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This class will present how project teams can collaborate to develop information on a BIM project. We will initially look at setting up a plan of work to give clarity on which team members are delivering what information and when. Following this we will look at how designers can develop their designs using standardised BIM objects in Revit. Practical examples will then be given on how to link these objects digitally to the associated specification to better coordinate this information and reduce risk. We will finish by exploring the role of the cloud and big data in future workflows and show practical examples of how the Forge platform can accelerate this. Stephen was part of the team that developed the UK government's BIM Level 2 standards and tools. As director of research and innovation at NBS, he has been fundamental in developing the products that led to NBS being the first UK Autodesk Solution Associate in 2016.
Collaboration in construction is challenging. How can you organise the quality in data and geometry with all these different parties and models? Which software do you use to check your model: Navisworks or Solibri? An IFC workflow with Solibri provides you with insights into the different clashes and the possibility to check in a rule-based manner. But how do you create reports and collaborate with team members? Does Navisworks manage a better workflow with more possibilities for everybody? With Navisworks you are free of file format. It is easy to append and update Revit, IFC, RCP or DWG files to a federated model in a single file. Check model geometry, duplicates, and data in a standardised way with Collaborea, the rule-based model checker for Navisworks. A report is no longer necessary because all the issues are visible and editable on a cloud platform using Autodesk Forge. Checking and collaborating becomes easy and editing the models in an Autodesk workflow is simple.
You've heard the buzz about this exciting new Autodesk platform called Forge. But what exactly is Forge? Forge is a platform of web service APIs that allow you to integrate Autodesk SaaS products (such as Fusion Team, BIM 360 Docs, etc.) into your workflows and/or to embed some of the components used in those Autodesk products into your own web or mobile applications. In this presentation I will explain in more detail what Forge is (and what it isn't) - and show you examples of how to use Forge to enhance your on workflows and applications. This class is suitable for software developers, CAD & IT managers and decision makers.
Learn about what the Autodesk Forge platform is capable of and how you can benefit from it. In this session Brian Roepke will introduce some of the features within Forge and explain how this powerful, cloud-based software platform can be the build block for your next tool or product. Dr Stephen Hamil will then demonstrate how NBS have utilized the power of Forge to allow coordinated models and specifications to be viewed through the web browser. Live demonstrations of practical customer examples will also be shown from UK architecture and engineering BIM projects.
Your Building Information Modeling (BIM) data increases significantly in value the more you make use of it. Cloud-based technologies make this extremely easy. We explore how to connect the desktop and the cloud to make any BIM data you choose available to anyone you choose, including optional round-trip real-time editing of selected properties and features. This class discusses extracting information from your Revit Models, enhancing Collaboration for Revit workflows, new additions to the growing suite of The Building Coder desktop-BIM-cloud samples, AEC related Forge APIs such as the Viewer and the Model Derivative API. The latter enables easy translation of design files to different formats and extracting data from them to use almost anywhere. Using demonstrations and dissections of sample applications, we show how these programming tools can easily and vastly enhance your BIM workflows. This is an advanced class for experienced programmers. This session features Revit and Forge. AIA Approved
The aim of this roundtable is to gather individuals who are excited about how the future of making things is shaping the building and construction industry. We will look at how the industry has progressed from an age of 2D flatland data production, to the more advanced age of optimization of 3D digital data, to the present-day era of interoperability and collaboration in a new age of connection. We will focus on how we conceptualize, share information, collaborate, construct, and deliver smart buildings that can be analyzed, rated on performance, monitored, and maintained. The roundtable will look at how the present and future Autodesk, Inc., cloud technology—including Forge Platform—is set to radically change and revolutionize this process by making the transition from conceptual Building Information Modeling (BIM) to constructional BIM as smooth and seamless as possible. We will focus on how to optimally connect the digital data around designing, constructing, and managing buildings with reduced risk and improved outcomes. This session features BIM 360 Docs and Forge.
In this class, we will introduce you to BIM 360 Docs software's API. BIM 360 Docs software is a cloud-based document management system tailored specifically for construction projects. As the document at the center of BIM 360 family products, BIM 360 Docs software promises to play an important role for unified development of the BIM 360 mobile and web platform. BIM 360 Docs software provides an API as a part of the Forge Platform Data Management API. Using the Forge Platform API, you can access documents stored in BIM 360 Docs software, display models using the Viewing API, and search data in the model. Using the API, for example, you can automate updating models from external applications, make a report to keep track of a team's progress, and connect your own web services applications with BIM 360 Docs projects. We will show you how to get started with the BIM 360 Docs API, share examples of use cases, and demonstrate what you can do using the BIM 360 Docs API. This session features BIM 360 Docs and Forge. AIA Approved
We invite customers who have a need to simulate thermal management of electronics to attend this roundtable. We plan on discussing and discovering common electrical computer-aided design (ECAD) and mechanical computer-aided design (MCAD) workflows, going from ideation, conceptual layout, and final design. Thermal management fits in this design process throughout and we will present some mockups on how we see the next generation of simulation fitting into the design process. We hope to gain insight from the roundtable regarding how participants currently manage the ECAD data and use it along with MCAD data to perform thermal simulation, where their struggles are, and what could be done to make everything easier. This session features CFD, Forge, and Fusion 360.
Learn how to unleash data hosted on Autodesk, Inc., with the Forge Data Management API. We will cover how to access, create, and share using Node.js sample coding on web-based apps. You'll also learn how to integrate with other data providers, from both Autodesk and third parties. This session features Forge.
The Research Team at Autodesk, Inc., has been developing technology for the Internet of Things (IoT) since before people called it that. Project Dasher is a building performance management tool that displays historical and real-time sensor data inside a building model. The Research Team has taken the learning acquired while developing Project Dasher and used it to create technology that addresses the needs of the broader IoT market. This session will look at how IoT APIs (application programming interfaces) from Autodesk Research can be used to display information in websites integrating the viewer from the Forge Platform to inform the design process and even power generative design. This session features Forge and Dynamo Studio. AIA Approved
This class will introduce the Forge platform from the perspective of an early adopter – starting with business aspects, paradigm shift, cloud concepts, and the future of Autodesk cloud platform strategy. We will cover some of the technical challenges with web programming from the perspective of someone migrating from a desktop programming environment to the cloud, and discuss how to overcome them. We will then walk through some simple yet representative code samples helping you to get started with the Forge platform through the Viewer, Model Derivative API and Design Automation APIs. This session features Forge. AIA Approved
The Web world has changed. Now that all the most popular web browsers support WebGL, 3D on the web is a reality. With this Lab, Full Stack web developers who also are 3D enthusiasts will be able to create interactive web application and also get a head start to VR apps. The Forge Model Derivative API and zero-client Viewer allow developers to create interactive websites for all kinds of different markets where 3D CAD interaction could be added, and also full access to the metadata becomes available. This is a workshop on how to set up a Node.js server and client-side JS code to display and interact with any filename extension 3D model (CAD) using Forge - View and Data API. I will guide attendees through the entire process of building a simple application, including writing a node.js server, use of npm, hosting the web application and interacting with the 3D model by running different viewer JS extensions. This session features Forge.
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250,000 IN NEGATIVE EQUITY! as Ryanair announce 10% fleet cut
CITIGROUP bank has warned the Bank of Englands Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) against upping interest rates when it meets this week.
It noted that already a quarter of a million UK homeowners are in negative equity.
The US banking giant said house prices had slipped back by seven per cent since the autumn.
The Citigroup chief UK economist Michael Saunders warned that house prices could fall by 15 per cent or more by the end of 2009. Such a drop would leave at least a million homeowners in negative equity.
He said: The signs are that the economy is slowing very sharply, but with inflation shifting up the Bank of England cannot cut rates.
The economys being hit by these two big shocks: youve got the credit crunch and the housing crash; and youve got this shock from oil prices.
With mortgage costs set to rise this week, Saunders stressed that raising rates at this stage would be extremely unwise.
He added: With the economy diving, rising unemployment, falling housing, and the credit crunch, a rate hike could trigger a savage unwinding of the mix of low savings, high debt and elevated house prices.
Just as a rate cut could be misinterpreted as a sign that the MPC is inflation-tolerant, such overkill would probably lead to an unnecessarily deep recession.
Meanwhile, Citigroups UK front Citibank UK has announced it is to stop new lending through its Future Mortgages and CitiFinancial portfolios.
From Wednesday 21 May 2008 the bank stopped offering new loans by Future Mortgages, its intermediary mortgage operation, and its CitiFinancial personal loans business.
The Bank of England will face its big decision this Thursday what to do about the current five per cent interest rate.
Currently, increased mortgage costs will see £90 a month added to repayments for a typical loan.
Today the Cheshire building society will increase the cost of two of its three fixed-rate mortgages and will add £500 to its mortgage fee.
Last week the Abbey and the Woolwich made their fixed-rate loans dearer.
Lenders are also shutting their doors to borrowers who want to take out mortgages on a cheaper interest-only basis.
On Friday, internet bank Egg stopped offering the loans altogether, citing market conditions, and Abbey has said it will no longer lend to people who have less than a 50 per cent deposit unless they can prove how they will pay off the capital.
Bradford & Bingley yesterday announced that its chief per cent executive Stephen Crawshaw is leaving the mortgage bank with immediate effect due to a serious cardiovascular condition.
He will be replaced by chairman Rod Kent in the short-term.
Crawshaws departure comes on the eve of todays trading update, with reports saying the bank will issue a profit warning.
Ryanair is expected shortly to announce plans to ground 10 per cent of its fleet during the winter, and a drop in profits because of soaring oil prices.
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FDA Considering Letting Patients Purchase Drugs Without Prescriptions
The Washington Times reported on April 29, 2012 that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) "may soon permit Americans to obtain some drugs used to treat conditions such as high blood pressure and diabetes without obtaining a prescription." According to the FDA, such a move would allow patients to purchase drugs for a number of common medical conditions "without the time and expense of visiting a doctor".
According to the article, "medical providers call the change medically unsound and note that it also may mean that insurance no longer will pay for the drugs." An interesting part of the considered changes is that "patients could diagnose their ailments by answering questions online or at a pharmacy kiosk in order to buy current prescription-only drugs for conditions such as high cholesterol, certain infections, migraine headaches, asthma or allergies."
In this way, "the Obama administration could ease financial pressures on the overburdened Medicare system by paying for fewer doctor visits and possibly opening the door to make seniors pay a larger share of the cost of their medications." It is significant to note that in theory on an economic level, the marketplace could readjust for any imbalances between drug costs and doctor visits. Per the Washington Times, such changes may have "mixed results for non-Medicare patients". Non-Medicare patients may have to pay more money for medications owing to the fact that "most insurance companies don't cover over-the-counter drugs".
According to Dr. Sandra Adamson Fryhofer, "We would expect that out-of-pocket costs for insured individuals, including those covered by Medicare, would be increased for drugs that are switched from prescription to OTC status." Whereas pharmacists and doctors are divided on the issue of transitioning certain drugs from requiring a doctor's prescription to being over-the-counter, the article noted that "pharmacists embrace the notion that they should be able to dole out medication for patients' chronic conditions without making them go through a doctor."
Even so, "[m]edical providers urged caution, saying the government should not try to cut health care costs by cutting out doctors." Per George Washington University Hospital internist Dr. Matthew Mintz, "What the government via the FDA has decided to do is just bypass the expensive doctor and to satisfy some safety concerns of letting people just pick out their medications is make sure they have to get counsel by the pharmacists." Mintz continued, "I believe there is value to using pharmacists, but not at the expense of primary care."
Per the Washington Times, "[c]omments on the proposal are due by May 7. FDA spokeswoman Erica Jefferson said the agency will issue a decision sometime after that but didn't offer a more specific time frame."
Whereas in theory the proposed FDA changes suggest taking doctors out of the equation for obtaining medications, one has to wonder about the reliability of allowing patients to diagnose their own illnesses online or at a pharmacy kiosk. And even then, where we do we draw the line? Can loved ones go online to enter symptoms for a patient in need of prescriptions? Hypothetically, such changes may open the door for patients to allege legal wrongdoing on the part of pharmacists or online organizations for problems resulting from the adverse effects of various medications. One could contend that there is a strong public policy concern in making sure that trained physicians retain the ability to prescribe various medications.
On the other hand, there seems to be a growing Zeitgeist in American society avoiding regulation and bureaucratic procedures in the interest of cutting costs and preserving resources. In other words, tighter budgets portend looser rules. If a trend toward reducing regulations and bureaucratic procedures in American society continues, we may see more similar steps taken by the governmental agencies going forward. That being said, the proposed FDA move portends substantial changes in the way that Americans purchase medications. Might the proposed FDA changes spur an increase in the number of Americans that use such medications? Might the proposed changes spur more sales for pharmaceutical companies?
In terms of stocks to watch regarding the proposed FDA changes, traders may want to keep an eye on Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE), GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE: GSK), Sanofi SA (NYSE: SNY), AstraZeneca (NYSE: AZN), Merck & Co. (NYSE: MRK), and Bristol Myers Squibb (NYSE: BMY). Traders can also check out Teva Pharmaceutical Industries (NASDAQ: TEVA) and Eli Lilly (NYSE: LLY). In light of potential changes to the health care system owing to the Affordable Care Act, it will be interesting to see how both the medical field and the marketplace respond.
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3-4ft at Rest Bay. 2-3ft at Coney Beach. . Tide is too high at the moment but we should get a clean 3-ft as it comes off the rocks at Rest Bay. Coney Beach should be 2-3ft for a few hours but will drop quickly later this morning. Light Winds all day though.
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Effective Date: 04/12/2010, Docket: RP10-491-000, Status: Effective
Third Revised Sheet No. 44 Third Revised Sheet No. 44
Superseding: Second Revised Sheet No. 44
4. REQUESTS FOR SERVICES (Continued)
4.4 Capacity Reserved for Future Expansion/Extension Projects (Contd.)
(d) When reserving capacity for future expansion/extension
projects, Transporter shall first post all of its available
capacity for at least five business days prior to the
reservation period. Transporter shall post and award
available capacity in accordance with the service request
procedures of Section 4.1 of these General Terms and
(e) When the capacity to be reserved is offered through an open
season, Transporter shall have the right to impose minimum
terms and conditions for bids that would be acceptable. In
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imposes minimum terms and conditions that are materially
different from the terms and conditions imposed in the
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season is held prior to or during the open season for the
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(f) Any capacity reserved under this Section 4.4 shall be made
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the in-service date of the expansion project(s). For such
limited-term FTSAs, Transporter reserves the right to limit
any term extension rights provided in the FTSA and pursuant
to Section 4.10 commensurate with the proposed in-service
date of the expansion project. Transporter will indicate in
any posting of the reserved capacity any limitations on term
extension rights that will apply to such limited-term
transportation service.
(g) Any capacity reserved for a project that does not go forward
for any reason shall be reposted as generally available
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contracts entered into on an interim limited-term basis,
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Covergirl Carrie Underwood Talks Food, Hubby and Laundry to 'Redbook'
Carrie Underwood is hotter than ever. And I'm not just talking about her photos in the December issue of Redbook magazine.
Tonight she returns for the 6th time, co-hosting country music's biggest night, the 'CMA Awards' on ABC and listen live on 98.1 the Hawk. This year the Country Music Association honors Carrie with 3 nominations.
In addition to her hosting duties, her album 'Blown Away' album is one of the biggest sellers of 2013 and come December, she makes her acting debut in a revival of The Sound of Music, where she will play the starring role as Maria.
How does she do it all? In the newest Carrie interview, the 'See You Again' singer addresses that and more. Here are a few highlights:
On why she keeps a food journal:
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On trusting her husband (pro hockey player, Mike Fisher):
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I can't believe how fast this summer has gone by. I was only able to finish my 7th Mini Slinger (super modified) and a totally stock Rookie. My FPV Easy Star which I began a couple of years ago is still plaguing me. On its third flight the 40 amp ESC smoked and almost burned out the inside. Luckily I had it in a hatched area that I carved out to hold both the ESC and the RC receiver. Other than a couple burnt servo extensions and the ESC everything else appears okay. I'm trying to fly it on a nice calm day so I can record the altitudes and speeds so when I'm flying by FPV, I'll have something to cross check with. One thing though is the plane seems much heavier than previously noticed. I have a couple of fences that the plane has to climb out over and on the first two attempts I had to abort the takeoff because I could see it wasn't going to make it. After increasing the distance to the fence by double, it just cleared them and needed full throttle to keep a very slow climb going. I can't believe that I need to put in a bigger motor. This Micro Dan motor had no trouble lifting it before and to the best of my knowledge, nothing has been added in fact some things have been removed.
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Lace Cactus Echinocereus reichenbachii
Cactus family — Cactaceae
Also known as:
White Lace Cactus, Brown Lace Cactus, Hedgehog Cactus
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Ranging from South Texas through the center of the state to the Panhandle, lace cactus is the most common little barrel cactus of the Edwards Plateau. The late spring flowers vary from a fleshy pink to deep rose. It often startles even those who know it well to see such a small cactus (usually only 3-8 inches tall) produce a flower that seems larger than the plant.
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Shiseido was founded by Arinobu Fauuhara as a Western-style pharmacy in Tokyo's fashion and cultural Ginza district in 1872. Initially the company acted primarily as a retail outlet for high-quality pharmaceuticals when low-grade herbal medicines were used by most people. Increasingly however, the company focussed on developing its own products with a particular emphasis on high-quality cosmetics that combines Japanese style with western science and technology. This makes it unique among the world's significant cosmetics houses that otherwise all have a US/European origin. Shiseido's culture reflects this east-meets-west approach and can be seen in different ways in their product ingredients, packaging ideas and even in the artistic approaches in their advertising and brand imagery.
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Review Date: 14/09/2010 8:48:41 AM Rating:
Review: Stylish design. Fast pre-heat function is fantastic - only 4 minutes to get to 200 degrees. Purchased two of these ovens to put into kitchen - was cheaper than buying a double oven - and with more capacity. Drop down grill element makes cleaning easy.
Bad: No where to hang tea-towels to dry. But that is the ONLY bad point I have found so far.
Good: Quick pre-heat, cool to the touch (especially with small children around) Looks fantastic. Instructions are very easy to understand. Also, didnt need an electrician to install as has normal plug on the electrical cord.
Review Date: 18/03/2012 8:07:33 PM Rating:
Review: As advertised. Would recommend
Bad: Nil
Good: Looks Performance Quality
Review Date: 6/01/2013 11:42:41 AM Rating:
Review: Fantastic slim line design. Looks great, heats so much faster than last oven. Price a lot cheaper when purchased through Electric Discounter. Not sure how the enamel will wear on the sides instead of having wire shelf holders.
Bad: Markings are hard to read on side of pop out dial. There is no mark to let you know when you have reached the 'off' position on function selector.
Good: Heats up fast. Price very good.
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Susan Gale, 56, from Alford convicted of neglecting horses
An Aberdeenshire woman has been convicted of neglecting three horses, two of which later had to be put down.
At Aberdeen Sheriff Court, Susan Gale, 56, of Alford, was given a two-year ban on keeping horses and a 90-hour community payback order.
At an earlier appearance, Gale had pled guilty to failing to provide adequate nutrition and veterinary attention for the horses.
The case followed an investigation by the Scottish SPCA.
After the case, Scottish SPCA senior inspector Alison Simpson said that during a visit to Gale's premises she became "immediately concerned" for the welfare of a five-year-old stallion called Oddie as he was "extremely thin, with all bones visible".
A second horse - a 10 to 12-year-old black mare named May - was also found to be very underweight and had little co-ordination of her back legs due to a severe form of ataxia, a neurological disorder affecting balance. She was also suffering from a lice infestation.
A third horse - an eight-year-old bay mare named April - was also found to be thin.
'Heart murmurs'
Ms Simpson said: "There were no medical issues identified to explain the poor body conditions of the horses, therefore it was clear this was due to a chronic lack of feed over a period of a few months.
"Both April and May were suffering from serious heart murmurs and, after six months in our care, April had a severe heart attack.
"Tragically, she would not have been able to recover and the vet had to make the kindest decision to put her to sleep.
"May's heart murmur was affecting her quality of life and she was regularly losing balance and falling over.
"Sadly, the vet decided the most humane decision was also to put her to sleep.
"Thankfully, after prolonged rehabilitation, Oddie made a tremendous recovery and we have since been able to find him the loving new home he deserves."


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With winter comes reduced daylight hours and often a reduction in egg production. My four gals went from one egg a day on average down to one egg between the four of them as soon as it started turning dark at 4:30. While I love the hens, I also love the eggs they produce so I decided to take action. We installed a lightbulb the coop. IT WORKED! We are back up to three or four eggs a day and I get a total kick out of going out in the evening to see the coop all lit up.
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America's ride towards energy independence has really been driven by one thing — shale. As producers continue to use hydraulic fracturing and dive head first into our various shale rock formations, they've been able to unlock a sheer abundance of natural gas and oil.
As a result, fields like the Bakken and Marcellus have been become household names.
However, as the Bakken and company have become standard fields in the energy lexicon, much of their "booms" have already been realized from early investors. Sure, these super fields will continue producing plenty of energy for years to come. But the initial euphoria that comes with finding the next big thing has already passed by many investors.
Which is why investors looking to "wildcat" their way to gains should perhaps focus some attention to the Southern Central Oklahoma Oil Province, or SCOOP shale.
SCOOP is just beginning its journey on becoming a massive liquids rich shale play. That could mean some big bucks for early energy firms and their investors.
Getting the SCOOP
Like Texas, North Dakota and Pennsylvania, Oklahoma has a long history of oil production and is steeped in energy tradition. The state has been a huge source of crude oil and natural gas for decades, and around 9% of all active oil wells currently lie within the Oklahoma's borders. And like its fellow energy-rich states, hydraulic fracturing is helping rewrite that history forward.
Underlying most of Oklahoma, the Woodford shale is an interesting mix of natural gas, natural gas liquids and shale oil. However, given the Woodford's vast size and complex nature, those various energy types aren't spread evenly throughout the shale. There are places that are more "gassy" than others.
That's a big problem considering the relatively low prices of natural gas.
However, the SCOOP portion of the Woodford — covering about 3,300 square miles — is very liquids-rich. Featuring multiple pay zones and a variety of NGLs and shale oil, early estimations predict that the SCOOP could contain upwards of 70 billion barrels of oil. Putting that into perspective, the latest U.S. Geological Survey estimates only put the Bakken at 7.4 billion barrels of undiscovered and technically recoverable oil.
Aside from the larger resource potential, the SCOOP has the Bakken beat on another front as well — infrastructure.
Given Oklahoma's history as an oil producer — dating all the way back to the early 1900s — the state is littered with midstream infrastructure. There are literally thousands of miles worth of pipelines and gathering systems that crisscross and dot its countryside, including the United States' main oil storage depot in Cushing. With this extensive network of energy logistics in the SCOOP's backyard, producers have much easier time getting their oil to market than say, someone trying to tap a remote well in the Bakken.
All in all, that reduces costs and makes the SCOOP are desirable place to drill.
Still Time To Get In
With drilling activity in the SCOOP just starting to get underway, investors an early opportunity to get in before it really takes off. Several energy firms have already made the SCOOP a major part of their CAPEX and exploration plans.


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Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UPI) Dec 21, 2007
Below Washington's geopolitical radar screen, where Iraq and Iran tend to blur out the rest of the world, momentous events are in the making. Among the most significant:
CHIMEA is not a chemical formula, but the emergence of the new growth hub of China, India, Middle East and Africa. There are now large areas of what the developed nations of the North still call the developing South that now see themselves as the new fulcrum of something bigger and potentially richer.
At a recent "CEO Retreat" in Dubai organized by A.T. Kearney's Global Business Policy Council, CHIMEA was all the buzz. A reshuffling of the global deck of cards is under way. The Middle East and the wider Islamic world are no longer locked into the traditional (and for 300 years dependent) relationship with Europe and the West. In Dubai, the world's new Hong Kong, the big planetary players see the new hub of global economic growth as a crescent that stretches from the Red Sea and East Africa through the Persian Gulf and the Indian Ocean to the Straits of Malacca and China.
As the dollar is knocked off its pedestal, partly through the recent manifestations of short-sighted naked greed, better known as the subprime mortgage fiasco, at root a global criminal enterprise, CHIMEA emerges as a new engine with extraordinary potential. The ingredients of this explosive growth are Arab energy and hundreds of billions of dollars in "sovereign investment funds," Chinese manufacturing, India's information technology skills and services, and "a vast and young regional workforce with East Africa's agricultural potential."
CHIMEA also encompasses half the world's population, which will rise to two-thirds by 2050. Today, the new geopolitical construct produces 11 percent of global gross domestic product; by 2030, current projections show it at 50 percent. China's Industrial and Commercial Bank recently dropped $5.5 billion to acquire 20 percent of South Africa's Standard Bank -- the single largest amount ever invested in sub-Saharan Africa. Beijing is even helping bail out some of America's most prestigious financial institutions, guilty of subprime management skills in the subprime housing bubble.
All the pieces of CHIMEA are showing dramatic rates of growth -- e.g., North Africa at 7 percent; Egypt 8 percent; even sub-Saharan Africa above 5 percent for the past three years, due to Chinese and Indian trade and investment. South-South commerce is gradually displacing the North-South relationship born some 600 years ago when Portugal annexed Macau during the Ming Dynasty.
UNCTAD -- the U.N. Conference on Trade and Development -- was launched in Geneva in 1964 to address what was then called "The Scandal of the Century," the growing chasm between rich and poor nations. Che Guevara was the Cuban representative at the inaugural conference. Today, the gap is narrowing rapidly. The North's wealthy club no longer monopolizes the list of the world's billionaires. The Middle East, India, China, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia have produced scores of billionaires out of the world's total of more than 1,000 (up from 350 since the beginning of the decade).
Multinational corporations have morphed into TNCs -- genuinely transnational where flags are meaningless. Those nations that once held all the cards still have most of these behemoths. But Fortune's 500 now includes 52 from "developing" countries. India's Tata Steel giant recently took over Corus, the Anglo-Dutch steelmaker, in a $13.4 billion deal.
Oil and gas producers from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries are providing the fuel for the rapid emergence of CHIMEA. Revenues have tripled in four years -- from $210 billion to an all-time high of more than $700 billion this year, most of it to OPEC's Arab countries. Qatar, a small progressive country of half a million and one of the world's largest natural gas producers, is setting aside $100 billion a year for investments abroad.
Unquenchable oil thirsts in China and India drove up prices -- and propelled CHIMEA from chimera to reality. These two giants of more than 1 billion people each saw their oil needs doubling and trebling in the last four years. China is now a bigger oil importer than Japan.
In the January 2008 Wilson Quarterly, CHIMEA scholar (and UPI Editor Emeritus) Martin Walker quotes the Hedge Fund Research Group as estimating Middle Eastern oil and gas capital available for investment at $4.1 trillion -- almost the size of Japan's annual GDP. Saudi Arabia alone is building six new cities. Morgan Stanley estimates Abu Dhabi's Investment Authority's fund at $875 billion. By way of contrast, the final reckoning of U.S. bank losses in the subprime scandal will be close to $100 billion.
Unnoticed in the U.S. media are the comings and goings of heads of state and government from South to South, from the Gulf to India and China and vice versa.
CHIMEA is redrawing the global landscape for mergers and acquisitions.
Top U.S. law firms are opening offices in Dubai (where the slogan is "Do buy in Dubai"), the freest city in the Gulf, where there are no Islamic restrictions on liquor and where Russian hookers ply their trade.
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Sand Microelectronics Expands Sales Team, Moves to New Facilities
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San Jose--April 27, 1998--Sand Microelectronics, Inc. (San Jose) announced the appointment of two new sales managers, the opening of the company's first direct sales office outside of California, and the relocation and expansion of corporate headquarters.
John Griswold joins the company as East Coast Sales Manager and Gordon Halfpap has been promoted to West Coast Sales Manager. Griswold and Halfpap report to John Perry, Sand's vice-president of Sales. Griswold manages the company's new Natick, Mass. office.
Additionally, Sand has relocated corporate offices from Sunnyvale, Calif. to San Jose in order to accommodate the rapid growth in Sand's business. Sand's revenue and number of employees has more than doubled over the past year.
John Griswold joins Sand from Symbios Logic, where he was a systems engineer managing for the company's SCSI, 1394, and USB products. Gordon Halfpap has over 20 years sales and design experience at Viewlogic, Vantage, and Daisy.
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How to restore your Kindle Fire 2
Using the backup.sh from kinfauns that I modded because the partition table for the KF2 is not the same as the HD.
I attached the new backup.sh for the KF2 on this post.
Restoration tool
I developed a Recovery Tool based of the one onemeila created for the KFHD.
This will restore your boot/recover partitions (good for if you are gonna mess with the Bootloader Crack)
Restore your system.img to a Deodexed Rooted 10.2.1 Software. I have stripped ALOT of Kindle Apps from this backup.
Erase userdata & cache cleanup should be done when restoring.
Kinfauns for the original backup.sh
Onemeila for his original Recovery Tool for the KFHD
Special thanks
verygreen, hashcode, and fattire for answering my endless and noobish questions and saying there HAS to be a way.
And all those who have offered to help me get a 10.2.1 system.img for the KF2
Additional Info
The post here contains the partition table for the KF2.
How I did it:
Due to the raw system.img being too big for fastboot to flash back to the KF2 I had to make the raw image
a sparse image file using help found in this post.
mkdir sys sudo mount -t ext4 -o loop system.img sys/
sudo ./make_ext4fs -s -l 929038336 -a system new_system.img sys/ sudo umount sys rm -fr sys
So I'm trying to get everything prepared for when my Fastboot cable arrives. Should get here today, thanks to Skoprn. Ive been reading these threads and think I'm still just a bit confused. Any help would be appreciated..
Current status of my KF2 is that it is just stuck in bootloop. The Kindle Fire logo just keeps flashing. Anyways, so when my fastboot cable arrives I connect it. It should boot up into fastboot and then what do I do next?
Download this "Restoration Tool" and then what? Unzip the file and run it and it will do it all by itself or..?? Do i need to run some commands in ADB/fastboot??
Thanks for any help!!
OK I have a bricked kindle fire 2nd gen that is driving me nuts. when I press the power button it shows the orange kindle fire logo for about 10 or 15 seconds and then it shuts down. I have a factory cable and used this utility to restore it, but it still will not boot.
I even went so far as to go ahead and try to get TWRP installed so I could flash it with CM10.1 since It does boot to fastboot when I use the factory cable.
when I do that it doesn't show the blue kindle fire logo, it shows the orange logo, goes black for few seconds and then shows the orange logo again. it keeps doing this over and over.
using this utility to restore changes the boot behavior to shutting off again after displaying the logo.
Any ideas on what I can do to fix it?
Kind of in this same boat right now. I've got a bootlooping KF2 after trying to restore a factory backup I made in TWRP. Fastboot cable on the way. Hoping to gather enough info from this post and others to stumble my way into getting drivers, a restore, and TWRP so I can get things going again. These dang Kindles are nuttin but trouble... I wish there was a comprehensive step by step guide... Information about the Kindle seems to be more spread out than other devices.
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It's driving me nuts, you would think that if fastboot works, that there is some way to fix what is causing this issue.
I just got done with fixing a pretty borked up Kindle fire (original) that was sticking on the boot logo. that one I had to flash it with FFF and twrp, then format the usb storage, then flashed with cotr then flashed it with the kindle fire update bin (renamed to update.zip) and was able to fully fix it and get it back running.
I'm suprised that noone has figured out how to fully unlock the bootloader on the 2nd gen Kindle Fires yet.
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text: I have a bass (Spector ReBop4, bolt-on neck) that is difficult to get setup correctly. I have adjusted the truss rod, set the bridge saddles for height / intonation, all the usual setup steps. However, the notes above the 9th fret don't sound right. Instead of clear and defined, they have a thinner, pingy sound. I'm wondering if the neck pitch is off and that is what's causing the issue. What is the proper way to check neck pitch and what should it be?


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Ozzie expects Marlins to follow Friday's blueprint
Ozzie expects Marlins to follow Friday's blueprint
So when the Marlins manager says his team is better than its 36-40 record, including a 7-18 record in June, indicates, he believes it.
"If I'm not going to tell the fans or [the media] that we're better than this, then we're not, because I don't get paid to promote people, I don't get paid to bring fans," Guillen said. "The only way we're going to bring fans is to be honest and win games. I think this ballclub is capable of doing what we did [Friday] night."
In Friday's series-opening win against National League East division rival Philadelphis, the Marlins were able to handle Phillies ace Cliff Lee. Miami clicked on offense, got an early lead against Lee and held onto it thanks to stellar pitching from Josh Johnson and the bullpen, as well as solid defense.
It was the type of total team effort the Marlins have struggled to consistently get this month, but it's the type of effort Guillen expects from his team every game, regardless of the outcome.
"Our starting rotation is good, we got good enough talent on the field," Guillen said. "Are we going to win every day? No, but I expect them to play good every day. We missed that for 15, 20 days. ... We were not playing well."
Guillen hopes Friday's win, which gave Miami back-to-back victories for the first time since June 2-3, is a sign of things to come for the Marlins as they try to claw their way back into the division race.
"I hope this is not a tease," Guillen said. "We faced one of the best pitchers in the game, we're a good ballclub, we're playing well, but I expect every time I come here those kinds of games. Not to win, but I expect to compete."


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Likud Voters Abandon Polling Stations Amid Long Queues, Slow Computers
Likud voters formed long lines outside the voting stations for the party's primary election last night, prompting party officials to keep ballot boxes open for two extra hours.
While the delays in the process to elect the party's Knesset list ahead of the upcoming general elections could be the result of a late rush of constituents, sources involved with the election process blamed the new computerized system which was employed in the election for the first time.
Complaints were lodged at several polling stations that the voting process had taken longer than expected, causing severe delays and prompting multiple voters to abandon the polls in frustration. During the last hours, attendants were dispatched to the polling stations to assist the voters in the process. As of 8 P.M. the voter turnout stood at only 33 percent of the 99,000 registered members.
Political analysts predict a low turnout will help the camp of far-rightist Moshe Feiglin, whereas higher voter turnout could bolster Likud chairman Benjamin Netanyahu.
Polls indicate Likud may sweep to power in the Feb. 10 general elections. A candidate winning a high place on the party list would be well positioned for a senior cabinet post in a Netanyahu government.
"The computerized vote is taking slightly longer than anticipated," Netanyahu said yesterday afternoon. He said this was "in addition" to delays in Jerusalem, caused by a wayward tractor that damaged communication lines.
"I have received reports that voters came to polling stations and left without voting at all. They should return and cast their vote. It's important for everyone to realize their democratic right to elect Likud's team," he said.
Netanyahu himself had to ask for help when voting at a computerized station, calling over an expert who joined him behind the cardboard barrier hiding the computer. Netanyahu was initially considering extending the vote, which was to close at 10 P.M., until Tuesday, but the chairman of the Likud central voting committee decided to extend the vote only until 1 A.M.
Likud deployed a total of 360 voting station nationwide, which gave a ratio of 277 voters per station. By comparison, Labor had a more convenient ratio of 218 voters per station in its primary election last week.
Party officials who were involved in hiring the firm Malam Communications to handle the electronic voting process said that voters "had simply come unprepared, and did not know for whom they were going to vote." They also said "the large number of lists and candidates made things difficult for the voters."
Evelyn Gordon from Eli voted in the neighboring community, Shilo. She told Haaretz that voters took a long time to vote. "It took far longer than people might have expected," she said. "The last time I voted for the primary, the entire process took 15 minutes. This time I waited for 45 minutes."
She added that the computer was slow and that voters were unprepared because they were not familiar with electronic voting.
"People didn't know they had to know their candidates' numbers, and that knowing their names wasn't enough," she added.
Another voter, who preferred his name be withheld from this article, encountered problems when he came to vote in Modi'in. "I came to the voting station in the afternoon, having spent a long time looking for the address, because the voting slip listed the wrong address," he said.
After an hour of standing in line without nearing the end, the voter decided to go home. He said there were about 300 voters at the station, who had come there from all over the Modi'in region. He complained the area should have had at least two stations.
Or Hishauga, Ofri Ilani, Elad Noi, Jack Khoury and Amitai Ziv contributed to this article.
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