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Galileo Galilei's observations that Venus appeared in phases -- similar to those of Earth's Moon -- in our sky was evidence that Venus orbited the sun and contributed to the downfall of the centuries-old belief that the sun and planets revolved around Earth. Also sketched here are Jupiter, Saturn and Mars.
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She was born Dec. 30, 1943 to Eliza Mae hurt and the late James "JR" Hurt.
She is also survived by her daughter, Tammy Colwell and husband Jerry of Goshen; son Todd Hurt and wife Michelle of Lotts Creek; brother Olen Hurt of Frankfort; grandchildren Lori Colwell and David Colwell of Goshen, and Blaine of Lotts Creek; and a host of nieces, nephews, family, and friends.
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'I have everything a normal kid has except for a mother and a father and someone to love me'
The pitted wooden ledge holds a small TV and video game console (broken at the moment) and a rudimentary chess set. Nearby are khaki pants and golf shirts that Master has laundered and folded into a neat pile.
"My whole life is right there," says the 12-year-old. "You're looking at it."
Master has lived in this small Cape Cod home in Bridgeton, a working-class city 75 miles south of Trenton, for nearly two years. Yet his presence seems tentative. Maybe it's the penciled floor plan taped to Master's bedroom wall with an arrow pointing to his bed and the words: "You are here."
Or maybe it's the fact this is his 12th foster placement in seven years.
"As you can see, what's missing in my life is a real home," Master says.
"I have everything a normal kid has except for a mother and a father and someone to love me."
Master Earle Moore is trapped in New Jersey's child welfare system. The state Division of Youth and Family Services is under siege for failing to make even basic changes to protect the 11,500 children in its care. At any given time, some 2,000 of these children are available for adoption.
Master is among the 300 who are hardest to place -- the older children, most of them minorities, and emotionally fragile.
While these children hunger for stability, many are shunted from one foster home to the next without hope of permanent placement. Many will languish in the system until they "age out" at 18. After that, it will be up to them to rebuild their lives.
Division officials say a major overhaul of the state's foster care system has produced results.
Last year, 1,410 adoptions were completed, says Joe Delmar, a DYFS spokesman. This year "we believe the number will be around 1,300." That's up from 1,035 adoptions five years ago. However, only a handful will be of hard-to-place children, he admits.
Eighty percent of foster children in permanent homes ultimately are adopted by their foster parents, Delmar says. The others must hope for a miracle.
Critics say that to find happy endings for hard-to-place foster children you must go to places like Kansas City, Mo., and New Mexico, where aggressive adoption outreach programs are in place.
"Finding permanent homes (for hard-to place children) right now is almost at a standstill in New Jersey," says Susan Lambiase, associate director of Children's Rights Inc., a national advocacy group that has charged the state with failing its foster children.
"We get calls from frustrated prospective adoptive and foster parents all the time who say they are writing and calling about kids in New Jersey and nothing happens. So these prospective parents go elsewhere. That's a disgrace."
Meanwhile, Master fears he is destined to relive his father's life.
"He was an orphan and I am going through the same thing he went through," Master says. "'Sometimes when I think about what's happened in my life, it gets so overwhelming, I cry."
As foster homes go, Master says, the one in Bridgeton is about average. There is always food simmering on the stove, the bunk bed is soft and the house is warm.
Foster mother Brenda Wilson can run hot and cold, Master says. He likes Miss Brenda and even calls her "Mom" sometimes. "But we don't have a good connection," he says. "I never know what to expect from her."
Wilson declined to be interviewed for this story. Caseworkers say she can be moody but that she cares about her two foster children. A single woman, Wilson does not work outside the home. DYFS compensates foster parents with an average $700 a month for each special-needs child, plus a monthly clothing allowance.
Jacquelyn Agnesino, supervisor of the DYFS office in charge of Master's care, says Wilson makes sure Master eats right, does his homework and gets enough sleep. That's more attention than Master received in most foster homes.
But Wilson doesn't show much affection, Master says. In his nearly two years in Bridgeton, Master says, hugs have been rare and he has never been kissed goodnight. Friends are not permitted to visit (house rules), so Master spends most afternoons alone in his room, playing video games or practicing his chess moves.
Master says school is the place to be social. He is well-liked by the teachers and students at Indian Avenue School, where he is in the seventh grade, having a good year academically.
"It took me almost two years to get where I am in popularity," he says. "I've been working it since I got here."
Assistant Principal Eloisa Woodruff says Master has his problems, notably angry outbursts. "But we love him here," she says. "He's a defender of the weak. He'll always stand up for the child he feels is defenseless. He deserves the opportunity to find happiness with a family that believes in him."
Master admits that sometimes it is "a lonely life."
But he says he's not complaining: "Not at all. I like living here. I hope it works out."
And he has learned the hard way to be careful what you wish for.
"Who knows what the next foster home might be like?" Master says. "At least I know what I have here."
Earlier this month, Children's Rights, Inc., in an unprecedented move, asked a federal judge to hold Gov.-elect Jon Corzine responsible for reforming the Division of Youth and Family Services. The advocacy group says the state's $320 million child welfare reform plan has done little to fix the system. Corzine has agreed to tackle the issue when he takes office next month.
The child advocacy group rarely brings lawsuits against state child welfare agencies because such cases are expensive and hard to prosecute, Lambiase says.
To take that risk in New Jersey, however, was "a no-brainer," she says.
"New Jersey has problems that are more significant than other places. They're not doing all they can do to find good foster homes and adoptive families. This isn't rocket science. You need to pay attention to every single child."
In New Mexico, Lambiase says, resource teams meet on each case every 60 days until a child has a permanent home. The teams have produced a dramatic increase in the number of children moved from foster care to adoptive homes.
"Finding good foster homes is what every child welfare system has an obligation to do -- and many do it very well," Lambiase says. "But they have to have an active plan and recruiters to go out and beat drums to sign up good foster and adoptive families.
"They are not even close to having this happen in New Jersey."
New Jersey would benefit by following the example of Kansas City, Lambiase says, "where new and innovative recruitment plans are devised annually to bring in more families."
Delmar says the state has intensified its recruitment efforts.
DYFS has added 600 caseworkers as part of its five-year reform plan, which began about 18 months ago, he says. More than 300 workers have been assigned to recruit and support families for adoption.
While critics call the agency's effort inadequate, Delmar sees it differently.
"We've had great success," he says. "But we recognize that for every child that finds a home, there's another still waiting."
Master has lived with single parents, with large families and in group homes. Some were intolerable, he says. "Three homes ago, they mistreated me. You were given food and a bed, nothing more."
He has erased the worst betrayals from his memory "because I don't want to remember."
Other homes were the kind Master dreamed about: places where he felt free to be a kid. Places with grandparents and dogs and Sunday church suppers.
Looking back, Master says, leaving the good homes was more painful than spending time in the bad ones.
For example, Master says he was happier in his last home, in Mount Holly, than almost anywhere else in his life. He had a foster mother and grandmother and plenty of nurturing.
Then came the day he went to the post office with his foster mom and she told him he would have to move.
That weekend, he remembers, he was taken by his caseworker for a visit to Bridgeton. When the weekend was over, the caseworker asked Master how he liked Wilson's house.
"Okay," he said.
"You'll be moving there on Tuesday," the caseworker told him.
Master's foster mother and grandmother -- the ones he couldn't imagine loving more -- never explained why. "They just said goodbye. That was it."
Master, who lived in the house with another foster child, figures he had to leave because "my foster mom's work schedule changed and she didn't have time for both of us.
"Someone had to go, and it was me."
Master was 10 at the time. After that, he kept to himself more.
"I really don't tell anyone what I'm thinking anymore, except for my brothers," he says.
"And Laura. ... Laura knows everything about me."
Laura Braswell was one of Master's first caseworkers. In 1999, she was a counselor with Catholic Charities. Master was 6 and already had been in the system about a year. He was assigned to one of her programs.
It was love at first sight.
In her mid-20s at the time and pregnant with her first child, Braswell and her husband, Chuck, wanted to give Master a family.
They brought him into their home. Everything was fine, Braswell says, until one day when Master was at camp. A camp counselor called to say Master seemed agitated.
Braswell arrived to find counselors holding Master down. When she moved near him to ask what was wrong, she says, he punched her in the face.
Fearful for their unborn child, the Braswells decided against adopting Master.
"So the state came and took him," she says. "We were all sobbing and bawling. He was breaking our hearts. He was saying, 'You still love me, right? You just need to be safe, but you still love me, right?' We told him we loved him. We still love him."
Braswell now regrets the decision.
"We were young," she says. "We had never been parents. There are hard, hard days with foster care kids. We wish we had toughed it out and kept him with us."
Braswell knew Master's family history. According to caseworkers, he and his two older brothers, Brendan and Bryant, were taken from a life of drugs, violence and neglect.
"It was one of the worst homes we'd ever seen," Braswell says.
Master's family moved around the Trenton area a lot. Sometimes home was a motel room. In 1997, Master's mother set fire to the house where they were living. Three firefighters were injured, according to newspaper reports. The mother served prison time.
Master and his brothers moved in with their grandmother, where several adults and 10 other grandchildren also lived, according to caseworkers.
His only memory of life there was his last one: Strangers in business suits swooped into the house. The strangers gathered up all 13 children. Master, then 4, remembers one of them saying, "We're taking you on a trip, so pack up everything you have."
The kids dumped their belongings in garbage bags and were led out to separate cars.
"I thought they were taking us away for a weekend, so I was happy," Master recalls.
The children were farmed out to different foster homes. Master was separated from his brothers. Brendan and Bryant got lucky: They eventually were adopted by their first foster parents, and now live a normal life.
"They had the best-case scenario," Braswell says. "Master had the worst.
"He went to a home where the foster mother loved him, but she was old and couldn't keep him. He's been bouncing around ever since."
Living in Florida now, with two young children, Braswell speaks to Master by phone once a week and has tried to persuade his caseworkers to let him visit.
So far, she hasn't succeeded.
"As I was lying in bed at night, I thought about what people might think when they read about all that Master has been through, and all the homes he has been in," she says.
"I worry that people may think there is some unspoken problem with Master. But the truth is, the problem is mine -- mine and every other foster parent, biological parent, or social worker that has put their needs above the needs of these children.
"Master was counting on me -- not to save him or to rescue him, but to just be there, day after day. I let him down. He deserved better. He still deserves better."
Sometimes on weekends, Master is taken to functions called "match parties."
At these gatherings, foster children and potential adoptive parents stand around, sizing up each other. Sometimes there's a match.
"It's like a school dance," Master says. "And just as uncomfortable."
Master has been to more of these parties than he can count.
So far, he hasn't been picked to dance.
The rejection never gets easier.
So Master daydreams.
"I think about what it would be like to be like everybody else. To be loved. To have a real mother and father. And to wake up knowing this is my bed. No one else has slept here."
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After a scoreless first half in which Holy Cross held a 5-3 shot advantage, the Crusaders were finally able to break the stalemate with Cintas' goal at 60:25. Junior midfielder Tommy Uttaro (Staten Island, N.Y.) crossed the ball from the right side where it was initially headed by classmate Kevin O'Connell (Basking Ridge, N.J.). The ball bounced into the air where Cintas headed it home for his team leading sixth marker of the season. The goal is also his team-best second game-winner of the year.
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Through continuous professional development, our academic team is taking advantage of cutting edge resources, new ideas and research-based strategies to impact our students' academic achievement. Our parents and community are essential partners in this team effort to ensure that comprehensive continuity of effort extends beyond the physical schoolhouse environment into the home and community.
Our primary goal this year is to exceed the minimum requirements of the Virginia's Standards of Learning for Math and Reading. Also be mindful that SOLs represent only a portion of our students' educational experience. We are confident that when their Mustang experience is over, they will leave us yearning for more life-long learning opportunities.


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NAME: Terrell Hoffman
POSITION: President, Cycle World, Village Green Shopping Center
FAMILY: Divorced, no children
EDUCATION: Darton College, Valdosta State University
Terrell Hoffman, president of Cycle World at Village Green Shopping Center, is crazy over video gaming and hanging out at the beach, he says. And don't forget the bikes.
Hoffman, 25, was drafted into the business following the death of his grandfather, Jim Laue, who founded Cycle World as a motorcycle repair shop in 1976.
Laue transitioned the business toward the sale and repair of bicycles around the time of Hoffman's birth.
Today the company is run entirely by Hoffman, who does "everything that doesn't involve money," his mother, Carrie Hoffman, who serves as CFO, and his father, Terry Hoffman.
This week Terrell Hoffman took some time to speak with Herald reporter Jim West.
Q. What was your first job?
A. Working in Century Pecan Grove. They'd planted about 200 new pecan trees and my job was to dig two ditches for each and run drip lines for each. It took me a good six months to do. It was pretty much straight manual labor. I was 16 at the time.
Q. What was the first thing you spent money on when you received your first ever paycheck?
A. I bought a brand new TV. I had an older TV I was using when I was playing my video games and the newer TV had the flat screen and not the tube type. It was about 200 bucks.
Q. What's the single most effective technique you found over the past two years for keeping employees motivated?
A. With (the business) being family run, it's myself, my mom and my dad running the shop. It's my grandfather's memory that keeps us motivated to keep going, to keep the shop still in business and help people like we should be helping them.
Q. What led you to your current position? Why did you want to operate your own business?
A. I grew up in the business. My grandfather passed away two years ago and my uncle took over. In January, 2011, I was asked to come in and work at the shop. Without hesitation I came in, no problem. Once that happened I've been here ever since and enjoyed every day of it.
Q. Is your grandfather your role model? Do you have others?
A. Most definitely. He's the biggest role model outside of the shop, as far as life's lessons. He's definitely the biggest reason I came into the shop.
Q. What is the biggest lesson you as a business leader learned from the recent recession?
A. Actually, the recession hasn't affected us too bad. The reason for that, I guess, is the gas prices. With gas being so high, people have come more and more either to buy bikes or they're pulling their bikes out of the sheds and getting them fixed up. It saves a lot of gas. The biggest thing has been repairs. It keeps the lights on in the shop.
Q. If you could turn the clock back on one aspect of technology – examples e-mail, automated phone systems, cell phones, PDAs, etc. – what would you most like to see go away?
A. Actually, I don't think I'd like to see anything go away, since I was born in the technology era and I've been able to see the advances in technology. I'm very excited to see what else comes around. It's nice if I'm not at the shop or if I'm on vacation and I get a call I can pull it up on my phone and see where it is or what I can order.
Q. What is your favorite work-related gadget?
A. Very small, very simple, but it would be my Park Tool screwdriver. For some reason that's the only one I'll use. I won't use anybody else's.
Q. What is your favorite tradition?
A. Anything to do with family. I'm real big with family gatherings. Thanksgiving, Christmas — any time the family gets together. Those are my favorite traditions.
Q. What was the last book you read? Do you have things you read daily or regularly?
A. Outside of the cycle magazines I don't really read a lot of books. The last book I read was "1776" by David McCullough. Other than that, all I really keep up with is the new stuff with cycling.
Q. I'm up and going by? And what is your morning routine?
A. Typically I'm up and going by 7:30 a.m. I get a shower, eat breakfast and get here around 8:45 to get the shop open by 9:00.
Q. What famous person would you like to meet, and Why?
A. If I had the chance it would probably be Frank Sinatra. I really enjoyed his music growing up and kind of learned different things as far as morals and how to treat people. He has had a big influence outside of family. I was born in the wrong era to meet him.
Q. Favorite hobbies or activity outside work?
A. I'm a big gamer. I have a big group of about six guys I play with online. They're probably six of the best friends I've got. As weird as it sounds, we call each other, we know each other families. The only bad thing is they all live way out of Georgia — Minnesota, Nevada, places like that.
Q. Best thing about your job?
A. The best thing for me is keeping the shop going, because my grandfather established it. This was his thing, his gift to Albany as far as an actual cycle shop and I want to keep it around as long as I possible can. Day to day, I enjoy seeing the different kinds of bicycles that come into the shop. Repairs, especially. You get stories about what they say happened to the bikes and you know that's not what actually happened. It's fun to see the different things that come through.
Q. Worst thing about your job?
A. That would have to be the Saturdays. I don't get to watch the football games. Saturdays here are an all-day thing. By the time I get done and get home I don't really want to do anything else.
Q. The most beneficial course I took in school was?
A. I graduated from Darton with an associate (degree) in Education so that kind of helps out a lot as far as talking with people and being able to communicate.
Q. What would be your dream job if you were able to pick a position outside your current career path?
A. Anything on the beach. I've actually got one of my regulars I joke with about 15 years from now we'll open up a different kind of shop. It would be bicycles but would have running and swimming - kind of like a triathlon. Right on the beach front, and we would never be open because both of us would always be on the beach. Anything associated with the beach is my dream job.
Q. Finish this thought; "on the first anniversary of my retirement, I see myself…
A. On the beach with a big Margarita in my hand.
Q. What is the one trait a strong business leader cannot afford to be without?
A. Courtesy. The biggest thing we always do is greet them and ask them how we can help them. Knowledge can always be gained through experience but if you don't have the courtesy and politeness, especially for retail, they may not come back again.
Q. Crystal ball time: What's your call on when the economic recovery for our area will be in full swing?
A. You can look around and see we've got businesses coming up. Olive Garden just came into town and Buffalo Wild Wings will help the economy in this area. It's hard to judge when an actual kick start will happen, though.
Q. What kind of music might I find on your list of most played on your iPod?
A. Everything. I talk to a lot of people and that's what I ask them. They say everything. Everything for them is rock, country, rock/rap. Mine is Sinatra, Beethoven, Mozart, rock and roll, hard rock. I've even got rap and R&B stuff.
Q. What do you think is the biggest change Albany will see in the next 10 years?
A. I hope to see it change as far as growth happens. You can look around and see the growth. I'd like to see changes as far as the cycling area goes. We've got a lot of change coming as far as bike lanes coming in. The biggest change I'd like to see as far as that is cycling knowledge for motorists on the roads. Cyclists have every right that motorists do. I do see cyclists riding the wrong way on the road. They should be going with the traffic. The biggest thing I want to see is cyclist/motorist friendliness coming around.
Q. What are the biggest changes you have seen in your specific line of business over the past few years?
A. They're starting to incorporate different sides of riding into different areas. (For example) they're starting to put disc brakes on road bikes. Disc brakes had been a part of mountain biking. They also have what they call cyclocross bikes — road bikes you can use like a mountain bike/trail bike. They're now putting 11-speeds on bikes where you never thought that would happen. Every year there's something that comes out new in cycling.
ajshirle 2 years, 9 months ago
After being laid off for the 3rd time in 2008 in my 50's - the conclusion I have come to is that if you can meet a need, you can generate income no matter what the economy is saying. This young man apparently is in a location to do just that. Gone are the days when having a degree or years of on-the-job experience guaranteeing you being able to replace a job quickly. I have had to be "creative" myself for the last 4 years, but this journey has taught me "survival" skills - skills that I can still use when the recession leaves us. Career Counseling
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^^^this is new york^^^
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New york will look different when you do it though since you are so long, they can posture up and you can still keep it pretty tight.
I would say beware of this technique I have seen MULTIPLE people throw up...that beard would be a giant barf sponge...damn it I am a sympathetic puker with a VERY good imagination...must not talk about it anymore
You can also set this thing up from the flower sweep, when they properly defend your guard will be pretty high and one arm will already be in perfect placement.
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Style: BJJ, Judo--
There is a brown belt at my gym that does the scorpion after the person sits up in guard he sits up with them then does it.
"it's part of eddie bravo's curriculum. it's part of his various sub positions such as chill dog, kung fu grip, karate man, and zombie."
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I actually have not seen this particular move used before with high guard, although I do have a very mean variation of it to finish the triangle choke. It sort of crushes their head like a pimple and tends to give people a massive headaches.
I can see the combination of having your knees squeezed together (thanks to the S grip) and pushing off with your legs creating massive pressure on a persons ribcage and abdominal region. No wonder people puke and get ribs popped. I would imagine that once you see someone setting this up it is a lot easier to avoid.


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In this issue:
Erin Hodgson, Department of Entomology
Chad Patterson, Webster City area, recently reported finding corn flea beetles feeding on seedling corn in central Iowa. Corn flea beetles are small, shiny and black (Fig. 1), and about 1/16 inch long. The adults feed by scraping parallel to the veins along upper or lower leaf surfaces. The scratches create a "windowpane" effect where the tissue looks bleached or silvery (Fig. 2). Sometimes the feeding scars resemble foliar diseases such as gray leaf spot or Northern corn leaf blight. The feeding rarely causes economic damage to established corn, but can sometimes kill corn seedlings with high beetle populations. Growers should be aware that corn leaf beetle can vector a bacterium called Pantoea stewartii (Erwinia stewartii), that causes Stewart's wilt bacterial disease. Susceptible varieties of sweet corn hybrids and seed corn inbreds may be infected during the seedling stage but not show any symptoms until later in the summer. Infected plants will be covered in leaf lesions, not produce an ear, or die.
Figure 1. Corn flea beetles are shiny black with enlarged hind legs for jumping. Photo credit Mike Quinn, www.bugguide.net.
Figure 2. Heavy infestations of corn flea beetle can leave feeding scars that look like disease lesions. Photo credit University of Illinois-Urbana archives, www.ipmimages.org.In an ICM News article earlier this year, Forrest Nutter made predictions about Stewart's wilt disease in Iowa. He summarized the statewide risk level as "negligible to low" based on the Stevens-Boewe Index and Iowa State Stewart's disease model. Although the predicted risk is low, scouting for corn flea beetle as corn emerges is recommended. Special attention to scouting and feeding damage should be made for seed corn and susceptible varieties. Adults move into fields from grassy overwintering areas, and infestations typically start at field edges. Begin looking at 20 plants at five locations in each field and determine the number of adults per plant. Use the following thresholds for rescue treatments in corn:
Currently labeled products include pyrethroids (Asana XL, Mustang Max, Warrior II), organophosphates (Lorsban 4E, Nufos 4E), and carbamates (Lannate LV, Sevin 4F). See manufacturer's labels for use rates and restrictions. Corn flea beetle management considerations include seed selection and cultural practices. Incorporating host plant resistant hybrids will help prevent feeding and disease transmission. Systemic seed treatments provide early season control of corn flea beetle and Stewart's wilt in corn. Keep fields and surrounding areas weed-free to minimize overwintering habitat and food sources for larvae and adults. For susceptible varieties, plant later to avoid the spring migration of adults.
Erin Hodgson is an assistant professor of entomology with extension and research responsibilities; contact at firstname.lastname@example.com or phone 515-294-2847.
By Roger Elmore, Department of AgronomyNinety-two percent of Iowa's 2011 corn acreage was planted as of May 15, according to the USDA-NASS report. Our planting progress finally pushed above the five year average and approached the progress on the same date last year. A third of Iowa's corn had emerged at the time of the report. Since then, we've had a few good planting days and some warmer temperatures and sunshine. The next USDA-NASS report will likely show nearly all of our corn planted and most of it emerged. Growing up with corn and throughout my career I've heard, and said, "You can row the corn!" This has nothing to do with braiding hair. Here's the way I understand the use of those words:
Rowing corn - A definition: The ability to observe rows of freshly emerged corn from the end of the field or as you drive by at 25, or even 55, miles per hour. It is a remote measure of crop growth.
Rowing corn - A definition: The ability to observe rows of freshly emerged corn from the end of the field or as you drive by at 25, or even 55, miles per hour. It is a remote measure of crop growth.
Perhaps it's a big deal because it denotes a milestone for the crop and marks, hopefully, the end of the planting season at least for that specific field. Certainly it tells us there are enough plants emerged together to display long lines of green converging on the horizon. An amazing sight. No pun intended!
Figure 1. You can 'row' the corn, Story County, IA; 19 May 2011.
But, don't let the beauty of the long straight rows of freshly emerged corn lull you into contentment. This is the time to walk your fields. If something catches your eye or looks amiss, put on your CSI (crime scene investigation) hat and check it out. Count the emerged plants. Look for 'wild' variability in plant to plant spacing – small differences are less important than achieving proper plant populations. (See the articles on Planter Speed and Uniformity on the Planting tab on the Iowa State University agronomy corn production Web page). Look for variation in plant emergence and size. Uniform plant emergence and plant population are far more important than plant spacing in most fields. Dig slow-to-emerge plants or kernels in skips and compare them to earlier-emerged, neighboring plants. Ask why are they different? The answer may surprise you. Check planting depth, sidewall compaction, surface compaction, residue proximity, surface crusting, germination failure, insect feeding, mesocotyl rot, weed competition; and the list can go on and on. (See the articles on Crop Establishment and Appearance on the Early Season tab on the ISU agronomy corn production page). Perhaps the planter speed was too fast, the seed bed too wet, etc.? Figures 2 and 3 show a row segment with four plants at different stages ranging from germinating, to VE, to V1. It takes 90 to 120 growing degree day units (GDD) from planting to emergence and another 84 GDD for every new leaf from VE to V10. With this in mind, there is about 150 GDD difference between the first plants to emerge – positions 1 and 4 - and the seed in position 2 which is just sprouting. As of week ending May 20, although normal GDD accumulation is about 13 per day, we've only accumulated about seven per day in the last week.
This slow heat unit accumulation will handicap un-emerged plants relative to those that emerged earlier and set up lower yield potential on the late emerging plants. Seed depth and/or surface residue of the two later seeds/plants - positions 2 and 3 in Figure 3 - may have differed from that of plants 1 and 4 and slowed their emergence. Fortunately there were less than 5 percent un-emerged plants in this Story County field. The conclusions you reach during your CSI investigation may not help you now or for that matter anytime this growing season. But it will help you next year. Plan ahead! Now is the time to walk your fields!
Figure 2. Top view of a short segment of corn row with three emerged plants (positions 1, 3 (barely emerged), and 4 (emerged) and one not yet emerged (position 2). Story County, Iowa; 19 May 2011.
Figure 3. Seeds and plants from positions 2, 3, and 4 from Figure 2.
Roger Elmore is a professor of agronomy with research and extension responsibilities in corn production. He can be contacted by email at email@example.com or (515) 294-6655.
Roger Elmore, ISU Extension corn specialist, discusses yellow corn emergence and the benefits to producers who walk their fields gathering information to prepare for next year. Look for the weekly Crop Minute on the right side of the ICM News homepage, under More Resources. Or go directly to the May 16, 2011 interviews (mp3).
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A modulating gas burner control system using closed loop feedback from a flame rod which provides a signal that varies with gas pressure and which provides combustion air fan control to accurately control the heat from the system without use of expensive control valves.
1. In a burner control system having a gas supply, a valve receiving gas from the gas supply and controlling gas flow, an air source to be mixed with the gas, a burner for producing a flame from the gas/air mixture, a flame rod for detecting the presence of flame, a heat exchanger for receiving the burning gas/air mixture, a combustion fan for driving the gas/air mixture through the heat exchanger and a pressure switch for determining the gas/air pressure in the combustion fan, the improvement comprising:
a controller for receiving a signal from the flame rod and producing a control signal to the valve in accordance with a predetermined relationship between the flame rod signal and the gas pressure so as to position the valve in accordance with a desired gas pressure and wherein the controller provides for calibration of the flame rod from time to time by determining the gas pressure at a maximum opening of the valve and determining the gas pressure at smaller openings therefrom.
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Desired Flame Current=K*Firing Rate+Offset
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9. A burner control system comprising:
a valve to produce a controlled gas flow, and having a gas output pressure from the valve varying with valve opening;
a burner receiving a gas/air mixture from the gas flow and a source of air to provide a gas/air mixture which is to be ignited to produce a flame;
a flame rod for detecting the presence of flame to produce a signal which also varies with the gas output pressure from the valve;
a heat exchanger receiving the flame and directing the burning gas/air mixture downstream;
differential pressure responsive means producing a signal indicative of a downstream pressure of the burning gas/air mixture; and
a controller for receiving the signal from the flame rod and the signal from the differential pressure responsive means to produce a control signal to the valve in accordance with a predetermined relationship between the flame rod signal and the signal from the differential pressure responsive means so as to position the valve in accordance with a desired gas pressure and wherein the controller provides for calibration of the flame rod from time to time by determining the gas pressure at a maximum opening of the valve and determining the gas pressure at smaller openings there from.
10. The burner control system of
11. The burner control system of
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13. Apparatus according to
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17. A burner control system comprising:
a gas supply;
a valve receiving gas from the gas supply and controlling gas flow;
an air source to be mixed with the gas to produce a gas/air mixture;
a burner for producing a flame to produce a burning gas/air mixture;
a flame rod for detecting the presence of flame;
a heat exchanger for receiving the burning gas/air mixture
a combustion fan for driving the gas/air mixture through the heat exchanger and directing heat to a desired space;
a pressure switch for determining the gas/air pressure in the combustion fan; and
a controller for receiving a signal from the flame rod and producing a control signal to the valve in accordance with a predetermined relationship between the flame rod signal and the gas pressure so as to position the valve in accordance with a desired gas pressure and wherein the controller provides for calibration of the flame rod from time to time by determining the gas pressure at a maximum opening of the valve and determining the gas pressure at smaller openings therefrom.
18. The method of controlling the flow of gas from a valve in a combustion control system including the steps of:
A. sensing the gas pressure from the valve from a signal produced by a flame rod;
B. sensing the differential pressure of the gas air mixture with pressure pick up means located proximate the combustion fan;
C. comparing the gas pressure signal produced by the flame rod with the differential pressure sensed to provide a desire pressure signal,
D. controlling the opening of the valve in accordance with the desired pressure signal, and,
E. calibrating the flame rod from time to time by determining the gas pressure at a maximum opening of the valve and determining the gas pressure at smaller openings there from.
19. The method of
A1. Igniting the gas/air mixture and directing the burning gases past the flame rod to a heat exchanger.
20. The method of
A2. directing the burning gasses downstream with the combustion fan.
21. The method of combustion control comprising the steps of:
A. directing gas from a source to a gas valve to produce a gas output;
B. mixing the gas output with air and directing the mixture of gas and air to a burner for ignition;
C. directing the gas/air mixture to a heat exchanger past a flame rod to produce a flame rod output signal when the gas/air mixture is burning;
D. directing the burning gas/air mixture in the heat exchanger to a combustion air fan for exhaust;
E. sensing the gas/air pressure with differential pressure pick up means at the combustion air fan to produce a sensor signal;
F. comparing the sensor signal with the flame rod output signal to produce a control signal;
G. adjusting the opening of the valve in accordance with the control signal;
H. calibrating the flame rod from time to time by determining the gas pressure at a maximum opening of the valve and determining the gas pressure at smaller openings there from; and
I. modulating the airflow by modulating fan speed of the combustion fan.
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to gas burner control and more particularly to feedback control for modulating gas burners.
2. Description of the Prior Art
Gas burners employ a source of gas which passes through a regulator to control the flow emitted through an orifice. A source of air is mixed with the gas and the gas/air mixture is transmitted to a burner where an igniter causes combustion. The resulting flames are thrown past a flame sensor into a heat exchanger that transfers heat to a supply of air directed to the space to be heated. The flow of burning gas/air mixture in the heat exchanger is controlled by a combustion fan at one end. The gas/air flow is proportional to the RPM of the fan which is typically supervised by an air pressure switch. Changes in fan speed cause changes in the amount of heat exchanged and the heat that is directed to the space to be heated may be controlled. However, as the speed of the fan is changed, the ratio of gas to air in the gas/air mixture must also be changed to maintain good combustion and keep efficiency within an acceptable range
It is known that the ratio of gas to air in the gas/air mixture needs to be within certain limits in order to provide good combustion and efficiency. The gas flow may be controlled by an electric modulating gas valve with a gas pressure regulator. Modulating gas burners have been constructed to attempt to obtain the desired gas/air mixture under various conditions but existing modulating gas burners normally rely on open loop control of the gas and air relationship. This leads to two problems: the first is the production tolerance of the modulating gas valve and the second is the tolerance of the combustion air control system.
The present invention solves these problems by providing a feedback signal to give an indication of the output level so that the input signal can be adjusted via a closed loop control to achieve the desired output level. In order to detect the output gas flow, we have discovered that the flame ionization signal from a flame sensor, such as mentioned in German Patent P19857238.7 granted Apr. 7, 2000 and that has been used to detect the presence of flame and to provide a shut down of the gas valve if the flame should fail to light or is extinguished after lighting, is also a signal which varies in a predictable fashion with gas flow. By using a predetermined relationship, a controller can monitor the flame ionization level and use it as a feed back signal to adjust the modulation input signal and thus obtain the desired output pressure. However, the flame ionization signal may change with contamination of the flame rod over a period of time so an automatic field calibration should be performed to maintain accuracy.
Accordingly, the present invention also provides calibration by driving the gas valve with a maximum modulation signal which is guaranteed to open the gas valve to a calibrated high pressure setting. The tolerance of the high pressure setting is easily controlled to a tight range of values. The flame is ignited at the high level and the flame ionization signal is recorded. From this high fire flame ionization level, the system determines the flame ionization levels for other output flows. Thus the appliance can be controlled in a narrower pressure tolerance band than could be obtained without this type of feedback control.
Like the gas pressure calibration, the airflow also needs to be automatically calibrated. This is required for the proper accuracy of the gas/air mixture at any point in the modulating range. In the present invention, the airflow is modulated by modulating the fan speed of the combustion air blower to be described. The RPM of the fan is supervised through an RPM sensor. The maximum setting airflow is calibrated by increasing the airflow (by increasing the RPM) until the set point of the pressure switch is reached. This point corresponds to the maximum load or 100% airflow. Now the airflow is calibrated. The airflow from this maximum point is proportional to the RPM of the fan at a certain temperature.
Controller 16 also controls the speed of a circulator blower 32 by way of a line 34 and the circulator blower 32 pushes air into a chamber 36 where the heat exchanger 28 is located. Heat is transferred from the heat exchanger 28 to the passing air in chamber 36 to supply heated air, as shown by arrow 40, to a desired heated space. Air from the heated space is also returned to the circulator blower 32 as shown by arrow 42.
The amount of heat transferred to the air 40 is a function of the burning gas/air flow through the snake like tube 30 which, as mentioned, is controlled by the speed of a combustion air fan 46 that receives the gas/air combustion flow from tube 30 and throws the exhaust out of a stack 47. Combustion air fan 46 includes an RPM sensor 46 a associated therewith to produce a signal indicative of fan speed on a line 46 b to the controller 16.
Also, as mentioned, the gas/air flow is a function of the pressure of the gas/air mixture generated by the combustion air fan 46. A flange, 48 is located at the end of tube 30 and, the pressure difference over flange 48, which could also be a venturi, is sensed using pressure pick up points 49 a and 49 b on either side thereof. The actual pressures are led to a pressure switch 50 over lines 52 a and 52 b respectively. Pressure switch 50 is a diaphragm type that, based on the pressure differential on the diaphragm and setting, acts on an electric switch to produce a signal. The signal from pressure switch 50 indicative of switch action is presented to controller 16 over a line 53. The switch action enables the controller to determine the status of the pressure switch 50 and can be a high or low pressure indication due to switch contact being made or not. At each start-up, the airflow must be proven and the RPM of the combustion fan 46 is ramped up until the pressure switch set point is achieved and switch 50 switches. The RPM at this point represents 100% airflow (within the tolerances of the pressure switch 50 set point). From this 100% point, the actual RPM needed can be calculated by:
Controller 16 produces a speed control signal to combustion air fan 46 by a line 54 to cause the desired airflow to be maintained and sets and controls the required RPM for the required load. The load requirement at any point depends on the deviation of the sensor inputs to the controller 16, its set point and the control algorithm. The sensor inputs are shown in
The airflow must match the gas flow at any point in the control range. That is, the predetermined gas/air ratio at a certain firing rate (between low rate and 100% rate) is equal to the actual rate within the tolerance range. Full capacity represents 100% airflow and 100% gas flow. It is clear that in this linear one-to-one gas/air relation, 40% airflow matches with 40% gas flow for a good combustion at low rate. (40% of full rate is considered to be a "low rate".) The controller 16 can also work with a predetermined offset (in air or gas). Any predetermined offset will depend on the specific application for which the invention is used and controller 16 will have an appropriate mathematical function, the transfer function, stored therein so as to produce the offset. For example, to prevent condensation in the heat exchanger 28, it may be desirable to run the combustion in burner 22 at a higher excess air flow rate for low fire conditions than at high fire conditions. The desired offsets can be easily included in the controller 16. As mentioned above, we have found that the output of flame rod 26, when properly installed in the flame, is a predetermined function of the gas pressure and may thus be used to control the operation of modulating valve 14. The predetermined function can be as simple as a linear function where Desired Flame Current=K�(Firing Rate+Offset). Controller 16 uses the Desired Flame Current as a set point for a feedback control loop, using Measured flame Current as its input, that controls the valve setting to maintain the Desired Flame Current.
As also mentioned, the output of the flame rod 26 can change with time and thus, the output should be periodically calibrated to assure accuracy is maintained. This calibration is performed by driving the modulating valve to the maximum open condition and measuring the signal from the flame rod. Then, the pressures at various smaller openings can be accurately predicted from the maximum flow signal because the calibration will modify the "K" and the "Offset" in the above equation.
One method by which the flame current can be calibrated is to read the actual flame current while the valve is fully open. At this point the outlet pressure of the gas valve is controlled via the internal regulator having a fixed set-point, therefore, the firing rate is well known. The flame current value is read as Current Full Fire by the controller.
Current Full Fire is then used to calculate K Calibrated:
This K Calibrated and/or the Current Full Fire are saved in memory for future use by the controller.
The current at other firing rates is now calculated by:
A second method can calibrate the Offset value and the K value if the valve has two regulated pressure settings. The full fire current is measured as above. The valve is then activated at a regulated low fire point where the pressure is again controlled to a known pressure. An additional current is measured at the low fire rate as Current Low Fire. The calibrated K term is calculated as:
The current at other firing rates is now calculated by:
Should the Offset need to be calibrated on a valve with only one regulator setting, it may be possible to develop an empirical function that relates change in Offset to change in K. The controller will find K Calibrated as in the first method and then calculate Offset from Offset=Empirical Function (K Calibrated). The empirical function will likely vary for each burner and flame rod combination.
It is thus seen that we have provided a modulating gas burner system that is more accurate than prior systems with the use of less expensive modulating gas valves. This has been accomplished by a closed loop feedback system and by utilizing the existing flame rod to provide gas pressure signals in addition to flame-out condition signals and by providing for calibration of the flame rod as it may change with time. It will be obvious that the system described for a furnace control may also be used for other gas burner control systems such as water heaters and boilers. Also, the various components described in connection with the preferred embodiment may have alternate equivalent components. For example, various kinds of igniters and differential pressure detectors, air movers and the like may be used in the present invention without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention. Accordingly, we do not wish to be limited to the specific disclosures used in describing the preferred embodiment.
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First direct evidence of cosmic inflation
March 18, 2014
Researchers from the BICEP2 telescope collaboration announced Monday the first direct evidence for cosmic inflation.
The inflation theory posits that almost 14 billion years ago, the universe we inhabit burst into existence in an extraordinary event that initiated the Big Bang. In the first fleeting fraction of a second, the universe expanded exponentially, stretching far beyond the current view of our best telescopes.
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listen: "call me maybe" x "walking on broken glass"
I really struggle with how much I should share with you about my pop music obsession. Because on one hand, pop music is fantastic. It's like candy – delicious, but not so nutritious. But on the other hand, I worry y'all will judge me and my (unimpeachable) music taste. Let's just say its a constant battle I face.
Today, pop music has won the battle over pretenciousness, and that means you get to listen to a fantastic mashup of Carly Rae Jepsen's hit "Call Me Maybe" and Annie Lennox's 1992 classic "Walking on Broken Glass." The mashup was done by Rostam (Vampire Weekend, Discovery), saying that "this one is strictly for the lulz."
And if you're not getting a few lulz every day, what are you doing with your life, really?
Listen for: Carly Rae Jepsen's vocals meshing perfectly with the piano line from "Broken Glass" at 0:38.


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