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SUPER ROOKIE | Fogerty plays hero for Volcanoes in debut
Home Asian Rugby Championship other sports Philippine Volcanoes Rob Fogerty rugby SUPER ROOKIE | Fogerty plays hero for Volcanoes in debut
Rob Fogerty made a lasting impression in his first two games with the Volcanoes.
CALAMBA--In his first two games as a Philippine Volcano, Rob Fogerty proved his worth.
Fogerty scored the go-ahead try on Saturday as the national men's rugby team rallied back in the second half to down Singapore at the start of their two-game Asia Rugby Championship Division 1 series at the Southern Plains Rugby Field.
[Related Story: Volcanoes rally in 2nd half to repulse Singapore]
Then on Tuesday back at the "Eagles' Nest", Fogerty, who became the designated penalty taker following the injury to Danny Matthews, helped spark the Volcanoes' charge, making four penalties and three conversions in a 38-12 blowout to complete the sweep.
[Related Story: Volcanoes blast Singapore, sweep ARC Division 1 series]
Fogerty, whose mother hails from Dasmarinas, outscored the entire Singaporean squad in Game 2.
However, he admitted to reporters that he was not even expecting this kind of baptism of fire.
"I came here not expecting to play much. I know Ricky [Kucia] and Matt (Matthews) are really good players from their teams. I'm still young and learning the game," said Fogerty.
In fact, he also bared that when he came in as a late substitute in Game 1 with his team down, nervousness quickly came to him.
Still, he converted the crucial try as if he was cold-blooded.
"Since I made the first carry to get into the game, I felt really good," Fogerty told about how he quickly shrugged off the first game jitters.
What made his rookie explosion more special was that his heroic performances was seen by his family, who he only saw again after a long time.
"For the first time in 21 years, I met my family... and it's the first time they see me play rugby. It's quite emotional for me," he further said.
In the end, he is so happy that he pulled off a performance to remember for the national team.
"I'm just so happy to be part of this team, and I can't wait for next year. I really enjoyed it," Fogerty concluded.
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Minnesota plans distracted driving patrol blitz
ST. PAUL -- More than 300 law enforcement agencies across Minnesota will be conducting extra distracted driving patrols April 9-22.Texting citations climbed nearly 23 percent from 2016 to 2017, the state Department of Public Safety said in a news...
Written By: Forum News Service | Apr 5th 2018 - 1pm.
ST. PAUL -- More than 300 law enforcement agencies across Minnesota will be conducting extra distracted driving patrols April 9-22.
Texting citations climbed nearly 23 percent from 2016 to 2017, the state Department of Public Safety said in a news release.
“Enough is enough,” Office of Traffic Safety director Mike Hanson said. “We are such a plugged-in, always-on society that focusing only on the road while driving takes effort. But trying to multitask behind the wheel takes even more effort. If you’re trying to do two things - like drive and text, or stream or post - you’re not focused on driving.”
During the 2017 distracted driving extra enforcement campaign, law enforcement cited 1,017 people for texting and driving. The state says an average of 59 people were killed because of distracted driving between 2012-2016.
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On the 17 June, we’ll be celebrating a year of amazing Durham students and staff at the Annual Students’ Union Awards. Check out the shortlist below to see who’s in the running for an award.
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Caragh Aylett
Over her five years as a member of the St John's community, Caragh has worked tirelessly in the service of the college. She is currently St John's Common Room president, but as a Theology and History student at St John's she has had a whole list of other roles within the college. Caragh is recognised around college as reliable and kind, passionate and focused, a leader and a team player. Caragh has done everything in her power to serve the college community over a sustained period of time and her legacy will be known in St John's for years to come.
Josh Barker
Josh has been an outstanding JCR president of St Chad's over the past year (a role which had his name on it pretty much as soon as he arrived as a fresher). Alongside being a third year student, he has always put Chad's first and led the community through a tumultuous year. He was instrumental in the JCR motion to change his own title from 'Senior Man' to 'JCR president', a move which has made Chad's a more welcoming, acceptable place for all students. In such a small college, his passionate leadership of the JCR has made a real difference.
Lauren McNally
Currently Senior Welfare Officer at St Cuth’s, Lauren has led multiple successful campaigns, such as the 'man up' campaign for Movember, SHAG week and Fresher's consent workshops. Lauren is really committed to her role and has made such a positive difference to so many people's university experiences. She goes above and beyond her role, supporting students who are struggling whilst always staying positive and enthusiastic. She is such an integral part of college welfare, and has made a huge impact on Cuth's as a college community.
Isabel Locke
Running Castle’s Outreach Division, Isabel has had a huge impact on the college community with well over half the JCR (and many MCR members) having been involved in the projects that she runs in some form or another. Isabel's Outreach Division is stronger this year than ever before and she has achieved the incredible double feat of both strengthening the college community and strengthening the college's links with the local community. When asking around college, being involved in Outreach is often the highlight of students' time in college and Isabel can be really proud of the impact she has had on the college community.
Andrew Dean
Over the last five years, Andrew has contributed to many aspects of college life at St John’s, and has become a well-liked member of the college community and respected by both staff and students. Whether that’s in music or college democracy, on his year abroad, or for postgraduates, Andrew has consistently helped improve the college community for others. As MCR president, he has ensured that postgraduates are considered equal and valued members of the college community, and has advocated better postgraduate representation at all levels of decision making.
Best student group event
Durham University Charity Fashion Show
The fashion show was planned over nine months and ran smoothly over three nights raising an amazing raising £150,000 for the charity Environmental Justice Foundation. The event allowed students to pursue and develop various interests, including photography, logistics, fashion, advertising, and events.
Blood Society's Blongo's Bingo
Raising £450 for charity, Blongo’s Bingo was a fun event with a real mix of students attending. There was a really positive atmosphere and the exec of Blood Donation Society went out of their way to make sure all attendants enjoyed their evening.
Instep Dance Society Presents Unstoppable
Instep’s annual show showcased over ten styles and all abilities of dancing. Approximately 125 dancers were involved in performing, choreographing, and being runners during the show. The event also supported two charities (Rape Crisis UK and CALM), raising £460 in donations.
Chinese New Year by CSSA
A number of groups collaborated to bring this event to life, including businesses in the local community. During the event, there were 12 food stalls, two cultural stalls, and more than ten performances in everything from Chinese dancing to a Han Chinese Clothing show.
CCAFC's 24 Hours of Football in Aid of CALM
Durham’s first 24-hour football match raised over £7,000 for the charity CALM (Campaign Against Living Miserably). The event was a real success with the full support of college staff, members from all corners of the college community, and remarkably high levels of participation.
Best college group
St. Aidan's International Society
The St Aidan's International Society has hosted three international events this year (Diwali, Chinese New Year, and an Italian Carnival) which have had a very high attendance rate, and helped build a stronger international community in the college. They’ve also collaborated with a number of other groups, including their college welfare for an International Awareness Week.
St. Aidan's Ripped Off
Branching off from the main Students’ Union campaign, St Aidan’s Ripped Off have shown commitment to the campaign against the university accommodation fees and demonstrated an impressive potential for active change.
Grey College Fashion Show
GCCFS19 was the first college charity fashion show to move to a venue outside of Durham, which created a more inclusive show with a greater range of ticket prices available and led to unprecedented engagement from college members. They also included their first "Grey-made" walk, showcasing clothing and jewellery made by talented members of the college.
Student group of the year
Nightline ensures that there is a listening ear for every Durham student. For 10 hours a night every night of term there are multiple students giving their time when most other support options aren’t available, and an ever-growing number of students are needing somewhere to turn.
The group aims to enrich and optimise the study and living experience for Chinese students in Durham, while spreading the beauty of traditional Chinese culture in Durham. They have held a diverse programme of events this year, including a very popular Chinese New Year event.
Durham University Labour Club
This year the club’s relationship with the local community has offered members huge opportunities and allowed members to play a meaningful role in work locally. The club has held speaker events, socials, have active Liberation Officers, and have been involved in wider SU campaigns.
Durham Jewish Society
Durham J-Soc has provided a fuller and more varied calendar of events than ever. From their weekly Friday Night Dinners, which have increased attendance for the second year in a row, to their first ever full Shabbat (Sabbath) events (with representatives of Progressive Jewish Students and the Jewish Agency), they have expanded what they offer to students in Durham.
Durham University Dancesport Team (DUDT)
DUDT is a vibrant and inclusive team that caters to everyone; from complete beginners who are keen to test the waters of the world of competitive ballroom and Latin dancing, all the way through to experienced dancers. DUDT takes its members on many competitions throughout the year, all of which are very successful thanks to the excellent coaching the team provides.
Durham University Swing Society
Running high quality dance lessons twice a week, every week, Swing Society provide an encouraging, safe and supportive environment to learn to dance. For many members, the group is more like a family and has led to visits to many different cities across the UK.
Contribution to the learning community
Durham University Maths Society
Durham’s Maths Society has created an intellectually stimulating environment, organising many events with sponsors (TPP) and faculty members.
Durham University Business Psychology Society
Linking business with psychology, DUBPS have put on many events with world-class speakers and interesting topics such as the use of facial recognition to recognise liars. The exec are passionate about their group, and there are many engaged members.
Durham University Classics Society
The Classics Society has organised academic, social, and career events and opportunities for students and the broader Durham community. The exec has put in every effort to make these events accessible, inclusive and engaging for all, and has seen a huge increase in members this year.
Doreen Chan (Durham University Business Society)
Being vice president last year and now president of Durham University Business Society (DUBS), Doreen is always present when any students (especially in the business area) need help, and will try as much as possible to reach out and make sure students get the help they need, going above and beyond her role.
Best campaign/project
Estranged Students Campaign
The Estranged Students Campaign has helped fill an often-missed hole in the University, providing support for students who are estranged from their families. Their imagination and passion is shown in their success in getting the University to sign the Estranged Students' Pledge.
Man Up Campaign
Led by Lauren McNally, the St Cuth’s Man Up Campaign focused on destigmatising mental health issues for men, and showing that it’s okay for men to open up about their emotions. The campaign reached a wide number of students, including those that might not normally get involved in welfare campaigns.
Mia Grabski and Laura Hosford
Mia and Laura led a really innovative welfare campaign at Trevs, handing out free menstrual cups to members of the college. The campaign helped students save money on sanitary products by providing the safer and more environmentally friendly alternative, while also opening conversations about periods.
Kate McIntosh for SU President
Despite being unopposed in the Students’ Union elections, Kate ran an impressive, diverse and well organised campaign based around the key issues that students in Durham faced. Both on the ground and on social media, Kate and her campaign team reached a huge number of students, talking to them about her vision.
Student support (staff)
Will Craig
Will is incredibly supportive and helpful with his students. He is always easily accessible, going above and beyond to meet up with people and help put their mind at ease about any queries. He is very approachable and easy to talk to, sure to never make his students feel embarrassed for asking what you may think is a 'silly question. He is always emailing updates with tips and advice regarding modules and assignments.
Chris Saville
Chris has consistently gone above and beyond for any student who needs him in the department of Earth Sciences. He is well known amongst all year groups for always having an open door and willing ear to listen to concerns. His support has been both academic and pastoral, having helped numerous students through academic issues, mental health concerns and other general issues. Much of this work is beyond Chris' job role as a teaching fellow, and he is indispensable to the students in the department.
Sandra MacDonald
Sandra goes above and beyond her job to assure the welfare of any student she meets, including last minute emergency meetings, arranging drop in sessions closer to town for less-abled students who cannot get to Butler, regular email check ins, and taking immense pride in how much her students flourish. The welfare of her students clearly means a lot to her, and whatever the process or issue is, academic, personal, Sandra will always try her hardest to help you out.
Student support (student)
Lorna Reeve
Lorna has an extensive list of commitments, which she has carried out simultaneously and alongside a degree in Psychology in which she excelled, definitely going above and beyond what can ever be expected from one individual. She has provided support for students with disabilities, but also the whole of Trevelyan College and, through her work in training groups, the wider University. Her dedication is deeply personal and not dependent on any role she has held.
Sam Johnson-Audini
Sam is incredibly dedicated to improving and enriching the lives of LGBT+ students in Durham. Not only in their role as LGBT+ Association President, but as an activist in Durham for three years and as an SU trustee and NUS delegate, working to combat prejudice, discrimination and lack of representation has been vital to everything Sam does. Sam’s work as LGBT+ President has fundamentally changed the visibility and culture of the LGBT+ community in Durham.
Seun Twins
As President of People of Colour Association Seun has worked tirelessly to fill the calendar with so many events. Being a voice for an entire marginalised community in Durham is no easy feat, but Seun takes it all in her stride and has developed a space that is so necessary for PoC students in Durham. Her proactive activism and compassionate approach has done a lot to unite a community.
Kathryn Rogers
Kathryn, as the leader Hatfield’s welfare team, provided support for the entire of the college, providing drop-in hours and arranging welfare events for the college. She also went above and beyond her role in providing support for individuals who were greatly in need, catering to students' specific needs, for example, by arranging the meeting in such a way as to ease their social anxiety. She genuinely cares about student mental health and wellbeing, and has done all in her power to help and support the students around her.
Izzie Cheshire
Izzie’s commitment to the welfare of all LGBT+ students and student welfare at Josephine Butler has directly improved the lives of so many here at Durham. Having dedicated much of her time to supporting students she never asks for any recognition for the important work she has done. As a volunteer she has gone above and beyond to make the university a better place for students, particularly those struggling with their mental health.
Outstanding commitment to a student group
Isabelle Tarsh
As president of Jewish Society, Isabelle has pushed a lot of new initiatives within the society such as interfaith work, very regular and inclusive events of both social and educational formats, and has dealt well with the challenges Durham's Jewish community have faced. She has also provided excellent support to the society’s exec.
Johanna Thren
Contributing countless hours to Pole Dancing Society, Johanna not only teaches, but organises extra workshops, pole jams and creates a motivating environment for her students. She makes sure pole is inclusive and has ensured all members of the society have not just become better at dancing, but also more confident.
Pippa Tatton-Brown
Pippa has been president of the Durham University Charity Fashion Show since May last year. She has shown sustained commitment to the project, making some remarkable achievements in her time as president, not least her ability to be an inspiring, positive and dedicated leader to a group of over 100 participants.
Chloe Hill
As president of Swing Society this year, Chloe has always been friendly, positive and ready to welcome anyone with a huge smile on her face. She has worked tirelessly to organise sessions and events, and turns up to everything with boundless enthusiasm. Chloe has also pushed for accessibility, keeping event costs as low as possible to ensure maximum participation.
Louise Webster
Louise not only founded the Blood Donation Society, but has been president since then, seeing the group franchise into at least two other universities. She is organised, committed and wants to ensure the society is performing to the best standard. She gives her all in the group’s challenges, including Get Your Blood Pumping, which she completed despite being a self-confessed non-runner.
Best new student group
Durham Scripted Comedy Society
In less than two terms, Durham Scripted Comedy Society have created a new friendly community for comedians in Durham without any access barriers or auditions, allowing any student to try out comedy and develop their scriptwriting, performing, or event management skills.
Global Health Durham
Bringing together students from a variety of academic disciplines, Global Health Durham has provided a place for students to discuss issues that will influence their everyday lives and possibly their careers, as well as opportunities to be involved in activism.
Working to raise awareness of the lack of inclusivity within the university, St Aidan’s Ripped Off have built their following over the last year with various activities, including a banner drop, petition, leafleting and bar strolls.
Josephine Butler Allotment Society
In just one year, Josephine Butler Allotment Society have managed to create and embody a green culture that has spread to other colleges. The society provides a social experience, as well as teaching skills in horticulture and construction.
Durham University Pakistan Society
Formed this year, the society has many active members and spend time finding interesting ways for participants to engage with the society.
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25 years after the introduction of EU citizenship this book reconsiders its contradictions and constraints as well as promises and prospects. Analyzing a disputed concept and evaluating its implementation and social effects Reconsidering EU Citizenship contributes to the lively debate on European and transnational citizenship. It offers new insights for the ongoing theoretical debates on the future of EU citizenship – a future that will be determined by the transformative path the EU is going to take vis à vis the centrifugal forces of the current economic and political crisis. Learn More
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Handbook on Participatory Governance
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This Handbook concentrates on democracy beyond the traditional governmental structures to explore the full scope of participatory governance. It argues that it is a political task to turn the shift from government to governance into participatory forms, and reflects on the notion of democracy and participatory governance, and how they can relate to each other. The volume offers key examples of how governance can be turned into a participatory form. Learn More
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Handbook on Political Trust
Edited by Sonja Zmerli, Tom W.G. van der Meer
Political trust – in government, parliament, or political parties – has taken centre stage in political science for more than half a century, reflecting ongoing concerns with the legitimacy and functioning of representative democracy. To provide scholars, students and policy makers with a tool to navigate through the complexity of causes and consequences of political trust, this Handbook offers an excellent overview of the conceptual, theoretical, methodological and empirical state of the art, complemented by accounts of regional particularities, and authored by international experts in this field. Learn More
Advanced Introduction to Public Choice
Randall G. Holcombe
Using public choice economic methods, this Advanced Introduction presents a focused narrative about political decision-making based on the work that has defined the discipline. Each chapter ends with a Notes section to discuss the research on which the chapter is based, with an emphasis on the pioneering work that has shaped the development of public choice. Randall G. Holcombe emphasizes the theoretical foundations of public choice, with the idea that it offers a context within which empirical research can be understood. This book successfully explores the political decision-making process for readers and ensures that they understand how preferences of citizens are aggregated to produce public policies. Learn More
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Trust, Social Capital and the Scandinavian Welfare State
Gunnar L.H. Svendsen, Gert T. Svendsen
Denmark exemplifies the puzzle of socio-economic success in Scandinavia. Populations are thriving despite the world’s highest levels of tax and generous social benefits. Denmark would appear to be a land of paradise for free-riders and those who want ‘money for nothing’. However, the national personality is characterized both by cooperation in everyday life and the numerous ‘hard-riders’ who make extraordinary contributions. Applying Bourdieuconomics, the authors focus on contemporary case studies to explain how social capital and trust are used to counteract free-riding and enable the flight of the Scandinavian welfare state ‘bumblebee’. Learn More
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The Politics of Persuasion
Urs S. Brandt, Gert T. Svendsen
The EU is at a crossroads. Should it choose the path towards protectionism or the path towards free trade? This book convincingly argues that lobbying regulation will be a decisive first step towards fulfilling the European dream of free trade, in accordance with the original purpose of the Treaty of Rome. Without the regulation of lobbyists to try and prevent undue political persuasion, there is a greater risk of abuse in the form of corruption, subsidies and trade barriers, which will come at the expense of consumers, tax payers and competitiveness. Learn More
Handbook of Social Choice and Voting
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Handbook of Digital Politics
Edited by Stephen Coleman, Deen Freelon
It would be difficult to imagine how a development as world-changing as the emergence of the Internet could have taken place without having some impact upon the ways in which politics is expressed, conducted, depicted and reflected upon. The Handbook of Digital Politics explores this impact in a series of chapters written by some of the world's leading Internet researchers. This volume is a must-read for students, researchers and practitioners interested in the changing landscape of political communication. Learn More
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The quest for benefit from existing wealth or by seeking privileged benefit through influence over policy is known as rent seeking. Much rent seeking activity involves government and political decisions and is therefore in the domain of political economy, although it can also take place in personal relations and within firms and bureaucracies. Rent seeking, which involves the unproductive use of resources, is however primarily associated with policies that create rents as well as rent extraction or political benefit for the creators of rents. The contributions in this outstanding volume provide an accompaniment or “companion” to the literature on rent seeking and the related political economy of rent creation and extraction. The chapters, written by leading scholars in the field, demonstrate the centrality of rent-related incentives to the study of economics, politics, culture, public administration and history. Learn More
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The Common Commercial Services OLC Opinion Affecting Cyber Policy Is Over a Decade Old
January 14, 2014 /6 Comments/in Cybersecurity /by emptywheel
I’ve been meaning to go back to an exchange that occurred during Caroline Krass’ confirmation hearing to be CIA’s General Counsel back on December 17. In it, Ron Wyden raised a problematic OLC opinion he has mentioned in unclassified settings at least twice in the last year (he also wrote a letter to Eric Holder about it in summer 2012): once in a letter to John Brennan, where he described it as “an opinion that interprets common commercial service agreements [that] has direct relevance to ongoing congressional debates regarding cybersecurity legislation.” And then again in Questions for the Record in September.
Having been ignored by Eric Holder for at least a year and a half (probably closer to 3 years) on this front and apparently concerned about the memo as we continue to discuss legislation that pertains to cybersecurity, he used Krass’ confirmation hearing to get more details on why DOJ won’t withdraw the memo and what it would take to be withdrawn.
Wyden: The other matter I want to ask you about dealt with this matter of the OLC opinion, and we talked about this in the office as well. This is a particularly opinion in the Office of Legal Counsel I’ve been concerned about — I think the reasoning is inconsistent with the public’s understanding of the law and as I indicated I believe it needs to be withdrawn. As we talked about, you were familiar with it. And my first question — as I indicated I would ask — as a senior government attorney, would you rely on the legal reasoning contained in this opinion?
Krass: Senator, at your request I did review that opinion from 2003, and based on the age of the opinion and the fact that it addressed at the time what it described as an issue of first impression, as well as the evolving technology that that opinion was discussing, as well as the evolution of case law, I would not rely on that opinion if I were–
Wyden: I appreciate that, and again your candor is helpful, because we talked about this. So that’s encouraging. But I want to make sure nobody else ever relies on that particular opinion and I’m concerned that a different attorney could take a different view and argue that the opinion is still legally valid because it’s not been withdrawn. Now, we have tried to get Attorney General Holder to withdraw it, and I’m trying to figure out — he has not answered our letters — who at the Justice Department has the authority to withdraw the opinion. Do you currently have the authority to withdraw the opinion?
Krass: No I do not currently have that authority.
Wyden: Okay. Who does, at the Justice Department?
Krass: Well, for an OLC opinion to be withdrawn, on OLC’s own initiative or on the initiative of the Attorney General would be extremely unusual. That happens only in extraordinary circumstances. Normally what happens is if there is an opinion which has been given to a particular agency for example, if that agency would like OLC to reconsider the opinion or if another component of the executive branch who has been affected by the advice would like OLC to reconsider the opinion they will come to OLC and say, look, this is why we think you were wrong and why we believe the opinion should be corrected. And they will be doing that when they have a practical need for the opinion because of particular operational activities that they would like to conduct. I have been thinking about your question because I understand your serious concerns about this opinion, and one approach that seems possible to me is that you could ask for an assurance from the relevant elements of the Intelligence Community that they would not rely on the opinion. I can give you my assurance that if I were confirmed I would not rely on the opinion at the CIA.
Wyden: I appreciate that and you were very straightforward in saying that. What concerns me is unless the opinion is withdrawn, at some point somebody else might be tempted to reach the opposite conclusion. So, again, I appreciate the way you’ve handled a sensitive matter and I’m going to continue to prosecute the case for getting this opinion withdrawn.
The big piece of news here — from Krass, not Wyden — is that the opinion dates to 2003, which dates it to the transition period bridging Jay Bybee/John Yoo and Jack Goldsmith’s tenure at OLC, and also the period when the Bush Administration was running its illegal wiretap program under a series of dodgy OLC opinions. She also notes that it was a memo on first impression — something there was purportedly no law or prior opinion on — on new technology.
Yet for some reason, it was not among the opinions Goldsmith chose to withdraw in 2004 (assuming he didn’t write it), nor will Eric Holder even respond to questions about why he won’t withdraw it now.
I wonder if Wyden has asked whether some opinion written since that time relies back on that 2003 opinion, just as the illegal wiretap programs relied back on Yoo’s Fourth Amendment stripping one?
Tags: Caroline Krass, Eric Holder, Jack Goldsmith, Jay Bybee, John Yoo, Ron Wyden
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Snoopdido says:
Does anyone else get the feeling that the Office of Legal Counsel is some bottomless black hole of OLC opinions that have never seen the light of day?
And who was it exactly that decided that the OLC’s only client was the government, and most clearly not the American public?
bloodypitchfork says:
@Snoopdido:
quote”Does anyone else get the feeling that the Office of Legal Counsel is some bottomless black hole of OLC opinions that have never seen the light of day?”unquote
Yes. Me. However, it’s finally dawning on me what the OLC really is. Figure it this way. In simple terms they are the enablers of tyranny by virtue of sentencing opinions. Jim Comey knows this as fact. His emails are living proof. And so is this…:
Krass: Well, for an OLC opinion to be withdrawn, on OLC’s own initiative or on the initiative of the Attorney General would be extremely unusual. That happens only in extraordinary circumstances. Normally what happens is if there is an opinion which has been given to a particular agency for example, if that agency would like OLC to reconsider the opinion or if another component of the executive branch who has been affected by the advice would like OLC to reconsider the opinion they will come to OLC and say, look, this is why we think you were wrong and why we believe the opinion should be corrected. And they will be doing that when they have a practical need for the opinion because of particular operational activities that they would like to conduct. I have been thinking about your question because I understand your serious concerns about this opinion, and one approach that seems possible to me is that you could ask for an assurance from the relevant elements of the Intelligence Community that they would not rely on the opinion. I can give you my assurance that if I were confirmed I would not rely on the opinion at the CIA.”unquote
Opinion of the CIA. marvelous. These pricks must have pressured Voronin for his secret.
@bloodypitchfork: Somebody sometime ago must have figured out that making themselves judge, jury and executioner was far better than leaving such important positions to Congress and the courts. Probably Ed Meese, but if not, philosophical kin of his.
Mindrayge says:
If I had to hazard a guess I would think the OLC memo has to do with “the cloud”. In that they likely hold the opinion that the same rationale behind Smith v. Maryland applies to any and all information stored in “the cloud”. It was around that time frame (2003) where the very beginnings of the push toward “the cloud” started its slow ramp up. Web-based e-mail was already well established, online backup storage was already going on, online photo sharing sites and such were in place, Google Docs, etc.
While e-mail was certainly covered by prior decisions and statutes (as well as other forms of communication) the rest of the content that goes into “the cloud” is not covered by statute or decisions. So I suspect the OLC memo argues that even though agreements with providers may include privacy assurances those assurances are rendered moot with respect to the government and warrant requirements using the Smith v. Maryland rationale. Given that everything we see in this whole Intelligence Community debacle are warrant avoidance schemes and more explicitly 4th amendment protection avoidance schemes I would say this is what it is about.
It is the only thing that I can think of that would have seen a significant evolution of since that time in terms of adoption and overall usage.
@Mindrayge: “So I suspect the OLC memo argues that even though agreements with providers may include privacy assurances those assurances are rendered moot with respect to the government and warrant requirements using the Smith v. Maryland rationale. Given that everything we see in this whole Intelligence Community debacle are warrant avoidance schemes and more explicitly 4th amendment protection avoidance schemes I would say this is what it is about.”unquote
While emptywheel rolls on daily and I’m two days late getting back to this post, I had to comment on your comment. Great analysis. Indeed, that is what this whole OLC shit about…making up shit as they go to cover their ass and hold We the People at bay while shoving the NSA down their throats. The Framers would be tieing hangman’s nooses about now.
@bloodypitchfork: Government officials (elected or appointed), bankers, and corporate officials are the worker bees for the power structure that controls this country. Those would be the wealthiest of the wealthy. The surveillance state exists solely to protect the interests of this relatively small group of wealthy people. It may not seem like it but they are in the process of hanging themselves with their own rope. This isn’t going to end well.
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Breaking: Donald Trump Nominates Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court
The President announced his pick at a primetime press conference.
By Mattie Kahn
President Donald Trump announced in a primetime press conference this evening that he had decided to nominate Judge Neil Gorsuch, 49, to the United States Supreme Court.
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Donald Trump has just announced Neil Gorsuch as his Supreme Court pick. Gorsuch is dangerously anti-choice: https://t.co/nlJAPWa11V
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clerk (n.)
c. 1200, "man ordained in the ministry, a priest, an ecclesiastic," from Old English cleric and Old French clerc "clergyman, priest; scholar, student," both from Church Latin clericus "a priest," noun use of adjective meaning "priestly, belonging to the clerus" (see cleric).
Modern bureaucratic usage is a reminder of the time when clergy alone could read and write and were employed as scribes and account-keepers by secular authorities. In late Old English the word also can mean "king's scribe; keeper of accounts." And by c. 1200 clerk took on a secondary sense in Middle English (as the cognate word did in Old French) of "man of letters, anyone who can read or write."
This led to the senses "assistant in a public or private business" (c. 1500), originally a keeper of accounts, also "officer of a court, municipality, etc. whose duty it is to keep its records and perform its routine business" (1520s), and later, especially in American English, "a retail salesman" (1790). Meaning "an employee who registers guests in a hotel" is by 1879.
clerk (v.)
"act or serve as a clerk," 1550s, from clerk (n.). Related: Clerked, clerking.
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Public Release: 9-Aug-2017
Parents' disagreements about bedtime can affect coparenting relationship
Positive parental teamwork is key to promoting healthy child development, but when mothers have stronger opinions than fathers about how to tend to their infants in the middle of the night, the coparenting relationship can suffer, says a group of researchers.
In a study, researchers asked mothers and fathers how they felt about responding to night wakings -- for example, whether they should attend to their crying infant right away or let him or her self-soothe -- and their perceptions about their coparenting. The researchers found that when mothers had stronger beliefs than the fathers, the mothers also reported feeling worse about their coparenting relationships.
Jonathan Reader, a doctoral candidate in the College of Health and Human Development and lead author on the paper, said the study was an important step in learning more about how parents can work together to promote child well-being.
"Setting limits about how to respond to night wakings is stressful, and if there are discrepancies in how mothers and fathers feel they should respond, that can reduce the quality of that coparenting relationship," Reader said. "We found that for mothers in particular, they perceived coparenting as worse when they had stronger beliefs than the father."
While previous research has examined how a mother's beliefs about infant sleep affects her baby's quality of sleep, few studies have explored the father's beliefs or how their beliefs about sleep affect coparenting quality.
The study's participants -- 167 mothers and 155 fathers -- answered questions about how they feel they should respond to night wakings, for example, "My child will feel abandoned if I don't respond immediately to his/her cries at night," when the baby was one, three, six, nine and 12 months old.
At the same time, participants also answered questions about coparenting, for example, "My partner and I have the same goals for our child," and if they were experiencing depressive or anxiety symptoms.
After analyzing the data, the researchers found that mothers generally had stronger beliefs about how to respond to night wakings than fathers, although both parents started to become less concerned about how to set limits as the infant got older. But when mothers had stronger beliefs, their perceptions of coparenting went down.
"During the study, we saw that in general mothers were much more active at night with the baby than the fathers were," Reader said. "So perhaps because the mothers were the more active ones during the night, if they're not feeling supported in their decisions, then it creates more of a drift in the coparenting relationship."
Reader said the findings, published recently in the Journal of Family Psychology, underscore the importance of early and frequent communication between parents.
"It's important to have these conversations early and upfront, so when it's 3 a.m. and the baby's crying, both parents are on the same page about how they're going to respond," Reader said. "Constant communication is really important."
Douglas Teti, department head of the Human Development and Family Studies department in the College of Health and Human Development and who also participated in the study, added that the health and mindset of the parents are just as important as that of the baby's.
"What we seem to be finding is that it's not so much whether the babies are sleeping through the night, or how the parents decide to do bedtime, but more about how the parents are reacting and if they're stressed," Teti said. "That seems to be much more important than whether you cosleep or don't cosleep, or whatever you choose to do. Whatever you decide, just make sure you and your partner are on the same page."
Moving forward, Teti said the next step is more research into how best to develop and enhance the coparenting relationship, with attention paid to infant sleep.
"We want to learn more about how to put families in a position where they know that not every baby will be sleeping on their own by three months, and that's ok," Teti said. "Most kids learn how to go to sleep eventually. Parenting has a lot to do with it."
Michael Cleveland, Washington State University, was also involved in this research.
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Kraft Recalls 36,000 Cases of Cheese Over Possible Choking Hazard
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There’s nothing better than a simple grilled cheese sandwich made with Kraft American singles. But it’s probably not worth choking over.
Kraft has received 10 complaints stating that a thin strip of plastic remained adhered to the cheese after removing the wrapper. Three of these cases resulted in choking. In response, Kraft has decided to voluntarily recall 36,000 cases of its 3-lb and 4-lb packages of Kraft American and White American individually-wrapped singles.
The FDA released a list of the affected products, which have been distributed in the U.S., Puerto Rico, and Grand Cayman. Those that are affected by the recall have a “best when used by” date between December 29, 2015 and January 4, 2016. The manufacturing code that follows is either “S54″ or “S55.”
If you bought a package of Kraft singles that is included in the recall, you can bring it back to the store from which you purchased it and receive a refund or exchange. Consumers who live in the U.S. or Puerto Rico also have the option to contact Kraft Heinz Consumer Relations for a full refund.
Kraft has released a statement saying, “We deeply regret this situation and apologize to any consumers we have disappointed.”
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TRYING TO KEEP LITERARY AWARDS FROM FAVORING LITERARY CRITERIA IS AN EXERCISE IN FUTILITY. GET OVER IT.
Posted on June 16, 2015 by Eric Flint
Having come up with that nifty albeit long-winded title, I’m tempted to just write “see above” and take a nap. Mission accomplished…
Sadly, some people need to be convinced that “inevitable” means “not evitable.”
You don’t think there’s such a word as “evitable”? Tch. Of course there is! If there weren’t, how could anything be in-evitable? “Evitable” derives from the Latin evitare (“to avoid). It’s an adjective that means capable of being avoided; avoidable. In essence, what the Sad Puppies are arguing is that if people follow their lead, the tendency of the Hugo Awards to be slanted in favor of what are generally called “literary” qualities can be avoided.
No, sorry, it can’t. You have as much chance of eliminating the tendency of a literary award to be tilted in favor of literary factors as you have of doing any of the following:
Getting a fashion competition to award first place to blue jeans and a sweatshirt. But they’re so comfortable! And people wear them all the time—including those God damned probably-a-bunch-of-pinkos (PABOPs) when they’re not putting on a public show.
Getting a dog show to award “best dog of show” to an unpedigreed mutt. But he’s such a good dog! Friendly, great with kids, never growls at anybody except people trying to break into the house and then—hooweeeeee!—watch the bastards run for their lives. And they gave the award to that—that—look at the damn thing! Its skull is narrower than a high-heeled shoe! God damn pointy-headed effete asinine retards (PHEARs).
Getting a gourmet cooking competition to award first place to a dish consisting of a cheeseburger and fries. But almost everybody eats cheeseburgers and fries! Try setting up a chain of escargots-and-tofu restaurants and see how fast you go bankrupt! This is pure snobbery, what it is. God damn highbrow elitist stuffed shirt icky abominable nabobs (HESSIANs).
Shall I go on? And on… and on…
What the Sad Puppies can’t seem to grasp is that any sort of award contest is automatically going to be biased in favor of whatever qualities those people who pay attention to the award—which always involves some effort and some expense—are prone to considering important. Getting infuriated because the tastes and preferences of that relatively small and self-selected pool of voters don’t match those of the population as a whole is just silly.
Of course they don’t match.
Most people who eat food—that’s everybody who isn’t dead or on a feeding tube—don’t eat expensive gourmet food except on occasion. But everybody who attends a gourmet tasting does so only in order to eat gourmet food.
The same is true with wine tasting, flower arranging, art shows—you name it, and if it involves a relatively small and self-selected portion of the populations of all people who drink wine or like flowers or look at art from time to time, their tastes and preferences will diverge at least to a degree from those of the mass audience. If that weren’t true, then the entire population (of people who drink wine or like flowers or look at art from time to time) would be participating also.
But they don’t. Most people who like flowers don’t attend flower shows. Most people who drink wine don’t attend wine tasting events. Most people who enjoy art from time to time don’t habituate art galleries and only go to museums on occasion.
That’s the way it is. Complaining about it is as pointless as complaining about the tides or the 23½ degree inclination of the Earth’s axis with respect to the plane of its orbit.
Of the roughly five million people in the United States who regularly read fantasy and science fiction, only a tiny percentage—considerably less than one percent—will ever attend a Worldcon or take out a supporting membership in order to vote on the Hugo awards. In fact, the majority of people who do attend Worldcons don’t vote on the Hugos.
It is both time-consuming and expensive to attend a Worldcon, especially if you don’t live in the city where it’s being held. And even if you just want to vote for the Hugos you have to pony up $40, which is not a trivial amount of money for most people.
What that means is that the people who do vote on the Hugos have a real interest in doing so. Whereas the great majority of F&SF readers simply don’t care if their favorite authors do or don’t get awards. Why should they care? Their reading choices are not determined by the awards in the first place.
Let me give a personal example from outside the field of fantasy and science fiction. In addition to F&SF, I also read mysteries from time to time. Among my favorite authors are Robert Parker, Carl Hiaasen and Elmore Leonard.
The mystery genre, like fantasy and science fiction, has its own set of prestigious awards. The mystery genre has a ton of awards, in fact, way more than F&SF does. Among them are:
The Edgar Awards
The Crime Writer Association (CWA) Dagger Awards
The Nero Award
The Shamus Awards
The Anthony Awards
The Macavity Awards
The Agatha Awards
The Hammett Prize
Which of the above awards, if any, have been won by Robert Parker, Carl Hiaasen and Elmore Leonard?
I don’t know. I don’t have a clue. I have not the foggiest idea.
Because I don’t care. It doesn’t matter whether any of these three authors has won any awards. If I discovered that none of them had won any awards that would not change my opinion of them one eeny-teeny-weeny itsy-bitsy little tiny bit. What do I care what some people somewhere else have decided is or isn’t good mystery fiction?
That is how the vast majority of people who read fantasy and science fiction feel about our own genre’s awards. They simply don’t care.
Do. Not. Care.
Pay. No. Attention.
Couldn’t. Care. Less.
So why should an author who sells well enough to make a living at it care whether his or her particular audience is one that pays much (if any) attention to the Hugo awards? Maybe they do, but more likely they don’t.
I think the reason some people get befuddled by this is because they suffer from one of two misconceptions. Or both, often enough.
The first misconception is that the voters who choose the Hugo award winners are in some sense a representative sample of the F&SF readership as a whole. To put it another way, some people seem to think that the (relatively very small) Hugo voting population is an accurate reflection of the reading tastes and opinions of the F&SF audience as a whole. But that’s not true.
More precisely, it’s only partially true. To some degree, of course, there is certainly an overlap. Very rarely if ever is a Hugo award, at least for the most popular category of “Best Novel,” handed out to a novel that almost no one except for Worldcon attendees has heard of. But it remains true that the preferences of Hugo-voters overlap with or are representative of those of the mass audience only to a degree.
That should be obvious to anyone. The two most popular fantasy series over the past two decades have been Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series, completed by Brandon Sanderson, and George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire. Jordan never won a Hugo and neither did Sanderson, for his work on that series. (He did win a Hugo for an unrelated novella.) George R. R. Martin has won a Hugo four times, but those were all given for his short fiction and mostly predate his big fantasy series. Various volumes in the Song of Ice and Fire did get nominated for the Hugo, but none of them won.
On the science fiction side of our field, probably the most popular purely-SF series of the past two decades has been David Weber’s Honor Harrington series. Weber has never won a Hugo. In fact, he’s never been nominated for one. This, despite the fact that there are two annual SF conventions devoted specifically to the Harrington series, which between them draw close to a thousand attendees. If a significant percentage of those people also attended Worldcon, Weber would be winning Hugo awards regularly. But there’s just not much overlap between the two groups of readers.
So it goes. That disconnect existed even in the “good old days”—remember that Andre Norton, Hal Clement, Richard Matheson, Fred Saberhagen, James H. Schmitz and A. E. Van Vogt never won a Hugo award—and it’s gotten considerably more pronounced in the modern era.
The second misconception is perhaps even worse, because it tends to be shared by the people who do vote on the Hugos. That’s the notion that, while Hugo voters may not be representative of the mass audience, they do represent the opinions of the “elite” of the F&SF audience. To put it another way, theirs is the “best” opinion.
Uh, well, no. It isn’t. Or more precisely, it’s only an “elite” opinion in certain rather narrow ways.
It is true, overall, that people who attend Worldcons and vote on Hugos regularly have a better and more in-depth knowledge of the F&SF genre than any equivalently-sized group of people who gather anywhere in the world to discuss the matter and register their opinions. But in what sense does this also represent a better gauge of literature as a whole? (Or call it “story-telling” if the term “literature” makes you uncomfortable.)
Simply put, it doesn’t. In some ways, it’s even a handicap. Fans of F&SF who are devoted enough to undertake the time and expense of attending Worldcons are often—not all, not even most, but it’s still true of plenty of them—a tad on the obsessive side. They read a ton of F&SF and… not much else.
This was driven home to me a few years ago when I got into an argument with some F&SF fans online on the subject of what does or does not constitute a good gauge of the quality of an author’s work. I advanced the—to me, anyway—blindingly obvious criterion that the only thing that really mattered in the long run was which authors were still being read half a century or a century after their work was published. And I also made the point that popularity was usually a better indicator of whose work was going to survive than awards were.
Not a perfect gauge, certainly—the phenomenon of flash-in-the-pan literary success goes back for centuries. To name one example, in her heyday the writer known as “Ouida” (the pen name for the British novelist Maria Louise Ramé, who died in 1908) was extremely popular. So popular, in fact, that Puccini began working on an opera based on one of her stories. Eventually, he lost interest but the opera was finished by Mascagni.
Today, she is barely remembered at all. Only a few of her books are still in print, and those mostly in electronic or used paper editions. Nevertheless, popularity is not meaningless—especially when it maintains itself over time.
My critics were outraged by my opinion and one of them took it upon himself to prove me wrong by posting online the Publisher’s Weekly list of the most popular books of the year 1950.
Triumphantly, he pointed out that he’d only heard of one of the ten authors. The others, he said, had sunk into obscurity.
The Cardinal, by Henry Morton Robinson
Joy Street, by Frances Parkinson Keyes
Across the River and into the Trees, by Ernest Hemingway
The Wall, by John Hersey
Star Money, by Kathleen Winsor
The Parasites, by Daphne du Maurier
Floodtide, by Frank Yerby
Jubilee Trail, by Gwen Bristow
The Adventurer, by Mika Waltari
The Disenchanted, by Budd Schulberg
I’d say I was astonished, but I wasn’t astonished at all. His attitude was what I expected. A lot of F&SF fans are oblivious to the Big Wide World of literature. He’d “never heard” of John Hersey, Daphne du Maurier, Budd Schulberg…
Gah. I’d heard of most of them. The only three who weren’t familiar to me were Robinson, Winsor and Bristow. Which is not surprising—I looked them up—because all of them had only one or two well-known books and they’d long since faded away by the time I started reading widely in the mid-1960s and thereafter. I’d read something by five of them—Hemingway, Hersey, Du Maurier, Yerby and Schulberg, and although I’d never read Waltari I had seen a movie based on one of his books. (The Egyptian, starring Jean Simmons, Victor Mature and Peter Ustinov.)
Before anyone puts up an outraged post to the effect that lots of F&SF fans are widely read, spare yourself the effort. I know that. But plenty of them aren’t—and they inevitably have an influence on the collective opinion of fandom as it is registered in Hugo award voting.
Years ago, early in my career as an author, a very well-established and popular author said to me: “The best way for a writer to starve to death is to listen to what the fans tell you.” The comment wasn’t a sneer at fans, mind you. The author liked fans and attended plenty of conventions. She was simply making the point that the tastes and opinions of SF fandom do not track those of the mass audience all that well.
Nor are they necessarily better. Never lose sight of that when you assess what Hugo awards do and do not represent. What they are is simply the recorded opinions of F&SF’s assembled fandom—that portion of it which attends a Worldcon or buys a supporting membership—at any given time.
To win a Hugo, or even to be nominated, is certainly an honor for an author in our field. But that’s all it is—an honor. It’s not a gauge of anything objective, it does not necessarily reflect anything beyond the opinion of that (relatively tiny) slice of the mass audience for fantasy and science fiction, and it certainly does not determine anything about the worth of an author’s work. The only thing that will make that determination, in the long run, is whether an author’s work survives over time.
The Hugo voters, in their wisdom or lack thereof, decided that Christopher Anvil, Hal Clement, L. Sprague de Camp, Richard Matheson, Andre Norton, Fred Saberhagen, James H. Schmitz, A.E. Van Vogt and Jack Williamson were not very noteworthy. Of those nine authors, five of them are now in the Science Fiction Hall of Fame and two out of the other four—Anvil and Schmitz—have had their complete works reissued in modern editions. (Full disclosure: Okay, fine, I’m the one who edited those reissues—but they sold pretty damn well for reissue volumes.)
Quite clearly, the Hugo voters were… ah, mistaken. (That sounds more dignified than “full of crap.”) Those are not the only times that Hugo voters have been…. ah, mistaken. They certainly won’t be the last, either. In this, the Hugos are like all awards. You win some, you lose some, so to speak.
What I’ve never been able to understand about the Sad Puppies—and still don’t, after all the wrangling—is why they care in the first place. Nothing in their stance makes any sense to me at all.
To begin with, they have nothing but contempt for Hugo voters, as they have expressed repeatedly. In Brad Torgensen’s own words, “the field of SF/F is a thoroughly progressive playhouse”—and that’s the main beef he and Larry Correia and their supporters have with what they view as the F&SF establishment. That being the case, I have no idea why they care what Hugo voters think in the first place.
The presumption I’m left with, since there seems to be no other explanation, is that somewhere in the darkest and most insecure recesses of their psyches, the Sad Puppies have this gnawing feeling that the Hugos really do confer some sort of worth or dignity upon their work, even though they insist the Hugo voters are a pack of progressive scoundrels. (And they really are scoundrels, too. “Puppy-kickers,” no less.)
I am a “progressive”—on the far left side of that label, to boot—and I do not have any animus against Hugo voters. And yet I don’t look to them to provide me with any sort of affirmation for the value or lack thereof of my work as an author. They have their opinion, to which they are absolutely entitled—and I have mine.
Guess which one of those two opinions really matters to me? Unlike the Sad Puppies, I am simply not ego-challenged. I understand full well that people who vote on literary awards will, taken as a whole if not each and every one, tend to look on the issues involved differently than I will. That is true by definition. If I did agree with them, I wouldn’t be writing the kind of stories I write in the first place. I’d be trying to write stories that line up closer with the attitudes of Hugo voters.
How would I do that? How the hell should I know? Which word in I don’t care what Hugo voters think causes people—especially the Sad Puppies, who really do seem to care—the most trouble?
In the nature of things, for instance, fans who vote on awards for science fiction and fantasy works will tend to place an emphasis on originality and innovation, whether of style, narrative structure, or content. (Not all of them, of course. But enough will to affect the voting.) But those are things I just don’t care much about.
With a few exceptions, none of my stories is particularly innovative. My focus—not surprisingly, given my history as a political activist and historian—is on the content of the stories, especially what you might call the social ethics and virtues depicted and promoted. (I try my best not to be preachy about it, but I do have a viewpoint and it is reflected in my stories.) Those are the things I care about, and care about passionately.
My first novel, Mother of Demons, is an adventure story in the course of which my own (very positive, indeed heroic) view of how one should look upon human history is explicated. But the plot itself—humans crash-land and are marooned on a planet inhabited by intelligent aliens at a lower stage of technical and social development—is not innovative at all.
The Belisarius series, which I co-authored with David Drake, is a combination of time travel, alternate history and military SF. I dare say it’s a dandy story, but the underlying point is an examination of what it means to be “human” in the first place. Is “humanity” ultimately defined by genetics or it is, in the end, defined by deeds? Is the human race shaped by its heritage alone, or does it shape itself in the course of time? David and I came down firmly on the anti-genetic-determination side of that debate.
But there’s nothing especially “innovative” about the story. It does not advance the frontiers of F&SF (so to speak) one little bit. It uses well-established and existing tropes, it does not explore new ones. That’s because what I care about is the story itself, not how it’s told or what it develops that is new and different. Trying to do that, in fact, would probably just have weakened the story.
The same is true for the work I’m best known for. The 1632 series began with my novel 1632, whose central theme—yeah, sure, there’s plenty of action and no fewer than four romances, but there is a point to the damn book—is the critical importance of democracy and egalitarianism to the emergence of any sort of just society. The series that sprang from it continues to explore those themes in various ways.
I could go on, but that’s enough. My point is that what concerns me has very little to do with what are usually considered “literary” qualities. And what is true of me is true of any number of authors. The subjects that interest us the most and that we feel strongly about telling stories around are often not the issues that are of most interest to people who vote on the Hugos or other awards.
So be it. There are no hard feelings on my part. Why should there be?
In the end, the demand of the Sad Puppies is self-defeating. What they want, essentially, is for a literary award to stop being a literary award and become a “good story as we define it” award.
Sorry, but that’s not going to happen. The only way it could happen would be for the attendees at Worldcons—or at least a whole lot of supporting members—to be comprised of Sad Puppy fans and enthusiasts. The problem is that the sort of people who are most inclined to enjoy Sad Puppyish stories are the ones who are not very inclined at all to spend the time and effort to attend a Worldcon. Whereas the sort of people who are inclined to attend Worldcons and vote on Hugos are the sort of people who really do care about literary issues.
Remember what I said about the Honor Harrington fans? Every year, close to a thousand of them spend the time and money to attend a convention devoted entirely to Weber’s popular series. If those same people poured into the Worldcons and voted as a bloc, they’d run the Hugos year after year after year.
But they’re not going to, because they don’t care that much—insofar as any of them care at all.
One final point. The Sad Puppies seem to feel there’s something deeply unfair about the fact that literary awards are tilted in favor of literary criteria. But I don’t. My feeling is this: the tilt is not only inevitable, it is also justified. The fact that I am focused almost entirely on story-telling in my own writing does not mean I am oblivious to the fact that literature has many sides to it—and in the final analysis, F&SF is not a “genre.” It is a branch of literature.
Innovation is important, whether or not I’m personally inclined in that direction. Narrative experimentation is worthwhile, whether or not I usually avoid it. The same is true for all aspects of literary fiction.
I said the following, in my first essay on this subject:
To put it another way, every successful author has to master two skills which, although related, are still quite distinct: they have to be good story-tellers; and they have to be good writers.
Of those two skills, being a terrific story-teller but a journeyman writer will win you a mass audience, and is likely to keep it. On the flip side, being a journeyman story-teller but a terrific wordsmith will win you critical plaudits but won’t usually get you much in the way of an audience.
I’m an author whose principal—indeed, almost exclusive—interest is in story-telling, not literary technique. And I’m good at it. What this means is that I get awarded at least twice a year when my royalty payments arrive. In the end, I think there’s something a little mean-spirited—or a little piggy, let’s say—about authors who sell well but envy other authors the awards they receive and covet the awards for themselves.
I mean, for Pete’s sake, what’s wrong with authors who may not sell that well getting an award from time to time? How is this doing me any harm at all? Or any of the Sad Puppies, for all their constant griping and grousing?
To me, it seems a reasonable and fair way to even things out a little. And the operative term is a little, trust me. If you could resurrect the shades of Andre Norton and the other great-but-unawarded authors of our history and ask them “would you trade your long years of being able to write full-time for a bunch of shiny rockets on a shelf?” I can guarantee what their answer would be, one and all.
Are you crazy? We were writers and we got to do what we wanted to do, for years—for decades, most of us. We wrote. And wrote, and wrote, and wrote. That’s enough. That’s more than enough.
All right, I’m done. This will be my past essay on the subject of the Hugo controversy, although I may respond to something that comes up from time to time. I’ve got a novel to finish.
I will be attending Worldcon this year, by the way. I hadn’t planned to, but given the way I got drawn into this fracas I eventually decided I ought to show up. Having given everyone else my opinion—at length—on what they ought to do, it seemed incumbent on me to put my money where my mouth was. (Figuratively speaking.)
(for the other posts on the Hugo controversy, visit the Hugo Controversy category.)
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252 Responses to TRYING TO KEEP LITERARY AWARDS FROM FAVORING LITERARY CRITERIA IS AN EXERCISE IN FUTILITY. GET OVER IT.
PH Lee says:
I think you might be protesting a bit too much over the utter lack of literary content in your books. I’m thinking, particularly, about Mother of Demons. Humans stranded on an alien world, sure. But situating the aliens in the Bronze Age and giving them realistic-for-Bronze-Age political structures, that’s pretty great, and pretty unusual (how many SF novels limit aliens to 1 government / speices?) Plus, the way that different breeding strategies produce different societies, the dependence of the humans on alien milk, there’s a lot there to appreciate from a literary perspective.
I mean, I’m not saying “this is a literary masterpiece and you were robbed of the Hugo.” But I generally like pretty high concept, stylistically developed, literary fiction, and I found a lot to like in your books regardless.
Mintythings says:
I was thinking the same thing. I thought there was a lot of innovative stuff in Mother of Demons. I’d never seen slug/snail-like aliens before. I’d never seen eating aliens’ digestive juices proposed as a solution to indigestible alien foods before. (Although, in retrospect, it seems like an obvious solution and I’m suprised it isn’t a more widespread idea.)
If I had to guess at what makes Mother of Demons not “literary” scifi, I’d say it’s the focus on building new (political, social) systems and how they function. A lot of the stories that come to mind for me as examples of scifi with “literary” merit are about the very beginning of questioning or changing something about society. They focus on the excitement or strangeness of watching your assumptions come apart, or having your very first introduction to a new idea, and don’t go into the details of how the New Shiny Thing actually works because that would spoil the sense of wonder.
So I wouldn’t say that Mother of Demons and the 1632 series aren’t innovative, but that they’re focused on questions that aren’t the usual scifi issues.
Which brings us back to the big refrain of this whole Puppy issue, namely, people like different things, they want to read and write different things, these things are mostly just different from each other and not objectively better or worse.
gahrie says:
So what is wrong with encouraging more people to pay attention to the award, to enlarge the “relatively small and self-selected pool of voters” so that they might better match the population as a whole?
That is what truly has the SJWers furious, the thought that they might become as inconsequential in Hugo voting as they are in real life.
No dude, you’ve got it upside down.
The non-Puppies never had a problem with the Puppies encouraging people to vote on the Hugos. Encouraging conservatives but not liberals to vote in the Hugos? Kind of whiffy, but still not the problem. Whipping up culture war resentments and calling nonPuppies names for not being Puppies? Meanspirited, small and petty but still not the real problem.
The problem was the SLATE(s). The problem was always the SLATE(s). The rest of it wouldn’t have mattered if you’d nominated honestly, reading what appealed to you independent of a slate, like the rest of us did, and each separately choosing your individual favorites without recourse to a slate, like the rest of us did.
That’s what made the people who played fair furious.
Watt Tyler says:
The LOCUS finalist list isn’t a SLATE? Where’s the outcry over it? Heh.
SLATE is just the stalking-horse bloody banner being waved to attack the Puppies for doing exactly what they were told to do — get involved and encourage others to get involved. So they did, and now those who told them that are having conniptions, even in some circles convulsions, over their directions being successfully followed.
The Hugos are a fan’s choice award, not a “literary” award. They always have been, regardless of the drift towards the literati taking over the institutions. They are awards nominated by fans, voted on by fans, and (ideally, if not so much of late) celebrated by fans. OH NOEZ! The Wrong Kind of Fans showed up to nominate and vote this year! Why, this threatens to sap and impurify all of our precious genre bodily fluids!
Well, no, it doesn’t. More people paid attention this year. More people became aware that THEY could participate, that the only bar to that was their own willingness to become a WorldCon member and state their opinions and make their nominations and cast their votes. It’s a sad commentary on the institution itself that this was apparently one of the best-kept secrets of SF/F, and that more people becoming aware and joining what is supposed to be an open and welcoming institution has raised such an outcry from the entrenched elites of same. It’s a sad commentary that the response it to try and make the process less democratic, less transparent, and more exclusionary. to vilify and attack those who want to become part of it and have their voices heard.
I am truly puzzled by a Progressive defending the efforts of a self appointed elite to control an institution.
Hugo voters aren’t self-appointed; they’re self-selected. There’s a big difference.
Worldcon is essentially a group of people who got, and get, together to celebrate SFF. After a while, they decided to hand out awards to what they considered the best works in the field. The self-selection consisted, and continues to consist, in deciding to spend the time and money (and attention) to become a member of Worldcon. Self-selection of this sort is a natural and inevitable social process. Self-appointment, on the other hand, implies some sort of barriers to membership.
Oh, and Worldcon members don’t control the institution; they are the institution. That’s an even bigger difference.
You don’t think the SJWers are right now trying to devise a way to exclude the Sad and Rabid Puppies next year?
The proposals out there are designed to reduce the disproportionate impact of slates, regardless of ideology or source. Under any of them, a Sad Puppy’s vote and a Happy Kitten’s vote would have the same weight.
Seth Gordon says:
The only institution that the Worldcon “elite” controls is the one that they, themselves, have created.
Nobody is obliged to treat a Hugo-winning story as if it is objectively the best story of the year, just like nobody is obliged to honor the reigning Miss America as if she is objectively the most beautiful woman in America.
Thomas Monaghan says:
BS Eric. There is already a quote literary award system called the Nebulas. Voted by the SFWA members who voted “If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love” as the best short story for 2014 and it isn’t even a SF/F story. Per Brian Aldiss, in his book Trillion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction, claimed that the Hugo Award was a barometer of reader popularity, rather than artistic merit; he contrasted it with the panel-selected Nebula Award, which provided “more literary judgment”, though he did note that the winners of the two awards often overlapped. Along with the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award is also considered one of the premier awards in science fiction, with Laura Miller of Salon.com terming it “science fiction’s most prestigious award”.
Cobbler says:
I never realized that literariness was a zero sum game. Now I get it.
There is only so much literary to go around. The Nebulas have hogged the lot. So SFF only has room for one literary award.
The poor Hugos can’t be literary until the Nebulas release their stranglehold. Until that happens, the Hugos must be the Cheap Trash awards.
Did you see that thing that flew right over your head? It was Eric’s point.
The Hugos belong to Worldcon. The Nebulas belong to SFWA. Either group can do whatever they want to with their own awards. If the Worldcon voters are interested in awarding literary merit, they can do so regardless of what the SFWA does or doesn’t do.
Sigh. I was sure my response had too much absurdist snark to be taken literally.
Does anybody really think that literariness is a zero sum game? What? There are only Seventy-Nine Troy Ounces of Literaryness for the whole SFF genera? The more literarryness Nebula has, the less literarryness Hugo can have?
I mean, does anybody think that except for Thomas Monaghan?
snowcrash says:
@Cobbler, Mike was replying and critiquing the same post you were (Thomas Monaghan’s), not your post. The threading here looks weird, so easy mistake to make.
This is true.
Thanks, Snocrash and Mike.
Apparently we are three minds with but a single bogglement.
That’s because bogglement, unlike literary-ness in SF, is an infinfitely renewable resource!
Kurt Busiek says:
>> The Hugo voters, in their wisdom or lack thereof, decided that Christopher Anvil, Hal Clement, L. Sprague de Camp, Richard Matheson, Andre Norton, Fred Saberhagen, James H. Schmitz, A.E. Van Vogt and Jack Williamson were not very noteworthy.>>
Not quite. They decided, apparently, that whenever each of those writers had something qualified for a Hugo available, something else was better that year, in that category.
For instance, my second-favorite James H. Schmitz novel, THE WITCHES OF KARRES, was nominated for a Hugo but lost to Heinlein’s THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS. My favorite, A TALE OF TWO CLOCKS, wasn’t nominated, which means all the nominees that year got more nominating votes, but not necessarily that it didn’t miss the ballot by a narrow margin.
>> Quite clearly, the Hugo voters were… ah, mistaken.>>
Possibly. But it’s also possible that these guys just had the misfortune of having their works going up against other talented works, and if they’d won, we’d be griping today about how some other stuff that didn’t win didn’t get its props.
The Hugos, like any comparable award, isn’t a list of everything that’s noteworthy, but just (in the voters’ judgment) the top of the pile for that year. And every year there’s a new pile. And if you’re unlucky enough to be working while Heinlein’s at the top of his game, or while Connie Willis is at the top of hers, you may end up rockets even if your work could have won you a Hugo in a different year.
That pile is never infallible, and I doubt anyone agrees with it all, even the years it comes out. But not getting an award doesn’t mean an author isn’t notable. Merely that someone else was thought more notable, at least at the time.
rick bennett says:
Damn you love to hear yourself talk, Flint.
John Cowan says:
“The computer may be an arrogant son-of-the-Mule, but it’s got something to be arrogant about.” —Asimov, Foundation’s Edge
Maybe that’s why he’s a professional writer.
Not as much as other people love to hear him talk.
Well put, Eric.
I really enjoy your Boundary books, by the way. Our library is moving to a bigger building and actually accepting donations for the shelves–I bought them Boundary, Threshold and Portal, since those popped to mind when I was listing my favorite “oh you’ve got to have this and I’ll spend my own money to buy you a copy” SF.
Per Wikipedia:
Parker won two Edgars (and was nominated for a third), a Maltese Falcon (a Japanese award), an Edgar Grand Master, and a Gumshoe Lifetime Achievement award.
Hiaasen got a Dagger nomination, a bunch of French awards, and some non-mystery-specific awards.
Leonard won a Grand Master Edgar too.
According to Halberstam’s The Reckoning, Ford the IV or whatever grew up eating hamburgers made of top sirloin. If I had a meat grinder I’d try it, once anyway. Or with Kobe beef. Good SF tends to resemble a burger with really good ingredients- Ringworld, or more recently Shipstar and The Goliath Stone– a 2015 Hugo without those two on the ballot is indelibly Marked with the Asterisk of Irrelevance. Riding the Red Horse is the only thing on the Hugo ballot this year that belongs there, what with Lind, Eric Raymond, and the Hot Equations. One is better than nothing, and nothing on the Hugos for the last ten years is what we’ve got used to.
Kazriko says:
Personally, I think that the controversy might do worldcon a whole lot of good. Especially if it brings more attention and attendance to the Hugo awards and to worldcon. I’d love to see fans from every sub-genre joining in to promote their favorite authors. Take worldcon out of the graying niche that it currently is and start grabbing a wider swath of the entire audience that currently attends things like Comic cons instead because CC’s are better representative of the science fiction that they enjoy.
WorldCon isn’t about science fiction, in the general sense, and it hasn’t been for sometime now. Perhaps it never was but people don’t realize this because at one time the written word was the only real medium for SFF. WorldCon is about science fiction literature. And the more that science fiction in general and big conventions like CC, or DragonCon (especially when that one moved to Labor Day weekend) become more common and popular, the more WorldCon fans dug and insisted it was all about the books.
I agree that certain sub-genres get snubbed, and there are gems in them that are never explored. But WorldCon’s focus is on literature. And that is not a bad thing, since it is getting harder and harder to find a SFF con that focuses on books.
Brad R. Torgersen says:
Cat: one of the bummers about getting to see the industry from the inside, is you get to hear all the stories from the pros, about how other pros don’t necessarily “play fair” with either the Hugos or the Nebulas. Which is why doing Sad Puppies in the open was essential. Nobody could mistake what was going on. They might not like it, but there would be no accusations of under-the-table maneuvering. And it was hearing about the under-the-table maneuvering, from various sources, that ultimately got me off the fence. Because under-the-table maneuvering depends on the general credulity of those who follow the awards: our collective belief that the scales don’t have any thumbs on them.
I thought, “How is an honest person going to stand a chance, if there are variously sneaky forms of manipulation being employed, from year to year?”
Now, Eric’s advice would probably be, “Don’t give a damn, just shut up and go write stories and don’t make such a stupid fuss, kid!”
But then, Eric also provided us with a lengthy list of venerable authors who — for one reason or another — evaded the Hugo voters’ focus. Because I have a lot of heroes and friends and mentors in this field, my general sense of propriety says, “Don’t let more decades pass, without trying to alter the ‘business as usual’ equation.” Again, I knew some people wouldn’t like it. But then, nobody ever likes it when the cage gets rattled; nor when the system is called into question. Especially not those for whom the system seems to be working perfectly well.
Now, the safe bet is that the rules will be changed, supporting memberships will no longer be allowed to vote on the Hugos, and Worldcon will effectively end “outside” influence over the award.
My personal preference — ha ha, lord knows certain people will scoff at that mattering — is that Worldcon’s overall attendance simply increases until it’s averaging 20,000 to 30,000 members total; both supporting and attending. No manipulation could survive those numbers, and the award might actually reflect a broader spectrum of SF/F books, stories, movies, etc., than it has in recent years. Perhaps we could even avoid seeing a Drake or a Weber (or a Flint, for that matter) fall through the cracks? Because as much as the Hugo is supposed to be about quality and excellence, it’s also a touchstone: we were here, we came to this place, and were counted.
I’d like to see some folks counted.
CPaca says:
Which is why doing Sad Puppies in the open was essential.
You know, Brad, you keep claiming that the Sad Puppy slate was chosen openly and democratically. And yet people have noted out loud, many, many times, that only 25% at most of the slate that you chose came from the open and democratic thread you had at your blog, and that a rather large proportion of those chosen seem to be people you know personally, have been involved in promoting, or have worked with.
And, of course, Larry Correia has stated on his journal that the Slate was something decided upon by a small clique of writers in private – thought to be you, he, John Wright, Sarah Hoyt, and VD.
So you’ll pardon us if we assume that your claim to “democracy” is about as believable as that of the elections which kept putting the Communist Party into power in the Soviet Union.
That’s OK. If Brad says it enough times, it becomes retroactively true.
Bibliotheca Servare says:
Where in this comment did Brad use the word “democracy” pray tell? Oh! He didn’t? He was obviously referring to the fact that “sad puppies” was a public campaign/in no way covert effort? And you missed that point completely, in favor of indulging your fetish for conspiracy theories? I see… *scoots away* Incidentally? Brad, Kate, Sarah, Dave, David, Cedar, Amanda, John, Peter, and company have responded to that bullshit “it wasn’t a democratic process!!11!!” claim til they were blue in the face. The blog post is still there, and google, or even a cursory scan of madgeniusclubDOTcom would lead you to it. Bunches of folks made suggestions. Brad decided which, if any, of those suggestions he agreed with, and he made his own choices. Open and democratic does not mean there was a primary, followed by the main campaign, and, at last, the “slate” with the most votes won out. That’s *your* (and snowcrashes, and…) feverish interpretation of Brad’s words. What his words actually expressed was “everybody who knew about “sad puppies” was given a chance to voice their opinion. I did not promise that I’d vote the way they suggested, and it was my intention to post what I actually voted for. I told them that if they thought my ballot was interesting they should read the works on it, and maybe consider voting for the ones they liked. They were free to vote differently from me. It’s called free will.” In many fewer words. But keep parroting that balderdash. As Mike says (about Brad), if you, and others, say it enough, maybe it’ll actually become the truth! ;-)
Where in this comment did Brad use the word “democracy” pray tell?
Where in my comment did I say he said “democratically” in that particular comment?
He’s said it elsewhere multiple times – and run away from answering questions about it multiple times. Rubbing his nose in his inability to answer it is a really great way of showing how pitiful the SP part of the SP/RP actually is.
Where in this comment did Brad use the word “democracy” pray tell? Oh! He didn’t? He was obviously referring to the fact that “sad puppies” was a public campaign/in no way covert effort?
https://bradrtorgersen.wordpress.com/2015/05/13/musings-not-sorted/
“Especially when the shake-up was conducted 100% in the open, democratically, using a democratic process. ”
I hate to break it to you, but “everybody send in suggestions, and then a small group of cronies will choose friends and mates of Brad” isn’t “a democratic process”.
Wow…do your ears hurt? I mean, the sonic boom from my point flying over your head at…oh, about Mach 2 or so…must’ve been terribly loud! My sympathies. Good luck on your quest to develop reading comprehension! The first step to finding a solution is acknowledging the existence of the problem! Ciao! ;-)
Bibliotecha, you will never get the entrenched tribal berserkers to ever admit that it is completely legitimate and within the rules for people to do exactly what they were told to do if they wanted to affect the system, namely, pay your money, get involved, and nominate what you like.
I’ll repeat, it speaks very poorly of WorldCon as an institution that so very few fans even knew they COULD get involved and nominate and vote just by joining.
Entrenched tribal berserkers…oh that is such a delightfully accurate summation of the nature and intellectual capacity of many of these neolithic, puritanical, flagrantly dishonest -or frighteningly self-deceiving- spectacularly bigoted individuals that I may just have to use it elsewhere, if you don’t mind. The pith is strong in this one. :-P
In addition to enjoying your comment, I also agree with it, for the most part. The only quibble I might have is that, if the *goal* was a continually shrinking, ever more insular, isolationistic group running a con that purported to represent the “world” science fiction fan community, then the average scifi fan’s ignorance of their ability to participate in the Hugo process reflects excellently on worldcon inasmuch as relates to their ability to accomplish their goals, however arcane and freakish they (in this hypothetical scenario) might be. Yes, that was a bit convoluted. Suffice to say, I agree with you, but I’m also a nerd with a fondness for overly detailed, long winded japes. They work better spoken than written, I suspect. God bless! ;-)
Gabriel F. says:
That’s not even on the table. I’m willing to bet you’re aware of that.
The rules changes that are being proposed are to limit the power of slates, not to narrow membership and votes. Again, you know that perfectly well, but it plays better for the outraged masses if you pretend otherwise.
Rogers Cadenhead says:
You’re lying, Brad. Sad Puppies 3 wasn’t created in the open. You took public suggestions on a blog, then ignored a lot of those suggestions and decided on your slate in a private process.
Larry Correia said the slate was created following private discussions with a group of authors that has included you, him, Theodore Beale, Sarah Hoyt and John C. Wright. What emerged from those discussions was a slate of nominees packed with your friends, writing colleagues and others of your personal acquaintance.
Yes it was created in the open. Anyone could have offered suggestions. Even GRRM. As I pointed out to him on his blog.
I’m guessing you are referring to the same google doc that everyone else does like it’s Gospel. It’s not Gospel. Some guy did a doc. Ok.
Open: I knew about it. Anyone paying attention should have known about it. Especially after SP1+2.
Democratic: vote!
If it wasn’t as perfect as you’d liked it to have been, tough.
If it didn’t hit your definitions of open and democratic, tough. I’m satisfied. You’re not. Again, tough.
Tell Kate Paulk about your reservations about how SP3 wasn’t as perfect as you’d have liked it to have been. She’s doing SP4.
How gullible are you? What Brad did doesn’t fit any definition of open or democratic.
You’re saying that the Hugo nominations were democratic, as people voted in them. But Brad has nothing to do with the Hugo nomination as a process. What people are asking is about how the SP3 slate was created, which *was* something that Brad had control over ,and in fact was responsible for.
How can it be open when Brad himself has said that he received some of the suggestions from non-public sources, but doesn’t reveal how many, or what they voted for (which, BtW, the Hugo’s Awards do in an anonymised fashion)?
Source: http://www.jimchines.com/2015/06/puppies-in-their-own-words/
How can it be democratic when, as per Larry Correia back in February, (“here is what the Evil League of Evil authors came up with in discussion”., and it was “put together by the ELoE being all strategic like”) the whole thing was vetted by the group that calls it self (humourously) the Evil League of Evil (who, in addition to Brad and Larry, also include Sarah Hoyt & Vox Day)?
Source: http://monsterhunternation.com/2015/02/02/sad-puppies-3-the-slatening/
What criteria did this group (cabal! :) ) use? Nobody else knows, and for a process that Brad has described as being “open and democratic from start to finish” as well as “thoroughly transparent”, it’s kinda lacking in all those qualities.
Sure, anyone could have offered suggestions. But the actual slate was drawn up in a smoke-filled room by a small group of insiders. That’s Democratic — in the same sense as Tammany Hall or the Chicago Machine.
Are you calling Brad’s head a smoke-filled room? I didn’t even know he smoked! Or is it your opinion that, after assembling your theoretical ballot, going to your friends and asking what they think…is equivalent to the corruption in Chicago politics? Or is it equivalent because Brad then decided to post that ballot for others to see? Why am I trying to get through to you? *head hits wall* gaaaah!….
Well, yes, actually. When Brad and a small group of friends decide the slate that hundreds of Puppies are going to vote for, that does resemble corruption in politics. I wouldn’t have put it that strongly myself, but now you bring it up…
Eric Flint says:
You have a weird definition of “democracy.” According to you, the fact that people were allowed — even encouraged — to submit suggestions makes it democratic.
Uh, well, no. What makes something “democratic” is not the suggestion stage of the game. For Pete’s sake, Attila the Hun, Hitler and Stalin allowed suggestions to be made. It’s the decision stage that’s critical. Who DECIDED which stories did or did not get on the SP3 slate? Who were the pool of voters, how were they defined, and when was the vote taken?
So far as I can tell, it was Brad Torgersen who made the decision, either on his own or in consultation with a small group of trusted advisers who were selected by no one except himself.
You can call such a process by a lot of names, but “open” is stretching it into a pretzel and “democratic” is downright laughable.
So Brian Aldiss, in his book Trillion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction didn’t know what he was talking about? The Golden Globes and the the Oscars are two different awards for the same movies. One by the “quote” experts and one by the people. I don’t go around trying to vote for the Nebula that’s the “quote” experts award. SFWA! Hugos’ can be voted upon by anybody willing to spend their money.
I notice nobody has defended the Nebula for “If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love” or it’s Hugo nomination. It’s not even SF/F.
The attempt to set up Nebulas vs Hugos as “experts” vs “people” is a false dichotomy: both are awards voted on by a set of people who are members of a group. Neither is, per se, the “experts’ award”. It’s easier to get into the WSFS than the SFWA, but the shapes are basically isomorphic. If anything is a people’s award, it’s the Locus awards, for which no membership is required (though Locus subscribers votes are weighted more heavily).
There is no necessary division into the two extremes of “people” and “experts”, and there’s no good reason to view authors as necessarily experts in evaluating other authors’ work: that’s a critical, not creative skill, and history is full of good authors who were not good critics. Authors will typically be more aware of certain craft-related elements than non-authors, but that’s about as far as it goes, and even that will vary widely. To boot, as Eric has pointed out, the normal Hugo voting base does tend to be relatively “expert” in other ways, compared to the general population.
(Similarly, I keep running into the canard that the Hugos are purely a popularity contest, not a recognition of “best”. Even for an open popular vote, if the vote is for the “best” work then it reflects the voters’ views of what was best, not of some other criterion. If the Hugos opened another category for “most effective escape reading”, the voters would evaluate candidates differently than they do when the vote for a “best” work.
Finally, with regard to “If you were a Dinosaur, My Love”, neither award has a definition of what constitutes SFF, leaving it up to the voters (very wisely, too, as the history of the genre is filled with flamewars over boundary fights). It appeared in a genre magazine, the nominators in both cases considered it to qualify, and the Nebula voters considered it to be the best story in the category — which is also reasonable, as it is a very finely crafted and tightly-written story. (About 2/3 of the voters voted for it in the Hugo vote, as opposed to 395 votes for No Award, so it had reasonable, though not, obviously, overwhelming support there as well.)
Neither the Golden Globes (voted on by foreign critics) nor the Academy Awards (voted on by members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences) is selected by “the people”, so if Aldiss said that in a non-fiction piece, he was wrong.
David Damerell says:
I suspect that’s because whenever someone starts banging on “If you were a dinosaur” as proof that the whole process is irretrievably broken, the rest of us roll our eyes and switch off.
I didn’t like it much; I stuck it below No Award on the Hugo ballot. But I’m willing to entertain the hypothesis that it got a Nebula and a Hugo nomination because other people did like it, rather than that some vast conspiracy wishes to award prizes to short stories somewhat lacking in genre content.
It’s hardly the only thing that’s been nominated for a Hugo that I think’s a stinker (and I’m not counting the slate-nominated stinkers, either) – but so what?
…I thought it was silly when the…lovely, erudite folks…were dissecting Brad’s comment in order to declare “aha! He’s a liar and a bad, bad man!” I mean…seriously, are we going to nitpick Brad’s misuse of the precise and legal definition of “democratic” in order to call him a liar? Maybe I’m an idiot, but it seems like an awfully silly, “unscrupulous” way of conducting a debate. Brad asked for suggestions for works to vote for. He made his own choices. He asked Larry, and maybe Dave, or Sarah, for their opinion of his *personal* selections for *his own* ballot. He then voted that ballot. He then posted selfsame ballot as a part of a campaign to get his, -and a whole bunch of other authors of various genders and ethnicities’- fans involved in the Hugo process. A movement he, as a fan, was excited to head. His ballot was both an example, and a list of suggestions. He emphasized that the persons reading his (and Larry’s) blog posts needed to read the things on his ballot -if they were even interested- before voting regarding them. His ballot was not mimicked in the nomination results. Some of his favorites (folks and books he voted for) *did* get on the official Hugo ballot, but most of those (the successful ones) were replicated by Theodore Beale’s slate (here, the term may, in my opinion, be applied without causing me fits of laughter combined with occasional brief moments of incensed indignation interrupting the laughter) and therefore the influence Brad’s posting of his ballot had on their success is difficult to gauge. What brad did *not* do is post a slate. This isn’t nitpicking, it’s a deconstruction of the entire basis (according to commenters on this very page) of the outrage and loathing that is being thrown at the long list of wonderful people and authors who dared to stand behind Brad in his fit of fannish idealism, a fit that resulted in the movement known as “Sad Puppies 3.” I will not convince you, Mr. Flint, that Brad’s ballot was not the same as a slate. Neither will I convince the many commenters her who despise Brad, Larry, Sarah, Amanda, Kate, Cedar, Dave, Peter, Mike, (etc) and all -or at least a massive number of- their fans for that very same ballot/”slate.” However, sometimes a point is worth expressing just for the purpose of ensuring it is expressed. I interject, not because I feel I may convince you you are mistaken, but to provide a voice expressing that there *is* another perspective, and it doesn’t just amount to nonsensical, enraged, “misogynistic,” “racist,” “homophobic,” ranting of “you’re wrong, and you suck!!1!” or similar sentiments. Reasonable, decent, intelligent, tolerant human beings are also to be found on the side of “Sad Puppies.” Really! “It’s twue, it’s *twue*!” (Blazing Saddles…never mind…) But yes, it is true. Just as not all the opponents of “Sad Puppies” are intolerant, pseudointellectual, reading-comprehension-challenged morons, so too is the other side not solely comprised of jerks and arseholes with pudding for brains. In fact, I’d wager *most* of us have functioning prefrontal cortices and frontal lobes, lol. Just because we think differently doesn’t make us stupid. It just means our worldviews, personalities and ways of perceiving the information our brain processes are different. Two intelligent people can disagree strenuously, and still both be intelligent individuals. I, personally disagreed with several of Brad’s choices, and I voted differently. I didn’t start thinking he was a moron -or a liar for not putting my suggestions into his own personal ballot- because I disagreed with him. The world kept turning, as you’ve said. I admire you sir, and am an avid fan of your work. I also love the work of many of the authors I listed before, and I find many admirable qualities in them. Anyway, I should end this. God bless, Dio ti benedica, buona fortuna, etc. ;-)
I for one would like to thank Brad for his tireless efforts this year. Were it not for him, I would never have managed to read a couple dozen pages of “The Dark Between the Stars” before throwing it down in disgust. Were it not for his selfless actions, I would never have read “Saving Science Fiction From Strong Women”, part of John C. Wright’s now-Hugo-nominated “Transhuman and Subhuman”. So many sexist screeds go unchampioned in SFF, and I’d like to thank Brad for making sure that I had the opportunity—nay, the privilege—to read this particular sexist screed.
Were it not for Brad’s efforts, a relatively mediocre installation of the Dresden Files would never have made it onto the ballot. (After all, there was no way in hell the Dresden fans were going to try and get this on the ballot. Too many of them were underwhelmed by it.) Nor would a collection of tweets that had nothing to do with SFF. (Now tell me, is that fair? That a Tor-led cabal would want to keep a collection of tweets that had nothing to do with SFF off the Hugo ballot? Thank God we had Brad this year, stepping forward to ensure that this eminently award-worthy work was not overlooked.)
I’d also like to thank Brad for bringing to my attention the numerous instances of backroom dealing that were occurring in the Worldcon voting pre-Puppies. I mean, he hasn’t actually TOLD me of even a single instance of such, of course, but I’ll totally take his word for it that they totally exist.
Thank you, Brad. From the bottom of my heart, thank you. For too long have friends and business associates of Brad Torgersen and Larry Correia been kept off the ballot by sneaky forms of manipulation that are so powerful, and so secret, that nobody has ever been able to substantiate even a single instance of it ever happening. That is some POWERFUL behind-the-scenes control, and thank goodness Brad Torgersen was willing to step forward and say “Enough! THIS time, I shall ensure that the Hugo ballot contains works only by my and Larry’s friends and business associates!” And finally, the first proper Hugo ballot in years was produced: consisting of works whose merits derive, not from the quality of their writing, but from the fact that their author is somehow associated with Brad or Larry. As it should be.
(And of course, works by Castalia House. I for one am insulted on Brad’s behalf that anyone could think there was collusion between the Sad and Rabid Puppies. Sure their logos are two variations of the same design, created by the same artist. Sure their slates are overwhelmingly the same, with some slots left open by the Sads that just so happened to be filled on the Rabid slate by works published by the Rabid leader. Sure, Larry Correia claimed that the same group of which Vox Day was a member was also responsible for creating the Sad Puppies slate. None of this is evidence. None of this comes close to the overwhelming proof of prior Hugo cabals that Brad shows us—namely, that he claims someone totally told him there were cabals. Now THAT is proof.
And obviously there’s nothing AT ALL offensive about Brad Torgersen, who has shown nothing but contempt for Worldcon, lecturing others on what Worldcon should be. Nothing ignorant, arrogant, or selfish about that AT ALL
I always enjoy a piece of well delivered snark (Eric Flint’s comments on Wright’s prose keep me warm at night), and truly I regret that I cannot like/ upvote this.
Regardless, kudos!
redheadedfemme says:
*slow clap* Thank you, Ma’am.
You know, it’s quite telling that whenever Brad is asked serious questions about his slate-making process, or is asked to produce evidence of the “secret cabal,” (and I’ve seen this several times now on File 770) he promptly disappears.
This does not help his credibility, to say the least.
I’ve seen him try the “I’ve already addressed this several times and I don’t intend to address it again” gambit, but it was way too soon for anyone to buy it.
But keep waiting – it’s going to be his standard reply later.
With the amount of fecal matter that just came pouring out of your moth, you must have desperately needed a quantity of mouthwash whose fluid volume rivaled that of Lake Michigan! Brava! Encore! I am most impressed.
PS: Skin Game…mediocre?! I mean there’s verbal diarrhea, and there’s outright insane heresy! This was both! But then, you are the authority on what is, and is not, quality lit’rature, right govnah? Oh…no. You aren’t.
PS: “redheadedfemme”? Google is your friend. Also basic research aside from trolling the sites of the various anti-” pup”s with all the accompanying verrah verrah accurate informashun… (Sarcasm) It was his ballot. Not a “slate”. A ballot. Brad’s. He asked for opinions openly on his blog, then made his own decision. And he asked Larry, and maybe Dave (freer), or Sarah, or Kate, their opinions on his ballot. He then published the aforementioned ballot, despite his not having voted a full “five” in all the categories. In posting it, he reminded anyone who was thinking about voting identically that they needed to read the works first, and form their own opinions. Shortly after, he (and Larry, et al) came under fire for fielding a “slate” with five candidates in several categories. Evidently, he needed to either tack on another nomination suggestion to each category with five, or he needed to delete one and make it four. Following *that* nonsense, Theodore Beale decided the time was ripe for his swipe at the “WSFS” and Tor in particular. He hired the same artist Larry had used, and asked him for a similar banner. He then posted a slate (an actual slate) with five suggestions in each category. Consequently, Brad’s “failure” to have five+ suggestions in each category became “proof” in the minds of the paranoid and mild to severely delusional, that Brad and Beale had “colluded” and so on. This despite the fact that rabid puppies was far more successful than “sad puppies 3” and, as such, displaced several “sad puppy” nominees. “Lrn 2 logic” I’ve heard (read) it put on the internet before. Also “logic: occasionally a useful tool” Yes, I know you don’t see what logic has to do with this. I’m okay with that. I’ve already spelled out way more than I intended, when I should’ve been sleeping because I have to be at the hospital first thing this morning…ciao! Be well! ;-)
Brad has been contrasting the “open”ness of his slate with the “cabal” that allegedly has been manipulating the process in the past. If in fact the slate is only “open” in the sense that every Worldcon member was free to decide for himself or herself whether to follow Brad’s recommendations… well, the same thing is true of whatever the “cabal” has been recommending, so what does Brad have to boast about here?
Calling the Puppies process “open” is, at best, a vacuous marketing claim. It’s like taking a box of pure granulated sugar and labelling it “fat-free and gluten-free”.
Matthew B. says:
So the list of proposed nominees in the Torgersen post titled “SAD PUPPIES 3: the 2015 Hugo slate” is not a slate. Gotcha.
It’s funny to watch B.S. retcon what happened. The Sad Puppies slate is no longer a “slate”. I guess because they didn’t pick five spots in every category?
I would never have managed to read a couple dozen pages of “The Dark Between the Stars” before throwing it down in disgust.
I have to say, that I found The Dark Between the Stars to be OK, but not exactly an inspire choice.
A whole two dozen? Disgust? I can help but wonder if you were looking to be disgusted before you started page 1.
The Dresden enthusiasts I’ve heard from consider Skin Game a relatively suitable volume to be singled out.
It seems to me that in general there seems to be some bias being applied to works based on what side is it perceived to be attached to.
Hence Vox Day continues his relentless contention that John Scalzi has no talent whatever, when it strikes me as better than the one Vox piece I’ve read. Some of the reviews of Totalled strike me as having a similar problem.
Going To Maine says:
My personal preference — ha ha, lord knows certain people will scoff at that mattering — is that Worldcon’s overall attendance simply increases until it’s averaging 20,000 to 30,000 members total; both supporting and attending
But how does a slate promote this agenda? This remains unclear.
You’ve repeatedly said that you have examples of manipulations – you’ve even mentioned having personal knowledge of “a dozen” campaigns for Hugos. I know that you believe this to be the case for Chicks Dig Time Lords and Redshirts, and presumably for Ancillary Justice and “The Water That Falls On You From Nowhere”. Please produce the evidence of these campaigns. It would immensely strengthen your case. Unsubstantiated accusations, frankly, only make you appear to be a liar.If you don’t care about what Worldcon thinks of you, then you should have no problem exposing them as the backstabbers you claim they are.
Please. Please give us your evidence, since you seem to consider it to be substantial.
Is this the closest Brad has come to acknowledging that the determining factor in his selections were his ties to the authors of the works in question? I think it is!
Brad, you and Larry and Vox and Sarah and the rest of the “Evil League Of Evil” had every right to get together a propose a slate, which you did. But it’s just outright lying for you to keep calling the process “open and democratic”.
Richard Brandt says:
Wow. Brad is going to single-handedly make sure no one ever has to do without a Hugo again just because a better book was on the ballot that year. (Presumably by making sure no superior books ever get on a Hugo ballot.) God bless you, citizen!
Eric’s entire point went over Brad’s head, just like any discussion of revising Hugo rules this year.
Could you elaborate on what you mean by “touchstone”?
“My personal preference — ha ha, lord knows certain people will scoff at that mattering — is that Worldcon’s overall attendance simply increases until it’s averaging 20,000 to 30,000 members total; both supporting and attending. ”
As a member of numerous Worldcon committees up through Sasquan (and Chair of one), please let me know what year and site you will be bidding for, and I’ll be happy to send you the payment for a presupporting membership, since I would love to see such a convention occur. The last Australia Worldcon came about because a fan made an unguarded statement in a room party at a previous Worldcon, so we should be able to take your statement as an intention to begin the bidding process. Recent Worldcons up until Loncon and Sasquan had been averaging 4,000 to 6,000 members, depending on whether you count bodies on site over the length of the convention or distinct individuals. The budgets for each of those conventions were easily in excess of $750,000 (US). This with being situated in “second-class” cities and making use of numerous surrounding hotels as well as convention facilities. The sizes of those committees ran to the hundreds. All this is just background, so you’ll know what you need when you start your search for a facility that can hold three times as many attendees as in the past (being generous with the split of supporting vs. attending) and a committee that can handle that many attendees (yes, not everything scales proportionately, but you will need more badges, program books, food for the con suite, hotel rooms, etc., etc., and a facility big enough to hold a con that size will probably also require union labor). Since all of the Worldcon committees are composed of volunteers who put their time and money into the convention for the purpose of making an enjoyable experience for the attendees, and spend two years or more doing so, you probably won’t have much spare time to write, but you’ll get the Worldcon you say you want. If you’re not willing to put forth the effort, then either accept the Worldcons the rest of us are spending our time and effort to make happen, or stop complaining. Change doesn’t happen in a vacuum.
Todd, did Brad give you the impression that he thought you could wave a wand and make 20,000 people show up.
I’m not sure that a 20,000 person Worldcon would still be the con that I love, or would it be a thing with lots of celebrity appearances and long lines for paid autographs and big panels moderated by a big name writer demanding the all questions from the gigantic audience be simple interrogatives.
Ooops, I see that Brad meant supporting and attending to be included in that 20,000. In that case, he has had a role in this. Sasquan has an enormous proportion of supporting members. Maybe most of them joined in just to express his displeasure with him, but I think more participants in the process is a good thing either way.
I don’t know what Brad meant by his comment, other than that supporting _and_ attending members would be in the numbers he threw out, as you note. As has been noted before numerous times, no one is complaining about more people participating in the process (even the Sasquan committee, who does have to deal with all of the handling issues for all of these new memberships), as long as every one gets an equal vote in the process. It’s when the Puppies use a flaw in the system to make everyone else’s vote meaningless that we get upset. That’s why there are now proposals to fix the problem but not, as Jared notes, at the expense of excluding anyone from voting. If Brad wants to see all these new people counted as well, then he shouldn’t object to a change that results in a greater probability that everyone’s vote is counted, on a equal basis.
Happyturtle says:
Oh wow, supporting memberships will no longer be able to vote on the Hugo?
From Sasquan.org:
B.1 – CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS
B.1.1 – Short Title: 4 and 6
Moved, to amend the WSFS Constitution to reduce the number of nominations each member can
make in each category, to increase the number of finalists appearing on the final ballot…
Hmm… nothing about banning supporting memberships. Let’s check the next proposal.
B.1.2 – Short Title: The Five Percent Solution
Moved, to amend the WSFS Constitution to eliminate the requirement that finalists must appear on at least 5% of ballots in a category…
Okay… makes sense… should help some of the smaller categories…
B.1.3 – Short Title: Best Saga
Moved, to amend the WSFS Constitution to change the written fiction Hugo Award categories by creating a Best Saga award …
About bloody time for this one…
Anything about memberships? Still nothing?
B.2 – RESOLUTIONS
B.2.1 – Short Title: I Remember the Future
Moved, to extend the Hugo eligibility for the movie I Remember the Future due to extremely limited distribution, as provided for in Section 3.4.3 of the WSFS Constitution….
B.2.2 Short Title: Hugo Eligibility Extension for Predestination
Moved, to extend for one year the eligibility of the movie Predestination, based on limited availability, as authorized by Section 3.4.3 of the WSFS Constitution.
So… of every New Business Proposal, exactly ZERO have anything to do with memberships.
NO ONE is trying to remove voting rights from supporting memberships, Mr Torgersen.
As Deputy Presiding Officer of the Business Meeting at Sasquan (and Presiding Officer of the one that will occur at MAC2) I have some background on the proposal process, which, for the record isn’t closed. The fact is that no such proposal to limit the rights of supporting members has been floated to date.
There are proposals, those listed above and others, to change categories, amend the nomination and voting process, and do others, but nothing regarding supporting memberships has passed before my eyes.
David Lang says:
Such a proposal may not have been floated ‘officially’, but a lot of the anti-puppies have talked about doing so. Even GRRM had to yell at them for undermining his statements that nobody was trying to keep the puppy voters out because they were working so hard on figuring out ways to keep the puppy voters out.
As far as the ‘x nominations for y slots’ proposal goes, that is such a weak effort that I think it’s worthless. Even before I heard it was being proposed, I was saying that next year (for SP4) Kate should list more works than there are slots for, and the web page should be setup so that every time it’s loaded, the works in each category show up in a different order.
A side effect of this is that if anyone is actually ‘voting the slate’ as the puppies are being accused of, this will spread their votes across all the works, and while it would take a few more votes, a ‘slate’ could still fill all the slots.
If you have 4 nominations for 5 slots (which I understand is the current proposal) and it currently takes 100 nominations to get on the final ballot, then 120 people voting would get all 5 suggestions on the ballot for a ‘slate’ of 5 with the ‘4 noms for 5 slots’ rule.
Lol. I bet Kate loved that. I know I do… Oh boy, having a “slate” carry the freshly antislateified Hugos? That thought is so filled with delicious poetic irony that I think I need to start a diet and exercise plan to work off the empty calories from ingesting it… Regardless of my stance on slates (when did campaigning become cheating? The most successful campaign wins the presidency every year, and no one calls that a “flaw in the system”…okay, some do, but *most* consider that opinion to be a very silly one… What makes the Hugo different? I’ll tell you: “Cuz *reasons*” is what makes the Hugo different. -not talking about scale. Don’t anyone start jabbering about the difference in number of participants. I can’t handle much more laughter right now.- That’s it.) As I was saying, regardless of my stance on slates, the idea of a slate succeeding in a year that has had supposed “anti-slate” protections put on it…is just hilarious. The schadenfreude alone…oh my… *sighs dreamily*
Which Hugo Awards, over the past twenty years, were awarded because of “variously sneaky forms of manipulation” rather than merit? And why do you believe that those awards were given on account of manipulation, rather than an electorate whose taste differs from yours?
Names, dates, and evidence, please. Not just innuendo.
RAH says:
Harlan Ellison said the same . It happens. There is zero need to prove a case. This is not a legal case. The solution was to create interest in voting new authors . If voters agreed with the Brad’s choices that was their choice . NO ONE was forced to vote the same.
The nominations was done within the rules . This whining about slates is ridiculous. The nominations are done .Vote for your choices. But all the juvenile angst over slates seems like sour grapes because the “barbarians” got their choices nominated.
I’m not asking for evidence that could convict someone in court. I’m just asking for… well…
Imagine that you’re a newspaper reporter, and someone comes to you and says, “Hey, I just heard that politicians in the state legislature are taking bribes!” And you say “Really? Which politicians? Who’s paying them off?” And your source says “Well, you know, lots of people. So I hear.” And then your source wanders off. Are you going to turn that tip into a page-one news story, or even a page-fifteen news story?
IF you are a reporter then get sources or find out from other sources. However you are not a reporter . If you would like there has been rumors and indications that people have decided together to place nominations and votes for a certain nominee.
If you want to research it yourself, you are welcome to , otherwise no one has any obligation to do that for you or present their evidence
Jerry Pournelle, Harlan Ellison, and even GRRM have said that there have been ‘hidden’ slates and campaigns for years.
Thanks. I’d actually forgotten GRRM’s admission…/headdesk *thud…thud…thud*
1) You seem to have taken the “I was robbed; I should have gotten a nomination/won” that people will sometime say in the heat of disappointment without the necessary grain of salt.
2) Doing Sad Puppies in the open? So WHO CHOSE THE SLATE, Brad? When you tell us that, we’ll believe it was “open.”
Who Chose The Slate
TTO “I Saw The Light”
Fans in their hundreds Hugos would brew
This year it seems that’s no longer true
One or two people got to nominate
They chose the Hugos by choosing the slate.
Who chose the slate? who chose the slate?
Whose job was it to curate?
If it was honest, why hesitate?
Come on, Brad, who chose the slate?
Was it Correia? Was it John Wright?
Was it Vox Day in the dark of the night?
Who told the Puppies what to nominate?
And yes, we do believe you have a lot of friends and mentors in this field; we can’t help but notice that you put them on the slate and pushed works that you yourself admit were worthier off the Hugo ballot. Works like Three Body Problem, and the second volume of the Heinlein bio–works didn’t have the good fortune to be authored by a personal friend or mentor of yours (or your slate-committee’s–who were they again?) that the fans would have put on the ballot for you if you had only let them.
I’m calling *your* system into question. I’m calling SLATE nominating into question. Because it transparently doesn’t work that well. I get it that you don’t like me rattling your cage, and personal responsibility is apparently not your strong point, but I’ll keep speaking the truth to you for as long as I can speak.
I’m guessing supporting memberships won’t be discontinued–though if they are, that will be entirely your fault, for introducing slate(s), and I will blame you and your fellow Puppies for slating, making it so I can’t nominate and vote on the Hugos any more. Come to think of it, the personal difference for me in not being able to nominate at all and being able to nominate but having it count for nothing because of slate(s) is nil anyway.
But my hope is that E. Pluribus Hugo will be adopted, so that nonPuppies can still get a few nominees on the ballot, and the Puppy nominees will still be present, but only at a background noise level rather than sweeping the ballot entirely. Because not being able to nominate at all is not what the rest of us deserve.
As for attendance at WorldCon climbing–it’s held in a different place every time, which is the only way to have a *World*Con, and the organization has to be set up anew every time, and under those circumstances it’s not going to get all that big. Furthermore, if anyone can wave their hand and increase attendance, you have as much ability as anybody else, why don’t you go do that instead of slating?
I for one have no interest in who came up with the nominations . Voters could make their own . NO ONE was Forced. The excessive focus on Brad who magically got his choices nominated is silly.
Make you own choice Stop asking other people to justify their choices.
Of course patsies are free to nominate a slate chosen for them by somebody else when they don’t even know who chose it. Absolutely. And free to advertise to the world that they have done so, if they think that’s a good idea.
“Make your own choice.” Yes, exactly. That’s all I ask. People should read what appeals to them without resorting to slates to know what to read. And chose their own favorites without resorting to slates to know what to nominate.
so you are saying that the locus list should be eliminated because it gives people recommendations on what to read.
book reviews should be eliminated because they give people recommendations on what to read.
(I don’t expect that you actually agree with either statement, but you imply them from your statements)
at what point do recommendations become bad? All along Brad was telling people to read the works and vote for what they liked. The range of votes show that this was not a case of people blindly voting the slates. The “book bombs” sold a lot of copies of the works before the nominations closed, giving lots of people visibility to them.
you obviously dislike the result of all that, but exactly which actions are wrong? and why? (and if you say “making a slate”, define the difference between “slate” and “list of recommendations”, if Brad had used the different term, would you accept the same result?)
Slate / Recommended lists. Lots of the lists were out there I see lots of Hugo ballots now with someone choices. Why do people do that? Are they trying to influence voters to vote the same way. Vanity?
However calling people patsies because they follow a favored author;s recommendations is a bit harsh. Do we say that about people that follow other lists? I have not seen that except for SP3 and RP1.
Now maybe the minions over on RP1 did follow blindly. Their choices certainly carried the nomination ballot. But is was still those voter choices. It still sounds like whining about slates/lists.
As Eric would say Get over it. You have a chance now to vote your choice.
rochrist says:
So everyone made their totally free choices based on what they’ve read this year, and they all magically concluded that John C Wright deserved 6 nominations.
Danny Sichel says:
it was hearing about the under-the-table maneuvering, from various sources, that ultimately got me off the fence. Because under-the-table maneuvering depends on the general credulity of those who follow the awards: our collective belief that the scales don’t have any thumbs on them.
You know what would really help us believe you, Mr Torgersen? Telling us what this actual ‘under-the-table maneuvering’ was. Not just saying “trust me, it exists”. You’re a professional fabulist. You’re someone who’s been nominated for a major award for your skill in lying. Do you expect us to take your word for it when you say that “THE GAME IS RIGGED”, simply because you say it is? After all, everyone claims themselves to be honest, right?
… case in point.
There is zero evidence that he has lied So calling him a fabulist is just BS. That is another instance of calling people names and ad hominem attacks It really does not matter. The nominations are OVER!!! Make you own choices rather than whining about Brad perceived grievances.
Honestly Brad should never have tried to explain how they have been treated. That always comes off as whining. Whether it is true or not.
However the threats that they will never win a Hugo was made by Davis Gerrolds himself. I read that on his facebook. Very unprofessional since he is to give the awards.
If that was his reaction and other agree with him as they did in comments on File 770 then I can understand Larry assertion that by the behavior people have shown their bias.
The Two Puppies
SamJW: “Hey stinker! Vox! Don’t go getting too far ahead!”
Brad: “Why do you do that?”
SamJW: “What?”
Brad: “Call him names? Run him down all the time.”
SamJW: “Because. Because that’s what he is, Mister Brad. There’s naught left in him but lies and deceit. It’s the Hugo he wants. It’s all he cares about.”
Brad: “You have no idea what it did to him. What is still doing to him. I want to help him Sam.”
SamJW: “Why?”
Brad: “Because I have to believe he can come back.”
SamJW: “You cannot save him, Mister Brad.”
Brad (angrily): “What do you know about it? Nothing!”
Brad: “I’m sorry Sam. I don’t know why I said that.”
SamJW: “I do. It’s the Hugo. You can’t take your eyes off it. I’ve seen you. You’re not eating. You barely sleep. It’s taking a hold of you Mister Brad. You have to fight it.”
Brad: “I know what I must to do Sam. The quest was entrusted to me. It’s my task! Mine! My own!”
SamJW: “Can’t you hear yourself? Don’t you know who you sound like?”
TK Davis says:
Brad, the problem with your entire premise is your contention that the Sad Puppy slate is empirically better than the recent contenders for the Hugo award. You have said over and over that the winners are being chosen for message instead of for quality/enjoyability. As someone who reads SF/F and who votes for the Hugos (while being a complete industry outsider and just a fan of the genres) I disagree. I disagree entirely.
And you do not get to tell me that my opinion isn’t just as valid as yours. It’s the wonderful part of reading – it’s personal and subjective and messy and there are no absolutes.
You are being petty and childish and your tactics (while valid) are dishonorable.
Then vote for your choices. Did you vote on the nominations? If not you have no complaint since it was already other people choices.
This focus on how is old. The choices were made, It is done and over. Now make your own choice and vote your own taste. I will.
It’s all about the how, RAH. Refusing to even acknowledge that is disingenuous.
No. How is immaterial and irrelevant. Now is about voting the nominations. Either make a choice or vote no award. I will make my choices. based on those nominations.
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Mike Spehar says:
Damn it. Damn it. Damn it.
I knew I shouldn’t have read this very last word on the Hugos. But I did, damn it, and I found myself disagreeing with these two observations:
“You have as much chance of eliminating the tendency of a literary award to be tilted in favor of literary factors as you have of doing any of the following….” and
” One final point. The Sad Puppies seem to feel there’s something deeply unfair about the fact that literary awards are tilted in favor of literary criteria.”
There is something quite strawmanish about these statements. While I have seen Sad Puppies rue awarding boring stories – it is in their rallying cry – I haven’t seen any of their leaders claim that literary awards should not have (or be tilted toward) literary criteria. I thought their main point was that literary merit was not an exclusive property of progressive writers. I don’t think I’m wrong about that.
And I have just confirmed my decision to not attend any SFF conventions this summer. I don’t need the hassle and my ailing Mom needs me more, anyway.
I thought their main point was that literary merit was not an exclusive property of progressive writers. I don’t think I’m wrong about that.
I disagree. SP1 and SP2 were both, going by Larry Correia, about trolling the lterary establishment. That is, those pups wanted to prove that the Hugos had a left slant by getting people on the political right nominated. (I would disagree that that was what they demonstrated, but that proof was the intent)
SP3 has been said to be about a lot of things, including:
* expanding the Worldcon tent to include more fans
* striking back against a perceived bias against overly-preachy message fiction
* getting awards to authors who would otherwise be overlooked
No one, as far as I know, has alleged that conservative writers can’t have literary merit. For goodness’ sake, George RR Martin gave a pretty thorough review of conservative folks who both have and haven’t gotten Hugos in the past, and everyone sings the praises of Gene Wolfe (though Torgersen would argue that Wolfe is a solitary exception). To allege that politics kills literary talent would be silly. Folks *have* argued that particular conservative writers, like John C Wright, lack literary merit, but that’s niggling over specific authors and not the general case.
It is an important part of polite discourse to not dismiss one’s opponents as totally lacking in principle or reasoning, else we might as well bring the knives out and have at it. When one side feels it has been dissed, and continues to be treated dismissively, it has little incentive for reconciliation.
When it happens to both sides, we again learn what drove the Hatfields and McCoys. Then, the question of who started it no longer matters. The situation must be defused by the constant effort of peacemakers on both sides. Assuming “they” are all unthinking trolls doesn’t get the job done.
Mike, while it’s true that the main thrust of the Sad Puppies’ criticism of the works usually nominated (and winning) Hugo awards is that they are politically biased to the left, they have also on a number of occasions criticized the awards for being biased toward what they often call “snobbery.” In context, I don’t know any other way to interpret that than as a sneer at what most people would characterize as “literary” qualities.
“[D]espite providing hours of explosion filled enjoyment to their readers, most pulp novelists will never be recognized by critics, and in fact, they will be abused by the literati elite. Much like Michael Vick, literary critics hate pulp novelists and make them fight in vicious underground novelist fighting arenas. I actually did pretty good, until Dan Wells made a shiv from a sharpened spoon and got me in the kidney.”
Stated by Larry Correia on January 16, 2013.
http://monsterhunternation.com/2013/01/16/how-to-get-correia-nominated-for-a-hugo-part-2-a-very-special-message/
“[I]f Monster Hunter Legion were to become a Hugo finalist, elitist literary snobs around the world would have a complete come apart that something which was unabashed pulp, had an actual plot, had characters who actually did stuff, and wasn’t heavy handed message fiction dared tread into their sacred halls.”
http://monsterhunternation.com/2013/01/23/how-to-get-correia-nominated-for-a-hugo-part-3-wont-somebody-please-think-of-the-children/
“[Y]ou can support awesome books winning fancy Hugo awards and drive the literati insane! … No more boring, pretentious literati-wannabe dreck! … Vote for Warbound!”
Stated by Larry Correia on January 10, 2014
http://monsterhunternation.com/2014/01/10/challenge-coin-update-free-books-lots-of-stuff/
“The ugly truth is that the most prestigious award in sci-fi/fantasy is basically just a popularity contest, where the people who are popular with a tiny little group of WorldCon voters get nominated and thousands of other works are ignored. Books that tickle them are declared good and anybody who publically deviates from groupthink is bad. Over time this lame ass award process has become increasingly snooty and pretentious…”
http://monsterhunternation.com/2014/01/14/sad-puppies-2-the-illustrated-edition/
“In other words, while the big consumer world is at the theater gobbling up the latest Avengers movie, “fandom” is giving “science fiction’s most prestigious award” to stories and books that bore the crap out of the people at the theater: books and stories long on “literary” elements (for all definitions of “literary” that entail: what college hairshirts are fawning over this decade) while being entirely too short on the very elements that made Science Fiction and Fantasy exciting and fun in the first place!
“[T]he voting body of ‘fandom’ have tended to go in the opposite direction: niche, academic, overtly to the Left in ideology and flavor, and ultimately lacking what might best be called visceral, gut-level, swashbuckling fun …”
Stated by Brad Torgersen on January 16, 2015
https://bradrtorgersen.wordpress.com/2015/01/16/why-sad-puppies-3-is-going-to-destroy-science-fiction/
By the way, as a number of people have already pointed, this was a particularly infelicitous [apologies for using a five-syllable literati word but what can you expect I’m a leftie snob] wisecrack by Torgersen given that the Hugo for best movie [officially called “Dramatic Presentation: Long Form”] WAS given that year to THE AVENGERS.
I could dredge up more quotes like this, Mike, but after a while it’s a waste of my time. The Sad Puppies have repeatedly made it clear that they consider “literary” — they usually use terms like “snobbery” or “literati” or “snooty and pretentious” but that’s what they’re talking about about — fiction to be the province of the left, whereas right-wing fiction tends to be — to use their terms — “visceral, gut-level, swashbuckling” etc etc.
Never mind that the stuff I write is hardly “literary” and Steven Brust writes about assassins and…
Not to mention that the SF author the New Yorker magazine singled out for praise due to his literary talents was the quite conservative Gene Wolfe.
Facts, pfui. Why let that get in the way of a good ignorant rant?
Steven Brust really is kind of “literary”, IMO. In some (but not all) of his books, the craftsmanship of the writing and the literary techniques he uses are front and center, at least as important as the plot and characters. He’s going for tone, for mood, for “voice”. In short, he’s going for style points.
You can sit down and talk about how a book like Dragon is structured and written, and how it differs from one like Issola. Dragon is very non-linear in timespan, while Issola is pretty much a straight tale in real time. But Issola has this fascinating construct where Vlad keeps being isolated with different sets of characters, and covers the same philosophical ground but gets to different places depending on who he is conversing with. And that is mirrored by the fact that he keeps getting imprisoned in the same room, but it appears to be different each time around.
You simply can’t have the same type of conversations about, for example, Cauldron Of Ghosts. I have re-read Cauldron of Ghosts several times. It’s a good story. But it’s not “literary”.
“Show me the man and I will find the crime.”
Eric, I don’t disagree with you that many stupid things have been written by various Sad Puppies, even by some who should surely know better. I also agree with Lavrenti that guilt can sometimes be a matter of perception. Give me enough time and I’ll find solid evidence that you are a devoted capitalist and closet monarchist.
Even as a confirmed tool of imperialism and fan of exploding starships, I have found myself taking small dogs to task for their decided lack of charitable solicitude (back at you). I may even feel compelled to disagree with you, again. I feel I owe the wobbly center nothing less.
Cheers, mate.
Books first, food later. says:
I feel I must point out that, saying “all literary snobs (if literary snob=closely adhering to the latest “progressive” “safe-space”-creating, tolerance-espousing-intolerance-inducing morons that have demonstrated an impressive ability to shout louder than their size -as a section of the populace as a whole- would indicate should be humanly possible) are leftist” (whether true or not, and no, it isn’t entirely true…it just looks that way sometimes because of that same ability to shout) is *not* the same as saying “all leftist authors write entertainment-void, swashbuckling-free, staggeringly message-heavy ‘literary’ fiction.” No? I mean, it seems obvious to me. All rectangles are squares, but not all squares are rectangles.
Laura Resnick says:
Way back in the halcyon days of winter when I thought this Puppy silliness would be a minor blip lasting only a few weeks (instead of, as it has become, a noisy, toxic, steadily spreading mess that will clearly continue emitting its stench well beyond Aug 22nd), Brad Torgersen cited on his Facebook wall a short list of randomly named writers who’ve never been nominated for a Hugo. For whatever reason, I was one of the writers he named.
So I pointed out that if getting a Hugo were among my career goals, then there are a number of very obvious things I would do differently; and the fact that I do NOT do those things makes it very unsurprising (even self-explanatory, I’d say) that I’ve never been nominated for a Hugo.
For EXAMPLE, I’d write science fiction. (Go FIGURE.) Although the Hugos do recognize fantasy, they are more of an sf and speculative fiction award, and–apart from top sellers (which I am not)– it’s rare that a straight-genre commercial fantasy novel, which is what I write, gets on the ballot. I’d also write short fiction on spec and submit it to magazines, which tend to get more awards attention than (the reams and reams of) anthologies released into the market each year. (67 of my 68 published short stories have been written on commission and were published only in anthologies; because my career focus is on novels, I don’t write short fiction on spec.) I’d also shift my work substantially out of humor and into “serious” fiction (my current fantasy novel series is comedy, and probably 3/4 of my short stories are light or comedic). Comedy can get nominations and win awards, but “serious” fiction much more frequently gets awards attention.
Those are just a few examples of things I’d do differently if I wanted a Hugo. But getting a Hugo isn’t my career focus. Selling a lot of novels and expanding the audience for my books (with a view to increasing my sales and thus my income) is my career focus. My related career focus is to make good money writing the kind of story I like to write and read–which is what I’m doing. That the kind of thing I like to write doesn’t happen to be the kind of thing that gets awards attention doesn’t matter to me. If it mattered to me, I’d start making changes in what I choose to write, so that I’d have a much better shot than I do at getting Hugo attention.
Mind you, I’d be very honored to be nominated for a Hugo. Unlike many of the Puppies whom I’ve seen declaring that the Hugos mean nothing to them or are bullshit or whatever, I have a lot of respect for the Hugos and I appreciate their history and the resonance they have in our genre. I just don’t focus my career choices on getting a Hugo; and because of that, I don’t fume (or even think) about not getting nominated. Similarly, if I really wanted to build an audience of primarily male readers age 14-22, I’d also make other choices in my work than I’m making.
However…. having made my point (less verbosely) on Brad Torgersen’s FB wall…. the Puppies there declared that my comments merely PROVED that the Hugos were rigged or unfair or whatever… and though I tried once or twice more, it was clear that speaking reason and sense to Puppies was a complete waste of time, and I was annoyed that I had bothered trying.
I don’t know what the Puppies want, either. Nothing in their behavior or statements ever makes any sense. And I am by now skeptical that there’s actually anything that would satisfy the–well, anything within their potential grasp, anyhow. As we have seen, you can certainly campaign your way onto a Hugo ballot; and perhaps you can even campaign successfully enough to get the award. But you can’t force people to respect, admire, or agree with you.
We are essentially having a tailgate party…at worldcon. That’s the best way to put it. We have totally different worldviews than you (hence why you can’t comprehend our motivations etc) and we decided that it would be fun to bring our party to the Hugo’s. And there’s all kindsa weirdos in our club. We’ve got Mormons *giggle* we’ve got wiccans, gays, republicans, democrats *shudder…lol*, shitloads of libertarians, black people, brown people, so-white-you-fear-for-their-health people, men, women, “other”, yellow people, possibly a purpleish mauve person, oh…it’s a looong list. And we all like hanging out together and having all kinds of conversations, with the language and “harmful speech” *chokes* filters decidedly off. Some of these convos are deep, intellectual diversions. Some are airily philosophical. Some are blatantly juvenile and sophomoric. Some are decidedly serious and focused. And some defy explanation or description. But we aren’t “unscrupulous” as Mr. Flint once said. We’re just weird. Also, a good-sized chunk of us is heartily addicted to gunpowder weaponry and other tools of destruction. I happen to be a dedicated gardener, cook, philosopher, amateur editor, and bibliophile, among other things. I voted in the Hugo’s because I learned I could and I was very excited. No grand conspiracy theory. Just a fan learning how to participate. And most of the “sad puppies” are like me in that regard. But yes, we are also like a family, and it pisses us off when folks like you malign a family-member’s character, not to mention our own. Now, I’m going to try to get some sleep. God bless.
Your comment does not appear to relate to a single thing I’ve said.
Helpfully, the one useful fact BS provides is to claim to have such a completely different worldview that dialogue is impossible. Which, at this point, seems to be true.
Actually I think his point was to humorously mock your inability to understand the Puppies point of view.
However I want to address your own writing. I never understood why humorous works were not nominated . I really enjoy them and If your work is fantasy and humorous I have to check it out.
Jane_Dark says:
RAH: I never understood why humorous works were not nominated . I really enjoy them and If your work is fantasy and humorous I have to check it out.
RAH, humorous works have been nominated, and indeed, won. Most recently, Scalzi’s Redshirts, and in the past, Connie Willis’ To Say Nothing of the Dog (novel) and “Even the Queen” (short story).
Thanks for the response. I will have to check out Connie Willis’s work. Having read Scazi’s blog I am not sure I would like his snark. I do have to check out Ms Resnick. Her titles on File 770 have been gold.
You’re most welcome. Redshirts isn’t what I’d call snarky (though Scalzi’s blog often is), though it wasn’t really my taste (though I understand why other people liked it.) I’m not sure what I ranked first that year, because I didn’t like Mira Grant’s Blackout anywhere near as well as I liked Feed, which was first in the trilogy — though if the Best Saga Award had existed then, it would have been an easy top vote.
I’ve liked Willis’s stuff tremendously since I discovered her in jr. high, though, so I certainly recommend her.
Ok Jane I bought The Winds of Marble Arch since I hate to spend over 3 dollars on new author. I will let you know how I liked it Thanks for the recommendation
What you said. Talk about hitting your head against a brick frickin’ wall… It’s like talking to irritatingly loquacious, and not unintelligent, rocks…whose disdain for all non-rocks is astonishingly toxic. I was only addressing her repeated emphasizing of her “inability” to understand the “puppies” motives and attempts to “speak reason and sense” to folks of whom she declares “nothing in their behavior or statements ever makes any sense.” That has nothing at all to do with the things she said in her comment…oh wait. Shoot…it’s like we’re different species. Dave Freer is right. The divide is getting ominously wide. Stark, angry, violence-fanned divisions, in any society, never end in happiness and light. God help us if this is what we’re going to keep hurtling toward. I want to step off this bullet train to horror, personally. Interesting times indeed. Damn it. *depressed sigh*
There’s a surprise.
But yes, we are also like a family, and it pisses us off when folks like you malign a family-member’s character, not to mention our own.
Surely you must understand that the larger family of WorldCon members feel the same way, and have been experiencing the same sense of having the WorldCon family maligned by the ongoing Puppy rhetoric. It is all quite ridiculous, and we are tired of it.
The first sentence of my above post was a quote from BS’s post. i meant to end the italics before the second paragraph, which is my own response, and the only one I’ll be making.
James May says:
It’s your comments which don’t make sense. You’re one of the foot soldiers which helped create support for and give credibility to redneck dehumanization theories like “white privilege” because someone ran out of Jim Crow and needed a zero calorie substitute to keep the car rolling.
That in turn created an atmosphere for other massive feminist stupidities like “rape culture.” Where’s the SFF in all that hokum? There’s a lot of Jim Crow in “Wakulla Springs” but predictably no SFF. Same for Hild and dino justice. That’s not just “genre-bending” but destroying the genre. Buck Rogers in the 21st century makes little sense. Neither does the Huffington Post in the 25th century.
You helped create SP – why complain now?
What would satisfy SP is simple: stop supporting that junk – actual SFF stories will follow rather than the intersectional Hugo sweep of last year’s overly messaged sleeping pills towards a more just and better world cis white dudes have retarded since the Tigris and Euphrates.
When you have flamboyant gay guys like Milo Yiannopolous and “misogynist” Latina porn stars like Mercedes Carrera bitterly opposing you and jock ex-punters and Anita (Wertham) Sarkeesian’s fem comics code on your side it’s time to stop pretending you came from underground comix and realize you are now the target of underground comix. Even the actual and mysteriously still alive R. Crumb shifted to a reactionary conservative when he donated a cartoon to Charlie Hebdo in the wake of the assassinations of cartoonists. S. Clay Wilson, who dared to make the most filthy comix about Catholics in the late ’60s, turns 74 in July.
And what white privilege expert said Charlie Hebdo was about “racism” when it had squat to do with it? There’s your new “truth to power” from what would’ve been Ronald Reagan in 1970. In our Brave New World, actual underground comix are conservative and actual redneck conservatives are “progressives” who mimic Victorian fashion statements by writing rules about “Partial nudity, the aggressive display of cleavage and the navel, and shorts/skirts higher than 4″ above the knee are not allowed” for modern comic conventions.
My connecting these dots probably doesn’t make any sense to you either. That’s rather the point, isn’t it?
Have you been bitten by a green mamba or something? You genuinely appear to be raving.
Eric Flint’s last post about May remains as true as ever, except that now the impossibility of dialogue is being openly acknowledged.
As far as I can tell, you just say the opposite of reality because it amuses you for some odd. reason.
Was that an attempt at debate? Didn’t Orwell once tell Lord Mountbatten he threw like a girl?
One of the things SF genre does which lite romance does not is shift perspectives slightly and then throw them back at you so they are seen more clearly. Sometimes people call that “Spock’s Eyes.”
I’m not surprised you think your own progressive culture appears as raving when put in context. It also puts you in the uncomfortable position of having to defend inflammatory remarks you completely made up out of your head as what… not raving? Your nonsensical comments are still on Scalzi’s site Miss Resnick. Don’t lecture me about reality.
I understand Mays point but he rambles so it is hard for people to gather his argument.
Truly, a slate of Hugo nominees will get fiction authors to change their minds about what they’re currently writing and start producing more of what you consider “actual SFF stories”. Not, you know, the mass-market success that Eric Flint has suggested truly matters.
You are literally not connecting any dots. You are stating things in a rather inflammatory manner. If you want to connect dots you have to state a precise thesis and then explain how those dots advance your thesis. The terror you feel of the modern world is palpable, but your manifesto remains indistinct. (But then, we’ve squabbled about this before.)
I can’t encapsulate this movement 2012-5 in every comment but I can ask you why you are so keen to comment on issues you obviously know nothing about. Throwing your lack of knowledge straight over to me having night terrors over something or other doesn’t make much sense.
I can’t encapsulate this movement 2012-5 in every comment but I can ask you why you are so keen to comment on issues you obviously know nothing about.
Oh, I’m not asking you to encapsulate it in every comment. I’m asking you to encapsulate it in any comment. Eric Flint has pretty ably demonstrated your inability to do so. Since you’ve written some books in the past, I’d suggest that you add another to your bibliography that lays out your arguments and your extensive source material in a detailed manner. It would make for fascinating reading, especially if you substantiate your points.
Quotes do not equal “inability.” Try again.
while I agree with a lot of what you say, you keep making the same category mistake about the awards.
Take Andre Norton, for example. I’ve never read her books (wrong generation) but by all accounts she was a hugely important writer for a lot of people. Prolific, and reliably good – but perhaps never great. A solid B+ writer that you’d be happy to find on the shelves of your local library or in the few dozen paperbacks available in your local shop, but not one that will shock or surprise you.
So why didn’t Andre Norton get a Hugo? Because there is no Hugo equivalent of the Lifetime Achievement award, no Grandmaster Hugo to be voted on by Worldcon members. For Andre Norton to win a Hugo, she would have had to write a book that people thought was better than any other book that year. Was Witch World better than The Man in the High Castle? Was The Year of the Unicorn better than The Wanderer? Was Moon of Three Rings better than Dune? The voters didn’t think so.
Maybe there should be a ‘body of work’ award, but there isn’t. That’s why Norton never won a Hugo.
Sorry, mistake there (I told you this was from before my time)
Witch World wasn’t up against The Man in the High Castle. It was nominated for a Hugo the following year. And lost to Way Station. Other losing nominees – Heinlein for Glory Road, Vonnegut for Cat’s Cradle, and Herbert for what looks like the first half of Dune.
So quite a few people thought it was the best book of the year. But more people thought there was another, better book. And there is no Hugo for ‘writing a lot of quite good books’.
Thank you for a very sensible perspective. While the Puppies situation has obviously become political, I still see complaints about sf that blends into literary fiction, and the desire to see “cracking good yarns” and the like rewarded — and it’s clear from looking at Correia’s original proclamations, that this was his original intent.
While in the literary world of Pulitzers, National Book Awards, Man Bookers and the like, the awards are juried, and therefore not an exact analogy to the Hugos — or the Nebulas — there’s no question that literary awards are, well, literary. James Patterson, for example, gives a lot of people a lot of pleasure, and yet I’ve never heard that he is muttering about how unjust it is that he’s never been up for a major award. In sf, the producers of “ripping good yarns” will see their popularity result in sales, like Patterson does, but why do they necessarily believe they *deserve* awards? I do understand that the Hugos, because of the voting process, are seen as a popularity contest, but since Worldcon attendees are a self-selecting group, why isn’t this the equivalent of a (very large) award jury?
What’s delighted me in the midst of all this is seeing this year’s Nebula going to Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation, which is published by Farrar Straus Giroux, the most literary of all the large mainstream New York publishers, and is certainly quite literary in its form. VanderMeer has done something interesting, from both the plot and the writing perspectives, and nobody’s shouting about that. It’s an amazing book, justifiably celebrated . . . and it didn’t make the Hugo ballot, either.
BikerDad says:
In sf, the producers of “ripping good yarns” will see their popularity result in sales, like Patterson does, but why do they necessarily believe they *deserve* awards?
I’m not certain that they do. What they seem to believe, and I tend to agree with the Puppies on this, is that too many books in the last decade+ have gotten awards that do not deserve them. Now, part of the problem is simply one of diminishing returns, which I’ll revisit in a moment. The other part is awards being given on the basis of, to riff off some terminology that’s become common, “right think” by “rightfolk”, although some will consider that I’ve micro-aggressed against them by characterizing them as “rightfolk” rather than “People of Proper Think”, what with “rightfolk” having that Indicator of Evil, “right”, within it. Most here though should know the arguments, and have already made of their minds regarding that aspect, and little to nothing I can say will move anybody off the chunk of terra firma upon which they’ve planted their flag.
The matter of diminishing returns though, that’s something of which I’ve seen little discussion. It is a problem that truly bedevils academia, yet to a lesser extent it hurts most literary awards.
New. Original. Edgy. These are almost invariably explicit or implicit criteria for awards. Nobody gets a doctorate for researching how the successful attack on the Regia Marina in 1940 gave the Japanese Imperial Headquarters the confidence that they could take down the US Pacific Fleet at anchor, but if one can cook up an argument that Pearl Harbor was the result of Roosevelt’s subconscious pushback against perceptions that he was “unmanly” because of being in a wheelchair, so he decided to pick on the slanty eyed lesser peoples from Japan, resulting in their righteous retribution against oppressive white male meddling in Asia, well, roll out the diploma.
The same thing happens in science fiction. All of the big themes have been done, and done, and done. Increasingly small themes are mined for “originality”, and so often it’s not even original, but ignorance makes it seem so. (Forever War, anyone?) This thirst for originality, and “edgy” is by definition considered original, even when something isn’t truly edgy or original, is part of what’s been pushing so much of fiction (regardless of genre or media) into what was once the fringes. Gor was essentially fringe, yet if published today a smart marketer would herald it as a synthesis between Game of Thrones and 50 Shades of Grey.
What we don’t see is awards for truly superb work that isn’t “edgy”, or “pushing the boundaries” or any such stuff. Just really well done storytelling. Whether or not we’ve heard the story before.
BikerDad
Do you have an example in mind when you refer to ‘really well-done story telling’?
For that matter, do you have examples in mind when you refer to ‘too many books in the last decade+ have gotten awards that do not deserve them’?
If it helps, I live in London, England; from my perspective it looks like the puppies are dragging US politics into Worldcon, apparently oblivious to the fact that the world has more than one country in it, and that our politics are not your politics.
I don’t understand why many of the Puppies apparently don’t even realise that vast amounts of time and energy are needed to actually get a Worldcon up and running, much less that the people organising it and running it are doing it without getting paid.
It’s not surprising that the people who give that time and energy and work would like the Puppies to get their tanks of our lawn; I’m pretty sure you would feel the same if someone just waltzed into your home, demanding the fruits of your labour whilst insulting you in the process.
The Hugos are part and parcel of Worldcon; there is nothing to stop the Puppies organising their own conventions and awarding whatever they choose whenever they choose. Other than the fact that the Puppies are completely clueless when it comes to organising conventions, that is, but that can easily be rectified if, as the Puppies claim, there are thousands of fans committed to the cause.
I recognise, of course, that it’s very easy to complain; doing it yourself is a great deal harder. So far I’ve seen no one volunteering to do any of the work; instead there’s a lot of insults aimed at the volunteers who have and continue to do the work….
none of the puppies are trying to eliminate Woldcon, we are paying members of Worldcon after all.
You say the puppies are dragging US politics into Worldon, we see it as the politics were already there, we’re now protesting the assumption that “all right thinking people must agree with them” and pointing out that there is a (we think) large group of fans who don’t, but are still valid fans.
By the way, the Worldcon Organizers have not said anything anti-puppy that I’ve seen. The Guest of Honor this year has been vocal, and many others have. But the Worldcon Organizers have been very professional and just enforced the rules and continued their work (which should be easier with the influx of puppy related supporting memberships)
You may see your US politics when you look at SF, but I don’t. What I see are people completely ignoring the fact that Worldcon is Worldcon, not UScon, and dragging your domestic political squabbles into an event which is the celebration of fandom worldwide. You are hanging on the coat tails of all the people who put vast amounts of time, energy and hard work, without payment, into creating Worldcon each year.
Have you ever worked for free to create and run a convention? Any convention? You seem not to realise that each Worldcon is a one off event, held in a city which wins the right to hold Worldcon that year. It only exists because people are prepared to spend years of hard work. You say you are not trying to eliminate Worldcon; you may believe that, and I do not dispute your sincerity but it’s utter nonsense. The practical effect of your actions, if you are successful, is that it will become UScon because you have insisted on dragging your politics into it.
Last year’s Worldcon was held in London, England, where I live. The people attending were mostly British, and mostly ignorant of your culture wars, for the very obvious reason that they are completely irrelevant to us; I appreciate that many puppies have difficulties in grasping the fact that we neither know nor care, but we don’t. We care about great books and great cons; the puppies failed to win Hugos at Loncon because we didn’t think their books were great. And as a result of that honest vote, in a country which has nothing to do with the US, the puppies decided to flood the ballot box with garbage. They couldn’t win in a fair fight, they couldn’t deal with an honest vote, so they decided to cheat instead.
It’s hardly surprising that the rest of the world outside the U.S. has noticed this; we are not stupid and we get even more pissed off when the puppies lie about their cheating. And the puppies have lied, very obviously, because the sort of people who will stuff the ballot boxes because they lost in an honest fight are not going to worry about a few lies here and there. Nor are they going to worry about threatening to burn the Hugos to the ground if they don’t get their way, as we have seen.
If you want respect you have to earn it; that fact seems to have escaped most of the puppies. Making yet more threats simply proves that they are thugs; you have chosen to support them. You are perfectly free to do so, of course, just as I am free to say that I will not stand with those whose reaction to losing an honest fight is to cheat.
Eric. Your basic point is leave the Hugos alone as long as the author is making money and getting sold.
I disagree. The Hugos are controlled from your elite group, the WorldCom attendees. That is basically true up to this point. However the option of supporting members to vote from a distance does allow a broader group of voters.
Basically you have called for Brad and Larry not to upset the apple cart. Because they can sell without being a Hugo nominee.
The Hugos are a battle in a little pond but is it part of a larger struggle called the Culture Wars. In video games the struggle is persuade, shame the game developers to make less games that use the tropes that Anita Sarkisan so ably described.
The problem is the players love the tropes and that is one reason they sold so well. So when she aptly identified the tropes and denigrated them, that offended a lot of players.
Players demograhics are mostly males 14-35 and they are attracted to lovely women and save the damsel and shoot the enemy.
However if developers start eliminating the tropes that will less appeal to their audience and less buyers will play the games.
In Sf I read from a Tor blog many years ago about how the characters should not be binary sexes. UHMM, No. I am a particle gender and am not interested in in novels that do not have binary genders. So that advice to authors would reduce the novels I would read. In other words lose the buyers.
The SJW have been pushing a idea to persuade, and shame writers to using different tropes and to broaden the genders. Many writers have been persuaded and it has been done awkwardly. I liked a particular writer, yet she decided to go publish her first book and it is about a male gay couple. That does not interest me so I would not buy that. She is new writer and persuaded that is the market she should write for. Shame. But the effort to persuade new writers is effective and it lessens the amount of fiction that I would like to read.
So this effort to push back against the elite is good to broaden the Hugo audience and voter base. This year I am voting and plan to continue. This is really targeted at the writers to write a or not write particular types of fiction.
Hugos also count toward the money a writer can get for the next work. Ms Hurley’s Hugo gained her another $13000 in advance money I read. So that is an economic award based on her getting a Hugo.
Quoting you, ” I liked a particular writer, yet she decided to go publish her first book and it is about a male gay couple. That does not interest me so I would not buy that.”
You do understand that’s just you and not the wide world of readers, right? Some people read writers they like because they like their writing.
The true pressure in publishing is writing a book that readers will buy. If readers buy books with homosexuals in them (and they do), then writers will feel free to build those characters. You may think it’s hurting their sales, but you don’t have proof, just an anecdote about how you personally couldn’t read about a homosexual relationship. (Although I admit I’m a bit curious if Loras and Renly made you refuse to read Game of Thrones, eh, it’s none of my business.)
I don’t think “shame” accrues to a writer because they didn’t write what you wanted to read. It happens. I wish more of Mr. Flint’s 1632 novels took place with the characters in Italy, but they don’t. I somehow get by and enjoy the novels just the same. My opinion doesn’t seem to be hurting the series any.
It was not shameful to her writing a gay romance. It was a shame because I like her writing and her first book is not what I will buy. I am hetero and just not interested in gay romance. If it was an adventure and the focus was on the adventure and not the romance then I would have bought it. If a gay character is compelling that is different . For example Mercedes Lackey’s Vanyel character was great and I really enjoyed those books . His sexuality was part of the difficulties he encountered and made his character compelling. The story was about him and his adventures not just his gayness . It was also a early popular work that had a main character that was gay. A gay friend was very impressed. That was when I realized how important is for people to have fictional characters they could personally identify with.
A reader has to like the characters and be invested . The writer has to make the characters likable yet not omnipotent. I actually read a Vox Day story and the problem was that his character was devolving to be evil and was not likable. I had nothing vested so I stopped reading. The writer may have an interest in how a nice boy becomes evil, but that is not interesting to me.
So I am fine with characters that are unusual, but if many of them have nothing in common with the 80-90 of the population then their market is small.
I fell in love with love with a dragon character that David Freer wrote , so the physical appearance is not important. Like Miles Vorkosigan I fell in love with. It is the personality that I have to like.
Yes, I clearly stated that it was my opinion. I know that not all people like the same. However that does not make my opinion invalid.
I’m married and so I am not interested in any stories with premarital sex, or, really, blooming romance in general. If any stories has the hint of a subplot with two characters who are not already welded at the hip, I throw it away with disgust. I totally understand.
Kate Fall says:
Okay, I misunderstood how you used the word shame. You meant it more like “It’s a shame, I was looking forward to something different.” I apologize for misconstruing it.
I’m a bit lost, though, in your reasoning that the author was forced to write about a romance. “She is new writer and persuaded that is the market she should write for.” Did she tell you she was persuaded? What makes you think so?
Good point. So no, she never said. But it has been a strong fashion n fanfic circles where she started .She went from non slash to slash. so I assumed and yes that may make me an ass. I have tried to ask authors why they write somethings and they get very huffy. I guess it is too impertinent. Maybe they think it is being critical. So maybe aome authors can answer that.
Yes it was it is a shame because I am not interested and would have liked to support her first work.
JohnMcC says:
How does attending a science fiction convention make you a member of an elite? I have attended many such (though not Worldcon) and never thought of myself as being of the elite as a result. It is a very open elite where all you need do is pay your money, and presto! you are now one of the elite. As to your Culture Wars aside, are you saying that only a small group of people are allowed to join the Worldcon attendees, based on their cultural convictions?
As for your snide remarks about SJWs, are you saying that justice is a bad thing in a social situation? Or perhaps you believe that we live in a perfect world where there is no injustice based on race, ethnicity, gender, or sexuality, and saying that there is, and that this is wrong is a bad thing?
Finally there is no compulsion in the style or content of what authors write, otherwise the science fiction field would be very boring, and not sell many copies, which is anathema to the publishing houses, which worship at the altar of the almighty dollar. (The major publishing houses are owned by large corporations, and not many of them are known as being liberal hotbeds)
Being a SJW is not a slur. I would think that most would be proud of that term They are warriors fighting for that view. I may disagree with their view but that dos not make them less.
The Culture Wars are more than SJW . For instance the Islamists like to kill people that draw pictures of their prophet. They are trying to impose by fear that artist not do that. Even in medieval times artist had depictions of Mohammed.
Culture Wars of the campuses are targeting men for their normal desire to have sex with women. Yet the man is guilty of rape if he has sex with a drunk female Yet the woman is not guilty of rape when she has sex with a drunk man.
Another example of culture wars is Laura Kipnis being brought up on IX charges because she wrote an article saying the professors are terrified of the SJW being offended and killing the jobs.
So do I think SJW have gone overboard ? Yes I do. Do I think Ms Gall was wrong to call people who are sympathetic and those authors that are SP3 racist, sexists and Misogynists wrong and overboard? Yes I do.
The goals of equity is great The tactics are terrible. Plus it does appear to not equal, but a bias or slanted board now.
You’re making stuff up. I’m guessing you haven’t been on a campus in decades and this just sort of sounds like what the young’uns are up to nowadays.
Anyone commits rape if they take advantage of someone who can’t say no. That means kids, unconscious people, drugged people, or (more controversially) people who feel coerced whether or not weapons and/or physical force are used. That goes for men or women.
It’s not complicated. If it’s not voluntary, it’s rape.
Two words: Implied Consent. Utter those words on almost any western (hemisphere) college or university, and, following that utterance, fail to criticize the concept as inevitably leading to rape, if not descriptive of a sex act that, despite consent, was actually rape because consent must be made with one’s voice or else it’s rape…and you’ll get to see insanity in action. Especially if you utter those two words outside of a (cannot *believe* these exist) “first amendment zone/space” and there are people you don’t know within earshot. It’d be funny if it wasn’t so fricking sick. And the implication of your statement, that a woman who has sex with a blackout-drunk man would be equally pursued with (because it’s the job of universities to enforce the penal code…according to multiple bureaucrats’ delusional interpretations of Title IX at least) (in the U.S) charges of rape and violation of the “code of conduct” deserving of punishment via expulsion… I mean…are you really that (1) naive, and (2) unversed in current events? Damn… (cue the self-righteous castigating by imbeciles who believe male and female rapists [including statutory rapists] are always treated equally by society, university “ethics panels” -farcical parodies of the *actual* court system- and the legal system, and, if they aren’t, it’s Just and Right because “male privilege”) (seriously. I brought popcorn)
This probably isn’t the best place for a discussion of the legal and moral questions regarding rape, but I stand by what I wrote, including that the law and the morality apply equally no matter which sexes are involved.
Until humans have perfected mind reading, “implied” anything is subject to misunderstanding and/or intentional abuse. What’s so hard about just asking for verbal consent, especially if it’s a new partner?
Not complicated at all. Most universities have a seminar to explain what constitutes positive consent. Implied consent is a disaster at campuses because you have a bunch of drunk, idiotic 18 year olds who are guaranteed to hear an implication of consent when she’s right there. There was a study done showing that the majority of on-campus rapes are viewed as consensual by the perpetrator. That’s why there’s such a focus on getting positive consent.
Books’ analogy of a woman taking advantage of a blackout-drunk guy has one giant, glaring problem: erections. A dude who is unconscious or blackout drunk is incapable of vaginal sex. A woman is only incapable of consent.
If you feel like you aren’t going to get laid with positive consent instead of just implied, then maybe you didn’t need to get laid that one time. It’s college; there’s already 5 girls for every 4 guys. To be vulgar, if you aren’t getting pussy the problem is with you, not with the ladies or with the method of consent.
Because you know my gender and sex…how? Magic? And you know I’ve had sex, how? You know I don’t intend to wait til I’m married…how?
I didn’t think so. Aside from that, I’m just going to quote you, comment on the quote, and remove myself from this line of discussion until further notice.
“A dude who is unconcious or blackout drunk is incapable of vaginal sex.”
There is so much distilled bullshit in this sentence, I’m just going to leave it there, so others, years in the future, can gaze upon it and be awed by it’s magnificence.
Really, if you believe that sentence is accurate: (1) I have some swampland in Siberia to sell you, and (2), I’m not comfortable engaging in a duel of wits with an unarmed opponent, so I’ll be leaving you to your silliness. Buh bye.
Apparently we have differing definitions of “blackout drunk”. I’m thinking to you it’s something slightly past tipsy. It is not. As a dude, if you’re blackout drunk, you’re incapable of sex.
I don’t see where any of my comments pertain to your gender, sex, or sex choices. I’m pointing out how rape is an issue on campuses, how positive consent is a good thing to teach to students, and how it’s a hell of a lot tougher to heterosexually rape an unconscious dude because dudes need erections to have sex.
If you think unconscious dudes are capable of sex, especially guys passed out from the effects of alcohol, you are perhaps 15.
Johnny, a male doesn’t need to be able to have an erection in order to be raped.
He does in order to have vaginal sex, which is what I posted originally…
Because blackout drunk means unconscious. Hmm, I thought blackout drunk was a level of drunkenness of such intensity that one can perform various actions, wake up the next day, and have no memory of what happened. Also known as “blackout” periods. Some drugs have similar effects, as do some neurological disorders. Getting drunk enough to cause an episode of anterograde amnesia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anterograde_amnesia ) (click the link. educate yourself.) is not the same as getting so drunk that blood will not flow to your genitals. If you think it’s impossible to get unspeakably (or even just rapidly, but not severely) drunk, have sex with someone, and not remember the next day, perhaps *you* are a barely post pubescent teenager, Johnny. Also, I was unaware that all males have identical physiologies, and respond identically to copious (or rapidly imbibed) amounts of alcohol. Thank you for edumacating me on that. (word choice deliberate) There are so many ways to cause a male to be unable to offer valid consent due to diminished neurological capacity, while retaining the ability to have an erection, that it isn’t even a valid or worthwhile discussion to have. A person who says that a mentally incapacitated male cannot have an erection, and as such, cannot be raped (other than anally) is a person utterly disconnected from reality. I shall leave you to your ignorant misunderstandings of basic human biology. Farewell.
OK…my reply to you is still in moderation. To sum up its points… Look up anterograde amnesia. Then kick yourself for not bothering to do so before. Honestly…basic biology, Johnny. I’d think a Kratman fan would know better. ;-P
PS: this is just a little more politely worded than the original…okay a *lot* more politely worded. It was late, and I was grumpy. Also impatient. My apologies.
However if developers start eliminating the tropes that will less appeal to their audience and less buyers will play the games. ”
That is not, however, the demographic for readers of SF/F and a meaningless statistic for this purpose. As long as people are sucessfully writing books you like, why are you trying to make people stop writing books I like?
Actually the demographic of males 14-35 used to be the demographic on SF readers from the 1940′ onward. Now they play games and that may be the reason sales have dropped. Books and games both compete for the entertainment money and time.
The comparison was that the main complaint against Anita was she was seen as arguing against the use of tropes. Actually I found her video funny and accurate. But the players felt it was a device to convince developers to change the games that they like so much.
As to SF&F I think the reading public is pretty much 14- 85 and 50/50 split on gender. I have no problem with writer writing books you like . I hope they do. I just do not want writers to think that they have to pander to new fashions if they do not want to.
I did read Sanderson story and I have to say it was not gripping or entertaining. So I have to read Ancillary next to see how that reads.
The complaint the stories may not be the best I can not tell since I have not read all the 21014 SF &F out there.
However the byproduct of this attention is that I have found a lot of writers that I did not know and good fiction.
What makes you think “sales have dropped” for SF? Compared to what?
I’ve never seen so much SF so widely read and watched. Game Of Thrones. Star Wars. Harry Potter. Star Trek. Comic book movies everywhere. SF video games.
I believe S/He meant *books*. The market for written SciFi has shrunk…a massive amount, in my understanding. It is also my understanding (and I may be wrong, I freely admit) that people read less in general these days, and that even fewer people read SciFi, statistically. (Pardon the redundancy) No, I’m not going to spout numbers or vomit up links. Ask Dave Freer over at madgeniusclub.com. He’s the expert. I’m just a commenter with a fan’s, and bibliophile’s, perception of the issue. I wonder if more people are reading ebooks, thereby causing an uptick in the number of folks who read regularly…that would be exciting *and* fascinating… *wanders off, muttering to self*
Be well! ;-)
The Hugos are controlled by the Worldcon attendees because IT’S THEIR AWARD. Worldcon invented the Hugos. Worldcon set the rules on the Hugos. Worldcon votes on the Hugos. Worldcon owns the Hugos.
No one can give out Hugos except Worldcon, just like no one can give out Oscars except the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
I happen to think some of the wrong people are being kept out of the Baseball Hall Of Fame. But guess what? It’s not my award so I don’t get to change it. (I can complain about it all I like, though.)
As for games, I have spent an incredible number of hours in 2015 playing Kerbal Space Program. In fact, I’ve barely touched any of my other games in months. So much for how gamers all want the same old tropes….
Ahem…technically? The TRUST “owns” the Hugos. Ask Kevin Standlee. (whom, despite his, in my opinion, unfair characterization of “Sad Puppies 3” voters in general, I happen to believe is a pretty decent dude) He’s posted about it in the past few months on his livejournal. I’d link, but I can’t be buggered.
Yeah, OK. That’s what I meant.
You do realize that the current “gay male romance” market is basically the heterosexual women’s answer to “lesbian” porn. There is nothing PC or SJW about straight women writing “gay” romance. In fact, it is actually a bit exploitative and problematic. If she was persuaded to go into that field it is all about the dollar bills.
Calbeck says:
” The problem is the players love the tropes and that is one reason they sold so well. So when she aptly identified the tropes and denigrated them, that offended a lot of players. Players demograhics are mostly males 14-35 and they are attracted to lovely women and save the damsel and shoot the enemy.”
Nothing you just cited here is accurate according to any source — EXCEPT Anita Sarkeesian. Who, incidentally, cites herself as a source from time to time in various of her “critical” works. Numerous critiques of her critiques have been performed.
What you have in Sarkeesian is someone who is proselytizing an article of faith… one which happens to match your worldview. Where other people see a scam artist, you see a courageous defender battling against the unwashed hordes.
“In video games the struggle is persuade, shame the game developers to make less games that use the tropes that Anita Sarkisan so ably described.”
As a number of games developers have stated in recent months — including non-GamerGate neutrals — there’s no such thing, because Sarkeesian’s tropes routinely trip over themselves. She has an insult (which she calls a “trope”) for each and every possible representation of a female character. If you satisfy one, you violate another. Her arguments simply fall apart under examination.
There is not even one example of a female SF/F character in fiction which does not fall afoul of her “trope” list. Not even the cast of “Pride of Chanur” would survive comparison. You don’t seem to realize that the same finger she’s pointing at Gamers also happens to be pointed in the same direction as SF/F Fandom.
In point of fact, Sarkeesian once made the mistake of putting together a pitch video for what she considered to be a great idea for a role-playing game — in which her female protagonist proceeds to match most of her own “tropes”.
By the by, for anyone who wants to see both a male and female gamer respond thoughtfully to “Women vs. Tropes” — a full year-and-a-half before #GamerGate — try this:
https://youtu.be/0bokY7PxNS0
Then check out the comments. This stuff could be pulled directly from people currently opposed to #GamerGate as a “hate group”:
“Sexualized females in video games often represent the male fantasy of what a beautiful women look like. What women actually think makes them look beautiful or powerful is not congruent with the way that males think a beautiful and powerful women is. Just as a woman’s idea of a perfect man is not the same as a man’s idea of a perfect man.”
“The problem with so called ‘egalitarianism’ (a misnomer if I’ve ever heard one) is almost everyone who espouses this BS just wants every other group to conform to the straight white male standards of culture and social structure. You want equality for the PEOPLE as long as the default PERSON is a straight white male and this is something all other humans should strive to be like.”
If this sounds like you, you might want to step back and rethink what you’re assuming in these discussions.
Then I have to wonder if you’ve paid attention to anything Larry said last year or the year before.
This all started because Larry looked at the hugos and said, “meh.. little club giving out a little award”. When he said that he was told loudly and repeatedly that he was wrong and that the Hugo was Everyone’s Award. It was THE BIGGEST AWARD and it was all about all of fandom.
So Larry said, “no that’s not true. in fact if a real right-winger got nominated you guys would throw a fit about it.” No they said… That would never happen.
And Sad Puppies 1 was born. Not much happened with the first try. The second try got some right wingers on the ballot… and ***BOOM*** fits were thrown.
Point Proven.
And that’s why Larry didn’t do Sad Puppies 3. He had already made his point. Or that is… The people now making up the anti-puppy crowd made it for him.
If a conservative got on the ballot would cause fits, how did Torgersen get nominated in 2012? How did Mike Resnick? Or Brandon Sanderson? That’s just 2012. How did Resnick and Malzberg get nominated in 2011. How did Sanderson get nominated that year as well? Or Eric James Stone? Where were the fits over their nominations?
On on and on, back through the years. The reason Correia’s claim was dismissed is because it was demonstrably not true, and still is. Conflating the reaction to the whiny and self-interested culture war campaigns of SP1, SP2, and SP3 with “conservatives on the Hugo ballot cause fits” just shows your lack of knowledge concerning the history of the Hugo awards, and the reasons why the SPs are regarded the way they are.
Nah It was if “Evil ” Larry would win. Plus when he was nominated the name calling was done then by many. If Fandom was Ok with Larry’s nomination why then the name calling?
“If a conservative got on the ballot would cause fits”
It happened. It’s not a theoretical. Treating it as one, in order to continue to build an argument upon it, collapses the argument into nonsense.
David Selig says:
Minor nitpick – actually one of the volumes of the most popular fantasy series of the last two decades (and all time) won a Hugo – Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire won in 2001.
Jeff Ehlers says:
Here’s a thought. If the Sad Puppies – and whoever came up with that name, anyway, it makes me think of those silly pictures with dogs making puppy-dog eyes rather than anything serious – want to have an award that is more representative of sci-fi/fantasy as a whole, why not simply make their own new award and come up with some other means besides a convention to get votes on it?
That would make more sense to me than their current method, which, frankly, comes across as fundamentally self-defeating. I mean, they can play party-crashers all they want (as in, come in and try to take over the party), but it isn’t going to make people take them as seriously as they want to be taken. In fact, it’s going to work counter to what they claim to want.
To be honest, this is looking all-too-much like a literary version of Bleeding Kansas, complete with bringing in lots of like-minded voters to attempt to manipulate the results. All that does is make people change things to prevent such heavy-handed actions in the future; it certainly doesn’t change anything else.
Jeff, the actual title is something like “the campaign to relieve puppy related sadness, because when works that aren’t fun to read win awards, it makes puppies sad”
and yes, the logo is puppies making sad eyes. It’s intended to be funny and poke fun at people who take things too seriously (and to poke fun at the “think of the children” meme that’s used to try and railroad a lot of bad changes though the opposition”
but since that’s far too long to say, it gets shortened to ‘sad puppies’
I’m tempted tempted to make a snarky flyer about how wordy campaign titles like that make kitties yawn, with a yawning cat picture, and follow up with some kind of line like “think of the kitties!”
Okay *that* made me chuckle. I bet Larry and Brad (et al) would chuckle too. Nice one. That long-arsed title has driven me nuts too, personally. What’s been funny is the people (like Mercedes Lackey) who fail to research the thing they are acidly criticizing and maligning thoroughly enough to realize that commenting on how “puppy” is an apropos title because puppies are messy, immature and generally only good for sending to the pound. (an opinion I find repulsive, personally, but then I can’t imagine how shitty a world without dogs would be, so I’m biased) I mean…talk about immature…basic research is beyond you? *That’s* immature. (not you. you weren’t using the “title” -that isn’t actually a title- as a very silly weapon. you were just commenting on something you found silly. research not needed) Sun Tzu, countless years ago, was smart enough to recognize that it’s intelligent to “know thine enemy”…a bunch of “modern” not “antiquated,” or “old-fashioned” geniuses can’t recognize the same concept? Or is it that they value their words so little that they are comfortable wasting them on ridiculous arguments and criticisms whose only value is as a form of entertainment? Either way, immature is a fair word. But, back on point, thank you for making me chuckle. That was awesome. “Think of the kittens”…ha! (not sarcasm…if anyone was wondering)
Noblehunter says:
What I’ve never seen articulated is why Skin Game (and presumably the Anderson book) deserves a Hugo instead of Weber’s Like A Mighty Army or Bear’s Steles of the Sky or Lynch’s Republic of Thieves or any of the other dozens (hundreds?) of perfectly cromulent books published last year. What sets the works on the slate above everything else that was published? This is an award for the Best, after all, and there can be only one.
I mean, I can tell you exactly why I think The Goblin Emperor deserves to be recognized above all others. I can probably come up with arguments for why Ancilliary Sword or The Three Body Problem is the best novel from last year. But I have no idea what makes Skin Game special enough to rise above the still elite pool of books-that-sell-enough-to-keep-their-authors-employed-full-time. I’d find it really interesting if someone constructed an argument not only about why Skin Game is good enough for a Hugo, but specifically as to why it is *better* than all the other possible nominees.
Actually no one has to explain why a work is nominated after the fact or before voting unless they are trying to influence your vote.
So read the work. If you do not think it is the best of this years nominations vote for another work.
This justification game is getting tired. We all have different likes and tastes. Personally I think Bujold should have won over Scalzi , but that is my opinion.
It is a shame that Andre Norton never won a Hugo. I started reading her stuff when I was a kid and as a descriptive writer I think she was the best. But in my opinion Moon is Harsh Mistress was far better and it won that year. So the best won that year.
The point is in the last 5-10 years the best of SF &F has not won but a lot of works I am totally unfamiliar and that seemed strange. I have read SF &F for 45 years and knew a lot of the best stuff. Not now.
Are my tastes out of fashion? That may be the problem but maybe the fashion is just a flash in the pan. Only time will tell.
No one *has* to explain why, but since the puppies are making the argument that certain authors/works are being unfairly excluded, it’d be more convincing if they had a solid argument about why the ones they picked should be included. So far their argument is “because we said so,” which is true and clearly meets the necessary and sufficient conditions for being on the shortlist but I want to know why they said so.
Maybe I’m being too literary/academic about it, but I like to think that people have specific reasons for selecting a work as the best rather than just “I liked it a lot” or “it was the nicest book this year.” As I said, I can articulate why The Goblin Emperor should win despite the fact that I haven’t read all the nominees yet, let alone more than a fraction of a percent of all the eligible works from last year. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to ask the puppies to do likewise since they’re trying to change the paradigm of the Hugo Awards.
It is really none of our business why a voter chooses a work over another. You do not need convincing . All you have to do is read Skin Game. If you like it better or whatever metric you use, then choose it. If not choose another nominated work.
It really not up to Larry or Brad or Sarah or Kate to convince what to vote for. That is your responsibility.
The justification game is too old and tired to continue month after month. The nominations are final , now it is time to vote your own choice.
If it’s none of our business, then why do the puppies have their knickers in a twist? Isn’t it one of their key arguments that Hugo Awards are being given out for the wrong reasons? That other people are choosing certain works over others for political reasons?
Not to mention the repeated claims that they, as individuals, nominated these works out of a genuine and considered belief that they represent the best works published last year. Again, I don’t think it’s unreasonable to ask them to explain how they came to that belief.
you just won’t accept “I liked it” as an answer.
As for why something else wasn’t nominated instead, the reasons are some variation of
“I didn’t think of that one”
“I hadn’t read that one”
“I liked that one less than what I did nominate”
but who are you to question my vote? what makes you better able to judge what I should like than me?
People on the puppies side were told that we didn’t count, that we were such a small minority that we don’t matter, that if there were really other people like us, they would vote and things we liked would be on the ballot, and that the fact that things we liked weren’t on the ballot was our fault for not voting for them. But when we vote and get other people to vote, now we are doing something wrong and have to justify our vote.
My money to Worldcon is just as good as your money to Woldcon.
When were you told that you “were such a small minority that [you] don’t matter?” Citation, please.
Because “I liked it” doesn’t tell me anything. It doesn’t help me understand what the puppies believe are sufficient reasons for something to win a Hugo (beyond getting enough votes which is boring and tautalogical). It’s claimed that it’s good storytelling but, as far as I’m concerned, that’s the minimum standard, not the award winner.
You don’t need to justify your vote. Nothing in the rules that says otherwise. I was just hoping for more insight.
The thing is, I think that a work needs an edge to get on the ballot; something that elevates it above the rest of the 10% that isn’t crap. There needs to be a hook that causes people to single it out for attention in a terribly crowded market. Support for books without that edge is traditionally too diffuse to make it on the ballot.
I was hoping someone who agreed could identify something like that in Skin Game. If they can’t (which is frustratingly obscured by won’t), then I’m going to be skeptical of the claim that they all independently decided Skin Game was among the year’s best.
@Jane_Dark
> When were you told that you “were such a small minority that [you] don’t matter?” Citation, please.
too many times to bother keeping track of.
Go and look at all those people saying that the puppies are such a tiny number of fans that it doesn’t matter what we nominate, none of it will win because we really are such a small group and out of step with fandom
all those who complain how we ‘hijacked’ the nomination process are complaining because they view us as being such a tiny group, and the fact that we got people on the ballot is proof in and of itself that we cheated because such a small group should not be able to get anything on the ballot
go back and look at the reaction to the SP1 and SP2 campaigns, especially the crowing after nothing we voted for won about how we shouldn’t have won, and this puts us in our place by showing how small a group we really are.
For that matter, I’ll bet I could go to file770 and look in the comment thread from yesterday’s roundup and find a bunch of folks saying that the puppies are just a tiny group.
I know that it’s fashionable for folks on the left to believe that every sane adult agrees with their point of view, it’s only those rednecks/homophobes/etc/etc/etc out there who disagree with you, and they are a tiny minority of people. But the last several election cycles in the US have shown that the left/right ratio is actually fairly close to 50/50
Yes, it is unreasonable to ask anyone why they liked a particular work or not. That is their opinion . They do not need to justify it to you. You have to make up your own opinion.You read the nominations and come up with your own choice. Don’t keep asking other people to justify theirs . No one has to justify their choice. Not you or me.
If you don’t like any nominated work you can vote No award. Your choice.
Yes, it is unreasonable to ask anyone why they liked a particular work or not. That is their opinion . They do not need to justify it to you. You have to make up your own opinion. You read the nominations and come up with your own choice. Don’t keep asking other people to justify theirs. No one has to justify their choice. Not you or me.
RAH,
If you have no part in the Puppy mess, you are right. Your literary opinions are your business. I have no right to demand them. On the other hand…
Have you ever been to a SF convention? I can’t remember a day at a con that didn’t contain, “Let me tell you about this great book I read…” or “I hated that thing. It wants to be a Tolkien rip-off. But Tolkien knew grammar.” I can’t quite see why anyone’s opinions about stories should be Top Secret. What fun is that?
If you are an active Puppy, it’s a different story. The Puppies have imposed an unwelcome change on the Worldcon. The change is about storytelling and literary values. That is the claimed motivation. What kind of story deserves awards? The Puppies claim the Puppies get it right. Cracking good tales! Pedestrian language! Move along from plot to battle to…um…plot to battle. (Or something. I don’t know what Puppies want.) The Puppies claim the Puppy Kickers don’t get it. Those snooty stories! Where nothing happens! Full of girl cooties! (Or something. I don’t know what Puppies don’t want.) All those wrong books getting the wrong awards. All those right writers denied the right awards. All of it, all deliberate. They’ve manipulated the Hugos for years. It’s all done in secret by…um…The Illuminate? The Priory of Sion? The Better Business Bureau? (Or something. I don’t know what Puppies believe.) It was a horrible crisis. The old system was bad and unfair and perverted. Lives were on the line! (Or something. I don’t know what motivates Puppies.) The Puppies were forced—simply forced—to hijack the Hugos.
This isn’t a football argument among the old gang at the beer joint. The Puppies involved others in their actions. Not least, everyone putting on Worldcon. The Puppies have raised a huge ruckus. Flame wars proliferate. Calmer heads speak in vain. If the Puppies wanted a group cuddle, they went after it in the wrong way. Better they shouldn’t have piddled on the carpet. It’s stinking up the Worldcon. Fen have noticed. Fen are angry. Fen take sides. Brother against brother. Family against family. Two kennels, both alike in dignity….Sorry. I got carried away.
The Puppies have hijacked a major SF institution. They insult those who object to or question their actions. The Puppies original complaint was—purportedly—about storytelling. Puppies pushed to give Hugos to the “good” stories. The Puppies pushed to deny Hugos to the “bad” stories. It is too late for Puppies to stand on their dignity. That boat has sailed. These are now public issues.
The Puppies should explain why the chosen books are on their slate. Why is this book better than the book it displaced? The difference was worth making this mess. The Puppies owe detailed explanations to everyone involved. “Why do you like that work” is more than a reasonable question. It is a necessary question. “I don’t have to answer your questions,” just won’t do. You don’t punch a man in the face and refuse to explain why. Nor, when he hits back, can you cry foul.
As for the stories and unsupported claims? Like, “The fen were mean to me.” Or, “Gerrold said I’d never win an award.” Or, “The Knights Templar keep fixing the Hugo nominations.” Or whatever claim the Puppies make next….I offer a few questions:
Puppies have their knickers in a twist because as soon as the announcement of the nominations there was a slew of articles. The Entertainment article that called Brad and Larry “sexist, racist, homophobic,” That was libel and had to be retracted.. How did these publications get that idea ? It was almost word for word what Irene Gallo said.
Funny how a bunch of publications all said the same idea. Do you think they were fed that?
Reality Observer says:
As opposed to “vote for this work because it is by a transgender Black lesbian?”
Or are you hoping for something like “vote for this work because it is by a Christian White male?”
FYI, there were explanations of why the works were on the “slate.” Now, a few people are trying to turn to examining reasons (real ones, not checkboxes for “diversity”) for why they think certain nominations should win. That is, in the time they have between responding to attacks calling them “racist, homophobic neo-Nazis,” “male White Mormon extremists,” “Voxbots (or Torgbots),” etc., etc., and ad-etc.-nauseam.
I was hoping for something like this story is innovative in ‘x’ way or that the theme reveals something interesting about the current state of SFF. Something so it looks less like “because Brad suggested it.”
And I’ve never seen anyone, except puppies, recommending a work for the Hugo because of who the author is.
For the SPs, “it was a good story” trumps “it was innovative in ‘x’ way”
That doesn’t mean that we are against things being innovative, (or having a message in them, etc), but rather that if those things distract too much from “it’s a good story”, they are negatives, not positives.
I thought the point of WorldCon was to get together and talk about the books we love, and why we love them. Not to shrug and say, “I liked it, ‘nuf said.”
Not this year. So many have been criticized because the books they liked got nominated so going into details is just asking for trouble.
As to Noblehunter. I really could not say. I have not read his other choices so I could not say Skin is better or worse. I am trying to read this year nominations so I can make my choice. Not someone else’s choice.
Good on you. High five for being sensible! *high fives* (not sarcasm…there needs to be a sarcasm font, if only to cut down on misunderstandings…)
Darmad says:
As far as the Hugos are concerned, Skin Game is on the short list and the other books you mentioned aren’t because it received more nominations than they did. Period. The Hugos are a popularity contest voted on by people interested enough to pay to vote. I believe that’s a big part of Eric’s point. The short lists, and the winners, only represent “best” from the perspective of the most popular to the individuals who paid to vote. The Worldcon organizers and attendees may like to believe they are giving awards to “The Best SFF of the Year”, but as Eric said it is really a very small minority of the readership.
This has been true for as long as the Hugos have existed. From the earliest years there have been stories and books that won that in retrospect were far from what most readers would say was the best for that year.
For information, I am in the 99.99% of the reading population that does not attend nor pay to vote for the Hugos. And I don’t buy or read based on the short list or winners. I will admit that I will browse based on the list, but after 30+ years of reading SFF, I know quite well there’s a lot more out there.
If you are looking for someone to convince you that Skin Game is a better book, I’m not going to go there. I enjoyed it more than either Like a Mighty Army or Steles of the Sky, but I’m not about to say that makes it a better book. And I’m not a ready of Lynch, so I can’t compare there (I’ve tried his books previously, and just don’t enjoy his writing). To each their own.
Nicely put. I don’t even really disagree with you at all, actually. I’m just more contrarian by nature than you probably are, I suspect. You speak good sense, and of course they ignore you. I’m shocked. ;-)
Is there actual evidence, as opposed to first person accounts, of whether winning awards does or does not increase sales and/or advances? Because if there is, that immediately puts a whole new interpretation on the question of who gets them.
I can not confirm this but apparently Kameron Hurley said she got $ 13 K more in advance after she won a Hugo. It would be nice to get facts but that has to come from the authors and they may not want to give that data out. I am sure the publishers want it confidential . They would not want to start a bidding game.
Indeed, I linked to that under the word “accounts” (as in what publishers have in order to pay the royalties of their authors).
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Mike (one of at least two) says:
Brad Torgersen says:
My personal preference — ha ha, lord knows certain people will scoff at that mattering — is that Worldcon’s overall attendance simply increases until it’s averaging 20,000 to 30,000 members total; both supporting and attending.
Brad, sometimes I think you regard Worldcon as being synonymous with the Hugo ceremony. Keep in mind that it’s a multi-day convention, of which just one night is the Hugo ceremony. Not even half the attending members vote in the Hugos. It’s a not a big-media oriented convention where all of the events are performances by famous people who are shepherded through crowds by handlers. It’s interesting who you bump into in the elevator.
Consider attending. I think you and Larry are a bit too willing to see the members as alien life forms. To be honest, some of them are, but think of it as a first contact scenario.
Larry has attended in the past, and many people made it clear to him that his type wasn’t wanted.
I don’t know if Brad has attended in the past, but he won’t this year because he’s on active deployment fighting ISIS.
The whole “Larry C. goes to the convention and gets his feelings hurt” story is just sad. In a pathetic and whiny passive-aggressive kind of way, I mean.
I agree it is whiny. But you asked why they won’t attend. If it was hostile environment I can’t blame him. Though I am sure the Barflies were decent.
Mike, see the attacks made against Brad and if you think that is tolerant and inclusive. If so your definitions are different from mine. Gerrold said they were unwelcome and would never win an award.
Gerrold doesn’t get to decide if Brad will win an award, actually. Which I’m sure he knows. So was that really a threat, or was it just a prediction? Brad himself has said that he expects he’ll never win a Hugo, but I doubt anybody thinks he is threatening himself.
It is said that “living well is the best revenge”. I think that’s what Eric has been talking about when he keeps going on about how he writes for the readers and the money, and not for the awards. But I guess Larry didn’t see it that way.
True enough. But I bet Gerrold was hoping many of his fans will support him is making sure that Larry and Brad will never get a Hugo.
Personally I thought as GOH that statement was very unprofessional.He has a position in giving the awards so he should not have made public statement, no matter his peronal opinions.
True, I had forgotten about the deployment.
I wish I better understood what the hell happened with Larry. But he found refuge with the Barflies, and I trust no one was spitting on the Barflies.
I doubt it, I think they would spit back :-)
I did find it interesting that GRRM didn’t understand the reference to the barflies when he read that. He thought it was just the drunks at the bar.
For what it’s worth, I bet way, way more people know who GRRM is than know about the Baen Barflies.
I don’t disagree with that, but since GRRM was boasting about how much he participates in fandom, the fact that he wasn’t aware of that (as I understand it, fairly substantial) chunk of fandom was surprising. It shows his lack of awareness in an area that he is claiming mastery of.
Pretty much. Or at least his closed-minded perception of it. Either way I was surprised he was so uninformed.
Aquarium fish don’t notice the tank until someone starts tapping on the glass.
According to him.
I have my doubts that things went down the way he now claims, since he’s using the Reno Worldcon as a bloody shirt.
One thing he says is that he was mistreated on a panel. But when he was asked to identify the panel where this occurred, he said he didn’t remember and added that he gave as good as he got.
Really? “according to him”? “that feller was roughed-up by a bunch of thugs” “according to *him*…jerk’s probably lying” I mean…*duh* it’s “according to him.” Who else are we supposed to ask for an account of his own, personal experience? A person can appear to be fine, and actually be planning to kill themselves. A person can look happy, and actually be carrying a terrible burden. If they open up about their feelings, the response “according to you” is *not* an acceptable one. Sure, this is orders of magnitude less serious, but the response is no less bullshit. And bullshit belongs on the ground, not in our mouths. Just FYI.
Actually, I am fine with the Hugo being a literary award.
So long as they stop the false advertising, that is.
Call it the “best literary SF/F works of the year, as voted by literary readers.”
Then I will simply treat a Hugo Award winner the same as I do a Nebula Award winner. A pretty good recommendation that I not waste my money or time on it.
Note to those calling the Nebulas the “literary” award. Perhaps so, if “literary” now means checking the boxes for the officially acceptable message – and absolutely no boxes for anything contrary. (A majority of the “literary” works of the past don’t measure up to that “criteria,” by the way.)
Before their descent into the swamp they are these days, the Nebula was more of a “craft” award. Did you have a point? Is it a real point, an honest one that is relevant to your readers? Did you present that point using excellent writing skills that encouraged the reader to actually read and think? Sorry, but the little homosexual revenge fantasy didn’t measure up to at least two of those criteria – and neither did any of the other winners. (Eric’s work does, for the most part – but will never be up for a Nebula as it works today.)
That’s stupid, though. It isn’t “as voted by literary readers”. It’s “as voted by anyone who chooses to come to worldcon and pay for it.” It’s exactly what it says on the tin.
unless they use recommendations as a guide of what to read, and that list of recommendations is, without attention to the definition, called a “slate” by its creator, and happens to include the same number of recs as there are slots, excepting a few categories. Then they are “slate-voters” (even if they didn’t vote in line with the alleged “slate”) and, as such, are unscrupulous, evil, cheating arseholes, and their votes are tainted and worthy of scorn. Or something like that. “slates r badzorz” and all that. Those “fans” may have their votes counted, but, if the world was just, their votes would be thrown out like so much trash.
You’re missing the forest for the trees. It’s an award given out by a couple thousand people with the disposable income and time to go to a nerd party. Can it be improved? Yeah. Calling slate voters “unscrupulous, evil, cheating arseholes” is ridiculous. The only people who get this upset with awards are children.
It was a joke, Johnny. I was quoting Mr. Flint (“unscrupulous schemers”), many, many commenters on this blog and others (“cheaters” “assholes” -I prefer the term ‘arseholes’…it makes me giggle- “Nazis [or ‘not inaccurately’ describable as ‘Nazis’]” and many, many more, similar, comments) and blog posts by others, some of whom have brought their special brand of childish hatemongering into the comments of this very blog. It is ridiculous. That was my point. Only ridiculous people would spew this much vitriol over something so utterly insignificant in the grand scheme of things. But people aren’t rational. That’s why war exists. A rational army would run away. But human beings have a uniquely human ability to “rationalize” utterly irrational behaviors. Sometimes this results in *wonderful* things, like jumping down onto the tracks of a subway to save a person who has fallen; other times, and they are too frequent, it results in horror. Free will, sentience, and immense emotive ability are terrifyingly powerful things. We humans are fond of wasting those powers. I fear it may be part of what makes us human. The waste, I mean. Animals don’t fight over stupid, meaningless nonsense; that’s a uniquely human failing/gift. I say gift, because passion, when not misdirected, is never a failing. Animals can love, even love passionately. They cannot be passionate just for the sake of it. We can. And we make ourselves look like morons more often than not, because of it. But I still wouldn’t trade the ability to feel passionate, regardless of the direction of the passion, for anything; looking stupid and silly is a low price to pay. I still don’t like the hate over such a meaningless thing. It means something to me, yes. But even were I an organizer, I’d be ashamed to see myself behaving as many, most, of the “anti-slate” people have been behaving. It’s a plastic rocket, folks. Stop insinuating that other people are bad, or have pissed on the floor, because they influenced its nominees by obeying the rules in a way you find unfair. Obeying the rules is not cheating. That’s why you write new rules. You don’t piss on the folks that made you aware of the “flaws” in those rules in the first place. (Assuming it *is* a flaw, not a feature…an unfounded assumption in my opinion) Even if you dislike, even hate, the way they alerted you to that “flaw” you don’t behave that way. And if anyone brings up Performance Enhancing Drugs, I will smack them one. Because that is a thread derailing discussion if ever there was one. So, if you’re inclined to make that (valid or no) analogy, this is a preemptive notice to shut your trap. Not kidding. Moving on…well, that’s actually more or less my point. I was joking, and this whole ruckus is a bunch of silly nonsense. And if reading that pissed you off, yeah, I’m talking to you. Hi there. Bye there.
(Sorry about the length, Johnny, I started rambling and couldn’t stop. My bad.)
Some one asked about the contention of declining sales . Here is a link from IO9 http://io9.com/5977221/a-chart-that-shows-a-dismal-trend-in-sales-of-print-science-fiction-and-fantasy-books
here is another link
http://io9.com/5977221/a-chart-that-shows-a-dismal-trend-in-sales-of-print-science-fiction-and-fantasy-books
That completely ignores e-book sales. In fact, Eric just said that, for the first time ever, he made more royalty money from the electronic version of one of his novels than from the paper version.
Here is another link that is less anecdotal http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/bookselling/article/65387-the-hot-and-cold-categories-of-2014.html
A one-year change is meaningless as a trend. But even so, that showed PRINT versions of adult SF books going down 7%, compared to all of fiction which dropped by 8%. In other words, SF actually increased it’s share of adult print fiction.
You may be right it is a trend. Google search came up came up with 2009 , 2011 and the PW artcle. The PW had SF down 7 %.
You are right these are print and not ebooks. IF ebooks are up then good.
It maybe a reflection of an industry delivery change
George Phillies says:
Looking at that list, juvenile fiction is overrunning adult fiction, and juvenile SF is doing extremely well indeed.
Richard Rogers says:
Good post. Made me decide I needed to read one of your books. Went to Amazon, and found 1632 up for free on Kindle. Glad I made the detour from David Gerrold’s FB.
Honest, I’ll buy’em all if the first one hooks me…. ;)
Good! You should be hooked (although I warn you, it has become an expensive habit for me…).
I say this as a Sad Puppy supporter – and someone whose politics are the diametric opposite. Eric Flint is a darn good writer, who writes darn good books, and has brought a whole bunch of other darn good writers into the field.
Yes , Eric does write good books. After reading some nomination his are better in my opinion. Maybe I should be more active in the nominations process.
Richard H says:
As one of those effete college-educated liberals so maligned by the sad puppies, I recommended 1632 to some of my friends. The first one to pick it up commented that he found it refreshing to read something that was patriotic without being cloyingly reactionary in the way it has been poisoned in political discourse these days. (I want to be patriotic and leftist at the same time, but it’s really hard to do so, when things that I think are horrible ideas have so successfully appropriated patriotic language.)
Also, they’re just great stories.
We have college educated liberals. Effete? You’d have to ask them. What we don’t have is people who, to quote Bill Maher, “can’t take a joke.” We already graduated from the class in learning how to take a joke, for the most part. We have little time for those who failed that same class. Liberal or conservative.
Colum Paget says:
# No, sorry, it cant. You have as much chance of eliminating the tendency of a literary
# award to be tilted in favor of literary factors as you have of
Who decides what’s “literary”? I don’t mind there being literary awards, but a lot of people make out that ‘literary quality’ is some kind of natural dimension: it’s not, it’s simply the opinion of the dominant elite. The middle-class decide what’s literary, with the result that ‘literary’ awards tend to be skewed to their interests and concerns. I think dividing work into “literary” and “cheap trash”, as someone does in the comments (though possibly ironically) tends to be an exercise in cultural imperialism, with the middle-class declaring that the stuff they like is ‘better quality’.
# And even if you just want to vote for the Hugos you have to pony up $40, which is
# not a trivial amount of money for most people. What that means is that the people
# who do vote on the Hugos have a real interest in doing so.
Uh, no, this means that people with larger disposable incomes have more presence at cons, and more say in the vote. I’m pretty surprised to hear this argument coming from an old-skool socialist?! I like markets and the use of price signals, myself, but I’m always aware that, unless everyone starts out with the same amont of credit units, which they never do, that a market system will preferentially hand power to certain elites.
Any literary awards represent the mindset of the dominant group in the field (there’s always a dominant group in the field because… well, there has to be, someone always winds up with a bit more control than everyone else). There’s always other groups with other standards of quality challenging those awards. That’s what’s going on with the Sad Puppies right now.
Personally, I think perhaps we need more awards instead of fighting over a few awards. The hugos and nebulas don’t really represent anything. The SF community, at least the British SF community that I’ve encountered, aren’t representitive of the British population, nor of the readership of SF. They’re representitive of a very middle-class, rather old, very leftist, group. Where are all the other people? Well, my suspicion is that they’ve been driven out, but then that’s shaped by my experiences with requires_hate, it could be that my experience isn’t representitive, many have told me so, but it’s the experience I had. But anyways, if the group isn’t representitive, then their awards can’t be either.
I’ve suggested to the puppies that they go and form a fandom of their own. They took that suggestion pretty negatively, but I think it’s the best idea. Fandom is too full of bigotted people who cannot get on with others of a different mindset. It cannot hold together. So long as there’s people prepared to say alarming things about gay people, or others who attack straight-white-males like me for anything we say, it cannot be a place that welcomes everyone, and it would be better to schism into subgroups with their own cons and awards. If things go on as they are, then sooner or later, someone is going to get hurt.
I think we need to have more major awards to reflect different ideas of what constitutes “literary quality”.
I think dividing work into “literary” and “cheap trash”, as someone does in the comments (though possibly ironically) tends to be an exercise in cultural imperialism, with the middle-class declaring that the stuff they like is ‘better quality’.
Cheap trash? Not so much irony as a reductio ad absurdum. I never expected anybody to think I meant it.
What you see as cultural imperialism, I see as culture at work. Fashion has always followed those high in status. That goes deep into our tribal history. I read about the transmission of culture from tribal leaders, to tribal followers, to lower status inland tribes, in Margaret Mead. (I think she was discussing tribal New Guinea, but that was decades ago.) Self decoration is one of the earmarks of humanity. It’s not a bug, it’s a feature.
Humanity has been picking nuts and hunting game for a long, long time. Deep in our foraging past, one tribe would beat up another tribe. The leaders of the victorious tribe set the fashion in both tribes. Calling that “cultural imperialism” is wildly anachronistic. Empires are the children of agriculture and cities.
You may see a conflict of taste. I see a turf war. “Look at the nice clubhouse those mofos have! They don’t deserve it. We deserve it. We’re going to take it. From now on the Hugos will run according to our rules. If those old farts don’t like it, they can start their own slate. If they don’t want slates, it sucks to be them.”
I’m still waiting to hear: “Nice little Worldcon you have here. It would be a shame if anything…bad…happened to it.”
I favor rewriting the voting rules to eliminate slates. That may be unpleasant. But it’s better than paying the Danelaw.
Oops. I meant the transmission of “fashion” from tribe to tribe, not “culture.”
Dane “guild” you mean? So we are a bunch of murdering, thieving, enslaving rapists, now, are we? Or was that just a ludicrously inaccurate analogy? (You don’t need to answer.) The sad puppies are just joining in the fun. We don’t want to burn, or intend to burn, anything down. Nor have we threatened such a thing. Even if I grant you your accusation of slate voting, despite the failure of the aforementioned slate, your point is still…absent. Modify the rules. But don’t blame it on us. If you don’t like the way the rules are written, cool. If you’d rather not change them, just get more people involved. Or change them. Either way, just try not to piss Kate Paulk off. She can be scary. It’s like fireworks. Fun at a distance. Scary up close. Let me know if you decide to set off that rocket. I’ll be in Antarctica. With a satellite internet connection so I can watch and chortle in safety.
Danegeld. Not “guild”.
Sue me. By the by? Look up the etymology of “guild.” Then what? Well, I really don’t care what you do after that.
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The more I read about this, the more I’m reminded of TJ Miller’s acceptance speech for Silicon Valley.
“I would say that awards are for children. Because children need a tangible representation of their achievement. And as adults, you have to settle for the respect and admiration of your peers.”
The people who seem to care the most – on both sides – seem to be the most childish.
ALl very well, but there are awards whose economic value is clearly measurable, like the Oscars. The average Best Picture winner grosses about $18M extra, and a Best Actor award boosts the movie gross by about $6M and the winner’s pay for the next movie by about 20%. (Net income for Hollywood movies is meaningless, typically zero or less even for huge blockbusters thanks to accounting chicanery.) Even a mere nomination is worth quite a bit during the months between announcement and award.
In particular, The King’s Speech, a rather cerebral and “literary” movie, definitely not a “rattling good yarn”, grossed $138M during its year of Oscar eligibility (which was already $100M more than expected, a testament to the power of good filmmaking and word of mouth). After winning Best Picture, the final gross (including worldwide box office plus DVDs) was $460M. That award was definitely not just for kids.
Except the Oscar is an award given by the peers of the actors, much unlike the Hugo. You present interesting data, but you can’t normalize for movies not respected by peers but nominated anyway because it’s the peers doing the nominations in the first place. In other words, how can you tell that a movie that is capable of getting Oscar nominated doesn’t just do better due to its superior quality anyway?
I’m glad you agree with the Sad Pups on this one, Mr. Flint. Let works be judged on merit alone.
Wow, I haven’t seen so much lying bullshit in a sentence in a while. Bravo.
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Vivienne Raper says:
Eric. I have to disagree with you here. Maybe I’m biased because I *write* SF&F (albeit unfinished), but I used to choose books based on the Hugo and Nebula Award nominations. As I use the Golden Dagger Awards to choose crime novels or the Booker Prize to scout out literary fiction.
I bought a supporting membership for the first time this year after reading about the Sad/Rabid Puppy furore, have been reading the nominees for fun and have been following some blogs. In some ways, it’s been great fun. I’ve discovered Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files for the first time.
In other ways, it’s been a disappointment because the nominated short fiction is abysmal. Not just this year either, but previous years too – before the Sad/Rabid Puppies. It’s tarnished my view of the Hugos and I’m not sure I’d use them to choose books again…
My (negative) opinions on the short fiction nominees here: http://www.futureslesstravelled.com/?p=129
I’ll add that I don’t only read SF&F. In fact, I feel a bit of a fraud writing SF because I don’t attend cons, don’t do fandom and mostly read crime… It’s almost like I’m not writing where I read.
There is, however, a grain of truth to the sp complaints. I actually care a bit about the Hugo’s because I used to use them to identify books to buy. Recently, the Hugo fan preferences have shifted enough that the awards aren’t useful to me anymore…
And, even though the awards will always tilt literary, upon disclosure that the Hugo packet typically contains more than 40 USD of books, it is reasonable to assume that supporting memberships would become very interesting to anyone who would normally read more than 40 USD of nominations. So, it appears practical to permanently broaden the base of Hugo voters – which will tend to reduce divergence between the Hugo base and sf&f readers. I know this motivated me to buy a membership, even if I didn’t plan to vote.
I posted this in response to a specific post by RAH. I thought it would show up at the bottom of that string of responses. It showed up in the middle, disrupting the flow of conversation. I’m reposting here.
Punch in the face? Really? Thanks for the laugh, and goodbye, Cobbler. As irritating and hyperbolic as ever. No one has to justify their choices of reading material. Or their selections of works to nominate. No one was punched in the face. Being punched in the face hurts a lot more than not getting who you want nominated for a Hugo. Hey, assuming your point is fair, and not as ludicrous, laughable, and hilarity inducing as it is…explain why you “punched [me] in the face” with “redshirts” please. Explain “If you were a dinosaur…” while you’re at it, because an award going to a book I hate is a punch in the face regardless of what award it is, right? Explain “The day the world…” (should continue: turned into a terrible short story) and why you (presumably, just as you presume that I voted the puppy slate because I identify with the group) nominated it. Actually, forget it. No explanation would satisfy me, just as no explanation would satisfy you. As John Ringo would say, were he in a silly mood: Grapp off. (“Claws That Catch”)
Since there’s been so much commentary about #GamerGate (and how #SadPuppies are tehevilbadz for associating with them in any way), here is an interesting bit of reading.
http://archive.is/9KGyX
That is Randi Harper, the person who created the “Good Games Autoblocker” program which blacklists persons for harassment on Twitter (such notables having included Richard Dawkins, for example, who by all accounts EXCEPT ggautoblocker has never harassed anyone on Twitter).
She is having a discussion with “xmj”, who is kind of a big name amongst those who have heard of the FreeBSD open-source software project. In this discussion, “xmj” has simply said he does not agree that a FreeBSD convention needs “safe spaces” — and Randi is exploding at him.
At one point, he notes that she has had followers harass friends of his, which he outs as #GamerGate members only because she accuses HIM of being GG. Her Autoblocker, you see, originally rose to prominence because she targeted everyone she could identify as being a member of #GamerGate for blacklisting… then also extended that to anyone following more than one or two of those accounts, on the assumption THEY were also #GamerGate. That’s how Dawkins, KFC, and a Regional Director for the anti-GG Independent Games Developers Association wound up on the list.
Randi’s problem is simple: she doesn’t like to be disagreed with. Here she is cursing at him, trying to belittle his experiences, and making things up wholesale in order to claim the prize of Being The Bigger Victim — and he isn’t having any:
I stood on Maidan Square the day the revolution happened, when police beat the shit out of protestants.
have you ever stood up in front of a room of developers and broken into tears while you talked about the terrible shit that was happening?… go. fuck. yourself.
All of this? Is because “xmj” posted a single tweet disagreeing with Randi about the value of a Code of Conduct.
@xmj> You’ve done everything you claim the other side does. Including calling me names, make me look bad in public, try to have me change my behavior according to what you expect me to do.
And yet, so many people rely on Randi Harper to determine who is, and isn’t harassing people on teh Intarwebs. Go figure.
So? People voluntarily censor their own input all the time. I know people who won’t read or watch any news except FOX. Personally I won’t watch any TV news at all, and rely on newspapers mainly. On usenet people had killfiles (“plonk”), on most web forums people can “hide” posters that annoy them, and in the real world you just don’t interact with people if you hate their guts or think they are boring or whatever.
Until this day I had never heard of Randi Harper, but Richard Dawkins is one of the more influential people in the world. So who cares about her little blacklist?
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Saundaryalahari of Sri Shankara Bhagavatpadacharya with Ten Commentaries (In Sanskrit Only)
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Introduction “ANANDAM- Bliss is the source of all created beings; by Bliss do these beings; by Bliss do these beings live; and they go to Bliss and become one with it” (Taittiriya Upanishad-III. 6) Bliss here and beyond is the one object universally desired by all creatures. The pleasures experienced by the physical senses of Man are transient and mingled with suffering. Unalloyed and ever-lasting bliss could be experienced only when man gets release from the cycle of bir...
“ANANDAM- Bliss is the source of all created beings; by Bliss do these beings; by Bliss do these beings live; and they go to Bliss and become one with it” (Taittiriya Upanishad-III. 6) Bliss here and beyond is the one object universally desired by all creatures. The pleasures experienced by the physical senses of Man are transient and mingled with suffering. Unalloyed and ever-lasting bliss could be experienced only when man gets release from the cycle of births and deaths. This release could be obtained only through a clear and comprehensive knowledge of God, soul and matter. Such a knowledge if beyond the view of human physical senses and could be had only from the omniscient Veda, the repository of the transcendental wisdom which revealed itself to the pure saintly souls who meditated deep and long to discover the truth. Reach of speech and thought, could be acquired by study under a teacher, enquiry and cogitation, and intensive meditation on the self as not different from Brahman as elucidated in the scriptures, meditation on an attributeless all-pervasive Brahman is possible for highly evolved souls who have reached an advanced stage of spiritual progress, through self-control, devotion and divine grace. For the benefit of the less advanced spiritualists the benign Veda has also presented the Brahman with attributes or qualities (Saguna-Sakala-Sakara) with a name and form for easy mental comprehension and contemplation. Several deities have been the objects of worship from ancient times. These are regulated and determined according to the individual seeker. The stage of his mental and spiritual development. The Samskaras or impressions of past lives, his faith and sincerity and Divine grace. Among the forms so popular in Post-Vedic times are Ganesa, Aditya, Vishnu, Siva and Ambika, and others elaborated in the Puranas, Itihasas and Agamas. The credit of having synthesized and intergrated these divergent cults into one, rests with the great Advaitic teacher Sri Sankara Bhagavatpadacharya. He taught the world that like all streams finding their final culmination in the vast ocean, all the deities are but several aspects of the Supreme Being and worship offered to any one of them is but the worship of the Supreme.
Among these deities, Sakti holds a unique place, pervading as Its does, the entire universe. According to the Agamas, known also as tantras, which follow the Vedic ideal,, Brahman and Sakti are one; the former being the Static Sakti in self-poised pose and Sakti is the dynamic Brahman, who becomes the universe, is immanent in it and transcends it. The Trimurthis are the Isvara in three universal functional aspects of the Saguna Brahman. Brahman and Sakti are inseparable but complementary to each other. Brahman is Nishkala as well as Sakala i.e. without Prakriti and with Prakriti. Prakriti means gunas, hence Brahman without Prakriti is Nirguna and with Prakriti is saguna. In Nirguna Brahman, Sakti is potential and in the Saguna Brahman it is kinetic. It becomes kinetic. When the desire to create arises in the static Brahman, due to lila of the Brahman or the Karma of the evolving souls, or Niyati, Svabhava or Kala or Maya.
The Tantra Sastra, in keeping with Hindu tradition and thought has integrated and synthesized several concepts, in the make up of its spiritual discipline. As observed by a learned Scholar “The inclusiveness and comprehensive nature of Saktism is vividly clear. It kinetises the visishtadvaita concept of Brahman; and it synthesizes the Dvaita Vedanta concept of the universe,. By the sadhana of yoga rousing the Kundalini Sakti in the microcosm till she leads the soul into union with the God in the Sahasrara after a triumphal march from plane to plane, it makes religion a practical discipline instead of being a creed”.
The human body (microcosm) called the Pindanda is a replica of the universe; (Brahmanda) and contains all that is in the Universe. The Jiva is Siva and Kundalini is the Para Sakti energizing and ascending to the Akula Sahasrara for union with Siva there and this is the goal of the Samayachara. The seeker is then a Jivanmukta and thought engrossed in worldly activities, all the them constitute only worship of the Sakti (Devi), as he is absorbed in the Bliss of union with Her.
Sakti is spoken of as feminine in form. The Brahman is neither male nor female, but His Sakti aspect is conceived as the creatrix and nourisher of the Universe. The love and grace of the Supreme is manifest in this aspect, and consistent with the worldly experience of maternal affection, She is adored as the Divine Mother of the Universe, showering Her grace and compassion on all Her creation, with a graceful lovely form (Karuna Kacid Aruna). She is immanent in the Universe and transcends it; She is akhanda and manifold. She is the life and body of all that exists. With her redness enveloping the entire Universe, She is the Kamakala the Akhandakaravritti of Vedanta.
It will be seen that the Vedant and Sankhya in a modified form have provided the background for the Agama, which has evolved a Sadhana-Spiritual discipline combining and reconciling all streams of Hindu thought, available to all, irrespective of sex and caste and consisting of a synthetic combination of a philosophy (jnana), a Yoga, a ritual (Kriya) and a code of conduct (Charya) emphasizing at the same time the importance of the Guru and the assimilation of the Mantra, Devata, Guru, and the Self as identical with the Brahman.
Sri Sankara Bhagavatpada revealed the fundamental and subtle truths of the Veda, for the intelligent student. And out of compassion for the mediocre intellectual, he laid down the path of devotion (Bhakti), as the means of salvation through jnana. He framed many devotional stotras, in which the fundamental principle of unity has not been ignored, on all the deities in the Hindu Pantheon of His time. Among them, the Saundaryalahari, in praise of the Devi in one hundred verses (with three more found in some manuscripts) in the Sikharini metre ranks as one of the foremost and most popular ones. It combines in itself a devotional hymn of deep emotion, a collection of mystic mantras calculated to grant to the votary the objects of his desires, and an epitome detailing the principles and practice of the Tantra Sastra, particularly of the Samayachara (internal meditative worship of Sakti as distinct from Her worship on images and chakras etc. with the requisite material) The work is known, in its entirety, as the “flood of Beauty” (Saundaryalahari), while the first forty-one verses are earmarked as the “Wave of Bliss” (Ananda Lahari). This first part contains the description of the gross and subtle forms of the Devi and the meditative procedure of the Samayachara. The second part is a brilliant description of the Divine Mother in physical form edition with a supplication for Her Grace and salvation to the devotee.
SRIVIDYA
It may not be out of place to consider the place of Sri Vidya for the seeker after self-realisation. The word “Sri Vidya”, means “that which confers unalloyed bliss” (Sam-sukham, rati - dadati) in the union of Brahman and Jiva. In essence It is a discipline of Brahma Vidya, extended to all persons (including those not eligible to observe the Vedic rituals), without distinction of sex and caste. Sakti or Chitsakti, the Brahman as Karanesvara, in His creationistic aspect is propitiated externally as having a feminine form (image) or in a diagrammatical form (chakras), with materials such as sandal-paste, lights, camphor, flowers and food offerings etc. which is known as Apara Puja. When this worship is accompanied by a contemplation of the oneness of the worshipper and worshipped, it is called Parapara Puja, the Apara leading to the Parapuja. When it takes the form of pure meditation of the identity of the worshipper and the worshipped, it is called a Para puja. The Samayachara consists of the last named the worship is entirely internal and mental; the Devi immanent in the microcosm in the Muladhara as Kundalini Sakti is roused and led through the psychic centres to the Sahasrara, culminating in the union of the Kundalini (jiva) with the Chit-Brahman the twenty-fifth Sadakhya Tattva in the Sahasrara and resulting in lasting Bliss. Chitsakti as the active dynamic partner (aspect) of Brahman creates the universe and is most potent in granting infinite grace.
The worship of the Divine as the Mother, can be traced to very ancient times. Its genesis in the Veda is obvious in the Gayatrimantra and several suktas in praise of feminine Gods. The role of the Mother in creation and Her compassion for Her offspring have been in evidence in all creation from the earliest times. Love for the mother and her affection to Her children are universal phenomena. Rightly has the creationistic aspect of the Brahman been accorded an attractive and benign form, viz, that of the Mother. Sixty-four tantras for Her Worship were formulated by Siva but at Her instance, the Subhagama panchaka were given by Him to the world, in a purified and sanctified form. These include the Vasishta Sanaka. Suka, Sanandana and Sanatkumara Samhitas. The Puranas, such as the Brahmanda Purana (containing the Lalitha Sahasranama, Lalita Trisati and the Lalithopakhyana) the Devi Bhagavata, the Markandeya Purana, Kalika Purana and the Itihasas, contain account of Devi’s exploits and Her Worship and grace conferred by Her. The Kena Upanishad refers to the Brahma Vidya as the Uma Haimavati that manifested Herself before the Devas. Other Upanishads dealing with Sakti are the Sundari Tapinipanchaka, Bhavanopanishat, Kaulopanishat, Guhyopanishat Mahopanishat, Tripuropanishat. Arunopanishat, Bahvrichopanishat, Kalikopanishat, Taropanishat etc. Other works of importance to the Upasaka are the Prapanchasara, Vamakeswara Tantra, Jnanarnava, Kularnava, Kamakala vilasa of Punyanandanath Bhaskararaya’s commentary on the Lalita Sahasranama and Vamakeswara Tantra, and his Varivasyarahasya forming the Prasstanatraya of Srividya and Subhagodaya stuti of Sri Gaudapadacharya. Foremost among devotional hymns in praise of or describing Devi worship are the Subhagodaya of Sri Gaudapadacharya, Lalitastavaratna and Sakti Mahimnas Stotra of the sage Durvasas, Muka Panchasati of Mukakavi, Laghu stuti of Laghu Bhattaraka, Chitgaganachandrika of Kalidasa, Devi Panchastavi and the Saundarya Lahari and Ananda Lahari. The Bhavanopanishat Prayoga of Bhaskararaya and the Parasurama Kalpasutra are important manuals of practice.
Among recent writers on Sakti worship and Sri Vidya, Bhaskararaya and Lakshmidhara stand foremost. The service rendered to Saktism by Sri John Woodroffe in recent time in inestimable. Sri G. V. Ganesa Aiyar, Sri N. Subramanya Aiyar (Chidanandanatha of the Guhananda Mandali) and Sri N. Subramanya Aiyar (Anna) have contributed by their writings and translations of Tantric texts and Saundarya Lahari. All of them deserve to be remembered with gratitude by posterity.
The upakrama, upasamhara, and other tatparyanirnayakalingas, amply indicate the main purport of this stotra viz. the identity of the Brahman and the Jiva, Sakti and Siva. In its dynamic aspect, devoutly worshipped and meditated on the Brahman, the cause of the creation of the Universe and its preservation, protects and confers worldly benefits and salvation from Samsara in the end. Bhoga and Mokhsa are within his reach.
There are 36 commentaries on this work, of which five are being included in this work for the first time, the Lakshmidhara, Saubhagyavardhani, Arunamodini Dindima and Gopalasundari having been printed inn other editions.
Of the 36 commentaries, Lakshmidhara’s Lakshmidhara and Kaivalyasrama’s Saubhagyavardhani stand foremost, while the Arunamodini of Kameswara Suri and Ramakavi’s Dindima rise to a similar level. Lakshmidhara endeavours to explain the chandrakalavidya in this poem; Kaivalyasrama sees in it Sambhavi Vidya; Kameswara frequently tries to effect a synthesis. Ramakavi emphasizes the affinity between the Tantra and the Sankhya doctrine, identifying Sakti with Prakriti. The Anandagiriya explains all these views and traces many Devimantras as their esoteric significance. The Gopalasundari is unique in explaining the verses as also referring to Vishnu, an identity traceable to the source and background of the members of Trinity viz. Vishnu and Gauri, who emanated from the Sattvic Mahasarasvati, (vide-concept of Advaitic unity of Chit and Sakti; The idea of the supremacy of the Sakti (Devi) be it through Parinama or Vivarta is albeit noticeable in all of them. Considerable speculation and divergent views are found in the assessment of the alankaras in the verses in the latter half.
Considerable speculation, exists about the authorship of this work. There is a tradition that the first 41 slokas were brought by Sri Sankaracharya from Kailasa. Nandikesvara interrupted him when he was bringing the entire 100 slokas granted to him by Siva along with the five lingas, and in the scuffle that ensued Sri Sankara managed to take the first forty-one slokas only (vide Markandeya Samhita) to which he added the remaining fifty-nine. It is presumed by some that the entire 100 verses of Kailasa must have been a complete Mantra Sastra.
Kaviraja Pandita, who has rendered the work in Tamil, says that these verses had been inscribed on the walls of Siva’s abode in Mount Kailas with which Siva is stated to have ridiculed Sarasvati who claimed the authorship of this poem. He also mentions that Pushpadanta, the Yaksha, caused them to be inscribed on the Meru Mountain, which Sri Gaudapada memorized and handed over to Sri Sankara, Another tradition ascribes the inscription on the walls to Ganesa.
The expression ‘Dravidaslsu’ in verse 75 had led to much speculation about who this Dravidasisu is. Lakshmidhara holds that the reference is to Sri Sankara himself. Kaivalyasrama also holds the same view and has cited an incident in Sri Sankara’s life in support. Some consider that an incident in the life of the Saint Tirujnanasambandhar is alluded to. According to another version, Dravidasisu, a pious devotee composed them and inscribed them in Kailasa. When Sri Sankara was memorizing them, the Devi had them erased by the author, but the prodigious Sri Sankara had memorized the 41 verses, to which he added 59 from his pen. Rama Kavi in his Dindima observes “Some say that Siva spoke this stotra; others Sri Sankara, his incarnation and some others say that it came from the great effulgence of the teeth of the primordial Sakti, Lalitha and there are thus many versions. Pravarasena, a son of the King of Dravida, is mentioned in Sudhavidyodhini as its author.
In the 108 names of Sri Sankara traditionally addressed in worship the name “Saundaryalaharimukhya bahustotra vidhyakaya namah” support the authorship of Sri Sankaracharya. The first 41 verses are found inscribed on the walls of the temple of Sri Sugandhikuntalamba, in the temple of Sri Matrubhutesvara on the Rock in Tiruchirapalli, in Tamil Nadu, and tradition says that Sri Sankaracharya had them inscribed there on his way to Rameswaram. Tradition also has it that he completed the poem and sang all the 10 verses of the poem before Akhilandeswari in Tiruvanaikoil, whose Tatankas were installed by him and which at times of renewal are consecrated by the Sankaracharya of Kanchi Kamakoti Pitha.
In fine, the weight of evidence is in favour of the view that Sri Sankaracharya is the author of this poem. As stated by H. H. the Periyaval of Kanchi, the exuberance of beauty of the latter 59 verses makes one wish that the entire work had come from him alone.
The writer concludes this introduction with innumerable grateful pranamams to His Holiness, the Periyaval of Kanchi, for His having blessed him with an opportunity to associate himself with this meritorious task and to dive deep into the pearls gems in this Stotraratna which the Bhagavatpada, in his inimitable gambhira and prasanna style has conferred on the world of Upasakas.
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Taxation Considerations in Economic Damages Calculations
By: Jonathan S. Shefftz
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Present value cash flow calculations for economic damages should be performed on an after-tax basis, regardless of whether the damages award will be subject to taxation. Pre-tax calculations can arrive at incorrect results, particularly where accounting income and cash flow do not match. If the damages award will be subject to taxation, then the analytically correct approach is to take the result of the after-tax damages calculation and simply "gross-up" for expected taxes, rather than perform the present value calculations on a pre-tax basis.
Jonathan S. Shefftz is a Senior Associate at Industrial Economics, Incorporated, an economic and environmental consulting firm located in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
As the relevant literature discusses quite extensively,1 economic damages in commercial litigation or personal injury cases are typically determined as the difference between two scenarios: a non-breach/non-injury (or hypothetical "but-for") scenario and a breach/injury (or "actual") scenario. Elements that are common to the two scenarios can be ignored -- as they simply net out in any comparison -- but the analysis must incorporate all elements that are different. Then the analysis must identify the cash flows associated with the two scenarios� various elements.
Finally, if the cash flows occur over an extended period of time, they must be adjusted for the time value of money. Future cash flows are adjusted back in time using a discount rate to produce their equivalent present value as of some common date.2 Discounting thereby allows dollars from different years � which can be thought of as different "currencies" -- to be expressed in a common measure so that they can sensibly aggregated and/or compared. Properly performed, the damaged party would be indifferent between the lump sum present value as of this common date and a specified stream of payments extending into the future.
Concerning the choice of this common date (i.e., to which the cash flows will be discounted), an important complication arises, especially when a considerable lag exists between the time of the breach/injury and the time of trial/award. One approach is to first discount all cash flows back to the initial breach/injury date, then compound them forward -- often at a rate that is specified by the applicable legal statute -- to the trial/award date. Another approach is to discount all future cash flows -- with "future" defined from the perspective of the time of trial/award -- back to the trial/award and separately compound all past cash flows forward to the trial/award date. Depending on the different rates specified for discounting and compounding, and depending on the types of cash flows involved, this at first seemingly mere mechanical difference can have a drastic impact upon the results.3
Yet another distinction is that the first approach described above is often -- though not always -- conducted from an ex ante perspective (i.e., drawing on only the information that was known at the time of the breach/injury) whereas the latter approach is conducted from an ex post perspective (i.e., utilizing all available information known to the analyst). Sometimes different discount and compound rates are used for different parts of the calculation, corresponding to which cash flows are "known" and "unknown" as of certain dates.4
Many aspects of the summary contained in the preceding four paragraphs are expounded upon in great detail in the relevant literature. However, a surprising paucity of research focuses on the adjustment of the cash flows to an after-tax basis.5 This article�s goal is to demonstrate the importance of this adjustment, regardless of whether the damages award will be subject to taxation. Note that the article�s goal is not, however, to discuss case law precedent regarding taxation issues in damage awards.
In a typical commercial litigation matter, but for a contract breach or injury, the plaintiff would be able to earn certain cash flows, and would incur income taxes on the accounting income associated with those cash flows. As a result of the breach or injury, it will earn some other stream of cash flows, which will also include income tax effects. If liability is found, the plaintiff will also receive an economic damage award, which similarly is subject to income taxation. This article postulates -- and a review of the previously cited relevant professional literature generally confirms -- that the damage award should be set to create an after-tax equivalence between the non-breach scenario and the sum of the damage award and the breach scenario. That is, the plaintiff should be in the same position after-taxes with its award, that it would have been in on an after-tax basis with no breach.
As a general rule, net present value calculation should be computed on an after-tax basis, using an after-tax discount rate. Brealey and Myers state:
"You should always estimate cash flows on an after-tax basis. Some firms do not deduct tax payments. They try to offset this mistake by discounting the cash flows before taxes at a rate higher than the opportunity cost of capital. Unfortunately, there is no reliable formula for making such adjustments to the discount rate."6
Thus, in simple algebraic terms, the equivalency postulate for economic damages is:
NPV(AT Non-Breach Cash Flows) = NPV (AT Breach Cash Flows) + (1-T)*Award
where "T" represents the tax rate applied to the damage award.
Thus, from a theoretical perspective, "making the plaintiff whole" requires "grossing-up" the difference in after-tax net present values for the tax. That is:
Award = [NPV(AT Non-Breach Cash Flows) - NPV(AT Breach Cash Flows)]/(1 - T)
Two alternative methods may be contemplated. Pre-tax cash flows could be discounted at a pre-tax discount rate; or, pre-tax cash flows might be discounted at an after-tax discount rate. Unfortunately, both of these approaches have the potential to produce inaccurate results.
The following sections demonstrate that the former approach always produces an inaccurate estimate of damages (on either a pre-tax or after-tax basis), whereas the latter approach will produce an accurate estimate of pre-tax damages only when accounting income is equal to cash flow and when tax rates are constant over time.
Evaluation of Alternative Approaches in the Commercial Damages Context
Three simple cash flow scenarios ("cases") illustrate the impacts of these less-accurate alternatives. All scenarios involve a ten-year stream of income, depreciation, capital expenditures and taxes, and rely on the same set of economic and financial parameters, i.e., inflation, tax rate, and weighted-average cost of capital ("WACC") as the basis for the discount rate. All cases assume that the only differences between income and cash flow are capital expenditures and depreciation (thereby ignoring a plethora of other factors such as working capital changes, deferred taxes, etc. that should ideally be reflected in a more detailed cash flow analysis, if feasible).
. . . Continue to article and footnotes (PDF).
Jonathan S. Shefftz, is an independent consultant specializing in the application of financial economics to litigation disputes, regulatory enforcement, and public policy decisions. He has provided expert witness testimony on numerous lawsuits filed in state court, federal district court, and federal agency administrative hearings.
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A heightened state
Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles on Mad Max, Blade Runner and the politics of water in Bacurau
by Anne-Katrin Titze
Kleber Mendonça Filho with Anne-Katrin Titze on Bacurau being set a few years in the future: “It’s a heightened state.” Photo: Juliano Dornelles
In the second part of my in-depth conversation with Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles on Bacurau, their Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize winner (shared with Ladj Ly’s International Oscar shortlisted film Les Misérables), a Roman Polanski Chinatown connection to the struggles with water shortage in the Northeast of Brazil was made. Kleber commented on George Miller’s original Mad Max from 1979, where the story is set a few years from now, which “puts you in a state of suspension”, noted that we’ve now reached the year Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner from 1982 took place, and marvelled if it hadn’t been a stronger choice to skip the year 2019 and merely set it in a perpetual future.
Juliano Dornelles on Bacurau: “It was always the idea to make a genre film, to transport the viewer to another atmosphere.” Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Bacurau, shot by Pedro Sotero (Mendonça Filho’s Aquarius and Neighboring Sounds), edited by Eduardo Serrano (Gabriel Mascaro’s Neon Bull and Divine Love), costumes by Rita Azevedo, has a formidable ensemble cast including Sônia Braga, Udo Kier and Bárbara Colen, Alli Willow, Chris Doubek, Thomas Aquino, Jonny Mars, Karine Teles, Suzy Lopes, Brian Townes, Antonio Saboia, Silvero Pereira, Márcio Fecher, and Val Junior.
Films by John Carpenter, Sergio Corbucci, Eduardo Coutinho, and others selected by Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles will screen in the program Mapping Bacurau at Film at Lincoln Center, organised by Dennis Lim and Tyler Wilson early next year.
Anne-Katrin Titze: Bacurau is a full film. It’s very full. I see another reference in my notes, another film named after a location. Chinatown and the issue of the water.
Kleber Mendonça Filho: Chinatown!
Juliano Dornelles: You are bringing a lot of new things!
Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles’ Bacurau at night
KMF: You bring up Chinatown, which is of course a wonderful film and a very interesting reference. However, it has to be said, the Northeast of Brazil struggles for a hundred years with water shortage.
JD: More than a hundred.
KMF: Which in a way comes from the dry, semi-arid region. But it’s actually a man-made, political problem.
AKT: It’s very clear that what we see in your film is grounded in real life, in the politics of now. That is never in question. It’s the way you present this to us that makes it possible for audiences all over the world to go into different directions and relate to it.
KMF: But it’s great that you mention Chinatown, because the water problem in Chinatown is also man-made.
JD: To have control, to bargain with something.
Bacarau opens in the UK on March 13, 2020
AKT: You set the film a few years in the future, a few years from now. Did you discuss the possibility that it isn’t even necessary?
KMF: I love it.
JD: Me too.
KMF: It’s a heightened state.
JD: It was always the idea to make a genre film, to transport the viewer to another atmosphere. This is very important to us. But things started to happen in Brazil in an already very similar way with the things in the script. There was a moment when during post-production in France we considered the idea of putting “A few months from now” not “A few years” because the reality was going to the film in a very strong way.
AKT: I like it too that it’s in the future, the feel of openness it has.
KMF: I think that’s part of the effect. I also say that it’s a very cheap special effect. Because it instantly puts the viewer in an interesting state of mind. It’s the future. And of course some of the great films … For instance, the first Mad Max begins with “A few years from now.” It immediately puts you in a state of suspension. And I love that.
AKT: Also we allow it to come emotionally closer to us because it’s not real.
KMF: Yeah, none of this is real.
AKT: I can relax and enjoy this. What does it have to do with me?
Bacurau opens at Film at Lincoln Center on March 6 and the film program Mapping Bacurau starts on March 13, 2020 Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
KMF: Exactly.
JD: The film ends and everybody is “Oh my god.”
KMF: I like the genre convention of putting it in the future. I don’t like very much when wonderful films put a date. Because they get old. This year, for instance, we reached Blade Runner. And it’s kind of disappointing. If Blade Runner was the future, I think it would be stronger watching it.
AKT: I saw 12.20.20 somewhere written on a truck in Bacurau, I don’t really remember. That was not to be a date?
KMF: I think it’s a telephone number.
Read what Sônia Braga had to say on working with Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles on Bacurau and The Paris Theatre.
Read what Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles had to say on a connection to François Truffaut’s Fahrenheit 451 and in the editing process Sam Peckinpah’s Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia for Bacurau.
Coming up - Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles on Udo Kier, Alli Willow, the horses as a “marker that this is a western” and the siege, the attack, and the sense of destruction that comes from the outside in Bacurau.
Bacurau is scheduled to open in the US on March 6 at Film at Lincoln Center and in the UK on March 13, 2020.
Mapping Bacurau at Film at Lincoln Center will take place from March 13 through March 19.
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Bad Sector - "Kosmodrom" [2005]
Artist: Bad Sector
Title: Космодром
Genre: Dark Ambient, Industrial
Release date: 2006 (2xCD reissue 2013)
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On Cosmonauts' Day, I'm posting this conceptual work by Massimo Magrini, dedicated to the works of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and their practical applications that ultimately led to the first human spaceflight on April 12, 1961 (the case where you can use the words "rocket science" unironically). Parts of it were recorded in Moscow and St. Petersburg using the old Soviet ANS synthesizers (those were already mentioned on my blog several times in connection to the history of Russian/Soviet synthpop). I'd bet that Massimo's music is better known here than at his home in Italy, partially because of this release too :)
When it comes to sound, "Kosmodrom" doesn't offer many surprises to the fans of Bad Sector. Like Massimo's other releases, it's better described as sound engineering (a field that Massimo possesses a scientific degree in) rather than music, and it's intended to be the modern (post-)industrial music in its pure form. However, you aren't going to hear any harsh noise on there; it's "nerdy" cosmic ambient for the most part, with some occasional elements of rhythmic noise. This 2xCD edition was released by Loki-Found, a German label specialized in dark/cosmic ambient, in 2013, and it's partially available as a free listen on Bandcamp. Of course, you also can download it from dark-world.ru or elsewhere, especially considering that Massimo himself has nothing against musical piracy and admits being a pirate himself :3
Kosmodrom by BAD SECTOR
Автор: Alexander на 11:55 PM
Ярлыки: ambient, industrial, Italy
I created this blog mostly because I wanted to practise my English skills, and to showcase the industrial, gothic, punk, metal, neofolk and progressive rock scene of Russia/ex-USSR and Eastern Europe (especially Hungary) in the meanwhile.
As you can see, this blog doesn't take itself seriously enough, but I hope I'm doing good enough with my reviews even if my proficiency in English is limited. Along with the aforementioned stuff from Eastern Europe, I occasionally post some classic and rare albums that aren't to be missed, and generally whatever I want. Other categories of note:
* finno-ugric rarities - various music (including pop) in minor Finno-Ugric languages which I'm interested in because of my heritage. The music from Hungary, Finland and Estonia can be found under the respective categories;
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As of now, I try to post only music that has already been made free by the artists themselves, or the rare old releases that are out of print. But if you're an artist and would like me to remove the download links of your work, just contact me using the form below.
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Carp Fish Most Common Questions Answered
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Carp Fish Most Common Questions Answered – Like most of the species that inhabit this wonderful ecosystem called Planet Earth, fish exist in many shapes, sizes, and colors.
This precious diversity even varies according to its habitat: freshwater or salty. Today in this article we will answer the most common questions about this freshwater fish: The Carp fish.
What is a Carp Fish?
What Kind of Fish are Carp?
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What is a Carp Fish? Its scientific name is Cyprinus Carpio, is also known as European carp or common carp, this species originally comes from Asia. Found in the rivers Euphrates and Tigris, but it migrated to Japan and continued to Europe. It is widely distributed in almost every part of the world except the Antarctic sea.
There is a variety of carp fish, the famous Koi (Japanese love) from East Asia, is characterized by having very striking colors in their scales. Mandarin is known as lĭyú and is considered an ornamental species in China.
They originally come from freshwater, but they have the ability to adapt to salt water at a temperature not exceeding 24 ° C. This fish can get to measure up to a meter and weigh almost 40 kilograms, however, the average adult carp fish can go between sixty and ninety centimeters, and its weight is around nine kilograms.
As for their reproduction, they do in the first seasons of the year, in countries where there are four seasons, carp fish are reproduced in spring to culminate in summer. Females choose sites or waters with enough weed to deposit their eggs, and the male fertilizes the eggs from the outside.
An average female can lay about three hundred thousand eggs, but a maximum of nine hundred thousand eggs is estimated during the breeding season. It is important to mention that the hatching of eggs will depend on the environmental conditions, i.e. if the water is at an optimum temperature of 30 °c they can hatch in just three days.
What kind of fish is carp? Carp fish are a variety of fish with excellent capacity to adapt to the different environmental conditions. In order to reproduce and settle, their habitat must have the following qualities: they must be calm without much current and shallow. Being omnivorous species (they eat both plants and animals) in their habitat there must be a lot of zooplankton and some arthropods living around, besides the water must have a temperature that ranges between 17 and 24 °c.
If the conditions are optimal, carp fish can live up to 60 years. That’s impressive! These particular species of fish prefer shallow waters because they feed on the surface. They tend to be aggressive especially at an early age, so it is not recommended to raise them in very small ponds or aquariums.
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As for its variety, there are many distributed throughout the world, but I will mention the three most common or popular: the “American Carp”, is well known because of its ability to develop without taking much care in the hatcheries, it is also the most widespread subspecies in the world due to the above-mentioned quality.
Another variant is the “Ryukin” also called “veil Tail” its name is do to the size of its fins in proportion with its small body. The third most known subspecies is the “Head of the Lion” because it has appendices or papillae at its cephalic end.
It should be noted that there is a variety of very striking colors, Koi fish (so called in Japan), very famous in that country, however, its origin derives from China where they are known as lĭyú, and its colorful appearance is the product of captive breeding. Depending on their upbringing, those wild-life carp tend to be smaller than domestically-bred fish.
What do carp fish feed on? Carp fish whose worldwide distribution is very wide, as well as the variety of subspecies it has, and its ability to adapt in any aquatic habitat, it is considered to be an invasive fish that feeds on almost any plant, arthropods and zooplankton.
Like most fish, they feed on algae and other vegetations present on the surface of rivers, lakes or seas, because they have a predilection for low-current waters and an low water depth in order to develop their species without difficulties.
Depending on the type of life they carry (wild, captive or domestic) carp fish diet will be different. According to marine biologists, the feeding of these fish should be balanced and be based on plant content (approximately 70%). The remainder must be protein or animal content (30%), which is why they are innate omnivores.
What Do Carp Feed On VideoThe carp fish in the wild, take very good advantage of everything offered by their ecosystem for their diet, in their food are included arthropods, zooplankton and of course vegetables like seaweed.
The feeding of the domestic carp fish (for example the Koi) must be very careful to avoid causing them damage or deteriorate their development, some advice to feed them by means of artificial supplements, to avoid that the food dissolves when in contact with water.
As you can see, these fish are very versatile as to what they eat, however, for the people that breed them it is important to take care of what they use to feed them so as not to harm them.
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Do carp fish taste good? For people who love to cook and that like exotic dishes, carp fish must be among their favorite foods. It is a very popular fish in places like China, even in Europe and some parts of America. Catching a good size carp is a delight whether is taken from freshwater or saltwater. Also, depending on how you prepare or order it in a restaurant, it will be a delicacy that your taste buds should try.
If you have the doubt about the taste of carp fish, here I bring you some carp fish recipes ideas to try with this very exotic fish. It is important to remember that the carp fish has a delicious flavor, but before cooking it needs to be washed, and put it to soak in water and salt for several hours, approximately three hours.
Check out this video on how to deep fry carp below.
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It should be noted that the texture of this fish is unequal and you can try some of this simple carp recipes:
Dip chunks on carp into a batter of butter and flour and spices. You can use good old salt and pepper, but other spices will work as well. Place the battered fish in a deep pan with cooking oil. Cook the fish until is a crispy, golden brown. If you wish to try a variation you can use egg, salt, milk and your favorite pancake mix.
Carp fish can be baked, the whole fish or in chunks, usually with something as simple as lemon and butter. Cook at 350-degree, a four-pound fish should take about 45 minutes. To spice things up you can wrap the whole fish or the pieces of carp with bacon. You can also stuff the fish with bread crumbs, chopped onions, celery, salt and pepper and maybe a little sage. If you decide to stuff the fish leave it in the oven for one hour.
Fry the bacon in a pan until crispy. In a large pot add the pieces of carp fish, onions, tomatoes, salt, sugar, bacon. Then let it simmer for about 45 minutes.
Pieces of carp
1 cup tomatoes
1/4 pound bacon (pre-cooked)
There are many ways to cook carp fish, you should try different ones to see which one you like best. Please let us know of any carp fish recipes that we could add to this page.
Why are carp so bad? Because of their varied diet, carp fish have been deemed as a threat to ecosystems where they have adapted. Due to this fact they are called an invasive fish.
According to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, Carp fish is listed as one of the 100 most damaging species in the world. It all begins with the introduction of this fish originating from Asia to the rest of the continents.
Starting with Europe, the only place where this species did not manage to distribute was in Antarctica. Probably because of its conditions and extreme weather.
Why are Carp So Bad VideoOnce scattered all over the world, these fish began to consume all kinds of marine vegetation. This resulted in the destruction of these ecosystems. Which in turn brought the disappearance of the habitat ideal for the maintenance of other aquatic species.
“Why are carp so bad – They became an invasive fish”
Despite its worldwide bad reputation, many organizations have implemented environmental laws that control the reproduction of carp fish. Places such as the United States and Spain have been significantly affected by the mass reproduction of this species.
It is interesting to add that they are new species of carp fish in varied ecosystems. Men should measure and study his behavior to avoid collateral damage on other species native to a particular habitat. By doing this it can prevent serious damage to the future by invasive species like the carp fish.
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The Influence Of Cultural Diversity On Medical, Legal And Financial Decision-Making
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Published in Families of Loved Ones (FOLO magazine) By Stephanie L. Schneider Health care professionals and elder law attorneys provide information to caregivers and people with disabilities regarding long term care planning, options and advance directives. It is important to communicate and understand different cultural beliefs and practices in the medical decision-making process for all parties…
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PE Trail at Maple Pedestrian Signal
Completed in May of 2019, this project installed a Pedestrian Signal at the Pacific Electric Trail Crossing at Maple Avenue.
Valley Boulevard Median
Completed in June of 2018, this project modified the existing median to relieve vehicular congestion and increase the efficiency of the signal operations at the adjacent intersection. This project also installed loop detection at the intersection of Valley Boulevard and Sierra Avenue.
Juniper Avenue at Ceres Avenue Traffic Signal
Completed in June of 2018, this project constructed a signal at the existing 2-way stop intersection and replaced access ramps. This project will increase vehicular and pedestrian connectivity to the Metrolink.
Juniper Avenue at Metrolink and Sierra Avenue at Metrolink Crossing
Completed in March of 2018, this project constructed sidewalk, curb, and gutter on both sides of Sierra Avenue and both sides of Juniper Avenue at the Metrolink crossing. Sierra Avenue was widened within the existing Southern California Regional Rail Authority (Metrolink) right-of-way. New pedestrian crossing gates and swing gates were installed to meet new California Public Utility Commission requirements and new Class III bike lane signage. This project was possible through a Transportation Development Grant.
Randall Avenue and Juniper Avenue Traffic Signal
Completed in March of 2018, a new traffic signal was installed at the intersection of Randall Avenue and Juniper Avenue along with ADA compliant curb ramps to provide connectivity to Randall Pepper Elementary School.
Banana Storm Drain
Completed in March of 2018, the Banana Storm Drain and Sewer Improvement Project located south of the I-10 Freeway between Jurupa Avenue and Santa Ana Avenue, installed new sewer and storm drain to help alleviate flooding.
The Active Transportation Plan (ATP) is a city-wide plan that provides a clear and comprehensive framework for new and safer connectivity of non-motorized transportation options throughout the City. The ATP was adopted by the City Council on November 14, 2017. To view the ATP click here
Cherry Avenue at Victoria Avenue Traffic Signal
Completed in June of 2017, this project installed a temporary traffic signal at the intersection of Cherry Avenue at Victoria Avenue. This signal will be removed as Victoria Avenue will ultimately be realigned to Walnut Street, as part of the West Gate Specific Plan.
Merrill Avenue and Laurel Avenue Sidewalks
Completed in March of 2017, this project installed sidewalk and ADA compliant curb ramps along the south side of Merrill Avenue and the east side of Laurel Avenue. This project has provided connectivity for children and parents walking and biking to and from the school at the corner of Alder Avenue and Merrill Avenue.
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14 exciting and fun things to do in Dundee with kids
The past few years have seen the city of Dundee on Scotland's east coast have a bit of a renaissance, so much so that's it has recently been named one of the top 5 hottest cities in the world! The city has a real buzz at the moment and with the massive redesign of the waterfront and the completion of the long awaited V+A Museum this city is thriving, exciting and inspiring. There is so much things to do in Dundee with kids, especially as it's a city known for it's talented video game creators and comic book designers, which lead to Dundee being named as a UNESCO City of Design.
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1. Dundee Science Centre
Where else could you shoot out a nose like a bogey, move a ping pong ball with your mind or turn yourself into a gorilla? This place is packed with experiments you can try out in a fun exciting way so the kids are still learning but they don’t quite realise it. We learned about morse code, the solar system, dinosaurs, played games with robots, sat on a hover craft and tried out some optical illusions.
Adults £8.25
Children £6.25
Children 0-3 Free
Greenmarket, Dundee, DD1 4QB
2. Camperdown Wildlife Park
This park in Dundee has been around for as long as I can remember and I have fond memories of playing here as a child so I was excitied to be returning with mine. Lemurs, bears, otters and meerkats are amongst the animals here and there is also wolves, tortoises, peacocks, goats and a whole load more. You could easily stay here for the full day if you explore the park just outside. A slow paced, spread out kind of place you can stop for picnic, or just sit for a bit and not feel rushed or hurried.
Childen 0-3 Free
Camperdown Country Park, Coupar Angus Road, Dundee, DD2 4TF
3. Camperdown Country Park
Just next door to the wildlife park is Camperdown Country Park, the largest public park in Dundee. At over 400 acres there is ample space to run around and a state of the art play area for kids of all ages mean that you can relax while the kids burn off some energy. It’s nice to get out the city and spend some quality time with the kids getting back to nature, and imagine what all that fresh air does when you get home!
Coupar Angus Road, DD2 4TF
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4. The beaches
We jumped on the number 73 bus from the city centre and had a wee ride to the beach at Carnoustie. Even though the weather was wild and windy we loved it. What a gorgeous beach! There is something about beaches in Scotland when the weather is crazy, it just seems to make them even more beautiful. We had a long walk along the sand and a play at the fab wooden play park, which was huge! A ten minute bus journey back towards dundee and we stopped at our second beach at Monifeith. Another stunning beach with a play park and some funky standing stones. The last beach was at Broughty Ferry where we stopped for a visit to the castle. A lovely little village with cracking independent shops. We had lunch at italian Visocchi’s and had some of their award winning ice cream. Well worth a visit if you are in the area.
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5. Discovery Point and RSS Discovery
This large ship is a well known site in Dundee and welcomes visitors into the city from its home on the Tay. Captain Scott’s ship the RSS Discovery is fascinating and the kids will love hearing about it’s voyage to the Antartica through the multimedia exhibitions and hands on activities. What kids doesn’t like to pretend to be captain of the ship. The centre has loads for kids to do, such as dressing up as an explorer, testing their strength on the sled pull and taking the trail quiz. Once you buy your tickets you can explore both the centre and the ship and there is also a cafe and gift shop.
Adults £11.25
Discovery Quay, Dundee, DD1 4XA
No trip to Dundee would be complete without a walk to see Desperate Dan and Minnie the Minx on the High Street. DC Thomson, the publishing company behind such comic classics as Beano, Oor Wullie, The Broons and the Dandy is based in Dundee and if you head to West Marketgate you can find the real Bash Street. You can also find Malcolm Robertson's "Oor Wullie' statue in front of the McManus Art Gallery and Angela Hunter's cute little penguins outside City Churches. There is loads of sculptures dotted all over the city and the kids will have great fun hunting them down.
6. DC Thomson
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7. HM Frigate Unicorn
Another of Dundee’s famous ships is berthed in Victoria Docks and was built as a sailing frigate for the Royal Navy. Launched in 1824 it’s the most complete original ship in the world and is stunning to look at. When you step on board you are transported back in time. This is one of my favourite things to do in Dundee with kids as they really seem to be transfixed with the beauty of this ship.
Victoria Docks, Dundee, DD1 3BP
8. Olympia Swimming Pool
I visited the old swimming pool here so many times I lost count and I, as well as most of the locals, loved it. I imagine it must have been a daunting task to design a new pool that could live up to reputation of the old one but they more than succeeded. This fantastic new pool has four slides with screens that lets you pick your music, crazy wild waves, diving boards and a lazy river. There is a pool with lanes for competitions, a nice cafe and state of the art gym. It's modern and can easily keep the kids having fun for hours.
Children 0-5 £1.50
3 E Whale Lane, Dundee, DD1 3JU
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9. Dundee Ice Arena
It’s not easy to find things to do at night with the kids once darkness falls. One of the things I love to do is have a family night at the hockey. Dundee’s elite hockey team, the Dundee Stars play in the winter months most weekends at the ice arena and its an exciting night. The fans are excellent, singing, cheering and banging drums and you can’t help but be swept up in their enthusiasm. You can also hire skates and go ice skating.
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7 Dayton Drive, Dundee, DD2 3SQ
10. The Law
Head for the Law and watch the kids faces when you tell them there are standing on a 400 million year old extinct volcano. With 360 degree panoramic views this is a must for anyone visiting the city. Impressive views guarantee you will leave with fab photos as a souvenier. You can walk up the windy hill or if your feeling lazy you can drive to the very top.
11. Dundee Rep Theatre
This theatre is a popular venue in Dundee and is perfect if you fancy some entertainment in the evenings. Showing theatre productions from both the local ensemble and visiting theatre groups, music arts, dance acts and family shows there is loads to keep the kids occupied when everything else is shut. There is also an award winning restaurant.
Ticket prices vary
Tay Square, Dundee, DD1 1PB
12. V+A
The brand new V + A Dundee (Victoria and Albert) is Scotland's first ever Design Museum and is a stunning building on Dundee's waterfront. You can't miss it as you cross the Tay Bridge as it's unique concrete shape juts into the water. It is free to enter and was designed to bring the city together. There is a lovely restaurant and cafe which both have a children's menu and a picnic room which is open at weekends and during school holidays.
1 Riverside Esplanade, Dundee, DD1 4EZ
13. Mills Observatory
At the summit of Balgay Hill is a purpose built observatory where you can see planets and stars through the powerful telescopes. The digital Telescope will help you identify over 30,000 things you might see and there are displays about space explorations. The views are pretty good too as you are up high and can look over the city and out to the Tay. It is only open at certain times so check the website before you head out. If you are lucky enough to catch it open this is one of the most rewarding things to do in Dundee with kids.
Balgay Park, Glamis Road, Dundee, DD2 2UB
14. Museum of Transport
This charity run transport museum is home to the famous Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and also Dundee's first flying machine. There is loads to see and it's pretty cheap to visit, only £5 for adults and £2.50 for kids. Again, it's not open every day so check the website before you go
10 Market Mews, Market Street, Dundee, DD1 3LA
As you can see there is plenty to do in Dundee for both kids and adults. Even just walking around the city centre you'll find quirky art work and statues. This is the perfect time to visit Dundee and it's only going to get better as the massive Waterfront development continues to take shape. Have you visited Dundee?
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The Upper School is comprised of grades nine through twelve and operates on a semester block schedule during which students complete traditional year courses in one semester by taking only four classes at a time rather than seven. This scheduling system increases time on task and reduces fragmentation of the instructional day. Class periods last approximately 85 minutes, providing instructional flexibility. In addition to a wide range of courses on campus, including advanced placement and honors options, students are able to take courses at Southside Virginia Community College, Hampden-Sydney College, and Longwood University. Class sizes range from four to twenty-two, with the average size being sixteen. After school, the library is open to all students, Monday-Thursday, until 5:00 pm at no additional charge.
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Physical Science Biology
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Fitness** Health/Driver's Ed.
Fine Arts or Elective Fine Arts or Elective
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English 11 English 12 or AP English 12*
Algebra II or Honors Pre-Calculus
Honors Pre-Calculus,* Honors Calculus I,*
AP Calculus AB, or Math Elective
U. S. History or AP U.S. History* U.S. Government or AP U.S. Government
Chemistry or Honors Chemistry*
Physics or Environmental Science (AP)
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Honors English Seminar* (grades 11 and 12 only)
Economics/Personal Finance
College Mathematics
Latin 1-3
Spanish 1-4
Honors Psychology (grades 11 and 12 only)
Aviation I and II
Creative Writing and Film
Internships and Externships
For more information regarding courses and electives, please visit our Parent-Student Handbook.
Students have the option of pursuing one of three diplomas: a general high school diploma, a college prep diploma, or an advanced studies diploma. A seal on the diploma reflects which option was earned, and transcripts will indicate which program of study was followed.
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Math 4 3 3***
Science 4 3 3
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Foreign Language 3 2 0
Fitness 1 1 1
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Arts 1 1 1
Communications 1 1 1
Electives 8/9 10 10
*Students pursuing an advanced studies diploma must include at least 6 advanced classes (AP, Honors, College) in their course selection during the four high school years. These classes must include at least 3 AP classes or college courses.
**Students pursuing a college prep diploma must include Algebra II and chemistry in their course selection.
***Economics/Personal Finance may count as a math credit for the general diploma.
Community Service required for graduation: 40 hours
In an effort to encourage responsible citizenship, Fuqua School students are required to complete 40 hours of community service in the upper school as a requirement for graduation. Participation in community service provides opportunities for students to become involved in the needs and concerns of others and acquaints them with organizations that work to meet those needs.
Students are required to complete a minimum of 10 hours per year; hours accumulated beyond the required 10 will be credited to the following year(s). For more information regarding our community service requirements, please refer to the Parent-Student Handbook (provide link here).
Through the Extended Campus Program, upper school students have the option of taking college courses off campus (beginning in grade 9), taking on-line courses, and/or working part-time during their senior year. Students wishing to pursue these options must have permission from both their parents and the Upper School head. For more information about our Extended Campus Program, please visit the Parent-Student Handbook.
Students in grades 4-12 may earn Honor Roll each quarter. Honor Roll consists of three categories: High Academic Honors, Academic Honors, and Honors. During a grading period, students who earn all A’s attain High Academic Honors; students with all A’s and B’s attain Academic Honors; and those with a 3.0 GPA with no grade less than a C- for the grading period attain Honors. To be named to the Honor Roll for the semester, students must meet the same criteria outlined above for the two grading periods which comprise the semester. To be named for the year, students must meet the criteria for both semesters (Upper School) or all four grading periods (Lower and Middle School).
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GRU has highest municipal power bills in state
Danielle Ivanov
Gainesville Regional Utilities has the highest residential electricity bill for municipally-owned utilities in the state.
At roughly $132 per 1,000 kWh — a standard for monthly usage — it’s almost $24 above the state average, according to the latest Florida Municipal Electric Association data from October.
Mayor Lauren Poe promised city residents that their electric bills would decrease by 8% after the November 2017 purchase of the Gainesville Renewable Energy Center biomass plant. While this did happen for most of 2018, with average bills dropping from $132 to $121, prices began to tick back up last October.
Although there is no data yet for November, electricity bills specifically should remain high because the city added a 6.4% utility increase effective Oct. 1. GRU General Manager Ed Bielarski said 4% of the additional 6.4% went to electric bills, adding just over $5 to the average charge.
"To be honest," Bielarski said, "we needed to build up some of our cash reserves." He said the extra money would help pay for higher employee salaries and power plant upgrades.
Bielarski said increasing GRU bills are "the new normal" because of all the renewable energy the city uses. Thanks to the biomass plant and solar panels, he said, GRU uses 34% renewable energy — far more than the state average of 3% for municipally-owned utilities.
Additionally, Bielarski said, GRU’s prices reflect superior service. Employees complete community service hours and raise money for nonprofit organizations, he said. The company annually upgrades 100 customers’ homes through its Low Income Energy Efficiency Program and power here is reliable: this year GRU was given the highest level reliability award from the American Public Power Association.
"When you buy a BMW, you’re not going to buy it at a Kia price," he said. "GRU is a BMW."
Bielarski said a number of options are available for GRU customers who can’t afford their bills. First, a two-week extension is given automatically. Second, power is only shut off Monday through Thursday so families won’t be left in the dark all weekend. Third, aid groups like Gainesville Community Ministry and Catholic Charities collect donations for utility bill help.
For some residents, like Jessica Smith, bills still feel impossible to cover.
Smith, 24, is a single mother of two kids and one dog who’s been a GRU customer since 2017 for her electricity, water and trash. Living on disability Social Security at the time, Smith said she simply didn’t have the money to pay her $100 electricity bill, much less the extra for her water and trash.
On July 12, 2018, she woke up to a trailer home with no power. All the charities she called were out of money, and she and her family were out of luck.
Smith said she, her children and her dog didn’t get their electricity turned back on until January. For the five months in between, they stayed with a friend.
"I truly believe that GRU’s rates are above and beyond extremely high," Smith said, "but at the end of the day, I bounced back on my feet, and we are doing good now."
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Putnam County man dies after a knock on his door, then gunfire
Scott Butler @RapidScotty
Barrington Carey was shot and killed early Sunday morning.
A Sunday-morning shooting killed a Hawthorne man who was checking to see who had knocked on his door, a witness told Putnam County deputies.
The witness said someone had knocked on the door shortly before 3 a.m. at the home on Florida 20. She said Barrington Scott Carey walked to the front and opened the door and then she heard two shots, the Sheriff’s Office said. She said she ran to the door and saw Carey on the ground. The 48-year-old died at scene.
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Detectives believe it was an isolated attack but did not release a possible motive.
Anyone with information in the shooting can contact CrimeStoppers of Northeast Florida at (888) 277-8477 or download the P3 app from the Apple or Google Play store. Calls can remain anonymous and could be eligible for a reward.
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Dana Claxton, "Rattle," (installation view), 2003
four-channel video installation with sound, 11:10 min. (Collection of Remai Modern. Purchased with the support of the Frank and Ellen Remai Foundation, 2019)
The Remai Modern in Saskatoon is exhibiting its recent acquisition of a four-channel video installation by acclaimed multimedia artist Dana Claxton.
Rattle, 2003, combines moving image with audio of Peyote songs performed using synthesizers, creating a spiritual space within the gallery.
“For more than 30 years, Dana Claxton has made art that addresses the impacts of colonialism and makes space for Indigenous voices,” says curator Sandra Fraser. “Rattle offers a profoundly beautiful experience. It is an honour to bring Claxton’s work into the permanent collection and to share it with our audiences.”
The film reflects the Lakota belief that earth and sky are a continuum where the above-world and the below-world mirror each other. Claxton says the work is both a visual prayer and a symbolic tale.
Claxton’s long-time collaborator Russell Wallace composed electronic music for the piece, while the Peyote songs were performed by Verdell Primeaux and Johnny Mike.
Rattle is on view in the Remai's free space from Nov. 22 to Jan. 7.
Claxton is originally from Yorkton, Sask. Her family reserve is Wood Mountain Lakota First Nation. She is based in Vancouver, where she is a professor at the University of British Columbia.
Her work has been shown internationally at prominent institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney.
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The Last of Us censored locally
Multiplayer violence toned down.
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The version of The Last of Us that was released in Australia, New Zealand, Europe, and the UK is less graphic than the version released in North and South America, developer Naughty Dog has confirmed.
The developer confirmed that it had self-censored parts of the multiplayer game in order to ease the title’s passage through the numerous local classification boards in the PAL territories.
Only aspects of the game’s multiplayer were censored. Player characters could not be dismembered, and depictions of blood and gore were toned down significantly. The singleplayer game was left untouched.
“The gore and violence ratings are subject to local regulatory boards in various countries, so the game must be slightly changed in order to accommodate those choices,” said a Naughty Dog spokesperson on the developer’s forums. “If you import the North/South American version, it will not be censored, but EU/UK will be.”
The Last of Us was released to almost unanimous praise in June.
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Why Catalyst Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Soared in March
Catalyst's new orphan drug is off to a strong start.
George Budwell
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Apr 4, 2019 at 10:24AM
George Budwell has been writing about healthcare and biotechnology companies at the Motley Fool since 2013. His primary interests are novel small molecule drugs, next generation vaccines, and cell therapies.
Catalyst Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:CPRX), an orphan drugmaker, gained a whopping 77% last month, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence. What sparked this breakout?
Catalyst's shares initially popped on the company's fourth-quarter earnings report on March 18. But the biotech's shares got a second major jolt from a corporate presentation at the Oppenheimer's 29th Annual Healthcare Conference on March 20.
Taken together, the biotech's latest earnings release and corporate update helped to assuage investors' concerns regarding Firdapse's recent commercial launch. Firdapse was approved by the Food and Drug Administration as a treatment for the rare autoimmune disease Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome (LEMS) in late 2018.
Firdapse's commercial debut in America was widely expected to be a flop by industry insiders. After all, this branded drug is basically a vastly more expensive version of a medicine known as 3,4-DAP that's been available for free to most patients for over 20 years.
Nonetheless, Catalyst was still able to transition a large number of 3,4-DAP users onto Firdapse during the first two months of 2019. This rapid adoption rate strongly supports the company's internal forecast that Firdapse could eventually generate between $300 million to $900 million in sales as a LEMS treatment.
Catalyst has big plans for Firdapse. Later this year, the drugmaker is scheduled to announce late-stage results for the drug in patients with congenital myasthenic syndromes and myasthenia gravis. And next year, Firdapse's proof-of-concept trial in patients with type 3 spinal muscular atrophy is also slated to produce top-line results. If all the stars align, this highly controversial orphan drug could turn out to be a blockbuster-level product. Catalyst's shares, in that case, might have a lot more room to run.
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NRA backlash: These are the companies cutting ties
Major bank ends long-time partnership with NRA
FBN's Tracee Carrasco on the First National Bank of Omaha's decision to discontinue its NRA-branded Visa credit card.
A slew of companies are ending their ties to the National Rifle Association in the wake of the massacre at a Florida high school that left 17 dead earlier this month.
Major companies such as United, Delta, Enterprise Holdings, First National Bank of Omaha, Symantec and MetLife were among the first to call it quits after a #BoycottNRA hashtag started to pick up steam online last week.
The NRA was initially mum on the tragic event but later went on the offensive during an annual gathering of conservatives at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) outside Washington last Thursday, igniting the boycott.
The gun rights group’s chief executive Wayne LaPierre openly criticized gun-control advocates and the media for its coverage of the shooting.
“They don’t care about our schoolchildren,” LaPierre said Thursday. “They want to make all of us less free,” adding that Democrats are pushing a “socialist” agenda to deprive gun owners of their weapons.
“Socialism is a movement that loves a smear," he added.
Those comments, however, did not sit well with people who later took to Twitter urging companies to halt partnerships with the organization. Since Thursday, close to a dozen companies have announced its ending deals with the gun’s group.
The NRA later fired back with a tweet saying: “Let it be absolutely clear. The loss of a discount will neither scare nor distract one single NRA member from our mission to stand and defend the individual freedoms that have always made American the greatest nation in the world.”
Here are the companies that have promptly responded to customers and severed their relationships with NRA.
NRA losing partnerships: These companies are severing ties
The airline announced in a tweet on Saturday that it's reaching out to the NRA to end a contract for members to receive discounted rates through a group travel program. It also is requesting the gun rights advocacy group to remove its information from their website.
Shortly after Delta announced that it would sever its partnership with the NRA, United Airlines tweeted that it would no longer offer a discounted rate to the NRA's annual meeting. It also requested that their information be removed from the NRA's website.
First National Bank of Omaha
The Omaha bank was the first company to respond to the boycott. It tweeted that “customer feedback has caused us to review our relationship with the NRA. As a result, First National Bank of Omaha will not renew its contract with the National Rifle Association to issue the NRA Visa Card.”
The rental car company followed a few hours later on Thursday, tweeting “all three of our brands have ended the discount for NRA members. This change will be effective March 26. Thank you again for reaching out.”
Avis Budget Group Inc.
It also announced it is ending its Ended partnership with NRA, effective March 26.
Hertz Global Holdings Inc.
Hertz quickly followed and tweeted, "We have notified the NRA that we are ending the NRA's rental car discount program with Hertz."
Symantec Corporation
On Friday, the software company announced that it also has stopped its discount program with the National Rifle Association in a tweet.
The insurer also announced on Friday that it would break off from the NRA. It released a statement on Twitter saying, “We value all our customers but have decided to end our discount program with the NRA.”
Wyndham Worldwide Corp
The hospitality company tweeted Friday that it is no longer affiliated with the NRA, severing its relationship with them late last year.
Chubb Ltd.
The insurer said that it will stop underwriting a NRA-branded insurance policy for gun owners.
North American Van Lines Inc:
The company said it has scrapped its affiliate relationship with the NRA.
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Israeli researchers drink to old times with ancient-style beer
Jerusalem (AFP)
Israeli researchers said Wednesday they had managed to extract yeast from ancient jars and produced a head-spinning concoction with it: beer similar to what the pharaohs would have imbibed.
Beer with a six-percent alcoholic strength and similar in taste to a wheat ale was presented to journalists, as was mead at 14-percent strength.
Researchers from Israel's Antiquities Authority as well as three Israeli universities gathered at a Jerusalem pub to announce their findings and called the project a first.
"I remember that when we first brought out the beer that we sat around the table and drank, we raised a cup to say l'chaim (a Hebrew toast meaning 'to life')," said Aren Maeir, an archaeologist with Bar-Ilan University.
"And I said either we'll be good or we'll all be dead in five minutes. We lived to tell the story."
Six yeasts were taken from the remains of jars found at archaeological sites, including a Philistine site in central Israel linked to the biblical story of Goliath.
Other sites were in the Negev desert -- the oldest one linked to ancient Egypt -- as well as Tel Aviv and in the Jerusalem area.
The yeasts' genomes were sequenced, and they were put in a liquid medium to grow before being used to brew beer and mead.
One yeast was found to be similar to that used in traditional beer in Zimbabwe, while another had similarities to that used in Ethiopian mead known as tej, said Ronen Hazan, a microbiologist at Hebrew University.
- 'Tasted great' -
Several different beers were made, while the one offered for tastings on Wednesday was brewed with a yeast that descended from one some 3,000 years old, the researchers said.
Yeast was also extracted that descended from some 5,000 years ago, according to the Antiquities Authority.
Modern beer-making methods were used to produce the tipple.
The researchers hope to create one using ancient recipes in the future -- and possibly produce it commercially for sale at some point.
In addition to Bar-Ilan and Hebrew University, researchers from Tel Aviv University were also involved in the project.
The aim was not only to raise a glass.
Hazan said the scientific importance to the work lay in its insight into how to reconstruct the past and the domestication of microorganisms like yeast.
But Yitzhak Paz of the Antiquities Authority admitted he took some extra pleasure from the work.
"It tasted great. Well I drink a lot of beer so I can judge," he said.
"When we started the whole project we understood that when we start to brew this material and we get the beer, it will be probably similar, maybe not identical, but similar to the flavour (from ancient times)."
Regardless, the researchers were buzzed from breaking new ground.
"Until now, researchers used ancient recipes, but modern materials," said Paz.
"This is the first time when we actually used ancient materials to create ancient beer."
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Review: “Harry Potter
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It’s over. After 10 years, eight movies, billions of dollars and countless numbers of poorly-executed Halloween costumes the Harry Potter series comes to a close with “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2.”
As a singular effort wrapping up an entire franchise “HPATDHP2” can’t help but be a tad anti-climactic, but it is a wholly-satisfying finale to what is unquestionably the greatest coming-of-age saga ever committed to film.
Not only have we watched the young cast, headed by the trio of Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson, traverse puberty before our very eyes, we’ve also seen them evolve into fine actors along the way. “HPATDHP2” is a tricky little movie because not only does it have to stand on its own, it also has to answer questions that have been floating around for roughly a decade.
What quickly becomes apparent is that while some elements from the previous films certainly come into play, none of the horcruxes, do-dads or whats-its our heroes have been chasing around all this time really matter. As far at the plot is concerned, this is a very traditional good-guy vs. bad-guy showdown as Harry faces off against ultimate baddie Voldemort (still brilliantly played by Ralph Fiennes).
Plus there aren’t really any major character developments aside from the heroic emergence of dopey, little Neville Longbottom (Matthew Lewis) and the ultimate revelation of the motivations of Severus Snape (Alan Rickman, who for my money has been the most consistently outstanding performer in the series).
But really, the “Harry Potter” films are more about the journey than the destination and even though the narrative structure running through these films reveals itself to be loose and meandering when seen from start to completion, it still proves to be one heck of a ride.
So much of the joy of all the movies as been seeing the magic of the wizardly world realized and applied in exciting and compelling ways. There is plenty of that to be sure in “HPATDHP2” to the point that even the wonderful Maggie Smith as Professor McGonagall reacts with awe when she conjures to life the statuary surrounding Hogwarts, saying “I’ve always wanted to use that spell.”
There are some nits to pick as several resolutions in the massive plot get hustled past for the sake of time, including the demise of some beloved supporting characters. But director David Yates (who has directed the last four “Harry Potter” films) does a serviceable job of finding the appropriate emotional beats in the sensory-assaulting, action-heavy plot.
I have to admit that following the climactic battle of “HPATDHP2” I was choking back some pangs of disappointment as I though to myself “did we really need eight movies to tell this story?” Then along came a poignant little epilogue that washed any letdown away.
In a scene that could have easily been cheesy or overplayed, we get some nice, inconsequential moments that illustrate why the world is worth saving and how all of us have endured our own trials and tribulations that have shaped us into the people we are today.
Granted maybe your trials and tribulations couldn’t fill eight movies, but we all can’t be heroic boy-wizards, now can we?
Regardless of whatever cracks and flaws they may have, the eight “Harry Potter” films are a monumental achievement of movie-making that will be enjoyed by families for generations to come. As far as I’m concerned, that’s about as magical as it gets.
“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2” is rated PG-13 for some sequences of intense action violence and frightening images.
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'So' still stands after 25 years
Peter Gabriel Simone Joyner
If longevity and spontaneity are two hallmarks of a healthy relationship, Peter Gabriel's "So" and I have a good thing going.
The 1986 pop masterpiece is, unequivocally, my favorite album ever — and that's saying something as someone known for assigning superlatives with reckless abandon. Knotty and flawed, uplifting and wonderful, I have played it hundreds of times over, yet it still surprises with moments of clarity and ambiguity, revelation and frustration. That I still want to hear it and understand it and get tangled up in it is a testament to its emotional and sonic staying power. Gabriel celebrates "So" with the release of several special 25th-anniversary editions next week and, in concert, I thought it worth revisiting the reasons it has made such an impression.
In one sense, "So" was a departure for the British pop star; in another, it exists as the most quintessential, personal record he's ever made. In his role as the first frontman of Genesis and in the initial years of his solo career, Gabriel was just as concerned with making grandiose gestures and dressing up in decadent costumes as crafting powerful pop hooks. For each accessible hit such as "Solsbury Hill" and "Shock the Monkey," he crafted an equally puzzling exercise in musical adventurism. "So" found Gabriel retaining his status as an innovator while relating to the listener in a more intimate way than ever before.
AllMusic has called it "the catchiest, happiest record he ever cut," an interesting designation when you call to mind it considers themes related to suicide, self-doubt and social conditioning. Yet the record does find Gabriel delivering surprisingly buoyant anthems. Smash hit "Sledgehammer," for example, is all brass and bass and bump-and-grind. All along the way, he displays what AllMusic called an "increased melodicism and ability to blend African music, jangly pop and soul into his moody art rock."
And, as the Los Angeles Times said at the time, in every instance where Gabriel delivers hard truths or creates intentionally jarring moments, "the spark of hope glows strongly and the music delivers the blows with grand, listenable strokes rather than rude shocks."
When discussing an album's historical merit, the conversation often turns to its relationship with time, how timeless it sounds or how it was more artistically advanced than the moment in which it was made. "So" is an obvious product of its era, as synth-laden and bombastic as the 1980s themselves. At the time, the Fairlight CMI (Computer Musical Instrument), synclavier and Linn processors listed in the album's liner notes were on the cutting edge of digital music-making; I doubt those instruments are in wide use today.
Yet, the emotions and experiences the album concerns itself with are universal and undying — vulnerability ("I come to you defenses down / with the trust of a child," Gabriel sings in "Red Rain"), lusty bravado ("Sledgehammer"), unchecked ambition and self-love ("Big Time"), devotion ("In Your Eyes") and defeat ("Don't Give Up").
Writing at the time of the record's release, Rolling Stone's Tim Holmes said the album's "flawless high-tech production," "insinuating melodic strength" and "bittersweet dreamlike ambiance" made it easy listening "yet initially obscures the fact that the album is illuminated by an inner light of subversion, an acknowledgement of the emotional tug of war lying beneath the surface of day-to-day reality."
The album's centerpiece, "In Your Eyes," indeed radiates that same subversive spirit. Ostensibly, it is a hymn to romantic love — and a skillful one at that, as Gabriel delivers a stirring melody against a rousing chord progression, rolling thunderclaps of percussion and an unrestrained, joyous chorus of background singers.
The song does something few other ballads do; while elevating love to a sacred plane, it still acknowledges the frailty and fatigue inherent to the ongoing process of merging lives. "In your eyes / I see the doorway to a thousand churches … the resolution of all the fruitless searches," Gabriel sings at one moment. At another, he admits to "so much wasted and this moment keeps slipping away / I get so tired of working so hard for our survival / I look to the time with you to keep me awake and alive."
Other emotionally enduring tracks on the record include "Don't Give Up," a trip to the cinema in a six-minute pop song. Gabriel's narrator is on the verge of some unnamed defeat before Kate Bush's glorious voice, bringing a vow of unconditional love, and gospel-flecked piano riffs lift him from the depths. "Mercy Seat," an ode to poet Anne Sexton and her dysfunctional family, is quiet, almost imperceptible, yet disquieting. In relaying a beautiful sort of heartache, Gabriel sets a radiant melody afloat on glacial harmonic currents and ripples of percussion that agitate the otherwise glassy sonic sea. "There in the midst of it so alive and alone / Words support like bone," he sings.
"So" was a high-water mark for Gabriel commercially, selling more than 5 million copies stateside, and artistically. Subsequent efforts such as 1992's "Us" and 2002's "Up" are strong and underrated yet insufficient by comparison.
"Beneath its disarming simplicity and accessibility is the voice of an artist who does what his heart tells him to do," Holmes wrote in 1986. "That 'So' would finally bring Peter Gabriel commercial success is an extremely positive sign for the acceptability of intelligence on the airwaves and in pop music in general."
Twenty-five years later, have we truly embraced an intelligent strain of pop music? In our "American Idol" world, where sheen and showmanship are prized and prioritized, some days it can be hard to tell. But the head-meets-heart pop music of "So" has been a heritage to a certain sort of artist and is what keeps it a compelling, convicting listen for me even after my first few hundred hearings.
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Great Yarmouth - not just for summer!
Tourism leaders at Great Yarmouth are upbeat about the coming season – buoyed by strong bookings, investment and a continued “staycation” boom.
The optimism comes as the resort launches a new TV advertising campaign showing a mother and daughter enjoying a shoulder season seaside break – highlighting the range of things to do and see in the area.
Ghostly Goings On during heritage walk
Body snatchers, witches and ghosts from Great Yarmouth’s past will figure in a special heritage walk around the town.
The guided Dastardly Deeds and Ghostly Goings On stroll will take a light-hearted look at famous and infamous characters, as well as intriguing events, from its past.
They include jailed 19th century body snatcher Thomas Smith, who would dig up recently-buried locals, and hide them in a flat off the Rows before taking them to a London surgeon by cart.
The guide will explain the mystery tapping following the burial of a mummified Egyptian princess found in a local school in 1845, and recall when a ghostly gardener cycled through the lock gates of the Minster as recently as 1963.
Exploring Belton's history
A poignant tale links two important, and intertwined, strands of Belton’s past – the railways and market gardening. They will be recalled in the new walk being held on April 4, as part of the season of guided strolls exploring local history.
The walk – The Last Train from Belton - was researched by villager Sue Skoyles, who moved there in 1974, and was keen to learn more about its past. “People will be surprised about how much history there is here – and how much the railways changed the lives of local people,” she said.
Trains transformed a previously quiet rural village into a busy market gardening hub – by providing access to the lucrative markets in London. They also brought in trippers to visit the popular Pleasure Gardens. The line was closed on November 2 1959 despite local protests.
Miniature Village wins top award
The boss of a miniature village tourist attraction has been named as a model businessman.
Peter Williamson, who runs Merrivale Model Village at Great Yarmouth has won the Superstar top accolade at the resort’s annual awards celebrating the best of the area’s tourism and business sector.
Mr Williamson, who has run the popular family attraction for 13 years, was praised by awards judges for his passion in delivering an excellent visitor experience and keenness to introduce fresh ideas each season.
His was among 11 awards revealed at the Town Hall in front of a 200-strong gathering of guests from the tourism and business community.
They were organised by the Greater Yarmouth Tourism and Business Improvement Area, which aims to boost the economy through a range of events and marketing using funds generated from 1200 local levy payers.
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The key to scaling renewable energy — policy
Bryn Baker
Editor’s note: This essay was contributed by one of the NGOs that make up the Renewable Energy Buyers Alliance (REBA), a consortium dedicated to growing large buyer demand for renewable power and helping utilities and others meet it. You can find the other articles here. REBA’s next annual summit will be Oct. 14-16 in Oakland, California ahead of VERGE 18.
The clean energy revolution has taken off in the United States — led in no small part by large companies, cities, universities, health care systems and others who are voluntarily buying large amounts of renewable energy. Policy will be critical to meet the growing demand for renewable energy at the scale needed.
Corporate giants Google, General Motors, Procter & Gamble and Walmart are leading the charge. They are doing so because renewable energy saves money, reduces energy price volatility and helps them meet their increasingly ambitious climate and energy goals. Since 2013, corporate buyers have contracted for more than 13 gigawatts of utility-scale wind and solar, the emissions equivalent of more than 6 million cars. It’s a decent start to meet the Renewable Energy Buyers Alliance (REBA)’s goal for large buyers to deploy 60 GWs of renewable energy by 2025, which would add 50 percent more renewable electricity capacity in the United States than what exists today.
But we still have a problem. Adding 3-4 GW of renewable energy to the grid each year won’t transform the energy sector at the speed and scale needed to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, nor will it meet the scale of buyer demand. Only 60 large buyers have been able to sign contracts for utility-scale renewables so far. What’s holding back the tide?
State-level policy, for one thing. State energy policies, created for an earlier era, haven’t caught up with the new technologies and needs of buyers to offer universal access to cheaper, cleaner renewable power options. A lot of buyers can’t get access to the renewable energy they want, or if they can, it’s overly complicated.
That’s where policy comes in.
Corporate voices are needed to ensure that the energy system delivers benefits that expand access to renewables for a wide range of customers.
State policies affect nearly every aspect of procuring renewable energy: who can buy and access it, where it can be built, how much can be bought and what it costs.
Corporate and institutional buyers — from multinationals, cities and flagship universities to health care campuses and small colleges — all want to source renewable energy. But these buyers need a range of renewable electricity options that are easy to procure, cost-competitive and available for large and small buyers alike.
Fortunately, there are places where their voices are being heard.
Take Virginia. In 2018, the state passed a sweeping grid modernization bill that put 5 GW of renewable energy squarely in the public interest — enough to power more than a million Virginia homes a year — and making it easier to invest in these projects. This would not have been possible without years of groundwork being laid by large energy buyers voicing their support for renewable energy, engaging directly with policymakers, utilities and regulators in the state and submitting multiple letters across 35 companies and universities. These buyers made it clear that access to renewable energy would influence their business decisions: where to site new operations and how they will continue to attract customers, employees and students alike to the state.
In Michigan, home of some of America’s iconic automakers, large energy buyers have been working closely with the state’s major regulated utilities to meet their demand for cost-competitive renewable electricity.
After state policy mandated the large utilities offer renewable energy tariffs (often called a "green tariff"), GM and Switch worked collaboratively with Consumers Energy to craft a green tariff that worked for all involved, including other large customers. Rob Threlkeld, GM’s global manager of renewable energy, said, "We advocate for new approaches that not only open opportunities for GM to access to renewable energy, but also for others to as well."
Learn more about corporate renewable energy procurement at VERGE 18 in October in Oakland, California.
Voices such as those of GM and Switch are needed to ensure that the energy system delivers benefits that expand access to renewables for a wide range of customers.
As Steve Chriss, Walmart’s director of energy and strategy analysis, put it, "In many jurisdictions, energy policy directly determines whether a customer has access to buy renewable energy. Engaging on policy to create pathways for any consumer of any size to buy renewable energy is critical to meeting the 60 GW goal that REBA members have set.”
Large buyers have the power to drive systemic changes in our electricity system by raising their voices and taking the time to educate policymakers on why they want more renewable energy options, as they did in Virginia and Michigan. The secret of these successes was large companies and universities telling their stories and using the power of their brands to catalyze change. The more these buyers lead the charge with policymakers and utilities about how they need low-cost, clean energy, the faster we will arrive at a prosperous future powered by renewable energy.
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Why Retailers Love Gift Cards But You Shouldn’t
By Morgan Quinn December 19, 2014 Retail Credit Cards 101
What is the perfect holiday gift? It’s not the latest smartphone, it’s not a cashmere sweater and it’s definitely not a fruitcake. The top item on consumers’ holiday wish lists is — believe it or not — a gift card.
According to the National Retail Federation, gift cards top the list for the eighth year in a row, and gift card purchases in 2014 will beat all previous records, reaching nearly $32 billion. The most popular gift card purchases this year are for department stores, with restaurants coming in at a close second, followed by coffee shops, entertainment and electronics.
For the recipient, gift cards are the perfect gift: They always fit, duplicates are more than welcome and they never need to be exchanged. For the buyer, gift cards are a no-hassle way to wish someone happy holidays: They’re practical, easy to wrap and ship, and eliminate the decision-making process.
Gift cards feel like free money presented in a pretty little card with no strings attached. Except, there’s no such thing as a free lunch and gift cards are no exception. This seemingly convenient gift is one of the ways retailers try to trick consumers into spending more — and it works.
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From the standpoint of retailers, the gift card is an ingenious money maker: It’s a completely free tactic that brings new and old customers in the door, gets more eyes on their merchandise and encourages shoppers to spend. And spend they do: In 2014, retail purchases made with prepaid cards (including gift cards) will reach $200 billion, about 5 percent of all retail spending in the U.S.
Once customers are in the door with gift cards in-hand, about half of them will spend more than the card is worth — about 20 percent more when using a $50 gift card, according to Investopedia. Even if consumers manage to spend just a few dollars over, those dollars translate to millions in profits, company-wide. And customers who come in just a few dollars under the card’s value are enticed to come back for a repeat visit, where they will surely need to spend more to exhaust the leftover funds on the card.
What’s more, many customers never use their gift cards at all; almost one-third of consumers who receive gift cards don’t use them, according to Consumer Reports. When a retailer collects money right away and issues a store credit that is never exchanged for goods, this also translates to pure profit for the business.
There are virtually no downsides for the retailer who offers gift cards — consumers are the ones who take the hit.
How to Avoid the Gift Card Spending Trap
If you received a gift card this holiday season, here are some tips on how to make the most of your store credit and avoid the spending trap.
1. Use your cards right away.
The easiest way to make sure you don’t forget about your gift card is to use is as soon as possible. Gift cards also don’t protect against inflation, which means they will lose value over time. Brian Riley, senior analyst for bank cards with the Tower Group, told the E-Commerce Times, “Through dormancy fees and abandonment, unused funds will run about $8 billion.” Use your cards right away to make sure you get every penny of credit you deserve.
2. Trade in your smaller cards.
Spending just $5 or $10 at a store is almost impossible. Turn your small-dollar gift cards in for something better to avoid overspending. Sites like Cardpool.com and CardCash.com allow consumers to sell their gift cards for cash or trade them with others. Here are some helpful tips on how to get the most cash for your unwanted gift cards.
3. Know the terms and conditions.
Time limits used to be a problem for consumers; oftentimes gift cards would have short expiration dates, like 12 months or less. As of 2010, however, cards cannot expire within five years of the date they were activated and inactivity fees are more limited, except in certain circumstances, per the Federal Trade Commission. Still, there are other fees associated with some of these cards, including transaction or balance inquiry fees, which can eat up your credit. Know the terms for your particular card so you don’t miss out on every cent you deserve.
4. Think of the card as cash.
Consumers are 2.5 times as likely to pay full price for an item when using a gift card. Like credit cards, gift cards make shoppers feel slightly less attached to the transaction (“it’s not real money!”), causing them to spend more. Think of your card as cash (“it is real money!”) to keep you honest about how much you are actually spending.
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Morgan Quinn
Morgan Quinn is an experienced personal finance writer and her work has appeared on WSJ.com, Huffington Post and Slate. She is also the former Managing Editor of Mint.com.
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Nell Bryden to support Gary Barlow on his upcoming tour.
October 23, 2012 admin No Comments
Gary Barlow just announced that his support act for is upcoming Tour dates including his Irish Shows will be New York songstress and a troubadour Nell Bryden, who has been embraced by the Irish since her single ‘Second Time Around’ graced the Late Late Show and was championed by Today FM dj Ian Dempsey and Rte Radio 1 dj Pat Kenny to name but a few.
Nell Brydens album ‘Shake The Tree’ reached the Irish Music Charts on the first few weeks of its release in Ireland and the New York songstress will play in Ireland on Barlows tour dates early next year:
7th Jan 3013, Olympia Theatre, Dublin.
8th of Jan, Waterfront Hall, Belfast.
And official post from the Take That singer today:
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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT! Nell Bryden to perform with Jools Holland at the Peninsular London Soul and Blues Festival on 20th July!
June 29, 2012 admin No Comments
Nell Bryden
Nell Bryden has the heart of an artist, the mind of a storyteller and the restless soul of a troubadour. These traits are in the genes of the native New Yorker – her parents are a painter and opera singer. But the self-belief and tireless work ethic that have seen her travel 300.000 miles to play 1.400 shows over the past seven years are all her own. In the past she has recorded in Nashville, New Orleans and New York. This time she’s written and recorded her album in and around London: her adopted second home. “A lot of the songs are about starting over, about rebirth and rebuilding,” says Nell. “And finding my way home… wherever that is.” http://www.peninsula-festival.eu/en/Events/London-Soul-en-Blues-festival.html
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Determined musician Nell Bryden refused to let hair loss ruin her life.
‘I grabbed Dad’s hair clippers to take control of my alopecia’
Nell Bryden spoke so bravely about her hair loss for the first time over the weekend in the Daily Mail:
READ HERE: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2163672/Nell-Bryden-alopecia-Musician-talks-hair-loss.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
Positive face: Nell sees her condition as a ‘wake-up call’ for life
Excerpt: Sitting in front of the mirror in my New York apartment, I saw a reflection I hardly recognised. I looked sick. My hair was so thin, large patches of my scalp showed through. My eyebrows and eyelashes were practically gone, too. This wasn’t me, I thought. It felt like a nightmare. But it wasn’t.
Until this moment, I had never realised how much my hair had been intertwined with my identity.
I picked up the clippers I had borrowed from my father and I raised them to my head. At the moment the buzzing metal hit my skin, a giant clap of thunder rang out. Rain began to fall outside as what was left of my hair fell to the floor.
Just three weeks earlier, I had bouncy blonde locks that I could gather into a ponytail or curl into ringlets. I half-heartedly complained about bad hair days but I never really had any. Sure, I had my little insecurities, like most women, about my thighs and my nose, but my hair had never been one of them.
I was confident, healthy and feminine, and I assumed that I would always stay that way. If you had told me when I was younger that I’d be completely bald by the age of 33, I’d have laughed.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2163672/Nell-Bryden-alopecia-Musician-talks-hair-loss.html#ixzz1yn5yStPo
Nell’s new album ‘Shake The Tree’ is out now and she returns to Ireland on July 10th for an acoustic session in The Ruby Sessions in Dublin before her Electric Picnic performance on Aug 31st.
For more info see: https://www.facebook.com/nellbrydenmusic
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Nell Bryden announces Electric Picnic date Aug 31st
May 9, 2012 admin No Comments
NELL BRYDEN ANNOUNCES + Irish festival date August 31st Electric Picnic + NEW DOUBLE A SINGLE
‘BUILDINGS AND TREETOPS’ & ‘IF I FORGET’ (Fri May 25th in ireland)
Taken from the brand new album: ‘SHAKE THE TREE’ (Fri June 15th)
“Nell’s extraordinary voice will draw you in and make you an instant fan” –C. Hawkins BBC6
‘WOW’- Not only do I love listening to Nell’s music but I love watching Nell perform’.- Pat Kenny RTE Radio 1
“Nell Bryden is WOW” – Ian Dempsey- TODAY FM
May 25th sees the return of Brooklyn beauty Nell Bryden and the release of her new double A single ‘Buildings And Treetops’/‘If I Forget’ taken from her eagerly awaited second album ‘Shake The Tree’ through a new deal with ADA/Warner Music (June15th).
If I Forget is reminiscent of her Irish hit Second Time Around, with its alluring vocal sassiness (which has become somewhat of a trademark for the New York songstress), it’s catchy chorus and driving rhythmic groove which draws the listener in immediately. Buildings And Treetops is an upbeat and powerful track penned with Nell’s hometown New York in mind. Combining her modern rootsy and acoustic sound, with chocolate box piano keys behind her trademark Gibson guitar, the track features an uplifting and soaring chorus showcasing Nell’s powerful signature vocals at their best.
Nell is currently supporting the legendary Chris Rea on his UK tour, and also has gained the support slot for the forthcoming Duane Eddy tour! Following the release of her debut album ‘What Does It Take’, Nell received National acclaim in Ireland and appeared on Hit TV Show The Late Late Show, not to mention becoming a regular feature on Today FM & Rte Radio1 (+ many other radio stations around the country) for her successful track Second Time Around. Overseas the album remarkably saw six tracks make it on to the Uk’s BBC Radio 2 Playlist!
Constantly going from strength to strength, Nell has performed as special guest on tour with the likes of KT Tunstall, The Counting Crows and with well-known Irish acts-Damien Dempsey, Cathy Davey, MUNDY, Mick Flannery, DUKE SPECIAL & Declan O’Rourke, along with being invited to perform for ESQUIRE MAGAZINE alongside The STEREOPHONICS & STARSAILOR. Nell later secured slots at many high profile events such as BBC Proms In The Park, Guilfest, BBC Maida Vale celebrations and Camp Bestival.
The American songbird has the urban lifestyle in her blood, the country/folk spirit of Americana in her soul, and the great American songbook in her sights.
Links: www.nellbryden.com / www.facebook.com/nellbrydenmusic
PR Contact: linda@goodseedpr.com / +353 851659065
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The Vibe was a soaring Success!
January 8, 2009 admin No Comments
Ah its all over for another year, but what fun was had!
The lovely Nell Bryden shared the stage with Irish favourite Damien Dempsey for a rendition of Whiskey in the Jar. Which was just superb. And we have a little video of them below.
You can find a review of the show here:
THE VIBE FOR PHILO
Live at the Button Factory Dublin
(DAMIEN DEMPSEY WITH UP AND COMING ARTIST NELL BRYDEN)
The 23rd Vibe kicked off with a bang, The tribute act Renegade smashed into “Are you ready” the house was starting to fill to it’s peak with Thin Lizzy fans from every corner of the globe.. the 2009 Vibe was on it’s way, hat’s off to Smiley for this year, he out done him self as there was quite a few hard rock Lizzy Tributes on the night keeping the Thin Lizzy fans happy and the Vibe living up to it’s true cause, One act stole the night for me was Nell Bryden who came all the way from New York to play tribute to one of rock n rolls true legends, Nell started off with a fantastic version of “Massacre” as she broke the tune down to a slow moody blues tone and it went down a real treat, Nell featured later on with Damien Dempsey who ripped the roof off the house with a version of “Whiskey in the jar” as both artists never met before the show they made a great duo on stage on the night.
at the end of the night Phillip’s mother Philomena gave a wonderful speech and requested a one minute of silence as it was well respected, The proceeds on the night were split down the middle as half went to “Aware” and the other half will be used in funding a museum to the late Phil Lynott (20 August 1949 – 4 January 1986).What a great night to tribute one of the best poet/singer songwriters that will never be forgotten.
Review by T.Halpin
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Elite N.Y. Prep School Fires Teacher Who Posted anti-Zionist Tweets
JB Brager was let go after expressing anger that two 'white' and 'Zionist' men from Reform congregations were invited to run an assembly about anti-Semitism
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The Ethical Culture Fieldston School in New York City in 2007David Shankbone / Wikimedia Commons
The Ethical Culture Fieldston School, an elite New York City prep school, has fired a teacher who posted tweets opposing Zionism.
JB Brager, who taught history at Fieldston, was fired Thursday, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency has learned. The termination comes after Brager, who is Jewish, posted multiple tweets disparaging Zionism amid a controversy over anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism at the school.
“ECFS does not comment on personnel matters,” the school said in a statement to JTA Thursday evening. “We can reaffirm, however, that the school does not tolerate hurtful, offensive, or exclusionary content or comments from any member of the community. Students, parents, employees and other members of our community all face consequences for misbehavior of this nature.”
JTA reached out to Brager for comment, but did not immediately hear back.
The controversy began in November when a speaker at the school, Kayum Ahmed, a lecturer at Columbia University Law School and a director at the Open Society Foundations, said that the Holocaust and Israel are examples of “victims becoming perpetrators,” according to a video obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. Tablet magazine reported that parents were “shaken and outraged” by the remark.
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“Xenophobic attacks are a shameful part of South African history, but in some ways it reflects the fluidity between those who are victims becoming perpetrators,” Ahmed said. “I use the same example in talking about the Holocaust. That Jews who suffered in the Holocaust and established the State of Israel today — they perpetuate violences against Palestinians that are unthinkable. So again, the victims of the Holocaust and the violence have become the perpetrators of injustice against the Palestinians.”
According to Tablet and the Washington Free Beacon, sometime following Ahmed’s remarks, Brager tweeted, “I refuse to ‘reaffirm the value’ of ethno-nationalist settler colonialism.”
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On December 17, the principal of Fieldston’s upper school, Nigel Furlonge, wrote in an email obtained by JTA that the school had “engaged in a meaningful internal dialogue about what the experiences have been, both historically and currently, for Jewish faculty and students at ECFS.” He announced that on January 9, two rabbis of large New York City Reform congregations, Ammiel Hirsch from Stephen Wise Free Synagogue and Joshua Davidson from Temple Emanu-El, would address a school assembly.
Following Furlonge’s announcement, Brager tweeted, “for a school assembly on anti-Semitism, SURE GO AHEAD and invite two white men who run Reform congregations, both of whom are Zionists, one that wrote that the ‘most insidious strain [of American anti-Semitism] is that of anti-Zionist intersectionality [on the far-left].'” Brager ended the tweet with three angry-face emojis. JTA has obtained a screenshot of the tweet.
Brager was quoting in the tweet a modified sentence from an op-ed by Davidson in The Jewish Week.
Hirsch and Davison spoke at the school on Thursday. In his speech, Hirsch defended Zionism and challenged the arguments of anti-Zionists.
“Understand what they mean when they say they are not anti-Jewish, just anti-Zionist,” Hirsch said, regarding anti-Zionist activists. “They mean that, from their perspective, justice requires extinguishing the one and only Jewish state — the size of New Jersey — in favor of a 23rd state of the Arab world that collectively has a greater land mass than the entire United States.”
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Alisson pushing himself to start against United
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Cape Town - Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson has reportedly been working as hard as he can to be fit in time for the Premier League clash against Manchester United.
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Algorithmic Decision Making and its Human Rights Implications
Please note: This workshop is not a public event but on invitation only.
With the alluring possibility of technology freeing us from the need to make decisions in all areas of our everyday lives, a sincere concern is arising with regard to the preservation of free will in matters as crucial as the formation of public opinion, political decision-making and activity in online communication spaces.
Algorithms, which also enter physical terrain via IoT, directly influence human behaviour both online and offline. The need for new meta-norms that can ensure an ethical process of technological innovation and acknowledge human rights when it comes to algorithmic decision-making is a pressing matter to be discussed.
hosted by the Hans-Bredow-Institute for Media Research (HBI) and
the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG)
12 to 13 October 2017 | Sirius Minds Berlin | Französische Str. 12.
These are the issues our workshop on algorithmic decision making and human rights seeks to address. Benefiting from multiple points of view brought to our discussion panels by the Network’s guests and experts of the Network, we will jointly seek to explore and exchange views on the shifts, tensions and new perspectives that innovations in the field of algorithmic decision-making bring to the status and protection of human rights. By unpacking the participants’ numerous research efforts, we will be able to shed light on this broad theme, uncover further common research interests and build upon diverse methodological backgrounds.
Workshop location: Sirius Minds | Französische Str. 12 | 10117 Berlin
14:00 – 15:45 Registration
Welcome and opening
Wolfgang Schulz, Hans-Bredow-Institut for Media Research,
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Carlos Affonso Souza, Institute for Technology and Society,
15:45 – 16:30 Input Statement: Douglas Eck, Co-Founder of Google Brain
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Sharon Bar-Ziv, Haifa Center for Law and Technology
Kirsten Gollatz, Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society
Lorna McGregor, Human Rights Centre, University of Essex
Mariarosaria Taddeo, Oxford Internet Institute
Rolf Weber, Faculty of Law, University of Zurich
Moderation: Carlos Affonso Souza, Institute for Technology and Society,
18:00 – 20:00 Dinner and get-together at the institute’s premises
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9:00 Arrival and coffee
9:30 – 11:00 Panel discussion: IT innovations shaping public communication
Natali Helberger, Institute for Information Law, University of Amsterdam
Ulrike Klinger, Institute for Mass Communication & Media Research,
Michael Latzer, Media Change & Innovation Division, University of Zurich
Aleksandra Przegalinska, The New Research on Digital Societies (NeRDS group)
Moderation: Juan Carlos De Martin, Nexa Center for Internet and Society
11:00 Coffee break
11-15 – 12:45 Panel discussion: Ethics and accountability questions of artificial intelligence
Balázs Bodó, Institute for Information Law, University of Amsterdam
Christian Djeffal, Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society
Niva Elkin-Koren, Haifa Center for Law and Technology
Jędrzej Niklas, London School of Economics and Political Science
Alessandro Mantelero, Nexa Center for Internet and Society
Moderation: Jeanette Hofmann, Berlin Social Science Center & HIIG
12:45 – 14:15 Wrap-up and lunch
A workshop within the Global Network of Internet and Society Research Centers hosted by the Hans-Bredow-Institute for Media Research (HBI) and the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG).
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Home / World News / At least 26 killed in suicide bomb near Shia shrine in Kabul, ISIS claims attack
At least 26 killed in suicide bomb near Shia shrine in Kabul, ISIS claims attack
A suicide bomb attack in Kabul near a Shiite shrine on Wednesday, killed at least 26 people as Afghans celebrated the Persian new year Nowruz
world Updated: Mar 21, 2018 22:49 IST
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Men transport a victim at a hospital after a blast in Kabul, Afghanistan March 21, 2018.(REUTERS Photo)
A suicide bomber blew himself up near a Shia shrine in Kabul on Wednesday, killing at least 26 people and wounding 18, officials said, as the Afghan capital celebrated the Nawruz holiday marking the start of the Persian new year.
The explosion underlined the threat to the city from militant attacks, despite government promises to tighten security in the wake of an attack in January that killed around 100 people.
In Cairo, militant group Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack, its Amaq news agency said. An affiliate of the group has claimed previous attacks on Shia targets.
Kabul had been on alert for attacks over the Nawruz holiday but the bomber was still able to detonate his explosives as people were leaving the Kart-e Sakhi shrine, in the west of the city.
“There was a huge explosion and I saw a lot of people running away,” said Sayed Omer, who was nearby at the time of the blast, near the city’s main university.
Interior Ministry spokesman Najib Danesh said the bomber had apparently intended to reach the shrine, a target of previous militant attacks, but had been prevented from getting closer by police checkpoints.
“We had our security in place in and around the shrine,” he said. “All the casualties were young men who were either passing by on the road or gathering to enjoy Nawruz.”
Nasrat Rahimi, a deputy spokesman of the interior ministry, said at least 26 people were dead and 18 wounded. Italian aid group Emergency, which runs one of Kabul’s main trauma hospitals, said seven people had been brought in, three of them dead on arrival.
Nawruz, an ancient Persian celebration of the start of spring, is widely celebrated in many parts of Afghanistan but has also faced opposition from some fundamentalist Muslims, who say it is un-Islamic.
The seemingly endless attacks have undermined support for the government of President Ashraf Ghani, who offered last month to hold peace talks with Taliban insurgents fighting to drive out international forces and reimpose their version of strict Islamic law.
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Ellen Hermanson Foundation founder Dr. Julie Ratner, gala chair Jean Shafiroff, and honoree Jodi Wasserman. (Photo: J.Van der Watt for Rob Rich/www.societyallure.com)
The love of a good woman is a legendary force. The palpable love that filled the Ellen Hermanson Foundation's "Evening of Enchantment" at the Topping Rose House built a state of the art hospital center and support system. These good women have carried countless in the East End through breast cancer and saved countless others from it, via early detection.
Jean Shafiroff chaired. Jodi Wasserman was honored. Wasserman's own battle with breast cancer inspired her to support others'. She sits on the boards of Lucia's Angels and The Coalition for Women's Cancer and gives hands on loving care, including end of life transitioning, under the guidance of Susie Roden, the Foundation's patient navigator and president of the Coalition for Women's Cancers (both at Southampton Hospital).
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This behemoth breast health support system all started with an event cobbled together in Julie Ratner's kitchen table with Emily Levin - Ellen's Run - to continue the work of their third sister, Ellen Hermanson. Ellen's last years battling breast cancer were filled advocating for others. Now it was up to them. "We were very bold to use the word annual, because who knew at the time that it would become so," Julie told the room. Sunday, August 19 will be the 23rd Annual Ellen's Run.
The sisters' dream ultimately created Stony Brook Southampton Hospital's Ellen Hermanson Breast Center, a state of the art facility, "where no one is turned away because of a lack of health insurance and no one is asked their immigration status, and where the technology and doctors are unsurpassed anywhere," Julie told the room. The Foundation also provides psychosocial support through Ellen's Well, a program of group and individual counseling, overseen by Edyle O'Brien, LCSW, an oncolcogial social worker with more than 20 years of experience, and the same beatific smile as Julie.
"We live in a place, Long Island, that has the highest record of breast cancer in the United States," Gala Chair Jean Shafiroff told the room. "And Julie has made it her business to help tackle that problem with her sister in honor of all of the women and men who suffer from this terrible disease. When you think of the Ellen Hermanson Foundation, you think of Julie Ratner."
This evening, Julie was thinking of and thanking: Samantha Voutsinas and her team at Topping Rose, the "wonderful" volunteers, event coordinator Sara Blue, Anne Gomberg the foundation's executive director; the Board of The Ellen Hermanson Foundation: Dr. Constance Chen, Emily Levin, Ellen's husband, Hugo Moreno, Amanda Polk, Dee Rivera, and Cathy Tweedy; Sponsors, Jean and Martin Shafiroff, the Andrew Sabin Family Foundation, Fowlers Garden Center, Simple Vodka, Hamptons.com and Hamptons Jewelry Show, the latest brainchild of Impresario and art collector Rick Friedman, which will donate the proceeds of opening night to the Foundation.
It has been more than 23 years since they lost Hermanson, but thanks to her sisters, her name will be forever associated with breast health in the Hamptons. "Ellen was my sister, my soul-mate, my mentor, my confident, my life coach, my hero and so much more" Julie Ratner told the room. "Not a day goes by that I don't think about her. The Foundation is my homage to Ellen, a way to keep her memory alive and honor the work that she did to educate, and bring comfort and support to women with breast cancer and give meaning to her life beyond the short time she spent with us. In fact, the mission statement for the Foundation, "to ensure access to state-of-the-art breast health care and enable people affected by cancer' is inspired by Ellen."
For more information about the Ellen Hermanson Foundation, visit www.ellenhermanson.org.
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14 August 2018, 16:03 | Updated: 14 August 2018, 16:16
Louise Thompson and Ryan Libbey got engaged during a luxury holiday to Los Angeles.
Made In Chelsea star Ryan Libbey designed an engagement ring based on girlfriend Louise Thompson's extensive wardrobe.
The gym-honed reality star showed off his softer side after it emerged he spent weeks choosing the perfect ring for his co-star girlfriend, 28.
Ryan, 28, who met Louise back in 2016 and proposed last week in Los Angeles, even opted for a heart-warming message on the band, which read "always yours".
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Speaking of the moment he dropped to one knee, Louise told OK! Magazine that she “cried solidly for three days” after he popped the question.
She added: “It’s the most exciting thing that’s ever happened to me in my entire life.”
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"Louise's effortless style was always at the forefront of Ryan's decision, as he wanted something she could effortlessly wear with all of her outfits and jewellery.
"A timeless piece, as stunning now as it will be in 20 years."
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The wildlife turns out for our first cruise
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Our first cruise of the season exploring the Islands of Mull, Coll and Iona was amazing with almost perfect weather and a fantastic array of rare species seen. Having a dedicated Wildlife Guide on board our cruises is what makes our voyages a true wildlife experience, plus all our Crew members are nature and wildlife enthusiasts. The Crew members were skipper Chris Ireland, Chef Ross Harris, Wildlife Guide Nigel Spencer and bosun Mark Mullen; their combined expertise provided our guests with an unforgettable wildlife experience as well as the best of Scottish hospitality. The amazing wildlife photos are Nigel's
Nigel's Cruise Report
Saturday: The cruising season got underway on the 29th April, with Elizabeth G leaving Oban on our "Mull, Iona, and Coll Island Explorer" 6-night cruise. The weather was generally warm, with a little wind leaving us with a glorious day. One of our first sighting was of several black guillemots with their distinctive white diamond wing pattern as they flew across the bay as the guests and crew headed north west into the Sound of Mull. The gentle breeze remained with us as we continued along the Sound before turning right past Aullston Point and into the shelter of Loch na Drama Buidhe for our first overnight anchorage. Chef Ross served up a fantastic Scottish themed evening meal for our first night together.
Sunday: We woke to a lovely calm morning with good views of a pair of great northern divers in their distinctive summer plumage, these birds are not common and it was a good start for what was to result in a trip filled with great wildlife. After breakfast we passed by the small island of Oronsay, crossed the Sound of Mull and into Tobermory which never lets us down for good views of the famous coloured buildings along the harbour front. I accompanied guests on a leisurely walk ashore in Aros Park, which gave us great views across Tobermory and the northern end of the Sound of Mull. Upon our return, we spent a further hour browsing the shops and seafront before re-boarding Elizabeth G for a late lunch and continuing our journey around the north point of Mull and on towards Croig bay where we anchored for the night – a lovely anchorage with a great sunsets.
Monday: We continued along the north coast of Mull, with good views of the Treshnish isles and Bac Mor (which is more commonly known as "Dutchmans Cap" because of its appearance). Visibility was once again good and in the distance we could see Rum, Eigg, Coll, and several distant mountains on the mainland. We anchored in the inlet between the islands of Gometra and Ulva, ready to go ashore after lunch aboard. After a few minutes, a small number of dolphins were spotted and everyone gathered on deck to watch. Luck was on our side as the group of circa 12 dolphins continued to swim closer and we were kept entertained with great views for about 20 minutes with several coming within feet of Elizabeth G.
After lunch we went ashore on Gometra and walked to where we reached the narrow bridge crossing the small causeway that led us onto the island of Ulva where we continued our walk. The weather continued to be warm with everyone now in shirtsleeves fully enjoying a lovely afternoon. On the return journey a group of three otters was spotted fishing and playing in the sea, near a very small offshore island. We sat and watched them for over 30 minutes before returning back across onto Gometra – what a great end to a great day!
Tuesday: The warm weather was continuing, Chris, our Skipper took us back towards the Treshnish Isles, and we landed on Lunga for a great morning on the famous seabird colony. After only a few minutes ashore the group was sitting together in the sunshine watching both Puffins and Razorbills. Indeed, no matter how many times you visit a puffin colony, it is always great fun to see them and take more pictures. There was also plenty of other birds to enjoy and it wasn't long before everyone had good views of many more species including fulmars, shag, and guillemots. After several hours ashore we returned to the boat, and after lunch we headed across to Coll which is another favourite island. We went ashore at Arinagour where we enjoyed a leisurely couple of hours exploring. Elizabeth G then cruised to the very scenic Calgary Bay on Mull with its long white sands where we anchored for the night – a beautiful backdrop to enjoy another evening meal prepared by Ross.
Wednesday: A brief view of Harbour Porpoise was the reward for those on deck as we headed towards Staffa where we hoped to land, but unfortunately the swell was a little too much, so we decided to view this tiny island from the deck of Elizabeth G. We passed alongside the famous Fingal’s Cave where we enjoyed superb views of the tall basalt columns that reach almost 100 metres in height before we changed direction and headed south to the historic island of Iona. Iona has a long history dating back to St Columba who arrived with his twelve companions around 650AD where they founded the monastery and brought Christianity to Britain. After landing we headed towards the Nunnery, Abbey, and everyone visited some of the many historic sites where we all enjoyed several hours.
One of the most prized birds in Britain for wildlife enthusiasts is the corncrake which unfortunately has suffered an alarming rate of decline for many years, and is now found in very small numbers on just a handful of islands which includes Uist, Coll, and Iona. Luck was on our side as I managed to locate at least three of these very shy birds, which then resulted in most of the group also having excellent views, indeed the views were so good that several of the party managed to get photos of this lovely rare bird. From a wildlife perspective the week was building very nicely as we were certainly getting a good mixture of fantastic sightings.
We rejoined Elizabeth G and crossed to Loch Na Laithaich where once again Ross cooked everyone another fabulous meal before we were treated to a glorious sunset at the end of another great day.
Thursday: After breakfast we cruised in an easterly direction along the southern coast before stopping at Lochbuie for a trip ashore which was the longest of the trip. The group set off, shortly passing May Castle, where several woodland species such as dipper were added to the growing list of wildlife seen. We walked along Loch Uisg past the memorial and after a short distance we reached Loch Spelve where we all stopped for several minutes enjoying the view of a golden eagle as it soared along the rolling eastern ridge of Creach Being. We continued walking until we reached the small village of Strathcoll where we were met by Skipper Chris who had walked the last mile to meet us. While we were away, Chris and Mark had purchased some freshly harvested mussels which were expertly cooked by Ross before we relaxed on our last evening aboard the Elizabeth G.
Friday: Unfortunately it was time to head back to Oban after such a great start to the season, both guests and crew had enjoyed a great week. We cruised along the north western shore and out of Loch Spelve where three eagles were spotted at fairly close range on the headland right at the end of the loch. We watched them for several minutes before continuing our final journey and continued between the island of Kerrera and the mainland. After a short while we arrived back in Oban where we berthed alongside Proud Seahorse.
During the week we had covered almost 190 miles and the list of weeks wildlife had grown to over 60 species of mammals and birds which is too long to list here, but included favourite species such as puffins along with many Hebridean specialties including dolphins, porpoise, eagles, and corncrake. Together they make an impressive start to the season, but unfortunately it was time to say goodbye. The weather had been very kind with no rain, and increasingly warm days, great views, great food, and great company, the result was a week that will remain in the memory of both the guests and the crew for many years to come.
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What is it about the Hebrides? The islands have been pulling me back every year since my first visit in the early 90’s. It may be my Scottish ancestry, but I think it’s the unique combination of landscape, wildlife and community that proves irresistible to the traveller in search of wilderness and solitude. For years, I have stood on the edge of islands like Skye, the Uists and Harris looking out at all those other islands, the unpopulated, inaccessible ones, wondering what they must be like.
Richard Rees: 19 May 2018
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Another landlord fined £20K+ for issuing "sham" licence agreements
Tower Hamlets council has successfully prosecuted a landlord for offences under the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Practices Regulations 2008. The London-based landlord was fined £22,000 for issuing "license agreements" to occupants who should have been given tenancy agreements. This follows on from a similar court case in Islington in 2017 when an agent was ordered to pay over £20,000 in fines for breaching consumer protection legislation.
Both cases centred on property managers who erroneously told their tenants that they were "licensees" as opposed to tenants. The court concluded that the occupiers were, in fact, tenants and should have been granted Assured Shorthold Tenancies (the relevant legal tenancy for new private tenants in England). The court found that failing to issue the correct agreement was an unfair practice as it led the occupiers to believe that they had limited rights in the property. While tenants enjoy protection afforded by statue such as the Rent Order (NI) 1978 and the Private Tenancies (NI) Order 2006, these protections are not extended to licensees, whose rights are instead set out in a contract. Where there is no contract, a licensee enjoys very little legal protection and can be very vulnerable to homelessness and other abuses.
Consumer protection legislation
After detailed investigations, Tower Hamlets' Trading Standards team took legal action against the landlord, who faced 11 charges of offences under the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008. These regulations apply equally in Northern Ireland. The objective of these CPRs is to prohibit businessess from engaging in unfair commercial practices and apply to landlords and letting agents in the same way that they apply to other service or goods providers.
Regulation 3 prohibits unfair commercial practice, which includes any misleading actions or ommissions and aggressive practices. A trader will also be guilty of an offence if he or she engages in a practice that materially distorts, or is likely to materially distort, the economic behaviour of the average consumer with regard to the product. Where a landlord issues a tenant with an agreement that states that the person is a licensee, this is an attempt to remove the tenant's legal rights to notice to quit and associated due process of law as licensees do not enjoy the same right to written notice of a prescribed length. While a landlord must still obtain a court order to evict a licensee, this is generally a much smoother process and while councils can prosecute a person who illegally evicts a tenant, there is no similar enforcement action against a person who illegally evicts a licensee.
Local application
It is not unusual for a landlord to issue a tenant with a license agreement. Some landlords may even regard this as good housing management, particularly if they are renting out HMO properties or renting properties on a room by room basis, as they may assume that a license agreement gives them greater flexibility to remove a person who is behaving antisocially or who is not gelling with the other occupants. However, if the facts of the arrangement give rise to a tenancy, the person is a tenant and the landlord's decision to create a license agreement or to refer to the arrangement as a licence to occupy is a misleading action under the Consumer Protection Regulations.
Landlords who are unclear on the distinction between a tenancy and a license should seek advice from Landlord Advice. In England, an arrangement where a person shares accommodation with a live-in landlord is precluded from being an assured shorthold tenancy, but this is not the case in Northern Ireland where you can create a tenancy even if you own and live in the property with the other occupant.
Any person who believes that they have been issued with a licensce agreement when they are, in fact, a tenant should get advice urgently by contacting Housing Rights. Housing Rights advisers can assist the client in gathering evidence to present a case to Trading Standards who are the prosecuting authority for these offences. In Northern Ireland, Trading Standards services are centralised and fall under the remit of the Department for the Economy.
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More help needed for householders in mortgage arrears
As the latest Court Service figures showing the number of actions for possession are released, Housing Rights Service is urging householders to get free independent advice and to turn up to court hearings.
Nicola McCrudden, Policy Manager with the charity said: “Living with threat of losing your home is extremely stressful and can leave people with a sense of hopelessness. This is understandable, but its important to realise that there can still be options. Even when a court date has been set people should attend as our advisers will be there to provide on the day assistance.”
Housing Rights Service is contracted by the Department for Social Development to operate the Mortgage Debt Advice Service for Northern Ireland free of charge. The charity also provides a court duty scheme to assist homeowners and tenants on the day of their possession hearings.
With the continuing economic problems, Housing Rights Service is reporting that demand for mortgage debt advice being sustained at a high level. Between April and June 2013 around 400 households contacted the service for assistance. This represents a 26% increase on the same time last year.
Given the extent of the problem the Department for Social Development has agreed to set up a working group to gather information on repossession and to identify ways to prevent its impact by 2014-15.
Commenting on this Ms McCrudden said: “Northern Ireland suffers from a huge negative equity problem which affects around seventy five per cent of our clients. Ironically, despite our unique circumstances, we have fewer support initiatives or debt relief options in comparison to neighbouring jurisdictions. We welcome the Social Development Minister’s commitment to establish a working group and urge him to action this sooner rather than later to prevent more people from losing their homes.”
People experiencing difficulty with mortgage or secured loan debt can contact Housing Rights Service on 0300 3230310 or visit their website www.housingadviceNI.org.
For further information, contact our Communications Team on 028 9024 5640 or email pressofficer@housingrights.org.uk
Spokespersons will be available for comment
In 2012/2013 Housing Rights Service dealt with over 37,000 issues related to housing.
The charity provided representation at nearly 1,000 court hearings.
In August 2011 Social Development Minister Nelson McCausland announced continued funding that will allow the Mortgage Debt Advice Service to operate until 2015.
The latest Court statistics on repossession published on the 16 August and are available at http://www.courtsni.gov.uk/en-GB/Publications/Pages/default.aspx
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Best Hotels in London
Best hotels in London? Once it is a big list, and we want you to make the most of your reading, without further ado:
THE SHANGRI LA AT THE SHARD
Shangri-La Hotels have always exemplified true Asian hospitality through their service and product and Shangri-La at the Shard is no exception to this rule. LRF Designers Ltd. was brought in on the project in late 2012, providing an environment that echoes the Asian heritage of Shangri-La whilst celebrating the exciting new infrastructure that the Shard has brought to London, and this can be seen in the hotel rooms (contemporary, creamy, Asian-influenced), restaurant design area (especially the romantic Ting) and bar area (gin and rosemary – divine) are all fantastic.
Rich cherry wood, smooth and elegant grey marble and a stunning ‘east meet west’ inspired golden yellow and grey floral and grid combination carpet were just some of the elements used to bring forth the desired sentiment when experiencing the interior environment at Shangri-La at the Shard. Andre Fu and Steve Leung were also important to the development of this London luxury hotel.
LONDON EDITION HOTEL
Yabu Pushelberg was the name to call for their first major hotel project in the UK — the new hotel from Ian Schrager: the London edition. Ian Schrager (also known as co-owner and co-founder of studio 54) returns to London for the first time in 15 years since he introduced Sanderson and St. Martins Lane.
As with all Edition hotels, each is a cultural epicentre and a microcosm of the best each city has to offer. located in central London’s Fitzrovia, lodging preserves the finest aspects of the historic building — formerly the Berners hotel — yet reinvents the spaces within to create a dynamic fusion of old and new, past and present.
The hotel offers a social hub where guests and visitors can work, relax, socialize and dine all under one roof; behind the refined Georgian exterior and majestic public spaces, there are two bars, a restaurant, meeting rooms, a 24-hour fitness facility and 173 secluded, intimate and luxurious wood-panelled rooms and a buzzing lobby hotel area.
If there’s something similar to heaven, The Langham Hotel London is here to prove it! The game-changer – Sterling Suite with 450 square metres, now London’s biggest master suite room and one of its most expensive at £24,000 a night – is airy, celestial and touched with silver and gold leaf in all the right places.
To accomplish this luxury hospitality project and as part of the 150-year anniversary celebrations at 2015, the hotel has rebirthed guestrooms and suites, which have been exclusively designed by Richmond International.
No stranger to the Langham brand, hospitality interiors experts Richmond International has worked on The Langham London – as well as other properties around the world – as the hotel renovates its facilities piece by piece, project by project. With most of the furniture and details custom-designed and made specially, the Sterling Suite lives up to its promise of offering guests an experience not to be found elsewhere.
MANDARIN ORIENTAL LONDON
Internationally renowned and famous interior designer, Joyce Wang, has overseen the redesign of all guest rooms and suites, along with the creation of the hotel’s new Penthouses, taking inspiration from the peaceful parkside location, as well as the glamour of the early 20th century’s Golden Age of travel.
All 181 guest rooms and suites are now more luxurious and comfortable than ever before, with hotel art deco-inspired features including carefully curated artworks and custom-designed furniture.
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Each of the hotel’s 40 suites ranges in size from the smallest, at 47 square metres, located within the turrets of the hotel, to the largest, at 444 square metres, which comprises the new three-bedroom Mandarin Oriental Penthouse with private terraces.
Consisting of two penthouse suites, the Mandarin Penthouse and the Oriental Penthouse can be interconnected to create one of London’s largest suites with three bedrooms, three bathrooms, a private dining room, two kitchens, and expansive views of Hyde Park and the London skyline.
THE BEAUMONT HOTEL
Immediately upon entering the entrance lobby of The Beaumont – complete with its chequered black granite and gold travertine floor and curved cherry wall – you feel you are transported into an art deco era. As with all Richmond projects, the hotel interior design is inspired by the building and its surroundings.
Floor-to-ceiling windows run the full width of the building, and antique and vintage pieces, as well as original works of art, posters and photographs sourced over the years by Corbin & King, are placed throughout the hotel public spaces. Far from creating a finished product, the pair are keen to evolve and add to this collection of furnishings over the coming years.
Another defining aspect of the design is the contract furniture, for which Richmond worked with a number of selected, independent, high-quality furniture brands – predominantly based in the UK – to create bespoke designs. The consideration and care that has gone into these individual pieces is evident and contributes greatly to the understated glamour of the hotel.
The Savoy hotel reopened in 2010 after the largest ever hotel interior restoration in London, a £220 million project that reaffirmed the extraordinary heritage of this iconic hotel.
ReardonSmith led the design team in a programme that included the restoration, rebuilding or redesign of all guestrooms and public areas, the introduction of an entirely new services infrastructure and the structural stabilisation of the listed riverfront façade.
Pierre–Yves Rochon created the new hotel interior design schemes. Throughout, a new level of glamour and sense of luxury was achieved, echoing the very finest of 1920s Art Deco combined with an Edwardian–inspired, classic English style, both synonymous with The Savoy.
At Kaspar’s restaurant dining area, you find a dynamic and flexible design, with new lighting – including a beautiful bespoke chandelier – a stunning marble floor around a new dramatic Seafood Bar and elegantly designed furniture to punctuate the space.
The goal for this hotel interior decor was to reaffirm Lanesborough position as one of the London finest luxury hotels with a refurbishment of all public and guest areas. ReardonSmith and Alberto Pinto agency, worked closely to implement a new hotel design using the Georgian origins of the building, adding modern and historical twists to provide an appropriately unique layering of styles, reflecting the graceful maturing nature of a functioning historic building.
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The Portuguese marble to the entrance lobby has been refurbished and, with rigorous attention to matching, extended throughout the public circulation areas. The stone panels on the walls have been revived and mirrors are now inset into the arched niches; elsewhere, new faux stone perfectly replicates the genuine stone walls.
The Royal Entrance has been transformed with trompe l’oeil painted walls and ceilings to create the appearance of fabric gathered to form an elaborate tented structure. Delicate marquetry panelling has been introduced to line the walls of the St. Georges Room.
The Belgravia Room has been remodelled, opening it up into a single grand function room with antiqued Venetian fluted mirrored pilasters and hand-engraved mirrored crystal window pelmets displaying at their centre a crest which pays homage to the name of the room.
THE DEAN STREET TOWNHOUSE
This Soho House outpost comprises three adjoining Georgian townhouses close to the original club. Rooms (Tiny, Cosy, Small, Medium and Bigger) are fetchingly pale and interesting, and no two are exactly alike. The descriptively named Dining Room dishes up oysters, Scotch eggs, mince-and-potatoes, apple and blackberry pie.
And while the silvered tea and coffee tins hint at the black-Labs-and-wellies wholesomeness of sister property Babington House, this is more Dangerous Liaisons territory, providing stiff competition for the nearby Soho Hotel.
CAFE ROYAL HOTEL CLUB
The contemporary and luxury hotel decor of Café Royal is part of a collection of individual hotels rooted in the history and culture of its location, and one of the Leading Hotels of the World (LHW). Founded in 1863, Café Royal is located in Piccadilly Circus (in the heart of London). It reopened in 2012 after a four years radical restoration under the direction of David Chipperfield Architects.
SEA CONTAINERS HOTEL
While the original Tom Dixon design of the hotel, reminiscent of a transatlantic 1920s liner with a dose of 1980s post-modernism reference, will largely remain the same, the hotel seeks for a variety of interior updates that will build on the existing design, according to Lore Group.
As part of the hotel’s new status, Sea Containers London debuts a fresh graphic identity and branding to reflect the next chapter in the hotel’s history. Materials will feature classic images with Pop-Art-style illustrations that reflect the nautical history of the building and the transatlantic hotel interior design.
FOUR SEASONS HOTEL AT PARK LANE
ReardonSmith were the lead architects with responsibility for architectural planning and design, interior design detailing and on-site design compliance in the multi-million-pound rebuilding of the Four Seasons Hotel London at Park Lane.
The rebuilt, with its newly defined architectural form, precisely and densely planned spaces and hotel chic interiors now offers a far greater sense of belonging to its location. At ground level, the area has been opened up to allow glimpses through space to the newly landscaped garden beyond, and, while the area works as one, it has also been planned to provide areas of intimacy and to offer a range of experiences.
The eight guestroom floors have been re-configured to more than double the number of suites, many of which now enjoy magnificent views, large outdoor terraces and working fireplaces. This had Pierre Yves Rochon collaboration once again.
THE CORINTHIA LONDON
Designed by GA Design International the 128-year-old jewel’s aesthetic is that of a 21st-century grand hotel – the style descendant of the defining establishments of last century. As we walk through its spaces, admiring the near 250 specially commissioned artworks which line its walls – predominantly by British artists – we can sense the subtle whisperings of days gone by fused with a fabulously contemporary spin.
The spa-like spaces are decorated with a modern edge using a resource which has history literally running in through its veins. The glorious Full Moon Baccarat crystal chandelier is another nod to a mainstay of the stately 20th century hotels.
Housed in a soaring dome of the hotel’s lobby and designed by Parisian designer Chafik Gasmi, the glistening spectacle is composed of 1,001 expertly cut crystal baubles, offering the traditional wow-factor but executed in a revolutionarily nouvelle way.
BROWN’S HOTEL
Under the ownership of Rocco Forte Hotels, Brown’s Hotel underwent major hotel interior renovations throughout. The oldest hotel in London, built-in 1837 had upgraded to all bedrooms to include 117 guestrooms and 29 suites and all public areas including a dining room and a tearoom.
All finishes were to a 5-star level, using silks from Designer’s Guild, linen upholstery from Volga Linen in Belgium, handmade glass door handles to all guestrooms, antique table lamps fashioned from vintage wrought iron from Belgium, leather and wood desks from Promemoria, Italy and Bizazza tile and limestone in the bathrooms.
DORCHESTER LONDON
The hotel interior renovation is part of Dorchester Collection’s ongoing commitment to enhance a world-class icon and the hotel’s position in the London market as a top dining destination. Interior architect Bruno Moinard has worked in a collaborative effort with The Dorchester on his vision for the hotel decor space. The original ceiling and ornate doors remain an integral part of the current design, paying homage to the heritage of the restaurant.
CLARIDGE’S HOTEL
Over the years Claridge’s has acquired an almost mythical aura, making it something more than the sum of its parts. Not that there’s anything wrong with its parts – an irresistible Art Deco, grand Victorian flourishes and low-key, streamlined contemporary luxe. To pass through its oddly fragile-feeling revolving doors is to pass into another, lovelier world. Eternally on our list of London best hotels to stay.
BLUE BAR AT BERKELEY HOTEL
Inspired by the favourite colours of Edwardian architect Edwin Lutyens, the Blue Bar is a popular business people hang out. Housed in the 5star Berkeley Hotel, the bar is a welcoming and elegant salon behind Venetian glass doors.
Lutyens’ carved wood panels adorn the walls and space is littered with a comfy chair into which patrons sink to discuss their latest deals while attendants at the onyx bar serve up champagnes, whiskies and classic cocktails.
45 PARK LANE HOTEL
Dorchester Collection’s ninth hotel, 45 Park Lane opened just opposite The Dorchester on 1 September 2011 with Wolfgang Puck’s first venture in Europe, CUT at 45 Park Lane. Throughout the intimate-sized hotel, luxurious and contemporary interiors by New York-based designer, Thierry Despont, provide a club-like feel offering international guests a smart, central environment from which to enjoy London. Each of the spacious 45 rooms and suites offers views of Hyde Park, as does a spectacular Penthouse Suite with a wrap-around terrace offering panoramic views across London.
ROSEWOOD HOTEL LONDON
One of London’s newest ultra-luxury hotels the Rosewood London opened in October 2013, after a sensitive transformation of the 1914 Edwardian Grade II-listed building on High Holborn.
Perfectly situated just moments from Covent Garden, it is ideal for enjoying many of London’s finest attractions from the Royal Opera House, to the British Museum and West End Theatres.
Tony Chi and Associates have created all of the accommodation interiors and the public areas, including the 11 event spaces and the Mirror Room, a stunning space with floor to ceiling mirrors offering all-day dining and afternoon tea.
THE CONNAUGHT HOTEL
Lately restored to its former glory and simultaneously whizzed into the 21st century with the addition of a new, minimalist, Asian-inspired wing and an exquisite Aman Spa. Yet the stolid Englishness of the place remains intact – a quality embodied in its celebrated central staircase (dark and woody of a bannister, bright and stripy of carpet), which apparently drove Ralph Lauren into such a fit of longing that he commissioned a replica of it for his Madison Avenue shop.
The Connaught Bar is a mini Art Deco masterpiece, and both Hélène Darroze’s Michelin-starred restaurant and the less formal Jean-Georges at The Connaught are outstanding (the latter with a view onto a magical Tadao Ando water sculpture outside).
THE GORING HOTEL
Until recently, wallpaper was regarded as outdated, but in 2016 might be the year of its renaissance, thanks perhaps to one particular pattern: the über-trendy banana leaf. The tropical design is the print du jour, and Instagram agrees.
As of late, your feed likely experienced a proliferation of photos featuring the motif on the walls of hip cafés and restaurants like West Hollywood’s Rawberri and New York City’s Indochine. Fashion also embraced the trend—think Dolce and Gabbana’s Fall 2016 head-to-toe assortment of banana leaf wares and Stone Fox Swim’s bikinis.
Attributed to two interior designers of the same era, the beloved banana leaf wallpaper has dual origins. The legendary anti-minimalist Dorothy Draper developed her leafy version Brazilliance in 1937 for the now-closed Arrowhead Springs Hotel in California (and later seen in The Greenbrier hotel) and a few years later, in 1942, Hollywood costume, fashion, and interior designer extraordinaire Don Loper famously patterned the Beverly Hills Hotel in his exotic Martinique.
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Recapturing the magic of the guest experience
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National Report – Once upon a time, the hospitality sector boasted the premiere TV viewing experience, but with the recent explosion in guest content, hotels are struggling to keep pace, said Michael Ribero, CEO of content and connectivity solutions provider SONIFI Solutions.
Pictured: In May 2014, the Donovan House in Washington, D.C., completed a redesign that included new 55-inch TVs and desks with built-in, flip-up outlets with standard power and USB sockets.
“People forget that hospitality invented pay-per-view and video-on-demand,” said Ribero. “The market hasn’t seen a lot of innovation taking place even though the technology has changed so much.”
Travelers are using more devices than ever during their trip, and it is changing how they interact with in-room content. According to SONIFI’s “Hotel Guest Channel Preferences Away and at Home, October 2013” survey, 81 percent of travelers use a smartphone while traveling, 79 percent use a laptop and 48 percent use a tablet. At the same time, revenue from in-room movie rentals has fallen—a drop of 41.6 percent from 2007 through 2013, according to the “Trends in the Hotel Industry” report from PKF Hospitality Research, LLC.
The decline in in-room movie rentals is part of a larger drop-off in in-room revenue driven by a variety of economic and social reasons, said Robert Mandelbaum, director of research information services at PKF Hospitality Research. Part of the decline can be traced to the rise of online streaming through portable devices, as well as overall belt-tightening in response to the great recession.
“Since the great recession, executive travel and meeting planners have had to control their budgets,” said Mandelbaum. “It is taboo to put a $5 can of soda or $10 chocolate bar on your expense report.” Additionally, hotels looking to control their operating costs have been cutting back on expensive operations like minibars and room service.
Part of the change, however, is a reflection of broader social shifts. “Younger travelers prefer to be outside the room,” said Mandelbaum. “That is why hotels have invested in offering more F&B outlets in their lobbies.”
Guests are selecting hotels with these new expectations in mind. “We’re seeing a few key factors important for our guests in selecting a hotel: flexible spaces with ample outlets to plug in and charge up anywhere and everywhere, reliable high-speed wireless Internet connections, and comfortably designed rooms in which to enjoy their entertainment options,” said Faith Yi of Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants.
A Generational Shift
The degree to which guests embrace mobile content depends in large parts on their demographics.
“The younger audience tends to travel with more devices and has a lower dependence on TV,” said Ribero. “Those that do use the TV use it in tandem with a second device.”
According to the SONIFI study, millennials (born 1978 – 1987) lead the way in second-screen viewing, with 38 percent of them viewing TV while using a laptop and 32 percent while using a tablet. For Generation X (born 1965 – 1977), these numbers fall to 31 percent and 24 percent respectively, and for baby boomers (born 1946 – 1964), they fall to 21 percent and 13 percent.
“One third of the millennial audience doesn’t even see the TV as their primary entertainment medium,” said Ribero. “Generally, the younger the audience, the more comfortable they are with technology and curating their own content.”
At the same time, according to MMGY Global’s 2014 Portrait of American Travelers, millennials (1979 – 1994) were most likely to demand in-room TV options when selecting a hotel. According to the survey, 34 percent of millennials selected “Free access to premium content on in-room television” as being influential when selecting a hotel or resort, as opposed to 28 percent of Gen Xers (1965 – 1978) and boomers (1946 – 1964). 35 percent of millennials selected “Variety of in-room entertainment options available on the television” as being influential, as compared to 27 percent of Gen Xers and 22 percent of boomers.
Certain trend lines, however, cut across demographics. “Over 90 percent of all demographics want the ability to put their own content on the TV or watch proprietary content,” said Ribero. “The threshold is, how big is too big of a challenge before they give up and go with what they know works.”
The Challenges of the New Guest Experience
Even as guests increase their demand for content, hotels continue to face challenges in delivering. Ribero cited one example of a five-star hotel in which he had stayed that had a set-top box balanced atop the guestroom’s flatscreen TV, with exposed wiring connecting the two—not a stylish impression.
“You have to give guests something comparable to what they have at home or better,” Ribero said.
Putting guest content on the guestroom TV is more complicated in a hospitality environment, in which hundreds of TVs can share a common wiring system, Ribero said. Set-top boxes, which originally solved many of the problems of coordinating and distributing content, have lost prominence as wall-mounted flatscreens have gained prominence. Delivering guestroom entertainment that can match or exceed what guests experience at home will require a new approach.
Pictured: The Eventi Hotel in New York City has a “Business Bar” with a variety of tech devices on loan for guests, including iPads, Macbook Pros, reading tablets, digital cameras and tech accessories.
“It will take an ecosystem to reestablish hospitality as the pre-eminent viewing experience,” said Ribero.
Many hotels have moved to offer amenities that work with guest devices. Kimpton offers complimentary high-speed Wi-Fi for guests who are part of the brand’s free loyalty program; a menu of commonly forgotten items to borrow such as chargers, USB cords and international plug adaptors; and free on-demand TV programming, including 24-hour yoga and Pilates channels, said Yi.
“On average, a typical Kimpton guestroom offers four or more outlet plugs and two USB ports per room,” said Kimpton’s Yi. “Our new and more recently renovated guestrooms have desks with built-in power units, additional lamps with power outlets bedside, and smartphone docking stations for recharging and listening to music.”
Given the pace at which potential tech amenities evolve, hoteliers cite the capital commitment required to upgrade as their biggest challenge in keeping on top of guest demand, said Ribero.
“We’re close to being able to offer an expense-based, shorter-term non-capital lease that some hotels have asked for,” said Ribero. “We want to offer a shorter-term option because it obviates the need to go to the capital committee for approval.”
As hotels move to adapt, the relationship between guest and hotelier is changing when it comes to in-room content.
“We have to learn how to work with guests without losing control of the experience,” said Ribero. “As the technology changes what guests have access to, we have to change how we work with our customers.”
In-room revenue sources for U.S. hotels
Change: 2012 to 2013 -4.5%
Change: 2007 to 2013 -39.5%
Change: 2012 to 2013 1.3%
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Source: PKF Hospitality Research, LLC, Trends® in the Hotel Industry Report
Influential when selecting a hotel/resort
Millennials % Xers % Boomers%
Free internet access from guest rooms 53 59 58
Free access to premium content on in-room television 34 28 28
Variety of in-room entertainment options available on the television 35 27 22
MMGY Global Portrait of the American Traveler 2014
Ambassador Hotel Wichita maximizes guest connectivity
BeyondTV with voice control and enhanced Wi-Fi from Hotel Internet Services gives guests casting abilities and voice-activated amenity control.
by Esther Hertzfeld Jan 8, 2020 8:35am
The next generation of guest experience technology
When investing in new technological solutions for a hotel, many become overly focused on the specifications and lose sight of the greater picture.
by Frank Wolfe, HFTP Jan 6, 2020 10:19am
Music presents a new front for in-room entertainment
Whether by partnering with major streaming companies or by adding Bluetooth speakers, hotel companies are adapting to evolving guest demands.
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Crescent Heights Sells 50% of Mondrian SOBE to Investor Michael S. Liebowitz
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LXR Hotels & Resorts announced Zemi Beach House as the brand’s first hotel to open in the Americas. The 76-key, beachfront hotel continues to be owned, operated and managed by the Goldstein Family of New York.
IHG Intensifies Effort to Fight Human Trafficking in the Americas
Company focuses on awareness and prevention with mandatory training, tools and resources for hotel colleagues
Authorized Biography of Bill Marriott Shares Never-Before-Published Stories
From a root beer stand to the largest hotel chain in the world, Bill Marriott was the driving force behind the growth of the world-famous Marriott hotel company. Bill Marriott: Success Is Never Final is the remarkable story of a man who had the vision to create a multi-billion-dollar business, who understands the power of giving through substantial philanthropic work, and who lives the creed that hard work will pay off but success is never final.
Students in the Conrad N. Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management at the University of Houston in Texas achieved placement in the final five teams during the HotelSchool The Hague Genio Worldwide Innovation Summit last month.
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Human Trafficking At Hotels
Company focuses on awareness and prevention with mandatory training, tools and resources for hotel colleagues continue reading →
Hotel Transaction Miami
Crescent Heights announced yesterday that it has sold 50 percent of the Mondrian South Beach hotel to investor Michael S. Liebowitz for an undisclosed amount. Russell Galbut, Managing Principal of Crescent Heights, will retain 50 percent ownership of the Mondrian South Beach, and Menin Hospitality will continue to manage and operate the property. continue reading →
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Big-name hotel chains accused of profiting from sex trade, ignoring criminal activity continue reading →
This chapter is an excerpt from my new book. It’s fiction but some of the characters and story lines are based on people I have worked with and events that have taken place in the hotels I have worked in. The book is a fable about a hotel manager who has some very bad habits. continue reading →
Genio Worldwide Innovation Summit
Students in the Conrad N. Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management at the University of Houston in Texas achieved placement in the final five teams during the HotelSchool The Hague Genio Worldwide Innovation Summit last month. continue reading →
Hotel Opening Anguilla
LXR Hotels & Resorts announced Zemi Beach House as the brand’s first hotel to open in the Americas. The 76-key, beachfront hotel continues to be owned, operated and managed by the Goldstein Family of New York. continue reading →
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Hilton Opens 700 New Work-From-Home Positions
Hilton (NYSE: HLT) has announced the creation of 700 new full-time work-from-home positions, significantly expanding its remote career program and flexible work opportunities across the United States. continue reading →
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AAA Four-Diamond Rating Awarded to The Inn at Harbor Shores
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Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Awards More Than $16 Million in Grants in the Third Quarter Of 2019
The board of directors of the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation announced today that 13 grants were approved, totaling more than $16 million during the third quarter of 2019. These grants were awarded to 13 organizations spanning across the Hilton Foundation’s program areas, both in the U.S. and internationally. continue reading →
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Reflective Infrared Proximity Sensor
CKT-IRSENSE
"I was having problems with the sensors for my grade crossing flashers... As soon as I replaced the sensors with the ISE sensors, all the problems went away and the crossing signals have worked flawlessly." – Jason Klocke. View Jason’s spectacular CGW layout here.
This device is a simple infrared sensor that makes detection of locomotives or rolling stock easy and reliable. Just place the sensor where its invisible light beam will reflect off the object of interest and you're done - no time-consuming or frustrating adjustments! Based on modern silicon technology, this sensor is tolerant of ambient (background) lighting conditions, be it completely dark or under full lights, with no false triggering. Combined with a discrete under-track installation, this low-profile sensor solves many of the challenges that plague other optical detector products.
Small size (0.25" x 2.25")
No adjustment needed!
Simple, discrete under-track installation
Variable release time up to 23 seconds (or 23 minutes with Long Delay option)
Two opposite polarity, open-collector outputs (40V / 250mA capable)
Tolerant of ambient (background) lighting conditions - no false triggering
9" pre-stripped wire leads attached to the sensor
Powered from 5V to 24V
Optional mounting bracket available
Activate grade crossing signals
Trigger sounds
Build an automatic interchange
Indicate end-of-track in hidden staging yards
Detect block occupancy for signal systems
C/MRI track occupancy inputs
The detector is designed to be installed up through the benchwork in a 3/8 inch (10 mm) hole. Because the sensor itself is so small, only a single hole is required and no complicated drilling jigs are needed. The sensor can be secured in the hole using a variety of methods such as hot glue or by using a bracket. An example mounting bracket can be found here.
The CKT-IRSENSE needs 5-24 volts of clean direct current (DC) power to operate. Two opposite polarity outputs are provided, both of which are “open drain” (otherwise known as “open collector”) and act like a switch to the ground or negative lead.
Logic level outputs can be generated by connecting a resistor to pull up the output to the positive supply. Other devices, such as LEDs or relays can also be driven directly and the outputs from multiple sensors can be connected in parallel to combine them into one signal.
2.25"(L) x 0.25"(W) x 0.25"(H)
By default, the release time is programmable from 0.1s to 23s using an external resistor. A long-delay option is also available with release times from 6s to 23 minutes - contact us for details.
The activation time is preset to 0.1s.
The sensing distance varies with the reflectivity of the object being sensed, but is typically 1.5".
Normal Delay (0 to 23s)
Long Delay (6s to 23min)
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2018 Optical Detector Roundup
Many of you already know that Iowa Scaled makes both kinds of detectors – an optical detector known as the CKT-IRSENSE, and a current detector known as the CKT-BD1. When discussing detectors a few months back, Michael and I thought it would be interesting to compare ours with the various other products on the market and figure out who really has the best stuff. In this installment, we’ll look at six of the most popular optical sensors on the market, comparing and testing them, and try to give you a fair and honest comparison between all your options. We’re a weird company, and just to prove it again we’re going to say some nice things about other peoples’ products, and some bad things about ours. Read on…
Automatic Interchange
Iowa Scaled Engineering products were recently mentioned in one of the Model Railroader Video Plus episodes, featuring Tony Koester’s Nickel Plate Road.
In this video (subscribers only) you’ll see our CKT-IRSENSE and ACC-RELAY1 products used in an automatic interchange. Each time a cut of cars is picked up, a new cut of cars is automatically pushed forward. For those wanting more details, Tony has written an article about automated interchanges that appears in the December 2016 issue of Model Railroader.
DCC Auto-Reverser
We were recently asked to build a module that could automatically reverse a locomotive between two end points for use on a small point-to-point switching layout. The idea was to provide a means for continuous running of a train while working on the layout or to break in new locomotives without user intervention. The end result is described here, with instructions for building your own. At the current time, this is a mostly a DIY project, but if you want help building one, please let us know.
Auxiliary Power from a DCC Bus
While DCC is primarily meant to power and communicate with the trains on the tracks, there are circumstances where having some auxiliary power available would be nice without having to run an extra set of wires. Maybe powering a remote turnout, an IR sensor, some animation or building lighting, or a fast clock secondary display?
Adventures in Lighting: Part 2
Addressing some of the problems of the design in Part 1, a new lighting system for the pantry has been installed.
Simulate a Spring Switch
Spring switches are used by some prototype railroads to save the crew from having to re-align the switch points after passing through the switch. The switch is sprung in one direction (typically the mainline), allowing any train to pass through the switch from the frog end without manually aligning the points. When entering the mainline from a siding, this allows the train to continue on its way without having to realign the points to the main – the spring action takes care of this automatically. Modeling this unique feature can be easily accomplished with an IR sensor and switch machine.Read More...
Infrared Proximity Sensor
The CKT-IRSENSE is an inexpensive reflective infrared proximity sensor, designed primarily for model railroad use, utilizing the latest in proximity sensor technology. It can be used to trigger a variety of sound and visual effects as well as provide track occupancy status. The sensor’s small size (0.25″ x 2.25″) makes installation simple with only a single 3/8″ hole required. The technology used in the CKT-IRSENSE makes it highly tolerant of background lighting conditions, thus requiring no user adjustments.
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Mexico: Coastal protection, Aztec-style
There are few green places to take refuge from the bustle of overcrowded Mexico City. That's why the chinampas — floating islands built more than 500 years ago by the Aztecs — draw so many visitors.
At weekends, the canals of Xochimilco in the south of the city, where these floating islands are found, are filled with people in small colorful boats, as mariachi bands and food sellers pass by. But the chinampas serve another purpose. Made from fertile soil collected from the bottom of the city's lakes, they were originally built to grow food. They're still an important source of food today, producing some 40,000 tons of pumpkins, corn and other staples.
Now, 500 kilometers (310 miles) away from Mexico's capital, around the port city of Veracruz, some hope this ancient technology will help with another environmental problem. The loss of mangrove forest has left the coast unprotected and open to erosion and storm surges and means sea creatures, such as crabs, no longer have a place to live — that's bad news for fishermen there. Pro Natura Sur, one of the environmental organizations behind the project, hopes planting mangroves on the chinampas will help revive the area's old ecosystem.
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Luka Sabbat: millennial entrepreneur
Josip Majer
At only 20 years old Luka Sabbat is already carving out a legacy on fashion runways, and on the screen, in one of today's most talked about tv shows. Somehow despite the time constraints of fame and success, he is quickly building an empire: employing his vision on a new set of creative endeavors that we are getting very excited about.His already-impressive résumé is proof that hard work, ambition, charisma and a bit of great timing can align with a new life of stardom.
After capturing the imagination of fashion luminaries like Dolce & Gabbana and Hugo Boss, an army of 1 million Instagram followers quickly followed, leading to a breakout role on Grown-ish, TV's latest It show. Now he's one of the boys in high prestige fashion club next, rubbing shoulders with gal pals Bella Hadid and Kendall Jenner.
The exciting thing about Luka is that he made the early decision not to follow the path of his formal education and dropped out of college to pursue his dreams. One semester was more than enough, and "being in the cage," he states, doesn't work for him. For him, the world is a place to learn and grow. He found a kindred soul in Noah Dillon, and their collaboration sparked a photographic show aptly titled HOTMESS. The show is about taking young people of various backgrounds and capturing them in situations unfamiliar to them. A play on contradictions from the young punk dining in Cipriani to the rich kid finding solace on the streets of Chinatown. Shot from an insiders perspective the "youth" capturing the "youth" skews societal expectations by turning them on its head. Luka sees his work of art as a book you would read in 2030, or like a new age Twitter.
When it comes to fashion he is straightforward: "I think you need to have a sense of self-confidence, a sense of what works regarding fit and proportions and not being afraid to take risks. Most importantly it can't look forced..." Far away from being forced, Luka is marching to the beat of his drum, while enjoying the best days of his life. What is next in his professional life we will surely find out soon, but based on what we've seen so far, we can expect nothing short of innovative, revolutionary and unconventional.
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Best Western Plus Hill House
700 Truxtun Avenue Bakersfield California United States 93301-4817
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Discover this full-service Bakersfield, California hotel providing convenient access to key area attractions including the Bakersfield Speedway, the Rabo Bank Arena and Yosemite National Park. Welcome to the Best Western Plus Hill House where guests will find convenient access to key area attractions, friendly customer service and an abundance of amenities for an affordable rate. Located in...
Discover this full-service Bakersfield, California hotel providing convenient access to key area attractions including the Bakersfield Speedway, the Rabo Bank Arena and Yosemite National Park. Welcome to the Best Western Plus Hill House where guests will find convenient access to key area attractions, friendly customer service and an abundance of amenities for an affordable rate. Located in California's Capital of Country Music, this Bakersfield area hotel features well-appointed guest rooms each fully-equipped with cable satellite television and free wireless high-speed Internet access. This full service hotel boasts amenities such as a complimentary full hot breakfast, outdoor swimming pool, exercise facility, full-service business center and meeting facilities. The Best Western Plus Hill House also features an onsite family restaurant-perfect for grabbing a quick bite before heading out to enjoy the town. Pets are welcome with a nominal fee. Guests staying at the Best Western Plus Hill House will find themselves less than 10 miles from most area attractions including the Buck Owens' Crystal Palace, the Kern County Museum and Fox Theatres. Catch a concert at the Rabo Bank Arena only 0.1 miles away or spend a warm day at Lake Ming or Lake Isabella enjoying fishing and swimming. Racing fans will enjoy being just seven miles from the Bakersfield Speedway while guests in town visiting students will be only six miles from both California State University Bakersfield and Bakersfield College. The Best Western Plus Hill House also offers convenient access to the Sequoia National Park and is located at the gateway to Yosemite National Park. The friendly, helpful staff at the Best Western Plus Hill House is ready to ensure a fun-filled memorable stay in Bakersfield, California. Make a reservation today and save! Enjoy your stay.
Accommodates up to 250
Mexxican & Sea Food
Mexxican & Sea Food, on premises, full service, American, open for: lunch, dinner, Mexican cuisine, lounge with live entertainment occasionally
700 Truxtun Avenue
CA United States 93301-4817
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EXCLUSIVEChloe Lukasiak and Ricky Garcia Break Up
By Brie Hiramine
We are heartbroken to report that Chloe Lukasiak and Ricky Garcia split up. Their reps EXCLUSIVELY confirmed with J-14 that the couple broke up about a month ago, and there are no hard feelings between them. Their split was simply due to their busy schedules, and they're still close friends, despite the breakup.
Their reps told us, "We can confirm that Chloe and Ricky broke up about a month ago due to their hectic work schedules. They remain close friends and support one another and want the fans to continue to support them individually, as well. There are no hard feelings, there wasn’t any disloyalty, and they ask for the fans to respect their mutual decision and privacy."
The Forever In Your Mind singer and Dance Moms star first met at the 2015 Radio Disney Music Awards, but really connected at Digifest and started dating soon after.
Even though they're no longer together, we are so happy that they're still on good terms. Breakups are rough to go through, and they obviously still care about each other.
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TV-MA | 44min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi | TV Series (2013–2017)
A streetwise hustler is pulled into a compelling conspiracy after witnessing the suicide of a girl who looks just like her.
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Convicted of a decade old crime of transporting drug money to an ex-girlfriend, normally law-abiding Piper Chapman is sentenced to a year and a half behind bars to face the reality of how life-changing prison can really be.
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Following the tragic end of her brief superhero career, Jessica Jones tries to rebuild her life as a private investigator, dealing with cases involving people with remarkable abilities in New York City.
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SPOILER: Orphan Black follows outsider, orphan and street-wise chameleon Sarah. After witnessing a woman's suicide, Sarah assumes the stranger's identity - who happens to look just like her. Expecting to solve all her problems by cleaning out the dead woman's savings, Sarah is instead thrust headlong into a kaleidoscopic mystery as she realizes the dizzying truth - she and the dead woman are clones. As Sarah searches for answers, she discovers the chilling fact that there are more people like her out there - genetically identical individuals who were planted in unsuspecting birth parents and nurtured in completely different circumstances. With no idea who created the clones, she'll need to discover the reason in a hurry as an assassin is killing them one by one. Written by Annonymous
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When introducing M.K., it is said that her accent sounds Scandinavian. It is later found out that she is Finnish, which is a language not even remotely related to that of the original Scandinavian countries. Finnish is more related to Eastern European languages than those of Norway, Sweden and Denmark (anyone able to recognise Finnish accent is most likely aware of this).
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11 July 2013 | by grimswold – See all my reviews
Just a Note to people who said the accents didn't sound real, as a British person - English no less, they do sound real. There are plenty of people in the London area who speak exactly like them. In fact they sound more English than a lot of young people today who have developed a rather lazy English accent which has emerged in the last 20 years out of a mish mash of foreign accents and sounds particularly awful to me, and sometimes unintelligible. Just to put the matter straight.
As far as the first episode goes the only one I have seen so far - I think it appears very promising, I will stay tuned! I think the acting of the 2 leads is very good and I like what appears to be an original Idea or two emerging already.
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Fight against climate change: 200 nations pledge to focus on land-based solutions
By Kalpana Warrier on September 13, 2019
NEW DELHI: Ministers and representatives from nearly 200 countries have pledged to focus on land-based solutions that will contribute to preventing catastrophic climate change and the conservation of biodiversity. The pledge, the New Delhi Declaration, hammered out over the two-day long high level segment of the 14th general assembly of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, has a broad focus on investing in land and unlocking opportunities. The New Delhi Declaration will be adopted by the meeting in its closing assembly on Friday.
The New Delhi Declaration is political statement that gives a broad sense of the direction in which countries will work together to address the issues of land degradation and desertification. The general assembly of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification is convened biennially. India is hosting this round of the meeting and will guide the implementation of the Convention and decisions taken for the next two years.
Rather the big promises, the New Delhi Declaration identifies the approaches and areas of work such as droughts particularly on preparedness plans and risk mitigation, land degradation neutrality, creating green jobs and establishing sustainable value chains for products sourced from the land. The declaration however fails to deliver any real momentum on improved financial flows though it does broaden the sources of finance. In particular, the inclusion of financial flows from the private sector.
The declaration “invites” development partners, international financial mechanisms, the private sector and other stakeholders to “boost investments and technical support for the implementation of the Convention”. Around two billion hectares of productive land have already degraded worldwide. Every year around 12 million hectares fall to desertification, according to the UNCCD. The cost to combat these has been estimated at $450 billion annually. Addressing the media following the opening of the high-level segment, UNCCD executive secretary Ibrahim Thiaw, who lamented the paucity of funds to address the key issues relating to land. “We cannot only rely on public funds. Private funds also need to come. Land degradation and desertification is a problem that is everyone’s problem and therefore private investment will go a long way,” said the UNCCD chief.
In that sense, the declaration serves as a political flagging off on key issues that will form the core of the deliverables that India will work on together with other countries and stakeholders during its tenure as chair of the assembly.
It takes note of the latest scientific assessments including the recent special report on land and climate change by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the global assessment on biodiversity and ecosystem services, and the report on land degradation and restoration by the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). The declaration reiterates the synergies in addressing land degradation, biodiversity loss, and climate change.
Countries have pledged to encourage the development of community-driven transformative projects and programmes, as well as focus on efforts that address issues of land degradation and drought and energy access.
There is some concern that the declaration does not capture the level of ambition that seemed to otherwise inform the meeting. Among the issues on which further discussion and consensus is required is that of land tenure. This was flagged as new and emerging issue for the New Delhi meeting. Countries agreed to “reaffirm” the relevance of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests for better access, control and stewardship over land and equitable tenure security, in accordance with relevant national legislation, for the implementation of the Convention and the promotion of sustainable land management.
Another important focus of the declaration is that of creating synergies to address issues of biodiversity loss and conservation, and tackling climate change. Going beyond synergies, there is a political recognition of the need to encourage local governments to adopt integrated land use management and enhanced land governance to rehabilitate the natural resource base that are crucial to sustain life as we know it. This is particularly important given the push for urbanisation across the world, especially in developing countries. Leaders have agreed to encourage governments at all levels, particularly local governments, to focus ways to reduce rates of land consumption and soil sealing, and biodiversity and ecosystem loss.
The New Delhi Declaration highlights interventions such as the Peace Forest Initiative that was launched at the current round of meetings. This initiative focuses on the potential contribution to increasing cooperation on land degradation neutrality, including land restoration and reforestation in transborder areas in participating countries. The Great Green Wall of the Sahara and Sahel was another effort that was highlighted.
On Tuesday, Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar, who is chairing the current round of the UNCCD meet, presented the draft New Delhi Declaration to the delegates in a closed meeting.
Javadekar had described the declaration as “not only be ambitious but very reality-based declaration which will be accountable for the actions by various nations”.
Source: Economic Times
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Whole-time Director Indubala Subhash Vora
Managing Director Sachin Subhash Vora
Whole-time Director Sumit Subhash Vora
Independent Director Prakash Vasantrao Kamat
Independent Director Shashikant Vishnupant Bugde
Independent Director Pramod Vinayak Apshankar
Kranti Industries Limited was incorporated in Bombay, as Kranti Industries Private Limited, on December 5, 1995, under the provisions of the companies Act, 1956 with the Registrar of Companies. Subsequently the name of the company was changed from Kranti Precision Tools Private Limited to Kranti Industries Private Limited, pursuant to shareholders resolutions passed at the extraordinary general meeting held on February 8, 2002 and a fresh certificate of incorporation consequent upon name change was granted to the company on March 11, 2002 by the Registrar of Companies.Later the company was converted into Public Limited Company, pursuant to shareholders resolution passed at the extra ordinary general meeting held on July 31, 2015 and the name of the company was changed to Kranti Industries Limited vide a fresh certificate of incorporation dated August 17, 2015, issued by the Registrar of companies.Over the years, the company has diversified its products portfolio. At present the company caters to various sectors by developing components for construction, automobile, commercial vehicle etc., and has also diversified customer base and also committed to continuing to diversify the products offerings, customer base and geographical footprint, thereby minimizing the exposure to individual geographies and also including customer John Deere India Private limited, ATA Impex Private limited, etc.The company has two manufacturing units. The result of the quality assurance efforts over the year has ended up in the manufacturing units of the company receiving ISO 9001:2008 and ISO/TS 16949:2009 from Kiwa Cerment Italia.The company initially catered to the tractor industry in the automotive sector with major dependency on very few customers. Further, with a view to expand the business and undertake additional orders, the company acquired majority stake in Wonder Precision Private Limited in the year 2013, which is now a subsidiary of the company.
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A Place at Our Table (Amish Homestead Novel #1) (Paperback)
By Amy Clipston
Zondervan, 9780310349013, 336pp.
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Kayla Dienner has suffered her fair share of heartache, which is why she vows to protect her heart at all costs . . . until she meets Jamie Riehl.
Along with his volunteer work at the local fire department, running his Amish farm keeps Jamie Riehl busy. He barely has time to eat at the family table, never mind find someone to date. But when he meets Kayla Dienner, he is smitten.
Kayla tries hard to deny her attraction to Jamie. After all, she's spent the last year discouraging her younger brother, Nathan, from becoming a firefighter. The death of their older brother in a fire a year ago is fresh in her mind--she can't bear the idea of putting her heart on the line every time the sirens blare.
Then tragedy strikes, and Jamie wants to extinguish any flame between him and Kayla. Can Kayla set aside her own fears to save the love she was determined to deny?
The first book in the Amish Homestead series, A Place at Our Table invites us to a quiet community in Lancaster County where love burns brightly no matter the cost.
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Third Deepwater Semi-submersible delivered
Maersk Deliverer (Maersk Drilling) (Semisub)
On 15 April Maersk Drilling took delivery of the third unit in a series of three identical ultra deepwater development semi-submersible drilling rigs constructed at Keppel FELS in Singapore. "The demand for modern drillings rigs has increased over the past years concurrently with the growing technical challenges we are faced with in the drilling industry. The search for new finds is moving to deeper waters and areas with complex soil conditions and more advanced drilling rigs are needed to meet those challenges. Our ultra deepwater semi-submersibles are well equipped to meet this demand”, says Claus V. Hemmingsen, CEO of Maersk Drilling. “Although the activity in the deepwater market was not unaffected by the economic slowdown in 2008 and 2009, the favourable long term oil price outlook will be supportive for exploration and development drilling in the deepwater segment, and we expect to see high demand for deepwater rigs going forward." With its large capacities and highly efficient drilling equipment the new rig is capable of drilling 10,000 m (30,000 ft) into the subsoil measured from the seabed. This makes the rig particularly well suited to drill deep and technically complicated wells as seen among others offshore West Africa, Brazil, the Gulf of Mexico and Southeast Asia. The rig is able to operate in water depths up to 3,000 m (10,000 ft) and can maintain its station either in dynamic positioning (DP) mode or with a pre-laid mooring system. As tradition bids the name of the rig will be revealed at a ceremony at the yard on Sunday 16 May 2010.
Source: http://www.maerskdrilling.com/en/media-center/press-release-archive/2010/4/third-deepwater-semi-submersible-delivered
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Det Norske extends XL Enhanced 2 contract with Maersk Drilling
Det norske oljeselskap ASA (Det norske) has extended the company’s contract for Maersk Drilling’s ‘XL Enhanced 2’ jackup rig that is currently under construction at Keppel Fels in Singapore with delivery expected in 2014. Det Norske contracted the unit to work on the Ivar Aasen project in Norway initially for a firm 3 year period with that period now being extended to 5 years, adding around US$280 million to the contract. Det Norske has further options to extend the contract for the jackup for an additional 7 years. The ‘XL Enhanced 2’ jackup is one of three XL Enhanced jackup rigs that Maersk Drilling ordered in 2011 and 2012 and are enhanced versions of the Maersk Innovator and Inspirer units.
DONG Energy contracts 'Maersk Resolve' for further Danish drilling operations
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Petronas exercises one year option for 'Maersk Convincer' jackup
Petronas Carigali has exercised an existing contractual option to extend the contract of the ‘Maersk Convincer’ jackup rig currently operating for the company in Malaysia. The contract extension means that the ‘Maersk Convincer’ will now be working off the coast of Malaysia for Petronas until mid-November 2014, with the unit performing high-pressure-high-temperature and under balanced drilling operations. The value of the one year contract extension is US$54 million and means that the unit will have been constantly working for Petronas for a firm period of three years upon completion of the new extension.
Maersk Drilling orders fourth XL Enhanced jackup rig
Maersk Drilling has placed an order with Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) in South Korea for a fourth ultra-harsh environment jackup rig named the ‘XL Enhanced 4’. The rig will be built to Gusto MSC’s CJ70-X150MD design, the same as Maersk’s other three XL Enhanced jackup orders which are currently under construction in Singapore at Keppel FELS shipyard. The ‘XL Enhanced 4’ is expected to be delivered in mid-2016 at a cost of up to US$650 million with options for two additional units. Maersk has ordered the rig on the back of a five year contract with BP for plug and abandonment work on the operators Valhall field in Norway which will begin once the unit has been successfully delivered from the yard and mobilised to Norway.
Maersk names first of four newbuild drillships
Maersk Drilling has named the first of the company’s four newbuild drillships at a naming ceremony at Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) shipyard in Geoje, South Korea. The unit previously referred to as Deepwater Advanced 1 has been officially named the ‘Maersk Viking’ and is due to be delivered in the next couple of months. Once delivered the unit will mobilise to the US GoM for its initial contract with ExxonMobil, the contract is for a two year period and is valued at US$610 million including the mobilisation fee. The delivery of the unit will further enhance Maersk Drilling’s position as a deepwater drilling operator with the company due to have a total of four drillships delivered over the next year all of which are being constructed by SHI in South Korea.
Statoil completes drilling of additional Volve field wells using 'Maersk Inspirer' jackup
Statoil Petroleum AS, operator of production licences 046 and 046 BS, has completed the drilling of wells 15/9-F-1 and 15/9-F-1 A on the Volve field, located between the Sleipner West and Sleipner East fields in the central North Sea. The purpose of the wells 15/9-F-1 and 15/9-F-1 A was to determine higher additional resources for the Volve field by proving petroleum in Middle Jurassic reservoir rocks (the Hugin formation) in the northwestern part of the field. Well 15/9-F-1 did not encounter the Hugin formation as expected, but the Smith Bank formation in Triassic due to a fault in the rock. A decision was therefore made to drill sidetrack well 15/9-F-1 A. The well encountered the Hugin formation with a reservoir thickness of approx. 47 metres, with poorer than anticipated reservoir quality. The Smith Bank and Hugin formation are aquiferous, and the wells have accordingly been classified as dry. Data was collected in the wells. The licences were awarded in the 3rd licensing round in 1975 production licence 046 and production licence 046 BS. Wells 15/9-1 and 15/9-1 A were drilled to vertical depths of 3275 and 3185 metres below sea level, respectively, with total depths of 3577 and 3627 metres below sea level, respectively. 15/9-F-1 and 15/9-F-1 A were concluded in the Smith Bank formation in Triassic and the Sleipner formation in Middle Jurassic, respectively. The wells have been permanently plugged and abandoned. Water depth at the site is 91 metres. Wells 15/9-F-1 and 15/9-F-1 A were drilled by the drilling and production facility Maersk Inspirer.
Premier Oil secures 'Maersk Guardian' jackup for Norwegian exploration well
Maersk Drilling has announced the signing of a charter contract for the ‘Maersk Guardian’ jackup with Premier Oil Norge AS (Premier). Premier and Maersk have signed a 62 day drilling contract for the drilling of a single exploration well that will target the Myrhauk prospect on block 3/7 in the Norwegian North Sea. The ’Maersk Guardian’ will begin the contract in direct continuation of the unit contract with Lundin Norway AS which is due to finish in Q3 2014.
BP exercise option for 'Maersk Reacher' jackup
Maersk Drilling (Maersk) has announced that BP Norway (BP) has extended the contract for the company’s ‘Maersk Reacher’ jackup rig for an additional two years, beginning in September 2014. The two year contract extension is valued at US$222 million and comes with four additional options for extension which if exercised would contract the rig until September 2020. BP originally contracted the ‘Maersk Reacher’ in September 2011 after it had been upgraded to comply with operating requirements on the Norwegian shelf.
Kosmos sublet 'Maersk Discoverer' from BP for Morocco drilling
Kosmos Energy (Kosmos) has announced that it has agreed to a single well rig share agreement with BP for use of the ‘Maersk Discoverer’ semisub rig. BP currently has the ‘Maersk Discoverer’ under contract until April 2016 in Egypt and is allowing Kosmos to use the unit to drill the FA-1 exploration well in the Forum Assaka Offshore block in Morocco during 1H 2014. The well is expected to take up to three months to drill and BP will fund Kosmos’ share of the well costs.
Maersk Drilling names two more of its newbuild drillships
Maersk Drilling (Maersk) has announced the naming of two of the company’s newbuild ultra-deepwater drillships following on from the naming of the ‘Maersk Viking’ back in October 2013. Maersk has named its second drillship the ‘Maersk Valiant’ whilst the third unit will be called the ‘Maersk Venturer’. Both the ‘Maersk Valiant’ and ‘Maersk Venturer’ are due to be delivered from Samsung Heavy Industries shipyard in South Korea during 2014, with the ‘Maersk Valiant’ going to work for ConocoPhillips and Marathon Oil in the US GoM upon delivery. The ‘Maersk Venturer’ is yet to secure a contract.
Kora-1 exploration well drilling completion announced
Ophir Energy plc ("Ophir") announces the completion of drilling operations on the Kora-1 well in the AGC Profond Production Sharing Contract (PSC)*. Final wireline logging is now being carried out and the well will be plugged and abandoned as an unsuccessful exploration well. Kora-1 was a frontier exploration well drilled by the Maersk Deliverer semisubmersible in 2,600m of water and targeting a salt-cored, dip-closed anticline. The well was drilled to a total depth of 4447.5m subsea. Formation Evaluation While Drilling (FEWD) data shows that the primary (Albian) and secondary (Coniacian and Barremian) reservoir intervals were penetrated close to their anticipated depths, but the well encountered a predominantly claystone and thinly-bedded limestone sequence rather than the prognosed sandstone reservoir facies. In the absence of reservoir facies it is difficult to immediately assess the potential presence of hydrocarbons on the available FEWD data. A fuller analysis of the data will be required before the wider implications for the prospectivity of the Senegal-Guinea Bissau portion of the MSGBC Basin can be determined. In June 2011, Ophir completed the last of a series of farm outs on the asset. After the farm outs, Ophir's costs on the Kora-1 well have effectively been carried by the other partners. The beneficial interests in the AGC Profond PSC and the Kora-1 well are as follows:
Successful Cormoran-1 exploration well offshore Mauritania
Dana Petroleum, the operator of the Cormoran-1 exploration well in Mauritania, in which Tullow Oil plc (Tullow) is a 16.20% partner, today issued the following press release: Dana Petroleum advises that the Cormoran-1 exploration well has been drilled to a total depth of 4,695 metres below sea level and has been plugged and abandoned as a gas discovery. Stabilised gas flow rates of between 22 and 24 million standard cubic feet per day (MMscfpd) were obtained during a test of one of the four separate gas columns encountered by the well. The Cormoran-1 exploration well is located in Block 7, offshore Mauritania. It lies approximately 2km to the south of the Pelican-1 gas discovery well, which was drilled in late 2003. The well was drilled by Dana Petroleum, as Operator of Block 7, using the Maersk Deliverer deep water semi-submersible drilling rig. Water depth at the well location is approximately 1,630m. The primary purpose of the Cormoran-1 well was to test the Cormoran prospect, which adjoins but lies at a greater depth than the Pelican discovery. A secondary exploration objective was the Petronia prospect, which lies beneath the Cormoran prospect. A further objective of the well was to provide appraisal information on the Pelican gas discovery. The Cormoran-1 well encountered generally thin but good quality, gas-bearing, sands within the Pelican Group at depths between 3,376m and 3,711m true vertical depth subsea (TVDSS). This interval comprised two gas columns, one in the Upper Pelican Group (3,376 to 3,420m TVDSS) and one in the Lower Pelican Group (3,691 to 3,711m TVDSS). Good quality, gas-bearing, sands were also encountered within the Cormoran prospect, in the gross interval from 4,351 to 4,471m TVDSS, and at the top of the Petronia prospect, in the gross interval from 4,660m to 4,695m TVDSS. Drilling was stopped at a depth of 4,695m TVDSS for operational reasons (elevated pore pressures). The well was still in gas-bearing reservoir section at this depth. A drill stem test was carried out across a 33m interval in the Lower Pelican Group (3,679 to 3,712 TVDSS). Stabilised flow rates of up to 22 to 24 MMscfpd were obtained on a 32/64" choke, the flow rate being constrained by the need to avoid sand production. Substantially higher flow rates could have been achieved were it not for this operational constraint. Following the DST, the Cormoran-1 well was plugged and abandoned, this being done in such a way that the well could be re-entered in the future.
EXPLORATION WELL ORANGE COMPLETED
Lundin Petroleum AB (Lundin Petroleum) announces that BG Norge AS, operator of Production Licence (PL) 335, has completed drilling of wildcat (exploration) well 7/7-4. The well is located close to the Norway/UK international border, about 50 km north of the Ula field in the North Sea. The water depth at the well location is 83 m. The purpose of the well was to prove hydrocarbons in the Paleocene Forties unit. Forties reservoir sands were encountered in the well but they were water bearing. The well is the first exploration well drilled in PL 335. The licence was awarded in APA 2004 (Awards in Predefined Areas). The well was drilled to a depth of approximately 3,000 m MD, and was terminated in the top Ekofisk Formation. The well will now be permanently plugged and abandoned. Well 7/7-4 was drilled using the Mærsk Guardian drilling rig. Lundin Petroleum has a licence interest of 18 percent, BG Norge (operator) has 52 percent, Bridge Energy AS has 18 percent and RWE Dea Norge AS has 12 percent.
EXPLORATION WELL PL 292 SPUDDED, OFFSHORE NORWAY
Lundin Petroleum AB (Lundin Petroleum) is pleased to announce that drilling of the exploration well 15/12-19 on the Phi-North prospect located in Block 6/3 and 15/12, production license PL 292, in the North Sea sector of the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS), has commenced. The exploration well 15/12-19 with a planned depth of approximately 3,100 metres mean sea level will target the middle Jurassic and the Triassic/lower Jurassic reservoir by using the jack up rig Mærsk Guardian. Drilling is expected to take approximately two months. The operator is BG Norge AS. Lundin Petroleum is a partner with 40 percent interest.
LUNDIN PETROLEUM COMPLETES EXPLORATION WELL IN NORWAY
Lundin Petroleum AB (Lundin Petroleum) announces the completion of the exploration well 2/5-14S in PL 006C, in the North Sea sector of the Norwegian Continental Shelf. The exploration well 2/5-14S was targeting the Hyme prospect. The Hyme prospect showed no commercial hydrocarbons and as a result, no coring or testing was performed and the well has now been plugged and abandoned. The jack-up rig Mærsk Gallant was used for drilling. The South East Tor chalk discovery made in 1972 is also located in PL006C and has estimated resources of 22.5 million barrels of oil equivalent.The decision was taken not to proceed at this time with the drilling of the side track 2/5-14A as an appraisal well on the South East Tor discovery, pending further technical and economic analysis. Lundin Petroleum is the operator of PL 006C with a 75 percent interest.Partners are Noreco ASA with a 15 percent interest and Faroe Petroleum AS with a 10 percent interest.
EXPLORATION WELL IN PL400 SPUDDED, OFFSHORE NORWAY
Lundin Petroleum AB (Lundin Petroleum) is pleased to announce that drilling of exploration well 3/8-1 on the Barchan prospect has commenced. The well is located in licence PL400 in the Norwegian North Sea. PL400 is located some 12 km east of the Trym Discovery in the Southern North Sea, close to the boundary between the Norwegian and Danish sectors. The well will target sandstones of Permian age in a four way dip and fault bounded structural closure. The Barchan prospect is estimated to contain gross unrisked prospective resources of 150 million barrels of oil equivalent (MMboe). The planned total depth is approximately 4,000 metres below mean sea level. The well will be drilled from the jack-up drilling rig Maersk Guardian. Drilling is expected to take approximately 60 days. Lundin Petroleum is the operator of PL400 with 50 percent interest. Partners are Norwegian Energy Company ASA (Noreco) with 30 percent and Petoro AS with 20 percent interest.
LUNDIN PETROLEUM SPUDS CLAPTON EXPLORATION WELL IN SOUTHERN NORTH SEA
Lundin Petroleum AB (Lundin Petroleum) is pleased to announce that drilling of exploration well 2/8-18S in PL440S has commenced. The well will target the Clapton prospect, which is situated 10 km north of the Valhall Field, offshore Norway. The main objective of well 2/8-18S is to test the hydrocarbon potential in the Ekofisk, Tor and Hod formations. Lundin Petroleum estimates the Clapton prospect to contain unrisked, gross, prospective resources of 65 million barrels of oil equivalent (MMboe). The planned total depth is 2,718 meters below mean sea level and the well will be drilled using the jackup drilling rig Maersk Guardian. Drilling is expected to take approximately 60 days. Lundin Petroleum is a partner in PL440S with 18 percent interest. The Operator is Faroe Petroleum with 40 percent. The other partners are Dana (20%), Noreco (12%) and Det norske (10%).
LUNDIN PETROLEUM COMPLETES CLAPTON EXPLORATION WELL IN SOUTHERN NORTH SEA
Lundin Petroleum AB's (Lundin Petroleum) wholly owned subsidiary Lundin Norway AS (Lundin Norway) has completed the Clapton exploration well 2/8-18S in PL440S. The well is located about 5 km east of the Eldfisk Øst Field and 10 km north of the Valhall Field in the North Sea. The primary exploration target was to prove hydrocarbons in chalks of the Shetland Group. The well encountered reservoir rocks as expected in the Shetland Group. The reservoir properties were poorer than expected. Data acquisition and sampling have been carried out. The well was drilled to a vertical depth of 2,619 m below the sea surface and was terminated in Creatceous rocks of the Hidra Formation. Water depth at the site is 69 metres and the well was drilled by the jack-up rig Maersk Guardian. The well will now be permanently plugged and abandoned as a dry well. Lundin Norway is a partner in PL440S with 18 percent interest. The Operator is Faeroe Petroleum with 40 percent. The other partners are Dana (20%), Noreco (12%) and Det norske (10%).
LUNDIN PETROLEUM SPUDS EXPLORATION WELL ON THE OGNA PROSPECT IN THE SOUTHERN NORTH SEA
Lundin Petroleum AB (Lundin Petroleum) is pleased to announce that drilling of exploration well 8/5-1 in PL453S has commenced. The well will target the Ogna prospect, which is located some 65 km from the Ula Field in the North Sea, offshore Norway. The main objective of well 8/5-1 is to prove the presence of hydrocarbons in Upper to Middle Jurassic reservoirs. Lundin Petroleum estimates the Ogna prospect to contain unrisked, gross, prospective resources of 156 million barrels of oil equivalent (MMboe). The planned total depth is 2,444 metres below mean sea level and the well will be drilled using the jack-up rig Mærsk Guardian. Drilling is expected to take approximately 50 days. Lundin Petroleum, through its wholly owned subsidiary Lundin Norway, is the operator and has a 35 percent working interest in PL453. Partners are Det norske oljeselskap with 25 percent, Noreco with 25 percent and VNG Norge with 15 percent interest.
LUNDIN NORWAY COMPLETES EXPLORATION WELL 7/4-3 ON THE CARLSBERG PROSPECT IN NORWAY
Lundin Petroleum AB (Lundin Petroleum) has, through its wholly owned subsidiary Lundin Norway AS (Lundin Norway), completed the drilling of wildcat well 7/4-3. The well was drilled 24 km north of the Lundin Petroleum operated Brynhild field in the North Sea, offshore Norway, and approximately 22 km east of the UK Everest field. The exploration well 7/4-3 was targeting the Upper Triassic and Upper Cretaceous reservoirs of the Carlsberg prospect. The well encountered no hydrocarbons and is being plugged and abandoned as a dry hole. The primary exploration target of the well was to prove petroleum in Upper Triassic reservoir rocks (the Skagerrak Formation). The Skagerrak Formation sands were not encountered. The second exploration target of the well was to prove petroleum in the Upper Cretaceous chalk reservoir. The reservoir was found at the predicted depth but was water bearing with no presence of hydrocarbons. The well is the first exploration well in PL495 and PL495B. The licenses were awarded in APA 2008 and APA 2011. The well was drilled to a vertical depth of 2,957 metres below mean sea level, and was terminated in the Smith Bank Formation in the Triassic. The well was drilled in water depth of 82 metres by the jack-up rig Maersk Guardian. Following the plugging and abandonment of well 7/4-3 the Maersk Guardian rig will move to the Brynhild field to commence the drilling of the development wells. The costs of the exploration well 7/4-3 and associated license costs will most likely be expensed during the second quarter of 2013. Lundin Norway is the operator and has a 60 percent working interest in PL495 and PL495B. The partner is Tullow Oil Norge AS with a 40 percent working interest.
BP discovers gas in the Salamat well in Egypt
BP Egypt today announced a significant gas discovery in the East Nile Delta. The deepwater exploration well, named Salamat, is the deepest well ever drilled in the Nile Delta. It is the first well in the North Damietta Offshore concession granted in February 2010 and operated by BP. The well was drilled using the sixth generation semi-submersible rig “Maersk Discoverer”, owned by Maersk Drilling, in water depth of 649 metres and reaching a total depth of around 7,000 metres. The wireline logs, fluid samples and pressure data confirmed the presence of gas and condensate in 38m net of Oligocene sands in Salamat. Further appraisal will be required to better define the field resources and to evaluate the options for developing the discovery. Mike Daly, Executive Vice President Exploration at BP, commented: “Success with Salamat proves hydrocarbons in the centre of a 50-km long structure. With a hydrocarbon column in excess of 180 metres, the discovery increases our confidence in the materiality of the deep Oligocene play in the East Nile Delta.” Hesham Mekawi, BP Egypt Regional President said: “The Salamat discovery is a great outcome for our first well in this core exploration programme in the East Nile Delta. It shows our commitment to meeting Egypt’s energy needs by exploring the deep potential offshore the Nile Delta. Standalone and tie-back to the nearby Temsah infrastructure development options are currently being evaluated.” The Salamat discovery is located around 75 kilometres north of Damietta city and only 35 kilometres to the North West of the Temsah offshore facilities. BP has 100% equity in the discovery.
Maersk Drilling takes delivery of 'Maersk Viking' drillship
Today Maersk Drilling has taken delivery of its first ultra deepwater drillship, 'Maersk Viking', from the Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) shipyard in Geoje, South Korea. The 'Maersk Viking' has started its voyage to the US Gulf of Mexico where it will commence a three year contract with ExxonMobil. 'Maersk Viking' is the first in a series of four ultra deepwater drillships that will enter Maersk Drilling’s fleet. The four drillships represent a total investment of US$2.6 billion and will be delivered from the SHI shipyard in 2014. Featuring dual derrick and large subsea work and storage areas, the drillship design allows for efficient well construction and field development activities through offline activities. With their advanced positioning control system, the ships automatically maintain a fixed position in severe weather conditions with waves of up to 11 metres and wind speeds of up to 26 metres per second. Special attention has been given to safety on board the drillships. Equipped with Multi Machine Control on the drill floor, the high degree of automation ensures safe operation and consistent performance. Higher transit speeds and increased capacity will reduce the overall logistics costs for oil companies.
Kosmos Energy spuds FA-1 well offshore Morocco
Kosmos Energy Ltd’s (Kosmos) partner in the Forum Assaka area in Morocco Fastnet Oil & Gas Plc (Fastnet) has confirmed the spudding of the FA-1 well on the 16th March 2014. The FA-1 well is being drilled by Maersk Drilling’s ‘Maersk Discoverer’ semisub rig, has a planned target depth of 4,000m and is being drilled in water depths of approximately 600m. The well is expected to take up to three months to reach its total depth and test multiple objectives. The FA-1 well is estimated by Kosmos, to contain 360 mmboe of Pmean resources in its primary deepwater Lower Cretaceous reservoir objective. Fastnet is carried through its share of the drilling costs, subject to a gross maximum well cost of US$100 million, following the previously announced farm-out to SK Innovation, retaining a 9.375% net interest in the licence.
Maersk Drilling names the first of its giant jackup rigs
In a ceremony held at the Keppel FELS shipyard in Singapore, Karen Tiffen, wife of Martin Tiffen, Managing Director of Total E&P Norge AS, had the honour of naming the ultra harsh environment jack-up rig Maersk Intrepid in the presence of the Guest of Honour Mr Lui Tuck Yew, Minister for Transport in Singapore. Maersk Intrepid is the first in a series of four ultra harsh environment jack-up rigs to enter Maersk Drilling’s rig fleet. The four jack-up rigs represent a total investment of USD 2.6bn. The first three jack-up rigs, including Maersk Intrepid, will be delivered from the Keppel FELS shipyard in 2014-2015, and the fourth will be delivered from the Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) shipyard in South Korea in 2016. After delivery from the yard, Maersk Intrepid will mobilize to the North Sea and commence a four year firm contract with Total E&P Norge AS for drilling the demanding and complex wells on the Martin Linge field development in the Norwegian North Sea. The contract includes four one-year options. The estimated contract value for the firm contract is USD 550 million. “With the naming of the Maersk Intrepid, we are opening a new chapter in Maersk Drilling’s Norwegian history. We have invested in the Maersk Intrepid and its three sister rigs in order to continue to grow and leverage our market leading position in Norway. The Maersk Intrepid is the first of the four rigs being delivered and I am very pleased that it is going to Norway to work for one of our key customers, Total E&P Norge AS,” says Claus V. Hemmingsen, CEO of Maersk Drilling and member of the Executive Board of the A.P. Moller – Maersk Group.
Maersk Drilling takes delivery of 'Maersk Intrepid' jackup
Maersk Drilling has taken delivery of its first ultra harsh environment jack-up, 'Maersk Intrepid', from the Keppel FELS shipyard in Singapore on time. 'Maersk Intrepid' will start its mobilisation to the Norwegian North Sea in approximately two weeks, where it will commence a four year contract with Total E&P Norge AS. Maersk Intrepid is the first in a series of four newbuild ultra harsh environment jack-up rigs to enter Maersk Drilling’s rig fleet in 2014-16. The four jack-up rigs represent a total investment of US$2.6 billion. The first three jack-up rigs, including 'Maersk Intrepid', will be delivered from the Keppel FELS shipyard in 2014-2015, and the fourth will be delivered from the Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) shipyard in South Korea in 2016. The 'Maersk Intrepid' will be drilling the demanding and complex wells on the Martin Linge field development in the Norwegian North Sea. The contract includes four one-year options. The estimated contract value for the firm contract is US$550 million.
'Maersk Valiant' drillship is successfully delivered to Maersk Drilling
Maersk Drilling has successfully taken delivery of the company’s second newbuild drillship, ‘Maersk Valiant’. The ‘Maersk Valiant’ was delivered on the 16th April 2014 from Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) shipyard in Geoje, South Korea. ‘Maersk Valiant’ is the second in a series of four ultra-deepwater drillships to enter Maersk Drilling’s fleet. The four drillships represent a total investment of US$2.6 billion and will be delivered from the SHI shipyard in 2014. ‘Maersk Valiant’ has begun its voyage towards the US Gulf of Mexico via Singapore to commence a two year contract with ConocoPhillips and Marathon Oil Corporation. Maersk Drilling has been active in the US Gulf of Mexico since 2009 with the ultra-deepwater semi-submersible ‘Maersk Developer’. With ‘Maersk Viking’ and ‘Maersk Valiant’ entering the US Gulf of Mexico, Maersk Drilling is becoming a significant drilling contractor in the US Gulf of Mexico, which together with West Africa, are the target regions for Maersk Drilling’s deepwater activities. The estimated contract value with ConocoPhillips and Marathon Oil Corporation for ‘Maersk Valiant’ is US$694m including mobilisation, but excluding cost escalation.
Kosmos Energy's FA-1 well is plugged and abandoned
Kosmos Energy (Kosmos) has announced that the company’s FA-1 well being drilled in Morocco, in the Foum Assaka Offshore block has reached a total depth of 3,830 meters and will be plugged and abandoned after failing to encounter commercial hydrocarbons. The well, which is the first in a series of play-opening wells designed to unlock the Agadir Basin, was drilled to test the salt diapir play concept targeting the Cretaceous interval in a combined structural-stratigraphic trap. This is one of several independent play types and fairways present in the Agadir Basin. Importantly, FA-1 encountered oil and gas shows while drilling and in sidewall cores suggesting the presence of a working petroleum system. The well has also provided key seismic calibration information and the well results will now be integrated into Kosmos’ ongoing petroleum system analysis; in particular, the assessment of charge and reservoir play risks, as well as the evaluation and ranking of trap types ahead of the next tests of this petroleum system in 2015 and beyond.
'Maersk Innovator' to drill development wells on Ekofisk
ConocoPhillips Skandinavia AS (COPSAS) has received consent to use the ‘Mærsk Innovator’ jack-up drilling rig for drilling and completion of two wells at Ekofisk 2/4-M. The Ekofisk field was discovered in 1969 and is the oldest of the oil and gas fields in production on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. The field is situated around 280 km south-west of Stavanger. Water depth at the site is approx. 73 metres. Drilling is planned to begin in June 2014, with a total duration of approximately 30 days. ‘Mærsk Innovator’ is a jack-up drilling facility built by Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) in South Korea in 2002. The unit received Acknowledgement of Compliance (AoC) in May 2003. It is owned by Mærsk Contractors and operated by Mærsk Drilling Norway AS. The facility is registered in Denmark with Det norske Veritas as the classification society.
PSA carries out audit on 'Maersk Reacher' jackup
On the 18th and 27th March 2014, the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) carried out an audit of Maersk Drilling's follow-up of the alarm system in the drilling control room on ‘Maersk Reacher’ jackup. The objective of the audit was to monitor how Maersk Drilling is ensuring that alarm systems comply with relevant statutory requirements, recognised international standards and guidelines and the company's own requirements and policies. The result was, one non-conformity was identified in connection with alarm rates and follow-up of the alarm system. In addition, an improvement point was identified in connection with ICT security.
Chartering rig in Gulf of Mexico
Statoil has entered into an agreement with Maersk Contractors USA for the chartering of a drilling rig capable of exploration drilling in ultra-deep waters. Worth USD 696 million, the agreement spans four years. The agreement has been concluded through Statoil's subsidiary, Statoil Gulf of Mexico LLC. The semi-submersible rig is under construction at the Keppel FELS yard in Singapore and delivery is expected in April 2008. It can operate in water depths down to 3,000 metres and will be one of the most sophisticated units on the market. The rig will mainly be used for wildcat drilling in deep water in the Gulf of Mexico, but can also be used in Statoil’s other international focus locations. The charter agreement comes into force as soon as the rig arrives in the Gulf of Mexico in June 2008. “This long-term contract will secure drilling capability in the Gulf of Mexico,” says Bill Maloney, senior vice president for global exploration (GEX) in International Exploration & Production. “It underpins our determination to build a role as exploration operator beyond Norwegian waters.” Statoil has also entered into an agreement with Woodside Energy (USA), the American affiliate of the Australian energy company Woodside Energy, regarding sharing of the newly-built rig. Woodside Energy (USA) will use the rig for a total of 18 months of the contract period.
Volve rig en route
The Maersk Inspirer, the world's biggest jack-up drilling rig is now being towed out to one of the Norwegian continental shelf's (NCS) smallest oil fields, Volve, in the North Sea. Statoil is consolidating its position as the largest small field operator on the NCS. "An independent development of Volve means that additional resources can be phased in later," says Bente Aleksandersen, operations vice president for the Sleipner, Volve and Glitne fields. "We will drill further exploration wells from the platform in the next few years. These can be converted into production wells." The Volve field alone has an expected life span of six years but if oil prices remain high that life span can be prolonged. There are possible additional reserves in the Volve area. "Exploration and development of smaller fields is important for us achieving our ambition of producing one million barrels of oil equivalent per day on the NCS until 2015," says Ms Aleksandersen. Operator Statoil is hiring the Maersk Inspirer rig, with processing facilities. Maersk Contractors Norge will manage production at the Volve field. The rig has been berthed at Haugesund north of Stavanger in recent months for installation and testing of the process facilities. "A tight schedule in a very tough market means that we are slightly behind with the Volve project," says Ole Jacob Næss, project manager. "We have prioritised safety over reaching our target on time." Oil from Volve will be temporarily stored on the Navion Saga vessel before being transported to market. Gas will be sent via pipeline to the Sleipner area. There, wet gas will be separated out and piped to Kårstø, with dry gas being piped to the European market. Total development and operation costs for Volve are estimated at around NOK 7 billion. Maersk Inspirer will drill eight wells in the first phase - three production wells, three water injection wells and two water production wells. Plans call for start-up to begin in the third quarter of 2007. Recoverable reserves are estimated to be 70 million barrels of oil and 1.5 billion standard cubic metres of gas. The field is expected to produce 50,000 barrels per day at plateau production. Statoil is operator with a 49.6% share. The other licensees are ExxonMobil (30.4%), PA Resources (10%) and Hydro (10%).
Hercules Offshore announces construction of newbuild jackup
Hercules Offshore, Inc. (Hercules) has announced that it has signed a five year drilling contract with Maersk Oil North Sea UK Limited for a newbuild jackup rig to be owned and operated by Hercules Offshore. Total contract value is approximately USD420 million, which includes approximately USD9 million of mobilization fees. Contract commencement is expected in mid-2016, upon arrival of the unit in the North Sea from Singapore. Hercules has also signed a rig construction contract with Jurong Shipyard Pte Ltd (JSL) in Singapore. The rig is based on the Friede & Goldman JU-2000E design, with enhancements that will provide for greater load-bearing capabilities and operational flexibility. These enhancements are based on collaborative efforts between Maersk Oil, JSL and Hercules. In addition, this High Specification, Harsh Environment (HSHE) rig will feature a 400 foot water depth rating, 30,000 foot drilling capacity, two million pounds of static hook load, 75 foot cantilever reach, off-line pipe handling capability, 15,000 psi blowout preventer systems, high pressure/high temperature rating and accommodations capacity for up to 150 personnel. The shipyard cost of the rig is estimated at approximately USD236 million. Including project management, spares, commissioning and other costs, total delivery cost is estimated at approximately USD270 million. Hercules initially pays 10% of the shipyard cost, or approximately USD24 million to JSL, followed by a second 10% payment one year after the initial payment. The final 80% of the shipyard payment is due upon delivery of the rig, estimated in April 2016. John T. Rynd, Chief Executive Officer and President of Hercules Offshore stated, "The contract with Maersk Oil is a great achievement for our organization and marks another significant milestone in the development of our Company. Strategically, this opportunity further demonstrates our worldwide capabilities and expands our operational footprint to the North Sea with a leading operator in the region. The rig will operate in the Central North Sea to develop Maersk Oil's high profile Culzean Field. The decision by Maersk Oil to contract a newbuild rig with specific enhancements was driven by the unique challenges to develop this field. Given these enhancements, we expect demand for this rig in the North Sea to extend well beyond the initial five year fixed contract term, with two (2) one-year unpriced options. The newbuild unit is the first jackup order placed solely by Hercules for a number of years. The rig manager was involved in the construction of the ‘Hercules Resilience’ and ‘Hercules Triumph’ both of which were launched in 2013 and will manage the ‘Perisai Pacific 101’ unit upon its delivery from the shipyard in Singapore in 2014.
Volve on stream
The StatoilHydro-operated Volve field in the North Sea came on stream on 12 February. The Volve field is located around 200 kilometres west of Stavanger in the southern section of the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS). StatoilHydro has a 59.6% interest in the field. Oil from the field will be produced by using the Mærsk Inspirer jackup rig, while Navion Saga will be used as a storage vessel for further transport. The gas will be sent to the Sleipner A platform for final processing and export. Recoverable reserves are estimated at 78.6 million barrels of oil and 1.5 billion standard cubic metres of gas. Production from Volve is expected to reach plateau production of 50,000 barrels per day by the end of the first quarter of 2009. StatoilHydro is operator of the field and has assigned the operations activities to Maersk. Maersk Inspirer is the world’s largest jackup rig and the only one of its kind used for production purposes on the NCS. Mærsk Inspirer started drilling in the summer of 2007 and has also completed the processing plant during this period. It has been decided to develop the field with eight wells but another five wells are already being planned and matured.
Maersk Drilling's releases Q1 2014 results
Maersk Drilling delivered a profit of USD116m (USD146m) in the first quarter of 2014. The result was negatively impacted with USD30m compared to the first quarter result last year mainly due to planned yard stays and the intake of two new rigs. “2014 is a year of execution in progressing on Maersk Drilling’s ambitious growth strategy. As expected our first quarter result is negatively impacted by planned yard stays and the intake of two new rigs in our fleet. However, it is positive to see that we still deliver a stellar operational performance with 97% uptime for the fifth consecutive quarter in a row, which proves the strength of our business and our ability to deliver on our long-term goal of USD 1bn by 2018,” says Claus V. Hemmingsen, CEO of Maersk Drilling and member of the Executive Board in the A.P. Moller - Maersk Group. Maersk Drilling’s ambitious growth strategy includes investments of USD5.2bn in eight new rigs being delivered between 2014 and 2016. In the first quarter in 2014, Maersk Drilling took delivery of its first drillship, the ‘Maersk Viking’, and the first ultra-harsh environment jack-up rig, the ‘Maersk Intrepid’. Contracts have been secured for six of the eight newbuilds. Maersk Drilling is in discussions with oil companies for employment on both short and longer term contracts for the last two drillships, which have not yet achieved a contract. “We are currently seeing a slowdown in the deepwater market due to oil companies postponing several drilling programmes. We expect intensified competition in especially 2014 and 2015 for longer term jobs. However, there are still many short-term jobs, which will help absorb the supply. Despite the short term challenges, we maintain our positive long term view on the deepwater market, and our strong contract coverage shows that we are in the right markets, and that our services offered resonate well with our customers,” says Claus V. Hemmingsen. Maersk Drilling’s forward contract coverage is 93% for the remaining part of 2014, 70% for 2015 and 50% for 2016. The total revenue backlog for Maersk Drilling at the end of Q1 2014 amounted to USD7.4bn (USD6.5bn). Maersk Drilling expects a result for 2014 below the result for 2013 (US 528m) due to an extensive yard stay programme, one-time costs associated with training and start-up of operation of six new rigs and delays in the delivery of newbuilds due to interruptions in the delivery of certain equipment and services from sub-supplier.
Keppel to deliver new generation semi-submersible rig to Maersk
Keppel Offshore & Marine Limited (Keppel O&M) will deliver a new generation semi-submersible rig to Maersk Contractors two weeks ahead of schedule in mid August 2003. The rig was named LIDER in a ceremony that was attended by more that 1000 guests at Caspian Shipyard Company (CSC) in Baku, Azerbaijan yesterday. Mr Tage Bundgaard, President of Maersk Contractors, said, “We are proud of this new highly advanced rig. We fully expect LIDER to prove its state-of-the-art capabilities during the upcoming contract with Exxon Azerbaijan and other operators in the Caspain region. Caspian Shipyard Company has proved to be a very proficient rig constructor and we hope that this will be the first of many Maersk rigs to be working in the Caspian Sea.” LIDER will be contracted to Exxon Azerbaijan Operating Company LLC and Chevron Overseas Petroleum Azerbaijan Limited for a three-year drilling programme.
Keppel delivers 1st jackup rig of 2009 to Maersk Drilling on time
Keppel FELS Limited (Keppel FELS) has delivered the third of four high efficiency jackup rigs to Maersk Drilling (previously Maersk Contractors), on time and incident-free. The rig was named Mærsk Resolve, by Mrs Sun-hee Madsen, spouse of Mr Erik Madsen, Maersk Drilling’s Site Manager (Overall Projects), at a ceremony today.
Keppel delivers second Maersk DSS 21 semisubmersible
Keppel FELS Ltd (Keppel FELS) delivered the second of three DSS 21 deepwater rigs to Maersk Drilling on 22 August 2009. Maersk Discoverer has been contracted by Woodside Energy for drilling operations in Australia for three years. She was named by Lady Sponsor, Mrs Julie Fitzpatrick, spouse of Mr Ken Fitzpatrick, Senior Vice President, Woodside Energy. Mr Claus V. Hemmingsen, CEO of Maersk Drilling, said, “Maersk Discoverer, our second DSS 21 rig, is another outstanding example of the winning collaboration between Maersk Drilling and Keppel FELS. “Optimised for field development work, the new generation DSS 21 series is derived from the experiences gained from our highly successful DSS 20 Maersk Explorer semisubmersible built in 2003. These deepwater units are among the most technically advanced in the world, and we are confident that they will position Maersk Drilling as the foremost provider of robust offshore solutions in the industry.”
Westcon preparing for arrival of 'Maersk Intrepid'
The world’s largest jackup rig, the ‘Maersk Intrepid’ is expected to arrive in the Westcon shipyard in Norway on the 6th June 2014. The shipyard has gone under a number of improvements in recent years; among them is the preparation of the seabed outside the quay to provide jackups with safe moorings. The ‘Maersk Intrepid’ will be the first jackup to use this when it arrives at the shipyard. The unit is planning to stay at the Westcon yard for 50-60 days to train the crew, install third party equipment and test on board systems before drilling for Total on the Martin Linge field.
Significant gas and condensate discovery in the North Sea
Statoil has made a significant gas and condensate discovery in the King Lear prospect in the southern part of the Norwegian North Sea along with its partner Total E&P Norge. Exploration well 2/4-21 drilled by the jack-up rig Maersk Gallant in production licences 146 and 333, has proven a 48-metre gas/condensate column in the main bore 2/4-21 and an additional 70-metre gas/condensate column in the side-track 2/4-21A. Statoil estimates the total volumes in King Lear to be between 70 and 200 million barrels of recoverable oil equivalent (o.e.). “Statoil had earlier defined King Lear as a potential high-impact prospect. The drill results confirm our expectations and show once again that the Norwegian continental shelf still delivers high value barrels,” says Gro Gunleiksrud Haatvedt , senior vice president exploration Norway in Statoil. Data acquisition is currently being finalised in the sidetrack. As King Lear is a high-pressure, high-temperature well, special attention is given to ensuring safe drilling operations. The King Lear discovery is an important contribution to Statoil’s corporate strategy of revitalising the NCS with high-value barrels. “King Lear lies approximately 20 kilometres north of the Ekofisk field. It is encouraging to see that this part of the Norwegian continental shelf – home to the first commercial oil find in Norway – is still delivering significant discoveries,” says Haatvedt. “This reinforces our faith in the exploration potential of the Norwegian continental shelf. Not only does it have a proud past, but also an exciting future,” she adds. Statoil will plan for appraisal drilling of the discovery as well as exploration drilling on other interesting prospects in the licences. Going forward, Statoil as operator will look into an optimal development solution for King Lear and evaluate if the discovery should be developed as a stand-alone or as a tie-in to infrastructure in the area. This area, normally considered an oil province, may on the basis of this discovery and other gas resources form the basis for future gas development. Wells 2/4-21 and 2/4-21 A are the eleventh and twelfth wells drilled in production licence PL146. Well 2/4-21 was drilled to a vertical depth of 5,344 metres below sea level in 67 metres of water, while well 2/4-21 A was drilled to a vertical depth of 5,237 metres below sea level. Statoil is operator for production licences PL146 and PL333 with an ownership share of 77.8%. The licence partner is Total E&P Norge (22.2%). The King Lear discovery is the eighth high-impact* discovery made by Statoil over the last 15 months. The other high-impact discoveries are Zafarani and Lavani in Tanzania, Skrugard and Havis in the Barents Sea, Johan Sverdrup (formerly Aldous/Avaldsnes) in the North Sea, and Peregrino South and Pão de Açúcar (non-operated) in Brazil.
'Maersk Intrepid' arrives at Westcon shipyard in Norway
The world’s largest jack-up rig has arrived Westcon in Olen, Norway. The unit has sailed from Singapore with the heavy lift vessel Hawk. With a leg length of 206.8 meters ‘Maersk Intrepid’ is the world’s largest jack-up rig. The rig is planning to stay at Westcon Yards for 50-60 days to train the crew, install third part equipment and to test the systems on board”, says Malvin Eide, rig manager at Westcon Yards. These days it is 20 years since Safe Britannia entered Westcon as the first rig project of the yard. Westcon has since invested more than NOK600 million in developing the yard and the organization, and more than 100 rig projects have been completed.
Key Largo prospect to be spudded by 'Maersk Valiant'
Maersk Drilling recently dedicated their second and third ultra-deepwater drillships, one of which, the ‘Maersk Valiant’, will begin a three year contract with Marathon Oil and ConocoPhillips for drilling programs in the Gulf of Mexico (GoM). The ‘Maersk Valiant’ and ‘Maersk Venturer’ were officially named during a ceremony held at the Samsung Heavy Industries shipyard in Geoje-Si, South Korea on January 23rd. Annell Bay, Marathon Oil Vice President of Global Exploration, had the honor of serving as sponsor of the ‘Maersk Venturer’ during the ceremony. The first well scheduled to be drilled by the ‘Maersk Valiant’ will be at Marathon Oil’s Key Largo prospect in the GoM during the fourth quarter of 2014. “The delivery of the Maersk Valiant later this year will mark an exciting period of time for Marathon Oil. This drillship provides us with a dedicated deep-water asset to undertake exploration on the leases our Company has purchased in the Gulf of Mexico,” said Bryan J. Roy, vice president of Worldwide Drilling & Completions. “We all look forward to spudding the Key Largo well using this state-of-the art drillship that has been engineered for maximum safety and efficiency.
'Maersk Gallant' set to drill in PL146 in Norway
Statoil Petroleum AS has received consent for exploration drilling using the ‘Mærsk Gallant’ mobile drilling facility to drill wells 2/4-22 S and 2/4-22 A in production licence 146. The wells are in the southern part of the North Sea, 15 km north of the Ekofisk field and around 260 km from the nearest land at Lista. Water depth at the site is approximately 67 metres. Drilling is planned to begin in June/July 2014 and is expected to take around 189 days, depending on whether a discovery is made. ‘Mærsk Gallant’ is a jack-up drilling facility, built at Far East Levingston Shipbuilding (FELS) in Singapore in 1993. The facility is operated by Maersk Contractors Norge A/S. It received Acknowledgement of Compliance (AoC) in August 2002.
DSM to provide mooring services for 'Maersk Discoverer'
Deep Sea Mooring (DSM) has won the contract to provide a comprehensive range of mooring services to Maersk Drilling for its sixth generation, semi-submersible drilling rig ‘Maersk Discoverer’. DSM will now design, engineer and install the mooring system for the advanced rig. “This is the first time we’ve worked with Maersk Drilling and the first time we’ve undertaken operations in Egypt,” comments Åge Straume, CEO of Deep Sea Mooring. “So, it’s a very significant contract for us and allows us to demonstrate how our extensive experience of installing mooring systems in the harsh environment of the North Sea can be transferred to new territories.” DSM will take the project from conception to completion – designing the complete mooring spread, defining operational procedures, mobilising and demobilising all equipment in both Norway and Egypt, pre-installing the anchors prior to rig arrival, and hooking up the rig when it arrives on location. “This is a complex assignment,” he states, “with water depths of 930m entailing high loads and a need to design a robust, high-quality and streamlined mooring solution. It’s the kind of challenge our experienced team thrive on and one we’ve successfully tackled for leading players in the energy industry, such as Statoil, in the North Sea, and Husky Energy, off the coast of Newfoundland. It’s exciting to be given the opportunity to showcase our expertise with a new client of A.P Moeller-Maersk’s standing.” In addition, Bergen-headquartered DSM will provide all base operations and personnel for the mooring and hook-up task. Once in place, ‘Maersk Discoverer’, a GustoMSC DSS 21 rig capable of drilling to 10,000m, will work the BP prospect.
'Maersk Deliverer' spuds Tapir South well in Namibia
Chariot Oil & Gas Limited (AIM: CHAR), the independent Africa focused oil and gas exploration company, is pleased to announce that its wholly owned subsidiary, Enigma Oil & Gas Exploration (Pty) Limited, has commenced drilling the first well, 1811/5-1, of its 4 to 5 well drilling programme offshore Namibia. Drilling operations began this morning on the Tapir South prospect using the ‘Maersk Deliverer’ semi-submersible drilling rig, with Chariot as Operator. The prospect has a 25% Chance of Success and a mean un-risked prospective resource potential of 604 million barrels of oil. In the event of success, the results of this well will significantly increase the Chance of Success on certain of the Company’s other prospects within the Tapir Trend. Tapir South (1811/5-1) will be only the second well ever to be drilled in the Namibe Basin. It is located 80km offshore Namibia in the Company’s northern block 1811A, in which Chariot has a 100% equity interest. The well is being drilled to an estimated total vertical depth subsea of 5,100m and, as announced following the Placing of 20 March 2012, this will now include extended drilling time to ensure that one of the deeper identified targets is drilled and fully evaluated. This deeper target is believed to be a carbonate section, age equivalent to the reservoir in recent sub-salt discoveries in the on-trend Kwanza basin offshore Angola. The drilling and logging operations are expected to take approximately 70 days and a further announcement will be made when the well results are known. The Tapir South prospect is part of the Tapir Trend where three prospects have been identified on a large ridge formed by a rotated fault block containing the potential carbonate target, draped by deep marine sediments with turbidite sandstone levels forming a stack of overlying targets. Tapir South is the southernmost of three culminations on the ridge and forms a focal point for charge migration from an adjacent basin in which excellent oil prone source rocks are believed to be present and currently generating oil. The second well to be drilled in the Chariot exploration programme, Kabeljou (2714/6-1), targeting the Nimrod prospect is now likely to spud earlier than previously reported. The Operator has informed Chariot that it now expects to secure a drilling unit in Q3 2012.
Chariot fails to find commercial discovery at Tapir South
Chariot Oil & Gas Limited (Chariot), the Africa focused oil and gas exploration company, confirms that the Tapir South (1811/5-1) exploration well in Northern Block 1811A in the Namibe basin offshore Namibia has reached a total depth of 4,879 metres TVDss. The well was drilled by the ‘Mærsk Deliverer’ semi-submersible drillship in 2,134 metres of water and operated by Chariot’s wholly owned Namibian subsidiary, Enigma Oil & Gas (Pty) Limited. Preliminary logging results indicate that, although excellent reservoirs were penetrated, no commercial hydrocarbons were found and the well will be plugged and abandoned. The well encountered 173 metres of net reservoir sand of Cretaceous age, including two zones in excess of 30 metres with average porosities of 24% and evidence of good permeabilities. Carbonate intervals were also penetrated with porosities up to 18% over a net interval of 28 metres; these results exceeded our pre-drill estimates. Detailed analyses will be conducted on the data collected during the drilling of Tapir South. This information will be used to calibrate the existing data set and a resource update of the remaining prospectivity in the block will be provided once this evaluation has been completed.
African Petroleum contracts 'Maersk Deliverer' for Liberia drilling
West African focused oil and gas exploration company, African Petroleum Corporation Limited (African Petroleum), is pleased to announce that it has signed a contract with Maersk Drilling for a two well programme, with the option to test both wells, at Blocks 8 and 9, located offshore Liberia, West Africa (Liberian Blocks). The two well programme will be completed using the ultra-deepwater semi-submersible, ‘Maersk Deliverer’ drilling rig. The programme is scheduled to commence in the first quarter of 2011. ‘Maersk Deliverer’ is the third in a series of three state-of-the-art newbuild ultra deepwater development semi-submersibles in Maersk Drilling’s fleet.
Delivery of 'Maersk Deliverer' delayed
African Petroleum Corporation Limited (African Petroleum) holds 100% of Blocks LB-08 and LB-09, located offshore Liberia, West Africa. Further to the Company’s announcement dated 11th March 2011 (11th March Announcement), the Company advises that due to operational delays being encountered by the existing operator, its 2011 two well deepwater offshore drilling programme in West Africa, using the ‘Maersk Deliverer’, is now expected to commence in relation to the first well in Block LB-09 in June 2011 (rather than May 2011 as previously contemplated in the 11th March Announcement).
Delivery of 'Maersk Deliverer' rig again delayed
African Petroleum (APCL) entered into a contract with Maersk Drilling in September 2010 for a two well programme using the Maersk Deliverer drilling rig. The ‘Maersk Deliverer’ is the third in a series of three state-of-the-art newbuild ultra deepwater development semi-submersibles in Maersk Drilling’s fleet and is capable of drilling in water depths of up to 3,000 metres.As mentioned in the March 2011 Quarterly Report, the Company was due to take delivery of the drilling rig in June 2011. However, Maersk Drilling has now advised that its current contractual drilling commitments with Amerada Hess Corporation for the ‘Maersk Deliverer’ rig has been extended due to that company making a discovery offshore Ghana. As a consequence, the Company now expects to take delivery of the ‘Maersk Deliverer’ in August 2011.
African Petroleum spuds Apalis-1 prospect in Liberia
African Petroleum Corporation Limited (African Petroleum) commenced drilling its first exploration well in Liberia on 8th August 2011 with the ‘Maersk Deliverer’semi-submersible deepwater drilling rig. The Company has a 100% interest in Blocks LB-08 and LB-09 and is fully funded for a further 5 additional exploration wells. African Petroleum will be drilling the Apalis Prospect on Block LB-09 in Liberia with estimated prospective recoverable oil resources of 500 (mean case) to 1,000 (upside) million barrels. Detailed technical analysis of the 3D seismic data acquired in 2010 has shown that the Apalis Prospect may contain multiple sand reservoirs in the Upper Cretaceous Maastrichtian and Turonian as well as in the Aptian and Albian. Some of the potential reservoirs in the Apalis Prospect have a well-developed 3D seismic class 3/4 AVO response, similar to those reported for nearby discoveries in Sierra Leone and Ghana. Due to the tightening rig market and limited availability of deepwater 5th generation drilling rigs in the West African region, African Petroleum has entered into agreements with Lukoil Overseas Cote d’Ivoire E&P Ltd (Lukoil), Vanco Cote d’Ivoire Ltd (Vanco) and AP Moller-Maersk (Maersk) that the ‘Maersk Deliverer’ will be released to Vanco and Lukoil for two wells after the drilling of the Apalis Prospect and will then be returned to African Petroleum for one additional well. The agreement to swap drilling slots with Lukoil and Vanco enhances the flexibility of the Company’s 2-3 well drilling program planned for 2012 as it allows the Maersk Deliverer to be reserved for the deepest water exploration drilling targets. Additionally, the planned interval between the “Apalis” well and the second well allows for the integration of both the geological and operational information to be better utilized in planning the 2012 wells. African Petroleum is currently planning to contract a second deepwater rig in 2012 to accelerate drilling plans in the West African Transform Margin.
Apalis-1 well deemed non-commercial by African Petroleum
African Petroleum Corporation Limited (African Petroleum) has completed drilling the first well (Apalis-1) in deepwater offshore Liberia Block LB-09. The results of Apalis-1 confirm Blocks LB-08 and LB-09 (100% owned by African Petroleum) are located in a prospective oil basin, which is a major step forward. The geological and geophysical data have confirmed the critical components of a working hydrocarbon system are present and functioning. African Petroleum is now accelerating a multi well drilling program on the 25+ exploration prospects identified in both blocks offshore Liberia and plans to spud the next well during Q4 2011 and Q1 2012. Apalis-1 was drilled to a depth of 3,665 meters and encountered oil shows in several geological units including the shallower (Tertiary) and deeper (Cretaceous) and petrophysical analysis indicates the presence of hydrocarbons. No commercial quality reservoir with hydrocarbons was encountered and consequently no well production test was undertaken.
Narina-1 well spudded in Liberia
African Petroleum Corporation Limitied (APCL) has commenced drilling of the Narina-1 exploration well on Block LB-09, offshore Liberia where the company has a 100% interest. APCL drilled the first well (Apalis-1) in 2011 with encouraging results. The Narina-1 well will primarily target a Turonian prospect similar to discoveries like Jubilee in Ghana and Mercury/Venus in Sierra Leone. APCL estimates the targeted prospect has potential recoverable oil resources 500 mmbbls (Mean) to 1,200 mmbbls (Upside) for the Turonian reservoir plus additional potential resources in both shallower and deeper reservoirs. The Narina-1 well will be drilled by the ‘Maersk Deliverer’ semisub.
African Petroleum announces discovery with Narina-1 well in Liberia
African Petroleum Corporation Limited (APCL) announces that the Narina-1 well, offshore block LB-09, Liberia, has made a significant oil discovery. The discovery confirms the prospectivity of both of these highly successful West African exploration plays on APCL’s Blocks LB-08 and LB-09. Oil was found in good quality reservoirs in a Turonian submarine fan system extending across a prospective are of 250 sq km. The Narina-1 well was drilled by the ‘Maersk Deliverer’ to a total depth of 4,850 metres (15,912 feet), in a water depth of 1,143 metres (3,750 feet) taking 43 days for completion.
Statoil given go ahead to spud 2/4-22 S well in PL 146
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Statoil Petroleum AS a drilling permit for wellbore 2/4-22 S, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations. Wellbore 2/4-22 S will be drilled from the Mærsk Gallant drilling facility at position 56°42' 58.12'' north and 3°10' 3.11'' east. The drilling programme for wellbore 2/4-22 S relates to drilling of a wildcat well in production licence 146. Statoil Petroleum AS is the operator with an ownership interest of 77.8 per cent. The other licensee is Total E&P Norge AS (22.2 per cent). The area in this licence consists of parts of the 2/4 block. The well will be drilled about 20 kilometres north of the Ekofisk field. Production licence 146 was awarded on 8 July 1988 (12th licensing round on the Norwegian shelf). This is the thirteenth well to be drilled in the licence. The permit is contingent upon the operator securing all other permits and consents required by other authorities before commencing drilling activities.
Maersk Drilling takes delivery of second giant jackup
Maersk Drilling has taken delivery of its second ultra-harsh environment jack-up, ‘XL Enhanced 2’, from the Keppel FELS shipyard in Singapore on time. The rig will start its mobilisation to the Norwegian North Sea in approximately two weeks, where it will commence a five year contract with Det norske oljeselskap ASA (Det norske) The rig, which will be named at a ceremony in Norway in October, is the second in a series of four newbuild ultra harsh environment jack-up rigs to enter Maersk Drilling’s rig fleet in 2014-16. The four jack-up rigs represent a total investment of USD2.6 billion. The first three jack-up rigs, including ‘XL Enhanced 2’, will be delivered from the Keppel FELS shipyard in 2014-2015, and the fourth will be delivered from the Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) shipyard in South Korea in 2016. The total estimated contract value is approximately USD 700 million. Det norske has options to extend the contract up to a total of seven years. The rig will be working on the Ivar Aasen field, which contains approximately 150 million barrels of oil equivalents.
'Maersk Intrepid' given permission to work in Norway
The ‘Maersk Intrepid’ jack-up drilling facility has received Acknowledgement of Compliance (AoC) from the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA). An Acknowledgement of Compliance (AoC) is a statement from the PSA indicating that a mobile facility is considered to be in compliance with relevant requirements in the petroleum activities regulations. After the AoC has been granted, the facility owner is responsible for ensuring that the organisation, management system and facility’s technical condition always comply with the regulations.
Statoil fails to make commercial discovery with Martin prospect
Statoil announces a small discovery in its Martin prospect located in the Gulf of Mexico (GoM). Statoil does not consider this to be a commercial discovery. The well has been drilled efficiently and plug and abandonment operations (P&A) are now ongoing. The Martin prospect was spudded in May 2014, in Mississippi Canyon Block 718 where water depths were 2,918 feet. Once P&A operations are completed the 'Maersk Developer' rig will move to the impact Perseus prospect in De Soto Canyon (DC) 231.
Maersk Drilling names fourth UDW drillship
Maersk Drilling’s fourth ultra-deepwater drillship was named Thursday morning in a ceremony held at the Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) shipyard in Geoje-Si, South Korea. Lene Berg, wife of Gregers Kudsk, Vice President in Maersk Drilling, had the honour of naming the drillship ‘Maersk Voyager’. ‘Maersk Voyager’ is the fourth in a series of four ultra-deepwater drillships. The four drillships were ordered in 2011 and represent a total investment of USD2.6 billion. ‘Maersk Voyager’ is scheduled to be delivered from SHI in Q4 2014. ‘Maersk Voyager’ remains without a first contract. “The short term floater market is challenged, but we remain in discussions with several oil companies regarding short term as well as long term drilling campaigns for the ‘Maersk Voyager’ ,” says Claus V. Hemmingsen, CEO in Maersk Drilling and member of the Executive Board in the Maersk Group.
Chevron extends 'Maersk Deliverer' contract in Angola
Cabinda Gulf Oil Company Limited, a Chevron subsidiary in Angola, has extended the current contract for the ultra deepwater semi-submersible ‘Mærsk Deliverer’ expiring in June 2015 by two years. ‘Mærsk Deliverer’ has been working for Chevron since 2012 and its partners on the Tombua Landana field offshore Angola. With the contract extension the rig will be on contract until June 2017. The estimated revenue potential from the two-year contract extension is USD 387 million plus compensation for cost escalations over the contract period. “We are very pleased to be able to extend our relationship with Chevron on this project, and look forward to a continued successful drilling operation. With its high growth potential Angola is a focus market of Maersk Drilling, and our ambition is to further build our position in this market over the coming years,” says Claus V. Hemmingsen, CEO in Maersk Drilling and member of the Executive Board in the Maersk Group.
Short term contract for 'Maersk Venturer'
Maersk Drilling’s third drillship, Maersk Venturer, which was delivered 25th September 2014 from the Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) shipyard in Geoje-Si in South-Korea, has secured a short term contract with oil major Total. Maersk Venturer will commence a one well programme offshore Malaysia with an estimated duration of 45 days with potential extension up to 40 days. The drilling programme is expected to start in December 2014 following acceptance testing. The estimated revenue from the firm 45 days period is USD 17 million. “Total is a highly valued customer of Maersk Drilling and we see the contract award as a reflection of our long and good collaboration over the years. We are happy to get the Maersk Venturer out working, especially with the short term challenges in the floater market, and we remain confident that we can secure another good contract for the drillship, when this short term contracts ends,” says Claus V. Hemmingsen, CEO in Maersk Drilling and member of the Executive Board in the Maersk Group.
Maersk Drilling confirm extension for 'Maersk Resolute'
Hess has exercised the four one-well options included in the current contract for the jack-up rig ‘Maersk Resolute’. Each of the four additional wells has an estimated duration of around 90 days implying an extension of the current contract by approximately 1 year. The current seven firm wells programme is expected to end by April 2015. With the exercising of the four one-well options, the rig will be employed until April 2016. The estimated value of the extension is app. USD75 million. ‘Maersk Resolute’ is the second in a series of four high efficiency 350ft jack-ups delivered in 2008-2009.
Statoil set to spud Julius prospect using 'Maersk Gallant'
Statoil is the operator for exploration licences 146 and 333 in block 2/4 in the southern part of the North Sea. Exploration well 2/4-23 is to be drilled in a prospect called Julius. The site is 15 km north of the Ekofisk field and around 260 km from Lista, the closest land. Water depth at the site is approx. 68 metres. Drilling is scheduled to begin in late December 2014 and estimated to last 154 days. A possible sidetrack, designated 2/4-23 A, will take a further 67 days.
'Maersk Interceptor' jackup recieves AOC
Maersk Drilling has received the PSA's Acknowledgement of Compliance (AoC) for the Maersk Interceptor jackup drilling facility. Maersk Interceptor is a jackup drilling facility, delivered by the Keppel Shipyard in Singapore in 2014. The facility is owned by Maersk AS and will be operated by Maersk Drilling Norge AS. The unit is contracted for operations in Norway by Det Norske Oljeselskap ASA (DNO) until December 2019
Det Norske to spud Ivar Aasen appraisal wells with 'Maersk Interceptor'
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Det norske oljeselskap AS a drilling permit for wells 16/1-21 S and 16/1-21 A, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations. Wells 16/1-21 S and 16/1-21 A will be drilled from the Maersk Interceptor drilling facility from the joint position 58°55’41.704’’ north, 02°13’23.042’’ east in production licence 001 B. 16/1-21 S will be drilled first in the reservoir to the north, while 16/1-21 A will subsequently be drilled in the reservoir to the southeast. The drilling programme for wells 16/1-21 S and 16/1-21 A relates to appraisal wells on the Ivar Aasen field, where Det norske is the operator with an ownership interest of 34.7862 per cent. The other licensees are Statoil Petroleum AS with 41.4730 per cent, Bayerngas Norge AS with 12.3173 per cent, Wintershall Norge AS with 6.4615 per cent, VNG Norge AS with 3.0230 per cent, Lundin Norway AS with 1.3850 per cent and OMV (Norge) AS with 0.5540 per cent. The area in this licence consists of part of block 16/1. The wells will be drilled in the eastern part of the Ivar Aasen field in the central part of the North Sea. On 1 September 1999, production licence 001 B was carved out of production licence 001, which was awarded on 1 September 1965 (Round 1-A). These are the fifth and sixth exploration wells to be drilled within the licence area and the seventh and eighth on the Ivar Aasen field. The permit is contingent upon the operator securing all other permits and consents required by other authorities prior to commencing drilling activities.
PSA approves 'Maersk Interceptor' for Ivar Aasen drilling
Det norske oljeselskap ASA (Det norske) is the operator on the Ivar Aasen field, in block 16/1 in the central North Sea. The field is around 175 kilometres west of Karmøy in Rogaland county. Det norske will be drilling three appraisal wells, designated 16/1-21 S, 16/1-21 A and 16/1-22. The first two consist of a main bore and a sidetrack, meaning that the three wells will be drilled from two different locations.The combined duration of the drilling activities will be 153 days. The water depth at the two locations is 113 and 111 metres. The wells will be drilled using the Maersk Interceptor mobile drilling facility, operated by Maersk Drilling Norge AS. The facility was delivered by the Keppel FELS Shipyard in Singapore in 2014. It is registered in Singapore and classified by DNV GL.
'Maersk Interceptor' begins Ivar Aasen drilling
The drilling rig Maersk Interceptor has commenced the drilling programme on the Ivar Aasen field in the North Sea. The campaign has a duration of three years and comprises a total of 15 wells in addition to three pilot wells. Det norske oljeselskap (“Det norske”) is the operator of the Ivar Aasen field (production licenses 001B, 028B, 242, 338 and 457). The drilling programme for the Ivar Aasen field kicks off with the drilling of three pilot wells for further mapping of the underground. The drilling of pilot wells will be concluded by the summer of 2015. The three upcoming pilot wells are important to the licensees. They will enable us to retrieve important reservoir information at an earlier stage. This will create added value for the Ivar Aasen licence, says Inge Sundet, the drilling manager for Ivar Aasen. The drilling campaign on Ivar Aasen will be carried out by the drilling rig Maersk Interceptor, the world’s largest jack-up rig. The rig has been contracted by Det norske for a period of five years, with an option of additional two years. The Ivar Aasen field is planned developed with a total of 15 wells; eight production wells and seven water injection wells. The Ivar Aasen field comprises three deposits: Ivar Aasen, West Cable and Hanz. Ivar Aasen is located west of the Johan Sverdrup field and contains 210 million barrels of oil equivalents. Production start-up is planned for the fourth quarter of 2016. The economic life of the field may be 20 years, depending on oil price and production trends. Det norske oljeselskap ASA is the operator for the Ivar Aasen development, holding a 34.7862 per cent interest in the field. Partners are Statoil, Bayerngas, Wintershall, VNG, Lundin and OMV.
Maersk Drilling takes delivery of third XLE jackup rig
Maersk Drilling has taken delivery of its third ultra harsh environment jack-up, XLE-3, from the Keppel FELS shipyard in Singapore ahead of schedule. The rig will start her mobilisation to the Norwegian North Sea in late February, where she after arrival, will commence a contract of four years firm with 2x1 year options with Statoil for development drilling on the Gina Krog field in the Norwegian North Sea. The rig, which will be named at a ceremony in Singapore in February, is the third in a series of four newbuild ultra harsh environment jack-up rigs to enter Maersk Drilling’s rig fleet in 2014-16. The four jack-up rigs represent a total investment of USD 2.6bn. The first three jack-up rigs have now been delivered from the Keppel FELS shipyard, and the fourth will be delivered from the Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) shipyard in South Korea in 2016.
Statoil discovers oil at Romeo prospect
Statoil Petroleum AS, operator of production licence 146, is in the process of completing the drilling of wildcat well 2/4-22 S. The well was drilled about 20 kilometres north of the Ekofisk field and 2.3 kilometres northeast of the 2/4-21 discovery in the southern part of the North Sea. The primary exploration target for well 2/4-22 S was to prove petroleum in reservoir rocks in the Permian (in the Rotliegend group). The secondary exploration target was to prove petroleum in reservoir rocks in the Middle Jurassic (the Bryne formation). In its primary exploration target, the well encountered a 27-metre total oil column in the Rotliegend group, 24 metres of which was sandstone of good reservoir quality. In its secondary exploration target, the well encountered oil columns in two intervals in the Bryne formation, where the top interval also extends into the overlying Ula formation in the Upper Jurassic. No oil/water contact was encountered in either of the intervals in the Jurassic. The Bryne formation has a 46-metre total oil column, about 30 metres of which is sandstone of good to poor reservoir quality. The Bryne and Ula formations have a 49-metre total oil column, about 15 metres of which are from multiple thin sandstone layers with good to poor reservoir quality. Data acquisition and sampling have been carried out. Preliminary estimates of the size of the discovery range between 0.7 and 2 million Sm3 of recoverable oil equivalents. Further studies are needed in order to determine whether the discovery can be included as part of a future development of the area. This is the ninth exploration well in production licence 146. The license was awarded in the 12th licensing round in 1988. Well 2/4-22 S was drilled to a vertical depth of 4834 metres below sea level and was terminated in the Rotliegend group. Water depth at the site is 67 metres. The well will now be permanently plugged and abandoned. Well 2/4-22 S was drilled by the Maersk Gallant drilling facility, which will now move on to drill exploration well 2/4-23 in the same production licence.
Maersk Drilling names third XLE jackup in Singapore
Maersk Drilling’s third XL Enhanced ultra-harsh environment jack-up was named Saturday morning at a ceremony held at the Keppel FELS shipyard in Singapore. Mrs. Margareth Øvrum, Executive Vice President in Statoil, honoured Maersk Drilling by naming the rig Maersk Integrator. Maersk Integrator is the third in a series of four ultra-harsh environment jackup rigs to enter Maersk Drilling’s rig fleet. The four jack-up rigs represent a total investment of USD2.6bn. The first three jackup rigs, including Maersk Intregrator, have now all been delivered from the Keppel FELS shipyard. The fourth will be delivered from the Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) shipyard in South Korea in 2016. After delivery from the yard, Maersk Intregator will mobilise to the North Sea and commence a four year firm contract with Statoil for drilling on the Gina Krog field in the Norwegian North Sea. The estimated contract value for the firm contract is USD620 million.
Maersk Drilling secures contract for 'Maersk Voyager'
Maersk Drilling has been awarded a contract from Eni Ghana Exploration and Production Ltd., a subsidiary of Eni, for employment of the newbuild drillship Maersk Voyager. The firm contract period is 3.5 years with an option to extend by one year. The total estimated revenue from the firm contract is USD545 million including mobilisation and cost escalations. Maersk Voyager will work on the Offshore Cape Three Points (OCTP) Project offshore Ghana with expected commencement in July 2015. “We are very pleased to be chosen by Eni and its partners Vitol and GNPC for this project offshore Ghana and we look forward to working together with the OCTP JV over the next 3.5 years. West Africa has been a strategic focus area for Maersk Drilling, since we embarked on our deepwater expansion, and with this contract we expand our presence in the promising West African deepwater market,” says Claus V. Hemmingsen, CEO in Maersk Drilling and member of the Executive Board in the Maersk Group. Maersk Voyager is the last in a series of four ultra-deepwater drillships in Maersk Drilling’s rig fleet. The rig was delivered on 6 February 2015 from the Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) shipyard in Geoje-Si in South-Korea. The four drillships represent a total investment of USD2.6 billion.
Statoil granted drilling permit for Julius prospect
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Statoil Petroleum AS a drilling permit for well 2/4-23. Well 2/4-23 will be drilled from the Mærsk Gallant drilling facility in position 56°41’42.70’’ north and 03°06’18.10” east. The drilling programme for well 2/4-23 relates to the drilling of an exploration well in production licence 146. Statoil Petroleum AS is the operator with a 77.8 per cent ownership interest. Total E&P Norge AS is the licensee with 22.2 per cent. Production licence 146 was awarded to Saga Petroleum in 1988 in the 12th licensing round on the Norwegian shelf. The area in this production licence is located in the southern part of the North Sea and encompasses parts of block 2/4. The well will be drilled about 18 kilometres north of the Ekofisk field. There has been previous drilling activity in the production licence. The permit is contingent upon the operator securing all other permits and consents required by other authorities before the drilling activity commences.
'Maersk Guardian' prepares to drill final well on Brynhild
The Brynhild oil field commenced production on the 25th December 2014 with an initial production rate confirming that the field was capable of producing at the previously announced plateau rate of 12,000 barrels of oil per day (bopd). However due to certain operational issues in relation to the Haewene Brim FPSO, the field has been shut-in since the middle of January 2015. The operational issues which have caused the shut-in relate mainly to a leak identified in the gas injection flexible line and to a damaged connection point between one of the mooring chains and the riser buoy. The gas injection line has been successfully repaired and the damage to the mooring line connection point has been inspected and the process of rectifying the connection point has commenced. Production has now re-commenced with the ramp-up to plateau production expected to continue over the next few weeks. The drilling of the third well of a four well campaign has now been completed. The Maersk Guardian jack up rig has now skidded to the fourth slot and the final well will be drilled before the rig begins simultaneous completion operations.
BP makes gas discovery with Atoll-1
BP Egypt announced today another important gas discovery in the North Damietta Offshore Concession in the East Nile Delta. The “Atoll-1” deepwater exploration well, currently being drilled using the 6th generation semi-submersible rig “Maersk Discoverer,” has reached 6,400 metres depth and penetrated approximately 50 metres of gas pay in high quality Oligocene sandstones. Expected to be the deepest well ever drilled in Egypt, the Atoll well still has another 1 kilometre to drill to test the same reservoir section found to be gas bearing in BP’s significant 2013 Salamat discovery, 15 kilometres to the south. Bob Dudley, BP Group Chief Executive, commented: “Success in Atoll further increases our confidence in the quality of the Nile Delta as a world class gas basin. This is the second significant discovery in the licence after Salamat. The estimated potential in the concession exceeds 5 trillion cubic feet (tcf) and we now have a positive starting point for the next possible major project in Egypt after BP’s West Nile Delta project.” Commenting on the discovery, Hesham Mekawi, BP North Africa Regional President said: “The Atoll discovery is a great outcome for our second well in this core exploration programme in the East Nile Delta. It demonstrates BP’s continuous efforts to help in meeting Egypt’s energy demands by exploring the potential in the offshore Nile Delta. We are proud of our commitment to unlock Egypt’s exploration potential that requires large investments to utilise using the latest drilling and seismic technologies.” Atoll-1 was drilled in 923m water depth around 80km north of Damietta city, 15km north of Salamat and only 45 km to the north west of Temsah offshore facilities. BP has 100% equity in the discovery.
Det Norske given approval to drill appraisal well on Ivar Aasen
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate granted Det norske oljeselskap AS a drilling permit for well 16/1-22 S, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations. Well 16/1-22 S will be drilled from the Maersk Interceptor drilling facility at position 58°54’23.1’’ north 02°09’43.2’’ east in production licence 001 B, after completing the drilling of appraisal wells 16/1-21 S and 16/1-21 A. The drilling programme for well 16/1-22 S relates to the drilling of an appraisal well on the Ivar Aasen field, where Det norske is the operator with an ownership interest of 34.7862 per cent. The other licensees are Statoil Petroleum AS with 41.4730 per cent, Bayerngas Norge AS with 12.3173 per cent, Wintershall Norge AS with 6.4615 per cent, VNG Norge AS with 3.0230 per cent, Lundin Norway AS with 1.3850 per cent and OMV (Norge) AS with 0.5540 per cent. The area in this licence consists of part of block 16/1. The well was drilled in the south-western part of the Ivar Aasen field in the central part of the North Sea. On 1 September 1999, production licence 001 B was carved out of production licence 001, which was awarded on 1 September 1965 (Round 1-A). This is the seventh exploration well to be drilled within the licence area and the ninth on the Ivar Aasen field. The permit is contingent upon the operator securing all other permits and consents required by other authorities prior to commencing drilling activities.
Det Norske completes two Ivar Aasen appraisal wells
Det norske oljeselskap AS, operator of production licence 001 B, has completed drilling of appraisal wells 16/1-21 S and 16/1-21 A on the Ivar Aasen field. The field is located in the central part of the North Sea and was proven in 2008. The size of the field prior to drilling of these two appraisal wells was 24 million standard cubic metres (Sm3) of recoverable oil, 1 million Sm3 of recoverable condensate and 4.5 billion Sm3 of recoverable gas. The primary target for wells 16/1-21 S and 16/1-21 A was to investigate reservoir rocks and reservoir quality, as well as the extent of an overlying gas cap in the eastern part of the field in Middle Jurassic to upper Triassic reservoir rocks (the Hugin, Sleipner and Skagerrak formations, as well as the Statfjord group). In addition, 16/1-21 S had a secondary exploration target in overlying Paleocene reservoir rocks (the Heimdal formation). 16/1-21 S encountered a total oil column of 54 metres, of which 25 metres were of good to very good reservoir quality in the Skagerrak formation. The oil is undersaturated, which is also the case in the eastern part of the field (16/1-16 and 16/1-16 A). The gas/oil ratio (GOR) in the oil zone is 130-145 Sm3/Sm3. The oil/water contact was not encountered, but was calculated at approx. 2436 metres, which is 2 metres deeper than previously assumed in the Skagerrak formation. Gas was not encountered in the well. In the Heimdal formation, the well encountered 27 metres of aquiferous sandstone of good to very good quality. 16/1-21 A encountered a total oil column of 41 metres and a 4-metre gas column, of which a total of 29 metres was of very good reservoir quality in the Sleipner and Skagerrak formations. The oil in the Sleipner formation is saturated, while the oil in the Skagerrak formation is largely undersaturated. The oil/water contact was not encountered. The well results have yielded valuable information as regards the final location of production and injection wells. Further work going forward will integrate the new data and contribute to increased field understanding. The Ivar Aase field field consists of production licences 001 B, 028 B, 242, 338 BS and 457. The Plan for Development and Operation (PDO) was submitted to the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy on 21 December 2012. Extensive data acquisition and sampling have been carried out. These are the fourth and fifth appraisal wells in production licence 001 B. This production licence was carved out of production licence 001 on 15 December 1999. PL001 was originally awarded on 1 September 1965 (round 1-A). Wells 16/1-21 S and 16/1-21 A were drilled to measured depths of 2630 and 3313 metres, respectively, and vertical depths of 2530 and 2463 metres below the sea surface. Both were terminated in the Skagerrak formation in the Upper Triassic. The wells have been permanently plugged and abandoned. Water depth at the site is 113 metres. The wells were drilled by the Maersk Interceptor drilling facility, which will now continue drilling appraisal well 16/1-22 S in the western part of the Ivar Aasen field.
Otto Energy contracts 'Maersk Venturer' for Philippines drilling
Otto Energy Ltd (“Otto”) has announced that it has signed a contract to secure the Maersk Venturer drillship for its Hawkeye-1 exploration well in the Philippines. The window of commencement for mobilisation to the Hawkeye-1 drilling location is between 17th July and 15th August 2015. Otto is in the process of securing key services and equipment in the build up to mobilisation. Once it has reached the drilling location, the Maersk Venturer is expected to take 23 days to drill the well until rig release. The unit is currently ready stacked in Labuan, Malaysia.
Det Norske set to drill new appraisal at Ivar Aasen field
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Det norske oljeselskap AS a drilling permit for well 16/1-22 A, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations. Well 16/1-22 A will be drilled from the Maersk Interceptor drilling facility in position 58°54’23.1’’ north and 02°09’43.2’’ east in production licence 001 B, after completing drilling of appraisal well 16/1-22 S. The drilling programme for well 16/1-22 A relates to the drilling of an appraisal well on the Ivar Aasen field, where Det norske is the operator with an ownership interest of 34.7862 per cent. The other licensees are Statoil Petroleum AS (41.4730 per cent), Bayerngas Norge AS (12.3173 per cent), Wintershall Norge AS (6.4615 per cent), VNG Norge AS (3.0230 per cent), Lundin Norway AS (1.3850 per cent) and OMV (Norge) AS (0.5540 per cent). The area in this licence is part of block 16/1. The well will be drilled in the south-western part of the Ivar Aasen field in the central part of the North Sea. Production licence 001 B was carved out on 1 September 1999 from production licence 001, which was awarded on 1 September 1965 (Licensing Round 1-A). This is the eighth exploration well to be drilled within the licence area, and the tenth on the Ivar Aasen field. The permit is conditional upon the operator securing all other permits and consents required by other authorities prior to commencing the drilling activity.
PSA gives AOC to 'Maersk Integrator'
Maersk Drilling has received the PSA's Acknowledgement of Compliance (“AoC”) for the Maersk Integrator jack-up drilling facility. Maersk Integrator is a jack-up drilling facility, delivered by the Keppel Shipyard in Singapore in 2014. The facility will be operated by Maersk Drilling Norge AS. In total, 57 mobile facilities have received an Acknowledgement of Compliance from the PSA. It is the PSA's assessment that petroleum activities may be carried out using the Maersk Integrator facility within the regulatory framework. The validity of the Acknowledgement of Compliance assumes that Maersk Drilling Norge AS ensures that the facility and relevant parts of the company’s organisation and management systems are maintained, to fulfil the terms and conditions set out in the PSA’s decision.
PSA approves 'Maersk Integrator' for Gina Krog drilling
Statoil has received consent to use the Maersk Integrator jackup for production drilling and completion of fourteen wells at the Gina Krog field in Norway. Gina Krog is an oil and gas discovery situated around 250 kilometres west of Stavanger and 30 kilometres north-west of the Sleipner A facility. Water depth at the site is approximately 110 metres. The development concept is a new steel platform and an oil storage vessel with a capacity of 850,000 barrels. The field was proven in 1974. The reservoir contains oil and gas in Middle Jurassic sandstone in the Hugin formation. Statoil has now received consent from the PSA to use Maersk Integrator to drill and complete new production wells on the field.
PSA approves use of 'Maersk Gallant' for P&A at Eldfisk
The PSA has granted ConocoPhillips consent to use the Maersk Gallant jackup drilling rig for plugging and abandoning a production well at Eldfisk 2/7 A. Eldfisk is an oil field lying due south of Ekofisk in 70-75 metres of water in the southern North Sea. Production began in 1979. Mærsk Gallant is a jack-up drilling facility, built at Far East Levingston Shipbuilding (FELS) in Singapore in 1993. The facility is operated by Maersk Contractors Norge A/S. It received Acknowledgement of Compliance (AoC) in August 2002. The Petroleum Safety Authority (“PSA”) Norway has now granted consent to use Maersk Gallant at Eldfisk in accordance with ConocoPhillips's application.
Lundin to plug former appraisal well with 'Maersk Guardian'
Lundin has received consent to use the Maersk Guardian jackup to permanently plug well 7/8-5 S. The work is expected to take around 18 days. Well 7/8-5 S was an appraisal well for the Krabbe discovery, it was drilled in April 2006, but it turned out to be a dry well.
PSA performs audit of 'Maersk Gallant'
Between 16th and 20th March 2015, the Petroleum Safety Authority (“PSA”) carried out an audit of Statoil and Maersk Drilling concerning HPHT drilling operations at the 2/4-22 Romeo and 2/4-23 Julius exploration wells using the Maersk Gallant jackup. The objective of the audit was to verify Statoil and Maersk Drilling's planning, experience transfer and execution of high pressure, high temperature exploration drilling of the Romeo and Julius exploration wells. The results of the audit found that non-conformities were identified in connection with; working environment committee and working environment measures. The PSA has issued additional improvement points and have given Statoil and Maersk Drilling a dealing of the August 1st 2015 to report on how it plans to deal with the points raised.
Det norske oljeselskap AS, operator of the Ivar Aasen field, has completed the drilling of appraisal wells 16/1-22 S, 16/1-22 A and 16/1-22 B. The field is located in the central part of the North Sea and was proven in 2008. The size of the field prior to drilling the appraisal wells was 24 million standard cubic metres (Sm3) of recoverable oil, 1 million Sm3 of recoverable condensate and 4.5 billion Sm3 of recoverable gas. The objective of well 16/1-22 S was to investigate reservoir rocks and reservoir quality, as well as secure depth control along the west flank of the field in Middle Jurassic to Upper Triassic reservoir rocks (the Hugin, Sleipner and Skagerrak formations) in order to optimise well sites with a view to the drainage strategy. Sidetracks 16/1-22 A and 16/1-22 B were drilled 1000 metres northeast and 1350 metres north, respectively, of 16/1-22 S in order to investigate reservoir rocks and perform additional data acquisition. 16/1-22 A also aimed to investigate an underlying seismic anomaly. 16/1-22 S encountered a 3-metre oil column in sandstone of good to very good reservoir quality in the Skagerrak formation. The oil is saturated with a gas/oil ratio of about 160 Sm3/Sm3, as is the case otherwise in the western part of the field (16/1-11, 16/1-11 A and 16/1-9). The oil/water contact was not encountered, but was calculated at about 2435 metres, which is deeper than the previously calculated oil/water contact for the Skagerrak formation (16/1-11 A). 16/1-22 A encountered a total oil column of about 55 metres in the Skagerrak formation, 30 metres of which was in sandstone of varying reservoir quality, from moderate to very good. The oil/water contact was not encountered. The seismic anomaly is linked to the top of a total oil column of about 25 metres in underlying sandstone (alluvial fan), 15 metres of which had moderate reservoir properties. The oily part of the alluvial fan is not included in the field's previously reported reserves. 16/1-22 B encountered a total oil column of about 45 metres in the Skagerrak formation, 25 metres of which was in sandstone of good to very good reservoir quality. The oil/water contact was not encountered. None of the wells were formation-tested, but comprehensive data collection and sampling was conducted. The results have yielded valuable information as regards the final location of production and water injection wells. Gas was not encountered in the wells. The Plan for Development and Operation (PDO) of the Ivar Aasen field was submitted to the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy on 21 December 2012. Wells 16/1-22 S, 16/1-22 A 16/1-22 B were drilled to measured depths of 2640, 2896 and 3215 metres, respectively, and vertical depths of 2562, 2468 and 2501 metres below the sea surface. They were all terminated in the Skagerrak formation in the Upper Triassic. The wells have been permanently plugged and abandoned. Water depth at the site is 113 metres. The wells were drilled by the Maersk Interceptor drilling facility, which will now continue production drilling on the Ivar Aasen field once the platform's jacket has been installed.
Premier receives approval to drill Myrhauk prospect
Premier Oil Norge AS (“Premier”) has received consent to drill exploration well 3/7-10 S in the southern part of the North Sea. Premier is the operator of production licence 539 in block 3/7 in the North Sea. The formation to be drilled into is called Myrhauk and is around 240 kilometres from the nearest mainland at Lista. Drilling is scheduled to begin in August 2015 and estimated to last 62 days, depending on whether a discovery is made. The well will be drilled by Mærsk Guardian which is a jack-up mobile drilling facility. It is owned and operated by the A.P. Møller-Mærsk Group. It was built in Japan by Hitachi and completed in 1986.
Otto Energy to mobilise 'Maersk Venturer' towards end of July
Otto Energy Ltd (“Otto”) is pleased to announce it has issued Maersk Drilling with formal notice in respect of the mobilisation of the Maersk Venturer drillship to the Hawkeye-1 exploration well location. Mobilisation to the drilling location will commence on 31st July 2015 and is expected to take around 1 to 2 days, with drilling operations to commence upon arrival of the rig on location. Drilling is expected to take around 23 days at the location.
NPD approves Myrhauk prospect drilling
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Premier Oil Norge AS a drilling permit for well 3/7-10 S, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations. The well will be drilled from the Mærsk Guardian drilling facility in position 56°27’10.62’’ north and 4°04’46.18’’ east. The drilling programme for well 3/7-10 S relates to the drilling of a wildcat well in production licence 539. Premier Oil Norge AS is the operator with an ownership interest of 40 per cent. The other licensees are Suncor Energy Norge AS (20 per cent), DEA Norge AS (12 per cent) and Ithaca Petroleum Norge AS (eight per cent). Production licence 539 was awarded in APA 2009. The area in the production license is located in the southern part of the North Sea, in the western part of the border block 3/7. Well 3/7-10 S is the first exploration well in this production licence. The permit is contingent on the operator securing all other permits and consents required by other authorities before the drilling activity commences.
'Maersk Discoverer' finished well 62 days ahead of time
At the beginning of May 2015, the crew on-board the Maersk Discoverer reached a great milestone when they finalised their latest well two months ahead of time. The well was another East Nile Delta success for BP, discovering 50 m of gas pay in high-quality Oligocene sandstones. On 5th May, Maersk Discoverer completed the deepest well ever drilled in Egypt and the longest ever drilled in the Mediterranean Sea. What makes the well an even greater success is that it was drilled in 234 days, which was a staggering 62 days ahead of BP’s AFE target, thus creating a substantial cost saving.
Maersk Drilling retires 'Maersk Endurer'
Maersk Drilling has decided to decommission the Maersk Endurer rig from its operational fleet and recycle the rig at Zhoushan Changhong International Ship Recycling in China. “Given the current market situation and the oversupply of drilling rigs in the offshore market, there is a strong need to retire older rigs. Therefore, Maersk Drilling has decided to decommission its oldest rig in the fleet, Maersk Endurer,” says Morten Pilnov, Head of Global Sales in Maersk Drilling. The rig will be transported to Zhoushan Changhong International Ship Recycling in mid-July 2015, and it will take approximately 15 weeks to recycle the rig. “It is Maersk Drilling’s ambition to decommission Maersk Endurer in a safe and responsible way with minimal environmental impact. Therefore, Maersk Drilling has chosen Zhoushan Changhong International Ship Recycling to recycle Maersk Endurer. Maersk Drilling has furthermore engaged Sea2Cradle to carry out inspections and supervise the entire process,” Morten Pilnov explains and continues: “We chose this option because we consider it to be the safest and most cost-effective approach, with the lowest environmental risks. Zhoushan Changhong International Ship Recycling is a state-of-the-art rig recycling facility, and the facility complies with the Hong Kong International Convention for the Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships and the European Union Ship Recycling Regulation.” The Maersk Endurer is Maersk Drilling’s oldest rig in the fleet. The rig is a jack-up rig, and it was built in 1984, and has latest been working offshore Cameroon.
Maersk Drilling secures five year extension in Azerbaijan
Maersk Drilling has been awarded a five-year contract extension for the semi-submersible Heydar Aliyev (Maersk Explorer) rig with BP Exploration (Shah Deniz) Limited acting as Operator of the Shah Deniz field . The rig will continue working on the development of the Shah Deniz field in the Caspian Sea offshore Azerbaijan. The extension is in direct continuation of the current contract ending May 2016 and extends the contract until May 2021. The estimated value of the contract extension is up to USD523m. “We are very pleased with the extension for the Heydar Aliyev rig and look forward to continue our long standing cooperation with BP,” says Claus V. Hemmingsen, CEO in Maersk Drilling and member of the Executive Board in the Maersk Group, and continues: “With this contract we continue to build our contract backlog providing further revenue visibility. It is very encouraging that we continue to build backlog in this very challenging market.”
Statoil announces discovery at Julius
Statoil Petroleum AS, operator of production licence 146, is in the process of concluding the drilling of wildcat well 2/4-23 S. The well was drilled about 17 kilometres northeast of the Ekofisk field, near the 2/4-21 (King Lear) discovery in the southern part of the North Sea. The primary exploration target for the well was to prove petroleum in Upper Jurassic reservoir rocks (the Ula formation) and Middle Jurassic reservoir rocks (the Bryne formation), as well as to delineate the 2/4-21 discovery (King Lear), which was proven in Upper Jurassic reservoir rocks (the Farsund formation) in the summer of 2012. Before well 2/4-23 S was drilled, the operator's resource estimate for King Lear was between 11 and 32 million standard cubic metres of recoverable oil equivalents. The secondary exploration target for 2/4-23 S was to prove petroleum in Upper Triassic reservoir rocks (the Skagerrak formation). In the primary exploration target, the well encountered 41 metres of gas/condensate-filled sandstone rocks in the Ula formation, with moderate reservoir quality. The petroleum/water contact was not encountered. Preliminary estimates place the size of the discovery at between 2.5 and 12 million Sm3 of recoverable oil equivalents. The well also encountered 30 gross metres of water-filled sandstone with poor reservoir quality in the Bryne formation. In addition, the well encountered a 20-metre thick gas/condensate column in the Farsund formation, in two zones of five metre thick reservoir rocks with moderate/good reservoir quality, which confirmed pressure communication with the 2/4-21 King Lear discovery. Delineation of the 2/4-21 discovery will not lead to any change in the resource estimates. The Skagerrak formation had poor reservoir quality and was water-filled. The well was not formation-tested, but extensive data acquisition and sampling have been carried out. The licensees will assess the discoveries together, with a view toward an optimal development. This is the fourteenth exploration well in production licence 146, which was awarded in the 12th licensing round. Well 2/4-23 S was drilled to a vertical depth of 5548 metres below the sea surface, and was terminated in sandstone in the Skagerrak formation in the Upper Triassic. Water depth at the site is 68 metres. The well will now be permanently plugged and abandoned. Well 2/4-23 S was drilled by the Mærsk Gallant, which will now proceed to PL 018 to do well work on the Eldfisk field in the North Sea.
Maersk Drilling announces contract extension in Norway
Maersk Drilling has been awarded a contract extension for the jackup rig Mærsk Innovator with ConocoPhillips Norway for work on the Eldfisk field, part of the greater Ekofisk area, offshore Norway. The duration of the contract extension is 16 months. The extension is in direct continuation of the current contract expiring in February 2017, thus keeping the rig continuously contracted until June 2018. The estimated value of the contract extension is USD142m. “We are very pleased to see the Mærsk Innovator continue to work for ConocoPhillips,” says Claus V. Hemmingsen, CEO in Maersk Drilling and member of the Executive Board in the Maersk Group. Mærsk Innovator has been working for ConocoPhillips since 2010.
'Maersk Venturer' arrives at Philippines drilling location
Red Emperor Resources NL (“Red Emperor”) is pleased to announce that the load-out of the Maersk Venturer drilling rig has been completed with the vessel now at the Hawkeye drilling location. Drilling will commence over the coming weekend once the rig has been accurately secured over the required drilling location. As one of the most modern and advanced drillships in the world, the Maersk Venturer has the required capability to drill the Hawkeye-1 exploration well, with the drilling program expected to last 23 days. The exploration well has been designed to reach the top of target reservoir approximately 1,000m below the sea bed floor and intersect the gas oil contact to prove or otherwise the presence of the oil leg. Red Emperor intends to update the market weekly on the progress of operations.
Otto spuds Hawkeye-1
Otto Energy Ltd (“Otto”) has provided the following update on the drilling of the Hawkeye-1 exploration well, offshore Palawan Basin in the Philippines as at 0600 hours (AWST) on 3rd August 2015. Progress The Hawkeye-1 exploration well was spud at 1610 hours (AWST) on 31st July 2015. The 36” conductor was run to 1,906 metres and the 26” hole subsequently drilled to 2,449 metres. Current operations are to cement the 20” casing string. Forward Plan The forward plan is to connect the blow-out preventer to the wellhead and pressure test before commencing to drill the 17 ½” hole to just above the primary target reservoir. The next update will be provided once the 12 ?” section is drilled into the primary target reservoir, anticipated to occur about two weeks from now. The Hawkeye-1 exploration well will be plugged and abandoned upon completion of drilling and logging. All measurements are from the rig rotary table.
Otto Energy makes sub-commercial find at Hawkeye-1
Red Emperor Resources NL (“Red Emperor”) has provided the following update with respect to the drilling of the Hawkeye-1 exploration well, offshore Palawan Basin in the Philippines. The Hawkeye-1 exploration well was drilled to the planned total depth of 2,920m with the top reservoir intersected at 2,710m. Hydrocarbons were logged between 2,710m – 2,737m in reservoir of variable quality. The upper reservoir section between 2,710m – 2,724m is interpreted to be gas bearing at sub-commercial volumes. The second, poorer quality reservoir (2,724m – 2,737m) provided evidence of fluorescence, usually an indicator of liquid hydrocarbons, from hand cutting returns. Unfortunately, even if confirmed oil bearing, the combination of poor reservoir and low net pay would render the potential oil leg sub-commercial. Below 2,737m water was inferred from log observations in a reservoir sequence of good quality. While the Hawkeye-1 exploration well has proven the existence of hydrocarbons in SC55, the hydrocarbon size discovered appears to be at the low end of expectations and not likely economic to develop. Hawkeye-1 will now be plugged and abandoned with results from the well to be analysed with respect to other prospects, including Cinco, in the license that potentially share the same charge source.
Premier comes up dry at Myrhauk prospect
Premier Oil Norge AS, operator of production licence 539, is in the process of completing the drilling of wildcat well 3/7-10 S. The well has been drilled about 45 kilometres northeast of the Valhall field in the southern section of the North Sea and 300 kilometres southwest of Stavanger. The purpose with the well was to prove petroleum in the Upper and Middle Jurassic reservoir rocks (the Ula and Bryne formations). The well did not encounter the Ula formation. The Bryne formation was encountered with a thickness of about 110 metres, of which 45 metres with moderate reservoir quality. The well is dry. Data acquisition and sampling were carried out. The well is the first exploration well in production licence 539, awarded in APA 2009. Well 3/7-10 S was drilled to a measured and vertical depth of 3511 and 3464 metres below sea level, respectively, and was terminated in the Skagerrak formation in the Upper Triassic. The water depth at the site is 68.5 metres. The well will now be permanently plugged and abandoned. The well was drilled by the drilling facility Mærsk Guardian, which now will proceed to Fredrikshavn to be laid up.
Maersk Oil contracts 'Maersk Resilient' jackup for Denmark drilling
Maersk Drilling has been awarded a new contract for the jackup rig Maersk Resilient with Danish oil company Maersk Oil. The firm contract is for three years with an estimated contract value of USD110m. Commencement is expected in October 2015, and Maersk Resilient will do work at various fields in the Danish sector of the North Sea. “We are very pleased with this new contract for Maersk Resilient with Maersk Oil, a key customer in the North Sea,” says Claus V. Hemmingsen, CEO in Maersk Drilling and member of the Executive Board in the Maersk Group. Maersk Resilient has since May 2015 been stacked at Invergordon in Scotland, where the rig has undergone various maintenance works. “Maersk Drilling has to continue its excellent performance and continue to build our already strong backlog in order to navigate the low visibility in the market. Therefore, it is also very rewarding that a rig that has been stacked since May 2015 can now return to where she belongs and bring value to our client, Maersk Oil,” says Claus V. Hemmingsen.
Mærsk Deliverer back on the job
Mærsk Deliverer has successfully completed her five-yearly special periodic survey (SPS) yard stay ahead of time. The scope for the yard stay was extensive, with more than 210 job packages and 584 work orders that needed to be completed within 35 days along keyside - which makes for a very efficient and successful SPS yard stay. The scope, among others, involved Class recertification, BOP upgrade & overhaul and overhaul of the entire drilling package. Deliverer has now successfully resumed drilling operations offshore Angola. Ahead of the Mærsk Deliverer yard stay, a tremendous amount of planning and scheduling has been carried out. This was done across different departments and teams both onshore and offshore, and according to Project Manager Morten Svanholt, part of the success is due to the increased focus on teamwork. “We could not have carried out such a successful yard stay without involving the many different stakeholders from across the company. Knowledge sharing and teamwork have been essential elements in planning this project, and we will put even more emphasis on this in future projects”. CTO in Maersk Drilling, Frederik Smidth, agrees, and stresses that this achievement is no small matter to him either. “I am really proud of the team of both offshore and onshore colleagues, who have worked very hard to make this project such a success. The team has managed to complete more than 210 activities on board the Mærsk Deliverer over a very short period of time. Every minute counts in our line of business, and when we work together we can optimise the impact that these yard stays have.” says Frederik Smidth, Chief Technical Officer, Maersk Drilling. From the outset, planning has been a crucial part of the Mærsk Deliverer project and has contributed significantly to the success of the yard stay as a whole. Going forward, optimisation of the yard stay process will be a key focus area for Technical Organization and Operations in Maersk Drilling. “A yard stay equals time where the rig does not earn any money, but rather spend them instead. When we can optimise and make these yard stays more efficient, we can drive down the cost. The team has done a tremendous job in making this yard stay efficient, while still maintaining a safe environment for everyone working on the rig. That is no easy job – well done! This is a great start, but we will need to work even harder to limit the impact that yard stays have on our daily operations,” says Claus Bachmann, Asset Manager for Deepwater in Maersk Drilling.
Maersk Drilling secures contract for Maersk Venturer with Total
Maersk Drilling has been awarded a contract for the drillship Maersk Venturer with oil major Total. The contract covers one exploration well (estimated duration 120 days) in block 14 offshore Uruguay. The estimated contract value for the programme is USD 44m excluding mobilisation. The drilling programme is expected to commence in March 2016. “We have collaborated and partnered with Total many times over the years. Total is a highly valued customer of Maersk Drilling, and we are very pleased with being selected by Total to drill their first exploration well offshore Uruguay,” says Claus V. Hemmingsen, CEO in Maersk Drilling and member of the Executive Board in the Maersk Group and continues: “With this contract, we continue to build our contract backlog and secure work for our rigs and people, which is very encouraging in this challenging market.” Maersk Venturer is the third in a series of four ultra deepwater drillships in Maersk Drilling’s fleet. The four drillships represent a total investment of USD 2.6bn. The other three drillships have all secured long-term contracts.
Maersk Drilling secures 5-year accommodation contract for jack-up Maersk Guardian
Maersk Drilling has been awarded a contract with Maersk Oil for the jack-up rig Maersk Guardian for accommodation on various fields in the Danish part of the North Sea. The firm contract duration is 5 years with commencement in September 2016. The contract includes two 1-year options. The estimated contract value for the firm contract period is USD 142m. “We are pleased that we will get Maersk Guardian back on the water. In this market, it is important to seek out new ideas in order to keep our rigs employed. An accommodation contract like this is a good example of that and it adds to our contract backlog,” says Morten Pilnov, Head of Global Sales in Maersk Drilling. The Maersk Guardian is currently stacked in Frederikshavn where it will be located throughout the refurbishment period until contract commencement. The work entails decommissioning of the cantilever including drilling package, overhaul of auxiliary systems to support accommodation units, overhaul of existing accommodation block on the rig and installation of new accommodation modules. Built in 1986 in Japan, the Maersk Guardian is designed for year-round operation in the North Sea with a leg length of 132 meters.
Expansion of Maersk Guardian
Semco Maritime has entered into an agreement with Maersk Drilling for the expansion of accommodation rig Maersk Guardian, which will be inserted at various fields in the Danish part of the North Sea from September 2016 The DKK three-digit million order for Semco Maritime comprises installation of new accommodation blocks as a supplement to existing quarters on the jack-up rig. Semco Maritime won the order in an open tender with several Danish and foreign participants. Head of Semco Maritime’s rig division, Senior Vice President Lars Skov Christensen, is very pleased with the order for Maersk Guardian, which is strategically important in a market under pressure. - It is very encouraging that an internationally respected operator such as Maersk Drilling chooses us. That confirms that our strategy is competitive in a challenged rig market. Lars Skov Christensen to a large extent ascribes the win to Semco Maritime’s shipyard-in-a-box concept. - Our shipyard-in-a-box concept is a figurative concept of flexibility, which allows us to swiftly relocate our rig engineers to where the work is. We can move out in a matter of a few hours or days, depending on the type of the assignment or the geographical location of where we are going. The concept simultaneously minimizes our fixed costs without compromising quality, Lars Skov Christensen states. Maersk Guardian is currently located in Frederikshavn, where the rig will be situated during the entire refurbishing period. The largest part of the Semco order – construction of the new accommodation blocks – is performed in Gdansk in Poland. The entire accommodation block unit is then sailed to Frederikshavn and installed on the rig, Vice President and main responsible for the project Nikolaj Vejlgaard explains: - We have never constructed an accommodation block this size before. The sheer size makes it impossible for us to perform the work at our own facilities in Esbjerg, and we have therefore placed the assignment with our skilled collaboration partners in Poland, said Nikolaj Vejlgaard. The 142-room accommodation block weighs 560 ton and is set to arrive at Frederikshavn in August with subsequent final installation of the entire block a couple of weeks later. Maersk Guardian has a leg length of 157 meters and was constructed in Japan in 1986. It is designed for all-year operation in the North Sea.
Consent for exploration drilling
Total E&P (Total) is the operator for production licence 618 and has received consent to drill exploration well 1/5-5 using Mærsk Gallant. Mærsk Gallant is a jack-up drilling facility, built at Far East Levingston Shipbuilding (FELS) in Singapore in 1993. The facility is operated by Maersk Contractors Norge A/S. It received Acknowledgement of Compliance (AoC) in August 2002. The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway has now granted consent for the use of Maersk Gallant in accordance with Total's application.
Maersk Developer to be Stacked
Following the completion of a six year long contract with Statoil, Mærsk Developer has now arrived for stacking just outside Port Fourchon, Louisiana, and will stay put until a new contract is in place. Unfortunately a new contract has not yet been secured for Mærsk Developer, which means that Maersk Drilling USA have had to say goodbye to 80 valued employees. "It goes without saying that I am very saddened by the fact that we had to say goodbye to so many good colleagues. I thank everyone for all of the great work they have done on board the Developer and as part of the rig team in Houston, and I wish them all the best in the future," says Lars Kasueske, Unit Director on Mærsk Developer.
Total E&P Norge A/S takes over jack-up Mærsk Gallant from Statoil
Statoil has cancelled the contract for the harsh environment jack-up rig Mærsk Gallant. A cancellation fee is due to Maersk Drilling, and will be handled in accordance with the contract. Concurrently, Maersk Drilling has signed a new contract with Total E&P Norge A/S for Mærsk Gallant in direct continuation of the cancelled contract. The contract cancellation and new contract will be financially neutral to Maersk Drilling. Mærsk Gallant has been on contract with Statoil since August 2014, and has since October 2015 been sub-chartered to ConocoPhillips. From February 2016 until August 2016, Mærsk Gallant will undertake the new contract with Total E&P Norge A/S.
Drilling permit for well 16/1-26 S in production licence 001 B
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Det norske oljeselskap AS a drilling permit for well 16/1-26 S, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations. Well 16/1-26 S will be drilled from the Maersk Interceptor drilling facility at position 58°55’20.15’’ north, 02°11’53.03’’ east in production licence 001 B. The drilling programme for the 16/1-26 S well relates to the drilling of an appraisal well on the 16/1-7 oil discovery, which is part of the Ivar Aasen field where Det norske is the operator with an ownership interest of 34.7862 per cent. The other licensees are Statoil Petroleum AS with 41.4730 per cent, Bayerngas Norge AS with 12.3173 per cent, Wintershall Norske AS with 6.4615 per cent, VNG Norge AS with 3.0230 per cent, Lundin Norway AS with 1.3850 per cent and OMV (Norge) AS with 0.5540 per cent. The area in this licence consists of a part of block 16/1. The well was drilled in the eastern part of the 16/1-7 discovery in the central part of the North Sea. Production licence 001 B was carved out of production licence 001 on 1 September 1999. Production licence 001 was awarded on 1 September 1965 (Round 1-A). This is the eleventh exploration well to be drilled within the licence area and the fifteenth well on the Ivar Aasen field. The permit is contingent upon the operator securing all other permits and consents required by other authorities prior to commencing drilling activities.
Mærsk Deliverer contract cancelled
Maersk Drilling has received a notice of early contract termination from Cabinda Gulf Oil Company Limited (CABGOC), Chevron Corporation’s affiliate in Angola, for the ultra-deepwater semi-submersible Mærsk Deliverer. The contract was due to end in December 2016, and as per the contract, Maersk Drilling is entitled to receive compensation for the remaining part of the contract. The contract cancellation will be financially neutral to Maersk Drilling. With regret we take note of the contract termination, and it is a reminder of the very challenging conditions in the offshore rig market with oil companies restraining activities and capital spending in response to the lower oil price environment. We expect to base the rig in West Africa, and will continue to explore opportunities with our customers in primarily West and East Africa, which remain strategic markets for us,” says Head of Global Sales, Michael Reimer Mortensen. Mærsk Deliverer has been on contract with CABGOC since May 2012. Mærsk Deliverer was built in 2009 and is designed for year-round operation in areas such as Brazil, the Gulf of Mexico, West and East Africa and Asia Pacific at water depths of up to 3,000 m (10,000 ft.).
Drilling permit for well 16/1-26 A in production licence 001 B
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Det norske oljeselskap AS a drilling permit for well 16/1-26 A, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations. Well 16/1-26 A will be drilled from the Maersk Interceptor drilling facility at position 58°55’20.15’’ north 02°11’53.03’’ east in production licence 001 B. The drilling programme for the 16/1-26 A well relates to the drilling of an appraisal well on the 16/1-7 oil discovery, which is part of the Ivar Aasen field, where Det norske is the operator with an ownership interest of 34.7862 per cent. The other licensees are Statoil Petroleum AS with 41.4730 per cent, Bayerngas Norge AS with 12.3173 per cent, Wintershall Norge AS with 6.4615 per cent, VNG Norge AS with 3.0230 per cent, Lundin Norway AS with 1.3850 per cent and OMV (Norge) AS with 0.5540 per cent. The area in this licence consists of part of block 16/1. The well was drilled in the eastern part of the 16/1-7 discovery in the central part of the North Sea. Production licence 001 B was carved out of production licence 001 on 1 Sept. 1999. PL 001 was awarded on 1 Sept. 1965 (Round 1-A). This is the 11th exploration well to be drilled within the licence area. The permit is contingent upon the operator securing all other permits and consents required by other authorities prior to commencing drilling activities.
Drilling permit for well 30/4-3 S in production licence 040/043
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Total E&P Norge AS a drilling permit for well 30/4-3 S, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations. Well 30/4-3 S will be drilled with the Mærsk Intrepid rig at position 60°30'22.44"N and 2°0'53.37"E in production licence 040/043. The drilling programme for well 30/4-3 S relates to the drilling of a wildcat well. Total E&P Norge AS is the operator with an ownership interest of 51 per cent, Petoro has 30 per cent and Statoil Petroleum AS has 19 per cent. The area in this licence consists of a part of block 30/4. Production licence PL 040 was awarded in the 3rd licensing round on 1 April 1975, and PL 043 was awarded on 31 Dec. 1975. This is the third exploration well to be drilled within the licence area. A total of 16 wells, including sidetracks, have been drilled in the Martin Linge area. The permit is contingent upon the operator securing all other permits and consents required by other authorities prior to commencing drilling activities.
Dana begins drilling the Cormoran exploration well, offshore Mauritania
Dana Petroleum plc is pleased to report that the Dana operated Cormoran-1 exploration well has begun drilling offshore Mauritania, West Africa, just 2 kilometres southeast of Dana’s existing Pelican-1 discovery. The conductor has been run and Dana has already drilled the 26 inch hole section down to approximately 2,226 metres. The current operation is preparing to run 20 inch casing, before drilling ahead. Cormoran-1 is being drilled by the Maersk Deliverer drilling rig and is located in Block 7 offshore Mauritania. The planned total depth of the Cormoran well is approximately 4,600 metres and the well is being drilled in a water depth of 1,632 metres. Cormoran is the largest prospect in Dana’s 2010 exploration programme and, based on 3D seismic mapping, has a target reserves range of between 400 million barrels and 780 million barrels of oil equivalent. Dana holds the largest working interest in this Block 7 Production Sharing Contract area with 36%. The well is expected to encounter three discrete zones of interest between approximately 2,890 metres and 4,600 metres.
Maersk Drilling acquires newbuild harsh environment jack-up rig with a five-year drilling contract
Maersk Drilling has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the newbuild harsh environment jack-up rig, formerly named Hercules Highlander, from a subsidiary of Hercules Offshore (Nasdaq: HERO) and with immediate delivery from Jurong Shipyard Pte Ltd (Jurong) in Singapore. According to the agreement, Maersk Drilling assumes the right to take delivery of the rig and Maersk Drilling settles the final payment of approx. USD 190m with Jurong. After delivery, the rig will be mobilised to the North Sea to commence a five-year drilling contract with Maersk Oil and its partners, BP and JX Nippon, on the Culzean gas field offshore UK. The value of the five-year drilling contract is approx. USD 420m, including a mobilisation fee of USD 9m. “This agreement represents an opportunity for Maersk Drilling to acquire a newbuild harsh environment jack-up backed by a firm long-term contract. We look forward to working with Maersk Oil and its partners on the Culzean gas field,” says CEO in Maersk Drilling and member of the Executive Board in the Maersk Group, Claus V. Hemmingsen. The rig design is Friede & Goldman JU2000E, categorised as a 400ft rig, with 30,000ft drilling depth and HPHT (High Pressure High Temperature) capabilities. The rig has accommodation capacity for up to 150 personnel. The rig will enter the Maersk Drilling fleet under the name Maersk Highlander, and after the acquisition, Maersk Drilling’s rig fleet counts 23 rigs with an additional harsh environment jack-up rig under construction.
Delineation of the 16/1-7 oil discovery in the North Sea – 16/1-26 S and 16/1-26 A
Det norske oljeselskap AS, operator of production licence 001 B, has concluded the drilling of appraisal wells 16/1-26 S and 16/1-26 A. The wells were drilled about 1.5 kilometres southeast of the 16/1-7 discovery well in the central part of the North Sea. The 16/1-7 (West Cable) oil discovery was proven in Middle Jurassic reservoir rocks (the Sleipner formation) in 2004 and is part of the Ivar Aasen field. The size of the discovery prior to drilling the appraisal wells was 2.1 million standard cubic metres (Sm3) of recoverable oil equivalents. The objective of appraisal wells 16/1-26 S and 16/1-26 A was to prove additional recoverable oil resources in the southern part of the 16/1-7 discovery, in Middle Jurassic reservoir rocks (the Sleipner formation) closer to the main structure on the Ivar Aasen field. The appraisal wells were drilled from a production well being drilled from the Ivar Aasen platform. 16/1-26 S encountered a gas/oil column of about 25 metres in Middle Jurassic reservoir rocks (the Hugin formation), of which 15 metres were sandstone of moderate to good reservoir quality. The oil/water contact was not encountered, but was estimated to be at approximately 2700 metres vertical depth. This is shallower than the previously estimated oil/water contact for the 16/1-7-discovery. 16/1-26 A encountered about 75 metres of sandstone in the Sleipner formation with moderate to good reservoir quality, but is dry. Preliminary estimates place the additional resources at between 0.5 and 2 million standard cubic metres (Sm3) of recoverable oil equivalents. The licensees will assess recovery of the additional resources. The results have yielded valuable information as regards final placement of the development well on the 16/1-7 discovery. None of the wells were formation-tested, but data acquisition and sampling have been carried out. Wells 16/1-26 S and 16/1-26 A were drilled to measured depths of 5309 and 4888 metres, respectively, and vertical depths of 2912 and 3044 metres below the sea surface. The wells were terminated in the Skagerrak formation in the Upper Triassic and the Sleipner formation in the Middle Jurassic, respectively. The wells have been permanently plugged and abandoned. Water depth is 113 metres. The wells were drilled using the Maersk Interceptor drilling facility, which will now continue with the pre-drilling programme on the Ivar Aasen field, which has a planned production start-up date of 1 December 2016.
Sembcorp Marine delivers jack-up rig Maersk Highlander
Sembcorp Marine, a global leader in offshore and marine engineering solutions, has delivered the high-specification jack-up rig Maersk Highlander (formerly known as Hercules Highlander) to Maersk Highlander UK Ltd. The Maersk Highlander is constructed based on the Friede & Goldman JU 2000E design and is fully compliant with UK HSE standards. It is well suited for harsh-environment operations and will be deployed in the Culzean Field Development, located in the UK sector of the North Sea. As a heavy-duty offshore drilling asset, the Maersk Highlander can operate in water depths of up to 400 feet and drill to 30,000 feet deep. Its notable capabilities include a 2-million-pound drilling capacity, 6,000 barrels of mud capacity, 28,000-kip preload capacity for the legs, and an accommodation facility that houses up to 150 workers. The rig’s construction started in September 2014 and was completed on schedule with an excellent safety record of zero near-misses and reportable cases. This is testament to the high standard of workplace safety and health upheld by all personnel involved in the project, including Sembcorp Marine’s vendor partners. Sembcorp Marine President and CEO Wong Weng Sun said: “Other than an outstanding safety record, the successful Maersk Highlander project reinforces Sembcorp Marine’s solid reputation as an efficient and reliable rig builder, supported by strong production capabilities as well as highly competent project management and technical personnel. As a technology-driven company, we are constantly seeking ways to innovate and offer the most effective solutions to our customers.”
Drilling permit for well 25/10-15 S in production licence 626
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Det norske oljeselskap ASA a drilling permit for well 25/10-15 S, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations. Well 25/10-15 S will be drilled from the Maersk Interceptor drilling facility at position 59°05’14.49’’ north 02°14’13.78’’ east. The drilling programme for well 25/10-15 S relates to the drilling of a wildcat well in production licence 626, where Det norske oljeselskap ASA is the operator with an ownership interest of 50 per cent. The other licensees are Tullow Oil Norge AS with 30 per cent, MOL Norge AS with 10 per cent and Fortis Petroleum Norway AS with 10 per cent. The area in this licence consists of part of block 25/10. The well will be drilled in the northeastern part of the licence, which is located in the central North Sea. Production licence 626 was awarded on 3 February 2012 (APA 2011). This is the first exploration well to be drilled in the licence, but the third well within the area in which the licence is located. The permit is contingent upon the operator securing all other permits and consents required by other authorities prior to commencing drilling activities.
Consent for exploration drilling for Det norske oljeselskap
Det norske oljeselskap (Det norske) has received consent to drill an exploration well in block 25/10. Det norske is the operator for production licence 626 in the North Sea. The well will be drilled in a prospect named Rovarkula, with the designation 25/10-15 S. Drilling will begin in July and estimated to last 25 days, depending on whether a discovery is made. Drilling will be performed by Maersk Interceptor, which is a jack-up drilling facility, delivered by the Keppel Shipyard in Singapore in 2014. The facility is owned by Maersk AS and operated by Maersk Drilling Norge AS. Maersk Interceptor was issued with an Acknowledgement of Compliance (AoC) by the PSA in December 2014. The PSA has now granted Det norske consent for exploration drilling.
Maersk Valiant contract cancelled
An early termination agreement for the deepwater unit Maersk Valiant has been signed by Maersk Drilling and ConocoPhillips and Marathon Oil with effect from mid-September 2016. Maersk Valiant has been on a joint contract with Marathon Oil Corporation and ConocoPhillips since June 2014. The original contract was scheduled to end September 2017. The compensation under the early termination agreement leaves Maersk Drilling financially neutral to the original contract. “With the termination of Maersk Valiant, we are reminded of the extremely challenging conditions in the offshore oil and gas market. It is with regret that we will see a high performing rig such as the Maersk Valiant without work, but we will continue to explore opportunities with our customers and seek ways to create innovative solutions to enable project viability,” says Head of Global Sales, Michael Reimer Mortensen. Maersk Valiant was built in 2014 and is equipped with dual BOPs as well as an integrated MPD system. The Rig is designed for year-round operation in areas such as the Gulf of Mexico, West and East Africa and Asia Pacific at water depths of up to 3,600 m (12,000 ft.).
Drilling permit for well 25/2-18 S in production licence 442
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Det norske oljeselskap ASA a drilling permit for well 25/2-18 S, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations. Well 25/2-18 S will be drilled from the Maersk Interceptor drilling facility at position 59°49’30.03’’ north, 02°37’54.14’’ east. The drilling programme for well 25/2-18 S relates to the drilling of a wildcat well in production licence 442, where Det norske oljeselskap ASA is the operator with an ownership interest of 90 per cent. The other licensee is Lotos Exploration and Production Norge AS with 10 per cent. The area in this licence consists of parts of blocks 25/2 and 25/3. The well will be drilled in the south-eastern part of the licence, which is located in the central North Sea. Production licence 442 was awarded on 15 June 2007 (APA 2006). This is the second exploration well to be drilled in the licence, but the fourth within the area where the licence is situated. The permit is conditional on the operator securing all other permits and consents required by other authorities prior to commencing the drilling activity.
Det norske receives consent for exploration drilling
Det norske has received consent for exploration drilling in production licence 442 in the North Sea. Det norske has taken over the operatorship for production licence 442 from Centrica. The PSA has given Det norske consent to drill an exploration well in a prospect named Langfjellet. The location is around 134 kilometres west of Austevoll in Hordaland county. Water depth is 122 metres. The activity is scheduled to begin in August 2016 and will last between 31 and 80 days depending on whether a discovery is made. The well will be drilled using the Maersk Interceptor mobile drilling facility, operated by Maersk Drilling Norge AS. The facility was delivered by the Keppel FELS Shipyard in Singapore in 2014. It is registered in Singapore and classified by DNV GL. Maersk Interceptor was issued with an Acknowledgement of Compliance (AoC) by the PSA in December 2014.
Dry well north of the Hanz discovery in the North Sea - 25/10-15 S
Det norske oljeselskap AS, operator of production licence 626, has completed the drilling of wildcat well 25/10-15 S. The well is dry. The well was drilled in the central part of the North Sea, about six kilometres north of the Hanz discovery and 200 kilometres northwest of Stavanger. The primary exploration target for the well was to prove petroleum in Upper Jurassic reservoir rocks (intra Draupne sandstone). The secondary exploration target was to prove petroleum in Middle Jurassic reservoir rocks (Hugin formation). The well encountered a 36.5-metre thick sandstone in the Upper Jurassic with moderate to poor reservoir quality and an 11-metre thick Middle Jurassic sandstone with good to moderate reservoir quality. The well also encountered a 65-metre thick Skagerrak formation with moderate reservoir quality. The well is dry. Data acquisition has been carried out. Well 25/10-15 S was drilled to a measured depth of 2696 metres (MD RT) and a vertical depth of 2629 metres below the sea surface. The well was terminated in basement of unknown age. This is the first exploration well in production licence 626. The licence was awarded in APA 2011. Water depth is 117 metres. The well will now be permanently plugged and abandoned. Well 25/10-15 S was drilled by the Mærsk Interceptor drilling facility, which will now proceed to drill wildcat well 25/2-18 S in production licence 442, where Det norske oljeselskapet AS is the operator.
Heavy lift completes Semco Maritime rebuilding of Maersk Guardian
A 147-room complete hotel module will today be lifted on board the Maersk Guardian to finalize a major conversion of the upcoming hotel rig. Following design and construction of a turnkey accommodation module with 147 chambers and appertaining facilities for accommodation rig Maersk Guardian, Semco Maritime is now preparing the final installation just 8 months after the order was placed. The module, which has been built and outfitted by Semco Maritime and its collaboration partners in Gdynia, Poland, was loaded onto a barge last week to be sailed to Frederikshavn, Denmark. Here the 1,200-ton module will be lifted and installed on board Maersk Guardian today and tomorrow by a floating crane, which arrived from Kiel Tuesday. According to Vice President Nikolaj Vejlgaard, Semco Martime has never constructed an accommodation block this size before. "The heavy lifting marks the final and intense part of the project, where the modules are to be installed and hooked-up on the rig. Combined with additional modifications of the rig performed simultaneously with the module construction, the former jack-up rig can now be approved and used as a hotel rig", says Vejlgaard.
Consent to use Maersk Interceptor at Ivar Aasen
Det norske has received consent to use Maersk Interceptor to drill production wells at Ivar Aasen. 15.08.2016 Print Tip someone Register for news Ivar Aasen is an oil and gas field in the North Sea, around 175 kilometres west-south-west of Karmøy in Rogaland county. Water depth in the area is approximately 110 metres. Det norske is the field's operator. The field has been developed using a Production/Drilling/Quarters (PDQ) facility with a steel jacket. Drilling of the wells for the PDQ is being done from a jack-up facility with a cantilever drilling rig. Det norske has received consent from the PSA to use the Maersk Interceptor jack-up drilling rig to drill production wells for Ivar Aasen PDQ. Wells have previously been drilled using another rig. It is provisionally planned for Maersk Interceptor to drill a further three wells. Drilling is scheduled to start in late November and estimated to last until 1 July 2017. Maersk Interceptor was delivered by the Keppel Shipyard of Singapore in 2014. The facility is owned by Maersk AS and operated by Maersk Drilling Norge AS. Maersk Interceptor was issued with an Acknowledgement of Compliance (AoC) by the PSA in December 2014.
Maersk Highlander Named
Lady Sponsor Gretchen H. Watkins, COO at Maersk Oil, has named Maersk Drilling’s newest asset at a ceremony at Invergordon, Scotland. Maersk Highlander is now ready for the job. Maersk Highlander was named yesterday at a ceremony at Invergordon, Scotland. Maersk Drilling CEO and member of the Executive Board of The Maersk Group, Claus V. Hemmingsen, gave the commemorative speech in front of prominent guests from Maersk Oil, BP, JX Nippon, Jurong Shipyard and the local community. Maersk Highlander will soon start operations in the Culzean gas field in the North Sea where it will work for Maersk Oil and partners JX Nippon and BP. "I think we have acquired a very fine piece of equipment, a little sister to our XLE rigs," Said Claus. V. Hemmingsen in front of the large crowd. The 400ft newbuild has been at the Port of Cromarty Firth in Invergorden, Scotland, since she was transported from the Jurong Shipyard in Singapore. The harsh environment jack-up rig was acquired from a subsidiary of Hercules Offshore before delivery from the yard. Lady sponsor was Gretchen H. Watkins, COO at Maersk Oil. She stated that the contract stands testimony to the strong ties between Maersk Oil and Maersk Drilling: "Maersk Oil and Maersk Drilling share constant care as a core value and we have a tightly aligned approach to safety and employee welfare. We are confident we have a drilling partner which will meet our expectations for industry leading operational performance, and do it whilst putting safety first." Said Gretchen Watkins. Claus V. Hemmingsen highlighted recent years' significant fleet growth within Maersk Drilling: the acquisition of four deepwater drillships and four ultra-harsh environment jack-ups in response to the increasing demand for new rigs in an ever-evolving industry. Now the tide has turned and a new oil reality has arrived. However, opportunities can emerge even when facing adverse market conditions. "This rig was not originally part of our growth plans, nor was she ours from the outset. However, the opportunity of acquiring this rig and adding her to our fleet seemed obvious to us as she came with a firm long-term contract with a well-known customer and partners," Said Claus V. Hemmingsen. He admitted that it might seem a difficult challenge to take in a brand new rig in the middle of a severe industry downturn. "But in the 40+ year history of Maersk Drilling, it is far from an unknown challenge to take a new, state-of-the-art piece of drilling equipment into operation," Said Claus. V. Hemmingsen. Maersk Highlander will work on a five-yeacontract valued at approx. USD 420m, including a mobilization fee of USD 9m.
Arrival of jackup rigs
Semco Maritime is pleased to welcome the recent arrival of two Maersk Drilling high specification jack-up rigs to our Invergordon ship-yard facility. Maersk Reacher will be berthed in our Queens Dock facility for an undisclosed duration, carrying out necessary upgrades and modifications, whilst the recently constructed Maersk Highlander, following arrival by heavy lift from Singapore, will be at quayside for a short time, carrying out various commissioning tasks prior to naming ceremony and thereafter, mobilization out to the CULZEAN development in the UK sector North Sea, on long term contract. Semco Maritime Rig Projects have provided support for various disciplines, including electrical, mechanical and construction, with a number of safety instrumented systems provided by Semco Maritime as original equipment during the construction of the rig being commissioned, prior to departure. The Cromarty Firth and Invergordon Service Base was chosen as most suitable for both of these assets due to its strategic location in the North sea, with deep water shelter, the facilities offered by Port of Cromarty Firth and a long standing relationship with Semco Maritime as main contractor, providing full project management support to Maersk Drilling. Semco Maritime are also nearing completion of a number of scopes of work for the semi-submersible rig, Paragon MSS1, prior to departing Cromarty Firth on a drilling contract.
Mærsk Gallant drills to record depths on Norwegian shelf
With a total depth of 5,941 metres, Mærsk Gallant has beaten the record for deepest well ever drilled on the Norwegian continental shelf. On 31 July, Mærsk Gallant drilled the Solaris ultra HPHT (high-pressure, high-temperature) well to a total depth of 5,941 metres TVD (True Vertical Depth). This means that Mærsk Gallant has beaten the record for deepest well ever drilled on the Norwegian continental shelf. "We have broken a number of records during the Solaris operation. But this achievement is second to none. There was a lot of cheering in the driller's cabin that day," says Sadi Ozturk, Assistant Rig Manager on Mærsk Gallant. He continues: "The Solaris exploration well is one of the most challenging wells in the North Sea. All crew members are very excited about this achievement." In the Solaris project – together with the customer, Total E&P Norge – Maersk Drilling has taken a 15,000 psi rig and adapted the equipment and procedures in order to drill a reservoir section where predicted pore pressures are well in excess of 15,000 psi. The demanding requirements of the customer have led to a wide variety of modifications on the rig.
Drilling permit for wellbore 25/2-18 A in production licence 442
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Det norske oljeselskap ASA a drilling permit for well 25/2-18 A, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations. Well 25/2-18 A will be drilled from the Maersk Interceptor drilling facility, at position 59°49'30.11"N and 2°37'54.1"E in production licence 442. The drilling programme for well 25/2-18 A relates to the drilling of an appraisal well. Det norske oljeselskap ASA is the operator with an ownership interest of 90 per cent and LOTOS Exploration and Production Norge AS is a licensee with a 10 per cent ownership interest. The area in this licence constitutes a part of block 25/2 and 25/3. Production licence 442 was awarded in APA 2006, on 15 June 2007. This is the second well to be drilled within the licence. The permit is contingent upon the operator securing all other permits and consents required by other authorities prior to commencing drilling activities.
Dry well northwest of the Ekofisk field in the North Sea - 1/5-5
Total Norge AS, operator of production licence 618, is in the process of completing the drilling of wildcat well 1/5-5. The well is dry. The well was drilled about 40 kilometres northwest of the Ekofisk field and 320 kilometres southwest of Stavanger. The primary exploration target for the well was to prove petroleum in Upper Jurassic reservoir rocks (Ula formation). The secondary exploration target was to prove petroleum in Upper Triassic reservoir rocks (Skagerrak formation). The well encountered about 80-metre thick sandstone in the Ula formation with moderate to poor reservoir quality. The reservoir only contains traces of gas. The well is classified as dry. Data acquisition was carried out. This is the first exploration well in production licence 618. The licence was awarded in APA 2011. Well 1/5-5 was drilled to a vertical depth of 5942 metres below the sea surface and was terminated in the Bryne formation in the Middle Jurassic. Water depth at the site is 70 metres. The well will now be plugged and abandoned. Well 1/5-5 was drilled with the Maersk Gallant drilling rig.
Maersk Drilling names fourth and final XLE jack-up rig
Maersk Drilling’s fourth XL Enhanced ultra harsh environment jack-up was named Friday morning at a ceremony held at the Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) shipyard in South Korea. Mrs. Bente Norheim, wife of Jan Norheim, Managing Director of BP Norge, honoured Maersk Drilling by naming the rig Maersk Invincible. Maersk Invincible is the fourth and final rig in a series of four ultra harsh environment jack-up rigs to enter Maersk Drilling’s fleet. The four jack-up rigs represent a total investment of USD 2.6bn. The first three jack-up rigs have been delivered from the Keppel FELS shipyard, while the Maersk Invincible will be delivered from DSME later in 2016. After delivery from the yard, Maersk Invincible will mobilise to the North Sea and commence a five year firm contract with BP Norge for plug and abandonment work on the Valhall field in the Norwegian North Sea. The estimated contract value for the firm contract is USD 812 million, including mobilisation from South Korea to Norway, but excluding cost escalation. “With the naming of our fourth XLE jack-up, we are nearing the end of a newbuilding era for Maersk Drilling. Maersk Invincible will be the final XLE rig to enter our fleet. These highly advanced drilling rigs enable us to provide safe and efficient drilling operations to our customers on the Norwegian market and with the addition of Maersk Invincible, we will further strengthen our market leading position in Norway,” says Claus V. Hemmingsen, CEO of Maersk Drilling and Vice CEO of the Maersk Group, and continues: “We look forward to working closely together with BP Norge on the Valhall field. I am confident that Maersk Invincible will live up to her name when she commences operation.”
Gas/condensate discovery northeast of the Martin Linge field in the North Sea - 30/4-3 S
Total E & P Norge, operator of production licence 043, is in the process of completing the drilling of wildcat well 30/4-3 S. The well was drilled in the northeast part of the Martin Linge field. The objective of the well was to prove petroleum in Middle Jurassic reservoir rocks (Brent group). The well encountered gas and condensate in the Tarbert, Ness and Etive formations in the Brent group. Reservoir quality was good. Preliminary estimations of the size of the discovery are between 2 and 11 million standard cubic metres (Sm3) of recoverable oil equivalents. Extensive data acquisition and sampling have been carried out. The well was formation-tested. The maximum production rate was 2.4 million standard cubic metres (Sm3) of gas/flow day through a 48/64-inch nozzle opening. The well has added additional resources to the Martin Linge development and was completed with the objective of putting the well into production at start-up of the field. 30/4-3 S is the fourth exploration well in production licence 043. The licence was awarded in 1976. The well was drilled to a vertical and measured depth of 4134 metres and 4581 metres below the sea surface, respectively, and was terminated in the Dunlin group in the Early Jurassic. Water depth is 115 metres. The well was drilled with the Mærsk Intrepid drilling facility.
Oil discovery east of the Frigg field in the North Sea - 25/2-18 S, 25/2-18 A, 25/2-18 B and 25/2-18 C
Aker BP ASA, operator of production licence 442, has concluded the drilling of wildcat well 25/2-18 S and appraisal wells 25/2-18 A, 25/2-18 B and 25/2-18 C. The wells were drilled four kilometres south of the 25/2-10 S (Frigg Gamma Delta) oil/gas discovery and eight kilometres north of the shut down Frøy field in the North Sea. The objective of well 25/2-18 S was to prove petroleum in Middle Jurassic reservoir rocks belonging to the Vestland Group (the Hugin and Sleipner formation). The other three wells were drilled to delineate the discovery. 25/2-18 S encountered two oil columns in the Hugin formation, 30 and 86 metres in total, both of which had about 20 metres of sandstones with moderate to good reservoir quality. Appraisal well 25/2-18 A, which was drilled one kilometre toward the southeast in relation to 25/2-18 S, also encountered two oil columns in the Hugin formation, 34 and 27 metres in total, both with about 25 metres of sandstones with moderate to good reservoir quality. Appraisal well 25/2-18 B, which was drilled 1.4 kilometres north of 25/2-18 S to test the northern segment, encountered the Hugin formation with aquiferous sandstones of about 15 and 75 metres, both with moderate reservoir quality. The well is classified as dry. Appraisal well 25/2-18 C, which was drilled one kilometre west of 25/2-18 S, encountered three oil columns in the Hugin formation totalling 27, 23 and 55 metres, of which 15, 11 and 10 metres of sandstones of moderate to good reservoir quality. A 7-metre condensate column was also encountered, of which 3 metres in sandstones of moderate reservoir quality. Preliminary estimates place the size of the discovery between 4 and 12 million standard cubic metres (Sm3) of recoverable oil equivalents. The licensees are assessing the discovery along with other nearby discoveries with a view towards potential development. Extensive data acquisition and sampling have been carried out. Two successful formation tests (DST) were conducted in 25/2-18 A. The maximum production rate was 600 Sm3 of oil per flow day through a 40/64-inch nozzle opening in the lowermost oil zone. The gas-oil ratio is 140 Sm3/Sm3. The production rate in the uppermost oil zone was 210 Sm3 of oil per flow day through a 24/64-inch nozzle opening. The gas-oil ratio was 164 Sm3/Sm3. The formation tests showed moderate flow properties. The wells are the second, third, fourth and fifth exploration wells in production licence 442. The licence was awarded in APA 2006. Wells 25/2-18 S, 25/2-18 A, 25/2-18 B and 25/2-18 C were drilled to respective measured depths of 3870, 4066, 4335 and 4369 metres below the sea surface, and vertical depths of 3813, 3723, 3803 and 4029 metres below the sea surface. All of the wells were terminated in the Dunlin Group in the Lower Jurassic. Water depth at the site is 121 metres. The wells will be permanently plugged and abandoned. Wells 25/2-18 S, 25/2-18 A, 25/2-18 B and 25/2-18 C were drilled by the Maersk Interceptor drilling facility, which will now proceed to production licence PL 001B - Ivar Aasen, where the plan is for the rig to drill three water injector wells and one oil producer.
Maersk Drilling takes delivery of newbuild Maersk Invincible
Maersk Drilling has taken delivery of its fourth XLE jack-up rig, the Maersk Invincible, from Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) in South Korea. Maersk Invincible will now mobilise to the North Sea and will in the second quarter of 2017 commence a five year firm contract with Aker BP for plug and abandonment work on the Valhall field. Maersk Invincible is the fourth and final rig in a series of four ultra-harsh environment jack-up rigs to enter Maersk Drilling’s fleet. The first three jack-up rigs have been delivered from the Keppel FELS shipyard.
Third Deepwater Semi-submersible named
On Sunday 16 May Maersk Drilling named the latest addition to the fleet, a Deepwater Development Semi-submersible constructed at Keppel FELS in Singapore. Mrs. Merete Våge, wife of Steinar Våge, President of ConocoPhillips Norway, honoured Maersk Drilling and the yard by naming the newbuilding MÆRSK DELIVERER at a ceremony offshore Singapore. “These rigs are probably the most outstanding and complex deepwater rigs ever built. A number of innovative features have been implemented in the design, which will increase the safety of our crew and make the rigs considerably more efficient”, says Claus V. Hemmingsen, CEO of Maersk Drilling. “We are pleased that our third deepwater semi-submersible in this series is going to start up operations in West Africa, a prosperous deepwater area with much activity. The new rig is the third and final unit in a series of three highly advanced Ultra Deepwater Development Semi-submersibles. With its large capacities and highly efficient drilling equipment the new rig is capable of drilling 10,000 m (30,000 ft) into the subsoil measured from the seabed. This makes the rig particularly well suited to drill deep and technically complicated wells as seen among others offshore West Africa, Brazil, the Gulf of Mexico and Southeast Asia. The rig is able to operate in water depths up to 3,000 m (10,000 ft) and can maintain its station either in dynamic positioning (DP) mode or with a pre-laid mooring system. The initial programme for MÆRSK DELIVERER is for Dana Petroleum for drilling offshore Mauretania, West Africa. The contract has a duration of 90 days and commences upon final completion of the deepwater tests and mobilisation to Mauretania.
Consent to use Mærsk Inspirer on the Volve field
Statoil ASA has secured consent to use the Mærsk Inspirer for production drilling on Volve during the period up to production start-up on the field. In April 2005, the Plan for development and operation (PDO) for Volve was approved by the Prince Regent in Council. The Volve oil field is situated about 200 km west of Stavanger. There are several gas and condensate fields in the area surrounding Volve. None of these fields have infrastructures that are suitable for phasing in Volve. Therefore, Volve is planned as a stand-alone development. The development concept includes use of a jack-up drilling and production facility (Mærsk Inspirer) and a storage facility (Navion Saga) for storage of stabilized oil. Our consent relates to use of the Mærsk Inspirer to carry out production drilling on the field prior to production start-up. According to the plan, production will commence in May 2007. Statoil will then require a new consent for use of the Mærsk Inspirer for drilling and production, as well as use of the Navion Saga for storage. The Mærsk Inspirer currently has an (AoC) as a mobile drilling facility. An application for AoC for the Mærsk Inspirer as a drilling and production facility is currently being processed in the PSA.
Acknowledgement of Compliance for Maersk Invincible
On 11 April 2017, Maersk Drilling Norge AS received the PSA's Acknowledgement of Compliance for Maersk Invincible. Maersk Invincible is a jack-up drilling facility of the XLE type, built at the DSME yard in Busan, South Korea in 2016.
Consent to use Mærsk Invincible at Valhall
Aker BP has received consent to use Mærsk Invincible for plugging wells at Valhall. The consent applies to the use of Maersk Invincible for permanent plugging of wells drilled from the DP. Production from Valhall DP is scheduled to end in the next few years. Three of the wells are still in production, while 18 have been shut down. Of these, 13 have been permanently plugged and abandoned, and Maersk Invincible will be used for plugging the other five. Maersk Invincible is a jack-up drilling facility owned by Maersk Drilling, Denmark. It was delivered by the Daewoo yard in South Korea in 2016, is classified by DNV GL and registered in Singapore.
Maersk Convincer takes over contract from Maersk Completer
Jack-up Maersk Convincer, currently finalising its five-yearly Special Period Survey (SPS) yard stay in Singapore, will be taking over a contract from its sister rig, the Maersk Completer, currently operating offshore Brunei. The Maersk Completer is on contract with Brunei Shell Petroleum, and has been since November 2008. Before long, the Rig is scheduled to have its five-yearly Special Periodic Survey (SPS) yard stay, which means that operations for Brunei Shell Petroleum would have to be suspended while Maersk Completer conducts the yard stay, resulting in a delay in the drilling programme of about 45-60 days. In order to limit impact to the customer’s drilling programme, and to reduce cost for both parties, Maersk Drilling is re-activating the warm-stacked Maersk Convincer, an identical Baker Marine 375ft jack-up. Maersk Convincer is currently finalising its own five-yearly SPS yard stay, and will be ready to leave for the field and take on the remainder of the work scope in August 2017. “Our number one priority is to deliver the safest and most efficient drilling operations to our customers. This also means limiting any interruptions to their programmes, resulting in costly delays. Therefore, following a close dialogue with Brunei Shell Petroleum, we have agreed to put Maersk Convincer in operation for the remainder of the contract,” says Peter Dansen, Vice President and Asset Manager for International Jack-Ups in Maersk Drilling. The current contract is scheduled to end in October 2018, however, Brunei Shell Petroleum have options to extend the contract up to a total of three years. Maersk Convincer will take over operations once Maersk Completer has finalised current batch drilling operations.
Maersk Interceptor to drill on the Hyrokkin Prospect
Aker BP has received consent from Norway's Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) to drill two wells on the Hyrokkin prospect. The wells, designated 25/4-11 and 25/4-12 will be drilled by the Maersk Interceptor harsh environment jackup.
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Frédéric de Luca (b. 1949)
Jardin du Maroc
Gouache on paper: 45 x 36 cm
Signed & Dated 2016
Frédéric de Luca
Gouache & collage on paper: 45 x 36 cm
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Frédéric de Luca was born in 1949. After obtaining his diploma from the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Appliqués et des Métiers d’Art in Paris, he worked as a fabric designer, executing the designs in gouache, which developed his enthusiasm for the medium. He also specialised in the design of knitwear, and later on in his career he designed shoes for the collections of several prestigious Italian shoe companies.
In 1983 he founded the premiere Parisian design gallery En Attendant les Barbares, specialising in limited editions of furniture, lighting, and ceramics by young designers, who have gone on to become highly sought-after names in the world of design – Mattia Bonetti, Elizabeth Garouste, Eric Schmitt, Jacques Jarrige, and Fabienne Jouvin. This group of designers were a breath of fresh air in the world of design at the time, giving free rein to their imagination in the use of colour and unusual materials.
Frédéric de Luca has worked as an interior designer, made furniture on commission, and designed bold and colourful ceramics. He has now returned to his first passion – painting in gouache – to create powerful geometric compositions, full of colour, movement, and imagination.
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Free ConsultationBronx, NY White Collar Crime Lawyer with 23 years experience
White Collar Crime, Criminal, Divorce and Probate
Jonathan A. Rosenberg
Brooklyn, NY White Collar Crime Attorney
(718) 715-4845 86 Court Street
White Collar Crime, Appeals and Criminal
University of Oregon School of Law
An experienced defense lawyer and appellate advocate, Jonathan Rosenberg's track record of dismissals and wins is rivaled only by the rap sheets of his clients. An associate of Brooklyn's very own Howard Greenberg Law Firm, Jonathan represents clients across all New York counties, in criminal matters ranging from misdemeanors to major felonies, from the the time of arrest to the time of dismissal, negotiation, or trial.
If you feel that a judgment or jury verdict has unlawfully violated your liberty, then Jonathan is the appellate advocate you want on your side. From family court objections to major felony appeals, Jonathan has...
Bradley L. Henry
New York, NY White Collar Crime Attorney with 13 years experience
(212) 813-2292 7 World Trade Center, 250 Greenwich Street
Free ConsultationWhite Collar Crime, Appeals, Criminal and Securities
University of Tennessee College of Law and Florida Coastal School of Law
Bradley L. Henry is a leading white collar and federal criminal defense attorney with extensive experience handling complex criminal matters in state and federal trial and appellate courts throughout the country, including in the United States Supreme Court. Brad’s practice includes the representation of executives and other individuals in connection with a variety of federal and state offenses, including computer fraud and abuse, tax fraud, mail fraud, wire fraud, honest services fraud, money laundering, export violations, environmental crimes, bribery of government officials and theft of trade secrets. In addition to his white collar practice, Brad also represents individuals charged with...
Kristen Epifania
(646) 689-1869 1371 Virginia Avenue
Free ConsultationBronx, NY White Collar Crime Attorney with 2 years experience
White Collar Crime, Criminal, DWI and Domestic Violence
Kristen Epifania is an associate attorney with the Law Offices of Julie Rendelman. She works on misdemeanor and felony matters with the firm, as well as family court matters.
Kristen graduated from Brooklyn Law School, where she received the Dean’s Merit Scholarship, the Lisle Scholarship, & the Lark-Barranco Scholarship. She studied a diverse array of law, including immigration, asylum law and trial advocacy. Focusing on her passion for the criminal sector, Kristen pursued a specialized Certificate in Criminal Law, which required studies in Federal Criminal Investigations, Criminal Procedure and Evidence, Securities Fraud, Law and Police Policy, Forensic Science, and New York...
Daniel Loren Kron
(212) 300-2832 741 Madison Ave, 4th Fl.
Free ConsultationWhite Collar Crime, Criminal, DWI and Traffic Tickets
Syracuse College Of Law
Mr. Kron is an expert in handling traffic violations ranging from a minor traffic ticket to speeding to reckless driving. Some violations won't hit your driving record, but if you have tickets you've not dealt with, you can be arrested.
Many traffic citations require legal guidance, especially if you have numerous tickets. There's more unwanted trouble in store if the points on your driving record push you over New York's limit.
Mr. Kron deals with a blend of regulations and criminal offenses based on state, county, or city ordinances — each related to operating a vehicle. Federal law may come...
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Ralph Behr
(800) 761-3446 260 Madison Ave
Free ConsultationNew York, NY White Collar Crime Lawyer with 43 years experience
White Collar Crime, Criminal, Domestic Violence and Securities
Attorney Ralph Behr has been a prominent criminal trial attorney in Florida for over 30 years. His practice is 100% criminal trials, both Federal and State. Attorney Behr is the Chairman of the Criminal Law Committee of the South Palm Beach County Bar Association. Call if you have a criminal issue, have an immigration matter with criminal aspects, or want a consultation with Attorney Behr. Practicing in Miami, Fort Lauderdale, and New York, most of my work is cases of complexity and challenge. Your freedom is mine to protect! I have over thirty...
Julie Rendelman
(212) 951-1232 5036 Jericho Turnpike Suite 306
Free ConsultationCommack, NY White Collar Crime Attorney with 27 years experience
Julie Rendelman began her legal career as an Assistant District Attorney in Kings County, Brooklyn, where she investigated and prosecuted hundreds of criminal cases and quickly earned a reputation as a tough and tenacious trial attorney. While in the office, Julie was lead counsel in over 60 felony jury trials that involved a wide variety of crimes, from drug offenses to sex crimes to homicides. Julie quickly rose to the level of Senior Trial Attorney and was eventually promoted to the elite Homicide Bureau where she became the Deputy Bureau Chief.
Additionally, while working as a prosecutor, Julie also...
Free ConsultationWhite Plains, NY White Collar Crime Attorney with 15 years experience
Scott J. Limmer
Mineola, NY White Collar Crime Attorney with 25 years experience
(516) 844-0030 200 Old Country Road
Suite 2 South
Free ConsultationWhite Collar Crime, Criminal, Domestic Violence and Juvenile
For over two decades, my passion has been defending the rights of my clients. My goal with every single client is to help them move forward with their lives as quickly as possible with the best possible outcome.
My practice focuses on the areas of Criminal Defense and College Disciplinary Law.
• Criminal Defense
With integrity, honesty and over 20 years of experience, I work tirelessly to defend clients in state and federal prosecutions throughout Long Island and New York City. I personally handle every step in the process, from meeting with the client and explaining all possible and probable outcomes,...
MIchael Benz
Lockport, NY White Collar Crime Attorney with 8 years experience
(716) 636-7600 770 Davison Rd.
White Collar Crime, Criminal, Medical Malpractice and Personal Injury
Drexel University School of Law
Michael T. Benz is an associate attorney in the firm’s litigation department; handling personal injury, medical malpractice, and criminal defense cases. His motto and practice is to prepare every case as though it will be a jury trial; and he is confident that his trial preparation is the key to getting the best result for his clients.
Mr. Benz brings vast trial experience with him to HoganWillig, having tried hundreds of cases as an Assistant Defender at the nationally recognized Defender Association of Philadelphia, before starting his own private criminal defense practice in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. As a native “Buffalonian” he...
Richard Hochhauser
Manhasset, NY White Collar Crime Lawyer with 5 years experience
(516) 939-1529 1129 Northern Blvd, Suite 402
Manhasset, NY 11030
Richard Hochhauser is the founding partner at the Law Office of Richard Hochhauser, PLLC. As a former Assistant District Attorney, Mr. Hochhauser is a proven trial attorney having successfully taken numerous criminal cases to verdict and is highly experienced in all aspects of criminal law. As an ADA, Mr. Hochhauser prosecuted thousands of criminal cases, including DWI, hit and run, drug sale and possession, assault, domestic violence, larceny, financial fraud, ID theft, and many others. Further, Mr. Hochhauser was chosen to be a member of a specialized unit which focused on DWI and DUI prosecution.
As part of this appointment,...
Zachary Alexander Margulis-Ohnuma
New York, NY White Collar Crime Lawyer with 20 years experience
White Collar Crime, Appeals, Civil Rights and Criminal
Chester, NY White Collar Crime Attorney with 43 years experience
Free ConsultationWhite Collar Crime, Appeals, Criminal and Personal Injury
Barry Nelson Covert
Buffalo, NY White Collar Crime Lawyer with 30 years experience
(716) 849-1333 42 Delaware Avenue
White Collar Crime, Appeals, Criminal and DWI
Barry Covert focuses his practice New York State and federal criminal trials and appeals; constitutional law, including First Amendment, Second Amendment, and civil rights actions; Qui Tam Act, also known as the False Claims Act; defending against allegations of scientific misconduct, scientific fraud, research misconduct, research fraud, plagiarism, and fabrication of evidence; defense of professional licensing, including for attorneys, doctors, and nurses. Mr. Covert has represented numerous professional clients relating to licensing issues and defended a prominent research scientist against allegations of scientific fraud and misconduct involving several federally funded research projects involving the Office of Research Integrity (ORI)....
Steven Michael Cohen
Lockport, NY White Collar Crime Attorney with 32 years experience
White Collar Crime, Civil Rights, Criminal and Personal Injury
State University of New York at Buffalo School of Law
From New York City originally and now residing and practicing law in Buffalo, New York, Mr. Cohen has been successfully trying civil and criminal cases, including numerous civil rights and constitutional law cases, for over 25 years. In addition to corporate clients and individual litigation clients, he regularly represents local, state and federal law enforcement officers from numerous agencies, defending them in civil, criminal and administrative proceedings. Admitted to practice in the States of New York and Pennsylvania, he has been admitted pro hac vice to conduct trials in many other states. Mr. Cohen is frequently brought in as...
Jeffrey Lichtman
(212) 581-1001 11 E 44th St
Free ConsultationWhite Collar Crime, Criminal, DWI and Domestic Violence
Jeffrey Lichtman has been a criminal defense attorney for over 29 years, practicing primarily in the federal and state courts of New York. Beyond New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, Mr. Lichtman handles federal cases, appeals and investigations throughout the country. His clients include those charged with white collar and non-white collar offenses, such as RICO violations, narcotics offenses, money laundering, securities fraud, health care fraud, tax evasion and murder charges. Many of his cases and clients are internationally known and have been featured prominently in the media. A 1990 graduate of Duke Law School, Mr. Lichtman opened his...
Peter Howard Tilem
White Plains, NY White Collar Crime Lawyer with 29 years experience
Free ConsultationWhite Collar Crime, Criminal, Family and Real Estate
Peter Tilem’s legal career started in September of 1991 as an Assistant District Attorney in the New York County District Attorney’s Office in Manhattan, where he was assigned to the prosecution and investigation of hundreds, if not thousands, of criminal cases—including violent crimes, white collar crimes and homicides.
Since founding Tilem & Associates, PC, Mr. Tilem has continued to litigate in both state and federal courts and has continued his representation of clients involved in high-profile cases. Mr. Tilem appears regularly in the newspaper and on television concerning his representation in such cases and as a legal commentator. He is...
Robert Tsigler
(646) 904-8110 299 Broadway, Suite 1400
Free ConsultationNew York, NY White Collar Crime Lawyer
White Collar Crime, Criminal, DWI and Immigration
A lifelong resident of New York, Robert Tsigler, Esq. is committed to providing his clients with the aggressive legal assistance they deserve. As an experienced New York criminal defense lawyer, Mr. Tsigler has skillfully handled thousands of cases ranging from administrative hearings to State and Federal serious crimes. He prides himself on delivering exceptional legal guidance for each and every client, and has built a reputation in the legal community for winning results.
While interning at the Kings County District Attorneys Office, Robert assisted in the prosecution of hundreds of Misdemeanor and Felony cases. He further honed his litigation skills representing...
Bryan Earl Rounds
Kingston, NY White Collar Crime Attorney with 25 years experience
(845) 331-1141 273 Wall St., Suite 201
PERSONAL INJURY. CRIMINAL DEFENSE. DWI. Over 20 years of HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL TRIAL EXPERIENCE. Former Prosecutor.
Robert Stahl
(212) 755-3300 52 Duane St
Free ConsultationWhite Collar Crime, Appeals, Criminal and DWI
Robert G. Stahl is the managing partner of Stahl Criminal Defense Lawyers. He started the firm in 1997, after six years of exemplary service as a federal prosecutor. His firm focuses on defending individuals charged with white-collar offenses and other serious federal and state charges, both at trial and on appeal. Recent notable federal cases include representing a college student charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice in the aftermath of Boston Marathon bombing; a pharmacist charged with a multimillion-dollar online prescription drug fraud scheme in the SDNY; and a prominent rabbi charged with kidnapping as a result of an...
Jonathan C Dunsmoor
Buffalo, NY White Collar Crime Attorney with 8 years experience
(716) 371-1936 We are available by appointment only.
3407 Delaware Ave, Ste. 255
Free ConsultationWhite Collar Crime, Business, Securities and Trademarks
SUNY Buffalo Law School and Elon University School of Law
Jonathan's practice helps businesses of all sizes grow whether it is from inception to a DPO (Direct Public Offering). We are here to provide you and your company with exceptional legal service in one of the most trying times of your business; growth. Additionally, Dunsmoor Law also helps clients with contract disputes, employer/employee agreements, and various other business matters.
Jonathan's prior experience includes being of counsel for a small, international securities firm and various areas of public interest law including a legal fellowship with the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania. Dunsmoor Law represents clients throughout the world regardless of size.
Experienced...
Elena Fast
New York, NY White Collar Crime Attorney with 6 years experience
Free ConsultationWhite Collar Crime, Criminal, Health Care and Stockbroker Fraud
Elena Fast is a Junior Managing Partner at the Blanch Law Firm, responsible for overseeing business and legal operations of the firm. Prior to joining Blanch Law, Elena worked as a Felony Assistant District Attorney at the Kings County District Attorney’s Office in Brooklyn, New York where she handled thousands of cases from arraignment to disposition.
During her six years at the District Attorney’s Office, Elena investigated and prosecuted a wide array of crimes. She has tried dozens of cases to verdict, ranging from misdemeanors to violent felonies. Elena has presented over 200 cases to the Grand Jury for murder, assault,...
Matthew Richard Smalls
Matthew R. Smalls, Esq. is a highly trained and well respected legal professional. Upon graduation from law school, Mr. Smalls was one of a small number of successful applicants accepted into the prestigious Manhattan District Attorney’s Office as an Assistant District Attorney under the Honorable Robert M. Morgenthau. Mr. Smalls underwent a rigorous and highly-coveted training program on New York State criminal law and procedure. After his training, Mr. Smalls was a member of the Trial Division, where he successfully prosecuted hundreds of felony and misdemeanor. He took the lead on felony trials, hearings, search warrants,...
Ryan Gordon Blanch
Hauppague, NY White Collar Crime Attorney with 19 years experience
(212) 268-9700 1393 Veterans Memorial Highway
Hauppague, NY 11788
Free ConsultationWhite Collar Crime, Criminal, Securities and Stockbroker Fraud
Ryan Blanch is the founder and lead attorney of The Blanch Law Firm. Mr. Blanch is an experienced New York criminal defense lawyer handling all type of criminal matters. Such as government investigations, complex white-collar crimes, health care fraud, and felonies/misdemeanors.
Mr. Blanch worked as an intern-prosecutor with both the Los Angeles and San Francisco District Attorneys’ Offices. There he prosecuted hundreds of felonies at probable cause hearings in criminal court under the supervision of the District Attorney’s .
Over the course of his career, Mr. Blanch and his legal team have represented executives, attorneys, accountants, health care providers,...
John C. Nelson
Ellicottville, NY White Collar Crime Lawyer with 8 years experience
(855) 364-2569 12 Monroe St
Ellicottville, NY 14731
In representing clients, I always take the approach to represent a client the way I would want to be represented in his or her situation. I always evaluate, research, investigate and zealously defend a case as the client requests as long as it complies with my ethical duties. Frequently, I compare the attorney-client relationship to that of a taxi cab driver-passenger relationship. The taxi can driver knows the fast roads, best routes and has the skills to get where the passenger needs to go. Like the passenger, the client decides what direction the case goes. I try to do everything...
William A. Lorenz Jr.
William A. Lorenz, Jr., joined HoganWillig as an Associate Attorney in the fall of 2013. He currently focuses his practice in the areas of Civil Litigation, Criminal Law, and Real Estate Law.
Mr. Lorenz brings a variety of legal experience with him to HoganWillig, having worked in the areas of civil litigation, criminal practice, family law, intellectual property law, landlord-tenant law, and real estate law. Since admission to the New York State Bar, Mr. Lorenz has appeared in courts in both Erie and Niagara County on various matters, including evictions and civil litigation. Recently, he lobbied in Albany for the Child...
Sumeet Sondhi
(212) 268-9700 261 Madison Ave.
Free ConsultationWhite Collar Crime, Criminal, Health Care and Real Estate
Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center
Sumeet Sondhi is counsel to The Blanch Law Firm. Mr. Sondhi has worked in conjunction with Ryan Blanch on a myriad of matters, ranging from government investigations to white collar and antitrust crimes, his specialties being real estate fraud and complex mortgage fraud matters.
Mr. Sondhi’s extensive knowledge and experience have resulted in a number of favorable outcomes for the firm’s clients. He has represented clients and companies charged with an array of white collar crimes, including:
*Price Fixing: Represented a billion dollar air cargo company in a DOJ industry-wide criminal antitrust investigation regarding alleged price fixing
*Tax Evasion: Represented a Partner in...
Daniel John Henry
Hamburg, NY White Collar Crime Lawyer with 33 years experience
(888) 834-8623 16 Main Street
White Collar Crime, Criminal and DWI
Daniel J. Henry, Jr. a partner in the firm Villarini & Henry, L.L.P., is a former Erie County Assistant District Attorney who concentrates his practice in Criminal Defense and Personal Injury/Negligence claims. He has extensive experience defending the rights of people arrested and accused of criminal offenses both in State and Federal Court. He is one of a select group of attorneys who is eligible to handle Death Penalty cases. In addition, Mr. Henry represents clients facing Grand Jury investigations; witnesses called before State and Federal Grand Juries; clients charged under the Federal RICO Statute; clients charged with white-collar offenses;...
David Feige
White Collar Crime, Business and Criminal
David Feige is Of Counsel to Giskan Solotaroff & Anderson LLP. He provides knowledgeable and skilled legal representation for individuals and businesses in civil litigation, criminal and investigative matters.
David worked as a Public Defender in New York City representing indigent clients in a wide variety of criminal matters for over ten years. He served as Trial Chief of The Bronx Defenders, a community defender organization, and in 2002 was awarded one of the highest honors in indigent defense, the National Legal Aid and Defender Association’s Reginald Heber Smith Award.
David has been a Professor of Law and Director of...
Free ConsultationWhite Collar Crime, Criminal and Employment
(917) 551-1340 61 Broadway, 25th Floor
Free ConsultationWhite Collar Crime, Criminal, DWI and Employment
I am a former Assistant District Attorney from the Bronx County District Attorney's Office, who specializes in Criminal Defense and Disciplinary Law. I represent union members and private clientele and practice in NYC, Long Island, Westchester, and Upstate New York.
Mr. Frank M Bogulski Esq.
(716) 649-0090 286 Delaware Ave
White Collar Crime, Business, Criminal and DWI
SUNY Buffalo Law School
Frank M Bogulski was born and raised in Hamburg, NY along the lakeshore where he enjoyed water sports and played ice hockey. He graduated from Frontier High School and received a United States Army ROTC scholarship to attend Cornell University. While at Cornell, Frank studied economics and business and received a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial and Labor Relations. He was active in the Army ROTC program and completed the United States Army Advance Camp at Fort Brag, NC. Following his educational career at Cornell, he was commissioned as a United States Army officer and served in the military...
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The Creation of the Self and Language: Primitive Sensory Relations of the Child with the Outside World (+ DVD)
Author(s) : David Rosenfeld
Publisher : Karnac Books
Also by David Rosenfeld
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RRP : £23.99
'This book, with its accompanying DVD, "NOW I AM A REAL KID" has made it possible for us to witness what David Rosenfeld’s treatment of Benjamin, a young boy with a diagnosis of autism, was actually like. We can see for ourselves what was done, what was said; we can follow the steps by which Benjamin moved from being a child without language, in a state of perpetual panic-stricken screaming and flailing about, to being a “real kid” with friendships, doing well at an ordinary school. Witnessing this transformation is a profoundly moving experience. So is hearing the testimony of Benjamin’s parents, who had been told repeatedly that there was no future for their son. It was their wish that his therapy should be more widely known about, in the hope that professionals could learn from it so that other families’ lives might be transformed as theirs had been through “Dr David’s” intervention. Everyone concerned with children with autism is in their debt.'
- From the Introduction by Maria Rhode, Emeritus Professor of Child Psychotherapy at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust
The DVD is available in both PAL and NTSC formats. Please specify which format you require when placing your order. If no format is specified we will supply PAL format.
Please note the Ebook version of this title does not include the DVD content.
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The free DVD, "Now I Am A Real Kid": Treatment of Autism, which accompanies this book, is in Spanish with English subtitles.
David Rosenfeld is a consultant professor at Buenos Aires University; Faculty of Medicine in the Department of Mental Health and Psychiatry; a training analyst of the Buenos Aires Psychoanalytic Society, and a former Vice-President of the International Psychoanalytical Association
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Billboard company sues Columbia over permit denial
5 years 6 months 1 day ago Sunday, July 20 2014 Jul 20, 2014 Sunday, July 20, 2014 12:07:25 PM CDT July 20, 2014 in News
COLUMBIA (AP) - One of the nation's leading outdoor advertisers is suing the city of Columbia over its refusal to allow the company to erect new billboards.
The lawsuit from Lamar Advertising alleges the denial of the permits violates a 1998 settlement between the city and two outdoor advertisers.
Lamar says the city denied it permits to erect six new billboards and alter two others. The Louisiana company contends in a lawsuit filed last month that the permit rejections were prohibited by the settlement.
The Columbia Daily Tribune reports that in 1998, the city settled a four-year legal fight with two outdoor advertisers in which the city agreed that its ordinance would not apply to "rebuilding, relocation or replacement" of 42 existing signs in the city. Lamar acquired the signs in 1999.
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Police statement after responding to complaints over parking around Royal Preston Hospital
Officers issued fixed penalty notices to cars causing an obstruction
Chantelle HeedsLive News Reporter
Police found that some vehicles were partially or completely blocking pavements (Image: Lancashire Police)
Police have responded to complaints over parking around Royal Preston Hospital.
Officers from the Neighbourhood Policing Team have been monitoring the parking problems in the area for weeks.
This comes after members of the public requested that the situation was addressed by police.
Although the majority of vehicles were parked in line with the law, some fixed penalty notices were issued.
Officers discovered that a small number of vehicles were partially or completely blocking pavements. This prevents wheelchairs and prams from passing and forcing them to cross over or walk in the road.
Police say they will continue to monitor the streets surrounding the hospital.
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A spokesperson for Lancashire Police said: "Over the past couple of weeks the Neighbourhood Policing Team have spent some of their time monitoring the parking problems around RPH as requested by members of the public.
"We would like to stress that the majority of cars observed in the area have been parked legally.
"We have issued a small number of FPNs to cars that were causing an obstruction.
"The majority of these were either partially or completely blocking pavements preventing wheelchairs and prams from passing and forcing them to cross over or walk in the road.
"We will continue to monitor the situation in order to make these residential streets safer for both road users and pedestrians. We also continue to work closely with our partners."
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Division of Academic Psychiatry
Department of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
About the Department of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Children and adolescents live through multiple periods of critical, sometimes chaotic, development affecting the ways they think, feel, and perceive. Biologically and genetically, they are in flux. It is vital that approaches to the diagnosis and treatment of mental health and neurodevelopmental conditions are different from those adopted with adults.
The Department of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience is world-renowned for its progressive research in this field. Our goal is to understand in principle how childhood disorders are distinct from their adult equivalents. We then apply those principles to prevention, diagnosis and treatment - specifically designed with development in mind.
Mental Disorders in Intellectual Disability
Affective Disorders (Anxiety and Depression)
Deliberate Self-Harm
Parenting and Antisocial Behaviour
We provide the essential link between state-of-the-art science and its translation into clinical services, strengthened by our pivotal role within King’s Health Partners and our staff’s myriad connections with the National Specialist teams based at the Maudsley Hospital. The Department is also home to the National Academy of Parenting Research.
The Department is the focus for the Child Mental Disorders theme within the Biomedical Research Centre (funded by the National Institute for Health Research), and is headed by Professor Emily Simonoff.
To find out more about the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, watch the short videos below:
Facilities in the Department of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
For information about the PhD opportunities available within the Division of Academic Psychiatry visit Postgraduate Research Programmes page. Please see the online prospectus for more information or contact Professor Katya Rubia for any PhD related enquiries for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
Current research projects in the department
Parenting intervention program;
Treatment foster care;
Functional imaging in normal development and child psychiatric disorders;
Neuropsychology of impulsiveness;
Outcome and genetics of ADHD.
Child & Adolescent Mental Health MSc
Duration One year FT, September to September, two years PT for UK-based clinicians working in CAMH/ paediatric settings.
This is a unique course for international and UK-based psychiatrists, paediatricians and psychologists, as well as allied professionals leading to enhanced clinical and research skills in child and adolescent mental health.
Child & Adolescent Psychiatry MPhil/PhD/MD(Res)
Duration Three years FT; six years PT. Accelerated PT rates available - email iop.educationsupport@kcl.ac.uk for further information. Registration is carried out at three points in the year: October, February and June.
MPhil/PhD/MD(Res) from the Department of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry at King's College London.
Family Therapy Grad Cert
Duration One year FT, September to June; two years PT.
Our Family Therapy Grad Cert course enables mental health professionals to develop useful theoretical knowledge and practise skills to enable them to work effectively with couples and families in the context of their own professional practice.
Family Therapy MSc
Duration One year FT, September to September, two years PT.
Our Family Therapy MSc course offers a comprehensive course of clinical training in family therapy, including extensive supervised work with families in both adult and child mental health settings.
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Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) are two major neuropsychiatric conditions that quite commonly occur together. In both conditions, genetic and non genetic factors are implicated.
Developmental Neuroimaging
Our research uses neuroimaging, neurocognitive, and psychopharmacological methods to better understand ADHD and related child psychiatric disorders as well as normal brain development from childhood to adulthood. Furthermore, we use neurotherapeutics such as fMRI-Neurofeedback and brain stimulation to develop novel brain-based treatment for these disorders.
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CIPPRT is a team focused on medication-related suicidality, development of Patient Center Outcome Measures (PCOMs), as well as rare diseases such as Rett’s syndrome and Mucopolysaccharidoses (MPS) syndrome.
We are currently part of the consortium on four EU FP7 projects, collaborating with teams across Europe on medication-related suicidality, mental health transition services and aggression in psychiatric disorders.
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Additional mental health problems are substantially increased amongst people with neurodevelopmental disorders such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and global intellectual disability (ID).
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Human mood is fascinating yet still poorly understood. What makes young people experience several days of euphoria with racing thoughts or go through months of low mood and lose interest in life’s pleasures? What brain mechanisms underlie the intense anger of some young people and why are irritable youth at higher risk for depression?
National Academy for Parenting Research
Based in the Department of Child and Adolescent Mental Health at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College, London, we are a team of psychologists, clinicians and researchers working under the direction of Professor Stephen Scott (Director of Research and Professor of Child Health and Behaviour).
Suicide is the second leading cause of death in adolescents in most Western countries. Self harm is the strongest predictor of eventual death by suicide in adolescence, increasing the risk up to ten-fold. Self harm is a common and a growing problem. Around 10% of adolescents will have self harmed by the time they finish school.
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Lab aims to understand how stressful experiences in childhood affect development and later health, and how to best support children who had such traumatic experiences. Work in the Lab has the following strategic directions.
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INTER-STAARS
Psychological treatments for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) initiated after disorder onset have had only limited success. Preventative approaches implemented in infancy have been championed but not tested or implemented successfully. In INTER-STAARS we will undertake a randomised controlled trial of a novel, developmental neuroscience approach to early intervention for infants at familial risk for ADHD.
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The STOP project has developed a new web-based STOP Suicidality Suite of Measures (Suicidality Assessment scale, Medication Side-Effect Suicidality scale, Risk and Resilience Suicidality Scale) for children and adolescents (8 to 18 years old) using the HealthTrackerTM system. HealthTrackerTM is an online tested health-monitoring platform that uniquely allows multimodal presentation of questionnaires and assists in automatically allocating questionnaires based on developmental level rather than chronological age.
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This study uses the large population -based sample IMAGEN sample of adolescents to examine whether blunted responses to the brain’s reward network are specifically linked to the anhedonia symptom dimension of depression. Furthermore, we test to which extent aberrant neural responses to reward might be a liability marker by predicting clinical depressive outcomes two years later in healthy adolescents of the general population.
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Economics of Parenting Programmes
Little information exists about the cost effectiveness of different parenting interventions. This programme of work is collecting data to provide evidence in the UK context to help commissioners make decisions about the most effiecient and economical programmes given the needs of their populations.
Specialized Therapeutic Assessment-Based Recovery-Focused Treatment for Young People With Self-Harm: Pilot Study
Consortium on Vulnerability to Externalizing Disorders and Addictions (cVEDA): A developmental cohort study protocol
Early variations in white matter microstructure and depression outcome in adolescents with subthreshold depression
Why does early childhood deprivation increase the risk for depression and anxiety in adulthood? A developmental cascade model.
Tuberous Sclerosis Complex (TSC): Expert Recommendations for Provision of Coordinated Care
A structured medication review tool to promote psychotropic medication optimisation for adults with intellectual disability: Feasibility study
Anxiety in young people with autism spectrum disorder: Common and autism-related anxiety experiences and their associations with individual characteristics
Recovery as a process: Exploring definitions of recovery in the context of eating‐disorder‐related social media forums
Exploring the cognitive, emotional and sensory correlates of social anxiety in autistic and neurotypical adolescents
Comparative Meta-analyses of Brain Structural and Functional Abnormalities during Cognitive Control in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Autism Spectrum Disorder
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Isle of Sheppey
Inside the stunning medieval mansion which is one Kent's most viewed homes
The five-bedroom 16th century property was previously lived in by Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn
Elena Morresi
Shurland Hall in Eastchurch (Image: Zoopla)
Kids grow up dreaming about living in a castle and some of us may have not grown out of it yet, judging by the property at the top of this month's Zoopla browsing list.
Shurland Hall in Eastchurch, Sheerness looks like it has come straight out of the pages of a medieval novel.
With two en-suites, four receptions including a drawing room, orangery and even a great hall, it would be any owner's pride and joy.
Obviously all of this doesn't come for a bargain as this gorgeous five-bedroom detached house on the Isle of Sheppey has a huge pricetag.
You need to be prepared to fork out £2.5 million to own your very own fairytale home.
The Orangery (Image: Zoopla)
According to Zoopla, this mansion on Eastchurch High Street is one of the most viewed properties in Kent for December along with the TARDIS hobbit house in Tunbridge Wells.
Full of character, it is no surprise the home has attracted so much attention.
The stunning 16th century former gatehouse is a grade II listed building and scheduled ancient monument.
Enclosed in a partially walled 'Garden of Eden' full of fruit trees and flowers, medieval stone remains are dotted throughout the grounds - the last remaining traces of the house in its original glory.
A full look around Sheerness' Shurland Hall
Like in a fairytale, spiral staircases lead up to turrets with incredible sweeping views across Swale and one of them houses the master bedroom.
But surprisingly, Shurland Hall as it stands today occupies what was only the serving wing of an impressive mansion where Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn lived for a chilly 16th century autumn.
It may be of interest as a home, but also as a business investment.
Along with its incredible facilities, the castle-like structure has a detached barn included in the deal, with its very own bathroom, kitchen and installed bar.
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The barn is perfect for parties and events as the entire detached premises is already licensed to sell alcohol.
If this gorgeous castle isn't snapped up by prospective business owners, it could also be the ideal family home, as the nearest school, Eastchurch Church of England Primary School, is no more than 100 yards away from the property's impressive seven-acre grounds.
Shurland Hall is on the market for £2.5m (Image: Zoopla)
The former owners, who decided to downsize in their retirement, said they would miss the Great Hall for its "wonderfully genuine and ancient feel".
"With a fire lit, we love to sink back into a chair and relax, especially when all the family and the grandchildren are here," they said.
"We'll miss the uniqueness and space of the place and the joy of living alongside such rich history".
To find out more about Shurland Hall, email the agent or call 01732658753.
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Auto Week: 2018 Dodge Ram Quad Cab blends muscle, technology
by: Web Staff
The 2018 Dodge Ram Quad Cab is tough on the outside, but loaded with technology on the inside.
“It used to be that customers had to sacrifice some of the luxuries of a car to get the utility of a truck, but nowadays, you can kind of combine both,” said Gary Scheuring, Cutter Automotive Galleries’ director of training and development.
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There will be two ticketed events- a Tea on Kawaiaha'o Church's Lawn on April 24th and also a Celebration Luau at the Hilton on April 25th. And of course, we have our Kawaiahaʻo Church Bicentennial Service on April 26th at 9am. You can check out our website at http://kawaiahao.org for more info, or to buy tickets-or just come by a church service any Sunday at 9am!
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There will be a ProAm Media Day on Monday Jan 20th at DH Tennis Courts from 10 - 12, where the public is invited to come learn about the game and watch some newbies and more experienced players play
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Living808’s Bully Kanaka debuts his newest segment on the show called “The Bully Pulpit”. This is where Bully gets to talk about anything and everything and editorializes from a Cultural Critic’s perspective. In this episode Bully gives his picks for best and worst movies of 2019.
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Talking about Kidenza
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"Thank you for a wonderful performance. Humour, fun and musical enrichment!" Greenfields CPS
"Newlands primary school loved it yesterday.It was beautiful funny and moving !!" J Mallett
"I would just like to say how much our year 1 classes enjoyed yesterday's concert. It was such a wonderful experience for them to see the experience and hear the music live. They were really enthusiastic about it after and I can wait to teach them more next week."
"All of them were wonderful, really brilliant and I hope that we can find a way to support the continuance of this somehow." C Dyer Sevenoaks School
"I think the concert was absolutely incredible, I have been telling all my friends about it! It was so informative and fun for the children. We bought the cd of Peter and the Wolf at the concert and my daughter listens to it constantly , always referring back to the instruments we saw."
"Perfect venue. Nice relaxed atmosphere and even the smallest of concert goers were made to feel very welcome. The audience participation really helped to keep her focused. There was lots of movement and opportunities to get up and down so I didn't feel she was restricted to sitting quietly for the whole session. It was just the right length too!"
"By providing narrative and pictures and the kids being free to move, they are quite able to manage the length of the music"
"I love that it is so interactive to keep the kids attention and so informal so they feel free to enjoy themselves and therefore don't get bored."
"What you do is fantastic. Please keep going!"
"So good to have the opportunity to take kids to live music events like this."
"Both of my children loved it. My six year old is still playing his straw reed and my four year old is listening to the CD almost every day!"
"Very engaging and educational for children and adults alike"
"We will continue coming to the concerts and wish you lots of luck in taking it from strength to strength. This sort of education is so important. We are looking forward to the announcement of the next concert."
"My son (when about 8) was reluctant to come to the Proms concert, but when he got there he particularly enjoyed the fact the audience were involved, waving flags and having a go with and learning about the instruments."
"My 3 year old loves Kidenza concerts as does my 10 year old. It's great to have a activity they can both go to and thoroughly enjoy. We love the relaxed atmosphere and the fact it is OK for the children to dance and go with the music without sitting still in silence. Please keep them coming!"
"Really like the interactive bits where the children can get involved. They really liked blowing through the straws and following the conductor around."
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Outside, the pulse-pounding sound of La Bomba De Tiempothrobs, and you can almost see this skirt, stuffed in between a barrage of commonality, moving from the hips down, finding its axis, or eje, as they say in Spanish.
In Buenos Aires, dancing can reveal more about a person and their relationships than any trivial conversation.
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Eje Skirt (No. 5777). The energy is 100% Buenos Aires; the luxurious fabric is 100% Italian wool from Ratti. Curved panels give the skirt a layered (and vintage) appearance. Exceptional weight, drape, and movement. Two fiercely bold and passion-infused colors. Hollywood waist, mid-calf length, invisible zipper at center back, fully lined.Imported.
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JRS/USA Updates
Walking with Refugees
Number of people served: 21,228
Each year, Italy receives more refugees and asylum seekers than any other country in Europe, mostly coming by boat across the Mediterranean Sea. Almost 50,000 migrants are living without status in Italy, almost half of whom have applied for asylum. The majority of these migrants have experienced some trauma on their journey to Italy, often led by smugglers. Italy has been overwhelmed by this number of migrants and asylum seekers, and there are few resources available for these migrants in Italy, even for those who receive refugee status.
Our Work in Italy
JRS Italy (Centro Astalli) provides a variety of services to asylum seekers and refugees such as daily hot meals, Italian language lessons, shelters, medical, and legal support. Centro Astalli gives particular attention to the accompaniment of the most vulnerable refugees, such as those who have been victims of torture. Every day, 450 volunteers (lawyers, doctors, students, teachers, etc.) help Centro Astalli to feed, advocate, integrate, teach, and accompany refugees and asylum seekers in Italy.
Education Education is a life-saving intervention that helps displaced children and families to see beyond their displacement.
Health Care Health services are often needed to help refugees through their displacement and effectively reduce health risks.
Protection Protection services provide effective case management and legal assistance to ensure full respect for the rights of displaced individuals.
Emergency Services In crisis and conflict, relief assistance – shelter, food, water, sanitation, and non-food items – are needed to ensure the survival of people in emergency situations.
Italian courses for foreigners run by Centro Astalli (JRS Italy). (Jesuit Refugee Service)
On the occasion of World Refugee Day, Centro Astalli, JRS Italy, launched “Yala”, an album resulted from the musical journeys of refugees and those who want to create welcoming and peaceful communities. (Jesuit Refugee Service)
Participants of the Communities of Hospitality program with their hosts. (Centro Astalli)
Italy: Educate a Refugee – “Let Children Be Children”
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10-Day Itineraries
Barcelona and the Balearic Islands: Mallorca and Menorca - 10 Days
There are no more beautiful locales in Spain's Catalonia region than Barcelona and the Balearic Islands. You'll visit both on a 10-day excursion that begins in Barcelona with bicycle rides through its historic neighborhoods as well as tours of its most impressive Gothic buildings. The final leg of the journey will see you hiking the gorgeous Tramuntana Mountains and sailing around the rocky coves of Mallorca and Menorca.
Visit Barcelona's Gaudí-designed architectural highlights
Take a bicycle tour around historic neighborhoods like the Gothic Quarter
Enjoy horseback riding along the coast of Menorca
Sail around the rocky cliffs and hidden coves of Mallorca
Day 1 Arrival in Spain - Self-Guided Barcelona Tour Barcelona
Day 2 Visit Park Güell & Sagrada Família Barcelona
Day 3 Private Bike Tour of Barcelona Barcelona
Day 4 Flight from Barcelona to Menorca - Explore Menorca
Day 5 Horseback Riding in Menorca Menorca
Day 6 Flight from Menorca to Mallorca - Explore Palma Palma de Mallorca
Day 7 Guided Tour of Palma de Mallorca Palma de Mallorca
Day 8 Mallorca Sailing Tour Palma de Mallorca
Day 9 Hiking the Tramuntana Mountains - Village Tour Palma de Mallorca
Day 10 Depart Spain from Mallorca
Day 1: Arrival in Spain - Self-Guided Barcelona Tour
Welcome to Barcelona
Welcome to Spain!
Upon arrival at Barcelona's El Prat Airport, a private driver will take you into the city where you can check into your hotel and unwind. You'll then have the afternoon free to explore on a self-guided tour.
We recommend first visiting Mt. Montjuic and the surrounding area. Montjuic is a famous hill that stands 1,988 feet (606 meters) high and overlooks the Port of Barcelona. Take the Montjuic Cable Car from the metro station near Olympic Park, which takes you up to the 17th century Castle Montjuic and offers panoramic views of the city. You can also access Montjuic via cable car from Barcelona Beach and by funicular elevator adjacent to the cable car.
The Poble Espanyol is also fun to visit. Constructed in 1929, this open-air museum features over 100 recreated buildings in the style of traditional Spanish villages. When the sun goes down over the city, make sure you're near the Magic Fountain of Montjuic, named for the dazzling display of water and colored lights that occur after dark. It's the best free show in the city, one whose effect is heightened by the hundreds of spectators and a communal atmosphere.
Day 2: Visit Park Güell & Sagrada Família
The Gothic-modernist marvel that is the Sagrada Familia
After breakfast at the hotel, you'll meet a local guide who will whisk you away in a chauffeured vehicle for a half-day tour. The destinations are two of the most impressive works by the legendary Catalan architect Antonio Gaudí: Park Güell and the Sagrada Família.
First, you'll visit Park Güell. Located atop Carmel Hill in north Barcelona, this UNESCO World Heritage Site is a fine example of Gaudí's boundary-pushing modernist style. The park takes up 42 acres and you'll be able to marvel at every building as you stroll the walkways and gardens. There are also incredible views at many points in Park Güell that look out over the city.
Next up is the Sagrada Família, the iconic Roman Catholic basilica with an impressive mix of Gothic, Catalan-modernism, and Art Nouveau architectural styles. Despite construction on the church beginning in 1882, it's still technically under construction and was only consecrated in 2010. Upon arrival, the guide will reveal insight into the Sagrada Familia's fascinating history, and you'll glean even more info as you explore the interior.
Around lunchtime, you will part ways with your guide. On your own, you can visit Ciutadella Park. Open since 1881, this green lung of Barcelona takes up 70 acres and features sculptures, lakes, gardens, playgrounds, and the Barcelona Zoo. You could easily spend the remainder of the afternoon here and not run out of things to do and see.
Day 3: Private Bike Tour of Barcelona
Biking is a great way to get your bearings in Barcelona
Today, after breakfast, get ready for a bike tour around Barcelona! At the designated time, your private guide will meet you at your hotel and take you on a whirlwind panoramic tour of this wonderful city. Riding a bike is a great way to get some exercise and learn your way around this expansive city in a fun and dynamic way.
During the tour, you will ride along the narrow streets of the Old Town (including Raval, El Born, and Barri Gòtic) before arriving at Park de la Ciutadella—a beautiful respite for relaxing strolls and also the site of the 1888 Universal Expo.
With fun anecdotes and great views to be had along the way, you'll also visit Olympic Village, the city's redeveloped port, and of course Barceloneta Beach.
Day 4: Flight from Barcelona to Menorca - Explore
Es Calo Blanc, Menorca
In the morning a driver will transfer you to the airport where you'll catch a one-hour flight to Menorca. One of four islands in Spain's Balearic Archipelago, Menorca is ideal for travelers who prefer a tranquil beach holiday to the constant partying of its western neighbor Ibiza.
You'll arrive in Menorca's capital city, Maó, where you'll pick up your rental car and drive to your hotel. After checking in and unpacking you can relax for a bit before heading out to explore the island.
If you just can't wait to hit the beach, there are many options around the capital. Es Calo Blanc is located about five miles south of the city and just south of the airport. There may not be much in the way of sand here, but the rocks hugging the cove are good spots to lay your towel and make great platforms for diving into crystalline lagoons. Cala d'en Tortuga, a few miles northeast of Maó, is another great option located in S'Albufera National Park, a nature reserve.
Punta Prima is about the same distance outside the capital and located near the southern tip of the island. There's a large beach here and ample parking, but know that it tends to get crowded. Sa Mesquida Playa is just a couple miles from Maó on the east coast, and it's a gem. It features a long and crescent-shaped sandy beach hugged at either end by promontory hills that protect the cove from wind.
If you're a bit of a foodie, be sure to try the island's famous Mahón cheese. Named after Menorca's capital, this is a smooth hard cheese made from unpasteurized cow's milk. It's unique in that it has a somewhat salty, spicy flavor mixed with fruity and sweet aromas. Whatever your opinion of it, Mahón cheese has passed the test of time—Menorcans have been producing it on the island for over 700 years.
Day 5: Horseback Riding in Menorca
Cala Fustam, Menorca
Today you'll enjoy a leisure activity perfectly suited for an island with a stunning coastline like Menorca: horseback riding.
In the morning you'll drive 25 minutes to the eastern edge of the island near the medieval city of Ciutadella. It's a historic and beautiful city, but now's not the time for strolling its old cobbled streets.
Instead, you'll visit the rocky coast south of Ciutadella, home to some of the most gorgeous coves on the island. Here you'll saddle up and begin the 2.5-hour horseback ride along the famed Camí de Cavalls (Path of the Horses). This is a coastal route that various occupiers of Menorca, from the Moors to the British, used to patrol the island for centuries. You'll pass beautiful coves like Cala Fustam, an isolated spot hiding a white-sand virgin beach and turquoise waters.
After the ride, you'll transfer back to your hotel in the capital. In the afternoon, you'll have free time to continue exploring the city on your own. If you're a history buff with an interest in archeology, there are some fascinating sites in and around Maó.
Right outside the city are the megalithic monuments of Trepucó and Talatí de Dalt. These are the remains of settlements from the Talaiotic culture, a society that existed during the Iron Age. Another archeological gem near to the capital is the 19th-century Mola Fortress. This impressive stone stronghold was commissioned by Queen Elizabeth II of Spain to protect Maó's port.
For more history, visit the Museo de Menorca. It offers fascinating exhibits detailing Menorca's cultural timeline over the centuries and includes ancient sculptures, ceramics, tools, and jewelry. Plus there's also 19th-century art, antique furniture, and photographs.
Day 6: Flight from Menorca to Mallorca - Explore Palma
The city of Palma de Mallorca
In the morning you'll have some remaining free time to enjoy Menorca. Feel free to spend it shopping, visiting a café, or lazing on one of the island's beautiful beaches. In the afternoon, you'll return your car to the rental office and take a 40-minute flight west to Mallorca, the elder sibling of Menorca.
In fact, Mallorca is the largest of the Balearics and a popular destination for tourists and holidaymakers the world over. It's ideal for travelers of all stripes because here you have it all: beautiful Mediterannean coast and beaches, coves hugging turquoise waters, ancient villages, mountains perfect for hiking, a variety of local wineries, and great nightlife and shopping in the capital city of Palma de Mallorca.
Upon arrival at the airport in Palma, you'll pick up your rental car and transfer to your hotel in the capital. Take some time to relax before heading out to explore. Not only is Palma de Mallorca an exciting metropolitan capital, but it's also a medieval historic gem. All around you'll find Moorish fortresses, royal palaces, and Gothic landmarks.
Day 7: Guided Tour of Palma de Mallorca
The Royal Palace of La Almudaina
In the morning you'll meet a local guide for a four-hour historical tour of Palma. Like much of southern Spain, the Balearic Islands have been occupied by various empires and cultures over the years. This includes everyone from the Romans and Visigoths to the Muslims, Christians, and even the Bourbons. Although Mallorca has officially been a part of Spain since the 13th century, you can still see many remnants of this history in Palma's historic landmarks.
One you'll visit is the Cathedral of Santa Maria of Palma, or simply the Palma Cathedral. This expansive Roman Catholic church was built by the Catalan Crown of Aragón in the 13th century over the site of a former Mosque that had been erected during Moorish rule. And even that sat on the site of the citadel of a previous Roman city.
Palma Catedral is designed in the Catalan-Gothic style and is one of the largest such churches in Europe. It has been restored over the years, and in 1901 legendary Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí took over duties, adding a distinct Art Nouveau interior. You can see a fine example of his contribution in the wrought iron canopy over the main altar.
Just opposite the cathedral is another stop on the tour: the Royal Palace of La Almudaina. Its position overlooking the Bay of Palma made it strategically important, which is why the Moors built a fortress there in the 10th century (before that the Romans occupied the site). Like with the Palma Cathedral, the Christians under King James II of Majorca built this Gothic fortified palace over the Muslim fortress after the conquest of the 13th century.
A tour of the palace involves visiting the three grand staterooms, the royal staircase, and the royal apartments. You'll also visit the Capilla de Santa Ana, a Romanesque chapel that was commissioned by King James II. Today the palace is the official island residence of the King and Queen of Spain.
About a mile west of Palma is the 14th century Castell de Bellver. Perched on a hill amid pine woods, this unique Gothic castle (it's one of the few round fortresses in Spain) was another of King James II's pet projects. Here you'll enjoy incredible 360-degree views of Palma plus tour the castle. Features include a moat and drawbridge, three defensive towers, and the imposing Torre del Homenaje (the fortress' keep). Inside is an open-air courtyard with Roman arches that often hosts evening concerts.
After concluding the tour, you'll return to your hotel and can spend the remainder of the day enjoying Palma however you see fit.
Day 8: Mallorca Sailing Tour
Sail from one stunning cove to another on a boat tour
After breakfast, you'll drive to the port to depart for a half-day (optional full-day) sailboat tour along the beautiful Mallorcan coast. Make no mistake, it's the 344 miles (555 km) of gorgeous coastline that makes Mallorca the Balearic's most popular destination for summer holidaymakers. Rocky coves string the island like pearls, and running from its shores out to the horizon are vast expanses of water as blue as the cloudless sky.
This boat tour will take you to various points on Mallorca, and each has its virtues. The eastern side of the island is home to some postcard beaches like the white sands and crystalline waters of Cala Formentor. Further south you'll find pine-shrouded coves guarding turquoise waters, like at Caló des Moro. And on the west side are some attractive rocky inlets comprised of small cliffs perfect for diving.
On the boat, you can pick your pleasure. If you want to relax and sunbathe on the deck between cove-hopping, no problem. If you prefer something more active, there will be ample time for swimming and snorkeling (equipment provided). Whenever you feel peckish feel free to indulge in some of the complimentary snacks on board; and if you book a full-day tour, you and the other guests can sit down and enjoy a full lunch.
Day 9: Hiking the Tramuntana Mountains - Village Tour
Hiking the Tramuntana Mountains
A guide will pick you up from your hotel in the morning and drive you to another of Mallorca's highlights: the Tramuntana Mountains. Located on the northwest of the island, these limestone mountains with sharp ridges and handsome bluffs are a hiker's dream. You'll be enjoying a medium difficulty hike that takes between 1.5-3 hours and requires no more specialized equipment than hiking boots or athletic shoes. Expect breathtaking views of the coast from many lookout points.
You'll also visit some of the historic mountain villages famous in the area. These include the carless hilltop hamlet of Valldemossa, the tranquil cove and rocky beach of coastal Deià, and Sóller, with its rickety wooden cable cars and long waterfront promenade.
These villages have long been home to painters, musicians, and writers from across the globe. They're attracted to the area by the relaxed way of life, endless sunny afternoons, and the ideal location between a pine-covered hillside and the glimmering Mediterranean sea. Valldemossa, in particular, is home to the 14th century Real Cartuja, a well-preserved Carthusian Monastery. Here the composer Frédéric Chopin and his lover George Sand rented rooms in the winter of 1838.
Day 10: Depart Spain from Mallorca
Farewell, Spain!
In the morning, a driver will meet you and transfer you to the airport. You'll then catch a flight back to mainland Spain, where you'll meet your connecting flight home. Adios!
Map of Barcelona and the Balearic Islands: Mallorca and Menorca - 10 Days
Written by Patricia Marques, updated Sep 12, 2019
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James Fields: Man convicted of murder at Charlottesville 'Unite the Right' to be sentenced soon
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The jurors who convicted James Fields of murder could soon decide whether they think he should spend the rest of his life behind bars.
Fields, 21, was attending last year's "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, when counterprotesters demonstrated against the white nationalists. That afternoon, Fields got in his Dodge Challenger and plowed into the counterprotesters at about 28 mph , killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer.
The Charlottesville jury found Fields guilty of first-degree murder Friday. Fields was also found guilty of eight counts of malicious wounding and one count of failing to stop at an accident involving a death.
On Monday, jurors will begin the sentencing phase of Fields' trial. Ultimately, Judge Richard Moore will decide Fields' sentence, but will consider the jury's recommendation.
Jurors are expected to hear victim impact statements, possibly from Heyer's family or surviving victims from the August 2017 attack.
Heyer, a 32-year-old paralegal, was devoted to helping people and had a passion for justice, her family said .
Heyer's friend Marissa Blair attended the counterprotest with her and said Heyer fought against bigotry.
"If you knew Heather, you would know that she loves everyone and all she wants is equality for everyone, no matter who you love, no matter what color you are," Blair said.
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Top Things to Do When You Are in North India Tour
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India, whenever you imagine this intense holiday destination it is likely that visions of magnificent palaces, intricately carved temples with life-size sculptures, colorful bazaars along with a backdrop of rich culture and history will pop in your mind! That is roughly what India remains to be, yet much more and even a whirlwind of North India Tour will provide you a glimpse into this very tale!
Here are the top things to do when you are in North India tour
Red Fort in Delhi
The Indian capital city with the largest international airport in the country, if you’re coming from some other country this city is unavoidable! Your flight will land in the vast Delhi airport renovated into perfection!
The city on the other hand is an amusing mix of the ancient and upcoming! Heritage skeletons of buildings, monuments and stories remain strewn all over the city, which is surprisingly, peppered with some of the most modern entertainment and corporate hubs as well that gives a signaling of India’s forthcoming future.
The city is made of two sides of the same coin – one side being the old part of the city with stories in its ancient, crumbling ribcages forming Old Delhi and the very orderly, well-planned and mapped by blue, yellow and other subway (metro) lines New Delhi. The two parts exist side by side, but also seems to be two shores made distant by a massive sea of time. Large landscape gardens and a plethora of cultural shows make Delhi a must-see in north India Tour.
2. The Taj Mahal, UP
Taj Mahal – Seven Wonders of the World
Probably the most iconic structure to India and a place that no sane traveler to India will want to miss, the Taj Mahal is India’s most famous monument. Celebrating love at its most pristine, the Taj is the tomb of Mumtaz Mahal the beloved wife of Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan.
The beauty of Taj is indescribable if not visited in person! It is made completely out of white marble stones and took 22 long years to be built by the hands of 20,000 workers. The most interesting bit about this monument is the fact that it changes its colours based on the time of the day and the position of the sun. The Taj Mahal forms an important point of the Golden Triangle tour route in India that also includes Delhi and Jaipur.
3. Amritsar, Punjab
The home to the pristine Golden Temple, Amritsar is the heart of Punjab. It was founded by Guru Ram Das the fourth Guru of Sikhs in 1577. The structure is also the spiritual hub for Sikhs and has gained its name from the phrase the holy pool of nectar, which is the water body that surrounds the lake.
Apart from the temple, the city is also well-known for its lip-smacking offerings in street food.
4. Varanasi, UP
Ganga Ghat in Varanasi
Yet another top spiritual destination in north India, Varanasi is a revered Hindu city also known as the city of Lord Shiva. The popular belief about this place is anyone who dies in this land will be relieved from the cycle of reincarnation.
The fascination fact about this place is that all the last rites are done openly along the numerous riverside ghats. It is highly recommended to book a hotel that overlooks the ghats and the rivers to make your north india tour memorable.
Jaipur, Udaipur, Jaisalmer and other cities of Rajasthan
Udaipur in Rajasthan
No north India tour will ever be complete without a trip to Rajasthan which includes famous destiantions like Jaipur, Udaipur, Jaisalmer, Jodhpur and few others. The heritage and culture hub of the nation with majestic palaces, heritage hotels, exotic menus and folk tales and cultures, all reside here in this state.
These are only a few of the top visited places in north India tours, it is in no way an exhaustive list and can go on to covering hill-stations, lovely towns, spiritual cities and many more. So, pack up your bags and get touring!
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Job Report 1000 EC-H Clement Canopy
Building with concrete modules made easy
The first PPVC structure built exclusively of concrete on the island has been built in Singapore. Lots of heavy prefabricated concrete parts had to be hoisted for this purpose. Building contractor Dragages Singapore used two Liebherr flagships for this purpose – two 1000 EC-H 40 Litronics.
The main customer used the two high-top cranes to install the 40-floor “The Clement Canopy” – an apartment construction project using the first version of the PPVC system (prefabricated prefinished volumetric construction) to be made entirely of concrete. Even though this method of construction has already been used in other countries, this is the highest building project in the world to use this process.
The most powerful crane in Singapore delivered
Kevin Lai, Senior Methods Manager for “The Clement Canopy”, explains: “The Clement Canopy is our first project for which the modules are made entirely of concrete and are very heavy – the heaviest module weighs 29 tonnes.” With a maximum lifting capacity of 40 tonnes, the two Liebherr tower cranes are the most powerful ever to have been imported into Singapore. They are ideal for hoisting heavy prefabricated concrete components like these.
Building specifications imposed by the government and customer requirements satisfied
At the end of 2014, Singapore awarded PPVC construction orders for selected regions and monitored the application of this system very closely since its objective was to use this building method to improve productivity on sites. Dragages Singapore was awarded the order to work on “The Clement Canopy” project by United Venture Development. The project consists of two towers, comprising 505 apartments with a total floor area of 46,000 square metres. Under the regulations of the Singapore government, 65 percent of the construction above ground had to be built of reinforced concrete PPVC modules.
Kevin Lai explains that Dragages worked with ADDP Architects during the planning phase to improve the layout, divide the residential units into modules and ensure that one tower crane could be used to build each block. It was calculated that the heaviest module would weigh 29 tonnes whilst the lightest would be just 17 tonnes. Dragages then checked the crane market to find suitable products.
Decision made in favour of the Liebherr full package
As a result of previous jobs in Singapore and Hong Kong, the company is familiar with Liebherr cranes and reduced its selection to three crane manufacturers by means of an exclusion process. Ultimately, the main reasons for choosing Liebherr included lifting capacity, reliability, customer service in Singapore, technical support from the Tower Crane Solutions Department and an attractive quotation package.
Another advantage was the size of the tower crane elements: “The size of the tower sections of 2.4 x 2.4 metres made transport easier without increasing costs and also reduced the space requirement on the site. We will certainly consider using these cranes again in the future if we receive similar orders”, says Kevin Lai.
Customers supported during the construction process
Liebherr compiled all the documents which were required to ensure a smooth acceptance procedure of the two flagship cranes. The cranes then finally arrived in December and January and were erected within four days.
“The modules have to be positioned to an accuracy of two millimetres as any larger discrepancies could adversely affect the alignment of the entire building”, says Seng Swear Wern, Civil Production Manager for the project. To ensure that this is possible, the Liebherr tower cranes feature Micromove fine positioning mode. The crane operators are Dragages personnel and received the appropriate training from Liebherr-Singapore Pte Ltd.
With a jib length of 35 metres, both cranes were able to operate from a fixed position outside the two towers and grew as the structure rose as they were connected to a non-modular element of the building. In total 1866 modules had to be installed. The two Liebherr flagship cranes operated for more than a year and proved their fantastic capacity and reliability.
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Internal docs: Ottawa Catholic school board knew students were going to campaign for Obama
School officials had denied that the trip was to support Obama, but newly uncovered documents show that this simply wasn't true.
Mon Jan 7, 2013 - 12:34 pm EST
By Patrick Craine
OTTAWA, Jan. 7, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Despite their claims to the contrary, Ottawa’s Catholic school board knew that a school trip to Ohio in advance of the presidential election was focused on campaigning for pro-abortion President Barack Obama, according to newly-uncovered internal documents.
The school board cancelled the November trip involving 52 students from St. Peter and St. Matthew High Schools after a firestorm erupted in response to a LifeSiteNews story published Oct. 31st.
The school board has consistently claimed the students were merely going to “observe” the electoral process rather than engage in partisan campaigning. St. Peter’s High School principal Norma McDonald told the Ottawa Sun on Nov. 2nd that the students “were going to observe the electoral process there.”
“They were going to take in a few activities where they were going to observe politics in action. Were they out campaigning? Absolutely not,” she said.
But internal documents, obtained through a freedom of information request, reveal that the trip’s organizer, civics teacher Scott Searle, was clear from the beginning that the trip was aimed at campaigning for Obama.
The field trip proposal, signed by McDonald and board superintendent Manon Seguin on Oct. 2nd, states that the two purposes of the trip were for students to be “volunteering with ‘Obama for America’ for the last 5 days of the 2012 Presidential Election,” and to help with the President’s “get out the vote” campaign by making phone calls and canvassing.
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“I’m not sure what kind of penance a priest would give for lying to an entire city, but Catholic school principal Norma McDonald may soon find out,” writes Sun News Network’s Brian Lilley, who broke news of the internal documents in the Ottawa Sun this morning. “It is clear McDonald either lied to the media and the public last fall or had no clue what she was agreeing to when she approved a controversial field trip.”
“This planned field trip may have started out as a way to teach students about politics, but at the end of the day, the lesson might be one my mother always told me,” he added. “If you lie, you will get caught.”
Asked about the revelation, board spokeswoman Mardi de Kemp told LifeSiteNews, “We won’t be commenting on it.”
The documents obtained from the school board, which include e-mails and memos, show that late on Oct. 31st, as criticism mounted in response to LifeSiteNews’ story, de Kemp e-mailed Searle telling him to “ensure kids/staff are Observing NOT Participating in the U.S. election.”
But Searle had been clear in his promotions for the trip that it was pro-Obama and felt he could not back down. “The kids signed up to volunteer and I would feel I lied to them if I change the itinerary this late,” he replied.
On his Facebook page Oct. 17th, Searle had written about the trip: “52 St. Peter Students are travelling to Ohio for the last week of the election! Lets help the President bring it home!” He also shared a photo on his page of a sign that says: “we are re-electing the President so … volunteer, maybe?
The internal documents include a promotional presentation Searle made to parents and students at St. Peter’s in which he said students would be canvassing for Obama. The presentation included a slide stating, “As Ohio goes, so goes the Nation. Obama for Ohio.”
In October, a student at St. Peter’s told LifeSiteNews anonymously that Searle had been clear in speaking to his class that the trip was to promote Obama. According to the student, Searle engaged in “pleasant banter” with the classroom teacher about how “Romney is a nutbar.”
Searle indicates on his LinkedIn page that he was a “volunteer” with “Obama for America” in 2012.
The Catholic Church in the United States is currently engaged in a high-stakes legal battle with the Obama administration over its controversial HHS mandate, which forces religious institutions to cover contraceptives, sterilizations, and abortion-inducing drugs.
Obama has also earned a reputation as the most pro-abortion president in U.S. history, with a lengthy record of supporting abortion-on-demand through all nine months pregnancy, including supporting partial-birth abortion. The president declared in May that he supports same-sex “marriage.”
McDonald told the CBC that the school cancelled the trip because of complaints by LifeSiteNews readers.
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The Bashkir Horse
Not to be confused with the American Bashkir Curly, the Bashkir horse is a Russian breed which originated from the southern foothills of the Ural Mountains. Its name is derived from the Bashkirsky region, where it has been bred by the Bashkiri people for a great many centuries. This collection of people settled in the area near the Volga and Ural Mountains in the seventh century, before the arrival of the warring Mongols.
As it was used as a cavalry mount for the Russian Army in the late 1700s, stud farms were established by the midpoint of the following century. The Bashkirsky region is extremely bleak and inhospitable, having long winters where the temperatures can drop as low as 40 degrees below freezing. Surprisingly, the Bashkir can survive out in the open even in these conditions, and is known to dig through over a metre of snow just to find food.
The Bashkir functioned too as a provider of meat and horse milk among the locals. As strange as it might sound, even today the Russians consider kumis (a fermented dairy drink made from mare’s milk) to be a health product. Apparently during the fermentation process, horse milk loses all lactose properties, and thus people who are lactose intolerant can drink it quite safely. In addition to this, Bashkir horse hair can be woven into cloth to make warm clothing.
The Bashkir breed differs a bit from region to region. The horses which come from the steppes are taller and lighter, whereas the variation bred in the mountainous areas is smaller and generally used as a draft horse, although it can also function under saddle or harness like its slighter relative. It is a rather pure breed and today can only be bred with other Russian breeds like the Don. Crosses with Thoroughbreds were attempted in the past, but the resulting horses could not cope with the climate and thus the experiment was called off.
The head of the Bashkir is enormous in proportion to its diminutive body and lack of height (it rarely is taller than 14hh). Its neck is short and rather fleshy and its body is very stocky and wide. It predominantly comes in the colours of chestnut, bay and brown, although roans, mousy greys and duns are not entirely uncommon. Markings are acceptable; the Bashkir horse is known for often having a dorsal stripe down its back and zebra stripes on its legs.
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All Symbols Lucy’s Wedding Ring
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As their morning adventure had left him exhausted, Watson tries unsuccessfully to get some sleep but cannot stop thinking about the “distorted, baboon-like countenance of the murdered man.” Convinced that Drebber’s face reveals “vice of the most malignant type,” Watson feels “gratitude” toward Drebber’s murderer, while simultaneously recognizing that “justice must be done, and that the depravity of the victim was no condonement in the eyes of the law.” Unanswered questions about the nature of Drebber’s murder, his supposed poisoning, run through Watson’s mind, though he is sure that Holmes already has all the answers.
Claiming that Drebber’s “baboon-like” face reveals his vice, Watson tacitly endorses the pseudoscience of physiognomy—the practice of determining one’s character from their facial features. By doing so and by expressing his “gratitude” toward the murderer, Watson is priming us to feel sympathy towards Jefferson Hope, while still maintaining his belief that the murderer must be caught for the sake of both the law’s justice and Holmes’ reputation.
Holmes, who had attended a concert after questioning Rance, returns home late, his mood raised from the concert music. Watson, on the other hand, is still troubled by the case, which has left him with a greater sense of unease than seeing his “own comrades hacked to pieces at Maiwand.” Holmes attributes this to the air of mystery around the case and shows Watson the advertisement he sent out to the papers. Holmes published an announcement that a gold wedding ring had been found near a tavern by Brixton Road and that its owner should seek Watson at their apartment between 8 and 9 in the evening. Holmes gives Watson a facsimile of the ring to give to the murderer, and Watson gets out his old revolver.
Holmes and Watson’s contrasting moods after their morning adventure reveal another difference between the two. Whereas Watson is deeply disturbed by the murder, Holmes appears unaffected and even happy. Though Watson had witnessed brutal deaths in Afghanistan, he is more horrified by Drebber’s death, perhaps because it occurred in a context in which death is unexpected. Holmes displays his callousness through his lack of concern for the loss of human life as well as through his use of Watson as bait.
At around 8, the bell rings, and a servant lets in an old woman with a harsh voice. The woman, who says her last name is Sawyer, claims that the ring belongs to her daughter Sally Dennis. Following Holmes’ signal, Watson gives the ring to the woman, who thanks him and leaves. Soon after, Holmes goes out to follow her, believing her to be an accomplice of the murderer. Four hours later, Holmes returns, torn between “chagrin” and “amusement,” the latter of which wins out. Laughing at himself, Holmes describes to Watson how the woman had hailed a cab, shouting out her address, and how Holmes had secretly hitched a ride on the back of the cab. When they pulled up to her address, however, the driver discovered that the cab was empty, while Holmes discovered that there is no Sawyer or Dennis at the address she had given.
Despite his arrogance, Holmes shows that he is able to laugh at himself, and that he is not completely unaware of his personal faults. He also shows that he is appreciative of cleverness, even from his opponents, and even if it is demonstrated at his own expense. Holmes’ appreciation of the woman’s escape anticipates his later appreciation of Hope’s intelligence. Clearly he is pleased to have a worthy adversary, as it makes the case more interesting for him.
Watson expresses his amazement that an old woman could have outwitted Holmes, who exclaims, “We were the old women to be so taken in.” Holmes comes to the conclusion that it must have been a young man disguised as an old woman. Watson turns in for the night, but Holmes stays up late, meditating on the case and absentmindedly playing his violin.
Despite his admiration of the accomplice’s escape, Holmes is still annoyed with himself, as expressed in his misogynistic assumption that his being tricked is akin to being a woman.
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In the late 1890s, Camp Five began operations as a logging camp in northern Wisconsin. All logging camps were numbered sequentially as railroad logging operations were opened in new areas. In 1914, Camp Five became the local lumber company’s farm raising meat, produce, and draught horses for the company town of Laona and the company area logging camps.
In 1969, Camp Five Museum Foundation was founded by Gordon R. Connor and Mary Roddis Connor in anticipation and in honor of the United States Bicentennial in 1972.
The Mission is “the public education of Wisconsin forest history, multiple-use sustained yield forest management, and people and their environment.” Camp 5 Museum Foundation is a 501(c)(3) Non-Profit operating the Wisconsin Forestry Museum and Laona and Northern Railroad.
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New Study Partly Funded by LRA Reveals Novel Lupus Drug Targets
NEW YORK, NY – May 29. Researchers partly funded by the Lupus Research Alliance (LRA) have found possible new targets for drugs to treat lupus after snapping the first close-up of a molecule that promotes inflammation.
The molecule that Target Identification in Lupus (TIL) grant recipient Dr. Roger Greenberg at University of Pennsylvania and Dr. Elton Zeqiraj and collaborators at the University of Leeds, were studying contains two pieces– SHMT2 and a cluster of proteins that affect each other called BRISC. When these two pieces attach to each other, they cause inflammation. If mice don’t have BRISC, they are less likely to develop lupus in models tested by Dr. Greenberg and his team.
To better see how BRISC and SHMT2 affect each other, Drs. Greenberg and Zeqiraj used a technique called cryo-electron microscopy to take a very high quality photo of the molecule. They found that four copies of BRISC combine to form a U-shaped structure that is strengthened by cross beams of SHMT2. Dr. Greenberg and Zeqiraj found that if they made small changes to the structure of BRISC, it can’t pair up with SHMT2.
Patients with lupus often produce too much of the immune system molecules known as type I interferons, which drive lupus symptoms by making certain genes work harder. The scientists found that if they stopped BRISC and SHMT2 from pairing up, most of those genes did not work as hard. That finding suggests that a drug that would stop BRISC and SHMT2 from connecting may provide a new way to treat lupus symptoms.
“We want to find a drug targeting BRISC to decrease interferon and other inflammatory signals so we can help lupus patients,” said Dr. Greenberg. “Knowing the weakness in the BRISC-SHMT2 structure gives us new targets to work with.”
Lupus Research Alliance President and CEO Kenneth M. Farber said, “Dr. Greenberg’s results are very exciting, pointing to potential targets for new drugs to be developed. We saw great potential in his TIL proposal and look forward to further progress in his work.”
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By Philip Saunders - Co-Head of Multi-Asset Growth
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Mike Hugman - Fixed Income Portfolio Manager
Sahil Mahtani - Investment Institute Strategist*
The US dollar continues to dominate world financial markets, with the euro a clear second.
China has accelerated efforts to reduce reliance on the dollar and boost foreign investment.
Geopolitical shifts, changes in energy market dynamics, structural shifts in China, and a dollar down cycle, could see de-dollarisation gather pace over the next few years, thereby eroding the exorbitant privilege of the US.
Scenario one anticipates full renminbi internationalisation, in which China's capital account fully opens over the next decade.
Scenario two looks at renminbi regionalisation, in which rising renminbi use is concentrated in emerging Asia.
Scenario three involves a reduced role for the dollar, which ultimately lowers US living standards.
The emergence of a genuinely multipolar world will have a profound impact on markets and portfolios.
The US dollar has enjoyed a dominant position since the end of the second world war. By some measures it is even stronger than a decade earlier. Despite America’s twin deficits, rising national debt levels, a turbulent domestic political environment and disruptive foreign policy, dollar use remains exceptionally wide and deep. Meanwhile, erstwhile rivals like the euro and renminbi have seen adoption slow.
Snapshot of the international monetary system
Sources: BIS, IMF, SWIFT, ECB, and Gita Gopinath. Data as of fourth quarter of 2017 or latest available. Empty columns imply unavailable data or negligible values.
Why there is no alternative to the dollar on the world stage:
Liquidity. The US remains the largest economy in nominal terms, meaning the supply of dollars and dollar-denominated assets is large enough to support the demands of global trade and finance.
Inertia. Many businesses in non-dollar countries invoice in dollars and are happy to deal in it regardless of the price. Effectively, they ‘think’ in dollars. Exporting firms prefer to keep prices stable relative to international competitors and also use imported inputs priced in dollars in production.1
Trust. The dollar is a viewed as a ‘safe-haven’ currency. It tends to appreciate during times of stress, which makes holding dollars attractive in normal times as well.
Lender of last resort. The US Federal Reserve is ready to assume a global role. It served as a backstop provider of dollars during the global financial crisis by pursuing swaps with fourteen central banks, including four in emerging markets.2 This contrasted sharply with the European Central Bank which in 2008 provided only limited assistance to the central banks of two EU countries, namely Poland and Hungary.3
Why de-dollarisation could be the story of the next cycle
Geopolitical shifts
2018 was potentially a watershed year in which countries in the path of sanctions, like Russia, Iran and to some extent China and the EU, began to accelerate ways to protect themselves from the consequences of using the dollar. President Trump’s sanctions are a proximate but not an ultimate cause for the shift. As European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker put it, “it is absurd, ridiculous, that European companies buy European planes in dollars instead of euro.”4
Meanwhile, emerging Asian economies are always looking for ways to reduce the boom-and-bust cycle associated with the dollar, and they may get that opportunity as trade in Asia becomes less dependent on the US. Currently, for instance, a 10% US dollar appreciation takes about 1.5 percentage points off GDP growth in emerging market economies.5 Such countries therefore may find it to their advantage to sign swap agreements with the Chinese central bank and conduct trade in a currency like the renminbi, which increasingly reflects their trade patterns.
Structural shifts in China
China’s current account surplus has been on a downward trend since it touched 10% in 2007, driven by investment growth, currency appreciation, weak demand in advanced economies, and recently, a widening services deficit.6 But the big story is a shrinking of China’s working age population, which will ultimately have a negative impact on domestic savings. It is not impossible to foresee that by the mid-2020s, China could indeed be consistently running a current account deficit, implying a need to sell foreign assets or borrow from abroad. China would naturally prefer to borrow abroad in its own currency than incur foreign debt. To that end, recent Chinese initiatives to reduce reliance on the dollar include the China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, the launch of petroyuan oil futures on the Shanghai International Energy Exchange, as well as Belt and Road and the Made in China 2025 strategy.
Growth in Asia is becoming less dependent on the US
Percentage of East Asia ex-China value added by final export destination
Source: OCED, 2015
Changes in energy market dynamics
Oil is a key commodity in the de-dollarisation process. One reason for the US dollar’s historical dominance is the US-Saudi settlement in the 1970s to invoice oil in petrodollars, which underpinned a dollar-based network of trade and finance. Yet today, China has overtaken the US as the world’s largest importer of crude oil, driven in part by the rise in US domestic oil production over the last ten years. It is the resulting Chinese trade deficit from oil imports that provides the impetus for de-dollarisation, since China would prefer to settle its trade bill in renminbi if possible. Oil companies in Russia, Iran and Venezuela have already begun accepting yuan as payment for Chinese imports, and were Saudi Arabia to follow, that would have a substantial impact.
The new crude buyers on the block
Source: BP, 2017
A dollar down cycle
Finally, there is a cyclical component to timing de-dollarisation. After spending six of the last seven calendar years on the up, another dollar down cycle may begin this year. Expensive fundamental valuations and poor technicals, which include significant foreign ownership and waning cash repatriation by US companies, will likely undermine support for the dollar. Given the historical lags between the dollar’s market price behaviour and current account and budget deficits, the dollar could fall materially in less than two years. Of course, interest rate differentials are still in favour of the dollar, and while that may change as the European Central Bank and the Bank of Japan normalise policy, there is also every chance that it is US rates that converge lower.
US twin deficits are a leading indicator of dollar weakness
Source: Source: Investec Asset Management, 2018
What will the next global currency shift look like?
The emergence of a genuinely multipolar world will have a profound impact on markets and portfolios. Although this is likely to be a gradual process, it can also happen overnight. The US abandonment of dollar-gold convertibility in 1971, or, before that, sterling’s departure from the gold standard in 1931, was initially far-fetched, then plausible, then inevitable. In both cases, the potential strategic investment implications are significant. After seven years of a dollar up cycle and a de-rating in emerging market assets, investors should be aware that the nature of the opportunity unfolding could be structural rather than purely cyclical.
Given the uncertainties of a currency transition, we explore three scenarios and their investment implications.
1. A new global currency
Scenario one – a new global currency
This scenario anticipates full renminbi internationalisation, a process that would see China fully opening its capital account over the next decade and integrating its financial system into the existing monetary framework. For now, China’s liberalisation efforts are largely focused on allowing foreign money into China more easily rather than permitting Chinese capital flows abroad. But ultimately, there will be vast flows in both directions. To anticipate the size of these flows, we update a Bank of England thought experiment from 2013 that assumes: China’s financial openness converges with other rich countries, catch-up growth in China continues, and there is a continued decline in home bias among Chinese consumers. On that basis, we estimate that China’s average of external assets and liabilities will rise from 8% of world output to 17% by 2030, impacting nearly every asset in the world.7
Investment implications for scenario one
If China’s financial walls are lifted, its vast pool of savings will participate in global capital markets, boosting global liquidity.
For Chinese investors there is an opportunity for further geographical diversification and improved domestic asset allocations. The current split between equity and fixed income in China’s private sector portfolio assets will likely increase from the current 59-41% to something closer to the United States’ 72-28%. Moreover, Chinese capital market liberalisation is also a clear opportunity for foreign investors to diversify portfolios. For instance, Chinese equities have less than half the correlation to the rest of the world compared to other major indices. There will also be opportunities in the synchronisation of the Chinese system with the rest of the world. A situation like 2018 where Chinese fixed income generated 7-10% while US government bond returns were negative, becomes less likely. Finally, easing capital controls under the current conditions of financial repression would improve the return on household savings as Chinese citizens would have more investment options.
2. Managed internationalisation
Scenario two – managed internationalisation
In the second scenario, China never fully opens its capital account. In April 2015, former central bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan stated that China was seeking to adopt “a concept of managed convertibility.”8 Under managed convertibility, China might spur the creation of a new monetary system, in which renminbi use grows in the context of strong discretionary management.
Under this scenario, China could adopt a strategy of renminbi regionalisation, in which the currency serves as a reserve currency within an Asian trading bloc, involving some use of capital controls. The last sustained example of an international currency with major capital controls was the sterling bloc centred on the United Kingdom between the 1930s and the 1960s. While the sterling bloc was designed to manage and even hide British weakness, renminbi internationalisation would be designed to project China’s strength. Just like the sterling area, any renminbi bloc would be underpinned by a strong and complementary trading relationship, as well as geopolitical foundations.
Investment implications for scenario two
Under a scenario of Chinese regionalisation there will likely be a decline in risk premia in China’s trade partners due to a shift in the nature of China’s outbound investment. Investors should monitor signs of increasing regionalisation as reflected in Chinese policy initiatives like the Belt and Road and the expansion of the People’s Bank of China swap lines. Such regional initiatives could lead to a general decline in risk premia in emerging Asia and reduce the boom and bust of the dollar funding cycle. A relevant parallel is perhaps Western European involvement in Eastern Europe, which boosted overall investment and financial connections. The spread between nominal German and Hungarian 10-year bonds fell by 380 basis points in the 20 years to the first quarter of 2019, though the crisis in between also suggests that if unmanaged, the de-risking process can go too far.
The second broad impact to asset allocation is a transformation of Asian emerging market economic cycles. Dollar dominance is partly predicated on the fact that the dollar is still the default currency for trade, with 80% of dollar-denominated imports never entering the US. Economists have found strong invoicing effects from the dollar, where overseas economies’ trade, inflation rates and asset values exhibit great sensitivity to movements in the dollar. Increased invoicing in renminbi will cause other economies to trade more in line with China’s economic and financial cycles, boosting investment strategies that are related to this transformation.
3. A reduced role for the dollar
Scenario three – a reduced role for the dollar
Under the third scenario, other countries increasingly take steps to reduce use of the dollar in invoicing, trade, and finance, thereby setting off a chain of events that eventually erodes dollar dominance. As explored earlier, a dollar down cycle, geopolitical shifts, changes in energy market dynamics and structural shifts in China are already driving de-dollarisation. As these drivers gain momentum, currency multipolarity could become a reality. Depending on whether the euro and the renminbi have had time to internationalise, and can pick up the slack, a decline in dollar use could have a negative impact on global liquidity – just as the move away from the gold standard in the 1930s prompted a chaotic adjustment. By contrast, the 1971 collapse of the Bretton Woods system did not slow growth or undermine financial stability.
Nothing is foreordained. The quality of US policy-making has a material impact on how multipolarity manifests itself. If the US maintains strong economic fundamentals and institutional strength, then the development of plausible alternatives to the dollar could even be a net positive. It would signal strength in the global economy.
Nevertheless, the impact of a reduced role for the dollar would erode the exorbitant privilege of the US by increasing long-term US funding costs, reducing seigniorage revenue, exposing the US to more foreign economic shocks, and reducing US influence in the world – all of which would ultimately affect US living standards.
Investment implications for scenario three
Under the final scenario of a reduced role for the dollar, we do not envisage a single event but rather a continuum of possible futures, ranging from a brief period of realignment to a general and systemic crisis. Here we focus on the most favourable development – a realignment instigated by a gradual reallocation of reserves and commodities into non-US currencies.
In terms of asset allocation, a secular weakening of the dollar would amplify existing trends that are bearish for the dollar, including late-cycle market behaviour, an anticipated convergence in US and non-US rates, and an expected dollar down cycle. The key opportunity lies in understanding that the change may be secular rather than cyclical. Signs of a shift out of the dollar could signify greater downside for the dollar over the longer term.
While gold could benefit, we may also see an increased allocation to safe-haven currencies with twin surpluses, just like in the 1930s when reserve managers turned to countries still on the gold standard – Belgium, France, the Netherlands and Switzerland. Moreover, rising US disengagement in international affairs could also result in affected countries reallocating some of their dollar currency reserves and assets into the yen, euro and renminbi. Finally, persistent US dollar weakness could be positive for global trade and inflation.9
After nearly seven years of a dollar up cycle and a de-rating in emerging market assets, investors should be aware that the nature of the opportunity unfolding could be structural rather than purely cyclical. In 1985, the United States arguably crossed the Rubicon from being the currency of a leading world creditor to a major world debtor. The US net foreign debt position has only grown since then, thereby undermining the fundamental basis of the dollar’s status as the primary reserve currency.
In anticipating what now plays out, it is worth keeping in mind that the three scenarios above are not mutually exclusive. For instance, it is possible that full Chinese capital account liberalisation occurs during a period of a prolonged dollar decline. Ultimately, we think the most likely scenario is the second one, a managed internationalisation of the renminbi, and specifically a regionalisation among China’s close trading partners. That is a major geopolitical development that is likely to prompt a decline in risk premia across emerging Asia as well as a general transformation of economic cycles in the region. As such, it is likely to require a new approach to asset allocation, both globally and regionally.
*Other contributing authors
Greg Kuhnert | Peter Eerdmans | Michael Spinks | John Stopford | Iain Cunningham | Wilfred Wee | Tom Nelson | Michael Power | Imran Ahmed
1 Clement, D., “Interview with Gita Gopinath,” The Region, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, 20 December 2016.
2 Bernanke, B., “The dollar’s international role: An ‘exorbitant privilege’?” Brookings Institute, 7 January 2016.
3 Tooze, A., Odendahl, C., “Can the euro rival the dollar?” Centre for European Reform, 4 December 2018.
4 “EU Chief aims to boost euro’s role in world markets,” Associated Press, 12 September 2018, https://www.apnews.com/fa72ac5836414cd2985988feec6fcfad
5 Martin, F.E., Mukhopdhyay, M., and Hombeeck, C., “The global role of the US dollar and its consequences,” Quarterly Bulletin, Bank of England, Fourth Quarter 2017, p.1.
6 “People’s Republic of China: 2018 Article IV Consultation-Press Release; Staff Report; Staff Statement and Statement by the Executive Director for the People's Republic of China,” International Monetary Fund, July 26, 2018.
7 Chinn, M., Ito, H., “The Chinn-Ito Index: A de jure measure of financial openness.” While China’s assets are greater than its liabilities, an average is used as a proxy for China’s relationship to the global economy.
8 Wildau, G., “China’s renminbi liberalisation leaves capital controls intact,” Financial Times, 22 June 2015.
9 Boz, E., Gopinath, G., and Plagborg-Moller, M., “Global trade and the dollar,” Voxeu, 11 February 2018.
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Liverpool restore 13-point lead; Chelsea win at Arsenal
Premier League / 29 December 2019, 8:56pm /
Liverpool's Sadio Mane celebrates after scoring the winning goal during their Premier League match against Wolverhampton Wanderers at Anfield Stadium in Liverpool on Sunday. Photo: Jon Super/AP
LONDON – Liverpool restored their 13-point lead at the top of the Premier League on Sunday thanks to a hard-fought 1-0 win over Wolves at Anfield.
Sadio Mane scored the only goal of the game in the first half while VAR played its part as Jurgen Klopp's side extended their unbeaten run to 36 matches and moved further clear of Leicester.
Chelsea won 2-1 at Arsenal to close the gap on third-placed Manchester City, who were playing Sheffield United in the day's late game.
Wolves pushed Liverpool hard throughout at Anfield but Mane's 42nd-minute goal won it for the home side as they made it 55 points out of 57 at the halfway stage in the season.
Mane's goal was initially ruled out for a handball by Adam Lallana but VAR overturned the decision as the ball had come off his chest before Mane swept the ball home.
ANOTHER 3️⃣ POINTS! ✊ #LIVWOL https://t.co/4x2DWszGPb
Wolves thought they had equalized through Pedro Neto but the goal was eventually ruled out by VAR for a marginal offside in the build-up.
Wolves had chances to level late on as Liverpool showed signs of tiredness but the home side hung on for their 10th win out of 10 at Anfield this season.
Earlier, Chelsea scored twice in five minutes as they won 2-1 at Arsenal to cement fourth place.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang put Arsenal in front early on but Jorginho equalized on 83 minutes and Tammy Abraham won it four minutes later.
Arsenal dominated the first half but paid the price for a goalkeeping mistake by Bernd Leno which allowed Jorginho to tap home.
London? Still blue. 💙#ARSCHE pic.twitter.com/yQrfKONKpk
— Chelsea FC (@ChelseaFC) December 29, 2019
Abraham swept in the winner after nice play with Willian but it was the introduction of Jorginho off the bench in the first half that changed the game.
"We were so awful for 30 mins, slow lethargic, nervous," Chelsea manager Frank Lampard said.
"The opposite of against Tottenham. We gave Arsenal everything they wanted. We made the change early, felt it had to be done. Second half we dominated.
"After 10 mins or so it was clear that Arsenal had seen us play against Tottenham and made us into a back five instead of a back three. They were on top and there was a lack of balance to our team. The sub gave us another man in midfield and gave us more urgency."
Lampard said Chelsea still needed to sort out their home record, a problem emphasized by their loss to Southampton on Boxing Day.
"Our next home games we'll do everything we can to turn the corner," he said.
"We're still in fourth and want more and the home games have been different so we have to focus on them when they come around."
Arsenal defender David Luiz said the side showed signs that they will soon be back up the table under new manager Mikel Arteta.
"It is not easy for him in the middle of the season, he didn't choose the players, but he will do his best," Luiz said.
"That's why we could see Arsenal dominate in the first half with amazing football and quality. We should (have) scored a second goal and then it would be a different game.
"But congratulations to Chelsea. Frank has come in and they're doing what he wants them to do."
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Labour party preparing to risk extinction for greater good
By Juno McEnroe
Political Correspondent
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The Labour Party goes into this election fighting for survival, to be relevant, and to recast its identity after being tied to Fine Gael’s policies for the last five years.
Long gone are the thundering speeches of former leader Eamon Gilmore, who before the last general election even predicted Labour could win up to 50 Dáil seats.
Instead, Tánaiste Joan Burton is facing into one of the most difficult periods for the party as leader, with predictions that Labour will lose half its seats.
We’ve been here before though. This is the way it goes for junior coalition partners, and did for the Greens and Progressive Democrats in government.
Amid suggestions Fine Gael may win a sizeable victory in the election, similar calls from 2011 are now being made: put Labour in to rein in Fine Gael’s dominance.
It stinks. One wonders if voters will take this seriously a second time. Nonetheless, we can expect this caution from Labour and others in the coming weeks.
In an interview with the Irish Examiner, Siptu’s Jack O’Connor has emphasised what governance without Labour would be like.
The trade union leader highlighted what happened under the Fianna Fáil-Progressive Democrat governments between 1997 and 2011, including the privatisation of Eircom, of three state banks, the promotion of private healthcare, and the dismantling of regulation that fuelled the credit bubble.
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“The fundamental lesson is clear that we must never never again allow the right a monopoly of power in Ireland. And the outcome of this election, unless we wake up and smell the roses, is going to be Fine Gael and a handful of right wingers.”
This very point — Fine Gael in government alone with the support of a few TDs — has been the subject of debate all week.
Labour unveiled the now infamous Tesco-style attack poster on Fine Gael in the closing days of the 2011 race, with the strapline ‘look what Fine Gael have in store for you’. It’s difficult to see the embattled party promoting a similar stunt this time.
Mr O’Connor warns that Enda Kenny’s party is on the verge of getting enough support for a majority. Such a scenario would give them carte blanche to dismantle public services further, suggests Mr O’Connor, including the outsourcing of rail or bus services, and the privatisation of the health system.
“The key priority is to deny the right a monopoly of power. As it stands, the Fine Gael party can win an overall majority with 35% of the vote because the opposition is so splintered.”
So the question then arises as to ‘quis custodiet ipsos custodies’, or who will guard the guards themselves — just in case Fine Gael were to lose the run of themselves and sell off the family jewels, the kitchen sink, and just about anything with a price tag on it.
Labour, suggests the Siptu chief, must contemplate reaching out to left wing TDs to form a coalition with Fine Gael, if needed. TDs from the Social Democrats and some independents could be the third leg on that stool, he admits. Labour risked all going in with Fine Gael and will do it again, offers Mr O’Connor.
“The Labour Party has again, not for the first time, demonstrated that it has courage. And that it’s prepared to risk its own extinction in order to protect working people and civil society.”
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Almost everyone reading this article uses a computer at work — 98 percent of you, according to a survey we conducted last year. Many of you (about one-third) face that blinking screen at least four hours a day, five days a week.
But if you think your job is automated now, just wait. There’s a small army of techno entrepreneurs ready to reinvent just about every facet of health and safety work. Just look at all the dot-com ads coming into ISHN.
“Success in environmental health and safety now depends on collecting and managing information through rapidly changing digital technologies,” claims Gary Rosenblum, a certified industrial hygienist who recently founded Digital Edge Consultants.
“Health and safety organizations have to take a hard look at what they do, because technology will change everything,” predicts Peter Johnson, who came out of the workers’ comp insurance industry to found RiskNetWorldwide.com, which uses the Internet to network a client’s recordkeeping, training, auditing, and purchasing systems.
OK, there are two sides to this revolution. Hype about technology taking over is rampant, and it never seems to happen as quickly as predicted. And what’s happening is threatening to many. Jobs can be “dumbed down” to the point that non-techies can take over. But it’s best to be prepared. Read on and see if you don’t agree with Rosenblum’s advice that “it’s crucial to embrace technology.” Make it work for you, not against you. Here’s how you can do it in 15 typical health and safety jobs —
This is what the Internet was born to do — and health and safety people have caught on fast. Sixty percent of ISHN readers use the Net to search for regulatory compliance help; 59 percent use it to research specific projects. “I use it to find up-to-date information on chemicals, to find out what is a torn rotator cuff, things like that,” says Safety and Environmental Manager Roger Simpson of the Shelby Williams plant in Morristown, Tenn.
Here’s just one example: Want to write a policy for home office safety? Try these sites:
University of Michigan (www.itd.umich.edu/telecommuting/report/5draft.html)
Florida State University (fcn.state.fl.us/dms/hrm/telecom/telecom.html)
IBM (www.pcco.ibm.com/ww/healthycomputing/index/html)
Email “in” bins are filling up with free health and safety newsletters. Mike Blazedell, founder of WorldSafety.com, (who provided those home office safety web sites above) sends one every month to 37,400 email subscribers in 110 countries. SafetyOnline’s newsletter reaches more than 54,000 subscribers. There’s the “EH&S Internet Gazette” from EHSMarketplace.com, and the weekly “Safety Currents” from Coastal Training Technologies.
News updates are mainstays of safety magazine Web sites such as www.ishn.com, and on “safety community” sites such as SafetyOnline.com, SafetyInfo.com, and Worldsafety.com.
News on the Net is getting personal, as an ad for The Wall Street Journal’s e-service says. It’s worth taking the time to find your niche. For instance, there’s MERGInet (www.MERGInet.com) for EMS, fire, rescue, and emergency medical personnel, and for safety pros in the utility industry, there’s www.utilitysafety.com.
You can personalize efforts to stay up with the news using the Mind-It search engine (mindit.netmind.com), which notifies you via email any time one of your favorite bookmarks (reg agencies, associations, etc.) updates its site.
All bookmarks in safety lead to www.osha.gov. OSHA’s alphabetical site index lists 302 topics. The site attracted seven million visitors in 1999. ‘Nuff said. And if you think osha.gov is a robust site, check out www.epa.gov.
There are many, many e-compliance resources. NetCompliance, Inc., Seattle, Wash., recently announced it purchased 135 Internet domain names, customizing compliance assistance for specific industries (such as GasStationCompliance.com and AutoBodyCompliance.com). A virtual library of hundreds of free software packages, databases, and interactive resources is available at www.ehsfreeware.com . WorldSafety.com, Safetyinfo.com, and OSH.Net provide scores of compliance links and programs.
So much needs to be said about web-based training that we’re devoting our June issue cover story to it. A whole new industry of training content “aggregators” has emerged offering titles from well-known video producers. These one-stop training stores include PureSafety.com, TrainSeek.com, KnowledgeWire.com, TargetSafety.com, Safetypages.com, and RiskNet’s “onlinesafetytraining”.
You can get them free over the Net from manufacturers, universities (Vermont University’s www.siri.org), and portals (www.MSDSprovider.net); via Internet subscription services; from vendors’ software programs that automate downloading of updated MSDSs whenever they are made available; and over corporate environmental health and safety Intranets.
Keep in mind OSHA’s guidelines for working with electronic MSDSs. Among the requirements: Employees must be able to obtain hard copies if needed; and hard copies must be immediately provided to emergency response personnel.
Only eight percent of ISHN readers now buy safety products over the Net. Training material, software, and safety eyewear are the most common online purchases, according to readers.
Why isn’t there more e-buying? The three top reasons, according to our survey: Current corporate policies prevent it; buyers want hands-on trials and demos; and buyers still have concerns about the security of transactions.
Still, equipment manufacturers and distributors believe broadband Internet access will make buying online — especially re-ordering standard gear —as simple as phoning or faxing in an order. So both traditional bricks and mortar distributors and new online market exchanges are positioning themselves for the future.
You can already find more online safety malls than in your fastest-growing suburb. They include: eSafetygear.com, mysafetyshop.com, EHSmarketplace.com, SafetyInfo.com, SafetyOnline.com, Safetystore.com, Safetysuperstore.com — you get the idea.
National distributors selling online include: Fisher Safety (www.fishersci.com), W.W. Grainger (www.grainger.com), Vallen Safety (www.vallen.com), Pro-Am Safety (www.pro-am.com) and others. You can also buy from a growing number of regional and local safety distributors, and from safety catalog houses: Conney Safety Products (www.conney.com), American Health and Safety (www.ahsafety.com), and Lab Safety Supply (www.labsafety.com).
You can’t buy products direct from most manufacturers’ Web sites because manufacturers have always sold through distributor partners. But Gas Tech, Inc., (www.gastech-inc.com) is one of the few welcoming buyers. “You get great products at great prices with the least inconvenience,” says Gas Tech President Jack Stephens.
Career centers and job links are standard on many safety Web sites, including associations (www.asse.org, www.aiha.org, www.nsc.org). And there are sites exclusively devoted to helping you find a job, such as www.Empty.net and www.nilesrecruiting.com.
Mike Blazedell of WorldSafety.com says he posts ten jobs a day on his site that he culls from other sites or company postings. In March, he had 678 subscribers to his Job Alert list. He emails a list with more than 300 job links to them, though most are not targeted to safety.
Finding a consultant
EHS pros can go online and “identify and access a vast array of service providers, and determine their qualifications as well,” says Mark Katchen, founder of The Phylmar Group, which has set up a Web site (www.phylmar.com) to do just that.
You can also search for consultants on health and safety community portals. SafetyInfo.com breaks out consultants by region (29 were recently listed in the Northeast) and gives phone numbers, email and web addresses, and descriptions of services.
SafetyOnline.com partners with pengroup.com to offer a search service that allows you to describe your requirements, identify pre-qualified consultants, and check their performance ratings based on previous customers’ experience.
WorldSafety.com’s Mike Blazedell says he answers probably 1,200 emails a day, such as the time a family in Italy had lost a relative at sea and was looking for search and rescue help. Mike monitors more than 64 list servers, has built thousands of links into his site, and is one of those tireless webmasters who loves sharing EHS information and putting people in contact with each other.
Marc Neuffer at SafetyInfo.com is a kindred spirit. He has an “Ask an Expert” section with specific email addresses and web links to experts in more than 50 topics, from playground safety to behavior-based safety. SafetyInfo.com also has OSHA Q&A and Ergo Q&A sections.
If disaster strikes and you must deal with a job-related fatality, you can email Ron Hayes, founder of The FIGHT Project (Families In Grief Hold Together) at his Web site (www.oshawatchdog.com).
Email is the “killer app” in the online health and safety world — 86 percent of ISHN readers use it regularly.
Most safety community sites offer chat rooms, bulletin boards, discussion forums and zones. But “eyeball traffic” is often light. Only 10 percent of ISHN readers use these exchanges. Some require you to sign in with a user name and password — and 60 percent of ISHN readers say they are turned off to sites that require registrations. Plus, discussion topics or “threads” are often too narrow, too general, or too opinionated to attract a following. There’s also concern about the quality of technical advice coming from unknown sources.
Use of hand-held devices such as the popular Palm series is projected to explode in the next few years as it becomes easier for devices to run Web-based programs, and wireless network bandwidth reaches 64 Kbps by the end of 2000. One estimate has the number of wireless data service subscribers jumping from 3.3 million in 2000 to nearly 36 million by 2003.
This has tremendous implications for any business that involves field work, such as service contractors, truckers, sales reps — and health and safety pros.
RiskNet offers mobile PC systems built on the Microsoft Windows CE platform that allow audits to be conducted electronically anywhere, any time. Customized safety audits are downloaded onto mobile PC devices. Once the audit is completed, the handheld device is placed in a docking cradle back at the office and the audits are automatically uploaded to the “Safetylogic” server. Increasing wireless bandwidth will speed up and streamline this process even more.
Now you can have non-safety personnel (particularly in chain operations such as hotels and retail outlets) conducting basic audits, according to RiskNet President and CEO Peter Johnson. Health and safety pros back at headquarters review the field data, spot red flags, run reports on open items, and compare audits across the organization.
Some pros have “impossible jobs” covering thousands of locations, says Johnson. “This takes the legwork out of their jobs and gives them real-time information to jump on problems immediately.”
Audits aren’t the only EHS application suited for wireless communication. Think of the potential to conduct on-site incident investigations, behavioral observations, and fixed and portable industrial hygiene monitoring and transmit data to remote Web servers for review. Consultant Darrell Mattheis with Organization Resources Counselors says increasing bandwidth will make it easier to precisely monitor exposures in “smart” (automated) manufacturing processes from remote locations.
Distance has little meaning in the e-world. Last year, for example, Industrial Scientific Corporation introduced an instrument/data management system that allows up to five gas detectors to be linked via a “docking station” with the manufacturer for remote diagnostic work (testing sensors, circuit boards, etc). Local service providers then can be dispatched for repairs when needed.
Employers often run into problems with OSHA when inspectors can’t find documented programs for requirements such as hazard communication and respiratory protection. Developing these programs from scratch is hard, time-consuming work, especially if there is not a full-time health and safety person on the payroll.
Now, of course, you can cut, paste, and customize programs from sites all over the Net. But it pays to do background checks on your sources. Here are a few:
SafetyInfo.com has a “Programs” section listing more than 30 free written programs, with topics ranging from “Accident Investigation” to “Tool Safety”. The program for “Housekeeping”, for example, is 1,300 words long. Users are invited to “Download, edit and build your company safety manual.”
Safetydocuments.com sells training outlines, manuals, guides, procedures, forms, job descriptions, and other material.
OSHA’s “Outreach” section on its Web site (www.osha-slc.gov/dts/osta/oshasoft/) offers almost a score of “expert advisor” programs that can be downloaded. Topics include asbestos, confined spaces, fire safety, lockout/tagout, respiratory protection, and hazard awareness. Many of these programs “interview” you about conditions in your workplace to determine what steps you must take to comply, and customized reports are generated based on your answers.
Gone are the days when health and safety managers worked in isolation, cut off from making comparisons and in the dark about their company’s standing among peers.
Want to know the most common OSHA violations in your industry? Check out “Standards Cited for SIC Division or Major Group” on OSHA’s site (www.osha.gov/cgi-bin/std/stdser1?esize=0&state=FEFederal&sic=). Violations by employment size are also available.
Want to know injury and illness incident rates, lost workday rates, or fatalities for your industry‚ down to four-digit Standard Industrial Classifications? Search a Bureau of Labor Statistics database with more than 600 tables, articles, and other documents — Safety & Health Statistics Home Page / Injury & Illness Data from the Survey of Occupational Injuries & Illnesses / Industry Incidence Rates and Case Counts / Selective Access – National Data (start by going to http://stats.bls.gov/oshhome.htm)
Want to know if any of your competitors have published EHS reports? Check out the EHSReports web site (www.ehsreports.com/results/phtml) and to learn which companies have printed, online, and multimedia EHS documents.
Building value
Technology is making it easier to collect EHS information, says Gary Rosenblum. But he sees a gap between the ability to collect data, and how it’s being used. Rosenblum wants professionals to leverage technology to promote EHS achievements and accomplishments, to communicate better to management, and to broaden the audience for EHS information outside the company.
Don’t fear technology, says RiskNet’s Peter Johnson. Use it to save time and money, and increase the speed of problem-solving — all hot buttons with today’s execs.
Wall Street rewards companies that execute business plans sooner, faster, and better. The challenge for health and safety pros is to use technology to help make health and safety — and the entire organization — more efficient, innovative, and responsive.
What’s holding up online safety purchasing?
Only eight percent of ISHN readers now buy safety products over the Net. Why isn’t there more e-buying?
Current corporate policies prevent it
Buyers want hands-on trials and demos
Buyers still have concerns about the security of transactions
Only 10 percent of ISHN readers use chat rooms and discussion forums. Why don’t they want to chat it up?
Some discussion groups require you to sign in with a user name and password — and 60 percent of ISHN readers say they are turned off to sites that require registrations.
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Imperia, Italy: a beautiful city on the Ligurian coast
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Visit Imperia
Imperia is a lovely coastal city on the Liguria coast between the French border and Genoa. The city was formed by grouping Porto Maurizio, Oneglio and some surrounding villages in 1923 at the decree of Mussolini.
The pretty, touristic side of the city is based around Porto Maurizio whilst Oneglio is more devoted to the production of olives and flowers. Between the two centres is the river Imperia after which the city was named.
Explore Imperia
As you aproach Imperia from the west the coastal road suddenly opens up to a beautiful vista with a large bay of sparkling blue water surrounded by hills covered in the colourful orange buildings of the city.
The bay includes a large harbour full of small and large yachts and above the city the turrets of the San Maurizio cathedral can be seen dominating the sky line.
In the Porto Maurizio quarter the pretty narrow streets form an attractive old centre called Parasio. The roads lead up to the San Maurizio cathedral with its attractive classical facade. It is the largest cathedral in Liguria and was built in the late 18th- early 19th century. It is a bit of a hike up to Piazza Duoma where the cathedral is found but there are a couple of funiculars up to it if you can find them. (Though on the day we visited the one we found was closed!)
The cathedral lies behind Imperia's imposing theatre and another building to look out for is the Convent of Santa Chiara, built in the 14th century though the current building is 18th century.
Along the coast and past the Marina in the eastern side of the city is the Oneglio quarter. Take a look at the fishing port and the old fishing houses behind the port. Look out also for the Palazzio dei Doria, once home to the lords of the town of Oneglio.
The Villa Grock with its flamboyant turret is another great building to look out for. This was once home to the famous Swiss clown, Adrien Wettach, known on stage as Grock. He was said to be the "king of clowns" and was once the highest paid entertainer in the world!
Some of Imperia's more exclusive shops are in the arcaded Via Bonfante along with Galleria Isnardi and Galleria degli Orti.
As well as tourism Imperia is a big olive producing area and to find out more you can visit the Museo dell'Olivo. Flowers are also important as in nearby Sanremo.
Places to Visit Nearby
Nearby Sanremo is also a big flower producer and has greenhouses full of bird of paradise plants! It has an interesting old town and a casino which hosts Italy's song contest every year.
Cervo to the east of Imperia is a pretty fishing village set on a cliff above the sea.
You can find more local travel ideas in the Imperia guide and the Liguria guide.
Hotels in and near Imperia
Photos of Imperia
Map of Imperia and places to visit
Places to visit near Imperia
The coastal village of Cervo on the Riviera di Ponente in Liguria also has an interesting baroque church
Cervo guide
Laigueglia is a small, traditional beach resort on the popular Liguria coast of Italy
Laigueglia guide
The ghost village of Bussana Vecchia, destroyed by an earthquake in 1887, is now an evocative local arts centre
Bussana Vecchia guide
Alassio is a popular resort on the Italian riviera with a long and sandy beach
Alassio guide
Once the best known resort in Liguria, San Remo retains a great deal of its belle epoque charm
Sanremo guide
As well as the cathedral and baptistry, in Albenga you can also see the remains of a 1st century ship
Albenga guide
Palatine Chapel
The Palatine Chapel in Palermo is a very beautiful church in the Byzantine style
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In brief: JetSmart expands in Argentina
* The low-cost Chilean airline JetSmart, controlled by the US private equity firm Indigo Partners, has announced plans to add three Airbus A320s aircraft to its fleet in Argentina, incorporating five new routes that were not previously operated by the company. These will connect Buenos Aires with Ushuaia city (capital of Tierra del Fuego, Antártida e Islas del Atlántico Sur province) and Rosario (Santa Fe province) with Mendoza and Córdoba (capitals of the eponymous provinces) and Puerto Iguazú (Misiones province). This is part of a long-term project to invest in Argentina’s domestic market. According to Estuardo Ortiz, CEO of JetSmart, these additions will generate 300 direct and indirect jobs, up from the 160 Argentine employees already working for the company. Gonzalo Pérez Corral, the general manager for JetSmart Argentina, announced that these new routes will begin operating between 20-22 November, with two Airbuses arriving at the end of 2019 from Toulouse, France, and the third arriving during the first half of 2020.
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What Stunning Sea Creature Might One Day Help Fight Hearing Loss
by Main Line Audiology Consultants, P.C. | Nov 16, 2017 | Hearing Loss Articles
It seems impossible that a tiny creature in the sea could someday be an effective treatment for hearing loss, but one group of researchers says they have all the right stuff. The Center for Hearing and Communication estimates 48 million people in the U.S. have hearing problems and many of them are elderly. Age-related hearing loss affects one in every three people over the age of 65. These are the individuals that will likely benefit from the studies being done on the sea anemones.
What is a Sea Anemone?
Sea anemones are the exotic creatures often seen in ocean-based photography. It’s a group of sea animals that get their name from a flowering plant called the anemone. Similar to the plant, sea anemones have at Medusa-like quality that consists of a columnar trunk surrounded by flowing tentacles.
These are highly predatory creatures that use their tentacles for hunting. They pull the arms in to draw in prey and then expand when it comes time to catch their next meal. The tentacles also help propel them through the water, although, they tend to remain stationary for weeks at a time.
What kind of food do they eat? The sea anemones are not picky eaters. They pull the tentacles out to catch just about any animal that comes within reach and will fit in its mouth.
How the Sea Anemone can Help the Hearing Impaired
A 2016 study published in the Journal of Experimental Biology reports that the sea anemone has tiny hair cells that allow them to sense vibrations in the ocean when catching prey. The core of these hair cells is similar to what humans use to hear.
The inner ear consists of a labyrinth structure filled with delicate hair cells that resemble what the sea anemone use to detect vibrations. The hair cells transduce the vibrations of sound into something the brain can understand. Without them, there is no way for you to comprehend what you hear.
The problem with these delicate hair cells in both humans and sea anemones is they can easily break. It is the broken hairs are lead to the kind of hearing loss that people experience as they get older. Decades of listening to sounds around you like your favorite TV show and the local band that plays every weekend takes a toll. The tiny hair cells are damaged over time and hearing gradually diminishes.
For humans, the damage to these hair cells is impossible to fix. The sea anemone, though, has a built-in system that is the key to their survival. Without the hair cells, they cannot detect prey in the area, so they don’t eat. During reproduction, the sea anemones tear their body in two and that breaks the hair cells. Afterward, they cover themselves with mucus that contains a protein to repairs tissue including the hair cells.
The Sea Anemone Study
University of Louisiana biology professor Glen Watson and his colleagues decided to look closer at the healing process of the sea anemone to see if those same repair proteins might work for different species. The researchers used mice in the study because their ears have similar hair cells — called stereocilia — that enable hearing. They destroyed the stereocilia in the test mice and then treated them with repair protein taken from a starlet sea anemone. The result was significant repair of the stereocilia.
Does This Mean Protein From the Sea Anemone Will Work on Humans?
The study shows that repair of these very delicate hair cells is possible in other animals, but mice are not humans. Mice have proteins that are related to the ones the sea anemones use for repair. Humans are not quite as lucky. The next step is to find a way to harness that same repair power either using human protein or something taken out of nature that can give people with this kind damage back their hearing.
It’s likely that the therapeutic use of repair proteins to heal damaged hair cells in humans is years away. This study is good news, though, because it does show that some species have this ability and more research might put it to use for humans.
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Watch Chris Masterson’s ‘The Masquerade’ Short Film
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Back in 2008 we heard about a short film project Chris starred in called The Masquerade. Thanks to its creator/producer Natalia Garcia we can now watch it in full as part of Movieola’s Premier Short Film Channel on YouTube.
I’m excited to give you the link so you can see Chris like you’ve never really seen him before. It also stars Jocelin Donahue in her first film role! And stay tuned because we are working on getting a feature version off the ground. – Natalia Garcia
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Discount 'danger' of last minute ISAs
Thousands of investors seeking a last-minute ISA could end up making costly mistakes if they are lured by attractive-looking discounts.
Discounts can often hide an expensive product in the long run, according to Rob Hudson, head of investment products at online bank Egg.
Consumers, he says, need to examine the total cost of the ISA, often expressed as the Total Expense Ratio (TER) - a cost rarely highlighted by the provider.
As if to deliberately confuse the investor, in most investment funds the true annual cost of investing is normally more than the stated annual management charge. The real cost also includes registration fees, audit and custodial charges.
Looking at actively-run funds, a three per cent initial discount on £7,000 gives you £210 which is not to be sniffed at, says Mr Hudson.
Egg, however, has calculated that the difference between a TER of one and 2.5 per cent - the average range for most UK funds - over five years is £645, assuming seven per cent annual growth. Over 10, 15 and 20 years, the difference adds up to £1,665, £3,229 and £5,565 respectively - and the better your fund performs, the more you pay out.
"Many headlines are being grabbed by fund managers who are discounting in order to attract new customers," said Mr Hudson.
"ISA buyers should always seek to minimise their initial charge, but this is only one side of the story. The initial discount is actually only one part of the investment decision and headline rates can often hide an expensive product in the longer term.
"It's a bit like choosing a health club - of course, joining fees are of utmost importance, but it is normally the ongoing fees - and how those fees relate to the services provided that decide for most people which club they are going to join."
Advisers at Bestinvest, meanwhile, are warning investors not to buy an ISA without first reviewing their existing portfolio.
Jason Hollands, deputy managing director of Bestinvest, said: "Too many investors buy their ISA at the end of a tax year as a stand-alone decision rather than in the context of their overall portfolio strategy. They end up succumbing to whatever is currently being hyped or performed well during the previous year. The result is an odd, messy collection of funds."
The problem, he says. has been exacerbated by the mailshots and guides produced by some IFAs. When IFAs mail their clients promoting a specific fund it entices them to buy it, irrespective of whether it complements their existing holdings."
"Before being tempted into a new ISA investors should reaffirm their risk profile, time horizon and main goals. Secondly, they should review their current asset allocation to see if it fits their objectives and risk profile.
"For example, they should look at the split between equities, bonds and other assets. Within the equity portfolio they should look at the geographic, industry and fund-style breakdown.
"Only by going through this process will they highlight the areas to concentrate on when looking to take out a new ISA."
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NYSE:KEY - KeyCorp Stock Price, Forecast & News
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KeyCorp operates as the holding company for KeyBank National Association that provides various retail and commercial banking services in the United States. The company's Key Community Bank segment offers various deposit and investment products, personal finance services, residential mortgages, home equity loans, credit cards, and installment loans. Read More…
Industry National commercial banks
Sub-IndustryRegional Banks
SectorFinance
Current SymbolNYSE:KEY
CUSIP49326710
Webhttp://www.key.com/
Next Earnings Date1/23/2020 (Confirmed)
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KeyCorp (NYSE:KEY) Frequently Asked Questions
What is KeyCorp's stock symbol?
KeyCorp trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "KEY."
How often does KeyCorp pay dividends? What is the dividend yield for KeyCorp?
KeyCorp declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, January 16th. Stockholders of record on Tuesday, March 3rd will be given a dividend of $0.185 per share on Friday, March 13th. This represents a $0.74 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 3.78%. View KeyCorp's Dividend History.
How will KeyCorp's stock buyback program work?
KeyCorp announced that its Board of Directors has approved a stock repurchase plan on Thursday, June 28th 2018, which authorizes the company to repurchase $1,225,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization authorizes the company to buy up to 5.9% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares repurchase plans are generally an indication that the company's board believes its stock is undervalued.
How were KeyCorp's earnings last quarter?
KeyCorp (NYSE:KEY) released its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, October, 17th. The financial services provider reported $0.48 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $0.46 by $0.02. The financial services provider had revenue of $1.63 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $1.64 billion. KeyCorp had a net margin of 21.93% and a return on equity of 12.71%. The firm's quarterly revenue was up 1.7% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business earned $0.45 EPS. View KeyCorp's Earnings History.
When is KeyCorp's next earnings date?
KeyCorp is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, January 23rd 2020. View Earnings Estimates for KeyCorp.
How can I listen to KeyCorp's earnings call?
KeyCorp will be holding an earnings conference call on Thursday, January 23rd at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.
What price target have analysts set for KEY?
21 brokerages have issued 1 year price targets for KeyCorp's shares. Their forecasts range from $17.00 to $40.00. On average, they expect KeyCorp's stock price to reach $24.39 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 24.5% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for KeyCorp.
What is the consensus analysts' recommendation for KeyCorp?
21 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for KeyCorp in the last year. There are currently 2 sell ratings, 9 hold ratings and 10 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for KeyCorp.
Has KeyCorp been receiving favorable news coverage?
News stories about KEY stock have been trending positive this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. The research group identifies positive and negative media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. KeyCorp earned a media sentiment score of 3.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media stories about the financial services provider a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next few days. View News Stories for KeyCorp.
Are investors shorting KeyCorp?
KeyCorp saw a decline in short interest in December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totalling 13,780,000 shares, a decline of 6.6% from the December 15th total of 14,760,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 8,410,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 1.6 days. Currently, 1.4% of the shares of the company are sold short. View KeyCorp's Current Options Chain.
Who are some of KeyCorp's key competitors?
Some companies that are related to KeyCorp include PNC Financial Services Group (PNC), Truist Financial (TFC), SunTrust Banks (STI), M&T Bank (MTB), Fifth Third Bancorp (FITB), First Republic Bank (FRC), Regions Financial (RF), Huntington Bancshares (HBAN), SVB Financial Group (SIVB), Zions Bancorporation NA (ZION), Commerce Bancshares (CBSH), Signature Bank (SBNY), TCF Financial (TCF), East West Bancorp (EWBC) and BOK Financial (BOKF).
What other stocks do shareholders of KeyCorp own?
Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other KeyCorp investors own include Bank of America (BAC), AT&T (T), Cisco Systems (csco), Intel (INTC), NVIDIA (NVDA), General Electric (GE), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM), Walt Disney (DIS), Ford Motor (F) and Johnson & Johnson (JNJ).
Who are KeyCorp's key executives?
KeyCorp's management team includes the folowing people:
Ms. Beth E. Mooney, Chairman, CEO & Pres (Age 64)
Mr. Donald R. Kimble Jr., Vice Chairman & CFO (Age 59)
Mr. Christopher Marrott Gorman, Pres of Banking & Vice Chairman (Age 58)
Mr. Andrew J. Paine III, Exec. VP & Pres of Key Institutional Bank (Age 49)
Mr. Mark W. Midkiff, Chief Risk Officer & Exec. Officer (Age 57)
Who are KeyCorp's major shareholders?
KeyCorp's stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Hamlin Capital Management LLC (0.39%), Hexavest Inc. (0.23%), LGT Capital Partners LTD. (0.16%), First National Bank of Omaha (0.06%), United Services Automobile Association (0.06%) and Calamos Advisors LLC (0.06%). Company insiders that own KeyCorp stock include Amy G Brady, Andrew J Paine III, Angela G Mago, Beth E Mooney, Carlton L Highsmith, Christopher M Gorman, Craig A Buffie, Donald R Kimble, Douglas M Schosser, Edward J Burke, H James Dallas, Mark W Midkiff, Paul N Harris, Robert A Deangelis and Trina M Evans. View Institutional Ownership Trends for KeyCorp.
Which institutional investors are selling KeyCorp stock?
KEY stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Zeke Capital Advisors LLC, LGT Capital Partners LTD., Verity & Verity LLC, Nisa Investment Advisors LLC, Meag Munich Ergo Kapitalanlagegesellschaft MBH, Manning & Napier Group LLC, Farmers & Merchants Trust Co of Chambersburg PA and Patten & Patten Inc. TN. Company insiders that have sold KeyCorp company stock in the last year include Amy G Brady, Andrew J Paine III, Angela G Mago, Beth E Mooney, Carlton L Highsmith, Douglas M Schosser, Paul N Harris, Robert A Deangelis and Trina M Evans. View Insider Buying and Selling for KeyCorp.
Which institutional investors are buying KeyCorp stock?
KEY stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including United Services Automobile Association, Hamlin Capital Management LLC, Three Peaks Capital Management LLC, GPM Growth Investors Inc., Pennsylvania Trust Co, DNB Asset Management AS, Assenagon Asset Management S.A. and Hexavest Inc.. Company insiders that have bought KeyCorp stock in the last two years include Beth E Mooney, Donald R Kimble, H James Dallas and Mark W Midkiff. View Insider Buying and Selling for KeyCorp.
How do I buy shares of KeyCorp?
Shares of KEY can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.
What is KeyCorp's stock price today?
One share of KEY stock can currently be purchased for approximately $19.59.
How big of a company is KeyCorp?
KeyCorp has a market capitalization of $19.30 billion and generates $7.39 billion in revenue each year. The financial services provider earns $1.87 billion in net income (profit) each year or $1.73 on an earnings per share basis. KeyCorp employs 18,180 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About KeyCorp.
What is KeyCorp's official website?
The official website for KeyCorp is http://www.key.com/.
How can I contact KeyCorp?
KeyCorp's mailing address is 127 PUBLIC SQ, CLEVELAND OH, 44114. The financial services provider can be reached via phone at 216-689-3000 or via email at [email protected]
MarketBeat Community Rating for KeyCorp (NYSE KEY)
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