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A Look at Former Liberty Flames Playing with MLB Organizations This Summer
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Chicago White Sox outfielder and former Flame Ryan Cordell
With the professional baseball ranks well into their 2019 season, LibertyFlames.com takes a look at former Flames currently playing in Major League Baseball organizations this summer.
(Information on the player or his team can be accessed by clicking on player or team name - Years at Liberty in Parentheses)
Ryan Cordell (2011-13)
Cordell is enjoying his first full season in the major leagues with the Chicago White Sox. The outfielder enters the White Sox's contest with the New York Mets on Tuesday, hitting .234 with five home runs, 18 RBI and 15 runs scored. He has seen action in 69 games, mainly as Chicago's right fielder.
D.J. Artis (2016-18)
Chicago Cubs – Midwest League (A – Full Season)
After playing a few games in the Arizona League, Artis was promoted to the South Bend Cubs of the Midwest League. Entering play today, Artis has hit .267 with 21 RBI and 35 runs scored. The all-time base on balls leader at Liberty, the outfielder has shown the same at the professional level, walking 29 times and posting a .378 on base percentage in 49 games with South Bend.
Jackson Bertsch (2016-18)
Pulaski Yankees
New York Yankees – Appalachian League (Rookie Advanced)
After starting his professional career last season in the Gulf Coast League, Bertsch has advance to the Pulaski Yankees of the Appalachian League this season. The right-hander has posted a 1-0 with a save in 10 appearances. He has struck out 21 over 11 2/3 innings of work.
Evan Brabrand (2018-19)
Miami Marlins – New York – Penn League (Rookie Short Season)
The 2019 All-American is off to a strong start to his professional career for Batavia. Brabrand enters the week with a 2-1 record and eight saves in 11 appearances for the first place Muckdogs. The right-hander has posted a 2.61 ERA and struck out 14 in 10 1/3 innings of work.
Jack DeGroat (2016-18)
AZL Indians Red
Cleveland Indians – Arizona League (Rookie)
DeGroat continues to rehab from injury and has yet to pitch in a game for the Indians' organization, this season.
Jonathan Embry (2016-19)
Hudson Valley Renegades
Tampa Bay Rays – New York – Penn League (Rookie Short Season)
The 2019 ASUN Player of the Year, Embry has played in 14 games for the Wappingers Falls, N.Y.-based Hudson Valley Renegades. The catcher enters the week with a .300 on base percentage.
Andrew McInvale (2018-19)
GCL Blue Jays
Toronto Blue Jays – Gulf Coast League (Rookie)
McInvale has appeared in three games for the Blue Jays in the Gulf Coast League. The right-hander has made one start and two relief appearances, with his last outing coming on July 18.
Tre Todd (2018)
Rancho Cucamonga Quakes
Los Angeles Dodgers – California League (Class A Advanced)
Todd has played for three different teams this season as he advances in the Dodgers' organization. Recently called up to the Quakes, Todd has appeared in 14 games and has an on base percentage of .378.
In the coaching ranks -
Tony Beasley (1988-89)
Coaching Staff – Assistant Coach
Beasley is in his fifth season with the Texas Rangers and his 19th year as a professional coach. For the second consecutive year, Beasley is serving as the Rangers' third base coach. The Rangers under the direction of first-year manager Chris Woodward enter the day with a 53-53 mark.
Matt Hagen (2000-02)
Hickory Crawdads
Texas Rangers – South Atlantic League (Class A Advanced)
Hagen is in his second year of leading the Rangers' Class A Full Season Affiliate Hickory. The Crawdads are currently in the race for the top spot in the Northern Division second half standings. Hickory starts the day a half game out of first place. Overall, the Crawdads have the second-best overall record in the league with a 65-37 mark.
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Health safety and the environment report feyzin
Essay Topic: Environment, Report, Safety
The aim of this project is to describe the incident which took place in Feyzin, south of France, on Tuesday January 4th 1966.This project describes the history of the refinery, a description of the LPG manufacture processes, the cause of the accident, details of the accident, inquires and safety measures, conclusion and personal recommendations.
A focus group for the project was the first approach on research to explore people's ideas and attitudes to the accident.There were several weekly group meetings excluding the weekly tutor meetings putting forward ideas discussing whether the accident could have been for seen and reasonable measures were in place.
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Each member of the group was assigned a particular area in which they were to collect information. The required information was gathered from various highly reliable sources such as a HSE investigation.
History And Background Information.
Feyzin is situated in the suburbs of Lyon in the southern part of France. The France national petroleum was located in Feyzin.
The refinery at Feyzin had started operating in 1964. The main objective of this processing plant was to produce 1.7 million tonnes a year of LPG (liquefied petroleum gas). LPG is a by-product of the distillation of oil from crude oil. When the distillate is put under pressure its physical state changes into a liquid. It is in this form that LPG is transported around in cylinder tanks.
Because of the relatively short life span of the site prior to the incident, the cascade of events may be relatively short and that major issues will have risen during both the design and construction of the site. We can assume now that the plant was between its 1st and 2nd year of operation.
LPG is a combination of Propane (Pressure 12 Bar, 37 degrees Celsius) and Butane (Pressure 2.6 Bar, 37 degrees Celsius).The LPG is used as an alternative to petrol.[Aarding India Pvt Ltd, 2007]
The LPG is important because it is widely used as a fuel for vehicles and as cooking gas since its manufacture. They are also used as Industrial fuel and heating oils which are vital for many process plants. [Herman F. Mark et al, 1982]
LPG is employed for starting up solid-fuel and oil-fired boilers supplying turbo generators. It is potential stand by for gas turbine generating equipment run on interruptible gas supplies. Its use for peak-load turbines will be economical to some circumstances. [BP trading ltd, 1972]
Cascade events
The causes of the deadly incident which took place at Feyzin
There were quite a few reasons reported which were believed to be the causes of the explosion.
Cause of the leakage:
Three operators opened 2-inch valves which were mounted in series at a bottom of a 1200m3 propane spherical tank. The valves did not close at a LPG tank which contained 1200kl propane, which led to the leakage of LPG gas, a major cause of the explosion.
For LPG that is Propane gas, when the pressure is lowered to atmospheric one the temp drops to -40. At this temperature moisture in air is frozen, but also the moisture reacts with LPG forming a solid hydrate. So either the downstream valve did not close tightly because of hydrate formation or the valve handle was stuck by the frozen moisture. This accident was believed to be caused as the upstream valve was not opened fully and the pressure at the outlet of the first valve was near the atmospheric pressure, the pressure difference cooled. It is very wrong to operate the valve system like that. Therefore, the cause of the explosion is either the operator's human mistake or a mistake on the management not to inform the proper execution of the operation.
Cause of the ignition:
The leaked LPG is presumed to be travelled for a distance and spread along the ground. A car driving down a local road might have sparked the ignition which is maybe due to the driver's cigarette or the car engine's hot temperature. Note that the layout of the plant was restricted to the landscape; a highway was constructed just 50m away from the large LPG tanks which exploded during the incident. Moreover there was no dike around the tanks which exploded, when large amount of LPG leaked, the vapour flew along the ground to the highway. The main cause of the ignition is that there was no dike around the LPG tanks and the distance regulation insufficient.
Secondly, the legs of the spherical tank were made of iron which weren't fire proof. Thirdly, is that the distance between the adjacent tanks was really close, The actual distance between the centre of the tanks was just 27m according to the facility information provided. This proves that the adjacent tanks were affected so easily from the explosion of the first tank.
A BLEVE (Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapour Explosion) was the disaster that occurred at Feyzin. It is an explosion phenomenon caused by the rapid phase change (vaporization) of a liquid.
At 6:30am three operators started the water draining operation of a tank. Two valves were opened in series on the bottom of the sphere. When the operation was nearly complete, the upper valve was closed and then cracked open again. No flow came out of the cracked valve, so it was opened further. The blockage, assumed to be ice or hydrate, cleared and propane gushed out. The operator was unable to close the upper valve and by the time he attempted to close the lower valve this was also frozen open. The LPG leak started here because that valve was not closed completely. After a few minutes the operators were covered in propane vapour. The leaking LPG spread in the direction of the highway, with partially vaporizing. The alarm rang in the control room at this time.
At around 7:05am; the alarm rang and it is not clear if it rang throughout the Feyzin districts or just the Feyzin refinery. The first fire truck of the factory turned out immediately. After this the traffic on the highway next to the refinery was stopped.
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The fire brigade of Lyon arrived at 7:20.
Just after 7:30am, a car came and stopped on the local road where the traffic had not been stopped. The explosion apparently occurred after the car had stopped. The fire increased in power, spread along the leaking LPG, and the tank was overcome with flames immediately.
By 8:40am the first tank at the refinery exploded by the BLEVE. The second and third spherical tanks exploded five minutes later. Two more spherical tanks and many oil tanks burned continuously. The next day in the morning the fire was extinguished.
As a result of this it was reported that 18-81 persons died and about 80-130 persons got injured included members of the fire fighting team. The physical damage included five LPG tanks, many atmospheric tanks containing crude oil and jet fuel, and so on. The Feyzin Refinery suffered extensive damage.
The LPG tank farm where the sphere was located consisted of four 1200 m3 propane and four 2000 m3 butane spheres. The fire brigade arrived on site, but were not experienced in dealing in refinery fires, and it appears they did not attempt to cool the burning sphere. They concentrated their hoses on cooling the remaining spheres. About 90 minutes after the initial leakage, the sphere ruptured, killing the men nearby. A wave of liquid propane flowed over the compound wall and fragments of the ruptured sphere cut through the legs of the next sphere which toppled over. The relief valve on this tank began to emit liquid.
What is believed to have happened on the day of the accident is: the upstream valve was not opened fully and the pressure at the outlet of the first valve was near atmospheric pressure, hence the upstream valve was cooled by the pressure difference.
It is absolutely prohibited to operate valves in such manner. Therefore, the cause of the accident is either the operator's human error or a mistake on management side in not explaining the proper operation protocols.
Another contributing factor to the accident is that the operator did not close the downstream valve. There is insufficient information available to why this valve was not closed. It is assumed that either ice is generated in the downstream valve like in the upstream valve or a rapid large LPG leak occurred, the operator may have panicked when they could not close the upstream valve and therefore may have not remembered to close the downstream valve. Basically they had to decrease the downstream valve opening when the LPG began to appear in the drain water. Then the valve had to be closed at the end of the drain work. Either they forgot to carry out this procedure or they could not close the second valve because it had also become stuck by freezing.
1) Valve A is closed
2) Valve A cracks open
3) Valve A becomes blocked due to freezing
4) No flow through valve A
5) Valve A is opened
6) Ice block in valve A becomes dislodged
7) Valve A freezes in open position
8) Unable to close valve A
9) Valve B freezes in open position
10) Unable to close valve B
11) Pressure sphere fluid leaks through open valves
12) Fluid level in pressure vessel drops decreasing internal pressure
13) Liquid propane begins to boil due to pressure drop
14) Pressure in vessel increases due to liberated gaseous propane
15) Fluid flow through valves A and B increases due to increase in pressure
16) Vessel pressure continues to increase
17) Pressure vessel ruptures
18) Gaseous propane escapes vessel
Recommendations and summary
* Geographical location and details
* History of Feyzin, including cascade events
* Incident timeline and possible description of why it happened
* Geographical effects of the incident
* Results of the inquiry and official recommendations
* Personal recommendations not covered by the enquiry
Geographical location and details
In order to get a better understanding of the scale of the Feyzin incident, it is important to note the location of the site in regards to the local area in which the site was and still is positioned. This will give an indication to understanding the safety procedures that were in place at the time of the incident and how emergency procedures were carried out at the time.
It has proven very difficult to obtain a clear picture of the geographical location either prior to or following the incident of the site and so it will be assumed that the current location of the site, circa 2009, is the same location at the time of the incident. Close examination of this map may also indicate the most likely positioning of the epicentre of the primary detonation.
Fig 1. Map of Feyzin Birds eye view 2009
Sandwiched between the A7 Expressway to the east of the site and the 'Le grand large' river to the west, on close examination, it appears that some form of storage containers are located just west of the top E15 label in the image. This may lead us to assume that the storage containers were in the same location prior to the 1966 incident.
On a broader scale it may also be seen that this location is approximately 10 km south of the major city of Lyon. Research suggests that at the time of the incident, the site lacked any serious on site systems in case of a major crisis, relying more on the local public services to resolve anything arising such as the incident in question.
Again on close inspection of the map, it can be seen that the site is placed within a fairly urbanised area. Again we must assume a similar layout at the time of the incident though populations will be quite different from the 1966 incident and the 2009 map. This will assist in understanding the cause of the incident overall and the scale of the overall effect in this area.
Apart from just repeating the timeline for the actual incident, it is important to try and understand why the incident took place, outside of the events leading up to and after what happened.
The sequence of events surrounding the cracking and freezing of the 'upper' valve, and the subsequent rupture of the pressure vessel need to be understood, in order to get a better understanding of how such a crises may be avoided in the future. These events may only have taken place over a very short time frame but they are essential to understanding the crises.
One of the critical questions that should be asked is why following the closure of valve A and the subsequent cracking and freezing up of the valve, was the valve then opened. Thus allowing the ice block to become dislodged and the rest of the above sequence to take place.
The reasons for this particular action, in opening valve A may be described in four ways. The first possibility may be a simple case of curiosity. The valve was closed and froze, and so to check that the valve was still properly operational was then opened.
The second possibility is that the correct procedure for such an event was not properly followed. That the correct procedure would have stated that in such an event, the valve should have been kept closed and the problem be properly reported to maintenance. Therefore the valve operator was responsible for the incident that took place.
The third possibility is that no official procedure or training had been formulated for such an event. Therefore panic may have ensued resulting in the opening of the valve as a panic decision which can therefore be described as human error.
The fourth possibility is that the official procedure was followed properly and that the procedure was critically floored. So the issue of a misunderstanding of such an event or even ignorance of such was present at the time of this crisis.
The third possibility seems likely case based on the immediate actions of the individual as he made the decision not to use a phone close to the pressure tank and instead ran approximately 800 meters to the next nearest phone in the fear of causing a detonation of the released vapour cloud. The fourth possibility may also have some bearing in the crisis as prior to this event, the term BLEVE had still not been discovered or at least recorded prior to this.
The rest of the sequence should be covered in the full breakdown of the crisis.
An important issue to be considered is the overall control displayed by both the emergency and municipal authorities during the crisis. Even though the A7 expressway was closed following the leak, the authorities failed to close the local roads to all traffic, which resulted in a car being within 160 meters of the leaking pressure tank and causing the point of ignition.
The failings in the emergency service appear to be more in association with a lack of sufficient training in the order of dealing with industrial crises as it was primarily there to deal with public situations. This resulted in a fatal misunderstanding of how to control such a situation as a leaking pressure tank and resulting fire, due to a lack of prior knowledge which is strengthened in the term BLEVE only being created some 4 to 5 years later
Results of the enquiry and official recommendations
The official investigation was not fully resolved until 1971 by the Grenoble court case. This may have been due to political reasons or due to the enquiry investigating why the crisis had occurred in the first place. On the principal that such events have happened since the Feyzin disaster, it cannot be assumed that the enquiry was successful in bringing about sufficient change in the safety of pressurised fluid containment.
Personal recommendations not covered by the enquiry
The first recommendations are for the design and construction of all current and future proposed plants dealing with pressurised fluid containment. The second recommendations are in association with work practices involved on chemical plants in general.
Third valve (reserve):
A third valve should be installed for the purpose of maintenance and crisis control. To be kept open at all times so as not to induce unnecessary wear and tear on the valve. When maintenance is required to be carried out on the two principal valves, the reserve can be shut to allow for maintenance to be carried out safely. In the event of a crisis similar to that of Feyzin, this valve can be shut as an emergency back up system in minimising fluid leakage from the pressure vessel.
'Cold' pipe lagging:
In order to prevent freezing of any pipes or valves dealing with potentially 'cold' fluids, lagging should be fitted to all appropriate pipe work and fittings in order to minimise any potential freezing of these systems. Systems not dealing with 'cold' fluids must be scrutinised independent of this point.
Rubber sealed pressure box:
High pressure boxes should be installed around all vital valves dealing with pressurised fluids. They should be big enough to allow for ease of working but not to big as to incur any additional hazard to plant running. They should be designed with an environmental rubberised seal so that if a valve begins to leak, the box can but locked shut with an emergency key. Thus minimising any excessive leakage until the situation can be bought under control. See: A third valve (reserve)
Deluge system – Control box and master switch:
If geographically located near to a natural water source as in the case of the Feyzin site, a deluge system should be installed. It must have pipe work leading to all critical locations around the entirety of the plant. This system must be regularly checked so as to remain in good working order. Each piece of equipment covered by this system must be fitted with a local switch, so in the event of either a leak or a fire, the operator can activate the system in order to prevent escalation of the situation.
A central control post should be equipped with a control panel covering all local deluge systems via an override system and also be installed with a master switch that can activate all systems at once. This will allow for the main operator to activate systems in a sequence or all at once should a major sit6uation occur. Communication is vital for this system to work properly, so an emergency phone network should be installed in order to insure proper working of the system. This will only be part of the solution and fire brigades properly trained with dealing with such an event will ensure that the crisis is resolved effectively.
Completion of site before going online:
It is important that a site should be safe to operate before going online. In the case of Feyzin, the site was still under construction when the accident occurred. Even though construction work may not have been the cause of the incident, neither can the incompletion of the site be assumed to have helped in the scale of the incident itself. So before a plant can go online, all safety systems must be installed.
This is not to be confused with site maintenance which is an ongoing process throughout the plants lifetime.
Inclusion of full earthworks around site:
Only effective if any vapour or fluid is heavier than atmospheric air. May also be affected by environmental conditions, however if all other systems are overwhelmed, then this system is designed to delay the spread of any possible leak. Earth works should be built around all containment vessels and if possible the entire site. So in case of an emergency, any leaking vapour may be contained within the confines of either the leaking vessel or the plant.
Fig. 2 illustration of valves which were major cause of accident
Preventions
To prevent valves from freezing redundant sampling valves and drain valves are installed in series. In the tank involved in this accident, the double valve was already installed. In the LPG tank, the doubling of the valve is a minimum requirement as in the case of a single valve, there is a strong possibility that the valves main body will be cooled, damaging the closing function of the valve by freezing of the moisture in the air. The distance between the two valves must be sufficient to prevent the low temperature of the second valve affecting it. The size of the second valve must be approximately 10mm or less. It is recommended that a distance of 1m or more to be allowed between valve 1 and 2.
Counter measures in other facilities around the world
* Dike installation: – LPG spreads along the ground as it is heavier than the air. A dike is effective for prevention the spread of LPG.
* As a precaution against the BLEVE phenomenon, the tank wall must be cooled by placing water showering facilities above the tank.
* The Tank legs must be fire proofed. If the legs are made from iron they can be damaged by fire.
* The distance between tanks is kept to prevent the spread of fires. The minimum distance is generally the diameter of the larger tank, however if possible greater distance between tanks is recommended.
* Gas detectors are installed within the facility.
The Feyzin accident was a cause by human error and unsafe conditions. The accident could have been prevented if correct procedures were followed and if the plant was designed with appropriate fail safe systems such as a dike and LPG detectors.
This accident lead to a greater understanding of the BLEVE phenomenon and has given future LPG companies the knowledge of its existence which has led to further research into this occurrence.
Explosion of LPG tanks cause devastating damage. The companies that store and handle large volumes of LPG must consult with the local government to ensure they can communicate with the local government, inform local inhabitants and relay instructions for how to restrict traffic in case of an LPG leak.
It has now become clear that the location for which the plant is located must be thoroughly studied, to ensure there is enough distance between the plant and built up areas. Without doubt future companies designing LPG refinery plants can benefit from the findings of this accident report.
BLEVE – Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapour Explosion
LPG – Liquefied Petroleum Gas
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Allison Liberty L-12
Allison Liberty L-6
Allison VG-1410
Allison V-1650
Hall-Scott L-6
Packard Liberty 12-A / V-1650
Nuffield Liberty
Mikulin M-5
Liberty L-12
In May 1917, one month after the US had declared war on Germany, a Federal task force known as the Aircraft Production Board summoned top engine designers Jesse G. Vincent (of the Packard Motor Car Company of Detroit) and E.J. Hall (of the Hall-Scott Motor Co. of Berkeley, California,) to Washington D.C. They were given the task of designing as rapidly as possible an aircraft engine that would rival if not surpass those of Great Britain, France, and Germany. The Board specified that the engine would have a high power-to-weight ratio and be adaptable to mass production. The Board brought Vincent and Hall together on 29 May 1917 at the Willard Hotel in Washington, where the two were asked to stay until they produced a set of basic drawings. After just five days, Vincent and Hall left the Willard with a completed design for the new engine.
The Liberty L-12 was a modular design where four or six cylinders could be used in one or two banks. A single overhead camshaft for each cylinder bank operated two valves per cylinder, in an almost identical manner to the inline six-cylinder German Mercedes D.III and BMW III engines, and with each camshaft driven by a vertical driveshaft that was placed at the back of each cylinder bank, again identical to the Mercedes and BMW straight-six powerplants. Dry weight was 844 lb (383 kg). Fifty-two examples of a six-cylinder version, the Liberty L-6, which very closely resembled the Mercedes and BMW powerplants in overall appearance, were produced but not procured by the Army. A pair of the 52 engines produced were destroyed by Dr. William Christmas testing his so-called "Christmas Bullet" fighter.
In July 1917, an eight-cylinder prototype assembled by Packard's Detroit plant arrived in Washington for testing, and in August, the 27-litre (1,649 cubic inch) water-cooled 45° V-12 12-cylinder version was tested and approved. That fall, the War Department placed an order for 22,500 Liberty engines, dividing the contract between the automobile and engine manufacturers Buick, Ford, Cadillac, Lincoln, Marmon, and Packard. Hall-Scott in California was considered too small to receive a production order. Manufacturing by multiple different factories was facilitated by its modular design. Cadillac was asked to produce Liberty engines but William Durant was a pacifist who did not want General Motors facilities to be used for producing war material. This led to Henry Leland leaving Cadillac to form the Lincoln company to make Liberty engines. He quickly gained a $10,000,000 government contract to build 6,000 engines. Subsequently the order was increased to 9000 units, with the option to produce 8000 more if the government needed them.
However, Durant later changed his mind and both Cadillac and Buick produced the engines.
While the 12-cylinder prototype was completed only 28 days after the first drawings were made, more than 1000 modifications to the design had to be made between September 1917 and February 1918. Nevertheless, 1050 Liberties were delivered to Britain between March and July 1918. They were fitted in the DH.9A.
Other manufacturers in the program included Packard, Ford and Marmon. Lincoln had delivered 6500 of the 400 hp, V-12, overhead camshaft engines when production ceased in 1919.
Ford was asked to supply cylinders for the new engine, and rapidly developed an improved technique for cutting and pressing steel which resulted in cylinder production rising from 151 per day to over 2,000, Ford eventually manufacturing all 433,826 cylinders produced, and 3,950 complete engines. Lincoln constructed a new plant in record time, devoted entirely to Liberty engine production, and assembled 2,000 engines in 12 months. By the time of the Armistice with Germany, the various companies had produced 13,574 Liberty engines, attaining a production rate of 150 engines per day. Production continued after the war, for a total of 20,478 engines built between July 4, 1917 and January 1919.
Although it is widely reported otherwise, a few Liberty engines did see action in France as power for the American version of the DeHaviland DH4.
The Polikarpov I-2 used the M-5 engine with 12 cylinders in V and 420 hp of power (copy under license of the North American Liberty L-12 engine). It stood out for the careful work on the engine hood, of which at least two types were used. The most remarkable symbol of the upper region of the hood was the pipe through which the air flow entered the two "Zenit" carburettors. Cooling was basically achieved by means of a Lamblin radiator that could vary its angle of incidence by around 70º. The control of this radiator was carried out from the cockpit. A number of I-2s were delivered with fixed radiators attached to the fuselage.
The Mikulin M-5 engine was used in the Grigorovich I-1, I-2 and MRL-1 fighters.
An inverted Liberty 12-A was referred to as the V-1650 and was produced up to 1926 by Packard — exactly the same designation was later applied, due to identical displacement, to the World War II Packard-built version of the Rolls-Royce Merlin.
The Nuffield Liberty tank engine was produced in World War II by the UK car manufacturer Nuffield. It was a 27 L (1,649 in3) engine with an output of 340 hp (250 kW), which became inadequate for the increasing vehicle weights as the war progressed, and it suffered numerous problems with cooling and reliability. It was replaced in later British tanks by the Rolls-Royce Meteor, based on their Merlin aero engine.
The Allison VG-1410 was an air-cooled inverted Liberty L-12, with a geared super-charger and Allison epicyclic propeller reduction gear and reduced displacement. (45⁄8"x7"=1,411 cu.in.)
Liberty L-6
A 6-cylinder version of the Liberty L-12, and nicknamed the "Liberty Six":- a single bank of cylinders, with the resulting engine bearing a strong external resemblance to both the Mercedes D.III and BMW III straight-six German aviation engines of World War I.
An 8-cylinder V engine using Liberty cylinders in banks of four at 90°.
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Type: 12-cylinder liquid-cooled Vee piston aircraft engine
Bore: 5 in (127 mm)
Stroke: 7 in (178 mm)
Displacement: 1,649.3 cu in (27.03 l) in3 (27 L)
Length: 67.375 in (1,711 mm)
Width: 27 in (685.80 mm)
Height: 41.5 in (1,054.10 mm)
Dry weight: 845 lb (383.3 kg)
Valvetrain: One intake and one exhaust valves per cylinder operated via a single overhead camshaft per cylinder bank
Fuel system: Two duplex Zenith carburettors
Oil system: forced feed, rotary gear pressure and scavenge pumps, wet sump.
Cooling system: Water-cooled
Power output: 449 hp (334.8 kW) at 2,000 rpm (takeoff)
Specific power: 0.27 hp/cu in (12.4 kW/L)
Compression ratio: 5.4:1 (Army engines) 5:1 (navy engines)
Specific fuel consumption: 0.565 pt/hp/hour (0.43 l/kW/hour)
Oil consumption: 0.0199 pt/hp/hour (0.0152 l/kW/hour)
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Q: Category links in menu don't work when switching language So basically I added a new view store (for language purposes), and when selecting a single product from the home page, it redirect correctly to that product, but if I use my mega menu to for example click on "Men's Watches", it gives me an error like this

SQLSTATE[42S02]: Base table or view not found: 1146 Table 'magento.catalogsearch_fulltext_scope3' doesn't exist, query was...

Any idea ?

A: Looks like this was a known issue with php7
https://github.com/magento/data-migration-tool/issues/39
otherwise the table creation is triggered by creating the store view (\Magento\Backend\Controller\Adminhtml\System\Store\Save), there must be something around Magento\CatalogSearch\Model\Indexer\Fulltext\Store not being called (store_add observer).

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Q: How to write a function finding even numbers in list on F# Hello guys so i have a problem about finding even numbers in the list.
Im so new in F# and i need to find even numbers in the list with function.
I have the real question:
//Given is a list of integers. Write a recursive function that returns a pair of lists: a list of even numbers
//and a list of numbers divisible by three. For example, for the list [1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6] we should get ([2; 4; 6], [3; 6]).
I tried this :
let list1 = [1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10]
let evens list1 =
   let isEven x = x % 2 = 0

   List.filter isEven list1

But its not working. Thank you for your help.

A: What you've got is correct for finding even numbers. The only thing missing is that you need to call your evens function, passing it list1, like this: evens list1.
Keep in mind that the parameters of a function are different from its arguments. In this case, you've called both the parameter and the argument list1, which may be confusing you.
Here's a complete version, using two different names for clarity:
let myList = [1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10]
let evens anyList =
   let isEven x = x % 2 = 0
   List.filter isEven anyList
printfn "%A" (evens myList)

Once you understand how this works, you can try solving the full problem you mentioned.


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The first well known comedic actor was Quintus Roscius, who lived from around 126-62 BC. He was a slave who eventually succeeded in buying his freedom. He was known to have brought comedy away from a crass, clown-like style to something more that would be about presentation and using wit in humor. He became something of a pop star, where even various well known Roman politicians patronized him and he became a fairly wealthy man through his acting ability, perhaps the first known person to have done so. By 55 BC, large purpose-built theaters began to appear throughout the Roman Empire. Actors were often foreign and usually of a low status, despite the success of Roscius, often not being citizens since acting was still seen as something beneath a Roman citizen, eventthough it was enjoyed now by the masses. What Roscius did do is influence the style of acting in forthecoming Roman comedy, primairly where acting became about oration and presentation using gestures as well as using words and wit. Women were often not allowed to take leading roles, usually being relegated to non-speaking roles in plays and comedies.
==Later Developments==
Some of the earliest jokes recorded appear to be about political satire, drunken behavior, and sex. These jokes come from Egypt, where a scroll dated to 2600 BCE might contain these jokes. However, some state that this scroll derives from a later period, perhaps around 1600 BCE. Mesopotamia also has some of the earliest jokes, perhaps about the same time in Egypt, where the earliest jokes seem to deal with flatulence. One of the earliest comedic stories known to us may not have been performed to the masses but seems to have been written for some audience or at least a likely larger group of people, making it one of the more complete early stories or even a play. This story is called the Poor Man of Nippur, written in Nippur from ancient Mesopotamia sometime around 1500 BCE or possibly earlier. The story effectively tells the tale of a poor man who got thrown out from the Mayor's office and being humiliated by the mayor. Three times the man deceives the mayor and beats him, with the last time beating him to death. While the end might not seem so funny, the comedy is in the way someone who is supposed to be uncouth is able to deceive the supposedly smart ruler. The man wears different disguises to trick the mayor, once even making money by tricking the mayor to think he had stolen gold from the poor man, who was disguised as a visiting foreign emissary. The story effectively reflects political satire, where supposedly enlightened rulers are not really that enlightened.
While Egypt and Mesopotamia likely produced some early organized comedic plays or stories, the best known tend to be those from ancient Greece. The Greeks formalized their plays into satire, tragedy, and comedy. Similar to Mesopotamia and Egypt, sex and political satire are the subjects for early Greek comedy by Aristophanes, who perhaps is one of the earliest known authors of comedy known to us, who lived around 400 BC and lived in Athens. He was also very active in writing comedy, writing perhaps more than 40 comedies, of which 11 have survived. Aristotle philosophized that Greek comedy originated from what normally would have been solemn or otherwise crass or obscure religious festivals such as phallic processing, which led people to make fun of such acts or satirize them at least. Aristotle also helped formalize comedy as legitimate literature and he defined it as a positive benefit to society. In fact, he stated comedy did not have to be crass but good-natured comedy could be positive to society and bring general happiness to the wider public and provide a public good.
Greek theater had begun to develop in the early first millennium BCE, whereby the Roman period it had become the foundation in which Roman society developed their own understanding of entertainment. Titus Maccius Plautus and Publius Terentius Afer are some of the best known Roman comedic writers, who lived in the 3rd-2nd century BC. Most of the content was influenced by Greek subjects but development by these authors and the Romans begin to look more modern to us and, in fact, influenced what we would call modern comedies enacted today in theatre and even television. For one, a key development was telling the story over a series of episodes within the larger story. Music also accompanied the wider acting out of the comedy. In the stories, generally, the character would undergo some trial or tribulation before some comedic way in which the problem could be resolved. Their works also developed key characters in a comedy. This includes a villain, a hero, dual characters who are neither heroic nor villains, the love interest, and others (e.g., slave dealers) that would be satirized or even presented in a stereotype that Roman audiences would quickly identify.


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SHS pep rally (Local News ~ 03/17/16)
Sikeston students cheer at a pep rally to send off the Sikeston boys basketball team to the Class 4 state semifinal game Thursday morning at the Sikeston Field House. The Bulldogs will play Vashon in the semifinal Friday at 6 p.m. at Mizzou Arena in Columbia, Mo.
Sikeston's large and loud fan base provides edge for basketball team (High School Sports ~ 03/17/16)
"With them roaring and screaming I think it effects the other team. It's almost like we're one. One team, one body. It's amazing having them behind us."
Top two Vashon, Sikeston set for its anticipated Class 4 semifinal (High School Sports ~ 03/17/16)
Second-ranked Sikeston (28-1) will take on top-ranked Vashon (24-4) Friday night at 6 p.m. at Mizzou Arena.
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Class 4 semifinal capsule: Sikeston vs. Vashon (High School Sports ~ 03/17/16)
Sikeston vs. Vashon When: Friday, 6 p.m. Where: Mizzou Arena in Columbia, Mo. Records: Sikeston (28-1); Vashon (24-4) Last round: Sikeston defeated Parkway West 52-40 (Quarterfinal); Vashon defeated St. Charles West 57-31 (Quarterfinal). Next game: Winner plays either Helias or Lafayette (St. Joseph) in Class 4 state championship game on Saturday at 8:10 p.m. Loser plays in the third place game at 12:50 p.m...
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Hitachi Lets Fly the Spruce Goose of HDDs -- a 2TB Drive
By: Chris Preimesberger, eWEEK | August 05, 2009
And so the race for capaciousness continues. The data storage company with the longest official name, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, claimed Aug. 6 that it is now shipping the world's first 2TB 7,200-rpm hard disk drive. It employs five platters in one unit to supply the 2TB capacity.
Kinds of reminds me in a funny sort of way of Howard Hughes' huge Spruce Goose seaplane that he flew once—very slowly—off the coast of Los Angeles in 1947. Remember that? It had eight propeller engines; no other aircraft ever had that many because they were so big and heavy.
This Hitachi drive might be the Spruce Goose of HDDs. It has five engines, more than others use. Big, heavy and slow? Possibly, but Hitachi will never admit to that.
Where will it all end? There are physical limits to how much one can put on a storage disk, but you'd never know it.
Hitachi calls its new prize HDD "colossal," and we suppose they're not far off the mark. The 2TB Deskstar 7K2000 features high capacity with low power consumption; forget performance—a drive this big won't be fast. It is aimed to help computers gain Energy Star ratings.
The key reason why the Deskstar 7K2000 can load up all that data is perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR), which is being re-engineered by several companies to extend capaciousness of these disks. It also features a 32MB cache and a 3Gb/s SATA interface, so it appears to be a good desktop drive for game players and high-end video and graphics users.
Pricing is a mystery. Go here for more information.
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December 6, 2021, 5:00 pm Updated: December 6, 2021, 5:11 pm
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Scottish Thistles captain Claire Maxwell is proud to have led the national side to two emphatic victories against Barbados, as Scotland returned to competitive international netball.
Thistles dominated the two-match Test series on their return to the Emirates Arena, beating the Bajan Gems 74-32 in the first match, and 74-35 in the second Test.
The Test series was north-east player Maxwell's first matches back playing in official international games since becoming a mum earlier this year, with her young daughter part of the Thistle army who watched on at the Emirates last week.
The former Turriff Academy pupil said: "I absolutely loved it, it was my first official international game back as a mum so it was a proud moment to take to court and to lead the country in such an important international series.
"We really needed those results as well to confirm our Commonwealth selection for Team Scotland which will hopefully be confirmed now.
"It was an honour and a privilege, and something that I think I will look back on in years to come and think about how special a moment it was."
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In the Scots' last two meetings with Barbados, it had been a much closer contest with Scotland only winning by an 11-goal margin at the 2019 World Cup, as well as their game against the Bajan Gems at the 2018 Commonwealth Games having went to extra time.
Maxwell said of the Thistles' emphatic Test series scorelines: "It was absolutely brilliant to get that scoreline against Barbados. We've not had that a score like that in a long time, at least since I've been playing in the national squad, so it was a really good run out.
"We were confident that we could win, but maybe not to that extent. It showed the depth of the squad and just shows how exciting our future is.
"To get a 40-goal winning margin was unexpected, but we're absolutely delighted. I think everyone who came and watched really had positive things to say about the squad."
A starting point for future success
The Scottish Thistles' future is certainly bright under head coach Tamsin Greenway, who only took charge in 2020, as she and her assistant Sara Francis-Bayman have already implemented a new style of play on court.
Greenway and Francis-Bayman were not the only new personnel to play a part in the Thistles' wins against Barbados, as four players made their debut for the national side throughout the series.
Maxwell believes, under the guidance of Greenway, Scottish netball can only improve and the Test series win over Barbados proved this.
Netball pundits are already claiming Scotland's performances against Barbados were a class above their current world ranking eight.
🏴 @CoachLisaA believes the @NetballScotland's performance against Barbados, which delivered a 74-32 victory, was at the level of a team ranked within the world's top five.
— Sky Sports Netball (@SkyNetball) December 3, 2021
The captain said: "We were delighted to get such a great result for both our coaches, Tamsin Greenway and Sara Francis-Bayman, in their first international competitive games.
"They're well renowned players and had great success, but for us to go out and put in a performance that they too can be proud of it really shows where we're at.
"It's a good starting point, but we are not going to rest and we're going to continue to try and improve on everything we can for a big year ahead.
"We wanted to put a stamp on where we're at as a country, but also show this new style of game that we're playing now.
"Playing under new coaches, they always bring something different and Tamsin is a really special coach and she's going to bring a different style to our game. which is only going to help us get better.
"It's a really exciting time for where we are building to. It was the most prepared we've ever been good international match so that's credit to our coaches and I really look forward to continue to work with them."
Commonwealth Games place all but confirmed
For teams to be selected for the Commonwealth Games, countries must be ranked within the top 12 of World Netball rankings.
The Scottish Thistles' Test series win cemented their top-10 world ranking, which should be more than enough to confirm their selection for the Birmingham games.
Maxwell explained: "The squad selection to get to the Commonwealth Games is actually really, really tight and competitive, but that's what you want within an elite sport.
"We want to play for our country but no-one is ever handed that Thistles dress, you've got to earn it and we're in a really strong position for that."
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The Daily Show host Trevor Noah introduced its latest Senior Youth Correspondent on Thursday night, Jaboukie Young-White, and immediately blew it, just like an old person. Referring to the upcoming, democracy-in-the-balance midterm elections, Noah, talking about the vital role of young voters in determining whether a greying cabal of racist greedheads will continue to abet the crotchety right-wing takeover of the American experiment at the whim of a Russian asset reality show host, tried to ingratiate himself with his new, cool young colleague by invoking the chummy "we." Big mistake, as Young-White, calling the born in 1984 Noah a "vintage millennial," referred to himself (b. 1994) and his peers as "young-young," and launched his Daily Show tenure by explaining all the reasons why the young-young are less likely to vote.


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Q: Parsing a distance matrix csv into python dictionary structure I have a distance matrix laid out like this in a csv file
 , A, B, C,
A, 0
B, 3, 0
C, 6, 4, 0

And I would like to parse it into a python dictionary like this...
graph = {'A': {'B': 3, 'C': 6},
         'B': {'A': 3, 'C': 4},
         'C': {'A': 6, 'B': 4}}

A: With the file you specified, you will never get that dict in graph. In any case, if you provide the correct CSV file, the code below will result in exactly what you want.
Just pay attention that inside the CSV file, you cannot have a comma in the end of the header row (first row), and you cannot have spaces in the column names (first row). Otherwise, you'll get a weird dict.
import pandas
import io
import math

d = pandas.read_csv('csv_file.csv',sep=',',header=0,index_col=0)
d_dict = d.to_dict() # use d.to_dict(orient='index') for the transpose
graph = { k.strip():{ k2.strip():v2 for k2,v2 in v.items() if not math.isnan(v2) } for k,v in d_dict.items() }

print(graph)

which generates the corresponding dict
{'A': {'A': 0, 'B': 3, 'C': 6},
 'B': {'B': 0.0, 'C': 4.0},
 'C': {'C': 0.0}}

the csv_file.csv
 ,A,B,C
 A, 0
 B, 3, 0
 C, 6, 4, 0