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Yet, you can also say it happened in the anime first.
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If the writers would like Aqours to endure a setback during Season 2 in order to create more drama and eventually a nice comeback story? In other words, if that's an idea they already liked? Then tying that into the real-life incident might be a nice touch.
The 0 incident was a big setback itself, of course, but things have been going pretty well for Aqours since the full 9 came together (this coming after the 0 incident). A slight setback in Season 2 might make the road to success more interesting and emotionally compelling. Just a thought.
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I think that if they do another Omoi Hitotsu esque piece, or a Riko solo in the style of Riko soloing Yume no Tobira for S2, we'd get a clearer indicator of whether the idea of 8+1 songs where one Seiyuu plays an instrument is going to continue.
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Translation of Rikyako's Instagram post after the Day 2 concert. Get ready for the feels.
Rikyako's Feels.
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I think it's been mentioned before, but in my opinion, that particular moment during the live most certainly highlights that the voice actresses are just as human as us - making mistakes, and picking ourselves up after a fall, giving it their all (learning to play piano in a only a few months sounds tough), friendship, and so on. Considering the emotional impact it has had (i.e. the outpouring of fan support), I hope it doesn't get cut out of the eventual DVD/BD release, but I would certainly understand why that might happen.
On another note, here's the preview for the last bonus song with BD Vol. 7 (release date: Mar 24) - Taiyou o Oikakero! [Follow the Sun!]:
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Anyway, onto other things, Lantis/Sunrise has now given us our duos/trio sets.
Kurosawa sisters duet!! HNNGGG!!!
YouHane - I'll take it.
ChiKanan - Childhood friends afterall
RikoHanaMari - the S. Korean team!
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I just realized that the implications of Youhane and YohaneRiri being true simultaneously are that Chika might get her two best friends stolen by Yoshiko.....
On pairings:
While I was hoping for Aikyan-King, Aikyan-Shuka is still extremely good news - two of Aqours best and most expressive vocalists are going to have a duet with one another.
Riko-Hanamaru-Mari is basically alternative Guilty Kiss where Guilty Kiss traded Yohane to AZALEA for Hanamaru. This is going to be interesting. Are we going to get a Guilty Kiss song with King taking Aikyan's normal position in Guilty Kiss? Are we going to hear four minutes of King's deep voice?
Chika-Kanan finally brings in a pairing that was supposed to be big, is apparently major in the manga, but completely non-existent in anime to the forefront.
Dia-Ruby was eventually going to happen. It would actually be awesome of Dia sung in Ruby's voice while Ruby sung in Dia's voice - we might finally find out how Aiai's deep voice sounds like. Of course, the song could also end up with the Kurosawa sisters singing in a Ruby-like voice .....
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I LOVE that Yoshik- I mean Yohane and Maru-chan get their own solo parts, too! Why does Kanan look so gloomy in the video, though?!?!?!
PREORDERED! It's not my favorite song; maybe it'll grow on me. But man, do I feel so so so happy listening to it. Ah, the vibes are so jolly.
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From the title and cover image, I had imagined "Happy Party Train" to be "poppy" and maybe even a little silly. But it looks like they're trying for emotional oomph. They certainly need it, for a signature song. I don't think this train has reached that station yet though.
EDIT: I've thought about it and compared it to a few Muse songs, and an idea I had since the first time I played the two songs back to back remains. Back in ep2, Chika said she wanted to make a song like Yume no Tobira and Happy Party Train's first two minutes really give me the same feeling as Yume no Tobira.
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Personally, I think HPT makes me abit worried as to how Aqours will carry out their promise of walking their own path independent of Muse in the next season of Sunshine, at least musically speaking. Daydream Warriors and Thrilling One Way were interesting answers, but if the anime songs are going to be all like HPT, there are going to be some complaints that Aqours isn't walking their own path and Episode's 12 promise was broken by some of the audience. I was hoping for something ... more bolder than what we got for HPT, not something that gives off the same vibes as Yume no Tobira.....
TLDR for second part: Two Questions:
1. Why is Guilty Kiss so much more popular than the other sub-units?
2. Why is Guilty Kiss, in terms of streams performing better than main unit songs, other than the Animated Singles? Shouldn't sub-unit songs be only viewed by the sub-set of the same proportion of the fanbase that also hunts down the BD songs?
On a different note, I'd like to drop in some interesting observations about the popularity of sub-unit BD songs, at least by youtube previews on the Lantis Channel. Guilty Kiss is more or less leading the other sub-units by a huge chasm in the most recent sub-unit song previews.
While HPT stands at 658k views, that's not a comparable song - animated MVs always gets magnitudes more views than any other releases, especially BD releases whether it be sub-unit or main unit or year trio releases.
On the other hand, two weeks into the sub-unit BD song releases, some interesting patterns have emerged in view counts. I'd let the numbers tell the story.
Guilty Eyes Fever (Guilty Kiss) - 309k views - released two weeks ago
Lonely Tuning (AZALEA) - 173k views - released two weeks ago
PS Musou (CyaRon) -152k views - released two weeks ago
Thrilling One way (Full unit) - 300k Views - released a month ago
G Senjou (Third Years) - 276k Views - released 2 months ago
Daydream Warriors (Full unit) - 477k views - released three months ago.
All are BD songs, so they around the same "tier" of songs when it comes to view counts.
The most interesting thing is that the gap between Guilty Kiss and CyaRon is absurd - Guilty Kiss beats out CyaRon in view counts by a factor of 2 to 1. Moreover, the gap between AZALEA and CyaRon is far narrower than Guilty Kiss and AZALEA. So clearly, the proclamations that Guilty Kiss is the best sub-unit as often happens in many places both on youtube and other wise isn't simply subjective here. In terms of view count, Guilty Kiss is way way ahead of the other sub-units. Why is that so? This is the first question I'd like to put up for discussion.
Another interesting thing here is that Guilty Eyes Fever has more or less beaten Thrilling One Way, which has been out longer and is a main unit song. Sub-unit songs, even BD songs, ought not to be beating a main unit song which has been out longer. The real test of course is whether Guilty Eyes Fever can overtake Daydream Warriors, whose genre is the same as Daydream Warriors, though I must caution that Daydream Warriors has ten weeks more of being up than Guilty Eyes Fever. This leads on to the second question: Sub-unit songs aren't supposed to do BETTER than main unit songs even if these are BD songs. So why is Guilty Kiss, and Guilty Kiss alone beating main unit songs in stream counts? Where are all the additional viewers coming from?
Now, of course, I am aware that streaming views do not necessarily correspond to BD sales, though Guilty Kiss did beat out the other two sub-units in BD sales for their first single a year back. And we'd probably have to wait for the second sub-unit single previews to be released and run for two weeks before a clearer trend can be established. But it does seem there's actual evidence to support the notion that Guilty Kiss is exceptionally popular for a sub-unit.
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The vibes aren't a serious concern, yet. Emotions are limited, so methods of achieving emotional impact are similar for a particular emotion. Meaning, if you want a song that evokes a feeling of "love" it's going to sound like other songs that evoke a feeling of love, mostly.
The more serious complaint is the fact that the available two minutes sound more like a trio song with six backup singers than a nine person song. If the rest of the song follows the same structure, this would set a bad precedent for the remaining center-vote songs.
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The Rum Diary - Review
Review by Rob Carnevale
BRUCE (Withnail & I) Robinson's long-awaited return to directing is a mixed blessing that's as fun as it is frustrating.
A passion project for its star and producer, Johnny Depp, the film is based on one of Hunter S Thompson's earliest novels (written, apparently, when he was just 22) after it had been discovered by Depp and Thompson in the latter's basement.
It follows the fortunes of a young, booze-soaked reporter named Paul Kemp (Depp, playing Thompson in all but name) as he travels to 1960s Puerto Rico to join the local newspaper only to become embroiled in a shady property deal being orchestrated by island entrepreneur Sanderson (Aaron Eckhart) and falling for the beautiful Chenault (Amber Heard).
In doing so, he also has to contend with the drunken, sometimes drug-induced shenanigans of his reporter colleagues (Michael Rispoli and Giovanni Ribisi).
As intriguing as this premise sounds, however, Robinson's film often feels caught between the director's attempts to expose the darker side of The American Dream and how it shaped Thompson's Gonzo years and the need to showcase the main characters' inebriated activities.
The longer the film lasts, the more the focus shifts from one plot point to the other, resulting in an underwhelming finale that feels every inch a missed opportunity.
En route to this, interesting characters such as Eckhart's Sanderson and Heard's intoxicating, beguiling Chenault become lost or, worse, 'forgotten' (as in the case of Richard Jenkins' newspaper editor), while the comic likes of Rispoli and Ribisi begin to dominate.
Depp is at his charismatic best throughout and keeps the film watchable, even when misbehaving, while Robinson ensures that there's plenty of witty word-play to accompany some of the slapstick.
He even maintains that his intention was more to keep people laughing rather than present any definitive version of Thompson's book or Thompson's life.
But while The Rum Diary does indeed amuse (and features several laugh out loud moments), it does eventually lose its way and lacks the cynicism or focus that would have made it truly special.
Given the talents of just about everyone involved that has to rate as a disappointment… albeit an entertaining one at that.
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Running time: 120mins
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As a young boy, I grew up as part of a large Greek family, my father being one of six siblings. Like most people, I imprinted from my surroundings. I noticed that all the members of my extended family married around the age of eighteen. Each appeared genuinely happy and, to me, it seemed like the appropriate thing to do: make it to high school, meet a young lady, fall in love, and start your life together.
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In high school, I never considered myself a "looker", and by no means was I popular. Being a bit of a loner, I focused on academics and did some sports in the latter years. There was no high school sweetheart, although I pined after my fair share of ladies. No girlfriends, no prom dates… in fact, it wasn't until my early twenties that I brought my first girlfriend around family, to which my grandmother exclaimed, "Thank God, we thought you were gay."
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The Blink 182 song "What's My Age Again?" came out as I was turning twenty-three and it became my theme. As I struck out on love in the work-place (high school for your twenties), I kept repeating to myself its lyrics: nobody likes you when you're twenty-three. So it was probably natural, being relatively new to intimacy with women, that I found it rewarding to sleep with those few who actually were interested in me, even though I lacked much interest in them as a person. But the trap I laid for myself was not to be that guy—the one-night-stand. So many relationships would drag along as I deceived myself that there was some sort of emotional attachment when, in fact, it was purely physical.
Like most men, I loved the sex. But, more importantly, I loved the intimacy; and the way it made me feel. Somehow I felt that, by being with someone, I was that much closer to being married, and therefore closer to being like the rest of my family. Then along came my first wife (never thought I'd hear myself say those words).
I always knew I wanted to be married. And I felt like I missed the mark considerably when eighteen came, then went, and I wasn't… not even close. I know many women think about their age, when they'll be married, and having kids (Sex in the City has to be accurate, right?). I mean sure, their biological clock is ticking, there is an expiration date on their eggs, and they only have so many. But here I am, a man, and I'm worried about similar things. I wanted to be married, I wanted kids, and I didn't want to be too old to enjoy their grand-kids. And, for the record, let me say that I always thought I'd marry once, and would never be divorced; I believed in commitment. But let's face it, my track record with women leading up to this point has sucked. I was a nice, well-meaning guy who (at the time; and probably still to a degree) was also a bit naïve.
My first wife (referred to from here on out as "the ex") started working at my job. The girl there who I was actually pining after, being uninterested, finally left work (or was she fired?), so my friends and coworkers thought it would be cute to try and set me up with "the ex". I was told the new-hire liked me (so juvenile). When she was pointed out, I truthfully didn't mind much of what I saw, but there was no "moment"… you know, where time slows, music plays, and everything else melts away letting you know that she's the one (I mentioned I was naïve, right?). What can I say, I was a hopeless romantic, had my fair share of crushes, and so I thought I knew what love was. So how did we end up together you ask? Essentially, I'm a glutton for punishment; that, and I later realized my perspective on love was kind of adolescent, and I convinced myself that being happy was being in love.
Over a period of a year or so she continually made her intentions known while I tried not to be rude and inevitably led her on… as she said (years later), "I look back at our courtship and I see where I forced myself into your life." To be honest though, I too had my fair share of blame. Knowing my own past, I let things get physical and, although I tried to break it off a couple times, I never completely severed ties (men are horn-dogs). After a couple years, I felt I owed it to both of us to give the relationship serious consideration. And there was a point that I was happy, and felt that I could continue to be happy, seeing a future together. Let me clarify, you can be in love and therefore be happy; but being happy does not necessarily mean you are in love. I know that now, but not then since I didn't have any personal experience I could base it off of.
To make a long story short (and not steal any thunder from my other writings), we were married for four years, had a son during the last year, and she must have realized what I've now learned, because she took our six-month-old son and left me. We divorced almost a year later.
But what is right, and who is wrong in that kind of situation? I mean, I was blind to the fact that there were issues in our relationship. I missed the signs. I guess I should've known when she wanted to take Dr. Phil surveys to inspect our relationship. I figured he was a "quack" who couldn't make it as a proper therapist and used his connections to get a daytime show—another Jerry Springer. Now he's a household name. It took her getting verbally abusive and antagonistic, trying to provoke me physically, and then finally the "D" word (Divorce) before I realized we had problems. We practically separated around our third year of marriage and were seeing a Licensed Mental Health Counselor. The writing should've been on the wall, and yet we stayed together and decided to bring a child into the mix. I felt the issue with our relationship was in our dynamic. She came from a previous marriage that ended due to her man's multiple indiscretions, so she naturally had trust issues and became insecure. When I couldn't comprehend her concerns, it was as though she needed to become independent and therefore leave or force me to. I, being inexperienced with marriage, felt I couldn't live up to her extreme expectations of me and would shutdown when she exploded. When we were apart, I would be confident and in control, and she would come to trust me again. In this way we lulled ourselves into a false sense of security, thinking the relationship was salvageable.
Now I believe it is always the best approach to stay the course and work at being together as a family unit; but not just because you hope it'll benefit the children. It must also take into consideration the parents and their interaction. A healthy relationship is a healthy environment for the children. In my opinion, an unhealthy relationship can many times do more damage to our children in the long run. And sometimes it requires work to make a relationship healthy again. Could we have tried more to make it work and stay together? Possibly. Would we have been happy, and would it have been a healthy environment? I think not. We teach our children by example, which includes our relationships. That also means in the way that a relationship is dissolved. There is a "right way" and a "wrong way" for a relationship to end. I'll go even further by saying that my circumstance would probably lend more towards a "right way". We went through mediation and sought the expertise of a Licensed Psychologist who specialized in divorces with children. We tried not to involve our own lawyers; but I believe, although costly, we both could have benefited more from their involvement towards the end. In contrast, I believe that deliberately destructing one's relationship by being physically abusive, emotionally abusive, viciously attacking one another through lawyers, cheating on one's spouse, or worse; are prime examples of the "wrong way" to end a relationship. There were definitely minor "wrong way" elements in the dissolution of my previous marriage. And some tend to still occur through interactions I have with "the ex". But those are stories for another time.
So I have since remarried and have been with my current wife for almost three years. We have a beautiful three-month-old baby girl. I am truly in love, and therefore very happy. I do have joint custody of my son, Iain, from my previous marriage to "the ex". And when we finally did separate, I tried to reconcile and do whatever it took, but by that time it had become too late; which was for the better in the end. Although, I must say, I didn't think so at the time. She had already determined to be apart, and knew that to be the best course of action for our son. It has been a difficult situation, but I honestly think it has been for the best and therefore the healthiest approach for Iain.
So what is right, and who is wrong? Well I'm right in the end, for doing everything I could to try and save my marriage. And, then again, so is she for knowing we would never really be happy. So who is wrong?


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: BOWEN, RICHARD LeBARON, JR. died September 20, 2013 at Hallworth House in Providence. He was the husband of the late Phyllis Sewall (Brown) Bowen. He...
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In North America, there is
growing recognition that young forests, also known as "early seral forests,"
have significant conservation value and are declining in availability in some
regions. Recently, Oregon State University (OSU), Oregon Forest Resources
Institute (OFRI), and NCASI co-sponsored a symposium titled "Songbirds and
Early Seral Habitats." The goal of the one-day symposium was to advance
discussion and understanding of the importance of young forests and the species
that depend on them. Over 200 land managers, landowners, and biologists
attended. An agenda for the symposium is available at http://oregonforests.org/songbird-symposium.
Many speakers at the symposium
were associated with the Intensive Forest Management (IFM) study, a cooperative
experiment led by OSU and NCASI on lands managed by several NCASI Member
Companies and the Oregon Department of Forestry. The IFM study was initiated in 2009 to
explore how plant and animal communities respond to experimental changes in the
amount of herbicides used to manage competing vegetation in young, regenerating
forests. In coastal Douglas-fir regions of the Pacific Northwest, herbicides
often are used during stand establishment to manage competing broadleaf plant
species. Yet, the influence of such practices on bird species in early seral
forests remain poorly understood.
The symposium provided an opportunity for speakers from a
variety of organizations to discuss their perspectives on creation and
management of young forests, and for investigators to present results from the
first four years of the IFM study. Preliminary results show an initial
reduction in the abundance of bird species in young forests immediately
following the most intense vegetation control treatments. However, by year
three of stand growth, several of those bird species had increased in
abundance. By year four, there was no difference in abundance between treated
and untreated stands for four of six bird species associated with young forests. The number of nests of white-crowned
sparrows (Zonotrichia leucophrys), a
songbird that requires regenerating forest habitats for breeding, and moth
species diversity and abundance, were unaffected by herbicide treatment through
year four. Investigators also are measuring tree growth and survival to better
understand possible trade-offs between bird response and wood volume at harvest
age. The IFM study is designed to continue through canopy closure, or
approximately year 12 of stand growth.
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The southernmost segment of Interstate 785 consists of an overlap with Interstate 840 along the eastern flank of the planned Greensboro Beltway. NCDOT applied for the designation of I-785 along this stretch in fall of 1997. It was approved by FHWA on July 31, 2013 and by AASHTO on October 21, 2013. The overlap represents only the second occurrence of two three-digit Interstates combined on a single stretch of freeway within the Interstate system. The first instance is where Interstate 271 and Interstate 480 overlap near Cleveland.
Extension of the Greensboro Urban Loop north from U.S. 70 to U.S. 29 is underway with right of way acquistion started in 2012 and construction breaking ground in 2014. Details on the project can be found at NCDOT: Greensboro Urban Loop.
A planned spur of Interstate 40 and Interstate 85 from Greensboro, North Carolina, northward along the Greensboro Loop (Interstate 840 and U.S. 29 freeway/High Priority Corridor 17 north to Danville, Virginia. Interstate 785 appeared in North Carolina's Strategic Highway Corridors map as of November 12, 2004.
The freeway was jointly agreed upon by North Carolina and Virginia officials April of 1997 after the advocation from the Interstate Connection: Alliance for Economic Growth in the fall of 1996. The organization was comprised of business and government leaders who touted the route for potential economic improvements to the area including diversifying the economy, creating new jobs, generating additional tax revenue and enhancing regional cooperation.1
North of U.S. 70 in east Greensboro, the route designation exists solely on paper with the exception of a few future Interstate 785 corridor guide signs posted along U.S. 29. This is due to the fact that the freeway of U.S. 29 is below Interstate standards. U.S. 29 requires modern shoulders, acceleration and deceleration ramps, and other improvements to qualify for Interstate standards.
Interstate 785 in its entirety is part of High Priority Corridor 17 and 40: Route 29 Corridor.
The establishment of Interstate 785 from Interstate 85 in Greensboro, North Carolina, north to the U.S. 29 and U.S. 58 interchange in Danville, Virginia, via the U.S. 29 freeway was approved by AASHTO on November 14, 1997.
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how life changes
In property law we learned about accretion and avulsion: the two ways that rivers change course. This matters in property law only when a property's boundaries are described in the deed in terms of the river. If the river creates one of the boundary lines on your property, what do you if the river changes course? Does your boundary line change with the river? That's where accretion and avulsion come in: if the river changes course slowly over a very long period of time, in other words, by accrection, then your property line changes with the river. However, if the river changes course suddenly and dramatically, like through an earthquake or flood (avulsion) then your property line remains in roughly the same place as the river used to be.
Not that property law matters, but life changes course in a similar fashion. Some changes occur slowly over time and some occur rapidly, almost violently.
I talked to my grandmother yesterday and it depressed me. I love her very much, I have been very close to her in my life, and she's quite old now. She just turned 90 this month. She didn't sound so good yesterday, she sounded all croaky and tired. My uncle, her son, who lives across the street from her and drives her to doctor's appointments and helps when things break or when the lawn needs mowed, is suddenly dying of lung cancer. She doesn't really know he's dying because nobody has told her the truth of how bad it is, but somewhere inside her she knows. She buried a husband, a grandson, two sisters, all her brothers, her parents, countless aunts, uncles, cousins, and now she looks forward to burying a son?
I imagine she's depressed. Talking to her depresses me. She tells me my dad is waiting to hear from me and I end up having dreams all night last night about my family. Strange dreams, not the kind I usually have about them. I dreamed I was at my own wedding, but I wasn't actually marrying anyone. My family was "throwing" me a wedding, in some big old Baptist church in the south, full of straight, white people all groomed appropriately, standing in this church watching some esoteric ceremony that was supposed to be for me. I was in the back, wearing my usual scrappy clothes, sporting my new tattoo, with my short hair. People were ignoring me, or criticizing my clothes. Everyone was judging me. And it was supposed to be *my* wedding! I felt naked and unwelcome.
I was telling Mahavira about this dream and then started telling her about some realities and realized the dream isn't that much worse than reality. It's so complicated. Families are complicated, being queer is complicated, being a *human* is complicated. Complicated and painful but also precious and amazing too. I guess I'm just having a lot of feelings about things right now. I go through long phases of keeping my head down and moving forward, then suddenly I'm stopped in my tracks and forced to look back at how far I've come and how much I've failed to notice along the way. Then I have to go through the process of having all the feelings I forgot to have, then I put my head back down and off I go again.
I guess that's the way life works. Maybe when we die it will all make more sense.


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63rd EAGE Conference & Technical Exhibition (Amsterdam 2001)
Venue: Amsterdam RAI Congress Centre
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
|Event Date/Time: Jun 11, 2001
|End Date/Time: Jun 15, 2001
The EAGE would like to extend a warm invitation to you to come to Amsterdam, where our 2001 annual Conference and Exhibition will be held. And a special Conference it will be, as it marks the 50th anniversary of the Association! In 1951 the European Association of Exploration Geophysicists was founded in The Hague and formed the basis for the EAGE as we know it today. Those 50 years have seen many significant developments in our profession, in the industry and in the Association itself.
The Conference in Amsterdam will be a special celebration and a golden opportunity to reflect on the past, the present and the future of the Geosciences, to meet old friends and to make new contacts. The attraction of Amsterdam is well known and we are already planning a programme that will make it one of the most memorable Conferences you have ever attended.
Technical Programme
The technical Programme of Amsterdam 2001 will provide a unique opportunity to bring yourself up to date with all the technology developments in the Geosciences and related Engineering fields. Oral presentations will take place in six parallel sessions, and the programme will also offer a wide range of poster presentations, commercial presentations, short courses, field trips and workshops.
The workshops will provide a forum for presenting and discussing a variety of views on topics of current interest. We envisage these to cover Society's Acceptance of E&P Activities, Environmental Geophyscis, Downhole Geophysics, Magneto-Tellurics, Best Practices in Reserve Estimation and Gas Hydrates and Geoscience Education and Research.
Other subjects can still be considered and if you would like to be involved or propose a workshop topic in addition, contact the EAGE Business Office.
Conference and Exhibition Facilities
The 63rd EAGE Conference and Exhibition will be held in the Amsterdam RAI Congress Centre. This congress centre offers a large number of excellent lecture rooms, a total of 13,150 m2 gross exhibition space divided over 2 halls, and restaurant services, all within the same area. Booths will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis, so book now to ensure a good location!
Travel & Accomodation
As many as 80 airlines fly to Schiphol International Airport, conveniently located in the heart of Western Europe. On arrival, you can board a train that will carry you directly to the RAI train station within 7 minutes. Amsterdam RAI is served by an extensive public transport network, which includes not only trains, but also the metro, trams, buses and taxis. RAI's spacious parking lots and parking garages directly connect to the ring road around Amsterdam.
Block bookings have been made in hotels offering a range of rates. Many major hotels (more than 3500 beds) are located within walking distance from the RAI complex. Uniquely, canal boats carry visitors from Amsterdam RAI to their hotels in downtown Amsterdam and vice versa.
Social Programme
To complement the Technical Programme and Exhibition, a lively and entertaining social programme will be offered. A fine selection of tours and cultural entertainment for delegatesand family members will be part of the programme. Join us in Amsterdam, bring your family and experience the natural beauty, the wealth of 'Golden Age' monuments and the exciting cultural diversity that Amsterdam and the Netherlands have to offer!
Deadline early booth registration (discount rate)........1 December 2000
Second Announcement.........................................mid December 2000
Deadline for Call for Papers.......................................15 January 2001
Deadline early registration............................................15 March 2001
Final Announcement.....................................................mid April 2001
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Derk-Jan Feenstra (Chairman), NAM
Jurry van Doorn, Schlumberger
Jacob Fokkema, Delft University of Technology
Theo Kortekaas, Shell International
Cherry Locke, IHRDC
Ipo Ritsema, NITG-TNO
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Oh dear! There are so many things it's difficult to know where to begin.
First of all, we are being manipulated. Whether by politicians or a "shadowy establishment" or the bankers is immaterial. The main point here is we are being manipulated.
First of all, the aim is to make us poor. The printing of money with nothing to back it up was the start. That, together with an extremely low interest rate, was designed to hit the prudent middle class—to decimate their savings. The poor were hit by higher food prices caused by the EU CAP where it costs us so much to import food both from within and without the EU. This is apart from all the immigrants taking up jobs previously held by the working class.
And, note that overcrowded hospitals and doctors surgeries, together with over crowded schools, don't affect the uber rich, or our politicians – including Diane Abbot – who make full use of the private sector.
Then we have the globalists who will stop at nothing to obtain their dream of world government where they will have full control of fiscal policy which will make slaves of everybody.
Our politics are all wrong. On the one hand we have the Labour Party who have managed to fool the left for generations that they are for the working man. The working man has suffered as much financially under Labour as they have under the Conservatives.
On the other hand, we have the afore-mentioned Conservatives who, from past performance, show they are only after what they can get. Usually as kickbacks from Corporate Business, and some, such as Kinnock and Mandelson, have made millions from the EU, which come indirectly from the taxes you pay our government.
The Liberal Democrats hate the idea of a 'sovereign and free' Britain and will avoid us being in a democracy as long as possible.
UKIP are in trouble, but hopefully they will climb out of the mire. The original party when Mr Farage was at the helm had a lot of good ideas but I fear it may have been destroyed by Conservative fifth columnists.
We need to ensure that all constituencies have an equal amount of inhabitants in them, that will avoid any party having control of Parliament with fewer voters than any other region.
Then you have the system of "jobs for the boys" where many, who fund the political parties end up in the Lords. Cronyism run amock!
So, what can we do about it?
We need to reform the House of Lords and make it an elective body. The first chamber is a talking shop where they examine the second chamber's laws and check them. There is no need for expenses other than free tickets in the Parliament canteens and second class travel warrants with the facility for them to pay the extra for first class.
The second chamber (Commons) should have a reduced salary of £50,000 for backbenchers, rising in increments to £80,000 as a minister, and £125,000 as a prime minister. After all, a PM has a free house, a car and chauffeur etc. All perks should be taxed, the same as any other UK director, other than fixed amounts for offices and staff. The various bars and restaurants should not be subsidised.
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By keeping some basic guidelines in mind, you can learn how to measure catcher's gear. Catcher's gear is crucial in protecting athletes from injury from balls, bats, and even other athletes. By choosing equipment that is appropriate for your size, you can ensure a good, injury free experience. Make sure to try on a variety of different brands of catcher's equipment before making a final decision.
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Adventures with consumer lending, Missouri edition
When I wrote last month about payday lending in Missouri, I posed two questions to Stand Up Missouri, a lobbying group representing loan shops opposed to a 36% cap on interest rates in the state.
The first was with regard to a video on their site, where a college professor explains that when she approached her local credit union for a loan, they told her that her credit wasn't good enough, and that she should go to a loan company instead in order to improve her credit. Name that credit union, I said:
Credit unions exist to serve precisely this kind of person: I simply don't believe that any credit union would turn her away and deliberately send her to a usurious lender.
My second question was equally simple: what is the interest rate charged by the loan companies that Stand Up Missouri represents?
Well, Stand Up Missouri did get in touch with me — and offered to put me in touch not only with their CEO, Tom Hudgins, but also with the college professor in the video. That, in turn, set off an enormous number of emails and phone calls, where I talked at length with Stand Up Missouri, the professor in the video, and the CEO of her credit union. And frankly none of them come out of it looking all that great — although I have by far the greatest sympathy for the professor.
To put the standard terms of the debate into perspective, let's turn to Jason Rosenbaum, of the St Louis Beacon:
"The question I have for people who are anti-payday loan — and I'm not pro-payday loan — is where are people going to borrow the money?" Lamping said. "Because somebody who needs to borrow $200 for 10 days, they need to borrow $200 for 10 days. If the demand for capital doesn't go away, where do they get it?
"My answer is they'd probably go to the street," Lamping added. "Or they have checks bounce and they have rent and utility bills shut off."
Still disagreed, saying that people could use credit unions for small loans.
"There are too many (payday) lenders on every corner," Still said. "People just get the impression that it's easy money. People need really, really to evaluate whether they are in the position to pay back a loan. And they can go to a credit union. It will take a little effort, they're not on every corner. But options are available for people that do not put them in this debt trap that they can never get out of."
But the fact is that credit unions aren't always wonderful places where you can waltz in and get a low-interest-rate loan which is clearly superior in all respects to what payday lenders and loan companies offer. Some of them are. But some of them aren't.
The professor — I'm not using her name because it's not fair for this story to be the most important thing about her as far as Google is concerned — is a longstanding member of Missouri Credit Union in Columbia. That's her bank: it's where she has her checking account, deposits her paycheck, everything. And it has been ever since she moved to the state fifteen years ago. You couldn't ask for a more auspicious setup.
And when I first spoke to Hal James, Missouri CU's CEO, he was clear about its policies. "We always try to make the loan," he said: "I can't imagine anybody in 30 years has told somebody to go to a loan company. It makes no sense to do that."
James said that in no case would a low credit score disqualify a potential borrower from getting a loan: while the credit union does use credit scores in its underwriting, it does so only to set the term and the interest rate on its loans, and not to determine whether or not the loan should be extended in the first place.
But there were a couple of hints, too, that it wasn't quite as simple as all that. "Signature loans are unsecured, we don't promote those too much," he said at one point. "We try and make sure to understand what the member's asking for and what they want." Later, he talked quite a lot about how the credit union's procedure, where loans get escalated at least twice if they can't get made on an initial pass, was reliant on the borrower having completed an application.
I then spoke to James a second time, after he'd had the opportunity to talk to the professor earlier this week. She's still upset at the way that she was treated at the credit union, and there are a lot of discrepancies in their respective accounts. But it became increasingly clear to me that if you have bad credit, Missouri Credit Union is actually rather unlikely to give you a loan — even if you're a long-time member in good standing.
The simple fact is that some lenders are more conservative than others, and James struck me as an extremely conservative lender. He doesn't like making unsecured loans to people with bad credit — he'll nearly always prefer to look at the person's cashflow situation, and try to work on that instead. Maybe put together a budget, or a savings plan; maybe consolidate existing outstanding debt which was extended at high interest rates and free up cash that way.
I asked James if he had any kind of a product which would help people with bad credit improve their credit; he said no. "We help them build savings to cover short term needs," he told me, adding that "we try to stay away from even overdraft protection."
Instead, James works on changing "poor management of money that they've got". The credit union, he said, will "work to get the savings started", rather than add more debt: "if you think that you have to borrow more money to improve your credit score, that's not a solution. It's not going to work."
Sadly, James is wrong about this. The information going in to your credit score includes absolutely nothing about your salary, or your savings rate, or any of your assets. Let's say that I defaulted on a lot of loans five years ago, which ended up being charged off; since then, I've avoided all credit, got a high-paying job, lived within my means, built up my savings — and inherited a million dollars to boot. What happens to my credit score? Very little. As the bad loans on my credit report drift ever further into the past, they will have a slightly less negative effect on my credit score. But without anything positive on there, my score will remain abysmally low indefinitely.
James told me that "you can go from 500 to the mid-600s if your bad credit drifts far enough behind you". I checked this with FICO, and it's just not true. Once you have a bad credit score, the only way you can make a significant improvement to it is to borrow money and pay it back. The advice the professor says that she was given at the credit union was, in that sense, entirely accurate. And if the credit union wasn't going to lend her the money she needed, then she really was left with only one alternative. She went to World Finance, and got the loan she needed.
I'm not entirely clear on what the interest rate was on that original loan. Right now, the professor is on her second loan with the company — a $3,000 loan which she's repaying at $225 per month for 18 months. That means she's going to repay $1,050 in simple interest over 1.5 years, or $700 per year, which works out to an interest rate of about 23%.
But simple interest is not the same as APR. Calculating the APR on an amortizing loan is non-trivial, because the principal amount is constantly shrinking, which reduces the denominator and therefore increases the interest rate. Happily, the internet can come to the rescue: if you plug in a $3,000 18-month loan at $225 per month into this calculator, it will tell you that the APR is 40.4%.
Which, I can tell you, is a number World Finance seems very keen to hide.
Is it a good idea for the professor to be taking out loans at 40% interest rates? Really, she didn't have much of a choice. She needed the money, she got precious little help from her credit union, and the loan company was friendly and extended her the cash on terms she could afford.
What's more, the professor's relationship with World Finance has indeed improved her credit. Since taking out that first loan, she's obtained two different credit cards, and also bought a brand-new BMW with 2.9% financing. All with essentially no help at all from her primary financial institution, which is Missouri Credit Union. The debt the professor is taking on may or may not be wise, given her unique individual circumstances. And the credit union could in theory be a valuable resource in terms of helping her work out whether, for instance, she can really afford that car. But the relationship there is broken, and I see no chance that it will be fixed.
James does admit that he let the professor down: "I think we did fail her," he says, "and I don't think we did what we should have done." The credit union dropped the ball with respect to her loan application, which was left in limbo when she was in a time of need. But at the same time, he also admitted to me that the credit union would not have given her the unsecured loan she was looking for.
The professor's credit score is now good enough that she qualifies for a mortgage; it wasn't before. That's the kind of help a credit union should be able to give, and it's disappointing that Missouri Credit Union doesn't seem to be able to bring itself to do that. If the professor (a) wanted credit and (b) wanted to improve her credit score, then the loan company was, sadly, the place she needed to go.
Which brings me to Stand Up Missouri, the lobbying group representing such lenders. They've been promising me information on the interest rates they charge for a couple of weeks now, which is information you think they would have to hand. But nothing yet: I'll let you know if and when I get anything from them.
I did however speak to Stand Up Missouri's CEO, Tom Hudgins; I don't think anybody on the call would say that the conversation went particularly well. The key question here, of course, is interest rates: should they be capped, and if so, where. Hudgins is very keen on distinguishing loan companies from payday lenders, so I started with the payday lenders, who charge interest rates north of 400%. Do those loans count as predatory? No, he said: "I do not think that the payday loans in Missouri fall into that category." The only loans he would characterize as predatory were illegal or unregulated loans.
But Hudgins also wanted to make the point that when you're talking about short-term loans with a term less than one year, the APR can be a bit misleading: Stand Up Missouri likes to use the example of someone borrowing $100 today, paying back $101 tomorrow, and therefore paying an APR of 365% on their $100 loan.
OK, I said: if APR isn't a good metric to use when judging how expensive a loan is, what is a good metric to use? Hudgins suggested that what we should do instead was look at the total amount of interest paid, in dollars, per $100 borrowed. That seemed like an interesting idea to me, so I asked him what would be reasonable, using that metric. "$15 per hundred," he replied. "Is that a reasonable number? I would say that's a reasonable number."
I then asked Hudgins for an example of a loan from one of his companies, if they didn't want to give me APR figures. He gave an example of someone who borrowed $500 for ten months, repaying the loan at $77.50 per month.
This confused me. The total repayment there is $775, which means the interest is $275, or $55 per $100 borrowed. And $55 is a lot more than $15. (As for the APR, that works out at a whopping 106%.)
So Hudgins gave another example, where somebody borrowing $100 repaid $125 over a shorter time period. But that's still well over $15 per $100 borrowed.
Eventually, Hudgins declared that it's not the total interest that we should be looking at, but rather the monthly interest. Borrowers, he said, shouldn't have to pay more than $15 per $100 per month. At which point my jaw kinda hit the floor, the call came to a bit of a messy conclusion, and Stand Up Missouri's spokesman sent a follow-up email:
I'm afraid Tom didn't quite get the math right on the call. To be honest, it makes more sense on paper than in a conversation. I hope you will afford us the opportunity to provide you with the numbers / data for Missouri before you cover this issue again.
That was on December 28, over a week ago; as I say, if the numbers do arrive I'll happily publish them, but I'm not going to wait indefinitely for numbers which might never come.
It seems to me, then, that Missouri's loan companies can actually serve an important purpose: they are willing to extend loans to people who need them and who can't borrow that money elsewhere. And if you go to a loan company rather than a payday lender, you can significantly improve your credit score, too. I'm not happy about it, but this, from Stand Up Missouri's FAQ, is actually true, a lot of the time:
Aren't there "cheaper" alternatives to these traditional installment loans?
No. Because of the "high touch" relationship required in traditional installment loans, there are simply no other options that provide the same service and disciplined and responsible loan repayment terms.
At the same time, however, the loan companies do themselves no favors at all by being incredibly opaque about the terms on their loans and the interest rates they're charging; I'd never actually recommend that someone go to such a shop, since the entire business model seems to be based on exploiting sophistication asymmetries and charging as much interest as possible.
So two things are needed here, I think. The first is effective regulation, with teeth; I hope that Richard Cordray, newly installed at the head of the CFPB, will start providing that soon. There's no time to waste.
But regulation isn't enough: we also need alternatives — non-predatory financial products which allow people with bad credit to repair that credit and get back on their feet. Many credit unions provide such products, but as we've seen, many credit unions don't. And credit unions are in any case often difficult institutions to navigate: it's never entirely obvious who's allowed to join any given one. Can someone set up a Kiva for America? Help is needed, here. And it's very hard to find.


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When there is an opportunity to help others while having fun, our team is there! A handful of our locations have decided to join in on this summer's newest trend – the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. Our teams have added their own twists to the challenge but the purpose is still the same – to raise money and donate to charitable causes while having a little fun cooling off in the hot summer heat.
Interesting Facts about ALS and the Ice Bucket Challenge:
According to the New York Times, "ALS affects about 30,000 Americans. It is a disease which attacks nerve cells and ultimately leads to total paralysis, though the mind remains sharp. Life expectancy is typically two to five years from the time of diagnosis. The exact cause is not understood and there is no cure or treatment that stops or reverses the disease. The ALS Association said that it had received $41.8 million in donations from July 29 until Aug. 21. In addition, the Ice Bucket Challenge has raised awareness of the disease, which the A.L.S. Association said only half of Americans were aware of about a month ago."
Enjoy the photos and videos!
Burris Elkton
A few of our management team at Burris Elkton accepted the challenge from our friends at BJ's. Here are a few fun pictures of team accepting the challenge!
Other members of our Elkton team wanted to get in on the fun and raise money too so they did the challenge a few more times.
Burris New Castle
Our New Castle location celebrated their second year as a Custom Facility on 8/20/2014 with a BBQ. Along with the celebration, the team decided to raise money for their favorite charity, The Ronald McDonald House, by doing the Ice Bucket Challenge.
Each team member paid $5.00 to have the opportunity to challenge someone. If the person they challenged declined, that person had to pay $5.00. However, our managers decided that some of their team members work in an environment that really is not conducive to being wet and therefore, for each $5.00 a team member donated, they could challenge a member of the management team and then would be able to dump the tub of ice water on them! Needless to say this went over exceptionally well.
A very special "thank you" to our entire management team for being good sports in the name of charity. These individuals were challenged from 3 tubs to 6 tubs at a time. We conducted the ice bucket challenge at three different times throughout the course of the day, 9:45 AM, 12:00 PM, and 6:00 PM. This meant that each manager stood there and had however many tubs dumped on them individually.
The best part was that they raised $600 for their charity!
Here are a list of managers and the number of tubs they had dumped on them throughout the course of the day…
Kelly Blackburn – 3+ times
Brian Kiliany (BK) – 6+ times
Chris Robbins – 6+ times
Kevin Powers – 3+ times
John Goetze – 6+ times
Jim Bertuola – 3+ times
Also, they would like to acknowledge and send a special "thank you" to a few team members:
- Megan Tarpley, Shipping Clerk for New Castle was challenged 4+times, and accepted. GREAT JOB!
- John Syva, John Goetze, Kevin Powers, Chris Robbins, and Brian Kiliany for their help cooking
- Kelly Blackburn, Anna May Ottinger for prepping
- Billy Williams, Randy Marvel for filling up water bottles, and gathering ice bags during the challenges
- Keya Al-Amin for putting the video collages to together so we could share them with everyone
Everyone of the New Castle team members participated in one way or another and they were proud to celebrated their second anniversary raising money and bonding as a team!
Burris Orlando
Our Orlando team decided to take the Ice Bucket Challenge to the next level with a pool of ice water!
In addition to enjoying the water time, they also made a donation to Team Gleason (www.teamgleason.org) to support those fighting ALS.
Burris Atlanta
Last week, you may remember that Burris New Castle challenged their sister warehouse, Burris Atlanta to follow in their lead of doing the popular ice bucket challenge. Burris Atlanta happily accepted on Monday and they made sure to have a video camera on hand to capture all the action! I think Onnie Robinson wins the award for slowest pour!
The team had a great time raising money for a good cause 🙂
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The book: "Facing Ted Williams: Players From The Golden Age of Baseball Recall The Greatest Hitter Who Ever Lived"
The author: Edited by Dave Heller
The vital stats: Sports Publishing, 306 pages, $24.95
Find it: At Barnes & Noble, Powells, or publisher's website
The pitch: Facing Ted Williams today might be so bad. Scary, for sure. But still …
Consider that you'd be pitching against a 94-year-old frozen in time.
Johnny James, a right-handed pitcher for the Yankees and Angels between 1958 and '61, says that living these days in Scottsdale, Ariz., he often drives by the Alcor Life Extension cryonics facility where Williams' detached head is still reported to be chilling out in the hopes of being brought back to life years from now.
"I go by it frequently," James says on page 89. "I always say, 'Hi, Ted' when we do because he was my hero when I was a young boy wanting to be a ball player. My wife, of course, thinks I'm nuts and she's probably right. She usually is."
James' unremarkable career record of 5-3 with two saves and an ERA of 4.76 included the honor of facing Williams just once in his career — and issuing him a walk on July 10, 1960.
And somehow, in a book like this, that's the kind of stuff that matters.
Even if Jones is the only one willing to even breach the subject of Current Ted's Head versus what was in Ted's head during their encounters, what he says about that single encounter more than a half century ago speaks to how important is still is to him.
"I probably had the same thing going through my mind as any rookie pitcher who ever faced Williams for the first time. You are thrilled to be doing it, and you don't particularly care if you get him out. Take that with a grain of salt because you do want to get him out …
"My undoing as far as walking him was the umpire behind the plate, Ed Hurley … my side of the story is that I walked (Williams) on five strikes."
Some like James only faced Williams once. Others, like Hall of Famer Bob Feller, couldn't figure him out either in 153 appearances — Williams had 43 hits against him, including nine home runs and 23 RBIs. Plus, 34 walks (five intentional).
"Was he the toughest out?" Feller asks. "No, I had a dozen fellows that were tougher than Ted." Like Taft Wright, Stan Spence, Roy Cullenbine.
Sounds like the locker room clubhouse boys who cleaned the shoes of Murders' Row.
But that's the kind of insight you get from skipping around and listening to those who had not a lot of SABR information on how to face the Spendid Splinter, only the knowledge of what others suggested and whether they had the nerve to try it.
Ned Garver, another who ended his career with the Angels in their first year of '61, gave up nine homers among the 40 hits Williams had off him (a predictable .412 average). And that's after striking him out the first time they met on May 26, 1948.
Virgil Trucks also gave up nine dingers to Williams, most of them in Detroit with a short right-field porch.
"If I threw him a fastball and it was over the plate, it was a goner," says Trucks.
Eventually, there's someone like George Zuverink. Williams homered against the right-hander in their first meeting in 1951. But then, Zuverink, just 32-36 with 40 saves and a 3.54 ERA from 1951-59, surrendered only one more hit against him in 22 total appearances.
His secret? Luck, perhaps. But Williams didn't see it that way.
"In 1961, when the Red Sox had spring training in Scottsdale, Ariz., and I was retired, I went to the ballpark and introduced myself to him," said Zuverink. "He said, 'George, I think you could still get me out!' What a compliment."
Gene Conley, the one-time Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher, has perhaps the more interesting story about being traded to Boston in '61. He was given Williams' empty locker space. And there happened to be a bat left in there — the one he purportedly used to his hit final home run.
"I gave the bat away to a kid in Rhode Island," Conley says, "and my wife didn't speak to me for a long time. "
Not just pitchers are quizzed, but also fielders who had to position themselves in odd shifts that are still seen today. Former St. Louis Browns shortstop Al Naples only played two games in the big leagues and managed a .143 batting average. But both of those games were against the Red Sox, and he diagrammed the shift for author Heller playing into Williams' tendency to pull the ball (also called the "Lou Bodreau shift"):
"I do remember throwing him out on a one-hopper at first … it felt good!" Naples says.
There is a good feeling as well in revisiting those like Naples who were hardly on the radar but more than willing to add their voice to a subject that remains one of the most intriguing in major league history. For that, thank Heller, a frequent contributor to Seamheads.com, who had his pick of some 236 former pitchers and other players to deliver their retrospectives.
More to know:
== A review from the Boston Globe and the New York Journal of Books
== The transcript of a Q-and-A Heller did with the Milwaukee Journal
== Find Ted Williams' "The Science of Hitting" and his autobiography, "My Turn At Bat."
== Also: "Ted Williams: The Biography of An American Hero" by Leigh Montville in 2005.


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