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Desperation, n. Travel to the end of the world in search of snow, and then find none. Lose your favourite tools, the skis. So desperate that you consider taking up heli-biking, but end up gliding on your butt in an imaginary world instead.
On the first day, we thought that going underground would help us forget the fact that there was no snow above ground. On the second day, I got restless. I was trying to invent an adventure, and called the heli-biking service. Unfortunately, the weather was bad. By now I would have settled for roundtrip tickets for heli-hiking, had such a thing existed.
(Yes, heli-biking service. I had not realised there are helicopter services for other things besides skiing. But it seemed that anything is possible where we were. The friendly people at Helisika can set you up for not only biking but also for heli-fishing. I really hope no one offers the hiking version.)
Then it dawned on me. I need a new hobby. I should start going around with a snow glider, a coaster. My red plastic glider fits conveniently in my backpack and can be taken as cabin luggage. And is recommended for ages 0 to 3, matching my mental age and state quite nicely :-) And how convenient all this is compared to dragging heavy ski bags around! And it can be used on the tiniest hills.
And it so happened that we were close to Shire of Middle-earth. Once we were there, I climbed on top of the Bag End hill, and slid down on the wet grass. New hobby, new country!
For after-gliding at the Middle-earth, I recommend the Green Dragon. You will never find beer so brown elsewhere.
Upon exiting Middle-Earth, the sun started shining, and we saw a beautiful double rainbow:
On the way to the Tongariro national park, our base, we run into an interesting red lake near the Raukawa falls:
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Created on 11-14-2018 10:47 AM - edited 09-16-2022 06:53 AM
Hi Team,
I have installed the cdsw successfully but when I was trying to run the hdfs command/trying create the sparksession from the cdsw terminal then I am getting the below error. Any idea/suggestion what exactly i am missing here from set up of point of view? Thanks in Advance!!!
hdfs dfs -put data/sample_text_file.txt /tmp clouderamaster.<domain>.com
-put: java.net.UnknownHostException:
clouderamaster.<domain>.com: Is my cdh master server.
cdsw.<domain>.com: is the cdsw master.(from where I am running the hdfs /sparksession from the interactive command prompt/terminal)
Created 11-23-2018 03:38 AM
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Register/LoginCreated on 11-15-2018 08:01 PM - edited 11-15-2018 08:01 PM
Also, just to add one more point i am unable to ping to clouderamaster from the cdsw master host in the cdsw terminal. Any suggestion guys what exactly i am missing here?
Created 11-17-2018 09:07 AM
@cjervis Sorry to tag you on the above query. Will you able to guide me where i am missing on the above issue?
Created 11-18-2018 05:12 AM
Unfortunately I do not have experience with CDSW but perhaps @tristanzajonc or @peter_ableda can be of assistance.
Created 11-18-2018 07:06 AM
@cjervis Thanks for your quick response.
Created 11-19-2018 12:45 AM
You seem to have some network connectivity issue. I have seen many variations for this, please check
- that you don't have a firewall between the machines,
- you resolve the hosts with DNS and not /etc/hosts
- DNS can do forward/reverse resolution on your master hostname/ip
I think if you are ok on the above, this should work.
Created on 11-19-2018 02:07 AM - edited 11-19-2018 03:54 AM
@peter_ableda Thanks for your response.
Step 1: I have checked and could find we dont have any firewall between my machines.
Step 2: DNS can do forward/reverse resolution on your master hostname/ip> Yes its working for cdswmaster host where I have installed cdsw(added to the dns entry as below which resolves forward as well as backword resolution)
Step 3: I have added 2 DNS entries as below for the cdswmaster host(cdswmaster.lab.test.com)
*.cdswmaster.lab.test.com IN A IP
cdswmaster.lab.test.com IN A IP
Little confused here do i need to add the dns names as above or do i need to change as cdsw(cdsw.lab.test.com) from cdswmaster as per the documentation.
Step 4: Checked the terminal from cdsw web ui and i am unable to ping to clouderamaster.lab.test.com(where cloudera manager was install). But I am able to ping to the terminal ip from the clouderamaster.lab.test.com.
I believe here some set up should be corrected inorder to ping the clouderamaster host correctly. Please advise
Also, do you see anyother set up i need to correct from my end to get going in cdsw. Sorry for little more demanding on the same as i find cdsw is little more complex interms of the set up.
Created 11-19-2018 03:59 AM
You need to make sure that forward/reverse DNS resolution works from the CDSW terminal to host where you have the YARN ResourceManager and HDFS NameNode services. You referred to this as clouderamaster.<domain>.com before.
This issue is not related to the CDSW master DNS resolution, you mentioned that you are using the session terminal, as it works, the CDSW master DNS is configured properly.
Created 11-19-2018 08:49 AM
@peter_ableda Thanks Peter for your detailed explanation and your valuable time. Will check how I can access the CDH master node(YARN/HDFS Name Node) from my cdsw terminal.Not sure if the HTTP proxy set up will help or not.
Created on 11-20-2018 01:59 AM - edited 11-20-2018 02:12 AM
@peter_ableda One Final Question. In my cdsw terminal the Ip addess was different(pod ip not the cdsw host ip) and that was the reason i am unable to connect to the master hostname(clouderamaster.<domain>.com) but i am able to ping using the master host ip from cdsw terminal.
Also, I have not done hadoop Authentication in the cdsw admin web ui. Do you think its must to have access to the cluster and from where I can find the Principal/username and pwd/keytab to get access to the cluster.


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Mae Brussell – World Watchers International radio broadcast, March 21, 1982. Transcribed and edited by Alex Constantine
When John Belushi died, there was much confusion in Los Angeles for the first week or so from the coroner's office and police officials concerning the cause of death. A week later, the headlines delivered a fait accompli – that he was always drunk, a slob, took drugs all the time. He had this expensive drug habit.
I didn't know John Belushi, but he was very successful, just as many rock musicians died at the peak of their success, at the crest when they were about to do better things. This death follows the same pattern.
Louis Malle
He was about to make, with partners, two very important and highly political movies. One was to be called Blue Moon Over Miami, and it was to be directed by Louis Malle, the fellow who directed Atlantic City, nominated for an Academy Award – and also My Dinner with André; it's been suggested this was the best picture of the year. Malle is a serious director. The script was written by highly-successful and well-known writer, John Guare.
So one of the movies that Belushi was about to make was a comedy about the FBI and drug smuggling from Colombia to Miami. And he would play the role of the drug dealer, an informer for the FBI, and then the FBI agent becomes the drug dealer. That is, you must admit, a very controversial movie because the state of Florida depends upon the drug market. It is probably the biggest going industry in Florida, and also the United States.
And these people don't appreciate comedy.
And the network of assassination teams and drug dealers selling poison drugs comes from headquarters in Hollywood and Miami.
Belushi was also in Hollywood to make a movie called Noble Rot, and he was to be with his good friend Don Novello, Father Sarducci. Now, Father Sarducci and John Belushi were making a movie about the wineries in California, dominated by the mob. They are trying to establish social acceptance, and this was to be a comedy about the Italian Mafia. Noble Rot, you can imagine what that is by the title alone.
So if you think that Belushi was not overly-political, forget it. In the past, he made fun of the Establishment. And to make fun of the Establishment is lethal.
Incidentally, Belushi had bought a $400,000 home up at Martha's Vineyard – he had 2,000 feet of ocean-front land and eight-and-a-half acres. He bought it in 1979 from former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. When you read that a man had $2-million in life insurance, and has a $400,000 home that belonged to Robert McNamara, he wasn't just drugging and goofing off, his lazy, sloppy, sleazy image. After he was dead, the articles came out, the mess he lived in, the dirt. To get into productions, you have a commitment to be on time. Millions of dollars are invested in you. You have a schedule you keep, and while it looks like fun and games on the screen, and I'm sure there is plenty of goofing off, there were also a lot of brilliant laughs – and plans and commitments to schedules and sense of timing. The image given after he was dead was the big slob who almost deserved to die in his own vomit. But that wasn't John Belushi. His success, what he earned and what he was saying speak loud and clear. All the rest is garbage. You don't have to believe the cover stories once the fellow is dead.
Three nights before he died he was on LaCienega Blvd. near Wilshire., just bordering Beverly Hills. He was with a cab driver who gave an interview. It was late at night. They were sitting at a counter at a sandwich shop, and there was a newspaper there. They both were looking at it, and he asked Belushi, "Which part do you want, 'Sports,' 'Entertainment," or 'El Salvador'" And Belushi said: "I want El Salvador." He went on to say that he hated what he read in the news, that he hated Hollywood, that they're a "bunch of pricks. I want to get back to New York City." And he said that he wanted to stay there.
They went to Belushi's car, where he had a lot of cocaine in the glove compartment. But the driver said Belushi was unhappy, fearful of his environment, that he wanted to get back [to New York]. I think that about describes it. There was another article published about him, that he didn't want to stay in Hollywood. The last night before he died, Belushi said to somebody, "I'm going home to Judy tomorrow" – that's his wife in New York – "I want to get out of here."
I'm sure that he sensed some danger, just as Elvis Presley was poisoned until he died. Or John Lennon was kept secluded and isolated in an apartment, and the minute he emerged, he died.
Belushi, when he was in Hollywood, was bounced around the drug scenes and a lot of hard people, a very sleazy element that could entrap him later. He expressed the idea that he would leave the next day, evidently drop the movie and go back to New York. But that next day never came.
He'd hired bodyguards. The studios wanted to keep him from using cocaine. If he did indeed have it, they wanted to keep him clean.
Well, Nelson Rockefeller, vice president of the United States, had bodyguards who weren't around when he died. Robert Kennedy had a bodyguard, Thane Cesar from Lockheed, who was behind him when the fatal bullets were delivered to the back of his head. Bodyguards often let people through the door who shouldn't be there. It's a question of the agencies that employ them.
Who was looking after Belushi? Two nights before, someone came to his home - Evelyn Smith – the same woman who would be with him when he died. She was kicked out.
She reappears ... and she's one of the major suppliers of drugs to the Hollywood stars. Her behavior at the death scene was questionable – not only was supplying narcotics a crime, but not calling 9/11 or the police or the hotel desk is irresponsible; she was there when he died, went away for a couple of hours, returned. Smith didn't call anyone. She let the bodyguard, who appeared at 12:30 p.m., find the body, even though Belushi was dead when she walked out.
So, again, who were the security guards?
Another article in the paper: "John Belushi Felt Tragically Alone." He was paranoid that he was being used. It's probable that ever since he appeared on Saturday Night Live and did impersonations of famous people, he was placed on an enemies list. He was that political. The last performance of Saturday Night's original group was [so radical], a friend asked me how they got away with it. The next day, the whole group was fired, and it was reported that they were "too political." The whole group was broken up.
Sure, he was followed and used by people. I'm sure that he was prepared by this milieu around him to be done in if he continued to be political. And the two movies that he was going to make were so highly political that it would be imperative to see that he didn't gather any further fame and notoriety.
Noble Rot means the "noble" priest, Sarducci, and the rottenness of the winery people. You can imagine how popular he was with the wine people behind the Hollywood studios and the drug scene.
And, again, the movie Blue Moon Over Miami. I must repeat, these are not popular subjects to make movies about.
The papers reported that John Belushi died alone in bed, nude, in a fetal position. Lieutenant Dan Cook of the LAPD said, "it appears to be natural causes. There were dark blotches on his arms caused when blood starts to settle, and not by needles." That was the first report. Then the police said it appeared he choked on his tongue.
John Belushi died on Friday. On Saturday there were more articles about food, choking, natural causes. Heart attack was a possibility. No sign of drug usage. The hotel clerk said his heart evidently failed him. The room was neat, the actor in bed, his clothes neatly folded as though he had gone to sleep for the night. There was nothing out of order, "no reason to suspect foul play."
He was in good health the night before, according to witnesses.
By Sunday, Los Angeles coroner Thomas Naguchi - the controversial Naguchi who was fired after this case – was telling reporters, "the cause of death has not yet been determined."
"Discounting his lifestyle, he seems to have choked on food." – that was the San Francisco Examiner (March 7). He was at the Roxy nightclub the night before he died, and the owner of the club said that he hadn't taken any drugs.
On Monday, the newspapers reported: "More Tests Needed to Determine Cause of Death."
The Houston Post reported that Belushi was under examination, they were inspecting his heart.
The Chateau Marmont
They said he ordered breakfast: "whole wheat toast, jelly, a pot of coffee and freshly squeezed orange juice." He had breakfast on the terrace. Now, Evelyn Smith ordered the breakfast, and at 10:30, when Belushi was nice and dead, she went out for breakfast, she said. But it's obvious that from 6:30 to 8:00, when it was ordered, he was not in any condition to eat.
On Monday the cause of death was still undetermined. Slides of tissue had to be taken, more pathology of the body. Dr. John Holloway – a doctor who worked on the autopsy of Senator Robert Kennedy – entered the case and insisted that parts of the body would have to be removed and internal organs examined to determine if the cause of death was a heart attack.
Now, if Belushi overdosed on narcotics, and there was a mess of needles, cocaine and heroin littering the place as reported 10 days later – the first five days it was reported that there were "no drugs" involved – then the search for a heart attack was superfluous. The doctor from the Robert Kennedy autopsy said that the evidence "may not be so visible," so the tissue "must be tested, and full anatomic evidence presented."
"It may be myocardial infarction, or a coronary attack," Dr. Holloway said.
So they weren't so sure.
Tuesday: No comment on Belushi, a second round of tests for toxic substances and evidence of disease on samples of tissue taken.
On the sixth day, March 10, they still didn't know what killed him. There were interviews. The police said there was a powder resembling cocaine on the nightstand, his body had needle marks likely to be from intravenous injection of cocaine.
Seven days after his death, it was an "overdose of drugs." Chief of Police Gates in Los Angeles said he didn't know about an overdose; he had been informed that the musician-actor died of "natural causes." On this day, "Signs of Drug Usage on Belushi's Body" were reported. He had been stuck with "a needle." One report stated that there were numerous needle marks, another reported only one – and yet another said the dark spots were from blood clots.
And then the official autopsy report came out – and that was the shocker, because it contained very little information related to questions that should have been asked.
The L.A. Examiner: "Official Report on Belushi Death" – "At 1:00 am, he went to a private bar. He stayed there and was driven back to his room, where he vomited, and was pale and sweaty."
Bungalow Three at the Chateau Marmont
He was immediately sick – and then indulged in wine and cocaine. There was no evidence of sickness when the police first entered the room. They thought he had a heart attack.
At 3:00 till 3:30 am, friends arrived, people came, according to the report. We don't know how many, and they are not named. We don't know how many there were. They arrived at the hotel and stayed about 30 minutes.
That would be the time when he was injected with the "cocaine or heroin."
By 6:30, he was having hot and cold flashes, took a shower.
At 8:00 a.m., he fell asleep shaking and wheezing. Evelyn Smith entered the hotel room, and at 9:30 she heard him struggling for breath.
He was terrified and very sick.
She hears a terrible noise, and he pleads: "please don't leave me."
At 10:15, he falls asleep, so she walks out, leaves him "to get something to eat."
He knew that he was dying, but she walks out.
At 12:30, Belushi's physical therapist come in, the body was still warm. He was pronounced dead.
Belushi had "congestion of the lungs, liver and spleen, swelling of the brain and heart, arteriosclerosis, distended bladder," and they threw in "obesity"; he weighed 220 pounds. All of this should have showed up in the first autopsy. It doesn't take 7-10 days to find all of this, and the enlarged brain (the weight was given in the autopsy report) would have been tremendously painful.
He was writhing in pain. When Ms. Smith left the hotel room, he was covered with a blanket and there was foam coming out of his mouth. He swallowed his tongue. And the eyes rolling – in fact, a friend who entered the room said, "I closed his eyes, because I couldn't stand to see them open."
So she would have seen easily that he was dying, the terrible set of symptoms. And she walks out and leaves. Then she comes back, the police hand-cuffed and took her away. Then they released her, and she becomes a super-star, goes to New York City for an interview at ABC, does an article for Rolling Stone.
Cathy Evelyn Smith was not charged with any role in Belushi's death. There was no mention of collusion, but the unidentified guests who arrived at 3:00-3:30 were a clue that something was amiss.
The first reports that he was taking drugs – the police chief and coroner didn't mention it – came from the ABC network. A lawyer for ABC is Gregson E. Bautzer, one of the attorneys retained by Howard Hughes (at the time that HE was drugged, silenced and possibly murdered. Greg Bautzer is the law partner of Frank Rothman at MGM, the domain of Kirk Kerkorian and Fred Benninger, chairman of MGM Mirage.)
ABC had "inside information" and worked closely with teams involved in other mysterious, drug-related deaths. The coroner came along after the ABC reports and stated that Belushi overdosed by "intravenous injections of heroin and cocaine." The report stated that Cathy Evelyn Smith was with him when he died.
The coroner's van at the back gate, Marmont Lane
Is she responsible for his death if she sees him writhing in pain, obviously dying, foaming at the mouth, choking? She didn't call 9/11, didn't run to the front desk.
The article in the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner reported: "Belushi may have died before the woman left him."
Where does murder begin and leave off?
What was her responsibility?
Who were the people in the room?
This was a very political, highly successful person offed in Hollywood. Smith left him to die. There were fresh multiple injection marks on both arms. There was no evidence of scarred veins in either arm. He'd been only recently injected. The body was still warm.
She ordered breakfast at 8:00, went out for breakfast again at 10:30. He turns up dead. She doesn't call anyone, lets him be found.
Tom Gerald flies her to the Essex Hotel in New York City with her attorney, and puts her on ABC-TV's 20/20. The "Mystery Woman" is described as a known "drug dealer" in Hollywood, supplies big celebrities with narcotics. When they die, shouldn't she be
John Belushi didn't trust her. His bodyguard kicked her out two nights before he died.
"I don't believe the story," Belushi's wife said.
The night after he kicked Smith out, Belushi told friends he wanted to get out of town because he didn't feel safe.
He felt he was in danger.
She suddenly appeared at the "unnamed club" above Roxy's in the autopsy report. Belushi is visited by unnamed people. There are anonymous sources of drugs. The LAPD only made a cursory search for the source and announced that no charges would be filed.
An unnamed rock star was with him shortly before he died – not mentioned in the autopsy report – and said: "there wasn't a needle present anywhere."
His doctor said there were no needle marks on him prior to the fatal injection. (Belushi had recently been to the doctor for treatment of ear, nose and throat problems.)
There were no "multiple" needle punctures, no scarring of the veins, no proof that he had been a junkie. He may have taken cocaine and marijuana – they are all over Hollywood – but certain segments of society are dying.
His wife said immediately, in article printed by the Chicago Sun-Times: "Something weird happened. That woman was thrown out two days ago. John told Bill to throw her out. John wasn't a junkie."
Evelyn Smith was with Gordon Lightfoot for a short while in Toronto. She moved to L.A. in 1978 for the drug scene. And Judith Jaqueline Belushi wanted to know "where she came from, who is this woman, what was she doing there, and how does she appear the night that she dies?"
Smith was with Belushi until he was dead – and, of course, the obvious move was to not call the police. (When Nelson Rockefeller died, Megan Marshack, his staff assistant, was present and didn't call the guard or chauffeur outside the door, or 9/11 or the hospital – she called Poncitta Pierce, who lives down the street, and she comes over, and the two of them talk it over and decide to call police ... when he's good and dead.)
The newspapers reported later that police were searching for the source of the drugs – how far did they have to go. All they had to do was ask the "Mystery Woman."
He begged her not to leave. She left Belushi ... who was supposedly so heavily into drugs that they there all over the place.
But the police didn't find drugs and powder and needle marks at that time.
She reappeared two hours later and brought the drugs with her – then she could spread the cover story that she took them with her when she left. And she did confess, "I didn't want to leave [a drug stash behind] because the maid might find it."
If a woman is a drug dealer, and the police are coming because a man is dead, the last thing she would do is incriminate herself by walking in with a stash of cocaine and drug paraphenalia.
Why did she bring it all back and lay it in front of them – unless she knew that she wouldn't be held for the murder? Was she so mindless (after fearing the maid might find the drugs) that she returned to the death scene with cocaine on her for police to
Then the stories came along: "John Belushi's Reckless Race to the Grave," the "drug-soaked sex orgies," a one-way ticket to Hell. But it would be awfully hard, as I say, to make a multi-million dollar movie with a "$25,000 a month cocaine habit," or work with the finest directors and writers going in Hollywood. I am sure that he was not the crazy, reckless pig that he was made out to be after he was dead.
Kate Braverman
The worst article came from Kate Braverman, staff reporter at the Los Angeles Times: "A harsh final look at Belushi, the patron saint of pigs." So he "hits Los Angeles and goes berserk... What else in Los Angeles good for? It's the last frontier for desperate men, rock stars, exiled tyrants. Los Angeles is a Disneyland for the decadent, a top ticket all the way, the best ride to Hell." Belushi was "the belly of this century," with "an endless appetite for novelty and the rot that began with manifest destiny." She tears him apart, a twentieth-century "nightmare."
"Much Ado About Nothing," opined the San Francisco Chronicle. "Saturday Night Live was designed to attract the sleepy and the sloppy." John Belushi will be "totally forgotten in a few years."
But he will be remembered for the programs he did with Lampoon and Saturday Night Live. His particular brand of political humor was genius – and that was his fatal mistake.
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Ancient nanostructures found in Ural mountains are out of place and time
By Leonardo Vinti / Epoch Times
An Oopart (out of place artifact) is a term applied to dozens of prehistoric objects found in various places around the world that, given their level of technology, are completely at odds with their determined age based on physical, chemical, and/or geological evidence. Ooparts often are frustrating to conventional scientists and a delight to adventurous investigators and individuals interested in alternative scientific theories.
In 1991, the appearance of extremely tiny, coil-shaped artifacts found near the banks of Russia's Kozhim, Narada, and Balbanyu rivers brought about a debate that has continued to this day. These mysterious and minuscule structures suggest that there may have been a culture capable of developing nanotechnology 300,000 years ago.
These manufactured coils were initially discovered during geological research associated with the extraction of gold in the Ural mountains. These pieces include coils, spirals, shafts, and other unidentified components.
The ancient coil-shaped artifacts were found in Russia's Ural Mountains. Image source.
According to an analysis from the Russian Academy of Sciences in Syktyvkar, the largest pieces found are mostly copper, while the smallest are made of tungsten and molybdenum.
While the largest of these objects measure 1.18 inches, the smallest are only 1/10,000th of an inch, and many exhibit Golden Mean proportions. Their shape suggests that they are manufactured and not naturally occurring metal fragments. In fact, they have been found to closely resemble the same miniature components of contemporary nanotechnology.
A magnified image of one of the nano coils found in the Ural Mountains. Photo credit: Mysteries of the World, Herbert Genzmer and Ulrich Hellenbrand
Though some have asserted that these tiny structures are merely debris left behind from test rockets being launched from nearby Plesetsk space station, a report from the Moscow Institute determined that they are far too old to have come from modern manufacturing.
In 1996, Dr. E.W. Matvejeva, from the Central Scientific Research Department of Geology and Exploitation of Precious Metals in Moscow, writes that, despite being thousands of years old, the components are of a technological origin.
The pieces were found at a depth between 10 and 40 feet, in a geological stratus between 20,000 and 318,000 years old.
How were humans able to manufacture such tiny components in the distant past, and what were they used for? Some believe that the coils prove the human race enjoyed a sophisticated level of technology in the Pleistocene era, while others assert that the findings are the work of extra-terrestrials.
The artifacts have been studied at four different facilities in Helsinki, St. Petersburg, and Moscow. However, further research into these tiny structures seems to have ended in 1999 with the death of Dr. Johannes Fiebag, a principal researcher of the find.
The article 'Russia's ancient nanostructures' was originally published on The Epoch Times and has been republished with permission.
Featured image: The nano spirals found in the Ural Mountains. Image source.


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Where are we heading in terms of drive system technologies? Can electric engines knock diesel off its perch? Or are there other energy sources that are in contention? And how prepared is Liebherr for this? We look at the evidence with Dipl.-Ing (TU) Klaus Graner, Managing Director and Head of Drive System Technology at Liebherr-Components Biberach GmbH.
Klaus Graner: Essentially, Liebherr has been heavily involved in developing alternative drive concepts since the company was founded. With the invention of the tower crane in 1949, the firm's founder, Dr. E.h. Hans Liebherr came to the conclusion that it was better to produce certain parts of the drive technology in house, as he was unsatisfied with what was available on the market. Thus, Liebherr has been developing and building electric machines and control boxes for its tower cranes in Biberach since the 1950s. As such, we have gained experience, particularly in electrical drive concepts, throughout the course of our history. Just as it did in the past, this helps us develop new drive concepts like diesel-electric systems for mining trucks. Liebherr has been producing complete mining trucks with this drivetrain for approximately ten years.
Klaus Graner: This is not just a question about technology but more of an economic calculation, which is why diesel engines and hydraulic systems dominate the construction machine category. They benefit from high power density and being low on weight and on costs. When a business looks at investing in a construction machine, there are two key performance criteria: how many tonnes the machine can shift per hour the costs per tonne. This allows it to calculate when the return on investment (ROI) will be reached and the machine starts making money.
Klaus Graner: An electric drivetrain is more efficient than hydraulic solutions – with 90% and 70% efficiency respectively – and also achieves significant savings in energy consumption. However, it is much more expensive to procure. For example, compared with a diesel-hydraulic system, it takes many operating hours to recoup the additional costs of using a diesel-electrical system, due to the reduced fuel consumption. With construction machines, which operate up to 2,000 (but often only about 1,000) hours per year, this process obviously takes significantly longer than with machines such as mining vehicles, which operate for 5,000 hours or more.
Klaus Graner: First things first: Diesel is, and will continue to be, the standard for mobile construction machines for a long time. The fuel has an extremely high energy density, meaning that mobile machines can operate for up to 24 hours on a reasonably-sized tank of fuel. In addition, modern exhaust systems complying with increasingly strict EURO norms mean that emissions of pollution have continually fallen. Construction machine operators know exactly how important this can be. It remains to be seen whether hydrogen or synthetic fuels can replace diesel and take combustion technology to the next level in terms of CO2-neutrality. Because of their heavy weight, large volume and the high cost of batteries, I think purely electric transmissions are some way off being able to replace diesel completely.
Klaus Graner: The benefits of diesel-electric transmissions are most obvious when it comes to high power applications and when dealing with very long operating times. Electrical power conversion has a 90% efficiency ratio – 20% higher than mechanical-hydraulic solutions. This affects energy consumption which in turn impacts CO2-emissions. Our analysis suggests that in the current circumstances it only makes economical sense to use diesel-electric engines starting at around 5,000 operating hours per year, as is the case predominantly in the mining category. In the case of smaller machines, it could be interesting in the future if, like in the car industry, there are legal targets and restrictions relating to CO2-emissions for individual machines, or for whole fleets or motor parks.
Klaus Graner: It would be naive to think that governments would only hold the car industry accountable for protecting the environment and forget all about construction machines. Nevertheless, nobody knows whether these types of regulations are coming, and if so, when. We are therefore continuously developing alternative drive technologies so that we will be well prepared when it does
Klaus Graner: Because fossil fuels still account for a large portion of overall energy consumption today, discussions about emission-free construction sites tend to be restricted to 'local zero' emissions. To achieve truly CO2-neutral construction sites on a global level, they would obviously need to be powered by renewable energy; in other words, it would take an energy revolution. We are developing suitable technologies and components for fully electrical construction machine drivetrains. However, it will be up to policy-makers, not developers or financially-driven machine operators, to decide whether we can at least achieve local zero emissions on construction sites in inner-urban areas. The additional costs entailed will only be paid when local zero emissions are enforced by law or regulations. Then, it will depend on the nature of the project whether to use batteries for energy storage on to physically 'plug in' machines. In the case of lengthier, more difficult applications, we would hit physical limits pretty quickly.
Klaus Graner: Take, for example, a purely electric 50 kW wheel loader, designed to work continuously for 4 hours in the morning on an inner-urban construction site, and which is then recharged during the midday break so it can work for another 4 hours in the afternoon. The average power consumption at the drive shaft of an electric engine doing lighter work like this is about 12 kW. Over a four-hour period, this is equal to 50 kWh of energy. A battery with this effective energy content would weigh about 500 kilos, have a volume of 250 litres and cost around 30,000 euros. For jobs that are significantly more intensive and time-consuming than the one I have just described (for example, on large-scale earthmoving construction sites or in the mining industry), it seems more realistic and efficient to use combustion engines powered by hydrogen or synthetic fuels, both of which would ideally be produced in a climate neutral way in the future.
Klaus Graner: The experts assume that the prevailing lithium-ion technology will continue to dominate the next 15 years. During that time, energy density may improve somewhat but it is pretty unlikely that there will be a quantum leap forwards.
Klaus Graner: Technologically, we have already made a lot of progress on the electric drivetrain. Now it's a matter of making it more compact with higher-rpm electrical machines, so that these drivetrains can be fitted on construction machines with sufficient ease. We estimate that it will take from three to five years to reach batch production. However, solutions involving battery-powered or plug-in construction machines will only help prevent climate change if the power is generated from renewable sources.
We are in close communication with customers inside and outside the company group throughout the development process. They know their work sectors and available budgets better than anyone else.
Klaus Graner: We are in close communication with customers inside and outside the company group throughout the development process. They know their work sectors and available budgets better than anyone else. When we execute ideas, we combine the experience and expectations of our customers with the know-how and testing and checking infrastructure of the Liebherr-Components division. When creating innovations, it is helpful that we can sometimes adopt solutions from other projects and adapt them to fit our needs. This saves on time and costs.
Klaus Graner: For some years, we have gained important experience from the fact that our diesel-electric engines are used in mining vehicles. As a result, it has become clear that we can achieve greater efficiency on upward slopes with more electrification. In some mines, these ramps stretch over more than five kilometres and span a height differential of up to 300 (500) metres at a ten percent incline. For current diesel-electrical mining vehicles, this means driving for around 25 minutes at full power. This accounts for about 90% of total fuel consumption. Since we have already had cases where machines operate for very long periods over exactly the same routes, we are already working with customers (for example, in Austria and Panama) to electrify the routes completely by using overhead lines and current collectors on our diesel-electric mining trucks.
Klaus Graner: It is conceivable that there will be construction machines that drive to their work location using combustible fuel and then do their work there without requiring the mobility of a wheel loader, for example. This would enable them to be supplied with energy using a power outlet. One example of this would be a crawler excavator digging a hole with only a small deployment radius. This already happens with tunnel excavators, to prevent tunnel tubes from being filled with exhaust fumes. It would also be conceivable to use a cable connection to the power grid on a construction site, for example, for mobile cranes, concrete pumps or concrete mixers. As I mentioned before, for lower power requirements, electrical machines with a suitable battery would be just as mobile as conventional machines on construction sites.
Klaus Graner: There is a lot of potential in an electronic drivetrain for a stepless power transmission. For intensive mobile heavy-duty applications, the same goes for using diesel engines built to the latest EURO norms as the vehicle's the primary energy source, and, further into the future, for combustion engines powered by hydrogen or synthetic fuels. If we are able to successfully derive these alternative fuels from renewable energies so they are produced in a CO2-neutral way, it will be a big step forwards in terms of sustainability.
Klaus Graner: It is difficult to predict, but it will definitely take more than 20 years before we reach the final step. But I am convinced that humanity will, and indeed must succeed in this regard. That much we owe to the generations to come. In any case, Liebherr is ready to contribute to a better future with its technologies and innovations. Of that, I am totally sure.


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I was trying to upgrade my arch linux with pacman -Syu
after having returned from vacation and now I get this error that I cannot quite make sense of:
(133/133) checking for file conflicts [######################] 100%
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
filesystem: /bin exists in filesystem
filesystem: /sbin exists in filesystem
filesystem: /usr/sbin exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
do you have an idea what is wrong here? The arch linux installation is quite new so I did not expect any serious upgrade issues for some time...


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As founder of IDEO, David Kelley built the company that created many icons of the digital generation—the first mouse for Apple, the first Treo, the thumbs up/thumbs down button on your Tivo's remote control, to name a few. But what matters even more to him is unlocking the creative potential of people and organizations so they can innovate routinely.
David's most enduring contributions to the field of design are a human-centered methodology and culture of innovation. More recently, he led the creation of the groundbreaking d.school at Stanford, the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design.
Kelley was working (unhappily) as an electrical engineer when he first heard about Stanford's cross-disciplinary Joint Program in Design, which merged engineering and art. What he learned there—a human-centered, team-based approach to tackling sticky problems through design—propelled his professional life as a "design thinker."
In 1978, David co-founded the design firm that ultimately became IDEO. Today, he serves as chair of IDEO and is the Donald W. Whittier Professor at Stanford, where he has taught for more than 25 years. Preparing the design thinkers of tomorrow earned David the Sir Misha Black Medal for his "distinguished contribution to design education." He has also won the Edison Achievement Award for Innovation, as well as the Chrysler Design Award and National Design Award in Product Design from the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, and he is a member of the National Academy of Engineers.
Tom Kelley is the bestselling author of The Art of Innovation and The Ten Faces of Innovation as well as a partner at the renowned design and innovation consultancy IDEO. As a leading innovation speaker, Tom addresses scores of business audiences on how to foster a culture of innovation and tap into the creative potential of their organizations. Over the years, he has spoken in more than thirty countries and helped IDEO grow from 15 designers to a staff of more than 600, while leading diverse areas such as business development, marketing, human resources, and operations. Tom is an Executive Fellow at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley and holds a similar role at the University of Tokyo.
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The Seated Liberty dime was the first dime to contain 90% silver in its alloy structure; before that, the dime's silver content was slight below the 90% line. The Roosevelt dime is the most current design in US coinage, authorized by the Coinage Act of 1792, and was officially the smallest and thinnest coin in all of the US coins minted. Until 1965, the Roosevelt dime contained 90% silver, 10% copper. The Roosevelt dime was inspired by the late president, who donated time and money, to a cure for polio. In his honor, this dime brought awareness to the cause and even helped donations roll in.
The 2002-S Proof Roosevelt Dime contains a flawless, glossy finish and was minted at the San Francisco Mint. The 2002-S Proof Roosevelt Dime is packaged in a coin flip for protection and does not contain silver. Opened in 1854, the San Francisco Mint still stands today as the second oldest operating mint in the US. Initially, the San Francisco Mint was opened, due to the California Gold Rush, to provide a place for prospectors to turn in their gold for actual coinage. In just its first year of production, the San Francisco Mint turned $4 billion of gold into coins. The San Francisco Mint carries a couple of endearing nicknames, such as the Old United States Mint or the Granite Lady (even though the building is actually made from sandstone). The San Francisco Mint withstood the Earthquake of 1906 and was able to maintain production until it moved to its current facility, in 1937. Nowadays, the San Francisco Mint produces mostly proof coinage, such as the US Proof Sets. The San Francisco Mint's signature is a "S" mint-mark.


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The French brand See Concept was created in August 2010, after winning the 'Innovation and Entrepreneurs Prize'. The prize enabled the business to launch its first product. After that See Concept grew fast and launched various designs and colours of their reading glasses. They also launched their Sun and Screen collection. In the beginning of 2017 See Concept changed its name in 'Izipizi', but they still have the same glasses in the same quality and the same happy colours. The 'Let me see' reading glasses in our collection are available in various colours and designs.