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I've been DMing for a while in 4th edition D&D, but I've only been DMing for Living Forgotten Realms and D&D Encounters. Now I'm thinking of starting to do some home games in various systems. How can I deal with the transition from these two styles of gaming? Are they really that different?
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If you've already done convention DMing (specifically LFR) and want to start running a home game..the skills involved aren't that different, but be prepared for a few things.
The number one thing I find it's helpful to remember is that the campaign is about the player characters. It's their story. The adventures and details should reflect that. Living Realms has a hard time handling that kind of individual attention because of its scope (there are tens of thousands of LFR players).
Structurally there are other changes and differences as well:
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LFR's structure and tradition is the way it is, specifically because it has content that needs to be farmed out to a ton of DMs at 4-hour events in a shared campaign. Now that you are writing for yourself, and you don't have to think in terms of 4 hour blocks, you "own" the content.
You no longer have any of the old restrictions.
Some things you might not have considered. Now that you're hosting games in a private venue, things change a little:
They aren't that different, but you may need to force yourself to grow beyond the tightly circumscribed four hour LFR experience. (This is coming from someone who loves LFR; I play and run it a lot.) You're going to want plots that don't fit into one session. I'd take a look at the Embers of Dawn mini campaign for some inspiration -- not only is there an overarching plot that extends for the entire 50ish hour campaign, there are hooks for future adventures built in.
You also need to be ready for your players to go off in a totally random direction. In LFR, most players will tacitly accept that there's something between a railroad and a strongly implied walkway leading from beginning to end, and they'll accept an adventure from a strange guy in a bar even if he's not paying them up front. In a home game, they'll be more independently minded and sometimes they just won't want to help Yazeth Cobb. You can't be too in love with your own plot.
It may help to have a folder of prebuilt encounters, events, and so on. Doesn't have to be big, just stuff you can throw in there when the players head in the opposite direction. Random tables, likewise, are your friend. If they get interested in talking to the barmaid and you freeze up on ad libbing details, a random personality chart will get you started again.
For the purest form of abandoning your own plot, check out R. S. Conley's notes on sandbox campaigns. You don't have to run a sandbox campaign, but everything in there will still be helpful.
Find opportunities for extended roleplay, if that's what your players want. I started running a home game again recently after a year of mostly LFR, and I've been mentally earmarking some sessions as talky sessions. It forces me to get back into the habit of not rushing roleplay, plus it's good for pace. Your players will probably enjoy the downtime -- not every adventure needs to be of equal importance.
LFR games at conventions need to fit within the X hour time block (usually four) Moreso they are setup to challenge players within a specific level range. While mechanics are the same home games are completely different because they are extended campaigns. You could run them in short session block just like you do in a LFR module but you will missing out on the flexibility offered by RPGs.
RPGs can be run in a variety of ways, but compared to other games they are uniquely flexible in focus and scope. This is because the focus of an RPG is on individual character moving through a setting in a series of session known as a campaign. One session may be nothing but roleplaying with the various denizen of a town while another be one combat after another as the party battle their way into the lair of the big bad.
I am not criticing LFR or convention style games. For what they set out to do they do very well. I was involved both in running convention games and Live-Action Roleplaying which has it's own constraints.
However of all the styles of roleplaying I played the most flexible is sitting around the table at home with your friend running a campaign.
But where to start? Well there are several posts here and elsewhere you can look at.
Story Arcs vs Player Creativity
The shortest answer I can give, is too think of a place that you like to see your players explore. Then talk to them and see what they like do. Merge two to form an initial campaign premise. Write a timeline of events that will occur without player intervention. Talk with each players about the setting and give them hooks that are benefits and complications.
At first your campaign will start out with the players exploring their initial hooks. The key element after this point is to follow the consequences of the players actions. Judge their effect on your timeline of events and change accordingly. Soon the campaign will drive itself as the consequences of the consequences start propelling the players forward.
The ability to dynamically change what going on is perhaps the key difference between the convention game. The player feel they have control over their world become invested in the setting. This leads to a better game for all.
CON DMING Convention DMing allows you to be more of a goof--if that's your style--since you most likely won't see these people again. Along that line, your mistakes can be overshadowed by this fact and that this group might play at a table next slot that has a more experienced DM. Or they might not even care since they came to wherever it is the con is being held to have a good time. As long as mistakes don't completely destroy the session, most players are forgiving enough to allow the suspension of disbelief to continue.
However, you are usually running for people whom you are not familiar with. You don't know their play style, you've never seen their character in action (unless they made the character fresh at the con, in which case neither have they!), so it's hard to know what these players want out of a session, and what action their characters want to see. Granted, most con mods (not constiution modifier!) are RPGA-published and essentially railroad the players, but if you run a mod written yourself, you don't know what they'll want or get out of your adventure. This can be good, though, as it forces you to watch the players and see what they do, what their reactions to certain encounters are.
HOME DMING On the flipside, home DMing is usually less stressful for DMs. You know your players, most likely. If you have a campaign, you know their characters. On that note, you can have campaigns. Since you'll be playing with people in the area and will be in the area for most of the year, you can start and continually run campaigns, instead of the dungeon-of-the-day mods at cons. This allows for a more developed and dynamic relationship between you as a DM and your players and their characters. You also tend to be more comfortable, being able to kick off shoes, play at the kitchen table or on a deck, with ambient music, etc.
The one downside to home DMing is that you have to constantly change things up, have your players do so if they don't already. If you see the same 4-6 players with the same characters doing the same things week by week it can get monotonous. You must add little quirks to your game sessions so each one is as fun as the last. This is beneficial, though, for developing new ideas for the campaign or adventures you plan to run.
The fundamentals of GMing remain the same: describe, leave room for players to impact the story, every encounter needs a way to succeed or fail.
What differs most is player continuity. Players in a "home" game are far more likely to be the same core players every session, playing the same character throughout.
The other key differences are not terribly consistent, but are broad sweeping generalizations :
Abbreviations Con=Convention. Usually pregenerated characters, 4 hour blocks, limited scope Demo=Demonstration. Usually pregenerated characters, often 2-6 hour play scope, sometimes more (esp. FFG ones). Sometimes include rules subsets or simplifications. LG=Living Games. Continuing characters in episodic play. One-off: a game where the characters are not intended for being played after the adventure is finished.
"Scope" will be your main concern....it will expand dramatically with a home campaign vs a tournament game. As has been said, you will have to be prepared for your players to go off on a totally random direction or decide on a plan of action that will take them out of the immediate area they are based in, unlike a tournament adventure (which is usually narrow in scope and focused when it comes to goals).
I would suggest a little preparation. Try writing up an area of about 20 square miles or so. Detail the immediate area, especially items of interest (Old Sunken Swamp, Deathshead Mountain, The Lost Caverns) populated by either random monsters or a planned encounter of your own. Definitely include a few villages (complete with inns, taverns, and churches), and find a good source for small "pickup" adventures that can take a session or two to complete (or write your own). A little bit of preparation can pay big dividends if your players decide "Old Sunken Swamp" sounds like a cool place to explore, and you have already detailed a lizardman lair, cave with a black dragon, and an abandoned Keep in the middle of the swamp. You'll make it look easy when they start wandering around there!
Your main difference will be a planned time limit/ending versus open ended gaming, but if you plan ahead, it won't bother you a bit to run a more open-ended adventure.

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The grant, "The Collaborative, Continuous Care (3C's) Model" is a project to enhance interprofessional education, leadership, and teambuilding skills for practitioners and students to help address the complexity of medication management for frail older adults in the community.
New York University College of Nursing's (NYUCN) Dr. Tara A. Cortes, PhD , RN, FAAN, has received a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Nurse Education, Practice, Quality and Retention (NEPQR) three-year, $1.5M grant for "The Collaborative, Continuous Care (3C's) Model" project. This grant reflects a practice/education partnership between the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing, the NYU College of Nursing, the NYU Silver School of Social Work, the Touro College of Pharmacy, and the Visiting Nurse Service of New York.
"The purpose of this project is to demonstrate an innovative interprofessional model of collaborative, coordinated care that reflects the right communication across the health care system," said Dr. Cortes. "The 3C's model embodies the competencies of Interprofessional Collaborative Practice (IPCP) and cultivates the value of respect for other professionals' contribution to patient/family care."
Utilizing a community-based health care system and integrating a process for interprofessional education, the project will demonstrate an innovative model that:
The 3C's model will be a "first" in implementing team-based education with practitioners and students working together in the practice setting, providing an innovative way to address issues of interdisciplinary education focused on patient-centered care to address the complexity of medication management for frail older adults.
The specific goals of the 3C's model are to:
Participating professionals and students will be drawn from NYUCN's Adult NP Program, the NYU Silver School of Social Work MSW Program, the Touro College of Pharmacy Doctor of Pharmacy program, and the Visiting Nurse Service of New York (VNSNY). A total of 200 students (50 NP, 50 MSW, and 100 PharmD), in 100 teams, will come together in a large community-based health care plan managed by VNSNY.
The student-teams will be supervised and mentored by 10 NPs, 10 LCSWs, and 1 Pharmacist, who will guide the students in the use of the 3C's model by emphasizing communication, coordination and collaboration amongst the team members to provide patient/family-centered care to older adults with complex multiple chronic conditions. Due to its focus on dual-eligible frail older adults, this project meets the funding preferences for substantially benefiting a practice population categorized as poor and/or medically underserved.
"The goal of the interprofessional teamwork will be to improve the management of complex medication regimens in these community-dwelling frail older adults," said Dr. Cortes. "The aim of the model is to improve patient/family quality of care, quality of life and health outcomes by mobilizing the resources of professionals from different disciplines who bring their varied expertise together and meld their combined knowledge to provide the best in patient/family-centered care."
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I have this card and I don't understand the following:
Discard Scab-Clan Charger: Target attacking creature gets +2/+4 until end of turn
Alright, so the discard makes sense. What is "Target attacking creature"?
I have this card and I don't understand the following:
Alright, so the discard makes sense. What is "Target attacking creature"?
This probably has the simple answer of "any creature that is attacking can be a target attacking creature as long as it is targetable," but I'll expand on that below.
In the Magic Comprehensive Rules, Rule 508 explains attacking creatures. It's pretty long, so rather than posting all of 508, here is the relevant part.
After checking for restrictions and requirements that may prevent creatures from attacking, the rule continues:
So creatures become attacking creatures when the steps in 508 have been completed. More often than not, there won't be requirements or restrictions that limit your ability to attack, except for summoning sickness.
When the card refers to "target attacking creature," it is referring to a creature that is an attacking creature that can be targeted. This ability can be used for one target creature. Rule 601 lays this out (I've emphasized the important parts):
So the simply version of all this is that "target attacking creature" is a creature that has become an attacking creature and can be the target of a spell or ability.
An attacking creature is one that was declared as an attacker earlier in the current combat phase, or a creature placed "on the battlefield attacking" in the current combat phase (e.g. Geist of Saint Traft's angel).
Say you attack with a 3/3 and it's blocked by a 4/4. You could discard a Scab-Clan Charger from your hand to make your 3/3 a 5/7 until the end of the turn. It would survive, and the 4/4 would die (instead of the other way around).


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January 26, 2012
Twelve months after the mass political protests in Tahrir Square brought down the Mubarak government, Egypt and other countries in the region remain roiled by popular discontent. What has united these uprisings, and how are they now starting to diverge? If we can identify a revolution's beginning, can we say what marks its end? Are the foundation stones for constitutional democracy being laid, or will we see authoritarianism reemerge in a different guise? What are the implications of Islamists taking the helm through democratic elections?
Answering these and related questions requires assessment of the complex mix of social, economic, and political factors now in play. Come hear a panel of experts take stock of what's been going on — and ask them questions of your own.
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SARASOTA, Fla. - Miguel Gonzalez was the Baltimore's second-leading winner last season and hopes to build on that success.
But on Sunday, he allowed four runs in two innings to a split squad of Pittsburgh Pirates in the Orioles' 5-2 loss.
Gonzalez made his second appearance this spring and allowed a four-run second that was made worse by left fielder Nate McLouth's error.
With one out in the second, Brad Hawpe hit a ball to left-center that McLouth had a hard time handling on a windy day. McLouth was charged with an error, and quickly four runs scored on four hits. Three of the runs were unearned.
Pittsburgh's Gerrit Cole, the first pick in the 2011 draft, allowed a two-run homer to Ryan Flaherty in the third inning. Cole was charged with two runs and four hits in four innings.
"Overall, good work," Cole said. "Got through four, so that's good, pretty efficient."
Cole is ticketed for the minors, but should make it to Pittsburgh later in the season.
Catcher Russell Martin, who has been nursing a sore shoulder, caught for just the second time this spring, and the first time since Feb. 24. Martin liked what he saw from Cole.
"He's got a good feel out on the mound. He's got a good plan and he's able to execute it," Martin said.
"He's a smart kid. Of course he's got ability like not a lot of people have, but he's pitching with his mind and he has a plan. I feel like he's pretty polished for a young guy."
"I don't think anybody that was here today could have caught the ball that Nate tried to catch," manager Buck Showalter said.
Chris Tillman was supposed to start on Sunday, but he was scratched on Saturday night with abdominal soreness. Showalter and Tillman both said he could have pitched during the regular season.
Gonzalez, who would have followed Tillman, started instead.
"I felt great in the 'pen. Just one of those days," Gonzalez said. "Things weren't working when I went on the field."
Even the Orioles' Gold Glove catcher couldn't help Gonzalez.
"(Matt) Wieters tried to do his best to calm me down. The wind was bad today, so I thought McLouth had that ball, but it's not easy when the wind is not blowing your way," Gonzalez said.
Showalter has tentatively penciled in Jason Hammel, Wei-Yin Chen, Tillman and Gonzalez as his first four starters.
After Gonzalez's truncated start, Jim Johnson and Darren O'Day pitched scoreless innings in their first official appearances.
Pittsburgh RHP Charlie Morton, who underwent Tommy John surgery last June, is scheduled to throw live batting practice for the first time since then on Monday.
FORT MYERS, Fla. - Darin Mastroianni hopes to run his way onto the Minnesota Twins.
The 27-year-old, who has 78 games of big league experience over the past two seasons, walked twice, stole a base and scored a run Sunday in the Twins' 7-4 loss to a Pittsburgh Pirates' split squad.
"Walks, hits, whatever it takes for me to get on base," he said. "At the end of the day, I don't really care too much about the batting average. I care more about my on base percentage. Today was a good day. On base two out of the four at-bats."
Mastroianni is hitting .375 (6 for 16) with a .444 on-base percentage
"That's part of my game to help us be successful and win," he said. He stole 21 bases in 77 games last year for the Twins and swiped 14 more during 29 games in the minors.
Aaron Hicks may be the leading candidate for center field. Manager Ron Gardenhire said he hasn't made a decision.
Andrew McCutchen, Gaby Sanchez and Tony Sanchez hit home runs for the Pirates. McCutchen's drive went off the scoreboard.
Jonathan Sanchez, in his first spring training start and fourth appearance, gave up two runs and two hits in two innings. Sanchez has an 11.81 ERA in 5 innings during the exhibition season.


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We should expect more serious storms than previously predicted this hurricane season.
The national oceanic and atmospheric administration revised its forecast today, saying there could be between 12 and 17 named storms, from June 1 and November 30.
In may, NOAA originally predicted nine to 15 named storms.
So far this season, there have been six named storms: Alberto, Beryl, Chris, Debbie, Ernesto and Florence.
Chris and Ernesto became hurricanes.
Ernesto is currently a tropical storm, travelling across Mexico.


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Stocking the Toy Shelf
Having the right playthings on hand can go a long way toward assuring that developmental targets are met and that there is enough on hand to keep children happily engaged; however, you may also want to consider the following Do's and Don'ts for making playtime as smooth as possible.
Buying Do's
- Look for sturdy toys such as stitched dolls, wooden blocks, and puzzles with heavy pieces.
- Provide play and playthings that offer new experiences.
- Store toys where your child can get to them easily and without help.
- Keep parts stored together (an end of the day task) so you don't lose any parts.
- Consider if you are buying something that will require special care or arrangements.
- Keep safety in mind. A good rule of thumb for children ages 3 and under is to avoid anything that can fit through a toilet-paper tube.
- Tell your child why you selected a particular gift/toy.
- Make children responsible for cleaning up after play, helping them so it becomes part of the play.
- Remember that paying a lot for a toy doesn't mean you will get high play-value.
- Suggested ages on toy boxes are fairly reliable, and buying something more advanced will not speed up that timetable.
- Consider toys that require pretend play and imagination such as hats, dish sets, children's tools, and dolls.
- Avoid overwhelming a child with more than one or two new gifts/toys at a time.
- Never make comparisons to other family members' gifts.
- Toy boxes encourage dumping and lost pieces.
Playthings from around the House
- People and lots of attention
- Common household items to look at and listen to Toddlers
- Cans
- Large spoons and spatulas
- Kitchen pots and lids
- Milk and egg cartons
- Shoes
- Bright scarves
- Empty boxes
- Purses to empty and fill
Ages Three and Four
- Books with large pictures
- Kitchen utensils for water and dirt play
- Hats
- Shoes
- Old clothing
- Pencils and pens
- Sponges
- Vegetable brushes
- Cards
- Large boxes to crawl through
- Pouring and measuring tools
- Real hammers with large-head nails
Kindergarten through Grade 3
- Jars to collect insects
- Mud, sand, and water
- Junk jewelry for pretend play
- Cards
- Flashlight
- Garden tools
- Wheelbarrow
- Paper punch
- Large needle, thread, and fabric
Worthwhile Things to Buy
If you want to purchase toys or to give a gift to your child, the following suggestions can help to assure that your purchases will be appropriate, long lasting, and fun:
- Soft, squeezable animals and dolls
- Mobile
- Music box
- Basket of baby books
- Soft ball
- Spinning top
- Child-sized table and chair
- Doll bottle
- Finger puppets
- Toy mop and broom
- Nesting cups
- Push-and-pull toys
- Rhythm instruments
- Balls of various sizes
- Soft plastic toys
- Soft dolls without buttons or eyes
- Sturdy books
- Plastic keys
- Play telephone
- Music boxes
- Toy camera
- Broomstick horse
- Step stool
- Playhouse
Ages Three and Four
- Picture storybooks
- Balls
- Dolls
- Art supplies
- Small garden tools
- Plastic tea and cooking sets
- Three-wheel riding toys
- Wagon
- Cars
- Wooden unit blocks
- Plastic lunch box
- Toy telephone
- 20- to 30-piece puzzles
- Electric toothbrush
- Trucks for dumping sand and dirt
Kindergarten through Grade 3
- Backpack
- Kites
- Butterfly net
- Jump rope
- Tape recorder
- Two-wheel bicycle and safety helmet
- Lunch box
- Board games
- Skates
- Yo-yo
- Gyroscope
- Picture dictionary
- Puzzles of the USA and the world
- Tap shoes
- Easel
- Art supplies
- Play kitchen
- Tool bench
- Cars and trucks
- Lego table
- Brio train
- Doctor kit
- Ant farm
- Bird feeder
- Croquet set
- Frisbee
- Construction sets
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If you're having trouble deciding what type of guitar strings to put on your beloved axe, fear not! Once you get a few fundamentals out of the way, your choice will mostly come down to playing style and personal preference.
First, you need to determine what type of guitar you have - acoustic nylon, acoustic steel string, or electric. You want to be sure to use the correct strings for your particular guitar. Acoustic guitars that require nylon strings, such as classical, flamenco and some folk guitars, generally have lighter tops, or soundboards, with less internal bracing than those found on steel-string acoustics, and stand the risk of serious damage if fitted with steel strings. Steel-string acoustics are designed to withstand the added stress that steel strings exert on the top, bridge, nut and neck, and won't sound very good with nylon strings, if they even fit. Electric guitar strings must be made of ferromagnetic metals like steel and nickel, so they can interact with the magnetic pickups, while acoustic-electric guitars typically use a different type of pickup which senses vibrations from the bridge, so acoustic strings may just have a steel core wound with a phosphor bronze alloy wrap for bright tone. Guitars with whammy bars might require a few extra steps to keep everything stable, so check your manufacturer's instructions or look for online videos.
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We have an installation of SharePoint 2010 in which access to SharePoint designer has been granted within Central Administration, as well as at the site collection level.
Whenever I try to open the site, or any of its sub-sites in SPD, I get an error stating:
"You do not have permission to do this operation. Ask your web site administrator to change your permissions and then try again, or log in with a user account that has this permission. To log on with a different user account click OK."
My user has full control over the site collection and the site itself. I've also tried using the farm admin account, as well as trying on several machines.
I'm currently at a loss. Anyone have any ideas?
Not sure if it matters or not, but this site is setup to be accessed via https only -- don't think that would matter at all, but worth mentioning. I have a redirect for any http traffic. I did revert that to verify I still could not access the site in SPD. Also, I just checked to make sure the site was not set to read-only, and it was not.
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What is a good way to not have my hands/fingers freeze on bike rides in the cold/wind? I have a pair of gloves, but it doesn't fix the issue. Is there a better way than just to get a really thick pair of gloves that will be unwieldy.
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The most important thing is to make sure your core temperature is high enough. As your body begins to chill, it pulls blood away from the extremities, to maintain its core temp. Often times cyclists will think "my core temperature feels fine, but my hands are cold" so they think they need warmer gloves, when in reality they need another jacket/vest/jersey/base layer.
Also, remember body heat is generated in your torso, and has to be piped to your hands. If, for example, you were riding with bare arms, and giant oven-mitt gloves, your hands would still get cold, because the blood would have lost too much of its heat before ever reaching your hands. Again, long-sleeved jacket/jerseys, base layers, and arm warmers can all help significantly with keeping hands warm.
Good gloves are important to keeping your hands warm, but they're just one part of the chain, and if any of the pieces are missing, not even the thickest, warmest gloves in the world will stop your hands from getting cold.
Look for gloves made with a Windstopper material. I have some pretty thin gloves made with this and stay warmer then my thicker gloves because they stop the wind so well. You may want to look at lighter weight running gloves made with this as I find them a little more pliable. Most I have seen are not waterproof though.
Probably you are looking for bar mitts (pogies).
HOWEVER -- until recently I wanted to buy them, 4 months ago I had a nasty accident in comfortable conditions, just pure bad luck, that's all. From that point on I said "no" to any device that attaches me to the bicycle -- the reason is, in case of accident it is a split of the second, when you can fall on the ground and roll away, if you are attached you hit with entire force, and such static hit is too dangerous.
Getting back to gloves, since I have the same problem, I ended up with two gloves -- thin one, internal, and second one, lobster type.
If you check any local outdoor retailer(basspro shop,cabellas,ems,dicks sporting goods) etc.They sell chemical hand warmers.They are basically a pouch filled with iron filings that heats as the pouch is exposed to the air.They will last about 10 hours(ride to work and ride home time for most of us).They cost about one dollar US. Place the pouch on the back of your hand as that is where the blood vessels are.If you are commuting and the ride is fairly short try preheating your gloves on a heater before you leave.Another suggestion from a skier buddy of mine is to apply muscle rub to your hands. I would use the odorless variety,it stimulates the circulation increases blood flow and keeps your hands or feet warm.
You might want to try to get some Pogies. These cover your hands and the bars, and can help a lot in keeping your hands warm.
There have been excellent answers already, and I agree with most of them, specially the physiology of Prototoast, the pros/cons pointed by Macias, and the windstopping need pointed by Glenn (+1 for them).
I have used some gloves which were terrible, although thick, because they don't stop the wind. Thick knitted gloves are the perfect example.
Currently, in winter, I use a glove bought in a motorcycle store, which is quite similar to ski gloves: a nylon-like external layer, and a fleece-like internal layer. They are not so thick as ski ones, though.
You have to get used to the reduced motricity and sensibility, and most probably you will drop your keys when getting home, but with time even taking money bills from the wallet becomes relatively easy. But now my fingers get HOT while going fast to work in order to make the body warm. When I take the gloves off at the destination, no way I suffer from "hard fingers".
I like the idea of mitts/pogies, I used them with motorcycle and they work very fine specially in rain, but since the handlebars on commuter bikes are already cluttered most times, and unlike motorcycle the hands get some warm blood from the body, I think these gloves are already fine on a bicycle.
First off, get some "glove liners". These are thin polypro gloves that go under other gloves, either regular cycling gloves or heaver winter gloves.
They provide an extra layer of insulation, and, in addition, you can remove the outer gloves and leave on the glove liners while working on the bike -- they're thin enough that they don't interfere with dexterity.
If you have flat bars, tearing a hole in the corner of a ziplog bag to place over the handlebar grip gives you a mighty cheap pogie.
I find that fleece gloves, especially fleece flip-mits with polypro liners below them, can warm up very well.
Hand and foot warmth is highly dependent upon good circulation. Elastic around the wrists can make your hands colder by constricting your circulation. Also, increasing your core temperature is a good way to keep you limbs warm as well...so adding a fleece vest under your windbreaker can also be rather effective.
Wool long underwear is easily as effective as polypro long underwear and doesn't get a sweat funk as quickly, and I would suggest this as well.
One option I don't yet see between the excellent answers above is this:
If you have fixed the wind issue you still lose a lot of heat in your hands through your handlebars. The rubber grip usually provides some insulation, but the metal of your handlebars is highly heat-conductive and constantly getting cooled by the entire bike. So in cold weather you are constantly holding on to a frozen stick that is very good at conducting heat away from your hands. Some additional padding on the handlebar side of things can greatly reduce that. Cork, or cork-like materials are very good at it. Unfortunately most options a know of are not very durable, so they'll only last a winter or so.
Windstopper gloves and better handlebar insulation keep my hands warm in subzero temperatures where just the gloves were not enough.
Cold hands?
The ski patrol guys around here get cheap, thick, leather, insulated gloves at Target. (Or some other commodity department store.)
They're cheap and work for the winter. Of course, you can go for the nice cycling gloves. Several years back, Pearl Izumi had these wonderful winter cycling gloves. I wore out 2 pairs and when I went to buy a third pair, the model had been discontinued. So, I settled for another brand at the time. Cold hands for $50!
Anyway later on, I was chatting with a fellow cyclist in the bike locker room at work and complaining about cold hands. He was using these insulated, leather, utility work gloves. He got the idea from the local ski patrollers. $15 later, I quit having cold hands on the commute. The key is to pick ones that offer adequate dexterity.
There is no one pair of gloves that will solve this problem for all temperature ranges for all types/durations of riding.
It is very important to block the wind and provide insulation, but if you do that "too well" your hands will sweat and the moisture will subsequently increase heat transfer to the outside and your hands will get cold in short order.
Here's what I do...
I had once thought that "lobster-style" ski gloves would be the ultimate gloves for cycling at all cold temps, but I was bitterly proven wrong. Gloves like that work great the first half hour or so, but the moisture build-up eventually made my hands unbearably cold.


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From Bench to Bedside and Back Again
A team of Cancer Center researchers has been on a remarkable journey of discovery for 10 years to show how a novel drug combination is showing promise for lung cancer patients.
Without the intersection between this necessary basic science and the clinic, discoveries made at the laboratory's research bench have little relevance or application for patients suffering from a disease such as cancer. Translating basic scientific findings into improved treatments for patients, and increasing our understanding of human diseases, is the core of medical research today.
For the past decade, a team of Dartmouth scientists and physicians have made the journey from the bench to the clinic and back again in translational work to find effective therapies for lung cancer, work that is showing great promise using a powerful two-drug combination.
Lung Cancer—A Deadly Disease
Worldwide, lung cancer is the most common cause of cancer-related death in men and women, and is responsible for 1.3 million deaths annually. More men and women in the United States die from lung cancer than from any other cancer type—in 2007, more than 200,000 people were diagnosed with lung cancer in this country, and nearly 160,000 people died from the disease that year. One common and deadly form of lung cancer—non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC)—has been a particular target for treatments. But for NSCLC, chemotherapy is toxic and its use limited, and even combined with the so-called new generation therapies targeted to the cancer, it "has led only to small improvements in overall patient survival so that improvements in treatment for this disease are needed," explains oncologist Konstantin Dragnev, MD.
Bench Studies—Early Lung Cancer Studies
Retinoids and Rexinoids. For nearly 20 years—previously at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and more recently at Dartmouth Medical School and Norris Cotton Cancer Center—the research lab of Ethan Dmitrovsky, MD, has been unraveling the role that retinoids, derivatives of vitamin A, play in treating certain cancers. Retinoids regulate cell division, growth, and death, and vitamin A deficiency is linked to lung cancer formation in laboratory mice. Dmitrovsky believed that overcoming the retinoid deficiency could help prevent lung cancer. Unfortunately, clinical trials treating lung cancer patients with retinoids were unsuccessful. Dmitrovsky and his research colleagues didn't yet understand why.
But then they uncovered a biochemical pathway by which retinoids could regulate cells' cycle and death, and they also found a retinoid target gene that triggers cell death. Targeting it, Dmitrovksy thought, could restore the beneficial effects of retinoids in lung cancer cells. But, he suggests, "that receptor is repressed in lung cancers" so that retinoic acid couldn't possibly work in this disease. However, a related drug to retinoic acid—a rexinoid—would be able to activate this same destruction pathway, but could bypass the receptor. Both retinoids and rexinoids induce the destruction of cyclin D1. One rexinoid they tried was bexarotene, a drug used to treat blood cancers.
Cyclins—The Target. Cyclin D1 causes lung cancer to grow. But used alone against it, bexarotene was only modestly active against lung cancer. Dmitrovsky's team believed that combining the drug with another active drug in targeting cyclin D1 could be more effective.
For more than a decade, they focused on Cyclin D1 and Cyclin E, two proteins normally expressed in all cells that regulate cell division. A key early finding was that cyclin D1 becomes expressed abnormally during a cell's progression into becoming cancerous, causing the cells to divide uncontrollably. This was particularly true for lung cells. Thus, cyclin D1 was believed an important target for cancer therapy. To confirm this, Dmitrovsky's team engineered a mouse model of human NSCLC that overexpressed a type of cyclin protein called cyclin E, similar to human cyclin D1. In the lab, they found that inhibiting cyclin E inhibited lung cancer growth. But what agents would be best to inhibit cyclin D1 in humans?
Tarceva (Erlotinib) and KRAS. One of the targeted therapies for NSCLC is a drug called erlotinib (Tarceva®).In all normal cells, a specific protein called epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) signals cells to grow and multiply. The EGFR pathway is directly linked to the cell's division by controlling cyclin D1. In cancer cells, these signals are over-expressed and the cells multiply out of control. In 2004, scientists had discovered erlotinib, a targeted therapy that blocks the EGFR and cyclin D1 signals in cancer cells, causing them to stop growing and die. Whether a patient is positive or negative for a mutation in EGFR will predict how they will respond to erlotinib. EGFR-positive lung cancers in patients have an impressive 60% response rate to erlotinib. But some of these patients harbor a deadly mutation in the KRAS pathway—and patients with this mutation do not respond well to erlotinib.
KRAS is a protein that acts as a molecular on/off switch for cells. Once turned on, it recruits and activates proteins necessary for the propagation of growth factor and other receptor signals. However, a mutation that knocks out normal KRAS actions destroys its vital functions, causing cells to go haywire. Oncologist Konstantin Dragnev, MD, a member of the Dmitrovsky team, says that about a third of lung cancer patients have this mutation and that treating such patients has long been a struggle because of a lack of effective options. These patients are often treated with chemotherapy, which is not highly effective. Thus, in lung cancer patients with KRAS mutations, there is a large unmet medical need.
Translating the Bench Findings—Clinical Studies
The Dartmouth team recognized that cyclin D1 levels were higher in NSCLC cells harboring EGFR mutations than in cells expressing normal EGFR and KRAS mutations. This showed a link between high cyclin D1 levels and reliance on the EGFR pathway. But other pathways could cause cyclin D1 expression. "This suggests the promise of combining EGFR inhibition with erlotinib with a rexinoid (bexarotene) that targets cyclin D1 via a separate pathway," explains Dragnev.
"We began working on a clinical trial here at Dartmouth to use the rexinoid bexarotene in conjunction with erlotinib," says Dmitrovsky. This combination of drugs was tested in two clinical trials, the results of which were just published.
In one trial, called a "window of opportunity trial," the team studied 10 patients with NSCLC, including those with KRAS mutations. Patients were enrolled for surgery to remove the tumors in their lungs, but about a week before the surgery lung samples were taken from the patients' tumors, and the patients were then treated with the erlotinib-bexarotine combination therapy until their surgery. After surgery, samples were again taken from the lungs.
Pathologist Vincent Memoli, MD, studied pre- and post-surgery lung samples to determine if the drugs had changed the tumor cells. Of the 10 patients' post-surgical lung samples, eight had lower levels of cyclin D1 and EGFR—and eight patients also showed evidence that tumor cells were dying. "Of note, these responses occurred in patients with or without EGFR or KRAS mutations," explains Dr. Memoli. The researchers also examined in the mouth (buccal) cells of patients and confirmed the lower levels of cyclin D1 from patients after treatment. In earlier trials, the team had tried this with each drug alone, but found a much lower positive response.
The research team then conducted a larger phase II trial of 40 patients with advanced NSCLC. Most patients had been heavily pretreated with EGFR inhibitors and chemotherapy but had relapsed. Normally, the survival of such patients would be about 16 weeks, but the 40 patients in the trial had a mean overall survival of 22 weeks. The combined drug treatment produced three major clinical responses with prolonged progression-free survival, an important measure of cancer treatments. Six other patients had stable lung cancer disease after treatment. While the Phase II trial did not study cyclin D1, a similar large clinical trial—the BATTLE trial—reported that the drug combination was active in mutant KRAS tumors, and cycle D1 over-expression predicted clinical response.
"This is a promising regimen," Dmitrovsky says. "It's not a cure for lung cancer, but we've taken highly resistant patients that normally would not be expected to respond, and some of them have responded for years." The encouraging study shows that this drug combination even suppresses cyclin D1 in KRAS mutant cancer cells, particularly in short-term therapy of patients with early NSCLC. Most encouraging is that this two-drug combination shows promising activity in patients with advanced NSCLC who are resistant to chemotherapy in both the Phase II trial and the larger BATTLE trial that confirmed the team's results.
"Most importantly, we did not expect to find that patients with the KRAS mutation would benefit from this combination," says Dragnev. "But this finding is particularly significant, as it shows promise in a deadly form of lung cancer for which there is a large unmet medical need."
Back to the Bench
To confirm their findings, the team investigated whether erlotinib and bexarotene suppressed the growth and expression of cyclin D1 in lung cancer cells outside the body in bench research. "This is an example of bidirectional translational research—work from the bench to the clinic and then back again," explains Dmitrovsky. The team's earlier findings were confirmed by the new bench research.
These highly significant clinical and laboratory findings are now being confirmed in a clinical trial with a much larger patient population with NSCLC with KRAS mutations. The success with this targeted therapy combination has now led the team to work with newer cyclin inhibitor drugs in NSCLC trials. Early results in the laboratory show promise and will lead to new trials in lung cancer patients. These new clinical trials offer great hope of changing the dismal prognosis of this disease.
Article by Christopher C. Dant, PhD
October 11, 2011
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Michelina C. Cassella, physical therapist, is a 1964 graduate of the University of Connecticut School of Physical Therapy. She is currently director of the Department of Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy Services at the Children's Hospital in Boston Massachusetts. Cassella served as associate director for these departments from 1974–2002. She been appointed by Harvard University as lecturer in Orthopaedic Surgery, a post that she has held since 1990.
Cassella is currently on the faculty of The Boston Conservatory Dance Division. Her previous academic appointments include associate director of the Simmons College Program in Physical Therapy (1974–1981). She has been a special instructor of physical therapy at Boston University and Northeastern University and is currently a guest lecturer at the Massachusetts General Hopsital (MGH) School of Allied Health Professionals. Cassella is also the director of Physical Therapy Services at Boston Ballet and Boston Ballet Center for Dance Education, a position held since 1991.
Cassella has written several articles for professional journals, most recent ones are dance medicine-related. She has lectured extensively both nationally and internationally on the topics of dance medicine and physical therapy management of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis.
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If sheva brachot occur at a seudah shlishit which finishes after sunset, is one allowed to drink the wine even though it is prior to making havdala? If yes, who specifically would be allowed to drink it? E.g. what about someone who was not the leader or one of the newlyweds, but just wants some for a segula?
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Sh'miras Shabas K'hilchasah 59:17 reads as follows. The translation is my own and slightly free, and you should not rely on it; in any event, as always, CYLOR with any practical questions.
He notes in footnote 65 that Rabbi Moshe Feinstein is quoted by Rabbi Efrayim Greenblatt as having said that the bride and bridegroom should drink from the cups but no one else. [The way the SSK quotes him, it sounds like he means this for the latter case (that s'uda sh'lishis extends past tzes hakochavim), but I haven't checked the RE.]
See also footnote 66.
(That's it for the SSK, but note that I seem to recall hearing from Rabbi Yisrael Reisman (Brooklyn, New York) the idea that the bridegroom lead birkas hamazon and drink immediately afterward. I don't recall whether that was his advice or something he had seen or what: I merely recall his mentioning the idea. It would seem to fit in with the discussion above: according to Rav Moshe, apparently, the leader of birkas hamazon shouldn't drink unless he's the bridegroom, whereas according to some others the leader can drink anyway, so this removes some doubt as to what to do.)


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A prescribed burn took place on Friday, Feb. 1 at Halyburton Park. Approximately 30 acres of the park were burned. Halyburton Park is located at 4099 S. 17th Street.
The park is expected to re-open at about 5 p.m. after the clean-up is complete.
Prescribed burns are planned fires that burn undergrowth in a controlled manner to minimize the risk of wild fires. While removing undergrowth, the prescribed burn will make it easier for native plant species such as the Long Leaf Pine and Wiregrass to grow and also improve the habitat in the park for wildlife. Prescribed fires generally take place at certain times of the year in specific weather conditions.
This was the third prescribed burn at Halyburton. The burn was conducted by the N.C. Forest Service (NCFS) and the Wilmington Fire Department (WFD). Personnel from NCFS and the WFD were on site at all times.
For more information, contact Halyburton Park staff at 341-0075 or visit the prescribed burn 2013 web page at halyburtonpark.com.


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Area briefs:Saint Ignatios Prep set to host basketball tournament
Published: Thursday, March 21, 2013 at 3:15 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, March 22, 2013 at 12:56 a.m.
Saint Ignatios Prep in Spartanburg will play host to a six-team basketball tournament today and Saturday at Cudd Memorial Baptist Church and Covenant Baptist Church.
Other teams are Port City Prep of Charleston, South Carolina Sports Academy of Myrtle Beach, Believe Prep of Rock Hill, Mack Prep of Charlotte and Reach Prep of Jacksonville, Fla. Saint Ignasios will play 8:15 p.m. today against Sports Academy at Cudd Memorial. The winner will play at 12:45 p.m. Saturday against Believe Prep at Covenant. The championship of the double-elimination event is set for 8 p.m. Saturday at Cudd.
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WOFFORD: The Southern Conference announced that women's basketball player Rachel Brittenham was one of 10 SoCon student-athletes to receive a postgraduate scholarship.
... Due to the chance of inclement weather this weekend, the three-game Southern Conference series between the baseball team and UNCG will begin with a doubleheader this afternoon starting at 4:30 p.m.
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Cassie, 26, and Diddy, 42, have been alleged lovers for many years now but finally the couple has come out and officially confirmed the rumors via, of course, Instagram.
Over the weekend, Cassie posted a photo of Diddy on a Jet Ski while on vacation on her personal Instagram [photo above] with the caption "Love him" along with a popular emoticon which has two hearts for eyes.
Diddy returned the love by posting a photo of Cassie rocking a creme skirt and printed top [photo above] on his personal instagram with the caption, "I'm a very lucky man #knowthat."
Maybe Diddy has found the one to finally settle down with after six kids and a couple failed engagements in a woman 16 years his junior.
How long do you think this couple will last? Do you see wedding bells in their future?


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"Bright Star," a new musical by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell, is having its premiere run in San Diego.
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Wonder May Fade, but Lessons Linger
"The Landing," a chamber musical by John Kander and Greg Pierce at the Vineyard Theater, tells three stories that tap into innocence and regret.
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Matchups between Duke and North Carolina typically draw the highest college-basketball ratings on ESPN, which means one thing: These teams nearly always play to the soundtrack of the network's most distinctive basketball announcer, Dick Vitale.
Awesome, Baby, With a Capital 'A'
A sampling of Dick Vitale's 1,157 comments on telecasts of five Duke basketball games from the past two seasons:
Praise for Duke
"Talk about a P-T-P-er, baby, a prime time performer! Mr. Kelly's been on fire! Somebody call the fire chief, man, he's burning up the nets! Here he is, nothing but nylon! NBA time! Ryan Kelly, what a show!"
"Oh, the Cameron Crazies, that is as special as it gets, my friends."
"Credit this crowd, as well. The adrenaline! The excitement! The Cameron Crazies have this team really mentally ready."
Praise for Duke's Opponents
"Are you serious? Is his name Reggie Miller?"
"They're jumping down there in Miami. LeBron just jumped out of his seat! Dwyane Wade just jumped out of his seat!"
"Duke needs a TO, baby! They're rocking in Raleigh!"
Advice for You Young Kids Out There
"All you young kids out there, learn to drop step and square that body to the glass."
"Up in the air, that's a no-no for you young kids, leaving your feet."
Dickie V. on Dickie V.
"As I said inside to Mike Krzyzewski, I'm not a broadcaster. Broadcasters are guys like you and Dan Shulman…those are broadcasters."
"Hey, look at Warren Sapp! I wonder how he got in the house! You know how he got in. He knows me! Warren, you owe me, gotta be at my gala, man."
Other Things That Dickie V. Loves
"As Lionel Richie used to say, all night long! I love Lionel Richie!"
"All I can simply say: In the ACC regular season, they are simply the best of all the rest, as Tina Turner would sing in concert. You don't follow Tina, but Tina would sing that: simply the best of all the rest."
When the two teams meet Saturday in Chapel Hill, N.C., the perpetually exuberant Vitale, who considers this the best rivalry in all of college sports, will be calling the action for a 43rd time. But over the years, Vitale's work behind the microphone has prompted a nagging conclusion among many basketball insiders: They think he's in the tank for Duke.
Asked in an interview if he harbored a pro-Duke bias, the 73-year-old former coach posed a challenge: "Take the video of me doing the Duke game," he said, "and tell me that I'm biased for Duke." So that's what we did.
The sample for this study consisted of five Duke games Vitale has called over the last two seasons. It includes two wins and a loss against North Carolina, a road loss to N.C. State this January and a thrilling home win over Miami on Saturday. We logged 1,157 comments made by Vitale in these games and examined each one for signs of bias.
True to perception, 13% of these comments were positively gushy about Duke's players, its coach Mike Krzyzewski, its quirky arena (Cameron Indoor Stadium), its rabid fans (the Cameron Crazies) and the SAT scores these fans may have attained.
Let's be clear: By gushy we're not talking about straightforward praise doled out for specific plays, like "good job by Kelly to come up with the loose ball." We're talking about statements like: "Talk about a P-T-P-er, baby, a prime time performer! Mr. Kelly's been on fire! Somebody call the fire chief, man, he's burning up the nets! Here he is, nothing but nylon! NBA time! Ryan Kelly, what a show!"
While the percentage of slobbery comments about Duke was higher than the percentage for the other teams, it isn't clear that the nickname "Dukie V" applies. Duke's opponents got 11% of the love too. The sample also contained more Duke wins than losses and an extra Duke home game, plus two phenomenal Duke performances in Kelly's 36-point explosion Saturday and last season's Austin Rivers buzzer-beater against the Tar Heels.
Vitale uses the majority of his game commentary (66%) to actually analyze the game. And another 7% of his statements were about teams not playing in the game he was calling. Other comments cover subjects like the Duke-UNC rivalry, entertainers he loves, other broadcasters and himself. He can be critical at times, though not as loudly. At times in Duke's win over Miami last weekend, he questioned Duke's shot selection and pointed out holes in its defense.
Vitale said his ultimate goal in a telecast is to educate and entertain. He said accusations of bias bother him. "I don't handle criticism very well," he said. He added that he's criticized most often for two things: never criticizing Duke, and never criticizing anything. "Oh really?" he said. "Talk to some of those coaches."
Maybe the best measure of his objectivity is what Vitale said he hears during visits to the two campuses. "I'll go to Duke and have Duke people say, 'Oh my god, you love Carolina.' I go to Carolina on Saturday night and I'll have people say, 'Oh my god, I don't want to hear about Duke tonight.' In this racket, you can't please everybody."
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I wonder why the seller/builder didn't just install a longer gas tube?
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I almost ordered one today, but, since it doesnt have front or rear sites and I like the carry handle. I figured it would be cheaper for me to buy the dpms upper they sell for 445 bucks. Now I just have to convince myself to spend the money. jim
I just received it.
The gas tube fully engages the key. The only complaint I have (not really a complaint, more of an observation) is that it is very stiff. It seems to be mostly due to the fit of the charging handle. Nothing a little polishing wont take care of.
Gotta give them props on the shipping, ordered on Friday, received on Monday.
I just ordered mine Only one left. I just couldnt pass that up. Now Ill finally have an upper to go with my stainless lower.


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There are three that seem to be out of place on http://stackoverflow.com/search:
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I suggest it would make more sense to not require the 1 (since it doesn't seem to have any semantic meaning) and reword the grammar so it was either
noanswers: closed: wiki:
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[natural gas]
Air Products recently completed its 600-mile Gulf Coast
Connection Pipeline (GCCP) project and also started up
operations at a dynamic customer service center.
The pipeline stretches from the Houston Ship Channel in
Texas to New Orleans, Louisiana. In August, it began supplying
over 1.2 billion cubic feet of hydrogen per day to refinery and petrochemical customers. Air
Products had operated two hydrogen pipeline systems in Texas
and Louisiana before joining them with a new 180-mile
Completion of the GCCP project required overcoming several
challenges. These included:
Dow Chemical plans to close 20 plants and cut 2,400
jobs as part of a global cost-cutting program over the next two
years. The 2,400 layoffs amount to 5% of Dows
global workforce. With the moves, Dow expects to save $500
million in annual operating costs by the end of 2014. Dow says
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investments for certain unspecified growth programs. Those
measures are expected to save the company an additional $500
million in cash. Plants to be shut down include a high-density
polyethylene (HDPE) facility in Tessenderlo, Belgium, and a
sodium borhidrate plant in Delfzijl, The Netherlands.
Moreover, a number of performance materials manufacturing facilities will be closed, including
an automotive systems diesel particulate filters manufacturing
facility in the US (Midland, Michigan); formulated systems
manufacturing facilities in Spain (Ribaforada),
the UK (Birch Vale) and the US (Solon, Ohio); and an epoxy
resins facility in Japan (Kina Ura).
Gunvor Group has signed a one-year contract with
Rosneft to export approximately 6 MM tons of oil products from
Russia. Gunvor won the contract to export products
from Rosnefts three refineries in Russias Samara
region, following a tender. Gunvor will export the products via
its Ust-Luga terminal on the Baltic Sea and its 50%-owned
Novorossiysk terminal on the Black Sea.
The US Environmental Protection Agency
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The relatively recent and intense exploitation of US
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butadiene imports, according to a report from business
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climb in the near future as the US moves away from crude oil
and naphtha to increasingly cheap natural gas. The percentage
of C4 hydrocarbons required for the production of
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naphtha. As a result, growing demand will necessarily require a
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Air Liquide has a new licensing agreement with
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You are the first person this week to prospoe the idea here. If you had prospoed it on Friday, you might have been the third person this week. The energy from a car's speed cannot be captured to recharge the batteries, without slowing the car down. When you *intend* to slow the car down, this recapture is called regenerative brakes. It requires no additional equipment to speak of, the main drive motor is simply connected in a different way. Railroads have been using it for most of a century.
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Happy to know that Hydrogen is getting momentum. Air products has also first H2 dispensing facility in Germany along the lines of Gas station. I am curious as to source of Hydrogen, is it Chor alkali plant?
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Problem: We are given $n\times n$ square matrices $A$ and $B$ with $AB+BA=0$ and $A^2+B^2=I$. Show $tr(A)=tr(B)=0$.
Thoughts: We have $tr(BA)=tr(AB)=-tr(BA)=0$. We also have the factorizations $(A+B)^2=I$ and $(A-B)^2=I$ by combining the two relations above.
Let $\alpha_i$ denote the eigenvalues of $A$, and $\beta_i$ the eigenvalues of $B$. We have, by basic properties of trace,
$\sum \alpha_i^2 +\sum \beta_i^2=n$
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BEVERIDGE, John W. (Jack), 90, of New Port Richey, FL, formerly of Wintersville, OH, passed away Friday, November 30, 2012 at Fairview Hospital (Cleveland, OH).
He was born in Adena, OH and had lived in New Port Richey since 1987.
Jack served in the Army Air Corp from November 1940 until May 1945 and was stationed in Panama and India.
He retired in 1984 after working for 21 years as a Nationwide Insurance agent. He was a member of Starkdale Presbyterian Church, serving as an elder. He also served on the board of Jefferson Technical College.
An avid golfer, he was a member of Cadiz Country Club. A 1981 Wintersville Citizen of the Year, Jack was also active in Farm Bureau, Chamber of Commerce, and Lions Club as well as Masonic Lodge Unionport F&AM, Scottish Rite, and Aladdin Shriners.
Jack is survived by daughter, Nancy Lupo (John) of Avon Lake; and son, Jack Beveridge (Kim) of Centreville, VA.; six grandchildren, Jana, Cathy, Michelle, John, Jamie, and Josh; and 11 great- grandchildren. He is also survived by sisters, Dorothy Simmons, Patricia Barbai, Barbara Beveridge, and Sandy Mayerchak; and brothers, Thomas and James.
He is preceded in death by his wife of 60 years, Alberta (nee Anthony); parents, John R. and Margaret (nee Whitten); and sisters, Margaret Fleming and Mary Alice Heaston.
A memorial service will be held Tuesday, December 4 at Starkdale Presbyterian Church, 4600 Sunset Blvd., Steubenville at noon with Rev. Dr. Philip Makari officiating.
Internment will be private in Ft. Steuben Burial Estates.
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I was wondering how the air flows in a double skin facade? Say I have a glass facade with a depth of 1m, a height of 200m and a width of 10m. It is a single vertical shaft all the way up with openings at the bottom to let air in and at the top to let air out:
There is a solar radiation of 100W/m2 hitting the outside of the facade and the air velocity at ground level is 1m/s. Can I expect the velocity of the air to increase as it travels through the shaft? and to what degree?


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The genius of Rick Estrin's songwriting is that he manages to inject modern situations and sensibility into the blues, suffusing it with wry humor, but in a way that gets everybody laughing with him, and nobody getting mad at him.
Saturday afternoon the man who gave us "Dump That Chump," "My Next Ex-Wife," "Money Must Think I'm Dead," and of course, "That's Big" will be performing, with the Nightcats, at the 19th Annual North River Blues Festival at the Marshfield Fair, taking the stage at 5:30 p.m. (A fair admission, $10, allows patrons to get into the music area, where there is seating, but portable chairs are also allowed.)
Estrin fronted Little Charlie & the Nightcats for 33 years, before guitarist Charlie Baty stepped away from the road in 2008. Of course, many fans had always assumed the stylish singer/harmonica wizard in the pompadour hair and pencil-thin mustache was Little Charlie, but the band had always been led by the more effacing guitarist. After some trepidation, Estrin took over the lead role, and the quartet replaced Baty with a young Norwegian firebrand named Kid Andersen.
While Baty's style owed much to the West Coast, more swinging style of blues, Andersen comes from more of a blues-with-rock direction, citing Otis Rush and B.B. King as major inspirations. But Andersen is also likely to inject unexpected treats like surf-rock figures into his solos too.� Ironically, local fans can compare the two guitar styles Saturday, as Baty is doing some limited touring this summer with the Golden State Lone Star Revue, which follows the Nightcats with the night's final set.
Earlier this summer (July 8 to be exact) Estrin & the Nightcats released "You Asked For It...Live!" a baker's dozen of songs recorded at the San Francisco club Biscuits & Blues last October. It had been quite a while since the band did a live CD, and the new album is an attempt to collect a bunch of fan favorites--many of them a decade or more old--with the fresh new arrangements they get today.� Signature tunes like "My Next Ex-Wife," "Smart Like Einstein,"� and "That's Big" are there, but also some chestnuts the band hadn't done as regularly, but which they thought deserved revivals.
"There were some songs we knew had to go on there, because people ask for them all the time," said Estrin, from his Sacramento area home earlier this month. "And others were on our best-selling CDs. Obviously tunes like "Dump That Chump" and "That's Big" had to be on the live record. But even with those, these songs have evolved, so these are really different versions from the way they were originally recorded."
"Then, there were some other songs that maybe we didn't play that often on tour," added Estrin. "But we had found a different way of doing them, a new approach that we wanted to share. The only new song on the live album is "Baker Man Blues," written by our drummer J. Hansen, and it's a nice change of pace."
While Baty and Estrin had toured the world together for better than three decades, their rhythm sections changed over time. But this particular foursome has been pretty solid, and that longevity together makes the Nightcats an extremely tight unit.
"There is definitely a kind of band synergy that occurs when you have been with someone for a long time," said Estrin. "Kid has been with us for six years now, J.Hansen for twelve years, and bassist Lorenzo Farrell for eleven years. Having that kind of experience together makes a big difference--no matter how good a musician you are, if you don't have that telepathy with your bandmates, it won't be as good. We are busy guys. We're headed to Brazil next week, and then Australia later in the fall, and Europe in November."
Despite their relentless tour schedule, the Nightcats have not encountered Baty on the road like they will be able to on Saturday. Estrin is looking forward to it, and suggested there might well be some jamming between the two bands.
"We played Marshfield once before, when Charlie was still with us, and I remember it was boiling hot," said Estrin. (Our files suggest it was 2002). "I'm excited to see him and hear those guys play--Mark Hummel is with their group and he's one of my favorite harmonica players."
But let's get back to that songwriting. Estrin's most hilarious tune might be "That's Big," his paean to larger women, where he avoids insulting them in any way, yet still presents his appreciation in side-splitting ways. "All that meat, and those potatoes too!" is the most memorable chorus saluting plus-size female charms.
"I guess I'm a deadline writer," said Estrin, 64. "I usually need the pressure of having to make a record to start writing, and I wish it wasn't that way. I'm lazy, but I'm a perfectionist too, which is a bad combination. I don't enjoy the stress of writing, and it's not a comfortable process for me. There's a lot of anxiety built into it for me, and I'm more grateful when it is done than actually satisfied. You always wonder--'can I do it again?'"
"But we have some new ones we'll probably play Saturday," added Estrin. "We have two new albums (noting 2012's "One Wrong Turn" studio CD) of material to play from the past couple years, and we'll be delving back into our past catalog, to tunes we did with Little Charlie. We have some new ones we're working on, but we tend not to perform those until we're closer to recording them."
Could we expect some obscure Nightcats chestnuts among the mix?
"There are so many songs we do live, but maybe there will be some that maybe we don't play all the time," Estrin explained. "The band guys occasionally want to resurrect some older ones. 'Thinking With the Wrong Head' and 'Living Hand to Mouth' are a couple of old ones we hadn't done for years, and now we have new arrangements that are working out really well onstage."
Estrin is such a captivating singer, and clever songsmith, it is easy to forget he is one hellacious blues harmonica player. Aficionados know that, which is one reason he won the 2013 Blues Music Award as Best Instrumentalist, Harmonica. With typical modesty, he deflects the plaudits to his bandmates.
"It's nice to get recognized by the community of your fellow musicians," Estrin demurred. "But we have been out there doing it for a long time. I have been really lucky, to have been able to work with two of the greatest guys ever, in Little Charlie Baty and Kid Andersen. It's just ridiculous to be that fortunate with guitar players. They're very different, but they both love music and know the blues inside and out. They come from different influences but still still both fit me to a tee. I'm so lucky to have had the career I've had, and I still love doing it every night on stage."