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To optimize processing and reduce design and operating costs, refiners should consider using accurate simulation models that are specifically tailored for heavy crudes.
[heavy oil]
In the oil segment of the global energy industry, feedstocks are moving toward the
heavier end. The extraction, transport and processing of
lighter crudes, using a stable of proven technologies, is no
longer possible. These light oil supplies have become exhausted
or more difficult to obtain, causing strain on the crude oil
supply chain. Explosive economic growth in India, China and other emerging
countries requires large volumes of conventional crude oils as
well as increasing supplies of heavy oils.
Heavy crude oils have unique physical properties that often
present costly refining challenges. Efficient processing
solutions require a thorough understanding of the oils
characteristics and operating behaviors. Companies involved in
heavy or extra-heavy oil refining must evaluate these
characteristics and choose the best processing options for
these oils.
With increasing global demand and elevated prices for crude
oil, heavier oils are still economical to produce using
advanced technologies, despite the challenges associated with
their production and processing. Their discounted market
prices, relative to West Texas Intermediate (WTI), Brent and
other benchmark light oils, can provide a financial incentive
for refineries capable of processing these heavy oils.
Conventional heavy oil reserves are plentiful in the Orinoco
region of Venezuela, while the largest concentration of
extra-heavy unconventional oil is found in the rich oil sands
of western Canada.
Global heavy oil reserves have been estimated at more than
twice those of conventional light oils, at six trillion
barrels. This massive volume makes heavy oil an important
energy resource, especially as conventional oil sources
continue to diminish. US refineries import the majority of
their heavy oil feedstocks from Canada. Amid global
political volatility, Canadas heavy oil resources provide
a politically and logistically secure supply of energy, despite
the difficulty involved in their extraction, transport and
There is a global need for alternatives to light, sweet,
conventional oils. The industry has adopted methods to recover
and manage increasingly heavier oils that require additional
processing steps. These heavy and extra-heavy oils have complex
characteristics that must be identified to be efficiently
processed. The knowledge of how to process these oils is
important for designing and operating the process correctly,
for reducing downtime, for increasing efficiency, for
optimizing profitability, for promoting higher environmental standards and for
effectively eliminating safety concerns.
Heavy oil is generally defined as a viscous crude oil with
an API gravity between 10° and 22°, and a viscosity of
less than 10,000 centipoise. Extra-heavy oils are
unconventional oils with an API gravity below 10°; they are
bitumen-like substances with extremely low flowrates at the
reservoir. In many instances, they have been considered
bottom of the barrel, as compared to conventional
petroleum sources with lower viscosity and higher API gravity.
Their heaviness is generally attributed to
high-molecular-weight compounds, including asphaltenes, which
contribute greatly to feed viscosity and coking tendency. They contain
relatively small amounts of paraffinic components and are more
naphthenic and aromatic in nature. While heavy and extra-heavy
oils are present in many global regions, the largest
concentration of supply is found in North and South
In addition to high viscosity, high pour point and low API
gravity, heavy and extra-heavy oils are characterized by higher
levels of sulfur, nitrogen and heavy metals, including mercury
(Hg). They have low hydrogen-to-carbon ratios and high carbon
residue. These feedstocks often contain elevated amounts of
particulates and water and are generally high in acids,
particularly naphthenic acids.
Heavy and extra-heavy crude oils present a number of
challenges, beginning with their extraction and continuing
through refinery transportation and
processing (Fig. 1). As oil sands recovery has
progressed, the surface extraction of oil sands with
strip-mining technology has been superseded by
several thermal methods, with the most predominant being
steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD). SAGD and similar
technologies have allowed heavy oil to be recovered at lower
depths as surface deposits have been depleted.
Newer methods have reduced the environmental impact of
extraction while enabling access to a higher percentage of
known subsurface reserves. SAGD technologies rely heavily on
natural gas to raise steam. As a result, this extraction
process generates a higher concentration of carbon dioxide,
raising environmental concerns. However, low
gas prices have helped make SAGD an attractive extraction
Due to the viscosity of heavy crude oils, especially
bitumen-type material from Canada, these oils are not shipped
via pipeline unless they are first blended with a diluent. This
blend is often referred to as dilbit, a naphtha/bitumen blend,
and it is needed to facilitate flow. Bitumen properties and
ambient temperatures at origin and along the pipeline route
determine the percentage of naphtha that is utilized. Natural
gas condensate can also be used as a diluent.
Heavy oil can be diluted for pipeline transport with a
synthetic crude oil (SCO), which is produced by partially
upgrading the heavy oil through prerefining distillation processes to lower the
viscosity. This synthetic oil/bitumen blend, known as synbit,
adds to the cost of the heavy oil. As the quality and
attributes of dilbit and synbit diluents can vary considerably
from one upgrading facility or supplier to another, their
removal and recycle present additional factors that must be
understood to effectively refine heavy oils.
Supply trends impact, and will undoubtedly continue to
affect, refining capabilities. Traditionally, refineries were
designed to accommodate light, sweet crude oilsusually a
specific blend that may no longer be available or that is
presently cost prohibitive. Most existing refineries were not
originally designed to be feedstock flexible or to accommodate
heavy feeds.
Heavy oils require additional processing steps to remove
impurities and to provide a full spectrum of products from a
variety of feedstocks. For this purpose, the
addition of hydrogen (H2) in the hydrocracking
process is necessary. The crude oil combines with the
H2 at high temperature and pressure, in the presence
of a catalyst, to saturate aromatic molecules, separating out
the lighter streams. Subsequent reactor stages further separate
the hydrocarbon components, increasing the
yield of low-boiling-point, high-value fluids and middle
distillates, while leaving the heavier residue to be converted
into coke in a separate operation.
Heavy oils bring additional levels of heavy metals, such as
Hg, vanadium, magnesium, nickel and iron. It is imperative to
assess and remove certain metals, particularly Hg. Even if Hg
levels are low, the presence of this metal in large volumes of
liquid hydrocarbons represents significant exposure to
processing equipment. Non-removal of Hg can cause metal
embrittlement and failure due to corrosion, and it can pose a
health hazard to refinery workers. Furthermore, Hg levels in
C3C6 product streams from the crude
distillation column and in water
effluent can poison catalysts.
Other materials commonly found in heavy oils can cause a
myriad of operational problems if not eliminated. Calcium (Ca),
present as calcium naphthenate, can cause fouling at the
desalter, catalyst poisoning and scaling issues that require
increased maintenance for heat exchanger tubes
and other equipment internals. Ca deposits often require
additional processes for elimination, such as
Many of the new heavy oil sources have increased sulfur
content and high levels of other impurities. Due to the
compositional variability of heavy oils from different fields,
processing technologies cannot be uniform, but instead must be
structured to accommodate the specific characteristics of each
High densities and viscosities require higher temperatures
in refining units. In desalters, higher
temperatures can compromise the heat energy balances designed
for light oils. Additionally, the higher levels of solids found
in heavy oils can lead to sludge, which can pose storage
problems and have undesirable impacts on wastewater treatment
and other offsite operations.
Delayed coker residue from the vacuum-reduced heavy oil
presents another potential bottleneck in the refinery. As a
batch process, this residue accumulates in the coker drums. If
it is not removed in a timely manner, the refinery could back
up and be forced to shut down.
Once a refinery has shifted its operational capabilities to
produce high-value products from heavy oil, the facility must
continue on this path, as significant modifications would be
needed to convert the refinery feedstock slate back to
light oil. A number of US Gulf Coast refineries have made the
switch to heavy oil, and they rely on the delivery of Canadian
crude oils. As a result of this scenario, pipelines have been
reversed and extended to serve these facilities.
As the availability of crude oil supplies changes and the
characteristics of these feedstocks are more varied, existing
refineries are forced to become more flexible in their
operational capabilities and to adapt to the diversity of input
Operations planning and optimization are critical in an
existing facility, where margins fluctuate depending on
processing costs, product yields and the adaptability of each
processing unit. As an example, fractionation requires exact
measurements of pressure, temperature and volume to maximize
yields from feedstocks with varying compositions.
All refineries struggle to process heavy oils economically.
Modeling methods that accurately depict the characteristics of
these heavy feedstocks allow refiners to adapt their processes
accordingly, whether by altering existing operating processes
or by designing new equipment.
The ability to predict the performance behavior of heavy
oils at each stage of the refining process is important. It is
difficult to use traditional modeling software, as these
programs were developed to predict the behavior of light, sweet
oils. There is no single solution for heavier oil processing to
suit all refineries. Each refinery has its own set of
parameters governed by its existing configuration, the
composition of the oils being processed, the operating
conditions within the plant and the desired range of product
For example, asphaltenes are prevalent in heavy oils. The
use of processes to precipitate them to lower viscosities can
assist in refining. When diluted with solvents, including
condensates, the dilbits from oil sands are easier to transport
via pipeline. Therefore, to optimize processing, refinery
operators must be able to predict the amount of asphaltene
precipitated as a function of the amount and nature of the
solvent and the ranges of temperature and pressure.
Utilizing field-proven, proprietary modeling software, one
company enlisted a consortium of global industry leaders (i.e.,
major oil companies, Canadian heavy oil producers, engineering
firms and national oil companies) to provide a forum for
defining and solving major issues in heavy oil processing.
The company is using the latest modeling technologies to
predict how heavy oils will perform at various refinery
processing stages. This software has identified several areas
in need of improvement, and new and expanded models have been
developed to increase prediction and plant optimization
accuracy through advanced process simulation.
These efforts have been directed at multiple procedures:
Preparing crude oil feed, investigating viscosity and thermal
conductivity, maintaining H2 balance and solubility
as part of the upgrading process, removing Hg and other
contaminants, and performing molecular-based
Knowledge of viscosity is critical to understanding heavy
oil properties and potential product yields. The newest method
of liquid viscosity prediction advances the accepted Twu
correlation, improving the predictive accuracy of viscosities
in the 100 cSt100,000 cSt range and closely estimating
temperature dependence, especially for low temperatures.
Utilizing data from more than 125 heavy oil assays provided by
the consortium, the accuracy of viscosity prediction in
simulations is greatly improved.
In addressing liquid-phase thermal conductivity in heavy
oils, there is limited industry data. However, in recognizing
the comparable characteristics of solvent refined coal II, for
which some data is available, accurate correlations have been
established. Recent testing has determined a strong performance
using the Sato-Riedel method, requiring only an estimate of
critical temperature to produce the best level of accuracy.
Hydroprocessing is required to remove impurities in heavy
oils. Hydrogenation increases the yield and converts low-value
feedstocks into higher-value end
products. With the addition of H2 in the process,
refinery optimization relies on H2 management and
its solubility in hydrocarbons. Laboratory measurements for
H2, hydrogen sulfide and ammonia vapor-liquid
equilibrium with defined hydrocarbons have been used to fit
equation-of-state binary interaction parameters to improve the
accuracy of predicting the elements solubility in
hydrocarbon mixtures.
Hg is a contaminant in heavy oils that poses multiple
challenges during refining. It can poison catalysts,
contaminate wastewater, destroy process equipment and impair
processes, and be a human health hazard. An accurate
understanding of Hgs solubility in hydrocarbons is
necessary for its mitigation.
Similarly, naphthenic acid is a prevalent and increasingly
corrosive element in heavier oils. The most problematic acids
are those with a molecular weight having a boiling point of
430°F750°F. The acid concentration, density and
viscosity of the oil must be assessed to predict its corrosion
The procedure for characterization using data from
consortium members focuses on extrapolating the molecular
weights of critical heavy oil components with normal boiling
points exceeding 1,000 K. The importance of this procedure
cannot be understated when designing process components, such
as heat exchangers.
Using a newer correlation developed specifically for the
attributes of heavy oil and kinematic viscosity, results can be
compared to measured data and to data derived from the older
API procedure 11A4.2. The new correlation exposes a significant
difference in accuracy in heat exchanger sizing.
Table 1 shows predicted kinematic
viscosities in centistokes at various temperatures using API
procedure 11A4.2, compared to the heavy oil correlation shown
in Fig. 2. In Table 2, the
comparison shows that the duty would be almost 250% oversized.
The newer heavy oil method predicts duty much closer to the
measured data, especially as temperatures rise.
The nature of refining is continually changing with
increasing global demand and feedstock supplies that are
becoming heavier and more difficult to process. In addition,
increasing government oversight and environmental constraints on emissions heavily impact refining operations.
To maximize profitability, refiners are faced with decisions
to alter their operations to suit changing feedstock slates.
Operational challenges are extremely difficult, if not
impossible, to address without knowledge of the specific
characteristics of different crude oils.
Heavy oils have become economical feedstocks and are adding to global
hydrocarbon supplies. However, they
require additional additives to combat high viscosity and high
mass density. At the refinery, they need extra treatment
phases that include adding H2 during processing to
eliminate or mitigate impurities and to alter their molecular
The compositions of heavy oils vary, adding complexity to
their processing. While models have been used for years to
understand and optimize the processing of light oils, increased
demand for heavy oil has led to the development of models to
address the unique attributes of these oils.
To optimize processing and reduce design and operating
costs, refiners should use accurate simulation models that are
specifically tailored for heavy crude oils. Without this
accuracy, operating and capital costs will escalate, and
performance will diminish, at a time when refiners are seeking
advantages to increase profitability. HP
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Zhang Yongming
This is an excellent article. I shall read it carefully. You know I'm doing simulation about a refinery which is treating very heavy oil, but I have not get a reasonable viscosity result, although I had been using the method for heavy oil model which simsci ProII supplys within the program. Hope expert supply me some helpful recommendation. Thanks ahead.
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This is a good article.thanks
W. Joe Taylor, P.E.
Joe, This was an excellent article. Which models give the most bang for the buck in the following areas: technical literature / dissertations / university research comparing the predictive capability of various models and their limitations? how well various models account for chemical composition and comparison of heavy feedstocks (oil sands) with lighter crude compositions and economics of refinery processes, in addition to the thousands of hydrocarbon species / isomers, how are they at selecting ways to remove impurities, such as nitrogen, sulfur, ash content, salt content, heavy metals, etc. and predicting the economics for various processes. One last thing, I have not seen a comparative study for blending of alternative feedstocks, such as biomass / cellulosic thermal conversion type bio-oils with the heavy feedstocks and economics for this, how do various models hold up on the blending of these, or syngas production. How about models incorporating emulsion extraction of heavy crudes and then breaking it, via hydro-washing, and how this affects the refinery process? Seems like there would be some models available for comparing these ways to reduce the water use / recycling and how these processing modalities might affect carbon cycle issues / carbon credits? What are some good models for students beginning to explore these realms and help in development as opposed industrial researchers or petroleum engineers at refineries?
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I often hear on TVB shows that people say 最多 in a context when they mean to say, "at the very least?" For instance, something like, "At the very least, I'll take you to dinner tomorrow for being late."
Why is this?
Consider it this way: If your offer and his expectation from you are at two opposite ends, then the most you can offer only meets the least he has expected, or even less.
So the perspective(point of view) affects the use of "most" and "least" -- quite subtle. To make a specific case clear, we need the vivid context.
This heavily depends on the situation and the tone of the speaker. But in general, the speaker is either asking for something/help, or willing to gift something to listener because listener is unpleasant.
It is not like
I just found out an easy way to distinguish between them, is to listen if it is "我最多" or "最多我":
The most difficult thing in Cantonese is the emotional particles. Most of the sentences will include particles at the end and represent our attitude and emotion. There are a lot of them but they are only 1-3 characters so it is very easy to be confused. I suggest you to ask your Hong Konger friends about it or you can ask me too.
In Vietnamese, 最多 means at most, upper limit. And 最少 means at least. Not sure why in Cantonese.
I think you maybe have understanding issues.
最多 does not mean "at least". It means at the most.
I honestly have no idea why someone who provided you the best answer from user3992 is having negative points but his answer is correct.
It means "at most". Cause I believe Chinese people's nature is to do as less as possible, so we say
"At least" in contrast we use for if someone declines our favor.
Edit:It's a perspective problem. It's usually from the speaker's perspective, not the listener's.

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Ah ok so i use the lens settings tab to specify non-global parameters for my nadir shots then make sure fov is ticked in the optimiser advanced tab for those shots, then run the optimiser and align again.
Great, can't to try (with fingers crossed!).
Listen, i really appreciate your input. You guys have really gone out of your way to help. You've really helped me through a glut in my learning curve and i am excited to put it into practice and develop my pano skills. I will remember to re-pay the favour by helping someone else in the future. :)


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I am trying to install a bike hoist in the ceiling of my garage. I found the ceiling joist using the stud finder and when I tried making a pilot hole, I noticed that I am hitting metal. I don't have full access of the garage crawl space but the location I went to has a metal spacer between the 2x4 and the drywall. Is it safe to drill through the metal spacer and into the 2x4 to install my bike hoist?
Update: From the photo provided, it doesn't appear to be a safety plate. I'm leaving this answer in case someone else comes here searching on metal behind their drywall.
If that's a steel safety plate you're hitting, then the answer is "no" you don't want to drill through it. It's installed to prevent accidentally nailing through the drywall, into the joists, and into some electrical or plumbing that's very close on the other side. Go 6" along the joist and try again, and if you hit wood instead of metal, thank the last person that was kind enough to install this plate.
When seeing the picture of the 2x4 hanger bracket at the end of the joist as shown I would like to comment that there is some concern with drilling through the bracket so that a screw or lag bolt can engage the hung 2x4. Screwing in too near to the end of the 2x4 could cause it to split and then the holding power of the screw would be greatly diminished. If you are using lag type bolts or larger sized screws carefully select the proper size pilot hole drill bit. This will help to keep the wood from splitting and give the strongest holding power. Afterall the last thing you want is for your hung item to come crashing down.


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From Ecclesiastes 7:16,
Do not be overrighteous, neither be overwise— why destroy yourself?
So, why does the Bible say, "don't be too righteous"? Encouraging one to be moderate in their righteousness... Doesn't that seem a bit out of place?
One possible interpretation is that it is warning against legalism - the type of "over righteousness" that the Pharisees were known for. Not exactly a true righteousness, as seen from God's perspective, but a self perceived righteousness derived from a "holier-than-thou" attitude.
The Werner Bible Commentary puts it like:
A bit farther down, in verse 20, it goes on to say:
This is something that the Pharisees did not seem grasp, and righteousness through their own "over righteousness" was something that the Pharisees saw as attainable, or already attained.
When I looked this up in my NAB Bible, it states it as:
In the foot notes for the verse it states:
This idea can be reflected in Verses 20-22:
Also, my first thought was a warning against scrupulosity: "the spiritual and psychological state of a person who erroneously believes he is guilty of mortal sin and is therefore seldom in a state of grace."
The righteousness described in this verse is the same kind of righteousness as found in v. 15. The righteousness in v. 16 is excessive ("righteous over much") only in the sense that an Old Testament believer might simplistically expect God to honor his righteousness with immediate blessing. In v. 15 Solomon describes a situation where a genuinely righteous person receives what the wicked should get; and the wicked person receives what the righteous person should get. The point of v. 16 could be explained like this: "Do not be simplistically righteous with the expectation of immediate reward, neither be naively wise, why cause yourself to be astonished that God did not honor your righteous living with immediate blessing?" How does this fit in with vv. 17-18? When one sees the wicked prospering, he may lose heart and turn to an excessively sinful lifestyle. This should not be followed because God may immediately judge this sinner (v. 17). According to v. 18 the believer should avoid both extremes. In light of other portions of this book (3:17; 8:12-13; 11:9; 12:14), Solomon would argue that we should live righteously because the day of judgment is coming; this is when the Lord will certainly reward His people.
One must not treat the whole Bible as a homogenous text, which represents a single point of view. There are different texts, which serve different purposes. The earliest parts are more suitable for children, in that they are clear message tales, where the good people win and the bad people get struck down by God. The later texts are more nuanced adult narratives, which try to mirror how life actually is.
The more secular philosophical text of Ecclesiastes (available in my translation on Wikisource ) is very different than the earliest law-giving texts, or the histories and prophecies. It belongs to the third part of the old testament, called "the writings" by Jews, and along with the Book of Job, the proverbs, and some of the Apocrypha, it is considered a book of wisdom, reflecting a philosophy that was considered important enough to canonize.
Ecclesiastes shows a Greek influence. The writing is recursive and flowing, and contains a greater degree of abstraction than the earliest books. It is believed to have been written in Hellenistic times, around the 2nd-3rd century BC, making it perhaps the very latest contribution to be canonized in the old testament.
The text is interesting in that it is easily heretical at points, and this is one of the major arguments used back then against its canonization. There are several points where you hear what sounds like a redactor. The last verses of the book are an infamous summary, which does not summarize:
The actual content of the book is completely different. This is one of the books of the Bible that is actually worth reading end to end.
Ecclesiastes is a free-thinking catalog of despair, at the meaninglessness of life and the unreality of the world. It is a philosophy of misery, similar to the Hindu concept of Maya, or world-illusion. We are all trapped in Maya, "Havel" in Koheleth's words, or "Vanity" in King James, "mirage" in Wikipedia, "vapor-wisp" in the most literal reading of the Hebrew. This is meaninglessness that is a consequence of the slightness of our world, its ephemerality, and our actions, we are all headed to the grave, the wise along with the foolish, and nothing that we do is particularly meaningful when considered on, say, geological time. Everything repeats in an eternal cycle, nothing is truly new. Wicked people prosper, righteous people are struck down, and there are injustices that cannot be fixed.
This idea, the futility, leads Koheleth to all sorts of despair and searching. He tries out all sorts of things, building, and destroying, study, and partying, piety, and sin. He concludes that life is finite, and of no consequence or meaning, that there is no afterlife, so we should take some pleasure out of our limited time, be mostly virtuous, and a little sinful, and try to enjoy ourselves as long as we are here.
This type of philosophy is completely out of place in the Bible, and this book therefore has many quotes which can be construed as contradicting the rest of the Bible. Koheleth tells you to enjoy life, be happy on Earth, and forget about heavenly rewards (3:20):
He explicitly denies the afterlife later: (Ecc. 9:10)
He tells you to not be too virtuous (7:16):
He tells you that righteousness is not rewarded (8:14):
This text is not representative of Jewish or Christian theology. It is not representative of what we would call modern secular philosophy either. It might have a root in Hindu or Buddhist traditions of Maya or Earthly suffering, but even then, it is delivered in a different ideosyncratic way, as the personal story of a wealthy scholar. The Bible would be a lot more consistent without it.
So why is this text canonized? Perhaps the last verses will make it clear:
If this writing isn't divinely inspired, then nothing is.
We were never meant to be perfect because Jesus Christ wants us to be completely dependent on him. We we not meant to sin constantly and constantly do that because we would never enter into God's Kingdom. We would all never enter into God's Kingdom because of not repenting and changing from sinning to doing righteousness.
Holy Bible quotes:
Quotes from the book called 'Jesus Calling, Enjoying Peace In His Present, 365 Day Devotional' by Sarah Young is:
The above quotes is where I got those scriptures from that I typed before the quoted scripture from the Jesus Calling book I copied from. And the other bible scriptures not from the quotes from the Jesus Calling book are the references I got from the ones in the Jesus Calling book. The references for those scriptures were taken from the Holy Bible itself.


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15 Oct 2012 9:22 AM #11
Create an override. These files are editable from your own editor and are very similar to how Designer treated the implementation fiels.Aaron Conran
15 Oct 2012 11:32 AM #12
Keep in mind however that currently we will not warn you of changes made outside and/or reload your overrides files if they are open in Architect.
Future versions will reload certain files automatically (not sure of timing on this).
The point is to only edit overrides in one or the other (external editor vs Arch) and you'll be safe. Trying to edit in both could cause loss of code.Phil Strong
15 Oct 2012 11:57 AM #13
Thank your for your replies. The overrides seem the way to go. I also read more on what's new in ExtJs 4, and another way to handle this would be through the use mixins.


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It's becoming a common scene.
"We've seen an increase, triple of what we had last year."
An Undercover Detective with the Allen County Sheriff's office says meth users get such a high the first time they use the drug, they keep trying to reach that same unattainable feeling.
The Allen County Sheriff's Department busted 8 meth labs in just 12 days. They found the last meth lab on Thursday on Perrytown Road and arrested 4 people.
Police tell us meth is so addictive it just pulls people right in before they even have a chance to stop.
Authorities tell us the meth problem is increasing every year.
In 2003, the Allen County Sheriff's Department busted 15 labs total. In 2004, that number increased to 23 and for 2005 police have already busted 18 labs.
Police say some of the reasons meth is so popular is because all of the ingredients can be bought in local stores and is easily made, especially in the country.
"In a rural community, like Allen County, you have to walk pretty much right upon one before you know what you got."


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PM motors on a variety of applications has been done for 10 years. Cooling towers, fluid coolers, etc. The motor cost has not allowed it to go mainstream due to rare earth cost for the magnets.
Claim 1
- A drive system for rotating a fan in a wet cooling tower, comprising
a permanent magnet motor comprising a motor casing,
a stator and
a rotatable shaft configured for connection to a fan in a wet cooling tower, the motor further comprising
a dual bearing system comprising a pair of bearings that locate and support the rotatable shaft relative to the motor casing, the drive system further comprising
sensors for measuring vibrations of the bearings and outputting signals representing the measured vibrations, and
sensors for measuring heat of the stator and the bearings and outputting signals representing the measured heat.


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National Street Rod Association - The Milwaukee NationalsWritten by on November 1, 2005 The NSRA Welcomes Some New Friends
History was made this past summer in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, when the first post-'48 vehicles rolled through the front gates of a National Street Rod Association event. Throughout its entire 36-year history, attendance at National Street Rod Association events has been limited to pre-'48-bodied vehicles. With the Milwaukee Nationals that has changed, and as a result, the event was a resounding success.
Almost 1,700 vehicles were registered for this inaugural event, with modified vintage rides up to '75 welcome. With the NSRA's expanded entries came the much-expected customs of the '50s, musclecars of the '60s, and street machines of the early '70s.
Catching the eye of many truck-loving spectators was the large number of very cool commercial vehicles that included several hundred pickups and panel trucks. The wide variety of hot haulers ran the gamut from the traditional '30s and '40s street rod versions of closed-cab and roadster pickups (typically seen at NSRA events) to the wildly popular 1/2-ton haulers from the '50s, as well as the muscle trucks of the '60s and '70s. The expanded mix was a special treat with event participants who appreciated the wider range of vintage vehicles rolling about the Wisconsin State Fairgrounds. It also offered an opportunity for the friendly exchange of customizing and styling ideas that can only help all aspects of our growing vintage-vehicle hobby. It was easy to contrast the diverse styling of vehicles when a '40 Ford pickup was sandwiched between a '32 Ford roadster and a blown '66 Chevy Nova.
Sunday's awards ceremonies demonstrated the popularity of trucks has reached an all-time high. Event director Tom Biles opened the ceremonies by mentioning the grand prize to be given away to a lucky participant at this year's Street Rod Nationals in Louisville: a '37 Ford pickup built by Downs Manufacturing. Many of the 33 vehicles honored at the awards were trucks, including the Event Director's Pick, a '48 Chevy pickup. As the awards came to a close, a lucky participant's number was drawn and the holder won the grand prize: an '05 Chevrolet Colorado pickup truck!
The inaugural Milwaukee Nationals proved any skeptics wrong. The event was a popular beginning of a new era for the National Street Rod Association. The post-'48 trucks on hand took their rightful place alongside the deuce roadsters, sleek customs, and musclecar cousins in the hot rod hobby.
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The Wisconsin State Fairgrounds was the site of the 1st Annual Milwaukee Nationals. With the cut-off year raised to '75, all types of custom and modified vehicles prowled the grounds all weekend. Registered participants numbered almost 1,700.The view from the CUSTOM CLASSIC TRUCKS blimp shows what our readers have known all along: Pickup trucks are right at home next to blown deuce roadsters and custom convertibles from the '40s and '50s.The exhibit building was filled with almost 100 vendors peddling their wares. The crossover between rod, custom, and truck parts and accessories is very obvious when they are all gathered in one huge location.The variety of trucks on hand at Milwaukee was as varied as the food available on the grounds. Where else could you enjoy an order of Wisconsin beer-battered cheddar cheese curds while checking out a line of pickups like this?The NSRA Safety Division performs a great service at all the National Street Rod Association events around the country. Inspection teams check vehicles in 23 specific safety areas. At Milwaukee, 116 vehicles were inspected.Pat Callahan thinks trucks should be fun. His Island Bus Company "Maintenance Vehicle" started life as a '48 GMC. Pat added the oak surfboard rack, great artwork from Jeff Williams, a 350 Chevy under the hood, and Camaro front and rear suspensions. Hard work and attention to detail pays off, as Pat took home the Outstanding Truck award at the Sunday ceremonies.Marcia and Dennis Burkart took the subtle approach with their '40 Ford pickup. The two-tone orange and cream paint looks like it could have been a factory option. The sheep's clothing hides the wolf's power from a 350 Chevy, a five-speed manual transmission, and a Mustang II front suspension.Michael Wenzen's '55 Chevy Stepside started life as a basic 1/2-ton pickup. It is no longer basic; the top is chopped 7 inches. The light-blue paint is covered with purple flames, but the real heat is under the hood. Power comes from a twin-turbo equipped 454 Chevy big-block mated to a five-speed transmission.
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INTENSE feelings about "red-handed rebels"were still seething 20 years after the Civil War ended as shown in the obituary of a physician who has been selected for the Martins Ferry Hall of Honor.
Dr. Simon B. West, described as "the oldest physician in this place as well as the first who located here," is one of four persons to be inducted during a ceremony April 7 at 2 p.m. at Martins Ferry High School.
West's obituary doesn't mince words when referring to politics. During the Civil War, he was a surgeon in the Union army in West Virginia and Maryland, part of the time near Cumberland. (Spellings and capitalizations are quoted as printed in the obituary.)
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will be inducted in April into the Martins Ferry Hall of Honor. West, not only served residents in Eastern Ohio, but he was a surgeon during the Civil War. Pictured with a medical saddlebag, such as one which might have been used by West, is John Applegarth, HofH secretary and a member of the Martins Ferry Area Historical Society Board of Directors. The saddlebag is on display at the Sedgwick House Museum. Pictures of
Dr. West were
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"At the close of war, he identified himself with the Republican party because as he said, the other party contained too great a proportion of red-handed rebels, whose counsels would dominate and controll and although it claimed to be the party of his early love - the party in which he spent the early vigor of manhood, he could find no resting place among the men who had fought to destroy the Union," according to the obituary.
This followed a paragraph which revealed that he, his father and all his brothers "were earnest and unyielding Democrats of the old Jeffersonian school, till the breaking out of the war of rebellion, when he at once identified himself with the Union Party and all through the war his voice and council was for any legitimate measures which promised a quick and speedy overthrow of what he deemed a damnable attempt of scheming rascals to overthrow the best government on earth."
West, who is buried in Walnut Grove Cemetery, will be recognized for his service to others during the April ceremony.
Sponsored by The Citizens Bank, the HofH is "to acknowledge those citizens whose actions or accomplishments have affected, aided or brought fame to Martins Ferry. Those eligible for the honor must have been born, lived or worked in the city."
In addition to West, other inductees this year will be C. Willis "Bill" Troy, first involved in the Martins Ferry Fire Department and later worked in public safety on the state level; Anthony Spear, whose space achievements include being project manager for the Mars Pathfinder; and James W. Everson, retired president and chief executive officer of The Citizens Savings Bank and now, the bank's chairman of the board in addition to holding several major positions with the United Bancorp Inc.
West began his medical practice in Martins Ferry in 1836, continuing for exactly half a century. He completed his studies at the Ohio medical college in Cincinnati in 1836. Prior to that time, he studied medicine under his brother, Dr. Henry West of St. Clairsville.
Born in 1812 in Jefferson County near the Belmont County line, West is said to acquired the rudiments of an English education in a log schoolhouse and later studied Greek and Latin under a private teacher. His father was one of the early settlers of Jefferson County.
His obituary notes that the physician "was very successful in the practice of his profession which was very laborious, his field extending for miles up and down the river and over the hill and far back in the country."
West was married to Mary Zane Martin, daughter of Martins Ferry's founder Ebenezer Martin, and they had eight children.
His obituary describes West as active and enterprising, "always taking a prominent part in whatever he decided for the welfare of the country or the interest of the community."
A director of the Ohio City Nail Co., he "was one of the most eminent men in his profession in this region and is also remembered as one of the most enterprising of the citizens of Martins Ferry, ever ready to aid in enterprises for the advancement of the material and social interests of the place," according to the "History of the Upper Ohio Valley," Volume II.
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Why does Linux run well on so many different types of machines - desktops, laptops, servers, embedded devices, mobile phones, etc? Is it mainly because the system is open, so any part of it can be modified to work in different environments? Or are there other properties of the Linux kernel and/or system that make it easier for this OS to work on such a wide range of platforms?
While openness is certainly part of it, I think the key factor is Linus Torvald's continued insistence that all of the work, from big to small, has a place in the mainline Linux kernel, as long as it's well done. If he'd decided at some point to draw a line and say "okay, for that fancy super-computer hardware, we need a fork", then completely separate high-end and small-system variants might have developed. As it is, instead people have done the harder work of making it all play together relatively well.
And, kludges which enable one side of things at the detriment of the other aren't, generally, allowed in — again, forcing people to solve problems in a harder but more correct way, which turns out to usually be easier to go forward from once whatever required the kludge becomes a historical footnote.
From an interview several years ago:
Linux scales to many different types of hardware because:
The Linux Kernel scales well because that is what it is. The core kernel is relatively small and does what it need to do. Device drivers are optional and can be left out of the kernel for smaller systems. The beyond the minimal kernel requirements most functionality is implemented as optional features.
Take a look at the config file installed next to most kernels. It will list all the features which were turned on as well as which drivers are supported.
Drivers are supported either embedded in the kernel or as loadable modules. This allows a kernel to be dynamically configured to the hardware it is running on. This is the the approach used by many distributions.
Other than having the compilation tools, modifying the kernel for new hardware is relatively simple. For a new processor only the related code needs to be implemented as modifications to the existing functionality. New devices only require a new driver with the relevant hooks. New file systems are likewise relatively trivial modifications.
The code base has been well maintained to keep this flexibility without external forking. Conditional compilation drives a very flexible kernel which has been kept as minimal as possible.
I lack the detailed technical expertise to back up this answer, but my experience suggests that Linux scales well in comparison to other operating systems that I frequently use (primarily, Windows). So perhaps the question is why Windows does not scale as well as Linux.
If restating the question that way is still useful to you, I would suggest that market forces motivate Microsoft to add features and functionality geared to the latest and most capable hardware, because they sell more copies of the operating system primarily when end users buy new systems. So, at any point in time, I find that the latest release of Windows performs poorly on older, less capable hardware.
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Imagine $n$ $z$-vertical sticks uniformly spaced around a unit-radius circle in the $xy$-plane. At $t{=}0$, each is randomly $\epsilon$-perturbed from the vertical, and they fall under the influence of gravity. Will some sticks form a "teepee" suspended above the $xy$-plane?
Let us assume the sticks are one-dimensional segments of height $h$, perhaps $h{=}2$ so they
span the diameter,
and that their base points are pinned to the plane via universal joints.
It seems possible that a subset of sticks could fall to form a weaving with a cyclic
on-top-of graph, as illustrated below.
Assuming a sufficient coefficient of friction $\mu$ between pairs of sticks, it seems conceivable that such a structure would not collapse to the plane.
What is your intuition here? For sufficiently large $n$, and adequate $h$ and $\mu$, would some sticks form a woven structure above the plane? Or would all sticks ultimately flatten to the plane? If the latter, are there natural conditions that would lead to formation of a "teepee"? I am less interested in probability calculations than in a qualitative assessment.
I've tagged this 'recreational' because it is only a peripheral spinoff of my research.
Addendum. It is now clear, from the comments of Scott Morrison and Rahul Narain, that the random perturbations should be random both in direction and magnitude. Otherwise, as Scott incisively observed, the sticks, with high probability, all fall without touching one another until they reach the plane (which to me is already rather remarkable!).


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Subject: Re: [OMPI users] OpenMPI hangs across multiple nodes.
From: George Bosilca (bosilca_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-02-12 10:46:52
You don't necessarily have to open all ports. Open MPI can use a range
of ports if specified.
The intervals used can be twitched using [btl_tcp_port_min_v4,
btl_tcp_port_range_v4] for the MPI layer and there should be something
similar for our daemons.
On Feb 11, 2009, at 21:49 , Robertson Burgess wrote:
> My apologies for not changing the subject to something suitable just
> then.
> Thankyou for that. I have not yet been able to get the IT department
> to help me with disabling the firewalls, but hopefully that is the
> problem. Sorry for the late response, I was hoping the IT department
> would be faster.
> Robertson
> Message: 2
> Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 17:27:34 -0500
> From: Jeff Squyres <jsquyres_at_[hidden]>
> Subject: Re: [OMPI users] OpenMPI hangs across multiple nodes.
> To: Open MPI Users <users_at_[hidden]>
> Message-ID: <8BA0E4A5-FA7C-430B-8731-231ED6E672BE_at_[hidden]>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes
> Open MPI requires that there be no TCP firewall between hosts that are
> used in a single parallel job -- it uses random TCP ports between
> peers.
> On Feb 5, 2009, at 2:39 AM, Robertson Burgess wrote:
>> I have checked with IT. It is TCP. I have been told that there's a
>> firewall on the nodes. Should I open some ports on the firewall, and
>> if so, which ones?
>> Robertson
>>>>> Robertson Burgess 5/02/2009 5:09 pm >>>
>> Thankyou for your help.
>> I tried the command
>> mpirun -np 4 -host node1,node2 -mca btl tcp,self random
>> but still got the same result.
>> I'm pretty sure that the communication between the nodes is TCP but
>> I'm not sure, I've emailedIT support to ask them, but am yet to hear
>> back from them.
>> Other than that I'm running the latest release of OMPI (1.3) and I
>> installed it on both nodes. And yes they are in the same absolute
>> paths.
>> My configuration was very standard:
>> shell$ gunzip -c openmpi-1.3.tar.gz | tar xf -
>> shell$ cd openmpi-1.3
>> shell$ ./configure CC=icc CXX=icpc F77=ifort FC=ifort --prefix=/
>> home/bburgess/bin/bin
>> shell$ make all install
>> Again thankyou for your help, I'll have to investigate whether my
>> assumption about my connections being TCP are correct. When I was
>> setting it up at first, and before I'd configured the nodes to log
>> into each other without a password, I did get the message
>> user@ node.newcastle.edu.au's password:
>> In my log files, so it did at least seem to be reaching the other
>> node. Does that mean that my connections are working, or could it be
>> more to it than that?
>> Robertson Burgess
>> Message: 2
>> Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 15:37:44 +0200
>> From: Lenny Verkhovsky <lenny.verkhovsky_at_[hidden]>
>> Subject: Re: [OMPI users] OpenMPI hangs across multiple nodes.
>> To: Open MPI Users <users_at_[hidden]>
>> Message-ID:
>> <453d39990902040537o45137abbh2f12db423d971eb4_at_[hidden]>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>> what kind of communication between nodes do you have - tcp, openib (
>> you can try
>> mpirun -np 4 -host node1,node2 -mca btl tcp,self random
>> On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 1:21 AM, Ralph Castain <rhc_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>> Could you tell us which version of OpenMPI you are using, and how
>>> it was
>>> configured?
>>> Did you install the OMPI libraries and binaries on both nodes? Are
>>> they in
>>> the same absolute path locations?
>>> Thanks
>>> Ralph
>>> On Feb 3, 2009, at 3:46 PM, Robertson Burgess wrote:
>>>> Dear users,
>>>> I am quite new to OpenMPI, I have compiled it on two nodes, each
>>>> node with
>>>> 8 CPU cores. The two nodes are identical. The code I am using
>>>> works in
>>>> parallel across the 8 cores on a single node. However, whenever I
>>>> try to run
>>>> across both nodes, OpenMPI simply hangs. There is no output
>>>> whatsoever, when
>>>> I run it in background, outputting to a log file, the log file is
>>>> always
>>>> empty. The cores do not appear to be doing anything at all, either
>>>> on the
>>>> host node or on the remote node. This happens whether I am running
>>>> my code,
>>>> or even if I when I tell it to run a process that doesn't even
>>>> exist, for
>>>> instance
>>>> mpirun -np 4 -host node1,node2 random
>>>> Simply results in the terminal hanging, so all I can do is close
>>>> the
>>>> terminal and open up a new one.
>>>> mpirun -np 4 -host node1,node2 random >& log.log &
>>>> simply produces and empty log.log file
>>>> I am running Redhat Linux on the systems, and compiled OpenMPI
>>>> with the
>>>> Intel Compilers 10.1. As I've said, it works fine on one node. I
>>>> have set up
>>>> both nodes such that they can log into each other via ssh without
>>>> the need
>>>> for a password, and I have altered my .bashrc file so the PATH and
>>>> LD_LIBRARY_PATH include the appropriate folders.
>>>> I have looked through the FAQ and mailing lists, but I was unable
>>>> to find
>>>> anything that really matched my problem. Any help would be greatly
>>>> appreciated.
>>>> Sincerely,
>>>> Robertson Burgess
>>>> University of Newcastle
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I have a plastic MacBook that I like to use both on the go and at home, where I have a monitor, keyboard/mouse, speakers, etc that I hook up to use it more or less as a desktop. This works great, for the most part, except for the adaptor - it's constantly getting snagged on my desk due to the sheer size of the DVI-DVI connection.
I've tried looking online for a 3 foot Mini-DVI to DVI cable so that I can eliminate this bulk, but without success. It seems that both Apple and a number of third parties are more than willing to sell adaptors for the Mini-DVI, but none sell actual cables.
Have I missed something in my search? Or do manufacturers simply not produce the product I describe? If the latter, is it due to restrictions on using the Mini-DVI connector, a technical problem that requires the adaptor to be no longer than 6 or so inches, or perceived lack of demand?


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So I'm trying to show that for $x\rightarrow \infty$:
$$(x+1+O(x^{-1}))^x = ex^x + O(x^{x-1})$$
So these complicated big-Oh expressions are clearly going to be a recurring theme in my book, and I simply have no idea how to manipulate them in a rigorous fashion. I know logically what these expressions are saying, for instance this one means that:
For any function $f(x)=O(x^{-1})$ for all $a<x< \infty$ for some $a$, we must prove that there exists some $b$ such that $(x+1+O(f(x)))^x = ex^x + O(x^{x-1})$ for all $b< x< \infty$. And then I guess just use the $Max(a,b)$.
Nevertheless my book provides no list of 'legal' operations for big-Oh notation, and no examples of how to work with expressions that don't fall into the most simple category of $f(x) = O(g(x))$. Thus I'm simply at a loss not only for how I go about proving such expressions but I don't even know what operations I'm allowed to perform. How does one generally approach these problems? Thanks.


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|Fascination with zombies is (unlike the zombies, of course) alive and well. Using zombie stories, such as the novel World War Z, students in certain English composition courses in fall 2014 will explore the implications of this continuing interest, to think and write about various themes and issues. A series of five lectures by University of Wisconsin Fox Valley faculty will be part of this exploration. Join us in Perry Hall for this series of talks: Thursday October 9, 2014: Greg Peter, Associate Professor of Sociology, on the sociological implications Monday October 13, 2014: Evan Kreider, Associate Professor of Philosophy, on the implications of zombie fiction for ethical and political philosophy. Monday October 20, 2014: Dubear Kroening, Associate Professor of Biology, on the biological basis for the zombie phenomenon Thursday October 30, 2014: Bill Gillard, Associate Professor of English, on classic zombie movies In a 2003 interview, just after 28 Days Later was released, director Danny Boyle said, "A while ago on South Park there was a Barbra Streisand zombie. They've run the whole cultural arc from being scary to funny. So we had to reinvent them." The truth is that zombies in the movies have been a remarkably adaptable since their origins in Caribbean and West African folklore. Filmmakers have used zombies over the years as an all-purpose receptacle for our fears about totalitarianism, militarism, fascism, communism, racism, class conflict, 9/11, and many other social ills. As the zombie shambles toward us in dark theaters, its blasted jaw agape, eyes blank with hunger, do you see what is in its hands? A mirror! It shows us the truth about our society: who we are and what we fear. Then it shreds our intestines. Thursday November 6, 2014: Will Curl, Senior Lecturer of English, on our culture's fascination with post-apocalyptic literature and film. This event is free and open to the public.


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In the process of counting arithmetic sequences in sets, the Gowers norms
$$ ||f||\_{U^s[N]}^{2^s} = \frac{1}{N^s} \sum_{\vec{h} ,\\, n } \Delta_{h_1}\dots\Delta_{h_s}f(n) $$
where the sum is $ \vec{h} \in\mathbb{Z}^s_N$ and $n \in \mathbb{Z}_N $. Here the ``discrete derivative" $\Delta_h f(n) = f(n+h)\overline{f(n)}$ so the $h=0$ terms correspond to $L^2$ norm.
To find arithmetic sequences in the set $E$ want to take norms of characteristic functions $1_E$ with $E \subset \mathbb{Z}_N$ and $|E| = \delta N$.
Letting $N \to \infty$, if $||1_E - \delta||\_{U^s} $ is small $$ \sum_{x,d \in \mathbb{Z}_N} 1_E(x)1_E(x+h)\dots 1_E(x+sh) \sim \delta^{s+1}N^s $$ the number of arithmetic sequences is comparable with that of a random set.
The inverse conjecture for Gowers norms states the only obstructions to small Gowers' $U^s$ norms is correlation with s-step nilsequences.
Is there a way to ``decompose" a set into its nilsequence contributions? This could be analogous to how an $L^2$ function $f: S^1 \to \mathbb{C}$ decomposes into its Fourier series $f(x) = \sum a_n e^{2\pi i n x}$.
This might not be very well-defined. In that case, what steps could I take to make it meaningful. Also, these formulae are taken from Tamar Ziegler's slides.
Looks like there might be problems if your set $E \subset \mathbb{Z}$ and then you have to decide how to approximate $E$ as subsets of $\mathbb{Z}/N\mathbb{Z}$ where $N$ is large. Maybe this is why they use ultralimits.


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Counties must agree to provide a 25 percent match for any site that costs less than $50,000 to clean up, but the Energy and Environment Cabinet may waive the match on any individual illegal open dump costing more than $50,000 to remediate.
The Division of Waste Management administers the fund, which comes from a $1.75-per-ton "tipping fee."


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I was thinking last night after reading an article about pen testing and security audits, why would you get a list of all the passwords for the company you are auditing and put them through a piece of software to analyse ?
You wouldn't get a list of all the passwords. Any company that could or would produce such a thing would fail any reasonable security audit.
You might get a list of all the password hashes which could then be run through a tool that attempts to determine what the password is. The ease with which the password hashes can be broken and the types of passwords that are broken will be a good guide to figuring out what password complexity policies need to be addressed. If, for example, you're able to crack half of the password hashes because users are entering 6 character passwords that use all lower case letters, then you'd probably recommend increasing the minimum length and imposing some requirements about the use of uppercase letters, numbers, punctuation and other characters.
To test for potentially weak passwords that can be cracked easily by a malicious attacker.
This could give an indication of the state of the password policy of the particular company, which might be an issue in certain circumstances.
If there are plenty of weak passwords found, the pen tester could suggest to the company to change and enforce a better password policy.
Of course, i see no reason to ask the company to hand over a list of passwords. Perhaps it could be a list of passwords found after compromising a user database, or a linux shadow file.
If you do this from the same ip number and for root account and you have firewall switch off and sshd started up - this is definitely dangerous :-)
ps. Passwords should not be used in plain text, it should be stored only in the memory of users. Dealing with lists of user passwords would be seriously no good.
The best is to enforce a nice policy on password change and expire them, so after users will be asked to change the password, so then you will know that it's all fine and the passwords are strong. And they should be stored as salted hash, preferably 100.000 times hashed.


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8 Apr 2013 1:03 AM #1
Trailing comma is not legal in ... /sass/example/render.js
Built workspace,theme,app, okay so far.
Developed the app for a day or two.
Now sencha app refresh produces the following.
What's the plan?
Strip the app back down again until I can refresh it?
Are there clues in here that mean something?
What's this sass/example/render.js stuff?
That file does not have line number 759
Sencha Cmd v18.104.22.1686 [ERR] Failed to download remote catalog : Error downloading http://cdn.sencha.com/cmd/packages/catalog.json [INF] Including theme package hank3 for app.theme=hank3 build [INF] [INF] init-plugin: [INF] [INF] init-plugin: [INF] Invoking plugin (/home/steward/public_html/apps/foxw/Yap/.sencha/app/plugin.xml) - supported targets: -before-app-refresh [INF] [INF] -before-app-refresh: [INF] Invoking plugin (/home/steward/public_html/apps/foxw/Yap/.sencha/app/plugin.xml) - supported targets: app-refresh [INF] [INF] cmd-root-plugin.init-properties: [INF] [INF] init-properties: [INF] [INF] init-sencha-command: [INF] [INF] init: [INF] [INF] -before-app-refresh: [INF] [INF] app-refresh-impl: [INF] Including theme package hank3 for app.theme=hank3 build [INF] Loading classpath entry /home/steward/public_html/apps/foxw/ext/src [INF] Loading classpath entry /home/steward/public_html/apps/foxw/packages/ext-theme-base/overrides [INF] Loading classpath entry /home/steward/public_html/apps/foxw/packages/ext-theme-base/src [INF] Loading classpath entry /home/steward/public_html/apps/foxw/packages/ext-theme-neutral/overrides [INF] Loading classpath entry /home/steward/public_html/apps/foxw/packages/ext-theme-neutral/src [INF] Loading classpath entry /home/steward/public_html/apps/foxw/packages/ext-theme-classic/overrides [INF] Loading classpath entry /home/steward/public_html/apps/foxw/packages/ext-theme-classic/src [INF] Loading classpath entry /home/steward/public_html/apps/foxw/packages/hank3/overrides [INF] Loading classpath entry /home/steward/public_html/apps/foxw/packages/hank3/src [INF] Loading classpath entry /home/steward/public_html/apps/foxw [INF] Loading classpath entry /home/steward/public_html/apps/foxw/Yap/app [WRN] C1000: Rhino Parse Warning (Trailing comma is not legal in an ECMA-262 object initializer => ]);) -- /home/steward/public_html/apps/foxw/Yap/sass/example/render.js:759 [ERR] [ERR] BUILD FAILED [ERR] com.sencha.exceptions.ExParse: Failed parsing /home/steward/public_html/apps/foxw/build/Yap/production/all-classes.js [ERR] [ERR] Total time: 8 seconds [ERR] com.sencha.exceptions.ExParse: Failed parsing /home/steward/public_html/apps/foxw/build/Yap/production/all-classes.js
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10 Apr 2013 5:02 AM #4I haven't seen it throw that error wrongly. You can try to add in the verbose flag to get more information.
What I hoped for was an error message that would lead me back to my source.
Initial attempts to "add in the verbose flag" are failing. Command line, Ant build step, config file...?
That is used to produce image slices for IE to support rounded corners and background gradients. If you load sass/example/theme.html in Chrome do you get any better error messages?
I have this in secha.cfg
#dsm 4 apr 13 skip.sass=true skip.slice=true skip.theme=true
But I will struggle with them for a few hours and see if I can piece together what you are suggesting.
Because otherwise the only recourse I can think of is to create a new project and add all the files in one by one, rebuilding after each.
I don't want to debug that way!
Ok I find the example . The error message doesn't help off the bat...
"generateSlicerManifest is not defined"
7 Jun 2013 1:13 AM #5
I got the same problem here
after I run Sencha Package Build, theme generated complete. Then on FireFox browser, I navigate to htt p://localhost/my-workspace/packages/my-theme/build/example/theme.html and got generateSlicerManifest is not defined on FireBug.Sorry for my bad English.
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i get the same error!
any updates on this ?
3 Apr 2014 4:11 AM #7
I had the same error.
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. Sorry l missed "our birthday, old gifl. 'l1be' (l)ld
Lady· of Mendocino Avenue was 120 yealrs 1old
The Press Democrat. or .PRE:SS demO<"rat! ~$~ we
now can her, was born October 22~ 1857. I~r' nf,~all.
y. her maiden name was De~·m· ocr at. Tb~ ntJ).tna
Democrat. She didn't marry' The Evemng P1~S
until 1897.
It's a mathematical fact that The Pr~sst Delmo_
srat: in all its forms, has published s~vtiral. illllon
'"h~ws stories in its long life. Som~e of tb mdare
more exciting than others. The big stori s l~re
easy to recount. Some are adventure sto -~~·flood~,
a couple of killer_ ear.th~l.t.a~~s. llla~u~ }~·
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War in Sonoma County. land elaim disputfs. !rtbe
coming of the railroad. the Golden GatJer;;.bri~~ge.
Coyote Dam.
The big stories. put aU together. make 1~ur
history - and you mustn't e\fer diS("ount al nfiwspaper~
s importance for just that reason.
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tnPir~!it ht$0tory too Not $() drarRUllhr ~map:5 a$l•IH,
. Copyright The Press Democrat
October 23, 1977
rol'l of dr,ums that precedes tlhe opening of a
bridge~ ltut the Uttle stor.ies,. t~e. ~~~ds, tucked'. in
betw_een the Big News~ certatnlrr·. ~itU u~ . a great
. d~ abou·t changes in attitude • · auciaJ •. customs~
'a nd the intellectual life of Sonom · .Qount~ over the . . .
past 120 years.
. Also, i.t"s the little storie.s tha~ a.~lthe!·m·o s·t.. f~n.
. The Democrat started out a 'w ... le l .t folkster
than it is today. The first issutl carri ' a Jront
page poem called ''The Balla~ o~ th Rain.''
(Mavbe .if we were folksier. it1 woiuld rain?) a
mel~ramatic fiction piece call~i ~'+:A Bachleor's -!~::~~~e~~~6W:~~.!otr a~":.~~: ;;:n;::!
. the blessing at the family dinne t!IJJ:)Ie l1n hts father's
··No," said the lad. HI don"t n• th" looks of
them taters ....
Thus was joumal:istic endeav~r tal,rlyl J.a~nched
in the toddling ~tbree-year·old'l llo.wn or Santa
immt 'in .Feti!Mtlti•fl.,fll~~1n fl.lr! il,ck
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page readers,. r~~ . c_. ~~ ... 1
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at 5211. Fdtlrth Street, t$ Q8 ol ,the best in·
fo~med meni on: the ~evelo·• .=. epn·ll.lo f tbe ..b rao.e h. of
se~enee be haS ~ollO'Wed fot.;O .• 1i ,balf a century. n
The stories extdls dte e .. ·. · · e virtues of Dr.
West· for five :Paragraph~~. The: II onlt unanswered
question is what itt the wbrld1 ttl~ ele~tric belt was
for-!, _
FROM THE "little--st&!!~~ -ltiam about the
tobacco-curing industry,~in ~~ ! erqale,: about a
town to be built ''near Occi e. I'' called .Monte
~ ·about the. · · · . &moma -gm,
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that weighed l to pounds in l~L (Ht was later a
candidate for U.S. Secreta~f ofii!-.!Agr culture but. I
don't suppose the squash had fall~lbe ring on that.)
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.on the downtowa streets Wt .· news.
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for picking a cigar butt off be i tr et. <I should
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guest went to a grand . mas~ue '. , ~e I baH as. The
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this. paper. He11. stybsh attire ~lf*S rfcetved~.wtth
eclat." (Better. "eclat" thaii5r:S l~ghted match.) ·
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"truths" buried in the crum . r . , y~ll~eddolds
of the birthday gbjl's petticoa . )laY~ they:_aren. 't
"truths." M aytjje we didn't ea .. !~Y need to, ~ow
any of them; but, beca-use so ·*, . . I y ltook the ;tune
to write them dawn, we've go .'I lm ~ow. Forever.
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