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Rodgers' journey from California kid to NFL star hasn't always been easy
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Chattanooga QB Nick Tiano named MVP after leading National past American in Collegiate Bowl
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James Morgan, Benny LeMay lead East over West in Shrine Bowl
Florida International's James Morgan, Charlotte's Benny LeMay and Navy's Malcolm Perry led the way as the East beat the West in the Shrine Bowl on Saturday.
Clemson LB Isaiah Simmons declares for 2020 NFL draft
Isaiah Simmons led the Tigers with 107 total tackles, eight sacks and 16 tackles for a loss last season.
Ex-Texas Tech QB Jett Duffey transferring to Central Michigan
Jett Duffey, who started the final eight games of the 2019 season for Texas Tech, confirmed to ESPN that he will transfer to Central Michigan.
Burrow ready to be drafted by 'whoever wants to pay me'
Joe Burrow is still enjoying the aftermath of winning the College Football Playoff, but he'll be ready to play on Sundays in the NFL.
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Perth Southern Suburbs
Robert Hinton
Sun 1 Apr 2018, 6:00pm–9:00pm
Where: SONAR Room , Upstairs, 42 Mews Rd, Fremantle, Western Australia
Restrictions: All Ages Licensed
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The Music of Robert Hinton is a sublime experience in itself, a refreshing and unbiased mix of jaunty acoustic folk, rock and roots, rolled together by acoustic guitar tones and gripping vocal melodies. Delivering passionate performances at every show, Hinton brings a full and warm sound accompanied by bass player Scott Barnett and drummer Matty James, going under the name 'The Robert Hinton Trio'. Hinton also plays solo, keeping the mood upbeat with the driving of a stompbox.
Robert draws his biggest influences from Iron and Wine, City and Colour, Josh Pyke, Jose Gonzalez, Paul Dempsey, Justin Vernon, Maynard James Keenan and Porcupine Tree.
In October 2013 Hinton released his debut album 'Winter Sun', and a second release titled 'Explaining Colour' in June 2015. Both are available worldwide through iTunes, streaming on Spotify and limited physical copies are available from the artist himself.
Kelly's Bar and Kitchen, Olinda, Yarra-Dandenong Ranges
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Borse Dubai gets loans worth Dh21.2 billion
Parag Deulgaonkar
Published Monday, December 17, 2007
Borse Dubai, which offered to buy OMX AB, agreed to $5.8 billion (Dh21.2bn) of loans with a group of international banks to help pay for the acquisition and the shares of London Stock Exchange Group it plans to buy.
Borse Dubai got two one-year loans, one for $4.2bn (Dh15.4bn) and the other for £796 million (Dh5.8bn), from a group of six banks led by HSBC Holdings, financial data compiled by the agency Bloomberg showed.
Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Ltd, Barclays Capital, Citigroup, Emirates NBD, and Goldman Sachs Group joined HSBC in the loan.
Borse Dubai Chief Executive Officer Per Larsson in October said HSBC would manage the borrowing.
Borse Dubai and Nasdaq Stock Market, once rivals for control of Nordic exchange OMX, agreed in September that Dubai would proceed with its bid and then hand the shares to Nasdaq. In return, Nasdaq would give almost 20 per cent of its stock to Borse Dubai and sell it a 28 per cent holding in London Stock Exchange.
Larsson on November 20 said he expected to close Borse Dubai’s $4.9bn (Dh18bn) OMX acquisition by the end of February.
It was earlier reported that the Qatar Investment Authority and Borse Dubai were close to an agreement about swapping stakes in OMX and London Stock Exchange Group.
Qatar may trade some of its 9.98 per cent of OMX to Dubai in exchange for shares of LSE to increase its 14.9 per cent holding, according to two people with knowledge of the negotiations.
The Qatari Government-owned investment fund has scrapped an application to buy OMX.
It said in a statement it “regards its investment in OMX as a very valuable asset and is actively considering a range of options.” The alternatives “no longer require an application” to the regulator, Qatar said.
Borse Dubai expects to complete its takeover of the Nordic exchange by the end of February, pending regulatory approval.
“We hope to conclude the deal with OMX by the end of February,” Per Larsson said.
“We need approval from all the regulators,” he said, including in the United States and Scandinavia.
Borse Dubai is aiming to become the world’s third-largest stock market operator by using the acquisition route, and is open to buying stakes in exchanges, Chairman Essa Kazim told Emirates Business in August.
“Borse Dubai has been formed to explore joint opportunities for the development of capital markets in the region and across the globe.
This is our business and any offer that suits our business requirement will be accessed,” Kazim said.
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Mr William Carney
Home Titanic Victims Mr William Carney
Mr William John Carney was born in St Woollos, Newport 1, Monmouthshire, Wales in late 1880/early 1881.2
He was the eldest of eight children born of a Welsh father, Charles Carney (b. 1854 in Newport), a pilot seaman, and an English mother, Eliza Jane Harris (b. 1854 in Ilfracombe, Devon).
His siblings were: Bertie Constantine (1882-1961), Frederick Charles (1884-1884), Reginald Henry (1886-1959), Dora Vivian (1887-1966, later Mrs George Arthur Casey), John Edgar (b. 1890), Elsie Alice (1892-1951, later Mrs Joseph R. Smith) and Ivor Charles (1895-1937).
William appears on the 1881 census as a 4-month-old infant, residing with his parents at 40 Capel Crescent, St Woollos; by 1891 the expanding family had relocated to 6 Alfred Street, St Woollos and the 1901 census shows them residing at 43 Robert Street, Newport. His father had died aged 40 in 1895, not long after the birth of his youngest sibling Ivor, and he had now become a breadwinner in the household, listed on the 1901 census as a shipyard labourer alongside his brothers Bertie and Reginald. The 1911 census shows the family still residing at 43 Robert Street but William was by now described as a boilermaker's helper at the docks. Exactly when he went to sea is not clear but he worked for a time aboard Majestic, operating out of Liverpool.
When he signed-on to the Titanic, on 6 April 1912, Carney gave his address as 11 Cairo Street, West Derby Road, Liverpool. His previous ship had been the Majestic and as a first class lift attendant he received monthly wages of £3, 15s.
William Carney, who was unmarried, died in the sinking; his body was recovered by the Mackay-Bennett (#251) and he was buried at Fairview Lawn Cemetery, Halifax, Nova Scotia on 8 May 1912.
© Bob Knuckle,Canada
NO. 251 - MALE - ESTIMATED AGE, 50 - HAIR, FAIR
CLOTHING - Brown suit; steward's jacket and buttons; blue pants below.
EFFECTS - Nail clipper; keys; comb; letters; gold ring.
NAME - William Carney
11 Caird St, West Derby Rd, Liverpool.
William's mother died in 1914, just two years after his loss. His family largely remained in Newport and his last known surviving sibling was his sister Dora Casey who died there on 17 August 1966.
He stated on crew agreements that he had been born in Bristol; Newport and Bristol are adjacent to each other, separated by the Severn Estuary.
He was 4-months old at the time of the 1881 census, conducted on 3 April that year.
Titanic Crew Summary
Name: Mr William Carney
Born:circa.1881 Born in Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales
Age: 31 years (Male)
Last Residence: at 11 Cairo Street Liverpool, Merseyside, England
Occupation: Lift Steward
Last Ship: Majestic (1890)
First Embarked: Southampton on Saturday 6th April 1912
Body recovered by: Mackay-Bennett (No. 251)
Buried: Fairview Lawn Cemetery Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada on Monday 6th May 1912.
William Carney Lift Steward (2 posts)
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Agreement and Account of Crew (PRO London, BT100/259)
White Star Line (1912.) Record of Bodies and Effects (Passengers and Crew S.S. "Titanic") Recovered by Cable Steamer "MacKay Bennett" Including Bodies Buried at Sea and Bodies Delivered at Morgue in Halifax, N.S. Details compiled from records of the "Mackay-Bennett". Public Archives of Nova Scotia, Halifax, N.S.
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(2020) William Carney Encyclopedia Titanica (ref: #1794, updated 13th January 2020 04:58:22 AM)
URL : https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-victim/william-carney.html
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Andrea Roth Photos
Andrea Roth at the grand opening of the new restaurant Southern Hospitality.
Andrea Roth at the Season 4 DVD launch party of "It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia."
Andrea Roth at the premiere of "Rescue Me."
Andrea Roth at the opening of Sephora Lexington hosted by Gotham Magazine.
Andrea Roth and producer Jim Serpico at the Season 3 New York premiere of "Rescue Me."
Andrea Roth at the Leary Firefighter Foundation 6th Annual Benefit For New Yorks Bravest.
Callie Thorn, Andrea Roth and Sherri Saum at the opening of Sephora Lexington hosted by Gotham Magazine.
Andrea Roth at the Los Angeles Confidential Magazine's Pre-Emmy Party.
Andrea Roth and Nigel Barker at the HSUS (Humane Society of the United States) "A Sealed Fate?" Photography Exhibition.
Andrea Roth at the HSUS (Humane Society of the United States) "A Sealed Fate?" Photography Exhibition.
Andrea Roth at the 2009 Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards.
Andrea Roth at the Season 3 premiere of "Damages."
Andrea Roth at the Season 3 New York premiere of "Rescue Me."
Andrea Roth at the 36th Annual International Emmy Awards.
Director Louise Osmond, Andrea Roth and John Smithson at the 36th Annual International Emmy Awards.
Andrea Roth at the 36th International Emmy Awards.
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Ice-T Photos
Ice-T at the 4th Annual VH1 Hip Hop Honors ceremony.
Ice-T and Method Man at the world premiere of "American Gangster".
Ice-T at the VH1 Save The Music Foundation press conference.
Ice T at the 13th Annual Childrens Rights Awards Gala.
Ice T and Mariska Hargitay at the 13th Annual Childrens Rights Awards Gala.
Ice-T and Nicole 'Coco' Austin at the grand opening of Mario Barth's Starlight Tattoo.
Ice-T at the grand opening of Mario Barth's Starlight Tattoo.
Ice-T and Fab 5 Freddy arrive at the grand opening of Mario Barth's Starlight Tattoo.
Ice-T and his wife Coco at the world premiere of "American Gangster".
Ice-T and his wife Coco at the premiere of "I Am Legend".
Ice-T at the Entertainment Weekly's Annual Must List Party.
Ice-T and wife model Nicole 'Coco' Austin at the Entertainment Weekly's Annual Must List Party.
Ice-T arrive at the Comedy Central Roast of Flavor Flav.
Ice-T and his wife Coco at the 4th Annual VH1 Hip Hop Honors ceremony.
Ice-T and Edward Zwick at the special screening of "Blood Diamond".
Ice-T and wife Nicole 'Coco' Austin at the special screening of "Blood Diamond".
Ice-T at the ceremony on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Ice-T at the Upfront Party hosted by Entertainment Weekly and Vavoom.
Ice T and wife Coco at the Upfront Party hosted by Entertainment Weekly and Vavoom.
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Why Media?
Peace and Reconciliation
Church in Community
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Life as a Christian radio producer in Iraq
Francis Miles
Broadcasting messages of hope and change, the IraqFM team are working towards community reconciliation in a country marked by sectarian violence, instability and unrest.
For security reasons we can't show you the team's faces, can't tell you their names or even be more specific about where the station is based, other than the transmitters and studio are inside Iraq.
What must it be like, as a Christian, to be risking your life working for a radio station in this context?
Encouraging unity among the listenership and using media for transformation is a passion for the staff at IraqFM. Despite receiving death threats and being at risk of attack, they are committed to delivering programmes promoting peace. Yet despite their messages of peace and reconciliation, the team's own Christian faith puts them at risk on a daily basis.
We asked one of the radio producers at the station to help us understand more about their work and calling at IraqFM:
Q: What is it like living as a believer in your situation?
A: I feel that the troubles and difficulties that we are facing are strengthening our faith and shaping our lives. What is happening is in God's plan. We always need your spiritual support to continue living in the city.
I feel that the troubles and difficulties that we are facing are strengthening our faith and shaping our lives. What is happening is in God's plan. We always need your spiritual support to continue living in the city.
Q: Why do you stay? What do you hope to achieve?
A: I stay in Iraq because I want to plant the principles of God's kingdom in our community. God's word is the source of hope for those who feel hopeless. I stay to give our community a chance to make their life better.
I stay in Iraq because I want to plant the principles of God's kingdom in our community. God's word is the source of hope for those who feel hopeless. I stay to give our community a chance to make their life better.
Q: How can Feba's supporters encourage you? What can they pray for?
A: No ministry can succeed without the support of prayer. Please pray for us that our team would be led by the Holy Spirit, to be effective and close to the people in our community, to show them sacrificial love because love is stronger than death. Thank you.
No ministry can succeed without the support of prayer. Please pray for us that our team would be led by the Holy Spirit, to be effective and close to the people in our community, to show them sacrificial love because love is stronger than death. Thank you.
Join us in prayerful support of the work of IraqFM and our partners across Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Help us by praying for IraqFM's producers and give thanks that the station is valued by the listeners it serves. Radio here is an opportunity to build bridges. Not just a one-way broadcast, the programmes often offer phone-ins which provide a loving and respectful meeting place in which people from all parts of the community are welcomed and given a voice.
Community based organisation leaders from different backgrounds see radio and IraqFM as a key player in building a peaceful future.
Peace and Reconciliation is a core focus area for Feba UK and central to the programme output produced in Iraq.
Working hard through radio to "rebuild joy, optimism, friendship and hope in the lives of our listeners" the IraqFM team strives to use media for positive change in the Middle East.
Find out more about the inspiring work of this team or donate now.
Author: Francis Miles
Iraq FM: Community radio bringing light to listeners in the Middle East
Iraq is one of the most dangerous places to live and work today. Despite challenging circumstances, Iraq FM is a valued and trusted member of the diverse community it serves. Your support can help these remarkable broadcasts to continue.
Published: 9th December, 2015
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Target amount: £0.00
Amount raised: £1,670.00
This Week in Prayer: Iraq
Please pray with us for Feba's partner projects in Iraq.
This Week in Prayer: Yemen
Ministry in Yemen is extremely challenging. This work provides a vital lifeline to many listeners, offering practical advice and teaching about the Christian faith.
This Week in Prayer: Russia & Ukraine
Feba's partner projects in Russia and Ukraine are the focus of our prayers this week.
Twelve Days of Christmas...
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What is the difference between SW, MW and FM radio?
Find out how Feba's partners use various forms of 'radio' to suit the needs of different places, different contexts and different communities.
If you're interested in working for Feba, then you're in the right place! We've currently got an exciting vacancy for an Executive Assistant - do have a look...
Feba started life as the "Far East Broadcasting Associates" in 1959. Since then, we've continued to use radio to inspire change in the world. Find out more about our history here.
Feba's ministry is all about the creative use of radio and other audio media to inspire people to follow Jesus Christ.
Media can inform, educate and inspire. We are Christians who believe that media can bring hope and lasting change to communities.
From technical expertise through to project assistance, partnership and financial support, Feba enables media production to serve communities at their point of need.
Using radio to reach marginalised communities – Feba’s partners transmit hope and crucial information to persecuted Christians.
Frequently Asked Questions about Feba
Often an overlooked aspect of disaster response, media can provide life-saving information such as how to access help, food, shelter and clean water.
Our critical work goes on day by day, but it's only through the kind gifts of our supporters we can continue to do this.
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Become A (Community) Female Foodie!
Do you love posting food photos on social media? Are you following 100+ (or so it seems) foodie accounts? Do you have an eye for recognizing a *really* great food photo? Are you a foodie through and through- someone who knows all the great and worthwhile spots to eat in your city? Would you like the chance to be spotlighted as a community foodie and member of the Female Foodie team?
Female Foodie is excited to announce that we’re opening new spots on our team for Community Female Foodies who will share incredible content featuring food from great local restaurants captured by local photographers and food enthusiasts.
To apply to become a Community Female Foodie, please send the following application to brooke@femalefoodie.com.
3 separate photos with captions, similar to an Instagram re-post, featuring *other* local food photographer’s work.
1 photo with caption, similar to an Instagram post, featuring your own photography.
Your full name, geographic location, and social media links.
If I am accepted for this position, how often will I need to post on behalf of my city?
2 days per week, 1-3 Instagram posts per day.
If I am accepted for this position, will I be a member of the contributing team for Female Foodie that writes blog posts?
These teams will operate separately, however, as an Instagram Female Foodie you will have greater opportunities to become a eventual contributor on the blog and learn alongside the contributing team.
Am I required to photograph photos on my own for this position?
No, although an eye for great photos or some food photography is highly recommended.
Will I be compensated for my work and time?
Female Foodie is powered by independent food photography and unbiased reviews; however, the reward for contributing to Female Foodie includes new and diverse dining experiences (occasionally sponsored), networking within the foodie community, and opportunities for you work to be featured.
Can you show me an example of what these photos should look like?
A few accounts that are GREAT at reposting quality, eye-catching content:
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Deadly teen car crash in Pennsylvania
On behalf of Fanelli, Evans & Patel, P.C. posted in Car Accidents on Thursday, March 14, 2013.
most of us will be involved in some sort of car accident in our driving lifetime. Even if the car crash is not serious in nature and everyone walks away from the accident unscathed, it is still a very unsettling experience. However, there are accidents that result in serious injury or death. These are the types of accidents that can make one appreciate the dangers of driving.
A Pennsylvania teenager who was speeding and driving under the influence of marijuana caused death and serious injury to passengers in his car. The teen was traveling at excessive speeds when his car hit a bump in the road and flipped over. The car also hit a utility pole so hard that the car was cut in half and then hit a tree.
The driver of the car sustained some injuries. The individual in the front passenger seat was pronounced dead at the scene. The other three passengers suffered serious injuries. The teenage driver was charged with driving under the influence of a controlled substance, involuntary manslaughter and other offenses.
In serious car accidents, police can conduct an accident investigation to determine the cause of the collision. Once this is done, depending on the circumstances, individuals may be charged with driving offenses as it relates to the accident. The criminal charge may be an aggravating factor, but the injured person and their family may be entitled to compensation through a personal injury civil suit.
Victims of a car crash and their families may have medical expenses and other issues related to the accident. When a negligent driver causes a crash that injures other motorists or passengers, the injured parties may be entitled to lost wages and medical expenses. Additionally, where appropriate, the court can award punitive damages to the families for pain and suffering.
Source: Phillyburbs.com, "Police: Northampton teen high, speeding in crash that killed one, injured 3," Jo Ciavaglia, March 6, 2013
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CAVE BEARS
Paleolithic Treasures of the Carpathians
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Cave Bear Ursus spelaeus
At around 7,300 feet, we are hiking Piatra Craiuli, a narrow limestone ridge, heading toward Varful La Om, the highest peak in Romania. Thes limestone ridges in the carpathians have numerous caves, some of which contain the remains of cave bears.
Cave bear skulls on display at the Geology Museum in Bucharest.
Fast Facts about Cave Bears
Name: Cave Bear - Ursus spelaeus - "Cave Bear"
Taxonomy: Class: Mammal - Order: Carnivore - Family: Ursidae - Genus: Ursus - Species: spelaeus
Age: Pleistocene
The Cave Bear was an Ice Age animal. It was also one of the first Ice Age animals to die off around 24,000 years ago.
Discovery: Johann Friederich Esper, 1774
Although cave bear remains have been found throuought most of history, and Ice Age humans even painted actual living cave bears, the cave bear was first scientifically described in 1774 by Johann Friederich Esper.
Distribution: Europe:
Cave bear fossils are found throughout Europe and parts of Eurasia
Male cave bears weighed around 1000 lbs and were similar in size to today's Alaskan kodiak bear. This is about 30% larger than the brown bear.
Their skulls are distinctively wide with a steep forehead.
Diet: Omnivore
Analysis shows many cave bears were mostly herbivorous, feeding on plants and roots, than omnivorous.
However, they did eat meat. Meat sources included fish, insects, and small mammals.
These animals did not hunt and stalk large animals or humans.
Caves:
Cave bears didn't live in caves. They used them to hibernate in during the long and harsh Ice Age winters.
Climbing up a limestone ridge at Hiking the Carpathians in Romania, in the heart of Cave Bear country.
Cave Bears: Paleolithic Treasures of the Carpathians
Climbing up a limestone ridge at Piatra Craiuli, the heart of the Carpathians in Romania.
A large swath of Romania, from Transylvania to the border regions of Crisana, contain the heart and soul of the Carpathian Mountains. This rugged area, full of steep, jagged ridgelines and cave systems, contains the largest remaining virgin forests and the largest populations of brown bears and wolves in Europe.
One summer, I was lucky enough to wander about Romania, hiking the wild forests and limestone ridges of the Carpathians. Far from civilization, it felt like a trip through time into the Upper Paleolithic. Maybe it's the "Amateur Paleontologist" in me, but I almost expected to see a giant Irish elk or a wooly mammoth appear from the dense thickets of Norway spruce. Luckily, one Paleolithic treasure I knew I could view was the cave bear. Although I obviously wouldn't see one munching on shrubbery in an alpine meadow, the extensive cave systems of these mountains hold innumerable specimens of Cave bear fossils. For example, Igric Cave was found to have over 300 nearly complete Cave bear skulls alone! There is even a cave called "Pestera Ursilor" which means Bears' Cave, where over 140 specimens have been found.
In Europe, caves are synonymous with cave bears... But why? Evidence shows cave bears didn't actually live in the caves, but only hibernated there in the harsh Ice Age winters. Old bears and injured or sick bears would sometimes die during hibernation. Their bodies would stay in the caves and be scavenged upon by animals such as the cave hyena. Over thousands of years the bones would accumulate in large numbers.
Marveling at the cave bear fossils in Romania, it's interesting to imagine what these animals were like when they were alive. They were obviously huge animals, with males averaging around 1000 lbs, which is similar in size to today's Alaskan kodiak bears, or about 30% larger than the brown bear. Their skulls are distinctively wide with a steep forehead.
Complete Cave bear specimen left as it was found in Pestera Ursilor.
Cave Bear Diet
Skeleton of a cave bear from the Natural History museum in Bucharest.
An interesting characteristic of these huge animals was their diet. A popular misconception is that cave bears were strictly herbivores. However, like most bears, they were omnivorous with a preference toward vegetation. Sometimes their diets varied greatly depending on their location and environment.
Unlike all other bears, as cave bears evolved, their dentition changed to accommodate a more herbivore friendly diet. They lost most of their premolars and the last premolar became elongated, creating a more effective chewing surface for grinding plants (Pinto Llona et al., 2005). However, Peigne et. al. in 2009 did a dental microwear study on cave bear teeth and found the microwear patterns on their teeth were distinctly different than that of a strict vegetarian diet, and closer to generalist omnivores. Along with plants, they also ate insects and meat (small mammals) to supplement their protein intake, much like most brown bears today.
Another insight into their diet is from the study of the amount of the Nitrogen-15 isotope in their bones. Animals accumulate this isotope in their bodies. So animals that eat other animals will naturally build up higher N-15 levels than herbivores. Most cave bear N-15 levels are low. One study showed that 83% of the bears, sampled from all over Europe, contained low N-15 levels, indicative of a mainly herbivore diet (Richards et al, 2007). However 17% had higher levels of N-15. Specifically, cave bear populations from a cave in Bulgaria, and two caves in Romania had N-15 levels indicative of carnivores. In one of the Romanian caves, Pestera cu Oase, the bears had N-15 levels as high as wolves.
However, the authors also studied Carbon-13 isotope ratios to figure out the food source. They concluded the animal protein did not come from the herbivores in the area, such as deer (Richards et al, 2007). This supports the 2009 microwear study that shows the protein could have come from insects, small mammals, and even freshwater fish.
So, although they weren't giant killing machines that stalked and ate Neanderthals and European early modern humans (cave lions may have taken up that role), they did have a varied omnivore diet.
The Myth of the Cave Bear Cult
30,000 year old prehistoric painting of 3 cave bears from the Chauvet cave in France.
Finally, one can't marvel at cave bears without discussing the cause of their demise. The extinction of cave bears is interesting in the fact that they were one of the first megafauna to go extinct toward the end of the Paleocene. Cave bears went extinct around 27,000 years ago during the last glacial maximum. Most other megafauna survived the glacial maximum, and died out 10-15,000 years ago.
Numerous theories have been made about their extinction. A popular one is that humans and/or Neanderthals hunted them to near extinction. This reasoning is based off an outdated, but still popular myth of an ancient "Cave Bear Cult." This ancient cult supposedly worshiped the cave bear and ritually hunted it, using the skulls and bones for religious purposes. The cult idea arose in 1917 when Emil Bachler uncovered a cave full of cave bear bones at Drachenloch (Dragon's cave) in Switzerland. During his excavations, among his discoveries in the cave were cave bear skulls stacked in rock boxes, cave bear leg and arm bones nested along the cave walls, a leg bone unnaturally wedged through a bear's cheek bone, and two firepits from Neanderthals.
Unfortunately, using modern archaeology techniques, it has been found that the skulls and long bones will naturally sort like this due to forces from running water, falling cave roof slabs, animal scavengers, and even other cave bears shuffling bones around while trying to make hibernation spots. All of the Cave Bear Cult evidence from this cave has been shown to be invalid (Wunn, 2001).
Unfortunately, many other archaeologists and paleontologists at that time quickly jumped in and found other caves with similar layouts. A "Cave Bear Cult" is a very romantic idea, and today even with almost no credible evidence, the myth prevails.
Although bears are usually highly regarded in mythology, and there were regular bear cults, and also Neanderthals and humans lived in cave bear habitat, there is no evidence for a Cave Bear Cult that ceremoniously killed cave bears. What about regular cave bear hunting for food?
With a few exceptions, there is little evidence that Neanderthals and the European early humans hunted cave bears on a large scale. One exception is an instance in Southwest Germany, where in a cave called Hohle Fels, humans hunted cave bear cubs during the early spring for nourishment (Munzel & Conard, 2004). Another exception is the cave bears in northeastern Italy. The cave bears in northeastern Italy were the last to become extinct. The remains of some of these bears have butcher marks from the humans that lived in the area (Terlato et al., 2018).
Cave Bear Extinction
If there was no large scale hunting of cave bears into extinction, what could have been the cause of their demise?
Neanderthals and humans may still be partially to blame. As Neanderthals and then humans spread throughout Europe, they used caves as shelter. Cave bears would not have been able to use these occupied caves anymore for hibernation in which they depended. A prevailing theory is that Neanderthals and humans competed with the cave bears for the caves. This may be the first instance of habitat loss due to humans!
Another hypothesis is that cave bear diets became too specialized, during the harsh glacial maximum, they continued their strict herbivore diet and starved. The reality, like most answers, it is probably a combination of all three of these hypothesis.
At any rate, traveling to Romania to see these myth creating treasures of the Carpathians up close and in their natural state is remarkable!
Recommended Books and Documentaries
The Cave Bear Story
By: Bjorn Kurten
This is a well written book about the life and extinction of cave bears. It is written by one of the foremost bear experts, however it is not overly technical. It's a great read for anyone interested in the life of cave bears!
by Jean Clottes. 2010
The earliest evidence of human art is from caves such as the Chauvet cave. This book, "Cave Art" contains around 250 beautiful cave art images, it gives a background on human prehistory, explores the origins of art and creativity, and gives detailed descriptions of many cave paintings, including many from Chauvet.
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
by Werner Herzog and Jean Clottes Jean Clottes. 2011
This documentary follows an expedition into the Chauvet Cave and lets us view the ancient paintings in stunning high definition. This documentary proviees a unique glimpse of some of the oldest human artwork ever discovered. It's available as a DVD, BlueRay, and Streaming.
References / Works Cited
Gabriele Terlato, Herv� Bocherens, Matteo Romandini, Nicola Nannini, Keith A. Hobson & Marco Peresani. (2018) Chronological and Isotopic data support a revision for the timing of cave bear extinction in Mediterranean Europe, Historical Biology, DOI: 10.1080/08912963.2018.1448395. Michael P. Richards, Martina Pacher, Mathias Stiller, Jerome Quiles, Michael Hofreiter, Silviu Constantin, Joao Zilhao, and Erik Trinkaus. (2008) Isotopic evidence for omnivory among European cave bears: Late Pleistocene Ursus spelaeus from the Pestera cu Oase, Romania.- PNAS 105: 100-104.
Munzel, Susanne C. & Conard, Nicholas J. (2004) Cave Bear Hunting in the Hohle Fels, a Cave Site in the AchValley, Swabian Jura. Revue de Paleobiologie, Geneve (december) 23 (2).
S Peigne, C Goillot, M Germonpre, C Blondel, O Bignon, G Merceron. (2009) Predormancy omnivory in European cave bears evidenced by a dental microwear analysis of Ursus spelaeus from Goyet, Belgium. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106 (36), 15390-15393.
Wunn, I. (2001) Cave bear worship in the Palaeolithic Consideraciones sobre el culto al Oso de las Cavernas en el Paleolitico. Cadernos Lab. Xeoloxico de Laxe, Coruna. 2001. Vol. 26, pp. 457-463.
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Gilead leukemia drug trial unblinded early due to success
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A late stage trial of a Gilead Sciences drug in previously treated patients with a particular type of leukemia was unblinded early after independent monitors determined the medicine provided significant benefit in delaying worsening of the disease, the company said on Monday.
The study was testing Gilead's Zydelig in combination with the standard treatment, Rituxan and Treanda, compared with the standard treatment alone in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) whose disease had progressed after prior therapy.
Generally, when it becomes clear that a new drug will succeed in a trial, the study is unblinded so that patients receiving other drugs or a placebo can be offered the study drug.
A planned interim analysis of data from the 415-patient study by the data monitoring committee found a statistically significant benefit in progression-free survival and overall survival and ordered the trial to be unblinded, Gilead said.
Details of the trial and the magnitude of benefit will be presented at a major medical meeting next month.
Independent safety monitors oversee blinded trials so that they can be halted or unblinded early in case it is determined that the drug is causing harm or if the benefit becomes clear so that the medicine can be offered to placebo patients. A trial can also be stopped for futility if monitors determine the study is doomed to fail.
Gilead said it plans to submit supplemental regulatory filings in the United States and Europe early next year with the hope of expanding the Zydelig approval for use with Rituxan and Treanda in previously treated CLL patients.
Zydelig, known chemically as idelalisib, is already approved to treat CLL in combination with Rituxan (rituximab), and for a type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma in patients who have received at least two prior therapies.
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Love Comes Softly
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When Marty headed west with her husband she had big dreams of a cozy farmhouse and a happy running in through the door. But life has a way of throwing us the unexpected, and when Marty's husband unexpectedly dies, leaving Marty stranded in a covered wagon with winter fast approaching, kind hearted Clark Davis offers to marry and protect her for the winter, promising she can leave in the spring. Clark, a fellow widower, however, has a headstrong daughter that is not exactly keen on the idea. Can a marriage of convenience blossom into a love that will build a legacy of faith and steadfastness? From the best selling books by Janette Oke, and director Michael Landon Jr. comes a story of love and faith on the great American prairie; Love Comes Softly. Starring Katherine Heigl, Dale Midkiff, and Skye McCole Bartusiak.
Marty Claridge (played by Katherine Heigl) headed west with a dream, a wagon, and a loving husband named Aaron. And with her fierce determination and pioneering spirit, nothing should have stopped the dream she held in her heart. And nothing did. Until one day. When Aaron's horse returns from an early morning ride without his rider, Marty becomes concerned, but she does not face the fact that her husband may be gone until a man slowly rides up to her camp. Devastated, Marty's pioneering spirit and hopeful heart are crushed. But winter is quickly moving into the prairie, and she will not survive until spring with a mere wagon for protection.
Clark Davis (Dale Midkiff) has a problem too. His wife, the love of his life, died several years ago, leaving him a small daughter named Missie (played by Skye McCole Bartusiak). While the two are as close as a father and daughter can be, Clark is beginning to recognize that his headstrong daughter may need a woman's guidance in her life. Clark needs a woman to care for his daughter, and Marty needs a home until spring. Kindly, Clark offers to marry her with the condition that he will pay her wagon fare back east in the spring. Desperate for help, and alone in a vast land, Marty accepts.
But it seems that the marriage of convenience in Love Comes Softly might not be as convenient as was first imagined. With such a tiny house, Clark ends up sleeping in the barn, and Marty; still grieving after the painful loss of her husband; locks herself up in her room for days on end. When she finally emerges she finds a sympathetic Clark, but his daughter Missie is another story altogether. Headstrong might be an understatement. Missie was perfectly happy with her life before Marty came, and the appearance of a strange, incompetent, sobbing woman in her former domain is not exactly pleasing to the young girl.
As fall turns into winter, and winter into spring, however, a quiet patience and a slow creeping love soon make its way throughout the Davis homestead. Will it be enough to reconcile Missie and Marty? And what happens when spring finally arrives on the prairie in Love Comes Softly.
A Legacy of Love
When strangers Marty and Clark started out in a marriage of convenience, they did not expect it to last past spring. But love had a different story in mind, and though it may come slowly, love always wins. Love Comes Softly is a film filled with valuable lessons about love, family, and faith in the midst of pain and difficulty. One of these lessons is that sometimes love comes in the most unexpected places, and in the most unexpected forms. Marty, Clark, and Missie did not expect to be a family, in fact, two of them fought tooth and nail to make sure it never happened. However, love can sometimes take us by surprise, and Love Comes Softly is a wonderful reminder that sometimes the people we never expect to love, are put in our lives for a reason. Another wonderful reminder in the film Love Comes Softly is that love, like all gifts, comes from God. Clark is a steadfast Christian, and his quite, trusting faith, and humble love soon wear off on Marty's skepticism. Love Come Softly is a reminder that love can unlock even the most closed and fearful of hearts, and that God's love is often the key to healing wounds of times gone by.
What began as a marriage of convenience grows into a legacy of faith and love on the American prairie in Love Comes Softly. As Marty, Clark, and Missie battle the elements of winter and their own confused feelings they discover that God places people in our lives at just the right moments and that sometimes the worst moments of our lives lead to eternal love and faith. As fall turns to winter, and winter turns to spring the characters of Love Comes Softly learn valuable lessons about what it means to be a family, that faith can unlock the hardest of hearts, and carry the most unstable of relationships, and that faith and love take courage, and that sometimes love just comes softly.
Love Comes Softly has been rated PG by the Motion Picture Association of America and may include topics and issues not suitable for younger viewers. This film received the "Family Approved" award for all ages from the Dove Foundation. As always, it is recommended that parents preview all content to determine what is suitable for their children, but the film Love Comes Softly is generally considered appropriate for most older audiences.
If you enjoyed this heartwarming film about life on the prairie you might enjoy some of the other films in the series. Love's Enduring Promise, the sequel to Love Comes Softly continues the story of Marty and Clark. Love's Long Journey is the story of Marty and Clark's legacy, as it picks up the story with Marty and Clark's daughter Missy, as she heads out on a long journey west with her new husband Willie.
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Resistance to Immune Checkpoint Inhibition in Pancreatic Cancer
Victoria Forster, PhD
Work is ongoing to patent the VIP receptor antagonist and improve the stability of an investigational compound.
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) has a dismal 5-year survival rate of only 5% to 7%,1 and immunotherapeutic approaches that have shown significant promise in other hard-to-treat tumors like melanoma have so far barely made a dent in survival for PDAC. This is widely believed to be due to immunosuppression within the PDAC tumor microenvironment, which is the subject of 2 research presentations from the 34th Annual Meeting & Preconference Programs of the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer, or SITC 2019, held in Maryland in early November 2019.
The first abstract describes how PDACs have exceptionally large amounts of vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP), an immunosuppressive peptide which is known to decrease the proliferation of activated T cells and change their maturation dynamics.2
“We looked The Cancer Genome Atlas to assess the VIP level in all human solid tumors and found pancreatic cancer has the highest,” said Sruthi Ravindranathan, PhD, postdoctoral fellow at the Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University, Atlanta, who presented the work at SITC. The researchers then looked at VIP levels in 10 blood samples from patients with PDAC, finding they were much higher than in healthy controls.
“Why are there high levels of VIP in PDAC? Is it affecting tumor growth or treatment response? It’s so immunosuppressive,” pondered Dr Ravindranathan.
The researchers then used mouse models of pancreatic cancer to test the efficacy of 2 VIP receptor antagonists, ANT-00 or ANT-08, on PDAC tumor growth in vivo when combined with anti–PD-1 therapy.
“We treat the tumors with VIP antagonist, anti–PD-1, or [a] combination of both. The combination is the most successful, the tumors grow very slowly, and we also assess the tumor burden by weighing the pancreas after the mice have been sacrificed,” said Dr Ravindranathan.
The mice treated with the combination had a significant improvement in median survival and had increased CD4+ and CD8+ T-cell infiltration into the tumor microenvironment. So what is next for this promising preliminary work?
“We are trying to clinically translate this work and eventually get to human clinical trials. We have a pipeline and resources available and we are going down that route,” said Dr Ravindranathan, mentioning that work is ongoing to patent the VIP receptor antagonist and improve the stability of the compound.
The second presentation looked at the role of B-cell secreted cytokines in immunosuppression in PDAC, focusing on IL-35 secreted by regulatory B cells.3
“We originally found this cytokine to be expressed in pancreatic cancer cells, in immune cells in mice, and archived patient samples,” said Yuliya Pylayeva-Gupta, PhD, from the Lineberger Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, who presented the work at SITC. “We found B lymphocytes infiltrated the tumors in both mice and people. They normally don’t do this; they circulate in the blood and reside in lymphoid tissues,” she added.
IL-35 has previously been implicated in suppressing immune responses in several autoimmune diseases but has not been extensively studied in PDAC.
The researchers used 2 main strategies to explore the role of IL-35 in PDAC. First, they generated a mouse model with a knockout of IL-35 in B cells and also used a mouse model with B-cell–specific loss of IL-35 combined with orthotopic PDAC modeling to further explore the role of IL-35.
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“When we deleted IL-35 in B-lymphocytes, the tumors didn’t grow as well. If we block IL-35, the cytotoxic T cells come into the tumors at a much greater frequency than before. Here, we are seeing the immune response and the tumors are much smaller,” said Dr Pylayeva-Gupta.
In addition, they used an IL-35 inhibitor, combined with anti–PD-1 therapy to see whether the mouse PDAC tumors were sensitized to the immunotherapy.
“One of the reasons that people think immunotherapy might be ineffective in some PDAC patients [is that] the cytotoxic T cells need to be present and then activated, for example, by checkpoint blockade. We allowed infiltration of T cells by eliminating IL-35 and then combined with PD-1 to stimulate the immune response,” said Dr Pylayeva-Gupta.
The team plans to continue to work on making the IL-35 blocking reagent they have, which is not currently ready for use in humans.
“We are interested in finding out how these immunosuppressive B cells are produced in cancers and how they make these immunosuppressive cytokines. Maybe this is also relevant for other cancer types — we are looking into that right now,” said Dr Pylayeva-Gupta.
1. Rahib L, Smith BD, Aizenberg R, Rosenzweig AB, Fleshman JM, Matrisian LM. Projecting cancer incidence and deaths to 2030: The unexpected burden of thyroid, liver, and pancreas cancers in the United States. Cancer Res. 2014;74(11):2913-2921.
2. Ravindranathan S, Wang S, Ware B, et al. Vasoactive intestinal peptide: a novel checkpoint pathway in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. Presented at: the 34th Annual Meeting & Preconference Programs (SITC 2019); November 6–10, 2019; National Harbor, MD. Abstract O41.
3. Bhalchandra M, Pylayeva-Gupta Y. IL-35+ B cells regulates anti-tumor immune response in pancreatic cancer. Presented at: the 34th Annual Meeting & Preconference Programs (SITC 2019); November 6–10, 2019; National Harbor, MD. Abstract O47.
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French & Indian War Timeline at the Fort in Lake George
March 15, 1744 - October 1748 : King George’s War
Conflict over domination in North America ends with no clear victor with the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle.
1752-1753 : Agitation grows
Tension grows between France and England over land and trading claims. Minor skirmishes break out.
Nov-December 1753
George Washington carries Virginia’s ultimatum over French encroachment to Captain Legardeau de Saint-Pierre at Riviere aux Boeufs. Lagardeau rejects it.
Washington defeats French in a surprise attack (the first battle) and builds Fort Necessity.
July 1754 : French take Fort Necessity
Washington is blamed for the fort’s loss and resigns. He will later return as a volunteer under British authority.
The British seize Acadia (Nova Scotia).
July 1755 : Battle of the Wilderness
British General Braddock’s forces defeated near Fort Duquesne in Pennsylvania leaving the backwoods of the British Territory undefended.
British Col. William Johnson arrives at the “Great Carrying Place” to build a fortified storehouse. Work was already underway led by Capt. Robert Rogers. Col. Phineas Lyman takes over to complete construction of Fort Lyman which would later become Fort Edward.
William Johnson arrives at Lac du Saint Sacrament and renames it Lake George in honor of the King. Begins work on a fortification to later be named Fort William Henry after two royal grandsons.
William Johnson’s forces are engaged in several battles that would collectively be named the Battle of Lake George. This would include the Bloody Morning Scout – an ambush that resulted in the death of British Col. Ephraim Williams and Mohawk King Hendrick. A later engagement would be called the Battle of Bloody Pond. Johnson’s forces win the day, making him the first British hero of the war.
May 8-9, 1756 : Declaration of War
War is officially declared between Great Britain and France.
Fort Oswego is captured by the French.
St Patrick’s Day attack on Fort William Henry ends with a French Defeat.
August 3-10, 1757 : Massacre at Fort William Henry
The commander-in-chief of the French forces, Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, lays siege to Fort William Henry which Lt. Col. George Monro is finally forced to surrender. The infamous massacre occurs on August 10 which will later be dramatized in James Fenimore Cooper’s book, The Last of the Mohicans. The fort is burned in fires that lasted two days and could be seen from Fort Edward, 16 miles to the south.
General James Abercrombie and Lord Howe assemble a force of 16,000 men on the south shore of Lake George. On July 6th, the force arrived at the north end of the Lake and proceeded to head towards Fort Carillon (Ticonderoga). They attacked the fort on July 8th taking a great number of casualties. The day ended in defeat for the British and a victory for Montcalm defending Carillon. Lord Howe was killed.
July 25, 1758 : British seize Louisbourg
The British seize Louisbourg opening the route to Canada.
August 27, 1758 : French surrender Fort Frontenac
The French surrender Fort Frontenac on Lake Ontario, destroying their ability to communicate with their troops in the Ohio Valley.
October 21, 1758 : British make peace
British made peace with the Iroquois, Shawnee and Delaware Indians.
The British recapture Fort Duquesne, renaming it Pittsburg.
May 1, 1759 : British capture Island of Guadeloupe
The British capture the French Island of Guadeloupe in the Caribbbean.
June 25, 1759 : British capture Fort Carillon
British forces capture Fort Carillon and rename it Ticonderoga.
July 25, 1759 : British take Fort Niagara
French abandon Crown Point. British now control the entire western frontier.
September 13, 1759 : Battle of Quebec
British win Battle of Quebec. Montcalm and Wolfe, the commanding generals of both armies, die in battle.
French siege of Quebec fails
Montreal falls to the British; letters are signed finishing the surrender of Canada.
September 15, 1760 : Functional end of the war
British flag is raised over Detroit, effectively ending the French and Indian War.
British make peace with the Cherokee.
French attempt to retake Newfoundland fails.
February 10, 1763 : Treaty of Paris
Treaty of Paris is signed officially ending the French and Indian/Seven Year’s War– All French possessions east of the Mississippi, except New Orleans, are given to the British. All French possessions west of the Mississippi are given to the Spanish. France regains Martinique, Guadeloupe and St. Lucia.
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After two recent long away trips to Southend and Gillingham, Uwe Rosler’s men hit the road again this Tuesday as they travel to Yeovil Town in the quarter-final of the Checkatrade Trophy.
Wins over Morecambe, Leicester City U21, Carlisle, Chesterfield and Bury have seen Town get to this stage. Yeovil beat Chelsea U21, Exeter, Plymouth, AFC Wimbledon and Forest Green for their spot in the last 8.
The winner will face Shrewsbury away in the semi-final, with a Wembley showpiece against either Chelsea U21 or Lincoln City for the winner.
Barry Nicholson said…
"We are expecting a tough game, we watched them against Manchester United in the FA Cup and they obviously put on a great show and showed some good signs in the game.
“We’ve watched them closely, just like we would any other team and it’s a big game for us coming in on the back of a defeat at the weekend.
“It’s good for us to fix this quickly and, also we know we are a couple of games from Wembley so it’s a great opportunity for the club to progress in the next round."
Darren Way said…
“It’s a great opportunity to get to Wembley and I’ll never turn that down as a manager.
“As a supporter, I don’t think you’d turn down the chance to have a day out at Wembley and it’s important for me and my players.
“I’m going to do everything I can to make sure it’s a success on Tuesday night.”
Yeovil have won their last two League Two games, but lost two in a row before that, including a 4-0 FA Cup defeat to Man United.
Fleetwood have lost four in row, but are yet to lose in the Checkatrade Trophy this season, winning every game outright.
Yeovil last five: DLLWW
Fleetwood last five: WLLLL
Last Time We Met
Last time the two sides met was at Highbury in April 2015, when the Cod Army came out resounding 4-0 winners. Goals from Jamie Proctor and Ashley Hunter as well as a David Ball double sealed the emphatic win.
In the other three games between the two, Fleetwood have won two and the other was a draw.
Ivorian striker Francois Zoko has scored nine times for the Glovers this season. The former Blackpool player joined Yeovil from our neighbours after a short loan spell at Bradford City. He’s also played in the Football League for Carlisle, Notts County, and Stevenage, and has had spells in France, Turkey and Belgium. Whilst not scoring in the Checkatrade Trophy proper this season, he did scoring the winning penalty against Chelsea U21 in a shoot out after a 1-1 draw.
Fancy a Flutter?
Here are the latest odds with our EFL partner Sky Bet.
Uwe Rosler’s side are favourites at 6/4 to win the match in 90 minutes; where a draw between the two sides is priced at 12/5.
Darren Way’s Glovers are priced at 7/4 to progress to the semi-final and play Shrewsbury Town.
The last time the two sides met was in April 2015, which saw Town win 4-0 on the day, and a repeat of that scoreline is 66/1.
Ashley Hunter scored the fourth goal in the last meeting, and for the 22-year-old to open the scoring on Tuesday; you can get odds of 11/2.
Nicholson: The squad is fully focused on Yeovil
Barry Nicholson says Fleetwood Town are fully focused ahead of Tuesday night's Checkatrade Trophy quarter final match with Yeovil Town.
Nicholson on the squad, Yeovil Town and the possibility of Wembley
Barry Nicholson has given his views ahead of Tuesday’s Checkatrade Trophy quarter-final match against Yeovil Town.
Watch: Barry Nicholson ahead of Checkatrade Trophy quarter-final
First team coach Barry Nicholson spoke to the club's media team ahead of Town's trip to Huish Park to face Yeovil Town in the Checkatrade Trophy quarter-final on Tuesday.
Head-to-head: Yeovil Town v Fleetwood Town
Uwe Rosler’s Fleetwood Town travel the 530-mile round trip to Yeovil on Tuesday in the Checkatrade Trophy Quarter Final.
Report: Late heartbreak for Town as we exit the Checkatrade Trophy
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Fleetwood were left stunned in second half stoppage time as Francois Zoko sent Yeovil Town in the semi-final of the Checkatrade Trophy with a 3-2 win at Huish Park.
In a frantic second half, Zoko won it after Jordy Hiwula had equalised. The first half saw Cian Bolger open the scoring, before Wes Burns scored an own goal to see the scores level at half time before Corey Whelan made it 2-1 deep into the second half.
Hiwula levelled things late on, but it was to be The Glovers who progressed to the last four of the Checkatrade Trophy.
In his 100th game in charge of the Cod Army, Rosler made seven changes from the game against Scunthorpe with the notable inclusion of Bobby Grant, who started his first game since the game with Bury in the previous round.
Fleetwood started brightly in snowy conditions in Somerset and could have been ahead inside four minutes. Bolger headed Kevin O’Connor’s free kick into the path of Hiwula, who volleyed over Artur Krysiak’s goal.
Markus Schwabl then hit a bouncing volley from the edge of the area, which took a deflection and forced Krysiak into an acrobatic save. It was from that corner that Town took a deserved lead, as Bolger rose highest to head O’Connor’s ball in.
Conor McAleny then rolled an effort wide Town dominated the early proceedings.
Yeovil’s first chance came when Jake Gray fired a shot into the area, which took a deflection and went behind. It was the home side that equalised themselves from the corner, as Gray’s ball found the head of the unfortunate Burns, who turned into his own net.
The Glovers then grew into the game with a period of strong pressure, but Town’s defence remained resilient against their pacey attack.
Corners seemed to be Fleetwood’s favoured form of having chances, and it was Bolger again who rose highest, but this time the Irishman’s effort was blocked by a home player and cleared away.
The first action of the second half saw Grant curl an effort wide of the mark after picking up the ball on the edge of the box.
Alex Cairns was then forced into a diving save as Gray thundered a free kick in his direction from distance.
The hosts then took the lead after a fine curling effort from Whelan found its way past Cairns when it came to him just inside the area, to make it 2-1.
There were encouraging signs from Rosler’s men as they battled for an equaliser with the game closing in on the final twenty minutes.
Harrison Biggins was introduced to the fray and the youngster looked calm and composed in the centre of the park with an impressive performance. Rosler then made two more changes with Kyle Dempsey and Ash Hunter replacing Grant and Burns.
Hunter made almost an instant impact as he beat his man on the right hand side and played in Hiwula who fired at Krysiak from close range. He produced a good block.
Town finally did equalise in bizarre fashion through Hiwula, but perhaps he didn’t know too much about it. It was Hunter’s cross that caused all the problems as Krysiak came out to catch, but instead fumbled and the ball ricocheted off Hiwula and into the net.
That left the game level with five minutes to go, and without a winner in 90, the game would go to penalties.
Four added minutes were shown at the end of the game, and there was to be drama, as Yeovil grabbed a late, late goal. It was the substitute Zoko who scored it, as he went through on goal and smashed it past Cairns with a powerful drive.
That was the goal that ended Fleetwood’s Wembley dream, but it was a memorable run from the Cod Army. A special mention must go to hardy 16 Town supporters that made the long trek South.
Yeovil Town XI: Krysiak (GK), Smith ©, Bird, Browne (Santos), Gray (Smith), Surridge (Zoko), Green, Sowunmi, Fisher, Whelan, James.
Subs not used: Maddison (GK), Donnellan, Dickson, Gobern.
Fleetwood Town XI: Cairns (GK), Coyle, O’Connor, Eastham, Hiwula, Burns, McAleny, Grant, Bolger ©, Schwabl (Biggins), Sowerby.
Subs not used: Crellin (GK), Maguire, Sheron, Donohue.
Referee: G Ward
Attendance: 1,314 (16 away)
Ticket prices and coach travel details confirmed for Yeovil tie
Ticket and coach travel details for Fleetwood Town’s Checkatrade Trophy quarter final with Yeovil Town have been released.
Uwe Rosler’s side travel to Huish Park on Tuesday 6th February 2018 (7:45pm k/o), just two victories away from the Wembley Stadium showpiece final.
Tickets are only available to purchase on the day from Yeovil’s ticket office, and are priced as follows:
Adults - £12
Over 65s - £6
16-21 - £6
Under 16 – £2
An official supporters coach will be going to the match, with the price just £15 for FTFC supporters, with the coach departing Highbury Stadium at 11:30am.
For further details on the match, or to book official coach travel, call the ticket office on 01253 775080 or visit the club shop at Highbury Stadium.
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Gretchen Carlson and David Brooks
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Conservative op-ed columnist David Brooks and journalist Gretchen Carlson, speaking with TED curator Chris Anderson, candidly discuss the growth of America’s yawning political divide and suggest ways to bridge the gap. While always politically neutral, getAbstract predicts that individuals from across the political spectrum will gain new understanding and ideas for outreach from this respectful, open conversation.
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Keller helps Arizona beat Carolina 2-1 for 2nd win
AP Nov 5, 2017 at 1:19a ET
GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) The Arizona Coyotes finally got their first home win on Saturday night.
Rookie Clayton Keller and Antti Raanta led the way.
Keller scored in regulation and the shootout, sending Arizona to a 2-1 victory over the Carolina Hurricanes.
Raanta had 36 saves in the Coyotes’ second win of the season. Derek Stepan also scored in the shootout, and Raanta stopped Derek Ryan’s attempt to end the game.
Keller’s backhand goal opened the shootout for Arizona.
”Actually I’ve been not too bad in practice lately,” Keller said. ”Scored a nice one in practice the other day. I’ve been kind of working on that move, so good to see it work there.”
The Hurricanes tied it at 1 with 2:25 to play in the third period when Jordan Staal scored off a pass from Sebastian Aho. The Coyotes have allowed 26 third-period goals this season while scoring 13.
Scott Darling had 23 saves for Carolina, which dropped to 1-4-2 in its last seven games. The Hurricanes had won six straight in Arizona.
”The first two periods were just a track meet of giving away pucks, and we started playing hockey again,” Staal said. ”We were able to create one, and a lot of chances in overtime again. No success, but a better third period.”
Raanta took a shot to his left shoulder when he came way out of the net to stop a rush by Ryan during overtime and the two collided. But the goaltender was able to finish the game.
”I was dialed in. I felt like I was moving really good,” said Raanta, who missed nine straight games with an injury until returning this past week. ”I was in the right place and following the puck, and … when you do the right things in your game, it’s going to feel good and it’s hard to let in a goal.”
Arizona’s Max Domi missed a chance to win the game in overtime when his shot hit the crossbar.
The Hurricanes had a chance to go in front 80 seconds into the second period when Jeff Skinner drew a penalty shot. But Skinner’s attempt went wide of the net.
The Coyotes grabbed the lead on Keller’s 10th goal at 11:33 of the second. Carolina’s Justin Faulk got turned around and lost the puck to Brad Richardson, who got deep into the zone and sent a pass through the crease to Keller for an easy finish.
Keller entered the game tied for fifth in the NHL in goals. He was the league’s rookie of the month for October. He has 12 points over his last nine games.
After not registering a shot on goal for almost the first five minutes, the Coyotes peppered Darling in the final couple of minutes of the first period. Darling made 11 stops in the first 20 minutes.
NOTES: The Coyotes warmed up in lavender jerseys in honor of Hockey Fights Cancer Night. … F Anthony Duclair and G Louis Domingue were scratched for Arizona. Duclair missed his third game of the season. … Carolina D Roland McKeown became the fourth Hurricane this season to play in his first NHL game.
Hurricanes: Host the Florida Panthers on Tuesday night.
Coyotes: Visit the Washington Capitals on Monday night.
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This publication offers key insights and observations into the Federal Reserve System's cash practices, policies, and strategic direction.
Cash Me If You Can: The Impacts of Cashless Businesses on Retailers, Consumers, and Cash Use
Cashless coffee shops, restaurants, and convenience stores have popped up across the country. It is not illegal to refuse cash as a form of payment in most states and cities in the U.S., and going cashless helps these businesses eliminate the costs of handling and transporting cash. But do these savings come at the cost of financial inclusion? This paper explores the impacts of businesses going cashless.
2019 Findings from the Diary of Consumer Payment Choice
In its fifth iteration, the Diary of Consumer Payment Choice data show that cash continues to be used extensively for small-value purchases – representing nearly half of all payments under $10 and 42 percent of payments less than $25. However, consumers’ use of other payment options, including debit and credit cards, is growing.
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Understanding Consumer Cash Use: Preliminary Findings from the 2016 Diary of Consumer Payment Choice
Data from the Federal Reserve’s Diary of Consumer Payment Choice shows that cash remains the most used payment instrument in 2016 accounting for 31 percent of all consumer transactions. This study provides a unique view into consumer shopping and payment decisions, including their use of cash.
Cash Holdings: A New View on Cash
As new payments and technologies continue to emerge, cash retains a strong hold among consumers. This paper explores how often U.S. consumers held and spent cash during the 2015 Diary of Consumer Payment Choice survey, and it provides an analysis on consumers’ cash holding behavior.
The State of Cash: Preliminary Findings from the 2015 Diary of Consumer Payment Choice
As the payments landscape continues to evolve, cash remains a resilient payment instrument. The Diary of Consumer Payment Choice is one of the Federal Reserve’s primary data sources on consumer payments, and insights from the Diary provide an outlook on how consumers use cash compared to other payment instruments. When first conducted in 2012, Diary results showed that cash was the most frequently used payment instrument and its use was prevalent across all demographic groups. This paper focuses on findings and insights from the 2015 Diary and how they compare to the earlier research.
Shopping Experience Trends and their Impact on Cash
The way consumers shop today is much different than ten years ago, largely due to the proliferation of new technologies like smartphones and tablets. Today’s new methods of shopping often blur the line between “in-person” and “online” purchases and influence how consumers choose to pay for their purchases. This paper identifies five themes that describe today’s shopping experience and how this new experience may impact cash’s position in the payment landscape.
Who Holds Cash? Evidence from the 2012 Diary of Consumer Payment Choice
In an evolving payments landscape where card use continues to grow and occasionally cash is not a payment option, this paper explores segments of the population that resist cash’s alleged decline and continue to carry cash.
Consumer Preferences and the Use of Cash: Evidence from the Diary of Consumer Payments Choice – Working Paper
With the increase in electronic payments, it has been difficult to determine how personal preferences impact the demand for cash as a payment instrument. By analyzing data on demographics and stated payment preferences, this FedNotes paper provides evidence on the determinants of cash usage for small value payments, and particularly how consumers’ stated payment instrument preference and the amount of the purchase affect their propensity to use cash.
Cash Continues to Play a Key Role in Consumer Spending: Evidence from the Diary of Consumer Payment Choice
It’s commonplace these days to predict the demise of cash. However, evidence from the Diary of Consumer Payment Choice (DCPC) suggests that consumers choose to use cash more frequently than any other payment instrument, including debit or credit cards. Cash plays a dominant role for small-value transactions, is the leading payment instrument for many types of purchases, and stands as the key alternative when other options are not available. Using the DCPC data, this FedNotes paper explores where, how, and why people use the various payment options and highlights the key and enduring roles cash continues to play in consumer transactions.
Trends in Retail Cash Automation: A Market Overview of Retail Cash Handling Technologies
Until recently, cash handling has been largely a manual and labor-intensive process. However, this has begun to change with new devices that automate certain back office cash handling functions, such as cash dispensers, recyclers, and smart-safes. Because cash usage remains strong, merchants, banks, and armored carriers are exploring ways to take advantage of these new technologies to automate their cash handling functions. This FedNotes paper provides an overview of cash handling in the financial and merchant environments, along with how these new devices are being used.
Maintaining a Robust and Efficient Cash System in a Changing Landscape
The role of paper currency in the U.S. economy is changing. While the share of payments made with cash appears to be falling, cash continues to be used widely and plays an important function as a store of value, domestically and internationally. Cash also serves an enduring role in natural or other disasters when other payment systems may not be available. These factors suggest that cash will continue to be an essential and significant part of the payment and financial system for the foreseeable future.
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Trio X: Live on Tour 2010 (CIMPoL, 2012) ****½
Monday, April 29, 2013 6 comments
I remember that I once saw the Schlippenbach Trio with a friend of mine, who was a film student then. He had invited one of his professors to accompany him. The professor, who hadn’t been to a free improvised concert before but who had some preconceived ideas about free jazz, was disappointed when he found out that the trio was a long-lasting group and stated that it was hardly possible to improvise freely with such a history, because to him free improvisation was only possible if the musicians don’t know each other to well. So, he claimed, this trio reminded him of an old couple walking along beaten tracks, hovering listlessly in the free ocean. Even then this struck me too simple an explanation for permanent cooperations and today I know that there are many projects that prove the professor wrong.
Trio X is such an example, a group swinging back and forth between tradition and free improvisation. It has existed since the late 1990s and consists of Joe McPhee (tenor, soprano, pocket trumpet, flugelhorn), Dominic Duval (bass) and Jay Rosen (drums) – and they are always ready for the unexpected, which has been very well documented. Only in the last few years CIMPoL has released a 7-CD-box about their 2006 tour, a 5-CD-box about their 2008 tour and now there is a 4 CD-box about their tour in 2010 presenting concerts in Iowa City, Waukee/Iowa, Ann Arbor/Michigan and Mt. Rainier/Maryland. Stef has already been very enthusiastic about the first two albums and I absolutely agree with him.
Surprisingly for such a line-up, the group’s repertoire is based on originals and on standards and classics like Naima, Round Midnight, My Funny Valentine, or Nation Time and they interpret them respectfully and freely at the same time. Nation Time, for example, starts very close to McPhee’s original with the band sticking to the theme. But then it seems as if someone had opened the windows and the notes were blown away so that they just forgot about them and created a very different piece never losing the original out of sight, though.
It is fascinating how Trio X treats this material. The musicians are masters of thematic improvisation, you can find the character of the motif in each phrase of the improvisation, very often either the rhythmic or the melodic shape remains – even if it is compressed or extended. The central motif is constantly altered and while listening to it from different perspectives, its meaning is permanently changed and renewed.
As a microcosm for their approach serves Going Home, a traditional that appears three times on this album. In Waukee it is mostly a duet between McPhee and Duval, both interact very tenderly, especially Duval plays very discreet lines. Rosen only adds some spots here and there, he is hardly present, like a ghost randomly firing around in the background while McPhee dominates the version with his varied and masterful blues style. The track speeds up after six minutes when Rosen uses a swing beat which almost immediately falls to pieces. There is the same structure as in Nation Time again. In Ann Arbor they play the same track in a condensed version, Duval is much more in the foreground as well as Rosen, who is present from the very first minute. McPhee concentrates on the melody holding the track together and the swing part is only indicated here. For the gig in Mt. Rainier the trio combined Going Home with Naima. It is the most melancholic version, again mostly a McPhee/Duval duet, but the swing part is completely missing here, there is just a rush at the end.
The group is very aware of jazz history which is made clear in the Waukee performance: The gig’s playlist consists of lots of reminiscences and tributes for the late greats when you look at titles like For Jackie and Abe and a Fullish Feast, For Sirone (of course a bass solo), For Tony Williams (a drum solo), For Trane’s 84th HBJC, Not Quite Midnight or More Monkin’ in Evidence. But this does not mean that they act like an old couple, it is just the opposite – a fountain of youth. Another almost forgotten gem of 2012.
Weekend Roundup: 4-27-13
Saturday, April 27, 2013 No comments
By Dan Sorrells
Anne Guthrie & Richard Kamerman – Sinter (Erstwhile, 2013) ***
Sinter is a haunting mix of processed field recordings and electronics. It’s an album that deftly slithers between the familiar and uncanny, a solidifying mass of city sounds, tiny ultra-amplified noises, and huge electronic crescendos that might actually be rushing trains or planes lifting into the sky. Occasionally, the sound of people humming or singing rises through the din, and the listener can’t be certain of whether the voices were later added or were chance encounters within the captured environments. Some tracks are less interesting than others, but Sinter is worth consideration for the lengthy closing track alone. “Several or Many Fibers” hums along with a eerie momentum, like it’s pulling you along a dark forest trail or into a secluded tunnel. It’s the sound of twilight, conspiracy theories, Lovecraftian cosmic horror. Recommended.
Kristoff K. Roll & Daunik Lazro – Chants du Milieu (Creative Sources, 2013) ****
Chants du Milieu sounds like Daunik Lazro playing himself down through the nine circles of Hell. The duo of Kristoff K. Roll create electroacoustic environments that sound like field recordings of imaginary places or dreams, with Lazro’s baritone pushing through as though he’s there, playing from the sidelines of a slightly unsettling dream that’s just too interesting to wake up from. Lazro is fully present in grating, blustery form, never anything less than passionate, and for a few moments in the title track, achingly beautiful. The range here is dizzying, the gravelly tone of Lazro’s saxophone the only constant in a shifting field of familiar and unfamiliar noises. A fascinating, disorienting 40 minutes of music.
Streifenjunko – Sval Torv (Sofa, 2012) ***
Streifenjunko are a duo of tenor sax and trumpet who use extended technique as the starting point for their pulsing, ambient music, rather than as a tool for coloring more “typical” improvisation. Exactly how much of the double LP Sval Torv is improvised is not clear though, and while it definitely figures into their methodology, it seems likely that it’s used to develop material for compositions. “Våren har aldri begynt så bra” is a gorgeous piece, with a lyrical, quavering trumpet line delivered over a rhythmic sax motif. “Vexselsvev” and “Evig din” are delicious hunks of drone that showcase the incredible synergy and concentration shared by Eivind Lønning and Espen Reinertsen. A unique album, even if it is a bit of a slog to get through both LPs.
Chris Abrahams & Lucio Capece – None of Them Would Remember It That Way (Mikroton, 2012) **½
Chris Abrahams is of course best known for his work with marathon out-jazzers the Necks, but his work in other contexts often takes on a quite different hue. Here he greatly restrains himself on synthesizer, floating along with Capece’s explorations of the subtlest changes in breath and tone. There’s a lot of open space here, and a lot to miss if you don’t listen closely. Though the long pieces “Ring Road” and “Southern Patterns” raise their voices at times, only the short closer “All the Oceans Between” has much of a corporeal feel. The rest is as delicate as breath itself, even the parts that emanate from machinery that’s as far removed from breathing as one could hope to get.
Barbara Romen, Gunter Schneider, Kai Fagaschinski – Here Comes the Sun (Mikroton, 2012) ****
Here Comes the Sun is a long, moody record, an hour of improvisations with no clearly defined rhythm, but always a sense of trajectory; movement is created through tension and color. The music is delicate and unhurried, long drapes of sound, or at times sparkling fields of notes, like light on water. Hammered dulcimer is not a particularly common instrument in free improvisation, but Romen deploys it to great effect, evoking harps, humming oscillators, even muted piano at times. The dulcimer and Schneider’s guitar coast along Fagaschinski’s pure clarinet, creating utterly beautiful, immersive music. “Who’s There?” asks the opening track. Some formidable improvisers, I’d say.
Brian Groder & Tonino Miano - FluiDensity (Latham, 2013) ****½
Friday, April 26, 2013 Trumpet-piano duo No comments
Brian Groder and Tonino Miano's FluiDensity is the work of a duo so conversant and solid that one could imagine that they were working off rather dense charts rather than engaged in the give and take of pure improvisation. Groder's melodies are quite engaging and Miano's imaginative accompaniment never fails to be supportive.
Groder is New York based trumpeter and flugal horn player and has garnered enthusiastic reviews on this blog before. His partner on the recording, pianist Miano, also from New York, and is an educator and musician. Together they have made an album the straddles the line between classical and avant-garde jazz with accessible spiraling melodies and evolving improvised ideas. Miano has a strong rhythmic drive to his playing, even when he's playing quietly, that provides a nice buoyancy.
'Optika', the opening song, starts with Groder's unaccompanied trumpet playing an intriguingly convoluted melody. When Miano joins, his counter melodies match in pace and phrasing, giving the tune a rhythmic boost. The wide ranging 'Depth of Field' begins with oblique passages on the piano and insistent melodies from the trumpet to moments that have a folksy openness that bring Aaron Copland to mind. The album as a whole breaths, expanding and contracting, leaving space for listener to ingest, digest and reflect and then do it all over again.
FluiDensity is a rather it is an imaginative and sophisticated album of dense, fluid, melodic and intriguing improvisation.
Peeping Tom: Boperation (Umlaut Records, 2013) ****
Thursday, April 25, 2013 1 comment
In their constant effort to work and develop the music of bebop pianists Peeping Tom feature the music of Herbie Nichols on their new album, a man whose influence has been underestimated for a long time. Being a classic musical outsider in the bebop world of the 1950s he tried to combine traditional and modernist aspects in his compositions and could therefore be compared with Thelonious Monk.
Peeping Tom's idea is to bring these dynamic and energetic forgotten bebop gems back to light by re-modeling them and take them on an even more abstract journey by stripping these harmonically rich but also concise compositions to the bones. One simple reason Peeping Tom, which is Axel Dörner (tp), Pierre-Antoine Badaroux (sax), Antonin Gerbal (dr) and Joel Grip (b), have to do this is the lack of a piano in their line-up, which is why a different approach as to harmonics becomes necessary. Nichols’ most obvious stylistic devices are the break and the call and response scheme and this group extends them to a new limit. Especially Dörner and Badaroux introduce the melodic themes just to let them drop and pick them up again, the whole band stops and starts almost arbitrarily (although it is intentional, of course). A good example is “Cromagnon Nights”, a track Nichols wrote when he was wondering how a Neanderthal would spend his Saturday night. The band presents the theme in rhythmically accentuated unison staccatos before they seem to fall apart in a long, almost free collective improvisation until two harsh breaks make them come back to the original theme again. It is the most interesting aspect about this band that they try to combine bebop riffs with free jazz and intellectual sound exploration.
At the festival météo in Mulhouse last year there was a magic moment in Peeping Tom’s set: While the band was playing a rainstorm started outside and heavy drops were falling on the roof-lights so that it was really audible especially during the breaks of their music which had an effect like listening to an old scratched LP. The musicians were puzzled first but then they enjoyed it and even seemed to enlarge the breaks being aware of the fact that a special element was added to their vintage approach at that moment. Peeping Tom is knee deep into Nichols’ highly emotional world, in his torn phrases and complicated chord substitutions. Obviously great fun for both band and listeners.
Watch a short clip about the band here:
Can be purchased from the website: http://www.umlautrecords.com
Brigantin: La Fièvre De L’Indépendance (Disques Bloc Thyristors, 2013) ****
Wednesday, April 24, 2013 8 comments
When Miles Davis recorded the soundtrack for Louis Malle’s nouvelle vague classic Ascenseur Pour L’Échafaud his group improvised almost freely (Davis just predefined some chords and the tempo) while watching the film sequences simultaneously, then a revolutionary approach.
This album here works the other way round, it is freely improvised as well and the titles refer to Werner Herzog’s seminal auteur film “Aguirre – The Wrath of God”, a fable about imperialism and hubris starring the megalomaniac but brilliant German actor Klaus Kinski. The names of the tracks were added later but nevertheless the music works as a soundtrack as well.
Brigantin is the working title for another meeting organized by Jean-Noël Cognard for Bloc Thyristors. With Johannes Bauer (tb), Conny Bauer (tb), Barry Guy (b) and himself on drums Cognard got some of the best European free improvisation musicians and the result is European old school free jazz at its best. The Bauer brothers are simply great instrumentalists, absolute masters on the trombone, who are able to play the weirdest scales and riffs. In combination with Barry Guy, the godfather of British free jazz bassists, and Jean-Noël Cognard’s drumming, which is obviously influenced by Paul Lovens and Paul Lytton, this is a perfect match.
Structurally the album is framed by three quartets, the other six build the backbone of it and, being surrounded by solos, duos and trios, they are the musical and compositional highlights. The first two, “Esclandres et troubles” and “Haut-Fonds”, symbolize the riots and troubles and the shallow water the expedition has to deal with, while the final track “Répandues à profusion” is held together by Conny Bauer’s trombone riffs so that the others can improvise freely. It is indeed a widespread profusion of notes and sounds, but it is not idyllic, it is a hostile nature where man is lost (in the last and most famous scene Aguirre/Kinski is the only survivor on his raft explaining his conquest plans to a bunch of squirrel monkeys). The album is full of a variety of dark sounds: honking, gurgling, cawing, panting - it is the soundtrack for a doomed mission.
Other favorites are “Tractations”, a splendid trombone duet by the Bauer brothers, who seem to be wrestling playfully with each other as they might have done in their childhood days (one of the more blitheful moments on this album), and the Barry Guy/Jean-Noël Cognard duo “Les bateaux se disloquèrent”, a torrent of flageolets, wild bass runs, sawing and sophisticated drumming including extended material, where you can literally feel the panic of the expedition in the film when their boats were swept away by the floods.
These three LPs come as a limited edition of 300 copies, two LPs in yellow and one in clear transparent vinyl. The music was recorded in 2012, studio and live, and the album includes a series of photos from Philippe Renaud.
Martin/Lozano/Lewis/Wiens/Duncan - At Canterbury (Barnyard, 2013) ****½
Monday, April 22, 2013 No comments
By Philip Coombs
Thanks to a suggestion from a devout reader on the comments section of my Canadian Round Up review, I was led to this recording from another Canadian group by snooping around for the groups on the Barnyard web site. I must admit, I would have entirely missed this if it wasn't for his ear to the ground back home. Could have been one of my biggest mistakes of the year.
First of all I will address my elephant in the room. I have never been a fan of vocal jazz. Why don't I like it? Is it the one sound that humans make that is the most human? Is it because the lyrical is the most literal? Is it because all attention is shifted to the voice once it starts?
Christine Duncan provides the vocal on At Canterbury and it is a cross between a soprano saxophone, film ambiance, an angry cat, and an aboriginal field recording. And it works. As much of a force as she is, she doesn't dominate or draw attention away from the great moments the rest of the group provides. On "Throwing Light", she cleverly uses the theremin to further blur the lines between voice and technology and my preconceived notions by adding a eerie sci-fi counterpoint to her growl.
Rainer Wiens (guitar and mbira) has a long history of composition and admiration for world music and intrinsically contributes to Duncan's drama. This is best exemplified on the track "Corollary" where his mbira is the main focus. One of its keys has a nasty buzz. The buzz returns often, and over time, I was happily expecting it more than being annoyed by it. It became an instrument within an instrument.
Jean Martin (drums and percussion) is all about the power of choice. Half of the time, he let's things sit in their place adding just enough clever to propel the track and leaving the need to engage to others. The half of the time he turns it up with a military beat that shows his skill on the snare as he plays with power and nuance at the same time. He has also been tasked with the job of keeping the other half of this group together with the first half.
The second half, comprised of Jim Lewis (trumpet and flugelhorn) and Frank Lozano, (tenor and soprano saxophone) make their own mark in various different ways throughout by keeping their improv and free jazz sensibilities in the forefront despite the rest of the group's complexity. On "Patience Game", they trade long singular lines that leads into a wonderful conversation as Martin drums up a storm behind them. They will not be overshadowed even as they get to the outer reaches of there respective registers or when Duncan adds another layer of bandwidth pushing them to break away and explore on their own.
Can be purchased from the label or downloaded from emusic.
This is a recording to be savored as the gifts here keep giving as my ears keep smiling.
William Hooker Quintet: Channels of Consciousness (NoBusiness, 2012) **** ½
In some of my reviews I have mentioned that I come from an alternative rock background and therefore I am a late bloomer as to free jazz, although I have been interested in this music for a very long time. Lately it has become more and more boring for me to listen to country, folk, pop, techno, metal and other genres (although there have been great albums in 2013) and there is a simple reason: rhythmically there is no other music as fascinating as free jazz, and William Hooker is one of the most exciting drummers out there. If you listen to his last album on NoBusiness you will know what I am talking about.
Recorded at Roulette in New York City, Channels of Consciousness is a rollercoaster of polyrhythmic madness, which is hardly surprising regarding the fact that the rhythm section consists of Hooker on drums and voice, Sanga on percussion and Adam Lane on bass. The whole set starts with the three outlining the musical framework before Dave Ross (guitar) and Chris DiMeglio (trumpet) join the crew contributing tons of cracked solos full of fragmented and dislocated phrases. The tracks elegantly flow into each other, though, Ross’s guitar reminds of Sonny Sharrock’s lines for Last Exit which makes an interesting contrast to DiMeglio’s both lyrical and tense playing. Especially the first part of the set is like sitting on a raft going down a wild stream, the music takes you here and there and up and down, it is an adventurous furor.
The second part of the album is full of moments of rapture, too, for example when DeMeglio delves into Don Cherry phrases at the end of “The Unfolding” playing eccentric and jumping phrases or when Hooker cheers Ross on in “Character”. The slide guitar slaps out razor-sharp sparkling notes sounding like splintering glass, this part is of both a fierce liveliness and deep sadness. Ross is supported by Lane’s arco drones and Hooker uses this moment to recite his stream-of-consciousness poetry about a “life’s decision”, a family drama continued on the last track, “Mother’s History (untold)”, and as in Hooker’s poetry there is a musical stream of consciousness as well telling us that there are decisions to be made – in life and in an improvisation - before DiMeglio’s trumpet transfers the track to the next one, “Connected”.
One of the greatest qualities of this album, which ends with percussion fire as it has begun, is that it draws on the blues, African rhythmic complexity, and classic free jazz. However, it builds bridges to contemporary improvised music as well. One of last year’s forgotten gems.
Buy from instantjazz.com or the label: nobusinessrecords.com
Nels Cline & Elliot Sharp - Open the Door (Public Eye Sore, 2013) ****
Friday, April 19, 2013 No comments
The strike of a string, a sudden atonal spark, a jarring rhythmic motif -- in the hands of some this could be a recipe for an improvised disaster. However, under the guidance of two restless and experimental master chefs, the result is a setting of new expectations.
Guitarist's Nels Cline and Elliot Sharp are both uncompromising musicians, pushing boundaries whenever they can and coloring within the lines whenever they feel like it. Sharp's Aggregat was a favorite from 2012, and Cline's recent output like Jazz Free: A Connective Improvization and Gowanus Sessions, his recording with Thollem McDonas and William Parker, occupy opposite ends of accessibility in improvised music. On Open the Door, however, they take the acoustic guitar to the edge and tempt the listener to take a taste of the unknown.
There is something special in the arpeggiated backing and plaintive slides and bends on 'Isotropes' and the rhythmic chatter on 'Blue Particles' that engages the listener. Then, there are the overtones and scratches at the start of 'Let Her In' and the percussive clatter later on that thrills. Each song is a unique and unexpected string of ideas, often eschewing melodic conventions, but always displaying empathy and consideration in the interactions.
Suffice to say, Open the Door is an excellent addition to the guitar duo canon. In a patient but uncompromising way, Cline and Sharp cook up something special.
Thomas Chapin – Never Let Me Go: Quartets ’95 and ‘96 (Playscape, 2012) ****½
Thursday, April 18, 2013 7 comments
By Troy Dostert
It was with a great deal of anticipation that I first found out about this release several months ago, as Thomas Chapin has long been one of my heroes on the alto sax. He was a fixture of the New York “downtown” scene during the late ‘80s and ‘90s, working alongside folks like Mario Pavone and Michael Sarin (his frequentr partners in a trio format that often brought out Chapin’s most inspired music), and occasionally others (such as John Zorn, Tom Harrell, or Mark Feldman). He helped get the Knitting Factory off the ground with his many appearances there in the 1990s, and indeed the Knitting Factory label ended up releasing much of his output (helpfully compiled in an astonishing 8-disc set, Alive, which is still sporadically available). What never changed, no matter whom he was working with, was a relentless spirit of creativity and adventure, all the while staying firmly rooted in the jazz tradition—a quality that is rather rare among those typically categorized as “avant-garde.”
After all, Chapin got his first big break in the early ‘80s when he was selected as musical director of the Lionel Hampton big band (by Hampton himself, no less). Although Chapin would eventually move into much more boundary-expanding projects, he never lost sight of his jazz origins, and in this sense is very much like David Murray, whose passion for and dedication to the jazz tradition has always defined his work—even his more “out”-leaning recordings. While Chapin was sadly taken from us after he lost his battle with leukemia in 1998 at the too-young age of 40, we are fortunate in that his music lives on—and indeed, that new documents of his greatness continue to emerge.
These recordings are a fantastic example. Playscape, a little label devoted to a select range of improvisers including Pavone, Michael Musillami, and Peter Madsen, has scored a tremendous hit by offering this glimpse of Chapin in the last couple years of his life, from live recordings essentially found in the family vaults. In contrast to his most storied work with Pavone and Sarin, here we get to hear Chapin playing in a quartet format. The first two discs have him partnered with pianist Madsen, Kiyoto Fujiwara (on bass) and Reggie Nicholson (on drums). Disc three was actually recorded at his very last live performance (fittingly, at the Knitting Factory) in December of 1996, featuring Madsen once again, but this time with Scott Colley on bass and Matt Wilson on drums.
And the music? Well, it’s simply wonderful. Chapin’s prodigious technique on not only alto sax but also soprano sax and flute is abundantly evident, as he gets plenty of room on these expansive tracks to stretch out; each disc contains five pieces, and most run at least ten minutes, some much longer than that, the only exception being a powerfully compact and poignant reading of Monk’s “Ugly Beauty” featuring just Chapin and Madsen, on disc 2. Otherwise, the best way to describe these tracks is as masterfully performed post-bop, with musicians who know each other well enough and who share enough collective confidence to take the music in interesting and surprising directions. Indeed, I’ve found myself going back again and again to this music over the last several weeks, continuously finding new elements in the music to appreciate and marvel at.
The first two discs are the more straightahead ones, relatively speaking; the material is more standards-based, including a couple from Monk (“Red Cross,” in addition to “Ugly Beauty”), Artie Shaw (“Moonray”), and even Jimmy Webb (“Wichita Lineman”)—and the chief pleasure in spending time with these tracks is just to hear Chapin’s incessant exploration and tireless invention. His solos are remarkably free of cliché, as he somehow manages to find new things to say with each phrase. Even Webb’s rather syrupy tune is given new life and vitality under Chapin’s thoughtful care. Madsen is especially vital in supporting Chapin throughout; rather than limiting or confining his options, Madsen’s punchy and rhythmic contributions work consistently to prod Chapin further, seemingly giving him more energy and dynamism as the music unfolds. Fujiwara and Nicholson are also rock-solid throughout, keeping the music anchored while also being able and willing to adapt to whatever direction Chapin wants to take the music.
When we get to the third disc, we encounter the freer side of Chapin’s playing, as the change in personnel with Colley and Wilson taking over the bass and drum duties seems to liberate Chapin, along with the choice of material. Here four of the five tracks are Chapin’s own, including “Whirlygig,” which features some terrific off-kilter rhythmic flourishes, and “Sky Piece,” one of Chapin’s most notable compositions. Overall, the music on this disc is more unsettled and edgy, with Colley and Wilson clearly being willing to push the music harder and take more chances, which leads Chapin to pursue riskier explorations.
All told, this is simply marvelous jazz music. Chapin’s willingness to forge connections between the traditional and avant-garde jazz camps, and to explore the beauty within each, should earn him his distinctive place in the history of this music—and this release will certainly help him do that.
In addition to the great value of these recordings, there is also a film project underway to celebrate Chapin’s life and music.
Here’s the trailer:
Various Artists: Long Story Short (Wels 2011 curated by Peter Brötzmann) (Trost, 2013) *****
Tuesday, April 16, 2013 ***** 4 comments
2011 was a landmark year for Peter Brötzmann. It was the year of his 70th birthday, his hometown Wuppertal provided a three-day festival for his Chicago Tentet (as well as Café Oto in London), he was awarded the Albert-Mangelsdorff-prize (one of the most important jazz prizes in Germany), two documentaries were made and Wels “Music Unlimited” asked him to curate their 25th festival. It was sold out weeks in advance, when does this ever happen to a free jazz event? All these things are possible because people have begun to appreciate his life’s work, his authenticity, his consequence in spite of the fact that Brötzmann is difficult man. He says about himself that he is full of contradictions. So if you decide to invite him to curate such an important festival you have to know about his achievements and his philosophy because if you authorize someone like him you’ll have to accept his concept.
Somehow it was an obvious decision to make him curate the 25th anniversary festival because he is one of the last men standing who belong to the first generation of European improvisers (like Evan Parker, Tony Oxley, Alex von Schlippenbach, Fred Van Hove, Han Bennink etc.). Also, he is a border crosser in many ways, he has always been an innovator trying to re-invent himself constantly in new constellations. The worst thing that could happen to him is that he bores himself because his music is fulfilling the audience’s expectations. So people were very excited what line up he was going to choose and indeed it was spectacular and unexpected but also coherent as to Brötzmann conditions. In order to understand his choice and his way to create music you have to understand the man (which is difficult enough) and his idea of innovation.
Brötzmann considers himself a (free) jazz musician, someone deeply rooted in the tradition of Sidney Bechet, Bix Beiderbecke, Ben Webster or Coleman Hawkins, but he looks out for new experiences and new collaborations with musicians who come from different backgrounds like rock, new classical music, even world music. “Unlike many of his fellow European improvisers, he has always been an internationalist and his lifelong pursuit of new “cities, histories and landscapes” has not only informed him politically and philosophically, it has also impacted on the very DNA of his music”, David Keenan wrote in a long article in The Wire. In Wels this became very obvious when you have a look at the line up which includes people like Bill Laswell and Keiji Haino, Okkyung Lee and Maâllem Mokhtar Gania, for example. The fact that he is aware of the jazz tradition as an important influence for his music makes him deal with US Afro-American jazz constantly, although being a European and knowing and accepting his Prussian background as a part of his music, too. The same is true for his musical exchange with Asia (which was the most and maybe most surprising and important issue of the festival).
Additionally, Brötzmann likes to work with young musicians (and he also likes to have young people in the audience). His Chicago Tentet proves this, but also his collaborations with people like Jason Adasievicz (vib) or Eric Revis (b).
But most of all his music is the result of his socio-political surroundings, it reflects reality and its conditions. Music is a constant hassle with what’s going on around you and Brötzmann does not like what he sees, that’s why his music cannot be entertaining. It is rooted in the discussion about Germany’s Nazi heritage, the repressive structures in post-war Germany, society’s handling of the holocaust or socialist atrocities - and this approach makes his art (he is also an artist who usually designs the covers of his album – like the one here as well) sensitive for non-musical influences.
The most obvious political issue in Wels was The Chicago Tentet’s Fukushima project, which features the Tentet +1 (Joe McPhee has become a regular member over the years) and several Japanese musicians like Otomo Yoshihide, Toshinori Kondo, Michiyo Yagi and Akira Sakata. Each set lasted for thirty minutes, all in all a two-hour tour de force of music. The box only contains the tentet’s part with koto player Yagi (the whole concert is available on DVD) but this excerpt already shows how the band tries to reflect the whole nuclear disaster in their music, the agony of the people, the rage about the failure of the politicians and the CEOs, the powerlessness of mankind in the face of the forces of nature. Brötzmann’s aim apparently was to make the music a collective experience for both his musicians and his audience despite different backgrounds giving especially Yagi a lot of space.
Chicago Tentet + Michiyo Yagi (Fukushima Project):
Moreover, he also had something else in mind with this festival, he was not interested in just bringing some old friends together. Hardly ever has he displayed his idea of music so clearly which brings us back to his philosophy.
Brötzmann, who has always had an inclination for communist ideas, has developed a philosophy which is based around key principles he has distilled in almost 50 years on the road – freedom, equality, respect, struggling and dialectics. In his excellent essay “Each is the Work of All” Christoph J. Bauer explains what this means in the Brötzmann universe: ”When the musicians play and work together natural, cultural and social differences, which make up their identity, are to be annihilated in a dialectic unit in which everyone has the same rights to raise his or her individual voice.” This dialectic unit is the basis for the result of an equal collaboration in a Marxian sense, without equality Brötzmann’s groups cannot work even if it seems that he has a superior position. In Wels the best example for this idiom was Brötzmann’s quartet with Bill Laswell (b) (a man who has worked with people as different as Mick Jagger, The Ramones, Pharoah Sanders, Motörhead or George Clinton), legendary Gnawa musician Maâllem Mokhtar Gania (voice, guembri) and Chicagoan free jazz legend Hamid Drake (dr), a performance that made the audience literally freak out. Starting with Brötzmann and Laswell the band builds up layer after layer until Drake, Laswell and Gania agree on a hypnotic world music groove – something you would expect Brötzmann to refuse blatantly. But then there is the unexpected: He joins the band in their rhythm, out of the blue there is a perfect unit, within seconds an identity was created from the most different backgrounds combining Drake’s dance groove, Laswell’s bass being drowned in fuzzbox rock sounds, Gania’s sufi trance and Brötzmann’s free jazz roars. Although it is a 51-minute- track you wish it would never stop.
Brötzmann/Ghania/Laswell/Drake:
But living this musical principle is absolutely demanding, the players must be able to contribute spontaneously – at any time. What they yield is based on their musical and personal experiences, on what they have played and heard so far. Put together this finally makes up a piece, this is instant composing. And since Brötzmann usually renounces pre-composed material the result is almost always something new and innovative, a new formation or a changing of parameters always brings forth new structures on which the musicians have to react immediately.
Although Brötzmann is aware of being part of jazz history, he and most of the European improvisers also wanted to emancipate themselves from hierarchical structures in traditional American and European music, which for them had political meaning. So free jazz was an act of liberation from repressive structures and from socio-political restrictions.
However, freedom was one thing that had to be achieved, but if it had led to anarchy it would have been pointless. So the traditional confrontation between freedom and necessity has to be abolished in a dialectic way which is why another key term has to be added to Brötzmann’s philosophy: responsibility. The collaborations work because the musicians feel in charge for the success of a composition and therefore they act responsibly. This is especially possible for improvisers because they act like an association “in which the free development of the individual is the condition for the free development of all”, as Marx said. But this also means that all the players have to cut back their own capriciousness once and again for the sake of the result, in this case the collective improvisation. This requires a very close listening to the others so that you can react to musical actions in the fastest possible way, it also includes taking a break. Thus, you pay respect listening to the others and while expecting this from all the other participants it guarantees everyone a certain space for his or her artistic expression. This goes not only for Brötzmann’s ensembles but for all the groups and solos in this box and a good example of this notion is the female string trio consisting of Michiyo Yagi (koto), Okkyung Lee (cello) and Xu Fengxia (guzheng) who advance very delicately into their performance and particularly Yagi and Xu hold their fire before they eventually let it burn.
Yagi/Lee/Fengxia:
Freedom, responsibility, equality and dialectics are crucial for Brötzmann’s music but respect and struggling are even more important. If Brötzmann uses the term respect in this context in order to state how to handle the other’s need to express themselves, it does not mean respect in an abstract conservative way, it is no value in itself, it is the basis and result of a constant conflict between the individual personalities in an ensemble, it is not a bourgeois form of acknowledgement, it has to be hard-earned again and again in order to contribute to the composition in a valuable way.
When Brötzmann was asked to curate the festival he decided to put the focus on what he was doing at that moment and to bring it into a context what he has done in the late 1960s and early 70s. That’s why he wanted to highlight his long-time connections with Asian musicians like Takeo Moriyama and Akira Sakata (who were members of the legendary Yamashita Trio), something which was only made possible by cultural subsidies (and they are hard to get these days). His trio with Masahiko Satoh (p) and Moriyama (dr) (ironically called "The Heavyweights") is the essence of what the three understand of respect, it is a truly humanitarian approach to music. The track starts with Satoh playing icy single notes counteracting Brötzmann’s typical furor while Moriyama seems to have a look at the interaction before he makes a statement, but then he throws his hat in the ring, first almost hesitating but then absolutely self-confident, even in the duet with Satoh playing almost Cecil Tayloresque patterns (while Brötzmann shows his ability to listen).
Brötzmann/Satoh/Moriyama:
Being one of the absolute highlights of the festival The Heavyweights are a perfect incarnation of the most decisive concept in Brötzmann’s philosophy: it is the term struggling. He does not interpret the Darwinist struggle for survival in a negative way, neither in a socio-political environment nor in a musical one. It is the basis for any personal and musical progress, that’s why he rejects the education at conservatoires so violently, he believes in the education of the stage. But again this requires mutual respect among the players, even if a certain difference between them is necessary in order to grapple with one another for a specific artistic expression which always has to be a common one. Brötzmann has always emphasized the social component of improvisation –as manifested in the Chicago Tentet – and for him this does not only mean freedom, equality, respect, solidarity and responsibility but a certain inharmoniousness as well (don’t forget: he is a man full of contradictions) in order to successfully stand your ground against one another with both sides depending on each other. This interaction of struggling and respect counts for DKV Trio feat. Gustafsson/Pupillo/Nilssen-Love in an exemplary way because it shows that struggling does not simply mean power playing, it is pointless hooting the others down. The players consider struggling on a conceptual level, it is not about putting up the volume for the volume’s sake, it is about intensity, about making a statement. The following excerpt of the concert is not the one on the box but it shows how violently the two bands fight each other in a highly respectful way. It starts with the band in full action before almost everybody drops out except Nilssen-Love – and then they come back even more furiously.
DKV Trio + Gustafsson, PNL, Pupillo
In the end Peter Brötzmann’s key concepts only work when they are used permanently and consequently, if there is a musical situation in which some parts are missing, the result is not satisfactory.
So Brötzmann and all the ensembles gathered here are the personifications of the relevance of improvised music in a globalized world because they stand for constant expansion and the musical globalization we have here is positively counteracting a musical leveling inherent in music industry (something you can see in pop music, for example). All the musicians of this festival (and on this CD box) fight for this definition of freedom, equality, solidarity, respect, responsibility and struggling, which means so much more in this kind of music compared to others.
Unfortunately, Wels Unlimited 2011 was also a sort of requiem. In the meantime John Tchicai has died and the Chicago Tentet is history. Brötzmann decided to stop it because it has become too difficult to keep such a group running (in an economic way) and because he said he realized that they were playing to fulfill some kind of expectation – something Brötzmann really hates.
However, this box is a great legacy.
List of groups:
CD 1: Sonore (Brötzmann/Vandermark/Gustafsson)
Chicago Tentet with John Tchicai
Michiyo Yagi/Okkyung Lee/Xu Fengxia
Peter Brötzmann/Masahiko Satoh/ Takeo Moriyama
CD 2: Joe McPhee/Maâllem Mokhtar Gania/Fred Lonberg-Holm/Michael Zerang
Peter Brötzmann/Michiyo Yagi/Tamaya Honda
Peter Brötzmann/ Jason Adasiewicz/Sabu Toyozumi
Dieb 13/Mats Gustafsson/Martin Siewert
CD 3: Keiji Haino
Peter Brötzmann/Bill Laswell/ Maâllem Mokhtar Gania/Hamid Drake
CD 4: Jeb Bishop/Joe McPhee/Mars Williams/Jason Adasiewicz/Kent Kessler/Tamaya Honda
Hairy Bones (Brötzmann/Kondo/Pupillo/Nilssen-Love)
Masahiko Satoh
Chicago Tentet + Michiyo Yagi
CD 5: Peter Brötzmann/Eric Revis/ Nasheet Waits
DKV Trio + Mats Gustafsson/Massimo Pupillo/Paal Nilssen-Love; Full Blast
Caspar Brötzmann Massaker
This review is largely based on Christoph J. Bauer’s very intelligent essay “Each is the Work of All” published in his interview book “Brötzmann: Gespräche” (Posth Verlag, Berlin, 2012), a highly recommendable and enjoyable book. If you understand German and you like Brötzmann, I think it is a must have.
The review also contains some aspects from David Keenan’s article in The Wire (#345) and Markus Müller’s excellent liner notes.
In addition, the DVD of the Fukushima Project is also great.
Both the CD box and the DVD can be purchased from the label: http://www.trost.at/
The CD is also available via instantjazz.com
Decoy With Joe McPhee – Spontaneous Combustion (OTOroku, 2013) ****
Monday, April 15, 2013 1 comment
There is something deeply intimate in the about eleven minutes of wait and evolution before the real explosion of interplay -- it's a long, slow, precious dovetailing of musical relationships between four great musicians. Joe McPhee starts needling the others through the raucous timbre of his pocket trumpet, balancing some meaningful rich phrases with blown passages. The scattered pizzicato incursions of John Edwards rebound Steve Nobles' sharp bells, muted gongs and minimal percussion. The organ of Alexander Hawkins starts its journey from another world, on sustained high pitch tones slowly developing a second voice in search of dialogue. Then Edwards takes to the bow, moulding low magnetic chords and Noble’s rolls becomes sumptuous. It’s like watching a group of kids discovering the pleasure and the joy of “playing” together. Organ presence becomes total, though never invasive. Hawkins goes for a luxuriant solo exploring all the colours and the tones offered the by large palette of his instrument, his fingers running along the two-floor keyboard in an endless spiral. He saturates so much the atmosphere that sometimes the result is like a vibrating cluster of unrecognisable and mesmeric chords.
A Hammond B3 tends to be an overwhelming instrument, not just for its size, and the detractors of prog and psychedelic rock, as I am sometimes, can be doubtful about its role. But it really works well in this set.
On the second side, McPhee unsheathes his alto sax giving a different bluesy slow imprint to the sound of the group, while the rhythm section endorses him with sudden time changes. Edward’s bass turns out a darker sound. He first dialogues melancholically for several minutes with McPhee while Noble slows down and snaps the rhythm, then he makes his bow scrape a short and involving solo in the instrument's lower register. Finally, he faces a real challenge, playing against the beats and wooden inlays of the drummer. I wonder if it’s McPhee screaming somewhere there in the middle. It’s around about at the time of Noble’s astounding solo on metals and plates enhanced by the water drops effect of Hawkins organ. Soon, the quartet re-joins and closes in a boppish manner.
I can’t be wrong: this is definitely genuine, joyous, satisfying and great jazz!
The recording stands as testimony to the second set of the first night of Decoy’s two-day residence in Café Oto during October 2011 featuring Joe McPhee. The LP, the second OTOroku official release, is pressed in 500 copies and housed in a really nice and original two colours sleeve screenprinted on extra thick raw cardboard.
You can listen to some minutes of the recording provided by the label, where you also find a good video of that evening.
Buy at Instant Jazz
Made To Break: Provoke (Clean Feed, 2013) ****
Sunday, April 14, 2013 No comments
If Made to Break’s album “Lacerba” deals with futurism, “Provoke” picks up the thread as to musical structure and philosophical references. Although the music is composed “the material is modular and parts can be combined spontaneously by the various members of the band, so the structure is improvised as well as the solos,” Ken Vandermark said. The three titles of the tracks make up the sentence “Further presentation of the facts” and they are dedicated to influential geniuses of the 20th century – John Cage, Buckminster Fuller and Marshall McLuhan. Like the futurists their ideas and works were revolutionary and therefore provocative, Cage as to music, Buckminster Fuller as to architecture and technology (among others) and McLuhan as to philosophy and media theory. Of course Made to Break do not have the ambition to be as revolutionary as these giants, a lot of things have changed since then, that’s why provocation is hardly possible or has to be different.
“Further (for John Cage)” has the same threepart structure as the tracks on “Lacerba”, it starts with an old-fashioned sax-drums-duo before the bass ends this improvisation interspersing an irresistible rock groove backed up by Kurzmann’s electronics providing simple sound layers and surfaces. This is much closer to alternative rock than to jazz. Tim Daisy destroys this atmosphere and heralds the third part in which the musicians seem to have lost one another before the electronics provide a pattern on which the others can agree with a new structure. The track ends with a bassline that sounds like Bill Laswell and with Vandermark being back on funky grooves.
“presentation (for Buckminster Fuller)” provides a similar architectural structure. It starts like a soundtrack for an old David Lynch short film (bass flageolets, static, helicopter sounds) before it changes to a lyrical part dominated by Vandermark. Hoffs forces the pace throwing in a Mike-Watt/Minutemen-riff and the rest of the band make use of this – it is a great SST moment (my favorite label of the 1980s).
The most lyrical track is “of the facts (for Marshall Mc Luhan)”. It uses the same compositional elements again and arranges it in a new way, especially Vandermark’s No-Jazz-riffs work in a great way.
This is a promising band and I hope there is more to come.
Listen to them here:
Made To Break: Lacerba (Clean Feed, 2013) ****
Saturday, April 13, 2013 6 comments
“Lacerba” was the name of an Italian literary magazine that wanted to spread the ideas of futurism, a movement emphasizing and glorifying issues associated with concepts concerning the future - including technological progress, youth and violence. The most famous authors were Giovanni Papini and Ardengo Soffici but Tommaso Marinetti, Pablo Picasso, Guillaume Apollinaire and Stéphane Mallarmé were also among the contributors. Futurist music claimed to reject tradition and introduced experimental sounds inspired by machinery, it was mainly set against backwardness and mediocrity. One of the most prominent figures, Luigi Russolo, published The Art of Noises which became something like a guideline for the musical aesthetics of the movement. Russolo defined instruments as acoustic noise generators so that he can pay homage to, include or imitate machines – his ideas influenced Stravinsky, Edgar Varèse, Stockhausen and John Cage.
Ken Vandermark (reeds) has a profound knowledge of classical music (he studied with Morton Feldman) and although he does not completely reject tradition his new project Made to Break pays tribute to the futurist era not only because electronic noise plays an important role in the band context, which features Christof Kurzmann (electronics), Devin Hoff (e-bass) and Tim Daisy (drums).
Like classical futurist music the first track, “Vita Futurista (for Dick Raaijmakers)”, imitates technology, a dark baritone saxophone sound reminds of a foghorn before the real machine sets in: Kurzmann’s electronics sound like a limbo created by Edgar Allen Poe, there are static loops, a pulsing and scraping that gives you the creeps in a very subtle way. But futurism is not only about darkness, and after four minutes, when the bass turns in playing a super groovy Michael-Henderson-riff and Vandermark slaps out a soulful theme, the band has transformed into a 1980 New York No Jazz group – raw, funky, straight, hardcore. And just when you get used to it, the band makes another U-turn and after 17 minutes – out of the blue - they devote themselves to absolute beauty. The structure of the “Pursuit (for Alberto Giacometti)”, the second track of the album, is similar to the first one. It starts with a very lyrical passage which is close to chamber music before it turns into something completely different. Vandermark’s alto is close to the pain barrier and only Hoff’s electric bass brings him back to solidly grounded jazz rock. Hoff is the driving force in this track anyway, the copula between the different parts.
“Lacerba” is futurist in a postmodernist sense, it uses different elements of jazz history and combines it to something new.
Marc Riordan Quartet - Binoculars (Club Nerodia, 2012) ***½
Like any explorer, the challenge is to push yourself further than the last guy. Your map then becomes the cornerstone, the pinnacle of any wanderer that comes after. On this record, Marc Riodan decides to drop his drum kit and portage a piano from his previous river, through the brush in search of a better river or even an ocean. Binoculars is the travelogue of his adventure.
Every journey on sea requires a muster and the seafarers on this mission are as follows.
On saxophone - Peter Hanson
On bass - Daniel Thatcher
On Drums - Tim Daisy ( Being comfortable with two sticks, brushes, bells, cymbals, mops, mallets, paddles, or oars, Daisy is the perfect choice to propel any vessel unrelentingly forward.)
"Little Dog". Even though Riordan has given up the rhythm in search of the melody, it is very clear throughout this track that the old sea sirens still haunt him. The interplay between the alto sax and the very percussive piano makes for very entertaining listening indeed. The quartet cleverly skirts around almost like they are shaking hands and introducing themselves on a pier waiting for the horn to signal the departure. Before it ends even Hanson gets in on the percussive attack and power as he spars with everyone during the track's conclusion.
"Funometer. The quartet tricks your ears with this one. It begins with a boppy pass that goes on just long enough to for an incorrect and premature opinion of things to come. It gets really good when the whole thing falls apart. Is that a hole? Its taking on water, all hands on deck.
There are beautiful moments all over this recording like the heavy handed melancholy of "Lesson Learned", or the coherence and musicianship of "Magnetic Personality", but the real gem for me is the title track. It starts with a searching bass, a beacon through the fog. When everyone else enters it finds the groove but yet finds a way to keep returning to a escalating chord pattern.
Can't say that the Marc Riordan Quartet redrew any maps on this outing but it is a document that highlights a musician that needs to wear different hats and varying numbers of stripes on his shoulders in order to stay afloat.
Is my canoe on the best river for me?
Here is "Little Dog"
Saadet Türköz, Giovanni Maier, Zlatko Kaučič – Zarja-Tay (Rudi Records, 2012) ****
Thursday, April 11, 2013 No comments
By Monique Avakian
Listening to Zarja-Tay involves confronting a lot of uncomfortable places, beautiful dreams and awkward moments. To be up for the challenge, I highly suggest meditating with bells and gongs first. Work with the higher frequencies will help to bust up all your preconceptions about words, sounds, borders, language and communication. At minimum, you will at least clear your sinuses so that you are worthy of receiving the transmissions so generously offered to you by this fine assemblage of highly evolved humans.
The Trio is comprised of Italian bassist Giovanni Maier, Slovenian-born Zlatko Kaučič on percussion, and the Swiss-based Kazakh-Turkish singer Saadet Türköz. Zarja-Tay was recorded in a pilgrimage church in Crngrob, Slovenia (an ancient holy place created by a Giant Girl, whose rib hangs among the detailed frescoes that include illustrations of demons eating those who do wrong).
In the world of Zarja-Tay you will find:
unfamiliar words that you want to know
musical ideas that need a lot of time to simmer
sounds that are not words and sounds that may not even be sounds….
multi-cultural unknowns that are mysteriously familiar
other-worldly impulses that pierce through illusion
alien landscapes that beckon
terrifying leaps that repel
subterranean forces that remember what you had for lunch yesterday and work to ensure that you never eat that food ever again even though those morsels are essential for your survival
Oh, wow, help. This is a journey.
Like all artists, Saadet Türköz is informed by her influences. Hers are very unique: "I was born in Istanbul in 1961, and I am currently living in Zurich.
Due to the political pressure of the Chinese government upon the Turk people in East Turkestan (Uyghur Autonomous Region), my parents fled to Istanbul, where they settled as Kazakh refugees. They transmitted us the rich oral and musical traditions of the highlands of Central Asia. With the tales of their far away country and their journey to Turkey, the elderly people of the Kasakh community influenced my imagination as musician until nowadays." Zarja-Tay is dedicated to her brother, Ahmet Türköz (1963-2009), “…who was engaged in human rights for free East Turkestan.”
Saadet Türköz expresses herself in ways I’ve never heard before. Track 5, “Voice” and Track 3 “Massallah!” are two especially fine examples of her unique vocal style.
It was difficult at first to take in the universe of sound she forges, and I got off track as I became obsessed with not knowing the meaning of the words (*). But what seems like words here, are, in many cases, not even words anyway, so what is perhaps most necessary is to have an open mind and embrace the pre-verbal. This is really hard, and that’s why I highly recommend this album! Saadet Türköz is not fooling around, and you will grow as a listener and as a person because you are going to be squirming. Like an ant who has succeeded in running away from a fanatic wielding a magnifying glass on a hot day, only to get smashed by a big thumb you never saw coming. Shamanic is the only word that will do.
Zlatko Kaučič has gongs and bells and scratchy things scraping and rusty, swinging gates flying slowly open and closed. Listening, I feel as if I were being born inside a Gamelon, with every instrument a living bone or strong tooth. His precision carries a spiritual depth, complete with deep toms at opportune moments. Nothing wasted. Nothing haphazard. Like a brilliant poem throughout. (Of special note, Track 9, “Apa”).
In this context, Giovanni Maier becomes a friendly, loving GPS you are so happy to have around. Full of warmth. A lullabye~compass. Maier’s choices create a powerful juxtaposition with the focused intensity behind Türköz’s voice, and he anchors the band well. This is not to say that he plays it safe. Maier on bass also travels to select alternate worlds, sounding over here like a shofar….over there, like a viola….there again, like a human voice and then, alternately like….? Track 4, “Snake,” is especially enticing, as is the thoughtful and quiet, “Zero” (Track 10).
(*) Saadet kindly helped me out with some translations. Here is another:
The old spirits on the other side invite me to die.
They say to me, you are welcome to paradise
I will die, I wanna go
My heart has pain – take me to the other side
Please don’t forget me,
Where I’m going
I can see you and hear – on the other side
I am a beautiful spirit!
-- Saadet Türköz, “Köpes,” Eng. transl.
(Köpes means: generous human and is a family nickname
for Saadet’s brother)
Phantasie from Zarja-Tay
Saadet Türköz: My Boy, My Horse, My Dog (with English text transl.)
Joshua Abrams Quartet – Unknown Known (RogueArt, 2013) ***
Tuesday, April 09, 2013 1 comment
RogueArt continues its Chicago jazz love affair with Unknown Known, a quartet featuring Josh Abrams on bass, David Boykin on tenor sax, Jason Adasiewicz on vibes, and Frank Rosaly on drums. In many ways, Unknown Known sticks to those Chicago roots: even it its wilder flights, it always has a foot planted in composition and structure. It’s jazz that comes up under the tutelage of the AACM, which constantly pushed boundaries without ever entirely dispensing with them.
Though Abrams is billed as the leader, Adasiewicz tends to be the dominant voice (as with many projects he’s involved with). This isn’t a bad thing. Personally, I can’t get enough of his enormous, pulsing field of overtones. A 2011 New York Times article touched upon a lot of what makes his sound unique: hitting the instrument hard, frequent use of the sustain pedal, an interest in creating distorted, almost feedback-like effects, and keeping the sound of the vibes consistently in the mix, “rumbl[ing] along with the rhythm section.”
The downside to Adasiewicz’s colossal harmonic artifice is that it needs to be well-miked and recorded, and in its more frenzied moments, Unknown Known can leave a bit to be desired. At times, Abrams’ bass is nearly subsumed in waves of vibraphone and cymbals. Thankfully, he pushes through loud and clear when it’s time to rein everyone back in, laying out strutting basslines that snap everything back into focus.
There are some great tracks here, such as the funky “Settle Down” and the epic “Boom Goes the Moon,” but many seem cast of a similar mold, progressing from laid-back theme to building tension to out-and-out free improv and back again. I wish more of it could be as arresting as the first four minutes of “Leavening,” a great, moody bass solo over slow, tribal drums and gentle swells of vibes and sax. Boykin has a robust tone on tenor, but he feels under-utilized. He does have a handful of intense moments on the frontline, but it’s hard to compete with the sheer density of Adasiewicz and Rosaly.
Unknown Known is another solid release from RogueArt, and another reminder that the Midwest continues to be fertile ground for outsider jazz.
Jon Irabagon, Hernani Faustino, Gabriel Ferrandini - Absolut Zero (Not Two, 2013) *****
Monday, April 08, 2013 ***** 5 comments
Saxophonist Jon Irabagon's playing is a treat on this recording with RED Trio members Hernani Faustino and Gabriel Ferrandini. His sax work is restained and searching at times and scorching and scathing at others throughout this focused but free program. Unlike the hearty swinging from the get go, on say his album Foxy or the recent 3Dom Factor, the approach to playing here begins more introspective and evolving, gelling as the songs progress, reaching moments of kinetic cohesion, only to be pulled back to start all over again.
The opening 'States of Matter' starts slowly, builds to an intense climax, not made of volume but of restraint, that soon devolves into just sound of Irabagon's breath through his mouthpiece. Ferrandini's percussion work shadows and pulsates as he deftly fills the many spaces in the sparse, but not lacking, instrumentation. Faustino's bass kicks off 'Nova' in a stately spacious manner, then Irabagon enters with a keen wail. He works the microtones and the upper registers of his horn almost sounding he is pushing through some deep pain. The duo plays through the tension beautifully and when the percussion finally joins lightly, a certain peace has been achieved.
The last track, 'Spacetime' is another exercise in intensity as Irabagon plays a circular motif that never lets up as the tension slowly builds. By the end, Ferrandini's unique rhythmic patterns have meshed so thoroughly with the sax and bass that it is hard to distinguish an individual in the group (metaphorically speaking).
Absolut Zero, is hardly the unbelievably cold temperature to which the title refers, rather it is a warm and layered achievement.
Buy at Instantjazz.
Weekend Roundup: Mats Gustafsson
Saturday, April 06, 2013 Weekend Roundup No comments
If you have ever had the chance to talk to Mats Gustafsson about vinyl you know how enthusiastically he is about this issue. I guess he would release more 7-inches if he could, once he told me how glad he was finally finding a company in California that presses flexi discs (and you should have seen his eyes shining) for him. The first part of this short round up reviews three singles, the second one his latest CD.
Double Tandem/ Mats Gustafsson Solo: Abet ?! (Terprecords, 2012) **** ½
“Abet ?!” is a split 7’’ starting with a four-minute live killer track by Double Tandem (Ken Vandermark and Ab Baars on saxes, Paal Nilssen-Love on drums) that makes the audience in Addis Abeba freak out (the tracks were recorded during the “saxophone project” of The Ex in Ethiopia in 2009). Nilssen-Love starts the track going mad from the very first second before Baars and Vandermark drop in. This is old-fashioned free jazz at its best. Unlike their two complete albums there is no swing element here, the three keep pushing each other relentlessly before they literally choke the track off. Highly energetic!
The flipside presents Gustafsson on solo baritone sax in front of an enthusiastic Ethiopian audience two years later. It seems as if he is trying to take on African influences at the beginning, it is a very soulful and bluesy track that changes over to rhythmic extended techniques before it fades out in a very Gustafsson-ish way.
Mats Gustafsson & Johns Lunds: Plays Alto Saxophone (7’’) (yoyooyoy, 2012) *** ½
This is Mats Gustafsson’s second collaboration with John Lunds (after “Plays Baritone Saxophone” in 2011). Compared to his recent cooperation with Colin Stetson the two tracks on this 7-inch are rawer and more abrasive, they rather remind me of a quotation of Gustafsson’s colleague Peter Brötzmann, who claims that free jazz is always about fighting and about creating some space where you can present your ideas. While the A-side is a straight punch into your face, the flipside is a bit more playful.
Swedish Azz: Toots and Quincy (Flexi Disc) (Not Two, 2012) ****
Swedish Azz’s two minute track obviously is a hip tribute to Toots Thielemans and Quincy Jones and it especially presents Gustafsson (sax), Per-Ake Holmlander (tuba), Kjell Nordeson (vibes) and Eric Carlsson (dr) paying tribute to the golden age of American west coast jazz (including some scratching and cracking on the flexi). Hardly ever have you heard Gustafsson playing in such a classical cool way. But as usual the presence of Dieb 13 (electronics) warps the whole track adding some special European distorted element. A nice little finger exercise stimulating the appetite for their complete albums.
Merzbow/Mats Gustafsson/Balász Pándi: Cuts (Rare Noise Records, 2013) ***
“Cuts” features Merzbow (a.k.a. Masami Akita) on electronics, Gustafsson on baritone sax, c-clarinet and live electronics, and Hungarian drummer Balász Pándi. When I heard about this line-up I was really excited because it reminded me of another recent collaboration between Gustafsson and Masami Akita – “One Bird Two Bird” (with Jim O’Rourke) - and “Live at the South Bank” (with Kieren Hebden and Steve Reid), both outstanding albums.
Actually I am really glad that this is a Gustafsson album that does not kill me immediately like his previous ones (and that it gives me the chance to avoid the impression that I have lost a critical attitude towards his music). In the first part of this session (which lasts more than 70 minutes) Gustafsson concentrates on electronic sounds; saxophone and clarinet are almost drowned in noise. It is a tough listening experience, as if you were in the middle of an arctic blizzard combined with an electrical storm in which you have already lost orientation. Some sounds are so shrill that you might be afraid of losing your sense of hearing (this is a serious warning). On “The Fear too. Invisible” and “Like Me. Like You” and the 20-minute-hellhound “Like Razorblades in the Dark”, which make up the second part of the CD, Gustafsson’s saxophone is more present pushing the music towards classical noise-free-jazz – solid, hard, grabbing you by the scruff of your neck.
The titles of this album are inspired by the Swedish writer, visual artist and composer Leif Elggren’s performance “Something like seeing in the Dark” which Elggren and his collaborator John Duncan regarded as an attempt to enlarge sensorial limits in which the participants and the audience were used as test persons. This works for “Cuts” as well, it is a borderline experience.
Watch a short extract here:
Gustafsson sells the singles at his concerts but you can get them via catalyticsound.com, a website which promotes stuff by Gustafsson, Ken Vandermark, Peter Brötzmann and Paal-Nilssen-Love.
Willamette (CD Baby/Bandcamp, 2012) ***
Friday, April 05, 2013 Metal Jazz 1 comment
By Alfie Cooke
If the tenor saxophone seemed custom-made for rock 'n' roll, then Dana Colley, Mats Gustafsson and now Matt Rippetoe, seem hell-bent on proving that the baritone was specially designed for its harder, meaner, darker kid brother - heavy metal. Taking note of Bob Dylan's famous "play it f-ing loud", Willamette crank up the volume, thrash the guitars and beat the drums senseless. Holding down, at various points, both lead-line and riffing duties, Rippetoe cuts his way through the middle. His raspy tone sounding at times like Gustafsson, he captures the blood-and-guts vocal low-end of bands like Husker Dü and (Henry) Rollins-era Black Flag.
Although there are similarities to Swedish über-trio The Thing, this isn't jazz, the solos for the most part clinging firmly to the rock tradition - but then, being so heavily sax-lead, it isn't heavy rock either. But the fact that it seems caught in the no man's land between the two isn't a bad thing - the path it takes means its different without being difficult and danceable without being drivel. Try out their samples on the Bandcamp release page or the version of 'Mr Smith' on YouTube here below, let your head start banging and then decide - metal jazz, is it the new New Thing?
The band : Matt Rippetoe - baritone sax, Yoshie Fructer - guitar, Gary Pickard - bass, Dave Previ - drums
Die Enttäuschung - Vier Halbe (Intakt, 2012) ****
Here is the menu: four brilliant musicians, Rudi Mahall on bass clarinet and baritone sax, Axel Dörner on trumpet, Jan Roder on bass, and Uli Jennessen on drums compose and perform in the best jazz tradition, but with a twist. The compositions are short, between to five minutes, and they sound like a jazz quartet from the fifties,but then not. They have this twist that takes it a step further, across boundaries in today's times, but without losing the foundation of the composition. Some of those compositions would please mainstream listeners, such as for instance the beautiful "Aqua Satin Flame", but then the next track, "Das Jan vom Stück" is short and wayward, full of crazy interactions, and is fully in avant-garde territory. And that's how the entire twenty-track alternation goes, with tunes that either stick in your memory or arranged parts which no matter how often you listen to them, will still sound ungraspable.
Unlike other bands that have tried similar approaches, they are never wild, nor full of energy. They just enjoy the cleverness of the interaction, the beauty of some themes, the musical finds, the pleasure of playing music together, the pulse and the grooves and the mad arrangements and subtle jokes. There is no pretense here, no claim for absolutes, no grand ambitions, no deep emotions, but in the very spirit of Monk music as intelligent entertainment, full of quirky twists, dissonance and unpredictability, putting the listener frequently on the wrong foot, while keeping a solid rhythmic basis.
At times you wonder how they do it, but then they've playing together for so long, and they've probably played these tunes so often before recording it, that it almost comes naturally.
Their previous album already dates from 2009, and we can only wish that they released more of this.
Great and clever fun!
Joe Morris Quartet - Graffiti In Two Parts (RogueArt,2012) ****½
Wednesday, April 03, 2013 Avant-Garde No comments
One of my preferred albums of last year, and one that has been haunting for a while, and I have blamed myself more than once that I still had not reviewed it yet. The thing is : the music on this album is hard to grasp and hard to describe, but more than worth looking for.
The album brings a live performance from 1985 with Joe Morris on guitar and banjo-uke, Malcolm Goldstein on violin, Butch Morris on cornet and Lowell Davidson on aluminum acoustic bass and drums.
At first listen, this is free improv in the best European sense of the word, with sounds colliding out of the acoustic instruments, in a very granular fashion, like stones raining on industrial machinery, like rain dropping like stones, even if it sounds weird at first, some rhythm emerges on plucked violin strings, or on the banjo-uke. Once in while the granular, and often mesmerising sound gets a prolongation by bowed violin or long moaning tones on the cornet.
To my ears, the end result is of a devastating sadness, like small and vulnerable beings conversing about the woes that befell them, expressing feelings that defy storytelling and language whatsoever, yet the sounds produced reveal something more, undefinable and strange. The second track has more wailing sounds, with Davidson picking up his aluminum acoustic bass, the mesmerising percussive sounds are still there, yet are complemented with wave-like movements coming from cornet and violin, resulting in a longitudinal version of the first track.
The thing is : it is magical. All four musicians continue this hypnotising interaction for twice thiry minutes without any repetitive elements or phrasing while also staying extremely close to an almost primitive single tone persistance. Emphases change, volume changes, instruments change, yet the plucking and plocking goes on, captivating and beautifully. It's magical because all four musicians move as one, creating a unique sound, one that sounds familiar like everyday objects while at the same time revealing some deeper unfathomable things. As I said, hard to describe. I can only recommend that you try it out for yourself, if you have open ears.
Again, we can only applaud RogueArt for releasing this music after so many years.
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Google I/O 2019 - Announcements & News
Google I/O 2019 - Key Announcements and News
Written by Mark Chalcraft - 08 May 2019
Google's annual developer conference, I/O, is with us again. Last year's event brought some interesting announcements of things to come - some of which have progressed more than others - and we're watching closely again this time for anything that's relevant to our customers.
Below you'll find a summary of the main points to emerge, which we'll be adding to over the course of the three days - so please check back each morning! Following the event's conclusion, we'll also be sharing our analysis and opinions on the implications.
The key question of course is, “what does all this mean for us?” and it’s likely this will depend to an extent on how these features influence consumer behaviours. This is a question that will no doubt be hotly debated within Fresh Egg Towers in the coming days – we’ll share our conclusions here once the fighting has died down.
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The opening day was all about the shiny headline announcements, from new devices such as the Pixel 3a and the Nest Hub Max, to new functionality within Android. Days two and three are likely to bring more coverage of the detail but, for now, these are the announcements that we felt are most relevant to us and our clients.
It’s no surprise that Google Assistant was a major focus of the opening keynote, with several announcements of things to come. Chief among this was a new generation of the assistant which runs locally on a user’s phone – which will therefore be much faster with less data transmitting to and from Google’s datacentres.
So fast, you might've missed it. Running on-device, the next generation Google Assistant makes it easier to multitask across apps—so things like looking up answers, and finding and sharing a photo are faster than ever. #io19 pic.twitter.com/qXwIMbFIz5
— Google (@Google) May 7, 2019
Whether this will help to mitigate privacy concerns around Assistant-powered devices remains to be seen but, as predicted, Google does seem to be working hard to distance itself from Facebook’s growing troubles in this area. Provisions such as incognito mode for Google Maps and one-click access to account privacy settings further demonstrate this.
The other major implication is that increased speed will unlock more powerful capabilities and we saw more announcements relating to automation of tasks such as making reservations or booking tickets. Last year’s event saw a demonstration of this technology, named Google Duplex, making a phone call to book an appointment.
This year’s announcements have been tagged as “Duplex on the Web”:
Today we’re extending Duplex to the web, previewing how the Assistant can also help you complete a task online. Often when you book things online, you have to navigate a number of pages, pinching and zooming to fill out all the forms. With the Assistant powered by Duplex on the web, you can complete these tasks much faster since it fills out complex forms for you.
This has potential implications for development of forms and payment gateways. It may in future become necessary to consider how accessible these are for machine-driven completion. This is something we'll be looking for more information on through the rest of I/O.
Greater personalisation of results and recommendations through the Assistant will also continue. For Android users, there is a definite sense that the concept of Google search as a website is fading. This doesn’t mean SEO is dead, but perhaps we can say that it is going to a better place (see what you did there – Ed).
This will shock no-one – Google is adding new features to search that will distract users away from your organic search listings. The latest shiny gimmick (sorry, feature) is augmented reality – the ability to view and interact with 3D visualisations in the search results and, on your phone, layer them on top of the camera view. The demo has a model of a Great White Shark floating around in someone’s garden, which is neat but still less impressive than the AR shark in Back to the Future 2 and four years behind the curve.
On a more practical note the features announced for Google Lens, which acts as a point-and-click reference guide, were more impressive. A demo showed Lens scanning a restaurant menu, interpreting the text and then looking up photos and reviews of that dish, specific to that restaurant.
Today's special: Google Lens. 🍽️ Automatically highlighting what's popular on a menu, when you tap on a dish you can see what it looks like and what people are saying about it, thanks to photos and reviews from @googlemaps. #io19 pic.twitter.com/5PcDsj1VuQ
This, combined with Lens’s newly acquired ability to live translate text, signals an end to the global phenomenon that is the clearly-distressed-British-holidaymaker-trying-to-find-chicken-and-chips-on-the-foreign-menu-without-having-to-ask.
Prediction: how-to content is set to become a topic-du-jour in SEO circles, with the announcement that the Schema.org How To template is being adopted within Google Search. This will allow a richer display of step-by-step content fitting the how-to template. However, elements of this are a further extension of Google’s ability to leverage your content for its own ends, so we urge that marketers use these features tactically, rather than adopting a scattergun approach.
Less of a headline announcement, but potentially a very important one, is that Googlebot now uses the latest version of the Chromium browser when rendering pages. Until now, it has used version 49, which has a more limited feature set when it comes to JavaScript, for example. We’ll find out more about this change during Thursday’s sessions.
Dark mode and Flutter
The addition of dark mode raises interesting possibilities for user experience and design. The ability to detect when a user is browsing in dark mode and adjust elements of the user experience to suit means there are more creative options available. Will brands embrace the concept of adapting their user experience to suit different browsing modes?
The extension of the Flutter framework to encompass web coding also presents intriguing potential. Coding for apps in iOS and Android has been made easier by bringing the two together - will adding website frameworks to this make development of integrated experiences more affordable and scalable? For example, the New York Times' Kenken puzzle game uses the same code on Android, iOS, the web, and Chrome OS.
We've had one eye on the development of Flutter as a platform, seeing this increased investment and the move to expand its functionality to the web, its relevance to web development may quickly grow.
The rise of Google Assistant devices with integrated screens presents the opportunity to design visual experiences as part of Actions on Google. With few UK brands currently exploring the potential of Actions, this space is still in an early adoption phase.
A number of seemingly innocuous announcements could actually increase the value of Google Pay to consumers and, consequently, to retailers. For example, the dynamic updates resulting in a faster checkout process and the addition of different shipping options based on the submitted delivery address.
This could be of great benefit to users who are travelling or working away and need to weigh up timescales agains their travel plans, for example. Further, the intention is to allow upsell within the checkout and the options to accept promotional codes.
For retailers not yet offering Google Pay, these additional features may offer a more compelling reason to reconsider.
The second and third days are less about the headlines and more about the detail, but there was still plenty of interesting and useful things we can start to consider within projects and processes.
We now have not one but two new formats of structured data to play with. In addition to the "How To" format announced on day one, there is also a new FAQ format.
This differs from the existing Q&A format:
Q&A format is designed for pages that have a single question with answers submitted by the public - think Quora or Stack Overflow
FAQ format is for the classic content format - a series of questions and answers collated onto a single page
FAQs are one of the most common 'traditional' content formats around, so it's likely this will be popular among SEOs. However, as with all structured data, consideration should be given to how Google uses that information to format its search results - how will this impact user behaviour and the likelihood of them clicking through to your website?
Performance monitoring tools
Another clear theme from the conference so far is speed - Google is continuing to push ahead with it's mission to make the web "instant". It's fair to say there's a long way to go with that, but they are building out an impressive toolset for developers, webmasters and SEOs alike. This includes a sneak-preview of a new speed report in development for Search Console and further advances to Lighthouse.
Second day of #io19 is an embarrassment of webperf riches...
- Firebase launches (free) real user perf monitoring for the web.. \o/
- Search Console announced new Speed Report, powered by CrUX data
- Performance budget (Lightwallet) support coming to Lighthouse
wait, more... pic.twitter.com/rkymD36fS6
— Ilya Grigorik (@igrigorik) May 9, 2019
These advances will certainly help us as we work to build fast-loading experiences and enable us to help our clients improve their processes.
Chrome developments
The lazy loading that will be rolled out as native support in Chrome makes it really simple to optimise how images and iFrames are loading in the page. Our Senior UX Specialist, Matt Smith told us that:
"This is a really positive step forwards because it significantly reduces the effort required to add lazy loading to the sites we build. Where currently we have to rely on JavaScript, with Chrome we'll now be able to let the browser do the work".
An addition to Chrome on desktop is the ability to prompt users to install progressive web apps through the Omnibox (or URL bar). Already available on mobile devices, this will give developers more flexibility to create app-experiences for desktop without having to take the tradtional software route - indeed, this may begin to blur the lines between software and web application.
A third development is Web Packaging, which is another move towards creating an instant web. This is a new way of loading pages - where currently the browser requests the page from the hosting server, with Web Packaging the browser would seek to load the content from peer devices and validated with a signed exchange.
There's a lot more information needed before we can understand properly how this is intended to work and the implications of that, so this is one to watch.
Finally, Google fonts - support was announced for the font-display property which will allow for greater control over how fonts are loaded into a page.
📢 Announcing Google Fonts will soon support setting `font-display` via a new query parameter. This unlocks controlling web font loading without having to self-host! Huge news #io19 pic.twitter.com/Tt3eKA0dBR
— Addy Osmani (@addyosmani) May 9, 2019
The third day saw the conference winding down, but there were still some useful things to discuss.
Same-site cookies
One that we missed earlier in the conference (we were probably making tea) that warrants a mention. The introduction of the SameSite attribute (defined in RFC6265bis) allows you to declare if your cookie should be restricted to a first-party or same-site context. It's helpful to understand exactly what 'site' means here. The site is the combination of the domain suffix and the part of the domain just before it. For example, the www.web.dev domain is part of the web.dev site.
JavaScript and Search
On day one, Google announced they have upgraded their crawlers to use version 74 of Chromium for rendering web pages. This might not seem significant, but for developers and technical SEOs this could have big implications. A dedicated session on this with Martin Splitt and Zoe Clifford on Thursday went into more detail.
Our session on #javascript and #seo at 1:30pm tomorrow will be LIT🔥🔥🔥
Come to stage 3 to see what it's all about 🙃
Amongst other things, we'll talk:
🏗️Web app architectures
🤖Googlebot
⚡️Lazy loading
🚀Web APIs
🔬Testing
📈Crawl budget & more!https://t.co/6CGsiGgg9w pic.twitter.com/b4MnvpSmWt
— Martin Splitt @ 🇺🇲 #io19 (@g33konaut) May 9, 2019
A key detail in this session was that, from now on, Googlebot will follow Chromium's development closely and will likely be no more than a few weeks behind new releases - compared with the current situation where there was a gap of four years between updates, this is a significant change.
State of Search
Another session of interest to our Search team, State of Search, gave us a few more snippets.
One interesting stat related to mobile-first indexing - more than half the web has now been indexed by Google in this way. To recap, this means that when Google indexes your content, it does so primarily in smartphone mode.
With this came a specific request - that site owners avoid using a separate mobile website such as m.example.com and build responsive sites instead. If your site provides different content for mobile and desktop devices, it sets Google a conundrum - which version goes into the index?
Finally, a neat way for site owners to control whether Google's new Duplex on the Web system (see day one) is enabled - an 'opt-out' directive can be added to the site's robots.txt file.
That's it for now. We'll be looking in more depth at some of the key developments in the coming weeks, both as new announcements emerge from Google and as we start testing and using them 'in the wild'. Please sign up to our fortnightly newsletter, Fresh Thinking, to get notified on all the latest from our team.
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Asset Management update - March 2017
Central Bank issues Q&A on compliance with EMIR variation margin deadline
The Central Bank of Ireland has recently issued a Q&A clarify its approach in relation to the requirement under EMIR to exchange variation margin in respect of non-centrally cleared OTC derivatives, effective from 1 March 2017. While noting that the legal obligation to exchange variation margin is effective from 1 March 2017, the Central Bank has clarified that:
the operational challenges are recognised by authorities across the EU and by IOSCO;
it applies a risk-based approach to the supervision of the adequacy of processes adopted by entities;
all counterparties are expected to make every effort to move into full compliance at the earliest possible date;
it does not expect market participants to unwind or avoid transactions that they would have otherwise entered into; but
it expects to see evidence of robust planning to achieve compliance at the earliest possible time for all in-scope transactions entered into from 1 March 2017.
Central Bank letter RE: Outsourcing of fund administration activities
On 7 March 2017, the Central Bank wrote to all Irish regulated Fund Administrators setting out their observations and recommendations following a series of themed inspections on outsourcing arrangements of Fund Administration Activities carried out during the first half of 2016. Find out more
Central Bank (Supervision and Enforcement) Act 2013 (Section 48(1)) (Investment Firms) Regulations 2017
On 13 March 2017, the Central Bank published the Central Bank Investment Firms Regulations. The Central Bank Investment Firms Regulations consolidate into one location all of the requirements which the Central Bank imposes on certain Investment Firms. They supplement existing legislative requirements, in particular the European Communities (Markets in Financial Instruments) Regulations 2007 and the Investment Intermediaries Act 1995. The Central Bank has also published Guidance and Q&A to assist firms in complying with these requirements.
IFRS 10 – Investment entities
For many years, preparers and investors in the asset management industry felt that consolidating the financial statements of an investment entity and its investees does not provide the most useful information. Consolidation made it more difficult for investors to understand what they are most interested in – the value of the fund’s investments. IFRS 10 provides an exception to consolidating particular subsidiaries for investment entities. The exception requires an investment entity to measure those subsidiaries at fair value through profit or loss. The implications and interpretations of the key requirements of IFRS 10 has been a hot topic for our clients in recent months. Find out more.
Revenue recently issued the new Form S.110 application and related guidance notes.
Up to Finance Act 2016, Form S.110 was required to be filed no later than the company’s first corporation tax return. With effect from 1 January 2017, a Section 110 Company must notify Revenue within eight weeks of entering into its first transaction. A company that intended to be treated as a Section 110 Company and entered its first transaction before 1 January 2017 but had not filed a notification by 1 January 2017 would strictly be required to file a Form S110 by 25 February 2017. However, Revenue issued guidance indicating that those taxpayers will be given until 19 April 2017.
Companies notifying Revenue of their intention to be treated as Section 110 Companies must now provide additional information to Revenue in the Form S110, including information on the type of transaction into which the company is entering, the assets acquired and details of how the company is funded.
A company that notified Revenue of its intention to be a Section 110 Company on or after 1 January 2017 may have filed the old Form S110 and included the additional information required under Finance Act 2016 in a cover letter. The new guidance indicates that those companies should re-submit the information in the new Form S110 by 19 April 2017. Find out more
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GoJo’s sweep of Cheyenne begins modest win streak
Greeley GoJo pulled out two wins as it swept Laramie in a doubleheader on Wednesday night.
“The wins are nice for us because we have been struggling lately,” GoJo head coach Mike Huston said. “This is three wins in a row, and we have been playing a lot better.” Greeley’s Tim Emerson allowed 12 hits and seven earned runs in the first game — a 9-7 victory — and was replaced by Chad Milton in the seventh. Milton earned his first save by not giving up a hit.
Greeley’s Mike Hagihara also gained his first save of the season after replacing Devin Shable in the fifth inning of the second game.
Adam Barnett went 5-for-6 on the day to contribute to both victories.”He led our offense,” Huston said.
Aaron Kelly also had a good day at the plate as he went 4-for-6.GoJo improves to 19-17 on the season.
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Greeley 201 042 0 — 9 13 1
Laramie – Kopklan (L, 13H, 5ER, 2BB, 2SO), andGoulding. 2B – Kopklan (1), Goulding (1); RBI –Paradis (4), Goulding (1), McKinney (1).Greeley – Tim Emerson (W, 3-3, 12H, 7ER, 2BB, 5SO), Chad Milton (7th, 0H, 0ER, 0BB, 0SO) and Garrett Timn. 2B –Adam Burnett (3); RBI – Burnett (2), Milton (2), Jakob Gallindo (2), Brian Wells (1).
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Laramie 002 010 1 — 4 6 2
Greeley 502 000 0 — 7 8 1
Laramie – Casas (L, 8H, 3ER, 2BB, 4SO), and Mullen. RBI –Hansen (2), Lebeder (1).
Greeley — Devin Shable (W, 3-0, 4H, 3ER, 8BB, 5SO), Hagihara (5th, 2H, 0ER, 1BB, 0SO) and Todd Kreykes. 2B – Wells (1); RBI – Ben Tiffany (1), Wells (1), Aaron Kelly (1), Ryan Laur (1), Gallindo (1).
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Fake IDs net maker 15 months in prison
Green Bay man who made and sold fake IDs will serve 15 months, faces possible deportation
Fake IDs net maker 15 months in prison Green Bay man who made and sold fake IDs will serve 15 months, faces possible deportation Check out this story on greenbaypressgazette.com: https://gbpg.net/1MytO22
Paul Srubas, USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Published 8:51 a.m. CT March 29, 2016
Garcia-Urbano(Photo: Courtesy of Brown County Jail)
A Green Bay man who made and sold fake IDs could be deported after he serves 15 months in federal prison.
Jacob A. Garcia-Urbano, 56, faced as much as 25 years in prison. U.S. District Judge William Griesbach instead ordered 15 months in prison, one more month than prosecutors recommended. Garcia-Urbano’s defense lawyer asked for no prison time on the grounds that Garcia-Urbano likely will be deported for his crimes.
Garcia-Urbano pleaded guilty to one count of transferring fraudulent identification documents and four counts of possession of counterfeit registration documents. Prosecutors dismissed three similar counts in exchange for the plea.
He had three aliases and told investigators he had been making fake identification documents since early 2000, when he lived in South Carolina. He had been producing fake documents for several years in Green Bay, court records quote him as saying.
An informant told investigators in September that he bought fraudulent documents from Garcia-Urbano and sold them for $20 to $30 per document, according to court documents.
The next day, agents arranged to have the informant provide Garcia-Urbano with photos and fabricated biographical information and to pay $450 for three sets of fraudulent documents. The purchase was made outside a Green Bay restaurant.
Agents confronted Garcia-Urbano in his home Oct. 8. He let them in the house, where they saw false ID documents in plain view. They got a search warrant, then found fake cards, bags of card stock, two computers, six printers and $4,750 in cash, court documents say.
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Beth A. Black focuses her practice on a variety of financial services industry litigation and regulatory matters. Beth regularly defends major brokerage firms in a wide variety of employment disputes in arbitration and before administrative agencies involving claims of federal and state statutory discrimination, wrongful termination, retaliation and defamation. She has represented broker-dealers, commercial banks, investment banks, investment management firms, directors and officers, and public issuers and their management and employees in litigation, investigations and disciplinary proceedings initiated by the SEC, FINRA, FDIC, CBOE, CHX and state regulators. She has also conducted internal investigations of brokerage firms as well as publicly traded domestic and foreign companies whose operations are in the United States and China. Additionally, Beth has represented financial services firms and their management in various customer-initiated cases in state and federal court and in arbitration.
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Defended a broker-dealer in a $1.25 million wrongful termination claim brought by a Vice President. After five days of hearing, the panel dismissed all claims.
Represented the Audit Committee of a U.S. publicly listed Chinese provider of content delivery and cloud computing in connection with a special investigation of claims raised by a whistleblower involving allegations of potential FCPA violations, related party transactions and manipulating revenues. Completed the investigation and made recommendations to the Audit Committee in time for the Company to remain in compliance with its reporting requirements.
Represented an underwriter in nationwide class and derivative action litigation raising charges of "yield burning" in connection with certain advance refundings of municipal bonds. The federal court dismissed the claims arising out of the Investment Advisers Act, remaining claims being refiled in state court. Judgment was granted in the underwriter’s favor and upheld on appeal.
Represented a national bank and a broker-dealer in a state court action alleging statutory and common law claims arising from the sale of interest rate swap agreements. Secured dismissal of all claims by trial court. Trial court judgment affirmed on appeal.
Represented a former director and a former officer of a failed bank in the Northern District of Illinois and FDIC enforcement action.
Represented broker-dealers, supervisors and registered representatives in numerous SEC, FINRA, state securities regulator and exchange investigations into such matters as supervision, market manipulation, insider trading, suitability, misrepresentation and reporting issues. In connection with many of these investigations, Wells submissions were prepared and filed.
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Iran Confirms 12 Killed as Anti-government Protests Enter Fifth Day
It is unclear where the others occurred ■ Authorities have previously confirmed four deaths ■ Hundreds of people have been arrested
People protest in Tehran, Iran, December 30, 2017, in a picture obtained from social media. SOCIAL MEDIA/REUTERS
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Iranian state TV is reporting that at least 12 people have been killed amid nationwide protests, without elaborating. The report Monday made the reference in a package on the ongoing demonstrations that began Thursday.
Authorities have previously confirmed four deaths. It was unclear where the others occurred. The protests began Thursday in Mashhad over economic issues and have since expanded to several cities. Hundreds of people have been arrested.
“Some armed protesters tried to take over some police stations and military bases but faced serious resistance from security forces,” state TV reported.
Earlier it was reported that two people were shot dead in protests in the country's most serious unrest since 2009 and messages on social media called for more anti-government demonstrations on Monday.
The two were killed on Sunday in the southwestern town of Izeh and several others were injured, ILNA news agency quoted local member of parliament Hedayatollah Khademi as saying.
"I do not know whether yesterday's shooting was done by rally participants or the police and this issue is being investigated," Khademi was quoted as saying.
Messages on social media urged Iranians to hold rallies in the capital Tehran and 50 other urban centers, many of which have already seen four days of unrest since price protests in the second largest city Mashhad on Thursday turned political.
Protests continued overnight even though President Hassan Rohani appealed for calm. He said Iranians had the right to criticize authorities but warned of a crackdown against unrest.
"The government will show no tolerance for those who damage public properties, violate public order and create unrest in the society," Rouhani said in remarks carried by state TV.
Tens of thousands of people have protested across the country against the Islamic Republic's government and clerical elite, prompting authorities to warn of a tough crackdown.
Security forces have showed restraint, hoping to avoid and escalation of the crisis triggered by economic hardships and corruption. Anger soon turned to Iran's clerical establishment in power since the 1979 revolution.
Some called on Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to step down and chanted against a government they described as thieves.
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A BAC Mono for the sea? Sort of...
No, BAC hasn’t turned its Mono into an amphibious vehicle. Instead, it has launched (no pun intended) a Marine edition of the car which is specially adapted to suit the specific needs of yacht owners. If you thought a single-seater road legal sports car was a niche offering, then the Mono Marine takes the company into a smaller target market still.
So what’s required to give the Mono its sea legs? The most obvious piece of hardware is a crane arm, which has required the chassis to be modified. The car also has fixings to lash it to a helipad. To protect against salty sea air, components are coated with an anti-corrosive treatment and the car comes complete with an environmental control container system so that the car can be stowed on board with temperature and humidity control.
What makes the Mono suited to life on a yacht? Its low mass (580kg) means that a brace of Monos ‘cost’ little over a ton, but there are more personal reasons that BAC co-founder Ian Briggs has moved into the yacht market. He says: ‘I started my career designing luxury yachts and I have wanted to combine my love of marine and automotive design ever since. The Marine Edition Mono represents purpose and style for a clientele that knows no compromise.’
There are currently four Monos per month being built at BAC’s Liverpool factory, with demand coming from Europe, the USA and Asia. The Marine edition adds quite significantly to the standard Mono’s £110,000 list price – each Marine will be built to order for £500,000.
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Vampire Werewolf Fairies Guest Review
Fringe November 19, 2013
We received a guest editorial and review of our card game Vampire Werewolf Fairies, which we are reposting with permission below.
Everybody loves a good crossover, right? Whether it’s the way some of your favorite Marvel characters came together in The Avengers or the over-the-top and campy violence of the Alien Vs. Predator franchise, watching these different, albeit likeminded, pieces of cultural join forces and/or clash makes for choice entertainment. That becomes even more true when it occurs in the gaming world, something that the team at Gozer Games no doubt was aware of as they followed up the successful Zombie Ninja Pirates with the addictive Vampire Werewolf Fairies.
This fast-paced game takes the idea of its predecessor—combining different characters to create a new mythical beast—while expanding on Zombie Ninja Pirates and also embracing it like a proud family member. You see, you can actually combine the two games to make Zombie Ninja Pirate Vampire Werewolf Fairies. Doing this allows you to play with up to 10 people at once, which would clearly make for an epic gaming session. But for the purpose of this review, let’s just focus on this latest installment in Gozer’s catalogue.
Where Vampire Werewolf Fairies instantly succeeds is in its (again) pacing and in the way it never takes itself seriously. How many times have you played a game with friends that has featured at least one or two bitter arguments between players? Right, too many, but that simply won’t occur here. This game is simply too lighthearted and silly to make anyone even think about getting angry. Plus, you’ll be throwing down the cards—type, action, and object—so quickly that you’ll be too busy playing the game to worry about anything else.
When it comes to gameplay, it goes a little something like this:
Type card: This is where you can start as a witch, vampire, werewolf, or fairy and, with time, combine them to become, say, a witch-werewolf or a vampire-fairy or whichever combination you’re into at that moment.
Action card: This is where the game gets really interesting as these cards allow you to take, well, action against your opponents and move closer to victory.
Object card: This type of card will allow you to gain or lose points based on how its played, which you can learn more about in the easy-to-read instructions.
One of the biggest appeals of the game, without question, is the pacing. And it’s not just that it’s designed so that you can play multiple rounds in an hour, though that’s definitely a plus, too. It’s the speed that will no doubt appeal to players who also enjoy other rapidly paced games. Like gambling, for example, that you can now do online by playing the exchange games at Betfair. The online casino offers users the chance to whip through rounds of baccarat, blackjack, and poker, among others, with the same adrenaline-laced rush and, of course, upbeat vibes. You might not be interacting with other players directly—as in playing against them in real life—like you would with Vampire Werewolf Fairies, but that sense of social competition remains. Also, you can really make it as lighthearted as you want it to be. After all, where’s the fun in playing a game if it isn’t, you know, actually FUN?
Like other reviewers have stated, Vampire Werewolf Fairies might come with an advisory that it’s for ages 13 and up, but you can definitely play this with younger children so long as they can read the cards. Given the content, it might get a little spooky at times, but it’s difficult to think of a better, more straight-up entertaining way to get into the Halloween spirit than by running through a few sessions of Vampire Werewolf Fairies. It is getting to be that time of the season, after all. Also, bonus points for anyone who is familiar with all the cultural reference Easter eggs hidden within the game cards.
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10 minutes - The Connection. 55 minutes - the Talk. Produced in 2000.
This video about the exploration of the system that made Omega the fourth deepest cave in the continental United States. This video has two parts.
The first part is a 10 minute program of the actual connection between two entrances in the year 2000, and is set to music.
The second part, 55 minutes, is a presentation made at the National Speleological Society (NSS) Convention in Elkins, WV in 2000. It presents a bit of history and plenty of slides from the cave and the connection trip.
At the time of this video, Omega cave was 10 miles long and 1260 feet deep. Now, in 2012, it is over 28 miles long and still growing.
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You are here: Home Newsroom News Using data for a positive impact
News item | 17-12-2019 | 13:25
Natural disasters occur more and more, so it is important that aid workers have fast and accurate data to make effective decisions and save lives. The Dutch Red Cross started project ‘510’ to provide data-driven services that translate digital data into useful information for all Red Cross National Societies.
Image: Kimberly Goff
It is crucial for the success of aid workers to have the most up to date information before, during and after a disaster has struck. Where are most of the affected people? How many and which buildings were damaged and how badly? Which roads are accessible? What agricultural land is still viable? The 510 service coordinates a dedicated team of staff and volunteers who can be activated to create products that provide information to answer such questions.
The service supports data-driven decision-making to improve the speed, quality and cost-effectiveness of humanitarian help during 4 phases of disaster:
Disaster preparedness through digital risk assessment.
Early warning through predictive impact analytics.
Disaster response through emergency data support.
Support in any phase of a disaster or crisis, through direct digital aid.
Satellite images and aerial photographs are used as data sources in many of these efforts.
Providing the right information is important, but ease of use also plays a vital part. Non-data driven humanitarian help have little space to further develop . 510 works from the idea that many end-users should be able to understand and use its information products without extra help. The service embeds human-centred design in its creation processes, ensuring that users are involved in the development of both products and service-delivery methods, from start to roll-out.
To ensure that the data is correct and trustworthy, 510 first checks if the information is authentic. They also look at where the data is stored, who published it and when it was issued. Added to that, the organisation inspects where data was uploaded and when smart phones were used.
Not only internal staff can benefit from this data, but also funding agencies and policy-makers. It will help them to assess the potentials of digital-driven approaches for the humanitarian sector.
Examples from the field
The service proved its significance before typhoon Mangkhut landed in the Philippines back in 2018. ‘510’ supported the Philippine Red Cross with damage predictions based on forecasted wind data and continued its support 6 hours after the typhoon landed based on actual data. Expected priority areas both before and after landfall were determined, which supported the Red Cross’ response to the disaster.
Another example from 2018 is Central Kenya’s dam burst that caused a major flash flood. Local aid workers had difficulty estimating how many people lived in the area and needed help. The Kenyan and Malawi Red Cross Data Team, together with 510, created a map that estimated how many buildings were affected and also indicated their original locations.
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Labor Esq Reps INT'L
Analyst Downgrades Theater Chains After 'Disastrous' 'Jack the Giant Slayer' Opening
8:30 PM PST 3/4/2013 by Paul Bond
In a research note, Eric Wold said the overall $83 million at the domestic box office over the weekend represented a 38 percent year-over-decline.
After several weeks of lackluster moviegoing in the U.S., a Wall Street analyst downgraded the theater chains Monday, sending shares of Regal Entertainment, Cinemark Holdings and Carmike Cinemas lower.
In a research note, analyst Eric Wold of B. Riley Caris called the $28 million opening of Jack the Giant Slayer “disastrous” and said the overall $83 million at the domestic box office over the weekend represented a 38 percent year-over-decline.
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Mostly, though, he worried about an ominous trend of weakness that could get worse this month, given that comparisons from last year include such hits as The Hunger Games and Dr. Seuss' The Lorax.
Wold had been predicting box-office revenue to fall domestically in the first quarter by 10 percent compared with a year ago, but he said Monday that “our updated analysis now points to a potential decline of 15 percent.”
“After six consecutive disappointing box office weekends and the expectation for increasingly difficult comparisons in March," he wrote, "we would not be surprised if continued headlines and additional estimate reductions and/or ratings downgrades weigh” on the sector.
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Caris downgraded Cinemark, Regal and Carmike from "buy" to “neutral.” He cut his price target on Cinemark and regal by $2 each and sliced Carmike by $2.50.
Shares of Cinemark fell 1 percent to $27.14 on Monday, Regal was off 1 percent to $15.20, and Carmike was off 4 percent to $15.50.
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Golden Globes TV Winners Include 'Succession' Breakthrough and 'Ramy' Surprise
8:31 PM PST 1/5/2020 by Rick Porter
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'Fleabag' and 'Chernobyl' also took home multiple honors, while HBO led the network haul.
The Golden Globe Awards don't serve as a predictor for future TV honors, so the Hollywood Foreign Press Association tends to let its freak flag fly with the TV honors. The group did so again Sunday with awards both predictable — Fleabag and Phoebe Waller-Bridge's dominion over the comedy categories from the 2019 Emmys continued — and utterly surprising.
The first award of the night went to Ramy Youssef, the star and co-creator of Hulu's critically acclaimed Ramy, a prime example of the HFPA finding a show or performer ignored by the previous Emmys and giving it a spotlight. Youssef was considered an outside shot in a category that included 2019 winner Michael Douglas (The Kominsky Method), Emmy winner Bill Hader (Barry) and fellow first-timers Paul Rudd (Living With Yourself) and Ben Platt (The Politician), but he fell into the "surprising" camp.
Less surprising were, well, most of the other picks. Four of the other six acting honors went to past winners: Russell Crowe for Showtime's The Loudest Voice, Patricia Arquette for Hulu's The Act, Olivia Colman for Netflix's The Crown and Michelle Williams for FX's Fosse/Verdon. Chernobyl's and Fleabag's respective limited series and comedy series nods carried over from the Emmys, and HBO's Succession broke through at the Globes with wins for drama series and lead actor Brian Cox after missing out on top honors at the Emmys.
With its small voting body and honors for series and actors only, the Globes don't often see a single series rack up a large trophy count. That was the case once again Sunday, with three shows — Fleabag, Chernobyl and Succession — each coming away with two awards and the other winners earning one.
Amid all that wealth-sharing, HBO still managed to keep its hold on the network crown, with the four victories for Succession and Chernobyl doubling the haul for any other outlet. Amazon and Hulu each snagged two honors, while FX, Showtime and Netflix each had one, with the latter coming up empty on its 16 other nominations. (The streamer also had a tough night on the film side, coming away with only one win from 17 noms.)
Globes favorites Arquette and Colman each walked away with their third statuette, with the Crown star keeping a perfect record at the awards — three nominations and three wins. Crowe and Williams each nabbed their second Golden Globe, both after long periods since their first: Williams won in 2012 for My Week With Marilyn, and Crowe's first came back in 2002 for A Beautiful Mind.
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Two St Albans families claim missing cat after microchip slip-up
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St Albans City Station staff rescuing the cat. Picture: Jo Daw
Two separate families have claimed ownership over a cat missing for seven months.
The rescued cat. Picture: Jo Daw
A friendly black feline was spotted by a commuter at St Albans City Station last week. She soon afterwards put out an appeal for its owners on social media.
The post said: “He seemed fine at first but when I got closer to him I realised he was a bit stiff when walking and not fat enough. He did not wear any collar but had nice fur which did not seem to indicate he was homeless. He was very sociable.
“I’m slightly worried for this cat and would appreciate if anyone could help me identify his owner.”
St Albans and District Cats Protection picked up the appeal and hurried to the station to find the moggy trapped and unwilling to emerge from hiding.
Jo Daw, from the charity, said: “She was completely enclosed by very high walls and spiked security fencing and wasn’t responding to being called or even when a broom handle rustled near her in the undergrowth.
“We began to get quite concerned that there was a possibility this was because she was ill or injured.”
Four employees at the station came to help, scaling the fence to rescue the cat.
A microchip scan revealed the cat had been missing for seven months. After a brief stay at Animalism Veterinary Surgery, the cat was reunited with her official owners.
However, another person also came forward to claim ownership, believing the 17-year-old cat was also hers.
The kitty had climbed into her window seven months ago, and after a futile search to trace the owners, the woman had taken her in.
Jo said: “She had never heard of microchipping, so it hadn’t crossed her mind to ask a vet or rescue to scan for a chip.
“So a day of mixed feelings for all, but a huge reminder of the importance of microchipping, updating records and details, and asking a vet or rescue to check for a microchip if you think you have found a lost or stray cat, and a happy ending for this little one.”
She thanked the rail station staff for their help.
For more information about the charity, visit www.cats.org.uk/stalbans
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Berlin Symposium on Internet and Society
Exploring the Digital Future
Berlin, October 25 – 28th 2011
We would like to thank all attendees for participating in the 1st Berlin Symposium on Internet and Society which took place at the end of October 2011. Together with national and international scientists we celebrated an extraordinary inauguration of the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society and succeeded in bringing together thoughts and ideas within the first Symposium in Berlin.
The symposium consisted of three elements:
The Research Symposium, taking place on October 26th and 27th, was a transdisciplinary academic conference which brought together researchers who are committed to work in the area of Internet and Society. Presentations and workshop discussions followed the leitmotiv to find the most interesting and prudent research questions. The workshops addressed questions about Internet governance, global constitutionalism, Internet innovation and information, and media law. Many international scholars across academic and professional fields shared their transnational perspective on societal opportunities and challenges of the internet.
The Inauguration on October 25th marked the official beginning of the new Institute for Internet and Society in Berlin which is named after the naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt. At the evening ceremony the scientific board and the board of trustees were announced. In a symbolic act David C. Drummond, Senior Vice President at Google handed over the new Institute’s logo to our four research directors.
The Open Science Forum on October 28th was designed based on a diverse and innovative format. In accordance to approaches of transdisciplinary research networks it was the intention to reconsider the questions of societal impacts of digitalisation with researchers and stakeholders from industry, politics and civil society interest groups. Various transdisciplinary working sessions took a closer look at real world problems of the information society.
The exchange of perspectives during the symposium and the discussions in the workshops yielded an enormous output of ideas, remarks and new questions. Over the past weeks we’ve screened a lot of them and prepared an extensive paperwork to follow up on this event. Please find the documentation for each workshop and research topic by using the sidebar on the left. Additionally you will find an overview of the Symposium Draft Papers here
This follow-up is also meant as an invitation for further debates and participation. We will thereby help to set the research agenda and facilitate the emergence of joint projects among Internet & society scholars.
You can find a list of all workshops held below. If you click on the links, you will find a more detailed description of the workshops as well as a draft paper.
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National Population Register exercise on despite protests, pilot project started
The government had initially said that updation of NPR would be followed by a NRC wherein individuals are supposed to prove their citizenship either by birth or by naturalisation.
india Updated: Jan 15, 2020 12:00 IST
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Lawyers protest against NPR, NRC and CAA in New Delhi on Tuesday.(PTI Photo)
Despite the opposition against National Population Register (NPR) - a biometric database of ordinary residents of India - preparations are on in full swing to update it. Enumerators are being trained to collect data and a “pre-test” or pilot project has already started.
The NPR first came into being in 2010 and was updated in 2015. Unlike the Census database, which protects the data released and is keep records up to block and Tehsils, the NPR is household specific and data is not protected. The NPR records data like name, age, address, along with linking biometric data like Aadhar, mobile phone and passport among others.
The government had initially said that updation of NPR would be followed by a National Register of Citizens (NRC) wherein individuals are supposed to prove their citizenship either by birth or by naturalisation. Those left out of NRC would then have to appeal to Foreigners’ Tribunals to be regarded as citizens.
There have been country-wide protests against NPR and NRC, some of which even turned violent. Prime Minister Narendra Modi was, however, quick to assure the fears and at a rally in Delhi said that no decision has been taken by his government on NRC.
“We expect the protest and resistance to die down as people are made aware of why NPR is required,” a senior government official who didn’t want to be named said. The government has maintained that NPR data will help frame developmental policies better.
The BJP, along side the government’s campaign to raise awareness on NPR, is also doing a door-to-door campaign. It hopes to touch five crore households by February this year. Home Minister Amit Shah also did a similar campaign in Delhi.
In addition to this, the Centre hopes that states like West Bengal, Kerala who have been at the forefront of opposition to NPR and NRC will also come around given the benefits an updated NPR would bring to administering government schemes.
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It has never been more important to protect the environment and the brave people fighting to defend it. The battle for the environment is also a crucial battleground for human rights. Read more
In 2012, Global Witness mourned the death of a fellow campaigner. Chut Wutty had spent years exposing how Cambodia’s political and business elite have accumulated vast fortunes by selling off the country’s land and forests. He was murdered by military police while showing journalists an illegal logging site.
Wutty’s death prompted Global Witness to research others like it. Our 2012 briefing A Hidden Crisis found that over 711 activists, journalists and community members had been killed in the last decade defending their rights to land, forests and rivers. By 2018, this death toll had risen to over 1,400. The true figure is likely to be far higher, as reliable evidence is extremely hard to find or verify.
What is clear is that the environment has become a new battleground for human rights. As demand for land and natural resources drives companies into new territories, they are increasingly striking deals with state officials without the consent of local people. While destructive industries like mining and logging continue to drive many attacks, agribusiness has risen in recent years as a major cause of threats and attacks against defenders.
Communities, many of whom have protected their land for generations, are left in the firing line of unaccountable companies, state security forces and contract killers. A lack of attention to the problem has fed endemic levels of impunity, with investigations into killings rare, and even fewer prosecutions.
In a savage irony, while the killers go free, the activists themselves are being branded as criminals. The powerful are increasingly using laws, arrests, intimidation and smear campaigns to silence those who oppose them. These subtler threats don’t make headlines like murders do – which is why they are so effective for silencing dissent.
Global Witness is campaigning to stop the killing and criminalisation of land and environmental defenders, and to ensure they can live and work without fear or intimidation.
We monitor killings and advocate for reforms aimed at stopping the extraction of resources from stoking conflict. We investigate the root causes of violence in priority countries, pushing governments to monitor and prevent abuses and bring perpetrators to justice. And we work hard to force this hidden crisis onto political agendas.
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These unfortunate statistics are created every day. Sometimes these car accidents are caused by the negligence of the other driver, leaving you as the victim. In addition to the emotional shock that car accidents cause, car accidents can also result in major injuries or even death. Injuries from an auto accident can be devastating producing physical pain and suffering and may have a long-term financial impact. If the accident resulted in a death, family members of the deceased may want to file a wrongful death lawsuit to get compensation for their loss,:and pain. In an unfortunate situation like this oneFailure to observe traffic ordinances such as stop signs, red traffic
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The following factors may be considered negligence in an auto accident:
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With all of the traffic in Houston, Texas, trying to avoid auto accidents can be difficult. Practicing safe driving can greatly decrease your chances of being involved in an auto accident. Below are some safe driving tips that every driver should be aware of:
Always be alert!—avoid driving when tired to keep from dozing off at the wheel and losing control of your vehicle
Maintain your focus, NO CELL PHONES—people who talk on cell phones while driving are four times more likely to have an accident
Be aware of severe weather conditions!—Florida is known for its unpredictable weather. Sudden weather changes have the potential of making driving conditions very different
Avoid driving in heavy storms and be cautious of high winds. If you must drive, decrease your speed.
Drive slow in foggy weather, keep your lights on low beam and be wary of vehicles and pedestrians that you may not be able to see.
Always use your turn signals
Avoid tailgating— In the event that a car has to stop suddenly, driving too closely behind a vehicle can result in a rear end collision
Try not to cut in front of vehicles—cutting in front of vehicles can cause serious and sometimes fatal auto accidents.
Avoid driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol—alcohol impairs one’s ability to make split second decisions and can negatively affect one’s ability to judge distances when driving
Be aware of other cars on the road—while you may be practicing safe driving, other drivers may not. It is important that you always remember you are not the only car on the road!
Unfortunately, even the safest drivers may find themselves involved in an auto accident. If that driver is you, or a loved one, Help is Here!!! Contact our Houston car accident lawyers for a no-cost evaluation of your case.
Common Causes of Car Accidents
As experienced Houston car accident attorneys, we are all to familiar with the ordeal an injury victim and his/her family goes through following a head-on collision. As reported by the U.S. Census Bureau, head-on motor vehicle collisions can be the most harrowing and fatal of motor vehicle collisions. The resulting injuries from these accidents often include permanent disfigurement, permanent immobility, and even fatality. Pusch & Nguyen makes it our priority to begin our investigation on the outset in order to understand and ultimately bolster the basis of your motor vehicle collision case.
When a motorist is driving unsafely, with intentional disregard for safety, and knowing that their driving may cause a motor vehicle collision; that motorist is a reckless driver. When a reckless driver is found to be reckless, he/she could have been driving in a threatening or harassing manner out of “road rage” and caused a motor vehicle collision. This interaction is an assault committed at the hands of the reckless driver. Like any assault, criminal charges may follow from this type of conduct.
Aggressive driving is defined as a pattern of conduct involving illegal driving conduct such as speeding, illegal/improper lane changes, excessive lane changes, erratic lane changes, failing to properly signal, and/or illegal/improper passing.
If you find yourself on the road with an aggressive driver avoid the driver when safe, avoid any eye contact or other non-verbal communication, do not impede said driver,safe report said reckless driver to law enforcement.
High Speed Collision
Excessive speed is a contributing factor for almost a third of all motor vehicle collisions involving or causing a fatality. Traveling at excessive speeds at the time of collision may put your vehicle under such unanticipated force that the structural integrity of the vehicle can’t possibly protect its passengers.
Travelling at excessive speeds causes diminished reaction time to avoid a collision, creates the need for a greater stopping distance, increases crash force, reduces effectiveness of safety devices such as airbags and seatbelts. Surviving a high-speed collision leaves the victim with grueling and costly recovery process in terms of both physical and emotional recovery.
Despite the obvious hazard of texting and driving, the number of motor vehicle collisions caused by texting while driving is on the rise. This is clearly one of the most precarious driving distractions we face. Pusch & Nguyen have seen many fatal motor vehicle collisions that could have been simply avoided by keeping eyes on
road and off of the phone. Make it a point to prevent yourself from making a terrible mistake, and keep your phone stowed while driving; it is not worth it.
Side Impact Collisions
Side impact motor vehicle collision happen on a regular basis, are very serious, and regularly result in fatalities. Side impact collisions, or t-bone collisions, usually take place at intersections as a result of one driver’s failure to yield the right of way. The seriousness of a side impact collision depends on various factors, such as the speed and vehicle weight of the oncoming vehicle, and the point of impact. Side airbags can reduce the likelihood and severity of injuries. However, never allow a child twelve or under to sit in the front seat; regardless of impact, the impact of an airbag can be lethal for children.
Motor vehicle collisions involving drunk driving result from said driver’s diminished cognitive capacity; the drunk driver is unable to maintain a single marked lane of traffic, unable to stop in time, or even realize the impending collision. In certain cases, liability for the collision may also lie with the provider of alcohol. Surviving a motor vehicle collision caused by a drunk driver
Operating a motor vehicle after drinking is elective 100% of the time. Anyone who has a had a drink, followed by a drink, and then maybe another knows full and well the impact of alcohol on one’s cognitive capacity. Shockingly, drunk driving remains one of the preeminent causes of injury and fatality on U.S. roadways. But, people still gamble with their life and the lives of others by driving drunk and/or under the influence of alcohol.impart on the victim a terrible ordeal involving a painful and expensive recovery process, and can many times leave victims of fatality.
Driver fatigue is fairly common across the
county, and frequently causes deadly collisions with even more collisions resulting in serious bodily injuries. Motor vehicle collisions due to driver fatigue are avoidable. Anyone who finds themselves driving a vehicle and is fatigued or feels sleepy should pull over into the nearest rest stop facility.
Unfortunately, drivers motivated to stay on the road for extended periods of time regularly drive with unreasonable amounts of driver fatigue. For example, truckers are a huge concern as them staying on the road means more compensation. However, there are laws regulating the hours a driver may be on the road, and the violation of those laws, when a motor vehicle collision results, can lead a jury to a finding of negligence per se.
If you or a family member has been
injured, or even killed, in a vehicle rollover incident, the road conditions or the motor vehicle design itself could be a cause of the accident. Unsecured loads or gravel, or other debris can create extreme angles when deposited on roadways, which can easily lead a vehicle to flip or become airborne. Any defect in vehicle design that would allow for easier rollover collisions would require a fair amount of investigation and proof. Either way, Pusch & Nguyen’s car accident expertise is a start in the right direction.
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andbruises are just a few of the injuries that you can get during an accident.
All of these injuries have negative effects on the victim. Whether it's multiple doctor visits or continuous pain and suffering, you shouldn't have to deal with these issues alone or without compensation. Car crash victims have to deal with numerous problems, including:
Loss of work
Scars and disfigurement
Sometimes a person doesn't survive a crash. The family then has to deal with a wrongful death and the pain that comes along with it. If a person without insurance coverage causes an accident, it can cause even more problems for the victims. Having a personal injury lawyer on your side can help ease the situation and bring peace of mind to the victims and their families.
How Can a Houston Personal Injury Lawyer Help?
We have built an experienced and professional team here at Pusch and Nguyen Law Firm. It's our job to establish negligence on the at-fault party, to prove how much you've suffered in the accident, and to seek the maximum amount of compensation for your recovery. We'll keep you involved every step of the way and help to ease your stress throughout the entire process.
What are Your Legal Options After a Crash?
If someone injures you in an auto accident, you have the option to pursue legal justice by filing a personal injury lawsuit. The statute of limitations to file a personal injury lawsuit is two years in Texas. Though you have time to file a claim, it's best to start immediately after an accident. If you suffered an injury and can't work, you'll need compensation for your losses until you can get back on your feet.
Our Houston Car Accident Lawyers Can Help
You don't have to live through the pain or to deal with medical bills piling up after an accident. Our car crash lawyers want to hear your case. We'll help determine fault, estimate the value of your personal injury claim and work with you to obtain a fair settlement. If your case goes to trial, Pusch and Nguyen Law Firm will be on your side and protect your rights throughout the judicial process.
Contact us today to learn how we can help with your personal injury case. We'll establish your objectives and get to work on a strategy to secure the damages that you deserve.and vehicle crashes resulted in more than 254,000 injuries. When a car crash occurs, it's important to speak with a personal injury lawyer right away.
The car accident lawyers at Pusch and Nguyen Law Firm have 50 years of combined experience and a 99 percent success rate. Most car accidents happen because of a negligent driver. We want to hold these people accountable for their actions and to get you full compensation for your injuries and expenses.
What Causes Car Accidents in Houston?
Most car crashes aren't really accidents at all. They're caused by negligent drivers who were driving recklessly or weren't paying attention behind the wheel. These crashes cause numerous injuries every day in Houston, including countless deaths on Texas highways and interstates.
A negligent driver is someone who causes an accident and personal injury to someone else. Negligent driving comes in many forms such as:
Drunk Driving – There may be a law against drunk driving, but it doesn't stop people from getting behind the wheel while intoxicated. In fact, drunk drivers killed 1,024 people on Texas roads in 2017.
Distracted Driving – Distracted drivers caused 3,450 deaths across the country in 2016, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). These types of crashes can occur when people text or talk on the phone while driving. In 2017, 449 people in Texas died in crashes involving distracted driving.
Driving Fatigue – Falling asleep behind the wheel causes countless accidents every year in the United States. A person doesn't have to fall asleep to cause an accident. Driver fatigue can set in while driving on a long trip or after working third shift. If a person lacks alertness, it increases the response time needed to drive and react effectively.
Reckless Driving – Some people show no regard for another person's safety. They'll speed through red lights and stop signs, race other cars on the highway and make dangerous passes on a solid double line. These reckless behaviors lead to serious and sometimes fatal crashes.
Speeding – If a person speeds and causes an accident, it's deemed a negligent offense. Speeding increases the risk of accidents and causes tens of thousands of wrecks in Texas each year.
Car Accident Injuries and Common Problems
Not all car crashes cause injuries. However, some crashes lead to minor and serious injuries, some of which can last a lifetime. Broken bones, whiplash
cutsThese motorA car crash occurred every 59 seconds on Texas highways in 2017, according to the Texas Department of Transportation
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When you step onto a city transit bus or put your child onto a school bus, you entrust the bus driver, the bus company and a host of others with your and your loved ones’ safety and security. An accident is among the last things you expect. Yet, accidents happen.
Because of the many ways a bus crash can happen, the question of who is responsible for injuries and other damages depends upon the circumstances of the accident. Early in the case it is important for your lawyer to identify certain parties, such as the owner of the bus, the company that operates it, and the company responsible for making repairs and maintaining the bus in a safe mechanical condition. Finding an attorney who will locate all potentially responsible parties is crucial. Some of those your lawyer may identify as parties responsible for your injuries include:
The Bus Company – A bus accident may occur because the bus company sends a defective bus out on the road with faulty brakes, a shaky steering column or overused tires. The company’s actions in hiring unqualified drivers, maintenance people and other personnel, or in negligently training or supervising them may also contribute to the cause of an accident. In addition, the company may be found at fault for a bus crash and passenger injuries caused by its failure to make or enforce adequate safety procedures.
Bus Maintenance Companies – If the bus company contracts an independent company to maintain the vehicles in a safe mechanical condition, that company may be sued independently for negligent maintenance that causes a crash or accident.
State or Local Governments – Local governments, such as cities and counties, may also bear responsibility for your injuries. Government fault may exist, for example, where a government-owned transit bus is involved in the accident and the cause of the accident was negligence of the bus driver or of a city worker performing his employment duties.
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First, make sure that you and any of your loved ones receive prompt medical attention. Because buses are commercial carriers, their personnel will generally call for medical help for any passengers who might need it. Insist on a full medical evaluation of injuries, including tests for head, back and spinal injuries.
Next – and as soon as possible – contact a reputable attorney with expertise in handling bus accident cases. There are many regulations that are specific to common carriers, such as bus companies and government transit lines, and experienced bus accident attorneys will be able to determine how they apply to your case. Also, statutes of limitations restrict the amount of time you have to file a claim after a crash, particularly if a government entity is involved. Government entities usually have shorter terms within which to file a bus accident claim. You should only entrust your case to a lawyer who has experience and proven results in similar cases, to ensure that your case is handled competently and that the filing deadlines in your case are protected.
Greyhound & Tour Buses
Greyhound buses, tour buses, and other commercial providers carry thousands of passengers every day, often on long-haul interstate trips. Accidents and crashes occur for many reasons, including driver fatigue, careless driving, negligence on the part of other drivers, dangerous road conditions, poor mechanical maintenance and defectively designed or manufactured parts.
Another factor that may lead to bus crashes is criminal activity, such as an assault by a passenger on the driver. According to Greyhound’s own records, between October 3, 1997 and October 3, 2001, there were 42 incidents in which Greyhound passengers assaulted or attempted to assault the bus driver, or grabbed or attempted to grab the driver, the steering wheel or the brakes while the bus was moving. The bus service operator may be liable for damages caused by criminal activity if the criminal activity could have been foreseen and avoided.
Many of these types of buses, as with school buses, do not have lap or shoulder belts to protect occupants from being thrown around the interior of the bus or ejected in the event of a crash. While the driver’s seats in these vehicles must by law have personal restraint systems, the passengers may not be so fortunate, because the federal government does not require passenger seat belts. The government’s reasoning is that installing them would cost the vehicle manufacturers and bus companies money that, so far, the government believes they ought not be compelled to spend.
Because of the lack of a mandate to install seat restraints, when a tour bus or a Greyhound bus crashes, riders are at a greater risk of being seriously injured or killed than would be the case if seat restraints were required. Although federal law does not require these types of vehicles to have seat belts for passengers, it is important for your attorney to know that some courts across the nation have nevertheless allowed suits to proceed against those responsible for deciding not to install them.
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5 Best Sunday Brunches in Bangkok
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Sunday brunch in Bangkok should be on everyone’s travel itinerary: a buffet of the world’s finest delicacies, all freshly prepared and presented for guests to enjoy at their leisure. The sheer excess of the occasion needs to be experienced at least once and with Bangkok’s great-value prices, it's significantly cheaper than can be found in most other tourist destinations in the world. Whether its oysters, lobster, roast leg of lamb, divine desserts or free-flow wines and cocktails, a Sunday brunch is the best way to spoil your loved ones and let them indulge in all their favorites to their heart’s content. For comfort and practicality's sake, it’s probably a good idea to wear loose-fitting clothes.
Running from late morning into mid-afternoon, many of the top hotels offer a Sunday brunch, but the best brunches in Bangkok are those that we feel have the greatest range of gourmet ingredients from around the globe, classic settings as well as limitless amounts.
Sukhothai Bangkok Sunday Brunch
The Sukhothai Sunday brunch has an elegant, almost regal feeling. Certainly, it's the top pick for visiting parents or for a refined afternoon with discerning guests. Louie Roeder champagne packages are available for extra-special occasions.
Highlights include whole foie gras canard cooked a la minute and served with a chutney, a range of oysters imported from across Europe, sushi, sashimi, and a huge short rib roast beef joint. More than 10 types of cheeses are available, including a fantastic raclette grilled cheese served with pickles and cured meats. The buffet selection has been carefully curated so that everything on offer is something special. The live jazz quartet is an added plus.
Location: 13/3 S Sathon Rd, Thung Maha Mek, Sathon, Bangkok 10120, Thailand
Open: Sunday from 12pm to 3pm
Trader Vics Sunday Brunch at Anantara Riverside
If the hustle and bustle of Bangkok gets too much, escape to this Polynesian-inspired paradise with a full range of Thai delicacies, seafood including Alaskan crab and 3 kinds of oysters, and a menu of fantastic cocktails. The fruity and powerful mai tai cocktail was first invented by Trader Vics’ California branch so it’s the perfect place to try one…or several.
As you enter, all guests receive a garland of flowers and there's a live band performing throughout the afternoon, which helps to create the most convivial atmosphere of all the Sunday brunches in Bangkok. Read more...
Location: Krung Thonburi Road, Khlong Ton Sai, Khlong San, Bangkok 10600, Thailand
Open: Sunday from 11.30am to 3pm
Bubbly Sunday Brunch at InterContinental Bangkok
Bubbly Sunday Brunch at InterContinental has the most impressive selection of classic British dishes of all the brunch menus in Bangkok. Guests can feast on roast beef, lamb hotpot, and a sublime desserts spread, among other tasty treats. Smooth jazz entertains the crowd and a range of free-flow packages keeps everyone jolly. Add to this a half red lobster for every guest, delivered direct to your table, and seafood delicacies such as shucked oysters, shrimp and mussels, and you can see why this is one of the most popular Sunday brunches in Bangkok.
Another plus point is the location: with direct access from Chit Lom BTS Skytrain and surrounded by Bangkok's finest shopping malls, it's easy to combine brunch at InterContinental Bangkok with a spot of shopping or sightseeing.
Location: 973 Phloen Chit Rd, Lumphini, Pathum Wan District, Bangkok 10330
Viu at St. Regis Bangkok Sunday Brunch
A stylish setting, fantastic seafood and a dedicated cheese room are the hallmarks of the Sunday brunch at St. Regis Bangkok Hotel. Though not unique to this brunch, the sashimi is so praised here because it comes courtesy of Zuma Japanese Restaurant, located on the ground floor of the hotel, guaranteeing quality and freshness.
For meat lovers, there's succulent beef, lamb and venison to enjoy as well as premium cold cuts from Europe. The cheese room has so many varieties of soft and hard cheese that there will surely be something to appeal to all tastes. After plates of crab claws, Peking duck and another few rounds of dessert, you'll certainly leave stuffed and content.
Location: 159 Rajadamri Road, Pathum Wan District, Bangkok 10330, Thailand
Phone: +66(0)2 207 7777
Feast Sunday Brunch at Royal Orchid Sheraton Hotel
If you're looking for a wide selection of cuisine, Feast at Royal Orchid Sheraton Hotel is hard to beat. There are cooking stations running through the dining room and looping around the riverside terrace, serving Thai, Indian, Chinese, grilled meats, pasta and seafood, and the 3-tiered dessert section is as remarkable to see as it is to sample.
Popular with families, there's a dedicated children’s area with nannies, magicians and Disney movies so the whole family can really enjoy their Sunday afternoon down by the river.
Location: 2 Charoen Krung Road Soi 30 Siphya, Bang Rak, Bangkok 10500, Thailand
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The ROI of Privileged ID Governance
Merritt Maxim of CA Technologies on the Business Benefits Information Security Media Group • June 24, 2014 10 Minutes
Organizations are careful when granting privileged access to critical systems. But they struggle to govern these privileged identities. Merritt Maxim of CA Technologies shares new strategies.
By taking extra care in privileged identity governance, organizations can improve their entire security posture, says Maxim, director of identity management product marketing at CA Technologies.
A fundamental challenge for many organizations: just knowing who their privileged users are. "In any large, distributed organization, you've got lots of employees," Maxim says. "They are changing roles and responsibilities. They may get added on to certain projects for certain business initiatives. Even just understanding at any given moment in time who your privileged users are - just the discovery of those [users] is a very important step and one that can be challenge."
In an interview about privileged identity governance, Maxim discusses:
Why privileged identities are often managed badly;
How leading organizations are addressing privileged identity governance;
Business benefits of improving identity management.
Maxim has 15 years of product management and product marketing experience in the information security industry, including stints at RSA Security, Netegrity and CA Technologies. In his current role at CA Technologies, Merritt handles product marketing for CA's identity management and cloud security initiatives. The co-author of "Wireless Security" Merritt blogs on a variety of IT security topics, and can be followed at www.twitter.com/merrittmaxim.
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Managing Privileged Identity Access
TOM FIELD: Why is privileged identity management still managed badly in organizations?
MERRITT MAXIM: When you say privileged identities, those are the users who have access to your most critical data and systems. Therefore, those systems are at the highest risk for hackers and also potential disclosure of data information. I wouldn't necessarily say that it is consistently managed badly, but it's not just the managing of the privileged users and understanding their access. [It's] being able to do that on a holistic basis, in an ongoing manner, [to] verify at any moment what your privileged users have access to and how they use that. When the auditors come knocking, you've got to have answers for them [about how you can] better control and manage your risk.
Commonly Overlooked Risks
FIELD: What do you see as some of the most commonly overlooked risks when it comes to privileged identity management?
MAXIM: Just knowing who all of your privileged users are. With any large, distributed organization, you've got lots of employees that are changing roles and responsibilities. They may get added on to projects for certain business initiatives, and just understanding at any moment who your privileged users are can be a challenge. So organizations may think that they can define and know who all of those privileged users are, but chances are they may be missing a handful here or there who, over time, have accumulated privileges for new systems. That's an area that is often overlooked, and certainly is an important place to start. By discovering those, you can then implement the appropriate controls to manage and control them going forward.
FIELD: You grant privileges, but they never get revoked, do they?
MAXIM: That's exactly what happens, and it's not just for privileged users, it's for all types of users. Certainly the longer you've been with an organization, the greater likelihood that you've accumulated privileges over time that are no longer necessary or relevant to your job, and that becomes a potential compliance and audit risk. It's not that you're using those entitlements; just the fact that you have those means that account is potentially susceptible to hacking or other issues. Trying to reduce that privilege creep over time is definitely a goal that organizations should be assuming, obviously for privileged users, but for all users as well.
Identity and Access Governance
FIELD: What do you see organizations addressing when it comes to identity and access governance?
MAXIM: With governance, the identity access management market is a mature market. It's been around for over a decade, and listeners will have a general understanding of what's involved. The governance angle is certainly a level beyond just the management. It is one thing to manage the users, but it's really, when we talk about governance, about managing users throughout their entire lifecycle in the organization, from the day they're hired to when they're transferred or promoted. Have a holistic process in place so that their entitlements are managed and secured throughout their lifecycle, and are in fact governed so that when they do leave the organization, you can immediately revoke those privileges to prevent any future gaps of what we call orphan accounts. [Those] are scenarios where users who have left the organization, or may have left a role in their organization, but they still have valid credentials on a system. That is another variance of privilege creep, and is a definite red flag for auditors. Having that holistic governance process in place can hopefully help minimize the risk of orphan accounts and better improve your compliance posture.
Privileged Identity Management
FIELD: How do we distinguish identity and access governance from privileged identity management?
MAXIM: It gets more [into] semantics of what's involved with the different terms, management versus governance. A lot of organizations have already implemented some form of privilege identity management today. But those deployments often lack automated processes to verify that the administrator access rights are valid on an ongoing basis. Having the governance feature enables us to have those automated processes in place to help verify the access rights on an ongoing basis. Privilege identity management is an important first step, and something an organization should be considering if they haven't already. It's really being able to put that governance in place to do the automated verification of rights on an ongoing basis, where you start to see additional value and savings in the form of not having to do verifications on a manual basis, which can consume a lot of time and resources.
FIELD: How does CA Technologies address the area of privileged identity governance?
MAXIM: CA Technologies has been an active participant in the identity access management market for over a decade. In response to the growing need for more complete solutions around privileged identity management, we have a solution that can address delivering governance using two solutions from our portfolio. One is called CA Control Binder, which provides some shared account management capabilities for secure storage and access of privileged user passwords. Then we have an additional product called CA Governance Binder that does ongoing certification campaigns on privileged users using automated work flow and approval processes to help stream on that. It's the integration of those two products that gives organizations the ability to implement privileged identity governance today.
FIELD: In addition to identifying the privilege orders in an organization, what are the business benefits customers are seeing with your solutions?
MAXIM: Certainly the risk angle is being able to mitigate the risk of privileged users. [That is] a big benefit, one that customers see a lot of value in, given that privileged users do have access inside the system. Having the automated process in place and visibility into administrative access rights is very important, because hopefully it will allow you to remove or make adjustments to those access rights in real time. That can better control your risk. The ongoing operational efficiency that can be gained by automating some of these processes around how you regulate and verify administrative actions, there's definite value in doing that. A lot of companies today may rely on spreadsheets or other kind of manual-based processes that, while they do the job, can be cumbersome and require a lot of extra manpower to administer. Streamlining those processes to have more automation, users will be directed to a portal, they'd see a list of all the users, and have easily approved or rejected access rights makes. [It] also gives you some accountability that you can then, when the auditors request, verify that these are users that are on regular intervals and that any outstanding issues have been remediated appropriately.
FIELD: So they're going to save time and resources that then can be spent elsewhere?
MAXIM: Correct, on potentially more higher-value-added items of the business. So instead of pouring through spreadsheets, the users can now be more involved with configuring new systems or doing other types of things that are going to better actually help grow the business.
FIELD: Where do customers start to assess and mitigate their risk when it comes to privileged identity management?
MAXIM: First thing, obviously, is really looking at your environment and understanding where your privileged users sit. Once you have a handle on who those privileged users are, then engage in cross functionally with your audit team and others to understand what the underlying risks are associated with target systems. Then, prioritize the highest system as the one that you want to implement around this first. The good news, when you're talking privileged users, is in most cases it's a much smaller subset of the employee population. So getting that prioritization of what your highest systems are is a good first step. Next step will be discovering who has access to those systems, and then once you've got that knowledge in place, you can begin to put in place some basic processes to verify their access rights and implement privilege of any governance.
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YouTube's Original Content Soon To Be Ad-Supported and Free
Iris Hearn
August 22nd, 2019 min read
Starting September 24th, YouTube’s original programming will move from premium member-only access to ad-supported shows.
YouTube Originals are YouTube-backed original scripted shows, music, reality television, documentaries, and more.
Previously, this content could only be accessed with a YouTube Premium membership. Now, Premium members will still be able to enjoy these shows ad-free, while non-members will be able to watch with ad breaks. It’s currently unclear if these ads will be skippable or not.
This change comes after a larger shift in YouTube’s video strategy. The platform stopped taking pitches for scripted shows last November in an effort to place more focus on music, personality, and learning content (i.e., what people go on YouTube for).
YouTube’s decision to offer this content ad-free brings opportunities for advertisers to capture new audiences on the platform. Additionally, it suggests that scripted-style television shows may not work as well on social media as they do on paid streaming platforms.
Opportunities for marketers
YouTube’s original series feature many familiar faces that already have large followings on their own YouTube channels, like Liza Koshy, PewDiePie, and Roman Atwood.
The idea behind YouTube Premium was that if people’s favorite creators were making content on the platform, YouTube would be able to attract new paying members.
Clearly, given the volume of premium content produced, this strategy worked to a degree, but ultimately didn’t have the business impact YouTube wanted. It’s not that people weren’t interested in the content, but likely that they didn’t want to pay $18/month when their favorite creators already had plenty of free content on the same platform.
However, because it’s been gated for so long, it’s likely that those who held off from paying for the membership (e.g., me) will flock to the original content when it is opened for all on September 24th.
This expected increase in traffic means that advertisers will have a larger audience — and that YouTube can charge accordingly. Given that YouTube already has the broadest ad reach of any ad-supported video service, this is a big opportunity for marketers to get more eyes on their ads.
Additionally, because much of this content is multi-episode series (some with multiple seasons), advertisers can not only reach more users, but can also hold their attention longer as they come back for more episodes.
Due to this news, marketers should consider allocating more ad spend to YouTube on September 24th and days following.
Do scripted series work on social media?
While this shift will likely provide benefits to advertisers in the short-term, it’s worth looking at the big picture of how social media platforms should approach video content — and how your business should approach social media.
After seeing the success streaming platforms like Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime have had with their own original series, it only makes sense that social media platforms would want to hop on the trend.
We’ve already seen Facebook and Snapchat add this type of content to their own platforms, with Facebook looking to expand to include even more original series.
However, considering that YouTube has been doing this for a few years now and is deciding to end its scripted shows, it begs the question: If this didn’t work for YouTube, will this style work for other non-video centric social media platforms?
While YouTube will still produce ad-supported shows, it’s shifted into a style that better mirrors the best aspects of the platform: personalities, music, and learning.
The reason original scripted content works on Netflix or HBO is that people already use the service to watch similar style content, so it fits right into their model.
If social media platforms want to see success from producing original content, they’ll need to approach it in the same way. You can’t force users to change the way they like to use your platform — you can, however, create features that add to their experience.
For this reason, I think that YouTube’s new premium content approach has a good chance of being successful since the platform is now creating high-quality content targeted around what users come to the platform for. This is mutually beneficial for the platform’s bottom like and its advertisers alike.
It all comes back to your customers!
This shift shows marketers yet again that no matter what, all strategies should come back to what your customers want and need from your service.
Your prospects and customers may have a lot of things they like, but it doesn’t mean your service is the right solution to give it to them.
At the end of the day, it all comes down to focusing on what your business can do for your customers, and then perfecting those niche set of services so you’re the clear choice.
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Tullow Oil Norge AS, operator of production licence 551, is in the process of completing the drilling of wildcat well 31/3-4. The well was dry. The well was drilled approx. ten kilometres north of the Troll C facility in the North Sea. The well's primary exploration target was to prove petroleum in Late Jurassic reservoir rocks (the Sognefjord formation). Secondary exploration targets were to prove petroleum in the Paleocenic rocks (the Lista formation) and Middle/Late Jurassic reservoir rocks (the Krossfjord and Fensfjord formations and the Brent group). In both the primary and secondary exploration targets the well encountered reservoir rocks and reservoir quality as expected. Comprehensive data acquisition and sampling have been carried out. The well is the first exploration well in production licence 551. The licence was awarded in APA 2009. The well was drilled to a vertical depth of 2082 metres below sea level and was terminated in the Brent group in reservoir rocks from the Middle Jurassic. Water depth at the site is 348 metres. The well will now be permanently plugged and abandoned. Well 31/3-4 was drilled by the Transocean Barents drilling facility, which will now proceed to production licence 659 in the Barents Sea to drill wildcat well 7222/11-2, where Det norske oljeselskap ASA is the operator.
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HRT Officially Receives Transocean Marianas
The Transocean Marianas semi-submersible drilling rig has officially been handed over to HRT for the start of its contract with the Brazilian operator in Namibia, the unit is now enroute to the country from Ghana and is expected to arrive within three weeks. The unit will undergo 21 days of maintenance before it begins to work on the Wingat prospect where it is expected to drill for up to 60 days. The unit was previously contracted by Eni in Ghana for a three year term from December 2009.
Transocean Marianas rig arrives in Namibia ahead of HRT drilling contract
The Transocean Marianas semi-submersible drilling unit has arrived in walvis bay in Namibia ahead of its contract with HRT. The unit will undergo necessary maintenance work for a three to four week period before it is used to drill the Wingat Prospect in the Walvis Basin. The rig will be embarking upon a drilling campaign in the Walvis and Orange basins in Namibia with HRT estimating that up to 7.39BOE can be discovered with it exploration campaign.
Continued delay of 'Songa Trym' adds to woes for Songa Offshore
Songa announced further bad news for the company with the release of its ‘December fleet report’, with the news that the upgrade work on the Songa Trym semisubmersible rig was taking longer than expected and would be delayed again with the unit now unlikely to begin its contract with Statoil in Norway until the end of January 2013, a full 4 months after the unit was originally scheduled to begin operations. The work associated with the unit is now expected to cost over US$260m (with Statoil contributing US$55m) which along with the increased costs that were associated with the work on the ‘Songa Delta’ rig have added to the financial problems of the company who earlier this month were forced to sell off the ‘Songa Eclipse’ semisubmersible rig to Seadrill in order to pay off debt.
Sedco 714 secures contract extension with Total
Transocean has announced that the company has secured an 18 month contract extension with Total for the Sedco 714 semisubmersible rig that is currently operating in the UK. The contract extension ensures that the unit will be fully contracted until October 2015 in the region, where it has been working since 2005 continuously for Total. Midwater rig availability in the UK offshore market is extremely tight and this contract extension has allowed Total to secure continuous usage of a valuable asset.
Ocean Rig secures contract for newbuild drillship
Ocean Rig has announced that it secured a letter of award (LOI) for its newbuild ultra-deepwater drillship the ‘Ocean Rig Skyros’, worth around US$190 million. The contract is with an as yet unnamed ‘major oil company’ for work off West Africa in the form of a firm five well drilling programme taking place over 275 days, which will help to boost the rig managers contract backlog to around US$5 billion. The ‘Ocean Rig Skyros’ is the second of four, seventh generation units that Ocean Rig have on order at Samsung’s yard in South Korea. The contract is expected to commence upon delivery of the unit from the yard, which is currently anticipated to be in October 2013.
Transocean drillship breaks own record for deepest operational water depth
Transocean and ONGC have announced that the drillship ‘Dhirubhai Deepwater KG1’ has set a new world record for the deepest operational water depth achieved by an offshore drilling rig. The unit which beat the previous record it set in February 2013 spudded a well in 10,411 feet (3,174m) of water while working off the east coast of India. The unit which is being sublet by ONGC from Reliance Industries is due to end its four year drilling assignment with ONGC once it has completed the newly spudded well. Upon completion the unit will return to Reliance for the final remaining year of its original five year contract.
Ocean Rig secures US$1.3 billion contract for 'Ocean Rig Skyros'
Ocean rig has announced that the company has been awarded a six year contract for the newbuild ‘Ocean Rig Skyros’ Samsung designed drillship. The new contract is expected to begin in direct continuation of the units initial five well, 275 day contract that was signed with Total E&P Angola in June 2013. The new letter of award is with an as yet unnamed major oil company for drilling operations in West Africa and is worth a total of US$1,300 million. The award of the contract means that all of Ocean Rig’s drillship units are now contracted through the entirety of 2014.
Transocean orders newbuild drillship on award of five year contract from Chevron
Transocean has announced the award of a new five year drilling contract from Chevron with work expected to begin in the USA in Q1 2017 and a contract value of US$1.1 billion. The contract award has led Transocean to order a newbuild drillship from Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering’s (DSME) Okpo yard in South Korea. The newbuild drillship is expected to be delivered in Q4 2016 at a total cost of US$725 million and upon delivery the unit will mobilise to the USA to begin the contract with Chevron. The newbuild drillship will be the seventh ultra-deepwater rig that Transocean currently has under construction at DSME once construction work begins and the order helps the company’s push towards redefining itself as a high-specification rig contractor.
Millennium Offshore Services (MOS) completes purchase of jackup rig
Millennium Offshore Services (MOS) a provider of offshore jackup accommodation vessels globally has successfully completed the purchase of Transocean’s ‘Trident IV’ jackup rig which is to be renamed the ‘MOS Frontier’. MOS purchased the jackup rig for an all-in price of US$25 million and plan to turn the rig into an accommodation jackup vessel to target accommodation work in the Middle East, Asia-Pacific and North African regions. The ‘Trident IV’ jackup was put up for sale by Transocean in October 2012 and has been idle since completing a contract in Nigeria in 2008. The sale also falls in line with Transocean’s strategy to move the company further towards a purely high-specification asset rig operator.
VNG to drill exploration well using the 'Transocean Arctic'
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has issued VNG Norge AS a drilling permit for well 6406/12-3 S, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations. Wellbore 6406/12-3 S will be drilled from the Transocean Arctic drilling facility in position 64°01’52.37’’ north and 06°45’17.53’’ east after it completes drilling wildcat well 35/9-10 A for Wintershall Norge AS in production licence 418. The drilling programme for well 6406/12-3 S concerns drilling of a wildcat well in production licence 586. VNG Norge AS is the operator with an ownership interest of 30 per cent. The other licensees are Spike Exploration Holding AS (30 per cent), Faroe Petroleum Norge AS (25 per cent) and Rocksource Exploration Norway AS (15 per cent). The area in this licence consists of part of block 6406/11 and part of block 6406/12. The well will be drilled approx. 8 kilometres east of the 6406/11-1 S discovery and about 33 kilometres southwest of the Njord field. Production licence 586 was awarded on 4 February 2011 (APA 2010). This is the first well to be drilled in this licence. The permit is contingent upon the operator securing all other permits and consents required by other authorities before the drilling activity starts.
Statoil set to drill two wells on PL 348 using 'Songa Trym' semisub
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Statoil Petroleum AS a drilling permit for wells 6407/8-6 and 6407/8-6 A, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations. Wells 6407/8-6 and 6407/8-6 A will be drilled from the Songa Trym drilling facility at position 64°21'12.70" north and 07°27'44.48" east after it completes drilling of the wildcat well 6608/10-15 for Statoil in production licence 128. The drilling programme for wells 6407/8-6 and 6407/8-6 A relates to the drilling of wildcat wells in production licence 348. Statoil is the operator with an ownership interest of 35 per cent. The other licensees are GDF Suez E&P Norge AS (20 per cent), E.ON E&P Norge AS (17.5 per cent), Core Energy AS (17.5 per cent), Faroe Petroleum Norge AS (7.5 per cent) and VNG Norge AS (2.5 per cent). The area in this licence consists of parts of blocks 6407/8 and 6407/9. The wells will be drilled about four kilometres west of the Hyme field and 16 kilometres northeast of the Njord field. Production licence 348 was awarded on 17 December 2004 (APA 2004 on the Norwegian shelf). These are the seventh and eighth wells to be drilled in the licence. The permit is contingent upon the operator securing all other permits and consents required by other authorities prior to commencing drilling activities.
GDF Suez to spud new exploration well on Gjoa field in Norway
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted GDF Suez E&P Norge AS a drilling permit for well 35/9-9, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations. Well 35/9-9 will be drilled from the Transocean Barents drilling facility in position 61°24’12.79” north and 3°56’00.49” east after completing the drilling of wildcat well 6406/9-1 for A/S Norske Shell in production licence 255. The drilling program for well 35/9-9 relates to the drilling of a wildcat well in production licence 153. GDF Suez E&P Norge AS is the operator with an ownership interest of 30 per cent. The other licensees are Petoro AS (30 per cent), Wintershall Norge AS (15 per cent), A/S Norske Shell (12 per cent), RWE Dea Norge AS (8 per cent) and Statoil Petroleum AS (5 per cent). The area in this licence consists of parts of blocks 35/9 and 36/7. The well will be drilled about eight kilometres north of the Gjøa field. Production licence 153 was awarded on 8 July 1988 (12th licensing round on the Norwegian shelf). This is the tenth well to be drilled in the licence. The permit is contingent upon the operator securing all other permits and consents required by other authorities prior to commencing drilling activities.
Wintershall to drill wildcat well on PL 418 using 'Transocean Arctic'
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Wintershall a drilling permit for well 35/9-10 S, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations. Well 35/9-10 S will be drilled from the Transocean Arctic drilling facility at position 61°15’07.02” north and 3°41’04.10” east for Wintershall Norge AS in production licence 418. The drilling programme for well 35/9-10 S relates to drilling of a wildcat well in production licence 418 where Wintershall is the operator with an ownership interest of 35 per cent. The other licensees are Capricorn (20 per cent), Bayerngas (20 per cent), Edison (15 per cent) and RWE Dea (10 per cent). The area in this licence consists of part of block 35/8 and part of block 35/9. The well will be drilled about 16 kilometres southwest of Gjøa and 16 kilometres east of Vega. Production licence 418 was awarded on 16 February 2007 (APA 2006). This is the third well to be drilled in the licence. The permit is contingent upon the operator securing all other permits and consents required by other authorities prior to commencing drilling activities.
Statoil set to drill two wildcat wells with 'Transocean Leader' semisub
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Statoil ASA a drilling permit for wellbores 34/10-54 S and 34/10-54 A, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations. Wellbores 34/10-54 S and 34/10-54 A will be drilled from the Transocean Leader drilling facility at position 61º 07`32.70” N and 02º 18´35.5" E after completion of drilling of the wildcat well 6506/9-3 for Statoil ASA in production licence 479. The drilling program for wellbores 34/10-54 S and 34/10-54 A relates to drilling of a wildcat well in production licence 050 ES, Valemon Unit. Statoil ASA is the operator with an ownership interest of 57 per cent. The other licensees are Petero AS (30 per cent) and Centrica Resources (Norge) AS (13 per cent). The area in this permit consists of the block 34/10. Production licence 050 ES was awarded on 11 April 2012 as an addition to the third licensing round. The permit is contingent upon the operator securing all other permits and consents required by other authorities prior to commencing drilling activities.
'Songa Trym' granted permission to drill Svale Nord prospect for Statoil in PL 128
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Statoil ASA a drilling permit for wellbore 6608/10-15, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations. Wellbore 6608/10-15 will be drilled from the drilling facility Songa Trym at position 66°05’20.8”N and 08°16’ 42.5”E, following the completion of the drilling of wildcat well 6507/3-10 for Statoil ASA in production licence 159 C. The drilling programme for wellbore 6608/10-15 concerns the drilling of a wildcat well in production licence 128. Statoil ASA is the operator with an ownership interest of 64 per cent. The other licensees are Petoro AS (24.5 per cent) and Eni Norge AS (11.5 per cent). The acreage in this licence consists of the blocks 6608/10 and 11. Production licence 128 was awarded on 28 February 1986 (Licensing round 10-B on the Norwegian shelf). The permit is contingent upon the operator having secured all other permits and consents required by other authorities before the drilling starts.
Lundin Norway gains approval to drill 7120/1-3 wildcat well using 'Transocean Arctic' semisub
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Lundin Norway AS a drilling permit for well 7120/1-3, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations. Well 7120/1-3 will be drilled from the Transocean Arctic drilling facility at position 71 54` 10.37" north and 20 16´ 11.59" east. The drilling program for well 7120/1-3 relates to drilling of a wildcat well in production licence 492. Lundin Norway AS is the operator with an ownership interest of 40 per cent. The other licensees are Det norske oljeselskap ASA with 40 per cent and Noreco Norway ASA with 20 per cent. The production licence consists of parts of blocks 7120/1 and 7120/2. The licence was awarded in APA 2007. Wildcat well 7120/1-3 is the first exploration well in production licence 492. The permit is contingent upon the operator securing all other permits and consents required by other authorities before commencing drilling activities.
Statoil targets new exploration well north of Asgard field
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Statoil Petroleum AS a drilling permit for well 6506/9-3, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations. Well 6506/9-3 will be drilled from the Transocean Leader drilling facility in position 65°15'4.99" north and 6°54'15.66" east after completion of the drilling of production well 31/2-K-13 BY2H for Statoil Petroleum AS in production licence 054 in the Troll field. The drilling program for well 6506/9-3 concerns the drilling of a wildcat well in production licence 479. Statoil Petroleum AS is the operator with an ownership interest of 40.95 per. The other licensees are Eni Norge AS with 19.6 per cent, Petoro AS with 14.95 per cent, Exxon Mobile E&P Norway AS with 14.7 per cent and Total E&P Norge AS med 9.8 per cent. The area in this licence consists of parts of blocks 6506/9 and 6506/12. The well will be drilled about seven kilometres north of Åsgard in the Norwegian Sea. Production licence 479 was awarded on 29 February 2008 in APA 2007 on the Norwegian shelf. This is the first well drilled in the licence. The permit is contingent upon the operator having secured all other permits and consents required by other authorities before the drilling starts.
Det norske oljeselskap ASA receives consent to drill Barents Sea wildcat well 7222/11-2 A
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Det norske oljeselskap ASA a drilling permit for well 7222/11-2 A, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations. Well 7222/11-2 will be drilled from the Transocean Barents drilling facility at position 72° 06` 23.17" north and 22° 36´ 47.74" east. The drilling programme for well 7222/11-2 relates to the drilling of a wildcat well in production licence 659. Det norske oljeselskap ASA is the operator with a 30 per cent ownership interest. The other licensees are Petoro AS with 30 per cent, Lundin Norway AS with 20 per cent, Tullow Oil Norge AS with 10 per cent, Rocksource Exploration Norway AS with 5 per cent and Ithaca Petroleum Norge AS with 5 per cent. The production licence includes parts of the blocks 7121/3, 7122/1, 7122/2, 7221/10, 7221/12, 7222/11 and 7222/12. The production licence was awarded in APA 2011. Wildcat well 7222/11-2 is the first exploration well in production licence 659. The permit is contingent upon the operator having secured all other permits and consents required by other authorities before the drilling starts.
Statoil prepared to drill Falk appraisal using 'Songa Trym'
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Statoil Petroleum AS a drilling permit for well 6608/11-8, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations. Well 6608/11-8 will be drilled from the Songa Trym drilling facility at position 66° 07' 39.83" north and 8° 20' 12.39" east. The drilling programme for well 6608/11-8 relates to drilling of an appraisal well in production licence 128. Statoil Petroleum AS is the operator with an ownership interest of 63.95 per cent. The licensees are Petoro AS with 24.55 per cent and Eni Norge AS with 11.50 per cent. The production licence consists of blocks 6608/10 and 6608/11. The production licence was awarded in licensing round 10-B in 1986. The drilling permit is contingent upon the operator securing all other permits and consents required by other authorities before commencing drilling activities.
'Transocean Winner' set to be used by RWE Dea Norge AS to drill Cliffhanger South Prospect
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted RWE Dea Norge AS a drilling permit for well 6608/2-1 S, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations. Well 6608/2-1 S will be drilled from the Transocean Winner drilling facility at position 66° 58' 6.99" north and 8° 23' 38.11" east. The drilling programme for well 6608/2-1 S relates to drilling of a wildcat well in production licence 330. RWE Dea Norge AS is the operator with an ownership interest of 40 per cent. The other licensees are Marathon Oil Norge AS with 30 per cent and Lundin Norway AS with 30 per cent. The production licence consists of blocks 6608/1 and 6608/2. The production licence was awarded in the 18th licensing round in 2004. Wildcat well 6608/2-1 S is the first exploration well in production licence 330. The permit is contingent upon the operator securing all other permits and consents required by other authorities before the drilling activity starts.
'Songa Trym' set to drill wildcat well 25/11-27 for Statoil
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Statoil Petroleum AS a drilling permit for well 25/11-27, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations. Well 25/11-27 will be drilled from the Songa Trym drilling facility at position 58°14’15.78” north and 2°32’51.25” east after completing the drilling of wildcat well 16/8-3 S for Statoil in production licence 360. The drilling programme for well 25/11-27 relates to drilling of a wildcat well in production licence 169 B2. Statoil Petroleum AS is the operator with an ownership interest of 47.5 per cent. The other licensees are Petoro AS with 30 per cent, ConocoPhillips Skandinavia AS with 12.5 per cent and ExxonMobil E&P Norway AS with 10 per cent. The area in this licence consists of part of block 25/11. The well will be drilled about 4 kilometres southwest of well 25/8-4 in the central part of the North Sea. Production licence 169 B2 was awarded on 1 March 2000 (supplement to the 13th round). This is the first well to be drilled within the area of the licence. The permit is contingent upon the operator securing all other permits and consents required by other authorities before commencing drilling activities.
'Transocean Barents' drills dry well on Gjoa field for GDF Suez
GDF SUEZ E&P Norge, operator of production licence 153, has completed the drilling of wildcat well 35/9-9. The well was drilled about 8 km west of the Gjøa field in the North Sea. The well is dry. The primary exploration target for the well was to prove petroleum in reservoir rocks in the Upper Jurassic (the Viking group). The secondary exploration target was to prove petroleum in reservoir rocks from the Middle Jurassic Age (the Brent group). The well encountered reservoir rocks in the Viking and Brent group with reservoir quality as expected. The well is classified as dry, with traces of petroleum. Data acquisition and sampling have been carried out. This is the ninth exploration well in production licence 153. The licence was awarded in the 12th licensing round in 1988. 35/9-9 was drilled to a vertical depth of 3298 metres below the sea surface, and was terminated in Triassic rocks. Water depth at the site is 360 metres. The well will now be permanently plugged and abandoned. Well 35/9-9 was drilled by the Transocean Barents drilling facility, which will now proceed to production licence 551 in the North Sea to drill wildcat well 31/3-4, where Tullow Oil Norge AS is the operator.
Statoil completes double oil strike with 6407/8-6 and 6407/8-6 A wells
Statoil Petroleum AS, operator of production licence 348 B, is in the process of completing the drilling of wildcat wells 6407/8-6 and 6407/8-6 A. The wells proved oil. The wells were drilled about 4 kilometres west of the Hyme field and 15 kilometres northeast of the Njord field in the Norwegian Sea. The objective of well 6407/8-6 was to prove petroleum in Lower Jurassic reservoir rocks (the Åre formation). The well encountered the Åre formation, with reservoir rocks and reservoir quality that were poorer than expected; the reservoir is aquiferous. However, a 40-metre gross oil column was encountered in the Ile formation (Middle Jurassic) and an approx. 130-metre gross oil column in the Tilje formation (Lower Jurassic). In addition, a 21-metre gross oil column was encountered in reservoir rocks from the Triassic (most likely “Grey Beds”), further dating will clarify this. The primary exploration target for well 6407/8-6 A was to prove petroleum in Lower Jurassic reservoir rocks (the Tilje formation). The secondary exploration target was to prove petroleum in Middle and Lower Jurassic reservoir rocks (the Ile and Åre formations). A 43-metre gross oil column was encountered in the Tilje formation with reservoir quality as expected, as well as a 75-metre gross oil column in the Ile formation with reservoir quality as expected. In addition, a six-metre gross oil column was encountered in the Melke formation (Middle to Upper Jurassic). No petroleum was proven in “Grey Beds”. Preliminary estimates place the size of the discovery between 9 and 16 million Sm3 recoverable oil equivalents. The well was not formation-tested, but extensive data acquisition and sampling have been carried out. The licensees in production licence 348 B will consider tying the discovery to the Njord field, either directly or via the Hyme field. These wells are the first exploration wells in production licence 348 B. The licence was awarded in APA 2010. Wells 6407/8-6 and 6407/8-6 A were drilled to respective vertical depths of 3420 and 3537 metres below the sea surface, and both were terminated in the Upper Triassic (“Grey Beds”). Water depth at the site is 282 metres. The wells will now be permanently plugged and abandoned. Wells 6407/8-6 and 6407/8-6 A were drilled by the Songa Trym drilling facility, which will now proceed to production licence 248 in the North Sea to drill wildcat well 35/11-16, where Statoil Petroleum AS is the operator.
'Transocean Winner' drills dry well for RWE DEA Norge AS on PL 330 in Norway
RWE DEA Norge AS, operator of production licence 330, has completed the drilling of wildcat well 6608/2-1 S. The well was drilled about 60 kilometres east of the Aasta Hansteen field in the Norwegian Sea. The well's primary exploration target was to prove petroleum in Middle Jurassic reservoir rocks (the Fangst group). The secondary exploration target was to prove petroleum in reservoir rocks from the Late Cretaceous (the Shetland group) and the Early Jurassic (the Båt group). The well did not reach the Fangst and Båt groups and no reservoir development was proven in the Shetland group. The well will be classified as dry. Data acquisition and sampling have been carried out. This is the first exploration well in production licence 330. The production licence was awarded in the 18th licensing round in 2004. The well was drilled to a vertical depth of 5574 metres below the sea surface and was terminated in rocks from the Early Cretaceous. Water depth at the site is 303 metres. The well will now be permanently plugged and abandoned. Well 6608/2-1 S was drilled with the Transocean Winner drilling facility, which will now proceed to production licence 203 in the North Sea to complete production wells on the Alvheim field, where Marathon Oil Norge AS is the operator.
'Transocean Arctic' finds oil whilst drilling 7120/1-3 wildcat well for Lundin Norway AS
Lundin Norway AS, operator of production licence 492, has completed drilling of wildcat well 7120/1-3. The well was drilled about 35 kilometres northwest of the Snøhvit field. The primary exploration target for the well was to prove petroleum in Middle and Early Triassic sandstone rocks (Snadd formation) and in Permian limestone (Røye formation). The secondary exploration target was to prove petroleum in Middle Triassic reservoir rocks (Kobbe formation). In the primary exploration target, the well encountered a gross oil column of about 75 metres and a gross gas column of about 25 metres in limestone rocks in the Røye formation. The reservoir quality was better than expected. The reservoir rocks encountered in the Snadd formation are of expected reservoir quality, but the formation was aquiferous. Preliminary calculations of the size of the discovery are between 10 and 23 million standard cubic metres (Sm3) of recoverable oil and between 8 and 15 billion standard cubic metres of recoverable gas. The results confirm for the first time recoverable oil and gas in a Permian play in the Norwegian part of the Barents Sea. Further delineation of the discovery is planned. A successful formation test has been carried out in the Røye formation. The maximum production rate was 683 Sm3 oil and 222300 Sm3 associated gas per flow day through a 44/64 inch nozzle opening. The gas/oil ratio is 190 Sm3/Sm3. This is the first successful test in Permian limestone rocks on the Norwegian shelf. The well is the first exploration well in production licence 492. The licence was awarded in APA 2007. The well was drilled to a vertical depth of 2515 metres below the sea surface, and was terminated in the Røye formation in Permian. Water depth is 342 metres. The well will now be permanently plugged and abandoned. Well 7120/1-3 was drilled by the Transocean Arctic drilling facility which will now proceed to production licence 418 in the North Sea to drill appraisal well 35/9-10 S where Wintershall Norge AS is the operator.
'Songa Trym' semisub discovers oil for Statoil at Norne field in PL 128
Statoil Petroleum AS, operator of production licence 128, is about to complete drilling of wildcat well 6608/10-15. The well proved oil. The well was drilled about nine kilometres northeast of the Norne field in the Norwegian Sea. The primary exploration target was to prove petroleum in Early Jurassic reservoir rocks (the Åre formation). The secondary exploration target was to prove petroleum in Middle Jurassic reservoir rocks (the Melke formation). The well encountered a 45-metre oil column in the Åre formation and a 45-metre oil column in the Melke formation with reservoir thickness and properties in both levels as expected. Preliminary calculations of the size of the discovery are between one and three million standard cubic metres (Sm3) of recoverable oil. The well was not formation-tested, but data acquisition and sampling have been carried out. Tie-in of the discovery to the Norne field will be considered. This is the 26th exploration well in production licence 128. The licence was awarded in licensing round 10-B in 1986. The well was drilled to a vertical depth of 2005 metres below the sea surface and was terminated in the Åre formation from the Early Jurassic. Water depth is 375 metres. The well will now be permanently plugged and abandoned. Well 6608/10-15 was drilled by the Songa Trym drilling facility, which will now proceed to production licence 348 in the Norwegian Sea to drill wildcat well 6407/8-6 where Statoil Petroleum AS is the operator.
A/S Norske Shell makes small gas discovery in Norway using 'Transocean Barents' to drill 6406/9-1 wildlcat well
A/S Norske Shell, operator of production licence 255, is about to complete drilling of wildcat well 6406/9-3. The well was drilled about 15 kilometres northwest of the Njord field and 7 kilometres southeast of the 6406/9-1 Linnorm gas discovery, in the southern part of the Norwegian Sea. The primary and secondary exploration targets for the well were to prove petroleum in Middle to Lower Jurassic reservoir rocks (Ile, Tofte and Tilje formations). The well encountered the Ile, Tofte and Tilje formations with variable reservoir quality. A thin gas column was encountered in the Ile formation, but the size of the discovery is not commercially interesting. The other reservoir rocks were dense or aquiferous. The well was not formation tested, but data acquisition and sampling have been carried out. 6406/9-3 is the fifth exploration well in production licence 255. The licence was awarded in the 16th licensing round in 2000. The well was drilled to a vertical depth of 5095 metres below the sea surface, and was terminated in the Tilje formation in Lower Jurassic. Water depth is 298 metres. The well will be permanently plugged and abandoned. 6406/9-3 was drilled by the Transocean Barents drilling facility, which will now drill wildcat well 35/9-9 in production licence 153 in the North Sea, where GDF SUEZ E&P Norge AS is the operator.
Statoil discover gas and condensate with Smorbukk North well in Norway
Statoil Petroleum AS, operator for production licence 479, is in the process of completing the drilling of wildcat well 6506/9-3. The well was drilled about 5 km north of the Åsgard field in the Norwegian Sea. The primary exploration goal for the well was to prove petroleum in reservoir rocks of the Middle Jurassic Age (Garn, Ile and Tofte formations). The secondary exploration goal was to prove petroleum in Lower Jurassic reservoir rocks (Ror, Tilje and Åre formations). The well encountered a gas/condensate column of about 40 metres in a down-to situation in the Garn formation. In addition, a thin gas/condensate column was encountered in the Ile formation. The reservoir characteristics are good in the Garn formation, while they are somewhat poorer than expected in the Ile formation. A preliminary estimate of the size of the discovery in the Garn formation is between 4 and 7.5 million Sm3 of recoverable oil equivalents. Tie-in of the discovery to the Åsgard field will be considered. The well was not formation-tested, but extensive data acquisition and sampling have been carried out. This is the first exploration well in production licence 479. The licence was awarded on 29 February 2008 in connection with APA 2007. The well was drilled to a vertical depth of 4692 metres below the sea surface and completed in the Åre formation in the Lower Jurassic. The sea depth is 302 metres. The well will be permanently plugged and abandoned. Well 6506/9-3 was drilled from the Transocean Leader drilling facility, which will be going to production licence 050ES in the North Sea to drill wildcat well 34/10-54S, where Statoil Petroleum AS is the operator.
'Songa Trym' discovers oil whilst drilling 6507/3-10 wildcat well for Statoil
Statoil Petroleum AS, operator for production licence 159 C, is in the process of completing drilling of the wildcat well 6507/3-10. The well was drilled about 12 km south of the Norne field in the Norwegian Sea. The purpose of the well was to prove petroleum in reservoir rocks of the Middle and Early Jurassic Age (Fangst and Båt group). The well encountered a 10-metre net oil column in Middle Jurassic (the Garn formation) with reservoir characteristics as expected. In addition, oil was encountered in a 2-3 metre thin sand layer in the upper part of the Tilje formation. A preliminary estimate of the size of the discovery is under 1 million Sm3 recoverable oil. Analyses will be made of the discovery to assess its commerciality. The well was not formation-tested, but extensive data acquisition and sampling have been carried out. This is the first exploration well in production licence 159 C, which was awarded in February 2008. The well was drilled to a vertical depth of 3430 metres below the surface of the sea and completed in the Åre formation of the Early Jurassic Age. The sea depth is 374 metres. The well will be permanently plugged and abandoned. Well 6507/3-10 was drilled from the Songa Trym drilling facility, which will be going to production licence 128 in the Norwegian Sea to drill wildcat well 6608/10-15, where Statoil Petroleum AS is the operator.
Ocean Rig receives sixth newbuild drillship 'Ocean Rig Skyros'
Ocean Rig UDW Inc (Ocean Rig) has taken delivery of the company’s sixth newbuild ultra-deepwater drillship, the ‘Ocean Rig Skyros’. The ‘Ocean Rig Skyros’ was delivered to Ocean Rig by Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) in South Korea and is the first seventh generation drillship to be delivered to the company, with a further three units currently under construction at SHI. The unit is currently being mobilised to Angola to begin its drilling contract with Total, which is expected to begin in Q2 2014.
Det Norske spuds first operated well in the Barents Sea
Det Norske has announced the spudding of the oil and gas operators first operated well in the Barents Sea began today at the Langlitinden prospect in production license 659 in Norway. The well (7222/11-2) is being drilled by the ‘Transocean Barents’ semisub unit and is looking to prove hydrocarbons in the Kobbe formation. The ‘Transocean Barents’ is being positioned using the rigs dynamic positioning system and will drill the well to a total depth of 2,901m.
'Transocean Arctic' completes Skarfjell appraisal well
Wintershall Norge AS, operator of production licence 418, is about to complete drilling of appraisal wells 35/9-10 S and A on the 35/9-7 oil discovery (Skarfjell). The appraisal wells are being drilled in the North Sea, about 40 kilometres north of the Troll field and two kilometres southeast of the discovery well. The discovery was proven in the spring of 2012 in two Late Jurassic sandstone layers in the Heather formation. Appraisal well 35/9-10 S was drilled in the southeastern part of the "Skarfjell structure" and sidetrack 35/9-10 A near the top of the structure in the southwestern part. Before well 35/9-10 S was drilled, the resource estimate for the discovery was between 10 and 25 million standard cubic metres (Sm3) of recoverable oil. The objective of the two wells was to examine thickness, properties, fluid content and depth to the Upper Jurassic reservoir to define the extent of the discovery to the south, and clarify whether the discovery has a gas cap. Well 35/9-10 S encountered a 13-metre (gross) gas column and an oil column of 49 metres (gross) in three thin sandstones in the upper “Intra Heather” with reservoir quality as expected. Pressure data shows that this area has a lower reservoir pressure and is not in direct communication with the western and northern part of the discovery. Well 35/9-10 A encountered a 59-metre (gross) gas column in the upper "Intra Heather" sandstone with better than expected reservoir quality. Pressure data indicates that the proven gas cap is in communication with the oil zone proven in 35/9-7 and in appraisal well 35/9-8 in the northern part of the discovery. The lower "Intra Heather" sandstone is only four metres thick, contains oil and has poorer reservoir quality than expected. Preliminary calculations place the size of the discovery between 10 and 23 million Sm3 of recoverable oil and condensate, and between 8 and 15 billion Sm3 of recoverable gas. The wells were not formation-tested, but extensive data acquisition and sampling have been carried out. The licensees will assess the discovery together with other nearby discoveries for possible development solutions. This is the third exploration well in production licence 418 (link to fact page). The licence was awarded in APA 2006. Appraisal well 35/9-10 S was drilled to a vertical and measured depth of 2837 and 3595 metres below the sea surface, respectively. Appraisal well 35/9-10 A was drilled to a vertical and measured depth of 2835 and 3179 metres below the sea surface, respectively. Both wells were terminated in the Rannoch formation in the Middle Jurassic. Water depth is 365 metres. The wells will be plugged and abandoned. The wells were drilled by Transocean Arctic, which will proceed to production licence 586 in the Norwegian Sea to drill wildcat well 6406/12-3 S where VNG Norge AS is the operator.
'Transocean Legend' continues to drill ahead at Grace-1 well in Australia
Karoon Gas Australia (Karoon) has released a progress report on the drilling of the ConocoPhillips operated Grace-1 exploration well in Australia. The well which is being drilled by the ‘Transocean Legend’ semisub has reached a depth of 4,844m with drilling continuing ahead. Drilling work was temporarily halted due to tropical cyclone Christine as the crew were evacuated from the rig however, normal operations resumed once the cyclone had passed. The Grace-1 well is the fourth exploration well being drilled by Conocophillips in its current exploration campaign and the oil and gas operator plans to drill a further two wells in 2014 using the ‘Transocean Legend’ rig.
Jupiter-1 discovery offshore Sierra Leone
Tullow Oil plc (Tullow) announces that the Jupiter-1 exploration well in Block SL-07B-11 offshore Sierra Leone has successfully encountered hydrocarbons. This has been confirmed by the results of drilling, wireline logs and samples of reservoir fluids. The well, located over 25 kilometres west of the Mercury-1 well which discovered oil in the block, intersected 30 metres of hydrocarbon pay in the primary Upper Cretaceousobjective and did not encounter a hydrocarbon water contact. The well has been preserved for possible future re-entry, as the area is likely to require additional evaluation. Jupiter-1 was drilled by the Transocean Discoverer Spirit drillship to a total depth of 6,465 metres in a water depth of 2,199 metres. On completion of operations, the drillship will move 15km northeast to the Mercury-2 well which will target several reservoir levels including extensions of the oil accumulations discovered by the Mercury-1 well. Anadarko (55%) is Operator of offshore Block SL-07B-11 along with partners Repsol (25%) and Tullow (20%).
Successful appraisal of the Teak discovery offshore Ghana
Kosmos Energy (NYSE: KOS) announced today that the Teak-3A appraisal well has confirmed a northern extension of the Teak discovery on the West Cape Three Points Block offshore Ghana. The Teak-3A well is located approximately 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) north of Teak-1 and was designed to test the potential structural and stratigraphic extension of reservoirs encountered in the original discovery well. Analysis of well results, including wireline logs, reservoir pressures and fluid samples indicate that the Teak-3A well encountered approximately 35 meters (115 feet) of hydrocarbons in multiple good-quality reservoirs. The analysis identified 13 meters (43 feet) of 36-39 degree API gravity and 22 meters (72 feet) of gas-condensate pay. The hydrocarbon-bearing reservoirs encountered were Campanian and Turonian in age and similar to those seen in the discovery well. Brian F. Maxted, President and Chief Executive Officer, said "The extension of the Teak discovery is a significant milestone in progressing the appraisal and delineation of this field. We have confirmed the presence of a number of hydrocarbon pools in Teak-3A and significantly extended the productive area of the discovery. While more operational work and technical studies will be necessary to fully define the field, we are very encouraged by the result, which gives further momentum for additional development of the resources discovered on our operated block. Our appraisal and delineation programs continue to generate substantial value for Kosmos, and we look forward to a number of additional near-term appraisal and exploration well results." The "Transocean Marianas" semisubmersible drilled the Teak-3A well to a total depth of 3,222 meters (10,571 feet) in 444 meters (1,457 feet) of water. Following the completion of operations at Teak-3A, the rig will be released to another operator. Kosmos anticipates drilling the Teak-4A appraisal well in the second quarter of 2012. Additional appraisal at Teak is being planned for the second half of 2012. West Cape Three Points Block Ownership Interest Kosmos Energy is the operator of the West Cape Three Points Block with a 30.875% interest. Anadarko Petroleum Corporation has a 30.875% interest, Tullow Oil plc has a 26.396% interest, Sabre Oil & Gas Holdings Limited has a 1.854% interest; and the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation has a 10% carried interest.
Montserrado-1 makes a non-commercial oil discovery
Tullow Oil plc (Tullow) announces that the Montserrado-1 exploration well, offshore Liberia, has made a non-commercial oil discovery in Late Cretaceous reservoir sands. This result is an important exploration breakthrough, establishing a working hydrocarbon system in the Liberian basin. The well was drilled in block LB-15 to a total depth of 5,400 metres and encountered good-quality, water-bearing sands in the main objective. In a deeper secondary objective, approximately 8 metres of hydrocarbon pay was intersected and a sample of light oil was recovered. The well is being plugged and abandoned and the drillship is being mobilised to Sierra Leone to drill the Mercury-2 appraisal well and the Jupiter exploration well on block SL-07B-11. Tullow has a 25.00% working interest in the licence and is partnered by the operator, Anadarko Petroleum (47.5%) and Repsol (27.5%).
Enyenra-3A well result announcement
Tullow Oil plc (Tullow) announces that the Enyenra-3A appraisal well, in the Deepwater Tano licence offshore Ghana, has successfully encountered oil in high quality sandstone reservoirs. Pressure data indicates that the Enyenra-3A well has confirmed an up-dip extension of the Enyenra oil field. Located 6.5km north of the Owo-1 discovery well and 14km north of Enyenra-2A, the well was drilled to test the up-dip extent of the Enyenra oil field. Results of drilling, wireline logs, samples of reservoir fluids and pressure data show that Enyenra-3A has intersected 17 metres of 35o API net oil. Pressure data confirms a continuous oil column of at least 365 metres and that the oil at Enyenra-3A is in static pressure communication with both the Owo-1 discovery well and the Enyenra-2A appraisal well. The Deepwater Millennium drillship drilled Enyenra-3A to a total depth of 4,031 metres in water depths of 1,102 metres. On completion of drilling operations, prior to flow testing the Enyenra field in late 2011, pressure gauges will be deployed in Enyenra-2A and Enyenra-3A to determine reservoir connectivity. The drillship will depart the Deepwater Tano block in late October having recently been replaced by the Sedco Energy drillship. The Sedco Energy will later drill the Enyenra-4A well to further appraise the downdip extent of the field. The well will be located 6.8km south of Enyenra-2A and over 20km downdip from the Enyenra-3A well and a result is expected at the end of the year. The Enyenra-5A well also is then likely to be drilled north of Enyenra-3A to test the ultimate updip extent of the field. Tullow (49.95%) operates the Deepwater Tano licence and is partnered by Kosmos Energy (18%), Anadarko Petroleum (18%), Sabre Oil & Gas (4.05%) and the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) (10% carried interest). Elsewhere in West Africa, Tullow now expects to announce the result of the Montserrado-1 well offshore Liberia during October.
Enyenra-2A appraisal well proves major light oil field
Tullow Oil plc (Tullow) announces that the Enyenra-2A appraisal well, in the Deepwater Tano licence offshore Ghana, has successfully encountered oil in excellent quality sandstone reservoirs. Good evidence of communication with Owo-1 confirms that the Owo oil discovery, now renamed Enyenra, is a major light oil field. Located over seven kilometres south and down-dip of Owo-1, the well was drilled to appraise the Upper and Lower Channels of the Enyenra oil field. Results of drilling, wireline logs, samples of reservoir fluids and pressure data show that Enyenra-2A has intersected 21 metres of net oil pay in the Upper Channel and 11 metres of net oil pay in the Lower Channel. Pressure data from the Upper Channel has also demonstrated that the oil is in communication with the Owo-1 well. Oil pressures in the Lower Channel suggest it may also be in communication with the deeper pools seen in Owo-1 and its sidetrack. The well also tested a deeper Turonian fan where five metres of gas-condensate bearing sandstones were intersected. Interpretation of the extent and thickness of this zone away from the well is ongoing. The Deepwater Millennium drillship drilled Enyenra-2A to a total depth of 4,234 metres in water depths of 1,674 metres. On completion of operations, the well will be suspended for later use. Prior to flow testing, pressure gauges will be deployed to measure reservoir connectivity. The drillship will remain in the Deepwater Tano block to complete the drilling of the Tweneboa-4 well. The next appraisal well will be Enyenra-3A located up-dip to the north of the Owo-1 discovery. Tullow (49.95%) operates the Deepwater Tano licence and is partnered by Kosmos Energy (18%), Anadarko Petroleum (18%), Sabre Oil & Gas (4.05%) and the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) (10% carried interest).
Tweneboa-3 appraisal well confirms Greater Tweneboa Area resource potential
Tullow Oil plc (Tullow) announces that the Tweneboa-3 appraisal well in the Deepwater Tano licence offshore Ghana has successfully encountered gas condensate in excellent quality sandstone reservoirs. Results of drilling, wireline logs and samples of reservoir fluids, together with the well's down-dip position confirms the Greater Tweneboa Area resource base potential. The well, located over six kilometres south-east of the Tweneboa-2 well and 12 kilometres south-east from the Tweneboa-1 discovery well, was planned with two deviated boreholes to test separate areas of the Tweneboa field. The first leg was drilled to calibrate the potential of an area with a very weak seismic response. Within prognosis, this leg encountered thin reservoir sands and approximately 9 metres of gas condensate pay. The well was then sidetracked 550 metres west, targeting the significant Ntomme anomaly, an area of strong seismic response. This leg successfully encountered a gross vertical reservoir interval of approximately 65 metres containing 34 metres of net gas condensate pay in two zones of high quality stacked reservoir sandstones. Work is underway to integrate seismic, pressure and hydrocarbon phase data in order to progress development options for the Tweneboa and Enyenra (Owo) fields in the Greater Tweneboa Area. Tweneboa-3 was drilled by the Deepwater Millennium drillship to a total depth of 3,906 metres in a water depth of 1,601 metres. On completion of operations, the well will be suspended for future use in the field development. The rig will remain in the Deepwater Tano block to drill the top-hole section of the Tweneboa-4 appraisal well which will then be suspended before moving to drill the high impact Enyenra-2A well which will appraise down-dip from the Owo-1 oil discovery. The significant oil discovery, made by the Owo-1 exploration well has now been named the Enyenra field. Tullow (49.95%) operates the Deepwater Tano licence and is partnered by Kosmos Energy Ghana (18%), Anadarko Petroleum (18%), Sabre Oil & Gas (4.05%) and the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) (10% carried interest).
Oil discovery in the Mercury-1 exploration well offshore Sierra Leone
Anadarko Petroleum Corporation (NYSE: APC) today announced the Mercury-1 exploration well offshore Sierra Leone encountered approximately 135 net feet of oil pay in two Cretaceous-age fan systems. Mercury is the company's second deepwater test in the Sierra Leone-Liberian Basin and was drilled to a total depth of approximately 15,950 feet in about 5,250 feet of water. "The Mercury well demonstrates that the stratigraphic trapping systems we've identified are working, and that the petroleum system is generating high-quality oil," Anadarko Sr. Vice President, Worldwide Exploration Bob Daniels said. "In the primary objective, the Mercury well encountered approximately 114 net feet of light sweet crude oil with a gravity of between 34 and 42 degrees API, with no water contact. An additional 21 net feet of 24-degree gravity crude was encountered in a shallower secondary objective. "These results continue to build momentum in the basin and enhance our confidence in the team's seismic interpretation and geologic modeling," added Daniels. "We are preserving the wellbore for potential re-entry, DST (drillstem testing) or a down-dip sidetrack to further delineate the reservoir's areal extent, quality and deliverability. We also plan to continue working with the government of Sierra Leone and our partnership to accelerate exploration and appraisal activity in the area in 2011." The Mercury discovery is located in offshore block SL-07B-10 approximately 40 miles east-southeast of Anadarko's previously announced Venus discovery. Anadarko holds an interest in more than 4.6 million acres on five deepwater blocks offshore Sierra Leone and Liberia, and has identified more than 17 prospects and leads on 3-D seismic on this acreage. Once operations are complete at the Mercury well, the company has committed to mobilize the drillship to Ghana to accelerate the appraisal program at the Owo and Tweneboa fields, which the company anticipates sanctioning in 2011. Anadarko operates block SL-07B-10 with a 65-percent working interest. Co-owners in the block include Repsol Exploracion Sierra Leone, S.L. (25-percent working interest) and Tullow Sierra Leone B.V. (10-percent working interest).
Onyina-1 exploration well finds water bearing reservoirs
Tullow Oil plc (Tullow) announces that the Onyina-1 exploration well in the Deepwater Tano licence offshore Ghana encountered water bearing reservoirs. The Onyina-1 well was drilled to explore a large, high-risk, Campanian prospect between the Tweneboa and Jubilee fields in the northeast of the Deepwater Tano Licence. It intersected 49 metres of good quality sandstone reservoir, on prognosis, however they were water bearing at this location. The Sedco-702 dynamically positioned semi-submersible rig drilled Onyina-1 to a total depth of 2,730 metres in water depths of 828 metres. On completion of operations, the rig will move to the Jubilee Unit to assist in the preparations for first oil later in 2010. Tullow (49.95%) operates the Deepwater Tano licence and is partnered by Kosmos Energy Ghana (18%), Anadarko Petroleum (18%), Sabre Oil & Gas (4.05%) and the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) (10% carried interest). Commenting today, Angus McCoss, Exploration Director, said: "The negative test of the Campanian reservoirs in the Onyina prospect enables further refinement of our exploration and relinquishment strategy offshore Ghana. Good quality Campanian reservoir sands were found as predicted, however the lack of hydrocarbons at this location highlights the high risks of charging and trapping oil in this secondary play. Our main focus remains on the lower risk primary play, the deeper more prospective Turonian reservoirs, where we have had such outstanding success with Jubilee, Tweneboa and Owo."
Owo-1 sidetrack confirms major oil discovery
Tullow Oil plc (Tullow) announces that the Owo-1 exploration sidetrack in the Deepwater Tano licence offshore Ghana has significantly extended the column of high quality light oil discovered by the Owo-1 well. Results of drilling, wireline logs and samples of reservoir fluids confirm that Owo is a major new oil field. The Owo-1 well encountered 53 metres of net oil pay and the sidetrack, drilled 0.6 km east of the Owo discovery well, encountered an additional 16 metres of net oil pay in the lower part of the same channel system. Pressure data indicates that this oil pay is in communication with the reservoirs penetrated in the Owo-1 well and confirms at least 69 metres of total net oil pay in a substantial gross oil column of 200 metres. Beneath the Owo oil field, 13 metres of net condensate pay was also discovered, with an additional 6 metres of net gas pay logged in the deepest sand encountered. No water was encountered in any of the hydrocarbon bearing reservoirs in either well. Following completion of logging operations the well will be suspended for future use in appraisal and development. The Sedco-702 dynamically positioned semi-submersible drilled the Owo-1 sidetrack to a final depth of 3,998 metres in water depths of 1,428 metres. On completion of operations, the rig will remain in the Deepwater Tano block to drill the Onyina-1 exploration well which targets a large Campanian prospect between the Tweneboa and Jubilee fields. Tullow (49.95%) operates the Deepwater Tano licence and is partnered by Kosmos Energy Ghana (18%), Anadarko Petroleum (18%), Sabre Oil & Gas (4.05%) and the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) (10% carried interest).
Oil discovery in the Venus-B1 exploration well offshore Sierra Leone
Anadarko Petroleum Corporation (NYSE: APC) today announced a deepwater discovery at the Venus exploration well in block SL 6/07 offshore Sierra Leone. The Venus B-1 well was drilled to a total depth of approximately 18,500 feet in about 5,900 feet of water and encountered more than 45 net feet of hydrocarbon pay. Venus is the first deepwater test in the Sierra Leone-Liberian Basin. "The Venus discovery confirms the existence of an active petroleum system in the basin and enhances the prospectivity of our vast West Africa acreage position," said Bob Daniels, Anadarko Sr. Vice President, Worldwide Exploration. "With Jubilee on the east and Venus on the west, we have established bookends spanning approximately 1,100 kilometers (700 miles) across two of the most exciting and highly prospective basins in the world. Anadarko and our partners are evaluating the initial results of the well and the forward plan for the prospect, and anticipate additional drilling in the area. We are optimistic that the continued success of our West African Cretaceous program will create substantial value for our stakeholders as well as the people of West Africa through continued investment and increased activity. Anadarko plans to drill two to five wells in the trend next year." The Venus prospect is one of Anadarko's more than 30 identified prospects and leads on its West Africa acreage position, which includes interests in almost 8 million acres across 10 blocks offshore Sierra Leone, Liberia, Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana. Anadarko operates seven of the blocks and the majority of the identified prospects with an average working interest of approximately 40 percent. The company plans to continue its West Africa drilling operations in the Cretaceous Trend by drilling the South Grand Lahou exploration well in block CI 105 offshore Cote d'Ivoire once activities are completed at the Venus discovery well. Anadarko operates the Venus well with a 40-percent working interest. Co-owners in the discovery include Woodside (25-percent working interest), Repsol (25-percent working interest) and Tullow (10-percent working interest).
Drilling Update
Afren (AIM:AFR), the oil and gas company focused on establishing itself as the premier pan-African independent exploration and production company, announces that Chevron, the Operator of Block 1 of the Nigeria - Sao Tome and Principe Joint Development Zone ('JDZ') has confirmed that it has commenced drilling of the first exploration well on this licence on 14 January 2006. The Obo-1 well is located in approximately 1,750m of water (5,750 ft) and should be completed in approximately 60 days, assuming no technical challenges are encountered during the drilling operation. The well is being drilled by the Deepwater Discovery Drillship, which is contracted to Chevron by Transocean. The JDZ Block-1 is located approximately 190 miles (300 km) north of the city of Sao Tome and approximately 125 miles (200 km) south of the city of Port Harcourt in Nigeria. Chevron JDZ Limited has a 51% equity share in the block, ExxonMobil holds 40% equity, and Dangote Energy Equity Resources Limited holds the remaining 9% equity. Afren plc is the beneficial owner of 49% of the equity in Dangote Energy Equity Resources Limited, through its wholly owned subsidiary Energy Equity Resources A.S.
Obo-1 Discovery in Block 1 of the Nigeria Sao Tome and Principe Joint Development Zone Confirmed
Afren (AIM:AFR), the oil and gas company focused on establishing itself as the premier pan-African independent exploration and production company, announces that Chevron, the Operator of Block 1 of the Nigeria Sao Tome and Principe Joint Development Zone ("JDZ"), has confirmed that it has discovered hydrocarbons in the Obo-1 well, which is the first exploration well in this area. The Obo-1 well logged a cumulative total of at least 150 feet (45 meters) of net hydrocarbon pay in multiple reservoirs and provided important reservoir rock and liquid samples. The well is located in 1,720 meters of water (5,640 feet) The JDZ Block-1 is located approximately 190 miles (300 km) north of the city of Sao Tome and approximately 125 miles (200 km) south of the city of Port Harcourt in Nigeria. Chevron JDZ Limited has a 51 percent equity share in the block, ExxonMobil holds 40 percent, and Dangote Energy Equity Resources Limited holds the remaining 9 percent. Afren plc is the beneficial owner of 49 percent of the equity in Dangote Energy Equity Resources Limited, through its wholly owned subsidiary Energy Equity Resources A.S.
FD-1 wildcat exploration well to be plugged and abandoned
The following operational update relates to Cairn’s 2013/14 exploration drilling campaign offshore Morocco where drilling operations commenced in late October 2013. The FD-1 exploration well is located in 1,500 metres (m) of water approximately 120km offshore Morocco in the Foum Draa block (Cairn 50% Working Interest (WI) and Operator). The primary target of the well was a Late Jurassic/Early Cretaceous deep-water turbidite slope fan and channel complex. The FD-1 well has reached a Total Depth of 5,255m but has not encountered clastic reservoirs, although it has penetrated the oldest stratigraphic section of any deep water exploration well along the Moroccan margin. Gas shows and gas composition ratios encountered in the well have confirmed an active thermogenic petroleum system. The well is now being plugged and abandoned. Cairn is the Operator through its wholly owned subsidiary Capricorn Exploration and Development Limited with Joint Venture partners ONHYM, San Leon Energy plc, Serica Energy plc and Longreach Oil & Gas Limited. The next well in Cairn’s planned exploration programme is in the Juby Maritime III block in Morocco (Cairn 37.5% WI, Operator) and it will target a Middle Jurassic carbonate prospect located in 100m of water where the primary objective is some 1,000m below the 1969 Cap Juby oil discovery in the Upper Jurassic. Operations will commence on Cap Juby once the FD-1 well has been successfully plugged and abandoned.
Cairn starts drilling operations offshore Morocco
Cairn is pleased to announce it has entered into a farm-in agreement with Kosmos Energy and the Moroccan National Oil Company (ONHYM) for a 20% non-operated interest in an exploration block offshore North West Africa which is scheduled for drilling in H2 2014. The farm-in to the Cap Boujdour exploration permit enables Cairn to access frontier acreage with transformational potential and containing a range of exploration play types. In the event of success, the area has significant follow-up potential. The permit is ~50 kilometres (km) offshore Morocco, covering an area of 27,700km2 in the Aaiun Basin in water depths of 1,000 - 3,000 metres (m). The permit is covered by a regional 2D grid and 2,000 km2 3D seismic surveys. Kosmos has identified three prospects within the 3D area with the largest of these, Gargaa located at ~2,135m water depth. Under the terms of the farm-in agreement, which is subject to Morocco Government approval, Cairn will pay a promoted share of future exploration costs, towards a 3D seismic survey, an exploration well planned for 2014 and, if successful, two appraisal wells, all subject to a maximum expenditure cap. Cairn also announces that it has now commenced drilling operations on the FD-I wildcat exploration well on the F prospect offshore Morocco using the Cajun Express, a fifth generation semi-submersible drilling unit. The FD-I exploration well is located in 1,500m of water approximately 120km offshore Morocco in the Foum Draa block (Cairn 50% Working Interest (WI) and Operator). The well has a planned Total Depth of 5,500m True Vertical Depth Sub Sea (TVDSS) and operations are anticipated to take approximately 60 days. This well is the first in a planned multi-well exploration sequence and once operations are completed on FD-1 the rig will move to the Cap Juby location in Morocco to drill an exploration well targeting Middle Jurassic carbonates, subject to necessary approvals. Cairn, through its wholly owned subsidiary Capricorn Exploration and Development Limited, partners in the project with ONHYM, San Leon Energy, Serica Energy plc and Longreach Oil & Gas Ltd.
Cairn secures rig for Frontier Exploration Campaign
Cairn is pleased to announce it has secured a long term contract with Transocean for the “Cajun Express” drilling unit. The rig, which is on an initial one-year contract, will be used on Cairn’s planned multi-well frontier exploration programme in Senegal, Morocco and potentially other areas. Subject to obtaining the necessary approvals the rig will be mobilised to begin operations for Cairn, offshore Morocco on the Foum Draa licence in H2 2013. The Cajun Express, is a deep-water, 5th Generation, dynamically positioned, semi-submersible drilling rig with shallow mooring capabilities and a 15,000 psi bop stack. The historic performance of the Cajun Express indicates it is a highly efficient rig with low operating downtime.
Lundin Petroleum Secures Drilling Rig for PL 304 Aegis Exploration Well
Lundin Petroleum AB (Lundin Petroleum) is pleased to announce that Aker Exploration AS will acquire an interest in production licence PL 304, located on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS) in the North Sea.Aker Exploration will supply the Aker Barents drilling rig to drill the Aegis prospect in PL 304. Aker Exploration will acquire a 10 percent licence interest from Lundin Petroleum and a 20 percent interest from Endeavour Energy Norge. Following the transaction, Lundin Petroleum, the PL 304 operator, will retain a 50 percent licence interest and Endeavour Energy will hold 20 percent. The transaction is subject to approval by Norwegian regulatory authorities. The Aker Barents is owned by Aker Drilling and is a sixth-generation semi-submersible drilling rig.Drilling of the PL 304 Aegis exploration well is expected to begin in late 2008.
EXPLORATION WELL IN PL476 SPUDDED, OFFSHORE NORWAY
Lundin Petroleum AB (Lundin Petroleum) is pleased to announce that drilling of the exploration well 6507/11-10 on the Frusalen prospect has commenced. The well is located in licence PL476 in the Norwegian North Sea. PL476 is located some 10 km northeast of the Midgard part of the Åsgard Field. Well 6507/11-10 will target sandstones of Middle Jurassic age in a structural trap. The Frusalen prospect is estimated to contain gross unrisked prospective resources of 45 millions of oil equivalents (MMboe). The planned total depth is approximately 2,300 meters below mean sea level. The well will be drilled from the semi-submersible drilling rig Songa Delta. Drilling is expected to take approximately 35 days. Lundin Petroleum has a 30 percent working interest in the licence which is operated by Det Norske Oljeselskap ASA (Det Norske).
Lundin Petroleum AB (Lundin Petroleum) is pleased to announce that drilling of exploration well 16/4-5 on the Luno High prospect in the Greater Luno Area has commenced. The well in PL359 is located 9 km south of the Luno field on the southern Utsira High in the North Sea. Well 16/4-5 in PL359 will target sandstones of Jurassic and Triassic age in a combined stratigraphic-/structural trap. The Luno High prospect is estimated to contain gross unrisked prospective resources of 103 MMboe. The well will also test potential basement prospectivity similar to that encountered in well 16/1-12 (Luno South). The planned total depth is approximately 2,275 meters below mean sea level. The well will be drilled from the semi-submersible drilling rig Transocean Winner. Drilling is expected to take approximately 50 days. Lundin Petroleum is the operator and has a 40 percent working interest in the license. Partners are Statoil Petroleum AS with 30 percent and Premier Oil Norge AS with 30 percent.
LUNDIN PETROLEUM EXPLORATION WELL TO TARGET THE APOLLO PROSPECT IN PL338
Lundin Petroleum AB ("Lundin Petroleum") will drill a new exploration well 16/1-14 in PL338. The well will target the Apollo structure, which is situated immediately to the south of the Draupne field in PL001B, and some 5 kms northwest of and down-dip from the Luno field located in PL338. The main objective of the Apollo well is to test what is believed to be a possible extension of the Draupne field into PL338. This discovery, which was recently successfully appraised by the Draupne field partners, is in Upper Jurassic sands at a depth of some 2,400m below sea level. Lundin Petroleum currently estimates unrisked gross prospective resources in the range of 20 to 130 MMboe for the Apollo prospect in PL338. The range of the resources quoted is dependent on the geological model used which is very sensitive to sand thickness variations towards the south into license PL338. The well will be drilled in the third quarter 2010 with the rig Transocean Winner. Lundin Petroleum is the operator of PL338 with a 50 percent interest. Partners are Wintershall Norge ASA with 30 percent and RWE DEA Norge AS with 20 percent interest. Ashley Heppenstall President & CEO commented: "The Apollo well will test an extension of a proven and tested hydrocarbon accumulation with upside potential based upon our geological model. The prospect is close to the Luno discovery and further exploration success in the area will clearly be beneficial in respect of the development of the Greater Luno Area"
LUNDIN PETROLEUM HAS SPUDDED AVALDSNES EXPLORATION WELL, OFFSHORE NORWAY
Lundin Petroleum AB (Lundin Petroleum) is pleased to announce that drilling of exploration well 16/2-6 on the Avaldsnes prospect has commenced. The well is located in Block 16/2, production licence PL501, in the central North Sea sector of the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS). The Avaldsnes prospect is located approximately 25 km east of the Lundin Petroleum operated Luno discovery, on the opposite side of the Utsira structural high. The target is a Lower Cretaceous/Jurassic age sandstone sequence, analogous to the Luno reservoir, within a combined stratigraphic/four-way dip closure. The gross unrisked prospective resource of the primary Avaldsnes target is estimated by the operator at approximately 130 million barrels of oil equivalent (MMboe). Lundin Petroleum is using the semi submersible drilling rig Transocean Winner to drill the prospect. Drilling is expected to take approximately 38 days, excluding testing. Lundin Norway AS is the operator with 40 percent interest. Partners are Statoil Petroleum AS with 40 percent interest and Maersk Oil Norway AS with 20 percent interest.
LUNDIN PETROLEUM SPUDS THE APOLLO PROSPECT EXPLORATION WELL 16/1-14 ON PL338, OFFSHORE NORWAY
Lundin Petroleum AB ("Lundin Petroleum") is pleased to announce that drilling of exploration well 16/1-14 in PL338, has commenced. The well will target the Apollo structure, which is situated immediately to the south of the Draupne field in PL001B, and some 5 kms northwest of and down-dip from the Luno field located in PL338. The main objective of the Apollo well is to test a possible extension of the Draupne field into PL338. Lundin Petroleum currently estimates unrisked gross prospective resources in the range of 20 to 130 million barrels of oil equivalents (MMboe) for the Apollo prospect in PL338. The planned depth is approximately 2,500 metres below mean sea level and the well will be drilled using the semi-submersible drilling rig Transocean Winner. Drilling is expected to take approximately 50 days. Lundin Petroleum is the operator of PL338 with 50 percent interest. Partners are Wintershall Norge ASA with 30 percent and RWE Dea Norge AS with 20 percent interest.
CATERPILLAR EXPLORATION WELL IN NORWAY IS AN OIL DISCOVERY
Lundin Petroleum AB has successfully concluded the drilling of the Caterpillar exploration well (24/9-10S) and its side track (24/9-10A) located in production licence PL340 BS approximately 31 kilometres south of the Alvheim FPSO in the Norwegian North Sea. The Caterpillar exploration well reached a total vertical depth of 2,161m in the Paleocene Lista Formation. The primary objective of the Caterpillar exploration well was to prove oil in the upper Paleocene reservoir rocks (Hermod Formation). Both the Caterpillar main exploration well as well as its sidetrack encountered respectively a 26 and 24 meter oil column in sandstone reservoir in the Hermod Formation. A comprehensive data acquisition programme was undertaken. Preliminary gross resource range for the Caterpillar discovery is estimated at between 5 to 12 million barrels of oil equivalent (MMboe). Development studies are progressing for the Bøyla (formerly Marihøne) field tieback to the Alvheim FPSO. The Caterpillar discovery located 8 kilometres to the southeast of Bøyla is likely be developed as part of the Bøyla development concept. Ashley Heppenstall President and CEO of Lundin Petroleum comments: "We are very pleased to find additional resources in the Greater Alvheim Area. The Caterpillar discovery will be developed with the Bøyla field as a tieback to the Alvheim FPSO controlled by the same partners." Lundin Petroleum holds 15 percent interest in PL340BS. Partners are Marathon Petroleum (operator) with 65 percent interest and ConocoPhillips with 20 percent. The Transocean Winner rig will now move to production license PL505 to drill the Earb south prospect where Lundin Petroleum has a working interest of 30%.
THE EARB EXPLORATION WELL IN PL505 HAS SPUDDED, OFFSHORE NORWAY
Lundin Petroleum AB (Lundin Petroleum) is pleased to announce that drilling of exploration well 25/10-11 on the Earb South prospect has commenced. The well is located in licence PL505 in the Norwegian North Sea. The Earb South prospect is located 15 km west of the Balder Field and 35km south of the Heimdal facilities. The well will target sandstones within the Draupne Formation (Brae Formation equivalent) and the Hugin Formation. The Earb South prospect is estimated by Lundin Petroleum to contain gross unrisked prospective gas and condensate resources of 81 million barrel oil equivalents (MMBOE). The planned total depth is 4,460 metres below mean sea level. The well will be drilled with the drilling rig Transocean Winner, and the duration is expected to be 90 days excluding test. Lundin Petroleum holds 30 percent interest in PL505. Partners are Marathon Petroleum Norge AS (operator) with 50 percent interest and VNG with 20 percent.
LUNDIN PETROLEUM SPUDS SKALLE EXPLORATION WELL IN BARENTS SEA
Lundin Petroleum AB (Lundin Petroleum) is pleased to announce that drilling of exploration well 7120/2-3 in PL438 has commenced. The well will target the Skalle prospect, which is situated to the north of the Snøhvit field in the Barents Sea, offshore Norway. The main objective of well 7120/2-3 is to test Cretaceous and Jurassic/Triassic age sandstones of a multiple target structure. Lundin Petroleum estimates the Skalle prospect contains unrisked, gross, prospective resources of 250 million barrels of oil equivalent (MMboe). The planned total depth is 2,650 meters below mean seal level and the well will be drilled using the semi-submersible drilling rig Transocean Leader. Drilling is expected to take approximately 60 days. Lundin Petroleum is the operator of PL438 with 25 percent interest. Partners are RWE Dea Norge AS with 20 percent interest, Petoro AS with 20 percent, Spring Energy with 17.5 percent and Talisman Energy Norge with 17.5 percent interest.
LUNDIN PETROLEUM COMPLETES THE SNURREVAD-JUKSA EXPLORATION WELL IN THE BARENTS SEA
Lundin Petroleum AB (Lundin Petroleum), through its wholly owned subsidiary Lundin Norway AS (Lundin Norway), is in the process of completing the drilling of exploration well 7120/6-3 S in PL490. The well targeted two levels in the Snurrevad-Juksa prospect situated 10 km north west of the Snøhvit field in Barents Sea, offshore northern Norway. The main objective of the well was to prove the presence of hydrocarbons in Lower Cretaceous/Upper Jurassic reservoirs. Preliminary analysis of a cored section of the reservoir indicate thin oil bearing sands in a 8 to 9 metres zone at the top of a 25 metre Lower Cretaceous sand sequence. No reservoir was found to be present in the Snurrevad target. Further geophysical and geological studies are required to clarify the potential in the Juksa target. The semi-submersible drilling rig Transocean Arctic drilled the well to a total depth of approximately 2,993 metres below mean sea level, in a water depth of 330 metres. Lundin Norway is the operator of PL490 with 50 percent interest. Partners are Spring Energy Norway AS with 30 percent interest and Norwegian Energy Company ASA and with 20 percent interest.
JORVIK EXPLORATION WELL COMPLETED
Lundin Petroleum AB, has, through its wholly owned subsidiary Lundin Norway AS (Lundin Norway), completed the drilling of exploration well 16/1-17 in PL338. The well targeted the Jorvik prospect located in a separate basin directly east of the Edvard Grieg field. The main objective of well 16/1-17 was to prove the presence of oil-bearing sandstones and conglomerates in a basin fill sequence. Based on sampling, mobile oil is proven in tight reservoir, consisting of conglomeratic and pebbly sandstones. The well was drilled into basement and water pressure indicates a pressure regime close to the Edvard Grieg field and the Luno South discovery. Extensive data acquisition and sampling have been carried out in the well. The whole reservoir sequence including basement has been cored. The semi-submersible drilling rig Transocean Winner drilled the well to a total depth of 2,044 metres below mean sea level, in a water depth of 110 metres. Lundin Norway is the operator and has a 50 percent working interest in PL338. Partners are Wintershall Norge AS with 30 percent and OMV (Norge) AS with 20 percent interest.
Statoil makes another high-impact natural gas discovery offshore Tanzania
Statoil and co-venturer ExxonMobil today announce its fifth discovery in Block 2 offshore Tanzania. The discovery of an additional 2-3 trillion cubic feet (Tcf)* of natural gas in place in the Mronge-1 well brings the total of in-place volumes up to 17-20 Tcf in Block 2. Mronge-1 is drilled by the drillship Discoverer Americas, and the site is located 20 kilometres north of the Zafarani discovery, and at 2,500-metre water depth. "We have initiated a new and ambitious drilling campaign offshore Tanzania following four successful discoveries during the first drilling phase. The Mronge-1 well discovered additional gas volumes and furthers the potential for a natural gas development in Tanzania. The new drilling program also allows us to fully explore the remaining exploration potential in Block 2," says Nick Maden, senior vice president for Statoil's exploration activities in the Western hemisphere. The Mronge-1 well discovered gas at two separate levels. The main accumulation is at the same stratigraphic level as proven in the Zafarani-1 well in Block 2. The Zafarani-1 discovery was made in 2012 and was a play opener for the block. The secondary accumulation was encountered in a separate, younger gas bearing reservoir, in a play which previously has not been tested in Block 2. The Mronge-1 discovery is the venture's fifth discovery in Block 2. It was preceded by three successful high-impact gas discoveries during the first drilling phase with Tangawizi-1, Zafarani-1 and Lavani-1, and a deeper discovery in a separate reservoir in Lavani-2. "These are high value resources. The attractiveness is also demonstrated by a recent asset transaction in the neighboring block. The discoveries also demonstrate how Statoil's strategy of focusing on high-impact opportunities is paying off and supports the company's ambition for international growth," Maden says. "The Tanzania government is pleased to learn about additional gas resources discovered in Block 2," says Hon. Prof. Sospeter Muhongo, Minister for Energy and Minerals in Tanzania. The Statoil-operated partnership started its new drilling campaign in Block 2 in September 2013. In addition to Mronge-1, the campaign includes drilling of several new prospects and appraisal of previous discoveries. Following Mronge-1, the partnership is scheduled to appraise the 2012 Zafarani discovery. Statoil operates the licence on Block 2 on behalf of Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation (TPDC) and has a 65% working interest, with ExxonMobil Exploration and Production Tanzania Limited holding the remaining 35%. Statoil has been in Tanzania since 2007, when it was awarded the operatorship for Block 2.
'Transocean Barents' to drill wildcat well in production license 607
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted GDF SUEZ E&P Norge AS a drilling permit for wellbore 7218/8-1, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations. Wellbore 7218/8-1 will be drilled from the Transocean Barents drilling facility at position 72°20’00.70” north and 18°28’38.46” east, following completion of the drilling of wildcat well 7222/11-1 for Det norske oljeselskap in production licence 657. The drilling programme for wellbore 7218/8-1 concerns the drilling of a wildcat well in production licence 607. GDF SUEZ E&P Norge AS is the operator with an ownership interest of 60 per cent. The other licensees are Concedo ASA (20 per cent) and OMV (Norge) AS (20 per cent). The area in this licence consists of parts of the blocks 7218/8, 7218/9 and 7219/7. The well be drilled about 65 kilometres west of the Johan Castberg area. Production licence 607 was awarded on 13 May 2011 (the 21st licensing round on the Norwegian shelf). This is the first well to be drilled in the licence. The permit is contingent upon the operator having secured all other permits and consents required by other authorities before the drilling starts.
NPD grants Statoil permit to drill 35/11-17 well in Norway
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Statoil a drilling permit for wellbore 35/11-17, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations. Wellbore 35/11-17 will be drilled from the Songa Trym drilling facility at position 61°03’31.22”N and 3°31’56.88”E following completion of the drilling of wildcat well 35/11-16 for Statoil in production licence 090B. The drilling programme for well 35/11-17 concerns drilling of a wildcat well in production licence 090, where Statoil is the operator with an ownership interest of 45 per cent. The other licensees are ExxonMobil (25 per cent), Idemitsu Petroleum (15 per cent) and GDF Suez (15 per cent). The area in this licence consists of parts of block 35/11. The well will be drilled about one kilometre southeast of Fram. Production licence 090 was awarded on 9 March 1984 in the eighth licensing round on the Norwegian shelf. This is the 16th well to be drilled in the licence. The permit is contingent upon the operator having secured all other permits and consents required by other authorities before the drilling starts.
The Trow Prospect (Well 32/2-1) Spudded in PL 369
Talisman Energy has commenced drilling operations in Production License 369 with the semi-submersible drilling rig Transocean Winner. The exploration well, located east of the Troll Field, is aiming for hydrocarbons in Jurassic sandstones (Trow prospect). Det norske estimates that Trow could hold 100 million barrels of oil equivalents, with a discovery probability of 20%. The drilling operation is expected to take about 28 days. Det norske holds a 20% interest in PL 369. Operator Talisman Energy holds 40%. Other licensees include Petro Canada Norge and Revus, with a 20% interest each.
Langlitinden exploration well drilled in Barents Sea close to completion
Lundin Petroleum AB (Lundin Petroleum) is announcing, through its wholly owned subsidiary Lundin Norway AS (Lundin Norway), that well 7222/11-2 on the Langlitinden prospect in PL659 in the Barents Sea is being completed. Logs and samples have been acquired. Oil with very low mobility was sampled in Middle Triassic sandstones. No pressure gradient was established. The well was drilled to a total depth of 2,878 metres below mean sea level in water depth of approximately 340 metres. The well will be permanently plugged and abandoned. Det norske is the operator with 20 percent working interest with partners Lundin Norway with 20 percent, Tullow with 15 percent, Rocksource with 5 percent, Petoro with 30 percent and Atlantic Petroleum with 10 percent working interest.
Transocean announces construction of two newbuild drillships
Transocean Ltd (Transocean) has announced that the company has contracted Sembcorp Marine’s Jurong Shipyard in Singapore for the construction of two newbuild ultra-deepwater drillships. The two newbuild drillships are to be constructed to Jurong Shipyard’s proprietary Jurong Espadon III rig design and are expected to be delivered from the yard in Q2 2017 and Q1 2018. Both units will be capable of operating in water depths up to 12,000ft whilst drilling down to maximum depths of 40,000ft and are capable of accommodating up to 220 personnel. Transocean will pay a total of US$1.24 billion for the construction of the assets including shipyard contracts, project management, owner-furnished equipment, inventory and capital spares. The two firm drillship orders come with three additional construction options, which must be exercised at various times within a 24 month period and offer similar financial terms as the currently placed firm orders.
GDF Suez completes wildcat well 7222/11-2 in Norway
Det norske oljeselskap ASA, operator of production licence 659, has concluded the drilling of wildcat well 7222/11-2. The well was drilled about 80 kilometres northeast of the Snøhvit field in the Barents Sea and about 160 kilometres northwest of Hammerfest. The objective of the well was to prove petroleum in reservoir rocks from the Middle Triassic (Kobbe formation). The well encountered a gross oil column of about 30 metres in the Kobbe formation, of which about 20 metres in sandstone with much poorer reservoir quality than expected. Several thin layers of sandstone were also encountered deeper in the Kobbe formation, but these were tight. The poor reservoir properties made it impossible to establish gradients from the pressure measurements. Therefore, no oil/water contact was encountered. Preliminary assessments indicate that the discovery is not commercially interesting. Extensive data acquisition and sampling have been carried out. A formation test (mini-DST) was performed, but revealed very poor flow properties. This is the first exploration well in production licence 659. The licence was awarded in APA 2011. The well was drilled to a vertical depth of 2918 metres below the sea surface, and was terminated in the Klappmyss formation from the Early Triassic. The water depth is 338 metres. The well will now be permanently plugged and abandoned. Well 7222/11-2 was drilled by the Transocean Barents drilling facility, which will now proceed to production licence 607 to drill wildcat well 7218/8-1, where GDF SUEZ E&P Norge AS is the operator.
Rosneft-BP joint venture makes second discovery in Sakhalin
CJSC “Elvary Neftegas” (Rosneft-BP joint venture) today announced the successful completion of drilling and testing of its second exploratory well in the Kaigansky–Vasuykansky exploration licence. The offshore licence block, covering over 6,000 square kilometres, lies in the south of the Sakhalin-5 acreage, north-east of Sakhalin Island. The Udachnaya well was drilled to a total depth of 2,705 meters and encountered hydrocarbons in three zones. A restricted test programme was conducted on a single zone which flowed at a rate of 1,900 barrels of oil per day through a 28/64-inch choke. This second discovery in the block was made by the Transocean Legend semi-submersible drilling rig on the Udachnaya structure located about 40 kilometers offshore, in water depths of some 100 metres. The first well in the Kaigansky-Vasuykansky exploration licence was drilled in 2004 on the Pela Lache structure some 15 kilometres to the east. It encountered significant volumes of oil and gas in a number of high-quality sandstone reservoirs. Elvary Neftegas plans to continue exploratory drilling in 2006.
New oil discovery on UK continental shelf
BP and its partner, Marathon Petroleum West of Shetlands Ltd, today announced a new oil discovery in Block 204/23, following drilling on the South-West Foinaven prospect, some 190 kilometres west of the Shetland Islands. The exploration well 204/23-2 was drilled using the Paul B Loyd Junior semi-submersible drilling rig. Located 11 kilometres south-west of the Foinaven Floating, Production, Storage & Offloading (FPSO) vessel, the well reached a total depth of 2,528 metres below sea level. BP, together with its partner, is now evaluating the discovery and the potential for a two well subsea development, tied back to the Foinaven FPSO. Dave Blackwood, head of BP's North Sea business, said, "Discoveries like this are key to the future of the North Sea and, combined with continuing investment in brownfield development, will make best use of the existing offshore infrastructure. BP is always looking for new opportunities to invest, particularly around our existing acreage to extend the life of the North Sea." Licence P1263, comprising parts of blocks 204/ 23 and 204/24 was awarded to BP for operatorship (72% equity) and Marathon Oil (28%) in 2005 following the successful award in the 23rd Offshore Licensing Round.
Duster off Ireland
Statoil Exploration Ireland has completed exploratory drilling of the Sarsfield Prospect off Ireland without finding any hydrocarbons. The well has been plugged and abandoned. Initial findings indicate that the Sarsfield Prospect does not contain reserves of oil or gas. Sarsfield is located in the Porcupine Basin, about 170 kilometres west of County Kerry. Over the coming months Statoil Exploration will analyse the data from the well to determine whether further exploration will be carried out in this area. Having completed drilling, the Transocean rig Sovereign Explorer is now on its way to the Faroes. According to Egil Endresen in Statoil Exploration Ireland, these results are disappointing. "But we were always cautious with our outlook. We have obtained valuable drilling data which we will study in the coming months to ascertain if further exploratory drilling in the area is an option at some future date", says Mr Endresen. Statoil Exploration is committed to the Irish continental shelf and has interests in seven licences. The Atlantic Margin, which stretches from off western Ireland to northern Norway, is one of the most important areas in the group's international exploration operations. Statoil Exploration Ireland holds a 42 per cent interest in Sarsfield and is operator on behalf of its partners Chevron, Conoco, Enterprise Energy Ireland and Dana Petroleum.
New find in Barents Sea
Statoil has found oil and gas in production licence 202 in the North Cape Basin, roughly 130 kilometres north-east of Norway's North Cape. The exploration well was drilled in a structure close to a salt diapir, a model not previously explored in the Barents Sea. In 288 metres of water, the well was drilled to a total depth of 2,824 metres below sea level. The find was proven in Triassic sandstone. According to Erik Henriksen, sector manager for the Barents Sea area, it is too early to comment on recoverable resources. Drill rig Transocean Arctic has taken about 100 core samples and extensive logging of the well has been carried out. Further tests are continuing and the data collected will be analysed to determine the size of the find. Statoil is assessing whether appraisal wells should be drilled. Operator Statoil has a 25 per cent share in the licence. The other licensees are the state's direct financial interest (SDFI) with 30 per cent, Amerada Hess (25 per cent) and Norsk Hydro (20 per cent).
Searcher heading for Mikkel
Operator Statoil has awarded Transocean the contract to drill and complete wells on the Mikkel field in the Norwegian Sea. The contract, which includes the drilling and completion of three wells, is valued at around NOK 150 million, reports Kjell Herigstad, special adviser in the production services unit. The work will be carried out from the Transocean Searcher rig starting in September 2002 and is expected to take 140 days. The Mikkel field lies 37 kilometres south of the Åsgard field, where Transocean Searcher has been carrying out drilling and completion operations since 1996. Statoil is exercising its option in the Åsgard drilling contract to extend the work to include the Mikkel field.
New oil find in Visund area
Norsk Hydro has found oil in two separate zones while drilling exploration well 34/8-12 S in the Visund South prospect in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. "We've made two interesting finds of light oil/condensate in rock dating from between the middle and early Jurassic Age," said Hydro project manager Jan Reidar Johnsen. "Because we've found hydrocarbons in two separate zones, we're optimistic about making more discoveries in the area. Meanwhile, additional exploration and delineation drilling is needed to determine whether the area can be commercially produced." Well 34/8-12 S was drilled by the Transocean Arctic rig to 3,160 meters vertical depth and completed in rock from the Triassic Age. Visund South lies in an area between the Visund, Gullfaks and Snorre field. The well was not tested and is now plugged. The shareholders in development and production license 120 are: Norsk Hydro (operator) with 29 percent, TotalFinaElf at 11 percent, Conoco 13 percent, Petoro 16.9 percent and Statoil 30.1 percent.
Drilling in record time on Åsgard
By using a rotary steerable drilling tool with mud motor, Transocean Winner recently drilled a well in record time on the Åsgard field in the Norwegian Sea. This is the first time on the Norwegian continental shelf, and only the second time in the world, that the PowerDrive drilling tool from Schlumberger has been used in conjunction with a mud motor. The Transocean Winner rig took just three and a half days to drill a 12¼ inch section to the top of the reservoir on the Åsgard field. Normally it would take seven and a half days to drill the 2,150-metre section. The day rate for drilling operations on the rig is around NOK 2 million. A motor was included to achieve a higher rate of penetration (ROP). When directional changes are made with the motor during conventional drilling, ROP is a quarter of that achieved with the new system. The production well was drilled on Smørbukk, which is a hard, deep, high temperature structure. "Not only do drilling operations take less time with the new system, it can also be used for more technically challenging wells," reports Rune Skotvold, lead drilling engineer in Åsgard resource development. He believes that rotary steerable drilling combined with mud motor may be the future on Åsgard, but adds that needs vary a great deal from one field to another. The system is best suited to the most demanding fields, says Mr Skotvold.
Drilling west of Kristin
Transocean Arctic has started drilling an exploration well in the Erlend structure five kilometres west of the Kristin field on the Halten Bank. The purpose of the drilling is to prove gas and condensate in the northern part of the Erlend structure. The well is being drilled in production licence 257, which was awarded in the 16th offshore licensing round. The total depth will be around 5000 metres, and the work is estimated to take 76 days. A minor gas find was previously made in the southern part of the structure. Exploration drilling is also taking place in the M-prospect twelve kilometres north of the Kristin field. Plans call for the Scarabeo 5 rig to complete this drilling at the end of April. The licensees are considering developing the Kristin field with a production platform fully equipped with processing facilities for gas and condensate. Such a solution provides maximum flexibility with regard to linking up to other deposits in the area. Sector manager Ørjan Birkeland in Halten/Nordland exploration says that the results from these wells will have an impact on the long-term development of this part of the Halten Bank. Arrangements will be made for any finds to be hooked up to the Kristin platform. The aim is to present the plan for development and operation to the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy in June this year.
Duster in the Barents Sea
Statoil has finished drilling an exploration well on the Delta structure south east of the Snøhvit field in the Barents Sea. The well was dry. The purpose of the drilling was to prove oil in the Jurassic sandstone of the Delta structure in block 7121/5. This would strengthen the possibilities of a profitable development of the petroleum resources in the Snøhvit area. Drilling was carried out by Transocean Arctic to a total depth of 2265 metres below sea level and terminated in rock of the Triassic period. Only traces of oil and gas in the Jurassic and Triassic sandstone layers were proven. “The result was disappointing, and the possibility of developing the petroleum resources in the Snøhvit area has been weakened,” says Erik Henriksen, exploration manager for the Barents Sea. Statoil has collected around 60 metres of core samples and the well has been logged extensively. Statoil is the operator for production licence 110 in block 7121/5, about 120 kilometres north-west of Hammerfest. Production licence 110 is one of seven licences in the coordinated Snøhvit area.
Irish well spudded
The first exploration well on the Sarsfield prospect west of Ireland has been spudded by Statoil from Transocean’s Sovereign Explorer rig. Expected to take about 52 days to complete, the well lies in the Porcupine basin about 170 kilometres off County Kerry and in 650 metres of water. Doing the work on behalf of Statoil Exploration Ireland, Sovereign Explorer arrived off the Republic recently after completing an assignment in North African waters. The Sarsfield well ranks as the first to be drilled by Statoil on the Irish continental shelf since 1997. According to Egil Endresen, managing director of Statoil Exploration Ireland, the operation forms part of the group’s commitment to the Atlantic Margin. Extending from west of Ireland to northern Norway, this area is one of the most important for Statoil’s international exploration operations. Results from the well are expected in the autumn, once all the analyses have been completed. Statoil Exploration Ireland has a 38 per cent interest in Sarsfield, with Conoco, Enterprise Energy Ireland and Dana as its partners.
Drilling off Ireland
Statoil plans to drill the first exploration well on the Sarsfield prospect on the Irish continental shelf sometime this spring. Drilling will be carried out by the rig Sovereign Explorer, which will arrive at the field in May. The Sarsfield prospect lies in the Porcupine Basin west of Ireland. Drilling will take place in licence no 8/95 at a water depth of around 650 metres. Other partners in the exploration licence include Conoco UK, Enterprise Energy Ireland and Dana Petroleum. Statoil has chosen Fenit harbour on the west coast of Ireland as the base to provide support for the rig in connection with drilling. According to Egil Endresen, head of Statoil’s exploration off Ireland, the main reason Fenit was selected was because the harbour lies near the field and is well developed. Statoil will be able to utilise the existing infrastructure at the harbour. Statoil has previously drilled one exploration well on the Connemara field in the Porcupine Basin. Results showed that it was not profitable to develop that field.
Drilling new well in the Barents Sea
Statoil has commenced drilling a new exploration well in the Delta structure in block 7121/5 south east of the Snøhvit field in the Barents Sea. Transocean Arctic began drilling in the structure, which lies 120 km north west of Hammerfest, on 16 February. This is the same rig that recently found oil and gas for Statoil on production licence 202 in the North Cape basin. Drilling is important to clarify the oil potential in the area around Snøhvit, says Erik Henriksen, who is in charge of exploration in the Barents Sea. The purpose of the drilling is to determine whether there are hydrocarbons in sandstones from the Jurassic period. The plan is to drill to a total depth of 2184 metres, whilst the water depth at the drilling site is 345 metres. The licensees in Snøhvit intend to send a plan for development and operation (PUD) to the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy in summer 2001. An important part of this work is to evaluate alternative solutions for profitable development of the petroleum resources in the Snøhvit area, says Mr Henriksen.
Historic first for Faroes
Statoil Faerøyene AS started drilling the Longan well off the Faroe Islands yesterday, 11 July. This is the first well ever to be drilled off the Faroes. Rolf Magne Larsen is senior vice president for international exploration. "It is an honour to be a party to the opening of a new area for oil and gas exploration," says Rolf Magne Larsen. "This is an important development for the Faroes and its people." The Longan well is located in the Atlantic Margin area, stretching from Western Ireland to Norway, where Statoil holds substantial exploration acreage. The water depth for this operation exceeds 900 metres. "We have used Statoil's extensive experience as an operator in the North Sea in our preparations for the drilling. We therefore feel confident that the operations will be efficient and have minimal impact on the environment," says Mr Larsen. Statoil Faerøyene is drilling the Longan well on licence 003, which was awarded to the company by The Ministry of Petroleum of The Faroe Islands in August 2000. The prospect is located 130 kilometres south-east of the Faroes, close to the UK continental shelf. The rig used for the Faroese drilling is the semi submersible Sovereign Explorer. Statoil Faerøyene is operator and holds 35 per cent of the licence. The other partners in the licence are Phillips Petroleum Europe Exploration (30 per cent), Enterprise Oil Exploration (20 per cent) and Veba Oil & Gas Faroes (15 per cent).
VNG Norge AS successful with exploration drilling on the Pil prospect in Norway
VNG Norge AS’s (VNG) partner in PL 586; Rocksource ASA (Rocksource) has announced an oil and gas discovery at the Pil prospect in the Norwegian Sea. The Pil prospect well (6406/12-3 S) was drilled by the ‘Transocean Arctic’ rig and the preliminary volumetric estimates indicate recoverable resources above the estimated pre-drill range of 20-50 million barrels of oil equivalent. The 6406/12-3 S well encountered a 226 metre hydrocarbon column, 92 metres of gas and 134 metres of oil in the Rogn formation. Extensive coring and data acquisition has been performed in the reservoir section. Preliminary data indicates good reservoir properties. The well will now be drilled to the planned TD. The partnership has decided to conduct a production test, and a potential side track into the adjacent Bue prospect is under evaluation. Rocksource will provide further information to the market as operations proceed. The PL 586 licence is operated by VNG. Pil is located within tieback distance (33 km) to the producing Njord field. Rocksource, through Rocksource Exploration Norway, holds a 15 percent interest in PL 586. Partners are VNG Norge (Operator) with 30 percent, Spike Exploration 30 percent and Faroe Petroleum 25 percent.
Statoil concludes dry well north of Fram field with 35/11-16 S well
Statoil Petroleum AS, operator of production licence 248 C, is in the process of concluding the drilling of wildcat well 35/11-16 S. The well was drilled about 5.5 kilometres north of the Fram field in the northern North Sea, and about 130 kilometres northwest of Bergen. The objective of the well was to prove petroleum in Upper Jurassic reservoir rocks (intra- Draupne formation sandstones). The well was drilled from production licence 248 C, with exploration target in licence 090 B. The well encountered approx. 9-metres net intra-Draupne formation sandstones with relatively good reservoir properties. Only traces of petroleum were encountered. The well is classified as dry. Data acquisition and sampling have been carried out. The well is the first exploration well in production licence 248 C, which in 2013 was carved out of production licence 248, awarded in the 1999 North Sea Awards. The well was drilled to a vertical depth of 3211 metres below sea level and was terminated in the Heather formation in the Upper Jurassic. Water depth is 367 metres. The well will now be permanently plugged and abandoned. Well 35/11-16 S was drilled by the Songa Trym drilling facility, which will now proceed to the adjacent production licence 90 to drill wildcat well 35/11-17, where Statoil Petroleum AS is the operator.
Cairn Energy releases Morocco drilling update
Cairn Energy (Cairn) has released an operational update relating to its 2014 exploration drilling campaign in Morocco. Cairn’s JM-1 well, which was spudded in January 2014 by Transocean’s ‘Cajun Express’ semisub has reached a total depth of 3,711m and has now been plugged and abandoned without further testing. The well was drilled to evaluate the Upper Jurassic and Middle Jurassic objectives. In the Upper Jurassic section, the well has confirmed the presence of heavy oil over a gross interval of 110 metres as originally tested in the 1968 MO-2 well, some 2km from the JM-1 well. Reservoir quality and the oil gravity in the Upper Jurassic across the Cap Juby structure require further evaluation by Cairn and its joint venture partners (Office National Des Hydrocarbures et Des Mines “ONHYM” and Genel Energy). Work is ongoing to correlate the core and log data from JM-1 with other wells on Cap Juby to evaluate the extent of moveable hydrocarbons and how any further assessment should be conducted. The Middle Jurassic objective was encountered with limited primary porosity and evaluation of well logs and side wall cores continues. The next well in Cairn’s planned exploration programme is ‘FAN-1’ located in the Sangomar, Sangomar Deep and Rufisque blocks (Cairn 40% WI, Operator) offshore Senegal. This well will target multiple stacked structural and stratigraphic fan closures interpreted as trapping a variety of potentially thick, high quality clastic reservoirs.
ConocoPhillips spuds fifth well in Australian exploration campaign
ConocoPhillips has spudded the Poseidon North-1 well, the fifth well in its Browse Basin Phase 2 exploration campaign according to its partner Karoon Gas. The Poseidon North-1 exploration well, located 6.5km north-east of the Poseidon-1 well in permit WA-315-P, is targeting the Plover and Montara formations and has the potential to add significantly to the already discovered Greater Poseidon area. The six well Brows Basin Phase 2 drilling campaign will continue to utilise the ‘Transocean Legend’ semisub rig throughout 2014. Four of the six wells have been completed so far. The well location for the last exploration well will be announced upon joint venture approval. The principal objective of the campaign is to better define the size and quality of the hydrocarbon resource within the exploration permits which contain Greater Poseidon trend. ConocoPhillips is the operator of the WA-315-P Browse Basin permit in which Karoon Gas Australia Ltd currently holds 40%.
OMV receives consent to use the 'Transocean Barents' in Norway
OMV Norge has received consent to carry out exploration drilling of well 7324/7-2 in production licence 537 in the Barents Sea using the ‘Transocean Barents’ mobile drilling facility. Water depth at the site is 418 metres. Drilling is planned to begin in March 2014, with a duration of around 52 days, depending on whether a discovery is made. ‘Transocean Barents’ is a 6th-generation semi-submersible drilling facility of the H-6e type. The facility was built at the Aker Stord yard in Norway and was completed in 2009. ‘Transocean Barents’ is owned and operated by Transocean Norway, with head offices in Stavanger.
Statoil receives consent to use 'Songa Trym' for pluggin work on Glitne field
Statoil has received consent to use the ‘Songa Trym’ mobile drilling facility for permanent well plugging on the Glitne field. Glitne is an abandoned oil field in blocks 15/5 and 15/6 in the North Sea, approx. 40 km north-west of Sleipner Øst. Water depth at the site is 111 metres. Expected start-up of the operation is 10 March 2014 at the earliest. ‘Songa Trym’ is a mobile facility built in Norway at Aker Værdal, and completed in 1976. The facility is owned by Songa Offshore ASA and will be operated by Odfjell Drilling AS.
OMV receives permit for wildcat well in PL537
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted OMV Norge AS a drilling permit for well 7324/7-2, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations. Well 7324/7-2 will be drilled from the Transocean Barents drilling facility at position 73°29` 27.09" north and 24°14´ 2.56" east. The drilling programme for well 7324/7-2 relates to the drilling of a wildcat well in production licence 537. OMV Norge AS is the operator with a 25 per cent ownership interest and the other licensees are Idemitsu Petroleum Norge AS with 20 per cent, Petoro AS with 20 per cent, Tullow Oil Norge AS with 20 per cent and Statoil Petroleum AS with 15 per cent. The production licence consists of the blocks 7324/7 and 7324/8, and was awarded in the 20th licensing round in 2009. Wildcat well 7324/7-2 will be the third exploration well in production licence 537. The permit is contingent upon the operator having secured all other permits and consents required by other authorities before the drilling starts.
GDF comes up dry with Byrkje prospect drilling
GDF SUEZ E&P Norge AS, operator of production licence 607, has concluded drilling of wildcat well 7218/8-1. The well was drilled about 65 kilometres southwest of the oil and gas discovery 7220/8-1 Johan Castberg and 130 km northwest of the Snøhvit field in the Barents Sea. The well's primary exploration target was to prove petroleum in Upper Cretaceous reservoir rocks (the Kviting formation) and Lower Cretaceous (upper part of the Kolmule formation). The secondary exploration target was to prove petroleum in reservoir rocks in the lower part of the Kolmule formation. The well encountered shallow siltstone layers in the Kviting formation with elevated gas readings in a gross interval of about 35 metres. Mobile gas was detected in a sandy siltstone layer. Reservoir rocks were not encountered in the Kolmule formation. The well was classified as dry, with traces of gas. Comprehensive data acquisition and sampling have been carried out. The well is the first exploration well in production licence 607. The production licence was awarded in the 21st licensing round. The well was drilled to a vertical depth of 3000 metres below the sea surface and was terminated in Early Cretaceous rocks from the Kolmule formation. Water depth at the site is 385 metres. The well has now been permanently plugged and abandoned. Well 7218/8-1 S was drilled by the Transocean Barents drilling facility, which will now proceed to production licence 537 in the Barents Sea to drill wildcat well 7324/7-2, where OMV (Norge) AS is the operator.
VNG makes oil and gas discovery whilst drilling in PL586
VNG Norge AS, operator of production licence 586, is in the process of completing the drilling of wildcat well 6406/12-3 S. The well has been drilled about 35 kilometres southwest of the Njord field in the Norwegian Sea. The well's primary exploration target was to prove petroleum in Upper Jurassic reservoir rocks (the Rogn and Melke formations). A 226-metre net hydrocarbon column was encountered, 135 meters of which are oil in Middle Jurassic reservoir rocks with good reservoir quality. The lower part of the Melke formation is aquiferous, with poorer reservoir properties as in the upper part. Comprehensive data acquisition and sampling have been carried out. A successful formation test was carried out in the oil zone. The maximum production rate was 1067 Sm3 of oil per flow day through a 56/64-inch nozzle. The test proved good flow properties and the gas/oil rate is 152 Sm3/Sm3. The preliminary estimation of the discovery size is between 6 and 21 million Sm3 of recoverable oil and condensate and between 2 and 6 billion Sm3 of recoverable gas. The well is the first exploration well in production licence 586. The licence was awarded in APA 2010. The well was drilled to a vertical depth of 3738 metres below sea level and terminated in the Melke formation in the Middle Jurassic. Water depth at the site is 324 metres. The well will now be permanently plugged and abandoned. Well 6406/12-3 S was drilled by Transocean Arctic, which is now moving on to drill appraisal well 6406/12-3 B on the discovery to reduce uncertainty in the resource estimate.
Statoil makes gas and oil discovery near Valemon field in Norway
Statoil Petroleum AS, operator of the production licences in the Valemon Unit, has concluded the drilling of wildcat wells 34/10-54 S and 34/10-54 A. The wells proved oil and gas. The wells were drilled about six kilometres north of the Valemon field in the northern part of the North Sea. The primary exploration target for the wells was to prove petroleum in a separate fault block in Middle and Lower Jurassic rocks (the Brent Group). The secondary exploration target was to prove petroleum in Lower Jurassic reservoir rocks (the Cook formation and the Statfjord group). Well 34/10-54 S encountered a 74-metre gross gas column in the Tarbert and upper Ness formations in the Middle Jurassic, of which 20 metres in sandstone with poor to good reservoir quality. In the middle and lower Ness formation, a 45-metre oil column was encountered, of which 16 metres in sandstone with good reservoir quality. In the Etive formation in the Middle Jurassic, seven metres of sandstone with good reservoir quality was encountered, but this is aquiferous. In the immediately underlying reservoir rocks, in the Rannoch formation in the Middle Jurassic, a 38-metre condensate column in sandstone with poor reservoir quality was encountered. In addition, condensate was encountered in Middle Jurassic sandstone with poor reservoir quality in the Cook formation. Well 34/10-54 A encountered an approx. 100-metre gross gas column in sand of unspecified Jurassic Age and in the Brent Group, of which 40 metres in sandstone with poor reservoir quality. In the Nansen formation from the Lower Jurassic, a 38-metre gas column was encountered, of which 32 metres in sandstone with poor to good reservoir quality. In the Eiriksson formation from the Lower Jurassic, a 77-metre gas column was encountered, of which 31 metres in sandstone with poor reservoir quality. Petroleum was also encountered in Middle Jurassic and Lower Jurassic sandstone with poor reservoir quality in the Cook and Raude formations, but it is currently unclear whether this is oil, condensate or gas. No petroleum/water contact was encountered in the wells. The wells were not formation tested, but comprehensive data acquisition and sampling were carried out. Preliminary estimates of the total size of the discoveries are between 3 and 12 million Sm³ of recoverable oil equivalents. The Valemon Unit licensees will consider tying the discoveries in to the Valemon field. 34/10-54 S and 34/10-54 A were drilled to vertical depths of 4229 and 4247 metres below the sea surface, respectively, and were terminated in the Burton formation and the Statfjord group in the Lower Jurassic, respectively. Water depth at the site is 140 metres. The wells have been permanently plugged and abandoned. Wells 34/10-54 S and -54 A were drilled by the Transocean Leader drilling facility, which will now proceed to PL073 to drill production well 6407/1-A-3, where Statoil Petroleum AS is the operator.
Hurricane Energy mobilises 'Sedco 712' for Lancaster appraisal
Hurricane Energy plc, the UK-based oil and gas company focused on hydrocarbon resources in naturally fractured basement reservoirs, is pleased to announce that it has commenced the mobilisation process for the Transocean ‘Sedco 712’ semi-submersible drilling rig. The planned operation is to drill and test the Lancaster basement oil discovery. Well management company SPD Limited has been contracted to provide well construction and project management services during the drilling campaign. The Lancaster discovery was made in 2009 and further tested in 2010. Hurricane's Competent Person's Report, prepared by RPS Energy Consultants Limited in November 2013, allocates 2C recoverable Contingent Resources of 207 MMboe to Lancaster. The discovery is located across blocks 205/21a, 205/22a and 205/26b West of Shetland on Frontier Licence P1368. All assets under the licence are controlled 100% by Hurricane.
'Cajun Express' commences drilling offshore Senegal
Drilling has begun on the offshore exploration well, FAN-1, offshore Senegal in which FAR Ltd holds a 15% interest (Cairn Energy PLC (“Cairn”) 40%, ConocoPhillips 35%, Petrosen 10%). The FAN-1 well will test a stacked fan structure with the potential to contain approximately 900 million barrels of oil with approximately 135mmbbls net to FAR Ltd. The well will be drilled using the fifth generation rig, the ‘Cajun Express’, which arrived on site Saturday 12th April. FAN-1 is the first exploration well in a two well programme, offshore Senegal with the wells to be drilled back to back. The first well will be located on the North Fan prospect in 1,500m water depth. This well will be immediately followed by a second exploration well targeting a shelf edge prospect in 1,100m of water. These will be the first deep water (>1,000m) wells drilled in Senegalese waters and the first offshore wells to be drilled for over 20 years. The two exploration wells will test combined prospective resources of approximately 1.5 billion barrels of unrisked prospective resources and FAR Ltd retains a 15% working interest in the blocks. In accordance with the terms of farm out deals completed with Capricorn Senegal Limited (a 100% subsidiary of Cairn) and ConocoPhillips, FAR Ltd has successfully secured its share of funding for these two exploration wells. Based on current well cost estimates, the carry funding and cash payments that FAR Ltd has or will receive under the farm out agreements are expected to be in excess of FAR Ltd’s share of the combined well costs for the two wells.
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Take a seat: Co-working facilitator Bridgeworks is working to expand its brand.
By GREGORY ZELLER //
For Long Beach-based co-working facilitator Bridgeworks LLC, the most logical place for its first expansion facility was, naturally, Long Beach.
The idea is more about expanding the brand’s scope, according to founder Graham Beck, and less about expanding its physical footprint – though it’s partly about that, too, with the company purposely selecting a neighboring venue to create “a campus-type situation,” Beck noted.
But the biggest reason Bridgeworks has renovated and occupied another large Harrison Street space is to offer shared professional spaces to a new range of clientele, different from the roughly 90 clients who’ve passed through Bridgeworks’ doors since the 2015 startup actually opened in August 2016 – mostly, early-stage enterprises making their first forays into the commercial world.
Second story: The new Bridgeworks facility, as seen from the old Bridgeworks facility.
That first space is “pretty much sold out,” Beck noted, filled almost exclusively by startups that pay by the month to use the facility’s shared professional amenities, including 6,000 square feet of workspace tables, glass-enclosed conference rooms and WiFi connectivity. The founder noted a “pretty diverse” clientele, including such early-stagers as Skudin Surf – dedicated to teaching the masses to safely hang 10 – and biometrics-focused startup Ipsidy.
Diverse, yes, and certainly exciting – but not the primary target audience for the second facility, which according to Beck is tuned more to established professionals with slightly different needs.
“We’re expanding the co-working context and tailoring it with an executive-suite location,” Beck told Innovate LI. “We’ve noticed that although our initial co-working office-space concept fits a majority of needs, there are a few different industries where it didn’t – for instance, professionals who might need a more private setting.”
Those can be hard to find in the first Bridgeworks space, an 8,000-square-foot hub where glass walls and open floor plans promote cohabitation and collaboration – not necessarily the right tonic for an attorney conducting a sensitive negotiation or a therapist meeting with a patient.
Enter Bridgeworks’ second 8,000-square-foot effort, which features private executive suites, a reception/waiting area and “premium conference rooms,” according to Beck, stocked with whiteboards and other topflight corporate tech.
“It’s a little more tailored to business professionals who need a place to work, rather than younger millennials or more collaborative business types,” he added.
The second space also offers what Beck called “the single-person instant office,” a smaller private space with a desk, a chair and a great chance to get away from it all.
“It allows clients or members to have their own dedicated working space at a much lower price point,” Beck said. “We don’t have the single-person office at the first facility.”
Those subtle but important differences are all part of the plan, which is “to evolve this into a single 16,000-square-foot facility across two venues,” Beck noted.
“Any type of business should be able to fit into one of these facilities,” he said.
Graham Beck: Big man on campus.
Situating the second space across the street from the first also ties directly into Bridgeworks’ master plan.
The company initially launched in a rehabilitated building across from the headquarters of Planet Payment – the international payment- and currency-processing service provider founded by Beck’s father, Philip – and the new facility occupies the ground floor of the Planet Payment building.
So if Planet Payment – where Phillip, now retired, remains a shareholder – were to ever relocate, Bridgeworks would have another ready 8,000 square feet to add to its collection, according to Beck.
The Bridgeworks founder stressed there’s no indication that Planet Payment is pulling up its tents. But with the new space, which officially opened its doors this week, already attracting attention – “Our first customers include some VCs and a kind of finance-accounting practice,” Beck noted – Bridgeworks is definitely thinking big.
Future expansions may take the brand to entirely new locales – “It would be great to have a place in Brooklyn or Manhattan,” the founder mused, “so members can reverse commute or work near the beach in the summer” – but first, Bridgeworks is focused on maximizing its brand in its own backyard.
“We want to create a real Long Beach business campus, and expand it as much as possible, maybe 30,000-plus square feet,” Beck said. “Then, we’ll try to go everywhere we can. Strategic places, where we can offer our members the greatest benefits.
“We’re thinking very big picture,” he added. “This is just the next step.”
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SECURE SYNOPSIS: 09 FEBRUARY 2019
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Topic– Effects of globalization on Indian society Social empowerment
1) Indian family structure has has grown to embrace individual choices and social realities. Analyze in the context of new family structures and notions in India.(250 words)
The article tries to provide a glimpse of the changes that Indian Family system has been quietly witnessing. It discusses how individual choices are gaining more voice at the cost of weathering of the patriarchy embedded in an Indian family system.
Analyze-here we have to examine methodically the structure or nature of the topic by separating it into component parts, and present them as a whole in a summary.
The question wants us to dig deep into the modern Indian family and bring out how it has grown embrace individual choices and social realities. We have to analyse the present family structures and notions in India.
Introduction– write a introductory lines about the traditional Indian family system. E.g mention the patriarchal setup, joint family system, adherence to traditional social mores and choices.
Discuss in points as to how the modern family system in India has developed in India and how it has strengthened individual choices and changed the social realities. E.g
The Indian family is changing. There’s no ‘ideal family’ defined by children or lineage.
It comes in different shapes and sizes. And it has grown to embrace individual choices, and social realities: single children, divorce, double incomes, sexual freedom.
The concept of ‘family’ has always been fluid, even in traditional set-ups, but today “the new generation is seeing much more of the world; they’re exposed to Western norms of individualism and autonomy.
A family could now be the quasi-family where a group of people cohabit and share their lives and belong to each other in a fundamental way, but have no single figure of authority.
Stigma against widow/ women remarriage is decreasing.
Some of the changing perceptions are thanks to popular culture, movies, movie stars
The change is however no revolution and it is still marginal etc.
Background:-
Due to economic liberalisation and globalisation, the world has become a “global village”. There is increasing interaction between people of different countries.
The different aspects of globalisation like economic, political, social and cultural have important implications for human life, including the family life.
In India, the traditional joint family system with features such as patriarchal in nature, members of family had no individual identity, the decision-making power lied exclusively with the eldest male member of the family etc underwent rapid changes due to
New family structures and notions in India :-
Decline of Extended Family System:-
There is a worldwide movement towards small, nuclear family maintaining a separate and independent household and breaking down of the traditional extended (joint) family system and other types of kin groups.
Their influence is declining in every field of life. A modified extended family structure is emerging in which individual nuclear families retain considerable autonomy and yet maintain connections with other nuclear families or so-called ‘joint family’.
Changing Authority Pattern :-
There is a change in the division of labour and authority in the family. Male authority is declining in the modern family. The authority is slipping from the hands of family elders because of new economic and political opportunities.
Young couples do not rely on family elders for job instructions or education of their children. Because of the dual-career marriages, there is a significant change in the attitude towards equality between married partners.
Changing Status of Women :-
The rights of women are becoming more recognized in respect to both initiation of marriage and decision-making in the family.
Changing Economic Functions :-
Modern family is no longer united by shared work on the farm. It is now a unit of consumption instead of a unit of production as it was in the agrarian society. It is now united by feelings of companionship, affection and recreation only.
Decline in Family Size :-
Economic considerations force the young to have smaller family with one or two children.
Changing Attitudes towards Marriage:-
There is an increase in male-female couples who choose to live together without marriage. This has given rise to the concepts of ‘living together,’ ‘living arrangements’ or ‘live-in relationships.
Also new types of families crop with where same gender couples also cohabitate.
There’s no ‘ideal family’ defined by children or lineage. It comes in different shapes and sizes. And it has grown to embrace individual choices, and social realities: single children, divorce, double incomes, sexual freedom.
Declining Trend in Non-essential Functions:-
The most of the socializing functions today, like child raising, education, occupational training, caring of elderly, etc., have been taken over by the outside agencies, such as creches, media, nursery schools, hospitals, occupational training centres, etc. These tasks were once exclusively performed by the family.
Increasing mobility of younger generation in search of new employment and educational opportunities allegedly weakened the family relations. The family bondings and ties started loosening due to physical distance as it rendered impracticable for members of family to come together as often as earlier. This affected the earlier idealized nation of ‘family’ as the caring and nurturing unit for children, the sick and elderly.
As a part of the revolution, the nuclear family emphasizes the importance of the freedom of the individual to choose his/her own life and control his/her own destiny.
Accelerated rate of rural-urban migration, diversification of gainful economic activities and individual-friendly property laws, have had consequential impact in terms of drastic reduction in the size of family in the country.
Discrimination against Widow remarriage is decreasing.
Family is now essentially democratic and most of the decisions in the family are taken collectively. However, the extent of autonomy and democracy may vary from region to region, community to community and caste to caste, depending upon the degree of its adaptation of the modern values and the urban way of life.
Marriage is considered not as a sacred one but a social contract. It has been found that, divorces and separation are on the increase.
Much distress has been witnessed in the social relationships between husband and wife. No doubt, the technology has elevated the social status of women in the family. But at the same time it has put the fabric of social relationships at stake.
Improved HDI as a result of globalization and urbanization. This has also led to better education, less social stratification among Indian caste system.
Topic -Conservation, environmental pollution and degradation, environmental impact assessment
2) India needs to develop its own emissions factor database relevant to local air pollution sources. Do you agree. Comment.(250 words)
Air pollution is a serious issue in India and many of the world’s most polluted cities are from India. air pollution is not only a problem in Metropolitan or big cities but also in small cities, towns and even villages. in this context it is important to discuss whether there is any to develop an emission factor database relevant to local air pollution sources.
The question wants us to express our knowledge and understanding about the air pollution problem across India. it then what was to express our opinion as to why/ why not there is a need for India to develop its own emissions factor database relevant to local air pollution sources.
Introduction– write a few introductory lines highlighting India’s air pollution woes. E.g mention about the air pollution status of Indian cities at global level.
Discuss in points as to why there is a need for India to develop its own emissions factor database relevant to local air pollution sources. E.g
NCAP sets a target of 20-30% reduction of PM2.5 and PM10 by 2024, with 2017 as the base year for comparison.
To achieve such comprehensive actions for prevention, control, and abatement of air pollution, NCAP requires detailed knowledge of data, research findings and time-to-time policy impact analysis.
However, currently available knowledge on the sources of air pollution is inadequate to inform such contributions, particularly at local scale, which is a crucial input for developing city-centric strategies.
For better implementation of NCAP, there is a need for researchers and policymakers to access robust, open-source data.
India needs to develop a platform for reliable and timely data sharing, to understand source contribution and evaluate policy impacts at local and regional scale.
Emissions inventory, air pollution modelling, ambient air quality monitoring, chemical characterization of pollutants and source apportionment studies are some of the conventional measures to understand source contribution and evaluate policy impacts.
Today, except for Delhi, most Indian cities and regions lack such measures. There is minimal knowledge available for rural areas etc.
Air pollution levels in most of the Indian cities are far beyond the World Health Organization’s guidelines of 10 micrograms per cubic metre (µg/m3). In 2016, 18 of 25 most polluted cities in the world were in India.
Why India needs to develop its own emissions factor database relevant to local air pollution sources:-
Local programs with local targets available:-
For better implementation of NCAP, there is a need for researchers and policymakers to access robust, open-source data
Contradictory reports:-
In today’s scenario, newer studies are being released at regular intervals on various platforms, analysing and discussing source contribution towards air pollution in Indian cities.
It is not unusual for these reports to contradict each other citing different data for the same location in almost similar timelines and drawing different inferences.
Issues with the process of collecting data:-
Many existing air pollution monitoring stations are under stress due to external issues in the process of collecting data.
Gaps in input data and data access constraints to the scientific community are common, and could play a major role in delivering dissimilarities in studies.
Local data is needed :-
Indigenous data will give a wholesome and clearer picture of the menace of air pollution in India .
IIT Kanpur study on pollution is an example of local data collection and research.
There is minimal knowledge of source apportionment studies in Indian cities.
Emissions inventory, air pollution modelling, ambient air quality monitoring, chemical characterization of pollutants and source apportionment studies are some of the conventional measures to understand source contribution and evaluate policy impacts. Today, except for Delhi, most Indian cities and regions lack such measures.
No data on rural areas:-
There is minimal knowledge available for rural areas.
Majority of monitoring stations in India are in cities, and there is limited or no information available for rural areas. At the policy and scientific front, air pollution has so far been perceived as a problem of urban India and hence no rural-focused policy has been developed
External data used :-
Most of the activity-based emissions factor used by India is developed outside the country, which may give erroneous results.
Also there is significant dependence on euro norms.
Reliance on WHO data for Health effects and pollution monitoring.
Activity based emission factors used by India are developed outside and not modified for Indian context.
Way forward:-
Geographic locations, location-wise sources of pollution, dispersal of pollutants across regions and other factors should be considered. These steps will help build a systematic mitigation plan by setting up priorities at different scales and as per different regional requirements.
More number of Data collection centers and, real time update of data is necessary
The government needs to focus on collating a local and regional database for different sectoral activities (like vehicle kilometre travel, biomass use, industrial energy use) as primary inputs for developing an ‘emission inventory’.
Topic– Ethics and Human Interface: Essence, determinants and consequences of Ethics in human actions; dimensions of ethics
3) What do you understand by Ethical intuitionism. Discuss.(250 words)
The question wants us to write in detail about the meaning of ethical intuitionism and write at length about the topic- it’s propositions, ideas, proponents, criticism etc.
Introduction– Write a few introductory lines about the Ethical Intuitionism. E.g The idea was popularised by American philosopher Michael Huemer in his 2005 book Ethical Intuitionism.
Discuss in points about the Ethical Intuitionism. E.g
Also known as moral intuitionism, this refers to the philosophical belief that there are objective moral truths in life and that human beings can understand these truths intuitively.
These are fundamental truths that can’t be broken down into parts or defined by reference to anything except other moral truths.
Human beings can discover these truths by using their minds in a particular, intuitive way.
What is right or wrong is considered by ethical intuitionists to be self-evident in nature and cannot be known through human experience.
Intuitionism does not mean that all moral decisions are reached by relying on intuition.
Intuition enables the discovery of the basic moral truths, and everyday moral decision-making then involves thinking about the choices available and making moral judgements in an ordinary sort of way.
Critics of ethical intuitionism argue that people may come to different moral conclusions even after consulting their inner intuition.
Others question whether people can arrive at moral conclusions at all using their intuition.
Ethical intuitionism:-
Ethical Intuitionism was one of the dominant forces in British moral philosophy from the early 18thcentury till the 1930s. It fell into disrepute in the 1940s, but towards the end of the twentieth century Ethical Intuitionism began to re-emerge as a respectable moral theory.
It is also known as moral intuitionism
It refers to the philosophical belief that there are objective moral truths in life and that human beings can understand these truths intuitively. In other words, what is right or wrong is considered by ethical intuitionists to be self-evident in nature and cannot be known through human experience.
The idea was popularised by American philosopher Michael Huemer in his 2005 book Ethical Intuitionism.
Some philosophers claim that ethical pluralism (the view that there is an irreducible plurality of basic moral principles, and that there is no strict priority of any one principle over another) is an essential feature of intuitionist thought, but not all intuitionists are pluralists.
Criticism:-
Topic– Emotional intelligence-concepts, and their utilities and application in administration and governance.
4) What do you understand by social intelligence. What are its key components. Discuss.(250 words)
the question words to write in detail about the meaning and scope of social intelligence. it also wants us to write in detail about the key components determine social intelligence.
Introduction- write a few introductory lines about the social intelligence. E.g social intelligence develops from experience with people and learning from success and failures in social settings. It is more commonly referred to as “tact,” “common sense,” or “street smarts.”
Discuss about the concept of social intelligence in detail. E.g
Social intelligence is more about the future. Social intelligence came about so that people could survive, and it’s about figuring out the best way for you to get along, and come out of a situation with a favorable outcome.
Even if you have the qualifications on paper, a lack of social intelligence could lead to strained or ruined relationships, as well as lost opportunities etc.
Discuss the key components of social intelligence. E.g
“social expressiveness skills.”
adept at learning how to play different social roles,
excellent listeners.
efficiently analyze what makes people tick by paying attention to what they’re saying and how they’re behaving etc.
Social intelligence:-
Social intelligenceis the capacity to know oneself and to know others. Social intelligence is an aggregated measure of self- and social-awareness, evolved social beliefs and attitudes, and a capacity and appetite to manage complex social change.
Key components:-
Verbal Fluency and Conversational Skills:-
The highly socially intelligent person can carry on conversations with a wide variety of people, and is tactful and appropriate in what is said. Combined, these represent what are called “social expressiveness skills.
Knowledge of Social Roles, Rules, and Scripts:-
Socially intelligent individuals learn how to play various social roles. They are also well versed in the informal rules, or “norms,” that govern social interaction.
Effective Listening Skills.Socially intelligent persons are great listeners.
UnderstandingWhat Makes Other People Tick:-
Great people watchers, individuals high in social intelligence attune themselves to what others are saying, and how they are behaving, in order to try to “read” what the other person is thinking or feeling.
Role Playing and Social Efficacy:-
The socially intelligent person knows how to play different social roles allowing him or her to feel comfortable with all types of people.
Impression ManagementSkills:-
Persons with SI are concerned with the impression they are making on others.
Topic- Emotional intelligence-concepts, and their utilities and application in administration and governance.
5) While emotional intelligence is about the present, social intelligence is about the future. Comment.(250 words)
The question wants us to express our knowledge and understanding about emotional intelligence and social intelligence. It wants us to express our opinion as to how social intelligence is about the future and emotional intelligence is about the present.
Introduction– write a few introductory lines about the emotional intelligence and social intelligence. E.g Give a simple and brief definition of both the terms.
Discuss about the concept of emotional intelligence and how it is linked to the present. E.g
emotional intelligence as “…the ability to identify and manage your own emotions and the emotions of others.” Emotional intelligence contains three competencies:
Emotional awareness
Applying emotions to processes such as problem-solving and thinking
Emotion management implied as both being able to help control other people’s’ feelings as well as your own.
emotional intelligence is more about the present, and thus more closely related to emotions and feelings.
By reading someone’s face, you can tell whether that person is happy, incredibly nervous before going into a job interview, or shy because that person happens to be in his or her own corner in the middle of a party.
Discuss similarly about the concept of social intelligence and how it is linked to future.
Answer:-
Emotional Intelligence refers to the capacity for recognising one’s own feeling and those of others for managing emotions well in ourselves and in our relationships. Emotional intelligence contains three competencies:
Emotional intelligence is more about the present, and thus more closely related to emotions and feelings. By reading someone’s face, you can tell whether that person is happy, incredibly nervous before going into a job interview, or shy because that person happens to be in his or her own corner in the middle of a party.
Social intelligence is the ability to understand and deal with other persons. Social intelligence is often more about the future. You are using the knowledge of the present to improve the future by finding the best pathway for you. Social intelligence is more about understanding the personalities and reactive behaviours of people to know how to best get along.
Social intelligence includes an awareness of situations and the social dynamics that govern them, and a knowledge of interaction styles and strategies that can help a person to achieve their objectives in dealing with others. It also involves a certain amount of self-insight and a consciousness of one’s own perceptions and reaction patterns.
Social intelligence came about so that people could survive, and it’s about figuring out the best way for you to get along, and come out of a situation with a favourable outcome. Even if you have the qualifications on paper, a lack of social intelligence could lead to strained or ruined relationships, as well as lost opportunities. As much as you would maybe like to be blunt with someone when giving feedback, you may try to edit your words to try to convey constructive criticism without putting your foot in your mouth.
So therefore EQ and SQ, combined with IQ, will be key to tap most strategic asset: human ingenuity.
6) How can emotional intelligence help in improving the working of an organization.Discuss.(250 words)
The question wants us to write in Detail about the concept of emotional intelligence and how it can improve working of an organisation.
Introduction– write a few introductory lines about the concept of emotional intelligence. E.g give a simple definition of Emotional intelligence.
Discuss in points how emotional intelligence can help in better functioning of an organisation. E.g
Recruitment. EQ measurement is invaluable in selecting and recruiting “desirable, high-performance workers”
Predicting performance. Some companies are blending IQ testing with scientific measurement of EQ to predict job performance and direct workers to jobs where they are most likely to succeed
Negotiation. Whether you’re dealing with a trading partner, competitor, customer or colleague, being able to empathize and be creative in finding win-win solutions will consistently pay off
Performance management. 360-degree feedback is a common tool for assessing EQ. Knowing how your self-perception compares with others’ views about your performance provides focus for career development and positive behavioural changes
Peer relationships. Good networking skills are a staple of job effectiveness for the average worker. Networking has too often been associated with “using” other people, but a heightened EQ ensures a mutually beneficial approach to others.
Emotional intelligence describes an ability, capacity, skill, or self-perceived ability to identify, assess, and manage the emotions of one’s self, of others, and of groups.
Like it’s counterpart IQ ,EQ can be tested ,measured and incorporated into the work place in productive ways.
Some of the reasons why emotional intelligence can be the key to workplace success:
Emotional intelligence can lead to better business decisions
Emotionally intelligent employees are more likely to keep their cool under pressure
Those with high EQ are better at resolving conflicts
Emotionally intelligent leaders tend to have greater empathy
Employees with high EQs are more likely to listen, reflect, and respond to constructive criticism
Embracing the nuances of human emotion in the workplace can have pragmatic benefits, such as better collaboration among employees and a happier workplace.
Employees with higher scores on measures of EQ also tend to be rated higher on measures of interpersonal functioning, leadership abilities, and stress management. Other studies have linked higher emotional intelligence with better job satisfaction as well as overall job performance.
Since modern organizations always look to improve performance, they recognize that objective, measurable benefits can be derived from higher emotional intelligence.
When emotional intelligence is high, organization members can understand the cause and effect relationship between emotions and events and plan effectively
Examples of using emotional intelligence in organisations are :-
Recruitment:-
EQ measurement is invaluable in selecting and recruiting high performance workers.
Predicting performance :-
Some companies are blending IQ testing with scientific measurement of EQ to predict job performance and direct workers to jobs where they are most likely to succeed.
Negotiation:-
Whether you’re dealing with a trading partner, competitor, customer or colleague, being able to empathize and be creative in finding win-win solutions will consistently pay off
Performance management:-
360-degree feedback is a common tool for assessing EQ. Knowing how your self-perception compares with others’ views about your performance provides focus for career development and positive behavioural changes
Peer relationships:-
Good networking skills are a staple of job effectiveness for the average worker. Networking has too often been associated with “using” other people, but a heightened EQ ensures a mutually beneficial approach to others.
7) What can be done to cultivate emotional intelligence in workplace. Discuss.(250 words)
The question wants us to Write in detail about how emotional intelligence can be cultivated and developed in a workplace. we have to be as descriptive and practical in our answer as possible.
Introduction– write a few introductory lines about the Emotional intelligence. E.g provide a brief definition of emotional intelligence and its importance.
Discuss in points as to how emotional intelligence can be cultivated at workplace. E.g
The four phases correspond to those of the development process, viz., preparation, training, transfer and maintenance, and evaluation. Each is important.
Assess the organization’s needs
Assess the individual
Deliver assessments with care
Maximize learner choice
Encourage people to participate
Link learning goals to personal values
Adjust expectations
Gauge readiness;
Foster a positive relationship between the trainers and learners
Make change self-directed
Break goals into manageable steps
Provide opportunities to practice
Monitor performance and give feedback
Rely on experiential methods etc.
Encourage use of skills on the job
Develop an organizational culture that supports learning
Emotional intelligence was ranked sixth in the World Economic Forum’s list of the top 10 skills that employees will need to possess to thrive in the workplace of the future.
Emotional intelligence may be the missing link that unites conventional “can do” ability determinants of job performance with “will do” dispositional determinants.
The interest in emotional intelligence in the workplace stems from the widespread recognition that these abilities self-awareness, self-management, empathy and social skill separate the most successful workers and leaders from the average.
This is especially true in roles like the professions and higher level executives, where everyone is about as smart as everyone else, and how people manage themselves and their relationships gives the best and edge.
How to inculcate emotional intelligence in workplace :-
Modern organizations now offer learning and development that is explicitly labelled as “emotional intelligence” or “emotional competence” training.
In support, their leaders create and manage a working environment of flexibility, responsibility, standards, rewards, clarity, and commitment.
Implementing emotional intelligence training and overall culture in an organisation is done in four phases:
Preparation:-
Assessing the organization’s needs
Assessing personal strengths and limitations
Providing feedback with care
Maximizing learner choice
Encouraging participation
Linking learning goalsto personal values
Adjusting expectations
Gauging readiness
Training:-
Once the organisation has plans in place, Phase Two is where it should start training. It should plan on:
Fostering a positive relationship between the trainer and the learner
Maximizing self-directed change
Setting clear goal
Breaking those goals into manageable steps
Maximizing opportunities to practice emotional intelligence
Providing frequent feedback on that practice
Relying on experiential, hands-on methods
Building in support for your staff
Using models of desirable behaviour
Enhancing insight into emotions and thought patterns
Preventing relapse by preparing people for mental slips
Transfer:-
Phase Three is all about transferring and maintaining the skills learned. Make sure you build in opportunities for:
Encouraging use of the skills learned on the job.
Providing an organizational culture that supports learning.
Finally, Phase Four is focused on evaluating the change that has come about from training. In this phase, the organisation should be:
Conducting ongoing evaluation research.
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IN 2016 THE RUSSIAN DZHIGITOVKA FEDERATION INVITED NATIONS FROM AROUND THE WORLD TO COMPETE IN THE FIRST EVER INTERNATIONAL DZHIGITOVKA CHAMPIONSHIPS.
The British performers answered the invitation from Moscow to create The British Equestrian Dzhigitovka and Trick Riding Association, and assemble a competitive team to compete at the first World Dzhigitovka Championships in Moscow July 2016.
The team members are all national and indeed world champion athletes from different countries around the world. They met as competitors at The World Dzhigitovka Championships in Moscow 2016 and although competing against each other for the World Champion title, they were also inspired after seeing the highest standards of work in Russia to come together to present the best of Dzhigitovka to the world stage in an unsurpassed show spectacular.
The International Dzhigitovka Show is created by British Team founders Karl And Zana Greenwood, in association with the International Dzhigitovka Equestrian Federation in Moscow, IEDF.
The show now features the current World Champion, Sergey Murugov (Russia), and elected top athletes from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, France and Germany alongside the British Dzhigitovka Team.
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The International Cossack show has been created by Husband and wife team Karl and Zana Greenwood. Both Karl and Zana have lifelong performance backgrounds in circus, stage and film, with 18 years as stunt riders in live performances.around the world.
Their live shows are renowned for their superior high quality, beautiful calm, happy performance horses, professional riders and great entertainment.
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KARL GREENWOOD Karl is a rider, presenter, theatre actor, screen actor and ringmaster.
Karl is well known for his prosthetics and costume work both in theatre productions, live shows and for film. His expertise includes extensive costume and prosthetics work for circus acts, theatre roles, feature films and various BBC productions including Dr.Who.
Karl and his horses have extensive experience in major production theatre, Film and TV studios and indoor arena shows, and has produced outdoor Equine Stunt Shows for beaches, arenas, horse trials, castles, town centres and central London in every environment.
All the horses are trained by Karl and Zana and their staff at The Centre of Horseback Combat in Hemel Hempstead. They are trained in Horseback Archery, Jousting, Fire work, Filming, Trick Riding, Roman Riding, Rearing, Falling, Laying down, Sitting and plenty more besides.
Kickboxing - Black belt, Padi Divemaster, Ariel work, Fire performance, Stilt walking, Horse Archery Instructor, knife throwing.
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ZANA’S EARLY YEARS
Zana's performance background started on stage when she was 3 years old. Aged 9 she won a place at the prestigious Arts Educational School, Tring Park where she furthered her career in acting, singing, dance and music. At this time she also discovered horses but was put off riding by her parents as it interfered with her ballet and muscle development. Not discouraged Zana continued to have a love of horses and finally bought her own pony to compete in local x-country events on and pony club. After riding for her teenage years she still had the performance bug and dreamed of combining the two.
She trained to be a Trapeze artist, Fire eat, Stilt walk and perform aerial acts with her husband Karl and through having these skills found work at Lulworth castle for a jousting team.
So it started…
ZANA AND HORSES
Zana is an accomplished Jousting knight having performed in hundreds of Jousting shows for over 13 years. She is a very experienced Cossack Trick rider working with true Russian Cossack techniques linking in with Russians Trick riders in Moscow. Her tricks includes vaulting tricks, sitting backwards on her horse's neck and picking up hats and jumping over fire whilst still in trick!
All of course performed at full gallop and she can perform saddle falls and bull dogs.
She was trained by Cossacks to use a Russian Shashka sword, lance, gun and throwing knives all from horseback.
She also is an experienced Roman rider (standing on the backs of 2 horses at canter), including four-in-hand and jump.
Zana also has worked in Dubai with Hoofbeatz entertainment as stunt team leader, teacher and show rider, providing Trick riding, Fire eating and Horse archery acts. Zana works with Niagara, an Andalucian gelding who she has owned since he was 3 yrs old. He is now 15 and can lay down, sit up, rear at liberty and whilst ridden, Joust, trick ride and loves jumping through fire. Together they make a strong pair and have a unique bond.
Zana also competed and coached in July 2016, 2017 and 2018 in Moscow, Russia with team GB for the first ever World Dzhigitovka (Trick riding and weapons) Equestrian Federation championships. She won a personal silver medal in Horse Archery and the team came third overall in the team events year one and in 2018 Zana won the bronze medal in the womens category and was top female placing overall in the weapons section.
She now travels to the Moscow region in Russia to sit on the committee of the International Dzhigitovka Equestrian Federation -IDEF and to learn new training techniques and weapons skills to bring back here to train students and keep alive the traditional art of Dzhigitovka.
She has just been made Head of International relations for the IEDF.
She holds a coaching qualification for Dzhigitovka from the International Federation in Moscow to teach these skills in the U.K.
Oman- Zana is now a tent pegging coach having completed a training course in Oman March 2016 with the ITPF (International Tent Pegging Federation)
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She is an experienced Horse Archer and instructor and has a passion for Horse Archery and the commitment to see this exciting sport brought back to life in the U.K and and has set up along side Karl the National Horseback Archery Society - NHAS, which is committed to horse welfare and high Horse Archery safe and legal teaching and standards in the UK.
See the N.H.A.S page for more info and to join.
Zana has recently returned from The World Horseback Archery Championship in South Korea, Oct 2018 and represented GB at Al Faris, Jordan, April 2018.
ZANA’S OTHER SKILLS INCLUDE:
Trampolining, fire eating, fire spinning, pyro poi, stilt walking, doubles trapeze, knife throwing, swimming, trained ballet dancer, PADI Dive master in scuba, kick-boxing black belt, rock-climbing, fencing and broadsword fighting, British Action Academy Screen Combat courses - Phases I,II, III, has gained a Tent pegging coaching certification with the ITPF in Oman and has gained the JISC horse stunt test qualification.
She is also a qualified lifeguard, gym instructor and has a current first aid at work certificate
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Due to a variety of life experiences, I became entreched from a young age in the pursuit of deeper self-awareness and understanding of the human condition. I have a Master’s in organizational systems with a focus on pedagogical application, a Bachelor's cum laude in cultural anthropology, and independent studies in transpersonal psychology, trauma resolution, education theory, and philosophy. My goals are to offer empowering internal frameworks to educators and students (K-12), with the hope of shaping a new educational paradigm – one that truly prepares our children for living life, improving both its quality and potential. I am currently contributing to iolee as an ambassador of its methodology and a guide in its development as a curriculum. I believe in iolee's capacity among other things, to effectively guide children to develop trauma/conflict resolution skills early in life and thus, better traverse life’s difficult passages. I am also author of the upcoming book, Song Of The Child in which I further explore this vision and its affect on social evolution.
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Andrea Monsanto has a science degree from SUNY at Stony Brook, studied at The School of Practical Philosophy and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in positive psychology. For almost two decades she has been practicing IOLEE and mindfulness and has been training individuals and groups for a decade. Andrea is the co-founder of the Mindful Connection Institute, where she teaches individuals and groups in the United States and Colombia cutting edge techniques to achieve social emotional balance and financial peace. Andrea has a background in finances and has combined her knowledge of finances and social emotional wellness to contribute to IOLEE Ecosystem's programs for prosperity. She helps individuals reach a state of affluence and inner peace in a context of social responsibility.
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Defected In The House Croatia
In August Defected will host its first full festival at the Garden Resort in Tisno on the Adriatic coast. The festival is set to bring five days of pure house hedonism to this spot with a line-up of artists and DJs, featuring underground artists together with bigger-named DJs for a week of music. The label’s forthcoming release ‘Defected In The House Croatia’ represents what the festival will be all about. The compilation is in three parts, each mixed by a producer from the Defected family that is possibly making waves in the house music world right now - Kai Alcé, Crookers and Dario D’Attis, who are all key players on the bill for Defected Croatia.
The three guest mixers have captured the growing impact that Croatia is possibly making on the global house music scene, producing the previews for the festival. They have come up with one mix each that sets the scene for the festival’s beach bar, main stage and sun-soaked boat party settings. Highlights include a cut from the 4th Floor Records archive from Fallout – ‘The Morning After (The Aftermath)’, Crookers’ new track ‘A Place In My Heart’, Mr. G’s ‘Precious Cargo (Mr. G’s Out Dub)’ and a Dario D’Attis Remix of Alaia & Gallo’s summer track ‘Who Is He?’
The mixes include a balance of tracks like these along with lesser-known cuts chosen especially for this compilation, giving an insight into their DJ selections and the artists they are currently rating. Club favourites ATFC, Tommy Bones, Dennis Ferrer, Kerri Chandler and Kings Of Tomorrow tracks are also in the album, mixed by the producers who represent Defected’s sound.
It’s out 15 July.
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Best wildlife experiences in Latin America
Journey Latin America Co-founder Chris Parrott shares his best wildlife experiences in Central and South America.
Pink dolphins in Iquitos, Peru
Native to the Amazon River and its tributaries, the pink river dolphin is a unique sight. It's also a rare one. But fear not, we can help! To be in with a good chance, base your Amazon stay around Iquitos in the north of Peru.
In my experience, although many characteristics can be the same from region to region, the Amazon is extremely diverse as a destination and here in the north of Peru you'll have a totally different experience to that available elsewhere. Pink dolphin spotting is a case in point - from an Iquitos lodge or luxury cruise, unlike other areas, you'll be able to take an excursion to an area of the river where they are very frequently sighted. Here you'll also see the giant Victoria Regia waterlilies often associated with Manaus in Brazil, which are not seen in Peru's southern Amazon.
Spotting jaguar in the Pantanal, Brazil
Seeing a jaguar in the wild is a rare privilege, and I know I'm extremely lucky when I say I've had this fantastic experience more than once. If you want to maximise your chances of spotting one too, my first tip would be to visit the Pantanal rather than the Amazon, as this huge area of wetlands in southern Brazil is prime territory for spotting large mammals as well as tonnes of birdlife. You are more likely to see jaguars in the southern Pantanal than the north of the region (both of my sightings were close to Refugio Ecologico Caiman). June to November is a good time of year to go as it’s the dry season, which means there is better access for vehicles and sightings are generally more common.
Tambopata clay lick, Peru
The clay lick at the Tambopata Research Centre in western Peru is the largest of its kind in the world, hosting hundreds of brightly coloured macaws who come day-in, day-out to supplement their diets with the sodium found in clay. Boats are organised from the lodge at the reserve to take you to see the phenomenon for yourself. As the sun rises you'll see a throng of parrots take off from the nearby trees in unison towards the exposed clay wall of the river - a spectacular mass of colour. I would advise you to stay at least two or three nights to give yourself a couple of chances: while the parrots are extremely consistent in their behaviour, occasional cold fronts of wind can disrupt them.
The Galápagos is, famously, a wildlife lover's dream, and it doesn't disappoint - there's so much to see, all so easily spotted, and the animals are completely unfazed by your presence. You can expect to get up close and personal with giant tortoises, playful sea lions, basking iguanas and many more exotic species. Each island is also different to the last, both geographically and ecologically, so you simply can't get bored!
I went in November when it was relatively quiet, and although the sea is typically a little colder at that time of year it certainly didn't stop me diving in. There are just as many amazing creatures beneath the sea as above - some of my favourite memories are of spotting green sea turtles, watching blue-footed boobies dive-bombing into the water and looking on spellbound as sea lions darted about all around me, seemingly urging me to join in with their games. You may even see penguins swimming around in the mêlée.
Tikal’s howler monkeys at dawn, Guatemala
Tikal, a ruined Mayan city shrouded in Guatemalan rainforest, is better known for its archaeological treasures than its natural ones, but put the two together and the result is truly magical. I stayed in a jungle lodge near to the site and awoke to the incredible roar of howler monkeys, but you can also arrange an excursion to climb one of the ancient pyramids just before dawn and watch the sun rise over the mystical scene to the sound of these incredible animals. The sonic boom of their calls has to be heard to be believed. And it's not hard - in fact, you only need to be within three miles of the monkey to hear it clearly!
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Will fourth time be the charm? Brewers centerfielder Lorenzo Cain is once again a finalist for a Gold Glove
The Brewers' Lorenzo Cain was named a finalist once again for the Gold Glove for National League centerfielders, an award he has yet to win.
Will fourth time be the charm? Brewers centerfielder Lorenzo Cain is once again a finalist for a Gold Glove The Brewers' Lorenzo Cain was named a finalist once again for the Gold Glove for National League centerfielders, an award he has yet to win. Check out this story on jsonline.com: https://www.jsonline.com/story/sports/mlb/brewers/2019/10/24/brewers-lorenzo-cain-once-again-finalist-elusive-gold-glove-award/4087661002/
Tom Haudricourt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Published 3:29 p.m. CT Oct. 24, 2019 | Updated 4:23 p.m. CT Oct. 24, 2019
Lorenzo Cain has made several spectacular plays in the outfield this season for the Brewers, including taking a home run away from the Cardinals' Jose Martinez with a game-saving catch on opening day. (Photo: Rick Wood, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
Will the fourth time be the charm?
That is the hope of Lorenzo Cain and the Milwaukee Brewers after the veteran centerfielder was named one of three finalists Thursday for the 2019 Gold Glove Award at his position in the National League. The other finalists are Washington's Victor Robles and St. Louis' Harrison Bader.
This is the fourth time Cain has been named a Gold Glove finalist, including both seasons he has played with the Brewers. Though considered one of the best centerfielders of his era, if not the best, he has yet to win a Gold Glove, which many find difficult to believe.
Despite having a magnificent all-star season for the Brewers in 2018, offensively and defensively, Cain finished runner-up to Atlanta's Ender Inciarte for the Gold Glove among NL centerfielders. Cincinnati's Billy Hamilton was the other finalist.
Cain got his 2019 candidacy off with a bang when he robbed a home run off the bat of St. Louis' Jose Martinez on opening day at Miller Park for the final out of a 5-4 Brewers victory. He went on to make five home run-robbing catches while making only two errors in 143 games despite playing with several injuries, including a bad thumb in the first half and left knee issue down the stretch.
Cain was credited by FanGraphs with 20 defensive runs saved during the season. No other Brewers player was named a finalist at his position.
Robles, a rookie, was credited with 23 defensive runs saved over 156 games while committing six errors for the Nationals, who eliminated the Brewers in the wild-card game and now hold a 2-0 lead over favored Houston in the World Series. Bader had 17 DRS and four errors in 122 games for the Cardinals.
After Cain made his final home run-robbing catch of the season on Sept. 28 in Colorado, stealing a two-run shot away from Garrett Hampson in the seventh inning to temporarily protect a 2-0 lead, pitcher Gio Gonzalez said, "It’s about damn time he gets that Gold Glove. I don’t know if we have to literally go to Tiffany’s or wherever we have to go to buy this Gold Glove for him. He needs this Gold Glove. That guy deserves it, and hands down is one of the best outfielders in the game. Give him his damn Gold Glove already.”
The Gold Glove winners will be announced during a live, one-hour airing of ESPN's "Baseball Tonight" at 6 p.m. Central on Sunday, Nov. 3. Winners are selected in balloting by major-league managers and coaches, who cannot vote for their own players and can vote only for players in their league.
In addition to those votes, the Society for American Baseball Research's Defensive Index is used to help select winners, counting for approximately 25% of the selection process. That bodes well for Cain, who had a much higher ranking than Robles and Bader by that metric.
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What has to be proven in an Iowa dramshop claim?
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?How do You Prove that the Bar Tender Knew or Should Have Known the Person was Intoxicated or Would Become Intoxicated?
?What has to be proven in an Iowa dramshop claim?
?What are the available damages in dram shop claim?
There are two typical ways to prove an Iowa dramshop claim. A person is served too much alcohol at a bar or restaurant, leaves the establishment while drunk, is involved in a car accident, and is subsequently charged with OWI (operating a vehicle while intoxicated).
The other occurs when a drunk bar patron assaults one or more people at the bar. Iowa’s Dramshop Law holds the bar owner, liquor licensee, or permittee (bartender or wait person) who does either of the following;
Sells and serves alcohol to an intoxicated person when they knew (or should have “reasonably” known) the person was intoxicated
Sells and serves the person to a point where the owner, bartender, wait staff knew or should have reasonably known the person would become drunk if they did not stop serving the patron.
Bars and other establishments licensed to serve liquor are legally required to exercise reasonable care to detect signs of actual (or suspected) intoxication in their patrons. If their employees identify someone who’s had too much to drink, they cannot serve them any more alcohol: [Iowa Code § 123.92].
This is known as a Dramshop Law, and many states have adopted them. Virtually all of these establishments are also required by law to have dramshop liability insurance to pay the damages to the injured victims of their intoxicated patrons.
“Iowa’s Dramshop Statute is intended to restrain bars and restaurants from selling ‘excess liquor’ to their patrons;” according to The Iowa Supreme Court. Several cases before it have produced rulings that the state’s dramshop law does not require that the plaintiff prove that the intoxicated person who injured them consumed the alcohol.
The Act’s language says that alcoholic beverages that are, "sold and served for consumption on the seller's premises only,” apply. This means that retail companies such as grocery stores and other liquor licensees which sell packaged liquor – rather than “liquor by the drink” – are not subject to the law because they are not licensed to serve alcohol at their business; only sell alcohol which is consumed at another location.
All civil damages are available in a dramshop case.
Damaged property
Can a person who was made intoxicated sue the bar owner in an Iowa dramshop case?
Only those who were injured by the intoxicated patron (referred to as the “second party”) can sue the bar or restaurant establishment. First parties (the intoxicated person) may not.
Are private citizens who host a party liable under Iowa’s dramshop laws?
The law applies only to vendors who are licensed to sell alcohol in restaurants and bars. It does not apply to “social hosts” who serve alcohol at parties or other private functions: [Iowa Code § 123.49].
Contact Walker, Billingsley & Bair to get more information on filing a dramshop claim in Iowa at (515) 440-2852.
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Papal Visit
Over 123,000 foreign nationals issued with PPS numbers in 2018
UK, Romania and Brazil accounted for most new allocations
Fri, Oct 25, 2019, 17:45
Kitty Holland Social Affairs Correspondent
The highest numbers are employed in the hospitality, administration and support, and the wholesale and retail sectors. Photograph: iStock
More than 100,000 foreign nationals aged 15 and over were allocated personal public service (PPS) numbers last year, figures from the Central Statistics Office show.
Of those, more than a third went to people from the UK, Romania and Brazil.
Almost half a million people from outside the State who had been issued a PPS number in the past six years were working in Ireland in 2018, according to the data published on Friday.
The highest numbers are employed in the hospitality, administration and support, and the wholesale and retail sectors.
In all, 109,303 foreign nationals over 14 were given PPS numbers in 2018. Of these almost 60 per cent had work during the year.
Including children, 123,135 PPS numbers were issued last year, compared with 85,021 six years ago. Allocations to males accounted for 53.8 per cent and 47.8 per cent to females.
Since 2013 some 622,919 PPS numbers have been issued to people from outside the State, and of these 78 per cent were working in 2018.
Industry breakdown
Sixteen per cent were employed in “accommodation and food service activities”; followed by “administration and support services activities” and by “wholesale, retail trade”.
Just under 11 per cent of employed foreign nationals were in manufacturing last year, 7.2 per cent in information and communication activities, and, 6.8 per cent in human health and social work.
Forty-five people were employed in the “activities of extra-territorial organisations and bodies” such as the United Nations or the World Bank, followed by 241 in jobs where households were their employers, and 395 in mining and quarrying.
In 2018 the UK had the highest number of PPS number allocations (15,095), followed by Romania (15,095) and Brazil (12,268).
The UK and Romania have had the two highest number of PPS number allocations by country since 2015.
The fewest were allocated last year to Slovakia (1,076), the Philippines (1,080) and Canada (1,098).
Including engagement with social welfare, 63.9 per cent of foreign nationals who got their PPS number since 2013 were working, receiving social welfare or both. This compared with 33.4 per cent in 2013.
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Miguel Heras Pre-2013 TNF UTMB Interview
Bryon Powellon August 29, 2013 /4 comments
Miguel Heras started the 2011 The North Face Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc, but was forced to drop with a knee injury not far before the finish. Since then, Miguel has had some highly successful races, and some others where he’s DNFed due to health issues. In the following interview, find out if Miguel is healthy for the 2013 UTMB, why he loves this race, and his thoughts on the camaraderie of running and racing in the mountains.
[Editor’s Note: Here’s our full 2013 TNF UTMB men’s race preview.]
[Click here if you can’t see the video above.]
Miguel Heras Pre-2013 TNF UTMB Interview Transcript
iRunFar: Bryon Powell of iRunFar here with Miguel Heras before UTMB 2013. How are you, Miguel?
Miguel Heras: Fine. You?
iRF: I’m doing very well. It’s good weather and a beautiful mountain, yes?
Heras: Yes.
iRF: How are you feeling? Are you excited for the race?
Heras: Yes, at the moment I feel good, but tomorrow I don’t know. My decision is, it’s good for me, but tomorrow I really hope I have a good day.
iRF: Two years ago, you started Mont Blanc and you ran to within 20k of the finish. Your knee—you had an injury. Are you healthy? Do you have injuries that could stop you this year?
Heras: Earlier this year I had several problems. I didn’t know what had happened with my body. I didn’t understand what happened with my body. I didn’t understand nothing. But at the moment I feel good. I feel good and have no problems and no injuries. I’m careful because I don’t know what happened, but I feel good.
iRF: Your training has gone well?
Heras: Yes. I did several races in July and August. I don’t know. We’ll see.
iRF: Why do you come back to UTMB? You’ve been here before. What is the attraction to Mont Blanc?
Heras: The race is ‘the race.’ No race is as much as this race. I like so much this race and this mountain. I always want to race this race because of the competition and it’s a long race.
iRF: Because it’s a long race, the beauty of the course, and the competition, yes?
iRF: I know you wanted to run Western States if you could this year. You were trying to qualify at Lake Sonoma and your hamstring, your leg, was injured. Do you have any plans to come and race in the United States again?
Heras: Yes. I would like to go back to USA because I would like to return to USA several times but I couldn’t go because my body wasn’t good. I hope the next season or maybe later this year in September or October or maybe December.
iRF: So maybe you’d come over for UROC?
Heras: Maybe, but at this moment I am only thinking about the UTMB tomorrow.
iRF: Two years ago was special. You had to stop, but you ran most of the race with Kilian (Jornet), Iker (Karrera), and Sébastien (Chaigneau). How important is the friendship and the community of this sport to you? How important is the camaraderie, the friendship between the runners to you? Do you enjoy that?
Heras: Yes. Two years ago the race was so beautiful, so nice with Kilian, Iker, and Sebastien spending several hours together. For me, they were so good with me because I was injured but they would stop and wait for me until my knee said, “Stop.” The doctor tried to help [iRF: Tried to cure or fix your knee?], yes, and I tried, but I had to stop because my knee said to.
iRF: Until, Seb and Iker and Kilian were at a checkpoint waiting with/for you. That’s amazing friendship.
Heras: Yes and Sebastien, too, of The North Face.
iRF: We’re all one team, yes? Well best of luck to you out there this weekend. I hope you have no injuries and I hope you run well.
Heras: Thank you so much.
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Bryon Powell is the Editor-in-Chief of iRunFar.com, which he founded more than 10 years ago. Having spent more than 15 years as an ultrarunner and 25 years as a trail runner, he's also written Relentless Forward Progress: A Guide to Running Ultramarathons and co-wrote Where the Road Ends: A Guide to Trail Running. These days he calls Moab, Utah and its trails home.
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Dave evans August 29, 2013 at 3:25 am
Love this guy. Hope he smashes it tomorrow
Roger, August 29, 2013 at 7:50 am
Bryon, as always great interviews and amazing coverage. Only thing I would say, you should buy a couple of microphones, sometimes it's hard to hear what you say with the background noise! ;) I'll contribute to it!
Bryon Powell August 29, 2013 at 8:57 am
Yeah, it wasn't until listening to the interview afterwards that it was tough. I didn't hear the awful background noise until afterward.
Roger August 30, 2013 at 2:22 am
That's why you need the micro's!! We'll crowdfund them!
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David or Dewi Sant is the patron saint of Wales. On March 1 every year Welsh children celebrate St David's day with the girls wearing national costume. Leeks and daffodils abound. In Pembrokshire, St David's Cathedral stands in a magical location where David is supposed to have lived his 6th Century Celtic monk's life.
David was probably one of the (if not the) most influential of the early Christians in Wales during the 'Age of Saints.' The cathedral built in his name in the 12th Century was a highly significant shrine for medieval Christians - two pilgrimages to St. Davids equaled one to Rome. But who was David?
According to the biography of David written by Rhigyfarch (c. 1095) he had almost magical powers:
"Saint David "then enters the synod; the company of bishops is glad, the multitude is joyful, the whole assembly exults. He is asked to preach, and does not decline the synod's decision. They bid him ascend the mount piled up with garments; and in the sight of all, a snow white dove from heaven settled on his shoulder, and remained there as long as he preached. Whilst he preached, with a loud voice, heard equally by those who were nearest and those who were furthest, the ground beneath him grew higher, rising to a hill; and'staioned on its summit, visible to all as though standing on a lofty mountain, he raised his voice until it rang like a trumpet ..."
Afterwards, blessed and extolled by all, he is constituted archbishop of the entire British race, by the unanimous consent of the bishops, kings, princes, nobles, and those of every rank; his city is also declared the metropolis of the whole country, so that whosoever ruled it should be regarded as archbishop."
Glanmor Williams (1974:1) demolishes this myth by saying that: "We cannot, unfortunately, believe most of the details as the saint's biographer recorded them. They come from a biography which was not written until five hundred years after the saint was dead. (the) ... work is, like most medieval saints' lives, an amalgam in which legend heavily overlies facts."
Williams (1974: 2) goes on to observe that facts about David "are perilously slender and can be quickly summarized. We have no certain knowledge of the dates of his birth or death; but there is no doubt that he flourished in the sixth century and he may have died in the year 589. He was one of those illustrious monk-missionaries of the Celtic Age of Saints."
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Breton evidence
One of the few Celtic Saints' Lives that can be precisely dated is that of St Paul of St Pol-de-Lion, near Roskoff in Brittany. The author was one Wrmonoc, a monk in the abbey of Lendevennec, also in Brittany. This Life was written in 884, three hundred years earlier than many of the traditions preserved in Welsh manuscripts. According to Wrmonoc: "The same St Paul, surnamed Aurelian, the son of a certain count named Perphirius, who held a position of high rank in the world, came from a province which in the language of the British race is called Penn Ohen."
Later, Wrmonoc says that Paul was sent to Illtud's monastic school at Lan-Iltut (Llantwit Major, Glamorgan in Wales). There:
"Iltut had many young men distinguished for piety and learning among his disciples, but four of them far outshone the others and by the command of the master were placed in a position of authority over them. These were: first, Saint Paul, of whose life and mighty works in the northern part of the country of Domnonia this book deals; Saint Dewi (Devius) ... also Samson, the holy bishop ... and lastly Saint Gildas."
Williams (1974: 3) observes that this account includes the first known reference to David as "Aquaticus" or "Waterman" - an acknowledgement of the extreme asceticism with which he was associated.
Dewi (David) was one element of an extensive collection of Welsh Legends
Doble, in his Lives of the Welsh Saints goes into the roots of Wrmonoc's tales and argues that the Breton monk had confused at least three early clerics called Paul or Paulinus.
An Irish connection?
According to Williams (1974: 3), David was mentioned in two early Irish sources: "... the Martyrology of Oengus the Culdee, dating from c.800, where the date of his feast is given as 1 March; and the Catalogue of Irish Saints, now thought to date from the ninth or the tenth century."
Dr Moran, Bishop of Ossory, in his Irish Saints, identifies the Welsh Saint David with an Irish Druid. According to Moran, David's mother was an Irish Christian. David sailed across to Menevia (Pembrokeshire) and lit a fire on the shore, its smoke filling the land. Then, says Moran:
"The owner of the district was an Irishman, named Baya, a pagan and a Druid. He was one of those successful rovers who years before had carved out territories for themselves on the Welsh coast, and continued to hold them by the sword. He was filled with horror when he saw the smoke that arose from St David's fire, and cried out to those that were with him, 'The enemy that has lit that fire shall possess this territory as far as the smoke has spread.' They resolved to slay the intruders, but their attempt was frustrated by a miracle. Seeing this, Baya made a grant of the desired site, and of the surrounding country to St David, whose monastery quickly arose."
Evidence of the Irish presence in post-Roman Wales comes in the form of Ogham inscriptions.
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Vaqui, ITER in Provençal
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Hotter than a thousand volcanoes
Robert Arnoux
Who would have thought that a long and passionate kiss under a starry sky could provide for an interesting introduction to fusion energy? At least that's how French Public Television FR3 saw it back in 1992: a beautiful woman in an evening dress whispering "I've seen scores of stars" and a tuxedo-clad jeune premier inquiring: "But do you know how stars burn?"
The early nineties were an important time in the history of fusion. In November 1991, JET became the first experiment to produce controlled fusion power. The following July, the four original ITER parties—Europe, Russia, the US and Japan—launched the Engineering Design Activities that opened to way to the implementation of the project.
The French documentary entitled "Hotter than a thousand volcanoes" is an objective and at times fascinating account of the state of fusion research seventeen years ago. It features many of the key actors of the ITER Project, such as Paul-Henri Rebut, director of JET at the time, and Robert Aymar, then director of fusion research at CEA. We even get a glimpse of David Campbell, ITER's assistant deputy director-general for Fusion Science and Technology, as JET staff celebrates the historical discharge—David was program leader for the JET experiments in November 1991.
This documentary, which lay forgotten in a dust-covered box at Tore Supra, brings us the excitement of fusion research at a defining moment—when the promises of a half-century of research materialized for two seconds in JET's vacuum vessel.
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Murder investigation after businessman is shot dead
A murder investigation has been launched after a businessman was shot during a botched burglary at his £1 million home. Guy Hedger, 61, was gunned down at his house in the East Dorset village of St Ives.
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2 May 2017 at 11:46am
"Guy will live in our hearts forever"
Mr Hedger was shot in front of his partner Credit: Dorset Police
The family of murder victim Guy Hedger have paid tribute to "a caring and compassionate man" who lived life to the full.
Guy was killed in the early hours of the morning on Sunday 30 April 2017 after at least two intruders entered his home in Castlewood in Ringwood.
Police received a call at 3.03am reporting that Guy had been shot with a shotgun. Despite the best efforts of medical staff he was sadly pronounced dead shortly after arriving at hospital.
It is believed jewellery, including designer watches, was stolen from the address.
A second occupant in the house at the time – who was the victim’s partner – has been deeply affected by the incident and is being supported by specially-trained officers.
A murder investigation is now underway led by Dorset Police’s Major Crime Investigation Team.
Detectives are working tirelessly to arrest those responsible for Guy’s murder and establish why his address was targeted.
It is believed there may have been an element of pre-planning involved and officers would urgently like to hear from anyone who may have seen people or vehicles acting suspiciously in the area directly before or during the days or hours leading up to the incident.
Currently it is not thought that the offenders were known to the victim however, detectives continue to investigate all lines of enquiry.
Guy was a caring and compassionate partner, son, brother and uncle who lived life to its full and enriched the lives of all those who knew him.
We are devastated that Guy's life has been cut short in this way. Guy will be sorely missed by family, friends and colleagues, but he will live in our hearts forever.
We ask for time to grieve in private.
– Family of Guy Hedger
Last updated Thu 18 May 2017
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When Toronto police went to arrest a suspected serial killer last year, they found a man tied to his bed
When Toronto police moved to arrest a man they suspected of being a serial killer last year, they found a man tied to his bed. Alive.
Police then searched the suspect's hard drive for evidence. There, they discovered eight folders labeled with the names of different men. Each folder contained photos of the men -- some alive and some dead and some with their naked bodies posed in fur coats or with unlit cigars.
There was a ninth folder, too. It was labeled with the name of the man tied to the bed.
Those macabre details were made public by Crown attorney Michael Cantlon this week as part of the criminal sentencing of Bruce McArthur, who lured the men to his home, strangled them and then dismembered them, according to CNN network partner CTV News .
McArthur, 67, pleaded guilty on January 29 to eight counts of first-degree murder for the deaths of Andrew Kinsman, Selim Esen, Majeed Kayhan, Soroush Mahmudi, Dean Lisowick, Skandaraj Navaratnam, Abdulbasir Faizi and Kirushna Kumar Kanagaratnam.
Prosecutors said last week they were pleased with the guilty plea but have declined to provide further details about the case.
"[As] this matter is currently before the court, it would be inappropriate for the ministry to comment further," said Brian Gray, a spokesman for the Ministry of the Attorney General.
McArthur buried the remains of the men in garden planters and in a ravine next to a property where he stored tools for his landscaping business, Cantlon said , according to CTV.
Police had been monitoring McArthur and decided to arrest him on January 18, 2018, when he brought the man to his apartment, according to CTV.
McArthur, who also worked as a mall Santa , was arrested and charged with two murders. The Crown added more charges as the investigation unfolded.
Prosecutor: Victims were exploited for their vulnerabilities
Most of the victims were immigrants of South Asian or Middle Eastern descent, Cantlon told the court. Some were from Toronto's Gay Village neighborhood and had ties to the city's LGBTQ community.
"Most of the deceased had traits that made victimization more likely or harder to detect. Some were forced to live parts of their life in secret because of their orientation. Some lacked stable housing," Cantlon said, according to CTV.
"There is evidence that Mr. McArthur sought out and exploited these vulnerabilities to continue his crimes undetected."
The Crown believes that McArthur killed his first victim , Navaratnam, in September 2010. After his final victim, Andrew Kinsman, went missing in June 2017, law enforcement began investigating McArthur.
Investigators found a calendar inside Kinsman's apartment with the name "Bruce" written on June 26, 2017, the day Kinsman went missing, according to CTV .
Surveillance footage from Kinsman's neighborhood showed him entering a red Dodge Caravan identified as belonging to McArthur. Inside the vehicle, which was later discovered in a scrapyard, investigators found DNA that matched Kinsman and Esen.
The photos on McArthur's computer -- some of which were taken when the men were alive -- showed that the victims were "restrained and sexually assaulted," Cantlon said.
Some photos showed the murder weapon -- a metal bar with a rope that McArthur used to strangle his victims -- around victims' necks, Cantlon said.
In addition to the photos, police found the victims' jewelry in McArthur's home, Cantlon said. A duffel bag in the apartment contained duct tape, a surgical glove, rope, zip ties, a black bungee cord, and syringes, according to CTV .
'It could have been me'
Faizi was reported missing on December 29, 2010, Kayhan was reported missing in October 2012, and Mahmudi was reported missing in August 2015.
Kanagaratnam moved from Sri Lanka to Canada in 2010. He was not reported missing. Police said he was likely killed sometime between September and December 2015.
Esen, who had no fixed address, was reported missing in April 2017.
The court heard victim impact statements from those who knew Esen and others, CTV reported.
"Our lives were shattered with the shocking news. We can't come to terms with his savage murder," sister Nadia Wali said in a statement on behalf of the Esen family.
Lisowick was not reported missing, but authorities believe he was killed sometime between May 2016 and July 2017. A Crown attorney read aloud a statement from a daughter who never met him.
"I will now always have to live with knowing I will never have a relationship with my father," Emily Bourgeois said.
Some of Kinsman's friends told the court they knew McArthur.
"I feel incredibly guilty for not being able to recognize the offender for who he was," CTV quoted Kinsman's friend Adrian Betts as saying.
"By killing my friend, this man has also killed who I was before all of this horror."
The Rev. Deana Dudley of the Metropolitan Community Church of Toronto said in court that McArthur's arrest would have a "deep and lasting" impact on the LGBTQ community, according to CTV.
"Many in our community have lost their sense of safety. ... There is a sense of 'it could have been me, it could have been any of us,'" Dudley said.
"We are angry and that will persist for a long time and I just pray that we will not let the anger eat us alive."
Correction: This story has been updated to reflect that not all the victims were photographed wearing fur coats or with unlit cigars.
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Mark Gilman is JCCC Foundation's Johnson Countian of the Year
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Vivian Florence was one of the original Calgarians born on April 23, 1926. She was the middle of three children of the Florence family, Sarah (Kopel) and Israel Florence with siblings Minnie and Leslie. They grew up during the depression but grew up happy together singing and harmonizing to the radio.
Vivian was an enthusiastic participant in the arts – engaging in dancing and singing with Minnie and others. She was a robust brunette with a hearty and infectious laugh. Vivian was a very determined woman who made her dreams come true. She worked hard and graduated with her nursing diploma working happily to help others. She had a soothing caring personality that made people feel warm and loved. Her patients knew that they were in great hands when she was their nurse.
She fell in love with Benny Katz, a handsome, but poor, young holocaust survivor and they married in 1950. They started their family and were loving parents to two sons and a daughter. After ten long years, they had saved enough money to bring Benny’s remaining family over to Canada from behind the iron curtain. Two uncles, two aunts and two cousins all lived with the Katz family of five squeezed into a two bedroom bungalow in Southwest Calgary. Vivian was the ultimate care giver looking after eleven people until they could get settled and helping her two European nieces fit into Calgary society.
She was the ultimate mother, aspiring for her children to have a higher education and wanting them to have as many experiences as possible. If she wasn’t driving her kids to swimming lessons, music lessons, tennis or scouts she was helping out with the Hadassah bazaar and any other community event that needed a helping hand. She was smart and prescient in that she insisted that all three kids take typing in high school, which turned out to be an invaluable skill in our technological world. She maintained a wonderful Jewish kosher home with the traditional values at a time when it wasn’t that easy to do. After the kids were grown, she resumed working by helping with babies. She loved her young ones. This was capped off by helping with her own grandchildren, Sarah and William.
She had her fair share of health related issues and challenges throughout her life time, resulting in sudden death at the early age of 63 on November 3, 1989. Her family and friends were devastated, but true to who she was, the funeral was held to overflowing attendance. A police escort was highlighted not only by the length of the entourage, but by the warm bright sunny day that reflected who she was. Unfortunately, she was denied seeing her grandchildren grow up and never lived to see her other two grandchildren who are named for her – Chaim and Stephanie Vivica.
In tribute to the woman she was, her family created the Vivian Katz Endowment Fund for Jewish Education. It reflects the person that she was – a lover of children, Jewish values, and education. The fund has been used for various purposes over the years including funding Israeli dancing lessons for Akiva students – which was a perfect blending of her love of dancing and children. She was a true Aishet Chayal. The image of this family Menorah is used on the beautiful tribute cards designed specifically for the Vivian Katz Fund. This lovely, musical Menorah was given to Vivian and Benny as a wedding gift in 1950 from her uncle and cousin. It is still used today by her children.
May her fund continue to grow and help others as she would have wanted.
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Crash between farm tractor and vehicle reported in Benton County
Indiana State Police confirmed that troopers are assisting in the Benton County Sheriff's Office investigation of a crash.
Crash between farm tractor and vehicle reported in Benton County Indiana State Police confirmed that troopers are assisting in the Benton County Sheriff's Office investigation of a crash. Check out this story on jconline.com: https://www.jconline.com/story/news/local/lafayette/2019/06/11/crash-between-farm-tractor-and-vehicle-reported-benton-county/1421659001/
Ron Wilkins, Lafayette Journal & Courier Published 2:11 p.m. ET June 11, 2019
Benton County sheriff's deputies and Indiana State Police accident reconstructionists are investigating a fatal accident Tuesday morning on Indiana 18 east of Fowler. (Photo: File illustration)
FOWLER — Indiana State Police confirmed Tuesday afternoon that troopers are assisting in the Benton County Sheriff's Office investigation of a crash between a vehicle and a farm tractor.
The accident happened late Tuesday morning on Indiana 18 about six miles east of Fowler, state police confirmed.
Other news outlets are reporting that the accident is a fatality, but Indiana State Police could not confirm that.
The Journal & Courier called the Benton County Sheriff's Office requesting information about the crash.
Deputies are busy investigating the crash and have not published a news release, the dispatcher told the J&C.
This story will be updated when a news release is published.
Reach Ron Wilkins at 765-420-5231 or at rwilkins@jconline.com. Follow on Twitter: @RonWilkins2.
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Texas Pool Party Teen Sues Police Officer for $5 Million
Summary: The teen in a viral video from a Texas pool party is suing the cop who slammed her into the ground.
In 2015, a video of a police officer pushing an African-American teen into the ground went viral; and the girl recently filed a lawsuit against the cop, his department, and the city. She is seeking $5 million for “mental anguish, loss of quality of life as well as attorney fees,” according to The Dallas Morning News.
Dajerria Becton was at a pool party in Texas when the police were called to break it up. In the viral video that was shot on a cell phone, McKinney police officer Eric Casebolt was seen grabbing the bikini-clad teenager by the arm and later her hair and pinning her to the ground. He was also seen pulling a gun on her friends who tried to come to her aid while she was apprehended. Throughout the video, she was heard crying, and she did not appear to be resisting arrest.
In a statement to the local newspaper, the police department denied the claims against it. The police said that officers had arrived at the scene because neighbors had complained about fighting in the pool area. In the video, other officers appeared to peacefully try to dismantle the pool party, but Casebolt seemed high-energy and confrontational.
Becton said that she had tried to distance herself from the pool party’s rowdiness when she was apprehended. In the video, the teen could be seen on her stomach and Casebolt appeared to rest his knees on her back to restrain her.
In June, a grand jury had decided not to indict Casebolt, but he ended up resigning from the police department anyway. The Chief of police described his actions as “out of control.”
Casebolt’s attorney said that Casebolt had suffered from depression but was not racist. Casebolt, who is white, denies targeting African-American Becton because of her race.
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Travel and commuter update: Hoback Canyon and Teton Pass are open
UPDATE, 7 a.m.: WYDOT opened Teton Pass at 3:13 a.m.
UPDATE, 10:08 p.m.: WYDOT is warning of black ice in the Hoback Canyon. Visit WyoRoad.info for further updates.
UPDATE, 9:50 p.m.: Hoback Canyon has reopened. Travelers around Jackson Hole should expect reduced visibility.
UPDATE, 8:39 p.m.: Teton Pass is closed for avalanche control, and WYDOT officials just announced that Highway 191 through the Hoback Canyon will remain closed for approximately another 10 to 12 hours.
UPDATE, 4:40 p.m.: An avalanche has closed Highway 191 through the Hoback Canyon. The estimated opening time is unknown, WYDOT reports. All other area highways are open, but "expect reduced visibility," officials said in a release.
UPDATE, 1:09 p.m.: In light of tonight's planned 8 p.m. closure of Teton Pass, START Bus officials have cancelled the 7:30 p.m. commuter bus to Teton Valley, Idaho. Buses will depart from Snow King at their regularly scheduled 3:45, 5:05 and 6 p.m. times. Changes will be made if necessary in reaction to WYDOT's work.
UPDATE, 12:20 p.m.: Teton Pass is open. But WYDOT still has a "no unnecessary travel" warning in effect for Highway 22 due to slick and blowing snow.
UPDATE, 10:45 a.m.: Wyoming Department of Transportation spokeswoman Stephanie Harsha said the pass was closed for "strictly weather conditions."
"Visibility was not very good," Harsha said.
WYDOT is still not planning to do any avalanche mitigation work until 8 p.m., when it had previously planned to close the pass to do so. That could change if "conditions dictate" that doing so is necessary, Harsha said, but for now officials are not clearing the parking lot at the top of the pass.
"As of right now, they probably won't start clearing that until a few hours before their work," Harsha said.
The WYDOT spokesperson was not able to say if or when the pass would re-open before avalanche control begins later this weekend.
"It will depend on weather conditions," she said, "and so far the weather forecast isn’t looking very promising."
Original: The Wyoming Department of Transportation has closed Highway 22 over Teton Pass due to winter conditions. It is unclear when the pass will reopen.
The closure came hours before a later, expected closure was set to take place at 8 p.m. Tuesday for avalanche control.
Highway travelers and backcountry users are advised to plan accordingly.
The News&Guide will update this article as more information becomes available.
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Chad Repinski transitioned to a career at Mountain Trails Gallery this past summer, but he isn’t new to the art world. He was an art minor in college, headed a big round of art purchases at The Wort and was on the Fall Art Festival steering committee for six years.
RYAN DORGAN / NEWS&GUIDE
Close-up: Midwesterner fell hard for the mountain life
Chad Repinski worked in hotels, the newspaper business and now at Mountain Trails Gallery — he thinks he might stay in town.
By Mike Koshmrl
Mike Koshmrl
Growing up in the Milwaukee suburb of Waukesha, Chad Repinski was the captain of the football team.
The Jackson Hole art gallery salesman, now 42, didn’t exactly fit the mold of a stereotypical jock. Repinski’s father pushed his 6-foot-2, 190-pound defensive end son to pursue a college career on the gridiron, but even as a teen he had a gut feeling that repeatedly smashing into other humans was not in his best long-term interest — and this was well before science emerged about repeated concussions and chronic traumatic encephalopathy. Plus, he wasn’t thrilled with the image of a football player.
“Honestly, I didn’t like cliches that went along with football: big, dumb meatheads,” Repinski said. “I was the athletic clown … Yeah, I was the captain of the football team, but I also hung out with what could be defined as nerds talking about ‘Star Wars.’”
Family life was upper-middle class and comfortable. Private school. One sister. Mom was a teacher, dad an engineer for General Electric Healthcare.
“We faced the challenges of any late-20th-century American family working on the prairie,” Repinski said.
For his college years Repinski trekked westward across the Badger State to the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. It was a “spectacular” time in a town on the banks of the Mississippi River, and an era that set him on the trajectory to his current lot in life.
As a junior Repinski met a sophomore named April, the sister of a friend who he “leveraged” to land a date. She became his wife a few years later. Their first date was at the classic “Michelin 5-star” eatery known as Perkins, he said.
A college internship at Spring Creek Ranch landed via a family connection initially brought Repinski to Jackson Hole as more than a visitor. His uncle, Kent, was working in sales and marketing at the high-end lodge. He’d visited the valley in the past and was drawn to the place from the outset, but living in northwest Wyoming for months got him contemplating how he could pull off a life here.
His internship culminated in a trip to an industry convention in New York City, but then it was back to Wisconsin. The experiences outside of the Midwest were “intoxicating.”
“Three months prior, I had never lived outside of Wisconsin and had only been to, like, Florida,” Repinski said. “And three months later, I’d lived in arguably the best mountain town in the world and then went to New York.”
After graduating with a degree in hotel management, he took a job as the front desk manager at the Park Inn and Suites, outside an amusement park and horse racetrack in the outer-ring suburb of Shakopee, Minnesota. April came and lived with him for the summer, but had to go back to La Crosse to finish school. When Sept. 11, 2001, put a damper on travel and tourism industries, he was the new guy who was let go.
Repinski briefly moved back in with his parents, asked April to marry him and by 2002 plotted a move back west.
“High-tailed it out there, and didn’t look back,” he said. “I told her parents we’d be back in two years.”
Instead, two years later the Repinskis opted to buy a 800-square-foot condo in Cottonwood. He was working at Spring Creek and April in teaching jobs, and within a few years the value of their condo nearly doubled. They flirted with the idea of cashing out and traveling Europe, but opted to reinvest and upgraded to a Cottonwood home. It was 2007, and the market was at its peak and about to burst. It took seven or eight years to get out from under an underwater mortgage, but it wasn’t a problem because Chad and April were developing careers and setting roots in Jackson Hole.
“I’ve never seriously thought about leaving,” he said.
Repinski stayed in the hotel business for his first decade in the valley. After Spring Creek he joined the opening team for Hotel Terra. He did a three-year stint as the sales director for The Wort Hotel. In 2012 he changed paths and joined the sales team for the Jackson Hole News&Guide (later Teton Media Works). He liked it.
“I’d never felt like I worked in ... a place of importance, that meant something to the community and the direction of Jackson Hole,” he said.
Repinski was fond of how for the first time he was “looking inward” at the businesses that make up the community, rather than tourists drawn in from elsewhere. He learned a lot from small business owners like the Biolchinis, Frank Londy and Phil Leeds.
“I really respect people that came here in the late ’70s and took a chance on starting a business and managed to be successful,” Repinski said.
Around the office he found a bud, Oliver O’Connor, and they liked to run off each other’s jokes. Lots and lots of jokes.
Repinski never completely burnt out selling newspaper ads, but it was a challenge trying to raise more and more revenue in an “industry that has seen better days.” Being beholden to the company’s daily deadlines and the needs of clients wanting to update their messaging was stressful and tiring. It was repeated pitches from a client, Mountain Trails Gallery, that ultimately drew him away. Last summer he came on to learn under longtime gallery director Dave Navratil, who’s easing into a more part-time role.
The art business wasn’t entirely foreign: Repinski was an art minor, headed a big round of art purchases at The Wort and served on the Fall Arts Festival steering committee for six years. So far, he said, so good.
“It’s great,” Repinski said. “If you can’t be outside, I think this is the second-best place to be. There’s always something interesting and nice to look at. The people that come through are friendly, and wowed by the art that we have.”
The Repinskis are now parents of two: 8-year-old Rose and 4-year-old Ward. April is a dual-immersion teacher for Munger Mountain Elementary School. A perfect weekend for the clan might consist of eating pancakes, sledding, watching cartoons and playing with Legos and racetracks.
In his free time Repinski is a Redditor. He enjoys downhill skiing and touring a bit, and mountain biking and road biking in the summer. Organized sports are now mostly a pastime, but Repinski doesn’t mind basking in the glory days. There was high school football, of course, but also some team sports he partook in here in Wyoming.
“Kickball was a great era in my life,” Repinski said. “I’m hoping to someday make the Teton County Kickball Hall of Fame.”
His Jackson Hole News&Guide kickball teammates were mostly ineffective and the squad disbanded years ago.
Did he keep playing after that unmemorable run?
“No,” Repinski said. “But neither does Brett Favre, and he’s still in the Hall of Fame. So, checkmate.”
Contact Mike Koshmrl at 732-7067 or env@jhnewsandguide.com.
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Mike has reported on the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem's wildlife, wildlands and the agencies that manage them for 7 years. A native Minnesotan, he arrived in the West to study environmental journalism at the University of Colorado.
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Kathryn L. Ramage
The Journal of Bloglandia: The Dark Shadows Issue
“As a little girl in the early ’70s, I would come home from school every day and turn on the TV to watch reruns of what we called ‘Barnabas Collins,’ the show about the vampire.”
And 40 years later, she watched it all again from the very beginning. It started as a brief blog experiment: watch and review the earliest episodes of the 1960s soap opera Dark Shadows before the arrival of vampire Barnabas Collins… but then it kept going. In the end, Kathryn L. Ramage watched the entire series of more than 1200 episodes and wrote about the experience. This book presents the highlights of those reviews.
Where to buy: Amazon (eligible for free shipping). Not available in eBook format.
The Wapshott Press, publisher of Storylandia, is now an Amazon Charity. Yay! So if you could please choose Wapshott Press as your charity when you’re shopping at Amazon, it will help us a lot. Here’s the link to make Wapshott Press your charity, and you only have to register once.
Author Kathryn L RamagePosted on October 28, 2018 March 31, 2019 Categories Dark Shadows, News
Now on sale: Storylandia 19, Who Killed Toby Glovins?
Where to buy: online store; also Amazon (eligible for free shipping); and Kindle.
Who Killed Toby Glovins?
Freddie Babington has solved two mysteries. When he travels to Norfolk in the autumn of 1923 to attend the wedding of Amelia Marsh and Evelyn Tollarhithe, he doesn’t anticipate a third murder investigation. Then, on the evening before the wedding, a friend of the groom is found stabbed under circumstances that look compromising for Evelyn. Freddie agrees to take the case for Amelia’s sake. As Freddie digs deeper behind the friendship between Evelyn and Toby Glovins, and uncovers old family secrets, he learns that the question of who murdered Toby is more complicated than it first appears. And so, he discovers, are his feelings for the disappointed bride.
Kathryn L. Ramage has a B.A. and M.A. in English lit and has been writing for as long as she can remember. She lives in Maryland with three cats. As well as being the author of numerous short stories, novellas, and essays, she is the author of “Maiden in Light,” “The Wizard’s Son,” and “Sonnedragon,” novels set on an alternate Earth whose history has diverged from ours somewhere during the medieval period. All three are part of an intended series of fantasy novels that mostly take place in a dukedom called the Northlands, a part of the Norman Empire that roughly covers the north-eastern U.S. For more information, please visit her website at www.klr.wapshottpress.com.
Also by Kathryn L. Ramage
The Wizard’s Son
Maiden in Light
Sonnedragon
Storylandia 10: Death Among the Marshes
Storylandia 16: The Abrupt Disappearance of Cousin Wilfrid
Where to buy Storylandia 19, Who Killed Toby Glovins? At this online store; also Amazon (eligible for free shipping); and Kindle.
The Wapshott Press, publisher of Storylandia, is now a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Tax deductible donations can be made here: https://www.paypal.me/TheWapshottPress and thank you so much for your support!
Author EditorPosted on November 4, 2016 Categories Freddie Babington mysteries, News
Storylandia 12 is on sale
You can read excerpts of the short stories, including “The Family Jewels,” a mystery set in the 1920s that continues the adventures of Freddie Babington, at
http://wapshottpress.com/2014/05/11/storylandia-12-is-now-on-sale/
Where to buy: 10% off with this code: HDCYF4CR at this online store; Amazon, eligible for Free Shipping; Kindle.
Author Kathryn L RamagePosted on May 12, 2014 Categories News
Sonnedragon is now on sale!
Where to buy Sonnedragon: Amazon (eligible for Free Shipping); 10% off with this code EMZTQAQB at this website; and for the moment only as an ebook on Kindle.
by Kathryn L. Ramage
Where to buy Sonnedragon: Amazon (eligible for Free Shipping); 10% off with this code EMZTQAQB at this website; and for the moment only as an ebook on Kindle. Sample Chapter 1.
“As she looked into the dragon’s dark gold, black-streaked eyes, wise beyond mortal knowing, Mara heard a deep, melodious voice:
“‘Thou shalt not die here, brave Prince. Such courage and fortitude as art thine will be rewarded tenfold. Thou shalt receive a sign of thy fortune, a talisman of kings. The dragon betokens thy royal lineage. Its body possesseth great magics: The Dragon’s Tooth is a weapon surpassing all others, even the tooth of the lion. The Dragon’s Eye is prized beyond all gems. No steel may pierce the scales of its hide. No terror may quail the courage of its heart. Its blood healeth all wounds. Receivest thou these gifts, O Prince, for power lieth in their virtues. This token shalt thou bear upon thy shield. Thy foes shall flee in terror at its sight. All shall honor thy name, which hereafter shall be known as Sonnedragon. Takest thou the might of the dragon. It is thine.’
“As she lies wounded on the battlefield, Mara, warrior Prince of the Northlands, receives a vision: a dragon that promises her great gifts. With the sign of the dragon upon her shield, she achieves one astounding victory after another, but soon realizes that each success comes with a terrible price. Tragedy follows her every triumph-not only in her war against the Spanish at the Northlands’ borders, but in her disputes with her father, the Duke.
“On an alternate earth filled with wonder and danger, strange magic and courtly intrigue, Mara slowly uncovers the truth behind the inexplicable power she wields. Is the Sonnedragon real or a delusion, or is it actually a curse that has haunted her family for generations?”
Kathryn L. Ramage has a B.A. and M.A. in English lit and has been writing for as long as she can remember. She lives in Maryland with an aging and chronically ill cat. As well as being the author of numerous short stories, novellas, and essays, she is the author of “The Wizard’s Son,” “Maiden in Light” and “Sonnedragon,” novels set on an alternate Earth whose history has diverged from ours somewhere during the medieval period. Both are part of an intended series of fantasy novels that mostly take place in a dukedom called the Northlands, a part of the Norman Empire that roughly covers the north-eastern U.S. She is also the author of the murder mystery set in the Twenties, “Death Among the Marshes,” which appeared in Storylandia 10. Her website is at www.klr.wapshottpress.com
Author EditorPosted on October 15, 2013 Categories News, Sonnedragon
Death Among the Marshes: A Murder Mystery set in the 1920s
Storylandia 10 is now on Sale!
Where to buy: 10% discount code: HDCYF4CR at this online store; eligible for Free Shipping at Amazon; and Kindle.
Storylandia 10 – Death Among The Marshes, by Kathyrn L. Ramage
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Cover “Misty” by Eleanor Leonne Bennett
Storylandia, The Wapshott Journal of Fiction, Issue 10. The novella “Death Among the Marshes,” a murder mystery set in the Twenties, by Kathryn L. Ramage.
Death Among the Marshes
A Murder Mystery Set in the Twenties
The Great War had made many boys into old men, but in spite of all he’d
suffered, Frederick Babington still looked surprisingly youthful for his
26 years. He was a pale, intense, and solemn young man—more pale, Billy
thought, since he’d been wounded so terribly. At least he no longer
limped and the burn scars on the small and ring fingers of his left hand
were now only puckered reddish skin. His dark hair had been cropped
short during his last stay in a private nursing home over the winter
past, but it was growing out again and beginning to curl just as it used to.
Billy watched as one loose curl fell forward over Freddie’s brow as he
returned his attention to the book he’d been reading before the
interruption, a newly published mystery novel titled Whose Body? When
Freddie lifted his eyes from the page a moment later, Billy pretended an
interest in the book.
“What’s that one about?”
“There’s a dead body that turns up in a bathtub, quite starkers—not a
stitch on except for a pair of gold pince nez—and nobody seems to know
who the dead chap is, not even the people who live in the flat where the
bathtub is.”
“I don’t see how you can read such things, about dead bodies and such,
after– well– after seeing so many dead folk yourself in the trenches.”
Billy felt sure that dwelling on the subject of murder had done no good
for Freddie’s state of mind.
But Freddie responded, “This is different. It’s not real, you know. The
murders in these stories are always somewhat fantastic and never have
the true stink and ugliness of death about them, not at all like the
terrible things you and I have seen. And it’s all cleaned up in the end.
I’m quite certain the detective chap in this one will find out who the
naked body in the bath is and discover who put him there in the last
chapter. They always do. It’s quite comforting in its way.”
Continue reading “Death Among the Marshes: A Murder Mystery set in the 1920s”
Author Kathryn L RamagePosted on July 4, 2013 Categories News
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Kathryn L. Ramage profile in March 2013 issue of AHRQ Connections.
Author EditorPosted on March 23, 2013 Categories News
Maiden in Light in “our” New York
Not the New York in the book. But, yay! Anyway.
Wapshott goes retail in NYC!
“The address has now been confirmed: Word Up will be at 4157 Broadway, at 175 Street, across the street from the United Palace Theater, on the same block as Malecon, diagonal from El Floridita, across the street from La Rosa, down the road from Manolo . . . my mouth is watering thinking of the month ahead.”
Address has been confirmed – please and thanks for spreading the word (up)!, WordUp blog, June 8, 2011
Author EditorPosted on June 16, 2011 Categories News
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Maiden in Light on the NOOK!
Author EditorPosted on May 24, 2011 Categories News
Maiden in Light in a bookstore
For a limited time only in Pittsburgh, you can find Maiden in Light and other Wapshott titles at Fleeting Pages bookstore.
Fleeting Pages Bookstore will be open from May 7 until June 7, 2011 at the former Borders in the East Liberty neighborhood of Pittsburgh. Location: 5986 Penn Circle South, Pittsburgh, PA.
Fleeting Pages Bookstore, FleetingPages, April 22, 2011
If you’ve ever wanted to find Wapshott titles in a bookstore and you’re in or near Pittsburgh, well, this is your chance from May 7 to June 7.
Please cross-post and spread the word. It’s one thing to have a bookstore; it’s another to have customers.
Author EditorPosted on May 6, 2011 Categories News
Maiden in Light is now on sale
Where to buy: 10% off with this code: EMZTQAQB at this online store; Amazon, eligible for free shipping; eReaders: ePub; Kindle; And More!
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“From the top of the gate, Alys smiled down. There was no evidence of evil, yet Laurel felt it. That absence of living energy concealed something grotesque. She shuddered when she met those night eyes, repulsed as she might be by a dead mouse accidentally trod underfoot or a cold, scaly water-thing brushing against her body in a stream. Her nerves thrilled with danger. She’d seen this girl before, watching and smiling secretly. She’d sensed this presence months ago, though she hadn’t understood until now what it was. This was why she had come to New York…”
When Laurel Windswift enters an apprenticeship under her uncle, the great wizard Lord Redmantyl, she sees only the delights that her magic can bring. But her desire for more knowledge brings her too soon into the dark secrets that all magicians of power share, and forces her to take up a wizard’s duties of night vigils against monstrous and inhuman forces before she is ready. When Laurel returns to her home city to investigate a small magical anomaly for her uncle, this maiden of light meets a child of darkness, and must undertake a task too terrible to perform.
On an alternate earth filled with wonder and danger, the wizard’s niece must make a decision that will affect the rest of her life. As she struggles with the unbearable obligations of a magician, she also faces the ostracism of the merchant families who cast her out as a child, her aunt’s matchmaking efforts, and finding an unexpected love.
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Android smartphone users more likely to download malware than iPhone users
This week, 132 Android apps in the Google Play store were found to be infected with malware
Updated: 11:10 PM CST Mar 9, 2017
Apple iPhone users are less likely to download malicious apps than Android smartphone owners - for now. Earlier this week, cybersecurity company Palo Alto Networks discovered 132 Android apps infected with malware in the Google Play store. One of the most popular apps had been downloaded more than 10,000 times. Google has removed the apps. "Our investigation indicates that the developers of these infected apps are not to blame, but are more likely victims themselves," Palo Alto Networks said in a blog post. "We believe it is most likely that the app developers’ development platforms were infected with malware that searches for HTML pages and injects malicious content at the end of the HTML pages it finds." Why are hackers targeting Android users? Simple - it's easier. The Google-developed operating system is "more open and adaptable," said security software company Sophos. Any app featured in the iOS store has gone through an in-depth examination - the thorough vetting process blocks "widespread malware infection" among iPhone users, but malicious software targeting iOS-based systems is on the rise, according to a report from SIXGILL last month. Applications infected with malware are becoming problematic for app developers and consumers. Cybersecurity experts have warned smartphone owners to refrain from downloading third-party apps from unofficial sources, but the presence of malicious apps in official stores make it difficult for users to identify which ones can be trusted.
Apple iPhone users are less likely to download malicious apps than Android smartphone owners - for now. Earlier this week, cybersecurity company Palo Alto Networks discovered 132 Android apps infected with malware in the Google Play store.
One of the most popular apps had been downloaded more than 10,000 times.
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Google has removed the apps.
"Our investigation indicates that the developers of these infected apps are not to blame, but are more likely victims themselves," Palo Alto Networks said in a blog post. "We believe it is most likely that the app developers’ development platforms were infected with malware that searches for HTML pages and injects malicious content at the end of the HTML pages it finds."
Why are hackers targeting Android users? Simple - it's easier.
The Google-developed operating system is "more open and adaptable," said security software company Sophos.
Any app featured in the iOS store has gone through an in-depth examination - the thorough vetting process blocks "widespread malware infection" among iPhone users, but malicious software targeting iOS-based systems is on the rise, according to a report from SIXGILL last month.
Applications infected with malware are becoming problematic for app developers and consumers. Cybersecurity experts have warned smartphone owners to refrain from downloading third-party apps from unofficial sources, but the presence of malicious apps in official stores make it difficult for users to identify which ones can be trusted.
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Review: Delicious! by Ruth Reichl
Delicious! by Ruth Reichl
Format: ARC
Goodreads: Billie Breslin has traveled far from her California home to take a job at Delicious, the most iconic food magazine in New York and, thus, the world. When the publication is summarily shut down, the colorful staff, who have become an extended family for Billie, must pick up their lives and move on. Not Billie, though. She is offered a new job: staying behind in the magazine's deserted downtown mansion offices to uphold the "Delicious Guarantee"-a public relations hotline for complaints and recipe inquiries-until further notice. What she doesn't know is that this boring, lonely job will be the portal to a life-changing discovery.
Delicious! carries the reader to the colorful world of downtown New York restaurateurs and artisanal purveyors, and from the lively food shop in Little Italy where Billie works on weekends to a hidden room in the magazine's library where she discovers the letters of Lulu Swan, a plucky twelve-year-old, who wrote to the legendary chef James Beard during World War II. Lulu's letters lead Billie to a deeper understanding of history (and the history of food), but most important, Lulu's courage in the face of loss inspires Billie to come to terms with her own issues-the panic attacks that occur every time she even thinks about cooking, the truth about the big sister she adored, and her ability to open her heart to love.
Kritters Thoughts: Billie Breslin was an easy character to fall in love with and root for and the eccentric characters of Delicious! were just fantastically entertaining! Billie gets a job as an assistant (which was fun to read as that is my job title) to the editor of the magazine Delicious, but she is extremely overqualified as she has taste buds that defy all odds and has a past in the culinary industry.
The beginning started a little slow for me as I knew from the synopsis that she was going to find these very old letters and they were going to send her on a treasure hunt, but once she started finding the letters and following their path the book just sped right along! I loved the combination of historical fiction and events mixed with a semi history lesson on food and foods that were used during a time of rationing during the war. I enjoyed reading about the different ways they grew their own food or acquired food or substituted food to make meals.
Part historical fiction, part literary fiction and all in all a great book!
I want to read this one. I like the Historical Fiction aspect too.
Thanks for being a part of the tour!
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La Vie en Code Podcast
023: The Business of Diversity & Inclusion in Tech with Kim Crayton (Part 1)
New web development students focus on their skills as they transition into their new industry, but there is more to the industry than just the skills. Learn more about the topics that help build exceptional additions to the industry with special guest Kim Crayton. This 2-part conversation will help listeners understand why Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) matters to career changers, why it's a far bigger issue than just doing the right thing, and how to identify and avoid toxic environments.
This week, we're delving into a different topic than I usually feature on the podcast. But, it's going to become a topic that's frequently worked into a lot of things you'll hear me talk about regarding the web development industry. That topic is diversity and inclusion (or D&I for short).
Our guest today is Kim Crayton. Kim is an advocate for diversity, inclusion and space spaces in tech. She is currently pursuing a Doctor’s of Business Administration in Technology Entrepreneurship to take her business and skills to the next level. She has an extensive background in business and education, and has built her own business around addressing issues like diversity and inclusion from an economic standpoint, and helping to bring companies forward to a competitive global level. Though it is only a segment of an overall approach to business success, Kim helps us to understand where and how business and D&I intersect. She uses really powerful imagery and examples to make abstract topics clear.
Diversity and inclusion is an issue in the tech industry. We need to know that when underrepresented and marginalized groups find their first jobs in tech, that they'll feel comfortable to stay there. We also need to know that software creators—especially in AI and Machine Learning—have the diverse teams required to build software that markets on a global level. This is where the most successful businesses have pivoted. These businesses recognize that there are are actual economic factors that heavily favor diversity and inclusion in the workplace.
I knew that I didn't know enough of the nitty gritty on the topic of D&I—beyond my experience of being a Black and Native American woman in the tech industry—to do it justice. I needed an expert. That's where this week's guest, Kim Crayton, comes in. I met Kim at the Codeland conference in April 2017, and she really blew me away.
My conversation with Kim has been broken up into a two episodes so we can really get to grips with what she does and break down the ideas with which she is dealing. In this, the first part, Kim helps us to define and identify the problems of representation and prejudice and how they relate to a coding environment. We delve into into two recent popular examples of these issues, looking at incidents that occurred at NodeJS and Google.
If you enjoy this episode, then be sure to check out Part 2, where Kim goes into how these issues can be addressed and further expands our understanding of the problems and possible solutions.
Listen in, let’s get into it!
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Today's Guest
Kim Crayton
Kim is an advocate for diversity, inclusion and space spaces in tech. She is currently pursuing a Doctor’s of Business Administration in Technology Entrepreneurship to take her business and skills to the next level. She has an extensive background in business and education, and has built her own business around addressing issues like diversity and inclusion from an economic standpoint, and helping to bring companies forward to a competitive global level.
A brief look at Kim’s background in these topics of inclusion and diversity.
Why Kim is ending her podcast series.
Definition of terms that are discussed in this episode.
What does a diverse and inclusive workplace look like?
What are some of the effects of workspaces that are insensitive to these issues?
The importance of inclusivity in building dynamism.
The difficulties that progress in these fields face.
Google and NodeJS as examples of these issues.
Causality and the importance of manifestos in prevention.
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Arizona Laws > Title 9 > Chapter 5
Arizona Laws > Title 9 > Chapter 5 – PUBLIC UTILITIES
Article 1 Franchise by Municipality 9-501 – 9-502
Article 1.1 Cable Television Systems 9-505 – 9-510
Article 2 Municipal Ownership 9-511 – 9-520
Article 3 Municipal Bonds for Financing Utilities 9-521 – 9-540
Article 4 Industrial Gas Pipelines 9-551 – 9-554
Article 6 Financial Assistance from the Water Infrastructure Finance Authority of Arizona 9-571
Article 7 Charges for Use of Public Highways by Telecommunications Providers 9-581 – 9-584
Article 8 Use of Public Highways by Wireless Providers 9-591 – 9-599
Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 9 > Chapter 5
Accommodation: means any apartment, condominium or cooperative unit, cabin, lodge, hotel or motel room or other private or commercial structure that contains toilet facilities, that is designed and available for use and occupancy as a residence by one or more individuals and that is included in the offering of a timeshare plan. See Arizona Laws 33-2202
Action: includes recoupment, counterclaim, setoff, suit in equity and any other proceeding in which rights are determined, including an action for possession. See Arizona Laws 33-2102
Action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Arizona Laws 1-215
Affiliate: means an entity which directly or indirectly, through one or more intermediaries, controls, is controlled by or is under common control with the entity specified. See Arizona Laws 6-901
Agent: means a person who receives compensation to regularly perform services specifically related to the conduct of the trust business. See Arizona Laws 6-851
Allotment: means the allocation of an appropriation or other fund source over a full fiscal year within a budget program or expenditure class. See Arizona Laws 35-101
Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
Antenna: means communications equipment that transmits or receives electromagnetic radio frequency signals and that is used in providing wireless services. See Arizona Laws 9-591
Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
Applicable codes: means uniform building, fire, electrical, plumbing or mechanical codes that are adopted by a recognized national code organization or local amendments to those codes that are enacted to address threats of destruction of property or injury to persons and to an extent that is not inconsistent with this article. See Arizona Laws 9-591
Applicant: means any person that submits an application and that is a wireless provider. See Arizona Laws 9-591
Application: means a request that is submitted by an applicant to an authority for a permit to collocate small wireless facilities or to approve the installation, modification or replacement of a utility pole or wireless support structure. See Arizona Laws 9-591
Appraisal: A determination of property value.
Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
Appurtenances: means awnings, sheds, porches and other attachments to the recreational vehicle. See Arizona Laws 33-2102
Architect services: means those professional architect services that are within the scope of architectural practice as provided in title 32, chapter 1. See Arizona Laws 34-101
Area of jurisdiction: means that part of a city or town, or that part of the unincorporated area of a county, or both when applied to a cable television system within parts of more than one jurisdiction, for which a license is issued. See Arizona Laws 9-505
Associate director: means the associate director of the citrus, fruit and vegetable division of the department. See Arizona Laws 3-441
Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
Attorney-at-law: A person who is legally qualified and licensed to practice law, and to represent and act for clients in legal proceedings.
Authority: means any city, town, special district or political subdivision of this state that is authorized to make legislative, quasi-judicial or administrative decisions concerning an application. See Arizona Laws 9-591
Authority utility pole: means a utility pole that is owned or operated by an authority and that is in a right-of-way. See Arizona Laws 9-591
Authorized agent: means a commercial enterprise that is contracted to process transactions on behalf of a state agency. See Arizona Laws 35-101
Bank: means a corporation that holds a banking permit issued pursuant to chapter 2 of this title. See Arizona Laws 6-101
Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
Baseline: Projection of the receipts, outlays, and other budget amounts that would ensue in the future without any change in existing policy. Baseline projections are used to gauge the extent to which proposed legislation, if enacted into law, would alter current spending and revenue levels.
Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. Source: OCC
Bond: means any bond issued pursuant to this article, including any tax secured bond. See Arizona Laws 9-521
Bonded stop notice: means a stop notice that is given to any construction lender and that is accompanied by a bond executed solely by one or more surety companies authorized to transact surety business in this state pursuant to title 20, chapter 2, article 1 in an amount equal to one hundred fifty per cent of the amount of the claim on the condition that if the owner, original contractor or construction lender recovers judgment in an action brought on a verified claim or on the lien filed by the claimant, the claimant would have sufficient monies to pay all costs and damages that the owner, original contractor or construction lender may sustain by reason of the stop notice claim or the lien, not exceeding the amount specified in the bond. See Arizona Laws 33-1051
Branch: means any banking office other than the principal banking office. See Arizona Laws 6-101
Budget estimates: means statements with accompanying explanations, as provided by this chapter, in which a budget unit states its financial requirements and requests appropriations. See Arizona Laws 35-101
Budget program: means functions and activities of a budget unit or within a budget unit that are preplanned to fulfill a distinct mission. See Arizona Laws 35-101
Budget unit: means any department, commission, board, institution or other agency of this state receiving, expending or disbursing state monies or incurring obligations against this state. See Arizona Laws 35-101
By-products: means any product from citrus fruit that is commercially processed or manufactured for resale. See Arizona Laws 3-441
Cable operator: means a person that is issued a license by the licensing authority to construct, operate and maintain a cable television system in public streets, roads and alleys. See Arizona Laws 9-505
Cable service: means the transmission to subscribers of video programming or other programming service and subscriber interaction, if any, that is required for the selection or use of the video programming or other programming service. See Arizona Laws 9-505
Cable television system: means any facility consisting of a set of closed transmission paths and associated signal generation, reception and control equipment that is designed to provide cable service that includes video programming and that is provided to multiple subscribers within a community. See Arizona Laws 9-505
Capital: means the total of outstanding common stock, preferred stock and surplus and undivided profits. See Arizona Laws 6-851
Cardholder: means any person:
(a) Named on the face of a credit card to whom or for whose benefit the credit card is issued by an issuer. See Arizona Laws 35-101
Certificate: means a certificate of authority issued under this chapter to engage in trust business. See Arizona Laws 6-851
Change in use: means a change in the use of land from the rental of recreational vehicle spaces in a recreational vehicle park to some other use. See Arizona Laws 33-2102
Charity: An agency, institution, or organization in existence and operating for the benefit of an indefinite number of persons and conducted for educational, religious, scientific, medical, or other beneficent purposes.
Child pornography: means the visual depiction of sexual exploitation of a minor as prescribed in section 13-3553. See Arizona Laws 34-501
citrus fruit: means the fruit of any orange, lemon, lime, grapefruit, tangerine, kumquat or other citrus tree that produces edible citrus fruit suitable for human consumption. See Arizona Laws 3-441
Claim: means a demand against the state for payment for either:
(a) Goods delivered or, in the case of highway construction, goods or facilities to be delivered by the federal government. See Arizona Laws 35-101
collocation: means to install, mount, maintain, modify, operate or replace wireless facilities on, within or adjacent to a wireless support structure or utility pole. See Arizona Laws 9-591
Commercial mobile radio service: means two-way voice commercial mobile radio service as defined by the federal communications commission in 47 United States Code section 157. See Arizona Laws 9-581
Commercial mortgage banker: means a person who engages in the following:
(a) Originating commercial mortgage loans. See Arizona Laws 6-971
Commercial mortgage broker: means a person who for compensation or in the expectation of compensation either directly or indirectly makes, negotiates or offers to make or negotiate a commercial mortgage loan. See Arizona Laws 6-901
Commercial mortgage loan: means a loan that is directly or indirectly secured by a mortgage or deed of trust or any lien interest on commercial property and that is created with the consent of the owner of the commercial property. See Arizona Laws 6-901
Commercial mortgage loan: means a loan that is directly or indirectly secured by a mortgage or deed of trust or any lien interest on commercial property and created with the consent of the owner of the commercial property. See Arizona Laws 6-971
Commercial property: means real estate that is located in this state and that is not used for a one to four family residence. See Arizona Laws 6-971
Commission merchant: means a person that receives on consignment or solicits from the producer any citrus fruit for sale on commission on behalf of the producer or accepts any citrus fruit in trust from the producer for the purpose of resale. See Arizona Laws 3-441
Common expenses: means the costs and expenses of and for operating the timeshare plan and timeshare property as set forth in the timeshare instrument. See Arizona Laws 33-2202
Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
Communications service: means cable service as defined in 47 United States Code section 522(6), information service as defined in 47 United States Code section 153(24), telecommunications service as defined in 47 United States Code section 153(53) or wireless service. See Arizona Laws 9-591
Community documents: means condominium documents as defined in section 33-1202 or community documents as defined in section 33-1802, including covenants, conditions and restrictions and deed restrictions applicable to the dwelling. See Arizona Laws 33-2001
Compatible: means a recreational vehicle that is in a similar condition as the majority of the other recreational vehicles in the recreational vehicle park, as determined by the maintenance, condition and overall appearance of the recreational vehicle. See Arizona Laws 33-2102
Compensation: means anything of value or any benefit, including points, commissions, bonuses, referral fees, loan origination fees and other similar fees but excluding periodic interest resulting from the application of the note rate of interest to the outstanding principal balance remaining unpaid from time to time. See Arizona Laws 6-901
Compensation: means anything of value or any benefit including points, commissions, bonuses, referral fees, loan origination fees and other similar fees but excluding periodic interest resulting from the application of the note rate of interest to the outstanding principal balance remaining unpaid from time to time. See Arizona Laws 6-941
Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
Construction lender: means any mortgagee or beneficiary under a deed of trust lending funds all or a portion of which defray the cost of the construction, alteration, repair or improvement or any assignee or successor in interest of either, or any escrow holder or other party holding any monies furnished or to be furnished by the owner or any other person as a source from which to pay construction costs. See Arizona Laws 33-1051
Construction services: means either of the following for construction-manager-at-risk, design-build and job-order-contracting project delivery methods:
(a) Construction, excluding services, through the construction-manager-at-risk or job-order-contracting project delivery methods. See Arizona Laws 34-101
Construction-manager-at-risk: means a project delivery method in which:
(a) There is a separate contract for design services and a separate contract for construction services, except that instead of a single contract for construction services, the agent may elect separate contracts for preconstruction services during the design phase, for construction during the construction phase and for any other construction services. See Arizona Laws 34-101
Contract: means all types of agent agreements, regardless of what they are called, for the procurement of assayer services, construction services, design services, geologist services or land surveying services. See Arizona Laws 34-601
Contract: means all types of agent agreements, regardless of what they are called, for the procurement of services pursuant to this title. See Arizona Laws 34-101
Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
Contractor: means any person who has a contract with an agent for assayer services, construction services, design services, geologist services or land surveying services. See Arizona Laws 34-601
Contractor: means any person who has a contract with an agent. See Arizona Laws 34-101
Convenience fee: means an additional fee that is imposed by an authorized agent on a web-based or voice response portal transaction for the acceptance of a credit card that would not be charged if the same transaction were completed by an alternate method of payment. See Arizona Laws 35-101
Counterclaim: A claim that a defendant makes against a plaintiff.
Credit card: means :
(a) Any instrument or device, whether known as a credit card, charge card, credit plate, courtesy card or identification card or by any other name, that is issued with or without a fee by an issuer for the use of the cardholder in obtaining money, goods, services or anything else of value, either on credit or in possession or in consideration of an undertaking or guaranty by the issuer of the payment of a check drawn by the cardholder, on a promise to pay in part or in full at a future time, whether or not all or any part of the indebtedness represented by this promise to make deferred payment is secured or unsecured. See Arizona Laws 35-101
Credit report: A detailed report of an individual's credit history prepared by a credit bureau and used by a lender in determining a loan applicant's creditworthiness. Source: OCC
Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
Dealer: means a person that sells, markets or distributes citrus fruit that the person purchased from a producer or markets as an agent, broker or commission merchant, except at retail. See Arizona Laws 3-441
Debtor: means an individual whether married or single utilizing property described in this article for personal, family or household use. See Arizona Laws 33-1121
Decedent: A deceased person.
Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
Default: means the failure to perform on time any obligation or duty set forth in the rental agreement. See Arizona Laws 33-1701
Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
Department: means the Arizona game and fish department in the case of motorized watercraft and the department of transportation in the case of all other vehicles. See Arizona Laws 33-1701
Department: means the department of financial institutions. See Arizona Laws 6-101
Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
Design professional: means an individual or firm that is registered by the state board of technical registration pursuant to title 32, chapter 1 to practice architecture, engineering, geology, landscape architecture or land surveying or any combination of those professions and persons employed by the registered individual or firm. See Arizona Laws 34-101
Design services: means architect services, engineer services or landscape architect services. See Arizona Laws 34-101
Design-bid-build: means a project delivery method in which:
(a) There is a sequential award of two separate contracts. See Arizona Laws 34-101
Design-build: means a project delivery method in which:
(a) There is a single contract for design services and construction services, except that instead of a single contract for design services and construction services, the agent may elect separate contracts for preconstruction services and design services during the design phase, for construction and design services during the construction phase and for any other construction services. See Arizona Laws 34-101
Developer: means either of the following:
(a) Any person, corporation, partnership, limited liability company, trust or other entity, other than a sales agent, that creates a timeshare plan. See Arizona Laws 33-2202
Devise: To gift property by will.
Direct selection: means the selection of a technical registrant without the requirement of advertising or the use of a current register. See Arizona Laws 34-101
Discount fee: means the fee that is calculated and charged by the credit card issuer or a financial institution pursuant to an agreement for the processing of any credit card transaction. See Arizona Laws 35-101
Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
Dwelling: means a newly constructed single family or multifamily unit designed for residential use and property and improvements that are either owned by a homeowners' association or jointly by all of the members of a homeowners' association. See Arizona Laws 33-2001
Electronic funds transfer: The transfer of money between accounts by consumer electronic systems-such as automated teller machines (ATMs) and electronic payment of bills-rather than by check or cash. (Wire transfers, checks, drafts, and paper instruments do not fall into this category.) Source: OCC
Electronic mail: means an electronic message or an executable program or computer file that contains an image of a message that is transmitted between two or more computers or electronic terminals and includes electronic messages that are transmitted within or between computer networks from which a confirmation of receipt is received. See Arizona Laws 33-1701
Eligible depository: means any commercial or savings bank or savings and loan association with its principal place of business in the United States which is insured by the federal deposit insurance corporation or any successor, or any other insuring instrumentality of the United States, in accordance with the applicable law of the United States or credit union which is insured by the national credit union administration. See Arizona Laws 35-310
Embezzlement: In most states, embezzlement is defined as theft/larceny of assets (money or property) by a person in a position of trust or responsibility over those assets. Embezzlement typically occurs in the employment and corporate settings. Source: OCC
Encumbrance: means an obligation in the form of any purchase order, contract or other commitment that is chargeable to an appropriation or any other authorized fund source and for which a part of the fund source is reserved. See Arizona Laws 35-101
Engineer services: means those professional engineer services that are within the scope of engineering practice as provided in title 32, chapter 1. See Arizona Laws 34-101
Enterprise: means any person under the jurisdiction of the department other than a financial institution. See Arizona Laws 6-101
Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
Expenditure class: means one of the kinds of expenditure denoting a class of services or commodities purchased or properties acquired as specified in the classification of expenditures prescribed by the director of the department of administration for use in expenditure accounting, in making budget estimates and in the budget reports and budgets. See Arizona Laws 35-101
Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
Federal deposit insurance corporation: includes any successor to the corporation or other agency or instrumentality of the United States that undertakes to discharge the purposes of the corporation. See Arizona Laws 6-101
Fee: means a onetime charge. See Arizona Laws 9-591
Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
Fiduciary: means a personal representative, administrator, guardian, conservator, trustee, agent or other person who acts in a fiduciary capacity and who is not exempt by section 6-852. See Arizona Laws 6-851
Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
Finance services: means financing for a construction services project. See Arizona Laws 34-101
Financial institution: means banks, trust companies, savings and loan associations, credit unions, consumer lenders, international banking facilities and financial institution holding companies under the jurisdiction of the department. See Arizona Laws 6-101
Fixed Rate: Having a "fixed" rate means that the APR doesn't change based on fluctuations of some external rate (such as the "Prime Rate"). In other words, a fixed rate is a rate that is not a variable rate. A fixed APR can change over time, in several circumstances:
You are late making a payment or commit some other default, triggering an increase to a penalty rate
The bank changes the terms of your account and you do not reject the change.
The rate expires (if the rate was fixed for only a certain period of time).
Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. Source: OCC
Forgery: The fraudulent signing or alteration of another's name to an instrument such as a deed, mortgage, or check. The intent of the forgery is to deceive or defraud. Source: OCC
Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
Garnishment: Generally, garnishment is a court proceeding in which a creditor asks a court to order a third party who owes money to the debtor or otherwise holds assets belonging to the debtor to turn over to the creditor any of the debtor
Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
Good faith: means honesty in fact in the conduct or transaction concerned. See Arizona Laws 33-2001
Governing body: means the board, commission or other body having charge of the financial affairs of a municipality. See Arizona Laws 9-521
Governmental agency: includes this state, agencies, boards, commissions, departments, institutions and political subdivisions of this state, municipal corporations and all other public bodies which may enter into contracts for the construction or repair of highways, buildings or structures, or additions or alterations to highways, buildings or structures, or for the furnishing of equipment, labor or materials. See Arizona Laws 34-251
Grantee: includes every person to whom an estate or interest in real property passes, in or by a deed. See Arizona Laws 1-215
Grantor: includes every person from or by whom an estate or interest in real property passes, in or by a deed. See Arizona Laws 1-215
Gross revenues: means all cash, credits, property of any kind or nature, or other consideration, less related bad debt not to exceed one and one-half per cent annually, that is received directly or indirectly by the cable operator, its affiliates, subsidiaries or parent or any person, firm or corporation in which the cable operator has a financial interest or that has a financial interest in the cable operator and that is derived from the cable operator's operation of its cable system to provide cable service in the area of jurisdiction. See Arizona Laws 9-505
Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
Guest: means a nonresident of a recreational vehicle park, over and above the limit set for the resident's space under the terms of the rental agreement or by park rules, who stays at the home of a person with constructive possession of the home with the consent of the resident for one or more nights and not more than fourteen days in any twelve month period. See Arizona Laws 33-2102
Habeas corpus: A writ that is usually used to bring a prisoner before the court to determine the legality of his imprisonment. It may also be used to bring a person in custody before the court to give testimony, or to be prosecuted.
highway: means all roads, streets and alleys and all other dedicated public rights-of-way and public utility easements of this state or a political subdivision. See Arizona Laws 9-581
Horizontal construction: means construction of highways, roads, streets, bridges, canals, floodways, earthen dams, landfills, light rail and airport runways, taxiways and aprons. See Arizona Laws 34-101
including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. Source: FDIC
Industrial gas pipeline: means any pipeline or system of pipelines and all necessary appurtenances to the pipeline or system used to transport inert, nontoxic, nonflammable gas for industrial purposes to industrial users who pay for the service but does not include any pipeline or system of pipelines that transports gas for power, light or fuel. See Arizona Laws 9-551
Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
insolvent: means the trust company does not possess assets that are at least equal to liabilities, required reserves and total issued and outstanding capital. See Arizona Laws 6-851
Institutional investor: means a person who in the regular course of business makes commercial mortgage loans of more than two hundred fifty thousand dollars that are funded exclusively from the institutional investor's own resources. See Arizona Laws 6-971
Intangible property: Property that has no intrinsic value, but is merely the evidence of value such as stock certificates, bonds, and promissory notes.
Interest rate: The amount paid by a borrower to a lender in exchange for the use of the lender's money for a certain period of time. Interest is paid on loans or on debt instruments, such as notes or bonds, either at regular intervals or as part of a lump sum payment when the issue matures. Source: OCC
Intergovernmental contract: means the joint exercise of powers authorized by title 11, chapter 7, article 3. See Arizona Laws 9-505
Intergovernmental contract: means a joint exercise of powers agreement authorized by title 11, chapter 7, article 3. See Arizona Laws 9-551
Investor: means a person who lends or invests money in mortgage loans. See Arizona Laws 6-901
Investor: means a person who directly or indirectly provides monies to a commercial mortgage banker that are, or are intended to be, used to make a loan, and any person who purchases a loan, or any interest in a loan, from a commercial mortgage banker or in a transaction that has been directly or indirectly arranged or negotiated by a commercial mortgage banker. See Arizona Laws 6-971
Job-order-contracting: means a project delivery method in which:
(a) The contract is a requirements contract for indefinite quantities of construction. See Arizona Laws 34-101
Joint committee: Committees including membership from both houses of teh legislature. Joint committees are usually established with narrow jurisdictions and normally lack authority to report legislation.
Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
Landlord: means :
(a) The owner, lessor, sublessor or operator, or any combination of these persons, of a recreational vehicle park. See Arizona Laws 33-2102
Landscape architect services: means those professional landscape architect services that are within the scope of landscape architectural practice as provided in title 32, chapter 1. See Arizona Laws 34-101
Last known address: means that postal address or electronic address provided by the occupant in the rental agreement or the postal address or electronic address provided by the occupant in a subsequent written notice of a change of address. See Arizona Laws 33-1701
Late fee: means a reasonable fee or charge that is assessed by the operator for the failure of the occupant to pay rent when due pursuant to section 33-1703, subsection D. See Arizona Laws 33-1701
Law: means any federal, state or local law, statute, common law, code, rule, regulation, order or ordinance. See Arizona Laws 9-591
Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
Leased space: means the storage space or spaces at the self-service storage facility that are rented to an occupant pursuant to a rental agreement. See Arizona Laws 33-1701
Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
License: means a license issued under this article. See Arizona Laws 6-901
License: means that ordinance or resolution which contains the right, authority or grant, given by a licensing authority enabling a person to construct, operate and maintain a cable television system. See Arizona Laws 9-505
License: means that ordinance or resolution which contains the right, authority or grant given by a licensing authority enabling the license holder to construct, operate and maintain an industrial gas pipeline. See Arizona Laws 9-551
Licensee: means a person licensed under this article. See Arizona Laws 6-901
Licensee: means a person who is licensed under this article. See Arizona Laws 6-971
Licensing authority: means the board of supervisors of a county or the governing body of an incorporated city, including a charter city, or town. See Arizona Laws 9-505
Licensing authority: means the board of supervisors of a county or the governing body of an incorporated city or town. See Arizona Laws 9-551
Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
Lot: means a unit of identical or similar items that are grouped or consolidated in one or more containers for packaging or transporting or a cluster of identical or similar items that are included in the same shipping order, bill of lading or other itemized transport order. See Arizona Laws 3-441
Maintenance services: means routine maintenance, repair and replacement of existing facilities, structures, buildings or real property. See Arizona Laws 34-101
Managing agent: means a person, corporation, partnership or limited liability company that is authorized by the owner to operate and manage the property. See Arizona Laws 33-1901
Minor: means a person under the age of eighteen years. See Arizona Laws 1-215
Mobile home: means either of the following:
(a) A residential structure that was manufactured on or before June 15, 1976, that is transportable in one or more sections, eight feet or more in body width, over thirty feet in body length with the hitch, built on an integral chassis, designed to be used as a dwelling when connected to the required utilities and not originally sold as a travel trailer or recreational vehicle and that includes the plumbing, heating, air conditioning and electrical systems in the structure. See Arizona Laws 33-2102
Mobile home park: means any parcel of land that contains four or more mobile home spaces and two or more recreational vehicle spaces. See Arizona Laws 33-2102
Mobile home space: means a parcel of land for rent that has been designed to accommodate a mobile home and provide the required sewer and utility connections. See Arizona Laws 33-2102
Monopole: means a wireless support structure that is not more than forty inches in diameter at the ground level and that has all of the wireless facilities mounted on the pole or contained inside of the pole. See Arizona Laws 9-591
Month: means a calendar month unless otherwise expressed. See Arizona Laws 1-215
Mortgage banker: means a person who is not exempt under section 6-942 and who for compensation or in the expectation of compensation either directly or indirectly makes, negotiates or offers to make or negotiate a mortgage banking loan or a mortgage loan. See Arizona Laws 6-941
Mortgage banking loan: means a loan which is funded exclusively from the mortgage banker's own resources, which is directly or indirectly secured by a mortgage or deed of trust or any lien interest on real estate located in this state and which is created with the consent of the owner of the real property. See Arizona Laws 6-941
Mortgage banking loan closing: means the day by which all documents relating to the mortgage banking loan or mortgage loan have been executed and recorded and all monies have been accounted for. See Arizona Laws 6-941
Mortgage broker: means a person who is not exempt under section 6-902 and who for compensation or in the expectation of compensation either directly or indirectly makes, negotiates or offers to make or negotiate a mortgage loan. See Arizona Laws 6-901
Mortgage loan: means a loan secured by a mortgage or deed of trust or any lien interest on real estate located in this state created with the consent of the owner of the real estate. See Arizona Laws 6-901
Mortgage loan: means any loan, other than a mortgage banking loan, secured by a mortgage or deed of trust or any lien interest on real estate located in this state and created with the consent of the owner of the real estate. See Arizona Laws 6-941
Mortgage loan: A loan made by a lender to a borrower for the financing of real property. Source: OCC
Mortgage loan closing: means the day by which all documents relating to the mortgage loan have been executed and recorded and all monies have been accounted for under the terms of the escrow instructions. See Arizona Laws 6-901
Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
Mortgagor: The person who pledges property to a creditor as collateral for a loan and who receives the money.
Municipality: means any incorporated city or town. See Arizona Laws 9-521
National Bank: A bank that is subject to the supervision of the Comptroller of the Currency. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is a bureau of the U.S. Treasury Department. A national bank can be recognized because it must have "national" or "national association" in its name. Source: OCC
National credit union administration: includes any successor to the organization or other agency or instrumentality of the United States that undertakes to discharge the purposes of the organization. See Arizona Laws 6-101
National Credit Union Administration: The federal regulatory agency that charters and supervises federal credit unions. (NCUA also administers the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund, which insures the deposits of federal credit unions.) Source: OCC
negligently: import a want of such attention to the nature or probable consequence of the act or omission as a prudent man ordinarily bestows in acting in his own concerns. See Arizona Laws 1-215
Net proceeds: means the total proceeds received from the lien sale minus the total amount of the lien. See Arizona Laws 33-1701
Notice: means delivery by hand or mailed by registered or certified mail to the last known address of the landlord or tenant. See Arizona Laws 33-2102
Oath: includes an affirmation or declaration. See Arizona Laws 1-215
Occupant: means a person or the person's sublessee, successor or assign that is entitled to the use of the leased space at a self-service storage facility under a rental agreement, to the exclusion of others. See Arizona Laws 33-1701
Operating monies: means those treasury monies the interest from which is paid to the state general fund. See Arizona Laws 35-310
Operations services: means routine operation of existing facilities, structures, buildings or real property. See Arizona Laws 34-101
Operator: means the owner, operator, lessor or sublessor of a self-service storage facility, an agent or any other person authorized to manage the facility. See Arizona Laws 33-1701
Organization: includes a corporation, government, governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership or association, two or more persons having a joint or common interest and any other legal or commercial entity that is a landlord, owner, manager or designated agent. See Arizona Laws 33-2102
Original contractor: means any contractor who has a direct contractual relationship with the owner. See Arizona Laws 33-1051
own resources: means any of the following:
(a) Cash, corporate capital, warehouse credit lines at commercial banks, savings banks or savings and loan associations or other sources that are liability items on the mortgage banker's financial statements for which its assets are pledged. See Arizona Laws 6-941
(a) Cash, corporate capital, warehouse credit lines at commercial banks, savings banks or savings and loan associations or other sources that are liability items on the person's financial statements. See Arizona Laws 6-971
Owner: means one or more persons, jointly or severally, in whom is vested all or part of the legal title to property or all or part of the beneficial ownership and a right to present use and enjoyment of the premises. See Arizona Laws 33-2102
Owner: means the owners of a timeshare interest in a timeshare plan, other than as security for an obligation. See Arizona Laws 33-2202
Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
Permanent endowment funds: means those funds or any part of a fund, established by law, to retain trust monies, not wholly expendable by the beneficiary on a current basis. See Arizona Laws 35-310
Permit: means written permission required by an authority to install, mount, maintain, modify, operate or replace a utility pole or monopole, to collocate a small wireless facility on a utility pole or wireless support structure or to collocate wireless facilities on a monopole. See Arizona Laws 9-591
Person: includes an individual, firm, association, partnership, trust or corporation. See Arizona Laws 3-441
Person: means an individual, corporation, limited liability company, partnership, association, trust or other entity or organization, including an authority. See Arizona Laws 9-591
Person: includes a company, partnership or firm as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 33-2102
Person: means any corporation, business, individual, union, committee, club, other organization or group of individuals. See Arizona Laws 34-101
Person: means any individual, partnership, corporation, association or other entity formed for the purpose of doing business as a contractor, subcontractor or supplier. See Arizona Laws 34-251
Personal property: means movable property that is not affixed to land and includes goods, wares, merchandise, household items and furnishings and vehicles. See Arizona Laws 33-1701
Personal property: includes money, goods, chattels, things in action and evidences of debt. See Arizona Laws 1-215
Petty offense: A federal misdemeanor punishable by six months or less in prison. Source: U.S. Courts
Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer.
Political subdivision: means a city, town or county, or a special district of a city, town or county. See Arizona Laws 9-581
Population: means the population according to the most recent United States decennial census. See Arizona Laws 1-215
Power of attorney: A written instrument which authorizes one person to act as another's agent or attorney. The power of attorney may be for a definite, specific act, or it may be general in nature. The terms of the written power of attorney may specify when it will expire. If not, the power of attorney usually expires when the person granting it dies. Source: OCC
Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
Preconstruction services: means services and other activities during the design phase. See Arizona Laws 34-101
Premises: means the recreational vehicle park and existing facilities and appurtenances in the park, including furniture and utilities, if applicable, and grounds, areas and existing facilities held out for the use of tenants generally or whose use is promised to the tenant. See Arizona Laws 33-2102
Prepayment: means the payment of a claim before receiving the goods or services. See Arizona Laws 35-101
Private easement: means an easement or other real property right that is only for the benefit of the grantor and grantee and the grantor's or grantee's successors and assigns. See Arizona Laws 9-591
Process: means execution, attachment, garnishment, replevin, sale or any final process issued from any court or any other judicial remedy provided for collection of debts. See Arizona Laws 33-1121
Processing fee: means a fee that is charged by an entity other than a credit card issuer or the processing financial institution to process a credit card transaction. See Arizona Laws 35-101
Producer: means a person that is engaged in this state in the business of producing or causing citrus fruit to be produced for market in commercial quantities. See Arizona Laws 3-441
professional services: means architectural practice, engineering practice or land surveying practice as defined in section 32-101. See Arizona Laws 33-1007
Property: includes both real and personal property. See Arizona Laws 1-215
Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
Prospective tenant: means a person who expresses an interest to a landlord in becoming a tenant. See Arizona Laws 33-2102
Protected property: means personal property for which the sale or disposal is regulated by state or federal law and that is one of the following:
(a) Documents, files or electronic data that contains personal information relating to clients, customers, patients or others in connection with the occupant's business. See Arizona Laws 33-1701
Public access computer: means a computer that is all of the following:
(a) Located in a public school or public library. See Arizona Laws 34-501
Public competition: means a competitive procurement process pursuant to section 34-103, subsection G that includes advertising in a public newspaper and a qualification-based selection process. See Arizona Laws 34-101
public money: as used in this article includes bonds and evidence of indebtedness, and money belonging to, received or held by, state, county, district, city or town officers in their official capacity. See Arizona Laws 35-302
Purchase order: means a document that is signed by the appropriate agency authorized signatory, that requests a vendor to deliver described goods or services at a specific price and that on delivery and acceptance of the goods or services by this state becomes an obligation of this state. See Arizona Laws 35-101
Rate: means a recurring charge. See Arizona Laws 9-591
Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act: Federal law that, among other things, requires lenders to provide "good faith" estimates of settlement costs and make other disclosures regarding the mortgage loan. RESPA also limits the amount of funds held in escrow for real estate taxes and insurance. Source: OCC
Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
Recourse: An arrangement in which a bank retains, in form or in substance, any credit risk directly or indirectly associated with an asset it has sold (in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles) that exceeds a pro rata share of the bank's claim on the asset. If a bank has no claim on an asset it has sold, then the retention of any credit risk is recourse. Source: FDIC
Recreational vehicle: means a vehicular type unit that is any of the following:
(a) A portable camping trailer mounted on wheels and constructed with collapsible partial sidewalls that fold for towing by another vehicle and unfold for camping. See Arizona Laws 33-2102
Recreational vehicle space: means a parcel of land for rent that has been designed to accommodate a recreational vehicle and provide the required sewer and utility connections. See Arizona Laws 33-2102
Registered mail: includes certified mail. See Arizona Laws 1-215
Registered owner: means an owner of a vehicle as stated in the official records of the department. See Arizona Laws 33-1701
Rent: means payments to be made to the landlord or designated agent in full consideration for the rented premises. See Arizona Laws 33-2102
Rental agreement: means oral or written leases or agreements and valid rules embodying the terms and conditions concerning the use and occupancy of a recreational vehicle space. See Arizona Laws 33-2102
Rental agreement: means any written agreement provided to the occupant that establishes or modifies the terms, conditions or rules concerning the use and occupancy of leased space at a self-service storage facility. See Arizona Laws 33-1701
Resident: means a person entitled under a rental agreement to occupy a recreational vehicle space to the exclusion of others. See Arizona Laws 33-2102
Residential rental property: means property that is used solely as leased or rented property for residential purposes. See Arizona Laws 33-1901
Right-of-way: means the area on, below or above a public roadway, highway, street, sidewalk, alley or utility easement. See Arizona Laws 9-591
Savings account: means monies received or held by the trust company in the usual course of business and for which the trust company is obligated to give conditional or unconditional credit. See Arizona Laws 6-881
Security deposit: means money or property given to assure payment or performance under a rental agreement. See Arizona Laws 33-2102
Self-service storage facility: means any real property used for renting or leasing storage spaces in which the occupants themselves customarily store and remove their own personal property on a self-service basis. See Arizona Laws 33-1701
Seller: means any of the following:
(a) Any person, firm, partnership, corporation, association or other organization that is engaged in the business of building or selling dwellings. See Arizona Laws 33-2001
Service fee or surcharge: means a fee, whether fixed or variable, that is in addition to the transaction amount, that is charged by a state agency when the state agency accepts a credit card for payment and that is necessary for the state agency to process the payment. See Arizona Laws 35-101
Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
Shipper: means a person that ships, transports, sells or markets citrus fruit under the person's registered trademark or label or a person that first markets the citrus fruit on behalf of the producer. See Arizona Laws 3-441
Slum property: means residential rental property that has deteriorated or is in a state of disrepair and that manifests one or more of the following conditions that are a danger to the health or safety of the public:
(a) Structurally unsound exterior surfaces, roof, walls, doors, floors, stairwells, porches or railings. See Arizona Laws 33-1901
Small wireless facility: means a wireless facility that meets both of the following qualifications:
(a) All antennas are located inside an enclosure of not more than six cubic feet in volume or, in the case of an antenna that has exposed elements, the antenna and all of the antenna's exposed elements could fit within an imaginary enclosure of not more than six cubic feet in volume. See Arizona Laws 9-591
Special taxing district: means a special district formed pursuant to title 48, chapter 11, 12, 17, 18, 19, 20 or 22. See Arizona Laws 9-591
Statute of limitations: A law that sets the time within which parties must take action to enforce their rights.
Stop notice: means a written notice that is signed and verified by the claimant or its agent and that states in general terms all of the following:
(a) A description of the labor, professional services, materials, machinery, fixtures or tools furnished or agreed to be furnished by the claimant. See Arizona Laws 33-1051
Subcontractor: means a person who contracts to perform work or render service to a contractor or to another subcontractor as a part of a contract with an agent. See Arizona Laws 34-101
Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
Superintendent: means the superintendent of financial institutions. See Arizona Laws 6-101
Technical registrant: means a person who provides any of the professional services listed in title 32, chapter 1. See Arizona Laws 34-101
Technology protection measure: means a technology that blocks or filters internet access to visual depictions. See Arizona Laws 34-501
Telecommunications: means the transmission, between or among points specified by the user, of information of the user's choosing, without change in the form or content of the information as sent and received. See Arizona Laws 9-581
Telecommunications corporation: means any public service corporation to the extent that it provides telecommunications services in this state. See Arizona Laws 9-581
Telecommunications services: means the offering of telecommunications for a fee directly to the public, or to such users as to be effectively available directly to the public, regardless of the facilities used. See Arizona Laws 9-581
Tenancy in common: A type of property ownership in which two or more individuals have an undivided interest in property. At the death of one tenant in common, his (her) fractional percentage of ownership in the property passes to the decedent
Tenant: means a person signing a rental agreement or otherwise agreeing with a landlord for the occupancy of a recreational vehicle space for more than one hundred eighty days. See Arizona Laws 33-2102
Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
Time deposit: means a deposit that the depositor does not have a right to withdraw for at least seven days after the date of deposit. See Arizona Laws 6-881
Timeshare estate: means the right of occupancy in a timeshare property that is coupled with an estate in real property. See Arizona Laws 33-2202
Timeshare instrument: means one or more documents creating or governing the operation of a timeshare plan. See Arizona Laws 33-2202
Timeshare interest: means either a timeshare estate or a timeshare use. See Arizona Laws 33-2202
Timeshare property: means one or more accommodations that are subject to the same timeshare instrument, together with any other property or rights to property appurtenant to those accommodations. See Arizona Laws 33-2202
Title: includes this title, title 32, chapters 9 and 36 and title 44, chapter 2. See Arizona Laws 6-101
Transaction amount: means the total amount due to the state for any goods, service or license or anything else of value. See Arizona Laws 35-101
Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
Treasury monies: means all monies in the treasury of this state or coming lawfully into the possession or custody of the state treasurer. See Arizona Laws 35-310
Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
Trust account: A general term that covers all types of accounts in a trust department, such as estates, guardianships, and agencies. Source: OCC
Trust business: means the holding out by a person to the public at large by advertising, solicitation or other means that the person is available to act as a fiduciary in this state and accepting and undertaking to perform the duties as such a fiduciary in the regular course of business. See Arizona Laws 6-851
Trust company: means a corporation holding a certificate issued under this article. See Arizona Laws 6-851
Trust monies: means treasury monies, other than operating monies, that are entrusted to the state treasurer for preservation and investment. See Arizona Laws 35-310
Trustor: The person who makes or creates a trust. Also known as the grantor or settlor.
User fees: Fees charged to users of goods or services provided by the government. In levying or authorizing these fees, the legislature determines whether the revenue should go into the treasury or should be available to the agency providing the goods or services.
Utility pole: means a pole or similar structure that is used in whole or in part for communications services, electric distribution, lighting or traffic signals. See Arizona Laws 9-591
Utility undertaking: means any one or combination of the following:
(a) Electric light or power, water, storm water, sewer, gas, common carrier of passengers, garbage, or rubbish plant or system, including but not limited to disposal, treatment or reduction plants, buildings, incinerators, dams and reservoirs. See Arizona Laws 9-521
Variable Rate: Having a "variable" rate means that the APR changes from time to time based on fluctuations in an external rate, normally the Prime Rate. This external rate is known as the "index." If the index changes, the variable rate normally changes. Also see Fixed Rate.
Vehicle: means a motor vehicle, a trailer or a semitrailer as defined in section 28-101 and a motorized watercraft as defined in section 5-301. See Arizona Laws 33-1701
Verified mail: means any method of mailing that is offered by the United States postal service and that provides evidence of mailing. See Arizona Laws 33-1701
Wilfully: means , with respect to conduct or to a circumstance described by a statute defining an offense, that a person is aware or believes that the person's conduct is of that nature or that the circumstance exists. See Arizona Laws 1-215
Wireless provider: means a cable operator, wireless infrastructure provider or wireless services provider. See Arizona Laws 9-591
Wireless services: means any services that are provided to the public and that use licensed or unlicensed spectrum, whether at a fixed location or mobile, using wireless facilities. See Arizona Laws 9-591
Writ: means an order or precept in writing issued in the name of the state or by a court or judicial officer. See Arizona Laws 1-215
Writing: includes printing. See Arizona Laws 1-215
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Hillary for NM office opening Tuesday in Las Cruces
The Democratic National Committee's Joni Gutierrez will help open Hillary for New Mexico’s Las Cruces organizing office.
Hillary for NM office opening Tuesday in Las Cruces The Democratic National Committee's Joni Gutierrez will help open Hillary for New Mexico’s Las Cruces organizing office. Check out this story on lcsun-news.com: https://lcsun.co/27tLSBW
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FILE - In this Oct. 3, 2015 file photo, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton gestures as she speaks at Human Rights Campaign gathering in Washington.(Photo: Jose Luis Magana, AP)
LAS CRUCES – On Tuesday, Las Cruces Mayor Ken Miyagishima, state Sen. Joseph Cervantes, state Rep. Bill McCamley and the Democratic National Committee's Joni Gutierrez, a former state representative from Mesilla, will join supporters, volunteers, and community members to open Hillary for New Mexico’s Las Cruces organizing office.
The local politicians will officially launch the local organizing effort at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday at the office, 114 S. Water St., Las Cruces.
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Home Forex Liquidity CFTC announces Clearinghouse Liquidity Stress Test results
CFTC announces Clearinghouse Liquidity Stress Test results
Liquidity October 17, 2017 —by Valentina Kirilova 0
Staff of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today issued a report detailing the results of an evaluation of settlement liquidity at clearinghouses. The purpose of the analysis was to assess the impact of a hypothetical extreme but plausible market scenario on the ability of three clearinghouses to meet their settlement obligations on time. It is the second systemic stress testing report issued by CFTC, following its Supervisory Stress Test of Clearinghouses published in November 2016.
The analysis included CME Clearing, ICE Clear U.S., and LCH, Ltd. It encompassed cleared futures and options, and interest rate swaps. It assumed the default of the same two systemically important clearing members at each clearinghouse. Both the house accounts and customer accounts of these clearing members were analyzed. It used actual positions and collateral as of August 16, 2017.
CFTC staff designed and performed the stress test internally. Staff provided the clearinghouses an opportunity to comment on the results. Each clearinghouse provided an analysis of how it would generate sufficient liquidity to meet variation margin needs. Staff contacted at least one liquidity provider listed by each clearinghouse.
The following are the key findings:
All of the clearinghouses demonstrated the ability to generate sufficient liquidity to fulfill settlement obligations on time.
The clearinghouses generated funds in a number of ways. The range of methods included: (i) using cash received from maturing reverse-repurchase agreements, (ii) selling collateral, (iii) accessing cash balances at a commercial bank, (iv) accessing cash balances at a central bank, (v) converting one currency to another, and (vi) entering into repurchase agreements. The three clearinghouses used different combinations of these methods.
In instances where multiple DCOs used the same methodology or the same firm to meet liquidity demands, staff concluded that the cumulative size of liquidity requirements in this scenario would not impair the ability of each clearinghouse to meet its settlement obligations.
The analysis does not draw conclusions as to whether individual clearinghouses meet regulatory requirements for liquidity. It also does not imply any new standards for clearinghouse liquidity. It does not address types of liquidity other than the ability to meet settlement obligations. Thus, it doesn’t address the capacity of derivatives markets to handle large trades if a clearinghouse needed to liquidate positions. Future exercises will address these and other types of risks.
Supervisory stress tests are just one element of the CFTC’s program of oversight of clearinghouses. Staff performs daily risk surveillance of individual clearinghouses, clearing members, and large market participants. Staff performs periodic compliance exams of clearinghouses. Staff reviews clearinghouse rules, including rules relating to margin and risk management procedures, for compliance with statutory requirements. Staff also develops and implements regulatory standards for clearinghouses and their members. CFTC staff also participates in or leads several domestic and international regulatory initiatives related to clearinghouse strength and stability.
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The Bustelo Incident: Marxism and Feminism
Weiss, Myra Tanner
New York: Onward Press, 1987. First Edition, First Printing. A plea for Marxists to embrace feminism by a three-time Vice-Presidential candidate of the Socialist Workers Party. The "Bustelo Incident" refers to a 1954 article in the SWP newspaper, The Militant, attacking the cosmetics industry and making fun of women who used cosmetics. In this pamphlet, the author (1917-1997) recounts the controversy that arose over the article, decries male chauvinism in the article and in the Marxist movement, and pleads for Marxists to have a feminist outlook. 8vo (8 1/2 inches / 22 cm), [2], 90 pages in stapled illustrated wrappers. A bit of edge wear and sunning to the covers. Otherwise, Near Fine. Uncommon; OCLC WorldCat lists only eight institutional holdings. No other copies in commerce as of November 24, 2016. SCARCE. Item #1193
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The new Tim Hortons lid is a huge improvement. Really. - Macleans.ca
The new Tim Hortons lid is a huge improvement. Really.
Customer reviews thus far diverge wildly, from glowing declarations of thanks to desperate pleas for a return to the old lid but an expert is solidly in favour
by Rosemary Counter
The classic 'peel' vs a new hybrid 'pucker/peel' (Photographs by Erik Putz)
It’s only summer, but it’s already been a buzzy year of peaks and crashes for Tim Hortons. In March, the country’s largest coffee chain launched a loyalty program; in April, lacklustre sales prompted president Alex Macedo to admit that its once-exciting Roll Up the Rim promotion had “gotten old”; and now, after 25 years of customer complaints of the so-called “double-dribble” onto their fingers, Tim Hortons’ new and improved lids have landed in the hands of the nation’s jittery coffee fiends.
“We took more than two years to develop the new lid,” said Macedo in a glowing press release, “conducting 12 research studies, serving over 30 million beverages and working with thousands of guests to help us design it.” The result, the company says, is an improved lid that reduces both spills and Tims’ carbon footprint by utilizing polypropylene, a 100 per cent recyclable plastic that the company says every franchise will happily collect for recycling.
But what do customers think? Reviews thus far diverge wildly, from glowing declarations of thanks to desperate pleas for a return to the old lid. In an age of “smart” lids that change colour to warn of dangerously high temperatures, spill-proof spin-tops you can hold upside down without losing a drop and double-insulated vacuum-sealed stainless steel tumblers, can the long-awaited redesigned Canadian takeaway lid possibly stack up?
READ: Tim Hortons’ double dribble
If anyone can answer this question, it is Louise Harpman, a professor of architecture and design at New York University. She’s also the owner of the world’s largest collection of disposable beverage lids—some 500, including samples of the new Tims lids sent by Maclean’s. Specimens from the collection have landed at the Smithsonian and Museum of Modern Art, and are featured in Harpman’s book, Coffee Lids: Peel, Pinch, Pucker, Puncture. (She also collects vintage light bulbs, and moulds for balloons and buttons.)
On the pages of her book, and in conversation, Harpman reveals how a seemingly simple product like a coffee cup lid can have a rich history of design. Since the original 1950 patent—by James D. Reifsnyder of the Lily-Tulip Cup Corporation from Flushing, N.Y.—lids have morphed from basic to innovative to artistic. Tims’ old lid was basic at best, she says, and though customers don’t know lid lingo, their complaints were well-founded. “The way the lid sits on the cup is called ‘mating engagement’—which is the lock between the lid and the cup,” says Harpman. It’s an odd descriptor, but the mating engagement must be sufficiently forceful, which it was not on the double-dribble lid. “This is why the original Tim Hortons lid leaked,” she says. “It didn’t have a forceful enough mating engagement.”
The old lid is what Harpman calls a “peel” lid, an unpopular design among aficionados. “Your mouth has to bridge between the lid and the rim, which was always kind of awkward, like stepping off a curb every time,” she says. Other categories include the pinch, pucker and puncture—but Tims’ new lid doesn’t quite fit into any of them. “It’s like a pucker, where you place your mouth around a preformed aperture and tip the cup back to drink, but it also has a little peel-and-lock closure,” says Harpman. “We might have to invent a new category.”
READ: The Tim Hortons brand is badly broken. Here’s how to fix it.
Still more impressive to Harpman is the new lid’s “skirt,” which should flare out to catch drips instead of running parallel to the cup like the old lid. “Look closely,” she marvels, “the skirt flares out but then it flares out again. Two skirts! In my mind, that’s the key innovation here.” She also loves the Canadian leaf pressed into the top (technically, the “deck”) for reasons artistic and pragmatic. “It’s not unusual to see a company logo, but to me the maple leaf encompasses the whole country,” she says. “Also it makes room so your nose doesn’t smush. That’s just fantastic.”
Not everyone is so psyched. The lid’s big premiere overlapped closely with Justin Trudeau’s announcement of an upcoming single-use plastic ban, highlighting a much graver problem than coffee drip. “Tim Hortons has known for a long time that they need to do something about their waste problem,” says Sarah King, head of Greenpeace Canada’s oceans and plastics campaign. Polypropylene is “theoretically recyclable, but that does not mean they will be recycled,” she says. In fact, Greenpeace’s brand audits found Tim Hortons to be the second-most-polluting corporation in the country (the worst offender: Nestlé).
To King, Tims missed an opportunity to launch a mug-share program—which they will probably have to do in the event of the 2021 single-use plastic ban anyhow. (The company currently sells travel mugs and offers discounts for those who use travel mugs.) Even Harpman, the world’s biggest lid fan, agrees: “We’ve probably hit peak plastic lid.” She suggests Tim Hortons look next to compostable lids or even edible ones. “Imagine that? The steam from the coffee warms a thin cookie lid, and then you eat it.”
This article appears in print in the August 2019 issue of Maclean’s magazine with the headline, “Drip dried by design.” Subscribe to the monthly print magazine here.
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Notley tried to win the debate by making Kenney a loser. It didn't work. - Macleans.ca
Notley tried to win the debate by making Kenney a loser. It didn’t work.
Jason Markusoff’s Alberta Politics Insider for April 5: UCP prepared for debate with a high-profile sparring partner, a debate recap roundup, and more
by Jason Markusoff
Alberta NDP leader and incumbent premier Rachel Notley speaks to the press after the 2019 Alberta Leaders Debate in Edmonton, Alta., on Thursday, April 4, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Codie McLachlan
Alberta Politics Insider is a morning newsletter on the provincial campaign, with news and exclusive analysis written by Maclean’s Alberta correspondent. To get it emailed to you every Monday to Friday, along with daily commentary and information from Ottawa, sign up at this link.
There was a bounce in Jason Kenney’s step as he strode to face reporters after the 90 televised minutes that safeguarded his United Conservative Party’s tidy lead. “I’d like to do another hour!” he proclaimed in a chipper voice.
Rachel Notley had brought a whole other sort of chipper to the Alberta election’s lone leaders’ debate, and continually tried to shove her rival’s limbs and head through its gnashing blades. Kenney avoided being drawn in, kept his cool, and emerged intact and unbloodied.
He suffered a far rougher thrashing a night earlier at the hands of conservative talk radio host Charles Adler, who subjected Kenney to an hour of brutally personal questions about his views on abortion and gay rights, and about a veritable Standing Committee full UCP candidates who’ve said odiously regressive things about various minority groups. Thursday’s debate was never going to be solely devoted to social issues, and Adler wasn’t the moderator. That widely shared and awkward interview performance by Kenney surely made anything else—dental surgery, radical feminism symposium—seem to him breezy fun by comparison.
Notley’s 2015 election victory was sealed with her solid debate showing and Tory premier Jim Prentice’s woeful attempt to say the lady can’t do math. The NDP had hopes of forcing Kenney into some sort of error, like Lucy yanking away the football from Charlie Brown at the last second. He could anticipate that trick from 20 yards away. On this night, Kenney showed why he has a reputation for Jesuitical discipline and preparation that borders on obsessive. He carefully avoided even mentioning his key opponent by name; he referred to her as the premier, which conferred a degree of respect while reminding UCP supporters that they really don’t want her to remain premier. The Kenney campaign flew Conservative MP Michelle Rempel home to Alberta to be Notley’s stand-in during debate rehearsals, so he’d have some practice squaring off with a diminutive female prone to sharp-tongued jabs.
Notley again proved deft at delivering nifty scripted lines, like this populist bit on corporate taxes: “Do you want to pay for a tax cut for your boss by freezing your kids’ education and freezing your loved one’s health care?” Kenney, however, showed he’s the superior improviser. He pivoted to say that Notley’s quip was business-bashing. Later, when Notley said his plan to scuttle her plan to lease oil-hauling rail cars would kill jobs, he twisted it against her: “You’re the expert in killing jobs in downtown Calgary.”
Kenney’s non-loss was also aided by two bits of luck: that the longshot Liberal leader David Khan was given the lectern between Notley and him, and that voters favour UCP positions over the NDP’s on the first three subjects of the debate: federal relations, budget deficits and pipelines. Notley and the other two centrist leaders hammered away at Kenney’s intellectual dishonesty over his threats to somehow wreak havoc on the federal equalization system, and his apparent plans to generate something like 45,000 legal and paralegal jobs in Alberta by variously suing the Liberals and environmental groups. But many Alberta voters seem to want a premier who will fly to Ottawa with a giant, spiked club hidden in their checked luggage—and naysayers are simply rational weenies.
To her credit, Notley waited a whole six or seven seconds during her opening statement before kicking at the frontrunning Kenney, and pivoted quickly at each opportunity to that message all evening. Kenney aimed to spend most of the debate explaining what he wants to do with Alberta. She also spent most of the debate explaining what Kenney wants to do with Alberta. Her party recognizes that the only way to shake loose Conservative votes is to further sap confidence that he’s a credible leader in a modern Alberta, and New Democrats will likely rely during the campaign’s last 12 days on further “bozo eruptions” to erode the UCP lead. The words Conservatives themselves utter are far more damaging to their cause than most of what Notley can say.
In her closing, Notley began to sound like she might finally deliver an effective pitch to on-the-fence conservative voters who don’t trust the NDP on the economy, yet recoil at the thought of having the least gay-friendly government in the province since the early years of this century. “In Alberta we can grow the economy, build the pipeline, create jobs and not sacrifice who we are. Because who we are is the source of our strength,” she began. “In Alberta, it doesn’t matter where you came from, who your parents are, to whom you pray or who you love.”
That final line, though, is exactly the sort of well-meaning cliché Kenney had used earlier in the night to describe his approach. Just as Kenney had anticipated many of her manoeuvres, Notley should have seen it coming.
What others said:
Graham Thomson: “Notley, as expected did well, but at times the smile on her face didn’t match the venom in her anti-Kenney words. Kenney, who has been preparing for this debate since he first stepped into provincial politics three years ago, performed as expected. This, even though he was clearly irritated when his carefully scripted talking points were drowned out by the others’ crosstalk. He survived. If he is indeed the front-runner that’s all he had to do.” (CBC)
Elise Stolte: “I was looking for sparky and inspiring. (Notley) was just OK. She came across as reasoned but more focused on pulling down the UCP than delivering exciting new ideas. Her strongest quotes were all negative, outlining why voters should not choose the UCP. She suggested the UCP plan is akin to paying for a tax cut for your boss by ‘freezing your children’s education and freezing your loved one’s health care.’” (Edmonton Journal)
Keith Gerein: “While Kenney didn’t do much to make himself come across as more likeable or alleviate the controversies plaguing the party, he at least seemed to weather the storm Thursday without any significant further damage. He also seemed to get stronger and more confident as the debate went on, and supporters were likely pleased at his attacks on NDP Leader Rachel Notley’s pipeline record and his rhetoric about getting tough with Ottawa.” (Edmonton Journal)
Janet Brown: “(Kenney) came out of the gate way more aggressive than I thought he would. He certainly was playing to character. He wasn’t trying to be nice. But at the same time, he didn’t come off as this sort of evil genius, this crazy radical that Albertans need to be afraid of.” (CBC)
Don Braid: “They all lumped themselves together in the drawer labelled Conciliatory. Kenney was left with the clear ownership of Alberta anger, one of the most powerful themes of this campaign. He repeated his calls to dump the carbon tax, sue protest groups, help defeat Justin Trudeau, etc. Kenney seemed distinct. That’s exactly what he wanted. As the others cordially shook hands at the end, he stood alone for a moment, looking pleased with himself.” (Calgary Herald)
Rick Bell: “This is 2019 where the premier needed a knockout again — more than ever. She needed to be able to show Albertans Jason Kenney is the monster she’s talked about every single day and many times a day during this Texas Death Match of an election campaign. She didn’t. Far from it. Only the diehards and the delusional will think Notley somehow pulled off some great victory Thursday night.” (Calgary Sun)
Danielle Smith: “Both @jkenney and @RachelNotley did well – certainly enough to maintain base support.” (Twitter)
David Akin: “Gotta say: I am shocked at how poorly @RachelNotley is performing in the #abvotes debate. I have long considered her to be one of the strongest politicians in Canada. Not tonight.” (Twitter)
Dave Cournoyer: “Anyone who was hoping to see a battle of the titans during tonight’s #abdebate surely will have been disappointed. This debate was mostly forgettable and I’m not convinced it moves the dial on anything.” (Twitter)
Madeline Smith: “Muted applause at this NDP watch party. The mood in here is a bit more subdued than the watch parties probably were in 2015, post-‘math is hard’ slam dunk. Not sure any of those moments came for Notley tonight.” (Twitter)
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Review: Numark Mixtrack Pro II
G.W. Childs IV on Mon, August 12th 0 comments
How can you improve upon an already successful DJing solution like the Mixtrack? G. W. Childs discovers the Mixtrack Pro II provides more 'bang' than its low 'buck' suggests.
I’ll admit, at one point I really felt sorry for anyone who wanted to get into DJing. Really, it was one of those things that required a sizable investment, but had the same promise of payback that most everything else in music has... not much! Seriously, it’s not the same as learning to play piano, or saxophone, or guitar. With instruments of this type, it can be as simple as paying a few hundred dollars, and that’s it. When it comes to DJing, it means constantly purchasing music, having to buy speakers, headphones, mics, and so on.
Note how I’m referring to DJing as doing something instrumentally. Yes, I do actually see it that way. The act of DJing has evolved very much from playing records for people, while they drink their sodas, and eat pie. Modern DJing requires the learning of crossfading, sample usage, effects usage... It’s no wonder that so many DJs segue into actual music creation and production. Seriously, if you tackle DJing, you’ve already got a pretty firm understanding of mixing, producing, sampling, effects and timing.
Thankfully, the price is no longer as high as it was to begin. Numark has released a new device known as the Mixtrack Pro II which does an amazing job of buffering the price to begin into the direction of the DJ-to-be. It really could offer something nice to the experienced DJ, to boot. So, how did they do?
I have to say that I’m charmed by the design and sleekness of the Mixtrack Pro II. Unlike many of the DJ devices I’ve spent time with, the Mixtrack Pro II is highly portable, while still incorporating features that every DJ needs. I’m just so surprised how thin it is. The only thing that adds much dimension to it would be the knobs and faders. And, I’m happy to report that the encoders, buttons, platters, faders and crossfaders feel wonderful, and solid. Granted, the crossfader is supposed to feel loose, and Numark hasn’t failed you there either. The crossfader accommodates the nudges and smooth transitions you’d expect. It’s loose, but feels really grounded.
I’m particularly impressed with the pads that are located near the top of the Mixtrack Pro II. Each pad feels rugged and gives the impression that they could take some abuse. They are very similar to the old Roland R8 pads, and this is a big win for me, as I loved that drum machine. While the pads aren’t necessarily designed to do what the R8 did, and that’s good, they do very well for what they are intended, and have multiple functions.
The top row’s main job is managing FX, the bottom row is primarily for setting up sample loops. These functions work wonderfully and seamlessly with the supplied software. As a matter of fact, when you’re using the entire unit, it really feels more like hardware than software. Plus, the browse functionality that is embodied in the Browse functionality of the hardware really does a wonderful job of allowing you to select your next tracks, without having to even touch the laptop.
Installing the software threw me off a little, at first. And, I’ll admit, I felt like an idiot, considering that I’m a really big fan of the whole movement to keep the software off of the CDs, and kept online. This ensures that you get the latest version, rather than the two year old version that was on the CD. And, with getting the newest version, you can ensure that you don’t have to experience the heinous bugs that usually ship with first rev software. With that rant out of the way, let me tell you about my experience.
Sadly, the setup instructions for Serato were missing in my box. This could be because I’m using a review unit, so I’ll let this slip. Once my editor gave me the sage advice to go to the website and download the software, things were more than smooth. I simply installed the software and connected the unit. It was actually a little magical, and that’s not something you’ll hear someone that reviews hardware regularly say.
Serato DJ Intro is the included package for the Numark Mixtrack Pro II, and as limited as that might sound, you could easily DJ a show with it, and swear that you “don’t know what you would’ve done without it”. You have fx, looping, stuttering, 2X sample playback, to give you that nice granular stutter, and so much more. And, what’s fascinating is that I had achieved all of these features and a set, within the first couple of minutes of using the software... And, I’ve never used it before. I’ve always been a Traktor guy, so this was a really great spotlight of the Serato software, for me.
As I’ve never used the full version of Serato, I’ll admit that I’m extremely interested in seeing how it would be, as what comes in Intro is so full featured.
Was there any other setup? Any problems? Really, I wish that I could say there were. There just weren’t. It was literally:
Download the software.
Run the software.
Connect the Mixtrack Pro II to the laptop.
Start playing music.
The Mixtrack Pro II has two headphone outputs, a mic input (with independent mic gain) and dedicated RCA stereo outputs. How do they sound? Really, really good. This is especially true for a device that is in the $300 price range.
Most of the time, in music hardware and software, you get what you pay for. In all my years of being in this area of interest, it’s been very rare that I’ve run across an item that encapsulates ‘bang for your buck’ the way that this product does. I would recommend this to my brother, if he were to decide he wanted to start DJing. As I’m from Texas, well he’ll probably continue to do a bunch of hunting and fishing... Leaving me to be the nerdy one in the family.
Web: http://www.numark.com/product/mixtrack-pro-ii
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Where's Waldo? The Fantastic Journey
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Where's Waldo? The Fantastic Journey is the ultimate search and find adventure for all ages, as players scour the virtual globe in search of Waldo and his friends Wizard Whitebeard, Wenda and Woof, and Waldo foe, Odlaw. In addition, there are hundreds of cleverly camouflaged items to find within the 12 different magical worlds. Game play is enhanced with surprise features designed to challenge players during their search, including:
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A New Desktop Theme Is Coming For Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
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With Ubuntu 20.04 to see installation on many desktops (and servers) given its Long-Term Support status, Canonical and the Yaru community team have begun working on a successor to the Yaru theme for this Linux distribution release due out in April.
Yaru has been the default Ubuntu theme since 18.10 but now a year and a half later is time for some refinements. The Yaru design team was recently at Canonical’s London offices to work on the new theme.
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Linux Developers Start Poaching Microsoft Users After Windows 7 End of Support
Windows 7 has officially reached the end of support, so users running it have three options to choose from: stick with Windows 7 and face the obvious security risks, upgrade to newer Windows, or migrate to a non-Windows platform. As far as the last option goes, Linux distro makers know how big this opportunity really is, so they started poaching Windows 7 users in an attempt to increase their install base.
After Canonical tried to lure Windows 7 users to install Ubuntu, a number of Korean companies developing their own custom Linux distros have launched similar campaigns specifically supposed to convince Microsoft customers to make the switch.
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“On my team, a small number of developers manage over 75 Node.js libraries,” Benjamin Coe, developer engineer at Google, said in an announcement on Friday (January 10).
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Google, Facebook, IBM, Microsoft and other tech giants including renowned developers have already taken a nimble step towards the Machine learning and Artificial intelligence to make the dream of human beings of creating a highly intelligent machine. And to armed others to partake in this journey of building a conscious machine for the future, there are quite a good number of open source tools avail by tech giants to integrate artificial intelligence into applications.
Yet, the artificial intelligence and machine learning are at very early stage, so don’t expect something like some sci-fi movie, however developers those are into AI and ML can use the open-source software we are going to discuss for writing apps for better speech recognition, Image recognization, Voice assistance, developing a neural network and more… Take a look at some of the most popular open-source solutions.
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IBM, Microsoft and other tech companies have filed court documents in support of Google ahead of the Supreme Court of the US hearing over whether copyright applies to software application programming interfaces.
The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear the Google vs Oracle case in March, after the court last year agreed to reconsider a favorable decision towards Oracle by the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in 2014. The court reversed a federal court jury decision that Google’s use of Java API packages in its Android operating system constituted “fair use”.
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But I’m not saying you shouldn’t use Linux. In fact, if you’re into technology at all, I recommend using Linux for a month or two just to see how it works and the things you can do with Linux. But what if you’re not that into tech? Here are several reasons why you should use Linux, if only for a limited time!
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The change is to enable the systemd fstrim.timer unit by default for running FSTRIM weekly on EXT4/XFS/Btrfs/F2FS file-systems running on flash-based storage devices. FSTRIM is used for notifying the underlying storage devices about unused blocks for wear leveling and more efficient handling.
Google gives $1 million to UVM to advance open source research
The Google Open Source Programs Office, a division of Google that manages Google’s use and release of open source software and promotes open source programming, has provided the University of Vermont (UVM) Complex Systems Center a $1 million unrestricted gift to support open source research.
The goal of the UVM project is to deepen understanding of how people, teams and organizations thrive in technology-rich settings, especially in open-source projects and communities. The Google award will establish a collaboration between the Google Open Source team and UVM to begin building a community-oriented body of research focused on understanding how open source platforms are used and what makes technology-rich environments thrive.
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Linux Lite creator Jerry Bezencon announced today the release and general availability of the Linux Lite 4.8 operating system as an alternative to the soon-to-be-deprecated Windows 7 OS.
Based on Canonical’s Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS (Bionic Beaver) operating system, the final release of the Linux Lite 4.8 operating system ships with the Linux 4.15 kernel and updated apps, including Mozilla Firefox 71.0, Mozilla Thunderbird 68.2.2, LibreOffice 6.0.7, VLC 3.0.8, GIMP 2.10.14, and Timeshift 19.08.1.
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Vol. 38 No. 6 · 17 March 2016
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Jonathan Gil Harris
The Island Princess
by John Fletcher, edited by Clare McManus.
Arden, 338 pp., £16.99, December 2012, 978 1 904271 53 6Show More
On 7 January 1669, Samuel Pepys wrote in his diary that he and his wife had seen ‘a pretty good play’ at the king’s playhouse, with ‘many good things being in it – and a good scene of a town on fire’. The ‘town on fire’ – a pyrotechnical display involving the controlled detonation of low-grade gunpowder or squibs – must have had a particular force for an audience still recovering from the Great Fire in September 1666. But the burning town wasn’t London. The play was John Fletcher’s The Island Princess, a tragicomedy written half a century earlier, and set on the islands of Ternate and Tidore in what is now Indonesia. The opening stage direction, however, states: ‘The Scene India’.
The Island Princess is the only surviving pre-Restoration English drama to be set in what was then known as ‘India’, a catch-all term spanning the vast area from the Subcontinent to the Spice Islands. The plot is straightforward. Armusia, a dashing Portuguese venturer, woos Quisara, the princess of Tidore. She entertains numerous other suitors, including the evil governor of the neighbouring island of Ternate, as well as her initial favourite, the indecisive Portuguese aristocrat Rui Dias. Armusia wins Quisara’s affections by freeing her brother, the king of Tidore, from the prison in which the governor of Ternate has cruelly confined him. Armusia and his men’s scheme to liberate the king gives rise to the scene that arrested Pepys: cramming a cellar next to the prison with gunpowder, they blow it up and set fire to the town, allowing the king to escape. Despite her growing love for him, Quisara tells Armusia that she will marry him only if he converts to her religion. He angrily refuses. The governor of Ternate, infiltrating Tidore disguised as a ‘Moor priest’, persuades the king to arrest Armusia for heresy; but when the Portuguese threaten another explosion, he is released, and Quisara – impressed by his ‘constancy’ – yields to him in both marriage and religion, converting to Christianity.
The play was immensely popular for more than a century after its first recorded performance in 1621. But after falling out of the repertory in the mid-18th century, it languished in critical and theatrical oblivion for more than 250 years. Since 9/11, however, there has been a resurgence of interest in it. Clare McManus’s edition is to a large extent organised around what she sees as the play’s ‘striking topicality in the post-9/11 moment’. The cover image seems designed to illustrate her point. Over an eerie, sepia-tinted image of a beautiful tropical scene – a river flanked by palm trees – we can make out the spectral form of a burqa-clad woman, her hands cupped in dua or prayer. The sepia tint either places the tropical scene in a distant past or suggests the haze of a conflagration just out of frame: perhaps it’s the burning town. It also recalls the pictures of Ground Zero taken as dust and debris fell from the burning towers. The ‘tropical’ thus blurs into the ‘topical’ – the eponymous island princess, the illustration tells us, is a devout Muslim.
McManus works hard to ground the play’s native characters in Islamic culture. When the governor of Ternate arrives in Tidore disguised ‘like a Moor priest’, she glosses the phrase as ‘an imam, a Muslim priest’, and she calls the island princess herself, Quisara, ‘a fully sexualised Muslim woman’. These glosses merge Fletcher’s 17th-century characters with what readers might understand Muslims to be now. Of course, this is what glosses are meant to do: translate unfamiliar terms into familiar words and concepts. Yet much can get lost in translation, especially when we dissolve the messy plurality of complex early modern representations, with all their unassimilable detritus, into the singularity of supposedly self-evident identities. If we think of The Island Princess’s ‘Moor priest’ as an ‘imam’, we might all too easily finesse the fact – noted by McManus – that he makes pantheistic references to ‘the gods’ and is addressed as ‘Don Governor’, a Spanish Catholic title. There is little in the text that identifies Quisara as ‘Muslim’: there is, for example, no indication that she is veiled. And when she asks Armusia to convert to her religion, she – like the governor – invokes her ‘gods’ in the plural.
Most early modern English playwrights knew little about Islam, but despite this they sometimes made references to particular aspects of Islamic faith or practice. The anonymous Selimus, Emperor of the Turks (c.1593) refers to the ‘holy rites of Mahomet,/His wondrous tomb and sacred Alcoran’. In Marlowe’s 1588 play Tamburlaine ends by railing against Mahomet and burning the Alcoran – for which, miraculously, he is struck down with a deadly illness. The Travels of the Three English Brothers (1607) by John Day, William Rowley and George Wilkins demonstrates some awareness of the doctrinal differences between the Sunni Islam of the Ottoman Turks and the Shia Islam of the Persians, stating that the Shia venerate ‘Mortus Ali’ (Ali ibn Abi Talib, the nephew of Muhammad). Philip Massinger’s The Renegado (1624), set in Tunis, presents Muhammad’s prophecies as a fraudulent trick involving a trained pigeon that whispered ‘in his ear’. The Admiral’s Men, the company of the impresario Philip Henslowe, listed among its stage properties ‘an old Mohammed’s head’ which was probably used in the temple scene of Robert Greene’s comedy Alphonsus, King of Aragon (1590) and the conversion scene in Robert Daborne’s A Christian Turned Turk (1612), a play dramatising the life of the renegade English pirate John Ward.
The difference between these plays and The Island Princess – and it’s a considerable one – is that they make some attempt to represent specific aspects of Islam, no matter how maliciously or erroneously. There is no such effort in The Island Princess. The closest it comes is a single reference to the islanders’ ‘maumet gods’. Maumet, meaning a ‘puppet’ or ‘effigy’, was derived from a 15th-century contraction of ‘Mohammed’. But the reference to ‘maumet gods’ is of a piece with standard Protestant invective against idolatry. After the Reformation, ‘maumet’ began to be used as a derogatory epithet for Catholic idols: Thomas Becon, for example, complains of ‘antichristian monsters’ who teach people ‘to run a Pilgrimage to this and that Idol, to paint this tabernacle, and to gild that maumet’. The Island Princess’s ‘maumet gods’ would have registered as an anti-Catholic jibe as much as an anti-Islamic one. McManus digs around in the play for other possible anti-Muslim insinuations (‘Hound’ as a version of ‘Mahound’, ‘hog’s pox’ as a religious slur), but finds at best only oblique references.
One of the most productive developments in early modern studies over the past decade has been the emergence of a body of scholarship which takes seriously England’s imaginary as well as actual encounters with Islam. Six or seven recent studies have shown that English writing of the time, especially drama, was fascinated by Mediterranean Islamic characters and settings. It is tempting to read The Island Princess in the light of this fascination, but we need a more nuanced account of religious conflict in the play, and what occasions it. We might start by thinking more carefully about the play’s opening stage direction, ‘The Scene India’, and its hint that Fletcher may have been fascinated not by Islam so much as a highly theatricalised notion of India.
For early modern Europeans, India was less a nation or even a vast swathe of territory than an idea. It was a cornucopia of riches – ‘th’Indias of spice and mine’, as John Donne put it – waiting to be exported to Europe. It was also a temperature. No matter how diverse its ethnicities, languages and religions, the people in India – as well as its animals, vegetables and minerals – were supposedly united by their exposure to heat. This made for unhealthy, overheated bodies. As the Portuguese priest Sebastien Manrique observed in 1640, to be in India was to be ‘heated by ague or by the heat which the titanic and glowing Planet causes’. This disabling heat was understood by Europeans to be more than just a function of the climate. It was also a property of India’s spicy foodstuffs. The Italian traveller Pietro Della Valle, for example, speaks of meeting four of his countrymen in Goa who had fallen sick through the combination of ‘hot air’ and ‘hot food’.
One of the abiding fears of travelling to India was that one’s body would be transformed by these hot elements. Edmund Scott’s An Exact Discourse of the … East Indians (1606) is an early exercise in ethnography written for the then fledgling East India Company. But as well as describing ‘Java Major, with the manners and fashions of the people’, Scott writes copiously about the illnesses of the small English merchant community at Bantam in Java, where he lived for two years. From March until August 1603, an epidemic of what Scott calls ‘looseness of the body’ laid them low, killing several and disabling the rest. Scott attributes the sickness to bad diet and bad water, but also to exposure to heat – both the torrid heat of the Javanese climate and the heat of the chief commodity exported by the English, pepper, whose fumes permeated their bodies.
Scott’s explanation for the transformation of English bodies is largely medical. But in England, this transformative power was also understood in theatrical terms. In his bizarre treatise The Unloveliness of Lovelocks (1628), an extended jeremiad against the fashion for men to wear their hair long, the radical Protestant William Prynne bemoaned what we might now think of as the effects of globalisation: Englishmen had degenerated from their God-given forms, he believed, because they had taken to emulating the bodies of ‘Indians’. The term was a shifting target for Prynne, who denounced the sinful hair of both the ‘Indian Brahmins’ and the ‘Indian Japonites’. As these instances suggest, ‘Indian’ was Prynne’s shorthand for any ‘idolator’ who violated the natural order. Prynne is mostly known now as the author of an almost unbearably long screed against the theatre, Histriomastix, whose arguments against boy actors playing women or poor men playing kings are almost identical to those he marshals against Englishmen who have turned Indian. Like an actor, a man with long ‘Indian’ hair is an instance of fraudulent representation: both theatre and lovelocks deform bodies from their God-given shapes, driven not by their creator’s will but by their own overheated, singular passions.
A fear of bodily transformation – whether by growing Indian hair, or inhaling Indian pepper – is the dark side of England’s early attempts to profit from trade in Indian commodities. It is what most closely connects an anti-theatricalist like Prynne and a travel writer like Scott. The two share a heightened anxiety about contagious touch. Indian objects that come into contact with the body don’t simply adorn it; they can also, through a perverse agency, pathologically transform it. The fear is pervasive in anti-theatricalist writing of the time. Although fuelled in large part by the Protestant aversion to fraudulent images – an aversion grounded in the equation of Catholic ritual with histrionic imposture – the anti-theatricalists’ iconoclasm shaded into a fear of bodily contamination. In his Treatise against Dicing, Dancing, Plays and Interludes (1577), John Northbrooke denounced theatre as ‘contagiousness’, and prayed that ‘vice shall not enter our hearts and breasts, lest the custom of pleasure touch us.’ This pleasurable vice, as Prynne made clear, was increasingly associated with fashionable commodities from India, many of which – silks, gemstones and even long hair – were on display in early modern playhouses.
Scott’s medical and Prynne’s anti-theatrical notions of contamination collide in the diary of Sir Thomas Roe, the East India Company’s ambassador to the Mughal court between 1615 and 1619. Granted an audience with the Emperor Jahangir’s son Pervez in late 1615, Roe complained that Pervez’s court ‘was like a great stage, and the Prince sat above as the Mock Kings do there’. He felt a similar surge of anti-theatrical bile when he received a gift from Jahangir’s favourite son, Prince Khurram, later the emperor Shah Jahan:
By and by came out a Cloth of gold Cloak of his own, once or twice worn, which he Caused to be put on my back, and I made a reverence very unwillingly. When his Ancestor Tamburlaine was represented at the Theatre the Garment would well have become the Actor; but it is here reputed the highest of favour to give a garment worn by the Prince, or, being New, once laid on his shoulder.
Roe here describes – and misrecognises – the Islamic tradition of khil’at, the gift of clothes as tokens of imperial favour. The ritual performed an important political function by producing bonds of cross-cultural reciprocity, but he understands it only as the theatrical performance of a ‘Mock King’. His reference to Tamburlaine – Khurram’s historical ancestor and Marlowe’s stage character – works in Prynne-like fashion both to theatricalise the Mughals and make them potential agents of unwanted bodily transformation. Roe thinks Khurram’s gold cloak is a gaudy garment more suited to a playhouse than an imperial court; as such, it is particularly dangerous for an English ambassador who saw his clothes not as theatrical costumes but as irrevocable signs of his God-given national identity.
Roe couldn’t escape the contagion of the Indian heat. Quite possibly because he insisted on wearing heavy English taffeta in the hot Ajmer sun – close to 50ºC at the height of summer – Roe spent most of his four years in India flat on his back, suffering, like Scott in Java, from ‘looseness of the body’: ‘Since my arrival in this Country,’ he wrote, ‘I have had but one Month of health, and that mingled with many relapses, and am now your poor servant, scarce a Crow’s dinner.’ For Roe, ‘The Scene India’ had pathological consequences that the anti-theatricalists would have recognised. Fletcher did too.
How might the heated words of Scott, Prynne and Roe make us read The Island Princess differently? For one, they might help us realise that ‘The Scene India’ suggests a world in which the contagious powers of the playhouse and of ‘India’ overlap. It’s not just that the governor’s priestly disguise and the religion Quisara offers Armusia are both ‘false’. More important, Fletcher’s ‘India’ transforms the bodies of the Europeans exposed to it. Most affected is Rui Dias, the Portuguese aristocrat who is Armusia’s rival for Quisara. His nephew Pinheiro says of him, ‘My uncle looks as though he were sick o’th’worms … [he] whistles, starts, cries and groans as if he had the bots’ – a reference to both tropical parasitical infestation and, via a double entendre on ‘worms’, to Rui Dias’s debilitating love-sickness. His body is transformed by love, but his symptoms are those of someone affected by heat – the heat of the climate as much as desire.
Rui Dias’s transformed condition is one the other Portuguese travellers ardently wish to avoid. As one of them says, the Portuguese will prevail only ‘if we be ourselves, honest and resolute,/And continue but masters of our ancient courages’ – that is, if they refuse transformation. Armusia stubbornly seeks to retain his European identity as if he were a Portuguese Thomas Roe. But like Roe on his sickbed, Armusia finds that the Indian heat gets to him. The play is full of subtle references to syphilis, a disease that was understood to ‘burn’ its victims by overheating their blood. In The Island Princess, this burning is easily attributed to exotic heat. Armusia’s attraction to Quisara induces in him a scalding fever of lust. But when she insists that he convert to her religion, he repudiates her demand as if it too were a venereal contagion: ‘Love ye this way,’ he responds, ‘This most destroying way? … I’ll love diseases first.’ Armusia speaks both as an anti-theatricalist objecting to the transformation of his God-given shape and as a traveller fearful of contamination by foreign bodies.
Burning down the town – a pleasure that evidently communicated itself to Pepys – might thus seem a way of coping with this fear of transformation in and by a foreign climate. Incinerating the town turns the Europeans into the masters, rather than the victims, of ‘The Scene India’ and its alien heat. This burning is enmeshed, moreover, in an anti-theatrical fantasy. In The Tempest, Prospero fantasises the destruction of the ‘great globe itself’ – a reference simultaneously to the world and to Shakespeare’s playhouse – as a fitting end to his dark arts-assisted theatrics. In 1613 the Globe Theatre burned down during a performance of Shakespeare’s last play, Henry VIII, on which he collaborated with Fletcher. The fire scene in The Island Princess may well have been shaped by Fletcher’s memory of the Globe’s destruction, which he converts into a scene of European triumph.
Later in the play Armusia fantasises about torching the island’s temples:
Let it but spit fire finely
And play their turrets and their painted palaces
A frisking round or two, that they may trip it
And caper in the air.
This vision of ‘capering in the air’ imagines the embers of the flaming Indian temples as if they were theatrical performers. Both are frauds that must be destroyed. Yet even if setting fire to ‘The Scene India’ guards against its triple threat of climatic, religious and theatrical contagion, in performance The Island Princess’s burning town couldn’t help but produce the effect it sought to exorcise. The gunpowder used to burn the town evidently smelled strongly, as one character complains, and would have infiltrated playgoers’ bodies – just the kind of contamination the anti-theatricalists abhorred. Yet, as Pepys’s delighted response suggests, such contamination is not only unavoidable, but integral to the pleasures afforded by theatre and travel alike.
This is why, in the end, The Island Princess recalls another play of the Orient, Antony and Cleopatra, more than the early English plays in which Islam is explicitly represented. Shakespeare’s tragedy is also about transformed bodies – especially Antony’s – in a highly theatrical culture and a hot climate. Both plays are less concerned with a supposedly timeless stand-off between civilisations and more with a specific problem posed by globalisation: in a world where everything moves across borders, bodies cannot, in Antony’s words, keep their ‘visible shape’. This might horrify Prynne or Roe, but for an actor, such transformation is an opportunity. All the world becomes a stage – a ‘Scene India’.
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My Glaswegian Easter
We have a long weekend this weekend. Yay! Four whole days off work for Easter (that’s Good Friday, Saturday, Easter Sunday and Easter Monday) so I’m venturing out of London for the weekend. And not just out of London, but out of England too – to Scotland in fact, although as both countries are part of the UK I won’t be needing my passport!
As you’ve probably already guessed from my title, I’m heading to Glasgow for a Glaswegian weekend. Now, you might think that Edinburgh is the capital of Scotland and you’d be right, but Glasgow is bigger – in fact, it’s the third most populous city in the UK. However, it tends to get less press than Edinburgh, at least among international students, because it’s just so much less touristy. Perhaps this is due to the city’s reputation as one of Britain’s grittiest. So my partner and I have been to Edinburgh several times but never to Glasgow. We decided to rectify this situation this Easter!
We’re getting the train from London – so much less stressful than flying and probably not that much longer either. Then again, I’m biased because a) I’m fairly deep green b) I find airports mind-numbingly tedious, and c) I met my boyfriend on the train so travelling by train together always feels a little bit romantic. There are also some great views as the train goes along the coast.
What are our plans once we cross the border? Well, I think it will be a typical city break – lots of meals out, drinks, taking in culture, hitting the town at night and that sort of thing. I’m most excited about the food and the art. Why? Well, food for two reasons, the first is because I absolutely love curry and Glasgow is supposed to have some of the best curry houses in the UK. The second is a bit embarrassing really, and I apologise in advance to any Scottish people reading this. Now, Scottish cuisine is (in)famous for being somewhat unhealthy, with fried food featuring heavily on the menu. The most notorious example of this is the deep-fried Snickers bar. But guess what? I’m dying to try one! I love Snickers and I love deep-fried food so I think it’ll be a winner. What can I say? I’m just a dumb tourist! By the way, in the interests of balance I should probably add that the healthiest breakfast ever is also Scottish, i.e. porridge. I love it!
Now, if I can move after all that porridge, curry and chocolate, I’m planning to head to the Mackintosh House to check out a reconstruction of the art deco architect and designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s home. Although I’m not as into the art deco style as I was when I was younger, as an art lover I don't think I can visit Glasgow without seeing it. I'm also hoping to take in The Burrell Collection, reckoned to be one of Europe's finest and recommended to me by a colleague: www.glasgowlife.org.uk/museums/our-museums/burrell-collection
Well, I’ll let you know how we got on in a few weeks’ time. I’d like to leave you with the knowledge that a few years ago Glasgow was named as ‘the only European city in a top-10 list of the world's "must-see" places’:
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gritty (adj.) - dirty and possibly dangerous
rectify (v.) - to correct a situation
deep green (adj.) - very environmentally aware
mind-numbingly tedious (exp.) - extremely boring
curry house (n.) - an Indian or Bangladeshi restaurant
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As the financial leader of your company, you know that customer data, employee data, and intellectual property, are not just your greatest assets, but also, the key argets of cyber attack. While inclined to take any and every measure possible to protect your company’s valuation and assets, once it comes down to truly analyzing the numbers, it is a complex challenge in cost containment when you consider the growing number of potential systems to implement, regulations to keep up with, and profound web of risks to ongoingly quantify and mitigate.
For a CFO in the modern IoT-driven market, cyber security may now be the single most influential points to consider when evaluating insurance needs and how to protect your company’s valuation, proprietary claims, and financial health.
Examples of Corporate Breaches
In 2015, a hacker group known as the “Guardians of the Peace” lifted over 100 terabytes of information from Sony Pictures Entertainment’s servers; employees’ social security numbers were obtained, a number of sensitive emails dispersed for public view, and unreleased films leaked across the internet. The result: Sony suffered over $41 million in losses and the incident negatively impacted US – North Korea relations for years to come.
In 2012, the German company SolarWorld was infiltrated by a group of Chinese hackers through IP theft. The criminals were able to swipe valuable proprietary research in addition to sensitive personal information from executive chiefs, giving Chinese competitors significant advantage over the German company. The breach cost SolarWorld AG a staggering 35% on the market translating to a loss of €178 million.
In 2014, hackers gained access to nearly 56 million payment cards and close to as many emails while also successfully breaking into and infecting Home Depot’s sales devices. In addition to the $200 million in insurance payments to customer casualties, Home Depot took a $300 million loss, was constrained to hire hundreds of new staff, and required to dole out enormous loads of cash for fines, upgrades, and legal fees.
- Case studies data from whitehouse.gov
These challenges notwithstanding, the need to prioritize and operationalize the cyber security of your company is becoming increasingly critical. 2018 data cited by Whitehouse.gov and the Ponemon Institute show that an average firm will suffer 130 security breaches a year and that the average cost of a cyber attack in 2018 was $3.86 million. Still, this number does not fully capture the magnitude of loss when considering the additional aspects that one cyber attack can impact: there are costs for repairs to systems and operations, incentives to rebuild company reputation and valuation, monetary allocations to future security measures, increased insurance premiums, and hard-hitting losses to revenue and stock price.
So how do you, as your company’s fiscal captain, decide:
What measures are worth the investment while still ensuring that overarching organizational behavior remains channeled toward revenue generation?
To what extent do you fund resources in a never-ending game when cost containment simultaneously remains a priority?
How do you operationalize, prioritize, and invest for the security of your company’s future while continuously improving your company’s valuation and reputation in the world today?
Maxxsure tools provide an understanding for your company’s specific needs for risk mitigation so that you can make informed decisions with the confidence that you are protecting your company, partners, shareholders, and consumers with quantifiable data with expertise. By using a holistic model based on a 6-pillar foundation for building a cyber security profile, Maxxsure quantifies your cyber risk with its M-Score while arming you with a sustainable and repeatable process for managing remediation, monitoring, and transference. Moreover, Maxxsure’s metrics generate a unique diagnostic for your company, complete with controls that serve as guardrails so you can focus your resources in the most effective ways. By identifying your company’s vulnerabilities and helping you to optimize your resources, Maxxsure’s far-reaching security tools and controls allow for your company to operate at full-speed so that you can maintain company focus on revenue generation.
To be sure that you can drive company focus to where it matters, you will always be partnered with expertise from Maxxsure. The Maxxsure team will supplement your use of their M-Score and Dashboard with advisory services on how to forge a path to operationalizing a Risk-Aware LifestyleTM. This entails providing direction on how to prioritize tasks, defining what measures to adopt and when to apply them, and identifying what remaining risk to transfer through purchasing cyber risk insurance.
Take Control Today
The time is at hand to inform yourself and your company on your cyber security risk and to identify opportunities for improvements. The SEC has recently issued a statement calling for all publicly-traded companies to disclose cyber risk factors and vulnerabilities in a timely manner, responding to those companies who have failed to do so in due time with fines and fees. While the article presents an added measure for CFO’s to undertake, this warning spawns from the indisputable risk that cyber attack imposes upon all industries. It is now necessary for your company’s entire senior leadership team to unite at the forefront of cyber-related risk and its potential costs to the company, partners, shareholders, and the industry itself. In an environment with risk unavoidable, disclosure imperative, and cyber attacks inevitable, Maxxsure offers the most proactive and agile solution to measuring that risk and determining with quantifying tools, how and when to act. Take control of your company’s financial future through actively measuring and managing your cyber risk today.
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“The Cost of Malicious Cyber Activity to the US Economy”, Whitehouse.gov, p. 23.«
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“2018 Cost of Data Breach Study: Impact of Business Continuity Management”, Ponemon Institute LLC, p. 11.«
“Commission Statement and Guidance on Public Company Cybersecurity Disclosures”. Securities and Exchange Commision, p. 7, 9, and 18-19.«
“Altaba, Formerly Known as Yahoo!, Charged with Failing to Disclose Massive Cybersecurity Breach; Agrees To Pay $35 Million”, SEC.gov/news.«
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Novel Olfactory Sensor Developed
Medgadget Editors Diagnostics
European investigators have designed a novel olfactory bioelectronic sensor with potential clinical applications, reports EU’s Information Society Technologies (IST):
“The potential uses of smell technology are endless,” notes Josep Samitier, the coordinator of the SPOT-NOSED project that developed nanobiosensors to mimic the way human and animal noses respond to different odours.
This new nose biosensor is unusual in how it’s made. By placing a layer of proteins that constitute the olfactory receptors in animal noses on a microelectrode and measuring the reaction when the proteins come into contact with different odorants, the system is capable of detecting odorants at concentrations that would be imperceptible to humans.
“Our tests showed that the nanobiosensors will react to a few molecules of odorant with a very high degree of accuracy. Some of the results of the trials surpassed even our expectations,” Samitier says. These tiny bioelectronic sensors, he says, represent a ‘major leap forward’ in smell technology and a clear example of a biomimetic devices obtained by converging Nano-Bio-Info technologies.
Several hundred different proteins, which the SPOT-NOSED researchers genetically copied from rats and grew in yeast, would be needed for an electronic nose to detect almost any smell because different proteins react to different odorants and it is the resultant combination of reactions that identifies a certain smell. Nanotechnology makes such an electronic nose feasible, the coordinator notes, even though the human nose uses 1,000 different proteins to allow the brain to recognise 10,000 different smells.
While the SPOT-NOSED project focused on replicating the physical reaction that takes place in animal noses, the project partners are now planning to continue their research and develop the instrumentation and software tools necessary for an electronic nose to recognise smells – the role played by the brain in the olfactory system. In this sense, new high accuracy electronic instrumentation capable of performing electrical measurements at the nanoscale level has been developed and adapted to an atomic force microscope with atofarad precision (10-15).
This, Samitier says, could lead to medical applications to diagnose organ failure, bacterial infections or diseases such as cancer being made commercially available within a few years, as well as devices that would have a major impact on other sectors.
The IST press release…
The SPOT-NOSED project page…
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Renting out an abandoned convent on the outskirts of New York City to record the follow-up to the hellacious Rocks may not have been the best idea, but 1977's Draw the Line still managed to be another down-and-dirty Aerosmith release. While it wasn't as awe-inspiring as their last two albums -- the members have said that the music suddenly got "cloudy" around this time (due to in-band fighting/ego clashes, excessive living, etc.), Draw the Line catches fire more times than not. Unlike their most recent album successes, the band shies away from studio experimenting and dabbling in different styles; instead they return to simple, straight-ahead hard rock. The album-opening title track features a gloriously abrasive Joe Perry slide guitar riff and has been featured in concert ever since, while the punk-esque "Bright Light Fright" featured Perry's first ever lead vocal spot on an Aerosmith record. Other highlights include a reworking of the blues obscurity "Milk Cow Blues," which Perry's pre-Aerosmith group, the Jam Band, played live, as well as "I Wanna Know Why," "Critical Mass," "Get It Up," "Kings and Queens," and "Sight for Sore Eyes." Draw the Line would turn out to be the last true studio album from Aerosmith's original lineup for nearly a decade.
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For Apollo fans, more KKR than Blackstone
By MarketWatch
Published: Mar 30, 2011 8:00 a.m. ET
Commentary: IPO’s investors betting on a bull market
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — As investors piled into the initial public offering for Apollo Global Management LLC late Tuesday, the takeaway was apparent: This market still has room to run.
Apollo Global APO, +2.61% sold nearly 30 million shares at $19 each, generating $565 million. Trading in the private-equity firm’s shares begins Wednesday. Read full story on Apollo IPO.
In showing such strong demand, investors clearly are betting that this latest in a recent run of private-equity IPOs is timed right — that is, Apollo is more akin to KKR & Co. KKR, +2.26% than Blackstone Group LP BX, +1.01% or Fortress Investment Group FIG, +0.09%.
In mid-2007, Blackstone shares peaked at close to $35 on the first day of trading, but they haven’t broken $20 since the early days of 2008. They closed at $18.40 on Tuesday.
KKR, by contrast, has caught more than seven months of the current bull market. Its shares, called units, opened below $10 late last year, but they’ve spend much of 2011 at or above the $17 mark.
The difference in performance has more to do with market expectations than portfolio quality or the investing prowess of Stephen Schwarzman (Blackstone), Henry Kravis (KKR) or Leon Black (Apollo).
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— David Weidner
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Martin Garden Center Press Release
April 18, 2017 By Martin Garden Center
MARTIN GARDEN CENTER HOSTS SOUTH CAROLINA 811 TREE GIVEAWAY ON APRIL 24 from 3-5 PM.
Martin Garden Center will be hosting the Greenville event as South Carolina 811 celebrates the tenth anniversary of National Safe Digging Month by giving away trees across the state.
The first 25 people who stop by the South Carolina 811 table and request for their utilities to be marked will receive a free tree up to a $50 value.
GREENVILLE, SC, April 18, 2017 — Martin Garden Center announces today that it will be the Greenville host for the South Carolina 811 Tree Giveaway Day on April 24th from 3-5 pm.
South Carolina 811 celebrates the tenth anniversary of “National Safe Digging Month” by giving away trees across the state during the month of April at four different cities in South Carolina. Martin Garden Center is hosting the Greenville event.
Note: South Carolina 811 encourages interested persons to create their portal account in advance to speed up the sign-up process on the day of the event. Any time before the event they may click here to visit the portal and click “Sign Up” to create an account. Be sure to confirm your account be clicking on the email confirmation link. Once your locate is requested at the South Carolina 811 table, you will be given a voucher to be used at that time for a free tree up to a $50 value.
“April is not only National Safe Digging Month, but also the home of Arbor Day and Earth Day. We are giving away trees promote a healthy environment and to strongly encourage individuals to call 811 before they begin digging to plant trees for those holidays,” said Misty Wise, Executive Director of South Carolina 811. “By calling 811 to have the underground utility lines in their area marked, homeowners are making an important decision that can help keep them and their communities safe and connected.”
“We are very excited to be a part of this worthwhile event,” says Reggie Meehan, owner and Chief Inspiration Officer (CIO) of Martin Garden Center. “We support the ‘Call Before You Dig’ program in every way and we realize the seriousness of striking utility lines when planting trees. Plus this is a great occasion to create community awareness on this issue. We were happy to get involved!”
The South Carolina 811 organization states that “Striking a single line can cause injury, repair costs, fines and inconvenient outages. Every digging project, no matter how large or small, warrants a call to 811. Installing a mailbox, building a deck and planting a tree or garden are all examples of digging projects that should only begin a few days after a call to 811.”
Martin Garden Center, located on Martin Road in Greenville, has the largest selection of flowering plants in the upstate and prides itself on offering quality indoor and outdoor plants and garden accessories, along with the best customer service possible. With acres of flowers, shrubs, trees and herbs, Martin Garden Center has everything needed to create a garden masterpiece.
South Carolina 811 is a not-for-profit organization, established in 1978, to be the innovative communication resource for damage prevention of underground infrastructure, dedicated to the education, success, and safety of stakeholders and the public in South Carolina.
South Carolina 811 and Martin Garden Center encourage area residents to visit www.sc811.com/safe-dig-month for more information or about the tree program (Free Tree News Release) or visit www.sc811.com for more information about digging safely in South Carolina.
For more information, please contact Martin Garden Center at 864-277-1818. Martin Garden Center encourages area residents to visit their Facebook Event Page for more information as well.
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July 6, 2016 By Martin Garden Center
MARTIN GARDEN CENTER AND UNITED COMMUNITY BANK ANNOUNCE TOMATO CHARITY GIVEAWAY
Martin Garden Center and United Community Bank join forces to donate tomato plants to local community gardens
Forty-two flats of heirloom tomatoes go to good causes
GREENVILLE, July 5, 2016 — Martin Garden Center announced today a joint effort with United Community Bank in Mauldin, SC to donate forty-two flats of heirloom tomatoes to charities and local community gardens. Some of the beneficiaries are Project Host, Gardening for Good, Meals on Wheels, Roper Mountain Science Center Special Events, the Greater Greenville Master Gardener Heritage Garden at Roper Mountain Science Center, the Renew Community Garden, and others.
Sally Green, executive director for Project Host, which now runs the Gardening for Good project, picked up the flats for the Project Host Garden and was very enthusiastic about local community garden efforts. “There is a need in Greenville to join together and establish a working conversation between the various community gardens. We are super excited at this prospect and thank Martin Garden Center and United Community Bank for this show of support for local community gardens.”
Reggie Meehan, owner and Chief Inspiration Officer (CIO) of Martin Garden Center was more than happy to donate the tomato flats. “A miscommunication during a busy season resulted in 1000 tomatoes needing a new home. I feel it’s always nice to give back to the community that has done so much for Martin Garden Center.”
United Community Bank, with locations throughout Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and South Carolina, offers personal banking, business banking, corporate and commercial banking, and advisory services. They were happy to work with Martin Garden Center in donating the surplus tomatoes for charity purposes and participate in this endeavor.
Project Host was the first soup kitchen in the country to have a garden on site. And this is one garden that earns its keep. It has grown tons of produce for the hungry, and their culinary students always have access to the freshest produce to use when honing their skills. Started in 1998 by Carol McLaurin and Kris Burton – two Master Gardeners who decided their passion for gardening could help people in their community – the Garden has become an integral part of Project Host’s success.
Martin Garden Center states that there are still additional flats available for pickup, so any charity or community garden may come by at their convenience to pick up tomatoes. Some community gardens are doing a second planting, so now is the perfect time for picking up additional tomato plants. They are available on a first-come, first-serve basis to charity or community gardens in the area.
For more information, please contact Martin Garden Center at 864-277-1818.
“People tell me Martin’s is their happy place, a place they go when they have the blues. I’m proud to provide a refuge and make their days happier.” – Reggie Meehan, CIO (Chief Inspirational Officer).
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Crete is a land of contrasts with something to offer everyone. If you're travelling from Europe and looking for a holiday getaway, then the tourist resorts on the south shore may appeal to you. But if you're looking for peace and quiet, fascinating archaeological sites, majestic mountains, varied and spectacular scenery, quiet sandy beaches, tiny coves, and traditional mountain villages, you can also find it in Crete.
Crete is the largest and southern-most island in Greece. It's location guarantees a Mediterranean climate, one of the mildest in Europe. Nearly a third of the land is under cultivation producing citrus fruit, grapes for wine, chestnuts, cherries, almonds, vegetables and nearly half of Greece's total olive oil.
Crete is largely mountains and is surrounded by the Cretan, Ionian and Lybian Seas. The mountains on the south shore create a dramatic backdrop, and the water around some of the sheer coasts exceeds a depth of 3,000 metres.
The contrasts co-exist well on the island. Even in the larger base towns, tranquil and remote regions are not very far away. On the north shore, major urban centres such as Iraklio, Rethymno, and Hania are within easy reach of town beaches, but a short distance out will get you into varied stunny scenery, and tranquility.
Hania and Rethymno are captivating in their own right. Stay in the old town city centres on the harbour and stroll through Venetian streets where mansions have been turned into elegant hotels and restaurants.
Iraklion is the capital and business centre of the island and it is a busy city. Many people stay here because of it's proximity to Knossos, and to visit the very worthwhile Archaeological Museum, one of the finest in the world. Most Greek Island cruise ships will stop for a few hours at the harbour. But, as with all big cities in Greece, you can find entertaining squares and streets to sit, enjoy a drink and just people watch.
Crete has beautiful beaches and picturesque coves. On the east of Crete you'll find Europe's only palm forest at the beach of Vai. On the west, visit the underdeveloped Elefonisi Islet, and see the pink sand. On the south of Crete, visit Frangokastello Castle with it's famous ghost story and enjoy the quiet and beautiful beach.
The landscape of Crete is dramatic. The interior of the island is rugged and the mountains are pierced with spectacular gorges, the most famous of which is Samaria Gorge, Europe's longest and a popular destination for hikers.
According to ancient Greek mythology Zeus, father of the Olympian Gods, was born on Crete and raised in the island's caves. And, of course, you'll want to visit the Palace of Knossos, linked to the myth of Theseaus and the Minotaur, and the centre of rule for the ancient and mysterious Minoan Civilization that ruled the Aegean thousands of years
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November 26, 2013 - Assignment
Mitt Alby acquires residential properties from municipality in Sweden for SEK 705 million
A group of investors led by Mikael Ahlström, founder of Procuritas, has through Byggmästare Anders J Ahlström Fastighets AB (publ) and its wholly owned subsidiary Mitt Alby AB acquired 10 residential properties containing 1 300 apartments from Botkyrkabyggen AB. The transaction value was SEK 705 000 000.
Mitt Alby AB will work together with the municipality of Botkyrka, residents, non-profit associations and organisations, entrepreneurs and other local stakeholders in order to develop the properties but also the area as such. The goal is to create an improved living environment but also an increased social togetherness and a sense of pride of the area among the residents.
Debt financing was obtained from a SEK 465 000 000 loan provided by SBAB Bank AB (publ) and through an issuance of SEK 200 000 000 senior secured notes.
Byggmästare Anders J Ahlström Fastighets AB (publ) and Mitt Alby AB was advised by Mannheimer Swartling in relation to both the acquisition and the financing. Mannheimer Swartling’s team comprised Tomas Johansson and Julia Nilsson (real estate) and André Andersson, Veronica Stiller and Viktor Leisnert (banking & finance). Mirka Ylinen Gorne and Håkan Knutsson (public M&A) assisted in corporate matters.
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May 24, 2017 Music » Local Music
Why Movement Electronic Music Festival 2017 has more live music than ever
Liver than you’ve ever been
By Michaelangelo Matos
Courtesy photo.
Audion aka Matthew Dear performing live.
Is it live? This weekend at Hart Plaza, the answer will be yes, about one-quarter of the time.
This year, Detroit's electronic music festival is dominated, as ever, by DJs. But of the more than 110 scheduled sets at this year's festival (we won't count Movement Yoga, which opens the Made in Detroit stage both Sunday and Monday afternoon), the word "live" is on 22 — 23, if you count the performance by Rebekah (Underground stage, Monday, 6:30 p.m.-8 p.m.), who's billed as playing a "hybrid set" combining live performance and DJing. Of course, there are other live performers at the festival as well: rappers like Danny Brown (RBMA, Monday, 10 p.m.-11 p.m.) and Earl Sweatshirt (RBMA, Saturday, 11-midnight) and player-bandleaders like bassist Thundercat (RBMA, Monday, 8 p.m.-9 p.m.), who hardly need the qualifier.
But "live" takes on added heft when applied to performers who typically work a crowd by spinning records, at least nominally. As the "hybrid" tag suggests, the line separating DJing from live performance in electronic music has grown so slim over time that even a recent fan might well wonder why anyone attempts to mark it at all. Obviously, plenty of DJs still hew to vinyl — some outspokenly so, such as Derrick May (shocking, right?) — and Movement's deeply rooted musical ethos tips heavily in their favor. Even so, it's not unfair to guess that many of this weekend's performers will be working off of laptops, which alone makes clear markers dicey.
Movement has never been short of live performances, of course. But it's notable that last year's schedule featured only 16, three-quarters of the number this year. There are as many reasons for playing live rather than DJing as there are people doing it. But as with the sharp rise in 2015 (generally, not at Movement) of back-to-back DJ sets, numbers tell.
Related 11 can't-miss acts playing Movement this year
11 can't-miss acts playing Movement this year
By Andy Beta
What they tell, for one thing, is that there's a larger market for live electronic-music performers than ever. EDM — meaning the big shiny commercial stuff, not lazy shorthand for all of dance music — has moved from a self-contained phenomenon in the early 2000s to a domination of the rock-festival biz in the decade's middle, because promoters would really like people under 30 to show up to their events. There's money to be made outside of the dance bubble, even if many rock people are maddened that dancers don't seem to give much of a fuck whether the music they love comes from DJs playing others' records, musicians playing fully live, or the vast and often hybrid space between. That creates opportunity even for musicians, like most at Movement, whose work barely overlaps with EDM's big dogs.
Of course, many of Movement's big draws have been playing live for years, even decades, particularly those from Detroit: Richie Hawtin (Main Stage, Saturday, 10:45 p.m.-midnight), Octave One (Star Gate, Saturday, 6:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m.), Robert Hood (Pyramid Stage, Saturday, 11 p.m.-midnight), Audion (aka Matthew Dear; Star Gate, Sunday, 6 p.m.-7 p.m.), Kevin Saunderson as E-Dancer (Star Gate, Sunday, 10 p.m.-11 p.m.), and Carl Craig Presents Versus Synthesizer Ensemble (Movement Main Stage, Monday, 8:55 p.m.-9:55 p.m.) all regularly toggle between DJing and playing live with hard- and software alike, as well as instruments. Both Amp Fiddler (featured with Soul Clap; Movement Main Stage, Monday, 6:35 p.m.-7:35 p.m.) and the crucial Chicago house architect Larry Heard aka Mr. Fingers (RBMA, Saturday, 6:45 p.m.-8:15 p.m.) are renowned as players as much as producers.
Many of these acts are equally ambitious as DJs and live performers, but in very different ways. Hawtin in particular has done much to make stage-set gizmos and retina-peeling light shows de rigueur in dance music, aiming for a fully controlled Sensurround stage environment years before Daft Punk unveiled their pyramid at Coachella. That's another difference: It's just plain easier to control stage and lighting cues with a live performance than with a DJ set, unless you pre-program your records. That's anathema to the kind of DJs Movement books, who place a premium on responding to the moment.
Related Dance ‘round the clock during Movement with these festival afterparties
Dance ‘round the clock during Movement with these festival afterparties
Playing live also enables a veteran artist to switch things up creatively. Just this month, Carl Craig released Versus, an ambitious melding of techno and classical music that reimagines several of his renowned tracks with the aid of French conductor François-Xavier Roth's Les Siècles' orchestra. It's not his first time doing so — in 2008 he released the Moritz von Oswald collaboration Recomposed — and his jazz-infused 1999 Innerzone Orchestra album Programmed and its subsequent tour were similarly ambitious. This year, Craig is leading the Versus Synthesizer Ensemble —"six synthesizers and a piano," per festival PR. Try to imagine something similar occurring at Desert Trip, last year's Boomer-rock festival that was widely re-dubbed "Oldchella," without the AARP crowd grousing in their Airstream trailers about it. At Movement, that kind of left turn from a legacy artist isn't merely tolerated but encouraged.
But playing live also implies additional energy on the performers' part. One of this year's most promising bookings is Factory Floor (RBMA, Saturday, 9:45 p.m.-10:45 p.m.), initially a trio and now a duo of Gabriel Gurnsey and vocalist Nik Void. Their last album, 25 25, which DFA released last year, was polarizing — I found its minimalism invigorating, while a critic for Resident Advisor thought it "[lost] sight of the difference between absence and substance." But the album's serrated edges are rooted in post-punk as much as techno, thus tailor-made for a live setting. Even those of us who love dancing to records sometimes crave that just a little bit more.
For a full schedule and ticket prices go to movement.us.
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Scientists Discovered a Mysterious "Bite Mark" on Pluto — So What Caused It?
By Kelly Dickerson
It looks like something took a giant bite out of the western hemisphere of Pluto.
The bizarre "bite mark" feature is helping scientists better understand Pluto's mysterious geology, and it could lead to insights into how our solar system formed.
Read more: Pluto Is Full of Water Ice, Probably From the Tears It Cried When We Rejected It
Scientists think the bite mark is caused by methane on the surface sublimating into a gas and exposing a layer of ice below. You can see the dark-colored mark in the center panel below: The false color image on the right shows methane (purple) and ice (blue). You can see how the bite mark is made of mostly ice, not methane:
Here's a more detailed look at the bite mark, showing the Piri Planitia plain, a plateau called Vega Terra, a wall of cliffs called Piri Rupes and a deep fault line called Innana Fossa.
"Scientists speculate that sublimation of methane may be causing the plateau material to erode along the face of the cliffs, causing them to retreat south and leave the plains of Piri Planitia in their wake," NASA said in a press release.
This is more evidence that Pluto isn't just a lump of frozen rock floating out in the outer solar system. More and more data suggests that Pluto was recently active, and that it may have some kind of ongoing geological process.
Scientists will continue to study Pluto as more data comes in over the next few months.
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ASCO Reading Room 02.22.2017 Comment
Therapy-related AML, MDS: Closing the Curtain on an ‘Iatrogenic Tragedy’?
Snuffing out pre-leukemic clones may reduce risk for therapy-related AML and MDS
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Amit Reddy, MBBS Postdoctoral Fellow Mitchell Cancer Institute, University of South Alabama Mobile, AL
It is not completely understood how to identify patients at highest risk or how to prevent therapy-related myeloid neoplasms (tAML), and at present, the available treatments are not curable. Some might say that the risk factors may include high-dose chemotherapy, older age, longer duration of therapy, and combination treatment regimens. Recently there have been some studies for the possible origin and prevention of tAML. The first study noted below included using molecular barcode sequencing of 32 genes and targeted gene sequencing on bone marrow samples. The investigators scrutinized the clonal evolution from clonal hematopoiesis to the development of therapy-related myeloid neoplasms. The researchers suggested, based on the results, that clonal hematopoiesis could be used as a predictive marker to identify patients with cancer who are at risk for therapy-related myeloid neoplasms. The second study was similarly done, but there were different results in the distribution of clonal hematopoiesis gene mutations between the cases and controls, suggesting that the therapy-related malignancies may vary by type of mutation.
In summary, the real significance of the two studies will be when therapeutic regimens exist that can eliminate nascent clonal hematopoiesis, and as a result prevent tAML and other myeloid neoplasms.
Full Critique
One of the greatest ironies of modern oncology is that potentially curative therapies also have the small but very real potential for causing great harm years or decades later.
Or as David Steensma, MD, of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston put it: "Therapy-related myeloid neoplasms are an iatrogenic tragedy.
"Almost no one is cured of therapy-related myeloid neoplasms with presently available treatment approaches; even for patients who are young enough and fit enough to undergo allogeneic hemopoietic stem cell transplantation, long-term overall survival at 3 to 5 years is less than 25%," Steensma wrote in a recent editorial in Lancet Oncology accompanying two studies that shed light on the possible origin and prevention of therapy-related acute myeloid leukemia (tAML) and other myeloid neoplasms.
In those studies, investigators from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla., report that pre-leukemic clones that escape cytotoxic therapies for non-myeloid cancers may increase the risk for therapy-related myeloid neoplasms. The findings indicate that it may be possible to identify and eradicate the clones in at-risk patients, Steensma suggested.
Clonal Hematopoiesis
In the MD Anderson study, Koichi Takahashi, MD, and colleagues performed a retrospective case-control study comparing patients who had been treated for a primary non-myeloid cancer at their center from 1997 through 2015 who later developed tAML or therapy-related myelodysplastic syndromes (tMDS) (cases) and age-matched patients treated with chemotherapy for lymphoma who did not develop tAML or tMDS during a minimum of 5 years of follow-up.
The investigators examined peripheral blood samples taken at the time of a primary cancer diagnosis and bone marrow samples collected from cases at the time of a therapy-related myeloid neoplasm diagnosis. They used molecular barcode sequencing of 32 genes to detect clonal hematopoiesis in pre-treatment peripheral blood, and targeted gene sequencing on bone marrow samples from cases to investigate clonal evolution from clonal hematopoiesis to the development of therapy-related myeloid neoplasms.
In 10 of 14 cases, the baseline peripheral blood samples contained small, preleukemic clones -- clonal hematopoiesis -- prior to cytotoxic chemotherapy. In contrast, clonal hematopoiesis was detected in only 17 of 54 controls prior to chemotherapy.
Takahashi and colleagues also examined clonal hematopoiesis in an external cohort of patients treated with cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, and prednisone (CHOP) with or without melatonin at their center from 1999 through 2001 as part of a clinical trial.
Of the 74 patients in this cohort, five (74%) developed tAML or tMDS. Of these five patients, four (80%) had baseline clonal hematopoiesis. Of the remaining 69 patients in the external cohort who did not develop therapy-related myeloid neoplasms, only 11 (16%) had baseline clonal hematopoiesis.
The investigators created a multivariate model based on data from the external cohort, which showed that clonal hematopoiesis was significantly associated with risk for therapy-related myeloid neoplasms (hazard ratio 13.7, P = .013).
"Our results suggest that clonal hematopoiesis could be used as a predictive marker to identify patients with cancer who are at risk of developing therapy-related myeloid neoplasms."
Unhealthy CHIPs
In the Moffitt research, Nancy K. Gillis, PharmD, and colleagues conducted a similar, nested case-control study showing that patients with therapy-related myeloid neoplasms were more likely than controls to have clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential, or CHIP. As in the study by Takahashi and colleagues, CHIP was often present before exposure to chemotherapy.
To do this, the team first identified cases from an internal biobank of 123,357 patients. Included were all patients who were diagnosed with a primary cancer, treated with chemotherapy, and developed a subsequent therapy-related myeloid neoplasm. The patients had to be age 70 or older at the time of either a primary or therapy-related cancer diagnosis with peripheral blood or mononuclear samples collected before the diagnosis of the second cancer.
For controls, Gillis et al identified patients diagnosed with a primary malignancy at age 70 or older who had chemotherapy but did not develop tAML or tMDS. Each case was matched with four or more controls selected for age at diagnosis, sex, primary tumor type, smoking status, chemotherapy drug class, and duration of follow-up.
In cases where paired CHIP and therapy-related myeloid neoplasm samples were available, the investigators used sequential targeted and whole-exome sequencing to assess clonal evolution.
Among all patients (13 cases and 56 controls), CHIP was seen at baseline in 23 (33%). This contrasts with findings from previous studies showing a prevalence of CHIP among older patients without cancer of about 10%, Gillis and colleagues noted.
CHIP was present in eight of 13 cases (62%) versus 15 of 56 controls (27%; P = .024) The odds ratio for therapy-related myeloid neoplasms with CHIP was 5.75 (P = .013).
"We recorded a significantly higher prevalence of CHIP in individuals who developed therapy-related myeloid neoplasms (cases) than in those who did not (controls); however, around 27% of individuals with CHIP did not develop therapy-related myeloid neoplasms, suggesting that this feature alone should not be used to determine a patient's suitability for chemotherapy," the investigators emphasized.
They noted that that there were differences in the distribution of CHIP-related gene mutations between cases and controls, suggesting that the risk for therapy-related malignancies may vary by the type of mutation.
In his editorial, Steensma wrote that the real importance of the two studies will come when therapies exist that can effectively eradicate nascent clonal hemopoiesis, thereby preventing therapy-related myeloid neoplasm evolution in at-risk patients."
The study by Takahashi et al was supported by the Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas, Red and Charline McCombs Institute for the Early Detection and Treatment of Cancer, the National Institutes of Health through an MD Anderson Cancer Center Support Grant, and the MD Anderson MDS & AML Moon Shots Program.
The study by Gillis et al was internally funded by Moffitt Cancer Center.
Takahasi and colleagues reported having no disclosures.
Two co-authors on the study by Gillis et al disclosed receiving grants or fees from multiple drug makers.
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What's Fair and Not Fair in the Middle East Debates? [on Ian Lustick, Norman Finkelstein]
by David Slavin; reply by Steven Plaut
https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/11550/what-fair-and-not-fair-in-the-middle-east-debates
The posting on HNN April 25, 2007 with the title "Norman Finkelstein: Controversy featured at frontpagemag.com" is actually an attack essay by Steven Plaut. Go to Plaut's blog and the following appears:
At the new address of this blog (I cannot explain the 31 Dec 07 dateline on both sites), this photo and caption are at the top of the page:
For those of you unfamiliar with the caption's reference, Naqba is Arabic for "catastrophe" and is a term used by Palestinians to refer to the 1948 expulsion of 750,000 Palestinian Arabs from territories occupied by the Zionist armed forces when setting up the state of Israel. Addressing the controversy surrounding the Naqba by consulting the Israeli archives, historians such as Ilan Pappe and Benny Morris (the latter now advocating solutions to the conflict which are the opposite of what his scholarship would suggest) have described an "ethnic cleansing" of hundreds of Palestinian villages which were razed to the ground, renamed, and rebuilt to accommodate Jewish settlers who became citizens of the new state of Israel. The way I read this photo and caption is that Plaut advocates a second ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. In Israel, this position has been legitimated by the recent appointment of Avigdor Liberman as deputy prime minister. He has put forward plans to offer "incentives" to Palestinians to leave parts of the Occupied Territories and Israel proper. Readers of HNN can decide for themselves the meaning of Plaut's message.
Plaut accuses Finkelstein of being a Jew-baiter, friend of Holocaust deniers, and a denier himself. Finkelstein's parents are both Holocaust survivors, as is known by anyone familiar with his books, a point unmentioned by Plaut. Besides targeting Finkelstein in this particularly hurtful way, Plaut also attacks two professors who wrote letters in support of Finkelstein's tenure. One is John Mearsheimer at the University of Chicago, co-author of the report on AIPAC that appeared last winter and which Plaut's blog among others bills as the new "Protocols of the Elders of Zion." Plaut attacks the other professor, Ian Lustick of the University of Pennsylvania, citing "Storm Warnings for A Supply-Side War," which was posted March 4, 20003 and written for the Nation. Lustick's essay is mainly a review of Kenneth Pollack's The Threatening Storm: The Case for Invading Iraq, published by the Council on Foreign Relations. Lustic wrote it days before the US invasion. Lustick points out that the first 300 pages are a historical background for 2003, but the last 100 pages address the pitfalls of such an invasion:
Having finished The Threatening Storm, the careful reader will wag his or her head in disbelief. How can a book resounding with so many warnings against an invasion be heralded as a compelling call to arms? The question parallels the large question ringing in the ears of millions of puzzled Americans. What is the reason for this war? What has made it such an urgent matter to dispose of Saddam Hussein? What has changed in Iraq to produce a threat to the United States and the world that was not present eight, six or four years ago? What is the "demand" for this war?
The answer is simple. This is a supply-side war. There is very little demand for the war, and nothing in the way of a compelling necessity for it. But the enormous supply of political capital flowing toward the President after 9/11 combines with the overweening preponderance of US military power on a global level to make the production of war in Iraq not a trivial affair but one that can be embraced with relatively little thought and almost no need to appeal to a readiness to sacrifice. That a war is militarily and politically so "easy" for the United States government can explain why so little reason for a war can produce so powerful a campaign for one. It also explains why so weak an argument for it, as is contained in the Pollack book, can be so widely regarded as persuasive.
"This willingness [to make sacrifices after 9/11] may not last forever," [says Pollack]. Exactly. As the American people gain perspective on the character of the threats they do and do not face, as they learn to distinguish Al Qaeda from Iraq, and Iraq from anthrax attacks in New Jersey and Washington, and as they gain the capacity to think rationally about the costs and risks associated with various options for combating national security threats, support for the invasion and occupation of Iraq will virtually disappear. This appreciation of the closing window of political opportunity for the war is another reason for the insistence on it now and the determination to ignore all evidence to the contrary when it comes to discussion of the wisdom of that course of action.
The essay by Lustick seems remarkably clear sighted to me. Today the same people who advocated the Iraq invasion are hinting that the solution to Iraq is a confrontation with Iran, possibly even bombing its uranium processing facility. HNN readers can judge for themselves, but once again objectionable and tendentious writing on Palestinians, Muslims, and Jews who express solidarity with them appears with no rebuttal. If such writing goes unchallenged, the sheer nastiness hampers the discourse throughout the academy and beyond. I hope others will come forward to insist on civility that will allow us all to exercise our reasoning on this crucial topic.
Finally, just to counter some of the 'karmic disharmony' of Plaut's screeds, please consider the following poem by Naomi Shihab Nye, an American poet of Palestinian background. It only takes a minute or two.
Wandering Around an Albuquerque Airport Terminal
After learning my flight was detained 4 hours, I heard the announcement:
If anyone in the vicinity of gate 4-A understands any Arabic, please come to the gate immediately.
Well -- one pauses these days. Gate 4-A was my own gate. I went there.
An older woman in full traditional Palestinian dress, just like my grandma wore, was crumpled to the floor, wailing loudly. Help, said the flight service person. Talk to her. What is her problem? We told her the flight was going to be four hours late and she did this.
I put my arm around her and spoke to her haltingly. Shu dow-a,shu-biduck habibti, stani stani schway, min fadlick, sho bit se-wee? The minute she heard my words she knew -- however poorly used -- she stopped crying. She thought our flight had been cancelled entirely. She needed to be in El Paso for some major medical treatment the following day. I said no, no, we're fine, you'll get there, just late, who is picking you up? Let's call him and tell him. We called her son and I spoke with him in English.
I told him I would stay with his mother till we got on the plane and would ride next to her.
She talked to him. Then we called her other sons just for the fun of it.
Then we called my dad and he and she spoke for a while in Arabic and found out of course they had ten shared friends. Then I thought just for the heck of it why not call some Palestinian poets I know and let them chat with her. This all took up about 2 hours. She was laughing a lot by then. Telling about her life. Answering questions.
She had pulled a sack of homemade mamool cookies -- little powdered sugar crumbly mounds stuffed with dates and nuts -- out of her bag and was offering them to all the women at the gate. To my amazement, not a single woman declined one. It was like a sacrament. The traveler from Argentina, the traveler from California, the lovely woman from Laredo -- we were all covered with the same powdered sugar. And smiling. There are no better cookies.
And then the airline broke out the free beverages from huge coolers -- non-alcoholic -- and the two little girls for our flight, one African-American, one Mexican-American -- ran around serving us all apple juice and lemonade and they were covered with powdered sugar, too.
And I noticed my new best friend -- by now we were holding hands -- had a potted plant poking out of her bag, some medicinal thing, with green furry leaves. Such an old country traveling tradition. Always carry a plant. Always stay rooted to somewhere.
And I looked around that gate of late and weary ones and thought, this is the world I want to live in. The shared world. Not a single person in this gate -- once the crying of confusion stopped -- has seemed apprehensive about any other person. They took the cookies. I wanted to hug all those other women, too. This can still happen, anywhere.
Not everything is lost.
Response by Steven Plaut
David H. Slavin, a historian of France, has taken time off from his busy teaching schedule as an adjunct at Emory University to defend pseudo-scholar, Neo-Nazi, and terrorism apologist Norman Finkelstein, and to distort what I had earlier written. This is hardly his first attempt at rewriting Middle East history - see his earlier comments and their rebuttal here, including Slavin's bon mot "If any analogy applies to 'clash of civilizations' thinking, it is anti-Darwinism or refusal to accept human sources of global climate crisis." Critics of Islamofascists are "anti-Darwinian?" Cowabunga!
It is not necessary for me to repeat or explain my denunciations of Finkelstein and of the academic prostitutes who tried to get him tenured, now that his own colleagues from DePaul University have decided to deny him tenure. Slavin's own career difficulties may well be explained by his inability to distinguish between Arab fictional lies and actual history. He repeats the false claim that Israel "ethnically cleansed" the area that became Israel in 1948-49, and claims that Israel "expelled" 750,000 "Palestinians" at that time. As "proof," he cites pseudo-historian Ilan Pappe, whose "research" makes Ward Churchill and Finkelstein look like serious scholars, and erstwhile "New Historian" Benny Morris, not quite a credible source but one who today decidedly denies Israel ever engaged in ethnic cleansing. In fact the entire Israeli War of Independence of 1948-49, and all later Arab-Israeli armed conflicts, were essentially Israel's successful efforts that prevented the Arab world conducting ethnic cleansing, actually -- genocide, against Israeli Jews.
The silly Naqba (Arabic for catastrophe) slogan has been invented by Arab fascists and their apologists to describe Israel's military victories in 1948-49 and its exerting its independence. Those tossing about the "Naqba" nonsense word just want to see Israel annihilated and its Jewish population destroyed or expelled, in a 21st century implementation of the Arab world's program from 1948. Had the Arab world accepted the 1947 UN partition plan, as Israel did, a Palestinian Arab state would have arisen in 1948. Instead, the Arab forces attempted to annihilate Israel and its population, and illegally annexed the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Any "suffering" by Palestinian Arabs is exactly as self-created as was the suffering of German civilians during World War II, and just as deserving of being deemed irrelevant.
I stand by everything I ever wrote about Finkelstein, Mearsheimer, and Lustick. I suggest that Slavin read some real Middle East historians, rather than silly poems about airports.
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31 Inspiring Celebrity Weight Loss Transformations
All the inspiration you need to start shedding pounds.
Losing weight is hard. Losing weight in the public eye? Now, that’s something else entirely, coming with all sorts of pressure and scrutiny. But these male celebrities did it.
Of course, we can credit their personal chefs, nutritionists, and trainers who helped them with their transformations, but ultimately, losing weight is a matter of willpower—and we’d like to credit these dudes for putting in the work.
Let these 25 celebrity transformations serve as all the inspiration you need to finally shed those pounds in 2020.
1 Joaquin Phoenix
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Phoenix lost 52 pounds ahead of shooting the Joker movie, although the actor says that he sought medical guidance in order to lose the weight safely. He told Access Hollywood that he drastically reduced his daily calorie intake to lose the weight, and he was eating things like "lettuce and steamed green beans."
2 Rob Gronkowski
Gronk retired from the NFL earlier this year, and he's already lost a staggering amount of weight. While details on his weight loss are currently unknown, Gronk shocked fans when he showed up to the premiere of Showtime's 100 Percent: Julian Edelman looking noticeably slimmer, and without his signature muscles. However, it's totally normal for professional football players to lose weight after retiring and laying off their intense training and diets.
3 Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino
The Jersey Shore star revealed that he lost 35 pounds while serving his eight month sentence for tax evasion. Sorrentino explained that he found it helpful to get into a routine, and he worked out about two or three times a day. He also took up intermittent fasting. "I would wake up every morning and I would do a very similar schedule," Sorrentino told Entertainment Tonight. "I was very regimented, I stayed in my intermittent fasting, which is not easy if anybody knows about fasting, for 16 to 19 hours a day it's not easy."
4 Kevin Gates
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The rapper told us that the decision to lose weight came after a very embarrassing incident. "I had my shirt off and I was holding my partner’s baby, and his baby tried to suck my breast," Gates explained. He likes to wake up early for weight training, core work, calisthenics—push ups, pull ups, dips—and meditation, and he also likes to go for hikes on the Santa Monica Mountains. Gates went on to drop from 310 pounds to 215.
5 Simon Cowell
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Cowell has lost 20 pounds since 2017, and The America's Got Talent judge told Access that the secret to weight loss isn't in fad diets. "There's just too many, and they contradict each other... You just have to cut out the obvious," Cowell explained." Cowell decided to go (mostly) vegan, and he swapped cow's milk for almond milk, and regular yogurt for almond milk yogurt instead of the regular kind. Cowell also cut out meat, but he still eats fish occasionally.
6 Phil Mickelson
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Mickelson was seen looking a lot leaner in a family photo posted by his sister Tina, and he joked that, "FYI, those weird bumps on the side of my stomach we’ve never seen before, Doc called them obliques and said it’s nothing to worry about." The golfer lost 15 pounds when he underwent a six day fasting period back in July when he was prepping for the British Open, and his diet only consisted of a special blend of coffee and water.
7 Kevin McHale
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The Glee star was spurred to change his diet from stomach pain. “I had been working through an intestinal/digestion issue that was eluding diagnosis and that really took a toll on me," McHale told us. As he put it, he had become “skinny fat,” eating out almost every night. McHale changed his diet, ended up with a trainer, and lost seven pounds of fat and gained five pounds of muscles in the span of 12 weeks. “My whole body composition is completely different," McHale said. "The shape of my body is 100 percent different.”
8 Chris Santos
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Chris Santos wrote on Instagram in October 2018, “I started this journey to a much healthier me on June 20, and so far I’m down 30 pounds. Look for ‘before and after part 2’ when I’ve lost another 15 to 20!” The Chopped judge decided to make the change after a decade of weight gain, switching his diet to a more plant-based diet and intermittent fasting three days a week. Also, less beer, more running. “I’m going to keep running one every other month for a while until I can do a 10K,” he told People. “I’m not going to sit here and say that my goal is a marathon, but I’m not going to say that it’s not.”
9 Chris Pratt
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The ever-lovable Andy from Parks and Rec transformed into a total beast for Guardians of the Galaxy. Our interest piqued after a now-legendary Intsagram post, but the key to Pratt’s transformation wasn’t too complicated. “Three or four hours a day of just consistent, ass-kicking hard work,” he told Men’s Journal. According to the magazine, Pratt’s routine included P90X, running, swimming, boxing, kickboxing, and a triathlon. And a whole lot more water. “I was peeing all day long, every day. That part was a nightmare,” he said.
10 Ed Sheeran
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The singer-songwriter put on a significant amount of weight after a tour, he told Total Access on Signal 1 Radio. “My diet was pizza and beer,” he said, “but because I was doing two hours a night I was really in shape. I stopped touring and carried on my diet of pizza and beer. Suddenly I didn’t fit in anything.” So Sheeran asked his girlfriend, a hockey player, to intervene. “I did 10 minutes a day without fail: intervals of 30 seconds and 30 seconds sprinting,” he said, “The key is to not miss a day, so you don’t have to do an hour."
11 Jonah Hill
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Jonah Hill was labeled the funny fay kid after Superbad, Jonah Hill has battled a series of weight fluctuations. We suppose it helps to have Channing Tatum as consistent co-star to finally get whipped into shape. “"I wanted to get in better shape,” Hill said on The Tonight Show, “so I called Channing Tatum and said, 'Hey, if I ate less and go to a trainer, will I get in better shape? Yes, you dumb mother****er, of course you will. It's the simplest thing in the entire world.” It’s more than just that—Hill has apparently added boxing to his fitness routine.
12 DJ Khaled
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DJ Khaled is definitely a big dude—so it’s doubly impressive that he’s sticking to a Weight Watcher’s diet and lost at least 26 pounds so far. It’s not about losing weight for him, but about staying healthy. “I'm not in any race to get rid of weight,” he said in an Instagram post. “I just want to make sure I stay super focused and continue at being healthy.” So far, it’s been nothing but a success. “The freestyle program is doing real big,” he told Page Six. It’s a real lifestyle because all you have to do is not go over your point [total]. And there are so many zero points [foods] in case you get hungry. I got the freestyle dance.”
13 Dan Reynolds
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The Imagine Dragons front man looks jacked—all in spite of the fact that he lives with a rare autoimmune disease, ankylosing spondylitis (AS). It causes inflammation in the spine and can lead to pain in different parts of the body. The only thing that really helped him: diet and exercise. So in early 2017, he got a trainer and started working out one to three hours, seven days a week. It took over a year for him to go from “skinny fat” to totally shredded, but the results speak for themselves.
14 Rob McElhenney
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Rob McElhenney was well-known as “Fat Mac” for at least a season on It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. No longer. After being spotted at the LA Pride parade with the body of a comic book hero, McElhenney came clean in an Instagram post. “Look, it’s not that hard,” he wrote. “All you need to do is lift weights six days a week, stop drinking alcohol, don’t eat anything after 7pm, don’t eat any carbs or sugar at all, in fact just don’t eat anything you like, get the personal trainer from Magic Mike, sleep nine hours a night, run three miles a day, and have a studio pay for the whole thing over a six to seven month span.” Sounds easy enough.
15 Kevin Smith
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“The scale said 198 today! This is the first time since high school that I’ve weighed under 200 pounds!" director Kevin Smith wrote in an Instagram post. The Clerks legend had long been overweight and suffered a heart attack as a result—the magic bullet seemed to be Weight Watchers, which Smith is an ambassador for. “Six months ago from right now, I was in the hospital recovering from a heart attack I’d had the night before,” he wrote in an Instagram post late last year. “My hope now is I can slowly lose another 10 with #weightwatchers and get down to my birth weight of 195!” L.O.L. Good on you, Kev.
16 Jake Gyllenhaal
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A-lister Jake Gyllenhaal was never really overweight, but he looked absolutely cut in the film Southpaw to play boxer Billy Hope. To prepare for the role, Gyllenhaal enlisted the help of boxing coach Terry Claybon. His routine consisted of an exhausting amount of morning runs, jumping rope, drills, shadow boxing, tire flips, bag work, and more. As for diet, well, that was out the window. “We trained really hard every day, all day, and you can eat a lot when you’re in that mode,” Gyllenhaal told Men’s Journal. “It was always high protein. I remember eating a lot of Chipotle.”
17 Al Roker
The Emmy-winning Today Show weatherman looks flat-out completely different than just a few years ago. In 2002, Al Roker slimmed down to 190 pounds with a gastric bypass—after ballooning up to 340 pounds. But he had a hard time keeping the weight off, regaining 40 pounds after turning to junk food during a stressful time. “I went back,” he said on Today. “And I hated it. I know what I have to do now to keep that from happening again.” That was a smart combination of diet and exercise—beginning with a 28-day cleanse. He’s stayed slim by eating whole, unprocessed foods that are high in protein and low in carbs.
18 Josh Peck
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The star of Nickelodeon’s Drake and Josh might have been the funny chubby kid, but no longer. In 2006, he said, “'I made a conscious effort to lose weight because I knew I could be happier as well as being healthier.” Now 32, he makes a point of showing off his slim physique. “I started by going on a diet,” he said, “and I got a personal trainer, but I definitely have a healthier lifestyle now." Good on you, Josh.
19 Sam Smith
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Buttery voice? You better believe it. Buttery diet? We don’t think so. British crooner Sam Smith dropped an incredible 50 pounds in 2015 after a lifetime of emotional eating. "From a young age, food has controlled me, basically," he said to 60 Minutes Australia. “When I was at school and wasn't having a great time or when music wasn't going very well, I would eat. When I felt lonely, I would eat.” He credits nutritionist Amelia Freer for his incredible transformation. And he’s keeping the weight off by going to the gym with a personal trainer at least three times per week.
20 Gordon Ramsay
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Hard to not over-ear when you’re the host of Hell’s Kitchen. “[My wife] Tana was not impressed with the way I was,” he told The Daily Mail. “I was overweight, 18 stone. I looked like a sack of s***.” Fear of losing your wife is certainly a great weight loss motivator, and Ramsay enlisted the help of Will Usher, a former Army captain and member of the Royal protection squad. Ramsay wanted to do an Ironman race, so Usher put him through a regimen of swimming, rowing, core strength work, three-hour-long workouts on a gym bike, and outdoor foot racing. His top diet advice? Nothing fancy—just lots and lots of water.
21 Jimmy Kimmel
Late-night star Jimmy Kimmel had always been a big guy—just watch a Man Show rerun—eating mostly wings, pasta, and steak in his younger years and going up to 208 pounds. In 2010, Dr. Oz spurred him to make a change. “’I'm worried about you,” Dr. Oz told him. “You're a young man. You have to take care of yourself.’ I was like, ‘You know what? Dr. Oz shouldn't care more about my health more than I do.’” So he started occasionally, well, starving himself. “People call it the 5:2 diet,” he said, but I've been doing it since before it had a name. On Monday and Thursday, I eat fewer than 500 calories a day, then I eat like a pig for the other five days.” Unorthodox, but it worked: the comedian dropped 25 pounds.
22 Drew Carey
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Who’s Line and The Price Is Right host Drew Carey was spurred to shed pounds after realizing he wanted to be there for his son in 2010. “I had to change my whole belief system,” he told Success. “It wasn’t like, ‘Eat this for 90 days and lose 20 pounds.’ It was: ‘Eat like this for the rest of your life...’ 95 percent of the time, I’m right on the money.” He stopped drinking caffeine and alcohol, stopped unhealthy snacking, started exercising regularly, and the result speaks for itself: over 70 pounds dropped.
23 Dr. Dre
The rap legend and media mogul has been tight-lipped about his sudden transformation at the age of 45. But if you check out the before-and-after photos, it becomes apparent that the good doctor is hitting the gym way more often than he used to. Walk around LA long enough and you’ll end up spotting him running.
24 Rick Ross
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Rapper and producer Rick Ross was always a big fellow until his startling 100-pound weight loss. How’d he do it? Simple: he learned how to balance his appetite with hitting the gym. “It’s all about the balance to me,” Ross told ABC News. “I wanted to balance myself but still enjoy the things I love so if I lost weight one year, the next year it wouldn’t be right back on me." Ross said he does Crossfit-like workouts at least four times per week—but still enjoys wings at one of the many Wingstop restaurants he owns. Plus, healthy snacking: “I try to throw in healthy snacks in between the meals,” he said. “That was really my trick, and slowing down the heavy meals as it got later in the day.”
25 Alec Baldwin
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When he’s not skewering the president on Saturday Night Live, Alec Baldwin likes to eat cleaner than he ever has. Diagnosed as pre-diabetic a few years ago, the actor was spurred to change his ways by his wife Hilaria. “After years of eating out, eating late, and eating too much, he’d fallen into some bad habits without realizing it,” she told People. “His sugar intake was far too high.” So he cut out pasta, bread, and other refined carbs—dropping 25 pounds and looking better than ever.
26 Ricky Gervais
“It wasn’t so much about the weight,” comedian Ricky Gervais told People magazine in 2010. “It was more that I was a fat, lazy, out of shape slob, to be honest.” He said he lost about 20 or 22 pounds—simply by running around his neighborhood (and no late-night meals). “Now I’ve got to stop making jokes about fat people, which is annoying,” Gervais complained. “When I was fat, it was okay.” If you say so, Ricky.
27 Jason Alexander
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Plump George from Seinfeld has struggled with his weight his whole life. “The industry has typecast me as George,” he told People. “By getting this weight off, the impression of me will change. I’d be happy to have that.” Alexander went on the Jenny Craig diet plan, cutting his calories from 4,500 to 1,500 a day, and started working out five times a week. He lost 14 pounds in only a few weeks. ““My younger son has a nickname for me: SFB—short, fat, bald,” the actor told the magazine. “I said to him, ‘You’re going to have to make it just SB pretty soon!'”
28 Jayceon Terrell Taylor
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Rapper The Game was on top of the world back in 2013 following two Grammy nominations—but he definitely had a few pounds to lose. “The goal was to dramatically change my eating habits to a clean diet without error,” he wrote on Instagram, “as well as shed the body fat wit massive cardio/ab workouts - Running, hiking, cycling etc.” He joined BWS Byrd's exercise program 60 Days of Fitness and regularly documented his journey on social media—the rapper looked cut and fit in almost no time. “Replaced body fat with muscle. Simple,” he wrote.
29 John Goodman
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Rosanne actor John Goodman lost an astounding 100 pounds with the simplest method possible. “It was basically just portion control, and ‘I don’t need it,’” he told AARP the Magazine. “I was just shoving everything into my mouth.” Goodman told David Letterman in 2011 that he was “pushing 400″ pounds at his heaviest and decided to cut sugar and alcohol out of his diet—along with regular workouts. But Goodman’s hedging his bets, telling AARP, “But I don’t want to be an example to anybody when the weight comes thundering back on—when I start eating Crisco out of the can with a spoon and a side of confectioner's sugar.” Best of luck, John.
30 Randy Jackson
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American Idol’s Randy Jackson blew up to 350 pounds and was motivated to make a change after being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. In 2003, he opted for gastric bypass surgery—and lost over 100 pounds. To keep the weight off, Jackson started eating right and going to the gym more. “I am very attuned to knowing when I have had enough," he told WedMD. "The signal to stop eating is going to come from your body, not an empty plate." He also never goes anywhere too hungry and learned to make healthier versions of the foods Southern comfort food grew up loving like—low fat sweet potato pie or Cajun spice bread.
31 Zach Galifianakis
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The husky weird dude from The Hangover looks a whole lot different now. Zach Galifianakis looks a whole lot trimmer, and credits giving up booze. “I stopped drinking and I just, kind of, put the weight off,” he told Conan O’Brien. “I was having a lot of vodka with sausage. Delicious, but bad for you.” Quite the inventive combo. Is it really that simple? Yes it is, folks. And Galifianakis added it all almost happened by accident, continuing, “I was getting into too much trouble with the drinking, so I just kind of stopped.” So many empty calories—just gone.
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Stellar hard anodised roasting tins set giveaway
Following my review for Stellar hard anodised roasting tins I am really pleased to be giving away a set of two Stellar Hard anodised 32 x 22cm and 36 x 26 cm roasting tins courtesy of Stellar Cookware.
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The Christmas joint
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I would cook my Christmas veg and roasts spuds 🙂
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Roast lamb
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roasted vegetables!
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Slow roasted lamb shoulder with winter veg
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Roasted peppers, courgettes, onions, mushrooms and chicken. Something lighter after all the indulgence of Christmas
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Italian style roasted vegetables.
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Chicken my favourite.
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SLow roast pork with crackling and goose fat roast potatoes with garlic and herbs
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Different meats, preferably chicken or turkey, always with roast potatoes and fresh veg.
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The first meal would be a Sunday roast dinner.
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Roast pork with crackling!
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a good old fashioned Roast Dinner
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Sunday Roasts , should do these more often x
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roast potatoes – yum! 🙂
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A roast silverside for the family
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roast beef with roasties
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Roast Beef joint with roast parsnips and potatoes round the bottom
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A LOVELY LEG OF LAMB
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Chicken with peppers and onions in fajita sauce
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Roast potatoes and veggies
Sue C 22/12/2015 at 7:00 pm
I quite often roast butternut squash…both in halves and cut up into little pieces, so there’s look ideal for that.
Claire D 22/12/2015 at 7:06 pm
Lovely Sunday roasts for the family
laura banks 22/12/2015 at 7:43 pm
Rhonda 22/12/2015 at 8:28 pm
Honey Roast Salmon
Andrea Fletcher 22/12/2015 at 8:42 pm
A roast beef dinner.
Karen Richards 22/12/2015 at 8:53 pm
Lamb leg, roast potatoes and roast parsnip.
Amanda tanner 22/12/2015 at 9:51 pm
Roast beef joint and potatoes
Amanda Richardson 22/12/2015 at 9:51 pm
Roast Silverside of Beef
Judith Allen 22/12/2015 at 11:10 pm
Mediterranean roast veg. Love roast aubergine.
Gwyn Sharps 23/12/2015 at 12:00 am
I’d ccok the Christmas turkey
Lisa Pond 23/12/2015 at 1:30 am
A gammon joint! 🙂
Brenda Haines 23/12/2015 at 3:54 am
Roasted cabbage steaks to start. Thanks for the chance!
ashleigh allan 23/12/2015 at 7:44 am
roast chicken!
Steven Appleton 23/12/2015 at 7:55 am
I’m a big fan of roast vegetables
Pheasants with root vegetables
William Gould 23/12/2015 at 10:35 am
We get through a fair amount of roasting tins having a proper Sunday roast dinner every week!
Christopher Williamson 23/12/2015 at 11:42 am
Perfect for a Christmas roast. Beef this year. Then every week – ideal for roast chicken with vegetables all around it
Emily Clark 23/12/2015 at 3:28 pm
Roasted aubergine and medittranean vegetables!
debbie smith 23/12/2015 at 5:04 pm
a lovely peice of beef with all the trimmings xx
Andy Baggott 23/12/2015 at 5:38 pm
jayne hall 23/12/2015 at 7:40 pm
roast potattoes
Tracey Parker 23/12/2015 at 8:24 pm
Roast Mediterranean vegetables
Tania Atfield 23/12/2015 at 8:50 pm
Rosemary roast potatoes
Clare Duiker 23/12/2015 at 9:15 pm
Tracy Gladman 23/12/2015 at 9:37 pm
A roast chicken
Chantelle Binge 23/12/2015 at 10:47 pm
Roast tatties, family favourite on a sunday x
rebecca nisbet 23/12/2015 at 11:53 pm
i would use it for a nice scrummy roast!
H is for Home, Adelle 24/12/2015 at 12:39 am
Slow roasted vegetables with honey & balsamic vinegar
Tiff Jordan 24/12/2015 at 2:43 am
joanna butler-savage 24/12/2015 at 1:58 pm
beef roast dinner
Angela Treadway 24/12/2015 at 7:08 pm
Shepards pie or a fish pie x
Sobia 24/12/2015 at 9:26 pm
Laura Walker 24/12/2015 at 9:59 pm
Iona Cornish 24/12/2015 at 10:30 pm
Roast Beef and all the trimmings
Tracey Peach 25/12/2015 at 9:40 pm
Roast Chicken 🙂
Sarah S 25/12/2015 at 10:29 pm
Roast chicken and potatoes in the tin 🙂
Kiley rose 26/12/2015 at 12:21 am
Roast vegetables ♡
Heather Haigh 26/12/2015 at 4:46 am
Lynsey Buchanan 26/12/2015 at 5:54 am
Alix Smith 26/12/2015 at 9:06 am
I would try Jamie Oliver’s recipe for coronation roast chicken – Nom!
Helen Metcalfe 26/12/2015 at 4:51 pm
Roast veg & chicken traybake
Meat – as much as possible
sharon mead 26/12/2015 at 5:13 pm
perfect fro tray bake cakes
Tam B 26/12/2015 at 5:15 pm
Roast Pork with potatoes
Lisa Buckley 26/12/2015 at 5:16 pm
A lovely roast beef dinner!
Louise Smith 26/12/2015 at 5:20 pm
Roast Beef and yorkshire pudding with all the trimmings
John Tingay 26/12/2015 at 5:22 pm
A Sunday joint with roast parsnips and sweet potatoes.
nicky b 26/12/2015 at 5:25 pm
absolutely everything if given a chance!
S Bufton 26/12/2015 at 5:32 pm
A roast leg of lamb and roast potatoes
Rebecca williams 26/12/2015 at 5:39 pm
Steve 26/12/2015 at 6:18 pm
Pork done slowly at low temperature overnight.
Tasha 26/12/2015 at 6:19 pm
Mary Heald 26/12/2015 at 6:24 pm
Susan Crosswaite 26/12/2015 at 6:26 pm
Roast vegetables
Sarah Mackay 26/12/2015 at 6:26 pm
Roasted veg on ciabbata
Sarah Brokenshire 26/12/2015 at 6:27 pm
Roasted peppers stuffed with cous cous and feta cheese
Suzanne 26/12/2015 at 6:28 pm
A full roast dinner
Christine Dodd 26/12/2015 at 6:42 pm
Roast root veg
Stacey Carnell 26/12/2015 at 6:47 pm
Beef wellington Mmmmmmmm 🙂
Edward Guerreiro 26/12/2015 at 7:07 pm
Some lovely slow cooked ribs.
Hannonle 26/12/2015 at 7:23 pm
I think I would do some roast potatoes and a chicken. Yum!
Barbara Daniels 26/12/2015 at 7:28 pm
Jo Jones 26/12/2015 at 7:51 pm
A roast beef dinner I would cook
Victoria N 26/12/2015 at 7:57 pm
Roasted veg – peppers, onions, courgettes, tomatoes
Amanda Hart 26/12/2015 at 8:26 pm
I would roast a chicken
Lorna J Kennedy 26/12/2015 at 8:29 pm
Fantastic for the Sunday lunch, nice joint of beef or pork, with roasties all the way round 🙂
dorothy merrett 26/12/2015 at 8:41 pm
Lillian Fisher 26/12/2015 at 8:52 pm
Lucy Weatherley 26/12/2015 at 9:17 pm
Roasted stuffed peppers
Rose 26/12/2015 at 9:26 pm
Roast veggies : )
Louise Hayward 26/12/2015 at 9:39 pm
Roast lamb … nom nom nom
Lorraine Tinsley 26/12/2015 at 9:49 pm
A nice lamb joint with roast potatoes
emma walters 26/12/2015 at 10:33 pm
chicken traybake
Helen Thurston 26/12/2015 at 11:19 pm
Roasted Mediterranean vegetables with garlic and balsamic vinegar.
fozia Akhtar 26/12/2015 at 11:36 pm
pete c 27/12/2015 at 12:05 am
as side dishes I would use it to cook roast potatoes and parsnips
Angela Fitzjohn 27/12/2015 at 7:37 am
The first meal I would cook is roast lamb, as it is a firm family favourite.
Emma Ellams 27/12/2015 at 7:59 am
Roast lamb 🙂
Jenifer Lack 27/12/2015 at 8:04 am
My height in roast potatoes! 🙂
Frances Heaton 27/12/2015 at 10:01 am
Roast Pork, with delicious crackling
Davina Mellon 27/12/2015 at 10:31 am
Some garlic and rosemary sauteed potatoes!
Cheryl Pearson 27/12/2015 at 10:46 am
A ROAST DINNER
Jackie Stevens 27/12/2015 at 11:18 am
I would cook a roast chicken!
Sally Collingwood 27/12/2015 at 11:22 am
Laura Costello 27/12/2015 at 12:03 pm
A nice joint of lamb
Justine Meyer 27/12/2015 at 12:07 pm
Roasted minted lamb x
I love roast veg with many meals 🙂
Danika Lloyd 27/12/2015 at 2:10 pm
roasted and spiced mixed root veggies
Laura Broadley 27/12/2015 at 2:37 pm
Some lovely Slimming World roast potatoes 🙂
Sarah Hodge 27/12/2015 at 2:38 pm
I’d bake brownies 🙂
Jake White 27/12/2015 at 2:48 pm
Id do a really fancy roast dinner. With my own take on pigs in blankets, but chunks of butternut squash instead of bangers!!
Emma Nixon 27/12/2015 at 4:18 pm
Roasted chicken and veg tray bake
Kayleigh Butler 27/12/2015 at 4:27 pm
Roasted vegetables.
Kim M 27/12/2015 at 4:34 pm
Helen Adams 27/12/2015 at 4:38 pm
Slow roast pork with crackling x
Rebecca Hobbs 27/12/2015 at 4:53 pm
roast parsnips – addicted to them!
Kim Harding 27/12/2015 at 5:02 pm
Many things but especially my families favourite roast vegetable mix of strips of carrots & parsnip, shallots and baby potatoes all coated in olive oil.
Victoria Thurgood 27/12/2015 at 5:20 pm
Paul T 27/12/2015 at 5:46 pm
Lisa Parker 27/12/2015 at 7:25 pm
Some lovely roasted vegetables
Anne Bostwick 27/12/2015 at 7:58 pm
Sunday roast with all the trimmings
LIZZIE E 27/12/2015 at 8:53 pm
Beautiful roast chicken with all the trimmings! 🙂
Sarah Davison 27/12/2015 at 9:35 pm
I’d start by cooking a lamb shank I think.
darren hay 27/12/2015 at 9:55 pm
honey glazed ham
Penny H 27/12/2015 at 10:15 pm
I would make a roast chicken with garlic and roasted vegetables.
helen tovell 27/12/2015 at 10:17 pm
a lovely roast chicken
gillian burden 27/12/2015 at 10:25 pm
Roast Spatchcocked Lemon Chicken
james harland 27/12/2015 at 10:48 pm
beef joint slowly cooked mmmmm
Sue Harrison 27/12/2015 at 10:56 pm
Everything from a roast to sausage rolls
Sue Wickins 28/12/2015 at 5:59 am
a leg of lamb for New years day
Phil Darling 28/12/2015 at 6:47 am
Roast duck with all the trimmings
Joanne Greer 28/12/2015 at 8:38 am
Lovely roasted vegetables.
Rebecca Smith 28/12/2015 at 9:26 am
James Mullen 28/12/2015 at 9:41 am
I would cook roast potatoes in it.
Jess Mary 28/12/2015 at 9:43 am
Roast chicken with veggies!
Paula Smith 28/12/2015 at 9:45 am
Paula Nixon 28/12/2015 at 11:56 am
Always a roast chicken 🙂
Karen Laing 28/12/2015 at 2:16 pm
Roast vegetables would be lovely,my roasting tins would appear to have lost their non-stick and I end up with veg stuck at the bottom.It does nothing for my cooking !
Kelly Roxanne smith 28/12/2015 at 2:44 pm
a roast chicken 🙂
Lynn Ward 28/12/2015 at 2:46 pm
chicken dinner yum thanks
Jenny Shaw 28/12/2015 at 3:11 pm
Alica 28/12/2015 at 3:19 pm
A lovely roast dinner with roasted veg!
Lydia Frew 28/12/2015 at 3:33 pm
Fill it with roast winter squash, onions, peppers, garlic, olive oil, balsamic vinegar and a handful of cherry tomatoes.
nina kennedy 28/12/2015 at 4:18 pm
Tom Buchanan 28/12/2015 at 4:33 pm
MEAT. any meat!
Caroline Henaghan 28/12/2015 at 5:06 pm
Kleftiko – for my Greek hubby!!
Kim Styles 28/12/2015 at 5:09 pm
My sunday roast -usually Lamb with garlic and rosemary!!
Sandra Bald 28/12/2015 at 6:18 pm
Sam Goodwin 28/12/2015 at 7:18 pm
Absolutely everything! I’d cook some lovely roasted vegetables 🙂
aj 28/12/2015 at 7:50 pm
Beef joint
Monica Gilbert 28/12/2015 at 9:26 pm
I’d like to roast some vegetables.
Lynne Durkin 28/12/2015 at 11:08 pm
Roast potatoes x
Maxine G 29/12/2015 at 9:49 am
Roasted veggies with balsamic vinegar
Hassni 29/12/2015 at 10:20 am
Roasted winter vegetables.
Ray Becker 29/12/2015 at 1:18 pm
Beef Wellington with the trimmings
ADEINNE TONNER 29/12/2015 at 2:13 pm
A lovely roast dinner for my family
Louise Fairweather 29/12/2015 at 6:40 pm
A lovely Sunday roast
Rachael Lines 29/12/2015 at 6:54 pm
Slow roasted Lamb
Michaela Jennings 29/12/2015 at 6:55 pm
PAUL STANLEY 29/12/2015 at 7:43 pm
Karen Knox 29/12/2015 at 9:00 pm
Roast chicken Sunday lunch 🙂
Anni Large 29/12/2015 at 9:30 pm
Some lovely roast potatoes.
Jayne Sullivan 29/12/2015 at 9:50 pm
Jo Hutchinson 30/12/2015 at 12:14 am
Winter roasted vegetables.
Louise A 30/12/2015 at 12:30 am
either a nice chicken roast or maybe a traybake
Leanne Abel 30/12/2015 at 12:54 am
Roast Beef Joint
Christine Constable 30/12/2015 at 12:00 pm
Roast chicken, crispy roast potatoes & roasted vegetables with garlic & red pesto
Holly Gibson 30/12/2015 at 12:03 pm
Honey roasted carrots and parsnips
jennifer thorpe 30/12/2015 at 1:02 pm
Andrea Smith 30/12/2015 at 4:29 pm
lyn geddes 30/12/2015 at 5:30 pm
Homemade nut roast from Cranks’ recipe
claire woods 30/12/2015 at 7:08 pm
quorn roast
michelle o'neill 30/12/2015 at 7:10 pm
roast pork x
chris bull 30/12/2015 at 8:26 pm
Graham Antony Wright 30/12/2015 at 10:54 pm
Rachel Butterworth 31/12/2015 at 12:26 am
Rich Tyler 31/12/2015 at 2:26 am
Jade 31/12/2015 at 2:46 am
Steve Dickinson 31/12/2015 at 4:32 am
Stevie 31/12/2015 at 8:45 am
Schnitzels I think.
jane Evans 31/12/2015 at 10:03 am
A roast lamb Sunday lunch 🙂
Liz 31/12/2015 at 11:08 am
Chocolate date cake
Chris Andrews 31/12/2015 at 12:15 pm
a roast beef dinner
Kiran Parry 31/12/2015 at 2:13 pm
Danielle Cresswell 31/12/2015 at 5:23 pm
A one pan oven baked fry up x
Emily Knight 31/12/2015 at 6:02 pm
I’d cook chicken stuffed with taleggio!
Justine 31/12/2015 at 10:56 pm
I think i’d have to do my mid week favourite of lemon and herb Chicken with fluffy and crispy oven baked potatoes
Corinne Peat 31/12/2015 at 11:01 pm
Roast beef and all the trimmings!
emma hunt 01/01/2016 at 11:54 am
Roast potatoes yummyyy 🙂
Phyllis Ellett 01/01/2016 at 12:20 pm
I won’t cook anything, because my husband does all the cooking, I am not even allowed to toast a piece of bread. He says he would roast a belly of pork that has been dry rubbed with Chinese spices.
I’d cook Roast herb-chicken dinner with roasted vegetables and potatoes! Yummy 🙂
Michaela Smith 01/01/2016 at 4:19 pm
Quorn Roast 🙂
Allan Wilson 01/01/2016 at 5:00 pm
The Sunday Roast
charlotte wilde 01/01/2016 at 5:14 pm
roast pork with crackling!!!!!
lisa tebbutt 01/01/2016 at 5:35 pm
chicken or lamb dinner
Antonia Boulting 01/01/2016 at 7:01 pm
Roast chicken and root veggies
Hayley Lynch 01/01/2016 at 8:52 pm
Roasted veg
Michelle Ferguson 01/01/2016 at 8:56 pm
A lovely roast beef dinner
Laura Caraher 01/01/2016 at 9:14 pm
Roast butternut squash
Emma Jones 01/01/2016 at 10:00 pm
Leg of lamb stuffed with sage butter and sprinkled with rosemary and olive oil.
Lisa Mauchline 01/01/2016 at 11:53 pm
Roast beef with veg and roast potatoes
Tom D 02/01/2016 at 10:06 am
Sophie Lester 02/01/2016 at 10:24 am
I would cook chicken and chorizo bake
JULIE WARD 02/01/2016 at 1:31 pm
Lamb with roasties
Jane H Shaw 02/01/2016 at 1:38 pm
I would use it to roast lamb thanks
Elizabeth Hinds 02/01/2016 at 2:04 pm
A lovely roast dinner – my absolute fave 🙂
Emma Walton 02/01/2016 at 3:04 pm
I would do a roast and also some roasted vegetables. This is a great giveaway, thank you.
GLENDA HANKS 02/01/2016 at 4:25 pm
A beef joint with roast potatoes
Miss Tracy Hanson 02/01/2016 at 5:35 pm
Charlotte Moore 02/01/2016 at 6:20 pm
Traditional roast
Jane Wilson 02/01/2016 at 6:22 pm
linda rees 02/01/2016 at 6:23 pm
Sundays Roast beef
katrina adams 02/01/2016 at 6:44 pm
Juicy roast chicken on a trivet of roasted vegetables.
Hayley Mulgrove 02/01/2016 at 7:16 pm
Oh i would roast everything, Mixed peppers. Garlic, Parsnips, Onions, Potato’s
Colin Gault 03/01/2016 at 1:26 am
Adeline 03/01/2016 at 8:48 am
Roast veggies. Roast carrots are my favourite!
Ella L 03/01/2016 at 10:05 am
Roast beef and roast spuds
Lisa Everaert 03/01/2016 at 10:49 am
Roast Lamb with vegetables for sunday roast x
Claire Ward 03/01/2016 at 11:03 am
Terri Collins 03/01/2016 at 12:29 pm
Yummy roasted veggies 🙂
Stephanie Whitehouse 03/01/2016 at 12:51 pm
Some roast mixed veg chips and smoked haddock
Juli Savage 03/01/2016 at 2:23 pm
Roast some gorgeous tasty vegetables
Lindy 03/01/2016 at 3:46 pm
A delicious roast chicken! 🙂
Sarah Heath 03/01/2016 at 4:14 pm
Jackie ONeill 03/01/2016 at 4:18 pm
Slow cooked lamb
Kristina Bates 03/01/2016 at 4:40 pm
Lyla 03/01/2016 at 6:43 pm
lyn 03/01/2016 at 9:46 pm
Lemon chicken with Garlic and Roast Veg
Eliz M 03/01/2016 at 11:34 pm
don erwood 04/01/2016 at 1:18 am
Pork loin steaks over sweet potato and rosemary
Solange 04/01/2016 at 4:41 am
Ruth Wollerton 04/01/2016 at 4:46 am
Roasted vegetable bake with Parmesan
Heather Wilson 04/01/2016 at 10:31 am
maggie ali 04/01/2016 at 2:53 pm
lots of delicious roasted veggies 🙂
georgina prince (was Davies) 04/01/2016 at 5:23 pm
a big honey roast ham yum! x
Natalie Charman 04/01/2016 at 6:56 pm
Roast duck. Yum!
ROSEMARY SHEEHAN 04/01/2016 at 7:31 pm
Jayne T 04/01/2016 at 9:37 pm
I’d use them for cooking a roast dinner, thanks for the lovely giveaway.
leanne perrett 04/01/2016 at 9:51 pm
a nice big piece of gammon shank 🙂 yumm yumm
BECCA STAPLES 05/01/2016 at 10:44 am
A nice roast chicken x
Michelle Carlin 05/01/2016 at 12:22 pm
Quorn roast, with lots of roast veggies – yummy!
Mickie Bull 05/01/2016 at 5:42 pm
All in one tray chicken dinner!
Grace Keegan 05/01/2016 at 9:42 pm
Roast chicken.
kate m jones 05/01/2016 at 10:03 pm
It would have to be a beautiful beef wellington, they are perfect when cooked in tins like these 🙂
Kristy Brown 06/01/2016 at 8:38 am
A juicy leg of lamb with rosemary and garlic
JODIE BEAUMONT 06/01/2016 at 3:07 pm
Hazel Murphy 06/01/2016 at 7:45 pm
bread and butter pudding
Katie Harmer 06/01/2016 at 8:45 pm
Roast beef, I’m salivating just thinking about it!
Grant R 06/01/2016 at 9:29 pm
Roasted Monkfish!
Jaelin Farrow 06/01/2016 at 9:32 pm
It’s got to be a roast 🙂
Cheryl G 06/01/2016 at 10:53 pm
Toad in the hole…yum!!
James 07/01/2016 at 10:04 am
Sunday roast, of course!
Jo Carroll 07/01/2016 at 1:15 pm
Roast lamb and Yorkshire puds…my fave! x
Sheila Reeves 07/01/2016 at 3:44 pm
a Roast chicken with all the trimmings!
Pam Smith 07/01/2016 at 5:39 pm
Roasted Mediterranean Vegetables
Catriona Hutchinson 07/01/2016 at 9:45 pm
A lovely plump goose!
Kallie Maile 07/01/2016 at 9:56 pm
Angie Hoggett 07/01/2016 at 10:47 pm
pork roast and all the trimmings
Sheena Widdowfield 08/01/2016 at 12:04 am
Crunchy roast potatoes
Sarah Benn 08/01/2016 at 8:43 pm
Roast chicken with roast vegetables.
Laura Asplin 08/01/2016 at 9:41 pm
Nicola Glover 08/01/2016 at 10:03 pm
Traditional Sunday Roast
Angela Muir 08/01/2016 at 10:22 pm
Gammon joint
Victoria R Morrison 08/01/2016 at 10:57 pm
Slow cooked Moroccan Lamb
Amber B 08/01/2016 at 11:38 pm
The first roast dinner in my new house!
kaye talvilahti 09/01/2016 at 12:54 am
roast chicken xx
Andrea Stordy 09/01/2016 at 6:38 am
Roast Chicken with all the trimmings
Angela 09/01/2016 at 10:31 am
Karen Barrett 09/01/2016 at 11:27 am
holly harmsworth 09/01/2016 at 4:10 pm
lamb 🙂 yummy
Layla Thomas 09/01/2016 at 4:30 pm
kimberley ryan 09/01/2016 at 4:42 pm
Roast lamb with rosemary and garlic
Leanne Newsome 09/01/2016 at 8:31 pm
Joanne Benham 09/01/2016 at 9:09 pm
Roast Chicken with all the trimmings x
carole n 09/01/2016 at 9:47 pm
Michelle Sykes 09/01/2016 at 10:20 pm
Roast chicken and roast potatoes
Sarah Walford 09/01/2016 at 10:58 pm
Mediterranean Roast Vegetables
Susan B 10/01/2016 at 4:15 am
I love mixed root vegetable bake with either melted mozzarella or crispy crumb topping – or both.
Lynn Woodcock 10/01/2016 at 6:05 am
Linda Thorn 10/01/2016 at 10:43 am
nut loaf as it is a way of art
with many toppings on it
but the best for me
its got to be
adding pineapple on top of it
Claire Toplis 10/01/2016 at 11:29 am
Carole Paton 10/01/2016 at 4:14 pm
Delicious roast beef
Laura Nice 10/01/2016 at 4:54 pm
Louise Lumsden 10/01/2016 at 5:48 pm
I do a huge tray bake of lamb chops on a bed of spiced roast root vegetables
Jennifer Bradshaw 10/01/2016 at 7:27 pm
Crispy baked sweet potato fries
ESME MCCRUBB 10/01/2016 at 9:33 pm
Laura Linsey 10/01/2016 at 9:34 pm
Roast potatoes, my favourite!
alison clark 10/01/2016 at 10:00 pm
Toad in the hole.
Melanie Gardiner 10/01/2016 at 11:01 pm
A tasty leg of lamb
Pam Lawrence 10/01/2016 at 11:13 pm
I would cook a whole shoulder of lamb studded with fresh rosemary and garlic in one tin, and some Mediterranean roasted root veggies flavoured with oregano, chilli and olive oil in the other!
HELEN GOSSAGE 10/01/2016 at 11:40 pm
Victoria Prince 11/01/2016 at 8:33 am
Ooh the first thing I would do would be to roast a selection of vegetables 🙂 Yum!
Eileen Sumner 11/01/2016 at 4:40 pm
Claire Elizabeth Noke 11/01/2016 at 7:24 pm
Honey glazed vegetables
Emma Farrell 11/01/2016 at 7:53 pm
Definitely a roast
Naomi M 11/01/2016 at 8:10 pm
Roast leg of lamb, yum!
Caroline Blaza 11/01/2016 at 10:49 pm
Would have to be my family favourite………Roast chicken x
Lucy Bishop 12/01/2016 at 12:15 pm
I’d make my famous Lamb Kleftiko!
shell 12/01/2016 at 1:46 pm
A whole chicken
Kathleen Bywaters 12/01/2016 at 2:13 pm
Some sweet paparika roast chicken legs!
kayleigh dudley 12/01/2016 at 2:29 pm
ema j lowe 12/01/2016 at 8:15 pm
a lovely homemade pizza
Becky John 12/01/2016 at 8:57 pm
Roast duck and roasted root vegetables
Honey mustard roast gammon
Joanne 12/01/2016 at 10:07 pm
Roasted green beans and Brussels sprouts
Lisa Wilkinson 12/01/2016 at 10:10 pm
Some roast potatoes for a Sunday roast.
Suzanne Roberts 12/01/2016 at 11:17 pm
Roast Mediterranean veg – yummy
natalie wallace 13/01/2016 at 12:07 am
Sue Bowden 13/01/2016 at 8:17 am
Roast leg of Lamb with roasted veg, beetroot, parsnips and carrots and of course the roast potato all fluffy and crispy x
Margaret Clarkson 13/01/2016 at 11:15 am
Alison Macdonald 13/01/2016 at 11:21 am
A nice rib of beef for a family Sunday lunch – Mmmmmmmm x
Freya 13/01/2016 at 3:01 pm
A mini roast dinner of pheasant, roasted new potatoes, carrots and sweet potato
sarah mcvicar 13/01/2016 at 5:09 pm
I’d cook a lovely roast dinner with all the trimmings xx
Diane Carey 13/01/2016 at 7:18 pm
A roast lamb joint with roast potatoes
Mary Chez 13/01/2016 at 7:23 pm
julie eley 13/01/2016 at 9:09 pm
I would do a nice Beef roasting joint 🙂
Caroline Scott 13/01/2016 at 9:42 pm
sweet potato wedges
Helen Thorsby 13/01/2016 at 10:08 pm
Duck in plum sauce mmmm x
Robyn Logan Clarke 14/01/2016 at 1:03 am
Roast butternut, red onions, cherry tomatoes and courgette
Antonio S 14/01/2016 at 5:08 am
Gabrielle Powell 14/01/2016 at 11:03 am
Jo Godfray 14/01/2016 at 11:34 am
A Super Roast
A lovely roast 🙂
Cheryl Price 14/01/2016 at 4:40 pm
I have a lovely leg of lamb in my freezer that needs a nice roasting pan to go in 🙂
Eliza Massey 14/01/2016 at 6:49 pm
Roast duck! I would serve it oriental style with pancakes and hosin sauce!
Sam McKean 14/01/2016 at 6:49 pm
A lovely big leg of lamb with all the trimmings!
Jane Middleton 14/01/2016 at 8:49 pm
z webb 14/01/2016 at 10:05 pm
L Alexander 14/01/2016 at 11:20 pm
Roasted vegetables cooked with harissa paste and olive oil, topped with goat’s cheese.
Rebecca Townsend 15/01/2016 at 6:35 am
A lovely nut roast
EJ Dunn 15/01/2016 at 9:01 am
A lamb roast!
michelle pierce 15/01/2016 at 10:03 am
roast beef and roasted veg
Rebecca Howells (@PeanutHog) 15/01/2016 at 3:12 pm
A big roast dinner with lots of different roasted veg.
Di Coke 15/01/2016 at 5:27 pm
Salmon en croute!
michelle moore 15/01/2016 at 6:23 pm
Roast lamb stuffed with garlic, rosemary and anchovy fillets and some fantastic home grown herby roast potatoes
lynn neal 15/01/2016 at 10:05 pm
roasted root veg
Diana 15/01/2016 at 10:36 pm
Roast lamb! Our favourite 🙂
Vicky Varley 15/01/2016 at 10:45 pm
Natasha R-M 16/01/2016 at 6:19 am
Vegetable lasagne – thank you.
Ann Williams 16/01/2016 at 11:46 am
I would roast a leg of lamb, seasoned with fresh rosemary from the garden and resting on a bed of roasted root vegetables with garlic. The aroma of it cooking would be torture but the results succulent and tasty.
Lauren Old 16/01/2016 at 12:46 pm
Robert Price 16/01/2016 at 1:15 pm
A leg of lamb
Mary Baldwin 16/01/2016 at 3:34 pm
Beef Wellington – yummy!
Kate Knight 16/01/2016 at 4:28 pm
Barbara Jane Shaw 16/01/2016 at 4:29 pm
Chrissie Curtis 16/01/2016 at 4:33 pm
Lots of Roasted Veggies!
Judi Watson-Jones 16/01/2016 at 5:45 pm
Roast Welsh Lamb
Jodie W 16/01/2016 at 6:06 pm
a roast dinner with roasted veggies
Barbara Handley 16/01/2016 at 7:46 pm
I would make a traditional Sunday roast dinner.
Jason Tolliss 16/01/2016 at 7:48 pm
Roast lamb with Mediterranean roasted veg
Samantha Atherton 16/01/2016 at 7:51 pm
Firstly I’d make some cookies.
Tamsin Dean 16/01/2016 at 9:29 pm
Sarah P 16/01/2016 at 10:36 pm
Debbie Preston 16/01/2016 at 10:47 pm
Jo Glasspool 16/01/2016 at 11:01 pm
Roast lamb.
sarah fielding 16/01/2016 at 11:11 pm
roast vegetables!
Michelle Cheeseman 16/01/2016 at 11:40 pm
Roast lamb with all the trimmings : )
sherri mse Fordham 17/01/2016 at 1:03 am
a HUGE yorkshire pudding
zoe g 17/01/2016 at 9:52 am
a sunday roast
Caroline Cordery 17/01/2016 at 11:22 am
I’d make flapjack and roasted veg
sharon martin 17/01/2016 at 12:01 pm
a leg of lamb & roast potatoes
Angela McDonald 17/01/2016 at 1:09 pm
Silverside Beef Joint
Sarah S 17/01/2016 at 3:32 pm
The roasting tins look perfect for making roast potatoes, so that’s what I’d start with.
Bridgette West 17/01/2016 at 4:08 pm
As a vegetarian, getting perfect roast vegetables needs a decent tin!
Katherine Coldicott 17/01/2016 at 4:16 pm
I’d cook a slow roast beef brisket.
Kirsten Barthy 17/01/2016 at 5:33 pm
Joanna Orr 17/01/2016 at 6:01 pm
I’d cook pork strips in a BBQ sauce – I’m making that tonight!
Georgina Jacobs 17/01/2016 at 6:41 pm
Roast Chicken with roasted vegetables – home cooked goodness thanks
tina edwards 17/01/2016 at 6:46 pm
roast beef and roast potatoes
Kirsty Woods 17/01/2016 at 6:58 pm
Roast chicken with roast potatoes
Suzie W 17/01/2016 at 6:59 pm
claire little 17/01/2016 at 7:00 pm
tracey ryder 17/01/2016 at 7:13 pm
roast pork and roasties
Julie Booth 17/01/2016 at 8:44 pm
a roast beef joint
Lorraine Bell 17/01/2016 at 8:56 pm
Chicken and roast vegetables
Vickie Jackson 17/01/2016 at 9:39 pm
A roast chicken (with sausages wrapped in bacon)
Jacqueline Chapman 17/01/2016 at 9:43 pm
Ellen Stafford 17/01/2016 at 9:44 pm
Kat Allinson 17/01/2016 at 10:29 pm
Roast chicken dinner
Lexy Law 17/01/2016 at 10:51 pm
Gemma Mills 17/01/2016 at 10:57 pm
Pulled pork and tatties in goose fat
Samantha Rummens 17/01/2016 at 11:16 pm
Ashley Phillips 18/01/2016 at 1:56 am
Honey and Mustard Gammon with Roast potatoes
Rebecca Alderson 18/01/2016 at 2:28 am
Some slow cooked pork
Katharine Phillips 18/01/2016 at 6:26 am
A mix of roasted veggies.
Chris S 18/01/2016 at 7:09 am
If I won one of these roasting tins the first thing I would cook would be a slow roasted shoulder of lamb with garlic and rosemary with a red currant glaze.
Susan Sargent 18/01/2016 at 7:35 am
jo liddement 18/01/2016 at 8:14 am
I would use the roasting tins to make a medley of honey roast vegetables
Rebecca Powell 18/01/2016 at 9:53 am
Nat Jones 18/01/2016 at 9:58 am
Debbie Nichols 18/01/2016 at 10:51 am
Rather fancy roast duck
Roast chicken with mediterranean veggies 🙂
matthew colburn 18/01/2016 at 11:20 am
a nice leg of lamb 🙂
Charlotte Cottam 18/01/2016 at 11:26 am
A delicious roast chicken 🙂
Jade Hewlett 18/01/2016 at 11:47 am
christy spencer 18/01/2016 at 12:12 pm
These would be fantastic for all sorts of meals but I would love to make my Sunday roast with roast potatoes and roast parsnips on them x
elaine stokes 18/01/2016 at 12:42 pm
Chinese spiced pulled pork
Kristin Burdsall 18/01/2016 at 1:46 pm
Lemon, Rosemary and garlic baked chicken
melanie horbury 18/01/2016 at 2:22 pm
Sarah Parker 18/01/2016 at 2:52 pm
a roast 🙂
olivia Kirby 18/01/2016 at 2:52 pm
A lovely juicy chicken!
a roast
simon hardy 18/01/2016 at 3:25 pm
would have to be a chicken!
Susan Jackson 18/01/2016 at 3:27 pm
A big Dish of Roasted vegetables
Michelle Wild 18/01/2016 at 3:41 pm
The ham and cheese puff pastry rolled tart looks fab, I’d start with that.
Linda Streater 18/01/2016 at 4:15 pm
I would cook a family size Toad in the Hole
kelly mobbs 18/01/2016 at 4:39 pm
Lora 18/01/2016 at 4:56 pm
an all in one dish of roast chicken thighs and mediterranean veg
Deborah J 18/01/2016 at 5:19 pm
Full Sunday Roast – any day of the week!
Spencer Broadley 18/01/2016 at 5:42 pm
I love Meditterranean Herb Roast Vegetables
Rob Griffiths 18/01/2016 at 5:50 pm
A nice leg of lamb
Roast chicken and roast root veg
Serena La Pietra 18/01/2016 at 6:09 pm
Parsnips with honey
Andrea A 18/01/2016 at 6:19 pm
Dorothy K 18/01/2016 at 6:31 pm
lemon and rosemary roast chicken- my husband’s favourite….
Pauline Wilson 18/01/2016 at 6:34 pm
Chicken with stuffing and roast potatoes
Anita hargreaves 18/01/2016 at 6:35 pm
charlotte angel 18/01/2016 at 6:56 pm
Andy Bridges 18/01/2016 at 7:19 pm
Haggis and Neeps
Karen B 18/01/2016 at 7:20 pm
Caroline Buckley 18/01/2016 at 7:34 pm
Stephen Shepherd 18/01/2016 at 7:59 pm
Roast beef with roast potatoes
Laura Whittle 18/01/2016 at 8:21 pm
Crispy roast potatoes
Patricia Avery 18/01/2016 at 8:24 pm
Roast pork with a medley of roasted veg and apple 🙂
adrian price 18/01/2016 at 8:32 pm
jessica cook 18/01/2016 at 8:35 pm
roasted mediteranean vegetables
Lila B Taylor 18/01/2016 at 8:47 pm
A big sunday roast with all the trimmings
Laura Barratt 18/01/2016 at 8:53 pm
I would make toad in the hole!
ramsy 18/01/2016 at 9:01 pm
roasted root and mediteranean veg
Elisabeth Ries 18/01/2016 at 9:13 pm
Stuffed mushrooms, with bacon leek and a pastry top.
Sheri Darby 18/01/2016 at 9:20 pm
Ali Thorpe 18/01/2016 at 9:20 pm
I’m tempted to try roasting a whole salmon but more likely it would be veggies.
Anneka Hulse 18/01/2016 at 9:40 pm
Kim W 18/01/2016 at 9:42 pm
A lovely roast dinner with crispy roast potatoes
ellie spider 18/01/2016 at 9:56 pm
I’d do baked chilli enchiladas 🙂 smothered in sour cream,guacamole and salsa
Champaklal Lad 18/01/2016 at 9:59 pm
Indian spicy chicken
Cerys John 18/01/2016 at 10:10 pm
Roast Dinner 🙂
Elaine Betteridge 18/01/2016 at 10:12 pm
sweet potato wedges!
Emma Ridgway 18/01/2016 at 10:16 pm
Emma Davies 18/01/2016 at 10:29 pm
Roasted veg and lamb steaks with feta and mint
Aimee Wright 18/01/2016 at 10:31 pm
Roast potatoes 🙂
donna l jones 18/01/2016 at 10:34 pm
Karen Howden 18/01/2016 at 10:40 pm
a nice piece of beef
Margery L 18/01/2016 at 10:47 pm
a rib of beef, or a lamb shoulder, or a pork belly roast with stuffing and roast potatoes in the juices
Jayne K 18/01/2016 at 10:50 pm
Tina L-D 18/01/2016 at 11:30 pm
honey roasted root veg
yvonne clark 19/01/2016 at 12:04 am
a family size lasagne
SUSAN L HALL 19/01/2016 at 12:13 am
Toad in the hole would be my first choice mm not had it for ages
Lyndsey Beckford 19/01/2016 at 12:40 am
Teresa Sheldon 19/01/2016 at 12:42 am
A good old roast lamb and roast potatoes and honey parsnips.
Orange and chorizo roasted potatoes
Karen Painter 19/01/2016 at 5:10 am
Chicken and Roasties
Louise_tweets_ 19/01/2016 at 5:59 am
Beef joint and roasties!
Martina Alban 19/01/2016 at 6:40 am
nice leg of lamb with rosemary
zoe somerfield 19/01/2016 at 8:04 am
A good old roast chicken
Sarah Lewis 19/01/2016 at 8:18 am
A roast chicken with all the trimmings
tracey nock 19/01/2016 at 8:19 am
Sunday roast xxx
Wendy Guy 19/01/2016 at 8:28 am
I would cook a traditional roast dinner.
Chris Fletcher 19/01/2016 at 9:17 am
They would probably get used for a Sunday roast!
Michelle orchard 19/01/2016 at 9:24 am
Gorgeous duck fat roast potatoes and honey roasted parsnips
Pat Stubbs 19/01/2016 at 9:32 am
A lovely courgette, onion and rice dish a la Jamie
Jules Naybur 19/01/2016 at 9:41 am
Victoria Dixon 19/01/2016 at 9:49 am
I would cook a yummy lasagne with some herby diced potatoes!
Emilia nastaly-howard 19/01/2016 at 9:52 am
suzanne maher 19/01/2016 at 10:18 am
Got to be a Sunday dinner – either beef or chicken 🙂
helen jones 19/01/2016 at 10:55 am
Roasted vegetables with garlic
Natalie Baugh 19/01/2016 at 10:57 am
Minted Lamb Shanks yum
HazelY 19/01/2016 at 11:01 am
Roast lemony chicken with garlic. Yum!
Pauline Dring 19/01/2016 at 11:25 am
Roast potatoes and Yorkshire puddings
Christine Lockley 19/01/2016 at 12:02 pm
I’d cook out favourite Roast Chicken dinner with all the trimmings
Daphne Mueller 19/01/2016 at 12:35 pm
Roasted veg, then I use them in speghetti sauce, lovely taste
Christine Hobbs 19/01/2016 at 12:44 pm
Sweet potato wedges drizzled in oil chilli flakes and garlic. We have them dipped in sour cream in front of a movie x
Juris Lusis 19/01/2016 at 12:50 pm
Jacqueline Roberts 19/01/2016 at 1:27 pm
Rost rack of lamb
Rachel Bonness 19/01/2016 at 1:43 pm
I’d cook Sweet potato fries which are my new favourite thing!
Hannah Igoe 19/01/2016 at 1:57 pm
Roasted vegtables would be lovely
Ella Swinbank 19/01/2016 at 2:03 pm
Kathryn Casbolt 19/01/2016 at 2:04 pm
A lovely roast dinner x
Sarah Saunders 19/01/2016 at 2:11 pm
Roast dinner xx
Su Brett 19/01/2016 at 2:42 pm
Lots of things but especially Roasted Veg
fiona butler 19/01/2016 at 2:48 pm
I would roast vegetables
Rebecca Taylor 19/01/2016 at 2:50 pm
Jamie Edwards 19/01/2016 at 2:56 pm
Roast gammon for sunday roast! Mmmmm
Susan Carruthers 19/01/2016 at 2:56 pm
I’d roast some pork chops, lovely roast veg and roast potatoes to go with them.
matt allison 19/01/2016 at 3:08 pm
Roast Potatoes, garlic, carrots and parsnips
Rachel James 19/01/2016 at 3:49 pm
My roast potatoes are always a soggy disaster, so hopefully this would help get some crispiness into my life!
Lana George 19/01/2016 at 4:32 pm
Roast beef, roast potatoes, maple coated parsnips
Lola Balntas 19/01/2016 at 4:46 pm
My Greek auntie’s stuffed peppers (red peppers stuffed with minced lamb, rice, pine nuts and tomato sauce) – super yum 🙂 x
LORNA WIL 19/01/2016 at 4:55 pm
ROAST LAMB & ROAST POTATOES & MAPLE SYUP CARROTS, BUTTERNUT SQUASH, PARNIPS
Neha Parmar 19/01/2016 at 5:03 pm
Paneer and Mediterranean vegetables with fresh herbs and garlic
Sue Moore 19/01/2016 at 5:17 pm
Roast Lamb and vegetables
emma brooksbank 19/01/2016 at 5:35 pm
CYPRIOT STYLE ROAST CHICKEN WITH CUMIN ROAST POTATOES COOKS ALTOGETHER IN SAME DISH IT IS GORGEOUS!!
Eva Appleby 19/01/2016 at 5:51 pm
Fiona JK42 19/01/2016 at 6:06 pm
Audrey Odriscoll 19/01/2016 at 6:13 pm
I’d love to cook a lovely roast lamb dinner with all the trimmings for my family with these great baking tins
I’d love to cook a lovely roast lamb dinner for my family with these great baking tins
Jo Meichtry 19/01/2016 at 6:18 pm
Chicken and mediterranean vegetables
Pauline Black 19/01/2016 at 6:20 pm
Roast chicken ! Yum!
Trevor Linvell 19/01/2016 at 6:26 pm
Quorn fillets
Rachel O'Leary 19/01/2016 at 6:38 pm
Roast potatoes!
Tracey baker 19/01/2016 at 7:35 pm
A sunday roast – Beef x
Erica Price 19/01/2016 at 7:43 pm
Rich Hill 19/01/2016 at 7:49 pm
I’d cook lots of lovely roast veg.
Suzanne Brown 19/01/2016 at 7:56 pm
Roast chicken – a little boring, but my husbands favourite!
Ioana Popescu 19/01/2016 at 8:07 pm
MICHELLE KEMP 19/01/2016 at 8:14 pm
Claire Nelson 19/01/2016 at 8:22 pm
Elizabeth Gurney 19/01/2016 at 8:31 pm
Roast potatoes !!
Joanna Sawka 19/01/2016 at 8:37 pm
Rachel B 19/01/2016 at 8:38 pm
I’d make chicken cacciatore
LEE HARDY 19/01/2016 at 8:48 pm
A tasty Roast Chicken
Matt Brasier 19/01/2016 at 8:49 pm
Toad in the hole. Yum!
Kelly L 19/01/2016 at 8:50 pm
Em S 19/01/2016 at 9:15 pm
Roast leg of pork
Tracy 19/01/2016 at 9:15 pm
I’d use it to make one tin salmon and veggies
Caroline Signey 19/01/2016 at 9:19 pm
Katie Hodges 19/01/2016 at 9:20 pm
Roast veggies 🙂
Sunday roast 🙂
David Price 19/01/2016 at 9:25 pm
Rachel Wise 19/01/2016 at 9:27 pm
Roasted potatoes and veg
MichelleD 19/01/2016 at 9:41 pm
Roast potatoes with lamb!
Lynsie Lynn 19/01/2016 at 9:57 pm
I love these roasting tins – And I would cook A huge toad in the hole for the
family! They love it!! Or roast beef and roast potatoes, I do love a good
traditional roast! 🙂 Thanks for the opportunity 🙂
Jacqueline Knights 19/01/2016 at 10:11 pm
My boys love a roast, I would do some nice veggie food or fish. (Last night cod with home made pesto and tomatoes, yum!)
Georgina sudron 19/01/2016 at 10:11 pm
My pork steaks as I love to have these once a week ooh I could do with a new roasting tin
Judith H 19/01/2016 at 10:21 pm
Roast Chicken with all the veg in together!
Nicole S 19/01/2016 at 10:24 pm
Emma rawlinson 19/01/2016 at 10:43 pm
A veggie casserole 🙂
Natalie Crossan 19/01/2016 at 10:44 pm
Sarah B 19/01/2016 at 10:52 pm
I’d do a piece of roast belly pork.
Susan naylor 19/01/2016 at 10:52 pm
Roast beef and roast potatoes.
Amy Jo McLellan 19/01/2016 at 11:12 pm
Anything and everything but first, some chicken!
denise s 19/01/2016 at 11:18 pm
chicken and chorizo tray bake
Herbert Appleby 19/01/2016 at 11:20 pm
every thing from roast spuds to chicken to veges
Natalie Gillham 19/01/2016 at 11:43 pm
I would cook a one pot chicken roast 🙂
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CEDAR Audio DNS 2 Dialog Noise Suppressor
Portable Ambience Reduction for Post and Live
B.Hickey ⋅ Oct 27, 2016
When recording production sound or interviews in the field, background noise is a constant reality. Location scouts do their best to find quiet locations before a shoot, gaffers do their best to keep generators at a safe distance from the set, and we all try to wait out planes, trains and automobiles before we do a take. But despite these efforts, noise still rears its head. Years ago, persistent background noise was enough to render a recording unusable, necessitating a rebuild of the scene using ADR and Foley in post-production. These days, it is easy to take for granted the plethora of tools available for cleaning up the sound and salvaging takes after the capture has taken place.
Most of the go-to modern solutions to audio repair and restoration are either CEDAR Audio products, or they can trace their roots back to CEDAR Audio. Since the late 1980s, the company has been creating revolutionary products, which have unveiled the beauty of historic archival recordings and rescued problematic contemporary audio alike. With a focus on efficiency and ease of use, one of the hallmarks of their real-time repair tools has always been near-zero latency processing, even in the early days of digital audio processing.
A few years back, CEDAR introduced the DNS 8 Live, a streamlined, 8-channel “dialog noise suppressor.” The product was designed for live sound, theater, broadcast or any application where the quick and clean removal of persistent background noise would be beneficial. The idea was that a clean sample of background noise could be “learned” by the processor. The unit was then designed to cancel this noise pattern, even when it was combined with desirable audio, discarding the unwanted signal and leaving only the clean speech.
CEDAR’s latest product, the DNS 2, employs this technology, borrowing from the DNS 8 Live’s design while providing an ultra-portable 2-channel noise removal solution. The small size and compact form factor make it a welcome addition to a production mixer bag, while its sonic quality and variety of I/O options make it right at home in a studio environment.
The DNS 2 processor is housed in a sturdy steel chassis about 4.5 inches wide, 6.5 inches deep and just over 1.75 inches tall. All of the connectors are mounted on the left and right edges of the unit. There are no connectors on the back panel, so when it sits in your mixer bag, everything is readily accessible. A pair of XLR inputs on one side of the unit receives input signals, while a pair of XLR outputs on the other side pass the processed audio. AES3 digital I/O is possible through an XLR input and output.
Because production mixers rarely have insert points across their inputs, it is only logical that the DNS 2 has its own mic preamps—and they sound superb, providing up to 78 dB of gain. They are clean, fast and quiet. The low end is full, and the midrange detail is right on par with the Sound Devices preamps that I am used to. Phantom power is provided and can be switched on individually between the two preamps. I appreciate the fact that analog outputs are provided for use with purely analog mixers, while the AES3 option is great for feeding the cleanest possible signal to a digital production mixer or recorder. The AES3 option is also handy when using the DNS 2 to process previously recorded audio in post.
The front panel provides a good amount of control and visual feedback while maintaining a simplicity that is desirable when working on set. Each channel has three dedicated controls and an LCD display showing important feedback. Each channel has a button that engages and disengages the noise removal process. There is also a “learn” button that, when engaged, collects background information to build its noise-removal algorithm. The last control is a rotary control with an integrated push-button. In one status, it can operate as the mic preamp level control, while flipping to another page of metering allows this control to adjust the noise suppression effect.
When looking at the input level page, the LCD displays the input signal level. When the menus have returned to the primary display page, the LCD provides three pieces of information. One meter, extending upward on the right side of the display, shows the persistent level of background noise as calculated by the processor. A “bias” setting can allow the operator to set the level at which the unit begins to detect noise. It seems that the best practice is to tune the bias so that it sits just above the noise floor meter, for the cleanest, un-compromised signal. Another meter descends from the top of the display showing the amount of attenuation being applied.
Both the bias and attenuation are metered with bar-graph style visuals as well as numerical values. When fully cranked, the DNS 2 will provide up to 20 dB of attenuation of the learned signal. That said, excessive use with aggressive settings could eat into desirable signal that is supposed to pass unaffected. Because of this, tinkering back and forth between these two controls can produce an effective compromise between signal and noise allowed to pass through.
While the visuals are very slick and responsive, there were two little things that bothered me regarding controls. First, when no buttons were pressed for three or four seconds, the unit would default back to primary status, where the meters display attenuation and the rotary controls it. I often felt like the control would flip back to this status too quickly. If I took a second to listen to a change in settings, and then went to make another move, it would already be back to the default setting. It would be nice if the user could set the delay or bypass this function altogether.
The other subtle thing that bothered me was that the “learn” and bypass pushbuttons don’t latch or depress. Instead, each is backlit with a blue OLED indicating their two-way status. In bright sunlight, it was sometimes difficult to tell if they were illuminated or not. The LCD was always clearly visible, but sometimes I guessed on the “learn” control.
Taking the DNS 2 out in the field, it is important to keep expectations realistic. There are no internal batteries or onboard power. There are a variety of portable options providing 12V DC power through a four-pin XLR connector, such as an NP-1 battery cup or a Bescor power pack. However, you’ll need to pick one of them up to take the DNS 2 out without relying on a tap from the generator.
While the two inputs of the DNS 2 could be used for boom and lavelier, for example, the preferred method was to take advantage of the DNS 2’s linked-mono mode. There is an option where one microphone can be gained by a single mic preamp, and its signal can be split and fed to both channels of noise reduction processing. One channel can be processed more aggressively than the other, or one can even be bypassed. This way, the dialog editor has the choice of using the processed version or using noise reduction on the unprocessed signal.
When shooting in a typical suburban location with light, distant traffic wash and audible air conditioners, the DNS 2 performed very well. Using a Sennheiser shotgun closely placed in a tight frame and feeding a Sound Devices mixer, the steady ambient noise could be stripped to near non-existence. It was remarkable how clean the birds in the trees remained even while the rest of the environment disappeared. When one particular air conditioning unit with a higher, buzzy character would run, the DNS seemed to have trouble removing that sound. Aside from that one particular problem, it was like magic.
I had a similar experience shooting in a parking garage. Again, there was a lot of low rumble from the distant traffic, and nearby there was a low hum from a transformer of some kind. All of these lower frequency noises were removed incredibly well and the reverb tails were preserved with crystal-clear detail. On top of that, the dialog was pristinely crisp and detailed. It sounded like a studio recording with reverb on it. You would never know that the audio was recorded in the field.
I thought the DNS 2 might be able to come to the rescue and take care of the hissy sound that the running water was producing when shooting near a fountain. The unit locked onto the hum of the pump moving the water and effectively eliminated it, but there must have been too much randomness to the water’s sound. While a good chunk of noise was pulled from the lower midrange, the upper midrange still contained a persistent swirly hiss that could never be eliminated. The cicadas, which have been a rampant problem this summer, similarly seemed to waver too much for the DNS 2 to learn their pattern. The unit was able to greatly reduce their level, and overall their sound was much less distracting. However, anyone who listened to the recording still mentioned the cicadas being there.
In a lot of locations, airplane fly-bys were a recurring problem. Just to see what would happen, I learned the sound of an airplane as it flew by, and the DNS 2 locked onto that sound, no problem. The only issue was that when the actor would speak, it was almost like a frequency-specific gate would open, and there would be a little trace of the airplane after each word, as if the gate didn’t close back up fast enough. Maybe I could have fiddled with the bias control a little more and solved this because it was close to being useable.
I was never expecting full spectral repair given the simplicity of the operation. I would say that there are obvious benefits to capturing the cleanest possible production sound, rather than just expecting to repair the audio in post, and the DNS 2 is a positive step in that direction. When the pattern of noise was steady, and particularly when it was in the lower frequencies, the DNS 2 was eerily good at removing the problematic audio.
Many studios, meanwhile, appear to be really clean and quiet, but you never realize how loud their air conditioning is, or their proximity to traffic, until you try to record Foley. When recording cloth, for example, preamps will be gained up to really high levels, and you are recording layers upon layers in the same environment, so any small amount of noise doubles and triples and becomes more exaggerated with each layer.
The DNS 2 was designed for dialog, but because the iZotope RX Dialog Denoiser has served me well for real-time noise removal on Foley tracks, I was willing to give the DNS 2 a shot. Again, the preamps sounded great in the first place, and then the processor’s ability to strip away the light AC hum that had been magnified by the preamp was very impressive.
One frequent problem when de-noising Foley is that it is very difficult for these processors to distinguish between clothing movement (which sounds essentially like pink noise at times), and hissy background noise. Obviously, when cranked to the point that noise was completely gone, there were serious artifacts, but I was able to remove a substantial amount of noise before the garbled digital sound crept in. In this regard, the DNS 2 performed at least as well as I’ve come to expect from RX, but the added convenience of having a cleaner signal from the onset allowed me to get a better sense of how things were sounding stacked together. If you have been dealing with noise issues recording Foley in your facility, I’d highly recommend checking out the DNS 2 to solve those problems.
A Must Have?
If you are a production mixer or recordist who works on projects with quick turnaround times, the DNS 2 is your unit. Recording room tone is a courteous move and helps dialog editors match the sound between angles. Eliminating background noise altogether makes it even easier, and if the editor doesn’t have to take the time to do it, they can move a lot faster. If you are stuck doing Foley in studios that have loud AC or other noises, the DNS 2 will be your best friend. I could see equipment rental houses getting a return on this investment in no time. While the DNS 2 does still leave opportunities for full-on spectral repair in post, it greatly improves upon the most common and irritating problems that frequently occur on set.
COMPANY: CEDAR Audio
PRODUCT: DNS 2
WEBSITE: www.cedaraudio.com
PRICE: $3,999 (street)
PROS: Compact, great-sounding mic preamps, clean processed sound.
CONS: Requires external 12V power supply. Unit returns to the primary
status too quickly.
When booming on a dolly shot or Steadi-cam shot that travels from one space to another, use the DNS 2 in split-mono mode. Learn the first space on the first channel and then learn the second space on the second channel. On your mixer, ride the first fader down and the second fader up as you enter the second space. On both channels use light settings so that you aren’t painting the dialog editor into a corner.
Brandon T. Hickey is a professional recording engineer specializing in sound for film and studio work.
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