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Vetri sounds exciting, but I have never managed to get a reservation.
Glad to hear Amada was good. I must try it some time.
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Posted 16 November 2015 - 03:01 PM
Man about town.
Posted 17 November 2015 - 07:04 PM
Posted 17 November 2015 - 07:13 PM
It sounds like he'll still be running the restaurants he sold. But that might just be marketing bullshit.
MF Old
Posted 18 November 2015 - 03:16 AM
I haven't been to Vetri in probably a year or so. The first time I went was maybe 2010. I've been several times. The meal is always good, but yeah it can be variable. I've had a couple incredible meals there, and others that were merely very good. The previous chef, Adam Leonti, is going to be running the restaurant in the new Williamsburg Hotel. Don't think there's an opening date yet.
This is a pretty strange move. Probably good for Mr. Vetri from a financial perspective. I doubt it will be good for those of us who enjoy his restaurants. Now that Marc is just an employee like the rest of us working stiffs, he's about to find out that he can't just do anything he wants unless it satisfies the bean counters who really will be running the business.
Man about town.
Posted 18 November 2015 - 09:04 PM
I thought Urban Outfitters weren't very good at bean counting lately.
Posted 18 November 2015 - 11:16 PM
Vetri gave an article to PhillyMag describing what he thinks will happen
--UO is opening lifestyle centers in several locations, the pizza line will go with them
--the two existing UO cafe centers will be folded into his group
--where there's a UO store, there may be a trattoria from the group
He makes a point of saying Vetri the restaurant is not scalable. But the trattoria, the pizzeria, etc is eminently scalable and appeals to the same demographic as the UO
Posted 30 November 2015 - 06:44 PM
Very good burger at a.kitchen + bar -- the bar side. Looked like a great cocktail place but I just had a beer. That bar would definitely be on regular rotation for weekend afternoon post shopping if I still lived in the city.
Second time at Federal Donuts, first time ordering chicken. The buttermilk ranch was really awful. There was some weird "ranch" powder heavily sprinkled on it that tasted like un-reconstituted Knorr instant soup mix (don't ask me why I know this.) Also ordered was the honey version which I had a bite of, better than the ranch but meh. So given this was 1/3 of the savory menu I'm guessing it wasn't that we just ordered wrong. Donuts were fine but you know, donuts.
Brunch at White Dog, lovely waitstaff but my dish was a mess. Companion's dishes looked less messy but not particularly tempting either.
Vietnam solid, as always.
Posted 30 November 2015 - 09:39 PM
Man about town.
Posted 30 November 2015 - 10:03 PM
Will I be in Philly next weekend? Possible. Wish I knew for sure.


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all other ground is sinking sand
On Monday morning, I fly to Florida for six days of rest and relaxation paired with snuggling my 9-month-old, now-crawling nephew and sister hangouts. Much of me is infinitely excited for this trip, but the exhausted part of me can't be excited yet because of the mountainous to-do list I still have to wade through before that flight takes off at 6:15am.
I have been tired for a long time. Yesterday, my mentor described it as bone weariness. She said those words while she prayed over my trip and by that point I was already trying not to let my tears turn into full blown sobs, so all I could do was nod my head in agreement.
As we neared the end of 2016, I began to feel the weight of my exhaustion. But I told myself everyone felt that way — it hadn't exactly been a great year for many of us. January rolled around and I seemed to shake it off for a bit. After all, it was a new year full of new possibilities and the only way to step into the new is to shake off the old. That excitement lasted for a few weeks, but as my birthday rolled around, the weight of exhaustion began to set in again.
I've mentioned it here before, but in 2014 I prayed the smallest big prayer of my life. I came out of 2013 almost as drained as I feel now, but it was more in a whiplash kind of way where a lot of big things had happened all at once. This kind of exhaustion is something entirely different.
When I asked the Lord to teach me how to trust Him, I can truthfully say I didn't know what I was getting myself into because, since I prayed that prayer, my life has been in perpetual chaos.
At a birthday dinner with some of my girlfriends, as we discussed the fact that, once again, my job and my housing are up in the air, I said I just wanted something to be stable. One friend commented that she thinks I'd get bored if things were stable, and there's an element of truth to this — I am certainly a person who can get bored quite easily — but perpetual instability in significant areas of life like housing and a job are far more exhausting than many people realize.
For the last three years, either my job or my housing has been in question. As soon as one seems to stabilize, the other knocks loose and is up in the air for any number of months. And then that one will stabilize and the other will knock loose again. Right now, they're both up in the air because my job is only temporary and I'm preparing for my ninth move in seven years.
Three years of instability and perpetual chaos has resulted in a heart that trusts the Lord for His provision infinitely more than it did three years ago, but also a heart that is weary in ways a week in Florida could never fix.
I know marriage doesn't automatically fix things or make life any easier, but I've had moments where I've wondered if the instability of the last three years wouldn't have been so exhausting if I hadn't had to go through it alone, if I'd had a person to lean on when it all just feels like too much.
In recent days, my prayer has been that birthday dinner sentiment — for something to be stable. Just one thing. That's all I want.
And every time I pray that prayer, the words of that old hymn ring in my head, "On Christ the solid rock I stand, all other ground is sinking sand, all other ground is sinking sand."
Something is stable, even when it doesn't feel that way. Or rather, Someone. Even when life rages all around and seems full of nothing but chaos and uncertainty, the Rock of Ages is there, solid and stable and completely unwavering. Too often do I forget this. Though storms may rage all about me and my job and my living situation and other big elements of my life are out of my control, I can rest in the stability of the Rock that is higher than I.
The state of my heart might surprise a lot of people, because I hide it well. I don't write about it and I don't talk about it but to a select few. Instead I smile and say that sure, everything is great, I'm just a little tired. But that isn't a true story. This exhaustion and uncertainty and discouragement is a messier story, to be sure, but Christ didn't shy away from the messy, incomplete stories, so why do we?
I don't expect this bone weariness to disappear overnight. I cling to the knowledge that He does give strength to the weary, that His yoke is easy and His burden is light, but also recognize that He sometimes tears down to build up. He creates beauty out of ashes, but the ashes have to be there first.
There have been a lot of moments where I've asked God for some kind of clarity or bit of direction, and He has yet to provide any solid answers. I suppose there's more that I have to experience before the knowledge that He is the only thing that will ever be stable and solid truly sinks in.
My hope is build on nothing less
Than Jesus' blood and righteousness;
I dare not trust the sweetest frame,
But wholly lean on Jesus' name
On Christ, the solid Rock, I stand;
All other ground is sinking sand.
When darkness veils His lovely face
I rest on His unchanging race;
In every high and stormy gale
My anchor holds within the veil.
On Christ, the solid Rock, I stand;
All other ground is sinking sand.


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Neil Thewarapperuma (or Neil T to his friends) isn't a man to mince his words. He was the European marketing boss for EA Sports back in 1993, the year the publisher would launch its first ever football game.
He wasn't wrong. EA didn't care about FIFA, or soccer at all for that matter. The US publisher had no interest in a sport that was practically non-existent in its home country.
But the persistent bloody-mindedness of EA's European outfit made FIFA happen. And it was this team who would go on to work alongside a small group of talented developers some 5,000 miles away, to build what would become one of the biggest video game franchises in the world.
This is how they did it.
"They didn't think we were going to sell a single copy of this. They thought it would be a complete disaster."
- Marc Aubanel, FIFA International Soccer Assistant Producer
The voices calling for an EA football title were numerous.
In the US, EA Sports Network (or ESN, as it was called back then before ESPN asked them to change it) was a sales juggernaut thanks to the likes of NHL and Madden. Over in Europe, however, these games were non-entities.
We did some research and found that 90 per cent of C&VG magazine readers loved football," says David Gardner, the sales and marketing boss for EA Europe at the time.
So we realised that if we wanted to bring the EA Sports brand to Europe we needed a football game."Members of the UK team lobbied the US to let them build one. And even EA Canada's Bruce McMillan, a Chelsea supporter who would go on to lead the FIFA development team, tried to persuade the EA hierarchy to build a football game.
I said that we should be in the worldwide football business. But when I first said that, EA was like: 'well we are already in the football business with Madden.' I said: 'No, I mean proper football'."
EA eventually said yes, driven in part by EA Europe's lofty sales predictions. Yet the UK team didn't have a development studio at the time, and Mega Drive dev kits were hard to come by. So the team set out to find some local devs to help build them a prototype.
Myself and my colleague Jon Law were developing something and we were hoping that EA would sign it," explains Jules Burt, a UK indie developer at the time, working in Widnes, Cheshire.
I remember someone from EA travelling all the way up north to visit us, where he told us our creative project wasn't going ahead. However, he also had news of another game they wanted us to help develop – soccer."
That 'someone' who visited them was producer Matt Webster, one of the few members of the original FIFA team that still works at EA today, now at Need for Speed developer Criterion.
These guys had a Sega Genesis development kit," recalls Webster.
I don't know where they got it, I probably don't really want to know, because at the time EA couldn't even get one.
Jon and Jules had done three tests for us. One was a side scrolling pitch, one was a forwards into the screen pitch, and the other was an isometric pitch.I remember going up there and saw the isometric pitch and thought: 'Wow this is interesting'."Burt adds: We'd already created a prototype for a beach volleyball game on the Sega Genesis [Mega Drive in Europe], so the first attempt we had was to create a similar soccer experience.
"It was rendered side on and layered with parallax to give the depth effect – similar to a moving TV camera on the sidelines."We realised the view just wasn't right – although it looked good – for soccer, and that we needed to see the field and goals for strategy. So at the time isometric was the potential alternative, and certainly would suit a more real TV view."
Jules Burt and Jon Law never got to turn their prototype into a full game, although EA did go on to hire the pair of them. Instead there was capacity at one of EA's new studios to build EA Soccer (which was the game's working title), 5,000 miles away in Vancouver, Canada.At the time it was soul destroying to see it go to Canada for development," says Law. But in truth there was no way that we'd have been able to deliver the game to the quality needed."The original EA Canada FIFA development team was tiny. Barely ten full-time developers worked on the project. Bruce McMillan led the team, alongside his good friends Jan Tian and new recruit Joey Della-Savia.
McMillan says: The original team was very small and I worked very closely with the lead programmer, Jan Tian. Jan was Chinese and had a real passion for football. Joey was my development manager, and we had this team that seemed to get better every day. He and I were very, very close. He hadn't shipped a game before but was a super people person. The team loved him. So that gave me the chance to be a super hard-nosed producer."
THE FIFA TEAM: (Clockwise from top left) Jon Bruce, John Santamaria, Jan Tian, Linda Stansfield, Bruce McMillan, Joey Della-Savia, Lee Patterson, Jeff Van Dyck, Kevin Pickell, Mike Smith, Suzan Germic, Dianna Davies, Brian Plank and David Adams. Not pictured: Marc Aubanel and George Ashcroft
FIFA had plenty of competition at the time. The market leaders were Sensible Soccer and Kick Off, with their top-down viewpoints. If EA had any chance of competing, it had to do something different.Sensible Soccer was very popular at the time," recalls Tom Stone, who worked under Gardner in the UK team, primarily on FIFA.But that was a top-down game and we thought if we could bring all of the values of EA Sports to a football game, with the realism of Madden or NFL, then we'd do well."McMillan adds: We really tried to live by the 'If it's in the game, it's in the game'; it had to be authentic, it had to feel correct."Central to this realism was this new isometric viewpoint, originally proposed by Burt and Law, but then improved upon and finalised by EA Canada's Jan Tian. It may look old today, but at the time this new look was revolutionary.Everything about that first game was like: How the fuck did they do this?' You had the isometric view, you had these player animations, which I put on the box," says Neil T. They were so impressive."
"It was only later we discovered there were no player names, likenesses, or team logos included with the FIFA licence."
- David Gardner, former EA Studios boss
Part of the game's quest for realism saw the UK team seek out an official licence. EA had secured official player names, stadiums and teams for its Madden and NHL games, and EA wanted the same for its new football title.
We started discussing a name for the game. It was just called EA Soccer at this time," says Webster.
And a few of us said that if we were follow the EA Sports tradition, then we should go for the official association, which was FIFA.
I ended up making the first call to FIFA's press secretary, I explained who we were and he gave us the details of the FIFA marketing agent. Then I handed it off to Tom Stone."
Stone continues: My first job at EA was to get on a plane and fly to Switzerland to see FIFA.
We met the head of ISL marketing who were the representatives of FIFA, and we shook hands on a deal there and then over dinner.
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Right keywords
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Quality objectives are a clear requirement in their own right as opposed to being just a part of the policy. They must be established in support of the policies and focus on meeting product requirements and achieving continual improvement.
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Establish and maintain documented quality objectives and targets, at each relevant function and level within the organization. The objectives and targets establish an important link between the policies and the management programmes.
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It was so sad to hear of the passing of Gene Wilder. His film with Richard Pryor, Stir Crazy was on TV recently and 36 years after its first release; it still made me laugh out loud. Such a talent and still the better Willy Wonka.
A 0.4% rise in US personal income and a 0.3% rise in expenditure in the month to July will add weight to the calls for interest rate rises from the Federal Reserve. Last week finished with the Chair of the Federal Reserve offering few clues to the timing of the next US rate hike but late in the year is the best bet and maybe early into next year is almost as likely. The markets took these comments as quite hawkish and the US Dollar strengthened as a result. There is US data this week but nothing will top Friday's August employment report and that is forecast to be bullish. Hence, we think the US Dollar could end the week even stronger. The Sterling – USD rate is hovering just above $1.30.
Sterling is stable against the Euro even after the German Vice Chancellor warned that the EU would suffer if the Brexit negotiations are handled badly. He warned that further Brexit type votes could put the future of the EU in doubt.
We had much improved Japanese retail sales data overnight and the Yen stopped weakening at least. It even regained a little ground against the US Dollar.
The rest of the week brings a wave of Purchasing Managers indices from around the world. You'll remember that the Pound slumped when the first post-Brexit-vote PMIs were very poor. However, we are expecting some sort of recovery in these indices this week, so there is scope for Sterling strength if that is so. The Pound is faced with, what ought to be slightly poorer UK mortgage lending data though. That could put a dampener on things.
Other than these, there isn't a lot of tier one data but plenty of middling releases which can still surprise and cause volatility. However, it is the last week of the month and the first couple of days of the next, so there will be volatile trading in the next 48 hours.
And a family in Mexico has been reunited with the grandfather they thought they had seen cremated a few weeks earlier. Miguel Angel Gomar De Luna, escaped from his nursing home and went on a drinking spree. When the police were called to track him down, they found a body but it was impossible to identify it. Hence a cremation took place but Miguel was just dead drunk and not actually dead. His 'resurrection' happened two months after he left the nursing home and now the family has to try to re-establish his ID after filing him as deceased.
Three vicars are talking over tea and sandwiches at a village fete. The first says, "We have a dreadful rat problem in St Steven's. Can't get rid of the little blighters."
"I know what you mean," says the second vicar. "At St Michael's, we tried poison, traps and even had a chap come out to shoot them but there are always more than you know."
"We had a rodent problem at Saint Bart's but I have arrived at a sort of solution." Said the third priest.
With that, the other two sat up and paid attention.
He carried on, "We baptised the lot of 'em. Now they only show up at Christmas and Easter."


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The Old 97's played historic Gruene Hall this past Friday night, returning for the first time since the recording of the double live album Alive & Wired oh so many years ago. It wasn't quite as sweltering as those summer dates, but remarkably hot nonetheless, in every sense of the word. The sold-out crowd was a fun mix of Austin hipsters, San Marcos Greeks, and a good number of us "old enough to know better" types. Enjoy some video from the show below.
The Other Shoe
Four-Leaf Clover
Stoned (featuring The O's)
State of Texas (featuring Caitlin Rose)
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Mal wasn't around this morning so her assistant Joanne helped me with my Nails and her skills is as superb as Mal! 😀 Can't wait to show you guys how awesome is my nails!
And here's the sneak pic of my nails! Do read throughout the whole post for the full designs!
Was served with Tea with this lovely vintage roses tea cup. @-'-,–
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Here's the outcome!
At first, I was a bit reluctant to put on the 3D crystal ribbon on my nails. From my past experience, most of the salon will use glue to stick on the accessories which doesn't last long. I was worried that the ribbon will drop off while I washing my hair or doing my chores. But Joanne is very skillful she used the acrylic powder to stick on the ribbon and make sure all the gaps was filled with acrylic powder so the ribbon will stick on tightly. I was so amazed by her skills and very satisfied with the end result! Totally love it!
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As the capital city of Australia, Canberra is the home to many businesses and commercial establishments. As a result, construction and engineering firms hire a professional building surveyor. This professional provides technical advice in:
- Design and development of new buildings
- Maintenance and restoration of existing buildings
- Planning and preparation of detailed reports for assessment
Professional surveyors play a huge part in design, planning and construction. This is especially the case at present when there are strict requirements and modern practices.
3D Laser Scanning
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Its a day of mixed feelings. It was much simpler when I was a kid. Back in the school days, 15th August was always associated with joy and celebrations. Neatly dressed in whites and wearing the immaculate white shoes polished diligently the previous night, we reached the school play ground earlier than the usual. One could feel the air of festivity as we were rushed to stand in line for the flag hoisting program. Ad mist the murmurs of the students with occasional hushes and teachers with a cane in the hand patrolling the ground, we used to watch the decoration of the dais unfolding.
A cloth banner with the map of India is neatly hung at the center of the dais, with the support of three vertically arranged school benches. The tri colors of Indian flag appear inside the map, with the wheel appearing at the center, contrasting sharply with the white color of the cloth banner. The flag pole located right next to the dais is neatly decorated with the three colors. And the flag is already mounted at the top, waiting to be hoisted by the chief guest of the function. The flag hoisting, the patriotic songs, speeches by teachers and students followed by snacks distribution formed the core of the event. We rushed back to home happily munching the snacks that usually consisted of some mixture and a sweet. It was such a simple life. What a joy that was!
As the years went by, my association with Independence day has been mixed. Thats why they say ignorance is bliss. Though I still get goosebumps whenever I hear a moving patriotic song, there are hundred questions swarming in my mind. What are we celebrating? Why are we celebrating in spite of the fact that millions of people in the country are undernourished while the food grains in Government godowns are left to rot and perish? Millions of people do not have access to clean water, proper housing, minimum medical facilities, basic education and many more. How did the liberation of India from the British freed the common man from these problems?
The dynasty that ruled this country for more than ninety percent of the time after independence spear headed by the mindless and useless ideologies of one man, sucked the blood out of every Indian only to satisfy his egoistic ecstasy. The unhealed wound inflicted by partition and its aftermath is only one of the nightmares manifested due to the zillion blunders committed by him and the party. Yet, they have no self respect and continue to feed on the corpses left behind after the catastrophic and systematic misgovernance of the country. While his daughter hurled us into a bigger misery with her tyrannical regime, the current queen controls the whole country through a puppet. As we enter the 65th anniversary of our independence, the prince is getting ready to get his share of this idiosyncrasy and we, as people, are thoughtless, shameless and spineless to allow it to happen. The opposition is in a bigger shamble in itself giving unquestioning liberty to the puppet and its masters to loot whatever is left in the country.
Our generation, including me, has no self respect. We always want to be in the safety net, have good careers and good pay cheque. It is 100% our fault that we are allowing the criminals to rule the country. We will continue to rot under the same system and we will continue to complain. Thats how we are and thats what we are.
Enough of my pessimistic outburst. Happy independence day! See this amazing video: The Silent Indian National Anthem (read about the video here).


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Frequently Asked Questions
What is the objective/effect of ESI
The aim is to achieve a genuine reduction in emissions of NOx, SOx and particulates, as well as CO2 in the longer term, to be achieved by initiating changes in behaviour among ship owners/operators and ports
How can the effect be measured retrospectively?
Bringing about changes of behaviour to use clean fuels and research in cleaner engines will take time. It will also be more effective when as many parties as possible sign up, support the initiative and participate. Initially the targets will focus on getting as many ports and - above all - as many ships as possible to participate.
What are the target groups
Target groups are all seagoing vessels, in the sense that the intention is to achieve changes in behaviour among ship operators / owners through incentives; this will happen even faster if many ports and service providers for these ships and users of these ships join the scheme too, and are also willing to promote these changes. That is why these parties also form part of the target groups. Seagoing vessels and ports are regarded as the primary target groups, and the remaining potential incentive providers as secondary target groups.
As a ship or an incentive provider do I have to pay a fee to participate in the ESI?
Ship Owners pay no fees for participation in the ESI Initiative. Incentive Providers are expected to contribute in the costs for any changes, additions, renewals, improvements, etc. of the ESI Website that have to be made from time to time.
Is there a punishment for not having a good ESI score?
The ESI is a system that can be used on a voluntary basis by ports and ships, and as a system for giving incentives, with responsibility for the accuracy of the data resting with the ship owners/operators. This may be checked by participating Incentive Providers thru auditing vessels as and when required. This approach has been discussed with the organisations representing shipping companies and consensus has been agreed. A condition stipulated by IAPH is that Incentive Providers may use the system only as a bonus system.
When using a NOx-reduction technique, what value for NOx-emissions should be entered ?
The EIAPP certificate issued for such an engine would show the reduced value for the NOx-emission expressed in g/kWh. This value should be entered in the appropriate column. Where in certain cases, these values are not included in the EIAPP certificate contact should be made with the ESI Administrator (email@example.com) to see whether the results of an independent survey may be entered into the data base.
Can more than one person be authorized to enter an account for a Ship Owner or a Port/IP, respectively ?
No, since only one email address per account can be registered. If the representative for the account would like to provide several persons in its organisation access to the account, it should be done through providing these persons with the login details of the account. It is suggested that login details are used that are not person dependant, e.g. "email@example.com". Pass words that are randomly produced by the ESI database are somewhat cumbersome; participants are advised to change them to something more convenient yet secure.
Is an Onshore Power Supply(OPS) system installed on board ?
The opening page of "Ship Input" under the tab "Ship" contains the following question: "Is the ship fitted with an Onshore Power Supply OPS Installation (irrespective of use)?". This question can only be answered "Yes" where the ship is fitted with an installation that would allow power supply from the shore capable of providing the vessel's full load when carrying out all operations in port that the vessel has been designed for, such as cargo operations, pumping, lifting, etc. It should be ensured that the period between initial berthing and supply of power from the shore installation does not exceed three hours; logging details shall be produced and retained on board. However, where occasionally additional power from the ship is needed to carry out such operations, this power may be provided by on board generators; the period that such units are in operation shall however not exceed 5 % of the time that the ship is berthed in port at any one occasion; logging details shall be produced and retained on board. Under these conditions the ship maintains its OPS status. On smaller vessels such an installation would have a capacity about 0.5 to 1 MVA and in larger passenger vessels this would amount to 10 to 15 MVA. The installation is in addition to a standard shore power breaker for use during repair periods. Where such an installation is fitted, the ship board power generators can - and in some ports will - be switched off when the ship is at berth in a port. Classification Societies such as LR, BV, DNV-GL, etc. would as a matter of routine include such an installation in the ship's electrical plan/manual; occasionally a separate OPS certificate is issued. However, the presence of a certificate cannot serve as the sole proof that the installation is capable of providing the power for all ship operations that may have to be carried out in port. A positive answer will result in the addition of a fixed bonus of 35 ESI sub-points to the formula to calculate the ESI Score, irrespective of its use in port. To keep the ESI data base reliable and accurate as a source for providing incentives, it would be appreciated to ascertain the correctness of your answer to this question. An incorrect answer will eventually lead to the exclusion of the ship from the ESI database for a period of six months.
What is a Ship Energy Efficiency Management Plan SEEMP) and an Energy Efficiency Operational Indicator (EEOI) ?
MEPC 63 (March 2012) adopted - inter alia - important guidelines (resolution MEPC.213(63)) aimed at assisting the implementation of the mandatory regulations on the Ship Energy Efficiency Management Plan. The Ship Energy Efficiency Management Plan (SEEMP) is an operational measure that establishes a mechanism to improve the energy efficiency of a ship in a cost-effective manner. The SEEMP also provides an approach for shipping companies to manage ship and fleet efficiency performance over time using, for example, the Energy Efficiency Operational Indicator (EEOI) as a monitoring tool. The Ship Energy Efficiency Management Plan (SEEMP) is mandatory for all ships as from 1 January 2013. The guidance on the development of the SEEMP for new and existing ships incorporates best practices for fuel efficient ship operation, as well as guidelines for voluntary use of the EEOI for new and existing ships (MEPC.1/Circ.684). The EEOI enables operators to measure the fuel efficiency of a ship in operation and to gauge the effect of any changes in operation, e.g. improved voyage planning or more frequent propeller cleaning, or introduction of technical measures such as waste heat recovery systems or a new propeller. The SEEMP urges the ship owner and operator at each stage of the plan to consider new technologies and practices when seeking to optimize the performance of a ship. The ESI Working Group while acknowledging the above, has been considering a number of approaches to include an adjustment in the ESI score to take account of enhanced fuel efficiency of ships leading to reduced emissions of CO2 and consequent reductions in Green House Gases. A detailed discussion on this subject may be found in "Calculating the ESI CO2 score" on page 7 of the "ESI Fundamentals" that may be opened by clicking on the appropriate link in the section "Fundamentals & Presentation" on the ESI Home Page.
Could some more information be provided on how the ESI SOx sub points are calculated ?
For the calculation of the ESI SOx sub points the following fuel categories have been defined: HIGH 0.50 < S % < 3.50 (previously HFO or High sea) MID 0.10 < S % < 0.50 (previously HFO LS/MDO or ECA) LOW 0.00 < S % < 0.10 (previously MDO LS or Port) The MID category is included to allow more ships to benefit from the sub-points that are given for the use of low sulphur fuel. MDO/Gasoil with a sulphur content over 0.5 % is included in the HIGH category. Fuel oils with a sulphur content of less than 0.1 % have cleaner emission characteristics and their use is mandatory in (Sulphur) Emission Control Areas (S)ECA's; in certain ports and their approaches comparable requirements are in place. These characteristics are the reason that the MID and LOW category fuels carry more weight in the formula for determining the ESI SOx. Furthermore the calculation method is designed to stimulate the use of the cleanest fuel and this is done by giving bonus points if clean fuels are bunkered in favour of those with higher sulphur contents. The maximum number of sub-points that may theoretically be obtained is 100 where HIGH fuel with sulphur content between 3.50 and 0.50 % carries a weight of 30 sub-points while MID and LOW fuels weigh in with both 35 sub-points. The formula to calculate the ESI SOx sub points is x * 30 + y * 35 + z * 35 where x = the relative reduction of the average sulphur content a of HIGH; y = the relative reduction of the average sulphur content b of MID and z = the relative reduction of the average sulphur content c of LOW. The data of the Bunker Delivery Notes (BDNs) for fuels delivered on board of a vessel in the previous two quarters are used for the calculations. We take a simple example and assume that in a particular two quarter period the vessel bunkered all three types of fuel with the following data: HIGH 100 tonnes @ 2.00 % S (a), MID 100 tonnes @ 0.30 % S (b) and LOW 50 tonnes @ 0.05 % S (c). The next data we need to consider are the baselines for the various fuels and that is where the IMO rules come into the picture with 3.50 % S for HIGH and 0.1 % S for LOW; the ESI Working Group has set the baseline for MID at 0.50 %. The relative reduction may now be calculated as follows: • HIGH: x = (3.50 – a) / 3.0 = 0.5, • MID: y = (0.50 – b) / 0.4 = 0.5 and • LOW: z = (0.10 – c) / 0.1 = 0.5. We can now calculate the ESI SOx sub points for these two quarters: ESI SOx = 0.5 x 30 + 0.5 x 35 + 0.5 x 35 = 15.0 + 17.5 + 17.5 = 50.0 (16.13). In the main formula for calculating the ESI Score, the sum of the sub-scores is divided by 3.1; the result of this division is the number shown in brackets. Now, how is the use of cleaner fuels rewarded in the calculation: actually the average sulphur content for any fuel type that is more polluting and that is not bunkered is set at the lowest value of its category viz. 0.5 and 0.1 % S for HIGH and MID fuel oils respectively; consequently the full amount of sub-points for any dirtier fuel allowed but that is not bunkered, is given as a reward. Continue with the above example and assume that the ship doesn't bunker any HIGH but only MID and LOW fuels and the above rule would result in ESI SOx = 1.0 x 30 + 0.5 x 35 + 0.5 x 35 = 30 + 17.5 + 17.5 = 65 (20.97). Further cleaning up of the act and only bunkering LOW fuel oil would lead to the even higher value for ESI SOx = 1.0 x 30 + 1.0 x 35 + 0.5 x 35 = 30 + 35 + 17.5 = 82.5 (26.61). The latter is however only applicable for vessels that have sailed in- and outside (S)ECA's during the reporting period; where ships sailed in (S)ECA's only, the 30 sub points for the HIGH range are not added. The reason for this is that incentives are not provided for mandatory items and in (S)ECA's vessels may only use LOW fuel oil; however, if the vessel did actually sail outside the (S)ECA while continuing to only use LOW fuel oil, the HIGH bonus will be added. In order to prove this, - the number of days spent or - the name(s) of a maximum of two ports visited outside the (S)ECA during the reporting period has to be entered into a box in a section of the data entry page that will open after appropriate questions have been answered positively.
With irregular supplies of MDO/Gasoil LS how are data entered to maintain representative weighing in the ESI Score ?
It is recognized that there may not be general availability of LOW fuel oil in all ports of the world requiring vessels that are using these fuels to bunker at longer and/or more irregular intervals than would normally be expected. In such cases the ESI Administrator may be consulted for assistance to enter BDNs into the data base. As a general approach in considering this issue it is assumed that the period between two LOW fuel oil bunker supplies does not exceed one year; where no supplies have taken place in the 6 month reporting period, any fuel supplied during the two quarters preceding the reporting period may be evenly split over the three or four quarters respectively of that whole 9 or 12 month period provided that at least one port was visited in any such quarter.
Are data that are entered into the data base verified or certified ?
The ESI approach is relying on self declaration and does not require any data to be verified or certified by third parties; the data provided are randomly checked for inconsistencies and for obvious mistakes. In practice, whenever high scores are observed, the data will be scrutinized and where they seem to be somewhat unlikely, the data provider/ship operator will be invited to provide copies of the underlying BDNs and certificates to the ESI Administrator; in the past years there were just a few cases that warranted a closer inspection and in all cases the data were correct. However in addition, a few ports that are incentive providers and employ professional ship inspectors have been authorized to perform audits on ESI's behalf. Please refer to the Terms of Use, section 10.4 Auditing.
How to deal with varying NOx emission values in EIAPP certificates?
Certain vessels are provided with two sets of EIAPP certificates viz. one set with data for nominal power output and another set for reduced power or turbo charger cut out; in other cases engines have been fitted that can be operated using either HIGH or MID fuel oil. Where such situations give rise to varying NOx emission values, the emission values resulting in the lowest ESI NOx sub points should be entered in the appropriate boxes of the ESI NOx questions.
Is a list available that shows all the Incentive Providers ?
To receive a copy of the latest list of Incentive Providers please contact the ESI Administrator at email@example.com
Will be the use of LNG rewarded with points
The use of LNG will be rewarded indirectly. There are a lot of beneficial points in the sub scores NOx and SOx possible. At the NOx sub score the LNG engines have normally an emission level of Tier 3, which is rewarded with minimum 53 NOx sub points. At the SOx sub score the use of LNG creates a high amount of points due to the Sulphur content of Zero.
- ECA Emission Control Area
- EEOI Energy Efficiency Operational Indicator
- EIAPP Engine International Air Pollution Prevention
- IAPP International Air Polllution Prevention
- IMO International Maritime Organization
- PM10 Particulate Matter < 10 µm
- SEEMP Ship Energy Efficiency Management Plan


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Ontario top appeals court rules it just fine if police want to snoop around a suspect's cellphone – so long as there's no password, or then they have to ask permission.
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FJO: All of the bowed piano music you've done feels somehow interrelated; it builds upon itself and connects in ways that is not true for most composers. Do you think of your music as individual compositions meant to exist autonomously, or is it a continuous body of work that keeps evolving?
SS: I guess I like to have it both ways, because when you perform a piece on a concert or it's heard on the radio or whatever, it more or less stands by itself, particularly if the people listening don't know all the other work. I would be vain if I thought that many people know what I have done beside myself, maybe a few friends. But certainly I can look back and see a long progression, as you say, the work building upon itself. One of the most exciting ways that that happens is I have players doing things now that eight years ago the players would not have considered possible, and I wouldn't have considered it possible. And fifteen years ago the things that were happening eight years ago were inconceivable. For example, playing very fast melodies with 16th and 32nd notes and using both hands for ornaments with pieces of nylon, and one person playing a note in hocket. Well, it takes five people to play a simple melody of five notes. That's just an example, but each group gets better than the last group.
FJO: Do you ever find yourself going back to the older works and touching them up?
SS: I haven't done that. Well, for example, on the program we're putting together for a tour in the spring, we're doing an old piece. We're doing Rainbows, which was from 1981. It wasn't the earliest, but it was one of the earliest pieces. I hadn't listened to it for a long time and then I listened to it on a CD and I thought it still stands by itself. So it will be a nice foil for this new vocal piece that I'm making which also has a lot of what I consider advanced techniques. But I don't go back and rewrite those pieces. There's one piece that we let drop for a while; it wasn't in our repertoire. It was called Arcs. It's a piece that's on the same recording as Rainbows, but was not on the original vinyl release. I brought that back into our repertoire at one point and I thought I could improve it compositionally. So I did make some changes. I added a long sort of coda section which brings back some material that had happened earlier.
FJO: So it's different than what's on the recording?
SS: No, the recorded version is actually the more recent one. I composed that piece in 1980 and I think I revised it in 1985.
FJO: The revisions that you're addressing are compositional rather than technical. What if someone came up with a new way of producing a sound that would work better than the sound that's in the version that you wrote when you wrote it because you didn't know that sound was there?
SS: [laughs] I guess I wouldn't rule that out, but I guess part of the excitement for me is when I discover some new sonic material to see what it suggests compositionally rather than the other way around, rather than reorchestrating another piece.
FJO: The earliest pieces for bowed piano, like Rainbows and what came before that, really do seem like etudes in those techniques. This is something that can be done and here it is; listen to it happen. But then you started doing larger pieces that seem to be about much more than that. Bowed piano is the medium but it's not an end in itself. Minerva's Web and The Tears of Niobe, for example, seem to be about how a minor second expands into larger intervals, and you can hear it.
SS: You have been listening haven't you!
FJO: Then in Vikings, there's a whole anthropological and historical narrative going on.
SS: Yeah, there is a sort of program to that.
FJO: What struck me when I read your notes was how deeply researched they were beyond the music. How important was that narrative to the music you wrote? Which came first?
SS: Actually, that was exactly the inspiration I had. I have been working some in Australia and lived there for a while. I also did a couple of tours there with my ensemble so I got quite interested in James Cook because he's a national hero, at least among the white population.
FJO: Not among anyone else?
SS: He's a controversial figure everywhere. I got interested in the stories and I hadn't composed any of the music. I was actually just reading for my own pleasure because I'm interested in sailing and in navigation, especially. I learned about the traditional celestial navigation for the Polynesians through reading some book about James Cook. That really got me intrigued and excited, that there was an alternative to and maybe an older and in some ways more precise way of navigating that had come from the East. We think all of our wonderful navigational instruments like sextants, compasses, and the marine chronometer, the clock and all that stuff were so cool because they allowed Cook to find these places and know what his longitude was, but there was this ancient tradition that was an alternative. That got me really excited. Then I started reading books about Polynesian navigation. The more I read, the more this music started happening. I started composing the piece in my head as I was doing that reading.
FJO: So you compose music in your head?
SS: I do, but I'm not one of those people who can hear or claims to be able to hear everything in his or her head and then just write it down. Maybe partly because I have a background in singing and I'm a former wind player, I can hear a lot of stuff in my head. And because I was a jazz player, too. That's one thing jazz improvisers do. They hear it, either it's just before or as they're performing. I was never a great jazz player, but I have some competence in improvising on chord changes and all that. So I do get ideas in my head. I can't get them out of there until I notate them or figure out how I'm going to use them. Or I just write them down and forget about them, throw them in a heap and never use them.
FJO: Do you use standard Western notation? How does that work?
SS: Pretty much. Yeah.
FJO: So you're notating pitches and harmonies, but your music is all about timbre.
SS: Indeed. Well, I suppose in a way that would be similar to writing an orchestra piece. Sometimes I can see the sound that I want and then the melodic idea or the rhythmic idea will follow from that. I use the piano, by the way, to compose.
FJO: The keys of the piano?
SS: That's right. Well, I use the insides too. I sometimes compose in the abstract, just notes. Then I decide how to orchestrate it, just the way you might orchestrate a symphonic piece. Some orchestral composers don't work that way. They know what the timbre is when they hear it. But often it comes later.
FJO: So, since you'll have these ideas and then you'll flesh them out, do you ever come up with an idea for the ensemble that, given the nature of this ensemble, physically just doesnÕt work?
SS: Yes. And that's the great thing about rehearsing with your own ensemble, especially over a period of time. You can throw stuff out. You can recompose it during rehearsal. I do that often. It's easy for a player to say, "Oh, I can't do that. That can't be done. That hasn't been done before." And even these players who are automatically, by virtue of the fact that they're open, not about to say, "Oh, I can't play that high C on my bassoon," or whatever, they're just going to try to do it, and they'll say, "I canÕt do that." I try to somehow make it happen, or get them to make it happen.
FJO: So do you test an idea yourself before you throw it to other people?
SS: I do some. Some I don't.
FJO: Of course, you can't be 20 hands at once where this person needs to pass this person, like in a football game.
SS: Sure. There are those plays, like football plays almost, or choreography. Sometimes it's just literally not possible for a person to get from this end of the instrument to that end of the instrument in two beats to do something they have to do down there and they're the only person available to do it. Sometimes my ideas are just a little too impractical, so I'll make a change, but only when I'm forced to.
FJO: Do you always have an exact idea of what you want? Does any of this ever happen by chance? Someone will do something and there'll be a sort of an accidental thing and then that's kind of worked into the piece.
SS: Yes, definitely. I'm trying to think of a concrete example and I can't right off the bat. There are accidental sounds that are produced. I often do this myself. I still think of this as experimental, although that's a word fraught with difficulty, as we all know. I sometimes just go down into the studio where we have our own grand piano dedicated to this ensemble, a lovely luxury. There are so many places in the world where I wouldn't be able to do that. We have this beautiful room with a wood floor and a Baldwin piano, and that's mine. You know, I mean that it's mine for this work and that's great. So it's like my little laboratory in a sense. I'll go down and drop things on the strings. I'll do things to that piano that I wouldn't do to someone else's piano just because it's my piano, basically. So for example, the other day—we use magnets sometimes to fasten the nylon to make it taut, or to keep it out of the way of another piece of nylon, and we just put those on the frame, so they're not a musical device—but I started dropping those magnets on the strings, but also on the frame of the piano. Taking the magnets and just letting them go about two inches from the frame. Then they go thunk. As a lot of us know who work inside the piano, the steel frame inside, or the harp as it's called, is very resonant and has different pitches. Depending on what the length is and what sort of tension is on it and so forth, they're often played with mallets. George Crumb does a lot of that sort of stuff with mallets. But I discovered that this magnet makes a really beautiful sound. I haven't figured out how to use it yet. It was just an accident. I picked up magnets to move the bow that it was fastening down to the frame, and I let go of it and [claps hands together]. It wasn't like that. It was a beautiful, metallic, but almost drum-like sound at the same time—like a steal drum almost, without that finely honed sense of pitch. So, little accidents like that will sometimes materialize.
FJO: But there aren't any bowed piano improvisations, per se?
SS: Well, no. That's not exactly true. Even in Vikings of the Sunrise, but also in this newer recording of Paisajes Audibles there are a few improvised sections. It's pretty carefully controlled improvisation, but the details are left to the performers.
FJO: The details about specific pitches or about how they're played?
SS: Well, in one section that I'm thinking of in the Paisajes Audibles piece, the pitches are specified but not when they're played. So there's a little bit of an aleatoric character in it with the judgment of one player deciding when or how to respond to another player's part, but it's carefully controlled in terms of pitch. There's a section in Vikings of the Sunrise where there's a metric structure, but not all the details for the sounds, pitches if there are pitches, noises.
FJO: Is that the passage that sounds like a bunch of birds taking off?
SS: That's one of the figures—it's not really a figure because it's not set—but that's one of the kind of timbral/rhythmic devices I have going on.
FJO: Your compositions seem to gestate for a very long time or are there many more pieces than there are recordings?
SS: Not many more, but there are a few.
FJO: There seem to be eight year stretches between them. Is this how long something usually takes to reach completion?
SS: On the first recording, there's a span of maybe four years between the oldest and newest pieces. That was recorded in 1981. Recordings are fairly spread out. I was doing a new album every six to eight years. I think that's partly that the pieces take me a very long time. I'm slow. But it's also because I have other responsibilities. I teach.
FJO: You've also been creating big, ambitious pieces.
SS: They got bigger. There are a few pieces that aren't available on recording. There's one that I really hope could see the light of day, a collaborative piece we did with Terry Riley in 1990 with the ensemble essentially as accompanist to electric keyboard improvisations that Terry was doing in this just tuning that he developed.
FJO: Wow. So did you retune the bowed piano to the just intervals?
SS: We did. Terry did a piece around that time for the Kronos Quartet that was called Crow's Rosary and did some other pieces with this tuning he called the Rosary Tuning. It's a 13-limit just tuning, so you've got a lot of prime intervals in there. It's really gorgeous. So we did a live performance and then we made a recording of it. And Tom Lazarus, a long-time New Albion engineer, edited the recording and it's just kind of sitting there in limbo. But I'm hoping maybe during 2005, which is Terry's 70th birthday year, we'll either re-edit the piece, re-fashion it, or re-compose it, because neither of us was entirely happy with the way it ended up.
FJO: Now you say collaborative and improvised, but you can't really improvise in real time with the bowed piano since it involves the interaction of so many people.
SS: We did a little bit of improvisation, but most of what we were doing is what I would call orchestral textures. I composed some of those and he composed some of those. Or he'd jot down some ideas or send me a tape and then I'd orchestrate it. And then we spent a week together with the ensemble in rehearsal but also Terry and I just imagined this thing together, how it was going to move and work. It was really a collaborative composition which I know raises the hackles of a lot of people
FJO: One man: one work.
SS: Yup, there you go. I generally don't go in that route, either. But we just had something that was simpatico. I'd compose some texture, have the ensemble do a rough recording, send it to him and ask, "What do you think?" And he'd say: "I like this, I don't like that, or I started improvising over this in my studio and I think this is going to work."Sign up for our monthly NewMusicBox newsletter


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Johnson has 2 TD receptions, leads Colts over Texans 27-20
HOUSTON (AP) — Indianapolis coach Chuck Pagano isn't sure when Andrew Luck can play again.
Not to worry though. He's got the ageless Matt Hasselbeck to fill in.
Andre Johnson caught two touchdown passes from the 40-year-old Hasselbeck, the second for 2 yards in the fourth quarter, to help the Colts beat the Houston Texans 27-20 on Thursday night.
"Got the best backup in the league right now," Pagano said. "We could argue that."
Released by Houston in March after 12 seasons with the team, Johnson had six catches for 77 yards.
Hasselbeck won his second straight game filling in for Luck, who was out with a shoulder injury.
Hasselbeck's performance was even more impressive given the fact that he was battling a bacterial infection that hospitalized him this week. He started feeling ill just before halftime Sunday in a victory over Jacksonville and didn't start feeling better until Thursday night.
"I honestly feel like this isn't even real right now," Hasselbeck said.
Pagano raved about Hasselbeck.
"He was literally on his deathbed Monday/Tuesday and mustered up enough to come in Wednesday and practice," Pagano said. "He was getting IVs and fighting a virus and the grittiest performance I've seen in a long, long time."
Brian Hoyer, who replaced Ryan Mallett for Houston (1-4) in the second quarter, threw a pass up for grabs that was intercepted by Mike Adams with less than 2 minutes left to help the Colts (3-2) seal the victory.
Some things to know about the Colts' win over the Texans.
QUARTERBACK CAROUSEL: Mallett got the wind knocked out of him on an illegal hit midway through the second quarter and was replaced by Hoyer. Mallett was OK soon after that, but coach Bill O'Brien stuck with Hoyer, who finished with 312 yards passing with two touchdowns. Hoyer won the starting job out of camp but was benched after Week 1. He came in late in last week's loss Atlanta, but O'Brien started Mallett again on Thursday. After the game he wouldn't say who will direct the offense going forward.
"We'll review (the film) tomorrow and see where we are at that position," O'Brien said.
MIXED RECEPTION: Johnson, who is Houston's career receiving leader, drew boos from the home crowd when he grabbed a 23-yard reception late in the first quarter. Two plays later, he scored his first touchdown of the season when he was wide open in the back of the end zone for 4-yard reception that made it 10-0. Johnson laughed about the early boos and said the crowd warmed up to him later. "When I would be on the sidelines a lot of the fans were screaming, 'Andre we still love you! Come back to Houston! Welcome home!'" Johnson said. "So that was probably the most special thing."
A STRONG GAME: Houston rookie Jaelen Strong had his first two NFL receptions and they were both for touchdowns. Hoyer's desperation throw on the last play of the first half that Strong pulled down in a sea of Indianapolis defenders for a 42-yard touchdown strike cut the lead to 13-10. Strong boxed out two defenders and outjumped the others to reel in his first NFL catch. Strong's second catch and touchdown came on an 11-yard pass by Hoyer to get Houston to 20-17 in the third quarter.
STREAKING: The Colts extended their AFC South winning streak to an NFL-record 16 games. It's the longest such streak since the 1972-73 Dolphins won 15 in a row. It began with a win over Houston to end the 2012 season, a game that marked the return of Pagano to the sideline after he missed 12 games while he battled leukemia. "We gave everybody a game ball from this one," Pagano said. "We could have given out some individual ones but to surpass the only team in the NFL that had a perfect season ... and hold that record now that is something that every man on this football team and everybody in our organization can share."
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*Austin Aries & Bobby Roode defeated Chavo Guerrero and Hernandez to win the TNA Tag team titles.
*James Storm over Jessie Godderz with Last Call. Jesse out first to rip the crowd and Storm out to defend them. Beer celebration at the end.
*Aces and Eights out next. There were massive "You can't wrestle" chants for Garett. He said last year in the UK, the same chants made him decide to join Aces. Wes Briscoe rips Kurt Angle and said says his dad trained Kurt. They call Kurt out and said if he shows tonight, they will end him.
Daniels comes out and rips on the UK crowd before Samoa Joe comes out a huge pop. Great great match with Joe winning clean at the end with his finisher after catching Daniels mid air. Lot of love for Joe.
Devon and DOC vs. Bully and Sting tables main event. Bully wore Sting face paint. Big table chants. Bully hulks up at the end and puts Devon through the table for the win. Hogan comes down and raises Bully's hand to end the show.
The arena was taped off at the top but must have had 5,000 in tonight. Really good double taping and Tna really needs To take TNA on the road more often for TV .
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From The Stroud American, July 2007
By Jan Vassar
As a way to celebrate Oklahoma's centennial of statehood, I am offering for Lincoln County Newspaper readers a series called "Centennial Cities: Lincoln County's Hidden History." Each story will cover a subject about people and places in Lincoln County--some of our history that is little known or underreported.
The first touches on Lincoln County's link to a famous Oklahoma son--Woody Guthrie.
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When our state celebrates its century mark in 2007 the song "Oklahoma Hills" will surely be sung often and you probably know one of its authors is the famous Okemah native, Woody Guthrie. But you may not know that the song's other author once called Lincoln County home. Leon "Jack" Guthrie was born in 1915 at Olive in northern Creek County. His father was John Guthrie who was a brother to Charley Guthrie, father of folksinger/songwriter, Woody Guthrie.
The John Guthrie family moved to Midlothian southwest of Chandler in Lincoln County in 1931. That year, Jack Guthrie was 16 and in the seventh grade when he enrolled in Midlothian School District 113. His mother Ethel signed the school census form that was completed by enumerator O. A. Earp. It is on file with other school district census records in the county clerk's office in the courthouse in Chandler.
An older sister Wava said that Jack's year at Midlothian School was the last time he attended any kind of public school. She remembered, "Mother would take him to school and he'd go in the front door and then out the back."
We are not sure when the Guthrie family left Midlothian, but Jack, like many Oklahomans of the time, moved to California in the mid-1930s. There he teamed up with his cousin Woody for a radio show that became popular. During a session Jack learned one of his cousin's new songs called "Oklahoma Hills."
The story of the writing is legend. Woody was singing on the back porch of a friend's house and was asked where he came from. After he answered, "I came from the Oklahoma hills," he jumped up, went inside, and wrote the song in 15 minutes.
Later Woody typed what was called a "fake book" of lyrics to about 150 songs, including "Oklahoma Hills." When the cousins were last together Woody left the book in the back seat of Jack's car.
Over a period of years, according to a family member, Jack "smoothed the song" into the version he recorded. By 1939 Woody had moved to New York City and Jack stayed on the west coast and became known as "Oklahoma's Yodeling Cowboy."
A friend encouraged him to try his luck at song writing and to use "Oklahoma Hills" as an example for Capitol Records. Cousin Woody had stated publicly and in print that anyone could have any song he wrote and the friend convinced Jack that Woody wouldn't care.
Jack recorded several songs, including "Oklahoma Hills," on an album called Jack Guthrie and His Oklahomans. When Woody heard his cousin's version of the song he contacted Capitol to claim it was his.
Jack's position was the song would not have become known if he had not improved and recorded it. After negotiations were over, the copyright was changed to Jack Guthrie and Woody Guthrie.
Who knows? Jack Guthrie may have learned about the Oklahoma hills when he lived at Midlothian. It is nice to think that our little spot at the edge of the rolling Oklahoma plains may have been at least part of the inspiration for a song many believe should be the state's song.
Many a month has come and gone
Since I wandered from my home
In those Oklahoma hills where I was born.
Many a page of life has turned,
Many a lesson I have learned,
While I feel like in those hills I still belong.
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School census record for Leon Guthrie
One of thousands of school census records on file in the old County Superintendent files in the County Clerk's Office in the Lincoln County Courthouse is shown here. This is one page from the Midlothian District No. 113 census book from January 1931. It shows Leon "Guthery" (misspelled), a white male born Nov. 14, 1915, residing within the district. It is signed by his mother, Mrs. Ethel Guthrie, and the district census enumerator, O. A. Earp, a farmer who lived in the area [Oba Aza Earp, 1900-1982--wp]. According to local historian Don Sporleder, from the 1890s through the 1960s under Oklahoma law each district every year hired an enumerator to take a census of all school-age children between ages 5 to 18 residing within the district, regardless of whether they were enrolled in school. Lincoln County has the records from about 1907-08 through the 1960s. These are an invaluable resource for genealogists. The earlier records from the 1890s were disposed of when county officers set up offices in the new courthouse in 1968-69. (Copied from County Clerk's Office)


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Ayala Cinemas upgrade movie-watching experience with 4DX and Luxury Cinema in Greenbelt 3
4DX is finally launched in Makati as Ayala Cinemas its third location following Bonifacio High Street and U.P. Town Center at Greenbelt 3.
Greenbelt 3 Cinema 5 is now equipped with 144 magical motion seats and an auditorium filled with environmental effects that will fully immerse you in each scene and let you experience being in the movie. The precise choreography of motion system and environmental effects will thrill you. 4DX motion chairs heave up and down, roll side-to-side, and pitch forward and backward to allow you to physically participate in the action on-screen. These motions will be harmonized well with featured effects such as bottom and back shaker, water, fog, scents, wind, lightning, face air, bubbles, leg tickler. The 4DXTM is in partnership with CJ 4DPlex, the world's first 4D cinema company for feature films.
Movie watching experience is placed on whole new level with Greenbelt 3 Cinema 4 as moviegoers will be treated to movie entertainment in luxury and full comfort. It currently houses 92 fully-motorized leather recliner seats. For that unparalleled convenience, recliner seats are also equipped with USB port for gadget-charging needs and foldable tables for snacks.
The recent launch featured the worldwide blockbuster hit "Suicide Squad" from Warner Bros., graced by local celebrities and prominent personalities including Nadine Lustre, Arci Munoz who came in as Harley Quinn, Paul Salas, Ella Cruz, Francis Libiran and Makati City Vice-Mayor Monique Lagdameo. Also present in the event are Ayala Malls Cinemas General Manager Amir Precilla, Greenbelt General Manager Mina Domingo, Ayala Malls Group Head Rowena Tomeldan, Ayala Malls Cinemas Deputy General Manager Rolando Duenas, Ayala Malls Cinemas Marketing Manager Rhia Arda, Ayala Malls Cinems Marketing Supervisor Gail Santos, Ayala Malls Cinemas Booking and Promotions Manager James Bartolome and Warner Bros. General Manager Francis Soliven.


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Top 10 Ways You Know You Choose The Wrong Monroe Commercial Real Estate Agent
Wondering just how you may be able to tell that you have chosen the wrong Monroe Commercial real estate agent? We have compiled a list of the Top 10 ways you may know that the agent is just not right for you:
1). The commercial real estate space you are being shown is in the range of what you are wanting, but they are not even close to being laid out to what you truly asked for.
2). When you ask a few questions about potentially remodeling or reconstructing the office space, the broker will answer with "no problem at all" without even asking if it is possible.
3). The commercial agent you are working with sends out a large print out document that shows every available property on the mls and ask you to pick out the ones you prefer before even meeting with you to discuss what you would ideally like.
4). The agent becomes extremely familiar with the place they show you that the landlord allows their name to be put on the sign in front of the building.
5). The agent frantically tries to call each potential building in the car while driving there to see what availability they have for openings and tours.
6). Many hours in to the tour at hand, the agent has no clue about anything you do or anything about you at all.
7). You are out on the road so much with the Monroe Commercial Real Estate Agent that you end up eating all three meals with them.
8). You want to go insane listening to them talk about all of the big time deals they have completed in the past few weeks, months and years.
9). At the end of all of the touring, the agent then lets you know that you will get in to your favorite building no questions asked.
10). You are not working with Ryan Roark from Keller Williams Realty.
When this is all said and done, working with the right Monroe Commercial Real Estate agent can cost you more than just money, but at the end of the day having an experienced and specialized broker on your side can make all of the difference in your buying/ leasing transaction.


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Unranked Thai player Jatuporn Nalamphun has been suspended for 18 months and fined $5,000 after being found guilty of betting on tennis matches and not cooperating with the investigation, the Tennis Integrity Unit (TIU) said.
"The 22-year-old admitted to three breaches of... the (anti corruption) program, which prohibits betting on tennis matches, between July and November 2014," the TIU said in a statement on Wednesday.
Jatuporn was suspended for six months and a fined $5,000 for the betting offences but was then handed a concurrent 18-month ban after being "found guilty of a further charge of failing to cooperate with a TIU Investigation".
"The full and timely cooperation by participants in TIU investigations is of paramount importance in the efforts being made by the TIU to eliminate corruption in professional tennis," anti-corruption hearing officer Ian Mill said.
Tennis is still reeling from widespread allegations of corruption in the sport and the independent review panel (IRP), which was launched last month, will take at least a year to complete its investigations.
The IRP was established by the sport's governing bodies following media reports criticising the TIU for not adequately investigating some 16 players repeatedly flagged up over suspicions they had thrown matches in the past decade.
Match-fixing allegations by the BBC and the online BuzzFeed News broke before last month's Australian Open.
The allegations were further fuelled by former Australian professional Nick Lindahl pleading guilty in January to match-fixing in a minor tournament in 2013.
A top global bookmaker also suspended betting on a suspicious match at the Australian Open.


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