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| Xie, C. L., CPECC East China Design Branch, Qingdao, China; Wang, Z. G., CPECC East China Design Branch, Qingdao, China; Qin, Y. F., SimTech Beijing Ltd., Beijing, China
Pressure relief analysis is a critical task at the engineering design stage of a grassroots oil refinery project. Relief loads must be determined so that the process units and plant flare systems can be designed.
[flare system]
[pressure relief]
Pressure relief analysis (PRA) is a critical task at the
engineering design stage of a grassroots oil refinery project. During that phase, the
relief loads must be determined so that the process units and
plant flare systems can be designed.
The key steps of PRA include the determination of individual
relief loads and the evaluation/mitigation of each process
units overall relief load. Individual relief normally
refers to a single piece of equipment or a set of
interconnected equipment systems, such as a distillation column protected with a
pressure relief valve (hereafter referred to as a
protected system).
A conventional method based on recommended practices and
standards, such as American Petroleum Institute Standard 521
(API 521),1 is normally used for relief load
calculation by designers and licensors. However, the
conventional method has been widely proved to over-estimate the
relief load, leading to the over-design of the flare system.
The over-design of the flare system will not only result in
unnecessary capital investment, but also lead to design and construction difficulties at very
large plantsfor example, a refinery with a capacity of several
tens of million tons per year (MMtpy).
Many recent reports claim that dynamic simulation is more
accurate than the conventional method in predicting relief
load.2, 3 The required relief load, as calculated
with dynamic simulation, is always far less compared to the
relief load calculated with the conventional method.
Furthermore, in the latest edition of API 521, dynamic
simulation is a recommended method.
Although dynamic simulation would be the best way to predict
relief load, building the model for a complete process unit is
time-consuming and labor-intensive. Furthermore, this work
requires detailed equipment and control system information that
would not be available during the early design phase.
An approach combining the conventional method with dynamic
simulation is proposed here. By minimizing the inherent
drawbacks of both the conventional method and dynamic
simulation, this approach can optimize relief load
determination for the entire process unit with minimum modeling
The relief load determination procedure for a process unit
includes several steps, as shown in Fig. 1.
Note: During engineering design, an iterative
procedure likely will be required due to process modification,
control or safety system reconsideration, etc.; this procedure
appears to be sequential.
Step 1: Individual load calculation. The
conventional method is the simple, fast way to conservatively
determine the required relief load and, until now, it has been
standard industry practice.
In the first step, the conventional method is applied
(Fig. 1). Before the relief load can be
calculated, applicable relief cases for a specific protected
system must be determined, along with assumptions for these
cases based on API 521. These cases and assumptions are used as
the basis for later dynamic simulation, since even dynamic
simulation should be compliant with the API standard.
The calculation for the distillation column is one of
complicated applications. Three approaches have been used in
the industry, including flash drum, gross overhead vapor and
unbalanced heat load methods. However, the flash drum method
can only be used as a rough estimation at an early stage of
design. The latter two methods are more realistic, although
underestimation of relief load is a common occurrence in the
second method.
The last method, unbalanced heat load, is the most
complicated and rigorous method among the three, and it is
widely accepted as the industry standard. A number of authors
have discussed this method in detail,3, 4 and so it
is not repeated here; although, a comparison between the second
and third methods is shown in Table 1.
The gross overhead vapor method gives a smaller number of
figures; therefore, it is not reliable in terms of conservative
consideration. Here, the unbalanced heat load method is taken
as the standard conventional method for the column
Step 2: Ranking of loads. When individual
relief loads for all cases are worked out, these data are
sorted by their values in descending order.
As mentioned, dynamic modeling requires considerable
engineering time and effort, and it is unwise to apply dynamic
simulation for all cases (with the exception of the critical
ones with the largest loads). The purpose of this sorting is to
pick out the critical cases for which further dynamic
simulation is needed. Note: Relief to
different headers must be treated separately.
An example of a 4.2-MMtpy vacuum gasoil (VGO) hydrotreater
is given in Table 2. Individual loads of
high-pressure and low-pressure heaters are ranked and listed
respectively; the largest two or three cases are candidates for
dynamic simulation. It is important to keep in mind that the
weight relief flowrate is not necessarily the largest relief
load, especially for those relief loads with small molecular
Step 3: Matching criteria. In Step 2,
critical cases and corresponding protected systems are
selected. However, not all protected systems can be modeled
properly due to simulation limitations, and, for some cases, it
is not worthwhile to model them. As a result, further screening
of candidates for dynamic simulation is required. In this step,
a judgement will be made vs. a set of criteria. These criteria
typically include, but are not limited to, the following:
Fig. 2 shows a comparison of relief loads
estimated by both the conventional method and dynamic
simulation for a 3.7-MMtpy grassroots hydrocracking unit. As
can be seen, with the same assumptions as the conventional
method, dynamic simulation predicts a much smaller peak relief
load for most column cases, thereby improving the relief load
estimation.2, 3 Similar phenomena is observed for
the reactor loop due to its complexity.
For these reasons, only protected systems of the column
and/or reactor loop require dynamic study, and only separated
modeling of these systems is required. In this way, much
engineering time can be saved.
Step 4: Dynamic modeling. As mentioned in
Step 3, the dynamic models are built for protected systems with
the criteria being matched. Relief cases are executed based on
the model, and the peak relief loads are documented.
A key point is that the same assumptions as the conventional
method are applied during case studies based on a dynamic
model. A typical example is overhead pressure control of the
column. When an overpressure case happens, the increasing
pressure will push the control valve to open wider, and this
will reduce the required relief. However, this conventional
instrumentation response should not be assumed when sizing
individual process equipment pressure relief, according to API
Therefore, in this case study, the pressure controller is
set on manual operation, and the control valve is kept in its
last position. Another example is a fire case. Not only is the
same heat input model as the conventional method used in the
dynamic simulation, but the same assumptions are also applied
as the system is isolated and shut down in the occurrence of a
Step 5: Summation of individual loads.
Previous steps focused on a single protected system. From these
steps, an overall relief load for a process unit is evaluated
and altered for general failure cases (GFCs).
GFCs, typically including general power failures (GPFs),
general water failures (GWFs) and general instrument air
failures (GIAFs), usually are not allowed. The corresponding
safety systems, such as the uninterrupted power supply (UPS),
dual water supply and dual air supply, must be designed to
prevent these failures. However, as far as relief system design
is concerned, the extreme cases must still be considered.
Generally speaking, the summation of all individual relief
source loads in a GFC should be calculated, yielding a rough
and conservative overall load for that case. An example of a
4.2-MMtpy VGO hydrotreater is shown in Table
3, where two protected systems relieve to a
low-pressure header in a GPF case. Note: The
dynamic result in Step 4 should be used instead of the
conventional method, wherever applicable.
Step 6: Depressuring load calculation. The
peak load for depressuring is calculated using the conventional
method. The timing of depressuring and its relevance to general
failures should be carefully evaluated. The engineering
judgement should be made and evaluated if depressuring occurs
simultaneously in a GFC.
Step 7: Matching criteria. One of the
advantages of dynamic simulation is that it considers timing
and interconnection of processes. Normally, multiple protected
systems relieve in GFCs, although not simultaneously. This
scenario provides a good opportunity to mitigate the overall
relief load with dynamic simulation.
In practice, one of the typical situations for which dynamic
simulation can be implemented is a column series with streams
and/or heat interconnections. However, with a simple analysis
on the summation table at Step 5 (see Table
3), if the majority of the relief load (i.e., 80% or
higher) is found to be contributed by a single column (e.g.,
the product fractionator in Table 3), then
dynamic simulation is not encouraged because no considerable
improvement can be expected.
In the same GFC, relief via both the relief valve and the
depressuring valve may happen, but they do not peak
simultaneously. This is another typical application of dynamic
simulation, and a simple summation of those relief loads
normally can be mitigated.
Step 8: Dynamic modeling. Dynamic models
are built for the systems selected in Step 7, and GFCs are
executed. To make the design conservative, the sum of the peak
loads of each protected system should be taken as a design
reference instead of the dynamic peak summation load. This is
further illustrated in the later case study of a delayed coking unit.
Note: The assumptions made for multi-source
simulation would differ from those for individual relief
analysis. The conservative assumptions for the former
simulation are not necessarily the same as in the latter.
Therefore, in this step, careful evaluation of the assumption
is required to ensure that the total relief load is
conservative. It is possible that some models in Step 4 are
used as part of the model in this analysis, but the assumptions
used in other case studies likely will be different.
Step 9: New relief loads in GFCs. For the
relief occurring in GFCs but not included in the analysis at
Step 8, individual peak loads should be used to calculate the
overall load from Step 8. The summation result is the optimized
overall load in the GFC.
Step 10: Optimized loads. The optimized
individual relief load in Step 4 can be used to size the relief
valve of this protected system. For flare header sizing of this
process unit, the maximum individual load, the overall load for
the GFC and the depressuring load are collected and sorted, and
among them the largest one is taken as the design case. One or
more of these loads will be used for the plantwide relief load
Relief load optimization for a delayed coking unit with a
capacity of 3 MMtpy is performed. The relief of the coker drum
is handled separately, and, in this study, only the
fractionation section (as shown in Fig. 3) is
Step 4 is followed by a summation of individual loads at the
GFCs. In this study, the GPF and GWF cases are examined. The
relieving equipment in the GPF includes the coker fractionator,
the stripper feed drum and the debutanizer, while only the
coker fractionator will relieve in the GWF case. Therefore, as
per the criteria in Step 7, the GPF case would be further
analyzed with dynamic simulation. A summary of the results is
listed in Table 5.
As shown in the table, a single coker fractionator
contributes 80% of the total relief load in the GPF case. For
this reason, it is not a practical candidate for dynamic
studies for multiple protected systems; however, it is still
implemented in this study to illustrate Step 8.
As shown in Fig. 4, four protected systems
will relieve in the GPF case, and the dynamic summation (black
curve) peaks at 275,000 kg/hr. However, to make a conservative
estimate, the summation of peak loads of 355,000 kg/hr for four
individual sources is taken as the design reference. A large
improvement is not seen compared with 376,000 kg/hr at Step 5,
due to the reasons mentioned above. This summarizes Step
Finally, the optimized individual relief loads are collected
and summarized. The results of the conventional method are
replaced by the dynamic simulation results, where applicable.
These data provide sizing references for individual relief valves. The required orifice size of
a relief valve can always be reduced through relief load
mitigation. With the coker fractionator, for example, the GPF
is the controlling case, and the required relief valve size is
reduced from 1,010 cm2 to 623 cm2 (based
on the API relief valve sizing method). It can be determined
that 355,000 kg/hr is the largest relief load for this delayed
coking unit at the GPF case, which
is only 63% of the load without optimization (565,000 kg/hr, as
shown in Table 5), and this value is used to
set the flare header size of the unit.
It is also apparent that modeling the entire flowsheet at
Step 8 is unnecessary, since only a slight improvement can be
obtained compared to the individual load summations. Therefore,
Step 8 is bypassed in real engineering design, leading to
considerable savings of modeling time and effort.
The relief load estimation derived by combining the
conventional method with dynamic simulation was optimized as
expected, with minimum dynamic modeling efforts. This
estimation was successfully applied to a relief load case study
of a large-scale delayed coking unit. Although a refinery process is studied here,
the approach is also applicable to other oil, gas and petrochemical processes.
The authors thank Xiaobo Liu and Xiuwen Zhao from China
Petroleum Engineering & Construction Corp.s East China
Design Branch; Ximei Lv and Zengfu Zhang from SimTech Beijing
Ltd.; and Professor Enxi Lu from South China University of Technology for their contributions
to this article.
1 American Petroleum Institute, Guide for
pressure relieving and depressuring systems, API Standard
521, 5th Ed., January 2007.
2 Depew, C. and J. Dessing, Dynamic simulation
improves column relief load estimates, Hydrocarbon Processing, December
3 Nazami, P. L., Distillation column relief
loadsPart 1, 2, Hydrocarbon Processing, April
2008/May 2008.
4 Rahimi Mofrad, S., Tower pressure relief
calculation, Hydrocarbon Processing, September
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When I write
{{\tilde{C}}^{0}_{har}}^{\Gamma} (or the same with fewer curly brackets) in Tex I obtain a double superscript error and I can't solve it. Does someone know how to fix this?
When I write
If you want the
If you want
which will place the structure in a (text) box and allow superscripting. I prefer option 2 since options 1 & 3 has
(The purpose of this answer is to summarize the different aspects in the existing answers and to expand on egreg's explanation.)
You've encountered some really curious aspect of the TeX engine here! My short answer: follow Mico's and Boris' advice and use parentheses around
As egreg said in his answer, the culprit of your trouble is the
This means that surrounding
Apparently Knuth didn't see any need for the extra grouping you're trying to use here. The error message might be his way of telling you "Don't do this!"
The above explanation also shows the easiest way out of the trouble (if you really want to do it without parentheses, which I strongly advise against). Just make sure that the thing you put into the braces is not "a single Acc atom". For example, with
you'll get the output ; already the empty math list
The tilde is a problem. The inputs
will give a "Double superscript" error also in Plain TeX, while
won't. This is due to how TeX deals with "Accent" atoms. However, as Mico remarks, a notation like this is ambiguous and should be managed in a different way than trying to have a superscript hanging from nowhere.
Your example code is a bit ambiguous as to what you want to achieve: do you want the
Tilde is not a problem. Using both
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Wrote a bash function to display the console colors.
But, it seems some of the colors are not possible to show that way! (?)
Also, note the strange "bright black"!
(Note: The below screendump is of xterm, but this is meant to be used in console mode. I had to use xterm to get a screendump. But it looks much the same.)
function clr () {
Color_names="bla red gre yel blu mag cya whi"
for m in {0..15}
tput setaf $m
echo -n ${Color_arr[$((m % 8))]}" "
tput sgr0
cat /sys/module/vt/parameters/default_red \
/sys/module/vt/parameters/default_grn \
/sys/module/vt/parameters/default_blu | tr "," "\t"


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I have just installed Ubuntu 11 on virtual machine running on a windows seven, I just downloaded the xampp package and wanted to install it, so I Googled how to install xampp, and it says I should login as a root user.
So I typed sudo -s, and the it asked for a password, but suddenly I cant type nothing, even that the mouse works?
Is that a common problem, does some know what it might be? I looked on Google could not find a similar problem?
I am following this instruction for the installation of xampp. http://freshtutorial.com/install-xamp-ubuntu/


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Arts calendar: Petrie faculty recital Monday at Converse
Published: Sunday, March 17, 2013 at 3:15 a.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, March 14, 2013 at 8:28 p.m.
The Union County Artists' Guild's Tuesday Night Artists' Group meets 5:30-7:30 p.m. on second and third Tuesdays, at 116 E. Main St., Union. Open to anyone working in any medium. Call 864-429-2817 or email email@example.com.
The Thursday Afternoon Acting Group (TAAG) at USC Upstate is an after-school theater program for children ages 8 to 18. It will meet on Thursdays from 4-6 p.m. in the Studio Theatre. For more information, contact 864-503-5621 or email@example.com.
Petrie faculty recital: 7:30 p.m. Featuring Douglas Weeks, piano. Free. Daniel Recital Hall, Converse College, 580 E. Main St.
Ballroom dance class: 7:30-8:30 p.m. Mondays. Marian Norman, instructor. Will teach the waltz throughout March. Open to couples and individuals. Ballet Spartanburg's Dance Center, Chapman Cultural Center, 200 E. St. John St. 583-0339.
Teen poetry performance workshop: 6-7:30 p.m. Tuesdays. Hosted by Moody Black. For ages 13-19. Travel and compete against other poetry slam teams. Free. T.K. Gregg Recreation Center, 310 Oakland Ave., 596-3720.
Painting With Coffee: 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. For any artist working in any medium. UCAC Gallery, Main St., Union. 864-429-2817.
Petrie faculty recital: 7:30 p.m. "Love: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly." Featuring Keith Jones, tenor; Anne Denbow, soprano; Karen Hill, clarinet; Mildred Roche, piano and Annalisa Monticelli, piano.
DanSynergy V: 7 p.m. Presented by Ballet Spartanburg. Adults $25, senior citizens $20, students $15. David Reid Theater, Chapman Cultural Center, 200 E. St. John St. 542-2787.
ArtWalk: 5-9 p.m. Local downtown art galleries stay open late. Free admission to most. Downtown Spartanburg. 542-ARTS (2787).
Piano jazz with Fred Whiskin: 6-8:30 p.m., 120 N. Trade Ave., Landrum. 864-457-5155.
Middle East dance class: 7:15-8:15 p.m. New session to begin April 11. Will run for seven weeks. Register now. Chapman Cultural Center, 200 E. St. John St., 583-0339 or 574-9722.
Dance Parkinson's: 1:30 p.m. Every second and fourth Thursday. For patients with Parkinson's disease. Free. Ballet Spartanburg, The Chapman Cultural Center, 200 E. St. John St. 583-0339.
Lawson Series — "A Violinist on Other Violinists": 7 p.m. Adults $5, children 12 and younger free. Daniel Recital Hall, Converse College, 580 E. Main St.
Family Time, Kindermusik Class: 10:45-11:30 a.m. For families with children ages newborn and up. Bryant Belin, instructor. The class helps children develop musical skills as well as social skills. Tryon Fine Arts Center, Melrose Ave., Tryon, N.C. 828-859-8322
Ongoing exhibits
"Film Art From Behind the Iron Curtain." A collection of movie posters from Eastern European countries. Through May 10. Second floor of the Humanities and Performing Arts Center, 800 University Way. 503-5838.
"Wofford's Desegregation Decade." Through March 28. Martha Cloud Chapman Gallery, Campus Life Building, Wofford College, 429 N. Church St.
"Featuring works by Huguette Despault May. Gallery hours: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday. Through March 29. Humanities and Performing Arts Center, USC Upstate, 800 University Way. 503-5838.
"The Limestone College Print Collection." Gallery hours: 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday. Through April 20. Cherokee Alliance of Visual Artists, Gaffney Visitors Center, 210 W. Frederick St., Gaffney. 864-489-9119.
"Carl Plansky, Thirty Years of Painting." Through May 4. Spartanburg Art Museum, Chapman Cultural Center, 200 E. St. John St. 582-7616.
"Focus on Youth": A juried exhibit of artwork by high school students in Spartanburg County. Gallery hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Saturday. 1-5 p.m. Sunday. Through March 27. Artists' Guild of Spartanburg, Chapman Cultural Center, 200 E. St. John St. 542-2787.
Southern Fashions — history exhibit: "Southern Fashion Through the Years." Showcases the ever-changing styles in clothing by citizens of the South. Gallery hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday. 1-5 p.m. Sunday. Through May 31. Spartanburg Regional History Museum, Chapman Cultural Center, 200 E. St. John St. 542-2787.
"Fresh Imagination." Gallery hours: 3-6 p.m. Thursday-Friday. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday. Through April 14. Featuring a display of semi-precious stone jewelry accented with samples of textile art and poetry, by Dr. Lois Ann Hesser. West Main Artists Co-op, 578 W. Main St. 804-6501.
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One Good Friday act of kindness had some drivers in Bowling Green lined up waiting for hours.
The Shell station on Scottsville Rd. was taken over by Easter bunnies and people from CenterPointe Church.
They were there to give away free gas in the spirit of Good Friday.
"What a great blessing on Good Friday. What a great gesture for them to be extending this to the people," said gas recipient Anita Thomas-Turner.
"If we all can just take after that, and pattern after them and give back sometimes, what would the world be today," said gas recipient Ronald Butler.
The church bought $10 worth of gas for 200 people today, and they say next year, they hope to give away even more.


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Conveyor industry: CEMA report says booked orders were down in July
In its latest monthly report released today, the Conveyor Equipment Manufacturers Association (CEMA) reported that its July 2010 Booked Orders Index was 131. Index in July is down 36 points or 22% from June 2010's index of 167. While down from June, the July 2010 index represents an increase of 49% from the July 2009 Index of 88.
CEMA's baseline calculation uses the year 1990 as a comparison. Numbers to the right of the equation show the current state of the conveyor industry as compared to 1990. Therefore, anything above 100 indicates growth; while anything less indicates a contraction in the industry.
The Twelve-Month Index for Booked Orders was 120 in July. Index in July represents an increase of 3% from June 2010's Twelve-Month Index of 117.
The CEMA Billed Sales (shipments) Index was 142 in July. Index in July represents an increase of 6% from June 2010's Index of 134. The July 2010 Index represents an increase of 22% from the July 2009 Index of 116.
The Twelve-Month Index for Billed Sales was 113 in July. Index in July represents an increase of 2% from June 2010's Twelve-Month Index of 111.
So what does the July report say about the current state of the conveyor industry? In an interview with Modern, Bob Reinfried, CEMA's executive vice president, said, "The conveyor industry had a very, very good month in June. It's not that July was a disappointment, it was just the norm. And it's still better from where we were in July in 2009."
Last month, Reinfried admitted that CEMA saw good numbers in June, but he also explained that it was too early to tell if we should expect the numbers to continue to climb. It's still too early, he said.
CEMA will be holding its Fall meeting in Chicago on September 21 and 22, at which time Reinfried said he hopes to gather more information from member companies and wrap some context around the numbers.
Reinfried told Modern that CEMA is forecasting an increase of 2% to 3% for the overall North American conveyor market in 2010, and this month's report coupled with next week's meeting will help determine if that expectation is still on target.
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NFL to the Eagles: Not So Fast
Chip Kelly's New High-Tempo Offense in Philadelphia May Face a Major Challenge: Referees
Philadelphia Eagles coach Chip Kelly has been plotting a football revolution since he was hired this winter to turn around the team's fortunes.
His plan is to continue the philosophy he perfected as the coach at Oregon: to run every play as quickly as possible with no huddles and no stoppages in play, all aimed at leaving the defense doubled over in exhaustion. This "up-tempo" strategy, already popular at the college level, looks like it could change the pro game forever. There is just one small problem standing in Kelly's way: referees.
- Oregon's Offense: Gone in 23.2 Seconds (10/29/10)
- Oregon's Case for the Hall of Geniuses (5/5/11)
As Kelly mans his first full week of NFL training camp, installing a high-revving Ferrari engine into the Eagles' offense, league insiders say there are exactly zero indications NFL referees will be willing participants in the Kelly era. The NFL, they say, has a long-standing pace at which they do things between plays and the referees "aren't going to change just to accommodate someone's offense," said Mike Pereira, a former NFL vice president of officiating who is now an analyst for Fox Sports.
"We have to make sure teams understand that they don't control the tempo, our officials do," said NFL vice president of officiating Dean Blandino. "We're going through our normal ball mechanics; we aren't going to rush [unless] it's in the two minute drill."
Blandino said he has talked to every NFL team coaching staff during the off-season to emphasize that there is no forcing the issue—the offense won't be able to snap the ball until the referees signals they're ready.
Kelly declined to comment. An Eagles spokesman also declined to comment.
Blandino said the subject of up-tempo offenses and how they're officiated was a major point of discussion by the NFL's competition committee in recent months. Last season, after what Blandino said was a record for total plays from scrimmage per game, he said the committee felt compelled to "re-emphasize" that NFL rules differ dramatically from college.
At a clinic for NFL officials this off-season, Pereira said he saw league executives taking the next step, drilling the message into the heads of its assembled referees: No matter what, we're going to run at the same pace.
It is easy to see why the NFL might want to tap the brakes on these rampaging offenses. The league has long cherished the somewhat languorous breaks between plays, which are also attractive to broadcasters. There is also a safety concern: The more plays get run, the more tired players become and the more their technique suffers—increasing the risks of injury.
For Kelly, who went 46-7 at Oregon and appeared in a national-championship game, the college game was essentially a racetrack. Since referee guidelines were more lenient, Kelly's teams were consistently able to get officials to work more quickly, setting them up to make lightning-fast snaps. In one game measured by The Wall Street Journal, Kelly's Oregon offense averaged just 23.2 seconds between snaps, a pace 32% faster than the norm for college football.
In the NFL, however, referees are required to change balls when a play dies out of bounds or when there is an incomplete pass. That can add five to 10 seconds between plays. Another source of slowness: The referee who spots the ball in the NFL must be behind the deepest offensive back before the offense can snap the ball.
In at least one collegiate conference, the referee has to only be two steps away from the ball for the offense to snap it. The difference between these approaches can add up to 10 seconds in some instances.
The NFL's policy on substitutions won't help the Eagles, either. If an offensive team substitutes a player, Blandino said, it doesn't matter how quickly that player gets to the line of scrimmage—the defense will also be allowed to make its substitutions. NFL referees, he said, will go so far as standing over the ball to make sure the defenders have time to get in the game.
Pereira, who saw Kelly's offense in action when he briefly oversaw Pac-12 officials two years ago, said Kelly was a coach who lobbied for officials to be more mobile so they could run with the Ducks and get the ball down on the line of scrimmage more quickly, giving the team's center the chance to get a snap off just seconds later. "In the NFL, I don't see him having the juice to persuade crews to work faster," Pereira said. "In fact, I know he doesn't."
To understand the difference between what Kelly wants to bring to the NFL and what the NFL is used to, consider that 12.8% of NFL plays last season were run without a huddle. While that is nearly double what it was five years ago, it doesn't hold a candle to Kelly's Ducks teams. Those squads went without a huddle on 78.5% of plays last year. Eagles receiver Jason Avant said that in his time in the NFL he's come to realize that every NFL team runs the same plays with different names. "But not this offense," he said.
Blandino said that in his meeting with Philadelphia, Kelly didn't show any "overconcern" about these changes. "They had questions about what the parameters were going to be," Blandino said of the Eagles. "It's going to be different from college." Blandino said he didn't sense pushback from teams. He said he wanted every team aware of the mechanics that take place before a snap.
The NFL's version of an up-tempo offense—as tepid as it may be compared with college—has caught on with a handful of teams, most notably the New England Patriots, which ran 74.4 plays per game last season, the most by an NFL team in two decades. By all accounts, the Patriots wish they could go faster. "Tom [Brady] always wants to go faster and faster," said wide receiver Matthew Slater.
But even that pace has stirred up controversy in the NFL. Jets linebacker Calvin Pace called the Patriots' up-tempo offense "borderline illegal" and Jet coaches have publicly complained about the Patriots breaking substitution rules.
"Coach Kelly will not be playing as fast in Philadelphia as he did at Oregon," said Gerald Austin, a longtime NFL referee who now instructs officials and is an analyst for ESPN.
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Is wildcard search possible in Gmail?
Not in general, no.
The Gmail search functionality works based on what I would describe as tokens. A token is any sequence of alphanumeric characters separated by a space or by other non-alphanumeric characters such as underscore, full stop (period), "@", dash, etc.. So in email@example.com there are 4 tokens: "peter", "ford23", "example" and "com".
Wildcards within tokens do not work. Wildcards outside of tokens are unnecessary and misleading.
Imagine you wish to find messages from firstname.lastname@example.com and tried these examples:
... would not work
... would work, but is misleading. It is no different from searching for "from:ford23".
If you thought that Gmail was checking for the "@" symbol immediately after "ford23", you could try this instead ...
... should not work, but does!
One example given in another answer is
... but again, Gmail is inadvertently misleading us. The dash and asterisk characters have no effect. (You can remove them and then remove the brackets too. It's the same as searching for "subject:jefferson".) It would return an email with subject "meeting with jefferson.jones".
... would not return an email with subject "jefferson-school"
... would not return an email with subject "jefferson-school"
There has been a suggestion that Perl regex can be used. I will not address that suggestion here, except to repeat that wildcards within tokens do not work (even using Perl syntax). And wildcards outside of tokens are unnecessary and misleading.
Disclaimer: For the sake of brevity I have used uncertainty-free language above. But I do not work for Google and I am not 100% sure of every claim in this answer. I do believe it is one of the best answers so far though.
You can use Perl regex in both the find and filters if you wrap it in a forward slash.
Will match everything from the hp.com domain.
It gets complicated very quickly because you have to escape certain characters.
Here's one I use that matches multiple address and compresses several rules down to one:
That will label notification emails matching:
No it is not possible. However, it depends on what you need it for. Gmail uses a very limited form of stemming based on whole words.
For example, let's see if I can retrieve emails from
So the closest you will get in this case, is if the person was nice enough to cut their first name and last name by the period.
But say I was nice to fill out my contact information and have my display name as "phwd lastname" then I can at least retrieve it this way
It sucks but at least we have Gmail Ninjas .
According to Berkeley Lab Commons:
Your only alternative is narrowing things down with Advanced Search or trying multiple, simultaneous options in the search box
A bit easier, just write the following in the search box:
from: (*@mysite.com)
Wildcards are not officially supported in Gmail, even if they are supported in Google Search.
That said, I have been using wildcards to match hostnames and subject lines, and I have been doing this for 5+ years. However, since wildcards are an unsupported feature, the behavior changes from time to time. Filters that once worked will stop working after Google changes Gmail. In addition, filters used with Gmail in Google Apps may work differently then filters in standard Gmail (outside of Google Apps).
The following examples work for me in Gmail for Google Apps.
For example, until Oct 2012 I was able to use the following search to match emails sent with the from line of "firstname.lastname@example.com" or "example@*.example.org" (where the latter was email sent directly from email@example.com, for example).
But in October 2012 this filter suddenly broke. But now I can use the following search with the same results:
Also, I can use a wildcard in the subject line. The following filter will match emails with a subject like:
I know it's not the most straightforward solution, but with Mozilla Thunderbird asterisk wildcard will work. For example searching *top* will find anything containing partially or totally that string, for example Stop or TopGun.
No, it's not possible. The search in Gmail does not allow substring search.
Here is Google's Advanced Search Tips page: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=8931&topic=41
In general there is no need for a wild card. You can simply search for 2 word or word parts with a space in between them and you will get any emails that contain the 2 words whether they are both found within the same word or not.


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According to unofficial results from the Jefferson County Board of Elections, 1,593, or 43.44 percent of district voters, voted for the levy proposal, while 2,074, or 56.56 percent, rejected the proposal.
The levy proposal, which has been turned down by district voters three times, including in November, would have funded basic operating expenses for the district, which has 1,965 students and pupils from Hammondsville, Richmond, Knoxville, Irondale, Pleasant Hill, Amsterdam, Bergholz, Empire, Stratton and other areas in the northern edge of Jefferson County. The levy would have funded district operations, including buses, building maintenance, food services, salaries, wages, benefits of employees and utilities.
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Beattie indicated the levy proposal probably won't be back on upcoming ballots.
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Discussion in 'Other Media (TV/Film, Comics & Games)' started by Frostmourne, Nov 23, 2003.
I didnt include PC, because obviously you have one if you can read this.
Gamecube, though I can't vote
poor you
what's wrong with this poll man? I can't vote either.
I have a Cube btw and I love it more dearly with each passing day.
I can vote, Xbox rules, Xbox Live! rules even more. Enough said.
Gamecube is definitely my favorite of the home systems right now. Mario Kart and Viewtiful Joe are hard to argue with.
If no one can vote, why does it say that like 10 people have voted?
I just voted.
Am a Playstation 2 fan. Just finished 'Prince of Persia', next up is 'Manhunt' and 'Silent Hill 3'.
My husband considered buying the X-box instead of the PS2 - but I won. And he is more than happy with the decision.
Kind of OT: we never play on the PC.
Is POP any good? I've heard mixed reviews about it
Prince of Persia any good?
What reviews do you read, Frostmourne?
Look here.
Wise move of yours, and very good for him. Currently two PS2s in my house.
You're both wrong, get 3 Gamecubes and a Nintendo LAN. FUN FUN FUN!
And about POP......WOAH! Thats some nice reviews, I think I'll rent it and try it out
I was disappointed in the ps2. Not enough games have been worth buying to me. Granted, I've been much more interested in multi-player games than anything else these past few years--which probably explains why I like the GC so much--but either way, I'd hoped for more from Mr. PS2.
PS2 sells a whole lot more sports games then it should, while GCN has a wide variaty, which I like. Theres something for everyone. And Xbox is a PS2 wanna-be
Mmh, interesting. For me one of the reasons to enjoy the PS2 so much is the amount of games. Granted, there are a lot not very good games, but on the other hand there are really great ones. Especially the exclusive ones like GTA or Prince of Persia.
But it really depends on what kind of games you like.
Multi-player games are not necessarily my cup of tea, but I am eagerly awaiting the next Baldur's Gate and Champions of Norrath - both can be played with up to 4 players. My husband, me and our best friend are going to spend a lot of time on those two.
And Frostmourne, I am not interested in LAN. Not even very much in online games even so the PS2 is finally online in Germany.
Didn't they stop the Gamecube production? I heard that sometime ago. They seem to have enough in stock . . .
Hey, Twelve: thumps up.
Prince of Persia is on Gamecube, and GTA is on x-box, so those aren't exclusives. And PS2 definitely has the largest library of games out of the three--the library just doesn't include a great deal of what I like. If you like RPGs and sports games, though, it's probably the sytem of choice.
But I should probably mention, I play PC games more than any of the console systems. Warcraft 3 and Wolfenstien have had me hooked since the beginning of the year. But like I said, I'm a multiplayer nut.
Well, you are right about Prince as I see now(in Germany it is not yet out on the X-Box), but GTA was originally only for PS2 and PC as far as I know.
Wow ^ is from Germany, weird. GCN didnt stop production, but it almost did, its developing the new nintendo consol and need funds.
Wow ^ is from Canada, weird. I live in Switzerland...Germany is our big Canton. (hehe)
I must admit, Bear...you're probably the first person I've ever heard say that they can't find enough titles to play on the PS2. I wish I can clone myself so that I can find the time to play all of them.
I'm definitely in the minority, Twelve. But it's not because of system pride, or anything silly like that. I think all the systems have had their great games. Hell, I own and love a Sega Saturn (The Panzer Dragoon Series--and I'm lucky enough to own "saga", Dragon Force, Shining Force 3, Gaurdian Heroes...this system was by no means a waste).
But over the past few years, I've gotten into multiplayer games, both online and off. And if I'm gonna play online, I much, much prefer to use a PC. If I'm not gonna play online, four-player games are a must (the two control ports on ps2 drives me nuts, even though I do own a multi-tap), and IMO, nintendo can do home console multiplayer better than anyone. They make games that veterans and new players can play at the same time, which is no small feat. I like some of ps2's single player games, but not enough of them have kept me content for very long, hence my disappointment.
When it comes to single player games, oddly enough, GBA has been my system of choice. All the Castlevanias, Advanced Wars and FF Tactics have kept me nice and busy.
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6 Reasons Your Plans to Move Abroad Might Not Work Out
If you hang around Internet message boards, about once a month or so somebody will announce they're fed up with America and want to move abroad. The reasons vary: they want to escape to Canada to get away from the corrupt corporations, or they fear a President Bachmann. Maybe they want to go to Japan and get a job as President of Anime.
I have some experience with this, because I, too, heartlessly abandoned my home nation, moving from Australia to the United States after a prolonged land battle with immigration and before that, spent a large part of my life in countries other than my own (including several years in Europe, a stint in Japan and another at an international high school in Thailand).
The experience has left me with an accent somewhere between "speech impediment" and "the blonde chick from Fringe after a few drinks" and also with this piece of wisdom for anyone planning on ditching the U.S.: You might be better off spending your airline ticket money on whiskey, because chances are your plans for a new life abroad are not going to work out.
Why? Well, for a start ...
#6. The People There Probably Don't Want You
Not that we want to single out anime fans, but they serve as a good example for this. It's not hard to find young anime fans dreaming of living in Japan, because if anime gets them ostracized as nerds in the West, why, moving to Japan would be like going home! It's all anime over there, all the time. And it's just assumed that Japan will be thrilled to have them. After all, here is a Westerner who gets Japan! Welcome, American!
"It is so refreshing to meet a grown man who truly appreciates our children's cartoons."
But if these people do move to Japan, they quickly figure out that as much shit as they may have gotten for anime fandom in the USA, it's much worse there. To the average Japanese person, the words "adult anime fan," or "otaku," conjure less admiration and more an image of someone who sleeps between a hentai-print body pillow and the decomposing bodies of his parents. When the tsunami caused the cancellation of an anime convention, the Governor of Tokyo said they "deserved it" (he's a big advocate of new laws that restrict the sale of anime to young people). He was then re-elected.
"I hope they're pulled down headfirst by their cosplay wigs."
If you move there because you dream of working in anime, you'll find that young animators are currently getting paid a whopping average of $11,000 year to work in an industry that's rapidly dying. If you go outside in any non-urban area in Japan while being non-Asian, you're going to be openly pointed to, laughed at and honked at by passing cars as if to say, "You are a foreigner! Let me remind you of this!"
"It was adorable. He put cat ears on, brandished some chopsticks and started crying."
But that's just one example. In Korea, it's not rare for foreigners to get spat on in public, and discrimination is so widespread and accepted that mixed-race people were banned from serving in the military right up until 2006.
Meanwhile, African-American and Asian travelers to Eastern Europe routinely report things like getting bottles thrown at them and having locals show them their swastika tattoos.
That's Kanji for "douchebag."
Even in "tolerant" countries like the U.K. and New Zealand, Americans of all colors can still count on strangers yelling at them in public and targeting them with anti-American graffiti.
We didn't know we were unweal.
Of course, that's assuming you actually get into the country in the first place, which you probably won't. That's because ...
#5. Their Governments Don't Want You, Either
On one hand, every American knows immigration is a struggle -- we have iconic old-timey images of people huddled on boats drifting up to the Statue of Liberty after a months-long journey, and we know that illegal immigrants risk death to cross the desert and sneak across the border. So, Americans realize that getting into America is hard. But when we get fed up with our own country and talk about how, "I'm just going to move to (New Zealand/Canada/France/Japan) and get away from all this!" we tend to talk like the hardest part is buying the plane ticket.
"Damn you to hell, Expedia.com!"
It's as hard, or harder, to get into other countries as it is for foreigners to emigrate to America. Most countries have strict entry requirements that you can't get past by explaining that you really, really want to come in. Immigration to Canada, Australia and New Zealand works by giving "points" to immigrants who have skills or other things that the country needs. For example, New Zealand and Canada have lists of "preferred professions," most which require college degrees and years of experience.
They'll also look at things like your criminal history, "character" and whether you have any medical problems they might have to spend money on. Things work pretty much the same in Australia, although there you can gain extra points by agreeing to live for a set amount of time in an isolated, economically disadvantaged rural area.
"No Netflix or Hulu? To hell with my horizons."
If your dream is the European Union, the news is even worse. People applying for a work visa not only need to prove that they're better suited for the job than anyone in the country, but also more suited for it than anyone in the entire European Union. Oh, and then there's the high unemployment and the fact that most of the EU residents you're competing against will speak, like, six languages.
Of course, moving to these countries is not impossible -- people do it occasionally. The problem is that the negative things in your life that are likely to make you want to leave America and start over -- you're bored, you're stuck in a dead-end job, you don't like the cost of medical care, you want to smoke pot but the law won't let you -- are the same things that will bar you from entering anywhere cool.
"Ooh, a washed-out loser? We'll get the red carpet."
And there's a cruel irony in the fact that most Americans don't even consider this. After all, one popular reason for leaving America is thinking that the people here are too ignorant, arrogant or uncultured. According to this complaint, these jingoistic Americans think they're better than anyone else, and think the world should love them just for being American. Who can stand to be around that?
You can be happy in the knowledge that all answers were not respectful.
But in my own long emigration journey, I spent a lot of time among others who were also planning on leaving Australia. Everyone knew what they were up against, and were talking about digging up a long-lost ancestor to qualify to work in the European Union, or about auditioning for enough deodorant commercials to get a U.S. acting visa. But the majority of Americans who plan on leaving their country seem to assume that the hardest part of leaving is deciding which country to go to, like it's the same as planning a vacation.
"So the plan is to be obnoxious for the first 14 years before retiring and putting the pics on Facebook."
In other words, they wind up making the same assumption as the rednecks they're trying to escape: that every other country, while filtering out filthy immigrants from elsewhere, will be thrilled to have an American. You know, because Americans are better than everyone else and the world should love your unemployed ass just for being one.
And if you're thinking about getting around all that legal stuff by sneaking in, keep in mind ...
#4. Other Countries Treat Illegal Immigrants Worse Than America
Recently, a celebrated journalist came out as an illegal immigrant in the New York Times, which became an opportunity for commentators to talk about on how badly the U.S. treats its illegal immigrants. Look, I'll be honest, Americans: I'm Australian, and I love my old country, but compared to you guys Australia is like that dystopian society in Children of Men.
Dingos would have been on that baby within minutes.
I knew a Japanese visitor to Australia who decided to take advantage of the laid-back locals and apply for a refugee visa. She was immediately escorted out of the country by two armed guards, probably after about half an hour of hearing their hysterical laughter. Afterward, Australia billed her for all three airline tickets. Back in 2009, Australia made a big deal about the fact that foreigners who applied for visa extensions would be given "bridging visas" instead of being thrown in a detention center in the middle of the desert while their claim was processed.
It was actually a gas station, and the guy who ran it was pleased for the company.
And things could be even worse. In 2010, an immigrant in Japan died after police tied him up, put a towel in his mouth, and abandoned him on a plane to suffocate. In England, where detention and deportation is mainly handled by private security firms hired by the government, a man died in a similar way while being deported, and another immigrant was killed when police serving a deportation order in her home wrapped 13 feet of tape around her head and face, suffocating her. The police were acquitted.
Public safety seems to have a different definition out there.
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I've had excellent Macaroni and Cheese that I was told was made with a "roux." What exactly is a roux, when is it used and what are the benefits of using it versus other cooking methods?
It's actually spelled 'roux', and is a mixture of oil and flour, cooked to remove the starchy taste of the flour.
It's a great thickener any time that you don't need the sauce to be clear, and you have time to cook it down. I typically use it for cream sauce (including cheese sauces, such as for mac & cheese) and gravies.
As for benefits -- it's habit at this point, so I'm not really sure -- I guess it's made from things I always have on hand. You can also get flavor from the roux, if you cook it longer , but you'll adversely affect the thickening ability. Gumbo is normally made from a dark roux (the Cajuns have a series of names for the color of roux, including 'brick', 'peanut-butter' and 'chocolate')
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For a white sauce base, you may heat both butter and flour together in a saucepan over a low flame while combining with a wooden spatula. After just 30 seconds mixing, you will get a consistent semi-liquid that is your "Roux".
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as mentioned by others a 'roux' is flour and oil/butter mixed together, while under heat.
a roux is normally used for thickening sauces (usually cream/cheese type sauces).
the benefits of using a roux, are that your sauces will not get lumpy. Try just adding flour directly to the sauce next time. All you will get are lumps of flour in it. Not nice!
the roux keep everything nice and smooth.
Same thing can be said about thickening with corn starch. You mix corn starch into water (or broth) first. Why? because if you directly add the cornstarch to the sauce, all you get is cornstarch lumps
Typical procedure:
Heat shortening (oil or butter), add flour, cook, stirring continually, for a few minutes. Add liquid a little bit at a time. Many sauce recipes (e.g. Mac & Cheese white sauce) are just built up this way; in other cases you'll in turn add the somewhat thinned roux to something else.
You can get roux in a jar
You can also make roux in the microwave
You can even make a dry roux without any oil!
The most difficult part of making a roux on top of the stove is that you could burn it and have to start all over again.
For making gravy I prefer to make dark roux in the oven. Melt 1 part butter in a baking dish, sprinkle with 1 part flour, bake for 30 minutes (stirring and re-spreading half way through). This works great once you have taken the turkey or roast out of the oven to rest. Once you have your roux to the desired color starting adding your drippings and broth for a great gravy.


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The determinants of risk attitude in couples are explored using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel over the period 2004 to 2009. The focus of the analysis is the repeated responses to the survey question about general willingness to take risk. Responses to this question are provided on a 0-10 Likert scale. We focus on couples in the data set, and we apply the bivariate panel ordered probit model to the analysis of the simultaneous determination of the male's and the female's risk attitude. A number of individual characteristics, including age, height, education and household income, are found to have strong effects on risk attitude, in some cases differing markedly between the male and the female. Both the individual-specific effects and the observation-specific error terms are assumed to have non-zero correlations between the two equations. These correlations are estimated to be +0.27 and +0.28 respectively. We consider the former to be a key parameter, since its positive sign may be interpreted as a form of homophily: individuals tend to form partnerships with others having a similar risk attitude.
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I was always told to let the wardrobe doors open sometimes, so "let the air circulate". And I wonder, does the wardrobe actually need to have doors? What would be the problems (other them visual) of let it always open?
The main reason for having doors that I can think of is that UV light will fade clothes and degrade some materials over time. As a commenter said, this might more of a problem depending on what direction the rooms window faces.
Having doors also will help to some degree with smells from cooking or smoking.
I have 6 bedrooms with 7 closets, 4 of which are open. My experience says that the open closets get used more efficiently.
In our open closets:
We took the sliding doors off of our closets during a remodel. They never got reinstalled. We don't miss them at all.
For someone that has toddlers, doors to any room are requirements.
In addition to the points already raised... your clothes are going to get eaten more easily by clothes moths if you don't store them in a closed cabinet.
Open doorways and large cabinets or closets without doors make a space seem public. They're an invitation for browsing (or toddling as someone else mentioned). If the stuff inside the open space isn't selected and organized artistically, it will look unattractive. Museums and libraries have shelves and display cases without doors or with windows. Bedroooms have cabinets with opaque, translucent (think rice paper), or slatted doors--for looks. The slatted or louvered designs clearly rule out the design intent of protection from moths or blocking clothes from exposure to air and odors. Though dust is effectively reduced by louvers.
Recently my wife and I "discussed" open bedside table furniture designs (tables without drawers or doors) and she helped me appreciate what doors and drawers are for.


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Available for both IRS and solid axle kits, the Stallion, trailers, and all accessories.
From quality to engineering to the ride itself, Motor Trike conversions are second to none.
Find the authorized Motor Trike dealer closest to you to take a test ride and have all your questions answered.
See why you should be selling trikes right now as a valued Motor Trike dealer.
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12"/9"/6" Tri-Ring Element
Simmer Option
Heavy-Duty Die-Cast Knobs
Bridge Element
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