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regarding ROGER RABBIT guest appearances..
Is the painting in this scene a beaver, or could it be MGM's Screwy Squirrel?
A side by side comparison shows it's not Screwy Squirrel. Right gloves, right shape nose but wrong color, wrong cheeks and tail color doesn't match...
Next - is the doorknob here the one from ALICE IN WONDERLAND?
Again, a side-by-side says no. Different mouth, eyes, eyebrows and "hair." Definitely similarities, but no match.
Trivia: Did you know the original ALICE doorknob was voiced by Joe Kearns, the actor who played Mr. Wilson on the original "Dennis The Menace" TV show? It's true!
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- How Exercise Helps Symptoms of PTSD (PDF)
- Studies About the Effects of Exercise on the Brain
- Exercise and the Mind: Physical Fitness Can Help Improve Your Life and Probably Even Your Grades
- Study: Exercise Has Long-Lasting Effect on Depression
- Depression and Exercise (PDF)
- Regular Exercise Reduces Patient Anxiety by 20 Percent, Study Finds
- The Influence of Exercise on Mental Health (PDF)
- Exercise Before School May Help Reduce Symptoms in Kids
- Exercise Helps Children With ADHD in Study (PDF)
- Battling PTSD With Exercise
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Responding to some news items:
* Fox Sports.com says the Mets are out of money, which is preventing them from signing Rob Barajas, and kept them from Joel Pineiro.
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Advantages of using Mind Maps for Speaking.
This is a recount of how my students have been using mind maps to communicate their ideas. My students are EFL students at university level. We integrate technology into a face to face class. We have three trimester at year. In a trimester, there could be 8 or 12 groups of 32 students each, interacting trough out our class blog or our Facebook group. Creating a little community of practice where students from different classes benefit and follow each others work.
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Students become creators that will inspire and help others to keep on creating. Knowledge amplifies and creates waves, students compare their work and evaluate themselves and their classmates. Resulting in a community that learn together and help each other.
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If you want to know more about mind maps check this post out!!!
Here we have an example of a mind map of one of my students:
As extra practice and with the idea of integrating technology in our classes. They also write a script of the map to be checked and edited by a tutor or by the teacher.
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Later, students read their maps and their voices are recorded in a power point slide. This help students practice their pronunciation and improve their fluency when speaking. They can also upload their presentations to Authorstream and share it in a social network like twitter or in our Facebook group where students and educators can leave comments on their work.
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For the first Thanksgiving weekend since 2004, Mammoth Mountain Ski Area is open from Eagle Express and Cloud Nine Express, all the way over to Outpost 14.
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When the weather cleared in mid-week, what Mammothites had was a wonderland of snowplay terrain, both on the ski hill and at Tamarack Cross Country Ski Center, which opened on Wednesday with pristine runs, groomed and ready to go.
Some things will always be the same, such as the runs on the groomers (Broadway, for example), the bunny slopes (i.e. Sesame Street) and the early season drops from the Drop Out Chutes and the White Out Chutes and, naturally, Cornice Bowl.
Other aspects will be radically different, There is, for instance, "The Stomping Grounds," in the Unbound Terrain Park.
The park will feature a huge landing airbag near where the Super Pipe will eventually appear. It is a feature that will help beginner tricksters practice their McTwists and whatever, presumably saving them from a trip to Mammoth Hospital.
The big question around town is how many visitors will show up.
Thanksgiving is not a big weekend for this resort town, traditionally. Families made their holiday plans weeks and weeks ago, and they're not going to change them just on account of early snowfall. Even so, Hansen said he expects a bump.
"The diehards are going to come up," he predicted, "and all the base lodges will be open."
Also open is the Scenic Loop Road, where many families enjoy sledding the nearby slopes. Others enjoy snowshoeing to the Inyo Craters, for example, or cross-country skiing.
The idea that this is happening now is on the outside edge of outrageous, though.
This is the kind of snowfall that veteran Mammothites and visitors might expect in January. Not that Hansen will be around to enjoy it. He and the MMSA marketing crew are spending the holiday weekend in San Francisco, staffing a booth near the skating rink at swanky Union Square. There, they'll market the ski area in advance of commercial air service to Mammoth that begins in mid-December.


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Released: August 2, 2008
Episodes: 12
Genre: Mystery/Romance/Comedy
Patchata Nampan (Rome) as Songrob
Sririta Jensen (Rita) as Chomduen
Pisanu Nimsakul (Boy) as Songton
Amarapat Julkasian (Mim) as Diana (Annie)
Wirakarn Seneetantikul (Maprang) as Jennifer (Jillie)
Jirayu Laoonmanee (Gao) as Plianfah
Waranya Kijwattana (Fern) as Sunisa (Bee)
Wichai Jongprasittiporn (Aek) as Smith (Num)
Based on the novel by KingChat
Production :
Director: Chatchai Naksuriya
Summary edited from Press Kit by ChumUra @ boyster.com
Translated by wishbone
"For what we see…
What is it, actually?
The puzzle of the powerful spirit...
The supernatural mystery...
or… Plianfah's psychic power
that create a lot of scary issues"
People in Plian Fah Residence, the famous prophet house, were excited when they saw that Diana or Annie, a famous singer stepped into their place together with Songrob, the owner of HeartSong Company and Songton, Songrob's older brother and a former superstar of
The prophets of this residence are Grandpa Puek and Pruk, the card interpreters, Granny Paen, a medium of Goddess Tubtim and Plianfah, a son of Pruk, who could see the future. All of them gave Annie the same prediction that she would be dead. Annie believed it because she herself could feel something bad in her bones either. Songton, Songrob, Plernpit, her mother and Pasit, her step-father told her that she was nonsense and had a blind faith, so she had to keep this anxiety with only herself.
Chomduen, Pruk's daughter, was the only one in family who didn't have any sixth sense, but she was the real fan of Annie. When she knew about the prediction, she was frightened and worried about Annie so much. Chomduen tried to ask Plianfah, her younger brother, how she could help Annie, but he didn't give her the answer. He just told her that everything was the destiny and no one could change it.
Unexpectedly, a week later, the prediction of the prophets in Plian Fah Residence was proved. Many newspaper and medias had the headline news about Annie's thrilling death. She fell from the deck of HeartSong Company in the middle of a night.
Though the police performed an autopsy and concluded that it was an accident, Plernpit, Annie's mother believed that it was a murder because before Annie's death, she had the complicated problem about love with 2 brothers, Songrob and Songton. Songrob fell in love with Annie, but she was in love with Songton. However, Songton was a playboy and he didn't want to have a serious relationship with any girls, so he tried to get Annie out of his life. When the love triangle could not be solved, it ended up with the tragedy.
Plernpit asked the police to revive the case. The inspector Manas used to be the one who investigated both Songton and Songrob, but he didn't see any suspicion from them because both of them could be the witness for each other that they were together during that time. But Plernpit didn't believe them and tried to accuse Songrob and Songton because she wanted them to compensate for Annie's death.
Jillie, Annie's younger sister asked her mom to stop this issue because she worried that it would affect her future with HeartSong Company. And importantly, she wanted to protect Songton, a man she loved though he was her sister's ex-boyfriend. Plernpit blamed Jillie that she was stupid like Annie for falling in love with a guy like Songton.
Chomduen also didn't believe that Annie's death was the accident or suicide. Since the oracle like Plianfah confirmed that it was a murder, she was more confident of it, but Plianfah refused to answer her who the murderer was. He just told her that the murderer would reveal oneself someday.
One night, Chomduen saw Annie's sad spirit. She told everyone in Plian Fah Residence about it, but they didn't believe her and said that she was nonsense because she was just absorbed in Annie's death too much. Chomduen was very sorry and wanted to win over them by proving that she also had sixth sense the same as them. Sabaithip, her mother tried to explain to Chomduen that someday, she would know that being the normal person was the best thing and that was the reason why her mother chose to live her life as a normal person more than to be the oracle like the rest of the family.
No matter how anyone said, Chomduen was still stubborn and announced that she would be the one who solved the mystery of Annie's death by herself. She wanted to prove that she really saw Annie's spirit, and it was not just her dream.
Chomduen tried to apply for a job in HeartSong Company to find out Annie's mystery. In that company, Chomduen met Sunisa or Bee who worked as a creative there. They had been antagonist to each other since they were students because Sunisa used to steal Chomduen's work to present to the professor.
Chomduen worked in the company as a creative without success because Sunisa kept stealing Chomduen's work and idea to use for herself all the time. However, Chomduen didn't worry about it because her ambition was to find out Annie's murderer, so she spent her most time to trace and try to prove every suspects in the company from the security guard to the executives.
In the short time, she could cross out many suspects in her list until there were only Annie's intimate people left, which were Songton, Songrob and Jillie. 3 of them had the reason enough to be the murderer because at that time, Songton and Annie were the lovers, but Songton secretly dated with Jillie at the same time and Jillie was an ill-tempered girl. One night, Chomduen heard Songton and Jillie quarrelling with each other and Jillie said that she hated Annie.
Moreover, another suspect that Chomduen kept an eye on was Songton, a former famous superstar who was a playboy and had many girls. He had many suspicious things because before Annie was dead, they were the lovers and there was the rumor that Songton tried to dump her, but she resisted, so it was possible that he tried to find another way to get rid of Annie out of his life.
Chomduen tried to find out and digged out about Songton. When Songrob knew about it, he was upset and tried to protect his brother, he told Chomduen to stop investigating about what she suspected, but Chomduen refused and didn't give up, and that made Songrob and Chomduen had bad relationship with each other.
Though Songrob was unhappy about what Chomduen was trying to do, Chomduen's stubborn and self-confident personality impressed him because he was looking for a new host with this kind of personality to host with Songton in the new TV show called "Gae Roy" or "The Trace", the new style TV show hunting for the truth that Songrob was the producer.
Chomduen was chosen to be a new raising-star host in the new TV show. That made Sunisa upset so much. She thought that Chomduen flattered and seduced Songrob to make her way up, so she tried to win over Chomduen by offering herself and trying to be close to Songton. Songton didn't refuse her because there were many girls offering themselves to him usually. Moreover, Sunisa tried to make Jillie hate and jealous of Chomduen by spreading the news that Chomduen had the affair with both Songrob and Songton in trade for her achievement.
The more there were misunderstanding and scandal, the more famous Chomduen became and the relationship between her and Songrob kept growing more and more. When she got close to Songrob, she knew from Songrob that though Songton's personality was like a womanizer, he always loved Annie so much actually and a generous person like Songton could never be a murderer or harm anyone, especially a woman he loved.
The love relationship between Songrob and Chomduen developed, but the mystery about Annie's case became a deadlock because Chomduen found that every people around Annie loved Annie a lot and it was impossible that any of them could be the murderer. So, Chomduen decided to give up.
Anyway, with Sunisa's jealousy, when she couldn't use Songton as her stairways to her success, she tried to get revenge and destroy HeartSong Company. She gave the news to the reporters that Songrob was the suspect of this love-triangle murder case because he fell in love with Annie so much, but he was disappointed because she refused him.
This murder case was revived. Going to the court this time, Plianfah suggested Songrob and Songton to say the truth and not try to keep any secret, so that they would not be sorrowful and sufferings as before. Therefore, Songton confessed that in the night that Annie was dead, he was with another girl, but he didn't want it to become a headline news, so he told the police that he was with Songrob at the office. Songrob also confessed that actually, there were only him and Annie at the office in that night.
Though Jillie knew that Songton had a lot of woman in his life and had done bad to Annie, her sister, she still loved him. Because of love, she defended him by holding a press conference to guarantee Songton's innocence with her own reputation.
Jillie proved to Songton that she could give up everything for him. Finally Songton could be acquitted from being the murder suspect. There was only Songrob who was still in suspect.
The situation became turning point when Chomduen accidentally found the tape recording the quarrelling incident between Songrob and Annie. Annie screamed at him that though Songrob killed her, she would still love only Songton. She could never change her mind to love Songrob. Chomduen was shocked when Songrob threatened Annie that she should not force him, otherwise he might really do something crazy.
Chomduen was struck all of a heap when she knew that the most suspicious person was Songrob, the man she trusted most and he had a lot of secrets hiding from her all the time.
What would she choose,
Between love and the right thing?
Who…was the murderer who killed Annie?
And why?…The closer she traced to the truth,
the more Annie's spirit looked so sad and sufferings.
The love of 2 couples
Songrob and Chomduen
Songton and Jillie
How would it end up?
Let's find the truth along with Chomduen in this lakorn. ^___^Click to watch it on Youtube
Click to watch it on Crunchyroll
Original Soundtrack
Song: Kwam Rak Yoo Nai (Where is Love?)
Artist: Boy Pisanu
ฟ้ามีจริง และฝนก็มีจริงๆ
Fah Mee Jing Lae Fon Gor Mee Jing Jing
The sky really exists and the rain really exists,
Laew Rak Mee Jing Rue Mai Mee
Does love really exist?
Ha Ngeun Ngam
Seeking for the clue,
จะค้นและหากันที ก็ไม่มีร่องรอย
Ja Kon Lae Ha Gan Tee Gor Mai Mee Rong Roy
Finding and searching anytime, there's no any trace.
* แต่ทุกครั้ง...ที่ใกล้ชิดกันกับเธอ
Tae Took Krang...Tee Klai Chid Gan Gab Thur
But every times when I've been close to you,
Gor Muen Mee Rak Long Loy Nai Agard
it's just like there's love floating in the air.
อีกคำถาม...ทุกๆ คำที่ขาด
Eek Kam Tam...Took Took Kam Tee Khad
And for the question...every missing words,
Gor Kon Gor Pob Nai Sai Ta Thur
I found it in your eyes.
** ความรักอยู่ไหน นี่ไงอยู่ตรงนี้...
Kwam Rak Yoo Nai Nee Ngai Yoo Trong Nee
Where is love? Here, it's right here.
Gor Jai Bong Chee Wa Kwam Rak Mee Jing Yoo Tee Thur
My heart indicated that love really exists with you.
ความรักอยู่ไหน นี่ไงอยู่ตรงนี้ที่ฉันได้เจอ
Kwam Rak Yoo Nai Nee Ngai Yoo Trong Nee Tee Chan Dai Jer
Where is love? Here, it's right here where I found it.
Job Garn Kon Ha Yood Tang Jai Trong Tee Thur
End my searching, stop my whole heart with you.
*** นา...น้า...นา...นา...นั่น...นา...น้า...นา
หาใครๆ บนฟ้าหรือในทะเล
Ha Krai Krai Bon Fah Rue Nai Tale
Finding anyone in the sky or in the sea,
Ha Rak Tao Rai Gor Mai Mee
finding love, there's no any.
ถามใครๆ ก็หาไม่เจอสักที
Tam KRai Krai Krai Gor Ha Mai Jer Sak Tee
Asking anyone, unable to find,
Mai Mee Boae Sae Leoy
no any trace at all.
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Original Soundtrack
Song: Khon Ngo Nai Krajok (A Fool in the Mirror)
Artist: Boy Pisanu/Malina
Ta Wan Nee Mai Roo Thur Samkan Mak Kae Nai
If today, I don't know how important you are...
ถ้าเธอไม่จากไป ถ้าไม่ได้ไปกับเขา
Ta Thur Mai Jak Pai Ta Mai Dai Pai Gab Khao
if you have not been away...if you didn't go with him...
ถ้าฉันคนนี้ ยังเหลือใครใคร
Ta Chan Khon Nee Yang Lueh Krai Krai
if I still have someone left...
Tuen Kuen Ma Mai Hen Kwam Wang Plao
waking up without emptiness,
ฉันคนนี้ ก็คงไม่ได้รู้ รู้ถึงความปวดใจ
Chan Khon Nee Gor Kong Mai Dai Roo Roo Tueng Kwam Puad Jai
I may not know...know about heartache.
ถ้าวันนั้นได้รู้ ถนอมเธอมากกว่าใคร
Ta Wan Nan Dai Roo Tanom Thur Mak Kwa Krai
If that day, I knew and cared for you more than anyone else...
ถ้าฉันไม่จากไป ตัวเขาคงไม่เข้ามา
Ta Chan Mai Jak Pai Tua Kao Kong Mai Kao Ma
if I didn't go away, he may not come in.
ถ้ารู้อย่างนี้ จะไม่มีวัน ปล่อยให้เธอไปโดยไม่ไขว่คว้า
Ta Roo Yang Nee Ja Mai Mee Wa Ploi Hai Thur Pai Doy Mai Kwai Kwa
If I knew this, I would never let you go without grabing for you.
รู้ก็สาย เมื่อไม่เหลือเธอนั้น อีกแล้ว
Roo Gor Sai Mueh Mai Leuh Thur Nan Eek Laew
It's too late to know when I don't have you anymore.
*จากนี้...ทุกครั้งฉันเห็นตัวเอง เงาในกระจกสะท้อนมา
Jak Nee...Took Krang Chan Hen Tua Eng Ngao Nai Krajok Saton Ma
From now on, everytime when I see myself...the reflection in the morror,
ฉันก็เห็นเพียงคนโง่คนหนึ่ง ที่ควรต้องเจ็บอย่างนี้
Chan Gor Hen Piang Khon Ngo Khon Nueng Tee Kuan Tong Jeb Yang Nee
I see only a fool who deserves to be hurt like this.
ในแววตาคนในกระจก จะคอยซ้ำเติมใจทุกที
Nai Waew Ta Khon Nai Krajok Ja Koy Sam Term Jai Took Tee
The eyes of a person in the mirror will keep stabbing my heart everytimes.
เจ็บสักทีก็ดี ก็สมที่ไม่เหลือใคร
Jeb Sak Tee Gor Dee Gor Som Tee Mai Lueh Krai
It's good to be hurt. It serves me right to have no one left.
ถ้าได้รู้สักนิด ถ้าคิดได้เร็วกว่านี้
Ta Dai Roo Sak Nid Ta Kid Dai Rew Kwa Nee
If I knew even a bit...if I could think of it earlier than this,
ต้องไม่มีวันนี้ ที่เห็นเธอเดินจากไป
Tong Mai Mee Wan Nee Tee Hen Thur Dern Jak Pai
I would not have today that I saw you walk away.
ได้รู้วันนี้ จะได้อะไร จะเอาเธอคืนมา ได้จากไหน
Dai Roo Wan Nee Ja Dai Arai Ja Ao Thur Kuen Ma Dai Jak Nai
I just realize it today, what will I get? Where can I get you back from?
เมื่อได้รู้ เมื่อวันนี้ได้รู้ ก็สาย
Mueh Dai Roo Meuh Wan Nee Dai Roo Gor Sai
When I know...when today, I know, it's too late.
ฉันทิ้งทุกทุกโอกาส ที่จะได้อยู่ข้างเธอ
Chan Ting Took Took Okat Tee Ja Dai Yoo Khang Thur
I left every chance that I could be by your side.
ฉันทิ้งวันคืนที่ดี จะไปหาได้จากไหน
Chan Ting Wan Kewn Tee Dee Ja Pai Ha Dai Jak Nai
I left the good day and night. Where can I find it from?
เพิ่งรู้ว่าผิด เพิ่งรู้ว่าเจ็บ ยิ่งกว่าเสียใจ
Perng Roo Wa Pid Perng Roo Wa Jeb Ying Kwa Sia Jai
I just realize that I'm wrong...just realize that I'm hurt...more than sorry.
คิดเสียดาย มันก็ยังสายไป
Kid Sia Dai Man Gor Yang Sai Pai
Thinking of regret...it's still too late.
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The beautiful September-like days have begun, even if we are still in August. It seems that now, the days slow down and the season becomes more relaxed and nostalgic.
The beautiful September-like days have begun, even if we are still in August. It seems that now, the days slow down and the season becomes more relaxed and nostalgic.
Nature seems to get ready for a time of rest. The leaves on my dogwood trees are turning red and getting ready to descend to make a carpet of red on the ground. It seems the cool mornings and evenings prepare us for rest of winter.
Mark your calendars now to help the Lions Club with their blood drive from 2 until 6:30 Sept. 19. If you would like to make an appointment, call Joe Craver at 529-0659 or 722-1455. A photo identification is required. If you or any of your family has ever had to have blood, then you know how very important this can be.
In other Lion news, Lois Walters was recently presented with the Citizen of the Year Award. Walters is constantly helping people in our community.
Storytimes begin Sept. 3 at library
The North Davidson Library resumes its story time schedule at 3:30 p.m. Sept. 3 for kindergarten through third grade and at 10:30 a.m. Sept. 4 and 5 for preschoolers.
Also the book club (open to all) meets at 1 p.m. Sept. 6 and will discuss "The Glass Castle," by Jeanette Walls. September is National Library Card sign up month. A library card is one of the most important school supplies, providing access to a wealth of digital and physical resources useful for school assignments. Come in for a free card or a free replacement card during the month.
Consignment sell will feature children's clothing
Friedberg Moravian Church is getting ready for their 2013 fall children's consignment sale. Fall and winter children's clothing, toys, books, shoes, baby equipment, Halloween costumes and much more will be sold. We appreciate your involvement and support as you consign and/or shop for "gently" used children's clothes, maternity clothes, etc. For more information e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com Sale dates are Sept. 6 and 7.
Methodist men will sell chicken
The Methodist Men of Mt. Olivet United Methodist Church will sponsor a barbecued chicken on Sept. 7. It will be held from 11 a.m. until 7 p.m. The cost is $8 per plate.
Children can join Junior Grange
For those of you are unfamiliar with the Junior Grange, I would like to invite you to bring your children ages 5 through 14 to the September meeting. It will be held at 6 p.m. Sept. 9. The Grange offers so much to our children.
Thanks for concern
I would like to thank everyone for the food, cards, visits and calls during my surgery. Most of all I would like to thank you for your prayers. You will never know how wonderful your friendship has been. — Patty Swing, columnist
In all the illness, problems and sorrows that we go through, we need to remember that Jesus has promised us that he will never leave us and not forsake us if we are his servants. Life is sometimes very hard but we will never know the suffering that he bore for us. He has told us to "Cast all our cares upon him. God bless.


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Hi Guys,
I want to add something to identify my kite from others (good if stolen etc).
I'm looking for a good Naish logo so I can create a lightweight transfer/sticker to go down the side of the kite (which won't affect the performance). Does anyone have this or know where I could find it? An illustrator file, j-peg or otherwise would be good.
I'm hoping this won't break any copyright laws, let me know if it would.
Cheers all


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Safety first ... is not exactly a priority for Gisele Bundchen, who took her 1-year-old daughter on an ATV ride yesterday in Costa Rica -- without a helmet.
Gisele wasn't doing wheelies or anything, but it's still pretty dangerous, considering she was driving one-handed and holding on to her baby daughter Vivian Lake with the other.
For the record, it's illegal to ride an ATV on public land in Costa Rica without a helmet. Gisele's driving down to the beach, but it's unclear if the beach is private.


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In a one-run game in the eighth inning on Tuesday, Orioles manager Buck Showalter went with rookie Kevin Gausman instead of normal set-up men Tommy Hunter and Darren O'Day.
Showalter said Wednesday that he was staying off his normal late-inning relievers due to workload and one because of a physical ailment. He wasn't specific, but reading between the lines, it's obvious he was referring to O'Day's health.
"Had some where there was a specific physical ailment that kept him from pitching," Showalter said. "And there were some, like Tommy, had five [appearances] in his last nine. Felt like we needed to stay away from him last night, physically. And we had another situation that was not related to workload."
O'Day has pitched just twice this month – on Sept. 1 and 8. He was at his locker briefly this afternoon before the game and said he had to leave briefly, but would be back. He didn't return during the open media session.
"You guys can probably figure it out but I'm not going to talk about who it is and when it is," Showalter said. "You are all smart enough to figure it out when you don't see them for a few days when you regularly see them."
During his media session, Showalter said he wasn't yet sure whether the player with the physical ailment would be available Wednesday, but he said he did not need to add another reliever to the extended roster at this point.
Lefty Troy Patton also has been used sparingly this month, appearing once in September.
** Mike Morse, who has just three hits in 17 at-bats since the Orioles acquired him on Aug. 30 from Seattle, was in the starting lineup again Wednesday. He had three hits in his first seven at-bats – all on the road – but was hitless in his 10 at-bats on this homestand.
"Mike, he's been good, I'd just like to see him get some return for how much he wants to contribute," Showalter said. "Sometimes that can get in the way a little bit and I hope it starts tonight. We need him. He's been a good addition; just hasn't played out completely yet."
** Because of his work visa, outfielder Henry Urrutia can't travel to Canada with the Orioles this week and instead will go down to Sarasota, Fla., for a few days. For the first time Wednesday, Showalter said it was possible that Urrutia may not re-join the Orioles and may stay in Sarasota until leaving for the Arizona Fall League at the end of the month. That hasn't been decided yet, he said.


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dearprakash needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 208 designs submitted by 56 freelance designers.
Applified Ideas AB
Applified Ideas AB is Sweden based Mobile application development company. We specialize in iOS & Mac application development.
We also consult our expertise in Android and Windows Mobile application development.
Our brand name is Applified Ideas AB. As you can guess the name is coined with intention of conveying the message that "we transform ideas to Apps". So we like the Logo to convey this message as much as possible!
The keywords are Ideas, Simplified, Amplified, Applified!!
We don't want to limit your creativity, but here are some thoughts to follow along the line:
- it can be super simple, even with the ones with couple of strokes can be considered.
Like a "Lightning" or "head" and could cover just "A" and "I" in a subtle way.
- As much as possible, please try to accentuate on "Ideas". BUT Please avoid using light bulb in a very obvious manner.
If it has to be used, please keep it subtle!
- Keep away from using any particular OS image such as droid or apple etc
- The name of the company can be part of the logo. Although we prefer the non-textual part of the logo to convey the essence of the name.
Ideally, the graphical part should be the focus in the logo, the text (name) is secondary importance.
- We are not particular about colors. It can even be monochrome as long as it conveys the message!
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


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BigMark needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 162 designs submitted by 18 freelance designers.
Freedom Photography
We are a boutique studio who limits the amount of clients we engage so that we may deliver products which reflect our committment to quality, we create family heirlooms and catalogue family history in photos. We don't want to be seen as old fashioned, but we want show a heritage feel in a contemporary design which will last the life of the company. Like our products, we will be around forever.
We enjoy a high volume of families, (mum dad and teenage or younger kids). Mums and their daughters, newborns, children of all ages. People with special needs.
We are not a sausage factory 'get 'em in, bang 'em out' studio. We take whatever time is required to get beautiful photos of beautiful you and this needs to be conveyed.
Three components
1 - The logo
2 - The words 'Freedom Photography'
3 - The hook of 'family and portrait photographers'
Our theme colours are primarily black and we envisage that the branding would be on black with the incorporation or silver, chrome or white or a combimnation of them all. Reversability is necessary as branding will be used across the board for business cards, stationery, web design, vehicle signage, advertising etc....
Please see current website http://www.freedomphotography.com.au for current theme.
We don't necessarily want to use the bird theme again.
Although black is the primary colour, we are curious to see the use of vivid contrast employed in the design.
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


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Creat and Tikgames are combining gamers' craving for puzzles with their deep-seated love of geometric shapes, resulting in Cuboid, a new puzzler coming soon to the PlayStation Network.
In a post over at PlayStation.Blog, Creat Studios producer Olga Sokolova discusses the new 3D puzzle game, available "soon" on the PlayStation Network. Cuboid is a game that involves manoeuvring a 3D block through a series of mazes, with various obstacles placed throughout each level in order to make things much more difficult to get from point A to point B. You'll encounter teleporters, switches, and weak tiles that crumble away as you traverse them, meaning a well-planned route is your key to victory.
The game will be released with 66 different levels, with premium packs promised to add to the challenge. Along with the puzzling fare comes the promise of lovely graphics and "soothing music", which is quickly become the hallmark of an original PSN title. Check out the link for more screens and a video of Cuboid in action.
Cuboid Coming Soon Exclusively to PSN [PlayStation.blog]


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Link Building Normalization
Links. A few simple words in hyper-text. Something so simple should be easy to come by, should have superfluous resources and opportunities. The problem is they do.
The problem is many novice SEOs, and the ones who are just posturing as professionals, build backlinks in a sporadic, dump-truck kind of way.
Pile on a 500 links today, sit back for three months, and then pile on 500 more. Seems like that might be the right tactic; would anyone really believe a site can grab 500 "natural" links a month, consistently? Off of static, crusty content nonetheless? Not a chance.
That'd raise an army of red flags from the engines, signaling there is "link manipulation" at hand.
You've Been Flagged
The problem with that tactic? You just got flagged. That kind of "hit-and-run" link building technique is viewed more suspiciously and manufactured than if the website really was getting 500 links a month.
Search engines, rather the people behind the algorithms, are much smarter than people give them credit. Three or four years ago, the hit-and-run technique might have provided a decent organic boost. The crawling wasn't nearly as frequent and as dense as it today. So the layoff might have been in order, depending on the number of links one was acquiring.
Faster, Deeper Crawl Rates. Oh My.
Today, search spiders are crawling faster, deeper, and more often. Even to low Toolbar PageRank sites. Consider the MayDay update (possibly part of the Caffeine overhaul) , in conjunction with what Andrew Shotland found concerning accelerated crawl rates. Fresher, more relevant results for every query.
The solution is to build your links in a consistent manner. It's why I tell my clients one simple mantra when the link building begins: "Once we start, we don't stop." And that's the bottom-line. No matter what we're doing, no matter the content we need to build, we continually build links.
Your Link Graph Rise-Over-Run
Once you can accept and understand that concept, it's all downhill from there. It doesn't matter how quickly you build your links. It doesn't matter how slowly you build your links. As long as it stays consistent, and you create a link graph rise-over-run that ends up looking like this:
Time for Some Link Research Data:
It's not enough to just to tell you link building normalization matters. Google's going to show you. I've taken some SERP slices from a highly competitive market: "Miami Real Estate".
Searches were done with "personalization" off (i.e. not signed-in to my Google account, web history off, and &pws=0 tacked on to the end of the query.)
SERP Stats
For this test we are looking at the 2nd and 3rd position sites, what separates them (what distinguishes them) and then a result from the 4th SERP page, position 42.
- Site's domain ages are around same level of oldness
- Site's with the highest link domain are below the 2nd SERP result
- Link Balance for the 42nd result is quite disproportionate (567 links of the 51,765 to the homepage)
- "Miami Real Estate" in domain may be the reason it's on top of the others. Also the oldest of all the domains.
One might draw from this that 2nd result must have more powerful, relevant links, and with the domain name incorporating a the keywords and it's age, it's understandable why this ranks better than the others. Yet, better to be thorough and make sure this is the case. Then you look under the hood.
What the Link Normalization Graph Looks Like
I wanted to see if the pace of link building for these sites has been steady throughout their histories. It's not unusual to see link totals that high, but for real estate sites that old, it drew my attention.
There you have it. Look at the link surge of the 42nd result. It's that link-spike from July of 2009 to October of 2009 that doomed the site. Moreover, you can practically pinpoint the time when this site starting getting some "SEO help" (if that's what you want to call it) by way of link building: July 2008. The 2nd result has had a very stable rate link discovery for years, save the small surge in early 2008. The 3rd result was as erratic as the 42nd result, but with the majority of the real shoddy link building occurring in 2007 into early 2008.
Doesn't Matter Where Your Links Come From
Everyone of these sites has "junk" links. Stuff that's non-topic and irrelevant. It may be time to bust a link building myth. Here's a look at sample swatch from the second result.
And there are more swatches of links like this throughout this site's link catalog. The same is true of both the 3rd and 42nd result. So we can effectively toss away this as a determining factor in the positioning. If all the link profiles are nearly the same: massive amounts of junk links with a few relevant, on-topic links, then we can zero this out.
The truth of the matter: it doesn't matter where you get your links from (to a degree). If your domain age is old enough, and you've built enough goodwill, you can pretty much link anywhere you please and it shouldn't negatively impact your position. But I caution you on this. The evidence is here to make that statement, but I certainly wouldn't take my fresh site and pollute it with bullshit links. This sample has fairly old sites (4-5 years respectively), and that may be the leverage you need to link with impunity.
In my estimation, it is the rate of normalize link building, outside of the second result's very targeted domain and age, that really made the difference in how these sites stack up in the SERPs against one another. This is not to say that the onsite efforts of each are necessarily better than one another, and were not taken into account (therefore nullified here), as this was a offsite analysis.
The data shows that normalized link building trends can influence the position of your site.
May 19 2010
Well written but this kind of rubs me the wrong way in light of how anecdotal the analysis is. I have no problem with the idea that constant vs spiked link growth can be a flag for the SE's, but to make the assertion that this is was the causational factor behind the different rankings in this situation seemed weak. It seems like there should be a higher burden of scrutiny for making these kind of confident assertions. Bottom line, there are alot of variable at play and I didn't think this was air tight enough. Not trying to rain on your parade, I just don't want to the bar lowered any further than it already is in the SEO world for people making unfounded claims about how the SE's operate.
May 19 2010
"Again, I'm not saying this was the only factor, but IT WAS a factor in this case."
Fair enough, that clears it up for me and I would definitely agree.
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Maybe Paul George isn't completely sold on a new position.
He does believe going small and playing fast is the Pacers' quickest way to regaining its contender status in the Eastern Conference.
On Monday, the two-time NBA All-Star explained his concerns about making the switch and why Indiana's offseason overhaul makes sense.
"I think it will be good for us. I think it give us a chance to again, change the East, gives us a chance to play faster, to play a funner, better brand of basketball," George said during the team's annual media day. "It's definitely tougher to guard, and I think we would have been in The Finals and had a shot at winning it all,...


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Similiar to an agreement, but is a bond that if broken gives the person cheated out of the deal the right to punch the other person in the face.
After i entered an agreegment with a mankshaw, i swiftly grabbed my brass knuckles because i knew i would soon be cheated out of the deal.
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This time last year there was an interesting piece in the Scottish news about the small village of Dull in Perthshire.
The story concerned the village of Dull forging a link with the equally uninspiringly named town of Boring in Oregon, USA.
Along with everyone else, I thought this a splendid idea. When I heard that signs had been erected outside Dull to highlight this pairing I was keen to see them.
It took me a while to get round to doing this, but a few days ago I bundled the delightful assistants into my car and we sped off towards Dull, which lies in a quiet and pretty part of rural Perthshire.
It was about an hour's drive away, which would have been achieveable in a oner if it weren't for the fact that it was late morning before we left. In need of sustenance, we stopped en route at one of my favourite tearooms, Legends of Grandtully:
I've written about this place before (here) and have already gone on about the exquisite hot chocolate available, but I can't resist giving it another mention.
As you might have noticed from the sign, Legends is attached to a chocolate centre. If you are remotely interested in chocolate, this is a most appealing prospect.
When we visited the other day I ordered one of their chocolate beverages – the very potent espresso sized hot chocolate ganache, which came topped with a sprinkling of unsweetened cocoa that I found to be a highly satisfactory addition:
If you read my previous post about Mallorca you might recall that it featured another rather spectacular hot chocolate. This one at Legends was similar, and Legends is the only place I've found in Scotland that serves up this style of hot chocolate.
I know I mustn't bang on about it too much because this post is supposed to be about Dull and Boring, but before I leave the subject here's a close-up of the chocolate's surface, wrinkled by a teaspoon to demonstrate how thick and glossy it was:
Delightful assistant no.1 had coffee, delightful assistant no.2 had peppermint tea (the first time he had ever ordered such a herbal beverage in a tearoom), and we all shared a large fruit scone. That might sound a bit feeble, sharing a fruit scone between three, but it was very substantial and to be honest I was rather preoccupied with my hot chocolate; I ate a bit just to be sociable.
From Legends, we drove on, feeling replete and excited about Dull.
When we reached the outer limits of the village, lo and behold, there was the promised sign:
The village of Dull is bypassed by the main road, but if you turn off at the next right after this sign, you can drive along the narrow crescent-shaped loop that takes you through the village itself.
Despite having driven along the main road plenty of times before, to our knowledge none of us had ever taken the little detour through the village, so it was a new experience.
It was very quiet and I thought it had a pleasant atmosphere.
There was an old stone church that I fancied having a closer look at, so we parked next to it and delightful assistant no.2 and myself took a wander through the graveyard. Delightful assistant no.1 has been having a bit of bother with her hip and so she stayed in the car, enjoying the warmth of the sun coming in through the windows.
As with most little churches I try to get into on weekdays, this one was locked, and I've since discovered that it hasn't been used as a church since the 1970s.
It was built on the site of an early Christian monastery and slabs dating back to the 7th and 8th centuries were found in the graveyard during grave-digging in the 19th century. One particularly fine example displaying horsemen is now on display in the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh.
I don't know if this particular bit of stone (below) has any significance, but someone has gone to a bit of trouble to secure it to the bottom of an outside wall of the building:
There was also a large font sitting next to the front door, which I neglected to photograph, but it's also thought to be a relic from Pictish times. If that's the case, it could be 1200 (or more) years old and it's just sitting there full of water in a disused churchyard, slowly being weathered away by the elements.
Not far from the churchyard, sitting unobtrusively next to a holly tree just outside someone's garden, there was a big stone cross penned in by a metal fence.
Having read a bit about Dull since visiting it, I wonder if this is one of the Pictish relics that was found in the churchyard. Strangely, although it's been deliberately protected by the fence, there's no indication of what it is or why it's sitting there. I can't help thinking a sign should be put up to explain its presence.
Another curious sight in Dull was a brightly painted church building just up the hill a bit from the old stone church. I walked up to have a look at it and felt very much as if I were in Iceland or Norway.
Far from being used for public worship, it appeared to be a private residence with a locked gate at the end of its driveway:
The rain was coming on by the time I took the above photo, and our third-of-a-scone each had worn off, so we hot-footed it to nearby eatery, the House of Menzies, which is housed in a refurbished mid-19th century farm building:
I'm worried that this post is going to become ferociously long, because I still have some other places to add to our day out, so I'll call a brief halt here and take up the tale in my next post.
Tune in next time for a tasty luncheon!


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 118 diseños de 43 diseñadores freelance.
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Kariem McFarlin, the man who burglarized the home of the late Steve Jobs back in July has been sentenced to 7 years in a California state prison for stealing over $60,000 in items from the Jobs' home as well as technology and jewelry from homes in other surrounding areas.
35 year old McFarlin was arrested back in August after Apple and REACT (Rapid Enforcement Allied Computer Team) were able to track iTunes purchases to serial numbers of devices that were owned the Jobs family. He admitted to the crimes as well as additional robberies.
McFarlin admitted to the burglary under questioning by Palo Alto police and said he had stolen from other homes in the San Francisco Bay Area, including two homes in Marin County, four homes in San Francisco County and one home in Alameda County.
He admitted keeping hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of property from those burglaries at his home and at a storage locker. The property included computers, jewelry, furniture and a solid silver bar, according to the Santa Clara District Attorney's office.
At the time of his arrest, McFarlin stated that he had done it due to money issues. Aside from his prison sentence of 7 years, he's also been ordered to pay restitution to the families that were stolen from.
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ZAVALA COUNTY — Harvey Howell trails carefully behind David Holdsworth, who details the ways his vast ranch can stick the unsuspecting.
Holdsworth recites a litany of cactuses and twisting brush: tasajillo, mesquite, prickly pear, the aptly-named allthorn.
A tall wooden stake stands in the tangle, looking out of place, but marking a potential oil well.
"We're going to get something this next time, aren't we?" Holdsworth asks, touching the stake as if for luck.
His land is hobbled by drought, but on this Saturday in early March, spring emerges anyway and Holdsworth's Tortuga Ranch reveals a stark beauty. The perfume of blackbrush acacia sweetens the air. Puffs of gold decorate huisache shrubs. Pink prickly poppy and purple prairie verbena bloom.
"Darn right," Howell says.
Early settlers in Zavala County told tales of lost and buried treasure, but today's riches lie thousands of feet below ground. Holdsworth and his family own miles of mesquite — more than 14,000 acres — but he wants oil. So does Howell, a San Antonio geologist and wildcatter who hunts hydrocarbons in places no one else has found them yet, or in depleted fields where others think oil is already gone.
Howell is coming off of a recent dry hole in Frio County. And not far from this stake on Holdsworth's property sits a $600,000 wildcat well that isn't making money. It's producing just five barrels of oil per day and 50 barrels of briny water, which costs hundreds of dollars daily to dispose of.
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Trying to fix the well will cost Howell and his investors another $77,000 this month.
It might not work.
Marginal wells are financially prickly. It's easy to drop more good money down a bad well.
And Howell must start drilling new wells quickly or the mineral lease that lets him explore the historic ranch will expire. Howell needs a success, and must stake his next spot in the brush carefully or get stung.
"You have to really want to be here," Howell says as he plucks an inch-long thorn from his cowboy boot.
'Dedgum country'
Holdsworth's then 8-year-old grandfather arrived in Zavala County in the spring of 1882, a wet year that produced a sea of wildflowers.
It was a time before barbed wire fences enclosed local ranches, when cleansing wildfires kept the countryside a savannah that ran with perennial streams. Thick mesquite and thorny brush did not yet blanket the landscape.
But Holdsworth's family soon struggled with drought and poverty in what one of his ancestors came to call "this dedgum country." For a while they lived in a tent.
Cattle ranching eventually lifted the family's fortunes. Oil and gas production starting in the 1960s helped, too, although it was never a bonanza.
Holdsworth's property includes the Indio Field, drilled while he was growing up. But those wells dried up in the '80s. A different oil boom came and went in the '90s in South Texas, bypassing Tortuga Ranch.
In the oil field it's easy to be so close, but so far away.
West Texas: Studying the Eagle Ford above ground
Not far to the southwest, a map of oil and gas wells in Zavala and Dimmit counties reveals a slew of riches — deep, horizontal wells slashing under the landscape like an army through formations such as the Austin Chalk, Buda Limestone and Eagle Ford Shale, now one of the most profitable oil fields in the country.
But the oil and gas history of Tortuga Ranch and others nearby look spottier, with successful wells mostly surrounded by a series of dry holes.
Howell has poked around here for a decade trying to solve the riddle of its underground volcanoes, called serpentine plugs, and a web of faults that can trap and hold oil, but also make it maddening to find what's still there.
One side of a fault is like hitting the lottery, a few yards away yields heartbreak.
Eroding confidence
The first well produced only water.
But the second paid, producing about 25,000 barrels of oil.
A quarter of that oil went to Holdsworth when he really needed it.He didn't have to work his land so hard, or truck cattle himself to the Midwest. Holdsworth could spend more time with his new bride Tamara, who he met at a dance in Uvalde while she was working on a master's degree in range ecology and fire behavior.
"I didn't have to run so many cattle. I used to have a vicious cycle," Holdsworth says. "When Harvey drilled that, it really helped Tamara and me."
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When the oil first came in, Holdsworth rubbed it on his arms and face in delight. He got sunburned.
But after that, Howell and Holdsworth's luck ran dry.
"I've been eroding his confidence ever since," Holdsworth says.
When the men walk to the No. 3 well, which produced some natural gas but no money, Holdsworth turns a wheel and releases the 215 pounds of pressure. The methane gas smells like a kitchen stove for a moment and turns the air wavy, like old glass. A hollow whistle emerges from the earth, but soon stops.
Holdsworth calls it the "sad-story well."
When No. 4 and No.5 wells also turned into sad stories, "That's about the time everyone got disgusted and had had enough," Howell says.
The investors lost interest. His original lease expired.
Shallow rights
Then the Eagle Ford Shale boom began.
The formation starts at around 6,000 feet down in Zavala County, the northern edge of the giant oil and gas field.
National and multinational companies dominate the South Texas oil patch these days, but they don't lease everything. There are always pockets for smaller, longtime wildcatters like Howell to make deals.
Nearly three years ago, Holdsworth leased the rights to drill the Eagle Ford on his property to the Oklahoma-based Chesapeake Energy Corp. Holdsworth received a large bonus payment for the right to drill and an Eagle Ford well on the ranch last year made more than 46,000 barrels of oil, a quarter of that going to Holdsworth.
But large landowners can use the weight of their acreage as negotiating tool.
Holdsworth's mineral lease reserved the shallow drilling rights so that Howell could return and try his luck again in rock formations that lie above the shale, such as the San Miguel and Olmos sandstones.
Still in the game: Chesapeake founder to get $11 million as he builds new company
He bets that Howell will be the operator who sticks around and provides a longer stream of income to help keep his legacy ranch intact for the future.
Chesapeake wants to sell its "northern block," which includes Tortuga Ranch, and concentrate on its more profitable Eagle Ford acreage to the south.
"Chesapeake is just dawdling. Here Harvey has been trying to do something forever," Holdsworth says. "I've just got to admire him for his tenacity."
By March 19, a workover rig moves in to try to fix the marginal well, bringing with it an evening cool front. The change in weather has so many rattlesnakes moving across the ranch roads that Holdsworth loses count.
Wednesday, March 20
Deeply buried oil and gas move higher over time, pushing their way to the surface.
Ryan Broglie, an engineer back in San Antonio working on the project, says the technically complex well re-completion, called a "squeeze," is straightforward in concept.
"Believe it or not, it's really as simple as oil floating on water," Broglie says. The squeeze will essentially seal off the lower part of the well where the water enters, but let the higher oil through.
That's the theory, but the oil patch is a place of nonstop troubleshooting. "You can get into a very complex situation where you get things stuck and broken down there, and you're miles below the surface of the earth," Broglie says. "You need to have an amazing ability to visualize what's going on down hole."
Today, a pin either comes loose or wasn't set, and 17,000 pounds of pipe suddenly drops down a 3,600-foot hole.
The top part of the pipe sits 580 feet down.
The workover crew starts "fishing," an unhappy word.
"These become biblical terms because people curse about them," Howell says. Things tend to fall into holes, and anything that does is a "fish" that must be retrieved. Sometimes the fish is small, like a wrench. Today it is big: the entire tubing string. "Right now we need to be fishers of tubing."
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This will cost a day of work and more money.
The crew simply needs to lower more pipe into the well, thread it to the lost strand and pull it all back up. But they don't have enough pipe left at the surface to reach down 580 feet.
Jim Wilson, the company man who monitors the site, starts making calls. Everyone wants to sell more pipe than he needs, though, so it takes six tries to get the needed amount delivered.
Almost as soon as they fish successfully, tool pusher Sonny Sanchez comes to Wilson with more bad news.
The crew that's supposed to pressure test the well has left a key piece of equipment in another truck, in another county. They also forgot hardhats.
"This is what the oil field is made of: setbacks," Sanchez said. "We have another setback."
Wilson presses his lips together and nods. "Nothing to do but shut down." It's just 2:30 p.m., and the engines exhale a long hiss as they let off pressure. Birdsong emerges from the brush.
Sanchez brings Wilson a field ticket, which details the daily operations cost. "I really like this part of my job, charging the customer," Sanchez says. "Without the John Henry of Mr. Wilson here, I'm not getting paid."
Friday, March 22
Late yesterday, a crew pumped cement down and around the well to seal off the lower portion. Now, the workover rig needs to drill back through some of the cement, but it's still "green" and hasn't set.
At 12:30 p.m., Wilson calls Broglie to decide whether they should wait a few hours or give the cement the weekend to harden.
"It's up to you," Sanchez tells Wilson. "We're seven-day freaks. We don't care."
"Probably ought to shut down and come back Monday," Wilson says. "We could come back in the morning but then you're going to maybe be faced with the same thing."
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Sanchez gives hand signals to his crew and makes a slashing motion across his throat. They're done today.
After 32 days in the field, they have a weekend off. It's payday, and Sanchez calculates that in two weeks the driller earned $4,200, the derrick man $4,000 and the floor hand $3,800, minus taxes.
Wilson will return to Austin to spend time with his daughter. The crew will try their luck at the casino in Eagle Pass, about an hour to the west. Everyone wants to leave Tortuga Ranch but Sanchez.
In 1999, his oldest son Robert was killed in an oil field accident.
Sanchez has lost more people in recent years: another son and grandson, and his younger brother, who died last year of a heart attack. He likes working. Working keeps him from thinking.
Drilling rigs run 24 hours a day, seven days a week. But workover rigs are daylight operations, sunup to sundown.
"If it was up to me, I'd put up some light towers and work three or four hours after that," Sanchez says.
A 'nasty' lease
Some mineral owners sign what's known as a Producer's 88, a common lease that gives oil and gas operators wide latitude to do what they want, when they want.
Not Holdsworth.
His mineral lease restricts drilling during deer hunting season. There are fines for litter. Fines for driving faster than 20 miles per hour. Fines for not drilling after all. Essentially, 40-plus pages of fines and rules.
Holdsworth has watched oil-field workers tromp across his land since he was a child. He roughnecked in the early 80s. He knows what can go wrong.
He calls his lease "nasty."
"I knew he was a good fellow," Holdsworth says of Howell. "If I made him live up to that lease, he wouldn't be able to do anything."
"It's a toxic lease. It's awful," Howell says. "I had to work on a handshake. I said, 'Alright, I'll trust you.' We're still trusting each other. He still has an awful lease."
Howell's investors have to trust him, too.
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Howell's stepfather, C.R. "Bob" Daubert, is one of them. He met Howell's mother on a ski trip and they married in 1979.
Daubert, also a geologist, calls the marginal well "a real problem child."
"It's been terrible. When it first came in, we thought we had the tiger by the tail. Harvey brought a sample of the oil in a jar to the house. We started drinking wine in the middle of the afternoon."
Now, Howell's position is as thorny as the countryside.
"He can't plug a well that's productive. But you can squeeze and screw it up," Daubert says. "There are no cinches in the oil business."
Monday, March 25
Following the unwanted weekend off, Sanchez is the most cheerful person on site. He pocketed more than $1,500 at the Eagle Pass casino over the weekend. The guys on his crew lost money, which Sanchez attributes to their lack of technique on slots. "You've got to stay on one machine." He thinks he will hit the lotto someday.
A partner in the project, Mike Deodati, sits in his maroon truck, parked at the edge of the location — his preferred spot, where he silently watches the rig like it's a particularly interesting TV show. Some days he never says a word to anyone, no one the wiser that he's the operator responsible for filing permits with the state, doling out payments and running the business of this prospect from behind a pair of sunglasses and a straw cowboy hat.
Howell is jovial, but Deodati's quiet, a former accountant who likes logistics — figuring out how to drill a well in a suburban neighborhood or in the middle of a lake. He hopes they make a well.
"Harvey deserves a well," he says.
"I hope you do, Mike," Sanchez tells him. "You deserve this well and more."
Sanchez stands by Deodati's open window and tells him about a spot near Alice where the grass is greener than on surrounding ranches.
He helped plug wells there when he was 20 years old, even though they held oil at the time. Sanchez is 60 now. "I never understood why they plugged it," he says. "Think of what the pressure would be 40 years later."
"I'll talk to you, Sonny," Deodati says, and gets a business card.
Wednesday, March 27
By 3 p.m., the workover rig is folded up like a giant umbrella and parked on a corner of the site. Trucks load up and drive away. Sanchez helps secure the blowout preventer to a trailer. Clouds stack up against each other in a fine, impenetrable layer, and Holdsworth ducks his head as the wind blows dust across site. It looks like it could rain, but doesn't.
Instead, spilled oil stains the ground and puddles near the pumpjack. Holdsworth combs the ground for trash. "I'm always on these roughnecks. You'll see me poking on head around the rig at midnight."
He gingerly steps to the edge of a drilling pit and uses a stick to fish out a wrench. He finds sticky bits of black electrical tape. "I am a clean fanatic for this ranch. My family worked damned hard for this."
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Holdsworth's phone keeps ringing. Someone calls about a water line for the next well. A ranch employee has a trailer with a flat tire.
The pumpjack returns to bobbing. It sounds like it's in death throes, shuddering and rattling with every rotation. Holdsworth doesn't think it will last the night, but it does.
In a few days, the well gradually starts producing more oil and less water, a few barrels at a time. First five barrels. Then eight. Then 11.
The recomplete seems to have worked, although it's early.
The industry calls oil and gas fields "plays," and Holdsworth calls his ranch "Harvey's playground."
But Tortuga Ranch needs another well, and a good one, or Holdsworth worries this game is over. He thinks Howell will be snakebit, his investors again disgusted with the complex geology beneath the ranch.
"We've got one dance," Holdsworth says. "That's all we've got out of this."
More thorny brush has been cleared.
A drilling rig arrives in three days, and Holdsworth grows anxious.
Sources for this article include "Historical Notes on Zavala County, Texas And the Story of a Pioneer Family" by Ernest Holdsworth, the Texas State Historical Association, the Railroad Commission of Texas, geologic maps and drilling reports.


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We provide a proprietary on-line training tool to support training. Our Gurus are rated as Tier 1 through Tier 3 for task alignment and work on requests including simple hardware device replacement, spyware or virus removal, and complex local/wide area network design/install.
A Commitment to Technology & Customer Service
Gurus2go has built a national network of over 6,000 certified Gurus that can be dispatched through our state of the art web-based management system to any zip code in the United States. Our significant investment in technology allows our customers to place a service request with just a few clicks as well as track the event from start to finish and provide valuable feedback that has earned us one of the highest customer satisfaction ratings in the industry.
Service Overview
At Gurus2go, we have the unique ability to service the remote office user to the large corporation with multiple offices nationwide – in most cases with same day service. Our standardized national pricing allows our corporate and consumer customers to quickly and efficiently place a service request without the downtime of waiting for a bid through an online marketplace or having to deal with an inexperienced geek from a local retail operation.