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Great Illustrated Ecological Overshoot Video
Solar and Wind Manufacturing is Thriving in the USA. Why Don't Mainstream Reporters Know?
At a time when facts are ignored for expediency of a view point, the fact that renewables are creating more jobs than any other sector needs to be highlighted to the new White House and corrected when junk economics are claimed.
Published on LinkedIn Jigar Shah, Co-Founder at Generate Capital, Inc.
Like many Americans, I am an avid listener to American Public Media's Marketplace show. The show bills itself as "the most widely heard program on business and the economy — radio or television, commercial or public broadcasting — in the country. That popularity can also be a problem when journalists on the show discuss something they don't understand.Earlier this month, Marketplace had a weekly roundup on the economy, focusing on manufacturing jobs because of emphasis provided on this topic by both of the presidential campaigns. The guests were John Carney of the Wall Street Journal and Catherine Rampell from the Washington Post.
At the third minute, Rampell weighs in on whether clean energy jobs would really help laid-off manufacturing workers. At 4:30, Carney shows his complete ignorance and claims that clean energy jobs are "science fiction."
I know that Marketplace knows better. Scott Tong does excellent clean energy reporting for the show on a regular basis.
Let's set the record straight since Rampell and Carney clearly couldn't do a basic Google search.
The solar industry alone has created one out of every 80 jobs in the United States since the great recession. When including wind, LED lighting, and other clean energy categories, that number could be close to one in 33.
For the solar industry, a majority of these new employment opportunities are blue collar construction and manufacturing jobs that pay an average of $21 per hour — far higher than the $16 per hour non-union manufacturing jobs that South Carolina was touting later in that episode.
Amazingly, even Kai Ryssdal got into the bashing by questioning if clean energy could make a dent in hiring laid off manufacturing and mining workers.
In fact, the solar industry has hired more veterans than anyone else, retrained coal workers, and even provided a soft landing for oil and gas workers who have lost their jobs. The vast majority of solar and wind workers are trained in less than six months because their previous work experience and training is completely transferrable.
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, wind technician is the fastest growing job category — expanding twice as much as the next-fastest growing job, occupational therapy assistant.
In 2015, the manufacturing arms of the solar and wind industries employed tens of thousands of people making pieces and parts in the United States. This is up by 20,000 people over 2014. In fact, this number is expected to continue to grow at that pace for the next five years.
How does an amazing show like Marketplace get these things so wrong? How do folks from the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal not know that solar and wind power now make up over 75 percent of new electric capacity additions in the United States — representing over $70 billion in new capital investment in 2016 alone. In so doing, these industries are generating substantial fees for investment banks, lawyers, accountants, and often advertising dollars for their newspapers and radio shows.
My sense is that these folks want to run as far away from environmentalists as possible. Clean energy in the United States has been defined by earnest environmentalists who, to their credit, embraced it wholeheartedly. But to our collective detriment, they spun an ideological, naïve story divorced from the reality of the energy economy transformation actually taking shape around us.
The result is that clean energy is mistakenly seen as a passive and precious solution for a future society — a delicate sunflower waving in the face of a muscular coal miner or a pristine field of green and sky of blue set against a dirt mound penetrated by a fracking rig. It feels more Utopian than aspirational, more luxury than necessity.
In short, it doesn't feel American.
American is can-do, right-now, yes ma'am. Luckily, the actual transformation of the energy economy is as American as the Hoover Dam or the interstate highways, and even more earth-shaking. If only the discussion among politicians, media, business leaders, and the American public reflected that reality.
Unfortunately, the clean energy conversation is profoundly and unnecessarily polarizing. Like climate change itself, it's become part of a larger culture war that fits neatly into the media's predictable tendency of false equivalence, pitting workers against activists, businessmen against academics, and common sense against idealism. As a result, according to recent surveys, public sentiment about the urgency of action to prevent climate change is split along party lines between "let's do something!" and "meh."
The energy might be clean, but the work and the jobs are as rooted in dirt, sweat, and back-breaking labor as any American endeavor, and even more lasting.
We need to change the conversation to align with the deep emotional and aspirational narratives that speak to the American public. Clean energy could feel as all-American, cutting-edge, rugged, reliable, resilient, and tough as fracking. The same American ideals of independence, freedom, self-sufficiency, and opportunity can bring together green advocates and Tea Party stalwarts, labor and entrepreneurs, main street and Wall Street.
Independence is the heart of American identity. Clean energy is independence turned into electrons: the application of cunning, sweat, and ingenuity to harness the restless power of the American landscape.
The American energy economy is changing, and changing rapidly. Clean energy and energy efficiency is where the growth is happening. We can move of millions people from coal mining, low-tech manufacturing, and even oil and gas into good paying jobs that don't negatively impact the health of people and the planet.
By rebranding clean energy, we can empower all Americans to work together for a stronger future. It's time to get down and dirty
Citizens need to drive the Climate Change activism train and science is the rails we ride on
Without a healthy and productive environment and climate, nothing else matters. Nothing.
We can no longer depend on the U.S. federal government to lead on Climate Change.
193 nations around the world understand the anthropological science and the recent history of Climate Change and the threat it represents. Science is key to understanding how we arrived here and where Climate Change is heading.
The United States needs to lead on Climate Change and social activism is what gets its done in our democracy. Now more than ever, if we want to protect not only future generations but increasingly our current planet health, our time and money will be required, continually, to support activist groups who credibly lead this activism. 350.org, Greenpeace, NRDC, EDF, Ceres, Sierra Club and the list goes on.
Climate Change activism is underpinned with non-partisan science which is why I have supported Union of Concerned Scientist since 1985. In a time when the truth and facts mean nothing, UCS strives to make sure truthful science and fact is presented to our elected officials and the electorate. Their work is crucial not just because of the results of the recent election but also the accumulating and alarming data which shows that climate change is likely accelerating significantly beyond the models we have relied on. The graph below is an alarming indicator of just how serious and near term the threat is. The red line is 2016 ice accumulation.
Please consider supporting this highly productive and effective organization now by viewing the Union of Concerned Scientist website – www.ucsusa.org
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"The Solar Energy Paradox: Why Solar Is Booming and Companies Are Going Out of Business . . . ."
"Why are solar companies going out of business as the industry grows? The explanation is fairly simple, and it may continue to happen over and over again."
The headlines above are from a recent article on Motley Fool. It s a familiar headline given the recent solar industry turmoil and the election falsehoods reported in the media. But the thesis like this one that the industry is in some self inflicted death spiral is just plain wrong.
The actual answer IS simple and straight forward:
- Solar energy and other renewables are competing with highly subsidized fossil fuel energy This is not new news. During its remarkable accent, the solar industry has been driven to meet a subsidized utility cost basis (kWh cost) that then ripples negatively across the entire solar industry supply chain.
- Fossil fuel subsidies run between 10x to 20x more than the amount renewable energy receives depending on sector and timeframe. Numerous articles on the specifics of the subsidy imbalance can be found here and in an older post on this blog.
- Of course the fossil fuel industry doesn't pay for negative externalities – its been using ground level air and earth's atmosphere as a garbage dump for particulate and GHG emissions. This represents an enormous economic burden to society via healthcare, environmental damage, climate change and general quality of life which is paid for in non-energy cost sectors. In other words, we are certainly paying for it, just not on the energy bill.
- And while the solar industry has done a great job of reaching near grid parity in certain markets despite this subsidy imbalance, a number of studies have shown that if you level the subsidy playing field – WITHOUT factoring in negative externalities, solar can be the same or lower kWh cost depending on locale.
- While a barrier to new, large balance sheet entrants, current efforts from Elon Must/Lyndon Rive and their SolarCity, as we ll as Sunpower, First Solar and many others to go large scale to solve immediate pressing global climate change problems, the fossil fuel subsidy largesse limits the success of these efforts.
- The enormity of the subsidy imbalance problem is global in nature and is well understood to be holding back a rapid transition to clean energy generation.
I always find it amusing when I hear free market fundamentalists opine on the renewable energy industry when they state that they would never invest in a sector that relies on subsidies to exist. The entire energy industry is not a pure market and has always been highly subsidized and regulated.
So, how much longer will societies around the world take to regulate a level playing field so the all important energy sector can meet the Paris climate accords targets?
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Diversification Chronicles – New Realities Facing Fossil Fuel Based Energy
In my previous Diversification Chronicles post I covered some of the high level reasons why the time is right for fossil fuel and electric utilities to pursue profitable diversification into the renewable energy industry. Below, I outline recent events and news that further highlights the legal, regulatory and market drivers that should create urgent diversification strategy development or expansion for companies with large CO2 and GHG negative externalities as a result of their business operations.
On August 9th, the federal 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled for the first time on the legality of the Obama administration's estimated social cost of carbon (SCC). SCC was determined by federal agencies who worked together starting in 2008 to create an accurate SCC, a metric that represents the long-term economic damage to society, in U.S. dollars, from each incremental ton of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere. The latest estimate placed the SCC at $36 per metric ton of CO2.
The recent ruling upheld the Department of Energy's use of the SCC metric in its analysis of standards for commercial refrigeration equipment. DOE used them for issuance of 2 rules in 2014: one of the rules set energy efficiency standards for 49 classes of commercial refrigeration equipment, while the other stipulated test procedures for the standards.
The refrigeration industry challenged DOE's use of the social cost of carbon, but DOE's use of the SCC metric, "was neither arbitrary nor capricious" according to senior federal judge Kenneth Ripple, who was appointed to the bench by President Reagan. The ruling was definitive in its entirety.
While this ruling only applies to the refrigeration industry in Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin, the implications are enormous for the oil & gas and electric utilities. The SCC metric as established by the US government is now a benchmark going forward. This may well be the first domino falling which would affect all CO2 & GHG emitters in near term.
For the first time ever, CO2 emissions from coal-fired power plants will drop below those from natural gas in 2016, according to a new analysis from the federal Energy Information Agency. Renewable energy, energy efficiency, historically low prices for natural gas, and other factors have driven coal use down by >30% while natural gas has been replacing that fuel for generation.
It was always assumed that natural gas would be a solid 50-year bridge fuel combined with renewables, energy storage and other technologies. But with its rapid rise in use, less energy density, and methane issues, natural gas is becoming a larger CO2 & GHG contributor with projections putting it past coal emissions in its heyday.
In addition to overproduction, very low oil prices, and legal challenges surrounding potential prior knowledge of the impact of their industry on climate change, the oil & gas industries are facing a potentially game changing problem of how Wall Street will value each company's fossil fuel reserves.
Typically, an oil & gas company's stock market valuation is weighed heavily on proven reserves and ability to extract. With many countries looking at putting a price on CO2 and limiting extraction of oil & gas as a result of the COP 21 Paris Agreement, this becomes a crucial data point for both the investment community and the operating companies themselves.
Industry observers believe that it's only a matter of a few years before the investment community significantly reduces the value of oil & gas companies and limits their equity positions. Additionally, the Securities and Exchange Commission is coming under pressure to change its rules to require energy firms to be more clear on what their material climate change risks are.
Combined with climate change symptoms seemingly accelerating over the last few years, these market and regulatory challenges make diversification into renewables an imperative. Short-term and weak green-washing strategies of the past will not stand up to public or government scrutiny going forward. The time is now for government and corporations to lead the transition to renewable and clean energy.Share this:
Diversification Into Renewable Energy Chronicles – How About Now?
First post in a series looking at the fossil fuel segment diversification into renewable energy.
Consider the current energy industry situation:
- For the first time in the last 100 years of the electric utility industry, revenue from sales of electrons did not go up after the US economy emerged from the recent great recession. Energy efficiency, renewable energy and behind-the-meter generation schemes are part of the reason.
- Oil and gas industry revenue and margins are suffering from very low prices as a result of overproduction, regulatory tightening on negative externalities and other factors.
- The coal industry is at a point that prompted the CEO of one the largest coal producers to state publicly that coal as a dominant generation fuel is in significant decline. Natural gas at historically low prices is rapidly replacing coal for base load generation. Coal is also impacted by strict limits on emissions as a result of the EPA's Mercury and Air Toxics Standards(MATS). International markets, long thought to be a lucrative export valve for US coal, are in decline. China and other large coal burning nations have enacted new laws to wind down their coal generation, as the reality of climate change sets in and the cost-competitiveness of renewable energy continues to rise.
- The future energy picture, broadly speaking, is generally viewed through an electric industry lens. "Electricity is the energy of the 21st century," according to Patrick Pouyanné, CEO of the large French oil company Total, which has been making initial strategic investments in renewable energy and energy storage over the last six years.
- The majority of the world's countries (174) have come to agreement on slowing down climate change at the United Nations COP21 in December 2015, which attempts to limit warming to 2° C compared to pre-industrial levels. With energy generation contributing average of 35% of emissions, the implications for the energy sector is clear.
In this era of market turmoil and low prices across all fossil fuel energy sectors, renewables are highly cost-competitive AND gaining ground. The recent BNEF 2016 Outlook verifies what renewable energy cheerleaders have been saying for many years – renewables with energy storage and next-generation grid technology are ready to lead the imperative global transition away from carbon-intensive generation.
So why is the fossil fuel industry still sitting on the sidelines? Renewable energy companies and assets throughout the supply chain are relatively inexpensive now, due to the low cost of the gas and oil it competes against. The timing to present a diversification effort to shareholders has never been better. The timeline for return on investment for renewable diversification is significantly shorter than building fossil fuel assets. This would appear to be a first-mover's diversification market.
The renewable energy industry represents a natural, highly profitable diversification strategy given the fossil fuel industry's large balance sheets, synergistic services and capabilities, very low cost of capital, leverage with regulatory agencies and built-in customers in many cases. Yet many fossil fuel companies continue to dig in deeper on their traditional extraction-and-burn model, even as a Deloitte survey of oil and gas executives back in
2009 uncovered major concerns about the sustainability of their industry. The majority of these executives also expressed strong support for, and confidence in, the future of renewable energy.
There are signs that a tentative transition by some entities is underway. Major electric utilities such as Duke Energy, Georgia Power, NRG Energy and Exelon domestically have their toe in the renewable energy water, and the large European utilities Enel and E.ON have announced long term transitions to 100% renewable energy. Other smaller electric utilities are testing renewable generation, and decoupling their profitability from electron-only sales into energy efficiency and other services. The oil & gas sector is increasing their involvement in renewables with recent announcements from Shell, Total, and Statoil, as well as a number of smaller firms that service the large multinationals.
However, with the exception of Total and few others in the electric utility industry, diversification capital investment budgets are small, generally under 0.6% of the total. And there is always the lingering suspicion, based on past pronouncements, that these latest diversification efforts are merely green-washing to counter urgent climate change action calls.
To be sure, diversification from a core competency is not simple for any company who has shareholders to satisfy on a quarterly basis. Patience for executing a diversification strategy is not something the investment community is good at, as witnessed by the removal of electric utility visionary David Crane from the electric utility NRG last year. And E.ON in Germany is an example of the difficulty in maintaining profitability while crossing the diversification chasm.
But with the continual and rapid lowering of the installed cost and levelized cost of energy, as well as plunging cost reductions in the energy storage sector, diversification into solar and wind and other renewables can be achieved with a well timed diversification plan and lower risk. There's money to be made, jobs to be created and the urgent health of our planet to consider. How about now?Share this:
Limiting to 2º C – Its Not Just Energy Production
The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) held its twenty first Conference of Partners (COP21) in Paris in 2015.
The conference negotiated the Paris Agreement, a global agreement on the reduction of climate change, the text of which represented a consensus of the representatives of the 196 parties attending it. The agreement will enter into force when joined by at least 55 countries which together represent at least 55 percent of global greenhouse emissions. On 22 April 2016 (Earth Day), 174 countries signed the agreement in New York, and began adopting it within their own legal systems.
The key result was an agreement to set a goal of limiting global warming to less than 2 degrees Celsius (°C) compared to pre-industrial levels. The agreement calls for zero net anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions to be reached during the second half of the 21st century.
This is all a very large challenge given the many sectors, beyond energy, contribute massively to climate change.
The great visualization below from the UN explains why the 2 degrees Celsius target is so important to stabilizing the earth's atmosphere. (click on the play button in middle of graphic)
URL: http://www.cop21.gouv.fr/en/why-2c/
According to the IPCC (get to know more about IPCC), global warming of more than 2°C would have serious consequences, such as an increase in the number of extreme climate events. In Copenhagen in 2009, the countries stated their determination to limit global warming to 2°C between now and 2100. To reach this target, climate experts estimate that global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions need to be reduced by 40-70% by 2050 and that carbon neutrality (zero emissions) needs to be reached by the end of the century at the latest.Share this:
Limits To Growth – The Global Shortage of Sand
I wrote previously that The Club of Rome sponsored a report by MIT in 1972 titled "The Limits to Growth", which found that earth's non-renewable resources can support a global population of about 6 billion. The focus was on tracking and modeling the extent to which population, food production, depletion of resources, pollution, and industrialization would cause declines in many aspects of human civilization including economic growth, population numbers, and quality of life.
It did not consider the multiplying affects of climate change.
The authors were predicting a significant change to global humanity in the 2015 – 2020 timeframe. Forty years later the their forecast is lining up with the current ecological overshoot problems we are facing as a result of 7 billion voracious human inhabitants. I like the term "Peak People" to define this situation.
An interesting and illustrative symptom of Peak People is the worldwide shortage of sand. Who would have guessed this was a problem? (interesting movie on the topic, and a great U.N. piece here.) Sand suitable for cement production, hydraulic fracking and other construction is now becoming scarce. In many developing countries the problem is so severe that sand is being removed from beaches and coastal waters to support infrastructure development rather than to support tourist and pleasure industries. (with enormous environmental and habitat damage) In Dubai, sand from Australia was barged in to provide the correct type of beach-quality sand, as the plentiful desert sand found there is lightweight silt that blows away with the slightest breeze and is not easily usable for cement construction, let alone beaches.
Various types of sand were generally thought to be in large supply. Silica, which is used to manufacture silicon for semiconductor chips and crystalline solar cells, was thought be in inexhaustible supply, as its root element, Silicon, is the second most abundant element in the earth's crust. But large scale damming of rivers blocked the natural flow of silica-rich sand from the mountainous regions, and when combined with growing global industrial demand, has resulted in the drying up of accessible low cost supply. Consequently there is a mining boom in full gear globally to strip the last known silica sand quarries as well as hoard construction quality sand. A good example of the latter is the boom taking place in the upper Midwest United States, where most of the output is supporting the oil and gas industry fracking boom.
While I have always viewed Peak People from the agricultural, water, climate change, and biodiversity lens, the depletion of sand due to human activity was more than surprising and it's another validation of The Limits to Growth thesis on resource depletion. Up until recently, technology has delayed the impact of over population especially in agriculture but I believe it will require hyper-accelerated innovation and new classes of material science to continue the current "business as usual approach".
How do we transition to a sustainable and stable civilization that leverages the limitless human creative and technological capacity that is responsible for the quality of life we currently enjoy?Share this:
NASA CO2 and Temperature Visualizations
Important and great NASA modeling and visualizations using data from around the globe and from space observations.
Click here to view CO2 visualization video: A Year in the Life of Earth's CO2
View temperature visualization video: Earth Surface Temperature from 1950 – 2013
We have all the science proficiency we need from exceptional government science sources to validate anthropogenic global warming, and yet our political leaders will dispute scientific knowledge when it does not line up with their narrow focus and constituents. Worse, the knowledge is often corrupted with junk science which nonpartisan, science based organizations like the Union Concerned Scientists work diligently to debunk and correct.
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text: First off, a slightly belated happy 2007 to everyone! Its been a while since i've last been able to log-in heh, and i'm pleased to announce that the DS flap i recently purchased has arrived safely!!! Will post pics as soon as i've got access to my photos on the other computer However, my experience with this purchase wasn't an entirely satisfactory one I bought this bag in an off-eBay transaction, and was expecting everything that the seller listed in the auction to be provided with the bag. As such, i didn't want to assume, so i emailed her more than once to check if she/he would be posting out the box, ribbons, the receipt, authenticity cards etc etc etc. The seller also confirmed in a return email that the bag would come with them. However when the bag arrived, i discovered that the seller only sent the bag with the dustbag, a photocopy of the receipt and the authenticity cards. Because i took the pains to check over and over again if i was going to be getting "everything", and was told that i would be, i was quite disappointed that ultimately the seller didn't live up to his/her end of the deal, probably to save on a few dollars for postage! Also, i asked about scratches on the bag, and was told there were none at all. But, when i received it, the bag was indeed generally in a very good condition, but there were fine hairline scratches DEFINITELY visible to the naked eye. Not a huge deal, but impossible to miss! Again, because i knew i was buying a used bag, i didn't expect it to be absolutely perfect, and in all honesty to me, those scratches are unavoidable (and thus acceptable) because of wear, but i expect honesty from a seller when i ask about these things! When i emailed the seller to ask about it, the seller just couldn't be bothered to reply. Double sigh. What i'm most unhappy about is not so much not receiving the box, original receipt etc etc... i'm just sad about the way the seller has handled this whole thing... I think i'm quite an understanding buyer, because the seller was quite unyielding in several of her terms of sale and i went along with them because i didn't want to cause her additional trouble, even if it meant a little more at my expense. So the least you could do, as a responsible seller, would be to let me know beforehand about the changes you make to the agreement, even if they're small things! I'm pretty sure that if the seller had emailed me telling me it was inconvenient (or whatever reason) for him/her to send the box out, with the original receipt, i'd have been absolutely ok with it. And also, not to mislead buyers with wrong information about the condition of the bag that's another thing that really irks me, because as a seller myself, i always accurately and honestly state the condition of whatever i sell, the smallest flaws included. Its just not nice otherwise! I do like the bag, but sadly because of all of these factors, its taken away the absolute love i might have had for it earlier When i was interested in buying the bag, and emailed the seller about it, the replies came almost instantly. However, my email to aforementioned seller after i received the bag was ignored and unreplied. At first i thought perhaps the seller was busy and wasn't able to get to the computer, but not long after I even received a PM from another fellow PF buyer who was going to buy from this same seller, asking me about whether she should buy from this seller!!! Obviously this seller directed this PF member to PM me, which indicated that the seller has definitely been online... just not bothering to be reply one short email. Perhaps to some of you i might seem like i'm making a big fuss over something so small, but again at the end of the day i'm not disappointed about the actual scratches, the lack of box etc... (i mean, right now i am, but i definitely wouldn't have been if i had been mentally prepared for it by the seller!!! Because of everything she promised, i certainly wasn't expecting any of that, hence the disappointment) i'm just upset at the way the seller has handled this whole transaction. SIGH! Now everytime i look at my bag i just feel... a little cheated and unhappy. Which is not the way to feel about ANY chanel, is it :s I wish i could've got the bag from my local chanel store now and saved all this trouble but sadly they were sold out and weren't particularly helpful in finding another one for me. Ok sorry for the long rant, i just needed to get it off my chest because i was feeling really unhappy about it!

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text: A favorite guide of mine "The Energy of Your Unconscious Thoughts" by Dr Joseph Murphy, explains clearly how we will entry our thoughts-energy to realize our biggest goals; remedy dangerous habits, like alcoholism, smoking, overeating, and so forth. The best way to overcome fears and enhance poor well being. Actually he cures his personal malignant progress utilizing thoughts-energy.


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Kate Devitt (QUT): The Liability of Uncertainty: How mistrust in Agricultural Decision Support Technologies thwarts adoption
Decision Support Systems (DSS) are increasingly touted as a means to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of agricultural enterprise from variable yield mapping for nutritional inputs to autonomous irrigation scheduling. However, due to the complexity of variables and uncertainties, the statistical models that produce recommendations have limited accuracy, can be miscalibrated in situ, and/or outputs misrepresented to decision makers. In particular, AgTech manufacturers may want to hide uncertainties inherent in their technologies to drive adoption. A desire to obfuscate uncertainty makes sense because uncertainty is hard to understand, hard to calculate, hard to represent and hard to action—producing anxiety, avoidance and suboptimal decisions. Yet, users ought to be able to trust manufacturers to make reliable and useful tools with integrity. This paper presents research on the psychology of representing uncertainty and its effects on decisions that can be used to guide the design and regulation of agricultural decision support systems. Regulatory responses ought consider both the design of DSS (e.g. make explicit underlying probability distributions) and training required to operate these systems (e.g. explicit statistical training). Users must understand scenarios and consequences of decisions including low likelihood—though still possible-adverse outcomes. Manufacturers must offer product protection so that they accept responsibility and offer compensation for malfunctioning tools. Legal precedent in causality, plus research on the psychology of causality from experimental philosophy may help improve trust and adoption of agricultural decision support tools.


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MIAMI — West Virginia needed three harrowing wins. Clemson rode the power of a blowout.
Different methods, same reward. The Mountaineers and Tigers are heading to the Orange Bowl.
The matchup was announced Sunday night and, given the events of the weekend, was hardly a surprise. Clemson (10-3) earned an automatic berth by soundly beating Virginia Tech in the Atlantic Coast Conference title game on Saturday night.
West Virginia (9-3) took a more eventful road, first edging South Florida on Thursday night, next getting a colossal boost when Cincinnati beat Connecticut on Saturday.
Had Cincinnati lost that game, Louisville would have almost certainly represented the Big East in the Bowl Championship Series.
Instead, it's the Mountaineers who were the Orange Bowl's pick to join the Tigers.
The Orange Bowl is Jan. 4 in Miami.
West Virginia's BCS hopes were, at best, dim after losing 38-35 to Louisville on Nov. 5. The Mountaineers had three games left, two of them on the road, knew they had to win them all to have any realistic shot at one of football's big-money games, and trailed in the fourth quarter in each of those contests before beating Cincinnati, Pittsburgh and then South Florida.
"Well, real simple. For three weeks in a row we've put ourselves in precarious situations to where we've figured out a way to win at the end," West Virginia coach Dana Holgorsen said after the Mountaineers won Thursday night. "Give the guys a bunch of credit for hanging in there."
Clemson had eyes on the BCS all season. The Tigers were never ranked at any point in 2010, but rose all the way to No. 6 this year after an 8-0 start. A loss to Georgia Tech started a downward spiral, where Clemson lost three of its last four games.
The Tigers looked shaky – that is, until Saturday night. Clemson got touchdowns on its first four second-half possessions of the ACC title game, turning a matchup that was a 10-10 tie at halftime into what would go into the books as a 38-10 rout of Virginia Tech.
So 30 years later, the Tigers are back in the Orange Bowl.
"Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to announce that I will be taking my Clemson talents to South Beach, baby," Clemson coach Dabo Swinney said after the ACC title game. "I wanted to say that. We're excited. Man, it's just a great time. Awfully excited about going to Miami."


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That moment when you find yourself at a furniture auction with your hand shooting up into the air before you even realize what you are taking home. That was me. Of course I've seen auctions on TV and you see the nice lady there who slowly raises her number and gives that half smile and nod….
There I was the new proud owner of a rotting pile of wood. This was my first auction and I had told myself I had a $5 limit. Naturally this meant, by default, I was taking home the only thing no one wanted. The auctioneer chuckled as he found a way to politely describe the last item. "Next up…this….primitive…desk. I'll start the bidding at $2.50." WAS THIS REALLY HAPPENING!? I was the proud owner of my very own "primitive desk" in less than 3 seconds and I didn't even have to compete for it! The auctioneer looked at me, and my family, and said "you do know you have to take that home with you tonight". My Dad said "at least we can burn it…that's cheaper than firewood".
Like a kid on Christmas I jumped up and ran over to admire this little charity case I was taking home. I was too enthralled with the fact that those glass windows were intact and actually slid back and forth (with the assistance of a body builder) to see what everyone else was seeing.
My joy elicited giggles from strangers as I rambled on about my vision to those I came with. "I'll show you", I said. Blake, being the excellent husband he is, never once questioned me. There may have been a smirk or two….or ten… but he never actually voiced that he would rather have a bonfire and a couple beers with my Dad than bring my new baby home.
The next morning we (did I mention I have the best husband ever?) set out to give her a makeover. About 10 minutes into sanding Blake decided whoever had made the decision to TAR the top onto the desk should be eaten by wolves. So, we replaced. A trip to Lowes for a nice smooth piece of wood and some stain made about a million years of difference.
After that it was really just some screws to tone her muscles back up and two coats of covering in Kilz2 and she was looking much younger already. Once all that dried we went back with a tube of caulk and filled in the gaps. Wrinkle filler if you will.
Look at her now!
Total cost:
Desk: $2.50
Wood: $13
Stain: $5
Caulk: $3
Kilz2: had this on hand
Screws: had these on hand
Time: we did this over a weekend
Total: $23.50


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Paprika Recipe App | Jul 20
environmental product photography of the Paprika app
Every once in a while, a true studio product shot just doesn't really do a product justice. Sometimes you need to take it out of the studio and put a little context around whatever it is you're shooting. That's the case for the image above of the Paprika app. It's a recipe managing app, and it's awesome. It's available on iPhone/iPad/Android/Mac, is super easy to use, and looks really nice too. There are so many apps these days that just show screenshots or drop a screenshot into a stock image of a tablet or device, but none of them ever seem to really relate to the product. So, for this shot, I really wanted to show the Paprika app on a real device, in an environment it would actually get used in.
Product Photography | Jun 9
recent images from my product photography portfolio
The images above are a small taste of some of the product shots I've worked on recently. Unfortunately, I'm not able to share all of my product and commercial work here, but I try to post what I can. Expect more to be coming soon!
Jameson Select Reserve Small Batch | May 16
a brief update on some recent product photography — featuring some special Irish whiskey
A recent shot of Jameson Select Reserve Small Batch — it looks really good, but it tastes even better! It's always fun to shoot products that look really awesome, but it's not always easy. Often times, the best looking products have bunch of different surface textures and materials that all have to be lit just right in order to make them really look their best, and this bottle was certainly no exception — foil stamping, embossed text, matte labels, glossy labels, colored glass, liquor… but when they're all lit appropriately, it really does make a beautiful bottle.


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MOVIE SYNOPSIS [ General Audiences ] With production of USA, this film of 2014 has been directed by Brian McGuire. You can watch Sick of it All online on TV cable or theaters with original audio in English at different dates. This film premiered in theaters in 2014.
Rating: 5 by 10 users./
Runtime: 86 minutes
Harry Dean Stanton, Jason Sklar, Randy Sklar, Chris Doubek, Amy Claire, Logan Sparks, Luke McGuire, Rica Rigor, Emmet McGuire and Zion McGuire.
Comedy, Drama.
86-minute film (full movie) directed by Brian McGuire.
The original audio of Sick of it All has dialogues in Dolby Digital, it was produced in USA.
It premiered in cinemas or television in 2014.
Screenplay written by Brian McGuire.
Robert Murphy.
Cole Payne, Veronica Radaelli, Jeremy Loethen, Roger M. Mayer, Logan Sparks, Brian McCormick, Mark E. Fletcher and Brian McGuire.
Composed by Brian McGuire.
Without commercial breaks, the full movie Sick of it All has a duration of 86 minutes; the official trailer can be watched in streaming on the Internet. You can watch this full movie free in EnglishDolby Digital in movie TV channels, renting the DVD or with VoD services (Video On Demand player, Hulu) and PPV (Pay Per View, Netflix).
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Fluid mechanics-have you ever drunk mis mash cocktail?
Have you ever drunk mis mash cocktail? This is a cocktail of unmixed orange juice and wine...Firstly, pour chilled orange to half pint straight glass. Then carefully add red wine, with a spoon, so it settles at the top of orange. Cocktail is prepared, drink it with a straw. This is the recipe for mis mash cocktail, that is known because of the fact that the two liquids stay unmixed.
Orange will stay on down half while wine will fill upper half of the glass. What's the trick? The reason why the two liquids stay unmixed lays in difference in their density. Orange is here more dense liquid, because of sugar, so it stay at the lower half of glass.
This article addresses the physics underlining fluid mechanics. This branch of physics explains phenomena like the mentioned fact that only 11% of an iceberg is visible, communication vessels or hydraulic press. The essential notion of the whole fluid mechanics is pressure and firstly we are going to explain this important physical quantity.
The notion of pressure
When there is a great amount of snow, it is hard to walk in the show. With ordinary shoe we will drop in the snow. That is why in such a situation people use snowshoes. Although the same force act on the snow in both of cases, with snowshoes one wouldn't drop. How come? Surely, in case of snowshoe our weight is distributed on bigger area and that makes the difference.
Definition of pressure. Physical quantity pressure is defined as the ratio of a force and an area where this force act. Usually we denote pressure with the letter P while force by F and area could be represented by A. Then it holds
p = F / A .
Unit of measure for pressure is Pascal, in honor to French physicist and mathematician Blaise Pascal (1623-1662). The unit Pascal is denoted by 'Pa'; Pa = N / m2.
The opposite example of snowshoes is a needle, which punctures the skin. If we push the skin with some blunt object, we can't harm it. However, if we weight on the skin with a needle, very small force is enough to puncture the skin. So, in case of snowshoes the area is enlarged in order to reduce pressure whereas in case of needle very small area enables huge pressure.
It is worth mentioning that 'bar' is also a unit of measure for pressure, but not SI one. 1 bar = 100000 Pa.
Do it yourself - physical experiment in your home!
With a little skill one can prepare a mis mash cocktail. Ingredients are fanta and wine.
Pour fanta up to the half of a glass.
Carefully add red wine, with a spoon, so it stay at the top of juice.
Serve it with a straw.
Hydraulic pressure and Pascal's law
Imagine a ball shape container of water. Let it be in a space without the gravity. On the ball container there are several holes of different radius. Let one of the hole be shaped as cylinder and piston. What would happened with water in space without the gravity? - whether the water will drain? The answer is no, there is no any movement of water in this situation, because no one force act of it. If we now press the piston towards the water, what would happen? Surely, water will start to flow through the holes, forming straight streams. This means that the initial force is transmitted throughout the whole liquid. It can be shown that there is a rule on this transmission: the force differentiate from point to point of the liquid but the created pressure is the same in every point of the liquid.
This rule is clearly expressed by the Pascal's law: An external force is transmitted throughout the fluid in all directions and it causes the equal pressure in all points of the fluid. Applied to the mentioned experiment Pascal's law gives
F/A = F1/A1 = F2/A2 = … = p
The pressure created this way is called hydraulic pressure. We were discussing quite unusual situation, in order to emphasize the fact that would be hidden otherwise. In everyday life hydraulic pressure usually comes with pressure cause be the gravity.
Hydrostatic pressure
The related figure shows a pot filled out by some liquid. Obviously, there is pressure on openings, since liquid is poured. Furthermore, the deeper level the bigger pressure. This pressure is caused by the gravity and additionally by atmospheric pressure. More precisely, pressure at certain depth is caused by the weight of the liquid above.
The weight of the liquid above depend on its mass i.e. it is m *g . Having in mind defining relation for density, the pressure p at the level h is
p = pa+ ρ V g / A ,
where V is volume and ρ density of the liquid above. Knowing that the height of the liquid column is h, if follows V= h * A. This leads to the relation for hydrostatic pressure at he depth h is
p = pa + ρ * g * h .
Thus, the hydrostatic pressure at certain depth depend on the density of liquid and gravitational acceleration.
Hydrostatic pressure is defined as the pressure in a fluid caused by the force of gravity. It appear in both liquids and gases. However, it is more stronger in liquids because the higher density. We feel hydrostatic pressure when dive. The pressure on our body is much stronger than in our atmosphere. While we might aren't aware of this when ordinary dive, a special equipment is needed for the depth. Even with equipment human being can dive few dozen of meters. Recommended technical diving limit is 100 meters while world record is set up at few hundreds meters.
Density (kg/m3)
sea water
Communicating vessels
The law of communication vessels is quite intuitive: in communicating vessels the levels of liquid are on the same height, regardless on the shape of vessels (assuming there is no capillary action). This rule follows from the fact that the hydrostatic pressure is equal in all points of the given depth.
However, if vessels are fulfilled by two different liquids, then situation is different. In such a system, the height of column of one liquid denote by h1 and the column of another liquid denote by h2. The system is in equilibrium which means that the two hydrostatic pressures are equal: p1=p2. Thus, γ1 h1 g = γ2 h2 g which leads to γ1 h1= γ2 h2.
Hydraulic press in action
How does a hydraulic press work?
A hydraulic press is a machine based on Pascal's law. With relatively small force acting on one side it produce a big force on another side. A hydraulic press consists of two cylinders of different radius (see figure). Smaller force should act on smaller area in order to produce huge force on bigger cylinder. Namely, according to he Pascal's law, the pressure is equal throughout the liquid which result with big force on the bigger side. However, the distance that pistons traveled is bigger on smaller side.
If the force F1 act down on piston of area A1 than the force F2 act up on piston with area A2 and it holds
An example of usage of hydraulic presses is forgery, where it is used to shape metal. The video above shows how a metal ring can be completely flattened with a small press.
Case studies
Hydraulic press
The smaller piston of an hydraulic press has an area of 25 cm2 and the bigger one has an area of 200 cm2. What the force should be applied to the smaller piston in order to raise cargo of 1 ton?
Solution: Firstly we are going to calculate the weight of the cargo, which is the force acting on the bigger side of the press. Thus, F = m*g = 1000 kg * 9.81 m/s2 = 9810 N. Now, applying the Pascal's law it holds F1 / A1 = F2 / A2. Furthermore, F1= F2 / S2 * S1 gives result of 1226.25 N.
Water and mercury in a vessel
Amount of water and mercury of equal weights are poured in an cylindrical vessel. Since mercury is more dense than water, is will stay on the lower part in vessel. Total height of both liquids is h = 29.2 cm. Density of water is 1000 kg / m3 and density of mercury is 13600 kg/m3. What is the pressure at the bottom of vessel?
Solution: Both liquids contribute to the pressure at the bottom, p = p (Hg) + p (H2O). Since the system is in a balance, we have
Fg(Hg) = Fg(H2O),
which gives
mHg * g = mH2O * g
VHg * γHg * g = mH2O * γH2O* g
S * h1 * ρHg= S * h2 * ρH2O
h1 *(ρHg +ρH2O) = h * ρHg
h1 = 0.272 m
Finally, we have result for the pressure at the bottom
p = (13600 * 9.81* 0.02 + 1000 * 9.81 * 0.272) Pa
p = 5336.64 Pa
- Pressure p is the ratio of a force F and an area A where this force act, p = F / A.
- Pascal's law: An external force is transmitted throughout the fluid and it causes the equal pressure in every point of the fluid, p1 = p2=... = p.
- As a consequence of Pascal's law, the levels of liquid in communicating vessels are equal.
- A well known application of Pascal's law is hydraulic press. An action with small force on a smaller side results with a huge force on a bigger side of the press. It holds F1 / A1 = F2 / A2.
- Hydrostatic pressure p at certain depth h depend on the density of liquid γ and gravitational acceleration g, p = γ g h.
- The dencity of water is 1000 kg /m3.
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text: I havent been on this forum for a while and I wasnt quiet sure where to post this because it involves my 22yr difficult child and my 3yr grandson. A bit of background history. My 22yr difficult child had issues since she was 4yrs. She ended up in a short term Residential Treatment Center (RTC) for 6mths at age 15yr (the Residential Treatment Center (RTC) said she was one of the longest staying patients they had and they didnt know what to do with her). By the time she was 16yr old I signed her over voluntarily to foster-care for her own safety and for the well being of the rest of my family. Fast forward a couple of yrs my 18yrs difficult child meets a 17yr male difficult child in a structured class for court ordered/state custody kids (he molested a 6yr girl and did 4yrs in juvie and was just released). my difficult child and the male difficult child decided to have a child together so my difficult child could get out of foster-care at 18.5yrs old. So my difficult child gets pregnant, she gets released from foster-care and she ends up marrying the 17yr male difficult child. My difficult child ends up moving in with her new in-laws. During all of this I stay guarded and watch from a distance, I attend her wedding and help out minimally. My difficult child is good at dragging me into her drama. so much happened during my difficult children pregnancy, she ended up leaving her difficult child hubby 1 week before her baby is due. She moved in with us. She had her the baby (allowed her hubby in for the birth) in 2008 and ends up leaving the hospital with her hubby and moved back in with him. Her difficult child hubby leaves the house with the 3 week old baby and doesnt return, with the help of his bipolar mother they get a restraining order on my daughter claiming she wanted to kill herself and her baby. The my difficult children bipolar motherinlaw (im guessing is the one who molested her own son) wanted to raise the grandbaby as her own (she is a crazy woman). My difficult child moves back to our home coz she is homeless (the restraining order didnt allow her back in the apartment she shared with her hubby). I was scared for the safety of my 3 week old grandson so we hire a lawyer and get the baby back. my hubby and I didnt want difficult child moving back into our home again. We had gone through so many yrs of drama and stress with her. So we get the baby back, I run around with difficult child for 4mths getting services set up for her, got her on government housing, foodstamps etc. I wanted her self sufficient as soon as possible so I could get her out of my home. She fought with me, she didnt want to run around to get all the services she needed (she didnt think she needed any help). I did all the paperwork coz she is learning disabled. she roamed the streets in winter with her new baby all dolled up looking for a new man. I babysat my grandson while she went to work. I later found out she doesnt end up going to work. I was so glad government housing came through so we moved her out, we made her pay us back for gasoline, lawyers and anything else I paid for. As soon as she moved out I got the government to pay for daycare, daycare starts calling me with concerns about the baby being dirty, hungry and having marks on him. I call my daughters mentor about it, to get advice. The mentor tells my difficult child. My difficult child goes to a payday loan place, gets a loan to pay us off for everything we paid for to help her get on her feet plus the lawyer, then she stopped talking to us (this happened approx june/july 2008). difficult child cut ties with all family members and hooks up with an illegal Hispanic who is approx 50yr+ old as soon as we moved her into her government housing. The illegal Hispanic worked at the same fastfood place difficult child worked at. difficult child gets pregnant again, this time to the illegal, her 2 kids are 15mths apart. All this time we have no relationship with difficult child. She get pregnant again to the illegal and ends up having 3 kids under 3yrs. Just before she was due to give birth to her 3[SUP]rd[/SUP] child I get in contact with her (the reason behind getting in contact is a long one, a death in the family and I had been in therapy for a yr due to the ptsd from having 3 difficult children, and my own abusive upbringing). I am very guarded when it comes to getting hurt from difficult child, she was a nightmare of a kid. I will not let her, her illegal boyfriend or her kids into my home (she doesnt know this but im sure she is picking up on the fact I havent invited her over). My difficult children choice in partners has not been the best and to be honest I do not trust her judgment in people, I know nothing about this illegal guy she is with other than his first name. my daughter will not tell me anything about him (my son asked how old he was and she said old enough to drink) and I will not ask. Just before I got back in contact with my difficult child I was at her place of employment and I struck up a conversation with some people who work with her. they told me her illegal boyfriend doesnt work, he looks after the kids and she isnt happy coz he wont do anything to help her with the kids other than watch them when she is at work. he expects her to cook and clean and feed the kids before she leaves for work. my difficult child has told me her boyfriend works, I know my difficult child is an habitual liar, she will say whatever you want to hear. She has been labeled a chameleon by many mental health professionals. She will do, say and act to get her way, but as soon as you turn your back she is back to her old ways. My difficult child always said there was nothing wrong with her when she was a teen, and that I had the problem, she use to bait me for responses/reaction all the time. the Residential Treatment Center (RTC) said they have never had a kid like her, she was the first female in 14yrs to be blocked from communicating with all the male staff. She never did get a diagnosis because she showed signs of so many diagnosis, from a.d.d, to mild aspergers/Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD), to o.d.d, to severe c.a.p.d. She was tested for many yrs. At the Residential Treatment Center (RTC) she was tested again, she lied on the tests so they coudnt get an accurate diagnosis. The Residential Treatment Center (RTC) sent her to another hospital for testing and they were the ones who said she showed signs of so many diagnosis they didnt know what was wrong with her. She had an IEP in school for c.a.p.d, a.d.d and emotional problems. She received mental health help while in fostercare. I was told by several mental health professionals that my difficult child showed signs of borderline and narcissistic personality disorders but they didnt want to label her coz she was under 18yr old at the time. Now her firstborn child, who is 3yr 4mth son is showing signs of a.d.h.d, c.a.p.d, and O.D.D (same diagnosis my difficult child had). I understand he is 3yrs old, and that 3yr olds can be a handful, but every time I have been around him he has been out of control, he runs off knowing he isnt allowed to, he kicks and hits his mother in the grocery store if she tries to control his out of control behavior, he screams to get his own way, spits at people, constantly into things he shouldnt, he reminds me of his mother. He looks at you and smiles when he knows he is doing wrong. He attention seeks. he will not accept the word no, he will keep asking and asking even though you tell him no many times. he runs off, waiting for you to come and get him with a smile on his face. Not once have I seen him behave. My daughter turns off and ignores his behavior. I use to stop whatever I was doing and address my childs behavior, put my child in timeout, apologize for my childs behavior, then go back to what I was doing. my daughter sometimes addresses her child behavior and sometimes she ignores it. she gets frustrated and says her child doesnt act like this when her boyfriend is around. that is not true, he acts out of control no matter who is around. when others make comments or are frustrated with her child she ignores it. I suggested Headstart to my difficult child for her 3yr the other day, she said she worries about her 3yr because he is very energetic. I dont know how to tell her that her child may have behavioral problems, since she never accepted she had problems herself. there is no way my difficult child will get her son tested, she will not accept that her kids have a problem. She has no health insurance, she thinks she is the mother of the year because she doesnt feed her kids fast food (because she cant afford it and is living off of food stamps). the bio father to the 3yr has been in and out of jail on meth and drug charges. Up until I reconnected with my difficult child she allowed her son to visit with her ex and his family. my grandsons bio dad and his family have major pyscho, emotional issues on top of being filthy and raunting the govt for money coz they refuse to work. I think my difficult child used them as free daycare/respite (which boggles my mind considering they stole her child from her 3yrs ago and we went to court to get him back). the bio dad is a deadbeat dad, he never shows up for visitation, doesnt pay child support, his family picks up my grandson when they are bored and its not consistent, they allow my grandson to do whatever he wants when he is with them (its easier to ignore a kid then teach him). My difficult child tries to discipline by doing time outs for 30 seconds but that doesnt help at all. she walks away from the timeout chair and he runs off. difficult child is not consistent with parenting. I think she ignores most of his behaviors, she truly is overwhelmed with the 3 kids. She and her illegal partner would rather give in to the kids for some peace, than to discipline and teach them. To top everything off my hubby and my other kids want nothing to do with difficult child, and I dont blame them. I dont know how to keep balance in my family. my difficult child is a filthy person, her kids are always dirty, she drives with no license, I believe she doesnt know how to discipline her kids and I can tell you its not fun visiting her with an out of control kids. (her 2yr old girl is starting to act out) Any advice on how to tell my difficult child her kid needs help? i almost regret getting back in contact with her. I dread every occasion/holiday/birthday coz I dont know how to tell her she isnt welcome in my home so I make excuses to go to her home, meet in the park, or say I have other plans. I think her Hispanic boyfriend (who doesnt speak any English) has picked up on the fact I will not help them financially (he called us white rich people). I will not cook, clean and raise their kids for them. i wonder why this Hispanic guy (who is older then hubby and I) is with my daughter, I believe his mental capacity isnt all there. why would he be with a 22yr old (who isnt functioning very well) if he is nearly 50yrs old. I think he is living off my daughter for free food, housing etc. the more kids they have the more food stamps and govt help they get. Only problem is my daughter isnt a citizen, she is a legal permanent resident, so she ends up having to pay it all back with her taxes every yr.


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NEVERMIND being the most exciting tussle in golf; the Ryder Cup is one of the great sporting occasions. Here are five of the tournament's most exciting - and controversial - moments
The Concession (Royal Birkdale, 1969)
The Ryder Cup's single greatest act of generosity is one of golf's greatest sources of pride, but not everyone appreciated Jack Nicklaus' goodwill gesture - least of all his team captain. Played in an ill-tempered atmosphere, the 1969 contest was tainted by outbursts of bad form on both sides. Tony Jacklin, Nicklaus' opponent on the final hole, faced an easy putt to tie the cup for the first time in its history.
Whatever was to happen, the Americans wouldn't lose; and surely, Jacklin wouldn't miss his putt. Nicklaus, to everyone's astonishment, picked up Jacklin's marker and said: "I don't think you would have missed that, Tony, but under these circumstances, I didn't want to give you the chance." You might think that Nicklaus' concession, an act atypical of this particular Ryder Cup, would show his team-mates the light. Not so. The myopically competitive US captain Sam Snead erupted at the Golden Bear for denying the US the chance to retain the cup outright.
Darren Clarke's opening tee (K Club, 2006)
Displays of mental fortitude in major golf tournaments are not rare, but Darren Clarke's performance at the K Club in Count Kildare must rank as one of the steeliest - and emotional - of them all. Five weeks before the start of the cup, Clarke's wife Heather died aged just 39 from cancer. Clarke accepted a wildcard entry into the Ryder Cup and played with distinction, winning all three of his matches in front of a home crowd. But the moment that everyone remembers was the welcome he received from spectators on his first tee shot on the opening day. The roar that greeted Clarke was the loudest ever heard on any golf course.
Sam Torrance's putt (The Belfry, 1985)
Sam Torrance's 22-foot putt on the last hole not only won the Ryder Cup for Europe for the first time in 25 years, but it also signalled a sea change in the balance of power between the two sides. The dominant Americans had come close to reliquishing their grip on the trophy two years before in Florida, but Torrance made sure of a European win in '85 by beating Andy North on the 18th at the Belfry. Wearing a bright red jumper, Torrance held his arms aloft in triumph, with tears coming down his cheeks - it remains one of the Ryder Cup's most iconic visual shorthands for the drama and emotion of the occasion.
The Battle of Brookline, 1999
A putt from more than 40 yards clinched the Battle of Brookline for the Americans, even though it shouldn't have. Just as Jack Nicklaus' famous concession is held up as the Ryder Cup's greatest piece of sportsmanship, the scenes following Leonard's putt on the final hole at Brookline undermined the sport's reputation as a gentlemanly pursuit. The audacity of the shot, coming after what had been a hitherto miserable showing from the US, was matched only by the Americans' riotous celebrations; they upset the Europeans less for their wildness than for the fact they were premature. Jose Maria Olazabal saw rowdy Bostonian fans and players' wives join the stampede on the green over his line of sight as he waited to putt his 20 yarder. Shaken by the US team's exploits, he missed it, and gave the Americans the trophy in one of the great Ryder Cup comebacks.
Miracle at Medinah, 2012
And speaking of Ryder Cup comebacks, the Miracle at Medinah absolutely rivals its Brookline predecessor. This time, the Europeans won out after Martin Keymer cooly guided his putt home on the 18th after the Americans had held a 10-6 lead overnight. But more important to the European team's comeback was Ian Poulter, who produced a career-defining performance on the green, hitting five birdies in a row against Zach Johnson and Jason Dufner alongside Rory McIlroy in the fourballs. Of the 12 points on offer on the last day's play, Europe won eight and a half of them. Incidentally, the Americans managed to do the same in Brookline 13 years prior.
• Ryder Cup 2014: Five facts you didn't know
• Martin Dempster: Glorious Gleneagles rises to occasion
• Ryder Cup 2014: Paul Lawrie's Gleneagles course guide
• Ryder Cup 2014: PGA professionals' predictions
• Ryder Cup 2014: A guide to the players


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Solidarity message in Trondheim
Monday 8 August 2016
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A strong message of peace and solidarity to civilian victims of bombing will be sent out at the UEFA Super Cup in Trondheim, with two disabled child refugees escorting the team captains on to the pitch.
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Football will stand united against the bombing of civilians in a moving prelude to Tuesday's UEFA Super Cup match between Real Madrid and Sevilla in Trondheim.
The showpiece occasion between the respective winners of the 2015/16 UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League will send out a strong message of peace and solidarity to civilian victims of bombing around the world.
During the pre-match ceremony at Lerkendal Stadion, the two team captains will be escorted onto the field by two disabled child refugees – one from Afghanistan and one from Syria – who have found sanctuary in Norway. Together they will carry the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League trophies out onto the pitch.
The UEFA Foundation for Children is working with the Handicap International body, which defends the rights of disabled people worldwide, improves their living conditions and helps them to integrate into society. The foundation supports Handicap International's new worldwide "Stop Bombing Civilians" campaign, which calls for compliance with international laws prohibiting warring parties from targeting civilians and public buildings, with many children often among the victims.
The event in Trondheim will mark the launch of an extensive campaign organised by Handicap International aimed at mobilising public opinion against the large-scale use of explosive weapons in densely populated areas. A promotional video will be shown on the stadium screens at half-time to launch the "Stop Bombing Civilians" campaign. Teenage Norwegian singer Henrik Fuglem will also perform the classic Beatles song "All You Need is Love" during the pre-match ceremony to emphasise the message of peace.
This support forms part of the UEFA foundation's ongoing commitment to assisting child victims of conflict in the areas of health, education, access to sport, personal development, social integration and the protection of children's rights. UEFA, the Football Association of Norway (NFF), the UEFA Super Cup local organising committee in Trondheim, and Real Madrid and Sevilla have given their full backing to Tuesday's event.
"It's a great honour for us to be staging this match, playing host to the cream of European football," said NFF spokesman Leif Ivar Akselvoll. "This match and its opening ceremony will send a message of peace, putting the spotlight on children – the future of our world – and highlighting the role that football can play in the area of social integration. We align ourselves to the campaign initiated by Handicap International."
Handicap International has been calling on the international community since 2011 to oppose the use of explosive weapons in populated areas. "The use of explosive weapons in populated areas is unacceptable," said Handicap International managing director Manuel Patrouillard. "Bombing civilians is not war; it's a crime. There is an urgent need to protect civilian populations and force warring parties to comply with international humanitarian law."
Trondheim is the first Norwegian venue to host a major European football occasion. The opening ceremony, created by Polish agency Platige Image and world-class choreographer Waldek Szymkowiak, will also feature local performers with 120 of them coming from local football clubs, and the remainder from the "Let's Dance" school in Trondheim. Alongside the message of peace, the ceremony will have a distinctly Norwegian feel.


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@Vision4Next: You can try these for geoglyph. They are a bit dated though. Something is still better than nothing imo.


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Enter the MiiVerse
Creating a next generation console is not the only challenge facing Nintendo – prooving they can provide an online experience is pivotal if they are to succeed with the WiiU. Enter the MiiVerse.
MiiVerse is a social network for the console that let's players communicate and discuss games they are playing. Video link ups with other players can take place via the controller as well as an instant messaging service.
This will not be exclusive to the home console, it will be made available for the 3DS, PCs and also and crucially mobile devises and "future platforms" meaning the MiiVerse will be with us for some time to come. Details about a comparable trophy or achievement services has yet to be confirmed at this stage. It won't make the launch of the console but will be interesting to see when it is ready.
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Take a Journey to discover the world of US made craft distilled rum. Join me on my quest and perhaps find a new mellow drink to call your own.... Relax, sip and read.
Monday, April 15, 2013
Prichard's Distillery -- A Video Visit
In May, Rick the Rum Runner will be traveling though the south -- heading as far as Georgia, South Carolina, Kentucky Tennessee. One of the stops we hope to make is in Kelso, TN. We are trying to fine tune our travel times but Tennessee keeps coming up as a Sunday. So we may not get a tour and taste. I have had Prichard's Crystal rum and it is a favorite of mine. I would love to meet and see but it may not work out this time. More on the places we will try to visit as we get closer to the trip.... For now, Let's watch the video!
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Mix everything but the water with your fingers until crumbly. Slowly add water and mix until dough feels soft. Don't add more water, but keep working the dough till it holds together. Take a small handful and wrap around the end of a green stick, and work it so it stays together. Cook over coals, rotating to cook evenly.


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I was talking to my chinese friend the other day, and for some reason he likes to set everyone up on dates. he said-
'ah, i know very good girl, very successful, she sell farms.'
why on earth would I want to to go out with someone who does that to themselves?
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Another post brought to you by Courtney Shepherd. . . or is it?
Last night while coaching the box jumps I discussed the idea of risk vs. reward. In the box jump the reference came about when discussing the rebound box jump. It comes with a risk of injury to the achilles tendon, the reward (assuming we don't get injured) is it allows us to move through box jumps faster. We encounter a risk vs. reward situation quite often when working out. Whether or not we know it, that situation revolves around moving faster with bad form or doing it RX with bad form vs. . . . . well, not doing those two things. Slowing down, using less weight, simply making a modification that allows us to move more mechanically sound. The reason this situation is so hard for most of us has nothing to do with us thinking about the risk of injury but has more to do with us thinking about the blow to our ego.
In keeping with the #TBT theme I've started with this post, I'm going to throw it back to one of Verve's finest coaches, who's infamy lives on to this day with phrases like "this is the best group of squatters I've seen all day" and " beans are cool". That's right folks, I'm talking about the one and only Luke Palmisano. Henceforthy, here are his fine words on risk vs. reward:
Risk vs. Reward ~ Luke Palmisano
Have you seen Man Of Steel, the new superman movie yet? First off, if not, why not? SUPERMAN IS THE BOMB. But you know what always impresses me about Superman? The fact that saving the human race is what keeps him going. Not having a family, or even getting that yearly vacation to the Fortress of Solitude. It's saving the human race from either themselves, or the alien threat more powerful than anyone can imagine. It's saving the human race that propels him to take such. Huge. Risks. To both mind and body. Of course, when he receives his reward (that of saving the human race, yet again), the ending credits come on, and we never see Superman have to go through the after-effects of the choices he made. Meaning, did fighting General Zod and getting flung through multiple skyscrapers result in multiple concussions? And how long did Superman have to see a chiropractor after that fight? Or massage therapy??
I digress.
Let's turn this conversation to us. Risk vs. reward. When it comes to human movement, what will you risk in body positioning to get what you want? Let's take a rounded spine while deadlifting as a example. Maybe Matt Chan is trying to win the CrossFit Games, and he realizes on his last workout of 405# deadlifts that if he allows his back to round because he is fatigued, he will finish first and win his heat, and possibly the Games. He risks damage to various tissues and bones, but… It may be worth it to him. Maybe a baseball pitcher knows that with a tweak of his technique, he can get his 93 m.p.h. fastball up to a 97 m.p.h fastball. In doing so, he secures himself a multi-million dollar contract, even though he knows he's probably going to need Tommy John Surgery in the next 5-10 years. The risk may be worth it to him. Now lets say YOU are doing a workout with deadlifts. Will you choose the weight you can manage, or the weight you want to use? What's your risk vs. reward? The risk is you herniate a disk, pull a muscle in your back, or even scrape your shin!! The reward is… you finish a workout. Is the risk worth it to you? Now I realize we are competitive as a group. We take our lives and what we achieve seriously. Remember, though, that it's just workout. Here are a couple of things to keep in mind:
1) The poor positioning that you practice in one movement will transfer over to another.
2) Sacrificing good form will eat away at potential benefits of the exercise you are performing
3) Your bad form is a ticking time bomb. You may get away with it unscathed today. Eventually though, it will manifest itself by way of pain.This is the tricky one. If we don't feel the consequences immediately, the risk we're taking may not seem like a risk at all.
These are the choices we must make. Every choice we make, in fact, has a risk vs. reward equation to it. So what are you willing to gamble to get the result you want?
Information for this post was referenced from the book Becoming A Supple Leopard, by Kelly Starrett.


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What Explains Which Terrorist Incidents The TTP Claims As Opposed To The Ones They Deny?
No motive had been determined in the attempted bombing, and federal and local officials said there was no evidence to support a claim of responsibility issued Sunday by a Pakistani Taliban group that has a reputation for making far-fetched attempts to take credit for attacks.
and this Juan Cole blog post
The claim made by Hakimu'llah Mahsud, a leader of the Tehrik-i Taliban Pakistan (Taliban Movement of Pakistan), that his group was behind the failed attempt to set off an incendiary bomb in Time Square, is probably just grandstanding.
Now, let's assume that these dismissals are valid; that the Taliban was not responsible either directly or indirectly. The question I have been thinking about for a while, in terms of potential research topics for an academic paper, is: what explains why the Taliban take credit for some attacks (even if they are widely acknowledged to not be responsible, such as this Times Square incident) but deny others (even those that they are widely acknowledged to be responsible for, such as the Benazir Bhutto assassination)?
Clearly this is a strategic choice; it's not as if people wake up one day and decide randomly what they're going to claim and what they're going to deny. So what determines that strategic choice? I actually have no idea.
We do know what it's not. It's not determined by the scale or success of an attack. If that was the guiding measure, why would they deny a hugely successful and ground-breaking attack like the one that killed BB, but claim a sputtering, pathetic attempt that was foiled pretty easily?
It is also not a civilian vs. military issue. The Taliban regularly claim both attacks on military targets as well as civilian targets.
It is not a Muslim vs. non-Muslim issue. The Taliban regularly claim both attacks on Muslim (and Muslim countries) as well as non-Muslims (and non-Muslim countries).
I think the only way to actually figure this out would be to compile a database of denials and claims, and then parse the data. It actually wouldn't take a dedicated graduate student that long to do this. I wish I had the time, but unfortunately I cannot write this paper. But it remains an interesting question which deserves an answer.


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There's no doubt about it: modeling takes hard work, practice, and preparation! When we see picture-perfect models strutting down the runway, it's important to know it's the result of weeks, months, even years of getting to that point.

So, what does all of this preparation entail? Well, it's different for every model. Models will experiment with what makes them look and feel their best, and they'll often share their tried and true methods with everyone who's wondering, "just how do they do it?"

Get Lots of Sleep

We all know that a lack of sleep is tough on the body, and before long, it takes a great toll on your health and your appearance. You can usually tell by looking at someone if they're sleep deprived, so it's important that runway models are very well-rested before a runway show so they look their best. Not only is it important to get a lot of sleep before models take to the catwalk, but it's also critical to be well-rested before photo shoots or any other kind of modeling job.

Maintain a Healthy Diet

Before a runway show, models try to make sure they aren't bloated and are feeling energetic and healthy. A well-rounded diet is a must for models, and they often kick up their healthy eating leading up to a fashion show. Although many models admit they stick to a healthy diet most of the time, Victoria's Secret Angel Lily Aldridge shared that she eats a lot of salmon and vegetables before a show to look and feel her best. On the other hand, Angel Candace Swanepoel admits she eats a lot of steak and mashed potatoes before a show to keep her weight where she wants it and not be too small.

Increase Your Workouts

Along with a healthy diet, it's very important that you are in great shape before a show. Male supermodel Tyson Beckford's workout routine before a show can be pretty intense. He'll do up to 600 sit-ups and 1000 push-ups a day before a show, along with a lot of cardio. While supermodels are admired for their "perfect form," they certainly work hard to achieve and maintain them! After all, a big part of their job is looking good!

Stay Hydrated

Part of a healthy diet includes staying hydrated. Not only will increasing your fluid intake make your skin look better, but drinking water will also speed up metabolism. Professional models know that being super hydrated before they walk the runway is critical in preventing dizziness and even fainting caused by dehydration, which can be disastrous.

Reduce Your Stress

Being a runway model takes more than just looking beautiful for a few minutes on the runway. You will experience multiple fittings, rehearsals, hair and makeup sessions, and more - all of which means you will be pushed and pulled in a multitude of directions. Having patience, and finding your own happy place inside your head, while the fashion show chaos swirls around you, is essential not only for a healthy body but also a healthy state of mind.


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