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The Underexplored Plays Regional Conference is a joint venture between the Sedimentology & Stratigraphy, Geophysics and Structural Geology Network Groups under the Force co-operation
Summary and presentations
Opening speech by Sidsel Lindsø, Leader of the Organising CommitteeSome years back, the leading engineer Sextus Julius Frontius said the following: "New inventions have reached their maximum long time ago, and I see no hope for further development in inventions". He was a Roman, and this was 2000 years ago.
Napoleon thought that the Fultons steamboats were a rather silly idea, and Professor Lardner explained in 1830 that the idea of high speed trains was impossible, because people would die by choking due to lack of oxygene.
In 1878, Professor Wilson from Oxford University said that electric light would never become popular – and The Times wrote in 1903 that it was impossible to make maschines fly. A few weeks later, the Wright brothers actually proved that it could be done.
Leading authorities have rejected the value and significance of almost all of our rather popular technologies such as electrical power, radios, telephones, home computers etc. When John von Neumann had been part of inventing the electrical computer, he said: "It certainly looks like we have reached the limit for what is possible to reach within computer technology". That was in 1949, and since then, computers are now 10.000 BILLION times faster.
The same goes with our business. There are certain well-known and very established truths, and there was once where the Barents Sea was a gas basin. There was also a few weeks ago, when only few believed that there would be discovered oil in the outer Vøring Basin.
The idea of having a regional conference on Underexplored Plays came from a discussion after the Pil and Bue discoveries, where we discussed the little number of courageous wells, really trying to test new ideas. There are less wells drilled in the Norwegian sector than in the UK sector for various reasons, but Norway has a tailormade tax regime for drilling high risk exploration wells.
So the first hypothesis was that it was lack of creativity and innovation, but after a month of gathering ideas from the networks, we had a list of 100 specific topics to chase. We simply asked people for their forgotten favorites, the prospects that was overlooked, perhaps because other wells in the global portfolio had a higher chance of success, or maybe because the proposed play concept was belonging to the "High Risk Category", that is often written off by management. We asked people about topics that should be revived on an Underexplored Plays conference, and we got proposals covering the entire stratigraphy. Hence, we concluded that it was not a conference on innovation that was needed. There are plenty of creative ideas in the industry, and we had plenty of talks for an entire week, but we have limited ourselves to a two-day conference – including a core workshop.
What we try to achieve with those two days is to inspire you. Maybe you'll find out something you hadn't thought of before, maybe you will see something that added just that element to your understanding that makes it fall into place and lead to development of a new concept? We must also acknowledge that there are younger people in the industry that might not have heard the old story of a certain discovery, because everybody knows it and assumes that everybody else does. Hence, we have brought in some 'old stories' that deserves a little bit of attention. And new ones.
You will for example be introduced to the rather unknown Zechstein story in the Johan Sverdrup license, you will learn about the results of the recent Jordbær well, you will learn that milliDarcies of the North Sea Cretaceous Chalk are quite all right, you will learn of the Paleocene outcrops of NE Greenland, which might be representative for the new play proven by the Pingvin well – and Dag Karlsen will share the learnings of his long career and present his understanding of the petroleum systems on the Norwegian Continental Shelf.
We'll also learn about why porosity is preserved at great depth at the Beta discovery, where an appraisal well is currently being drilled – and then the Nordland Ridge will receive a little well deserved attention. And since a company presented a few leads and a proven petroleum system in Helgeland Basin at the Exploration Revived conference, maybe more oil companies will be active there in near future?
Furthermore, in UK, the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has recently concluded that 20% of the remaining undiscovered resources are to be found in basement. That is a play that has just been touched upon here in Norway, but maybe we can learn from them? Lundin has been kind to present the geophysical aspects of visualising weathered basement, together with putting one of their cores on display, so we hope that we will learn a lot from that.
All in all: thank you all for coming to this conference. We in the Organising Committe are proud of the program – and we hope you will learn a lot from these two days. Maybe you'll be inspired and bring knowledge back with you and revitalise one of these Underexplored Plays?
If you have been inspired, then we have achieved what we wanted.
In the first session, we thought it would be useful to have NPD outlining their visions for the plays that they consider underexplored – and indicate which direction they want us to go.
And then it would be useful to put things in a more regional perspective, and compare the current state of the Norwegian Continental Shelf with our neighbouring countries. It is also crucial to understand the differences in infrastructure and fiscal regimes – meaning tax – and get a feel for what lies ahead of us, now we have found the easy hydrocarbons. And some of the more difficult ones. Stratigraphic trap types do have a higher risk, but we probably have to face that we have to drill more of these trap types in the future.
We have invited Gaffney, Cline and Associates to present an overview and comparison between the proven plays in UK versus Norwegian sector, where they will give us a flavour for what lies ahead of us. They are experts on both the UK and Norwegian side of the North Sea and can share some of their overview and insight in the business.
Our first speaker today is Wenche T. Johansen from NPD. She is...
About Wenche at NPD:
… a geophysicist by background. She has previously worked with seismic processing in WesternGeco for 6 years before joining NPD in 2002. Wenche has been involved in projects regarding exploration, producing fields and carbon capture and storage, and she was Project Manager for the 21st licensing round and worked as Discipline Coordinator for Geosciences until November last year. She is now part of the Exploration Management Team as Assistant Director.
About GCA and the presenter:
Our second speaker today is Jonathan Westbury from Gaffney, Cline and Associates. GCA was originally a British expert consultancy company that is now present all over the globe, and assists both companies and goverments as independant advisors. They have, amongst many other things, helped the Norwegian Government establishing Petoro, and they have assisted the Iraqi Government with their first licensing round, enabling Iraq to maintain the high requirements to the oil companies interested in entering the country.
Jonathan Westbury: is a Principal Advisor with GCA, he has over 37 years of experience in the petroleum Industry holding senior technical and advisory roles with majors and operators. Prior to joining GCA, Jonathan spent 26 years with Shell, predominantly in the E&P area, where he held the positions of Hydrocarbon Maturation Planning Lead, Head of Reserves Reporting, and Geoscience Discipline Chief. Before that, he spent 8 years with Phillips Petroleum and 4 years with Anadrill.
Unlocking the potential of Petroleum Systems by Maren Bjørheim, NPDDo you remember when the Barents Sea was only a gas play, and when Utsira High had a migration problem?Through the years exploration activity has revealed that paradigms can be challenged. In the following session "unlocking the potential of petroleum systems" we will learn that oil seeps is the only real direct hydrocarbon indicator, and that absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. The first talk is given by professor Dag karlsen from the university of Oslo. Karlsen has through his career worked to increase the understanding of petroleum-systems on NCS and has spezialised in the use of oil and gas to delineate and trace out basin-scale migration patterns. In 1993, Karlsen was given the Best Paper Award by the chemical Society of America. Besides exploration related efforts Karlsen continues to spezialise in methods for examining the products generated in nature from coals and other source rocks in close cooperation with the petroleum industry. Now I pass the word to you professor Karlsen.Our next speaker is Chris Parry, a Welsh (British) sequence stratigrapher by background, with global experience as an exploration geologist in frontier basins and underexplored plays. He used to work with Conoco, then ConocoPhillips and now works with E.ON. He is an active FORCE participant recently being elected to the Technical Committee for Improved Exploration, and has recently participated in the organizing committee of the 2014 "From Seismic Fantasy to Geological Fact" workshop. He is also in the committee of today's workshop. Chris has made a number of presentations illustrating how globally accepted, proven, data driven play concepts can be applied to the geology of the Norwegian Continental Shelf: Examples: Arctic Days, Tromsø back in2010, Exploration Revived in Bergen in 2011, AAPG Arctic Days in Halifax in Canada also in 2011, the Winterconference, in Reykjavik in Iceland in 2012 and now he will give an inspiring talk here in Stavanger. Welcome.
Paleozoic Session by Jon Havard Pedersen, Lundin Norway
• 12% of the world's discovered oil is trapped in Palaeozoic rocks• 25% of the world's petroleum resources are generated from Palaeozoic source rocks• 6% of the hydrocarbon fields in the North Sea are in pre-Triassic reservoirs• Less than 1% of oil produced has come from pre-Triassic reservoirs• In the Norwegian sector of the North Sea, only 15% of the exploration wells have penetrated pre-Triassic formations• Palaeozoic reservoirs are often part of a common trap including younger reservoir rocks• Drill more, drill deeper!
Triassic Session by Charles Jourdan, Maersk Oil NorwayBack in 1975 the prognosis for the pre-Cretaceous Ula prospect in the southern Norwegian North Sea predicted a thick Triassic section with sandstones beneath a thin Jurassic reservoir section. The result was a major Jurassic field with only a very minor Triassic contribution. After that came the Gullfaks and Snorre discoveries in 1978-9 where Triassic fluvial/alluvial reservoirs are oil bearing in areas where the Jurassic overburden has been removed by erosion over the highest parts of the tilted fault blocks. Then there was a long history with few encouragements along the eastern side of the North Sea Graben system, where the overlying Jurassic and Tertiary has stolen the honours. This in contrast to the results on the UK side of the basin where there seems to be a better sub-division and control over Triassic depositional systems and a better exploration success. Only more recently have there been some significant Norwegian South Viking Graben discoveries where Triassic aeolian, fluvial and alluvial reservoirs are important contributors to field reserves eg. Edvard Grieg and Ivar Aasen. However, even here near and around the main part of the Utsira High the reservoir quality can be highly variable and producibility difficult to predict eg Luno II compartments, Grevling, Pi. How can we make new advances in the Norwegian North Sea Triassic exploration?Further north the main focus has also been on the Jurassic sequences in pre-Cretaceous prospects, but more recently closer to the basin edge we are now seeing some hydrocarbon accumulations in the Red and Grey beds of Mid-Norway and in the Goliat area in the southern Barents. Over the rest of the Barents Sea there has been the challenge of Snadd reservoirs with generally low N/g and poor connectivity which adversely affects field economics.Our 2 talks in this session will perhaps help us move forward in all these areas. The first looks at better understanding the Snadd in the Barents Sea. The second looks back to the Southern North Sea Gas province for new inspiration since there has been several Triassic sandstone successes in that area.
Jurassic Session by Klaus Dittmers, RWE Dea NorgeThis session is about the Jurassic.Why is that??, the Jurassic is one of the probably best explored plays both in the Norway and Uk; covers the whole cirumatlantic realm as far as the Falkland Basin, where there has been rifting and deposition of sands. Brent has been the Bread and Butter in the North Sea and there also are Snøhvits and Johann Castbergs in the Barents Sea...as that as good as it gets????Well the intention of talks in this (workshop) session is to highlight, that it is important to cross borders in terms of several aspectas as we will see. As explorationist still we are too often limited by paradigms. So extend your horizon! And let us push the boundaries. Most obvious aspect of borders is the geographic aspect and we will dealt with in the first 2 talks: Russian Barents Sea in fact you can argue that the Jurassic is not underexplored here, but it is a vast area; It is also in this session because it will shed new light on the "Underexplored" Norwegian part! So underexplored in 2fold!East Greenland: is an important filed analogue to Norwegian conjugated margin …much better outcrops. In the Talk we are dealing with new data from now public cores.……Pushing the borders into the 3rd and 4th dimensionis the last talk in this session deals with Qz Cementation The talk will examine another boundary that often exists in our minds (example red area in reservoir risk maps), and encourage us to think less "deterministically"."We have an interesting blend of people , both culturally as wells as background and institutions people work in in this session
Cretaceous Session by Irina Romeo, Maersk Oil Norway
Cretaceous sediments were deposited over most of the continental-shelf areas of Western Europe.In the North Sea, more than half of all Cretaceous fields are within the Upper Cretaceous Chalk reservoirs. We are all quite familiar with the high early exploration success within the highly porous chalk, as well as later field life extension through water injection and EOR techniques in fields like Ekofisk, Valhall, Hod and Tor, all of them, extremely important for the Norwegian Oil journey. We also know, that a great number of the exploration wells that passed through the Cretaceous on their way to the Jurassic or older targets, were drilled on structural highs that were positive features during chalk deposition. Consequently, chalk submarine fans with potential high reservoir quality could still be found basinwards of these features. There are very large areas of chalk that remain underexplored. The Chalk fields in the Danish sector are smaller than those in Norway and, in some cases, have more challenging reservoir properties. Today we will hear an interesting talk that will show us how this play is being revisited in the Danish sector of North Sea. Lower Cretaceous clastic wedges have been a successful play in the UK continental shelf (e.g. Moray Firth area). Only technical discoveries have been found in Valanginian Pre-Cenomanian units on the Norwegian North Sea Shelf, some of these, discovered by accident when drilling established Jurassic plays. In the eastern part of the northern North Sea, the Cretaceous play potential was proven by the discovery of the Agat gas find, which proved stratigraphic trapping in Lower Cretaceous sandstones on the northern extension of the Horda platform. There may still also be areas of the northern North Viking Graben that could contain significant clastic reservoir sands of Late Cretaceous age. In Mid Norway, five reservoir intervals of Cretaceous to Palaeocene age can be correlated in wells drilled on the Halten Terrace, a few tens of kilometers east of Helland Hansen, also in the Ormen Lange area and in the Slørebotn Subbasin. These are the Lange, Lysing Nise, Springar and Egga sandstones. Sandstones of similar age also occur in wells in the Vøring and Møre basins, examples of these are found in Aasta Hansteen. A couple of weeks ago, the Snefrid discovey was announced. It found more than 100m of gas column and 4 m of oil within the Nise Fm with good reservoir properties, which makes us think that, maybe, the old story about the oil in the Luva field was not wrong after all. Nevertheless, away from well control, their presence remains unproven. Unravelling the distribution and quality of potential reservoirs deposited in a distal position of the basin constitutes the main exploration challenge. Today, we will have the opportunity to listen to two interesting talks; one about the Skarv Field in the Halten-Dønna terrace and another one about the Upper Cretaceous Springar Fm in the Vøring Basin. In addition, the proximity of the Vøring Basin to East Greenland makes that area an obvious field analogy with a short distance to the volcanic area to the West. Mapped traps of Lower Cretaceous clastic wedges along the master faults or internal basin highs have been a target in the south-western Barents Sea, gas and oil technical discoveries such as Skalle, Juksa, and Pingvin have proven a valid play model. However, the Lower Cretaceous clastic wedges remain an under-explored play along the basin margins of the Barents Sea, as most of the past and present focus has been into Jurassic and Triassic targets. So all-in-all one can reasonably expect exploration within the Cretaceous to continue for a good while into the future.
Paleocene-Eocene Session by Chris Parry, E.ONOne of the first wells to hint at the potential of the Tertiary of the North Sea was the undiscovery well 22/11-1, which was drilled in 1967. This was the 10th wildcat spudded in the Central North Sea and the 57th well in the offshore UK sector. Thin, uneconomic oil bearing sands were encountered in the Paleocene, which were to prove to be the first clues to the Nelson Field, which was finally discovered 21 years later. At about the same time in the Norway sector, the second well (25/11-1), also discovered thin oil bearing sands in the Paleocene, which many years later was finally to become the Balder Field. Two years later, in 1969, the giant chalk Ekofisk Field was accidentally discovered because the primary objective Paleocene sands were absent – this well was nearly the 200th wildcat drilled offshore following the giant Groningen gas discovery onshore Holland.Three years following the Nelson undiscovery well, while exploring for the underlying Jurassic, the giant Forties Field, was unexpectedly discovered in 1970, by 21/10-1, the 21st well in the CNS and 181st offshore UK - no closure could be mapped on the 2D seismic at the Palaeocene level – and the play took off. In 1988, 21 years after the Nelson undiscovery well, armed with knowledge derived from field development drilling and 3D seismic, which identified the channelized nature of the deepwater Paleocene reservoirs, Enterprise returned to the undiscovery well and re-drilled the structural/stratigraphic trap. This resulted in the discovery of the Nelson Field. The 500 MMBOR discovery well (22/11-6) was the 653rd wildcat in the CNS and the 1403rd exploration well to be drilled in the offshore UK sector, located only 1000 m to the NE from the 21 years earlier near miss.Eleven years later, further updip the depositional fairway, the stratigraphically trapped Callenish Field, identified by detailed sequence stratigraphic studies and AVO analyses, was discovered by 15/29b-12 in 1999, by the 1150th wildcat in the CNS (2427th exploration well offshore UK). Lessons learned transferred to the Norwegian sector led to discovery of the Alveheim Field with 24/6-2 (the 478th wildcat in the North Sea, 632nd well offshore Norway)1990 WOS the stratigraphically trapped Paleocene Foinhaven Field was discovered while drilling for the underlying Jurassic structural trap. A similar AVO response in the stratigraphic Schiehallion trap was successfully drilled and sparked an industry rush to drill "floating amplitude anomalies" – most of which failed. An analysis by Nick Loizou in 2007 Exploration Revived of the 73 UK WOS Tertiary prospects drilled by that time were that 57% had been located on invalid traps, while only circa 20% of the 48 stratigraphic traps had been successful – the basin margin or location over deeper structural highs were the key to these successes.In the Norwegian Møre Basin, the giant Ormen Lange gas field, with an obvious flat spot, was discovered in 1997 (well 6305/5-1, 613th well offshore Norway, 97th wildcat in Mid Norway), while 6 years later, the 6706/6-1 well resulted in the Hvitveis discovery 725th well offshore Norway, 135th wildcat in Mid Norway), whose reservoir can be correlated to the outcrops that are to be described by Henrik in our first presentation on the Tertiary.Recently, this prolific play has been extended further northwards into the western Barents Sea with the Pingvin gas discovery, 7220/2-1, the 1050th wildcat in offshore Norway (in the UK the 1050th wildcat was drilled nearly 20 years ago in 1996).Now let's turn our attention to the Eocene:Thin, uneconomic oil bearing sands had often been seen in the Oligocene to Eocene aged shales in the exploration and appraisal wells in the Britannia area and many traditional deepwater depositional models were invoked to explain their distribution. The Lower Cretaceous Britannia appraisal well 16/26-5 was moved 1 kilometer to the west of the proposed location, in order to avoid laying one of the rig's positioning anchor cables over the Brae-Forties pipeline and in 1984, the thick oil bearing sands of the 400 MMBOR Alba Field were accidentally discovered. With subsequent coring during appraisal and development drilling, together with higher resolution shear wave 3D seismic, the injected nature of many of these sands were finally recognized. Injectites were also recognized in the reservoirs of the Balder Field and their distribution in the North Sea Tertiary section, form the subject of the second talk of this session by Mads Huuse of the University of Manchester.Our first speaker is Henrik Nøhr-Hansen: (M.Sc. 1984, Ph.D. 1991 Copenhagen University)- Senior research geologist/palynologist in the department of stratigraphy at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS), employed since 1984. He is specialised in correlation of Cretaceous – Palaeogene successions from on and offshore Greenland, Arctic Canada, offshore eastern Canada, offshore Norway, offshore Faroe Islands and offshore Denmark. He has previous worked with Kimmeridge Clay, K/T boundary stratigraphy, dinoflagellate cyst taxonomy and Palaeozoic source rock mapping.The work that will be presented at the Force conference is based on GEUS´ mapping and core drilling campaign of the Cretaceous of NE Greenland initiated in 2008. The talk will focus on the Upper Cretaceous and Palaeogene sediments and stratigraphy as possible time equivalents for offshore plays.Our second speaker of the session is Dr Mads Huuse; he is a Reader in Seismic Interpretation in Manchester and a PI in the Injected Sands Research Consortium (SIRG) between the Universities of Aberdeen and Manchester and 13 sponsor companies. He has been actively involved in North Sea basin analysis since 1994 and injectites since 2000.
Younger Strata Session by Alana Finlayson, BG GroupThe final section of the programme before we move onto the core workshop is focused on young strata. Following the discovery of the Pleistocene Peon gas discovery, and its appraisal in 2009, I came across an interesting quote on the NPD website 'this probably represents the start of exploration with a view towards developing shallow gas on the Norwegian Shelf'. Since then what has actually happened, is that activity has generally stagnated although this year activity has picked up, and there have been some tests of the shallow stratigraphy in the North Sea. The Lundin operated Zulu well (26/10-1) found a 24m gas column in Miocene Utsira Fm sandstones with excellent reservoir properties while the BG operated Jordbær SørØst well (34/3-4 S), which is the focus of the first talk in this section, tested a 250m thick Pliocene channel system with 50m of very good reservoir quality sandstones with traces of gas. The shallow depths of burial mean that reservoir quality is generally excellent, with charge being the key risk. Both biogenic and thermogenic sources can be invoked. Producing from shallow depths is perceived to be difficult, however we should remember that OMV are working on a development plan for the shallow Wisting oil discovery in the Barents Sea and shallow gas reservoirs are currently producing in the Netherlands. Bright spots are common throughout the North Sea and are generally avoided as they are perceived as shallow hazards, however in the Netherlands these bright spots have been actively targeted for development with 3 fields currently in production. The Netherlands is the first country in the North Sea where shallow gas is being successfully developed and our second speaker is from EPN which is the state participant in E&P activities in the Netherlands.
Remember when the Barents Sea was only a gas play? Remember when the only source rock was the Upper Jurassic?Remember when the Utsira High had a migration problem?
We want to challenge the established paradigms in Norway and bust these and other myths that are out there.
We want to encourage explorationists to think beyond the accepted wisdom and consider new possibilities.
The conference will show case a range of underexplored plays and recent play openers on the NCS.
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Excelsior Correspondent
KATHUA, Mar 13: Minister for Forest, Ecology and Environment Choudhary Lal Singh today asked the Divisional Forest Officers to prepare log books of un-demarcated forest compartments and also display sign boards on forest land so that the land grabbers refrain from encroaching State's green wealth.
This was stated by the Minister while interacting with officers at a public grievances redressal camp at Basholi.
Principal Chief Conservator of Forests, Ravi Kesar, Chairman State Pollution Control Board B Siddhartha Kumar, Commissioner/ Secretary Forests, Ecology and Environment Sourabh Bhagat Director SFRI B M Sharma, Chief Conservator of Forests Farooq Gillani, Additional Deputy Commissioner Sanjay Gupta, Conservator East Circle Kh Qamar-ud-Din, Assistant Commissioner Development Rajiv Khajuria besides other senior officers of forests and its allied wings were present on the occasion.
Choudhary Lal Singh directed the officers to provide training to all the frontline field staff for demarcation of un-demarcated forest land in a transparent and judicious manner across the State. He informed that the Government has retrieved around 1.35 lakh kanals forest land in 2016-17 for restoration of State's forest cover.
Emphasizing the need to protect State's forest wealth from land grabbers, the Minister directed the officers of the department to ensure proper demarcation of the forest land in a transparent manner so that encroachment can be curbed at all levels.
The Minister asked the Principal Chief Conservator of Forests to constitute committee for monitoring the demarcation process by frontline staff across the State and take all necessary steps to demarcate the entire forest land to avoid day-to-day encroachment.
He asked the DFOs to submit the area wise detail of the forest land within a week's time to the department so that the spaces can be demarcated under Forest Demarcation Map and called for formulation of proper demarcation plan with greater vigil, proper fencing methodology and involvement of locals.
Earlier, during the public grievances redressal camp, several deputations met the Minister and projected the development related problems of their respective areas.
Choudhary Lal Singh asserted that three regions of the State have witnessed massive development in all spheres during the current regime and that the Government is duty bound to provide all basic amenities to the people of the State.
The Minister said that Government is fully aware of people's development related problems, adding that in this regard a new master plan has been prepared to meet all developmental needs particularly in far-off areas of the State.
Lal Singh asks DFOs to prepare log books of forest closures
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Candy hearts, paper doilies and boxes of cards emblazoned with loving images of cartoon characters. It all used to turn my stomach. Yes, I was an anti-Valentinian for years. Make that decades.
In fact, I can't remember a time in childhood or young adulthood I actually liked the big red holiday. Even in elementary school, when every child was required to give a Valentine to every other child in the classroom, I didn't get it. I had a few playmates but for the most part I was a loner, and while we didn't use the term back in the day, I endured more than my share of bullying. Was a little piece of paper with a picture of Strawberry Shortcake hastily signed "Love, X" or a chalk-flavored candy heart with the words "Be Mine" supposed to change that? Even a 6-year-old wasn't born yesterday.
It was never a big holiday at home, either. My Egyptian parents are probably the most generous, loving people you will ever know, but the particular expression of love in the form of balloons, cupcakes, cards and other assorted sundries is just not part of their cultural vernacular. It was a quiet day at our house, much like any other.
In high school, I remember the infamous flower deliveries that would take place on February 14th. At some point during Algebra II a student from the National Honor Society or Key Club would show up at the door bearing a bundle of red and pink carnations they'd been selling at a table outside the cafeteria. They'd call out the names of the lucky recipients, with the pretty, popular girls ending up with a veritable bouquet on their desks. That's when I'd start fumbling through my Trapper Keeper, trying to look busy in an attempt to hide the obvious fact that I wasn't getting any of those blossoms.
So I quickly learned to loathe the annual February love fest and began dreading it as soon as the Christmas merchandise hit 75% off and the store shelves turned red. In college and grad school I buried myself in my textbooks and did my best to pretend it didn't exist. One year, the pipes burst in my apartment on Valentine's Day (an appropriate homage to the gushing tears of loneliness?) Another time I arranged to have my wisdom teeth pulled on February 14th. It seemed like the perfect occasion for a painful procedure (in particular one accompanied by prescription drugs). But the year my neighbor's Valentine bouquet was accidentally delivered to me was the last straw. Stupid Hallmark holiday, I muttered to myself as I transported the giant blossoms back to their rightful owner.
So that's how I came to be a Valentine hater. By the time I was in my late 20s I was fully convinced the day was a commercial conspiracy designed largely to make me feel like a lonely, incompetent fool. Until one day I realized, it wasn't. I'm fuzzy on the exact date but I think it was around the time I lost a friend in a horrible accident. Or maybe it was when my mom was diagnosed with a horrible disease. Or when my dad was diagnosed with a horrible disease. It might have been the year I finally said "no more" to a relationship that was painful and unhealthy. No, I didn't have a boyfriend, I still didn't have anyone asking me to be their Valentine, but I did have love. Love for others, for life, and perhaps most importantly, for myself.
One husband and two little blessings (with a 3rd on the way) later and I'm a convert, a full-fledged Valentine-o-holic. Our house is decked out in red, we've baked heart-shaped cookies and gotten our fingers covered in pink glitter glue while making cards. Yes, it's a bit much, and yes it's a bit silly, but I don't care. I've finally learned what unconditional love means, and I'm not afraid to wear it (along with assorted other sticky things) on my sleeve.
Don't get me wrong, our love and our life are far from perfect. My two adorable little Valentines throw more than their fair share of tantrums and most days leave me feeling so completely drained I can barely drag my giant, pregnant self up to bed. And after 7 years of marriage I fear my husband and I have become a wee bit too comfortable, and more than a tad unromantic, as evidenced by a clear violation of bathroom etiquette in each other's presence. Our day to day life is hardly the stuff that fills a Lifetime for Women Valentine Movie Marathon. But I love it anyway.
If you still hate Valentine's Day and argue we don't need a special day set aside to show love, I can only hope you feel that way because your life is absolutely overflowing with love already. But even if that's the case, what's the harm? I refuse to believe this is a case of "less is more." But if on the other hand you are feeling like I did for several decades- that love hurts, that love is something for others to enjoy, and that Valentine's Day is just a chocolate-coated reminder of it all, I understand. And my Valentine's wish for you is that you find the love you're looking for inside yourself.
Because mate or no mate, kids or no kids, it really can be a happy day.
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"Money Doesn't Grow on Trees.."
The perfect opener for a restaurant/strolling situation. The magician produces three coins, one at a time, from the sleeves. As the third coin is produced it suddenly vanishes along with the other two coins. The coins are then produced once more. This routine is quick, visual, and easy to do!
"Almos Frame-ous" (2 versions)
A purse frame production like none other! this one must be seen to be disbelieved...The productions are like nothing that has been seen before!
If you have to ask what it means..You haven't seen it done!
"That's Impossible!"
Just like the title says...this one happens all in the spectator's hands. In fact the transpositions happen three times, each time getting better and better.
"Comin' Outta the Box"
If you've liked what Roth has done with the Okito box, then you'll love this routine. An "Out with Four" type routine where four coins are placed inside and magically come out one by one, each time getting more impossible and more VISUAL!
"3 Coins Hangin" (2 Versions)-Featuring "3 Coins outta Nowhere" production
Three coins are magically produced out of thin air. After this happens the magician offers to explain how the trick was done and goes on to visibly "hang" each coin in the air, after turning the coins invisible of course. After each vanish the hands are seen empty and that there's nothing hiding. Once all are "hung" the magician produces the coins again one by one.
"Hangin' Coins Worldwide"
An international hanging coins plot where American, British, and Chinese coins are magically produced, vanished by being hung in the hair. and then reproduced.
"The 5th Dimension"
Bill's signature routine...A deadly combination of a purse frame production and wild coin effect. Add a story with an emotional hook and you have this routine.
13 Items Total - 3 Utilities, 8 Effects, and 2 Alternate Handling
"I have quickly read Bill's book COINsomnia (It is a quick read) and I was left with a feeling that some of you older magicians might just miss out on a very fresh book with nice twists to familiar plots. We older guys tend to keep with the things we use already.
I am happy to have read it. There are not many things that make me want to 'Bust out the coins' and start practicing. A couple of routines from this book did just that. Thanks Bill....I think.
Magicians...young or old, it is time to buy a new book!"
-Jim Pace
"Bill Citino is a rare breed. He is true student of magic who cares about paying homage to the great practitioners that came before us. He has taken the time to research the history behind the slights he uses and this dedication shows in his magic. Real world workable Coin Magic is rare these days and bill is offering you some real world stunners."
-Nathan Kranzo
"Bill's book COINsomnia is a breath of much needed fresh air. His work is so well thought out and every move planned that you would think a composer wrote them. I am so pleased by the reactions that I am getting after performing the magic in these pages!
If you want to fool the heck out of your audiences and you want some killer material to add to your arsenal, then you must pick up COINsomnia by Bill Citino!"
-Corey Burke
"'Kid tested, mother approved.' Magic that's guaranteed to blow any lay audience away!!! Great work Bill!"
-Eric Jones
"You're going to have a lot of fun with his stuff..."
-Marc DeSouza (from COINsomnia Foreword)
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text: I thought you might enjoy this recipe from Food Network's In the Kitchen App. Chicken and Beef Fajitas http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ree-drummond/chicken-and-beef-fajitas.html Marinade: 1/2 cup olive oil 1/4 cup chili powder 3 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce 1 tablespoon ground cumin 1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes 3 cloves garlic, minced Juice of 3 limes 1 tablespoon sugar 1 teaspoon salt 1/2 teaspoon black pepper For the marinade: In a blender, combine the olive oil, chili powder, Worcestershire, cumin, red pepper flakes, garlic and lime juice. Next add the sugar, salt and pepper and blend the marinade until it's totally combined and smooth. For the meat: Place the chicken and beef in separate 2-quart baking dishes or large resealable plastic storage bags. Pour the marinade over the chicken and beef and rub the marinade all over the meat. Give your hands a good wash, and then cover the dishes with plastic wrap and let them marinate in the fridge for 4 to 6 hours. For the pico de gallo: Chop the tomatoes, jalapenos and onion into a very small dice. (Leave the seeds in your jalapenos for a hotter pico. Adjust the amount of jalapenos to your preferred temperature.) Next, chop up a nice-sized bunch of cilantro. Just remove and discard the long leafless stems before chopping. No need to remove the leaves from the stems completely. Place all of these ingredients together in a bowl and give it a good stir. Squeeze the juice of half a lime into the bowl. Add salt to taste and stir again. For the fajita vegetables: Throw the onions and bell peppers into a bowl and toss with the olive oil and some salt and pepper. When ready to cook, preheat the grill to high heat. Cook the chicken on both sides until completely cooked through (or to an internal temperature of 165 degrees F), about 4 minutes per side. Remove it to a platter to rest for 5 to 10 minutes. Grill the beef on both sides until completely cooked through, about 5 minutes in total. Remove it to a platter to rest for 5 to 10 minutes. Tip the fajita vegetables into a grill basket and grill until cooked, tossing occasionally, about 10 minutes. To put it all together: Pile the veggies on a platter. Slice the chicken and beef. For the fixins: Wrap the tortillas in foil and warm through on the grill. Serve the chicken, beef and veggies with the warm tortillas, Fiesta Beans, grated cheese, sour cream, lime wedges and pico de gallo. Meat: 3 pounds boneless, skinless chicken breasts 3 pounds skirt steak Pico de Gallo: 5 plum (Roma) tomatoes 3 jalapeno peppers 1/2 large (or 1 small) onion 1 bunch fresh cilantro 1/2 lime Salt Fajita Vegetables: 2 medium onions, halved and sliced 1 green bell pepper, seeded and sliced into strips 1 orange bell pepper, seeded and sliced into strips 1 red bell pepper, seeded and sliced into strips 1 yellow bell pepper, seeded and sliced into strips 2 tablespoons olive oil Salt and freshly ground black pepper Fixins: 30 to 40 flour tortillas Fiesta Beans 1 pound grated Cheddar cheese One 8-ounce container sour cream 5 limes, sliced into wedges


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Hi! My name is Lara.
I am a very busy mom of six. I have 5 boys and 1 girl, ages 17, 15, 13, 12, 9 and 3. They are my pride and joy.
In my spare time I bake! I LOVE to bake! (Don't laugh, I really do have a minute or two here and there!!)
I spend the majority of my days in the kitchen and in the car…….who wants to talk about chauffeuring kids to and from basketball, baseball, football, or playdates? The kitchen stuff is where it's at!
So, I started Mom Bakes to journal and share all of my kitchen adventures, and to maybe pass on something to others who enjoy the same thing! I love trying new recipes and making them a part of my family's recipe box, so please shoot me a message if there is something would like me to share. 🙂
Thanks for reading…..I hope you enjoy!


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Hi there and welcome to
June challenge~Things With Wings!
Rachelle here revealing my project to get you going
for this month's challenge.
Time to take off!!
"Embark on the Wings"
For this project I thought I would pull together lots of
fun fun embellishments, flowers, texture, chipboard and trinkets.
I started off with the painting the canvas then inking it.
Close Views
Then I used my stencils and texture followed by inking and misting.
{Gabrielle's Homemade Texture Paste}
It's the best!
Then I gathered and layered all the embellishments and lettering.
I so enjoyed creating this mixed media canvas and hope I have inspired you
to join in this challenge at
Thanks so much for stopping by today and remember to...
See Ya Soon!
~Acrylic Paint
~Ink Pads
~Tattered Angels Glimmer Mists- pearl, yellow, white
~Dusty Attic Birdcage
~Dusty Attic Corner
~Prima Resin Birds
~Prima Flowers
~Die cut Butterflies & leaves
~Dusty Attic Title
~Tin Holtz ChitChat
~Crafters Workshop Stencils
~Homemade Texture Paste


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What is Confirmation? Confirmation is one of the three Sacraments of Initiation, along with Baptism and the Eucharist. In Confirmation, we are sealed with the Gift of the Holy Spirit, thus renewing and perfecting the grace we receive at our Baptism. Those who are Confirmed "are more perfectly bound to the Church and are enriched with a special strength of the Holy Spirit. Hence they are, as true witnesses of Christ, more strictly obliged to spread and defend the faith by word and deed" (CCC 1285).
Our Confirmation classes began in November 2018. Exact dates of Confirmation Masses in 2019 are TBD. Check out the calendar below for important events! More information will be posted here as it becomes available.


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Snakes and scorpions do not strike him.
Fierce beasts do not prey upon him.
Birds of prey do not attack him.
Though his bones are soft, and his muscles weak,
his grip is firm.
Without knowing the union of man and woman,
his organ stands erect.
His vital force is strong.
He can scream all day without becoming hoarse.
His harmony is perfect.
To know harmony is to know the everlasting.
To know the everlasting is enlightenment.
To interfere with life is ill-fated.
To control breath causes strain.
If you exert yourself, you will become exhausted.
This is not in harmony with Tao.
What is not in harmony with Tao does not long endure.


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Burbank 1, Pasadena 0: Burbank knocked Pasadena from first place to third in the Pacific League with the win Tuesday at home.
Burbank (6-12, 4-5 in league) scored the game's only run in the second inning. With the bases loaded, Ryan Porras scored on a swinging bunt by Reece Loock.


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Presented at ICG12
Created on 10th June 2017
This paper has been published in GigaScience.
Summary: Identifying phenotypic correlations between complex traits and diseases can provide useful etiological insights. Restricted access to individual-level phenotype data makes it difficult to estimate large-scale phenotypic correlation across the human phenome. Here, we present a novel method, PhenoSpD, to estimate phenotypic correlations using genome-wide association study (GWAS) summary statistics from the same sample and utilizes the correlations to inform correction of multiple testing for human GWAS studies. In a case study using GWAS summary results, PhenoSpD suggested 324.4 independent tests among 452 metabolites, which is close to the 296 independent tests estimated using true phenotypic correlation. We then estimated 120,713 pair-wise phenotypic correlations among 24 categories of human traits and diseases (total 862 traits) and further corrected multiple testing for these traits using PhenoSpD. The atlas of phenotypic correlations provides novel insights into the relationships between traits, while the PhenoSpD multiple testing correction function provides a simple and conservative way to reduce dimensionality for GWAS of complex molecular traits. Availability: R codes and Documentation for PhenoSpD V1.0.0 is available online (https://github.com/MRCIEU/PhenoSpD).Show more
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There are reports in today's Times of a deal between Government and EDF involving a strike price of £93 per MWh over 40 years for the Hinkley C project. This obviously involves an enormous public commitment, but how enormous is this? The terms matter very much, including,
1. What agreement is there about 'underwriting' the construction risk of the Hinkley C project
2. What are the terms of the £10 billion guaranteed loan
3. Is this strike price to be 'inflation' uprated in line with CPI or RPI? (the renewable incentives are being uprated in line with the inferior CPI)
4. Are there any provisions for altering the 'strike' price in future in an upwards direction?
5. Is it not the case that the 'deal' will allow EDF to part-complete Hinkley C having overrun costs and exhaust the £10 billion Treasury loan and then demand more money from the taxpayer/electricity consumer to complete the project?
All of this is important in the public knowing what the extent of the liabilities to which the electricity consumer and the taxpayer is being committed. Certainly, just on the basis of the strike price payments, without any of the public risk undertakings being included, this means that the public would be committed to paying around £100 bn to EDF for the electricity generated. Assuming a wholesale electricity price of £50/MWh (roughly what it has been recently), this means a public 'excess' payment of at least over £40 billion over this period over and above what is likely to be needed to get the energy from other sources – and even this £40 billion plus excludes the costs of the risk of the project which is being supported by the taxpayer through loan guarantees. The project is said to cost £14 billion.
The prospect of a public underwriting of £10 billion loan guarantee could potentially mean that the nuclear power station could be part-built, that the project costs could overrun, and that the taxpayer would then have to come up with even more funds to complete the project under a further funding regime, much as what happened with Sizewell B.
That is what could happen if EDF gets what could well be (depending on the detail) a blank cheque for the project. The question is will we get to know about the extent of our commitments, or will we, as usual with nuclear power, only find out some of the extent much later on? Remember, just before the 2010 election the Conservatives said that they would not agree to the costs of nuclear power being underwritten by the Government.
What is certain is that when all added together, the costs of getting energy by paying for electricity from Hinkley C are more than what it would cost people to get the same amount of electricity from renewable energy sources such as wind power and solar power, not to mention various energy efficiency possibilities.


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Necromancer Guide Revamp
We've updated our Necronancer Guide to have links to all of our current Necromancer class content. You'll find everything you need from this one handy page.
Masters of unlife after death, Necromancers have the power to raise undead minions from the remains of fallen opponents, hurl spears of bone at enemies, or cause the corpse of a dead enemy to explode with force or spew poison gas.
Don't log in until you check out this update!
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Most self publishers don't go to the bother of creating a catalog simply because they haven't written enough books to justify it. Not producing a multitude of related titles is a serious weakness in the business model of many self publishers, myself included. I can attract a large number of visitors to my website for the different subjects I write on, but for the main part, those visitors aren't interested in my other books, since all of them are niche titles.
A savvy business person would seek to "monetize" all of those visitors by presenting them with other related products to purchase. If I hadn't intentionally cut way back on direct sales of my own books a couple years ago, I would have set up a bookstore of related titles to sell direct by now. Titles from the big trades are available at a deep discount when you order them direct in quantity, you might get 65% off or more if you agree to take them on a non-returnable basis. So if you can find some relevant titles with decent cover prices, in the $25 to $40 range, you may find you can earn more selling those books than your own!
A much simpler and less risky way to make money selling other authors books is to simply add Amazon Associates links to your website. You'll only earn a dollar or two on most sales, but you'll learn quite a bit about what your readers are really interested in. For example, I'm going to put in Amazon Associates links for some of the books I often mention below:
Note that Kirsch's book was due out yesterday, they just haven't posted a cover image yet. And that's about as lazy as I get when it comes to writing a blog post, but I've got to make some dinner and run out!


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Is Samsung Electronics Ramping Up 3D NAND?
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Korean media reported that Samsung Electronics (005930.Korea/SSNLF) plans to invest heavily to bolster its 3D NAND manufacturing capacity by 2017.
According to local news, Samsung will spend 25 trillion won to build up 3D NAND capacity by 2017. It plans to expand its Xi'an factory in China, set up a new 3D NAND line later this year and invest in its Pyungtaek factory. Samsung has not confirmed the news.
We believe the local media reports, analysts say this morning.
This is because 3D NAND is a profitable business and Samsung has already hit full capacity. For instance, JP Morgan wrote:
We believe that Samsung is targeting ~160K wspm 3D NAND capacity by end-2016 (120K at Xian and ~40K at Line 16). Samsung's Xian fab is currently operating at near-full capacity and we expect Samsung to convert some 2D NAND capacity to 3D in its Line 16 fab (~40K wspm by end-16). Further, we expect Samsung to utilize 2 floor of Line 17 fab for 3D NAND production in 2017. Accordingly, we estimate Samsung's 3D NAND capacity to grow to ~220K wspm by end-17 (120K at Xian, ~60K at Line 16, and ~40K at Line 17), comprising 12% of total industry capacity.
Demand for 3D NAND will be strong thanks to the proliferation of high-end smartphones. JP Morgan estimates that the NAND market will grow 8% this year and 17% in 2017, outpacing the traditional DRAM market.
Samsung Electronics is of course a key beneficiary of the vibrant NAND market. But JP Morgan also likes Toshiba (6502.Japan), where NAND accounts for an estimated 46% and 61% of its operating profits this year and next. Given its outlook on DRAM, the bank is cautious on SK Hynix (000660.Korea), which specializes in DRAM.


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I'm looking out my window and all I see is trees with beautiful leaves on them, the color of ochre, soon to be
brown. To me that is an indication of fall, not so much the holiday season, the result of living in central Texas.
In order to get in the spirit of Christmas I decorate my home as soon as Thanksgiving is over. I always start slow, almost not wanting to do much, slowly bringing boxes down from the attic and selecting just a few things. But seeing all the decorations gets me excited and the pace gets faster and soon I want the presence of things representing Christmas in every corner of my home. The Nativity collection on the china cabinet, the big tree loaded with 20 years of collected ornaments in the living room. Then the small tree finds a place in the corner of the TV room. And I keep finding places for all those things that bring back memories of times by gone, like the nutcracker, a reminder of the years we all participated in the Nutcracker ballet or the snowmen by the kitchen window, reminding me of the years lived in colder climates.
Every year, before opening the Christmas boxes, I tease my family by telling them that I'm going to skip Christmas, but I know that if I were to do that I would regret it immediately.
Let's enjoy and celebrate, Christmas happens only once a year.
Merry Christmas!
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Merry Christmas!
2 comments:
- Linda Teddlie Minton said...
How beautiful, Martha! Having had to give up most of my Christmas decorations when I downsized, your pictures gave me a vicarious thrill! Have a wonderful Christmas!
- December 12, 2010 at 9:45 PM
- Magia da Inês said...
♥♫ Querida amiga,
"Que o Natal não seja apenas uma data... mas um estado de espírito a orientar nossa vida... e que o amor se renove a cada ano da nossa convivência."
♫♫♫ Feliz Natal!!!
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Needlework framed in an embroidery hoop is known as 'hoopla'. It's one of the easiest and prettiest ways to show off your masterpiece.
1. Plan to cover the back of your hoopla? While you still can, take your inside hoop and with a pencil/pen trace its outer contour onto the felt or no-fray fabric you intend to use for the back. Then put it aside for later.
2. If you want to jazz up your hoop, now's the time to brighten things up. Just make sure your hoop's dry before moving on.
3. Consider adding a backing fabric like calico if you embroidered a fine fabric (eg silk) or very open-weave fabric (eg a low count aida). It'll avoid your hoopla being too see-through. Make sure both fabrics are crease-free and ready for display, and align the grains of the fabric wherever possible, before mounting them together in the hoop.
4. Frame your masterpiece in the hoop with the screw at 12 o'clock. Once you're happy that it's well positioned, pull the fabric taught all the way round and tighten the screw with a screwdriver. Tug, screw, tug, screw, tug, screw… until it can go no further.
5. Trim the fabric(s) 1.5" or 4cm away from the hoop edge.
6. Grab some buttonhole thread (or similarly sturdy thread) and thread your needle with enough of it to circle the whole hoop. Leave a long tail when you knot the end.
7. Starting top down, make a running stitch in the middle of the seam allowance. If you used a backing fabric, stitch through both layers of fabric at the same time, as evenly as possible.
8. Once you've stitched the full circle, take the thread ends and pull them together to gather the fabric. Knot the thread in place to secure the pleats. Voila, be proud.
1. If you want to add a signature or secret message to your hoopla, now's the best time to draw or stitch it onto your backing fabric.
2. Cut your backing felt or no-fray fabric to the size of your embroidery – to the edge of the inside hoop. If you traced the inside hoop's contour onto the fabric earlier, give yourself a gold star.
3. Thread your needle with enough buttonhole thread (or similarly thick thread) to circle the hoop one and a half times.
4. Starting from back to front, whip stitch the back cover to the gathered seam, close to the hoop. A beautiful finish, easily done.
If you want to hang your hoopla on the wall, grab a length of ribbon – it's both practical and pretty. Simply make a loop and tie it to the screw. Want to hide the screw? Tie a big beautiful bow in front of it.


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Gateway meets the special challenges presented by the construction of industrial facilities with technical exactness and attention to detail. The huge cast-in-place concrete structure for the Brandon Wastewater Treatment Plant, the massive structural steel installation at the Hydro Precipitator foundation.
Some of the fine examples in our Industrial portfolio include:
"I would like to commend Gateway Construction on the fine concrete workmanship and quality control demonstrated. Despite the volume, complexity and size, high quality workmanship was always maintained."
--Alfred Beghin, Supervisor, City of Brandon
"The administration of paperwork including shop drawings, project changes, progress billings, as built drawings and owners manuals were timely and the project was completed. Manitoba Hydro received excellent service from Gateway during the construction of this project and recommend using Gateway for future projects."
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Just skimmed it - but -You said everything really well. I almost never go out of my way to give a thumbs up but I gotta. Awesome post
Don't try to find the perfect thing to do - DO SOMETHING. The idea that everything has to be right before you start is just a rationalization not to do anything.
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But when you hit state you can say the things that would be classed as bad verbal game and get away with it and have it work for you.
Is not knowing the right things to say at the right time in the right situation also Reactive? anyhow
good verbal game can also be solid like specific things you say like closes, bouncing, openers, day 2s, extractions etc, things you use consistently that work for you.
I like the first post also. very good
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Individually decorated elegant double rooms furnished with an en suite bathroom, TV, free Wi-Fi and tea and coffee-making facilities. Guests can also enjoy a wholesome full English breakfast. For single occupancy rates please ask. For same day bookings please call guesthouse to arrange check in details.
A short walk from Maldon's main street, The Limes is a Grade II heritage-listed townhouse with a lodge situated at the back of the main house. Maldon's main street offers a variety of stores and restaurants, all less than a 5-minute walk from The Limes. Maldon's Promenade Park is a 10 minute walk away, and the nearby A12 highway is a 10-minute drive from the hotel.
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Health Investment Connects Govt With Grassroots
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The Minister of Health, Professor Isaac Adewole has charged the Kano state government to continue its strides in health sector development as ''this is a surer way for any government to connect with the grassroots''
The Minister gave this charge recently, while Commissioning and Inspecting six (6) health facilities under the Kano state Ministry of health. The facilities are: Dawakin Tofa General Hospital, Middle road Sabon Gari Maternal and Child health clinic, Distribution of equipment worth N700m to 269 Primary Health Centres (PHCs) in Kano, CT-Scan room and upgraded theatres, at Mohammed Abdullahi Wase Specialist Hospital, New Paediatric Hospital, Zoo Road and Giginyu Specialist hospital.
Adewole said that quality health care delivery could only be guaranteed through availability of functional and standard health facilities. He therefore commended the government of Kano state for prioritizing the provision of essential health care services to improve the lives of its citizens, especially women and children.
The Minister posited that quality life through standard health care was the highest democratic dividend a government could offer its people. He therefore appealed to management and staff of the facilities to ensure that the equipment were maintained for sustainability, effectiveness and efficient health care delivery.
In his remarks, the Executive governor, Kano State, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje appreciated the minister for commissioning the facilities and pledged continuous commitment to health care delivery in order to improve on the health indices of the State especially as regards immunization programmes, eradication of Polio, meningitis and other diseases.
Also speaking, the state Commissioner of Health, Dr. Kabiru Ibrahim Getso, informed that the motive behind the commissioned projects stemmed from the state government's resolve to offer the best health care to the teeming population in Kano, its environs and Nigeria at large.
To this end, the Commissioner said the State government had established Kano Health Trust Fund with a view to achieving sustainable healthcare financing and universal health coverage.


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The DFRobot CurieNano is a small development board based on the Intel Curie module. It is easy to use and perfectly compatible with the Genuino / Arduino 101. The small size will fit your project's development and creation that size matters and makes it ideal for wearable tech and small prototypes.
This CurieNano is perfect for gesture control, other than curie's built-in 6 axis sensors, the DFRobot CurieNano has added a 3 axis Compass module which make the total sensors up to 9 axis. Together with Curie's neuron SDK, you can easily let Cuire Nano to learn gesture by deep learning neurons. It is the most powerful board to develop wearable applications.
The Intel Curie module contains a x86 quark core and a 32bit ARC architecture core (Zephyr), integrated Bluetooth 4.0 and 6 axis attitude sensor. The module's clock frequency is0 32MHZ and the cross tool chain of Intel can support the development of two cores. The Intel Curie includes dual core storage and users are able to use 196Kb Flash (total 384Kb) and 24Kb SRAM (total 80Kb). It is more than sufficient for most development scenarios with the added bonus of Intel's strong support network to aid your development.
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Every day, I drive past a junior high school in my neighborhood. Every day that school is in session, there is a police car parked outside of the school. I mentioned this to my students at a local university last semester. It bothers me. They took it to be completely normal to have police present at schools.
Most of these students grew up in rural towns across Nebraska and Iowa. Why do taxpayers pay to have police present in schools? Is there no such thing as discipline anymore? In Nebraska, no student can ever be really expelled from a K-12 public school program. That is the problem.
Today I read this:
Mom: R.I. School Bans 8-Year-Old Son's Patriotic Hat With Army Figures
Published June 17, 2010
| FOXNews.com
The hat 8-year-old David Morales designed for a school project in R.I.
A Rhode Island mother says her 8-year-old son's school would not let him wear a patriotic hat she says he designed for a project to honor Army troops because the school thought it was inappropriate.
Christan Morales says her son David was assigned to make a crazy hat for his second grade class at the Tiogue School in Coventry, R.I. Morales said her son came up with an idea to glue small plastic Army figures to a camouflage hat with an American flag.
Morales said the principal at David's school called her to say the hat wasn't appropriate because it had guns, which violated a school ban on weapons and toy weapons.
"We don't advocate having any concept of weapons in the school," Kenneth DiPietro, superintendent of Coventry Public Schools, told FoxNews.com.
"(David's) military theme was all welcomed. The only issue was the weapons displayed on the hat."
DiPietro said the intent of the principal was to allow the child the full expression of depicting the theme, but to help him find a way to express it without the presentation of weapons. He said the principal decided there were alternative ways to represent his theme.
"The principal's concern was not the theme, not the patriotism and not the soldiers," said DiPietro. "She worked with family to come up with alternatives so the child's rights and patriotism was protected."
Christan Morales has not returned FoxNews.com's request for comment.
After the incident, David's father requested a copy of Coventry Public Schools' zero-tolerance policy for weapons and depictions of weapons, DiPietro said.
DiPietro said the school hopes to learn from this incident and spend time deciding whether there should be a different strategy for handling such issues in the future.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
When my son was in kindergarten, he was sent to the principal's office of his Catholic school for making a gun with his index finder and thumb. Today when we talked about it again, 4 years later, he said, "I was saying hi to a gal," winked, made the gesture with his hand and made a clicking sound with his teeth. Then he told me that wasn't true, he really did make a gun with his hand.
A gun with his hand. The very idea that finger guns are unacceptable is a bit excessive. Why can't boys play cops and robbers, or cowboys and Indians, or galactic invaders? So the boy in Rhode Island wanted to honor the military, but the squishy members of the teachers' union can't handle normal discipline. Call in the Cops.
Is anyone else concerned we are on a slippery slope to a police state? If young people in their 20's now feel comfortable with daily police presence in school, what else will the tolerate?
I have no answers, but I see writing on the wall.


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Special events include Let Them Talk: Conversations on Louisiana Music, Whitney Bank Film Fest at French Quarter Fest with Cinema on the Bayou, Pirates Alley Juried Art Show, Free Dance Lessons, Opera at Dusk, and the Chevron Children's Headquarters and STEAM Zone.
Started as a small neighborhood event, the annual French Quarter Festival has grown into the largest showcase of Louisiana music in the world. French Quarter Festival is one of the biggest events in the state and generates an average economic impact of nearly $190 million. In 2017, it was voted "Best Local Festival" by New Orleans Magazine readers and has also been listed as the "one thing to do in Louisiana" by the Huffington Post. Book your room at French Quarter
On Locals' Lagniappe Day, Thursday, April 6, Aaron Neville will make his debut on the riverfront Abita Beer Stage. Aaron Neville is synonymous with New Orleans, celebrated throughout the world as part of the legendary Neville Brothers and as a Grammy-winning solo artist. Funk artist Papa Mali, best known as front man for 7 Walkers (a band that includes Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann and The Meters' founding bassist, George Porter Jr.) also makes his debut on the Abita Beer Stage in 2017.
Thursday April 6, the French Quarter Festival Opening Night Gala at Antoine's Restaurant will benefit the Roots of Music and The New Orleans Jazz Museum at the Mint. Honorary Co-Chairs include: Governor John Bel Edwards, Lt. Governor Billy Nungesser, Mayor Mitchell J. Landrieu, and Chevron Gulf of Mexico Vice President Mark Hatfield.
Established in 1840, Antoine's, the country's oldest family-run restaurant, celebrated its 175th anniversary in 2015. During the Gala, guests will enjoy the original Main Dining Room, the Mardi Gras-themed Rex, Proteus, and 12th Night Revelers rooms, the Mystery Room, 1840 Room, the Last Room (or Tabasco Room) and the Wine Cellar, which holds approximately 25,000 bottles when fully stocked. French Quarter Festival is the only time of the year when Antoine's allows a non-profit community organization to 'take over' - celebrating the opening of French Quarter Festival at this grand Gala event.
Guests will enjoy Antoine's signature dishes, an open bar courtesy of Abita Brewing Company and Brown-Forman/Republic Beverages, and mingling with the Merry Antoinettes. The Patron Party takes place from 7-8:00 pm with entertainment from Tony Green and Gypsy Jazz. The Gala is 8-10:30 pm with entertainment provided by Players Ella and Louis Tribute Band and Sarah Quintana. Patron tickets are $250 and Gala tickets are $155 ($175 beginning April 1). Tickets are now on sale and can be purchased online at www.fqfi.org or by calling 504-227-3124.
Let Them Talk, the annual lecture series curated by Fred Kasten and Dr. Connie Atkinson featuring Louisiana musicians, will return to the Louisiana State Museum's Old U.S. Mint for the 2017 French Quarter Festival. The series provides a rare chance to hear artists speak about their life in music, such as the Saturday, April 8 session, The Continuing Reign of the Soul Queen of New Orleans: A Conversation with Irma Thomas. This year's schedule also includes: The Latin Soul and Crescent Funk of Los Po-Boy-Citos, Aloha Golden Meadow: Andre and Louis Michot on Their Musical Roots, There Is A Doctor In The House: The Life And Music Of Dr. Michael White; On The Howl With Walter "Wolfman" Washington; and A Tribute To Pete Fountain. Let Them Talk is free and open to the public.
The Chevron Children's Headquarters, featuring the Chevron STEAM Zone, will return to the Natchez Wharf at the foot of Toulouse Street and the Hermann-Grima House will host two full days of family-fun on Saturday, April 8 and Sunday, April 9.
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aloe is a Sass-authoring tool written in Python 2.7 that I use to write styles. Like other style-centric tools it is opinionated and does not do anything special. But, it is friendly to terminal junkies. Run
pip install aloe-pattern and follow along. I think you'll like it.
Structuring projects with an aloe plant analogy
To enable a few features I apply a niche flavor of the Composite pattern:
Any stylesheet directory can be converted to a new project at will, or vise-versa.
This assumes features do not cut across directories. Like with many other patterns, the benefits to
aloe's pattern come from conveniently-available context.
Aloe works with a few goals in mind:
- Code sharing. One change may affect as many projects as I choose without involving a remote resource.
- Rapid scalable scaffolding. We won't type
@importanymore, we will generate contextualized rulesets and we will have a custom SMACSS project with BEM-ready widgets and themes for Christmas and Halloween ready yesterday, without using templates!
- Non-invasiveness. I typically dislike software that makes me feel like I need it. Aloe has no configuration file and does not do anything weird to your code. You can use
aloeand then immediately uninstall it without losing any of its benefits.
Tech Demo
Managing local dependencies
It's easier to show than tell, so let's start that SMACSS example I was talking about. I'll run
aloe + base/normalize layout/{grid,sticky-footer} module/clock state/{form,notifications} theme/{xmas,halloween} to spin up a filesystem.
This builds out of the box. The aloe plant analogy comes in with the
__.scss partials. I call them rinds as part of the analogy, and all they do is import other partials for me and provide the fractal structure for Sass compilations. The following rules apply:
- Every directory contains exactly one rind named
- Rinds contain only
@importdirectives, and are also the only files to contain
@importdirectives. They import partials inside their own directories before other rinds.
- Rinds may only import other rinds in immediate subdirectories. So
~/scss/__.scssmay import
~/scss/foo/__.scss, but not
These rules consolidate dependency management to one file at a time, and you can use rinds as a single point to include or exclude entire swaths of functionality from a compilation, as we will see later.
Getting back to our SMACSS example, if I need to reorder or remove any dependencies, it's just as easy. If I run
aloe - state for example,
state styles will be excluded if I build any styles from the root of the project.
To elaborate, let's look at a fresh example. Here I run
aloe + a b c d e. You will see that my root rind imports the dependencies in the order I declare. If I clear out this file (
>__.scss) and then link up the partials in reverse order (
aloe + e d c b a), the effect is as expected.
Writing partial contents
This seems like its all well and good, but what about setting the contents for these partials? One thing I do as a next step for scaffolding is use the
aloe plot command that lets me write a summary of rulesets. If I run something like
aloe plot "clock(hourhand,minhand,sechand)", I get SCSS rulesets. There's a switch I throw to enable BEM-style writing à la Stuart Robson, so
aloe plot -b "button(--big,__text(--upper,--lower))" gives me a BEM-y partial.
Don't worry about leaving these rulesets empty, because Sass will not include any empty rulesets in compiled CSS.
On that note, let's build some CSS. Here I use
aloe build to output CSS using rinds. I can specify multiple targets to build and concatenate in order so I can deploy target styles depending on what I need. This nicely meshes with per-request style deployment.
aloe follows symlinks, so I can maintain a link to any (S)CSS stylesheet to benefit from its features as if it were a partial.
In this post we covered a non-invasive Sass authoring tool used for rapid scaffolding and custom deployment of styles using a fractal organization pattern.


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EDITOR'S DESK: 2019 Presidency: All PDP Leaders, Governors, Stakeholders, MUST Shut Up And Get To Work!!!, By Salisu Abdulai
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As the 2019 general elections draw near, and the major political parties, the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, and the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, begin their various campaign moves, I have some words of advice for the PDP, which is looking really confident to take back the Presidential seat, come 2019.
Since the APC won the Presidential election in 2019, and the gentleman, our amiable ex-President, Goodluck Jonathan, peacefully conceded defeat, there has been a major trend in the country for over two years now, where the PDP has chosen the strategy of fighting the ruling APC with words, especially on the social media.
Yes, many may argue that the APC won the 2015 Presidential election, by destroying the Jonathan-led government on the social media, by war of words; I however beg to differ, that this may not be enough to guarantee the PDP victory to take over Aso Rock in 2019.
What am I trying to say?
I believe there are very easy ways to guarantee the PDP Presidential victory in 2019, especially right now that we can all agree that the APC is failing as a government.
Dare I say that the PDP has wasted over two years, talking and talking!!! Yes, it is good to talk and criticize when necessary, but we all know that action speaks louder than words.
How many PDP Governors are transforming their States in a major way? What are the PDP Leaders in power doing to show Nigerians that indeed if they are voted back in 2019, that the country will be transformed from the mess it is in right now? What major projects as a party which has so much financial resources, is the PDP involved in at the moment to better the lives of Nigerians? What youth empowerments programmes have the PDP put in place to show signs that they have the youths in mind? Just what is the PDP doing, other than talking and talking???
I think it is time for the PDP in its entirely to Shut Up and Get to Work!!! 2019 is just by the corner, and in my opinion, the PDP has wasted over two years talking and not walking, not putting structures on ground for the people that voted you out to see and be convinced that they actually made a terrible mistake by voting you out.
Please, get to work. Let Nigerians enter PDP States and be blown away by the level of development taking place. Four years is enough time to cause a major transformation in any city in Nigeria; but no, the so called opposition has abandoned their work, to talking and talking!!!
For now, 2019 still belongs to any party, so the PDP should not be too confident that because the APC has failed so far, that Nigerians would run to the polls and vote the PDP back into power, when they have done absolutely nothing to show them why they should vote them back in.
Stop talking, start working, and let your work speak for you and be your bragging points, then I can assure you that your mighty victory is settled to Aso Rock, in 2019.
Thank you.
Salisu Abdulai is the Editor-in-Chief, Post-Nigeria, and can be reached on [email protected] or [email protected]
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We have been going full tilt since arriving in Fiji, so today we took a day off to fish. This is a first for me, in all my trips here, I've never been fishing. We went out in a small boat with a 60 HP motor and trolled along the river heading to the open ocean inside the reef. Caught nothing,not even a nibble.
Went to the house of the chief in whose waters we would be fishing and snorkeling to greet him and give him the requisite gift. Chuck has known the man for many years. Ceremony complete we headed out to the inside of the reef. Caught three fish over the course of the morning and afternoon, including a 20+ lb. wallou–a truly marvelous fish to eat. I hooked a huge fish, but it bit through the line and took off with the lure and leader. But I did land a 10+ lb. rock cod.
After lunch and some more trolling, we headed back to a beach where three of the team snorkeled among the coral. All in all a wonderful, relaxing day.
I head to the airport at 7 a.m. to fly to Suva. Already have a lunch appointment that day with the Permanent Secretary of Health and the Deputy Secretary for Social Services. Both are doctors with GIFT, the group we do our medical work with here in Fiji.
I still have no voice, though I am much better each day. Didn't risk a swim today, though. Didn't want ot push it.
Thanks for your prayers.