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A process and a device for creating production logs in a gushing well. A seal permits measurement of at least part of the upstream flow and/or downstream flow in the well relative to the seal. The pressure differential is monitored on either side of the seal.
1. Apparatus for creating production logs in a producing well, the well traversing a geological formation, said apparatus comprising:
a perforated liner within a producing zone of the well bore, and not cemented in the well bore, to define an annular space therebetween;
first means for positioning a sealing means within the liner in the well bore to divide the liner into an upstream part and a downstream part with respect to the sealing means;
second means for measuring a characteristic of the production in at least one of the upstream part and the downstream part;
third means for monitoring the pressure differential in the liner across the sealing means;
fourth means for controlling the pressure differential so as to control leakage of effluents between the upstream part and the downstream part; and
fifth means for preparing production logs based on the measured values of said characteristic and the monitored pressure differential.
2. Apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein said well. third means is located at the earth's surface adjacent the well.
3. Apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein said second means is located at the earth's adjacent the
4. A device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said third means further measures the pressure existing in the upstream part and in the downstream part.
5. Apparatus as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a well tubing having a first end within the liner bore and a second end emerging from the well bore at the earth's surface, and sealing means attached to said first end of said well tubing.
6. Apparatus as claimed in claim 5, wherein the effluents coming from the upstream part flow to the earth's surface through said well tubing.
7. Apparatus as claimed in claim 5, or 6, wherein the effluents coming from the downstream part flow towards the earth's surface through the annular space.
8. A device as claimed in claim 5, wherein said well tubing has a side entry sub permitting a cable to pass from outside said tubing to inside said tubing.
9. Apparatus as claimed in claim 1, further comprising an electrical cable for transmission of information between instrumentation in the well bore and instrumentation at the earth's surface adjacent the well.
10. Apparatus as claimed in claim 1, further comprising electromagnetic wave transmission means for transmission of information between instrumentation in the well bore and instrumentation at the earth's surface adjacent the well.
11. Apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein said second means comprises means for measuring at least one of flow rate and composition mixture of the effluents coming from at least one of the upstream part and the downstream part.
12. A method of creating production logs in a producing well, the well traversing a geological formation, said method comprising the steps of:
(a) positioning a perforated liner within a producing zone of the well bore, without cementing the liner in the well bore, to define an annular space between the liner and the well bore;
(b) positioning sealing means within the liner in the well bore to divide the liner into an upstream part and a downstream part with respect to the sealing means;
(c) measuring a characteristic of the production from at least one of the upstream part and the downstream part;
(d) monitoring the pressure differential in the liner across the sealing means;
(e) controlling the pressure differential so as to control leakage of effluents between the upstream part and the downstream part; and
(f) preparing production logs based on the measured values of said characteristic and the monitored pressure differential.
13. A method as claimed in claim 12, wherein step (c) is performed at the earth's surface adjacent the well.
14. A method as claimed in 12, wherein step (d) is performed at the earth's surface adjacent the well.
15. A method as claimed in claim 12, wherein step (c) comprises measuring flow rate and/or composition mixture of the effluents coming from at least one of the upstream part and the downstream part.
16. A method as claimed in claim 15, further comprising calculating preservation balances.
17. A method as claimed in claim 12, further comprising, between steps (e) and (f) , the steps of:
(g) moving the sealing means to another place in said well bore; and
(h) repeating steps (a)-(e).
This application is a continuation of application Ser. No. 07/497,266 now abandoned, Mar. 22,1990.
The present invention relates to a method and device for making production logs in gushing as producing wells, particularly inclined or horizontal wells.
It should first be pointed out that production well logs may play an essential role in the exploitation strategy of an oil well, particularly a horizontal or strongly inclined well, if the logs can be produced correctly. It is generally assumed that a horizontal well can replace several vertical wells (generally two to four) both from the standpoint of the well output (increase in production index) and from the stand point of recovery (increase in drainage area and decreased coning problems).
Although this recognized dual advantage of a horizontal well is valid in the case of a homogenous reservoir, it may be less so in the far less frequent case of a heterogeneous reservoir. Because of irregularities, the overall output of the well may become unprofitable because of incoming water that may be characterized by a water-cut ratio (quantity of water/quantity of liquid) or a gas-oil ratio (GOR) that is too high. This output may have to be reduced, for example to limit the GOR to an acceptable value, even though this production problem may involve only a limited area of the hole. Even though this type of problem does not mean that horizontal wells have to be ruled out altogether in this type of deposit, it is clear that a horizontal well does not offer the flexibility the producer may desire to optimize exploitation of the field. Also, it should be noted that the totality of vertical wells that may replace the horizontal well would offer more opportunities, with the vertical well draining the part of the reservoir responsible for the production problem being able to be closed easily without injuring production of other wells.
The obvious way of avoiding this problem is to use selective completion in the horizontal hole, allowing production to be tuned zone by zone or the problematical drainage zone to be closed.
Selective completion may be used at two different stages in the life of a well: either immediately after drilling the well or later, at the time when its necessity becomes apparent.
In the first case, it is clear that the decision to use selective completion is a difficult one for several reasons:
first of all the additional investment represented by selective completion equipment must be justified a priori,
then the zones to be individualized must be defined from a static description of the reservoir.
It is advantageous to postpone the decision until the situation is better known so that the additional outlay will be made only for the wells requiring it and only at the time it becomes necessary. In most cases, it will only be done after the well has broken even. On the other hand, it might be easier to define the zones to be isolated if more dynamic data were available on the reservoir, particularly by using well logs.
Further, intervention may be made difficult or even impossible because of the provisional completion used during the first phase of well operation, for example the use of a non-cemented perforated liner (generally called "preperforated liner" by specialists).
In addition, this method of production (first phase non-selective, second phase selective) may in certain cases be the reason for a drop in eventual recovery.
The first solution (selectivity from the very start of production) thus appears to be more attractive technically, but not necessarily economically. The solution of cementing and perforating a liner throughout the length of the hole, which solution allows for any selection possibility thereafter, must be discarded in certain cases for cost reasons.
The best solution thus consists of carrying out the first phase of production in an open hole; however this is not always possible because of uncertainties regarding the mechanical stability of the well.
As a result, the case most frequently encountered is that of the non-cemented well.
Whatever the completion used for a horizontal well, when there a problem of producing undesirable fluids, it becomes important to pinpoint which zone or zones is or are responsible for this production, and to evaluate the potential of the well with these zones closed.
Only production well logs can provide the necessary answers. Yet their implementation comes up against difficulties linked to the horizontality and to the completion method.
Of all possible selective completion methods (total or partial cementing, formation packers) or nonselective completion methods (open-hole, preperforated liner), the case of the perforated liner presents the most difficulties. This is the case that will be considered below.
The present invention relates to the case where the well is gushing and does not have to be activated to produce.
The present invention can also be applied to vertical wells.
The essential goal of production well logging is to furnish the flow profile of each phase along the hole. This result is obtained by making and interpreting one or more flow measurements. According to the present invention, it is possible to make these measurements at the surface, rather than directly at the bottom of the well.
The measuring means may for example measure flows of an effluent as a whole, or the various phases of this effluent, possibly by separating these phases.
According to the present invention, tubing is used to lower a sealing means.
While implementation of the system according to the present invention may at first appear more cumbersome and more complex than that of a classical well log, it should be noted that, on the one hand, such classical well logging may be insufficiently accurate and, on the other hand, these measurements will be made only when selective intervention ( selective completion or selective treatment ) becomes necessary and in any event requires equipment to be removed from the well.
Implementation of well logging with the aid of tubing assumes, to simplify interpretation, that the distribution of the pressures in the hole is not too greatly modified by the position of the tubing string in the hole, i.e. the pressure losses in the annular gap between the tubing and the perforated liner are negligible. This point may be verified during measurement by using a pressure sensor or sensors to evaluate the pressure loss in the gap.
According to the present invention, when the well is gushing, the tubing is not equipped with a well activation pump.
Thus, the present invention relates to a method for making well logs in a gushing well. According to this method, effluents are produced on either side of sealing means, the pressure differential between the two sides of said sealing means is measured, and measuring means are used to process at least some of the effluents coming from upstream and/or downstream of the flow, relative to said sealing means.
The flows can be processed at the surface by measuring means. These measuring means may be flowmeters.
The measuring means may process at least part of or substantially all of the upstream flow.
The measuring means may process at least part of or substantially all of the downstream flow.
The pressure differential in the producing well on both sides of the sealing means may be monitored from the surface.
If the upstream and/or downstream flow measurements are made in the well, preservation balances may be calculated by comparison with the total flow measurement at the surface.
The present invention also relates to a device for producing well logs in a gushing well. This device has sealing means, measuring means designed to process at least part of the upstream flow and/or downstream flow relative to said sealing means, and means for monitoring the pressure differential between the two sides of the sealing means.
The measuring means may be located at the surface.
The monitoring means may include means for measuring the pressures or pressure differentials between the two sides of the sealing means.
The monitoring means may include, at the surface, means for adjusting the pressure differential from one side to the other of said sealing means.
The pressure-measuring means may measure the pressure differential and at least one of the upstream or downstream pressures prevailing on either side of the sealing means.
The sealing means may be attached to one end of the tubing, with the other end of the tubing emerging at the surface.
The flow coming essentially from upstream of the sealing means may be sent to the surface via the tubing.
The flow coming from downstream of the sealing means may be sent to the surface via the annular gap between the well walls and the outer walls of the tubing.
The tubing may include shutoff means.
The tubing may include a connection with a lateral inlet for a cable.
Transmission of information between the well and the surface may be accomplished by electrical cable or by electromagnetic waves.
The present invention also relates to the application of the method or device described above, to a horizontal or inclined well.
The present invention will be better understood and its advantages will emerge more clearly from the description below of particular and non-limitative examples illustrated by the attached figures wherein:
FIG. 1 represents one embodiment of the device according to the invention when it is being installed,
FIG. 2 illustrates this embodiment once the device is in place,
FIG. 3 show s schematically the pressure differential monitoring means.
FIG. 1 represents a producing well 1 in which it is desired to measure the flow characteristics of the fluid linked to the formation along the part of the well in production. These measurements will show the variation in certain characteristics between various points in the producing zone of well 1. This well has a substantially vertical part, not shown, and a part 3 that is substantially horizontal or inclined with respect to the vertical, in which oil production takes place in normal operation.
This producing zone has a liner 4 perforated over at least part of its length. During production, the fluid from geological formation 5 flows through these perforations.
The purpose of the present invention is to obtain information on these flows in different ways for different points in the producing part of the well.
Such information may be the flowrate, or the composition of the product mix. The present invention will give information in particular on flowrate as a function of the curved abscissa along the production hole. Thus, for example, it is possible to determine the portions of the hole in which essentially water is produced, and to take action regarding these portions.
Reference 6 designates the casing of the well in the non-producing zone and reference 7 is the shoe at the end of the casing.
According to the present invention, tubing 8 having sealing means 9 is lowered into the well.
It is recommended that protectors or centering devices 11 be used in the slanting and horizontal parts of the well.
Reference 12 designates the annular gap between liner 4 and tubing 8 (FIG. 2). It is in this zone that protectors 11 are located.
Liner 4 may be cemented as shown in FIG. 1 or not (FIG. 2).
The information from pressure sensors 10a, 10b and sensor 10c is transmitted to the surface by an electrical cable 14 located partly in tubing 8, as well as in annular gap 23 between the tubing and casing 6 over part of the length of the tubing. This arrangement allows the electrical connection between the motor and the cable to be made at the surface. Electrical cable 14 is payed out at the surface, keeping pace with the assembling of the elements of which tubing 8 is composed. This assembly work is accompanied by increasing penetration of the sealing means into the well.
Tubing 8 is sealed off over its running length from annular gap 12. The fluid that penetrates the tubing is the fluid that penetrates inside sealing means 9, which are hollow and have a flow channel in side.
Sealing means 9 are traversed by the flow of fluids from the upstream part of the well, assuming the fluid flow direction to be essentially from upstream part 18, moving toward inlet 15 to sealing means 9.
Reference 21 designates a connector. Reference 22 designates a connector with a lateral inlet allowing cable 14 to pass into annular gap 23 of the well. This design reduces and in some case eliminates the length of cable in the annular gap in the slanting or horizontal part of the well.
Cable 14 is installed and connected to the downhole connector in classical fashion.
At the wellhead, tubing 8 passes through a stuffing box 16 and has a valve 19 that controls the flows passing into the tubing. The wellhead has a system with a lateral inlet 31 allowing cable 14 to pass the outside, as well as pressure-measuring means and possibly pressure differential monitoring means.
The wellhead has s pipe 32 to carry the flow from annular zone 12, 13, and 23. This pipe has a valve 33 for controlling the flowrates in the annular zone.
The sealing means and tubing can be lowered into the gushing well when the latter is full of brine whose density is such that the well cannot produce. This is shown in FIG. 1.
Before the sealing means penetrate the unperforated part 34 of perforated liner 4, fluid is made to circulate through the tubing and The annular gap in order to expel the brine and cause the well to produce. Of course, when this operation is started, the wellhead is equipped with a stuffing box 16 and a lateral inlet system.
To allow tubing 8 and sealing means 9 to be lowered when the well is flowing, a shutoff device such as a valve 35 located above the lateral-inlet connector is used. This valve may be controlled by a cable when working with the wire line technique, or possibly with an electrical cable, in particular cable 14. In the latter case, it can be located below connector 21.
Thus, whenever it is desired to add or remove one tubing element, valve 35 is closed, valve 19 is removed, the tubing element is added or removed, valve 19 is replaced, and valve 35 is opened.
In this way, the sealing means may be located at the desired point in the perforated liner. According to the present invention, when flows are being measured the sealing means are immobile in the well.
When the well is producing and valves 19, 33, and 35 are open, the fluid coming essentially from the downstream part 17 and the fluid coming essentially from upstream part 18, considered in the flow direction relative to sealing means 9, are transferred to the surface via the annular zone and the tubing, respectively.
The fluid coming from downstream part 17 arrives at the surface via openings 36 in the perforated liner, and the fluid coming from upstream part 18 passes through the sealing means. Thus, selective measurement of the flows is obtained at the surface. One need then only move the sealing means by adding or removing a number of tubing elements to reach a new measuring location, and carry out measurements.
Establishment of a flow balance gives information on the changes in certain characteristics along the production hole. Thus, it is possible to find out, as a function of the curved abscissa of the hole, the local flowrate of the formation and its water, gas, oil, etc. composition utilizing control module 37 and display module 45 (FIG. 3) and information from sensors 10a, 10b, and 10c.
According to the present invention, a qualitative indication may be obtained of the circulation behind the perforated liner by causing the differential pressure to vary on either side of the sealing means, and then measuring it.
This measurement in fact determines the direction of the leak behind the liner, but cannot give any indication of the value of the leakage rate. It may be assumed, however, that this leakage rate is proportional to this pressure differential QF =αΔp. It will therefore be zero if differential pressure Δp is zero.
In FIG. 2, references 10a and 10b designate absolute, relative, or differential pressure sensors, which are connected to electronic control module 37 (FIG. 3) by lines 38.
The use of valves 19 and 33 allows the pressure losses to be varied in one of the two circuits formed, either by the annular zone (downstream circuit) or by the tubing (upstream circuit) and allows the error due to the leakage to be minimized by setting the differential pressure to zero. The characteristics of the leak behind the perforated liner may be evaluated as follows:
positioning of assembly in hole,
adjustment of total throughput of well to a flowrate QT
measurement of upstream and downstream flows and pressure after adjusting the pressure differential to a value of zero
QT =Qd +Qu
complete closure of valve 33,
adjustment of flowrate of well by valve 19 in order to obtain the same pressure in the upstream part of the hole.
new flowrate Q'T =Q'u.
measurement of differential pressure Δp.
The leakage characteristic is then determined by ##EQU1##
Also, by a particular adjustment of valves 19 and 33, an attempt may be made to bring about an artificial pressure differential on either side of the sealing means and to determine the leak from measurements of, in particular, the pressures and flowrates upstream and downstream.
In FIG. 3, electronic module 37 can make flowrate measurements by means of sensors 39 and 44 which are connected by lines 40 and 41, respectively.
Control module 37 can then control, by lines 42 and 43, valves 19 and 33 to reach a total flowrate, or a flowrate of one of the two circuits, equal to a predetermined flowrate. Display module 45 can indicate composition mixture and/or flowrate.
Up to now, transmission of information from the well bottom by electrical cable has been described.
It will not be a departure from the present invention to use transmission by electromagnetic waves, as described in the article by P. de Gauque and R. Grudzinski entitled "Propagation of Electromagnetic Waves Along a Drillstring of Finite Conductivity" in the journal SPE Drilling Engineering, June 1987. It will also not be a departure from the present invention to combine some of these different transmission means.
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My Blue Kitchen !!
We just moved into our forever home, a 60 yr. old brick, ranch style that we have been searching for, on a wonderful fenced property of Fir, Pine, Maple Trees and gardens. But the kitchen had to go, we gutted the room and ordered appliances, white farmhouse sink, chrome faucet, hardwood floors - so we need to order cabinets! But we are torn between Painted in a shade of Aqua/Turquoise/Teal, that I have been dreaming of for 20 years! Or shall we be safe and select White cabinets or be conservative and select Natural Cherry? We are going to use Marble as we have in other kitchens - hopefully Statuary or Calacatta. We are supposed to decide this, next week - Help us to make this important choice, please, Thank you for all of your ideas and pictures! Rose
Here is one of my inspiration pictures in an Aqua blue! The wall on the side looks too green for me, but we do not want a baby blue! Does anyone have an idea of what color or paint may be used for this look? Thanks, everyone for your advice! Rose
Definitely go with the aqua/turquoise/teal you want. Are you familiar with the site "House of Turquoise"? I haven't been there lately, but there are always a lot of neat ideas at that site. I'll post a link.
Those colors are our accent colors for the kitchen, and have spilled out into other areas of the house as well (I'm a real blue person). Hope you find a color that works for you.
Here is a link that might be useful: House of Turquoise blog
Use aqua, you'll love it and that's the point. If you decide down the way that you've made a mistake, you can re-paint them white. Why be "safe"? By the time you're done with this kitchen it will be time to reno again and the new owners can do what they like. In your inspiration pic, I really like the contrast with the white elements. You might consider a white island if you're doing one.
If you've been dreaming of a blue kitchen for 20 years, then it isn't any passing fancy. It would be criminal not put your dream blue kitchen in your forever home!!! You have a vision and it sounds lovely! Go for it! I can't wait to see pictures!!
Contemporary Kitchen design by Atlanta Interior Designer Niki Papadopoulos
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Go for your dream! If this is your forever home then go for it! This kitchen is for you, find what makes you happy most, and build the rest to work together from there. If it's blue/turquoise cabs then do blue/turquoise cabs.
It can be hard to find the right shade, but look at color samples, magazines, whatever you can find that will help (the inspiration for the colour of my basement walls came from a yoga mat).
If you think it will be too much, then pair it with something like white that can give you the contrast you want. Do the blue on just the perimeter, or just the island if you have one, or just the lowers...
I LOVE red but couldn't commit to an entire kitchen in red. My space was quite dark and also needed some brightening. So I did my island in red and the perimeter in white. The red island makes me happy every time I look at it. And the brightness of the white around the rest of the kitchen is also just what I was looking for.
Think about what you most want, play with colored pencils and samples/mood boards, and maybe even get a good professional designer that can help you make your vision come to life in a way that makes you happy and flows well together.
I hope you find that perfect colour to start from and get it in just the right balance to make a stunning result that brings out a smile every time you're in it!
Here is a link that might be useful: My red and white kitchen
I wouldn't hesitate for one minute if you've been dreaming of a blue kitchen for 29 years! Absolutely DO IT! You don't have to impress anyone else or worry about resale so why the heck not! You'll wake up every morning, walk into your bright, beautiful, blue kitchen and start the day off with a SMILE :)
Besides, shades of aqua-blue are my favorite colors :)
Oh my, you all are the greatest, so much support and wonderful ideas! Yes, I do like House of Turquoise & everything Blue - every other color really does look good with Blue, right!! A big hug for all the beautiful pictures, inspiration and beyond! Some of the actual paint colors that were used are not so easy to find - any names of these colors will be appreciated! By the way, our kitchen has a peninsula overlooking a round table & chairs and the windows looking at the back yard.
That is an amazing red color on your island! What shade is your red? And I see your Soapstone, this is our 2nd choice after Marble. What is the name of your Soapstone and how do you wax/oil this counter top? We found the Soapstone to be almost as costly as the Marble. Where did you find your interesting Soapstone?
Shades of Aqua & Turquoise always make me happy, like a walk on the beach!
Love it!!! We are doing yellow but aqua would have been my second choice so we're using some small blue/aqua accents as it looks great with yellow too : )
Sherwin William Rainwashed and/or Sea Salt are great colors.
Also, BM Woodlawn Blue HC-147 or Palladian Blue. They all have varying degrees of green/blue so you'd want to see them in your space.
shkish did a lovely kitchen with an aqua island & walls-- If you end up you don't want to fully commit to all aqua cabinetry (a lot of work to change) that could be a way to use white cabs and just an aqua island or accent.. and then do aqua walls.
However you decide to go about it, the kitchen will be beautiful!
Good Luck!
I totally love the fifth picture down with the X in the window panes. That is a gorgeous kitchen. The perfect color I just love that!!! But there are many others that are so pretty too. Thanks for posting the beautiful pictures. I would get what you want. Maybe it will help sell the house and not be a resale problem somewhere down the line. It's so pretty someone else will think so too. : )
I did blue and I love it. The cabinet maker kept making door samples for me with the different shades until we found the one we liked. Just bite the bullet and go for it. If you have a vision in your head, you will know when you find the right color for you. Blue looks great with marble too! ;)
Blue is my favorite color and always has been, but I also realized that I was drawn to white kitchens. I did a white perimeter with a wall of blue tall cabinets around my fridge. Did the island in cherry, so I got beautiful wood without making the kitchen too dark. Mixing it up was what worked for me, and I don't think I will ever tire of it. Had I gone all of any of them, I think I could.
Great ideas and the pictures are really helping us!
gr8day - we also admire the glass cabinets and the color, just wonder what that color is called - does anyone know!
poohpup - Thank you for the wonderful pictures, so many beautiful kitchens! By the way, what kind of Pups do you have? We have 2 Miniature Poodles, Mother & her Daughter!!
2LittleFishies - Those sites are very nice, this works for me but my Husband is a bit color blind (He still sees my eyes as grey not blue/green! So many of the Rainwashed colors just look grey to him! Maybe this is the reason that we have spent almost 8 weeks with our kitchen torn apart and no Cabinets on order, yet!! We need a blue/green color that he sees as Turquoise - does this mean that it should be a darker shade? He liked the Teal that I showed him - is this too much for an average size space that faces North/East? We are trying to figure out if a Skylight or a Solartube will fit with the ridge line of our roof? Maybe more light will help the room?
Does any one have a Skylight or Solartube, and any pictures of the room?
finestra - We all really want to SEE your blue cabinets & Marble, please!
lascatx - May we SEE some pictures, please? We also like Cherry but we cannot figure out how to use it in our 12' x 14' kitchen, no Island just a peninsula!
Wonder what colors (see my picture) are seen in this dreamy kitchen - any suggestions!!
Yes! Go for the aqua kitchen you want! The particular paint color of the cabinets in the first inspiration picture you posted is Benjamin Moore HC-120 Van Alen Green. That picture is in my inspiration file, too, so I've done a little research on it. The kitchen designer was Garrison Hullinger.
Rose, the island is "rapture red", my soapstone is "Anastacia" from M.Teixeira and I usually leave it naked/unoiled. When the mood strikes me to dress it up I oil with either plain mineral oil or a mixture of mineral oil and beeswax (something like Booz for wooden cutting boards). Love my soapstone! I also love marble ... in other peoples kitchens!
Good luck finding your aqua. With a DH who has colour blindness issues it can't be easy!
I am not a big fan of blue for rooms but I really like this one from Crownpoint Cabinetry
Here is a link that might be useful: blue kitchen
I second Rainwashed as a great color. SW Halcyon Green is also a great color. My bakers table is a tweaked version of that color:
Rose, I'm glad the pictures were helpful. If you search on houzz.com for "aqua cabinets", "teal cabinets" or "turquoise cabinets", you'll several other examples. If you hold the mouse over the first photos that show up in the search, you'll see an option for "ask a question" with a number next to it. Click on the number and you can see which questions have been asked already. With most of these pictures, I found that someone had already asked the cabinet color and many times you can find it that way.
My name came by way of trying to find a name that didn't have numbers after it back when I joined AOL. Didn't wnat to be Linda6293749372973. lol Poohpup is the first one that took and was just one of the many pet names I had for my beloved Dalmatian who passed on 6 years ago. I now have one very sweet mutt named Sadie who was rescued by German Shepherd rescue. She looks like she has some German Shepherd in her but is definitely a fruit salad. Poor girl was horribly abused before she came to us. She was pulled out of her previous owners home when he was incarcerated and came within an hour of being euthanized because she was so sick and so scared. We've had her for five years now and she rarely acts like the world is out to hurt her. She gets lots of love now. Every dog we bring into our home will be a rescue dog after our experience with our sweet Sadie.
Poohpup that is so sweet about your doggie. We always do rescues. My latest is a Golden Retriever who was so skinny she was sort of frightening looking. Of course at our house it didn't take her long to almost need to be on a diet. Her hair was so stiff and wiry, she had skin and ear problems and all in all not a pleasant dog to look at or touch but oh what a love she is. She is the sweetest dog we have ever had and that's saying something since they have all been pretty sweet. But she is special. We love her so much and I am trying to give her the best life to make up for being a breeder dog that was just turned into the dog pound when they were finished with her. Heartbreaking. They said probably a puppy mill. Boo hoo. Not my sweet Abby!!! BTW, we started having her groomed and now her coat is gorgeous and she has the longest hair on her tail and she is very soft. She must have been severely malnourished to look and feel the way she did before. Her tail actually looked broken. Sad. She's a pretty dog now, I can't believe the difference in her coat.
Thanks for posting those gorgeous pictures. It would be so fun to see that in a beach house! I've considered doing a teal in my kitchen just on the island.
remodelfla - Those colors are great, unfortunately my Husband sees them as a shade of grey because he is a bit color-blind. He seems to see the Turquoise colors the best, the Aqua hues fade to grey for his eyes.
We just painted the master bedroom Farrow & Ball: BLUE GROUND #210 - room faces North and mostly East, similar to the kitchen - this color looks beautiful to both of us, like being on the beach!!
Poohpup - Your Sadie is very blessed to have you, I'm sure that you feel the same about her - a Love Story! We have been trying to navigate the HOUZZ site for weeks, Thank you for your help! Hubby really likes the Traditional Kitchen by Philadelphia Architect Period Architecture Ltd. The glaze may be too costly but what does everyone think about a Rub Through finish on the edges and raised areas? No extra cost for this feature, it may be just a little Rub Through or you may have more of the Maple wood showing, then it is visible across the room.
gr8day - Your Abby sounds lovely, a blessing for you, also! We'd like to see pictures of all your Pups sitting in your kitchens or You & your Pet!!
Shall we start something NEW: My Pet - My Kitchen!! How about this for our brains that are on a kitchen search for inspiration!!
go for it!
next spring I'm gonna attempt to paint mine (after a test paint on a spare door) something like this -
the 8th pic down of the above pics would be a possibility too (for me).
it won't be scruffed up but just wiped down in a dark brown or black stain.
gr8day - I'll try to find the "Does your dog look like your kitchen"!
desertsteph - Wow, how did your sample look? We feel pleased if we do a real good job of painting the walls and trim!
We really like the Traditional Kitchen, also.
What is your base color of Blue, please? Will the addition of the stain over the Blue change the color a little or a lot? We are still looking for the right shade for our kitchen.
Thanks to all for sharing pictures and advice - we need to decide this week on the color. The design and the layout look pretty good and seems functional for us. Just want to love the colors! Does anyone have an accordian garage door in their kitchen - do you really like it or does it give you problems? Are there better ways to access the small appliances etc.? Thanks again, for sharing your pictures and ideas.
We're not done yet...
My kitchen "turns" colors due to one East facing window and mainly northern (cool) light. For this reason I went with creamy white perimeter cabinets to keep my space light and went blue on my island. I was so worried that DH wouldn't like it, (you can probably find my obsessive old posts), but he loves it now.
Two colors I loved were Vintage Kitchen (8226) and Porch Swing (8272) both from the old Martha Stewart Signature line at Sherwin Williams. Yes, they'll still mix them.
Anyway, the Vintage Kitchen was too washed out and the Porch Swing was too blue. So, I ended up playing around with some paints I had on hand. I had Annie Sloan Provence, Pure White and Old White. I mixed away until I got a sample I loved in my space. I had enough mixed that I ended up painting the island with the Annie Sloan and top coating with polyurethane. However, you could just as easily buy inexpensive craft paints and play around with color until you get it just right. Paint up a small amount on cardstock and have your paint store color match it in a brand you like.
I still have some blue samples. If you want to contact me off line, I could paint up some cards for you and mail them to you.
kathec - THANK YOU the "Kathe" Blue cabinet is so Beautiful !
Yes, we'd appreciate some samples of your New Blue, Thank you for sharing, you are very talented and have a good eye!
leela4 - SW slick blue, is a great color, must be a beautiful basement - Thank you!
lavender lass - Thank you so much for the encouragement!
Our Son just finished laying the Hand-scraped Maple hardwood floor, in our Living & Dining room - Looks wonderful, thank you Joe, you are an expert! Looking forward to the kitchen floor of the same wood and your amazing back-splash design and skill - just as soon as our much anticipated Blue Cabinets are ordered!! Joe likes the color WELL WATER as seen on a valspar chart - will have to see that in person - another sample paint! My basement might look good in a checker board of Blue samples!!
Here is a display of the glass, brick tile with a Marble Background for the back splash that Joe and I like - with the Well Water Blue sample chart and the Well Water color is sitting on top of a Maple board that we painted with our paint sample of Farrow & Ball #210 Blue Ground. This #210 may be too light for our cabinets but we liked it so much that we bought a gallon of the best BM paint and had it mixed to Blue #210 - this is now enhancing our master bedroom walls, we really like our island blue, makes the room look much larger, too! Trying to decide if I like the Ralph Lauren Lake House Pillows with this new Blue, what do you all think about the Blue walls and the floral pillows? Rose


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Could anyone please help me identify this weed? It looks like tarragon, but it definitely isn't. It's stems are softer, curlier, and more succulent than tarragon. It pulls out easily and has gotten a foot tall before I've pulled it. I asked on the Weeds forum but haven't gotten an answer. Thanks!
Thanks for replying. I don't think it's Kochia scoparia, because the leaves are smooth, not fuzzy, and it doesn't seem to have a taproot. I don't think it's fireweed either. It doesn't look like the photos of immature fireweed. The stems are red when it's small. I haven't seen it flower. When young, it's smooth, soft, flexible but brittle.
Thanks, river_city, I don't think it's horseweed either. It doesn't grow vertically like horseweed seems to. The stems are curvy and it looks like the shape of a tree. They might end up being what I call tumbleweeds around here. I never see them with any green on them, just dry, stiff, pale tan multi-branched mini-trees rolling around. (Not the same as what most of the country calls tumbleweeds.)


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I have a cutting rooting in plain peat moss. I believe it has rooted because when I pull on it ever so slightly, it doesn't give. What is the best medium. I have regular potting soil I can put it in. I think this is an old fashion type of angelwing. The leaves are the size of my hand. The leaves have perked up which tells me its happy right now. But I want it to GROW. I have it in a 4" pot. My first cane started to wither and hide and slump. But when I put it in peat moss amended with cactus soil it started to look happy and even regained its pretty green color. I think this one is a flamingo cane. But it hasn't changed size. I did see something coming out the root/node of the parent plant. A sprout? Back to the old fashion cane, should I leave it in the peat moss or move it to a more heavier textured soil? Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Most people do not grow begonias in pure peat moss (holds too much moisture which can lead to rot easily plus it is very acidic). Sand will help on drainage but it is heavy to transport (Perlite has much larger granules than sand and is very lightweight).
A good soilless mix with generous amounts of Perlite is what I use in all my mixes now. I generally use a 70/30 to 50/50 mix of Miracle Gro (any good mix should work) potting soil and Perlite for the last few years.
I have gotten some begonias from growers where the mix looks like shredded bark for very fast drainage. I have used this in the past for propagation and may try that again this summer.
Thanks Butch. I was so curious, I unearthed a portion and the bottom is nothing BUT roots only they are each a few millimeters long. I will move it to something dryer. I will look for african violet soil as I don't have perlite handy. Why do you think one of the canes (flamingo) got happy when I put it in peat/cactus soil from regular potting soil? My option now is to put it back in potting soil until I can find sand and pertlite. Always interesting to learn new things about the plants I love.
The cane in peat/cactus soil is probably a lot faster draining than your other soil (peat moss, right?). Peat moss is a good additive but should never be used on its own (stays too wet once it gets wet). Reminds me of clay - hard to get wet once it is dried out, but hard to dry out once it is wet. Oxymoron or contradiction?
I met a man down in Columbus, GA last year that started most of his canes in a pure sand bed (he said it was washed river sand but I wouldn't know the difference) in the floor of his small greenhouse. I have started a few leafs, rhizomes in sand after that but it dries out too fast. I think an additive of peat would benefit this set up.
I bought some potting bark today. Should I mix in regular potting soil? Also they are of different brands, will that matter? Its a silly question but thought it would be noteworthy. I could mix all 3 together, peat moss, bark and soil. Reason I'm so anxious for a solution is because I've got 6 more angelwings in the mail. I absolutely love all kinds of angelwings but I don't know if they'll love me (or my soil).
A mix of "good" potting soil, peat moss (go easy on this ingredient), and bark would be beneficial. The bark should really help in aeration and fast drainage.
I stay away from the cheapest potting soils from experiences in the past (decades ago). Back then (and maybe today as well) the cheapest potting soils would absorb water and stay water logged for days or weeks which is certain doom for most houseplants.
I used to mix Hoffman's peat moss, Perlite, and Vermculite but that is time consuming and I don't even know if Hoffman's is still around. Then I started using Jungle Growth potting soil from Home Depot but they quit stocking it for a while so I switched to Miracle-Gro which I can get very large bags of it at Sam's or Home Depot. Perlite is much cheaper (about half the price) if you can find a place that carries the extra large bags (14 cubic feet which is equivalent to about 7 or 8 large bags of it at Home Depot, Lowe's, or Wal-Mart).


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American Shakespeare Center Returns to Fairmont
The Fairmont State University School of Fine Arts and the Department of Language and Literature welcome the American Shakespeare Center's "Tempt Me Further Tour" to campus in March.
The Fairmont State University School of Fine Arts and the Department of Language and Literature welcome the American Shakespeare Center's "Tempt Me Further Tour" to campus in March.
By George Spelvin
Under the direction of Grant Cooper, Artistic Director and Conductor, the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra will perform at Fairmont State University on Thursday, Feb. 28.
By George Spelvin
The Fairmont State University Marching Band will be performing a Stadium Review concert in the Colebank Gym on the FSU campus November 13, 2012 at 7:30 pm. The FSU Marching Band is directed by Dr. Valarie Huffman. Performance selections include Maroon & White and the FSU Alma Mater, arranged by Green, Let's Get Crazy, arranged by Barrett and Take on Me by the eighties sensation Ah-ha.
Mike Florio of NBC's "ProFootballTalk" "Best small collegiate marching band in the United States", October 12, 2012.
During November, the Fairmont community will have the opportunity to experience a timeless story with a twist, as the Fairmont State University School of Fine Arts and Masquers theatre group present "Our Town" by Thornton Wilder.
This will feature an hour-long concert of contemporary electroacoustic flute music followed by a flute masterclass.
By George Spelvin
Fairmont State University's Town and Gown Players are scheduling auditions for a summer production of Meredith Willson's "The Music Man" to take place at Prickett's Fort State Park.
Acting and singing auditions will take place from 6 to 9:30 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, April 1 and 2, in Room 229 of Wallman Hall on the Fairmont State campus. Directed by Troy Snyder and Sam Spears, performances will take place on June 12, 13, 14, 18, 19, 20. (A rain-out performance is scheduled for June 21.)
The Fairmont State University Department of Music will host a presentation by multimedia artist Dr. Brigid Burke at 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 6, at the Wallman Hall auditorium.
The program for the concert will include new multimedia works and compositions realized by Marshall University faculty members Steven Hall and Mark Zanter with choreography/dance by Jessica Lynn Fox. Admission is free and open to the public. For more information, call (304) 367-4219.
Dieter Hennings will present a concert of music for the lute on Friday, March 13, at 7:30 p.m. in the Wallman Hall Auditorium. General admission is $10; FSU students are admitted for free.


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Intel Expressway Service Gateway and RSA DPM: Security without pain
Top security threats for 2013 include "hacktivism" attacks, botnet malware, distributed denial of service attacks, and identity theft. The problems are well known and yet there is still resistance to spending the capital on prevention measures. Intel® Expressway Service Gateway (ESG) and RSA Data Protection Manager (DPM) have partnered to provide a painless way to protect web services and sensitive data from threats.
The beauty of the solution is that existing services do not need to be modified. Service delivery of tokenization and key management is abstracted, secured and simplified. The Expressway Service Gateway provides features made to integrate, mediate, secure, and scale services in a dynamically changing Enterprise application perimeter that may include multiple security domains. Once deployed to the network edge in a software or hardware form factor, our service gateway combined with the DPM can safely expose existing REST APIs or SOAP web services. High speed data mediation capabilities for XML, JSON, binary, and legacy data enable existing web services to be exposed as REST APIs to meet growing mobile service demands.
Tokenization in the Expressway Service Gateway
When acting as a tokenization solution, ESG in conjunction with DPM can provide PCI Compliance through the configuration of a proxy tokenization and detokenization service. This configuration provides security without modification to existing services. Data is proxied through the service gateway and tokenized before it reaches existing services. All systems behind ESG are out of scope since PAN data never reaches them, only the tokenized data. In reverse, when data needs to be transmitted out with the original PAN data it can be securely proxied through the service gateway and the tokens are replaced with the original PANs. ESG supports a wide range of protocols, HTTP(S), JMS, IBM MQ, FTP(S), FILE, SFTP, RAW TCP/IP(S), and CUSTOM which allows it to handle the various types of traffic that needs to be tokenized/detokenized on the way in and out of a customer's data center.
For retail applications, PCI Compliance can be achieved by intercepting url-encoded web requests containing PAN data, tokenizing and forwarding to the existing backend with no change needed to the back-end service. Bulk tokenization requests, transmitted over SFTP, can be proxied to allow for tokenization. ESG can batch large requests to run in parallel in order to optimize performance. The concepts applied to PAN data also work to secure patient health information (PHI) for healthcare applications.
Data Encryption Services
When working in conjunction with DPM for key management operations, ESG acts as a secure proxy gateway to sign/verify/encrypt/decrypt data as it enters or leaves a customer's Data Center. The advantage here is that customers do not need to modify existing services to gain this functionality. It also allows larger amounts of data to be encrypted vs. smaller PAN credit card type numbers. It is extremely flexible and desired key and Token behavior can be set to each application needs. The data center encrypt/decrypt/sign/verify use case can be applied to cloud applications too. Requests to store data in the cloud can be intercepted and encrypted/decrypted with no modification to the cloud storage services.
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rkitchenaid dishwashers kuds301ixbl and kuds10fxss
We are deciding whether to get the Miele G4205SCBlack ($1000) or perhaps a domestically manufactured dishwasher, say a kitchen aid ($675).
The nearest Miele factory repair is 40 miles away in a different state.
The nearest Miele trained repair is 25 miles away.
My wife picked 2 kitchen aid kitchenaid dishwashers (to compare with) and we are wondering what people thought of them.
The best site I have found for reviews is the Lowes web site where they are 3 and 3.5 stars (for the kitchen aid dishwashers):
KUDS30iXBL 675$
54 reviews
3 stars
31 reviews
3.5 stars
There seems to a lot of unhappy people out there.
Amazon's reviews are very bad and very few.
We have decided to buy the Miele but we want to do "do dilligence".
I installed our KUDC10FXSS a few weeks ago. Reading all the DW comments here, I thought I was going to buy one of those fancy $1000+ units. When I saw this model at Best Buy (which also has lots of reviews) I was sufficiently impressed to do a little more research about it. Plus the fact the handles matched our new KA fridge exactly helped too.
We ended up buying it from a local mom & pop appliance retailer for $599 brand new.
Overall I'm very happy with it. My old DW was as loud as a freight train. This one is exceptionally quiet. You can hear the water trickle out to the drain some times, but so what. I like the clean SS look in front. It washes dishes fine, although we are still experimenting with the different settings. I found that adding the "high temperature scrub" option helps clean better. Like most modern DWs, it also takes a few hours to clean a load. But there is the "1 hour wash" feature that apparently washes old school style. Meaning it's not energy and water efficient.
I like that it has a simple yet large utensil basket. I'm use to just chucking them in there, and we didn't want to have to carefully place each one in a special slot, or against the door.
We have average water pressure, the water heater is set pretty hot, and the water is hard. We also do a very minor pre-rinse to the dishes, mostly out of habit as the old one required it. I have yet to try no pre-rinsing at all. Once, the dried pancake batter on a glass measuring cup did not come out clean.
For our needs, it's a great DW for the price we paid.
What features do you want/like/need in a DW?


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Red Cross wraps up successful year
The New Richmond area gave more than 70 gallons of blood to the Red Cross this year.
In four blood drives during 2011, Red Cross staff were able to collect 565 units of blood, said Don Klein, New Richmond area coordinator for the Red Cross.
"We met and exceeded our set goal for the year," he said.
In March, the Red Cross collected 123 units of blood, in July 145 units were collected, in September 169 units were donated and in December 128 units were collected.


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Luke Bryan, 'Roller Coaster' [Listen]
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Win a Trip to the CMA Awards to Meet Miranda Lambert
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Jerrod Niemann, 'Donkey [Listen]
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Album Spotlight: Jamie Lynn Spears, 'The Journey'
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Brantley Gilbert, 'Just As I Am' – Everything You Need to Know in 60 Seconds
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London Shared Arrival Transfer: Airport to Hotel
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Desmond was terrific. He insisted on carrying all my bags from the meeting point, where he was waiting patiently for my delayed arrival with a signboard printed with my name (correctly spelled!) to the car park. He was cheerful and informative on the way in to London and delivered me to my destination a very relaxed and satisfied customer. Top marks. More business may soon be coming your way as a result of my experience and recommendation.
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Our plane was extremely late and in fact the airline changed our flight so we had no way if notifying our driver. Thank heavens he decided to stay longer than the hour and a half wait. He was there.
After a long flight, the driver was waiting for us. what a great relief when travelling to a place you've not been to before.
Good value for money. It is a shared arrival transfer, but we ended the only passengers (private transfer). When we arrived at Heathrow aiport, the driver was not there for us. We approached the information desk (a small desk after the arrival exit), and the staff called the company for us and the driver was there within 15 minutes. It cost around AUD 70 for both of us transferring to Millenium hotel in Kensington. Good value for money.
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We were picked up on time and driven safely to the hotel by a courteous driver.
Great service. Would definitely recommend after a long flight. Ours was 32hours to get to London.
Driver was there waiting for us, with a sign, when we arrived and we had 1 other person that had come into Terminal 1 at the same time who we dropped off on the way to our Hotel.
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