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Why Marketing Spammers Should be DeportedWritten by Malcolm James on January 22, 2013
As a former marketing professional, I ran an agency that consulted with some very large companies. I helped my clients understand the best methods for convincing people to purchase their products and services. We used phrases like 'demographics', 'target audience' and 'market penetration' to define the parameters for advertising campaigns and marketing pushes. We used every tool in our marketing arsenal, which at the time included more traditional methods like print publishing, direct mail and electronic (i.e., radio and TV) advertising. eMail and the Web as effective marketing vehicles were still fairly nascent concepts at the time, and Google was barely a glint in Sergey Brin's and Larry Page's eyes.
Why am I telling you this? Because I'm here to denounce some of the activities described above to discuss the evils of marketing, especially as they constitute themselves today. Indeed, if I was still in the marketing game, I can't say for certain that I wouldn't be wrapped up in the spam activities which I so revile and which make up a large part of modern marketing activities.
What got me incensed is an article I came across recently. Entitled Eight Simple Rules to Evade the SPAM Folder, it's not the first article of its type that I've come across. In fact, there are plenty of associations dedicated to helping companies market themselves online, and while many appear to be legitimate organizations, it's still their job, like the purpose of the "Eight Simple Rules" article, to throw knuckleballs at our spam filters so they can arrive at our inboxes. The article reads like The Anarchist's Cookbook for email marketers. Simply put, it provides tactics to circumvent the spam filter. Things like avoiding using all caps, a high number of images, or catch phrases like 'Buy Now!', the eight methods listed are designed to undo what we as IT people fight hard for: the right to inboxes unencumbered by unnecessary and unwanted email.
Note that it's not my intent to vilify the author of the article, or the website that published it. Marketers need to eat too (it kept me well-fed for more than ten years). In its purest form, marketing is useful to businesses and consumers. It educates, offers benefits that may not have been there otherwise, and it stimulates good economic behavior.
But there are also inherent problems with marketing email. First, not all retailers are created equal, nor are their motives and tactics beyond reproach. There are retailers and then there are 'retailers.' As a marketing professional, you cannot expect to sit in a room with The Gap and an online pharmacy and treat them as if they existed on the same playing field. I've been quite vocal about one retailer in particular, a nasty little website called GlobalBono.com, which to this day continues to bombard me with unwanted marketing pushes in a language I don't even speak.
Second, even the most 'legitimate' retailers use dubious tactics when soliciting the 'right' to our email addresses. I use sneer quotes because to call it a 'right' is a stretch. Some retailers make it a necessity at the point of purchase to ask for a phone number or email address. Some purchase email lists. The sad truth of it is that we, as email account holders, have no idea of what lists we're on or how we got there, let alone the fact that we cannot get our addresses removed from those lists.
Third, many companies, and I'm talking about the everyday household names now, don't have any real sense of how irritated users get when they receive unwanted solicitations. Policies about frequency and unsubscribes are spotty and haphazard.
Finally, and here's where the marketing professional has a real responsibility to guide its clients accordingly, recent lawsuits and spam reports suggest that consumers are getting sick and tired. They want their email accounts back! Many wily users have taken to keeping multiple email accounts, some of them dummy accounts just so they can keep their regular accounts clean. I myself have eight different accounts. I shouldn't have to, though.
Deport 'em all
So what's a weary Internaut to do? Well, and I say this in a tongue-and-cheek way, but perhaps deporting the badly-behaved marketers would help. Please feel free to weigh in on this. My suggestions:
- Banishment to Nigeria, where they can compare notes with the 419ers
- Deportation to an alternate dimension, where the air is comprised of ravenous killer bees and all underwear is made of honey
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I think this blog has also come up with almost the same tips, including one that says avoiding trigger words. Personally I am not a marketer, but I don't really see the harm of coming up with a list such as this. It's basically like teaching marketers and website owners how to build their websites through SEO so they can rank high in Google. What's harmful is how these types of information are being used, and I don't think it's the intention of the author to let those supposed "retailers" read them. In other words, the article was created in good faith. We have to admit, some filters can be extremely unreasonable. I for one find some of my legitimate e-mails in Junk Mail.
Well, a lot of spam mails are really humorous considering how they phrase their headlines and their lead paragraph just to capture your attention. A lot of these spam mails are also created by non-English-speaking people, so you can just think about the grammar and spelling. However, presenting spam threats in this manner is, I think, not helping. You just don't make light of something as serious as a computer threat that could lead to identity theft. In fact, no one should open spam because we don't know how some work these days anymore. It's possible that the moment they are opened, botnets are activated, sending tons of them straight to your inbox.
@Stella, I guess you also need to look at where writer is coming from. Marketers, all of them, are getting aggressive these days. I have to tell you, in a month, I already unsubscribed to two. They were actually good businesses, and I even bought some products from them. They were great the entire year too, until a couple of months ago they kept on sending me promos, surveys, etc. I mean, where is the good stuff, right? I want to know more about what you can offer to me, and I mean what your products meant in my life.
Agree with Samantha. Many of the marketers I know today are exceptionally aggressive to the point that they would do anything to get the results they hunger for. I've also experienced dealing with a marketer that started out offering good products and projecting good intentions. What I surmised happened was that on the way to success, something happened that made the marketer aim for even more. So what started out as a good thing ended up becoming quite irritating, what with all the surveys they sent – all promising unbelievably incredible rewards! Real honest marketing was defeated by selfish spamming schemes.


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This website is an introduction to the basics of using the PLAXIS finite element software package. Followers can also comment on and discuss posts related to PLAXIS (2D and 3D), numerical modelling and various geotechnical engineering topics.
Modelling Pile and Stone Column Installation in PLAXIS
76 comments:
Hi I need to model a column in soft clays to study the phenomenon of bulging
- 18 August 2011 03:46
- B.Sheil BE. MIEI. said...
Because it is stone columns you are using I would recommend that you do not use interface elements. You should use symmetry (where you model half the stone column) so you can easily see any bulging of your stone column. You can create a half column in the pile designer and select user defined pile.
In the calculation phase, I would suggest you use the initial K0 procedure, then the second phase would be converting the soil within your pile area to a material with the properties of stone. Final stage would be a UDL on the surface of your soil model or on a pad footing supported by the stone columns.
What issue in particular do you wish to know more about?
- 25 August 2011 06:08
Hi, could you describe me about the modelling stone column in plaxis 3D foundation, shall a use massive circular pile instead of SC, and later define the material of massive pile by stone column properties? and a wanna calculate the bulging failure, for the calculation the first phase is k0 and second phase is consolidation analysis?
- 7 December 2011 16:45
- B.Sheil BE. MIEI. said...
Yes, I suggest you use massive circular pile (without interfaces to simulate the interlocking between the stone and soil). The massive circular pile should obviously be the same diameter as the SC you wish to model. You can set the depth of the SC using workplanes.
1st phase: K0
2nd phase: Change soil properties within massive circular pile to properties of stone (this is done in calculations, not in the soil model!!)
3rd phase: Turn "on" udl on soil surface, i.e. double click on hatched lines and select load you wish to apply e.g. 100kpa (you must have selected a udl on the top of your soil model in the 'model' window beforehand, indicated by hatched lines).
4th phase: consolidation using 'ultimate time' or 'minimum excess pore pressure'. (note:phases 1-3 should be 'plastic' as opposed to consolidation phases)
Make sure to refine mesh around stone column. Bulging will also depend on vertical refinement. Depending on the length/diameter ration of your SC, your SC will have bulging or punching failure.
Does this help?
- 7 December 2011 23:10
yes thank you, how can i obtain the result of punching failure of stone column from output results?and also bulging?
- 13 December 2011 09:56
- B.Sheil BE. MIEI. said...
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- 13 December 2011 10:03
- B.Sheil BE. MIEI. said...
There should be a noticeable transition from punching failure to bulging failure and vice versa. For punching failure, there should be a significant relative displacement between the stone column and the soil.
For bulging failure, you can select 'plastic points' in the output window to see if the soil is in the plastic state around the SC. A significant number of plastic points around the column relates to bulging failure.
My main area of interest is in piling but I know there is currently no literature on how to define bulging/punching failure for stone columns but I know of research that will be published in the near future that will be of help
- 13 December 2011 10:04
for 2nd phase: Change soil properties, shall i change just the properties in initial workplane which the top of sc is placed?or should change the material at the end level of sc?
- 14 December 2011 04:19
- B.Sheil BE. MIEI. said...
You change soil properties on top workplane. PLAXIS then converts the soil between the top workplane and the next workplane to stone. Make sure the 2nd workplane is located at the bottom of the stone column you wish to install
- 14 December 2011 08:45
how can i hide the surrounding soil in the output result to show the position of sc? i want to show them in the output by 3D shape
- 15 December 2011 03:28
- B.Sheil BE. MIEI. said...
You should use symmetry i.e. model half of the stone column!
Each boundary in the model is a symmetry boundary. In pile designer, you can choose a user defined pile. Select the top right quadrant as a circular arc and the bottom right quadrant as 'corner'. This should create half of a stone column. Position this directly on the boundary, symmetry will then duplicate this the far side. It si the exact same as modelling a full SC in the middle of you model. When you go to output this way, you can get a nice cross-section view of your SC with stresses, displacements etc.
- 15 December 2011 03:32
it means i have to defined a workplane at half of sc?
- 15 December 2011 04:07
- B.Sheil BE. MIEI. said...
No you define workplane for full length of SC like normal
- 15 December 2011 04:08
but i want show the vertical displacement of a row of SC! and when i use cross section the data are given by soil element numbers, is it possible to show vertical displacement in X-direction or Y-direction?
- 15 December 2011 04:14
sorry in X-direction and Z-direction
- 15 December 2011 04:17
can i use dl on the piles?
- 16 December 2011 03:33
- B.Sheil BE. MIEI. said...
Yes use dl on head of volume piles, point load on heads of embedded piles
- 16 December 2011 03:49
- Viswanadh said...
Hello, i need to model vibro concrete column supported by RE wall so can advice how to model?
- 12 January 2012 22:10
- Viswanadh said...
sorry, i need help on plaxis 2D, to model RE wall supported by VCC (Vibro concrete column) can advice me, how to model in PLAXIS 2D?
- 12 January 2012 22:20
- PIYUSH MOAHNTY said...
Hello sir, I am modelling the unit cell in Plaxis 3D, but when the geometry settings is limited to only unit cell, then the plate, through which I am transferring the stress, faces re-bouncing.In other words, there will be two stress values corresponding to one displacement value.
- 24 January 2012 06:09
- PIYUSH MOAHNTY said...
When validating previous papers through Plaxis 3D, it is not able to predict the behaviour in lower cohesion values.
- 24 January 2012 06:10
I am running Plaxis 3d on window 7. Whenever I click to generate 2D mesh, it brings up a blank output window without the mesh. What could be wrong? Pls advice.
- 6 March 2012 15:38
- B.Sheil BE. MIEI. said...
Myself or my colleagues have not come across this problem.
The only thing I can suggest is uninstalling the software and installing it again. Have you tried that??
- 7 March 2012 00:09
- B.Sheil BE. MIEI. said...
Myself or my colleagues have not come across this problem.
The only thing I can suggest is uninstalling the software and installing it again. Have you tried that??
- 7 March 2012 00:09
Hi. would you please describe me about modeling deep soil columns in soft soil wit plx3d foundation.
columns should be:
1.massive pile?
2.vertical beam?
3.embedded pile?
- 2 May 2012 05:17
- B.Sheil BE. MIEI. said...
You should use massive pile. Whether you use interface elements or not is up to you.
Vertical beam is a structural element.
Embedded pile is a beam element which is a simplification of volume piles (i.e. massive pile)
- 2 May 2012 05:34
HI,Thnx a lot. the tank that I am modeling these DSM columns, is small.(200mm *300mm* 300mm),when i use massive pile with 20mm diameter, in meshing the program doesnt respond? I have changed meshing size but it doesnt work.
but I dont have this problem with embedded pile.
- 2 May 2012 23:40
- B.Sheil BE. MIEI. said...
20mm diameter...is that correct? or do you mean 200mm dia?
If you do mean 20mm...hat is very small!!! But 200mm should be ok!!
Have you tried using symmetry and modelling just half the column?? You can go to pile designer, create half of a pile and place it on the symmetry boundary. This is the same as a full pile in the middle of your computational domain. You should try this before resorting to embedded piles. Embedded piles are a significant simplification and the bearing capacity is an input parameter. i.e. you specify the capacity, it is not a result of FE calculations
- 3 May 2012 00:23
thnx. but actually I am modelling my physical model that contains 4, 6 and 8 group deep soil mix columns with 20 ,25 and 50mm diameter. its a stabilization of soil box with small columns diameters, so I think i have some problems with size effects? when I model with embedded pile I dont have this problem.....so a embedded pile with no intraction can play the same as massive pile?
(thnx for your consideration)
- 3 May 2012 04:13
- B.Sheil BE. MIEI. said...
Ok, I see now. I have never attempted to simulate model pile tests. Your diameter is probably too small. Perhaps embedded pile is the best way forward for you. In my research I have compared results determined by embedded piles and volume (massive) piles to measured field data. Embedded piles are obviously a simplification but still give good predictions. So try proceeding with the embedded piles. I would be very interested to hear how you get on with this
- 3 May 2012 04:38
thanks a lot. I will do it with embedded piles and i will tell you the results...
- 3 May 2012 07:50
I read some papers about possibility of using Plaxis 2D (I use V8) instead of 3D for modeling problems like embankments supported by piles or pile-raft foundations.
How can I take into account out-of-plane distance between piles (modeled as plates)? Is it enough to reduce EA and EI parameters?
Are predictions of this method accurate enough compared to 3D calculations (settlement, bending moments)? Can they be used for design purposes?
- 16 May 2012 14:04
- B.Sheil BE. MIEI. said...
The out-of-plane piles will have to be represented by an annulus ring i.e. a hollow cylinder. Be careful though, finite element modelling is itself a simplification, a 2-D analysis of a complex problem can be an over-simplification. 2-D analyses should only be used for small groups. It is hard to say how they will compare to 3D predictions, the only way to know for sure is to check it for yourself although you probably do not have the 3D software.
I suggest you read the paper by McCabe and Lehane (2006) "predictions of pile group response using a simplified non-linear finite element model". They replicate a small pile group load test using 2D FE modelling with good agreement to field data.
- 17 May 2012 04:44
- B.Sheil BE. MIEI. said...
...and as for design...I would not have much confidence in 2D results if a problem has complex geometry
- 17 May 2012 04:46
Thanks. I was afraid of over-simplification with that approach.
Another question then. If I use Hardening Soil model, I have to use E50 from drained triaxial test. Is it possible to use value from undrained triaxial test or some correlation between value from undrained and drained test?
- 17 May 2012 07:42
- B.Sheil BE. MIEI. said...
Yes, you can choose to enter undrained parameters or drained parameters, I suggest you have a read through the manual, it explains it quite clearly.
There are correlations between undrained and drained stiffness using Poisson's ratio, probably also in the manual
- 17 May 2012 09:30
I have carried out field loading tests on isolated stone column on layered compressible soil and wish to use the 3-D Plaxis to validate the field results and determine displacement, how do I go about this.
- 28 July 2012 11:31
Hi, I'm working on my thesis about piles which have a range of diameters. I have some problems about Plaxis 3D Foundation. I used volume piles and applied lateral loads. How can I find the bearing capacity of pile groups? can I find it directly on Plaxis program? And how can I reach the bearing capacity of each pile in pile groups?
Moreover I want to find the resistance of soil along the piles. How can I find this?
Thank you for your help.
- 26 August 2012 08:09
- B.Sheil BE. MIEI. said...
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- 13 September 2012 10:24
- B.Sheil BE. MIEI. said...
Apologies for this late reply, I have been busy with my own thesis!
PLAXIS 3D Foundation does not give you a direct answer if that is what you mean. All plaxis will do is give you the load displacement response of your piles. Therefore you must use your own engineering judgement to distinguish when your single piles and pile groups have failed.
as regards each individual pile, you may have to consider the proportion of the total pile group load taken by a particular pile and plot against pile displacement and again decide yourself at what point the pile fails.
I am not 100% sure how to find the resistance of the soil along the piles, perhaps look at the compressive forces in the pile with depth?
Or maybe even look at the compressive stresses in the soil directly in front of the pile?
I hope this helps. My research is on axially loaded pile groups so I am not as experienced with horizontally loaded pile groups. Let me know how you get on!
- 13 September 2012 10:24
Thank you for your help. With my supervisior, I decided to find failed load which pile has with a procedure. The procedure says, the maximum horizontal displacement should be %2 of your diameter of piles. So I calculated the maximum bearing capacity of each pile and drew the load displacement curves and decided the failed loads.
I have also found how can I reach the resistance of the soil along the piles. To reach it, first select the interfaces which on piles and after that choose the normal stress, then you can see the normal stress on your piles which caused by soil.
What do you think about piles which created with beams and created with volume piles? Which one is the best?
I hope my researches can help everyone who study with horizontally loaded pile groups.
- 23 September 2012 08:52
- B.Sheil BE. MIEI. said...
Your comment is very much appreciated....very helpful for other readers researching pile group behaviour under lateral load.
Volume piles are the best option. Embedded piles use beam elements and assume a Linear Elastic zone around the beam to simulate the volume of a pile. Also, the pile capacity is an input parameter when using embedded piles.
That said, however, I compared volume pile predictions to embedded pile predictions when looking at axially-loaded pile groups with satisfactory agreement. The reference to that paper is:
*Sheil, B.B. & McCabe, B.A. (2012) Predictions of friction pile group response using embedded piles in PLAXIS. The 3rd International Conference on New Developments in Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, 28-30 June 2012, Near East University, Nicosia, North Cyprus
- 23 September 2012 11:57
Thank you for your help. I 'll use your opinion about piles in my thesis. But could you explain me how can i reach your article? I can't find this on net or on my universities library.
- 24 September 2012 13:28
- B.Sheil BE. MIEI. said...
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- 24 September 2012 13:47
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- 25 September 2012 11:34
- koohyar faizi said...
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- 29 October 2012 08:45
Hi dear friends,
A single pile was failed in certain point load which I modeled in PLAXIS 2D,but this pile (with the same definition) isn't failed in PLAXIS 3D.
Where is the problem?
- 29 October 2012 08:57
- B.Sheil BE. MIEI. said...
PLAXIS 2-D models large strain much better than 3-D. For example, that's why cavity expansion is modelled using 2D software rather than 3-D.
One other thing to check is your mesh refinement in PLAXIS 3-D. For your 2-D mesh you may have a lot of elements over the length of your pile whereas in 3-D you may have fewer elements which will make a difference
- 29 October 2012 09:26
I modeled small scale pile,so according to your suggestion,it is better to use plaxis 3D instead of 2D,yes?
thank you.
- 5 November 2012 11:29
- B.Sheil BE. MIEI. said...
I would use plaxis 2-d if I was modelling a single pile
- 5 November 2012 12:07
I also agree with B.Sheil BE Koohyar.
- 5 November 2012 20:17
Hi, I have some problems about Plaxis 3D Foundation. I used volume piles and applied lateral loads. But the loads which carried by pile groups and pile cap didn't equal to loads which I applied. So I think some of the loads were lost with friction between pile cap and soil. Therefore, I want to find the shear stress under the pile cap. But I can't find it because Plaxis didn't allow to put the interfaces under the pile cap. Do you know another way to find the shear stress (Tz-x ) under the pile cap?
Thank you for your help.
- 21 November 2012 00:37
- B.Sheil BE. MIEI. said...
First of all...how did you find the load taken by the piles?
I do not think there is a way to predict exactly how much shear stress the cap is transmitting to the soil. one way around this, however, is the following:
1) Carry out the analyses like you have done and calculate the loads in the pile
2) Carry out a similar analysis but this time make sure the cap is NOT in contact with the ground, i.e. excavate the soil (to a depth of, say, 0.5m) uniformly below the pile cap. It is important to keep everything the same so you can make comparisons to your original analysis. So keep the pile lengths below ground level the same. One thing - the excavation of the soil below the pile cap may now cause your soil to be more overconsolidated than your original analysis. So I recommend that for the top 0.5m of soil you intend to excavate use a 0 kN/m3 unit weight so it does not have any impact on the soil stresses.
Now compare the loads between these two analyses - if they are the same then your cap is not transmitting load to the ground surface. If they are not the same then the difference is the contribution of the cap.
Hope this helps!
- 21 November 2012 08:18
- B.Sheil BE. MIEI. said...
First of all...how did you find the load taken by the piles?
I do not think there is a way to predict exactly how much shear stress the cap is transmitting to the soil. one way around this, however, is the following:
1) Carry out the analyses like you have done and calculate the loads in the pile
2) Carry out a similar analysis but this time make sure the cap is NOT in contact with the ground, i.e. excavate the soil (to a depth of, say, 0.5m) uniformly below the pile cap. It is important to keep everything the same so you can make comparisons to your original analysis. So keep the pile lengths below ground level the same. One thing - the excavation of the soil below the pile cap may now cause your soil to be more overconsolidated than your original analysis. So I recommend that for the top 0.5m of soil you intend to excavate use a 0 kN/m3 unit weight so it does not have any impact on the soil stresses.
Now compare the loads between these two analyses - if they are the same then your cap is not transmitting load to the ground surface. If they are not the same then the difference is the contribution of the cap.
Hope this helps!
- 21 November 2012 08:19
Thank you I will try your suggestion. I didn't calculate the load taken by the piles. What's your suggestion to calculate it?
Firstly, I want to explain my research to you. I made pile groups (2x2) with 15m lenghts. And I put the pile cap which had 0.5m thickness. I applied the horizontal load (3600 kN) to the side of pile cap. As result, I calculated the normal stress on the pile's caps' side which against the load I applied and I calculated the shear forces which happened on the piles' heads.
And then, I wanted to calculate shear stress caused by the friction under the pile cap. I will try it with your sugestion.
Finally, I want to check if sum of the calculated normal stress, shear forces on the piles' heads and shear stress caused by frictions equal to the horizontal load which I applied to the pile cap. If it won't be equal to eachother, I must put the dummy soil under the pile cap for prevent the shear stress caused by frictions. So I can prevent the lost load. Therefore, piles will take all horizontal loads which I applied.
- 22 November 2012 12:46
I want to know about the model of stone column and its material properties in Soft clay and stiff clay used in PLAXIS 2D software.
- 5 January 2013 06:43
- preethi said...
could we do impact assessment of a load on the soil in plaxis? if so could you please suggest a method...
- 4 March 2013 01:46
- preethi said...
can we give impact load on soil in plaxis? if so could you rcommend a method?
- 4 March 2013 01:47
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- 10 April 2013 07:11
hi, could u describe me about modelling the effects of lateral movement on bridge abutment using plaxis 2d? and also need to do the analysis on single pile n group pile beneath the abutment.do they any specific phase to be analyzed first?-first time using this software..appreciates if u could gelp me,,thanks,,
- 16 May 2013 07:58
- B.Sheil BE. MIEI. said...
You need a 3-D version (3-D or 3-D Foundation).
None of what you described can be accurately considered using a 2-D analysis
- 16 May 2013 08:24
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- 18 June 2013 14:40
- R said...
is it possible to model under reamed piles in plaxis??
- 24 July 2013 05:58
- B.Sheil BE. MIEI. said...
Yes it is possible in PLAXIS 2-D to model single cylindrical underreamed pile. Not possible in PLAXIS 3D Foundation.
I am not sure about PLAXIS 3D
- 24 July 2013 10:09
- R said...
I am doing a study on retaining wall with varying backfill strengthened conditions using plaxis 2D and 3D. Can anyone suggest me where to obtain tutorials related to this area??
- 20 August 2013 23:25
- Naser Hejazi said...
Hi friends.
Please tell me how can one group of stone columns in plaxis 2D models do and how to understand the rupture What is the model?
Thank you
- 26 February 2014 05:30
- Bn Yns said...
Hi, i need to model stone column in Plaxis 3D foundation. i have try to model it in Plaxis 2D. In 2D, i have to model 15 column. I would like to ask, is this means that in Plaxis 3D, i have to input (15x15)= 225 piles of stone column? is there any alternative way to model in Plaxis 3D? my project area is 29x29 meter. Thanks!
- 2 May 2014 02:19
- B.Sheil BE. MIEI. said...
In plaxis 3d, you can model just a quarter of the 15x15 piles using boundary symmetry
You cannot model more than one stone column using 2d
- 2 May 2014 03:34
- B.Sheil BE. MIEI. said...
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- 2 May 2014 03:34
- Bn Yns said...
hi, im not very understand with the "boundary symmetry" that you have mentioned. Is it in the pile designer?
- 2 May 2014 09:21
- Bn Yns said...
Sorry, im new to Plaxis... Thanks for the reply..
- 2 May 2014 09:53
- Sandeep Meena said...
hey,I would like to know how can i model a bucket foundation(inverted hollow circular section).any advice will be appreciated.
- 25 August 2014 05:12
- B.Sheil BE. MIEI. said...
Join the "plaxis users" facebook group, it is a more useful forum for answering questions
- 25 August 2014 05:22
- Sandeep Meena said...
thank you sir
- 25 August 2014 21:06
- Sindhu sundaraiya said...
am new to plaxis. i need to model under-reamed pile. actually i have to change the properties of reinforcement within every pile. is it possible to do in plaxis 3d foundation?. kindly give your suggestions.
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Ethanol production will have to increase to meet government mandates
Ethanol plant construction has come to a halt, but the mandates by government are not declining, which could mean prices could jump again. Producers should prepare for round two, a Texas AgriLife Extension Service specialist said.
"Expanded ethanol production is probably a given; however, the pace is expected to slow due to capacity limits and policy," said Dr. Steve Amosson, AgriLife Extension economist.
The president-elect and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture are both big supporters of renewable fuels, Amosson said. President-elect Barack Obama has stated, "I have established a goal to have 60 billion gallons of our fuel come from sustainable, affordable biofuels in 2022."
The reality right now is that nationwide 213 ethanol plants were in production or under construction in September 2007, with many more on the drawing table, he said.
Nine months later, some of the plants that were under construction have come into operation, but no new plants have started construction.
Bill Tierney, former Kansas State University grain marketing economist and former head of the U.S. Department of Agriculture wheat and feedgrains forecasting division in Washington, D.C., said the global "credit crisis" came at just the right time to stop the U.S. ethanol industry from seriously overbuilding capacity relative to the market share.
"In early August 2007, the industry was well on its way to overbuilding, much as the U.S. biodiesel industry already has," Tierney said.
The credit crisis and declining ethanol margins dried up financing for 11 billion gallons of "probable" projects, he said.
"Ethanol production is and will continue to suffer from growing pains," Amosson said.
Recent analysis shows that ethanol plants are losing money given the current prices of ethanol and distillers grains by-products, after taking into consideration the cost of the primary inputs natural gas and corn, Amosson said. However, he said, considering oil prices are expected to start going back up and "we may be falling below producing enough ethanol to meet the amount necessary to meet the renewable fuel standards, ethanol prices should rise."
The energy bill signed into law in December 2007 requires 36 billion gallons of ethanol to be available for use by 2022, Amosson said. Twenty-one billion gallons is supposed to come from feedstocks other than corn.
The problem, he said, is that cellulosic ethanol production is not even expected to get off the ground until 2015 or after, and then it takes time to ramp up the industry.
"The renewable fuel standards will not hold up--it can't," Amosson said.
The renewable fuels standard mandate enacted under the Clear Air Act applies to blenders but has never been enforced, he said. The Environmental Protection Agency is the enforcement arm.
According to the standards, 11.1 billion gallons of ethanol nationwide, or 10.21 percent of the national energy supply, must come from renewable fuel this year, Amosson said. The amount gradually steps up from there.
Penalties for blenders not meeting the mandates include having to return any profit from non-renewable fuels and a fine of $25,000 per day, he said, so that may be enough incentive to keep them moving in that direction.
One bushel of corn will produce 2.8 gallons of ethanol and 17 pounds of dried distillers grains, Amosson said.
"I thought distillers grain prices would go down, but last year Europe had a disaster in their wheat," he said. "While they wouldn't import any of our GMO (genetically modified) corn, they still used our distillers grains for feed and that is why we didn't see the decrease."
Amosson said distillers grain prices could be expected to start falling, making them more attractive for livestock rations and that should increase their usage.
At the same time, the limit on corn-based ethanol and the growth in yields will eventually cap corn prices, he said.


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In what became a running joke, the New Day stable, which consists of Xavier Woods, Kofi Kingston and Big E Langston, kept being delayed by WWE. The trio worked live events together, but they were not utilized on television. Reports have surfaced that the reason why management held off on their push was because of the situation taking place in Ferguson, where a white cop killed a black teenager. The company did not want anything that can be construed as racial on their programming, so the group had to wait.
November 22, 2014
Through Twitter, CM Punk revealed to his fans that has now been married to AJ Lee for exactly six months. He joked that people thought they were not going to last, so he wants them to pay up on the bet. AJ made a joke as well. The WWE Divas Champion noted how the two of them were buddies on screen not too long ago. Thus far, their marriage has not affected business relationships for either of them.
November 15, 2014
"A lot of people talk about the attitude era being so great but a lot of it was terrible crap, sex jokes and over-the-top terrible bad comedy. It was Jerry Springer-like. They made a joke about a woman's breasts. Hilarious, but where's the wrestling? I look back on a lot of stuff now, and I'm like where's the wrestling? It's just a lot of crappy jokes." - Dean Ambrose discusses his disdain for a popular WWE era
October 10, 2014
Kizarny provided an update on Jake Roberts, and it should put a smile on a lot of faces. The WWE legend is now able to breathe on his own, as doctors feel comfortable enough now to remove the ventilator that he was relying on. Kizarny also noted that Roberts can now speak again. Roberts is said to have asked for a steak, doughnut and milk shake as a joke.
September 3, 2014
When he decided to walk away from WWE, CM Punk went on a bit of a social media sabbatical. He recently started posting updates on Twitter again, but it's mostly been about hockey. His first wrestling related tweet was made this week when the former world heavyweight champion posted a little joke about a movie to his good friend Paul Heyman, who responded with a joke of his own.
June 29, 2014
For a period of time there, it became a running joke whenever Scott Hall was booked to appear at an independent wrestling event because a lot of people did not expect him to fulfill his obligations. After turning his life around, it looks like Hall might be relapsing a bit. Several promoters across the country have stated that Hall has been showing late to events and looking in rough condition when he does show up.
June 23, 2014
"It actually came from a joke. Cody Rhodes likes to tell a story that when he was a little kid he used to watch me wrestle. I'm slightly older than Cody, we're talking three years or something like that, but in his head I'm a really old man. I once walked into the locker room and he was telling the entire locker room that when he was a kid he was watching me wrestling as this character he made up named 'Bad News Barrett' who goes around giving out bad news to people. So we all laughed about it and forgot about it. Then I was invited on the JBL and Cole show and they said they wanted to use me on the show and asked if I had any ideas of what to do. So I said you know what, let's just do Bad News Barrett. I'll just turn up and give people bad news and then disappear. I got a really good response online and fans were loving the catch phrase 'I'm afraid I've got some bad news' and Vince McMahon saw it and thought it was the funniest thing he had ever seen. Next thing you know I'm on TV doing it." - Wade Barrett explaining how his new gimmick in WWE came ot be
June 16, 2014
"It is funny how people make fun about real jobs and wrestlers. We are human, too. I have a family to provide for. So, yes, I manned up and provide. The biggest joke of all is I get paid way more at Walmart than I ever did in TNA and on time. What a waste of time. Print that. Don't think that this is bitterness. I'm not on their show any more. Remember, I left them. They didn't leave me." - Jesse Neal talks about his new job in life
April 17, 2014
"You know what, I tell him this and we joke about it, but the smartest thing WWE did was put him with me and Dean Ambrose. Because when we met him, he started from scratch. Granted he's got a whole family history in the wrestling business, but he's a football player. He's an athlete and he's coachable, but like he gets it. Like he got it quick and he understood right away what we were doing. I think putting him with myself and Ambrose, who had the wealth of experience and the all the knowledge and traveling the road. We're in a car all the time, we're on the planes together, we're having the matches together. He was just able to soak up that information we were giving out like a sponge and you can see the difference. He was great when we came in, but look at him now and he's a completely different performer. It was the smartest thing they ever did, putting him with us." - Seth Rollins discussing the backstage reason why Roman Reigns was placed with the Shield
April 6, 2014
Since Lita and Mr T went especially long in their segments, it was very obvious to many that Scott Hall had to rush through his hall of fame induction speech. WWE officials were very concerned backstage at the event, and they informed Hall of the situation. That was the reason why Kevin Nash made his joke onstage about having to rush through things.
April 5, 2014
As an April Fool's Day joke, WWE promoted that they have just released photos for the steamiest edition of Day Off, which normally features divas look sexy and comfortable outside of the arena. Instead, they opted to utilize Fandango, and this picture of him is hilarious.
April 1, 2014
"We're not talking. We're not on good terms. I have no respect for them whatsoever. I strongly dislike management there like with the exception of Jeff Jones who is a great guy. But the booker (Hunter Johnson) is completely inadequate at his job and he got his job more for being spineless than being talented. And the owner (Joe Koff) is even worse, he could care less about wrestling. He just wants to do television. To me, it's just not something I agree with but I'm not there anymore and they do their own thing. And for the talent and the fans I wish them nothing but the best of luck. That company is in business not because of stellar booking and stellar management. They're in business still because they'they're spineless. The talent there is phenomenal. They're top notch and great. But the management from the booker to the owner it's definitely shut up and do what you're told and drink the Kool-aid. I made a joke when I was there I called it Jim Jones wrestling. Just shut up and drink the Kool-aid and do your job. In private, people are going this sucks this sucks this sucks and I'm the one who came out and said this is terrible. I worked for that company and gave them everything I had for seven years. I think I earned my right to an opinion. Once that got out, it was like you're going against the stream? You're not here to have an opinion, just shut up and do your job and get your paycheck. I'm sure you can find someone else to do that for a lot less money than what you're paying me so I'm just going to go about my way. Best decision I ever made and I have no desire to go back, ever." - Davey Richards talks about the backstage politics in ROH
March 8, 2014
Some cruel fans on Twitter have been making jokes towards Alpha Female, who recently made her debut on Impact Wrestling, stating that she is actual Rob Terry with a sex change. The new TNA star is taking the joke well by acknowledging it on her social media account and even stating that she found it humorous.
February 18, 2014
A big fuss was made by wrestling fans when WWE changed the names of Antonio Cesaro and Big E Langston this past week, so Joey Styles went on Twitter to post this joke about the situation.
February 17, 2014
While they're very much still a couple in real life, Chris Sabin is working a story line on Impact Wrestling where he and Velvet Sky have broken up. After their recent match, the former world heavyweight champion took to Twitter to post this joke about domestic abuse.
February 16, 2014
It appears that Austin Aries and Gail Kim are now traveling buddies. The former world heavyweight champion made a joke about it on his Twitter account. The two of them are working a couple of live events in Texas for TNA this weekend.
February 16, 2014
Always quick with the wit and sense of humor, Big E Langston took to Twitter to joke about the name change that WWE has done for him. He posted this message about selling his last name, and he even throws in a little racial humor as well.
February 14, 2014
On Twitter, Jake Roberts posted this special message to congratulate Lita on joining him in the hall of fame at Wrestlemania 30 this year. The legendary WWE star even included a little joke about the two of them as well.
February 13, 2014
Those that have followed Big E Langston on Twitter already know just how much of a personality that he has. The WWE Intercontinental Champion displayed his sense of humor recently when he posted this joke about how he would be releasing a rap album whenever he could no longer make money in wrestling.
February 10, 2014
On Twitter, Mick Foley made a joke to fans who are thinking about going to one of his comedy shows. The former WWE star stated that they were allowed to bring CM Punk signs to his events, which is basically mocking the company for confiscating signs from fans in support of Punk.
February 4, 2014
In a rather interesting bit of business news, the Honky Tonk Man has revealed that he owns the trademark to the Patriot gimmick, which was used in WCW and WWE. He stated that he has owned it since 2007, which means that Del Wilkes, who has continued to use the gimmick on the independent wrestling circuit over the years, could be legally forced to find a new character to portray.
November 1, 2014
Another potential legal battle is heading towards WWE. Honky Tonk Man is threatening to sue the company, and he is taunting them into suing him as well. The dispute between the two sides is over the use of the character and name. The former Intercontinental Champion is claiming that WWE has tried to prevent him from making a living and feeding his family on the independent wrestling circuit.
September 23, 2014
A very rare video of a match where the Honky Tonk Man defended the WWE Intercontinental Championship against Bruno Sammartino, the former world heavyweight champion, back in 1987.
April 21, 2014
Through Twitter, Honky Tonk Man posted this rather interesting message about having to buy his own ticket to New Orleans during Wrestlemania 30 weekend. He mentioned something about WWE screwing him over. The former Intercontinental Champion is in town for WrestleCon, and it does not appear that he was invited to the big event on Sunday night.
April 6, 2014
Here is a picture of the new house that the Honky Tonk Man purchased thanks to the increase in value of the WWE stocks.
March 3, 2014
Prior to become a professional wrestler, the Honky Tonk Man had another career in mind. After graduating from college with an education degree, he became a high school football coach. The former WWE Intercontinental Champion only did that job for two years before deciding that he wanted to try something different.
March 2, 2014
Through Twitter, the Honky Tonk Man posted a picture of his new house, and the former Intercontinental Champion noted that it was all thanks to WWE stocks being on the rise. The belief is that HTM purchased the stocks personally, as there has not been a lot of performers who have been given shares of the company.
March 1, 2014
Through this Twitter post, Honky Tonk Man bashed TNA, where he posted a picture of a stage wagon. He called it the TNA tour bus. No word yet on whether the former WWE Intercontinental Champion is just being playful or if he has some backstage heat towards Dixie Carter and her company.
February 20, 2014
Ricky Steamboat defeated Randy Savage in a classic match at Wrestlemania 3 to capture the WWE Intercontinental Championship, but that reign did not last too long. Just two months later, he has now lost the title to the Honky Tonk Man at a television taping in Buffalo, New York. Steamboat is taking some time off.
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Former Orlandoan Lindsay Hunter bites through fiction's conventions
Hunter's short story collection, 'Don't Kiss Me,' comes from her heart — a very dark place
Published: September 18, 2013
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Nobody was more surprised than Orlando-bred author Lindsay Hunter when her second collection of flash-fiction short stories, Don't Kiss Me (FSG Originals, 175 pages), broke through the crowded upper crust of popular literary criticism this summer, landing it on several must-read (or beach-read) lists – The New York Times, New York magazine's Vulture blog, Nylon and Vogue, among others.
It may not turn its own pages with the disposable dew of sweet summer felicitations, but Don't Kiss Me does carry its own charm, often in the dirty corners of the marginalized and forgotten living out small narratives with dirt under their nails and vulgarity in their mouths. We caught up with Hunter – who will be reading at Burrow Press' Functionally Literate event Sept. 21 – to discuss inspiration, perspiration and the perks of being a former bookseller.
Orlando Weekly: Do you kiss your baby with that filthy mouth?
Lindsay Hunter: All the time. All the time, all over. He's going to be so embarrassed one day.
When you're accessing these characters, do you fall into some sort of seizure trance in a blood-filled bathtub?
Maybe I should be ashamed to admit this, but I never feel like I'm writing something extreme, or I'm writing because I want to be gross or provocative. I honestly write it because it's coming from my heart. I feel for these characters, and I want to write who they are. I remember my editor saying, "I'm so excited. You should be really excited about this." And I was like, "Thank you very much. I write from the heart. That means a lot to me." And she was like, "You write from the heart? That must be a dark place."
The people who populate your stories seem tragic, but they don't think or let on that they are tragic. There's no moral to the story.
Exactly. I feel like in life, too, there are people that you can look at on the surface and say, "That guy is sort of a weirdo, ugh." Then if you actually talk to them or get to know them in some way, they surprise you. I am fascinated by that in real life, and I try to do that in my writing too.
There seems to be an underlying theme of co-dependence, also.
I never thought of it that way. One of the main threads in everything I write, the sameness in all of my writing, is all about lonely people and how the things that they do and say to themselves and say to other people is all a way to circumvent that loneliness, or to deny or get through it.
So, there appears to be a conscious deconstruction of standard storytelling here. Some of the stories avoid punctuation, others – like "Our Man" – challenge the narrative format altogether. Does breaking with convention inspire you?
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Juliet Mitchell
Juliet Mitchell, FBA (born 1940) is a British psychoanalyst and socialist feminist.
Life and career[edit]
Mitchell was born in New Zealand in 1940, and moved to England in 1944. She attended St Anne's College, Oxford, where she received a degree in English, as well as doing postgraduate work. She taught English literature from 1962 to 1970 at Leeds University and Reading University. Throughout the 1960s, Mitchell was active in leftist politics, and was on the editorial committee of the influential journal, New Left Review.[1]
She was a fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge and Professor of Psychoanalysis and Gender Studies at Cambridge University, before in 2010 being appointed to be the Director of the Expanded Doctoral School in Psychoanalytic Studies at Psychoanalysis Unit of University College London (UCL).[2]
She is a retired registrant of the British Psychoanalytic Council.[citation needed]
Psychoanalysis and Feminism[edit]
Mitchell is best known for her book Psychoanalysis and Feminism: Freud, Reich, Laing and Women (1974), in which she tried to reconcile psychoanalysis and feminism at a time when many considered them incompatible.[3] Peter Gay considered it "the most rewarding and responsible contribution'"[4] to the feminist debate on Freud, both acknowledging and rising beyond Freud's male chauvinism in its analysis. Mitchell saw Freud's asymmetrical view of masculinity and femininity as reflecting the realities of patriarchal culture, and sought to use his critique of femininity to critique patriarchy itself.[5] By insisting on the utility of Freud (particularly in a Lacanian reading) for feminism, she opened the way for further critical work on psychoanalysis and gender.[6]
|This section of a biography of a living person does not include any references or sources. (July 2012)
A substantial part of the thesis of the book is that Marxism may provide a model within which non-patriarchal structures for rearing children could occur.[citation needed] The lack of the 'family romance' would remove the Oedipus complex from a child's development, thus liberating women from the consequences of penis envy and the feeling of being castrated which Mitchell contends is the root cause of women's acceptance that they are inferior.[citation needed] According to Mitchell, children are socialized into appropriate gender roles. Therefore, women grow to be equally socialized into becoming the caretakers of their households.[citation needed]
Feminine sexuality[edit]
In her introduction to Lacan on feminine sexuality, Mitchell stresses that "in the Freud that Lacan uses, neither the unconscious nor sexuality...[are] pre-given facts, they are constructions; that is, they are objects with histories".[7]
- Woman's Estate, Harmondsworth : Penguin, 1971
- Psychoanalysis and Feminism. Freud, Reich, Laing and Women, 1974, reissued as: Psychoanalysis and Feminism: A Radical Reassessment of Freudian Psychoanalysis, Basic Books 2000
- Women: The Longest Revolution, Virago Press 1984
- (editor), Feminine Sexuality. Jacques Lacan and the école freudienne, W. W. Norton & Company 1985
- (editor), Selected Melanie Klein, The Free Press 1987
- (editor, together with Ann Oakley ), Who's Afraid of Feminism?: Seeing Through the Backlash, New Press 1997
- Mad Men and Medusas: Reclaiming Hysteria, Basic Books 2001
- Siblings, Sex and Violence (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2003)
See also[edit]
- ^ Benewick, Robert &, ed. (1998). "Juliet Mitchell 1940-". The Routledge dictionary of twentieth-century political thinkers. Psychology Press. p. 228. ISBN 978-0-415-09623-2.
- ^ UCL: Juliet Mitchell
- ^ Juliet Mitchell Archive at marxists.org
- ^ Peter Gay, Freud: A Life for Our Time (London 1989) p. 774
- ^ Judith Van Herik, Freud on Femininity and Faith (1985) p. 15
- ^ N. Tandon, Feminism: A Paradigm Shift (2008) p. 83
- ^ Juliet Mitchell, 'Introduction' J. Mitchell/J. Rose eds., Feminine Sexuality (1982) p. 4
External links[edit]
- Jesus College: Juliet Mitchell
- Women's Rights: Radical Change – video of Mitchell appearing in a BBC debate first televised in 1974
- A Conversation with Juliet Mitchell
- 1940 births
- Alumni of St Anne's College, Oxford
- British feminists
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- Katie and Glogirly said...
And what a box it must be!!!
...Glogirly says the juice looks yumiful.
: ) katie
- March 24, 2012 at 2:19 PM
- Cheysuli and gemini said...
Yeah--I'm all about the box! Tat's fun!
- March 24, 2012 at 2:36 PM
- Sparkle the Designer Cat said...
I saw that big glass of green and for a moment there, I thought your human had made you some nip juice!
- March 24, 2012 at 2:49 PM
- Jan's Funny Farm said...
Sounds like you're both happy with your respective parts of the newfangled juicer. :)
- March 24, 2012 at 2:58 PM
- Prancer Pie said...
Looks yummy! We bet the box looks even better!
- March 24, 2012 at 6:05 PM
- Barb and TheDailyGs said...
I had a juicer for years and I found that if I didn't leave it out on the countertop, it didn't get used.
It made the BEST Pineapple-Orange juice ever! I finally yard-sale'd it a few years ago.
- March 24, 2012 at 7:34 PM
- Simba said...
Maybe when Mm is fixing her juices she will give you a little snack of YOUR favorite food!
Mom is still not good typing a lot of comments with her pinched nerve issues, but we wanted to go round to our friends' blogs and say Hi anyway!!
- March 24, 2012 at 8:05 PM
- Diamond said...
I am sure my human would love that juice too.
- March 25, 2012 at 2:00 AM
- Jacqueline said...
Glad you got the box, they are always fun!!...Happy weekend, lovely friend...xoxo...Calle, Halle, Sukki
- March 25, 2012 at 6:22 AM
- Ryker The Tonkinese said...
Maxwell: Don't you just LOVE boxes! I like to jump in and pretend i'm at the helm of a ship! Maxwell, the master Sailor, that's me!
Faraday: Yeah, boxes are Da BEST!
- March 25, 2012 at 7:04 AM
- Mr Puddy said...
I just think that machine can make a grass juice for You ! Miss Poppy !
And have nip sprinkle on top....How it's sound ?
Ummmm....I think it's sound Yum !
- March 25, 2012 at 10:35 AM


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Dolton Police Chief John Franklin (right) talks to reporters about a shooting Tuesday night about a block from Thornridge High School. A 20-year-old man and a 17-year-old boy were injured in the shooting. At left is Dolton Police Cmdr. Harry Blaundin. | John Booz/For Sun-Times Media
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A man and a teenager were shot Tuesday night in south suburban Dolton, about a block away from Thornridge High School.
A group of five or six people were walking along 152nd Street near Champlain Street just before 6:30 p.m. when someone got out of a black minivan or SUV and shot at them, Dolton Police Chief John Franklin said.
People in the group scattered and ran to nearby Thornridge High School, where they notified security guards there for a basketball game. The guards called 911, Franklin said.
A 17-year-old boy was shot in the side and abdomen, and a 20-year-old man was shot in the buttocks, police said.
Both were initially taken to Franciscan St. Margaret Health in Hammond, Ind., but the teen was later transferred to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn.
The teen was listed in critical condition, and the man was in "stable-to-good" condition, police said. Both were able to talk to paramedics while they were put in ambulances.
Thornridge High School, at 15000 Cottage Grove Ave., was hosting a varsity boys basketball game against Thornwood High School.
Thornridge Principal James Walton said the shooting did not have anything to do with the school.
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Police said neither of those who were shot were Thornridge students. Authorities could not say where they were walking to or from when the attack happened.
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