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Increasing Productivity with Intercropping Systems in Cabbage Production.
This study was carried out to determine the effect of different intercropping systems on growth, mineral contents and yield of cabbage (Brassica oleracea L. var. capitata) under field conditions in 2000, 2001 and 2002. LER (Land Equivalent Ratio) and economic net income of different cropping systems based on cabbage as an index of intercropping efficiency were also evaluated. In the study, cabbage was used as a main crop, and cos lettuce (Lactuca sativa L. var. longifoila), leaf lettuce (Lactuca sativa L. var. crispa), radish (Raphanus sativus L.), onion (Allium cepa L.) and snap bean (Phaseolus vulgarism L. var. nanus) were used as intercrops. Each of the intercrops was planted in between cabbage rows in separate plots. Cabbage and all intercrops were also grown as sole crops. There was no significant effect of different intercropping systems on growth characteristics and yield of cabbage compared with sole cabbage cropping except for radish as an intercrop, which affected adversely the yield and some growth characteristics of cabbage. Net income was increased significantly when cabbage was intercropped with cos lettuce, bean, leaf lettuce or onion. The values of LER appeared to be greater than 1 under intercropping systems. Cropping systems did not significantly affect nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, calcium, magnesium and iron content of cabbage. The results obtained in this study pointed out that intercropping systems based on cabbage might increase total yield, productivity and profitability.
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Journal of sustainable agriculture.
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2006, v. 28, no. 4
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|Guvenc, I.
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|Yildirim, E.
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Any attempts to limit the impacts of climate change must maximize the potential for energy efficiency in existing dwellings. Retrofitting the existing stock of aging and inefficient dwellings is a challenge on many fronts. A number of programs have been put in place to encourage domestic retrofits by reducing barriers such as the upfront costs and access to capital. While many such programs are delivering positive results, there is much uncertainty regarding what constitutes success, as well as the long term cost effectiveness of various approaches. Geographic, demographic, and programmatic differences frequently cloud the ability to make comparisons across programs. This work examines a case study from Efficiency Maine in the United States, in which a grant program transitioned to a financing program. The grant program was highly popular and delivered significant energy savings, but used considerable public funds. The financing program reaches fewer homeowners, but delivers larger retrofit projects per homeowner, and leverages private investment with smaller public expenditures. Which of the two programs can be considered more successful? This work explores the methods of assessing this question and offers the author's perspectives.
The issue of barriers to domestic energy efficiency has been well covered by the literature over the past several decades. A number of policy solutions have been enacted to address these barriers in various ways. Yet despite the considerable academic and policy focus, there continues to be significant unrealized and cost effective savings in the existing domestic stock. Policies are frequently said to have had mixed success [
This work seeks to provide a view on the different ways in which public funding allocation can be evaluated, and the ways in which these factors influence the market transformation potential for a program. The term "barrier" is often considered insufficient to describe the degree of imperfections in the housing and energy efficiency retrofit market. This paper considers only the financial components such barriers, while recognizing that cultural and social factors are also critical. A comprehensive view of retrofit market transformation strategies must additionally consider the sociology of retrofitting, which is beyond the scope of this study.
To begin, a brief description of the underlying barriers will explore the policy context for this work, as well providing a brief explanation of the differences between grant and finance program structure. This paper will then describe the approach through which this work attempts to define the success of a retrofit program and some of the indicators with which success can be measured. Finally, the details of the Efficiency Maine programs will be presented, along with a comparative analysis and a discussion of whether the grant program or the financing program should be considered more successful.
It is a well accepted truth that a range of market barriers adversely impact energy efficiency in the built environment [
It is often stated that in order to address the diverse range of barriers present, energy efficiency policies should be part of broader market transformation strategies [
While policies designed to encourage retrofits often include elements of engagement strategies and information campaigns, the core of most energy efficiency retrofit programs is a system of financial incentives intended to overcome the upfront cost barrier. These exist in a range of forms, but can broadly be divided into two categories: grants and financing. Here the term grants refers to rebates, giveaways, subsidies, or tax credits, in which the financial incentive offered is not expected to be repaid. Financing, on the other hand, occurs in the form of a loan that must be repaid. Financing programs often make use of public funds either for direct lending, or as credit enhancements such as interest rate buy downs or loan loss reserves. In bill financing differs from typical financing in that the loan is repaid through the savings in the utility bills. Revolving loan funds operate in this way such that the loan repayments replenish the original funding block on a revolving basis [
One such example is the Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) financing scheme, in which the value of the loan is tied to the home instead of the individual. In the wake of the housing crisis PACE loans are uncommon in the United States, as the Federal Housing Finance Agency stated that PACE presents safety and soundness concerns to the housing finance industry and instructed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to employ more restrictive underwriting criteria [
The state of Maine is a useful source for case studies in domestic energy efficiency programs. Maine has a population of 1,328,361, a land area of 30,862 square miles, and total of 704,578 housing units [
In addition, Efficiency Maine has also received two funding blocks from the national Department of Energy (DOE) through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). The first was a $10 million grant in 2009 under the State Energy Program (SEP). This was used to operate a rebate and direct install program called Home Energy Savings Plan (HESP). HESP delivers subsidised energy audits and light retrofits such as insulation upgrades and weatherization, and is available to any residence in the state of Maine.
In addition, the DOE awarded Efficiency Maine a second ARRA funding block of $30 million through the Better Buildings Neighborhood Program in June 2010. The Better Buildings funding application was based using the funds primarily being used to finance PACE loans for similar retrofit products and services [
In April 2011, the rebate funds for HESP were exhausted, and the program began the transition to the PACE loan program. The transition from a rebate program to a financing program offers a useful comparison between two approaches to retrofits among the same population.
As noted, there is confusion over how to define success for a retrofit program. It is therefore important to clarify the metrics against which the Efficiency Maine case studies will be measured. This paper will compare the HESP grant program and the PACE financing program on the basis of not only the energy savings and cost effectiveness they deliver, but also on their surrounding market impacts such as market penetration, job creation, leveraging of private investments, and project size.
The HESP program operated from 01/01/2010 through 30/06/2011, when it transitioned to the on-going PACE program. The HESP program was completed closed by 30/09/2011. This work will carry out its comparison based on publicly released performance data from the Cadmus Group's HESP Final Evaluation Report [
The HESP program provided whole house energy efficiency measures and was available to any dwelling in the state of Maine. The measures covered by HESP include weatherization, air sealing and insulation, heating system replacement, hot water system replacement, controls, window, door, and renewable energy systems. The program offered a direct rebate of up to $1,500 for projects that saved at least 25% and up to $3,000 for projects saving at least 50%. The projected savings were calculated from a thermal model created by the home energy auditor or contractor [
The program relied primarily on traditional outreach and marketing strategies such as television, radio, and print advertising. In response to the low initial uptake of the program, Efficiency Maine introduced a time limited bonus of $1000 during the summer of 2010. The Cadmus review determined that by the end of the program, HESP had high recognition rates and brand identification even among non participants [
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The data in
Number of reported assessments throughout project transition from Home Energy Savings Plan (HESP) to Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) [
HESP results (01/01/2010–30/09/2011)—Annual Report FY11 [
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|Maine Costs
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HESP expenditures (01/01/2010-30/09/2011)—Annual Report FY11 [
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Efficiency Maine commissioned a comprehensive program evaluation by the Cadmus Group, which visited 41 HESP project sites in order to verify the installed measures. They also performed their own energy simulations and engineering analyses to compare with those projected by the home energy auditors and contractors carrying out the work. This analysis determined a 90% realization rate between the reported and verified measures. [
In addition, the Cadmus review analyzed a limited number of energy bills, and finally, carried out a survey of both participants (N = 70) and partial-participants (N = 30) from the program in order to determine participant motivations and quantify free-ridership for those that would have pursued retrofit measures regardless of the program's interventions. The ratio of the total participants to those that participated due to the program's interventions it termed the net to gross ratio. This analysis found a net to gross ratio of 86% [
The cost effectiveness of the program was then measured based on both the Total Resource Cost (TRC) test as well as the DOE's State Energy Program Recovery Act Cost (SEP-RAC) test. The TRC test is a common cost effectiveness test which compares the avoided energy costs to the program administration and customer costs. The SEP-RAC test states that all ARRA funded programs must offset at least 10 net MMBtus per year per $1,000 of public expenditure. The Cadmus Review calculated a TRC ratio of 2.56 and a SEP-RAC expenditure rate of 13.41 MMBtu/$1000. This means that the HESP program was verified to be cost effective by both the TRC test and the SEP-RAC test, accounting for the 90% realization rate and 86% net to gross ratio [
The Cadmus review used the reported estimated useful lifetime of the efficiency measures included in the program data in order to calculate the lifetime net energy savings. While the methodologies for the calculations contained in the Annual Report are not explicitly defined, the overall figures agree closely enough with the details in the Cadmus Review that similar methodologies can be assumed.
In addition to the energy savings and cost effectiveness objectives, it was a stated goal for the HESP program to recruit and train 100 new participating energy advisors. Many sources have previously noted the links between strong contractor networks and the delivery of high volumes of loans in financing programs [
From the $30 million ARRA Better Buildings funding, $20.4 million was allocated for the PACE revolving loans. As of February 2013, a total of 158 Maine municipalities had passed PACE ordinances and entered into an agreement with Efficiency Maine to administer the loan program on their behalf, accounting for 74% of the state population [
Shortly after the rollout of the PACE program, Efficiency Maine introduced the PowerSaver Loan Program and the Residential Direct Install Program (RDI) in spring 2012 to expand the eligible participants. Both programs are also funded by the ARRA Better Buildings grant [
The PACE/PowerSaver loans begin with an energy audit that takes a long term view at the potential retrofit measures. A Building Performance Institute (BPI) certified contractor will perform a survey of the possible measures including the generation of a thermal model that simulates the potential savings and payback periods. The proposed measures must demonstrate a minimum savings of 20% to be eligible for the loan.
The audit typically costs around $500 and is part of the loan application procedure, but does not include any on the spot improvements. The program designers hoped that customers would use the RDI direct install program (described below) as a stepping stone to the deeper retrofit measures of the PACE/PowerSaver loans.
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PACE and PowerSaver Loans (01/07/2011–30/06/2012)—Annual Report FY12 [
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PACE and PowerSaver Loan expenditures (01/07/2011–30/06/2012)—Annual Report FY12 [
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The only exception to the upward trend in monthly loan closures is a slight decrease in early 2013. This decrease is presently unexplained, though it is possibly correlated with the dramatic increase in RDI uptake over the same period, and the constrained resources of contractors being unable to meet the demand of both programs simultaneously [
The RDI program was designed as an add-on partway through the PACE program process. It initially offered a $300 rebate for six hours of work, which was increased to $600 in September 2012. The measures include a blower door test, thermal imaging, combustion safety testing, and air sealing and weatherization measures. The retrofit measures targeted by the RDI program are meant to be direct install options with little follow-up or long term planning, but were meant to serve as a lead in to the PACE loan application process. To incentivize the coordination between PACE/PowerSaver and RDI, homeowners may count their RDI measures as meeting the 20% energy savings threshold required for the loan, thus removing a barrier to the application process [
There have been a total of 2752 RDI completions as of 07/03/2013 and the rate of monthly completions has increased steadily since the program's inception, with a more dramatic increase since the incentive was increased to $600. Program organizers are conducting a rigorous phone campaign to follow up on RDI participants, and have received anecdotal confirmations that a number of participants come to PACE loans through RDI lead-ins. Note that at the time of writing there is insufficient data to assign a causal link and that this is simply a correlation noted by program staff [
This paper aims to compare a grant program to a financing program on the basis of their overall impacts on the domestic retrofit market. This section will first compare the energy savings and cost effectiveness of each program according to the Efficiency Maine Annual Reports [
Note that while the unequal time periods for the two programs, as well as the fact that the PACE program is still ongoing, prevent comparisons between the two in absolute terms, there are nonetheless useful relative comparisons that can be made between them.
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Both of the programs have benefit to total cost ratios above one, indicating that they are both objectively successful. The benefit to total cost ratio of the HESP grant program at 3.5 is nearly double that of the PACE benefit to cost ratio of 1.9. However, since the bulk of the PACE expenditures are due to be repaid as loans, the benefit to public cost ratios are closer for the HESP and PACE programs at 11.8 and 7.9 respectively.
Both the HESP grant program and the PACE loan program deliver comparable average energy savings per household, again noting that all energy savings are estimated using the engineering calculations and modeling projections that are part of the internal program process. The grant program is more cost effective than the loan program in terms of public expenditures per unit energy savings over the lifetime of the measures, with HESP and PACE achieving $1.8/MMBtu and $2.5/MMBtu respectively. Note that this calculation differs from the SEP-RAC test, which uses a different calculation methodology and considers a one year evaluation period.
The next theme that will be considered is market penetration. As seen in
According to the savings and cost effectiveness metrics in
This program demonstrates the common pattern of grant program benefits drying up once the funding ceases, as evidenced by the experience of the contractors delivering HESP and PACE products and services.
It was a stated goal in the HESP program to recruit and train 100 new participating energy advisors. To evaluate job impacts, the Cadmus review used the DOE's analytical protocol which assumes one job-year is created for every $92,000 in program spending. Given $8,549,371 in total ARRA expenditures, the program is assumed to have created 93 job years during the examination period.
Throughout HESP, Efficiency Maine offered support and training to help contractors close a retrofit sale. Methods included working with program partners to offer professional development courses, free dedicated sales training, creating a standard assessment checklist, and delivering monthly program webinars. Throughout summer 2010, sales training led to an increase from 10% to 60% of conversion rates for customers moving from initial assessments to purchasing the recommended retrofit measures [
Despite this positive progress, as the transition from the HESP to the PACE program approached, many contractors expressed skepticism that the workload would continue, and began to transition their business models back towards more traditional home renovation work and away from energy efficiency retrofits. The contractors' lack of faith in the workflow being maintained during the HESP to PACE transition is a symptom of the way in which grant programs create a temporary stimulus without lasting market changes.
The Opinion Dynamics interim review could not include total job years in their calculations; however, interviewed contractors stated that PACE loans account for 20% of their business. While this is not quantitatively compared to the HESP program, many interviewed contractors claimed not to see a significant increase in demand for their services and products from the PACE program, particularly when compared to the HESP program. Some contractors suggested that the increase in demand for energy efficiency projects may have more to do with Efficiency Maine's overall marketing efforts than with the PACE program itself [
Overall, the Opinion Dynamics review found that the PACE loan financing is driving some demand increases for registered vendors of retrofit products and services, however, its overall impact on their operations is minimal. However, the energy assessors have shown a more notable increase in demand for their services, in part generated by the program requirement for participants to undertake an energy audit [
The majority of contractors have reported that the PACE loan program has thus far not motivated them to make significant changes to their operations. Most contractors interviewed for the PACE review had been active in HESP before PACE. One contractor summarized the difference between the programs and their impacts by saying: "As time goes on and more people experience the positive effect of [the PACE loan program], it will grow. But it's not going to be the lit gasoline that the HESP program turned out to be." [
While the data in
Another indicator for the sustainability of a funding stream is the ratio of public to private expenditures that a program delivers. In this case, the ratio of private to public expenditures for the PACE program exceeds those of the HESP program by 3.2 to 2.4. Furthermore, the average project size increased under PACE from $9,260 to $12,739, which increases the demand for the products and services incentivized by the program.
The domestic retrofit programs operated by Efficiency Maine offer an interesting opportunity to compare the performance of grants and financing both in terms of the energy savings and cost effectiveness they deliver, as well as in terms of their broader and more lasting impacts to theretrofit market.
The HESP and PACE programs both constitute very successful examples of retrofit programs, both of which are shown as being cost effective by the Efficiency Maine Annual Reports, with lifetime benefit to total cost ratios of 3.5 and 1.9 respectively.
The efficacy of the HESP program has been externally verified by the Cadmus review. The PACE program is ongoing and has not been externally verified at the time of writing. However, the results available in the Annual Report are positive and the tracking data provided by program organizers shows that the uptake rates have only increased since 2012. This is furthermore aided by the introduction of the increasingly successful RDI direct install initiative.
The HESP program is more cost effective than PACE on the basis of lifetime benefits per unit of public spending with ratios of 11.8 and 7.9 respectively. This is a somewhat surprising result, as grant programs are typically costly, whereas much of the cost in loan programs is repaid. As was shown, in
The two programs created somewhat different impacts to the surrounding markets. The HESP program spent far more public funds per month of its operation than the PACE program has so far. And while the rate of spending on PACE has increased since the data presented, and will continue to increase as the program attempts to use the remainder of its $20.4 million in ARRA funds, the bulk of this will be repaid on a revolving basis through the lifetime of the loans. HESP is therefore analogous to a rainstorm, whereas PACE behaves more like slow trickle of rain. This produces two distinct effects on the surrounding market as demonstrated by the experience of the contractors working to supply both HESP and PACE services. While HESP succeeded in creating nearly 100 jobs, many contracting firms were unsure they would maintain the high demand for energy efficiency retrofit services. The slow, gradual impact that the PACE program has will likely deliver a more lasting change to their business models, though this has yet to be demonstrated.
Another aspect of the lasting change to the market can be measured through the average project size, which increases the products and services demanded by the program, as well as the ratio of public to private expenditures, which again suggest the degree to which the program can be sustained beyond public funds. Both of these measures cast favorably for the PACE loan program in the long term.
Overall, the results of this analysis suggest quantitatively that the HESP grant program was more successful than the PACE loan program on the basis of energy savings and cost effectiveness, while qualitatively, the PACE program will likely have more long term effects on the market. Further work should investigate this once the PACE program has completed in late 2013.
It could be argued that the HESP program should be extended in order to maximize its effects. The funding stream for the PACE loans however sets out a distinct set of operating criteria centered on goals of long term market transformation. The successful HESP program, while unsustainable long term, very likely injected more life into the retrofit market than the PACE loan program could have accomplished initially on its own. The progression from the grant program, through a financing program, and now finally to a hybrid financing program with a small direct install lead-in incentive is an effective example of how a retrofit program can evolve.
This work forms a component of research towards my PhD thesis. I would like thank my supervisor Minna Sunikka-Blank. I would also like to thank Dana Fischer and the project team behind the Efficiency Maine Program. This research is supported by an EPSRC Doctoral Training Grant.
The author declares no conflict of interest.

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St. Theresa Takwa primary school in Morth Malaita is undergoing upgrading works to its buildings.
Education Secretary of the Catholic diocese of Auki Ben Aefi said currently work is being done to renovate a single storey building into a double storey complex.
The concrete building was constructed in the 70's by Marist missionaries and is quite old and therefore the renovation is very much needed.
The old building used to accommodate preparatory and standard two classes. And the rest of the primary classes are accommodated within the secondary sector at the northern end of Takwa Catholic mission station.
However, when completed, the upgraded building will house three rooms on each floor and hence all primary classes will be relocated back to southern side of the station.
According to Mr Aefi, five classrooms and an office space will accommodate in the renovated building.
Meanwhile, primary sector staff housing renovations are also underway at the moment.
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Carrizo Oil and Gas (NASDAQ:CRZO) is a small- to mid-cap Exploration and Production (E&P) company in premier oil locations in the lower 48 United States. You might remember it as natural gas producers, but it began making a major shift to oil in 2010. The company's remaining natural gas operations are in some of the best areas: the Marcellus and some of the better Barnett acreage in North Texas. Its oil properties are in the Niobrara of Wyoming, and Eagle Ford of southern Texas, the latter of which is the company's driver of growth right now. Carrizo has also been an early mover in the nascent Utica Shale of eastern Ohio, acquiring mineral rights on over 14,000 acres.
Latest quarterly results were anchored by remarkable oil production growth:
- A 57% increase in oil production vs. Q1 2012, with long-term oil production growth of 28%
- A 47% increase in oil revenue vs. Q1 2012
- A 49% year-over-year revenue increase
- A 35% year-over-year EBITDA increase
- An increase in the company's syndicated revolving credit line from $365 million to $530 million
- Purchase of an additional 4,300 acres in the Eagle Ford Shale. This is considered a "bolt-on" due to Carrizo holding adjacent acreage.
Funding Gap and Debt
This year Carrizo's funding gap, when capital expenditure exceeds cash flow, will be around $300 million. The company already has $100 million in cash from asset sales in 2012, leaving $200 million to be dealt with. Carrizo has traditionally plugged funding gaps through either taking out debt or doing joint ventures. This time, it may possibly sell gassy assets in the Marcellus or Barnett. The company's debt currently sits at $969 million according to Morningstar. Management's target is to be at three times EBITDA earnings. The ratio currently sits at 2.6.
Walking a Tightrope
We could do 50% (oil production growth) if we took on more debt.
Chip Johnson, Baird 2013 Growth Stock Conference
Despite a large funding gap, Carrizo is reluctant to take on more debt because it fears the market will become concerned. At the same time, Carrizo is having great success in its drilling, particularly in the Eagle Ford. CEO Chip Johnson believes that Carrizo could grow oil production much more quickly, but has declined to do so in order to stay within its own debt target.
While many oil companies are simply trying to grow oil production as much as possible, Carrizo's situation is something of a balancing act: managing debt and covering its substantial funding gap while growing earnings as rapidly as possible. As a result, debt/EBITDA has steadily fallen on the back of production and revenue growth. At this stage, Carrizo's most important goal is to make sure growth outpaces debt. In this quarter it did just that.
Potential In Utica and Probable Eagle Ford
This summer Carrizo will drill its first exploratory well in the Utica Shale of eastern Ohio. Carrizo has been an early mover here and has shifted concentration to the southern part of the shale, the area it believes will be the most oil rich.
Management believes the Utica could end up rivaling the Eagle Ford both in Internal Rate of Return (IRR), which is a metric of profitability, and Estimated Ultimate Recovery (EUR), which is a measurement of the resource base. Well costs will be higher, between $8 and $9 million, due to infrastructure. However, acreage royalties will be lower than in the Eagle Ford.
Unfortunately, Carrizo's 14,000 Utica acres may be all it gets. Bids are getting increasingly competitive in the southern part of the Utica play and bids for mineral rights are increasing quickly. Johnson believes this may be due to new players "floating around" with a lot of money. Even still, Carrizo's position is quite good and is estimated by management to perhaps add at least $500 million to Net Present Value (NPV).
Much of the company's Eagle Ford acreage is also untapped. Over 80% of possible wells on its south Texas acreage remain to be developed. After the 4,300 acre purchase, that percentage is surely higher. At its most previous estimate, the NPV10, or Net Present Value with an annually discounted rate of 10%, is $1.6 billion. When we include "probable" but yet unproven reserves, that number jumps to over $4.5 billion. Consider that the market cap of Carrizo is only $1.1 billion now and you get the idea of this stock's potential. In its latest road show presentation, Chip Johnson said that the independent engineers would give Carrizo its probable value "if pressed."
Carrizo had an outstanding quarter showing the company's growth potential and profitability in the Eagle Ford. The stock has been weighed down by concerns of a substantial funding gap and high debt levels, but the company seems to be balancing things while growing at an escape velocity. And here is one final point: Chip Johnson recently mentioned that the yield to maturity on some of Carrizo's bonds now stand at 3.8%, which is remarkable because the yield was 7.5% when they were originally issued. The bond market has given Carrizo a vote of confidence. I believe the stock market could do the same.
Stay Tuned
Carrizo is a company I both own stock in and follow regularly, and I plan on writing update articles when both material and relevant. In addition, I am a believer in the U.S. oil production "renaissance" and this is a topic I have written about and will frequently cover in the future.
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Disclosure: I am long CRZO. I wrote this article myself, and it expresses my own opinions. I am not receiving compensation for it (other than from Seeking Alpha). I have no business relationship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article.


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Sri Adhikari Brothers and Raju Srivastav are not enemies but they surely have had their disputes in the past. Adhikari Brothers were livid with Raju Srivastav for breaching his contract by secretly participating in 'Bigg Boss 3" last year. According to them, Srivastav had signed as a mascot for their music channel Masti. As per the contract, Srivastav was locked for fixed number of days for his Masti commitments.
The matter was taken to the court whilst Srivastav was still in Bigg Boss house. Adhikari"s demand to have Raju ousted from the show didn"t find merit in the court, which ruled in Srivastav"s favor. However, Raju was shortly evicted from Bigg Boss once this controversy broke out. Back then, it was murmured that Srivastav wasn"t evicted, but he himself opted out of 'Bigg Boss" fearing any backlash from Adhikari brothers.
Well, that was then, but Srivastav is the leading face of Masti that launched on Tuesday. All disputes were forgotten as Raju set himself up to entertain the media. However, as expected, Srivastav repeated his silly jokes on Gabbar Singh, Naga babas, and he even took credit for a popular SMS joke. The only time he attracted attention, and a few laughs, was during his jokes on the owners, Gautam and Markand Adhikari.
"One day I saw Gautam looking keenly into a glass filled with ice. When he was asked about the reason for doing so, Gautam replied, 'I"m just wondering how is water pouring from the ice?"", so said Srivastav about Gautam Adhikari.
As for Markand, Srivastav joked that he does very good casting, especially of girls. The comedian also mocked at the brothers by saying that they now pay his cheques on time; the only problem though is that while the amount is written, but it takes time to get them signed.
Looks like Srivastav was here to make a point, and he did so wonderfully. However, the artist won"t be smiling at all, if Adhikari brothers fail to sign his cheque.


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|Friday May 16, 2014 @09:38AM
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|Thursday March 06, 2014 @11:45AM
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|Thursday March 06, 2014 @10:33AM
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|Tuesday March 04, 2014 @11:47AM
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|Thursday February 27, 2014 @09:26AM
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|Tuesday February 25, 2014 @09:43AM
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|Saturday February 22, 2014 @03:38PM
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|Tuesday February 18, 2014 @11:16AM
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|Monday February 10, 2014 @01:35AM
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|Sunday February 09, 2014 @10:21AM
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|Saturday February 08, 2014 @03:57PM
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|Saturday February 08, 2014 @02:01AM
|Bitcoin Plunges After Mt. Gox Exchange Halts Trades
"Old age and treachery will beat youth and skill every time." -- a coffee cup


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A new pre-release image is out:
- replaced thttpd by mini_httpd --> HTTPS support! Mode can be selected on
the System: General setup page, and a custom certificate/private key can
be submitted on the Diagnostics: Advanced page.
- to use the webGUI from interfaces other than LAN, simply add a filter
rule to pass traffic to m0n0wall's WAN IP (HTTP or HTTPS, respectively).
No NAT rule necessary anymore.
- upgraded PHP to 4.3.3
- the local subnet can now be specified for IPsec tunnels (no longer fixed
to the LAN subnet)
To generate a custom certificate:
openssl req -new -nodes > cert.csr
openssl x509 -in cert.csr -out cert.pem -req -signkey privkey.pem -days 365
The certificate can then be found in cert.pem and the private key in
privkey.pem. cert.csr is not needed anymore.
The SSL works OK for me, but I haven't had much chance to test the last
feature (other than making sure it generates the correct SPD/racoon/filter
configuration for each situation), so as always: please test and report
bugs to me. Thanks!


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Cheryl Cole & Girls Aloud: BBC Radio One Ladies
Starting the week with an exciting promotional outing, Girls Aloud showed up at BBC Radio One Studios in London, England this morning (November 12).
Cheryl Cole, Kimberley Walsh, Sarah Harding, Nadine Coyle, and Nicola Roberts were all more than happy to show their fans some love as they plugged their comeback single "Something New" from their new album "Ten."
Of the new release, Kimberley told press, "It feels really exciting to have music out there again, but it's really nerve-wracking because you don't know how it's going to be perceived and you want everyone to like it."
"We don't hold back, we never have. We've always gone in there full-force. It doesn't feel like there's any expectation, it just feels fun!" added Ms. Cole.


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Editor's note: The following article was written by Peng Ji and published in the Miner Institute Farm Report, available here. Peng was a post-doctoral researcher at Miner Institute from fall 2011 through late summer 2013. Peng now has a post-doctoral research position at the University of Illinois.
The first time that I heard of oxidative stress was from cosmetics advertisements. The products report that they help prevent aging of skin (a.k.a. wrinkles) through the elimination of over-accumulated free radicals or reactive oxygen species (ROS) that resulted from oxidative stress. The skin care products are essentially antioxidants. Currently, there is increasing evidence that oxidative stress is causatively linked to several health problems in transition dairy cows.
Reactive oxygen species are the by-product primarily produced during oxidative phosphorylation inside of mitochondria, which is a process that converts nutrients (fatty acids and sugar) into cellular energy substrate (ATP) in most of mammalian cells. Thus, ROS is generated as with normal metabolic process of cells in the human body as well as in dairy cows. Interestingly, ROS is a two-edged sword. Under normal conditions, the existence of several endogenous antioxidant mechanisms can efficiently neutralize ROS to prevent its accumulation; in addition, steady-state ROS helps immune cells to kill pathogens, which is beneficial to health. However, excessive accumulation of ROS that occurs when energy requirements are high and/or deficient in endogenous antioxidants will result in oxidative stress. This is destructive to the protein and lipid components of cell membrane and DNA (especially immune cells) that cause tissue damage and suppression of the immune response.
For high-producing dairy cows, the energy requirement is generally doubled shortly after calving compared with late pregnancy, which greatly increases the metabolic rate of tissues and organs (e.g. mammary gland, liver, and muscles), which are more susceptible to oxidative stress. A recent study that used a new and more comprehensive parameter, called oxidative stress index which is the ratio of ROS to total serum antioxidant capacity, confirmed that both the ROS and oxidative stress index are higher in the post-fresh period than that in mid (4 to 5 months) or late gestation in dairy cows. The antioxidant capacity is lower during peak lactation than other times, which is probably due to depletion of fat-soluble antioxidants by milk and consumption by ROS.
Vitamins (e.g. A, C, and E) and trace minerals e.g. selenium (Se) are needed to optimize the antioxidative defense. Early studies found serum vitamin A and E were significantly declined around the time of calving which is at least partly due to increased oxidant challenge. A majority of studies have found that cows supplemented with either vitamin E or Se improved the oxidative status and increased immune cell function in the face of pathogen challenge. Whereas cows with a low concentration of vitamin A and E postpartum are more susceptible to infectious disease including mastitis, and metritis, as well as retained placenta. Thus, it is worth checking if your close-up and fresh diets have adequate supplementation of vitamins and trace minerals. However, over-supplementation should also be avoided because it may exert no or even adverse effects.
Other factors may also affect oxidative status during the transition period. Obese cows are more susceptible to oxidative stress due to greater lipid peroxidation post-fresh. More interestingly, a recent study found sows with long-lasting expulsion stage of farrowing had increased risk of depletion of antioxidant defense. Whether cows with dystocia are more prone to oxidative stress seems to warrant future research.


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From: "Timothy N. West" <>
Subject: [TNSCOTT] Visiting Scott Co, TN
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 09:29:21 -0400
Many of you have asked that I let you know the next time I visit Scott
Co. That time is close at hand. My daughter (she's 8) and I will
drive to Scott Co on Sunday, 6/17 and return to Virginia the following
Saturday, 6/23. While she and I will be all over the county visting
friends and cemeteries all week, we've managed to get a room on
Thursday, 6/21 from 3-7 pm at the Senior Citizens Building on Main
Street where a bunch of us plan to get together and exchange ancestry.
Drop by and chat (oh yea, please bring your pictures and stories too!
). I believe Paul Roy was going to put an ad in the IH announcing the
Thursday meeting. So, please come by.
Some of you have also asked that I come by their homes when I'm in the
area to talk about West ancestry. I would love to visit if those offers
are still good. I apologize for this open email but I honestly can't
remember all the names of people who've asked for a get together. Send
me a private email and we'll figure out a time that works for both of
I will be out of town on business starting this afternoon and return
home late Thursday night (6/14) so I won't be able to read my email and
respond until probably this Friday or Saturday.
See ya soon!
...tim west...
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[MLS TRANSACTIONS] Juan Agudelo's much-anticipated move out of New York has finally happened as the 19-year-old striker
has been traded to Chivas USA in exchange for defender Heath Pearce, allocation money and future considerations. Red Bulls General Manager Erik Soler insisted the deal was at Agudelo's request.
"It had become clear that he thought that his chance to develop as a player would maybe get better chances if he played somewhere else," Soler said. "We still don't think that's the case, but sometimes when you work in this sport you have to put on larger glasses."
"We want to support Juan but he wants to try something new and we'll give him that opportunity. We had numerous people calling us from the league about Juan, and we had turned everybody down for a long time. But in the end, when it became clear that he really wanted to try something else, and Hans and I discussed it, we don't want to be anywhere close to giving him less opportunity than what he wants himself."
Agudelo will be available this weekend as Chivas USA takes on the Los Angeles Galaxy in the first game of the SuperClasico on Saturday at the Home Depot Center (TV: ESPN2, ESPN Deportes, 10:30 pm ET).
Agudelo, 19, is in his third professional season. He appeared in 33 matches including 13 as a starter, scoring six goals with the Red Bulls. But he was increasingly unhappy, Soler said, with his limited role with the Red Bulls.
Last year, Luke Rodgers was preferred to Agudelo as French star Thierry Henry's partner up front.
This season, Kenny Cooper has nine goals, tying him with Henry for the team lead.
"We have a pair of strikers that are working fantastic at the moment," Soler said. "To be a backup player is not good enough for Juan and we understand that."
The Red Bulls, who can use help on defense, acquire one of MLS's top defenders -- and one its most versatile -- in Pearce.


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James Pringle first meet Margo Jones when she spoke at Fordham University in 1947. He was the first student to enroll in a new theater course the university was offering. After graduating in 1947 he worked for Parsons School of Design and then Dramatic Workshop in New York. He was hired by Margo Jones in 1951 as an assistant to resident designer Tony Deeds. Promoted to Technical Director in 1952, Pringle became responsible for the stage design and lighting needed for Margo Jones' innovative theatre-in-the-round style.
James Pringle and his wife Rita became good friends with Margo Jones. They lived across the street from her apartment at the Stoneleigh Hotel for a while and she was a frequent visitor. Pringle served as a pall bearer at her funeral in 1955 and continued to serve the Margo Jones Theatre as Technical Director and Designer until it closed in 1959.
The James Pringle Collection contains playbills, correspondence, photographs, clippings, scrapbooks and ephemera collected during his years working as Technical Director at the Margo Jones Theatre.
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Deputies responded to a 911 call from Vic Alvarez, owner of Alvarez Nursery on Morrison Boulevard, around 5 p.m. Wednesday.
Alvarez had found his wife, Mary Alvarez, 71, fatally injured at the shop, Edwards said.
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In 1902, the Irish carpet designer Evelyn Gleeson (1855-1944) wrote to Elizabeth Yeats (1868-1940) and her sister Lily (1866-1949) in London. She persuaded them to return to Dublin and join her new women's arts and crafts cooperative. Evelyn taught girls to weave tapestries and rugs, Lily oversaw embroidery, and Elizabeth established a fine press. They named it the Dun Emer Guild, after the nearby village of Dundrum.
Elizabeth's first book was a collection of poems by her brother, William Butler Yeats, entitled In the Seven Woods. W.B. wrote an introduction mentioning that the book was "finished the sixteenth day of July, in the year of the big wind, 1903."
When James Joyce wrote Ulysses (1920), he commented on the Yeats family business and the weird sisters:
Haines sat down to pour out the tea.
—I'm giving you two lumps each, he said. But, I say, Mulligan, you do make strong tea, don't you?
Buck Mulligan, hewing thick slices from the loaf, said in an old woman's wheedling voice:
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—SO I DO, MRS CAHILL, says she. BEGOB, MA'AM, says Mrs Cahill, GOD SEND YOU DON'T MAKE THEM IN THE ONE POT.
He lunged towards his messmates in turn a thick slice of bread, impaled on his knife.
—That's folk, he said very earnestly, for your book, Haines. Five lines of text and ten pages of notes about the folk and the fishgods of Dundrum. Printed by the weird sisters in the year of the big wind.
The Yeats sisters eventually split from Gleeson, renaming their operation Cuala Press (pronounced Cool-a), which continued until 1946. Besides the books, Cuala also printed ephemera including Christmas cards, Easter cards, bookplates, calling cards and broadsides. These are a few examples from graphic arts collection.
For more information, try Boston College's website:
Gifford Lewis, The Yeats Sisters and the Cuala (Blackrock, Co. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1994). Firestone Library Z232.C962 L49 1994
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A senior Iranian intelligence official says an estimated 16,000 computers were infected by the Stuxnet virus.
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"The controversy over Taiwan has actually managed to bring China and the U.S. closer together again by giving them something to agree on," says TIME correspondent Barry Hillenbrand. "It gave Washington an opportunity to show Beijing that the U.S. is not out to get them." That�s bad news for President Lee, of course, who had hoped to use the post-Kosovo rift to drive a wedge between Washington and Beijing. But that appears to have been a miscalculation. "The U.S. is committed to defending Taiwan from any attack," says Hillenbrand, "but the last thing it wants to do is go to war with China."
Taiwan's Grandstanding Set to Heal U.S.-China Rift
Taiwan�s loose-cannon president may be the unlikeliest of matchmakers between Washington and Beijing, yet Lee Teng-hui appears to have inadvertently healed the post-Kosovo rift. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright finally reported a thaw in relations with Beijing � which have been on ice since the Belgrade embassy bombing � when she met on Sunday with her Chinese counterpart, Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan. Beijing announced that a previously scheduled September summit between Presidents Clinton and Jiang, which had been in jeopardy, would go ahead following a weekend during which the U.S. firmly reiterated its support for the "One China" policy and gently chided Lee�s claim that Taiwan should be treated as a separate state. Washington�s allies in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations followed up Monday with a communiqu� reaffirming their recognition of Beijing as the sole government of a single China.


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Planner Sam Gennawey goes into detail on the plan, which was brought down by a number of factors including the Sierra Club:
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The U.S. bishops' Committee for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs said the Catholic church remains committed to dialogue with leaders of other religions and Muslims in particular.
Reiterating that commitment is especially needed now, the committee said in a statement released late Tuesday, because tensions between Christians and Muslims have never been more acute and some Catholics and members of other denominations have rejected interfaith talks.
"Sadly, in recent years, there has been a deliberate rejection of this call to engage in dialogue with our Muslim brothers and sisters by some in the Catholic Church and in other ecclesial families," said the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' committee, whose chairman is Auxiliary Bishop Denis Madden of Baltimore.
"We understand the confusion and deep emotions stirred by real and apparent acts of aggression and discrimination by certain Muslims against non-Muslims, often against Christians abroad," it said. "We, and increasingly our Muslim partners in dialogue, are concerned about these very real phenomena."
The statement did not specify types of aggression, but in recent months thousands of fighters with the Islamic State seized control of large parts of northern and central Iraq and eastern Syria, leading to a mass exodus of Christians and other religious minorities from those regions. They were told by militants to flee, convert to Islam or be killed.
Militants have released videos on Facebook and other social media showing mass executions of Christians and other Iraqis. According to some estimates, as many as 1,500 people were killed in July.
"Along with many of our fellow Catholics and the many Muslims who themselves are targeted by radicals," the USCCB committee said, "we wish to voice our sadness, indeed our outrage, over the random and sometimes systematic acts of violence and harassment -- acts that for both Christians and Muslims threaten and disrupt the harmony that binds us together in mutual support, recognition and friendship."
"It is our belief that the most efficient way to work toward ending or at least curtailing such violence and prejudice is through building networks of dialogue that can overcome ignorance, extremism, and discrimination and so lead to friendship and trust with Muslims," the committee said.
The statement noted that for the past 20 years, the committee has been involved in official dialogues with several national Muslim organizations.
"These dialogues have already produced many fruits, not least of which include jointly prepared documents on education, marriage and revelation," it said. "Perhaps most importantly, our work together has forged true bonds of friendship that are supported by mutual esteem and an ever-growing trust that enables us to speak candidly with one another in an atmosphere of respect."
The committee said its mandate to engage in dialogue with Muslims comes from Nostra Aetate, the Second Vatican Council's Declaration on the Relationship of the Church to Non-Christian Religions.
The document "states unequivocally that the church urges its members to 'enter with prudence and charity into discussion and collaboration with members of other religions.' "
Regarding Islam, the council said "the church has also a high regard for the Muslims" and that despite centuries of conflict urged "that a sincere effort be made to achieve mutual understanding."
The committee statement said that Nostra Aetate "has been consistently upheld by recent popes."
For example, St. John Paul II "affirmed the need for dialogue with Muslims on numerous occasions throughout his long pontificate."
More recently, Pope Francis told the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue in November that "dialogue does not mean renouncing one's identity" nor accepting compromises on faith and morals.
"Like the pope," the committee said, "we are convinced that the encounter and dialogue with persons different than ourselves offers the best opportunity for fraternal growth, enrichment, witness and ultimately peace."
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