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Pleurodesis is a procedure sometimes performed for people with lung cancer and other conditions. What does this procedure entail and when might it be recommended?

Pleurodesis – The Definition

Pleurodesis is a procedure that is designed to get the two layers of the lung lining (the pleura) to stick together. This works to obliterate the space between the layers (the pleural cavity) so that fluid (water, blood, or pus) can no longer build up between the layers. There is ordinarily three to four teaspoons of fluid between the outside (parietal) and inside (visceral) pleural membranes. When a pleural effusion occurs, due to both benign and malignant causes, this amount of fluid builds up and the pleural space can sometimes hold a few extra liters of fluid.

Before a pleurodesis is recommended, doctors want to first see that a pleural effusion (or pneumothorax) will recur again in the future. If it is a one-time event, performing a thoracentesis to remove the fluid is often all that is needed. Unfortunately, benign pleural effusion (and pneumothoraces) and especially malignant pleural effusion often recur.

Pleurodesis Procedure

In a pleurodesis, a chemical is injected between the two pleural layers via a chest tube. These chemicals then cause inflammation which in turn causes scarring. This scarring pulls and holds the two membranes together so that fluid or air can no longer build up and collect in the space. The inner pleural lining is called the visceral pleura, and the outside pleural membrane is called the parietal pleura. Depending upon the underlying condition, the procedure may be done through a small incision (video-assisted thoracoscopy or VATS) or a thoracotomy (open lung surgery.)

There are two types of pleurodesis, which are often used together:

Mechanical pleurodesis causes inflammation and scarring by mechanically rubbing the parietal (outside) pleura with gauze.

Chemical pleurodesis involves injecting a chemical (most often talc) between the pleural membranes to create inflammation and scarring (fibrosis.)

Reasons a Pleurodesis May be Performed

There are several conditions for which a pleurodesis may be done, which in turn result from medical conditions such as lung cancer, mesothelioma, cystic fibrosis, and other illnesses.

Malignant pleural effusion – People with lung cancer, breast cancer, or metastases to the lung from other cancers may develop a malignant pleural effusion, a pleural effusion which contains cancer cells. When this is the case there are 2 options. One is to do a thoracentesis and place a stent that will continually drain the fluid in the effusion to another part of the body (an indwelling pleural catheter or tunneled pleural catheter.) The other is pleurodesis.

Recurrent pleural effusion

Persistent pneumothorax - A pneumothorax is a term used to describe a collapsed lung. If a pneumothorax occurs and a chest tube is placed, the pneumothorax often resolves. If the pneumothorax persists (a persistent air leak,) or goes away and then recurs, further treatment to resolve the pneumothorax or prevent a recurrence are needed.

Recurrent pneumothorax

Before a Pleurodesis - Preparation

Before a pleurodesis is performed, physicians consider several things.

Most importantly, it's important that removing the pleural fluid results in an improvement of symptoms (decreased shortness of breath) for those with cancer. A pleural effusion which is not causing symptoms such as chest pain or shortness of breath in this setting is usually left alone. In addition to this, some physicians recommend the procedure only if life expectancy is greater than one month.

On the other hand, spontaneous pneumothoraces may occur in people who are young and otherwise healthy. In this case, the procedure may be done to prevent another pneumothorax from occurring in the future.

Complications

In general, a pleurodesis procedure is well tolerated. For a certain percentage of people, the procedure will be ineffective and further treatment with an indwelling catheter to drain the fluid, or a pleurectomy (removal of the pleural) will be needed. Another concern, for people who may have a lung transplant in the future, is that a previous pleurodesis can make this procedure more difficult.

For those who have pleural effusion due to minor conditions, or have recurrent pneumothoraces (often related to a hereditary factor,) pleurodesis can bring reassurance that another effusion or pneumothorax will not occur when immediate medical help is not available.

Example: Frank's lung cancer was causing recurrent pleural effusions, so his doctor recommended that he have a procedure called pleurodesis.

Sources:

Davies, H. et al. Effect of an Indwelling Pleural Catheter vs Chest Tube and Talc Pleurodesis for Relieving Dyspnea in Patients With Malignant Pleural Effusions. The TIME2 Randomized Controlled Trial. JAMA. 2012. 307(22):2383-2389.

Dugan, K., Laxmanan, B., Murgu, S., and D. Hogarth. Management of Persistent Air Leaks. Chest. 2017 Mar 3. (Epub ahead of print).

Fortin, M., and A. Tremblay. Pleural controversies: indwelling pleural catheter vs pleurodesis for malignant pleural effusions. Journal of Thoracic Disease. 2015. 7(6):1052-7.

Lenker, A., Mayer, D., and S. Bernard. Interventions to Treat Malignant Pleural Effusions. Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing. 2015. 19(5):501-504.

Thomas, J., and A. Musani. Malignant pleural effusions: a review. Clinics in Chest Medicine. 2013. 34(3):459-71.


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Get the chance to see the city through new eyes at the 13th Mumbai International Film Festival, which will feature short films by young Mumbaikars. Apart from that you can watch films in the International Competition (best debut feature films), World Cinema, Celebrate Age (ad films, short fiction films, documentaries and feature length films on growing older.), Retrospectives, Indian Frame (selection of Indian cinema), New Faces in Indian Cinema (first and second feature films by Indian directors), Above the Cut (debut films) and The Real Reel (critically acclaimed feature-length documentaries) categories.
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If (when) the B1G expands again, would you be fine w/UConn?
That's all the B1G needs. An 0-3 football team that lost to Towson. I can hear the jokes already.
As they come with a decent school. If they pull an fsu or vatech I would be cool with Uconn.
no, nope, nada, zip (ntz), ziltch, zero, never
I would support it, but I am biased since I live in CT. UConn needs out of the AAC.
Another thought . . . UConn would probably be in the upper half of the B1G academically.
Stadiums can grow if a league starts filling the stadium because of good games.
There are varying criteria and metrics for academic excellence, but FWIW UConn is not currently a member of the Association of American Universities (AAU), and the last time the conference admitted a school that wasn't an AAU member at the time of its admittance was MSU in 1950. Nebraska was a member of the AAU when it joined the conference in 2011, but shortly after joining it was booted from the AAU over a dispute over whether to count the UN-Omaha medical campus as part of UN overall.
This isn't to say that UConn couldn't be invited to join the AAU and then the BIG, but that would depend on its status as a research institution. It's also possible that the conference could abandon the AAU-membership status as an unstated membership requirement, but there's no evidence whatsoever that such a move would be made for a school like UConn.
My preferred new members for a 16-team conference would be Pitt and Missouri, but I know both are non-starters right now.
UConn is redundant from a footprint standpoint.
As you stated above, UConn isn't an AAU school.
Also, they are pretty far down the federal research funding list; 81st. Nebraska is the lowest @ 100-something. UConn MAY be above Indiana, but not sure how the IU-PU mix in Indianapolis is counted. Every other B1G school has more fed research dollars than UConn. UMich tops the list at #3
If we goto 16 school megaconferences, I think somehow peeling off some of the ACC schools (UVa or UNC) would be ideal..
being combined campuses that are the issues for IU's funding numbers, it's the medical school being its own entity in Indianapolis (and a small outpost in Fort Wayne). That's the biggest chunk of reseach dollars and a lot of metrics don't count those dollars for IU. If branch campuses are included with these figures, IUPUI's go with Indiana.
I thought you were crazy when you guessed at its academic position in the Big Ten. I've long assumed that (AAU or not) it was an academic backwater. Maybe not:
Yes but I doubt it ever happens. They would not bring enough money to the table and it has already been made quite clear that TV sets is what matters in expansion.
Their stadium has 40k capacity. Programs with bigger stadiums:
Iowa state
New Mexico State
Central Florida
Do you really want to play on that beaten up grass field again?
I would prefer contraction back to 10. Keep the 9 game conference schedule. No conference championship.
- Jim Delaney
You reck the conference.
Yes. We can dump Penn State and Nebraska to get back to 10. I would much prefer contraction to expansion of any type.
I want to play every team every season rather than never play Wisconsin or Iowa.
Brother, AMEN.
it seems like a certain segment of this fan base would rather play/have Michigan play a certain brand of football and waddle in mediocrity so long as they play in said style of football rather than compete (and win) in modern realities of the game.
Maryland and Rutgers are somehow an improvement? Penn State hasn't exactly been elite either--and is the source of the biggest scandal in conference history.
What exactly has expansion done for the Big 10? Penn State helped bring money in, but that new money pays for really expensive softball and crew facilities, not football facilities. The money boom hasn't really changed football. It's just fueled a non-revenue sports building boom that I'm concerned about. Athletic departments are taking out huge loans fueled by low interest rates and TV money. I don't know that TV bundles will be here in a decade. Not like they are today. What happens then?
That's a valid concern and I havent' really thought of it. I'd appreciate this level of discourse rather than HURR DURR WANT ONLY MIDWEST SCHOOLS PLAY LIKE IT'S 1971 AGAIN.
not this.
60/40 UConn fans at their home stadium is a vote of confidence? I guess it better than the 60/0 distribution Northwestern used to rock.
You probably mean 100/0.
No, I would not imply that Northwestern sold their games out. That was actually the point of the post.
First off, anyone thinking it was 60/40 UCONN to Michigan ratio in the stands last night had a couple too many in the parking lots. MAYBE 7,000 at the most. Not the so called 20-30,000 that many here were expecting.
Second, UCONN is a better school academics wise per the rankings than over half the Big Ten schools.
Third, as many BCS games as Michigan this decade, who honestly cares what a school did 20 years ago as if it matters in this day and age. SMU was good in the 80s, big whoop?
Can obviously compete in football and have been a better program than Minnesota, Northwestern, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana and Purdue over that last decade.
Had more NFL draft picks in 2013 than any Big Ten school:
2013 NFL Draft Picks by College
|Florida State
|South Carolina
|Notre Dame
|Texas A&M
Fourth, three men's national championships since 1999.
Fifth, women's basketball prominence.
Sixth, baseball, hockey success.
Seventh, TV markets.
Good case for it. I'm in.
1) I was at the game and you MUST be tripping. 70-30 at the most conservative.
2) UConn is not an AAU member. That does count for something.
3) Bahahaha. For all the talk about Michigan not deserving a BCS bid, UConn as a team that year deserved it less. Big East weakness was the real factor. Furthermore, having more NFL draft picks last season doesn't make up for 5-7 and 2-5 in the goddamn Big East. This is pretty much Illinois every third year.
4) The only solid argument.
5) By the numbers, no one cares. No, I'm not making a judgment as to whether people should or should not.
6) See above.
7) You can't possibly be serious. Rutgers has already captured the few number of shits people give about college sports out here. I live an hour from Storrs and even the UConn alumni I work with often don't care.
a 7-6 Michigan team hammered that BCS U-Conn team. They were not good. If it wasn't U-Conn it would have been someone else from an awful Big East that year. There's a reason they don't exist as a conference anymore. Not to mention Michigan has been to 4 in the last decade. Unless he meant from 2011-12 which is what, one of two??
(And we'll never know how corrupt that basketball program was...but it didn't look so great at the end).
No. UConn is rated 50-something in USNWR...that is NOT what the B1G presidents are looking at.
B1G presidents are looking at research $ and AAU membership. And UConn is waay behind most of the B1G schools in that regard.
Sorry. Not ever going to happen.
If there is to be conference expansion, I think UConn would make a fine addition. It's a good school. And let's face it, next year the B1G becomes a conference with an Eastern presence. Remember, we've also added Johns Hopkins as an associate member.
UConn's football program has generally been improving, basketball is excellent, and it has other cold weather sports we play.
I don't see how ACC schools like Ga. Tech are somehow more worthy acquisitions. What kind of hockey teams do they field? Where's the cultural fit? It'd be football-only. I realize the ACC turned down UConn. Their mistake, the way I see it. How is Louisville a better school?
And can you imagine dealing with a Texas with its crazy politics as part of the deal? There would be constant drama. Kansas? I see UConn as a better deal, though I'd be fine with Kansas or Oklahoma. Or Both.
I would much prefer to add a school like Va Tech or UNC. Uconn would just be adding another bottom feeder for the conference
Would be a real good move for hoops tho.
I know little to nothing of their academics...so...how that affects things I don't know.
My first thought related to football is they'd get run over by a LOT of B1G teams playing at their "traditional" levels of play. But the revenue sharing (etc) might allow them to build up their game over several seasons, expand their stadium, get some field turf in there...
Mens BBall would continue to strengthen the B1G as a ruthlessly competitive conference, which I see as good.
I realize there's an undertone of conference strength in football after I just brought that up about basketball. The usual old saw we've all heard about the B1G taking hits for not being an elite football conference, etc. My thought on that is, until we start playing each other inter-conference games with presumed elite SE Conf, the only actual data is bowl games. Home and home is where the true action is at in my mind.
but would rather have neither
No to the idea of further expansion, no to UConn, and no to Rutgers and Maryland. I know its too late for those last two, but I will refuse to think of either game as a Big Ten game. They will be weighted out of conference games as far as I am concerned.
Ummm no. UVa and UNC first. Then Syracuse. Then... Someone else.
Without having been able to watch the game, there's no useful opinion I can provide.
Anyone have an FTP site they can upload their recording of the game to? :)
Don't watch. Save yourself.
Their helmets really look like birdshit.
And Marylands helmets are cool??
And bears don't shit in the woods???
Oh sorry. I thought it was non sequitur shouting time.
Maryland, Rutgers, and Penn State don't count as Big Ten teams.
so just the Big Ten teams you choose count?
Ideally I'd prefer to keep Nebraska and get rid of the other three, but if we had to lose the Huskers in order to get rid of the other three, such a trade would be equitable.
Isn't it bad enough we have Rutgers and Maryland coming in?
Maryland is doing pretty good for themselves. hate their unis, but they just shut out wv
Eh, if the B1G expands again, it's gonna be when other conferences expand into super-conferences. 20 team leagues, each with 2 x 10 team divisions. You play the other 9 conference teams then there's a championship, which is a defacto national quarterfinal. 4 winners then go to a 4 team playoff. That's what's gonna happen. So, if we add 6 teams, I have a feeling the Big East will get split up into Pac and B1G with some teams left out. I think the ACC will pick up UConn probably. There will also be some restructuring I imagine.
no offense, but that's completely crazy
My own opinion on this is that the Big Ten already has already established the nature and direction of its East Coast presence, and I am not sure that UConn is necessarily in line with that being that football and potential television revenue seem to be the primary drivers. I would have to think that - if there is further expansion - they go south along the coast before they go north.
absolutely not. we already have a rutgers and Maryland coming.
crappy little stadium in the middle of nowhere.... men's bball is good, but I couldn't care less about women's (sorry if that offends)
There are better options. Not expanding is at the top of the list.
Seeing as we are now a basketball conference, I'm fine with it.
have Miami(Ohio) and thats way down the list.
When the B10 expands again I'd expect them to either go for big names (my expectation/preference being Kansas and Oklahoma) or schools on the east coast more southern than UConn (probably a Virginia school and somebody else). I don't expect UConn to be on the shortlist of potential expansion candidates.
Which probably means they'll add UConn just to make the Rutgers addition look better.
No. They don't belong (but then, neither do Rutgers and Maryland and arguably Penn State and Nebraska, which is, I believe, the lowest-rated institution academically in the B1G).
Their football program is absolutely miserable, there's no other way to see it, and this misery isn't saved by any of the tradition that other B1G programs have.
Worth it for bball.
that I would rather have based on Academics (UVa, UNC), regeneration of forgotten rivalries (Mizzou, Pitt), or to piss of OSU (Cinci). UConn adds absolutely nothing to the table, aside from a good basketball program, to in intrigue me.
I'm not sure about their other sports, but with the additiona of Rutgers and Maryland, we don't gain a lot football wise with UConn. They have a very small stadium and we'll already have a new england presence with Rutgers. Basketball could benefit from a competition standpoint, but I think that's about it. I also don't know where they stand academically which is a big factor in B1G admittance.
Ideally, we wouldn't expand any further, but it will most likely happen at some point with mega-conferences. If that's the case, I think the SEC is going to pilfer the ACC and B12 while the PAC will look to steal B12 teams again. Given that scenario, I think it would be best to steal some southeastern schools and maybe a B12 team or two. Again, I don't know the academics, other sports, etc.... I would like to see the short list containing teams like Oklahoma,Texas, Va Tech, and god a FLA school like Miami or FSU would be a major recruiting opportunity.
As if construction can't happen in the richest state in the country. 15-20,000 seats can be added during an offseason, the stadium was built with that in mind to easily add another level spanning from around each side of the press boxes/suites all the way around. It was part of the original planning of the stadium and is included in the blue prints. If Delaney had an issue, CT governor was sign approval and it would be a 55-60,000 seat stadium in a year.
UCONN athletic department offers athletic success across the board. No other realignment candidate comes close when it comes to on field success, academic rankings and television markets which is what is driving expansion in the first place.
but if UConn is so great why are you guys in the AAC? Why did the Big Ten and ACC pass you over?
Why hasn't it happened?
You still need people to show up for games.
And when you say no other realignment candidate come close...which ones are you considering? North Carolina? Virginia? GT? Heck, even Duke. All those are better academically and get into bigger markets than the 30th sized Hartford & New Haven. And all but Duke probably have better football programs, and the Carolina teams have better basketball programs. Who knows how good U-Conn's basketball program will be post-their one great coach and in a nothing conference.
One correction, Rutgers gets you nothing in New England.
If we're talking 16 teams, Pitt, Mizzou, and either [VaTech and UVA], or [Oklahoma and Oklahoma State]. The former two-pair are obvious package deals. I'd take Kansas and K-State over UConn and who knows. Maybe even Iowa St and Cinci.
*Latter two.
Make the Fiesta Bowl a couple years ago, which is more than like 11 or 12 (of the 14) teams in the big 10 can say...
But no. HOWEVA: They could come as a basketball-only member and I would like that
Add 6 more schools. Dump those six, plus Penn State, Nebraska, Maryland, and Rutgers in the other division. 9 game conference schedule, no crossovers except for the Big Ten championship game (gotta keep that sweet championship game payout, right?).
There, everyone is happy.
Only reason they would be invited is because of basketball.
If we could take in their men's and women's basketball programs, then absolutely. Otherwise, meh, not so much. They don't do much to move the needle nationally in terms of football, and they made the Fiesta Bowl in a year when the Big East was horrifically bad. They finished 8-4 and won their conference. So I'll pass.
I'd rather have UVa, Va Tech, UNC, Ga Tech, and maybe Mizzou or Kansas.
I'm in the minority here, but I would love to get UConn, Pitt, and Syracuse to the B1G. Getting UConn would complete the conquering of NYC as would Syracuse and it would also get use a foothold in the Boston market and further the rivalries that have been established via pro teams footprints and the rivalries that have long been established. As far as getting UVA I don't think that will get us much, there football isn't exactly great and the only athletics they would provide worth anything would be lacrosse.
Plus culturally I think those schools that listed have more in common then the southern schools. I also think they be more inclined to stay within the ACC (which I think if FSU, Clemson, and Va Tech continue there success will be around for a while boasting decent athletic programs with very good to great academics Duke, UNC, UVA , etc) then come here.
If I were betting man I think the Big 12 will fall apart first before the ACC. They're a lot tougher then I think most believe especially if those aforementioned schools can recruit athletes in SEC country and offer the academics the SEC doesn't hold in much regard.
oops. Replied in the wrong place.
Uconn has a strong fan base from basketball and they have a large alumni. If the football program would be more successful they would easily sellout every game even in a larger stadium. Problem is building a program has been difficult and I don't think joining the big ten would help them become a recruiting power. They need a big time hire
UConn adds nothing of additional value, much like my opinion on this thread.
mentioned a lot as a reason for expansion. What makes anyone think UConn is going to be able to continue the kind of success they had without Jim Calhoun and being a severly watered down Big East for basketball?
Thanks but no thanks. Much as I love women's basketball, it would be the only positive in the mighty huskies joining the B1G. It's bad enough we are going to have to deal with Rutgers (loved watching them beat Bielema and his widow's peak) and Maryland. Stop the madness.
What matters now is big media markets for basic cable, never mind that cable itself is becoming increasingly problematic. UConn doesn't bring that. When the B1G steps up to become the B16, it's going to be Georgia Tech and Miami (the U, not NTM).
A lot of posters offer good reasons for them to join and to be excluded but whatever happened to people that enjoy the Midwestern values behind the big ten? We already get our east coast bias filled with the Nitty Lions and adding Maryland and Rutgers isn't of much value. The B1G should never expand and do the following:
- Put Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio State, Penn State, Indiana and Purdue in the east
- Put Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, Nebraska, Iowa and Northwestern in the west
- Reject admission for the two newest memebers (I still can't believe they're in)
In this realm of college football: money, greed and cable deals > tradition. Sigh.
As for Uconn, do not want in the big ten.
69 days til The Game
Me, I'd prefer if we turned the clock back to 1949 and, instead of MSU, invited Pitt as the replacement for Chicago.
If there is going to be 2 more teams added Pitt and Missouri makes the most sense geographically, Texas and Notre Dame make the most sense financially, and Virginia and North Carolina make the most sense realistically.
UConn adds nothing that the Big 10 needs...which probably means that it will be at the top of the list for what actually happens.
There are high schools in Michigan with better stadiums...and more football fans.
Put 'em in the cool blue and other colors division. We've just added two more ugly-ass red teams.
freaking way.
Delaware should join the BIG10 before that, or when hell freezes over.
Barring a major change, not many schools are available. The ACC took a poison pill so that any teams that leave do not have their media rights. Not sure if the Big 12 did the same.
Given that, who is available to be the 15th & 16th teams we would add? With a reduced list of possibilities, I think UConn fits better than most. Realistically, the B1G will only grow, not shrink.
Also, UConn is pursuing AAU membership I believe and is building a new biomedical research faculty that should help up the $ count.
All the talk about inevitable expansion is not based on five super conferences, but four. It will be fueled by the disintegration of the Big 12 or the ACC. There is no way in the world the big five conferences are going to collectively add sixteen more schools. UConn's best hope is that the Big 12 falls apart. They might be a better fit in the ACC or the Big Ten than the leftovers from there.
Absolutely not. If the Big Ten insists on expanding again, they should only do so if they can add quality football programs. Uconn barely deserves to be in D1A. We don't need another bottomfeeder dragging overall strength of schedule down.
In any language. No
It wasn't that long ago that their football program was D-1AA. Their facilities are not big enough to handle football. I know Purdue and Indiana are small but they have been in the B1G forever. UConn brings nothing to the table. The NFL dominates the Northeasternarea of the U.S. College traditions is lacking big time!
wait until we play them again, beat them by 30, and then ask the MGOBLOGGERS. It's been a rough two weeks around here, friend.
I'm still for UVA and UNC. Takes us into the south with two good schools, good hoops, could suggest that the B1G is about something a little more than eyeballs for football. With the move I would like to see some initiative to make the conference alliance mean something academically--200 million from the ESPN money for an initiative to defeat hunger in all ten whatever states, etcetera. Football is eating our children, and the Big Ten needs to distinguish itself from the ugly here soon or just go down as a bad football conference.
And then it needs to start policing itself--obviously, the NCAA can't do it. If PSU is not just eating our children but worse; if MSU is paying its players, let the conference impose something real and deal, and give the damned thing back a bit of integrity. Then when people say the Big Ten sucks, we can honestly say that we don't play by SEC rules.
Dunno if anyone posted this in the past, but it's about as succinct a statement of the current landscape for the Big Ten as you could want:
I'll accept UCONN only if we also get Akron and Appalachian State first.
If they move the stadium 20 miles closer to the college, include all sports and not just football, and (depending on how the rest of this season goes) fire their head coach, then sure. Why the hell not? GO SUPERCONFERENCES!!!
So I was at the Michigan UCONN game, live in CT and love the Wolverines. If Michigan were to come back to the "Rent" to play UCONN, I WOULD NOT GO! I hated the environment that they had. There was very little focus on the football, they had more advertisements and chessy activities on the field than football it seemed. They were clearly milking the event for every dollar they could. Even selling Michigan gear in the stadium! Some of the UCONN fans that I talked to were only there to see Michigan, not really cheer on their team. They only got excited when they thought there might be an upset. They have no football tradition and have no game engagement. The students must be bused to the arena, so there is very little college football feel. It's all very semi-pro. Talked to other Michigan fans who also said - never again will they step in that stadium.
As for their academic standards, just remember their mens basketball team recieved sanctions.
Never ever in a trillion years.
Sorry in advance for the essay.
I'm not here to talk about how amazing UConn is - if I were a B1G fan, I wouldn't want UConn either, especially after adding the likes of Maryland and Rutgers. But there were some kind of absurd comments in this thread that I had to address.
1. UNC, Virginia, Duke, etc. would be better options for the B1G ... but they don't seem interested in leaving the ACC. I can't for the life of me figure out why not, but UNC especially seems to be set on keeping the ACC alive (they are pretty much the center of power in that conference, so they might not want to relinquish that by leaving).
2. As for UConn's stadium, it was built with the idea in mind that it could easily be expanded. UConn could add about 10-15,000 seats in an offseason if need be. Not gonna defend the stadium being off-campus, though - it absolutely sucked to have to drive there as a student.
3. By itself, I don't think UConn is a huge addition for the B1G. But when you add UConn to Rutgers and Penn State, the conference has a pretty solid footprint in NYC. There seems to be a battle going on between the ACC and B1G for NYC, and out of all the schools left, UConn has by far the biggest presence in the Big Apple. (Heck, UConn has more of a presence in NYC than Rutgers and Syracuse.)
4. I had to laugh at the poster who criticized UConn for being in the middle of nowhere. Uh, aren't most big state schools? What would you call Nebraska? Penn State? Yeah, Storrs is surrounded by pretty much nothing, but it's an hour from Boston and 2 hours from NYC. We're not talking about University Park here.
5. I also had to laugh at the poster who said he'd rather have Syracuse than UConn. Last year, SNY showed a Syracuse men's basketball game on tape delay ... so it could air a UConn's women's basketball game live.
6. UConn also would give the B1G a little bit of penetration into the Boston market. I live a half hour from Boston and get every UConn football, men's basektball and women's bball game on TV. Admittedly, though, college sports aren't big here at all.
Again, I'm not some naive UConn fan who thinks they're this great prize to be won - if we do get into the B1G, it will probably be because better options were not attainable. I just wanted to clarify a few misconeptions out there.


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On September 28, the WBC hosted an event that showcased the research findings by the University of Texas-Pan American's Sociology professor Dr. Chad Richardson titled, "The Best Practices of Micro-Enterprises."
His research was presented to over 60 people in attendance and he explained, with the help of UTPA master's student Amelia Flores, the findings from their research on micro-enterprises predominately found in colonias and other low-income areas in Hidalgo County.
"What we did was go out into the community and talk in-depth with these micro-business owners and find out what their struggles and obstacles were," Richardson explained. "We also examined how successful their business was and what methods they were using to operate their business."
In the summer of 2010, 300 small business owners were surveyed. Some of the areas of business included food/snacks (example: raspa stands), automobile, cosmetics/beauty, parties/special occasions, personal care, and construction to name a few. Nearly 30 percent of those interviewed were between 40-49 years old, 25 percent were 50-59 years old, 23 percent were 30-39 years old, 15 percent were 18-29 years old, and less than 5 percent were 60 and older.
As a result of Richardson's study, he found that the financial situation stayed the same compared to last year for nearly 50 percent of the businesses surveyed. However, it has gotten worse for those who have businesses in bakery and pastries, landscaping and yard, fixed location sales, construction, personal care and skill trade — while the businesses that have improved financially are the ones that own parties or special occasion businesses, food and snacks, cosmetics and beauty and clothing and garment.
Another very important finding on Richardson's study was the annual income on all those businesses, which was between $12,000 and $42,000.
"The findings had very unique character characteristics of the small businesses in the Rio Grande Valley," said Maria Mann, WBC director. "The event was very educational, productive, an eye opener, and enlightening."
Some of Richardson's recommendations based on his findings include, Initiate a pilot project to make "promotoras" available to assist very small business owners in managing regulations and knowing the keys to success in starting a new business (or developing an existing one); help undocumented business owners become as legal as possible in operating their businesses.
Help individuals planning very small businesses to adequately plan their business and to adopt minimal bookkeeping and planning; encourage national and state agencies that work with very small businesses to develop training and forms that more successfully accommodate very small business owners with limited education and English proficiency; and encourage banks and other agencies to make available more micro-lending opportunities to very small businesses in the Valley.
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Elle King Tour" live at The NorVa, Norfolk, VA April 5th 2016
Photos and review by: Gary Horton
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Elle King is not a new face to the stage. She has been singing since 1998 and has fine-tuned her vocals around a country, soul, rock and blues style
Website: http://www.elleking.com/
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What's in a Name? Willy Russell's Shirley Valentine (1986)
© 2017 by Eileen Warburton
The Humanities Post-Show Talkback will be after
Sunday, March 19's matinee performance.
In the post-war era of British theatre and writing there was a movement slapped with the label, "the angry young men." Working-class playwrights like John Osborne and Arnold Wesker, novelists like Alan Sillitoe and Kingsley Amis, all raged against the limitations of their social class and a sense of entrapment in British society. Even while being obsessed with upward mobility, they scorned anything highbrow as "phoney" and took pride in their lower-class accents and mannerisms. Their narratives never resolved their problems and the text was usually just anger, satire, and destruction. But thirty years or so after the dominance of the "angry young man" in British theatre, playwright Willy Russell came along with the "unhappy mature woman" who has played by the conventional rules of her social class only to come up empty. Like the rootless, working-class characters in the "angries," Russell's characters feel stymied and trapped. But these women, like Susan White in Educating Rita (1980) and the lone protagonist of Shirley Valentine, are aspirational women. They want more, they seek change, and they get it. The satisfying conclusions of Russell's "happy endings" have often been criticized by the snootier London reviewers, but, in fact, they represent a different, but accurate, kind of truth. Susan and Shirley learn that their identities and self-respect are in their own hands. Society, dull husbands, lack of education, undermining families: none of these are actually responsible for holding these women back. It's not someone else's fault and no one else will save them. Both women begin and end as isolated individuals. Their paths, however, have taken them from loneliness to a new acceptance and confidence centered in the self. It's no accident that each woman ends by resuming the name she was born with, satisfied to be herself.
The successful re-creation of oneself is familiar territory to Willy Russel. He was born in 1947 in Whiston, outside Liverpool to a working-class couple with little in common. His father, an alcoholic, worked in the mines and factories, eventually ran a fish and chip shop, was erratic and borderline abusive. His mother, a nurse, dreamed of better things and made Willy her confidante. He started work as a hairdresser at 15 and soon ran his own shop. Meeting the family of his new wife, Annie Seagroatt, at 19 encouraged him to return to night school and qualify as a teacher. Soon he was writing full-time. His first success was about the Beatles, culled from his experience as a fan long before they were ever the famous band they became. Educating Rita (1980), his second, earned him the first awards and film opportunities out of many since. Out of 23 plays, novels, and music albums, Russell is best known for plays like the long-running Blood Brothers (1983) and Shirley Valentine (1986). His persistent theme—that grew out of his own experience–is always about people embracing change and surpassing their limitations by determination and hard work.
Russell doesn't stray far from his own working-class roots as he creates his characters. He is also a musician who is justly celebrated for his keen ear for dialogue, the sardonic wit and punchy rhythms of the folks of northern England. For Shirley he invented the female monologue so that Shirley could deliver her stream-of-consciousness life tale without having to deal with the presence of other characters. The play is considered a tour de force for actresses, a kind of aria that presents the emotional journey of one exceptional middle-aged woman who reclaims her life.
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Mumbai police nab extortionist in Ahmedabad
A 30-year-old extortionist who was blackmailing a man online has been nabbed
The city's Crime Branch have arrested a 30-year-old man on extortion charges.
The Property Cell arrested accused Nikhil Lala, who is a garment dealer from Ahmedabad, Gujarat.
According to the police, the accused allegedly posed as a girl on a chat room and stuck up a conversation with a man, who resides in Sion. As the relationship between the two deepened, the accused, with the help of Splitcamera software, posed as a girl online and even showed the victim some videos posing as girl. He then convinced the victim to shoot some videos in the nude and share it with him.
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The increasing popularity of the slam bang T20 cricket could 'sound the death knell for Test cricket', Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) chief Keith Bradshaw has warned.
In his article for the April edition of the Wisden Cricket magazine, Bradshaw said the danger of Test cricket being rendered redundant looms large as many players have bid adieu to the longer version of the game to prolong their career in the latest and more lucrative edition.
"I consider myself optimistic, but it isn't difficult to look ahead and see the pessimists' apocalyptic version of the future of the game — where Tests are virtually redundant, Twenty20 saturates and players are globe-trotting mercenaries," Bradshaw said.
"We know several players have already forgone playing Tests to prolong more lucrative Twenty20 careers," he added.
Bradshaw said the Twenty20 cricket would leave future generations of cricketers ill-equipped to handle the pressure and demands of longer formats such as first-class and Test match cricket.
"I believe the more covert long-term problem will be that young players will be schooled purely in the Twenty20 game and be unable to adapt to the demands of cricket played over three, four and five days," he said.
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"Twenty20 could sound the death knell for Test cricket but it could also prove to be the perfect vehicle for the expansion of the game into other countries. The shorter the game, the greater the leveller, and Twenty20 is an excellent pathway into the elite fold," he said. (ANI)


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It looks like Carnival Conquest, which has spent the spring cruising from
its temporary homeport of Gulfport because of a protracted power line
safety-related issue in New Orleans, is headed back to its original home
port on a year-round basis. Entergy, the company responsible for raising
power lines so that Conquest could safely sail through (and then,
ultimately, the company that will bury them completely so it's not even an
issue) has said it will begin the work in June.
The power lines, which are downriver from New Orleans and which proved to
hang too low for Conquest to safely pass under during the annual spring
swelling of the Mississippi, will be raised about 23 1/2 feet so that they
are at least 217 feet above the mean high water stage -- that's four feet
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be completed by October.
This announcement, while good news for those who want to sail Conquest from
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Conquest at Gulfport, due to the current river level, until at least the
first part of June," says Carnival's Jennifer de la Cruz. "Specifically when
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State police arrested a Greenfield Center man on a slew of charges Sunday after he allegedly rammed his truck into another pickup as troopers were investigating a nearby domestic altercation.
Joseph Golden, 43, was charged with menacing, criminal possession of a weapon, five counts of reckless endangerment, endangering the welfare of a child, felony driving while intoxicated and a number of other violations. He was arraigned on the charges in Wilton Town Court and sent to the Saratoga County Jail in lieu of $20,000 cash bail or $40,000 bond.
State police were responding to a domestic incident involving Golden on Northern Pines Road, after receiving an initial report of his involvement. Golden had left the scene in his truck, but returned shortly after troopers arrived to conduct interviews, according to investigators.
Troopers said Golden intentionally rammed his pickup into the back of another truck while they were standing in front of it with four individuals, including a 13-year-old. The parked truck was pushed forward and everyone had to move to avoid being struck by it, investigators said.
Golden fled the scene and allegedly struck another vehicle on Ballard Road before troopers were able to catch up to him and take him into custody.
Golden is scheduled to reappear in court Thursday.


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"You Thought I Was Just Like You" Ps. 50:16-21Sunday, June 27th, 2010
By Jon W. Quinn
There are some things in which we are like God. This is not surprising, because we are His offspring and have been created in His spiritual image (Genesis 1:26,27; Acts 17:24-29). We can think, love and make moral decisions. We have a spirit and God is spirit.
But, there are also huge differences between ourselves and God. There always have been and always will be. It is those differences that man sometimes forgets, and that leads to careless living.
The Psalmist talked about this. He wrote:
"But to the wicked God says, "What right have you to tell of My statutes, And to take My covenant in your mouth? For you hate discipline, And you cast My words behind you. When you… Continue reading


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Dial M for Murder
By Frederick Knott
Ottawa Little Theatre
Director: Margaret Harvey O'Kelly
When amateur theatre becomes amateurish, even a carefully constructed play suffers under the strain. Sadly, this is precisely what happens with Ottawa Little Theatre's production of Frederick Knott's 1952 drama Dial M for Murder.
Among the clues that this thriller is unlikely to thrill are the numerous lighting miscues that frequently draw laughter from the audience, awkward pauses and embarrassing silences that are the result of one of the actors forgetting his lines and the slow set changes. Further clues that the production is not working are a lack of apparent chemistry between the heroine and her erstwhile lover and the declamatory style of the villain of the piece.
All this is particularly depressing in the light of the obvious effort that is behind ensuring the accuracy of the period costuming by Gillian Siddiqui and the set design by Robin Riddihough.
More of a will-he-get-away-with-it than a traditional whodunit, Knott's script is probably best remembered as the 1954 movie starring Grace Kelly and Ray Milland. And more than 60 years later, it can still work on stage as a recent production by the Perth Classic Theatre Festival demonstrated.
Because the early section of the script is so heavy on exposition, the play is likely to be somewhat creaky in the early stages almost regardless of the quality of direction and performance, but more rounded characterizations would help with pacing and maintaining the audience's interest. When the play, rather than the seeming discomfort of the ensemble, comes to the fore, the OLT production, as directed by Margaret Harvey O'Kelly, is a little more effective.
As the psychopathic focal point of the drama, Sean C. Dwyer does add a light layer of menace to the character of former tennis pro Tony Wendice, and appropriately insincere concern for his wife, Margot. However, quiet menace would be more effective than shouting. As Margot, his intended murder victim, Heather Archibald is clear about her character's motivation and elegant in her movements, but is no more convincing in her continuing attraction to her former lover, mystery writer Max Halliday (Frank Sasin) than he seems to her. However, Sasin is smooth in his delivery and is likely to have delivered a better performance with stronger direction.
As with many murder mysteries of the period, it is up to the police detective to solve the crime and, as Inspector Hubbard, Tony Adams offers a tip of the hat to the disheveled TV Detective Columbo in a reasonable presentation that becomes bogged down in dry moments when he loses his lines.
While definitely not one of OLT's finest hours, Dial M for Murder is still worthy of note as a detailed jigsaw.
The OLT production of Dial M for Murder continues to November 5.
Director………………………………………………………………….Margaret Harvey O'Kelly
Set……………………………………………………………………….Robin Riddihough
Costumes…………………………………………………..……………Gillian Siddiqui
Lighting…………………………………………………………………..Brian Cano
Sound…………………………………………………………………….Bradford MacKinlay
Margot Wendice…………………………………………………………..Heather Archibald
Max Halliday………………………………………………………………Frank Sasin
Tony Wendice……………………………………………………………..Sean C. Dwyer
Captain Lesgate…………………………………………………………….Kevin Anderson
Inspector Hubbard………………………………………………………….Tony Adams
Thompson/Williams………………………………………………………….Amanuel Abebe/Samuel T. Corley


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aaaand that was another long hiatus…but i'm back! and we're moved into our new house! it's been a whirlwind to move in, get unpacked, clean the old place, and figure out how to spread our furniture from our old (tiny) one bedroom apartment across the new place.
the new kitchen is amazing, but with the busy/crazy/hectic whirlwind of chaos since we moved in, we have only been cooking old, familiar, and easy recipes (like hippie bowls, lentil dal, chana masala, and black bean soup & cornbread).
so this recipe is one that we made months ago, before all of the moving chaos began. it's a delicious combination of squash and tofu, roasted in a citrus and miso sauce. we topped it with fresh basil and put it alongside some millet, and absolutely loved it. this recipe yields the perfect kind of winter comfort food – warm, filling, but not greasy or heavy.
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miso citrus delicata squash & millet
yields 6 main dish servings
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- squash:
- 2 lbs delicata squash (approx 3 squash)
- 1T toasted sesame oil
- sauce:
- 1T toasted sesame oil
- 2T molasses
- 1t tamari
- 2T maple syrup
- 2T miso paste
- 1/4c fresh orange juice
- 1T fresh lemon juice
- 1/4t grated lemon zest
- 5T water
- squash and tofu mixture:
- 10oz extra-firm tofu, cubed
- millet:
- 1c millet
- 2c water
- 1/4t salt
- 1T butter, optional
- garnish:
- fresh basil or arugula torn into small pieces, optional
- lemon wedges, optional
- preheat your oven to 425º
- squash: cut the squash in half, de-seed it, and slice into 1/2″ pieces
- toss the squash with 1 tablespoon of the toasted sesame oil, then place on a greased baking sheet(s) in a single layer
- allow to roast for 30 minutes or until tender, turning over halfway through
- sauce: while the squash is roasting, whisk together the other tablespoon of sesame oil, molasses, tamari, maple syrup, miso paste, orange juice, lemon juice, lemon zest, and water
- squash and tofu mixture: once the squash is tender, move it into a two quart baking dish
- combine the sauce and tofu in the baking dish and toss to coat thoroughly
- bake the dish uncovered for 30 minutes, tossing a few times along the way
- millet: while the squash and tofu are baking, heat a pan over medium heat
- add the millet and allow to toast for 4 minutes, until it turns brown and you can smell its fragrance (do not let them burn!)
- add the water, salt, and millet, and stir to combine
- bring the water to a boil over high heat, then turn down to low, add the butter, and cover the pot
- allow to simmer for 15 minutes, then take off the heat and let sit for 10 minutes
- garnish: serve the tofu and squash mixture with the millet, garnish with fresh basil or arugula and a squeeze of lemon juice, and enjoy!


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Amongst the English aristocracy and landed gentry, the 'coming out' of a young woman marked her transition from child to adult, and formally signalled her availability for marriage.
Young aristocratic and upper class women were known as debutantes, and from the early 18th century onwards it was customary for them to appear before the reigning Sovereign at the start of the social season, a ritual known as 'being presented at court'. The last presentations occurred in March 1958, prior to the abolition of the practice by Queen Elizabeth II.
The social season was the period between Easter and August 12th (the start of the grouse-shooting season) when a series of social events took place where debutantes might be seen in public. Apart from balls and dinner parties, some of the most important events were (and, indeed, still are) Royal Ascot, the Henley Regatta and the Chelsea Flower show.


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Cathy's sister, Kristen, arrived today for a visit and was getting a tour of things that had changed since her last time here.
"Oh, Kristen, you have to see our new hamster!" said Cathy as she led her to the little rodent's cage in our family room.
"Oh look, Kristen. He's dead!"
Followed by three minutes of laughter where they can't talk because they're laughing so hard.
Andrew had found this hamster a few weeks ago wandering outside in our driveway (!), so Cathy and Audrey took it in and borrowed a cage for it. A couple days later we learned that our neighbors had found another hamster wandering around in their driveway and had also taken it in. We tried convincing them that their hamster was the sibling of ours and that it was only right to keep this little hamster family together – at their house – but they didn't buy it.
And it was strangely coincidental when our white hamster died today, because we learned its brown sibling died just last weekend. Maybe they're together now running on that big wheel in the sky.


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Rotten pears, burned pizza, and fat-filled chicken patties and burgers. Those are just some of the unappetizing, often unhealthy lunch items being served to teens at Roosevelt High School on Chicago's Northwest Side—and some of the students have had enough. Starting Wednesday, they plan to boycott the gross cafeteria food, and they have launched a petition demanding that lunch offerings be improved.
The effort, called "The School Lunch Project: Culinary Denial," was created in November by civics students at the school. They hope to educate the public about the problem with the food they are being served and mobilize the 1,400 students at Roosevelt to stand up for better nutrition.
"I think it's especially important for young people in Chicago—where we see so much corruption, cronyism, and nepotism—that they learn how to make change within large organizations," Tim Meegan, a veteran social studies teacher at Roosevelt who supports the student-led effort, told WBEZ on Monday. "This is just one of many diverse tactics that we are trying to teach young people so they are fully equipped to participate as citizens in a democratic society.


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London, 8 Aug: Wang Zhang, Asian Record holder in the women hammer throw won her first World Championship medal with a throw of 75.94m. Wang was leading half way with 75.94m but she was edged out by Anita, World record holder from Poland. Anita threw hammer to 77.90m to win gold medal. Wang had to settle on silver medal. After placing fourth in 2013 and fifth in 2015, and having failed to record a valid mark at last year's Olympics, Wang was rewarded for a consistent series with her first global championships medal.
Zhang Wenxiu of China announced her retirement from competitive athletics after she finished on the 4th place. Sixteen years after making her first World Championships final at the age of 15, world and Olympic silver medallist Zhang Wenxiu recorded a season's best of 74.53m for fourth, just 23 centimetres shy of bronze. It was her 11th consecutive global championships final and her 10th consecutive top-five finish.


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ChevronTexaco Well-Positioned for Future Growth
|Tuesday, December 14, 2004
ChevronTexaco is delivering on its pledge to achieve industry-leading financial returns, said Chairman and Chief Executive Officer David J. O'Reilly in a presentation to security analysts today. With a strong focus on improving return on capital employed, the company significantly improved its relative performance in 2003 and through the first nine months of 2004 is outperforming its peers.
O'Reilly reported that from the beginning of 2000 to the present, the company is No. 1 among its largest peers in total stockholder return, the key measure of dividend and stock price growth. He said the company is poised to provide strong earnings and returns in the future.
The company has dramatically strengthened its balance sheet in the last two years, O'Reilly said. "We're in a business where financial strength is required to participate in large, long-term projects and take advantage of world-class opportunities. We're currently in the fortunate position where we have a strong balance sheet, as well as the ability to fund our queue of good, economic projects and increase the amount of cash returned directly to our stockholders," he said.
"Our first priority has been to improve profitability," said O'Reilly. "Volume growth will follow because we have major new projects scheduled to come on line over the next several years."
Continuing, he said, "To do well in our business, we must make the right long-term investment decisions and execute those projects well. And we must be an excellent operator of long-lived assets. That's why disciplined processes designed to achieve consistent operational excellence, capital stewardship and cost reduction are important and will continue to make us a top competitor."
O'Reilly said the company has followed through on its objective to high-grade its portfolio and generate value, with asset sale proceeds expected to exceed $3 billion this year. He added that the company's portfolio is well-positioned to leverage strong market conditions and that current industry conditions only serve to reinforce that the company is pursuing the right strategies at the right time.
ChevronTexaco's capital and exploratory expenditure program for 2005 totals $10 billion, O'Reilly said, adding that next year's spending represents an increase over the last two years because the company is going into higher spending stages at several key growth projects.
Joining O'Reilly at the meeting to discuss ChevronTexaco's strategies and financial performance were Vice Chairman Peter Robertson, who heads Global Upstream; Patricia Woertz, Executive Vice President in charge of Global Downstream; George Kirkland, President of Overseas Petroleum; and Chief Financial Officer John Watson.
Upstream to Drive Growth
Vice Chairman Peter Robertson told analysts that the company is delivering on its key upstream strategies. "With 2003 as the base, our objective is to grow production volumes an average of at least 3 percent compounded over the next 5 years," Robertson said.
Robertson indicated the objective could be achieved with a planned strong growth in production capacity during the 2006 through 2008 period. "We are making good progress on our major capital projects. These new projects are expected to bring our production to approximately three million barrels per day in 2008," he added.
The company's strategy to achieve superior exploration success continues to generate results, Robertson said. "This year, we've achieved a success rate of 46 percent in the 41 exploratory wells we have drilled, far above the 10-year industry average of 32 percent."
Robertson acknowledged that the company's reserves replacement rate in 2004 will be low, primarily due to the timing of large projects. "A greater proportion of reserve additions than in the past will come from large, long lead-time projects," Robertson said. Over several years, our plans show that we can more than replace production through reserve additions from a combination of base business focus, continued successful exploration and new major projects."
Global Gas Achieving Milestones
ChevronTexaco has reached several milestones in its strategy to build an integrated gas business, Robertson said. The company has re-established its gas marketing presence in the U.S. and is progressing efforts to open up markets in North America with planned regasification terminals in Baja California and in the Gulf of Mexico. A gas-to-liquids (GTL) growth initiative also is under way, with planned facilities in Nigeria and Qatar. By 2008, the company and its partners expect to market 70,000 barrels a day of clean, high performance fuels from an exclusive GTL process, and plan to be well advanced on the development of an additional 200,000 barrels of GTL production.
The "Big 5" World-Class Projects
George Kirkland, president of Overseas Petroleum, discussed a number of important upstream projects, including five major projects that are planned to come on line between 2006 and 2009 and which are expected to have a significant impact on the company's production growth. The projects are: Benguela/Belize and Lobito/Tomboco in Angola; Tengizchevroil's Sour Gas Injection/Second Generation Plant project in Kazakhstan; the Agbami field in Nigeria; the Tahiti field in the Gulf of Mexico deepwater and Australia's Greater Gorgon development.
"These projects and their anticipated additions to production and reserves over the coming years are critical to our success," Kirkland said.
Downstream Performance
Pat Woertz, Executive Vice President of Global Downstream, discussed the company's strategy to improve downstream returns by focusing on areas of market and supply strength. She outlined numerous accomplishments in 2004, which included improving refinery utilization rates and generating more than $500 million in before-tax earnings improvements compared to a 2002 base period -- a 2005 year-end goal that was met one year in advance. Downstream also improved its marketing portfolio, divesting more than 1,400 marketing sites, while retaining sales volumes, and bringing more than 1,000 new Texaco-branded sites into the company's retail network.
"We will build on this momentum in 2005 to further improve returns," Woertz said. "Our performance is building a foundation for future growth, and investments will make core assets even more competitive. We expect to improve reliability, increase heavy, sour crude runs and expand capacity."
Concluding the presentation to analysts, O'Reilly said, "We continue to consider total stockholder return the ultimate score, and we expect to stay among the top performers in our industry."
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