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| Meche, Helen, Hydrocarbon Processing Staff, Houston, TX
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Jacobs Engineering Group
Inc. has a contract from Solvay for a
major, specialty polymers production plant to be built at
Solvays industrial site in Changshu, Jiangsu, China.
Officials estimate the contract
value to be approximately $9 million. Jacobs is executing the
engineering, procurement and construction management services
contract from its Shanghai operations in China.
Solvay is investing approximately
$160 million into this plant, which will produce its products
SOLEF PVDF and TECNOFLON FKM, as well as its essential VF2
monomer. The plant is scheduled to become operational in the
first quarter of 2014, and is expected to significantly boost
Solvays global production capacity for these specialty
PETRONAS and
BASF are moving forward with the previously
announced 1-billion investment that will expand their
partnership in Malaysia, involving projects at their existing venture
in Kuantan and at a new site within PETRONAS proposed Refinery and Petrochemical Integrated Development
(RAPID) complex in Pengerang, Johor. These projects are to be
implemented between 2015 and 2018.
The two partners have entered into
a heads of agreement (HOA) for developing the new project in
Pengerang. Under HOA terms, the partners have agreed to form a
new entity (BASF 60%; PETRONAS 40%) to jointly own, develop,
construct and operate production facilities for isononanol, highly
reactive polyisobutylene, non-ionic surfactants,
methanesulfonic acid and plants for precursor materials. These
world-scale facilities will become an integral
part of PETRONAS RAPID project.
PETRONAS, through its subsidiary
PETRONAS Chemicals Group Bhd, and BASF, are
also making progress with the feasibility study to expand the
operation of BASF PETRONAS Chemicals Sdn Bhd
in Kuantan. The two partners are considering the expansion of their C3 value chain
with a new plant for superabsorbent polymers, as well as the expansion of the production capacity
of their existing glacial acrylic-acid unit.
Stamicarbon, the
licensing and IP center of Maire Tecnimont
S.p.A., has signed license and process design and
services agreements with China Chengda Engineering
Co. (CHENGDA) and China National Plant Import
and Export Corp. (COMPLANT), for a urea melt and urea
granulation plant for the Shahjalal Fertilizer Project in
The project has been planned for
more than 10 years, however, the Bangladesh government has now
decided to engage in the project with the support of the
Chinese government. The plant will be operated by BCIC as
representative from the Bangladeshi government, but will mainly
be financed by the Chinese government. It will be located
adjacent to the existing Natural Gas Fertilizer Factory
Ltd. at Fenchuganj, Sylhet, Bangladesh.
The urea plant synthesis and
granulation will have a capacity of 1,760 metric tpd and will
use Stamicarbons Urea2000Plus Technology, featuring a Pool
Reactor, minimum equipment and minimum plant height. The
granulation plant will be using Stamicarbons Fluid Bed
Granulation technology. Startup is planned in 2015.
Stamicarbon will deliver the process
design package, the training, pre-commissioning and startup
services. CHENGDA is responsible for the basic and detailed
engineering, plus procurement. COMPLANT is responsible for the
construction and commissioning, although partly executed by
Chemtura Corp.
held a groundbreaking ceremony for its new, multipurpose
manufacturing facility in the Nantong Economic and
Technological Development Area to support its growth strategy
in China and the greater Asia-Pacific region.
The Nantong facility, first
announced in June 2011, will be operational within the next two
years, with four production units supporting Chemturas
Industrial Performance Products segments petroleum
additives and urethanes businesses, with the first production
unit expected to be operational in the fourth-quarter 2013.
There also are plans to manufacture additional products in
future phases.
The state-of-the-art facility will
include production lines, administrative and maintenance buildings, as well as
utilities, a centralized control room and quality control
LANXESS will break
ground for its new neodymium polybutadiene rubber (Nd-PBR)
plant in Singapore on September 11, 2012. The company plans to
invest roughly 200 million in a 140,000 metric-tpy
facility in Jurong Island Chemical Park. The facility will
reportedly be the largest of its kind in the world and serve
the growing market for Green Tires, especially in
Asia. About 100 jobs will be created. The plant is expected to
start up in the first half of 2015.
Engineering work has advanced
considerably since June 2011, when the company announced it had
selected Singapore as the site for the new plant. Petrochemical Corp. of Singapore
(Private) Ltd. (PCS) has agreed on a long-term supply
of butadiene to LANXESS. Butadiene is the raw material LANXESS
needs to produce Nd-PBR. PCS is building a new butadiene
extraction unit and associated infrastructure necessary to
supply the raw material.
Essar Oil Ltd. has
commissioned a new hydrogen manufacturing unit with an
installed capacity to generate 130,000 Nm3/hr
hydrogen gas, making it one of the largest hydrogen
manufacturing units in the world. The unit is unique because of
the installation of a Haldor Topsøe
exchange reformer (HTER) in parallel with the conventional
steam methane reformer.
The hydrogen manufacturing unit is
designed to operate on six feedstock options, including natural
gas, saturated refinery fuel gas, saturated liquefied petroleum
gas (LPG), hydrotreated naphtha, sweet stabilized naphtha, a
blend of saturated LPG and hydrotreated naphtha.
The agreement for supply of the
know-how and process package was signed between Haldor
Topsøe and Essar Oil Vadinar Ltd. in
October 2007. Topsøes scope included license,
basic engineering, supply of the HTER tube bundle and
Topsøe catalysts for three 130,000 Nm3/hr
hydrogen plants. Essar plans to start work on the second
hydrogen plant soon.
JGC Corp. has been
awarded a contract from PETRONAS for the
front-end engineering design (FEED) work and early works of
engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning for
the PETRONAS LNG Train 9 Project which is located in Bintulu,
Sarawak, Malaysia
The contract, which adopts a
dual-FEED competition scheme, will increase the existing LNG
plant facilities with an additional
capacity of 3.6 million tpy. The FEED is planned to be
completed in the fourth-quarter 2012.
Linde Group has
been selected to supply air gases to chemicals producer
Dahua Group on Songmu Island in Dalian,
Northeast China. Linde will be investing around 70
million in the project. An agreement outlining the terms of the
deal was signed by both parties. Under agreement terms, Linde
acquires the customers two existing air-separation units
(ASUs) in Dalian, and will operate these. In addition,
Lindes Engineering Division will build a new ASU onsite
with a production capacity of 38,000 Nm3/h.
Scheduled to go onstream in 2014,
the new ASU will replace the two older plants, also meeting
rising demand for gaseous oxygen at Dahuas operations.
The new arrangement gives the customer a much greater degree of
reliability in its gas supply. The
new ASU will also produce surplus liquid gases for the regional
As part of the contract agreement,
the upgraded gas-production facility will be jointly managed by
a newly formed 50/50 joint-venture gases company between Linde
and Dahua. Linde-Dahua (Dalian) Gases Co.,
Ltd. will also offer industrial gaseous and liquid
products, and provide relevant engineering services to
neighboring industrial hubs.
The new coal to substitute natural
gas (SNG) plant for the Yinan SNG Project will convert locally mined
sub-bituminous coal into synthetic natural gas (SNG) with the
aim of reducing imports of natural gas for power and heat
generation. In its first stage of completion, the plant is to
produce around 2 billion Nm3/yr of SNG. The customer
is the power provider CPI Xinjiang Energy Co.
Ltd., a subsidiary of China Power Investment
Corp., one of the five biggest power generators in
China. The plant is scheduled to go online by the end of
Topsøe will supply license, engineering design,
catalyst and services. As licensor, it will use its TREMP technology for the methanation
section. The produced SNG will meet the stringent requirements
of the pipeline operators, and will be delivered through
existing natural-gas lines.
Axens has created
Axens South East Asia Sdn Bhd, a subsidiary
that is 100% owned by Axens. This new subsidiary located in
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, will take direct responsibility for
catalysts and adsorbents sales in South-East Asia, as well as
in Australia and New Zealand.
In addition, Axens South East Asia
Sdn Bhd will provide the base for a technical assistance hub
for users of Axens technologies and products in Asia in
coordination with the local subsidiaries in this part of the
Technip has a
front-end engineering design contract for PETRONAS
proposed Refinery and Petrochemical
Integrated Development (RAPID) project located in the state of
Johor, Malaysia. RAPID aims at building a world-scale
integrated refinery and petrochemical complex to answer the
growing need for specialty chemicals, and to meet the demand
for petroleum and commodity petrochemical products in the
Asia-Pacific region by 2016.
The proposed refinery will have a
capacity of 300,000 bpsd and will supply naphtha and liquid
petroleum gas feedstock for the RAPID
petrochemical complex, as well as produce gasoline and diesel
that meet European specifications.
The petrochemical units, on the
other hand, will enhance the value of the olefinic streams
coming from the RAPID steam cracker by producing various
merchant-grade petrochemical products, such as polyethylene,
polypropylene, synthetic rubbers and more. The contract is
scheduled for completion in the second semester of 2013.
INEOS Technologies
has licensed the Innovene polypropylene (PP) process to
China Shenhua, Coal to Liquid and Chemical, Beijing
Engineering Co., for the manufacture of polypropylene
resins including homopolymers, random copolymers and impact
copolymers. The 300-kiloton/yr plant, located in Yulin City,
Shaanxi province, will serve the rapidly growing Chinese PP
China Shenhua is a major coal
chemical producer in China. It was reportedly the first company
to commercialize the MTO (methanol-to-olefins) process. This
Innovene PP plant will be part of China Shenhuas second
MTO complex.
The Shaw Group
Inc. has been awarded contracts to provide a
process-design package and technology license for the addition
of a 30,000-bpd deep catalytic-cracking (DCC) unit to
IRPCs 215,000-bpd refinery in Rayong,
Thailand. The upgrade project will maximize the production of
polymer-grade propylene and recovery of polymer-grade ethylene
to be used as feedstock for petrochemical derivative units at
the same site.
Shaw will also function as the
super licensor for four additional supporting technologies
provided by Axens. As super licensor, Shaw has
single-point responsibility for execution and performance
guarantees for these technologies.
Shaw is the exclusive licensed
provider of DCC technology outside of China, and together with
the technologys developer, Sinopec Research
Institute of Petroleum Processing in the Peoples
Republic of China, has licensed a total of 16 DCC units.
Total has signed a
comprehensive memorandum of understanding (MOU) with
Kuwait Petroleum International (KPI) and
Petrochemicals Industries
Co. (PIC), two wholly owned subsidiaries of
Kuwait Petroleum Corp. The MOU relates to a
targeted participation in the Zhanjiang project in China. This
project consists of the planned development of a large-size
300,000-bpd full-conversion refinery integrated with petrochemicals and marketing, in
partnership with Sinopec.
The proposed refining and petrochemicals platform will be
designed to process Kuwaiti crude as feedstock and to produce
high-quality refined and petrochemical products.
Synthesis Energy Systems,
Inc. is undertaking a study for its strategic partner,
Coalworks Ltd., to determine the potential for
additional cost savings resulting from the use of high-pressure
U-GAS gasifiers at Coalworks planned coal-to-liquids
plant in Oaklands, New South Wales, Australia. The agreement
follows on the companies 2009 strategic alliance for
development of the Oaklands facility.
Celanese Corp. has
received the key government approvals necessary to proceed with
its previously announced plans to modify and enhance its
existing integrated acetyl facility at the Nanjing Chemical
Industrial Park to produce ethanol for industrial uses.
The unit, based on Celanese TCX
ethanol process technology, is expected to start up in
mid-2013. The new ethanol production is expected to increase
the facilitys overall profitability by enhancing the mix
of products manufactured with the current capacity of certain
critical raw materials available at the site. Total investment
for the project is expected to be a fraction of the required
capital for a greenfield facility.
Based upon continued advancements
to its TCX ethanol process technology, the company now expects
to have approximately 30 to 40% additional ethanol-production capacity than the
originally announced 200,000 tons with no increase in the
capital investment for the modification and enhancement.
A subsidiary of Foster
Wheeler AGs Global Engineering and Construction
Group has been awarded a contract by PT
Pertamina (Persero) to provide project management
consultancy services for the Residue Fluid Catalytic-Cracker
(RFCC) Project at the Cilacap refinery, on the island of Java,
Indonesia. Foster Wheeler will manage the engineering,
procurement and construction contractor on behalf of
The RFCC project is intended to build a
62,000-bpd RCC Complex, which includes a RFCC, a new liquefied
petroleum gas Merox unit (Merox is a trademark of UOP
LLC) along with propylene-recovery and
gasoline-hydrotreating units. The addition of an RFCC unit
should enable the refinery to increase fuel production,
especially fuel-air high-octane fuels intended to meet European Union EURO IV-quality
specifications. Production of liquid petroleum gases is also
expected to be increased by 350,000 tpy, and the refinery also plans to produce in
excess of 140,000 tpy of propylene. The upgrade is expected to
be completed in 2014. HP
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The Gold Standard CougarWritten by Jeff Smith on November 20, 2006 Contributors: Wesley Allison, Douglas Glad We've all done it at one point or another. That's right, we're all guilty of shooting from the hip and just buying a car without so much as giving it a second thought. That is how this '69 Cougar came to its new home. The road was rough for the new ow
It's hard to build a nice street machine without spending a lot of money. It takes hands-on know-how, passion, and a lot of time. That's Steve Saavedra's deal. He heard about a Cougar that was prowling the streets of Ventura, California, through a friend of his aunt's. That's when it started, that craving to make his own automotive-statement mark on the world. He loves older musclecars--especially ones he can afford, and he built this car with his own hands.
The knowledgeable ones preach that a car purchase should not be made in the heat of the moment. Instead, the decision should be made based on facts and a dispassionate appraisal of the car's good and bad points. Take it to a shop and have them do a compression check--you know, look it over with a jaundiced eye--and then make your decision. All that's great, but car crafters don't approach cars of their dreams with such little passion. That's for folks out shopping for a toaster. This is about a musclecar--and that goes much deeper than the condition of the tires. Steve had heard all that advice and ignored it, seizing the anonymous Mercury sight-unseen with his hard-earned three large. The honeymoon lasted all of 50 feet before the cat blew a radiator hose, puking coolant all over the concrete. Sometimes love hurts.
That was a rocky start for Steve and the Cougar, but out of that has sprung a solid relationship. The Merc is Steve's daily driver, but between the demands of basic transportation and a 24-year-old's limited resources, the Cougar hardly qualifies for Chip Foose or Troy Trepanier headliner status. Instead, it's been a steady, three-year effort to massage and groom this alternate body style with subtle yet critical cues. The Cougar had laid down a mere 87,000 miles by the time Steve brought it home. Now with over 140,000 on the clock, Steve's proud of the fact that so far all the car has needed is a new rear main seal and valveguide seals as patches to keep the precious fluids where they belong.
The 351W has never left its original cradle, and other than a few performance bolt-ons, it continues in that tradition. Quick quarter-mile blasts are not Steve's Holy Grail, so the Cougar can lay no claim to an e.t. slip--and it's just as well. That's not where Steve's heart lies. Instead, Steve went looking for a way to improve upon the Cougar's outward appearance--in essence a major makeover that would peel away some of the years of neglect and abuse and give the cruiser a fresh start. Steve had no experience with bodywork, so he signed up at Cerritos College for a class in collision repair. There he met a few other true believers who helped him learn how to take the waves out of his West Coast body.
At the college, he had a shop to begin the restoration. At first, it was learning how to make basic rust repairs and doing a skin peel to remove all those "little old lady dents" that peppered the car. The original white paint eventually became a great base for Steve's first shot at automotive painting. With gun in hand, he laid down several layers of RM Diamond '72 Chevy Mohave Gold, followed by yards of tape and masking paper to add the Wimbledon White stripes on the hood. It's a great first effort of which Steve is particularly proud. In fact, the work on his car has now led him to a career in automotive paint.
But there's more to image than just a well-executed paint job, so Steve took on stance as his next big adventure. The task was simplified with help from his friends at Don & Harold's Alignment in Long Beach, California. Shorter springs in front along with "age lowered" stock rear leaf springs delivered what Steve was after, so all that was left was the rolling stock with his own subtle touches, including the Mercury emblem on the wheel center caps that escaped from a Marauder.
Since a car crafter's machine is never really completed, Steve says his plans for more horsepower are torn between a roller-cammed 351W, a 428ci big-block, or perhaps a twin-turbo'd 351W. More realistically, before the additional horsepower will come a larger disc-brake package up front with matching Crown Vic discs in the rear, because regardless of how much horsepower the Cougar commands, Steve's still gotta stop. Which is good because Steve's already found another '69 XR-7 Cougar that's in desperate need of some attention, along with a '68 Galaxie fastback with a 390 FE that's begging for more power. So like the rest of us, Steve has his automotive future already planned for him, painted in various shades of Mercury gold.
What: '69 Mercury Cougar
Owner: Steve Saavedra
Hometown: Norwalk, California--the past haunting grounds of Ford performance promoter Kaufmann Products
Engine: Because the Cougar is a daily driver, a radical cam and race-gas compression are not realistic, so Steve stuck with the proven parts, such as an Edelbrock Performer dual-plane intake, a Holley 670-cfm Street Avenger carburetor, a K&N filter, and an Edelbrock air cleaner. The distributor is stock but upgraded with Pertronix internals and an ACCEL coil, while Hedman 1 5/8-inch headers route the exhaust through Flowmaster 2 1/2-inch pipes.Transmission/Converter: The FMX three-speed has been faithful if not stellar. Steve refers to the converter as a "crappy, stock 1,800-stall." That tells you everything you need to know.
Rearend: It's nice when your choice of street ride already has a 9-inch in it, complete with a 3.50 gear and a Traction-Lok limited slip.
Suspension: There's probably more work here than anywhere else in the car. The front consists of 1-inch-shorter springs with KYB shocks and a stock front sway bar. The rear springs are stock but assisted with Competition Engineering traction bars and matching KYB gas-filled shocks.
Brakes: The Cougar still runs the stock 11-inch front discs and stock rear drums, but there are plans for a set of Mustang Cobra or Crown Vic 12.5-inch rotors.
Wheels/Tires: In front, the Cougar spins a set of 245/45ZR17 Nitto 555s on 17x8-inch Mustang Bullitt wheels, while on the back the same wheels mount larger 275/40ZR17 Nitto 555 drag tires.

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Veronica Gielazauskas has been named director of marketing intelligence for Columbia College where she will oversee the marketing intelligence team in harnessing internal and external marketing research to guide business growth and marketing decisions.
"Veronica brings a wealth of marketing experience to our team, and we look forward to working with her," said Lana Poole, executive director of Marketing.
Prior to joining the college, Gielazauskas managed the business and community services marketing team for the Missouri Department of Economic Development in Jefferson City, Mo.
Gielazauskas holds a bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Missouri in Columbia, Mo., and an MBA from William Woods University in Fulton, Mo.
Founded in 1851 in Columbia, Mo., Columbia College has been helping students advance their lives through higher education for more than 160 years. As a private, nonprofit, liberal arts and sciences institution, the college takes pride in its small classes, experienced faculty and quality educational programs. With more than 30 Nationwide Campuses across the country, 18 of which are on military instillations, students may enroll in day, evening or online classes. The college is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission and is a member of the North Central Association. Columbia College educates more than 30,000 students each year and has more than 70,000 alumni worldwide. For more information, visit www.ccis.edu.


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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Ś Facebookĺs mystery ôpress eventö Tuesday could reveal a more robust search feature that would intensify the competition between the social networking giant and rival Google Inc.
Facebook is holding the event at 10 a.m. (1 p.m. EST) at its Menlo Park, Calif., headquarters. The company has not said what it plans to announce. Last week, it invited bloggers and journalists to ôcome see what weĺre building.ö
The company probably wonĺt be showing off a new office building. Itĺs also unlikely to unveil a much-rumored ôFacebook phoneö Śunless CEO Mark Zuckerberg has changed his mind recently. Last fall, he shot down speculation that Facebook was building its own smartphone.
Since the companyĺs current search functions are limited, users would likely welcome a better way to search Facebook.


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Can every test be done by automation?
Or is there anything that cannot be done by automation?
Can every test be done by automation?
Or is there anything that cannot be done by automation?
You can't automate everything.
And that's just in 2 minutes. I'm sure I could come up with dozens more.
I think attempting to automate everything without thinking about what you're actually going to test is a horrible (but unfortunately common) practice.
My standard line is that you should automate 100% of the tests that should be automated. Figuring out which tests to automate (or not to automate) is tha hard part. Testers frequently waste time attempting to automate something that should not be automated, while others waste teimt testing something manually that should be automated.
My personal litmus test is boredom. I automate the boring stuff and use my brain to test the things that interest me. There are, of course, exceptions, but this has worked well for me.
No. THere are several types of testing where automation is useless.
I want to add one aspect to "automated tests are pointless in exploratory testing."
I can imagine some scenarios, where I would like to explore something, lets say how the program behaves when I executed funtionalities over and over for eight hours. Or certain workflows.
In that case manual exploring it would be too time consuming. So I might consider writing some automated tests helping me to follow up on that mission.
So as such, I would never say "automation" can't be helpful for ET, but as often (always?) it depends on the context behind.
Automation is good for checking, verifying, validating. It is a tool that can be used as part of your testing. Most other tests require sapient thought and do not lend well towards automation. In the end, the automation can only check what you code it to in specific terms.
How would you automate usability testing of app?
There are two answers, depending on how you interpret this question:
Yes, everything that can be done manually can be automated with the right combination of tools, and given the right environment.
However, actually creating/obtaining the tools, putting in the time to write/maintain the test, and verifying the results can be cost prohibitive, so...
No, you effectively cannot, and should not automate everything.
No, at the time of this writing. As has been related to me by professionals in the field, the best litmus for whether a problem cannot be automated is if it's AI-complete -- that is, if automating the task is at least as hard as solving the central artificial intelligence problem, making computers as intelligent as people (further reading).
Within this framing, consider several of the other answers to this question. Many of them hinge on problems that humans are very good at solving that computers are not, including large, multidimensional fuzzy matching and searching problems and problems bounded by EXPtime or EXPspace (such as a deterministic solver for the game Go, to derive the set of correct solutions an algorithm should come to). Humans are still imperfect at these problems, but their ability to make expert decisions and recognize patterns is still better than the cutting edge in AI research at the time of this writing.
Using this definition, you should be able to elegantly divide the problem space into automatable tasks and those that require some degree of manual intervention. From here, I would combine the former set (by analogy and design principles left outside the scope of this answer) and prune the latter set until you've arrived at a convincing and implementable set of tests for your system.
Good luck!
You can automate every technical aspect of a project, plus some human behavior test if you like it, for example you can use ClickDensity to track the behavior of users on your website or online application (is that on-topic?)
But as a rule of thumb, let's say that what is human behavior related is not testable.
If possible, is it even desirable to automate 100% of your testing? If you've got an automated test for every path through the GUI with all supported clients/browsers on all supported platforms, I'd be curious about your process and strategy. Either your GUI has been static for a long time, your GUI is absurdly simple, or your test automation team are absolute rock stars. If none of those things are true then I'd have to wonder if you're devoting too much resources to automation. If not, then I would love to hear how you got an automation suite that good.
No, every test cannot be automated For example if you want to test a colour of a page in a web application, this is not possible with automation. Like this we can say that so many tests are there that cannot be automated like security tests, usability tests etc.


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D'ANDREA, Marlene J., 74, of Weirton, passed away Monday, February 25, 2013, in the Weirton Medical Center.
Born June 13, 1938, in Steubenville, OH, she was a daughter of the late Gabriel and Kathryn Bartolovich Altomare.
She was also preceded in death by her husband, Philip J. D'Andrea on January 30, 2008.
Marlene spent most of her life as a homemaker, dedicated wife and mother. She worked for 10 years at the Weirton Medical Center as a Nurse Assistant and was a member of St. Paul Roman Catholic Church. Marlene enjoyed cooking for her family, was an avid bowler, Pittsburgh Steeler and Miami Heat fan.
Mrs. D'Andrea is survived by her sons, Michael (Candace) D'Andrea of Toronto, OH and Robert "Bob" D'Andrea of Weirton; daughters, Debbie (Bernie) Zickefoose of Weirton and Lori (Ed) Dillon of Colliers, WV; brother, Robert Altomare of Plantation, FL; sister, Maryann "Babe" (John) Lesho of Weirton; six grandchildren, William Michael, Sheena Marie, Kendal, Ashley D'Andrea, Edward Dillon, Jr. and Brandon Dillon and two great- grandchildren Ava and Alivia D'Andrea.
Visitation will be held Thursday 2-8 p.m. at the Greco-Hertnick Funeral Home, 3219 Main Street, Weirton, WV.
Funeral Liturgy with Mass will be celebrated at noon Friday at St. Paul Roman Catholic Church with Reverend Father Larry Dorsch officiating.
Interment will be in St. Paul Cemetery, Weirton.
Memorial contributions may be made to the D'Andrea family or the American Heart Association.
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High school scoreboard for Oct. 31
Wednesday's results BOYS SOCCER Berkshire League Thomaston 3, Gilbert 0 Housatonic at Nonnewaug, ppd. to Friday Northwestern at Litchfield, ppd., TBA GIRLS SOCCER Berkshire League Northwestern 2, Terryville/Thomaston 0 Housatonic 2, Gilbert 0 Litchfield at Shepaug, ppd. to Friday Nonnewaug at Wamogo, ppd. to Friday Others Wolcott Tech at Putnam, ppd., TBA FIELD HOCKEY Berkshire League Nonnewaug at Shepaug, ppd. to Friday Wamogo at Housatonic, ppd. to Monday VOLLEYBALL Berkshire League Lewis Mills at Nonnewaug, ppd., TBA Terryville 3, Gilbert 0 Others New Milford at Northwestern, ppd., TBA SUMMARIES Girls volleyball TERRYVILLE 3, GILBERT 0 (25-8, 25-18 25-15) Highlights: Terryville — Bailey Doran, 8 kills, 2 aces, 5 digs; Jamie Bridge, 8 kills, 5 digs; G — Isabella Panagakos, 4 kils, 10 digs, 2 blocks; MacKenzie Russo 4 kills, 4 digs. Records: T 15-1; G 5-12.


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Just finished watching season 4, wrapped it up nicely. But I'm a little confused about Starbuck.
She was not a Cylon, but she died and came back. Was she supposed to be an angel?
Just finished watching season 4, wrapped it up nicely. But I'm a little confused about Starbuck.
She was not a Cylon, but she died and came back. Was she supposed to be an angel?
There is no official answer to this question. The two main schools of thought are that she's either a nod to the Seraphs from the original series or - without spoiling too much - she's the same as messenger Six and messenger Baltar. I think it's a bit of both personally, with a dash of we didn't know what to do with her.
She is, as I've often taken from watching the series, a time traveling Cylon from the future. Capable of downloading into a new body after death, but highly evolved to the point of being completely organic like humans. She represents the paradox of the Cylon universe "what has happen before, shall happen again".
Unlike current sleeper Cylon's that black out when their program triggers them to take action she has visions and makes her own decisions. She represents the evolved state of being able to have both free will and a destiny at the same time.
That's my two cents. Take it or leave it. :)
She's the first hybrid her dad was a Cylon. So she gets her own rules.
I think that when her ship was destroyed near that black storm of some sort, which I'm assuming was a black hole she did die. However, the fact that she died near/in a black hole can account for her dead body and busted up ship being on the 1st earth planet. As we all know that in any sci-fi show, black holes can bring you to any place and or time in space. That black hole took her there and it duplicated her body AND ship, which would explain why it was brand spanking new when she came back with it. I stand by all of this as my theory, however I've never seen the original series, just the remake, so maybe there's something else that explains it all. I don't like how she just disappeared in the end. I'm going to go with when she came back, she was basically an angel, but not an angel for the whole series.
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#2. "Here We Go 'Round the Mulberry Bush"
How We Know It Today:
Here we go 'round the mulberry bush,
The mulberry bush,
The mulberry bush.
Here we go 'round the mulberry bush
So early in the morning.
There are different variations of the song out there, but most contain stanzas dealing with household chores or personal hygiene ("This is the way we scrub the floors," "This is the way we wash our face," etc). So, we're looking at either a song meant to teach children good household chore practices, or an OCD sufferer's uncharacteristically jaunty list of symptoms.
"This is the way we wash our hands, until they bleed, until they bleed ..."
What It Actually Means:
Do your chores or the guards will beat you.
Former warden R.S. Duncan makes the case that a prison in Wakefield, England, served as the original inspiration for the song. In the mid-1800s, the prison added women to its population, and the theory holds that female inmates would sing the song while they exercised with their children around a central mulberry bush in the prison yard.
Welcome to Wakefield
On the plus side, at least those child convicts didn't have to miss their mommies.
Man, if they weren't burying them alive, they were locking them away for crimes their mothers committed: Old-timey England sure hated them some children.
Throughout its lengthy history, the Wakefield prison had many problems with overcrowding and unsanitary conditions (including outbreaks of cholera and typhoid among the population). As described by one official in 1774: "This prison is unfortunately built upon low ground; so it is damp and exposed to floods. A prison on ground so low as this requires the utmost attention to cleanliness." So yes, those "brush your hair" and "wash your face" lyrics are pretty quaint, and they teach the kids some good grooming habits, but when you consider that the unspoken implication is "sweep the floor or you'll die of typhoid," it kind of loses a little cuteness, doesn't it?
#1. "She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain"
How We Know It Today:
She'll be coming 'round the mountain
When she comes
She'll be coming 'round the mountain
When she comes.
So ... she's coming ... we're all really excited about it ... can't we just leave it at that? Please?
Just imagine this, but with six white horses instead of a few diseased donkeys.
What It Actually Means:
Everybody is going to die. Like, tomorrow.
Some theories argue that the song is exactly what it sounds like: celebrating the arrival of a supply train. Others believe it's a metaphor for Mary Harris "Mother" Jones organizing coal miner labor unions. But the real origin is even darker: "She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain" is actually based on a slave-era spiritual called "When the Chariot Comes." The two songs share the same melody, structure and even some lyrics -- the iconic "when she comes" chant is present in both versions.
Notably different, though, are original lyrics like "King Jesus, he'll be driver when she comes" and "She'll be loaded with bright angels when she comes." "When the Chariot Comes" and, by extension, "She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain," are both songs about the Rapture -- the day when Jesus comes back to earth to play favorites. "She" actually refers to the chariot he'll be riding down to bring about the End of Days. You know, like how we give boats and cars feminine properties -- this is the same thing, just for Christ's big ol' Rapturous Red Flyer.
If you're going to end all life on earth, you might as well do it in style.
So there you have it: That merry old-timey prospector song your kids are singing out in the yard is actually rejoicing about the imminent death of all humanity. Why don't you go outside and explain that to them? Maybe the kids will be so taken with your mastery of trivia that they'll stop calling you "Becky's Weirdo Downer Dad."
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|Some of the thousands of maps from the collection once belonging to John Feathers in Feathers' former Los Angeles, California, home on October 18, 2012. Feathers, who died last February, saved thousands of old and new maps. The maps are being donated to the Los Angeles Public Library. (Gary Friedman/Los Angeles Times/MCT)
Stashed everywhere in the 948-square-foot tear-down were maps. Tens of thousands of maps. Fold-out street maps were stuffed in file cabinets, crammed into cardboard boxes, lined up on closet shelves and jammed into old dairy crates. Wall-size roll-up maps once familiar to schoolchildren were stacked in corners. Old globes were lined in rows atop bookshelves also filled with maps and atlases.
A giant plastic topographical map of the United States covered a bathroom wall and bookcases displaying Thomas Bros. map books and other street guides lined a small den.
The occupant of the 90-year-old cottage had died in February. Greenberg's job was to empty the home so it could be demolished and its 18,000-square-foot lot, near the top of Canyon Vista Drive, divided into two parcels. His clients had told him to rent a Dumpster and throw away whatever he found inside.
But Greenberg couldn't bring himself to do that, especially after he read a recent Los Angeles Times article about the Central Library's map collection. Instead, he invited its map librarian, Glen Creason, to Mount Washington to look at the trove.
Creason called the find unbelievable. "I think there are at least a million maps here," he said. "This dwarfs our collection - and we've been collecting for 100 years."
Creason returned to the home recently with 10 library employees and volunteers to box up the maps. The acquisition will give the city library one of the country's top five library map archives, behind the Library of Congress and public libraries in New York, Philadelphia and Boston, he said.
As the workers went through the tiny house, they tried to piece together the wanderlust life of John Feathers, the man who amassed the collection, apparently, beginning in childhood.
But they had little evidence to go on, and it remained a mystery exactly how and why he obtained so many maps.
Born in Massachusetts, and raised in a military family that is believed to have spent time in the Midwest, Feathers became a hospital dietitian who seems to have traveled widely. He was the companion of the home's late owner, Walter Keller, who arranged for him to continue living there after his own death two decades ago.
Feathers died in February at age 56, leaving no known survivors. Keller's brother and sister, Marvin Keller and Esther Baum, retained Greenberg to sell the property, which is located next to the Self-Realization Fellowship meditation center.
According to Greenberg, it was the "nagging voice of my mother in the back of my mind" that prompted him to hesitate before tossing out the maps. He has a soft spot in his heart for archives and collections; his mother, Marilyn Greenberg, is a retired university professor who specialized in library science.
It took hours for the workers to pack up the maps on a recent Thursday. Everywhere they turned, they found more. As the morning wore on, neighbors came over to watch.
"John was a quiet, shy guy. But looking at all of this, I'd say the job at the hospital was clearly not his passion," said Michelle Litchfield, who has lived two houses away for 17 years.
Volunteer Peter Hauge was startled when he moved an old stereo. "Look at this!" he shouted. "He gutted the insides of the stereo of its electronic components and used the box to store more street maps. The front of the stereo still has the knobs."
After that, Hauge said he made a point to inspect the home's washer and dryer and its refrigerator and oven for more stored maps, but found none.
Feathers' trove contained both run-of-the-mill gas station and Chamber of Commerce street maps as well as historic gems, Creason said.
"He has every type of map imaginable. There's a 1956 pictorial map of Lubbock, Texas. He's got a 1942 Jack Renie Street Guide of Los Angeles," Creason said. "He has four of the first Thomas Bros. guides from 1946. Those are very hard to find. The one copy we have is falling apart because it's been so heavily used. We had to photocopy it."
Gingerly fingering an atlas-sized 1918 map with a faded blue cover, Creason opened it up to show the National Map Co.'s "Official Paved Road" guide to the United States. The tattered pages illustrated the location of paved roads with red and blue ink.
Creason was also enthralled by the discovery of several "Mapfox" Los Angeles street guides published in 1944. Creason said in his 32-year library career he had never seen one. Also tucked into Feathers' collection was a pocket-size "Geographia Authentic Atlas and Guide to London and Other Suburbs," showing streets, parks, lakes and rivers that Creason dated as pre-World War I.
The house where Feathers kept his collection sits on a lot that has its own history. The site was once used by the Los Angeles and Mount Washington Railway, which was operated from 1909 to 1919 by Robert Marsh, himself a turn-of-the-century Los Angeles mapmaker and developer of the Mount Washington Hotel, now used by the Self-Realization Fellowship. A section of steel cable used to move the railway's trolley cars up and down the steep hillside remains embedded in concrete in a corner of the lot, which is priced at $450,000.
Creason expects that cataloging and organizing the maps will take as long as a year. "We may have to apply for a grant to sort through the fold-out maps and ask for help from the Library of Congress. The collection will take up about 600 feet of shelving," he said.
Veteran antiquarian map dealer Barry Ruderman of La Jolla, Calif., would not put a price on the find. He inspected the collection Wednesday and discovered that the oldest piece was a 1592 map of Europe.
Ruderman described Feathers as "more of a hoarder than a collector." Along with his maps, Feathers also collected tiny bars of hotel soap, restaurant matchbook covers and National Geographic magazines dating from 1915 to this year.
"This person grabbed every map he could," Ruderman said, glancing at a map of Hopkins County, Ky., in the cottage's kitchen.
"I think he wasn't looking so much for maps as they were finding him."
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In Colossians 2:18, Paul warns his readers, "Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels disqualify you for the prize" (NIV emphasis mine). Of course, that it is in the genitive case means that we can take in two ways. Either it refers to worship directed to angels or worship done by angels. Is there any reason to prefer one or the other here?
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Peter O'Brien says of this verse in his Colossians commentary:
And Douglas Moo, in his:
(The difficulties of this verse of course go far beyond this particular phrase.)
Both interpretations have been argued. If the subjective genitive position (angels worshiping God) is taken, the idea would be that the angels are mediating in some sense for the humans.
The objective genitive is the more obvious and traditional reading of the text.
However, O'Brien concludes after a complex discussion that
Which I frankly think is convoluted. (O'Brien is thorough but sometimes prefers esoteric renderings.) Good ol' Moo comes to the rescue, giving a simple rebuttal of O'Brien's complex discussion. It is worth quoting at length:
As an aside, Richard Gamble makes an argument from Hebrews 9-10 that Christians do actually join with angels in the worship of God, which makes the subjective genitive seem even less likely.
"Worship of angels" indicates men worshiping angels.
KaZark answered this well.
I am just throwing some common sense to support his answer. If you notice how people like to worship Saints in our day , it's not hard to imagine before Christ people liked to worship angels. When you consider how the Law was delivered by angels (Heb 2:2) and that in the Old Testament angels appearing was the greatest thing ever. Naturally the fleshly mind would have invented a host of superstitions about different angels, their names, how you could invoke their blessing, etc. they were probably all puffed up making pretend rules about things they no nothing of. They probably had various fake practices of humility in the way they pretended to be religious in their superstitions. Apparently even many Jews must have had a very high view of angels and commonly fell into this kind of thinking, for Hebrews starts by arguing how Jesus is superior to angels. If we could argue to superstitious people of our day who prefer to go to Mary, or St. so-and-so, rather than the eternal Priest, who knows how to empathize with our weakness, we would probably find very similar attitudes and ideas. Then it was angels, now it is Saints.
St.Paul warns about worshiping God's servants, because God's servants are equal to angels. Ref: Zechariah 12:8. St.Paul clearly not mentioning about angels of heaven, for example Gabriel, Michael and others and as well as not about the fallen angels too. Because it was addressed to Colossians who are strong in doctrine. Today too believers are fond of worshiping such angels as the worldly people worships Singers, Sportsmen and Movie stars. Instead of honoring and listen to their doctrine these people start to worship them and unfortunately some of the God's servants too allow them unknowingly or wantonly. Such acts bring God's wrath on them.


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Hi, I'm developing an app using ST 1.1.1. I have a formPanel with a few textfields.
After I completed inserting data into those text fields I want to hide the keyboard and press my update button.
As it turns out, the only way I can close the keyboard is by pressing the "GO" button which causes the app to reload. (I get served the HTML page again).
How can I avoid this behavior? is it possible to press the GO button and hide the keyboard without having my app reloading?
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I have tried adding the url property, but that didn't help.
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Alternatively, are there good ways to get more satisfaction out of my job, possibly by leveraging my participation in SO?
What is meta?
- Any Stack Exchange user can ask a question
- The community provides support, votes on ideas, and reports bugs
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Because you receive instant positive feedback.
If you got a rep increase from your co-workers every time you sent a useful email, made a good point in a meeting, or got someone to laugh around the water cooler, you'd find work a bit more satisfying as well.
Because the community is engaging, gives you new and different problems to solve, your help is appreciated and no one can force you to do something that you don't want to (as long as you don't want to troll or set thing on fire) and you don't have the stress of having to answer correctly or you'll lose your food (being fired). Lack of having to answer to a clueless PHB is just a plus.
In short: You are here for intellectual leisure/engagement/fun, you are at work to get money so you can eat every day and sleep comfortably (consumerism aside).
Short answer? Because many (if not most) programming jobs turn into a soul-sucking slow torture of meetings, overbearing process, second-rate solutions in the name of compromise and dealing with clueless and/or unreasonable people who often view what you do as an unfortunate cost centre.
Whereas on SO you're generally talking to a better class of programmers. I say this because those who bother to read and post on SO are generally more interested in self-development than perhaps the average Joe (Programmer). To such people learning something and teaching something to someone who is generally interested is more rewarding.
May I add to Voyager's answer that we shouldn't underestimate the reputation effect?
I don't answer questions BECAUSE of reputation - I do it out of a genuine interest in helping out others and myself (by learning while I answer them).
But there is an incredible satisfying effect - at least to me - in seeing my contribution being valued right away in a quantifiable manner. By my peers no less, not by a person that might understand very little of what we do.
How often at work can we say that we had an impact of 2 out of 10 on anything we do?
Now, sure, there are people that are hunting reputation - even gaming for it. And that detracts from the spirit of SO. But it is undeniable that reputation plays a role...
Or is it just me?
Edit: I didn't realize there was a sub-question. How to leverage your SO participation?
Again, I think reputation plays a role. The more reputable you are on a site by developers, for developers; the more likely you are to be invited/contacted/considered for a better job.
Yeah - I believe it may help you land a better job.
I recommended to the HR of the company that currently rents my brain that they ask candidates if they participate in SO (or to just look if they can find the guy/gal here).
I can't be the one that had that idea... :-)
Q. Ways to get more satisfaction out of your job?
A. Behave like you're in a real "StackOverflow" work environment.
Can I suggest careers.stackoverflow.com?
Get a job where the work environment is good and you interact with interesting colleagues.
I think it's because you enjoy an intellectual challenge that you're maybe not getting from your day job. I love my job, but I have a root around Stack Overflow for interesting questions during the day because it allows my brain to take a break from the problem or task at hand in work.
I also like problem solving and in my day job I'm not problem solving 100% of the time. For example, you may have a task to complete where system X needs to talk to system Y and there isn't a documented mechanism to do this. So you solve the problem which may have taken 20%-30% of your time, that's the interesting bit. The rest is turning that communication mechanism into robust production code and getting it tested thoroughly and deployed, that's less fun. Hence you turn to Stack Overflow for interesting problems to solve whilst completing the less interesting part of your project or task.
Because SO makes learning new things fun: you learn by helping others, and you learn by being helped. Also, there are no restrictions regarding the time you spend here: stay as much or as little as you want, and your only deadlines are the ones that you impose to yourself (let's see if I can gather 1000 rep. in a week, or stuff like that).
The reason we enjoy Stack Overflow is because we can be successful very easily and quickly. There are enough questions here that we can find one that we are able to answer - this is a win. Then people up vote or accept the answer, and we feel very successful.
At most jobs you probably don't have a project that can be completed to success in the same amount of time. And if you did then you probably wouldn't have someone come put a big gold star on your computer monitor, or some other instant recognition of your success. Most likely you just get another change request in your queue.
With Stack Overflow there is no feature backlog or deadlines, which makes it significantly less stressful and more enjoyable.
I know Kathy Sierra has written about how much people enjoy feeling smart and like a winner. This was the closest I could come.
Because the positives/negatives ratio isn't the same. At work, if you do well, there can be great positives, but if you don't, there can be severe negatives. On SO, if you do well, there are moderate positives, but if you don't, there are negligible negatives.
So what happens if you're not good at SO? You lose some rep, which is only marginally meaningful in the first place. And on top of that, you can delete your bad posts and request rep recalcs, so you don't really even have to suffer that already-minimal pain. On the other hand, if you do well, you get respect from your fellow programmers, a lot more knowledge and the option to participate more fully in the running of the site via unlocked abilities, particularly the 2k, 3k and 10k tools. Again, in a nutshell, SO participation is almost all good stuff.
On the other hand, at work, there's plenty of potential bad. There can be a lot of stress caused by not wanting to be jobless, hungry and cold. And when you have to think about that all the time, it can be easy to lose sight of what you like about your job, even if you have a lot to like.


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I think its more likely to do with the end of Scarlet Spider #6. Julia said that "She is coming back for Kaine." My guess is that its something to do with that. Probably the Queen.
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I've looked around but there seems to be a lot of variety out there. Is there a widely accepted "best" set of instructions or video for doing squats correctly?
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First, you need to decide what type of squat you want to do:
The low bar back squat with a depth that brings the upper surface of your thighs slightly below parallel is well described by Mark Rippetoe in his book, Starting Strength. Some material is available online, also:
Starting Strength by Mark Rippetoe is widely accepted as the best instructional book for learning how to do squats.
There are always going to be differences in form between different coaches. Therefore, unless one subscribes to the reasoning behind a particular approach, one cannot say that one form of squat is the best. However, we can point out the best instances of teaching what are generally regarded as safe and effective squat methods.
If looking at sources on the web and in print generally, here are some pitfalls to avoid: - If someone says to be careful of squats because they damage the knees, set off an alarm bell in your mind. - If someone says not to squat too deep--for instance, only above parallel, or to a 90 degree angle between the femur and tibia--jam your ears and back away slowly.
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Personally, I would recommend picking up either Everett or Rippetoe's book, getting started, and dealing with any issues that arise. Both give solid instruction, though they disagree on some points. (You can always switch from low-bar (Rip's method) to high-bar (Everett's method) after trying it for a while.) If you feel like switching to a more powerlifting-centric approach, Wenning would be appropriate.
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Everest University, formerly known as Florida Metropolitan University (FMU), offers students that hands-on learning and training that applies to many of today's career fields that are in demand. Students may earn their Associate, Bachelor's, or Master's degree in a variety of fields – like health care and business.
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Everest University has a long history in the Sunshine State. The oldest Everest University campus can trace its roots to 1890 when the Tampa campus became the first business college in Florida, under the name Tampa College. It became Florida Metropolitan University in 1996 and ultimately Everest University in 2007. The name change allowed the Florida campuses to become part of a nationally recognized name. Everest offers programs at more than 85 campuses throughout the United States.
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Because I ride my bike everywhere, my pannier bags (Ortlieb Back Roller Classic) carry all kinds of cargo, from wrapped-up fish-and-chips to damp swimming and gym kit. I store them open whenever I can, so they're not as ripe as you might think, but they've still developed a distinct odour over time. What's the best way to wipe down the inside and leave them smelling like new again? Do you have any recommendations for a particular cleaner that won't damage the waterproofing, or a special technique that gets rid of the bad smells?
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I know it sounds too simple, but these bags are made to be cleaned (assuming yours is unlined. If it's lined, you'll never get it out).
First, try dish soap and water. Citrus scents seem to cut the smell best, but that may be a personal preference.
If that is not enough, then the next best option is to use a diluted solution of something like Pine Sol or other bath, kitchen and tile cleaner.
I've used Pine Sol in a 1:4 ratio with water, and it did the job that dish soap wouldn't.
Another thing to consider:
Seal the products you are carrying better.
Don't take fish just wrapped in newspaper like the fish market gives them to you. Ask for, and insist on if necessary, a ziplock or similar plastic bag or wrap to keep the fish oil off of your bag.
For Gym clothes, pack them in vacuum storage bags like you get for packing luggage tightly. Push the air out of the bag, and it will keep the nasty sealed in well enough to keep your bag form smelling.
They come large enough to put most anything that will fit in your panniers or messenger bag, (even newspaper wrapped fish), and they don't take up much room when empty.
If the material seems unwashable try filling a thin sock or pantyhose with baking soda/sodium bicarbonate and dust the inside with it.Open the flap and tap the sock against the interior just hard enough to leave some of the powder over the entire interior.Let it sit overnight and vacum out any residue.You can leave the sock in the pannier so it will continue to absorb odors or try some charcoal in a small cloth pouch.Charcoal can be the kind used for grilling but make sure it is lump charcoal without any self ignitor added.
I like the baking soda comment. Depending on your humidity, you might be developing a mildew smell, which can also develop in cycling jackets if you ride in the rain frequently, too. If you have a warm sunny day, and can turn the bags inside out, sunning them can also be effective. If your bag gets damp (inside) frequently, dry it out promptly and wad up newspaper in it, and that should absorb moisture from a bag (works for gloves and shoes.)
Soaking in a saline and vinegar solution can cut mildew solution. You can add garden herbs like sage or rosemary leaves. If this is not effective, I would move up to some Simple Green solution next.
If those solutions are ineffective, you could also trest a small section of the bag with a TSP (trisodium phosphate). TSP is harsh so use gloves, safety glasses. This is probably safer than washing with a bleach solution, but doing a test on a section to determine if how it treats your material.
I have cloth panniers with a piece of stiff plastic riveted to the inside back wall so turning them inside out isn't an option for cleaning. Using a mild washing machine soap in the bath tub with warm water, I dunked each pannier in and scrubbed all surfaces with a brush. Hung outside to dry and then brought them inside for the remaining dry time using a floor fan to air dry them. Once dry, the final step was to battle the remaining odor of the bags. Taking an idea from an earlier answer, I dumped a sufficient quantity of Gold Bond Body Powder into a sock and proceeded to gently tap it inside each pannier until there was a fine film of powder lining the interior. Just enough to absorb any undesirable odor and make we want to use them again. Hope that helps.
Have you tried air and sunshine first? I turn my panniers inside out and put them by an open window every month or two
Turning them inside out also makes it easy to remove debris.
Since the original comment is attached to a deleted post I'll repeat it here: There are special odor-killing laundry agents that can be quite effective against certain odors. One I've used is Scent Killer, a laundry additive intended for use by hunters to remove the odor from their clothing (so they don't spook their prey).
Hydrogen peroxide can also be used for this (though it has a slight tendency to bleach colors).
The same agents can be useful for washing out smelly bike shorts.


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