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SQL is an accepted topic, so I imagine that a good scenario is to isolate the actual problem you're trying to address, and frame the question around that instead of just "make this work". This should make it acceptable. Make sure to include your current SQL query as a code block and explain what you've tried and what is failing.
By focusing on the problem that is trying to be solved, you help other users that have the same concern to find the solution, even if they don't have the same query structure that you specifically wrote. And, even as you think about the rephrasing, you may even find an existing question that solves the same problem.
I don't like the title, but so long as their is a technical/code/syntax type of question involved, yep...
If the title is really what the question is, it'll be downvoted and closed. In general, the
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Has the user asked something like: "I have three tables in a database that look like
Or was it something like: "
So I guess what I'm saying is, the rules for SQL are pretty much the same as any other language.


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This week I review new re-issues courtesy of Sony/Legacy featuring Art Garfunkel, Weather Report and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band.
Art Garfunkel - "The Singer"
This double CD retrospective of singer Art Garfunkel is a sequenced set that chronicles Garfunkel's six albums with Paul Simon and selections from his 10 solo outings.
Th set includes notes written by Garfunkel about each song as well as details about his special musical relationships with Simon and songwriter Jimmy Webb.
Garfunkel was the perfect foil for Paul Simon - his angelic tenor created a blend with Simon that captured much of the angst of two young artists growing up in the 1960s and the folk-rock era. Garfunkel's voice was an almost-perfectly created instrument for Simon's earnest, folk-penned masterpieces such as "For Emily, Wherever I May Find Her," an aching ballad that bristles with longing that set the tone for much of Garfunkel's work with Simon as well as in his own creative career.
The duo's collaboration hit its peak with Garfunkel's breath-taking and inspiring vocals on "Bridge Over Troubled Waters," an apt title for what would be the duo's last studio album together. Garfunkel's vocal on this masterpiece never fails to deliver a shiver up my spine.
The singer's solo career is a less satisfying affair, although there are some highlights, particularly with his best album "Breakaway," released in 1975 and featuring a wonderful duet with Simon on "My Little Town." His fabulous version of "It's a Wonderful World" - also featuring Simon along with James Taylor -is taken from "Watermark," an album of mostly Jimmy Webb-penned songs.
Other highlights include "When a Man Loves a Woman," "A Heart in New York" and a crack at some standards from the Great American Songbook, including "Some Enchanted Evening" and "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face."
The best word I could use to describe Garfunkel's career is "mellow." This is great wine-sipping music on a cold night with a warm fire and a special someone. There's something reassuring and alluring about Garfunkel as a singer that transcends ordinary pop music, and there's an integrity there. When he gets his teeth into a stellar song such as "Bridge Over Troubled Waters" there's no one better at what he does.
The Preservation Hall Jazz Band - "The 50th Anniversary Collection"
The Preservation Hall Jazz Band is one of America's secret musical treasures. Founded in 1961 in the birthplace of jazz - New Orleans - the band has been soldiering on and playing traditional jazz since. This four-CD retrospective focuses on the band's history and highlights a playbook that no other traditional jazz band can rival. From the band's very authentic beginnings and the masters of the genre that have been through its ranks, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band has shown consistency and reverence for music made famous by jazz pioneers such as Louis Armstrong, Jellyroll Morton and Buddy Bolden. What's so unique is the band's lineage can be traced all the way back to the very beginnings of the art form.
The other surprising aspect of the band is its willingness over the years for some interesting collaborations and stepping outside the "trad" box, with cuts featuring Tom Waits and '60s icon Richie Havens.
This box set, set to be released Sept. 25, is a joy from the first cut to its last. Highly recommended.
Weather Report -"The Complete Columbia Albums 1971-1976"
This is yet another installment in Columbia/Legacy's "complete"series featuring the entire recorded output of jazz, pop and rock greats that recorded with Columbia. This seven-CD box includes the six albums of the band, led by keyboardist Joseph Zawinul and saxophonist Wayne Shorter, and comes after a previous release featuring the band's more commercial output from 1977 to 1982.
The six albums featured here include "Weather Report," "I Sing the Body Electric," "Live In Tokyo," "Sweetnighter," "Mysterious Traveller" and "Tale Spinnin,'" and the set can be found online at www.popmarket.com by clicking on the complete albums link; Amazon.com; and other music retailers.
The ghost of Miles Davis and his "electric period" hangs heavy over this batch of releases, which really doesn't come as a surprise since three of the group's original members - percussionist Airto Moreiro, Zawinul and Shorter - all recorded with Miles during the late 1960s and early '70s.
And that's a good thing, at least I think so. I prefer this more exploratory version of the band as it was finding its footing, trying to escape the long shadow of Miles and develop its own personal sound. Adept at jazz, rock, funk and R&B as well as ambient, Weather Report made some highly creative and exciting music in its early days, particularly on the incendiary "Live In Tokyo." Alas, with almost too many world-class players with world-class egos to match, the original lineup didn't last long as Zawinul began to dominate the band, and personnel changed much. By the time bassist Jaco Pastorius came on the scene in 1977 - re-invigorating the band and adding a serious groove -Weather Report was an entirely different animal.
Not every experiment here works - the choral aspect of "I Sing the Body Electric" comes off as dated and rather corny, while "Tale Spinnin'" suffers from the self-conscious pretentiousness that marks a lot of the jazz fusion from the 1970s. Still, it's a lot of fun to listening to great players trying to form a collective.
(Miller is co-editor of weekender.)

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Occupational Radiation Exposure and Cancer Risk
Last Modified: March 22, 2012
I work as a radiologist, am I at increased risk for getting cancer?
Carolyn Vachani, RN, MSN, AOCN, OncoLink Nurse Educator, responds:
People in certain professions may be at increased risk for cancer due to occupational radiation exposure. These professions include medical radiologic technicians, aircrews, radium dial luminisers, underground hard-rock miners, Chernobyl clean-up workers, nuclear weapons test participants, and nuclear industry workers. While you cannot change past radiation exposure, you may be able to protect yourself going forward. The Occupational Safety & Health Administration has established guidelines about occupational exposures and steps in place to protect workers. In addition, either let your healthcare provider know about past exposure so that appropriate screening tests can be done to decrease the risk of developing cancer or detect the cancer at an early stage.
Radiologists and medical radiologic technicians, who were working prior to 1950, are at a higher risk of developing cancer because of occupational exposure to radiation. The most common cancers seen in this group are leukemia, breast cancer and skin cancers (typically squamous cell skin cancers). Studies focusing on medical radiation workers since the 1960s do not show an increased risk of cancer, possibly due to increased safety practices, including better shielding, protection, and monitoring.
In the first half of 20th century, Radium chemists and dial luminisers may have unknowingly been exposed to large amounts of radium and radium-based paint. These workers are at higher risk of developing bone cancer (sarcoma) and possibly cancer of the breast and/or sinuses.
Underground hard-rock miners are exposed to and inhale large quantities of radon, increasing their risk for developing lung cancer.
Due to the reduced shielding by the atmosphere, aircrews are exposed to higher levels of cosmic radiation and appear to be at increased risk for developing skin cancers, though studies have not been conclusive.
Chernobyl clean-up workers, nuclear weapons test participants, and nuclear industry workers appear to be at an increased risk for leukemia and thyroid cancer.
This question and answer was part of the OncoLink Brown Bag Chat Series. View the entire Cancer Risk & Prevention Webchat transcript.


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LAWRENCE, Kan. (WIBW) A long string of heat without rain is beginning to cause havoc in various communities throughout the state.
One west Lawrence community was caught in the middle of a near disaster before fire crews responded to the scene this morning.
The Palisades community in Lawrence went through quite a scare this morning as a grass fire immediately turned into what fire officials called a full structural response, that also threatened the Langston Hughes Elementary School.
Division Fire Chief of Douglas County, Eve Tolefree responded to the scene with fire crews. "Due to winds and dry weather the fire began to spread to the Palisades district and elementary school," said Chief Tolefree.
Residents saw flames as tall as there homes spreading extremely fast and putting them into a frantic situation.
Resident Michelle Hack said "It was very close to our house and we weren't expecting this we saw the flames and they were tall and red and very scary. I was looking up at them from the second story."
Fire crews respnded with an unparalledlled quickness and made an on the spot decision to evacuate homes.
Chief Tolefree said, "It was made quickly as wind picked up and the flames were coming in. Fortunately not alot of homeowners were home but five families were evacuated."
It took seven separate departments to hold the fire before it could damage any of the homes in the Palisades community or the elementary school.
Homeowner Andy Pitts was thouroughly impressed by the response teams work ethic saying, "The way they were able to respond it was incredible. It was extremely hot and they worked tirelessly to take care of this and its not something they see regularly. Having a grass fire in the middle of the city."
newsroommany of the homeowners that were not home were notified of the fire danger that was put out before any structural damage was done...
Fire officials say the cause of the fire is being classified as natural due to the wildlife contact with overhead powerlines.


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EA shuts down Warhammer Online developer Mythic EntertainmentWritten by: / / 2 Comments
After almost twenty years in business, and following the development and release of massively multiplayer online games like Dark Age of Camelot and Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, EA has shuttered Virginia-based studio Mythic Entertainment.
In a statement to the press, an EA representative wrote:
"We are closing the EA Mythic location in Fairfax, Virginia, as we concentrate mobile development in our other studio locations. We are working with all impacted employees to provide assistance in finding new opportunities, either within EA or with other companies via an upcoming job fair."
Mythic Entertainment was founded in 1995 and would most fondly be remembered for the MMORPGs mentioned above, but most recently released the much-vilified Dungeon Keeper mobile game, as well as Ultima Forever: Quest for the Avatar.
Did you ever play any of Mythic's more well-known games? Any other favourites from the company's (very long) list of titles?
Source: Kotaku
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Adam Brunk
Teaching Success
Adam Brunk '13 generally spends his weekdays like the average law student—juggling a busy schedule that includes classes, study time, and work on various projects. His Saturday mornings during the school year have been less typical. While most of Brunk's classmates were catching up on rest, he headed back to lecture halls on campus. As a teacher for and then vice president of the Law School's High School Law Institute, he helped train more than 120 high school students each weekend on the basics of criminal law, constitutional law, and the mock trial process.
"The experience really teaches you patience," says Brunk, who spent two years working as a middle school science teacher before starting law school. "It's about learning how to be a better communicator so that the person you're speaking with understands you and isn't left with a ton of questions."
For his efforts, Brunk earned the Law School's Irell & Manella Prize. The award honors students who demonstrate outstanding leadership in the Columbia Law School community.
This spring, Brunk heads to Paris, where he will complete his last semester as part of the Law School's Global Alliance program at the University of Paris I and Sciences Po. Much of his time abroad will be spent learning the intricacies of European law, a topic he has explored as articles editor for the Columbia Journal of European Law.
While overseas, Brunk will take a break from teaching, but he hopes to remain involved with education issues after law school. "I could see running for a school board position," says Brunk, who will join Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in Manhattan after graduation. "I want to be able to give back in that way."


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| Ahamad, S., Bechtel Corp, Houston, Texas; Vallavanatt, R., Bechtel Corp, Houston, Texas
[heat transfer]
[industrial gases]
Recent environmental regulations mandate
that refinery and petrochemical industries reduce
nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions. Emissions
legislations are constantly under review, and they differ from
country to country and sometimes even within the same
New burner technologies have been developed to meet more
stringent emissions requirements. Most of
these new technologies use internal flue gas recirculation and
fuel staging to reduce NOx. These burners are often
referred to as ultra-low-NOx burners (ULNBs). The
techniques used in ULNBs for reducing NOx emissions
from process heaters affect key aspects of burner and heater
The existing guidelines for burner specifications are
generally based on conventional and low-NOx burners
(LNBs). ULNBs behave differently from the other burner types,
so a new set of guidelines is required to specify new burners
in fired heaters.
A better specification is the first and best opportunity to
achieve optimum heater performance and to minimize operations
and maintenance. The specifications are
used as the basis for the burner design. The burner
specifications determine the design of the burners and their
various critical properties. When specifications are accurate
and complete, the burners and heaters can perform
Several oxides of nitrogen are formed during the combustion
process. NOx formation is commonly grouped into
three mechanisms or types:
These three mechanisms are described in the following
Thermal NOx. Thermal
NOx refers to the oxidation of molecular N contained
in the air or fuel by O2. The rate of thermal
NOx formation is very sensitive to local flame
temperature. The formation of thermal NOx is
described in Eq. 1:
The first reaction has high activation energy and,
therefore, requires high temperature for NOx
formation. The formation of an NOx molecule from the
first reaction results in a release of an N atom, which rapidly
forms another NOx molecule.
The formation rate of thermal NOx increases
exponentially with increasing flame temperature and is also
directly proportional to the residence time of the reactant in
the peak flame zone. The key parameters of thermal
NOx formation are temperature, O2 and N
concentrations, and residence time in the flame zone.
Fuel NOx. This is the result of
reactions between fuel-bound N and O2 in the
combustion air. The conversion rates of the fixed N in the fuel
can be as high as 50% to 60% of the N present. The conversion
rate is a function of the quantity of N compound present in the
fuel. Most refinery fuel gas does not have
fuel-bound N; therefore, there is virtually no fuel
NOx for fuel gas firing.
Prompt NOx. Prompt
NOx is a newly recognized mechanism of
NOx formation. Although it only represents a small
portion of the NOx formed, prompt NOx
becomes a significant emissions source when ULNBs are
Under the fuel-rich conditions of the flame zone,
particularly areas where the stoichiometry is less than 0.6,
both hydrogen cyanide (HCN) and ammonia (NH3) can be
formed through an extremely rapid reaction of hydrocarbon radicals with atmospheric N.
As these components enter areas of the combustion zone where
additional O2 is available, HCN and NH3
are oxidized to form CO2, H2O and
The major source of NOx in a fuel gas-fired
heater is thermal NOx emissions created through
high-temperature reactions of N and O2 present in
the combustion air. Since the reaction is highly temperature
dependent, the best direct method of lowering NOx
emissions is to lower the peak flame temperature. To accomplish
these goals, various burner suppliers have developed a
specialized ULNB (Fig. 1).
Burners used in gas firing can be defined as follows:
ULNBs have different features from a conventional burner. A
ULNB uses fuel staging and flue gas inspiration (i.e., internal
recirculation). Flue gas is internally recirculated using the
pressure energy of fuel gas. These burners are designed to
recirculate relatively cooler flue gas from the firebox back
into the combustion zone. This recirculation of largely inert
flue gases into the combustion zone reduces peak flame
temperature and average O2 concentration. The
internal flue gas recirculation creates a similar effect as the
external flue gas recirculation.
The fuel/air mixture is diluted by recirculated flue gas,
resulting in lower burning rates. Lower burning rates increase
the flame length, which often results in flame-to-flame
interaction along with flame impingement on tubes.
Internal flue gas recirculation is a critical parameter in
ULNB design. A conventional burner is less affected by poor
flue gas flow pattern in the firebox. Many fired heater
revamps, from conventional to ULNBs, have experienced problems
like flame impingement and flame instability. Flame impingement
on the tube will cause high tube metal temperature, which can
result in premature coke formation in process fired heaters
like crude, vacuum and coker heaters.
Flame-to-flame interaction can result in the merging of
flames from individual burners. Merged flame is much longer
than standalone flame. The prolonged flames can tilt toward the
tubes, and flame tails can impinge on the tubes.
A fired heater with well-designed burners should have
several desirable impacts:
For optimum performance of a fired heater, the proper burner
selection, number of burners, fired duty per burner and
location of burners are very important. Every design step in
fired heater and burner design is critical for optimum
performance. Oversight at any stage, from fuel gas supply to
flue gas disposal, will adversely affect burner performance
and, therefore, fired heater capacity, overall thermal
efficiency and run length. There are several critical
parameters when specifying a fired heater with ULNBs, as
discussed below.
Fuel gas delivery system. The ULNB tip
orifices are very small compared to conventional burners.
Burner ignition ports in most ULNBs are 1⁄16 in. These
small ports can and will become plugged if the fuel gas
delivery system is not designed to reliably supply clean, dry
fuel. The fuel delivery system for ULNB applications must have
a filter/coalescer located downstream of the knockout drum. Use
of stainless steel fuel piping downstream of the
filter/coalescer is also recommended. Also, fuel piping
downstream of the filter/coalescer may require insulation and
heat tracing, depending on local site conditions.
Burner design parameters. First, the number
of burners must be maximized. Increasing the number of burners
will reduce the heat liberation per burner. This will result in
the shortest possible flame length and a more uniform heat
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modeling was conducted
for a fired heater with three burners and also with four
burners. A comparison of peak heat flux profiles for the
three-burner and four-burner arrangements was plotted for the
tubes (Fig. 2). CFD modeling predicts a
significant reduction in peak heat flux for the four-burner
arrangement. The tube skin temperature was also reduced
significantly with the four-burner arrangement, which resulted
in significant improvements in overall fired heater run
Burner circle diameter. In a competitive
market where corners are sometimes cut to minimize overall
cost, the API 560 minimum clearance requirement may be barely
met. (Note: API 560 defines only the minimum
clearance.) Burners installed with minimum API clearance can
cause flame impingement for slight changes in fuel pressure or
upsets in fired-heater operation.
Traditionally, burner circle diameter in a vertical
cylindrical heater is calculated using the formula in Eq.
BCD = Burner circle diameter
Db = Burner controlling diameter (i.e., the
front-plate outside diameter)
Cb = Clearance between burner controlling
diameter (usually 2 in.)
n = Number of burners.
This formula works well for a conventional burner, although
it must be checked for a ULNB. The calculation considers the
actual size of the burner to provide the required BCD. A new
formula is required in addition to the above formula, which
considers the spacing between the tiles of neighboring burners.
The formula in Eq. 3 can be used to calculate the BCD in a
vertical cylindrical heater with ULNBs:
BCD = Burner circle diameter
Dt = Burner tile outside diameter
Ct = Clearance between burner tiles
n = Number of burners.
Each burner designer has its own set of guidelines for the
clearance between the burner tiles. A general clearance
guideline is 1 in. per MMBtu/hr of heat release. For example,
if the burner heat release is 10 MMBtu/hr, then the clearance
between the tiles should be 10 in. Another suggested guideline
is to keep the burner center to a center spacing of
twice the Dt.
A good engineering practice for specifying the overdesign
for a burner, as per API 560, is that burners shall be sized
for a maximum heat release at the design excess air based on
the following:
It has been common practice in the industry to overdesign
burners. Additional margin on burner design is sometimes
applied on top of the margin on fired heater design. Overdesign
shifts the burner design point away from the actual operating
The example summarized in Table 1 analyzes
a case where a burner is designed with 120% margin on the
required firing rate. At normal operating conditions for the
heater, the combustion air pressure drop will be 0.41 inchWC
instead of the 0.6 inchWC actually available. This overdesign
on the burner reduces the draft loss requirements for actual
heater operating conditions, which results in a larger flame
envelope. It is highly recommended to minimize the overdesign
to avoid increasing the overall flame envelope.
Burner test. The burner test is critical
for ULNBs. Most test furnaces fire a single burner. With
conventional burners and LNBs, the performance seen in the test
is similar to multi-burner heaters. With ULNBs, however, this
is not always the case. If burners are not placed with
sufficient spacing, then flames may merge, resulting in longer
flame length. It may also result in flame impingement on
furnace tubes. ULNBs are more prone to flame interaction in
multi-burner heaters. Therefore, it is always recommended to
carry out a burner test. Also, if a burner supplier has a
sufficiently large heater, it is recommended to test two or
more burners with the same spacing as the actual heater. The
test furnace conditions [e.g., bridge wall temperature (BWT),
draft, etc.] should replicate those of the actual heater.
A critical parameter to measure during the test is flame
dimension. The general practice is to visually establish the
flame dimension; however, visual measurement can produce
inaccurate or inconsistent results. Therefore, to establish
more reliable flame dimension, it is recommended to use carbon monoxide (CO) probing of the
flame. CO levels must be low in the firebox outside of the
flame envelope. CO levels of more than 2,000 ppm are generally
considered to be flame.
Many users do not specify a burner test if they have used a
similar burner in the past. Although operating conditions and
heat liberation are similar, a performance test is still
recommended. A small difference in tip drillingwhich is
commoncan have a large impact on NOx emissions and flame stability.
Burner in two circles. It has been a common
practice to install burners in two circles for conventional
burners (Fig. 3). The two-circle arrangement
provides better clearance between tubes and burners. In most
cases, an inner circle is added during a fired heater revamp to
increase the firing rate. This is not a preferred option with
ULNBs, however. The inner-circle burners do not receive cold
flue gases for internal flue gas recirculation. This lack of
internal flue gas recirculation increases NOx
emissions from the inner-circle burner. Overall NOx
emissions from the heater will rise and may not meet emissions
With respect to burner-to-tube spacing and flue gas
recirculation, it is suggested to maximize burner-to-tube
clearance, not only to avoid flame impingement on tubes but
also for better internal flue gas recirculation. This spacing
becomes even more critical for a vertical cylindrical
In a well-designed furnace, the hot flue gases should flow
upward through the center of the heater. The cold flue
gases should flow downward behind and along the tubes. A
smaller clearance between the burner and the tubes may not
allow cold flue gases to flow downward. The small space will be
filled with hot gases. Fig. 4 shows a typical
flue gas flow profile in a heater with a normal firebox and a
heater with a tight firebox.
CBT = Burner-to-tube clearance,
QB = Burner liberation, MMBtu/hr.
For ULNB applications, adding 6 in. to the API-recommended
spacing appears to provide the needed clearance for proper flue
gas recirculation. The modified equation is shown in Eq. 5:
Table 2 provides suggested clearances for ULNBs, while
Table 3 provides a summary of results from a
case study comparing the required minimum tube circle diameter
(TCD) for a fired heater with both conventional burners and
The firebox temperature calculation methods used most
frequently are empirical correlations based on experimental
data. The heat transfer in the radiant section is calculated
with the widely used Lobo-Evans method. This method assumes
complete flue gas mixing in the firebox such that there are no
longitudinal or transverse temperature gradients. The equation
for radiant heat transfer is as follows:
qr = Total heat absorbed in radiant
section, Btu/hr
Tg = Average radiating flue gas temperature
in radiant section, °R
Ts = Temperature of cold surface (tube
metal temperature), °R
αAcp = Equivalent cold plane area,
F = Overall exchange factor.
These correlations were developed based on operating data
from heaters using conventional burners. ULNB flame is cooler
than a conventional burner flame. A lower flame temperature
will result in lower heat transfer in the radiant section.
Therefore, the flue gas temperature leaving the radiant section
will be higher than that of a heater with conventional burners.
This must be accounted for when designing the fired heater and
specifying the burner. A ULNB installed in an existing fired
heater (burner retrofit) may result in a loss of capacity or
overall thermal efficiency, especially for heaters where the
process fluid is heated in the radiant section only.
The overall heat transfer may not be affected in
applications where the heater has a convection-section preheat
coil followed by a radiant section in which further heating
occurs. In this case, the total heat absorption for both the
radiant and convection coils will be about the same, regardless
of the BWT.
However, it is very important to correctly estimate BWT
where there are two or more separate services, one in the
radiant section and one or more in the convection section. If
the BWT is higher than expected, the radiant-section absorption
will be relatively low and the convection-section absorption
will be relatively high.
In this case, such as when the radiant section consists of a
process coil and the convection section consists of a
steam-generating coil, the process coil and steam-generation
duties must be guaranteed. Error in the predicted BWT would
result in error in one or both of the predicted duties, along
with inaccuracy in the guaranteed heater efficiency. An
accurate prediction of BWT is required, not only for emissions
prediction, but also to correctly predict heat absorption and
other heater performance parameters.
An estimated performance of a fired heater with both
conventional burners and ULNBs is summarized in Table
4. These parameters are for a vertical cylindrical
heater with a process coil in the radiant section only. The
convection section is used for waste heat recovery (i.e., a
steam coil). As shown in Table 4, there is a
substantial increase in BWT. This increase not only affects the
firing rate and NOx emissions, but also the
mechanical integrity of heater components like tube supports,
structural steel, refractory and others.
Heat density per unit area. Heat density is
not used for conventional burners. However, it is a very
significant parameter for ULNBs. The reason for this is the
importance of flue gas internal circulation in ULNBs.
The formula in Eq. 7 can be used to determine area heat
Qb = Burner heat release
n = Number of burners
A = Floor area (inside the tube circle or between tube
For vertical cylindrical
A = πr2
r = Tube circle radius.
For cabin/box heaters:
L = Heater length
W = Heater width (tube center to
Flue gas flow patterns in the radiant section of properly
designed process fired heaters are usually similar irrespective
of heater geometry or type. In most fired heaters, tubes are
placed along the walls, and the burners reside in the middle.
As heat is transferred from the flue gas, it cools and flows
downward close to the tubes. This results in a region of hot
upward gas flow in the middle of the heater and a cool downward
flow adjacent to the tubes. However, this recirculation
decreases as over-firing increases. An over-fired heater may
have little or no flue gas recirculation. This extreme case
results in no flue gas downward flow, and the flow pattern
becomes a plug flow.
This over-firing characteristic can be easily correlated
with heat density. It is recommended to limit area heat density
to a maximum of 250,000 Btu/hr/ft2. Two heaters with
different area heat density but with similar firing rates, BWTs
and excess air will have different NOx levels. The
heater with the lower heat density will have lower
Common air plenum design. Common combustion
air plenums are sometimes provided to better control the
combustion air. These need to be designed to provide equal air
to all the burners. If the burner plenum system is designed
correctly, it is possible to achieve relatively uniform
combustion airflow to each individual burner. It is always
recommended to carry out a computational fluid dynamic (CFD)
analysis to ensure proper air distribution to each burner. The
example in Table 5 demonstrates how air
maldistribution can starve some burners of combustion air.
It is common to target 2% or even lower excess O2
(Note: 2% O2 is equivalent to 10%
excess air). Most new fired heaters are able to operate at
lower excess air because of lower tramp air (i.e., lower air
leakage) due to better sealing of the casing.
As can be drawn from Table 5, a heater
operating with 10% excess air will have a few burners starving
for air at 10% air maldistribution. A lower combustion air
supply would result in sub-stoichiometric operation for that
burner, which will increase CO emissions.
Reed wall. A reed wall is a refractory wall
between the burners and the tubes. Reed walls are installed
where flue gas circulation patterns within the firebox are
pushing flames into the tubes. These walls safeguard tubes from
hot flue gases. The burner flame is contained in the space
provided for the burner. However, reed walls must be removed in
ULNB applications because they prevent internal flue gas
Most fired heater emissions requirements also limit CO
emissions. The factors influencing NOx emissions
(firebox temperature, excess air and residence time) also
influence CO emissions, although in the opposite direction.
NOx emissions are reduced as firebox temperature
decreases, but CO emissions increase. CO emissions are
generally not an issue at heater design conditions where
firebox temperature is relatively high. However, at low heater
throughput, CO emissions will increase.
CO is produced by incomplete combustion of fuel gases. The
basic combustion process includes the formation of CO as an
intermediate product before it is converted to CO2.
CO is simple to convert into CO2 if sufficient
O2, temperature and mixing are available. The
minimum ignition temperature of CO in air is 1,128°F. A
firebox temperature higher than the ignition temperature is
required to limit CO emissions. Burner suppliers must be
consulted for the minimum firebox temperature below which CO
emissions are not guaranteed. Generally, CO emissions from a
burner are guaranteed at a firebox temperature above
Draft is defined as negative pressure at
any point inside a fired heater. Draft loss across the burner
is the pressure drop of combustion air in the burner. Higher
available airside pressure drop to the burner almost invariably
improves flame pattern and the ability to effectively use
internal flue gas recirculation in burners. It is important to
provide the actual calculated draft available to the burner
Site elevation (altitude above sea level) is one of the
most-often overlooked parameters while calculating draft. The
stack effect decreases with an increase in altitude. If draft
is not calculated based on actual site elevation, the burner as
well as the heater will have capacity limited due to
insufficient draft.
The correlation in Eq. 8 can be used to calculate the draft
(measured in inchWC) generated in a heater.
H = Height, ft
Patm = Atmospheric pressure, psi
Tamb = Ambient air temperature,
Tfg = Flue gas temperature, °R.
Atmospheric pressure (Patm) decreases
with an increase in site elevation, resulting in a reduction in
available draft. Table 6
provides a comparison of draft at approximate site elevations
of 0 ft and 5,000 ft.
Fired heater operators tend to operate the heater at a
higher draft as a precaution. However, when there is a large
change in draft, it can adversely affect the excess air. The
example in Table 7 indicates that airflow rate
becomes sub-stoichiometric for a draft change from 0.2 inchWC
to 0 inchWC. This change may not trigger the low-draft alarm,
depending on the instrument setting.
Air leakage. Process fired heaters operate
under negative pressure. Even small openings can allow
significant quantities of air to leak into the heater. Air
leakage into the furnace increases the O2 measured
at the arch or stack, independent of the air coming through the
The air coming through the burners will be lower than that
measured by an O2 analyzer, which may increase
NOx emissions. When furnace air leakage is high, the
air coming through the burner may not be enough for complete
combustion of the fuel, causing the flames to grow larger and
possibly impinge on the furnace tubes. In such a situation, the
heater may have to be operated at a higher excess
O2, sacrificing heater efficiency to prevent flame
There are many sources of air leakage in a process heater:
tube penetrations, sight ports, joints between heater walls,
out-of-service burners, etc. It is important to seal any and
all noticeable openings to prevent air leakage and ensure
proper burner operation.
With the introduction of next-generation ULNBs, there have
been major reductions in NOx emissions. These burners are
operating closer to their limits of flame stability and
complete combustion. ULNBs are very prone to flame interaction
in multi-burner heaters.
ULNBs, along with fired heaters, need to be specified
correctly to achieve optimal heater operation. The proper
selection of a fuel gas supply system, number of burners, fired
duty per burner, location of burners, fired heater design and
operating parameters are very important for the optimum
performance of a fired heater. Every design step in fired
heater and burner design is critical. An oversight at any
stage, from fuel gas supply to flue gas disposal, will
adversely affect the burner performance as well as the fired
heater performance. Many fired heater design and operating
parameters may not be of significance with conventional
burners, but they become important for ULNBs.
All comments are subject to editorial review.
All fields are compulsory.
hiwe don't know how eliminate NOx produce at combustion process in burner and what changes is needed to get this purpose in burner. thank you
in the heater they are emission gas like SO2 and N gas how to reduce this gas?
Pankaj Choudhary
Dear Sir,I appreciate the way of representing all the condensed compilation of exact & precise data represented by you. Once again thanks alot.We all are expecting more articles on fired heater.Regards,Pankaj Choudhary.Process Engineer.
Muhammad Usman Saeed
Good MorningDear SirI am working on visbreaker heater. Currently about previous 5 months CO emissions have been increased. I want to find standard draft value for forced draft heater to find if there is any leakage which might cause CO after burn. Draft value in data sheet is -3 at convection but we are maintaining -9 mmH2O. Kindly give me draft value mentioned in any standard for FD heater.Regards
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We are have a substantial amount of burner Problems. Mainly lots of cleaning time . We have a coalister filter in line . The problem accurs when we start to induce methanol .
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I thought I'd start the obligatory coupon code question. Just got one. Lets hear what you got?
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I got 5 on it
I as well got 5. Yay! Now I'm going to tell on everybody, for everything in real life, and hope for the same rewards.
Always appreciated Jumbowoot, Thanks!
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Mine showed up first and then got moved back for some reason.
Thanks, Jumbowoot! Do you think there's any significance to him spelling it tattletails, instead of tattletales? ;-)
It was pretty awesome to get this. I guess this naswers the question on whether or not google appreciates the massive flood of tattles!!
I just got one for posting a deal too.. two $5'ers so far today!
This is a coupon I'm not telling my kids about. :) I'm really grateful for the coupon, but the last thing I need is the kids thinking that tattling will lead to rewards!
Received one plus one for posting deals. Thank you @jumbowoot!
Tattle on this thread since it's a dupe?????
$5 for me too.
Didn't you post a deal on deals.woot in February?
I think you did so I placed a coupon on your account.
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Didn't receive anything...must not tattle enough...
I got a total of $10 in coupons today; $5 for posting deals, $5 for tattling on dead deals. Wish it would've come yesterday as that thermometer on home.woot! kept catching my eye. They expire May 30th so I've got some time to waste them on something else.
Thanks for the code and the quick catch @jumbowoot! I just received a second email with the code, which the first didn't include.
Two for Tuesday coupons!
Cheers! Here's to coupons.
Got two coupons, one for Tattling on my fellow users, and one for some epic deals.
Thank ya @JumboWoot I <3 you
JumboWoot is da man!!
Thanks @jumbo. Got both coupons I guess the comment I posted on the question I asked got looked at?
Got $5 for a tattle. Thanks Jumbowoot!
I give thanks to the Great and mysterious @JumboWoot...
He hath provided me with More Woot Credits from Heaven..
Just checked and yes there is a new coupon code from @jumbowoot. Awesome!
Thanks for posting about it OP.
I got this, and the other one! Definitely a great surprise to wake to! Thank you Jumbowoot!!
Thanks @jumbowoot, now I have even more reasons to spend more at Woot!
Got a tattle or expired deal reward coupon. I've only gotten two before so I'm excited. I spend a lot of time on woot, but I'm a recluse so I rarely post :(
Yes I am a tattletale and I am damn proud it.
2, 5 dollar coupons....great, now I am tempted with free shipping for every item that is posted! At least make it 10!!
I got one for posting a deal. My tattling effort leaves something to be desired.
@johnnys13: Don't look a gift jumbowoot coupon in the mouth.
Anyways, I got two coupons too. Thanks a lot @jumbowoot, you're the man.
Got both! Thank you Mr. @Jumbowoot!
@commodog: Probably not a good idea to post your coupon code for all to see and use. I would edit and remove the code.
I guess I'm a tattler. Got my coupon. And my deals one.
One $5 coupon for posting.
even though i REALLY screwed up on a post, Jumbo still hit me
Thanks, Jumbowoot. I am heading over to shirt.woot and getting some vidiot (videogame Idiot) gear.
Two coupons! Yay!
Since it bears repeating, THANK YOU AGAIN, JUMBOWOOT!
@thepacezoo: its not the real one, in fact its a play on words but i'll let you figure it out
$5 for be a Tattler and $5 for adding a deal. Thanks @JumboWoot! They are much appreciated.
Man, I've never gotten anything from Jumbowoot.
My coupon is for $7.50, but it has a $2.50 handling fee when I use it.
yep and for posting deals. Thanks Jumbo. Yer my hero!
For all the people tattling on my duplicate thread...
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I got the tattletail coupon. Thanks once again @jumbowoot !!!
I believe this is my first @jumbowoot coupon. Well, I did get the "anniversary" coupon a while ago, but it was for Wine.woot!
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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, on average 5 to 20 percent of the population in the U.S. gets the flu each year. More than 200,000 people are hospitalized from seasonal flu-related complications, and anywhere from a few thousand to 50,000 people die each year from flu.
The best way to prevent getting the flu, says the CDC, is by getting a seasonal flu vaccination each year. But do the benefits of getting the flu shot far outweigh the risks? Can potential lethal illnesses manifest years later in life, a direct result from getting yearly flu shots?
The truth about getting the flu vaccine is difficult to ascertain, with opinions about its safety differing widely depending on which medical professional you ask.
The flu shot does not give you the flu, most of the time
One thing both proponents and opponents of the flu shot agree on is that there are a few different types of flu vaccines, and sometimes, adverse side effects do occur from the shot.
Currently, there are four types of flu vaccines on the market:
- A standard flu shot
- A high-dose flu shot for those 65 and older
- An intradermal-administered shot for those who are needle-phobic
- A nasal spray
"The vaccine is taken from two of the hundreds of different proteins that compose an influenza virus," says the Mayo Clinic and Infectious Disease Society of America's Dr. Greg Poland. "Taking merely two surface proteins off the virus does not mean it's live; there's no organism there … it's not possible to cause infection or disease with it … the flu shot does not give you the flu," adds Poland.
As for the nasal spray, which does contain live flu viruses, Dr. Dan Harper, who is against vaccinations of all kinds, is especially leery of this methodology.
"You have 100 million viruses sprayed up the nose, along with other things like MSG (monosodium glutamate) and sugar, which causes inflammation. And since the virus also contains egg [proteins], you run the risk of introducing an avian retrovirus, which can cause encephalitis in humans.
"And so here you are spraying this up into your nose, just a few millimeters from the brain with MSG traveling across the blood-brain barrier, causing potential damage to neurotransmitters," says Harper, who is based Solana Beach, Calif.
Does the government conclude that flu shots are 100 percent safe and effective?
No, but close to it, though adverse side effects have been documented in peer-reviewed medical journals. For example, a study in Human and Experimental Toxicology reported that there were 590 fetal-loss reports per 1 million pregnant women vaccinated (or 1 per 1,695) during the 2009-2010 flu season (generally regarded as October-March, though flu symptoms can occur any time of the year). The adverse events were tracked by the appropriately named Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, or VAERS, database.
In a review of vaccines conducted by researchers at the Institute of Biosecurity at St. Louis University, the co-authors concluded, "Vaccination remains a critical intervention during pandemics, but current production technology requires several months to develop sufficient vaccine to meet anticipated worldwide need…. Vaccines for use … during an epidemic are in development but … logistical obstacles to timely distribution exist [though] intensive research is underway to identify a universal vaccine."
The Institutes of Medicine released a consensus report last year, which concluded that despite 135 vaccine adverse events in the study, few health problems are caused by or clearly associated with vaccines, including the flu shot.
According to most peer-reviewed research, the chances of encountering problems are statistically minimal; however, possible adverse effects from flu vaccine documented in medical literature include:
- Febrile seizure
- Narcolepsy
- Asthma
- Guillain-Barré syndrome
Some medical professionals, such as Dr. Elizabeth Baorto, division director of Pediatric Infectious Disease at Goryeb Children's Hospital in Morristown, N.J., strongly believe that with rare exception — such as someone with an egg allergy — everybody 6 months and older should get a flu shot every year.
"Protecting oneself is an altruistic act. By getting vaccinated, you not only protect yourself, but you protect those around you as well," says Baorto. "We are fortunate that we have a cheap and effective way of protecting ourselves with the flu vaccine."
Will the flu shot protect you from a superbug pandemic outburst?
Not according to the aforementioned ardent vaccine opponent Harper (who is on the board of the nonprofit, Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation), who himself contracted polio in 1952, was paralyzed for seven years, and has seven children, none of whom have ever been vaccinated.
Harper thinks the flu vaccine lacks efficacy because the CDC has to guess which strain of influenza will be dominant in a particular year and it doesn't always guess correctly.
"[The CDC] only choose three to five strains of influenza A out of 250-plus strains, and they take only two or three influenza B strains out of 75-100 that are out there at any one time. If they don't guess the right one, you're going to get sick. You're putting your faith in the CDC's ability to guess the one that might be a pandemic."
So, is it in your best interest to get the flu vaccine, regardless if a superbug is headed our way?
Poland unequivocally thinks so. "Which risk would you take?" he asks: "One in a million of a side effect or a one in 10,000 risk being hospitalized or dying. Flu-related illnesses cost the U.S. $90 billion a year, or almost one percent of GDP," adds Poland.
But in contrast, Harper believes the risks of the flu shot far outweigh any benefit.
He claims that formaldehyde is an ingredient in the common flu shot and is a known carcinogen. "Another ingredient in the flu shot, thimerosal, contains mercury, which is known to impair neurological and immune systems. There are detergents, antibiotics, chemicals and allergens like polysorbate-80 that causes infertility," adds Harper, along with other ingredients he deems unsafe for human consumption.
Indeed, the CDC does list some of these ingredients on its website. But the CDC claims, that at least in the case of thimerosal, "There is no evidence of harm caused by the small amounts of thimerosal in flu vaccine."
Still, Harper is not convinced: "Someone who gets vaccinated could say, 'Well the flu didn't kill me.' But when you're sitting there with Alzheimer's, ALS, MS or you're watching your kid develop seizures or become autistic you're going to kick yourself in the butt for allowing your child or you yourself receiving it. It's frightening to me the stuff they put in the vaccine. These diseases, at least in part, are because of vaccines," concludes Harper.
Do you think the flu vaccine is safe? Join the conversation in the comment section below.
Judd Handler is a health writer in Encinitas, Calif., and the author of "Living Healthy: 10 Steps."
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We're moving forward in being Wonderstruck by Scripture in The 40-Day Bible Reading Challenge. As I've been reading this week, I've been wonderstruck by the number of cray, cray, or crazytown stories in the Bible. [Tweet this] I've read them before, but every so often I find myself awestruck again. Did you notice any? I was taken back again by a few of these:
In 2 Samuel 20 where Joab gets his pirate on and punctures Amasa with a sword. Guts spill to the ground. Double ew!
Or 2 Samuel 24, where God feels the pain of the terror of the 70,000 people who die from an epidemic and tells the angel, "Enough's enough! Pull back!"
Or that trickster holy man in 1 Kings 13.
Or Zarephath, the owner of the original Biscuitville (1 Kings 16).
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Recent and archived news articles by Wendy Ruderman of The New York Times.
Man Charged in Mother's Death Had Been 'Acting Strange'
Police officers found Sylvia Scott's body wrapped in garbage bags in her Queens home, stabbed to death, investigators believe, by her son, Lonnie Corey Scott III.
May 8, 2013, Wednesday
Amid Pending Investigation, President of St. John's Says He Will Retire
The Rev. Donald J. Harrington's announcement came a few months after the board of trustees requested an inquiry into possible improprieties at the university.
May 4, 2013, Saturday
Investigators Seek Boston Bombing Suspect's Laptop
Investigators scoured a landfill in New Bedford, Mass., for a laptop believed to belong to Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, a Boston Marathon bombing suspect.
April 26, 2013, Friday
Officer's Killing Spurred Pursuit in Boston Attack
The shooting of Officer Sean A. Collier was the first bloody altercation in a chain of events that ended with one suspect in the Boston bombings captured and the other dead.
April 25, 2013, Thursday
Boston Suspects Are Seen as Self-Taught and Fueled by Web
Investigators' early portrait of the two brothers accused in the marathon bombings suggests they were driven by extremist Islamic beliefs and may have learned to build bombs on the Web.
April 24, 2013, Wednesday
Two Sunday Running Events in Manhattan Are Minor, but Security Isn't
Bomb-sniffing dogs, a counterterrorism vehicle and radiation sweeps were among the measures at races in Central Park and the West Side.
April 22, 2013, Monday
Seeking Answers to Officer's Murder-Suicide in Memories and Notes Left Behind
Officer Rosette M. Samuel, who killed her 1-year-old son and his father on Monday, wrote in a note that she had killed her baby so that he would not be a burden to his surviving teenage brother.
April 18, 2013, Thursday
Officials Highlight Challenge of Protecting New York From Attacks
The New York City police commissioner said plugging every security hole during grand-scale events, like the New York City Marathon, would be almost impossible.
April 17, 2013, Wednesday
Security Experts Ponder Whether Any Long Race Can Be Completely Safe
Race organizers in London and New York may consider additional safety measures after the bombings in Boston.
April 17, 2013, Wednesday
Off-Duty Officer Killed Boyfriend, Their Year-Old Son and Then Herself, Police Say
The police said there was nothing in the officer's departmental record to indicate that she was troubled.
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I have been trying to find an official ruling on this. In our campaign currently the DM says that one of the sneak attack die will do max damage, and I roll for the other one.
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Critical hit notes:
"Maximum damage you can roll for your attack" is refreshingly unambiguous. All dice are part of the "damage roll" in 4e, there's no concept of "precision damage." The line on extra damage amplifies the meaning neatly, explicitly noting that you only roll dice for "high crit" and "magic weapon crit."
Ted Buddy, the last thing you need is an extra 1d6 damage on all of your sneak attacks...
Reading the links, the only dice that aren't maxed are dice you gain BECAUSE the hit was a critical hit. You get the sneak attack damage regardless of if the hit was a critical or not, therefore they are in fact maxed when you score a critical.
Dagger: 1d4 (4), Sneak Attack: 2d8 (16) = 20 Damage on a Critical hit, period.
Per the Dungeon Master's Book, p. 118, the damage from the power itself is maximized, while "extra damage," which seems to include Sneak Attack damage, are rolled normally.
Sounds like a house rule to me. The P.H.B. says that a sneak deals extra damage if the attack hits. This damage is based on character level. PHB1 page 117.
The game mechanics of an attack are a chance of hitting using a power or basic attack, and on a hit, a random damage roll. Sneak attack gives you a bonus 2d6 at first level or 2-12 damage possible. Sounds like the D.M. is giving a base 6 + 1d6 for you sneak attack. Makes your rogue a little more lethal.
No where in the rules does it say. Max one die and roll the other.
I had a similar discussion with my players and we came up with the idea that if you roll a natural 20, it doesn't affect the Sneak Attack bonus, just like it doesn't affect the critical hit damage roll. See page 225 PHB1 - Critical section.
I have to tell you that your players are a special breed. They purposely and consciously nerf themselves.
An attack is anything that begins with an attack roll and ends with a miss or damage.
A critical hit has the following property: Maximum Damage: Rather than roll damage, determine the maximum damage you can roll with your attack.
Note that this does not (any longer) say POWER. It says attack.
Rogue Lvl 21 with 10 Dex and Blood Iron Dagger +5
Basic Attack (1 attack) Crit: 9 + 5d10 damage
BA + Sneak Attack[5d6] (1 Attack) Crit: 39 + 5d10 damage
BA + SA[5d6] + Shadowdancer's Gloves (hidden) (1 attack): 45 + 5d10 damage
BA + SA[5d6] + SGloves(hidden) + Serpentine Bracers(hidden) (1 attack): 53 + 5d10 damage.
Anything that adds damage to the original attack, instead of making a new attack, is maximized as part of the original attack. Bonus damage added specifically due to a crit is the only damage not maximized. As also stated in the definition of crit.
I'm not sure how anyone thinks this is subject to interpretation, or why they'd want to nerf themselves.


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A Texas debt collection company had a unique style for reminder voicemails to one black customer. "This is your motherfucking wake-up call you little lazy ass bitch. Get your motherfucking nigger ass up and go pick some motherfucking cotton fields."
Allen Jones was told he owed $200 on some credit cards. He disputed the debt. The issue was apparently dealt with by a company called Advanced Call Center Technologies, LLC, back in 2007. They left eight or so voicemail messages demanding the money, according to the local news network, WFAA, who reported the story. The one transcribed above is apparently the mildest, and the only one they felt able to run in any form at all.
Jones sued and was awarded $50,000 for mental anguish and a whopping $1.5m in punitive damages. Here's the report.


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Woodrow Wilson, who was President of the USA at the time of the League's creation, was the person who pushed for the inclusion of the League in the Treaty of Versailles in the first place. Why is it that he never managed to convince the American people, and the Senate, to have the USA join the League?
There were quite a few reasons:
With no way to form a significant voting bloc the Treaty of Versailles was rejected by the Senate, and any participation in the League of Nations. Isolationism probably played a part in this as well, considering that America entered a protectionist phase soon after, and really did not want to get involved in WWI in the first place.
Wilson was unusual for his time. In an era when Republicans dominated the U.S. government, he was one of only two Democratic Presidents between James Buchanan (1857) and FDR (1933). (Grover Cleveland was the other.) Wilson was elected in 1912 only because of the "split" between Republicans (Teddy) Roosevelt and Taft, and Wilson barely won re-election in 1916 (277 electoral votes to 254) even as a "sitting" President, running on the slogan, "He kept us out of war."
Americans of the time reveled in their "splendid isolation," and didn't want to take part in "foreign affairs." In his Farewell Address, George Washington had warned "America" against "entangling alliances." Americans of Wilson's time (particularly Republicans) still clung to this idea.


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HOUSTON -- Oil and gas companies in the Gulf Coast said
Wednesday that Hurricane Isaac left little damage to energy
infrastructure in its wake, but nearly half of the offshore oil
output in the region and some refining capacity remained offline
as crews worked to restart facilities.
About 680,749 barrels a day of oil production, or 49% of the
area's total, remain shut-in by oil and gas producers, as does
about 1.2 billion cubic feet of natural gas, or 26% of the
region's output of the commodity, according to the Bureau of
Safety and Environmental Enforcement.
The figures represent a small decrease from Tuesday, when 52%
of oil output and 29% of natural gas output were shut-in.
However, nearly all of the offshore platforms that pump oil
and gas out of the Gulf have been restaffed. Only 3% of the
region's 596 manned platforms remained empty of people.
Refiners have said their facilities sustained little damage,
and they are working to restart operations. The US Department
of Energy reported Monday that nearly all refineries affected
by the storm have restarted or are in the process of doing so,
though some are still running at reduced rates.
Marathon Petroleum said its 464,000 bpd Garyville, La., refinery is back to normal
operations following the storm.
Phillips 66 said power was restored to its 247,000 bpd
Alliance refinery in Belle Chasse, La., early Tuesday morning,
and staff is in the process of bringing it back online.
The company said it will be a few weeks before the refinery is operating at normal
Royal Dutch Shell and Motiva Enterprises said Sept. 2 that
the refinery in Norco, La., is restarting, though some units
are still operating at reduced rates. The Convent, La., refinery is restarting as well,
though some electrical power issues are still being
Some offshore operating companies said they were still
waiting on crucial infrastructure to come online before fully
ramping up oil and gas production.
Anadarko Petroleum said Tuesday it had restored production
at its Independence Hub platform and was ramping up production
there and at other platforms as third-party-operated
pipelines and infrastructure allow. The company was
waiting on infrastructure availability to restart production at
the Neptune platform.
A spokesman for BP said the company is continuing to restaff
offshore operations and is working to resume normal operations
Stone Energy said it was producing 18,000 bpd of oil in the
Gulf as of Sept. 3, about half its normal production there. Two
fields, the Amberjack and Pampano, remained shut while waiting
on onshore processing facilities.
Enterprise Products said inspections of its offshore
platforms evacuated because of the storm revealed no
significant damage.
Enterprises onshore natural-gas processing facilities in southern Louisiana and
its Acadian natural-gas pipeline system were up and running,
but operators of the infrastructure that feeds Enterprise's
assets in southern Louisiana were in various stages of
resuming operations as they address lingering high-water and
power issues, the company said in a news release.
McMoRan Exploration said its rigs, which were secured and
evacuated for the storm, were unharmed. Crews have returned,
and operations, including exploratory activities and well
recompletion, have resumed.
Hercules Offshore, an offshore drilling company, said all
its rigs and liftboats in the Gulf have been accounted for, and
crews havent found any damage in preliminary
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Betty Jeanne Hall, 89, former Syracuse resident, died March 17, 2013 at Immanuel Campus of Care in Peoria, AZ. She was born August 25, 1923, the daughter of William Newton and Eliza (Steele) Horn in Greenville, Texas.
She was married to Robert "Bob" Hall on December 14, 1947 in Greenville, Texas. Bob was a pharmacist for over 50 years and died March 3, 2001 in Lincoln, NE.
Betty attended Greenville High School where she was a majorette in the famous Greenville Flashes. Her father passed when she was 15 years old. She and her mother moved to Dallas, Texas for several years and then back to Greenville. She worked in a pharmacy where she met Bob. She enjoyed modeling and dancing. They moved to Plattsmouth, Nebraska where his family resided in 1959 and then to Syracuse in 1960. She and Bob belonged to the United Methodist Church in Syracuse. She also belonged to the Ladies Auxiliary V.F.W. After Bob's death she moved to Arizona to be near her son Jack and his family.
Survivors include her daughter Lynnette and her son Jack who has two daughters and six grandchildren. She was the last of her immediate family which included two sisters and a brother. She was cremated and her ashes will be interred on the Horn family plot in Greenville, Texas.
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When should we remove pseudo-tags from a title?
Example suggested edit: http://stackoverflow.com/suggested-edits/164571 (was accepted with 2 accept votes and a reject vote)
I sometimes put prefixes on my own questions and am inclined to add a reject vote, but what is the policy on that. I have seen recommendations both ways in comments.
- Should prefixes like these be removed?
- Should additional improvement be required in order to justify an edit?
I just have a personal belief that the title should ask the question. Without the word jQuery, it does not say web page.


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Drone Makers Push Congress to Move Up Domestic Deployment Date
The day of deployment is drawing nearer. Soon, thousands of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) unmanned aerial vehicle license holders will launch their drones into the skies over the United States.
Despite the delay of lawmakers to establish constitutionally sound guidelines for the use of these eyes in the sky, a handful of congressmen are pushing to move forward the date of deployment.
Why would legislators — typically not the most hurry-happy group — be interested in accelerating the drive to permit civilian drone use?
A collaboration between Hearst Newspapers and the Center for Responsive Politics paints the pecuniary picture:
The drone makers have sought congressional help to speed their entry into a domestic market valued in the billions. The 60-member House of Representatives' "drone caucus" — officially, the House Unmanned Systems Caucus — has helped push that agenda. And over the last four years, caucus members have drawn nearly $8 million in drone-related campaign contributions….
House members from California, Texas, Virginia and New York on the bipartisan "drone caucus" received the lion's share of the funds channeled to lawmakers from dozens of firms that are members of the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International, Hearst and CRP found.
Eleven drone caucus lawmakers from California, where many aviation firms are located, received more than $2.4 million from manufacturers' political action committees and employees during the 2012 and 2010 election cycles, according to CRP tabulation of Federal Election Commission reports.
Eight Texas House members in the caucus received more than $746,000. And four caucus members from New York got more than $185,000 from companies connected to the business of unmanned vehicles.
The big winner of the drone manufacturer lobbying lotto was Representative Howard "Buck" McKeon (R-Calif.). According to the investigation, McKeon — cochairman of the House Unmanned Systems Caucus — received $833,650 in contributions from the drone industry.Details


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He has performed throughout the southeastern United States as well as participating in master classes under Manual Barrueco, Michael Lormar, Jason Vieux as well as studies with Pepe Romero.
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I have integrated the Like button for the website,but for some pages i need recommed / like for the individual items. Both are on same page similar to product detail & site.
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Galileo Galilei Pisa 56121, Tuscany, Italy
Telefon: (050) 849 111
Website: www.pisa-airport.com
Pisa International Airport Galileo Galilei is situated 1km (0.6 miles) north of Pisa.
How to get there
Pisa International Airport Galileo Galilei is within easy reach of Pisa, Genoa, Leghorn and Florence on the A12 motorway and the Livorno-Pisa-Florence dual carriageway.
Information about parking possibilities at the Pisa International Airport
Access by public transport
Bus 1 makes several stops in the city centre. The service leaves from just outside the arrivals hall and from the Cassa Parcheggi outside the departures hall. Buses leave for the town centre every 10 minutes. The journey time is less than 10 minutes, and the fare is €1.10. There are also daily services to Siena and Livorno.
CO.TA.PI (Pisa taxi cooperative) operates Radio Taxi (tel: (050) 541 600; www.cotapi.it), which runs a 24-hour taxi service from Pisa Galileo Galilei International Airport. CO.TA.PI also offers a collective taxi, which runs to the Pisa Centrale railway station and Ospedale Santa Chiara (for the leaning tower of Pisa), for a flat rate fare (€6-8). The journey to the centre of Pisa typically takes 10 minutes.
Pisa Aeroporto railway station (tel: 89 20 21; www.trenitalia.com) is next to the terminal and can be accessed via a covered walkway. Services run to Pisa Centrale (journey time: 5 minutes; one-way fare: €1.10) and Florence (Firenze SMN), with eight trains running daily. Tickets are available at the airport information office in Arrivals.
Information desk
There is an airport information desk in the Arrivals hall (tel: (050) 849 300), which can provide information on flights as well as tourist information; rail and bus tickets can also be bought here.
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I'm hoping cenus information and historical gun manufacturing records make this an answerable question. What percentage of the population in the Old West actually carried handguns? Was it a minority or a majority?
The answer differs between "carried" and "owned", and "in towns" vs "not".
I'll only cover the first of the 4 combinations.
You did not carry guns in many towns. Tombstone, AZ prohibited carrying firearms, as did Deadwood, as IIRC did Dodge City. The ordinances prohibited it, the signs indicated that you had to check in your firearms at the Sheriff's or special points.
As a matter of fact, the infamous fight at the OK Corrall was technically over the issue of police chief Virgil Earp and co trying to make the outlaws comply with the city law and disarm.
A great deal of detail on town in the Old West prohibiting carrying can be found in this Pink Flamingo blog post - while it's a blog and not a peer reviewed article, the author is somewhat of an expert on Wyatt Earp specifically and Old West in general, and is a pro-gun Republican, so it's hard to read some political subtext/spin into the info.


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Minna Schrag
The Difference Maker
As a passionate advocate for the burgeoning field of transitional justice, Minna Schrag '75 is adding new chapters to a diverse and distinguished career
In 1994, after years of serving as a federal prosecutor and time spent working at a large Manhattan law firm, Minna Schrag '75 received an offer that would change the course of her career, and, more broadly, her life. "I got a call asking if I'd be interested in going to The Hague," Schrag recalls in discussing how she became a senior trial attorney for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. "At the time, I didn't know much about international law and had no formal training in human rights, but of course I went."
Her work as a prosecutor had given Schrag the criminal law experience sought by the then-new court, which was set up to address allegations of war crimes, genocide, and crimes against humanity that took place during the Balkan conflicts of the early 1990s. She took a leave from Proskauer Rose and relocated to the Netherlands for 18 months to help set up the prosecutor's office, where she joined a group of lawyers drawn from a diverse mix of countries and ultimately brought to indictment three cases involving the murder and torture of civilian populations in the towns of Vukovar, Brčko, and Bosanski Samac.
The career detour was nothing new for Schrag, who had enrolled at Columbia Law School a decade after earning an undergraduate degree in history from Radcliffe College. At the time, she had three young children and had begun an Ed.D. program at Teachers College but was drawn to the law, she says, by the extent to which the legal profession was being used to drive social change in the early 1970s.
After graduation, Schrag clerked for Judge Whitman Knapp of the Southern District of New York, and, following six years as an assistant U.S. Attorney at the Southern District, she joined Proskauer Rose. After several years of working on a wide range of litigation matters, Schrag answered the call from the International Criminal Tribunal, and she has been involved in human rights work ever since.
Schrag, who retired from Proskauer in 1997, may be even busier now than she was during her mid-career years. She serves on several nonprofit boards and is a regular patron of the New York City Ballet. Just weeks after retiring, she was asked to consult for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, and Schrag continues to provide legal advice to the organization on issues related to international criminal tribunals. From 1997 to 2000, she was also a member of the U.S. delegation to the treaty conference in Rome that established the International Criminal Court.
Her international work has sparked within Schrag a passion for transitional justice, the burgeoning field that deals with judicial and non-judicial remedies for redressing human rights violations. She helped establish the New York City–based International Center for Transitional Justice—the motto of which is "Justice, Truth, Dignity"—and serves as a member of that organization's board of directors.
Schrag's colleagues in the transitional justice movement assist victims groups and communities in efforts to address human rights violations and encourage healing. Those efforts sometimes lead to truth and reconciliation commissions. In other instances, healing comes in the form of smaller-scale—but no less important—efforts like the recent establishment of a memorial museum by survivors of the killings in the Bosnian town of Brčko, the perpetrators of which Schrag helped bring to account. "They wanted the story of what happened there to be told," she says, "so people wouldn't forget."


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I would like to use my own domain name for my email address and use Gmail as my email client.
How can I do this without using email forwarding?
What you are looking for is Google Apps
If you have an existing email account at your domain that you do not want to change, but you want to send mail using your Gmail account that says it is from your address at your domain, then you can just add a custom From address to your Gmail account.
In Gmail, go to Settings » Accounts » Add another email address you own to enter your address at your domain and send a verification email to that address. When the verification email is received at your other email address, click on the link in the email to verify that you own the address. Then it will be added to the list of From addresses that you can select when composing or replying to a message in Gmail.


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A woman in Orange was arrested after a report of a domestic dispute at the Fox Run apartments. The woman reportedly claimed her boyfriend had beaten her, but officers soon discovered it was quite the opposite, according to a report from the Orange Police Department.
One man was stabbed in Orange in what could have been a gang-related attack, according to a report from the Orange Police Department.
Deputies in Hardin County have apprehended a young woman there who reportedly beat a 78-year-old woman with her own cane over the weekend, according to Hardin County Sheriff Ed Cain.
Port Arthur Police took four men into custody as suspects in an aggravated assault in the 1300 block of Delaware Drive Saturday night, August 17.
According to a news release from PAPD, officers were dispatched to Delaware Drive at approximately 9:35 p.m. in reference to an assault victim. Upon arrival at the scene, officers located the male victim who had sustained "several injuries," police reported. Witnesses advised police the man was assaulted by several armed suspects.
Two suspects were captured as the result of an aggravated assault and kidnapping that took place in Port Arthur in the early hours of Tuesday morning, July 2.
One man was arrested after an alleged assault in Orange where the victim claimed the man hurled a derogatory slur while running toward him with a knife.
One woman required medical treatment after an altercation in Orange led to an aggravated assault.
Orange Police are currently investigating an attack that occurred over the weekend in Orange. Four suspects allegedly attacked a 42-year-old Orange resident on Sunday, April 7, at approximately 1:34 p.m., striking the man with a brick and a large stick while he was walking in the 300 block of Schley Ave. in Orange, police reported.
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In linear algebra, Cramer's rule is an explicit formula for the solution of a system of linear equations with as many equations as unknowns.
2u+1d=1 1u+2d=0
$$a_1d+b_1u=c_1$$ $$a_2d+b_2u=c_2$$ $$u=\frac {c_1b_2-c_2b_1}{a_1b_2-a_2b_1}$$ $$d=\frac {a_1c_2-a_2c_1}{a_1b_2-a_2b_1}$$
u=+2/3 d=-1/3
there ain't no experiment that could be done, nor is there any observation that could be made, that would say, "You guys are wrong." The theory is safe, permanently safe. Is that a theory of physics or a philosophy? I ask you.


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7 Aug 2012 10:11 AM #1
Maximizing carousel swipe performance...
When swiping through Lists in my Carousel, the drag and slide animation stutters enough to prevent the switch to the next card. I'm testing in PhoneGap 2.0 on a dual-core Android device running 4.0.3 (which should have hardware acceleration). I'm also using ST184.108.40.206.
The Problem
Even when I use an empty string for the itemTpl of each list, the swipe stutters. I suspect the problem is one of these things:
- A touch event handler on the list is interfering with the swipe behavior of the carousel. FYI, I have directionLock enabled on the scrollable lists within the carousel.
- Applying an itemTpl when a card is painted (off-screen in this case) blocks the main thread long enough to disrupt the swipe
As a test, I set up a simple carousel of images (no dataview), and the performance is great! The dragging and slide animations are both responsive and smooth.
I've looked into the Discover Music and its massive carousel, but no help there. I've looked all over this forum, but the solution escapes me. Can anyone help me out on this? Thanks in advance for any advice
Last edited by Bunchofstring; 8 Aug 2012 at 12:17 AM. Reason: Mis-stated my testing setup
8 Aug 2012 12:32 AM #2
Update: Playing with the bufferSize (which isn't documented today) config option for my carousel showed moderate improvement. My latest discovery is that on Chrome for Android, the performance is excellent.
What puzzles me still is why Chrome outperforms the PhoneGap webview even though both are hardware accelerated. Another curiosity is that turning hardware acceleration on or off in PhoneGap has no noticeable affect (either way, the simple image carousel works just fine, and the carousel of lists stutters).
Back to the drawing board...
16 Aug 2012 9:22 PM #3
Closing Update: I think I have it well optimized now. It was a two-part improvement. The first as I've said above is that I increased the buffer size to 4, meaning that in addition to the active item, the four previous and next cards are also loaded in the DOM. The second part was much trickier and more specific to my app.
I'll explain by example. When my carousel loads, it has cards as follows: [1] 2 3 4 5, where [#] indicates the active card. It seems that the stutter in the swipe animation was caused in the transition to 1 [2] 3 4 5 6, when the 6th card is added to the DOM and painted (which triggered some XTemplate functions that do some fairly sophisticated calculations to calculate two numbers for each list item). By optimizing my XTemplate functions (roughly 150% faster now), I have all but eliminated the stutter.
I learned three important lessons:
- Doing CRUD on LocalStorage-proxied records (especially many at a time) blocks the main browser/webview thread, so it's generally not a good idea to directly manipulate records using animated UI controls.
- If some functionality isn't mentioned in the documentation, it may be in the framework source code. Check in the component class config for options that are supported, but not documented.
- DataViews can be pseudo-bound to multiple stores, but using hasMany associations to get related data is too slow. Building custom RegEx patterns made a HUGE difference.
17 Aug 2012 7:41 AM #4
Great topic and explanations! I wish I noticed this a week ago..
I'm sure this will also improve when new devices come standard with Hardware Acceleration
14 Nov 2012 2:18 AM #5
Is your test device HTC? I am having issues with fast swiping on a HTC One.
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