tomato slices. If you have bigger mozzarella balls, put 1 or more in the middle of the plate.
Add the basil leaves in between the mozzarella and tomato slices. Sprinkle the rest loosely over the plate.
Just before serving, season with salt and pepper and drizzle with Extra Virgin Olive Oil. Enjoy!
Optional: A squeeze of fresh lemon at the end to give it a little zing.
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Mallory-Weiss Syndrome
Professional Reference articles are designed for health professionals to use. They are written by UK doctors and based on research evidence, UK and European Guidelines. You may find the Mallory-Weiss Tear article more useful, or one of our other health articles.
Mallory-Weiss syndrome (MWS) is characterised by upper gastrointestinal bleeding (UGIB) from mucosal lacerations in the upper gastrointestinal tract, usually at the gastro-oesophageal junction or gastric cardia. Mallory and Weiss described the syndrome in 1929 in patients retching and vomiting after an alcoholic binge.
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MWS may also occur with other events which cause a sudden rise in intragastric pressure or gastric prolapse into the oesophagus. Sudden increased pressure within the nondistensible lower oesophagus causes tearing.
Epidemiology[1, 2]
- Acute UGIB is an emergency and has a mortality overall of 6-13%.
- The majority of cases of UGIB are caused by peptic ulcers.
- Mallory Weiss tears account for 4-8% of cases of UGIB.
- There is a wide age range. It is most common between the ages of 30 and 50 years. Tears can occur in children but are less common.
- Mallory Weiss tears may have become more common in recent years.[3]
Haematemesis due to a Mallory Weiss tear usually occurs after a prolonged or forceful bout of retching, vomiting, coughing, straining or even hiccupping.
Risk factors
- Excessive alcohol ingestion.
- Conditions predisposing to retching and vomiting. For example:
- Gastroenteritis.
- Hyperemesis gravidarum (the most common cause in women of child-bearing age).[4]
- Bulimia.
- Renal disease.
- Raised intracranial pressure.
- Biliary disease (gallstones and cholecystitis).
- Hepatitis.
- Migraine.
- Cyclical vomiting syndrome.
- Gastrointestinal obstruction.
- Medication such as chemotherapy.
- Chronic cough or acute causes of prolonged coughing bouts. For example
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
- Cancer of the lung.
- Bronchiectasis.
- Whooping cough.
- Bronchitis.
- Hiatus hernia. During retching or vomiting, the transmural pressure gradient is greater within the hiatus hernia than the rest of the stomach.
- Blunt abdominal trauma and cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
- Iatrogenic. Tears during upper gastrointestinal instrumentation are uncommon, even with the high incidence of retching during endoscopy.
- Ingestion of aspirin or other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs).
- In some patients no apparent precipitating factor can be identified.
- The classic presentation is of haematemesis following a bout of retching or vomiting. However, a tear may occur after a single vomit.
- Other symptoms include melaena, light-headedness, dizziness, or syncope, and features associated with the initial cause of the vomiting - eg, abdominal pain.
- There are no specific physical signs.
- An assessment of the degree of blood loss should be made. The Rockall scoring system can be used to assess UGIB.[5] A score of less than 3 is associated with an excellent prognosis and 8 or above an extremely poor prognosis. MWS is usually associated with a score of 3 or less.
Differential diagnosis
Haematemesis as a symptom has quite a long differential diagnosis. The following are important to consider (particularly with the retching and sudden bright bleeding associated with MWS):
- Boerhaave's syndrome (oesophageal rupture).[6]
- Other causes of UGIB - see separate article Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding (includes Rockall Score).
Endoscopy is the primary diagnostic investigation. Other relevant investigations include:
- FBC, including haematocrit to assess the severity of the initial bleeding episode and to monitor patients.
- Coagulation studies and platelet counts to detect coagulopathies and thrombocytopenias (routine platelet count, prothrombin time, and activated partial thromboplastin time).
- Renal function, urea, creatinine, and electrolyte levels (to guide intravenous fluid therapy).
- Cross-matching/ blood grouping and antibody screen (potential blood transfusion).
- Electrocardiogram and cardiac enzymes (may be indicated if myocardial ischaemia is suspected).
Initial management is described in the Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding (includes Rockall Score) article
Initial assessment and management
- Resuscitation is a priority - maintain airway, provide high-flow oxygen, correct fluid losses (place two wide-bore cannulae and also send bloods at the same time). Initial fluid resuscitation may be with crystalloids or colloids; give intravenous blood when 30% of circulating volume is lost.[7] Follow major haemorrhage protocols, which should be in place.
- Once the patient is more stable - take a history and perform an examination. Identify severity of blood loss and treat any comorbid conditions.
- MWS usually follows a benign course but occasionally endoscopic treatment is required to stop bleeding.
Endoscopy[5, 7]
- Ideally, endoscopy should be performed within 24 hours, as tears heal rapidly and may not be readily apparent at endoscopy after 2-3 days. Haemodynamically unstable patients should have endoscopy immediately after resuscitation.
- Proton pump inhibitor (PPI) use is not recommended prior to diagnosis by endoscopy. A Cochrane review found PPI use at this stage was not associated with a reduction in re-bleeding, need for surgery or mortality.[8]
- Most patients stop bleeding spontaneously.[1] A few will require endoscopic intervention. There is no consensus about the best endoscopic technique to use.[9]Banding and clipping techniques have been found to be effective.[10, 11, 12] Other techniques used are injection with adrenaline (epinephrine) and thermocoagulation therapies.
- Most patients present with a single tear. The tear is usually just below the gastro-oesophageal junction on the lesser curvature of the stomach.
- Tears may be associated with other mucosal lesions. These may contribute to bleeding and/or cause the retching and vomiting. Endoscopic examination should be thorough to look for co-existing lesions.
Post-initial endoscopy[7]
Calculate the full (post-endoscopic) Rockall Score, as described in the Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding (includes Rockall Score) article. A score <3 is associated with low risk of re-bleeding or death and can be considered for early discharge, whereas a score >3 indicates patients need further close observation as an inpatient.
- Careful monitoring is needed after endoscopy for UGIB (pulse, blood pressure, urine output). It is imperative to identify re-bleeding or continuing bleeding.
- Patients with clinical risk factors for re-bleeding (for example, portal hypertension, coagulopathy) comprise about 10% of cases. These and those with certain endoscopic findings (non-bleeding visible vessel, pigmented protuberance, or adherent clot) should be observed for 48 hours.
- If patients are stable 4-6 hours after endoscopy they should be put on a light diet, as there is no benefit in continued fasting.
- Occasionally the bleeding cannot be stopped using endoscopic treatments. Angiography with vasopressin injection or embolisation is occasionally used in this situation. Rarely, surgery is required to close the tear.
- If re-bleeding occurs, it usually takes place within 48 hours. Shock at initial manifestation and active bleeding at endoscopy are risk factors predicting recurrent bleeding in patients with MWS.[13]
These relate to:
- Symptoms:
- Vomiting (hypokalaemia and other metabolic disturbance, aspiration pneumonia, perforation and mediastinitis).
- Severity of bleeding:
- Hypovolaemic shock, and death (very rare with good care).
- Re-bleeding. (More common in those with shock at presentation, lower haemoglobin levels, multiple transfusions or active bleeding seen at endoscopy.)
- Myocardial ischaemia or infarction.
- Comorbidities:
- Myocardial ischaemia (precipitating, for example, myocardial infarction).
- Hepatitis (precipitating, for example, liver failure).
- Renal disease (precipitating, for example, acute kidney injury or acute on chronic kidney disease).
- Diabetes (worsening control and diabetic coma).
- Treatment or investigation:
- Endoscopy (mediastinitis, aspiration pneumonia, perforation or aggravation of bleeding).
- Angiotherapy (organ ischaemia and infarction, aggravation of bleeding).
- The prognosis is generally excellent. Most patients usually stop bleeding spontaneously and the tears heal rapidly, usually within 48-72 hours. The majority have stopped bleeding by the time of endoscopy.[1]
- However, bleeding is variable and can range from a few specks or streaks of blood mixed with mucus to large amounts of fresh blood.
- Re-bleeding occurs in 8-20% but is more common in those with risk factors (see under 'Prevention' section, below).[10, 13]
- Associated diseases may have a significant effect on prognosis; for example, cirrhosis carries a very poor prognosis.[13, 14]
Recurrence is rare but it makes sense to counsel patients about precipitating factors (for example, binge drinking, alcohol consumption, excessive straining and lifting, violent coughing) that may lead to a recurrence and are generally hazardous to health. Risk factors for recurrent bleeding include:[13]
- Initial presentation of shock.
- Liver cirrhosis.
- Decreased haemoglobin and platelet count.
- Need for blood transfusion.
- Intensive care management.
- Active bleeding noted at the time of endoscopy.
Further reading and references
Holster IL, Kuipers EJ; Management of acute nonvariceal upper gastrointestinal bleeding: current policies and future perspectives. World J Gastroenterol. 2012 Mar 2118(11):1202-7.
Wilkins T, Khan N, Nabh A, et al; Diagnosis and management of upper gastrointestinal bleeding. Am Fam Physician. 2012 Mar 185(5):469-76.
Henrion J, Schapira M, Ghilain JM, et al; Upper gastrointestinal bleeding: What has changed during the last 20 years? Gastroenterol Clin Biol. 2008 Sep 9.
Ismail SK, Kenny L; Review on hyperemesis gravidarum. Best Pract Res Clin Gastroenterol. 200721(5):755-69.
Acute upper GI bleeding; NICE Clinical Guideline (June 2012)
Lewis AM, Dharmarajah R; Walked in with Boerhaave's, Emerg Med J. 2007 Apr24(4):e24.
Management of acute upper and lower gastrointestinal bleeding; Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network - SIGN archived content (September 2008)
Sreedharan A, Martin J, Leontiadis GI, et al; Proton pump inhibitor treatment initiated prior to endoscopic diagnosis in upper gastrointestinal bleeding. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2010 Jul 7(7):CD005415. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD005415.pub3.
Higuchi N, Akahoshi K, Sumida Y, et al; Endoscopic band ligation therapy for upper gastrointestinal bleeding related to Mallory-Weiss syndrome. Surg Endosc. 2006 Sep20(9):1431-4. Epub 2006 May 15.
Lecleire S, Antonietti M, Iwanicki-Caron I, et al; Endoscopic band ligation could decrease recurrent bleeding in Mallory-Weiss syndrome as compared to haemostasis by hemoclips plus epinephrine. Aliment Pharmacol Ther. 2009 Aug 1530(4):399-405. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2036.2009.04051.x. Epub 2009 May 26.
Cho YS, Chae HS, Kim HK, et al; Endoscopic band ligation and endoscopic hemoclip placement for patients with Mallory-Weiss syndrome and active bleeding. World J Gastroenterol. 2008 Apr 714(13):2080-4.
Shimoda R, Iwakiri R, Sakata H, et al; Endoscopic hemostasis with metallic hemoclips for iatrogenic Mallory-Weiss tear caused by endoscopic examination. Dig Endosc. 2009 Jan21(1):20-3. doi: 10.1111/j.1443-1661.2008.00825.x.
Kim JW, Kim HS, Byun JW, et al; Predictive factors of recurrent bleeding in Mallory-Weiss syndrome. Korean J Gastroenterol. 2005 Dec46(6):447-54.
Schemmer P, Decker F, Dei-Anane G, et al; The vital threat of an upper gastrointestinal bleeding: Risk factor analysis of 121 consecutive patients. World J Gastroenterol. 2006 Jun 1412(22):3597-601.


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Lewis Hamilton says Mercedes performance problems in hot conditions have been exposed by Ferrari in Bahrain while underlining he has no "party mode" for qualifying with his engine.
The reigning Formula 1 world champion produced the near-perfect lap for pole position at the 2018 opener in Australia but has struggled to replicate his pace in the heat of the desert in Bahrain with Ferrari stealing a march on Mercedes in qualifying with a front row lockout.
Reflecting on seeing Mercedes out-performed by Ferrari, Hamilton fears the German manufacturer's weaknesses from 2017 are reappearing as it struggles to find front-running pace from the Pirelli tyres and its F1 car in hotter conditions while also playing down the team's engine "party mode".
"I guess it ultimately proves everyone who said we had a party mode in the last race were wrong," Hamilton said. "Ferrari have done a great job this weekend, they've got the pace and it's been a difficult weekend for me overall in general. I hope tomorrow I can turn it upside down.
"Ferrari are just quicker in general everywhere and been a bit better with their tyres. They always are in hot places like this. I think when we come to a hotter circuit often the gap closes a little bit because the Ferrari's maybe have an upgrade, their engine mode is easily as good as ours. As you could see this weekend on the straights they are just as quick if not quicker.
"When you get to a hot circuit it's really difficult to keep the temperatures low in the tyres and that's something they've always been good at."
Hamilton ended qualifying fourth, behind the Ferraris and teammate Valtteri Bottas, but will start the Bahrain Grand Prix from ninth place with a grid penalty for a gearbox change.
Last year in Bahrain Hamilton lost out to Vettel and Ferrari during the race despite a Mercedes front row lockout with the German taking victory ahead of Hamilton in second and Bottas in third.


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Mary F. Massie, 81, of Xenia passed away Saturday, July 27, 2019 with her family at her side.
Mary was born on February 18, 1938 in Washington CH to the late John F. and Mary (Rayburn) Phillips. She had retired after many years of work as a staffing assistant at the Federal Building in Downtown Dayton. She was a devoted wife and mother, who leaves behind a wonderful legacy.
Along with her parents, Mary was preceded in death by a daughter, Marsha Massie and 3 brothers, Jerry, Richard, and John R. Phillips.
Survivors include her loving husband Harry Massie; her children, Betty (Conrad) Urive and Robert Massie; grandchildren, Leisa O'Dell, José Urive, Natalia Urive, Paul Massie and Carla Massie; along with 11 great-grandchildren, and many extended family and friends.
A memorial service will take place at 12pm on Saturday, August 3rd at the Roberts Funeral Home in Washington CH with Pastor Danny Dodds officiating. Burial will follow in the Highlawn Cemetery. A gathering of friends and family will take place on Saturday from 11am until the time of service.
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Tortoise is a certainty and The Catastrophist confirms the undertaken sound path with their previous album bacons of ancestorships.
Abandoned vibraphones and marimbas that outlined their passion towards the avant-garde minimalism and classical music of Steve Reich and Terry Riley, leverage the skills to build bass music played in a hypnotic and hallucinogenic way.
The title track that opens the album is the development of the "penumbra" (Bacons'track) that was a little more 'than an interlude of a minute with echoes of Yes of better times, Georgia Hubley accompanying the item in "Yonder Blue", the Stereolab ("cobra and phases group play voltage in the milky night" produced by John McEntire Tortoise in '99) seem to slip through the folds of the disc without shame in conjunction with "rock on" who together with his men sang and distortion bitcrusher seems to repeat the disc collaborative few years ago that the Tortoise made with Bonny Prince Billy ("the brave and the bold").
With "Shake hands with dangers" back loops and backbeat low bpm that characterized them, heavily embellished with fuzz guitar sounds and modular, so 'as in the stunning first single "gescap" crossing synth harmonies in that bittersweet characteristic that has always characterized the harmonic line of Tortoise when pushing on that hybrid of melody, rhythm and research.
Dub pulsation of bass lines are now more linear and rock oriented than before,the band interweaves as if they are looking for a distant echo of classical music flowing in progressions and backbeat in slow motion that made school thanks them.
Some moments seem to the well-refined post-jazz that I find "outburst" just in Isotope 217, one of the side projects of the group with their guitars Jeff Parker in '97. The episodes reminiscent of the previous albums, especially in its lysergic suites always dynamic, full of counterpoints and jazzisms , "tesseract" is a perfect example of what the Tortoises make with a look to Matching Mole's Robert Wyatt and they succeed rather fine. God forbid don't have them, they're still here and it's a hard-solid album.


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The NKyTribune will be featuring each of the 21 high school football teams in Boone, Campbell and Kenton counties leading up to the first games of the 2018 season on Aug. 17. We will then provide focused coverage of our local teams throughout the regular season and into the playoffs.
By Terry Boehmker
NKyTribune sports reporter
Highlands football player Austin King missed a full week of preseason practice earlier this month because he was attending the Governor's Scholar Program at Morehead State University.
While he was away, however, King said he lifted weights or worked out at the campus recreation center after the daily educational sessions. He didn't want to slack off his training since he was voted a senior team captain.
"I know that we are surrounded by many supporters throughout our community and it wouldn't be right to give anything less than our best," he said.
King is one of several starters returning from the Highlands team that posted a 6-6 record last season. That was a step forward for the Bluebirds, who finished 3-8 one year earlier.
But the Highlands football program has such a proud winning tradition that anything less than making a serious run for a state championship gets lost in the shadow of previous success.
"It's been tough," King said of the last couple of seasons. "Obviously, whether you like it or not, you're going to hear the noise around town, and we certainly understand it. But that's not what we want to hear this year."
King, who is also the senior class president, is willing to do whatever he can to help the Bluebirds become a Class 5A state title contender once again.
"He's one of many on our team like that, but he's definitely something special," said head coach Brian Weinrich. "We're excited with the leadership they're all providing."
Last year, King was a tight end and wide receiver on offense. The 6-foot-3, 220-pound senior also played on the punt and kickoff return teams and he was the holder on placekicks.
The top two pass receivers on last year's team graduated and the third one, Grady Cramer, has moved into the quarterback position. That means King and fellow seniors Nate Roberts and Ben Sisson are the veterans in this year's receiving corps.
"We've got three guys who we think are going to create some issues with Austin and Nate being big bodies who look like tight ends and Ben Sisson being every bit of 6-foot-6," said Weinrich. "With the three of them on the field, we feel like that could really give our quarterback some viable options in terms of mismatches."
Last season, King started out as a blocking tight end and then moved to wide receiver. He ended up catching just 10 passes for 96 yards, but he worked hard during the offseason to improve on those numbers.
"I would say I like being a receiver more (than tight end), but they're obviously both important and I'm willing to do whatever helps us score more points than the other team by the end of each game," King said.
That team-first attitude is prevalent among the Highlands players, according to Weinrich. During spring practice, several of them were willing to switch positions to fill vacancies on the offensive line.
"We had an offensive linemen focused spring and we went from not having many to having good depth from (grades) 10 through 12," Weinrich said. "We're excited where we are now."
If the offensive line comes together, Highlands could be a high-scoring team once again. Cramer has some varsity experience at quarterback and last year's leading rusher, Cooper Schwalbach, is also returning.
Weinrich said the defense also has a solid group of returning starters. That puts the Bluebirds in a good position to restore the program's winning tradition this season.
"Every day we have that mindset to sort of bring it back and produce for the people who support us the most," King said.
2017 season: 6-6 record, lost in second round of Class 5A playoffs.
District: Class 5A, District 5 with Covington Catholic, Dixie Heights.
Head coach: Brian Weinrich (30-22 in four seasons at Highlands).
Aug. 17 – COOPER, 7 p.m..
Aug. 24 – at Campbell County, 7 p.m.
Aug. 31 – SCOTT COUNTY, 7:30 p.m.
Sept. 7 – at Ryle, 7 p.m.
Sept. 14 – at Lexington Catholic, 7:30 p.m.
Sept. 21 – SIMON KENTON, 7 p.m.
Oct. 4 – at Dixie Heights, 7 p.m.
Oct. 12 – COVINGTON CATHOLIC, 7 p.m.
Oct. 19 – GREENWOOD, 7:30 p.m.
Oct. 26 – BOONE COUNTY, 7 p.m.
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They're calling him Daniel the miracle dog. He's been named for the Bible hero who walked away from the lion's den unscathed. Because what better name could there be for a dog who went into an overcrowded Alabama animal shelter's gas chamber to be euthanized and walked out wagging his tail? But the true miracle of Daniel, the 4-year-old beagle who survived being gassed, is yet to come.
There are hundreds of people lining up to make him their family pet. And no wonder. Did you get a load of this little man's face? It's enough to make me want to hop in my car and take off for Eleventh Hour Rescue in Rockaway, New Jersey right NOW. Never mind the fact that I currently have one dog who drives me batty, and I'm always saying, "Never again, never will I live with this many pets!"
Even without his back story, he's just that stinking cute. But then there's that story. And oh what a story. Literally abandoned at the shelter in Florence, Alabama, no one came to claim him. No owners, no potential family. So he was put into the gas chamber with 17 other dogs.
And only he walked out. If you're not crying, you at least have a lump in your throat right now, am I right?
But however supernatural Daniel's powers may be, let's face facts. He's just one miraculous mongrel (now being cared for by a foster family for Eleventh Hour). Only one of these apparent hundreds of families can actually take the little guy home and help him bulk up from his little 20-pound frame into a happy, healthy version of man's best friend.
So here's the real test of Daniel's superpowers. Will he inspire those hound-hungry hoards to settle for another animal in need?
We live in a country where Humane Society estimates say 56 percent of dogs and 71 percent of cats that enter animal shelters are euthanized. And unlike Daniel, most of them don't walk out with tails wagging. In fact, just in 2008, they say approximately 3.7 million animals were euthanized.
We have literally millions of animals entering the shelter system every year. Millions who could use homes. And these people who were struck by a cool story on the news could be the ones who save another pup from the gas chamber ... by making sure he never makes it there. Daniel can save hundreds more lives!
Go ahead, try for Daniel. But if you don't get him, how about adopting another dog?
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The glider has 2 physical sections internally, the first is the buoyancy engine section and the second is the control boards and the pitch mechanism. The current design (below) uses pogo pins and a pair of boards to electrically connect the two sections, however this has two main downsides.
The first problem with the pogo pins is that they use a spring mechanism in order to ensure a reliable connection, this causes the two sections of the glider to be pushed apart when the glider is assembled, which reduces the reliability of the connection. The other issue with this connection type is that the travel of the pogo connectors is only a few mm, which means that the rest of the glider must be aligned to within a couple of mm - the current solution to this is the sliding mounting bracket of the pogo connector PCB.
With this in mind, the ideal connection would be one that does not have a spring contact and has ~10mm of travel. After having a look I was able to find the PCB contacts from Harwin that do exactly that, namely the H3169 and H2170 connectors.
I ordered some sample connectors and they came through and were a perfect match for what I wanted, so I went ahead and purchased ~20 more connectors and designed some boards in Eagle for the two sides of the connector. Below is an image showing that the connectors in varying positions, all with solid electrical connections.
I designed some updated boards for the ordered the PCBs through OSHpark and a massive shoutout to Drew (@pdp7) for providing great customer service and making sure I got my boards within a week. Below are some images of the boards and what they look like with the PCB connectors attached.
This new configuration also more equally distributes the force of the contacts through the plate, as opposed to on the small section at the top. I designed and printed an updated PCB mounting bracket and you can see how the board fits in-between the alignment rods:
Although using Onshape was an interesting experience, I am now transitioning to Solidworks for the design of the glider, but understanding that not everyone has access to Solidworks, I will still be providing the STL files so anyone can download and print the parts. The PCB files are also in the Dropbox development folder.


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Two smartwatches were in the spotlight during the last edition of IFA in Berlin: Samsung's Galaxy Gear and Sony's Smartwatch 2. But is it fair to compare the devices to each other?
It isn't, we concluded when we got the chance to test the Smartwatch 2 at Sony's stand. In terms of display size, the two smartwatches are virtually identical: 1.6 inch in Sony's case, and 1.63 in Samsung's case. However, the image quality of the display is a different story altogether: with an AMOLED display and a resolution of 320 x 320, the Samsung Gear offers sharper and therefore more beautiful images. This is the kind of quality you would expect from an iPhone or Samsung S series device. With 220 x 176 pixels, the Sony Smartwatch images mainly looks pretty granular and unclear.
However, many people are much more enthusiastic about the design of Sony's smartwatch than about the Galaxy Gear's design. From a small personal poll on Twitter, we quickly learn that 90% of the respondents prefer Sony´s design over that of the Gear. Sony's smartwatch looks a lot like an iPod Shuffle attached to a watchband, and despite its 1.6 inch screen it looks small and flexible. Added to which, the wristbands come in a broad range of colors varying from black, white and brown to pink, purple and turquoise.
Yet, there is a reason why the Smartwatch 2 is considerably smaller than the Galaxy Gear. The device does not have any of the special features of the Galaxy Gear. Examples are a microphone and speaker that allow you to make calls from your wrists, an integrated 1.9 megapixel camera and hard disk for storing pictures, as well as a pedometer, gyro sensor and accelerometer for tracking various types of activity.
The Sony offers nothing of the kind. It exclusively functions as an extension of your mobile phone — a second screen, in fact. Does that render the device completely useless? Absolutely not, because if you pair it with your smartphone via Bluetooth, you can open apps like Twitter, Facebook and Runkeeper and view their content on your smartwatch. This is really handy in some situations. If you wear a headset, you can also use the device to make and answer calls without the need to remove your phone from your pocket.
So, it still remains to be seen who's going to win the smartwatch battle: will people opt for design and a smaller feature set, or will the early adapters decide for the chunky Galaxy Gear en masse for their first wearable experience? Time will tell, but the price of both devices might just play a decisive role in their selection: the Sony Smartwatch 2 is directly available at a recommended retail price of €199. The Galaxy Gear will hit the shops later this month and retail at €299.


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It's been a great summer, and we've each had the chance to talk with many Christian artists at various festivals and events. Yes, we've humbly requested they join us for an upcoming podcast. One of those great people is Danny Gokey! He's one of those blessed dudes who must be happy all the time thanks to his perfect life. He's got a beautiful growing family (baby Gabriel was just born August 24th, 2017!), an incredible music career impacting hundreds of thousands of people through his ministry, and even more businesses and foundations to his credit.
But behind the glare of those stage lights, Danny has been challenged by incredible heartache and loss. Battling depression and facing the all-too-real suffering that life can bring is something we can all face. And Danny is no different. During our chat, he gives us incredible insight into how he was able to rise above those valleys in life, and that by placing his absolute trust in God, how he was provided the strength and support to overcome those hardships.
Plus, hear how while working as a truck driver Danny would listen to financial radio host Dave Ramsay and why he was inspired to pursue a debt-free life. We share plenty of laughs too, so check out episode #16 as we get Between The Grooves with our new buddy Danny Gokey!
What we talk about:
- Battling depression that Danny now feels he's been fighting most of his life
- The danger of letting pain become louder than the voice of God
- Danny's vision for helping build the Kingdom through business development
- Placing your tragedy and heartbreak into the hands of the Father
- What advice he'd share with his younger self while a contestant on American Idol
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Information in Assemble can be easily shared in a number of formats. The Model Inventory, including it's Grouping and Columns exports directly to an Excel Workbook or a Navisworks Search Set. Any View or variance run from the Compare feature can also be exported to either an Excel Workbook or Navisworks Search Set. In addition, data added to an Excel Workbook that originates from an export from Assemble can be uploaded into the database, providing your team with another form or collaboration and data population.
Follow the workflow below to integrate change reports or model quantities into your existing coordination or estimating workflows.
Exporting Data to Microsoft Excel
You can choose to export the data to include instances or to exclude instances. By including instances, you will see a row for each instance of the model element in your Excel file. By excluding instances, you will see your grouping order tiered from the highest tier of your grouping order down to the Type level.
Note: Excluding instances will reduce the size of the exported file.
To export to Microsoft Excel including instances:
- At the top of the Inventory, click the Import/Export dropdown and choose Export to Excel.
- Assemble generates a default file name using the Project Name – Model Name – Version – View – DateTime. Change the file name if desired.
- Check the Include instances check box to export the instances.
- Click Export.
To export to Microsoft Excel excluding instances:
- At the top of the Inventory, click the Import/Export dropdown and choose Export to Excel.
- Assemble generates a default file name named using the Project Name – Model Name – Version – View – DateTime. Change the file name if desired.
- Un-check the Include instances check box to exclude the instances.
- Click Export.
Notes regarding the exported Excel file:
- Pick-list options (enumerations) for properties that have pick-list values in Assemble will be available in Excel. Look-up values, such as Assembly Codes, will not be look-up values in the Excel file.
- The Excel worksheet will not be Protected by default. However, by protecting the sheet, cells that can be imported into Assemble will be unlocked, whereas all other cells will be locked.
- Quantity column values will be rounded to 2 decimal places (hundredths).
- Quantity column values will have bold text.
- Rows 1 through 4 will be "frozen" so headers do not scroll.
- Borders are set to All, Black, and Thin.
- "Description" column width is set to 75 with wrapped text.
- Page size is set to 11 X 17 with Narrow page margins.
- Page orientation is set to Landscape.
- Print page order is set to over, and then down.
Importing Data from Microsoft Excel
Data conditioning is a core value of Assemble. While Assemble has made huge advances in conditioning model information directly through the Assemble web application, there are still a number of scenarios that are difficult to handle through the Assemble web application, but are easy to address using standard Excel features. Rather than recreate the wheel, Assemble leverages the power of Excel and the ability to update Assemble parameters via an Excel import.
- From the left panel, under Export / Import, select Import from Microsoft Excel.
- Click Choose File to locate and upload the Excel file you wish to import. Please note that your file must adhere to the import acceptances and constraints listed above.The hyperlink to export a view to Excel will open the Export dialogue window. Please note that if you want to import changes made to instance properties, the Include Instances check box needs to be checked.
- After uploading your Excel file, click Import. You will have a chance to review what will be imported prior to accepting the changes.
- The Initial Check dialogue window will provide you with a summary of changes, or will notify you that there is nothing to change. To see the individual call-out of changes, click the Download Full Import Logbutton prior to accepting the changes. Please note that once changes are accepted, this cannot be undone.
- The Import Log will list the instance and/or type changes, any warnings regarding making the acceptance, and/or messages regarding ignored columns.
- When you are ready to commit to the changes, click the Accept button. Otherwise, discard the import by clicking the Cancel button.
- After accepting the changes, you will be notified when the import is successful. Again, you have an opportunity to view the committed changes by clicking the Download Full Import Logbutton. Click Close to return to your work in Assemble.
- The Assemble Grid will be refreshed to show your imported data.
Notes regarding importing from Excel:
- The imported Excel file will affect only the model version you are currently working with.
- To import instance properties, instance IDs must be present.
- Type properties can be imported without the need for instance IDs.
- Imported properties will adhere to the Properties Manager rules.
- Read-only properties will not be imported.
- Geometrical data cannot be altered.
- Excel file cannot have duplicate column headers.
- Column headers in Excel file can exist in either Row 1 or Row 4.
- The following columns (properties) will always be ignored:
- Color
- Category Name
- Item column
- Source ID
- Quantity
- Unit
- Geometrical columns, such as Length, Area, Volume, etc.
- Import from Excel supports properties for Revit models; AutoCAD properties are not currently supported.
- Models published prior to February 28th, 2014, will have limited editable properties. To view, manage, and import all properties, models would need to be republished.
- The parameter must exist in Assemble in order to import.
- Visual Variance mode does not support the Excel Import feature.


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Valuation Partners, a national appraisal management company, announced Jayson Dammen as its new vice president of the Western region.
In his new role, Dammen is responsible for overseeing business development and new client services in California, Arizona, Nevada, Washington, Utah, Idaho, Oregon, Montana, Alaska and Hawaii.
"Jayson is ideally suited to help more lenders access the valuation products and services they will need to thrive in this business," Valuation Partners CEO Bill Fall said.
"He is a proven business developer with a long track record of managing strategic client relationships, and he is respected and well connected nationwide," Fall said. "We're very fortunate to have him."
Dammen brings over 25 years of experience in the mortgage industry, primarily as a correspondent lending executive. Most recently, he worked as an account executive in the correspondent lending division of Impac Mortgage Holdings, where he developed and managed client relationships with mid-sized to large mortgage bankers in Southern California and Arizona.
Before that, Dammen was regional sales director in the correspondent division of Prospect Mortgage where he managed relationships with mortgage bankers in the Western U.S.
Dammen is a two-time recipient of the chairman's award at GMAC/RFC, a three-time Top Producer at FBS Mortgage and a President's Circle recipient at PMI.
"I am delighted to join a true industry leader and to help accelerate Valuation Partners' business growth in the West," Dammen said. "Demand from lenders for better appraisal quality has never been greater, and reliable third-party compliance is at a premium."


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This Sunday is the Feast of Christ the King, and the Gospel reading is John 18.33-37
The month of November has had a particular focus on the Kingdom of God. On All Saints' Sunday and Remembrance Sunday, we have been reminded that the earthly, visible church is part of a far greater Body: that we are united not only with Christians across the earth, but across all ages, in one fellowship with Jesus Christ as our Head and King. Last Sunday, the Gospel reading spoke of the turmoil of earthly empires and kingdoms, and reminded us that our security is found in God's rule, not in human authorities.
The very first line of each Gospel marks out the tension between Christ's kingship and earthly empires. The Greek word for 'Gospel' (evangelion) meant the proclamation of good news concerning the Emperor. An evangelion would be issued to his subjects know that an Emperor had come to power, had a son, or occupied new territory. In calling their works 'Gospels', Matthew, Mark, Luke and John are each making an extraordinary claim: that true sovereignty lies in the hands, not of Casear, but of one born in a manger and crucified by the religious and imperial powers of his age as a common criminal.
Jesus' Kingdom is not 'of this world,' not one among many political forces jostling for power. But it has implications for this world, and for the way it is to be ordered. The truth proclaimed by Christ the King challenges this world's idolatries – the things we place our trust in, and build our lives around.
As Jesus himself tells us (Luke 4.18-19), this means "Good news for the poor" release to captives, recovery of sight to the blind, freedom for those who are oppressed and 'the year of the Lord's favour' (that is, a year of Jubilee). In the Magnificat (Luke 1.46-55), the song used by many Christians in their evening prayers, we are told more about the new Kingdom dawning in Christ, the Son of Mary:
He has brought down the powerful from their thrones,
and lifted up the lowly;
he has filled the hungry with good things,
and sent the rich away empty.
The Feast of Christ the King is an opportunity for both rejoicing and challenge. Rejoicing, because if Christ is the King of the Universe, the task of transformation does not fall on our shoulders alone. Christian ministry is a participation in God's work of transformation, and the final triumph of Christ's Kingdom is secure.
For all that, this feast should challenge us – and shake us out of complacency or purely other-worldly piety. There are dramatic implications for our lives and our society if the one who was born of Mary and crucified under Pilate is not simply a remarkable human being but (to use the full title of this Feast) 'Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe'.
Almighty, ever-living God, it is your will to unite the entire universe
under your beloved Son, Jesus Christ, the King of heaven and earth.
Grant freedom to the whole of creation,
and let it praise and serve your majesty for ever,
through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
God for ever and ever. Amen.
(Prayer for the Feast of Christ the King, Roman Catholic Daily Office)
Prayer intentions
Pray for the Joint Ventures which the Church Urban Fund is setting up with Dioceses across England – and the very practical work they will generate to enable some of the country's poorest neighbourhoods to experience something of the generosity and justice of God's Kingdom.
Pray too for the work the Contextual Theology Centre is doing to help Christians make a deeper connection between prayer and social action – so that our lives are neither other-worldly, nor simply full of human activism. Pray especially for the Quiet Afternoon next Sunday (2nd December) on Mary: Prayer and Action – and for the team of speakers (from Pentecostal, Anglican and Roman Catholic partner churches).


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As you already know, MARI is a powerful painting program that allows you to operate directly on 3D models.
Designed to meet the needs of even the most challenging VFX projects, MARI is capable of handling super high-resolution textures and millions of polygons without slowing artists down. MARI interacts well with other pipeline tools and with industry standard Python scripting and a customisable UI artists can work the way they want to.
MARI was the primary 3D paint tool used on 9 of the 10 features shortlisted in the category of 'Visual Effects' in the 2013 Oscars®. These include: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, The Avengers and Prometheus.
Among its features :
- Every channel is now a full, non-destructive, layer stack.
- Shaders now use layered channels to control every aspect of the surface look including diffuse, displacement and specularity.
- Fully updated .PSD support means MARI 2.0 works seamlessly with Adobe® Photoshop® and other paint software that reads industry standard .PSD files.
- All the control and flexibility artists know and love from 2D painting applications is now available in full 3D, directly on the model.


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The ZFS file system is used widely on BSD, and is coming into more use on Linux. Following are some of my notes on it.
FreeBSD comes with the ZFS service installed, but not active. We need to start the service, and also tell the system to start it when the system reboots.
echo 'zfs_enable="YES"' >> /etc/rc.conf service zfs start
Now that we have ZFS running, we'll create a zpool, the basic container for all of our stuff. In this case, I want to use the raidz2 for redundancy (two drives are used for checksumming). Since I don't know the correct names for everything, I'll egrep /var/run/dmesg.boot to find them
# find the drives on the system egrep 'da[0-9]|cd[0-9]' /var/run/dmesg.boot | sort # we want RAID-6, name it storage, and us /dev/da0 through 7 zpool create -f storage raidz2 /dev/da[01234567]
It is perfectly fine to set up swap on a ZFS volume, but we do want to turn of checksumming. Here, we'll create a 2G ZFS volume named swap (in storage, so storage/swap), add an entry to fstab, and turn it on.
zfs create -V 2G -o checksum=off storage/swap echo '/dev/zvol/storage/swap none swap sw 0 0' >> /etc/fstab swapon /dev/zvol/storage/swap
NOTE: you can add space to this swap area in real time, if you do it at a time when the swap is not necessary to the continued operating of the machine. Simply turn off swap, increase the volume size, then turn swap back on again.
# turn off swap swapoff /dev/zvol/storage/swap # increase volume size to 4G zfs set volsize=4096M storage/swap # check that it worked zfs get volsize,reservation storage/swap # turn swap back on (could also use swapon /dev/zvol/storage/swap, but I'm lazy) swapon -aL
ZFS has properties that allow you to modify the way the file system works. The following example sets a quota of 100 Megabytes for storage/varlog so our logs do not fill up the system.
Note the last line showing you can set multiple properties at one time by separating the properties by spaces
zfs get all storage/varlog zfs get quota storage/varlog zfs set quota=100M storage/varlog zfs set exec=off checksum=off storage/varlog
If you want to return to the default settings, where a property is inherited from the container, use the following code
zfs inherit -r quota storage/varlog
So, you have zfs running, and you have some automated process running every morning at 4am. Now, you want to see what changed in the 24 hour period.
# get a list of snapshots so we know exactly what to ask for zfs list -r -t snapshot storage/someplace # find the differences. First one should be the most recent zfs diff storage/someplace/subdir@20181209_041339 storage/someplace/subdir@20181209_041339 # same thing, but looking only for one subdir named joe zfs diff storage/someplace/subdir@20181209_041339 storage/someplace/subdir@20181208_041339 | grep '/joe/'
output is similar to Subversion, ie a 'M' indicates it was modified, a - indicates it was removed, and a + indicates it was added. Note that your snapshots do not have to be consecutive; you can look at the diff between your oldest and newest snapshot, or even your current copy, as this shows:
# compare snapshot taken 20181209_041339 with the current copy zfs diff storage/someplace/subdir@20181209_041339 storage/someplace/subdir
List all snapshots in a particular tree. gives USED (space used by snapshot) and REFER (data referred to in original set)
zfs list -r -t snapshot /storage/varlog
Remove an existing snapshot (use above command to find the correct name)
zfs destroy -r tank/storage/varlog/@20181026_054020
Get a nice list of stats on every dataset in a tree (does the whole tree). Gives AVAIL, ie amount of space available, USED, USEDSNAP (space used by snapshots), USEDDS (space used by the dataset exclusive of snapshots, ie actual data), USEDREFRESERV (whatever that is) and USEDCHILD (used by children of the dataset).
zfs list -o space -r storage/varlog


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