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On the way to Khyzy, 10 km from the Baku-Rostov highway, you can watch a very interesting natural phenomenon: various geological rocks create a special colorful landscape on top of the hills. It is believed that a similar geological phenomenon happens only in one more place on the planet: the Death Valley in the United States.
When we say Khyzy, we first think of red mountains, red trees and red poppies. The road leading from the village of Gilazi is located along the golden Sarafata Ridge. The highest peak on the ridge is Mount Saraku, which is 958 meters high. There are mountains here on which on side is a winter pasture and the other is a summer pasture. The beauty of colorful and hennaed mountains and countless Khyzy springs is astonishing.
The distance between Baku and Khyzy is 70 km. Located in the Guba-Khachmaz tourist region and surrounded mainly by forests, the district is washed by the Caspian Sea in the east. Among Azerbaijan's mountainous district, Khyzy is the closest to Baku. Its climate is moderate and arid. It is located on a plateau with numerous hills from the southern slope of the Great Caucasus Mountains as far as the Samur-Davachi plain. Khyzy is so small that the central street is only a few hundred meters long. At first sight, it looks extremely tedious. As you leave the centre and travel to surrounding areas, these thoughts are replaced with new different impressions. Khyzy is the homeland of prominent figures of national literature, Cafar Cabbarli, Mikayil Musviq and Cabir Novruz.
Mikayil Musviq (1908-1938)
The first thing you see on your way to Khyzy is the home museum of Mikayil Musviq. Although he was a teacher and translator, he is famous for his lyrical poems. The poet with a romantic spirit fell victim to the bloody terror of the Stalin era. In 1937, he was arrested for his free thoughts and became one of the thousands of national intellectual who were shot by a firing squad.
Cafar Cabbarli (1899-1934)
The house in which he was born and lived until 6 is now a museum. He was a playwright, poet, prosaic, actor, scriptwriter and a film director. In 1925, he translated Shakespeare's tragedy "Hamlet" for the State Drama Theatre and staged it for the first time. His play "Sevil", which he wrote in 1927, is dedicated to the subject of women's freedom in the East. He was the first to bring the first woman to the stage, Izzat Orucova, in the conservative Muslim East. He is also the founder of national cinema. It is no accident that the Azerbaijanfilm studio bears his name.
The local population is called Tat or mountain people. Their dialect is similar to the Baku dialect. The Tats were resettled to Khyzy from Iran in the 4th-6th centuries and the process of resettlement continued at various times. According to historical records, they started migrating to Azerbaijan about 1,400 years ago. The total number of Tats, who live mainly in the north-eastern part of the country, is about 20,000. Some of them live in Khyzy.
The place-name Khyzy
According to the Arab historian Ibn Fadlan (8th century), the Muslim community of the Khazars was led by someone from the Khiz clan. Based on this, the word Khyzy is a derivative of the name Khazar. The specialist in Turkic philology, Firudin Calilov, writes in his book "The People of Azar" that according to Ibn Fadlan, in the main city of the Khazars, the Muslim community was led by someone from the Khiz clan. Therefore, the origin of the name Khyzy is linked to the word Khazar. Khyzy is the name of a tribe. Khyzy people are Turkic-speakers. The Turkic-speaking Khyzy people lived in northern Azerbaijan in the second millennium BC. Khyzy people believed in Prophet Ilyas and God.
Khazars
"The rule of the Khazars lasted several centuries from the Caspian and Black Sea coasts to the Baltic Sea."
S. S. Bogush, historian
The Greek geographer, Strabo, who lived in the first century AD, recorded that trade routes to India passed through Azerbaijan, including the Khyzy-Barmak region. According to Herodotus, this region was populated by Khazars. In the first century BC, they migrated to other countries and left behind only the name of the Caspian Sea (Khazar). After the death of Atilla (454), the Khazar clans who were under the rule of the Hun Empire, got a chance to pursue an independent policy. After defeating Sassanid garrisons in 457 and looting Iranian lands, they returned to Azerbaijan. As a result of the Iranian-Byzantine wars that went on for centuries, the main transit roads passed through the territory of the Khazar state. As a result, the roads leading from Iran, India and China to Europe were controlled by the Khazars, and they maintained a large army of contract soldiers with money received from the taxes they imposed on the Silk Road. One of the main areas populated by Khazars, who had founded multiple settlements and cities in the country, was Khyzy. Beginning from the first century AD, Hun, Sabir and Khazar tribes passed through Darband and started to settle in the Albanian steppe, including on the plains of the Khyzy-Barmak region. This place is historically called Khyzy-Barmak region.
Khyzy-Barmak region
Its name derives from that of the Barmak tribe that inhabited this place. Khyzy people lived in this region in the second millennium BC. The region was involved in Silk Road trade. It is even believed that Dada Qorqud was originally from the Khyzy-Barmak region. The German traveller Adam Oleari, who visited the Khyzy-Barmak region, heard about Dada Qorqud from the local people and recorded that Darband residents say that his grave is in the city cemetery. They said that Qorqud was a friend of Muhammad, sat at his feet, learnt from him and lived for 300 years after his death. His grave is in a cave on a rocky mountain. The Dada Qorqud ballade told about the Khyzy-Barmak region, the Oguz plateau, the Cigatay plain and Mount Boybayim. It also takes into account many other facts. It is claimed that Dada Qorqud was from the Khyzy-Barmak region. He went to the city of Darband from there.
The territory of the Khyzy-Barmak region belonged to the Turkic-speaking Sak Massaget state which existed from the 5th century BC. Barmak means bar – product and mak – priest, i.e. a "productive priest". The knowledgeable Barmaks used cuneiforms. Strabo recorded that there was a "large and densely-populated holy region in Albania. People worshipped Helia (Sun) here. The Albanian name of the God of the Sun is not known. That place was Mount Barmak. The Alins (mountain people) who lived around the mountain worshipped the sun. The mountain people of the Khyzy-Barmak region worshipped the sun until the 7th century. Along with that, the Barmak tribe worshipped fire. They regarded agriculture as a holy trade. Around Mount Barmak, there was a fire temple created due to burning natural gas. In the 3rd-6th centuries, fire worship was a state religion in Khizan Kingdom. In the 7th century, the Khyzy-Barmak mountain people converted to Islam. It is believed that Roman troops of Emperor Domitian, Caesar Augustus Germanicus and Julius Maximus's Legio XII Fulminata arrived in Absheron. The legion took control of the coastal areas of the Khyzy-Barmak region. They left after spending the winter here. In the first century AD, Hun, Sabir and Khazar Turkic tribes passed through Darband and started to settle in the Albanian steppe, including the Khyzy-Barmak region. Beginning from the 9th-11th centuries, the Silk Road which passed through the Khyzy-Barmak region helped establish trade relations with many European and Asian cities. The Khyzy-Barmak region was located on the trade road that connected Baku, Dagestan, North Caucasus and southern Russian lands. In the Middle Ages, the Khizan Kingdom (Khyzy Kingdom) existed here. After the Russia-Iran war of 1804-1813, it was taken over by Russia together with the Guba Khanate.
Khyzy is the first stopping point on the northern tourist route. It is worth visiting some places that form the tourism potential of the area.
Xalac village
The village located at a distance of 4 km from the district centre is called Xalac. There is a famous 15th century shrine here. This shrine, which is located at an ancient graveyard, is called "Ag Pir". The old gravestones depict the sun, which was the emblem of the Safavid Empire. The 19th century "White Mill" nearby is listed as one of Khyzy's historical monuments of local importance.
Xalac is the name of a tribe. They were part of the Seljuk-Oguz Turkic alliance. They were one of the Turkic tribes that participated in the invasion of the Middle East in the 12th-18th centuries. Some Xalac people still live in Iran and Turkmenistan. The Xalac people, who lived here in the 19th century, were engaged in cattle-breeding. Villages under the same name exist in other parts of Azerbaijan.
Alisirin village
The 15th century Sheikh Heydar sepulchre is located inside an old cemetery near the village of Sixlar. According to contemporaries, Sheikh Heydar, the father of the Safavid ruler Shah Ismayil, was an extremely courageous man. He collected a lot of troops and weapons, reached an agreement with his brother-in-law, Shah Yaqub, the son of Uzun Hasan, and invaded Dagestan and Shirvan in 1483. He returned from this campaign with a lot of spoils of war and captives. In 1487, he launched another campaign and took 6,000 people prisoner. Sheikh Heydar's successful second campaign frightened neighbouring states, including Sultan Yaqub. Fearing that the Safavids will get stronger, he came to help Shirvanshah Farrukh Yasar during Heydar's last invasion of Shirvan in 1488. On seeing that a clash with the united troops was inevitable, the sheikh turned to the south, and on 9 June 1488, a bloody battle happened between Shirvanshah's united forces and Qizilbashes (Safavids) at the foothills of Mount Sahdag. Both sides suffered a lot of losses. Sheikh Heydar was killed. There are different versions about the grave of the sheikh who was buried in Azerbaijan. According to one of them, it is at the ancient cemetery in Khyzy's village of Alisirin (Sixlar). Sheikh Heydar's grave is visited as a shrine.
Bayahmad Yurdu village
This village is situated at a distance of 10 km from the centre and is regarded as one of the most beautiful and picturesque mountain villages in Khyzy. Locals explain the name of the village by the fact that the territory was the personal property of Ahmad bay before the revolution. In fact, Bayahmad Yurdu is a place name related to a tribe. Representatives of the Seljuk tribe of Ahmadli came to Absheron in the 11th century and settled in the Khyzy-Barmak region. Bayahmad Yurdu is listed as an abandoned village. Its story is a little bit different. The village was bustling with life before the Great Patriotic War (1941-45). As the war broke out, 36 people went to the war from here. In the four years of the war, about 400 people died of hunger here. People who could not withstand the famine during the war started moving to the capital. Most of the population in Baku's Papanin settlement are residents of Bayahmad Yurdu who left the village during the Second World War. In general, Khyzy-Barmak mountain people who started to migrate to Absheron in the second half of the 19th century merged kindred families in Baku villages and set up their own districts. Residents of the district of mountain people, who maintained their traditions, settled in the upper part of the city.
Qizilqazma
This zone, which has the biggest tourism potential in Khyzy, is located at a distance of 8 km from the centre. The large concrete road, which leads to a dry and clean place at a height of 1,500-1,600 meters above the sea level, goes through a thick forest. This region, where the difference in temperatures reached 8-10 degrees, is very famous. There is a small mountain lake in Qizilqazma. Several large villas have been built in the surrounding area. As you visit Khyzy, it is definitely worth seeing this superb place.
What is Altiagaj?
Altiagaj is one of the best known brands of the country and is located at a distance of 12-14 km from Khyzy. Altiagaj is located between several districts – Guba, Siyazan and Shamakhy. During the rule of the Shirvanshah state in the Middle Ages, the road from Shamakhy to Guba was built here. Altiagaj was frequently visited by travellers and caravans where they set up camps. The ancient caravan route which linked Shamakhy and Darband passed through this area in the past. Altiagaj is comprised of the words "alti" (six) and "agac" (tree). Agac was a measurement of length at one time. It is about seven kilometers long. It is a unit of measurement that appeared from sign trees which were planted every seven kilometers in order to measure the distance for trade caravans, post, pedestrians and means of transport between villages, provinces, regions and khanates. Incidentally, this unit of measurement is reflected in a number of place names. The distance between Altiagaj and Shamakhy is 42 km, that is to say "six trees".
Russians in Altiagaj
The village used to be populated by Russians. Old Russian wooded houses are now rented out to tourists. The old church is closed. The large church bell is an attraction in the middle of the village. Orthodox Christianity started to spread in Azerbaijan in the early 19th century due to the "policy of resettlement" pursued by Russian tsarism in the region. In order to eliminate the heavy consequences of the split in the Russian Orthodox Church, sectarian Christians were exiled to the Caucasus.
The first Russian settlers in Azerbaijan founded the village of Altiagaj in Shamakhy District in 1834. The Russians, who were exiled from tsarist Russia two centuries before and were called Malakans, settled in several parts of Azerbaijan. Since the early 1990s, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Russians have been leaving this area. Presently, most of the population in the village of Altiagaj, where 25 Malakan families live, are settlers from Western Azerbaijan (Republic of Armenia).
The villagers are engaged mainly in cattle-breeding. Altiagaj is famous for its apple gardens. A cable way has been extended from here to the upper mountain and forest zone. All conditions are right for picnics here. Altiagaj is a very good place for tourism. Many asthma patients come here for a breath of fresh air in summer. The area has great potential for hiking, a type of strolls and tourism. There are about 300 houses with a bed for the night in the area. Those who are fond of hiking take tourist trips to Shamakhy and Maraza from here. The office of the Altiagaj National Park is located at the entrance to the village.
Altiagaj National Park (ANP)
The Altiagaj National Park, which is located at a distance of 120 km from Baku, was set up on the basis of a state reserve under the same name in 2004 and is on the territory of Khyzy and Siyazan districts. Natural forests cover 90 per cent of the territory of the reserve which was set up with the aim of preserving the natural landscape, flora and fauna of the Greater Caucasus Ridge. There are rare species of plants and animals here. There are nine species of mammals and 12 species of birds living here.
Soyuqbulaq
This territory, which neighbours on the Sahdag National Park, has great potential for ecotourism. There is a place called Soyuqbulaq on the highest point of the ANP. Soyuqbulaq has springs with ice cold water and is on the territory of a forest on top of a mountain. Only locals and staff of the national park know this place, and they seize every opportunity to come to Soyuqbulaq for a picnic. According to ANP staff, if you do not make noise here, you will get a chance to see animals living in the park. It is possible to set up a tent and stay overnight here. You will enjoy the scenery. It is a wonderful place for relaxation. You need to get permission from the ANP administration to enter the park.
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Eoin Morgan's men appeared in complete control in this one-off T20 showdown while Alex Hales was blazing his way to 43 from just 17 balls.
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1995: We haven't been able to find a prophecy for "the end" in this year.
Sometime in 1996: The book "The Return of Jupiter: End of the world in the light of the Bible" Dorrance Publishing, Pittsburgh PA predicted a disaster starting in the Pacific Ocean: "A terrible earthquake is going to break the oceanic earth crust under the Pacific Ocean by the year 1996 AD"
1996-OCT-23: Since 1658, many Christians have accepted the calculations of James Ussher, an Irish archbishop, who estimated that the first day of creation occurred on 4004-OCT-23 BCE. This would make the time interval between the creation of the world and a common estimate of the birth of Christ to be precisely 4000 years. Some people believe that Ussher fudged the data to make it come out neatly. He also estimated that the end of the world would occur exactly 6000 years later, in the fall of 1996. This is based on the concept of the "millennial week": that each of the 6 days of creation mentioned in Genesis is linked to a 1000 year time span in the life of the earth. On the 7th millennial day, 1996-OCT-23, Ussher expected that life as we know it will cease.
1997-MAR-8: The Vortex of the Star of David religious sect of Luskville, Quebec, Canada was quoted as predicting the end of the world on Saturday, MAR-8. 1 A father, Jean Leon Marcoux, was interviewed; he was worried because his children will be visiting their mother at the sect's commune on that weekend. He approached the Quebec police but was unable to get them to take any action. A spokesperson for the sect stated that they do not follow a doomsday scenario.
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One heavenly indicator was the intersection by two comets of the star Algol in the constellation Perseus. Comets Hyakutake and Hale-Bopp intersected the star on the same date (APR-11) on two adjacent years (Hyakutake in 1996 and Hale-Bopp in 1997). Plotting the two comets' trajectories over the period APR-1 to APR-30 on the two years forms an almost perfect cross. They intersected between the eyes of the Medusa head that Perseus is holding in his left hand. "Algol" means "Demon Star" in Arabic. The head is known as Rosh Satan (the head of Satan) in Hebrew. There was one further heavenly sign: on the evening of APR-10, there will be a lunar occultation of the star Aldebaran in the constellation Taurus.
1997-OCT-20: A Jewish group, called the Temple Mount and Land of Israel Faithful Movement were expected to attempt to place the cornerstone of a new temple on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. This is a small piece of real estate that is the most sacred spot in the world to Jews, and one of the most sacred to Muslims. The Rapture Ready home page has predicted that the "Tribulation" would be triggered by that event. Previous attempts had failed either because of riots, or police action. There was one report that they were going to try to airlift the stone by helicopter this time. On OCT-20, several thousand police officers were deployed throughout Jerusalem; they successfully prevented access to the Temple Mount.
1997-NOV-27: The Sacerdotal Knights of National Security report that "A space alien captured at a UFO landing site in eastern Missouri cracked under interrogation by the CIA and admitted that an extraterrestrial army will attack Earth on November 27 with the express purpose of stripping our planet of every natural resource they can find a use for -- and making slaves of every man, woman and child in the world!"
1997: Superdave the Wonderchemist took the magic number 1331 and added it to 666 the "Number of the Beast" from the Book of Revelation to get the year of the arrival of the Antichrist and the end of the world. 2 Why is 1331 a magic number?
1331 is the same backwards as forwards.
It displays the unlucky number 13 when read in either direction.
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1997-DEC-31: The 1997-JUL-29 issue of the Weekly World News reported that the biggest end of the world scare since the Cuban missile crisis was circulating through Washington. President Clinton called a secret meeting with leading Bible scholars for the week of JUL-27. A confidential Pentagon memo sparked the scare; it predicted a worldwide cataclysm of unprecedented proportions. Earthquake activity was allegedly on a rise and will peak at year-end; the earth's crust was believed to have been shifting ominously.
If almost all psychics believed that, then one can conclude that their predictions are generally quite unreliable.


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How to Install Kodi for Seniors 19.4 Build
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In this guide, you will learn How to Install Kodi for Seniors 19.4 Build on Android and Firestick devices.
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Understanding how tires are used in asphalt
By Dwight Walker, P.E.
At one time, the push to use tires in asphalt seemed to primarily be just a means of getting rid of piles of scrap tires. For many agencies, their first experience with crumb rubber in asphalt resulted from the mandate included in the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA) of 1993. But now, the emphasis of using tires in asphalt binder is to improve pavement performance.
Asphalt binders modified with ground tire rubber (GTR) have several positive qualities. Adding ground tire rubber to asphalt can contribute to improved rutting resistance, skid resistance, ride quality, pavement life and reduced pavement noise levels. Adding rubber to the asphalt liquid retards aging and oxidation of the resulting binder, which increases pavement life by lessening brittleness and cracking. Rubber-modified asphalt binders can be used in open-graded asphalt mixtures, which have reduced hydroplaning, vehicle spray and reduced pavement noise.
Some basic descriptions
Defining some of the terms commonly used regarding tire rubber in asphalt may be helpful. The descriptions included here are intended to give a general understanding of meaning rather than to constitute a specification or standard. Various organizations and agencies have established definitions and standards, which should be used where applicable.
Crumb rubber modifier (CRM) or ground tire rubber (GTR) is recycled tire rubber which has been ground into very small particles to use as an asphalt modifier.
Asphalt rubber (AR) is defined by American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) as a blend of hot paving grade asphalt cement, reclaimed tire rubber and additives in which the rubber content is at least 15 percent by weight of the liquid asphalt binder and has reacted to cause swelling of the rubber particles.
Rubberized asphalt is a term applied to rubber modified asphalt with less than 15 percent by total weight of the asphalt cement.
Dry process refers to mixing crumb rubber into the mixture as a small part of the aggregate or filler rather than blending the rubber with the liquid asphalt. This process is normally only applicable to hot mix applications.
Wet process refers to blending or reacting the crumb rubber with the liquid asphalt at elevated temperatures before incorporating the resulting binder for use in an asphalt paving or surfacing application.
In the terminal blending of rubberized asphalt, tire rubber is blended into the asphalt binder at the asphalt terminal or refinery and shipped to the asphalt production plant as a finished binder, with no additional handling or processing required. The tire rubber is incorporated into the asphalt to provide styrene, butadiene, carbon black and aromatic oils yielding a stable, homogenous material.
How tires are processed
It is important to recognize that today CRM is typically a highly controlled material. The process is no longer just grinding up a stockpile of old tires and adding the rubber to hot asphalt. The handling and shredding process is carefully planned and monitored to produce a clean and highly consistent rubber material. The crumb rubber is produced through a process of grinding rubber tires into very small particles.
During the process, the tire's reinforcing wire and fiber is removed. The steel is removed by magnets and the fiber is removed by aspiration. The rubber particles are sieved and separated into different size fractions, as specified by the customer. The resulting rubber particles are consistently sized and very clean. Automated bagging systems help ensure proper bag weights and eliminate cross contamination.
Fully PG-compliant asphalt rubber binders
Wright Asphalt Products in Houston is an example of today's rubber modified asphalt producer. They began producing tire rubber modified asphalt with a single product for high volume chip seal applications and have expanded the product line to include a full range of modified asphalts and emulsions. Through 2009, Wright has more than 1.5 million tons of rubber modified liquid asphalt in service.
Wright's process completely digests and incorporates the ground tire rubber into the asphalt cement. Consequently, their terminal blended asphalt is fully compliant with the PG binder specifications, including the solubility requirement. In their operation, the rubber particles are reduced to micron size, rather than swollen within the asphalt, by a combination of temperature and pressure. And since the rubber is completely incorporated into the asphalt at the terminal, the hot mix produced with their binders is fully recyclable.
Wright produces a concentrate containing 20 to 25 percent rubber, which can be blended with polymer to produce a polymer/rubber hybrid binder. Wright contends that the rubber additive enhances rather than replaces polymer. The rubber is not a substitute or replacement for polymer but functions as a durability enhancement. The rubber does not provide elastomeric improvements but lessens premature aging and cracking by lessening UV degradation. A weatherometer, commonly used for testing asphalt roofing material, is used to test their paving asphalts.
According to Wright, on average, adding rubber to asphalt increases the binder cost by 5 to 8 percent and adds about $2 per ton to the price of the hot mix. They estimate that their rubber modified hot mix can last an additional 5 to 8 years over unmodified mixes and their chip seals can last an additional 4 to 6 years.
AR in OGFC and warm mix
I-78 in Somerset County, New Jersey, was originally constructed in 1965 and rehabbed in 1999. In 2009 longitudinal joint raveling and minor rutting indicated the need for preservation work on the eastbound lanes from mileposts 30.9 to 42.7. At that time, the average International Roughness Index (IRI) number was 70 inches per mile. The three 12-feet wide lanes carried 77,000 vehicles per day, with 30 percent trucks.
The paving work was performed by Della Pello Paving Inc., with mix produced by Stavola Companies. The overlay mix was a 9.5 mm open graded friction course (OGFC) with 100 percent crushed trap rock aggregate and 8.5 percent asphalt rubber binder.
The asphalt rubber binder was blended by All States Materials Group (ASMG) using a portable blender/mixer and reaction tank. The asphalt contained 15 to 20 percent crumb rubber. The blending and reaction occurred at 290 to 350° F and was allowed to mix for one hour to allow the rubber particles to swell and suspend within the asphalt.
The blender was connected to the mixing plant and the binder addition was tied to the mix plant's automation. The AR mix was placed using conventional equipment. Hand-working of the mix was minimized.
The completed overlay was smooth; the IRI following paving was 35 inches per mile—half the roughness before the resurfacing. The paving work received the maximum bonus for a single lift overlay.
In addition to the conventional OGFC placement, a small warm mix asphalt (WMA) test section was placed as part of the work. The mixing temperature was reduced by 40 to 100° F (with an approximate 50° average reduction) using Evotherm. Again, the AR-modified WMA was produced and placed with conventional equipment.
ASMG also furnished AR binder to another WMA project. This one was located on Route 3 in Plymouth, MA. The mix was a ½-inch nominal maximum size, gap-graded mix containing 7.5 percent AR binder. The WMA modifier was ECOBIT, a blend of liquid asphalt cement and Sonneborn Inc.'s Ad-Rap, produced and distributed by ASMG. 20,000 tons of mix was placed in a 1 1/4-inch compacted layer during night-time paving.
AR in Illinois SMAs
In October 2008, the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority released a report evaluating field trials of HMA pavements on the Jane Addams Memorial Tollway (I-90) in the Rockford, IL, area. The primary research focus of the project was to evaluate the use of high contents of fractionated recycled asphalt pavement (FRAP). During the study, 15 percent more RAP was allowed than under then current Illinois DOT or Tollway specifications.
The high FRAP contents were incorporated into nine different mixtures, which are regularly used in Tollway pavements. Three of the mixes were SMAs using a PG 76-22 with ground tire rubber, with different coarse aggregates.
Seneca Petroleum supplied the terminally blended GTR-modified liquid asphalt. It complied with the PG 76-22 grade with the exception of the solubility test. The use of the GTR-modified binder eliminated the use of fibers normally added to prevent drain-down of the asphalt mastic during storage and hauling of SMA mixes.
According to the tollway report, the material properties of the high FRAP mixes were evaluated on how they related to pavement design—specifically, the fatigue performance curve and the HMA modulus or stiffness. The dynamic modulus determines how much the pavement flexes as a truck passes over it, resulting in strain in the asphalt pavement. This strain is evaluated against the fatigue curve, which relates the strain to the loads the pavement can carry.
The three GTR-modified SMA mixes showed excellent fatigue performance using the flexural beam fatigue test. Also, the GTR-modified mixes easily lasted the 8,000 cycles of the rubber hose variation and the 20,000 cycles of the submerged steel-wheel configuration of the Asphalt Pavement Analyzer test (AASHTO TP 63-03.)
The report concluded that the asphalt rubber modified SMAs had materials properties similar to those of other SMA mixes. It is expected that these high RAP, GTR-modified SMA mixes will perform similarly to other SMA materials produced with virgin aggregates and SBS-polymer modified asphalt.
Today, only a small percentage of waste tires are being land-filled. The recycled rubber is being used in new tires, in tire-derived fuel, in civil engineering applications and products, in molded rubber products, in agricultural uses, recreational and sports applications and in rubber modified asphalt applications.
The benefits of using rubber modified asphalts are being more widely experienced and recognized, and the incorporation of tires into asphalt is likely to increase.
Dwight Walker, P.E., is a contributing editor for Asphalt magazine and a consulting engineer specializing in asphalt materials and construction.
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So, Will Elon Musk's "Neural Lace" Brain Implant Help Us Compete with AI?
Following up on last week's "Elon Musk Is Making Progress On His Neural Lace Brain Hack To Defeat AI And Prevent the Takeover Of the Human Mind".
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Solar-powered self-driving cars, reusable space ships, Hyperloop transportation, a mission to colonize Mars: Elon Musk is hell-bent on turning these once-far-fetched fantasies into reality. But none of these technologies has made him as leery as artificial intelligence. Earlier this summer at Code Conference 2016, Musk stated publicly that given the current rate of A.I. advancement, humans could ultimately expect to be left behind—cognitively, intellectually—"by a lot." His solution to this unappealing fate is a novel brain-computer interface similar to the implantable "neural lace" described by the Scottish novelist Iain M. Banks in Look to Windward, part of his "Culture series" books. Along with serving as a rite of passage, it upgrades the human brain to be more competitive against A.I.'s with human-level or higher intelligence.
Smarter artificial intelligence is certainly being developed, but how far along are we on producing a neural lace? At the conference, Musk said he didn't know of any company that was working on one. But last year, a team of researchers led by Charles Lieber, the Mark Hyman Professor of Chemistry at Harvard University, described in Nature Nanotechnology a lace-like electronic mesh that "you could literally inject" into three-dimensional synthetic and biological structures like the brain. That was a major step.
His team's paper, published on August 29th in Nature Methods, expands on that earlier work, to show that mesh-brain implants readily integrate into a mouse brain and enable neuronal recordings for at least eight months. "In science, I've been disappointed at times, and this is a case where we've been more than pleasantly surprised," Lieber says. What does this development really mean for those of us who hope to acquire a neural lace?
I recently spoke with Lieber, arguably one of the scientists capable of making this sci-fi prediction come true.
Is the goal of your lab to create something like the neural lace Elon Musk mentioned this summer?
I don't really think it's so unrealistic. Someone can say, "Well, we can do a lot of stuff with brain-machine interfaces already," and that's true. But I think the actual interface to the brain is so crude today, and it relies a lot on the power of the computing or signal analysis outside of the brain. What we're trying to do is make an electronic circuit that can communicate neurally—or what Elon Musk called it, a neural lace—and, even though it's a man-made structure, looks to the biological system the same as the natural network.
At the outset no one, and a lot of reviewers of that first paper, believed we could even inject electronics through a needle and then not destroy the electronics. A lot of it was actually not related to anything biological. It was really about the materials science, and also showing that you could literally inject this into other kinds of structures. Also, other implanted electronics in the brain always cause some type of immune response and damage, probably due to the combination of putting something really rigid into this soft tissue: Whenever you move around and your brain moves, it moves different than this thing. It can destroy cells; but also, because it's much bigger, it's apparently easier for the cells or the biological system to recognize it as something foreign and try to attack it.
But our philosophy, it seems, is going to be really rewarding because it solves the immune-response problem, and then allows us now to do measurements and modulate neural circuits. It's basically for the lifetime of the rodents that we've been working with, which is pretty unprecedented.
Is it correct to say, as Iain M. Banks describes in his novels, that the neural lace molds to the brain, which then grows around it and incorporates it?
The brain grows literally throughout the neural lace. When it's injected, this two-dimensional mesh ends up being like a cylinder that's still a mesh, and it gets filled with the tissue. In some process, we don't understand all the details, there's obviously some regrowth, and some remodeling of the tissue refills this space where the needle initially moved all the tissue out of the way. Then you're left with something where it's interpenetrating between this roughly cylindrical structure of the mesh. You could envision co-injecting this network, the mesh or lace, with stem cells and literally regrowing damaged tissue. Using some stimulation and stuff, you could help to rewire this in the way you want—somewhat science fiction, but also not totally crazy. It's certainly in the realm of what's physically possible.
What do you think about Elon Musk's statement that we need the neural lace to compete with super-intelligent AI?
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# French Open matches in which the winner lost sets No. 3 & 4 in tie-breaks:
1977: Rolf Norberg d. Pavel Slozil 6-2, 6-3, 6-7, 6-7, 7-5
1977: Brian Fairlie d. Yannick Noah 6-1, 6-3, 6-7, 6-7, 6-2
1986: Yannick Noah d. Tarik Benhabiles 6-3, 6-4, 6-7(3), 6-7(8), 6-4
1990: Paul Haarhuis d. Jim Pugh 6-4, 7-6(4), 6-7(5), 6-7(6), 7-5
1992: Chris Pridham d. Stephane Simian 6-4, 6-3, 6-7(3), 6-7(4), 6-3
1994: Henrik Holm d. Stefan Edberg 7-5, 7-6(1), 6-7(2), 6-7(8), 6-4
2013: Gael Monfils d. Tomas Berdych 7-6(8), 6-4, 6-7(3), 6-7(4), 7-5
## All-tie-break 3-setters at the French Open:
1998: Marzio Martelli d. Goran Ivanisevic 7-6(3), 7-6(6), 7-6(2)
2006: Ivo Karlovic d. Olivier Patience 7-6(6), 7-6(1), 7-6(10)
2008: Albert Montanes d. Kristof Vliegen 7-6(5), 7-6(2), 7-6(3)
2008: Wayne Odesnik d. Guillermo Canas 7-6(6), 7-6(3), 7-6(8)
2009: Victor Hanescu d. Steve Darcis 7-6(8), 7-6(5), 7-6(3)
2013: Nick Kyrgios d. Radek Stepanek 7-6(4), 7-6(8), 7-6(11)
Longest match: 4 hours, 3 minutes. Gael Monfils d. Tomas Berdych 7-6(8), 6-4, 6-7(3), 6-7(4), 7-5
Most aces: 26 – Monfils, defeated Berdych
5-set barometer: 31-19 Lleyton Hewitt, 17-8 Feliciano Lopez, 17-9 Jarkko Nieminen, 16-8 Tomas Berdych, 14-11 Andreas Seppi, 11-5 Gael Monfils, 11-6 Gilles Simon, 9-11 Paul-Henri Mathieu, 7-2 Albert Montanes, 6-3 Marcel Granollers, 4-9 Juan Monaco, 3-2 Daniel Gimeno-Traver, 3-3 Pablo Cuevas, 2-1 Adrian Mannarino, 2-2 Tobias Kamke, 0-3 Leonardo Mayer, Steve Johnson & Paolo Lorenzi
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Benelucky is de officiële mascotte van het Europees kampioenschap voetbal 2000 dat werd gehouden in België en Nederland.

De naam van de mascotte werd bedacht door de Nederlandse student Jurrian Reurings. Zijn ontwerp werd door een jury, bestaande uit onder andere Ronald Spelbos, Pol van Himst en organisatiesecretaris Harry Been, verkozen uit 6.000 inzendingen. Benelucky heeft de kop en de manen van een leeuw (de Nederlandse Leeuw) en heeft de hoorns en staart van een duivel (verwijzend naar de Belgische Rode Duivels). De manen van Benelucky bestaan uit de kleuren van de vlaggen van beide gastlanden. Zijn beeltenis werd in 1998 gepresenteerd. Het character werd geïllustreerd door de Nederlandse illustrator Maarten Rijnen.

De naam Benelucky is een woordspeling op Benelux en tevens een samentrekking van de woorden bene en lucky (Latijn en Engels, bedoeld als goed geluk).

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Medill profs speak out
Sixteen faculty members at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism have released a public statement about dean John Lavine's controversial use of unattributed quotes in columns he wrote for the Medill alumni magazine:
Statement from the Medill Faculty
We, the undersigned members of the faculty of the Medill School of Journalism, are deeply troubled by Dean John Lavine's use of unidentified sources in his columns for Medill, the school's alumni magazine. We also are concerned about the public questions that have arisen regarding the ethics of attribution and sourcing, and commend the Daily Northwestern and columnist David Spett for raising these issues.
Public discussion about this matter has moved beyond the issue of a quote attributed to an unidentified student to a question of the dean's veracity, specifically whether the quote at issue was fabricated. Regrettably, much of this discussion has itself been anonymous, posted on the Internet by unidentified sources, an act that if predictable is nonetheless unprofessional. We speak publicly, and on the record.
The dean could, if he wished, put an end to what has become an embarrassment to Northwestern and to Medill. We call on him to do so immediately. As the Chicago Sun-Times said in a Feb. 15 editorial, "With his and the school's integrity on the line, the easiest thing for Lavine to do now is produce his notes or have the IT department retrieve that deleted e-mail to allay concerns over whether the unattributed quote is real."
This matter has become a crisis for the school. The principles of truthfulness and transparency in reporting are at the core of Medill's professional and academic mission. The dean's Feb. 14 memorandum in which he offered his explanation of events to Medill faculty is at best inadequate. It says that the quote at issue is essentially the same as that used by a student in an online video, and that the quote at issue is therefore a "fact." But of course the language used in the video is not the same as that in the contested quote, nor is the speaker in the video the unidentified source of the contested quote. Finally, the student in the video is talking about a different Medill class than the one that is the subject of the contested quote.
It is wrong to argue that the forum in which the questionable quote was used, the school's alumni magazine, is not subject to the same standards as other publication venues. Accuracy and truthfulness are non-negotiable requirements for any material prepared for publication in any forum, including in marketing and public relations. Indeed, the defense that Medill magazine is a public relations vehicle and therefore held to a lesser standard than other forms of publication is an insult to Medill's Integrated Marketing Communications faculty and staff, who are bound by the same Integrity Code, in all its particulars, as are the school's journalism students and faculty. As important, Medill magazine speaks directly to the many audiences to whom Medill owes its greatest fealty: students and alumni of the school's journalism and integrated marketing communications programs; our students' parents; the dozens of media firms around the United States and the world where our students take internships; donors to the school's academic and professional programs; employers and practitioners in both journalism and marketing communications. All of these audiences deserve a more complete accounting than the dean has thus far provided. We call on him to do so immediately.
Mary Coffman, Associate Professor
Douglas Foster, Associate Professor
Eric Ferkenhoff, Lecturer
Loren Ghiglione, Professor
George Harmon, Associate Professor
Sharon Kornely, Senior Lecturer
Craig L. LaMay, Associate Professor
Donna Leff, Professor
Arsenio Oloroso, Lecturer
Marcel Pacatte, Lecturer
David Protess, Professor
Larry Stuelpnagel, Assistant Professor
Mindy Trossman, Assistant Professor
Mary Ann Weston, Associate Professor Emerita
Charles Whitaker, Assistant Professor
Jon Ziomek, Assistant Professor Emeritus
The statement's cover letter to Dean Lavine:
Dean John Lavine
Medill School of Journalism
With this letter you will find a statement signed by several members of the school faculty concerning the news coverage of and commentary about the quotes you used in your Medill magazine columns. We are providing the statement to you, President Bienen and Provost Linzer several hours before we provide it to the news media.
The signatories to this letter have discussed how best to make our concerns known given the scope of this controversy. We have chosen to make the statement public for three reasons. First, this is not an internal matter but a public one. At this point, you have conducted an audio-taped interview with David Spett of the Daily Northwestern, two interviews with the Chicago Tribune, one on National Public Radio, and, most important, sent an e-mail message to the entire Medill faculty about the controversy.
Second, this controversy is not a faculty grievance and cannot be treated as one. If it were, the appropriate course of action would be first to request a private audience with you, with President Bienen and Provost Linzer. All the signatories to the statement believe that there should be such a meeting, and as soon as possible. But again, this matter is now very public. It is not an internal issue subject to the normal requirements of faculty governance.
Third, our students and alumni have thus far been left alone to comment on this troubling situation. We are journalism educators who have professional experience with and scholarly knowledge about the use of anonymous sources. To continue to keep our views to ourselves will justifiably be viewed as unacceptable by the young people we have taught and continue to teach. It would be unconscionable to maintain faculty silence on such a widely covered public issue.
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"Accuracy and truthfulness are non-negotiable requirements for any material prepared for publication in any forum, including in marketing and public relations."
Well, I think that's arguable. What about advertising? Whither puffery? In any case, the dean seems to view his own statements as, more or less, advertisements, and subject to all the "truthfulness" we've come to expect from ads. Understandable that the profs are insulted on behalf of Medill's PR people: he seems to imply that they're all basically copywriters.
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As we get further into Summer and Fall approaches, we're going to start experiencing shorter days. Which means that night will come sooner than usual and kids will still be out playing their new game. It's a good idea to have reflective accessories (like the arm/wrist bands shown above) or at least bright colored clothes so you can easily be seen!
Along with reflective clothing, a flashlight is important while catching Pokémon too! You should be able to see and remain safe while you're out playing. Here's a four pack of flashlights that work great and are very inexpensive!
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Ferdinand states why Torres was a flop at Chelsea
15:41 Chelsea FC , EPL , Fernando Torres , Football , Premier League , Rio Ferdinand
Fernando Torres was one of the most feared strikers at his time at Liverpool scoring around 81 goals in 142 games for the club.
Rio Ferdinand reveals the reason why Fernando Torres flopped at Chelsea
However, Chelsea's £50 million signing in 2011 was a shadow of himself. One of the major reasons was cited due to the injuries the Spaniard faced. However, former Manchester United centre back Ferdinand, who has played against Torres, believes that it is due to the style of play adopted at both the clubs.
Liverpool, under Benitez, was very much a counter attacking team, which allowed the Spaniard to use his pace and run at defenders. The understanding between Torres and Gerrard was very much talked about during their time at Liverpool .
Ferdinand added that one of the reasons was because the moment Gerrard used to get the ball, his first thought was to put the ball in the space behind the defenders for Torres to run at.
However, at Chelsea, the players preferred to move around the ball a bit more. There was more importance given to hold up play, which did not suit the style of the former Liverpool star.
However, it seems the 32 year old has found his way back home at Atletico Madrid. The Spanish International has been a key figure for Simeone's side in their quest for both the Champions league and the La Liga.
Could the Kop hero make a return?
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Rumors have spread about Fernando Torres and his troubled loan for AC Milan. Various sources have stated that due to his disappointing performances, the Italian club wishes to terminate his loan early.
Fernando Torres for Liverpool [Image from flickr by Saw]
Fernando Torres was expected to stay with AC Milan for two seasons on loan, which then would turn into a permanent contract. After consecutive poor performances in Chelsea, and turning into somewhat of a laughing stock, the striker made a move to Serie A to impress and shine once again.
Unfortunately it has not worked out for Torres in Italy either as he has only scored one goal in his last ten appearances. The once considered world-class player has now turned into a disappointment. According to the Daily Express, Torres' contract is set to be terminated in January, which would send him back to Stamford Bridge to try his luck with Chelsea once again.
Football fans worldwide recognize that Fernando Torres was once one of the best strikers in the game at his time with Liverpool. He was sold, however, for 50 million pounds to rival club, Chelsea. Liverpool supporters never got over the fact that the once Kop idol could betray them in such a matter. Most admit that they are still not over the loss of Fernando Torres. Nonetheless, the following question is still present; would supporters want Torres back at Liverpool in given the chance to in January? The surprising answer is yes. Supporters have confessed that even after everything that has happened, the Spanish striker would still be welcomed with open arms by most. It would be a difficult choice, especially for Manager Brendan Rodgers.
Fernando Torres and Steven Gerrard fans in Bangkok [Image from flickr by Tim Gerland]
Liverpool's current strikers have had recent issues scoring goals; therefore an addition of a new striker is something Rodgers must look into. There's no doubt the upcoming January transfer window will be an interesting one!
Article contributed by: Lissette Becherano
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