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CrowdStrike Ranked Number One on 2021 Fortune Future 50 List
December 2, 2021, 5:52 PM ·4 min read
Annual Fortune list recognizes CrowdStrike as the top company for its capacity to sustain long-run growth through continual innovation and reinvention
SUNNYVALE, Calif., December 02, 2021--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CrowdStrike, Inc. (Nasdaq:CRWD), a leader in cloud-delivered endpoint protection and workload protection, today announced that it landed the number one spot in the 2021 Fortune Future 50 list. The list recognizes leading, publicly traded companies best positioned for long-term growth and vitality through a market-based assessment of company potential and capacity to deliver growth.
CrowdStrike has transformed the security industry with its ground-breaking cloud-native platform, purpose built to harness the power of security and enterprise data to deliver world-class protection across endpoints, cloud workload, identity and data. Powered by the CrowdStrike Security Cloud, the Falcon platform protects customers from the most sophisticated cyber threats on the planet. This accolade from Fortune is further evidence of how CrowdStrike continues to eclipse competitors, penetrate key markets, and keep customers safe from nefarious cyber criminal actors. Additionally, landing the top spot represents the organization's ability to sustain perpetual growth, its encouraging workplace culture and steadfast commitment to progressing the company's mission.
"CrowdStrike has redefined modern security with the world's most advanced cloud-native platform, enabling us to drive constant innovation into the market to protect and secure the greatest areas of enterprise risk and friction for our customers," said George Kurtz, co-founder and chief executive officer of CrowdStrike. "We are thrilled to lead Fortune's annual list, which reflects the exciting growth opportunities ahead of us – both in terms of continuing to displace legacy and next-gen vendors because of our superior scalability and performance, as well as the growing demand for critical solutions like cloud security, Zero Trust and identity protection, and log management. This major recognition is also a testament to CrowdStrike's tenacious culture that drives innovation and outpace our competitors."
The Fortune Future 50 is selected by Fortune Magazine and the BCG Henderson Institute. The organizations examined over 1,000 publicly traded companies, scoring each based on expected future growth as determined by financial markets and the company's ability to deliver against market potential. Company's scores include 19 factors in areas of strategy, technology and investments, people, and structure, that predict growth over the following five years.
For the last decade, CrowdStrike has consistently received awards for it's strong culture, technology innovation and leadership in the security industry. Previous accolades include:
Inc. Magazine's Best-Led Companies of 2021
Deloitte Technology Fast 500 of 2021
Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work for 2021
PEOPLE Magazine Companies that Care – 2021
Human Rights Campaign CEI Perfect Score – 2021
Great Place to Work Best Workplaces in Tech UK - 2021
Great Place to Work Australia – 2021
Fortune / Great Place to Work Best Workplace for Parents – 2021, 2020
Fortune / Great Place to Work Best Place to Work in Bay Area – 2020-2021
Fortune / Great Place to Work Best Place to Work in Technology – 2020, 2021, 2017
Fortune / Great Place to Work Best Workplace for Millennials – 2020-2021
Great Place to Work in IT & IT-BPM India – 2020
Great Place to Work Best Place to Work in Texas – 2021, 2020
Working Mother Media – Best Company for Dads – 2020
Fortune / Great Place to Work 100 Best Medium Companies List – 2017 and 2018
To view the complete list, please visit Fortune's website.
To find out more about CrowdStrike's dedicated focus to DE&I efforts and workplace culture, please visit our website.
About Fortune
FORTUNE is a global media organization dedicated to helping its readers, viewers, and attendees succeed big in business through unrivaled access and best-in-class storytelling. For more information, visit www.fortune.com.
CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq:CRWD), a global cybersecurity leader, is redefining security for the cloud era with an endpoint and workload protection platform built from the ground up to stop breaches. The CrowdStrike Falcon® platform's single lightweight-agent architecture leverages cloud-scale artificial intelligence (AI) and offers real-time protection and visibility across the enterprise, preventing attacks on endpoints and workloads on or off the network. Powered by the proprietary CrowdStrike Threat Graph®, CrowdStrike Falcon captures approximately 1 trillion high-fidelity signals per day in real time from across the globe, fueling one of the world's most advanced data platforms for security.
Learn more: https://www.crowdstrike.com/
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Germany – Road to the Finals
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Success had been toying with Germany since the 2002 World Cup. Die Mannschaft came close on three previous occasions (2002. 2006, 2010) when they reached semi-finals, but couldn't lay hands on the golden trophy.
The project, which saw Germany earn their first World Cup trophy as a unified nation, was initiated under Jurgen Klinsmann and was carried forward by his the-then assistant Joachim Low. The 2014 World Cup victory in Brazil wasn't a cake walk for the European nation. Germany started their campaign from Group G, which featured the likes of USA, Ghana and Portugal.
In their opening group game in Salvador, the Germany News four-time world champions cleared their intention of winning the trophy as they defeated Paolo Bento's Portugal. German defense were on their toes and didn't allow the reigning World Player of the Year, Cristiano Ronaldo, any breakthrough. Next came, Ghana, who matched the performance of Lahm's side and held them to a 2-2 draw at Fortaleza.
In the third fixture between USA and Germany, Jurgen Klinsmann faced the team he was in-charge, a few years ago. It was a close match in Recife and the only goal, scored by Thomas Muller, was enough to seal the victory for the Germans. They topped the Group G with 7 points (2 wins and a draw)
In the round of 16 of the tournament, Germany locked horns with the 1998 World Cup winners, France. France fell short. They looked entertaining in the group stage but were beaten by a better team, with more experience at this level, who knew how to see out the game. Germany dominated the midfield and dictated the pace of the game, while France were well off their own pace. Hummel's 12th minute header ensured victory for Low's side.
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The volunteers from the London taxi driving industry, picked up the ex-servicemen from their homes and escorted the war heroes on the three day event.
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Wasteland 3 announced, using crowdfunding platform Fig
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inXile Entertainment has announced Wasteland 3 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.
The third entry in the series will be ditching Kickstarter, which was used to fund Wasteland 2, in favor of using Fig. The campaign will launch October 5th and seeks to raise $2.75 million.
Here is the full press release, with everything you need to know, via Kotaku:
What is Wasteland 3?
A party-based role-playing game, with a renewed focus on our trademark complex story reactivity and strategic combat.
By including vehicles, environmental dangers, and a revamped, more fluid action system, we are evolving on Wasteland 2's deep tactical turn-based combat and unique encounter design.
Play by yourself or with a friend in story-driven synchronous or asynchronous multiplayer. Choices open up (or close off) mission opportunities, areas to explore, story arcs, and tons of other content.
Your Ranger Base is a core part of the experience. As you help the local people and improve your Ranger Base, quests and narrative will force you to make decisions on how to lead.
The game will be set in the savage lands of frozen Colorado, where survival is difficult and a happy ending is never guaranteed. Players will face difficult moral choices and make sacrifices that will change the game world.
Wasteland 3 will feature a deep and engaging story utilizing a newly-revamped dialog tree system from the celebrated writers of Torment: Tides of Numenera
Simultaneously releasing to Windows, Mac, Linux, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Explore a New Frozen Wasteland
You start the game as the sole survivor of Team November, a Ranger squad dispatched to the icy Colorado wastes. This is a land of buried secrets, lost technology, fearsome lunatics, and deadly factions. No one here has ever heard of the Desert Rangers. Your reputation is yours to build from scratch, and your choices may save this land or doom it. With a renewed focus on macro-reactivity, you'll be picking between warring factions, deciding whether locations are destroyed or saved, and other far reaching decisions that have a marked impact on the shape of your world.
Bring a Friend
For the first time in the history of the Wasteland franchise, you will be able to take a friend with you on your journey into the post-apocalyptic wastes! Wasteland 3 opens up the possibility to play through the campaign with a friend; both of you controlling your own squad of Rangers.
The core of Wasteland 3 will still be a rich single-player experience. If you play with a friend while both online together, you'll be able to share many missions, and join up to hit key story beats, but you can also split up and cover more ground. Once a game is started, you can play Wasteland 3 while your friend is offline, and do a lot of missions without them. Be aware, however, that the actions you take while your friend is off-line are not without consequence!
By making the decision to include multiplayer early on in the process, we will be able to design a game that is true to the core principles of the Wasteland franchise and our studio. Wasteland 3 can be played as an offline, single-player game, and is built from the ground up with a focus on story and reactivity that makes no sacrifices to the multiplayer experience. At the same time, co-op players will enjoy working together to change Wasteland 3's highly reactive world… or finding ways to destroy what their friend has worked to accomplish.
Expanding on Wasteland 2 Designs
Our strategic turn-based combat is core to the Wasteland experience. Wasteland 2's rangers could use cover, flank their enemies, and attack from rooftops with deadly precision and horrific status effects. Wasteland 3 will build and polish this existing system while adding a new feature: team-focused abilities. Your rangers will have an arsenal of combat skills with special tactical effects, usually focused around weakening the enemy while protecting their squads.
Another big change this time around will be the addition of vehicles. Your ranger will use your upgradeable vehicle for travel, storing essential goods, exploration, and survival. Gear up your vehicle well enough, and you'll be able to use it for moveable cover in combat, or – if you've installed a turret – deal with fools crazy enough to tangle with the Desert Rangers.
Finally, the Ranger base is a key location in all the Wasteland games, and Wasteland 3 will be no different. This time the experience will be much more involved, as you are setting up and reinforcing a brand new Ranger base to survive and even thrive in the hostile snowscapes of Colorado. Rather than the base being primarily a place to pick up new missions and replacement squad mates, we're expanding it so that it is a full base of operations, allowing you to gather materials, do research, reach out to factions over the radio, try to set up supply lines and trade routes, and more!
A Brand New Atmospheric Experience
Looking around at the rich possibilities of our setting, it struck us how often we do return to the desolate dry desert and ruined cities. We still think that's a great core setting, but it is also more limiting when in reality the world after mankind can encompass many different settings, from overgrown wilderness thriving on former cities (something we explored more in Wasteland 2) to the remnants of mankind trying to survive in a hostile, frozen landscape. More than anything, a solitary building or town amidst an unblemished field of snow emphasizes an overwhelming sense of isolation that is key to the post-apocalyptic story. It is this rarely found setting and aesthetic that we want to explore in Wasteland 3.
As part of our improved presentation, we're updating the way dialog is built and presented. Wasteland 3 will feature a complex dialogue based on the ideology behind Torment: Tides of Numenera's branching system. Players will choose lines of dialogue that lead them through branching conversations. Choosing certain skills for your character may spell the different between success or catastrophe. And last but not least, in key conversations the camera will pan in to show a closer shot of person you're talking to.
We're very fortunate to have concept artist, Andrée Wallin of Wasteland 2 and Star Wars: The Force Awakens once again on hand to help us establish the look of this game, providing key art pieces that we'll be used for inspiration and reference throughout the game's development.
Additionally, we've been working closely with Christopher and Nic Bischoff of Brotherhood Games, the team behind the widely celebrated STASIS and Cayne isometric adventure games. In fact, they're responsible for the beautiful prototype screenshots and video you've seen so far!
The following screenshots accompanied the announcement:
Wasteland 2 broke in me in a way very few games ever have. It's controls were super wonky, and its interface was frustratingly janky. Still, I loved everything else so much, that I will be keeping a close eye on this as it progress.
Tyler Fischer is a Senior Writer for MONG who plays video games when he's not busy researching alien conspiracy theories at 2AM. You can find him on Twitter.
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Bryan Fischer: Gays Responsible For The Nazi Party
Bryan Fischer, total dickhead
Bryan Fischer, of the American Family Association (the hate group sponsoring Gov. Rick Perry's prayer and fasting rally) wants to clear something up.
He never once said that gays were responsible for the HOLOCAUST. He said that the gays were responsible for the NAZI PARTY (which was responsible for the Holocaust).
Remember, folks! Bryan Fischer will be praying for America alongside Texas governor and potential GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry on August 6 at the seven-hour fasting and prayer-fest, Response: A Call to Prayer For a Nation in Crisis.
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Kris King June 10, 2011 at 7:52 AM
Well, he's just made it to the top of my "Hateful Wankers" list. You have to wonder with arseholes like this whether they know that gays were marched off to the camps, as well as jews (and socialists, atheists, communists, and others)? If he isn't, he's an ignorant prick. If he is, he's a dishonest prick.
The SA storm troopers he refered to did have many homosexuals in it, and so did the SS that replaced it. But these homosexuals were, by neccesity Created by Nazi laws) deeply closeted. Perhaps it was not homsexuality itself, but the closet, which led to the creation of the Nazi party, which then perpetuated it.
See any similarity with todays neo-conservativs, televangelists.priests, etc.?
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Former player Billy Bean made an appearance Tuesday at Mets camp in his new role as MLB's ambassador for inclusion. Bean, who is gay, said his early retirement from the game was tied to never feeling fully accepted by teammates.
Bean, who is touring various camps this spring, wore a Mets uniform and participated in workouts.
"I disagree with his lifestyle," Daniel Murphy told NJ.com. "I do disagree with the fact he is homosexual. That doesn't mean I can't still invest in him and get to know him. I don't think the fact someone is homosexual should completely shut the door on investing in them in a relational aspect.
Murphy also said he held no grudge toward Bean as a person and could have a relationship with him.
Bean, 50, addressed Murphy's reaction in a piece he wrote Wednesday for MLB.com.
"After reading his comments, I appreciate that Daniel spoke his truth. I really do," Bean wrote. "He was brave to share his feelings, and it made me want to work harder and be a better example that someday might allow him to view things from my perspective, if only for just a moment.


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Maccaroni (título original Maccheroni) es una película italiana de 1984 dirigida por Ettore Scola y protagonizada por Jack Lemmon y Marcello Mastroianni.

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Antonio (Marcello Mastoianni) y Roberto (Jack Lemmon) son ex veteranos de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Roberto regresó a Estados Unidos y ahora es un ejecutivo. Antonio vive en Nápoles e inventa cartas firmadas por Roberto para consolar a su hermana. Roberto regresa a Italia ignorante de lo que se avecina: será Antonio quien contacte con él y le narre la historia creada a sus espaldas, consciente y deliberadamente construida durante esos 40 años.

Películas dramáticas de Italia
Películas ambientadas en Nápoles
Películas dramáticas de los años 1980
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Univers Zero - Clivages
Pere Ubu - London * Texas
Morglbl - Jazz for the Deaf
Copernicus - Nothing Exists
Zappa, Frank - Apostrophe / Over-Nite Sensation DVD
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Hassell, Jon - Power Spot
Chrome - Alien Soundtracks
King Crimson - Eyes Wide Open 2 x DVDs
Monk, Thelonious with John Coltrane - The Complete 1957 Riverside Recordings 2 x CDs (expanded/remastered) (special)
Tangerine Dream - Rubycon
Gordon, Rosco - A Proper Introduction (special)
SKU 10--PROPER2065
Released on Proper, a great UK label who do an amazing job in terms of packaging, presentation and especially in terms of sonics. This is fun, jumping proto-rock 'n' roll/rhythm & blues, basic repertoire material. A great place to hear some of his best stuff and at a amazing price.
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"Approximately 67 minutes,digitally remastered. These tracks span the short time period between 1951 and 1953.Gordon started out recording for Sam Phillips' Sun Records label in Memphis in 1951.The sides he laid down there were rough,crude-sounding blues/r&b. Curiously,Gordon had an influence in Jamaica with his hit No More Doggin'. This tune was picked up during the ska era,and his style of piano playing was very influential in both ska and "blue beat" circles. Aside from that,the players on this disc are very interesting. We have,among others,Bobby "Blue" Bland( Gordon's chauffeur) handling vocals on a couple of tracks,Pat Hare on guitar,and throughout Willie Wilkes on tenor sax. The majority of these tracks are in the jump-blues vein,and are very visceral and alive sounding. The various groups assembled here are small,r&b/blues groups,with a sax always out in front,with Gordon's voice and piano. There are two tracks with the title Booted. One version is a Chess Records release and the other is a RPM release,with Ike Turner being sent to record this version. This was,as usual,a legal wrangling as to who could release what,under what name. It's nice that Proper has included both of these tracks. In the end it doesn't really matter who released what-just be glad we have this music today. For this is a prime example of gut-bucket,car-radio,exciting sounding music,the kind that's been missing for quite sometime. In 1955,Gordon signed with Sam Phillips label again and continued to record his style of music-including his "Roscoe Rhythm" sound on the piano. Gordon eventually got out of the record business to concentrate on raising his family and tending to the business matters of his dry-cleaning business. However,what he recorded in a relatively short span of time was and is great music,pick it up while you can. For about ten dollars you will have some great music-music worth much more!"-Stuart Jefferson
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The negligent driver fled the scene, but was apprehended a short time later. He has been charged with vehicle manslaughter while intoxicated; driving under the influence resulting in bodily injury; driving under the influence with a blood alcohol level over 0.08 percent; felony hit and run resulting in death or injury; and driving on a suspended license.
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Q: Cross - browser issues using Raphael JS I am creating a rectangle element in raphael JS as a tooltip on an SVG circle element generated by raphael JS. I am unable to access the coordinates of the center of the circle (which I need to place the rectangle tooltip) using the following code in Internet Explorer..
var c = {};
c.x = parseInt(c_element.node.attributes[0].nodeValue);
c.y = parseInt(c_element.node.attributes[1].nodeValue);

//code for the rectangle element tooltip
r = paper.rect(c.x,c.y,50,50);

Its working fine in Firefox.. But in IE, the tooltip gets created at the upper left corner of the div enclosing my raphael JS paper and not on the center o the circle as desired..
How do I solve this cross-browser issue? Please help..

A: I don't know for certain why IE doesn't like this, but there's a much easier way:
c.x = c_element.attr("cx");
c.y = c_element.attr("cy");

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If you log the Raphael object to the console, you can check out the "attrs" property to see what's in there. Different for every type of Raphael object.
While we're all here: I highly recommend using an absolutely positioned div for your tooltips. HTML handles things like wrapping text and resizing the tooltip to accomodate different amounts of text much more easily than the SVG text element. See this answer. (Whatever you use, you'll still need to access the coordinates of the circle.)

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CSKA Moscow 5 Guard
Height: 1.85 Born: 18 August, 1990 Nationality: United States of America
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Totals 27 16 841:53 522 97/190 70/198 118/145 16 69 85 155 26 78 4 21 43 130 532
Averages 27 16 31:10 19.3 51.1% 35.4% 81.4% 0.6 2.6 3.1 5.7 1 2.9 0.1 0.8 1.6 4.8 19.7
1 * at FC Barcelona 28:35 13 2/3 1/5 6/9 1 1 4 6 1 2 6 7
2 vs Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv 30:03 25 2/4 4/6 9/10 2 2 3 2 2 7 28
3 at Fenerbahce Beko Istanbul 40:53 14 2/6 2/7 4/5 1 4 5 6 4 1 1 4 13
4 vs ALBA Berlin 32:56 27 7/10 4/8 1/1 3 3 6 1 5 1 3 2 23
5 at Crvena Zvezda mts Belgrade 33:20 9 2/5 0/4 5/6 1 1 8 2 3 1 3 5 10
6 vs Valencia Basket 27:39 17 5/5 2/7 1/2 2 2 5 1 1 2 3 19
7 * at Panathinaikos OPAP Athens 22:53 10 1/4 2/6 2/4 2 2 5 2 2 2 4 6
9 at Zalgiris Kaunas 26:04 27 3/5 5/6 6/6 1 1 5 3 1 6 32
10 at FC Bayern Munich 28:25 25 5/8 2/8 9/11 2 2 2 3 4 1 5 21
11 vs Real Madrid 28:11 28 6/9 5/10 1/1 1 1 2 1 2 1 4 24
12 vs Olympiacos Piraeus 26:14 16 3/9 2/5 4/5 2 5 7 7 4 3 2 3 4 20
13 * at Khimki Moscow Region 32:40 36 4/7 6/7 10/12 1 8 9 10 1 3 1 3 8 51
14 * vs Anadolu Efes Istanbul 26:28 11 2/4 1/6 4/6 1 4 5 10 1 1 4 19
15 * vs Zenit St Petersburg 31:42 20 6/10 2/4 2/2 1 5 6 7 4 3 2 6 32
16 * at LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne 36:11 31 7/12 3/11 8/8 1 2 3 6 2 4 2 3 4 24
17 * at AX Armani Exchange Milan 39:58 20 4/12 3/12 3/4 2 2 4 11 7 1 2 6 13
18 * at TD Systems Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz 34:49 20 3/11 4/8 2/2 5 5 7 1 2 6 25
19 * vs Zalgiris Kaunas 33:09 21 4/7 3/9 4/6 3 3 5 3 6 21
20 * vs FC Barcelona 31:25 18 5/8 1/6 5/5 4 4 4 1 2 1 3 5 20
21 * vs Fenerbahce Beko Istanbul 29:50 11 2/7 2/8 1/3 2 2 4 3 1 1 1 4
24 at Valencia Basket 40:08 37 7/12 4/15 11/13 1 2 3 7 4 6 1 2 7 31
26 * at Olympiacos Piraeus 30:19 15 3/7 2/6 3/5 1 3 4 6 4 1 2 8 16
27 * at Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv 31:19 10 2/5 1/6 3/4 2 2 6 2 1 1 3 10
28 * at Anadolu Efes Istanbul 25:14 5 0/4 1/5 2/2 8 2 2 5
29 vs AX Armani Exchange Milan 33:54 21 4/4 3/12 4/4 1 2 3 5 2 1 2 3 4 24
30 * at Real Madrid 33:01 22 3/6 4/6 4/5 1 1 4 2 1 1 4 21
31 * vs Crvena Zvezda mts Belgrade 26:33 13 3/6 1/5 4/4 1 1 4 2 1 1 6 13
27 Totals 841:53 522 97/190 70/198 118/145 16 69 85 155 26 78 4 21 43 130 532
Average 31:10 19.3 51.1% 35.4% 81.4% 0.6 2.6 3.1 5.7 1 2.9 0.1 0.8 1.6 4.8 19.7
#1 in Free throws attempted (145)
#2 in Free throws made (118)
#2 in Points (522)
#3 in Blocks against (21)
#3 in Field goals attempted (388)
#4 in 3-pointers attempted (198)
#6 in Field goals made (167)
#6 in Fouls Drawn (130)
#7 in Assists (155)
#8 in 3-pointers made (70)
#9 in Index Rating (532)
#11 in Turnovers (78)
#17 in Assist-turnover ratio (198.7%)
#18 in 2-pointers attempted (190)
#18 in Minutes Played (841:53)
Index rating 51 Khimki Moscow Region vs. CSKA Moscow 12/11/2020
Points 37 Valencia Basket vs. CSKA Moscow 2/4/2021
Offensive rebounds 3 Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz vs. Brose Bamberg 2/11/2016
Defensive rebounds 8 Khimki Moscow Region vs. CSKA Moscow 12/11/2020
Total rebounds 9 Khimki Moscow Region vs. CSKA Moscow 12/11/2020
Assists 14 Zalgiris Kaunas vs. AS Monaco 12/15/2021
Steals 5 AS Monaco vs. CSKA Moscow 10/29/2021
Blocks 2 CSKA Moscow vs. AX Armani Exchange Milan 3/11/2021
Minutes 40 Valencia Basket vs. CSKA Moscow 2/4/2021
Played college basketball at Eastern Arizona JC (2008-09) and at Lamar (2010-12).
Moved to Croatia for the 2012-13 season, signed by KK Zagreb.
In February'13 moved to Israel, signed by Galil Elyon.
Moved to Italy for the 2013-14 season, signed by Fulgor Omegna, DNA Silver.
Moved to Greece for the 2014-15 season, signed by Kolossos Rodou.
In December'14 moved to Spain, signed by Baskonia Vitoria.
Moved to Greece for the 2016-17 season, signed by Panathinaikos Athens.
Signed for the 2017-18 season by Phoenix Suns.
In January'18 signed by New Orleans Pelicans.
In February'18 back to Greece, signed by Panathinaikos Athens.
Moved to Italy for the 2018-19 season, signed by Olimpia Milan.
Moved to Russia for the 2019-20 season, signed by CSKA Moscow.
Played there till March'21.
In April'21 signed by Brooklyn Nets.
Moved to France for the 2021-22 season, signed by AS Monaco Basket.
2018-19 Alphonso Ford Top Scorer.
Named 2016-17 EuroLeague Round 13 MVP.
Named 2018-19 EuroLeague February MVP.
Named 2020-21 EuroLeague November MVP.
Named 2019-20 EuroLeague Round 1, 8, 14 & 15 MVP.
Named 2020-21 EuroLeague Week 9 & 11 MVP.
Led the 2018-19 EuroLeague regular season in scoring (19.8 ppg.)
Won the 2016-17 and 2017-18 Greek National Championship with Panathinaikos Athens.
Won the 2017 Greek National Cup with Panathinaikos Athens.
Won the 2018 Italian Super Cup with Olimpia Milan.
Named to the 2011-12 All-Southland Conference 1st Team.
2014-15 Laboral Kutxa Vitoria 16 178 11.1 49/95 51.6 14/62 22.6 38/45 84.4 37 18 30 0
2015-16 Laboral Kutxa Vitoria Gasteiz 29 289 10 73/160 45.6 35/95 36.8 38/44 86.4 75 17 78 3
2016-17 Panathinaikos Superfoods Athens 25 328 13.1 91/155 58.7 34/100 34 44/64 68.8 55 23 75 2
2017-18 Panathinaikos Superfoods Athens 12 194 16.2 60/95 63.2 15/62 24.2 29/41 70.7 33 16 49 1
2018-19 AX Armani Exchange Olimpia Milan 30 595 19.8 119/253 47 70/215 32.6 147/178 82.6 114 39 191 1
2019-20 CSKA Moscow 28 590 21.1 104/228 45.6 79/188 42 145/174 83.3 93 19 120 3
2020-21 CSKA Moscow 27 522 19.3 97/190 51.1 70/198 35.4 118/145 81.4 85 26 155 4
2021-22 AS Monaco 19 284 14.9 69/140 49.3 32/108 29.6 50/68 73.5 57 25 115 1
Totals 186 2980 16 662/1316 50.3 349/1028 33.9 609/759 80.2 549 183 813 15
Averages 186 2980 16 662/1316 50.3 349/1028 33.9 609/759 80.2 3 1 4.4 0.1
2010/11 Lamar 24 299 12.5 67/145 46.2 35/98 35.7 60/75 80.0 57 26 44 3
2011/12 Lamar 32 548 17.1 172/346 49.7 39/120 32.5 87/108 80.6 102 50 63 4
2012/13 KK Zagreb 9 172 19.1 54/100 54.0 19/28 67.9 19/28 67.9 28 21 24 3
Galil Elyon 13 296 22.8 81/157 51.6 22/65 33.8 68/91 74.7 67 39 41 5
2013/14 Omegna 33 712 21.6 200/355 56.3 62/183 33.9 126/167 75.4 179 59 161 6
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Justia Forms Business Contracts Dicerna Pharmaceuticals Inc
Dicerna Pharmaceuticals Inc (27)
Business Operations (4)
Form of Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreement under the Amended and Restated 2016 Inducement Plan (Filed With SEC on November 5, 2020)
Employment Agreement by and between the Company and (Filed With SEC on November 5, 2020)
First Amendment to Collaboration and License Agreement by and between the Company and F. Hoffman-La Roche Inc., dated as of May 22, 2020 (Filed With SEC on August 6, 2020)
Patent Cross-License Agreement by and between the Company and Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc., dated as of April 3, 2020 (Filed With SEC on August 6, 2020)
Second Amendment to Lease Agreement by and between the Company and Western Office Portfolio Property Owner LLC, dated as of July 8, 2020 (Filed With SEC on August 6, 2020)
Collaborative Research and License Agreement, dated October 22, 2018, by and between the Company and Alexion Pharma Holding Unlimited Company (Filed With SEC on March 13, 2019)
Form of Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreement under the Amended and Restated 2014 Performance Incentive Plan (Filed With SEC on November 5, 2020)
Collaboration and License Agreement by and between the Company and Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc., dated as of April 3, 2020 (Filed With SEC on August 6, 2020)
Amended and Restated Employment Agreement by and between the Company and Regina DeTore Paglia, dated as of February 21, 2020 (Filed With SEC on August 6, 2020)
Second Amendment to Collaboration and License Agreement, by and between the Company and F. Hoffman-La Roche Inc., dated as of June 22, 2020 (Filed With SEC on August 6, 2020)
Amendment to Indenture of Lease by and between the Company and HCP/King 75 Hayden LLC, dated as of July 1, 2020 (Filed With SEC on August 6, 2020)
Transition Agreement dated as of April 16, 2020, by and between the Company and Ralf Rosskamp (Filed With SEC on May 7, 2020)
Employment Agreement by and between the Company and Douglas Pagn, dated as of May 26, 2020 (Filed With SEC on May 7, 2020)
Amended and Restated Employment Agreement dated as of February 26, 2020 by and between the Company and Ralf Rosskamp (Filed With SEC on February 28, 2020)
Amended and Restated Employment Agreement dated as of February 21, 2020 by and between the Company and Douglas M. Fambrough, III (Filed With SEC on February 28, 2020)
Amended and Restated Employment Agreement dated as of February 21, 2020 by and between the Company and Bob. D. Brown (Filed With SEC on February 28, 2020)
Amended and Restated Employment Agreement dated as of February 24, 2020 by and between the Company and James B. Weissman (Filed With SEC on February 28, 2020)
Amended and Restated Employment Agreement dated as of February 25, 2020 by and between the Company and John B. Green (Filed With SEC on February 28, 2020)
Description of Securities Registered Pursuant to Section 12 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (Filed With SEC on February 28, 2020)
Form of Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreement (Filed With SEC on January 13, 2020)
Form of Restricted Stock Unit Grant Notice (Filed With SEC on January 13, 2020)
Lease Agreement between the Company and Western Office Portfolio Property Owner LLC, dated as of August 26, 2019 (Filed With SEC on November 7, 2019)
Lilly Share Issuance Agreement, dated October 25, 2018, by and between the Company and Eli Lilly and Company (Filed With SEC on March 13, 2019)
Collaboration and License Agreement, dated October 25, 2018, by and between the Company and Eli Lilly and Company (Filed With SEC on March 13, 2019)
Additional Target Agreement, dated December 31, 2018, by and between the Company and Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH (Filed With SEC on March 13, 2019)
Alexion Share Issuance Agreement, dated October 22, 2018, by and between the Company and Alexion Pharma Holding Unlimited Company (Filed With SEC on March 13, 2019)


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robeiae
Thaumaturge
On a down bound train
Judgement Day Nov 3, 2021 8:00:20 GMT -5 Optimus likes this
Post by robeiae on Nov 3, 2021 8:00:20 GMT -5
1) Youngkin (R) beats McAuliffe (D) in Virginia
2) Murphy (D) neck and neck with Ciattarelli (R) in Jersey
3) Minneapolis ballot initiative that would have replaced PD with Dept. of Public Safety fails
On 1):
Dems also lost control of the State legislature.
And one could say that the Lincoln Project once again managed to accomplish jack shit. Some are arguing that in fact it may have lost the Dems the election, though a lot of people think this was more about schools than anything else.
And talk about things boding well or not well:
Fuuuuuuuuuuuck...
Judgement Day Nov 3, 2021 8:05:18 GMT -5
And out in the sticks:
Also in Virginia:
First ever black woman to hold State-wide office in Va: Winsome Sears (R), new Lt. Governor
First ever Hispanic AG in Va: Jason Miyares (R) (parents fled Cuba in the 60's)
What a day to be a supporter of the Lincoln Project...
(yes, I'm grinding on it)
Nov 3, 2021 8:00:20 GMT -5 robeiae said:
...though a lot of people think this was more about schools than anything else.
To whit:
That's a killer margin.
Judgement Day Nov 3, 2021 16:05:44 GMT -5 robeiae likes this
Post by Optimus on Nov 3, 2021 16:05:44 GMT -5
Predictably "woke Twitter" (clogged toilet that it is) is trying to spin this as proof that the US is controlled by "something something wHiTe SuPrEmAcY," rather than a rebuke of progressives across many levels of government pushing a toxic, deranged, and (ironically) racist agenda that the overwhelming majority of the country is against.
Judgement Day Nov 3, 2021 18:52:28 GMT -5
Post by robeiae on Nov 3, 2021 18:52:28 GMT -5
Jennifer Rubin's political acumen continues to dazzle the world:
prozyan
Cognoscente
Post by prozyan on Nov 3, 2021 19:21:44 GMT -5
Nov 3, 2021 16:05:44 GMT -5 Optimus said:
... rather than a rebuke of progressives across many levels of government pushing a toxic, deranged, and (ironically) racist agenda that the overwhelming majority of the country is against.
I think one of the best thing that could happen for the Democrat Party would be the Progressive wing spins off into its own party and stop falling under the general Democrat banner.
Then when they get crushed in elections, gaining maybe 4% of the vote, they would realize just how unpopular the majority of progressive proposals are to the general population.
There's a reason Sanders fell on his face during the primary and a reason there was mass panic when it seemed he might secure the nomination.
On the Virginia race: If Democrats Can Lose in Virginia, They Can Lose Almost Anywhere
From it:
Turnout surged across the state compared with the last gubernatorial election in 2017, a showing that initially gratified Democrats earlier today. The actual results served as a reminder that higher turnout in off-year elections no longer benefits only Democrats. The party once dominated constituencies that tend to vote less frequently, including young adults, Black and Hispanic voters, and white voters without a college degree. But the shift of white voters with less education toward Republicans, particularly in rural counties, has upended Democrats' old assumptions about turnout. Trump was able to mobilize and excite those ex-Democratic voters during his campaigns, but whether a Republican who didn't run explicitly under his banner could turn them out was an open question. Tonight, the answer appeared to be a resounding yes.
I think the argument/analysis in this piece is, by and large, stupid. And I think it perfectly reflects the out-of-touch self-involvement that people in the media insist isn't reflective of what they are writing.
This Va Governor's race wasn't about Biden and it wasn't about Trump. Mostly, it was about a walking, talking entitled douchebag named Terry who sucked eggs as a governor, who only got to be governor previously because of the Clinton Machine, running a stupid AF campaign and losing a race the Dems probably could have won. And the driving issue seems to have been education, not Trump, not Biden, and certainly not Biden's infrastructure bill.
Gah.
Oh look, actual analysis: taibbi.substack.com/p/the-red-pilling-of-loudoun-county
"The GOP ran a master class on race-based identity politics," wrote CNN's Bakari Sellers. "The return of the Lee Atwater playbook. Pretty grim," is how former Harry Reid chief of staff Adam Jentleson put it. "Hats off to the depraved cynicism and villainy and race baiting. It worked in Virginia," seethed Wajahat Ali of The Daily Beast. Van Jones last night called Youngkin the "Delta variant of Trumpism."
Just as McAuliffe had no message apart from trying to tie Youngkin to Trump, these commentators seem helpless to do anything but fall back on a cookie-cutter formula for responding to Republican electoral victories in the Trump era. This drive-by commentary misses the weedsy, multi-layered nature of the Loudoun County mess. Some of the parents I interviewed last night, for instance, didn't agree with Tanner Cross, the Christian gym teacher who spoke out at a school board meeting this past May, saying his religion would prevent him from complying with a proposed transgender policy requiring the use of preferred pronouns. "I'm a teacher, but I serve God first," he said. However, some were still furious that Cross was suspended after his speech, essentially for violating a rule not yet put in place.
I met people who didn't care about "Critical Race Theory," if they even knew what it was, but were still offended by the existence of a closed Facebook group — the "Anti-Racist Parents of Loudoun County" — that contains six school board members and apparently compiled a list of parents deemed insufficiently supportive of "racial equity efforts." Still others were troubled by a controversy involving the process by which an outside consultancy called the Equity Collaborative came to be hired, at a cost of roughly $500,000, to conduct an "equity assessment" based on a report of racial insensitivity at one school.
There is a version of that latter story that is almost too comical to be believed — one reason I have to go back is to nail down those particulars — but it's undeniable there are Loudoun County parents, many of whom are high-powered professionals working at banks or white shoe law firms, who initially smelled a rat on the finance side and only later worried about the politics.
Taibbi thinks there's a movie/series in this Loudon County mess. I think he's right.
Also some good stuff here in The Atlantic from Yasha Mounk. Essentially, the Dems are in a strange, alternate-reality denial that the concerns of voters, especially parents (of all races/ethnicities) aren't real or are somehow based on "something something fake news". Continuing to stick their heads in the sand will lead to more embarassment at the polls for years to come:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/11/virginia-election-wakeup-call-democrats/620595/
But the one option that is both intellectually dishonest and electorally disastrous is to insist on a verbal trick unworthy of a middle-school debate team: to keep claiming that widespread concern over these ideas is misguided because the term by which they have publicly come to be known technically applies to an academic research program rather than the lessons that real children are being taught in real schools. And yet, this is precisely what McAuliffe and so many others attempted to do—with disastrous results—over the closing months of his campaign.
For anybody who cares about making sure that Donald Trump does not become the 47th president of the United States, it is crucial that Democrats avoid repeating the mistakes that just put a Republican in Virginia's governor's mansion. It is impossible to win elections by telling voters that their concerns are imaginary. If Democrats keep doing so, they will keep losing.
Judgement Day Nov 7, 2021 7:52:04 GMT -5 Optimus and prozyan like this
Bwahahahahahahahahahaha...Why does the media keep saying this election was a loss for Democrats? It wasn't
Pretty much anything that happens to the Democrats is a sign that they're weak and losing and should be worried, according to the storylines into which mainstream media tends to stuff news. Pretty much nothing, including losing, seems to signify that the Republicans are losers. In so habitually and apparently unconsciously fitting a wide array of new and varied facts into familiar old frameworks, the media shape the political landscape at least as much as they report on it.
People on ludes should not write editorial pieces...
The entire article is summed up as "Hey, don't worry about getting shellacked anywhere there was a modicum of an independent vote. We won all the deep blue areas!"
Critical thinking is truly a lost art.


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February 8, 2019 — Robert, NOP
The Big Dipper (also known as the Plough) is an asterism consisting of the seven brightest stars of the constellation Ursa Major. Four define a "bowl" or "body" and three define a "handle" or "head". It is recognized as a distinct grouping in many cultures. The North Star (Polaris), the current northern pole star and the tip of the handle of the Little Dipper, can be located by extending an imaginary line from Big Dipper star Merak (β) through Dubhe (α). This makes it useful in celestial navigation.
The Engagement Ring: Through binoculars, the North Star (Polaris) seems to be the brightest on a small ring of stars. Not a constellation or cluster, this asterism looks like a diamond engagement ring on which Polaris shines brightly as the diamond.
Little Dipper
Constellation Ursa Minor is colloquially known in the US as the Little Dipper, because its seven brightest stars seem to form the shape of a dipper (ladle or scoop). The star at the end of the dipper handle is Polaris, the North Star. Polaris can also be found by following a line through two stars in Ursa Major—Alpha and Beta Ursae Majoris—that form the end of the 'bowl' of the Big Dipper, for 30 degrees (three upright fists at arms' length) across the night sky.
Andromeda was the princess of myth who was sacrificed by her parents to the sea monster Cetus. Fortunately, the hero Perseus came along to save her, and they were eventually married. The constellation Andromeda is host to the Andromeda Galaxy. Although there are smaller, dwarf galaxies that are closer to our galaxy, Andromeda is the closest big galaxy like our own; in fact, it's bigger.
Cancer is one of the zodiac constellations, which means the ecliptic—or plane of the Solar System, runs through it. The Sun, Moon, and planets move along the ecliptic, and therefore, you can sometimes find these Solar System objects in Cancer. Cancer is a medium-sized medium-brightness constellation, located between Gemini and Leo along the ecliptic. You can find the notable open star cluster Beehive cluster (also known as M44 or Praesepe) within Cancer. In greek mythology, cancer was a crab that, under the instruction of Hera, latched onto Hercules's feet while he was battling Hydra. Hercules and Hydra are also constellations, and Hydra borders Cancer.
Canis Major, the "big dog", boasts the brightest star in the night sky—Sirius! Also known as The Dog Star because of the constellation it resides in, Sirius is a massive, hot, blue star—and it's right next door! One of the reasons Sirius is so bright is that it is so close to us—only 8.6 light-years away. It's name comes from Greek, and means "glowing" or "scorcher".
Cassiopeia is widely recognized by its characteristic W shape, though it may look like an M, a 3, or a Σ depending on its orientation in the sky, and your position on Earth. However it's oriented, once you've come to know its distinctive zig-zag pattern, you'll spot it with ease. The plane of the Milky Way runs right through Cassiopeia, so it's full of deep sky objects—in particular, a lot of open star clusters. Cassiopeia is named for the queen form Greek mythology who angered the sea god Poseidon when she boasted that her daughter Andromeda was more beautiful than his sea nymphs.
King Cepheus from Greek mythology was husband to Cassiopeia and father of Andromeda. The brightest stars in the constellation Cepheus seem to form a kind of crooked house, with the roof pointing to the North. this constellation is very near the Celestial North Pole, so it's not visible from the Southern Hemisphere. The star Delta Cephei was the first ever identified cepheid variable star, a very important kind of variable stars that helps astronomers determine distances to nearby galaxies.
Gemini is a well known zodiac constellation. Zodiac constellations line up with the plane of the Solar System in our sky, an intersection known as the ecliptic. This means you will find planets passing through Gemini from time to time. Gemini is also grazed by the plane of the Milky Way, and therefore has a few deep sky objects within its boundaries. Gemini's brightest stars get their names from twins Castor and Pollux of Greek mythology.
Orion is a famous constellation, well known especially for the Belt of Orion—three stars in a line at what seems to be the waist of a human figure. The bright stars Rigel and Betelgeuse are two of the brightest stars in the sky. Between the Belt and Rigel you can see the Orion Nebula—the closest star forming region to our Solar System. A beautiful object in a telescope or binoculars, you can also just make out the nebula naked-eye.
This constellation is named for one of the most beloved creatures of Greek mythology—the winged horse named Pegasus. Within Pegasus is a well known asterism containing the 3 brightest stars in the constellation (+ 1 in Andromeda) called The Great Square of Pegasus. Alpheratz, the brightest star in the square, actually belongs to the constellation Andromeda, but in the past, this star had been considered to belong to both constellations.
You can look to Taurus, the bull, to find the two closest open star clusters to our Solar System. The Pleiades (or, Seven Sisters) is the second closest at 444 light-years away. It's an obvious cluster to even the naked eye. The Pleiades is named for the seven daughters of Atlas and Pleione of Greek Mythology. To the left of the pleiades, the Hyades (siblings to the Pleiades in mythology) is the closest open star cluster to Earth at 153 light-years away. The Hyades has a characteristic V shape to help identify it.
Ursa Minor, the Little Bear, is much fainter than it's companion the Big Bear, Ursa Major. Within Ursa Minor is the well known asterism The Little Dipper. The end of the tail of the bear, or the end of the handle of the dipper, is a star called Polaris—the Pole Star, or the North Star. This special star happens to sit at the point where the Earth's axis of rotation intersects the sky
M42 The Orion Nebula
M42, the Orion Nebula is a region of star formation about 1,300 light-years away—the closest to our Solar System. It is roughly 30 light-years across, and contains enough material to make 2,000 stars the size of our sun.
M31 Andromeda Galaxy
The Andromeda Galaxy is our nearest major galactic neighbor. It is a spiral galaxy 2,500,000 light-years away, and has a diameter of 220,000 light-years. This galaxy contains as much material as 1.5 trillion suns.
Double Cluster
The "Double Cluster" (NGC 884 and NGC 869) is a pair of two open star clusters that are a treat for binoculars and telescopes alike. Each is a congregation of many hundreds of stars, around 50-60 light-years in diameter. These clusters are both about 7,500 light-years away.
Hyades
The Hyades is the nearest open star cluster to the Solar System at about 150 light-years away and thus, one of the best-studied of all star clusters. It consists of hundreds of stars sharing the same age, place of origin, chemical content, and motion through space. In the constellation Taurus, its brightest stars form a V shape along with the brighter red giant Aldebaran, which is not part of the cluster, but merely lying along our line of sight. The age of the Hyades is estimated to be about 625 million years. The cluster core, where stars are most densely packed, has a diameter of about 18 light-years.
M35 is an open star cluster of over 300 stars. It lies at a distance of 2,800 light-years from Earth, near the foot of Castor, one of the Gemini twins. Tiny nearby cluster NGC 2158 is in the same field of view.
M41 is an open star cluster located just below the brightest star in the night sky, Sirius. It contains about 150 stars spread out over 25 light-years, and is 2,300 light-years away.
M44 The Beehive
M44, the "Beehive Cluster," and also known as "Praesepe," is a large, bright, diffuse open star cluster containing about 400 stars. It lies fairly close, at a distance of under 600 light-years.
M45 The Pleiades
M45, the "Pleiades," is a bright, nearby star cluster, in the last stages of star formation. About seven stars stand out as the brightest in the cluster, and is why the cluster is also known as the "Seven Sisters," alluding to the Pleiades, or Seven Sisters from Greek mythology. In Japanese, the cluster is known as "スバル," "Subaru," and is featured as the logo of the automobile manufacturer of the same name. The Pleiades lies about 440 light-years away and is a very young (for an open star cluster) 100 million years old.
The same side of the Moon always faces Earth because the lunar periods of rotation and revolution are the same. The surface of the moon is covered with impact craters and lava-filled basins. The Moon is about a fourth of Earth's diameter and is about 30 Earth-diameters away.
February 8th, 2019 – Telescope with Carmen
2/8/2019 Telescope with Brian


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Rheological and chemical characterization of biobinders from different biomass resources
Heena Dhasmana, Hasan Ozer, Imad L. Al-Qadi, Yuanhui Zhang, Lance Schideman, Brijendra Kumar Sharma, Wan Ting Chen, Mitchell James Minarick, Peng Zhang
The increasing costs and strong worldwide demand for petroleum and the adverse environmental impact of the consumption of nonrenewable energy sources have encouraged the development of alternative sources of renewable energy. One source of renewable energy can be developed in biorefineries, where biomass feedstocks can be converted to biocrude oil through thermochemical processes. Biocrude oil can replace petroleumbased transportation fuels and can be used to build and maintain transportation infrastructure, which requires an energy-intensive process that consumes natural resources, including mineral aggregates, steel, cement, and petroleum-based binder. This study aimed to characterize biocrude oil as an alternative binder material, which is referred to here as biobinder. The hydrothermal liquefaction technique was used to produce biobinder from spirulina algae (microalgae), swine manure, and nanoalgae. A chemical analysis was performed with the saturates, aromatics, resins, and asphaltenes technique to characterize the percentage of different components present in the biobinder. A rheological characterization of biobinders was conducted to evaluate their feasibility for use in pavement construction and to predict their performance during the service life of a pavement. Surface free energy properties of biobinders also were determined with the use of a sessile drop device to characterize adhesion properties. The results indicated that biobinder had significantly different rheological and chemical properties than conventional asphalt binder. When blended with conventional binder, biobinder showed the potential to reduce the stiffness of original binder. As a result, it might be used to rejuvenate mixes with recycled asphalt materials or find an application under low-temperature conditions.
https://doi.org/10.3141/2505-16
10.3141/2505-16
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Dhasmana, H., Ozer, H., Al-Qadi, I. L., Zhang, Y., Schideman, L., Sharma, B. K., Chen, W. T., Minarick, M. J., & Zhang, P. (2015). Rheological and chemical characterization of biobinders from different biomass resources. Transportation Research Record, 2505, 121-129. https://doi.org/10.3141/2505-16
Rheological and chemical characterization of biobinders from different biomass resources. / Dhasmana, Heena; Ozer, Hasan; Al-Qadi, Imad L.; Zhang, Yuanhui; Schideman, Lance; Sharma, Brijendra Kumar; Chen, Wan Ting; Minarick, Mitchell James; Zhang, Peng.
In: Transportation Research Record, Vol. 2505, 2015, p. 121-129.
Dhasmana, H, Ozer, H, Al-Qadi, IL, Zhang, Y, Schideman, L, Sharma, BK, Chen, WT, Minarick, MJ & Zhang, P 2015, 'Rheological and chemical characterization of biobinders from different biomass resources', Transportation Research Record, vol. 2505, pp. 121-129. https://doi.org/10.3141/2505-16
Dhasmana H, Ozer H, Al-Qadi IL, Zhang Y, Schideman L, Sharma BK et al. Rheological and chemical characterization of biobinders from different biomass resources. Transportation Research Record. 2015;2505:121-129. https://doi.org/10.3141/2505-16
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AU - Zhang, Peng
N2 - The increasing costs and strong worldwide demand for petroleum and the adverse environmental impact of the consumption of nonrenewable energy sources have encouraged the development of alternative sources of renewable energy. One source of renewable energy can be developed in biorefineries, where biomass feedstocks can be converted to biocrude oil through thermochemical processes. Biocrude oil can replace petroleumbased transportation fuels and can be used to build and maintain transportation infrastructure, which requires an energy-intensive process that consumes natural resources, including mineral aggregates, steel, cement, and petroleum-based binder. This study aimed to characterize biocrude oil as an alternative binder material, which is referred to here as biobinder. The hydrothermal liquefaction technique was used to produce biobinder from spirulina algae (microalgae), swine manure, and nanoalgae. A chemical analysis was performed with the saturates, aromatics, resins, and asphaltenes technique to characterize the percentage of different components present in the biobinder. A rheological characterization of biobinders was conducted to evaluate their feasibility for use in pavement construction and to predict their performance during the service life of a pavement. Surface free energy properties of biobinders also were determined with the use of a sessile drop device to characterize adhesion properties. The results indicated that biobinder had significantly different rheological and chemical properties than conventional asphalt binder. When blended with conventional binder, biobinder showed the potential to reduce the stiffness of original binder. As a result, it might be used to rejuvenate mixes with recycled asphalt materials or find an application under low-temperature conditions.
AB - The increasing costs and strong worldwide demand for petroleum and the adverse environmental impact of the consumption of nonrenewable energy sources have encouraged the development of alternative sources of renewable energy. One source of renewable energy can be developed in biorefineries, where biomass feedstocks can be converted to biocrude oil through thermochemical processes. Biocrude oil can replace petroleumbased transportation fuels and can be used to build and maintain transportation infrastructure, which requires an energy-intensive process that consumes natural resources, including mineral aggregates, steel, cement, and petroleum-based binder. This study aimed to characterize biocrude oil as an alternative binder material, which is referred to here as biobinder. The hydrothermal liquefaction technique was used to produce biobinder from spirulina algae (microalgae), swine manure, and nanoalgae. A chemical analysis was performed with the saturates, aromatics, resins, and asphaltenes technique to characterize the percentage of different components present in the biobinder. A rheological characterization of biobinders was conducted to evaluate their feasibility for use in pavement construction and to predict their performance during the service life of a pavement. Surface free energy properties of biobinders also were determined with the use of a sessile drop device to characterize adhesion properties. The results indicated that biobinder had significantly different rheological and chemical properties than conventional asphalt binder. When blended with conventional binder, biobinder showed the potential to reduce the stiffness of original binder. As a result, it might be used to rejuvenate mixes with recycled asphalt materials or find an application under low-temperature conditions.
U2 - 10.3141/2505-16
DO - 10.3141/2505-16
JO - Transportation Research Record
JF - Transportation Research Record