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The oil and gas industry has set the path to completely change how they will find natural resources. Since the beginning, drilling has been at the hands of humans, but this is about to change with the help of autonomous computer-controlled drilling operations – drilling automation.
Operators are continuously seeking ways of meeting their safety goal of zero people hurt on the job and reducing the costs of extracting hydrocarbons. Drilling automation seeks to do just that through process improvements, optimized rates of penetration, consistent hole quality and overall drilling performance, all of which allow operators to reach their objectives in the shortest time.
"Drilling is potentially dangerous, with rig staff and heavy machinery operating in the same tight space," said Eric van Oort, a former Royal Dutch Shell Plc executive who's leading a graduate-level engineering program at the University of Texas focused on automated drilling. "So why not let machines do the hazardous work?"
Automation has been widely used in several industries: aeronautics, automobile manufacturing, utility and power generation and general processing. Some may argue that these industries improved drastically when humans were partially taken out of the equation. Automation allows for repetition to occur without suffering from boredom or lapses in attention that its human counterparts are capable of. Robots are able to attain a level of autonomy because there are few decisions to make and there is little uncertainty or variability in their environment and tasks.
And with the 2010 Macondo disaster never too far from an operator's mind, automation is crucial. Algorithms can detect changes in rig data consistently and quickly, preventing problems early on. There's also a pressing challenge to drill more efficiently.
"The 'easy oil' is diminishing, which means the cost of extracting hydrocarbons is going up," stated Jim Rogers, automation advisor, worldwide drilling for Apache Corp, in a recent interview. "We have to find ways to reduce that cost, and we have to find step-change ways of doing that. We're not looking for just incremental changes. Instead of 16 days on a well, let's go to 10 days or even less. You have to do something fundamentally different and that is going to cause a business-model change. There is no way around it. People have to do things differently than they're doing it now."
And differently they are. Recently, Norway's Robotic Drilling Systems AS, formerly Seabed Rig, developed an innovative autonomous robotic drilling rig for unmanned drilling operations. The company claims that the new system, Robotic Drilling System (RDS), sets new standards with increased safety and cost-effective planning and drilling and can be implemented on existing, as well as new drilling structures, both offshore and on land. The company has taken their product a step further by signing an information-sharing agreement with NASA to discover what it might learn from the rover Curiosity.
Currently, the RDS utilizes autonomous robotic working operations that can be remotely controlled from an interactive 3D interface, which NASA has done for quite some time. The Mars rover is designed to collect data and take action on its own based on programmed reasoning. The industry is looking to replicate NASA's technological success by making drill bits more intelligent and able to respond instantly to any conditions they may encounter.
"You're seeing a new track in the industry emerging," said van Oort. "This is going to blossom."
However, many in the industry argue that automation cannot be applied to drilling because it is an art form that needs human guidance.
"The business model is mostly driven by the operator," said Rogers. "For contractors and service companies, their business model has traditionally been centered on a day rate service. They don't have much of a motivation to change, but they will have to."
As many would agree, in order for the industry to see growth, changes will have to occur.
"Service providers and drilling contractors will have to adjust their business model," he lamented. "How they view it will determine how successful they will be. There were companies in the process control industry that struggled against this change, and they saw double-digit market shares go down to single digits."
"All industries have unique problems," said Rogers. "Sure, some of drilling's challenges and issues are a little bit different, but many of them are common to other industries. Don't focus on the different ones, focus on the common ones and let's make some progress."
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Syamsul Arifin | Jan. 2, 2013Looking forward to see if this robotic drilling system will work out well on the field. Probably it will take a lot of time to perfecting it operation. Will this be another "black swan" of the oil field, or just another "creative invention" that will be not applicable on field..? I appreciate the engineers (& company) who build/develop this; and also appreciate the guys whom had doing this job for many years!
dlw | Jan. 2, 2013Amoco wanted to simulate (pre-spud) wells using geologic data and drilling bit performance. The logic was you can simulate airplanes. Problem: Actually more variables than ever considered or practical to model. How will you accomodate worn seals in a tool? Gauled threads on a tool joint? Interference of moving equipment? stabilizer blades falling off? You "will" have human intervention and maintenance issues that require as many people but of another skill. Modern automatic pipe handling and 6th gen pipe handling systems are still slower than a good driller and a man in the derrick. And heaven forbid you get to an operation that has not been simulated or a step in your completions that requires an elevator changeout!
Digger | Jan. 2, 2013Would that be "I got my hand caught in the chain and oft went my fingers"? A lot of work has been done. Only downside compared to automation in a typical plant is that the drilling plant tends to move a lot with wear and tear on instruments and wiring in harsh conditions. 100% yes to good automation and robotics - increased efficiency and safety!
gwr | Jan. 2, 2013how about replacing the book worms that havent worked hard or gotten dirty or the work over hands that dont belong here anyway.As far as the new hands--- werent you ever a new roughneck or did you already know it all. Just remember we all have to make a living.Ive been here working for over 44 yrs. and Im not ready for my rocking chair yet,and yes I have broken out my share of new hands and do not mind if they are willing to work.As far as injurys they happen in all jobs.
R. Morgan | Jan. 2, 2013I have been working on 5th/6th generation semis/ drillships for over 5 years and efficient is not a word that comes to mind. These new cyber drilling rigs are all haunted with software, electrical and mechanical glitches and failures. For years it has been known that labor is one of the cheapest expenses in offshore drilling but they are continuously trying to phase us out. This is only about companies like Robotic Drilling Systems trying to cash in on oil money. You should see in person how well this automated equipment works that comes out of Norway from companies like Aker Solutions and NOV. It is nothing short of comical !!!
Scott Petrie | Jan. 2, 2013To make Automation on rigs a reality there must be an ecconomic driver. These include from first principles the distibution of knowlege over a larger data set. People and knowlege could be used more efficiently by combining automation with rael time data and rig control centers. This means reduction in crew sizes, reduction in personnel insurance costs. It does not mean there wont be jobs for rig workers. We still need people to control, monitor and maintain these systems. It will mean the increase in efficiency of an industry which is stuck in the stone age.
Ashraf Saadeh | Jan. 1, 2013Change is a must in order to improve overall drilling performance and optimized rates of penetration as drilling solutions have almost reached the end, I believe Robotic Drilling System is a good idea however we still need human guidance and experience as in drilling you will face variable unexpected obstacles, Automation System cant handle that due to the limited information programmed in it.
Ron Anderson | Jan. 1, 2013Automated drilling has been a long time coming and I, for one, am glad to see it happening. The operators have been talking safety a long time but still hire rigs that should never be allowed to operate. One of the other problems is a twenty year span (1986 to 2006) where very little new blood was hired and now we have a shortage of experienced personnel. We drillers took the risks as part of the job. It should not have to be that way. Money is the driving force behind oil and that is as it should be. Robotics is not going to make it cheaper, just more efficient and safer. Its about damn time.
xpatnola | Jan. 1, 2013GWR---the people who pay for it will always be the consumer, just the way it is now. Its just the jobs in the field that will change. Its hard to say based on this article how far that will go, but the new roughneck will be the robot operator, and I can see floor operations narrowed down to two or three people. I work for a major service company, running MWD/LWD since 94. Im in the TX panhandle now, and Ive been all over the US, Canada and Alaska. Ive always had huge respect for the floorhands, and always thought you were underpaid for what you do. But sure as flex rigs replaced kelly rigs, change is gonna come. Either get on that train or get out of the way.
Darren Heal | Jan. 1, 2013Automated drilling is not a new idea. The RA-D (Rig Automation - Drilling) joint industry program of the 1980s / 90s showed some way forward and a RA-D rig was built at the Bridge of Don drilling school in Aberdeen. Th RA-D failed to deliver primarily because it relied on "strongbacks" to store drill pipe off the drill floor, eating up valuable topside acreage and weight capacity. Financing was pulled due to the depressed price of oil in the late 90s and that was that. Taking the human out of the drilling process isnt going to happen any time soon, but integrated mechanization of drill pipe and casing handling could have a dramatic effect in reducing lost finger type accidents and expert systems and "intellegent" drilling will reduce accidents caused by unexpected downhole conditions.
| Jan. 1, 2013Days of tongs bangin against drillpipe,the throwin a spinning chain,and the sound of a derrickman latching a stand of drillpipe? is going to be a thing of the past to bad and very very sad?? "OLD SCHOOL" and good men to be replaced by computers and computer geeks?? who in the years to come will talk "S--T" about how tough there job is??? YEP?? its all about the evil $$$$ goodbye to all these good payin jobs??? Yall might as well strike from the oilfield termanalogy the words,ROUGHNECK,MOTORMAN,DERRICKMAN,DRILLER,TOOLPUSHER,and espically the term word "OFT" and if you dont know what it stands for then you Damn sure have never worked on a old Mech Kelly Drilling Rig??
GWR | Jan. 1, 2013Sure why not lay everyone off and let robots work,whos paying your bills. Whos going to pay for all the robots , and repairs on them.The only answer I come up with is the consumer.
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Australian shares are expected to firm when the market opens on Monday, bolstered by Wall Street closing at record highs as investors turn their attention to a private survey of Chinese factory activity.
Despite losing ground on Friday, the S&P/ASX 200 Index and the All Ordinaries Index both added 0.3 per cent last week to 5417.5 and 5401.6 points respectively.
But with only six trading days left this financial year equity strategists are cautious in their outlook for the local market over the coming months, against a backdrop of conflicts in Iraq and Ukraine that may disrupt global energy markets.
"Some nervousness seems to be building about company reporting season in August," Citi's Australian head of investment strategy Tony Brennan said. "That isn't surprising, given the federal budget, weak iron ore prices and a few profit warnings, mostly from retailers."
Compared with other years, the number of profit warnings had been modest, which could reflect better business conditions over the past six to nine months, he said.
"But given a recent slippage in consumer confidence there could be a late rush of corporate confessions," Mr Brennan said.
On Sunday, the SPI 200 Futures Index was indicating the S&P/ASX 200 would open 0.2 per cent higher on Monday.
A flash reading of the HSBC Chinese manufacturing purchasing managers index for June, due for release at 11.45 am AEST, is expected to be the main catalyst for Australian shares on the day and set the tone for the week ahead.
Consensus forecasts predict the index will rise 0.4 points from May's reading of 49.4 to 49.8 points, just shy of the 50-point level that indicates when the rate of growth within the sector is starting to speed up rather than slow down.
The spot price of iron ore, delivered in China, recovered 1.4 per cent last week, after slumping 25 per cent since mid-April. Over the weekend Dalian iron ore futures trading indicated the spot price for the steel-making ingredient was set to gain another 1.2 per cent on Monday night.
On London's FTSE on Friday BHP Billiton added 0.5 per cent but Rio Tinto edged down 0.1 per cent.
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Hogenson says investigators are working to document the scene and clear the wreckage. A preliminary report is expected in five days, followed by a fuller report with a probable cause in up to a year.
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Apple ready to air two new iPhone 5 ads for Thanksgiving, watch them here
0. phoneArena posted on 21 Nov 2012, 04:35
With Thanksgiving right around the corner, Apple is ready to air a couple of new iPhone 5 ads bringing the spirit of turkey, pie and family…
This is a discussion for a news. To read the whole news, click here
1. Mr_Hyde (Posts: 20; Member since: 20 Nov 2012)
Like em' or not, they know how to market their products.
15. Aeires (unregistered)
Apple commercials are great the first two or three times seeing them, then they just become obnoxious. Fortunately I Tivo and fast forward through them most of the time.
32. E.N. (Posts: 2610; Member since: 25 Jan 2009)
You can say the same for pretty much all commercials.
2. PhoneArenaUser (Posts: 5498; Member since: 05 Aug 2011)
I'm already waiting for new parodies! :D
3. Mr_Hyde (Posts: 20; Member since: 20 Nov 2012)
Same here. Those are great!
29. InspectorGadget80 (unregistered)
SAME HERE can't wait
4. davenycept (Posts: 200; Member since: 03 Jul 2012)
I agree..apple's marketing is unparalleled.. They take something that has been out for months even sometimes years by andriod but make it appear revolutionary
8. darkkjedii (Posts: 24906; Member since: 05 Feb 2011)
What I like is how u Cleverly disguised your comment as a general comment when actually it was just another tired iOS versus android comment . Good job
11. chaoticrazor (Posts: 2347; Member since: 28 Aug 2012)
well symbian had everything you brag about before android whats your point? differance is symbian users dont care where as android users have to try shove it in other peoples face
23. E.N. (Posts: 2610; Member since: 25 Jan 2009)
can you elaborate? I didn't think any/many other phones had 3 microphones and the ability to share photo streams directly from photo/gallery app.
5. goflet (Posts: 50; Member since: 31 Oct 2011)
please god forbid taking pictures holding the phone portrait .
6. Even4steven (Posts: 43; Member since: 03 Aug 2012)
Instead, maybe they should just have kids dancing around with the product, and showing no benefits or features...
7. AlexYouOC (Posts: 53; Member since: 19 Jun 2012)
Im just waiting for the day that Apple brings widgets to iOS.... I can only imagine how that ad campaign would go smhhhhh
9. loyals (Posts: 129; Member since: 10 Nov 2012)
it's classy like an iphone !
10. darkkjedii (Posts: 24906; Member since: 05 Feb 2011)
This android vs iOS crap has gotten so tired. Can we let it end???
13. chaoticrazor (Posts: 2347; Member since: 28 Aug 2012)
nope it wont end, my theory is that when android was the underdog you had the select few using it, now its on top everyones jumped on just like they did with the iphone, no one can deny the iphone was as much a trend as a phone
so now your gonna see role reversal, the android fans will become arrogant and think there os and google are gods gift and others like wp8, bb etc will be the underdogs
what no one seems to get is no os is far superior for every person, each has there own needs, but apparently this doesnt come into it. plus you have the android lot acting like there part of android which is just how the ifans acted
role reversal
14. darkkjedii (Posts: 24906; Member since: 05 Feb 2011)
U r rite bro. 100% agreed. Damn good post.
16. Aeires (unregistered)
iFans should never have started it in the first place.
18. chaoticrazor (Posts: 2347; Member since: 28 Aug 2012)
started what? so basically because a few users on here trolled and were apple fanatics, everything apple must be slated at every available time and the android fans must act like those ifans
thats a childish line- you started it basically so we are gonna do the same to everyone else
24. Aeires (unregistered)
iFans on just about every tech site on the planet ragged on Android users, and to some extent W8 users now. Before the iPhone, people got along much better than they did in regards to cell phone tech.
And my statement never condoned anything, just stating the obvious.
25. chaoticrazor (Posts: 2347; Member since: 28 Aug 2012)
you cant blame fanboyism on the iphone alone
so whats your thoughts on android fans doing the same thing to iphone users and wp8 users and bb users ?
whats your thoughts on them going on every windows/bb article to say how crap it is and how amazing android is, how if you choose anything else your an idiot?
28. Aeires (unregistered)
None of it should be allowed, much blame to every tech site that didn't ban people from acting like d-bags. My point is a lot of iFans have bad karma because they acted, and still do act like aholes to people who use cell phones that aren't iPhones. And I've seen Android and W8 users act like dbags also, they're no better and I report a lot of comments that aren't necessary.
From all the groups I've read comments from, WebOS and BB users are the most laid back and non-confrontational of the bunch. IMO, iOS is the most condescending and I feel Android users just reached a point where being condemned on a regular basis pushed some over the edge to lash back. I see some W8 users reaching that point as well.
Tech sites need to be more strict but it would negatively impact page hits so it's likely to never happen. I left a lot of tech sites because it was the same thing every day, the same people saying the same condescending things, article after article. Nothing beneficial was ever brought to the conversation by these individuals and nothing was ever done to stop it and it continues mostly unchecked. It's not as bad here but I still SMH why some people are allowed to keep commenting the way they do.
19. EclipseGSX (Posts: 1743; Member since: 18 Oct 2011)
There's the door bro. No one is forcing you to come here and read the comments or comment yourself. Quit whining QQ
20. p0rkguy (Posts: 685; Member since: 23 Nov 2010)
This feud will end when a different one rises.
Canon vs Nikon.
Honda vs Toyota.
Android vs iOS.
Windows vs OSX.
Pepsi vs Coca Cola.
Google vs Yahoo!.
Xbox vs PlayStation.
It's when there isn't a feud when companies should be worrying about their product/services. It's even better when fans express their loyalty. Loyalty like that is hard to obtain for businesses. Arguments don't end, they just go somewhere else.
Battles like this will go on for a couple more years with mobile devices being mainstreamed as it is right now.
21. chaoticrazor (Posts: 2347; Member since: 28 Aug 2012)
its not layalty its when this loyalty seems to make them think they can slate people and insult them, keep saying negative things on every article to the point of obsession and just been a fanboy on a new level
laoyalty is one thing, whats happening on here is different. its sad as us the customers shouldnt be arguing or ''battling'' with each other as we arent involved in the products we just buy them. buying a product doesnt then entitle you to attack everyone else who does agree or use that product
why cant there be normal conversation without the stupid comments like ''android ftw'' or ''apple rules'' or '' its the best phone in the world'' etc everyones seen comments like this
26. p0rkguy (Posts: 685; Member since: 23 Nov 2010)
Okay, let's try it in a way you can understand.
What ever your religion is, it's wrong. Mine is right. Religion is simple and available for everyone. You just chose the wrong one.
Don't worry people aren't killing one another over religion though. /s
A customer doesn't buy something they don't believe in, whether it is better or worse. People here are only expressing their opinions at an ignorant level, but that applies to everything.
27. chaoticrazor (Posts: 2347; Member since: 28 Aug 2012)
in a way i can understand, your very condescending mate.
comparing religion to tech isnt working, as religion has been the basis of many peoples lives whether right or wrong. tech is something we buy into but we dont need to be ignorant and offensive to others.
sure i get what you mean but it doesnt really excuse how bad we ( as so called techy people) are getting. half on here look down at the general public who dont have as much an interest in tech as them calling them stupid etc
this is why i dont want to be associated with anyone on here, arrogance in bucket loads and fanboyism on a new level.
and i dont believe in my tech i buy what i like and what suits me. again i then dont shove my choices down other peoples throats like they do on here
30. p0rkguy (Posts: 685; Member since: 23 Nov 2010)
It's clearly working if you're stating it's the basis of people's lives. Cell phones? I guess you don't need them right?
31. chaoticrazor (Posts: 2347; Member since: 28 Aug 2012)
what? religion is the basis of some peoples lives i said . and theres a differance between religion and tech. religion becomes a defining factor in your life where as tech doesnt. tech is just something we use/consume.
if tech plays a religous level of importance in your life somethings wrong
12. Fallout09 (Posts: 421; Member since: 17 Oct 2011)
Again, Apple is showing off old features as something new and great. Panorama anyone? But noise canceling mics? They have been been on cell phones for years. Photo stream? Again, been around for a while but still not as cool as Samsung's Shareshot feature.


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I've been intrigued by the idea of unraveling old sweaters to reclaim the yarn for other projects for awhile now. And with my plans to attempt yarn dyeing in the near future, the two notions seem to dovetail nicely. What better thing than to unravel a thrift store sweater, dye it, and then make into a very cool, completely different object?
So yesterday morning I took a box of old clothes to Unique Thrift Store. Of course, it was just an excuse to go dig through the sweaters. I came away with five, four of which are dyeable with labels like Banana Republic, Express and even a super soft Ralph Lauren angora. The fifth is a soft, dark mottled acrylic that I can't dye since it's not an animal fiber. I just liked the yarn. Those five sweaters cost me a whopping $15. I figure that for $3 a pop, I don't really care if my initial attempts at unraveling are complete disasters.
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Basically, I wound these into balls as I pulled the yarn out of the sweater, then wheeled it onto my swift, which was attached to the back of a chair so that it ran kind of like a ferris wheel. Tied it off in three places to keep it from getting tangled, twisted them all up and voila.
Later, I soaked them in a dish soap solution, then let them hang dry to get the kinks out:
Yes, those are canned goods that I'm using for weights. (And no, I haven't taken down my Christmas stockings yet. Shut up.) Once they're straight and dry, they'll be twisted back up into hanks until I'm ready to dye them.
I'm hoping I can accomplish something a bit like this yarn by tilly4u on Ravelry. It was done entirely with Kool-Aid and food coloring. Gorgeous.
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During this year's Maker Faire, geeky chocolate maker Tcho Chocolate was performing a taste-test. Passerbys were given a sample of A, and a sample of B, and had to tell which they preferred.
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In 2005 I decided to seek out professional help for some personal struggles that I was trying to manage on my own - without success. It was one of the best decisions I've made and so began a personal journey on a path that I am still traveling. This journey has led me out of a dry, often dark place into a world full of color and growth. I have chosen to express this journey through my renewed interest in photography and poetry. So I share this book with friends, family and all those who see and hear meaning in photography and poetry. (or you can just enjoy the photos!) I hope this book connects with the words of your own story. I would be glad to hear of its impact on you and about your journey as well. In the hard cover version you will find a link to more of my photography and an email on my web site by which to correspond. Thank you for taking a look. Martin
Features & Details
- Category Arts & Photography
Standard Landscape, 10×8 in, 25×20 cm
40 Pages
- Publish Date Jan 19, 2007
- Tags Martin Osborn, Illumination, Illuminations, close-up, flowers, healing, macro, martinphotos, nature, photobook, photography, recovery
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Websites often use photography to relay their message to visitors. In some cases, photos combined with some short text make a comprehensive story.
In the US, August is typically the hottest month and often called "Dog Days," maybe due to all the dogs panting in the heat of the day. In celebration of Dog Days, our August Photo Challenge is a tribute to man's best friend, our dogs.
This is a two part challenge:
To start things off:
In Winona, every Sunday a group of dog lovers take our dogs to the "Dog Park". Some Sundays, there are 30 to 40 dogs running around the park together. My dog, Bailey, is the Airedale Terrier in this photo. Can you pick him out of the crowd?
Hello Ms. Linda,
I have clarification:Are sitepoint members allowed to upload photos of their own pet? Even though they are not an official photographers? If so, then, they are to upload it here in this thread, right?
I'm just a bit uncertain about the instruction. Thank you very much.
It may be your own pet or a photo that you have taken of a dog. Follow the other directions, as well. Your photo must contain a description of the activity of the dog, which gave you the reason for taking the photo. Of course the reason cannot be just to upload a photo.
"So close yet so far away"
Thanks for the photo, I like it! Could you please describe it. See the first post in this thread. For instance, what is your dog's name and is he wanting to get in or waiting for someone to come out?
We'd like all members to suggest captions in a thread which will later be put into the General discussion forum. We'd like our photographers to tell us a bit about the dog in the photo and what he/she is doing.
Well Sam my springer spaniel sadly passed away 2 years this november, but I have very fond memories of him. If you look closely at the small window directly above the french door, theres a racing pigeon randomly perched on a 1cm ledge! Obviously the pigeon had got disorientated and had split from its racing group, and landed on our patio window.(This has never happened before and has never happened since!) Ive got a video and many other photos to accompany this.I remember Sam was in his element as the poor pigeon was just teasing him, as Sam was on his rope, thus "so close yet so far away".
It is absolutely horrible to lose a pet, isn't it? Fortunately you were clever enough to make sure you captured some memories in photos! I am so glad that you posted this! I didn't see the pigeon the first time I looked. It makes a HUGE difference in the story that the photo tells.
We rescued this Black Lab about 5 years ago. My wife named him "Gonzo" and he is now about 13 years old.
Last Christmas our neighbor brought a box of cookies for us and a box of dog treats for our three dogs.
Gonzo could tell there was something good-to-eat in the package and began tearing at the paper.In this photo, he is taking a rest; the old man tires easily.
'Rosy' is a Rescued Rotweiler who loves to watch the activity of small animals (squirrels, birds, Peacocks we have in our neighborhood) in the yard.In this photo she is framed against a statue we have in the yard of a Labrador Retriever (can you tell we are dog lovers?).I took this photo on our second day in the new house - as she was discovering the world that existed in our 'new' backyard.
Rosy is really lovely. I have a soft spot for Rottys. Bailey's first dog friend was a Rottweiler named Skylar. Bailey is an Oolong Airedale Terrier - a super-sized Airedale, which is itself the largest breed of Terrier. Skylar is the German strain of Rotty, which is smaller than the American bred Rottweiler. Ironically, because of this, the two are still just about the same size. I don't have a recent photo of Skylar, but this one shows the two of them at play when they first met.
They look like the best of friends there.
It appears Skylar was dragging the rug, Bailey knew that was a naughty thing to do and is trying to STOP Skylar because "Mom" is watching.Just like two children at play when they realize they have been caught doing wrong.
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Our Best Pork Recipes
Pork Chops with Curried Plum Glaze and Grilled Plums
This fruity spin on barbecued pork chops is special enough for company but ready in less than 45 minutes. For a complete meal, pair the recipe with a rice salad or simple steamed green beans or broccoli.
Roasted Pork with Apple-Walnut Salsa
Who knew a pork shoulder seasoned with just salt and pepper could be so scrumptious? The recipe comes chef Marshall Paulsen of Minneapolis' Birchwood Cafe. The salsa recipe makes a very generous amount of the apple salsa, about 4 cups. It will keep fine for a day or so in the refrigerator to eat with leftovers, or just halve the recipe if you don't think you'll use it all. Any leftover pork makes a mean sandwich.
This moist pork roast preps quickly, then grills slowly as the herbs and garlic tucked inside work their way throughout the meat, leaving a blast of Italian flavor. Originally published in Midwest Living in 1992, it made our list of all-time best recipes in 2012.
Milk-Braised Pork with Cheesy Grits
There are a lot of ingredients in this spruced-up comfort-food dish, but trust us, it's worth the effort for a weekend treat. The recipe from Michael Watz of Chicago was a finalist in our Best of the Midwest® recipe contest.
Grilled Pork with Cranberry Chutney
This sweet-and-savory recipe features a Circle B Ranch product called Marina's Cranberry Chutney. Buy it at circlebranch.com or just substitute another chutney.
Shredded Pork Posole
Hominy is the signature ingredient in this traditional, chililike Mexican soup.
Spice-Rubbed Pork Tenderloin
Pumpkin-pie spice gives an autumnal twist to a classic brown sugar barbecue rub in this simple, oven-roasted tenderloin.
Sticky Asian Pork Wrap
A $1,000 winner in our annual recipe contest, this colorful sandwich from Lori McLain of Denton, Texas, is a flavor twist on a classic Midwestern tenderloin sandwich.
Balsamic Pork with Potato Pierogi
A simple balsamic reduction dresses up pork tenderloin and frozen pierogi (stuffed Polish noodle dumplings).
Lemon-Rosemary Pork Loin with Cherry Sauce
The classic fruit and pork combo gets a bold update: Slather the meat with a paste of garlic, mustard, lemon and rosemary, then serve with ruby red cherries. This recipe multiplies easily for entertaining.
Pork Tenderloin with Mushrooms and Onions
You can have this comforting winter supper dish on the table in less than an hour, but it's nice enough to serve to company with steamed veggies and mashed potatoes. The recipes comes from Gunflint Lodge in Grand Marais, Minnesota.
Garlic Pork and Sweet Potato Hash
Get dinner on the table in 30 minutes with this one-skillet pork and sweet potato recipe.
Chinese Five-Spice Marinated Pork Satay
Although it sounds like it would be burn-your-mouth-hot, the five-spice powder in this fall comfort food is actually a mild blend that commonly consists of star anise, anise seed, cloves, cinnamon and ginger.
Hominy-Pork Stew
Boneless pork shoulder, navy beans, hominy and salsa blend into a zesty slow-cooker dish. Serve with lime wedges, if you like.
Slow-Cooker Carnitas Tacos
Cumin- and orange-perfumed pulled pork tastes great topped with sliced green onion, jicama and our salsa verde.
Skillet Pork and Apple Mini Meat Loaves
Patrice Hurd of Bemidji, Minnesota, says this moist, sweet and tangy comfort food reminds her of Sunday dinner at her grandmother's in northern Minnesota. Best of all, it's fast.
Skillet Pork and Apple Mini Meat Loaves
Cranberry-Stuffed Pork Chops
Savory sage in the stuffing mix meets cranberries in this easy pork chop recipe.
Pulled Pork Sandwiches with Root Beer
A surprise ingredient, root beer, adds sweetness to this roast and its dark sauce. Try leftover pork in quesadillas or stir it into ramen noodles.
Wine-Marinated Pork Roast
Garlic, fennel, fresh herbs and white wine infuse this pork roast with flavor. If you like, set aside half the meat to make Thai-Style Pork Salad later in the week. Pimiento Corn Muffins, mashed potatoes and broccoli make perfect sides.
Lynn's Best Herb-and-Garlic Pork
Midwest Living Test Kitchen Director Lynn Blanchard prepares her pork roast with garlic and fresh-from-her-garden herbs. Lynn recommends that you not peek at the roast during grilling: Opening the lid slows cooking.
Pork Chops with Red Cabbage and Rhubarb
Usually you would pair apple with red cabbage and pork chops, but in this summer twist, we swapped in rhubarb. The whole meal is ready in 20 minutes.
Crispy Honey-Mustard Pork Chops
A quick chill in the fridge lets the marinade thicken and adhere to the pork chops. Serve the chops with Sweet Beet Chutney.
Coconut-Crusted Pork Tenderloin
Macadamia nuts and coconut add crunchy texture to tender pork. Try topping the dish with chopped mango or pineapple.
Pork and Veggie Oven Stew
Thyme, oregano and lemon-pepper seasoning flavor this oven-baked stew, which includes potatoes, pork, corn and green beans. Like even more corn? We love corn muffins with this dish.
Apple Cider Pulled Pork
Easy pulled pork bursts with apple flavor. The secret? Add cider into the slow cooker with the pork as well as in the barbecue sauce.
Sweet Potato and Pork Skillet
Maple syrup sweetens this easy meal in a skillet. Fresh fruit or a tossed salad completes the meal.
Cuban Pork Wraps
Slow-cooked pork shoulder roast turns to a tender shredded meat filling for flour tortillas.
Bun-Buster Tenderloin
You'll need two hands and a hearty appetite to tackle this king-size sandwich of battered and fried pork tenderloin. It's our version of the deli tenderloin sandwiches popular in pork-producing states such as Iowa, Illinois and Indiana.
Pork Chops with Pear-Maple Sauce
Maple syrup and pears blend for a tasty accompaniment to skillet-cooked chops. This cut of meat cooks quickly.
Sweet on a Pig
Cider-molasses marinade perks up slices of grilled pork loin in this sizable sandwich.
Roasted Pork with Jamaican Snapdragons
Rum, raisins and sweet pork tenderloin flavor this Caribbean-inspired dish from the Deadwood Social Club in Deadwood, South Dakota.
Classic Schnitzel
The Bavarian Inn in Hermann, Missouri, prepares this Old World pork cutlet classic with style. For schwein schnitzel, add the sour cream sauce (included with recipe).
Pork Marsala
Saute thin-sliced pork tenderloin, then serve it with tomato-rich Marsala sauce, generously flecked with garlic. The recipe comes from Ohio's Shawnee State Park Resort near the town of Friendship.
Marinated Pork Tenderloin
Marinated pork tenderloin makes a perfect company-special grilled meat. It's lean, cooks fast and tastes great.
Rolled Spinach Pork Loin
Roll a filling of bacon, chopped spinach and Parmesan cheese in pork loin roast to create this main dish, from Turkey Run Inn in Terre Haute, Indiana. When checking the temp of this roast, move the thermometer around so it's resting in meat, not filling.
Thyme Pork Chops
For this easy entree, just brush thick pork chops with a flavorful marinade of herb and olive oil, and then roast until done. Serve with cheesy Glad Tidings Potatoes. Both recipes come from the Latchstring Restaurant overlooking South Dakota's Spearfish Canyon.
Bavarian Pork Roast
For more German flavor, heat a can of Bavarian-style sauerkraut to serve with the seasoned slow cooker pork and tangy sour cream gravy.
Blueberry Pork
The recipe for this savory blueberry-and-onion sauce comes from the Blueberry Festival in Marshall, Indiana.
Pork Lombo
Season pork tenderloin with a rub of ground chili and mustard seed. The Brazilian-style roasted meat is served over seasoned beans and spinach.
Pineapple Pork Chili
This five-ingredient dinner, flavored by ground pork or beef and pineapple salsa, goes together in just 20 minutes.
Bigger and Better Saucy Pork Chops
This easy, six-ingredient recipe features pork chops slow-cooked in the oven and topped with a sweet-tangy red sauce.
Hearty Pork-and-Ale Stew
Root vegetables, apples and tomatoes simmer with melt-in-your-mouth pork sirloin for a robust stew.
Lemony-Soy Herbed Pork Tenderloins with Rice Pilaf
Wayne Santi of LaGrange, Illinois, cooks gourmet food on the go for cyclists on RAGBRAI, the Register's Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa. He's made these two recipes for the ride. "The lemon-oregano flavor with the meat's juices cannot be beat," Wayne says. Vegetables and seasonings give the rice side dish a boost of flavor.
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Editor's note: This column is the third installment in a four-part series looking at the divisiveness in the U.S. Congress and offering possible solutions.
I ask you to imagine that you are thinking about running to become a legislator, a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. Perhaps you have had a successful career, and you want to "give back" by serving your home district and your country. It's a "Mr. Smith goes to Washington" thought you are having.
By Dean Dalvit
It was disheartening to see George Long's seemingly accusatory letter in last week's Courier. I was surprised that Mr. Long was unable to find any information about the Downtown Evergreen Economic District and its voluntary 1 percent fund-raising program, the Evergreen Legacy Fund, before writing his letter. However, he poses excellent questions, and we are happy to respond. It's always good to remind the community about what we're doing and how we're doing it. So, to answer each of Mr. Long's questions:
When I was a junior at Steamboat Springs High School in 1975, there was a huge controversy when the Boulder County clerk began issuing same-sex marriage licenses. It was a national story, but it was really big news in Steamboat, as the clerk had grown up there and her father was the longtime clerk in our county.
Editor's note: This column is the second installment in a four-part series that will look at the divisiveness in the U.S. Congress and offer possible solutions.
By Jim Rohrer
Have you ever participated in any type of athletic contest in which you feel that the deck is stacked against you or your team? Maybe your opponent's advantage is technically within the rules, but something about the advantage seems unfair. Someone pushed the rules to the limit.
Leading up to the Republican gubernatorial primary June 24, the Colorado Springs Gazette ran an editorial May 19 urging candidates Mike Kopp and Scott Gessler to drop out of the race to ensure that Bob Beauprez would win the nomination over Tom Tancredo. The Gazette argued that Tancredo was not a viable candidate in the general election and that Gov. John Hickenlooper's re-election would be a sure thing if Tancredo became the Republican nominee.
As long as I've lived in Evergreen, and that's 28 years now, there has been an upside and a downside to being unincorporated. The upside is simple to see: We don't have an additional layer of government, nor do we bear the costs of one. There are so many generous, committed, civic-minded citizens and nonprofits here that we don't usually need a mayor or a council.
Maybe they just got tired of being called the new conservative majority.
How else can you explain school board members Ken Witt, John Newkirk and Julie Williams voting to pay, including performance incentives, new superintendent Daniel McMinimee almost 40 percent more than his predecessor and to give him a five-year contract despite the fact that he's never been a superintendent before? The decision doesn't meet any definition of conservative I've ever heard.
Board majority disregarding community
Parents and citizens of Jefferson County ought to feel outraged at the recent actions of the new majority members of the school board. Let's see. What's happened so far this year?
• A decision to provide all-day, paid kindergarten at Lasley Elementary in Jeffco is on the chopping block, something parents and community members of this county had already voted on and approved.
Just because it's legal doesn't mean it's right. Or, perhaps more importantly, smart.
When the Jefferson County Board of Education designated Daniel McMinimee as the sole finalist to serve as the new superintendent of schools, it met the requirements of Colorado law. What the board — or, more specifically, the board's majority of Ken Witt, John Newkirk and Julie Williams — didn't do was to learn from earlier miscues that how you do things is just as important as what you do.
The 69th General Assembly completed its work last week and adjourned. There was considerably less acrimony than in the previous two years, and a variety of important issues made their way successfully through the process. During closing remarks Wednesday night just before the Senate adjourned, Minority Leader Bill Cadman of Colorado Springs went out of his way to praise Senate President Morgan Carroll for the way the Senate handled its work in 2014 in a more bipartisan fashion than had been the case in previous years.
"Follow him to hell!"
One of the more memorable things from my four springs as a student at Colorado State University was the annual pilgrimage to Fort Collins by a street preacher named Jed. Jed would place himself on the wall between the Social Sciences Building and the library and, at the top of his lungs, harangue any student in earshot about the terrible choices we were all making and the inevitable consequences of our transgressions.
I'm no union guy. I think the unions have generally outlived their usefulness in our country, and that's why only about 11 percent of American workers are union members, compared to nearly one-third in the early '70s. Today the majority of union members are employees in the public sector, where the relationship between employer and employee has always been more contractual than relational.
By Lesley Dahlkemper
School Board President
This article may sound like I'm bashing the President or taking political sides, which would violate my "View From the Middle" look at politics, but honestly, that's not how it is intended.
A fellow editor recently referred to me as an "excrement magnet"— and those of you familiar with editors know that this phrase has been modified for a family-friendly publication. I have found myself at ground zero for stories ranging from the JonBenet Ramsey slaying to the school shootings at Columbine and Platte Canyon high schools and Deer Creek Middle School.
Now that we've had a couple of weeks to digest election results, I find myself with observations about what we've seen and will see at all levels of government.
On a federal level, I'm hopeful that now President Obama has won another term and will never run for re-election again, that we'll find the necessary cooperation between the president and Congress to avert the fiscal cliff in the next few weeks and to address important issues more constructively going forward.
While there are many opinions about how we should educate our children in Jefferson County, we can all agree on one underlying principle — we care about our children, and we want the best for them.
Jeffco schools have struggled over the last three years to manage more than $60 million in state funding cuts without hurting kids. We have reduced costs, closed under-enrolled schools, trimmed staff, streamlined administration and cut compensation.
When Abraham Lincoln took to the podium on March 4, 1861, to deliver his first inaugural address, his country stood on the threshold of war. The divisions that had festered since the founding era now threatened to erupt into open conflict over the issue of slavery.
Yet Lincoln, who was far from neutral on the great question of his time, chose to use this occasion to sound a peaceful note.
Eight years later, it was an altered scene at Evergreen's downtown traffic light, where 15 people gathered to remember the ongoing war in Iraq. Although we were standing on the same bridge, we felt distant from those driving by. Now most of them are on their cell phones. The mood as indicated by friendly waves, while mostly apathetic, continues to tally overwhelmingly in favor of ending this long and fruitless war. There were the usual one or two head shakes.
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THE dark-stained, post-and-rail fencing and commanding driveways tell you Coolmore is no ordinary stud. Triple Melbourne Cup winner Makybe Diva and foal ramble in one paddock. Australia's champion sire Fastnet Rock, who could earn up to $50 million in covering fees this year, is in one of the barns. Statues of previous champions like Danehill and Encosta De Lago dot the lawns.
But Coolmore is threatened by coal mines on two fronts: the proposed Drayton South open-cut extension will come up to the ridge to the north, and the notorious Doyles Creek underground mine will come under the paddocks used to rear the stud's weanlings.
The conceptual plan, revealed in community consultations and canvassed at the recent annual meeting of Nucoal Resources, is to build a 500-metre tunnel under the Hunter River to join the Doyles Creek underground mine with the proposed Plashett open cut.
In Sydney last month, Nucoal's chairman, Gordon Galt, told a small group of shareholders about the so-called northern transport option: ''The key thing … is obviously, how does the government feel about having a tunnel under the Hunter River?
''It's not uncommon to have tunnels under rivers, or harbours, as the case may be, so we don't see that as an issue, but it will undoubtedly take them a little while to work their brains across the issue and progress it.''
The president of the Hunter Valley Water Users Association, Arthur Burns, says the outcome, should mining crack the Hunter riverbed, is unthinkable.
''It hasn't got to be a complete crack,'' he says. ''They can get leakages. The worst possible would be if it completely cracked. If it's a one-in-10-billion chance it's still too many.''
Mr Burns says everything below the Glennies Creek Dam depends on that water: the pipeline to the vineyards and golf courses of Pokolbin, the leading tourist area of the Hunter; the dairy farms; and the Ramsar-listed Hunter Estuary Wetlands.
Nucoal - whose receipt of an exploration licence for a training mine at Doyles Creek will be investigated by the Independent Commission Against Corruption in March - says there are environmental advantages to the plan, compared with a conveyor over the river, or an alternative ''southern transport'' trucking option.
For Coolmore, privately owned by the Magnier family, the main worry is subsidence from the Doyles Creek underground. Business manager Paddy Power explains that the weanlings paddocks have a gentle slope and undulations perfect for encouraging bone development and fitness of young horses. Mr Power says it is very difficult to find the right soil, topography, and access to water that make the Hunter Valley one of three recognised equine clusters in the world - alongside Newmarket in Britain and Kentucky in America.
''The carnival at Flemington, regarded as one of the greatest in the world, is sourced and fuelled by what happens on this farm here, and what happens on the farms up through the Hunter Valley.'' Mr Power says. ''This is where it all starts. You would hope that we'll do all we can as a nation to protect that.''
Mr Power says the Doyles Creek mine proposal will not be subject to the ''gateway'' assessment under the state government's ''failing'' Strategic Regional Land Use Policy, and contrasts the West Australian government's willingness to protect the Margaret River.
There is a precedent; a four-kilometre tunnel under the Hunter River at Anglo's Dartbrook mine, near Aberdeen, was built in the 1990s. More groundwater flowed into the mine than expected.
A Nucoal opponent, Ian Moore, who has a farm at Appletree flat near Coolmore, complains of a noticeable impact on water quality, which is already poor. ''It's clean up till there, and dirty the other side of it,'' Mr Moore says. That mine's closed down at present, but they are pumping water 24/7 which runs out of the Hunter River into that tunnel.
''If they put a tunnel underneath the Hunter River down at Jerry's Plains, there's no reason why the same thing won't happen again.''


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Mitsubishi Electric Automation offers a retrofit package to replace control systems currently using Meldasmagic 64 controls. The retrofit is a main control system designed to replace an existing industrial PC running on a Windows 95 or Windows NT platform. According to the company, the package can be used on any machine running a Magic64-based system, including horizontal and vertical lathes, vertical milling machines, and bridge mills.
The retrofit package consists of an M65S control unit, LCD screen, keypad and two power supplies, all mounted to a frame which bolts into the space of the existing control system. Communication and power cabling is included. The control system is fully compatible with existing hardware including servo and spindle systems as well as machine I/Os, the company says. It offers more than 60 options and is said to provide quicker boot-up times and improved reliability.


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Memories of John
Cicero, Illinois
I remember John telling me, when I was a young boy, that while he was stationed in Nebraska or the Dakotas before going to Europe, he knew a man named Flip Corkin who was a pilot. According to John Flip was the man that the comic strip "Steve Canyon" was patterned after.
While working for the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad in West Chicago, Illinois, a fire broke out in a roundhouse and a couple engines were in the building at the time. John went into the fire and drove the engines out, saving the company many thousands of dollars.
I have many great memories of John. He always had a smile on his face and something good to say about almost everyone.


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After Buying This Restaurant: 44 Restaurant & Barby Maria Russo in Shows, March 30th, 2014
Friends and Berkeley, Calif., locals Ramonn and Mark were disappointed in their neighborhood's lounge offerings, so they teamed up to open the ultimate swanky concept. Although Mark has vast experience in the restaurant industry, he and Ramonn would be novice owners, so they needed the help of Buy This Restaurant's Keith Simpson to track down the ideal location to launch their eatery. After visiting possible spaces in both Berkeley and San Francisco, they selected a prime corner location close to home and soon opened 44 Restaurant & Bar. Read on below for the first exclusive interview with Ramonn and Mark to find out how their business is doing today.
Congratulations on opening 44 Restaurant & Bar! How was the renovation process, and when did you open to customers?
Ramonn and Mark: We officially opened for business March 14, 2014. The renovations were a challenge, but exciting all along the way. We are very pleased with our finished product.


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The Crap We Missed – Friday 8.30.13
Welcome to Friday's The Crap We Missed which fittingly caps the week with the flat, white-girl ass that twerked the Internet into seizures. For the record, Miley, you weren't and will never even be close to doing this. Shut that shit down. We can all stop obsessing about that now and get back to our normal, civilized Internet behavior which yes, of course, means tearing apart these people for anything we can think of at all. There's Beyonce with her poor people bat Aunt GOOP made for Blue Ivy (Goddamnit, I hate even typing that.), Jared Leto and his asshole's silent cry for help, and Willie Geist who apparently is a sick sonofabitch. "Hey Brooke, you know how you're mentally unbalanced? Take a look at how pretty you used to be."
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A MAN who acted as a go-between to hand over a couple of deals of drugs in a police sting operation has been jailed for six months.
Christopher De Santos went to Faringdon Park with a friend who had agreed to get some heroin and cocaine for an undercover officer who had infiltrated a group of users.
The 25-year-old had the wraps for a few moments after being given them by Mkumbi Sokoni to hand over and admitted he was guilty of supply.
He was jailed because of his previous record and failure to comply with community sentences.
Claire Marlow, prosecuting, told Swindon Crown Court how the undercover operation was launched, targeting street suppliers among users in the town centre.
She said: "An undercover police officer using the name 'Jim' was involved in an operation trying to identify drug dealers within the area.
"On that occasion the co-defendant gave him two wraps to give to Jim during a meeting in the park. He accepts he knew he was in possession of heroin and cocaine for a few seconds: therefore he was guilty of the offence."
De Santos, of Culvery Court, admitted charges of supplying heroin and cocaine.
Miss Marlow said he had 'been before the courts many times' but the only pertinent matter was possessing class A drugs in March last year.
Rob Ross, defending, said De Santos was serving a suspended sentence for other matters that had been activated by magistrates after his arrest.
He said: "By his own volition he has used a custodial sentence he is presently serving, which will end at the beginning of March, to get himself completely clean.
"For the first time in probably ten years he is clean of all drugs including substitutes."
Jailing De Santos for six months, Judge Douglas Field said: "Your involvement in this was very minimal indeed. You were merely handed a couple of wraps which you handed to somebody else.
"It is depressing to see though you are 25 you are heavily convicted, not for class A drugs before this. I am going to impose the shortest custodial sentence I can.
"It has to be custody because of your previous compliance with non custodial sentences and in the past you have failed to take help offered by various agencies.
"I am delighted to hear today you are clean. Whilst you remain in prison for these months you must keep up your work with everyone in there and keep clean."
Sokoni, 23, of City Road, Bristol, admitted three counts of supplying heroin and three cocaine during a six-week period in August and September.
The judge released him on conditional bail to Friday, February 28, when he is to be sentenced for the offences.


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CINCINNATI (AP) -- A southwestern Ohio man is being charged in a serial rape case involving three women and a 15-year-old girl.
Thirty-nine-year-old Tony Pippin of Colerain is facing 21 felony charges, including rape, sexual battery, assault and pandering sexually oriented material involving a minor.
Pippin's Cincinnati attorney, Seth Tieger (TEE'-gur), did not immediately return a call for comment Monday.
Pippin already was in custody on unrelated robbery charges when he submitted voluntarily to a DNA test in hopes of becoming a police informant. Authorities say his DNA connects him to three rapes and an attempted rape in Delhi (DEHL'-heye) Township just west of Cincinnati.
Three women were attacked in separate incidents between April and September after leaving the same Delhi Township bar. Authorities say the teen was raped inside Pippin's home.


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HUNDREDS of people turned out for this year's Frogfest and the crowd were able to enjoy lots of good music, dancing and entertainment.
This is only the second time the Frogmoor Festival has been running and organisers, High Wycombe Business Improvement District Company, have hailed it success.
HWBIDCo's chief executive Oliver O'Dell said: "We were extremely pleased at how everyone already seems to regard Frogfest as a permanent annual fixture.
"The addition of a festival bar, temporary seating and a greater range of children's activities made sure people stayed around for most of the day.
"It is important to us that this event has real integrity as a local music festival, as well as being a good community day.
"Our acts on both stages delivered some great performances, which appealed to people of all ages, and must be congratulated.
"Frogfest is living proof that the BID company is steadily adding new, and tangible, benefits to High Wycombe. It also paves the way for spaces in the town centre to become more animated on a regular basis which will, in turn, benefit businesses commercially.
"This is our long term aim and one which relies on a positive perception of the town. Sunday certainly moved us in the right direction."
The festival started at about noon and carried on long into the night with the large crowds lapping up the bands on the two stages.
The Hartbeats Vitae African Drummers performed at the festival last year and they gave Wycombe a good rhythm for the whole of the day.
One couple, who were shopping in Wycombe, stopped in Frogmoor to enjoy the music and the 'carnival atmosphere'.
Tony Capaldi said: "We were just shopping here and we heard the noise so we walked through the alleyway to watch them perform.
"I have to say I am not a fan of all the stupid dancing from people watching but in all seriousness I think this sort of thing is a great way to bring the community together."
As well as the music and the many craft stalls set up, one of the main attractions was a circus company from Brighton.
The Shambolic Sideshow group who also performed in Frogmoor last year were a big hit with the crowds.
One of the company's performers said: "We really enjoy doing this sort of thing; we teach and perform so we can show people how to do certain tricks.
"We did come to Wycombe last year as well and we really like it, the children seem to be up for giving different things a go.
"We have all sorts of circus acts including the tightrope, trapeze, juggling, plate spinning, unicycle and hula hooping."
One parent who took his three children along to the event really enjoyed the atmosphere.
Yohan Blake and his son Theo Brown from Hatters Lane even attempted to walk the tightrope.
Mr Blake said: "That was really good nice to see people doing something together. It is all a bit of a laugh, my son seemed to like it."


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And when looking at referrer again it's something I wouldn't know where Google's crawler found them. See details here: http://www.corobori.com/sos/picTopVS.jpg
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Is very strange. How old is your domain. Try to watch if your robots.txt is properly configurated and rebuild sitemap.
The domain is about 3 years old and I have made little changes lately. Will check the robots.txt
Is it a autoblogs or do you have a php script that can go arise
Home made stuff written in VB.NET
That is proably it then
I know the problem is my code but I would like to know where.
In that case, you might get more help in the .NET forum. (You can click the orange flag on your post and ask a Moderator to move the thread for you, if you want.)
My bet is you have the sessions setup to fall back onto url mode. Googlebot don't take cookies so it generates urls for the bot to use to hold onto it's session.
All that said it looks real odd.


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ANIMALS and their antics are constantly hitting the headlines in Dorset.
Be it pets, wildlife or the mysterious phenomenon of the Dorset Big Cat, all creatures great and small have drawn in thousands of readers.
Here are our Top Ten Animal Stories. It's grrrrrrreat!
DODGER the cat lived the purrfect life hopping on and off buses in Bridport.
The fur dodger was known for enjoying life on the road on a number of buses around West Dorset, especially enjoying excursions on the X53 to Charmouth and back.
He was seen hopping on and off buses, sitting on passengers' laps as they wait and devouring discarded sandwiches.
But the 15-year-old cat, named after The Artful Dodger from the Charles Dickens's novel Oliver Twist, was not a stray - he returned to his home in Bridport each night to be fed.
Read the full story here: bit.ly/1bxUmZ7
AN ADOPTED black cat brought Weymouth FC good luck.
George the stray cat become an unofficial Terras mascot when he made a home for himself at the club.
The once emaciated cat was treated like a king. He was provided with a kennel at the top of the stands of the Bob Lucas stadium and would sleep there every night.
Read the full story here:bit.ly/L8xMzx
A TINY owl was nursed back to health by a Weymouth man after it caused a flap on a Royal Navy ship.
Lieutenant Chris Patrick spotted the Eurasian Scops owl cowering under the crane on the flight deck of HMS Illustrious while off the coast of Yemen.
The 44-year-old seaman took the creature to his cabin where he made a comfortable cage, gave it water and tried to feed it small pieces of meat to build up its strength.
Once his feathered friend had built up its strength, it was released into the skies.
Read the full story here: bit.ly/Mfy6Nu
A MORBIDLY obese moggy was entered into a slimming competition after ballooning to twice his ideal weight.
Supersized Dorchester cat Ulric, who once weighed a whopping 2st, lost 0.3kg after following a diet for six months.
Before his dramatic transformation, his owner Jan Mitchell said: "Ulric showed signs of being a large cat when he was still just a kitten.
"He would steal his sister's food and is best described as 'exercise-shy'.
"He gained weight most noticeably in the last couple of years – visitors often remark how big he is, especially as he's started to waddle like a pregnant woman."
Read the full story here: bit.ly/1fdeP9D
A PONY called Boozy was left with that morning after feeling after trapping his leg in a gate he was trying to jump at his farm.
The five-year-old was waiting to be fed and got 'over-excited', did a half jump and got stuck, James Macduff of the farm said.
Boozy sparked a major rescue operation with firefighters called to Winterborne Kingston to rescue him.
Left with a bandage on his leg and some swelling, Boozy swiftly recovered from his ordeal.
Read the full story here: bit.ly/1cuo99x
GERIATRIC quacker Drakey Lakey was thought to be Dorset's oldest duck when he passed away aged 26 years and four months.
The average life span of Drakey's breed - a harlequin cross – is 12 to 14 years.
Drakey Lakey, who lived with his Chickerell owners, was buried alongside his feathered companion Jemima in a special grave in the garden with three stone ducks on top.
NUMEROUS sightings of a 'big black cat' were reported to the Echo last year.
The creature was seen in fields off the A35 near Dorchester.
A motorist reported seeing large orange eyes reflected in his headlights one night.
A lorry driver from Somerset on his way to Bridport was driving on the A35 and looked to a field on the left, where he saw 'a large black panther.'
Read the full story here: bit.ly/Lo84Yq
A CREATURE believed to be a monkey was spotted on the loose in a Dorchester park.
Student Terri Leigh Cox photographed the primate scampering across Salisbury Fields in the county town.
She said: "It was such a shock, I couldn't believe what I was seeing at first.
"It was definitely a monkey because you could tell by its hunched back and the way it scampered across the field and up the tree."
The monkey drama was splashed across the pages of newspapers around the country after featuring in the Echo last year.
Read the full story here: bit.ly/1a1owce
GINGER the dog was taken to the nation's heart after she was dumped in Weymouth.
The loveable hound became a national celebrity when footage was beamed around the world of her being callously pushed out of a car on the Granby Industrial Estate.
Ginger was adopted by Southampton resident John Steele, and is enjoying a happy new life walking in the park and watching the pigeons.
Read the full story here: bit.ly/1e7lpAF
RANDY the dolphin became a Weymouth and Portland phenomenon as a regular visitor to Weymouth Harbour, Chesil Cove and Castletown in 2002.
Named because of his fondness for female bathers, the bottlenose dolphin also known as George became famous internationally for his antics.
Randy was believed to have been the first bottlenose to have crossed the Channel, following a Condor ferry from Jersey to get to the resort.
He eventually swam off to Devon and was spotted again five years later off Kimmeridge and in Weymouth Harbour.
Read the full story here: bit.ly/1dNQvqH
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Parish emergency officials complained to legislators Tuesday that a decrease in grant funding could diminish their storm readiness.
At issue is the Jindal administration's proposal to decrease emergency management program grant funding that goes to parishes. In the current fiscal year, the state took $2.1 million of a $5.5 million grant, leaving parishes with $3.4 million.
In the fiscal year that starts July 1, the state wants to keep $4.4 million of a $5.5 million grant, leaving parishes with $1.1 million.
Parish officials told the Louisiana House Appropriations Committee Tuesday that they rely on those dollars to operate their emergency centers, which ramped up after hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005.
"Getting us back in a pre-Katrina posture is a very dangerous situation for the state," said Dick Gremillion, who runs the Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness in Calcasieu Parish.
Jerry Sneed, deputy mayor of New Orleans, said he was surprised to hear Kevin Davis, director of the Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, tell legislators earlier this year that parishes would not be impacted by the funding change.
Sneed said Davis had a letter from parish officials stating their opposition.


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Fair Trade Apple Harvest Cocktail
What better way to celebrate the Holidays than by sipping on a Fair Trade cocktail? This recipe come to us from our friends FAIR. Spirits, a company dedicated to high quality ingredients that are sourced ethically and sustainably. FAIR. Quinoa Vodka is a one-of-a-kind spirit made with Fair Trade quinoa from Bolivia and expertly distilled in France. These drinks are sure to inspire you to host a Fair Trade cocktail party of your own! Let's toast to that!
Fair Trade Apple Harvest Cocktail
- 2 oz. FAIR. Quinoa Vodka
- 1.5 oz. apple juice
- 0.5 oz. maple syrup gastrique (recipe below)
- Dash of orange bitters
- Orange peel for garnish
Preparation Instructions
Mix ingredients in shaker with ice cubes. Serve neat with an orange garnish. Serve in a
martini glass or coupette.
Maple Syrup Gastrique
- 2:1 ratio of maple syrup to apple cider vinegar
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 6 cloves
- 8 peppercorns
Preparation Instructions
Combine all ingredients in a saucepan and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer for 10 minutes. Remove from heat. Take out spices and allow to cool. Store in fridge.
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Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault & Stalking: Paid Family Leave Benefits
Domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking survivors often need time off from work to care for a family member who has a serious health condition, whether mental or physical, which is caused or made worse by the abuse. The California Paid Family Leave Act provides employees who pay into the State Disability Insurance Program (SDI) with up to six weeks of partial pay each year to care for a child, parent, spouse or registered domestic partner with a serious health condition (or to bond with a newborn baby or newly adopted or foster child).
- a stay in a hospital, hospice, or residential care facility; or
- continuing treatment by a health care physician or practitioner.
- a condition causing incapacity for more than three days that requires: (1) two or more visits to a health care provider, or (2) one visit with a regimen of continuing treatment and supervision;
- a condition that continues over an extended period of time and requires periodic doctor visits, and which may cause occasional or periodic, rather than continuous, incapacity;
- permanent or long-term absences due to a condition for which treatment may not be effective (such as terminal cancer) where the patient is under the supervision of, but not necessarily being actively treated by, a health care provider;
- absences to receive multiple treatments for (1) restorative surgery, or (2) a condition which would likely cause a period of incapacity of more than three days if not treated, or pregnancy and prenatal care.
- licensed medical doctors;
- clinical psychologists;
- optometrists, dentists, podiatrists;
- licensed nurse practitioners and nurse-midwives;
- clinical social workers; and
- chiropractors (depending on the treatment provided).
What is the Paid Family Leave Act?
The Paid Family Leave Act (PFLA) provides pay for California employees who take time off work to care for family members. The PFLA, which went into effect July 1, 2004, entitles workers who participate in the State Disability Insurance (SDI) program to a maximum of six weeks of partial pay each year while taking time off from work. Eligible leave includes time off to: care for a child, parent, spouse or registered domestic partner with a serious health condition caused or made worse by domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking.
Am I eligible for benefits under the Paid Family Leave Act?
All California employees, including new or probationary employees, who pay into SDI qualify for benefits under PFLA. Some federal and state employees do not pay into SDI and are therefore not eligible for PFL benefits.
PFLA applies to employees regardless of their employers' size. Therefore, the PFLA applies to many more employees than the federal and state unpaid leave laws, such as the federal Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) or the California Family Rights Act (CFRA), which do not apply to employees working for companies with fewer than 50 employees.
Will Paid Family Leave benefits equal my full pay?
Generally, an employee will receive 55% of his or her weekly wage, up to a maximum of $987 per week. The benefit amount is based in part on the employee's previous earnings. See the Employment Development Department's benefit calculation.
What does it mean to "care for" a family member with a serious health condition?
PFLA covers physical and/or psychological care for the family member. Activities such as providing psychological comfort, attending to hygienic, nutritional and safety needs, arranging third party care, and directly providing or participating in the medical care all constitute "caring for" a family member.
What if another family member can provide care?
An employee will not be eligible for PFLA benefits if another family member is ready, willing, able, and available to provide care during the same hours in a day.
For example, if your seriously ill mother has a spouse who is willing and able to care for her, then you may not receive PFL benefits to care for your mother during the same time. You may, however, receive benefits to care for her during hours in the day when her spouse is not caring for her (e.g., while her spouse is sleeping, working, etc.). EDD will approve benefits for up to three individuals to care for the same care recipient in a 24-hour period. Individuals who are unsure whether this will prevent them from receiving PFLA benefits should nevertheless apply.
What is a "serious health condition" under the PFLA?
A "serious health condition" is an illness, disability, injury, impairment or physical or mental condition involving either:
The "continuing treatment" provision above requires one of the following:
"Treatment" includes examinations to determine if a serious health condition exists as well as an evaluation of that condition. Treatment does not include routine physical, eye or dental exams.
Cosmetic treatments or surgery, and treatments for routine conditions, such as the flu, are not generally considered sufficient to count as a serious health condition.
The term "health care provider" includes:
Is my employer required to reinstate me after I take Paid Family Leave?
Unlike the federal Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and the California Family Rights Act (CFRA), which require that employers hold jobs for eligible employees when they return from leave, the PFLA does not expressly include the right to be reinstated.
PFLA leave can be taken at the same time as family and medical leave under the FMLA and/or CFRA. Therefore, employees who receive PFLA benefits concurrently with FMLA/CFRA leave are guaranteed their jobs back when they return to work.
Even if an employee is not qualified for FMLA/CFRA time, the employee may still be protected by Labor Code Section 230.1, which permits employees of companies with 25 or more employees to take up to 12 weeks of job protected time off from work to receive services related to domestic violence or sexual assault. These services include time off from work for medical or psychological care. Therefore, qualified employees who take protected time off under Labor Code Section 230.1 may take PFLA at the same time.
An employee who takes the paid leave and is fired during or shortly after the leave, and whose employer is too small to protect the employee under FMLA/CFRA or Labor Code Section 230.1, may be able to get their job back if they prove that they were fired merely for taking the benefit of PFLA.
What other differences are there between Paid Family Leave, the Family and Medical Leave Act and the California Family Rights Act?
Not all workers qualify for FMLA/CFRA leave, because their employers have fewer than 50 employees, they've been employed for less than a year, or have they have worked fewer than 1,250 hours in the year preceding the leave. These employees nonetheless have the right to receive PFLA benefits when they take off work to care for a family member, though the leave is not expressly job-guaranteed.
Can an employer fire or discipline an employee for taking PFLA?
Probably not. Although the PFLA doesn't expressly say so, an employee who takes Paid Family Leave and is fired or disciplined (e.g. suspended during or shortly after the leave) would have a good argument that he/she was unlawfully fired or suspended in violation of public policy if he/she could prove that he/she was disciplined merely for taking PFLA.
May I collect other benefits--like SDI payments due to pregnancy disability--while collecting Paid Family Leave benefits?
New mothers who are eligible for pregnancy-related SDI will be eligible for an additional six weeks of PFL benefits to bond with a new baby, after their pregnancy disability benefits end.
You may not receive PFL benefits while receiving Unemployment Insurance, State Disability Insurance, or Workers' Compensation benefits.
Is there a waiting period before receiving Paid Family Leave benefits?
Yes. There is a seven–day waiting period before benefits are paid. These first seven days do not have to be consecutive. For example, if one day of care were provided each week, the seven-day waiting period would be satisfied over a seven-week period.
Can an employer require me to take paid vacation or sick leave before receiving PFL benefits?
Yes. An employer may require an employee to take up to two weeks of earned but unused vacation or paid time off ("PTO") leave before beginning to receive benefits. One week of the vacation or PTO leave will be used to satisfy the seven-day waiting period. This requirement will not apply to employees whose union contract prohibits substitution of vacation leave for Paid Family Leave.
An employer cannot require an employee to use sick leave before receiving PFL benefits.
Does Paid Family Leave have to be taken all at once or can it be taken intermittently?
An employee may receive PFL benefits during leave that is taken all at one time or on an intermittent basis in hourly, daily or weekly increments.
One exception is employees receiving PFL benefits while taking job-protected leave to bond with a new child under CFRA. These employees may be required to take the bonding leave in two-week increments.
Employees taking intermittent leave still must observe the seven-day waiting period. Each day that the employee is eligible for PFL benefits will count towards this waiting period.
What is the procedure for applying for benefits?
Employees must fill out a claim form with the Employment Development Department (EDD). Employees can apply online or by calling 1-877- BE-THERE (Español: 1-877-379-3819; TTY: 1-800-563-2441).
Pregnant women who have received SDI while on pregnancy disability leave will automatically receive a claim form from the EDD for bonding. The employee must submit the claim form and documentation to the EDD, not the employer.
What documentation must an employee provide when submitting a PFL claim to EDD?
Applications to care for a family member with a serious health condition require documentation of the serious health condition and an assertion that the serious health condition requires the employee to provide care for his or her relative. The health care practitioner must fill out and sign this portion of the form.
Bonding claim forms must be accompanied by documentation of the birth or placement of the adopted or foster child. Generally, parents supply a hospital discharge record, copy of the birth certificate, an adoption placement notice or other notice from a government agency stating that the child has been placed with the family.
Where can you get help regarding your family/medical leave rights?
For information about the application of family and medical leave rights to your particular situation, contact Project SURVIVE of the Legal Aid Society–Employment Law Center toll-free at (888) 864-8335 toll-free in California or (415) 593-0033 Outside California, or the Employment Development Department (EDD) at 1-877-BE-THERE.
If you think your employer has violated family/medical leave laws, you can file a complaint with your local office of the United States Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division no later than two years after the earliest discriminatory act or with the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing no later than one year after the first discriminatory act .
If you sue your employer for violating family/medical leave laws, the court may reinstate you to your job and award you wages you should have been paid or a promotion you should have received, as well as reimbursement for legal costs.
Time limits apply. You should take action immediately if you think your rights have been violated.
For further information about your employment rights, contact Project SURVIVE.
This Fact Sheet is intended to provide accurate, general information regarding legal rights relating to employment in California. Yet because laws and legal procedures are subject to frequent change and differing interpretations, the Legal Aid Society–Employment Law Center cannot ensure the information in this Fact Sheet is current nor be responsible for any use to which it is put. Do not rely on this information without consulting an attorney or the appropriate agency about your rights in your particular situation.


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You won't be able to dismiss this by usual means (escape or click button), but you can close it programatically based on user choices or actions.
"I was so afraid to order my shipment without seeing the exact card proof but I love them! I had ordered the LINEN background because others had recommended it, and instead of the textured I ordered the PEARL WHITE SHIMMER for a more modern look. I couldn't be happier with them. It looks like, from other reviewers, you really have to change the background to linen if you want the shimmer. I hadn't liked the roughness of the original sample. The red is a bit on the pink side but not too much. The designers were able to put the little Ganesh in the top circle for me which I was very impressed with! I definitely recommend!"
"I am having and as Asian-American wedding and was looking for an invitation that wouldn't put us over out budget but still had a nice Asian flair. I loved the design and to top it off the little elephant on the front and back made everything come together perfectly. My family is from Laos the land of a million elephants. I was able to keep the information simple yet it still made the invitation beautiful. The customer service was wonderful. I received my proofs within a timely manner and when I did come in contact with any staff they were always friendly, and knowledgeable."
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You obviously did not read anything because if you did you would know that you need the kernel.lzm from the wiki.
Hi,i've read most post about driver and patch for rtl8187 and i read the link refer to patch for this device on Aircrack-ng site,but during the installation after doing make appear this error :
bt rtl8187_linux_26.1010.0622.2006 # make
rm -f ieee80211/Module.symvers 2>/dev/null
rm -f ieee80211/Modules.symvers 2>/dev/null
make -C ieee80211 all
make[1]: Entering directory `/root/Desktop/wep/rtl8187_linux_26.1010.0622.2006/ieee80211'
make -C /lib/modules/220.127.116.11/build M=/root/Desktop/wep/rtl8187_linux_26.1010.0622.2006/ieee80211 modules
make: Entering an unknown directory
make: *** /lib/modules/188.8.131.52/build: No such file or directory. Stop.
make: Leaving an unknown directory
make[1]: *** [modules] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/Desktop/wep/rtl8187_linux_26.1010.0622.2006/ieee80211'
make: *** [all] Error 2
how resolve it?thanks
You obviously did not read anything because if you did you would know that you need the kernel.lzm from the wiki.
Read the readme file, in that directory, don't just do make, do ./makedrv, then ./wlan0up. I bought a card with that chipset just today, and that works for me. However, that only works for every time I install it. I.e., even with saved changes (on usb drive, using the dir2lzm /mnt/live/memory/changes method) I have to re-install it at the start. Is that because of the startup scripts, or is that because I don't have the kernel.lzm? Sorry if that's a silly question, I'm going to look at the kernel now, but I figured I'd ask in case not. But yes, Super_nio, my instructions should work. After that, use airmon-ng to put it in monitor mode.
Just looked at the Kernel on the wiki - it's the same as in BT3 as far as I can tell. Why did you suggest it pureh@te if you don't mind my asking? Am I missing something. And Super_nio, you seem to be using older drivers than me? My folder name is rtl8185_linux_26.1027.0823.2007, and yours is rtl8187_linux_26.1010.0622.2006. I guess that's because you're using the 8187 instead of 8185, however, I am using 8185 drivers for my 8187 because they are newer and fairly similar. So try that instead if my previous instructions don't work.
The kernel.lzm contain some of parts that were left out of the bt3 .iso due to space. They are needed for some builds.
Why do you need to patch, all I did was update the aircrack-ng suite, plugged in my 8187 USB stick and everything is working beautifully in BT3.
Sorry but yes the device it's ok without install anything driver,only using the ultimate version of aircrack.I have fallow the istruction find on site of aircrack,that is install the patch but is was not necessary.Thanks
Little confused. I'm guessing you got it working though? So thats good, whatever you did..


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good morning brosephs,
After much deliberation, I have decided to leave the swell info family. There are certain things in life where you must know your limitations, and I've found that posting on this forum is like paddling out into Pipeline in January.
Although this is bittersweet, this was a truly great experience and I could not have done it without you guys.