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A new study, published in the journal Nature, has examined the probability of keeping average global temperatures from rising more than 2C above preindustrial levels under varying levels of climate policy stringency, and thus mitigation costs.
In addition, the study for the first time quantified and ranked the uncertainties associated with efforts to mitigate climate change, including questions about the climate itself, uncertainties related to future technologies and energy demand, and political uncertainties as to when action will be taken.
The climate system itself is full of uncertainty - an oft-used argument to postpone climate action until we have learned more.
"We wanted to frame the problem in a new way and try to understand which uncertainties matter in trying to limit global warming by specific climate action," says Joeri Rogelj, ETH researcher and lead author on the paper, who carried out the research at IIASA.
The most important uncertainty, according to the study, is political - that is, the question of when countries will begin to take serious action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and implement other policies that could help mitigate climate change.
Keywan Riahi, IIASA energy program leader and study co-author says, "With a twenty-year delay, you can throw as much money as you have at the problem, and the best outcome you can get is a fifty-fifty chance of keeping temperature rise below two degrees."
Two degrees is the level that is currently supported by over 190 countries as a limit to avoid dangerous climate change.
Social uncertainties, which influence consumer energy demand, were second-most important, the study found. Social uncertainties refer to things like people's awareness and choices with respect to energy and to the adoption of efficient technologies.
"How much energy the world consumes going forward turns out to be a much bigger swing factor for climate change than the availability of technologies like solar and wind power, biofuels, and so on," said IIASA researcher David McCollum, another co-author.
"Energy efficiency, improved urban planning, lifestyle changes - these things on the demand side of the energy equation are so important; yet they receive relatively little attention compared to the supply side."
The researchers examined geophysical and technological uncertainties and found that while the climate system and energy supply technologies are generally seen as the major factors for climate, they ranked below political and social uncertainties in the new study.
Geophysical uncertainties refer to the unknown - and unknowable - factors about how the climate system will react to greenhouse gas emissions.
Technological uncertainties refer to questions about which energy supply and carbon capture systems will be available in the future.
The authors used scenarios to define how these factors affect the probability of staying within a given temperature target, at a variety of carbon prices.
In addition to the 2C target, the researchers also explored the distribution of costs and risks for limiting global warming to below 1.5C and 3C.
Even for a 3C target, a 20-year delay in the most stringent greenhouse gas reductions in combination with a high demand future means that there would remain a one in three chance that temperatures exceed 3C.
At the same time, limiting warming to 1.5C with at least a fifty-fifty chance (a target supported by the least-developed countries and small island states) appears only to be possible if the world starts acting on climate change now and turns towards an energy-efficient future.
Surprisingly, while much research is focused on understanding the global climate, a highly complex system with many uncertainties, the new study finds that after a certain point, there is little chance of limiting temperature rise to below 2C.
"Ultimately, the geophysical laws of the Earth system and its uncertainties dictate what global temperature rise to expect," said Rogelj.
"If we delay for twenty years, the likelihood of limiting temperature rise to two degrees becomes so small that the geophysical uncertainties don't play a role anymore."
In order to make the results of their study accessible to the wider public, the authors developed a simple interactive tool that is free for download. The tool allows people to explore the feasibility, costs, and likelihood of limiting warming to specific temperature targets. Once the embargo is lifted, the tool will be available for download. Rogelj, J., D. McCollum, A. Reisinger, M. Meinshausen and K. Riahi (2013) Probabilistic cost distributions for climate change mitigation. Nature, DOI:10.1038/nature11787.
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Thanks Mike. 1. So I think you mean for Hadoop, since it is batch job latency is not the most key concern, so time spent on swap is acceptable. But for HBase, the normal use case is on-demand and semi-real time query, so we need to avoid the memory swap to impact latency? 2. Supposing I have 4 mappers run as 4 JVMs on one machine. Do each of them share dedicated exclusive physical memory space for heap memory management (which means if one process consuming too much memory which causes swap will NOT impact others)? Or all the JVMs share the same physical memory pool (which means if one process consuming too much memory which causes swap will impact others)? 3. Any best practices to avoid swap in Hadoop and HBase use case? regards, Lin On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 12:27 AM, Michael Segel <email@example.com>wrote: > If you exceed the amount of physical memory available, memory pages will > be written to disk in a temp space. The act of 'swapping' the memory pages > from memory to disk and back again is known as 'swap'. > > HBase is highly sensitive to the latency of swapping memory in and out of > physical memory to disk. You need to avoid swap when running HBase. It > will crash a region server and ultimately you can end up with a cascading > failure and HBase will go down. > > HTH > > -Mike > > On Nov 5, 2012, at 11:06 PM, Lin Ma <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote: > > Thanks Michael, > > "If you are running just Hadoop, you could have a little swap. Running > HBase, fuggit about it." -- could you give a bit more information about > what do you mean swap and why forget for HBase? > > regards, > Lin > > > On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 12:46 PM, Michael Segel <email@example.com>wrote: > >> Mappers and Reducers are separate JVM processes. >> And yes you need to take in to account the amount of memory the >> machine(s) when you configure the number of slots. >> >> If you are running just Hadoop, you could have a little swap. Running >> HBase, fuggit about it. >> >> >> On Nov 5, 2012, at 7:12 PM, Lin Ma <email@example.com> wrote: >> >> > Hello Hadoop experts, >> > >> > I have a question in my mind for a long time. Supposing I am developing >> M-R program, and it is Java based (Java UDF, implements mapper or reducer >> interface). My question is, in this scenario, whether a mapper or a reducer >> is a separate JVM process? E.g. supposing on a machine, there are 4 >> mappers, they are 4 individual processes? I am also wondering whether the >> processes on a single machine will impact each other when each JVM wants to >> get more memory to run faster? >> > >> > thanks in advance, >> > Lin >> > >> > >> >> > >
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Northwestern's only run in the opener came in the third inning when Stephanie Hines singled in Therese Beeler.
Oklahoma Baptist scored its two runs in the top of the seventh inning before the Rangers ended the game unable to score a runner from third base in the bottom of the seventh.
Five players had five hits as the Rangers were outhit 8-5. Kellie Mason pitched all seven innings and struck out three batters.
In the second game, both teams opened the first inning each scoring a run. Northwestern pushed a run across in the fourth and fifth innings with Meagan Lack doubling in the fourth and Kylee Wilson singling in a run in during the fifth.
Hit totals were reversed as the Rangers picked up eight and the Bison had five. Beeler led the Rangers with a flawless 3-for-3 performance and Wilson added two hits in three at bats.
Mason evened her record to 6-6 as she went the distance. She gave up one earned run in 29 batters faced.
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Justin-mania broke out at Rosecroft on Saturday evening as Justin Brenneman had three winners on the card and Justin Vincent had two. Chris Welty also had a driving double on the night. Brenneman was red hot on the evening having seven drives and, in addition to his triple finishing second two times. Brenneman swept the early double with the Doris Marine owned Southern Viking, conditioned by Kyle Moore. This one took full advantage of the two hole trip and prevailed over a dead game Rocket Rosy (Donnie Russell). Gailie M was hard used early and held off DVC Gotta Believe's late charge to set a new lifetime mark of 1:57.1 for Brenneman and owner Brian Wright and co-owner and trainer Ronald short. The win was the second in a row for the rapidly improving three year old.
Never one to take a backseat Justin Vincent hit the ticket four of seven starts on the night with a double, a place and a show finish. Jeannies Fortune needed every inch of the stretch to prevail in a lifetime mark setting 1:58.2 in the fourth race. Jeannies Fortune got away near the back of the pack and relentless closed in on race favorite Angel's Dragon (Justin Hite) in the deep stretch to score for owner Andrew Scheller and trainer Jerry Nock.
Vincent also scored in the nightcap with Venaissance who sat off quick early fractions and charged by favored JK Saphire(David Hill, III) in the deep stretch and then held off the fast closing Steady Noire (who else Justin Brenneman) in a lifetime's best 1:56.2.
Chris Welty also had a great night; he drove in two races and won them both. Jesses Gem was resurgent in the stretch to hold off a herd of closers to set his lifetime mark of 2:00.2 for trainer and co-owner Judy Welty. Kerry Welty is the co-owner of this recent addition to the Welty stable who has now earned a check in four of five starts. Welty returned to the winner's circle following the ninth race, which he won with a well-timed power-brush (28.1) down the backside. It was a family affair once again as Judy trained the winner for Kerry Welty.
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England took a gamble in tonight's must-win ICC World Twenty20 Super Eight match against Sri Lanka at Pallekele by dropping wicketkeeper Craig Kieswetter.
Jonny Bairstow took over Kieswetter's duties behind the stumps, with Ravi Bopara selected for his first match of the campaign but Luke Wright likely to take over at the top of the order.
England made two other changes to the team which beat New Zealand two days ago, Jade Dernbach replacing his fellow seamer Tim Bresnan and all-rounder Samit Patel in for spinner Danny Briggs.
Stuart Broad chose to bowl first after winning a toss conducted with Kumar Sangakkara rather than Mahela Jayawardene.
The home captain had lost three previous tosses in succession, so sent his deputy out for that preliminary duty - to no avail.
Sri Lanka made one change, bringing Akila Dhananjaya back in place of Rangana Herath - despite the fractured cheekbone the young spinner suffered against New Zealand last week.
In a match - like England's first in this group - delayed by a Super Over finish in the preceding contest, Broad's team needed to win to progress to the semi-finals.
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An Illustrated Guide to ARIZONA WEEDS
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POPPY FAMILY-Papaveraceae
BLUESTEM PRICKLEPOPPY-Argemone intermedia Sweet
DESCRIPTION-Prickly perennials with bitter yellow juice, and densely covered throughout with short yellowish spines, which reproduce only by seeds. The large white or occasionally pinkish flowers, 2 to 3 inches across, are fragrant with 4 to 6 petals and many orange colored stamens. The leaves are alternate, bluish green, deeply lobed, clasp the stem at the base, and are 2 to 8 inches long.
There are 2 or 3 green sepals covering the flower bud. Each bears a long slender horn which ends in I stiff spine, and usually with no additional spines, but sometimes 1 to 3 very slender ones near the base. The prickly oblong seedpods are 1 to 1 1/2 inches long, and produce many dark brown or blackish seeds. The rounded seeds are about 1/6 to 1/12 inch in diameter, the surface finely honeycombed, with a raised scar down one side.
DISTRIBUTION-A native plant growing in dry disturbed soil of roadsides, old fields, waste places, washes, mesas, and uncultivated areas. These are very drought resistant plants. They come in abundance on overgrazed ranges, and are an indication of severe deterioration. Found in Yavapai, Maricopa, Pinal, Cochise, Santa Cruz, and Pima counties; ],500 to 5,400 feet elevation; flowering March to November. Pricklepoppies contain alkaloids that may cause livestock poisoning, but they are rarely eaten.
CRESTED PRICKLEPOPPY-Argemone platyceras Link & Otto
DESCRIPTION-Usually more densely spiny throughout than bluestem prickle-poppy, with many fine short bristles. The 2 or 3 horns on the flower buds are shorter and stouter, with several short spines.
DISTRIBUTION-Growing in the same situations as bluestem pricklepoppy, in Apache to Mohave County, south to Pima, Santa Cruz, and Cochise counties; 1,500 to 8,000 feet elevation; flowering March to November.
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ZACHARY — Zachary School Board member Donnie Dykes Jr. said Wednesday he has resigned from his elected position because he recently moved out of the district he represents.
Dykes, the District 8 school board member, said he remains a Zachary resident but moved in with his new wife in a house in District 5, prompting the resignation.
The resignation was effective on Wednesday, Jan. 22, according to a Jan. 16 letter from Dykes to Secretary of State Tom Schedler.
"I am going to miss it. I hope to run again for the school board one day," Dykes said.
Dykes ran unopposed in 2010 for the District 8 seat. His term expires at the end of 2014.
Voters will go the polls in October to fill Dykes' seat along with all the members of the Zachary School Board who will be up for re-election. The next term will begin in January 2015.
The Zachary School Board will meet Thursdayto appoint a replacement to finish out Dykes' term.
Dawn Avants will be appointed to the District 8 seat, according to the Zachary School Board's Jan. 23 meeting agenda.
Dykes said Avants is a lifelong Zachary resident who will be a good choice for the spot. He said Avants will be allowed to run for the seat in October if she wants.
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You raised some good points I agree with everything that you said. Can you imagine if the situation was reversed and a black man murdered a white teenage boy? There would be hell to pay. Because of the protests and anger by people all over the world the mainstreem media is carying out a Smear Campaign against Trayvon Martin to try and justify what Zimmerman did. They released a picture of a Kid thowing up his middle fingers and said it was Trayvon Martin. It was found out later that it was in fact not him in the picture, and even if it was so what? That didn't give Zimmerman the right to kill him. They are bringing up past issues such as his suspension from school, and that he smoked weed.ReplyDelete
Dharun Ravi was found guilty of bullying his gay roomate Tyler Clementi who commited suicuide, Dharun didn't even physically touch Clementi, but he was found guilty. So why is it that there is no justice in this case?


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Grammy-nominated pianist Peter Kater invites us to the Ocean's Edge and beyond with this captivating collection of exquisite piano music with lush orchestration and sounds of nature. Relax and feel the power of the deep blue world of humpback, beluga and orca whales and the playful songs and sounds of dolphins, sea birds and calming ocean waves. Let "Ocean's Edge" take you home to the origin of all life.


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The Canon PowerShot SX30 IS camera has the biggest optical zoom in the room. But does it make rival bridge camera envious?
The Canon PowerShot SX30 IS has one long lens. When extended to its full zoom, it protrudes from the camera body like a black plastic Pinocchio nose – but then, it's a big zoom. At 35x, it's got the biggest optical zoom range of any camera we've fondled, delivering the equivalent of 24mm to 800mm on a 35mm camera.It's undoubtedly impressive, especially the first time you zoom that full 800mm to snap a bird or similar subject absolutely miles (figuratively) away. The image stabilisation keeps wobble in check too, so as long as there's a decent amount of light around you can shoot at full zoom handheld and not end up with a bunch of blurry snaps.It's touches like this that make the Canon SX30 IS a very easy camera to use. While a selection of veteran-friendly modes (full manual, program, aperture, shutter) sit on the dial, you can simply leave the camera set to auto or one of the scene presets and still get great shots. If you do want to tweak a setting like ISO or white balance, hitting the function button in the middle of the adjustment wheel brings up the standard Canon quick select menu.The camera has a nice heft to it, and like most superzooms sits comfortably in the hand thanks to the chunky grip on the right side. If we were to nitpick, we'd say the outer shell is a bit too plasticky for the price tag, but it feels solid enough.The screen is a neat vari-angle number that can be flipped frontwards for those MySpace profile self-portraits. While the screen itself gets the job done, it's only 2.7-inch and 202,000 dots, making it a little dinky and not particularly sharp. You can also use the electronic viewfinder to frame shots and videos.Picture quality is very good, even at the wide and long ends of the zoom range – although pixel peepers who zoom in to check may spot a lack of sharpness in the corners. What's more, at the furthest zoom you can still focus fairly close to the lens (a few metres), which lets you achieve some nice out-of-focus backgrounds while keeping the subject in sharp focus.The maximum ISO of 1600 isn't particularly high, so you'll need to employ the flash indoors, especially when using the zoom. Noise isn't a huge issue until you get past ISO 400, which is handy because with no option to shoot RAW (it's JPEG only here), your ability to tweak photos in Photoshop or a similar app is limited.Video is similarly strong: the 720p HD clips aren't sophisticated, but are sharp and colours look vivid. You can use the zoom while filming, and as long as you can keep the Canon SX30 IS fairly steady you can definitely shoot at the full 35x magnification.
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Where to eat out this weekend? It's easy to get tired of the same old places.
To help you out of a dining rut, or to simply present new possibilities, here are links to recent Tribune restaurant reviews, including some newly reviewed options in Provo:
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For green manure nothing is better than cowpeas as a summer crop and crimson clover as a winter crop.
The exceptions are crimson clover, and in many instances alfalfa.
An educated young farmer in Iowa paid $2.50 for a peck of crimson clover seed which he sowed in the spring in his oats.
On hard lands it is well to sow two or three quarts per acre of crimson clover seed.
Climates too cold for fruitage in the latter would be too cold for the uniformly safe wintering of crimson clover.
It is more hardy than crimson clover, and is grown as far north as winter wheat.
crimson clover has highest adaptation for sandy loam soils into which the roots can penetrate easily.
Since crimson clover is an annual plant, it will not do any permanent mischief in the Lawn.
The crimson clover is an annual, while the others are perennials.
crimson clover is usually sown in the late summer after some crop has been reaped and it is plowed under the following spring.


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By Andrea Stone, USA TODAY
OMAHA Ralph Morocco, a "retired Republican" volunteer for Barack Obama, parks his Prius and heads up the walk to a house in an affluent neighborhood on this city's west side.
"Any chance you'd be an Obama supporter?" he asks a woman at her door. She shakes her head. A second woman is on the fence. After 30 minutes, he and another canvasser log two undecideds, one no and three yeses.
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"We're the campaign working hardest," says Morocco, 58, a health care consultant. "I don't know if hard work always pays off."
In most presidential election years, Democrats need hardly work at all here. Nebraska hasn't voted Democratic since Lyndon Johnson's landslide in 1964.
But a law that allows the state's five Electoral College votes to be split up has encouraged Democrats to try for one of them. Republicans predict the election will hinge on battleground states like Virginia, but Obama's campaign isn't taking any chances.
"The campaigns of old used to be a basic mathematic formula … to get to 270," says John Berge, Obama's state director. "Today's campaign is more of an algebraic equation where you've got various different variables."
Nebraska and Maine are the only two states that don't have winner-take-all rules for electoral votes. In those states, the candidate who wins a majority statewide gets two votes. The other votes are awarded to the winner in each congressional district.
Neither state has ever split votes, but Democrats say Nebraska's 2nd District, which includes most of Omaha and part of Sarpy County, may be within reach.
Obama energized Democrats with an easy win against Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in presidential caucuses here in February.
Democrats are still outnumbered by Republicans but have narrowed the gap in voter registration from 12,497 to 4,105 in Douglas County, which makes up most of the 2nd District.
"When they started looking at where … to play," Berge says of the Obama campaign, "this was one of those places."
The Illinois senator has 15 paid staffers in Omaha. Bill Clinton had two in 1992, the first election under proportional voting.
"Nebraska pretty much never mattered," says Democratic activist Judy Monaghan. "We've never had this kind of activity."
Obama has opened three campaign offices. Hundreds of volunteers work the phones and knock on doors, especially in north Omaha, where most of Nebraska's African Americans live and organizers have registered more than 4,000 new voters.
Cheryl Tucker, a single mother and former cook at the popular Dunn Deal Café, is one of them.
"I really wasn't into politics," says Tucker, 38. But after listening to customers talk, "There's a black man for the community and I want to give him a shot."
Randall Atkins, a political scientist at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, says Obama has generated more enthusiasm among Democrats than Al Gore and John Kerry combined. "The fact you put feet on the ground in Omaha is a big deal," he says.
McCain's campaign website directs Nebraska supporters to an office in suburban Denver.
"The state party is doing what they can to assist," says Nebraska GOP field director Jeff Kanger.
Republican City Councilman Jim Vokal says his party is mobilizing voters in Sarpy County. Home to Offutt Air Force Base, it is filled with retired military who like McCain and social conservatives excited about his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.
"This has united the party," Vokal says. "We're now excited about the ticket."
Retiring Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel is not. He has disagreed with McCain over the Iraq war and criticized Palin as a lightweight on foreign policy. He won't back any candidate, but his wife Lilibet endorsed Obama.
Hagel's ambivalence "offers an opening" for Obama to appeal to independents, says Curtis Gans of Washington's Center for the Study of the American Electorate.
Independent Lucas Munderloh, 26, a University of Nebraska student, will "probably" vote for Obama but knows many who won't. "People here in Nebraska are traditional," he says. "They're not the type for something new."
But another student, Republican Benta Kleven, 26, says she is backing Obama. "He's going to change things," she says.
When Republican Nicole Weers was in her 20s and a self-described "one-issue voter" against abortion, she would never have considered Obama. But at 32, the suburban Bellevue mother cares about poverty, too, and is undecided. She is torn about her vote. "As a believer, I don't think God is necessarily a Republican or Democrat," Weers says. "I want to pick who I think will do the best job."
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New GM named for Suominen Flexibles business area
HELSINKI, FINLAND, December 10, 2012-
Mr Olli E. Juvonen (B Sc, Econ) has been appointed Vice President, General Manager of the Flexibles business area and member of the Corporate Executive Team in Suominen Corporation as of December 10, 2012. He will report to President and CEO of Suominen Corporation, Mrs Nina Kopola.
Mr Mikko Pellinen, who has acted as Vice President and General Manager of the Flexibles business area since 2008, will continue as Business Development Director at Suominen Corporation.
"Our Flexibles business area is now entering a new phase of development, and we need persons with different strengths to carry it out. Olli E. Juvonen is one of the most experienced business developers in Finland, and I am happy that he joins Suominen. Further, I want to thank Mikko Pellinen for the great work he has done in the head of Flexibles business. Considering the execution of Suominen's strategy, it is crucial that his in-depth business knowledge and competence remains at Suominen", says Nina Kopola, President and CEO.
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