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Posted on January 16, 2006 by Gil Friend in Sustainability with No Comments
Andrew Leonard writes in Salon of Filtering the China Filters:
But then, finally, there comes what to me is the most intriguing of all
the new info-nuggets I gathered today. In Howard French's New York
Times piece on the growing popularity of Chinese-language studies,
there is this paragraph:
'In a 2003 survey of American high schools, the College Board found
that 50 said they would like to add advanced placement courses in
Russian, about 175 said Japanese and 240 said Italian — and 2,400 said
they would prefer Chinese.'
That's some grass-roots attention to globalization right there, folks. People know: It's time to study up.
And that's your China update for today.
Actually the rest of the piece talk a lot of the challenges facing the Chinese miracle:
But how much progress is China really making in bringing its scientific
establishment up to the standards set by the U.S., Japan and Europe?
That's the question that Horace Judson investigates in his illuminating
three-part series for Technology Review. He provides an excellent
overview, with a lot of firsthand reporting, but the nut is this:
China's scientists are hampered by their Confucian hierarchical
heritage, which does not allow for the kind of questioning independence
at the core of the Western scientific ethos. China's leaders know this,
however, and the process of globalization in which young Chinese
engineers and scientists go to the West for advanced educations and
then come back to China, indoctrinated in a different value system, is
ongoing. But it will most likely take generations for long-term change to set in.
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Based on real-life cases, Killers is a themed anthology series about people who kill, the victims they leave behind, and the haunted folks who can't stop hunting them. From a lonely truck stop town where a predator hides his secrets, to Los Angeles at its most noir, each book offers a global view of a crime from the many perspectives of the victims, the bystanders and, of course, the killers themselves.
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The tiny truck-stop town of Our Lady of the River's Mouth is a dead end. It's a dead end for Frannie, nineteen years old and already a lifer at the local diner and it's certainly a dead end for all those girls they keep finding out in the woods.
The bodies have been showing up for a few years now, almost like another fixture of the town but Frannie reaches her breaking point when a transient friend of hers vanishes the very same day that yet another body turns up. Our Lady might not be much but it's Frannie's home and damned if she's going to let some sick murderer turn it into his personal dumping ground. Help comes from unexpected quarters, including her high school crush, a local psychic and a mysterious presence that roams the Our Lady woods looking for home. [Audio Sample]
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In the 1870s, Kansas territory is wild and barren. Folks head out there and they never come back. Some of them find a new life in the West, some of the just find the Drakes.
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The Drakes flee, looking for their next mark but the hunting party is hot on their heels and nothing but blood will satisfy the mob. [Audio Sample]
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At 21 years old, college junior Andrea Ward is driven, serious and haunted. A decade before, her younger brother vanished without a trace, long presumed to be a victim of the ruthless child murderer, the West Allertown Bogeyman. When the killer's execution date draws near, however, new information about another unsolved case suggests that everything Andrea knows about her brother's disappearance might be wrong.
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A six-book YA series about brilliant MIT drop-out Edmond West, who is convinced that humans will always require a scapegoat, someone to blame and hurt and exploit. His "bots" are the solution to this problem–a perfect simulacrum of humanity that should allow people to safely channel their darkest desires. But when the bots begin to challenge their roles and their programming, West might discover that he has spawned something far beyond his control…
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A robotics genius, Edmond West has developed a plan to create the world's first Artificial Intelligence truly indistinguishable from a human being. His Bots will eradicate global slavery and allow humanity to channel its darkest impulses safely, harming only these soulless machines. His greatest success, however, may also be his undoing. He's finally created the perfect humanoid robot; perfectly intuitive, perfectly emotive… and perfectly unpredictable.
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No place is safe for Edmond West and his humanoid robot, Hart. They are on the run, pursued not just by the US military, but also by the giant SennTech Corporation. Meanwhile, the rollout of the Hart Series military robots is hitting a speed bump: the Bots are starting to think for themselves… and they don't think much of the jobs they've been asked to do.
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Finance Minister Rimantas Šadžius says that the ministry will now wait for the European Commission's opinion about whether this may be regarded as state aid.
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Night of the Living Dead: Aftermath
The end is here as DAVID HINE tells the final bloody chapter in the Night of the Living Dead: Aftermath story. The excessive 1970s have given way to the dawn of the undead. Zombies have overrun the defenses that held them in check and turned major American cities into shambling ghoul towns. We started our journey with the Las Vegas survivors and our tale of misery ends with them.
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The original zombie phenomenon returns with horror writer David Hine directing the re-emergence of the undead in America. Set in the excesses of the late 1970s we follow the world as it has evolved with the zombie threat. The nation believes the epidemic contained, but when a virulent outbreak turns Las Vegas into a shambling graveyard, the government is forced to lock it down under quarantine. A
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In 1968, the film NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD redefined modern horror. Now, writer John Russo unleashes the next chapter in the zombie epic: NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD: NEW YORK! This special, self-contained, double-sized tale of unrelenting terror details the attack of flesh-eating ghouls on the unsuspecting populace of America's largest city, as the island of Manhattan becomes an inescapable death-tr
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Fans have demanded more, so Mike Wolfer returns to the Night of the Living Dead, but this time takes it to California! It's 1969, and one year and 1,700 miles from the devastating plague that ravaged the Eastern Seaboard of the United States. In the arid expanse of the California desert, a group of young, weekend warriors have left behind the tensions of the times and hope to escape the mundane wi
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Ho ho ho 'tis the season...for zombies! Mike Wolfer unleashes the NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD HOLIDAY SPECIAL and brings a new brand of terror home for the holidays! There will be more than just chestnuts roasting on an open fire as a large family gathers to celebrate the season, a raging snowstorm has buried their remote, mountain farmhouse in virgin snow, with no way in, and no way out. But a dark,
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John Russo's Escape of the Living Dead returns will an all-new tale of the continuing spread of the zombie virus... But now, it's taken a different and even more treacherous turn! In the back woods of Pennsylvania in 1971, a bus filled with San Francisco-bound hippies and flower children are about to find "peace and love" replaced with "fight or die" as they are attacked in an unthinkable onslaugh


If you thought the 2018 Apple Cup was enhanced because the teams were good and the outcome was nationally relevant -- and hugely entertaining because of snow -- you might want get on your giddy early for the 2019 chapter.
Former Eastern Washington University star QB Gage Gubrud won his NCAA appeal Saturday for an additional year of eligibility and will spend his final season as a graduate transfer at Washington State.
College football recruiting for most schools and fans is like ordering from a menu written in Chinese. Pictures are helpful, and previous experiences of random selections generally turned out all right, even if it was never clear what was being eaten.
For many recruits, however, the analogy is the chef from Seinfeld. For reasons often not clear, they are surprised with a harsh denial: "No soup for you!" More on this later.
The most unheralded, yet best annual event in Seattle sports went off so well Thursday it prompted a tough, square-built retired cop to get all gushy.
"An outstanding deal," said Garth Gaines. "It's been fantastic -- the Washington Athletic Club is a great place in a great location.
"And the award is very meaningful -- voted on by opposing players. That's the cherry on top. Not a popularity contest. It's how you played."
PASADENA, CA. -- It's not fair to say the Washington Huskies came all the way across an 18-year void for naught. But it is fair to say that that the Pac-12 Conference champions came away with little from the Rose Bowl Tuesday afternoon, because they showed up with neither plan nor purpose sufficient for such a large occasion.
PASADENA, CA. -- Truth be told, Kaleb McGary didn't want to be an offensive lineman. Nor was he wild about going to college in the ginormous city of Seattle, where there was way too much concrete for his country-boy tastes. A better fit seemed to be the University of Wisconsin in small-town Madison, where every third mammal in the state was a cow.
Rod Jones, a member of the 1984 Orange Bowl team who held the Washington career record for catches by a tight end, and more recently was the Huskies' academic coordinator, died Saturday at 54 by suicide from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Traditionalists are firing up their RVs -- Big 10 Conference champion Ohio State vs. Pac-12 Conference in Pasadena at 2 p.m. New Year's Day in the Rose Bowl. Let the caravan shortly begin heading south on I-5.
Confirming: The Rose Bowl is obligated to take the winner of Friday night's Pac-12 Championship. The news is important in case you were among the witnesses whose cringes were so severe that vision was impaired, and you walked away seeking medical attention.
Um . . . I'm not feeling it.
You know, the big regional sports championship Friday night. In Santa Clara. Washington Huskies vs. Utah Utes. Winner of the Pac-12 title game goes to the Rose Bowl.
Are you feeling it? Didn't think so.
After one of best seasons for a linebacker in Huskies football history, Washington senior Ben Burr-Kirven was named Wednesday as Pac-12 Conference Scholar-Athlete of the Year for the 2018 season.
He's the second Husky to win the honor in the past three seasons. Former OL Jake Eldrekamp won in 2016.
The Cougars' home loss to Washington Friday in the Apple Cup cost more than dignity and the North Division title. In the College Football Rankings released Tuesday, the Cougars fell from eighth to 13th, or one spot beyond where the New Year's Six bowls tend to feed.
PULLMAN -- For all of Mike Leach's coaching acumen, in four years he's never figured out what to do about RB Myles Gaskin. And for five years, he hasn't figured out what to do about coach Chris Petersen. Even after receiving simultaneous visits from the Palouse football imps -- snow, cold, dark and wind, all at once -- he still can't change the Cougars' fate against the Washington Huskies.
PULLMAN -- Following the crash of a bus Thursday night on the way to Pullman that temporarily hospitalized 47 members, the University of Washington band didn't continue to the Apple Cup Friday. Ambulances transported the passengers to nearly hospitals, where none of the injuries were considered serious.
The Apple Cup, a college football game held following Thanksgiving with its decidedly Northwest theme, compels normal people to dress up in garish crimson or purple fashion ensembles, drive 300 miles through dubious mountain-pass conditions to a designated stadium and sit in cold, rain, snow and darkness to watch the spectacle play out.
You may think that Friday's Apple Cup is a big game for both Washington and Washington State, given the traditional bragging rights, the unusual West Coast football stakes for each program, and even a national discussion surrounding the Cougars' distant shot at a berth in the College Football Playoffs.
While all of that is true, there is potentially a more lasting consequence for Wazzu.
Reporters who helicopter, or wagon-train, into Pullman for one-off interviews invariably find Mike Leach amusing, irreverent, original and iconoclastic, especially for his industry. However, reporters who deal with the Washington State football on a regular basis often find him circumspect, contentious and surly. And, often, late.
In the final Husky Stadium game of the season, the Washington football team said goodbye to 23 of coach Chris Petersen's earliest and most accomplished recruits, hello to elite LT Trey Adams and slammed the door in Oregon State's face.
The pregame senior ceremony lasted far longer than any suspense over the outcome. So did Adams' welcome return from injury purgatory.
Washington's 27-23 survival win over Stanford Saturday night at Husky Stadium vaulted the Huskies (7-3, 5-2) back into the latest Associated Press college football poll Sunday at 20th, a week after a 12-10 loss at Cal dropped them from the top 25. Washington State (8-1, 5-1), following a 19-13 win over Cal at Pullman, stayed put at No. 10. The Cougars were eighth in the first College Football Playoffs rankings released last week.
The cold wind off Lake Washington Saturday night was no match for the heat coming from Jake Browning.
Furious over a benching for two series in an upset loss at Cal a week earlier, Browning turned his anger into two of the best drives of Washington's season. But after the adrenaline that powered a 21-0 halftime lead dwindled, the Huskies found themselves hanging on for dear life against relentless Stanford that, for want of an extra point, probably would have prevailed.
The season's first College Football Playoff rankings are out and, to the astonishment of the known sports world, the Washington State Cougars are eighth. WSU at 7-1 has its highest ranking ever in the five-year history of the format, produced by a selection committee.


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Un diaframma è una struttura in calcestruzzo prefabbricata o gettata in opera, che viene utilizzata per sostenere scavi artificiali di natura provvisoria o definitiva impedendo lo scivolamento del terreno all'interno dello scavo. Definito anche paratia in calcestruzzo, spesso ha anche un ruolo strutturale nell'opera finale.
Talvolta il solo diaframma non è in grado di reggere la spinta del terreno e si rende necessario l'inserimento al suo interno di tiranti: queste opere sono dette paratie tirantate.

Un diaframma è realizzato con apposite macchine provviste di ganasce o frese che, calate nel terreno attraverso dei cordoli guida, scavano una sezione verticale: per evitare crolli di materiale della parete cui viene a mancare il sostegno, lo scavo è realizzato tramite impiego di fanghi bentonitici. Eseguito lo scavo il diaframma prefabbricato è collocato nella sede; se invece il manufatto è gettato in opera viene realizzato in calcestruzzo armato (l'armatura è solitamente costituita da una gabbia d'acciaio) oppure con un composto detto "plastico", costituito da bentonite e calcestruzzo.

Progettazione di un diaframma
Un diaframma infisso nel terreno è sottoposto contemporaneamente a spinte instabilizzanti (spinte attive esercitate a monte della paratia) e spinte stabilizzanti (spinte passive esercitate sul lato di valle dal terreno al di sotto del fondo dello scavo).
La progettazione di un diaframma è perciò legata a valutazioni di tipo geotecnico e consiste nella verifica delle condizioni di equilibrio tra spinte attive e spinte passive, utilizzando eventualmente contrasti, tiranti, appoggi di vario tipo in ausilio alle spinte stabilizzanti. Uno dei problemi essenziali è costituito dal calcolo della profondità di infissione nel terreno del diaframma a mensola, in modo da non richiedere ulteriori sostegni.

La progettazione è legata alla tecnologia del diaframma che si intende realizzare, in quanto la capacità statica dell'elemento strutturale dipende dalla sua tipologia costruttiva (diaframmi in conglomerato cementizio, palancole, micropali, ecc.), mentre lo stato di sollecitazione sviluppato lungo la paratia dipende, tra l'altro, dalle condizioni di scabrezza dell'interfaccia terreno - paratia.

I diaframmi possono essere realizzati a sbalzo (a mensola nel terreno), ad uno o più ordini di tiranti.
Le soluzioni costruttive meno complesse, in assenza di acqua di falda e di sovraccarichi importanti, possono essere studiate mediante abachi o sfruttando formulazioni chiuse più o meno semplificate.

Diaframma a mensola o autostabile
Nel caso più immediato di diaframma semplicemente infisso nel terreno (denominato diaframma a mensola) il meccanismo di rottura è rappresentato dalla rotazione del diaframma intorno ad un punto O posto a profondità d dal fondo scavo.

La progettazione viene effettuata valutando le spinte del terreno sul diaframma. Definendo h la differenza di quota tra il piano campagna e il fondo scavo (e quindi l'altezza del diaframma fuori terra), d la profondità rispetto al fondo scavo del centro di rotazione O e d' l'altezza del diaframma al di sotto del centro di rotazione, le spinte del terreno sulla paratia possono essere così sintetizzate:

nella zona al di sotto dello scavo:
spinta passiva per una profondità d dal fondo scavo al centro di rotazione O ( contributo stabilizzante);
spinta attiva per una profondità d' dal centro di rotazione O alla parte più inferiore del diaframma ( contributo instabilizzante);

nella zona al di sotto del piano campagna:
spinta attiva per una profondità h + d dal piano campagna al centro di rotazione O ( contributo instabilizzante);
spinta passiva per una profondità d' dal centro di rotazione O alla parte finale inferiore del diaframma ( contributo stabilizzante).

In particolare in sede di progettazione si tende a considerare i contributi derivanti dalla parte di terreno al di sotto del centro di rotazione O ( e ) come applicati esattamente in quel punto, trascurando il momento meccanico che la risultante R delle due spinte offrirebbe alla struttura. Tale assunzione è tuttavia a vantaggio di sicurezza, dal momento che questo contributo tenderebbe a frenare la rotazione della paratia.

A questo punto la profondità d viene valutata imponendo l'equilibrio alla rotazione del diaframma intorno al punto O. Avendo ipotizzato infatti la forza R applicata esattamente in quel punto si avrà:

Considerando che la struttura dovrà essere equilibrata anche nel senso della traslazione orizzontale, ponendo la condizione di equilibrio

si potrà calcolare la forza R da cui sarà possibile ricavare l'ulteriore infissione del diaframma d' (ricordando che essa era la risultante delle spinte del terreno al di sotto del centro di rotazione). La profondità a cui dovrà essere infisso il diaframma sarà esattamente . In ogni caso, in prima approssimazione, il valore dell'ulteriore infissione del diaframma può essere valutato pari al 20% della lunghezza d.

Per tenere conto dell'incertezza del calcolo dei parametri di resistenza del terreno si è soliti applicare un coefficiente di sicurezza alla spinta passiva, al cui valore ci si affida interamente per la stabilità della struttura.

Diaframma vincolato

In molte situazioni la realizzazione di un diaframma a mensola risulta antieconomica o tecnicamente insostenibile, in quanto l'attivazione dei necessari meccanismi di spinte attive e passive comporta spostamenti orizzontali della sommità della paratia di entità inaccettabile.
In tali casi si procede ad inserire uno o più contrasti, spesso costituiti da tiranti, seguendo la progressione degli scavi.
Sempre nei casi più semplici dei diaframmi monoancorati, ovvero contrastati con un solo ordine di tiranti, la progettazione si differenzia a seconda del vincolo che si realizza nei fatti alla base del diaframma.

Free earth support
Nel caso si ipotizzi all'estremo inferiore un vincolo dato dalla semplice forza passiva sviluppata al di sotto del fondo scavo, la struttura nel suo complesso risulterà iperstatica, ma con semplici operazioni sarà possibile trovare la profondità minima di infissione del diaframma. Si opera imponendo l'equilibrio alla rotazione intorno al punto di applicazione della reazione F garantita dal tirante. Tale reazione vincolare, assimilabile ad una trazione viene coerentemente calcolata imponendo l'equilibrio alla traslazione orizzontale.
Nel caso in cui si utilizzino tiranti, essi dovranno essere di tipo passivo, altrimenti il modello di calcolo non risulta più valido in senso stretto.

A favore della sicurezza, si terrà conto dell'incertezza nella determinazione della resistenza del terreno con opportuni coefficienti di sicurezza: di solito per le spinte passive si adotta un fattore riduttivo pari almeno a 1.5, mentre per il dimensionamento del tirante si adottano coefficienti pari a 1.5 - 2.5.
Ciò può essere ritenuto valido per opere provvisionali, di durata temporale non superiore a due anni.
Le recenti normative geotecniche impongono per opere non provvisionali l'adozione di coefficienti parziali sia in aumento delle azioni sulla paratia, sia in diminuzione della parametrizzazione geotecnica, oltre eventualmente ad una diminuzione delle resistenze di calcolo.

Fixed earth support
Se l'estremo inferiore del diaframma viene approfondito nel terreno fino a contrastare idealmente tutti i possibili gradi di libertà, compresa la rotazione, si può introdurre a tutti gli effetti un vincolo di incastro. In questo caso la struttura risulterà fortemente iperstatica, così che in teoria non si potrebbe prescindere da considerazioni che tengano conto della congruenza delle deformazioni. Tuttavia, imponendo a priori l'esistenza di un punto C del diaframma avente momento nullo, si considera in quella sezione una cerniera, rendendo così la struttura isostatica. Esistono varie formulazioni più o meno empiriche di tale problema, accettabili solo nelle ipotesi di assenza di acqua di falda, terreno omogeneo, assenza di sovraccarichi a monte e irrilevanza degli spostamenti della sommità della paratia. La teoria di Blumm, per esempio, ipotizza che questo punto di cerniera si trovi ad una quota variabile, dipendente dall'angolo di attrito interno, sopra o sotto la linea di fondo scavo. In realtà lo sviluppo di una cerniera sopra il fondo scavo si verifica unicamente in terreni granulari molto compatti o cementati. Più sovente la cerniera nel terreno viene considerata ad una certa profondità, nell'ordine del 10% dell'altezza fuori terra del diaframma, sotto il fondo scavo.

Tale metodo di risoluzione di questo problema è chiamato metodo della trave equivalente
Anche nello sviluppo progettuale di tale modello si introducono opportuni fattori di sicurezza o coefficienti parziali coerentemente con il tipo di verifica in corso (all'equilibrio limite o agli stati limite).

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On Global "Weirding" [UPDATED]
February 20, 2010 at 6:16 pm (By Amba)
Tom Friedman thinks he's so clever, but in fact his coinage, "global weirding" — the weather isn't getting uniformly warmer, it's getting weirder — was anticipated and, to my mind, bested by an Inuit at Baker Lake, Nunavut, Canada named N. Attungala:
Inuit have a traditional juggling game. The weather is sort of like that now. The weather is being juggled; it is changing so quickly and drastically.
"The weather is being juggled." That's usually what I quote to people when they remark on the apparent altering and intensification of weather patterns and extremes.
Friedman lets the climate-science establishment off the hook way, way too easily, implying that the end — fighting the oil-soaked Forces of Rogue Capitalist Evil — didn't quite justify the means, but made the zeal touchingly forgivable. Sort of like Al Pacino's cop character in Insomnia, who falsified evidence to convict the really bad guy he knew was guilty.
The climate-science community is not blameless. It knew it was up against formidable forces — from the oil and coal companies that finance the studies skeptical of climate change to conservatives who hate anything that will lead to more government regulations to the Chamber of Commerce that will resist any energy taxes. Therefore, climate experts can't leave themselves vulnerable by citing non-peer-reviewed research or failing to respond to legitimate questions, some of which happened with both the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia and the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
It was better put by Icepick, with whom I occasionally correspond about such matters, and who's been appalled by the revelations of politicized, if not religionized, scientific misconduct:
We'd better hope global warming isn't real, because they're never going to get anything done about it now.
I'll leave you with a couple more provocative thoughts.
First, here's proof that self-described "skeptics" are anything but skeptical about the poorly understood extent and nature of anthropogenic global whatever (AGW). They're skeptical only about the "supernatural," but ironically they've invested in reverence for inviolate Nature the same credulity and sense of sin and exile that they ridicule in religious people.
Sometime I'll try to write more about this, but this movement really does have the dimensions, functions, and emotional intensity of a replacement religion. In the van, where I listen to NPR, I heard the music at the opening ceremony for the Copenhagen climate summit, and it was unabashedly religious music. Avatar, from what I've heard (haven't seen it yet), sounds like a pantheist passion play, a work of religious (popular) art. What really makes the climate movement religious, to my mind, is the belief that WE are Bad. We have fallen away, violated our Mother, and we must do penance. There's even a sacred number that people solemnly invoke — 350 — sort of like JN8:12 on those rifle sights.
What makes it doubly ironic is that we are actually a part of nature, and our wild success as a species and resultant disruption of preexisting balances is entirely in keeping with what nature does at random intervals: change things suddenly and extremely, and the devil take the hindmost. Our real concern is that we ourselves may suffer, are already suffering, from the blowback of our heedless success; our real desire to preserve and restore nature (which I share) comes from our own need for it, which is what we have violated. More irony: whether or not it is explainably derived from nature, our sense of wonder, protectiveness, and loss towards other species and intricate systems, which drives us to protect nature, is what makes us odd "Man" out in nature. I suppose it can be viewed as nothing more ethereal than an extension of the survival instinct. Conservationism is to ecology what conservatism is to society: an awareness that rapid change is going to make us suffer.
Which brings me to a doubly contrarian take from Nassim Nicholas Taleb, one of my favorite living thinkers:
I have been asked frequently on how to deal with climate change in connection with the Black Swan idea and my work on decision-making under opacity. The position I suggest should be based on both ignorance and the delegation to the wisdom of Mother Nature since it is older than us, hence wiser than us, and proven much smarter than scientists. We do not understand enough about Mother Nature to mess with her –and I do not trust the models used to forecast climate change. Simply, we are facing nonlinearities and magnifications of errors coming from the so-called "butterfly effects" we saw in Chapter 11, actually discovered by Lorenz using weather forecasting models. Small changes in input, coming from measurement error, can lead to massively divergent projections –and that, very generously, assumes that we have the right equations.
We have polluted for years, causing much damage to the environment, while the scientists currently making these complicated forecasting models were not sticking their necks out and trying to stop us from building these risks (they resemble those "risk experts" in the economic domain who fight the previous war) –these are the ones now trying to impose the solutions on us. But the skepticism about models that I propose does not lead to the same conclusions as the ones endorsed by anti-environmentalists, pro-market fundamentalists, quite the contrary: we need to be hyper-conservationists ecologically, super-Green, since we do not know what we are harming with now. That's the sound policy under ignorance and epistemic opacity. To those who say "we have no proof that we are harming nature", a sound response is "we have no proof that we are not harming nature either" –the burden of the proof is not on the ecological conservationist, but on someone disrupting an old system. Furthermore we should not "try to correct" the harm done as we may be creating another problem we do not know much about currently.
UPDATE: Afterthoughts:
One way to look at it is that we're just nature's latest way of changing the climate.
The best representation in religion of the way nature works is the Hindu trinity of Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva. Creation, maintenance, destruction. Without maintenance, resistance to destruction — the astonishing homeostasis achieved by a healthy body or a mature ecosystem, with its remarkable ability to absorb shocks and restore itself — there would be no point in creation, no cumulation, no elaboration. But homeostasis isn't sacred (or no more so than the other two). A big enough shock, or a series of small degradations, will ultimately overwhelm it. Without destruction, also, there could be no creation.
rodjean said,
The more I try to understand whether we are experiencing potentially catastrophic anthropogenic global warming the more the data upon which the models are based seem to have great potential uncertainty. To use the problems with the recently disclosed emails that reflected replacement of inconvenient data in an IPCC report as an example, if tree rings are such great proxies, why is one researcher's data not showing rings consistent with warmer temperatures since 1960? If some other factor is making the trees he selected react differently, how do we know that factor wasn't present in earlier times for other tree species? It is reported that the number of weather stations used in the overall surface temperature database has been reduced drastically over the last few decades. Is the use of models to interpolate what those lost stations would be reporting conveying some bias, inadvertent or intentional. The politics of climate change science makes it hard to buck the "party line."
The skeptic in me takes most scientific pronouncements reportedly breathlessly by the news media with a dose of salt – so much that I was taught as scientific fact in the 50's and 60's turned out to be wrong.
Still, I agree with the contrarian view expressed at the end of the above post. The skeptics have not so much disproved anthropogenic global warming as they have demonstrated the climatologists' case rests on shaky evidence. I do not believe the majority of climatologists are intentionally propogating a theory they know to be a lie. If a majority of those who study climate change are convinced that anthropogenic global warming is occurring, that should at least give us pause.
After all, vulcanologists are not perfect at predicting new eruptions, but if I lived on the slopes of Mount Vesuvius and they said it was about to blow, I would strongly consider moving away. If the FAA is ready to ground a plane because there is a 10% chance that it will crash, will you get on it.
If there is a 10% chance of a major disruption of food supplies due to climate change, we ought to consider taking steps to avoid it, if we can. The problem is allocation of resources: $100 Billion tax dollars devoted to promoting "green" industries either comes from funds which are now unavailable for maintaining pure water or fighting malaria, or we make it an unfunded mandate forced on industry and dampen the economy, or we spend money we don't have without cutting back elsewhere, and we undermine the stability of the dollar.
The position I suggest should be based on both ignorance and the delegation to the wisdom of Mother Nature since it is older than us, hence wiser than us, and proven much smarter than scientists. We do not understand enough about Mother Nature to mess with her –and I do not trust the models used to forecast climate change.
So, he proposes that we stop vaccinating and stop using antibiotics? Should we also stop using other medicines? Perhaps we should stop setting broken bones, too. After all, Mother Nature Knows Best, and if it was best for one to have unbroken bones, then those bones would have never been broken in the first place!
Taleb's reasoning makes two mistakes. First, he anthropomorphizes the natural world. "Mother Nature" is "wiser than us" and "much smarter than scientists". If Nature is our mother, then who's our father? Perhaps she doesn't know because she was drunk and sleeping around at the time, in which case I question her wisdom. And before I attribute intelligence to her (much less grant that she's much smarter than, say, Einstein) I want to see results from an IQ test, or at least see her academic transcripts.
Second, Taleb's proposal that no action should be taken until we understand all the consequences is nothing but a prescription for suicide at worst. If we took his hyper-conservative approach, we should stop all industry and all agriculture RIGHT NOW since we can't possibly understand all consequences of our actions until the end of the Universe. Nor will we ever have that kind of understanding, so we should stop breathing immediately. That would seem to meet his criteria for acting "under ignorance and epistemic opacity."
Taleb tries to have it both ways by following his comments about "ignorance and epistemic opacity" with the following:
Furthermore we should not "try to correct" the harm done as we may be creating another problem we do not know much about currently.
So either we should take the most extremely conservative approach of taking no action until we understand its consequences, or we not change one single thing we're doing until we understand all those consequences. I'm glad he's cleared that up!
(It does remind me why I decided on mathematics instead of philosophy, though.)
If there is a 10% chance of a major disruption of food supplies due to climate change, we ought to consider taking steps to avoid it, if we can.
What if there's a 10% chance that steps taken to avoid that disruption of of food supplies caused by climate change ALSO has a 10% chance of disrupting food supplies? What if there's a 100% chance that both the 10% numbers are wrong? What then?
We live in the space between the enormous and the infinitesimal. We have to act with imperfect knowledge and with our own faulty perceptions and weak powers of reasoning. (See those pesky 10%s!) That may mean extreme environmental conservationism or extreme industrial/economic exploitation, or (SHOCK! CONSTERNATION! UPROAR!) a more moderate path that sails between Scylla and Charybdis, but we must act. And don't forget that failure to act is an action itself.
So you see, we must make choices – we've got no choice in the matter.
Ugh, and here's another one.
Taleb certainly did express that carelessly! LOL.
He's always trying to break down human presumption about how much we know and how smart we are. His work is about trying to act in such a way as to reduce risk in the face of huge unknowns. His field is finance, though, not ecology. He has enormous contempt for the fancy financiers and enabling academic theorists who brought us to the brink of financial disaster by inventing "derivatives" that juggled risk around as if what went up would never come down.
He was saying, I think, in his sloppy way that in going full speed ahead into loading the environment with emissions and effluents, we were acting recklessly like those financiers, and because we don't understand the effects of what we've done, we may now act just as recklessly in trying to compensate for it.
You can see why it's easy to contradict oneself in talking about this stuff.
You're right — we do have to act and make choices. Taleb is one of the few people thinking and writing about how to make choices when you don't know shit. It ain't easy.
What Taleb seems to miss (or ignore) is that every decision of any kind is made in the face of uncertainty. And yet we manage to, for example, put up bridges which last for decades. (Or, in the case of some Roman aquaducts, for a couple of thousand years. And still working, too!) So mere uncertainty about possible consequences is a limitation on us, but not a bar to action.
It is not unreasonable to keep firmly in mind that we do not operate with perfect knowledge. Which means that sometimes we will get blindsided by unanticipated consequences. But those occasions are, or certainly should be, learning opportunities — we look at what surprised us, and work on understanding why things happened that way. Then we take account of that the next time.
And, in fairness, sometimes the risks and the possible harm are substantially greater than the expected benefits. So we don't do those things. But our inaction is limited to somewhere on the scale between "this will do far more damage than we will gain from it" and "the damage will be far less than the benefit." We can argue over where along that continuum the break point ought to be. But to maintain, as Taleb apparently does, than it should be all the way at one end is…[I want to say something like "nonsensical" or "silly," but those don't quite convey how wrong I think it is. Help?]
Well, actually I think it's a cross between sloppy and deliberately provocative. I doubt that he really means it should be all the way at one end. I think he thinks it has been way over to one end, but he fears that our attempts to compensate could be equally extreme.
Could they be as harmful? Think of hydrogen-powered cars that emit nothing but water vapor. How ecologically benign is that? Well, they've just admitted that water vapor is a big component of the greenhouse effect. It's a major greenhouse gas.
Think of nuclear plants, wonderful, clean sources of power that we are newly enthusiastic about, although we still haven't solved the problems of a) how/where to dispose of the waste, b) how to shield them from terrorist attacks — if a fully fueled jumbo jet makes a nifty weapon, what to say about a fully fueled nuke plant? c) how to make them as accident-proof as possible.
Environmental science isn't Taleb's field, so he really is wading in where angels fear to tread. And if you go look at what he says right after the above quote, it makes even less sense. What his approach would probably recommend is hunkering down in old-fashioned moderation and frugality. Of course, that's not the American way.
Taking into consideration all of Taleb that I've read (two books and his notebook on his website) I think the fairest interpretation of that passage is exactly what Icepick is saying in comment 3.
Since I also get a sense of him being an arrogant and angry man, I can see how irritating and prone to misinterpretation he is. His basic ideas — and the admonition that we not take statistics, computer models, and academics too seriously — are well worth consideration, even if I have to put aside some of my own cherished ideas to do so.
I have a feeling I would find him insufferable in a social setting. And it would probably be mutual!
He is something of a crank and a snob, but I seem to like that; maybe it provides spice for my own mild, moderate, and conciliating tendencies, which otherwise would be insufferably bland.
callimachus said,
Amusing! That exact column prompted me to sit down and write something bloggish for the first time in months. [See the next post.]
William O. B'Livion said,
Referencing a) above:
Yes, we have. The problem we're having at Yucca Mountain (YM) is that YM was intended to be a temporary storage facility for nuclear material while a reprocessing facility was built. Once that reprocessing facility was built and operational the nuclear material would be reprocessed into (1) more nuclear fuel, and (2) a MUCH smaller amount of less radioactive waste. Wanna guess why the reprocessing facility wasn't built? So we'd still have some waste, but it would be a significantly smaller amount, and it would be less radioactive. Which means it's safer to handle etc. We could easily drop it in subduction zones and be done with it (encased in solid bedrock) for some really large amount of time that is really really large. Or we could keep it in places like YM in case we find more uses for various radioactive isotopes (like we keep doing in medicine).
b) There are modern designs that make nuclear plants MUCH less interesting targets for Terrorists–from pebble bed reactors that do not require weapons grade fuel and can be made more-or-less safe just by dumping the fuel to small, distributed reactor designs that make taking one or two out less a problem than the mega-reactors we seem to prefer here in the states.
c) Modern designs have progressed *well* beyond the current water cooled designs. Many of the newer designs use the properties of the materials (aka "physics" ) to control reactions and to make it much more unlikely that we would suffer a release of significant radioactive material.
On the flip side, we *know* that when we burn coal we release several different radioactive elements, including uranium, into the environment, some up the stack, some in the slag heaps. We get heavy metal releases including mercury, etc.
Taleb is wrong though–doing nothing is stupid and counter productive. At almost every technological step in the last 400 years the pollution footprint of the *individual* person has decreased. It's just that these technologies have allowed for a lot more of us. Each future step will be the same.
Thank you, William, for the update. It sounds as if the technology has advanced considerably.
I'll bite: why was the reprocessing facility not built?
Do you think that "Think Big America" can be convinced to move toward the smaller, distributed designs, or are they not considered cost effective to meet large demands for power?
I'm (re)thinking that our future inevitably involves learning to handle the atom as well as learning to handle the gene, just as we once learned to handle fire.


Source: Most LTSS is provided by adult children or other close family members. Breaking down the caregiver support ratio by race/ethnicity shows that the pressure on family members is not constant across all demographic groups; it does not mean that caregivers should be of the same race/ethnicity as the care recipient.
Notes: The caregiver support ratio is defined as the number of people of peak caregiving age (45-64) per person age 80+, when LTSS need is greatest. A lower number indicators fewer potential caregivers for each older person, and a greater pressure on those who are caregivers.


I still need to really sit down and work on the album for this year's Week in the life, but I thought the newest kit by Liz from Paislee Press would be perfect to showcase the Thursday that I spent surfing and so I made the layout for this day first.
I have very summery photos of that beautiful sunny day and the colours and vibes of Liz's kit were simply perfect. There are other elements of this day to be added but the surf itself took quite some time as Carcavelos is a spot located about an hour away from the little town where I live.
I used number stickers from Studio Calico to add the date and decided to create a little folded pocket page on the left side.
The idea behind the folded pocket page is that the person I was with at the time is no longer my partner. Although obviously feelings of nostalgia and pain come to me now, it doesn't change the fact that I had a great time that day and made the choice that I want to remember it as such.
I hope you like this mix of colours and photos, more to come to document that week!
I believe that in order to grow, we need to take the time to reflect, process, dream and plan. And if we can have some fun doing this all then it's all awesome!


Make sure you have taken a full System Backup before trying the below mentioned steps.
On a 64-bit machine, there are two versions of "lodctr.exe"
First try Microsoft KB http://support.microsoft.com/kb/282227/en-us but if that fails, you can perform the following using all or some of the following steps where applicable. The example below is where no eviction or force cleanup has taken place. This is the last remaining node in a cluster.
4.) Ensure the following files are the only ones in c:\windows\cluster.
TIP: You can move clusdb or any files or logs to another folder if you want to reference them to view old configuration data.
If you prefer, just delete the other files and leave the remaining.
NOTE: The key should be present already with 2 values but just delete the extra ones and change the ClusterInstallationStage value to 1.
7.) Double-check your modifications to make sure they didn't change from the reboot or you overlooked anything.
8.) You will now be able to access your old quorum, so move or delete the MSCS folder.
9.) You should now be able to install cluster (new cluster or add node to cluster).
4. Type the following: "cscript adplus.vbs -crash -p PID -o c:\adplus" (without the quotes, where PID is the number you determined in step 2).
5. Do not interfere with the windows that is opened, just let it run minimized.
6. You will not be able to log off the system while you are monitoring.
7. When the crash occurs, please zip and send me the contents of the c:\adplus directory.
286350 HOWTO: Use Autodump+ to Troubleshoot "Hangs" and "Crashes"
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==> In this case TCPIP.SYS driver was the cause for the BugCheck as the IRP was stuck at the TCPIP.SYS.
==> Disable TCP Chimney Feature of Windows Server 2003 SP2. You can follow the article below to disable TCP Chimney either using the package mentioned in the article or you can refer to the workaround section for disabling it manually.
Caused by a driver not cleaning up completely after an I/O.
the bugcheck screen and saved in KiBugCheckDriver.
the top driver on the stack to which the IRP was sent.
object of the top driver on the stack to which the IRP was sent.
Arg3: 8975d618, A pointer to the MDL containing the locked pages.
Arg4: 00000003, The number of locked pages.
==>> Now, use the !search extension to find the virtual addresses that are associated with the MDL pointer.
Debuggee is a kernel summary dump, some physical pages may not be present.
Searches will miss hits from those pages.
==>> For each virtual address (VA) found, look for an IRP signature. Do this by using the dd command with the VA minus one DWORD.
==>> After a VA with an IRP signature has been found, use the !irp extension to find out what driver is pending on this IRP.
Mdl=8975d618: No System Buffer: Thread 00000000: Irp stack trace.
==>> From the stack below, TCP Chimney feature is enabled on the server, disabling it will be good step to disable that.
Setting the value at 60 informs the Memory Manager to start the trimming process at 60 percent of PagedPoolMax rather than the default setting of 80 percent.
If a threshold of 60 percent is not enough to handle spikes in activity, reduce this setting to 50 percent or 40 percent.
Setting PagedPoolSize to 0xFFFFFFFF allocates the maximum paged pool in lieu of other resources to the computer.
4. Restart the server for the changes to take effect.
Click Start, click Run, type Notepad, and then click OK.
Save the file as .reg file type, and then exit Notepad.
In Windows Explorer, double-click the file to import these registry settings.
Above registry fix can be used to increase server performance and throughput.
PortQryUI is a very good to check the ports.


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Numerical analysis of the effect of partial interaction in the evaluation of the effective width of composite beams
A. R. Silva
L. E. S. Dias
Revista IBRACON de Estruturas e Materiais, August 2018, n. 4, v. 11
10.1590/s1983-41952018000400007
Most of the engineering problems involving structural elements of steel-concrete composite beam type are approximations of the structural problem involving concrete plates connected by connectors to steel beams. Technical standards allow the replacement of the concrete plate element by a beam element by adopting a reduction in the width of the plate element known as effective width. The effective width is obtained, in most technical norms, taking into account only the parameters of beam span length and distance between adjacent beams. Numerical and experimental works found in the literature show that this effective width depends on several other parameters, such as the width and thickness of the concrete slab, and the type of loading. The objective of this work is to verify the influence of the partial interaction in the evaluation of the effective width of composite beams formed by a concrete slab connected to a steel beam with deformable connection, being used in numerical simulation three types of finite elements: a plate element for nonlinear analysis of the concrete slab; a bar element for non-linear analysis of beams with cross-section defined by a polygon; and an interface element which connects the plate and beam elements, simulating the deformation effect of the shear connectors. In the studied examples, it was found that the reduction of the shear connection stiffness at the interface between the concrete slab and the steel beam leads to a decrease in the shear lag effect and, consequently, makes the effective width of the concrete slab closer to the its real width. In another example, curves are constructed to define the effective width of a composite beam with medium stiffness. Considering maximum stresses and maximum displacements, these curves are obtained by forcing the equivalence of the approximate model with the model closest to the real problem.
Structurae cannot make the full text of this publication available at this time. The full text can be accessed through the publisher via the DOI: 10.1590/s1983-41952018000400007.


Elves and Fairies are not the same thing. This looks like a Water Fairie. LOL sorry to be nit picky, just the first thing I thought when I saw it. Nice picture though!
I think you are right? Thanks for your notice.


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Malwarebytes the Best Anti-Malware Program in 2020
If you use a Windows operating system, then you're a smart object for hackers because Windows is the world's maximum using an operating system. You still required a regularly updated antivirus suite or an anti-malware program to retain you harmless from the newest threats.
You use all types of software on a daily basis. But there's a different type of software that uses you, for accursed purposes. At the point when programming originates from the Dark Side, with harmful purpose, we call it malware. Trojan horse programs can be more productive. They may send your private information to the malware hub and install extra programs. There are a lot of different merchants out there who can deliver the security you need to protect against malware, and surprisingly better a considerable lot of these give both free and paid versions of their anti-malware software.
What is "Antivirus" and "Anti-malware?"
The link is thin in the middle of the two terms. "Antivirus" means a platform that defends your computer from getting infected or preventing, identifying, and blocking the malware before it performs.
On the other hand, an "Anti-malware" explanation will identify and take out malware from an already infected device or block malware performance that generates some behavioral alarms.
Why use Anti-malware program
Sometimes the regular antivirus failed to block some malware and it's infected our files. The anti-malware program identifies the most current threats and scans for them instead of every type known. This allows the antivirus to work faster.
Today we will talk about the best malware removal software available right now is: Malwarebytes
So, let's get started with TechShouts
In case you're experiencing a malware infection, Malwarebytes is an anti-malware program you needed. The first time you introduce Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, you're offered a 14-day trial of the premium edition, which contains blocking tools like real-time scanning and specific shield from ransomware. After the expiry of the trial period, it returns to the basic free edition.
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Malwarebytes Premium is offering you:
An active firewall defends you from malware, spyware and ransomware attacks.
Schedule particular or individual scans to catch infections or eliminate viruses.
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Automatic updates defend your computer from the newest digital threats.
Runs on PCs, Macs, and smartphones. Its single license covers only one device.
Malwarebytes Premium for Home is intended for users who want to protect multiple PCs.
It proposed the same features as Malwarebytes Premium, but it comes with 10 licenses instead of one.
As all of these licenses are universal and you can mix and match devices by the manufacturer or operating system as well.
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It has had a genuine UI renovation subsequently the previous version. A banner across the top of the pastel-toned main window features shapes of mounts and an urban skyline, along with a proposal that you upgrade to premium. The rest of the window contains three rectangular sections. The first one shows detection history, second one launches a scan, and third one shows real-time shield selections, all of which are inactivated in the free edition. It's a nice-looking arrangement.
Malwarebytes Performance
Malwarebytes is one of the most lightweight anti-malware program available right now in 2020. It has a 10% destructive effect on system performance. The installation files required around 200MB of hard drive space, which is expressively less than standard antivirus products require. you won't feel your OS slowing down when performing a scan and browsing the web, watching a movie, or doing something else.
Advantages of Malwarebytes
Active browsing safeguards will defend your computer from threats while you browse. These safeguards are crowd-sourced so they are updated all the time as new threats are revealed.
The program is capable to "learn" how to stop zero-day threats before they attack. This means the program will stop malware or infection because of its behavior – so you can be secured from brand new threats even before they are put on definition lists.
You can use this software on a PC, Mac, or Android device.
Scan Scheduling is allowing you to run regularly or on whatever you want.
An easy to use interface is perfect for any level of a computer user.
Easily eliminates the progressive malware and spyware from your computer with its active scan system.
It has the virus and spyware elimination tool which is highly recommended for PC and Laptop for its fast scanning and identifying technology.
It has innovative heuristics scanning technology that can stop malware before starting or running on your computer devices.
Disadvantages of Malwarebytes
The free version only removes malware.
Can't fix the infected file or program it identifies.
It refers to infected files to a separate habitation rather than deleting or remodeling it.
It cannot identify infected files from the archives. So, specific scanning required to be run over the archive directory to identify the malware.
Malwarebytes Pricing
The Malwarebytes Premium costs $39.99 per year. The license is fit for all platforms like Windows, Mac, and Android, but the weakness is that you can run only one device with this package.
Malwarebytes Premium for Home costs $59.99 per year and covers 10 devices.
You can find more from the official website
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Brilliant customer service can significantly contribute to user experience, as it shows the concern takes its users seriously. Malwarebytes holds a 4-star rating out of 5 stars on average.
Installing and using Malwarebytes won't struggle with your regular antivirus shield. Malwarebytes is more aggressive than some regular antivirus program about disabling legal but unwanted programs.
Writer: M Zahidul Kabir
Tags: Anti-malware, Antivirus, best anti-malware program, Malwarebytes, Malwarebytes Pricing, User Interface, Windows operating system
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Q: Google Apps Contact Sync We're developing an application and we want to setup a bi-directional sync with Google Contacts.
The process: They setup their Google Accounts and the application make the sync between their Google account and our database.
The first approach is to create a CRON that will fetch modifications to the API but this is not very efficient as we'll need to run the CRON very often.
Do you know if there is any way Google can "notify us" of a modifications ?
Maybe from a script we execute on their servers directly ? (Like Google Scripts) We'll then be able to call our app to make a new fetch.

A: There is no method to have changes "pushed" to your app. However, when polling for changes, you can minimize the traffic by using the updated-min parameter as described at:
https://developers.google.com/google-apps/contacts/v3/reference#Parameters
and:
https://developers.google.com/google-apps/contacts/v3/#retrieving_contacts_using_query_parameters

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At HighPoint Health System we are proud of our accomplishments. Since 1959, we have grown into an organization providing a full range of services to meet the healthcare needs of our community. In particular, we are proud of our caring atmosphere, our continuous community outreach efforts and our development of new services to better serve our communities.


But Fielder didn't see any significance in his first two-homer game since April 5, 2013, or that it came one year after one of the most difficult decisions of his career. He was just playing baseball.
Rangers first baseman Prince Fielder talks Friday about his first two-homer game in more than two years (video by Jeff Wilson).
He connected on two sliders that were down the middle, the first off Michael Pineda and the second off left-hander Chasen Shreve. The second homer gave the Rangers an 8-4 lead, and Field delivered a double down the left-field line to make it 10-5 in the eighth.
The Yankees didn't go away, collecting a three-run homer by pinch hitter Garrett Jones in the eighth to snap the bullpen's scoreless streak at 13 2/3 innings and a Mark Teixeira homer off Ross Ohlendorf in the ninth to make it a one-run game.
Ohlendorf also walked Chase Headley with two outs in the ninth, but got Stephen Drew on a bouncer that deflected off his stomach and right to Field at second base.
The out gave the Rangers their third straight win and gave Ohlendorf his first career save.
Native Texan Ross Ohlendorf talks about collecting his first career save Friday at Yankee Stadium (video by Jeff Wilson).
Ohlendorf was the choice based on his early showing since being promoted from Triple A last weekend, but also because fellow right-hander Shawn Tolleson was not available after collecting saves Wednesday and Thursday at Boston.
It didn't appear the Rangers would have to worry about closing down a game after twice taking leads of at least five runs.
Fielder's blast to the second deck in right field was the biggest blow for the Rangers' offense as they sent 10 batters to the plate in the third inning against Pineda, who struck out 16 in his previous start at Yankee Stadium.
Moreland followed two batters later with another second-deck shot, a solo homer to cap an inning that started with a Leonys Martin single, a Robinson Chirinos walk and a Pineda error as Field sacrificed.
Delino DeShields followed with a fielder's choice to drive in a run, but another scored on an error by shortstop Didi Gregorius. Shin-Soo Choo followed with an RBI single ahead of Fielder's homer on Pineda's next pitch.
Lewis was cruising until a double by Alex Rodriguez to start the fourth. Lewis got Teixeira, but Choo lost a Brian McCann liner in the lights that allowed Rodriguez to score.
Lewis (4-2) hit Headley on an 0-2 pitch, and two batters later allowed a three-run homer to Gregorius to make it 7-4.
Another missed chance defensively by Elvis Andrus to start the seventh led to the fifth and final run charged to Lewis, who worked 6 2/3 innings.
Neither offense stopped hitting, with Fielder adding on in the seventh and Field in the eighth after the Rangers loaded the bases with one out.
The Rangers needed every last one of those runs.


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Revere – miasto w Stanach Zjednoczonych, w północno-wschodniej części stanu Massachusetts, w zespole miejskim Bostonu.

Miasto nazwane ku czci Paula Revere'a.

Linki zewnętrzne

Miasta w stanie Massachusetts
Hrabstwo Suffolk (Massachusetts)


The Club lotto jackpot of €2,400 was not won when the fortnightly draw was held at Ollie's Bar, last Saturday night.
3. John Ryan, c/o Ollie's Bar.
The next draw will be held at Walsh's Corner House, on Saturday February 3rd when the jackpot will be €2,600.
The next Club meeting will be held on Monday week February 5th. at 9 p.m. The annual Mass for deceased members and benefactors will be celebrated in the Club Hall on Monday February 19th at 8 p.m.
Sympathy is extended this week, to the husband, mother, sister and relatives of the late Breeda McGrath (nee Leonard), Kilcruig. Ar dheis De go raibh a h-anam.


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Data, Workforce
The Silicon Prairie
June 28, 2017 Michael Thomas
You don't need a bay or a bridge to foster economic development within the technology industry. What you do need are innovative entrepreneurs, savvy venture capitalists, and a talented workforce to put it all together as a service or product. Replacing the fog for storms, and exchanging the bay with expansive fields, there rests a burgeoning tech hub in Lincoln Nebraska. Lincoln and the greater Great Plains area have been attracting significant investment and talent from the tech industry in recent years. Specifically, the Omaha-Lincoln Nebraska region has experienced an influx of investment into software-application firms from 2011 onward. The expense and pressure of starting a technology company in Silicon Valley may be pushing innovators and entrepreneurs elsewhere. The pressures and dynamics of the valley aside, local municipalities and economic development coalitions have also fanned the flames of growth in Lincoln. The result has been the proliferation of tech start-ups in the region.
A more robust and accessible internet has made it far easier for entrepreneurs to navigate the obstacles that come with founding a tech start-up. Entrepreneurs and technologist workers alike are considering quality of life measurements and personal preferences more and more when it comes to establishing a new firm or finding a place to work and thrive. This has led regional municipalities to work toward attracting nascent tech firms to their areas. Austin, Des Moines, and Chicago are all in concert with Lincoln in proclaiming themselves a rising tech hub. Although not front and center, economic development consortiums and public-private development co-ops are both stakeholders involved in Lincoln's success in technology industry growth. With cheaper cost of living already built in, Lincoln simply needed to seize the opportunity present and provide the needed support to finalize tech firm migration into the county.
This development has brought plenty of opportunity for technology jobs. There has been over a 500% increase in the number of jobs within the software publishing industry in Lancaster County , the county in which Lincoln resides, over the past 5 years. Moreover, the average earnings per job is over $100 thousand annually (Source: Emsi 2017.2). Private venture capitalists and publicly sponsored angel investment groups like the Nebraska Angels have nurtured young start-up firms like Hudl, a technology firm that provides video recording and editing software for athletes and coaches, and helped them lay a foundation in Lincoln. Hudl is unique in that it was founded by Nebraska native, David Graff, who worked in the Athletics Department at the University of Nebraska. Hudl was convinced to stay in Lincoln and is building a new $32 million headquarters after having secured $72.5 million in additional investments in 2015. The new facility should add roughly 300 jobs to the area by 2018 and the average total annual compensation for employees at the Hudl headquarters will be roughly $60,000.
This sort of economic development is the result of investors working together with municipalities to finalize a valuable deal. Although appraised at nearly $70 per square foot a few months prior, the land to be developed by Hudl was sold by Lincoln at half the price to ensure their commitment. More recently, near Omaha, Facebook announced they will be building their next data center in Papillion, Nebraska after negotiating a deal with the Omaha Public Power District that will provide Facebook with the power they need while using renewable energy sources, which Facebook prefers. This kind of flexibility by the local government is illustrative of what municipalities can do to attract new jobs and promote development. Both cases required local entities to work toward the greater benefit of the region. Paul and Stephanie Jarrett, founders of Bulu Box, the online health company that ships samples of health supplements, fled their 500-square foot apartment and headquarters in San Francisco to grow their business in Lincoln to take advantage of the cheaper capital and different kind of professional environment. Bulu Box was originally just like the sea of young start-ups that reside in the Bay area. That was until they received seed investment from the Nebraska Angels and the cleverly named Kansas based VC firm, Flyover Capital.
Silicon Valley could be discovering its own capacity for young technology firms and the willing appetites of economic regions abroad are finding ways to take advantage of this overload. Conventionally popular and expensive tech business incubators like San Francisco, Seattle and New York are leaking talent out to the rest of the country. Local investors and economic development practitioners may mirror the steps taken by those in Lincoln, who have provided support that is customized to fit the needs of new businesses. Of course, the most effective way the "Silicon Prairie" and Lincoln can continue to attract technology firms and workers from around the country is to rely on its most distinct advantage; it's not in Silicon Valley.


Architectural Organisations, Associations and Governing BodiesAre you looking for an architect?
The RIBA promotes better buildings, communities and the environment through architecture. This organisation upholds standards in the architectural industry and provides training, support and recognition for members in the UK and overseas. The RIBA works with government to improve the design quality of public buildings, residential homes and new communities.
Further information, including informational videos and PDF documents, can be found on the RIBA website at www.architecture.com.
The ACA is a national professional body, which represents architects in private practice across the UK. The ACA was formed in 1973 and represents some of the UK's foremost architectural practices. This association furthers architectural practices in a number of ways including composing business contracts, directory publishing, organising conferences and seminars, maintaining relationships with other trade associations and lobbying parliament and other professional bodies.
More information can be found on the ACA website at www.acarchitects.co.uk.
The RIAS was formed in 1916, and is a professional body for chartered architects in Scotland. It is the premiere architectural institute in Scotland, dealing with the built environment. The RIAS has charitable status and provides various services and products for architects, architectural students and professionals in the construction field.
Further information can be found on the RIAS website at www.rias.org.uk.
CIAT represents professionals, both working and studying, in the area of architectural technology. CIAT is an internationally recognised qualifying body for chartered architectural technologists and qualified architectural technicians.
More information can be found on the CIAT website at www.ciat.org.uk.


Decidedly non-British diva Lady Gaga dominated last night's BRIT Awards, the UK's version of the American Music Awards/Grammys Lite, winning three awards including International Female Solo Artist and International Album for debut smash The Fame.
The BRITs also honored Jay-Z as International Male Solo Artist, and named the Spice Girls for the BRITS Performance of 30 Years. Dizzee Rascal and Lily Allen won for British Male and Female Solo Artist, respectively. Robbie Willliams was given the career achievement award.
For the first time at a major public event, Gaga performed her latest single "Telephone," using a solo piano arrangement similar to live performances of "Speechless" at the Grammys and AMAs rather than a ghetto-tastic duet with Beyonce; she also sang "Dance in the Dark" before accepting her final award with a tribute to the designer Alexander McQueen, who died last week. In another landmark performance, Allen made her first appearance on stage since announcing a two-year hiatus from music in September 2009, shortly after her sophomore album It's Not Me, It's You debuted to critical acclaim.
Here's a sampling of the music honored at the annual British pop music love-in.


Some of you might remember, that a while ago we added monsters at interesting places in Lithuania – they were not randomized anymore but were constantly waiting for you at points of interest in real life (well in some places you could find a chest instead of a monster, but that's cool too, right?).
Well now we have a big announcement to our supporters outside of Lithuania – very soon we will add monsters at sightseeing locations in Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, Latvia and Russia. The twist is that all those locations are important to Lithuania. So what that gives you? Now not only will there be specific locations that are for sure to get you a monster or a chest but also you get to learn more about our country and how it has importance to yours!
We are very thankful to the Lithuanian council of culture for partly funding this update and helping us bring it to life!
So get ready to go out and start sightseeing while catching monsters! Isn't that like the best deal ever? Don't forget to take pictures!
Monsters all around the world!
Temporary problems with the game – fixed!