hickok45 took his Arsenal AKM and put several magazines of 7.62×39 tracers against a concrete block wall at about 230 yards. The results were instructive… and a little frightening.
I learned several things from this, the foremost being that a block wall is concealment, not cover.
In the picture below, the tracer burning on the ground on the right side of the frame got there after penetrating through the wall from the left side of the wall.
At 230 yards using iron sights, hickok45 was firing shots that penetrated the wall completely, and was also ricocheting rounds off the ground that seems to penetrate just as easily. Here’s the front side of the wall…
… and here’s the back side of the wall.
He had similar results in a previous test with a 5.56 AR-15. It seems rather conclusive that unless a block wall is filled with concrete, it poses little more than a false sense of security.
That’s a very sobering thought, once you consider most stick-built, vinyl-clad homes don’t have walls that stop bullets even as well as block.


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A few days ago, Meizu 20 series has been on the net, about the new machine revelations also gradually more up.
Digital blogger Leon Leon Ah today released what looks like the exterior of the Meizu 20 Pro, showing off the design details in some detail.
As can be seen from the picture, the overall design of Meizu 20 Pro is relatively simple, using pure white body color matching, looking elegant and atmospheric.
Unlike previous renderings, the new model does not feature a split lens design similar to the Samsung S22, but a rear rectangular triple shot. The bottom is supposed to be a diving telephoto lens, which appears to have hidden lidar, and a ring flash, which is very recognizable.
However, some netizens recognized that the Meizu 20 Pro is similar to the new machine designed by Meizu in the previous “19 Masters” program, which may be just a model.
In addition, the battery pack of Meizu 20 Standard Edition (M381Q) has passed the national quality certification. The model is BA381, rated battery capacity is 4600mAh (typical value is 4700mAh), and 80W fast charge is supported.
According to the news, Meizu 20 series will be powered by Qualcomm’s second-generation Snapdragon 8 flagship processor and is expected to support satellite communication technology.
As for the launch date of the new phone, Meizu announced at the 2022 Meizu Conference that Meizu 20 series flagship mobile phones, featuring all-scene integration experience pioneer, will be released to the outside world in the spring of 2023.

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Happy In Our Skin (Fran Manushkin, Lauren Tobia)Artikelnummer: 9781406378887
Bouquets of babies sweet to hold: cocoa-brown, cinnamon, and honey gold. Ginger-coloured babies, peaches and cream, too – splendid skin for me, splendid skin for you! A delightfully rhythmical read-aloud text is paired with bright, bustling art from the award-winning Lauren Tobia, illustrator of Anna Hibiscus , in this joyful exploration of the new skin of babyhood. A wonderful gift book for new mums and toddlers, all children can see themselves, and open their eyes to the world around them, in this sweet, scrumptious celebration of skin in all its many, many, wonderful forms.

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Toby Keith and Ricky Skaggs have received the National Medal of Arts from outgoing President Donald Trump.
The ceremony is believed to have taken place shortly after the U.S. House of Representatives voted to impeach the President for an historic second time.
American news outlets reported that the National Medal of Arts ceremony took place in the East Room of the White House and involved both country singers, although representatives for the stars have reportedly refused to comment.
The awards have not been a top priority for President Trump during his time in office; in 2019 he issued just four of them – the first four of his presidency – one of them going to Alison Krauss. Historically, ten or more a year have been awarded by previous presidents going back as far as President Reagan.
At the time of writing, neither Keith nor Skaggs have shared or commented about the awards on social media but it comes as many notable people are declining honours from Trump in the wake of the recent riots at the U.S. Capitol. Toby Keith played at Trump’s inauguration back in 2017, but had previously identified as a Democrat.


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Xerox has pulled its hostile takeover bid for peer HP because of the general business uncertainty created by the coronavirus outbreak.
Ron Miller reported the news for TechCrunch:
Xerox announced today that it would be dropping its hostile takeover bid of HP. The drama began last fall with a flurry of increasingly angry letters between the two companies, and confrontational actions from Xerox, including an attempt to take over the HP board that had rejected its takeover overtures.
All that came crashing to the ground today when Xerox officially announced it was backing down amid worldwide economic uncertainty related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The company also indicated it was dropping its bid to take over the board.
“The current global health crisis and resulting macroeconomic and market turmoil caused by COVID-19 have created an environment that is not conducive to Xerox continuing to pursue an acquisition of HP Inc. (NYSE: HPQ) (‘HP’). Accordingly, we are withdrawing our tender offer to acquire HP and will no longer seek to nominate our slate of highly qualified candidates to HP’s Board of Directors,” the company said in a statement.
CNBC’s Kif Leswing wrote:
Xerox had previously led a hostile takeover bid of HP which would combine the two legendary tech giants. HP had rejected Xerox’s proposals. In February, Xerox raised its offer to $24 per share, which would value HP at about $34 billion.
However, since Xerox sweetened its bid, the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak spread around the world and has created economic uncertainty, which led to Xerox ceasing its pursuit of the transaction. HP is a larger company and is more highly valued than Xerox.
HP announced last year that it planned to cut between 7,000 and 9,000 jobs by the end of 2022 to save $1 billion per year. In February, Xerox said that it had met with HP’s shareholders to discuss the potential “synergies” from a combination. In its statement about dropping its bid, Xerox said that HP used “delay tactics” while negotiating.
Bryan Alexander from USA Today reported:
The hot-blooded corporate speak flew last week. In a letter to HP on Thursday, Xerox’s Vice Chairman and CEO John Visentin said the board “is determined to expeditiously pursue our proposed acquisition of HP to completion – we see no cause for further delay.”
HP shot back Sunday rejecting the bid a second time, saying that it would “not consider combining with Xerox” until the copy-making giant answered questions about how it planned to raise the cash portion of a potential deal.
“We are not dependent on a Xerox combination,” HP said. “We were in private discussions with you in August and September, we repeatedly raised our questions, you failed to address them and instead walked away, choosing to pursue a hostile approach,” HP said.
HP responded to the news of the Xerox withdrawal Tuesday, stating in a release, “Our focus remains on addressing the needs of our ecosystem of stakeholders around the world, ensuring that we build on our strength and resiliency throughout this crisis.”

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* Bobby Lashley With MVP Promo, Whats the state of mind of Lashley after his loss to kingston lastweek, Drew McIntyre vs Bobby Lashley Feud continues.
* Riddle and Xavier Woods set to go one-on-one on Raw. Will Randy Orton remain ringside to helpout his partner.
* Whats next for Ajstyles & Omos.
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Background Romiplostim was approved in 2009 to treat adult splenectomised patients with chronic Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (ITP) when refractory to other treatment. It is also considered second-line treatment in non-splenectomised patients in which surgery is not advised.
Purpose To determine the effectiveness and safety of romiplostim in patients with ITP who did not respond to 1st line or later treatments.
Material and methods Observational and retrospective study. All patients treated with the drug from January 2009 to February 2014 were included. Data collected included demographic, clinical and analytical information, as well as dates of administration of the drug and dose administered.
Results 7 patients diagnosed with ITP and not responding to previous treatment lines were included, three splenectomised and four non-splenectomised. Previous lines of therapy varied among patients and included: nonspecific immunoglobulins, corticosteroids, danazol, rituximab and eltrombopag. Platelet count (PC) at the start of treatment was less than 50 × 109/l in 6 patients and higher in 1 patient. Three patients received fewer than six doses, so it was not possible to assess platelet response. The remaining four patients started treatment at a dose of 1 mcg/kg, maximum doses received ranged from 5 to 10 mcg/kg. In the four patients who received more than six doses of the drug response was variable. The percentage of time with sustained PC in one patient was only 19% of the treatment time (99 weeks follow-up) while in the other three it was 73%, 85% and 97%. One patient had PC of 150 × 109/l for four weeks with no dose reduction.
Conclusion Romiplostim was prescribed according to approved use in all cases except for treatment discontinuation in the case of no response. No serious adverse effects were reported. Effectiveness was very variable. A protocol for use including conditions for discontinuation in case of no response could improve use of the drug in our institution.
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I just received the same calls. They threatened to throw me in jail, etc. I told them I suspected fraud and was going to contact the authorites, the man, who said his name was both David Fisher and Anthony White (with a thick middle eastern accent), became irate and yelled and cursed and gave all kinds of threats. I contacted the FBI, which suggested I submit a report to the internet crime department.
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We’ve seen them before in book 1, Dominus, but as I pen this “reading of the will” scene for Games of Rome I see that they pop up yet again. So, what was a lictor?
A lictor was an officially appointed bodyguard. Often a retired veteran soldier (usually of centurion rank), the lictor was a Roman citizen who wore a toga (or military garb) and carried a bundle of rods tied together to form a long pole. Intertwined with the rods was an axe, included to symbolize the power of “life or death” wielded by Roman magistrates. Most men of political rank were awarded a group of lictors to travel with and protect them, both in and outside of the city of Rome. This gold coin shows three lictors in procession (with the Roman eagle on the other side). Believe it or not, this gold coin was minted by the Dacians in the late first century BC. The Dacians may have been inspired to include this image on their gold coins (called kosons) after seeing similar images on the coins minted earlier by Brutus. Yup, that Caesar-killing Brutus.
Julius Caesar from HBO’s Rome surrounded by lictors.
Like the toga, the Romans inherited the concept of a lictor from the Etruscan kings. In fact, Rome inherited a hell of a lot from the Etruscans — such as triumphs and divination (reading the will of the gods through natural signs).
Gaius Fabius has a group of lictors assigned to him by the state. Because he served as a consul prior to our story (twice consul, in fact), he has “proconsular status” and is thereby allowed to be accompanied by eleven lictors. The emperor has a group of 24 lictors in addition to his personal bodyguard, the Praetorians. Lictors were deliberately easy to identify, given their long ceremonial poles (and axes) sticking up above the heads of the throng. If you saw a group of lictors approaching, you knew somebody important was headed your way.

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Building a Consent Culture
Transcript of Building a Consent Culture
Keeping ourselves and our campus accountable
A Working Definition:
is: communicating an enthusiastic yes on your own terms, space to change your mind or say no at any point; participating fully in an ongoing exchange of shared desires and constant check-ins.
is: a culture in which mandatory consent is normalized. It is respecting the person's response even if it isn't what you had hoped for.
The most well known consent slogans are simple and catchy such as "Consent is Sexy".
These campaigns are important because they attempt to make the concept of consent more accessible to everybody and start a conversation. Although this is valuable, it is important to take the conversation further and talk about complex consent, addictions and consent, and mental health challenges and consent to name a few.
Consent= always checking in
The consent narrative we often see is that you have to say no for something to be non consensual and that consensual decisions are static. In reality, our feelings of comfort and safety change. These potential changes are why constant check ins are vital in practicing non oppressive consent.
Examples of this can look like: asking if the touch still feels good, revisiting set boundaries whenever needed, setting safe words, negotiating substance use with folks who live with addictions, asking what people like their body parts called, utilizing dirty talk to ask for consent, etc.
Consent is Sexy?
Thinking about consent only through the lens of sex and intimacy erases a lot of peoples experiences and identities who don't have sex, and/or don't want to have sex, and/or do not like or want physical touch. Sex is not an equalizer that connects all peoples' diverse experiences.
Consent should also translate into the non-sexual spaces in our lives. Consent should be part of our daily conversations, our friendships, our professional relationships, and beyond!
Some examples of practicing everyday consent:
-Can I pet your dog?
-Are you done with that grilled cheese? Can I have a bite?
-I'm sorry you are having a rough day, do you want a hug?
-What are your pronouns?
-Is it OK if I have a beer in front of you?
-Do you have the capacity for this conversation?
“Consent culture is a culture in which people aren’t afraid to ask for what they need and people are OK if other people can’t show up when they want.” – Staceyann Chin, artist, author and activist
"Living in a consent culture means not feeling weird or embarrassed to ask someone if they want to move forward. It means not feeling bad if you aren’t interested anymore. Open dialogue and mutual respect for your partner(s) and yourself will create a safe space for the both (or all) of you."
"Consent culture is understanding that each person knows what is best for themselves. You have no right to use your power against them for their decision not to participate."

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Kolkata: Cyclone Aila of 2009 had triggered a wave of migration from the Sundarbans region, after the storm surges associated with the cyclone inundated thousands of acres of land with saline water from the rivers and the seas and left them uncultivable for years to come. It took a few years for the land to get back to normal yielding capacity.
Now, with two cyclonic storms hitting the region in back-to-back years – Cyclone Yaas of May 2021 after Cyclone Amphan of May 2020 – and flooding large swathes of farmland, will the Sunderbans see another wave of migration once the situation over the COVID-19 pandemic improves?
That possibility cannot be ruled out because the prospect of losses in the agriculture sector in the coming years looms large and there is no visible solution to this as of now.
The rice varieties that have a high yield and fetch a good price in the market will not grow on the high-salinity soil, and the salt-tolerant rice varieties that can grow on these lands usually produce lower yields and hardly fetch a price in the market. Most of the salt-tolerant varieties produce thick grains.
“There will be no crops on thousands of acres of land for two years straight,” said Sunderban development minister Bankim Hazra, an MLA from Sagar, one of the areas worst hit by the storm surges.
“The impact of Yaas has been ten times higher than that of Amphan. In Amphan, tree and electric poles fell, houses were razed. But here, thousands of acres of land and ponds have been inundated in saline water. Agriculture, pisciculture and horticulture will be severely hurt,” he added.
According to Hazra, considering that the normal high-yielding rice varieties, referred to as HYVs, can no longer be grown in the land for a few seasons, chief minister Mamata Banerjee has asked the department to distribute seeds of salt-tolerant rice varieties. The government had been working on salt-tolerant varieties for the past few years and the project has taken shape from last year, Hazra added.
However, the rice variety that the government will distribute in highest quantities is called Nona Swarna, which is unlikely to fetch a good price in the market even though farmers can grow it for their own consumption. It can help in food safety but not in earning a livelihood. Also, a 2020 study published in the International Journal of Researches categorised this variety as having “minimum tolerance” to soil salinity, which means it will not grow in areas where the salinity level has increased a lot.
Jayanta Naskar, the MLA from Gosaba, another badly-hit area in the Sunderbans region, echoed Hazra’s concerns. “The first priority is to repair the embankments, clear the logged water and help people return home. The next priority is to help reduce salinity levels and grow salt-tolerant rice varieties,” said Naskar.
“There is no scope for normal HYVs to grow in the coming few seasons,” he added.
Experts also spoke of a prevailing reluctance among local farmers in growing salt-tolerant varieties, as these varieties do not yield as much as the HYVs and the market price does not compensate the grower.
They pointed out that several indigenous salt-tolerant varieties used to be cultivated in the Sundarbans region before the Green Revolution of the 1960s, after which the HYV varieties gradually replaced the indigenous varieties.
Writers of a 2020 research paper titled ‘Diversity Analysis of Selected Rice Landraces from West Bengal and Their Linked Molecular Markers for Salinity Tolerance‘ said that “replacing the salt-tolerant local cultivars with modern high yielding varieties is the high-priced mistake as these modern cultivars will not sustain in harsh environmental changes”.
Since the first decade of the 21st century, scientists have been pointing out the increasing frequency and intensity of cyclonic storms and storm surges in the Sundarbans region, a UNESCO world heritage site. With this, saline water flooding is anticipated to be a more regular phenomenon, affecting agriculture, pisciculture and horticulture. This is why a section of scientists and researchers have been batting for developing a comprehensive, long-term plan for the ecologically sensitive region.
Cyclone Aila of 2009 had brought people’s attention back to salt-tolerant varieties but they had become rarely available in the Sunderbans region by that time.
A 2017 research project by Visva-Bharati university noted that many such local varieties of rice, which historically used to be grown in these agro-climatic conditions, had actually survived in small quantities in some corners of the remote islands.
From 157 farming households that had been interviewed by the researchers, as many as 32 such varieties were identified which were cultivated in the monsoon of 2015. However, the report observed that the distribution of such farmers was thin across different islands without much communication among themselves and therefore, “except a few commercially successful such varieties, other varieties are found to be locally concentrated in practice”.
The seeds of such varieties are not commercially available in the market. They are preserved and continued across family lines or neighbourhoods, the report said.
The report said that the Dudhersar variety, which is of medium salt tolerance quality, was grown in many parts of the Sundarbans delta because it fetches a premium price in the market and thus growers get compensated despite low yields. However, highly salt-tolerant varieties like Darsal, Nona Bokra and Talmugur, even though found to be cultivated in patches of the Sundarbans, are not popular because they cannot fetch a good price in the market.
Conservationist Debal Deb, founder of the rice seed banks Vrihi and Basudha, said that his initiatives to promote salt-tolerant rice varieties in the Sunderbans was unpleasant.
“After Cyclone Aila, I went to those distant places where soil salinity had ruined cultivation and distributed salt-tolerant rice varieties for free to 40 famers. They used it for one year or two and reported to me that the rice grew even on land with high levels of salinity. But in just about two years, they threw away all those seeds and went back to the so-called high yielding varieties,” he said.
Deb also questions the logic behind comparing the grain output of the indigenous salt-tolerant or flood-tolerant rice varieties to the so-called high yielding varieties, arguing that the actual yield of all the HYVs is zero in marginal farm conditions.
“The varieties that yield highly in Hooghly, Burdwan or Midnapore would yield nothing in the high-salinity lands in the Sundarban deltas, after seawater incursion, and Sundarban farmers are witnesses to this fact. In contrast, the indigenous salt-tolerant varieties yield enough for the farmers to subsist on. Should we not consider the yield of these local varieties as the highest possible yield in the context of Sundarban?” he asked.
“Nevertheless, driven for higher yields, a majority of farmers have abandoned the folk varieties with amazing properties, such as flood tolerance, salt tolerance and pest and disease resistance,” said Deb.
According to public representatives like Naskar, farmers can be encouraged to grow the salt-tolerant varieties only when they could also get a high yield or a good market price.
“Scientists need to develop salt-tolerant varieties that would fetch a good price in the market to compensate the cultivators. If not financially viable, farmers would return to the HYVs once the soil salinity reduces,” Naskar said.
One problem with growing HYVs in the Sundarbans region is the requirement of chemical fertilisers, which in turn increases soil salinity, said Amalesh Mishra, a retired zoologist from the Zoological Survey of India who heads an NGO named Paribesh Unnayan Parishad that has been researching varieties required for this region.
“The so-called HYVs and chemical fertilisers are not fit for the Sundarbans where the soil has excessive salinity,” said Mishra, adding that it was only a combination of salt tolerance and high-price-fetching qualities in rice that can bring a long-term solution to Sundarban’s problems with food security and income.
Sudipta Tripathi, an agriculture scientist associated with Calcutta University, said that since Dudhersar was the only existing variety that could tolerate low levels of salinity and also fetch a price in the market to act as a remunerative crop, the only option Sundarban farmers had now was to reduce soil salinity.
“Apart from continuing with Dudhersar, there is only one way at present – drain out rainwater as early as possible and with every rain before the sowing and use organic manure as much as possible,” Tripathi said.
Pradip Mazumdar, the chief minister’s advisor on agriculture, however, said that farmers did not need to continue with salt-tolerant varieties even when soil salinity reduces. These varieties could be used in times of increased salinity – mostly in the aftermath of inundation by saline water, he said.
“We have given the process of distributing salt-tolerant varieties shape from last year. This time, too, we will be distributing these seeds, depending on the salinity level of a particular land, for free. However, most of these varieties do not see demand in the market. Naturally, farmers would switch back to the HYVs once the salinity level reduces and I do not see any harm in that practice,” Mazumdar said.
However, there was no foreseeable way for the farmers to earn from their crops in the coming one year or two.
Snigdhendu Bhattacharya is an independent journalist and author based in Kolkata.

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Classic as the smartphone’s brand name, KINGZONE has many outstanding products; of whose the KINGZONE K1 is one of the masterpieces. With slim body, excellent configuration, wireless charge and NFC, it can fulfill all your needs. In the 4G battle, KINGZONE has already released its latest phone: KINGZONE N3, which is the first smartphone of brand new N series except for the S/K series.
This smartphone has three main characteristics. First, the design of KINGZONE N3 is very elegant. With a quadrature body like N1, N3 has its arc top and bottom frame. You can see the plate straight line of the body and the ultra-slim body frame. The red button is applied from S1 to N3, which creates a sound-full impression.
Second, KINGZONE N3 supports all kinds of mobile network and the corresponding frequency band, including FDD-LTE, WCDMA, and GSM. Therefore, N3 is not an entry-model, but a high- and mid-end smartphone.
Last but not the least, Fingerprint Identification could be a superiority, which assures N3’s security and also supports many other functions like fast flip and shortcut for applications.
More and more KINGZONE products have been equipped with MTK LTE chips, but there is still a few products support all the foreign mobile networks. Now comes the KINGZONE N3. With MT6582 and MT6290, N3 almost covers all the networks overseas. KINGZONE N3 showed average performance in AnTuTu benchmark test with 17.505 points.
Equipped with a 5-inch 720P LTPS display, KINGZONE N3 performs wonderful in touch-control which also support glove mode. With 1G RAM and 8G ROM, the storage of processor is also brilliant. The highly advanced dual 8MP & 14MP cameras captures stunning stills and gorgeous video.
The battery capacity is 2800mAh; operating system is Android 4.4.2; NFC is also supported.
Besides the exquisite configuration, KINGZONE N3 also has a gorgeous appearance and stylish design. The cover is bench drawing grain, slim and beautiful.
KINGZONE N3 specifications:
|Style:||Touch Screen Phone|
|GPU:||OpenGL ES 2.0, Mali-400 MP2|
|4G:||FDD-LTE, 800MHz, 1800MHz, 2100MHz, 2600MHz|
|3G:||WCDMA 850MHz, WCDMA 900MHz, WCDMA 1900MHz, WCDMA 2100MHz|
|2G:||GSM 850MHz, GSM 900MHz, GSM 1800MHz, GSM 1900MHz|
|Screen Resolution:||1280 x 720 pixels|
|Screen Type:||HD, OGS Full-Lamination, 720P, Touch screen, Capacitive|
|Screen Material:||Gorilla Glass 3, LTPS|
|Multi-touch:||Five Point Multi-touch|
|Battery:||2800mAh, Lithium, 3.8V, One Battery|
|Unlocked:||Yes (without contract)|
|Screen Lock:||Slide, Face Unlock, Vioce Unlock, Fingerprint Recognition, Pattern Unlock, PIN Unlock, Password|
|Standby:||2 SIM 2 Standby|
|SIM Card:||Standard SIM Card, Micro SIM Card|
|Data Transfer:||LTE, GPRS, EDGE, HSPA, HSPA+|
|Storage:||TF card not included, 64GB extended|
|Back Camera:||Back 13.0 MP|
|Front Camera:||Front 8.0 MP|
|Camera Functions:||Cheese Shutter, Panorama, Auto-focusing, Flashlight, Face Recognition, Continuous shot, Facial Beautification|
|Sensor:||Gravity Sensor, Proximity Sensor, Light Sensor|
|WIFI:||WiFi hotspot, WiFi 802.11 b/g/n|
|Ports:||Micro USB, 3.5mm Audio Jack, TF Card slot|
|Other Feature:||Back Touch, Smart wake, OTG, NFC, Message, VPN, Wifi Display, Scheduled Power On & Off, Sound Recorder, FM Radio, Notification Led Light|
|Video Resolution:||720P, 1080P|
|Video Format:||AVI, MP4, 3GP, MOV, MKV|
|Audio Format:||WAV, MP3, AMR, MID, OGG, WMA|
|Picture Format:||JPG, BMP, GIF, PNG|
|E-book Format:||TXT, CHM, UMD, PDF, Relevant app need to be download, etc|
|Size||142 x 71 x 8.3 mm|
|Net Wight||143 g (with a battery)|
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Despite earlier reports that Nancy Lanza, mother of shooter Adam Lanza, was a teacher at Sandy Hook Elementary School, new details are emerging that suggest otherwise. CNN, The Wall Street Journal, and several other news outlets are reporting now that Nancy Lanza may not have had any connection to the school where the shootings took place.
Janet Vollmer, a kindergarten teacher at Sandy Hook Elementary, told CNN that Lanza was not a teacher there.
Lillian Bittman, a former school board official, said “no one has heard” of Lanza and that “teachers don’t know her.” Talking Points Memo reports that Lanza is not listed on the Newton School District Website. TPM also notes the origin of the misinformation may have been an AP story which quoted law enforcement officials “speaking on the condition of anonymity” about Lanza’s possible connection to school.
At this time, the Sandy Hook Police have not commented on Nancy Lanza’s possible involvement in the school, if any.
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Minister for Lands and Natural Resources Samuel Abu Jinapor has declared his support for Vice President Alhaji Dr Mahamudu Bawumia to become the presidential candidate for the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) for the forthcoming elections in 2024. According to him, there is no one better placed to take over from President AKufo-Addo when his tenure of office comes to an end.
The Overlord of the Gonja Traditional Kingdom, His Royal Majesty Yagbonwura Tuntumba (l), has celebrated this year’s Damba at Damongo on Saturday, October 15, 2022. In a welcome address read by his secretary Abutu Kapori, on behalf of the King stated that, Damba Festival in the Gonja Kingdom is singled out as one of the most significant traditional festivals celebrated in the Gonja KinKingdom.
The Savannah Regional capital Damongo came to a stand still on Wednesday when Nana Addo stormed the town in a grand style. The chiefs and people of the region trooped to the regional coordinating centre to welcome the president who had visited them for the first time since the region was created in 2019.
It is now a normal routine for the current Member of Parliament for the people of Damongo constituency to go back to his constituency to check the well-being of his constituents and ongoing projects in the constituency. This weekend, Honourable Samuel Abu Jinapor who is the Member of Parliament of Damongo constituency and the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources went back home to embark on a tour in his beloved constituency.
Undoubtedly, the Member of Parliament for the Damongo Constituency, Honourable Samuel Abu Jinapor is one of the very few parliamentarians that are young but very active and efficient in executing their duties. Now the Damongo Constituency is experiencing massive growth ever since he got the opportunity to represent them in Parliament.
Political leaders are with no doubt the only agents to lead every country to it's targeted destination or development. A country's development massively depends on the politicians of that nation and from all indications, honourable Samuel Abu Jinapor seems to be very dependable. The Member of Parliament for the Damongo Constituency and Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Honourable Samuel Abu Jinapor is indeed one of the most hard working politicians in the country at the moment.
One suspected armed robber has been killed on the Damongo - Fufulso road after an attempt to attack road users on the evening of Saturday, 22nd April 2022. The suspected armed robber was killed after a gun battle ensued between the armed robbers and Community members and the police.
The country has been experiencing road accidents day in and day out as a result of bad nature of the roads and some attitudes of drivers. Education about how to reduce or end road accidents are always being trumpeted but it seems the situation is not yielding anything better in the country.
The member of parliament for Damongo constituency and also the minister of lands and Natural resources, Honourable Samuel Abu Jinapor makes a tough decision to the tragic events which took place at Apiate. Due to the tragic events that occurred on January 20, 2022, Honourable Samuel Abu Jinapor decides to direct the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the minerals commission to stop the chief inspector of mines and suspend the registration of Maxam company limited with the minerals commission until the investigations into the tragic events are over.
The Damongo Police Command in the West Gonja Municipal of the Savannah Region has intercepted a Sprinter Bus carrying suspected foreigners from neighbouring Togo. The bus with registration number AS-9399-12 was intercepted at the Busunu barrier in the evening hours of Monday January 10. The bus was carrying about 30 passengers believed to be citizens of Togo.
Yesterday was a very busy day for the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Honourable Samuel Abu Jinapor. The Member of Parliament of Damongo constituency presented mining licences for some small scale mining companies in the country. Honourable Samuel Abu Jinapor had a hectic day yesterday, but he was able to undertake all his duties and responsibilities.
Management the affairs of a family is not even a simple task, so imagine putting the affairs and destiny of thousands of people on your shoulders. This is kind of pain our MPs are going through, but the member of Parliament for the Damongo constituency has proven to gem, a great leader and a man of his words.
Ghanaian MP Disguises Himself As Santa And Gives Gifts To His Constituents From One House To Another
The celebration of Christmas in Ghana is absolutely entertaining and different from how other countries celebrate theirs. Even though people all over the country remembers the birth of Jesus Christ and also give gifts to others but in Ghana it goes beyond that. A member of Parliament of the 8th Parliament has shown that, Christmas means love, remembrance, sharing of gifts, humility and most importantly returning to your humble beginning or where you come from.
Hello welcome back to my page as I bring to you again all the latest trends and gist allover the internet and the world. A spiritual native doctor in Damongo who connived with her husband into ordering people to beat one Issahaku Mahamadu, a 55 year old man who they claim is a wizard have been arrested by the police in Damongo.
The Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Hon. Samuel Abdulai Jinapor has assured Members of Parliament that Government has put in place effective measures to ensure systematic and sustainable development of Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining in the country. According to the Minister, since assuming office in 2017, the Government of President Akufo-Addo has taken several measures to clean up the sector, adding that one of such measures was the introduction of the Multi-Sectoral Mining Integrated Project (MMIP).
A spiritualist in the West Gonja District of the Savannah region has allegedly attacked one Issahaku Mahamadu, a 55- year- old man for claiming to be a wizard. According to DGN Online, the victim was assumed to be a wizard after a 10- year- old girl allegedly informed neighbours that she and the man regularly slaughtered people spiritually in the area.
The accusation of witchcraft against the elderly and vulnerable individuals are rife in northern Ghana. You mention the name Gambaga and most people will not connote it with the beautiful escapement there, but the witches camp. There have been several reports of attacks on mostly elderly women and widows with the excuse that they are witches.
In spite of its complexity and the acute problem in coping with unlawful mining, the government will continue to study the interventions and additionally devise new strategies so that it will sooner or later assist stem the tide. This is because the authorities is determined no longer rest on its oars until the fight in opposition to the phenomenon, popularly called galamsey, is received.
A VVIP transport with enrollment number AS 2416-20 conveying travelers from the Damongo Municipality in the Savannah Region to Tamale on second February, 2022 burst into flames and consumed totally at Bonyanto, a cultivating local area close to Damongo. As per an observer, the 18 seater transport made an unexpected stop in the Bonyanto people group with the driver of the vehicle grumbling of overheating of the vehicle.
Youth of Damongo in the West Gonja Municipality of the Savannah Region gathered at the police station to ask for the release of a suspected soothsayer and her husband who allegedly assaulted a suspected wizard. The Soothsayer and her husband were arrested on Tuesday but the residents messed up at the police station today Wednesday 9th February 2022 to demand their release.


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You’ll Never Forget Your Stay At This Quintessential Farmhouse In Kansas
Relaxing on a getaway is by far one of my favorite uses of my money. It helps small businesses in both the bed and breakfast and nearby, plus you also get to escape from reality for a while and explore somewhere new. There are amazing farms all over Kansas, but there’s not many that you can cozy up in for a weekend and have breakfast served to you. Why not come take a look at this farmhouse and see what you think?
We’re aware that these uncertain times are limiting many aspects of life as we all practice social and physical distancing. While we’re continuing to feature destinations that make our state wonderful, we don’t expect or encourage you to go check them out immediately. We believe that supporting local attractions is important now more than ever and we hope our articles inspire your future adventures! And on that note, please nominate your favorite local business that could use some love right now: https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/nominate/
You can find information about pricing and stay packages on their website here. Netherfield Natural Farm is located at 24126 KS-7 in Fontana, Kansas. If you need a little help getting there, feel free to use the map below and find your route the old-fashioned way. Happy trails!
If you’re looking for other places to get away for a while that don’t involve staying at a bed and breakfast, look no further than right here in this list of 9.
Born and raised Kansan, Clarisa has lived in both tiny towns and cities during her time here in the Sunflower State, mostly in the south central area. Clarisa is a stay-at-home mother of one crazy kid, two cats, and two geckos, and has been writing anything and everything since she's held a pencil, though Kansas and fantasy novels take up most of her time.
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“Cheese (not) on Bread!”
I love cheese. I like tasting the samples at the supermarket. I like melting cheese on bread in the oven. I like eating cheese on crackers. I like cheddar cheese from England or Ireland. Dang it, I like cheese!
I have to give it up.
I’m committed to breastfeeding and it appears that Baby E gets tummy trouble when I eat dairy products and eggs. He doesn’t sleep well when his tummy hurts. Lawd knows his mama has a hard time seeing him stretch and squirm and arch his back with the most uncomfortable expression on his face.
Just a glance at that little face should be enough to quell any temptation to indulge. Unfortunately, you never seem to want something more than when you’re actively trying to avoid it.
So goodbye bagels and cream cheese; goodbye cheesecake (true heartbreaker); goodbye pizza; goodbye shirred eggs; goodbye peach milkshake from Chik Fil-A.
Vicarious living here I come.

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Feeling blue: How this London-based architectural visualization studio brought Messy's crazy world to life.
Like all the best kids' TV shows, "Messy goes to Okido" mixes frantic, anarchic humor with gently educational content. Broadcast on UK BBC channel Cbeebies, each episode features the titular blue monster as he travels to the fantasy city of Okido and finds out about different scientific concepts, from volcanos, to spiders, to magnets.
Messy began his career as a character in Okido, a UK-based magazine aimed at three to eight year olds. The magazine’s creators, Sophie Dauvois and Rachel Ortas, wanted to create an engaging publication which respected its readers. It doesn’t have cheap toys on the cover, the content isn’t condescending, and the pages aren’t glossy, so kids can scribble all over them.
The magazine caught the attention of one of Squint/Opera’s directors, who came up with the idea of turning it into a TV series. At the time, Squint/Opera was best known for creating high-end architectural visualization films and images, although it had dabbled in TV with the title sequence for comedy show Fonejacker.
Squint/Opera proved a great fit for Messy goes to Okido. It brought the magazine’s creators into its London offices so they could collaborate closely, and set up a new production company–Doodle Productions–to create the show and the magazine. The show looks beautiful, too, with Messy and his friends seamlessly integrated with photographed backplates.
While Squint/Opera’s experience of animation for broadcast was minimal, its approach to architectural visualization gave it a distinct edge. "The way we do architectural visualization is not like any other firm," says Fareen Farid, head of 3D. "There’s a script, a storyboard, and live action and green screen shoots. When we moved to Messy goes to Okido we already had a solid pipeline in place."
Messy’s distinct look is thanks to solid character design, art direction and animation, and V-Ray for 3ds Max.
Our main pipeline is 3ds Max and V-Ray across the board. We don’t use any other renderers. We might use Maya, but we always render with V-Ray.
John Sellings, Technical Director, Squint/Opera
Having the Okido magazine in the building has even changed the way the magazine is made. "The latest copy actually has renders from the TV show as part of it," says John. "And it’s a great showreel of what Squint is capable of – that amount of stuff, at that quality, in that amount of time. The BBC are happy, kids love it. It’s hopefully something that’ll just get bigger and bigger."


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A funeral service to celebrate the life of Helen Isabelle "Belle" Kirkland Motley, 83, of Elgin, SC, will be held at 4:00 PM, Wednesday, August 14, 2013 at Sandhill Heights Baptist Church in Elgin. Rev. Lanny Brisendine will officiate. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. The family will receive friends from 5:00-7:00 PM following the service in the church Fellowship Hall. Memorials may be made to Sandhill Heights Baptist Church, P. O. Box 96, Elgin, SC 29045.
Charles Larry Robinson, 62, of Lancaster, passed away Wednesday, August 7, 2013 at Springs Memorial Hospital. He was born June 6, 1951, in Lancaster, a son of the late Conway and Catherine Melton Robinson. Larry worked many years in construction. He loved to ride his Harley. He loved animals and enjoyed being with his friends. Larry will be deeply missed.
The Livi's Library Foundation, represented by Harris Godfrey and his mother, Amanda, delivered a new bookshelf filled with gently used children's books to the Sandhills Medical Foundation (SMF) clinic in Lugoff. The books will be enjoyed and taken home by the children who are seen in the clinic. Dr. Theresa Alderson, a pediatrician with SMF, received the donation saying, "We are so appreciative of our friends at Livi's Library for putting their time, talents, and energy into helping us foster literacy in our community. We also want to thank the families in the area who have graciously ...
As baby boomers move towards their latter years -- here in Kershaw County and across the country -- many are concerned with end-of-life issues and the fact that they want to be able to leave the world with dignity. Living wills, which were created decades ago, have served a useful purpose in letting people lay out their wishes for their last years and moments, but many people today are looking at a more specific document called The Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) Paradigm. It goes beyond previous instruments by creating medical orders signed by a doctor, based on a patient's ...
Lynn Seeley Kelley of Camden, South Carolina, entered into eternal life peacefully on Aug. 9, 2013, after living at Ashton Place in McLeansville, NC, during several months of declining health. He was 92 years old.
Sometime in mid-September, the old Maxway building -- vacant for more than a decade at the northwest corner of Broad and Rutledge streets in Camden -- will be gone. Demolition will begin during the next few days.
WASHINGTON -- The media-created mommy wars haven't just jumped the shark and entered the realm of "Sharknado." Where women once debated ways to balance family-and-career -- a hyphenated oxymoron if ever there was one -- they're now clashing over whether having babies is really all that.
August 14, 2013|
By Kathleen Parker
Washington Post Writers Group
My husband often gave me gifts -- many for no reason at all -- such as trips to foreign lands, jewelry, excursions to New York to see plays, etc. However, one of the gifts he presented to me with delight was not appreciated. I had just retired from teaching and wanted nothing more than to sit in a chair and never hear anyone call for Mrs. Pruett or Dr. Pruett again. Actually, I wanted to vegetate. Instead, my husband, who retired before me, signed us up for a New Life program. (I had no idea how lasting this contract was to be ...
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By Jean Pruett
C-I contributing columnist
Mary Kathryn Kearse of Columbia, South Carolina and Adam Brent Lostetter of Lugoff, South Carolina were married on July 27, 2013. The couple was married at Lyttleton Street United Methodist Church in Camden, South Carolina. The 6:00pm ceremony was officiated by Reverend Frank J. Griffith. A reception followed at Aberdeen in Camden, South Carolina.

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April starts off with an awesome unveiling of the latest collaboration between Grafa and GRBK Classics. The party is gonna be at Grafa, Subang SS15 from 1pm till 6pm.
So once you’re done punking your kid sister on April Fool’s day, head on over to Grafa and get yourself a Ride Your City T-Shirt. Be quick though, there’s only gonna be 50 pieces on sale tomorrow (because every second counts).
All 60 slots are full, so see you guys this April.
Yes, you read it right.
Only 60 spots available for all categories. For more information head on over to the bigtime site here.
And with that many prizes to be won, you gotta be crazy not to join this.
Entry forms are out tonight! Be quick.
Put your head down and go on and on and on.
Our friends over at YBC (YellowBikeCompany) are keeping things close to their chest lately, but they’ve spilled this little bit of teaser for us.
How on earth can we NOT feature these two videos?
Remember what people tell you about wine? The older you keep it, the better it taste? Same goes with memories. Here’s the long awaited edit of the 2010 edition of Tour of Singapore.
We heard that the crazy guys of CAS are gonna have another tour in 2012. Stay tuned.
If you guys have been to the recent KLIFGT 2011 a few weeks back, you might have noticed some smooth cats sporting this one of a kind t-shirt. Well, due to popular demands, we’ve made a few of them available over at Grafa. So, if you haven’t gotten your’s yet, make a bee line to Grafa and demand them to sell it to you!
Each t-shirt is RM60. Sizes available XS, S, M, L. Quantities are limited. Email web[at]grafa-design[dot]com for availability of stock and size. Put the subject as RatsKL Pocket Tee.
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THERE’S GONNA BE SOME F*CKING MASSIVE SHIT GOING ON THIS NOVEMBER!
If you still don’t know what’s going on, please head on over to the official Kuala Lumpur International Fixed Gear Tournament 2011 website and get the lowdown on the details of the event, the competition, the rules and regulations.
And it is confirmed that
John Watson a.k.a Prolly, Rudy Melo, guys from Macaframa and many others are gonna be down in KL. Not to mention our brothers from Singapore, Indonesia, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Japan will be here as well.
Thanks to the organisers for making this happen.
Get your registration form here.
Did we mention that this is gonna be massive?

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Liberty Car Accident Claims Life of 8-Year-Old
New York State Troopers are investigating a two car accident in Liberty that claimed the life of 8-year-old Alberto Corchado.
Troopers claim that on December 19th at approximately 6:10 pm a Nissan driven by Zakiyah Toro, 23, of Liberty was traveling south on Sullivan Avenue in Liberty when the vehicle crossed into the northbound lane and was struck head-on by a Chevy Cobalt. Toro's vehicle was also occupied by 8-year-old Alberto Corchado and 5-year-old Zyiarah Toro.
According to police the 8-year-old was transported to Catskill Medical Center and then airlifted to Westchester Medical Center with internal injuries. The child was pronounced dead at Westchester Medical Center. The driver and younger passenger were treated at Catskill Medical Center for minor injuries.
The State Police were assisted at the scene by the Liberty Fire Department. Firefighters extricated the occupants of the Chevrolet who were then treated at Catskill Medical Center for non-life threatening injuries.


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Aaah, back in Mo land for a while, Crafty Bloglanders, and ready with my card for this week's DP2 Challenge, which is 'paper piecing'.
I'm rather fond of paper piecing: it is a simple, stylish way to get colour and pattern on to an image without having to colour, for a change. Some of you may remember my paper-pieced Shaker-style box, which was also for a Mo's Digital Pencil challenge. This was a real labour of love - some of those pieces were reeeealllly small! But it just shows how far you can take paper piecing and the results you can get.
This time, I've not gone quite so far in my devotion! But I have pieced quite a bit of this image:
'Bronte Wants It Now!'
Papers: Not really sure - they've been in my stash for ages!
Tools: EK Success Retro Flower Punches; Floral Punch leaf spray.
I quite like the simplicity of this card - although there are flowers and a bow, the overall look isn't cluttered and it's quite pretty.
I love this image too - I think it was one of the first Mo's I bought, actually. It was for a friend's birthday in January this year, so it must have been.
Obviously, there was very little for my Copics to do this time - just a little skin colouring, and Bronte, of course. Other than that and the tiny details that required inking in, Bella and her parcels and wrapping paper have been paper-pieced.

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This commentary offers a concise, incisive view of Galatians, Paul's most polemical letter. Here, Paul is fighting for the spiritual life and loyalty of some of his hard-won converts. Taking advantage of a range of persuasive rhetorical approaches, his letter appears to bristle with anger at the interlopers and the anguish of spurned affection. In this commentary, Craig S. Keener mines insights from the ancient world to highlight Paul's persuasive tactics and how the Galatian Christians would have heard his intense yet profound message. In so doing, Keener also helps readers to confront Galatians afresh today, so they can hear more closely what Paul is and is not saying for the church universal. Drawing on a wide range of ancient Mediterranean sources to reconstruct the context of Galatians, Keener helps us to grasp the issues that Paul was addressing, the reasons that Paul wrote the letter, and its continuing relevance for contemporary audiences.
Craig S. Keener (Asbury Theological Seminary Kentucky)
Cambridge University Press
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Series: New Cambridge Bible Commentary
12 April 2018
Professional and scholarly
1. Introduction; 2. Select suggested readings on Galatians; 3. Commentary; 4. Index.
Craig S. Keener is author of 21 books, 7 of which have won national or international awards. He is known especially for his detailed research in the world of the New Testament, bringing to light aspects of New Testament background that are often unfamiliar to modern readers.


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Fuzzy Application Library/Technical Applications/Coal Power Plant
Fuzzy Logic Supervisory Control for Coal Power Plant
by Dirk Pruessmann (3/1997)
Citation Reference: The Fuzzy Logic Application Note series is published by Inform Software Corporation on its Internet server to promote the use of fuzzy logic technologies in applications.
The High Temperature Winkler Gasification (HTW) process that was developed by Rheinbraun AG has been used for many years in pilot and demonstration plants to generate synthesis gas and fuel gas out of brown coal. Conventional methods were used before to control the gas throughput. While the conventional control engineering implementation was able to run the process in a stable operating point, improvements were necessary to use the HTW process in a coal power station with integrated coal gasification:
On top on the existing base level automation, a supervisory fuzzy logic control strategy was implemented on the HTW plant in Berrenrath/Germany. Fuzzy Logic was used because the control problem was strongly non-linear and involves multiple measured and command variables. On the other hand, extensive operator knowledge about the process was available. The implemented fuzzy logic supervisory control strategy successfully improved throughput control quality as well as the adaptation to different coal parameters.
1. High Temperature Winkler Gasification
The process that is used to gasify the coal is called High Temperature Winkler method (HTW). The HTW Gasification method uses a high temperature fluid bed process to convert brown coal into synthesis gas, a mixture of carbon monoxide (CO) and hydrogen (H2). This gas mix can be used to produce chemical base products like aldehydes or organic acids. Alternatively it can be used in a power plant gas turbine to generate electricity. The gas produced by the demonstration plant is used for chemical synthesizes. Later in the power plant application the gas will be used to run a gas turbine / steam turbine combination.
The HTW process has been used for the gasification of coal by the German coal company Rheinbraun since 1956. The demonstration plant started operation in 1985. It converts 720 t of coal per day into 900.000 m3 (iN) synthesis gas. In 1996 Inform added a fuzzy logic supervisory control to enable the process for a power plant application. Figure 1 shows a photo of this plant.
|Figure 1: HTW Plant in Berrenrath, Germany (large)|
The main inputs for the HTW process are coal, oxygen and steam. The coal is first ground to small pieces and pre-dried before it is fed into the bottom part of the fluid bed reactor. The steam and the oxygen are fed into the reactor on four different levels, into and above the fluid bed. In the fluid bed the coal reacts with the oxygen and the steam. This reaction takes place at a temperature of around 800°C and at a pressure of 10 bar. After the reaction in the fluid bed the generated gas enters the hot zone above the fluid bed. At temperatures around 1000 °C additional oxygen and steam is added and left over coal particles react with the gases. This way additional gas is produced and by-products like methane and other hydrocarbons are converted to carbon monoxide and hydrogen. The produced gases leave the reactor at the top through the reactor head. At this point the gas is still mixed with a lot of particles. These are filtered out and fed back into the fluid bed with a zyklon filter and a feed back tube.
|Figure 2: Process Diagram of HTW Plant (large)|
The coal ashes accumulate at the bottom of the fluid bed reactor. They are removed from there out of the reactor by two conveyor spirals. The hot raw gas is cooled down to 270°C. Its heat is used to generate pressure steam, some of which is recycled back into the process. Ceramic filters remove remaining dust particles out of the gas. The following gas washer removes NH3, HCL and other gas components. The following CO conversion creates the correct carbon monoxide / hydrogen mix for the methanol synthesis. After a compression to 37 bar the gas is processed in a non-selective rectisol washer (C02/H2S washer). At temperatures below -40°C liquid methanol is used to wash out carbondioxide and sulfuric components. The methanol is used again after recycling it and the purified synthesis gas is used at a nearby chemical plant. Figure 2 shows the process diagram of the HTW plant.
The coal input, the oxygen input, the distribution of the oxygen input over the eight different nozzles and the ash removal rate have to be controlled to use the coal efficiently and to generate the correct mixture of gases.
Instead of coal a mixture of coal and plastic refuse can be used in the HTW process. This way the coal consumption is reduced and the plastic refuse is recycled into synthesis gas.
2. Conventional Control
The HTW demonstration plant is controlled with an Eckhardt PLS-80E DCS system. This system controls over 6000 measurements and actuators. The main control room is equipped with 10 Unix based operator consoles and four real-time servers. So far nearly all the set points of the underlying control circuits are set and adjusted manually by the operators. They constantly monitor the process condition and adjust the set points of the underlying control circuits accordingly (i.e. coal input, oxygen input, ... ) A few years ago it was tried to automatically generate some set points using a conventional PID controller But the results were not satisfying. This supervisory control only worked fine when the coal quality was very constant. Otherwise the process quality would deteriorate significantly and the operators had to intervene and switch back to manual operation.
3. Supervisory Fuzzy Logic Control
Two main tasks have been defined for the supervisory fuzzy logic control: Regulation of the gas throughput and process stabilization.
The fuzzy logic must keep the gas throughput at the set point and it has to respond to set point changes with the correct dynamic speed. The set point can vary from 70% (partial load) to 100% (full load). The fluctuations of the gas throughput result mainly from variations of the coal quality (humidity, ash content and granularity). These effects have to be compensated by the fuzzy logic.
The process stabilization must keep several process parameters in the optimum range. The reactor load influences the optimum of these process parameters. The position of the optimum also depends on the coal quality. The following parameters were used to define the quality of the process:
- Temperature in the post gasification zone
- Height and density of the fluid bed
- Composition of the produced gas (CO, CH4, H2)
The process stabilization is especially difficult when the HTW process is fed with a mixture of coal and plastic refuse. This is done because plastic refuse is a very inexpensive fuel. But the addition of plastic to the coal results in drastically different process conditions. The fuzzy logic control uses the regular measurements of the process conditions to detect any addition of plastic to the coal. This will result into an adapted control strategy of the fuzzy logic control.
4. Fuzzy Logic Control Design
The specification of the control task resulted into a preliminary concept of the fuzzy logic controller. The operator knowledge was than used to specify the control strategy of the fuzzy logic system. Several structured audits took place to evaluate the operator knowledge systematically. The audits focused on the operators' manual control strategies and on the relationships between the inputs and the outputs of the process. This procedure is in accordance with the standardized fuzzy logic design method.
The audits resulted into the following concept for the fuzzy logic control: Deviations of the gas throughput from its set point immediately result into a correction of the oxygen input. The coal input is adjusted accordingly to keep the ratio between coal and oxygen at a constant level. Changes of the reactor pressure predict changes of gas throughput. Therefore the pressure gradient is used as an early warning indicator for changes of the gas throughput.
For process stabilization and for the adaptation to different coal qualities the fuzzy logic controller uses the following parameters to keep the process in a stable operating condition:
- Coal to oxygen ratio
- Distribution of the oxygen between the fluid bed zone and the gasification zone.
- Ash outtake
- Fluidification with steam and inert gas
Sometimes one and the same process input value has to be modified to keep several different critical measurements (temperature, fluid bed height, ...) in the optimum range. This can have conflicting results.
For example: A too low fluid bed is normally corrected with an increase of the coal input. A too low temperature is corrected with a reduction of the coal input and a too low dust output is also corrected with a reduction of the coal input. But a too low temperature can occur together with a too low fluid bed. The ability of the fuzzy controller to weight different conflicting indications based on their significance and to use a lot of inputs to determine the best reaction to each situation is very useful to control complex processes.
The fuzzy logic controller has a total number of 24 inputs and 8 outputs. A preprocessing reduces the 24 inputs to 10 characteristic descriptors. These are fed into the fuzzy logic system. The fuzzy outputs go through a post-processing step to generate the actual set points for the process inputs. Figure 3 shows the core structure of the fuzzy logic system.
|Figure 3: Fuzzy Controller Structure (large)|
5. Integration of Fuzzy Logic into the DCS
The process measurements are coming to the fuzzy logic control through the Eckhardt DCS. The fuzzy logic system generates set point values for the underlying PID controllers. The fuzzy logic controller was implemented on an OS/2 PC. Therefore the set up of the communication between the DCS and the fuzzy logic controller was an important part of the whole project. The communication was implemented using Factory Link, a well-known SCADA program by US-Data. A factory link application is running on the same OS/2 PC together with the fuzzy logic controller. The fuzzy logic controller reads data out of the Factory Link Real Time DataBase and it also writes data back into it. Another Factory Link task is communicating with the DCS through the Eckhardt DCS bus. This way an image of the process measurements is created in the Factory Link RTDB and the fuzzy outputs are forwarded to the DCS.
Factory Link initiates a new fuzzy logic evaluation every 10 seconds. The DCS either uses the external set points generated by fuzzy logic or the internal set points entered by the operators. The operators can switch from the 'manual mode' to the 'fuzzy logic mode' and back. The 'fuzzy logic mode' can only be activated when all the critical system variables are in a predefined safe range. The DCS automatically switches back into 'manual mode' whenever a system variable exceeds the safe range. The fallback to 'manual mode' also takes place if the communication between the DCS and Factory Link is interrupted.
|Figure 4: Integration of Fuzzy Logic into DCS (large)|
Figure 4 shows the integration of the fuzzy logic control into Factory Link and the Eckhardt DCS.
The OS/2 PC is also connected with a serial cable to a WIN95 PC, on which the fuzzyTECH development system is installed. This program was used to develop the fuzzy logic control and to generate C-Code for the implementation on the OS/2 PC. The WIN95 PC is also used for On-line optimization and visualization of the fuzzy logic controller. The serial link to the OS/2 PC enables the user to modify the fuzzy system on the fly from the fuzzyTECH development system on the WIN95 PC while the system is running and controlling the process.
6. Setting the Fuzzy Logic Control into Operation
The first design of the fuzzy logic control, the data preprocessing and post-processing were tested using the simulation tool VisSim. This way the concept was checked for any structural errors and an early prototype was presented to the customers. Figure 5 shows a test of the fuzzy logic system using simulated data as input.
|Figure 5: Simulation with VisSim (large)|
After the successful completion of the simulations the fuzzy logic was tested off-line with real time data from the DCS. To do this the fuzzy logic control first was implemented on the OS/2 PC. The fuzzy controller than used real time DCS measurement values to generate set points values for the DCS. But during these off-line simulations the DCS was only using the internal manual set points and not the fuzzy logic set points. By comparing the external fuzzy logic set points with the internal operator set points deviations between manual and automatic operation could be detected and if necessary eliminated.
After the off-line testing was finished successfully the on-line testing started. For the on-line tests the DCS activated the external set points and so the closed loop performance of the fuzzy logic controller could be tested. The fuzzy logic controller was optimized while running in the closed loop mode from the fuzzyTECH development tool on the WIN 95 PC. To do this the OS/2 PC was connected with a serial cable to the WIN 95 PC. This way the fuzzyfication, inference and defuzzification were visualized in fuzzyTECH. Modifications of the rule base or term definitions were also entered in fuzzyTECH and than send to the fuzzy logic controller on the OS/2 PC.
The fuzzy controller proved to be working very effectively during the first few on-line tests. After that a long series of evaluation tests started. During these tests the performance of the fuzzy controller was tested using a lot of different coal qualities and different loads (70% to 100%).
Regulation of gas throughput
The conventional control focussed on process stabilization not keeping the throughput at its set point. The following diagram shows the changes in the gas throughput when fuzzy controller is active. The fuzzy logic control clearly improves the throughput control. It compensates fluctuations in the granulation of the coal.
Figure 6 shows the fluctuations of the synthesis gas throughput with and without fuzzy logic.
|>||Figure 6: Throughput Control with and without Fuzzy Control (large)|
Change of Load
The fuzzy controller has to regulate the gas throughput in the range 70 % to 100 % load with a maximum load gradient of 4% / min.
|Figure 7: Change of Load with Fuzzy Control (large)|
Figure 7 shows a load change from 94 % to 76 % and back to 94 %. The resulting load gradient was 3,2 % /min. Currently the load change behavior is being improved by using a modified pressure evaluation.
Adaptation to coal add-ons
Sometimes the HTW process is fed with a mixture of coal and plastic refuse. The resulting process parameters vary greatly from the standard operating conditions. For example the content of methane in the raw gas increases. The fuzzy controller recognizes the different operating conditions and generates a matching internal set point for methane. Figure 8 illustrates how this enables the fuzzy controller to stabilize the process.
|Figure 8: Process Stabilization (large)|
Adaptation to different coal qualities
The fuzzy controller also keeps the synthesis gas throughput constant when the coal quality changes. Figure 9 shows the results of a change of the coal's water content from 18 % to 12 %. The fuzzy controller reduces the coal input to compensate the coal change. Later after switching back to moist coal the coal input is increased accordingly.
|Figure 9: Constant Gas Throughput with Different Coal Qualities (large)|
The fuzzy controller was implemented very quickly. The transfer of the process know-how into the fuzzy controller and its realization took 15 days. So far over 1100 hours of operating time have been evaluated. In nearly all situations the performance of the fuzzy controller was much superior to the manual control. It was able to keep the process parameters in the optimum range whenever the coal quality changed. It was also able to adjust the gas throughput with the necessary change rate. The average gas throughput was kept at the set point. The operating personal has accepted the fuzzy controller as a helpful component because its transparent integration into the PLS makes it easy for them to use it.
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Ottawa County parks seek help of goat herd
The Ottawa County Parks Department has proposed a pilot program to have goats munch on invasive species.
“I have been following this for years from a natural land management perspective,” County Parks Natural Resources Coordinator Melanie Manion said. “When I saw what a strong agriculture community we had, I said it was a win-win.”
Parks officials plan to start the goat initiative in May, and expect the program to last several months.
“It’s still a bit of a novelty,” Manion said. “There’s no one in Michigan that is doing this. We’re doing this project to see the pros and cons with it.”
Goats will be used at three county properties: Bur Oak, Eastmanville Bayou and Riverside parks.
“Goats are actually healthier when they eat woody material versus being grain-fed,” Manion explained. “We expect that it will take about two months to treat three different sites.”
The sites were selected based on two main characteristics: a high density of invasive species, and a low-quality site with low biodiversity.
“We’re very fortunate that most of our sites are high quality,” Manion said. “(But), if the biodiversity is low and the number of invasives is high, that site is one we’d put a goat on.”
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We can all name films with great plot twistsThe Usual Suspects, The Sixth Sense, and Fight Club are just a fewbut at the same time, we can all name films with ones that are not so great. So, what’s the deal? What kinds of narrative elements are at play in an effective plot twist? In this video, Sage Hyden of Just Write offers up an explanation of how plot twists work to surprise, confound, and even infuriate us, and even provides some key concepts to learn in order to write a few good ones of your own.http://nofilmschool.com/2017/08/how-write-plot-twists-really-mess-peoples-heads?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
What I learned in the deconstruction for each plot twist is that Sage Writes picked movies that built up what the black and white was for us up to the climatic plot twist. To suck us, the viewers, into their world they built a kind of normalcy and rhythm we fall into until the surprise rips the floor from our feet. There was something Giancarlo Volpe and a friend of his pointed out on their Tumblr when talking about their favorite sci-fi authors such as H.G. Wells. I don’t remember the whole article but I remember the bullet points.
-Proposal: The question being asked in the story
-Argument: All of the points saying who has the right idea, pro vs. con and one side is slowly winning.
-Conclusion: The underdog of the argument comes up from behind for a show stealing win.
Rick and Morty, while I’ve fallen out of love with the show lately, has had some really good plot twists sock people in the gut and fans often forgetting that none of these characters are perfect to begin with. G.I. Joe’s villains in some incarnations have been textbook examples of poetic justice earning them their namesake usually in twisted and nasty ways. My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic has had so many redeemed villains via Deus Ex. Machina that I can count on my fingers how many have actually made a comeback as return antagonists. Peripetia is a new one on me. I’d have to research more into the title.
Maybe it also depends on what angle they’re using the plot twist for.
The writers at DHX Media on MLP actually used the plot twist as a way to tell the fandom how weird they were acting and sometimes to hint at new plot devices in upcoming episodes. Checking the episode “Fame and Misfortune” was fandom commentary in a nutshell. Since My Little Pony is a family show aimed at small children the hint-hint has all the subtlety of a 2 by 4 smashed upside a china set and some of the lessons they cover skim the pg rating when you take some of the world lore into account but when the writers, particularly M.A. Larson, pull off a plot twist they do it really well.
Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” had a meta-philosophical plot twist the narrator thinks of when sitting in his chair. My favorite version had been the Simpsons. From a pictorial standpoint, lots of these kinds of stories rely on great acting, characterization and good symbolism. Harrison Bergeron stories have some of the most chilling anti-climatic plot twists to date but make great subtle use of all three. It’s always that small moment that makes the butterfly effect explode.
That was a great video. Thanks for posting! I’ll have to work my way through the rest of this channel’s videos. Seems like they have some great content!
Whatever you do, don’t write in time travel for the reason for everything because you couldn’t piece it together any other creative way. eg if it turns out Bran is the Night King GOT will turn out the longest roll of toilet paper I’ve ever used to wipe my [expletive]
I avoid time travel storylines because they encourage lazy writing
and lazy story development.
Also the old “it was all a dream” or in the latter years,
a VR experience of someone strapped in some VR Device.
I was quite taken by surprise to learn that Capt Lorca
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CAMDEN COUNTY, N.J. (CBS) – Taking care of your pet during a disaster is the goal of a new piece of equipment in Camden County.READ MORE: Man Stabbed At SEPTA's 30th Street Station
County officials unveiled a pet disaster relief trailer Monday.
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At the end of last week we spent two days shooting the new video for the forthcoming Lia Organa & Electric Prince ft Marc Massive Dead Silence single. I did a couple of new looks for the video with Olly in charge of the make-up, as you can see the horns are back after a 10 year break but given a new twist. Shaved all my hair off for this video as the make-up demanded it, which reminded me of the time i was modelling and got called up for the Boy George 'Funtime' video casting in the 90's, when at the time i had quite a lot of hair, and the part demanded bald heads, and although i was happy to do it for the role George wouldn't let me go ahead with shaving it all off just for a video, which in hindsight i suppose he was right as i wouldn't have got any other work for a few months till it had grown back.
The second day of shooting involved, black smoke, white make-up, saw eyes from two days in contact lenses and a burn't hand! Worth the pain though.
Really pleased with the footage, which is being sent off to Poland to the artist team of Suka Off , who edited and produced our Master & Servant video from a few years back. The label are looking at an end of February release, but we'll keep you posted, and were very happy to be signed with them for this single as their previous releases are amazing and credible. All the mixes are in and they sound great, big name mixes on this one and we're very excited as it's a strong package. More news shortly.


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Nicki Minaj and Jeremy Scott were spotted in Brooklyn last week shooting the new Adidas Originals campaign!
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If you've never thought Justin Bieber was magic (I don't know why you wouldn't), here's your proof. Along with having mystifying vocal cords and mesmerizing dance moves, the singer is also skilled in levitation.
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TV series broadcast between January 1, 2011 and December 31, 2016 are chronicled here in the first supplement to Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925-2010. In addition to covering the major broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, the CW, Fox and NBC) many cable only channels are also included (for example, AMC, Disney, Nickelodeon, Bravo, Lifetime, Discovery, TNT, Comedy Central and History).


Ivy Ifeoma, who is the girlfriend of award-winning singer and half of the P-Square duo, Paul Okoye, popularly known as Rudeboy, has revealed that she was just a five-year-old girl when the duo released their hit song, ‘Bizzy Body’.
Ivy took to her Tiktok page to share a video of herself dancing to ‘Bizzy Body’ which prompted a fan to ask how old she was when the song was released.
“How old were you when ur boo and his brother released this hit?” the fans asked.
The 23-year-old Ivy replied she was “5.”
A TikTok user also accused her of dating someone else’s husband.
Remember that Rudeboy, 41, unveiled Ifeoma (22 then) as his new girlfriend in December 2022, one year after his divorce from his ex-wife Anita Okoye.