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A newly released book by James C. Schaap uses the inspiration of the Psalms as a springboard to lose the La-Z-Boy and pump up the prayer life, rejoicing in the faithful presence of God in everyday details of life.
Schaap's newest release is a book of devotionals, written like one-a-day vitamin capsules to offer a daily boost of praise and prayer. "The psalms are an incredible benefit to the human soul," says Schaap. "They help you realize that no matter what happens, other people have been through this."
Sixty at Sixty: a Boomer Reflects on the Psalms is a collection of personal observations from Schaap's own 60 years of life, which tie into similar emotional and spiritual responses penned by ancient psalmists.
Author and theologian Eugene Peterson calls Schaap's work a "timely antidote," and says in the forward, "A pause at any age in the storytelling and praying company of Jim Schaap is enough to recover a fading memory, revive sagging hope, or simply sink more attentively into what is going on with the people around us this day, and what is going on with God, who is always with us."
Published by Faith Alive Christian Resources, each page features the storytelling style Schaap is noted for. He is a professor of literature and writing at Dordt College, and has published more than 20 books, including the novels Romey's Place, The Secrets of Barneveld Calvary, Home Free, In the Silence There Are Ghosts, and Touches the Sky, an Award of Merit winner with Christianity Today. Schaap's work has been awarded five top Evangelical Press Association fiction awards and four Associated Church Press Awards. He also wrote the original film script for The Reckoning, an award-winning documentary featuring the Dutch Resistance story of Diet Eman and other WW II survivors.
A previous devotional book, Intermission, was written for the junior high age level and published in 1985. Every Bit of Who I Am is a more recent effort, written at the high school level. He's also written a half dozen smaller children's devotionals.
Schaap said he began writing devotionals based on the Psalms about four years ago, inspired by the work of Abraham Kuyper in his book, Near Unto God. Though his original focus was nature's imagery, Schaap's pastor (Herm Van Niejenhuis, of Covenant Christian Reformed Church in Sioux Center) noted a second theme while reading through the original assemblage of 365 devotionals: meditations that dealt with the topic of getting older.
"Honestly, I wasn't aware of that being a theme in the collection I'd been writing; but I wasn't surprised that it was," says Schaap. Sixty at Sixty relates God's companionship during a lifetime as we walk through every aspect of human emotion. As noted in a devotional based on Psalm 37:18, "the picture of open, warm and loving hands extended to us each morning is the assurance, simply stated, that God knows. God's not off on a cruise or so wrapped up with the crisis in Iraq that he has no time for our problems."
Sixty at Sixty is available locally at the Dordt College Bookstore, at True Vine, and from the website of the publisher (where a sample chapter is posted).
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Today, the 28-year-old left-handed reliever is being mentioned as a candidate to join the Tigers in the playoffs.
"Everything (right now) is a bonus," Downs said. "Considering I was at home two weeks ago, I'm just grateful to be playing."
It's been a wild month for Downs, who didn't appear to be part of the Tigers' plans down the stretch after he wasn't asked to rejoin the team when rosters expanded Sept. 1.
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New Options: Link to walk 9 via the Hangers Way to finish in Alton
16.6km (10.3 miles), five hours walking time. For the whole excursion including trains and meals allow 9 hours. Short circular walk of 10km (6.2 miles), three hours walking time.
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Much of this walk follows the Hangers Way, a long distance path which lies within an area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The name Hanger derives from the old English "Hangra" meaning a wooded slope. Much of the walk is in unspoilt countryside which remains as it was several hundred years ago. The very steep ascent of Shoulder of Mutton Hill may be slippery in winter when the slightly longer alternative route is advised. Whichever route is taken the view at the top is spectacular.
The ancient market town of Petersfield was founded in the early 12th century and later became a coaching centre on the main London to Portsmouth route. At the centre of the market square is a fine equestrian statue of King William III dating from 1753.
The village of Steep was the home of first world war poet Edward Thomas who is commemorated by a memorial stone on Shoulder of Mutton Hill. He lived at 2 Yew Tree Cottages along the lane from All Saints' church. He enlisted in the Artists Rifles and was killed at Arras in 1917, aged 39. The clear windows in the south wall of the church were engraved in 1978 by Laurence Whistler in the poet's memory. The church dates back to 1140 and contains an impressive set of embroidered kneelers depicting the natural history of the area.
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The length of this walk can be reduced by 5.5km by taking a shortcut at point [6]. From the Hawkley Inn head east along Pococks Lane and continue on a footpath heading north-east to Upland Lane. Turn right onto this road to rejoin the main route between points [8] and [9]. This makes a shorter walk of 11.1km.
Shoulder of Mutton Hill makes a fine objective in its own right. The short circular walk allows you to enjoy the spectacular views from its summit on a pleasant half-day stroll. The strenuous climb of Shoulder of Mutton Hill aside, this is a walk of gentle gradients apart from one short steep downhill section which may be slippery in winter.
Note: There are no refreshment stops on the short circular walk. Do not take the detour to the Harrow Inn described in the book, as this is along a private road and pedestrian access is not now permitted.
Longer option: Petersfield to Alton: the Petersfield to Selborne or Alton pdf link at the top of this page gives instructions to link this walk with Selborne, the lunch stop on Book 2 Walk 10 Alton Circular. It is 13.2km (8.2 miles) to Selborne and on Mondays to Fridays you can get bus no 38 from there to Petersfield. Otherwise it is another 10.7km (6.6 miles) to walk on from Selborne to Alton using the afternoon route of the Alton Circular walk, making a total walk from Petersfield of 23.9km (14.8 miles).
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Two fast trains an hour run from London Waterloo to Petersfield, journey time one hour. Trains back from Liss run hourly. Take the train nearest to 9.45am and buy a day return to Petersfield.
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Parking at Petersfield station. Liss is one stop further up the line.
The suggested lunch stop is the Hawkley Inn (tel 01730 827205), 6.6km into the walk. The pub has a garden and serves home cooked food until 2pm at weekends. Booking is advised.
Short Walk: The suggested lunch stop is the Harrow Inn (tel 01730 262685). This pub with a garden has been described as one of the finest traditional country inns in England dating from the seventeenth century. Alternatively you could take a picnic (Shoulder of Mutton Hill is a good spot).
In Liss the suggested tea stop is Wine Bar & Coffee House at 41-43 Station Road (tel 01730 892227) which serves cream teas (open to 5pm Monday-Thursday, 10pm Fridays and Saturdays, but closed Sundays). An alternative is the Whistle Stop pub (tel 01730 890464) at the bottom of Hill Brow Road, 150m past the station.
At the end of the circular walk it is worth going past the station into Petersfield town centre. There is a good choice of refreshment places around the main square, for example Cloisters Cafe (open to 6pm Monday-Saturday, 5pm Sundays) and the Square Brewery pub (tel 01730 264291).
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The Face Season two of the model-search show. 9 p.m. Oxygen
Saint George Comic George Lopez stars in a new comedy. 8 p.m. FX
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Four months after a portion of an Interstate 5 bridge collapsed into the Skagit River, crews installed a new bridge section Sunday, swapping a temporary 500-ton span with a 900-ton permanent one.
The bridge, which was closed overnight for the installation, reopened to traffic at 2 p.m. Sunday, the Washington State Department of Transportation said. The original target for the reopening was 7 a.m., but the complicated swap took longer than expected.
Crews used a system of hydraulic jacks, Teflon pads and long steel rails to lift and move the temporary section and replace it with the permanent one.
The collapse severed one of the key transportation links in Washington, carrying roughly 70,000 vehicles a day.
The cost of removing the temporary span and installing a permanent replacement is $8.5 million, paid by federal emergency relief funds.
Along with the permanent span installation, the state is planning additional nighttime bridge closures in the coming weeks so crews can retrofit the overhead bridge supports.
The speed limit will be temporarily lower than 60 mph while the new section is monitored, said Travis Phelps, a spokesman for the Department of Transportation.


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The American flag was as tall and wide as a building downtown. It was digital, and it was bright, and its appearance made the sold out crowd at PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel cheer even louder than they had been. In front of the screen stood the main attraction -- Brad Paisley, guitar in hand, singing "This Is Country Music," the title track from his new album. He was a small knockout silhouette against a red, white and blue background. One of the biggest stars in Music City was dwarfed by his own projection.
Waving Old Glory at country music concerts is no new thing. Paisley, who flew the digital flag no less than four times during his two-hour set on Friday night, did so with special urgency. On "American Saturday Night," his 2009 set, the formidably talented West Virginian singer and guitarist attempted to ground country music in the present moment, and even wrote two songs that seemed to celebrate multiculturalism and President Obama. This earned Paisley an invitation to the White House, and no small amount of suspicion from old fans who feared they'd lost the country traditionalist to the lure of the blue states.
Thus, much of the consistently entertaining and occasionally fascinating H2OII Tour show played like an overcorrection. Paisley projected an image of the Twin Towers on the video screens during "When I Get Where I'm Going," and closed the show by trading a fan his signature cowboy hat for a NYFD t-shirt. Beyond the patriotic gestures, he praised the country verities: hard drinking, mud on the tires of four-wheel-drive vehicles, chewing tobacco on the sly, and sentiments meant to establish that he is still a regular dude.
He is anything but. In a genre that rewards conformity, this Nashville star is a free thinker, and something of a strange bird. Brad Paisley gets over on his virtuosity, his likeability, the cleverness of his couplets, and, when all else fails, a showman's ability to play to his audience's preferences. But any man, no matter where he's from, who thinks that "I'd like to check you for ticks" is an acceptable pickup line (and who is willing to accompany it with an animation of crawling bugs, as he did during "Ticks") is not a backwoods Joe. He's an oddball.
Paisley's storytelling -- and he is a narrative songwriter first, even before he is a guitar hero -- begins with typical country subject matter and gets increasingly digressive and personal from there. He wonders what his grandfather, who fought in World War II, would think of his video chat with a Tokyo company. He speculates about the fate of the baby he's watching on an ultrasound, and imagines him trying to melt a Tonka truck with a magnifying glass. Memories play like tall tales: his high school girlfriend's mom makes him a tuxedo out of duck blind mossy oak, and a wet t-shirt contest at Daytona Beach is given sacramental overtones. There is none of the defensiveness, or provincialism, or aggression that marks so much contemporary country music in his lyrics; on close inspection, even the song about camouflage gear turns out to be a gentle suggestion to his fellow Southerners to cool it with the Confederate battle flags. Listening to Paisley in action is like hanging with a goofy, intelligent, good-hearted friend who, without much defiance or acrimony directed at anyone in particular, manages to maintain a singular worldview.
He's also an irrepressible show-off. Nearly every song at the concert featured a lengthy, fleet-fingered guitar solo; Paisley's dexterity is superhuman, and he wants to make sure you know. Pedal steel player Randle Currie and fiddler Justin Williamson contributed impressive leads, too, but mostly they stood aside as Paisley sliced semiquavers into notes so fractional that they defy classification. The star switched guitars between most songs, but whatever axe he was swinging around, his tone was always the same: a spring-coiled staccato twang somewhere between the fast-picking style of Merle Haggard sideman Redd Volkaert and the neurotic scrawl of folk-rocker Richard Thompson. So attached is Paisley to his instrument that he could barely stop riffing when he was talking to the audience -- he was like a kid in a music shop, punctuating every reluctant phrase out of his mouth with a string of notes. His guitar is his source of power. He gave the impression that if his six-string was ever taken away, or unplugged, he'd fall to the stage floor like a marionette released.
These guitar rides were exhilarating, but they could become a distraction for the star -- especially when Paisley, who is a solid but unspectacular singer, concentrated more on his licks than he did on his lyrics. Paisley does not possess the authoritative, bell-clear bass that allows so many male country stars to get away with their indulgences; this means that if he's not actively engaged in his storytelling, even for a second, he's liable to throw away some of his most important lines. The huge projections, too, while spectacular, undercut the gravity of the songwriting. Paisley has an unfortunate tendency to literalize what he's singing (he does this in his videos, too); if he drops a famous John Denver lyric in a song, he'll show you a picture of John Denver. This was more Power Point than Laser Floyd. It made the show, as good as it was, feel like a series of discrete vignettes without an overall narrative trajectory -- a strange failing from an artist so committed to word power.
Main support act Blake Shelton is not as imaginative as Brad Paisley, but he's a fine storyteller in his own right. The co-star of "The Voice" indulges in the kind of culture-war belligerence that Paisley avoids -- his "Kiss My Country Ass" is directly derived from Hank Williams Jr.'s city-baiting "A Country Boy Can Survive." Nevertheless, even when he's unpersuasive (No, Mr. Shelton, I do not believe that everybody possesses a "hillbilly bone down deep inside;" in fact, I'm not sure you do yourself), he's never less than endearing. His breezy country chart-topper "Honey Bee" was a crowd-pleaser. Better still were a run of tender ballads he performed midway through his set -- especially "Who Are You When I'm Not Looking," a song thoughtful, and ambiguous, enough for Lyle Lovett.
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BRATTLEBORO -- The 24th annual ISI District 1 Championships were held in Concord, Mass., May 16-18. Two local skaters participated in the competition, including Rose Dumaine, 14, from Jacksonville, and Reagan Shippee, 11, of Vernon.
Dumaine brought home two Gold Medals in Freeskate 3 Interpretive and Freeskate 3 Artistic. She earned a Silver Medal in Open Freestyle Bronze and a Bronze Medal in Light Entertainment Spotlight.
Reagan Shippee brought home two Silver Medals in Freeskate 4 Artistic and Character Spotlight. She also earned two Bronze Medals in Freeskate 4 Interpretive and Rhythmic Ribbon and a fifth place in Open Freestyle Silver program.


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Tom Gabel Announces His TRANS[gender]FORMATION
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Against Me!'s Tom Gabel Announces His TRANS[gender]FORMATION
On May 8, lead singer Tom Gabel of Naples and Gainesville-based punk rock band Against Me! publicly began his transformation into a transgender woman. Tom is the first major rock star to come out as transgender, and is certainly making waves. Gabel, 31, will take the name Laura Jane Grace, and soon will begin to take hormones, undergo electrolysis treatments, and begin the emotional process of becoming a woman. The front man says his final decision to undergo gender-reassignment has yet to be made.
"The Ocean"— a 2007 track from the —includes Gabel singing "If I could have chosen, I would have been born a woman/My mother once told me she would have named me Laura." It's apparent from these lyrics and from Tom's own recent admissions that the married husband and father has been experiencing gender dysphoria for quite some time. Gender identity dysphoria (GID)—which is the clinical term for discontent with one's own biological sex and/or the gender assigned at birth—is tough, and maintaining the right image while fronting a hardcore/punk rock band, couldn't have made things any easier for Tom.
Gabel says that he and wife Heather will stay together and raise their two-year-old daughter, Evelyn, even after the transformation. In an interview with Rolling Stone, Gabel says "for me, the most terrifying thing about this was how she would accept the news, but she's been super-amazing and understanding."
Gabel tells Rolling Stone, "I'm going to have embarrassing moments, and that won't be fun. But that's part of what talking to you is about—is hoping people will understand, and hoping they'll be fairly kind." Let's hope the newly-minted Laura Jane Grace opens doors for future artists to be who they want to be, and not who they think they should be.
Britney Spears has signed on to become a judge on the next season of "X Factor." Us Weekly confirms Spears has been negotiating for the past two months, and reports say that the Born-in-Miss'ippi-Raised-in-Looz-ee-ana southern belle will be bringing home the bacon in a big way, to the tune of an estimated 1-2-3—make that $16 million.
Party Animals? Meanwhile, in Switzerland, toxicology reports have surfaced that show two dolphins (the marine mammal kind) named Shadow and Chelmers died from overdoses of heroin. From where did these dolphins get a heroin-substitute (Buprenorphine), you ask? From the public rave that was allowed to take place near their training pool at the Connyland Marine Park water zoo, of course. I want to think their last thoughts were, "So much dubstep, so little time," but, you know.
Justin Bieber's "Boyfriend" The debut last month of teen- (and pedo-) idol Justin Bieber's single "Boyfriend" brought some comparisons to the 2005 Ying Yang Twins hit "Wait (The Whisper Song)." It seems the Twins have formed a mutual-admiration society with the Bieber, releasing their own remix of "Boyfriend" last week. The lyrics kick off the song with a brotherly "Ying Yang and Justin Bieber, oh!" followed by a rap that playfully 'tweaks' J.B.'s youthfulness, and attempts to c**k-block the 18-year-old Canadian 'throb (as in "heart").
"I don't wanna be your boyfriend, I wanna be your man/ He a little-bitty boy, I'm a grown man/I can take you overseas, a harmless breeze/Then you and me can have sex on the beach/I bet you ain't never met someone like me/ I'm the broom, you the dust pan/Sweep you off your feet/You can be my woman, I can be your man/If you got a little sister, Justin Bieber want to be her boyfriend," they rap, before the remix picks back up with Jussy's version. Twins-1, Bieber-0.


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CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Barack Obama won Ohio with 50 percent of the vote, eking out victory over Mitt Romney with the help of the Northeast Ohio and several urban counties.
Though Romney won more counties, Obama took the state's most populous areas. And he won the state despite Romney's whopping victories in Republican strongholds, including Auglaize County.
Ohio helped Obama hang onto his presidential seat, adding to his electoral tally even as the popular vote looked uncertain. And the state split along somewhat familiar lines, with the Democrat running strong across northern Ohio and the Republican prevailing in rural stretches of the state.
The president also grabbed Summit County, with 56.7 percent of the vote. He also took Lorain and Portage counties. And in Summit, home to Akron, the president picked up 56.7 percent of the vote.
Geauga and Medina counties, both a soft red in 2008, went to Romney. Lake County, often viewed as a bellwether, also went to Romney -- by roughly 2,280 votes.
Ohio has the nation's longest winning streak, when it comes to picking the presidential victor. The last time this state went against the winner was 1960, when Ohioans chose Richard Nixon over John Kennedy.
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The presidential vote in Ohio
- Obama's lead in Ohio hinged on urban centers, northern slice of the state
- Calling Ohio for Obama involves projecting results in state's urban counties
- Romney taking Defiance, Auglaize counties in western Ohio
- Obama winning Franklin County, home to Columbus, but losing surrounding areas
- Ohio's bellwethers divided, giving few clues about presidential victor
- Romney capturing southwestern Ohio, a Republican stronghold
- Lorain County leans toward Obama, with 20 percent of precincts reporting
- Obama takes early lead in some bellwether counties, though Lake County remains a dead heat
- Early Summit County results put Obama in the lead Romney leading in Geauga County, based on early voting results
- Early results from Medina County put Romney in the lead
- Early Lake County voting results give Obama a narrow lead in the presidential contest
- Ohio early voting results trickle in, giving early look at presidential contest
The presidential vote around the nation
- President Obama powers to re-election despite weak economy
- Romney concedes to Obama
- Fox, NBC call Ohio for Obama, predict his re-election
- Fox and CNN call North Carolina for Romney
- Virginia is too close to call, leans toward Romney
- Florida races tightens with Obama holding a slim lead over Romney
- News agencies call New Hampshire for Obama
- Fox News projects Obama will win Wisconsin
- Obama carries Pennsylvania, according to news agency projections
- Romney leading Obama in Indiana
- CNN, other news outlets call Kentucky for Romney
- Polls close in Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, South Carolina, Vermont and Virginia


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At the UN Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio (June 2012), binding new international agreements were not agreed upon, which was disappointing. Nevertheless, the final document is worth summarising in order to highlight the most important common views of the world´s governments as regards sustainable development and the marine environment. Luckily, in the management of seas and oceans important progress was achieved. The following is a summary – with special reference to coasts, seas and oceans – of the final document "The Future We Want":
The document states that for sound development in general, holistic, integrated and sustainable management of natural resources needs to be promoted. At the same time, economic, social and human development should be supported. Also, the international community is asked to move the sustainable development agenda forward, through the achievement of internationally agreed goals including the existing Millennium Development Goals. Green economy in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication is mentioned as one of the important tools available for achieving sustainable development.
The Rio participants recognise the key role that improving energy efficiency plays. This includes the increasing share of renewable energy and cleaner, more energy-efficient technologies. Climate change as a persistent crisis is acknowledged: the global nature of climate change calls for the widest possible cooperation by all countries and their participation in an effective international response. Naturally, reduction of greenhouse gas emissions is needed. Also the related urgent needs of Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are mentioned in the final document.
The need for effective, transparent, accountable and democratic natural resources´ management institutions is mentioned in the document. So is the need for contributions towards sustainable development by both the public/private sectors and the scientific/technological communities. We are also reminded of the important role of citizens at the grass-root level, e.g. fishers, in the development of production activities which are environmentally more sound. The valuable contributions by NGOs in promoting sustainable development are acknowledged.
The establishment of UNEP as a permanent UN organisation (instead of being a non-permanent programme) was not achieved, but it was decided that UNEP would be strengthened. In addition, the participants decided to establish an intergovernmental high-level political forum replacing the current UN Commission on Sustainable Development.
In the final document, the participating states recognise the severity of global biodiversity loss and degradation of ecosystems: this underlines the importance of biodiversity conservation, enhancing habitat connectivity and building ecosystem resilience.
In the Oceans and Seas chapter of The Future We Want, important progress can be observed. To begin with, the participating states commit to protect and restore the health, productivity and resilience of oceans and marine ecosystems, and to maintain their biodiversity for the conservation / sustainable use by the present and future generations. Furthermore, the participants agree to apply an ecosystem approach and the precautionary principle in marine management.
The Rio conference delegations recognise the importance of UNCLOS (Law of the Sea) in advancing sustainable development and they emphasise the need for cooperation in marine scientific research. The states also support the Regular Process for Global Reporting and Assessment of the State of the Marine Environment (established under the UN General Assembly) and look forward to the completion of its first global integrated assessment by 2014.
In the seas and oceans chapter, the importance of the conservation / sustainable use of marine biodiversity beyond areas of national jurisdiction is recognised. Building on the work of an international working group (and before the end of the 69th Session of the United Nations General Assembly) the Rio participants commit to address this issue on an urgent basis.
The states also note with concern that the health of the oceans and marine biodiversity are negatively affected by marine pollution. The final document mentions marine debris, plastic, persistent organic pollutants, heavy metals, and nitrogen-based compounds. The sources mentioned include marine and land-based sources, including shipping and land runoff. The participants commit to take action to reduce the incidence and impacts of such pollution on marine ecosystems. The relevant measures would include implementation of IMO conventions and the follow-up of relevant initiatives such as the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land-based Activities. With the help of scientific assessments, the states further commit to take action to significantly reduce marine debris by 2025.
In the seas and oceans chapter the participants note the significant threat which alien invasive species pose to marine ecosystems, and commit to implement measures to prevent their introduction. The management of the adverse environmental impacts will be improved including those alien species adopted in the framework of IMO.
Sea level rise and coastal erosion are noted as serious threats for many coastal regions and islands particularly in developing countries. International action to address these challenges is called for in the final document.
The participating states also call for support to initiatives that address ocean acidification and the impacts of climate change on marine and coastal ecosystems and resources. They reiterate the need to work collectively to prevent further ocean acidification, as well as to enhance the resilience of marine ecosystems and of the communities whose livelihoods depend on them. The importance of marine scientific research, monitoring and observation of ocean acidification and of particularly vulnerable ecosystems through international cooperation are mentioned.
In the Rio final document the participating states stress their concern about the potential environmental impacts of ocean fertilization. They recall the decisions related to ocean fertilization adopted by the relevant intergovernmental bodies, and decide to continue addressing ocean fertilization with utmost caution. The precautionary approach will be applied.
The Rio participants commit, on an urgent basis, to intensify the efforts to meet the 2015 target as to maintenance or restoring fisheries stocks to levels that can produce the maximum sustainable yield. The foreseen time frame is "the shortest time feasible". To achieve this, the states commit to urgently develop and implement science-based management plans. Fisheries reduction and suspension are listed as management methods. The importance of by-catch reduction and the control of destructive fishing practices are mentioned as well as the importance of impact assessments.
Relating to UNCLOS, the Rio delegations urge states to fully implement the 1995 Agreement on the Conservation and Management of Straddling and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks. Furthermore, all States are called upon to implement the Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries and the corresponding FAO International Plans of Action and technical guidelines.
The final document acknowledges that illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing deprives many countries of a crucial natural resource and remains a persistent threat to their sustainable development. A recommitment to eliminate IUU fishing is presented. Reference is made to the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation which aims at preventing and combating these practices in the following ways: a) by implementing national and regional action plans in accordance with FAO's international IUU combat plan, b) by identifying vessels engaged in IUU fishing, c) by depriving offenders of the benefits accruing from IUU fishing, and d) by cooperating with developing countries to systematically identify needs and build capacity (monitoring, control, surveillance, compliance and enforcement systems).
The Rio delegations recognise the need for transparency and accountability in fisheries management by regional fisheries management organizations (RFMOs). The efforts already made by those RFMOs that have undertaken independent performance reviews are recognised. A call is presented on all RFMOs to regularly undertake such reviews, publish the results and implement the recommendations.
Furthermore, the Rio final document reaffirms the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation as to elimination of subsidies that contribute to illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing and overcapacity, mentioning the importance of this sector to developing countries. Reference is made to the WTO Doha Development Agenda and the Hong Kong Ministerial mandates for more vigorous control of fisheries subsidies. Prohibition of subsidies that contribute to overcapacity and over-fishing is mentioned as a control measure. States are also encouraged to eliminate subsidies that contribute to overcapacity and over-fishing, to refrain from introducing new such subsidies and to refrain from extending or enhancing existing subsidies.
A commitment to ensure access to fisheries and corresponding markets by fishers (subsistence, small-scale, artisanal) and women fish workers and indigenous peoples is also presented, highlighting the needs of these communities in developing countries and small island developing states.
As to coral reefs and mangroves, the Rio delegations recognise the significant economic, social and environmental contributions of coral reefs, in particular to islands and other coastal states, as well as the significant vulnerability of the reefs and mangroves to impacts including from climate change, ocean acidification, overfishing, destructive fishing practices and pollution. Support for international cooperation is expressed in order to conserve coral reef and mangrove ecosystems and to realise their social, economic and environmental benefits. Facilitation of technical collaboration and voluntary information sharing are mentioned as supporting measures. Surprisingly, sea grass beds are not separately mentioned in the Rio final document. (The importance of healthy sea grass beds as carbon sinks in fighting global climate change has recently been acknowledged by the marine science research community).
In the seas and oceans chapter of The Future We Want, the delegations reaffirm the importance of area-based conservation measures, including marine protected areas, consistent with international law and based on best available scientific information. The participants note decision X/2 of the 10th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, that by 2020, 10 percent of coastal and marine areas, especially areas of particular importance for biodiversity and ecosystem services, are to be conserved through effectively and equitably managed, ecologically representative and well-connected systems of protected areas and other effective area-based conservation measures.
Finally, it may be considered surprising that the importance of managing the sea-land interface as a special area was not mentioned in The Future We Want. As the coastal zone is an area of many opportunities, user conflicts, resource degradation and lost opportunities, it would have been natural to say something in the Rio final document about the need for integrated coastal zone management.


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Teen Turf day campers conduct experiments
Posted: Monday, Jun 30th, 2014
BY: Jennifer Campbell
Leah Hilderbrand, left, and Eileen Piper explain about rust during an experiment on June 24 at Teen Turf's afternoon day camp session. (News photo by Jennifer Campbell)
AMBOY – "The food coloring is actually trying to get away from the soap," Leah Hilderbrand explained at Teen Turf's afternoon day camp session on June 24. Chemical reaction was the topic of the day. Milk was placed in a pan along with dish soap and food coloring. The purpose of the experiment was to illustrate the concept of repulsion.
"We're going to do another type of experiment involving combustion," Hilderbrand continued. Hilderbrand is a RN. She introduced the objects for the next experiment, steel wool and a 9-volt battery.
"Fire!" a student exclaimed.
The mixture of the air and charge from the battery provides the spark said Hilderbrand. The steel wool strands needed to be slightly separated to provide the other ingredient, air.
"How would you guys like to try it yourself?" she asked the class.
"Great," said a student.
"Who thinks they can do it?" Eileen Piper asked.
"Me, me, me, me!" is the resulting chant from the excited students.
Hilderbrand demonstrated that the intensity of the flame can be increased by providing more oxygen to the fire, which she demonstrated by blowing on the burning steel wool.
"Did you notice she's being real careful? Is she touching it with her hands?" Piper asked the class.
"No," the class responded.
Piper reminded students that they should never replicate the experiment at home unless Mom or Dad was with them.
"Smell is another sign that a reaction is happening," Hilderbrand told the students. She asked students to name signs that a chemical reaction was happening.
"Does anyone feel how the battery is warm now?" Hilderbrand asked. "Do you know why your tablet or i-Pod gets warm after you've been playing on it for awhile?"
"It feels like cotton candy," said a student examining the steel wool after the reaction. After the reaction, the steel wool was cool to the touch.
"Fireworks are another reaction, right?" Hilderbrand asked.
"Are sparklers hot when you get done using them?" Piper asked students. "Why is a sparkler different than this?"
"We're using a different form of energy," Hilderbrand said.
A check on the rust experiment, in progress, was needed. Vinegar and steel wool had been left in plastic cups covered with tin foil. The steel wool had turned a different color and students remarked that the consistency of the steel wool was harder. The vinegar was an oxidizing agent.
Last year, the day camp theme was "around the world" and diversity was discussed.
"The rubbing alcohol actually turns to a gas, after the heat hits it," Hilderbrand explained about a prior experiment of "burning money." "It burns around the money." The money itself was not burned.
Tornado in a bottle was another experiment. The kids were able to take this experiment home to show their family.
Another experiment involved a shaving cream cloud. They talked about hot air and cold air and how thunderstorms and tornados are made.
"It is very fun to teach. The kids are awesome," Hilderbrand added. Students can still join the day camp program at Teen Turf.
Snacks were the next order of business followed by the "grand finale," an opportunity to slide down the inflatable water slide. Junior High student helpers held hoses with water directed on the slide to make sure no one left dry.
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The numbers suggest the Wake Forest defense is, at the very least, an able-bodied bunch.
The fact that a 56-7 loss at Clemson is included makes the Demon Deacons look even better to more mortal offenses.
Consider: Wake is 25th in scoring defense, 37th in total defense, 51st in pass efficiency defense and 52nd in rushing defense. It isn't a team making many plays behind the line of scrimmage (60th in sacks, 107th in tackles for loss), but it is generally getting the job done.
Aside from that Clemson game, the Demon Deacons have not allowed more than 24 points. Scoring will probably be at a minimum Saturday at the Carrier Dome.
A valid question, though, is whether Wake Forest is actually strong on defense or more a product of teams playing conservatively against a team with a limited offense. The latter was a factor in September, when the Demon Deacons lost to Boston College and Louisiana-Monroe. Of late, it is more a function of quality play on the part of a Wake Forest team that employs a 3-4.
Nikita Whitlock, who it seems like is in his eighth year as a college athlete, is a fifth-year senior who has made 41 career starts for the Demon Deacons. The nose guard is the best player on the Wake Forest defense and has 13.5 tackles for loss (just shy of his career-best of 14) and seven sacks (doubling his previous career-high) through eight games.
Zack Thompson has made 18 consecutive starts at defensive end and has 9.5 tackles for loss and five sacks of his own this season. The other end is Kristopher Redding who, like Whitlock and Thompson, is a fifth-year senior.
There are known quantities on both the outside (Justin Jackson) and inside (Mike Olson) for the Demon Deacons. That duo of fifth-year seniors has combined for 45 career starts, and Olson in particular (56 tackles) has been active all season.
Sophomore Brandon Chubb is a first-year starter at middle linebacker and figures to be a mainstay in the Wake Forest defense for a few more years. Hunter Williams, another sophomore, took over as a starter at outside linebacker when redshirt freshman Steve Donatell suffered a knee injury in the season's third game.
The Demon Deacons' secondary took a massive hit Saturday when senior free safety A.J. Marshall suffered a broken fibula. He had made 20 consecutive starts (tied for the most on the Wake defense), 25 starts for his career and his backup is true freshman Deonte Davis. There's no minimizing it is a significant loss.
Nonetheless, Wake remains steady at cornerback with juniors Kevin Johnson and Merrill Noel both possessing at least 25 career starts. The Demon Deacons have started redshirt freshman Ryan Janvion at strong safety the entire season.


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How did a stranger end up on Marc Maron's podcast? Find out in this incredible story.
Marc Maron and his "WTF" podcast are known for probing interviews of comedians and celebrities, but apparently the man behind the mic isn't always prepared to ask an hour's worth of questions. On "Jimmy Kimmel Live," he revealed an incredible mixup that resulted in a total stranger coming to be interviewed. Frankly, it sounds like a very entertaining "Kids in the Hall" sketch.


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U.S. Q3 Pipeline Slows Yet Recent Activity and Positive Post IPO Returns Indicate Healthy Signs for Fall
New York, 24 September 2012 – According to EY's U.S. IPO Pipeline Analysis, despite a slower quarter from Q2, the IPO market in Q3 2012 was stronger than it was in Q3 2011 with 21 and 16 effective IPOs respectively excluding REITs, closed-end funds, SPAC and OTC issues. Three IPOs are scheduled to price before the end of this quarter, including the $4 billion offering from Santander Mexico Financial Group. Year to date figures also show a better IPO market compared to last year. IPO volume and value for the nine months in 2012 were 90 and $31 billion, up slightly from 85 and $28 billion for the nine months in 2011.
"Looks like we're headed back to work bolstered by measures from the European Central Bank and our own Federal Reserve to restore confidence in the markets," said Herb Engert, Strategic Growth Markets Practice Leader for Ernst & Young LLP, @HerbEngert. "We are seeing signs of life with a flurry of activity at quarter's end including offerings from Capital Bank Financial, National Bank Holdings, Susser Petroleum Partners LP and Trulia."
Total U.S. IPOs in the pipeline as of September 21, 2012 declined to 114 in Q3 from 129 in Q2, and 181 in Q3, 2011. However, the ability to file confidentially as a result of the JOBS Act continues to impact the pipeline and confidential filings are on the rise. As of September 21, 2012, 21 or 36% of the 58 new registrants after April 2012 were confidential filers.
"While the volume of IPOs that came to market were down, as is generally the case during the slower summer months, in the third quarter post-IPO returns were up 30%, compared to 7% for the S&P 500." said Jackie Kelley, EY's Americas IPO leader. "In fact, companies with IPO offerings between $100 and $300 million had the highest post IPO returns. This shows us that investors are really favoring small and mid-sized offerings."
Year-over-year pipeline comparison table:
Time period
# of companies in the Pipeline
Total dollar amount in the Pipeline ($bn)
Average deal size in the Pipeline ($mm)
# of U.S. IPOs that went public in the quarter
Proceeds from IPOs that went public in the quarter ($bn)
End of Q3 2010
End of Q3 2011
End of Q2 2012
Q3 2012 as of September 21, 2012
The Q3 Review:
In Q3, out of the 21 IPOs, nine priced within or above their price range, while 12 priced below their expected range. With Santander Mexico Financial Group's registration in August, average IPO size in the pipeline increased to $230 million in Q3 from $175 million in Q2. At the end of Q3, 114 registrants are seeking $26.2 billion. During the third quarter, 21 effective IPOs were issued, a decrease of 9 from Q2. Of the 21 IPOs priced, 18 had positive returns, and the overall average post IPO return was 30%, compared to 7% for the S&P 500. The number of withdrawn IPOs fell considerably, to 12 in Q3 from 18 in Q2 however market sentiment and investor confidence is gradually improving.
Notable Q3 companies that priced include:
- Manchester United Ltd., priced at $14 and raised $233 million
- Hi-Crush Partners LP, priced at $17 and raised $220 million
- Bloomin' Brands Inc. priced at $11 and raised $202 million
- Globus Medical Inc., priced at $12 and raised $115 million
(note: total proceeds include overallotment)
A sector breakdown of the 114 IPOs currently in the pipeline show that:
- 22 are in Oil & Gas, raising $6.7 billion
- 22 are in Technology, raising $3.8 billion;
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- 17 are in Life Sciences raising $1.2 billion.
Professional Firms & Services and Diversified Industrial Products round out the top five sectors in the pipeline raising $894 million and $1,560 million respectively. Together, the top three sectors for new IPO registrations—Technology, Oil & Gas, and Life Sciences—account for 61 of the 114 registrations.
Regionally, California continues to lead deal volume with 20 companies seeking $2.1 billion; followed by Texas with 17 companies seeking $5.7 billion; and New York with 8 companies seeking $1.2 billion. Illinois (seven companies, seeking $1.4 billion) and Colorado (four companies, raising $769 million) round out the top five. Among international filings, China has five companies seeking $340 million.
Sector Highlight: Retail & Restaurants
Despite a sluggish economy, overall there was an uptick in restaurant and retail IPOs with total effective companies in 2012 surpassing 2011. The nine companies—four restaurants and five retailers – that came public in this sector raised close to $1.5 billion in proceeds, with more than half pricing shares in the third quarter. The five IPOs issued in 3Q—three restaurants and two retailers—raised $676 million in proceeds.
The Restaurant and Retail sector represented 23% of the total funds raised for 3Q and made up 24% of the IPOs. However, looking forward, both retail and restaurant companies are heading into a holding pattern due to continuing concerns around the global economy and for restaurants, the rising price of commodities.
In 2011, popular retail brand Michael Kors opened a lot of eyes in terms of valuation and in July teen retailer Five Below boosted its IPO price. "Valuation is obviously very important on the front end but what really differentiates a retail company is whether or not it can scale once it's public," said Dan Valerio, Americas Director, Retail & Wholesale Sector, EY. "Investors are looking for strong brands that will continue to grow. In today's market, a company cannot be an average performer anymore; the brand has to stand for something."
Retail is still feeling some of the economic malaise and brands are taking a patient and cautious approach, focusing on strong basics and fundamentals and doing things well. They are taking care not to over invest or grow stores rapidly. The name of the game is slow and steady versus high growth.
July and August saw a big influx in restaurant IPOs – with a few companies going public again after being taken private such as Chuy's Holdings Inc. and Del Frisco's Restaurant Group LLC. However, September has caused a bit of a pause for restaurant IPOs due to uncertainties in the marketplace including a weakened global economy, and months of extreme heat and dry weather which damaged large portions of corn crops—primarily grown for feed use—which has sent beef prices significantly higher. Bloomin' Brands Inc. priced this quarter trimming the value of its offering by 40% yet its post IPO performance has been up.
"Restaurant IPOs have continued to pick up steam over the past three quarters, but with some macro-issues impacting the sector that have not eased like Eurozone uncertainties and high commodity prices I'm not surprised that the sector is taking a pause to see what the future holds," said Michael Gottlieb, Global Leader, Restaurant Services, Ernst & Young LLP.
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Integrating Ole Miss: A Transformative, Deadly Riot
Fifty years ago Monday, James Meredith became the first black student enrolled in the University of Mississippi. His attendance sparked a violent uprising on campus, requiring President Kennedy to send National Guard and Army troops. The deadly uprising marked a turning point in the civil rights movement.


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Progress 07/01/09 to 06/30/11OutputsOUTPUTS: This project provided supplemental funding to support contributions of volunteers to the primary project: eastern gray squirrel ecology and interactions with western gray squirrels in the South Puget Sound Region. The final report for the primary project (WNZ-1287) is given below: Fieldwork on this project has concluded. Analyses and writing of a doctoral dissertation is underway. The dissertation defense is scheduled for January 2013. Resource managers at the Ft. Lewis military reservation in south Puget Sound were regularly apprised of study progress. Reports of work "in progress" for this project were given at several scientific meetings as detailed below. Results of this study were also given at seminars and public presentations at the University of Washington. PARTICIPANTS: Collaborators at the University of Washington included: Dr. John Marzluff: UW faculty colleague and graduate committee member. Dr. Joshua Lawler: UW faculty colleague and graduate committee member. Dr. Christian Grue: UW faculty colleague and Director of the Washington Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit. Aaron Johnston, Ph.C.: graduate student supported by the project. Collaborating individuals outside the University of Washington included: Dr. Mathew Vander Haegen, Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife: graduate committee member. Collaborating organizations included: Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife. Washington Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit. School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, University of Washington. Pacific Northwest Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit. The Wildlife Society, Washington Chapter. TARGET AUDIENCES: Because this study dealt with a threatened (western gray squirrel) and a highly invasive species (eastern gray squirrel), forest landowners, forest resource managers, agency biologists, and wildlife managers will be interested in the results of the study. Also, the general public will benefit from the information this study provided in helping maintain our native biodiversity. PROJECT MODIFICATIONS: We added an investigation of the competitive relationship between the eastern gray squirrel and the native Douglas's squirrel. Incidental observations indicated that the eastern gray squirrels might have been excluding Douglas's squirrels from useable habitat, so we radio-tagged several Douglas's squirrels to document their movements into eastern gray squirrel territories after we removed the eastern gray squirrels as part of the primary investigation into competitive relations between the western and eastern gray squirrels.ImpactsThe western gray squirrel (Sciurus griseus) is a threatened species in Washington State. The reasons for its decline are not understood fully, although habitat modification, illegal hunting, and competition with introduced eastern gray squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis) in suburban areas are implicated factors. We experimentally removed eastern gray squirrels from selected sites on the Ft. Lewis-McChord military base to evaluate competitive effects on western gray squirrels based on subsequent behavioral interactions, resource use, spatial partitioning, and differences in reproduction, survival, and mass. Fieldwork over the past year has increased the sample size of radio-collared squirrels and the power of statistical contrasts. Work describing fungi in the diets of western and eastern gray squirrels continued. Preliminary analyses indicated low spatial overlap of the two squirrel species with eastern gray squirrels using riparian areas almost exclusively and western gray squirrels predominantly using uplands. Upon completion of the doctoral dissertation, chapters will be submitted for publication in appropriate journals.Publications
Progress 10/01/07 to 10/01/08OutputsOUTPUTS: This project augments the travel, equipment, and supplies budgets of the project, "Eastern gray squirrel ecology and interactions with western gray squirrels in the South Puget Sound region (WNZ-1287)." The western gray squirrel is a threatened species in Washington State. Introduced eastern gray squirrels have displaced native tree squirrels elsewhere and may be a serious threat to western gray squirrels in the Puget Trough. The objective of this study is to describe the ecology of the eastern gray squirrel and its interactions with western gray squirrels on Fort Lewis, WA. We will employ an experimental design to describe the ecology of eastern and western gray squirrels by comparing population parameters, habitat use, and other ecological metrics between areas where eastern and western gray squirrels coexist and areas where eastern gray squirrels have been removed. A graduate student was selected to conduct the fieldwork and the first cohort of eastern gray squirrels was radio-collared and records of their use of habitat initiated. PARTICIPANTS: Aaron Johnston, University of Washington graduate student; Stephen West, Professor, University of Washington, Mathew Vander Haegen, Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife TARGET AUDIENCES: Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife biologists and managers, land managers at Ft. Lewis, Washington PROJECT MODIFICATIONS: Nothing significant to report during this reporting period.ImpactsThis project will help assess the potential negative effects of introduced eastern gray squirrels on western gray squirrels. Results will be incorporated in management plans for the enhancement of western gray squirrel populations where eastern gray squirrels co-occur.Publications


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Session 82 - Globular Clusters.
Display session, Wednesday, January 17
North Banquet Hall, Convention Center
We present results from observations of the 17.1 hr Low Mass X-ray Binary X2127+119 (AC211) in M15 obtained with the Broad Band X-ray Telescope (BBXRT) in December 1990 and observations obtained with the Solid State Spectrometer (SSS) together with the Monitor Proportional Counter (MPC) on the Einstein Observatory in 1978 and 1979. The continuum can be well described with the two component model of a blackbody (kT \sim 1 keV) and a power-law that was found to fit the EXOSAT ME data. Short term variability observed by the SSS and MPC was related to changes in the intensities of both components in this description. Longer timescale changes were larger. The SSS and MPC observed factor of 10 differences in column density in observations separated by a few binary orbits. These observations confirm correlation between the steepness of the spectrum and the column density, and column density with phase. The percentage contribution of the blackbody is anticorrelated with the factor of 4 variations in the apparent luminosity, but other correlations are weak. A 1000 second observation by BBXRT at photometric phase 0.9 provides an upper limit of \sim 150 eV to narrow Fe K line emission. BBXRT spectra are inconsistent with the known cluster metallicity of 1/100th of solar. A model separating the absorption of H and He and the metals gives 3.4^+0.09_-0.52\times10^21 cm^-2 for the column density of metals in the absorbing gas associated with the binary system. Interpretation of changes in spectral parameters and their relation to orbital phase and longer timescale variations will be discussed.
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By Polly Keary, Editor
Standing in a department store staring at ties again? Skip it; we have a better plan.
We wanted to know what dads really want on their big day, so we asked!
Here's what local fellows said they'd like to do on Father's Day.
Marc Marcroft said his top pick would be to attend the car show at the Monroe Father's Day Celebration on Saturday, June 15.
"That would be EXCELLENT!" he said in a Facebook comment.
The car show starts at 10 a.m. and continues until 4 p.m. There will also be live music, a 1950s pageant, lots of food and more.
Monroe School Board member Jim Scott seconded the idea of taking Dad to a car show. "That is often a good choice for dads," he said. And Deb Lindgren said that her husband's vote was for a car show followed by a good dinner.
Ryan Klemmer likes to put his kids to work on the links.
"An afternoon on the golf course, my kids my personal caddies," he said. "Good exercise and a time to walk away from distractions."
Stefan Buckley, a DJ and dance instructor, suggested a murder mystery dinner theater at French Creek Manor.
Father's Day, June 16, take in "Totally 80s, Totally Murder," at the Manor. Revisit the electronic music, big hair, spandex and digital chic of the decade as you puzzle over a mystery that unfolds around you as you dine.
"Like the 80s weren't tragic enough! The Juggernauts are in town for a radical concert, but things turn bogus quickly, and one of these 80s stars is a murderer. An awesomely tubular show presented by the Murder Mystery Company," the company's website exclaims.
Attire of the era is suggested, to include mullets, leg warmers, Ray Bans and jean jackets.
The three-course menu includes a salad, choice of entree, and a dessert "to die for."
For more information see http://www.frenchcreekmanor.com/events.asp
Jon Levesque of Monroe's Tech Mob likes to keep it simple.
"Steaks and family time," he said. "Not much more needed than that. Maybe a good book to read or a boxed set of one of my favorite TV shows."
Joel Selling gets to pick whatever he wants to do, and his family has to indulge him, said his wife, Monroe School Board member Nancy Truitt Pierce.
"The family rule is that the rest of us must pretend to enjoy the outing no matter what he chooses to do," she said. "We have strolled through museums and gardens and attended a symphony and a play in years past. The kids are wonderful at going along with it and showing all external signs of having fun!"


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Design of Fiber-Optic DTS and DAS Well Installations
This one-day training event introduces completion, production, surveillance and reservoir engineers to the design of fiber-optic DTS (distributed temperature sensing) and DAS (distributed acoustic sensing) well installations. A basic understanding of the principles and benefits of DTS, DAS and surveillance monitoring technology in general is assumed.
At the completion of this training course the attendee will have an understanding of:
- Technical and economic factors that influence the selection and justification for installing DAS/DTS systems in specific well types.
- Completion and monitoring components needed to deliver a DAS/DTS-monitored well.
- Installation and commissioning operations.
- The first segment of the training covers the background and procedures for selecting candidate wells for DAS and DTS monitoring and for selecting specific monitoring options such as DTS, DAS and pressure gauges. A brief set of examples and exercises will illustrate the cost-benefit analysis one may employ during the selection and planning phases.
- The second training segment addresses the completion components, installation equipment and processes, and the commissioning and start-up procedures needed to install and operate a fiber-optic monitoring system. Several well configurations will be considered, including offshore (dry tree), onshore oil and unconventional gas, thermal, and injection wells.
Learning Level
Intermediate to Advanced
Course Length
1 Day
Why Attend?
To ensure the most value from DTS technology, field or planning staff needs the necessary skills to select candidate wells for DTS systems use and to learn the proper installation and start up procedures.
Who Should Attend
This course is for completion, production, surveillance, and reservoir engineers who need an introduction to the design of fiber-optic distributed temperature sensing well installations.
0.8 CEUs (Continuing Education Units) will be awarded for this 1-day course.
Cancellation Policy
To receive a full refund, all cancellations must be received in writing no later than 14 days prior to the course start date. Cancellations made after the 14-day window will not be refunded. Send cancellation requests by email to email@example.com; by fax to +1.866.460.3032 (US) or +1.972.852.9292 (outside US); or mail to SPE Registration, PO Box 833836, Richardson, TX 75083.
Dennis Dria, president and chief technology advisor for Myden Energy Consulting PLLC, has been involved with in-well fiber-optic monitoring since 1999, and well/reservoir monitoring since 1993. His experience includes more than 20 years with Shell in the areas of petrophysics, well and reservoir surveillance, smart field design, development and deployment of fiber-optic monitoring systems, and surveillance data interpretation and integration. He was a 2011–2012 SPE Distinguished Lecturer for "E&P Applications of Fiber-Optic Technologies".
Dria has a BS in Physics and Mathematics from Ashland University and a PhD in Petroleum Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin.
Bill Shroyer, Fiber Optic Product Line Manager at SageRider, Inc., has worked in the practical application of fiber optic sensing systems in the oil and gas market since 1998. During this time, he has designed and executed numerous fiber-optic and conventional monitoring installations in a wide variety of applications ranging from complex offshore installations to shallow steam flood fiber deployments. Over the last 16 years, Shroyer has served in Field and Project Engineering roles for two major service companies and provided project management consultation for a major global operator.
Shroyer has a degree in Electronics Engineering from the University of East Carolina and is a Certified Fiber Optic Technician (CFOT).