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In his University of Colorado Boulder office, David Shneer gestured to material on his table. A rare book there documents the sketches of the building of Auschwitz. Only five copies exist, and the Mazal Holocaust Collection, recently donated to the university, has two.
"The actual operations of genocide, we're going to learn a lot more about that," said Shneer, the Louis P. Singer Chair in Jewish History and director of the Program in Jewish Studies.
The donation of the Mazal Holocaust Collection to CU-Boulder is indisputably significant. This is a collection that initially grew from a man's passion to document the falsehoods spread by Holocaust deniers, and it has been used in court for just that purpose.
It is the life work of Harry W. Mazal, a retired businessman from Mexico City who made San Antonio, Texas, his home and became an internationally recognized Holocaust collector and researcher.
But Shneer says the Mazal Holocaust Collection is broader than its name suggests. It documents a story of "darkness to light, death to life" in post-Holocaust America and Europe.
Considered the world's largest privately owned Holocaust archive and the most significant U.S. collection outside of the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., the collection comprises more than 20,000 books and 500,000 documents, pamphlets, photographs and other materials, including original transcripts of the Nuremburg trials. Five thousand of the volumes are limited editions and rare books.
As a historian of the 20th century Jewish experience, though, Shneer is especially interested in how people remember World War II. "This archive will now become one of the premier places to study memory, especially in places behind the former Iron Curtain, in, say, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and even the Soviet Union, where our American research libraries are actually quite poor."
CU-Boulder now has rare volumes from the late 1940s of survivors living in Poland and writing in Yiddish about their experiences during the Holocaust.
"I am constantly blown away by the materials that are in our archive," Shneer said. On his desk sat aerial photographs of Birkenau and Auschwitz taken in 1944 "documenting how the world saw what was going on."
"Holocaust denial is not something one can rationally argue with, because it's not really an argument based in reason. It's an argument based in particular prejudices like anti-Semitism."
Yet Holocaust denial persists, even in college classrooms, Shneer noted. "The archive here at CU-Boulder is now going to be a key source for arguing against that kind of contemporary Holocaust denial.
"This archive is obviously primarily about the Holocaust because that's what the collector's initial impetus was," Shneer said. "But it was very clear to me when I was down in San Antonio that he was not just interested in proving that the Holocaust happened. He was also interested in the fact of Jews' survival."
The documents CU-Boulder will preserve with this archive are broader than a repository of evidence further documenting the historical truth of the Holocaust, Shneer said.
Taken as a whole, the collection is a "darkness-to-light, death-to-life story," he said. In some respects it differs from collections such as Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, the world's largest archive dedicated to the Holocaust.
"The story of 'darkness to light' at Yad Vashem is from the Holocaust to the founding of a nation-state for Jews. From a place of powerlessness in Europe, Jews move to a place of power in the state of Israel," Shneer said.
"And that's not untrue. It's just not the story we want to tell here," he said. "The story we want to tell here is what happens to Judaism, the culture and life that Jews maintained after the war and Holocaust."
While critically important, the material on the Holocaust is one part of the story the archives tell, he said. "The story we tell here at the University of Colorado is that after the Holocaust, the United States became the primary, global generator of forward thinking forms of Jewish culture, life and religion."
Shneer acknowledges that this assessment is provocative. "It's effectively what one might call a post-Zionist argument. If a Zionist argument suggests that Jews needed a nation-state to protect Jews, a post-Zionist statement doesn't say that's not true, but it says that's not the only truth to be told."
Quoting Rabbi Irwin Kula, from Clal in New York, credited with being an intellectual inspiration for the ideas underpinning the archive, Shneer said now that the world is generally safe for Jews, it's time to stop worrying about the continuity of the people and time to start worrying about the purpose of the people. "What do this group of people who call themselves Jews have to contribute to the global conversation? We're telling that story here at CU."
Shneer puts it another way. "If Jews, for the previous 2,000 years, have been an embattled minority, and Judaism therefore took shape in that social reality of being an embattled minority in the Mediterranean and Europe, what happens—and this is what's so radical—when Jews are no longer an embattled minority, like in the United States?"
The Mazal Holocaust Collection will be housed within the Archive of Post-Holocaust American Judaism. This archive examines Judaism and the Jewish experience through the lens of religious, cultural and social movements in America, as well as various philosophies of Judaism and Jewish organizations from the late 1940s to the present.
The Archive of Post-Holocaust American Judaism includes the most complete collection of materials documenting the Jewish Renewal movement, including the personal collection from the movement's founder, Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, as well as rabbis Arthur Waskow, Leah Novick and Michael Lerner, who also is editor of Tikkun magazine. Together these collections describe the revitalization of Judaism in America since World War II, emphasizing the cultural, ethical and mystical traditions in Judaism and Jewish culture that blossomed in the postwar United States.
Noted scholar Shaul Magid, professor of religious studies and the Jay and Jeannie Schottenstein Chair in Modern Judaism at Indiana University Bloomington, who recently served as the Bender Visiting Scholar at CU, champions ideas demonstrated by CU-Boulder's Archive of Post-Holocaust American Judaism in his most recent book on American Post-Judaism.
"One of Harry's missions in life was education," said daughter Aimee Mazal Skillin of Lone Tree, Colo. "The fact that CU has the resources to make these archives available to students and scholars alike promotes education of the Holocaust. We have no doubt that Harry is smiling from above and are grateful that his collection will live on and continue to educate."


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STEUBENVILLE - The city's planning and zoning commission delayed a decision Monday night on increasing building permit fees until the January meeting after commission members expressed concerns about the proposed increase.
"We need examples for contractors to use when they are talking to a client. I'm not sold on charging a permit fee on top of a plan review fee for commercial construction. I would like to wait until we have examples, and I would also like to get building permit fees from other communities for comparison. And I would like to wait on making a decision until the full board is here," said commission member Eric Exley.
Commission members Bill Hendricks and Teresa DiCarlantonio also expressed concerns about the increase.
"Maybe we could look at gradually increasing the fees over a two- or three-year period. I don't want to discourage anyone from building in the city," noted Hendricks.
According to Urban Projects Director Chris Petrossi, the city's current building permit fees date back to 1965.
"We looked at what the fees would be today with the annual inflation rate and then cut the proposed fees in half at that point. We took that proposal to a five-member construction advisory committee and the general consensus was to proceed with the new fees. We can't continue charging 1965 building permit fees," Petrossi told the commission members.
In other business, Petrossi announced X-Treme Demolition of Wellsville has been awarded the demolition bids to take down the former Safari Lounge and an adjacent former apartment building on North Eighth Street.
Petrossi said X-Treme Demolition was the low bidder at $28,000. RSV Inc. of Steubenville also expressed interest in the project with a $58,000 bid.
"The second round of 2013 demolitions are out for bid now, including 615 N. Eleventh St., 625 N. Eleventh St., 1217 Claire St., 912 Main St., 914 Main St., 916 Main St., 1027 A Wilson Ave. and 1027 B Wilson Ave., Bids for those projects will be opened Dec. 12," said Petrossi.
The commission requested the City Council sunshine legislation next week advertise for demolition bids for fire damaged structures at 1409 State St., 711 N. Seventh St., 235 N. Eighth St., 312 Mears Ave. and 523 Maxwell Ave.
The commission also requested council introduce legislation at next week's meeting to approve the reprogramming of Community Development Block Grant funds.
"As you are aware I have stressed the need to expend CDBG funds as quickly as possible. This includes everything from administration to choosing not to fund slow moving projects even though they may be eligible and worthwhile endeavors. This year the city was over the annual grant amount still available 60 days before the new program year date. This is primarily due to the slow moving nature of housing rehabilitation projects," cited Petrossi.
"I am proposing to reprogram from housing rehabilitation to code enforcement, street improvements and demolitions. A public hearing will be scheduled for the Jan. 7 meeting to move forward with the reprogramming proposal and the commission will then need to consider asking for legislation from City Council," added Petrossi.
"If we proceed with this we will move one rehabilitation staff member to property maintenance code enforcement," he noted.
Petrossi also reviewed the city's second program year Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report.
"As of Sept. 30, 2012, the city had spent $793,626.42 in CDBG funds for affordable housing, community development and economic development activities and assisted seven households in carrying out housing-related activities and completed 15 demolitions," announced Petrossi.


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In a recent column that he penned for Government Computer News, Michael Daconta, the chief technology officer at Accelerated Information Management and former metadata program manager at the Department of Homeland Security, discussed "rogue applications" being developed on Microsoft Access within government agency divisions. He also discussed the headache that they've become for the enterprise level IT departments.
Michael's argument is interesting. He states that the ease of Access programming is driving divisional IT staff to create applications to help them reach their missions. These applications, however, are not necessarily scalable across the entire agency and often impede universal management and oversight from the enterprise level.
What's also interesting, this article was written November 9th of this year. Not years ago. I honestly disagree with Michael on many of his points, due in large part with the proliferation of cloud computing and the quickly shifting federal IT landscape.
Enterprise level IT applications have large and wide-reaching implications for organizations. I compare them to aircraft carriers – they are responsible for a large pre-chartered area, house and protect large full time crews and have a lengthy but necessary supply chain. They also take a long time to start moving and are even harder to turn once they get going. This makes it critical that divisional IT shops that represent a mission, line of business or discreet operation create applications that are smaller and designed to help their particular group accomplish their tasking.
Pacing, innovation and agility comes from mission teams, not core IT. And that's not a bad thing. The core enterprise IT department is there to put security and other infrastructure in place that allows this innovation at the divisional level.
What's driving the creation of these "rogue applications" today is small shops embracing cloud computing. This turn to the cloud is because they don't have large budgets. Also, they don't want to go through the cumbersome approval channels and deal with government bureaucracy. The cloud enables this application creation without a lot of cost or red tape.
What's even more important, if the larger enterprise IT department sees value in these applications and it comes time to scale them across the entire agency, the cloud makes it easy and seamless.
Also, core applications aren't made on Access anymore. The new applications being constructed in divisional IT departments are true "N-tier" Web applications with data housed in SQL, MySQL, NoSQL and object based repositories. Many are premised on new rapid development frameworks like Spring, Heroku, Ruby and Groovy. This is because distributed IT enterprises have distributed application demands, which Web applications meet.
In today's federal government, IT needs to move at a business or mission pace. Agility, flexibility, cost and scalability are beyond benefits, they're essential. The development of these "rogue applications" is simply enabling the divisions of federal agencies to accomplish their missions faster and more effectively.
These "rogue applications" aren't problems because of a lack of oversight and scalability. Since they're being developed in the cloud, they are easily scalable and easily overseen by core IT. If they're being built the right way, there's no reason for the process to be isolated. These new applications are scalable, Web-sharable and Web-enabled, which is a byproduct of the new development frameworks and cloud computing. If your IT department and development team is doing it the old way, fire them and hire a new one.
The fact is, "rogue applications" aren't the evil villains that Michael makes them out to be. In today's government IT landscape, enterprise-level IT is too slow and not agile enough to help create the applications and tools needed for small divisions of agencies to better accomplish their missions. "Rogue applications" are essential in the government doing its job faster, more effectively and with increased efficiency, and the cloud is enabling them.
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Thrifty Finds That You Have Never Met.
Man I hope you guys follow me on Instagram, those people get ALL the good secrets. Here is a story. I dropped my phone and cracked my screen a few weeks ago (I have insurance, its all good.) I have been meaning to take it in and just haven't made time. Well this morning Dyl dropped it again on Ivie's Faux Bois Concrete Floor and massacred it. Like it was so sharp I lost about 5 layers of skin just sliding open my lock screen…as a matter of fact, I don't know if I have a fingerprint on my right thumb anymore.
So as I was backing up my phone and downloading everything off of it in preparation to kiss it farewell, I was going through all of my pics and there are a TON of great things that I haven't shared over here on the blog.
So lets catch up shall we?
Lets begin with this metal cobalt card catalog. I found it for $25, and it was DIRTY. It must have been sitting outside with all of the 15,394 drawers open because they were FULL of cotton fluff from cottonwood trees. It was not fun for this allergy infested mama. But I mean, I would totally take cotton fluff over spiders. So I should be counting my blessings.
Its the perfect width for the spot underneath my giant shelf and thrift store art.
I currently have this freakish obsession with metal chair/stools. They make my spray paint covered heart sing. These were all around $8.00 each
And I am pretty sure that I have not properly introduced you to my new dining room chairs. They were the score of the century, I grabbed 7 for $120 total. These ones that are identical, retail for a meager $850 PER CHAIR. (Insert Carlton happy dance here.) They are getting a quick fabric swap (tutorial coming soon!) and then moving into my dining area.
Quite a few months ago a local hotel cleaned house and gave everything to ReStore. I found 3 of these vintage hairpin end tables for $8.00 each and I wish I would have gotten more. They go anywhere and work with anything. So congrats to the St. George ladies that also bought some (and if you want to sell me a few, hook a sistah up!)
Hope you guys have a fantastic Tuesday!!
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JAN ELIASSON, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, will be speaking on "Strengthening Peace, Development and Human Rights through the Rule of Law."
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On 2 March 2012, Ambassador Jan Eliasson was appointed Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. He took office as Deputy Secretary-General on 1 July 2012.
Ambassador Eliasson was from 2007-2008 the Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for Darfur. Prior to this, Jan Eliasson served as President of the 60th session of the UN General Assembly. He was Sweden's Ambassador to the US from September 2000 until July 2005. In March 2006, Mr. Eliasson was appointed Foreign Minister of Sweden and served in this capacity until the elections in the fall of 2006.
Ambassador Eliasson served from 1994 to 2000 as State Secretary for Foreign Affairs, a key position in formulating and implementing Swedish foreign policy. He was Sweden's Ambassador to the UN in New York 1988-92, and also served as the Secretary-General's Personal Representative for Iran/Iraq.
Mr. Eliasson was the first UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and was involved in operations in Africa and the Balkans. He took initiatives on landmines, conflict prevention and humanitarian action. 1980-1986, Mr. Eliasson was part of the UN mediation missions in the war between Iran and Iraq, headed by former Prime Minister Olof Palme. In 1993-94 Mr. Eliasson served as mediator in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). He has been a Visiting Professor at Uppsala University and Gothenburg University in Sweden, lecturing on mediation, conflict resolution and UN reform. Ambassador Eliasson has had diplomatic postings in New York (twice) Paris, Bonn, Washington (twice) and Harare, where he opened the first Swedish Embassy in 1980.
Prior to his appointment as Deputy Secretary-General, Jan Eliasson also served as Chair of Water Aid/Sweden and a member of the UN Secretary-General's Advocacy Group of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
Mr. Eliasson graduated from the Swedish Naval Academy in 1962 and earned a Master's degree in Economics and Business Administration in 1965. He was born on 17 September 1940 in Goteborg, Sweden. He is married with 3 children.
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Can you recommend a great intermediate cookbook?
I have a friend who wants to learn how to be a better cook. She's a bright, mid-20s professional. Can you recommend a great "teaching" cookbook?
Also, does anyone have additional recommendations for South American cuisine? I'm especially interested in Argentina and surrounding nations.
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Alton Brown's books are great for learning the techniques and the science behind them. And he's a funny guy.
Americas' Test Kitchen Cookbook every recipe turns out perfect. They recommend what brands to use. Every thing is tested you can't go wrong. They explain why they use each tecnique.
Link : http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_1_30?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=americas+test+kitchen+cookbook&sprefix=americas+test+kitchen+cookbook
Both @oheifearnain and @durkzilla's recommendations are excellent.
In fact the approach taken by both ATK - Cook's Illustrated and Alton Brown are similar in that they explain the 'whys' of technique, ingredients and equipment which for me at least makes it easier to translate them from one application to another. Both do occasionally go a little AR-overboard but they also identify wonderful shortcuts.
The ATK Family Cookbook is my overall favorite as it has a very broad range of dishes along with how-to illustrations.
The PBS TV shows from Cook's Illustrated ("America's Test Kitchen" and "Cook's Country") are very informative too. And if you DVR and skip the show sponsor mentions they are only around 20 - 25 minutes long. Sometimes a picture really is worth a thousand words after all.
CI also has magazines and just excellent subscription-based web sites, too.
Did I mention that I like Cook's Illustrated? ;-)
I really like "How to Cook Everything" by Mark Bittman, who writes The Minimalist food column for the New York Times. Check here http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/mark_bittman/index.html for a little bio on him, plus info on other books he's written and links to some of his columns.
My house decided to blow a pipe and freeze (literally, it was in ice) in January 2010, and I've been without a kitchen since. A few weeks earlier, I bought this book: http://www.amazon.com/Ratio-Simple-Behind-Everyday-Cooking/dp/1416571728/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1288844792&sr=8-1
I can't speak to how good the book is in practice (since my kitchen is almost, but not quite done) -- but I like the principle of it. As opposed to the other cookbooks, it focus on teaching improvisational cooking. It provides a very basic recipe and suggests variations on the recipe. Seems appropriate for an intermediate chef to me.
I would never consider a kitchen complete with a copy of the Joy of Cooking.
The Better Homes and Gardens Cookbook. This is my go-to cookbook for just about anything. It also has charts for meat cook times, some helpful substitutions, and other handy bits of information. It now comes in a ring binder so it'll lie flat and you can remove single pages to hang up while you're cooking. It doesn't have the science-y stuff that Alton's books has, but it has a lot of good basic recipes (like scrambled eggs!) and more advanced type stuff that I've never heard of before. I love this cookbook.
I really love Ina Garten, I have the following cookbook really simple and tasty recipes :-)
Seconded - The Joy of Cooking. It is a great all-purpose cookbook, it explains the how's and why's, and covers everything from beginner level dishes to pretty complex cuisine.
LOL why BUY a cookbook??
There are SO many places on the internet to get good recipies?
This is my favorite-Bed and Breakfast cookbook-LOL online that it
You can even buyhard copies here if you want to
Food network also has a nice website to check out Alton Brown and Everyone else from the network-
LOL to many good questions but I have to get back to work or I will have to fire myself!
@coyhaven you are right foodnetwork is a really great website I use it all the time it has a wide rang of recipes from easy to more difficult. Def worth checking out!
My all-time favorite cookbook: Unplugged Kitchen by Viana la Place
Recipes and stories, delicious and interesting!
You cannot go wrong with The Joy of Cooking. Still edited by the family and has received a modern update, it's my go-to resource for everything. I also love Cuisine at Home, as a periodical.
My next purchase will be Michael Ruhlman's Ratio:
Another vote for The Joy of Cooking. Hands down, one of the best, if not the best cookbook ever made.
Wow, you guys and gals are awesome! Thank you so, so much. This is supposed to be a gift so hopefully she doesn't see this thread! Just to repeat: Does anyone have any recommendations on the foreign cuisine I mentioned? That was more of a shot in the dark, I'll admit. And even without it, this has been more than I could have hoped for. Seriously. Woot on, wooters.
@mrbrightside: This is the most highly rated and bestselling Argentine cookbook on Amazon (besides a grilling-only one): http://www.amazon.com/Argentina-Cooks-Treasured-Hippocrene-Cookbook/dp/0781809975/
And here is a general Latin American cookbook: http://www.amazon.com/South-American-Table-Authentic-Patagonia/dp/1558322485/
Meta Givens, "Modern Encyclopedia of Cooking" from the 50s. Get both volumes on Ebay. That is...if you're seriously looking for a real cookbook...
Michael Ruhlman's Ratio is also very good and available in paperback. All the recipes are simple ratios of ingredients. Its very easy to follow and since every is a simple ratio, you don't need to reference it often.
Hmm how did I miss the part about this being a gift LOL I must not have had enough coffee for brain to connect-Sorry about that-LOL
Years ago before all the fuss about Jeff Smith-AKA The Frugal Gormet on PBS I bought a few of his cookbooks out of the goodwill. He went to the different countries and studied how they made food and adapted a lot of it for his show. His cookbooks are informative and funny(He and Alton Brown would get along cause they must talk the entire time they make food)
Since life has turned to being ECO friendly take a visit to your local Goodwill and puruse the cook books there,I have found good Amish, Italian, Greek and some other interesting cookbooks-This may sound "gross" but find a well used, well cooked on book-stained and messed up-those are normally the good ones(that is how you can tell which one my mom uses LOL)-write down the title and try to find a good clean one on ebay(take hand sanitzer with you to bathe in after I have been through the Goodwill)
Wasn't there a deals.woot cookbook that was being compiled? As a slight but related threadjack... If we get it pulled together, it might be nice. I had a decent feijoada recipe (which I've lost, subsequently, but can probably figure out how to recreate) -- it's Brazilian (which is South American, but not, obviously, Argentinian) -- and goes well with a nice Caipirinha.
great cook book for anyone who might be perusing this site. cooking for geeks: real science, great hacks and good food.
@chaosamoeba: The recipe book is online at http://dealswootrecipes.blogspot.com/.
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Please note: The Word Detective has suspended publication both on the web and via email due to the reasons explained in this post.
This page obviously needs to be rewritten, but, for the time being, all the PayPal links still work to contribute to the site's upkeep and my medical bills. You just won't be receiving TWD by email.
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A Modest Proposal
The past few years have been very exciting for all of us here at the palatial (but tasteful) Word Detective World Headquarters. TWD (as we call it, among other things) has been featured by The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, The Jerusalem Post, USA Today, CBS Radio, BBC Radio, The Washington Post, numerous less prominent but no doubt worthwhile newspapers and magazines, several Pentagon press briefings and one mysterious transmission traced to the vicinity of the Crab Nebula.
TWD's "circulation" on the web has also skyrocketed. We are visited, on average, by about 10,000 readers per week, and we receive about 100 questions every week.
Heady times hereabouts. Naturally, what with all the accolades and awards rolling in, we popped down to Woolworths and bought the cats new rhinestone collars and then had the oil changed in the Backmobile (so-called because you pray it gets you back from where you've gone in it).
(OK, I'm lying, Woolworths went belly-up ages ago, and if you tried to put collars on those cats you'd get a bite that wouldn't heal 'til sometime next year, but the part about the car is true.)
So anyway, then we sat back and waited for the big bucks to roll in.
We're still waiting.
It turns out (maybe y'all already knew this, but it came as a nasty shock to me) that it is perfectly possible to get semi-famous in the USA and not get rich. Not even a little. Not even pay-the-mortgage-on-time rich, or go-on-a-vacation-nowhere-near-where-your-relatives-live rich.
This turns out to hold true even after you've written four books and had them excerpted in places like the Washington Post, Reader's Digest and the Harvard Business Review. Even after the New York Times and the BBC list you as a "valuable internet resource." Even after more than 2,000 other websites, many of them at major universities, link to yours.
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First, add your name to the bottom of this letter and mail 50 copies to your friends.
Hahaha. Just kidding. That's far too mild.
I have decided that what really would help around here is a class system. What TWD-land really needs is a privileged class, a group of readers who get something that the other readers don't, something they can dangle above the heads of less fortunate readers, something they can hoard and count and admire all by themselves on cold winter nights when the wind moans and the wolves howl and the un-special readers come scratching at the door begging for just a scrap of the special thing it is that they don't have.
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I could probably jazz up this plan by cutting back on the number of columns that I post for free on the web and offering them only to paying subscribers (as several websites do), but I really don't want to do that. Subscribers will get the column a few weeks early, but if you're the patient type, you will still see them all on the web eventually.
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5 Dec 2012 11:46 PM #1
put an image in extjs grid column header based on applyfilter
My task is to put an image on the extjs grid column header whenever filter is applied in that column. When filter is cleared remove the image from the grid column header.
How to achieve this in extjs 3?
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A Himalayan trek is a metaphor for life itself. On a trek we are searching for a majestic peak or high plateau, a beautiful stream or waterfall, or a shrine or monastery. The destination or goal serves to quench our thirst, our desire. It provides a short respite from the rigors of the trail, a brief "One Night's Shelter." Then we have to descend, move on. We cannot stay there.
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The American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia also said in a statement: "If the park rules allow people to wade and swim in the river, then they must allow baptisms in the river."
The ACLU doesn't want to be clearly pinned as anti-Christian (thinking men know better). Thus they will pretend to defend the first amendment rights of a Christian from time to time.Joe Zollars
There's a difference between being "anti-Christianity" and "anti-everything".
So basically you guys don't think the ACLU would get involved if it were a christian church praying in the name of jesus over loud speakers forcing others to hear?
This is such an old issue.
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A professor in my grad program gave me the impression that random graphs are an interesting and as of yet largely unexplored area of mathematics (feel free to correct this impression if I'm wrong). I've found the Erdos and Renyi papers from the late 50s/early 60s and nabbed a copy of Random Graphs by Bollobas. I was wondering if anyone could recommend references/reading materials regarding the current state of research in this area, something perhaps more recent than these.
Update: I appreciate the responses and plan to read the information linked. To close out the question,I'm going to (semi-arbitrarily) pick the response with more references in it. Thanks everybody!


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The 6 Most Inexplicable Cartoon Adaptations Ever
Sometimes it makes sense to spin-off a live-action property into a cartoon. Like ALF: The Animated Series, which let audiences learn about Alf's life on Planet Melmac and meet all of his friends before they are killed when the planet is destroyed. But sometimes a TV show or character is dumped into the laps of some cartoon writers who are told, "Just make up whatever shit pops into your head. Kids are stupid." And thus you wind up with ...
#6. Q*Bert
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The video game character Q*Bert came from a time when games were designed to be less complicated than the mind of the average Nickelback fan, and yet somehow more addictive than a fictional drug we just made up that's 10 times more addictive than heroin. The game, like most games of the era, has no story to speak of. Q*Bert is a little orange monster thing who hops around on squares. It's basically a puzzle game.
There are also some villains, including snakes, balls and other random shapes, that Q*Bert has to avoid. But the game can be described simply as "a little orange guy jumps on some blocks to make them change color." Or cubes. Oh, we just got it. Q*Bert. Cube*bert.
The Baffling Cartoon:
The Q*Bert cartoon series was sandwiched into the Saturday Morning Supercade, a super-stuffed block of video game themed cartoons, in between comparatively normal cartoons like Donkey Kong, Frogger and Donkey Kong, Jr. But then came the whirlwind of non sequiturs that was Q*Bert. The 30 second theme song illustrates the insanity.
"Wait, didn't I see you in Zelda?"
The Q*Berts are aliens(?) apparently. They live in what looks like a planet trapped in the 1950s, what with the hot rods, Greasers and letterman jackets. Then, suddenly, it's the '80s. There are surfers. A mermaid Q*Bert. Suddenly, dinosaurs. Cave-Q*Berts.
Robots. A Frankenstein. Futuristic '80s musical instruments. And then another '50s soda shop, complete with sock hop. Finally, Q*Bert flies into frame on a flying disc.
He looks as stoned as the people who bought this show on DVD.
The series actually features everything the video game did: boxes, Q*Bert, evil snakes. It just adds 40 extra levels of insanity. The show takes place in the town of Q*Burg and features the mild-mannered Q*Bert and his Valspeak-talking girlfriend Q*Tee. The writers decided to take advantage of the '50s nostalgia that permeated the '80s, giving the characters a 1980s sensibility in a 1950s sci-fi city, which gives it a double-whammy of '80s/'50s nostalgia when viewed today.
This cartoon was made two years before Back to the Future combined the '50s and '80s.
Q*Bert goes to Q*Burg High School, hangs out at the Q*Burg mall, listens to Q*Wave music and is generally pretty boring considering he's a furry space alien. His adventures are as diverse as looking for a lost dog, dealing with a robot with low self-confidence or telling the story of a group of cave Q*Berts by reading their crude cave drawings. Like any normal teenager living in the '50s (?) would do.
The cartoon's villains are the snakes from the game, but instead of just being snakes, which are already impossibly terrifying and require no justification for being murderous sons of bitches, they are now a gang of leather jacket wearing, Fonzie-style greasers, who do evil things like compete against Q*Bert in races or brainwash Q*Bert's pal Q*Ball after he turns into a monster after drinking a potion.
It's like if Roger Waters wrote a version of Grease.
So if you've ever wondered what American Graffiti would be like if the characters listened to Duran Duran, Richard Dreyfuss was a fuzzy pint-sized alien and sometimes there were robots, then this is the cartoon series you've been waiting for.
#5. Godzilla
Since Godzilla exploded into Japanese cinema in 1956, the lovable prehistoric terror-machine has become as much a symbol of Japanese culture as cherry blossoms, samurai and grown men buying the used panties of school girls out of vending machines. Godzilla has survived a number of different film interpretations, including that one in Manhattan with Hank Azaria and Ferris Bueller.
Godzilla just seems wrong without awful dubbing and confused Japanese extras.
The Baffling Cartoon:
In 1978, Hanna-Barbera produced an animated series starring the titular radioactive dinosaur. The series theme sums it up well:
The music swells up, with a bombastic singer proclaiming, "Up from the depths, 30 stories high!" as Godzilla, a terrifying prehistoric monster who can wreck untold destruction unto humanity, rises from the waves. He roars and then breathes fire so powerful that it incinerates the opening title. This is one dinosaur you don't want to fuck with.
"You DICK! That sign cost more than your car!
We then cut to Godzilla's sidekick and nephew, Godzooky. The music plays light and bouncy as the whimsical little lizard flies clumsily through the air and crash-lands in an adorable way onto the deck of the ship. As the music vaudevilles it up, Godzooky rolls around and looks into the camera with his doe eyes. This is one dinosaur you may want to fuck with.
We then cut back to a nightmarish hellscape of scorching flames. What the hell is this series? It seems pretty clear that the producers wanted to appeal to children at the same it was scaring the living shit out of them.
"No, mommy, I'll be good! Don't make me watch it!"
Although Godzilla's name is the title, the series actually stars the soft, squishy human crew of the Calico, a research vessel that runs into giant monsters every week for some reason. Let us reiterate: This is not a ship that is researching monsters, but a regular research ship that coincidentally runs into monsters every episode. Whenever this happens, they summon Godzilla, who is apparently their slave.
He rises from the ocean, kills the other monster and disappears, all while Godzooky flies around like someone who is blind, drunk and a moron, messing things up in his adorably dangerous way.
"Godzilla's word of the day is ... 'Bukkake.'"
We should also probably mention that the people look nothing like the people in any of the Godzilla movies, which is to say that there are no Asian people in the cartoon. It's also one of those scientific missions that seem to pop up in comics and cartoons shows all the time in the '70s, when it was OK to bring a young child onto a dangerous mission.
"You shut your mouth and do as you're told, and you might see your mother again."
In this case, it's a towheaded young moppet named Pete, who hangs around on all the missions, bossing around Godzooky and treating him like a dumb pet. Although it's really all just a matter of time until Godzooky realizes that he is a centuries-old reptilian monster and could easily kill and eat all of the other crew members with zero consequences.
"That's a good boy, Godzoo- OH MY GOD, HE'S GOT MY ARM!"
#4. The Robonic Stooges
Ever since the first night they scrambled onto a vaudeville stage and started gouging each others' eyes out, The Three Stooges have proved the comedy constant that anytime three grown men have their heads banged together, it's going to be funny.
The Stooges have outlasted other comedy teams from the '30s and '40s because, even though people like the Marx Brothers or Laurel and Hardy have been more sophisticated, they lacked the blunt ultra-violence that makes the Three Stooges timeless. Although most of their success came with their series of theatrical shorts, the Stooges have appeared in a rich cornucopia of media, including feature-length films, stage shows, comic books and even cartoons.
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And then things got weird.
The Baffling Cartoon:
In the late 1970s, the Stooges were revived for the Hanna-Barbera series The Robonic Stooges. The cartoon finally answered the demand for a cartoon series that featured the Three Stooges re-imagined as crime-fighting robots who are also superheroes. And since in real life, the Three Stooges had all been dead for at least two years, there was the added, creepy subtext that maybe the robots had been constructed from the Stooges' reanimated corpses.
Keep your fingers crossed for a gritty reboot.
According to the series' first episode, "Invasion of the Incredible Giant Chicken," the Stooges were "built from the world's finest electronic parts" and "designed to be the world's most perfect electronic robots," although if that's the case, it's never fully explained why they were designed to look and act like famous knockabout comedians best known for almost killing themselves for our entertainment. The Stooges also have secret identities and a day job working in a junkyard. Why robots would need secret identities and a source of income is unclear, since they are robots and could probably just be shut off when they aren't being used.
Anyway, in each episode the Stooges fight supervillians (usually giant ones) through a series of comic misfortunes and bunglings, which makes sense since they're the Three Stooges.
Their shenanigans get to be so unbearable that, for comedy purposes, the Stooges are a constant thorn in the side to their employers, the Superhero Employment Agency. They frequently come close to firing them, even though they are robots who have been designed to act like famous comedians and not superheroes.


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I was trying to send files from machine A to machine B.
For that, I created a public-private key pair using
ssh-keygen -t rsa in machine A. Then I sent the
id_rsa.pub file to machine B and I added that to the
authorized_keys file there.
It was working fine while sending from machine A to B, I was not being prompted for the password.
While doing some other experiments with this I accidently deleted the
authorized_keys file. Now again when I started the above procedure its not working. How to recover that? I am also interested to know is it possible to send files both ways round without being prompted for password?


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Let $G$ and $H$ be permutation groups on the natural numbers such that the orbits of $G$ and $H$ are all finite. Suppose that for all $\pi \in Sym(\mathbb{N})$, there is some $N$ (depending on $\pi$) such that for all $n \ge N$, the ordered tuple $(\pi(1),\pi(2),\dots,\pi(n))$ has a larger orbit (by a fixed ratio) under $G$ than it has under $H$.
Can $G$ and $H$ be conjugate in $Sym(\mathbb{N})$?
Edit: Answer is 'yes' (see Jim Belk's comment below); indeed $G$ can be conjugate to proper subgroups of itself of finite index, which makes the size of tuple orbit property automatic.
But what if $G$ only has finitely many orbits of size $n$ for each $n \in \mathbb{N}$? This would at least ensure that $G$ cannot be conjugate to one of its own subgroups.
Edit 2: An example would need to have the following property:
There is a tuple $t$, such that for any tuple $u$ for which $G_u$ is contained in $G_t$, then the $G$-orbit of $u$ is larger than the $H$-orbit of $u$.
So for instance if we pick a tuple $u$ by saying 'choose a large number $K$, then choose from among the $K$-tuples with no repeats one with smallest possible $G$-orbit', then $G_u$ would not be contained in $G_t$ no matter how large $K$ is. I think this rules out examples where the tuple stabilisers of $G$ are totally ordered, for instance if $G$ is cyclic and all orbits have length a power of a fixed prime.


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The 5 Most Satisfying Tales of Payback
#2. Aaron Barr Learns What Happens When You Take on Anonymous
Aaron Barr was the CEO of an Internet security firm called HBGary Federal. Anonymous is a secretive (hence the name) group of Internet users who have no problem shutting down the CIA website if the situation calls for it. Seeing as how Aaron Barr's security firm works with the U.S. government on cybersecurity issues, he decided to conduct an "experiment" in which he would flex his cybersecurity muscles by rounding up actual names of Anonymous members using publicly available resources like Facebook and Twitter.
And yet, just Googling "Anonymous" would have given him enough information to predict what happened next.
Using fake aliases, he actually managed to sneak into forums that Anonymous users used and talked directly to some of the group's leaders. Timing events on the forums to events on Facebook and Twitter, Barr figured he had names for "about 90 percent of their leadership."
Now, he was head of a security firm and these were a bunch of hackers. It makes perfect sense. And, had he just quietly passed this information off to the FBI, who had been tracking Anonymous for months, we probably wouldn't even be talking about Aaron Barr right now. Hell, maybe some good might have been done.
Although several mask vendors would have gone out of business.
But no way was Barr going to let an achievement like this be ignored by the world at large, so he decided to have his work published in the Financial Times, effectively boasting about how much smarter he was than this group of rag-tag hackers.
Do we even need to tell you what happened next?
The Petty Revenge:
Anonymous was quick to act, publishing over 50,000 HBGary company emails, wiping out an entire terabyte of backups, taking down the entire HBGary website and locking everyone out of it by changing every password that could possibly be changed.
Oh, and for good measure, they also remotely wiped Barr's iPad.
"As long as we exist, you will never play Angry Birds again!"
Barr tried to go into the forums again and claim he was never planning on selling them out to the FBI, but Anonymous called his bullshit bluff when they pointed out that they had all his emails, including those between Barr and the FBI.
The president of HBGary Inc., Penny Leavy, went into the forums herself and asked what Anonymous wanted. Their answer was simple: Fire Barr and make him issue a public apology. Barr resigned, and his company's reputation was ruined. After all, their main line of business was freaking cybersecurity. In the end, not only did they fail to defend their website and private emails, but they also couldn't defend their booth at a cybersecurity show. Sad.
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This is like catching Big Brother rocking out to a Sex Pistols album.
#1. A Pilot Carries Out a Personal Vendetta in the Middle of a War
It was a bad day for 1st Lieutenant Harold Fisher. It was World War II and he was on his 20th bombing mission, coming back from Italy. His B-17 "Bonnie Sue" was barely flyable. Two engines were gone, and he was seriously considering ditching the plane. He had the crew throw everything out -- guns, ammo, flak jackets, anything that could lessen the weight of the aircraft, hoping to stay aloft long enough for a miracle.
"Toss the bombardier last!"
They got one -- a familiar American P-38 fighter came by to cover him. Fisher radioed him asking for assistance, and his comrade happily obliged and pulled alongside to escort him home. Everything was at last looking up.
Until a minute later, when Fisher was shot down by the very P-38 that was supposed to be covering him.
This was before enemy units glowed red on the mini-map.
Instead of an American pilot behind the controls, this particular P-38 was piloted by an Italian named Guido Rossi who had captured it on the ground. Fisher attempted a water landing with his aircraft and, as far as water landings go, it was pretty successful. Translation: Every single person on board wasn't killed. Fisher survived the emergency landing and was eventually rescued by the British.
His plane was dredged up, repaired and sent off to spend its retirement in Air Force One's harem.
As it turns out, Fisher wasn't Rossi's first or last victim, but would prove to be the one who would lead to his undoing.
The Petty Revenge:
Fisher went to his commander, Colonel Bill Hall, and asked permission to borrow an experimental YB-40 aircraft. A YB-40 was essentially a B-17 with the bombs taken out and a ridiculous amount of guns added.
The YB-40 "Flying Arsenal"
There were no YB-40s in Africa, so they had the Brits fly one out there, for the sole purpose of taking down Rossi. The Allies had essentially just condoned a private vendetta using experimental aircraft just to quell the hijinks of one Italian fighter pilot.
After hand-picking a crew, Fisher went out in search of Rossi, but the slimy bastard never showed. Meanwhile, Rossi was still off somewhere in his undercover plane, pulling his ruse and shooting down B-17s left and right.
Fisher wasn't going to give up. He pored over intelligence documents and found something interesting: Rossi's wife, Gina, was located behind friendly lines. Fisher quickly searched her out and found her. After seeing what she looked like, Fisher got a painter to paint a picture of her on his aircraft and put her name on it. All just so he could piss off Rossi even more when he shot him down.
Above: 1,000 percent more tasteful than the nose of Fisher's plane.
On the next bombing mission, Fisher was getting ready to become a pretend straggler again when he all of a sudden was shot and became an actual straggler. Who among us hasn't been there before? After ordering his crew to dump everything except for ammunition, they flew on. Soon enough a P-38 pulled up alongside, but they couldn't tell if it was Rossi or not. Thinking this time it was a legitimate P-38, he ordered ammunition dumped overboard as well, until a curious question came across the radio.
"Pretty girl, Gina. She from Constantine?"
Suddenly thrust back into reality, Fisher ordered his men to keep their ammunition and guns and carried on with his conversation with the P-38 pilot, steering the discussion toward cutesy stories about how nice it was to be straight up boning Mrs. Rossi.
"Enjoy the syphilis, Mr. Fascism."
This infuriated Rossi to the point that he flew far ahead of the bomber and attempted a suicidal head-on attack. Waiting until the last minute, Fisher ordered every gun on board his aircraft to fire on the P-38, which was literally shredded away around Rossi from the massive amount of gunfire.
Rossi was picked up by Allied Rescue crews and became a POW for the rest of the war. Meanwhile, Fisher was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, and his entire crew Air Medals for their incredibly hilarious revenge campaign against one Italian pilot.
It did wonders for the morale of the men Rossi hadn't already killed.
Which one of them actually ended up boning Mrs. Rossi while her husband was a POW is still unclear, so we're going to assume they all did.
For more tales of vengeance that are almost unbelievable, check out 7 Legendary Acts of Petty Revenge and 6 Historic Acts of Revenge That Put 'Kill Bill' to Shame.


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I have two different user lists. I need to compare the users and make sure they exist in both files. One is the passwd file, and another is a flat file for that has the usernames and other information that I can extract a sorted username list from.
This gives me a sorted list of the usernames:
cat /etc/passwd | cut --fields=1 | sort -k1.2
Is there a better way to do this number one, and number two how do I then compare it the other user list from the other file? If the user does not exist I will be adding it to the flat file.


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Tonight the United Way of Southern Kentucky recognized those who give to their organization and the community.
Almost 250 people reflected on a year that helped United Way surpass its fundraising goals and raise more than $1.7 million.
It's not just about the money. Many of these organizations donate their time too.
Fruit of the Loom was awarded the Live United award, and was one of the year's top givers.
"The United Way, rather than have to worry about where to put your money, you can just give it to the United Way and know there's going to be a lot of due diligence in making sure the money goes where it should be going."
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UAW - GM Corvette Assembly
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Less than 100
100 - 249
LORD Corporation
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Highest giving, per capita, participation and increases (giving, per capita, participation)
Housing Authority of Bowling Green
Kentucky Legal Aid
Give United Award (campaign of the year)
Highest giving, per capita, participation and increase from organizations employing:
Less than 100
Warren RECC
Logan Aluminum
Pacesetter Campaigns are defined as those organizations that increased in any two of the following areas during their United Way campaign: increase in corporate giving, increase in employee giving or increase in percentage of employee participation.
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Concurrent updates to non-synchronized
HashMap can obviously cause a livelock or other data corruptions; to avoid this, one should use the concurrent version or implement a synchronization mechanism.
Can concurrent calls to HashMap.get() change the state of the HashMap, like rehashing?
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Very often on this site people ask what background in math is needed to be able to understand quantum mechanics (based on a short search of this site). So that question is answered. However, I want to know what background in PHYSICS itself is needed for QM. I can hardly imagine that a mathematician with no/very little knowledge of physics would be able to grasp QM. So, what background in Physics is needed to be able to understand and appreciate QM to the max?
Nobody should ever venture into QM without a working knowledge of Hamiltonian Mechanics: the meaning of the Poisson brackets with the Hamiltonian has a natural extension in QM Ehrenfest's theorem. Understand classical Liouville's theorem, and you won't be puzzled by the uncertainty relations in QM. Working with the Least Action Principle will prepare your mind for the path integral formulation, although they are not the same thing. The meaning of the Hamiltonian itself...
Of course, electromagnetism and any other branch of physics will help but, compared to Hamiltonian Mechanics, it is secondary.
A solid understanding of the following is sufficient for much of elementary QM:
As you proceed to more advanced QM topics, you need more and more physics, ultimately everything.
A solid understanding of Classical Mechanics and Classical Thermodynamics would be adequate.
This might be a restatement of some of the answers already given. In my opinion you can look at physics as a simple video game: completing a level unlocks the next. In this case after completing classical physics you can move onto modern physics. To fully grasp the concept of qm you have to have a good understanding of Hamiltonian mechanics, electromagnetic waves(optics), thermodynamics, electromagnetism and also relativity. In a nut shell, the bear minimum you need to know is the aspects of classical mechanics that are different for quantum mechanics. If particles behave as waves, you should know how waves function (geeky physics pun) or if you want to know how to violate the law of conservation of energy in a very short time frame you should know how to use the conservation of energy in classical mechanics and so on.


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| Yadav, V., Indian Oil Corp., Ltd., Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, India; Dube, P., Indian Oil Corp., Ltd., Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, India; Shah, H., Indian Oil Corp., Ltd., Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, India; Debnath, S., Indian Oil Corp., Ltd., Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, India
This case history describes the development of the inferential models used in open-loop and closed-loop applications, laboratory and analyzer update mechanisms, and APC model generation.
[process control]
[predictive models]
[inferential control]
[inferential property prediction]
[clean fuels]
At Indian Oil Corp.s (IOCs)
Mathura refinery, a selective desulfurization unit was
commissioned to reduce the sulfur content of fluidized
catalytic cracked (FCC) gasolinea blending component for
finished motor spirit (MS). The objective of this new unit was
lowering the sulfur content of FCC gasoline from 500 ppmw to
100 ppmw, thus meeting Euro IV product specifications for the
refinery-gasoline blending pool. However, along with
desulfurization, some undesirable olefin saturation reactions
occurred, resulting in octane losses for the product gasoline.
As per design, the octane loss in the desulfurization reactors
is 1.3 units. With Euro IV specifications in place, the octane
loss negatively impacted the refinerys economics.
This refiner applied an advanced process control (APC)
solution to minimize octane loss. The objective of the
desulfurization units APC program is to maximize sulfur
content in the gasoline while still complying with Euro IV
specifications and other process operating constraints. The
control philosophy depended on sulfur estimations of the
stabilizer-bottom product. An inferential property was
developed for online estimation of the sulfur content, and it
was used as a controlled variable in the multivariable
predictive controller (MVPC).
This case history describes the development of the
inferential models used in open-loop and closed-loop
applications, laboratory and analyzer update mechanisms, and
APC model generation. With APC, it was possible to increase the
sulfur content in product gasoline by 10 ppm12 ppm, along
with an average octane gain of 0.11 units; all improved the
refinerys bottom line.
IOCs Mathura refinery implemented a new gasoline
desulfurization process. It is a two-step selective
hydrotreating method. This processing unit consists of three
major operations:
In the first step, FCC gasoline is treated in the SHU, which
selectively converts di-olefins into olefins and light
mercaptans into heavier sulfur-containing compounds. In the
second step, the SHU reactor effluent is separated into
light-cut naphtha (LCN), heart-cut naphtha and heavy-cut
naphtha (HCN) in the FCCGS unit. In the third step, the heavy
fraction from the splitter bottom, containing high-sulfur
content material, is processed in the HDS unit. This processing
step converts heavy sulfur compounds into hydrogen sulfide
(H2S). In addition, significant saturation of
olefins occurs along with the HDS reactions. Saturating olefins
reduces the final research octane number (RON) and is an
undesirable condition.
In the Mathura refinery application, the control objectives
are achieved by utilizing MVPC in conjunction with supporting
predictions provided by an inferential property prediction
package (IPPP). Supporting calculations are required to
supplement existing process measurements. MVPC applications
incorporate process models that permit forward-feed disturbance
rejection and intermediate variables feedback, as well as
constraint control. In configuring the controller, there is one
main controller. The objectives for the main controller
To achieve these objectives, a main controller (MAINCON) and
two sub-controllers are used:
Note: The stabilizer section of the HDS unit is considered
part of HDSCON.
Before the APC installation, the SHU was operated to
maintain stable flow to the reactor. Flow from the FCCU
debutanizer (hot feed70% of total) was routed to a
feed-surge drum. A recycle stream (HDS stabilizer bottom
stream) from a nitrogen-blanketed storage (cold feed30%
of total) was also sent to the feed-surge drum. Unit operators
manually controlled the level of the SHU feed-surge drum by
adjusting the recycle stream.
To maintain the SHU reactor inlet temperature, feed from the
surge drum is heated by the SHU feed-effluent exchanger on the
tube side by exchanging heat from the SHU effluent. The
resulting mixture is heated in the SHU preheater using
After the APC installation, the control
objective was to keep steady flow to the SHU feed and maintain
the surge-drum level by adjusting the FCCU debutanizer flow as
a disturbance variable (DV) and adjusting the recycle stream.
The control objective is to maintain a stable SHU RIT, by
manipulating the effluent exchanger bypass flow and steam flow
to the SHU pre-heater under allowable limits. The process
equipment to be managed via the APC included:
Table 1 summarizes the sub-controller
design for the selective hydrogenation unit. The SHUCON
sub-controller was designed to manage steady flow to the SHU
reactor while considering the debutanizer flow (hot feed) as a
DV. The SHU feed/effluent exchanger bypass flow, along with
steam to the SHU preheater, is used to control the SHU
reactor-inlet temperature. Fig. 1 shows the
same sub-controller (SHUCON) for the SHU.
Fig. 1. Block diagram of the
sub-controller for the selective
hydrogenation unit.
Before the APC implementation, the HDS unit was operated by
controlling the severity conditions of the reactors. The unit
operator controlled HDS reaction (first-bed inlet temperature
and second-bed inlet temperature) based on daily sulfur levels
in the stabilizer bottom product and rundown product. Sulfur
levels were determined by analyzers and lab testing. The fuel
gas was cascaded with first-bed inlet temperature, and the
quench flow was cascaded with second-bed inlet temperature. To
maintain stable reflux flow to the stabilizer, unit operators
adjusted the stabilizer reboiler temperature
and reflux pressure by continuous monitoring of the light-end
flow to the column.
The HDS reactor is set by the APC based on sulfur levels of
the stabilizer bottoms. The IPPP estimation is done on a
15-second basis. Also, the APC will maximize the sulfur level
within given operator limits, thereby by adjusting the reactor
severity. The stabilizer-bottom reboiler temperature
is controlled by APC and facilities minimizing the steam
consumption by the reboiler. However,
the reflux flow to the stabilizer is also controlled by APC,
along with stabilizer-bottom re-boiler temperature. The process
equipment managed via APC includes:
Table 2 summarizes the sub-controller
design for the HDS unit. Fig. 2 shows the same
sub-controller (HDSCON) for the HDS unit.
Fig. 2. Block diagram of the
sub-controller for the
hydrodesulfurization unit.
As shown in Fig. 3, the simple first-order
process models were not providing tight control on the HDS
reactor-inlet temperatures. In response, a ramp transfer
function block was added into the model, along with the
first-order transfer function block. The exothermic reaction in
the reactor behaves in a ramp manner (unbounded
runaway even in the case of a bounded input disturbance). Due
to ramp behavior of the process, fast action is
required in manipulated variables (MVs), such as fuel-gas flow
and quench flow, to quickly control the exotherm (by
controlling the first-bed and second-bed inlet temperatures)
before they rise too high. The inherent instability of the
reactor was countered via a ramp block, plus the normal
first-order block, to relate the MVs and DVs with the inlet
temperatures. For a step change in DVs, this combination
predicts an unbounded response in the inlet
temperaturesthus, moving the MVs quickly to reject the
Fig. 3. First-order process
model response
to reactor inlet temperature control.
To calculate the sulfur content of the FCC feed inlet,
several predicted values were considered. By using the flowrate
and sulfur quantity of all streams listed in Table
3, the total sulfur value can be calculated at the
FCCU feed inlet. The calculation used to estimate the sulfur
content is:
=(79FC803.PV 3 S1 3 density) +
(79FC802.PV 3 S2 3 density) + (79FC801.PV 3 S3 3 density) +
(7FC6701.PV 3 S4 3 density) + (12FIC100.PV 3 S6 (if
crude_select.op=1) 3 density)
or (MRA.12FIC100.PV 3 S7 (if
crude_select.op = 2) 3 density)
or (MRA.12FIC100.PV 3 S8 (if
crude_select.op = 3) 3 density) + ((2FC0708.PV 3 S5)/1000) /
where S1S8 are sulfur values that are entered by the
Feed to FCCGSU is compensated by two streamshot feed
from the debutanizer (306FI0105.PV) and cold feed from recycle
(306FIC0101.PV). Calculations to estimate sulfur at FCCGSU feed
where DSU_SULFUR.PV and STABBTM_SULFUR are the IPPP sulfur
*5.5 is the flow correction since the control
valve has a zero error.
Several IPPP models were developed for the FCC gasoline
desulfurization unit and include:
This model used several inputs:
P = Ax1 + Bx2 +
Cx3 + Bias
where: P = DSU_SULFUR.PV
(FCCDSU feed sulfur in hot feed)
A = Coefficient 0.041417
x1 = FCCUFD_SULFUR.PV
B = Coefficient 1.6497
x2 = 19TRC153.PV
C = Coefficient 5.736500
x3 = 20TI99.PV
Bias = 1067.4
P = Ax1 + Bx2 +
Cx3 + Dx4 + Bias
where: P = HDSFD_SULFUR.PV
A = Coefficient 1.097890
x1 = GSUFD_SULFUR.PV
B = Coefficient 272.28299
x2 = 20PI0802.PV
C = Coefficient 7.0273
x3 = 20FC0306.PV
D = Coefficient 3.291770
x4 = 20FC0404.PV
Bias = 598.81
where: P = STABBTM_SULFUR.PV
A = Coefficient 0.115679
x1 = HDSFD_SULFUR.PV
B = Coefficient 3.90
x2 = 307TI0642.PV
C = Coefficient 3.59673
x3 = 307TI0630.PV
D = Coefficient 0.341067
x4 = 307TI1014.PV
Bias = 1067.5
From Fig. 4, the quality estimation using
the IPPP has good agreement with the actual sulfur content as
measured from unit and lab analyzers. Table 4
summarizes the economic functions and RON improvement possible
with APC.
Fig. 4. Quality and process
achieved through APC IPPP.
Implementing APC on the HDS unit has yielded substantial
tangible and intangible benefits. While the annual monetary
gain is of the order of Rs. 39 lakhs, significant improvement
via process control and optimization was achieved as measured
through tighter control of the SHU and HDS reactor inlet
temperatures. More accurate estimation of the stabilizer-bottom
sulfur inferential was possible, which facilitated proper
control action via the APC. With tighter control and action via
APC, adjusting and preferentially lowering the reactor-inlet
temperatures were possible. The effect of crude changes in the
atmospheric and vacuum distillation unit is also
incorporated into the model. The resultant sulfur changes in
the FCC feed are transmitted via means of intermediate
calculations and inferential estimations to the final
stabilizer-bottom sulfur prediction. Operators now have more
confidence when implementing control and optimization
strategies. This has resulted in better operations of the refinery. Accordingly, APC was
successfully implemented and is yielding expected benefits.
1 Perry, R. H., Chemical Engineers
Handbook, Sixth Ed., New York, McGraw Hill, 1984.
2 Levenspiel, O., Chemical Reaction
Engineering, Third Ed., Singapore, John Wiley and Sons,
3 Stephanopoulos, G., Chemical Process
Control, Dorling Kindersley (India) Pvt. Ltd., 2007.
Prashat Dube is a senior process
engineer at Indian Oil Corp. (IOC) Ltd.s
Mathura Refinery. He is primarily responsible for
providing technical services for APC implementation
and maintenance. Mr. Dube has
five years of experience in APC for all major process
units at the Mathura Refinery and holds a BS degree
in chemical engineering from Indian Institute of
Technology, New Delhi, India.
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Unanswered: Storing Grid State per User and storing serverside - EXT GWT
So I have been looking around the interwebs on how to store an EXT paging grid state on my server so that when users login back in their grid it is how they saved it.
I found this http://www.sencha.com/forum/showthre...tate-using-GXT but it is an old and dead thread.
What I have right now is:
grid.getState() returns a map of all col sizes, sorts, and hidden fields.
here is an example dumped to string:
{offset=0, limit=25, widthfieldname1=161, widthfield2=110, hiddenfield3=true }
I could store these key/values in a simple table with fields (username, key, value) and recreate this map and pass it to the front end.
So here is my question:
Does anyone have a code example of a full implementation of storing, retrieving and apply a grid state for EXT 2.4?
If not. How would I go about implementing one? I am confident i could store the state map in the database or XML. I am lost on how to apply this to a new session. How do i apply this state map to a new grid?
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The state details should be passed to and from the client when it starts up, to a custom subclass of com.extjs.gxt.ui.client.state.Provider. Take a look at CookieProvider as an example of how this can be done for simple cookies.
By creating a Provider, you can let the global StateManager instance actually control this logic, and you can just poll that one object for changes, and just save at the one time, for all state-enabled components in the application. Additionally, by providing state to the manager via your custom Provider, you can ensure that anything that needs state will be able to consistently read it from this.
My advice would be to start with a CookieProvider to make sure your state-consuming widgets all behave correctly. Then, when you are sure that they are saving in the simple case of local cookies, build a custom provider, and ensure that it is both sending data to the server, and loading it on page startup. Remember that the provider needs to have all details loaded before those widgets can begin.
StateManager is already wired into the Component and all subclasses through the initState() method, which reads from the global StateManager and reads out those maps.
If you don't want to use the StateManager and the Provider api to build your own, you'll need to turn those JSON strings back into maps again, and copy those values into the getState() returned map, and invoke the protected applyState method. This is protected to keep this logic internal, but you can use JSNI to invoke it, or subclass the widget you are building this into. It is up to each widget to correctly implement applyState to restore the new state, or listen to the StateRestore method.


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I am extremely weak in visualizing physical problems in mathematical context. Please help me in solving the following problem and please give as much details as possible.
A fluid flows radially (& isotropically) outward from a faucet of radius a into a 2‐D plane at a volume flow rate of $\dot{V}=\alpha$ and it is confined to a thickness $m$. Find the vector velocity function $(\vec{V}(x,y))$ in the 2‐D plane. Express this vector field in cylindrical‐polar and Cartesian coordinate systems


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Dear community.
I would like to derive a "good" estimate on $\frac{d}{dt}f_\epsilon(t)$, where $f_\epsilon$ is a regularization of a Zygmund-continuous function $f$, i.e.
$|f(x-\tau)+f(x+\tau)-2f(x)| \leq C |\tau|$ for all $x \in dom(f)$.
The regularization is defined as usual. We use an even function $\rho \in C_0^\infty(\mathbb R)$ with $\int_{\mathbb R} \rho(\tau)d\tau = 1$, set $\rho_\epsilon(t) := \frac{1}{\epsilon}\rho\left( \frac{t-s}{\epsilon} \right)$ and define $f_\epsilon$ by convolution as $f_\epsilon(t) := (f \ast_{s}\rho)(t)$.
If one uses the implication Zygmund $\Rightarrow$ LogLipschitz, the one easily obtains the estimate $|\frac{d}{dt}f_\epsilon(t)| \leq C \log\left( 1+\frac{1}{\epsilon} \right)$.
I would like to have a better estimate than this. This means I would like to use the fact, that $f$ is Zygmund, not just LogLipschitz. The obvious ideas don't work, if I'm not mistaken. Maybe one should use a special mollifier?! Does anyone have some experience in this direction? Or can one point to literature?
It would be nice to get something like $|\frac{d}{dt}f_\epsilon(t)| \leq C \left(\log\left( 1+\frac{1}{\epsilon} \right)\right)^{1/2}$


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While searching for companionship on a dark night, a lonely firefly encounters many different types of lights before he finally finds a group of fireflies. Children are treated to a surprise when they turn to the last page of the book: a flashing group of fireflies.
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The Goddard track meet is so large, they run heats of the 1600m. That's what the Pratt High School track and field team was up against Monday night, in a meet postponed from last Friday.
Andale won both divisions of the 4-6A meet, with their girls tallying 121 points and their boys amassing an impressive 175. PHS girls were in the middle of the pack, 6th with 51 points. The Pratt boys found the going a little tougher, finishing 12th in the 13-school field with 12 points.
Weston Riner had the best day among the Greenback boys, placing in both hurdle races. Riner got 3rd in the 110m HH (15.83) and 5th in the 300mIH (42.05). Austin Gates took 5th in the shot put (45-5) to round out the Greenback boys scoring.
The girls were able to break into scoring territory with a little more regularity than the boys, but their number of placings and medals were also down from what they had been getting in smaller meets.
Paige Bailey had the highest individual placing by a Lady Frog, taking 2nd in long jump at 16-6. Pratt's other jumpers also did well. Connor Reh finished right behind Bailey in the long jump (16-4) and also took the bronze in the triple jump ( 34-1). Jaci Kolm took 5th in the triple jump at 33-3. Adding Christina Fernandez, the jump trio also combined to seize the bronze in the 4x100 relay (51.8).
Jenson Maydew placed in both her throwing events, taking 3rd in discus (104-2) and 4th in shot put (38-2). In other field events, Chloe Cannata beat out teammate Morgan Strong on misses to take 7th in pole vault (8-0).
Frogs of Distance contributed as well. Adele Loomis got 5th in the 800m (2:30) and Kaylah Romine got 5th in the 3200m. That pair added Nicole Moreland and Cassidy Cronister to get 4th in the 4x800 relay.
PHS distance coach Kathy Hitz was pleased and excited with her charges efforts in the difficult meet. "All of my runners ran either season bests or personal bests," she enthused. "Adele had a personal best in the 800m and Kaylah PR'd in the 2-mile. Kaylah's mile was also a season best. Both girls competed well at a tough meet, which is what a coach wants to see at this time of year. At meets like this, you can't always judge by the placings."
"Joseph (Loomis) didn't place, but he set an 11 second PR in the mile, breaking 5 minutes for the first time (4:53)," Hitz continued. "Cassidy Cronister improved her 800 by 5 seconds running a 2:45 split in the 4x8, and Nichole Moreland, running in only her second meet this season, came through with a 2:34 split to set us up well in the 4x8."
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@lynxeye : This looks like it is the Attenborough-narrated BBC version.
It was Sigourney Weaver
Love this series and always wanted to get it. Stunning footage.
In for one.
Yep, this is the Attenborough version (and as mentioned earlier, Sigourney Weaver narrated the U.S. version of "Planet Earth" while Oprah narrated the U.S. version of "Life"). Anyway, this isn't the special edition release but it's still a good deal on a fantastic series!
I wish this series had been shot in 1080p instead of 720p. It isn't that noticeable until you get a panned out shot that shows a lot of landscapes, but it's enough to take from the series.
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What's the difference between the "Special Edition" and this one?
@rich531: Two discs of extras.
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text: That was an amazing unbeaten run. Another league cup in the bag, and flogging Uinted must always be good. Its a shame ManU don't look like dropping points to get you back in the title race, but you've been more than solid in every comp. The lead o ver Porto might be slender, but I think you can hold them off and advance further in the CL. All good stuff really.