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While it is a popular maxim that 'Dying is easy; comedy is hard,' visual effects supervisor Sheena Duggal has had her share of films containing both. Death and destruction have included Marvel's Agent Carter television series, Ridley Scott's Body of Lies and The Hunger Games; comedies have included the first Sex and the City feature, Christmas with the Kranks, and the Adam Sandler vehicles Big Daddy and 50 First Dates.
August 15, 2018, 9:42 am
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August 15, 2018, 9:42 am
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NEWPORT–While most people don't get a chance to see it, North Country Cross-Country coach Chris Shaffer is doing good things with the program.For the second time in his two years as head coach, the Falcons will once again be represented at this weekends' New England Cross Country Championship in Rhode Island, but Shaffer knows that he is just a part of the success that the athletes have had."There is a point where all my talking and all my running next to them can only go so far, because once race day comes it's how determined they are and what abilities they bring."This year the Falcons determination was personified in their senior girls captain Stephanie Watson, who will be the 2011 North Country rep at New England's.Watson was consistently a top finisher all season long, and her 11th overall finish at the State meet punched her ticket to Rhode Island."I am really excited for it," said Watson, "I have been looking forward to it for the last two weeks. I just want to go and run it."Shaffer's philosophy of continual improvement as the season progresses has rung true with his top female runner, as she feels like she is where she needs to be for Saturday's race."I feel better at practice now then I did five weeks ago. Being ready for states was more important in some ways (can't get to New England's if you don't do well at states), so I think I'm in the best shape of the season so far.""I have seen a lot of dedication, and a lot of effort," said the coach of Watson's work ethic.Shaffer also saw growth in other areas besides the running aspect, saying, "She really grew into the leadership role this year and has been a greater leader for our girls squad, and it has spilled over to the boys side as well. She was really hungry for it this year. You could definitely tell she put in the training over the summer, definitely tell she had that hunger."Watson is no fool. She knows that you have to put in the work if you want to reap the rewards."The only way to become faster I've found is to want it and work hard," she said.Her goal at states, says Shaffer, was not just to get to New England's herself, but to get her entire team to qualify as well. They came close, missing the mark by only a few minutes. After states, Watson gave herself a well earned respite from her usual regiment."I had to go and binge on some junk food, which I hadn't done for two months," she admitted with a smile.But for the most part she maintains a very healthy diet, usually starting her day off with toast and eggs. When mid-day rolls around either something form the NCUHS cafeteria or a sandwich and an apple is what's for lunch, and a pre-race dinner usually will have a chicken or pasta component along with a salad and no desert.Simply put, "I just try to eat healthy. I don't want to eat crap before the race so it(eating right) is important to me."Steph's goal for Saturday's race is to crack the twenty minute mark during the five K. She has been training as diligently as she has been all season, and has not strayed from what got her this far because, as Shaffer explained,"You have typically two weeks before a training takes hold, and it has been two weeks since states, so really you can't do anything more to strengthen. You just want to make sure sure you don't get injured and that you are fresh and ready."Watson has not been alone in her play-off training. Many of her teammates have been right along side their captain, and she appreciates what they do for her."All my teammates have given me great support and have pushed me to be better."Now it is simply up to her as she will take today off, resume her preparations on Friday, and then head down to Rhode Island for the Veteran's Day Weekend event.She did have few other people she wanted to thank for their help and support over a great 2011 season; her coaches."I think the coaches are great, and I just want to thank them for everything, for encouraging the team and all of us to always look forward to what we could have, and for pushing me to go farther."Like I said before, whether it is the talent level of the kids he has running for him, or a coaching strategy that just seems to resonate with his athletes, Chris Shaffer is doing good things with the North Country Cross-Country program, and Watson's performance this year is proof of it.

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William Quinlan: CL&P efforts paid off after Super Storm Sandy
Super Storm Sandy was the largest, most intense storm ever to make landfall in the Northeast. It raised havoc with 10 million electric customers from Maryland to Maine, the most in United States history.
Along the Connecticut shoreline, the storm ripped apart houses, seawalls and beaches, and forced the evacuations of thousands of our citizens.
In some respects, the impact of this natural disaster will eclipse the toll imposed by the Great New England Hurricane of 1938.
Restoring power after a massive storm requires around-the-clock commitment and coordination, as we rebuild our system while navigating around thousands of fallen trees and devastated homes.
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Some have compared the process to a military operation. With roughly 840,000 customers affected by Sandy, we had to set more than 1,700 new poles and replace more than 105 miles of wire, the approximate distance from Mystic to Greenwich.
As CL&P's senior vice president for emergency preparedness, I want to share with you some of the reasons that Connecticut succeeded in delivering a "community response" to this truly epic natural disaster.
First, the successful operation that took place is a testament to the skills and dedicated efforts of our employees and the more than 9,000 people who were quickly assembled from Connecticut, 25 other states and Canada to support our efforts.
CL&P's customers benefited greatly from our ability to bring in personnel and resources from other Northeast Utilities operating companies, including NSTAR, Western Massachusetts Electric and Public Service of New Hampshire.
Second, the results reflect the enhanced coordination among CL&P, many first responders, state and local officials and other utilities.
In that regard, Gov. Dannel Malloy's personal and strong leadership was invaluable.
One example of strong cooperation within our communities occurred in Stamford, where overnight we turned a newly developed apartment complex into a facility where hundreds of line workers were provided with food and lodging close to the hardest-hit area of our service territory.
Third, given the frequency of severe weather events, our company has been keenly focused on improving our emergency preparedness. It's important to note that three of the four largest outages in our over 100-year history have occurred in the last 14 months.
Here are some of the ways we were able to deliver a strong response in the wake of nature's most recent challenge:
CL&P executed our own emergency planning drill and participated in the governor's four-day, statewide exercise -- both of which simulated a catastrophic hurricane.
We leveraged strong partnerships with public and private entities to quickly mobilize and pre-position critical resources.
We have nearly doubled our tree-trimming efforts in 2012 to address thousands of trees that posed a risk to our system.
CL&P has dramatically enhanced our community liaison program through training and technology to better communicate with towns and cities.
The company improved communications with customers by telephoning them before and during the storm, holding media briefings daily, participating in briefings with the governor and state agencies, and regularly updating Facebook and Twitter social media sites.
CL&P has long had a major impact on the economic well-being of this state, but nothing is more important to us than the health and well-being of our customers.
After restoring power in Connecticut, it was particularly gratifying that CL&P, along with the other NU companies, was able to send many crews to aid people in New York and New Jersey. Our neighbors in the hard hit tri-state area desperately needed us and we were there to answer the call.
We would like our customers to know that they have our thanks for their patience and understanding, and a pledge, as well, to continue to improve our planning and execution so that Connecticut is prepared to handle nature's future wrath.
William Quinlan is CL&P's senior vice president for emergency preparedness.


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Jessica Chastain refused to hire an assistant in the early days of her career but conceded defeat when she struggled to deal with an avalanche of emails.
The star was thrust into the spotlight in 2011 with roles in a number of critically-acclaimed films including The Tree of Life and The Help.
Despite her rapid rise to fame, Chastain refrained from hiring any help until it all became too much.
She tells Britain's InStyle magazine, "I was like, 'I don't need an assistant'", and admits it took her eight months "of being really bad at responding to emails and feeling like a failure" before she took on extra help.


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Today is the anniversary of the birth of the incomparable Johnny Cash. Originally signed to the Sun Records label by Sam Phillips in the '50s, he had an incredibly long and productive career as one of the beloved giants of American popular music.
He was a wonderful songwriter and performer. Among the fine songs he wrote and memorably performed are "Big River," "Give My Love to Rose," "Don't Take Your Guns to Town," "I Walk the Line," and "I Still Miss Someone." In "Folsom Prison Blues" he wrote the most chilling line in country music: "I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die."
Songs written by others that he turned into hits include "Ring of Fire" and "A Boy Named Sue." He was an open-hearted artist who became an early advocate and performer of songs by gifted songwriters such as Bob Dylan, Tim Hardin, and Kris Kristofferson.
In February 1969 Cash performed for the inmates at San Quentin Prison. In the video above, a radiant June Carter Cash joins him onstage for their duet on "Jackson."
When Cash died, John Hinderaker observed that words like "superstar" and "legend" are tossed around so freely nowadays that it is hard to convey the stature of a true giant like Cash to those not familiar with his work. He both preceded and transcended the split between country music and rock and roll, so that his early hits like "Ring of Fire" and even later songs like "Folsom Prison Blues" and "A Boy Named Sue" were huge hits not only on the country charts or on country stations, but across the popular music spectrum. And he continued performing and creating good music right up to the end.
JOHN adds: Johnny Cash was one of the all time greats. Songs like "I Still Miss Someone," "Cry Cry Cry," and many others will be with us for a long time. My personal favorite is "Ring Of Fire," one of the first popular songs I remember hearing on the radio.
A few years ago my wife and I went to a Gear Daddies concert at the Minnesota Zoo, which is just a few hundred yards from our house. The Gear Daddies are one of the cult bands of our time; their lead singer, Marty Zeller, is a Minnesotan. It was a great concert, and one of the most memorable moments was when Zeller sang "Ring of Fire," an oldie that must have been recorded before many of the hipster Gear Daddy fans were born, let alone listening to the radio. What was funny was that the entire crowd sang along. Everyone knew the words and joined in happily. It was a fun tribute to music that will live for a long, long time and is not constrained by current genre categories.
UPDATE: Our friend Seth Liebsohn directs us to a 2006 post discussing Cash's affection for Israel and answering the question "What did Johnny Cash like to eat?"


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Professor David Faigman is one of the country's leading experts on the law's use of Scientific Evidence. His latest article is "Group to Individual (G2i) Inference in Scientific Expert Testimony."
Accepted for publication with The University of Chicago Law Review, a prestigious academic journal, Faigman co-wrote this article with two colleagues: John Monahan of the University of Virginia School of Law and Christopher Slobogin of Vanderbilt Law School. A prolific scholar, Faigman has also recently published the latest edition of his five-volume treatise "Modern Scientific Evidence: The Law and Science of Expert Testimony." In addition, he has published two other articles this past year, "The Daubert Revolution and the Birth of Modernity: Managing Scientific Evidence in the Age of Science" was published in the UC Davis Law Review earlier this year, and his article "Wading into the Daubert Tide: Sargon Enterprises, Inc. v. University of Southern California" appeared in the UC Hastings Law Journal in February 2013.
A fundamental divide exists between what scientists do as scientists and what courts often ask them to do as expert witnesses. Whereas scientists almost invariably measure phenomena at the group level, trial courts typically need to resolve cases at the individual level. A basic challenge for trial courts that rely on scientific experts, therefore, concerns translating scientific knowledge derived from studying groups into information that can be helpful in the individual cases before them (what this article refers to as "G2i"). To aid in dealing with this challenge, this article proposes a distinction between two types of expert evidence: framework evidence that describes general scientific propositions and diagnostic evidence that applies the general propositions to individual cases. It then examines the evidentiary implications of that distinction. Most importantly, admissibility standards for expert testimony should differ depending on whether experts are proffering framework or diagnostic evidence. Judicial analysis of "fit," expert qualifications, testability, error rates, peer review, general acceptance, helpfulness and other traditional admissibility criteria for expert evidence will often vary, sometimes significantly, based on this distinction. The article provides general guidelines about the best practices judges should follow in sorting through these considerations. These guidelines will permit courts to manage G2i inferences in a more informed and coherent way than they do currently.
Professor David Faigman is the John F. Digardi Distinguished Professor of Law at UC Hastings, the Director of the UCSF/UC Hastings Consortium on Law, Science and Health Policy, and a Professor in the School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, at the University of California San Francisco. He graduated from the State University of New York, College at Oswego, where he majored in Psychology and History. He then went to the University of Virginia where he received an M.A. in social psychology and a J.D. During law school, he served on the Virginia Law Review, was elected to the Order of the Coif, and received the Roger and Madeleine Traynor Prize, awarded to acknowledge the best written work by a graduating student. After law school, Professor Faigman clerked in the chambers of the Honorable Thomas M. Reavley of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
Professor Faigman writes in the areas of science and the law, and constitutional law. He has published numerous books and articles concerning the use, or failure to use, scientific research in legal decision-making. His most recent book was published in 2008, entitled Constitutional Fictions: A Unified Theory of Constitutional Facts (Oxford Univ. Press). He is also the author of Laboratory of Justice: The Supreme Court's 200-Year Struggle to Integrate Science and the Law (Henry Holt/Times Books 2004) and Legal Alchemy: The Use and Misuse of Science in the Law (W.H. Freeman 1999). In addition, he is a coauthor of the five-volume treatise, Modern Scientific Evidence: The Law and Science of Expert Testimony (2013-2014 edition) (with Jeremy A. Blumenthal, Edward K. Cheng, Jennifer L. Mnookin, Erin E. Murphy and Joseph Sanders). The treatise has been cited widely by courts, including several times by the U.S. Supreme Court. Professor Faigman also lectures widely to judges and lawyers, and served on a panel for the National Academies of Science investigating the scientific validity of the polygraph. He is currently a member of the MacArthur Network on Neuroscience and Law.


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Louis S. Morelli
Louis S. Morelli, 89, of 1223 Million Dollar Highway, Kersey, died on Monday, Dec. 23, 2013 at his home following a brief illness.He was born Sept. 24, 1924 in Kersey, a son of the late Lino and Mary Tamburlin Morelli.On June 21, 1947, he married the late Alice Wolack Morelli, who preceded him in death on July 1, 2007.Mr. Morelli was a graduate of Kersey High School and a member of Queen of the World Church. He served in the U.S. Marines during WWII. He retired from Keystone Carbon Company after many years of service. He was a member of the Moose and the American Legion. He was also a member of the Polka Boosters, and he greatly enjoyed dancing and playing his accordion. He also enjoyed gardening and spending time with his family, especially his grandchildren. He is survived by a son, Michael Morelli of Kersey; two grandchildren, Dominique and Blake Morelli; and a sister, Betty, Mrs. Tony Rutigliano of Ridgway. In addition to his parents and his wife, he was preceded in death by two brothers, Victor and Robert Morelli.Relatives and friends are invited to attend a Mass of Christian Burial for Louis S. Morelli which will be celebrated at the Queen Of The World Church, 134 Queens Rd., St. Marys, on Friday, Dec. 27, at 12 p.m. with the Rev. Eric Vogt, O.S.B., as celebrant. Burial will be in the St. Marys Catholic Cemetery.There will be no visitation.Memorial Contributions may be made to Queen of the World Church, 134 Queens Rd., St. Marys, PA 15857.Lynch-Green Funeral Home, 151 N. Michael St., St. Marys, is handling the arrangements and online condolences may be placed at www.LynchGreenFuneralHome.com.


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Psioniks is the SuperNatural power representative of the ability to control the universe with one's mind. This is a purely mental ability. Practitioners work to develop their mental capacity to channel greater amounts of psychic energy. Though nonphysical in nature, this energy is then used to affect physical matter. In some cases, this will take the form of moving objects at a distance. In others, changing the physical properties of an object or creature, such as boiling water or altering molecular composition or the energy input/output of another creature's brain.
Psionik Application
Psionik power in the BrikVerse is a universally consistent energy. That is, it is always generated by the mental energies of sentient creatures and is always compatible with other psionik energies, even if the creatures themselves are totally alien to one another, which might be a side effect of the construction toy basis around which reality in the BrikVerse revolves. That said, there are two general ways in which to use Psioniks.
Individual Psioniks
Using Psioniks individually simply means generating the power needed for an effect by oneself. This is far and away the most common occurrence of Psioniks in the BrikVerse.
Psionik Concert
Using Psioniks in Concert means joining minds and combining the mental energies of two or more sentient creatures to generate the energy needed to produce an effect. Note that only one of the creatures needs to be a practitioner to shape the energies into the desired effect. Note also that this joining may be voluntary or involuntary.
Psionik Effects
Psioniks can be used to produce any physical effect imaginable. The limiting factor is the degree of power each effect requires. Therefore, practitioners are always looking for easier ways to do things, so as to avoid exhausting their mental reserves more quickly. Sometimes, among groups of practioners, a rote will develop that is representative of the simplest way to produce a commonly desired effect. These Rotes are given common names as a method of shorthand reference among those in the know. Examples include: Beastmastery, Teknokinesis, Telekinetiks, Telepathy, Mind Control, Precognition, Psychoanalysis, and Pyrokinesis.
Psioniks in the BrikVerse
The Immortals
Certain elements associated with the Immortal Empire serve as perhaps the most well known example of psionik use in the BrikVerse. These practitioners are famous for their signature ability to Fly, a specific form of Telekinesis, although its use does appear to limit their other abilities somewhat. Their abilities seem to be broken down into two noticeable disciplines: Physical and Ethereal. Members are extraordinarily proficient in either but this focus seems to come at the drawback of a weaker physical stature. The practitioners seem perfectly fine with this arrangement and are as well known for their supreme confidence in their own abilities as they are for their brutal use of them. As such, they carry little to no equipment and enemies know doom when they see the lightly armed and armored Psykiks swooping down from the sky.
PsiTek is Teknologikal equipment that has been specially modified to store or channel psionik energy. Use of PsiTek significantly reduces the strain on a psionik practitioner's own mind and mental reserves, allowing him to draw on the stored energy instead or input small amounts into the device and have it naturally amplify and focus those energies instead of doing all the work himself. For all their energy saving advantages, however, PsiTek devices are still extremely limited in scope. They can only be made to serve a specific function (the majority are weapons) and the energy input into the device will always be reconfigured according to those parameters. For reference, PsiTek parameters are usually defined in terms of Psionik Rotes. Some PsiTek has been developed that reverses mental polarity and can fry a practitioner's brain while engaged in psionik activity.


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BumpWatch: Adele Debuts Baby Belly
Baby on board!
British singing sensation Adele stepped out in London Tuesday with her boyfriend, Simon Konecki, giving us a glimpse of her growing baby bump.
"I'm delighted to announce that Simon and I are expecting our first child together," the Grammy winner, 24, said in a statement in June.
"I wanted you to hear the news direct from me, obviously we're over the moon and very excited."
If you're looking for a wedding ring in the photo, you won't find one. Of recent rumors the star secretly tied the knot, she Tweeted, "I'm not married…Zzzzzzz."
Adele will welcome her baby this fall.


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Music mogul Clive Davis is planning a special tribute to honor Whitney Houston at his pre-Grammy Awards party a year after her death.
The pop superstar was found dead in her bath tub at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Beverly Hills, California on 11 February, 2012 just hours before Davis' annual bash was due to kick off downstairs.
The tragedy marred last year's (12) party, but organisers are going ahead with the 2013 gala at the same venue on Saturday night (09Feb13).
Davis has now confirmed the event will open with a poignant tribute to Houston, telling People.com, "(I am) going to do something to remind everybody that her talent lived among us and in so many people... It's a different kind of opening. The opening has never been done before, with the kind of music that's unprecedented."
The music mogul refused to reveal any more details about the plans.
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Hi there,
I'm trying to build the latest SVN on Ubuntu 11.04, but
it keeps on asking for "bcm_host.h":
gcc -g -Wall -O0 -c -I./SDLPort -Icml -I./unrarlib040/unrarlib -I/usr/include/SDL/ -I/usr/include/libmodplug -I/opt/vc/include -I/opt/vc/include/interface/vcos/pthreads -I/opt/vc/include/GLES -I/opt/vc/include/EGL -DPLATFORM_SDL -DENABLE_CONSOLE_COMMANDS -DUSE_MODPLUG -DRPI -DUSE_GLES1 -DUSE_EGL_RPI SDLPort/eglport.c -o SDLPort/eglport.o
SDLPort/eglport.c:50:22: fatal error: bcm_host.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
make: *** [SDLPort/eglport.o] Error 1
Anybody any ideas ?
its workin man thanks!!
there is no error your build is done and you can run it with ../hurricanlinux
after doing what u told it still showed some error about missing file, i was able to get them, now after that it showed this result after running it with make command
screen result : http://nopaste.info/0545ee9184.html
your sdl development package is missing eg:
su -c "aptitude install libsdl1.2-dev"
btw. you can search for files on debians package search
now it is showing this error: http://nopaste.info/9790b66eac.html
file SDL.h is not there, how to get it???
g++ is missing eg (debian based): su -c "aptitude install g++"
i tried using superuser but it still didnt work showing some file or directory missing error while extracting
heres the nopaste link of the shown output http://nopaste.info/90f96ecb6a.html
I think it was an error during make, perhaps a missing development package
just post your terminal output here: http://nopaste.info/ and give us the link
i put the code u gave in terminal, after that when all files were downloaded i think it was going to install it or something, but instead some error came in the terminal , i dont remember what it was ....but the files are there in the root drive, so now what should i do????
please give us some details. What exactly happend? How did it happen?
i have downloaded the source code now how to install?? it showed some error in the installation you gave after all the game data was downloaded....sorry i'm new to linux...thanks in advance :)
Thanks, that works very well. You also need libmodplug in case you don't have it. The game is surprisingly good.
Uuh - getting old? I had only looked in hurrican/Hurrican....
svn co svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/hurrican/code/trunk hurrican && cd hurrican/Hurrican/src/ && make
How do I play this? The main download site only gives errors, the SVN data don't mention linux and have no makefile or alike. Anyone suceeded in building a linux executable?


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Note: This event took place before the Senate and Assembly put forth a proposal to restore $120 million in funding to the state Office of People with Developmental Disabilities.
On Friday morning, New York State Sen. George Maziarz, New York State Assemblywoman Jane Corwin, New York State Assemblyman John Ceretto and New York State Assemblyman Ray Walter addressed Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposed 2013-14 budget. Specifically, the delegation took exception to the proposed 6 percent cut to the Office of People with Developmental Disabilities for community-based non-profit organizations, which would impact 120,000 people.
Even though $120 million is designated in the state budget, it is matched by the federal government, so the impact is a total cut of $240 million.
Elected representatives representing most of Niagara County were joined by Connie Brown, executive director at Opportunities Unlimited of Niagara; John Reardon, Executive Director and CEO of Niagara Cerebral Palsy; and Jeff Sanderson, executive director at Rivershore Inc. Additionally, more than 100 people with developmental disabilities, their family members, caregivers and employees from Niagara County's human services agencies were present to protest Cuomo's budget proposal.
"As elected officials, we are gravely concerned by Gov. Cuomo's budget proposal to cut OPWDD supports and services by 6 percent to the community-based not-for-profit organizations. We must ensure the health, safety and quality of life for all of the 120,000 people - from newborn to senior citizen - with intellectual and other developmental disabilities served by these agencies," Maziarz said. "While we support the on-time passage of the budget and agree in principle with the governor's reform agenda, you cannot balance the budget on the backs of our most vulnerable citizens. The OPWDD system is in crisis, and this will not address the challenges faced in delivering programs and services in our region. This draconian decrease will threaten real services that now cover many individuals 24 hours each day, seven days a week."
"The governor's proposed cuts to OPWDD will absolutely hurt New York state's most vulnerable citizens," Corwin said. "At a time when special needs services are providing assistance to more individuals than ever, it seems to me that Gov. Cuomo 'brushing off' concerns of funding cuts, and therefore service and access, is very inappropriate. Private and non-profits have demonstrated cost-effective measures of quality care, but will have immense difficulty providing for the needs of these vulnerable individuals with fewer staff and decreased programming options. We are here today because many of these individuals are unable to advocate for themselves due to the nature of their disabilities, and challenges they face every day."
"The non-profits provide quality services cost-effectively," Walter said. "Revenue must be found to replace these cuts. Our colleagues in both houses and Gov. Cuomo must realize the benefit community-based providers bring to their clients and to the state. Any major loss in funding to these organizations may mean that parents may have to quit jobs to stay at home to care for their family member - increasing the need for government assistance and/or that emergency medical care providers will find an increase in a group of people turning to them for needs that were successfully monitored by the providers, now increasing costs to taxpayers and needlessly filling area emergency rooms."
"The non-profit agencies continue to battle against rising insurance premiums, fuel and transportation costs, and rising costs due to increasing regulatory actions," Ceretto said. "They simply cannot take a reduction of this magnitude without seeing services and supports cut for people with developmental disabilities, along with layoffs for staff. Together, the non-profits constitute among the top employers of our county. While we do not advocate employment for the sake of employment, these individuals also are the backbone of our communities."


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E. E. Anderson, a retired general in the U.S. Marine Corps, is the director of the Solo and Small Firms Division of the ABA General Practice, Solo and Small Firm Division.
Census Sampling Battle Continues
The House of Representatives filed a lawsuit on February 20, 1998, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, contending that the sampling announced by the Census Bureau to be used in the Decennial Census was illegal because the Constitution requires an "actual enumeration" every ten years.
A similar lawsuit was filed on February 12, 1998, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia by four counties and residents of 13 states. Both district courts held that the Census Bureau's plan for the 2000 census violated the Census Act (13 U.S.C.§ 1 et seq.), and inter alia, enjoined the government from using statistical sampling to determine the population for congressional apportionment. On direct appeal, the Supreme Court consolidated the two cases for oral argument.
On January 25, 1999, the Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision, held that § 195 of the Census Act prohibits the proposed uses of statistical sampling to determine the population for congressional apportionment purposes ( Department of Commerce v. U.S. House of Representatives, Nos. 98-404, 98-564 (U.S. Jan. 25, 1999)). In 1976, § 195 was amended to read: "Except for the determination of population for purposes of apportionment of Representatives in Congress among several States, the Secretary shall, if he considers it feasible, authorize the use of the statistical method known as "sampling" in carrying out the provisions of this title." Because the Court concluded that the Census Act prohibited the proposed uses of statistical sampling in calculating the population for purposes of apportionment, it ruled that it was unnecessary to decide whether the Constitution also prohibited the use of sampling for such purposes.
During oral arguments on November 30, 1998, the justices expressed reluctance to get involved in what they labeled as essentially a partisan fight between the Congress and the White House. Justice Antonin Scalia told the lawyer for the House Republicans, Maureen Mahoney, "I don't like injecting us into a battle between the two political branches." When Mahoney replied that the "differences were intractable" to the two sides, Scalia said, "There are 900 ways the House can stymie the president if it has the political will to do it." He went on to say, "You're saying that the House does not have the political will, so you're asking us to do it for you." Other justices worried that the ruling in this case would set a dangerous precedent that would force the Court to resolve further disputes between the president and the Congress.
While there was hope that the Supreme Court would definitely settle the sampling issue, it did not. In her opinion, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor said, "As amended, [§ 195] now requires the Secretary to use statistical sampling in assembling the myriad demographic data that are collected in connection with the decennial census. But the section maintains its prohibition on the use of statistical sampling in calculating population for purposes of apportionment."
Where do we go from here? Census results determine how the $180 billion in federal money is distributed annually to the states. This money is allocated through 20 grant programs, including the health care program for the poor, assistance for immigrants, road building, and educational aid to poor children. Should census sampling be the standard in determining the census results? The two parties disagree on this issue. The battle is intensifying, with President Clinton announcing to the nation's mayors on January 29, 1999, that his administration remains committed to using scientific sampling in the 2000 census. The administration's plan appears to follow a two-pronged census. One, using the traditional questionnaire and door-to-door count for deciding congressional apportionment, and another using the sampling method that would adjust the count to compensate for those people missed by the former method.
The Republicans object strenuously to the use of the two-number proposal. Dan Miller (R-FL), chair of the House Subcommittee on Census, said: "It's a nonstarter as far as I am concerned." Matthew Glavin, the president of the Southeastern Legal Foundation, which first challenged the Census Bureau's proposal, said, "If those sampled numbers are used for redistricting, the administration is going to find itself in Court again." Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY), the ranking Democrat on the census subcommittee, countered: "I guess House Republicans recognize they lost the case since they're already threatening to shut down the government." On February 3, 1999, she introduced a bill that would permit wide use and application of "scientific sampling" for head count purposes. In effect, passage of her bill would nullify the Supreme Court decision, and chances of passage are not high.
Using numbers obtained by sampling for redistricting could have greater political effect than the use of sampling for reapportionment. While it has been estimated that perhaps only four seats would be shifted among the states if sampling figures were used in reapportionment, the effect on congressional districts within states could be significantly greater. One firm that does redistricting research estimates that in California, five to six seats could shift from the Republicans to the Democrats.
Social Security Reform
Social Security reform looms as one of the biggest fights between Congress and the White House this term. The current program is financed through a payroll tax of 6.2 percent from employees and 6.2 percent from employers. The tax is estimated to generate sufficient income benefits until 2013, but by 2032, the trust fund will be bankrupt. The program started in 1935 under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Today it provides retirement, disability, and survivor benefits to 44 million Americans.
The president's program would channel hundreds of billions of dollars into the stock market with the federal government as the investor. It would also devote $2.8 trillion in future government surpluses to shore up Social Security. The Republicans, however, support individual private investment accounts by diverting part of the payroll taxes to the financial market. They are opposed to direct government investment on the theory that it would interfere with the free market. They are supported in this view by Federal Reserve Board Chair Alan Greenspan and many other economists. At a recent meeting of the Securities Industry Association, this trade group affirmed its position that any overhaul of Social Security should include private accounts that offer investment choice, but are administered by the private sector, not the government.
The Republicans know that in the past they have lost elections over Democratic allegations that they prefer tax cuts to the expense of the Social Security program. However, it appears that the 106th Congress has the opportunity to address the Social Security problems on a more bipartisan basis. Even House Ways and Means Committee Chair Bill Archer (R-TX) has said, "We would be willing to reserve 62 percent of the surplus until Social Security has been saved."
In a speech in Buffalo following the State of the Union address, President Clinton spoke of the government investing $700 billion of the budget surplus in the stock market and said, "We can give it all back to you and hope you spend it right. But if you don't spend it right," he predicted all sorts of catastrophes. Critics felt that his statement smacked of paternalism, and that he was essentially saying the American people are not smart enough to save for their retirement.
On February 1, in offering a $1.766 trillion budget, President Clinton made good on his State of the Union promise to earmark 62 percent of the federal budget surplus over the next 15 years for Social Security reform. The budget, with respect to Social Security, states that the 62 percent of the budget surplus credited to the Social Security trust fund for a year would be blocked from use by the Congress and the White House on any other program, including tax cuts.
Alan Greenspan has told Congress and the president that they cannot rely on budget surpluses alone to extend Social Security's life. He said, "To ensure that taxes and interest income will always be sufficient to pay benefits, Social Security taxes would have to be raised much more—perhaps something on the order of between 4 and 5 percent of taxable payroll." Alternatively, he suggested considering curbing growth of benefits by raising the retirement age and reducing the cost-of-living increases. The danger of relying on the uncertainty of budget projections is outlined by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) in its new volume on budget projections. In it, the CBO indicates that relatively small changes in the economy can have a significant effect on long-range budget figures. For example, if the interest rate is raised by only 1 percent, the CBO's ten-year surplus of $2.6 trillion slides $214 billion. A meager one tenth of 1 percent in projected growth causes the surplus to drop by $186 billion.
In the February 1, 1999, issue of the Wall Street Journal, Martin Feldstein, former chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisors and now a professor of economics at Harvard, criticized Clinton's proposal for Social Security reform. He said, "The most obvious fault of the Clinton plan is that it fails to 'save Social Security.' Even Mr. Clinton claims only that it would postpone bankruptcy to 2055 from 2032. After that, maintaining promised benefits would require raising the payroll tax rates to more than 18 percent from today's 12.4 percent. Without a tax increase, benefits would be cut by more than one-third." He went on to say, "Extending Social Security solvency to 2055 is based on a complex accounting sham so duplicitous that it is hard to believe."
The Review & Outlook section of the February 3, 1999, issue of the Wall Street Journal reported that "[p]erhaps the worst part of this budget is its dishonesty about Social Security. Granted, all Presidents have contributed to the fib that payroll tax money is saved in some Social Security fund somewhere when those taxpayers retire; in fact, the trust fund is mainly an accounting tool. But at least this notion preserved Social Security as an insurance program financed solely out of payroll (FICA) taxes. Mr. Clinton's deceit is to begin to use general tax revenues (from income and other taxes) to finance Social Security benefits." Furthermore, the Wall Street Journal predicted that "unless taxes are raised, by mid-century as much as 90% of the federal budget would be allocated to health care and pensions for the elderly."
While the two sides are far apart on the specifics for a program to correct the Social Security problem, both are eager to reach a deal on Social Security.
The 106th Congress
The second session of the 105th Congress is likely to be remembered as the one in which impeachment proceedings were launched against President Clinton, rather than for its legislative achievements. While the House passed a campaign finance bill, it died in the Senate (See this column, Spring 1998). Congress passed International Monetary Fund legislation providing $18 billion in return for some Agency reforms (see this column, January/February 1999). A $218 billion authorization bill for highway and mass transit projects was adopted (see this column, July/August 1998). Congress also passed a budget-busting omnibus spending bill of $500 billion (see this column, January/February 1999). The omnibus bill included eight of the 13 annual appropriation bills. With Republicans wanting to avoid being accused of closing down the government, and wanting to go home for the election, they capitulated and gave President Clinton much more in the bill than he would have received had Congress sent him individual appropriation bills. On October 21, 1998, the second session of the 105th Congress adjourned.
The first session of the 106th Congress convened on January 6, 1999. In this Congress, the members are older than those in the 105th, and have more political experience. With the impeachment trial of President Clinton and the Gingrich to Livingston to Hastert switch of House Speakers, not much legislative accomplishment has been made to date. The Repub-licans, however, want a 10 percent across the board tax cut for every working American. This effort will once again compete against Pres-ident Clinton's announced Social Security reform program.
The Republicans, with some Democratic support, will push to accelerate the deployment of anti-missile defenses for U.S. territory. Greater defense spending than what the president requests will be pursued. This will include a 4.8 percent increase in military pay, and increased funds for combat readiness and modernization of equipment. Other proposed legislation includes Superfund reform proposals; reauthorization of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act; bankruptcy reforms; amendment of the Parental Kidnaping Prevention Act to provide federal jurisdiction to resolve state jurisdictional conflicts in custody cases; reform of individual retirement accounts; and the elimination of the so-called "marriage penalty tax."
An interesting and exciting legislative year! CL
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Monster Truck
Is the Ford F-series' 27-year reign at the top of America's sales charts about to end?
The pickup truck commercial circa 2009 has all the subtlety of a peeing Calvin sticker. In a series of ads for the Chevy Silverado, Howie Long appears to argue that purchasing a Dodge Ram (which has a heated steering wheel, ideally suited for those with manicures) or Ford F-150 (featuring a "man step" that allows for easier access to the truck bed) will turn you gay. Chrysler, seemingly more willing to court bankruptcy than be associated with effeminacy, is pushing its Dodge pickup with the "Ram Challenge," a Web reality series helmed by Top Gun's Tony Scott that pits firemen, cowboys, contractors, and soldiers against one another in some pursuit that features both trucks and explosions. (Memo to creative: It might be easier to prove your product's masculinity with spokesmen whose occupations aren't cribbed from the Village People.)
In this automotive pissing contest, the ads for the Ford F-150 betray the least status anxiety. Sure, there are the requisite cracks at hand models and math nerds, but the Denis Leary-narrated spots don't stoop to product endorsements from guys with T-shirts helpfully labeled "MILITARY." The F-150 ads have a more inward focus, emphasizing that the new pickup does "things no truck has ever done before," like connect to the Internet. Why doesn't Ford take potshots at the competition? The same reason that McDonald's doesn't talk back to Burger King—it's the alpha dog. Ford F-series pickups were the top-selling vehicles in America in 2008, the 27th consecutive year that the F-series has held that title. Still, Ford shouldn't be celebrating too heartily. It's looking increasingly likely that its amazing streak won't last another year.
John DiPietro, who's written a comprehensive history of the Ford F-series for Edmunds.com, says the F-150 was an instant hit upon its 1975 debut. The midsized pickup hit a marketing sweet spot between Ford's bare-bones, entry-level F-100 and the expensive, it-can-tow-your-elephant F-250. The F-150 could handle most work-vehicle duties—lugging tools and bales of hay—yet still maintained a smooth ride, as it lacked the stiff suspension of the heavy-duty F-250. It was the launch of the F-150 that catapulted the F-series to the top of the charts, and the pickup remains Ford's most popular model, accounting for about 70 percent of F-series sales. DiPietro says that Ford also distinguished itself in the mid-1970s by offering the most options across its entire truck line—an extended cab model with extra cargo room and jump seats for the kids, for example. While the competition eventually caught up featureswise, the legendarily fanatical brand loyalty of pickup owners has helped the blue oval maintain its lead.
Ford earned the top spot by jumping ahead early and never disappointing its faithful customers. This first-place position isn't just a point of pride; it's an economic imperative. The ascendance of the truck and the SUV was the best thing to happen to American automakers since the internal combustion engine. One reason for Detroit's prolonged success in the large-vehicle field is a 25 percent tariff on many foreign-built trucks, an unintended consequence of a 1960s-era provision designed to protect the American auto industry from a Volkswagen invasion. * With so few manufacturers in the game—and with gas prices low after an early-1980s collapse—customer demand far outstripped the available supply. That simple equation persisted for decades, and it transformed Detroit into Trucktown, USA. This shift was good for business: According to David E. Cole, the chairman of the Center for Automotive Research, the net profit on a full-size pickup in 2007 ranged between $4,000 and $5,000. The net profit on a small car was virtually nil.
The problem with a truck-based empire is that gas doesn't always stay cheap. As prices spiked above $4 per gallon in May and June, the F-150 was overtaken on the monthly sales charts by a bunch of puny sedans with good fuel economy: the Toyota Corolla, Toyota Camry, and Honda Civic. With the 2008 F-150s failing to sell, Ford had to delay the launch of the 2009 model for two months while it pushed the previous year's trucks off the lot at deep discounts, cutting into those $4,000-per-vehicle profit margins.
Doug Scott, the marketing manager for Ford's truck division, says that in his 31 years at the company he's never seen a segment take such a big hit so quickly. In a few months, he says, the market share for full-size pickups in America plummeted from 14 to 15 percent to 9 percent—not good news for a company in which light trucks have accounted for around 60 percent of sales in recent years. Scott says the great truck swoon of 2008 wasn't caused solely by potential new buyers flinching at the pump. The hefty gas prices also drove down the values of trucks that were on the road—even people who wanted to buy new trucks couldn't afford them, because trade-in prices for used pickups were in the gutter.
According to Scott, Ford's research has shown that truck customers were less scared by the absolute price of gas than by the dizzying rate at which it increased. The numbers for the tail end of the year support his contention. As prices at the pump stabilized, then dipped, trucks once again ran over small cars to reach the top of the sales charts.
If you look at absolute numbers, though, the F-150 and its brethren are in a free-fall. In 2005, the first time that gas prices inched over the $3 per gallon barrier, Ford sold more than 900,000 F-series pickups. Last year, the company moved 515,000. In the same time period, sales of the Corolla, Camry, and Civic have remained flat. The F-150, then, isn't losing its sales lead because more people are buying sedans. It's because fewer people are buying trucks. Indeed, pickup sales were so dreadful overall last year that Ford actually increased its lead over Dodge and Chevy. Unless things pick up, and fast, the F-150 will get lapped by the Camry in 2009.
Ford—which lost $14.6 billion last year—wishes the F-series' troubles were as simple as expensive gas. There's also the problem that trucks are generally more expensive than cars. Times are good in Trucktown when people are buying pickups they don't really need. In a recession, there will be an inevitable falloff in purchases by the "I'm cool if I drive a truck" demographic. Even worse for the automakers, the economic crisis has cut into the base of customers who buy trucks they do need—if a contractor can't get any work, he's not going to need a new F-150 to lug around his tools.
The blue oval, too, no longer has the same grip on the American truck buyer. With Japanese companies building more trucks that aren't subject to the 25 percent tariff, Ford now has to compete against the likes of the Toyota Tundra pickup and the Honda CR-V crossover SUV. Cole, the Center for Automotive Research chairman, says that repurchase rates for pickups at one time ran as high as 60 percent. According to R.L. Polk's 2008 buyer loyalty figures, the leading full-size pickup came in at a mere 33 percent—and that was the Chevy Silverado, not the F-150. (GM, which makes both Chevy and GMC pickups, has been giving Ford a run for its money of late. As recently as 2005, the F-series nearly outsold the Chevy Silverado and GMC Sierra combined; in 2008, the Silverado and the Sierra beat out the F-series by a whopping 120,000.)
These certainly aren't the end times for the American pickup, but Detroit is dealing with some strange new realities. Scott now trumpets the F-150's best-in-class fuel economy. And though Ford set itself apart 30 years ago by offering the most styles and options, the company has reduced costs by cutting back on configurations. Will a new marketing plan and streamlined production be enough to save the venerable Ford pickup? They'll certainly help, but Ford needs more than a small boost right now. It needs a man step.
Correction, Feb. 2, 2009: This piece originally and incorrectly stated that the United States' 25 percent import tariff on foreign-built trucks has been repealed. (Return to the corrected sentence.)


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It's beginning to feel a lot like summer in Connecticut. Annual festivals, farmers markets and concerts are back. Check out 50 things happening close to home this weekend.
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Don't Let Your A/C Break The Bank
May 2, 2013
Summer heat is here and you'll soon be reaching for the thermostat! Follow these tips to save money and headaches with your air conditioner…
Don't put off your maintenance... Our air conditioners run more hours per year than our cars! Your system needs to be maintained regularly by a trained professional to keep it running efficiently! Putting off maintenance means higher operating cost, more expensive repairs and shorter life. Plus, manufacturers now require planned maintenance to keep your warranties valid! Look into a planned maintenance program. You won't have to remember your maintenance (they should contact you). Ever need a repair? Go to the top of the list (a nice benefit). Plus you'll also get special discounts and other perks.
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Set your thermostat back, not off... When you are leaving for more than a few hours, turn your thermostat up about 3 degrees. Leave it alone for shorter trips. Don't ever turn it off. You will use more energy cooling a house back down than if you raise the temperature up just 3 degrees.
Close your drapes... Closing your drapes (especially on the sunny side) helps keep the heat outside. A cooler house uses less energy.
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Need a repair, use a reputable company... I know it's tempting to use your friend's friend. However, air conditioners have become more sophisticated and require the right tools, training and parts to keep them operating properly and efficiently. The reputable companies have the necessary resources to deliver trained technicians to fix your system right. Using an authorized service company will also protect your manufacturer's warranties.
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In Joe Girardi's association with the Yankees as a player, as a coach and now as the manager, those evaluations have invariably involved the team winning at least 90 games and qualifying for the postseason. Actually, in 17 of the last 18 seasons, the Yankees have reached the playoffs, eclipsing 90 victories in 15 of those seasons. Girardi was part of 10 of those teams.
So when I asked Girardi for his snapshot of the 2013 Yankees, he naturally didn't hesitate.
"This team could win 95 games and get to the World Series," Girardi said.
Why did Girardi speak so confidently?
"Because," he said, "there's a lot of talent in this room."
After an offseason in which the Yankees acted early to retain Hiroki Kuroda, Andy Pettitte and Mariano Rivera, and then signed Kevin Youkilis and re-signed Ichiro Suzuki, there was also considerable focus on the players they lost. Russell Martin, Nick Swisher, Raul Ibanez, Rafael Soriano and Eric Chavez were all important players last season and they have all departed. The Yankees have some uncertainty about replacing those productive players, especially at catcher.
Of the players the Yankees lost, I think Martin will be the most difficult to replace. While Martin only hit .211 a year ago, he was actually one of the Yankees' better hitters late in the season. Martin was also a tough, reliable player at the most difficult position on the field. General Manager Brian Cashman called him the toughest Yankee he had ever seen. Now Francisco Cervelli and Chris Stewart, who profile as backups, and Austin Romine, who has only played 21 games at Class AAA, are fighting for the starting spot.
Still, Girardi, the eternal optimist, preached optimism. The manager emphasized how the Yankees have the same starting rotation, essentially the same bullpen (with Rivera replacing Soriano) and the same infield back. Since the departures of Martin, Swisher, Ibanez, Chavez and Andruw Jones mean that almost 100 homers have left the building, Girardi acknowledged that the Yankees must be a different offensive team. The Yankees led the Major Leagues with 245 homers in 2012.
"I believe we're going to score runs," Girardi said. "It's just going to be in a different fashion."
By that, Girardi meant the Yankees would rely more on Brett Gardner, who missed most of last season, and Suzuki to help create some offense with their speed. It won't be easy. Some fans groused that the Yankees hit too many homers. Cashman has already said that those fans will get their wish and will see a time with less power. By the way, hitting homers was never a problem for the Yankees. Every team wants to blast homers. It was the lack of situational hitting that buried the Yankees.
If CC Sabathia, Kuroda and Pettitte can remain healthy and effective, the Yankees will have a stellar 1-2-3 in their rotation. Phil Hughes, who can be a free agent after the season, is a solid fourth starter while Ivan Nova probably has the edge over David Phelps for the fifth slot. The Yankees had a 3.85 earned run average last year, which was fifth-best in the American League. Yes, the Yankees will have a different look on offense. But they would be satisfied with a duplicate performance from their pitching staff.
When pitchers turn around, which player will they see manning center field? Although there has been speculation that the Yankees might flip-flop Gardner, the left fielder, with Curtis Granderson, the center fielder, Girardi hasn't discussed the possibility with either player. Girardi didn't sound like someone who was poised to make that switch.
On the day where Yankee pitchers and catchers reported to camp for the first time, Girardi answered the most questions about a player who is rehabilitating his hip in New York: Alex Rodriguez. A-Rod, Cervelli and other players were mentioned in the documents of Biogenesis, an anti-aging clinic in Miami.
Both Major League Baseball and the Drug Enforcement Agency are investigating Anthony Bosch of Biogenesis for allegedly providing performance enhancing drugs to players. In a statement, Rodriguez said the Biogenesis records, which were first reported by the Miami New Times, are "not legitimate." Girardi, who said he has only spoken to Rodriguez about his rehab, said the Yankees are "used to having distractions."
This club is also used to hearing about age, an issue that is prominent again as Derek Jeter and Rivera try to rebound from surgeries. Girardi said he will be relieved when he knows he doesn't need to worry about the comebacks of Jeter and Rivera, but Girardi won't have a chance to experience that relief until later in the spring. Girardi said having aging players is always "a concern," but noted that age has been a topic swirling around the Yankees for the last decade.
"We were old last year," Girardi said, "and we won 95 games."
Now Girardi thinks they can win 95 again. The journey toward that goal has begun. It will be an interesting ride.
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VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Jan. 21, 2013) - Petro One Energy Corp. (TSX VENTURE:POP)(PINKSHEETS:CUDBF)(FRANKFURT:C6K1) is pleased to report that the first horizontal well drilled by its farmout partner (a senior oil company) on Petro One's 100% controlled J10 property has discovered oil and appears to be a successful producer, having averaged 147.7 bopd for its first 17 days ranging from 108.6 bopd to 194.9 bopd.
Under the terms of the farmout agreement, described in the Company's August 28, 2012 news release, the farmee paid 100% of the drilling and completion costs, and Petro One has the right to convert its 10% Gross Overriding Royalty ("GORR") into a 30% working interest in the test well within 30 days of receiving notice of Payout. Based on the excellent oil volumes recorded thus far, this new well should substantially increase Petro One's cash flow and daily oil production, and add significantly to the Company's reserve base.
Petro One's partner now has 90 days from the rig release date to elect to drill a second well, to be spudded within 90 days after that election Third and subsequent wells may be elected by the farmee under the same terms as the second well. Petro One will have the option to convert its 10% GORR on the second and all subsequent wells into a 40% working interest. The property can accommodate up to 8 horizontal wells in the Frobisher, and 4 in the Midale. Based on the excellent results from the first well, the company looks forward to its farmout partner exploiting the full potential of the J10 property.
The new oil well is producing from the Frobisher Beds, a porous limestone unit that is widespread in southeast Saskatchewan. The Frobisher is being extensively developed with horizontal drilling in many areas, resulting in long-lived production at good rates. Limited Frobisher drilling has been done in the J10 area to date, but a former vertical Frobisher producer 220 metres downdip from the property yielded more than 100,000 bbl of oil from the Frobisher with a one month IP of 95.6 bopd, as well as more than 407,000 bbl of oil from the overlying Midale Beds, with a one month IP of 146 bopd. The oil in this former producer is light, with an API gravity of 28.1.
On the east half of the property, Petro One also holds rights to oil in the Midale Beds, another prolific carbonate reservoir with long lived production that has also been the target of recent horizontal drilling in the J10 area. A vertical Midale producer in the immediate area had a three month IP of 273.5 bopd. It has produced 736,564 bbl of oil, and is still in production after 44 years.
"Petro One is very pleased with the initial results from the first well on J10 and encouraged by the prolific, long term production that has been demonstrated by producers in the immediate area in both the Frobisher and Midale beds," said Petro One President Peter Bryant. "The initial well could triple the Company's daily oil production based on a 30% share after Payout. We look forward to the potential development of the entire property, as initial results indicate that such development could significantly increase our reserves and daily oil production."
No other results are available at this time. Petro One looks forward to releasing the three month IP rates, elections to drill by the farmin partner and updated reserve status as soon as they become available.
Other properties:
J5 Milton property
Viking production from two vertical oil wells on Petro One's J5 property at Milton, Saskatchewan has averaged 23 bopd over the last six months, returning a netback of approximately $59.00/bbl. The Company has carried out considerable research on other formations at J5 and, as a result, now plans to focus its resources on higher reward multi-zone targets in the Bakken and at the pre-Cretaceous unconformity. Based on seismic, and on production seen on adjacent properties, Petro One believes that drilling these high reward targets at J5 has excellent potential for success. The Viking presents a very a low risk target, but it is believed to be best exploited through horizontal drilling, and the company is exploring the possibility of farming out the Viking rights to develop these resources cost-effectively.
Pursuant to a recent seismic option (News Release August 28, 2012), Petro One completed a 6 kilometre seismic survey to earn a 100% interest in two more sections of Crown Land, expanding its Milton land base to 5 sections (total 1,295 hectares), and has elected to drill an 800 m earning well on or before June 30, 2013 to test these deeper targets. A former producer 600 metres north of Parcel J5 returned 950 ft oil (14.69 API) on drill stem test and 140 bbl on initial production testing, from a 12 metre zone of highly porous, oil stained vuggy dolomite. The oil is interpreted to be stratigraphically trapped in an erosional remnant of Mississippian dolomite against a Mannville channel that cuts down through the pre-Cretaceous unconformity. Seismic has shown that the trap extends across Petro One's property to the southeast, where a similar oil show in porous dolomite was identified from drill cuttings in an abandoned well located 650 metres south of the property, over an interval of 17 metres. Bakken oil in the area is structurally controlled, and the nearest production is only 500 m from the property. The best Bakken well in the area had a 3 month IP rate of 303 bopd and cumulative production of 275,382 bbl. Sites for both the earning well and a second Bakken well to test a clearly defined three dimensional structural closure on the original J5 block have been surveyed, and licensing procedures are underway in preparation for drilling.
J3 Kirkella property
Based on recommendations from its geologists, geophysicists, and engineers, who consider J3 to be a high reward target, Petro One intends to drill a minimum of one vertical well on its J3 property at Kirkella, Manitoba. The site has been surveyed, and licensing is underway in preparation for drilling. Interpretation by an independent geophysical company indicates favorable structure and porosity development in the Cruickshank Crinoidal beds, updip of a vertical well in the Kirkella field with a 3 month IP of 251.3 bopd. Two vertical wells in the same area with commingled Lodgepole-Bakken production have demonstrated that the Bakken is a potential secondary target. The new well is planned to test both formations.
Several other senior oil companies have expressed interest in other Petro One properties, and discussions are ongoing. The Company's assets currently include rights to 14 properties totaling 15.86 sections (4,108 hectares/10,152 acres). The Company plans to continue to build production and develop its assets with the drill bit, both with its own capital, and in collaboration with farm-in partners, and looks forward to exploiting the full potential of these properties.
Quoted production figures for all third party wells were obtained from IHS Accumap.
Oil production during a period is generally expressed in terms of "barrels per day", which indicates the total oil produced during a period divided by the number of hours that the well was in production during that period. "Barrels per day" is indicative of flow rate while a well is in production and does not mean that such well was in constant production during such period.
Peter Bryant, President & Director
For further information, please visit the company's website at www.PetroOneEnergy.com, follow the Company's tweets at www.Twitter.com/PetroOneEnergy and contact Jeff Stuart of King James Capital Corporation, handling Investor Relations for the Company, by telephone at (604) 805 0375 or by email at email@example.com.
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The Spring Art Show spent many of its first 30 years at St. James Episcopal Church on Fourth and Dock streets.
If the Azaleas are in bloom, talk of The Avett Brothers is in the air and belles roam the streets in big, brightly colored hoop gowns, then the Wilmington Art Association must be at work amassing the 31st annual Juried Spring Art Show and Sale, a massive exhibition that garners paintings and photographs from an array of local, regional and out-of-state artists in coordination with the Azalea Festival.
The Spring Art Show spent many of its first 30 years at St. James Episcopal Church on Fourth and Dock streets. But this year, the WAA has moved the exhibition across the pedestrian-perilous Third Street to the more foot-traffic-friendly confines of the Hannah Block Historic USO and Community Arts Center at Second and Orange streets.
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Sixty-five years later, the lobby of the Community Arts Center will be filled with art. Of 317 pieces submitted online, 173 artworks made the cut to hang in the show. This year's jurors, local painter Todd Carignan and local photographer Joshua Curry, pored over the digital submissions to make their selections. Curry whittled more than 60 photographs – portraits, landscapes and abstract digital images – down to 35.
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On Wednesday, April 10, Curry and Carignan juried the exhibition to award the top pieces in each category. The winners will be announced at a private reception Thursday, April 11, before the exhibition opens to the public April 12-14. Curry said that while jurying he'll naturally gravitate to his own tastes and preferences, but there are technical aspects to consider as well.
"Number one: It's eye-catching," Curry said. "You want to stop and look at it a little bit longer than other things. Number two, on the technical side: Is the image exposed well? Is it printed well? Is it sharp? Does it meet technical requirements? And three: presentation. How is it presented? What medium have they chosen to place it on, whether it's canvas or printed on metal or just traditional gallery style, framed and matted. All of the elements together will help dictate the top choices."
Each of the selected artists are permitted to present up to 10 additional works in bins alongside his or her selected pieces. Admission is free, and all work is for sale, with a portion of proceeds benefitting the WAA.
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Nate Silver is known for predicting things correctly.
For instance, he correctly called the outcomes of all 50 states in November's presidential election.
So, Baltimore is not going to care for Silver's Super Bowl prediction.
Silver, who writes the New York Times FiveThirtyEight blog, did the math and concluded that the Ravens will likely fall to the 49ers.
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