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Slag cement is also called blast furnace cement, pbfc cement(Portland blast furnace cement). It is composed of Portland cement clinker, 20%-70% granulated blast furnace slag, and appropriate gypsum.
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how to make blast furnace slag cement?
Recently, Slag has become an important mixing material of cement, grind ability of slag is very poor. In general, the slag powder is processed by the slag grinding plant in advance, and slag powder will be sent into the cement plant for making slag cement, so it is particularly important to select the appropriate slag grinding plant. The core equipment of slag grinding plant is vertical cement mill.
Slag cement manufacturing process can be normally divided into several steps:
Raw material crushing
clinker calcination
clinker grinding
finished cement storage and paking
STEP1: Raw material production
The raw material is sent to the cement crusher, where it is broken or hammered into pieces.
STEP2: Raw mill
In the raw mill, the raw materials are ground finer to ensure a high-quality blend.
Vertical mills and ball mills are applied in this stage, the vertical cement mill uses the pressure released from the drum to grind the passing material, and the cement ball mill relies on steel balls to grind the material.
The raw meal is finally transported to a homogenization yard for storage and further material mixing.
STEP3: Clinker production
A high-temperature treatment system consists of three steps: drying or preheating, and calcination.
Calcination is the core part of this process. The raw meal is continuously weighed and fed into a cyclone at the top of the preheater, where the material is heated by rising hot air, and the raw material is converted into clinker at 1450°C in the rotary kiln.
The clinker enters the grate cooler from the kiln head for thermal regeneration and cooling. The cooled clinker is then transported on a conveyor to the clinker silo for storage.
STEP4: Clinker grinding
The clinker is taken from the clinker silo and sent to the feed silo, where it is proportioned and mixed with gypsum and additives before entering the clinker mill.
In the clinker grinding process, clinker is ground together with slag powder and other raw materials to a fine powder, up to 5% gypsum or additional anhydrite is added to control the setting time of the cement, along with other compounds.
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STEP5: Finished cement storage and paking
Finished cement is stored in huge concrete silos.
Cement can be shipped to customers in bulk in trucks or wagons or can be bagged by cement packing machines and sent in standard trucks.
Advantages Of Blast Furnace Slag Cement
Slag cement has good water retention, good plasticity, less bleeding, and good workability.
It can inhibit the dissolution of heavy metals such as high-valent chromium in concrete.
Reducing the heat of hydration is beneficial to prevent cracks caused by the internal temperature rise of mass concrete.
More ettringite crystals are produced to compensate for the drying shrinkage caused by too much fine powder in the concrete.
reduce the volume expansion and cracking of concrete caused by alkali-aggregate (sand, etc.) reaction, thereby reducing the production requirements for low-alkali cement.
The addition of slag powder can reduce the content of tricalcium aluminate and soluble calcium hydroxide in the cement, thus reducing the volume expansion of concrete due to sulfate attack.
reduce the color of cement. The more slag content, the lighter the color of cement and concrete, so slag cement can be used as a substitute for expensive white cement.
enhancing the anti-penetration ability of chloride ions and forming an anti-corrosion protective layer for steel bars, which is more suitable for coastal defense projects.
Uses Of Blast Furnace Slag Cement
It can be used for ordinary concrete, various high-grade concrete, high-performance concrete, and cement products to replace the amount of cement in a moderate amount to improve the durability of concrete and cement products in various harsh environments. Mixing with superfine powder such as slag improves the compactness of concrete and cement products, and its later strength is high, which reduces the cost of concrete and cement products
Applied for highways, airport runways, heavy-duty vehicle road engineering, etc.
It is used in high-strength, ultra-high-strength, high-performance concrete and prefabricated ready-mixed rods, pipes, large bridges and other industries of ordinary concrete, with high strength and smooth surface.
It is used in marine engineering, wharf, reservoir and tunnel engineering which are eroded by sea water.
Basic engineering applied in various environments.
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Slag cement in Canal Lining
What is slag?
Slag, also known as granulized blast furnace slag, is a kind of glass materials formed by the blast furnace iron molten slag cold, too late to crystallized, its main group is divided into calcium oxide, silicon oxide and alumina, it has high potential activity, under the action of the activator, and water can be generated with hydraulic cementitious materials.


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Sprint Nextel Corporation (NYSE:S), the distant No. 3 wireless carrier in the U.S. behind the behemothian duo of AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) and Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE:VZ), at least has shown some spunk in its company dynamic and in its stock price of late, with Wednesday's close marking a 52-week high (the stock dropped 4 percent Thursday – probably due to profit-taking) and a 12-percent jump in stock price from the beginning of the calendar year.
Yes, for a $5 stock, Sprint Nextel Corporation (NYSE:S) has been a very hot commodity this year. CEO Dan Hesse has said a lot of the right things, and recent quarterly reports have been pretty good – the company added more than $200 million in free cash to its coffers in the most recent quarter and reduced subscriber churn to about 1.7 percent, which is the best in the history of the company. Plus, the average revenue per postpaid user jumped by more than four dollars to north of $63, also the best level ever for the company.
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Are you sure that you can distinguish the flag of Ireland from the flag of Cte d'Ivoire? What about the flags of Croatia and Slovakia?
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The popularity of the show grew, and the episodes were expanded to one hour. Viewers get to watch Cesar Millan train dog owners to lead their dogs.
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Generally, Millan is called to a client's home out of desperation. He is the last resort for frustrated owners. The majority of the episodes take place at the home of the client. However, once in a while a very difficult dog may be taken to the Dog Psychology Center. At the center, the problem dog is introduced to the pack of up to 50 resident dogs that assist Cesar in training certain difficult cases.
Although the Dog Whisperer is definitely in the reality show genre, the charisma of Cesar Millan seems to be a large part of what makes the show so popular.At the beginning of the show, the viewers watch the clients and their dogs as the dogs engage in the problem behavior. Dog owners briefly tell their story to the viewers. This establishes a connection and empathy between the viewer and the client. Cameras shoot from unique angles, often from the point of view of the dog to help the viewer develop and understanding of the dog's problem and what is contributing to it.
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Peruvian Peace Corps Learns to Prevent Tropical Diseases
Gonzalo Silva Infante/Diálogo January 17, 2019 Capacity Building 1 Comment
By Gonzalo Silva Infante/Diálogo
The Peruvian Armed Forces' Joint Command's new course presents strategies to prevent the spread of infectious diseases.
The Peruvian Armed Forces' Joint Command (CCFFAA, in Spanish) concluded 2018 with the inauguration of a health education and prevention course for members of peacekeeping operations. The Tropical Diseases course, conducted with the support of the U.S. Embassy in Lima, gathered 60 units of the Peruvian, Colombian, and Salvadoran armed forces.
The objective of the course was to analyze tropical diseases that threaten service members deployed in peacekeeping missions. The course also sought to provide better knowledge on how to prevent endemic infectious diseases, such as dengue, zika, yellow fever, hemorrhagic fevers, and monkeypox, among others, with greater emphasis on malaria.
The course was taught with the support of the U.S. Military Assistance Advisory Group and the U.S. Department of Defense's Defense Institute for Medical Operations (DIMO). Four instructors taught the course under the leadership of U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Jessica Cowden, chief of infectious disease programs. The loss of a Peruvian blue helmet deployed with the Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA, in French) prompted the creation of the course.
"It was a very tough lesson learned that warned us about the risks and, above all, how it was addressed," Peruvian Navy Petty Officer Second Class Edsson Evaristo Alvarado, CCFFAA analyst on peacekeeping operations and course organizer, told Diálogo. "It was in 2014 in Africa, where ebola was taking its toll, so they treated [the blue helmet] as if it were that disease. He was quarantined, and instead of treating him for malaria, they treated him for ebola, and he died."
The five-day course was divided into two phases. During the initial theoretical phase, DIMO's instructors shared their knowledge and experiences. They focused on preventing malaria, chemoprophylaxis—the use of medication to prevent a disease—severe malaria, malaria surveillance programs; and the history, transmission, and detection of the Ebola virus and monkeypox.
Instructors also addressed diseases transmitted through food and the sanitary conditions of dining areas. With the topics covered, they sought to promote prevention among military personnel deployed in peacekeeping missions.
"The idea is to prevent diseases, and doing research before going on a [peacekeeping] mission," Peruvian Air Force Petty Officer Second Class Jacqueline Galarza López, who participated in the course before deploying to MINUSCA, told Diálogo. "We attend talks at the Peruvian Training and Instruction Center for Peacekeeping Operations, but in this seminar we saw instructions, experiences, and medical processes that take place upon return."
The second phase, the hands-on part, required students' active participation to conduct malaria diagnostic tests and blood sample observation under microscopes, among other procedures. "The U.S. personnel taught us how to do the tests and how to immunize uniforms, and they gave us clothes for the contingent that's about to travel," said Petty Officer 2nd Class Galarza.
A benefit for the region
In addition to the Peruvian units to be deployed in January or February of 2019 to join the peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic, military health corps members also took part in the course. According to Petty Officer 2nd Class Alvarado, Colombian and Salvadoran personnel were invited to learn and share their experience.
"We convened the medical personnel from military institutions who deal with health issues of the personnel that takes part in peacekeeping operations, the nurse that administers vaccines, the doctor who provides medical certificates, and those who deal with epidemic issues in each institution, among others," Petty Officer 2nd Class Alvarado said. "Participants included personnel we offered to the UN who have already been accepted."
With its own experience in the field and the support of U.S. experts, Peru's CCFFAA seeks to improve deployments and protect the health of its units in peacekeeping missions. When taught again, the course will be beneficial to regional partner nations that want to increase their participation in peacekeeping missions in countries prone to infectious diseases.
"Most importantly, during the course we realized that we are pioneers in South America in teaching it," Petty Officer 2nd Class Alvarado concluded. "We learned and presented new things, and we expect to cover more at the national level. The service member leaves, but it's a human being who returns, potentially bringing back an epidemic element."
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One Ocean Summit: The CMA CGM Group Decides It Will No Longer Carry Plastic Waste On Its Ships
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From June 1st, the Group will no longer carry plastic waste on board any of its ships worldwide.
A landmark decision in the shipping industry to help protect the oceans and biodiversity.
The CMA CGM Group continues its initiatives to protect the environment.
During the One Ocean Summit organized by Emmanuel Macron, President of the French Republic, Rodolphe Saadé, Chairman and CEO of the CMA CGM Group, announced in a speech that the Group would no longer be transporting any plastic waste aboard its ships.
With this landmark decision effective June 1, 2022, the CMA CGM Group, a world leader in shipping and logistics, continues to demonstrate its commitment to protecting the environment and conserving biodiversity.
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Every year, around 10 million tons of plastic waste end up in the sea. Unless action is taken, that figure is set to triple over the next 20 years to reach 29 million tons per year, which will cause irreversible damage to marine ecosystems, fauna and flora.
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Fish with two mouths caught in New York; 'This is crazy,' angler says
By: Shelby Lin Erdman, Cox Media Group National Content Desk
Updated: August 22, 2019 - 5:00 PM
PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. — A New York woman reeled in a doozy of a catch on Lake Champlain earlier this month: an astonishing, two-mouthed fish.
Debbie Geddes was fishing with her husband when she hooked the unusual fish with two mouths, according to WPTZ-TV.
"Wow, look at this thing!" Geddes said when she first saw the odd fish, WPTZ reported.
"This is crazy."
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Geddes took a few pictures of the fish before releasing it back into the lake, then shared the photos with a colleague, the news station reported.
Her co-worker, Adam Facteau, posted the photos of the two-mouthed fish to social media.
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Q: ListView DrawColumnHeader is not working I have the following method to set background color and Font for the list view's column headers but it is not working. Anybody can help me?
private void listView1_DrawColumnHeader(object sender, DrawListViewColumnHeaderEventArgs e)
{
    using (StringFormat sf = new StringFormat())
    {
        // Store the column text alignment, letting it default
        // to Left if it has not been set to Center or Right.
        switch (e.Header.TextAlign)
        {
            case HorizontalAlignment.Center:
                sf.Alignment = StringAlignment.Center;
                break;
            case HorizontalAlignment.Right:
                sf.Alignment = StringAlignment.Far;
                break;
        }

        // Draw the standard header background.
        e.DrawBackground();

        // Draw the header text.
        using (Font headerFont = new Font("Helvetica", 25, FontStyle.Bold)) //Font size!!!!
        {
            e.Graphics.DrawString(e.Header.Text, headerFont, Brushes.Black, e.Bounds, sf);
        }
    }
    return;
}

It doesn't matter I use this method or not. It remains same. Nothing changes.
Is it because of properties of the list view?

A: Your code looks ok. If it doesn't do anything you have forgotten to set the OwnerDraw property to true.
This also means that you need to add code for the other two draw events. The default actions will do:
private void listView1_DrawItem(object sender, DrawListViewItemEventArgs e)
{
    e.DrawDefault = true;
}

private void listView1_DrawSubItem(object sender, DrawListViewItemEventArgs e)
{
    e.DrawDefault = true;
}

Don't forget to hook up the events ;-)

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Tour Yogyakarta's many must-see sights without getting all hot, sweaty, and tired on this rickshaw tour. Your local guide knows the city like the back of his hand, so you don't risk getting lost navigating the narrow and bus streets. The tour is heavy on food stops, so you'll get a chance to try all kinds of local treats, then perhaps nap it off from the comfort of your rickshaw!
Explore the bustling streets and hidden lanes of Old Delhi during this 4-hour small-group walking tour. Take a ride on a rickshaw, peruse the goods at the Bazaar, visit a Hindu temple, and sample some local delicacies during your excursion. Learn about the history of Delhi and India from your informative guide and enjoy panoramic views of the city at certain stops.
Explore Ho Chi Minh City at night and browse for bargains at Ben Thanh Market with an in-the-know guide. Although the heat of the day subsides, the vibrant hubbub of Saigon continues past sundown. Enjoy dinner at a Vietnamese restaurant, then venture into the city streets on foot and by cyclo to the market where you'll mingle with the locals.
Explore Hoi An's Ancient Town in style on a unique half-day tour of this impeccably-preserved UNESCO World Heritage Site. Ride around the Ancient Town in an open-air pedicab while wearing a traditional Ao Dai, a striking tunic available in a range of authentic styles and colours. Visit attractions like the Hoi An Museum, the Japanese Covered Bridge, the Art Craft Manufacturing Workshop and the town's Ancient Houses.
You'll enjoy an authentic local experience at Jogjakarta with street stall foods called Angkringan. This is a street stalls where you get to enjoy your coffee or food while sitting down on the carpet laid out under the tent along the street. The highlights of this streets food is Kopi jos (charcoal coffee). Then you walk across the railroad to Malioboro streets and continue your trip using "becak" traditional transportation to Wijilan road to taste the iconic traditional dish of Jogjakarta which is identical with sweet taste called "gudeg". Finish the day with leather puppet shadow show at Sonobudoyo Museum. This overnight performance serves the proper space to spend the night, reflect and understand Javanese life philosophy.
Being born and brought in Old Delhi, I know the by lane like the back of my hand. So I can introduce my guest to some hidden treasures and experiences known only to a local. The tour is not only an introduction to the city but the country as well.
This tour is conducted by Truly Old Delhi Locals living in Old Delhi. In this tour, you will walk through the inconspicuous lanes and streets of Old Delhi and also enjoy panoramic views. To add a little adventure we will ride rickshaws and visit local attractions exclusive to Old Delhi and also visit Asia's largest spice market where your senses will get alive. We will also try some unique food items which Old Delhi has preserved in her heart. Interact with the locals and understand their way of life with a visit to one of the last standing Havelis in Old Delhi.
The tour is full of adventure. You will be amaze with the island's natural beauty and why some people called it the "Paradise Island". It is a perfect island which has everything you want... from hot & cold springs, water falls, white sand islands which is the Mantigue and White Island, Volcanoes and rich marine life (corals, fish, etc). Camiguin is also rich in marine life. You can avail of the optional snorkeling activity to the best snorkeling sites of the island like: kibila giant clam sanctuary, mantigue island fish sanctuary and sunken cemetery.
Get in touch with the Nha Trang countryside and its people on this 4-hour private tour by Rickshaw, including hotel pickup and drop-off. Ride a rickshaw through the area, and stop to visit villages where you'll see people who make stoves, bread, and mats. Plus, pop into a traditional Vietnamese house where you can see a family altar used to worship ancestors.


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I am very happy to tell you all about a new blog launching today (Monday, 6th April) - We Love YA. It is a collaborative venture between some published and (as yet) unpublished YA authors from across the globe.
It kicks off with Natalie Hatch's interview with Australian fantasy author, Michael Pryor. She is offering a $10 Amazon giftcard for a lucky, random commenter. The lovely ladies will be posting daily and will be your one stop shop for all things YA from the horse's (or in this case, YA author's) mouth. Make you sure you check it out asap!
must go stalk ;P Thanks for the update Adele!
It sounds fantastic! I'll check it out. Thanks!
The launch is this morning so yesterday you wouldn't have been able to see it. But we're partying hard today, can't wait to see you there.
Thanks for the link Adele, you're awesome!
It's going to be a great party all week long.
Thanks for the plug Adele. Always good to meet more YA bloggers.


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        {
            BuildWebHost(args).Run();
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            WebHost.CreateDefaultBuilder(args)
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Federal Leader of the United Australia Party, Clive Palmer, has announced the party's endorsement of candidates for the Victorian seats of Isaacs, La Trobe and Dunkley for the 2019 federal election.
The candidates are real estate agent and former business manager Barry Prior (Isaacs), business operator and former government executive Duncan Dean (La Trobe) and naturopath Ronald Jean (Dunkley).
"We are delighted to be endorsing such outstanding candidates with a wide range of experience,'' Mr Palmer said.
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Barry Prior has an extensive background in small business and technical/management experience in the military, serving as a commissioned officer in the RAAF.
His qualifications include Licensed Estate Agent and a Diploma of Teaching.
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Member Engagement and Loyalty Study offers deep insights into member sentiments and behaviors based on career stage, loyalty segment and other factors
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., Nov. 11, 2019 – Community Brands, the leading provider of cloud-based software solutions for associations, nonprofits, schools and faith-based groups, today announced the release of the new Member Engagement and Loyalty Study at Xperience 2019, the leading technology conference for associations, nonprofits and K-12 schools hosted by Community Brands. The study's findings include perspectives from association members and professionals on key topics that impact member recruitment, participation and retention. The study also offers deep analysis of member sentiments and behaviors based on career stage, loyalty segment and other factors.
One of the notable findings from the study is that members prioritize benefits differently throughout the career lifecycle. For example, job opportunities are critically important to those members who are early in their career, while those who are mid-career find professional training most valuable. Over time, these benefits become less important, while other benefits – including code of ethics and timely industry information – become more valuable.
"Digging deep into member sentiments, we see that members join organizations for different reasons than why they stay," said Erin Shy, Managing Director, Association and Nonprofit at Community Brands. "As associations develop their strategies, it's important for them to understand what benefits members value at various career stages and which ones drive recruitment, engagement and renewal."
The study answers key questions about member interests and priorities, including what benefits members value most, which benefits have the biggest impact on loyalty, how member engagement correlates with loyalty, and how member priorities and loyalty change throughout the career journey. The report also includes recommendations about what organizations can do to align their strategies with member values and behaviors.
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Professional membership organizations must continuously prove their value. Those early in their careers are more likely to feel connected to their organization and be satisfied with membership than those later in their careers. However, early careerists are also less likely to commit to renewing and less likely to promote their association to their peers. The data suggests that to keep these members around long term, organizations must regularly prove their worth.
Organizations have work to do around some benefits that are most valuable to members. Members are satisfied with many of the benefits they consider most valuable, including industry information, code of ethics, trainings, and advocacy. Conversely, there are some areas – including job opportunities – that members value most in which organizations have opportunities to improve.
Organizations underemphasize the importance of job opportunities. Job opportunities are one of the most important benefits to members from when they join through the early career stage. Association professionals, on the other hand, do not rank job opportunities at the same level of importance.
Continuing education is not just for meetings and conferences anymore. Association professionals believe meetings and conferences, which traditionally have focused on training and continuing education, are one of the most important benefits they offer. Yet, members rate them as a lower priority. The findings hint that it may be time for organizations to offer additional learning opportunities.
The full study can be accessed here. Highlights from the study will also be discussed through November 13 during the Xperience 2019 conference at the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort in Orlando, Florida.
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This entertaining game includes a tutorial for beginners, to make sure that you don't get mixed up when you start playing, and two packs of levels, forty in total, that will keep you entertained for hours on end. If this isn't enough you can always easily install the game extensions. Solve the puzzles that you encounter combining the 18 different types of stone blocks, while you listen to the soundtrack composed by the Finish musician Juho-Petteri Yliuntinen for the game. And if you run out of levels you can even create your own levels with the editor that the game includes.
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My absolute favorite running shirt and the best part about the cooler temperatures.
Welcome to Utah where it is only Sept. 19th and we are already into long sleeve running weather (I only run with pants/capris when it is actually snowing because it feels really weird to me to run in them so I try to avoid them).
It was 40 degrees when I left this morning. Now I remember why I was obsessed with my treadmill during the Utah winters….somehow living in California for a year made me weak sauce when it comes to the cold.
Luckily I have the Equilibrium Base LS from Brooks to help me through this adjustment period.
This shirt is pretty incredible because it is designed to block external conditions (hot and cold) while also allowing your sweat to move away from the skin and out. This probably isn't going to make sense but you know when you go camping and you are sleeping in your sleeping bag and your body is really warm because of your sleeping bag but the cold air breeze feels really good on your face and it just feels perfect? That is how I would describe this shirt….it kept my upper body really warm yet the mesh pockets allowed the cool air breeze to keep me nice and cool and feeling good. I will pay you a dollar if you tell me that made sense because odds are it didn't.
I think my mom told me at least 3 times how cute she thought it was and she has very good taste. No joke…I promise I am not just saying this….but this is my new favorite running top. It will also make a great baselayer (a second skin) for when it gets even colder outside and I loved the long length of the shirt.
My garmin, headphones and iPod all ran out of juice while I was running so I have no idea how far or fast I went this morning but I stuck with an easy pace for about 45 minutes.
1. I have more excuses now to get right back into my pajamas after a run so that I can warm up.
2. My new blanket. I might try to sew an outfit out of this blanket so I can just wear it all day long.
3. Hot chocolate after every meal.
Brooke and I went with my mom to an outdoor shopping center and Brooke is much too cool for the stroller these days, she has to walk everywhere.
We dropped off my mom at home and then went to the park with one of my old college roommates and her two little girls.
Lunch. You see, I have 16 miles on the schedule for tomorrow morning so that means I have to carb load all day long and eat as many slices of this homemade bread (thanks Susette) as possible. Homemade bread > pretty much every other food out there.
I was using my sister's computer last night and almost had a panic attack just looking at how many unopened emails she has.
Hope your Thursday is going awesome!!! Fill me in on what you have been up to today!!
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I love, love, love the shirt! So cool! that bread looks so yummy! I finally learned how make bread and its is quite a temptation!
That shirt is super cute! I agree, home made bread is the best! I finally found a recipe that I like, too.
Can you share the recipe with me?
Absolutely. It is on my blog: http://fromthekitchentotheroad.wordpress.com/2013/09/09/mojo-monday-vegan-whole-wheat-no-knead-bread/ There is a link in my blog to the original recipe where there are some other options, too. It takes forever but you don't have to knead it.
Thank you so much!!! Can't wait to try it!
Cute shirt!!! 16 miles…. I've never done that in my life!
today i had 10 miles on the schedule…messed up my route and accidentally did 9! But it was just as well because my iPod also ran out of juice.
That shirt is so awesome!!! Highlight of my day was finding Hershey's caramel chocolate frosting at the store. I am way too excited to try it!
I love this post, but oh my gosh those emails–anxiety!!!!
That shirt is too cute!! My hubby is totally like that when it comes to emails too, and I can't stand for there to be even one un-read email. I totally slacked this morning and slept for an extra hour. It was kind of nice. Now to run tonight, blech! My favorite long sleeve is the the turquoie Lulu you had on the other day. I absolutely love the fabric. I'm still in tanks and shorts in central Cali.
Yes that shirt is awesome. We sell it at the running store where I work and its amazing how warm it is for such a thin fabric! The fact that its hot pink doesn't hurt either.
Today has been so. lazy. Which is ok I think! I woke up super early (4:15! thank you pregnancy insomnia) so I worked on my blog, editing photos and what not. When I felt like joining the real world I ran some errands. I also made a super yummy pumpkin pecan butter – may I suggest eating that with any form of bread?? There has been an embarrassing amount of time on Pinterest between the other activities today! Headed off for a walk as soon as I pry myself off the couch.
love that top! so so cute.
Adorable shirt! I will have to see if I can track that one down. Totally love new running clothes. Happy "talk like a pirate"day!
Way cool shirt! And I love Brooke's outfit, it's too cute!
Nothing terribly exciting today, the same old shuttling kids around. Looking forward to my fish tacos for dinner tonight!
Oh how I love bread!!!! I have almost as many emails but mine has nothing to do with popularity…just sheer laziness and disoranization to go through them!!!
You are the CUTEST! Love that Brooks shirt!
What I've been up to today… Went on walk/jog with a couple friends along the Jordan River for a couple hours this morning, and the rest of the day has consisted of me fighting Hunter with naps. Fun, right?
My dad makes homemade bread around christmas every winter and it's seriously my favorite part. I can literally eat an entire loaf in a day and then ask him to make me more for the next day. I love love loveeee that shirt. Even though I'm a die-hard mizuno sneaker wearer, I think Brooks has by far the best running campaign I've seen of any brand. Run Happy is exactly what we all SHOULD be doing each time we lace up!
That shirt is soo cool!! I love it. I am enjoying the cooler weather for my heated blanket! Ha I miss it so much in the summer. My thursday consisted of a 38 minute tempo run (got a little carried away from the 35 minutes) and hanging out on the couch, ha. My night will consist of chilling with my kitty on the couch. Tough life I lead, right?
Love your shirt and your Tory flats. I've been eyeing those for a while now and just haven't quite wanted to pay the money. Are they comfortable?
They weren't for the first few days but now they are extremely comfortable!
I'm loving that shirt! And your description absolutely made sense. It sounds like every morning during PA winters that made me want to stay in bed all day, but you can keep the dollar…put it towards some flowers for yourself. <–Seriously. It's my favorite thing to buy on a mundane grocery trip. Always makes me happy.
Homemade bread is AMAZING! My grandfather used to make it all the time and it was so delicious. I've been debating on purchasing a bread maker for a few months.
Question for you: I just started running about a month ago, running about every other day roughly 1.5 miles, and my knees and ankles are really sore. Is that normal for just starting out? Or do I need to change something?
I've been looking at that shirt reminding myself that I already have a gazillion running shirts and I don't need one more, but then you talked it up and now i need it.
It's fallish- here in Iowa too. Which has been great for the morning runs! And that means pumpkin baking season!
I got offered a job today so this Thursday has been fabulous! That is one of the cutest running shirts I've ever seen!!
I went to Costco today & they had the same blankets!! I HAD to buy one even though it was 86 degrees today. You are right, it is amazingly soft!
Had to drop off my orthotics to be redone today. No running for at least a week until they are finished. Boo!
I cleaned house today ( not my fav but its gotta get done!) My daughter and I took a long walk around our farm. Then later my momma came over and I ran six miles. Ohio is beautiful this time a year…it was a good run! I love the shirt must try one!
Love those jeans! Where are they from?
I am in love with neon running clothes. I pretty much have every neon color in my running wardrobe. So, naturally, I love your running top!! So cute.
I LOVE LOVE LOVE that shirt – $75.00 ouch – any Hungry Runner Girl coupon codes for this one?!
Adorable top! You're Mom wasn't lying…you look WAY cute in it!
Aww, look at little Brooke go with her walking skills!!! Are those little Toms??
I'm going to have to get that shirt…and seriously, Janae–you are so stinkin' beautiful!! it is pretty clear where Brookster gets her looks!! :) If I ever see a toddler shirt that says 'i got it from my mama' I am sending it your way!!
I've had my eye on that shirt for the last week. I'm thinking that means I must order it!!!
I LOVE that shirt and will now be buying it!
Today I got in a 5mile run on my "lunch" break between teaching and coaching. I felt so accomplished !
LOVE the shirt (heading over to the Brooks website now!). Also, it is kind of crazy weather we're having here in Chicago so yesterday when I tried to go out and amp up my speed during a six miler, I roasted having dressed for 60degrees and not realizing it was actually 80. Ick, I hate being overdressed for a run! I am not ready to give up my tank tops and shorts, but I wish the weather would make up its mind about Fall or Summer.
I also have delicious bread, but I didn't make it. I got it at the farmer's market and its Cinnamon swirl…..it makes the BEST french toast you've ever eaten. I buy a loaf every week from the same guy at the market and tell him I should advertise for his bakery.
Enjoy your day! The smile you are sporting with that long sleeve shirt is even better than the shirt itself. Thanks for being an inspiration Janae!
Okay, that shirt is SO cute!!!! I loooove the hot pink color! I want one :) I'm also loving Brooke's outfit. Adorable.
I love that shirt!! The color is so pretty on you, too!
I want that shirt! The brad too…I realized today that mine had molded, AFTER I had made my sandwich…total fail.
Love the shirt! I'm just up. Off for a 16km long run . Not really feeling it.
Ahh, this whole blog post just makes me want to come back from a chilly run and to cuddle up in front of a fire place with hot chocolate – I'm excited for fall!!!
As someone who routinely backpacks, I know exactly what feeling you're talking about with the sleeping bag. Love the shirt!
I'm pretty excited about this shirt! It looks so amazingly cute plus from the sounds of it, it's super functional. You look deadly in the neon pink.
Today I had a 4.5 mile easy run on my schedule because I have a 5km on Saturday that is freaking me out. I've only ever run that distance once and I was 5 months pregnant. Short distances = scary.
I want that shirt! So adorable!
I almost bought that shirt at the RnR Philly Expo on friday!!! Eeeek I REALLY want it now!! Too stinking cute!
I am currently studying for the German equivalent of the USMLE, trying to run a lot to clear my head but failing and running hard. Not so much fun right now.
This is the cutest running shirt I've ever seen! It looks perfect on you Janae!
I love that shirt! I always tend to bundle up a little too much when it's cold. It's not nearly as cold in PA as it is in Utah but I am already bracing myself for running in colder weather.
I love that top from Brooks – I think I need one! It has been chilly here in NY too and so far I am loving it. Remind me of this as it gets colder and colder and colder..and the fear of frost bite sets in when out for a run longer than 4 miles.
My Thursday consisted of grocery shopping, laying around home with a sick 9yr old, and open house for my two high school kids.
We were given a test at open house to draw a map of the world from memory. I failed!
I ended the night by making overnight French toast. It was amazing this morning. Nice to send the kids out the door with a hot breakfast.
I have a dough recipe that's used for cinnamon rolls, but makes great bread and even better pizza dough!!
But yesterday I worked, then after picked up my little man (who's officially 2 months old today) then met a friend for dinner at Pot Belly's sandwich place, first time I had eaten there and won't be the last!
love how curly is staring at the ominous unopened e-mails. yeah, >4,000?! insane in the membrane.
That shirt looks awesome on you, that'll cheer anyone up on a run!
I LOVE that shirt!!! Great color, too!!
That is an awesome t shirt. I just made a Brooks purchase this week. It makes me happy!
Homemade bread is the best! My parents used to have a bread machine, and the hot, soft bread that'd come out of it would be AWESOME.
It is dropping to the 90s here in AZ!! That is no 40 that is for sure.
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Coding for the Win - How I Built a Tower Defence Bot
By Justin Worthe
While you might have heard people speaking about how fun programming is, I find it much less common that people treat it as a game. In "competitive programming", however, communities do just that - program against each other in order to win.
A South African example is the annual Entelect Challenge where the competitors write programs to play a game for them. At 2018's Tower Defence Challenge, my entry did really well. Here is how I went about it.
What is this game we're playing?
The first step in any competitive programming challenge is to make sure you understand the problem that you're trying to solve.
Each match has two player-written programs. The programs take turns and have two seconds to read in the state of the board, come up with a good move, and shut down again.
So, what is the game my program needed to play? This year, the game is a lane based tower defence game. Each player has an 8x8 grid to build towers on:
There are three towers that you can build:
Energy towers produce energy for you to build other buildings,
Attack towers shoot missiles at your opponent and
Defence towers block opponent missiles.
The short description on how to win is that you need to shoot your opponent with enough missiles! Specifically, shooting missiles that pass completely over your opponent's side of the board without hitting any of their towers.
At the beginning of the game, players build their energy towers. This helps them to build up energy, so that they can keep building other towers. Then, they build attack towers, which will shoot missiles at their opponent. If a missile hits an opponent's tower, the tower is damaged. The defence tower can stop up to four missiles. The other towers are destroyed after a single missile hits them. If a missile makes it all the way across the opponent's board without hitting their towers, then the opponent is hit by the missile themselves. The winner is the first player to hit their opponent with twenty missiles. Your opponent, of course, isn't going to make this easy. They will build their own attack towers that are shooting back at you.
What is the best way to play?
On a high level, all of the programs entered into the competition need to do the same thing: read the current state of the game and choose a move. It's useful to have an idea for how many moves the program has available to choose from, so I did some quick maths to get an idea for the number of possible moves. This isn't the most accurate mathematics, but it was enough to give me a feeling for the order of magnitude that I was dealing with.
Say that you and your opponent both have enough energy to build any of the three towers, anywhere on the board:
The 8x8 grid means that you have 64 spots to build in.
The 3 different building types that could go in each spot lead to you having 192 different moves that you could make.
Your opponent also has 192 different moves that they can make.
If you look just one move into the future, considering every combination of your moves and your opponent's moves, that's 36 864 different states that the game could be in just one move into the future.
Something important to realise for this game is that many of the towers only really have an impact a few moves into the future. Energy towers, for example, don't have any immediate effects but impact your ability to build for the rest of the game. Even with the attack towers, you need to look a few moves into the future to see the
missiles being created and flying at your opponent.
If you look two moves into the future, then there are 967 458 816 different states to consider!
I've found that a typical game lasts somewhere between 50 and 100 turns. Clearly, the number of different paths that you can take through this game is massive.
Based on this, it didn't seem to be possible to find a BEST
move. That's why I decided to focus on finding a GOOD ENOUGH move.
This decision helped to focus the direction I took when researching possible alternatives. I went looking for algorithms applied to problems where it wasn't possible to do an exhaustive search of all possible moves.
The Monte Carlo Tree Search
When you're faced with a difficult problem, it is usually a good idea to see what similar problems people have solved before.
In this case, I was inspired by AlphaGo, a program that Google wrote to play Go. In an average Go turn, there are 250 possible moves, making it even worse than the 192 that we need to deal with. AlphaGo manages the large number of possible moves by using a technique called a Monte Carlo Tree Search.
I've written before about Monto Carlo algorithms generally, and so I felt I was in a good position to give it a stab. The high level idea is actually fairly simple:
Make a list of the possible moves you can make now.
For each of those moves simulate a game that starts with that move.
Choose all other moves in the game at random, and simulate with random moves until somebody wins.
Record if you won or not at the end of the simulation.
If you do one simulation of the game using random moves, then the outcome doesn't tell you much. If you do a thousand simulations using the same starting move, then it can tell you statistically if the starting move was any good.
Now, the challenge this posed to me was: How do I simulate enough games in the available two seconds to get a statistically significant result? I wrote my program in the Rust programming language, which gave me a good balance between low level control over my program and the convenience of modern high level languages. I'm going to go into more detail on exactly what I did to have a fast simulation in a future article, but it involved many evenings of staring at profiler outputs trying to figure out how to do things just a little bit more efficiently. Rust's excellent support for parallel programming also helped me to get a large speedup by making full use of the multi-processor computers that the tournament was being run on.
In the end, thanks to rewriting my bot to make heavy use of bitwise set operations, I was able to run in the region of 400 000 games to completion in two seconds.
One of the most valuable things I did for this project was to spend time talking to my friends. Towards the end of the competition, we even ran our programs against each other to get some feedback on how we were doing. Talking to others about the issues I was hitting helped me because I was:
Finding out about approaches that I wouldn't otherwise have considered,
Thinking through my problems by verbalising them (the rubber duck approach), and
Keeping myself motivated when things took longer than I thought they would.
In competitions, it's always tempting to try to keep all of your ideas to yourself. Resist that temptation and talk with your friends.
As an example, one of the secrets of my program's success is that I have a highly performant implementation of the game rules. I did that by making heavy use of bitfields to represent the game board, and bitwise operations to handle the transitions between states.
When I implemented this, I got stuck on a tricky problem: how do you randomly and efficiently choose an unset bit in a bitfield? After discussing the problem with a friend, he pointed my towards an article called Bit Twiddling Hacks, which happened to have exactly the bitwise trick I needed.
Sharing ideas helps to create more ideas.
That's all from me for right now, but I'm planning on writing several more posts on this topic, delving deeper into the issues I mentioned:
Performance tuning in Rust using benchmarking and Perf
Going four times faster using multi-threading
Using Rust compiler flags to toggle features with zero runtime cost
Using property based testing to ensure that my super fast simulation was simulating the right thing
Bit-twiddling hacks to make a simulation really fast and near incomprehensible
Codingame hosts regular competitions, and has a really slick player portal for writing bots.
In December, join me for the Advent of Code, a programming challenge advent calendar.
I'm going to be keeping an eye on the Entelect Challenge website around April next year to see what interesting new game they come up with next.
Justin Worthe is a software engineer with an interest in music, games, good coffee, and using programming to get stuff done. He can often be found trying to find ways to play with all of these interests simultaneously. In the meantime, you can catch him on Twitter or Github.
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Q: Random effects model for meta-analysis of rare events The Cochrane Handbook states that

incorporation of heterogeneity into an estimate of a treatment effect
should be a secondary consideration when attempting to produce
estimates of effects from sparse data

This has for example motivated authors of this meta-analysis to use a fixed effects model for their analysis, because their events of interest were rare.
In general, to what extent should this recommendation be followed? If I have data from studies that I have very good reasons to think that they are heterogeneous, but that report very rare events, what type of model should I use?

A: There is an updated version of 'the Handbook' with a more detailed explanation (https://training.cochrane.org/handbook/current/chapter-10#section-10-4-4-3). What they're saying that the RE models in Revman can be biased and therefore to use a Peto-OR (FE model) for rare events (<1%). Others (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18562399/) have shown that approximate/ asymptotic methods in general are biased and exact methods are more precise for dealing with meta-analysis of rare events.
Regarding FE vs. RE in general, this Q & A might provide some additional insight (Reporting results of fixed effect MA alongside results of random effects MA). In summary, the choice of FE or RE should be an a priori decision (when both are valid options - not particularly in this case).


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De Falklandeilanden is een eilandengroep die deelneemt aan de Gemenebestspelen (of Commonwealth Games). Sinds 1982 hebben de Falklandeilanden zeven maal deelgenomen. In totaal over deze zeven edities wonnen de Falklandeilanden nog geen enkele medaille.

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Land op de Gemenebestspelen
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Brian was born and raised in Lake Oswego. He received his degree in Finance and a minor in Economics from the University of Oregon. Ever since his first international trip to Australia, Brian aspires to experience as many international cultures and way of life as possible. These aspirations have taken him from the mountains of New Zealand, to the jungles of Central America, and back to beautiful islands of Indonesia. His goal is to continue traveling to a new location every year, until he has traveled to a country boarding every major body of water. Despite Brian's love for travel he believes there is no better place to live, then right where he grew up, Oregon. Spending his free time outdoors with his fiancée, Kristina, and their dog Brodie, is one of Brian's favorite ways to relax. The unique culture of Portland, his love for the northwest, and four diverse seasons, leave the possibilities endless for weekend activities. Whether they are in Portland's backyard or across the international dateline, something is always on the drawing board. His personal goals are to grow his business and reward his success with trips around the world, each with its own unforgettable experience.
I'd love to hear from you any time! Look me up on any of the following social media platforms, or use the contact form HERE to say hello!
Thanks for taking the time to stop by and take a look around!
Below is a map of all the places around the world that I've been fortunate enough to visit in my lifetime. I've also included places that I would really like to visit in the future as well – If you have any recommendations for places to visit, please let me know!
Maybe I shouldn't knock on kiteboarding so much?!
Can't wait to visit the Indo, South African crew in their homeland. Ed, Jason, Can't Wait!
Saving money till the next trip, Staycations aren't that bad when this is about to hit!
Guday's Warung is no longer secret, let alone even in the Jungle any more!!
How about a massage while overlooking the ocean!
Honeymoon in Indo? where you can surf at night?
Check out Sayulita Life! It Rocks!
Next trip on the docket, Getting married here in Sayulita Mexico under this Cabana!


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Remembering the Poet of East. Rare Images of Iqbal
The 140th birth anniversary of the renowned poet Dr. Allama Iqbal is being observed 09th November. Allama Muhammad Iqbal was the epitome of rich Urdu literature and one of the most instrumental figures in the history of Eastern world.
Iqbal was a philosopher, and politician, as well as an academic, barrister and scholar in British India who is widely regarded as having inspired the Pakistan Movement. He is considered one of the most important figures in Urdu literature, with literary work in both Urdu and Persian.
Let's see some of the rare pictures of Allama Iqbal below:
Allama Iqbal's childhood with his Father, Sheikh Noor Muhammad
Iqbal with his friends.
Iqbal in Spain
Iqbal in Kabul
Iqbal with Choudhary Rahmat Aliand other leaders
Iqbal after the conferment of Doctorate of Literature by the University of the Punjab in 1933
Allama Iqbal in a relaxing moment sitting on a sofa seat
Iqbal at his residence in Sialkot, Punjab
Iqbal with his son
Iqbal praying.
Iqbal and his son
Iqbal at a party during the 2nd Round Table Conference in London in 1931
Iqbal in a conference in Jerusalem. Iqbal is seen sitting on the extreme right in the first row(1931)
Iqbal's father
Mother of Allama Iqbal
Wife of Iqbal
Source – Brandsynario
Tags: Allama Iqbal, History, Poetry
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Delhi Turns Into A Gas Chamber; Pollution Levels Surged Into Heights


AMD gave us a sneak peek at its new Vega graphics card architecture way back at CES 2017. What we didn't know then, though, is that it wouldn't end up in the hands of consumers until August 2017.
AMD Vega has enjoyed plenty of success as the architecture behind the best mining GPUs, but the mining craze has been over for quite a while. Luckily, that means AMD Vega cards have fallen back down to reasonable prices – especially since we probably won't see AMD Navi for a while and the latest rumors point to a different line of GPUs coming soon.
Not that we necessarily need them, though. AMD's latest Radeon Software Adrenalin 2019 Edition just unlocked a ton of new functionality for current graphics cards, so the Vega cards we already have are doing just fine.
AMD's affordable, consumer-oriented Radeon RX Vega 64 launched back in August 2017, with three versions including a standard edition model, an aluminum-clad limited edition version and a liquid-cooled design with higher clock speeds.
AMD's lower-specced Radeon RX Vega 56, which is a direct competitor with the Nvidia GTX 1070, launched a little bit later in August.
AMD then teamed up with Intel, of all companies, to create 8th Generation Kaby Lake-G processors with integrated AMD Vega graphics for laptops – on top of packing some of the best laptops with powerful GPUs, like the spectacular Dell XPS 15 2-in-1.
Later, in February 2018, AMD launched the Ryzen 3 2200G and Ryzen 5 2400G APUs with discrete-class Vega graphics that will be a major help to anyone trying to build a great home-theater PC on a budget.
We wouldn't see a new graphics card from AMD until it partnered up with PowerColor to introduce the Radeon RX Vega 56 Nano at Computex 2018.
Now, a year later, rather than seeing rumors about a new graphics card, we're seeing a lot of speculation that says the opposite – we'll be waiting for the next graphics cards for a while. Unless, of course, you count the recently released AMD Radeon RX 590 – though we're not sure we would. Either way, you're probably safe picking up the Vega 64 or 56.
AMD has hinted several times at AMD Vega 7nm graphics cards being a thing, and we've even seen a trademark registered for Vega II. We're still not sure if these new Vega chips will be for consumers, though – so, we'll just have to wait and see.
What's more likely, is that we'll have to wait for AMD Navi to hit the streets in 2019. The latest rumors are pointing to these cards taking on the likes of the Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 for about half the price, so competition should be alive and well when that happens. Hopefully, we'll see the debut at CES 2019.
Back in August 2017, the AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 launched as a standalone card for $499 or £549 (about AU$630).
That's a big step up from the Radeon RX 500 lineup, which starts at as low as $169 (about £136, AU$219), but this is meant to be AMD's enthusiast-class grade graphics card. It's been a long-awaited sequel to the company's mostly defunct Radeon R9 Fury X, which was still going for a cool $389 (about £315, AU$505) up until the very end.
What's more, at this price point it's competitive against the $549 (£539, AU$1,299) Nvidia GTX 1080 Founders Edition.
After the launch of the Vega 64 in the US, AMD offered two other editions of the card that could be bought exclusively as part of 'Radeon Packs', which bundled two free games, and discounts on a Samsung CF791 curved ultra-wide FreeSync monitor and a nice $100 discount on a Ryzen 7 processor and motherboard. The packs are unfortunately unavailable to purchase at the time of writing, however.
Unfortunately, those hardware discounts only kicked in if users are buying the said monitor and CPU/motherboard combo at the same time as their Vega GPU. Of course, users could choose to not buy the extra components and peripherals while still getting the two free games, confirmed – in the US at least – to be Wolfenstein II and Prey.
The limited-edition AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 came as part of a Radeon Black Pack for $599 (£460, AU$750). Meanwhile, the liquid-cooled Vega 64 ran for $699 (£530, AU$875), and can only be purchased as part of AMD's Radeon Aqua Pack.
Lastly, you'll be able to purchase the AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 by itself for $400 (about £284, AU$500) MSRP.
At the end of the day, Vega was – at least at launch – as competitive to Nvidia as Ryzen is to Intel. Thankfully, due to the cryptocurrency market cooling down, AMD Vega cards have fallen to a reasonable price. They're not quite down to MSRP, but they're pretty close – you won't have to worry about spending 2-3x MSRP value to upgrade your GPU.
Following its 2017 Capsaicin 2 Livestream event, AMD revealed the exact specifications for its two new Vega GPUs, as well as its underlying Vega 10 architecture.
From the chart above, it's clear the most powerful of the bunch will be the liquid-cooled version of the Radeon RX Vega 64. The more expensive water-cooled version will operate at higher base/boost clocks, despite sharing identical specs to its air-cooled twin.
The RX Vega 56, on the other hand, is positioned against Nvidia's GeForce GTX 1070 at $400 (about £305, AU$505). However, early benchmarks have cited performance that greatly outweighed that of its closest competition while running triple-A games at 2560 x 1440.
Like the Polaris 10 architecture that preceded it, AMD's Polaris 10 architecture is built on a 14nm FinFET process that should ultimately make it more power-efficient and robust in performance.
Vega 10 is also noticeably skewed towards delivering on more compute power than raw graphical strength like Nvidia's Pascal GPUs. This will likely mean Vega will be able to better handle the complex calculations of procedural surfaces, volumetric lighting and the overall quality of the in-game graphics. This era of Vega GPUs also ditches GDDR5 memory altogether for a new format known as HBM2, or high-bandwidth memory. AMD believes its efficient memory offers a 75% smaller footprint than GDDR5 while also being 3.5 times more power-efficient.
AMD also claims that Vega's high-bandwidth cache controller will improve maximum frame rates by 50% and minimum frame rates by 100% over GDDR5 memory. Interestingly, Vega 10 is also designed to support up to 16GB of HBM2 memory – which we've already seen from Radeon Vega Frontier Edition – so Nvidia's Titan X may finally get some competition from AMD.
Stay tuned for more details regarding everything AMD Vega, as we'll be updating this page with the latest as it happens. In the meantime, be sure to update to the latest version of AMD Radeon Software Crimson ReLive for a generous helping of GPU control features.
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