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Abstract: The Metro inverter traction system to balance the existence of the reactor to reduce high-power inverter size, lower cost disadvantage.
To this end, the use of magnetic integration technology will balance the reactor and transformer combination to construct a new 12-pulse inverter two heavy traction power supply system, to achieve the use of integrated magnetic pieces to replace the balance of the equivalent inductance inductance design. Edge unit based on the steady-state non-linear finite element method, the establishment of Metro three-dimensional finite element model of the transformer, the equivalent of each winding inductance between the analyzed and calculated. Simulation results and prototype field test data are very close to verify that the proposed finite element method is correct and feasible.
Keywords:: inverter traction system; magnetic integration; inductance; balance reactor; steady-state non-linear; finite element method; Metro
Shenzhen Metro Line Inverter system uses the multi-inverter circuits, the combination of several rectangular wave, so that the output waveform as close as possible sine-shaped waves. Multi-inverter by a number of basic three-phase inverter bridge formed in parallel, while the inverter bridge there is a balance between the need to take the reactor in order to balance the inverter bridge output voltage and improve the utilization of the bridge inverter to reduce the inverse Variable bridge capacity. Pairs of high-power inverter, the balance of the existence of the reactor to reduce inverter size, lower cost disadvantage. To this end, the paper introduces the integrated magnetic technology, will balance the reactor and transformer integrated in one [1,2], based on steady-state non-linear finite element method, the traction transformer leakage reactance of all-white three-dimensional finite element analysis and calculation, and with on-site after each phase to be short-circuit test of transformer equivalent leakage reactance values were analyzed.
A System Analysis
1.1 Circuit Structure
High-pressure, high-power multi-voltage source inverter using gate turn-off thyristor for power components, the output voltage is mostly square. Square-wave voltage and current contain more low-order harmonics, seriously affecting the output characteristics, such as for AC motor power supply, make additional loss increases motor efficiency, lower operating power factor deterioration, resulting in harmonic torque, caused by noise and vibration, etc. [3].
In this paper, the two heavy three-phase voltage source inverter circuit shown in Figure 1.
Diagram for the DC voltage Ud; Ⅰ and Ⅱ , respectively, from top to bottom two inverter bridge; T for the integration of magnetic pieces; LP for the two inverter bridge the balance between the inductance; LS magnetic pieces for the integrated equivalent inductance, vice party; A , B, C and A1, B1, C1 respectively, two high-voltage transformer winding; a, b, c for the Vice-side transformer winding; N the number of units.
Choose this circuit configuration is two square wave inverter output will be staggered in the phase angle on the overlay, so get as close as possible sine wave-shaped waveform.
1.2 Structure of magnetic parts
Magnetic Parts ArkadiyKats the proposed model using E-type core portfolio of methods, as shown in Figure 2 [4]. Through the integration of transformers and inductors to achieve the control of leakage inductance. Transformer winding connection way Ddyny5, transformer primary side winding axial pairs of split forms, and triangles are connected, each run independently, that is, when a high-pressure side of a temporary failure when the other party can continue to work to run. Secondary side winding connected to the star. Figure 2 in the core Ac, Bc was used in combination, the transformer primary winding in the Ac and Bc2 Vice-core, the secondary winding only in the core Ac, so that the transformer leakage inductance concentrated in one side, by adjusting the core Bc The gap can be precisely controlled the size of the leakage inductance, transformer primary side to act as simultaneous multi-inverter system, a balance between the inverter bridge inductive role of LP in order to eliminate inter-individual inverter bridge voltage clamp, so that each inverter bridge at the same time work to reduce the average current through the thyristors to increase their utilization, reduce the phase current of the power components for the impact of the damage, and play a role in the waveform synthesis, thereby reducing the size of inverter and reduce cost; transformer, Deputy Fang equivalent inductance LS constitutes a low-pass filter with sinusoidal resonant circuit in order to improve the output voltage waveform, increase the output dynamic performance.
2 transformer leakage reactance of the three-dimensional finite element method
2.1 Steady-state non-linear method
Finite element method in steady-state non-linear method [5] can well solve the transformer leakage magnetic field. Its main features are: ① could be more truly reflect the core material of non-linear change in magnetization curves using the function iterative solution, which can be more accurately reflect core test cases in the distribution of magnetic flux density; ② be able to leakage magnetic field energy calculated by the various windings transformer equivalent inductance between the calculated and experimental values obtained are very close to the equivalent inductance value; ③ calculation time is short, iterative convergence of high accuracy, facilitate a number of simulation tasks.
Therefore, this steady-state non-linear finite element analysis, magnetic flux leakage power transformer in the finite element expression for
Where: ω e a unit corresponding to the sub-region; μ is the material permeability, non-linear magnetization curve can be expressed; B for the magnetic flux density; A for the magnetic vector potential.
2.2 Finite Element Modeling
Metro Multi-inverter traction transformer FEA model shown in Figure 3, due to symmetrical three-phase transformer, so you can build single-phase model (the graph includes only single-phase core and coil), cut into 8-node six-sided unit, the corresponding FEM mesh of unit number 67994, side number 121,926, effective edge number 98942.
2.3 Result Analysis
Through each phase short-circuit test finite element simulation, using the energy method can be easily obtained with high-pressure high-voltage transformer, two high pressure and low pressure as well as a single high pressure and low pressure equivalent inductance between the specific values shown in Table 1. The short-circuit cases, core of the magnetic flux density distribution as shown in Figure 4, the main core of the magnetic flux density of Ac tends to zero; core Bc the highest magnetic flux density in the central pillar of its EE-type core, its size is about for the 0.5 ~ 0.7T, in a non-saturated. Reposted elsewhere in the paper for free download http://eng.hi138.com
The numerical simulation and field tests carried out in transformer short-circuit between the measured equivalent inductance of each phase is very close to the specific values shown in Table 2, in which high-pressure equivalent to the low inductance value between the test allowable error is 30% ~ 0%, showed that steady-state non-linear three-dimensional finite element method can quickly and accurately calculate the equivalent inductance between the windings and thus the type of magnetic parameters of the transformer design of an integrated metro to provide technical support.
3 multi-inverter system, the design of a balanced inductor LP
Balance the voltage across inductor LP exchanges UP contain only ingredients, but is mainly six sub-harmonics [6], in its amplitude for ω t = π / 2 Shi, UP The maximum value for
Where: UA is a group of high-voltage transformer winding three-phase AC voltage.
Because the greatest circulation of Id / 2, and the circulation is actually a balance of excitation inductor current. Therefore, the balance of the inductor reactance value of XP can be downloaded from the specified minimum load current Idmin estimates derived (only consider the six harmonics), which
With Integrated Magnetics traction transformer primary side inductance can be completely replaced by the equivalent balance of inductance, the elimination of all clamping voltage between the inverter bridge, so that the inverter bridge simultaneously. Thereby reducing the volume of high-power inverter and cost [7].
4 Conclusion
(1) the kinds of MTR traction transformer winding through the use of high-pressure axial pairs of magnetic separation, and integration technology to achieve a single 12 pulse transformer used in the double PWM inverter circuit.
(2) The simulation calculated the two high-voltage transformer winding inductance value between 5.56mH and on-site 5.166mH basically consistent with experimental values, the equivalent inductance value is much greater than the balance of the required systems theory inductor design values 2.11mH, thereby significantly reducing the the inverter size and cost.
(3) The integrated technology enables magnetic phase current inverter circuit for reduced to zero current, can reduce the transformer noise and vibration, and can improve the output dynamic performance, and has broad application prospects.
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Actio solutions are online software modules for product and supply chain stewardship and environmental, health and safety compliance in manufacturing. (M)SDS Vault is an on-demand centralized materials information management system that provides round-the-clock accessibility to accurate, consistent product safety information - down to the substance level - across all facilities. As a result, manufacturers are able to meet health, safety and environmental requirements in compliance with international, federal, state and local regulations. Actio Corp. is based in Portsmouth, NH.
Actio Corp., provider of software as a service (SaaS) solutions for environmental compliance through supply chain materials information management, updated Actio MSDS Vault software. Vault helps companies manage Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) compliance and mitigate risks inherent to manufacturing in today's climate of regulatory issues, consumer interest, and the employee's "right to know," Actio said.
For more than a decade, MSDS Vault has helped over 250 customers at some of the world's largest companies improve and profit from materials management and EHS compliance, Actio said. The software helps manufacturers author, centralize, analyze and report on their materials safety data libraries.
The software is designed to provide a "best practices" approach to help assure the well-being of employees and customers, and makes data management more efficient.
The latest version of MSDS Vault allows manufacturers to better manage changes in regulations (such as the upcoming GHS (globally harmonized system for labelling chemicals) standards. The latest MSDS Vault also reduces handling costs by automating processes, providing enterprise-wide transparency of the chemical footprint, and letting companies take control of product stewardship, eco-PLM (product lifecycle managment), and the reporting associated with these initiatives.
Actio MSDS Vault features include:
- an updated interface - single sign-on into Vault effective across entire Actio product suite
- enhanced rules engine for distributing finished-product (M)SDSs to customers
- updated supplier data-collection (via Material Disclosure and REACHtracker)
- more robust materials and ingredient-screening against all global, local and custom Regulation lists
- enhanced grid and table reporting functionality
- readiness for quick-conversion to GHS formats
- fluency in over 14 languages for fast-tracked global-time-to-market
- snap-on utility to ERP systems such as SAP, Oracle, and Microsoft Dynamics
- snap-on utility to PLM technology for enhanced product lifecycle data management, cradle-to-cradle
- snap-on utility to portals such as Microsoft Sharepoint
- one central database for secure storage of all collected data, with co-location backup (SAS-70 cert)
"MSDS Vault provides round-the-clock accessibility to accurate, consistent product environmental, health, and safety information - down to the substance level - across an enterprise," said Russell McCann, President and CEO of Actio.
The software helps manufacturers meet health, safety and environmental requirements in compliance with international, federal, state and local regulations, McCann said.
Actio said its solutions help companies toward "corporate social responsibility through innovative, collaborative, rational chemical handling, managing supply chain substance data, and streamlining material disclosure processes towards Six Sigma initiatives, mitigating risk and attaining corporate sustainability objectives." Actio is part of the Microsoft Partner Network and is SAS 70 certified.
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- Research Rap: Making Environmental Product Compliance Sustainable .
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OK. Maybe somebody can help me. First my battery started to go dead. It would recharge and last a couple of days. I go and have it tested at the parts store and they say the alternator is bad. I take it home and while the car is still running I disconnect the negative lead to the battery. The car still runs. I turn on the heater, defogger, etc. and the car struggles, but with a little gas it still runs without the battery. I take the car to another store now because I am thinking the alternator must be good and they give me the same verdict: bad alternator. So I take off the alternator and the guy at the repair shop says it is fine. I decided to replace the battery but the CEL is still on.
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Sysco first-quarter profit rises 16 percent
Nov 5 (Reuters) - Food distributor Sysco Corp (SYY.N: Cotización) reported a 16 percent rise in quarterly earnings helped by higher sales even as it faced food cost inflation. The company, which supplies food and other products to restaurants, cafeterias and other food sellers, reported first quarter net earnings of $267.0 million, or 43 cents a share, up from $230.1 million, or 37 cents a share a year earlier.
Sales rose 8.5 percent to $9.41 billion, the company said in a statement. (Reporting by Anant Vijay Kala in Bangalore)
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Showing off one of her new favorite bikinis (and a lot of skin), Candice Swanepoel posted a revealing photo on her Twitter page Thursday (January 10).
The South African stunner looked over her shoulder for the self-portrait of her backside, adding the comment, "Thank you @frankiesbikinis for the Gift! i Love the tribal patterns."
Currently, the Victoria's Secret Angel is in Brazil, the home country of boyfriend Hermann Nicoli, who she has been with for six years.
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Parents are invited to learn about the great preschool options in West Seattle. In future years, the fair will be held in January to fit in better with our community's enrollment timeline. We believe that the fair will still be of value both to educators and parents, with new families moving to our community and new preschools opening. General admission is free and open to the public.
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hello im wondering if its possible to get around 700hp from a 355 sbc with a 6-71 blower? id be using it for drag racing mostly and possible spirited street driving. im just trying to see where i can go with my motor due to recent need of rebuild. just seeing if anyones done this before with advice, ive read a few magazine dyno test that show 355 can do it.
I'm going to guess that this is just a "toss it out there and see" type of question.
If you're serious, you'd do well to do as much research as possible into what's required. A thread on this forum will not be sufficient- unless someone was willing to dedicate HOURS of their time to educate you on all the nuances involved.
700 HP requires good parts- the number of production parts that would go into an engine like that- if I built it or oversaw the build- would be counted on one hand, if that. And unless there were a reason like rules for a particular racing class I was trying for, I wouldn't build a 700 HP SBC in the first place. IMO, this is BBC territory.
There's no sense in building the engine so small. In that you're going to be using an aftermarket block anyway, and an aftermarket rotator, you might just as well build at least a 427 SBC from the get-go.
Now, there are guys who'll tell you that cast cranks or OEM steel cranks w/o a BBC snout or w/o dual keyways is fine, and that 2-bolt production blocks are fine, that cast pistons and OEM rods are fine, etc. ad nauseum.
Reality often clashes w/these "recommendations", however. This type of build offers ZERO margin for ANY error. Even if it is
AFA the tune goes, there's no guarantee the crank won't fail or the piston's ring lands won't pinch the rings or the rods won't come apart. This can happen even w/GOOD parts if there is one little failure- like in fuel delivery or ignition timing.
Often what you will find at the bottom of all this fertilizer, is the HP they THINK they're making, isn't anywhere near what they ARE making. If all you want is a short-fused, cross-your-fingers-and-hope engine, I cannot offer anything but a head-shaking "good luck". Keep the OEM parts below 450-500 HP at the most and you'll be OK. Go to 700 HP and you'll need a magnet to pick up the litter.
If you want something that will actually make 700 HP w/a modicum of reliability, be prepared to get into some serious cash outlay. Like 5 figures' worth. Just the induction system could go $5K w/o a problem.
Now, all that said- why don't you start out w/a stout 355 w/about 400-450 HP to get you started. If you've never driven a decent car set up w/450 HP, you'll be surprised how "lively" it can be.
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If you can only pick one child carrier to use when being pursued by mythical monsters, pick this one.
When my husband said he wanted to buy a nice child carrier to be prepared for a zombie invasion, I didn't roll my eyes. I smiled, and said "Oh, honey. I don't believe in magic!" Because that's how I take my revenge. By reminding him that zombies aren't in any way scientific.
Of course, if our door smashes down because some mad scientist threw a mind control pill down the gullet of some janitors, sure, we'll just throw the baby in this hands-free backpack and make a break for it down the hill. Maybe he'll scream, maybe I'll scream, maybe the baby will scream, who can say? But, when that terrible day comes, we're not going to have time to start debating if that means they're just Frankensteins or if zombies require a certain amount of religion. So it's best we get it done today.
As my husband already knows, MY position is that a zombie can only exist in those rare situations that involve the application of voodoo. While I certainly wouldn't deny that certain plants assist in the so-called spells, just as the two-layer padded and contoured waistbelt assists in shifting your child's weight around your body, a TRUE zombie comes more from the belief structure than the pill bottle. Of course, my husband has been playing The Last Of Us non-stop, so he's got some weird theory about fungus and government mind control or whatever. Usually when he starts talking about that, I dig through the included storage pockets or read my copy of The Serpent And The Rainbow.
But that's what a marriage is about, yeah? Two people, with differing opinions, working together to find common ground. And that's why, even though I know in my heart the notion of the modern-day zombie is rooted in cultural privilege and first world snobbery, my husband still loves our child, and would run super-fast with a Kelty Junction 2.0 Rio Child Carrier on his back, no matter if it was a virus zombie from World War Z a mystical vampire from Dracula: Prince of Darkness, or a that weird alien shape-shifter from The Thing.
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Alex Song joined Thomas Vermaelen and Tomas Rosicky at Great Ormond Street Hospital on Thursday to meet patients and lend his support to Arsenal's Charity of the Season.
Afterwards the Cameroon star took time to speak to Arsenal TV Online about the charity's dedicated matchday against Chelsea on Sunday. He discussed:
- the magnitude of the game
- the Chelsea fan he met at GOSH
- the key to beating Chelsea
- Arsenal's home form
- Chelsea midfielder Michael Essien
- his new Arsenal contract
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Hi Peter,
> has someone a idea, how to avoid the vertical lines,
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Do you mean the grid lines?
You can get the options that Plot takes using Options[Plot] (or reading the
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In the past month, UWest's VITA program has been a great success. It has helped more than 200 people. Through this program's services, many local residents as well as UWest staff/students received tax refunds from the IRS and CA State. Many of them received money from the IRS as Earned Income Credits.
Currently there are 16 volunteers in the program, including UWest students, alumni, and several local community people. All volunteers are very dedicated.
Besides the services offered on campus, UWest's VITA program plans to offer services at Hsi Lai Temple on Saturday, March 10, 10am-4pm and at Rosemead City (Garvey Center) on Friday, March 16, 9:30am-12:30pm. The service at Garvey Center is co-organized by the Chamber of Commerce of Rosemead.


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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- Under rainy skies and eventually inside Goodfriend Tennis Center, the 20th-ranked Tennessee Volunteers put together a 4-1 victory over LSU on Friday.
The Vols (14-9, 3-6 SEC) featured a new lineup to start the day and grabbed the doubles point against LSU (11-11, 2-8) in the swirling winds at Barksdale Stadium.
Tennessee followed with a strong performance to start singles, taking four of six first sets. The match moved indoors halfway through singles because of rain and the Vols kept up the momentum. Hunter Reese cruised ahead at the top of the lineup, followed by straight-set wins by Jarryd Chaplin on court 4 and Mikelis Libietis on court 2.
Associate head coach Chris Woodruff said the mantra of the team through the last three matches of the SEC regular season and the postseason to follow is "going forward."
"In sports, you're not always going to be your best,' Woodruff said. "In actuality, no one's going to remember January, February and March. It's nice to be going then, but you want to be playing your best tennis this time of year.
"I think we have the right mindset. We had some good productivity today from people who haven't been playing their best. For me, it was encouraging to see."
The Vols host No. 57 Arkansas in the home regular-season finale on Sunday at 1 p.m. Chaplin and Colton Norton, the team's two seniors, will be honored
In doubles, the Vols sent a new lineup out to the courts. Libietis and Reese, ranked No. 1 in the country, stayed together on court 1. Chaplin and Andrew Dromsky played together for the first time at No. 2, and Bartosz Sawicki and Markus Kerner were also a brand-new pairing at No. 3.
Chaplin and Dromsky held serve fairly easily during most of the match and broke Chris Simpson and John Michael Busch in the final game to win 8-6. Libietis and Reese collected their 18th-consecutive SEC doubles victory at the top of the lineup a few minutes later, beatingTam Trinh and Eric Perez 8-5 to deliver the doubles point.
"During doubles, I did see some camaraderie out there and some trust," Woodruff said. "It was just kind of a shot in the arm, particularly for the guys who haven't played together. We worked some this week trying to find combinations. In certain aspects, we found that today."
There was a brief timeout for rain near the end of doubles play before resuming for the final games, but the courts became unplayable when the rain returned in ernest halfway through singles.
Reese found the edge once he needed once play moved inside Goodfriend Tennis Center, reeling off nine games in a row to pull away from 77th-ranked Chris Simpson 6-4, 6-0. The win was Reese's team-leading 25th of the season.
From there, three Vols were up a set and a break of serve on courts 2, 4 and 6. LSU posted its only point when Andrew Korinek beat Brandon Fickey 6-3, 6-1.
Chaplin beat Tam Trinh 6-2, 6-2 on court 4 to push the Vols' lead to 3-1. A few moments later, Libietis followed up with a victory of his own on court 1. He capitalized on his seventh match point of the final game, breaking Justin Butsch's serve to win 6-2, 6-3 on court 2 to clinch the 4-1 victory.
In the remaining matches that were suspended, Sawicki was a few points away from his first SEC victory, leading Eric Perez 6-4, 5-3. Dromsky was locked in the third set against Harrison Kennedy 4-6, 6-3, 1-1.
"In this league, to get a win is good," Woodruff said. "Going into Sunday, our morale, our energy and our spirit and our mindset needs to be excited. We need to accelerate down the finish with excitement. If we can do that down the stretch, I think the sky's the limit.
"I'm not saying we're going to have this unbelievable push and win this or win that. But I think if we can get everyone accelerating down the stretch, having fun, going for their shots, I think we'll be in a good place."
Tennessee 4, LSU 1
1. #20 Hunter Reese (UT) def. #77 Chris Simpson (LSU) 6-4, 6-0
2. #38 Mikelis Libietis (UT) def. Justin Butsch (LSU) 6-2, 6-3
3. Andrew Korinek (LSU) def. Brandon Fickey (UT) 6-3, 6-1
4. Jarryd Chaplin (UT) def. Tam Trinh (LSU) 6-2, 6-2
5. Andrew Dromsky (UT) vs. Harrison Kennedy (LSU) 4-6, 6-3, 1-1, unfinished
6. Bartosz Sawicki (UT) vs. Eric Perez (LSU) 6-4, 5-3, unfinished
1. #1 Mikelis Libietis/Hunter Reese (UT) def. #70 Tam Trinh/Eric Perez (LSU) 8-5
2. Jarryd Chaplin/Andrew Dromsky (UT) def. Chris Simpson/John Michael Busch (LSU) 8-6
3. Markus Kerner/Bartosz Sawicki (UT) vs. Andrew Korinek/Harrison Kennedy (LSU) 4-7, unfinished
Order of finish: Doubles (2,1); Singles (1,3,4,2)


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Live on Soundcheck: Christopher O'Riley and Matt Haimovitz
It is not unusual these days to find rap, classical, rock and jazz shoulder to shoulder on an iPod.
Cellist Matt Haimovitz and pianist Christopher O'Riley's new album Shuffle.Play.Listen fits right in. The two-disc album is a mix of Radiohead, Igor Stravinsky, Blonde Redhead, Astor Piazzolla and others arranged for cello and piano.
Here, watch O'Riley and Haimovitz play "Empty Room" by Arcade Fire (the members of which shop at the same Montreal supermarket as Haimovitz).


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A stand-off between politicians and the markets is at best distasteful, but that is what the euro crisis boiled down to last week. Ultimately the markets won – and possibly to the benefit of us all.
The massive bailout mechanism agreed Sunday night by EU finance ministers is a desperate step. Half a trillion euros is an unimaginable sum, and not by chance: it is meant to be beyond the realm of reality, in order to assure the markets that no matter which direction they go, the euro will remain stable. If the step works, much of the money will not be necessary. If it fails, the euro will collapse and bring down the EU with it.
These are stark options. Six months ago there were others, such as addressing the Greek crisis fundamentally while looking at the mechanisms of the euro, but they were ignored. The crisis unfolded like a slow train moving determinedly towards the obstacle into which it would crash. The harsh reality of spiralling sovereign debts in a number of eurozone states combined with a lack of legal tools to deal with fiscal management of the euro – with minor attempts to change tracks. In fact, the attempts became a farce: repeated special summits of heads of state, ending in empty statements on determination and solidarity, backed up by no money and less political will.
The summits came to be notorious for the heads disagreeing in private and in public on everything but one fact: Greece had lied about its finances and was therefore to blame for its own troubles, and subsequently everyone else's. In the past six weeks the international markets and credit agencies have joined Greece as the blanket reasons for blame. In fact, it seems everyone but the EU institutions and the politicians who direct them from their capitals are to blame for this crisis – and the institutions cannot be blamed, since they have no legal basis for action on the euro, and the politicians cannot be blamed because they have elections to fight and publics to satisfy.
But publics are not that stupid. Much has been made of Angela Merkel's CDU party loss in the weekend local elections in North Rhine Westphalia, with a lot of blame for this attributed to public disapproval of the aid package for Greece. However, that is to ignore the fact that the Greens in the länder doubled their share of the vote to 12.5% – though they too voted for the aid package in the federal parliament. Moreover, the Greens are a pro-Europe party that is consistently gaining ground in Germany, and elsewhere across the union, so it is too simplistic if not plain wrong to blame the Greek crisis for the CDU's slide in popularity – or for the SDP's climb to near parity with it.
Indeed, the German election, rather like the UK one, delivered a clear result of dissatisfaction: the voters like no one enough to give them full power. They have tired of the petty politicking and lack of leadership. Above all, they are fed up with – and fearful of – their declining economic prospects, and they no longer trust the individual parties to deal with these, so they have effectively told them to do it together.
Ultimately, the same has happened at EU level: the markets have rejected the positions and promises of the individual states, and demanded the EU back the euro – collectively. There are no doubt speculators and pure gamblers are playing the markets, but there are also many solid players who deal daily with massive portfolios of relatively risk-free investments: the savings and pensions of the same voters who have had their say in Germany and the UK. And like those voters, these dealers have had enough of the grandstanding and empty promises of the individual states and leaders: they trust none fully, and in pressuring the euro mercilessly therefore told them all to work together, as the states of a single currency should.
As Larry Elliott pointed out yesterday, there is a lot of irony in this stance given most governments got us into this mess two years ago by pumping billions of taxpayers' euros into banks in order to save the financial markets. Humour was not much in evidence this weekend in Brussels, so possibly the irony was not appreciated – but the message was nonetheless clearly heard, since the union finally produced a package that reflected political, financial and economic will to fight for itself and its currency.
By all accounts this was not achieved without major disagreements – including some door slamming and less than diplomatic language – but that is hardly new in Brussels. What is new is the note of realism, even if it involves an unimaginable amount of money. Let's hope the realism lasts, and the money won't be needed.


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Each academic year, 550-700 students participate in Holocaust-specific courses at St. Cloud State University (SCSU). An additional 50-100 enroll in Holocaust-related courses. For descriptions of the following courses, please refer to the SCSU Undergraduate Bulletin.
Below are courses taught across a wide variety of SCSU curricula, currently and in the past:
Art History 439/539:
The Holocaust and the Visual Arts
English 302:
Holocaust Literature
History 409/509:
Europe and WWII
History 411/511:
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Mass Communications 275: Documentaries of the Holocaust
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Study Tour in Poland: Lodz University, Lodz, Poland - The Holocaust and Mass Media in Poland
Psychology 375:
Psychology of Altruism, Helping, and Holocaust Rescue
A two-week study tour to Poland has been offered four times in the past. We are currently in the process of developing a semester long course with Lodz University in Poland.
Faculty who study at the Yad Vashem Institute in Jerusalem, Israel are able to receive credits through Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
Faculty from all departments are encouraged to seek support from SCSU's Center for Holocaust and Genocide Education (CHGE) for individual projects.
Please contact CHGE for academic support and for information about any past or upcoming education-abroad opportunities.
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I haven't seen The Sound of Music Live (7 p.m., NBC/Ch. 5) - obviously - but this really seems like a terrible idea.
Not that I have anything against Carrie Underwood, who's stepping into the role of Maria. But a televised stage production can't possibly live up to the classic 1965 film with which most viewers are familiar.
Theater is great, but theater is a different medium than TV. Stage productions on TV rarely work because they look, well, stagey.
And theater on TV tends to look, well, cheap.
Frankly, the whole "live" element to this feels like a gimmick. It's like going to a NASCAR event just waiting for the terrible accident.<


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Müller Martini Marketing AG Press Release Date No. Number of characters Waiting period Contact 10/19/2012 PI 1683 5138 Muller Martini Marketing AG Untere Brühlstrasse 13, 4800 Zofingen, Switzerland Tel. +41 (0)62 745 45 75, Fax +41 (0)62 751 55 50 firstname.lastname@example.com, www.mullermartini.com SDV Winter in Weidenberg (Germany) Changeover Times Reduced by up to 50 Percent With its new Alprinta 52, the mailings specialist SDV Winter in Weidenberg, Germany has once again selected a solution from Muller Martini. The significantly shorter changeover times on the new web offset printing press considerably increase productivity. A look in the order books from recent years reveals a few remarkable things: From 2003 to 2012, SDV Winter, which specializes exclusively in mailings, has tripled its print volume. "This lends credence to our company," says company representative and managing director Volker Schuster without false modesty. In addition to its 91 motivated employees, this success can be attributed to the company's high level of flexibility even with extremely short deadlines as well as its attractive range of products for numerous (regular) customers in Germany and in the neighboring German-speaking countries. For example, substrate grammage has continually increased in recent years. "Today we regularly print on paper with a weight of 250 grams per square meter," says company representative and production manager Alfred Wagner. Of course, short delivery times and increasingly higher demands for quality from customers require the necessary machinery. That is why SDV Winter, which has belonged since 2006 to SDV - Die Medien AG, headquartered in Dresden, Germany, has invested in a new web offset printing press from Muller Martini, an Alprinta 52, to replace its eight-color Progress machine at its plant in Weidenberg. In addition, the company has two Goebel Optiforma Plus machines in operation – one with nine, and the other with eight printing units. "When evaluating the new machine, we focused our attention on three main points," says Volker Schuster: "boosting production, reducing changeover times and minimizing production waste." As part of this evaluation, SDV Winter carried out several successful tests with various types of paper and different print images while at the Muller Martini Training Center in Maulburg, Germany. Two Flexo-Cassettes for UV-Coating 1/3 Müller Martini Marketing AG In addition to the web offset printing units, the new Alprinta 52, which was officially transferred from Fogra Forschungsgesellschaft Druck e.V. last March, features several turning stations with which the number of printing units for back side and front side printing can be selected flexibly. As printing mailings today often requires more than eight printing units, SDV Winter decided in favor of a ten-color machine. "As we now only have to run production through the machine once, we gain time and have less production waste," comments Benno Putz, Director of Quality Management. "The stable inking systems ensure a higher level of quality." The Alprinta 52 features two 'flexo-cassettes', which can be used to convert the offset press units into flexo printing units. "Our customers increasingly demand high-quality mailings with special colors and/or coatings," says Alfred Wagner. "Thanks to the Alprinta 52, we are now also able to offer double-sided UV-coating." An essential part of the machine setup that leads to a more diverse range of products is the sheeter. In addition to mailings finished on large rolls produced on the new Alprinta 52, SDV Winter now runs inline production of inserts trimmed to the final format with a QS 52 cross cutter featuring an integrated stacker. Great Technological Innovation Even if the new printing press represents a significant technological upgrade for SDV Winter and its four machine operators and according to Alfred Wagner it was also necessary to learn the machine controls during the intensive training at Muller Martini's center in Maulburg as well as by getting into a certain routine on site with a lot of 'learning by doing' ("we are gradually getting on the right path"), the company has already reached its most important goal: According to Benno Putz, changeover times have been significantly reduced. "Compared to our other two printing presses, with the Alprinta 52 we can prepare a job by 35 percent, sometimes even up to 50 percent faster." Confident for the Future A significant part of the higher productivity made possible by the Alprinta 52, which features an inline ink control system and prints products in pre-trimmed A4 format due to the narrower webs, is due to cycle speeds of up to 365 meters per minute. 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Why I Decided Not to Use Cassandra
Recently I started working on a project, in my spare time, and I hope it will eventually get large amounts of data, so I started thinking about scalability very early. I'm making something like a prototype with MySQL as a data storage, with Hibernate as an ORM and then decided to move to Cassandra, in order to solve all my to-be scalability problems.
First I have to make the clarification, that my project is far from complete and has not even been stress-tested, so you are free to call me "premature optimizer". But in order to save myself from "the sharding hell", I decided to select a NoSQL solution. I reviewed MongoDB, HBase, Cassandra and a few more, and decided Cassandra would best fit my case.
Cassandra is a great product that is developing fast. But after a week or so in trying to modify my DAO layer in order to use Cassandra rather than Hibernate + MySQL, I decided it's not the time. Why?
- Ease of use – that's the key aspect. I'm aware scalability comes at a price and so with Cassandra your possibilities are somewhat limited (Yes, it is simple and hence scalable). Secondary indexes appeared in the latest snapshots (but it did appear, so things are on the right track). The main point is that you must define your views in advance. I.e. you can't say "Oh, I want to extract this pieces of information in such a way". You must have made this decision upfront, and inserted your data in such a way that this query is possible. And defining everything upfront is a rarely successful task. My data model is (currently) relatively simple so I haven't even experienced these difficulties to a full extent. Moreover, what I'm currently doing is more of a prototype. It's not unlikely that, after I have defined all my functionality and make it functional using a rdbms, I migrate to Cassandra. As twitter does, actually.
- It's moving. Cassandra is still at version 0.7, and is rapidly changing. And so is everything that revolves around it – API, tools, libraries.
- Tools. There is barely an administrator tool that allows you to view your "schema", your current entries. The best I could find is this cassandra-webconsole. It's really neat, but I had to adapt it to the newest version of Cassandra before I was able to run it. And it was still not showing my data.
- APIs – the Thrift API is ugly. And lacks some "extras". That's why APIs like Hector and pelops appear. But they are still not mature enough, partly because they should continuously mirror the changes in the Thrift API, partly because they haven't been widely used yet (because Cassandra is not as widely used yet). The people, at least those behind Hector are very responsive and active – I suggested (committed) a few improvements that were gladly accepted. But there is still some way to walk.
- Additional frameworks – that's related to the previous point. For example spring integration is an important thing. Some of my contributions to Hector were in that direction. Another thing is object mapping. We are all spoilt by ORMs and it's always good to work with objects, since our systems are all object-oriented (or at least we believe so). There were some attempts at that. I started my own – helenus. And of course – it's not anywhere near production, or even development capabilities. Indexing – there is Lucandra, I had a quick look and it was not able to translate my use of Hibernate Search (with Lucene, of course) – but I'm not a lucene expert, so it might be just me in this case.
I've listed a lot of cons above, which are rather logical, and I'll again say that things are changing and will be better, in say, six months (perhaps with the exception of the first point).
And then I asked myself whether I need that much of scalability. Twitter, I think, still use their MySQL + memcached solution and although it is not "a piece of cake", it's working, for their 2 billion tweets.
And there are a lot of ways to optimize data access:
- Hibernate, for example, has lots of caching options.
- My web layer is currently designed to cache the currently active data so that data storage is not even touched for the most recent data.
- Hibernate Shards, although not updated to conform to JPA or to handle HQL queries, is still a powerful option that makes sharding transparent to the application
- They say the problem lies in joins. One can minimize the joins even in a relational database.
- MySQL has MyISAM, InnoDB and Falcon (see benchmarks) and one can choose the most efficient for his case.
On the plus side, I learnt a lot about scalability. The main ideas behind Cassandra, the CAP theorem, the "eventual consistency", the "storage proxy" and so on are really important concepts that will come handy with or without Cassandra.
(To clarify – I'm not saying Cassandra is not usable in production – it obviously is, since Facebook, Digg and Twitter are using it (or are about to). But these companies have the capacity to cope with all the drawbacks. My point is that it's not yet a preferable option for mainstream development)
Update: There is a nice project of springsource – spring-data, which has the ambition to provide unified interface for NoSQL storages.
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Thanks for this inspiring article. Actually, you have spared me a lot of time. I was thinking about carrying out the same tests to find out if it makes any sense using Cassandra for production. In fact, I already expected that the API, the tools etc. are far from mature.
Nevertheless, I am still looking forward for using Cassandra as soon as a level it reached that makes it a real alternative.
Well, Cassandra is of course usable in production – after all it's in use by Facebook and Digg at least (and Twitter?). But these sites have the time to invest in using the ugly thrift API, and the capacity to gather a number of experts and take important decisions upfront. For a general-purpose usage – not yet.
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Most of Social networks (like Facebook) has stopped using mysql as main database and switched to use Cassandra or other no-sql DB. And we can consider this change as big grow for this new open-source data store, Cassandra, which was developed originally by Facebook to solve the problem of inbox search and to be fast, reliable and had the ability to handle read and write requests at the same time
source: Why does large Social Network projects switch to use Cassandra instead of Mysql?
Facebook uses mysql for most of their data, and do not use cassandra at all. They originally developed cassandra, but do not use it. Google "facebook mysql" or look at the wikipedia page for cassandra for more info.
Some of the issues they have to deal with include complex sharding and maintaining consistency of data across shards.
They used to use it, I think. Probably they dropped it at some point.


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I have invented a method to sound the amplifier in the solid state as a valvular, so reduce to a minimum the negative feedback with a rule called 1:100 :)
Take a simple amp
Ie without cascode in the input stage, without cascode stage voltage and with unity gain in the output stage (without Darlington)
The open-loop gain will be approximately 27dB
Set the closed-loop gain to a gain much greater 40dB
(set NFB resistor's ratio one to hundred)
This means doing the opposite of the traditional approach
You will get a sound but not distorted, but no EQ
This is because there is no longer a residual gain sufficient to correct the waveforms extensive (low frequency)
In short you are listening to the real sound of your amp
And you realize that the impedance matching the speaker load is scarce
My solution is to adopt an output transformer more powerful than that required
With very low transformation ratio (7:1)
So as not to inflict emphasis on the acoustic scene and at the same time allow the device to an internal resistance adequate
The result is excellent (tested on diagram Rotel RA-02 with toroidal transformer 230/32 +32 V 300VA)
I would suggest to study a high school textbook on linear systems and negative feedback. You will find a formula on the first few pages how the closed loop gain can be calculated.
The feedback factor is the difference between open loop and closed loop gain.
If you wish to lower the feedback factor so that you can listen to the amp non-linearity better, you can just lower the open loop gain and save the cost of the xformer.
Loading T1 collector would be a convenient place.
You coulkd even put a pot there for continuous control of open loop gain and feedback factor.
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If you wish to lower the feedback factor so that you can listen to the amp non-linearity better because lose equalization ;)
the attenuation factor of the feedback(and viceversa the correction factor) does not behave as you think
is difficult to set a dime with potentiometer - better to add a resistor in parallel
Congratulation for the never lacking originality.....
I speak about equalization because the negative feedback is a system of dynamic attenuation
This system attempts (up where he space of action) to correct the deficiency by the load current increasing the voltage
This happens on the frequencies of large amplitude that the bass
where there is no output stage is really capable (large parallel end devices es.TIP35)
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Goat, I believe you are wrong. The anode of the led is wired to GND via a 22K resistor, and the cathode to -42V, so it really has about 20 mAcurrent in it.
Although, I can´t understand how this circuit warranties or ensures an idle output voltage less than the famous 25 milliVDC though the load, and prevents temperature drift of this output voltage. (???)
I redacted my note. You are right, Osvaldo. It is early here in San Francisco CA. The "coffee isn't working" ... is true.
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