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But when I look back at Luers' 40-28 win over Indianapolis Cardinal Ritter in the Class 2A state title Friday at Lucas Oil Stadium, I'll chalk it up to two attributes within all of us, waiting to be tapped if we choose: resilience and willpower.
When players have been through the emotional roller coaster of a season the Knights went through, what's a suddenly tight game on the state's biggest stage?
A game that looked to be over when Luers went up 27-0 in the second quarter turned into a wild finish where the Knights needed two gut-check drives to claim their fourth straight Class 2A title.
"Our hearts dropped a little," cornerback Kendrick Mullen said when the lead evaporated. "We had a little adversity. But we've been battling adversity all year. We know how to bounce back from tough times like that."
Mullen captured it exactly. Luers was hit this season by adversity unlike any other when longtime coach Matt Lindsay was fired for off-field conduct. Freshman coach Steve Keefer – who led the Knights to a state title way back in 1985 – took over a shocked and confused group of players.
Outsiders wondered if they'd be able to regroup, figure out their identity and fight their way back to the state finals.
"I told the kids when I took over, forget what's happened and look forward," Keefer said. "Be positive. Build a positive program. And they bought into it."
Keefer found himself giving an offshoot of that speech late in the game against Ritter. It had all come so easily at first, but Ritter averaged 51 points a game for a reason. Their quarterback Jake Purichia, found his groove. He finished with 238 yards passing and three touchdowns.
Weird stuff started happening, too, such as Smith being called for "hurdling" when he jumped over a would-be tackler. Keefer said he's seen that penalty called once before in his 43 years of coaching, and that was in 1980.
Two plays later, Ritter's Jake Hagan (who also caught three TD passes) returned a Luers punt 38 yards for a score and cut the margin to 27-21.
"The fourth quarter I called the seniors and the whole team together and challenged them," Keefer said. "The seniors stepped up and got the job done."
Luers faced another pivotal moment. The Knights fell back on the style of play Keefer favors, affectionately known as smash-mouth football. It's a style that requires a huge measure of will, both from the offensive linemen and the running backs.
"I was shocked," Luers senior running back TyVel Jemison said. "I couldn't believe they were back in the game. We decided to buckle down and get it done."
Luers staged two essential final drives, the first one 63 yards, the second one 60 yards. Fifteen of the 16 plays in the drive were running plays. Jemison finished off the first drive with a one-yard touchdown run. Smith capped the last drive with a 16-yard scoring run.
Smith, who is headed to Notre Dame as a linebacker, finished with 150 yards rushing and three touchdowns.
The final two drives came from deep within, that reserve of energy that champions seem to possess.
"It was all the way willpower, 100 percent," Smith said. "All the seniors came together and said we were going to take charge and do whatever it took to win, and that's what we did."
Luers became the first 2A school to win four consecutive titles and only the third overall. Warren Central won four straight 5A titles from 2003 to 2006 and Lafayette Central Catholic won its fourth straight Class A title Friday night.
There was little to no immediate talk of a fifth straight title next season. Luers loses two dozen seniors and several and will move up to Class 3A next season under the new IHSAA success rules.
There are other changes to come, too, as the school hires a new head coach. Keefer said he does not want to return next season, except to coach freshmen again.
This rocky Luers season, like the tail end of the final game, will require a little exhaling. It's gratifying to overcome adversity. It's also exhausting.
"This is what Luers football is all about," Mullen said, "digging deep down and playing for the 'Luers' on our chests."
That was the mission all along. Mission accomplished.


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I think the end is coming soon, he doesn't want to hear that but I have to.
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Between its driver-selectable instrument cluster display and smartphone app, the 2012 Ford Focus Electric offers up a lot of information about its electric drive system. I felt like I was back in college, immersed in a physics textbook.
Instead of range, the Focus Electric showed a Budget in miles. Another screen referred to a Surplus. And then there was Status, which switched between a negative and a positive number. It was enough to make me pull out the manual and spend an evening studying up for the next day's driving.
Confused by all these numbers, I just pulled up the screen that filled up with butterflies to reward efficient driving.
And it is not hard to drive efficiently in the Focus Electric. It not only coached me on braking, but kept me from exploiting its full torque on take-off. The combination of the 23-kilowatt-hour lithium ion battery pack and 143-horsepower electric motor churns out 184 pound-feet of torque, according to Ford's spec sheet.
However, it did not feel like the full amount of twist was hitting the wheels when I stomped on the accelerator. The Focus Electric picked up speed gradually, refusing to deliver the thump to the back I have experienced in other electric cars. This acceleration behavior seems programmed, a means of preventing enthusiastic drivers from draining the battery on launch. But it also interferes when traffic requires a quick start.
At speed, a stomp on the accelerator delivered a stronger push, which was useful in passing maneuvers.
Weighing in at 3,624 pounds, the Focus Electric is about 700 pounds heavier than its gasoline counterpart, and I could feel that weight from the driver's seat. On the positive side, it makes the Focus feel more planted, and less affected by gusty wind. But it also took away some of the nimbleness I expect from a small car. The Focus Electric drove with the deliberate stateliness of a limousine, rather than a suburban runabout.
The extra weight felt biased toward the rear of the car. That, and the fact that the Focus Electric has front-wheel drive, inspired me to give it an extreme hill test. Wisconsin Street in San Francisco runs up Potrero Hill at a grade of around 25 percent, according to this map. I took the Focus Electric up from a running start and the drive system had no difficulty keeping its momentum up.
Then I tried it from a stop halfway up the hill. The car barely crept forward at first even with the accelerator to the floor. It very slowly picked up speed until I hit the crest. Although the acceleration was disappointing, the drive system made no sounds of complaint and the tires didn't lose grip.
Going downhill, or braking to a stop, is much more satisfying in the Focus Electric because of the regenerative braking. The Budget may lose 5 miles in 500 yards of uphill driving, but it recaptures a lot of that energy going downhill. As I glided to a stop at a light, a screen on the instrument cluster showed the efficiency of my braking, frequently returning a score of 100 percent recaptured energy.
Applying heavier braking lowered the score, as the friction brakes took some of the load. These friction brakes proved very grabby, and I quickly learned not to touch the brake pedal too hard lest passengers and groceries come flying forward through the cabin. I suspect Ford tuned the brakes for the Focus Electric's excess weight.
In keeping with the electric theme of the car, the electric power-steering system was obvious as soon as I turned the wheel, as it felt like turning a big rheostat. The power steering is a bit overboosted, making it very easy to turn the wheel. Going through a few freeway cloverleafs at speed, the weight and rigid suspension tuning of the Focus Electric kept it from wallowing. However, I did not put it through a twisty-road sports car test, as its lack of responsive power would have made the exercise frustrating.
As I found when reviewing the Nissan Leaf, the relatively short range of the Ford Focus Electric limits its suitability. It works as an excellent commute vehicle for people who live within 30 miles of work and have a place to plug the car in at home. If the office has a charging station, the commute could be 60 miles.
The EPA rates the Focus Electric's range at 76 miles, along with fuel economy of 110 mpg equivalent city and 99 mpge highway. Those latter numbers will not mean much to the average driver, except to note the drop in mileage at highway speeds and how the efficiency is so much greater than that of a gas engine car.


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£10 a head for cycling by 2020 say MPs
CTC's evidence to the Committee, given in February, focused on more funding, strong leadership and better infrastructure for cycling.
The Committee's report comes just weeks before the Government's Cycling Delivery Plan is due to be published, following a Prime Ministerial statement a year ago.
The report acknowledges many of CTC's points, arguing for annual funding for cycling to rise to £10 per head - a figure CTC believes is the minimum necessary to Get Britain Cycling. The MPs say that driver training should pay more attention to cycling and "a driver should not receive a licence without demonstrating a level of respect and understanding for more vulnerable road users and pedestrians."
CTC President Jon Snow said, "The positive recommendations made by the Select Committee are good news, but we need our Government to go one step further and make the commitment to at least £10 per head funding to make safe cycling within the United Kingdom with immediate effect, not six years from now."
Space for Cycling
The report is particularly strong in its condemnation of inadequate cycling facilities and the need to make space for cycling, saying, "in too many cases our cycling infrastructure not only fails to protect cyclists, but also treats cycling as an add-on to roads - an optional extra to be added if there was spare space, rather than a valid mode of transport, as entitled as motor vehicles to space on the road."
I am delighted that MPs have once again backed what CTC has long been calling for. Cross departmental leadership, clear cycle-friendly design standards and serious long-term funding commitments are essential if Britain's long-overdue 'Cycling Revolution' is finally to get underway.
Roger Geffen
Campaigns Director, CTC
The MPs recommend that, "Local authorities should be able to demonstrate that the cycling has been considered and incorporated into the design of new roads at the earliest stage, and that local cyclists have been consulted as part of this process."
The Department for Transport, they say, should set out good practice examples for local authorities to adopt, which "go beyond minimum standards of safety."
What CTC called for in February
In addition to leadership, political commitment and funding, CTC's evidence to the Committee called for:
• Targets which encourage more as well as safer cycling.
• Lower speed limits. 20mph speed limits should become the norm for urban streets, with highway authorities having the freedom to identify appropriate exceptions. Zones of 40mph or lower limits should be widely introduced for rural lane networks.
• Cycle-friendly design standards that allow cyclists of all ages and abilities to use roads and streets safely and comfortably, with particular attention paid to cyclists' safety and priority at junctions where 75% of cyclists' collision injuries occur.
• Training and awareness campaigns to promote safety awareness among drivers and cyclists alike, with 'Bikeability' cycle training available for people of all ages.
• Strengthened road traffic law and enforcement, with roads policing being given greater priority. Driving which causes obvious 'danger' should never be dismissed as merely 'careless' driving offences.
• Improved lorry safety, through collaboration between the government, EU and industry, to deliver mandatory cycle awareness training, safer lorry designs and equipment and fewer lorries on busy streets.
What the Select Committee has supported
• Funding of £10 a head for cycling, per person, per year – CTC believes this is the minimum required to start getting Britain cycling.
• Cycle-friendly design standards that enable anyone to be able to use a bike, and which are designed in from the beginning of each project.
• Training and awareness campaigns to promote safety awareness among drivers and cyclists alike with 'Bikeability' available for people of all ages – with no driver permitted to gain a licence without awareness of cycling safety.
• Collaboration between the government, EU and industry to improve the design of vehicles and improve the culture of safety in the construction industry
• Leadership and co-ordinated cross-departmental action, to ensure that fragmented funding and policies are aligned to improve cycling safety and increase cycling levels.
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Sadly this new investment
Sadly this new investment figure, only achieved in 2020, is still merely a third of the investment the Dutch make. This is even though they have already built most of their cycleways over the last 40 years or so.
Unless we invest MORE than the Dutch do, and sooner rather than later, we have no hope at all of catching them up. Ramping up slowly from a tiny amount of investment to a small amount is no use at all. We should be investing £40 to £50 per person per year starting NOW, ramping DOWN to £30 per head in 2045 when our cycleway network would be as good as the Dutch have now.
Instead the government is investing around £63 per person per year in new roads, and road improvements, over the next seven years, even though we already have a comprehensive road network. Sadly that investment won't do anything to reduce motor traffic, nor will it solve problems of obesity, diabetes, and transport poverty that are starting to plague the country.
At the same time, Network Rail are investing £120 per person per year in new railway infrastructure. The proposed new runway at Gatwick would cost up to £9 billion, or £144 per person for every man woman and child in the UK.
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The 2012 World Dairy Expo will be the site for the 29th Annual World Forage Analysis Superbowl. The event includes a forage quality competition, as well as educational seminars. It takes place in the Arena Building on the World Dairy Expo grounds in Madison, Wis. Here is the line-up of seminars:
Wednesday, October 3
How Low Can You Go with Protein in Dairy Cattle Diets? by Glen Broderick, research dairy scientist with the U.S. Dairy Forage Research Center. (10:30 a.m. CST)
Corn Silage Quality Varies from Field to Field by Joe Lauer, professor of agronomy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. (1:30 p.m. CST)
Thursday, October 4
Silage Inoculants Seem to Affect Animal Performance as well as Crop Fermentation by Richard Muck, agricultural engineer with the U.S. Dairy Forage Research Center. (10:30 a.m. CST)
The Economics of Feeding Dairy Cattle with High-Priced Forage and Grain by Steve Woodford, dairy nutrition consultant with Nutrition Professionals. (1:30 p.m. CST)
Friday, October 5
Using Ruminal Digestibility Data to Improve Intake, Feed Efficiency or Diet Costs for Lactating Cows by David Weakley, director of dairy forage nutrition research with Calibrate Technologies, Forage Genetics International. (10:30 a.m. CST)
Using Plant Analysis to Diagnose Alfalfa Nutrient Needs by Carrie Laboski, associate professor and extension soil scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. (1:30 p.m. CST)


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Sharks withstand Cheetahs comeback to triumph
BLOEMFONTEIN: The Sharks withstood a brave second half comeback by the Cheetahs to win a Super Rugby opening round clash 29-22 on Saturday.
Sharks, runners-up to the Chiefs last season, led by 21 points with 30 minutes to go at sun-baked Free State Stadium before Cheetahs finally came alive in an all-South African showdown.
Tries from flank Pieter 'Lappies' Labuschagne and new centre Johann Sadie and two conversions and a penalty from fly-half Johan Goosen narrowed the gap to just four points 12 minutes from time.
Many in the 14,500 crowd were dreaming of a Cheetahs victory only for Sharks fly-half Patrick Lambie to complete a memorable individual performance with a close-range penalty that closed the scoring.
Not that Cheetahs gave up without a fight! Fullback Hennie Daniller sprinted forward to grab a kick-off and was stopped just short of the try-line, and a turnover from lock Pieter-Steph du Toit stopped another promising home surge.
But all the Bloemfontein team had to show at the final whistle was a bonus point for losing by fewer than eight points -- not the ideal start with an Australasian tour starting next weekend against Chiefs.
"We knew the Cheetahs would come back and I am proud of my team for holding on and getting the win we desperately needed," said Sharks centre Francois Steyn, the stand-in skipper with loose forward Keegan Daniel injured.
Official man of the match and incumbent Springbok No 10 Lambie, who contributed 19 points from five penalties and two conversions, did not miss a shot at goal and his tactical kicking was often superb.
"I felt really good out there even if my lungs were ready to explode on a few occasions because of the altitude," he said. "Cheetahs were really formidable opponents with the X-factor all over their backline."
Cheetahs were first to score with No 8 Philip van der Walt barging over after a line-out, but three Lambie penalties and the conversion of an opportunist Lwazi Mvovo try allowed Sharks to turn 16-5 ahead.
Marcell Coetzee dived over after a forward surge and Lambie converted and added a penalty to push Sharks to a 26-5 lead before a Cheetahs side struggling in the scrums and line-outs clicked.
Cheetahs face Chiefs next Saturday in Hamilton and Sharks host the Stormers, who lost 25-17 to the Bulls on Friday, in a repeat of the 2012 semi-final.
SHARKS 29 (Lwazi Mvovo, Marcell Coetzee tries; Pat Lambies 2 con, 5 pens) bt CHEETAHS 22 (Philip van der Walt, Lappies Labuschagne, Johann Sadie tries; Johan Goosen 2 con, pen)
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Mind ReadingMystery teasers are little stories where you need to figure out what happened based on the given clues.
Two old friends, Fred and Ted, had managed to work a party piece that no one could figure out. Fred would go out of the room, and Ted would invite the guests to select an item. They were then asked to continue to think of it so that Fred could read their minds. Fred would be blindfolded so that there could be no possibility of visual clues. Ted would then start to ask Fred questions:
On one occasion Ted asked:
"Did we think of the word sock?"
"Absolutely not." replied Fred.
"Well, was it an ashtray?"
"OK, is it the word plate?"
Again the answer was negative.
"So, are we thinking of the word china?"
"No." replied Fred.
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TWO Lancashire theatres are staging a play centred on the lives of a pair of legendary Blackburn film-makers.
The Life and Times of Mitchell and Kenyon, penned by playwright and screenwriter Daragh Carville, celebrates the careers of the Lancashire icons.
Sagar Mitchell and James Kenyon founded their firm in 1897. Under the trade name of Norden, the company was one of the largest film producers in the United Kingdom in the 1900s, and used slogans including 'Local Films For Local People' and 'We Take Them and Make Them'.
The play is currently impressing audiences in Lancaster and Oldham but Mr Carville said: "I would love to take the play to Blackburn. I'm so proud of the film-maker's roots.
"I'm from Northern Ireland but moved to Lancaster with my wife, and have been proud to write something about Lancashire, my adopted home.
"Mitchell and Kenyon were real innovators of their time, and we've kept the play true to them and are using cutting-edge projection in the production.
"There's very little known about the actual people, so I let my imagination go, using the snippets we do know about them. It's a real family show."
The pair operated initially from their respective business premises at 40 Northgate and 21 King Street in Blackburn, recording everyday life in Lancashire at the turn of the century.
Directed by Blackburn native Amy Leach, the theatre production promises to take audiences back to the past by encompassing the spirit of the music hall, full of songs, laughter and the original films themselves. It runs at The Dukes, Lancaster until May 10 before moving to Oldham's Coliseum from May 15 to 31.


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November 20, 2013
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Sully Police District – Police responded to a home in the 13400 block of Point Pleasant Drive for a report of shots fired shortly after 5 a.m. Wednesday, November 20.
Upon arrival, police found the bodies of a man and a woman deceased in the home. Officers secured the scene, determined that the situation appeared to be contained within the home and that there was no threat to public safety.
The couple was identified as a 47-year-old woman and a 46-year-old man; names are being withheld pending next of kin notification. Two teenagers were also in the home but were not injured.
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Sometimes, your biggest strength ends up being your biggest weakness. And for the CBC, that painful truth means that, even though its management and staff may have extremely sharp and legitimate opinions about the recent budget-cutting actions of the federal government, those opinions are staying resolutely out of their coverage.
The irony here is that the CBC is extremely professional — so professional, in fact, that the Harper government is counting on that professionalism to prevent the CBC from saying publicly what is obviously true.
I don't have any of those strictures — opinion is what I do. So I don't have any problem in stating what should be abundantly obvious, and that is that the current federal government is deliberately singling out the CBC for heavier budgetary punishment because the Harper government does not like the coverage it gets.
Now that they hold the majority reins, they are taking extreme pleasure in laying on the whip.
Face it: if the current federal government could find a way to close down the political news-gathering side of The Globe and Mail and Postmedia, they'd do that, too. If they could pick off individual editorial writers — the ones who aren't consistently glowing, for example — they'd jump at that, too.
Because this is not Bob Stanfield's Conservative party. It's not Joe Clarke's. It's not even Brian Mulroney's.
No, this is a government that believes the end justifies any means — and in case you're confused about that end, it's simple. That end is keeping a Conservative majority in place long enough to change Canada to something that reflects the image of the 36 per cent or so of Canadians that actually back Harper et al.
It means killing off balanced coverage and salting the Senate, the judiciary and federal agencies, boards and commissions with as many like-minded right-wingers as possible. And it means bulldozing anyone who has the temerity to point that out.
The CBC, dependent as it is on federal dollars, is an easy target. And chances are, even if this latest round of cuts doesn't kill the public broadcaster, it could well cripple it, either by having its fixed costs put a huge pinch on its ability and therefore its products, or else by effectively putting a chill on the work it does.
Are there things that drive me around the bend about the CBC? Of course there are — and I don't really have a problem with pointing that out, because I also pay for part of the broadcaster with my tax dollars. Do I think that by making its journalists and anchors into "personalities," it has weakened its value as an objective news source and has, perhaps by fiscal necessity, strayed into the land of the private radio morning personality talking heads? Yes. I'd like more news and less theatre.
Is the CBC a peculiarly rarified place, especially as far as salaries go? Sure it is. By and large, CBC journalists — outside of major urban centres like Toronto or Vancouver — are substantially better paid and equipped than their fellows in private media.
But public broadcasters also have some significant benefits, particularly when it comes to consumer journalism.
They, quite simply, can take chances that the privates aren't keen to get involved in, and never will be. Nowhere is that clearer than in regional news and current affairs — not only are the regions a training ground for new national reporters and anchors, but CBC regional operations, especially in radio, are providing a service that the privates have been creeping out of for years by not replacing staff who leave.
The argument that private broadcasters will leap in to replace the CBC?
Laughable. You can count on private broadcasters to quickly leap in anywhere there is a profit — and, equally, you can count on them to quickly run away from any areas that are expensive and that they cover merely to do their best to try to keep up to the CBC's standards.
Years ago, NTV's owner told the CRTC that he'd run his station with two technicians and a broadcast tower, if that's what it took to stay in the black.
That is a pretty low bar. It's also a pretty honest appraisal.
Here's another one. (CBC won't tell you this, even though they know it's true.)
The CBC is getting a particularly raw deal, and will continue to get a raw deal, because the Harper government doesn't like it and because that government feels it has the power — and therefore the right — to do whatever it wants. Nothing more, nothing less.
You might not worry about that right away. But how would you feel if the Harper government decided it didn't like you or your employer? And if that were to happen, keep in mind you won't be able to make your case in the independent hands of the CBC.
This clock will not go backwards.
Last time I looked, the CBC served all Canadians. Meanwhile, the current federal government continues to serve itself and the interests of its fractional support. Maybe that's why we have a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and a Harper government.
Russell Wangersky is The Telegram's
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Dallas gay Repulican leader Rob Schlein is getting some major love in the national queerosphere for the statement he issued Tuesday slamming the anti-gay Texas GOP platform. We've seen write-ups in places including The Advocate and GayPolitics.com, so no doubt there are others. Still, though, our favorite Log Cabin story of the day is this item from Minnesota's CityPages, which picked up the condom shown here at an LCR table during Twin Cities Pride. As you can see, the wrapper says, "Drill, baby, drill!! … just don't spill." What?
Anyhow, in other platform news, turns out the Texas Democrats actually approved six pro-LGBT resolutions — not four, as we reported yesterday — during their convention last weekend in Corpus Christi.
Dan Graney, president of the Texas Stonewall Democratic Caucus, explains in an e-mail:
In addition to the four Equality Texas resolutions on nondiscrimination, safe schools, accurate birth certificates and competitive insurance benefits, there are two additional resolutions that passed on the floor. One supports LGBT foster and adoptive parents and the other calls for the repeal of the federal Defense of Marriage Act. The resolution calling for the repeal of the discriminatory Texas Constitutional Marriage Amendment is not among those that passed — don't know if it did not pass enough senate district conventions or what.
Anyway, this is the first time ANY of our LGBT-related resolutions passed the floor of any State Convention and to have six of them pass in this convention is truly awesome! We have come a long ways, baby! Our Texas Stonewall members are to be credited for their hard work in turning this dream into a reality.


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A hormone-depleting drug approved last year for the treatment of metastatic prostate cancer can help eliminate or nearly eliminate tumors in many patients with aggressive cancers that have yet to spread beyond the prostate, according to a clinical study to be presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), June 1-5 in Chicago.
The phase II clinical trial, led by investigators at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and other research centers, examined the use of the drug abiraterone acetate (Zytiga®) in combination with prednisone and surgery in 58 men with high-risk prostate cancer isolated to the prostate gland. Participants received either three or six months of the two-drug regimen followed by surgery to remove the prostate. When the treatment was complete, pathology exams showed that one-third of the participants had no or almost no tumor tissue left.
"Very high-risk cancers localized to the prostate are rarely cured by prostatectomy alone," says the study's lead author, Mary-Ellen Taplin, MD, of Dana-Farber. "Therapies that combine surgery with older androgen-inhibiting drugs have not historically improved outcomes. This unmet need has given rise to efforts to develop new drugs capable of more completely reducing androgen levels within the prostate tumors."
Taplin will present the data (abstract 4521) on Saturday, June 2, at 8 a.m. CT, Arie Crown Theater, McCormick Place.
Androgen, the male hormone, provides the fuel for prostate cancer growth. Conventional therapies target androgen production in the testes and adrenal glands, but not within the tumor itself. Abiraterone acetate is capable of blocking androgen production in all three sites.
In the study, researchers used half the dose of prednisone (a steroid) standardly given with abiraterone acetate. This lower dose, it is hoped, would reduce the side effects associated with steroids while maintaining its benefits of protecting particular steroid imbalances associated with abiraterone. Since there were no increased side effects from abiraterone, the researchers feel that the lower dose of prednisone (5mg daily) is adequate for most patients.
"Most of the patients in this study had large tumors, high-grade prostate cancers and were at high risk for cancer spread," Taplin remarks. "We're very encouraged by the results and have begun another phase II study investigating another novel androgen signaling inhibitor, MDV3100, in the neoadjuvant setting for high-risk prostate cancer. We are also developing a clinical trial program investigating the addition of the investigational drug ARN509 to abiraterone. To prove the overall benefit of intensive androgen deprivation treatment in conjunction with prostatectomy, a large randomized clinical trial will need to be done."
The research was funded in part by Janssen Research & Development and The Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF). The clinical trial was performed through the Prostate Cancer Clinical Trial Consortium, which is funded by the Department of Defense and PCF.
In addition to Taplin, the study's other authors included researchers from Dana-Farber; Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; University of Washington School of Medicine; Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Brigham and Women's Hospital; M.D. Anderson Cancer Center; and Janssen Research & Development.


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A WOLLASTON woman accidentally set herself alight when she was sniffing hairspray while smoking a cigarette, an inquest heard.
Sharon Jayne Hill, suffered severe burns after the blaze at her ground floor flat in Rutland Place, off The Kingsway, on April 17 last year.
The 40-year-old died the following day in Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital.
Fire investigation officer James Holder, told today's inquest at Walsall Coroners Court that a neighbour heard Miss Hill's smoke alarm going off at around 9.15pm.
He said: "The neighbour went to investigate and was about to knock on her door when Miss Hill fell out of the door and into her arms, saying 'I set myself alight, take me back in and put me in the bath' but she led her outside to safety."
Mr Holder said Miss Hill had severe burns to her calves and forearms and her clothing had burnt off.
Following his investigation, Mr Holder said he was confident the fire had started in the living room, where a lighter, cigarettes and other smoking materials had been discovered.
He said: "It looks as though she was smoking while inhaling fumes from a flammable aerosol.
"It would have happened very quickly and she would have found herself in a rapidly changing situation."
Miss Hill was "obviously in a lot of pain", according to PC More, who found her sitting on the grassed area outside the flats, when she arrived at the scene.
PC More told the inquest: "She was sat on the floor screaming, she kept saying 'help me, help me'.
"We spoke for a couple of seconds, she told me who she was and that it was an accident .
"It happened while she was sniffing hairspray, we found aerosol cans in her flat. She said she never intended to set fire to herself, it had just gone wrong. She was very distressed."
Senior Black Country coroner, Robin Balmain said Miss Hill had died from a cardiac arrest due to extensive burns.
He concluded her death was an accident and added: "I'm aware she had a long history of solvent abuse, particularly aerosols.
"This demonstrates not only are there serious dangers when inhaling hairspray and other substances but if you do that while smoking, this is what can happen."


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The Register, an occasionally accurate online IT newspaper, has been running a series of warming denial pieces, by one Steven Goddard. Goddard has been trying to cast on temperature and ice data. Unfortunately, he does a whole lot of cherry picking. For example:
A second important issue with NASA's presentation is that they use the time period of 1951-1980 as their choice of baseline. This was a well known cold spell, as can be seen in the 1999 version of the NASA US temperature graph below.
Why use a graph of US temperatures instead of world temperatures? The "cold spell" is more pronounced in the US graph. In fact, the average for 1951-1980 is almost the same as for the 20th century so it is misleading to call it a cold spell. Goddard prefers to use satellite data, with a baseline that is significantly warmer than the 20th century average, to try to making warming seem less. He does some more cherry picking when he presents a map of GISS temperatures leaving out the sea data and using 250km smoothing (even though the NASA used 1200km smoothing for the temperature graphs) in order to make it look like there are significant gaps in NASA's coverage. He compounds this by picking a month where this makes it look like there is a warming bias in NASA's temperatures.
But his most recent effort was even worse, claiming that the NSIDC's graph of Arctic sea ice extent was wrong and that there was 30% more sea ice than at the corresponding time last year.
But it was Goddard who was wrong, as NSIDC's Walt Meier explained to the Register:
He appears to derive his estimate by simply counting pixels in an image. He recognizes that this results in an error due to the distortion by the map projection, but does so anyway. Such an approach is simply not valid.
If you correct Goddard's error, you get the same number as the NSIDC. Meier adds:
Besides this significant error, the rest of the article consists almost entirely of misleading, irrelevant, or erroneous information about Arctic sea ice that add nothing to the understanding of the significant long-term decline that is being observed.
Goddard admitted he was wrong but, as noted by Joseph Romm, Kevin Grandia and James Hrynyshyn, the numerous denialists who claimed that Goddard had shown that the ice wasn't melting have mysteriously failed to correct things.
There are too many to list, so I'll just point to the Australian bloggers: Jennifer Marohasy "Arctic Sea Ice Refuses to Melt", Tim Blair "Arctic ice seems to be growing somehow." and Andrew Bolt "Tim Blair rounds up the local anecdotes of coldening.". No corrections from any of them.
Incidently, in the graph above, 2005 was the record melt until 2007. 2008 has already passed 2005 and whether or not it ends up setting a new record, it's clear that the melt in 2008 is similar to 2007 rather than anything ever seen before.
Update: Bolt referred to Goddard more than once:
Steven Goddard checks those predictions that the North Pole could melt clear away this summer, and finds we can (yet again) relax.


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A LATE spurt, in true Tigers fashion, should not alter the need for lessons to be learnt. The Tigers would be wise to keep a video of this match and put it somewhere they can easily reach it.
In playing the premiers in round two, they have been given a lesson in what it is to play like premiers. While the Tigers were the more patient team in the first half, as soon as the Sea Eagles sniffed blood, they struck, scoring 16 points in the first eight minutes after half-time to steal the contest away.
''I don't want to show too much character this early in the year,'' coach Geoff Toovey mused. Too late. Ruthless teams win titles. The Tigers are yet to be that team. Manly obviously were - and clearly still are.
When Manly put the foot down, their opponents could not go with them; certainly not without their best defender, Gareth Ellis, whose departure one minute into the second half started the rot. ''It started quickly for us with Gareth; we had a couple of mistakes, and all of a sudden we were in quicksand,'' said Tigers coach Tim Sheens.
So Manly have won their opening matches of the season, against their grand-final opponents from last year and then a team many expect to play in the decider this year. It's still early, but surely those who drew a line through the Sea Eagles after the departure of coach Des Hasler will be hoping they did so in pencil.
Just consider Daly Cherry-Evans, who has cast aside the fear of second-year syndrome in the second round. His long-range try, dummying twice and showing more speed than he is noted for, as well as his previous assist, have shown that he has not only picked up where he left off last year, he might even have improved.
Just don't ask Toovey, who who has picked up where Hasler left off, even down to sounding like Hasler, who could play down the talents of the Harlem Globetrotters. ''We can always talk up those young halves, and they're fantastic players, but let's not go past the old blokes here too,'' Toovey said.
The Tigers have been the premiership favourites, at least prior to last night. And they showed they could be a patient team, judging by the way they went about their business in the first half.
The most exciting thing about them was the fact they were boring, bar their late attempt to secure another miracle victory against the Sea Eagles in Gosford. Boring is something they have never been; in attack, defeat, or the last-gasp lunacy that the folks at Leichhardt Oval witnessed last Sunday. Sometimes, though, they need to be.
Like South Sydney, three minutes of mayhem largely ended their prospects. But unlike Souths, those three minutes occurred at the start of the second half, rather than the end of it.
First, English forward Ellis suffered the mother of all corks; a collision which ended his night. Next, fullback Tom Humble lost possession on his own line, handing the Sea Eagles the ball with their best defender nobbled. Cherry-Evans put prop Jason King on Benji Marshall a few metres out and there was only one result.
''He must be pretty good, putting me over for tries,'' King said.
The Tigers were equally stunned after the front-rower's try. A penalty goal was followed by Cherry-Evans's try from his own half, and the game had been wrested away from the Tigers. Second-rower Adam Blair's first-half score, against the club he went to war with for Melbourne late last season, was a distant memory.
How quickly it all turned against the Tigers; how quickly we wrote off the premiers, prematurely.
MANLY 22 (D Cherry-Evans J King T Williams tries J Lyon 5 goals) bt WESTS TIGERS 18 (A Blair J Reddy B Ryan tries B Marshall 3 goals) at Bluetongue Stadium. Referees: Gerard Sutton, Ben Cummins. Crowd: 17,532.


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THE Bali Nine's Andrew Chan has been dealt a massive blow with Indonesia's National Narcotics Board believed to have recommended that his death sentence should be upheld.
A senior source involved in considering Chan's clemency application has told AAP that the narcotics board's decision was also in line with the recommendation of a Supreme Court judge.
Both the narcotics board and Supreme Court Justice Salman Luthan were asked by the office of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to provide a recommendation on Chan's clemency request.
"For Andrew Chan ... the goods involved so many kilos, right? It's difficult when it comes to this," he told AAP.
"So, we're just following what's requested to us and what's been recommended, that it's a 'no.'"
Justice Salman completed his recommendation in relation to Chan's clemency bid more than a month ago. It has been forwarded to the president's office.
"Our recommendation for it is no, as which is the recommendation of Supreme Court as well," the source told AAP.
Chan was sentenced to death in 2005 for his role in a plot to smuggle eight kilograms of heroin from Bali to Australia.
The latest development is also a worrying sign Myuran Sukumaran, 31, who along with Chan, filed for clemency early last year.
They are the only two members of the Bali Nine still on death row.
Dr Yudhoyono does not have to accept the recommendations, and is likely to also seek advice from officials at Kerobokan jail as well as the Justice Ministry.
In October last year, he granted clemency to Indonesian Merika Pranola, who was also convicted of drug smuggling despite the Supreme Court having recommended she be executed.
The advice from the judge and narcotics board emerged on Tuesday and comes after Indonesia earlier this month carried out its first execution since 2008.
Adami Wilson, from Malawi, was shot by firing squad in the Thousand Islands, an archipelago popular with tourists located off the coast of the capital Jakarta.
The 48-year-old was caught in 2003 attempting to smuggle one kilogram of heroin into Indonesia.
A spokesman for the Indonesian human rights group, the Commission for the Missing and Victims of Violence (Kontras), has described the execution of Adami as a worrying sign.
Haris Azhar said that while political factors and Indonesia's relationship with Australia would be considered when it comes to Sukumaran and Chan, there also seemed to be a groundswell of public opinion in favour of the death penalty.
There seemed to be "a big applause" when Adami was executed, Mr Haris said recently.
"This is a signal that people support it."
Indonesia has said another nine convicts would be executed this year.
However, Sukumaran and Chan are not on that list.
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The only thing I liked was the evolution, but I'm surprised Nurse Joy was clueless on how to help Nuzleaf when she should actually know.
The only thing I liked was the evolution, but I'm surprised Nurse Joy was clueless on how to help Nuzleaf when she should actually know.
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Good Brock episode.
Sudowoodo was very strong.
And i loved how Croagunk defeated Seviper so easily. it was very funny.
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I like how this episode focused on Brock and I like how he's so caring and knowledgeable about pokemon. He helps out a lot more than people give him credit for. I like that Bonsly evolved and I thought it was really funny how Croagunk fainted with no emotion, it made me laugh. This was a really nice episode.
I think Brock should have captured that Nuzleaf.. Too bad he didn't .
It was amazing to see all the Grass pokemon living there as a big family.
Sigh. Writers are still cramming everything important into the beginning of this saga. And I'm still not happy about it.
Ok, positive part of the post. This was the first episode of the DP saga that truely revolved around Brock (and might I add one of the only episodes this saga that revolved around Brock). Bonsly evolved in this episode, which was foreshadowed by it learning Mimic in the previous episode. To be honest, I wasn't expecting it to evolve so soon. I would have thought that the writers would keep it as a Bonsly a little longer considering that this is the fourth gen and Bonsly is a fourth gen pokemon.
There were two parts of this episode I really liked. The first was the twerps using the Pokedex to see through TR's Shiftry disguise. The second was Croagunk smashing Seviper's head in. XD Good episode.
Finally we have an episode that dosen't focus solely on Ash's adventure. I don't know the last time I saw an episode where the episode was entirely Brock focused.
Glad to see that Bonsly evolved into Sudowoodo!
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This episode was good. It was cool to see Bonsly evolve into Sudowoodo. It was cool to see a Nuzleaf again. Those 2 became very good friends as the episode went on. It's great that Sudowoodoo is a lot more mature now than it was as a Bonsly. It will stick to eating regular food now.
I loved this episode. Brock rules and so does bonsly/sudowoodo!
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This episode wasn't all that great. For me the only thing that was good was Bonsly evolving. Also, Croagunk must be very weak for losing against Team Rocket. ._.
I giggled when that wild Nuzleaf landed on Vileplume and was randomly carried away. I actually thought Brock was adorable here; seeing him protect Nurse Joy and bond with the wild Nuzleaf by giving it Oran Berries and Super Potion was really cute. Meowth's Shiftry disguise was silly and I legit screamed when TR kidnapped Brock and Bonsly.
I've just noticed something the show has been doing now.
It's been playing part of the episode in the beginning, and then showing the events that lead up to that point.
It may just be the... for lack of a better word, 'versions' of the episodes I'm watching, but this was the 4th or 5th episode to do this this season.
Not that I'm complaining, though.
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Well I didn't like how Nuzleaf was focused on since it was an old species which already got attention in Hoenn but hey at least Brock showed off his talents here and returned Nuzleaf home while evolving his Bonsly too. ^^
So Bonsly evolved here which was the first useful thing he's done. I definitely think Sudowoodo suited Brock's team. 6.5/10
Sudowoodo was a million times better than Bonsly holy crap. Finally, no more crybaby in the Diamond and Pearl cast's teams.
My favorite moment from here was when Brock's little Bonsly became Sudowoodo because Sudowoodo was very mature upon evolving.
I was happy that Brock's useless Bonsly had evolved into Sudowoodo. This episode really showed how evolution can change more than a Pokemon's look and strength: Bonsly's childish personality to a loyal Pokemon like Sudowoodo.


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Monday, November 2, Arthur Berman wrote in his blog:
Pressure from Petrohawk helps cancel World Oil column
In an act of extraordinary courage, a top Petrohawk executive threatened to cancel his free subscription to World Oil if the magazine continued to publish my column. Today, John Royall, President and CEO for Gulf Publishing, cancelled my November column.
I have accordingly resigned as contributing editor.
Heading Out (Dave Summers) and I have been talking about the issues Arthur Berman raises for quite a while now. Most recently, Dave wrote a post called Shale Gas Estimates Perhaps Optimistic – An Interesting and Worrying Talk at ASPO.
So what are the issues involved?
What Arthur Berman is saying is that natural gas companies that extract shale are mis-estimating how quickly natural gas production will decline in the future–they are assuming gas production will decline more slowly than evidence indicates it will. As a result of their optimistic assumptions about decline rates, they are assuming that shale gas can profitably be extracted for as long as 50 years, when Berman believes the average well life is only about 8 years.
Part of the controversy revolves about what price is needed for shale gas to be profitable. The gas companies are saying that natural gas is already profitable, or near profitable, at today's low prices. As Heading Out notes, Chesapeake testified before congress that the company could operate with a price of $4 per thousand cubic feet. Arthur Berman is saying that prices need to be much higher.
Berman puts the necessary price for operators to earn a reasonable profit at about $9 a thousand cubic foot. One can see from the graph that in the past, prices have rarely hit this level. If the quality of resources goes down over time, the necessary price could rise from this point.
Based on the analysis of Dave Murphy, we have seen recently that it is difficult for the price of oil to go much over $80 without it causing a recession. Natural gas is a smaller part of the economy, but I suspect it still has issues with too high a price being recessionary.
Historically, natural gas wellhead prices have averaged about 11.4% of West Texas Intermediate oil prices. If this ratio holds, one would expect the threshold at which the economy starts reacting negatively to high natural gas prices would be about (11.4% x $80) = $9.12, which is uncomfortably close to what Arthur Berman says is the necessary price for profitability of shale gas. Arguably, the average ratio could be distorted by the high ratios during the periods when there were natural gas shortages, but oil prices were quite low (2001, 2003). But if we choose a lower ratio excluding these points, say 10%, the threshold for gas comes out to (10% x $80) = $8.00 per 1,000 cubic feet.
Arguably, the maximum price for gas should be about 1/6 of the price for oil, because its energy content is about 1/6 that of a barrel of oil. But transport and distribution costs for natural gas are higher than for oil, so perhaps the lower empirically derived ratios are reasonable. (The high residential prices during summer reflect the fact that little gas is sold during the summer, but overhead for the companies selling the gas continues. Also, many homeowners opt for level billing all year, to smooth out differences in the amount of fuel used in the summer and winter, and this distorts monthly price per BTU indications.)
There is a second problem with natural gas price. If one ramps up natural gas production, one has to simultaneously ramp up infrastructure for end uses (for example, natural gas busses and fueling stations) plus pipelines and storage to enable the new end uses. If one doesn't do this, the extra natural gas has nowhere to go, and prices drop precipitously. This is what has happened recently. Adding new infrastructure is slow and expensive, so this may mean that natural gas prices may languish for many years before production and infrastructure finally match (especially if the country is in a recession, and this holds back demand).
At this point, North America really needs to know how much natural gas is producible, and at what price, in order to make good decisions on infrastructure. It doesn't make sense to add a lot of natural gas infrastructure unless enough natural gas will be available, over a long enough period, to make the investment a reasonable one. If Berman's calculations are right, not only is quite a high price is needed, but the amount that can be produced is quite a bit lower than other estimates suggest. One really needs to know the right answer.
Obviously, there are individual company issues as well. If long term natural gas production from existing and new wells is expected to be very good, the value of a gas company's land is much higher. Natural gas companies can borrow more money against the higher value of the land, enabling new investment. The value of the stock is also likely to be higher.
Fortunately, whether or not Berman is writing about the issue, he has raised enough questions that one might expect auditors to be somewhat diligent about the issue this year end.
What are the some of the arguments against Berman's approach?
Berman, in his blog, quotes a rebuttal by Tudor, Pickering and Holt. This is an excerpts:
Technical credentials. In any technical discussion, one must establish technical credibility. The TPH equity research team is staffed with engineers that have worked at Shell, Tenneco, Arco, Exxon Mobil, reservoir consultant Holditch & Associates and reserve auditor Netherland & Sewell. Dave Pursell has taught petroleum engineering courses at Texas A&M. Not only do our guys know words like non-linear flow and pseudo-steady-state..they actually understand what they mean. We've done decline curve work for 10-20 years. Our A&D team on the ibanking side has another group of engineering talent just like us – and they make technical assessments of reserves for a living. We know how to do this type of work.
Depth of analysis on this topic. Within the past six months, we've looked at 32 subsegments of US production, including individual analyses of various historical shale results (Barnett, Fayetteville, etc). The culmination of the analysis was our US Natural Gas Supply Study. We've got data coming out of our ears…we haven't published it all (and won't), but it confirms the technical work being done by literally hundreds of industry folks.
10 Reasons Why Skeptics Are Wrong:
1. Technical stuff matters – The skeptics claim Estimated Ultimate Recovery (EUR) in shales is much lower than stated by industry, analysts and reserve engineers. This is because their decline method is technically flawed and is biased to under-estimate recovery. They suggest that it is appropriate to assume Barnett Shale wells exhibit exponential decline after one year (and not apparent hyperbolic behavior). Reality – it takes many years for a very tight (low permeability) gas reservoirs to exhibit exponential decline behavior. Thus, hyperbolic decline can and should be used to approximate/extrapolate EUR's. Whew – got through that explanation without a mind numbing discourse of transient vs. pseudo-steady-state flow.
2. Type Curves work – Skeptics further suggest that it is inappropriate to use type curves because it makes the data look smoother than it really is…and suggest that all wells should be analyzed individually. This is wrong for multiple reasons: (1) It is accurate/widely accepted to use normalized curves as long as there is a relatively stable well count and vintage/area effects are accounted for. (2) Projecting individual wells without checking the type curve trends will lead to overly pessimistic projections (see Reason #4). Type curves actually normalize for a negative bias that might be driven by individual well declines. (3) Reserve auditors project EUR's on a by-well base…supplemented with type curves. Their by-well analysis is consistent with the type curve methods reported by companies. The answer is generally the same either way if the work is done correctly!
3. High Terminal Decline Rate is wrong – Skeptics state that terminal declines will be high in shale plays (>15%). Without 10-20 years of Barnett history (the oldest shale play), this cannot be disproved. However, there are literally thousands of data points (actual well production) that show low terminal decline rates in tight gas reservoirs. Read the technical papers. Look at the data. Enough said.
4. Reality bites – We loaded the skeptics Barnett ~1bcf EUR type curve (which are called optimistic) into our Barnett Shale model. We applied their type curve to the ~3,000 wells drilled in 2008. During 2008, actual Barnett production grew by 1.2bcf.day. The skeptics "optimistic" EUR curve estimated growth of only 0.7bcf.day – which says it underpredicted actual incremental production by 0.5bcf/day or 70%. This is only for one year. If we went back to 2005/2006 and applied the type curve to all Barnett wells drilled, there is NO WAY this low type curve would match actual Barnett production of 5bcf/d. Scoreboard!
Berman also quoted some comments by Chesapeake Energy:
"We do feel like we have the No. 1 resource base in the nation," said Steve Dixon, Chesapeake's chief operating officer.
Dixon said Chesapeake's shale holdings will continue producing for years to come, despite "misguided" predictions from an analyst at an industry conference in Denver earlier this week.
"We're very confident that these types of rocks will continue to bleed gas for decades and decades," he said.
Jeff Fisher, the company's senior vice president of production, said the unique size of Chesapeake's assets will allow the company to develop new technology to maximize production.
"We've achieved great results to date, and we're just getting started," Fisher said.
I found an analysis of Berman's approach by Drilling Info Inc., Energy Strategy Partners, which seems to be better. One of their big concerns is that Berman takes results from the earliest period, and projects them forward. Natural gas companies refine their techniques over time, but this is not really reflected in the analysis.
This post also suggests that the initial wells drilled likely included more marginal producers. These are less likely to continue:
MARGINAL PRODUCER– Unlike conventional reservoirs, the economics of shale plays highly favor operators that invest in engineering and ongoing experimentation in optimizing their drilling, completion, and stimulation practices. The saying "One Man's Gold is another Man's Garbage" is especially true for these plays. For an equivalent grade of acreage, the best operators statistically produce 40% or more than the average operator, and up to 4 or 5 times more than an inefficient operator. Learning curves and operator comparisons are real and quantifiable throughout. As acreage expires, and the "land rush" acreages are released, the optimal operators will successfully step into "another man's garbage".
THE VOLUMES OF COMMERCIALLY RECOVERABLE RESERVES ARE GREATLY OVERESTIMATED – This is a very definitive statement for which the jury is still out. Mr. Berman is absolutely correct at current drilling and completion costs combined with $2.50 MCFG wellhead price. However, resource turns into undeveloped reserves fairly quickly as wellhead product price goes up or costs come down. Reducing the cost of drilling and completing a well by 50% is the economic equivalent of doubling the lifetime wellhead price. It helps to think of breakthroughs in reducing drill, complete, and stimulation costs as "permanent hedges". One cannot address any play on wellhead cost alone. We know that there is a 80 to 100 x differential in play reserves between static D,C,&S costs and $7/MCFG at the wellhead and $2.50/MCFG at the wellhead.
HYPERBOLIC PREDICTIONS OVERESTIMATE RESERVES – Mr. Berman is absolutely correct here. This is also usually the case for conventional reserves. Hyperbolic predictions typically provide a ceiling estimate.
CONCLUSIONS – As we discovered when we began analyzing the Barnett, analyzing shale plays is like peeling onions. Once a layer is exposed, another presents itself. Many factors need to be normalized to really address the economics and behaviors of these plays in a predictive sense. Good acreage grade alone is not a recipe for success. Decent acreage grade needs to be combined with strong, holistic drilling, completion, and stimulation practices that are constantly tested for optimization to create a real repeatable recipe for success and large economic reserve accumulation. Great operations equate to better recoverable resources/reserves for these plays, not more operators or even more wells.
Raw data combines good operations with bad, early parts of the learning curve results with later, and good acreage with bad. Making forward-looking predictions of behavior from this soup assumes that every bad habit is propagated forward, and that no operator is better than another. Expanding that conclusion to other plays based on this assumption misses the big picture. What the Barnett is capable of producing is different from what it is producing now. How it can be optimized can only be determined by identifying who is optimizing it and by how much.
To me, the jury is still out on whether Berman's answer is right. I think the review pointing out that there are likely gains in efficiency between the earliest wells drilled and later wells drilled likely has a point. But this may be mostly reflected in the cost per well, which is being reflected in costs that are easily measurable, and not in the long-term decline curve. It is difficult to know what the impact of large amounts of fracing will be on future production.
The TPH review mentions that long term production of tight gas (such as what I observed at Wamsutter, Wyoming). But this is not really comparable–it is a different rock structure, and did not receive anywhere near the level of fracking that shale gas resources have. Also, as the reviewer from Drilling Info says, the hyperbolic decline estimates provide "ceiling estimates". So at least that part of the estimate is likely overstated, no matter how much technology improves.
I think it is likely that Berman is fairly close to right, but it would be good to have confirmation from others looking at the question in different ways. Hopefully, with greater diligence by auditors, there will be some convergence with company indications in the not too distant future.
Natural gas is one substance where there really does seems to be a lot of resource available, if the price is high enough. But for the price to be high enough, there needs to be a huge amount of debt based financing available, for all of the players involved: the natural gas companies obtaining the land and doing the drilling; the companies building pipelines and storage; and the companies building infrastructure for end use (adapting busses and cars to natural gas use; building fueling stations; installing natural gas home heating where oil was previously used). It may turn out that inability to obtain debt financing will be a big obstacle to development.
Natural gas policy is one where one really would like to have good information on how much resource is available at what price. One also needs to know what costs would be involved in new infrastructure development, and how many years these need to be amortized over to make the infrastructure worthwhile. There are other issues too–what should we really be using this resource for–chemical uses, fertilizer, commercial vehicle fuel, private passenger auto fuel? Or should we be saving it for use for balancing electrical power, when the wind is not blowing. At this point, I don't think we really know enough to make good decisions.
If cap and trade legislation is passed, it will encourage use of natural gas over coal for electricity generation. This is yet another possible use for natural gas. But the amount of natural gas we have is likely to not go very far, if this is the use chosen for it. If this use is chosen for natural gas, the amount available for use in other areas (including long-term wind balancing) is likely to be greatly reduced. So this decision needs to be considered with other alternatives, and with total natural gas resource availability.


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The video opens with a young mom cooking in the kitchen singing "On the 12th day of Christmas a dairy farmer gave to me …" with a different Michigan dairy farm family singing each verse, from "12 artisan cheeses" to "Two cherry yogurts." Sparty, the Michigan State University mascot, directs a choir of the college's dairy club caroling for, "Strong bones and teeth!" Scott Ferry, a Michigan dairy producer from Litchfield, Mich., ends the song singing that all the dairy products are, "From legendary farm families."
The United Dairy Industry of Michigan (UDIM) promotion team shot the video over a weekend, covering hundreds of miles driving from farm to farm to capture families singing their hearts out to promote dairy for the holidays. Audio from the video is part of a radio buy running throughout the state. The video is being promoted on social media channels including YouTube, Twitter and Facebook, and the MilkisLocal website.
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For more than 50 years, Santa Ysabel artist James T. Hubbell's name has been associated with his home designs, parks, gates, windows, mosaics and watercolors. Less known, but no less important to the 81-year-old craftsman, is his passion for sculpture. Hubbell said he's thinks of himself first as a sculptor, but his other art forms — in particular the whimsical, handcrafted home he shares with his wife, Anne, near Julian — have always gotten most of the attention. He hopes to change that perception at last with a new exhibit at the Oceanside Museum of Art.
"In Search of Shadows," Hubbell's third solo show at the museum, features more than 50 sculptures from the past five decades in bronze, wood, glass, forged iron and clay, as well as some models of his architecture that incorporate sculpture. Also featured are close-up photographs by John Durant that show the detail in Hubbell's sculptures.
"Anne and I were in Istanbul a year or two ago at a museum with wonderful Greek sculptures," Hubbell said. "They had a photograph of a ladies' sandal that was blown up really large. I was so struck by how I hadn't noticed the beautiful detail in the sandal until I saw it in the photo."
Since establishing a 10-acre compound in North County's outback in 1958, Hubbell has made it his life's mission to get people to slow down and pay closer attention to the world around them. His playful, organically inspired designs highlight the connectivity between man and his environment, lines and curves, earth and water, light and shadow. Hubbell's art practically begs the viewer to stop and explore.
An artist, an icon
Exhibit curator Danielle Susalla Deery calls Hubbell a San Diego icon who has played a vital role in the region's art community for decades.
"Oftentimes when people think of Hubbell, they recall his organic architecture or his vibrant stained glass, but this exhibition will present a focused look at his diverse range of sculpture, an art form that is the foundation for all his other developments as an artist," she said.
Educated in the mid-1950s at the Whitney Art School in New Haven, Conn., and later the Cranbrook Art Academy in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., Hubbell started out in sculpting and expanded into many other forms, including architecture. He cites among his influences the principles of Frank Lloyd Wright, the expressionistic style of Spanish sculptor Antonio Gaudi (creator of the fantastical Sagrada Familia cathedral and Park Guell in Barcelona), the abstract forms and shapes of African sculpture, and the meditative qualities of Buddhism.
Virtually every piece in the exhibit came from Hubbell's compound. While he has a backlog of commissions for his windows, gates and doors, his sculptures haven't been hot sellers.
"I really like people to buy my sculptures because it gives them another life," he said. "It's like having your kids. You love them, but you don't want them hanging around your house forever."
Hubbell said he named the exhibit "In Search of Shadows" because of the way three-dimensional sculpture can cast its own shadow.
"It is there in front of you, not an illusion," he wrote in a statement for the exhibition. "It can, as music does, deal primarily with form or rhythm or … give us an introduction to an inner world, a world of light and shadow."
Celebrating a legend
Museum executive director Daniel Foster said this is Hubbell's first-ever sculpture-only exhibit, so it's generating a lot of buzz.
"We are expecting a giant response from the arts community in celebration of one of San Diego's greatest living artists," Foster said.
The Hubbells raised four sons at the compound, including Drew, a San Diego architect who has been Hubbell's business partner since the mid-1990s. Together they have built custom homes, museums, schools, chapels, sculpture gardens and six public parks around the Pacific Rim. Hubbell's signature design elements are soaring roofs, domes and arches, hand-textured clay, curled metals and colorful hand-cut tiles, all inspired by the natural shapes of shells, leaves, rocks, vines, trees and ocean waves. His mostly abstract sculptures share that organic aesthetic.
With Drew by his side from the 1960s to the '80s, Hubbell created an architectural and sculptural fantasyland at the Santa Ysabel compound. Hubbell described the playfully designed buildings at the compound — resembling the Hobbit houses in Peter Jackson's "Lord of the Rings" films — as "habitable sculptures." Despite the compound's remote location, it has become a magnet over the years for art collectors, photographers and architects. On Father's Day each year, the Hubbells throw open their doors for an open house that draws thousands of visitors who spend hours poring over every lovingly handcrafted detail.
But in 2003, the Cedar wildfire swept through and razed four of the eight buildings on the property. Over the next three years, friends and fans raised money to help the Hubbells rebuild. Now expanded to 40 acres, the compound is in the trust of the Hubbells' nonprofit Ilan-Lael Foundation, an arts education organization devoted to creating a more sustainable, harmonious world. The foundation's projects include parks, chapels and sculpture gardens.
These days, Hubbell spends three days a week in his studio with a team of ironsmiths and craftsmen, working to keep up with demand for his signature gates, doors and windows.
Other days, he likes to spend time alone sculpting.
"I still like to get my hands dirty," he says. "I'm happy being busy. I think it makes life more interesting."
Asked to choose his favorite sculpting medium, Hubbell takes a long time to answer.
"That's like asking me what's my favorite food," he said. "First I come up with the idea and then once I have it, I know whether it's going to be in iron or wood or something else. Every medium has its own gifts to give you."
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Excursion: Exhibit curator Danielle Susalla Deery will lead an all-day bus excursion to the Hubbell compound (and another Hubbell sculpture site) from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. May 11. The trip will include a lunch stop in Julian. $80.
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NEW YORK -- When this season began, Aaron Harang was viewed as an over-the-hill veteran who was signed late in Spring Training to temporarily fill a gap in Atlanta's injury-depleted starting rotation. But as the past few months have evolved, he has been a steady asset who seems to have a knack for delivering strong starts at opportune times.
Such was the case on Thursday night, when Harang delivered seven solid innings and guided the Braves to a much-needed 3-1 win at Citi Field. The victory snapped a four-game losing streak and spared the visitors the embarrassment of being swept in a four-game series against the Mets for the first time since 1989.
"It's huge," Harang said of the win. "Getting swept is tough in a three-game series. In a four-game series, it's like somebody stepping on your throat. So it was good that we were able to pull this one off tonight."
With just one more series left before the All-Star break, the Braves needed to regain some of the momentum they had generated during the nine-game winning streak they had produced immediately in front of this four-game skid. They are now once again tied with the Nationals for first place in the Nationals League East race.
Recognizing the importance to stop the bleeding and also get his closer on the mound for the first time since Friday, Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez gave Craig Kimbrel a chance to notch the fourth four-out save of his career. Kimbrel proved up to the task as he stranded two inherited runners in the eighth and then worked a perfect ninth inning.
"I know we won the nine games in a row and this was only a four-game losing streak, but you never want to come into a place and get swept in four games," Braves first baseman Freddie Freeman said. "Even though we still lost the series, it could have been a lot worse."
Proving yet again that veteran poise can serve as an adequate substitute for dominant stuff, Harang scattered four hits and pitched around four walks while allowing just one run. As he navigated his way through this 104-pitch, seven-inning effort, he preserved the the two-run advantage the Braves gained courtesy of the key hits Freddie Freeman and Jason Heyward delivered in the first inning.
Freeman's double off the right-field wall scored Andrelton Simmons from first base and also put him in position to score when Heyward further frustrated Bartolo Colon by blooping an opposite-field RBI single into shallow left field.
The Braves had totaled just two runs against the previous four starting pitchers they had faced. But this rough opening was quite familiar to Colon, who has now allowed multiple runs during the first inning in each of his past three starts.
"The first inning has given him the most trouble this year," Freeman said. "For us to be able to get a couple in there and another there in the third, I know that's all we scored, but we still got enough early on to give Aaron the confidence he needed that he didn't need to make the perfect pitch from pitch one."
Freeman, who has batted .379 (25-for-66) at Citi Field since the start of last year, added a third-inning single that helped produce an insurance run. David Wright's third-inning RBI single accounted for the Mets' only run. Harang responded by wisely pitching around Wright during the fifth inning that concluded with Travis d'Arnaud flying out to center with the bases loaded.
"I thought Aaron pitched a great game, which he can do against anybody. He just stays away, away, away on you, and then comes in when he has to," Mets manager Terry Collins said. "We didn't have great swings on him."
When the Braves lost two straight games to complete a four-game split against the Nationals in June, Harang took the hill in the next game and delivered six strong innings against the Astros. His effort led to the first of the 11 wins Atlanta notched in a 12-game span that concluded this past Saturday.
If the Braves extend their momentum through this weekend's series against the Cubs, they can once again thank Harang, who has allowed two earned runs or fewer in 14 of his 19 starts with Atlanta.
"We needed him to go out there and be our big stopper tonight, and he definitely did that," Kimbrel said. "He got out of some big situations and had some efficient innings."
Mark Bowman is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Trowbridge Rugby Club is inviting the town to join them for a community fun day on Saturday to celebrate an incredible first season at Doric Park.
The club, which recently secured a memorable RFU Intermediate Cup final win at Twickenham, will have lots on offer from 1pm, including the chance to meet Bath Rugby stars Stuart Hooper and Nick Abendanon.
There will also be the Wadworth shire horses, an inflatable bouncy castle, assault course, slide and under-fives' play area, competitions and challenges, stalls, guest beers, food and barbecue, plus a live group in the evening.
The event, which will be hosted in conjunction with Avon Valley Runners, Red Hot Chillies Triathlon Club and Active Trowbridge, will also include open skittles and tug-of-war competitions.
Rugby operations manager Kevin Davis said: "It's the club opening its doors and saying come and join us and celebrate our fantastic first season at Doric Park.
"It really has exceeded all our expectations.
"The way we have come together on the site and made it work has helped facilitate the success on the field, but we want to make it clear that this is a community facility and it is here for everyone to use.
"We did do fun days at Green Lane, but they were much more low key. There were many people who didn't know we existed then and that's not the case now. The fun day is also a way of saying thank you to everyone for their support at Twickenham."
The club's end of season dinner takes place tomorrow.
He said: "There is still a real buzz around the place. Everyone is still on a high and the dinner and fun day will be a great celebration and a good way to end the season, before we start thinking about pre-season."
Trowbridge Town Council is in talks with the club about organising a civic reception for the club, but nothing will be decided before a new mayor is elected on Monday.