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Sydney (AFP) July 31, 2014
Two ships surveying the sea floor where Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 is thought to have crashed are making steady progress with a deep-water search to get underway in September, Australian authorities said Thursday.
Since May experts have been surveying an area of about 60,000 square kilometres along the seventh arc -- a thin but long line that includes all possible points where the last known communication between the aircraft and a satellite could have taken place.
It is using two vessels, Chinese survey ship Zhu Kezhen and the Australian-contracted Fugro Equator, to map the ocean floor in the remote region, a process considered crucial to identify possible hazards that could affect the deep-water search.
The Joint Agency Coordination Centre (JACC) said that as of Wednesday the Zhu Kezhen had sounded over 25,000 square kilometres while the Fugro Equator had surveyed more than 43,000 square kilometres.
A third vessel, Malaysia's KD Mutiara, will join them in August.
"It is expected that the bathymetric survey work will be completed by September," JACC said in a statement.
"The deep-water search is expected to commence in September following the appointment of a prime contractor through a request for tender process."
Australia is leading the multinational hunt for the plane which vanished on March 8 with 239 people on board.
It is believed to have crashed in the southern Indian Ocean but despite an extensive air, sea surface and underwater search, no trace has been found.
Australian officials have said MH370 was almost certainly on autopilot when it ran out of fuel and crashed, with the crew likely "unresponsive" due to a lack of oxygen.
Australia has been keen to make clear the mission to find the plane was continuing uninterrupted, even as the head of the search coordination agency Angus Houston was sent to Ukraine to help with the recovery effort following the tragic downing of flight MH17.
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Chrysler Group Wins Seven of 19 Awards at the 2013 Texas Auto Writers Auto Roundup
Apr 30, 2013, 11:00 ET from Chrysler Group LLC
AUBURN HILLS, Mich., April 30, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --
- Vehicles from Chrysler, Dodge, FIAT and SRT brands win awards from the Texas Auto Writers Association
- Improved quality, craftsmanship, powertrains and ride and handling help Chrysler Group vehicles pull ahead of the pack in head to head competition
Once again Chrysler, Dodge, FIAT and SRT brand vehicles won significant accolades at the annual Texas Auto Roundup hosted by the Texas Auto Writers Association (TAWA). After a day of demanding driving at the Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, Texas, journalists voted on their favorites and Chrysler Group secured seven of the possible 19 awards – the most of any participating manufacturer at the event.
"We are extremely honored to have seven of our vehicles receive awards from TAWA," said Reid Bigland, Head of U.S. Sales and President and CEO – Ram Truck Brand. "These accolades are a testament to our hard work to deliver world class vehicles that have helped us to achieve 37 consecutive months of year over year sales growth."
TAWA members gather every spring to evaluate all that's new in passenger cars, minivans and performance SUVs. The event gives Texas journalists the opportunity to drive nearly every new car on the market, ranging from subcompact vehicles to supercars (over 450 hp). A total of 47 journalists attended and drove 53 cars from various manufacturers at the event.
"This year's event was extremely competitive with a number of very close votes," said Michael Marrs, President – TAWA. "The volume of awards that Chrysler Group won demonstrates just how committed the Chrysler, Dodge, SRT and FIAT brands are to improving quality, design and capability. With 53 vehicle entries competing in 19 different categories, our members were clearly impressed with the Chrysler Group vehicle line-up."
Chrysler Group vehicles receiving awards from the TAWA Auto Roundup are:
Chrysler Brand
Minivan of Texas: 2013 Chrysler Town & Country
Best Interior: 2013 Chrysler 300C John Varvatos Luxury Edition
Dodge Brand
Activity Vehicle of Texas: 2013 Dodge Journey Crew
FIAT Brand
Subcompact Car of Texas: 2013 Fiat 500 Turbo
SRT Brand
Performance Coupe of Texas: 2013 Dodge Challenger SRT8 392
Performance SUV of Texas: 2014 Jeep® Grand Cherokee SRT
Super Car of Texas: 2013 SRT Viper GTS Coupe
About Chrysler Group LLC
Chrysler Group LLC, formed in 2009 to establish a global strategic alliance with Fiat S.p.A., produces Chrysler, Jeep, Dodge, Ram, Mopar, SRT and Fiat vehicles and products. With the resources, technology and worldwide distribution network required to compete on a global scale, the alliance builds on Chrysler Group's culture of innovation, first established by Walter P. Chrysler in 1925, and Fiat's complementary technology that dates back to its founding in 1899.
Headquartered in Auburn Hills, Mich., Chrysler Group's product lineup features some of the world's most recognizable vehicles, including the Chrysler 300 and Town & Country, Jeep Wrangler, all-new Dodge Dart, Ram 1500, Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT and Fiat 500. Fiat contributes world-class technology, platforms and powertrains for small- and medium-size cars, allowing Chrysler Group to offer an expanded product line including environmentally friendly vehicles.
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Red Wings beat Wild 4-2, clinch Central Division
DETROIT (AP) Nicklas Lidstrom (FSY) had a Central Division champs T-shirt and hat waiting for him in his locker.
Lidstrom scored to help the Detroit Red Wings beat the Minnesota Wild 4-2 on Sunday night and clinch their ninth division title in 10 seasons and the 14th since 1991-92 when he was a rookie.
"I've got a few of those," Lidstrom joked, gesturing toward the red T-shirt and black baseball cap. "We're in a tough division with Nashville and Chicago, so it always matters to finish first."
GAME REPORT: Red Wings 4, Wild 2
The Red Wings moved one point ahead of the idle San Jose Sharks, who has played one fewer game, for second place in the Western Conference with a week left in the regular season.
Perhaps more importantly, Detroit is getting some key players back on the ice.
Red Wings center Pavel Datsyuk (FSY) played for the first time since March 17, returning from a lower body injury, and Jimmy Howard (FSY) made 27 saves in his second consecutive game after missing two because of an injured left shoulder.
"As soon as Pav gets on the ice, the whole team suddenly has more space," Red Wings coach Mike Babcock said.
Brad Staubitz (FSY) scored his third goal of the season to pull Minnesota within one early in the second period and helped set up Carson McMillan's (FSY) goal in his NHL debut with 3:06 left to make it 4-2.
"I thought our defense competed and played hard," Wild coach Todd Richards said. "We lacked the other things you need against a team as good as that."
Detroit hasn't started well at home lately, but did against the Wild when Darren Helm (FSY) scored 2:46 in. Lidstrom scored with 20 seconds left in the first period.
After Staubitz gave the Wild some hope with a goal early in the second, Tomas Holmstrom (FSY) restored Detroit's two-goal lead midway through the period.
Johan Franzen's (FSY) goal might not have meant much in the game, but it was potentially a good sign for the Red Wings because they will need him to be the scoring threat in the playoffs that he has been in the past. He scored for just the second time since a five-goal game on Feb. 2 at Ottawa.
While not overly important, this goal allowed Detroit to coast in a game that gave the storied franchise another division title.
The Chicago Blackhawks are the only other team to win the Central Division since 2001, breaking Detroit's streak last year before winning the Stanley Cup.
"The first thing that pops out at you is the skill level," Minnesota winger Andrew Brunette (FSY) said. "The way they make the first pass, they've got Lidstrom, whose the best at it. I think he's the best player in the league in the past 15 years."
NOTES: Minnesota is in a 2-9-1 slump. ... Detroit D Niklas Kronwall (FSY) (upper body) missed his second straight game and C Mike Modano (FSY) was a healthy scratch. Modano has played 1,496 games and Detroit has three left. "We didn't bring him here to get 1,500 games," Babcock said. "We brought him to win the Cup. I think he'll be a first-ballot Hall of Famer no matter what." ... Lidstrom has a six-game point streak. ... Since the Wild joined the NHL for the 2000-01 season, they have won the Northwest Division once (2007-08). They will finish in third place this season.
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beernovice39 (250) Idaho | September 1, 2013
Cozy hole in the wall. Good service and beer.
bytemesis (1013) Sunnyvale, California | August 19, 2012
Stopped by on a trip to glacier, and it was worth the visit. They were out of the and porter on my visit, but the tripel was nice. Food was decent as well, and prices were great. Live music on the patio on Sundays was a bonus.
gramity (40) Edmonton, Alberta | June 12, 2012
Nice patio - stopped for a visit while travelling through. The beers were quite good and the service was excellent. We didn't try the food. Hit them up for a growler to go. Unfortunately, the bell wasn't rung - meaning no one bought the whole house a round...
presario (150) Stampede City, Alberta | March 10, 2012
Cozy little room with twentyish seats filled mostly by locals. Window onto the brewery. Amazing food for a small tasting room! Clam chowder, shrimp, scallops and more. Very friendly. If Cheers was a tasting room this would be it.
TimE (341) Tokyo, Japan | January 1, 2012
Cozy place, pretty small and truely a locals hang out to shoot the breeze. Friendly bartender, EXCELLENT FOOD at an amazing price (get the cheese platter and share with many friends). The menu was new on the day we arrived (December 30th). Beers ranged from average and boring (Amber) to superb (Centential IPA and Stout). Overall high ABV beers were above average. Average prices for beer. Nice growlers to take away (Bartender's jaw dropped when my two buddies drop $65 each for beautiful ceramic growlers - regular growlers are $5). I cant image anyone on RB wanting to go to the other Flathead Lake brewpubs compared with this place. I was with five friends and it was clear to everyone which place is the winner on the lake.
Savvy1982 (70) Lethbridge, Alberta | February 15, 2011
Went here with Jason (curly) after hitting up Tamarack. Cute little brewpub, about 10 beers on tap, decent beers all around, though nothing I would rank as world-class. I came on a cold-ass day, and the pub was warm, and kept the weather out, very homey atmosphere. The bartender seemed like a good cat, but wasn't that knowledgeable about the brews. Didn't eat, but food is offered, along with a popcorn machine in the corner. A nice little place, but if I had to choose, Tamarack will be my first choice every time.
Beerona97 (114) Washington | May 2, 2010| Updated February 17, 2011
Nice little brewery, a little out of the way but what isn't in Montana. The location was beautiful, the building looked very new and clean. The lake is unbelievable that it is next to. I will definitely be visiting again when I'm in the area. I didn't eat but the person next to me had an elk brat that looked awesome. Came here again and man these beers are impressive. Everything I have had is solid and I can't wait to keep coming back.
DuffMan (339) the land of bitumen, beef & beer, Alberta | May 31, 2008
Just off the highway, across from Flathead Lake. Not much parking, but this isn't a big place. Small tasting taproom, with a large deck for fair weather. They were pouring 6 taps when I was there last month. Very friendly people who know their beer and want to make you comfortable. All beers were excellent, and the special single cask of espresso porter was a real treat. How can you not love a place that has a dog named Homer?
Braudog (888) Yorktown, Virginia | May 13, 2007
May 2007 - Located right on the east shore road alongside Flathead Lake, this place has a great location. There's a roomy tasting room alongside the brewhouse and an outdoor patio seating area, both of which were alive with activity. After a few minutes we recognized that this was a family affair from the brewer to the bartender. Although not as "down-home" and friendly as Glacier down the road, the service was efficient and the beers went down well. And having a big bowl of popcorn to munch on was a nice addition. Definitely visit.


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(Please make sure you read all the pages linked under the Links section after you finish this article)Microsoft Windows Operating Systems starting from Windows 3.1. Before the registry was introduced, each application program used "ini" files to store their configuration. This was rather messy. Windows registry was first used only to store the OS core configurations only. Later this was changed and the application program configuration were also saved in Registry.
Table Of contents
The first step in knowing the registry is of course seeing it. Registry is ordered hierarchically and consists of six main "hives" which get their names from API definitions :
each of these hives are further divided into sub-directories (sub-keys) in a hierarchical order. You can see these sub-keys when you click expand (+). These sub-keys contain other sub-keys and so on. This is shown in the above image.
Editing the registry
You can access registry by two methods, using RegEdit GUI tool or using "reg" command through Command Prompt. Since RegEdit method is easier, we will be discussing that method first. To open the graphical registry editor go to Start»RUN (WIN+R) , type "regedit" and press ENTER (You can find out more shortcuts in – Keyboard shortcuts for Windows). You can see the registry editor showing the two panes, one on the left showing a folder like structure (keys) and one on the right which will show the values saved in each key.
Using command prompt this process is not very straight forward. To open a command prompt, go to START»RUN (WIN+R), type cmd and press ENTER. In the command prompt type "reg /?". ( Any command followed by /? will show a help for that particular command). You can start using command prompt for automating registry editing.
Since we have two tools built-in to edit registry, we can use both of them to take a backup as well. Easier one first.
Editing the registry can be tricky. If you change some value to the wrong ones, your OS may get configured wrongly and may not necessarily be recoverable (something of a joke, but still need to warn some poor souls). Having said that it should be obvious to you that taking a backup of your registry is the best way to prevent future disasters. So we will first learn how to take a backup of the registry, even before we have learned how to edit it!
Taking a backup
Taking a backup of the registry will produce a ".reg" file, which,when opened is capable of writing the values stored in it to the registry. One thing to know is that System Restore will also create a backup of the whole registry, but this is not directly accessible.
Here is the easy way. Go to registry editor "regedit" navigate tot he key you are about to edit (or not edit) and click on the KEY not not he value. You can either right click on the Key or Select File menu and then "Export".
Select the option to backup either the selected key or the whole registry. Give a name to the backup file and save. A good practice would be to give a date based name and add a bit that allows you to remember what settings you changed. You can double click on this file and restore it anytime you want. Please make sure you take a backup or a restore point before any editing.
Since the easy way was fast, lets go to the slower and harder way. The command prompt command. reg command has got a command line switch which will allow you to take backup of the specified Key. the format is
reg export FULL_KEY_NAME FILE_NAME.reg
It is pretty useless to copy each and every available command options here. Microsoft has got a really good documentation on reg command. You can read abut Registry commands and advanced techniques in the Links section. If you have any doubts or issues, post a comment and I will get back to you soon.
Good Practices
There are some easy ways to revert to a previous setting if you get screwed up changing a setting. Like when editing important files, make a copy first, name it to something like older_VALUENAME under the same Key itself and name the new Value as the original one. If anything goes wrong you can just rename the backup and save the day.
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If Wikipedia was a book how big would it be?
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If wikipedia was a book, how big would it be?
It would be a black hole.
How thick of a book would Wikipedia be?
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If Wikipedia was published as a printed book like Britannia how many volumes would it have?
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Interpreting And Mapping Clastic Depositional Systems - Member Early Bird Pricing
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Carbonate Reservoirs of the Middle East and Their Future Challenges Call for Posters
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The AAPG Foundation is committed to the next generation of geoscientists, from introduction of geology through hands-on programs to grants and scholarships that aid students with their studies.
Lucia Torrado, had been here before – the AAPG Student Poster Competition, held yearly at the AAPG Annual Convention and Exhibition. But this year had a "vibe" to it.
The present day Cretaceous Codell oil and gas development in the central portion of the Denver Basin of Colorado can be attributed to an earlier effort in bringing the Codell to the attention of the industry.
Offshore opportunities from Aruba to the Falkand Islands have national and independent companies keeping their eye on Latin America.
A few months after the founding of AAPG in early 1917, the first description of the Wolfcamp Formation was published in the University of Texas Bulletin No. 1753 titled "Notes on the Geology of the Glass Mountains" by J. A. Udden, on Sept. 20, 1917.
The Next 100 Years: Data management is a crucial component of oil exploration. What does the century ahead look like for Big Data in the oil field?
The AAPG Annual Convention and Exhibition will feature a variety of field trips that will bookend the meeting, spanning from March 26 to April 8.
Last year, the extraordinarily high quality of the technical program was the talk of the AAPG Annual Convention and Exhibition in Calgary, and this was at an ACE with plenty of high points to talk about. The technical program for the 2017 ACE in Houston promises to be even better than last year's.
Rock-Eval hydrogen index (HI) is often used to compare relative maturities of a source horizon across a basin. Usually, there are
measurements from the source horizon at a single well, and the mean
hydrogen index is calculated, or the S2 is plotted against TOC. The slope
of the best fit line through that data is used as the representative HI for that well (sometimes referred to as the 'slope HI
' methodology). There
is a potential flaw in both these
methodologies; however, that renders the calculated HI as misleading if the source horizon being examined is
not relatively uniform in source quality, vertically in the stratigraphic column. From a geologic perspective, it would be unusual for the source
rock quality not to vary vertically in the stratigraphic column. Organic matter input, preservation, dilution, and sediment accumulation rate
typically vary in many depositional environments over the millions of years required to create a thick source rock
package. Nevertheless, there
are source rocks which do display remarkable source-quality uniformity from top to bottom of the stratigraphic package. We have examined
source rocks from several basins where the source quality is relatively uniform over the stratigraphic column, and source rocks where the
source quality varies greatly over the stratigraphic column. Methodologies to assess hydrogen index at specific wells for the
se two scenarios
differ. Most geoscientists may not be familiar with why a single technique is not suitable for both these scenarios, or how to correctly use
hydrogen index as a relative maturation proxy in the case where source rock quality is not uniform. We will demonstrate how to determine if
your source rock quality is uniform or varied relative to HI over the stratigraphic column, and how to assign a hydrogen index to the different
source facies when that source rock quality is not uniform. Further we will illustrate how to estimate the original hydrogen
index of the
different source facies and assign each a transformation ratio. The transformation ratio is a better proxy for relative maturity, since different
source facies may have different present-day hydrogen indices, but their present-day transformation ratio should be quite similar.
The driving forces for conventional accumulations (structural or stratigraphic traps) are Forces of Buoyancy which are due to
differences in
densities of hydrocarbons and water. In contrast, the driving forces for unconventional tight accumulations are Forces of Expulsion which are
produced by high pressures. That is an enormous difference and creates unconventional petroleum systems that are characterized by very
different and distinctive characteristics. The Force of Expulsion pressures are created by the
significant increase in volume when any of the
three main kerogen types are converted to hydrocarbons. At those conversion times in the burial history, the rocks are already sufficiently tight
so the large volumes of generated hydrocarbons cannot efficiently escape through the existing tight pore system,
thus creating a permeability
bottleneck that produces an overpressured compartment over a large area corresponding to the proper thermal oil and gas maturities for that
basin. The forces initially created
in these source rocks can only go limited distances into adjacent tight reservoirs (clastics or carbonates)
above or below the source. The exact distance will vary depending on the pressure increase, matrix permeability, and fractures of that specific
tight reservoir system. In general, the distances are small, in the orders of 10s to 100s of feet for oil and larger for more mobile gas systems.
Those exact distance numbers are subject to ongoing investigations.
A plot of the pressure data versus elevation
for a given formation is critical in determining whether an accumulation is conventional or
unconventional. Conventional accumulations will have hydrocarbon columns of 10s to 100s of feet with the pressure in the hydrocarbons and
that in the water equal at the bottom of the accumulation (at the HC-water contact). In contrast, the unconventional accumulations will show
HC column heights of 1000s of feet with the pressure in the hydrocarbon phase and the water phase being the same at the top of the
accumulation (at the updip transition zone). Those significant differences are critical for understanding and differentiating these two play types.
Because the system is a pore throat bottleneck with very little or minimum lateral migration, the type of hydrocarbon
s are closely tied to the
thermal maturity required to generate those hydrocarbons. Thus the play concept begins with two important geochemical considerations: (1)
where are the source rocks and what are the kerogen types and organic richness (TOC), and (2
) where are they mature in the basin for oil,
condensate, and gas in the basin. These parameters will very quickly define the fairway for the play. Then one has to add the
information on the reservoirs themselves: composition (brittleness), thickness, and reservoir quality (matrix porosity and permeability). In
summary, these tight unconventional petroleum systems (1) are dynamic
and (2) create a regionally inverted petroleum system with water over
oil over condensate over gas for source rocks wit
h Type I or II kerogen types.
Our ability to predict reservoir presence or map net reservoir in clastic depositional systems is dependent on our understanding of the depositional geometries of the various depositional systems and the variation of patterns within those systems. The processes associated with sediment delivery and sediment dispersal is the fundamental control on the architectural geometry of a depositional system. The processes associated with the interplay between sediment input and accommodation space are the fundamental controls on the lateral and vertical stacking patterns within that geometry.
The geometry of the depositional system is similar regardless of the depositional location or scale. As such, the patterns within the geometries are also similar, and, therefore, predictable. This is a powerful concept that the interpreter can use in predicting depositional geometries and patterns. Whether the reservoir being studied was deposited on land or on a submarine fan, or whether it is 100's of kilometers in scale or a kilometer, the geometry of the deposit is similar. Therefore, interpreters need only become familiar with the basic geometries of clastic depositional systems and the patterns that occur within those geometries.
Modern and outcrop analogs will be used, along with subsurface examples to provide the interpreter with a sound understanding of the reservoir distribution and quality, both laterally and vertically of the clastic depositional systems most commonly encountered as oil and gas reservoirs. The course is exercise-oriented and taught in PowerPoint format. A course manual is provided. The exercises in this course are designed to give you a strong working knowledge of the many depositional settings you are likely to encounter in your career. They are aimed at helping you to learn how to recognize them from well logs, and how to map them.
The aim of the filed trip is to study Upper Jurassic microbial carbonates and to compare the lower part of the Purbeck Limestone Group of the Wessex Basin with the South-Atlantic pre-salt carbonates.
In Conjunction with AAPG/SEG 2017 International Conference & Exhibition (ICE)
A short course to refresh concepts and terminology of sequence stratigraphy and then explore more advanced concepts of Sequence Stratigraphy and its impact on Exploration and Production using hands on exercises and discussions.
We will visit sections of organic-rich, Lower Jurassic, mudstone-dominated strata where depositional, diagenetic and structural processes can be examined in the context of shale resources, and Zechstein (Upper Permian) lagoonal, reefal and lower slope carbonates which act as tight, fractured reservoirs from the North Sea to Poland.
The five-day field trip will visit key localities to review the structural and depositional evolution of the Central Atlantic margin and build in depth knowledge of its key play elements.
The field trip will visit spectacular outcrops of the Cretaceous to Pliocene Apulian Carbonates sequence to gain an understanding of the complexity of carbonate fractured reservoirs.
This workshop provides the opportunity to learn and discuss the latest knowledge, techniques & technologies applied to petroleum reservoirs in the Paleozoic of North Africa which can be utilized to explore for and develop these reservoirs. The workshop will provide a set-up for networking, interacting & sharing expertise with fellow petroleum scientists interested in developing and producing hydrocarbon resources within the Paleozoic of North Africa.
Location: Atlas; Anti-Atlas of Marrakech and Ouarzazate areas of Morocco**
Field Trip Leader: Abdallah Aitsalem (ONHYM) & Lahcen Boutib (ONHYM)
Field Trip Fee: USD575 *
* Field trip pricing covers accommodation, feeding and transportation for the duration of the Trip.
Seats are limited and will be confirmed on a first come first served basis.
The Atlas Mountains of Marrakech extend more than 250 km East-West and 50 km North-South. They record the highest mountainous peaks in North Africa with altitudes exceeding 4,000 meters (Toubkal 4,165m and Ouenkrim 4,089m). Northward and southward, they rise hundreds of meters above the Marrakech plain (Haouz plain) and Imini syncline, respectively. The recently incised mountain valleys, created during the last inversion of the Atlas, form the crossing ways of the massif, as is the case of the main road that connects Marrakech to Ouarzazate passing via the Tizi n'Tichka Pass. They also provide the opportunity to view multiple breathtaking landscapes and contain outcrops that shed light on the geological evolution of the mountain from the Precambrian to the present. Day 1 of the field trip will allow participants to view Paleozoic outcrops through the Tizi n'Tichka Pass, which displays a complete Cambrian to Devonian succession and contains several organic-rich intervals. Mesozoic and Cenozoic deposits, which are exposed on the borders of the massif, will also be viewed briefly.
Day 2 of the field trip crosses the central Anti-Atlas Paleozoic basin and offers spectacular views of the largest oasis in North Africa, along the Draa River, and its majestic ancient Kasbahs. Participants will examine formations ranging in age from Upper Precambrian to Silurian. Discussions will focus on the evolution of their various depositional environments in relation to sea level changes. The well exposed sandstone formations provide the opportunity to view major Paleozoic reservoirsintervals, as well as the organic-rich "hot shales" that source these reservoirs. Rubble from recent water wells and ingenious sub-cropping irrigation systems (Khattara) provide the chance to sample fresh Ordovician and Silurian organic-rich and fossiliferous black shales. In addition, the participants will have perspective views of gentle folding generated during the Hercynian compression and related regional fractures.
**Field trip will end in Ouarzazate. All participants to arrange their own transport from Ouarzazate following the conclusion of the field trip.
To register for the field trip please click here.
This course emphasizes key changes in reservoir models that have a major impact in exploration and production of these reservoirs. The course will include lectures, exercises, and observations from cores, well logs and seismic profiles. Participants will learn how to interpret and map environments of deposition (EoD's) in deep water systems and understand how the different EoD's and sub-EoD's behave as reservoirs.
This three-day workshop builds on the success of the first AAPG Carbonate Reservoirs of the Middle East GTW, held in Abu Dhabi, UAE in 2015. It is dedicated to addressing the hydrocarbon bearing carbonate reservoirs of the Middle East, in the context of a changing oil market within a more challenging exploration and development environment. These challenges include the shift from traditional anticlinal traps to stratigraphic traps, and development strategies for dealing with maturing, long-producing, giant fields.
The modern carbonate-evaporite depositional environments along the Abu Dhabi shoreline and offshore Abu Dhabi belong to the few areas of the world where the geoscientist can observe the interplay between carbonate and evaporite sedimentation.
Supratidal (sabkha) to intertidal and shallow subtidal (microbial mat and peloid-skeletal tidal-flat)
environments will be studied in the vicinity of Al-Qanatir Island.
In the vicinity of the road to Al-Qanatir Island participants will be able to study a complete and
undisturbed lateral facies succession from the upper supratidal to the lower intertidal and shallow
Many of these depositional environments and facies successions correspond to those observed in cores from the subsurface of the Arabian Peninsula.
The main objective of this field trip is to offer participants the opportunity to study the structural style and fracturing of carbonate rocks analogous to reservoir units of the globally important UAE Oil Province. The clear exposure of these carbonate rocks in this tectonically complicated area provides a significant opportunity to study and explain the structural style and deformation history of the region. Although the carbonate rocks exposed in Jebal Hafit area are of Early Eocene–Miocene age (Rus, Dammam and Asmari Formations), the emphasis here is to study fractures pattern and fracturing mechanism with relation to the paleostress and the link to fractures conductivity.
The selected stops will demonstrate the stratigraphic relationship of the rock units and their fracture systems that have been developed during long geological deformation. There are significant similarities between these exposed rocks and those units seen in the Abu Dhabi Oil Fields by means of reservoir characteristics and fracture system and fracture related diagenesis (cementation/host rock alteration) with its impact on sealing potential.
Jebal Hafit, an elongated asymmetrical, double‐plunging, NNW‐SSW trending anticline with an elevation reaches up to ~ 1140 m high, is situated at the border between Oman and UAE. It extends ca 30 km in the direction NNW–SSE with average width of 4 to 5 km.
This workshop provides the opportunity to learn and discuss the latest knowledge, techniques & technologies applied to mature fields. The workshop will provide a set-up for networking, interacting & sharing expertise with fellow petroleum scientists interested in enhancing production from maturing fields in the Niger Delta and similar deltaic settings.
A detailed biostratigraphic analysis and stratigraphic framework of the Paleocene and Eocene Chicontepec Formation in the Tampico-Misantla basin, onshore eastern Mexico, was conducted using 33 wells.
There are more approximately 1,000 oil and gas fields in the world that have been classified as "giant," containing more than 500 million barrels of recoverable oil and /or 3 trillion cubic feet of gas.
Explore three of the great wonders of the geological world. Take a guided tour of classic geological sites on the Colorado Plateau.
This e-symposium focuses on methods for predicting connectivity within clastic fluvial systems.
The entire Middle Pennsylvanian–to–top Precambrian basement (500 m) interval was cored in early 2011 in the BEREXCO Wellington KGS #1-32 well in Wellington Field, Sumner County, KS.
Unger Field, discovered in1955, has produced 8.6 million barrels of oil from a thinly (several ft) bedded, locally cherty dolomite containing vuggy and intercrystalline porosity.
The course will review core data, petrophysical comparisons, rock physics modeling (including pseudo logs and mechanical properties).
This work investigates how heterogeneity can be defined and how we can quantify this term by describing a range of statistical heterogeneity (e.g. coefficient of variation and the Lorenz coefficient).
Recognition and Correlation of the Eagle Ford, Austin Formations in South Texas can be enhanced with High Resolution Biostratigraphy, fossil abundance peaks and Maximum Flooding Surfaces correlated to Upper Cretaceous sequence stratigraphic cycle chart after Gradstein, 2010.
This e-symposium presentation places the interpretation of deep-water turbidites discernible in 3-D seismic inversion data within a geological context.
This e-symposium will be introducing signal processing techniques as a means to maximize extracting geomechanical data from petrophysical logs.
This e-symposium provides highlights of the hydraulic fracturing mechanics, analysis, and design, and is derived from a two and one-half (2-1/2) day course which is designed for drilling, completion, production engineers, engineering technicians, geologists, well-site and completion supervisors, and managers, who desire to possess a comprehensive and integral knowledge of Hydraulic Fracturing.
The Niobrara Petroleum System of the U.S. Rocky Mountain Region is a major tight petroleum resource play.
This e-symposium will provide information on which tools, processes, and procedures all geoscientists, engineers, and technical professionals working in shale plays need to understand and implement.
This presentation is designed for exploration/production geologists and geological managers or reservoir engineers.
The Mississippian-Devonian Bakken Petroleum System of the Williston Basin is characterized by low-porosity and permeability reservoirs, organic-rich source rocks, and regional hydrocarbon charge.
This e-symposium is ideal for geologists, geophysicists, engineers and other geoscientists who are involved in gas shale exploration and production.
This presentation will show where there are cases of missing sections, but none of them can be attributed to normal faulting.
This presentation will focus on the seismic stratigraphic and seismic geomorphologic expression of deep-water deposits, including both reservoir and non-reservoir facies.
This course can help you gain the ability to describe the complex and highly variable reservoirs, which are typified by complex internal heterogeneity.
This online course provides an overview of the petroleum industry from what is natural gas and crude oil to how to explore, drill, and produce oil and gas.
This lecture will discuss the differences between carbonates and siliciclastics from their chemical composition through their distributions in time and space. Building on these fundamental differences, we will explore the challenges carbonates pose to petroleum geologists in terms of seismic interpretation, reservoir quality prediction, field development, etc. Peppered with humorous personal stories, still raging academic debates, and the heartfelt frustrations of real industry professionals, the aim is to inspire students and young professionals to rise to the occasion and embrace the reservoir rocks that petroleum geologists love to hate.
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Bevacizumab and Erlotinib or Sorafenib as First-Line Therapy in Treating Patients With Advanced Liver Cancer
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RATIONALE: Monoclonal antibodies, such as bevacizumab, can block tumor growth in different ways. Some block the ability of tumor cells to grow and spread. Others find tumor cells and help kill them or carry tumor-killing substances to them. Erlotinib and sorafenib may stop the growth of tumor cells by blocking some of the enzymes needed for cell growth. Bevacizumab, erlotinib, and sorafenib may also stop the growth of tumor cells by blocking blood flow to the tumor. It is not yet known whether giving bevacizumab together with erlotinib is more effective than giving sorafenib in treating patients with liver cancer.
PURPOSE: This randomized phase II trial is studying how well giving bevacizumab together with erlotinib works compared with sorafenib as first-line therapy in treating patients with advanced liver cancer.
|Liver Cancer
|Biological: bevacizumab Drug: erlotinib hydrochloride Drug: sorafenib tosylate
|Phase 2
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|A Randomized Open-Label Multi-Institution Phase II Study of the Combination of Bevacizumab and Erlotinib Compared to Sorafenib in the First-Line Treatment of Patients With Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC)
- Efficacy [ Time Frame: 28 day cycle ]The primary objective of this study is to estimate clinical efficacy outcomes (based on OS) of patients treated with B+E and patients treated with S. Forty-five patients in each arm who are evaluable for response will be sufficient for this analysis. A patient is evaluable for response if one 28-day cycle of therapy is completed. Enrolled patients who are not evaluable will be replaced, so there will be 45 patients in each arm evaluable for response.
- Event-free survival and response rate [ Time Frame: At various points throughout the study duration ]Secondary outcome measures include event-free survival and response rate as assessed on restaging imaging studies utilizing RECIST 1.1.
- safety and tolerability [ Time Frame: At various points throught the study duration ]The study will compare (secondary endpoint) the safety and tolerability of B+E vs S. All patients who receive any study drug will be evaluable for toxicity.
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|March 2009
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|June 2016 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: Arm I
Patients receive bevacizumab IV over 30-90 minutes on days 1 and 15 and oral erlotinib hydrochloride once daily on days 1-28.
Biological: bevacizumab
Given IVDrug: erlotinib hydrochloride
Given orally
Active Comparator: Arm II
Patients receive oral sorafenib tosylate twice daily on days 1-28.
Drug: sorafenib tosylate
Given orally
Detailed Description:
- To estimate the overall survival in patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma treated with bevacizumab and erlotinib hydrochloride vs sorafenib tosylate.
- To estimate the event-free survival and tumor response rate of these patients.
- To evaluate the safety and tolerability of these regimens in these patients.
OUTLINE: This is a multicenter study. Patients are randomized to 1 of 2 treatment arms.
- Arm I: Patients receive bevacizumab IV over 30-90 minutes on days 1 and 15 and oral erlotinib hydrochloride once daily on days 1-28.
- Arm II: Patients receive oral sorafenib tosylate twice daily on days 1-28. In both arms, courses repeat every 28 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
After completion of study treatment, patients are followed at 30 days and then every 3 months for 1 year.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 116 Years (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Pathologically confirmed advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC)
- Childs-Pugh class A
- CLIP score ≤ 5
- Not a candidate for curative surgical resection or loco-regional therapy
Measurable disease as per RECIST 1.1 criteria, defined as ≥ 1 previously unirradiated, bidimensionally measurable lesion ≥ 20 mm by CT scan or MRI (triphasic spiral CT scan or MRI employing a "liver protocol" image capture technique required)
- Bone lesions, ascites, and pleural effusions are not considered measurable lesions
- No fibrolamellar HCC
- No known brain metastases
- No prior organ transplantation
- ECOG performance status 0-2
- Absolute neutrophil count ≥ 1,500/mm³
- Platelet count ≥ 75,000/mm³
- Hemoglobin ≥ 9 g/dL
- Transaminases ≤ 5 times upper limit of normal (ULN)
- Total bilirubin ≤ 2.0 times ULN
PT ≤ 1.8 times ULN
- Prolonged INR allowed for patients who require full dose anticoagulation
- Creatinine ≤ 2.0 mg/dL OR creatinine clearance ≥ 45 mL/min
- Urine protein < 2+ by urine dipstick OR urine protein ≤ 1 g by 24-hour urine collection
- Not pregnant or nursing
- Negative pregnancy test
- Fertile patients must use effective contraception during and for 12 weeks after completion of study treatment
- Able to take and absorb oral medication
- No active infection requiring parenteral therapy
- No known HIV or AIDS
- No uncontrolled blood pressure (BP), defined as systolic BP ≥ 150 mm Hg and/or diastolic BP ≥ 100 mm Hg
No uncontrolled or significant cardiovascular disease, including any of the following:
- Myocardial infarction within the past 6 months
- Uncontrolled angina within the past 6 months
- New York Heart Association class II-IV congestive heart failure
- Grade 3 cardiac valve dysfunction
- Cardiac arrhythmia not controlled by medication
- Stroke or transient ischemic attack within the past 6 months
- Arterial thrombotic event of any type within the past 6 months
- No significant or symptomatic vascular disease (e.g., aortic aneurysm, aortic dissection, or peripheral vascular disease) within the past 6 months
- No decompensated liver disease as evidenced by clinically significant ascites refractory to diuretic therapy, hepatic encephalopathy, or coagulopathy not corrected by conservative measures
No grade 3 bleeding esophageal or gastric varices within the past 2 months
- Prior variceal bleeding allowed provided patient has undergone banding or sclerotherapy and there has been no evidence of bleeding for 2 months
- No gastric varices ≥ grade 2
- No hemoptysis (i.e., ≥ ½ teaspoon of bright red blood per episode) within the past month
- No evidence of bleeding diathesis or coagulopathy
- No concurrent uncontrolled illness, including, but not limited to, a history of or current evidence of unexplained nephrotic syndrome or other severe illness/disease that would preclude study participation
- No history of hypertensive crisis or hypertensive encephalopathy
- No abdominal fistula, gastrointestinal perforation, or intra-abdominal abscess within the past 6 months
- No serious, non-healing wound, active ulcer, or untreated bone fracture
- No significant traumatic injury within the past 28 days
- No history of allergy to bevacizumab, erlotinib hydrochloride, sorafenib tosylate, or related compounds
- No other primary malignancy within the past 5 years, except carcinoma in situ of the cervix or urinary bladder or nonmelanoma skin cancer
- No mental incapacitation or psychiatric illness that would preclude study participation
- Not incarcerated or compulsorily detained (i.e., involuntarily incarcerated) for treatment of either a psychiatric or physical illness (e.g., infectious disease)
- Prior surgery, local ablation, trans-arterial hepatic artery embolization, or trans-arterial chemoembolization are allowed provided the lesion(s) have progressed since treatment OR there are additional measurable, untreated lesions present
- No prior systemic therapy for HCC
- No prior organ transplantation
- More than 7 days since prior minor surgical procedures, fine needle aspirations, or core biopsies (excluding placement of a vascular access device)
- More than 28 days since any prior therapy
- More than 28 days since prior and no concurrent major surgical procedure or open biopsy
- More than 28 days since prior and no concurrent participation in another experimental drug study
- No other concurrent anticancer or antitumor therapy, including chemotherapy, radiotherapy, immunotherapy, or hormonal anticancer therapy
- No other concurrent investigational agents
- No concurrent warfarin (other types of anticoagulation allowed)
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00881751
|United States, California
|USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center and Hospital
|Los Angeles, California, United States, 90033-0804
|California Pacific Medical Center
|San Francisco, California, United States, 94115
|United States, New York
|Columbia University/ New York Presbyterian Hospital
|New York, New York, United States, 10032
|United States, South Carolina
|Hollings Cancer Center at Medical University of South Carolina
|Charleston, South Carolina, United States, 29425
|United States, Tennessee
|Tennessee Oncology, PLLCat Sarah Cannon Cancer Center
|Nashville, Tennessee, United States, 37203
|United States, Virginia
|UVA Cancer Center
|Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, 22908
|Responsible Party:
|Carolyn Britten, Associate Professor, Medical University of South Carolina
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00881751 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|April 14, 2009
|Last Updated:
|October 14, 2015
Keywords provided by Carolyn Britten, Medical University of South Carolina:
adult primary hepatocellular carcinoma
advanced adult primary liver cancer
recurrent adult primary liver cancer
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Carcinoma, Hepatocellular
Liver Neoplasms
Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Digestive System Neoplasms
Neoplasms by Site
Digestive System Diseases
Liver Diseases
Erlotinib Hydrochloride
Angiogenesis Inhibitors
Angiogenesis Modulating Agents
Growth Substances
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Growth Inhibitors
Antineoplastic Agents
Protein Kinase Inhibitors
Enzyme Inhibitors
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Vitamin B Complex
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@nomore – I never said he was the first to steal or share the info. I said he was involved in the ensuing scandal. It was proven in a court of law that he was aware of emails about the F2007's weight distribution, […]
@Nomore You can't seriously be denying he (and De La Rosa) knew some of Ferrari's confidential information, as revealed in the case. That's why at least @mnmracer and @scunnyman are facepalming.
I don't really think the article made any real implications about what happened. It just summarised the events. If it was saying anything, it was "Alonso didn't deserve to win Singapore 2008". The author […]
Todfod commented on the post, Alonso will get less help from Raikkonen – Button 3 years, 10 months ago
You're probably right. Button was flattered when the media started Button to Ferrari rumours. And obviously he's going to moan about not getting the #2 driver spot in Ferrari
I actually would like to […]
marsianwalrus commented on the post, Alonso 'more complete' than Schumacher, says Massa 3 years, 10 months ago
@nomore No, he didn't that is pure speculation. He said he'd preferred Raikkonen to Alonso because he was friends with the former (he said that with regard to Dan Ricciardo as well); he further confirmed that he'd […]
marsianwalrus commented on the post, Ferrari put two roosters in their hen house 3 years, 10 months ago
Till now no one of Alonso's teammate has outscore Alonso in their partnership.
Lewis Hamilton in 2007? He outscored him and took 2nd place in the WDC. That was despite Alonso's antics.
Max Jacobson commented on the post, Sauber reserve driver Frijns loses GP2 seat 3 years, 12 months ago
@nomore really? I would suggest purely based on the driver of the weekend polls that at least their lead driver has a large fanbase on this site!
Hairs commented on the post, Sauber reserve driver Frijns loses GP2 seat 3 years, 12 months ago
@nomore Paul is just throwing Ferrari's name around, just as he's thrown McLaren's and Mercedes around.
Realistically, he doesn't have a hope getting into any of these teams. He's not good enough to be […]
Hairs commented on the post, Sauber reserve driver Frijns loses GP2 seat 3 years, 12 months ago
@nomore @todfod @jimscreechy
Sorry, my sarcasm may not have come across there. There's no criticism of Ferrari there, the joke is:
DiResta thinks he can move to Ferrari in the future.
He spends every […]
OmarRoncal – Go Seb!!! commented on the post, 'Many teams choose money over ability' – Kobayashi 3 years, 12 months ago
@nomore yep, sometimes some of us can also see a parallel universe an comment based on that. and please, if you see a similar poll on any RB fanbase site, but saying for example that Webber has driven this year […]
MagillaGorilla commented on the post, Ferrari: Mercedes "got away virtually scot-free" 4 years ago
@nomore So you agree with hypocrisy?
Sorry but you are simply wrong. They were found guilty yes, but guilty of breaking the rules while in a Pirelli test.
Cheated is a bit harsh, they were helping Pirelli out with a well documented […]
"It was indeed a Pirelli test, What does this have to do with it. " – well quite a lot actually @lee1
I was just pointing out @nomore 's mistake when they said " it was a big Mercedes test " – which it simply […]
No, you are wrong. It was a Pirelli test. End of.
petebaldwin commented on the post, Will Mercedes escape sanction at FIA Tribunal? 4 years, 1 month ago
@nomore – the line appears to be very blurry though doesn't it… I don't think anyone is doubting that what Mercedes did broke the regs. There are obviously other issues surrounding this but what they did went […]
petebaldwin commented on the post, Will Mercedes escape sanction at FIA Tribunal? 4 years, 1 month ago
@nomore – You could be certain that if Ferrari would have gained an unfair advantage, Mercedes would have screaming all day long :"why only us"…but they didn't.
It appears they […]
petebaldwin commented on the post, Will Mercedes escape sanction at FIA Tribunal? 4 years, 1 month ago
@nomore I think you have misunderstood my point. I am not saying that Ferrari did anything wrong and I also think that it's likely that Mercedes did. My point was that people are saying "Mercedes gained an […]
Lin1876 replied to the forum topic Pre-race press conferences: What would you ask? in the group F1 4 years, 1 month ago
As @nomore said, this could be more entertaining than the race. I never bother with the pre-race press conference, but I think I'll make an exception this time! I don't think you could have created a better line-up!
Max Jacobson commented on the post, Why a former F1 mechanic believes Mercedes' secret test "was a huge advantage" 4 years, 1 month ago
I don't think they'll strip previous points as @nomore has said as they tend not to do that often, so a race ban is more likely. That way they lose track time in which they could be running and obviously a […]
BasCB commented on the post, Lotus would have welcomed chance to test – Boullier 4 years, 1 month ago
yes, that was why I put in that emoticon @nomore, although I think there is something to say for not having Ferrari test (a bit cheeky, I know)
But I think they should just run the 2013 car after a race, in […]
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Earlier this March, the unthinkable happened. The photo of the year came by way of screencaps from an amateur video that captured a Miami-Dade police cruiser with two mattresses strapped to the top – above its sirens of course.
This was by far the best photo of the year, in fact, it was also the best #OnlyInMiami moment of the year. Like, who does this? We do, folks. We do.
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As rumored back in September, Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) is indeed opening the very first commercially operated eBook library. The Kindle Owner's Lending Library works a lot like Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX), if you replace videos with digital editions of popular books.
Subscribers to Amazon Prime, the company's premium subscription service that also grants access to a library of streaming movies and TV shows, as well as discounted shipping rates on physical goods, will be able to borrow books from the library for a month at a time. According to Amazon, the library will offer thousands of titles, including bestsellers like Moneyball and Water for Elephants, with publishers like Scholastic (NASDAQ:SCHL), Bloomsbury and Simon & Schuster.
The Lending Library is one more feather in the expansive cap that is Amazon Prime. Amazon's premium subscription service is gaining new content support by the day. Disney (NYSE:DIS) announced Monday that it is re-upping its streaming video contract with Netflix — but it also is bringing the same ABC and Disney Channel content to Amazon Prime.
While Amazon doesn't reveal its Prime subscription figures (much like its Kindle device sales numbers), Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster estimated in September that Prime has grown from 2 million subscribers in 2009 to 5 million in 2011. The Lending Library should lure in existing Kindle e-reader owners to the service — a boon considering Amazon's revenues increase 1.5% for every 1 million new Prime subscribers, Munster says.
With the Lending Library, though, Amazon is (no pun intended) playing with fire.
The eBook trade is a rapidly growing business, but a young and fragile one. Total eBook sales in the United States have grown 1,300% since 2008, with sales across the entire e-publishing industry totaling $878 million in 2010. For Amazon, which announced in May that it sells 105 eBooks for every 100 print books, that growth is exciting — but it isn't exactly filling the company coffers with loot. Amazon pulled down $10.88 billion in total revenues last quarter (a disappointing quarter at that), so the eBook trade clearly isn't raking in a huge percentage of the company's sales.
The Lending Library could stunt Amazon's eBook trade before its greatest earning potential is met. Russ Grandinetti, Amazon's vice president of Kindle content, told Independent.ie in April that the average Kindle owner buys "three times as many books" as the average Amazon customer. That average Amazon customer at the end of 2010 was spending $60 per year on eBooks — more than three-quarters of the $79 annual subscription to Amazon Prime — according to Forrester analyst James McQuivey.
Given the aforementioned rate of growth for eBook sales, it seems Amazon could be making more than the cost of a Prime subscription with eBooks alone — especially off current Kindle owners. Why limit that opportunity by giving away access to books that customers already have proven they're willing to purchase individually?
Endangering its own growth is dangerous enough, but Amazon also has to worry about how diminishing individual eBook sales will make the Kindle store appear compared to Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL) iBookstore and Barnes & Noble's (NYSE:BKS) Nook business. If publishers see stronger individual sales from there, they might be tempted to offer those businesses the sort of exclusive content deals Amazon currently enjoys.
For consumers, the Lending Library is one more appealing feature of Amazon Prime. For AMZN shareholders, it represents a risky change to a growing, promising business.
As of this writing, Anthony John Agnello did not own a position in any of the stocks named here. Follow him on Twitter at @ajohnagnello and become a fan of InvestorPlace on Facebook.


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As summer winds down, Nespresso releases their Limited Edition into the stores; this year we are looking at the Cubania, a very robust little capsule that tips the scale at a 13 on the Intensity meter.... that used to go only to a 10, until Kazaar broke the scale at an 11. Hang on.
Nespresso bills this as a Cuban inspired coffee, and no Cuban coffee beans were hurt, or even used in the making of this blend. Given the state of trade relations here in the US with Cuba, that makes some sense.
This capsules is "Inspired by the passion, and warmth of the Cuban way of life.... a bold blend of Arabicas with a specially prepared Indian Robusta, steam treated to obtain a dense texture and a powerful bouquet with complex aromatics and inimitable strength of character, but without an overwhelming bitterness."
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Mumbai: Ajay Devgn and Sonakshi Sinha's Son of Sardar has been on way to grab more and more attention of the media and the public. The movie has already captured much recognition and fame among the moviegoers and the audiences are now waiting for the release to happen scheduled for Diwali. The movie will find a big competition with Shah Rukh Khan and Katrina Kaif starrer romantic-musical Yash Chopra's directed much in talks flick 'Jab Tak Hai Jaan'.
Both the movies have strong fan following and are laced with their favorite stars, the business of each might get affected. There are also speculations and we may expect some changes on the release dates. Guess, one of the flicks might witness a change in release date to avoid big clash at the box office.
Son of Sardar's bigger promotion have already been started off and Shah Rukh Khan's Jab Tak Hai Jaan, there have not been witnessed any promotional activity so far. This shows the makers have plans to release it after Diwali.
Well, since the team of Son of Sardar is on way for the promotions these days. They will emerge in the house of Bigg Boss today. Ajay Devgn, Sanjay Dutt and Sonakshi Sinha will appear on Bigg Boss tonight. Sanjay Dutt, who hosted last season with Salman Khan, will have real fun reminding his last year's days on the sets of Bigg Boss.
Sonakshi will enter into the house and chat with all the contestants. Even she is slated to show them her dancing jalwa as per reports. Let's wait and see what jalwa she lets us see and enjoy.
Son of Sardar's songs have turned popular with the listeners and the cinegoers. Rahat Fateh Ali Khan's Bichadan has become the real pick of the lot.


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Recent NBA 2K games have focused on legends such as Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson and Larry Bird. The upcoming release spotlights the up-and-comers.
Three young All-Stars -- Kevin Durant, Blake Griffin and Derrick Rose -- will appear together on the cover of the game, which is scheduled to be released Oct. 2 (with a Wii U version to follow during the holiday season). "We selected what we believe are the three most exciting youngest, hottest players in the league to grace the cover of our game this year," says 2K Games vice president of marketing Jason Argent. "These guys represent the future of the league."
Each of the players -- they also share the fact that each has been an NBA Rookie of the Year -- offered prepared comments about the honor.
"Being crowned as one of the NBA 2K13 cover athletes is a huge honor and something I always dreamt about," said Durant, who led the Oklahoma City Thunder to the NBA Finals and won his third straight scoring title. "It's definitely humbling to grace the cover after the likes of Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson and Larry Bird."
"There's so much young talent around the NBA, so it's very exciting to be chosen for NBA 2K's 'New Dynasty' alongside Kevin and Derrick," Griffin said. "The NBA 2K series has always been my first choice when I want to get a game in."
Last year's NBA MVP, Rose called the honor "a dream come true. ... I've worked closely with 2K Sports since NBA 2K10, and I'm honored to follow in the footsteps of Michael Jordan as the latest Chicago Bull to be featured on the cover."
The game will include classic teams, Argent said, adding that more details will be released in the future.
So is reigning NBA Finals MVP King James too old to be considered? "His name was always part of the conversation," Argent says. " We just believe these three guys are sort of the new legends in the making."
For more on the game, check out the official NBA 2K web site and watch Game Hunters for updates.
Mike Snider began covering the video game industry during the Super Nintendo-Sega Genesis clash in 1992. An original pinball wizard, he eventually was seduced by Robotron: 2084 and Tempest. These days he is a fan of action/shooters and lives out his Keith Moon fantasies playing a mean drum kit on music games. More about Mike.
Brett Molina has been writing about video games for USA TODAY since 2005. He is well-versed in Madden NFL, the fighting genre and first-person shooters. The first video game he played was Asteroids at a local arcade. He has been hooked ever since. More about Brett.


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But her seven brothers are still seven wild geese, and the Queen has found no trace of her first-born son.
That's a long way from the days of the 'wild geese' and the order of chivalry, isn't it?
The seven wild geese then flew back to the marsh, and Sheen went to the house beyond the trees.
I never was informed before where wild geese are known to breed.
There he lay two whole days; then came thither two wild geese, or, more truly, two wild ganders.
When he came to the wild geese, they were about to fly away to other lands.
These nets are the color of the ground and it is impossible for the wild geese flying overhead to detect the difference.
But these were not the only extraordinary breed of wild geese, extant.
They heard it in the honking of the first flock of wild geese.
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Toyota Could Turn Crisis Into Opportunity
Assuming Toyota Motor Corporation gets on top of its publicity disaster, it should use the crisis as an opportunity to tidy up its corporate family tree, streamline operations and simultaneously reap a boost to shareholder returns.
In the past 11 trading sessions, Y2.74 trillion ($30.8 billion) has vaporized from the auto giant's market cap as long-only investors bolted. That's just shy of Audi's entire market cap getting smoked.
So the best thing to do is to follow Rahm Emanuel's maxim: "Never let a serious crisis go to waste."
Here's the strategy:
- Buy out the 76.5% of Toyota Industries Corp. it doesn't directly own at a 20% premium.
- Fold the forklift-truck, auto-part and assembly operations into Toyota Motor.
- Cancel the 5.5% stake in Toyota Motor held by Toyota Industries, yielding a share buyback for remaining Toyota Motor shareholders.
In the wake of a 2009 recall over floor mats triggering unintended acceleration in some Toyota models, late-January revelations of faulty accelerator pedals have sent Toyota's equity into a nosedive. This has now been topped off with questions over the brakes on its hybrid Prius.
Let's make a super-pessimistic estimate of the cost of the debacle…
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So over the weekend, I was informed that we are greeting the new year the old fashioned way: a diet. The wife's trainer gave us this crash diet that is supposed to take off 10 lbs a week. We're going to give it a go.
Here are the Vegas odds:
15-1: I lose the 10 lbs I put on over the holidays
10-1: I bust the diet within the first three days
1-1: I follow the diet just enough that i'm miserable and I cheat on the diet just enough so i lose no weight
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Hello, some time ago, I sent graphicriver a pack of vector silhouettes of some cities: London, Paris, Rome, New York, Sydney and Moscow with the major sights. It was rejected for copyright reasons.
Now I have seen objects by another envato member which shows the silhouettes of the Statue of Liberty, the Eiffel Tower, and so on.
Does anybody know if there there any copyright protections on one or more silhuettes or sights of these cities? Already thanks for any answer.
Yes, there is – not half! But the funny thing is that the local governments has the right and the responsibility to stand by for it. My experience is that, in most cases they dont give a damn. And the worst case i think it would be a notice. I think it's hardly depends on the size of the matter. Or depends: is it harms to their image or not? Mind that, (more than likely in every country) they always have the right to defend their own property. But more than likely there will be no problem if they don't recognize any disadvantage in-situ.
Alright. Many thanks for your answer, dekurvajo.
+1 to stoff74
Same happened with sculptures and "famous" people, you can not reproduce them. I saw queen Nefertiti's head with a cat before 2 or 3 days. Not that I want it to be removed, I am just curious if I can also depict let's say Greek philosophers' heads.
I watched a video interview with Yuri Accurs where he talked about this problem.
He said it varied city to city, but the problems tended to lie with individual buildings which were copyrighted and required permission before being photographed, for example the Chrysler Building in New York.
...which is actually a 100% private building right? How about the Big Ben Quickandeasy? I clearly remember, we had a whole advertising campaign in 2003 where we used the Big Ben as a key visual. From TV-commercial to the smallest leaflet. I dont think so the accounts are even just asked London for any permission. I think we just did it.
I'm not a lawyer, I wouldn't know.
I'm simply stating what was talked about during the video.


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The sales of fresh herbs seem unshakeable, which surprises me since the very first thing I plan to do once recession bites is start nicking rosemary out of people's front gardens.
According to figures just released by the British herb industry, the best seller is coriander, which makes up one quarter of all herbs sold in this form. I suspect this is because dried coriander leaf is totally tasteless. I don't mean that as just a mild sideswipe; my sister and I have just put some in our mouths, and agreed that it didn't even taste of leaf.
What should we do with fresh coriander, apart from chop it up and sprinkle it on curry? Nigella Lawson has a lovely recipe for a Vietnamese salad that you are meant to use up cooked turkey in, with glass noodles, but I have stripped it right back, out of necessity, to just cucumber, spring onions and coriander with a yam dressing (that just means hot and sour in Vietnamese - not a literal yam. It's sesame, lime, nam pla, soy sauce, garlic, chilli and ginger). I always use coriander instead of mint in tabouleh, but that's because I don't like mint and flat-leaf parsley promises a lot more flavour than it delivers.
And here's a recipe you won't find in any of your new-fangled books, from Fish For All Seasons, by Ninette Lyon. Take two pounds of white fish, two cloves of garlic, a tablespoon of coriander powder, three chopped
onions, a glass of white wine and some fresh coriander. Crush the garlic with salt and the coriander powder, rub that into the fish, and leave it for an hour or so. Brown the onions, then brown the fish. Lay it over the onions, pour on the white wine and some olive oil, cook for a half hour in a hot oven (220C), then serve with the fresh coriander chopped over it.


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The infamous 1925 Tri-State Tornado Outbreakthe longest-lasting on recordinspired a gradual, painstaking movement toward better tornado forecasting and more timely warnings. But gains have been measured in minutes, not hours. The average lead time for warnings, which for years was 6 minutes, is now up to almost 12.
Forecasters gather data from satellite imagery, radar, surface weather stations, weather balloons, and lightning detection networks. Doppler radar can detect strong rotation within a storm, information useful in predicting the likelihood of a tornado. NEXRAD (Next Generation Weather Radar) is a computerized Doppler system especially good at tracking and analyzing tornado-producing storms.
In the United States, two government agencies located in the heart of hurricane country provide research and timely guidance concerning hazardous weather. The National Severe Storms Laboratory conducts long-term research. The Storm Prediction Center, working with National Weather Service field offices around the country, offers short-term predictions and other guidance for those in the way of harm when the wind starts spinning.


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Touchstone: A Journal of Mere Christianity
"The Rights of Reconciliation" first appeared in the October 2005 issue of Touchstone.
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The Rights of Reconciliation
The Beloved Community by Charles Marsh
The Beloved Community: How Faith Shapes Social Justice, from the Civil
Rights Movement to Today
reviewed by Heather Ferngren Morton
During the final days of the 1956 Montgomery Bus Boycott, Martin Luther King, Jr., addressed a victorious if beleaguered group of protesters at the Holt Street Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Though the Supreme Court had recently declared segregation of public transportation facilities illegal, King reminded his audience that a mere legal victory was not their ultimate goal. "The end is reconciliation, the end is redemption," he said. "The end is the creation of the beloved community."
In The Beloved Community: How Faith Shapes Social Justice, from the Civil Rights Movement to Today , University of Virginia professor Charles Marsh chronicles the Civil Rights movement, beginning with the Montgomery Bus Boycott, to argue that sustainable, transformative social justice in America has been rooted most often in Christian faith. He shows how the movement in many respects failed to achieve the beloved community King envisioned, but contends that, in a "parallel history," Christians across the country have worked in pockets of poverty for decades to realize that vision.
Hate Well Met
Marsh, author of the award-winning God's Long Summer: Stories of Faith and Civil Rights, analyzes key moments in the Civil Rights movement to make his case for the centrality of religious conviction. A robust, "theologically specific" faith transformed King from a comfortable middle-class minister, preoccupied with respectability and content to maintain the status quo in Jim Crow Alabama, to a courageous young activist who called his fellow protestors to "meet hate with love."
A radical faith led the white Southern Baptist preacher Clarence Jordan to found Koinonia, a cooperative farm in Georgia where Christians in pursuit of racial reconciliation took vows of poverty and practiced the common purse. And an "exuberantly faithful" and eclectic Christianity inspired the founding of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, which excelled at grassroots mobilization among the poor.
According to Marsh, the movement fragmented when Civil Rights leaders lost their theological grounding and their footing in religious communities. Moreover, by the mid-1960s, other movements—black separatism, opposition to the Vietnam War, and women's liberation—replaced a single-minded focus on nonviolent racial reconciliation. By 1967, as the war increasingly came to dominate the national psyche, King worried that America's soul had become "totally poisoned."
The vision of beloved community did not die with King's 1968 assassination. Yet from looking at the secularist left that emerged from the 1960s counterculture—more academic than activist, more concerned with theory than with the mundane realities of social reform—one might think it had.
In the latter half of the book, Marsh tells an alternative, more hopeful story. That story begins with John Perkins, founder of Voice of Calvary, whose decades-long work with Mississippi's poor has "charted a new course for building beloved community in America." No single character in Marsh's book better exemplifies the kind of "radical Christianity" to which Marsh calls his readers than Perkins.
When his leadership in a 1970 boycott of local white businesses culminated in an all-night jailhouse torture by the local police force, Perkins's faith was brought to a crisis. In a hospital bed, seething with hatred, he came face-to-face with the Cross of Christ, a symbol of his Savior's profound suffering and ultimate forgiveness of his persecutors.
"The image of Christ's suffering for the world worked its way into the center of his thoughts, fears, and humiliations," Marsh writes, "and Perkins came to a new understanding of his life's work. Hereafter, all that he would believe about his life's purpose hung on the astonishing prayer of Jesus, 'Father, forgive these people, for they know not what they do.'"
Waiting & Working
Perkins's example has inspired many Christians to a particular type of community building: one that is holistic, interracial, and locally based. Marsh writes about other examples of believers who have devoted their lives to racial reconciliation and work with the poor: Mark Gornick in Baltimore and Harlem; Amy Sherman in Charlottesville, Virginia; Gene Rivers in Boston; and Russell Jeung in Oakland, California.
Their stories are stirring and challenging, and have in common a belief that their work for justice and mercy is building the kingdom of God. As Sherman puts it, "The Kingdom of God has begun. . . . We wait and long in our still-broken world for its consummation. But while we wait, it is the task of the Church—Christ's Body—to continue to proclaim the good news of the Kingdom, and to witness to it, to serve as foretastes of it."
Activists on both sides of the spectrum could co-opt portions of Marsh's book for their own political ends. The Right, for example, could use it to bolster support for the faith-based organizations that President Bush champions, and the Left to point to the Democratic party's roots in religiously based social reform.
Marsh, however, ultimately is not interested in politics, but in the Church's faithfulness to building the kingdom of God on this earth. "The pursuit of beloved community is not finally about the redemption of America's soul, nor even about the achievement of interracial community," he writes. "To the Christians in our story, it is rather about bearing witness to the Prince of peace in a violent and suffering world."
Marsh talks a great deal of this Prince of Peace, Jesus, and does so, for the most part, with biblical faithfulness and personal warmth. Yet readers may take issue with his use of some liberal and neo-orthodox theologians and such occasional ambiguous statements as, "Truly the scandal of the cross is not that some may be saved from perishing, but that all have been redeemed."
Costly Christianity
In the final analysis, however, the book's message stands above some of the theological battles that plague our churches and challenges Christians of all persuasions—Catholic and Protestant, progressive and conservative—to identification with our Savior. The Beloved Community is, in Marsh's words, "a story about authentic Christianity and costly discipleship in the world," and it is the kind of story that American Christians should hear more often.
For when the Son of Man returns in glory to judge the nations, Christ tells his disciples in Matthew 25, it is those who have cared for "the least of these"—the poor, the sick, the naked, the imprisoned—who will inherit the kingdom. Marsh reminds us that God's kingdom isn't something that will begin at the final judgment. It is all around us, here and now, and its work awaits our energy and devotion.
Heather Ferngren Morton works as an editor for a public policy research organization in Washington, D.C. She and her husband are members of Capitol Hill Baptist Church.
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One of the first companies to start creating modern cat products was San Francisco-based Everyday Studio. Founded in 2004 by designer Susan Kralovec, Everyday Studio is a design company specializing in the development of intelligent consumer products. They started by tackling one of the most necessary items for the modern cat household, the scratching post. The result is the Cat Tree, a sleek, geometric piece that works perfectly in a modern environment. The Cat Tree has a sturdy metal frame that holds the cardboard insert securely in place. It can be easily mounted to the wall or used on the floor.
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