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Importance Inpatient care providers often order laboratory tests without any appreciation for the costs of the tests.
Objective To determine whether we could decrease the number of laboratory tests ordered by presenting providers with test fees at the time of order entry in a tertiary care hospital, without adding extra steps to the ordering process.
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Participants All providers, including physicians and nonphysicians, who ordered laboratory tests through the computerized provider order entry system at The Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Intervention We randomly assigned 61 diagnostic laboratory tests to an "active" arm (fee displayed) or to a control arm (fee not displayed). During a 6-month baseline period (November 10, 2008, through May 9, 2009), we did not display any fee data. During a 6-month intervention period 1 year later (November 10, 2009, through May 9, 2010), we displayed fees, based on the Medicare allowable fee, for active tests only.
Main Outcome Measures We examined changes in the total number of orders placed, the frequency of ordered tests (per patient-day), and total charges associated with the orders according to the time period (baseline vs intervention period) and by study group (active test vs control).
Results For the active arm tests, rates of test ordering were reduced from 3.72 tests per patient-day in the baseline period to 3.40 tests per patient-day in the intervention period (8.59% decrease; 95% CI, −8.99% to −8.19%). For control arm tests, ordering increased from 1.15 to 1.22 tests per patient-day from the baseline period to the intervention period (5.64% increase; 95% CI, 4.90% to 6.39%) (P < .001 for difference over time between active and control tests).
Conclusions and Relevance Presenting fee data to providers at the time of order entry resulted in a modest decrease in test ordering. Adoption of this intervention may reduce the number of inappropriately ordered diagnostic tests.
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From the Jomo Kenyatta Airport which is 20 minutes drive. You take Mombasa road and drive to Langata road drive up to Karen Shopping Centre. From Karen you drive down to Ngong road and turn at KEPHIS. Mkenya backpackers is situated on Ololua Ridge.


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Borough Market is easily accessed by public transport. We're seconds walk from a major train station, on countless bus routes and even provide bike racks for keen cyclists.
If you're travelling to the Market using public transport, Transport for London's Journey Planner, which you'll find to the right of this page, is a useful tool.
Our address is: 8 Southwark Street, London, SE1 1TL
View the Market on Google Maps.
Travel by train and underground:
The Market is located right next to London Bridge Station which is serviced by the Jubilee and Northern Lines on the Underground and by overground trains from all over London and the south of England.
To find us, simply exit the station and cross Borough High Street – you can't miss us!
Travel by bus:
If you're travelling by bus, stops at London Bridge, Borough High Street or Southwark Street will leave you right by the Market.
Travel by bike:
We provide bike racks so you can cycle to and from the Market. You'll find the racks in the Jubilee Market but spaces are limited.
If you're using a Barclays Cycle Hire bike, the nearest docking stations are located on Southwark Street and Park Street.
We are also easily reached by foot or along the Thames Path on the Southbank or over London Bridge from the City
Travel by car:
There are now a limited number of parking spaces available in Jubilee place for customers unable to use other forms of transport or wishing to make larger purchases. Charges are £4 for a maximum stay of 2 hrs. Jubilee place now also provides extra bike racks, electric car charging bays and mobility scooter hire.
The parking will operate from:
09:45-15:15 Monday-Tuesday
10:45-17:15 Wednesday-Thursday
11:45-18:15 Friday
07:45-17:15 Saturday
Getting around the Market:
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By Andrew Nemethy
Dec 5, 2012
Photo courtesy of the Vermont Historical
Game warden Chad Barrett (right) and trainee Robert Currier
stand in a field in Middlesex during the start of a long shift
Friday looking for game violations by poachers. From October
through early December, wardens are often straight out responding
to complaints and tips about illegal hunting, a practice that
dates back more than two centuries in Vermont.
They have been called miscreants, outlaws, poachers,
deer-jackers, game hogs and certainly, worse.
Ever since Vermont's first fish and wild game law was passed in
1779, the lure of venison and the thrill of an illicit hunt has
brought out the worst, not to mention the wiliest, of humankind:
people hell-bent on taking a deer, any time, any which way.
Peruse old stories and historical documents on deer hunting and
you'll find no shortage of opprobrium, scorn and lament about the
poaching fraternity.
"Most of the game laws are made on account of the
thoughtlessness and avariciousness of a few all-around
lawless people," opined a 1916 article in the annual conservation
issue of "The Vermonter" magazine. It went on to call poachers
"game hogs" who illegally damage a resource that belongs to all
A 1904 article in the "American Rifleman" magazine criticizes
Vermont "miscreants (to avoid worse epithets)... who are a law unto
themselves and do not hesitate to kill in utter disregard of the
Vermont can tally more than 230 years of determined illegality
in pursuit of the almighty buck, or the unfortunate doe - though by
the late 1800s deer were hunted to virtual extinction, leading to
hard times even for poachers. Today, the deer herd is estimated at
123,000 and in a world were just about everything has changed from
Vermont's early history, poaching is one of the few things that
remains the same (though the weapons and tactics may have changed.)
Think of it as an enduring, if not exactly laudable, Vermont
Few think about it more, especially at this time of year, than
the state's 27 field game wardens, who are annually confronted with
illegal hunting activities that vary from brazen to clever,
impromptu to clumsy and almost incomprehensibly stupid, as well as
sometimes dangerous. (The only fatality in the history of
Vermont game wardens occurred in 1978 when a poacher beat warden
Arnold Magoon to death with a big flashlight.)
The weeks from Oct. 6, when bow hunting season opens, through
Nov. 10, when rifle season begins, and then on through Dec. 9, when
muzzle-loading and the second bow season ends, may be known as deer
hunting season. But for game wardens, it might as well be known as
poaching season.
"I would say during deer season, about half my time is spent on
it," says warden Chad Barrett, who spent Thanksgiving Day planting
a deer decoy and staking it out before dawn, took a mid-day break
and was then out again later in the evening.
Trying to catch poachers is an often difficult task for various of
reasons, mostly having to do with the time it takes the state's
small warden force to get to the scene of suspicious rifle shots or
activity or a dead deer. Barrett covers all the way from his home
in Waterbury Center down through the Mad River Valley and into
Granville - a distance that easily takes an hour to cover along
busy Route 100. According to the Fish and Wildlife Department, each
warden oversees roughly 300 square miles on average.
"We've just got our finger in the dike," says Barrett, who cites
an out-of-state study circulated among Vermont Fish and Wildlife
officials that estimated that for every poacher caught, 10 get
Lt. Curtis Smiley, a 19-year veteran warden now stationed
in Essex, has written about the history of the state's game
laws and wardens. Each year inevitably adds to the rich lore of
tales about poaching and game wardens who find themselves playing a
"cat and mouse" game, he says. However, sometimes, it's anything
Smiley himself was involved in one of the more dicey and brazen
incidents back around 2000, "almost right in front of my
house," when he was stationed in Plainfield.
He was driving on his day off in broad daylight on a rural road
following a car which had a legal doe strapped to its trunk when
the vehicle slowed to a crawl, stopped, and a muzzleloader suddenly
popped out the window and fired at a deer in a field.
Smiley still remembers his astonishment: "Like really, did he
just do that?" (Shooting from the road is illegal). He figures the
driver didn't know anyone was behind him, let alone a game warden,
because the deer on the trunk blocked the view. Smiley ended up
wrestling the gun away and facing down three men in the car with
loaded guns while a passerby saw what was going on and called state
police for backup.
"They were pretty shocked, I think," Smiley says. His arrest
caught a well-known poacher and highlighted the often inept actions
of poachers.
"In fall, it's generally just people out doing stupid things,"
says Smiley, "usually young males."
Major Dennis Reinhardt, who oversees the field game wardens as
deputy chief, seconds that impression. He cites a perfect example:
the day Chelsea Game Warden Jeffrey Whipple didn't have to go very
far to find a couple of drunk poachers with a deer.
They had passed out in their car and conveniently parked in
Whipple's driveway.
Barrett says the last thing he always asks poachers and
deer-jackers in his investigations is why they did it.
"It seems like out of about 15 guys I arrest a year for
poaching, there's only two or three say I lost my job, the
economy's bad, I need the meat," Barrett says. The rest? Young
people whose reasons were "drunk, smoking dope, nothing better to
Barrett recalls a particularly wanton poaching spree five years
ago that involved three men roaming between Stowe and Waterbury
Center, using a crossbow to go deer-jacking between 2 and 5 a.m.
They killed at least five deer.
"They would switch who would shoot and who would drive and who
would hold the flashlight," he says. A suspicious passerby tipped
wardens off, leading to their arrests.
Stupidity isn't limited to the actual shooting. Many a poacher's
undoing involves making the mistake of bragging about their
escapades in a bar or to friends, according to wardens.
Still, illegal taking of deer can be quite discrete. Wardens
know well that for some there's a deer camp tradition of providing
"camp meat" for the crew. Then there are notorious poachers, even
families, known for their wily skills. They hunt carefully and in
places where no one is likely to catch them.
Photographer John Miller of Coventry, who wrote and photographed
hunters in his beautiful book "Deer Camp - Last Light in the
Northeast Kingdom," collected many funny stories about wardens'
escapades with poachers, which he says are passed on through
generations and take on almost mythic proportions.
One of his favorites is the time now-retired Northeast
Kingdom warden Norman Moreau was on a night-time stake-out by a
field with a deputy when they were startled by a loud rifle shot.
They laid low to see what would happen and soon saw the silhouette
of two men dragging something toward them in the dim moonlight.
When they got to the truck, Moreau and his deputy jumped out and
announced themselves to two startled poachers.
In the dark, says Miller, they had mistaken Moreau's truck for
their own. "They dragged the deer right to the warden," he
Chalk that one up for the game wardens in Vermont's long-running
contest of wits.
In This State is a syndicated weekly column about Vermont's
innovators, people, ideas and places. Andrew Nemethy is a veteran
journalist and editor who lives in Calais.


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Well, sort of.
We never actually got to see what the console looks like.
Instead, we saw a lengthy presentation from Sony's developer partners and got a look at the new controller.
The console will launch in time for the holidays this year. Check out our live blog below to see all the news as it happened.
5:37 PM We're in the building after waiting in the freezing cold for about an hours. With luck, our fingers won't be numb by the time the event starts.
5:47 PM This place filled up so quickly. Latecomers are being directed to sit in the balcony. 15 minutes until the show starts.
5:50 PM 10 minute warning!
6:00 PM Lights are down. Here we go!
6:01 PM They just showed the PlayStation logo "PS..." then cut it off. Very clever.
6:02 PM Now we're watching a montage of PlayStation games, including some classic ones like Grand Theft Auto.
6:02 PM Oh! Cool recap of old PlayStation commercials.
6:04 PM Andrew House is on stage now
He's the host of the event. Welcome!
6:04 PM "The stakes are high for what we're going to show you...bold step forward for PlayStation and Sony as a company."
6:04 PM Today we'll show you how we're strengthening the PlayStation ecosystem.
6:05 PM Connectivity between device are essential to meeting the demands of today's casual or core gamer.
6:06 PM Lots of talk about mobile. Sounds like whatever Sony announces will work on mobile devices too.
6:08 PM Throwback! Here's the old PlayStation controller
6:08 PM Today's announcement will deliver the most powerful gaming platform ever.
6:09 PM It's called PlayStation 4!
6:11 PM Mark Cerny on stage now
6:12 PM Started working on PS4 about 5 years ago
How to free developers from limitations. Also looked at how ecosystem could be evolved to take preference-driven path through world of content.
6:12 PM Started developing PS4 in early days of PS3
6:15 PM Goals with the PS4
Nothing should come between the player and the game.
System architecture should connect player to larger world of experience...across other devices too.
Wanted to hear from developers and what was important to them. Wanted to make them happy, which would result in better games.
6:15 PM We were able to create a platform by game creators for game creators.
6:16 PM Architecture a lot like a PC.
CPU is x86, like many PCs. Graphics processor is an enhanced PC GPU. 8 GB of memory. Hard drive for storing games and media.
6:17 PM New controller: The DualShock 4
6:18 PM Controller features
Touchpad, share button, headphone jack, and a light bar to identify players.
There's also a camera accessory to track the controller.
6:18 PM Now we're getting a demo
6:19 PM Here's the controller
6:20 PM Now we're getting a demo that shows 1 million objects moving at once. It's all powered by the graphics processor.
6:22 PM Cerny says he's making a game too. Here's a sneak peek. It's called Knack.
6:23 PM Moving on...
6:24 PM Immediacy: Hardware lets you resume games quickly and reduces load times. You just have to press the power button on the controller to pick up where you left off.
6:25 PM Social
Added hardware to support social gaming. You can upload videos of your gameplay and share it with friends.
6:26 PM Here's a look at the PS4's new main menu
6:26 PM You can also watch live streams of your friends playing games.
6:28 PM Personalization
PS4 learns your favorite stuff and recommends new content. It can predict the next game you want to purchase and load it before you even buy it.
6:30 PM Cerny leaving the stage and introducing David Perry who will talk about cloud gaming. (Sony bought his cloud gaming company Gaiki to use in the PS4)
6:31 PM "We're creating the fastest, most powerful network for gaming in the world."
6:32 PM Gaiki's technology will let you test and stream games before you buy them.
You'll be able to instantly experience any game you want. You can try them for free.
6:33 PM Social integration with Facebook and Ustream
Both services will connect to the PlayStation Network.
6:34 PM Spectating
The share button on the controller lets you broadcast what you're playing live to your friends in real time.
Your friends can virtually look over your shoulder and post comments to your screen.
Developers can use spectating tools in their own games. There's a lot of potential here: your friends can interact with your gaming experience by giving you special items, etc.
6:36 PM Remote play
Lets you play games on mobile devices. It starts with the handheld PlayStation Vita system. You can beam games from your TV to your Vita.
This feature is called Remote Play.
Eventually, you'll be able to play older PlayStation 3 games like this.
6:38 PM Here's Remote Play
6:38 PM Streaming content
Apps like Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Instant, and a bunch of other standard apps that'll let you stream video and music.
6:39 PM This is all very interesting...but we want to see what the console looks like!
6:40 PM Now we're watching a video with interviews from developers. It's just a recap of everything Perry just discussed.
6:44 PM By the way, we really like the idea of streaming a game to test it out before you make the purchase.
6:45 PM Also: PlayStation 4 won't play PlayStation 3 discs. You'll have to stream those games over the Internet.
6:45 PM Michael Denny from Worldwide studios now on stage.
6:47 PM Now we're going to get a look at some new games!
6:49 PM Wow. Graphics look amazing. Pics coming soon...
6:52 PM Here's a look at the new KillZone game. WOW!
6:54 PM One more...
6:56 PM The crowd loves it.
6:57 PM Now we're learning about a racing game called Driveclub
6:58 PM "We've waited for the technology to be available to deliver our vision"
The game looks extremely realistic. We thought we were watching real video at first.
7:00 PM Basically, the cars look really realistic and you can play against your friends online.
7:01 PM Now we're getting bored. Just show us the console already!
7:03 PM Here's a look at Driveclub
7:03 PM Now ANOTHER game developer is up for a demo. This is getting old.
7:04 PM Let's take a moment during these boring game demos to talk about what we've seen so far...
The PS4 is largely focused on social and mobile gaming. That means you'll be able to stream live video of your friends playing games to your own console. You can also interact with your friends by chatting with them or even interacting with them by leaving items in the game.
As for mobile, you'll be able to beam your PS4 games to mobile devices like the PlayStation Vita handheld console. We assume similar features will be available on smartphones and tablets, but there aren't any solid details on that yet.
We also enjoy the idea of streaming and testing a game before you buy it.
7:09 PM Now we're going to hear from...yes, more developers.
7:09 PM A developer named Jonathan Blow is on stage to tell us about his new indie game called "The Witness"
It's a puzzle game.
7:11 PM Look, today most people don't care about game demos
We want to know how Sony is going after casual mobile gamers. The Angry Birds players. This event appeals to the hardcore gamers, but at the end of the day Sony needs to reach beyond its core audience.
It feels like Sony is still stuck in 2007. A lot has changed since then.
7:18 PM David Cage now on stage
Honestly, we have no idea what he's talking about. Something about emotions and video games. This event just got really weird and boring.
7:20 PM This is not what we want to see Sony. Show us the games later. Or show us two games. We don't need to hear from every developer partner.
7:26 PM Hopefully that was the last demo.
7:27 PM Seriously, things are just weird now. Everyone in this room is getting restless.
7:27 PM Capcom's Yoshinori Ono is on stage now
7:29 PM We've hit the 90-minute mark.
7:30 PM This is so awful.
7:32 PM We're seeing lots of complaints about this event on Twitter too.
7:34 PM Here's another tweet...
7:39 PM Here's Wired's Steven Levy
7:44 PM Probably.
7:48 PM This is very telling of what the general public thinks
7:51 PM The event is still going on by the way. We're just seeing demo after demo after demo from developers.
7:54 PM Some real news: Blizzard's Diablo III will launch on PS4 and PS3.
7:58 PM Activision will work with Bungie to bring games to PS4. (This is the same studio that made Halo)
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Local Area Attractions
Annual Loyalty Days - May
May 4 - 5, 2013 The longest consecutively running Loyalty Day celebration in the nation! The fun begins in local schools with the crowning of Junior and Senior Courts. Main events, including two parades, are on Saturday (Ilwaco) & Sunday (Long Beach).
World's Longest Garage Sale - May
28-miles of garage sales! (Memorial Day Weekend). Grab a copy of the Chinook Observer newspaper, or just follow the signs. There are so many sales, you can practically walk from one to the next, up and down the Long Beach Peninsula.
Annual NW Garlic Festival - June
June 15-16, 2013. In the land of clams, crab & oysters what are folks looking forward to in June? Garlic and Penty of it! Garlic food and condiments, garlic games, garlic crafts, live entertainment and the Clove Brothers, all in Ocean Park.
Fireworks at the Port feel the thunder
July 6, 2013 Seating for fireworks over the marina at the Port of Ilwaco is on the lawn in front of the harbor, next to port restaurants and shops. Fireworks at dusk.
Independence Day Fireworks on the Beach
July 4, 2013 Fireworks explode over the ocean on the beach approach off of Bolstad Ave. in Long Beach
Annual Sandsations (sand castle building contest)
July 10-14 2013 Professional sand sculptors build in downtown Long Beach for 3 days, followed by the traditional contest on the beach on Saturday.
Annual NPRA Sanctioned Rodeo
July 26-28. Events include: Bareback riding, Saddle Bronc Riding, Bull Riding, Calf Roping, Barrel Racing, Steer Wrestling, Team Roping, Stick Horse Race. Enjoy the Drill Team, Cowboy Breakfast, Vendors & Concessions.
Annual Washington State International Kite Festival
Aug 19 - 25th 2013. Voted Best Kite Festival in the World by Kite Trade Association International. The week includes competitions by professional and amateur kite flyers, choreographed kite flies, mass ascensions, fireworks, lighted night kite flies, vendors & more.
Rod Run to the End of the World
Sept 6, 2013 - Slow Drag at the Port -Kick off the weekend with this slow-paced competition at the Port of Ilwaco. Hot Rods line up to compete in a coasting competition. Cars have approximately 15 feet in which to accelerate and then coast for 200 yards. To win, a car must cross the finish line and stop closest to the line.
Sept 7-8, 2013 -Annual classic car show features thousands of automobiles, from Model As to the muscle cars of the 60s and 70s. Main events are held at Wilson Field in Ocean Park, but the cars will be seen all over the peninsula.
Annual Cranberrian Fair
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Oct 11-13, 2013 A series of chamber music performances featuring top-rated professional musicians playing Baroque, light classical music and jazz. The festival includes 5 ticketed concerts, a free concert, and performances for students.
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Doggie Olympic Games
June 28/29, 2013 .Fun for dogs of all ages, sizes, shapes and abilities. Let your pup compete in Dunking for Dogs, Peanut Butter Lick, Shedding Contest and more. Some contests involve participation of handler.
Clamshell Railroad Days
July 20/21, 2013. Celebrate the history of the only railroad that ran with the tides, the IR&N, which served the peninsula from 1889-1930. Lectures, bus tours, Kids Craft Corner and more! Come and learn about the interesting history of Trains on the Peninsula! This event takes place in Long Beach (35 minutes from the campground)
Jazz & Oysters in Oysterville
Ag 18/19, 2013 Each August, the Festival site is transformed into a jazz club, complete with oysters, desserts, beverages, sausages and and an array of other tasty tidbits. And then come the jazz fans and the music. This event is held in Ocean Park (1 hour from the campground)


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A couple of years back, when we started using Flash Media Server, we established a company policy of exporting all videos at 75, 150 and 400 kbps in the hopes of making sure our Flash videos were broadly accessible to users connecting at varying connection speeds.
Now that Broadband has become more commonplace in the years since, I'm wondering if anyone has a tried and true suggestion for which bit rates to make available these days to make sure users get the best experience they can.
Is topping out at 400kbps too low by today's standards? (I'm guessing it may be a bit conservative these days).
Any suggestions are appreciated.
*Bump* Anyone?
Bueller, Bueller?
Hello MrWizzer
I am not sure what FMS version you are currently using.
Well, if you look at the sampe vod folder that ships with FMS4.5, it has files encoded @ 150kbps, 500 kbps, 700 kbps, 1000 kbps, 1500 kbps.
I am sure that all of these files stream perfectly fine given the correct bandwidth environment.
Its totally depend upon the FMS hosting service provider depending upon the user base of a particular provider.
You need to judge what kind of BW is available to your viewers and put the files encoded at appropriate bitrates.
You may also look at http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashmediaserver/articles/beginning-fms45- pt06.html for refrences.
Shiraz Anwar
I appreciate you response, Zarihs. It looks like we've been undestimating people's bandwidth capabilities.
From your experience, do these bitrates (starting at a low of 150kbps and going way on up to 1500kbps), seem to be good ballparks in the real world?
Thanks for your help.
I am not sure about your location and the type of regular BW available there, but if you see at various stremaing websites they are streaming full HD quality streams, so it should work, but again you need to survey your user base location.
In every blog I can find the multi bitrate streaming but not find any multi bitrate publishing by using the AS3 & FMS.
Is there any solution on this ? by using any other supporting technology or by durect in FMS etc ?
Any suggestions are highly appreciated.
Use FMLE
Sent from my iPhone
Thanks for your quick reply.
But how to use FMLE in actionscript ?
I need this solution in web based application with adobe FMS for publish the muti bitrate video.
I am developing that application in flex.
As Shiraz correctly stated, survay your user base. You need to fully understand the market you are targeting and what bandwidth is available to your end users. Mobile users will have different requirements as opposed to wired users. However some mobile users are now able to get speeds up to 50mbps in some countries, but this is not the norm. If you wish to reach your maximum audience you will need to do the above first.
Remember not all devices these days can play back flash content
Yes, Thats is fine but as I explain in my previous post that, We need this in actionscript because of web application requirement.
I need to develope an application like SKYPE in which video quality auto change as per bandwidth available for that end user. Also as in youtube we have the option to change the video quality as per requirement.
I need to developed this in real time video chat application with auto bandiwdth video quality change (like skype) as well as user can change the video quality as per requirment ( like youtube ).
Because of this we need some solution over the coding not in the application. Can you show any solution on this ?
Kapil , have you tried the command-line version of FMLE or Wirecast. I suppose that must be your way to go ahead. Also do explore transcoding servicec like zencoder etc
Sent from my iPhone
At youtube files are transcoded into multiple butrates and player side has its logic to ask for the approp. bitrate. In your case, you alsowant that logic at the publisher side to autodetect the bandwidth fluctuation and publish video with suitable bitrate. Please let me know if i got your problem correctly.
Sent from my iPhone
yes, we both are on same track.
Infact I already write the code for detect the bandwidth in every 20 seconds. But now I need to encode my live stream in multiple bit rate so I can play that according to bandwidth (or user selection).
I will also work on your FMLE on command line. Hope this will work in linux based system and this will not effect the live stream speed.... ?
Hi - in answer to the original question we have a global netwrok and that team gaev us a limit of 360Kbps so we transocode to 104, 240 and 360 currently at a resolution of 640x360 and that seems to be fine for the current use case. We are moving to http streaming away from rtmpe so we may up the limit as the global cache servers will help out.
Externally if we start using an external CDN we will create renditions up to 1000Kbps
You have any example for live stream real time multi bitrate publishing ?
I try so many ways for this same in Flash Media Server, and nothing working fine.
Infact adobe not provide any detail information about this same. But wowza have this same by using the trancoder.
Please let me know if you have any suggestion or example for this same, or I need to find some other solution on this.......
So there is a solution for you and I suppose Wowza is also using the same
You need to fit a transcoding server between Flash publisher and FMS
server. This transcoding server is commonly a ffmpeg running at a port
where it gets a single rtmp stream and publishes three different rtmp
streams with varying bitrate. Hope this should solve your issue.
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Kapil From Fullestop <
This is nice to hear that we can do this in FMS.
But same question again how can we add that FFMPEG in between FMS & Flash application ?
I was just thinking about your problem, and it came to me whether FMS with
ffmpeg or Wowza with its own transcoding support, for both of the options
client-side upload speed must be very good so that further transcoding to a
lower bit-rate could be supported. What I feel, if you are able to detect
the bandwidth at the publisher side using the flash app, and you feel that
bandwidth has gone down or up to a certain level where publishing bit-rate
need to be scaled-up or scaled-down, then in your netstream connection you
can republish the stream to the server, in that case your end-user may
observe a small flicker but it can be an option to solve your problem.
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 8:01 PM, Kapil From Fullestop <
I need the exact same thing and it's incredible to me that it's not built in to AMS ... IS FFMPEG really the only solution ??


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True story: planning vs. black swan disasters
by Tim Berry, Guest Blogger
- Created: July 23, 2013, 11:44 am
Imagine yourself in charge of a 40-person company, selling small business software, during the sudden crash of 2008. Your sales had been lagging a bit all year, but as the financial news blackened in late summer and early fall, your sales plummeted. September sales fell to 25% below the previous year, 30% below your planned level. October sales fell again. Within one short 10-week period, you found yourself falling from slightly profitable to below breaking even.
What do you do? Of course you cut expenses; that's obvious. How to you decide what to cut?
And in this situation – The unexpected, unforeseen sudden plunge – how does a business plan help? Are you glad you have it – or is a plan, and planning, entirely wasted because it didn't predict the disaster?
Back to the story. In this case (and I'm skipping names and details on purpose, because I don't want it to be promotional), although the business plan was suddenly obsolete, it served as a key management tool for managing the crisis situation.
The plan in question had been developed almost a year earlier, for a company that had a fiscal year closing in September. However, it had been reviewed and revised monthly, so it was kept up to date.
That plan managed not just a strategy summary, but also dates and deadlines and responsibilities. And its projections included not just sales, but also cost of sales; and expenses including salaries, other fixed expenses such as rent, utilities and so forth.
Although the numbers in the plan became instantly obsolete when sales dropped, the relationships didn't. The management team was able to use the plan vs. actual results to gauge the impact of falling sales, and then look ahead to the planned flow of expenses to decide what to cut.
One important insight that came from the plan was that many of the expenses fell automatically because they were variable expenses tied directly to sales or cost of sales. For example, some channel marketing expenses were contractually tied to channel sales, so some expense cutting was automatic.
Another important insight was that it would be possible to cut enough discretionary expenses to preserve financial health without cutting payroll. In this case, the company decided that losing people wasn't a good idea. They liked the team in place and didn't want to cut jobs that they'd have to recruit again and then train again a few months later, if the sales turned back up.
So the plan, with its up-to-date monthly revisions, operated like a dashboard. Turn one dial one way, another the other way.
Without a plan, it would have been a lot harder to look at connections and relationships between sales, expenses, marketing goals, discretionary and non-discretionary expenses, and adjusting for the sudden crisis. With a plan, the options were visible, and the decisions were easy to make.
About the Author
Founder and Chairman of Palo Alto Software and bplans.com, on twitter as Timberry, doing social media business planning at smbplans.com, and blogging at timberry.bplans.com. Stanford MBA. Married 42 years, father of 5. Author of business plan software Business Plan Pro and www.liveplan.com and books including The Plan As You Go Business Plan, published by Entrepreneur Press, 2008.
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substitute for great planning. I will take a well planned business strategy
over getting lucky due to a once-in-a-lifetime event any day.
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definitely something to consider when dealing in any business that requires
risk and predictions. Best to always plan regardless of the likelihood of the
scenario. Having a plan to fall back on is key.
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everything can change so quickly as your story introduces.
As an additional perspective, when writing a plan or revising it because of
change, think about where you want to be 3 years out given current
conditions. From the 3 year perspective, consider backwards everything that
must be put in place to get from here to there. This approach helps to define
precisely what you need to do tomorrow and the next day to get there.
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Racket (formerly PLT Scheme) is a programming language suitable for implementation tasks ranging from scripting to application development, including GUIs, Web services, etc. It includes the DrRacket programming environment, a virtual machine with a just-in-time compiler, tools for creating stand-alone executables, the Racket Web server, extensive libraries, documentation for both beginners and experts, and more. It supports the creation of new programming languages through a rich, expressive syntax system. Example languages include Typed Racket, ACL2, FrTime, and Lazy Racket.
Puppet lets you centrally manage every important aspect of your system using a cross-platform specification language that manages all the separate elements normally aggregated in different files, including users, cron jobs, and hosts, along with obviously discrete elements like packages, services, and files. Its simple declarative specification language provides powerful classing abilities for drawing out the similarities between hosts while allowing them to be as specific as necessary, and it handles dependency and prerequisite relationships between objects clearly and explicitly.
radare2 aims to create a complete, portable, multi-architecture, Unix-like toolchain for reverse engineering. It is composed of a hexadecimal editor (radare) with a wrapped I/O layer supporting multiple backends for local/remote files, debugger (OS X, BSD, Linux, W32), stream analyzer, assembler/disassembler (rasm) for x86, ARM, PPC, m68k, Java, MSIL, and SPARC, code analysis modules, and scripting facilities. It also has a bindiffer named radiff, base converter (rax), a shellcode development helper (rasc), a binary information extractor supporting PE, Mach0, ELF, class, etc. named rabin, and a block-based hash utility called rahash. Radare was rewritten as radare2, and the old version is only maintained for bugfixes.
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Phone: 215 898 8233
I have several pages about my teaching, my research, and a few rants and raves.
If you are feeling in a darker mood, look at my most popular page namely the mortality calculator that Lyle Ungar, Choong Tze Chua and I created.
I'm a supporter of open access of science to everyone. Hence I will only referee for journals that satisfy the open access guidelines of the public library of science. Basically, this means papers must be placed on the web (for free access to all) within a "reasonable" time of being published. I urge everyone to join in this movement. (An interesting blog and comment , pricing.) A similar argument (.pdf) can be applied to software.
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Oh boy, a chance to spend even more money.
One of the issues with a tankless system is the so called "cold water sandwich." One site has an idea for how to reduce this issue (see http://www.taunton.com/finehomebuild.../021192082.pdf).
I'm intrigued by the idea at the end, which is to install a pump between the tankless and the tank so that the tank is filled by the tankless heater when the thermostat on the tank indicates that it needs to have hotter water. See "The Fix: problem #2" in the PDF)
I don't understand the plumbing diagram for this, though. It appears to use 3 inlets into the tank, when I think there are typically only two.
Has anyone tried anything like this out? Or even if not, to explain how the pipe diagram would work?
Oh boy, a chance to spend even more money.
It appears they removed the TNP valve and relocated elsewhere. This looks like a tremendous investment ... I can't imagine the payback time for this set-up.
I would agree with 99k, they removed the TNP valve. They also disconnect the heating element from the tank, so its a storage tank w/o a heater. All of the heating is done by the tankless.


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With a Supreme Court ruling expected this summer, the debate on state-level immigration enforcement is poised to shape the presidential campaign in unexpected ways. In this interview, Center expert Karthick Ramakrishnan discusses the Court's recent hearing on Arizona's controversial SB1070 law. read more
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Panelists will discuss the upcoming Supreme Court term and how the modern media cover our nation's highest court. This event is co-sponsored by the American Bar Association Division for Public Education and the Woodrow Wilson Center. more
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Click here to explore the latest issue of the Wilson Center's flagship publication, the Wilson Quarterly with the help of its editor, Steve Lagerfeld and contributors Joshua Kucera and Steve McDonald. Also Robert Litwak discusses nuclear proliferation threats to United States and global security. more
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Egypt is an important trading partner with the United States, with a Trade and Investment Framework Agreement since 1999. In June 2009, President Obama spoke in Cairo, Egypt about the importance of partnerships in science and technology, and launched the "Initiative on Science and Technology (S&T) Engagement with the Muslim World."
Jointly managed by the State Department and the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy, this Initiative focuses on the role science and technology can play as a catalyst for collaboration between the United States and Muslim countries. Building on the idea that scientists and engineers have long been pioneers in international collaboration, the goal is to provide economic development, opportunity, education, and innovation.
The United States and Egypt signed a Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) in 1999.
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In coordination with the United States Embassy in Cairo, Egypt, EPA scientists provided training on "Risk Assessment as a Critical Tool for Everyday Challenges" at Cairo University from May 16-20, 2012. The course was sponsored by the Toxicology & Forensic Medicine Department, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at Cairo University.
The comprehensive training covered current, state-of-the-art risk assessment practices as used and implemented by the EPA. The training was attended by more than 300 participants, both male and female, including university faculty, graduate students, industry, and government officials.
The course offered hands-on training in the primary areas of risk assessment (i.e., hazard identification, dose-response assessment, exposure assessment, risk characterization) and in risk communication because outreach to the public and other stakeholders is essential to the successful implementation of risk assessment.
The course attracted large number of newspapers and TV stations. Explore additional information on the modules (PDF). (2 pp, 21 K, About PDF Files)
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The Partnership for Clean Fuels and Vehicles assists developing countries to reduce vehicular pollution through the promotion of lead-free, low sulphur fuels and cleaner vehicle standards and technologies. In September 2010, working with our regional partners, EPA co-hosted a Middle East Workshop on Clean Fuels and Vehicles in Cairo. The workshop was co-sponsored by the League of Arab States, the Gulf Cooperation Council, CEDARE, and the Asia Clean Fuels Association. Twenty-two countries attended the meeting.
The Joint Committee on Environment and Development in the Arab Region (JCEDAR) endorsed the results of this workshop in October 2010. In December of that year, the Council of Arab Ministers responsible for the Environment (CAMRE) endorsed the PCFV to work with countries in the region and pursue a regional approach to clean fuels and vehicles.
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The USEPA awarded a cooperative agreement to the U.S. National Pollution Prevention Roundtable (NPPR), the largest organization in the U.S. devoted entirely to pollution prevention, to assist in the development of a Middle East - North Africa Pollution Prevention/Cleaner Production/Sustainable Consumption and Production Roundtable. The Roundtable's purpose is to help improve environmental protection activities in the Middle East and North Africa by establishing a network where the Middle East and North African countries can share information and experiences. This network would also foster dialogue between government, non-government and industrial entities.
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In September 2010, a three-day Environment, Science and Technology, and Health (ESTH) Conference for the Middle East, North Africa, and South and Central Asia regions was held in Cairo, Egypt.
ESTH Officers, Embassy staff, and other USG agencies discussed the environmental programs they're working on in the Middle East, North Africa, and South and Central Asia.
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