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Oklahoma driver Tamra Patton says just a couple days after getting her home air-conditioning fixed the heat struck again, but this time it was her car.
"They say the hotter it is the worse it is on the air conditioners, and that's just whenever the compressors go out on them," Patton said.
Several auto shops around the area say they've seen a lot more heat related issues under the hood. Auto service manager Steve Phelps says the scorching temperatures bring on a list of problems.
"Well most of the things you see around this time of year though are A.C.s and batteries, and coolant flushes that need to be done and stuff like that," Phelps said.
However, Phelps says this summer has been keeping them a little busier than usual.
"This summer's a little worse than normal because we've had so much heat and drought, and not enough keeping things cooled down," Phelps said.
Phelps says it can be pretty tough for the mechanics too with it being up to 500 degrees under the hood of a car, and though they are working hard more employees are being hired to keep up with all the business.
Despite the economic gain the heat could be creating, those like Patton who have faced high temperatures with no air conditioning say it's a very unpleasant experience, and advise other drivers to make sure they check their cars before they run into trouble.


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screen, I can just type
C-a :number 0 to move a window to the top of the window list and push all the other windows down one. What's the equivalent command sequence for
tmux? I looked at the man page, but I'm finding it confusing on this point.
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"Prefix :" (that is "Ctrl-B :" by default) brings you to the tmux-command prompt. There you enter:
to let window number 3 and window number 1 swap their positions.
To swap the current window with the top window, do:
In the unlikely case of having no window at index 0, do:
(if base-index is 0, as it is by default).
You can bind that command to a key (T for "top" for example) by adding the following to your
Adding to Gareth's answer, you can use the following key bindings
Pressing Ctrl+Shift+Left (will move the current window to the left. Similarly right. No need to use the modifier (C-b).
The tmux equivalent to
You can implement an equivalent to
Using swap-window to move to any id: [closest to screen's :number]
[m for move --> hit prefix-m and enter say 3 . .to renumber window to 3]
I renumber windows like this:
would make the current
Relatedly: When I'm shuffling things around I tend to want to do
and from there I can also use Ctrl+b,
The approach I use combines a bit of Ashish's answer with piec's; I have alt-left and right arrow bound to a quick little shell callout that moves the window one to the left or the right, unless it is the first or last window, respectfully. I did this because, when you issue a swap +1 at the last window (or swap -1 at the first window), it will still swap, instead of looping back around again like you might expect:
Instead of
So, the commands I use stop working when the window has reached the edge of the list:
This can easily be combined with base-index and renumber-windows to have a list of windows that start at an arbitrary number and never has any gaps.
If you are using base-index 1 like me and you don't think you'll ever go above 999 windows, you can use a little trick to make it roll properly, though the commands bloat a bit:
This works by temporarily moving the last window to the unused index-0 and then calling move-window -r to renumber them starting from 1 again. It works similarly when moving the first window to the end; by picking a huge number you'll never use, it ensures that when move-window -r fires again everything will be numbered like you'd expect. If you're wondering about refresh-client -S, that's necessary because sometimes, while the reordering from move-window will work properly, the status bar won't update until further changes are made. By forcing a refresh of just the status bar (-S), you avoid this.
The only issue I can find with this approach is that swap-window will implicitly alter the last-used window to the one you swapped with. Thus, if you are on window #1, switch to window four and move it back one, you'll find that your last-used window is the new # 4 (formerly #3) instead of #1. There doesn't seem to be a way around this.
Most simple solution from
I think you want to bind a new key combination to the 'choose-window' command.
I know you said you've already read the man page, but you should refer back to it. you need to modify your ~/.tmux.conf file to add a bind-key command.
Specifically, look at page 4 of the following.
This is the method I use. You still can't move a window to an occupied index, but you can move one to a higher (unused index) and rearrange in the gap where the previous index was.
Say you have 3 windows and want to add a fourth but in the place where 3 previously was.
Before you add a new window: Tmux prefix then . will open up the move command. Type in 4 and the index of 3 will now become 4, then simply add another window and it will be at index 3 and your old window will still be at index 4.
For those of you who use
The key binding defined by
Since Ashish Ariga's answer doesn't work on version 1.9a and below. I use
First, open the tmux command press and release:
And to change the actual window to the right window (in circular order), just do:
To change the actual window to left:

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Tips for New Moms: Get Ready to Regress
Others of us, who expect to conquer motherhood the same way we did the work world or single life, end up asking one painful question: "What the hell is wrong with me?"
Janine, a former elementary school teacher in Oregon, asked this, too. For the first four months of his life, Janine's newborn wailed incessantly from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. every day. She remarks, "When my husband got home from work, he'd get the baby down for a nap very easily, and say to me, 'What's the problem?' And, for weeks, I kept taking the baby to the doctor but they told me the crying was nothing to worry about."
Janine continued, "There was nothing else I could do but hold the baby, try to calm him, and try to calm myself. Meanwhile my three-year-old son watched TV ten hours a day." When she said this, Janine broke down in tears, guilt-ridden about neglecting her oldest.
Janine's littlest one turned out to have a milk allergy, a problem that was easily solved. Once relieved, the baby got much easier to handle, and Janine stopped blaming herself for the enormous strain her family experienced.
A baby's cry pushes an adult's blood pressure up and quickens his or her heart rate, sometimes steeply. Imagine weeks on end in which nervous tension wore at Janine, her baby's screams keeping her shoulders tight to her neck, the pacing and rhythmic jiggling meant to soothe her newborn also making her back and arms ache and the muscles spasm. Then affix a displaced preschooler who wants Mommy to himself, a husband who isn't very empathetic, medical professionals who tell her nothing is wrong, and a claustrophobic house isolating mom from the healing empathy and support she needs. You've got all the ingredients of a deranged, deprived new mommy someone who loves her family so much that she'll suffer and blame herself for the stresses at hand.
More on: Adjusting to New Motherhood
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From What No One Tells the Mom by Marg Stark. Copyright © 2005. Used by arrangement with Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
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Will it ever support resource identifiers like pfsockopen() pointers?
The main problem is that when we run PHP as a Apache Module we never know in which process the next request will bind to, making impossible to have true persistent socket connections unless we can store the pointer to it or directly open the socket inode with fopen() like functions and retrieve the same resource pointer again.
I thought I could use shm, but it seems that shm doesn't allow o store resource pointers... sad... :(


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Is the following problem still open? Let $S$ be a non-empty set of prime numbers such that whenever $p,q\in S$, all the prime factors of $pq+1$ are also elements of $S$. Is $S$ infinite?
The answer is most probably "It is always the set of all prime numbers or empty". Indeed, assume that $S$ is not empty. First of all, $S$ must contain $2$ (if it contains $p>2$, then $p^2+1$ is even). Then it also contains $2\cdot 2+1=5, 2\cdot 5+1=11, 7\mid 5\cdot 11+1, 3\mid 2\cdot 7+1,$ etc. It looks like then $S$ contains all prime numbers. I cannot prove it yet, but the proof should not be that difficult.
Update Here is a stronger conjecture. Let $S$ be the set of all primes from $2$ to $p>17$. Let $q$ be the next prime after $p$. Then $q$ divides $rs+1$ for some $r,s\in S$. This of course implies the statement above. I wonder if my conjecture is already known. I checked it for all $p<100,000$. I stop checking and will wait for an opinion of a real number theorist.
This was given as a problem in one of the MAA journals in the 1980's as a double-starred problem (no solution provided). I met it as a challenge problem on an assignment in John Poland's (Carleton University) modern algebra course. I worked on it for a few months, observing as Mark Sapir does that such a set contains 2, 5, 11, etc.
Not claiming to be a real number theorist or anything of that sort...Just wondering, is one possible approach to Mark Sapir's strong conjecture (assuming an answer isn't already known) to calculate $$ \sum_{\substack{r,s < q\\ q| rs+1}}\Lambda(r)\Lambda(s) $$
$$ \int_0^1 \left(\sum_{r,s < q}\Lambda(r)\Lambda(s)e((rs+1)\alpha)\right)\left(\sum_{m <q}e(-qm \alpha)\right)d\alpha $$
where $e(x) = e^{2 \pi i x}$ and then apply the circle method? If it can't be solved in this manner, perhaps it can still be made equivalent to a conjecture on some error terms.
Dear Currie
The below problem is still open:
Do we have infinite prime number of the form $2p+1$, where $p$ is prime?
One of interesting way to examine this problem is %Sandram$ table. For further information about Sandram table, you can see the book
" Ingenuity in Mathematics" by Ross Hansberger
Also, with some calculation and using the Jacobi symbol, you will find this problem is equivalent to this problem:
The polynomial $n^2+n-1$ generate infinite prime number, that it is open problem. You can find some further information about this question in the Richard Guy's book with name:
" Open problem in number theory".
So I think your problem is a kind of open problem.


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The Carmi Post 224 Legion baseball team hosted Fairfield on Wednesday night and held a 6-1 lead, but bad defensive play in the fourth and fifth inning and a lack of offense after the third inning cost the team the win, falling 7-6.
Trenton Black started the game at pitcher, and was very good at the start. Black went three and a third innings, allowing five runs, four earned on five hits with three walks and a strikeout. Tyler Cushman came in to relieve Black. Cushman went an inning and two thirds, allowing two runs, one earned on a hit. Cole Tucker finished up the game and was masterful. Tucker went four innings, allowing no runs on no hits, with a walk and six strikeouts.
Offensively, Carmi played well throughout the game, but had many opportunities where a third out came with runners in scoring position.
Cushman led the team in RBIs with three. Also adding RBIs were Brodie Brown and Wesley Cutchin, both with one.
Brown and Cutchin also led the team in hits with three each. Cole Tucker and Brown led the team in runs scored with two each. The other two runs came by Trenton Veach and Alex Hall.
Brown, Cutchin and Veach all hit doubles in the game.
Carmi now falls to 2-7 on the season. The team will play a seven-inning game on Saturday at home against Washington, Ind. at 1 p.m. On Sunday, the team will be on the road for a doubleheader at Boonville, Ind. at 1 p.m.
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I'm using Xalan-C++ to do an XSLT transformation and I'm getting a segmentation fault in this code:
XalanTransformer evalTransformer;
evalTransformer.transform(*(xmlDoc.getDocumentBuilder()), rule_, resultStream);
Previously, I use this code to initialise a XalanDocumentBuilder:
// Create a XalanTransformer.
XalanTransformer theXalanTransformer;
// Get a document builder from the transformer...
docBuilder_ = theXalanTransformer.createDocumentBuilder();
and then create an XML document with
docBuilder_, so
xmlDoc.getDocumentBuilder() (which just returns
docBuilder_) should return a valid pointer.
If I attach gdb to the running process this is the first few lines of the stack trace:
#0 0x0a2de894 in ?? ()
#1 0x0514f8d9 in amxalanc_1_6::XalanTransformer::doTransform () from /usr/lib/libamxalanc1_6.so
transform() method was working with a simple output stream, but when I changed the 1st parameter it now fails. I've use the document builder object to successfully create an XML document. Any ideas why I would be getting a segmentation fault within the Xalan code?


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The three-time World Cup winner has launched a stinging attack on his compatriot, accusing him of underperforming for his country and being too concerned with his own imageBrazil and Santos legend Pele has criticised Neymar and says he is nothing more than an "ordinary player" for the national side.
The 21-year-old striker has been compared to his legendary compatriot, but the 72-year-old has revealed his belief that Neymar is overrated and too focused on his image.
"For the national team, he's just an ordinary player," Pele told O Estado de Sao Paulo.
"He's got a huge responsibility and his greatest concern is to change his style, change his haircut.
"Every match we have outside the country, he doesn't perform well. Everyone thinks he's supposed to be the answer to every problem we have in the national team [but] Neymar is not ready for that much weight, he can't do it."
Pele then added his belief that Neymar's disappointing displays for Brazil, in comparison to those with Santos, where he has won the Copa Libertadores, are down to a lack of exposure to European tactics.
"He doesn't play in a foreign country, and European football is very different from what we play here in South America," he continued.
"He wants to get the ball, dribble, use his skills [but] he needs to leave the ball a little, play for the team.
"He's very inexperienced internationally. Barcelona would be the ideal place for him [but] I don't think he will leave because Santos still need him."


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Has anyone had a 2-day delivery from Amazon not arrive in 2 days?
I paid for Prime so I get free 2-day shipping on most orders (not add-on items).
I ordered two things on two different orders. One of the items said it may take an extra day to process. No worries. I knew that going in. The other item was supposed to be delivered 2-day. I ordered on the 13th. It shipped out the 14th. And it is going to be delivered (supposedly) today. Is an extra day a huge deal? No. But when I paid not a small amount of money for 2-day shipping, I expect my items to arrive on the third day (first day goes away if the order is placed too late).
Has this happened to anyone before? Any recourse?
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Amazon will refund it for not arriving in time that they promised as well you need to read ordering cutoffs very carefully around when the 2 days begins. Depending on where the product is located and when you order it if tis 1pm your time it might be too late for that warehouse adn therefore your 2 day begins the next day. Theyir estimated arrival date on 2 day is the one you can return against if its missed.
It just happened to me a couple of weeks ago. My order only came a day late, but it is still a little annoying. The most annoying part was that the tracking said a delivery was attempted on the right day when I know for sure that was not right.
did you look at the tracking info on the UPS (or Fedex) site? they sometimes put information if there is a weather delay or something like that.
you could call and complain to the shipper, but i doubt you'll get anything from it.
Let's hope not. I JUST paid extra for a 2-day order not 1 minutes ago. Literally got my confirmation, clicked on my woot bookmark and came to this thread. lol First time I've paid extra for 2-day shipping with Amazon. I need my items.... yesterday.... so fingers crossed!
@djbowman: Yeah. I know there's a swing day. I orderd the 13th (swing day). It shipped the 14th. It's not the 17th. 3 days for shipping. They'll refund what? The item or the shipping? I didn't pay for the shipping since i have Prime...
It happens every now and again. That's not necessarily Amazon's fault though. If they got it out on the first day and it misses the truck or something at the post office and that delays it by a day, that's just bum luck.
I'm sure you could get an apology or something from Amazon, but I doubt much else. Even if it didn't leave Amazon's shipping center for an extra day, it could be the above or something else. I honestly wouldn't sweat it too much. About half of what I order from Prime ends up at my house the next day. Even if something takes an extra day every now and then, I'm not too bothered. I see where you're coming from, you want what you pay for, but they're generally very consistent.
@miyoshinum5: That's a delivery company issue. I had the same thing happen right before Christmas. Something got messed up in the UPS system and they had my item marked as being shipped to a business, not a home. Tracking said they tried to deliver at 5:30 a.m. (which still makes no sense) when in reality that never happened. It was just a case of "mistakes happen," and not of Amazon not fulfilling its duty.
Two-day shipping has always been very dependable for me.
I have a package arriving today - a day late. It was a weather delay, so I'm not particularly concerned about it. Even the might of Amazon Prime can't get a package though when the planes can't land and trucks can't move. If something ships and the package isn't here in 3-4 days, and there is no explanation on tracking, then I contact Amazon. That has happened before, and they promptly sent a replacement item. When the original package (finally) showed up, I just sent it back.
I had Amazon miss an overnight delivery - I have prime and paid the $3.99 for next day. Fedex sat on it for 12 hours and then decided to ship it from the hub to my city. That put it into the weekend and it missed by 4 days (Monday was a holiday)
Amazon refunded my $3.99 AND gave me an additional month of Prime for free. I only hope they in turn nailed FedEx for missing the date and got their money back. 26lbs overnight is not cheap.
I've had it delivered one day instead of 2 before. That's always nice.
It happens more then it should but most of the items I order are not time sensitive so not a real big deal. I think it is more of the principal that you are a paying for a service and that service is not always living up to its expectations.
I have had it happen a few times, however I am signed up for Prime shipping so with all of the orders that I place (either for myself or for other peoples birthday presents) it is bound to happen.
I've had it happen before, but I would say 99.99% it arrives on time or sooner.
One time around Christmas (Hence the reason I now shop year round) my order didn't ship out, I called Customer Service and they overnighted the entire order (12 items) to me at a different address so I would have it for Christmas. When I got the other package I returned it to amazon, no fee! Now that's Customer Service!!
I'm coming up on my one year anniversary with Amazon Prime. I've ordered A LOT and the only time I've ever had an issue with the two day shipping is when there is a weekend involved. My son (who uses my Prime, as you can have up to 3 add'l household members with different accounts at no add'l cost) had an item arrive a day late (no weekend) and I let it go. Their customer service is normally outstanding and I know I get my money's worth with the membership.
I guess I've been lucky because I've never received an item from Amazon late. I love my Prime and abuse the heck out of that.
@pitamuffin: Yeah I know it's the delivery company not Amazon, but it was still shipped using a service that's supposed to guarantee 2 day delivery.
Last year, I had a text book that was not received in time. I called Amazon and they said the y would pay the difference if I could get it where my daughter attends university. The difference in cost was $15 and about 10 miles away. They credited my account for $20.
I have had prime for a couple of years. In this time I have ordered over 1500 items. They have only been late 2 times. All told it is not that big of a deal.
Like many others here, I had it happen once. It wasn't time-sensitive so it was no biggie. The consistency I get from the Prime 2-day shipping is unbelievable. In your case, you would probably get an apology, and maybe a $5 coupon added to your account. They don't ask for a refund when I get my shipment in 1 day, so I'm good with an occasional late day.
I've had prime for over 3 years now. They are really good at predicting when it's going to arrive. I'm impressed that they've been able to keep this up. Once in a while things arrive in 1 day, and, very rarely, do they take 3 days.
Most of my Prime orders arrive exactly 2 days after order. The rest arrive after one day. I guess I'm lucky. I'm in southern California, but I'm not sure if that has anything to do with it.
Remember, Prime isn't just two-day shipping, it's also free shipping.
I had an 'in stock' item shipped with 2-day prime take 4 days to ship out the door before. I complained and they did pretty much jack all. I had numerous items not ship on time or arrive 3-5 days, so I dropped my Prime membership entirely. For me, it just wasn't worth it.
@pooflady: Not really. To get Prime, you pay an annual fee. After that, your items ship for no additional charge.
I had one arrive 5 business days later... but it's not as bad as the overnight package that was sent out on a Monday and arrived on a Friday.
I've had it happen once. I called Amazon and they gave me a $20 credit. Just last week I had an order arrive via FedEx, which is unusual. Every other time, it comes UPS. But as with most FedEx deliveries, there was a problem. First of all, the driver didn't feel like walking to my porch and left the package in front of my garage. When I finally did realize the box was there, I noticed it was crushed, and it looked soaked. One of the things I had purchased was a spray bottle of odor neutralizer (for my smelly dog!). Sure enough, when I opened the box, the bottle was empty. It had leaked all over the other two things I had ordered that were in the same box. It was a smelly mess.
I called Amazon. They immediately sent out a replacement for one of the items (the one that Amazon sells), and credited my account for the other two. I didn't have to return the wet, smelly items.
Amazon customer service is second to none. And I LOVE my two day Prime.
I ordered an item this past December 26th. What a mistake. It shipped on the 27th. It sat in the UPS distribution center from December 28th until January 2nd. Seems UPS had Dec. 31 off as well as the weekend and New Years. Ordered from another place on the 27th and received on the 31st - smartpost!
I will admit that everything else I have ordered has arrived on time, or even one day early.
I ordered three items early on December 17th for Christmas. One item said it might have a processing delay, but that particular item wasn't needed for Christmas. The first two items shipped out the day I ordered them, so I expected delivery on the 19th. Fedex tracking said the package was put on a truck for delivery on the 19th, but it was never delivered. On the 20th, we had a snowstorm and the local Fedex closed completely. I called their customer service and was informed that my local Fedex might be open 8-noon on the 21st for package pickup. I was going to be traveling for Christmas on the evening of the 21st so I figured I would go pick it up. Also, customer service was pretty terrible over the phone. Meanwhile, UPS was delivering in the snowstorm and I got my one item on the 20th that had the processing delay.
On the 21st I worked from home (luckily I can do that) and planned to drive to Fedex to pick up my package. I called Fedex customer service to see if I could pick it up and they told me it was already on a truck and assured me it would be delivered that day. Spoiler alert: no, it wasn't, and I was down two Christmas gifts.
One of the gifts was a set of three books. So, in order to have an actual present to give the person on Christmas, I went to a local bookstore and ended up paying more for two of the books than I had for all three on Amazon. When I did finally receive the package after Christmas, Amazon took a return on the books and refunded me the price, which is all I can expect from Amazon since it wasn't their fault. Fedex, however... I will not use them again if I have the choice.
Within the last week I've ordered to items and they both showed up a day early. It might've helped that I ordered on a Friday and had expected shipping set for Tuesday (as a Prime member), and yet they showed up on Monday. What this tells me is Amazon might not have been at fault for the shipping hiccup you experienced. Timing is everything and if Amazon wasn't directly involved (i.e. third party seller), then it falls on the time of day you made the purchase.
It's happened a few times, but when you consider the amount of things we have shipped from Amazon, it was inevitable. Never been ridiculously late though.
Except that friggin Hobbit book that it seems they can't find - so they can't ship it. I'm sure once it's on the truck, it'll be here in 2 days. :/
I've ordered quite a few things from Amazon. They are pretty stellar about delivery times. I just had my first late order, by one day. I let them know via chat and they are extending my Prime an extra month. I'm frustrated it was late, but they certainly have taken care of thing as best they can.
It's happening to me right now. Amazon's order status shows estimated delivery for tomorrow, UPS's page shows delivery for Friday. I work at a place that ships a lot of UPS though and the tracking number is a ground service number, not 2nd day air. It's not huge, but there is someone's birthday present on my order so it's a little annoying.
Yup, me too, and I have Amazon Prime. It happened to me in August and it is happening again to me now in October. In this October instance, when I ordered the item it came up as Amazon Prime eligible, and when I placed the order it was clearly indicating guaranteed delivery by October 30th at 8:00pm. At 8:03 pm I called Amazon, asking what was up. They told me the package was at the carrier, that it got to the carrier late, and they assured me it will be delivery today, on Halloween. The recourse is that they offered me a $10 gift card for my account (the item purchased was $189) for the inconvenience. The other previous instance was in August. When I checked the package tracking info on delivery day, it said "package returned to sender". When I called Amazon, they said they could not get another one out to me untill the following Tues (5 days too late), so they offered $15 & prime extended 2 months (on a $250 item). Both failures were with large items weighing over 50 lbs.
I paid $20 for one day shipping by UPS.
When I try to track it at the UPS site, I get this message:
"A UPS shipping label has been created. Once the shipment arrives at our facility, the tracking status--including the scheduled delivery date--will be updated."
...and it's the third day already!
Since I ordered straight from Amazon, I will be asking for a shipping refund.
I'm reading enough comments about how it's the delivery service's fault and not Amazon. Sorry, but if I was wheeling out my shopping cart full of groceries at my local grocery store and the cart breaks and my groceries fall all over the place before I can get to my car I'm not blaming the cart company. Give me a break. UPS/FedEx or whomever they use for their service are representatives of Amazon. Amazon must back up their service no matter who they contract with. That's it!
By the way, I have had 3 shipments in the last week that have all been a day or more beyond Amazon Prime's 2-Day delivery guarantee.
@djbowman: Maybe this change din the last year:
"We do not guarantee delivery of products within the estimated transit time or by the estimated delivery date."
from amazon prime policy page
You know Amazon seems great until the day it isn't. The first time a critical task component does not show up, then the veneer of goodness peels off in HUGE Sheets. They push a $5 gift card for the 5 extra days of chasing ghosts because it was a window order that took 3 times the window length. When you are a Prime luser and they send you a guaranteed will be there date, and it does not show up, the boss does not care why you failed, or that it wasn't your fault, they lock it away until review time and then remember with consequences. Now the 2nd time in 2 months this occurs, the boss asks why did you use Amazon AGAIN? That's when the experience becomes extraordinarily fun. First the AZ excuse engine fires up, nothing can be done, Sunspots, mother nature, not our fault, packages tend to show up somewhere someday until then nothing can be done. Groovy, in that extra month of unemployment, I can watch the unrated version of Sri Laken dung beetle, and the BBC documentary on greed.
I have a prime membership and I have noticed increasing delays in the shipping times recently. Where they promise 2-day shipping, more and more deliveries are now taking 3 to 7 days. If they give you 2-day shipping but they dont pack the order for several days, the end result is the same as if you had regular ground shipping from someone else. If the total price for the order is the same as a competitor, there is often no benefit in purchasing from Amazon just for the sake of 2-day shipping. In my opinion, Amazon's 2-day shipping is little more than an attempt to steal business from the competition by tricking the consumer into thinking they will get the product faster for free.
Just happened to me today (2 days promised, Wed to Friday.), said today, now it says they added 4 more days..
@b3728: exactly, and I was tricked,,, by Amazon.
And it's happening more and more. I have amazon prime and my orders are coming in later and later . Use to be 2 days now it anywhere from 3 to 4. Not acceptable for a service you pay for.
Lately, it seems as though all of my orders are coming late and I didn't get a month of free prime for any of the late deliverys, They automatically renewed my prime on schedule even after I had told them I wouldn't be renewing if they couldn't get things straight. Then they delivered another package late. That is the only reason I have prime is for the 2 day delivery. One time I ordered something that I needed quickly, and it guarenteed two day shipping all the way through the process of ordering it, but when th order was confirmed, the delivery changed to 7 days later. I emailed them and they changed it to one day shipping, then assured me every thing was fixed and would not have anymore problems with shipping but that was a load of crap. Still having problems.


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Andre attempted to say goodbye by kissing Lena on the cheek, however, Lena was looking for more, causing quite a Mexican Standoff between the two of them.
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n : a situation in which no one can emerge as a clear winner. A poor man's Mutally Assured Destruction
That dude had a gun pointed to my head but I had a knife in his gut -- we were in a Mexican Standoff.
by Loogoo Maloogoo September 24, 2003
It refers to a no-win/no-lose situation. It does not require three participants; two is enough.
There's a 19th Century story in Mexico that illustrates the Mexican Standoff very well. Two horse carriages going in the opposite direction entered a narrow street and met halfway through. Neither could move forward, and each insisted that the other back his horse carriage up. Each sent servants for foor and water, and both stayed firm for several days, until the authorities made both of them back up.
by Robert H94121 August 31, 2007
a situation that nobody can triumph in, especially one where all people involved have guns
The Mexican standoff has become a cliche in movies.
by Light Joker October 09, 2006
This is when you go into a public restroom, into a stall and another person comes in and sits in the stall next to you. Neither of you drop a deuce, waiting for the other to drop first. It makes for a sometimes tense situation
Damn... I was just in the men's room and got caught in a mexican standoff. I finally got up and left. I'm going to give it another try in a few minutes.
by Capt. Crapper November 28, 2009
When you take six paces from a girl, spin 180 degrees, and masterbate furiously at her face.
I gave Kim a furious mexican standoff last night.
by Jerktart July 31, 2011
A situation in which multiple (3+) gun weilding people are all pointing their shit at each other. They hold out to shoot until someone fucks it up and everybody dies.
The snitch in Reservoir Dogs must have been like "man im fuckin up theres a mother fuckin mexican standoff going down in this mother fucker. fuck.'
by speede September 21, 2006
A confrontation between several enemy's risking & willing to inflict damage towards each other in-order to resolve an issue. Guns are drawn and ready, neither side wants to participate in shooting but is willing if the opponent decides to fire their weapon first.
Nazi "Hear that?"
Nazi "That was the sound of my Walther pistol."
Basterd #1 "That makes two of us."
Basterd #1 "I've had a gun pointed at you since you've sat."
Nazi "Looks like we have a Mexican Standoff in our hands."
Basterd #2 "Say auf Wiedersehen to your Nazi balls!"
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Nazi "That was the sound of my Walther pistol."
Basterd #1 "That makes two of us."
Basterd #1 "I've had a gun pointed at you since you've sat."
Nazi "Looks like we have a Mexican Standoff in our hands."
Boom! Boom! Boom!
by Strong Chuy February 13, 2010


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SQL Server Essentials for Oracle DBAs: (11) Data Movement
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Module 11 examines the non-transactional mechanisms for moving data into and out of a database. The functionality varies based on homogeneous and heterogeneous databases. One key feature in SQL Server is SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS). SSIS provides users with the capabilities beyond complex ETL and high performance data movement from heterogeneous data sources. It also adds data mining capability to the process and more, all of which will be discussed in this module. Other approaches to bulk data movement will also be covered in this module and guidelines will be provided on which tools are appropriate for what scenarios.
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I have a little pamphlet of t'shuvos/analyses by Rav Mirsky that basically concludes that there is, especially fulfillable by feasting and dancing. I will try to locate, quote, and cite it.
Update: See Sha'arei T'shuva 529:4 (last one in volume 5) and the sources he cites for related information.
See this lecture by Rabbi Rapp.
If I recall correctly, the basic obligation is not there, but many consider it a meritorious act to make it to Jerusalem or the Kotel for the holidays anyhow.
(I think he was quoting Tzitz Eliezer and -- yibadel l'chaim -- R' Ovadya Yosef).


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The public is invited to a community forum regarding the future of the Leavenworth school district's facilities. The event is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Monday at West Intermediate School, 1901 Spruce St.
District spokesman Jake Potter said the forum comes as part of a long-range facilities planning process.
He said the forum will include a presentation of possible scenarios for facilities if enrollment increases, stays flat or decreases. The scenarios, which were put together by Hollis and Miller Architects, were presented to Leavenworth school board members in January.
Potter said the forum will be an opportunity to seek feedback from the public.
He said the facilities planning process is not tied to a bond issue. But he said the plan that is developed is one resource that could be looked back on in the future.
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In a large project you only get to use the technology necessary for that project; smaller projects come and go, and you need to learn more technologies.
On the other hand large projects are usually complex and thus hard; if you are used to hard projects then you should manage to perform well on smaller projects.
So, in the long term is it better to work on small or on large projects?


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STEUBENVILLE -The Bothers and Sisters Intelligentsia Crew are gearing up for another season of teaching young people the value of the Earth and gardening through its Unity Garden at Sixth Street downtown, located across from the Herald-Star.
The start date this year for the garden will be June 3 and continue from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. Mondays and Thursdays through the summer. The community garden organizers also had some good news this year in the form of a $3,412 grant from the Upper Ohio Valley Presbytery, part of the national Presbyterian Church, according to Connie Quinn, Presbytery representative.
"The Presbyterian Church has four major offerings," said Quinn, adding B.A.S.I.C. Circle had to apply for the grant. "They worked for that grant. It's a way for people to become self-sufficient."
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UNITY GARDEN — B.A.S.I.C. Circle's Unity Garden on North Sixth Street is coming back for its sixth season, thanks to a $3,412 grant from the Upper Ohio Valley Presbytery. Those involved in the project include, from left, Quintasia Slappy; Nayosha Jeter; Jay "Justice" Slappy, vice president of B.A.S.I.C. Circle; Mary O'Conner, garden coordinator; and Connie Quinn, representative for the Upper Ohio Valley Presbytery. -- Mark Miller
Quinn continued to say the grant met the criteria to be awarded, and the garden is a worthy community project.
"It was worthy, and it involves the community and the young people," said Quinn. "It seemed like a win-win situation. The kids can't lose. I'm sure (the garden) will look great."
Jay "Justice" Slappy, B.A.S.I.C. Circle vice president, said the funds will be used to help with supplies, seeds and other items needed to get this year's garden up and running.
"We filled out the paper work (for the grant) more than a year ago," said Slappy, adding there are between 30 to 40 children involved in the garden during the summer. "This is our sixth season coming up."
Slappy also said the funds will help with transporting children to and back from the site, feeding them and making sure they are hydrated.
"We didn't have the funds for food, pickups and beverages," he said. "We basically want to take the urban gardening to a new level. We now have the funding to do so."
B.A.S.I.C. Circle also has the assistance of Mary O'Conner, who said she is "the hands-on person. It's spiritual working under God's blue sky."
Slappy continued to say the garden is to help "stimulate and develop the mind and the health and well-being of today's youth. We want to encourage other volunteers and organizations to get involved.
"We presently are looking for another donated area for the garden," Slappy continued. "If anyone has any suggestions, please let us know. Until then we will continue on the present lot located on North Sixth Street.
And volunteers are needed. "This year we are striving to recruit groups, families and organizations to help participate by adopting an area in the garden," he said.
"Studies have found the average family with a vegetable garden spends just $70 a year on it and grows an estimated $600 worth of vegetables," he said. "Also, we are looking to network with others who share a common interest in nature. We have to be more conscious of what we put into our bodies."
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Abstract Submission Deadline July 27, 2016, 5 p.m. EST
The College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences (CNMS) is proud to host the Annual UMBC Summer Undergraduate Research Fest to recognize summer undergraduate research at UMBC. Since 1997, summer student researchers including participants in the MARC U*STAR, HHMI, High Performance Computing (HPC) Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site at UMBC, and the Summer Biomedical Training Programs present their summer research in an oral presentations or a poster sessions during this exciting event.
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There are a number of websites that let you tag people in photos, such as Facebook and now flickr, but is there an EXIF standard for tagging who is in a photo, and where they are?
Adobe's XMP metadata standard supports information defined by the Metadata Working Group (MWG), which includes a definition of how to store face tagged data. See:
Adobe XMP: http://www.adobe.com/products/xmp/standards.html MWG: http://www.metadataworkinggroup.com/ where you can click on the specifications, download the PDF, and then look at page 51 onward.
So while this isn't "EXIF" per se, it is metadata stored in the image. I'm just starting now to explore how widely supported this is.
There is not. IPTC, another image metadata standard, also does not contain a "People" field. There's a Contact field, but that is used for contact information for the photographer.
Most people I know will store people as keywords. The main debate is whether or not to include spaces (would a photo of me be tagged as aaronhockley or as "aaron hockley"?). I don't use spaces since that simplifies things at times, but it's pretty subjective. I think the main thing is consistency... pick one method and stick to it.
I don't think there is ... you can take a look at the EXIF specifications at http://www.exif.org or http://www.jeita.or.jp/cgi-bin/standard_e/pdfpage.cgi?jk_n=47
EXIF is a technical standard for images files ... not the content / subject of the image.
The MetaDataWorking Group, section 5.9 (face regions), is the best standard going forward for managing people tags. Right now Picasa, MS Photo Gallery and Fotobounce support this standard. Hopefully Adobe will jump on board since they are on the committee for this standard...
The only metadata field to store the people inside the file as metadata at the moment (according to MWG and XMP standards) is XMP:Iptc4xmpExt:PersonInImage
MWG also assumes to describe and store people faces as Randy said above.


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Q: My son is in the sixth grade gifted and talented program at his school and maintains an A/B average. He has been diagnosed with ADHD, and has had to come off his Adderall due to adverse side effects. The teachers are threatening to remove him from the program due to his inability to stay on task and turn in work on time, and his lack of organization. I am trying my best to help him stay organized, but two of his teachers appear not to want to work with us through this situation. It's like they expect all the kids to be the same.
At age four, tests showed my son's IQ was 140. When tested again in the third grade, his IQ was 120, and he is one of two students in the entire intermediate school with a reading comprehension level of 12.9+. Our problem is that he is beginning to "shut down" due to all the frustration he feels, and we are not sure how to help him overcome that. He definitely does not work up to his potential; he only works when the subject interests him, or he feels that the work is not below him. How do you help a gifted underachiever, and is there such a thing?
A: There most certainly is such a thing as a gifted underachiever and it's very frustrating to parents when it occurs! Is gifted education mandated in your state? If so, your son cannot be removed from the program if he qualifies as gifted. Even if gifted education is not mandated in your state, you still have options.
I understand that Adderall did not work for your son. Adderall is a form of Dexadrine and doesn't work for everyone. There are other medications for treating ADHD, as I'm sure you know, and perhaps your physician could recommend something else. I am very conservative when it comes to medication, but my thinking here is that you thought your son's ADHD was serious enough to try the medication before, so perhaps another medication (not based on Dexadrine) deserves a try. Your son's attention span, frustration level and organization skills would likely improve.
Now back to the teacher issue: Attention Deficit Disorder has been classified under the Americans with Disabilities Act as an "Other Health Impairment" (OHI). This means that if your son has an ADHD medical diagnosis (which is likely, since medication was prescribed), he can have what is called a "504 plan." This means that he's eligible to receive mandated classroom interventions to help him manage his ADHD at school so that it will not interfere with his learning. It is not necessary for your son to be receiving medication for this to occur. Copy or print out this email response and show it to your school district's psychologist and ask what you need to do for this plan to be implemented for your son. No child should be penalized because of any special learning issues.
For your reading, I would suggest the books Driven to Distraction by Hallowell and Ratey (re: ADHD) and Why Bright Kids Get Poor Grades by Dr. Sylvia Rimm (re: underachievement issues). Good luck.
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How effective is it to integrate the rehearsal of a text with speed reading it?
I ask this because when I was taking the course Breakthrough Speedreading, a common routine for getting speed was to read a passage a few times around, then speed read far beyond your comprehension and immediately after follow the material with a passage you had never read, and read it for comprehension (the effect was that you'd do it faster without conscious effort, just like lighter weights become incredibly more light just after you've worked far heavier weights at the gym).
So what happens when I use a text I have not just read a few times through, but rehearse daily and pretty much know it by heart? Does my rehearsal suffer from speed reading the text instead of reading for maximum comprehension?
On the other hand, am I really practicing speed reading here when I zap through it's lines, already guessing what's to come? And is the practice (the drill) any use if I don't immediately follow it with reading completely new material?


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6 Reasons Professional Poker Is Way Harder Than It Looks
For exactly one year of my life, I was a professional poker player. That is, poker was my sole source of income (not to mention my main source of annoyance and frustration, with a heaping side of anxiety). During that year, I realized that the way the profession is portrayed in all the poker shows on TV is a steaming crock pot of bullshit. Even the James Bond movies steered me wrong. Where are the tuxedos?
Although I have friends who've played professionally for years now -- and love it -- that life is nothing like you probably think. For instance ...
#6. Forget Luck and High-Stakes Bluffing -- It's All About Math
Poker pros like to call themselves sharks, actively hunting for minnows in the poker seas. Sounds like an exciting, adrenaline-charged life, right? Not quite. A better metaphor for a poker player would be an anglerfish:
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As a pro, you're not constantly attacking the weak players hand after hand after hand. If you are, you're guaranteed to go broke. Instead, you sit and wait. And wait. And wait and wait and wait some more. And finally, when you get a decent hand, you strike and win your nicely sized pot.
Then you go back to waiting.
"Why does that guy keep trying to bite me?"
It's a long, grinding game of patience and attrition. And that's because it's all about tediously waiting for the percentages to line up in your favor -- successful poker players only play about 20 percent of the hands they're dealt. That's right -- 80 percent of the time, they're spectators. And, they know exactly what percentage of hands they're playing, because this is the type of minutiae they keep track of. People think that poker is all about reading facial expressions, but it's actually all about math. In fact, many poker pros -- especially the online players -- are outright stats junkies, entering the details of every single session into analysis programs to calculate their overall win rate and help them fix any holes in their games. Here's what a typical pro's post-game analysis might look like.
Did any of that make sense to you? If you want to be a high-stakes poker pro, it'd better. Because it's what all the other pros are doing.
Sample quote: "(NUMBERS)."
When my professional player friends get into serious conversations about their play, all you ever seem to hear are statistical terms: expected value, preflop raise percentage, call percentage, fold percentage and so forth. If your eyes glaze over whenever you hear a baseball fanatic talk about a player's on-base percentage against left-handed pitchers in home games on even-numbered months when the barometric pressure drops below 650 mm Hg, then don't ever ask a poker pro about his playing stats. It's much, much worse.
"When the moon is waxing I three-bet predraw, then knock everyone out with a baseball bat."
If I'm making it sound like getting good at poker requires years of tedious study, well ...
#5. It Requires Years of Tedious Study
If you're fascinated by high-stakes poker players, odds are it's from watching them on TV in those huge multimillion-dollar tournaments (or, you know, Casino Royale). That's what everyone daydreams himself doing, but the first thing to understand is that those guys on TV are the Kobe Bryants and Tom Bradys of the poker world. And Kobe has decades of slow, dedicated, boring practice behind him, as well as millions of sit-ups and bench presses and endless miles around the track.
It's a pretty terrible life.
It's easy to forget that aspect of poker, because the whole point of gambling is that supposedly anybody can hit a lucky streak at any time and win big. That's what draws crowds of tourists to Vegas every year. Hell, maybe you're secretly a genius at it, like Rain Man at the blackjack table. And in fact, rank amateurs have made it all the way to the final table of the World Series of Poker, cashing in a nice million-dollar paycheck (like the ridiculously-named Chris Moneymaker).
Chris Moneymaker, seconds before destroying his opponent, Will Pushhisluck.
What you don't see behind those dramatic, high-stakes games are the endless months and years of practice poring over those numbers and honing your strategy. You're not playing against machines; you're playing against humans, who are always getting better. And you're playing with your own money.
Basically, picture this:
Except you're the horse. And you get shot if you finish in last place. That's pretty much what being a poker pro feels like.
My friend Matt has played poker professionally for eight years now. For most of this period, he earned his living playing online (and would still be doing so if the government hadn't recently indicted the owners of three of the largest online poker sites). As part of his daily routine, Matt scours online poker forums, discussing strategy with other serious players, pros and amateurs alike. He has a small group of trusted friends he Skypes with, spending hours every day reviewing and analyzing the hands they've played -- a daunting task, given that they each play over 100,000 hands every month.
That's not a typo. These people are deadly serious.
They record themselves playing and share these sessions with each other so that they can critique each other's skills. This is the type of single-minded, obsessive dedication required just to get good enough at poker to do it for a living, let alone actually excel at it. And then ...
#4. Just When You Start to Get Good, You Lose Everything
Even the superstars don't make a living stroking their egos and taking on the other superstars. They make their living beating up on the wannabe pros dumb enough to take them on. Look at it this way: If Kobe's only source of income came from betting his own money in a game of HORSE, do you think he'd take on LeBron? Remember, this isn't about winning a trophy and a ring -- in poker, if you don't win, you don't get paid. Period.
Some would argue this would actually improve basketball.
So if you want to make money, you simply have to seek out players you know you can consistently beat. Otherwise, the Peter Principle will destroy you. That's the theory that everyone in a field gets promoted to his own level of incompetence. So in poker, let's say you're able to win at a certain betting limit. So, you move up to the next higher limit, where the players will be that much better. And you keep doing this until you get to a limit where you're now the sucker at the table. And then you go broke.
"Hey everyone! This guy's playing Clue!"
Matt, my aforementioned friend, has a brother, Jake, who decided to go pro a few years after he did. In his first eight months, Jake made nearly $20,000 playing low-stakes games. He was then confident enough that he jumped up to five times the limits he'd been playing at before, a move somewhat akin to a miniature golfer deciding to take on the PGA. After an initial winning run of another $20,000, Jake got hammered with an $80,000 downswing and ended up having to drop down to even lower stakes than he'd previously been playing.
Needless to say, he barely got away with his pants unwedgied.
This is a well-known phenomenon among aspiring pros. No, the way to make money at poker is to check your ego and play only at the limits you know you can beat. And when you feel ready to move up, you have to make sure you've built up a strong enough bankroll -- and properly fortified your balls -- to withstand a substantial losing streak.


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Cheesy Fettuccine
8 oz uncooked fettuccine
8 slices bacon, cut into 1/4 inch pieces
1/2 cup butter, cut into pieces
1/2 cup half- and -half
1/2 cup shredded Parmesan cheese
1/2 cup Gorgonzola cheese
1/2 teaspoon cracked black pepper
l tablespoon chopped fresh basil
Cook and drain fettuccine as directed on package. Cook bacon until crisp, drain on paper towels. Discard drippings.
In same skillet, heat butter and half-and-half, stirring frequently, until butter is melted and mixture starts to bubble. Reduce heat to low. Simmer 6 minutes, stirring frequently, until slightly thickened; remove from heat. Stir in cheeses, pepper and bacon. In large serving bowl, toss fettuccine with cheese sauce until well coated. Top with basil. 4 servings.
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l tablespoon olive or vegetable oil
l/2 cup onion, chopped
1/2 cup chopped red bell pepper
l can condensed cream of chicken soup
l can (14 oz.) chicken broth
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2 cups diced cooked chicken
2 cans (15.5 oz each) great northern beans, drained, rinsed
l can (4.5 oz) chopped green chiles, undrained
1/2 teaspoon dried oregano leaves
1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
1/2 cup sour cream, if desired
Heat oil over medium-high heat. Add onion and bell pepper. Cook 2 to 3 minutes, stirring frequently, until tender.
Stir in soup, broth and water. Cook 1 to 2 minutes, stirring frequently, until smooth and well blended. Stir in chicken, beans, chiles, oregano and cumin. Heat to boiling, reduce heat to low. Cook uncovered 10-15 minutes, stirring occasionally, until thoroughly heated.
Top each serving with sour cream. 6 servings.
Seeded Butternut Squash Braid
2-3/4 cups uncooked cubed peeled butternut squash
l package active dry yeast
1/3 cup warm 2% milk
2 tablespoons warm water
1/2 cup pepitas (crunchy green hulled pumpkin seeds) or sunflower kernels
1/4 cup butter, softened
1 egg
3 tablespoons brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
3-1/2 to 4 cups all-purpose flour
Topping: l egg, l tablespoon water and 1/4 cup pepitas or sunflower kernels
Place squash in a large saucepan and cover with water. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and cook for 15 -20 minutes or until tender. Drain and mash squash (you will need 2 cups); cool.
Dissolve yeast in warm milk and water. Combine pepitas, butter, egg, brown sugar, salt, cooked squash, yeast mixture and 2 cups flour; beat on medium speed for 3 minutes. Stir in enough remaining flour to form a soft dough (dough will be sticky).
Turn onto a floured surface; knead until smooth and elastic, about 6-8 minutes. Place in a greased bowl, turning once to grease the top. Cover with plastic wrap; let rise in a warm place until doubled, about l hour.
Punch dough down. Turn onto a lightly floured surface and divide into thirds. Shape each into a 26 inch rope; braid ropes. Transfer to a greased baking sheet and form into a circle, pinching the ends together to seal. Cover with clean kitchen towel and let rise in a warm pace until doubled, about 45 minutes.
For topping, beat egg and water; brush over braid. sprinkle with pepitas. Bake at 350ş for 18 to 23 minutes or until golden brown.
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SaaBre's breakthrough technology is a process for the conversion of synthesis gas―carbon monoxide (CO) and hydrogen derived from hydrocarbons such as natural gas―directly to acetic acid in a proprietary, integrated three-step process that avoids the need to purify CO or purchase methanol.
BP has unveiled two new technologies for the
production of key petrochemical feedstocks, the company said on
The first, SaaBre, is a new route for the production
of acetic acid from syngas and Hummingbird directly converts
ethanol to ethylene through dehydration.
SaaBres breakthrough is a process for the conversion
of synthesis gas―carbon monoxide (CO) and hydrogen
derived from hydrocarbons such as natural gas―directly to
acetic acid in a proprietary, integrated three-step process
that avoids the need to purify CO or purchase methanol.
BP says SaaBre is expected to deliver a significant
reduction in variable manufacturing costs, and lead to capital
efficiencies, compared to the carbonylation of methanol route, which has been the
leading technology for several decades.
BP has a long history of successfully optimizing methanol
carbonylation chemistry and the associated process, but we
believe that methanol carbonylation has reached the limits
of its fundamental chemistry, said Dan Leonardi, vice
president of petrochemicals technology for BP. So we
decided some years ago that, to make a significant difference
to the economics of manufacturing acetic acid at scale, we
needed a fresh start.
Acetic acid is a versatile intermediate chemical, used in a
variety of products, such as paints, adhesives and solvents, as
well as in the production of purified terephthalic acid (PTA),
used extensively in polyester manufacture.
"SaaBre is the most significant development for acetic acid
production in 40 years and adds to our portfolio of leading
technologies," said Nick Elmslie, CEO of BPs global
petrochemicals business.
The principle advantages of SaaBre are that
it eliminates the need to purify carbon monoxide, does not require
the purchase of methanol and contains no iodides
reducing the need for exotic metallurgy," he continued. "We are
excited about the development potential of this technology for the production of
additional products such as methanol and ethanol.
Meanwhile, Hummingbird is a newly-developed
proprietary process by which ethanol is dehydrated to produce
ethylene, a fundamental building block for the plastics and
other petrochemical industries. The new
technology is lower cost and simpler compared to existing
ethanol to ethylene technologies.
Hummingbird is a next-generation technology,
clearly differentiated from the competition, said Dr.
Charles Cameron, BPs head of downstream technology.
The Hummingbird process with its proprietary
catalyst and its milder operating conditions is
ultra-selective, resulting in a market leading conversion of ethanol to ethylene.
Both SaaBre and Hummingbird were developed
over a number of years at BPs advanced laboratories at
the Hull Research and Technology Centre, alongside its acetic
acid manufacturing site, Europes largest, at Saltend,
Hull in the UK.
BP says is actively exploring options for
commercializing both technologies. SaaBre is planned
for deployment in future acetic acid investments, while
Hummingbird is a licensing play for BP.
We see a considerable market for smaller-scale ethylene
production where full-scale crackers would not be commercially
viable, said Mark Howard, vice president of BP's
conversion technology business. These two new processes,
developed in-house at Hull, show the significant value technology brings to our chemicals
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John Otolorin
This will be a good development
Abbas Anwar Ezzat
I am pleased to hear the newly developed technology for ethylene production.Will appreciate providing me with the technical paper of this technology.Thank youAbbas A. Ezzat
Jaime Barcena - México
Humming bird technolgy to get a high purity quality of CO without another purification process to,that is an important step to go in a competitive position for any production of nafta, gasoline and petrochemical. But I guess capital cost units or plantsar is the maiin obstacle to choose or selct such technology. Because Fscher Tropsch technology to get syntesis gas (CO +H2) is a very well known technology before world seconf war; but the process or utility unit capital cost is too high to apply such technology indeed. Then technolgy GTL or FT owners must reduce their market artificial inflated technology high prices because such technolgy in sustainability terms can be applied using charcoal, coke or other fossile cheaper raw material to be applied in many ways but initial capital prices of such process units do not let to go for such application indeed, actually.
Great innovation.SaaBre will put many major current producers via methanol carbonylation out of business.Humming bird will sure rock
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