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CHESHIRE — He was one hour away. Sixty minutes more and Pete DeBisschop would have made it into the NBA. And then, who knows?
At every other stop along his basketball career, the 6-foot-11 center from Cheshire had shown that, given an opportunity, he would do nothing except get better and better. So if he'd stuck with the Seattle SuperSonics back in October, 1983, there's no telling where he might have ended up.
Instead, two days before the regular season tip-off, with an hour to go before the midnight deadline, DeBisschop got a call in his hotel room asking him to go upstairs to coach Lenny Wilkens' suite.
There the fourth-round draft pick out of Fairfield University was informed he had just become the Sonics' last cut.
"They told me they'd brought in a guy named Steve Hayes. He was a veteran," recalled DeBisschop. "They said he had more experience and needed a job. That was a downer."
He didn't know it at the time, but it was also the high point of a remarkable career.
At Cheshire, he started under the tutelage of freshman coach Paul Pasqualoni, the future Syracuse and UConn football coach. DeBisschop split time between the varsity and JV as a sophomore, and his junior year was shortened by a broken leg.
But in 1979, with an all-senior starting five, the Rams advanced all the way to the Class L West Region final. They fell to Torrington, 54-51, thanks in part to shooting 7-of-19 at the foul line, and then were eliminated in the state quarterfinals by Warren Harding, 80-63, which rallied behind future college All-American John Bagley's 34 points.
A second-team All-Stater, DeBisschop averaged 22 points and 14 rebounds as a senior while scoring a then school-record 523 points for the season.
DeBisschop went to Fairfield and again came on strong after an unspectacular start. He started all but one game in his last two seasons for the Stags and was a two-time All-Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference pick. As a senior, he averaged team highs of 19.4 points and 8.5 rebounds.
Being 6-11 with a deadly shooting touch got him noticed by NBA scouts, and Seattle nabbed him in the fourth round. He didn't fare well at a pre-draft camp, though, and decided to spend the summer playing in Spain. When the Sonics called in the fall, DeBisschop was in the best shape of his life.
In a mid-October exhibition against the Houston Rockets, DeBisschop battled 7-4 Ralph Sampson, the No. 1 overall pick, to a draw. Sampson had 22 points and 13 rebounds to DeBisschop's 21 points and eight rebounds.
Only two years before, Fairfield had opened its season against Virginia. "I remember he dunked and the ball hit me in the head. I thought, 'How am I going to guard him?'" recalled DeBisschop. "To come back and play that well (in the NBA exhibition) was very rewarding."
There were other nights against NBA giants like Mark Eaton, Utah's 7-4, 290-pound mini-mountain, and the Showtime Lakers of Magic Johnson and James Worthy as DeBisschop survived one round of cuts after another. Until the final night. Until the final hour.
After being cut, he played in the CBA with the Albuquerque Silvers. Over the next two years, he competed in the NBA Summer League, with a touring team in Italy, and back in the CBA with the Tampa Bay Thrillers and, finally, the Bay State Bombardiers while hoping for another shot at the NBA.
In 1985, he retired and came home to Cheshire. "I had lost a little belief in myself. I realized what it was going to take to get back to that level. I was on my own and had to make money, and I wasn't able to devote the time to basketball that I needed," DeBisschop explained.
In 1986, he opened Pop's Pizza on West Main Street, a business he still runs today. Now 52, DeBisschop coached youth basketball for five years and the Cheshire freshmen for seven years until this season.
He still plays in a rec league in town — his teammates want to compete in the Senior Olympics — and still thinks, with a smile, about that night in 1983 when he was one hour away from making the NBA.
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New approach rethinks operations of crude and vacuum distillation units to recover more distillate
[clean fuels]
[crude oil]
[gas oil]
Refiners will face a tough challenge over the coming years
to cope with growing diesel demand at the expense of gasoline,
while conforming to the progressively tighter diesel fuel
specifications to meet environmental regulations. The more
stringent specifications are likely to hurt the overall diesel
yield due to possible rejection of heavy ends from the present
product spread.
Future diesel will have a narrower density band, lower cloud
point, lower T95 (D86) specification and less sulfur.
Therefore, aligning the existing refineries with progressively tighter diesel
specifications at a sustained diesel yield will be quite
challenging. Some recent compliance project experience is reported here;
the goal is to identify the most cost-effective and appropriate
modifications to an existing plant to achieve future diesel
specifications at a sustained production cost and rate. Project constraints prompted
applying engineering solutions rather than installing more
expensive process technology options that would have
required reconfiguring the existing refinery at high cost.
Finished diesel product in a refinery is a blend of various
distillate-grade streams, as shown in Fig. 1. A blend
optimization is performed with refinery blending simulation
software, utilizing the individual blend streams composition
and associated proportions in the pool for maximum diesel
production at the required market specifications. In a typical
refinery configuration, these blend constituents are produced
from the units, as illustrated in Fig. 2, and include:
Crude distillation unit (CDU).
This is the main source of straight-run (high-cetane) saturated
distillate-grade material to the pool.
Hydrocracker unit. The main source
for cracked but saturated distillate-grade material in a
refinery designed for higher diesel production.
Fluid catalytic cracking unit
(FCCU). This unit produces cracked unsaturated (poor
quality diesel) distillate material as a secondary product. The
intent of the unit is to produce mainly high-quality gasoline
or petrochemicals.
Coker unit. This unit also
produces cracked unsaturated poor-quality distillate-grade
material as a secondary product.
A typical refinery contains either an FCCU or a hydrocracker
unit, depending on whether higher gasoline or diesel production
is targeted. A review of Figs. 1 and 2 identifies the CDU and
vacuum distillation unit (VDU) as potential sources for
improving the diesel production by improving fractionation
performance. In particular, for older refineries, these may
have already been revamped to achieve greater throughput rates.
This improved fractionation may enable the operator to
compensate fully for the possible loss in diesel production due
to tighter future specifications.
It is quite challenging to upgrade the atmospheric
distillation column to achieve higher diesel recovery while
maintaining the stream cloud-point specification. In principle,
such upgrades tend to lift more diesel-grade material by
elevating the feed flash-zone temperature or stripping harder
in the CDU bottom section. These require the refiner to
implement several de-bottlenecking options, either individually
or collectively:
Maximizing utilization of crude-feed heater duty
and tactically upgrading the crude preheat train to maximize
the heat recovery to increase the crude column feed flash-zone
Rectifying CDU bottom stripping steam rate to
maximize diesel-grade material stripping from the atmospheric
residue. This may require upgrading the stripping section and
atmospheric gasoil (AGO) wash section (section between feed
flash zone and AGO pumparound) to avoid any possible fouling or
Maximizing diesel recovery by minimizing diesel
fraction overlap with AGO, kerosine and fractions.
Fig. 3 shows a typical configuration of an atmospheric crude
column bottom section. Increasing the CDU feed flash-zone
temperature for higher diesel lift also results in heavy
constituents lift, responsible for diesel cloud-point
specification. A typical overloaded existing crude column
cannot prevent these heavy tails entering into the diesel draw
stream. A similar limitation occurs when the column bottom
stripping steam rate is increased to enhance diesel recovery.
Further, these operational changes increase the columns
pressure drop due to the increased vapor traffic and suppress
the upgrades effectiveness to some extent.
Therefore, these operational changes should be accompanied
by some mechanical modifications in a typical crude column
bottom section, as suggested in Fig. 4, to obtain the desired
Controlled and optimum AGO wash rate will prevent heavy
tails carryover into AGO and diesel sections that would
otherwise occur at the increased feed flash-zone temperature
and at the increased stripping steam rate. An optimum AGO wash
rate minimizes valuable AGO loss from the wash section.
Replacing trays with packed beds will overcome the impact of
increased vapor loading on the column pressure drop. The
proposed modifications of Fig. 4 can provide several advantages
over the existing conventional atmospheric crude column:
A controlled AGO wash rate ensures uninterrupted
wetting of wash-section packing needed for trapping the heavy
tails, responsible for off-spec diesel product on cloud
A controlled AGO wash configuration provides
flexibility to optimize the stream flow to minimize valuable
AGO loss from the wash section. In general, the optimum AGO
wash rate is achieved by ensuring that the rate of liquid from
the wash section is approximately 33.5 mass% of the total
column feedrate.
A guaranteed performance of the wash section
enables optimizing stripping steam rate in the column bottom
for improving diesel and AGO recovery from the column bottom
stream while maintaining diesel cloud-point specification.
Depending on COT, 10 lb to 20 lb stripping steam per bbl of the
bottom product provides the optimum results.
Replacing trays with packing increases the
number of theoretical stages in the AGO and diesel sections,
which helps to minimize the distillation overlap between AGO and
diesel fractions.
Able to control diesel under-reflux flow to the
AGO section to control slippage of valuable diesel material in
the AGO fraction.
Increased diesel and AGO recovery improves the
crude preheat-train performance (extra heat available for
exchange) and also reduces feedrate to the VDU. The reduced VDU
feedrate lowers the total ambient heat lost via the vacuum
gasoil (VGO) air coolers, thus improving the overall heat
Reduced crude column bottom rate generates spare
duty in the VDU feed heater and the vacuum section for
minimizing the vacuum residue rate.
The proposed upgrade of the studied tower is able to
increase the diesel yield approximately 1.5 vol% to 2 vol% of
the total crude feedrate. The proposed upgrades have a
potential payback of three years.
Fig. 5 shows a typical dry VDU. A wet VDU (stripping steam
in the column bottom) is almost taken over by dry VDU once high
vacuum generation and low pressure drop internals became
feasible. No stripping steam in the column bottom makes the dry
VDU column smaller in diameter and also requires a smaller
vacuum section as compared to the wet VDU.
The usual intent of a VDU in refinery is to recover the VGO
fraction from the CDU bottom stream by separating the fuel-oil
grade from the heavy tails. The recovered VGO fractions are
processed further in downstream conversion units into a more
valuable diesel or gasoline products. VGO is coarsely separated
into heavy VGO (HVGO) and light VGO (LVGO) in the column upper
section to provide required quality wash oil (HVGO) to HVGO
wash section and also to minimize the column top section
diameter. Thereafter, LVGO and HVGO combined streams are
usually sent to either the hydrocracker or FCC units for
further processing.
A typical dry VDU has approximately eight theoretical stages
in total, almost equally distributed in all four sections,
i.e., the slop-oil wash section, HVGO wash section, HVGO
section and LVGO section. The slop-oil wash section is an
optional feature considered in some VDUs; it is used to further
ensure that the heavy metals are retained in the slop oil,
thereby eliminating contamination of the VGO stream.
Traditionally, VDUs are not designed for sharp separation
between HVGO and LVGO. This can be clearly seen in a
performance data plotted for a typical existing VDU in Fig. 7.
This VDU was receiving lighter than the usual feed due to
inadequate lift in the CDU feed flash zone, caused by the poor
performance of the crude preheat train and a reduced stripping
steam rate in the column bottom to maintain the diesel
side-draw stream cloud-point specification. The reduced
stripping rate had resulted in fouling/coking in the CDU stripping section,
thereby causing further deterioration of the overall
Poor performance in the CDU could be compensated by
upgrading the downstream VDU for enhanced diesel recovery. For
example, an existing VDU modification can be justified if the
upstream CDU is upgraded for a higher diesel recovery.
Cost-effective modifications of an existing CDU can reduce
diesel loss in the bottom stream significantly but not
completely. Furthermore, a CDU fractionation efficiency cannot
be stretched beyond a certain limit. Therefore, it has been
observed that even a reasonably well-performing existing CDU in
post-upgrade operation can slip diesel-grade material into the
bottoms in sufficient quantity to justify the downstream VDU
upgrades to recover the diesel. This upgrade option will not
only compensate for the diesel-product loss due to the tighter
specifications, but also may improve the refinerys
overall economics by increasing diesel recovery.
The VDU upgrades proposed in Fig. 6 (shown in red) can be
explained as:
Tripling HVGO section theoretical stages for
sharp separation (reduced overlap) between HVGO and LVGO. In
this scenario, LVGO was essentially the diesel-grade
Hot LVGO under-reflux (P1 new) to HVGO top
section to maximize the diesel recovery in the LVGO section
while maintaining the stream cloud-point specification.
Doubling of the LVGO section theoretical stages
reduces LVGO pumparound (P1) rate by achieving a close
temperature approach between the vapor inlet and the liquid
leaving the LVGO section.
This study shows that future diesel specifications can be
met at sustained production rates, provided that refiners
reorient their distillation operations to improve the diesel
separation in CDU and VDU. This concept will allow refiners to
improve diesel production while also meeting future
specification at the nominal upgrade CAPEX. A similar distillation approach in the
existing residual FCC or hydrocracker fractionation sections
may further improve overall refinery diesel production.
Special thanks to Graeme Cox, Uhde Shedden chief technology and sustainability officer; Patrick
Cadenhouse-Beaty, Uhde Shedden manager of refining technology; and Richard
OBeirne, Uhde Shedden chief process engineer refining, for reviewing and
providing their valuable feedback to shape this article into
its present form.
1 Singh, D. and S. Van
Wagensveld, Redesign crude preheater train for
efficiency, Hydrocarbon Processing, May 2007,
pp. 9194.
All comments are subject to editorial review.
All fields are compulsory.
Thanks for agreeing that Fig-4 needs correction.Regarding Author's comment that "Diesel under reflux will be very small stream", please note that the Diesel under-reflux would be equal to the entire total of entire AGO + CDU Bottoms. Diesel under-reflux would thus be roughly be 35-40% of the CDU feed (depending on crude source), and nearly same as the diesel production.Hence, even if we modify the Fig-4 by having only under-reflux going via the stripper, that too is doubling the flow profiles in the diesel stripper - and would certainly require replacement of diesel stripper + pump aswell as replacement of the column overhead system to handle the additional steam + stripped vapor flow.Based on experience from having perfoemd several CDU/VDU revamps, I would advise this revamp study be checked beyond the study stage. Checking the mechanical adequacy of equipment is best done alongside the simulations, to prevent such scenarios.
The author's responses to those points:1. Diesel under reflux will be very small stream to prevent AGO tails (responsible for diesel higher cloud point) carryover in diesel section. As far as diesel pump around is concern, it should be as per Fig-3 (Fig-4 should be corrected accordingly).2. Answer as above3. Answer as aboveBased on the field experience the flow controlled option is observed to be very effective, especially when refinery throughput is varied.
Revamp as suggested in the article in Fig-4, would be un-workable on following counts :1. Figure-4 suggests entire diesel pumparound be re-routed via the stripper & pumped by the stripped diesel pump. Pumparound flow would be many-a-times larger than diesel product flow, and this re-route would require many-a-times bigger diameter stripper than the existing one.2. Liquid flow increase by several times in the stripper, would require proportionately higher stripping steam flowrates, and simple simulation would reveal that the magnified steam consumption would make the overhead condensor ciruit also insufficient.3. Stripped diesel product pump would also magnify in size.Secondly, article's emphasis is on AGO wash rate to be controlled by a controller.But flow controlling the wash rate doesn't provide the operator any additional flexibility, as the wash rate is simply the balance dependent upon associated parameters like COT, draw rates etc.Just "measurement" of the wash rate is sufficient, for the operator to know the quantity and do the needful COT or product rate adjustments.
Good article looking to current enviornment regulations and incressing demand of fuel.
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A 14-year old boy died in a one-vehicle accident eight miles east of Augusta Saturday night.
Corbin Collier of Goddard died early Sunday morning after an accident where a 2004 Dodge pickup left Highway 54 and rolled at about 10 p.m., Saturday.
Three Augusta teens were also in the truck when it crashed.
The 16-year old diver, Caiden Garrison, was wearing a seatbelt and was not injured.
Keaton Favreau, a 17-year old passenger from Augusta was also wearing a seatbelt. His injuries required him to be taken to Wesley Medical Center in Wichita along with Kendall Davis, an 18-year old from Augusta. Davis was also wearing a seatbelt when the wreck occurred.
Collier was not wearing a seatbelt, according to the Kansas Highway Patrol's report.
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Lee has his sights set on a spot along East Passyunk Avenue's booming restaurant row.
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It's just one of the latest restaurants to open in the neighborhood.
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I have used a mix between the actual rechargeable battery back, and the 'psyclone gaming' batteries (usually found at Target or Best Buy in the US).
I am starting to get annoyed, because the Microsoft batteries and chargers I think use a special 'chip' in them, and therefore the charging station can't charge the off brand batteries. To make matters worse, the charger I have for the off brand batteries has failed as well.
I want to know if the Microsoft batteries are worth the premium in cost, or if I am missing something. Also, where is the best place to get batteries?


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In a few days I'm flying to Amsterdam. We will spend there a fun weekend as I repeatedly mentioned in previous questions. But nevertheless a little bit of sightseeing is also necessary. I don't know a lot about Amsterdam, so I'm looking forward for typical sightseeing suggestions. So far, I have only one point on my list, the "Anne Frank Huis".
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Definitely plan for strolls along the canals, and possibly a canal tour.
Amsterdam has many major art museums, and I recommend visiting at least some of them, even if you're not generally fond of staring at paintings (I'm not). The two most important ones are the Rijksmuseum and the Van Gogh Museum (they are practically next door to each other, on the Museumplein), then possibly Rembrandt's house. Also consider the Hermitage Amsterdam, which shows collections from the Hermitage Museum, rotating every few months. If you're into modern art, don't miss the Stedelijk, normally also on the Museumplein but currently closed with its collections travelling from temporary location to temporary location.
If you're interested in history, apart from Anne Frank's house (whose value is more as a memento than to see unique artifacts or presentations), the major museums are the Amsterdam (history) Museum, the National Maritime Museum (Het Scheepvaartmuseum), and perhaps the Jewish Historical Museum. Also consider the Palace and the major churches and the Portuguese Synagogue (worth at least a quick visit). Somewhat lesser known, but definitely interesting, is the Tropenmuseum, a large ethnological museum (as it is located somewhat off the beaten path, you may not be able to fit it into a three-day visit).
For the young and hip crowd, Amsterdam also has some less conventional places to visit. You can tour the old Heineken brewery just south of the central district. Depending on your tastes, you might visit the Hash, Marihuana and Hemp Museum, the Tattoo Museum, the Torture Museum, the Eroticism Museum, or the Sex Museum.
Given your posting history, I guess you'll want to have dinner in the station/Dam area then head east into the main red light district (worth a visit even if you aren't interested in the wares).
I very strongly recommend getting a museum pass. Partly because you won't have any qualms visiting a minor museum for only half an hour, but most importantly because the major museums can have very long queues, which you can completely bypass if you have free entry. Some museums now allow you to buy tickets online in advance, but not all, and this requires planning. For up to three days in Amsterdam, get the I Amsterdam Card, which includes free transportation on board the trams (and buses and metro) and free entrance to most major and many minor museums. For a longer stay in the Netherlands, get the Museumkaart¹, which grants free entrance to all public museums (which is most of them) in the whole country, and purchase transportation separately. There's also the Holland Pass, which may concievably be worth it in odd circumstances. You can buy the tourist passes (but not the Museumkaart) at the tourist office outside the central station (only until 18:00 on Friday and Saturday, 17:00 otherwise), at the Schiphol airport, in the participating museums (tip: if you're on the Museumplein, the Diamond Museum is just opposite the Rijksmuseum on the Van Gogh Museum side, and there's hardly ever a queue) and other locations.
Depending on your tastes, you'll either mostly travel on foot and in trams, or cycle (there are plenty of bicycle rental places).
Finally, as Amsterdam has many things to offer and you won't have time to see them all, I recommend getting a guidebook on paper (or e-book) and planning your stay.
¹ For some reason, many guidebooks don't mention the Museumkaart, even though it is good value if you're spending more than a week-end in the country. Although the website is in Dutch, the card is not reserved to residents.
Amsterdam is a relative small city, you can basically tour around for just 1 day.
Amsterdam has much to offer. When I lived there, I always took visiting friends on a boat trip through the canals. In about 1 hour you get a nice overview over the city.
You could also consider the "5 hours in Amsterdam question on this forum.
You already found the "Anna frank huis", so I guess you already have some travelguides.
If you are looking for something odd and the weather permits, you could consider renting a bicycle and go to Marken Island. If you exit the city on the Schellingwouderbrug, and you follow the waterside, you have a very nice typical dutch scenery. Also you can experience the sensation of the land being below the waterline.
It will depend on the time of year obviously but the easiest thing to do is just to rent a bike and bike around.
The above posts cover a lot, but I would also recommend venturing outside of Amsterdam into the countryside - there are some amazing sites to see (like the traditional windmills Holland is known for!) Check out this tour which is my very favourite, but would probably work best if you are going during the warmer months: Aside from that, a dinner cruise on a canal boat definitely does credit to night time Amsterdam - the canals and bridges are lit up and the spectacle is mesmerizing. Hope you have a great time!
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Have you seen the new BMW Ultimate Gaming Mouse?
Looks pretty cool. I want one for my desk at the office - not much of a gamer.
Gamers everywhere will go gaga for perhaps the greatest gaming mouse ever released. Best Part? It looks like a Tron supercar.
It's not available for purchase yet. :-(
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Thanks, but I'm not interested. Gaming mice are easy to find, especially here. Your example is apparently a prototype, not for sale.
I can't imagine an uglier mouse. They've set the bar pretty high.
@samstag: I disagree. I actually find the look appealing. However, given the hype (and considering the manufacturer), I'm sure the slight difference in feel and performance wouldn't justify the price tag that I assume this will have.
There's no way it's any better than a RAT-9, and the rat looks like Batman's ride. That said, I quit using a mouse last year and have no regrets. Then again, I am not a gamer.
the "air-through ventilation system" sounds pretty cool. good for sweaty palms apparently
It looks cool, but with BMW, it's probably going to be outrageously overpriced.
@rprebel: Woah, that's a crazy looking mouse!
@samstag: Check out the RAT-9 sometime then.
Me, I'm good with a Logitech MX-518.
@captainsuperdawg: I read it's going to be around $99. Overpriced? I guess it depends on what you think the whole package is worth. It's super customizable and has different LEDs!!! (I know, awesome right?) for different setups. I can't see myself spending that sort of cash on a mouse but I know there are guys that won't think anything of dropping $2500 on a gaming rig. What's another $100?
I just got the R.A.T.-9 and seeing that it was made by mad-catz (yes the company that makes horrendous knock off peripheral's) almost instantly gave me buyers remorse, seeing this mouse has tripled it... Thank goodness I am still within the 30 day return window.


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There used to be a public link to the JTC 1/SC 32 working drafts of 9075:2003, but the link I had has not worked since they started on the post-2003 revisions. Given that there are publicly available copies of many of their other specifications (11179-1:2004, for example), I'm wondering if any one knows of any ways to legally get access to the ISO/IEC 9075 specifications. Perhaps there is a link to the working drafts, or a Foundation that provides access to it for something less than the roughly $3000 USD it would cost me to learn SQL from the standards body instead of relying on implementation-specific books and documentation.
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The formal spec is about the worst choice you can make for a resource if your purpose is (quote) "to learn SQL".
I'd advise you to learn SQL "the normal way", and keep it in the back of your head that there is such a thing as a standard version of the language, and keep it in the back of your head that many implementations can get really rather grotesque in their deviations from and omissions from and extensions to the standard.
"and wanted to branch out to understanding which parts of those engine-specific dialects are actually part of the standards, and which parts are not."
That sheds a bit of an other light on your question. The following, though not entirely "gratis", but much less expensive than the full print, might be of help :
"The five parts of SQL:2011 were published yesterday (which for my current time was 2011-12-15). The documents can be found in the ISO web store using:
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I have Ubuntu 11.10 and hibernate isn't working on this machine.
I looked at this post and after the string
# swap was on /dev/….. nothing appears.
I cannot find the file:
/usr/lib/hal/scripts/linux/hal-system-power-suspend-linux. Moreover,
s2disk does not work properly and the computer cannot hibernate.
Now I cannot even shut down the system - the process does not complete. I need to press the power button every time.


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Kristen Clarke '00
Standing Tall
As a high-ranking member of the New York State Attorney General's office, Kristen Clarke '00 is tasked with protecting New Yorkers against discrimination. For Clarke, this responsibility is more than a job—it is a life's calling from which she rarely takes a break.
One of the Brooklyn native's more rewarding activities outside of work, she says, is giving presentations on civil rights at her son's grade school. "Hearing other parents say that some of the lessons I've shared have stuck with the children makes it especially meaningful," says Clarke, who heads the state attorney general's civil rights bureau.
An election law expert, Clarke joined the state attorney general's office this past August after serving for five years as co-director of the political participation group at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, where she helped fend off two separate constitutional challenges to key sections of the Voting Rights Act.
In a 2009 Supreme Court case, Clarke served on the litigation team that successfully argued against a challenge originating in Texas to Section 5 of the act, which requires states and counties with records of discrimination to secure federal approval prior to changing election procedures. She also successfully argued a case that resulted in a federal court's dismissal of an Alabama lawsuit challenging the same provision. That case ultimately may reach the Supreme Court.
Now handling discrimination cases of all stripes—including those involving housing, education, and employment—Clarke says civil rights violations remain a threat to the goal of equality. "Decades after these important [anti-discrimination] laws were enacted, we still need them more than ever," she says.


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salute her when her birthday comes.
I am a very lucky girl.
Here's how it went down: A raucous island party on a remote Sumatran lake, my 25th birthday, a long out-of-touch middle school friend, local palm wine, a traditional Indonesian skirt, and a seriously kickass time.
To rewind a bit–a few months ago I reconnected with an old friend and as two international expats from our rural Oregon town, we had everything in common. He was planning a trip out to Indonesia to meet his new step-family, and B and I were in need of a tropical scene and renewed visas.
A bit of simple planning and a couple short flights later, we (re)met, had a beer, chewed the fat, and meshed into the ideal traveling trio.
We spent the next week on this Sumatran island: A supremely clean lake to jump a few meters from our front door, motorbikes to troll the mountain villages on, a plethora of fresh pineapple juice and avocados and a crew of local and traveling friends.
For my birthday, a week into our Indonesian travels, these two amazing, kind and often ridiculous boys pulled off a pretty spectacular evening complete with chocolate cake, too much fun, and a serenading local band that made this far-from-home-girl feel perfectly loved.
So, to my two favorite tank-top clad boys: terimakasih.


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It is a cottered crank. Crank arms themselves don't seem to be bent. It is a non-cartridge style spindle. Any ideas as to why they are not lining up?
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Like you said, they are cottered, what makes them aligned is that pin through a hole, which at the same time tightens the crank arm around the axle.
If you google "cottered crank", you can see the spindle, which has a slot in each side.
My hypothesis would be: or the cottering bold got deformed, or the spindle slot itself got deformed, or both.
A bolder hypothesis would be twisting of the spindle due to deformation or cracking, but most probably the bearings would not spin freely (how are the cranks spinning, by the way?)
The side which appears on your photo looks OK from outside, the other side we cannot tell.
But for sure this is a VERY irregular situation, which demand a full disassembly of the system, and absolutely no use before that.
Looking at the photo I notice that the nut is missing,an indication that it has been worked on at some point. With the right side pedal in the 9 o'clock position the nut side of the pin will face up verify that the leftarm pin has the nut on the bottom.Several size pins were used and it is possible that you have two different sizes.I have several cottered cranks and it seems that there is no standard as far as which direction the pin goes on which side but they are always facing in opposite directions.
One of the cotter pins is in backwards. I did that once by accident when reassembling. It's easy to fix - take the nut off, tap the pin out with a hammer, then insert it in the opposite direction from what it was before.


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Cardinal Equivalence Theorem
For each boolean formula, |quantifications| = |assignments|.
The set of valid quantifications has some cardinality, call that |Q(B)|. The set of satisfying assignments has some cardinality, call that |P(B)|. Those two numbers are equal, |Q(B)| = |P(B)|, range from 0 through 2^n.
Question one: Does anyone know the theorem by any other name?
++ Variable order
Changing the order of the variables of B changes the particulars
of each set, but their cardinalities are still the same.
If we knew more precisely what swapping two variables does to the previously valid set of quantifications, then perhaps some form of Zipper Theorem could Be. However, my competency with quantifiers is less than necessary or sufficient to even compose any informally stated Zipper Theorem.
++ Question two:
Linear Corollary: Monotone QBFs are linearly decidable.
I only know this result as a followup to the Cardinal Equivalence. Is there a well known name for the Linear Corollary as a theorem?
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8 Exotic Superfoods to Boost Your Immune System
Extracts from acai berries may destroy cancer cells, particularly those associated with leukemia.
Acai berries (pronounced ah-sigh-ee) are grown on the palm trees in the Amazon rainforest of northern Brazil. The name of the game with acai berries is pure antioxidant and nutrient power.
They fight leukemia. A well-known study, done by the University of Florida, found that extracts of the acai berry destroyed human cancer cells grown in a lab. More studies are needed to confirm its effects, but this step is definitely in the right direction.
They reduce inflammation. One of the best things that acai berries can do for you, due to the large amounts of anthocyanins they contain, is reduce inflammation associated with chronic diseases. Heart disease, cancer, diabetes, arthritis, fatigue syndromes, digestive discomforts, aches, and pains are all helped by reducing inflammation.
They shield your heart against disease. The pulp of acai berries has deep healing agents that contain antioxidants and fiber that reduces cholesterol — and keeps your digestive system healthy to boot!


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Session Report: JSR 341: Expression Language 3.0
By Janice J. Heiss on Sep 24, 2013
Ed Burns, Consulting Member of Technical Staff, and Kinman Chung, Principle Member of Technical Staff, both at Oracle, presented a session on Monday in which they described new features in JSR 341, Expression Language (EL) 3.0. They discussed the APIs for the use of EL in standalone environments and EL syntax for new operators, plus lambda expressions, and support for collection objects, all the while offering copious code illustrations.
Burns remarked that he was pleased that Java Champion and JavaOne Rock Star Adam Bien had referred to EL 3.0 as "the hidden gem of Java EE". "I don't know how hidden it is," said Burns, "but I think it's a gem."
He discussed the origins of EL, which has a long and active history in the Java platform. EL began in 2004 as part of the Java Standard Tag Library (JSTL 1.0), moved to JSP 2.0 in 2006, and became an independent specification with JSR 341 in 2011. It is used in JSF, CDI, and Avatar. Now, 9 years after its inception, it is an independent specification that is heavily used in JSF.
Burns observed that the presence of EL is the key differentiator between Java server and non-java server stacks. "Java server-based web frameworks are likely to use EL," said Burns. "When you show someone who is not familiar with EL how easy it is to move things together from disparate parts of your application, it's very compelling."
The most important feature that EL 3 brings is lambda expressions – developers do not have to wait until Java SE 8 is released. It all runs on Java EE 7, which requires Java SE 7 -- which means that it is currently available. Burns gave a brief discussion of lambda expressions, which basically behave like an anonymous function -- lambdas in EL are EL expressions. They offer full access to the EL environment within the body of the EL lambda expression, something not available from Java SE lambdas. "You won't be able to refer to other EL things from a plain old SE lambda expression," said Burns.
The goal of EL 3 is to provide greater expressive power for applications and to use it outside of Java EE. Burns and Chung provided an overview of collection operations and explained EL's support for stand-alone environments. EL 3 is easy to use outside of Java EE and provides standard data structures: ELContext; ELResolvers; and local variable and function repositories.
They explained that it enables direct EL operations and has: EL expression evaluation; Bean definition; and Function definition. They emphasized that other key parts of Java EE can also be used standalone, such as: Bean Validation; Persistence (JPA); and Contexts and Dependency Injection (CDI). They encouraged developers to consider the possibilities for cloud deployment in: Defining functions and variables and defining beans.
They spent the rest of the session illustrating their key points with a healthy dose of code.
Links and Downloads:
* JSR 341: http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=341
Download spec and API javadocs
* Project home: https://java.net/projects/el-spec/
Report spec bugs or RFE for el.next
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On page 43 of the pdf given as reference 2 at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AKS_primality_test, the authors mention that this can be done in almost cubic time with Newton's method, although I can't figure out how this would work. I do know about almost-linear time multiplication.
(this is theoretical enough that I'm guessing it goes here rather than on stackoverflow)


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Disable JDBC object wrapping in GlassFish
By frank.closheim on Dec 11, 2013
oracle.ifs.core.agents.InboundQueueListenerAgent [39] WARNING: Error while processing incoming message.
oracle.ifs.common.IfsException: IFS-13001: Unable to dequeue message
java.lang.ClassCastException: com.sun.gjc.spi.jdbc40.ConnectionWrapper40 cannot be cast to oracle.jdbc.OracleConnection
How to Disable JDBC Object Wrapping in GlassFish
It is required to disable JDBC object wrapping when using a data source for CMSDK 22.214.171.124. These instructions are for GlassFish 3.1.1 or above, as we don't support earlier versions of GlassFish with CMSDK.
To disable wrapping of JDBC objects using the Administration Console:
- In the Domain Structure tree, expand Resources, then expand JDBC.
- Select JDBC Connection Pool in the tree structure.
- On the Summary of JDBC Connection Pool page, click the connection pool name that your data source is based on.
- Select the Advanced: Edit JDBC Connection Pool Advanced Attributes tab.
- In Wrap JDBC Objects, deselect the checkbox to disable wrapping.
- Click Save.
This change does not take effect immediately—it requires that the data source be redeployed or the server be restarted.
In Oracle GlassFish Server this property can also be modified in the
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Plaster Hand and Footprints
- Patch plaster or plaster of Paris
- 1 1/4 cups water
- Tin can
- Mixing spoon
- Paper plates
- Picture hook (optional)
- To make the plaster mix, stir two cups of patch plaster or plaster of Paris and one and a quarter cups water in a tin can.
- The mixture should be as thick as pea soup so it can cast without air bubbles.
- Plaster of Paris dries in about ten to twenty minutes, while patch plaster takes twenty to forty minutes to dry.
- To make a cast of your child's hand or footprint, pour one inch of plaster mix into a paper plate.
- Wait two minutes for plaster of Paris, six minutes for patch plaster.
- Have your child press her hand or foot gently into the plaster.
- The imprint should not go to the bottom of the plate.
- Hold for one to two minutes and remove.
- Let the imprint sit overnight, then peel the plate from the print.
- If you like, glue a picture hook to the back and hang the print on your child's wall.
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Women's Health
Tall Women Linked to Greater Cancer Risk
July 20, 2011 -- Taller women are at greater risk for many types of cancers compared with shorter women, a new study suggests.
In the study, cancer risk rose by about 16% for every 4-inch increase in height. The risk of total cancer increased with height, as did the risk of many different types of cancer including breast, ovary, uterine, and colon cancer as well as leukemia and melanoma, a potentially fatal form of skin cancer.
The findings appear online in the Lancet Oncology.
Several studies have linked height to cancer risk, but the precise nature of the relationship is still poorly understood. "Growth hormones are one theory [as] they have been linked to both height and cancer risk in childhood or in adult life, or tall people may simply have a greater chance of cancerous cell changes, because they have more cells," says study researcher Jane Green of the Cancer Epidemiology Unit at the University of Oxford, U.K., in an email.
Height and Cancer
Green and colleagues looked at the relationship between height and cancer among 1.3 million middle-aged women who were enrolled between 1996 and 2001. During an average follow-up of 10 years, there were 97,376 cases of cancer.
Women were grouped into six categories based on their height when they were recruited into the study. The tallest women were about 5 feet 10 inches or taller and the shortest women in the study measured about 5 feet 1 inch or less. There were about 8 and 1/4 inches between the tallest and shortest women in the study; the average height was between 5 feet 3 inches and 5 feet 4 inches.
Taller women were at higher risk for all cancers, and this increased risk was seen regardless of the year they were born, socioeconomic status, body mass index, alcohol intake, physical activity, age when they began menstruating, use of oral contraceptive and hormone replacement therapy, and other factors that are known to affect cancer risk.
The increased risk associated with height was lower for smoking-related cancers among current smokers, the study showed.
The researchers also combined their results with those from 10 previous studies to show that the findings also hold across Europe, North America, Australia, and Asia.
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I would like to try out Linux but I did not find how to format c while installing.
There are 3 requirements at the beginning:
- 2.6 (?) GB storage
- Internet - this is ok
- And something else I have forgotten
Could somebody help me?
I would like to try out Linux but I did not find how to format c while installing.
There are 3 requirements at the beginning:
Could somebody help me?
Quick educational lesson in disk formats for you: under linux (and many other unices) the file system is virtual in the sense that you have several block devices (partitions on your hard disk) and these are all mounted into a tree. For example, on my system I have:
Most distribution's installers won't present information to you in terms of a C: drive because they have no such concept - they're just partitions that can be mounted into the tree.
Windows itself has a different take on partitions - each partition it can read it assigns a drive letter - starting with C: (historically because A: and B: were for two floppy drives).
So, from the perspective of installing Linux, most linux installers will offer you the chance to alter partitions via something like gparted (I think the Ubuntu/Fedora installers hide this under a "custom" option) and then decide where you want to "mount" them - that is, what folder in the VFS tree that partition will store data for.
You can install Linux and Windows alongside each other. Many installers should offer you the option to do this; alternatively, you can manually set this up yourself.
On a side note - it sounds like you're about to destroy a Windows install. You might prefer to try Linux via a Live CD for a bit before hand just to see what it is like - other alternatives include virtual machine software for trying Linux on Windows.


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How do you prove that a line bundle (vector bundle of rank 1) on $S^2$ is isomorphic to the trivial line bundle? Can you give a reference?
How do you prove that a line bundle (vector bundle of rank 1) on $S^2$ is isomorphic to the trivial line bundle? Can you give a reference?
Since $GL(1,\mathbf R)$ and the symmetric group $S_2$ are homotopy equivalent as topological groups, there is a bijective correspondence between isomorphism classes of real line bundles and double covers. It follows that a simply connected space has no nontrivial real line bundles.
In general, there is a bijection $$\Phi \colon [S^{k-1}, \textrm{GL}_n^+(\mathbb{R})] \to \textrm{Vect}_+^n(S^k),$$ where $[X,Y ]$ denotes the set of homotopy classes of continous maps from $X$ to $Y$ and $\textrm{Vect}_+^n(Z)$ denotes the set of isomorphism classes of real (oriented) vector bundles of rank $n$ on $Z$.
Using the retraction of $\textrm{GL}_n^+(\mathbb{R})$ onto $\textrm{SO}(n)$ one obtains another bijection $$\Psi \colon [S^{k-1}, \textrm{SO}(n)] \to \textrm{Vect}_+^n(S^k).$$
In the case of line bundles we have $n=1$ and $\textrm{SO}(1)$ is just a point, hence the bijection $\Psi$ shows that any orientable real line bundle on $S^k$ is trivial. Furthermore, it is not difficult to prove that when $k \geq 2$ any real vector bundle on $S^k$ is orientable, so any real line bundle is trivial.
Notice that this is not true for $S^1$, where there is an orientable bundle (the trivial one) and a nonorientable one (the Moebius band).
Similar methods of classification can be applied to the case of complex vector bundles in order to show that $S^2$ admits nontrivial complex line bundles.
In fact, one finds that there is a bijection $$\Phi_{\mathbb{C}} \colon [S^{k-1}, \textrm{GL}_n(\mathbb{C})] \to \textrm{Vect}_{\mathbb{C}}^n(S^k).$$ For $n=1$, moreover, there is a bijection between $[S^{k-1}, \textrm{GL}_1(\mathbb{C})]$ and $H^2(S^k, \mathbb{Z})$. In particular, if $k \neq 2$ the only complex line bundle on $S^k$ is the trivial one, whereas if $k =2$ there is a discrete family $\{L_t \}$ of non-isomorphic complex line bundles, parametrized by $t \in \mathbb{Z}$. In fact, viewing $S^2$ as the Riemann sphere with complex coordinate $z$, the transiction function of $L_t$ is $z^t$.
For further details you can look at Hatcher's book Vector bundles and K-theory, Chapter 1.
Another solution is to consider clutching functions. The sphere $S^2$ is obtained by gluing two disks along their boundaries, it is not hard to prove that the information is encoded by a continuous map: $$f:S^1\rightarrow GL_1(\mathbb{R})$$ and that we have a map: $$[S^1,GL_1(\mathbb{R})]\rightarrow Vect^1(S^2)$$ where on the left hand side you have homotopy classes of clutching functions and on the right hand side you have isomorphism classes of real line bundles over $S^2$. As our continuous map $f$ is homotopic to a constant map the associated vector bundle is trivial. In general for $n$-dimensional real vector bundles over $S^k$ you will have a map: $$[S^{k-1},GL_n(\mathbb{R})]\rightarrow Vect^n(S^k).$$ This map becomes a bijection when you consider oriented vector bundles.
edit: I just realize that I write my post at the same time as Francesco.
Along the same lines. Rank $1$ real vector bundles over a compact CW complex $X$ are all pullbacks of the tautological line bundle over $\mathbb{RP}^\infty$. The space of isomorphism classes of such bundles can be identified with the space $[X,\mathbb{RP}^\infty]$ of homotopy classes of continuous maps $X\to \mathbb{RP}^\infty$. Since $\mathbb{RP}^\infty$ is the Eilenberg-MacLane space $K(\mathbb{Z}/2, 1)$ (the universal cover $S^\infty$ is contractible) we deduce that $[X,\mathbb{RP}^\infty]$ can be identified with the cohomology group $H^1(X,\mathbb{Z}/2)$. When $X=S^2$ this group is trivial.


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5 Myths About the Revolutionary War Everyone Believes
Since fictional superheroes usually get cool origin stories, it makes sense that an actual global superpower needs to have one. Luckily for the United States, the Revolutionary War was precisely such a tale. Bloody, heroic, and seasoned with all kinds of awesome, the entire eight-year period was dripping with fantastic stories and scrappy underdog moments.
Or was it?
#5. The War Was Between the Colonists and the British
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The Myth
Myth? It's the goddamn American Revolution. Sure, the French stepped in late in the game, but by the time they bothered to put down their baguettes and wine, the colonists had already proven they were a solid bet. Even after the Americans won at Saratoga, French assistance was, well, French: underwhelming and plagued by indecision.
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"Don't mind us. We're just here to critique your fashion."
The Reality
In the centuries since the Revolutionary War, French contributions have been criminally downplayed. Somewhere between the real Yorktown and Mel Gibson's rather less accurate version, The Patriot, the monumental French war effort during the birth of America got forgotten, buried in the sand, and pissed on.
The truth is, the 13 colonies would never have earned their freedom without French intervention -- the whole battle for American independence was essentially a proxy war between Britain and France. To the French, America was nothing but another theater in their grand blood feud against Britain. They were all about making the Englishmen eat every last available dick, and since they noticed they could use the colonists' struggle for independence as a handy feeding pen, that's exactly what they did.
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But at least they took it well, as seen by their refusal to pose in a painting commemorating a treaty signing.
France began providing arms and ammunition as early as 1776 (the war started in 1775). In early 1777, months before Saratoga, the French sent American colonists 25,000 uniforms and pairs of boots, hundreds of cannons, and thousands of muskets -- all stuff that the colonists would've had a hard time surviving without, and all stuff they had no access to on their own. And that was just the tip of the iceberg: From supplies to advice to military reinforcements, France exercised all the fiscal restraint of a drunk businessman at a strip club when it came to funding the American war.
France provided a whopping 90 percent of the rebels' gunpowder. Let that sink in for a second. Without France, the entire American Revolution would have devolved into a bunch of dudes swinging their muskets as clubs within weeks.
Still, the most important French contribution to the revolution (or, if you're British, their ultimate dick move) was the least visible to Americans. As mentioned, the reason France pampered the Patriots was always selfish. They were out to weaken the British forces -- particularly their naval strength -- in order to take the fight to them, perhaps even conquer them. That's why, for much of the Revolutionary War, the British ships tasked with kicking America's ass had to survive 12 rounds with the French navy before they could even think of crossing the Atlantic. France gleefully fought the British, eventually teaming up with Spain, declaring a war, attacking from all sides, and even setting up an invasion force. In those battles, America's independence was a fart in the desert.
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"We're not touching you, we're not touching you ... why are you hitting yourself?"
So, when the Colonial army was fighting for dear freedom, history books tend to conveniently forget that they did so with French money, equipment, and backup forces, while France and its other allies were busy pummeling the empire from every other side.
#4. Molly Pitcher, the Cannon Heroine
The Myth
Molly Pitcher (whose real name may or may not have been Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley) was the wife of a Colonial artilleryman. Not content with just swooning in the background while the men did the fighting, she proved herself to be as badass as any colonist warrior by entering the Battle of Monmouth. She started the fight by carrying water for the soldiers, but when her husband fell, Molly immediately jumped behind his cannon and calmly proceeded to rain hellfire at the Englishmen for the rest of the battle. Tons of paintings and historical accounts depict her fearlessly cannon-bombing the Brits.
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"So, um ... I noticed you're single now, and I was just wondering ..."
The Reality
While several women certainly served in military roles during the Revolutionary War, there never was a Molly Pitcher.
Despite what 80 percent of U.S. history textbooks will tell you, that person never existed -- at least, not as the warrior heroine we know. It appears her cannon antics are pure legend, written into existence by patriotic historians who were eager to give America its own figurehead of female war heroism in the vein of France's Joan of Arc or Britain's Boudica.
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"Haters gonna hate." -Joan of Arc
Although the battle that made Molly famous took place in 1778, the first written mention of her as "Molly Pitcher" is from 1851, and she wasn't assigned an actual identity until 1876. You might recognize that as the year of the American centennial celebration, and as such the absolute best time to look for unbiased accounts of the United States' origins.
Amid the first-centennial hoopla, multiple towns laid claim to Molly Pitcher, giving her various identities, and giving her antics their own spin, with zero evidence to support their claims. When scholars pointed out various contradictions and issues within the stories, they were shouted down for being buzzkills and everyone returned to their centennial moonshine.
As for all the paintings of Molly wielding her cannon: Allow us to present Agustina de Aragon, heroine of the Spanish War of Independence, seen here indulging in her favorite pastime of kicking French ass.
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Whoa. Deja vu.
She was a big hit in Spain for obvious reasons, and various paintings and engravings of her French-bombing antics were circulating the world as early as 1813 ... well before the first "Captain Molly" paintings (which later evolved into the legend of Molly Pitcher) started emerging.
Surely, this is just a coincidence.
#3. The Americans Won the War With Frontier Savvy and Guerrilla Tactics
The Myth
Colonists were guerrilla fighters extraordinaire. They made a huge difference in the war outcome with constant raids, skirmishes, and ambushes, essentially going Home Alone on the British forces left and right.
It makes such an awful lot of sense: In the blue corner, we have a bunch of determined colonists who were on their home turf, lightly armed, and relatively inconspicuously clothed. In the red corner: tightly organized regiments of scarlet-clad soldiers with stiff upper lips, marching in lockstep through the forest like live Duck Hunt targets. Of course the Colonial forces took the opportunity to employ the kind of guerrilla tactics that wouldn't be seen until, well, two centuries later.
Via Wikipedia
By which time the United States had completely forgotten their existence.
The Reality
As enticing as the image of clever American guerrillas winning the war by hiding behind trees and shooting British troops who are standing in formation in open fields is, it couldn't be further from the truth. While guerrilla tactics did play a plucky part in the proceedings, they were always a condiment rather than the meat. Ordinary pitched battles decided the outcome of the war.
Which was smart, because the Patriots never actually had the advantage when it came to guerrilla-ing. British troops had at least as much guerrilla chops as the Colonies, as pretty much all significant Native American tribes had sided with the Redcoats -- even the guy who literally wrote the book on being an Army Ranger fought for the British.
Via Rogersrangers.org
"I actually wrote the book on gorilla warfare. And it is ridiculous."
There was also the matter of suitable firepower. The predominant muskets of the day had a maximum range of about 100 yards, and to actually hit what you wanted, you had to be way closer. These weapons required organized, concentrated fire to direct a "wall" of lead at the enemy, in the vague hope that something might actually hit someone. Also, the muskets took about 20 seconds to reload, and the opponent tended to have at least some cavalry around. So any Colonial commando attempting an ambush was under significant risk of finding out firsthand how much less than 20 seconds it takes for a saber-swinging dragoon to cover 100 yards on horseback. In fact, forget about the horses -- while you're struggling with your musket, the British soldiers could just nonchalantly stroll up to you and send you to an agonizing, perforated demise. See, despite the color of their coats, they weren't just some idiot henchmen waiting to be shot. They were trained soldiers with bayonets fixed at the end of their muskets -- sharp bayonets that they could use very well.
With this information in mind, feel free to watch this clip of The Patriot and count all the times Mel Gibson would've been murder-stabbed to death.
Seventeen. Per minute.


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19 Nov 2012 3:24 AM #1
Accumulate functionality in sencha touch chart
Does sencha touch provide accumulate functionality in chart?
I want to do like attached image.
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In lieu of tonight's wintry forecast striking north central Missouri, administrators with the Class 4 District 8 basketball tournament being hosted at Mexico High School this week made an announcement at 10 a.m. this morning that changes were made to tonight's games.
The Class 4 District 8 basketball tournament made another schedule change today at 12 pm!!
There will only be 2 games played tonight; Moberly girls vs. Fulton at 4:30 pm and Moberly boys vs. Fulton at 6 pm. The rest of the district schedule changes will be made on Tuesday.
Also, if Tuesday's inclement weather forces the postponement of the semifinal games planned for tomorrow night, those games will be rescheduled for Thursday night. Mexico also happens to be hosting a Class 3 sectional playoff game on Wednesday, therefore the district semifinals would be moved to Thursday, and the championship games remained as planned for Friday.
Here is the revised schedule that was reported this morning at 10 am. (NOTE: This information was received after today's newspaper deadline, and the revised tournament schedule found inside the Feb. 25 paper is incorrect).
Class 4 District 8 Tournament
REVISED as of Feb. 25 !!!
At Mexico
Girls Schedule
Feb. 25
(3) Mexico vs. (6) Marshall, 4:30 pm At noon today this was postponed
(4) Moberly vs. (5) Fulton, 7:30 pm Changed to 4:30 pm as of noon today
Semis Feb. 26
(1) Kirksville vs. 4/5 winner, 4:30 pm
(2) Helias vs. 3/6 winner, 7:30 pm
March 1
Championship, 6 pm
Next: Sectionals, March 6 at Troy Buchanon H.S. of Troy vs. TBD at 7:45 pm. Winner moves on to Quarterfinals, March 9 at Francis Howell Central H.S. of St. Charles at 2:45 pm
Boys Schedule
Feb. 25
(4) Kirksville vs. (5) Marshall, 6 pm At noon today this was postponed
(3) Moberly vs. (6) Fulton, 9 pm Changed to 6 pm as of noon today.
Semis Feb. 26
(1) Mexico vs. 4/5 winner, 6 pm
(2) Helias vs. 3/6 winner, 9 pm
March 1
Championship, 7:30 pm
Next: Sectionals, March 6 at Troy Buchanon H.S. of Troy vs. TBD at 6 pm. Winner moves on to Quarterfinals, March 9 at Francis Howell Central H.S. of St. Charles at 1 pm
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Saturday, September 8, 2007
Deli-Cinq Seitan
8 comments:
- John Maass said...
Quick question Nate:
What is the advantage of seitan over tofu?
PS--here is a "health related" article: http://fusilier.wordpress.com/2007/09/11/guinness-is-good-science-proves-what-we-knew-all-along/
- September 11, 2007 at 9:35 PM
- Vegan Dad said...
I don't know that there is any advantage, per se. I just like to mix up my protein sources, rather than just rely on one source. Seitan has a more "meat like" texture that people often prefer over tofu's more mushy texture.
- September 11, 2007 at 10:24 PM
- Amber said...
I'm a couple years late on commenting on this post, but I'm doing some research on cooking seitan in the crock pot. I'm interested in how the texture compares to that of simmered or baked seitan (denser, chewier, spongier, etc). Also, did you wrap it in cheesecloth, aluminum foil, or not at all? What cooking time do you recommend? Any other crock pot tips would be so appreciated.
- July 29, 2009 at 8:27 PM
- Vegan Dad said...
A comment on my very first post! Wow, that picture is cringe-worthy. I prefer seitan that has been simmered in broth--it has superior taste and texture. But, it takes a lot of time. I cut the dough into chunks (to mimic chicken breasts) and simmer away for 6 hours or so. Try to avoid boiling as that will make the seitan spongier. Since writing this post, I have experimented a lot with quicker seitan recipes--steaming and baking, mainly. The results are good (especially the sausages) but the texture is denser and chewier. I hope this helps.
- July 29, 2009 at 9:46 PM
- Stephanie said...
Hi. My husband and I both have really enjoyed reading and trying recipes from your blog. We're so glad we came across it. It's helped with us being new to Vegan! I wanted to ask if you know the recipe you use to make Seitan? When I click on the link on this post, it says it's not available.
Thanks so much! Stephanie
- December 15, 2010 at 1:50 PM
- Teen non-runaway said...
The link the the seitan recipe doesnt work :/
looking at all your posts makes me hungry :)
- January 11, 2011 at 6:50 PM
- Teen non-runaway said...
The link for the seitan recipe doesnt work :(
All your posts make hungry :)
- January 11, 2011 at 6:51 PM
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Yes, your blog is refreshing and quoted well. No, the link to this seitan recipe doesn't work. Can you give an assist? Thanks!
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Peter P. Mullen '51 LL.B. was an executive partner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom who played a pivotal role in transforming Skadden into one of the world's leading law firms. He passed away on October 15, 2011, at the age of 83.
Mullen was born in Manhattan in 1928 and earned his bachelor's degree from Georgetown University in 1948. After graduating from Columbia Law School, he practiced for nine years at Dewey, Ballantine, Bushby, Palmer & Wood in New York City. Mullen joined Skadden in 1961 and became managing partner in 1967, taking over the firm's business operations.
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Web search engines as teaching and research resources : a perceptions survey of IT and CS staff from selected universities of the KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape provinces of South Africa
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5 Classic Superman Comics That Prove He Used to Be a Dick
When we see Superman flying across the universe and effortlessly pushing planets back into orbit, it's easy to forget that he was created by two Depression-era kids from Cleveland who lived most of their lives in poverty. It's not so easy, however, when you read the early Superman stories that those two kids actually wrote and drew, in which the Man of Steel was less of a big blue Boy Scout and more of a raging anti-establishment maniac in red underpants who spent more time destroying property than catching criminals. Think we're kidding? Check it out:
#5. Superman Destroys an Entire Poor Neighborhood (Action Comics No. 8, 1939)
Right off the bat, here's Superman threatening to drop some children to their deaths:
"Sir, I've got my hall pass right here!"
And, as you'll find is typical in this article, the context only makes it worse. In that 1939 issue, Superman steals those kids away from the police as they're being arrested for attempted burglary, then tries to scare them straight by threatening to drop them so that they'll be "crushed to a pulp."
But then it occurs to Superman that the slums they grew up in are really to blame for their criminal behavior. But what can he do about that? Suddenly, a newspaper headline gives him a deranged idea.
"Senseless destruction, hundreds dead! Yes!"
He's going to destroy it all.
So, Superman instructs the little thieves to go door to door in their neighborhood telling everyone to leave their houses if they don't want to die, literally putting the lives of hundreds of innocent people in the hands of a bunch of wanted criminals. With that out of the way, and having given the people mere minutes to get their valuables out of their homes, Superman gets to work.
Superman, hoping no one will notice that he put his shirt on backward this morning.
Superman starts destroying all the houses, under the logic that the government will then have to build new ones and that this will somehow end all crime. At no point does Superman consult the people who actually live there, or attempt to hide the fact that he's having way too much fun wrecking their homes.
"A long time" meaning when he destroyed a South American village that morning.
The horrified citizens call the National Guard, but obviously they're no match for Superman's insanity -- the military sends aerial bombers in a desperate effort to stop the destruction, but Superman uses their bombs to help him in his task. Soon the entire neighborhood is in complete ruins and Superman goes off to wreck someone else's day.
The Man of Steel only hated Lex Luthor for being inefficient.
The story ends by saying that "the slums were replaced by splendid housing conditions" ... but where did all those poor people live in the meantime? We didn't see Superman offering to let them stay in his Fortress of Solitude while construction took place, or, like, giving the slightest fuck about what happened to them at all.
#4. Superman Goes All Saddam Hussein on an Oil Well (Action Comics No. 11, 1939)
While investigating a suicide, Superman discovers that the victim was a shareholder who had been sold worthless oil stock, along with several others. Upon learning this, yet another crackpot plan begins forming in Superman's warped little mind, one that will culminate with him borrowing a page from a certain Iraqi dictator. First, Superman goes to the homes of all the other shareholders and buys the remaining stock using the alias Homer Ramsey.
"Say, aren't you that Superman fellow from the papers?"
"No. I have a hat."
Next, he goes to the worthless oil well and drills the ground until he actually strikes oil -- the corrupt owners are thrilled by this development, until they find out that all the stock was recently bought by one Homer "Seriously, Though, I'm Not Superman" Ramsey. Luckily for them, Homer drops out of the sky one day (literally drops out of the sky, in the panel below) and offers to sell them the stock for exactly $1 million.
"Nothing shady about this."
Supes takes the million and distributes it to the original shareholders, especially the suicide victim's family ... haha, just kidding, he does no such thing. Instead, he kidnaps the corrupt owners while they sleep, takes them to the oil well in their pajamas ...
Superman probably thinks that those are regular clothes.
... and makes them watch as he destroys the well.
It had been a few days since Superman had caused any property damage, and his hands were getting itchy.
The oil well's employees come running in an attempt to stop the destruction -- apparently, Depression-era workers were not fond of seeing their livelihood destroyed. Superman does look out for them, though, telling them to run for safety ...
"Actually, don't bother. I'm probably going to set you on fire anyway."
... before lighting the well on fire, Gulf War style.
"And before you even ask, I've already killed Red Adair."
If Superman really wanted to help the scammed shareholders, he would have bought out the corrupt owners instead of everyone else (they thought it was worthless, too), then tapped the well and simply let it flourish -- but nope, creating an ecological disaster and putting Americans out of work clearly made more sense in his head. But hey, at least he got a million bucks and a few laughs out of the whole thing.
#3. Superman Rats Out a Torture Victim, Gets Him Whipped (Action Comics No. 10, 1939)
In this story (also from 1939), Superman (as Clark Kent) gets called to a hotel room where an escaped prisoner tells him about the horrifying living conditions at the local chain gang. Tormented, whipped and starved by his jailers, the prisoner, Walter Crane, confides in Supes on the condition that his identity and whereabouts remain anonymous.
"You can trust me, I'm definitely not a sadistic godlike being from another planet."
Superman says yes, of course ... then turns around and sells out Crane to the authorities at the first chance he gets.
"I just asked you for the time, but OK."
And then, instead of trying to warn Crane that his torturer is coming, Superman literally leads the superintendent to his door and does nothing as Crane gets beaten:
"Listen, it's nothing personal. I just love squealing."
It turns out that this is all part of another one of Superman's deranged plans (although we're pretty sure that he just makes them up as he goes along) -- he intentionally gave up Crane to make the superintendent think that he had gotten away with everything and get him to "go to even further depths of cruelty."
"If we don't see how far he'll take it, how will we know how many times we have to kill him?"
And sure enough, Crane is once again savagely whipped. But this time Superman is there to catch it on camera:
"This is gonna kill on Instagram."
Note that Crane was in no way in on this, and never agreed to get his back torn open by a bullwhip to help Clark get his story. And also note that Superman could have accomplished the same thing by, say, getting himself arrested and having somebody else take the pictures. Since, you know, the whipping wouldn't hurt him.
The photographic evidence turns out to be completely worthless, by the way, because Superman finally gets tired of fucking around and gets a confession out of the superintendent using a much more efficient method -- the threat of suffocation.
"I told you, I'm just the janitor!"


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I am learning network security and I can't understand the boundary line between protocols and algorithms.
- Are algorithms the concrete realization of the protocols?
- Are protocols composed of several algorithms?
I am learning network security and I can't understand the boundary line between protocols and algorithms.
closed as off topic by Terry Chia, Rory Alsop♦ Jan 26 '13 at 9:51
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This two words as nothing common... (like searching for differences between
The respect of a protocol could require the use of no, one or many algorithms, depending on what we are speaking about.
You may use some algorithms locally for your own needs, without having to respect any protocol...
"A protocol describes how the algorithms should be used. A sufficiently detailed protocol includes details about data structures and representations, at which point it can be used to implement multiple, interoperable versions of a program."
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I'm collecting POIs data from several sources and plotting them on map, i'm having difficulties merging the POIs because some of them are redundant between the data sources i'm using. How can i assign a unique identifier for each POI in a ways that the implementation logic can figure out the redundancy, e.g. I have a starbucks in two of the sources each for the same branch, and there is slight difference in the long/lat value due to accuracy, how can i automatically identify th redundancy.
Street names are not enough as they are not unique and might get updated from different sources, i was thinking of using the lat/long in addition to the first three letters of the POI, something like STA-31,444-30,122 but again the long/lat are not always the same between the different sources because of the accuracy, they might be off for a few meters.
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SPICER, James S., 76, of Irondale, OH, went to be with the Lord on Monday, Oct. 8, 2012, in Trinity Medical Center West, Steubenville, OH.
Jim was born July 24, 1936, in Springfield, TN, son of the late James G. and Annie Vera Garrison Spicer.
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Although skeletal muscle fatigues fairly rapidly, clams have a protein called paramyosin that allows them to sustain contractions for up to a month. What might be the role of paramyosin at the molecular or cellular level, which results in this peculiarity?
Older papers initially presumed that it was part of a mechanism called "catch" in invertebrates like molluscs which is a "sustained contraction." However, paramyosin was also found in insects. There is a very detailed review on invertebrate muscle from 2008 that you should read through (or, you know, search through) points out that recent evidence has shown that paramyosin is not involved in catch; that review also has this to say on the subject (emphasis added):