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It's Time to Sink or Swim for Offshore Drillers
Motley Fool
The Macondo well incident will be imprinted in our minds for years to come about the dangers of offshore drilling.
By Dave Forest, Oil & Energy Insider: Critical news for the Exploration & Production sector came this month. Not a new discovery. Not a drilling technique. It didn't come from geologists or engineers.
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The One of the most critical pieces of news for the E&P sector came this month.
Not a new discovery. Or a high-impact drilling technique. In fact, this development didn't come from geologists or engineers at all.
It came from a group of accountants.
Namely, mega-bookkeepers Ernest & Young. One of the leading firms globally in auditing and analyzing finances for oil and gas producers.
This outfit sounded a warning on the future of the E&P sector. Telling investors they need to beware of a silent killer that is stalking producers in some parts of the world. Places stock buyers should be looking at reducing their exposure.
The accountants also gave some hints on which E&Ps appear immune to this potentially company-ending issue. Ideas that suggest a certain group of investments in the oil and gas space are going to outperform significantly.
The issue driving this risk (and opportunity) comes down to one word: costs.
Ernest & Young looked closely at costs for the global E&P world as part of the firm's annual "Global oil and gas reserves study".
Their findings were astonishing.
The numbers left little doubt that costs in today's oil and gas world are weighing on producers like never before. Production costs in 2012 rose 6% globally—driven by higher prices for labor and services.
Now, 6% isn't a huge amount on its own. But numbers like this start to get worrying when you combine operating costs with other rising expenses for E&Ps—like finding costs, the amount paid by producers to discover and book in-ground oil and gas reserves.
Sifting through the data, E&Y found that finding costs are silently obliterating E&P profits. The cost to find a barrel of oil equivalent jumped nearly 30% in 2012, to $21.83 per boe from just $16.90 per boe in 2011.
On the back of all of these growing costs, the study shows that total E&P exploration and develop spending rose 20% in 2012. Over the last five years, global spending has grinded upward by an incredible 48%.
Here's where these rapidly-inflating expenses get really worrying for investors: because E&P companies are no longer seeing the cash flow and reserves growth to support this spending.
Just look at the numbers. Combined oil and gas production globally rose by a meager 2% in 2012. With producers managing just a 1% increase in revenues from this output.
Reserves also aren't growing much. Oil reserves globally bumped up by just 3% in 2012. Worldwide gas reserves actually dropped by 2% on the year.
Amid this stagnant growth, rising costs are hitting the bottom line hard. Worldwide after-tax profits for the E&P sector plummeted 16% in 2012, to $268.4 billion.
The Last Time This Happened, Stocks Plunged 40%
This story of flagging production and spiraling costs is all too familiar for anyone who's been following another segment of the natural resource business lately—the mining sector.
Early in 2012, the CEO of major gold producer Newmont Mining, Gary Goldberg, sounded a warning on costs.
His cautioning sounded odd at the time. Gold was trading at a very reasonable price of $1,600 per ounce. There was a sense that producers were poised for big profits and future growth.
But Goldberg noted that in actuality, costs were silently killing the gold mining business. He pointed out that while the much-lauded rise in gold prices had upped bullion by about $1,000 per ounce over the previous decade, his company had seen its production costs rise by $900 per ounce during the same period. Essentially wiping out any profits—even at record prices.
These words proved prophetic. Less than a month later, softening gold prices cut the legs from under cost-weakened gold companies—with the AMEX Gold Miners Index losing 40% of its value in just three months.
The miners have seen little recovery since.
The E&Y study suggests a similar rot may be afoot in the oil and gas industry.
With all eyes fixed euphorically on high oil prices, few investors are noticing constricting production and reserves growth—not to mention contracting profits—from their E&P holdings.
But profits—not oil prices—ultimately drive share price performance. And the new study suggests that leading indicators on this front are pointed firmly downward. E&Y note that in places like the U.S., producers in 2012 actually spent more money than they made—with capital expenditures running 123% of operating profits.
The mining sector also saw such over-reaching prior to its crash. Producers spent more than they had on acquisitions and development. At the time, investors cheered the aggressive growth, believing that if you built it, rising profits would come.
But as it turns out, spending beyond one's means always ends one way—big debts and empty treasuries.
These Places Might Be Safe Havens From Rising Costs
Should investors therefore abandon the oil and gas business ahead of a massive collapse in valuations for the E&P sector?
No—or at least, not all of it.
The E&Y study does provide a few positive indicators. Production areas outside of the U.S. seem to be enjoying lower costs—especially in Europe, where capital expenditures ran only 31% of operating profits in 2012. Globally, the average percentage of spending compared to profits came in at just 54%--much lower than the 123% seen in the U.S.
Investors may thus be served today by looking at oil and gas investments outside of "hot" shale plays in America.
But for those who still want to bet on the phenomenal upside of shale, a closer look at the U.S. E&P space shows some important regional variations.
We won't get new numbers on reserves growth and associated costs until early 2014—when most producers file their year-end reserves statements. But another metric gives us a sneak peak at who's hurting and who's hurtling when it comes to costs these days.
Operating expenses.
The chart below shows percentage changes in unit operating costs for several U.S. producers during the first nine months of 2013, as compared to the same period of 2012. It's obvious there's a big spread—some firms are seeing costs soar, while others are actually enjoying lower costs per barrel of oil or mcf of gas than they saw last year.
The difference may have to do with the plays these producers are working in. All of these E&Ps are primarily focused in one or another of major U.S. plays in the Marcellus shale, Eagle Ford shale, Bakken tight sands or the shallow-water Gulf of Mexico. And as the chart below shows, when you break down operating cost changes by play, some big differences emerge.
A big revelation is that costs for Marcellus producers are actually going down. Likely a result of increasingly drilling productivity here that's creating higher per-well output. It's simple math—when you get more gas from the same well, operating costs stay more or less fixed. So unit operating expenses go down.
This jives with recent findings from the U.S. Energy Information Administration that show drilling productivity in the Marcellus has risen 30% so far in 2013.
By contrast, drilling productivity gains in older plays like the Eagle Ford have slowed—with that play showing just 5% productivity growth this year. The likely reason why producers here are seeing rising unit costs—as general inflation outpaces sluggish productivity improvements.
Aside from the explosive Marcellus, investors might also look to the more boring climes of the Gulf of Mexico—where costs have held steady so far in 2013. A result of this disregarded production area not seeing the elbow-to-elbow competition for services that's driving up rates for onshore plays.
The warnings on rising costs thus may not be a reason for investors to abandon the E&P sector entirely.
Rather, they might be a prompt to do so for the plays most struggling with this growing issue.
source : oilprice.com
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Long gone are the days of easy money, so it seems. Junior energy companies are finding today's capital to be more expensive and harder to access.
In the current market, juniors are fighting an ongoing battle just to balance sustainable growth, manage debt, and to compete with peers for dollars that just aren't there. When assessing a junior, one must look at how they put their budgets together and maintain them if they're to survive out there in the wild.
This isn't a new phenomenon either, as a 2011 study of post-recession capital markets performed by the Society of Petroleum Engineers inferred that, "Upstream energy companies now compete not only for preferred access to the best new hydrocarbon resources but also for credit from capital markets."
It's time to point out the obvious. There're not a lot of positive scenarios out there for these small caps.
The problem today is that many companies have to strap themselves in and take on debt, which puts them at great risk: Deliver or die.
The reality is that the rise of unconventional resource plays, along with the increased use of horizontal drilling and complex completions have driven prices through the roof. A company going to the street to raise $5-10 million for one horizontal well is really exposing itself. Even if they hit on their first well, the market can be unforgiving when a company comes knocking on the door of the coffers once again.
Lord help you if the well is a bust. When you're a junior, you can't bury the past behind 6 or 7 other wells with a huge capital budget. In reality they only raise a big enough budget for one high-cost well, and there's no room for error.
The banks have also been unsympathetic, as the disposition market continues to dry up. Companies don't have the opportunity they've had in the past to sell assets in order to get cash like they used to. That option is also closed.
So what's a junior to do?
This is where it might be beneficial to look at two peer companies coming at the same problem with different methods, but similar strategies: Blackbird Energy [TSX.V: BBI] and Edge Resources [TSX.V: EDE].
Both are completely aware of the challenges ahead, and share roughly the same market cap while at the same time run programs consisting of lower-risk growth plans.
"This is quite frankly the biggest 'show me' market I've ever seen," says Garth Braun, President and CEO of Blackbird Energy.
"If you can succeed in actually showing people your potential through your results, only then will you see movement. So you must show the investor that not only can you make them money, but that you have a suitable portfolio of assets and a stream of activity to come that you can sustain."
Braun's team is coming off of a very successful private placement capital raise that resulted in an oversubscription to the tune of $3.1 million. With a diversified asset portfolio that includes many (to steal a baseball analogy) singles and doubles on its low-risk Mantario properties, as well as a large land base with a high price tag within two areas of the highly sought after Montney play.
In order to keep up with his gameplan, Braun and his team intend to drill several of these low-risk Mantario wells over the next year. Given the examples led by their Mantario predecessors Rock Energy [TSX: RE], it's plausible to predict that if Blackbird can repeat Rock's successes they'll be able to drill, complete and tie-in these wells at a cost of only $750,000 for production on average of 75 bbls/d each, picking up their production totals along the way.
But while Blackbird can easily afford to continue drilling these shallow conventional wells, it's the big potential on their Montney real estate that has the potential to make the needle move. Surrounded in the Bigstone region by majors such as Kelt Exploration [TSX: KLT] and Delphi Energy [TSX: DEE], Blackbird knows that it's sitting on some very valuable land that continues to grow in value as its neighbours drill.
Courting a major into a carried interest can only serve to help increase the value of the company going forward and production—all without having to take on the risk of going it alone. On the flipside, it would take the team a very long time to generate the kind of cash needed internally to take the higher risks necessary when elephant hunting in the Montney.
"The only way a junior can truly capitalize their program and fund their growth is through internal generation of cash," says Brad Nichol, President and CEO of Edge Resources.
"Unfortunately, most juniors have to deal with Recycle Ratio, which is in a sense the profit to investment ratio. If you put a dollar in, how many dollars do you get out?"
Typically right now the average profit to investment ratio that companies are operating under is approximately 1.5. That means for every $1 they put into the ground, they get $1.50 out (over the life of the well).
"My profit to investment ratio is 3.5. I'm generating cash through investing into the ground and drilling wells that I know will generate much more cash then I put in," says Nichol.
Much like Braun's Mantario properties, Nichol's Edge Resources is touting low-cost, low-risk production growth on its Eye Hill project. Both the Eye Hill and Mantario give each company the potential for pay out in roughly 6-8 months.
"I'm focusing on conventional shallow wells (as opposed to unconventional costly horizontal wells). With each one, I'm only risking $650,000 capital all in, and that's not even the risk capital," says Nichol. "That's just the capital requirement to get me a producing well."
"I'm spending less capital and getting a better result. I'm paying back the capital in 6 months or less, and I'm generating 3.5x the capital we put in. That's the key to Edge Resources, and what makes us unique."
Recent news from both companies has shown a different strategy in terms of raising money. Edge Resources has gone the debt route, while Blackbird went the equity route. The debt option was still open for Edge, perhaps because of the healthy recycle ratios, which don't scare the bankers away from the teller window. For Braun's strategy, there was still quite a bit of interest when he went to the market with some valuable additions to the company portfolio that lured in new investors (Disclosure: that includes this author on the most recent private placement).
"I'm not against debt if it's in essence well serviced and I have ready access to the equity markets to replace it," says Braun. "We felt we were at a point where in essence we originated all of our oil plays and now we're focusing on drilling them up. It was premature for Blackbird to go and take debt on. It was offered to us but I felt it was too risky for our shareholders to be exposed to that kind of debt."
"We wanted to drill up the assets and prove it. We felt there would be a material-value move to our company, and I wasn't willing to take the risk on putting a date of failure on if I wasn't able to raise equity. So with our private placement it does indeed cause some dilution, but the bonus is that I don't have a proverbial Sword of Damacles in the form of a milestone date over my head. Instead, we worked to rally together a group of investors that wanted to invest in our company and see us grow through that investment."
Blackbird's most recent operational update hints towards a new milestone on Mantario. Production on it's A15-6 well has officially been announced, with results soon to come in the next 15 days. As well, the company picked up an additional 18 sections (11,520 acres) of P&NG rights in the Greater Karr area, all of which include deeper rights like the highly prospective Duvernay formation. Should Blackbird continue to drill Mantario while dangling the Duvernay, they should be able to continue to make their new set of investors happy.
Source: http://oilprice.com/Finance/investing-and-trading-reports/Deliver-or-Die-Financial-Survival-Challenges-for-Todays-Junior-Oil-Companies.html
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Sometimes geography just works.
That's certainly the case in North American natural gas markets today.
To the north you have America—a new natural gas superpower. So super that producers have cratered prices for their product amid a wash of new supply coming on from shale plays around the country.
And to the south there's Mexico. The "lazy cousin" whose petroleum industry has squandered its cash (or had the cash squandered for it by the wider federal government). To the point where a lack of reinvestment in producing infrastructure has cratered production by 15% since 2008. At a time when politicians are desperate to move away from expensive oil-fired generation for electricity.
Sounds like a match made in Business School 101. The obvious solution to both problems being a few short miles of pipeline to redirect ample U.S. gas supplies south, and ample Mexican gas prices north.
But this is far from just a satisfying economics exercise. If U.S. natgas exports to Mexico can indeed be achieved at scale, it could represent one of the biggest investible opportunities of the decade.
"At scale" is exactly the plan right now. At least six new or expanded export projects are on the books, with capacity to send an additional 3.5 billion cubic feet per day of gas to Mexico. Doubling current export capacity.
These added flows could bring total US-Mexico exports to several billion cubic feet per day. Eating up 5 to 10% of total U.S. gas production. That's a slug of new demand big enough to push prices higher quickly. Which would crate investment opportunities in both the commodity itself, and the shares of U.S. gas producers who would see profits soar.
It will thus pay to know if and when the Mexican export boom is going down. Which means watching a few key indicators—boxes that if ticked will tell us it's time to go long gas and the U.S. E&P sector.
Below are four critical issues that will shape the fate of U.S.-to-Mexico gas trade—and signal when the time is right for this mega-trade.
Regulators approving export pipelines
One of the major questions around exports is the permitting process. Several new U.S. pipelines are needed to move gas to the Mexcian border for export—and those developments require regulatory approval. A step that is proving challenging for other export outlets like LNG.
But just last month, we got some positive indications on the permitting front. The U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) gave tentative approval to the Sierrita gas export pipeline in Arizona, being built by El Paso Natural Gas. FERC gave the pipeline a more-or-less clean pass—noting only a few environment issues that could be brought to "less-than-significant levels" through proper handling by El Paso.
Crucially, FERC avoided some semantic pitfalls that could have complicated the approvals process. There was some push for environmental approval to cover not just pipelines on U.S. soil but also end-use Mexican power plants taking gas exports. Such extra-territorial consideration seems odd, but it has happened.
FERC however, decided solidly against blowing up the scale of the Sierrita approval. The agency noted that, "There is no jurisdictional basis for the Commission to approve, mitigate or reject any of the Mexico facilities." This greatly simplifies the permitting process. Setting the stage for easier approvals of additional export projects going forward.
Gas buyers getting testy
Environmental approvals are not the only part of the permitting process for would-be gas exporters. Firms building new export lines will also have to deal with potential objections from local gas users in the U.S.
That's because FERC is also tasked with ruling on the need for export projects. Project operators must therefore make their case in demonstrating how their gas exports will help the overall market. The Commission will then have to decide if these projects are in the best interest of the American energy sector and the public.
A battle looks to be brewing on this front. This summer, one of the largest U.S. gas-fired power generators Calpine (NYSE: CPN) filed a motion to intervene in the approval of one major Mexican export project.
In filing the intervention, Calpine noted that "the terms and conditions for natural gas service to [Calpine] may be affected by the outcome of this proceeding." Certainly true if a big rise in gas exports to Mexico triggers price increases—thus making Calpine's fuel of choice more expensive, and reducing the company's operating profits.
With gas-fired power growing rapidly in the U.S., such opposition could become a force to be reckoned with. In September, speakers from the power sector at the Marcellus Shale Coalition's Insight 2013 conference in Philadelphia noted that gas demand in the American power sector is likely to grow even faster than most experts are projecting. In fact, one consultant said that new environmental regulations in America have made natgas the "only new baseload option that is economically viable."
This is likely to create a rapidly-growing lobby that doesn't want to see U.S. gas go anywhere but into domestic power plants.
Building major pipeline arteries
Several planned export projects will tie into Mexican pipelines that don't yet exist. This includes the above-mentioned Sierrita pipe, which is planned to connect with the Sasabe-Guaymas pipeline--a 338 mile pipe that will take gas to power plants near the towns of Puerto Libertad and Guaymas, located west of Chihuahua on the Gulf of California.
The only problem is that the Sasabe-Guaymas pipeline is currently only a concept. It's supposed to be built by an affiliate of Sempra Energy.
While this line looks like it will go ahead (the tender is already complete), other key parts of the Mexican natural gas infrastructure are less certain. Earlier this month, the Mexican government released a tender for the 740 kilometre Ramones pipeline—designed to connect the new Sempra-built line further into the industrial heartland of north-central Mexico.
But the project fell over when only one company bid for the construction. This is a major set-back for a key part of Mexico's gas infrastructure. The price tag for the project—at $3.3 billion—could make it tough for the government to go it alone without private-sector help. Thus endangering a key piece of the Mexican pipeline network—and raising the risk that new U.S. pipelines may end up being a "bridge to nowhere".
Mexican demand growth actually appearing
Another key risk is whether Mexican gas demand will in fact materialize at all.
On the surface, the situation looks promising in this regard. Overall Mexican gas demand has been surging—nearly doubling over the last 15 years. At the same time, weak production has led to a gap between supply and demand of at least 500 billion cubic feet yearly, according to estimates from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
That gap however, could be filled by imports of just 1 to 2 billion cubic feet per day—well within capacity for existing export pipelines.
The rush to build new export capacity is being driven mainly be expectations that gas use will increase in northern Mexico. Driven by plans from state-owned power generator CFE to switch the bulk of power plants in this region from fuel oil to natgas.
The economic driver for CFE's switch to gas is certainly real. The utility is running big losses ($474 million in the third quarter of this year alone), mainly due to high fuel-oil costs at its generation facilities.
But constructing or even converting a fleeting of power plants is costly and time-consuming. It's notable that little of this switching has yet begun. Creating considerable uncertainty over how much demand will actually be there by the time gas starts flowing into export pipelines.
Source : oilprice.com
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Peter: Yeah, I think the Dark Souls comparison is an interesting one. I think the initial tutorial/training bit is actually really good. It was the bit after that with the tour of duty, where you have to choose some stats.
Dorian: You have to choose stats with no idea what you're going to want, how good anything is … yes, it's kind of embarrassing in hindsight.
Jon: I think it was inspired by the Traveller character creation system, I don't know if you're familiar with that old pen and paper RPG system?
Peter: Bizarrely, yes I am. It was a Games Workshop one wasn't it?
Jon: I'm not sure why we picked on that, in retrospect. Given that it's actually a pretty bad character creation system. The idea [in Traveller] was you would pick a service that you wanted to go into, which would guide your character in a particular direction. So if you wanted to learn spaceship piloting you'd pick the Navy, presumably. But then you'd have to role on a chart for every year of service to see what benefits you got.
Some of them were great, but there were also really bad ones were you could get killed. [Laughter] It did seem strangely brutal. "Well, I'm sorry, your game of Traveller is over!"
Peter: There are some bits in System Shock 2 where it says stuff like "the benefit of this tour is that it'll improve your strength, the down side is the 20% mortality rate." It would've been great if the game could actually kill you in character creation.
Jon: Right, right. And it'd be even better if that was just it. The game was over. "No, you can't play again, you're dead." [Laughter] You only get one go at System Shock 2.
Peter: The ultimate challenge. Tim, I'll bring you in here, did your findings gel with this stuff?
Tim: Yeah, for the most part. I don't think I've played it since a few years after it first came out. Maybe ten years ago? I didn't actually find the interface that bad, but I had to rebind all of the keyboard controls because WASD wasn't really standard then I guess.
Jon: I think it was standard, but Looking Glass had their own standards that were a little divergent and we were using their engine for this.
Tim: The interface, in terms of the way you switch between the mouse-look and the inventory, I actually quite like. I didn't find that particularly clunky at all, once I'd spent five minutes getting used to it again. But I did die quite a lot during the first hour of play. I blundered into a sentry gun and got shot to death, and then shortly afterwards a hybrid spawned somewhere behind me, clubbed me over the head and killed me. So yeah, I agree with the Dark Souls comparisons as well. It's not the most forgiving of games.
Peter: Although to be honest I think it does avoid the death spiral thing pretty well. You do have to spend resources to revive and, it maybe doesn't teach you this, but eventually you start to realise that health is easier to get hold of than bullets. It can be better just to die sometimes rather than waste all of your ammo.
Jon: But I don't know if that's a good thing. Maybe it is. I think one of our objectives, if we'd enunciated it, would have been we want you to be scared of dying.
Peter: Yeah … yeah. Well, you are certainly scared during the game. This is something we want to touch on actually. Were you guys fans of other horror type games or just horror media in general?
Jon: We were all fans of the original System Shock, and obviously a very large amount of inspiration for the game comes from that. The way we envisaged the game was a little bit of a cross between System Shock and Ultima Underworld, which of course were other games produced by Looking Glass.
So it has the setting, the characters and the claustrophobic feel of the original System Shock. But it has the roleplaying stats system from a more Ultima type game. Those were probably the biggest influences for the game. What do you think Dorian?
Dorian: I would be in general agreement with that. I personally wasn't really a big horror game or genre fan, I was much more into the roleplay stuff. I was a big fan of Ultima Underworld and all the Ultima games. From my own numbers balancing point of view I knew on an intellectual level I was making it scary via resource scarcity, but I'm not a horror guy.
Jon: I think a lot of the horror comes from that though. For me the important part of System Shock 2 is the difficulty and the resource scarcity. I would probably describe it more as being about tension than horror. There's a horror element to the story and characters are terribly disfigured or in pain or whatever, but that's actually less important to me than the fact that the game is really, really hard.
It requires you to constantly be very focused and intense. There are a lot of things that can go wrong. That's the most interesting aspect of it for me, and is also the thing that's hard to find these days. That's why I mention Dark Souls because it's one of the few modern exceptions.
Tim: Yeah, I've got to agree with you Jon. It comes down to the resource scarcity and also the fact that you never really feel safe.
Jon: Yeah, the respawning I think is really important.
Tim: The horror aspects for me aren't really down to, you know, the corpses everywhere and horrible monsters roaming the corridors. It's more down to the unknown and this general sense of dread because you never feel safe, and because you have such scarce resources every encounter actually matters.
It's a very fine balancing act and it seems to do it really, really well, which is something that a lot of games that purport to be horror games these days don't tend to do. They focus more on jump scares, but as soon as you get your hands on a few weapons they suddenly aren't scary any more.
Jon: Yeah, I think they focus a lot on the props, the visual stuff. Games that have horrific characters, or horrific fictional things happening, I never really find scary. You start playing the game and figure out very quickly whether it's going to hold to the standard game contract that they make with players these days. Which is: don't worry, this game's not going to be that hard. [Laughter] We're never going to punish you. If you get things wrong you'll get to try again. If you want to just leave the game, if you've cleared out an area, it's safe, don't worry, you can hoover up all the stuff that's there and nothing's going to hassle you. We've made sure the game is a little bit challenging, but I absolutely guarantee you that nothing's going to be too hard.
Once that contract is made, I don't feel scared. And it doesn't matter if you show me, you know, "oh my god, look at this guy he's got tentacles coming out of his head, doesn't that freak you out?" [Laughter] Well, not really, no. I've seen it before and I know he's just another guy with a bunch of hit points and a gun or whatever. You can do some tricks like turning out the lights, having people jump out of closets … but it doesn't do it for me. It's the unknown, it's the fear, the unsettling notion that the game is prepared to screw around with you and set you back, that's what makes a game scary to me. At least provide some tension.
Dorian: Well yes, I think that's an important semantic distinction, if we're talking about genre and fear. There are different ways of defining horror, I guess. One is bloody corpses and gore everywhere, but I was thinking about the scariest moments of playing System Shock 2 over the last few days and I think I was the most scared in the cargo bays. There are those casks of protocol robots, where some of them would burst open and reveal droids that just walk towards you and explode. Not only are they not gory and not objectively or artistically scary, they're kind of funny. They talk rather solicitously about how they can help you while they walk relentlessly towards you and explode.
Facing a dark corridor where there are eight crates of these things and maybe one of them will burst open and this thing will come out. That to me is meaningful horror. There's no blood, no tentacles, but that's what scares me more about the game than the blood-splattered vignettes we have in there.

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Since ancient times, Maltese have been a statement of a wealthy household. Today, this clever and jolly little dog makes a household richer for having been in it. Find out more about this small breed with a big personality by reading BestBullySticks.com's Breed Spotlight on the Maltese.
History & Background: The "ancient dog of Malta" or "Roman Ladies' Dog" or even the "Maltese Lion Dog" were all names given to the ancient breed that is the Maltese. This breed enjoyed the good life next to aristocratic ladies of their time. These ladies carried the Maltese around in their sleeves and let them to sleep in their beds. One of the best-accounted ancient Maltese was Issa, the dog of a Roman Governor in Malta. This account of Issa, written at the time of the Apostle Paul, painted Issa as "purer than a dove's kiss," "gentler than a maiden," and "more precious than Indian gems." It's easily seen that even in their earliest days this dog was very much loved. It's even seen that Greeks built tombs for their Maltese and were worshipped by the Egyptians.
It's thought Crusaders returning home from the Mediterranean took Maltese to England. Royalty owned this breed in England as well and even as far back as the 1500s would coat a $2,000 to purchase. This breed has been recognized by the AKC since 1888 and is a true companion dog for any family.
Height: Males – 8 to 10 inches; Females – 8 to 9 inches
Weight: Males – 3 to 7 pounds; Females – 2 to 7 pounds
Coat: A Maltese has a single coat made up of straight and long hair with a silky texture. Breed standards require no kinks or curls show in the coat.
Color: Coloring for a Maltese is pure white. Standards say that this breed can have some light tan or lemon color on the ears. Maltese have large dark eyes and a black nose.
Appearance: The Maltese is a toy breed that is delicate in every way. A fine bone structure that is compact, the Maltese exudes softness. The head is slightly rounded on top and ears are feathered with long hair and low set. The back is level, ribs well sprung and chest is deep on this dog. The tail is also plumed and carried over the back, it's tip lying to the side over the hindquarters.
Temperament: Even though this dog is a small creature, it has the character of a much larger dog, not showing fear very often. Maltese will alert their owners to any strange noises. A trusting dog that is affectionate and maybe the most gentle mannered of all toy breeds, a Maltese thrives on receiving attention. This can also cause a very jealous dog and should be trained to share affections. These dogs love to play and with proper socialization, are good with children and other house animals.
Health & Grooming: This breed can be prone to sunburn along their hair part as well as issues with the eyes and respiratory system.
This dog needs daily coat brushing or combing to maintain the silky coat. Cleaning the eyes daily prevents tear staining and for the same reason, cleaning the beard after meals. Bathing thing wet or dry shampoo weekly is recommended but this dog needs to be thoroughly warm and dry afterward. Cleaning ears and eyes is necessary as well. The hair on top of the head is usually gathered up into a small ponytail to keep the hair out of the eyes. Some owners groom their Maltese by cutting the hair short for less time intensive daily grooming. This breed is considered a "hypoallergenic" breed by many because of its single coat and because this breed sheds so little.
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Because if there was just one more it would be Two Fahrty. :D
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Snap! I got cheated. I had only 226 in my last can. And have never had 239 in any can.
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i have no clue but really everytime you open a can you count them ....lol isnt that like a ocd...lol
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HUNGER GAMES beauty JENNIFER LAWRENCE despite being called "Fat Actress" will never get scary skinny – NOT even for her career.
The Oscar nomm'ed 22 year-old, who sky-rocketed to fame playing Katniss Everdeen in the blockbuster hit "Hunger Games" told glam mag Elle that "In Hollywood, I'm obese.
"I'm considered a fat actress. I'm Val Kilmer in that one picture on the beach."
"I eat like a caveman," Lawrence revealed. "I'll be the only actress who doesn't have anorexia rumors."
Although many femme stars have all resorted to dangerous dieting methods to lose weight for a role, Jennifer swears she never will.
"I'm never going to starve myself for a part. I keep waiting for that one role to come along that scares me enough into dieting, and it just can't happen. I'm invincible."
Part of the reason that she refuses to get super skinny for a movie, is that she doesn't want to be a bad role model for her fans, RadarOnline.com noted.
"I don't want little girls to be like, 'Oh, I want to look like Katniss, so I'm going to skip dinner.' That's something that I was really conscious of during training, when you're trying to get your body to look exactly right.
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Without a doubt, we could have done much worse and it even threatened to look that way when the trade nearly collapsed.
I still shiver to think that LA might have gotten away with getting Ron for George, though I feel that DW and LB would have swallowed pride and buried Ronnie on the IL for the season.
In general I am happy with the outcome, not exstatic, but how can you be; losing a player with the ability of Ron.
Happy because I believe that Peja will work out to be a lot better then some or even most of you think.
Why do I think that?
1. Peja had a "run-in" with the Kings' ownership during the summer over letting go his pal.
2. Peja did not have the strong support of the team and his number of shots were dwindling for various reasons, one being that the passing skills on the team were not there.
3. Peja played (imo) with that attitude and was injured due to that attitude, once you are "less then happy" in your job, results will go down and any common cold will be a two week bed ride.
4. If anything, after the loss of CWeb, and Vlad, Peja was not getting the ball where he's best with it
5. He will be a lot closer to Chicago, near enough to visit when he wants, without having to move there.
6. The Pacers are far mroe a team "fit" for him then the Kings, at this moment in time, we have the passers, nad we are lacking what Reggie brought, albeit from the 2.
7. it allow Jax to play in the position he is simple better, the 2; it where his strength lies, and whenever he played there this season the results were positive.
8. it allows for danny to play with less pressure on him
9. He will draw some attention that will allow JO more space
10. It will take the "scoring-pressure" of Jamal, and another target for his passes.
11. Saras will have some he can relay to on his own level i.e. a player with a similar background
In my opinion all of this and then some, will lead to a drastic improvement for the Pacers. Sure it will take time, certainl with JO out till the AS break, but nonetheless Peja will add a number of things this team needed.
Whether it is the "closure" on the Artest book, whether it is being a calm and good teammate, beit an upstanding citizen, beit a new "Reggie".
Peja's idol was Larry Bird, how convenient, Peja (like Reggie) is known for a good work ethic and one to shoot and shoot till someone turns of the lights.
Perhaps some of the younger players will benefit from his tuition, when it comes to shooting.
Peja thrives in being the second option, not the first and Jax is simply more valuable as 3rd at the 2 then anywhere else on the court.
We do not have a PG who "needs" shots, in fact Tins only shoots because Rick tells him to look for it, which was mainly done because with Ron out we certainly lacked the additional firepower, so perhaps he will be more in to "it" as well.
JO will have someone on the team who will be able to catch his passes, something that was sorely lacking lately.
In all I expect the team to improve very much over the next 4 weeks, though it will be a curve up and not a ready made product in two days time.
How much better? well close to that contender level we were looking for, we lost the distractions, we gained levelheaded offense, we lost defense, which we couldn't use anyway the last 20 odd games anyway, and gained a teamplayer.
If anything, I'm looking forward again to the rest of the season, something that was not the case 1 week ago.


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Top 10 Bob Dylan Lyrics
Bob Dylan isn't a fixture on the commencement-address circuit, but if he ever wanted an easy paycheck, he could begin with this list of the Top 10 Bob Dylan Lyrics. Any graduation speaker can quote "Blowin' in the Wind" or "Forever Young" as a space-filler when they talk to the class of 2000-and-whenever. But Dylan has written plenty of wise life advice in his decades-long career as a songwriter. So, before you throw your silly hat in the air and make a total mockery of your college degree, check out what Dylan can tell you about the world. You might learn more here than you did in class.
"Tight Connection to My Heart (Has Anyone Seen My Love)"
"What looks large from a distance, close up ain't never that big."
For the leadoff track to Empire Burlesque, Dylan copped a fair amount of hard-boiled dialogue from old Humphrey Bogart movies. The above line actually comes courtesy of Gary Cooper in Now and Forever. Cooper was talking about cops, and Dylan is singing about a dead man's final moments, but that doesn't mean that the idea can't be transferred to a less film noir concept. Perhaps the point is that anything (whether glorious or dangerous) is only as daunting as you make it.
"Not Dark Yet"
"Behind every beautiful thing, there's been some kind of pain."
In his later work (Time Out of Mind was album number 30), Dylan has been as likely to dispense some weary wisdom in his lyrics as he is to tell an old joke. Listening to these records is kind of like sitting on the porch and shooting the breeze with your grandfather. You don't know what's coming next, but it'll probably be good. Amid the atmospheric fog of "Not Dark Yet," Dylan delivers this basic truth about the balance of beauty and pain in this world. It's something most artists know all too well.
"Open the Door, Homer"
"Take care of all your memories … for you cannot relive them."
Dylan wrote this tune as an homage to a nonsense song that dates back to an old vaudeville routine, "Open the Door, Richard," and recorded it in Woodstock in 1967 with the Band. As with other Basement Tapes material, the lyrics feature absolutely bizarre advice (flush out your house if you don't want to house flushes) butting up against kernels of wisdom, such as the line above. So you can garner two lessons from this song: Take care of all your memories, and don't believe everything you hear.
"It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)"
"It is not he or she or them or it that you belong to."
A handful of lines from this finger-pointing song could have made the Top 10 Bob Dylan Lyrics (including "money doesn't talk, it swears" and "he not busy being born is busy dying"). But it's the quote above that gets to the heart of the seven-minute masterpiece, in which a sneering Dylan spills his vinegar whine all over the falseness of modern society. This might be his least hopeful "protest song," but there's a glimpse of freedom in the lyric – a reminder that you're never as constrained as you might feel. Dylan would start his own mini-rebellion when he went electric the same year he recorded "It's Alright, Ma."
"The Man in the Long Black Coat"
"Every man's conscience is vile and depraved / You cannot depend on it to be your guide when it's you who must keep it satisfied."
Just call Dylan the anti-Jiminy Cricket. But it's a preacher who delivers the advice in this mysterious and murky song (which was inspired by Johnny Cash's "I Walk the Line"). People often say you should trust your instincts, your gut, your conscience – but what power do these things carry if you can thwart them with rationalization? Dylan doesn't offer any easy answers. It's a dark way of looking at things, but, hey, it's a dark song.
"The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest"
"Don't go mistaking paradise for that home across the road."
This rambling country ballad stands out because Dylan spells out a moral at the end of the song. It follows the tale of the two title characters, one of whom leads the other into a house of ill-repute and, eventually, his demise. More than a decade before Dylan became a born-again Christian and began preaching on his albums, he was teaching about the fleeting value of worldly pleasures, be they money or sex.
"You can always come back, but you can't come back all the way."
One of Dylan's all-time brilliant songs, "Mississippi" has been interpreted as an allegory for the songwriter's entire career. The context only adds resonance to the above lyric. Disowned by folkies, put out of commission by a motorcycle accident, written off as a '60s relic, ignored as a religious performer, dismissed as a writer who lost his touch – who has had more comebacks than Bob Dylan? As such, it's an expression of life's sweet, and sour, realities. You can always recover, but you'll never be the same.
"Masters of War"
"All the money you made will never buy back your soul."
Dylan has had a few things to say about money over the years, and more than a few lines could have made our list of the Top 10 Bob Dylan Lyrics. The stakes seem to be the highest in 'Master of War,' making the manner in which some people profit (financially and politically) off of the anguish and deaths of others so absolutely horrific. But the lyric is just as potent out of context. Money is never a good path to salvation.
"Love Minus Zero / No Limit"
"She knows there's no success like failure and that failure's no success at all."
This song was written about Dylan's future wife (and also future ex-wife) Sara Lowndes. The lyrics praise her calm demeanor, often in phrases that appear contradictory – like in the line above. But it's far from nonsense. On the one hand, you can succeed in learning more about yourself and your craft when you come up short. On the other hand, you shouldn't fool yourself into thinking you've achieved something amazing if you have failed. We're sure there's plenty of philosophy professors who could go way deeper with this one.
'The Times They Are A-Changin'"
"Don't criticize what you can't understand."
Dylan was speaking to the generation gap in the '60s when he wrote this timeless classic, pleading with the older folks to lend a hand or get out of the way. But this bit of wisdom is applicable in almost any instance, regardless of the times. Reserving judgment on the unfamiliar is a universal struggle, and keeping an open mind is easier said than done. But this gets to one aspect of Dylan's songwriting greatness: He reflects the world as it is and, if we're lucky, spotlights a better way forward.


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Principles of the Declaration
By: Shayle Morales
Explain the idea of unalienable rights and government by consent
Unalienable rights are rights that cannot be taken from you or denied. So that means like the government cannot take away your unalienable rights no matter what. In the Declaration of Independence, says "people have unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness". Theres are things that things like the government cannot take away from anyone.
Why does a just government need consent of the governed?
They need consent from the governed because people set up the government. They get all of there power from us, the people. The people run the government not the other way around. The Declaration of Independence it says, " Governments are instituted among Men, deriving (obtain something from) their just powers from the consent of the governed.
Who is responsible for protecting or guaranteeing our unalienable rights?
Unalienable rights are protected in the Bill of Rights. . But we also protect our unalienable rights but the government helps to guarantee it. Each person has a different freedom (based on their belief or religion) but we protect our unalienable rights. Police officers, and ect. enforce these rights and protect them. m
Are the principles of unalienable rights and government by consent in the Declaration outdated, or are they still true today?
Yes, I believe they are still used today. Although we do have laws for some things that may bring people happiness today of freedom, but is only for the good of others. Like going to jail you are there because you did something wrong that could potentially hurt another person. But I also think we have more freedom now like woman can now vote, and same for African-Americans.
Do these principles matter to me?
Yes, they do matter to me they could effect voting, or how people treat us. With or without these principles it does have a big effect. We could have a completely different government today, or no freedom. I am glad the way things are so yes these principles do matter to me.


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21 Mar 2006, 12:39pm by Aaron Schatz
Yesterday, the Cleveland Browns dealt safety Chris Crocker to Atlanta for a fourth-round pick. This leaves just nine draft picks from the Butch Davis Era (2001-2004) still on the team. Only three of those players are starters: linebackers Andra Davis and Ben Taylor, and tight end Kellen Winslow -- assuming you want to count a guy who has only played two games in two years as a "starter." Center Jeff Faine was a starter, but has been essentially replaced by LeCharles Bentley and given permission to seek a trade.
29 comments, Last at 22 Mar 2006, 5:16pm by Staubach12
14 Mar 2006, 04:50pm by Aaron Schatz
Ugh, I am so disappointed. Maybe this sounds strange, but I do feel a connection to players when our stats like them more than the conventional wisdom. Drew Brees is one of "our guys" and I feel like he just walked into a black hole, unless Zachary Hilton is about to become Antonio Gates or something. Anyway, at least the guy got paid, six years and $60 million with $10 million of that in signing bonus. The Saints now say they will try to trade out of the second position in the draft. You know, because God forbid they draft a franchise left tackle to protect their new expensive quarterback.
75 comments, Last at 17 Mar 2006, 1:46am by Trogdor
09 Mar 2006, 05:12pm by Aaron Schatz
How much would the Patriots miss Adam Vinatieri? How young are the Miami Dolphins? What does Eric Moulds' "personal assistant" actually do for a living? Does the Jets' depth chart have a single position without holes? These questions are pondered in the long-delayed final article from the first round of Four Downs.
114 comments, Last at 30 Mar 2006, 10:46pm by Mr Shush
08 Mar 2006, 10:44pm by Aaron Schatz
No details yet about whether the deal differed from the union's last "official" proposal, but apparently the only teams voting against were Cincinnati and Buffalo. Free agency starts at 12:01 am Friday.
Meanwhile, a sigh of relief goes up in the Schatz household at the news there will be no NFL labor stoppage in 2008.
91 comments, Last at 11 Mar 2006, 3:55am by bravehoptoad
07 Mar 2006, 07:11pm by Aaron Schatz
William Krasker is back with an analysis of replay challenges. Just how valuable are your two challenges, given that you don't know if and when you are going to need to use them? The answer, according to Krasker, is that the value of a challenge is very small, because a play that actually has a chance to be overturned occurs much less often than people might expect. So if you believe you have a good chance of getting a play overturned, use the challenge -- particularly if you still have two challenges to use -- rather than hold your challenges for opportunities that may never come.
12 comments, Last at 08 Mar 2006, 6:32pm by empty13
06 Mar 2006, 07:14pm by Aaron Schatz
Wanted to pass this along from Dan Lewis, who some of you may remember wrote an essay in last year's PFP. Dan and his friends have started a new site called ArmchairGM.com, which they call "the world's first world-writable sports blog and encyclopedia." It's basically a public sports news and commentary site based around the Wikipedia engine. Anyone can write an opinion article, report sports news, or contribute to what they hope
will be the Internet's most thorough sports encyclopedia, with no registration required. Head on over and check it out.
3 comments, Last at 06 Mar 2006, 8:42pm by Darrel
06 Mar 2006, 01:01am by Aaron Schatz
From Jay Glazer: "FOXSports.com has learned that the Seattle Seahawks have agreed to terms with Pro-Bowl running back Shaun Alexander on a whopping eight-year, $62 million deal that includes a total of more than $15 million in the first year in bonuses (signing and roster) and salary." FO has always believed that running backs were fairly replaceable. More and more teams seem to agree with that statement, leading to a glut of running backs on the market. That may have started to tip the scales the other way, so that the best running backs are actually undervalued.
51 comments, Last at 08 Mar 2006, 6:18pm by coltrane23
01 Mar 2006, 07:52pm by Aaron Schatz
Bloody Thursday begins early. Three starters from the AFC West champion Broncos, gone. I think they had to do something no matter what happened to the CBA, as very few teams needed to cut more salary to get under the cap than Denver did. By the way, Stephen Alexander started more games than Jeb Putzier did? Putzier is clearly the better player.
Also cut so far around the league: Sam Adams in Buffalo and Stephen Davis, Brenson Buckner and He Hate Me (sniff, how sad) in Carolina.
37 comments, Last at 03 Mar 2006, 4:02am by Sean
24 Feb 2006, 10:04am by Aaron Schatz
You have to scroll down for this one, since ProFootballTalk.com doesn't have permalinks. I honestly have nothing to say about Alexander right now but I wanted to point out that Mike Florio used the phrase "running backs are regarded as fungible." Dammit, Mike, fungible is *our* word!
53 comments, Last at 27 Feb 2006, 7:10pm by Starshatterer
22 Feb 2006, 05:58pm by Aaron Schatz
Well, that takes care of the best available wide receiver, not counting T.O. It's a six-year deal, $13.5 million in bonus money. Like most NFL contracts, I have no idea how much money that really ends up as. I also don't know how the Colts manage to fit all these offensive stars under the cap -- if someone knows a link to a page with Indy salary cap data, please put it in the comments. This also means that the Colts don't have to tag Wayne as the franchise player, so they could tag Edgerrin James for one more year if they felt like it.
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NEW YORK (May. 23)
Since at least the days of President Jimmy Carter, readers of The New York Times could count on columnist William Safire for a strong and eloquent defense of Israel.
So imagine their surprise when, last November, no less prominent an Israeli than U.N. Ambassador Gad Yaacobi wrote a letter to the editor, gently but firmly taking issue with Safire.
While Safire had written that "this is the moment to discover whether direct negotiation between Arabs and Jews has a future," Yaacobi cautioned that "if direct negotiations do not succeed, the stakes are too high to allow the process to fail."
In short, while Safire was repeating the case made by the previous Israeli government of Yitzhak Shamir, the representative of this Israeli government was saying thanks, but no thanks.
The willingness of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin to reverse long-standing Israeli policy and consider dramatic concessions at the negotiating table has opened a rift between his government and those American Jews who had considered themselves among Israel's firmest supporters.
It is a rift increasingly evident in debate within the Jewish community and on the editorial pages of publications widely read by Jews, including the Times.
Some observers see Safire's position as epitomizing the failure of some American Jews to get with Rabin's new program — a problem they dub the "Diaspora lag."
But in the months since November, it has become clear that Safire, as well as fellow Times columnist A.M. Rosenthal and other neoconservatives who manned the pro-Israel lines during the 1980s, have no intention of joining up with the Labor Party just to show their support for Israel.
Much as liberal columnist Anthony Lewis rooted for Shimon Peres when he headed the then-opposition Labor Party, Safire and Rosenthal seem to be placing their bets on Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu.
At the next election, Safire enthusiastically predicted last month, Rabin "is likely to be ousted" by Netanyahu.
All this raises a question, which as phrased by Safire himself in a column last month, goes like this: "Should longtime hard-liners, who used to assail any criticism of Israeli policies by U.S. doves as divisive, now abandon that principle and denounce the Labor Government's willingness to welcome a P.L.O.-ish state?"
The answer, clearly, is yes.
The only question is, how to justify the apparent about-face.
Safire went on to answer that support of Israel "should be thoughtful, not knee-jerk; no democracy needs right-or-wrong loyalists," and says he had never accepted the argument that criticism is itself harmful.
A lengthier answer was given by Norman Podhoretz. The editor of Commentary, a neoconservative publication, has over the years maintained that "American Jews had no moral right to criticize Israel's security policies."
Now, writing in a recent Commentary editorial, Podhoretz said he feels compelled to speak out against the peace process and the new policies of the Rabin government because "if those policies are meeting with so much approval in certain quarters, it must mean that they are not good for Israel."
There is, he wrote, "not only a political but also a moral distinction" between "criticizing Israel when it is under attack by everyone — and criticizing Israel when its policies are meeting with general approval."
There is a further distinction, Podhoretz continued, "between accusing Israel of all sorts of heinous crimes, as many of its critics on the Left did in the past, and questioning the prudential wisdom of its policies."
Not surprisingly, some Labor Party officials find these distinctions less than compelling.
Again on the Op-Ed page of The New York Times, Labor Knesset Member Ephraim Sneh turned on its head the old argument against American Jews criticizing Israel.
During the Likud era, American Jews were told they were in no position to criticize the hard-line tactics of a nation besieged by enemies. Now, Sneh argued, American Jews, watching from their distant perch should not judge a battle weary nation seeking peace.
Americans who disapprove of the peace process "may not have experienced the horrors of war and the tough conditions of daily life in Israel," Sneh wrote.
"Hard-line criticism from a safe distance of 6,000 miles will not change the situation," he continued.
What hard-line criticism from American Jews can do, fear some Israeli officials, is succeed in stalling the fragile peace process.
The Times' Rosenthal, one target of this Labor broadside, took a dim view of the critique against speaking out.
"If Labor takes the position that people have no right to comment on the most important thing (affecting Israel), and that if they do they're anti-Israel, then they're making one hell of a mistake," Rosenthal told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
"During the Likud regime, not only was there criticism, but people like Peres and Abba Eban came to the United States openly trying to influence the U.S. government to be harder toward Israel in its policies," he continued. "Nobody said they were anti-Israel for doing so."
American Jews who criticized Likud policies in the past say they remember a harsh reception to their critique.
But while not buying the efforts of Podhoretz to distinguish between criticism from the left and from the right, they admit that the turnabout is fair play.
They have long maintained that there is a role for American Jews to play in Israeli politics.
They just wish that Podhoretz and others would be more honest about it.
"I think American Jews need to get rid of this idea that Israeli politics are off-limits or treif," said Jonathan Jacoby, who is forming a new American Jewish organization to support the Labor Party.
"If you ignore politics, and party politics as well, you exclude yourself from having an impact on what happens in Israel, and from helping Israel in a significant way," he said.


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Located in Earl's Court, this eco-friendly hotel is within 1 mi (2 km) of Kensington Palace, Royal Albert Hall, and Olympia Conference and Exhibition Centre. Hyde Park is 1.5 mi (2.5 km) away.
Hotel Features
This smoke-free hotel features a restaurant, a health club, and a bar/lounge. WiFi in public areas is free. Other amenities include a coffee shop/café, 24-hour room service, and conference rooms.
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Hotel Amenities
Dining options at the hotel include a restaurant and a coffee shop/café. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. Business-related amenities at this 4-star property consist of limo/town car service and meeting rooms.
A computer station is located on site and wireless Internet access is complimentary. Event facilities measuring 4144 square feet (385 square meters) include conference space. This eco-friendly hotel also offers a health club, tour/ticket assistance, and multilingual staff. Limited onsite parking is available on a first-come, first-served basis (surcharge).
London Marriott Hotel Kensington is a smoke-free property.
- 24-hour front desk
- Total number of rooms - 216
- Number of floors - 8
- ATM/banking
- Bar/lounge
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Coffee shop or café
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Express check-in
- Express check-out
- Conference space
- Elevator/lift
- Health club
- Computer station
- Free WiFi
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Concierge services
- Limo or Town Car service available
- Meeting rooms 9
- Multilingual staff
- Parking (limited spaces)
- Porter/bellhop
- Luggage storage
- Restaurant
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Self parking (surcharge)
- Conference space size (meters) - 385
- Year Built 1969
- Conference space size (feet) - 4144
- Smoke-free property
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Television in common areas
- Wedding services
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- Family Hotel
- Free Wi-Fi
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- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Premium TV channels
- Pay movies
- Premium bedding
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- Air conditioning
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Phone
- Coffee/tea maker
- Daily housekeeping
- Private bathroom
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Shower/tub combination
- Satellite TV service
- Iron/ironing board
- Desk
- In-room safe (laptop compatible)
- Flat-panel TV
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Free newspaper
- Room service (24 hours)
- Free cribs/infant beds
- WiFi (surcharge)
- Wired Internet access (surcharge)
Where to Eat
Buffet breakfasts are available for a surcharge.
London Marriott Hotel Kensington has a restaurant on site.
24-hour room service is available.
Nearby Things to Do
Recreational amenities at the hotel include a health club.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Golfing nearby
- Bicycle rentals nearby
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
- Fitness classes on site
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
Hotel Policies
Minimum check-in age is 18
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Check-out time is noon
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Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Rollaway/extra beds are not available.
- Free cribs (infant beds)!
- Pets not allowed
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- Fee for buffet breakfast: GBP 20 per person (approximately)
- Fee for in-room wireless Internet: GBP 15 per day (rates may vary)
- Fee for in-room wired Internet: GBP 15 per day (rates may vary)
- Self parking fee: GBP 35 per day
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- London Kensington Marriott Hotel
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National Rating
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Research Topics
Carol Levin
Affiliation: Program for Appropriate Technology in Health
Country: USA
Detail Information
- Cost-effectiveness analysis of cervical cancer prevention based on a rapid human papillomavirus screening test in a high-risk region of ChinaCarol E Levin
PATH, Seattle, WA 98107, USA
Int J Cancer 127:1404-11. 2010....
- Economic analyses to support decisions about HPV vaccination in low- and middle-income countries: a consensus report and guide for analystsMark Jit
Modelling and Economics Unit, Health Protection Agency, 61 Colindale Avenue, London NW9 5EQ, UK
BMC Med 11:23. 2013..This report describes the consensus of an expert group convened by the World Health Organization, prioritizing key issues to be addressed when considering economic analyses to support HPV vaccine introduction in these countries...
- Cost analysis of centralized viral load testing for antiretroviral therapy monitoring in Nicaragua, a low-HIV prevalence, low-resource settingJay Gerlach
Programs for Appropriate Technologies in Health PATH, Seattle, Washington 98121, USA
J Int AIDS Soc 13:43. 2010..The objective of our study was to estimate the costs associated with viral load testing performed for antiretroviral therapy monitoring to both patients and the public healthcare system in a low-HIV prevalence, low-resource country...
- The costs of home delivery of a birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine in a prefilled syringe in IndonesiaCarol E Levin
Program for Appropriate Technology in Health, Seattle, WA 98107, USA
Bull World Health Organ 83:456-61. 2005....
- Analysis of the operational costs of using rapid syphilis tests for the detection of maternal syphilis in Bolivia and MozambiqueCarol E Levin
PATH, 1455 NW Leary Way, Seattle, WA 98107, USA
Sex Transm Dis 34:S47-54. 2007..The objective of this study was to compare the costs of antenatal syphilis screening with the rapid plasma reagin (RPR) test and the immunochromatographic strip (ICS) test in low-resource settings...
- Exploring the costs and economic consequences of unsafe abortion in Mexico City before legalisationCarol Levin
Program for Appropriate Technology in Health, Seattle, WA, USA
Reprod Health Matters 17:120-32. 2009..Additional research is needed to explore whether cost savings have been realised post-legalisation...
- Making the case for cervical cancer prevention: what about equity?Vivien D Tsu
Reproductive Health, PATH, Seattle, WA, USA
Reprod Health Matters 16:104-12. 2008..In the long run, however, increasing women's access to care will also require societies to address structural barriers related to health systems and poverty...
- How much does it cost to get a dose of vaccine to the service delivery location? Empirical evidence from Vietnam's Expanded Program on ImmunizationMercy Mvundura
PATH, 2201 Westlake Avenue, Seattle, WA 98121, USA Electronic address
Vaccine 32:834-8. 2014..Other low- and middle-income countries can benefit from similar studies, in view of new vaccine introductions that will put strains on existing systems. ..
- Rotavirus vaccination: cost-effectiveness and impact on child mortality in developing countriesDeborah Atherly
PATH, Seattle, Washington 98107, USA
J Infect Dis 200:S28-38. 2009....
- Cost-effectiveness analysis of active management of third-stage labour in VietnamVivien D Tsu
PATH, 1455 NW Leary Way, Seattle, WA 98107, USA
Health Policy Plan 24:438-44. 2009..The low net incremental cost of AMTSL suggests that the introduction of AMTSL in primary-level facilities in Vietnam can reduce the incidence of PPH and benefit women's health without adding much to national health care costs...
- De novo establishment and cost-effectiveness of Papanicolaou cytology screening services in the Socialist Republic of VietnamCarol E Levin
Cancer 94:2312-4; author reply 2314-6. 2002


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Bonds' greatness is hard to measure
The NL MVP Award should be named after Barry Bonds and given to Albert Pujols.
Updated: September 10, 2003, 11:54 AM ETBy Jim Baker | MLB Insider
Perhaps it's time we threw in the towel and just changed the name of the MVP Award to the Barry Bonds Award. In this way, we would be acknowledging that he is the best player every year without having to debate the semantics of what the award actually should represent. It would also give other players around the league hope that they can actually bring home some hardware. As it is, Bonds does so much to produce runs that there really is no competition as to who the best player in the league might be. Call it the Barry Bonds Award and suddenly, Albert Pujols -- a player having a season that easily distances himself from the rest of the league -- is a walk for the honors.
Five Giants managed to homer Tuesday night but, surprisingly (or perhaps, Ripley's Believe It or Notingly), none of them was Barry Bonds. Instead, Bonds was practicing the other part of his game at which he has no equal: getting on base. He hit two singles and drew three walks in five trips to the plate. It's no mean feat to enter a game with an On Base Percentage of .534 and actually raise it, but Bonds has been doing that ever since the All-Star Game. At that time, he had an OBP of "just" .496. While this a figure that would have landed him in the top 20 best seasons of all time, it was a decided downturn from last year's .582 and 2001's .515. Since that time, however, Bonds has been getting on base over 60 percent of the time. Tuesday night's on base extravaganza raised his post-All-Star OBP from .615 to .628.
Regardless of what the MVP award should represent, Barry Bonds is the game's best player.
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A "Christmas Creep" article in the New York Times gathered a bunch of quotes from retailers explaining why they feel the need to start marketing Christmas two holidays in advance. The verdict? They seem to know it irritates you, but they don't really care.
Walmart won't start Holiday marketing until Halloween, but are "not embarrassed at having rollbacks available now for shoppers. We know many like to plan ahead and spread the cost of Christmas," according to their spokesperson.
Toys 'R Us who recently opened a "pop up holiday store" in Manhattan causing us to scream in frustration, said: "It's understated." "Everyone can use a little Christmas right now, after a summer of toy recalls," Ms. Waugh said. "It's time to remember what toys are all about."
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Day 1: Bagdogra - Darjeeling. Arrive Bagdogra airport or new Jalpai Guri train station and transfer to Darjeeling (94 km/3 hrs). Night stay at Darjeeling.
Day 2: Darjeeling sightseeing. After breakfast proceed for the sightseeing of Darjeeling covering Parmesan Nadia Himalayan Zoological park, Himalayan Mountaineering Institute, rope way, Tensing - Gumbo Rock, Tibetan Refugee Self Help Center, Tea Estate, Lebong Race Course, Peace Pagoda and Rock Garden – Gangamaya Park. Night stay in Darjeeling.
Day 3: Darjeeling. Early morning excursion to Tiger Hill, Ghoom Monastery and Batasia Loop. Return to the hotel. After breakfast at hotel go for Mirik Lake via Nepal Border. Rest of the day. Free at leisure. Night stay in Darjeeling.
Day 4: Darjeeling – Bagdogra. After breakfast check out from the hotel and transfer to the Bagdogra airport or new Jalpai Guri railway station for your onward destination.
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PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Diamondbacks manager Kirk Gibson was long gone from the dugout Saturday night when his team's game against the Pittsburgh Pirates got much more interesting.
With Gibson ejected after arguing about a replay review that didn't go Arizona's way in the bottom of the second inning, the Diamondbacks squandered a chance to take the lead in the seventh and then saw reliever Randall Delgado tossed from the game for hitting Pirates star Andrew McCutchen in the back with a pitch in the ninth.
The Diamondbacks were torched for seven runs in the eighth and ninth innings in the Pirates' 8-3 win.
"The seventh inning kind of set the stage," Gibson said. "We had a golden opportunity to score some runs but we didn't score."
The inning saw the Diamondbacks get runners on first and third with no outs, but come up with no runs to keep the score tied at 1.
Later, Delgado plunked McCutchen in the lower back in what many felt was retaliation for Pirates reliever Ernesto Frieri hitting Diamondbacks' All-Star Paul Goldschmidt in the left hand with a pitch in the ninth on Friday. Goldschmidt was placed on the disabled list with a broken hand before Saturday's game.
"I didn't agree with the call," Gibson said of Delgado getting ejected. "Guys get hit. It's part of the game. It got away."
"Sure it did," McCutchen said when told what Gibson said, a hint of sarcasm in his tone. "They had all game to retaliate. They had the first inning to retaliate. They had the first pitch (of the ninth inning at-bat) to retaliate. They missed. You throw a slider on the second pitch and then you throw up and in on the next pitch. Are you trying to hurt me too? That's the question."
Delgado looked dejected as he walked off the mound, head down, following his ejection for hitting McCutchen.
"The umpire ejected me, so I just left. I was trying to work my corners and unfortunately the ball moved. I think maybe I didn't have control," he said.
The Pirates broke the game open late, just as they did the previous night. McCutchen drove in the go-ahead run with an infield single in the eighth off third baseman Andy Marte's glove that keyed a four-run inning to make it 5-1.
It was 1-all when Josh Harrison, who had homered earlier, opened the Pittsburgh eighth with an infield hit and Gregory Polanco reached on catcher's interference. McCutchen's sharp ground ball glanced off Marte's glove and into left field, breaking the tie.
Arizona reliever Brad Ziegler's throwing error later helped the Pirates break away. Brent Morel, inserted into the game at third base in the sixth inning with Pedro Alvarez struggling through an 0-for-3 night, hit an RBI double in the eighth and a two-run single in the ninth.
"I threw 24 pitches, I think 23 of them, I felt they were pretty good. The last one (to Morel) wasn't," Ziegler said. "I was getting ground balls, just not at guys. That's the way it goes sometimes."
Jared Hughes (6-2) got the win with a scoreless seventh. Ziegler (4-2) took the loss.
Frieri came in to pitch the bottom of the ninth, but there were no further incidents. David Peralta hit a two-run homer off Frieri. Peralta, who went 3 for 5 to raise his average to .319, drove in all of the Diamondbacks' runs with a home run and a single. A double he hit in the third inning hit just below the yellow home run line in center field.
The Pirates turned what could have been a big inning for the Diamondbacks into nothing thanks to two fine catches from left fielder Travis Snider and center fielder McCutchen in the second. Snider robbed Didi Gregorious of a hit by diving to catch the line drive, and McCutchen stole a hit from Marte with a sliding catch in shallow right-center field that looked to be a trapped ball. The play was challenged by Gibson but the out call was upheld after a 2-minute, 49-second review.
Diamondbacks: Right-hander Trevor Cahill (1-8) starts the finale of the four-game series Sunday. He is 2-1 with a 4.08 ERA in three starts against Pittsburgh.
Pirates: Left-hander Francisco Liriano makes his 19th start of the season. He's 3-7 with a 3.97 ERA. Opponents are batting only .231 against him this season.
Diamondbacks: Infielder Cliff Pennington and outfielder A.J. Pollock are on rehab assignments and last played in a rookie league game on Thursday.
Pirates: Second baseman Neil Walker was a late scratch from Saturday's lineup with back tightness. Harrison, originally Saturday's left fielder, replaced Walker at second base.
Outfielder Starling Marte was scheduled to begin a rehab assignment with Triple-A Indianapolis. He has been on the concussion disabled list since July 23.