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Even though its nicknames are cute (between them bunny, bunny rabbit, and cottontail), and also you’ll probably would like to befriend it after you see its adorable ears, the eastern cottontail could be a bothersome pest. It is grey or brownish, with a brief tail and big ears.
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The overcast has rolled into Central Illinois, and the weather forecast promises a full week of grey skies and likely precipitation. But the thermometer at 3:30pm still stands at 64 degrees (F), a sign that our late-arriving Indian summer isn’t quite ready to relinquish us to the hounds of winter.
Earlier today, while the sun was still shining through the gathering cirrus, my son and I took a three-mile hike in the University of Illinois Arboretum. A light breeze is all that kept us from overheating during our walk, even with just one layer of clothing between us and the elements. After a bit of discussion over a quick lunch in a “cave” formed from the arching branches of honeysuckle, we decided that it felt more like early September than the second week in November.
Despite the warmth reminiscent of a late summer morning, most of the botanical evidence pointed to the reality of November. The ornamental crabapples were crammed with fruit. The occasional wildflower was scarce among the waves of dried seed heads of goldenrod, aster, and Queen Anne’s lace. And the remaining leaves that weren’t muted and crunching under our feet glowed with the expected reds, oranges and yellows of autumn.
Near the end of our hike, as we passed by the sod research facility, a row of ornamental crabs and pear trees lined a service driveway. Against a background of the deep red and burnt orange fruit and glossy, brown bark, my eye caught something unusual for this time of year — a pink/magenta that is usually reserved for the spring flush of tulips, peonies, magnolias and — of course — ornamental fruit trees. It seemed that one of the crabapples in the row shared our confusion about the weather, as though its internal timing mechanism was screaming spring. In several places along its branches, buds that should have slept until April had suddenly burst in bloom.
A little further along, we made our way through some test plots of hydrangea and viburnum. It seems several species of viburnum has also gotten their signals crossed and broken both their leaf and flower buds.


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I do the same thing with call options, especially when I know something is a bargain but I don't actually have the cash to buy it at the moment. There is no reason you couln't do the same thing with LEAPs. You would just want to make sure that the LEAPs you were interested in were liquid enough for fair pricing. I recently bought a ton of exchange traded warrants (BULKW) that don't expire until late 2008. I wanted exposure to the sector via an undervalued name and the warrants gave me a ton of leverage to boot.
I am somewhat tempted to liquidate part of a long held equity position (PPD) and maintain the same exposure with less cash via LEAPs, but I haven't decided whether I am comfy with this approach yet (plus the options on this name are expensive).
"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."
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Packers Girls Basketball lead wire to wire in a 73-45 win at Albert Lea on Tuesday.
The Packers opened up a 37-23 lead at halftime, and grew their lead in the second half. Offensively, the Packers caught fire in the middle of the first half. Defensively, the full-court and three-quarter court press wore down an Albert Lea team that leaned on just a pair of scorers.
Austin opened the game on a 6-0 run. The three-points shots did not fall early in the game, but the Packers used their athleticism to break down Albert Lea’s defense. The Packers scored their first 12 points by attacking the basket. They made five field goals and hit a pair of free throws.
With the Packers up 12-5, Tigers’ leading scorer Samantha Skarstad made the game’s first three with just over 12 minutes left in the first half. She finished tied for a game high with 23 points.
After she hit the three, Skarstad stole a pass. She saw a basket get wiped out when Erica Lundberg drew a charge.
A few possessions that ended in turnovers and missed free throws followed before Abby Lewis opened the floodgates in the Packers’ three-point shooting night. Austin’s captain drained a three just before the eight minute mark in the opening half. Her long ball was the first of 10 that the Packers made over the course of the night.
By the end of the first half, the Packers opened up a 14-point lead at 37-23. Tigers forward Madison Fleek hit a free throw just before halftime to become Albert Lea’s third scorer of the first half. Annika Veldman and Skarstad scored the Tigers’ first 22 points before Fleek’s free throw.
A 14-point halftime victory was a big win for the Packers. Albert Lea was in the double bonus for the final 9:09 of the opening half. Skarstad hit six free throws in the half, but the Packers used five made threes to grow their lead.
Skarstad made the second half’s first shot to give the home team confidence. Austin ripped that away with a 17-0 run. That extended the lead to 57-27.
As has been the case in all three wins this season, nine different Packers scored and junior captain Colie Justice topped 20 points. Both of those things have happened in Austin’s wins over Byron, Mankato East and Albert Lea.
The Packers improve to 3-1 overall and 2-0 in the Big Nine. They also won their section opener. The girls host Winona on Friday. That is the first Big Nine Basketball home and home of the season. Sam Hauser will broadcast the boys game in Winona.
GIRLS BASKETBALL @ ALBERT LEA
Improve to 3-1
Hope Dudycha: team-high 23 points
Colie Justice: 21 points (4 made 3s)
Kyra Walters: 8 points
Abby Lewis/Erica Lundberg: 6 points each
Kiwi VanZant/Ellie Tupy: 2 points each

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Although housing was well established on the east side, it was mostly nurseries and gardens at the lower half of North Street.Now notice the line of the wall marked as “Jack’s spot” on this map, which was seen in 1870 as a ten foot wall that backed the lower yard of the terraced house in North Street.
This is my youngest grandson Jack Howe standing in front of the wall. It still stands at around 5ft high today in 2009 the foreground now filled with a grassy slope down to street level. In the background, situated behind the Feathers pub today stands the College of Art, built in the late 1960’s on this ancient area which once backed on to the Deanery hence the name Deanery Row.
During the 1840s and 50s when England offered a lifeline to those facing starvation at home as the result of the terrible Irish Potato famine; Wolverhampton saw a great influx of Irish Families. Many ended up in this area bounded by Stafford Street and North Street. One such Irishman was Patrick Egan, my Grandmothers Grandfather. He never spoke a word of English and died a short while after arriving in Wolverhampton. His son Michael Egan, raised a large family in Lawyers Field which adjoined Deanery Row. My grandmother Catherine (Kate Egan) was their eighth child, she was born there in 1884.
My grandfather John Howe’s family originated from the Walsall Street area. He met Kate Egan through her brother, whom he had served with in South Africa during the Boar War. Although Catherine was Catholic, they married at St Georges Church which was Anglican. They decided to live close to her mother in Lawyers field, and later as their family increased in size decided to move to a larger house close by, again just off the Londes at No 26 Nursery Street. No. 26 was the end house in the street and it overlooked four smaller one bedroom houses in the Londes, and the rear of the Colonel Vernon public house.

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SI FY1718 Cycle 1
Of Human Heritage by Sculpture Society
In the world of art, there are seven elements: line, shape, value, color, texture, form, and space. The element, form, is most closely tied to sculpture, since it is a three-dimensional art and has traditionally consisted mostly primarily of form, with color and texture being subordinate. As the meaning of sculpture continues to expand in today’s world, sculptures are no longer only representational, static, stationary, forms with a solid opaque mass that had been carved out of stone or modeled out of some metals.
As we embark on the journey of cultural exchange between the Singapore and Indian artists, Sculpture Society would like to invite members to take the opportunity to break down their artworks into their most fundamental elements and analyse their individual building blocks, each being a reflection of our beliefs, backgrounds and perspectives. As we take this opportunity to learn more about India’s art, culture and histories, we may be able to identify common grounds and appreciate the intricate differences that have arisen due to our diverse backgrounds and environments.
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Passionate Youths Find Their Footing in Social Entrepreneurship through YSE
The Young Social Entrepreneurs programme kickstarted its ninth edition with a four-day Workshop that took international youth participants on a learning journey designed to inspire, equip and enable them to grow into successful agents of change.
Joining Hands for Safer Pregnancies, Healthier Babies
Three-year Singapore-Tamil Nadu partnership comes to a fruitful close after having trained 1,000 healthcare professionals and benefiting 100,000 pregnant mothers across the southern Indian state.
Going Together, Going Further
29 international participants reconvened for the Artists for a Better World Study Visit in Kuala Lumpur where they gained insights on how diverse stakeholders can further boost the impact of harnessing Arts for Good.
Arts & Disability International Conference 2018
Discussions and awareness on how arts and culture can be harnessed to build an inclusive society were generated during the Arts & Disability International Conference and the True Colours Festival held on 22-23 March 2018. The...
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Cox and Kwaśniewski to arrive in hospital to visit Tymoshenko today – source
Heads of the Monitoring mission of the European parliament Pat Cox and Aleksander Kwasniewski will arrive in Ukrzaliznytsya central hospital in Kharkiv for a meeting with ex Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko today.
A range of informed sources disclosed this to UNIAN.
P. Cox and A. Kwaśniewski are likely to arrive by Vienna-Kharkiv flight, the landing of which is expected at 13.50 pm. After that they are about to go to Ukrzaliznytsya central hospital.
The source supposed that this visit of the heads of the Monitoring mission to the hospital, where Yu. Tymoshenko undergoes a medical treatment, will be the last one till their full report, which is expected to be announced on October 15 before the presidents of the political groups of the European Parliament.


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SUNDAY NIGHT the Capital Centre will be transformed into Hip-Hop U., offering a survey course in current rap styles that ranges from the melodic pop-rap of Whodini to the angry black-nationalist communiques of Public Enemy. Among the featured stars with recent albums are headliner L.L. Cool J, Stetsasonic and Eric B. & Rakim.
Michael Jackson calls himself "Bad," but anyone who's heard L.L. Cool J's "I'm Bad," the muscular leadoff single from the 19-year-old rapper's "Bigger and Deffer" album, knows better. "Bigger and Deffer" doesn't rival L.L.'s bell-rocking debut album, which was innovatively produced by Beastie Boys mastermind Rick Rubin; the disc's current hit, "I Need Love," is one of the more dubious tracks on an album that has a lot of missteps, from the failed early-rock/rap synthesis of "The Do-Wop" and "Go Cut Creator Go" to the hardcore sexism of "Kanday" and "The Bristol Hotel." At his best, though, L.L. is still the most agile rapper this side of Run-D.M.C.
Stetsasonic is a self-contained outfit that includes three vocalists, a "mix surgeon," a "human mix machine" and, perhaps most important, keyboardist and percussionist DBC. "4ever My Beat" kicks off the group's "On Fire" album, and it's an apt motto: these Brooklyn B-boys know how to hit that perfect beat. Stetsasonic does the now-traditional rap/metal duel on "Rock De La Stet" and cops a reggae rhythm occasionally, but the sextet is at its best when it simply sets out to "Bust That Groove."
Rap stardom can be a one-shot thing, and often deserves to be. Eric B. & Rakim's "Eric B. Is President," with its demanding "make 'em clap to this" hook, was a big hit last year, and rightly so. The duo's "Paid in Full" album, however, offers little else of interest. Its beats are monotonous, and the attempts to take "jazz and the quiet storm" and "convert into hip-hop form" fall flat. L.L. COOL J --
"Bigger and Deffer" (Def Jam/Columbia FC 40793)
"On Fire" (Tommy Boy TBLP 1012)
ERIC. B & RAKIM --
"Paid in Full" (Fourth and Broadway B'WAY 4005)
All appearing with Whodini, Public Enemy and Jazzy Jeff & Fresh Prince Sunday at the Capital Centre.


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Correction to: Effect of simultaneous exposure to extremely short pulses of blue and green light on human pupillary constriction
Journal of Physiological Anthropology volume 37, Article number: 21 (2018)
Following publication of the original article , the authors reported that the abstract was missing from this article. The abstract text is included here in this Correction article in full:
Background: Simultaneous exposure to blue and green light at night has been found to result in less melatonin suppression than monochromatic exposure to blue or green light. This effect is called the subadditive response to light. We conducted an experiment on the pupil response to extremely short pulses of blue and green light to examine whether the subadditive response affects pupillary constriction.
Methods: Eleven healthy young male volunteers participated in this study. Each subject sat in a chair with his head facing a diffusion panel located in front of an integrating sphere. Light-emitting diodes were arrayed in the integrating sphere. After 45 min of dark adaptation, the subject was exposed to a 1 ms pulse of blue (peak wavelength 470 nm) and/or green (532 nm) light with irradiance intensities of 10, 15, and 20 μW/cm2 simultaneously or separately. We measured pupil diameter and collected subjective evaluations during each of the nine lighting conditions.
Results: Higher irradiance resulted in more pronounced pupillary constriction. Pupil constriction during exposure to a pulse of blue light was significantly more pronounced than during exposure to a pulse of green light under all irradiance conditions. Pupillary constriction in response to simultaneous exposure to a pulse of blue light and a pulse of green light was less pronounced than during exposure to a pulse of blue light alone despite the double irradiance intensity of the combination.
Conclusions: This study confirms for the first time that the subadditive response had an effect on pupillary constriction during simultaneous exposure to extremely short pulses of blue light and green light.
Trial registration: Retrospectively registered.
Lee et al. Effect of simultaneous exposure to extremely short pulses of blue and green light on human pupillary constriction. J Physiol Anthropol. 2016;35:20. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40101-016-0109-3.
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Lee, S., Ishibashi, S., Shimomura, Y. et al. Correction to: Effect of simultaneous exposure to extremely short pulses of blue and green light on human pupillary constriction. J Physiol Anthropol 37, 21 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40101-018-0180-z

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Ideals? We all have them. Choices? We are all given. Values? Cherished by each. Dreams? Ours, without question. Destinies? Predetermined. Are they?
What is life but an unknown journey through time and space? Play by the rules - we are told; walk along the well-trodden path. Then why the rebellious heart - the wild within? How to tame the untamable? Why reach for the skies? Aspire for the unattainable? Why gamble at the cruel game of chance? Why tempt fate? And play with fire? Why risk? But then one may as well ask - why live?
The phone rings. It punctures my delicious dream. I peer at my silent cell phone on the night table. It is 1 a.m. Adrenalin rushes through me in a matter of moments. I leap out of bed and dash to the kitchen to pick up the rude red receiver.
“GET OVER HERE. RIGHT NOW.” Mira screams down the phone line, and then hangs up.
I make my way back to the bedroom, catch my left toe at the door which sends me skipping across the hardwood floor, yelping in pain. I pull on my sweats and throw on a T-shirt. In the darkness I rummage by the bed for my slippers. I head to the bathroom, quickly throw some cold water on my face and madly force a brush through my hair before I pop in my contact lenses.
In less than five minutes I am in the car heading over to Mira’s house. In the dead of night, it is the red traffic light which screeches my thoughts to a halt, to slow down my heartbeat and fend anxiety – an anxiety which is now rapidly rising to my throat, threatening to choke me. The light turns green. I head up the hill. The paranoid in me imagines a drunk driver colliding with the car head on whereupon I will die an instant death – under a clear November sky, alone, without a soul to witness my last breath.
It takes a lifetime before I get to her house. I pull into the driveway, bolt out and head over to the front door. No sooner have I climbed the five steps that the door swings wide open to present me with a picture of horror.
She is shaved down to a skeleton. A torn nightshirt covers her trembling frame. The wild eyes are darting this way and that. Her sunken blotchy cheeks are smeared with tears. The black ghost of her hair, knotted and gnarled, threatens to swallow her face whole. She is pale as a sheet – the lips stand out like a nasty bruise - black and blue.
She turns and heads inside. I follow suit. We go past the kitchen where I catch the scent of several-day-old garbage and a pile of unwashed dishes. The living room is a mess. Clothes, shoes, plates of half-eaten food, glasses and mugs - everywhere. The doors to the garden are open letting in a breeze which brings with it a waft of jasmine, the night’s feeble attempt to pacify the stench of disaster brewing within these walls. The valley, spread below, flickers in its slumber.
She turns to me with a look of anguish.
“He is nowhere to be found.”
The throb in my stomach is almost unbearable.
“He usually stays downtown and only visits here. He never stays over but this last time he asked to stay. He is a restless sleeper – in fact he hardly ever sleeps. Still, one of those nights he did manage to stay in bed, wrapped in my arms. In the middle of the night, he jumped awake and sat bolt upright. He said he had a premonition that something had gone awry and he did not want me involved.”
“When was this?”
“Nineteen days ago. We’d been out the night before and I had a big meeting the next day. I was groggy at best. I figured it was one of his nervous moments; thinking that his wife was going to come and find him. He had those knots in his stomach; almost always – worrying about her, worrying what she would do; how she would feel; what was to happen if she ever found out. So when he said he had to go, I did not press. He left.”
I anxiously watch and listen.
“Solo – I am beside myself. I tried every which way to reason. He used to call me twice a day for as long as I remember. I could set my clock by his calls – a creature of habit; in the morning, on the way to work and before heading home from the office. He’d tell me exactly where he would be when he was out of town, even down to the name of the hotel and his room number. Details - always details. And no matter where he was in the world, he’d call. The phone never failed to ring at the same exact time.”
“Did you ever call?”
“It was an understanding between us. I did not call.”
“But you always picked up.”
“Always. I let a couple of days go by, thinking – well – he must have…… Well – he must have what? How does one make sense of it? What could it be but a disaster? But I waited and waited, awake by the phone, round the clock. But no call came through – even after a week.
“And your work?”
“I don’t know how I managed -meetings, projects, people. By the second week everything became a blur. I would jump every time the phone rang – at work, at home, in the car. With every ping of an email – I’d will it to be from him – from his alias – Morad.
She starts crying; big tears pour down her face without so much as a blink. She buries her head in her hands and weeps bitterly. Her whole body shakes – first slowly and then uncontrollably. She doubles over. As if pierced by a spear, she shrieks in pain. That heart wrenching sob – the bleak plea of a heart – torn and seared – a heart that is – slowly but surely – having to come to terms with the reality of having been left, tossed aside, abandoned.
It’s hard to hold it together but try I must.
A pile of skin and bones, she starts rocking back and forth. She starts pinching her arms hard, repeatedly, taking in chunks of flesh; squeezing, releasing – then the grimace. She then runs her nails across them, from the elbow to the wrist and then up to her shoulders, digging deep with intent to draw blood; so as to momentarily forget the agony within. She wails.
“Finally I called. I left a message – under my alias – Goli. I left more messages. One day I left 8 messages. Each and every time, the same voice in the same tone – brief and dry: “Please leave a message.” It got to the point that I would call just so that I could hear his voice. And then one day – there was no voice; just a canned computer sound. He stopped talking to me – even through the message box.”
“I did something I had never done before.”
“I knew it was risky – of course I knew. I called the company.”
“Did he pick up?”
“The phone is routed through several people before it gets to the top. I eventually managed to get to his PA. I asked to speak with him. She said he would call back. He didn’t that day or the day after, or the one after that. It dawned on me. ”
“He was alive and well. He didn’t want me anymore. He dropped me like a hot potato; just like you said he would. Poof. Gone. Without so much as a good bye.”
And she breaks up yet again, this time screaming at the top of her voice. She gets up from the seat, starts pacing up and down this vast living room, cursing and yelling, beating her chest. She starts slapping herself – not just once but over and over again; shouting. “It’s my fault. My own DAMN fault.” To my horror – she starts pulling her hair, scratching her neck, her chest and back to her face again.
I get up – go over to her; and offer myself for the punches.
“He dumped me – in the cold – when I least expected it Solo. The bastard – and to think I had believed him all these years. I’d bought his bullshit; put up with each bit of crap he fed me. I never doubted him – not for one minute. I hung to every word, every gesture. I built a lifetime out of words – only because they were his. I waited and waited for my life to begin. I escaped into fantasy – killed his wife a million times in a million different ways only to put myself next to him in every dream. And NEVER did I EVER utter a word of it to him. What did I do instead? Buried myself in others; threw my wishes in a well and stamped the lid shut. With every man – it was him I wanted. It was him in that bed. Him – always him. Taking revenge because of him – because I could not have HIM. “
“You loved him.”
“What do you mean LOVED? Past tense? I love him – even now; this moment. I can’t stop loving him, can’t you see?”
“You are in shock.”
“In SHOCK! What would you know about shock – Ms. Shock-Proof? When did you ever let anyone get near – to push the dagger so deep – a wound you invite only so the hand is closer to your heart. What would you know about giving it all; asking nothing in return?”
She is angry now, seething with rage. The venom starts seeping through her blood-shot eyes – ferocious they have now become.
“But I am going to get him, Solo. I will take revenge – this time the proper way. I will make him pay. Mira dumps – Mira walks away. Mira does NOT get dumped – EVER. I am not going to take this lying down.”
“They have a place in the Okanagan Valley they go to for Thanksgiving. I am going to go there this year. And just about the time they are to sit down to their feast I will burst through the door and demand recognition. The ultimate show down. It was a long time coming.”
“To what purpose?”
“I will make a spectacle of him in front of his family and peers - the whole lot of them. I will destroy his life just as he has destroyed mine.”
“You love him Mira. You can’t destroy him. Besides – who’s to say he is not destroyed already?”
As if she has had a brilliant idea, yet again, on top of the one before, she snaps back to the present.
“I want those pictures.”
“The ones from the luncheon. Remember?
“They never came out.”
“What? I saw the pictures! You showed them to us.”
“They are not there anymore.”
“You are lying to me.”
“Why would I? What good would that do?”
“He liked you. He said you had something he’d rarely seen. Remember?”
“Sometimes I wonder what my life would have been like if I were Reza and he were me. What would I do? Throw caution to the wind; come what may. That’s what I’d have done.”
“Really? Wouldn’t that have been out of character? “
She is quiet for a good long time and then a dreadful sadness descends on her.
“I see her sometimes – pitter patter across the floor. It had to have been a she. She is there – in my mind’s eye – a darling, with flowers in her hair and a big flowy dress, running across the garden laughing. After all these years - she is there still - proof that I loved Reza and he loved me.”
“Mira – don’t do this to yourself.”
“Do what? I can’t dream of a future so I may as well drown myself in the past – a past that never was played out right – because I was too dumb and he was too sensible.”
“What is there to be gained? Regrets over what could have been? We all have them – believe me, I have so many regrets, some days I don’t know how I function. But then I look around and I see everyone is in the same boat. No matter which path you choose – there are regrets. The past always looks rosy. The pieces of the puzzle fit perfectly – but only from the rear view mirror.”
“What do I have to look forward to Solo?”
“You are 43 not 83.”
“This house, this life. What does it mean with no one in it to love? I am not even asking to BE loved – but simply to be allowed to love? What do I have but things? A life wasted on what? Inanimate objects? She sweeps her arm across the living room. “That’s all.”
“You can’t predict your next minute let alone the next day or the next year. Grieve. Mourn. It’s loss –it’s harsh and it’s bitter. It hurts just as it is supposed to. There is a season to it though. It will pass. You will come out of it. Believe me – I have been there – more than once.
“It’s dark in here Solo. It’s dark and scary.”
“Suffering – yes – it is devilishly dark.”
“My heart is in pieces. I am bleeding inside. The pain is excruciating. I can barely breathe. The void - the vortex is swallowing me up. I am frightened.”
I grab the afghan on the sofa, take it over and wrap it around her shivering body.
“You have your family. WHAT DO I HAVE?”
“It is never too late to mend fences.”
“Isn’t it? They didn’t want me. They were sorry they had me. They ridiculed me - ostracized me.”
“They named you Samira – after the Queen.”
“They wanted a Saied or a Sassan. They got their Saied AND their Sassan. Samira was a nobody then. They wanted a boy Solo – a boy. One lousy chromosome and I would have had a different life.”
“Don’t say that. Don’t even think it. You are lamenting an imaginary loss. The 'what ifs'”.
She spouts the words - bullets with purpose - to kill.
‘Her tantrums, her selfishness, her holier-than-thou attitude. There were days I could smash her face, I hated her so much - that witch.”
“We – all of us – have, at one point or another wanted to do away with our mothers.”
“Did you ever want her dead? Did you hate her so much that you could taste it?”
“Mira – stop. She may not have been the best of mothers but listen - if it weren’t for her, you wouldn’t be the person that you are. That’s a fact.”
“And who am I? A middle aged matron – thrown into the garbage.”
“That is not true.”
“Would it have killed her to recognize me – to accept me for who I am? To give me attention? Maybe then I would not have thrown myself to the first pack of lies that came my way, wrapped in candy. None of this would have happened if it weren’t for her.”
“Do you have any idea what she had to endure? She is dead now. Gone. You can’t put her on trial. In time you will let it go.”
“Her memory lives – the sick, revolting, disgusting memory of a woman who left mayhem in her wake.”
She collapses on the sofa and starts hitting herself again over the head. Next she is still – wrapped in her terror. Her desperation is palpable; I sense the demons – readying to be exorcised. She reaches for the mug on the coffee table, half full with who knows what, and throws it across the room. It hits the edge of another table and cracks into big chunks which roll onto the floor, each with a clang. She picks up a crystal glass; this time she stands up and aims for the big painting over the fireplace. Smash – shards of glass spray everywhere, leaving an ugly tear on the canvas of a man and woman wrapped around each other in an embrace. She is a madwoman now charging towards the fireplace. She reaches for the painting, yanks it off the wall and proceeds to tear it apart. She grabs the fire poker and starts wielding it every which way; catching a lampshade in one sweep, the leather sofa with another. She leaps towards the sliding doors to the garden and starts banging with the poker. The shatter-proof glass gives way under the repeated blows. Cracks appear along the stress lines making fantastic fractures left and right.
Stupefied, all I can do is stare. I dare not get close.
“I HATE THEM – ALL OF THEM. GODDAMN BASTARDS. I could kill them ALL with my bare hands. The men – those men – those disgusting, revolting assholes. Grabbing with greedy hands – taking – taking - always taking. And Reza – I hate him the most. She charges for the glass curio in the far corner of the room which is filled with ornaments from every part of the world. Crystal figurines - China trinkets – mementos, gifts, treasures. She stabs at it repeatedly with the poker. Crash – the whole structure collapses, spewing blades of glass everywhere.
“STOP” I scream. I get up and go toward her, risking life and limb. For all I know she’ll beat me to a pulp with that poker.
She turns around and I see the eyes – those wonderful eyes – those eyes that are caught in the maelstrom of madness. There is fear, anger, desperation, sadness – but not hate – no never. Not Mira.
She drops the poker, falls onto the floor, first prostrate and then spread-eagled face down on the colorful silk rug, which, by now is sprinkled with every color of crystal and china. She bangs her head on it over and over again. She grabs the fringes and pulls with all her might. But just as a good Persian rug ought to, the tight knots don’t so much as give let alone tear in response to the assault. She gives up and instead surrenders to heaves. The bile spews from her mouth onto the patterns of gold, blue and green.
I am witness to the unraveling of the tapestry of a life, the knots of which want nothing more than to disentangle only to be reassembled; this time with the tender care of a skilled carpet weaver – one knot at a time, beautiful and colorful, lovingly placed together with care. Alas – life is but a one way street.
I go to the kitchen to put the kettle on. I look in the cupboard for tea. Persian tea and nabaat – the cure for all ails - from an upset stomach to a broken heart. I start to clean up the kitchen while waiting for the kettle to boil. I rinse the teapot with hot water once, before placing the leaves in it and then pour in the scalding water. I put the teapot gingerly on top of the open kettle, turn the range to low and let it steep. I return to the living room and get her up from the floor. I wipe her face with a warm damp cloth and then her arms and those bloodied beautiful hands.
We take baby steps to her bedroom. I pull back the covers and help her onto the bed. I go and get the tea and return. She is waiting anxiously for my face to reappear. I put the cup to her lips and watch her take in the sweet warm liquid. Color and calm slowly seep back to her face. I lay her head on the pillow – pull the covers over her, sit on the edge and watch. I smooth out her brow. Gently I run my fingers along the soft horizontal lines which are beginning to show through, despite the weekly facials and the best cosmetics money can buy; there still – a testament to the passage of time.
I stay by her bedside until her breathing slows to a gentle rhythm as she drifts to sleep.
Once I have swept and mopped the living room floor, I put away the articles that can be salvaged and throw in the garbage the ones that can’t. I pour myself a cup and place the nabaat inside. I watch and hear it sizzle as it first touches the hot tea, floats, then melts, shrinks and slowly sinks to the bottom of the cup. It’s our lives I am watching – mine, Mira’s, Reza’s – all of us – melting – shrinking - sinking.
I walk onto the patio and sit in one of the plush chairs. Dawn has arrived. A new day. What could possibly wipe away from memory the night we had? For the first time in a decade, I yearn for a cigarette. I sip my tea and let the tears fall.
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Expressing happiness post the big achievement, Ekta shared in a statement, “It is an absolute honour to receive the Fourth Highest Civilian Award for my humble contribution in the field of performing arts. It is a surreal moment and a matter of great pride. I want to dedicate this badge of honour to my two pillars of strength – my mom and dad. They believed in me with their whole heart and it is because of them, I am who I am!” Ekta added further, “I am really overwhelmed with all the love and accolades that are coming my way. I want to thank my family, friends, my team at Balaji Telefilms and most importantly – the audience, for believing in me and supporting me. I hope to always push the envelope, challenge norms, give talents a platform that they truly deserve, instill pride and give back to the country that has fuelled my ambition and dreams.”
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Cooking with Kaylie: Coffee Lover's Dessert
This entry was posted on April 10, 2012.
This week’s recipe has a simplistic name that called out to me: Coffee Lover’s Dessert. Now really, with a name like that, how could I not try it?
- 10 large marshmallows or 100 miniature marshmallows
- 1/2 cup brewed espresso or strong coffee (I used Caffe Umbria’s Terra Sana Blend)
- 1/2 cup whipped cream
- In a saucepan, combine marshmallows and coffee over low heat
- Melt, stirring frequently
- Remove from heat and cool to room temperature
- Fold in whipped cream
- Spoon into dishes and chill before serving
Short and sweet, right? I made the original and two variations: chocolate chip and coconut*. All of them were rich, sweet and had a firm mousse-like texture.
The original is like a dessert version of taking your coffee with (a lot of) sugar and cream, while the coconut version was like a sweet latte drink. As for the chocolate chip? Well, the alternating textures just didn’t work well in this recipe.
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* To make the variations, add Monin coconut syrup before removing the marshmallow and coffee mixture from heat or fold in chocolate chips with the whipped cream.

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BACOLOD CITY, Negros Occidental, Philippines – Bacolod Mayor Evelio Leonardia appeals to the public to stop discriminating against health workers, especially frontliners whom he described as “patriots” in the war against the pandemic.
Some health workers, reports according to the mayor said, are refused by public utility vehicles, or are driven out of their places of lodging.
City Administrator Em Ang has been assigned to look for arrangements or “support options” to help frontliners.
Leonardia, in an executive advisory furnished to DNX, quoted news outlets documenting deaths of doctors who were infected by COVID-19 in the line of duty.
“Whereas there is no definite data from the Department of Health on the number of health workers who are PUMs, PUIs, or have succumbed to the disease, it can be assumed that it is a considerable number,” the mayor said.
Yet, he said, it is “deplorable” that the the frontliners are bearing “the brunt of hate and mistreatment”. “Let us be compassionate… please stop the discrimination,” he said.


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President Akufo Addo on Tuesday 6th October 2020 submitted his nomination forms to the Electoral Commission(EC) and made clear that he does not want to be a president through deceptive elections and that he believes in free and fair elections.
Additionally, the President said he also believes the processes marshalled by the Electoral Commission(EC) for the voter register are okay and believes that at the end of the day credible voter register will be produced for free and fair elections come December 7, 2020.
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Desi Perkins is getting candid about her postpartum struggles.
On Wednesday, the beauty influencer - who welcomed her first child, son Ocean, with husband Steven Perkins in October 2020 - shared a TikTok video revealing the aftermath of postpartum-induced hair loss: fringe-like baby bangs.
"If anyone ever wondered what postpartum hair loss and re-growth looked like, hello! What do I do with this?" Perkins quipped as she showed off the inch-long baby hairs.
The overgrown fringe is hard to disguise (even for an expert hairstylist like Perkins). "My options right now are headband and/or some serious edge design work," the influencer said. "Some swirls, some swoops."
She then reappeared on camera to unveil the finished look: a slicked back high bun that she achieved using cult favorite Got2b Glued strong hold hair gel.
"Women really can't catch a break huh," one person wrote in the comment section. "It's wild," Perkins replied.
A second TikTok user wrote "I'm so scared of this," to which the beauty guru responded, "I was ready for it. I thought 'maybe it won't happen to me' then 4-5 months postpartum I noticed it. I'm happy it's at least growing back."
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This is not the first time Perkins has opened up about the highs and lows of motherhood. Earlier this year, the influencer - who launched DEZI SKIN in April - told PEOPLE that she switched from breastfeeding to formula after an emotional doctor's appointment.
"I had to start supplementing formula because I wasn't actually creating enough breast milk, and that's so mentally frustrating," Perkins said. "That's really mentally challenging, breastfeeding is. So I've now started to supplement formula ... and I think there's no shame in that."
"I was really sad," the new mom recalled. "I remember crying in the office when the doctor told me [Ocean] was losing weight, and I just died. I was like, 'Oh my gosh, I'm going to cry. I'm so embarrassed.' And it was hard at first knowing that I had to do that because I always really wanted to breastfeed. But then, ultimately, he started to gain his weight back, and I was like, 'That's what matters. That's what's important: healthy and happy.' "
Perkins explained that the "hardest part about motherhood" so far is that she "felt reborn myself."
"I honestly felt like I was reborn as a totally different person, and that's something that I honestly didn't expect. I had no idea," she said. "It's such a drastic change that you go through, essentially overnight. And I think the hardest part for me has been really taking the person who I used to be and the person I am now and then meeting myself in the middle."
Continued Perkins, "It's just really finding myself in the whole motherhood situation. Because you don't have as much time for yourself, and especially if you're exclusively breastfeeding. That was really difficult for me because I was just constantly breastfeeding. I just felt like I didn't really have time for myself or anything like that."
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Fake ICO Scheme In Russia ‘Union Bank Payment Coin (UBPC)’ Gets Cease And Desist Order
Russian ICO Hit With Cease And Desist Order After Impersonating Bank
The securities watchdog of Dakota has recently issued a cease and desist order against a company based in Russia that has launched an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) that tried to impersonate Liechtenstein’s Union Bank AG. Not only is the company accused of impersonating the bank, it also promotes unregistered securities that are potentially fraudulent, the securities watchdog affirmed.
This company has claimed that it was the world’s first security token backed by a fully licensed bank, which was not the truth. The Commissioner of the North Dakota Securities Department has affirmed that Union Bank Payment Coin has directly copied these elements from the Union Bank site without having their permission nor they knowing about it.
According to the Commissioner, they copied the style, wording, images and even the leadership information. Because of this, it is believed that the ICO was an attempt to defraud investors and that the whole thing was probably a scam.
While Union Bank is a company based in Liechtenstein, UBPC is located in Russia and registered to a single individual, which corroborates on the suspicions that the company is only a front for a scam.
The securities watchdog of North Dakota has decided to send a cease and desist order against the company because “ICOs are sold over the internet and pitched heavily through social media”, this way, people from the state can be exposed to the scam independently on the fact that it is not based there.
While it is certainly weird for non-Americans to see the regulators of a regional state going against companies at the world side of the world, this is pretty standard practice in the U. S. Internet has made us all more connected, so it is pretty normal that some companies use this to target investors from other countries.
Before now, this state has used cease and desist orders against at least three other ICOs: Crystal Token, Life Cross Coin and Advertiza Holdings.


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Well that didn’t take long. I have to admit that when I made this prediction eight days ago I didn’t really expect it to happen so fast:
The great irony of the Depression period is that by 1936 things had gotten so bad that even the French had to devalue. The French had helped cause the Depression by their obsessive hoarding of gold, and their refusal to help out the weaker countries. In other words, in monetary terms France was the Germany of the 1930s. When you see doubts raised about countries like Finland and Austria, you really have to wonder if even the German debt is truly safe.
I still think the policy elite are slightly less pigheaded than in the 1930s, so I doubt things will go that far. But it would be a lot simpler if they recognized reality right now, instead of dragging out the pain.
First a bit of background. In the late 1920s and the early 1930s the Bank of France hoarded vast quantities of gold. This raised the value of gold, which meant deflation (once the US and Britain stopped offsetting the French hoarding after October 1929.) An international financial crisis ensued, with one country after another leaving the gold standard. Britain in 1931, the US in 1933, etc. At first France got off lightly, as their currency had been undervalued on the eve of the Depression. But by 1936 the deflation in France was so bad that even they had to devalue. In each case countries didn’t begin recovering until they had left the gold standard.
In the modern world things seem to move much faster than during the long agonizing 1931-36 collapse of the gold standard. Today German bonds were hit hard:
The debt crisis that began more than two years ago now risks engulfing Germany. The Markit iTraxx SovX Western Europe Index of credit-default swaps on 15 governments rose to an all- time high as Germany failed to find buyers for 35 percent of the bonds offered at an auction.
Germany is of course the France of the 21st century.
It’s now quite possible that the Fed may have to move toward NGDP targeting before they would have liked. The Fed cannot allow another collapse of NGDP like we saw in 2009. The cost in terms of banking distress, worsening public finances, international discord and mass unemployment is simply too great to contemplate. I have no doubt that Ben Bernanke of all people understands this.
Perhaps the Europeans will come together and do something dramatic in the next few days. But if not, the Fed must be prepared to hold an emergency meeting and do whatever it takes. To quote David Beckworth:
Also, if a nominal GDP level target is explicit and widely understood it would actually serve to mitigate the effects of financial shocks. If the public understood the Fed would always close return nominal GDP to its trend path, public expectations would be better anchored and thus be less susceptible to wide swings. That means velocity (i.e. real money demand) would be more stable. For these reasons, it is reasonable to conclude that had the Fed been targeting nominal GDP during the 2008-2009 financial crisis, the outcome would have been far milder. And for the same reasons, the Fed should be targeting nominal GDP now given the looming financial threat coming from the Eurozone crisis.
It’s Bernanke’s moment of truth.
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Turbomachinery configuration for LNG project concept selection
Refrigerant compressors are the pumping heart of every LNG plant. Today, these compressors are usually centrifugal, and they vary in size and configuration according to the context of the project. Steam turbines, gas turbines (heavy-duty or aeroderivative) and electric motors—or a combination of these three—are all possible options to drive the refrigerant compressors. It has been demonstrated that a single shaft can drive one, two or three compressor casings depending on the plant capacity, the liquefaction process technology used and the balancing needs of power. This is particularly interesting, as drivers with larger output power and efficiency can be considered.
This articlea elaborates on the selection of an optimum turbomachinery configuration from a technical perspective, building on technical experience attained through working on multiple concept and early front-end engineering design (FEED) studies for turbomachinery selection in LNG projects, some of which have been executed.
Introduction to compressors. Steam turbines were used as mechanical drivers for main refrigerant compressors in LNG plants until the 1980s, after which time gas turbines started to replace them. Electric motors have been used only occasionally in large-scale plants, but they have become popular at small- and mid-scale facilities.
Steam turbines can be custom-made to deliver any power level likely to be required by an LNG refrigerant compressor; however, the largest referenced electric motors are capped at around 75 MW. The largest gas turbine used to date is the heavy-duty Baker Hughes Frame-9, used across the LNG mega-trains at Qatargas’ Ras Laffan terminal. These turbines deliver 132 MW at International Organization for Standardization (ISO) conditions. They are catalogue machines available in discrete sizes, which makes the selection of an optimum gas turbine and shaftline configuration more challenging.
Compressor selection process. The production capacity of an LNG plant is directly linked to the power available from the refrigeration machinery. Consequently, the selection of the driver and the arrangement of the compressors is performed very early in a project, no later than at the early FEED phase. The final selection is made by the owner-operator based on engineering studies performed with the assistance of a specialized consultant (backed by a team of process and rotating equipment engineers) and in collaboration with the liquefaction process licensor. The overall selection study, all the way up to the recommendation to the owner, is supervised and led by the project management team.
At the beginning of a project, awareness on the general guidelines, characteristics and key criteria for the selection process should be determined with the owner. For example, the standardization of the gas turbine fleet could be an advantage where spare parts interchangeability and familiarity of operators and maintenance personnel with a specific gas turbine model are beneficial to operations.
Commercial relations should also be considered—for example, in a case where the owner favors one supplier with existing services agreement or, on the contrary, where the owner prefers to avoid a gas turbine supplier with limited service facilities in the country where the gas turbines will be installed.
Finally, some owners do not accept non-proven gas turbines that require qualification before the FEED or engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) phases; whereas other owners are willing to undertake a qualification process, including rigorous verification and extensive testing.
In these times of enhanced sensitivity to the carbon footprint of liquefaction facilities, electric motors as prime movers for the main refrigerant compressors are increasingly being taken into consideration. This is a departure from the situation to date, where electric motors have been the exception. For example, the promise of availability of a nearby source of power from the electric grid at a competitive price led the Snøhvit LNG plant in Norway to select a 65-MW electric motor for each compressor shaftline using the Linde Mixed Fluid Cascade (MFC) process. Also, because local regulations forbid fired equipment in an environmentally sensitive location, Freeport LNG on Quintana Island, Texas applied 75-MW variable-speed electric motors on each shaftline using the Air Products Propane Mixed Refrigerant (AP-C3MR) process.
In the coming years, it is anticipated that electric motor drives may become an attractive option due to the opportunity to reduce CO2 emissions by mixing in low-carbon sources of electricity.
Technical assessment. The first step in the technical assessment is to determine the required prime mover power for each shaftline depending on the LNG plant design and compressor configuration (see FIG. 1). This will depend on the targeted range of LNG plant production capacity in MMtpy, how many liquefaction trains are envisaged, which refrigeration process will be used and how many refrigeration cycles, and finally how many refrigeration compressor strings per train.
|FIG. 1. LNG plant screening of architecture.
Several types of drivers can be considered to drive LNG compressors (gas turbines, steam turbines, motors), but once the choice is made it will usually apply to all the main refrigerant compressors for reasons of interchangeability, flexibility and maintainability. The selection should be reached in parallel to defining the compressor machinery arrangement to obtain the required balance of power and to select the standardized driver model for all shaftlines. Steam turbines and electric motors could be custom made to the required shaftline power; however, gas turbines come in discrete sizes and, therefore, the selection of optimum gas turbine depends on matching the available gas turbine models and versions.
At the early stages of concept definition, as many as 15 architectures or more can be screened and quantitatively ranked to support the owner’s selection when including the liquefaction process, machinery arrangement and other key selections. The criteria defined with the owner for the ranking and the selection are, at this stage, crucial to best match the owner’s objective and to ensure the success of the project.
Gas turbine as a prime mover. Both heavy-duty gas turbines and aeroderivative gas turbines have been applied in LNG plants to drive main refrigerant compressors. The heavy-duty gas turbines have been adapted to mechanical drive from the versions built especially for the power generation industry and proven through decades of use. The power generation industry requires large power at a fixed speed, typically 3,000 rpm for a 50-Hz electric grid network and 3,600 rpm for a 60-Hz network. As a result of these constraints, large, heavy-duty, gas turbines have evolved (more than 500 MW in the largest sizes) with a single drive shaft. Startup torque for an offline generator is very low; however, the adaptation to mechanical drive in LNG plants implies the addition of large starter motors to overcome the compressor start from standstill torque.
Aeroderivative gas turbines were initially developed for aircraft engines, but in most cases have been first used in the power generation industry before being adopted for mechanical drive. Adaptation includes the addition of a free power turbine and the optimization of inspection and maintenance cycles that are obviously much longer for LNG trains than for commercial aircraft. The LM9000, which is now in the manufacturing stage for Novatek’s Arctic 2 project, is an aeroderivative gas turbine derived from the world’s most powerful civil aircraft engine and specifically developed for mechanical drive service in LNG.
Irrespective of the model, a referenced gas turbine must have field-proven design, meaning that it must have a proven and successful track record of performance in equivalent service, operating and process conditions. The gas turbine must have completed 25,000 hr for aeroderivative gas turbines/32,000 hr for heavy-duty gas turbines of continuous satisfactory operation in a continuous process plant without major problems or modifications.
Gas turbines with references coming only from the power generation industry cannot be considered as suitably referenced for mechanical drive application, as described. To qualify as a mechanical driver, they must be verified for the following:
- The rotor dynamics of the shaftline in the mechanical drive application must account for the gas density change that will occur during the operation of the coupled compressor, impacting the axial stability of the shaftline.
- The much higher startup torque for the mechanical drive should, if possible, allow startup from settle-out pressure to avoid flaring.
- In high-power gas turbines, the coupling and/or gearbox might not be referenced considering that the service factor will be higher in the mechanical drive than in power generation applications.
Once the required gas turbine site output power is estimated, then the ISO power can be determined by considering the gas turbine de-rating at the most demanding site condition and the worst operating condition. Gas turbine de-rating means that the gas turbine will deliver to the site less power out than the ISO power that is declared on the nameplate.
Several factors adversely affect the output power of gas turbines, including ambient temperature, pressure drop at the inlet and outlet, and factors relevant to fouling and aging. Roughly speaking, with an increase of 1°C in ambient temperature, the output power decreases by 0.7%–0.8%. Aeroderivative gas turbines are more sensitive to variations in ambient conditions compared to heavy-duty gas turbines.
On the other hand, fouling is a condition caused by the ingress of contaminants from the ambient air sticking on the axial air compressor blades and reducing their aerodynamic performance. Aging is related to the deterioration of gas turbine components due to extended operation, especially for the hot section.
De-rating extents are unique to each gas turbine model and version, and the gas turbine supplier provides the de-rating curves for each gas turbine model and version accordingly. A typical de-rating curve is shown in FIG. 2 revealing how power output decreases with the increase in ambient temperature. Similarly, de-rating curves for other factors, such as the inlet and exhaust pressure drops, are used to estimate the actual power output of a specific gas turbine.
|FIG. 2. Gas turbine typical de-rating curve—power vs. ambient temperature.b
Compressor arrangement. Until recently, LNG plants had a maximum of two main refrigerant compressor casings installed on the same shaftline, with a variable-speed starter motor usually added to single-shaft gas turbines. A longer and more complex shaftline will increase the complexity of the torsional analysis study, further to the inter-harmonic excitations from the variable speed helper motor, when they exist.
A successful step-out was applied in the Yamal LNG project (FIG. 3), where three compressor casings plus a variable-speed start/helper motor were installed on the same shaftline, which extended in length to 50 m (FIG. 4).
|FIG. 3. Novatek’s Yamal LNG project in Russia.
|FIG. 4. Three compressor casings on a common shaftline with a variable-speed helper motor.
The use of a gearbox will also lead to power losses that must be taken into account. Almost 2% of transmitted power could be lost due to the gearbox; however, it must be noted that technical improvements are ongoing to reduce such losses. The addition of a gearbox to the shaftline will also impact the CAPEX of the project, noise emissions and the maintenance of the compressor shaftline, especially if a gearbox noise hood is added to meet noise specifications.
Depending on the size of the driver, one or several compressor casings can be installed on the same shaftline, and the temptation can be great to limit the number of shaftlines for CAPEX purposes. Selecting a bigger driver with several compressor casings, instead of selecting several smaller ones to drive one compressor casing, might seem to be less expensive from a machine perspective. However, the CAPEX savings of this selection is less obvious if the complete installation of the train is considered.
Applying large gas turbines would lead to a horizontally-split design for the middle casing to enable maintenance of the compressor rotor. This casing will have a bottom/bottom nozzles configuration so that the upper half of the casing can be opened to extract the rotor. This will require mounting the entire shaftline on an elevated table, as shown in FIG. 5. For modular applications, it will lead to an increase in the size of the module, and when installed in a closed building it will lead to higher building elevation and increased heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) load. All of these factors might eventually make the larger gas turbine more expensive than several equivalent smaller ones.
|FIG. 5. Grade-level vs. mezzanine-level installation of the shaftline.
Gas turbine technologies. Historically, heavy-duty gas turbine drivers have been selected to drive LNG compressors considering their robustness, and consequently their high availability levels; accordingly, a 1 × 100% shaftline arrangement was considered (for example, in the Yemen LNG project). However, with an aeroderivative (or dual-shaft heavy-duty) gas turbine, parallel operation (i.e., 2 × 50% shaftlines) was introduced to overcome the smaller sizes available in terms of power output and to limit the impact on production due to lower availability. In addition, the 2 × 50% (or 3 × 33%) shaftline arrangement can improve the turndown efficiency of the liquefaction unit.
Turndown capacity of a compressor, before the start of recycle, is generally considered at 30% of the rated flow, which is sometimes insufficient for process purposes if only one compressor is used.
Efficiency. One of the main advantages of aeroderivative gas turbines is the much higher operating efficiency compared to heavy-duty gas turbines. This efficiency is the result of the higher pressure ratio developed by the axial air compressor and, consequently, the greater gas expansion in the power turbine. In the specific case of the triple-shaft LMS-100 from Baker Hughes/General Electric, intermediate air cooling allows exceptional axial air compression ratios and an efficiency reaching 44%.
However, the selection of the gas turbine will directly impact the design of the fuel gas system of the plant and particularly the size of the boiloff gas compressor, as the fuel gas pressure requirement will be higher for an aeroderivative gas turbine compared to a heavy-duty gas turbine, which depends on the selected gas turbine model and ambient conditions. Roughly speaking, heavy-duty gas turbines require fuel gas pressure around or below 30 barg compared to aeroderivative gas turbines, where the fuel gas pressure can range from 42 barg–60 barg, such as for the SGT-A65 (Trent 60) from Siemens, which is no longer in production.
Shaft arrangement/speed variation. Most heavy-duty gas turbines come in a single-shaft arrangement (FIG. 6), although some exceptions exist, such as the Frame-5 from Baker Hughes/General Electric and the H-100 from Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems. However, aeroderivative gas turbines come in a multi-shaft (dual- or triple-shaft) arrangement (FIG. 7).
|FIG. 6. Single-shaft arrangement in gas turbines.
|FIG. 7. Dual-shaft arrangement in gas turbines.
Accordingly, aeroderivative gas turbines operate at a wider speed range of 80%–105% of the rated speed and do not require a large starter motor, while speed variations in heavy-duty gas turbines are limited to 2%–3% of the rated speed and require a large starter motor to spin the heavy shaftline from standstill to firing speed.
CAPEX. Aeroderivative gas turbines are naturally more expensive than heavy-duty gas turbines due to the additional axial compressor stages and higher compression ratio (and compressed air temperature) that require the use of exotic material, such as titanium alloy, whereas stainless-steel alloys are sufficient in heavy-duty gas turbines.
A second consequence is that there are roughly 30% more internal components for an aeroderivative gas turbine compared to heavy-duty gas turbines of the same power class.
Varied onshore/offshore applications. Aeroderivative gas turbines are much lighter and more compact compared to heavy-duty gas turbines, which is why aeroderivative gas turbines are the preferred choice for offshore applications. They have consequently been selected for all FLNG vessels. The PGT25+G4 aeroderivative turbine is less than one-third the weight of its equivalent heavy-duty gas turbine, the Frame-5D.
Onshore LNG plants applied heavy-duty gas turbines until the LM2500, an aeroderivative gas turbine that was used at the Darwin LNG project to improve efficiency. Many other projects have followed, including Curtis Island LNG, Papua New Guinea LNG, Wheatstone LNG (with an LM6000PF turbine) and, recently, the Arctic LNG 2 project, which is still under construction, with an LM9000 turbine.
For offshore applications, the PGT25+G4 gas turbine from Baker Hughes/General Electric’s LM2500 family has been applied at the Coral South FLNG (FIG. 8), which operates on a dual mixed-refrigerant process. The PGT25+G4 has been also applied at Petronas’ PFLNG Satu, which operates on an AP-N process, as well as several other FLNG facilities, such as Golar FLNG vessels and the Gorskaya FLNG. An LM6000PF, another aeroderivative gas turbine, has been applied at Petronas’ Rotan FLNG to deliver roughly 30% more output power compared to a PGT25+G4 gas turbine.
|FIG. 8. The Coral FLNG project.
Shaftline power enhancement. Aeroderivative gas turbines are more sensitive to daily and/or seasonal fluctuations in air temperature than heavy-duty gas turbines. To compensate for periods of high ambient temperature, inlet air chilling can be used to mitigate the slight adverse impact on output power. When the power shortage is high at hot ambient, a helper motor is applied to supplement the power shortage from a heavy-duty gas turbine.
Waste heat recovery unit. A waste heat recovery unit (WHRU) can be fitted at the exhaust stack of the gas turbines for the main refrigerant compressors when the power margin between gas turbine output power vs. driven compressors absorbed power allows. Roughly speaking, adding a WHRU could lead to an approximate 0.4% drop in output power of the gas turbine, depending on the operating conditions and the design of the WHRU.
Maintenance considerations. Maintenance intervention is more frequent but less time-intensive for aeroderivative gas turbines compared to that required for heavy-duty gas turbines. Dual-shaft gas turbines, in general, are much easier to maintain. General Electric’s Frame-5 is an example of a heavy-duty gas turbine with a dual-shaft arrangement.
A new generation of large, dual-shaft, heavy-duty gas turbines has been initiated with the introduction of the MHPS H-100 for use in LNG plants. This turbine offers shorter shutdowns for maintenance. In addition, the dual-shaft design eliminates the need for a large starter motor.
Novelty management. The adoption of new, unproven technologies should be avoided wherever possible. However, the increase in LNG train size and the interest in scale as a way of reducing CAPEX sometimes leads to gas turbines being selected while still in the development phase, and with risks that are still under assessment by the gas turbine manufacturer.
An example of a new development is Baker Hughes/General Electric’s LM9000 aeroderivative gas turbine, which is based on the GE-90 aircraft engine. As a two-shaft machine with ISO shaft power reaching approximately 70 MW, it is capable of revolutionizing upcoming LNG plant designs. The adoption of the LM9000 on the Arctic LNG 2 project implied a qualification program and additional studies, simulations and tests during the engineering phase of the project.
A “technology qualification” process consists of an in-depth analysis of the design, development and integration of new or borrowed technologies to identify risks and implement mitigations. The process follows a structured procedure to identify and screen novelty designs within a new product and assess the readiness level of each novelty. This qualification program is normally led by the owner-operator and is based on the owner’s internal processes and field experience.
A first step in such a qualification process is the identification, component by component, of all novelties within the gas turbine design. Examples include a new material or coating, a new production process, new operating conditions or a combination of these items. Once identified, and after technical validation is performed, a risk mitigation plan must be established. This will often result in demanding tests such as a full-speed, full-load string test or an endurance test, which must be taken into account in the overall schedule of the project.
Takeaway. Turbomachinery selection for LNG plants encompasses several steps of screening to reach the optimum driver and compressor configuration choice. This broad choice is impacted by the unique aspects for each LNG plant, including the production capacity, train size, CO2 emissions and other environmental targets, site location (particularly when not onshore), site ambient conditions and variations, demand for utilities, availability of electrical power from the grid and the need for waste heat recovery.
A successful selection process is a joint effort between the owner and a specialized LNG engineering contractor. The optimum selection of driver and compressor configuration is achieved through a comprehensive assessment by an interdisciplinary team of engineers and estimators. GP
The authors of this paper thank the TechnipEnergies LNG product line and the Paris Engineering and Process Department management for sponsoring this paper for the GPA Europe Annual Meeting and Technical Meeting in 2020.
a This article was originally presented at GPA Europe’s Annual Meeting and Technical Meeting in 2020.
b X-axis and y-axis values are not shown due to copyright reasons.
MOUNIR MOSSOLLY is Technical Advisor and Lead Engineer at TechnipEnergies and the Honorary Chairman of IMechE Groupe France. He is a Chartered Engineer and a Certified Manager of Quality and Organizational Excellence by ASQ. In the context of his expertise in turbomachinery, Dr. Mossolly has been involved with some of the largest, most complex and most challenging LNG projects worldwide, such as the pioneering Prelude FLNG, Yamal LNG and Coral FLNG. At present, he is working on the Qatar North Field Expansion EPC-1 LNG project. Dr. Mossolly holds a PhD in project and program management and an MS degree in mechanical engineering.
CELINE BELBOL is Head of the Rotating Equipment Department at TechnipEnergies Paris, and has more than 17 yr of experience in the energy industry. She started her career with Technip as a Rotating Engineer and progressed to the position of Team Leader Engineer before being appointed Head of the Rotating Equipment Department. She gained her technical experience through involvement in various onshore and offshore oil and gas projects and through team management of complex mega-LNG projects, such as Yamal LNG and Coral FLNG.
VINCENT TIRILLY is a Principal Process Engineer in the Process and Technologies Division of TechnipEnergies’ LNG Department. He is also a Member of the Expert Network from TechnipEnergies with more than 25 yr of experience in onshore and offshore LNG projects. Mr. Tirilly has been involved in all stages of LNG project development, from early conceptual stage to FEED and EPC, including for the Coral FLNG and Qatar’s North Field East and North Field South projects.


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