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Operating companies are increasing efforts to reduce the risk of catastrophic events such as the release of toxic, reactive or explosive chemicals that can damage the environment or plant assets.
[process safety management]
[saftey instrumented system]
Modern hydrocarbon processing facilities have become increasingly
more complex. Likewise, the risks in managing greater capacity
refineries and petrochemical complexes have
increased. Ensuring the safety of employees, the environment and physical plant
assets in the event of an unexpected process excursion cannot
be overstated. The development of new techniques and
technologies designed to improve operational safety has evolved
to meet these challenges. Operating companies are increasing
efforts to reduce the risk of catastrophic events such as the
release of toxic, reactive or explosive chemicals that can
damage the environment or plant assets, as well as, cause
injury or death to employees and the general public.
This journey begins with the development of the modern
process safety management (PSM) systems and requirements.
Efforts to improve plant safety were led by state-of-the-art
functional safety systems. These systems enable the orderly
shutdown of processing units when abnormal situations occur
that are beyond the capabilities of the regulatory control
system or operators to correct or to prevent a catastrophe.
While functional safety has proven successful in reducing
the probability of catastrophic events and recognizes the role
of human factors, it does not explicitly address the key roles
of management and business processes in maintaining operational
integrity and profitable performance of process plants. In this
context, what are the approaches that operating companies
should take to go beyond functional safety to proactively
measure, monitor and display a plants risk profile in
near real time so that proper actions can be taken in a more
timely manner to improve process safety performance?
Why invest time and resources to go beyond the
limitations of functional safety? To answer this
question, we must discuss the pivotal concepts of
safety-performance indicators and values (plant assets, the
environment, the public and employees) at risk from potential
catastrophic events. What are the best practices for
establishing a PSM culture along with designing, implementing
and maintaining a proactive PSM system to complement existing
functional safety systems?
As industrialization and technology progressed in the early
20th century, the pattern of intermittent catastrophes began.
In 1921, at the BASF plant in Oppau, Germany, explosions
destroyed the plant, killing at least 430 people and damaging
approximately 700 houses nearby. This explosion occurred as
blasting powder was used to breakup the storage pile of a 50/50
mixture of ammonium sulfate and ammonium nitrate. This
procedure had previously been used 16,000 times without any
mishap. In 1947, a fire and explosion in Texas City, Texas, on
the Monsanto Chemical Co.s S.S. Grandcamp while
loading ammonium nitrate fertilizer killed over 430 people.
There was no specific legislative response to these
Interestingly, the US Center for Chemical Process Safety
(CCPS), which provides leadership and infrastructure to promote
and advance PSM, suggests process safety was born on the banks
of the Brandywine River in the early days of the 19th century
at E. I. du Ponts black powder works. Recognizing that
even a small incident could precipitate considerable damage and
loss of life, du Pont directed the works to be built and
operated under very specific safety conditions.2
Industry has a short memory; here is a brief list of several
recent major industrial disasters with dire consequences:
Such catastrophic safety incidents damaged the public and
the environment. They also caused significant economic loss. In
response, governments continue to enact legislation and impose
fines focused on reducing the probability of future events.
Likewise, operating companies formed safety-related consortiums
that include suppliers of process automation technology. The goal is to identify
automation solutions that can enable operating companies to
avoid catastrophic safety events through early detection and
correction. As evidenced by recent safety-related catastrophes,
such solutions have not been entirely successful.
The present state-of-the-art safety management includes
safety studies (HAZID, HAZOP, risk analysis), safety
instrumented systems (SISs) for fire and gas detection, and
emergency shutdown, abnormal situation management applications,
and operator guidance tools. As illustrated in Fig.
1, the first step in implementing a functional safety
system is the upfront analysis and conceptual design. It begins
with a meeting with all stakeholders to determine possible
hazards and hazard characteristics, and to establish the basic
scope of the project. Work then proceeds to
develop the detailed design for the SIS. The next steps
These engineering and management skills exceed those
required for managing the workplace. As industrial
infrastructures continue to age, the consequences of applying
process safety incorrectly increases with escalating
consequences, such as:
In some cases, even when executives and managers have
prioritized process safety, things still go wrong. Too often,
organizations or individuals make process-safety decisions
under pressure, or without proper context or sufficient
information. Whats missing is the ability to provide
plant personnel with real-time, proactive actionable
information about the plants risk profile via continuous
measurement, monitoring and visualization of key operating and
safety-related parameters. Result: Potentially
hazardous events can be averted without resorting to a plant
trip or an emergency shutdown. This is the goal of PSM; it
involves next-generation automation solutions aimed at making
step-change improvements in safety performance. Such systems
can provide a safety early warning and hazard avoidance
system. This should be an essential component of the
modern hydrocarbon enterprise.
By way of definition, PSM is the application of management
systems to identify, understand and control process hazards,
thus preventing process-related injuries and
incidents.3 The goal is to minimize process
incidents by evaluating the whole process. PSM came into
widespread use after the adoption of OSHA Standard 29 CFR
1910.119 Process Safety Management of Highly Hazardous
Chemicals in 1992. PSM covers:
Another definition of PSM is the proactive and
systematic identification, evaluation and mitigation or
prevention of chemical releases that could occur as a result of
failures in processes, procedures or
equipment.4 PSM is intended to ensure freedom
from unacceptable risk due to:
Fig. 3 shows where PSM fits into the
overall context of operational integrity (i.e., keeping the
process in the pipe), and how functional safety is a key
element of PSM.
A cost/benefit analysis is at the center of
decision-making on investments. To justify cost, it is
necessary to determine if the magnitude of the value delivered
justifies the cost in terms of time, effort and money.
Investments in safetyfunctional safety systems, abnormal
situation management applications, etc.have been made
largely to satisfy legislative requirements and to maintain the
license to operate. There is no legislation that directly
defines the requirements for a real-time PSM system or the
penalties for not implementing one. Thus, investments in a PSM
system may be made if it can be shown that it delivers a
significant, tangible reduction in the risk of a catastrophic
failure, and that it produces a measurable economic benefit for
the plant. Table 1 summarizes estimated annual
benefits associated with implementing a PSM system. For a
100,000-bpd petroleum refinery, operating for 330 days/yr
at an average refining margin of $5/bbl, the
estimated annual PSM benefit is $2.85 million. In addition to
the stated benefits from Table 1, the
incremental value-at-risk can provide ongoing
quantified measures of the economic impact from the PSM
It is important to find the right level of balance among the
various possible safety indicators so that process-safety
decisions accurately reflect the companys desired
operational risk profile. Although risk can never be
eliminated, a variety of mechanisms can be put in place to
balance desired safety outcomes with day-to-day business
imperatives and pressures.
Too often, many organizations rely heavily on failure data
to monitor performance. Thus, improvements or changes are only
determined after something has gone wrong. Often, the
difference between whether a system failure results in a minor
or catastrophic outcome is purely down to chance. The
consequence of this approach is that improvements or changes
are only determined after something has gone wrong. Discovering
weaknesses in the quality of managing the process and control
systems by having a major incident is too late and costly.
Early warning of dangerous deterioration within critical
systems provides an opportunity to avoid major incidents.
Knowing that process risks are successfully controlled has a
clear link with business efficiency, as several indicators can
be used to show plant availability and optimizes operating
conditions. Effective management of major hazards requires a
proactive approach to risk management. Information to confirm
that critical systems are operating as intended is essential.
Leading indicators that can confirm that risk controls are
contining to operate is an important step forward in the
management of major hazard risks.
The main reason for measuring process safety performance is
to provide ongoing assurance that risks are being adequately
controlled. Directors and senior managers need to monitor the
effectiveness of internal controls against business risks. For
petroleum refineries and petro-chemical manufacturers, process
safety risks are a significant aspect of business risk, asset
integrity and reputation. Many organizations lack good
information to show how well they are managing major hazard
risks. This is because the information gathered tends to be
limited to measuring failures, such as incidents or near
Those involved in managing process safety risks need to ask
fundamental questions about their systems, such as:
According to James Reason, (major) accidents result when a
series of failings within several critical risk-control systems
materialize concurrently.5 Each risk-control system
represents an important barrier or safeguard within the PSM
system. A significant failing in just one critical barrier may
be sufficient to give rise to a major accident. Continuously
measuring and monitoring the actual real-time performance of
these safety barriers ensures that operational integrity is not
compromised due to degradation of barriers.
Leading and lagging indicators are set in a structured and
systematic way for each critical risk-control system within the
whole PSM system. In tandem, they act as system guardians,
providing dual assurance to confirm that the risk-control
system is operating as intended or providing a warning that
problems are starting to develop.
Leading indicators are an active monitoring
form focused on a few critical risk-control systems to ensure
continued effectiveness. Leading indicators require a routine
systematic check that key actions or activities are undertaken
as intended. They can be considered as measures of process or
inputs essential to deliver the desired safety outcome. The
leading indicators identify failings or holes in
vital aspects discovered during routine checks on the operation
of a critical activity within the risk-control system.
Lagging indicators are reactive monitoring
methods requiring the reporting and investigation of specific
incidents and events to discover weaknesses within that system.
These incidents or events do not have to result in major damage
or injury or even loss of containment, providing they represent
a failure of a significant control system that guards against
or limits the consequences of a major incident. Lagging
indicators show when a desired safety outcome has failed or has
not been achieved. The lagging indicator reveals failings or
holes in that barrier discovered following an
incident or adverse event. The incident does not necessarily
have to result in injury or environmental damage, and it can be
a near miss, a precursor event or an undesired outcome
attributable to a failing in that risk-control system.
Several organizations and standards recommend applying
leading and lagging metrics to understand the quality of the
PSM system. Several examples are:
The common theme of these metrics is applying key
performance indicators (KPIs) generated from the management of
the process/functional safety equipment and the people and
processes that are used in terms of their competence,
leadership and risk-management capabilities.
For example, the EI has published a Process Safety
Management framework, developed by the energy industry,
for use by various industry sectors.6 The framework
is intended to be applicable worldwide, to all process
industries such as power, petroleum, chemicals, refining, etc. The framework
encapsulates learning from people with practical experience of
developing and implementing PSM as part of an integrated
management system. It clearly sets out what needs to be done to
ensure the integrity of the operation and define what measures
should be in place and how they are performing.
Note: It is not intended to replace existing
process safety or health, safety and environmental (HSE) management
The EIs framework consists of three levels: focus
areas, elements and expectations. The focus areas set out the
high-level components of the PSM framework. Within each of the
focus areas are a number of elements. Each element contains
expectations defining what organizations need to do properly to
meet the intent of each element. Details for EIs PSM
elements set four key operating aspects that organizations
should do to ensure the integrity of the operations:
Fig. 4 shows the proposed PSM
frameworkbased on industry guidelinesand the
associated components of a well-designed PSM system to enable
real-time measurement and monitoring of a plants risk
profile. It provides actionable information that can be used to
prevent catastrophic events. Where an organization has an
existing HSE or PSM system, it may be useful to benchmark
against the framework or to carry out a risk assessment vs. the
expectations of each element and identify any aspects of the
existing system that may need enhancing.
Measuring performance to assess how effectively risks are
being controlled is an essential part of an HSE system. This
can be accomplished in two ways:
After a set of KPIs have been adopted, the asset
owners management is responsible for monitoring these
KPIs and responding to deviations from their baselines. At
higher management levels, the relevance of the KPIs associated
with managing plant equipment can be lost. Therefore, it
becomes necessary to translate the individual equipment level
KPIs and their business impact into plant-level safety
performance indicators and its business impact. This concept
can be extended to any number of facilities enabling upper management
to understand the quality of PSM across the enterprise.
Using the individual equipment KPIs, a new approach allows
an asset owner to understand the overall safety state of the
plant and its economic impact on the business. In addition,
this approach is tied to the existing LOPA and financial impact
KPI metrics are gathered based on the asset owners
management of the plant equipment, capability of employees and
processes followed to manage process safety. Typically,
1020 key metrics can be covered and include 1) management
of safety-related equipment (e.g., completion of periodic
field-device proof tests associated with a distillation column), 2) competence
of plant personnel (e.g., their level of training and skills
testing), 3) adherence to established procedures (e.g.,
near-miss investigations) and 4) leadership (e.g., involvement
of leadership in periodic, formal safety reviews). These
metrics can originate from management based on the layers of
protection (LOPs) associated with the different lines of
equipment, from at a LOP level (e.g., SIS) or at the line of
equipment level (leadership).
The safety performance indicator (SPI) is an aggregation of
the individual KPIs into a single number. The SPI can be
calculated at the equipment level (equipment SPI) and at the
plant level. Fig. 6 illustrates the owner
safety model for an enterprises global assets. This model
can consist of plants distributed over different geographic
regions. A plant is decomposed into lines of equipment (LOE),
which have LOPs associated with the plant-safety model, as
shown in Fig. 7.
Underlying the plant-safety model is a safety related KPI
framework; it addresses the management of process safety
related to plant equipment, business processes, and procedures
used to manage the equipment and the capabilities of employees
applying these processes and procedures.
The KPI for a LOP can be calculated as:
Consider that a piece of equipment has a number of LOPs.
From a safety perspective, the LOPs are of different importance
and risk levels. From the LOPA, each layer has an associated
risk-reduction factor. The weighted KPIs associated with the
equipment can be aggregated and weighted, using the
risk-reduction factor associated with the LOP:
Consider that a facility has a number of LOEs. From a safety
perspective, LOEs are of different importance/risk levels. From
the LOPA, each LOE has associated with it a total equipment
risk. The SPIs for the LOEs can be aggregated using the total
risk factor calculated from the LOPA:
Based on the SPI, a safety performance state can be
calculated. For example, the SPI can have ranges such as good
(> 95%), warning (90% to 95%) and bad (< 90%). Associated
with each LOE is an asset impact. For example, the asset impact
may be defined as S0 to S5, as shown in Table
2. Incremental estimated asset value-at-risk is a
safety performance adjusted metric (expected value) that can be
calculated using the SPI, the safety performance state and the
asset impact.
For example, the incremental asset value-at-risk can be
estimated as follows: 100% of the asset loss value-at-risk if
the safety performance state is determined to be
bad; 50% of the asset loss value-at-risk if the
safety performance state is determined to be
warning; 0% of the asset loss value-at-risk if the
safety performance state is determined to be
LOE: Estimated incremental asset value-at-risk:
The plant-level incremental asset value-at-risk can be
estimated by adding the estimated incremental asset
values-at-risk for the LOEs with the facility. The plant-level
incremental production value-at-risk can be estimated by adding
the incremental production values-at-risk for the underlying
lines of equipment:
To display the SPI and related incremental asset
value-at-risk and incremental production loss, dashboards can
be used, as shown in Figs. 8 and
9. The plant-level dashboard could display the
plant safety-performance data and provide drill-down capability
to the underlying KPIs for analysis of the underlying causes of
identified risks. Once identified, corrective action plans can
be defined and implemented in a timely manner to avoid costly
catastrophic safety events.
As proven with the name of the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers
(AFPMs) safety conference, i.e., the National
Occupational and Process Safety Conference, the refining and petrochemical industries are clearly
focused on PSM as a key component of their operational
strategies. To support these operational strategies, there are
nine steps or best practices to use when implementing and
maintaining an effective process safety-performance management
Step 1. Establish the organizational
arrangements/relationships needed to implement indicators.
Step 2. Decide on the scope of the indicators.
Step 3. Identify the risk-control systems and decide on the
Step 4. Identify critical elements of each risk-control
Step 5. Establish the data collection and reporting
Step 6. Review (benchmark against the IE PSM Framework or
Step 7. Deploy the KPI model and SPI calculations.
Step 8. Educate management on the importance of PSM.
Step 9. Establish management roles and actions for review of
KPIs, SPIs, estimated asset value-at-risk and estimated
production value-at-risk. HP
1 A Canadian Perspective of the History of
Process Safety Management Legislation, 8th International
Symposium: Programmable Electronic System in Safety-Related
Applications, Sept. 23, 2008, Cologne, Germany.
2 Center for Chemical Process Safety website: http://www.aiche.org/CCPS/Students/GetSmart.aspx.
3 Center for Chemical Process Safety website: http://www.aiche.org/CCPS/Students/GetSmart.aspx.
4 H. J. Toups, LSU Department of Chemical
Engineering, with significant material from SACHE 2003
5 Managing the Risks of Organizational
Accidents, Ashgate Publishing Co., 1997.
6 Energy Institute, London, 1st Ed.,
December 2010.
7 A weight of 0 signifies that a KPI is not
8 This is equal to the sum of all the mitigated
risks for an item of equipment.
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Ravi Seegoolam
An interesting and useful article
Excellent article about PSM
Kevin Osiobe
Well researched,very informative and insightful,clearly shows how PSM fits into operational and asset integrity.
Mo Javadi
Thank you for your article. I would appreciate it if you would share the complete article please.
Sanjeev Kumar Jain
Dear authors,It's an excellent and informative article where gives clear and straight explanation where PSM fits into overall operational and assets integrity. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.Could you please send me copy of this article?Thanks & Regards,
Umesh Dhake
Very interesting...Article stimulates to think beyond Functional Safety...
Jurie Swanepoel
Very good article. One comment, please put people first then environment and then plant/ asset. After all, it is about safety first.
Vasant Nandekar
One of the very informative article on Process safety management providing inside view. However PSE (Process safety events) are not reducing. Just now there was incident at HPCL refinery.......
Eduardo Sandi
Good material. Would you please send me a copy, as a independent consulting activity could be very beneficial to me. Besides this material could be shared with my fellows into the safety activities in plants.
Dr. Michael S. Schumann
Very interesting article. Would you please send me a copy. I would like to share this with my occupational safety students. Dr. Michael Schumann
Harshal Tirpude
Excellent article with brief history on Safety Management systems and helps to understand the PSM framework with overall operational & assets integrity.
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Emilio Plascencia
Excellent article but I think you should have separate emergency shut down systems (ESD), as to the swiss cheese theory James Reason, Professor of Psychology at the University of Manchester, globally recognized expert in the study of human error in high-risk technological systems and the role played by it in major disasters consider distributed control systems (DCS) and ESD industry managed to reduce chemical risks proferos investigating the Reason.
Paulo Secco
Dear Sir/Madam,Excellent article! Please may I have copy of full article?Best Regards,Paulo Secco
Prashant Ambaskar
Very informative and interesting article.Helps understand the concept better for reinforcing the PSM concepts in the company.Would appreciate if you could send me complete article.
Erwan Saiful
Dear authors,It's a very good and informative article where gives clear and straight explanation where PSM fits into overall operational and assets integrity.Thank you,
Allan Sandosham
As someone who is currently implementing a PS KPI program at an oil and gas company, I see that carefully defining each PS KPI and collecting accurate data from the relevant departments to calculate the PS KPI value each month or quarter is challenging enough. Manipulating the data into the integrated SPI as defined above is definitively a stretch goal. Would it be possible to see some specific worked out examples of the calculation being conducted.
Shahid Saeed
Interesting article.Could you please send me copy of this article?Thanks & Regards,
very nicely explained the PSM thing...
Gustavo Heins
Safety work places mean more production by man-hour
saidulu banothu
Dear Sir/Madam,My self Saidulu Banothu, HSE Design Engineer in Petrofac Oil and Gas as Risk and I would like to have full article, if possible could you please send me this article.Thanks and Regards,Saidulu Banothu
Hirak Dutta
Excellent article. Informative and educatve.
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Men's & Women's Soccer Host Summer Youth Soccer CampsApril 29, 2014
ANDERSON, S.C. – The Anderson University men's and women's soccer teams are teaming up this summer to host two sessions of the Trojan Youth Camp on June 23-26 and July 21-24 for youth soccer players ages 7-12, held at the soccer practice fields adjacent to Trojan Stadium.
The camps will offer instruction where participants are grouped by age and ability, with the emphasis on individual player development. Interaction and coaching instruction by the staff will increase learning by giving each individual the very best examples of what it takes to take your game to the next level. Daily technical work will be introduced and eventually worked into game situations. Specifically, players will work on passing/receiving, dribbling, moves to beat opponents, and finishing. The AU camps are a great opportunity to gain instruction on the fundamentals of soccer, learn the importance of staying active, and participate with other youth players.
The soccer programs do not provide medical insurance. Each camper will be required to complete the online parental/guardian consent form to waive and release Trojan Soccer Camps from any and all liability for any injuries incurred while at camp. Trojan Soccer Camps reserves the right to refuse any camper with pre-existing medical and/or physical history. Campers MUST provide proof of having their own medical insurance coverage in order to participate in camp.
Admission to one session is $105 and includes a free camp t-shirt. Registration for the annual camps can be found here.


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Vai's View: A young friend with a bright future joins family for latest missionary discussion
Editor's note: This is the third installment in a series of columns on member-missionary work in the LDS Church. Click to read part one and part two.
With each succeeding Mormon missionary discussion with Ron Stewart's family over a three-week period, the family came with someone new. Our initial meeting, dubbed "Filipino Night," was with Ron and his wife, Angie. That was followed with a second meeting with Ron and his two sons, Ronaldo and Ronell. For our third meeting, they came with Ronell's girlfriend, Kristen Mayhand, but without Angie, who was under the weather, and Ronaldo, who is a freelance photographer and had a photo shoot.
The first two meetings went swimmingly. Dinner conversation was lively and fun. The missionary discussions that followed were even better.
Hence, I was somewhat worried that a girlfriend who wasn't a member of the family may have a different agenda or not have the same level of curiosity or religiosity. I've seen lessons torpedoed by cynicism and Bible-bashing, where the Spirit vanishes in a flash.
Turns out, I had no reason to fear.
Kristen Mayhand is bright, beautiful, religious and ambitious.
Recently graduated from Montclair State in northern New Jersey with a finance degree, she paid her own way through college as a bank teller.
That's how she met Ronell Stewart. He was a walk-in customer who let people go ahead of him in line just so he could be summoned to her window. He did it often enough that she noticed — nevermind that he's model handsome and is in great shape because he's a fitness fanatic. He slipped her a note asking for a date, careful to make sure she wouldn't think it was a holdup.
They've been an item ever since — almost five years now. Her African-American parents love him, and his Filipino parents adore her.
Kristen works as an auditor for the state of Delaware, and Ronell started a marketing company called Youth Noise that generates online traffic for his clients. Two months after he was hired by a commercial cleaning company to boost leads and promote traffic to its site, the client company landed a multimillion-dollar contract — all because Ronell got it to the first page of Google search results for its targeted keywords.
These are young people with bright futures, but would faith have a place in them?
Over dinner, Kristen acknowledged she had attended her Baptist church more frequently as a child with her family but less frequently in her teens. Ron and Ronell confessed that they were "Easter/Christmas Catholics" and sometimes not even that.
Our missionaries for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Sister Jidileah Baluyot and Sister Brittany Daniels, had asked my sons, Trey and LJ, to teach the lesson. Since our last lesson, we took in a recent Brigham Young University graduate, Mont Toronto, who will live with us through the summer while he interns at NFL Films, which is located in our township. Mont served a Mormon mission in New York City.
The three RMs taught an amazing lesson, with all of us — sister missionaries included — helping out. As they reviewed the previous week's lesson and asked if they had read their assignments, it was Kristen who prompted Ronell to share what he learned.
"Ronell, tell them what you know about priesthood authority, the Apostasy and the Restoration," she said. Ronell dutifully recounted each principle with amazing detail and clarity.
Kristen asked honest and sincere questions about prophets, Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon.
At the conclusion of our discussion, I asked Kristen to pray, prompting her to be specific in her questions and to listen with her heart and mind.
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Where to revisit for ice skating and comfort food
LOCATED IN a vacation community of Rhode Island, the Weekapaug Inn is best known as a place to bathe on barrier beaches and sail on Quonochontaug Pond. Yet instead of rushing a five-year, $20 million renovation in time for the summer season, management held off its reopening until October. With four newly installed lobby fireplaces and a just-built cozy game room, the summer-town inn is pitching itself as a winter destination.
From Solage Calistoga in Calistoga, Calif., to the Bedford Post Inn in Bedford, N.Y.—a property that recently launched a "Snow Barbecue" dinner series on the outdoor patio for the winter months—destinations that have long been seen as warm-weather getaways are rummaging around the lost-hats-and-mittens drawer and searching for new ways to draw winter visitors. Even the W Los Angeles-Westwood, in balmy Southern California, just turned its pool deck into a skating rink, with an hourly snowfall and winter-theme bar menu.
Part of the appeal for guests is off-season rates and a break from the crowds. An even greater draw: a chance to go sledding down the sand dunes. Below are a handful of summertime resorts that are bundling up for the coming season.
Snowshoe at a New England Spa
Canyon Ranch, Lenox, Mass.
The famed New England wellness retreat is launching a Pilates-based conditioning program geared for winter-sports enthusiasts. The new conditioning class uses a reformer jump board and incorporates plyometrics (exercises calling for fast muscle movements) and interval training. The resort is also adding a "Winter Wonderland" event with snowshoeing, pole hiking and a campfire with hot chocolate. Rates from $2,740 for three nights, canyonranch.com
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Solage Calistoga, Calistoga, Calif.
The Solage's Michelin-starred Solbar restaurant typically serves nouveau American cuisine. This year they're launching an Asian comfort-food concept for the winter. Consulting chef Bradley Borchardt will use local California ingredients in Asian dishes, such as soup dumplings and Hong Kong-style barbecue. There will also be chef demonstrations and cooking classes in the kitchen and herb garden. Rates from $375, solagecalistoga.com
Watch Winter Wildlife in Rhode Island
Weekapaug Inn, Weekapaug, R.I.
Past the acres of quiet nature preserves and private drives skirting the property, the Weekapaug Inn's resident naturalist Mark Bullinger guides winter guests who are willing to brave the elements on beach walks, bird watching trips and astronomy sessions. And in place of bocce ball, shuffleboard and swimming in the outdoor pool, the hotel is about to offer winter "master series" seminars of digital winter wildlife photography and landscape painting. Rates from $225, weekapauginn.com
Ice Skate in Switzerland
La Réserve Genève, Geneva, Switzerland
Last year, the traditional Swiss summer retreat built an ice rink. This year, in addition to building it again, the hotel is inviting guests to watch the "Coupe de Noël," an annual Christmas swim in the 40-degree waters of Lake Geneva open to locals and any brave guests. Tours of nearby Christmas tree festivals and holiday markets will also be on offer, and the hotel boasts proximity to this weekend's International Supercross Championship in Geneva and related concerts, art exhibitions and a light show. Rates from $644, lareserve.ch


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The other day I introduced a beginner programmer to Stack Overflow, but she was reluctant to use the site based upon the reason that she had read somewhere that code found on the internet is often malicious.
This seemed like a pretty legitimate concern, I cautioned her to read and understand code that she finds before she runs it. However, I have heard of people who are capable of hiding code in ways that perhaps I don't understand (e.g.
Acme::Bleach, which is a library in Perl which allows the user to translate code into all whitespace.), and I also assume that if someone did post malicious code to Stack Overflow, it would be removed fairly quickly.
Has malicious code being posted ever been an issue? I.e code that looks as if it answers your question, but also has something malicious hidden inside of it.


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FINAL FANTASY VII [PC DOWNLOAD] for $5.99 + free shipping
Final Fantasy VII. I don't think I need to say anything more.
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This has some nasty DRM on it.
@gotweed04: Could you please elaborate? I've been wanting to play FFVII for years, but the one I have has all sorts of issues when I try and run it. This would feasibly be my answer, but if I will just run into DIFFERENT issues, then I won't bother...
Looks like this is the "improved" re-release version, which had major issues on launch:
Shame, as otherwise I'd have considered it... I guess I'll just have to stick with the original PC release from 1998 :)
This is to hype fans back up for XIII-3 err XIII-2-2 right?
HAHA character booster....I did something similar on my Playstation. It involved a controller with a taped turbo button and one joystick being taped so that the party ran in circles. Those were the days...
I have a great setup to make ur party invincible (helps with emerald weapon) if anyone is interested :-)
@garagebandking: http://na.square-enix.com/go/thread/view/139235/29315553/Final_Fantasy_VII_DRM - This has Secrurom with limited number of activiations and requires you to be online in order to play.
You have to be online to play, to save, to do anything. Sometimes it just takes a good 5 minutes to load your save files for no good reason. Audio is the terrible version from the original PC version, MIDIs I think, way worse quality than the playstation version and needs replacing to make it not sound terrible. Just do yourself a favor and download the original PC version and mod it, it has a very strong modding community.
Seems like an unnecessary hassle when there are good PlayStation emulators and the ISOs are so easy to find. I played this recently on my android tablet using a playstation emulator.
Wow... I recently built a gaming rig and I love the FF stuff, including 7.
$6 sounded awesome until I read all the crap they pulled with DRM. Forget that!
Not even for $6 will I install that Sony root-kit crap.
Excellent game back in the day, but it's aged pretty poorly. Blocky textures, very linear gameplay.... still an entertaining game and interesting in how revolutionary it was. But it's painfully clear that it was a first-generation game from the 3D era.
Still worth this price.
I'm glad they added free shipping, this would have been very expensive to ship...
I'm all for Don't Copy that Floppy (http://youtu.be/up863eQKGUI), but some DRM methods are too annoying for PC. Will continue to use my original PSX disc and emulators.
I got the game for the PC back in the day. Played the whole thing on the numpad. It was a weird experience.
@bobmctooth: It's still weird now-a-days since you can't use the analog stick to control more precise movements. Apparently, "Don't Copy That Floppy" has been updated to "Don't copy That" (http://youtu.be/hUCyvw4w_yk).
@novastarj: I always love it when people say "linear" in a list of cons or bad things about a game. It always makes me laugh since they can't come up with any valid criticisms, so they just fall back to pretending that pointing out the format of the game is a criticism.
Linear isn't a valid con. A linear game isn't automatically a bad game.
@stryker4526: I would even argue that you need linearity (some semblance thereof) for plot elements and storylines to be effective; eg, you can't really compare World of Warcraft (vast areas to explore and missions to comple) to Warcraft 3 (beautiffully done plot weaving that if it happened in any other order would make no sense -- despite the player switching sides as the story progresses).
Even Non-Linear FF's (FF-13, compared to others) have a central progression that must happen in order...
For someone who wants to play this game, doesn't have it already, and doesn't care about drm (i have plenty of games i need to get to, replaying is low on my list of priorities) are there issues with buying this? What are the bugs/issues people refer to?
@stryker4526: FFVII is linear in a sense that it offers "fake" options to make game-altering decisions (in that they don't actually affect the game at all), and it doesn't actually allow you freedom to explore the world until about 3/4 the way through the game. You're on a decidedly set path until then.
FFIV (or FFIII if you prefer the American numbering) may not have had 3D, but it had more freedom to explore, more sidequests, and the ability to advance the storyline at your own pace. FFVII did not.
None of this is to say VII isn't a great game in its own right, or that linearity is a bad thing. But it definitely set players on a particular path much more strictly than many RPGs before and after it, and the trend in modern gaming is towards more freedom and a more open world. This is just different than many newer gamers are used to, and that's why I said it's "aged."
Do yourself a favor: Go out to your nearest vintage-game shop (or Ebay) and pick up a copy of this for PSX (you also might need a PSX system if you don't have one). You will probably pay $20-$35, but it's worth it. Best played on an old CRT. You don't have to worry about any of the DRM nonsense, just fire up your Playstation and go.
@phalx: A great suggestion. If you don't bother about leveling up your characters high, and don't want to master all materia, the game would serve you what...30 hours? It definitely is a game which has shown its age in terms of graphics, but I feel the gameplay is still relevant and has plenty to offer modern gamers today. Average protagonist, great antagonist and a buxom Tifa.
What's so wrong with linear gameplay anyway? Have people never read these things called 'BOOKS'? Seems pretty linear to me and people appear to still enjoy them! It's not like you can just browse around the pages in any order and get a comprehensive sense of the story. (unless you're type of book is Where's Waldo that is...) I will agree that your time spent in Midgar before you get out into the world DOES seem to take a while, and does seem dark and grimy, but once you do get into the world it is worth it. Linear and RPG kind of go together anyway.


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(CNN) – With the presidential campaign ended, Rep. Paul Ryan is back in Washington and happy to trade the title "Republican vice presidential candidate" for the role of "wonk."
That's how House Speaker John Boehner recently described the House Budget Committee chairman, and in an interview on Tuesday, Ryan said he thinks it "a great compliment."
"I've always been one of the House policy wonks," Ryan said in an interview with ABC News.
In a previous, post-election interview, also with ABC News, Boehner said he didn't see Ryan stepping off of the GOP presidential ticket and becoming the party's de facto leader.
"Paul Ryan's a policy wonk," said Boehner, the nation's top-ranking elected Republican who added that Ryan could be viewed as a significant Republican Party leader.
"He's involved in the cause of trying to bring us pro-growth economic agendas for America and making sure that we're doing this in a fiscally responsible way," Boehner said.
For his part, Ryan said he doesn't see any one individual as head of the party.
"I don't think that we have one person who's a leader," Ryan said. "We shouldn't have just one person that's a leader of the Republican Party. It's decentralized. We have a lot of great talent in this party. We have a lot of talented people that are gonna be offering their ideas."
The Wisconsin Republican will presumably have his hands full, as lawmakers look for a solution to the approaching so-called fiscal cliff, a collection of tax increases and spending cuts due to take effect in the new year barring a congressional compromise to stave it off.
Economists predict a plunge off of the fiscal cliff would plunge the U.S. economy back into recession.
As to his possible future as the leader of the Republican Party, Ryan offered the same answer on Tuesday as he had earlier in interviews with local Wisconsin newspapers: a hypothetical 2016 presidential run would be years away.
"Aren't you tired of presidential politics? I know I am," he said. "Let's just deal with one thing at a time. I've got to think people are a little sick of hearing about presidential speculation after we just finished this presidential campaign."


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When I express proteins in bacteria I put at least two stop codons at the end of the gene to increase the termination efficiency. Is this the case in eukaryotic cells too? If I put a single stop codon is there a risk for the ribosomal complex to readthrough and continue translation?
There is a paper for transfection of mammalian cells here which has a bit of comparison of stop codon and protein yield.
Otherwise this article suggests having a 'rare' codon after the stop to prevent readthrough. But yes, I'm not sure why one wouldn't simply put two stops after each other.


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Wilson: Ansonia shows its might vs. Torrington
The regular season has to be better than the off-season for the Torrington High football program, right? I mean, it has to be.
A return to the game was just what the doctor ordered. But what twisted mind put Ansonia up first on the schedule?
The mighty Chargers laid waste to the Raiders on Friday night, 52-7, not exactly bringing a smile to the face of Torrington's first-year coach, former running back Gaitan Rodriguez.
"It's a familiar sight," sighed Rodriguez after the one-sided loss to the Chargers. "We need to get on the field and get a sense of normalcy and that means playing football. This team has responded to everything I have asked them to do. They have answered the bell. Tonight, our youth showed. You can't control the schedule. You need to prepare and obviously Ansonia is a great program with a great tradition."
The powerful Chargers showed no regard for Torrington's youth or other concerns. And it started and ended with last season's Connecticut Player of the Year, running back Arkeel Newsome.
The brilliant Newsome piled up 183 yards on just 10 carries with three touchdowns in the first 11 minutes, a performance that included a 45-yard sideline-to-sideline gem that saw him slip and slide, juke and glide and nearly run by the entire Torrington defense.
Newsome's three scores also put him in rarified air as he passed the legendary Alex Thomas as Ansonia's all-time leading scorer with 758 points. Thomas scored 740 points.
"It feels great. I just let it happen," said the soft-spoken Newsome. "My whole line was tremendous."
"I feel bad. I didn't know what the record was," said Ansonia coach Tom Brockett. "I knew he was on pace to get it, but Arkeel is going to take all the records down. He's been unbelievable. I feel bad, thanks for telling me."
Newsome then turned the duties over to Ansonia's seemingly never-ending talent supply and the result was 131 yards rushing for Tyler Bailey, 80 yards for Tajik Bagley and 66 yards for Saiheed Sanders. It all added up to a 467 yards for the Chargers.
The defense was equally lethal, holding the Raiders to minus-4 yards in the first half as Ansonia punched out a 40-0 lead. The Chargers rolled up a 387 to minus-4 edge in first-half yardage.
By the end of the third quarter, Ansonia was taking knees to avoid the 50-point rule. Leading, 52-7, the Chargers' Angel Felero picked up a fumble and purposely ran out of bounds at the Torrington 8-yard line.
Ansonia took a knee and then ran several plays in which running backs deliberately went down after a couple of yards.
"(Felero) did it on his own, and who knows when he'll get another chance," said Brockett. "The rule is not good. We took a couple of knees and that didn't feel good."
On a night where things should have begun to feel better for Torrington, it was a tough opener. But after the off-season, Rodriguez was ready to move on.
"We've been through a lot," he noted. "These kids are resilient."
They will have to be.
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I know that the Tsallis($S_q$) entropy is called nonextensive information measure in the sense that if $P$ and $Q$ are two probability distributions then $S_q(P\times Q)=S_q(P)+S_q(Q)+(1-q)S_q(P)S_q(Q)$. My question is what is meant by nonextensive statistical physics? What is its connection with Tsallis entropy maximisation?
Normally entropy is seen as an extensive thermodynamic coordinate, i.e. proportional to the mass of particles: Volume increases by considering a larger amount of gas in the "same state", while pressure will stay the same. So for simple systems entropy of a system that is a combination of 2 systems will be sum of individual entropies. Here it is less. This means that not the whole direct product of states of A and states of B is accessible to the combined system. Consider a state space of 3x3 pixels for a particle A alone: 9 states. consider B to be an identical system: also 9 states. Now assume you can put A and B in the same 3x3 pixel space and allow them to also sit in the same pixel: 9x9=81 states, however suppose that they interact such that they can not sit in the same pixel:9x9 - 9=72 states so in this second example entropy is not additive for combination of systems. while it is in the first...


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Is there any efficient algorithm for counting number of digits in n! without actually calculating n!?
[Addendum -- PLC]: I voted to close the question as "no longer relevant" because of Gerry's answer that one could just use Stirling's formula, as supplemented by a comment which referred to a formula of Kamenetsky given on the online journal of integer sequences. It seems now that it is an open question whether Kamenetsky's formula always (rather than just "most of the time") gives exactly the right answer, so there is more here than I had realized. A followup question which provides more context has been asked here:
How good is Kamenetsky's formula for the number of digits in n-factorial?


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GENESEO, N.Y. -- Creative artists have converted a landmark on the SUNY Geneseo campus into a Campbell's Soup can, and the college is using it to attract donations for a local food pantry.
The "Painted Tree" is a 35-foot tall black walnut in the heart of campus that students have painted for decades to promote their organizations or events. Sometime in the past 10 days, students painted a replica of the soup can onto the tree, and the college is using the opportunity to invite the community to deposit cans of food into a container at the tree to be donated to the Geneseo/Groveland Food Pantry. The "Soup-er Fast Can Drive" seeks to collect 48 cans of soup in 48 hours and runs until 3 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 3.
"We just couldn't resist taking advantage of the students' handiwork to help promote a worthy community cause," said Tom Matthews, the college's associate dean of leadership and service. "It really represents the strong commitment that students and the Geneseo community have to service all year long."
The tree is a venerable campus landmark, and painting it is often cited by alumni as a lasting student memory. The college estimates the tree has received at least 1,000 layers of paint during its lifetime.
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Fainting May Run in the Family
Aug. 6, 2012 -- A common kind of fainting appears to run in families, a new study of twins shows.
About 1 in 4 people will faint at some point in their lives. Fainting is a sudden, brief loss of consciousness after blood pressure drops to the brain. Sometimes, that loss of blood pressure happens for internal reasons -- dehydration or heart problems, for example.
But puzzlingly, people sometimes black out in response to some kind of outside-the-body trigger, like the sight of blood or after some kind of emotional upset. This is called vasovagal syncope.
Fortunately, fainting isn't usually dangerous. Most people usually wake up a few seconds after they pass out, but they may fall in the process. Falling during a fainting spell, however, can lead to injuries.
The study, which is published in the journal Neurology, suggests that in some cases, fainting may be inherited. If researchers can identify the genes involved, they say it may point to a way to help the small percentage of people who pass out so regularly that it interferes with their lives.
"A small proportion of people with fainting actually have a disabling problem. They have a lot of fainting attacks, and it makes life a little challenging for them. And if we can develop better treatments for that, that would be great," says researcher Samuel F. Berkovic, MD, a neurologist and professor in the department of medicine at the University of Melbourne, in Australia.
The Genetic Link
Researchers in Australia interviewed 51 same-sex sets of twins for the study. Some of the twins were identical. The others were fraternal twins. At least one twin in each pair reported passing out at some point in their lives.
Researchers found that both members of a set of identical twins were more than twice as likely to be prone to fainting spells compared to fraternal twins. Their fainting was also more likely to be triggered by something external, like a stressful event or the sight of blood, rather than by a biological problem like dehydration.
"Simply put, there is now strong evidence that a simple faint, for example, one caused by sight of blood, fear, or unpleasant thoughts, can have a genetic component," says Ezriel Kornel, MD, a neurologist at Northern Westchester Hospital in Mount Kisco, N.Y.


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5 Mind-Blowing True Stories Behind Famous Songs
#2. The Beatles Slapped Their First Album Together in a Day
Via Forbes
The Beatles' second single, "Please Please Me," was a huge breakthrough hit. Normally, that's cause for celebratory coke lines off the soft belly of a kitten. At least we think that's how rock stars party.
However, the Fab Four's producer, George Martin, had other ideas. Pop music is notoriously fickle; if they were going to get a sales boost from the single, they needed to react right the hell now. This meant recording an album right the hell now, and releasing it right the hell now. So at 10 a.m. on February 11, 1963, sessions began for the Please Please Me album, and ended at 7:45 that night. An entire 14-song album was recorded in one goddamn day. While their lead singer was sick.
Via Roy Kerwood
"Hey, remember this look. We might use that in a few years."
John Lennon had just come down with a particularly bad cold, which meant his voice had gone from "gloriously melodic" to "howler monkey falling into farm machinery." Sure, they could've waited a week or so for Lennon to recover, but they were just so sure that in another week the whole world would have gotten over this "Beatles" thing.
So, they worked around it, which gave birth to the now-famous screamed vocals on "Twist and Shout." Martin had saved that song for the end, because it was particularly throat-shredding, and he was concerned that Lennon wouldn't be able to get through it. Considering that Lennon had resorted to gargling with milk and sang the entire song with his face and body clenched like he was shitting a porcupine, Martin might have been onto something:
And here's the same song performed live, after Lennon's larynx stopped wanting to crawl out of his mouth and throttle him for what he was doing to it:
The studio version was the one and only usable take; after Lennon howled it out, he was completely spent. Still, after a mere 10 hours and tons of physical suffering, the Beatles' first album was in the can, and they were free to cash in on the whole flavor-of-the-moment Beatles fad.
#1. Ross Robinson's Psychotic Recording Methods
Via Theaudioperv.com
Think of the worst boss you've ever had. The one who bullied you, mocked you, forced you to work at your lowest, mentally and emotionally, and reduced you to tears because all your hard work just wasn't good enough. Screw that guy, right? Well, they've got nothing on rock music's Bad Boss. Meet Ross Robinson, a multi-platinum producer widely known as "The Godfather of Nu-Metal," for which you can either thank him or curse him.
Robinson's production techniques are akin to Dexter's detective skills. He's certainly qualified, but too deranged to truly deserve the job. His resume is littered with terrifying tales of how he's achieved perfect takes from his artists. Just ask Korn, if they can still speak through all the sobbing. See, Korn's songs tend to be punctuated by a lot of tortured screaming about how shitty lead singer Jonathan Davis' life is. So, Robinson figured the key to success was triggering this emotional imbalance. For a recent album, Robinson brought in Davis' wife and had Davis perform a song about lying to her and hurting her, right to her face.
Via Altsounds
"OK, good. Now, here, eat her cat."
And that's just how he works -- he'll learn the stories behind Davis' lyrics and ride him relentlessly about them. If Davis sings about the sexual abuse he suffered as a child, Robinson will force him to relive it, over and over again, until the song is just right. So, when Davis breaks down in tears during "Daddy" or "Holding All These Lies," it's not studio trickery. Robinson purposefully reduced him to that blubbering mess.
He rode Davis so hard that the singer damn near killed himself. Davis would later describe the sessions as "sheer fucking torture and hell," and even his psychiatrist wanted Robinson to back off.
Via Korn.com
"What, your pussy psychiatrist wants you to be a pussy, too? You gonna cry for me, pussy?"
Robinson's depraved style doesn't begin and end with Korn, though. How about the time he made a member of Slipknot perform backing vocals immediately after the poor guy found out his beloved grandfather had died? Apparently, Robinson considered this a "bold move," but refusal on Mr. Slipknot's part might have meant getting random shit chucked at him, like goddamn open flames.
Yes, Robinson will totally throw fire at you if he doesn't like what you're doing. Just ask the Cure, who Robinson completely snapped at after several lackluster takes. He went full R. Lee Ermey on their gothic asses, swearing at them, insulting their legacy, throwing about a hundred lit candles around the studio, and laughing maniacally at the keyboardist's tears and tantrums. As Robinson put it, "Sometimes musicians need to feel certain things to emote, and a lot of times, that thing will come out with a little coercing. So sometimes it comes in the form of an object being thrown at their head while they're tracking."
Hey, as long as the records keep selling, people will keep hiring him to do it.
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Interior Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdulaziz began the weekly Cabinet session in Riyadh today by thanking the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz for his new appointment to the position of Second Deputy Prime Minister.
Then, Prince Nayef briefed the Cabinet on the consultations King Abdullah has held over the past few days with foreign officials, including Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and former U.S. President Bill Clinton.
The Cabinet praised the speech given by the King at the inauguration of the Shura Council's session last Tuesday, during which the monarch stressed the importance of Arab solidarity. Prince Nayef expressed hope that the Arab Summit, currently being held in Doha, will contribute further to inter-Arab reconciliation. Prince Nayef also wished that all necessary measures be taken at next Thursday's G-20 summit in London to revive the world economy.
The Cabinet activated the Rift Valley Fever Prevention Program; authorized Prince Nayef to discuss draft cooperation agreements with Algeria and Russia concerning the extradition of fugitives; approved the establishment of a national committee to care for mental health patients and their families; and approved the final account of the General Corporation of Grain Silos and Flour Mills for fiscal year 1426/1427 H.
The Cabinet approved the appointments of Abdulrahman Al-Sadhan as Assistant Secretary General of the Council of Civil Service at the Ministry of Civil Service; Ibrahim Al-Jrayan as Director General of Legal Affairs at the Ministry of Civil Service; Abdulaziz Al-Khonain as Director General of the Minister's Office at the Ministry of Civil Service; Salih Al-Khalil as Assistant Undersecretary for Consumer Affairs at the Ministry of Commerce and Industry; and Dr. Solaiman Ala'waishiq as Assistant Director General of the Administration of the General Committee at the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers. All the appointments were made at the rank of 14.


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Commodore Stocker was a 23rd century Starfleet flag officer, who as of 2267 had served his entire career behind a desk.
In 2267, Stocker was the newly assigned commander of the Federation Starbase 10, to which he was transported aboard the USS Enterprise.
En route to the starbase, the Enterprise stopped at Gamma Hydra IV where Captain James T. Kirk and the other senior officers were infected with a radiation disease that caused premature aging. This forced Stocker to assume command of the Enterprise.
While in command, Stocker violated the Romulan Neutral Zone, as he attempted to take a shorter route to Starbase 10 in the hopes of reaching the base, and its "superior" facilities, in time to save the afflicted officers. While in the Neutral Zone, the Enterprise was attacked by several Romulan Bird-of-Prey. Being an inexperienced officer in battlefield conditions, Stocker panicked and almost lost the Enterprise before the cured Kirk could retake command and save the ship, using a broken code to deliver a false message warning Starfleet ships to avoid the area after he detonated the corbomite device (by the time the Romulans realized they had been fooled, the Enterprise was safely back in Federation space). Knowing he had been in no shape for duty, Kirk held no ill will toward Stocker, though he did insist that there was little a starbase could do that a ship could not - which the commodore admitted he was now well aware of, assuming the right person was in command. (TOS: "The Deadly Years")
Soon afterward, Commodore Stocker assumed command of Starbase 10. His assumption of command later became a Federation precedent. (VOY: "Tinker Tenor Doctor Spy",okudagram)
External linkEdit
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| Young, B. , ARC Advisory Group
[control systems]
[process control]
[distributed control]
[smart devices]
[cloud computing]
Several trends have already impacted the distributed control
system (DCS) market and are likely to continue over the next
few years. These include both product- and technology-related trends and
general industry trends.
The DCS input/output (I/O) subsystem is responsible for
inputting hundreds or often thousands of different process
measurements and other inputs into the system, and outputting
control signals to a large number of valves, actuators, motors and other
plant final-control elements. I/O represents one of the most
significant parts of the DCS. Traditionally, I/O is a
significant cost element. However, DCS suppliers are working to
reduce both the cost and complexity of their I/O systems by
incorporating more intelligence and programmability into the
Fifteen years ago, the traditional process analog input came
from a sensor producing a 4-mA to 20-mA analog signal, and the
typical analog output was a 4-mA to 20-mA signal. Discrete
signals involved various combinations of voltages and currents.
Each signal type had a dedicated type of circuit board for the
individual signals.
Today, in a greenfield plant, most of the I/O supplied is on
some type of bus network. Brownfield plants are also installing
more bus I/O. However, with the large installed base of
tra-ditional 4-mA to 20-mA I/O, the transition is very slow.
Major expansions or revamps in brownfield
plants consider bus I/O when the sensors and final control
elements are also part of the project. There is also a growing
trend to adding more wireless I/O and associated field devices,
particularly for process and equipment monitoring
As the lines between automation and IT are blurring with
increasing usage of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) technology, the network
infrastructure of the DCS and the network architecture for
plant information are becoming increasingly more intertwined.
End users now often rely on the expertise of suppliers for
consulting to set up these networks in a safe and secure
DCS suppliers started incorporated server virtualization a
few years ago. Common uses of this technology include
engineering development and simulation for training.
Virtualization is not appropriate for all parts of the DCS.
Sometimes, the dedicated hardware will perform a given task
better than a virtual server. A good example is the real-time
process controller in a DCS, where speed, determinism and high
reliability are major design
considerations for the operation and safety of the plant.
Conversely, a virtual server performing many applications on
one box can be a good choice for offline applications such as
control configuration, simulation and training.
With more open and interoperable, largely COTS-based
automation systems, cyber security is becoming more important
as end users struggle with potential risks, both internal and
external to the DCS. Most suppliers now address this threat
with active programs, either inhouse or through partnerships.
As part of a defense-in-depth cyber-security
strategy, network fire walls and strategically placed switches
are required to help prevent the propagation of external
viruses and intrusions. Internal threats from disgruntled
employees or other internal access points must be addressed
with such things as USB locks and software to monitor internal
automation system network activity. Furthermore, network maintenance practices that are
common in the IT worldsuch as automatic software updates,
anti-virus updates and bug fixesmust be modified for the
mission-critical, 24/7 industrial environments in which DCSs typically
Just as people today find it hard to live without their
smartphones in their daily lives, increasingly, process
operators and production supervisors are relying on the ability
to access data anywhere, anytime to do their job
functions. DCS suppliers address this trend by supplying tablet
technology for roving operators and
smartphones for alerts and condition monitoring. This trend
toward increasing mobility will grow in importance in the
There has been much talk in the industry about developments
underway to move selected DCS applications to the
cloud, a reference to moving applications to remote,
Internet (public) or intranet (private) servers. However, the
control-automation industry is very conservative by nature,
and, presently, this trend is just talk. ARC believes that,
ultimately, selected DCS applications will migrate to private
and, in some cases, even public clouds. For now,
end users are wary. HP
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can you please name any dcs suppliers who have worked on mobility and are providing solutions for it?
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Very nice article. I am a little suprised that Barry did not mention ICSS In this article.
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I don't think that any Christian would disagree that Jesus Christ is the only way to God and to your inheritance. But what is man's responsibility? That's what this question is addressing.
What do I need to do in order to receive eternal life?
Answers may represent the views of any denomination or professing-Christian group, but should be backed up with scripture -- and please make answers comprehensive.


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Jefferson County voters have a difficult decision in the election for the Jan. 3 term of county commissioner.
Tom Gentile, the incumbent and a Democrat, is being challenged by Billy Petrella, a nonpartisan candidate.
We believe Gentile deserves the vote.
Gentile works well with his fellow commissioners, Thomas Graham and David Maple.
The commissioners have done good work during Gentile's four years as commissioner.
Gentile, 57, brings 35 years of business experience to the office, especially in the field of energy. He has experience in water, sewer and road construction and real estate development. His knowledge on the energy side is valuable at a time when oil and gas drilling is beginning to take off in the county. He knows the companies that are involved in the oil and gas industry.
As a licensed pilot, he has a clear idea of what is needed at the Jefferson County Airpark. He pushed for the county airport runway to be extended and widened so larger commercial jets can safely use the facility, and he worked hard to secure $1.5 million in state grants and got his fellow commissioners to pledge $500,000 in county money for the runway expansion.
Gentile also has pushed for the water system in the south end of the county to be upgraded. A new pumping station and water line will be built in the months ahead to, hopefully, bring water to residents who have been asking for it for years.
Gentile also meets with prospective business developers interested in coming into the county. Those meetings are aided by the fact that Gentile is an experienced business owner himself.
Also, Gentile has worked hard to end the misconception that the county is corrupt and mismanaged.
Petrella, 25, brings much to the table.
He has proven himself to be a sharp businessman and has a long histoy of community involvement through numerous boards and activities. He has been a good candidate, and has run a good campaign.
It's good to see younger people throw their hats into the political ring. While we are confident Petrella will continue to play an active role in our community, we encourage him to remain involved in politics.
In this race, though, our endorsement goes to Gentile..


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Newer Intel and AMD processors have hardware support for implementing AES using the instruction set AES-NI (instructions AESENC, AESKEYGENASSIST etc). Do you know of any clean example implementation using these instructions? In assembly (x86-64 or 32) or using wmmintrin.h (I use gcc and gas, but nasm is ok too).
I found a couple of implementations but they were cluttered with ifdefs and hard to follow macros. It would be nice to begin with a clean and easy to read implementation of, say, encrypting just one block using AES 128 and then build on from there.


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1a.Objectives (from AD-416):
To determine the influence of cranberry on risk factors for cardiovascular disease. Objective 2 "Determine the ability of plant-based dietary components to reduce oxidative stress, inflammation, DNA damage, glucoregulation, and blood pressure, and define the inter-individual variation in these responses as well as the genetic basis for the variation."
1b.Approach (from AD-416):
ARS will conduct a randomized clinical trial to investigate the effect of cranberry polyphenols on risk factors (such as inflammatory markers, lipids, lipoproteins, blood pressure) for cardiovascular disease. A cranberry extract will be used in order to conduct this study to ensure that the study is double blinded.
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Upgrading a Historical Building in Prague
by Madeline Friedman
Sep 18, 2014
NYU's global network is made up of academic centers across different cities with very different structures that were built in different years—some even in different centuries. Bringing state-of-the-art technology to these buildings can be a challenging prospect. The projects often have to use creative problem solving to be able to install modern technology in very old structures, as they recently did at NYU's Academic Center in Prague, Czech Republic.
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