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We partnered with American Heritage Billiards to create this distinctive wall rack for organizing all your pool table accessories. Combining superb design and craftsmanship with the character of an antique, this piece complements our PB Pool Table (sold separately).
- Made of poplar wood with a black or mahogany finish.
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- Holds eight cue sticks.
- Game accessories not included.
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Stainless Works Custom Exhaust - Hootie And The Blowpipes - TechWritten by on August 19, 2010 A Stainless Exhaust For Project Get Shorty
In the world of Custom Classic Trucks the vehicles representing the genre are as the name implies: custom. When hearing the word "custom" and "truck" together the first thought that goes racing from the left to right lobe of the brain is appearance. However, what lies under the scathed or unscathed sheetmetal needs to be appealing as well.
Nowadays it's the norm to alter the truck's chassis. Let's face it; finding stock underpinnings beneath vintage sheetmetal isn't common ground among our crowd. Instead, what we find are owners updating their trucks with various types of running gear to ensure their truck is not only safer but more driveable. With all the suspension, engine, and tranny options throughout the CCT world one can set up their truck for drag racing, cruising, long hauls, hauling, and the list goes on. For that reason, many stock parts just won't cut it, including the exhaust. Unfortunately, exhaust pipes can't bend and twist like a radiator hose or pipe cleaner, and because of it stock exhaust systems-or stock configured systems-won't meander through all those various extra-special chassis components. For these instances, a custom exhaust system is the only answer.
One way to alleviate the problem is to drop your ride off at a muffler shop and have them create a one-off system. The other is to take matters into your own hands and order a DIY kit, which suits folks like us quite nicely. One company that offers everything needed for an exhaust system is Stainless Works. Stainless Works manufacturers everything from header collector diamonds to mufflers, hangers, bends, bolt-on exhaust systems ... literally everything! Not only does Stainless Works offer up everything from A to Z, but they take the necessary steps to offer only the finest products. As the name implies components are constructed from high-quality stainless steel and they are manufactured using techniques such as mandrel bends, laser cuts, and TIG welding. All in all Stainless Works offers high-quality exhaust pieces to outfit your system in any way, shape, or form.
This dilemma presented itself for Project Get Shorty. The abundance of foreign products nestled below Get Shorty equal the number of obstacles D-list celebrities must overcome on VH1's Celebrity Fit Club! To tackle the beast we ordered a Stainless Works DIY Rod Builder Kit. Stainless Works offers various OD-sized kits, and the option of a butt-weld or slip-fit connection. We chose a 21/2-inch butt-weld kit. The kit comes with all the bends necessary to navigate most any exhaust route. All the tubes are 18-gauge (0.049 wall thicknesses) 304 stainless steel with mil-spec certified USA manufactured tubing. All ends are also OD-sized for easy welding. They also offer various styles of mufflers, including chambered, turbo, round, rap trap, and more. What suited our fancy were the polished Smooth Oval mufflers. The mufflers feature 21/2x41/8-inch bodies with an overall length of 24 inches. They have a unique design that allows users to use one of the two available 21/2-inch exhaust inlets. One of the inlets provides a mellow note while the other gives a more aggressive note. Like the tubing, the mufflers are 304 stainless steel throughout. Completing our system are hangers and tips. Stainless Works offers various styles of hangers and tips to accommodate an individual's "custom" needs. In our case, we ordered several styles of hangers and a set of polished turn-down tips. By the way, Stainless Works can make a set of custom tips for whatever application you desire. Just send them the specs and your wish is their command. Way cool if ya ask us!
Of course what is an exhaust system without a set of headers? Being that Project Get Shorty is just a tad on the low side, we were a bit worried about what could be stuffed between the block and rails. We gave the folks at Doug's Headers a call to see what our options were. As it turned out they offered a set of full-length Tri-Y headers for our application that turned out to be a perfect fit. (They even sent us pictures of the headers installed on a C10 so we could eyeball the ground clearance before ordering!) Like the exhaust, the Doug's headers are manufactured to a tee. The Tri-Y headers feature beefy 3/8-inch flanges with precision TIG-welded ports, 15/8- and 2-inch 16-gauge CNC mandrel bent tubes, 21/2-inch extended header collectors, and are coated in MCTBC polished coating that provides corrosion and heat protection up to 1,400 degrees. Enough chit-chat, we got a lot to cover. Follow along as Star Kustom Shop navigates Get Shorty's exhaust.
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Here's what we're working with, a 21/2-inch Stainless Works DIY Rod Builder Kit. The kit comes with a variety of tubes: four straight tubes, four 90-degree elbows, four 45-degree elbows, and four U-bends. Along with the kit we also ordered a set of polished oval mufflers, polished turn-down tips, a set of header collectors, and hangers. If your project requires more bends you can order them separately. A "grab bag" of bends containing random angles and lengths can be purchased as well.Before we could get started working towards point B, we needed a point A; with point A being a set of Doug's Headers. Even though Get Shorty sits only inches off the ground, the high-and-tight tuck of the headers allowed us to use a set of Tri-Y long-tube headers. The headers come complete with mounting hardware and the proper gaskets.The first step was to use an appropriate gasket sealant on the supplied gaskets. From there the gaskets were aligned for fitment.Next, the Doug's Headers were installed. We were able to drop the passenger-side header in from the top, but the driver-side header needed to come in from below.The good news is that the headers tuck up tight and run parallel with the frame. The bad news is that once the Stainless Works header collectors were mounted they're in a direct line of sight with the tranny crossmember. (Note arrow.)When it comes to routing exhaust, whatever works ... well works! (Be sure to steer clear of hoses and brakes lines, and allow at least a 1/2-inch of clearance between neighboring objects.) Therefore, we studied the various tubes in the Stainless Works kit and figured out a solution. I found that if I shortened one side of each of the 45-degree tubes I could weld them together to form an elongated "S," which will dodge the tranny crossmember.I started off by shortening the collector and 45-degree tubes. There are multiple options for cutting exhaust tubing; I chose to use a 6-inch cutoff wheel.Being that the cutoff wheel is a handheld tool, it was a little hard to create a perfectly straight cut. In order to square things up, or add a bit of angle to a cut, a 7-inch grinder was put to the task.Stainless Works offers two styles of kits; one is the butt-weld kit while the other is a slip-fit kit utilizing clamps. We choose to go with a butt-weld kit. Whichever way you choose to weld up stainless tubing one thing is for sure, you must use stainless filler rod. If not, the tubes will retain their natural color while the welds slowly rust away. I choose to TIG weld the exhaust together with ER-308 rod.
Here's our solution for bypassing the tranny crossmember. Again, this is why Stainless Works' Rod Builder Kit is so killer. It allows you to mend, bend, and form tubing anyway you need. At this point this section was mounted to the collector.Stainless Works offers several styles of mufflers. For this system, oval mufflers are being utilized due to their low profile. The small, elongated style not only gives plenty of ground clearance, but it met the size dimension to fit between the crossmembers.Although the kit ordered is a butt-weld kit, the mufflers are slip-fit. They can be welded to the exhaust tubing, but in order to not "blue" the polished finish I opted to secure the mufflers to the tubes using a set of band clamps. Again, the inlet on the muffler can be either end, depending on what tone you're after.From the rear of the muffler back was a little less complicated. First, I slipped a straight tube into the rear of the muffler. Because the tip of the exhaust will exit just in front of the rear wheel I used a 90-degree bend at the end of the straight. In order to direct the bend in the proper direction I angled the end of the 90-degree bend slightly. I also welded a 6-inch extension to the trailing portion of the bend.Stainless Works offers a variety of exhaust tips in all shapes and sizes. They can even custom make tips to fit your application. When I laid out the groundwork for this exhaust system my initial thoughts were to go with a set of simple, clean, and classy polished turn-down tips. However, even the best laid plans run astray. Stainless Works offers a variety of exhaust tips in all shapes and sizes. They can even custom make tips to fit your application. When I laid out the groundwork for this exhaust system my initial thoughts were to go with a set of simple, clean, and classy polished turn-down tips. However, even the best laid plans run astray.Like so many times before with this project, I decided I couldn't live with "simple." Therefore, I decided I wanted my exhaust to exit through the bedsides just in front of the rear wheels. However, I couldn't just have a simple circle, so I decided to create one-off, streamline tube-style exhaust tips. Therefore, I grabbed a 6-inch piece of the stainless exhaust tubing from the kit and shaped it using a dead-blow hammer. When forming, be sure to hit at least 1 inch back from the end, that way the form can gradually take place and you won't create an abrupt, sharp angle.Once the tip of the exhaust tube was shaped, I moved onto forming a flange around the end of the tip. I grabbed a piece of 1/8-inch plate and traced the tip to the plate. (The plate isn't stainless, but I'm going to send the tips off to be chromed so it won't matter.)
I then shaped the flange to flow with the bedside. Because the back of the tip is 21/2 inches and the front is slender, I needed to be sure the opening was big enough to accommodate all parts. Using a hole saw and a cutoff wheel I slowly cut out the opening on the bedside.Fast forwarding a bit, here is the tip all welded together and installed. I welded two bolts to the backside of the flange and ran them through the bedside to secure the tip.Creating the tail end of the new exhaust tips was a bit tricky. I used another piece of exhaust tube and shaped one end to match the rear of the tip, but I was sure to leave the other opening the full 21/2-inch OD. The other obstacle was getting the angle right, but again this is just part of doing a DIY exhaust system.Here's the finished product. Notice the gap at the end. When mounted, there is a 1/2-inch gap between the two. There are several reasons for this. One, the gap won't transfer the heat of the exhaust tube to the bedside. Two, I'm going to wrap the gap in exhaust wrap, which will dampen vibration and keep the exhaust from tearing up the bedside. The exhaust wrap will also seal the gap and reduce heat. As added protection I created a gasket from the wrap to mount between the tip flange and the outer bedside.

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Speeding citations: David A. Kemp, 19, 590 Braybarton Blvd., Steubenville; Daniel B. Lawrence, 27, 2587 Fernwood Road, Wintersville; Joyce Griffin, 66, 27 Butternut Lane, Weirton; Corey M. Daugherty, 20, 614 N. Main St., Cadiz; Melanie D. Wilharm, 32, 3271 Country Club Blvd., Weirton; Kiernan E. Montrey, 27, New Brighton, Pa.; and Jacob W. Whiteman, 22, McKeesport, Pa.
Cited: Joshua A. Vetanze, 34, Martins Ferry, driving with suspended license and passing on right; Patricia A. Vignjevic, 74, 217 Harvard Ave., Steubenville, failure to comply with traffic signal; Andrena Snyder, 62, Apartment 2, 623 Morningside Drive, Wintersville, red light; and Steven Z. Ferguson, 32, 81 Williams Blvd., Wintersville, expired registration.
Vandalism: Vehicle scratched, driver's seat cut and soda poured on inside of vehicle while parked Monday in the 1100 block of Lincoln Avenue.
Theft: House in the 700 block of Wilkins Street entered and copper piping taken, Monday.
Cited: Norina A. Oldham, 47, 607 Lincoln Ave., improper backing; Michael R. Smith, 22, 1452 Oak Grove Ave., no dog registration; Hank L. Coen, 59, 703 Fourth St., Brilliant, stop sign; Jennifer M. Skender, 38, 950 township Road 285A, Toronto, speeding; Joel S. Schreiner, 26, Avella, loud exhaust, no operator's license and consuming alcohol in motor vehicle; and Jared S. Schreiner, 24, 210 Country Club Road Blvd., Weirton, consuming alcohol in motor vehicle.
Theft: Large iron plate and aluminum shingles taken from property in the 300 block of South Fourth Street, Monday.
Jefferson County
Arrested: David L. Applegarth Jr., 36, 304 Parr Ave., Mingo Junction, failure to appear warrant out of Wintersville county court, Monday.
Arrested: Brandon J. Campbell, 21, Apartment K7, 601 Two Ridge Road, Wintersville, menacing and disorderly conduct, Monday.
Brooke County sheriff
Arrested: Lee A. Hartley Sr., 49, 40 A Candle St., Wellsburg, animal cruelty, Saturday.
Arrested: Chrissy R. Spiker, 26, 114 Lee Road, Follansbee, domestic battery, Friday.
Cited: Eric E. Bee, 31, Apartment B , 205 Rockdale Road, Follansbee, speeding and no proof of insurance; Alkaly Soumah, 20, Potomac, Mich., underage consumption; and Joshua B. Aracich, 22, 551 Bradys Ridge Road, Wellsburg, no proof of insurance.
Theft: A bag of golf clubs was taken from the back porch of a home on Golden Oaks Drive on Hooverson Heights between 1 p.m. and 2:15 p.m. Sunday.
Theft: A garage and shed at a residence on Boyd Road in Colliers was broken into and two push mowers, two weed eaters, three chain saws, a hydraulic floor jack, metal cabinet, two acoustic guitars and other items, mostly tools, were taken. The theft was reported Saturday.
Theft: Two dozer rollers, each weighing about 125 pounds, were taken from property on Morton Hill Road in Colliers. A tarp on them was removed and tracks left where they were rolled away. The theft was reported Friday.
Theft: A crossbow and jewelry box were taken from a home on Roseland Avenue on Hooverson Heights Thursday.


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A show that is watched by 4 year old kids and stoned teenagers.
"I smoked a 3-rizla spliff the other day, and watched sesame street for 8 hours"
by Anon April 25, 2005
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The best kids' show ever; it could run rings around Barney,Maisie, and Max and Ruby!
Sesame Street is a classic
by Shawn B. July 14, 2003
Creation of stoned minds.
*takes a hit* ok theres gonna be this big yellow bird right. *smokes some more* and hes gonna talk to all the lil boys and girls.
by KyRo October 12, 2004
the best MOTHERFUCKING kids tv show that first aired in the mid 70sto today and will air TOMORROW.
i first what that show when i was like 2 years old now im 21I still tend to watch sesame street not caused im tweaked, cause theres nothing bettet on tv in the morning other than a bunch of stupid talk-shows or soap operas.
by jackson, j May 01, 2006
A PBS show that was worth watching when they had the pinball song and Teeny Little Super Guy. In the 80's the show was still filled with a lot of the trippy imagery left over from the 70's.
I used to eat cottage cheese and watch sesame street in my grandma's basement. Now I have friends.
by ILoveThom'sChickenDance December 01, 2003
In Poker, a straight consisting of Ace-two-three-four-five.
This obviously comes from the TV Show Sesame Street, which helps preschoolers learn to count.
This obviously comes from the TV Show Sesame Street, which helps preschoolers learn to count.
You've got two pair, but I've got Sesame Street.
by Ron Palmer March 23, 2005
A babysitter
15 year old mother: I'll just set little Timmy in front of Sesame Street then we can hit the mall!
15 year old skank: Okey dokey!
15 year old skank: Okey dokey!
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14 Oct 2010 1:12 AM #1
Hide Checkbox in Grid Header
Hi all,
Is it possible to hide the Checkbox in a Grid Header? We have a Grid that uses CheckBoxSelectionModel but we need to restrict the user to do a "select all" operation using the Checkbox in the Header.
Thanks a lot!
14 Oct 2010 1:55 AM #2
There is no buildin way. The checkbox gets shown with css (take a look at it with firebug). You will need to change this css but also you will need to subclass CheckBOxSelectionModel to not selectall on clicking the header.
15 Oct 2010 2:39 AM #3
10 Jul 2012 3:47 AM #4
by sub classingCheckBOxSelectionModel the maximun you can do is neutralize the"select all" event but the check box will still be there.
I saw some ways to not show the checkbox by interfering with the css class used but are all in Ext Js forums using methods not supported by ext gwt class.
11 Jul 2012 2:55 AM #5
Yes, this is correct. You need to change two things:
1) The CSS
2) The class to not run the default logic.
Please also see my first reply where i stated this.
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STEUBENVILLE - A Pennsylvania official advised area business leaders Monday to "be quick to react, but be conservative" as they find their niche in the oil and gas industry.
Washington County, Pa., Commissioner Harlan G. Shober Jr. said the industry values vendors who understand theirs is not a 9-to-5 kind of business and are prepared to respond. Yet at the same time, he said sudden changes in drilling patterns can wreak havoc and cautioned business owners against over-committing resources.
"You have to be quick to respond because someone else will be there" if you don't, he said. "So be quick to react, but be conservative."
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SEMINAR — Jim Ladlee of Penn State's Marcellus Center of Research talked about some of the opportunities in the oil and gas industry supply chain at Monday's "Benefiting from the Boom" seminar at Steubenville Country Club. Roughly 100 area business people took advantage of the opportunity, which was sponsored by the Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce and Progress Alliance. -- Linda Harris
Shober was one of some 15 industry experts taking part in the day-long seminar "Benefiting from the Boom" at Steubenville Country Club. Sponsored by the Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce and Progress Alliance, its focus was to help the business community "benefit from the boom."
Shober, a township supervisor prior to winning a seat on the Washington County Commission, told the roughly 100 business leaders in attendance that they need to "think beyond the gas impact."
"It's going to come, and it's going to come fast when it comes in," he said. "You want to prepare now, think about your business ... the (oil and gas) companies are here now."
Jim Ladlee from Penn State University's Marcellus Center of Research told the group that to understand how to get involved in the oil and gas business, you first "have to know where you fit."
"Figure out not what you do, but how you fit within the (industry)," he said, pointing out that "something as simple as porta-potties" can represent an enormous business opportunity.
Keynote speaker Tom Stewart, vice president of the Ohio Oil and Gas Association, said for the first time in decades "we've actually increased our ability to provide crude oil, dramatically increased our natural gas resource base."
"There's been a startling increase in oil and gas reserves," he said. "It wasn't supposed to happen. Just five or six years ago we were talking scarcity, a lot of doom and gloom."
Stewart contends those who would protect their own business as well as forces that advocated investment in alternative energy sources are responding to the American oil and gas industry's newfound business muscle by fostering misinformation about the industry, citing as example "Promised Land," an anti-fracking movie set for a December release and starring Matt Damon. Critics say the movie portrays America's oil and gas producers as willing to go to any lengths to protect their revenue stream, regardless of the damage it might do to drinking water supplies. The movie was financed in part by the United Arab Emirates.
"I believe the people who promoted that view are afraid this plentiful, affordable energy will change the politics of how we deal with energy policy," Stewart said, noting there've been 1.3 million frac jobs safely completed over the past six decades in the U.S., "80,000 of them in Ohio."
"What is it you have to do to prove a 60-year-old process is safe?" he asked.
Stewart said Eastern Ohio's oil and gas reserves in the Marcellus and Utica layers could bring the petrochemical industry back to U.S. shores, perhaps even the Ohio Valley, bringing jobs and a new revenue stream for beleaguered state and local government. He said the availability of abundant, affordable oil and gas is already yielding big savings for its residential and business customers and appears destined to be "a win for the state of Ohio."
"It can be the economic renaissance for the state of Ohio," he said, noting sales tax receipts in Carroll County have gone up 30 percent since the industry began drilling there.
"That's a direct indicator, a direct measure of economic activity," he said. "(And) nobody's died, nobody's water has been polluted, nobody's been devastated by the process. It's been all pluses. The only negatives are in the fevered minds of the anti-development crowd."
Rhonda Reda, executive director of the Ohio Oil and Gas Energy Education Program, said ensuring there is an available, qualified work force in place is key.
"The bottom line is, it's important to be able to have an adult conversation, to figure out ways not just landowners and the oil and gas companies benefit, but entire communities can benefit from drilling," she said. "There are so many auxiliary jobs, most people just don't realize it."
Capping the presentations was a brief discussion featuring three oil and gas related businesses that chose to locate operations in Jefferson County - Heavy Duty Industrial, Premier Pump and Environmental Management Services, Steubenville.
Heavy Duty's Cory Jursik said his company's decision was based on location.
"For us, being in the center of everything is key," he said, adding they could add "another 50 or 60 employees" by the end of the year.
EMS's representative said they'd surveyed customers to figure out where they should locate their office, and the overwhelming response was "Steubenville."
"That was what drew us, the central location," he said. "And we've had a fantastic welcome from the community."
Premier Pump's Phil Bowman said there's also a good labor pool to draw from.
"This is the place we want to be," he said. "We can get in a lot of different directions really fast."
Bowman said he's planning to have "25 or 30" people on staff within the next 12-18 months. He recently inked a deal with the county commission for a 4.8-acre parcel at the industrial park, where he'll build a 5,000-square-foot operations center.


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I'm reading stalling's article "the augmented ideal in group ring" in Ann. Math. Studies 84(R. H. Fox memorial volume) In his final remark, he says that Milnor's link invariant could be interpreted by using Spectral sequence.(see Milnor, Isotopy of links, Algebraic geometry and topology, Princeton press)
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When one Sidecar door closes, another one opens
Ventura Chef Tim Kilcoyne discusses his adventures in the culinary arts
By Michael Sullivan 04/25/2013
It'll be right about 10 years to the day when Chef Tim Kilcoyne will have to close up shop at the Sidecar Restaurant in Ventura on May 14, and it wasn't for the lack of business — quite the contrary. When it came time to sign another lease on the space, the landlords made themselves scarce and then sent him a certified letter telling Kilcoyne he had to move. One theory is that the property and the space next to it may go under construction soon and the landlords needed to move out the tenant. Nevertheless, Kilcoyne remains optimistic.
"Change is good," he said.
Ten years is a nice round number to complete his venture at the current location, he said. But for the years leading up to the Sidecar, the restaurant industry had proved to be a bit tumultuous.
After having grown up on a lilac farm in Acton, Calif., and doing related chores for cash, he pleaded with his parents to get a job out in the real world — he found a job busing, doing dishes and eventually serving tables at a local eatery while also working at a nearby grocery store. From there, he went to Kinko's in Santa Clarita to work as an assistant manager and was transferred to the Kinko's on Main Street in Ventura but found himself lured back to the restaurant industry. He found a job working in the kitchen at Favorites in Thousand Oaks in 1998, adding homemade soups to the menu. The business has been poorly managed, however, and it went under shortly after his arrival. One of his biggest complaints was the fact that the owners didn't aim for fresh food, but rather everything came frozen — this apparent shortcoming would later inspire his culinary preference.
After spending a short stint (two weeks) in Oxnard College's culinary program, he made his way back to Valencia to work as assistant manager at Louise's Trattoria, which shut down shortly after his arrival, and then to the Crab House, which had a sister location in Camarillo. Bouncing from one restaurant to another was rather frustrating, but he was determined to stick with the culinary arts. In a fortuitous moment after the Crab House in Valencia closed its doors, he had been mailed a brochure for a culinary school in Portland, Ore. And that's when his life as a chef really started to gain ground.
After one and a half years at the school in Portland, he graduated in the top five of his class and was offered three prestigious internship positions at French Laundry in the Napa Valley, the Pebble Beach Resort and the Playboy mansion. While some might default to the Playboy mansion for obvious reasons, he opted for it because of the comprehensive internship program that utilized all of his skills rather than monotonous activities such as peeling and dicing carrots for the next several months. While all of his work at the Playboy mansion was strictly business, he did get to learn some interesting aspects of the people inside.
"I would have to know which girl wanted seedless jelly or smooth peanut butter," he said. "Either one night a week or every night, Hugh Hefner would have a Shake 'n' Bake pork chop fried in an old skillet that plugged in." Kilcoyne said Hefner would know whether or not his pork chop had been cooked to those specifications. Kilcoyne was later hired to help with parties.
After working at the Playboy mansion, he returned to Valencia to work at another restaurant but was ready to open up a business of his own. His mom and stepfather, who had been living in Ventura, were scouting for a place to set up a hot dog stand and ended up finding the Sidecar location. They knew they couldn't sell enough hot dogs to keep up with the lease but thought it would be a great place for Kilcoyne's vision. The space had been boarded up for a couple of years and needed some work, but Kilcoyne felt it was the right opportunity to open an eatery in Ventura.
In his time working for various restaurants, the fresh ingredients he bought at the farmers markets in Santa Monica weren't actually from local farms in Los Angeles County — the produce had been coming from farms in Ventura County. When he opened the Sidecar Restaurant, his goal was to keep it fresh and local. He became a regular at the local farmers markets and not just to keep everything fresh — the Sidecar Restaurant didn't have a walk-in refrigerator so it was mandatory that he would cook with only the freshest ingredients.
Over the years, he was able to grow and expand his business with his culinary expertise and also opened doors for the jazz scene with regular live shows every weekend. His busiest nights were Tuesdays, with his grilled cheese sandwich menu.
"We kept it super simple," he said. "It was about the music, to drink, to wind down. Simple and comforting."
He did some unique menus throughout the years, such as a menu built around bacon, which ran through the month of August last year. He relayed, though, that he didn't get to do everything 100 percent the way he envisioned.
"There are a few things I would have changed," Kilcoyne said. "I never tried to be fine dining. I don't like the table cloths but I was cooking for the space."
As time winds down for the Sidecar Restaurant, 19 days and counting, Kilcoyne said he plans to take off the month of June (though he will be available for catering) before making any major decisions about his next venture. He said the former Tutti's location in Downtown Ventura may be a good place to go next, but he has also been offered opportunities to revamp menus at various restaurants or to become head chef at other restaurants.
One thing that is certain, Kilcoyne will stick with the farm to table cuisine or, rather, local farmers market to table.
Chef Tim Kilcoyne will be available for catering. He can be reached at email@example.com
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Yes, they are different phases of the same thing, but suppose a scenario where the ice must remain solid and water must stay in it's the liquid form.
This is more of a philosophical question than a practical one, but suppose 2 scientists. one from the liquid planet and another from solid planet, where the rules of a game allows them to try anything as long as they do not change the states of the water and ice ( no gas form either ) to somehow agree that they are working with the same stuff.
In other words how can we establish that ice and water are one and the same thing without state transition?


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The most fun you will ever have. ever. Can not be planned.
well shit. my television and pizza tuesday was magically transformed into superhappyfuntime: monkeys, clowns in little cars, acrobats and streamers falling from the sky....
by IAMAlive May 05, 2010
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Uncommonly used, but still heard once in a while. It's a phrase that Winnie from Animal Crossing would use every now and then (and I imagine that a few other characters similar to Winnie would use it too). Fun to say if your bored/hyper.
You're really giving me this cookie?? Yay! Super-happy-fun-time!
by person ^^ May 19, 2004
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Implementing low-cost best practices can provide peace of mind
[safety system]
[two out of three configuration]
[nuisance trips]
[spurious trip level (STL)]
A conundrum frequently facing safety system designers and
plant managers is whether to use two transmitters in a
one-out-of-two configuration (1oo2) or three transmitters in a
two-out-of-three configuration (2oo3). While both
configurations may satisfy the safety requirements, 2oo3 is
traditionally considered the only choice when nuisance trip
reduction is also a high priority, despite its higher cost,
greater contribution to probability of failure on demand (PFD),
and often, a sense of transmitter overkill.
In recent years, the concepts of diagnostic coverage,
discrepancy alarms and transmitter self-diagnostics have gained
acceptance and become proven in use. This trio of concepts gives 1oo2 greatly improved
performance with regard to nuisance trip reduction. In many
regards, 1oo2D (1oo2 with diagnostic coverage) is the new
In addition, as end users continue their migration from
switches, dumb transmitters and relay-based safety
systems to smart transmitters and PLC-based safety systems,
some often over-looked low-cost practices can be adopted as
further insurance against nuisance trips.
Making the right choices in any particular safety
application remains a multi-faceted question. It is a function
of safety integrity level (SIL), the importance of nuisance
trip prevention, life-cycle cost, inherent difficulty of the
measurement, peace of mind and safety competency. But, as a
guideline, 1oo2D can give comparable or better performance than
traditional 2oo3. Even 1oo1D can provide excellent PFD and
probability of nuisance trip (PNT) performance in many
applications. Add to this some fundamental competency practices
and nuisance trips can be largely eliminated.
The design of safety instrumented functions (SIFs) is
initially based on achieving the required safety integrity
level (SIL), leading to the selection of one, two or sometimes
three redundant transmitters (Fig. 1). In recent decades, the
safety community has rather brilliantly formalized and
quantified this process according to ISA 84.01/IEC 61511,
Safety instrumented systems for the process industry
Fig. 1. Typical
transmitter configurations for
various safety integrity levels (SILs) for
safety instrumented function that trips
on high pressure.
Secondly, the SIF designer must also consider the acceptable
level of spurious (or nuisance) trips, which is the likelihood
the safety function will activate unnecessarily, causing
anything from a minor nuisance to a severe operational or
economic penalty. In recent years, awareness has grown that
nuisance trips also carry safety penalties. This is because
even though, in theory, a trip is assumed to result in a safe
state, a high proportion of incidents have been found to occur
during plant startup or restart activities.
Nuisance trips. Unfortunately, the safety
community has not yet found a methodology to fully address the
nuisance trip aspect of SIF design. Methods are available to
predict the expected frequency of nuisance tripsnamely
mean time to failure spurious (MTTFS)but not to determine
an acceptable level for any particular SIF function. Spurious
trip level (STL) has been proposed, but as a purely economic
function, it has limitations, including difficulty in assigning
cost, differences in cost scale from one site to another and a
lack of factoring safety or other non-economic negative impacts
of spurious/nuisance trips. A practical performance goal is
that a safety function should not result in more nuisance trips
than true trips.
What are the options available to reduce the probability of
a nuisance trip (PNT), after the SIL level has been satisfied?
Historically, the only design option has been 2oo3, due to its
inherent fault-tolerance (one transmitter can fail outright and
the SIF will continue to function safely as a 1oo2, without a
nuisance trip, while the failed transmitter is repaired). But
in todays world, with smart transmitters and
other forms of diagnostic coverage, there are alternatives that
can provide similar or superior performance over 2oo3, in terms
of both PFD and PNT, without the spectacle (and cost) of either
hanging three transmitters in the field for every SIF or
leaving yourself exposed to the possibility of excessive
nuisance trips.
Diagnostic coverage. Diagnostic coverage is
the ability to proactively detect faults and respond safely,
preferably without a nuisance trip. For transmitters, it comes
in two common formsself-diagnostics and discrepancy
Transmitter self-diagnostic coverage is the percentage of
transmitter (or measurement) faults that can be detected by the
transmitter itself. For common smart transmitters, whose
self-diagnostics have been steadily beefed up over the years,
coverage is often in the range of 50%. For safety
transmitters, which are certified for use according to SIL
level, and which typically have greater self-diagnostics,
measurement diagnostics (such as detection of impulse line
pluggage) and more rigorous manufacturing quality controls,
coverage can be in the range of 90%. The coverage determination
comes from the manufacturers failure modes and effects
diagnostic analysis (FMEDA) testing and review by a certifying
Discrepancy alarms. Discrepancy alarms are
deviation alarms between redundant transmitters. For example,
in a 1oo1D configuration, the SIF transmitter and the control
system transmitter are compared and a deviation greater than,
say, 5% of span is alarmed, prompting maintenance to resolve the
discrepancy before it grows and leads to a nuisance trip. This
simple concept is powerful in terms of diagnostic coverage. A
discrepancy alarm involving two transmitters may be credited
with up to 90% diagnostic coverage, and an alarm involving
three transmitters can bring up to 99% coverage. Because it is
valid to include control system transmitters in the discrepancy
alarm, discrepancy alarm coverage is possible even for 1oo1 SIF
Discrepancy alarms have limited ability to protect against
sudden transmitter or measurement failures, since the response
mechanism to a discrepancy alarm involves normal maintenance and troubleshooting
procedures. But many transmitter faults are gradual, such as
calibration drift or impulse line pluggage, so that a
discrepancy alarm can occur and be resolved before a nuisance
trip results. A discrepancy alarm is not considered a
transmitter failure, does not remove any of the transmitters
from the voting logic, and does not result in a transmitter
upscale/downscale response, as a self-diagnostic fault
Fault tolerance without 2oo3. Diagnostic
coverage brings fault tolerance to 1oo2 configurations. These
configurations have traditionally lacked fault tolerance, which
was a major Achilles heel. Self-diagnostics, combined with
configurable fail direction (upscale or downscale), means
transmitters in a 1oo2D configuration can be configured to fail
in the non-trip direction and the SIF will continue to function
as a 1oo1 until the faulty transmitter is repaired. In this
way, 1oo2D has fault tolerance to the extent of its diagnostic
coverage, often 9099%.
Fig. 2 shows comparative figures for traditional dumb
transmitter-based configurations and for smart
transmitter-based configurations with diagnostic coverage. The
numbers represent the relative effect on PFD and PNT due to
transmitter redundancy choice. This is based on transmitters
with a 1% probability of causing either a failure on demand (a
dangerous undetected fault) or a nuisance trip (a safe detected
fault). As the numbers indicate, when diagnostic coverage is
factored in, the effect is to transform safe detected faults,
to the extent of the diagnostic coverage, into alarms that will
trigger transmitter maintenance, rather than trigger
nuisance trips.
Fig. 2. Comparative
effect on probability of failure
on demand (PFD) and probability of nuisance
(PNT) due to transmitter configuration based
transmitters with a 1% probability of
each. 1oo1, 1oo2 and 2oo3 reflect
analysis based on transmitters with no
coverage. 1oo1D and 1oo2D reflect smart
transmitters with various levels of
coverage, including coverage by
The math isnt exactly new, either. Manufacturers of
safety transmitters have been advertising 1oo2D as an
alternative to 2oo3 for over 10 years, but traction has been
spotty for several reasons. The primary focus in the safety
community over this period has been PFD, not PNT. Industry
adoption of smart transmitters and smart logic solvers has, of
course, been gradual. And end-users in the field are slow to
update their working paradigms. But this topic has great
currency for the increasingly large number of end users who
today find themselves with smart safety logic solvers and smart
transmitters in place. This step, along with turning to ISA
84.01/IEC 61511 for greater guidance, can help improve all
aspects of the safety system life-cycle performance.
2oo3 also has the virtue of compensating for shortcomings in
safety competency. But this may be only perceived, and may not
be a virtue. Most nuisance trips are found to be preventable,
which means that some aspect of the safety management life
cycle has been neglected. Adding more transmitters may not be
money well spent, and may simply lead to more problems, where a
neglected or overlooked safety competency is the root cause.
Elements of safety competency include:
Independent pre-trip alarms
Implementation of diagnostic coverage and
discrepancy alarms
Timely response to self-diagnostic and discrepancy
Configuration control of 1oo2D fault tolerance
Reliable best practice field instrument
SIF proof testing program
Appropriate use of time delays
Real-time monitoring of smart transmitter
diagnostic alerts
Effective DCS/SIS communication link and HMI
Elimination of switches, which defeat diagnostic
coverage principles
Reliable wiring (wiring ideally makes a negligible
contribution to faults).
At first glance, this may appear to be a long list of
complicated competencies, but most of them fall into place
naturally as users move to safety-PLC based safety systems and
smart transmitters. The challenge facing most end users today
is to institute a culture of awareness and management of safety
competencies. The competencies themselves are mostly
fundamental and are a product of ISA 84.01/IEC 61511
guidance, rather than a challenge in its compliance.
Note that while a computer-based logic solver is surely best
practice in todays world, the benefits of diagnostic
coverage can be captured even with legacy relay-based SIS
systems by dialing in the appropriate configuration of
upscale/downscale transmitter failure and implementation of
discrepancy alarms in the control system (assuming SIF
transmitters are brought into a modern DCS for monitoring).
While all of ISA 84.01/IEC 61511 and the safety
competencies listed previously are important, a productive,
low-cost starting strategy to reduce nuisance trips is to
At least two transmitters and a discrepancy alarm
on every SIF
Reliable best practice field installation
Proper upscale/downscale design and configuration
In terms of selecting the number of transmitters, use these
Use 1oo2D as the normal starting point for SIL2
Consider 2oo3 where nuisance trip prevention is
overriding, or where measurement reliability is poor and multiple
rapid measurement failures are possible, such as dirty, viscous
or plugging service, or very weak signal strength.
Consider 1oo1D to improve SIL1 performance, and as
a simpler approach to SIL2, where the measurement is inherently
reliable, such as a clean, low viscosity, low temperature
service with robust signal strength. HP
SIFs can be thought of as safety loops,
because they have a lot in common with control
loopsthey comprise sensors (such as
transmitters), final elements (such as valves), and a safety
algorithm, usually a fairly straight-forward piece of
logic. But rather than doing process control, the
purpose of SIFs is to increase process safety (or
reduce risk). When the sensors indicate a potential
unsafe condition, the final elements are activated (or
deactivated) to bring the process to a safe state, such
as shutting down a heater on high temperature. To help
achieve the required reliability, SIFs are usually
implemented in a safety instrumented system (SIS) that
is separate and independent from the basic process
control system (BPCS or DCS).
Each SIF is designed to meet a specified SIL, which
is basically a level of reliability. A SIL1 SIF must
work at least nine times out of 10, thereby providing a
risk reduction factor (RRF) of 10 and a probability of
failure on demand (PFD) of 0.1. A SIL2 SIF must work at
least 99 times out of 100, thereby providing a RRF of
100 and a PFD of 0.01. And a SIL3 SIF must work at
least 999 times out of 1,000.
Practically speaking, it is difficult to design a
SIF with greater reliability than SIL3. SIL4 is
considered largely unachievable in the context of most
conventional industry practices. Where this level of
risk reduction is found to be necessary, it is
recommended to investigate an inherently safer process
design or alternative layers of protection.
For a given process, the necessary SIFs and their
required SIL levels are determined within the safety
life-cycle management framework defined by ISA
84.01/IEC 61511, Safety instrumented
systems for the process industry sector,
especially within the process hazard and risk analysis
step. The SIL rating of any SIF depends on a
reliability analysis of all loop components, demand
frequency, proof test interval, diagnostic coverage,
human factors and other considerations.
As Table 1 and Fig. 1 show, a single transmitter
will usually suffice for a SIL1 SIF. For a SIL2 SIF, a
single transmitter may suffice if demand frequency is
low and the measurement is reliable. Or, two
transmitters may be necessary if demand is high, and
this may, in turn, require a third transmitter to
prevent excessive nuisance trips, if the measurement is
difficult or there is no diagnostic coverage.
Protective functions are very similar to
safety functions in design, but their purpose is to
protect against equipment damage, without safety
implications. Protective functions often fall under the
same engineering and management practices as SIFs, but
greater user discretion is allowed with regard to cost
vs. reliability, since money,
not safety, is at stake. For brevity, the term SIF in
this article encompasses safety and protective
The vast majority of SIFs in industry are
demand mode, meaning that upon detection of
unsafe conditions, the function is triggered, placing a
demand on the SIF. In this way, a SIF with
an undetected dangerous fault may not result in a
failure on demand if no demand occurs, i.e., if the
fault is found and remedied without a demand occurring.
A continuous mode SIF is one that results in a
hazard immediately if it becomes unavailable, such as
GPS-based positioning systems on (unanchored) deepwater
drilling rigs.
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Manash Jena
Hi,This is real good article.Expecting to see more on improvement methodology of Spurious trip Rate in process plant.Kind regards,Manash Jena
NTNU University
will you comment on fail-safe silience or passive design. how contribution from spurious trip can be incorporated in designing such systems.?
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Betty says rob is the only wheelchair bound person in North America to kill 4 rare types of wild turkeys.
Rob Salter has been fighting those negative perceptions his entire life.
He has Spina Bifida, but he's beating the odds.
"I just had a funny feeling or a warning that things might not be all right." Betty Salter said.
Those were Betty's thoughts just days before her son rob was born with Spina Bifida.
"It depends on the severity of the disease, sometimes it just looks like a bulging in the backbone." Pediatric Neurologist Muhammad Salim said.
"They told me when he was born that he would not live to be past a year and a half." Salter said.
Despite that news, Betty never gave up hope for her son.
"You're very upset when something like this happens and when you get over your pity party, you go with life and do whatever you need to do." Salter said.
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"He was always so tough, if we were about to leave and go to the hospital as long as I was cool and calm and made him think we were just going for a checkup than he was fine." Salter said.
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She says that just because her son is disabled doesn't mean he's limited on the life he can have.
"We've tried to make sure he hasn't missed anything along the way," Salter said.
Rob just celebrated his 40th birthday.
He says for anyone else living with a disease, the key is…
"Positive mental attitude always." Rob said.
And Dr. Salim says if you have Spina Bifida, it doesn't necessarily mean you should count yourself out.
"Their diagnosis of Spina Bifida doesn't mean that it's a death sentence." Salim said.
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The White County Sheriff's Office has handled two separate incidents of vehicle theft in the county, according to sheriff's office incident reports.
Amanda J. Snelling, 20, Carmi, reported Tuesday to the sheriff's office her husband, 18-year-old Matthew R. Snelling, was missing, and had left in a tan 1992 Ford Ranger that belonged to Lisa M. Shelton, 32, Carmi.
The report said Snelling had left his James Avenue residence around 10 a.m. with the pickup borrowed from Shelton. As of 3 p.m., he had failed to return home. The report indicated Snelling might be en route to Clarksville, Tenn., where he has friends and relatives.
The truck was described as a tan 1992 Ford Ranger pickup with Illinois registration 29337W. A formal complaint for theft was signed by Shelton.
Deputies received a tip around 10:40 a.m. Tuesday that a vehicle had been abandoned near Brown's Pond near Maunie. Deputies arrived and found white Chrysler Voyager minivan at the location.
A check of the license plate number revealed it had been stolen from a location in Enfield and the theft was reported to Illinois State Police Sunday by the vehicle's owner, Joel Floyd.
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