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NSR Neustar Inc.
SectorConsumer Services
IndustryTelecommunications Equipment
Market Cap.1.505B
Current Price
-0.03 (-0.11%)
Growth Price
Undervalued by 85.02%
Stability Price
Overvalued by 10.56%
Company OverviewManagement Financial Strength Economic Moat Dividends & Buybacks
Company Metrics
- 36.21% Cash ROIC
- 1.30 Cash Ratio
- 0 / 0% Dividend
- 759,586.00 Avg. Vol.
- 66.11M Shares
- 1.505B Market Cap.
Company Description
NeuStar, Inc. provides technology and directory services to its communications service provider (carrier) and non-carrier, commercial business customers. The company also offers technology services upon which its carrier and enterprise customers rely to manage a range of technical and operating requirements. It serves traditional providers of communications, including local exchange carriers, comp...
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Neustar is a Sterling, Virginia-based company created by private equity firm Warburg Pincus LLC, which carved it out of Lockheed Martin Corp in 1999 and took it public in 2005. Warburg, together with Providence Equity Partners LLC, also sold Telcordia ...
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The sharp decline in Neustar's stock price suggests a lack of faith in Neustar if this contract is not renewed. For Ericsson, it is unlikely this FCC contract will have a significant impact on the overall company. This contract is only worth less than ...
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The company has an impressive track record as it comes to growth, profitability and diversification. Over the last decade, NSR grew revenues, both organically and through tuck-in acquisitions, at a rate of 20+%.Neustar's invisibility problem - Washington Business Journal (blog)
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Neustar Is A Compelling Long-Term Deep Value Play (NSR)
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Neustar (NYSE:NSR) is a company that has been troubled by a barrage of rumors concerning its ability to retain its Number Portability and Administration Center (NPAC) contract, which represents around 50% of revenue.
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Neustar (NYSE:NSR) is a provider of a wide array of communications information services. Examining all of the different services Neustar provides is an article in itself, but let's try to order them in importance to the company from a standpoint of ...
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Neustar to buy .co domain for $109M - Washington Business Journal (blog)
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Neustar notes it recorded in $4M in revenue last year for being .CO Internet's back-end provider, and that this revenue will be eliminated once the deal closes.Neustar to Acquire .CO Internet S.A.S. - Business Wire (press release)
Neustar to buy .co domain for $109M - Washington Business Journal (blog)
SHAREHOLDER ALERT: Investigation on Behalf of NeuStar, Inc. Investors ...
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Business Wire (press release) - Jul 17, 2014
BENSALEM, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Law Offices of Howard G. Smith announces that it is investigating potential claims on behalf of investors of NeuStar, Inc. ("NeuStar" or the "Company") (NYSE:NSR). The investigation concerns possible violations of ...
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Neustar Inc (NYSE:NSR) is currently valued at $27.41 per share. The shares are trading 45.4% off their 52-week peak and 13.1% above their 52-week low.
NeuStar Inc.: Neustar Reports Results for Third Quarter 2014
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The Wall Street Transcript - Oct 30, 2014
STERLING, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 30, 2014-- Neustar, Inc. (NYSE: NSR), a trusted, neutral provider of real-time information services and analytics, today announced results for the quarter ended September 30, 2014, and updated its guidance for 2014.


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It took the country's biggest school board more than a year to hire Chris Spence as director of education. The search to replace him won't be any easier, says the former school board chair, who helped bring Spence back to Toronto from Hamilton in 2009.
"I don't think the pool of candidates is any wider now than it was a couple of years ago," said John Campbell.
The TDSB failed to hire Miami education superstar Rudy Crew, other local candidates withdrew from the competition and none of the internal applicants were considered suitable, said Campbell.
"It's going to be very difficult to find somebody who has the ability to bring a large staff together. Toronto is a very complicated environment. Because of the diverse community the expectations are so high. You have many parent groups, … there's all kinds of issues somebody has to deal with here that they don't have to deal with at the same level in other boards," he said.
Hiring a permanent director isn't easy for any board, said Toronto Catholic District School Board chair Ann Andrachuk, who went through the process of hiring Bruce Rodrigues.
"The bigger (the board) the more challenging the search will be," she said.
Like Spence, Rodrigues brought inner-city experience to the role that requires political acumen as well as academic credentials. The country's biggest Catholic board was searching for similar qualities when it hired him — "out-of-the-box thinking within the parameters of the Education Act" — said Adrachuk.
Big urban school boards are very fractious, very political and very hard to manage, and it takes a team to run a board as big as Toronto's 600 schools and 250,000 students, said Ben Levin, a professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto.
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so they're not farming for gold... just for a chest full of Coke
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We all recognize the need to breath clean air for optimal health. Anyone who has ever unwittingly sucked a cloud of smoke into his lungs knows the discomfort it can cause. Air pollution from factories and poorly maintained vehicles are blamed for all kinds of ills from environmental to health. So to, we must be mindful of the "air" we are breathing into our bodies, minds and souls.
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ZEBULLON, NC (Catholic Online) - Not long ago we had the pleasure of meeting Fr. Boquet of Human Life International when he visited our parish. After Mass, he blessed us by sharing a potluck dinner and imparting some of his wisdom and spiritual guidance. The title of his evening talk was "Catholic Air."
What better time than in this Holy Week to do an air quality check in our homes, our lives. No, I'm not suggesting we hire an HVAC specialist to sanitize our ducts. And I'm not referring to that odd odor that is emanating from under my teenaged son's bed. The "Catholic air" to which Father was referring is the atmosphere we create in our homes.
We all recognize the need to breath clean air for optimal health. Anyone who has ever unwittingly sucked a cloud of smoke into his lungs knows the discomfort it can cause. Air pollution from factories and poorly maintained vehicles are blamed for all kinds of ills from environmental to health. So to, we must be mindful of the "air" we are breathing into our bodies, minds and souls.
When my journey into motherhood had just begun, I must admit that the airflow in our home was stifled. We surrounded ourselves with ordinary art and d�cor. Our frugal budget offered no means for a Picasso or Duncan Phyfe, but we did attempt to create a welcoming environment with hand-me-down furniture and thrift store paintings.
But as our little ones grew and my home schooling career commenced I began to reflect on my Catholic grade school experience. Recollecting those habited Sisters, our plastic rosaries, statues of the Blessed Mother and the crucifixes that hung in every room, I realized that a big part of my education was scented with the aroma of Catholicism. That is to say, Catholic symbols, books and objects surrounded us and infused us with faith.
So, as I set about preparing to educate my own brood, I realized that our home would be the center of their whole educational sphere and that included their education in the faith. Pretty pictures and comfortable furnishings were useful, but those alone would do little to reflect the true lessons we hoped to impart on those young, innocent minds.
Our home needed to be a mirror of our priorities, a reflection of our inner selves (or at least an image that we were striving to reflect). I suppose I have my mother-in-law to thank for blessing us with our wedding icons and an individual icon for each of our older children. In doing so, she provided our home with its first visible symbols of the faith we were proclaiming.
Of course, if we were going to teach our children at home, than it would be a Catholic education; and how could we impart a truly faith-based education without choosing good, authentic Catholic curriculum. Those school books, filled with beautiful Catholic artwork and sainted characters, were hard to close until we began to add equally beautiful images to our walls and our refrigerator gallery.
Catholic symbols had a natural appeal to our children. When I started a little shrine to our Lady in the kitchen, the older boys followed suit by covering a corner table in their bedroom with rosaries, holy cards and little resin saints. The sweet scent of Catholicism wafted through our home like incense from a senser.
Not having stepped foot in my childhood parish since my family moved to the parish on the opposite side of my hometown, I was excited at the chance to revisit Sacred Heart just a couple of years ago. Walking in the side door, the one I'd walked through countless times before as a pony-tailed, freckle-faced girl, I was instantly attracted to the huge painting of Jesus in the narthex. I recognized His face and He spoke to me of the many times we'd met as I'd entered through that very door on my way into His house. I felt as though I'd just come home. That painting connected me to more than a building, it linked me to my childhood, the beginnings of my faith journey.
While to an outsider (especially an outsider to the faith) our home may now resemble a layman's monastery, it is our refuge. Our refuge from a world that fills the air with visual and auditory pollution. Just as the signs and symbols of my grade school days are intertwined with my faith memories, so too, the Catholic d�cor we fill our home with tangibly connects us with our beliefs. I can speak to my children about the mercy of God. I can tell them about Jesus' sacrifice on the Cross, but how much more effective that lesson becomes when they can see and touch an image of Christ crucified.
Some days I whisk passed the icons and statues in my home with barely a fleeting glance or consideration, but other times I am stopped in my tracks. The picture of my Blessed Mother hanging in my bedroom will cause me to take pause and pray for a need that's weighing heavily on my mind. The holy oil on my kitchen shrine reminds me to bless the little one in my womb. The rosaries dangling beside the door offer my children ready access to a meditative tool. This is the Catholic air of which Father Bouquet spoke, the perceivable representations of our mysterious faith.
There is a popular quote I've heard repeated, it asks, "If someone accused you of being a Christian, would there be enough evidence to convict you?" Would a stranger know you are a child of God just by looking at you? How about by speaking with you? What if he entered your home, would he know Whom you serve?
Children love to model their heroes, for that matter so do adults. They'll wear Taylor Swift's perfume, don a T-shirt labeled Sean John, or plaster their bedroom walls with Justin Bieber's smirk. So, it is crucial that we reflect on the messages we are mimicking and ask ourselves if the air we are breathing (and emitting) is refreshing to the soul or simply adding to the already polluted worldly environment.
Tara K. E. Brelinsky is a home schooling mother of seven living children, with six more heavenly ones who intercede (and a little soul expected to arrive in August). Married to her childhood sweetheart, they make their home in North Carolina where they teach Natural Family Planning, grow a garden, raise two dogs, a cat, a fish, ducks, roosters and a flock of hens (in addition to all those wonderful kids). Tara studied journalism a lifetime ago in college, but now she writes simply for the the glory of God. You can read more of her musings and inspirations on her blog "Blessings In Brelinskyville" (www.http://brelinskyville.blogspot.com/).
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Greeting fellow Chowhounders,
I have heard a lot of wonderful things about LA, but I have never had the chance to visit. Until now that is, well, March. I'll be in LA, for a week in March and I am looking for "must eats" recs. I'm open to both fancy and hole in the wall/ greasy spoons, so long as it's quintessential LA. I would be interested in both old school top chefs and new up and comers. I look forward to your recommendation!
Thank you in advance.
This first thread should be helpful to you and the second linked thread will take you to the recent 2009 Ultimate Restaurants as voted on by the LA hounds broken down into over and under $25 pp categories. .
this has nothing to do with foodie la - but is a list of quintessential la from north west to eastish:
geoffrey's malibu
moonshadows malibu
duke's malibu
gladstones malibu
patrick's roadhouse santa monica
father's office santa monica
hot dog on a stick under / next to the pier santa monica
veince bistro on venice boardwalk
gjelina abbot kinney
westside tavern in westside pavillion
in & out westwood village
beverly hills hotel - pool restaurant or polo lounge
spago beverly hills
nate & al's beverly hills
grill on the alley bevery hills
dan tana's west hollywood
rainbow west hollywood
chateau marmot - west hollywood
canter's - near the grove
loteria - the grove
el compadre hollywood
24 degrees hollywood
musso & frank's hollywood
cat & fiddle hollywood
roscoe's hollywood
thai town
k town
langer's - almost downtown
barrangan's - almost downtown
king taco - almost downtown
nick & stefs downtown
sushi gen downtown
hama sushi downtown
cole's downtown
nickle diner downtown
traxx downtown
yang chow chinatown
re: nachosaurus
What's 24 degrees? Or did you mean 25 degrees??
re: Phurstluv
ha ha - yeah. really, i meant the roosevelt hotel. but if you add chow. . .
Here are my picks!
Good upscale restaurants:
Awful restaurants that have been around for ages:
The Pantry
Musso and Frank
Authentic ethnic restaurants that appeal to 1% of the population:
China Islamic
[Some place that serves xiaolongbao. Is Din Tai Fung too prosaic? Let me agonize about the best XLB for a few months and I'll fill this in later.]
Niche restaurants unique to LA:
Pizzeria Mozza
Roscoe's Chicken and Waffles
re: sillygoosedown
Those are all good choices, but the #1 choice is "In & Out Burgers". LA is a hamburger town and In & Out is a very unique LA chain. The quality has been good for years and they also have the crazy hidden menu that would be fun for tourists.
re: bsquared2
what's the hidden menu???
re: excel
In-n-Out Burger's Secret (hidden) Menu ...
These links may serve to enhance your InO experience. Have fun! (^_^)
For the record, my usual order:
- 3 x 2, animal style, medium, whole grilled onion, extra toast, extra mustard,
chopped chiles, no spread, no pickles
- Fries, extra crispy
- Root beer float or Lemon-up
re: degustateur
my order
cheeseburger protein style w/grilled onions
Extra crispy fries, animal style
Large Diet Coke
re: sillygoosedown
I think you're off about 5% on your 1% selections. I also think you are in error about Musso. Just my opinion. Din Tai Fung is not too prosaic. It's just crowded. And it is definitely not a 1% spot.
re: sillygoosedown
But you don't go to Musso & Frank for the food, you go for the martinis! And, should you go for the food, you can eat very decently there, if you pick up wisely.
And, if you really want to put in "awful restaurants that have been around for ages", I want to nominate Taix.
re: excel
A lot of neat, cool new places in downtown:
Church & State - excellent bistro, in the industrial part of LA / ELA
Rivera - cool Latin place, with a ceviche bar, in downtown at LA Live, by the Staples ctr
La Descarga - a rum bar with live jazz, not sure re: the food
Lazy Ox Canteen - in Little Tokyo, downtown, with interesting, eclectic pub food
The Tar Pit - another bar with a well known chef and interesting bar food
Have fun!!
re: Phurstluv
Great list!
La Descarga is truly happening. Only a few powerful rum cocktails down the hatch. Enjoyed a Trinidad (Fundadore - Habana) on the patio. Intense, heady vibe.
re: Skunk2Racer
But to make it the quintessential LA experience, I think you should hit these places only after you've been drinking and it's after midnight. 2 a.m. trips to Original Tommy's are deeply embedded into my food foundations.
re: excel
"Please keep the recs coming"
A goal of yours ought to be to comb through the board and take a look at any thread in which the title intrigues you. For instance, did you notice this thread http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/690213 which was recently started? There are literally a hundred threads like that, which have been started over the past couple of months, if you are just willing do some digging (and you will end up with a lot more fish in your creel if you learn "how" to fish the waters of the LA board yourself instead of having LA hounds place the fish into your basket).
re: Servorg
Except for the very newest places, or for downhill situations, all the info is already here on various threads--several times over . What isn't here are posts from excel telling us what he/she thinks of various places. But March is almost here.
Yes you guys are right, I shouldn't be expecting you to just tell me everything and I'm not. I am combing through the treads as we speak but, it's just nice some times to having at least a starting point. There are so many threads and it seems so scattered, I thought if LA founders could at least recommend the must hits I can start my research from there.
I appreciate all the help.
Thanks for the recs so far!! We're only in LA for 4 full days, and one of the days will be spent at Disneyland. So that's 5 dinners and 4 lunches. We've narrowed our restaurant choices to the following, so far, and need your help to either confirm we've made good choices and which ones we should prioritize, or to steer us in another direction.
(1) Providence
(2) Church and State
(4) Soot Bull Jeep
Lunch/Snack (could also be dinner):
(1) Roscoe's
(2) Wurstkuche
(3) In and Out Burger
(4) Langer's
(5) Phillipe's
(6) Grand Central Market for tacos
(7) Din Tai Fung for dumplings
(8) Daikokya for ramen
So what do you think? What should we prioritize since obviously we can't hit all these places!
re: wienermobile
Besides #19, what else should we order at Langer's? (just 2 people are sharing the meal).
re: excel
It's the Pastrami that is king here but you can do some combo sandwiches. My sons like the #44 (their version of a ruben) and the # 6 Pastrami and chopped liver sandwich. Or go all the way with #28 - FRESSER'S SPECIAL SANDWICH Pastrami, Corned Beef, Tongue, Swiss Cheese and Turkey, Lettuce, Tomato and Russian Style Dressing. I stick with the #19.
re: excel
Welcome to LA! I hope that you enjoy your stay. A few suggestions:
I would highly recommend Park's BBQ over Soot Bull Jeep. Superior Korean BBQ due largely to the quality of meats used, including Kobe (Wagyu) beef and Berkshire pork selections. Great panchan too. Excellent service. The staff all but insists upon cooking your selections for you to ensure proper preparation and doneness.
Park's BBQ
955 S. Vermont Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90005
(213) 380-1717
Try to fit Pizzeria Mozza into your plans for lunch, dinner or late night. Absolute greatness! Start with a wonderfully flavorful antipasti followed by chicken liver crostinis with guanciale. For the main, be sure to include the fennel sausage pizza with panna, red onions and scallions. The guanciale pizza is extraordinary albeit a bit salty. The Bianca with fontina, mozzarella, sottocenere and sage is awesome. Superb service and wine pairings. They're open continuously from noon to midnight daily. Reservations are essential.
Pizzeria Mozza
641 N. Highland Ave.
Los Angeles, CA
(323) 297-0101
I would definitely add Mariscos Chente as a priority, probably for lunch (very casual). Incredible Sinaloan/Nyarit style seafood creations by Sergio Penuelos – an up and comer who is already a living legend. Virtually all of the seafood is sourced fresh from Mazatlan and has that unique Gulf taste that cannot be duplicated. The pescado zarandeado, a specially spiced and prepared whole grilled fish, is extraordinary as are his aguachiles and other shrimp dishes. Try one of the delicious smoked marlin tacos for a rare, unique and tasty treat.
Mariscos Chente
4532 S. Centinela Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90066
(310) 390-9241
You should also consider Sushi Nozawa, LA's own, original "Sushi Nazi" - it's his way or the highway! Chef Kazunori Nozawa commands a very traditional sushi bar and serves up some of the freshest and finest sushi to be found anywhere. Mon-Fri, lunch/dinner only. No reservations. Be prepared for a brief standing wait. Sit at the bar and request the "omakase", Nozawa-san's choice of the day's selections. Trust him, he will do you right. Whatever you do, DON'T ask for a California Roll unless you relish being the day's entertainment. (^_^)
Sushi Nozawa
11288 Ventura Boulevard
Studio City, CA 91604
(818) 508-7017
Bon Appetit!
re: excel
I've listed a few alternates below. Aside from the historical value and the great hot mustard, the only one I really don't care for is Phillipe's. I've personally never had any wow moments there. Two sources of info that I've directed you to either directly or indirectly are Rameniac and Exilekiss. Both are very well versed in food and each deserve a bookmark.
Dinner: Park's (Soot Bull Jeep)
Lunch: Pann's (Roscoe's
Cole's (Phillipe's
Santouka or Asa (Daikokuya
re: bulavinaka
cole's is much better than phillipe's. by miles.
re: nachosaurus
Yeah, I personally dislike the place also for some service issues directed at me from one particular person there. Aside from that, it has it's place in LA food culture, but I would consider Cole's as well for far better versions of these types of sandwiches.
re: bulavinaka
i agree regarding the la food culture, and i do consider phiippe's a must do for la history (like the pantry, etc.). but, their food is just sub-par. i find it very fun to go to and to take people to - but it's never like some amazing meal. it's a fun place to go to see (as is union station across the street and olvera street nearby).
cole's - which is newly re-opened (thus, breaking the string of openness) - just has much better food.
re: sparkareno
I agree - Spago is wonderful. And second the recs for Jitlada. I think I would skip Pann's, though. It is basically food you can get anywhere.
re: WildSwede
I know that this is a food board but, Pann's architecture is not something that you can experience anywhere.
To me, quintessential LA is eating from a taco truck. My favorite is El Chato (Olympic & La Brea, 9pm+) and Taco Zone is probably my 2nd fav.
I would not miss Langer's either. I would go to Umami Burger for lunch one day too. I'd also try to go to Animal - I had one of the best meals I've had in a long time there.
re: mdpilam
Going to a taco truck sounds like an awesome idea! I've been given other recommendations....which one is the best? And we would probably go around lunchtime.
How's.....La Oaxaquena (Rose and Lincoln), or the one on S. Soto and E. 7th? Or the ones recommended by mdpilam above?
re: excel
If you're going to be in the Westside area around lunch for taco trucks, one option would be the Cemitas truck parked in front of Smart and Final on Venice just west of Hughes. The cemitas from that truck gets lots of love on this board. It's usually there from mid morning till mid afternoon. I like it with the milenesa/beef. But the chicken has its share of fans.
re: excel
el Chato is strictly a nightly experience. But it's a good truck.
If you can't find a truck and are on the Westside at lunch time, I really like Tacomiendo http://www.ta-comiendo.com/
I've only been to the Culver City location. It was my favorite lunch place when I worked nearby.
Thanks guys for your input....We're coming from Toronto and Seattle. Mariscos Chente sounds really good and I think it's something we're going to add to our list. Thanks for that recommendation!
Is it worth trying spago's or are we better off to go to providence? I only add spago to the list becasue it's Puck and he's the godfather of cali cooking isn't he?
Can anyone give use a recent review on animal?
Thanks again!
re: wienermobile
would you saying experiencing Wolfgang Puck, whether it's Cut or Spago, it worth bumping providence? A lot of celeb chef restaurants are over rated, are puck's one?
re: wienermobile
Than you for that! Providence it is...I don't know why but I can't seem to find reviews of Providence?
re: excel
You asked about an Animal review. I think this is the quintessential review as far as the LA board is concerned: http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/620960
re: oldusedcop
Quintessential, indeed. Just not what it used to be. Still, however, a viable recommendation.
Thank you everyone for your help and suggestions. We had an amazing time in LA! Loved the food, the atmosphere, the shopping, but NOT the traffic! Ack!
We just wanted to report back and let you know where we went to eat and what we thought of the restaurants.
We arrived on a Tuesday night and decided to go to Park's BBQ. Seriously the best Korean food we've ever had!! The banchan selection was amazing, and we loved the fact that the waitresses came and cooked for us. The service was amazing, as they changed the grill plate every time it started charring our food. We ordered the marinated kalbee, the pork belly, and the seafood pancake. The kalbee was just the way we liked it, not too sweet. The pork belly was amazing!!! We did leave it on the grill for quite a bit of time to allow the most of the fat to render and caramelize. It was perfect! The sauce that came with it was SO GOOD. The seafood pancake was excellent too. It had a good amount of seafood in it, and was perfectly cooked, crispy at the edges and softer in the middle.
The next day, we went to Mariscos Chente for lunch and Animal for dinner.
At Mariscos Chente, we had the shrimp ceviche, the Peppered Shrimp, and of course the Pescado Zarandeado. We have never tasted shrimp like that before! It was amazingly creamy, sweet, and rich. Our favourite dish was definitely the Peppered Shrimp. There was a lot of black pepper, but it wasn't too spicy or overwhelming. It just enhanced the cooked shrimp so well. And the RICE....oh the RICE! It was sooooo good. It was rich and savoury.....and I've never described rice like this. It might have been a little mushy, but still so good!
We were so happy that we had the chance to try Animal. It was a Wednesday night when we went, but the place was packed!! We ordered one main dish and about 3 smaller dishes to share, and it was perfect. The highlights of that meal were the Chicken Liver Toast and the Fois Gras Loco Moco. The sauce/gravy in the Loco Moco was slightly sweet and complimented the Fois Gras perfectly. The service wasn't the best, unfortunately. I sat with an empty wine glass for quite some time before I could get our waiter's attention to ask for another glass.
The next day, we went to Disneyland! We wanted to eat lunch before we went, so we decided to try Cole's. I had the lamb sandwich, while my other half had the beef sandwich. Both of us definitely preferred the lamb sandwich. The sandwiches are definitely the star of this restaurant of course, but they should probably work on their sides dishes. The coleslaw was NOT good. I've had better from my local Safeway. And the fries were only ok. We understand that you go to Cole's for the sandwiches, but most people order sides along with the sandwiches, so they should pay a little more attention to them.
At Disneyland, we snacked on the famous Turkey leg, which was actually really good! We also had Churros (notice the plural!). Yum!
After we left Disneyland, we went to Roscoe's for a late dinner. We've never had chicken and waffles before, so for that it was great! The combo is very good! We've had better friend chicken though.
The next day, we had In and Out Burgers for lunch. Yum! Definitely good burgers for that price. For dinner, we went to Providence. A good experience overall. Food was good, of course, but service was only ok. Please tell me if this is normal for LA or not, since we aren't used to this....but we were seated at our table, asked if we wanted drinks. After the drinks were brought to us, along with some bread to nibble on, THEN a few minutes later, we were asked if we were ready to look at the menus. We just aren't used to that! At all the fancy restaurants we've been to, the wine list and menu are brought to the table as soon as we sat down. We just found it a little weird, but weren't too put off by it. Both of us ordered the 5 course menu, and ordered their recommend salt-baked prawns as well. The food was good, but the time between the courses were not even. We feel that when you have a multi-course menu, the timing between each course should be equal. ie. once our plates are cleared, the diners should expect to wait 10 to 15 mins for the next course. With our experience, we waited 5 mins between the 1st and 2nd course, and 20 mins between the 3rd and 4th course. It felt uneven. Unfortunately, the worst dish of the 5 course menu, was the meat dish. The chef definitely works with seafood better!
Our last day in LA was pretty comical. We purposely didn't make any plans just in case we were all "fooded-out". We ended up just saying, "what the heck!" and waited in line at Pink's. There's 2 hours of my time I'll never get back!!! We did see a "celebrity" there though! David Hoffman made an appearance for a charity. Woo hoo! =P
Thank you again for all your suggestions. We had an amazing time and will be returning soon to go to the places we didn't get a chance to go to! (Like Langer's! It's a MUST for our next trip.)
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Before Melanie Heggs was hooked on the clarinet, she told her mother she wanted to be a psychologist.
She wanted to help solve people's problems and use her even-temperedness to calm mental anguish. But, about halfway through high school, Heggs, 22, changed her mind.
"When you realize you're good at something you stick with it, I guess," she says.
In other words, she decided playing the clarinet made more sense.
Heggs has played the clarinet for half her life. She joined Booker Middle School's concert band when she was in sixth grade and hasn't stopped playing since.
She chose the clarinet because she liked the way the keys felt under her fingertips. She remembered seeing a picture of her mother as a teen playing the flute in Riverview High School's Kiltie Band and thinking the clarinet looked like more fun to play.
"It was mostly a random decision," Heggs says. "I liked that it had a lot of shiny keys."
By eighth grade she had moved up to first chair. And, unlike other parents, Vivian Heggs didn't have to coax her daughter into practicing at night. The soft-spoken teen would simply come home from school with her clarinet in tow and play for hours in her bedroom.
"I was never that dedicated to the flute," Vivian Heggs laughs.
At the urging of Booker High's School's former band director, Scott Forsythe, Heggs started taking private lessons with the principal clarinetist of then-Florida West Coast Symphony. She started playing with its Youth Symphony and joined Booker's VPA music program. She joined Booker's marching band, jazz band, concert band and pit orchestra. She made Florida's All-State Band three years in a row, and by her senior year, she was traveling to Orlando and Naples for rigorous solo competitions and juried recitals.
"When Melanie was in ninth grade her band director came up to me at an open house and said, 'Your daughter is really talented. She should be taking private lessons,'" Vivian Heggs says. "That's when I knew she could make something of it."
Heggs, an only child, rarely boasts about her accomplishments. Instead she sits with a musician's posture on her living-room sofa and blushes whenever her mother, a teacher at Alta Vista Elementary School, pops up from correcting papers to fill in sentences with forgotten achievements.
Vivian Heggs, a single mother, smiles, sets her pen down and shakes her head.
"I just don't know how you did it," she says, turning to face her daughter. "Especially in college. You had marching band practice every day and you still managed to get on the dean's list."
Heggs shrugs.
"Being busy keeps you organized, I guess," Heggs says. "It's easier to stay focused when you have less free time."
The two women go back and forth for a minute, recounting Heggs' college schedule. A marching chief at Florida State University, Heggs spent four years traveling to and from Florida State football games and band competitions. She also played in the university's symphonic and concert bands.
Between out-of-town performances, homework assignments and band practice, Heggs had little time to party, which was fine by her and especially her mother. Traveling is half the reason why she decided to pursue a career in music in the first place.
"Basically I got to take paid trips with my friends," Heggs says.
This spring, she graduated with a bachelor's degree in music performance from Florida State University.
After a series of grueling auditions, she received a full fellowship and teacher assistantship to Penn State University's School of Music, where she'll study music performance. The only clarinet player in the country to earn a fellowship to the prestigious music school, Heggs says her dream job is to play for The United States Marine Band.
"I enjoy military bands," Heggs says. "But I'll go wherever my career takes me."
For someone with two months left before graduate school, Heggs is eerily composed. She spent the last few weeks hanging out with old friends, stocking up on sweaters for Pennsylvania winters and preparing for a recital with Sarasota pianist LaTerry Butler at St. James United Methodist Church.
The hard part is over. The fellowship is hers in exchange for a 10-hour-a-week stipend, which she'll earn working in the university's public relations office.
Her mother pipes up from the dining room table.
"Do you know what you'll be doing in the public relations office?" she asks Heggs.
"I don't know, and I don't care," Heggs replies. "Whatever it is, I'll do it."
Reed peeves
If there's one thing a prudent clarinetist knows, it's that proper reed maintenance is crucial.
"The life of a reed is a few weeks maximum," Melanie Heggs says. "That's my biggest clarinet pet peeve.
You've got to change your reed. It affects your whole sound."
You don't just slap one on, either. There's a priming process.
Heggs soaks her reeds in water and sets them out for a week before using them.
"You have to break them in before you play," she says.
Reeds are cheaper in Sarasota than in Tallassee, where Heggs went to Florida State University, so, whenever she was home on break, she'd stock up at Sam Ash Music Store on North Tamiami Trail, where a box of 10 reeds costs $20.
"I never understood why they cost more at college," Heggs says.
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An apparatus for securing a flowline to a structure near the seabed comprises a vertically oriented guide funnel placed atop a guide tube that is provided with a helical shoulder cooperating with an alignment key mounted on the flowline. During installation the flowline is stabbed into the guide funnel and guide tube thereby causing the alignment key to slide along the shoulder until a pair of hinge pins mounted on the flowline have entered into a pair of slots in the wall of the guide tube. Subsequently the flowline is hinged down to a horizontal position.
1. An apparatus for receiving, guiding, and anchoring a flowline section adjacent a seabed which forms the bottom of a body of water, said apparatus comprising:
a guide tube having a guide funnel carried at the upper end thereof, said guide tube and guide funnel having a central opening defined downwardly therethrough, said guide tube and guide funnel having passages extending radially outward therethrough from said central opening, said guide tube having a helical shoulder formed within said central opening and slots formed along the sides of said central opening of said guide tube, the lower end of said slots ending in shoulders which form pivot supports; and
a flowline section having a central longitudinal axis, one end of said flowline section having a first collar and a second collar situated at some distance from said first collar, said first collar having a radial key extending radially outward therefrom, said key operatively engageable with said helical shoulder, said second collar having two pivots positioned opposite one another and extending radially outward from said second collar, said pivots operatively engageable with said slots formed within the central opening of said guide tube, said pivots carried by said pivot supports which form shoulders located at the ends of said slots, said pivots rotated in said pivot supports to position said flowline section substantially horizontal to said seabed, said flowline section passing through said passages which extend radially outward from said central opening when said flowline section is rotated to a substantially horizontal position.
2. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein a portion of each of said passages extending radially outward from said central opening through said guide tube and said guide funnel are located opposite one another about the circumference of said guide tube, said portions of said passages located opposite one another forming a circular horizontal opening through said guide tube of a diameter greater than the outer diameter of said flowline section.
This is a division of application Ser. No. 757,707, filed 7/22/85.
In offshore oil production, it is common for several oil wells in the seabed to be joined by corresponding flowlines to an oil manifold on the seabed.
This entails the positioning near the oil manifold of flowline sections in a preferably horizontal, or approximately horizontal, position. After the installation in this position, each horizontal flowline section may be connected by flowlines to an oil well on one end and to the oil manifold on the other end.
A problem is that the flowline section is preferably lowered in a vertical orientation from a ship, after which it has to be brought into a properly oriented horizontal or approximately horizontal position.
The object of the invention is to provide apparatus for receiving, guiding and anchoring a flowline section lowered in a vertical orientation, and for hinging the flowline section from the vertical orientation to a desired final position, preferably a horizontal, or substantially horizontal, final position.
The apparatus according to the invention is thereto characterized in that it comprises a guide tube destined to be erected near the seabed, a guide funnel at one end of the guide tube, a helical shoulder within the guide tube, two opposite slots within the guide tube each leading to a corresponding pivot support, and passages in the wall of the guide tube and in the guide funnel which permit the hinging over of the flowline section. The end portion of the flowline section is designed to cooperate with the guide tube and is provided with a key that can cooperate with a shoulder located within an opening defined down through the guide tube. Two opposite pivots carried by the end of the flowline can each slide in one of the said slots until the respective pivot support has been reached.
These and other features, objects and advantages of the present invention will become apparent from the following detailed description, wherein reference is made to the Figures in the accompanying drawings.
FIGS. 1, 2 and 3 are schematic representations showing vertical sectional views and perspective views of the apparatus. The flowline section to be installed is shown in an initial position, an intermediate position and a final position in FIGS. 1, 2, and 3 respectively.
FIGS. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 are schematic representations showing vertical sectional views of the apparatus, the successive figures showing successive steps in the installation of a flowline section.
Referring now to FIGS. 1-10, reference is made to the flowline section 1 to be installed and more specifically to the end portion 10 of the flowline section 1 to be installed. A guide tube 2, provided with a guide funnel 3, is destined to be erected near the seabed (not shown) with its longitudinal axis in a vertical orientation. It is, for example, also possible to secure the guide tube 2 to elements of an oil manifold 16 on the seabed. In practice, a plurality of guide tubes 2 will be secured according to the invention to the oil manifold 16, the number being at least equal to the number of oil wells to be connected to the oil manifold 16.
Within the guide tube 2 is located a helical shoulder 4. Defined within the guide tube 2 are also two opposite slots 5 which both lead to a corresponding pivot support 6. Passages 7 and 8 are present in the sidewall 9 of the guide tube 2. In the prolongation of the passage 7 there is also a passage in the guide funnel 3. The purpose of these passages 7 and 8 and the passage in the guide funnel 3 is to enable the flowline section 1 to hinge, as will be explained below. The end portion 10 of the flowline section 1 is provided with a first collar 11 at the end of the end portion 10 and with a second collar 12 situated at some distance from the first collar 11. The flowline section 1 has a central opening 17 (FIG. 1) defined therethrough as is well known to the art.
The first collar 11 is provided with a radial key 13 which can cooperate with the helical shoulder 4. The second collar 12 is provided with two opposite pivots 14. A plurality of centering ridges 15 are also located in the guide tube 2.
During normal operation of the above-described apparatus according to the invention, the flowline section 1 is lowered in a vertical orientation from a floating vessel (not shown) to the guide tube 2, such that the end portion 10 is received by the guide funnel 3 (see FIGS. 1, 4, 5 and 6). The flowline section 1 with the end portion 10 is therefore lowered in the direction indicated by arrow A (FIG. 1). A key 13 finally contacts the shoulder 4 and is then forced to follow the shoulder 4 as the end section 10 moves further in the direction of arrow A (see FIGS. 7 and 8). This makes the end portion 10 rotate in the sense indicated by the arrows F.
The pivots 14 are positioned relative to the key 13 such that the pivots 14 finally engage in the slots 5 and follow them until they end up resting on the pivot supports 6. The configuration is then as shown in FIGS. 2 and 9 the pivots 14 together with the pivot supports 6 forming a hinge with a horizontal axis that permits the end portion 10 to hinge about the horizontal axis.
Referring to FIGS. 10 and 11, from the position in which the central longitudinal axis L of the end portion 10 coincides with the vertical axis K. the end portion 10 is rotated in the direction indicated by the arrows M and N in FIG. 10. This rotation is continued until the central longitudinal axis L of the end portion 10 coincides with a horizontal line G, as shown in FIG. 11. It should be noted that the final position of the end portion 10, as shown by the line G, does not necessarily have to be horizontal. A slight inclination of the end portion 10 relative to a horizontal plane can sometimes also be desirable. The final position according to FIG. 11 is again shown in perspective in FIG. 3. During the axial movement of the end portion 10 within the guide tube 2, the centering ridges 15 ensure a good centering of the end portion 10 within the guide tube 2.
After the flowline section 1 together with the end portion 10 has reached the final position, as shown in FIGS. 3 and 11, one end of the flowline section 1 can be connected to the oil manifold 16 and the other end of the flowline section 1 can be connected to an oil well in the seabed (not shown).
It should be noted that it is not strictly necessary to employ the apparatus according to the invention together with an oil manifold 16. In general, the apparatus can be employed for any application in which it is desired to lower a pipe section in a vertical orientation from a vessel, after which it is desired to install the pipe section in a horizontal, or slightly inclined, final position on or near the seabed. The apparatus can be employed for the installation both of oil pipes and of gas pipes. The apparatus can also be employed for the installation of other liquid pipes than oil pipes, for example for the installation of water pipes.
Many other variations and modifications may be made in the apparatus and techniques hereinbefore described, both by those having experience in this technology, without departing from the concept of the present invention. Accordingly, it should be clearly understood that the apparatus and methods depicted in the accompanying drawings and referred to in the foregoing description are illustrative only and are not intended as limitations on the scope of the invention.
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