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GIG HARBOR, Wash. — Walla Walla Pacific's 11s fell to Rainier, 4-2, at the Washington State 10/11 Little League tournament here Sunday.
Walla Walla answered Rainier's two-run fourth inning to tie it up in the bottom of the inning, but Rainier bounced right back with two more fifth-inning runs which held up for the victory.
"We played a good game!" Pacific coach Nate Ferraro said. "Our pitching came through again and did as much as we could ask of them. Besides a few mistakes in the field and two pitches left over the middle of the plate, we played great baseball."
Anthony Senne pitched a strong 3 2/3 innings starting for Walla Walla, striking out four, and allowing four hits, two walks and one earned run.
Mathew McKenzie relieved to shut the door in the fourth inning and finish off the game giving up two earned runs on two hits, one strikeout, a walk and one hit batter.
Kelly Coll got the start for Rainier, giving up four hits, a walk and the two runs while striking out seven Walla Walla batters over 5 2/3 innings.
"During the first three innings of the game it was a pitching duel," Ferraro said. "Senne and Coll both cruised through the first three innings."
In the top of the fourth inning, Rainier's Lewis Welsh had a leadoff walk, and Mario Smulling then reached base on an infield error. Both runners then moved up on a passed ball.
Reen McFeely then hit a grounder to second base, and Pacific's Hunter Polley threw Welsh out at home, as McFeely moved up to second.
Ren Schneider then had a base hit to right field, scoring two runs.
Senne then struck out the next batter, ending his day on the mound as McKenzie came in and got a ground ball to Walla Walla first baseman Kristopher Serrano to end the inning.
Walla Walla came up in the bottom of the fourth, and Polley hit a one-out single. With two outs, Dylan Ashbeck sent the third pitch he saw over the right-center field wall to tie the game.
In the top of the fifth, Rainier's Sam Sproule reached base on an infield error. Aaron Barber came to the plate and hit a ground ball that resulted in a fielder's choice, bringing up Coll, who helped his cause by smacking the first pitch he saw from McKenzie over the right-field fence to give Rainier the 4-2 lead.
"You've got to hand it to their pitcher Coll, he threw hard and was able to take advantage of the corners of the plate," Ferraro said. "I am proud of our kids! Although we have struggled hitting as a team so far in the tournament, our defense and pitching have given us the chances to win ballgames. We were one bounce of the ball here or there from being 2-0 in the tournament.
"Dylan Ashbeck has brought his power to the tournament, driving his second opposite-field home run of the tourney," he said. "Anthony Senne and Mathew McKenzie had great performances on the mound."
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Wichita Falls ISD school board President Kevin Goldstein checks the updated results from the WFISD bond election Saturday evening.
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They worked together, sweated together and relentlessly drove through a season where nothing short of greatness was expected.
And by doing so, right up to the last second, the Jamesville-DeWitt boys basketball team earned a solitary place in the record books as the first Section III team to ever win back-to-back New York State Public High School Athletic Association championships.
The Red Rams confirmed that greatness in the most exciting way possible, battling past Peekskill 77-75 in an overtime classic during Sunday's state Class A title game at Glens Falls Civic Center.
Everyone, from the star trio of Brandon Triche, Alshwan Hymes and DaJuan Coleman, to the supporting cast led by Lamar Kearse and Steven Thompson, had to be at their best to win against Peekskill in a game as good as any state final in recent memory.
Between them, the Red Rams and Red Devils had won the last five state titles -- J-D winning in 2004, Peeskill taking over the next three years, then J-D taking it back in 2008, beating Peekskill in the semifinals along the way.
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J-D only sneaked ahead once, at 28-27 in the second quarter, but was down again 37-31 when, in the last minute of the half, it started to turn.
After Coleman hit a basket, a Peekskill player got whistled for a technical foul, and Hymes sank the ensuing free throws, making it 37-35 at the break.
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In an announcement confirming the expected, yesterday Bryant Moniz was named the University of Hawaii football team's No. 1 quarterback.
"Chee-hoo," said Moniz, a fourth-year junior who started eight games as an injury replacement for Greg Alexander in 2009.
Barring injury, Moniz will lead the Warriors' four-wide offense in the Sept. 2 season opener against Southern California.
Moniz entered spring training as the No. 1 quarterback, but was placed on personal leave for the final three weeks of the spring. He rejoined the team in late May for the start of the offseason conditioning program. By then, the quarterback competition was opened.
For the first three practices of training camp, the so-called top tier -- Moniz, Shane Austin, Brent Rausch and David Graves -- received an equal number of snaps during passing drills. Yesterday, Moniz took the majority of the snaps.
"Moniz is our No. 1 quarterback," said head coach Greg McMackin, who made the decision after consulting with offensive coordinator Nick Rolovich and receivers coach Mouse Davis. "He's the unanimous pick. He's got all of that game experience. Not only did he make the plays, he made plays when he was in trouble and got out of there because he was an athlete. He's having an excellent fall camp."
McMackin said it will take at least another week to name a No. 2 quarterback.
Austin, a fourth-year junior, started in the Warriors' road victory over San Jose State last year. Graves, a second-year freshman, took snaps as the No. 1 quarterback during Moniz's spring-training leave. Rolovich said the mystery candidate is Rausch, who did not play last season because of a broken finger on his throwing hand.
"Brent's had some bad luck, and he hasn't had a real true game opportunity to show what he can do," Rolovich said. "But he's a senior, and he's been doing well. He's in a very productive mind-set."
Moniz, a Leilehua High graduate, played at Fresno City College in 2007. He transferred to UH in January 2009. He entered the 2009 training camp as the No. 4 quarterback, but scaled the depth chart, and was the first summoned after Alexander, a senior, suffered a season-ending knee injury.
Moniz was troubled by arm fatigue during the 2009 season and was placed on a throwing limit during practices. This past offseason he strengthened his right arm with band exercises and weightlifting focusing on specific muscles.
"A lot of protein and weights and time," Moniz said. "I put in the time to strengthen my body and arm."
Rolovich said: "He worked really hard physically this year. It means a lot to him. His arm is fine. He has a nice touch on his (passes). He has zip when he needs zip."
Moniz said he never imagined he would be in this position.
"I was ready to quit when I first started football," said Moniz, whose first experience was as a member of Mililani's Pop Warner team. "I was scared to play football when I was a kid. When we started, I was 9, and we did some 'meat grinders,' and I got blasted. There's a drill where two guys come, and you have to shed both of them. I must have gone on the ground five times. But then we won the state championship that year, and I fell in love with it. That was a long way from now."
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Both had kept in shape. Paredes worked out on his own at UH, and Nielsen trained in California.


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IN the spring of 2004 a local golfer and his club professional teamed up in a bid to win a dream trip to Portgual.
Amateur player Ken Poole and Ingestre Park pro Danny Scullion were preparing ten years ago to start out on the road to the final stages of the Lombard Trophy/
Poole, a company director from Castlefields, Stafford, earned his spot after winning the club qualifier with a nett 69. They would go on to contest the regional final at Little Aston GC.
The winners of each regional event would earn a place on the plane to Portugal for an all-expenses paid trip in September of that year.
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During that same period, members of Apex Swimming Club enjoyed a busy spell.
In the first round of the Diddy League at Halesowen the team finished fourth . First places went to Keira Wilkinson, Matthew Gee, Adam Rowe and the 10-year girls relay team.
Universal D got back to winning ways in the Moss Pit Bowls League with a 10-1 victory over Stafford A, with wins for Maurice Lowndes (21-8) and Dave Hanlon (21-9).
County Officers enjoyed a good afternoon, running out 9-2 winners over Littleworth A, thanks to John Cussons (21-6) and Roger Moore (21-9).
Several members of Walton Chasers Orienteering Club competed in a physically tough event near Crich in the Peak District.
In soaring temperatures the best club result was achieved by Keith Elley who won the green course by two minutes, with Jane Christopher 21st, Tim Gray 58th, Seonaid Dudley 69th and Marlene Palmer 71st.
Just a week after completing the 2004 London Marathon, two local runners tackled the Shakespeare race over 26.2 miles.
Pete Sarson (Stafford Harriers) finished his fourth marathon in five weeks, clocking 3:15.15. Meanwhile, Lew Badger (Stone MM) completed the Stratford race in 4:36.11.
Around the local leagues in 2004 and Romulus won the Midland Combination Premier, with Brocton in 13th spot. Emerald Club B led the way in the Stafford Ladies Darts League division one.


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John Kerry testified to get America the fuck out of Vietnam, as well he should have. That war was a horrific debacle and Kerry should be commended for having the courge to stand up and speak up when his country was doing something wrong.
As for that Vietnam exhibit, of course if you see it on the internet it must be true. :roll: Especially if it's by such an obviously biased group.
don't subscribe to that ridiculous "my country right or wrong" philosohpy. If America's doing something wrong, it's not only your right, but your DUTY as a self-proclaimed patriot to speak out against it.
People as well as countrys do the wrong things.you may choose to Bitch about everything our goverment does that you see as "wrong" but to me that shows a weakness to our enemys
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The Viet Cong didn't think they had to win the war on the battlefield, because thanks to these protestors they were going to win it on the streets of San Francisco and Washington.
what do you think the people of Vietnam thought of all those people protesting? they saw them as our weakness
So Im am not going to sit here and say our country is wrong to go and invade Iraq ,Im not going to say it was wrong for america to drop bombs on Bagdad and kill women and children, Supporting your leaders decicions is american ad patriotic
Why did we go to Vietnam?
We went to vietnam to prevent the spread of communism.We went there after the
of south Vietnam asked us to help them. We go there fight a war we were not prepared to fight, the enemy fought in civilian cloths making it impossable to tell who was "freindly" and who was not. we were fighting the whole population, men, women, and children, and all those men women and children were killing US soldiers by the hundreds.
So US soldiers were killing men women and the children that were killing them. It was a fight for survival, and they were killing the enemy.
And for john Kerry to come back from Vietnam after being there only 4 months and to go before congress and say that we were killing men women and children for no reason sounds pretty fucked up to me.Accually if you think about it, hes back after being there four months ( and if you accually read his congressional testemony were he came out and said he didnt
any war crimes committed, he was going by word of mouth) he came back to the US and told all those protesters EXACTLY WHAT THEY WANTED TO HEAR.
hell of a way to start a political career, come back to the US , talk about war crimes ,meanwhile there are POWs in Vietnam being tourtured and killed because they wouldnt say they committed war crimes.So which is it ,was John kerry not being loyal to his country, or were POWs not being loyal?
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As for that Vietnam exhibit, of course if you see it on the internet it must be true. :roll: Especially if it's by such an obviously biased group.
Ted Koppel from ABC news sent people to vietnam to see this "memorial" and to intrveiw soliders of the vietcong, it was on nightline, fox news has covered it as well as NBC........It is one peice of evidence that is true,even though it is on the internet. I guess since the congressional transcript of John Kerry going before congress is on the internet, that makes it not true to?
I would like to see you go to that site
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and disprove thier facts as wrong, I dont post shit that I know will be proved wrong so go ahead and try, please.
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I served with these guys. I went on missions with them, and these men served honorably. Up and down the chain of command there was no acquiescence to atrocities. It was not condoned, it did not happen, and it was not reported to me verbally or in writing by any of these men including Lt.(jg) Kerry.
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The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional as to how they perceive the veterans of earlier wars were Treated and Appreciated by their nation.
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like I said, at this point it's exactly like being drunk and calling your fat ex-girlfriend at 2 am to get laid because you struck out at the local bar... pathetic..
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A few paragraphs … a few sentences … maybe just a few words?
Actually, it's only two words … and 8 letters … and if you follow them religiously, you'll accomplish more than you thought possible.
Here's an extract from what I said about it in my newspaper column last year, If you do nothing else, follow up:
Follow up is continually seeking progress on established initiatives.
If you're watching timelines … the period during which a project or task is being done … rather than the deadlines by when they're due … follow up might be seen as nothing more than shepherding a project to a successful conclusion.
There are some ancillary, yet powerful benefits to a good follow up system. First, it reinforces the expectation that a response is needed and increases the probability that it will actually get done, an important tenet in a responsible organization.
It also reveals situations where resources are over-committed, giving both parties a chance to renegotiate the commitment so that it works for everyone.
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Aren't there days when you feel like you spend all of your time chasing down things so they actually get done?
These days, almost everyone is working on one project team or another … and one of the results of that collaboration is that it takes a lot more time and energy to follow up to make sure people are getting their part done when it's needed.
Project management tools abound, with Gantt charts galore, to track the progress of projects and task dependencies to identify the bottlenecks when projects are stalled.
You mean the stuff I'm always "Waiting For"?
Yes, that's exactly what I mean … but most people don't have a reliable, structured method to track all of the tasks and assignments that require some form of follow up.
Some of you may recognize the term "waiting for", popularized as part of the David Allen's GTD methodology, Getting Things Done.
This simple term is the "kissing cousin" of FOLLOW UP. It's an invaluable technique for tracking what you're "waiting for" from others.
It's your rigorous use of the WAITING FOR technique that gives you the information to regularly FOLLOW UP to make sure things are getting done.
Keep track of everything you're WAITING FOR
Not a single day goes by when I don't consult my WAITING FOR list … and not a single day passes when there isn't something on it I had completely forgotten about and offered a silent "thank you" that I had written it down. (The good news is that if you have a trusted productivity system, you don't need to remember. Your trusted system will remind you.)
I track all of the tasks and projects that require something from someone else, no matter how trivial.
Sometimes as many as 50 of them pop up on any given day, telling me that I'm still "waiting for" something from someone to get something else done.
It could be a draft of a report someone promised to send, a confirmation that what someone received is what they were looking for … or it may a book I ordered that still hasn't arrived.
FOLLOW UP on everything you're WAITING FOR
It could be anything that I have a reasonable expectation to receive and am "waiting for" it to arrive … phone call, email, document, package, Publisher's Clearinghouse victory parade ….
With that information, I know what's missing and can follow up on it to make sure it gets done.
90% of getting things done is FOLLOW UP!
I've said before that 90% of Leadership is just showing up.
Likewise, it's not much of a stretch to say that FOLLOW UP is 90% of getting things done.
Yes, it would be a wonderful world if this process wasn't needed … everyone did everything they promised exactly when they promised it, advised you accordingly, and no FOLLOW UP was needed. That may occur in another dimension … but not the one we're living in.
Don't cop out by saying "It's not my fault, Sharon was supposed to get that to me but …." That's just poor FOLLOW UP on your part.
Track what you're "WAITING FOR" and FOLLOW UP when you don't get it. You'll be amazed at how much more you'll get accomplished.
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Swansea City's Chico Flores has been ruled out of Sunday's Capital One final against Bradford City due to injury.
The centre-back, who ruptured ankle ligaments in the Swans 4-1 win over QPR a fortnight ago, had received treatment at Barcelona.
Flores said on Twitter he was training on the beach early this morning. He added: "I want to be at Wembley !!!"
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It is important to understand the concept of stealing in order to properly answer this question. Most cases of stealing in healthy individuals require some sort of intent. When an individual with dementia takes somebody else's belongings and refuses to return them, intent is usually not the cause. As a result of confusion, disorientation, and poor judgment, individuals with dementia could have either forgotten that they took this item to begin with, misplaced it and forgot its location, thought it belonged to them (possibly because they had a similar item in the past), or other reasons. This is not an uncommon behavior for people with dementia and should be treated with care and sensitivity. Also consider the fact that many individuals with dementia like to "hold on" to items, regardless of what they are, because they provide some sort of comfort via tactile stimulation. If someone takes another's sweater, it may not be because they are in need of a sweater, but because the soft warm material feels good on their hands or they are enticed by the color or texture of it. If you see that a person has taken an item that does not belong to them, it is important not to react as though they stole it. An easy trick is to simply wait a few minutes until the person has put the belonging aside and remove it from their view. It is also a good idea to replace it with something so that they don't feel a loss in case they do remember. Another helpful tactic is to provide the individual with a box of their favorite things. For example, if you have observed that someone tends to take coins, pencils, and pictures, you can easily give him or her a shoebox of these items so that they can hold onto them and feel a sense of ownership. In fact, if you would like to get creative, you can make a fun and stimulating activity of the whole process. If you find that Sally tends to take other peoples things, you can create a memory box with Sally by collecting some of her favorite items and reminisce with her about the meaning of them. By decorating the box with her name and/or picture on it, you can frequently redirect her to "Sally's box" every time she is in search of something.
It certainly can happen, but it isn't really "stealing." They often think that something is theirs. What comes to my mind is a bleakly funny situation with my uncle and another man, both of whom were in the same nursing home.
The other man had Alzheimer's (my uncle had vascular dementia from strokes). The man would come into my uncle's room and take things, but it was the tissue box that was the prize. I would walk in and the two red-faced men would be playing tug-of-war over a tissue box! They both considered it theirs (it was my uncle's, but he could have another).
My take on the "stealing" is simply a case of not understanding what a belonging is or to whom it belongs - or even what it is for. Maybe the person thinks it's pretty.
If the stage is very early, there could be something going on that medication could help, but I don't think it's dishonesty that is suddenly rearing up.
Hi, Lisa,
I'm not sure what you're meaning by stealing, but I do know that in my grandmother's case, she was drawn to shiny objects (like sparkly buttons). So she would take those from wherever she saw them. I don't think she had a concept of stealing at that point.
My mom didn't take things, but instead hoarded items. For instance, she would carry a Kleenex box with her around the house. In the Kleenex box, she stashed a variety of things - pencils for her crossword puzzle, reading glasses, and at times, a TV remote control. She'd forget where she put all of these things, would start a new Kleenex box, and then hoard stuff in that one. She had multiple Kleenex boxes going all the time.
Hope this helps! Take care and keep us posted!
My mother started hoearding 14 umbrellas, 30 pounds of cheese, 6 pounds of tomatoes etc, 3 gallons of OJ. We just found out she was arrested for petty theft. The police took her in finger printed her and the whole process. She kept it from us but we found the police papers. Then iN sept a man appeared at th edoor after Renie walked into their front yard and cut six handfules of fresh flowers. My question is does she know she is stealing? I have confronted her but she doesnt seem to be bothered. Renie's answer to me was are they going to do to an old lady. I aM FRUSTRATED AND WORRIED.
They often aren't stealing - they just don't remember what is theirs and what is not. When my uncle was in a nursing home, a man with AD would come into his room and take my uncle's things. Of course, my uncle was furious. The thing was, the man with AD simple saw an item and took it because he thought it was his. Impaired judgment is a sign of AD. Please be compassionate.
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Hi Everyone. I am hoping that I can get some answers to some of the twilight zone days my husband and I are having. We were tricked into spending some time with an elderly woman (88 this year) who was perfect fine but had fallen and broken her hip. Once we agreed to the responsibility, we very very quickly found that none of the information we were given had any thing close to the truth in this case. What we were told: 1. All you will need to do is be there with her in case she fell again; 2. She goes to bed early and sleeps late; READ MORE
I don't think so. If a person was taught at an early age that stealing is wrong and was punished for stealing they would remember this lesson. Alzheimers in the early stage is a short term memory problem and the long term memory of not stealing because this is wrong to do would be in their memory bank.READ MORE
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my husband has alzheimers and everytime I clean out his room I amazed at the things I find. I don't think he is stealing but he does take things. Not from stores he never leaves the house. He goes through everything to include my purse and for what ever reason he takes things that he dosen't use and I am constanly trying to find keys or some other lost object that I don't know who took. Yes we have a I DIDN'T DO IT here. I think in his mind it is a game but can be bery frustrating for me. I have pretty much found his hiding spots so I look there first. I have had to chid/alzheimers proof my house. Dangerous or irreplaceable things have been locked up. They aren't being mean it's just the childish behavior coming out. Try locking things up especially things that would endanger them or you. Lock up valueables that can't be replaced. Explain to company this might happen and ask them to keep things locked up. For what ever their reason Alzheimers parients sundowns and this is mostly when they are up going through thing. With a little inguinity you will be able to deal with this and yes I think it is typical behavior. ConnieREAD MORE


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July 31 (Bloomberg) -- Yum! Brands Inc., owner of KFC and Pizza Hut, fell to its lowest in almost six months after it said sales in China have been hurt by the latest food scare there.
The shares dropped 4.9 percent to $69.40 at the close in New York for the lowest price since Feb. 3. Yum has lost 8.2 percent this year.
There has been a "significant, negative impact" to same-store sales at KFC and Pizza Hut during the past 10 days in China, the Louisville, Kentucky-based company said in a filing yesterday. It's too early to tell how quickly sales will recover, it said.
"Yum used similar language when it disclosed the impact of the negative press around its chicken supply chain in December 2012," Sara Senatore, a New York-based analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., wrote in a note. "Comps declined 25 percent in the initial aftermath of that incident, suggesting that comps may have declined a similar magnitude in the days following the emergence of the news."
Yum Brands, just recovering from a supply chain investigation in China that started in 2012, earlier this month was hit by another food scare in the country. Yum supplier Husi, a division of OSI Group LLC, became the subject of a government probe into the altering of expiration dates on food. Yum terminated its relationship with OSI globally after the investigation, while McDonald's Corp. said it would source items from another Husi plant in Henan.
"While OSI was not a major supplier to Yum Brands, these events triggered extensive news coverage in China that has shaken consumer confidence, impacted brand usage, and disparaged the hard work of our over 400,000 Chinese employees," Yum said in the filing.
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In our interview with Austrian human rights advocate and counter-jihadist Elisabeth Sabaditsch –Wolff she previewed the upcoming March against Christian Persecution, The Myth of Islamophobia: The Vienna – Phoenix Connections. We reported:
She discussed the forthcoming May 17th March against persecution of Christians in Orlando, Florida modeled on an annual one that occurs each December in Vienna. [The Orlando march will be held the evening of May 17th with remarks by the organizers and several speakers followed by a torch light silent parade]. {Sabaditsch-Wolff] will be coming to the US to join Florida March organizers Rev. Bruce Lieske and Alan Kornman of The United West. Lieske had witnessed the last March against Christian Persecution in Vienna and was moved to sponsor one in Florida, next month. Among the European contingent attending the Orlando March will be Sister Hatune Dogan, a Syrian Orthodox Christian Nun of Turkish origins. Read her speech in an Austrian Cathedral delivered on December 28, 2013, here.
Watch this You Tube video with Rev. Bruce Lieske of the Prince of Peace Lutheran Church in Orlando extending an invitation for you to attend the May 17, 2014 Prayer March against Persecution of Christians:
During our interview with Sabaditsch-Wolff, she noted the canard radical Muslims typically use, "first the Saturday people, then the Sunday People. Perhaps it is time for the Saturday people to defend the imperiled Sunday people".
That was the subject of a Wall Street Journal opinion piece by the Hon. Ron Prosor, Israel's Ambassador to the UN published last Friday, The Middle East War on Christians. Ambassador Prosor drew attention to the plight of ancient Christian communities in the Middle East and elsewhere threatened with extinction caught between warring radical Islamic extremist groups and ruling autocrats in the Middle East. He revealed that the only country in the region where Christian populations have increased is Israel. Further as we have written Orthodox Christians in Israel have rejected the label of Arab Christians as inappropriate and now unabashedly have signed up as loyal citizens to serve in the IDF according to Father Gabriel Naddaf, "Israel's Christians Who Defend the Jewish State."
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28 November 2012 01:06 PM
Sent this letter with lots of questions to DECC today. I wasn't aware of the this problem until this week. Perhaps engineers more familiar with this may wish to comment. I have invited DECC to speak to the IET on this connected set of issues.
James Arathoon
Dear DECC,
We are having to go through the process of having to have our gas supply pipes upgraded now that we have had a new condensing boiler installed to replace our old back boiler. The gas engineers tell me that this is quite a common occurrence. (Our original pipe was between 10 to 15 meters of 20mm bore with a short section of 16mm bore to turn the corner into the house. There was a 10mm steel insert linking the short 16mm section to the 20mm pipe) This is currently being upgraded to a 25 mm bore pipe to the meter with a short 2 ft 20 mm section to the gas main. If this is not enough we will have to have our spur of the gas main renewed in 25 mm as well. If this doesn't work we will need an even larger bore spur of the gas main. Our gas main pressure before the regulator is around 23 mbar above atmospheric.
We have just substantially upgraded the insulation on our solid walled 1930's semi-detached house and are using a mid-sized boiler in the Worcester-Bosh combi range.
Have you carried out statistical surveys to tell you what proportion of new condensing boiler upgrades require the bores of the gas supply pipes that run from the gas main to the house to be enlarged?
If you have, can you tell me what this proportion is? Also in cases where this happens can you tell me the average cost per condensing boiler install of doing this work. Are condensing boilers failing in significant numbers because of gas supply pressure problems?
What is the statutory minimum gas main pressure? Does the statutory minimum gas main pressure now need to be increased to cater for these new condensing boilers? and would this help avoid the need to upgrade gas connection infrastructure when new condensing boilers are fitted? Could changes be made to the design of condensing boilers that would help make them work better with existing gas supply infrastructure?
If we organise boiler upgrades in a different way can we spend more public money upgrading insulation and less upgrading gas service infrastructure?
Who is the systems/integration engineering expert in government who has thought through all these multi-faceted issues? Would they be willing to come to an IET engineering event to explain the governments thinking on such complex interconnecting engineering problems and how they are best solved? Do you have enough multi-disciplinary systems and integration engineers at DECC?
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James Arathoon MIET
Consulting Engineer
James Arathoon
28 November 2012 01:59 PM
Thanks for that James - I haven't stopped laughing for ten minutes after splurting tea all over my keyboard when I read it.
Low pressure gas has a satutory limit of 75mbar in the main and is usually around 30 - 50mbar
The minimum pressure of the main cannot be below 12.5mbar. Usually the meter governor is set to 21mbar.Your pipework design will be limited to 21mbar max
A lot of modern boilers will be sensitive to low gas pressure however the downstream installation from the meter should be limited to 1mbar drop and most condensing boilers only need about 18 - 20mbar anyway.
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28 November 2012 02:12 PM
With the original gas pipework with the gas fire, gas cooker and condensing boiler in test mode we were seeing a drop to 13 mBar. The 21 mBar Regulator was found to be working fine. Therefore we were seeing a 10 mBar drop from mains pressure.
Apparently back-boilers work fine with such an arrangement, but condensing boilers can cut out.
With the old pipe arrangement and a 10 mBar drop we would end up with a 2.5 millbar feed at the statutory minimum. No doubt this would happen in the depths of winter just as we needed our boiler most.
I made a previous comment in a letter about the lack of engineering expertise at DECC and saw a job advert for engineers a couple of weeks later. This may have been just a coincidence, but my life is so full of these types of coincidence, that I like to believe that in at least some of these instances my comments have the necessary effect.
James Arathoon
James Arathoon
28 November 2012 02:15 PM
I'm remembering some stuff because we had a problem when our new boiler was put in.
At your meter, the pressure should be 20mbar or so, and not much less. If the pressure at the meter reads 20mbar but the pressure at your boiler is much lower, then its your problem to improve your home piping to 22mm etc.
We had the problem that the pressure at our boiler was <<20mbar when the new boiler was cranking hard. Immediately the Transco guy measured this (it was 2mbar if I remember correctly!), he turned off our gas supply and put in the emergency call. Transco came the next day (we were prioritised due to very young children at the time). They didn't need to increase any pipe diameter, but the old pipe (street to our meter) was clogged with 80 years of "gunge". They blew it out and inserted a new plastic pipe inside (thats quite a trick, seeing as it crossed the entire road underground and then did a 90 degree bend in our solum).
Because is was on the "grid" side of the meter, it didn't cost us a penny. Don't ask me about Transco's costs though. In fairness, this would have been a problem with any boiler, but the most likely time to spot it is when your new combi goes in. Telltale signs are the cooking gas hob burners going out when the boiler kicks in. Our combi boiler seemed to be quite happy on 2mbar by the way, although the gas engineer was astonished it was working!
I suspect that the gas main pressure does NOT need to be increased above 20mbar since the "peaky" combi usage per household will tend to aggregate out over the neighbourhood. Also, there is a tremendous volume of gas in the mains and it provides a nice storage reserve in itself. I believe pressure is deliberately increased a tad by Transco when high demand is forecast for this reason, and its called "linepack" if I am not mistaken?
Dr. Andrew Roscoe
28 November 2012 02:43 PM
Hi Andrew,
I was only asking whether the statutory lower limit of 12.5 mBar needs to be increased, if large numbers of combi boilers speced for in the region of 20 mBar are installed. If you want to make use of the 21 mBar meter regulator to improve reliability it might seem best to maintain the gas main pressure slightly above 21 mBar at minimum. I am not a gas engineer so I don't know the infrastucture costs of guaranteeing this level as a statutory minimum to enhance the reliability of condensing boilers.
I am also questioning the aggregate infrastructure costs of changing to combi boilers because we all pay for this in our bills - and this is a sort of hidden green deal system in a way.
If the combi boiler costs approx £1000 and the gas infrastucture costs are some multiple of this, then this is ok if this is a rare occurance. However if this is happening to a large number of people (and indications are that it is), then the aggregate cost to the public bill payer could really start to escallate as more and more people change over to condensing boilers.
James Arathoon
James Arathoon
30 November 2012 09:19 AM
Some additional thoughts on this...
1. Combi boilers work their hardest when heating water, so insulating houses only has a partial effect on derating the maximum power output of the boiler. Would need to add electrical top up heating for the hot water to minimise the power output of the gas boiler, to the size needed for heating a well insulated house.
As combi boilers are at their least efficient in heating hot water, this may be worth considering. There may be a slight energy cost penalty associated with such a hybrid system and this would need to be evaluated. There may be no overall cost advantage here if gas supply upgrades are still needed even for the derated condensing boilers.
2. The old statutory minimum gas pressure of 12.5 mBar now seems effectively defunct. It seems that the grid operator cannot safely run the gas main pressure that low now that condensing boilers attached to the grid.
3. Our Baxi gas fire can still be used if the back-boiler is decommissioned properly according to the manufacturers instructions. Apparently some firms are advising that these have to be ripped out even if they are in good condition and the manufacturer says that they can be used in this way. This may be sometimes be leading to unnecessary extra costs to the consumer.
4. Ofgem have confirmed to me that they do not collect statistics on the percentage and cost of gas supply upgrades needed when new combi-boilers are fitted.
James Arathoon
James Arathoon
13 January 2013 10:52 AM
Having written to DECC on this subject, they were unable to answer my questions and rather than letting me know directly, transferred my email to the Department for Communities and Local Government, which has just sent me a letter.
The Department for Communities and Local Government have confirmed to me, that they do not hold the statistics on the knock on infrstructure upgrade costs I am after.
Apparently the Heating and Hot Water Information Council (HHIC) do collect replacement boiler statisics, but not details of knock on infrastructure upgrade costs.
James Arathoon
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Technically, these leaks can't exceed certain amounts. The TCEQ does conduct some inspections, but mostly relies on companies to police themselves. Environmentalists say that one big problem is that the agency doesn't even know where a lot of the equipment is. Ramon Alvarez is a scientist with the Environmental Defense Fund.
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Last week, just outside Cuba's holiest Catholic shrine, government thugs attacked in plain daylight a group of opposition women -- beating them, stoning them and stripping them naked to the waist. The women, mostly black and middle-aged, suffered this public humiliation because they were trying to find a dignified way to bring attention to the plight of their husbands, who are in prison for freely speaking their minds.
The archbishop of Santiago de Cuba has condemned the attack.
It should make for poignant watching today, the anniversary of the start of the Cuban Revolution.
Unfortunately, there's nothing unusual in this grotesque attack on the Damas de Blanco (or Ladies in White, the harassed association of wives of political prisoners) on the street outside the shrine of Our Lady of La Caridad del Cobre. It's routine for Cubans to be publicly degraded, brutalized and imprisoned when they dare speak their minds. Their daily existence has been one of fear and wretched suffering for 50 years now.
Yet the chances are that you probably haven't heard about this story. A quick Google search of the attacks on the Damas de Blanco turned up only about five hits, none from a major publication. Why?
Not because it's a dog-bites-man story (literally, in this case), as some journalists might have you believe. No, it's simply because the media don't report the daily attacks on the Cuban dissidents.
All the major international news wires, and at least two TV networks, have bureaus in Cuba. But they're either so afraid of being expelled, or have so bought into the regime's propaganda, that all they report is how Raul Castro is bringing economic reforms to Cuba.
So little is the story of Cuba's oppression known outside that island prison that, were the constant repression reported occasionally, it might actually cause a stir.
Clearly, Raul—Fidel's brother, who was handed the day-to-day reins of the island when his elder brother fell ill a couple of years back—has no intention of doing anything that will threaten communism's firm grip on Cuba. Otherwise, his goons would feel no need to terrorize and drag a bunch of older women naked through the streets.
What this dearth of news on the Gulag Next Door has produced is a strange double standard, where similar repression in far-away Burma, Zimbabwe or Libya -- also by leftist regimes -- gets far better coverage. Such is the ignorance of events in Cuba that MSNBC host Chris Matthews two years ago asked this question in an interview:
"Congressman Burton, why do you think Cubans on the island still support the Castro brothers? What is it that allows that lock on those people to continue?"
Well, Chris, here's your answer to what happens to Cubans when they try to pick that lock. Leaving Cuba is illegal, so you either stay silent, brave shark-infested waters on inner tubes (it is illegal to own boats in Cuba, for reasons that should be apparent), or risk suffering the fate of the Damas de Blanco.
Culturally as well, Castro gets a pass not just from committed Marxists like Michael Moore, from whom it is expected and therefore ignored, but from otherwise well meaning personalities like TV chef Anthony Bourdain.
On the day the Anthony Bourdain Goes to Cuba episode aired to much fanfare on the Travel Channel, July 11, news also emerged from the center of the island that dissident Guillermo Fariñas had been beaten up and arrested by police.
This poor timing was hardly Bourdain's fault; again, Cubans get physically attacked and incarcerated for speaking their minds quite frequently. What is Bourdain's fault, and the Travel Channel's, is that they decided to give Fariñas' tormentors such unfiltered propaganda.
Our leaders are no better. Lawmakers such as Barbara Lee, Javier Serrano, Emanuel Cleaver, Bobby Rush, Rosa DeLauro, Kathy Castor, James McGovern, Charlie Rangel, Laura Richardson and Jim Moran are constantly carrying water for the Castros.
It is well past time for people of conscience to continue supporting this abomination, here or elsewhere.
The shrine of del Cobre commemorates the occasion in 1604 when the Virgin appeared to three fishermen, the mestizo Juan Moreno and two Indian brothers surnamed Joyo, and carried their boat to safety from a storm. Those of the Christian faith would take comfort from the fact that this attack on helpless women happened to close to a church dedicated to this Virgin and would pray that Cubans too will one day soon be delivered from their suffering.
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