PHOENIX -- Luke Walton came to Lonzo Ball's defense saying that his rookie point guard did not play as poorly as some might've believed in the Los Angeles Lakers' opener.
In his second game, Ball backed his coach's words up by falling one assist shy of becoming the youngest player in NBA history to post a triple-double with 29 points, 11 rebounds and 9 assists to help the Lakers outlast the Phoenix Suns 132-130 at the Talking Stick Resort Arena.
"I think Lonzo's getting a bad [rap] for getting destroyed his first game," Walton said before the game. "Personally, I thought he could have had a double-double with rebounds and assists [but] we didn't make any shots. ... I thought he was fine last night. It's a good learning experience for everybody."
On Friday night, Ball bounced back by flashing the kind of triple-double versatility that made the Lakers select him second overall in the draft. He displayed the kind of passing that dazzled at the Las Vegas Summer League and knocked down four 3's, including a step-back 3-pointer.
When the Suns made a late charge and got within three with 3 minutes, 19 seconds left, Ball scored six of the next eight points for the Lakers in a minute and a half, making three shots with his left hand. He scored on a driving left-handed scoop shot in traffic, another left-handed drive and score over Tyson Chandler and then a driving left-handed layup. In between those baskets, he pushed the ball up court to Kyle Kuzma, who drove in for a layup.
Ball is the first teenager since LeBron James to have 29 points, 11 rebounds and 9 assists. His 29 points are the most by a Laker in his first or second game of his career since at least 1963. Magic Johnson scored 26 in his debut.
"This happened before," Ball said of him getting off to slow starts and people labeling him after a poor game. "It happened in summer league. It's happened before in my career. So, I am used to it.
"I know everybody is going to say everything game by game, so if I play bad on Sunday, it is going to go right back to he's a bust. It doesn't matter to me, I just come out and play as hard as I can to get my team wins."
On Thursday night in the season opener, Ball missed five of six shots and finished with 3 points, 9 rebounds and 4 assists in a 108-92 loss to the Clippers. Patrick Beverley hounded the rookie, at one point giving him a body check and sending Ball to the floor at half court.
Ball looked a lot more comfortable, confident and assertive against the defenseless Suns. After making one 3-pointer in the second half, the normally reserved Ball swayed his head back and forth to show how confident he was feeling. Phoenix, which surrendered 124 points in a 48-point loss in its opener to Portland, offered little resistance to the Lakers.
"Just be more aggressive," Ball said of what changed from the opener to his second game. "The last game I shot six shots, that didn't work out too well. Maybe I will try something else."
Ball and Brandon Ingram, last year's second overall pick, flourished in the up-and-down. free-flowing tempo of the game. Ball fired full-court passes like he did when leading the Lakers to a summer league title and earning MVP honors in Las Vegas. It was there when Ball created a stir with a slow start when he shot just 2-of-15 and had five points in his summer league debut. He followed that game up with the first of two triple-doubles -- the first two in Las Vegas summer league history.
That led Johnson, the Lakers' president, to say that the rookie will have more triple-doubles to come in the regular season. Ball was an Ingram missed 3-pointer with 1:09 left from topping James as the youngest NBA player to ever record a triple-double. James holds the distinction after doing it at 20 years, 20 days old. Ball is still 19.
On one play against the Suns, Ball grabbed a defensive rebound under the basket, turned and fired a full-court, rim-to-rim pass right to a streaking Corey Brewer right in front of the other basket. Brewer attempted a dunk but was blocked.
Ingram also bounced back in a big way. After going 3-for-15 and scoring 12 points against the Clippers, Ingram had the best night of his young career. He scored a career-high 25 points, topping his previous best of 22 points in the third quarter. Ingram knocked down 9 of 14 shots and three triples.
After his matchups with Beverly and Phoenix's Eric Bledsoe, Ball will go up against New Orleans' Jrue Holiday, Washington's John Wall, Toronto's Kyle Lowry and Utah's Ricky Rubio.
After Ball struggled in his opener, Beverley talked about how he had to welcome the rookie to the league by going at him like many other vets will. Beverley also shouted expletives as he walked into the locker room after the game, presumed to be about Ball and how he would get the best of the rookie.
LaVar Ball fired back at Beverley by saying, "Your check still ain't going to go no higher than what it is. Yeah, you shut him down. OK. ... Who is Patrick Beverley?"
"He's always going to have a bad rap, you know why?" said LaVar, who chatted after Friday's game with R&B singer Montell Jordan, the halftime performer at the game. "Because I am talking so bad about him. Because Lonzo is so good you can't touch him. But everybody want to quiet me up. While you are worried about me, I am sitting up in the stands while my son is whooping that tail.
"When you start matching him up with all these guards and what guard he is playing next, everybody wants to see what guard is going to get the best of him. ... Tell Patrick Beverley that was his last interview for the year so don't worry about it."


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Answer: How long is it?
Image of Ball's Pyramid from Wikimedia.
Most people found part 1 to be pretty straightforward. A query like [large insect island] quickly leads to the NPR story by Robert Krulwich about the Lord Howe's Walking Stick that ran just a few weeks ago... unfortunately for me as that article (which is a great story!) made this search a bit TOO simple.
From the Krulwich report that you can read the story of how the S. S. Makambo ran aground Lord Howe's island in 1918. If you do a few searches to second source his story, you can find lots of supporting evidence. (It's not that I don't trust Robert Krulwich, it's just that I check almost everything.) Rats from the ship went ashore on Lord Howe's island and wiped out the insects pretty quickly. A sadly common story throughout much of the South Pacific islands--invading species destroys endemic animals and plants.
The second question, though, is a bit more difficult.
Several readers did a smart thing and used the scientific name of the insect to search for more biological information. This is a good strategy to remember: When you're searching for detailed scientific data, you usually want to use the binomial version of the name (that is, the pattern is Genus species, the scientific Latinate version of the animal's name). In this case, it's Dryococelus australis, the Lord Howe's Walking Stick.
So a quick search for [Dryococelus australis nymph size] (or [... hatchling size]) quickly leads you to the remarkable (and very unexpected) Husbandry Manual for the Lord Howe Island Stick Insect issued by Australasian Society for Zookeeping. Yes, there are a group of people who have collected all known information about how to raise and keep these insects happily in captivity.
In that text, the following sentence appears (this has got to be one of my favorite sentences in all the scientific literature): "LHISI nymphs measure approximately 20mm on hatching, varying between 16-22mm. They emerge from the egg usually underground, and burrow to the surface to climb the nearest large object. If kept in Chinese takeaway containers they will always be found clinging to the underside of the lid."
I grabbed one of the final frames from the video and measured the insect in terms of "operculum widths." Each little yellow line in the second image is around 1 operculum width (as estimated from the same image) and then drawn atop the newly hatched nymph. As you can see, the body is 8 operculums (opercula?) long, and 15 operculums from tip to toe. If each operculum is 3.6mm, that means the body is 8 * 3.6mm = 28.8 mm (1.1 inches) and overall it is 15 * 3.6mm = 54mm (2.1 inches).
No matter how you look at it, that's one big insect out of an egg that's the "size and shape of a TicTac."
The average time to solve this challenge was 13.0 minutes; the median time was 10.0 minutes.
But what's always interesting to me (in addition to the amount of time it takes) are the answers we see in the comments. Here's the distribution of answers given by the commentors. You can see that we could probably check our work a bit better!
There seems to be three sources of errors here.
(3) eyeballing a length estimate off the image from the video.
Additional reading: Gurney, A.B. 1947. Notes on some remarkable Australasian walkingsticks, including a synopsis of the genus Extatosoma (Orthoptera: Phasmatidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 40(3): 373-396.
Wednesday search challenge (3/28/12): How long is it?
Today's challenge is exotic and amazing. It seems prosaic when I state it, but the search really is worth the trouble. Trust me on this one.
A little background info to get you started.
I'm interested in a particular insect, a kind of walking stick that lives in only one place in the world. (On the fantastic island pictured below. It's a real place.) Except that wasn't always true. It used to live on two islands side-by-side somewhere in the Pacific. Thing is, a ship ran aground on one of the two islands causing this particular insect to become extinct. Luckily, it went extinct on one of the islands and not the other.
Why do you care? Aside from the usual important issues around loss of biodiversity, the insect is extraordinary. It's huge. Scarily huge. Jurassic park huge... and it's still around.
But today's question is really two-fold.
As usual, be sure to let us know how you figured out the answers to these questions AND how long it took you!
As several readers pointed out in the comments, my analysis didn't REALLY answer the question I'd asked.
They were correct. Thanks for picking up on this.
I found the languages by COUNTRY, then added up ALL the languages spoken in the country. That's not what I asked for! I wanted the TOTAL number of unique languages spoken in each hemisphere.
Okay. Let's do this again. Better this time.
This time I pulled the list of languages from the CIA World Fact book page on languages of the world.
I copied it from the web page and pasted it as plain text into a .TXT file. This gave me a simple spreadsheet with country names in the left column and columns of languages to the right.
HOWEVER… I now had to do some data cleaning. Many of the language entries had comments (e.g., percentages of speakers of that language in the country) scattered throughout the listing. They're useful for readers of the language list, but not helpful for the data analyst.
Then exported THAT fusion table as a regular spreadsheet so I could easily select the rows that are below the equator (that is, that have a latitude with an "S" in them).
Next I sorted by latitude, then copied all of the languages BELOW the equator into a simple text file (which I then imported into a spreadsheet) so I could remove duplicates easily with a spreadsheet function. In Google Spreadsheets, that's the UNIQUE function. This step gave me the Master list of Southern Languages.
Did the same thing with the languages ABOVE the equator and created a spreadsheet Master List of Northern Languages.
Once again I used the unique function to identify the unique languages.
Now I can read off the numbers: the Southern Hemisphere has 90 unique languages, while the Northern Hemisphere has 230 unique languages.
Lesson learned: Doing these kinds of analyses can sometimes be tricky, even when you write the question!
One of the great things about writing a blog like this is that there are so many smarter-than-you people out there!
More than a few people wrote in to comment that either I'd done the analysis incorrectly (which is kinda true), and that I hadn't posted my spreadsheets in a public place (clearly true).
A few wrote in to complain that this data point or that data point wasn't right. And some of them have a point... but I don't think it will matter in the end.
In any case, I'm travelling right now and wanted to let you know I haven't forgotten this analysis. I'll try to get to it this evening, righting the wrongs in my spreadsheet and talking about why and how such analyses sometimes goes awry!
If a source (such as a newspaper or web site) never publishes and erratum, you know they don't care much about how right they are.
Finding admissions and corrections of errors is a HUGE positive sign that the source is credible.
Answer: Are there more languages ABOVE or BELOW the Equator?
Are there more languages ABOVE the Equator or BELOW the Equator?
As I said, a big part of answering questions like this is making your terms very clear. When we decide to consider only "Official" languages, and not, say, every small language spoken in New Guinea (which has thousands) or every language spoken in central Africa (more thousands), we REALLY simplify the problem.
What this lets us do is search for a list of "Official languages." So just doing a search like [official languages] quickly leads to the Wikipedia page of OfficialLanguages. And that's not a bad place to start.
Now I need to figure out which of these countries have their capital in the northern hemisphere. So I THEN did a search for [ country capitals latlong ] and found another handy table of country capitals with their associated lat-longs!
I did the copy/paste to get this data from their web page into my plain text file. I then imported that into another spreadsheet.
Now I've got two spreadsheets, one with a list of languages-by-country, and another with country-capitals and their lat-longs.
From the Lang-by-country spreadsheet I can easily write a spreadsheet function to count the number of languages in each country.
The 199 languages of each country in this table are separated by commas. So, I write a short spreadsheet function to count commas in each row, and—voila!—I have a table of Country / Number-of-languages. (I'm happy to let the phrase "…other Turkic and minor languages" be counted as 1 extra language. You'll see it won't matter in the end.) By this method, I see that Afghanistan has 3 languages. Yes, there are others, but there are only 2 official languages (and many non-official languages).
In my other spreadsheet I have a table of 200 Country / Capital / Lat-longs.
Obviously what I want to do is to use the Lat-longs to determine if the country is ABOVE or BELOW the equator, and then just count the number of languages in each group.
This is exactly what Google Fusion Tables are designed to do.
A Fusion Table can take two different tables that share a common element (in this case, the column labeled "Country") and JOIN them together. That's 200 copy/paste operations I won't have to do by hand.
I created two Fusion Tables, one for each of my two spreadsheets. Using Fusion Tables "Merge" function, I just joined them together on their shared column "Country."
I opened the Country-LatLong table and then FUSED it with the Country-Language-Count table. This basically merges the two tables so that I now have new table with columns for Country / Lat-long / Number of languages!
Once I have this, it's an easy sort of the table to put all of the countries above the equator (that is, their Lat-long contains an "N" in the entry), and then write a simple =SUM(…) function to add them all up.
Here's what my table looks like now. I converted the presence/absence of an "N" in the lat-long into a 1 (for ABOVE) or 0 (for BELOW).
And now we can just read off the answer: There are 546 official languages spoken above the equator, but only 164 spoken below. That's a big difference.
I'll leave it to you to speculate why that is. But at least we've got a little data to go on.
And, since I was in Fusion Tables, it was trivial to visualize the data by mapping the number of languages onto the map-of-the-world and create this map. The darker the green, the more languages spoken there. As you can see, the north has a LOT more than the south.
SEARCH LESSON: Often you'll find that data is out there on the web, but it's in an un-handy form. In this case, the information we wanted wasn't immediately available. But with a little data extraction, spreadsheet jockeying and using Fusion Tables to merge two data sets, we can get to what we want fairly quickly.
Keep your eyes open for these data-merge possibilities. Once you start looking around, you'll see all kinds of merging that leads to insights about the world.
Wednesday Search Challenge (3/21/12): Are there more languages above or below the equator?
But then the discussion grew a bit more heated... Did languages arise because of geographic isolation, did they come about because of drift over time, or... what?
A big part of answering questions like this is making your terms very clear. For this question, let's consider only Official languages (that is, languages recognized by the country) and not worry about relative sizes of speakers. We're just interested in whether or not countries below the Equator have more languages than those above the Equator.
To take an example, we know Switzerland has four "official" languages (German, French, Italian and Romansch). Romansch has been recognized as one of four "national languages" by the Swiss Federal Constitution since 1938.
So, once you figure out what the languages of all the world's countries are, and divide them into languages spoken above-equator and below-equator, you'll be set to give the answer. Notice that some languages (such as French or English) are spoken both above and below the Equator.
And for countries that straddle the Equator, let's go with the location of the capital as deciding if the country is above or below. Thus, Ecuador (capital: Quito, at 0° 9′ 0″ S, 78° 21′ 0″ W) is in the southern hemisphere.
Obviously, you don't want to do this one country or one language at a time, so the real question is... HOW will you do this?
As usual, please let us know your answer, HOW you figured it out, and HOW LONG it took for you to figure this out!
More above or below? The ideal solution will actually determine some way of measuring this directly from data available on the web.
Answer: Where's that cat with the Mai Tai?
+37° 52' 25.55", -122° 15' 34.36"
And now... how to find it: Here's what I really did... Given that the picture was pretty high res, I just zoomed in and read the plaque at the bottom of the statue. Duh. But in a search challenge, every clue is fair game. Once you zoom in enough you can read it was sculpted by Vic Bergeron, which seems like a pretty obvious clue. A quick search for [ Vic Bergeron Mai Tai ] and you'll find many articles (including the Wikipedia entry about Trader Vic's) that argue that he was at least one of the two people who claimed to have invented the Mai Tai (the other person being Donn Beach, of "Don the Beachcomber" fame).
"...The saber-toothed cat, Smilodon californicus, whose likeness menaces the southern entrance to the building, is the official California State Fossil. It was sculpted by Victor Bergeron (of Trader Vic's fame) who is more widely known around the globe for his Mai Tai than for his sculptures..."
I have to admit to being surprised by a few of the answers submitted by readers. Who knew, for instance, that doing a query for [Sabre Toothed Cat, University Drive, Berkeley, CA] in Google Maps would work? Nice discovery.
Using the lat/long from above, these are the best aerial images I could find.
BTW, you CAN extract the lat/long from the link, but it's much better if you install the lat/long tool in Maps, then just right-click on any point in the map to capture the exact lat/long location.
Most people reported finding this one in less than 10 minutes. Next week, we'll go back to harder questions! Get ready!
Wednesday search challenge (3/14/12): Where's that cat with the Mai Tai?
I was wandering around the Bay area and came across a remarkable statue.
Even more amazingly, once I saw it, I realized that this bronze cat has a deep connection to that rum concoction known as the Mai Tai.
Given just the photos shown here, you should be able to figure out what the connection is. Can you? What possible connection can there be between this statue and a rum drink?
For extra credit, you should be able to easily determine the lat/long of the statue. Can you find an aerial image of the cat?
Answer: Fishing over your head?
Short answer: The submarine H-5 (USS-148) was at least occasionally used for fishing by submariners who would attach fishing line, hooks, bait, and floats to the top deck. As the submarine trolled underwater, the fishing gear would do its work and the sailors would collect their catch upon resurfacing. In this way, all of the fishing tackle was ABOVE the sailors, as were the fish themselves!
And surprisingly enough, the submarine was originally built for the Russian government! But she was never delivered, and spent the rest of its days operating out of the San Pedro (California) sub base.
How to search for this: I knew this was out there somewhere, and tried a bunch of combinations of searches [ overhead fishing ] then [ upside-down fishing ] and similar kinds of queries, ultimately leading nowhere. I probably spent about 5 minutes trying out different combinations, getting nowhere.
I then sat back in my chair and thought about the situation, trying to imagine what it might look like. What set of circumstances could possibly lead to fish being overhead?
Then I had an insight that was crucial. Maybe the fishermen were in a submarine! It sounded crazy to me, but I did the quick search [ submarine fishing ] and discovered at the 9th result place a link to Fishing History... and fishing from subs.
To tell the truth, this looked a bit too much like a bit of fake news. (There are a number of people who fake old news stories to look just like this.) So I really wanted to check the original source. How could I do that?
The article claimed it was from Popular Mechanics in the 1920s… so I just popped [submarine fishing Popular Mechanics 1920] into my search box and quickly found that Google Books HAS Popular Mechanics (but the article itself wasn't showing up on the first couple of pages).
So I went to Google Books and repeated my query. [Popular Mechanics submarine fishing 1920] Now that my query is scoped (that is, just limited to) Google Books (and therefore, Google Magazines as well), I found the original story by John Edwin Hogg from Popular Mechanics magazine, volume 34, 1920, p 591-592.
The Wikipedia article on the H-5 gets right to the point, and incorporates text from the History.Navy.mil web site, which is presumably the most authoritative source you can get on US naval vessels.
The H-5 was built for the Russian Imperial navy during the First World War in 1915 at the Electric Boat company in Groton, CT (now known at the General Dynamics Electric Boat Company), but H-5 was never delivered due to the Russian Revolution of 1917.
Amazingly, I found quite a number of photos of the H-5 on the Navy.mil site, including interior shots showing the torpedo tubes and the "fish" the H-5 carried. Although the H-5 had "fish" (torpedos) onboard, that wasn't the fish I was seeking.
And, if you visit the website, you'll see that the photographs were taken by none other than John Edwin Hogg, the author of the Popular Mechanics article! It seems that Mr. Hogg was an enterprising writer. At least he did his research!
Search lessons: This week, the lesson is that you sometimes have to step back and re-think what it is you're searching for. Once I got the idea that the only way to fish OVERHEAD was from a submarine, I added that term to my search, and everything immediately fell into place. As crazy as it sounds, yes, anglers can fish from subs. Once you add that key term into the search, everything works.
Wednesday Search Challenge (3/7/12): Fishing over your head?
One of the most remarkable stories in the annals of fishing is the tale of one particular boat that let anglers fish in a way that was completely unexpected. While the fishermen relaxed or did other chores, their hooks, lines and floats would be well over their heads. I don't mean this metaphorically, I mean it literally—the fishing gear would be many tens of feet above them... and the fish as well!
There was one particular boat that became best known for this style of odd "fishing above the head." Can you find the name of that boat AND who the boat was originally built for?
As usual, be sure to say what queries you used to find the answer and tell us how long it took you to discover the story behind "fishing over your head"!
I often have this feeling of "we must go deeper" when I'm doing a simple search for information on Google—and yet I'm surprised when I see that other people don't seem to have that same urge to understand what's really going on, but are satisfied with the first answer that pops to the top.
Somewhere along the way I must have developed a fact-checker's outlook. You know who the fact-checkers are: they're the woefully underpaid people who read news, books, and magazine articles pre-press and meticulously verify that what's written actually lines up with observable reality. They're paid to not just lookup the original publication of a fact, but then to also follow-up with the next few issues to see if any retraction or correction was published. That's what a real fact-checker does. Running down truth, even if it takes several extra steps.
When I talk to students as they search for simple facts, I find that they just want to get an answer that's plausibly correct. The actual truth of a fact doesn't seem to matter as much as it confirms something previously known, or is merely close to something plausible. It's as though they live in an ongoing game of horseshoes where getting your token close to the post is often good enough to win.
The thing that worries me these days is that not only do students not want to second source a reference (let alone look for retractions or corrections), but they often don't want to understand the topic in enough detail to know how-and-why their fact might be incorrect.
The simplest example I can think of is the straight-forward question "What's the circumference of the earth?" How hard could finding that be?
It IS the case that if you do a quick Google search, you can quickly end up with a very credible looking answer. Here's one answer: 24,901.55 measured around the equator (red arrow). But here's another: 24,859.82 miles if you measure around the poles (yellow arrow). And of course, you can get different sets of number depending on who made the measurement, how it was made, and according to what model of the earth they're using.
Now wait a second! How does "model of the earth" enter into this discussion? Isn't the circumference an actual physical measurement?
But here's the tricky part: If you measure some fraction of the earth's surface, you then drop that into a MODEL of the earth to compute the circumference. If you assume the Earth is a sphere, then it's just simple geometry. But the truth is, you have to know that the earth isn't a sphere. (I assume you know that!) But if it's not a sphere, then what IS it? That's where the model comes in.
Newton thought the earth was an oblate spheroid (a sphere that's been squashed down a bit) with a flattening of 1:230 from truly spherical. He derived that ratio from his model of gravity, and brilliant though it was to figure that out, it's not quite right. Measurements later showed that the flattening is more like 1:210.
The model of Earth as oblate spheroid assumes that it's a "body of revolution." That doesn't mean it suffers from constant political uprisings, but means the model assumes it's pretty smooth, as though it were turned on a lathe. Of course, you know by now that nothing is that simple. Earth is actually fairly lumpy, with bumps on it—think Rocky Mountains or Himalayas—or low spots like Death Valley. So a better model is complex ellipsoid with various undulations that make it NOT a body of revolution.
The real question is probably this: Why should I care? The two numbers given above (24,901.55/ 24,859.82) are within 1% of each other. Does that matter?
Thing is, this is true for most things you look up. Suppose someone asks "what's the biggest city on Earth?" A quick Google check shows that it's Shanghai with 17,836,133 people. Really? Since the time you started reading this, some people died in Shanghai while others were born. What does the instantaneous population of a city even mean?
And so checking the backstory quickly leads to clarifying questions: "What do you mean by biggest?" Are you measuring population or area? Do you mean city boundary as determined by the city council or by measuring the urban core and excluding suburban regions?
This is, of course, what reference librarians do—they conduct the "reference interview" to try and pin down the variable parts of someone's question.
But then a graduate student asked for a "list of the top ten journals in Sociology." He wanted to get a general awareness of what the field was about and what would be reasonable topics of current interest.
Getting a list of sociology journals isn't hard. Rank ordering them according to some reasonable function is tough. "What would you like?" I asked. "Readership size? Citation rates? Agreed-upon influence? Most-often-checked-out?" Those all produce somewhat different sort orders.
Thing was, he didn't really care. He didn't need an ordered list—just ANY list of 10 good journals would be fine, thanks very much.
I'd just assumed that he wanted an ordered list. That's what working at Google does to you; I see the world as a ranking problem and just assumed he wanted a list with an evaluation. But since he was going to spend as much time with journal #1 as with journal #10, it really didn't matter.
Any good psychologist will tell you that "the presenting problem is often not the root problem." Likewise, the first question is often not the real question. Good searchers take a problem and worry on it a little. Good searchers look behind the "answer" to understand how that answer came to be. In the circumference case, it was the measurement method. In the population problem, it was how "largest" was defined and then how that property was measured as well.
If I could somehow give everyone a piece of search advice, I'd say "think like a fact-checker" and get one or two steps deeper into your topic matter. You must go deeper in order to understand what it is you think you've found. The fact you seek isn't just a fact, but something based on a set of choices about how to measure and what to report.
Of course, I can say this all I want. But this approach hasn't worked well in the past. (People have been saying this for a long, long time.) How can I help people see this is what they really want to do when they really want to understand a topic?
This search challenge was harder than I thought… but for an interesting reason. I'll take the blame here—the question ("English 4-word idiomatic expression for something thought to be impossible, but shown to be trivial") is not exactly a cleanly defined, clearly answerable kind of question!
As a consequence, people found all KINDS of answers that I hadn't thought about.
Alas, while many are close, they're not exactly right. "Cutting the Gordian knot" has the right sense of a sudden rapid solution to an unsolvable problem.
As you can see, writing a nice, hard search problem that has a neat, instantly recognizable solution is tricky.
JacobM solved the problem by searching for [ seems | looks impossible ] (where the vetical bar symbol means OR). He found some idiom collections and flipped through them until finding the right one. This is a really good approach!
In the comments, Johns1111 points out that in German this would be "das Ei des Kolumbus," which is a transliteration of "The Egg of Columbus," and, in my opinion, quite correct. Congrats also to Amarek for also finding the same solution.
The Back Story to this problem: This problem was originally given to me by a friend who knew that such a phrase existed, but he couldn't think of what it was. If it makes you feel any better, I worked on-and-off on this question for about 4 weeks, trying new ways to search for it… basically looking for a way to rephrase the question so that the results would contain the answer.
My reasoning was that someone writing about this idiom would have to use the phrase after the fact and use that phrase in the context of discovering an easy solution. That's how I chose my search terms.
Luckily, it worked out well. But truthfully, only after a lot of systematic search on my part.
The Wikipedia entry for "Egg of Columbus" has the following explanation for the phrase which I like.
The Egg of Columbus story might have begun with the Italian historian Girolamo Benzoni. In his book History of the New World (1565) he wrote: Columbus was dining with many Spanish nobles when one of them said: 'Sir Christopher, even if your lordship had not discovered the Indies, there would have been, here in Spain which is a country abundant with great men knowledgeable in cosmography and literature, one who would have started a similar adventure with the same result.' Columbus did not respond to these words but asked for a whole egg to be brought to him. He placed it on the table and said: 'My lords, I will lay a wager with any of you that you are unable to make this egg stand on its end like I will do without any kind of help or aid.' They all tried without success and when the egg returned to Columbus, he tapped it gently on the table breaking it slightly and, with this, the egg stood on its end. All those present were confounded and understood what he meant: that once the feat has been done, anyone knows how to do it.
Image of Columbus breaking the egg, by William Hogarth.
Original in National Portrait Gallery, London. This image from Wikipedia.
Whether or not the story is true, it has entered into the world as an idiomatic expression for "seemingly impossible to solve, but actually trivial." An excellent idiom.
Search lessons: (1) First, as should be obvious, finding idioms is hard. People who searched in idiom dictionaries were on to something. That's a great strategy for searching out this kind of information. I tried a couple before giving up, hoping to stumble across it (which is what happened).
(2) You sometimes have to search for the right query. I tried a lot of queries in my search (at least 100 over the 4 week period) before I found the right combination of search terms that led me to the answer. I was really interested (which is why I dedicated so much time to the problem).
My big tip about long searches is pretty simple: Keep track of what you've searched for and found. That's especially true for long search processes that take weeks. I just kept an open text file with my "search notes" in it. It really prevented me from duplicating my searches and let me systematically eliminate possibilities.


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South Pars
TEHRAN (Shana) – Iranian Minister of Petroleum Javad Owji said South Pars Phase-14 refinery will be put into operation in the Fajr decade and will process 56 to 60 million cubic meters of gas daily.
TEHRAN (Shana) -- The refinery of Phase 14 of the giant offshore South Pars gas field is almost coming online. With the completion of this megaproject, which has been operated only by Iranians, all South Pars refineries would have become operational. The offshore section of this project came on-stream in 2019 with a current output of 56 mcm/d of rich gas. Over the past one year, three trains of gas sweetening have become operational at this refinery, which sets a record. The onshore section of this project has been invested $5.2 billion in.
South Pars Condensate Output at 700kb/d
TEHRAN (Shana) -- The head of production coordination and supervision of South Pars Gas Complex (SPGC) said SPGC is currently producing over 700,000 barrels of gas condensate and exports 480,000 tons/year of sulfur to east Asia.
Iran Annual Gas Consumption beyond 228 bcm
TEHRAN (Shana) -- The director of coordination of gas supply of National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC) said Iran's annual gas consumption is over 228 billion cubic meters of which 70% is consumed in the industrial sector.
SPGC Gas Production Fully Sustainable
TEHRAN (Shana) -- The CEO of South Pars Gas Complex said by taking effective and extensive measures and in order to maintain the stability of gas production, the power plant, substations and power lines of the complex are fully prepared for maintaining sustainable production.
Iran Eyes 1.5 bcm/d Gas Output by 2030
TEHRAN (Shana) – The Deputy Petroleum Minister for Planning said according to the needs of the country, Iran must increase its gas production, and for this purpose, 80 billion dollars must be invested within the next eight years so that the daily production of gas will reach 1.5 billion cubic meters per day by 2030.
South Pars Phase-19 Flaring Lowered Dramatically
TEHRAN (Shana) -- The director of the 10th Refinery of the South Pars Gas Complex said by carrying out repairs of critical equipment at the refinery, a stunning reduction in the gases sent to the flare stacks has happened in the refinery.
PSEEZ More Welcoming to Foreign Firms than Ever
TEHRAN (Shana) -- Since 1998, Iran's Petroleum Ministry has invested $81 billion in the upstream sector and $30 billion in the downstream sector of Pars Energy Special Economic Zone (PSEEZ). Now the CEO of the organization says that thanks to the bylaw recently signed off on by Minister of Petroleum Javad Owji, the conditions have dramatically improved for the presence of foreign companies through just registering their company in the Islamic Republic of Iran. This is while the Petroleum Ministry sticks to its policy of supporting domestic and foreign investors. The exclusive interview of "Iran Petroleum" with Sakhavat Asadi, the PSEEZ CEO, is as follows:
4 Gas Condensate Tankers Berthed Simultaneously in South Pars
TEHRAN (Shana) -- The CEO of the Iranian Oil Terminals Company (IOTC) announced the docking of four oil tankers in South Pars at the same time, and said: "This operation was successfully carried out for the first time in order to prevent the disruption of gas flow to the country, especially in the cold season of the year."
Iran Gas Output from South Pars Hits 0.7bcm/d
TEHRAN (Shana) -- The CEO of Pars Oil and Gas Company (POGC) said the daily gas production from the South Pars joint gas field has reached 700 million cubic meters.
Iran Eyes 0.5 bcm Gas Output Growth by 2029
TEHRAN (Shana) -- The CEO of the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) announced the company's plan to increase the country's gas production capacity by 500 million cubic meters per day (mcm/d) by 2029.
South Pars Phase 11 Project Online Soon
TEHRAN (Shana) – The CEO of the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) said the gas from South Pars Phase 11 Project would come online in February.
Gas Production Accelerated in South Pars
TEHRAN (Shana) -- The CEO of South Pars Gas Complex announced that with the introduction of the cold snap in the country and the decrease in temperature and the consequent increase in consumption in the domestic and commercial sectors, the 13 refineries of South Pars have put the mission of maximum gas production on their agenda.
South Pars Refineries Supplying 570 mcm/d Gas
TEHRAN (Shana) -- The CEO of South Pars Gas Complex announced the daily production of 570 million cubic meters of gas in the thirteen refineries of the country's largest gas compound, and said: "This complex supplies 75% of the country's gas needs with the savvy and expertise of local specialists and hardworking employees."
2,000 bcm of Gas Processed in South Pars Refineries
TEHRAN (Shana) -- The CEO of South Pars Gas Complex announced that since the establishment of the complex, more than 2,300 billion cubic meters of natural gas have been processed in South Pars refineries.
South Pars Complexes Closing Ranks to Boost Output
TEHRAN (Shana) -- The CEO of the Pars Special Energy Economic Zone Organization said the cooperation of three key South Pars complexes (Special Zone Organization, South Pars Gas Complex and Pars Oil and Gas Company) on the production path and by-products has been smoothed out.
Spell of Phase 11 Gas Production to Be Broken in Winter
TEHRAN (Shana) – Iranian Minister of Petroleum Javad Owji announced that the spell of gas production from South Pars phase 11 development project will be broken this winter after 20 years of exchanging contracts on paper.
IOEC Completes 1st stage of South Pars Phase 16 Pipe Laying
TEHRAN (Shana) -- Specialists of the Iranian Offshore Engineering and Construction Company (IOEC) successfully completed the shore pull operation of the new 32-inch pipeline of phase 16 of South Pars gas field.
Offshore Pipe Laying Operation at 1st Phase 11 Platform Complete
TEHRAN (Shana) -- The offshore pipe laying operation of the gas transmission line of the first platform of Phase 11 of South Pars gas field has been completed in the Persian Gulf.
Iran Gas Output to Jump 150mcm/d with Russian Support
TEHRAN (Shana) – A senior official with the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) says Iran's natural gas production capacity would see a 150-mcm/d rise with the development of Kish and North Pars gas fields which have been covered in a recent memorandum of understanding between NIOC and Russia's Gazprom.
South Pars 5th Refinery Supplies 6 mb of Gas Condensate in Q1
TEHRAN (Shana) -- The director of the fifth refinery of South Pars Gas Complex said the plant supplied 6 million barrels of gas condensate in the first 3 months of the current calendar year, which began on March 21.
Iran, Cuba Stress Expanding Energy Ties
TEHRAN (Shana) -- The CEO of the Pars Special Zone Organization and the Ambassador of the Republic of Cuba to Iran emphasized expansion of cooperation between the two countries in the energy sector.
Widely-Used Items in South Pars Platforms to be Localized
TEHRAN (Shana) -- The deputy of the domestic manufacturing committee in Pars Oil and Gas Company announced localization of 19 widely-used parts of South Pars rigs by October.
1ST Cold LPG Shipment of South Pars Phase 13 Exported
TEHRAN (Shana) -- The operator of the South Pars Phase 13 development project announced the export of the first shipment of cold liquefied petroleum gas of the phase from the port of Siraf Pars.
South Pars Phase 11 Gas Output to hit 12mcm by Winter
TEHRAN (Shana) -- The CEO of Pars Oil and Gas Company announced production of 12 million cubic meters/day of gas from South Pars Phase 11 by winter.
Petropars CEO: Four Wells of South Pars Phase 11 to Come Online by March 2023
TEHRAN (Shana) – The development of Phase 11 of South Pars gas field is underway and four wells will come on stream by the end of the current Iranian calendar year (which began on March 21, 2022), said the managing director of Petropars Company here on Saturday.
Iran Eyes 14 mcm/d Gas from South Pars Phase 11
TEHRAN (Shana) -- The director of integrated planning of the National Iranian Oil Company, referring to the goal of producing 220,000 barrels of oil from the South Azadegan joint field by the end of the current calendar year, which began on March 21, said: "By the end of this year, 14 million cubic meters of gas will be extracted daily from phase 11 of South Pars."
South Pars Phase 14 Refinery Online
TEHRAN (Shana) -- The CEO of the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) said the first train of the refining facility of South Pars Phase 14 has come on stream by sending refined gas to the national gas transmission network.
Cumulative Rich Gas Output from South Pars at 2,000 bcm
TEHRAN (Shana) -- Director of Production and Operations of Pars Oil and Gas Company announced the cumulative growth of gas production from South Pars since the beginning of operation in 2002 at about 2,000 billion cubic meters.
NIOC Eyes 5.7mbd in 8 Years: Official
TEHRAN (Shana) -- The Director of Integrated Planning of the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) announced the company's plans to ramp up Iran's crude oil production capacity to 5.7 million barrels per day over the next eight years.


MSD has recently implemented a new online paperless system for plan review, permitting, and construction inspection.
For a link to the new system, click here.
For information on MSD's new online system, including instructional material, as well as changes to our regulations and fees, click the links below.
The Plan Review Checklist shows some of the items considered in the review process.
The Conceptual Review Checklist shows some of the items considered in the conceptual review process.
For information on the Rainscaping Large Scale Grants Program that is available as part of the Development Review Process, please see the Rainscaping Large Scale Grants Program.
For information on MSD cost sharing opportunities for Green Infrastructure, please see the Project Clear Rainscaping Early Action Program.


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As Ireland's leading independent hospitality guide we will lead you to the very best places to eat, drink & stay wherever you are on the island of Ireland, see below for some of the critical acclaim we have received.
"difficult to find a more comprehensive handbook for eating, drinking, sleeping…on this bountiful island" Sunday Business Post, Ireland's Top 50 in Food
"renowned for finding hidden out-of-the-way gems in every corner of Ireland" The Star
"popular guide" Irish Times
"…the most reliable pointer to the best in Irish hospitality" Daily Mail
"…Ireland's leading hotel and restaurant guide" Daily Mail
"…only the best will squeeze into Ms Campbell's Ireland – a respected 'glove box bible'" Daily Mirror
"Guide is a voyage of discovery for the traveller" The Irish Examiner
"Gastro Gem – anyone with even a passing interest in good food will own a copy" Jillian Bolger, The Sunday Tribune
"you can't go far wrong with the latest edition of Georgina Campbell's Ireland Guide. Something of a bible among foodies…perfect for picking stop off points for modest refres hments on long journeys, as well as accommodation and fine dining" Ross Golden-Bannon, Sunday Business Post
"It's a must have glove box accessory guaranteed to bring you to the best places to eat, drink and stay" Fine Wine & Food Guide, The Irish Independent
"the hospitality bible" The Daily Mail
"unparalleled" The Sunday Tribune
"Trustworthy" Guide to the guides - The Sunday Times
"…the long established bible for foodies and travellers alike" The Sunday Business Post
"Honest, accurate and informative" Jillian Bolger, The Sunday Tribune
"…so many guides to food & travel in Ireland…Last Post's perennial favourite is the Georgina Campbell guide…the guide visits entrants anonymously; you can't pay to get an entry and they take no advertising either. Other, less discerning but more bumptious guides take note (you know who you are)" The Last Post, The Sunday Business Post
"Essential kit for any food lover" The Sunday Tribune
"essential reading before planning a weekend away or heading out for dinner" The Sunday Tribune
"…if it's good enough for Georgina Campbell it's good enough for all of us" Sunday Independent
"Georgina Campbell is well recognised as being one of Ireland's most reliable judges of what the country has to offer in the way of special places to stay" Food & Wine Magazine
"Ireland's Premier Guide" The London Guardian
"Best Guide Book" Harpers & Queen Magazine
"By far the most reliable" Food & Wine
"…derives its legitimacy from the painstaking research of Georgina and her team. We've said it before and we'll say it again: if there was only one Irish hospitality guide this would have to be it." Editor, Food & Wine Magazine
"Lifes too short for bad food and mediocre accommodation. That's why Georgina Campbell's Ireland The Guide never leaves my sight...this is the most comprehensive and reliable guide to Irish hospitality." Jillian Bolger, The Sunday Tribune
What our readers say about "the Guide":
• "All in all an excellent publication, in the same vein as we have come to expect: informative, measured in tone ...etc"
• "I feel it is very important to have traceability of Irish food (especially meat) rather than just emphasis on traditional Irish food."
• "Congratulations on your guide - it is people like you we need to sell Ireland abroad and be proud of it!"
• "The Guide, from my perspective, is as near perfect as you will get. I find it indispensable when organising itineraries and for private breaks and dining."
• "All round, I find the Guide invaluable."
Further Press Quotes -
• "I have to thank Georgina Campbell's encyclopaedic Ireland Guide…" Tom Doorley, Irish Times
"Honest, impartial and written with passion. The Guide is the only hotel guide in this countr y that experts take seriously" The Dubliner Magazine
• "…Georgina Campbell, Ireland's most respected hotel critic, … choices are informed by travels across the land, rare integrity and a determination to identify only the best." The Dubliner Magazine
• "Georgina Campbell is Ireland's leading food and hospitality writer…the same honesty has applied to her comprehensive and critically acclaimed independently assessed guides to Ir eland's best places to eat, drink and stay…" The Dubliner Magazine
• "many such guides out there…but this is The Business, The Big Kahuna…let's not beat about the bush, this is quite definitively The Guide… authoritative, detail(ed), no nonsense…Car glove compartments at the ready for this one, if you don't mind." Cara Magazine
• "takes the guess work out of holidaying, eating out, or even selecting a good pub in Ireland" Irish Homes Magazine
• "Best Guide Book" Harpers & Queen Magazine
• "By far the most reliable" Food & Wine Magazine
• "Keep this book handy" Irish Examiner
• "Essential Travelling Companion" Irish Examiner
• "By far the most comprehensive…certainly one of the most honest and reliable" Food and Wine
• "If you needed a 'where do I eat/drink/stay' guide to Ireland and could only afford one, 'The Georgina' would have to be it.." Editor, Food and Wine
• "Must have" Cara Magazine, Aer Lingus
• "Avoid the fabled xxxxxxxxxxx books – they tell you more about the writers than the restaurants – and go for Georgina Campbell's informative, no nonsense Jameson Guide" Evening Standard
• "This straight-talking book is a surefire winner" Irish Times
• "definitive" Food & Wine Annual
• "everything it proclaims on the cover, no bull, no payole, 100% genuine. Highly Recommended" Food & Wine Annual 2004
• "highly recommended" Womans Way
• "carefully compiled" Irish Times
• "substantial…updated…unbiased" Holiday
• "Wondering where I'll get the next quality bite will never be an issue again now that I have my hands on the latest copy of GC Jameson Guide to Ireland" Irish Examiner
• "Prestigous" Business Eye
• "don't leave home without it" Irish Examiner
• "All the best glove compartments carry a copy of Georgina Campbell's Guide…(it) is a mine of reliable information" Gemma Doherty, Irish Independent
• "The foodie's bible" Breda Heffernan, Irish Independent
• "Comprehensive…no glove compartment should be without it" At The Table, Irish Times
• "Indispensable companion for the discerning traveller and diner" Ireland of the Welcomes
• "The essential handbook for tourists, weekenders and diners-out; in fact anyone who loves the finest in food and drink and wants to know where it's available in the 32 counties of Ireland. Here in Food & Wine our editorial team wouldn't be without Georgina Campbell's Jameson Guide as an indispensable work of reference. One word of warning - don't leave it lying around or you'll never see your Guide again!" Food & Wine
• "Hats off to Georgina Campbell...as usual it [the new Guide] is full of useful reports on where to eat, drink and stay in Ireland. What to expect? No PR gimmicks...and no nonsense - just well-written, incisive reviews... [the xxxxx guide] for grown-ups." The Dubliner
• "As complete as you could want, reliable and (as the binding is sewn) it [this very substantial handbook] definitely won't fall to bits." Books Ireland
• "Rigorously unforgiving standards..." Kevin Myers, The Irish Times
A card from a German couple:
Munich, May 14th
Dear Georgina,
Travelling Ireland is fun using your invaluable guide! We are looking forward to travelling with "you" soon again.
Stephanie & Thomas V.
A Testimonial that was e-mailed to us:
"We bought the Guide and it was absolutely wonderful. We travelled around virtually the whole of West Cork, with a bit of East Cork to start with, and came to rely on the recommendations for pubs, restaurants and somewhere to stay. I think we tried about five or six different hotels and B&B's and all , without exception were excellent in their own way. In every town or village we turned to the Guide before setting off for lunch or to the pub (and it seems like we went to a lot of pubs!) and never once were we disappointed or disagreed with her comments. We found the Guide exceptionally useful, well put together and all round reliable. It was the best money we have invested for a long time"
Debra Frost, England, May.
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Killed in battle with Fu Xie.
Liang Zhongning 梁仲寧 was a leader of Yellow Turbans during the 184 AD Yellow Turban Rebellion.
Information about Liang Zhongning is scarce. As with the other followers of Zhang Jue 張角, it is assumable that Liang Zhongning joined his master between the early 170's and 184 AD. He eventually became a leader, but it is not known if he was a gang leader or the leader of a Division (Fāng 方).
During the rebellion he fought a troop of Huangfu Song's army, led by Fu Xie 傅燮. He was defeated and killed.
↑ 1.0 1.1 Fu Xie was sent to serve under Huangfu Song against the Yellow Turbans of Yingchuan commandery. Therefore it seems assumable Liang Zhongning fought in Yingchuan and it was probably his home as well since all other Yellow Turbans seem to have fought in their home commandery.


British rock outfit AS LIONS will release is debut full-length album, "Selfish Age", on January 20 via Better Noise Records. The pre-order for the album begins today on iTunes, Amazon and Google Play, and exclusive album pre-order merchandise bundles are available for order at the band's online store. Fans who pre-order the album will instantly receive "Aftermath", "White Flags", "Deathless" and "World On Fire".
"Selfish Age" is the follow-up to AS LIONS' debut EP, "Aftermath", released earlier this year. Helmed by award-winning producer David Bendeth (OF MICE & MEN, PARAMORE, BRING ME THE HORIZON) and Kane Churko (FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH, DISTURBED, IN THIS MOMENT), "Selfish Age" is an illustration of the band's mission to create "the biggest, baddest hard rock we could, and on an almost cinematic scale." The album's 11 dynamic tracks are a study in contrasts, with the epic and evocative "Aftermath", the crushing "Deathless", which targets the Internet culture's obsession with image, "Bury My Dead", a hard-hitting personal statement complemented by stately piano tinklings, and the electro-tinged title track, "Selfish Age".
Comprised of vocalist Austin Dickinson (son of IRON MAIDEN singer Bruce Dickinson), guitarist and keyboardist Conor O'Keefe, guitarist Will Homer, bassist Stefan Whiting and drummer Dave Fee, AS LIONS are the evolution of British rock. Having already played sold-out shows in the U.K., AS LIONS is now leaving its imprint on the States during their U.S. arena tour with FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH, SHINEDOWN and SIXX:A.M.


Imagine a cell phone that could tap the ambient heat radiating from a human hand to charge itself -- or a web page that tells you how much energy your home is using in real time and suggests ways to reduce this energy use and save money.
Researchers already are tinkering with such concepts in labs from Silicon Valley to Tokyo. Green technologies will transform our society but we are just at the beginning.
Our Internet economy holds promising solutions to even the biggest environmental challenges.
When the Danish government set about planning this conference, they were eager to catapult information and communications technologies -- ICTs for short -- into the mainstream global debate on climate change. Information technologies can help deliver innovative environmental solutions. But until now, it has been a struggle to turn the concept into bold policies.
Then came the crisis. As the global economy suffers its most severe contraction in 70 years, energy gluttons are among the hardest hit. Automakers cannot power us out of this recession with fuel-inefficient cars designed for yesterday's markets. Many traditional sectors face wrenching change as they struggle to adapt to a low-carbon economy. The lesson is clear: We must foster cleaner industries to power growth in the 21st century.
In the coming months, OECD's work will continue to build on the Strategic Response to the global crisis, which we launched in the end of 2008. And critical policy areas will be green recovery and innovation policies. These are actually two important policy issues we will be focussing on at this year's Council Meeting at Ministerial Level (MCM), scheduled to take place in Paris on the 24-25 June. Our aim is to use the OECD's unique analytical and policy advice capacities to produce timely and valuable insights for participating countries to address policy challenges.
That's why this conference is so timely. As governments strive to repair and rebuild, many are committing billions in stimulus funds to clean technologies. The bet is that public and private investment in green solutions, will produce a triple win: Innovative technologies to tackle global warming, new industries to drive long-term economic growth, and jobs to help kickstart recovery.
Thanks to you Minister Sander and the Danish government for hosting this important conference, which can help speed the implementation of solutions. In the run-up to the United Nations meeting on climate change in December this gathering will spotlight the digital technologies that can help us combat global warming and help build momentum for international action.
What role can ICTs play in delivering green solutions? A powerful one. Chips, computers, software and high-speed networks are the tools to help us build a low-carbon economy. They have been driving huge productivity gains for decades. The crisis is an opportunity to tap them further to lower energy use and reduce greenhouse gases across the entire spectrum of industry. The Internet and the technologies that underpin it are a powerful force for change.
A recent report by The Climate Group estimates the use of information technologies in smart buildings, smart electricity grids, smart transport and logistics – among other industrial uses -- can help slash annual global greenhouse gas emissions 15 percent by 2020. That's a dramatic gain – nearly equal to the annual emissions of either the United States or China.
Yes - digital technologies consume energy. The International Energy Agency forecasts that the growing use of residential ICTs and consumer electronics goods will triple electricity consumption by 2030 if no action is taken to improve their efficiency. Importantly, it also concludes that adoption of the most efficient technologies would slash electricity consumption by more than half, holding the increase to 1 percent a year through 2030 – despite the rising use of electronic goods. This level of energy savings would save 260 gigawatts in additional power demand – more than the current electrical generating capacity of Japan.
Many initiatives to reduce the carbon footprint of the ICT sector already are underway. Japan's $32 million Green IT Project promotes highly energy efficient ICTs in three areas. It aims to reduce energy consumption of network components and data centres by more than 30%. And Japan is experimenting with organic light-emitting diodes to cut the power consumption of displays by 50%.
We can do far more. Infuse green ICTs across industry and you can save up to ten times more energy than they use. The biggest gains are in power generation and distribution, buildings and transportation – three areas which contribute to the bulk of greenhouse gases.
ICTs are also essential building blocks for carbon pricing systems. Technology can offer cost-effective market-driven solutions, using sensors, software and networks. The next step is to design systems to reliably measure, track and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
You will get an earful over the next two days from many experts about how ICTs can help green our planet. I see two areas where our digital toolkit can be particularly effective battling climate change.
Transportation and logistics. Many industries already rely on software systems to optimize transportation systems to reap big energy savings. Kraft Foods, for example, introduced a "smart transportation" and logistics management system in 2007 to better plan its delivery and supply chain routes. The program took 1,500 trucks off the road and cut one million miles in unnecessary driving – eliminating 3.3 million pounds of greenhouse gas emissions.
And industries are getting more creative with ICTs every day. The forestry industry in northern Europe is using information technology to eliminate the 10 percent of timber it wastes each year by better matching customers with the right size logs. That is the equivalent of a forest the size of Luxembourg.
Digital technology gives us the ability to monitor the environment and reduce energy use in real time. How? High-speed broadband networks -- the backbone of our Internet economy -- enable a continual two-way flow of information between customers and utilities.
Connect smart energy meters to the network and remote adjustment systems will put energy-hungry buildings on a crash diet. The impact could be huge. Buildings account for 40 percent of energy use in the EU. The Commission estimates that effective energy policy and technology could reduce a building's carbon footprint by 17%.
A smart electricity grid would allow consumers to store electricity in smart appliances, like the battery of an electric car, when prices are low. That would conserve energy that today goes wasted as surplus. The smart grid will also let millions of consumers inject electricity back into the grid. This intelligent, two-way exchange will help governments get the price right on energy use, allowing smarter choices and driving down waste. The potential for savings from smart grids is even more dramatic in developing countries, where electricity generation is highly inefficient.
Smart grids have another big advantage: They allow renewable energies to feed into national power systems. Both practices help manage peak demand and reduce the need for extra power plants.
How do we transform this promising potential into reality? Governments need to take the lead now. We can't afford to experiment and hope that these markets develop on their own. We should start by putting in place policies that provide a clear price signal to trigger innovation in energy efficiency.
To complement price signals and speed the benefits, we need policies to support the development of the "green" infrastructure. That means funding research, stimulating demand for new technologies, levelling the playing fields that favour polluting technologies, investing in green government buildings and encouraging consumers and industry to embrace a low-carbon economic model.
The US and Korea have taken bold initiatives. Korea is promoting an "intelligent" transport system as part of its $36 billion euro green stimulus package. The US American Recovery and Reinvestment Act provides $59 billion for green technologies, including $11 billion for a smart electricity grid.
Supporting demand for green technologies is only one step. Most policies aimed at wielding ICTs to cut energy consumption lack well defined implementation strategies. OECD research shows the bulk of government initiatives focus on making information technologies themselves greener. Only one tenth of the projects surveyed focused solely on using ICTs broadly as an enabler to green the economy.
To unlock energy savings and growth, policy makers must put a good regulatory framework in place, ensuring that "smart" grids, smart urban systems and smart transport systems adhere to a framework open to competition. That will help stimulate a level playing field, expand markets and provide a springboard for innovative and entrepreneurial activities.
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SOFT FORK, HARD FORK, AND CHAIN SPLIT? | 소프트 포크, 하드 포크, 그리고 체인 분리?
Soon after, the miners will start the segwit2x test. I do not have any news about it. It is like the calm before the storm.
Let's summarize the concepts that are misunderstood through this posting. The target is soft fork, hard fork, and chain split.
Both soft fork and hard fork are software updates. The difference between the two is the compatibility with old versions. Soft fork is software updates that are compatible with old bitcoin block chains, and segwit is a soft fork update.
Hard fork, on the other hand, is incompatible with old bitcoin block chains. If you update bitcoin by increasing the block size, the old bitcoin software will not recognize the new blocks with increased block size.
Bitcoin also needs to be soft forked and hard forked as it has to evolve through constant updates. Hard fork, however, is at risk as compared to soft forks, as chain split can occur by unreasonable forces, as can be seen in the case of ethereum and ethereum classic.
The block chain consists of blocks of connected chains. And, as shown in the picture above, when the blocks are connected, the chain split may occur naturally.
Natural chain split is reintegrated into one through a process called chain reorganization. However, it is also possible to make artificial chain split such as a new bitcoin generated by a unreasonable force after a hard fork. And if this artificial chain split divides bitcoin into several, it will be the worst news for the whole market.
Therefore, there is a danger that the hard fork method by increasing the block size is likely to cause chain split. In addition, UASF will force chain split from August 1 to implement a soft forked update called segwit.
We are in danger now.
마이너들이 segwit2x 테스트를 시작하기까지 얼마 남지 않았습니다. 폭풍전야라고 별다른 소식이 없네요.
이번 포스팅을 통해서 많이 착각하는 개념들에 대해서 정리해보도록 하겠습니다. 타깃은 소프트 포크, 하드 포크, 그리고 체인 분리입니다.
소프트 포크와 하드 포크는 모두 소프트웨어 업데이트 방식입니다. 두 방식의 차이점은 기존 버전과의 호환성 유무입니다. 소프트 포크는 기존 비트코인 블록체인과 호환이 되는 형태로 소프트웨어를 업데이트하는 것이고, 세그윗은 모두 소프트 포크형 업데이트입니다.
반면 하드 포크는 기존 비트코인 블록체인과 호환성이 없습니다. 블록 사이즈 증대를 통해서 비트코인 업데이트를 실시하면 기존 비트코인 소프트웨어는 블록 사이즈가 증대된 새로운 블록을 인식하지 못합니다.
비트코인 역시 지속적인 업데이트를 통해서 발전해야 하기 때문에 소프트 포크와 하드 포크를 수행해야 합니다. 그러나 하드 포크는 이더리움과 이더리움 클래식의 사건에서 알 수 있듯이 불손한 세력에 의해 체인 분리가 발생할 수 있기 때문에 소프트 포크에 비해서 위험성이 있습니다.
블록체인은 블록 하나하나가 연결된 쇠사슬의 형태로 구성되어 있습니다. 그리고 위의 그림과 같이 블록이 연결되어 가다가 자연적으로 체인 분리가 발생할 수도 있습니다.
자연적인 체인 분리는 chain reorganization이라는 과정을 통해서 하나로 다시 통합됩니다. 다만 하드 포크 이후에 불손한 세력에 의해서 새로운 비트코인이 생기는 등의 인위적인 체인 분리 역시 가능합니다. 그리고 이런 인위적인 체인 분리 과정에 의해서 비트코인이 여러 개로 나뉜다면 전체 시장에 큰 악재로 작용할 것입니다.
그래서 현재 블록 사이즈 증대를 통한 하드 포크 방식은 체인 분리를 일으킬 가능성이 있기 때문에 위험성이 있습니다. 게다가 UASF는 세그윗이라는 소프트 포크형 업데이트를 구현하기 위해서 8월 1일부터 강제적으로 체인 분리를 시도하기 때문에 더 조심해야 합니다.
최신 가상화폐 관련 이슈를 보도합니다. 업보트와 팔로우를 부탁드립니다.
소프트포크 얘기 나오면 늘 이 아이템이 나오곤 했죠.
가장 큰 이슈죠... 잘 해결되길 바라는 마음에 풀보팅 드립니다.
한참 이해 못하다가 덕분에 이제 이해를 좀 했습니다.
그나저나 진짜 한달뒤가 궁금합니다... 내 생에 한달뒤가 이렇게 궁금한건 처음인듯.
묻혀있던 재야의 고수시군요. 밀린거 싹다 풀보트 했습니다.


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The Doha Vault Preview
Lauren / October 24, 2018
Yeo Seo-jeong
This one is a no-brainer so easy it hurts.
Simone Biles is so unmatched in this vault field, if I were a betting man, I'd put eleventy billion dollars on her taking the gold here. In fact, I'd take that bet even further and say that she's going to win it by a full point, nearly impossible on this apparatus and yet she's going to be the one to make it happen, adding the first world vault gold to her collection that currently includes two silvers and a bronze.
Though she'll debut her new vault – a Cheng with an extra half twist, which means she's doing a Yurchenko half-on front layout with two twists off – in the all-around competition, she's sticking to "just" the Cheng in the final, but all that means is that her combined difficulty will be an 11.8 instead of a 12.2, aka two tenths higher than anyone else in the field instead of a six-tenth advantage.
But no one can come close to what she'll score from the E panel. The sheer power she gets off the table made her new (and soon-to-be eponymous) vault and her Amanar look like timers compared to the struggles most girls had with their Yurchenko doubles on the hard table in Doha. She was hyper-focused on her landings in podium training, which is huge as this is where she's usually tackled the most, and she's clean as hell in the air…what else can I say? She's probably the best vaulter who has ever lived. Sit back and feel blessed to be experiencing history.
Sadly, some of the world's top vaulters – including all three medalists last year, Maria Paseka of Russia, Jade Carey of the United States, and Giulia Steingruber of Switzerland, as well as European champion Boglarka Devai of Hungary – are skipping the action in Doha this week, but while that's a bummer, it opens up the podium to several exciting up-and-comers, including Korean gymnasts from both North and South who are hoping to shake things up.
Asian Games champion Yeo Seo-jeong, a first-year senior from South Korea who also won the vault title at her international debut in Portugal this spring, has a pretty solid Rudi and Yurchenko double, but what we'll want to watch from her is whether she's going after the handspring double full, a half-twist up from the Rudi which she got credited – but crashed – at the world cup. This is a vault that has been submitted multiple times over the past decade, first by Alicia Sacramone and then by Steingruber, but Yeo became the first woman to try it out in competition this year and she could be the one who gets it named if she lands it in Doha.
Yeo, who also has a solid Yurchenko double, had a ton of pressure on her shoulders at the Asian Games as the daughter of 1996 Olympic silver medalist and two-time Asian Games vault champion Yeo Hong-chul. In addition to following in her dad's footsteps, she would be the first South Korean woman to win Asian Games gold in over 30 years if she pulled this off, and many thought she'd cave to that pressure, but she "played it safe" with the Rudi to get the win, and now she's looking like a top contender for a world medal as well.
The bronze medalist at the Asian Games, Pyon Rye Yong, has some equally difficult vaults in her pocket with both an Amanar and a Rudi. This will be the first world championships for the 17-year-old from North Korea, and while her consistency can be a little hit-or-miss on her top event, all she needs is one good day to wind up on the podium.
With so many of the traditional top girls out, this could be a medal year for Oksana Chusovitina, who last picked up hardware seven years ago in Tokyo. The Korean gymnasts and several other newcomers are all younger than Chusovitina's child, but Chusovitina has what they don't, which is the experience to hit every single time she competes. With four world cup titles on vault this year alone in addition to the Asian Games silver medal, Chusovitina's expected difficulty might not be quite as high as we'll see from some of these competitors, especially if she doesn't do everything she's capable of, but I wouldn't count her out if I were you.
Also coming in with super difficult sets are Canada's Shallon Olsen, who made the Olympic final in 2016 and then the worlds final last year, and Liu Jinru, who is taking over as China's vault "it girl" in Wang Yan's absence, earning her first major international assignments over the past month with the Asian Games and now worlds.
Though I don't think we'll see it this year, Olsen has trained a Yurchenko triple, which she submitted last-minute in Montreal after throwing it in warmups, though she ended up going with her Amanar and Cheng in the final. This year, Olsen has regularly competed the Cheng alongside her always-stable Yurchenko double, including at the Commonwealth Games where she won the gold. Liu, meanwhile, has a combination Rudi and tsuk double, but she didn't make the Asian Games vault final because of a glitch with her starting time on one of her qualification runs, a bizarre error she certainly won't repeat here.
I don't see anyone breaking through the aforementioned group if all goes according to plan, but waiting in the wings are several strong gymnasts, including European medalists Angelina Melnikova of Russia and Denisa Golgota of Romania, Ellie Black of Canada, Lilia Akhaimova of Russia, Alexa Moreno of Mexico, Teja Belak of Slovenia, Tisha Volleman of the Netherlands, Sarah Voss of Germany, and Grace McCallum of the United States, all of whom have strong potential to make the final, though lack of difficulty may hold them back from the podium.
Like the all-around final, while Biles seems more than set to snag the gold, the rest of the competition should keep things super interesting, with the silver and bronze almost impossible to predict. I have a gut feeling about Chusovitina right now, and I also think this could be Olsen's year as well if she does exactly what she did at the Commonwealth Games, but I'm really excited about the young talent that is Yeo, and I'd love to see her sneak onto the podium to really make a smash and put South Korea back on the map in this world stage debut.
The women's qualifications at world championships will be held October 27-28, followed by the team final on October 30, the all-around final on November 1, and event finals held November 2-3. We'll come back to you soon with previews for the apparatus and team competitions, as well as what you can expect from the men, who begin on October 25.
Article by Lauren Hopkins
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44 thoughts on "The Doha Vault Preview"
Id cry all the happy tears in the world if shallon made it on the podium this year for Canada *crosses fingers*
Anonymous Fish says:
grace has two vaults?
WP says:
yes, i hope they will at least develop into a cheng or amanar…. we can't rely only on simone or jade…. without simone this yr, the us vt line up would be below what china and russia can bring..
Without Simone, they would have had to construct the worlds lineup differently to bolster their vault scores. Probably would have taken Jordan Chiles.
but chiles doesn't have the score to be used in anything else…. i mean, they would still likely win in the worst case of no simone for any event in TF but really US can't slack off in this department anymore.
She showed a tucked pod at podium training – but it's only around a 4.6 D so I can't see her getting a medal unless there is a major meltdown in the field. But I think it is great that she is training a second vault which hopefully can be upgraded before 2020. It always seemed really sad that despite the USA being a major vaulting force in team finals there were so few gymnasts that have 2 vaults – domestically only 2 or 3 actually contest the vault champion title at nationals.
Simone for gold and Chuso for silver would make me so happy. Chuso's last Worlds medal was for Germany, and it would be so nice to see her get one more after her return to competing for Uzbekistan.
Where did simone make the comment about what vt she will do when? i guess i missed that….
I think the safest time to do the biles vt is during qualification since even with a fall, she would still make the AA and Vt final and obviously US would still qual to TF by a billion points. Def don't want to first do the biles in tf or aa or ef for the first time….. after qual she can just stop doing the biles and would still easily win AA and vt ef…
Seems like a lot of other nations are really catching up to the US in vt though. Think of it like this… without simone, the us vt line up this yr is just very unremarkable and maybe even below china and russia. I know this might be overcallin and i also know amanar is no longer the higher premium it used to be over dty, but US needs to start emphasize more vaulters again…. we can't just rely on simone or jade…. esp when you look at the dty on the current team that are not even completely perfect like kyla ross if you trying to go after e score
It was a surprise yesterday to see that the US (with the huge exception of Simone) looked only average on vault – Riley crashed one of hers and Ragan's was scary as well
Apparently Simone is only doing Cheng for Vault finals because finals does not have timer warmups so sincd it is a relatively new vault for her, very unsafe to do in finals.
It's not the United States of Amanar anymore, but I think any other country would be happy to have the selection of DTYs that the US has. It's a good thing US girls aren't risking injury thinking they can't make teams unless they have that vault. I looked up D scores for Russia: They have two 5.8s and a 5.4. The US will have Simone's Cheng at a 6.0 and then two 5.4. That makes them equal in D score and I bet US comes out ahead on E score. China is not strong on vault. I don't think the US has any real worry. They will probably be the best team on vault even if it is their weakest of the four events.
Sorry, my math was wrong. Russia has a .2 advantage on D score. I still think the US will do just fine, though! Probably Biles, Hurd, McCallum in TF.
So i take it that the biles will be done in qual, tf and aa?
Word is she's only doing the Biles in AA. I guess wants to play it safer for team? We'll see!
AA is not the safest time for the biles…. she doesn't have a large 5+ points margins over 2nd place compared to qual or even TF…..safest time is to do the biles vt during qual and if you want, in TF….not sure why you would want to do the biles for the first time in AA… i mean she will more than likely be fine whenever, but it's always the nerve that will break you…..
I can see if there's no touch warmup in ef, then should just do cheng…… but it makes no sense to do the biles for the first time in AA…. should do the biles the first time in qual….. even if she fall doing she would still likely qualified to the vt ef anyway…
I'm not sure what her reasoning is, but I guess AA is where she feels most comfortable throwing it and risking a fall and one point loss. The vault has looked awesome whenever she's showed it, but she probably doesn't land it perfectly every time and it's possible she (or Tom) just feels more confident using the Cheng until the team medal is secure.
The probable margin of point is the largest in qual and tf… esp in qual where you are allowed to make the most mistake. Does anyone else not agreeing with me that the safest time for a new biles vt is in qual since you have the most margin there? am i making some bad assumption or missing something? why would you want to test out a new vt not in qualification? it makes absolutely no sense…
Qual has a touch warmup, yes? I don't see why she wouldn't do it then. If Tom wants to go with the safer option until the team has their medal, have her do the Amanar first to count. It definitely seems like the best round to debut it.
You're absolutely right, Biles should DEF do the "Biles" in quals and AA. It's more risky to do in TF because the team has a bunch of rookies–what if one or even two of those girls has a total meltdown? Also, if superhero Simone falls in front of all her teammates, how will that affect them mentally for the rest of TF (vault being the first event)?
Anonymous Quoka says:
I believe because of injuries Russia and China are both counting an FTY as a vault in 3/3 scoring… so on paper, the world is catching up, but because of depth issues, perception is far from reality
Zenaide says:
You are sure that Simakova is injured ? Did the Russians officially confirm the information ?
They will just have Musty do AA as usual with her DTY and a little helicopter…. seriously though… alya is back again to save their ass once more! lol..
OK they won gold at European championships without Alya …
Whereas in most cases, I would say the first time competing a new skill is risky, this just doesn't look to be the case with Simone's Biles vault. She lands it consistently very well and it doesn't look to be a challenge for her to hit.
monicakelly7488 says:
I don't agree. Most countries have 1 amazing vaulter (sometimes two). Than a follow up of two decent DTY's we have seen this in Rio, Glasgow – 2015 Nanning – 2014? Antwerp – 2013…..Next year, ther US will have more upgrades for vault, and I highly doubt the vault will effect the US at this years worlds. They are pretty much the strongest in every event (minus bars). However, I do not feel they are as confident as years past. It will be interesting to see how they fare as a team with out the Karolyis and their minions breathing down their necks.
my prediction is they will do just fine. even with the depleted 2014 team and the nervous 2015 team….
it would be interesting to see if they can again win all 4 events in TF…. That was very impressive in Rio that they did that…. i think they beat both china and russia in bars even if you account for falls from china….
Zyxcba says:
I hope it's Biles, Olsen, Yeo Seojeong.
I'd love to see Yeo on the podium!
Does anyone know if Andrade is competing two vaults this year? She actually did a dance-through on FX in podium training, so maybe she's farther along in her comeback than we had realized…
Matt's Gymnastics Blog says:
I want Biles, Olsen, and Chuso (or Jinru!).
MCC says:
Biles and Chuso on the same podium would be…i can't even
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FIG published the new element submissions and the only new vault is Biles's Cheng half so I'm guessing Yeo is sticking with a Rudi and Olsen with an Amanar or Baitova.
http://www.gymnastics.sport/site/news/displaynews.php?idNews=2262
Yeo can still submit the element later on in the comp if she wants, but I doubt she'll go for the double, because what's the point? She's SUPER likely to get her first World medal with just a Rudi and DTY.
Yeah, and playing it 'safe' with the Rudi worked for her at Asian Games. It's better to not risk it and get the medal than to risk and get it named. If she also makes the AA final, maybe she can try it there? That would make sense to me.
castellan_starlife_blog says:
I need Biles, Liu, and Yeo to medal so badly!
gym_newbie says:
Liu Jinru has very high 2-vault difficulty, but she is lacking execution comparing to almost all potential finalists. Her only okay vault is her DTT. She seems to be really inconsistent with her Rudi, and she sometimes makes this vault indistinguishable from her DTT.
sigh… another of those chinese two vt looking like one….. i think we've seen that one before….lol
cajyas says:
I would love to see 2nd and 3rd go to either Chuso, Yeo, or Golgota (any order is fine by me). These are the three that have impressed me most this year, and I want them to go 2nd-4th here!
Guess simone and hurd are now bff? 🙂
This might be one of our favorite pictures ever… 😍 #DohaGym2018 @Simone_Biles @morgihurd pic.twitter.com/Wnt8R7r940
— Inside Gymnastics (@InsideGym) October 23, 2018
Very happy to see this actually. There is no "I" in team.
(head down)
*I will see myself out now*
Yep, they were jamming together to the beat music at the begin of vt podium training! and simone photobombed morgan's interview…. that's the way it should be…
srd1977 says:
That was the best photobomb ever.
CHUSO! CHUSO! CHUSO! CHUSO!! I really really wanna see her take a medal home to UZB!!!!!
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