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TRIADELPHIA - West Virginia regulators still are considering Chesapeake Energy's application to emit carbon monoxide, methane, formaldehyde and other chemicals from the Dytko natural gas site on Stone Church Road.
But this is just one of the many sites from which the company is seeking to release such emissions. Chesapeake issued three additional legal advertisements recently for the same emissions at three other drilling pads.
"This is really rough on people, especially those who live close by to them," said Wheeling Jesuit University biology professor Ben Stout. "When they are flaring off all that stuff, it has to come down somewhere."
Following the Sept. 11 public hearing on the application for the Dytko site, West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection's Division of Air Quality Director John Benedict said he would take the concerns of Stout and others who spoke out at the meeting into consideration. DEP spokesman Thomas Aluise said Chesapeake's application had not yet been approved, noting next month would be the earliest time for approval.
"Well, at least the DEP is going to look at it," said Stout. "They will probably still approve it, but at least they are taking a look."
Chesapeake, in multiple legal advertisements, has confirmed the "potential to discharge" various amounts of these materials on an annual basis from the operations at the compressor stations: carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, methane, carbon dioxide equivalent, benzene, xylenes, toluene and formaldehyde.
The company's most recent filings include properties in the name of Hubbard at a drilling pad east of Wellsburg; in the name of Ryniawec at a drilling pad near West Liberty; and in the name of Ratcliffe at a drilling pad near GC&P Road in Ohio County.
In addition to the pollution from the well sites, Chesapeake - the only active Marcellus Shale driller in Ohio, Brooke or Hancock counties - also will release similar emissions from its local compressor stations. One of these is just off the Interstate 70 Dallas Pike exit near the Highlands, while another is in the Sand Hill area near the Marshall/Ohio County border. The "potential to emit" amounts of sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide, formaldehyde and other chemicals that may be released at the sites can vary, according to numerous legal advertisements posted by Chesapeake.
However, because the DEP's air quality division does not measure the cumulative environmental impact of Chesapeake's multiple sites throughout Ohio County, regulators evaluate each individual site on its own - without regard to how much pollution nearby similar well pads, compressor stations, processing plans or trucks will release.
Chesapeake Senior Director of Corporate Development Stacey Brodak has said the company trusts the DEP's regulatory process, noting she believes the agency will do what is needed to keep the air safe.
Dr. Michael Blatt, a physician specializing in respiratory disease, has also spoken out against the air pollution - specifically at the Dytko pad because he lives on Stone Church Road.
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I saw in the answer of this post that any finitely generated monoids are finitely presented in the sense that there is a coequalizer diagram $P_1\rightrightarrows P_0\rightarrow M$ with $P_1$ and $P_0$ free commutative and finitely generated.
My question is:
Can we make $P_1$ maps to the kernel of $P_0\rightarrow M$? (to be more, precise, can we find a presentation of the form $P_1\rightarrow P_0\rightarrow M$ like the case for abelian groups?)
And if a monoid is finitely presented for one presentation, is it the same for other presentations? Thanks

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Housing again front and center
Because of the profound negativity of the presidential election campaign, many issues that should have been debated weren't, at least not fully. Among them was whether President Obama could or should have done more to help lift the ailing housing market.
Five years after the housing bubble inflated by then-Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., and others burst, 20 percent of U.S. homeowners — 10.8 million households — owe more than their homes are worth; more than 1 million homes were in default or foreclosure or were repossessed by banks in the first half of 2012, RealityTrac reports. A Washington Post analysis of government data showed the Chris Dodd Bear Market and recession led Americans to spend and borrow less and concentrate on paying down their debts. As sensible as that may seem, the Post complained "indebted Americans had an outsize effect, pulling down the rest of the nation's economy."
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WACO (November 8, 2012)--Keep Waco Beautiful and the City of Waco Parks & Recreation will host a Brazos River Cleanup Saturday and volunteers are needed.
From 10 a.m. until 1 p.m. volunteers will wear gloves and pick up trash along the Brazos River Shoreline.
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Receiving MLK Drum Major Awards from SUNY Geneseo Jan. 16 were Kaaren Smith (middle right), director of the Livingston County Office of the Aging, and Joyce Wechsler (middle left), retired SUNY Geneseo faculty member. With the awardees are Robert Bonfiglio (far left), Geneseo's vice president for student and campus life, and Tom Matthews, the college's associate dean for leadership and service.
GENESEO, N.Y. - SUNY Geneseo has awarded MLK Drum Major Awards to two women, one for demonstrating extraordinary efforts in advocating for senior citizens and the other for championing matters of faith and spirituality on the Geneseo campus.
Kaaren Smith, director of the Livingston County Office of the Aging, and Joyce Wechsler, a retired SUNY Geneseo faculty member, received the awards during the college's MLK Day of Leadership and Service Jan. 16. The awards were initiated by the White House and the Corporation for National and Community Service and were inspired by King's historic speech on the drum major instinct.
Smith has been working with Livingston County senior citizens for 32 years, including her work as director of the Office of the Aging. Originally from the North Country, she is a SUNY Plattsburgh graduate and served as the senior nutrition program project director for the Livingston County Coalition of Churches.
Wechsler is a retired Geneseo health and physical education faculty member and volleyball coach and has been instrumental in sustaining the Geneseo Interfaith Center, a campus home for students interested in matters of faith and spirituality. Wechsler is also involved in other community service activities including maintaining books at Wadsworth Library and is recording secretary of the local land conservancy board. She also has been active in the Genesee Valley Hunt and the Geneseo Torch Club.
"Both of our honorees have worked tirelessly to address the needs of senior citizens in the Livingston County area and those of our students and they have my esteem for making a difference in our community with little recognition," said Robert Bonfiglio, Geneseo's vice president for student and campus life, who presented the awards on behalf of the college. "Kaaren has lived a lifetime of service and without her, there may not have been a Livingston County Office of the Aging. Joyce's leadership was critical to the continued operation of the Interfaith Center and without her involvement, we might not have a functioning Interfaith Center today."
In addition to the awards, 120 students, faculty, staff and local senior citizens took part in MLK Day of Leadership and Service activities. Participants attended leadership workshops and heard presentations from William Cook, distinguished teaching professor of history at Geneseo, and Lulu Westbrook-Griffin. Cook addressed "Martin Luther King Jr. at Age 83" and Westbrooks-Griffen addressed "Freedom is Not Free."
The participants also worked together on service projects to assist the more than 400 home-bound senior citizens in Livingston County.
Geneseo will continue the commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr. March 8 by hosting civil rights movement activists Judy Richardson, Dorothy Zellner and Betty Garman Robinson. They are editors of "Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC." They will speak at 7 p.m. in the MacVittie Union Ballroom.
On March 7 at 7 p.m. in Newton Hall 201, Richardson will lead a discussion of the film "Scarred Justice: The Orangeburg Massacre, 1968," and Robinson will lead a community organizing workshop for students , also at 7 p.m.. Both events are free and open to the public but the workshop requires advance registration through Emilye Crosby, professor of history, Catherine Adams, assistant professor of history, or Sue Ann Brainard, associate librarian in Milne Library.
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Alma Barrans
Alma Lea Barrans passed away on August 4, 2012 at the age of 79. She was born the daughter of George Albert and Edna (Clarke) Parker on Jan. 14, 1933 in Chewelah. Alma Lea attended and graduated from high school in Chewelah, Class of 1950. She met Delmar Barrans in 1944, and the two were married on June 14, 1951 in Chewelah. Alma Lea and Delmar pastored for 57 years throughout Washington, Idaho, Arizona, and British Columbia. Following ministry, Alma Lea supported Delmar's mission trips by keeping a home base before Delmar became the pastor at the Kettle Falls New Beginnings Fellowship Church in 1994.In her spare time, Alma Lea enjoyed volunteering her time with the church's soup kitchen, tending to her flowers and garden, constructing puzzles, playing skip-bo with her grandchildren, and spending time with her loving family. More than anything, Alma Lea was a prayer warrior for others and her family. She will be greatly missed by all who knew her.Alma Lea was preceded in death by her son, Terry Barrans. She is survived by her husband, Delmar, at the home; children Rob (Karen), Auburn; daughter-in-law, Carla Barrans, Renton; Tim (Deborah), Kent; Ted (Tami), Enumclaw; Russell, Newtown, PA; Tamra Johnson, Beaumont, CA; grandchildren, Timelle, Terry Jr., Tim, Tanya, Tiffany, Chris, Matt, Chris, David, Taylor, Alli, Samantha, Tessa, Rachael, Brittany, Natalie; five great- grandchildren, and numerous nieces and nephews. Funeral service for Mrs. Barrans was held August 6 at the Colville Assembly of God Church, with a graveside service following at Pioneer Cemetery on August 7 in Chewelah. If one so wishes, memorial contributions may be made in Alma Lea's name to New Beginnings Missionary Account, in care of Kathy Quick, P.O. Box 1199, Kettle Falls, WA 99141. Please visit the online memorial and sign the guestbook at www.danekasfuneralchapel.com. Danekas Funeral Chapel & Crematory has been entrusted with the arrangements.


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With another Kentucky Derby upon us, sports lovers of our beloved state often look back fondly about (1) their first Derby, (2) their first Mint Julep, (3) their first Derby-winning ticket, (4) their close first brush with an honest-to-goodness celebrity.
And for many, they miss Cawood Ledford more than anyone else or anything else.
Cawood was the most popular media personality in the history of Kentucky broadcast journalism – and no one else was close.
There are plenty of reasons. First of all, he was damn good. That voice was unmatchable. He was the voice of the Kentucky Wildcats in both basketball and football. And he was excellent when calling horse races. Remember when the horses turned into the stretch, Cawood would say, "And now they are coming to me!"
You could just SEE and FEEL the horses charging down the stretch and toward the finish with jockeys flailing their crops.
Spring in and spring out, Cawood was the most popular media person on the backside of Churchill Downs. He didn't have to look for the celebrities among the owners, trainers and jockeys.
THEY looked for him.
When Cawood was just finishing his last UK basketball game (against Duke), Coach K rushed across the Rupp Arena floor to congratulate and say goodbye to Cawood.
Cawood had the advantage of being the top sports guy at two of the Bingham broadcast properties, WHAS-TV and 50,000-watt radio station WHAS.
Football and basketball coaches of other colleges around the nation listened for Cawood's call of UK games, especially basketball.
One night at a UK media dinner at the old Kentucky Hotel in Louisville, Wildcat basketball coach Adolph Rupp had the floor. When Rupp was finished, Vic Sholis, the head man at both WHAS radio and TV, made a bad mistake: "Coach Rupp, our radio station is heard all over America. When you erupt in your tantrums, do you ever consider how you make Kentucky look to the rest of the country?"
Rupp tore into Sholis. Cawood wasn't there, but another popular Louisville sportscaster (for both WAVE-TV and radio) Ed Kallay said, "Coach, I don't think he meant it like that."
Rupp said, "Well, by gawd, that's what he said!"
I immediately thought that if Cawood had been there, he could have diffused the situation.
I've said many times that there may have been better football and basketball announcers, but I've yet to hear any. And no one else could come close to matching his race call. Horse racing is what separates the men from the boys.
Before television, thoroughbred racing was one of the nation's most popular sports and the top sports columnists flocked to the Derby. The New York Times is the one big out-of-town newspaper that always has sent its top sports columnists, some of them Pulitzer Prize winners to Louisville. Red Smith was the most famous. Jim Murray of The Los Angeles Times wrote great stories about the Derby. All of the great southern writers loved coming to Louisville. One of them, Furman Bisher of The Atlanta Journal and Constitution, died just recently. Freddie Russell of Nashville was one of the greats who wouldn't miss the Derby, which was on par with the World Series and the big bowl games (this was before the National Football League was king).
For you to understand how important New York writers were to the Derby, Churchill Downs once hired one of them, Bill Corum, as its president. It was his job to wine and dine the top New York media members to encourage them to come to the Derby.
The Kentucky Derby remains the crown jewel of the Triple Crown of races along with the Preakness in Baltimore and the Belmont Stakes in New York City.
Thoroughbred racing leaders worked with NBC to get all three Triple Crown races back on the same network this year. Three Kentuckians—Tom Hammond, Kenny Rice and Mike Battaglia—are kingpins of NBC's telecasts of America's three biggest races. Battaglia also makes the morning line for the Derby and other Churchill Downs races.
It's no secret that thoroughbred racing is in trouble because of slot machines. Races start about 30 minutes apart. Gamblers can pull the arm of a slot machine each 10 or 15 seconds.
Kentucky tracks plead for legislation that will allow slots, but the General Assembly refuses their pleas. The Lexington Herald-Leader in a page 1 story last Thursday warned of the problems Kentucky horse tracks are having staying alive.
Northern Kentucky's track is in real danger because two big slots operations are being built just across the Ohio River in Cincinnati and will be open soon.


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Green Tea
Common Names: green tea, Chinese tea, Japanese tea
This fact sheet provides basic information about green tea—common names, what the science says, potential side effects and cautions, and resources for more information.
All types of tea (green, black, and oolong) are produced from the Camellia sinensis plant using different methods. Fresh leaves from the plant are steamed to produce green tea. Green tea and green tea extracts, such as its component EGCG, have traditionally been used to prevent and treat a variety of cancers, including breast, stomach, and skin cancers, and for mental alertness, weight loss, lowering cholesterol levels, and protecting skin from sun damage.
Green tea is usually brewed and drunk as a beverage. Green tea extracts can be taken in capsules and are sometimes used in skin products.
What the Science Says
- Laboratory studies suggest that green tea may help protect against or slow the growth of certain cancers, but studies in people have shown mixed results.
- Some evidence suggests that the use of green tea preparations improves mental alertness, most likely because of its caffeine content. There are not enough reliable data to determine whether green tea can aid in weight loss, lower blood cholesterol levels, or protect the skin from sun damage.
- NCCIH supports studies to learn more about the components in green tea and their effects on conditions such as cancer, diabetes, and heart disease.
Side Effects and Cautions
- Green tea is safe for most adults when used in moderate amounts.
- There have been some case reports of liver problems in people taking concentrated green tea extracts. The problems do not seem to be connected with green tea infusions or beverages. Although these cases are very rare and the evidence is not definitive, experts suggest that concentrated green tea extracts be taken with food, and that people discontinue use and consult a health care practitioner if they have a liver disorder or develop symptoms of liver trouble, such as abdominal pain, dark urine, or jaundice.
- Green tea and green tea extracts contain caffeine. Caffeine can cause insomnia, anxiety, irritability, upset stomach, nausea, diarrhea, or frequent urination in some people.
- Green tea contains small amounts of vitamin K, which can make anticoagulant drugs, such as warfarin, less effective.
- Tell all your health care providers about any complementary health approaches you use. Give them a full picture of what you do to manage your health. This will help ensure coordinated and safe care.
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NCCIH Clearinghouse
The NCCIH Clearinghouse provides information on NCCIH and complementary and integrative health approaches, including publications and searches of Federal databases of scientific and medical literature. The Clearinghouse does not provide medical advice, treatment recommendations, or referrals to practitioners.
A service of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), PubMed® contains publication information and (in most cases) brief summaries of articles from scientific and medical journals. For guidance from NCCIH on using PubMed, see How To Find Information About Complementary Health Approaches on PubMed
Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS), National Institutes of Health (NIH)
ODS seeks to strengthen knowledge and understanding of dietary supplements by evaluating scientific information, supporting research, sharing research results, and educating the public. Its resources include publications (such as Dietary Supplements: What You Need to Know), fact sheets on a variety of specific supplement ingredients and products (such as vitamin D and multivitamin/mineral supplements), and the PubMed Dietary Supplement Subset.
Key References
- Green tea. Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database Web site. Accessed at www.naturaldatabase.com on July 8, 2009.
- Green tea (Camellia sinensis). Natural Standard Database Web site. Accessed at www.naturalstandard.com on July 8, 2009.
- National Cancer Institute. Tea and Cancer Prevention. Strengths and Limits of the Evidence. National Cancer Institute Web site. Accessed at www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/prevention/tea on June 3, 2010.
- Sarma DN, Barrett ML, Chavez ML, et al. Safety of green tea extracts: a systematic review by the US Pharmacopeia. Drug Safety. 2008;31(6):469–484.
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Unfortunately, I've never heard of him before this but have been watching him since and can say he's funny. If I had to pick a comparison to him, it definitely be Conan O'Brien. He and Conan share many qualities. Like Conan, Norton's comedy from what I've seen is very direct, funny and often adult in nature. In fact, in this cursing is allowed and it seems that the audience relishes in all the naughty thing Graham says and does.
His guest themselves ranging from Dustin Hoffman to Julian McMahon to Joan Collins always provide entertaining commentary.
Hoffman wasn't just funny but he went on detail about he loved and hated acting. Joan Collins came off as being heartwearming (unlike her Dynasty Character).
There are also other skits in the show that are sometimes aimed at toilet humor. A couple of times it's funny other times it's not because it's not new. Like other variety shows he also pokes fun at the latest current news and celebrities (aka Britney Spears, Paris Hilton).
However, as a whole this show is funny and the fact that the guests are more free to say whatever they want (which might be censored on American) is a plus to show.
It's a decent hour of laughs.
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WEIRTON - Two nights later, same beginning and end with almost the same script.
The Steubenville Big Red boys basketball team jumped on host Weir High for 28 first-quarter points in Thursday's 86-51 victory over the Red Riders at the Carl Hamill Fieldhouse.
Big Red had 31 in the first eight minutes during Tuesday's 77-49 win.
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FOR TWO — Steubenville Big Red's Chris Smith goes up for two of his 14 points during the third quarter of Thursday's 86-51 Big Red win over Weir High at the Carl Hamill Fieldhouse.
-- Mike Mathison
FROM OUTSIDE — Weir High's Josh Groves takes a jumper in front of Steubenville's Brandon Herring-Hill during the fourth quarter of Thursday's 86-51 loss to Big Red at the Carl Hamill Fieldhouse. Groves finished with 17 points.
-- Mike Mathison
"We started off fast against them the other night and we were able to do the same thing here tonight," said Big Red coach Mike Haney. "I like our unselfishness and the way we are playing.
"Our guys will have an open shot, see someone with a better one and give it up. That's what you like to see as a coach.
"Two things we liked tonight were the hustle on our defense and our unselfishness."
Adam Sterling led the way for Big Red (14-3) with a game-high 19 points. Brandon Herring-Hill delivered 15, Chris Smith 14 and Mylik Young 10. Tajuan Lawson added eight and John Linn seven.
"We turned the ball over a lot in the first half, but their pressure is that good," said Red Riders mentor Mike Granato. "Mike has done a great job with them getting them to understand team defense and team offense. They are a very unselfish group. You watch them play and I don't know where the weakness is.
"We scouted them twice and played them twice, their defense is smothering. And, it's not just smothering against us. It's smothering against everybody."
Josh Groves led the way for the one-win Riders with 17 points. Chris Wood came off the bench to added 13.
"I told the kids after the game that I really appreciate the way the seniors are going about their business," said Granato. "I've been in this locker room when we've been 15-1 and I've been in this locker room when we're 1-15, I really appreciate the fact with the seniors that they are unselfish, trying to help the younger kids.
"They are doing the things they need to do for us to be successful and I feel for them.
"Hopefully as we go down the stretch, we can catch a couple wins and get a little momentum going into the tournament. At the end of the day, all the cliches are true. Every team is 0-0 once you get into sectional play.
"A game like tonight, get's you ready for that tournament.
"We're going to see good teams, but we're not going to see anybody that good. The triple A state championship game may not have a team that good."
Weir High steps back into action Saturday at North Marion.
Big Red hosts Martins Ferry Saturday with a junior varsity tip at 4 p.m.
"We like a lot of the things our team is doing," said Haney. "But, we still have work to do."
Big Red 86, Weir High 51
Steubenville 28 10 19 19 - 86
Weir High 6 17 13 15 - 51
STEUBENVILLE: Sterling 6 5-7 19, Herring-Hill 6 0-2 15, Smith 7 0-0 14, Young 5 0-0 10, Lawson 2 4-4 8, Linn 2 1-3 7, Perdue 2 0-0 4, West 1 0-0 3, Bailey 1 0-0 2, Herrington 2 0-2 4. TOTALS: 34 10-18 86. 3-pointers: Herring-Hill 3, Sterling 2, Linn 2, West.
WEIR HIGH: Groves 7 2-3 17, Wood 5 0-0 13, Sims 3 0-0 6, D. Cassiadoro 1 3-4 5, Kirk 1 0-0 3, Davis 1 0-0 3, Masters 0 0-0 0, Knight 0 0-0 0, Viakley 1 0-1 2, Smith 0 0-0 0, Curtis 1 0-0 2, West 0 0-0 0. TOTALS: 20 5-8 51. 3-pointers: Wood 3, Davis, Groves, Kirk.


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Thompson, Lead, S.D., was named the 75th Scotchman, and Miiller, Corsica, S.D., was named the 84th Miss Wesleyan. The Scotchman and Miss Wesleyan are the highest honors given to an outstanding senior man and woman. The award is based on scholarship, character and overall contributions to the university.
Miiller is majoring in biochemistry with a minor in psychology. She is the vice president of Student Activities Board, senior class president, and member of CHAOS, Student Ambassadors, TRiO tutoring and Psychology Club. She has volunteered for Love Feast, Habitat for Humanity, New Student Orientation, DWU Service Day, Children's Miracle Network, a service-learning trip to Tanzania and will attend the mission trip to Peru this May. She is a member of Sigma Zeta, Phi Kappa Phi and Pi Gamma Mu, as well as the DWU honors program. She has been on the dean's list, was awarded the St. Joseph Endowed Hospital Scholarship in 2011 and 2012, the Walter Panzirer Mitchell Crime Stoppers Scholarship, Vicki Clarke Leadership Award, Harms Endowed Scholarship and Homer Carhart Prize in Science. She was a 2011 South Dakota BRIN fellow and 2012 basic biomedical research assistant. She presented her research at the regional American Chemical Society meeting, two National Society for Neuroscience meetings and at the 2012 Council for Undergraduate Research Posters on the Hill in Washington, D.C. After graduation she plans to pursue her work in the sciences.
Thompson is a biology major, minoring in coaching. He is involved in DWU football, Top Shelf Ultimate Frisbee, is a resident assistant on campus, and is the treasurer of Student Ministry Council. He has volunteered for Cornerstone Rescue Mission, the DWU New Orleans mission trip, DWU H.O.P.E. Project, Service Day, food drives, Dr. Seuss Carnival, Abbott House projects, Cancer Awareness Marathon, South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks, and will be attending the DWU mission trip to Peru in May. He has received the Bishop Everett Palmer Medal, the Harriet N. Houk Scholarship; is a four-year member of the dean's list; Academic All-American; and NAIA Scholar-Athlete award. Josh was also the 2012 homecoming king. He has participated in research projects for S.D. Game, Fish and Parks and as a conservation officer. After graduation, Josh plans to pursue a career as a conservation officer.
Other candidates for Miss Wesleyan were: Elizabeth Lamb, Onida; Sarah Owens, Omaha, Neb.; Brittaney Schroeder, Volin; Carrie Swanson, Spearfish; and Stephanie Teel, Stickney. Other candidates for the Scotchman were: Sterling Dockweiler, Casper, Wyo.; David Elliot, Lake Norden; Jamon Harberts, Emery; Christen Hildebrandt, Faribault, Minn.; and Alex Hinz, Littleton, Colo.


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I need to find all (up to isomorphism) perfect matchings of some quartic plane graphs. I haven't found any specific algorithm to give me all the perfect matchings. Does anybody know about such an algorithm or any results that could be useful when implementing such an algorithm? At the moment I can only think of a branch-and-bound approach.
I don't really expect there to be an algorithm for this specific case, but I thought I'd mention all properties of the graphs. Maybe there are results for plane graphs, planar graphs or quartic graphs.


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On Saturday nights from 7 to 10 p.m., Jonathan Overby plays some great African-based and influenced world music. His program is called "Higher Ground."
Both are tremendous hosts and have impeccable taste.
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It's breathtakingly mediocre in my mind. It does nothing unforgivable (besides Chief and Cortana's shallow, dysfunctional high school relationship, perhaps), but it really does nothing to wow me in any of its portions. The single player is whatever with a few cringeworthy moments; the co-op episodes are short and equally forgettable; and the multiplayer is serviceable with only a few balance issues (like the DMR being a hitscan weapon with no recoil or bloom whatsoever, and there being no maps to accommodate close-quarters/arena-style fighting). Every facet of the game is outdone by a previous installment -- I can't think of any portion of Halo 4 I can hold up and proudly proclaim, "It does this particular thing better than any other installment." Oh, and once again: Fuck the maps.
I really do find rampancy to be the biggest let down. There's a lot of potential to be creative with that idea. Even if the idea of a homicidal AI has been done before, you can still expand upon it and add a fresh twist to it, like having Cortana leading Chief into traps or ambushes and playing them off as accidents, to the point where Chief has to come to terms with the fact that he has to get rid of Cortana before she degrades even further and really tries to pull off some kind of a stunt that'll kill them all. I would have genuinely felt bad for Chief once he reached the conclusion that he would have to put her down against her will. Or if we really must have a romantic element to it (I rather despise romance in stories, since they tend to be a cheap and easy way for writers to garner sympathy for characters without having to work for it), have her try to kill everyone around Chief (again, playing them off as accidents) out of jealousy so she can keep Chief to herself (which then leads to a similar moment where he has to grapple with the need to let her go and destroy her). There's just so much potential, so much room to run with the idea, so many avenues to explore with it, and they phoned the whole thing in with a Twilight romance.


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Interested in information about my family. Father was Anders Tollisen. All from Drammen. Buskerud.
Martine came out to Australia in 1872.Married to Lorentz Olson, son of Ole Lorentsen and Sidse Marie Andersdr.
http://www.arkivverket.no/URN:kb_read?idx_kildeid=1065&idx_id=1065&uid=ny&idx_side=-206 birth record #51
http://digitalarkivet.uib.no/cgi-win/webcens.exe?slag=visbase&sidenr=16&filnamn=emikra1&gardpostnr=4207&merk=4207#ovre I 1872 Emigration
Thankyou .You are amazing. I had all this information but my son had the computer wiped and cleaned. All my bookmarks gone. There was an older sister to Martine and Johan I found on a marriage record. TO same father but I wondered if AnneM. Joh. was his second marriage. I do not have ages for the parents. I think I remember a census of the kids at 12 years and 7 and him in 30s but I dont remember her information.
Can their marriage be located and how to find out their parentage. I would like to trace the families back as far as possible.
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Boy, you really dug into reading this summer. This has been one of the busiest summers ever at the Fond du Lac Public Library. With magicians, wild animals and tons of reading – more than 2 million minutes were logged by kids, teens and adults - we hope you had as much fun as we did.
As summer winds down and school gets started, we're heading into a great fall season.
Kids are starting school any day now, and that means the calendar will be filling up. The Fond du Lac Public Library Crafternoon program has a solution: Make a handy message board to get the gang's attention. Crafters will have supplies provided to make one board and three magnets from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, September 21. Space is limited, and registration is required beginning 9 a.m.
Arab Spring continues to bring hope for reform to the Middle East and Northern Africa. But these revolutionary movements are bringing violence and turmoil while exposing the fault lines between religious and political groups. This is true especially in Syria, where a violent civil war rages, and Lebanon, where tensions threaten to unravel its civil society.
One morning, Scott Lesnick woke up to discover that his wife had secreted his two small children away to the Middle East.
The Solutions Center will show the movie Ant Bully at 6 p.m. Tuesday, September 17, at the Fond du Lac Public Library.
Area artists are invited to submit pieces for a themed exhibit, "A Dog's Life," at the Fond du Lac Public Library in October.
Don't let the size of this little book fool you. The Best of Us by Sarah Pekkanen may be small, but it is loaded with complicated relationships and numerous twists and turns. A group of four college friends reunite for a fully-paid trip to Jamaica with their spouses, courtesy of Dwight Glass, the "nerd" of the group, who struck gold with his dot com business.
One of the many back-to-school rituals – covering the year's new textbooks – has been made easy as pie with a new piece of equipment at the Fond du Lac Public Library. For just $3 per book, the library will cover books up to 15 inches tall in just a few seconds. The clear plastic covers are extra-durable and resist moisture and sticky fingers.
The Fond du Lac County Master Gardeners and the Fond du Lac Public Library are teaming up to host a Plant Swap and Sale from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, September 14, at the downtown library.
Local artist Susan Fiebig will be featured in the Fond du Lac Public Library Langdon Divers Gallery in the exhibit, Past and Present Works, through the month of September.


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Heading In The Right Direction - Tri-Y and Collector HeadersWritten by on October 2, 2013 Tri-Ys or Collectors? We test them both
It all started with a friendly conversation with Dick Anderson. He had come out to our office for lunch to discuss the details on a few story ideas we had thrown at him. After lunch, we were in the shop chatting about some track testing that was coming up and Dick said he would love to get his car on a chassis dyno. I smiled. He told me he has always run larger headers than the engine builder recommends. The wheels in my head started turning. He explained that he does this to kill a little torque off the corner so the car is a little easier to drive, but it still makes power down the straights. I smelled a great story. He told me it's something he has always done, but he didn't know if it actually did what he thinks. I quietly pointed to the dyno sitting on the other side of the shop. Dick looked at me said, "Is that a dyno?" I said yes and asked when he wanted to see if his header choice actually worked. Boom! That's how these things come together.
In case you aren't familiar with Dick Anderson (which you have no excuse for), he's a legend in short track racing in the South. If there's a big race down here, chances are, Dick has won it. Either as a driver or a car owner, when he shows up at the track, he's in contention to win.
His newest car is a Dick Anderson Elite Super Late Model chassis with an AR Bodies Mustang Muscle Car body on it. The car is powered by a Ford Racing Performance Parts S374W sealed crate engine and was debuted in the Circle Track booth at the 2012 PRI Show. It has been on track a couple of times since, and has shown a great amount of potential. Since it's last outing, Dick has changed a few things geometrically with the front suspension, and the car is ready to go back out. (We will be bringing you a few different tests in the next few issues)
Now that you know Dick and his Mustang, let's get back to the story. We wanted to see if what Dick has been doing for years is actually beneficial -- after all, engine builders recommend header sizes for a reason, right? We made a call to Bill Hufstetler at Schoenfeld headers, and he sent an extra set of headers to test. The headers that Dick has already run on the car are a Tri-Y configuration with stepped primary tubes, measuring 13/4-2 inches. The smaller set of Tri-Y headers measure 15/8-17/8 inches. Along with the headers, Schoenfeld sent us collectors for both size headers and an X-style crossover pipe to complete the test.
The test started like any other chassis dyno session. We rolled the car onto the lift, backed it onto the roller, and strapped it down. Being that we had engine dyno numbers on the engine (541 hp at 7,100 rpm) we were excited to see how efficient (or inefficient) the drivetrain was, and where we could improve. After warming the car up and making three quick runs as a baseline, the Mustang laid down 500 rear wheel horsepower (rwhp). That's roughly a 7.5-percent loss of power through the drivetrain. (We didn't believe it at first either, but the math doesn't lie!)
Over the next day and a half we test four different header configurations, two mid-pipes, and a couple of different carburetors (check an upcoming issue for the carb test), all in the pursuit of what will work best on track.
The tests gave us some interesting information. Unfortunately a storm rolled through Tampa halfway during the test and the change in air was visible in the horsepower numbers and the air/fuel numbers. Though we try to keep the environment controlled in our air-conditioned shop, the outside air still have a small effect on the inside air.
When the weekend was done everyone was happy. We know exactly where the car is in terms of horsepower and torque, we know we have the right header and exhaust system on the car, and we have a baseline for some carb testing to come. Now it's time to get on track and win some races!
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Schoenfeld Headers sent us a set of smaller headers that what is currently on our Super Late Model. The car rolled in with a set of 13/4- to 2-inch Tri-Y headers on it. We planned on testing these against the smaller 15/8- to 17/8-inch Tri-Y headers.The Tri-Y configuration is designed to use the scavenging effect to increase efficiency. The Tri-Y configuration is arranged so the exhaust pulses help pull the exhaust from the other tubes.Schoenfeld also sent us a set of collectors for each header. This design merges all four primary tubes into one collector.After our baseline pulls, Dave Brooks and Terry Harrison went to work changing the headers for the second part of the test.The difference in the Tri-Ys and the collectors is obvious. The difference in length meant we had to add extensions to the collector configuration to use the rest of the exhaust.With the Tri-Y portion of the headers removed, the collectors slid on the end of the headers. Being that these headers had been run before, some of the surface rust needed to be removed and a thin layer of grease was added to let the collector slide on and off easily.After three pulls, the Tri-Y section was removed and the collectors were installed. We made three more runs and analyzed the results.Next, the larger tube headers came off and the smaller 15/8- to 17/8-inch headers went on. Like the first test, the Tri-Y configuration was run first.


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I was curious if
Well, flawlessly. A few minutes later I was searching for a rescue CD.
When I first started working as a user consultant for the university I was attending, I was given limited
Surprised nobody else has mentioned this one yet:
(While attempting to remove all hidden files and subdirectories, completely forgetting that it will recurse into
Which, of course, makes
Lesson: use version control.
Had a friend run
Broken down (by request) to make it a bit more readable.
It might be easier to look at it as
I meant well, I really did. Trying to
As root of course, because only with root can true pain (and thus enlightenment) be achieved.
I wiped the partition table of my main drive by accident, thinking I was working on another drive.
With scrollback, careful use of
Not really my moment, but someone else's.
Back when I worked at a nuclear sciences research facility we used to run a number of SunOS, Ultrix and Linux computers and researchers had to share the CPU on those machines. As individual research groups got their own research grants they purchased their own computers, mostly SparcStations and they did the system administration themselves.
SunOS used to ship with the OpenView desktop and a nice file manager, this is what it looked like:
Most of our researchers were running as root, and more than once we had to reinstall their operating systems because someone had decided to tidy-up the root directory and moved /bin, /etc, /tmp and everything else that cluttered the view into either the Trashcan or some subfolder.
Other users chose to tidy up the /bin directory and remove any command they did not know.
The lucky ones had back ups, most had purchased a tape drive, but did not have a tradition of running backups themselves.
Back in the mid to late 90s, a friend of mine and I were discussing the folly of
I did this once. Amazingly, the system remained functional for months. Cronjobs ran fine, no errors stood out in the logfiles.
We didn't notice this problem until we rebooted the system months later and couldn't log in at the console.
You could not log in as root, nor run
I remember trying to send a SysRq key sequence to a remote machine...
...but it was captured by the local one.
A simple
Lessons learned? The prompt of the machine now looks like
with some nice red markup ;-)
My favourite moment was, when a co-worker, who is an emacs user, wanted to edit an important file.
Under the influence of not enough or too much coffee he of course mis-typed
Well, this is just another reason to use
Or another experience, how to feel really stupid in a few easy steps that don't seem all that stupid individually.
Step one: establish an account for the kid, in case he wants to use a Linux box. Give it a trivial password, since after all this is a home system and isn't exposed to the net.
Step two: allow time to elapse, so you don't remember step one.
Step three: open the SSH port in the firewall (actually the NAT on the router) in order to ssh in. After all, my accounts have pretty good passwords, and it isn't like there's anything tremendously valuable.
Step four: get notification from ISP that there's some sort of DOS activity going to a Swedish site. Assume it's probably the Windows boxes, and examine and harden them.
Step five: get notification from ISP that it's still going on. Ask for some detail, get IP address of Swedish site, fire up Wireshark, find which box the attack is coming from.
Step six: clean up Linux box, feeling stupid. Find the login came from a Romanian address. Remove accounts without good passwords.
In the computer labs when I was in college, they had a screen saver that simulated a bunch of balls that would float back and forth. They pulled on each with simulated gravity.
Once, while I was messing around with the settings, it crashed with the error
I was once developing a device driver for Unix. It had a pointer problem and during testing it started to write off the end of an array in kernel memory. I was slow to spot this and didn't hit the reset button immediately. The driver had scribbled all over the disk buffer cache which was then flushed to disk before I hit reset. A lot of the blocks were inodes and directories, and I ended up with a totally trashed filesystem. I think 6000 orphaned files were put into
I deleted /etc and then recovered it. I don't think I learned my lesson... I've had to recover from a deleted
Last year, a colleague of mine was using one of our linux workstations to create copies of flash disks using the
By the time he realized his mistake - overwriting the machine's hard disk instead of the flash drive - the machine was already hosed. We had to rebuild the box, which incidentally was also the machine hosting all of our development VM's at the time...
This happened to me last year. I was removing some files from the server using a temporary variable:
Guess what? The variable
I almost broke the Control-C and ran to the CPU to remove the network cable!!
Hahaha I'm sure someone had already done this...
While in my 2nd year of studying computer science we were given a homework assignment to write a program in C that would spawn a number of subprocesses with
We were still quite noobs back then and most of peple didn't have any Linux machines, so we worked on our accounts on our faculty's main server (which was hosting official site and staff accounts and sites as well). Most of the people wrote forkbombs at some stage of trying to do the homework. Over half of my group got to the
When my University decided to switch the wireless network to use proprietary Cisco LEAP authentication...
Started a very long battle that ended well enough. Wrote up documentation for others who wanted to run Linux and have access to the internet. Six months later they decided to add PEAP support as well. face slap
It is my favorite because I won. I got it to work.
As root on Solaris,
...and everything went down.
My friend got fired because of this.
I was a lab assistant for a Linux class. One of the students called me over because she could no longer
Note the space between the directory name and the final slash.
After a few minutes of "I really don't want to have her reinstall, so what is this doing and how.", I managed to find that /bin/su now had file permissions of
Not that painful... But a fun little moment:
I've mistyped
(already available in Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo,... repositories)
This does not remove the repository. This removes everything that is not in the repository.
After trying to get rid of the existing repo and then start source control again (on the completed first version of a project), these two commands nuked my entire code.
A company that I used to work for had its product running on SCO. I was doing some debugging about applications getting very slow on our demo server and at the same time there was a bunch of customers being given a demo/lecture about upcoming new features.
So, I ran the application that used to get stuck, did my stuff on it to verify the root cause, but since it was still "stuck", I tried to kill it:
What I did learn was that pkill doesn't do exactly the same on SCO as it does on linux =)
... It basically kills everything the user has access to, and with root... that's everything =)
My switch from Debian to Ubuntu started the day I tried to delete some files and directories, meaning to type
Unfortunately, I inserted a space between "/var/tmp/" and "*" and even worse, I was in the root of the filesystem.
Please don't try that at home!
There's a neat trick to do the equivalent of
Not so funny when
I had two drives installed at one point and had the root filesystem of the second drive mounted in a directory within
When I realised what I'd done I immediately hit Ctrl-C but it was too late. My
Now for the painful part.
I go back into that directory in
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I have written these two sentences:
Despite her temper, I loved her still.
Or perhaps not despite; perhaps because of.
The second sentence feels grammatically incorrect; how can I revise this to be less awkward-sounding yet still punchy? (The thought continues in the rest of the paragraph, explaining his feelings in more depth; this is the end of one paragraph and the beginning of another.)
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I am basically a Computer Programmer, but Physics has always fascinated and often baffled me.
I have tried to understand probability density in Quantum Mechanics for many many years. What I understood is that Probability amplitude is the square root of the probability of finding an electron around a nucleus. But the square root of probability does not mean anything in the physical sense. Can any please explain the physical significance of probability amplitude in Quantum Mechanics?
I read the Wikipedia article on probability amplitude many times over. What are those dumbbell shaped images representing?


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To ensure that database tables are designed in such a way that they will hold your data reliably, you need to be sure that they are not subject to modification anomalies. Normalizing your databases will give you that assurance. Compare the SQL criteria in the following list to the tables in your database. Doing so will alert you to the possibility of anomalies, when you find that your database is not sufficiently normalized.
First Normal Form (1NF):
Table must be two-dimensional, with rows and columns.
Each row contains data that pertains to one thing or one portion of a thing.
Each column contains data for a single attribute of the thing being described.
Each cell (intersection of row and column) of the table must be single-valued.
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| LaVergne, E., Tyco Fire Protection Products, Mauriceville, Texas
Simple, hardy equipment, high-quality foam concentrate, and having a good understanding of the hazardous situation will remain the three keys to success, says the author.
[storage tank]
[hydrocyanic acid]
[fire hose]
[fire prevention]
Many storage tank facilities in the US have the
necessary resources to douse a large-scale flammable-liquids
fire, but ultimate success centers on the strategy taken
with personnel, equipment and expertise. Approaching each fire
strategically requires taking into consideration three key
elements for flammable-liquid fire extinguishment:
If there is adequate water, hoses, pumping capacity, foam
concentrate, delivery devices and personnel, a fire can be
successfully extinguished. However, gathering those resources
and implementing the appropriate procedures can be challenging.
The concepts may seem simple, but execution can often be
difficult. The experience of flammable-liquid firefighting
personnel is one of the most invaluable elements in combating
these types of fires.
The experience of battling an extremely challenging fire at
a major refinery in Louisiana in 1989
continues to offer insight into strategies for dealing with
especially confounding blazes.
This refinery incident was a massive multi-target fire
involving tanks, pipelines, railcars and API separator units.
The magnitude of this event required immeasurable skill in the
vital areas of incident command, tactical excellence, logistics
and resource management. Collaborating with the site fire
chief, the fire was suppressed in a relatively short period of
time and an incident that could have turned into a regional
crisis was averted.
The response team assisted the client in suppressing fires
in 16 storage tanks (two of which were 134 ft in diameter with
manifold fires and dikes completely involved in the blaze),
four API separators (which separate large amounts of oil and
suspended solids from the wastewater effluents) and two
pipebands involving about 250,000 square feet of fire area. The
company responded with hardware and personnel, successfully
extinguishing all fires in 14 hours and 29 minutes with 48,000
gallons of alcohol-type concentrate foam. The
facility-consuming event was a massive test of strategic
response capabilities, incident command prowess, emergency
preparedness and logistics.
The cause of this significant event started because of a
power loss to a grid serving a large radius of Baton Rouge,
Louisiana, including a major refinery and chemical complex. Due
to abnormal freezing temperatures, this power outage caused the
facilitys systems to go into fail-safe mode. In the
fail-safe mode, system design parameters cause various
components of the process and transfer system to default to
wide-open or fully closed positions to manage process variables
such as flow, levels, pressures and temperatures throughout the
Thermal expansion on an 8-in., high-pressure
product line caused a failure releasing 1,500 pounds per second
in a hydrocarbon vapor/mist form. The release
lasted approximately 21⁄2 minutes before ignition. An
estimated 225,000 pounds of released hydrocarbon vapor created a cloud 1,000
ft1,500 ft in circumference and about 80 ft in
height/depth. The blast measured a 3.2 on the Richter scale 75
miles away in New Orleans.
On site at the time of the explosion, the fire chief for the
facility was supervising safety components of other maintenance activities in a
low-lying area between two high dike walls of a storage tank.
Nestled between these surrounding dike walls, the fire chief
and his team were shielded from the impact wave caused by the
initial explosion. Following the initial explosion, the fire
chief made his way through the facility to ascertain operating
status and damage assessments. Impeded by excessive debris from
the blast wave, he made initial observations from the ground as
he made his way on foot within the facility.
Ideal conditions for fighting a fire simply dont
present themselves when a major industrial emergency of this
level occurs. One of the greatest challenges initially was the
logistics of getting personnel and material onsite in a way to
provide a tactical advantage over the multitude of fire-related
events occurring throughout the complex. Though initially
isolated from response personnel, the onsite fire chief relayed
his observations that strategic upwind staging areas and supply
routes had been cut off by the impact of the explosion and the
ensuing fires. Optimum points of attack were initially taken
away by the explosion, including a vital vehicle access tunnel
that had flooded with 10 feet of burning flammable liquid from
a nearby tank rupture. This required identifying alternate
means to move in supplies and personnel.
Four beachheads were soon established at points on the
property that facilitated injection of personnel and materiel
to sustain what would become a nearly 15-hour battle. Four
teams were organized at these beachheads to initiate an attack,
with each team working its way through the facility to confront
whatever fire scenario lay in front of them.
Simultaneously as these resources were being organized, the
first order of business in the response effort was addressing
the numerous railcars that were stationed on the property. With
five rail spurs (Fig. 1) feeding the facility,
railcars containing various products from facilities throughout the industrial
corridor were on the property at all times. Under these
circumstances, the greatest immediate concern for incident
command was three railcars specially marked as containing
hydrocyanic acid (HCN) that were waiting transfer to another
facility at the time of the incident.
Fig. 1. Rail spurs are
common arteries into
industrial sites, and they carry any number
railcars bearing chemicals that may become
priority following a fire event.
The threat HCN poses prompted the railroad commission to
determine that railcars carrying this product (unlike any other
railcar) would be conspicuously painted white with a red stripe
down the side for easy identification. Railcars were
methodically removed within 45 minutes of the initial
explosion. Including the 151 cars that were onsite, chemicals
including gasoline, vinyl chloride, liquefied petroleum gas and
other explosive and flammable liquids were present. Addressing
the close proximity of these railcars to the vast ground spill
fires, and the pressure fires in a pipeband across from the
railroad staging area, prevented the possibility of chemical
fires, more spill fires, and potential railcar boiling liquid
expanding vapor explosions (BLEVEs). All the while, with the
loss of power, gas supply and steam production, many facility
personnel continued working throughout the site to secure
process operations and all related aspects of facility
This added the dimension of carrying on perpetual personnel
accountability efforts while managing a very large response
effort. Success in this incident was possible largely because
of the willingness and exemplary training acquired by the
response personnel for each of the specific threats they faced
on this day.
Additional reinforcements were summoned in the form of a
contracted fire-control company. Its role was to provide added
personnel, foam and equipment to aid primarily in extinguishing
the larger tank fires on the site.
Using information from Louisiana State Police helicopter
observations and quad sheet/map details, firefighting teams on
the ground were kept informed of the activities of the teams
working around them (Fig. 2), and they helped
prioritize the numerous fire scenarios confronted throughout
the day thereby orchestrating the overall response
Fig. 2. Firefighters work
with both facility
response teams and local response
to identify effective response strategies.
Conditions that day added to the complexity of the
situation. Firefighters dealt with challenging terrain
characteristics, impeded supply lines, ambient temperatures
reaching down to 10°F and the freezing of any firewater
supply that was not kept moving.
It was an extreme and unusually cold December day in south
Louisiana. The average temperature at that time of year
normally is about 70°, but there had been subfreezing
temperatures for five days prior to the fire. Even as they
gained control over the situation, firefighters continually had
to overcome the extreme cold given that their heat source had
The tactics on this day were largely governed by the
characteristics of the damage resulting from the initial
explosion. The main challenge that haunted firefighters
throughout the day was water supply. The water main was
severely damaged in the explosionhydrants were blown from
their foundations, and extreme heat melted the brass steamers
in the barrel of many hydrants.
Under normal circumstances, firewater supply would have been
extracted from facility hydrants, but extreme temperature
conditions and the explosion impact eliminated those resources.
This forced the tank-fire specialists to develop their own
water supplies and pumping systems. This became a fairly large
task, especially considering that the fire was suppressed in
less than 15 hours.
Alternate water resources available included chemically
treated river-water tanks, process cooling tower water, and
storm drain reservoir water that was drafted from below the oil
layer and pumped to pumper trucks. In the extreme cold weather,
responders resorted to burning boxes set atop frozen 12-in. valves to gain access to water
within the river-water tanks. Water from the cooling tower was
relayed from 3,500 ft away.
Teams were pulled away from their primary response efforts
twice to address fires that sprang up resulting from a rupture
in a failed tube in a furnace, occurring when the power
crashed, and another major pump fire in the chemicals division.
Throughout the entire operation, not one lost-time injury was
Some of the firefighting personnel had responded to an
incident at another refinery that same day (also a
result of the subfreezing temperatures). Since the plants were
located in a warmer climate, water distribution systems were
plumbed aboveground. Result: The cold weather
led to frozen and damaged pipes. After addressing the prior
incident, the crews received a call about the refinery fire in
Baton Rouge.
As crews arrived, fire personnel could actually see the fire
from about 50 miles away, leaving no doubt that they would be
dealing with a massive incident. There was a lot of difficulty
getting to the facility because the explosion did so much
damage to the region.
Fires of this type often are best battled with a simplistic
approach, using a philosophy triangle that involves
high-quality foam concentrates, proven equipment and a vast
understanding of the hazard.
Understanding conditions is essential in battling a
flammable-liquids blaze. This instance called for simplistic
equipment because the fire was fought under adverse
The fire field is no place for digitally-controlled
equipment, given the often extremely harsh conditions. It can
be hot, cold, muddy or wet. Very robust equipment and products
are needed for success. Often, its about understanding
and simplifying the process, but everything must come together
to provide a total solution.
One of the biggest challenges was the lack of water, since
the water distribution system had been cut off. Crews had to
turn to a cooling tower and the Mississippi River as sources
for water. They also had to deal with a considerable amount of
ground fire.
Despite the challenges, firefighters were able to extinguish
the blaze at a much lower than normal water/foam application
rate. Normally, suppressing a fire in a 134-ft diameter storage
tank would have an application rate of 0.16 gallons per minute
per ft2. Highly effective tactical discipline and
team communications enabled the crew to defeat much of the fire
at an application rate closer to 0.10 for this tank, supporting
the claim for high-quality foam concentrates.
Another issue encountered involved the fire hose couplings
that refinery operators used at its facility. The hoses had a
thread specific to the company, a thread that was uncommon to
outside fire-response departments. When the hoses had to be
married with the hoses from the aiding firefighting entities,
the necessary adapters were not available to make the
crossovers. This forced firefighting personnel to use duct tape
and bailing wire to hold couplings together on some hoses. A
key lesson learned is when outside resources are being brought
in, it needs to be confirmed that crossover adapters will be
compatible. Each individual facility, when it calls for
assistance, should ensure that mutual aid providers can tap
into their system. After firefighters successfully suppressed
the refinery fire, the refinery operator made changes to
standardize its hose threads to meet the industry standard.
The team that responded to the fire had worked together for
many years, making it second nature when it came to fighting
this large-scale refinery fire. In addition, the group had
trained with the team permanently situated at the refinery,
making their joint firefighting philosophies very similar. This
alliance is credited as a key component to quickly controlling
and defeating this incident.
When firefighters receive training, they must be taught to
think beyond the classroom; there is no textbook during a fire.
They should be pushed to gather all knowledge and
understanding, thus keeping an open mind when fighting a
When confronted with a dynamic emergency situation, the way
firefighters handle the task is directly related to their
success and safety. Reactions to stressful situations are
typically unchecked and fueled by emotion. Experience and
advanced preparation guide responses based on intelligence and
confidence. A planned response allows crews to act from a
position of strength rather than from anxiety. Professional
response operations will deliver coordinated targeted actions
that will produce specific predictable results built on
knowledge of fire dynamics.
A primary reason the fire was suppressed in less than 15
hours stemmed from the relationship between the company and its
long-time customer, leading to well-developed plans for such a
This kind of evolved fire, which required addressing
multiple fires at once, with reduced resources, freezing
temperatures, burning infrastructure and lack of water, became
a test of that relationship. In the end, the success in
battling the blaze mitigated the impact on the surrounding
community and eliminated a threat to the nearby Mississippi
The potential of a fire on the magnitude of the 1989
Louisiana refinery blaze may be somewhat rare,
but its a major concern for operators of large refining/chemical complexes.
Therefore, they must be prepared for a major fire, even if the
potential is limited. The continuous development of
firefighting teams is essential in remaining prepared for a
blaze of this magnitude.
Firefighting companies should develop a post-incident
analysis to determine strengths, weaknesses and lessons learned
about incident-response operations and tactical
equipment/performance. The analysis requires close evaluation
of all conditions, factors, decisions and efforts made during a
major incident. This detailed retrospective can empower
incident command and better prepare response personnel in
future events.
Fire personnel who keep the three key elements of effective
firefighting for flammable liquids close at hand will be
successful. Simple, hardy equipment, high-quality foam
concentrate, and a good understanding of the hazardous
situation will remain the three keys to success in reducing,
preventing and quickly extinguishing fires.
All comments are subject to editorial review.
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safety is base on prevention, so we should always take the right preventive procedures to avoid accident and incident in our working environments, thanks.
abd al salam
salam alekum .i have new idea to firefight hydrocarbon liquids in the rfineries depots and i need to send my idea for yours .you agree?
Eric, Congratulations on the article; 14 hours of combat is a good record, great volume for large fires, Just one question. The foam Tyco, contains Dipropylene Glycol Dimethyl Ether or Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) or Perfluorooctane Sulfonate?
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The project has some technological aspects but the job is mainly doing managerial things: scheduling, making sure people do what they are suppose to, going to a lot of meetings, etc. Basically, it's not how the average programmer or even a team leader would like to spend his time.
Since I am not going to sneak out of this, I have found myself wishing I could teleport myself to some point of time after the project has ended. After pondering about it some more, I reached the conclusion that I hate working like that and I can't allow myself to work on a project that makes me think this way. I have to make the most out of this project.
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Ferguson recently completed two four-year terms as sheriff and under state law, couldn't seek another term. Cross decided to step down from the prosecutor's position after serving it for 30 years.
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NEW SHERIFF — As Brooke County's new sheriff, Chuck Jackson was administered the oath of office Wednesday by 1st Judicial Circuit Court Judge James Mazzone. Jackson served previously as chief sheriff's deputy under Sheriff Richard Ferguson. -- Warren Scott
NEW PROSECUTOR — As Brooke County's new prosecuting attorney, Joseph Barki III was administered the oath of office Wednesday by 1st Judicial Circuit Court Judge James Mazzone. Barki served previously as assistant prosecutor under County Prosecutor David B. Cross. -- Warren Scott
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4 Aug 2008 5:31 AM #1
Wait for mask() to load?
Hello there,
this is my first post, so I would like to thank you for your work on gxt! I've already recommended gxt to my company and other developers
My goal is to use a mask to prevent user input while a time consuming operation is performed.
private class SelectAllDialogClickListener implements ClickListener { public void onClick (Widget sender) { mypanel.el().mask("Loading articles..."); mypanel.disable(); ListStore<BaseModel> store = mypanel.getStore(); for (BaseModel model : store.getModels()) { model.set("checked", true); store.update(model); } mypanel.enable(); mypanel.el().unmask(); } }
The idea: this onclick method should change the Boolean "checked" on my BaseModel objects, which is rendered using a Checkbox column, this is very slow, so I want to display a mask and use the Disable event to disable all child elements.
Is this not possible in Java, but only in JS?
I would be really grateful for your help.
Good day.
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4 Aug 2008 12:43 PM #2
put the entire store load section in a deferred command, which will execute after the last UI event etc... (so you'll need to the put the panel enable and unmask in there too)
7 Feb 2012 8:36 PM #3
more details about using mask() method
could you demonstrate more details for using mask() method?
because when I used mask() method, it was not working.
for instance, a tabitem including a grid inside
when I override onRender method.
protected void onRender(Element parent, int index){
this.initGrid();// a method to initiate grid
//after initiating the grid
//unmask this tabitem
// but it could not be working.
//so could you tell me more about these.
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Hearing some troubling news on PS3 forums etc that the PS3 version of Skyrim becomes an "unplayable glitch-fest" once your save game file gets in the vicinity of 6-10MB.
Glitches range from minor framerate issues to total game-destroying freezes and corrupted save files that simply render the game unplayable.
Bethesda has released some tips for reducing the likelihood of this happening, like turning off the autosave option and clearing space on the hard drive.
I am about 9 hours into the game, and my save file is now hovering just below the 5MB mark. Given that I have not even gotten 10% into the game, it's a certainty that my save file is going to creep into the red zone soon. I have pre-emptively turned off autosaves and I have loads of room on the hard drive. I'm not getting my knickers in a twist over it yet, I'll keep my fingers crossed and see how it goes...
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4 Feb 2013 12:03 AM #1
My company can't use a Secha chart because of performance issue(slow loading)... is?
I developed a scatter chart with Sencha EXTJS that plots 1000+ dots. The problem is, the rendering of this chart takes too long to load on a browser. For instance, it takes 2+ minutes to load a 1000 dot chart. However, it gets exponentially slower with more dots. It takes 6+ minutes to load a 1500 dot chart.
For charts with less than 100 dots - it's more reasonable - takes about 10 seconds to load.
A lot of the processing is happening on the browser to generate the DOM to display the chart. The browser basically locks up until the rendering is complete and there is a huge spike in it's memory allocation. I believe this issue is not isolated to just dots, but also to bar charts and line charts that needs to display 1000+ items.
I even removed some of the extra perks - like animations from this chart, but that only saved about 10 seconds. Is there another way to reduce the time to load up this chart? Or is this one of the cons in using a client-side charting program instead of a server-side charting program?
4 Feb 2013 5:09 PM #2
The best way to reduce render time is to reduce the number of points in your data set. When designing your chart, you should be asking why you actually need to plot 1000 data points. Is someone going to really interact with all those data points? If so, you'll probably be better with using a server-side charting engine that will spit you out a .png or something.
But if you want to stick with client-side charting, try reducing your data set. While you may want to visually represent 1000 data sets, it may not be necessary to actually render 1000 representations of each data point. Instead, you could do some aggregation to reduce the total number of points that need to be rendered, but still (via aggregation) visualize the meaningfulness of the data on the chart. For example, if you're charting data across a date range, try aggregating data by day/hour/minute/etc. in order to slim down the total data set.
And remember, the usefulness of a chart is not the minutiae of data represented (that's something more suited to a tabular representation, like a grid). Rather, the usefulness of a chart/graph/whatever is the way in which a pile of hard-to-interpret data points can be distilled, visually, in a comprehensible manner in relation to one another, a time frame, etc.
If you are, on the other hand, trying to use a chart to communicate information about individual data points, I would argue that you're using the chart incorrectly. Just my opinion, though.
5 Feb 2013 11:34 AM #3
Thanks for your reply existdissolve. I really would like to stick with Sencha EXTJS for this scatter chart. But it's performance is too slow... unless I'm missing a configuration somewhere to speed it up.
I looked into Google Charts API and it's performance for generating scatter charts is blazingly fast. Google Charts API is also a client-side charting framework. I'll have to investigate more.
15 Jan 2014 7:44 PM #4
I have the same problem, I need to show charts with big detail as electrocardiogram, ... I could not show only some points. I using line chars and their are special slow when I close/destroy panel. I am talking about 800 points, I think that was not a question of my charts, it was a sencha performance question. Anybody know idea to increase performance.
16 Jan 2014 7:04 AM #5
As much as I like Ext JS, it pains me to say that the charting package is not very scalable.
Take another charting library... 50,000 points and the scatter plot renders in 372 ms on my computer.


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November 17, 2012
The 39th session of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) member states was concluded in Djibouti today following two days of deliberations. Vice Foreign Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Abdullah bin Abdulaziz led the Saudi delegation to the gathering, which was held under the theme "Solidarity for Sustainable Development."
In his address, Prince Abdulaziz highlighted the Kingdom's efforts to promote Islamic solidarity and interreligious dialogue. He pointed to the initiative of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz to establish a center for dialogue between Islamic sects, adding that the King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz International Center for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue will be opened in Vienna on November 26.
The Vice Foreign Minister also discussed the Palestinian cause and the Arab-Israeli conflict, characterizing them as "the fulcrum of struggle in the Middle East." He declared, "The international community should shoulder its political and ethical responsibilities to press Israel to give back rights to their legal owners, to stop all arbitrary and inhumane acts against the Palestinian people and to fulfill aspirations of the Palestinian people in establishing their state with Al-Quds [Jerusalem] as its capital."
Prince Abdulaziz noted that Saudi Arabia has made efforts to assist Muslims around the world, including those in Afghanistan, Somalia, Yemen, and Syria. The Kingdom has helped find political solutions for crises, he continued, while also providing financial and humanitarian assistance to those in need.
Finally, Prince Abdulaziz announced the Kingdom's nomination of Iyad bin Amin Madani to the post of OIC Secretary General for the next term. If successful, Madani will be the first Saudi to hold that position.
At the conclusion of the session, the OIC Foreign Ministers released the Djibouti Declaration, in which they reiterated their backing of the Palestinians' U.N. bid. "We renew our full support for the just cause of Palestine and the rights of Palestinian people to mobilize international support for their inalienable legitimate rights, including the right to self-determination and return," the statement said. "We affirm our full support to the Palestinian move to seek observer status for the State of Palestine at the U.N. and call upon friendly countries to support that. We also condemn the continued inhuman and illegitimate blockade of the Gaza Strip and demand Israel, as the occupying power, to immediately end this illegal collective punishment of the Palestinian people, to lift the blockade fully."
The ministers condemned the propagation of religious hatred and reaffirmed "the principles contained in the inter-faith and intercultural dialogue initiative of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud, which was adopted by the World Conference on Dialogue of 2008 in Madrid against defamation of religions and their symbols." They welcomed King Abdullah's initiative to encourage dialogue between Muslims, saying, "We consider this a practical way of reconciling juristic opinions among Muslims for the sake of safeguarding the unity of the Islamic Ummah."
Addressing a series of other issues, the Djibouti Declaration welcomed the agreement reached by the various segments of the Syrian opposition on November 11 in Doha; condemned the repression of Rohingya Muslims; supported the resolution adopted on the border dispute between Djibouti and Eritrea; and expressed solidarity with Mali in its struggle against armed groups.
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