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It's been a while I wanted to organize a certain project, but I've never really got the time to do it. Now that I have a bit more time, I can finally start it. And I hope it will draw your interest.
I don't know if a lot of people know Nujabes, he was a japanese DJ who produced a lot of hip hop music. Most of you probably know him thanks to his contributions in the Samurai Champloo OSTs, and the opening Battlecry. And yeah, if I talk about him to the past that's because he passed away in 2010.
Already before his death, I wanted to make a AMV with some of his musics, but never really got the motivation to do it. When I heard about his death I wanted to make a tribute MEP, but I already had a load of projects, so I postponed this one.
In short, 2 years have passed, and i'm more motivated for this, and I'll have more time from now (since i don't plan of editing something for the moment)
The music
Nujabes feat. Cise Starr - Lady Brown
I cut the music in 19 parts. The 19th will be for the credits.
It makes a lot of different tracks for a music of 3 minutes. Tracks are 9seconds long, so it won't be long enough to show a short story, or for trying something too complex. But at least, you should be quickly able to make something catchy. The pace of the song is quite fast, but thanks to that the whole video could be more homogeneous, if everyone do the things correctly.
For the transitions between the tracks, I'll let the editors make it. Masking, a simple effects, or even a hard cut can be enough if it's well done.
Contrary to what you may think, I expect a lot of technical stuff for this MEP. The music I chose is not easy to edit, mainly because of its fast pace. But I think it should be easy to make something stylish and groovy.
There's no theme, but by listening the music, and reading the lyrics you should be able to understand what i want to make. So i won't accept full action tracks, or horror/psyche stuff....I want romance/sentimental tracks. It can be a bit ecchi, but I'm not hosting a Hentai MEP either xD. Your part can be a bit fun, but it's not a AMV Hell or whatever xD
Resolution : 1280*720 or 848*480 (it would depend of the anime used)
Final render have to be in lagarith, huffyuv or Utvideo.
The tracks
You can choose 3 tracks max, using this form :
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No various with 9999 different series, but i can accept if you want to use 2 or 3 different shows.
If you wish to make a collab on a track it's fine. And if you wish to make a collab on 2 following tracks, it's ok too.
For the inscription to the project : 6th april
To finish your track : August (but you will probably have finish by then )


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The Bengals are headed back to the playoffs thanks in large part to their defensive line, and another member of that line picked up an award Thursday.
Defensive tackle Geno Atkins was named AFC defensive player of the week, after last week's postseason-clinching win at Pittsburgh.
Atkins had six tackles, two sacks and a forced fumble in the Bengals' 13-10 win, which earned them back-to-back playoff appearances for the first time since 1981-82.
Atkins is fifth in the league with 12.5 sacks, the most among defensive tackles. He joins line-mates Michael Johnson and Carlos Dunlap as winners of player of the week honors this season.


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Antigen-presenting cells
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Macrophages, Dendritic cells, APC
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Antigen, antigen-processing cell, apoptosis, cytokines, cytotoxic T-cells, endocytic, endocytosis, epitopes, helper T-cells, immune, immune defense system, immune reaction, immune response, immune system, interferons, lymphocytes, major histocompatibility complex, MHC, MCH class I, MCH class II, non-professional antigen-presenting cell, non-professional antigen-processing cell, non-professional APC, pathogen, pattern recognition receptors, phagocyte, phagocytosis, professional antigen-presenting cell, professional antigen-processing cell, professional APC, PRRs, T-cell, T-lymphocyte, white blood cell.
Antigen-presenting cells (APC) are specialized white blood cells that help fight off foreign substances that enter the body. These cells send out signals to T-cells (other immune system cells) when an antigen enters the body. Each type of T-cell is specially equipped to deal with different pathogens, which may be a bacteria, virus or toxin.
First, the APC engulfs the antigen. Enzymes inside the APC break down the antigen into smaller particles. The processed antigens are transported to the surface of the APC, bound with either an MHC (major histocompatibility complex) class I or class II molecule. This complex forms epitopes (part of a foreign substance that can be recognized by the immune system), which the T-cell receptor (TCR) recognizes and binds to.
The APCs are divided into two categories - professional and non-professional APCs. Professional APCs express MHC class II while non-professional APCs express MHC class I. Only professional APCs are able to activate a helper T-cell that has never encountered its antigen before. There are three main types of professional antigen-presenting cells - macrophages, dendritic cells and B-cells. These cells are able to engulf the antigen quickly during a process called phagocytosis. Once the T-cell recognizes and binds to the MHC molecule complex, the APC sends out an additional co-stimulatory signal to activate the T-cell.
Non-professional APCs include fibroblasts (skin cells), thymic epithelial cells, thyroid epithelial cells, glial cells (brain cells), pancreatic beta cells and vascular endothelial cells.
While almost every cell in the body is technically an APC because they can present antigens to T-cells, the term is usually used to describe professional APCs.
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Li J, Barreda DR, Zhang YA, et al. B lymphocytes from early vertebrates have potent phagocytic and microbicidal abilities. Nat Immunol. 2006 Oct;7(10):1116-24.
Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research. Antigen Presenting Cell. .
McKenna, K, Beignon AS, Bhardwaj N. Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cells: Linking Innate and Adaptive Immunity. J Virol. 2005 Jan;79(1):17-27.
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Macrophages are white blood cells that are found inside the tissues of all vertebrates. These cells originate from monocytes in the bone marrow. Macrophages are phagocytes, which means they are able to engulf antigens that enter the body. The lifespan of macrophages ranges from months to years, and they can digest more than 100 bacteria before they die.
Macrophages are in a resting state until they are activated by an immune response. Upon activation, these cells travel toward the site of injury, and they engulf pathogens. Once a macrophage ingests a pathogen, the pathogen is trapped inside the cell's food vacuole, which then fuses with a lysosome. Enzymes and toxic peroxides inside the cell start to ingest the foreign substance. The cells then secrete interferons, lysozyme and other factors that stimulate lymphocytes and other immune cells to respond to the antigens.
During chronic inflammation, macrophages can form granulomas (inflammatory lesions). They are also the predominant cells that form the progressive plaque lesions associated with atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries).
Dendritic cells
Dendritic cells are present in small amounts in the body tissues that frequently come into contact with the external environment. They are present in the skin (where they are often called langerhans cells) and the inner lining of the nose, stomach, lungs and intestines. These cells have branched projections, called dendrites.
Immature dendritic cells (also called veiled cells) are found in the bloodstream. Immature dendritic cells are characterized by high endocytic activity and low T-cell activation potential. Their pattern recognition receptors (PRRs) are constantly sampling their surroundings for pathogens, such as bacteria and viruses. Once the dendritic cell comes into contact with a pathogen, they are activated to engulf the invading substance. Once the antigen is engulfed, the dendritic cell matures and combines the broken down antigen with MHC. This complex is then presented to T-cells on its cell surface.
Unlike the other two APCs, they produce antibodies (immunoglobulin) that are specific to certain antigens. B-cells are able to efficiently present the antigen to which their antibody is directed, but they are considered inefficient APCs for most other antigens.
B-cells are continually produced in the bone marrow. Immature B-cells only express IgM on their cell membrane. The immunoglobulin is on the cell surface. It is not secreted.
Once the B-cell reaches maturity, it can express both IgM and IgD on the cell surface. This mature cell is now able to respond to antigens. If the B-cell starts to mature abnormally, it will die in a process called apoptosis (programmed cell death).
Once the immunoglobulin molecule interacts with an antigen, the B-cell becomes activated and begins to divide and differentiate into many antibody-producing cells (plasma cells). Each plasma cell secretes millions of identical antibody molecules, which are released into the bloodstream.
Some of the plasma cells undergo isotype switching. During this process, the cell starts to express other isotypes of immunoglobulin, including IgA, IgE and IgG.
Interaction with t-cells
Once APCs engulf pathogens, they usually migrate toward the lymph nodes, where most T-cells are located. They migrate chemotactically, which means that chemokines (chemical mediators in the blood that are produced by cytokines) attract the APCs to move toward the lymph nodes.
During the migration, the APC cells mature. They lose most of their ability to engulf pathogens, and they develop an increased ability to communicate with T-cells.
Enzymes inside the APC cell digest the engulfed pathogen into smaller pieces, which contain epitopes (part of a foreign substance that can be recognized by the immune system). These epitopes are combined with MHC and presented to the T-cells on their cell surface.
The helper T-cell then activates the APC to produce more antibodies against the pathogen.
Recent research suggests that only certain epitopes of an antigen are presented by they APC because they are immunodominant. This may be the result of their binding affinity to the MHC molecule. The stronger binding affinity allows the complex to remain kinetically stable long enough for the T-cells to recognize it.
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Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai Medical Center announced today it would receive a $20 million gift from PIMCO co-founder Bill Gross and his wife Sue. The donation will go toward the hospital's Advanced Health Sciences Pavilion, which will open summer 2013.
The 11-floor Pavilion will be a hub for both biomedical research and clinical care, which will be provided to about 400 patients every day. The hospital is calling it a "transformational" gift, crucially bringing together clinicians and researchers under one roof. The purpose is to speed up biomedical discoveries and get those breakthroughs quicker into clinical care.
The donation also comes with plaques. The fifth floor of the building will be named the Sue and Bill Gross Surgery and Procedure Center and will connect to the adjacent Cedars-Sinai Medical Center via the Sue and Bill Gross Skywalk bridge.
Sue Gross, president of the Gross Family Foundation, said, "We, too, share Cedars-Sinai's passion for quality patient care, research, teaching, education and service to the community. The new Pavilion will be a place that harmonizes all of those things, and we wanted to be a part of it."
Well-known in the bond world, Bill Gross co-founded the Newport Beach-based PIMCO in 1971 and now serves as one of its chief investment officers. He also runs the world's largest mutual fund, the $281 billion PIMCO Total Return Fund (PTTRX).


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I wanted to make sure I posted photos of the three other types of tomatoes I'm growing. The big red one (it's actually very pink in real life) is a Missouri Pink Love Apple. I haven't tasted it yet.
The small red one (also really pink) is the Pearly Pink.
And the big-ass yellow one is a Jubilee. That's what we're having in the McCord household, a tomato jubilee!


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OK ... built the PC and bunged Barca on and it installed OK and have been able to get it up and working by using the Restore function from the backup file on the other PC ... AND it works both in the send and receive mode on ALL accounts.
Now, here is the fun part ...
The installation which I've just done on the NEW pc has put BArca back to exactly how I remember setting it up ... including the default colour scheme etc
Now, having uninstalled Barca from the other PC where it is causing problems and then deleting the old files which were left behind, including doing a registry clean, when I reinstall and then restore from the SAME backup file that I used to restore the program on the new machine, BArca opens with a different colour scheme and the same old SMTP problem !!
So, the question then beggers the asking, where exactly is the new installation on the old machine getting the info from to default to the none standard colour scheme and to retain what ever error is causing the SMTP problem ?!?!?!!?
Anyone got any thoughts ????
Like I said already, after the uninstall, I cleaned the the registry with 'Registry Easy' ... which BTW is FAR superior to Regclean, and searched for any files which were associated with the Barca original install ... only left the download exe file (same file used to install on the new PC !) and as the new installation is trouble free, it can't be that then !!!
Somewhere on the OLD PC lurks a file which is affecting the restore or more likely the reinstallation from the exe file !!!


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Apple: Wells Cuts to Hold on Margin, Growth, Subsidy Concerns
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Wells Fargo's Maynard Um this morning cut his rating on shares of Apple (AAPL) from Outperform to Market Perform, while maintaining a $536 to $581 "valuation range," writing that despite some "new developments" in 2014, such as a smart watch, he is concerned about margins, lack of sufficient growth, and about wireless operators gaining more of an upper hand in dealings with the company.
Reflecting on "what 2013 tells us about 2014," Um writes,
2013 was a busy year for Apple behind the scenes – the hiring of Angela Ahrendts (former CEO of Burberry) to run retail, Paul Deneve (former CEO of Yves Saint Laurent) and Kevin Lynch (former CTO of Adobe) to run separate special projects, Jay Blahnik (key role in Nike's Fuelband) likely to work on the iWatch, and the acquisitions of 15 companies for new or existing products. We believe this points to some new developments in 2014 with regard to retail (we think iBeacon – an indoor proximity/positioning system – will be a major part of this), the launch of an iWatch, a relaunch of an improved Maps app and, in 2015, the launch of a television (or improved Apple TV product).
Um writes that gross margin may come under pressure from the introduction of a new "form factor" for the iPhone this year, an "iPhone 6," claiming such has been the case in past:
The strength in shares from FY2008 to its peak in FY2012, in our opinion, was related to the secular growth story of the iPhone. Between the gross margin mix benefit, market share gain opportunity, and strong growth, there was a lot to be positive about. However, we believe that in the iPhone 6 cycle, gross margins will come under pressure as products following an "s" cycles typically tend to be impacted (historically, by up to 225bps on average) likely due to the launch of new form factors, which have different components and thereby reducing scale and leverage benefits. With the secular story largely over, we fear that the stock may be more susceptible to the direction of gross margins (as is typical of most hardware-related companies).
Um also thinks there is limited room for the the company to grow given that it has already swallowed the market caps of other electronics firms:
Exhibit 3 highlights the market caps of consumer electronics companies. As demonstrated in the exhibit, we believe Apple's market cap gains came from the shifting of dollars (and, hence, market cap) from competitors rather than an increase in overall consumer spend or market opportunity. With Apple having gained significant market cap from other consumer electronics companies and continued pressures on the consumer wallet, we see limited market opportunity absent material share gains or improvements in consumer spend.
Here's Um's chart of how the company's market cap has swallowed that of other electronics firms (click for larger image):
And lastly, he thinks there may be some sort of mean reversion in the amount carriers will spend to subsidize phones, away from the $400 they've been spending on each iPhone, and back to something like half that level:
We estimate wireless operators have been offering generous subsidies of ~$400 per iPhone to reduce the end market price consumers have to pay to more affordable levels. We believe subsidies prior to this may have been around half this level, albeit for more commodity voice and text (or limited data) handsets. We believe these higher subsidies helped to increase smart phone penetration and, consequently, data subscriber increases/potential for the operators.
On the plus side, Um notes warranty claims cost rose "meaningfully" last quarter, and may decrease going forward. Also, the company's "deferred margin on component sales" was "surprisingly flat" last quarter, which could mean upside in the March quarter: "We assume management is not embedding a large reversal (which would be a gross margin benefit), which makes the company's "core" gross margin guidance better, in our opinion, and makes for a better outlook for the March quarter (because the implied gross margin improvement is less accounting related)."
He lists as other possible positives the debut of new products, including iPhone 6, and the potential for higher share-repurchase and dividend authorizations.


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To Test or Not to Test, That Is the Question
Opinion Editorial by CEO and Founder Phill Wilson
Scientific denialists have been around since, well ... the beginning of recorded science. One group of denialists refused to believe that the earth was round. Another group believed that the sun revolved around the earth until long after scientific evidence had proved it works the other way around. A group of denialists wants us to believe that President Obama is Muslim, while another group, called "birthers," continues to challenge his presidency because they refuse to believe he was born in the United States.
It should come as no surprise that there are AIDS denialists as well. Typically these people either reject the fact that AIDS exists, disagree that HIV causes AIDS, claim that AIDS is caused by the very medications designed to treat it, or try to dissuade people from taking an HIV test. Black people cannot allow ourselves to be either distracted or bamboozled by these types of dubious claims. Given the magnitude of the AIDS epidemic in Black America, we should consider AIDS denialists not only dangerous, but even enemies of our community. With all the myths and misinformation swirling around about HIV/AIDS, I completely understand that some of us might be nervous about getting tested. So let's look at the facts about HIV testing and the reasons why Black people should do it.
An HIV test is nothing more, or less, than a way of assessing our risk of HIV and getting information about the status of our health. Whether we're talking blood pressure or diabetes, cholesterol levels or HIV serostatus, it is important to have as much information as possible about our healthfulness so we can make informed decisions. Everyone should have access to HIV testing regardless of their ability to pay, and each of us should take responsibility for knowing our own and our partners' HIV status. Knowing our own status and that of our partners gives us choices denied when we don't have that information, including the option of whether to have sex or unprotected sex.
Are there false positives and false negatives? Yes, of course there are. Similar to other screening tests -- for various cancers, diabetes, blood pressure, cholesterol, etc. -- a very low number of inaccurate results occur. This is why positive HIV-test results are always confirmed and why sexually active individuals are encouraged to get tested at least once a year.
Nearly 500,000 of the 1.2 million Americans living with HIV/AIDS are Black. Nearly 40 percent of Black Americans have a family member or close family friend who is living with or has died from HIV/AIDS. Those of us living with HIV/AIDS, or who have lost family and friends to it, know painfully well that the connection between HIV and AIDS is not theoretical; it is very, very real.
I have been living with HIV for nearly 30 years. So I know first hand what can happen when people with HIV receive love and support from family and friends and have access to appropriate care. I am living proof of the benefits of medical treatment. I thank God that no denialist was by my bedside in 1996, when my doctors thought I had less than 24 hours to live and insisted I start new medical therapies. I am alive today because I got tested for HIV early and I receive the necessary treatment.
It is easy to succumb to fear and doubt. It is easy to allow myths and misinformation to paralyze us and prevent us from taking action. But it would be tragic if we were to allow fear-mongering, misinformation and conspiracy theories to drag us backwards to suffering and death that existed during the 1980s. There is a drastic difference between the healing and empowerment that happens in communities that confront HIV/AIDS directly and the death and devastation that takes place in communities that do not. Black Americans represent nearly half of the nation's new HIV/AIDS cases and nearly half of the AIDS-related deaths because for far too long, we either pretended that AIDS was not real or that it was somebody else's problem. Fortunately, in recent years Black leaders, institutions and community members have started to mobilize to confront HIV directly and honestly.
Ask anyone infected with or affected by HIV/AIDS, and they will tell you that AIDS is no joke. We must avail ourselves of all of the possible tools at our disposal: participating in clinical trials, early access to appropriate care and treatment, proper condom usage, educating ourselves about every aspect of the disease, and getting tested. Knowing is greater than doubt.
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Eric Flint, K. D. Wentworth Baen, Sep 2003, 22.00, 506 pp. ISBN: 0743471547 Two decades have passed since the Jao conquered the Earth, but the victors still debate what to do with the defeated humans. Many Jao believe extermination by total destruction of the planet is the solution. Some like newly arrived Commander Aille believes winning the hearts of the humans is the best long term solution. Before the Jao can resolve the human problem, th...


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Biedrins & Maggette for Yao
Ellis for Iggy
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Don't want yao, that's not the direction the team needs.
I'd take Iguodala and be happy with that. Iguodala at SG here would be real good, as he can distribute, score, defend and could be a great fit next to Curry and AR


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Eugene Kaspersky had something of a Larry Ellison moment this week, making the bold claim that he and his company are doing what no one else has ever even attempted: developing a secure operating system. Not only is the assertion inaccurate (of course companies have attempted to develop secure OSes in the past), but the pledge of delivering a completely secure OS -- even for something as specifically nichey as SCADA systems and ICSes -- borders on irresponsible in that it's all but impossible to keep.
By way of context, Kaspersky used Threatpost (The Kaspersky Lab Security News Service) and his personal blog to talk up a project under way at Kaspersky Labs: a new secure-by-design operating system for the operation of SCADA and ICSes. The case for such a system is abundantly clear. In recent months, hackers have successfully infiltrated antiquated controls systems for water utilities, power plants, heavy industry, and other critical infrastructure. The trend points to an increasingly realistic doomsday scenarios, such as cyber terrorists pulling off a coordinated hack on America's power grid, causing massive blackouts and leaving more than 300 million people without electricity for days. Or perhaps worse yet, a U.S.-based nuclear power plant could be targeted with a Stuxnet-like virus, leading to a catastrophic meltdown.
Kaspersky's vision to eradicate these threats is to develop a secure-by-design operating system, "one onto which [existing] ICS can be installed, and which could be built into the existing infrastructure -- controlling 'healthy' existing systems and guaranteeing the receipt of reliable data reports on the systems' operation," he explained in his blog.
There are several key ingredients to this system, per Kaspersky. "First: Our system is highly tailored, developed for solving a specific narrow task, and not intended for playing Half-Life on, editing your vacation videos, or blathering on social media. Second: We're working on methods of writing software that by design won't be able to carry out any behind-the-scenes, undeclared activity. This is the important bit: The impossibility of executing third-party code, or of breaking into the system or running unauthorized applications on our OS; and this is both provable and testable."
Maintaining secrecy for the sake of security is also part of the plan: "There are some details that will remain for certain customers' eyes only forever, to ward off cyber-terrorist abuses."
Kaspersky's vision is admirable (if not slightly opportunistic). Yes, we need to better secure outdated ICSes and SCADA systems that weren't built with the Internet in mind. Also, Kaspersky is still in the early stages of development, so it's imprudent to judge the merits of the project. Still, there are some issues that need addressing.
First, Kaspersky made a somewhat broad and misleading assertion. He told Threatpost that "no one else ever tried to make a secure operating system. This may sound weird because of the many efforts Microsoft, Apple, and the open source community have made to make their platforms as secure as possible."


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ATAK necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 211 diseños de 33 diseñadores freelance.
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Logo Contest for an Internet base company that provides mental health services for homebound people and those who live in remote areas via real-time, face-to-face video teleconferencing system. Access to therapy network, ATTN, website is a "hub" connecting independent licensed mental health professionals such as psychologists, marriage and family therapists, counselors, life coaches, etc. with clients at their homes, offices, on the road, and anywhere there is an internet service in the world.
I am available for additional information at email@example.com. We have had many successful contests before and expect another.
People who are homebound, people living in remote areas, business people from their offices and when they travel (hotels etc.), military personnel and their families (often live on military bases), celebrities.
People who are seeking mental health services (treatments) will be able to log on to our website, choose a mental health provider from a list of specialists, schedule an appointment, pay for the appointment, and log on to connect with the therapist at the scheduled time to see and hear the therapist via live video. (Similar to Skype but very high resolution). ATTN is using the latest video technology for extreme video and audio clarity and reliability.
I want to convey that people who are in need of psychological help and are unable to get to a therapist's office due to physical or mental conditions or live in remote areas where there is no access to therapists as well as people who want the convenience and/or anonymity of seeing a therapist can get their needs met by using our company. Using Video real-time face-to-face for therapy is comparable to face-to-face treatment in a therapist's office. We also want to convey that connecting with our network of providers is easy, convenient, safe, confidential, and cost effective. We connect via PCs, laptops, and TVs.
Look professional, clean, tag line (see above). I suggest you review similar websites relating to this business.
Google: "Telemdicine" and "Telemental health." Similar concept but same technology for medical use. Video systems links: http://www.videotrope.com/, http://www.vidyo.com, http://www.polycom.com, http://www.megameetings.com, http://www.nefsis.com, http://www.myacncanada.ca/digital/index.html, http://www.americanwell.com/index.html
Note: I envision the logo to show two computer monitors showing a picture of a professional in one taking to a client at home in the other. Perhaps the monitors are connected by a cable etc. I would love a shot at a business card and letterhead if you are the winner.
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Zac Brown Band Take Center Stage in Live 'Keep Me in Mind' Video
When you've had as many No. 1 singles as Zac Brown Band has — seven, to date — making music videos becomes an everyday thing. The group's latest clip for 'Keep Me in Mind' seems almost effortless, though in a good way. The band shot the video live during a concert, but it comes packed with all of the genuine talent that makes ZBB so popular across the board.
The energized live video, which was shot at the easily recognizable Colorado venue Red Rocks, is charged with black and white backstage clips sandwiched between live shots of the guys performing their latest hit onstage in the hollowed-out rock arena.
Surprisingly, the Zac Brown Band decided to use the show audio, too, rather than muddle it with a boring studio recorded version. As expected, its pristine sound quality and spot-on vocals are set amidst gorgeous sunsets and excited crowd shots. Despite not physically being at the concert, you don't miss out on the experience.
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This is a sexy, reliable, great performer, and hasn't cost much to keep it running
Wheel bearing needed fixed at 76,000 kms.
Radiator thermostat broke at 100,000 kms.
Front shocks needed replacing at 105,000 kms.
Front light covers need replacing (clouded over - uncleanable) at 112,000 kms.
Wheel bearing needs fixing again - same wheel - 112,000 kms.
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Frugal on gas, and has some grunt.
Lots of extras... as factory standard.
Doesn't fit rear facing child car seats in the back seat well at all - my reason for selling.
Would you buy another car from this manufacturer? Yes
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Moderator: Welcome to Obsolete Anonymous! I've gathered you all here to welcome our latest member, the Print Industry.
Print Industry: Hello, everyone. But there's been a mistake. I don't belong here.
(chuckles all around)
Print Industry: I'm serious. I'm not obsolete. I'm relevant. Print books have been around for hundreds of years. They're never going to be replaced.
VHS Tapes: Yeah, we all thought like that once.
LP Records: It's called denial. It's tough to deal with at first.
VHS tapes: Easy for you to say, LP. You've still got a niche collector market. They can't even give me away on eBay.
Antique Stores: Can we please not mention eBay? I used to have stores all over. But more and more keep closing thanks to that good-for-nothing website.
CDs: At least you still have some stores left. The specialty stores that sell me are almost extinct. I'm down to a few narrow isles at Best Buy and Wal-Mart.
Print Industry: Look, everyone, I assume you all think that ebooks are going to put me out of business. But that won't happen.
Ma Bell: We all deny it at first. I remember when you couldn't walk twenty yards in a city without seeing a pay phone. Then those gosh darn cell phones came along. Do you know some people don't even have land lines anymore? Used to be a land line in every home...
(Ma Bell begins to cry. Print Phonebooks joins in. So does Dial Up Modems. Encyclopedia Britannica, wearing an I Hate Wikipedia T-Shirt, pops a few Prozac. A group hug ensues.)
Video Rental Store: What Ma Bell is trying to say is that when a technology comes along that's faster, easier, and cheaper, the old technology--and all the companies that supported it--tends to fade away.
Print Industry: Why are you here, Video Rental Store? There are still Blockbuster Videos everywhere.
CDs: There were record stores everywhere once.
Cassette Tapes: Hell yeah! They sold cassettes, too! Someone give me a high five!
(no one gives Cassette Tapes a high five)
Video Rental Store: Things looked good for a while. I had a decent, twenty-year run. Then I got hit by all sides. Netflix, shipping DVDs though the mail. On Demand. Tivo. YouTube. But the nail in the coffin came in the past two years. Hula. Roku--which allows Netflix subscribers to stream video instantly. iTunes and Amazon offering movie downloads. Red Box, which rents DVDs for 99 cents and takes up no more space than a Coke machine...
Print Industry: But ebooks are just a tiny percentage of the market. People have been reading print since Gutenberg. They won't adapt to change that easily.
Kodak: You're correct. It takes a few years for people to fully embrace new technology. Some never do. Polaroid never replaced me.
Polaroid: Shut up, Kodak. We both got our asses kicked by digital. When was the last time you sold any 110 film?
TV Antennas: I'm still big in some third world countries!
Typewriter: The bottom line is: when technology improves, it becomes widely adopted. Me and Carbon Paper used to have a groovy thing going. I'd make the words, he would make the copies. Then Xerox got into the act, but he's not doing well now either.
Xerox: F*cking computers.
Floppy Disc: You said it!
Dot Matrix: F*cking laser and inkjet. Doesn't anyone else miss tearing off the perforated hole punches on the side of paper? Don't they miss the feel and smell of that?
Fold-Out Paper Maps: I agree! Isn't it fun to open up a big map while you're driving, in hopes of figuring out where you are? Don't you miss the old days before cars came equipped with GPS and no one ever used that bastard, MapQuest?
CDs: F*cking internet. That's the problem. Instant access to information and entertainment for the whole world. You guys want to talk about pirating and illegal downloads?
(everyone shouts out a collective no!)
Moderator: We all read on JA Konrath's blog that the way to fight piracy is with cost and convenience. Print Industry, are you lowering your prices and making it easier for customers to download your books?
Print Industry: Actually, we just raised prices on our ebooks.
(collective sighs and head shaking)
Moderator: Well, far be it for you to learn from any of our mistakes. Are you making it easier at least?
Print Industry: Well, we've begun windowing titles, releasing them months after the hardcover comes out.
(collective head slapping)
Music Industry: Have you at least tried selling from your own site? I wish I'd done that. But that upstart Apple came along...
Print Industry: Uh... no. We haven't tried that. In fact, some ebooks--we'll use JA Konrath as an example since he was mentioned--aren't even available on all platforms and in all territories.
Moderator: What do you mean? Konrath's ebooks are available all over the place.
Print Industry: Those are the ones he uploads himself. The ones of his that we sell are missing from several key markets, and have been for years. But it's okay. We're paying him much smaller royalties and jacking the prices up high so we can still make a profit. Besides, ebooks are a niche market. Ereading devices are dedicated and expensive.
Arcades: I used to be a thriving industry. Kids spent billions of quarters in my thousands of locations. But then Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft made home arcade machines, and now people play their videogames on dedicated devices. It's a multi-billion dollar business now, and I can only compete if I sell shitty pizza and give out plastic trinkets to kids with the most foosball tickets. If people want the media, they buy the expensive device. Period.
Print Industry: None of you are listening to me. Print will always be around.
Newspaper Industry: Yeah! What he said!
Print Industry: Let's not compare ourselves, okay Newspaper Industry? No offense.
Newspaper Industry: None taken. Hey, maybe we can help each other. I'm selling advertising space for dirt cheap these days, and...
Print Industry: No thanks. No one reads you anymore. People get their news elsewhere.
Moderator: So why won't people get their novels elsewhere as well?
(Print Industry stands up, pointing a finger around the room.)
Print Industry: Look, this isn't about me. All of you guys have become irrelevant. Technology marched on, and you didn't march with it. But that WILL NOT happen to me. There will always be bookstores, and dead tree books. We'll continue to sell hardcovers at luxury prices, and pay artists 6% to 15% royalties on whatever list price WE deem appropriate. And the masses will buy our books BECAUSE WE SAID SO! WE SHALL NEVER BECOME OBSOLETE!!!
Buggy Whip Industry: Amen, brother! That's what I keep trying to tell these people!
CDs: (whispering to LPs) I give him six years, tops.
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Jason regularly represents a variety of dialysis and nephrology providers, vascular access center operators and owners, academic medical centers, physician group practices, skilled nursing facilities, inpatient rehabilitation facilities, long term acute care hospitals, laboratory companies, healthcare information technology companies and other healthcare providers in structuring mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, accountable care and capitated care arrangements, syndications, divestitures and private placements implicating various regulatory compliance issues commonly associated with such transactions.
Jason regularly provides guidance on physician self-referral prohibitions and anti-kickback issues, the corporate practice of medicine, post-acute regulatory issues, fee splitting, false claims act matters, provider licensing, changes of ownership and control, acquiring certificates of need, physician employment and recruitment, compliance with The Joint Commission and other accreditation standards, hospital and medical staff bylaws and other regulatory compliance issues.
Jason is the President-Elect of the Illinois Association of Healthcare Attorneys and authors a newsletter and blog entitled, Greis Guide to LTACHs addressing issues of importance to long-term acute care hospitals. Jason has also served as the editor-in-chief of Health Care Law Monthly, a LexisNexis publication.
"Jason strives to create common-sense, business-oriented solutions to address even the most complex legal issues."
Representation of a nephrology practice in the sale of three home dialysis programs to a joint venture with a leading dialysis services company.
President-Elect; Board Member (2011-2014); Co-chair (2005-2014), Membership Committee, Illinois Association of Healthcare Attorneys, 2014
Board Member, Chicago End-of-Life Care Coalition, 2007-2011
Board Member, Chicago Bar Association, 2007-2011
Member, American Health Lawyers Association, 2005-present
Selected for inclusion in America's Leading Lawyers for Business, Healthcare, Illinois, Chambers USA, 2019
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Best Kids Parties: Balloons & Bubbles
Name: Little W, Age 3
Location: Auckland, NZ
When asked what he wanted for a birthday cake, the only sensible answer I got was balloons. So there began the balloons theme. Bubbles got added when I got carried away and decided to theme the food as well.
Decoration was minimal (I themed the food remember), but I like to say high impact: the balloon garland is so pretty I plan to leave it there until it shrivels into a deflated state.
To eat we had gingerbread balloons, "bubble" corn, fruit balloons, rice bubble slice, meat ball-oons and various other edible balloon and bubble concoctions (some you had to use your imagination for more than others…).
The grand centrepiece (of which I am quite proud) was the hot air balloon cake!
Too bad my boy seemed to think his Duplo friends were building a fence. He is only two and a half… everyone else got it. However, lesson learnt, and next time I will stick with construction themes. Afterall, last year he was only one and a half but knew immediately that I'd put all my love (if not skill) into a hammer cake.
It was my first attempt at fondant and it went very well all things considered; however, the woven basket was hardly for beginners. It was one of those times where you have an idea in your head and 9 times out of 10 it looks a million times better in your head. This was the one time where the reality looked pretty close to the picture in my head. Yay for small miracles!
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Journal, Cabinet, Multilingual Parlour, Untranslated Conference Room, Repository of Erudite Pastimes, even a Gymnasium for the Polemist and the Humorist; Consacrated to Oddities and Facts Concerning Peculiarities of Theatrical Amusements related to the Circus, Conjuring, Comedy etc.; their Connections with Fine Arts; the Uncovering the Curiosities of their Past, and the Critical and Hopefully Provocative Account of what of Interest is Remaining of their Uncertain Present. Profusely Illustrated.


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Will Ferrell Spoofs President Bush, bin Laden Death for Funny or Die [VIDEO]
While President Barack Obama was organizing a targeted operation to kill terrorist leader Osama bin Laden, it appears that former President George Bush was taking care of his own business in Texas – well, sort of.
In this hilarious video from Funny or Die, Will Ferrell reprises his Dubya impersonation once again to make a special address from the Sizzler Steak House, where, after gathering his meal, he delivers an important message to our nation.
"I've personally overseen a strategic and covert operation that killed the gopher who's been tearin' up my back yard. This gopher has been responsible for terrorizing Laura's fruit trees and diggin' up holes all over the yard, causing me to trip and fall over them no less than 15 times a day."
Your move, Obama.
Watch the video now, then relive one of Ferrell's best Bush impersonations from 'Saturday Night Live.'
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Diabetes mellitus is a group of disorders involving inappropriate sugar levels in the blood. This is caused by problems with insulin production or activity. Diabetes mellitus occurs in three common forms: type 1, type 2, and gestational diabetes. Type 1 diabetes is a relatively rare disease diagnosed in children and young adults after they develop symptoms. Gestational diabetes, which occurs only in pregnant women, can harm the baby and mother if left untreated. Women who have been diagnosed with gestational diabetes are at increased risk for developing type 2 diabetes in the future. Type 2 diabetes, the most common type, tends to occur in adults during mid or later life, although it can occur in children also. Type 2 diabetes can go unnoticed for many years, so it is important to be screened for type 2 diabetes if you are at high risk.
Here is an assessment tool based on recommendations from the American Diabetes Association to help you determine your risk of type 2 diabetes. This tool is for people who do not have diabetes symptoms. If you have symptoms of diabetes (eg, urinating frequently, always thirsty, numbness or tingling in your hands or feet), see your doctor for an evaluation.
American Diabetes Association.Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes—2010. Diabetes Care. 2010 Jan;33 Suppl 1:S11-61.


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Board of Management and Executive Committee
Our Executive Committee makes sure AkzoNobel's strategies, policies and resources are used to meet our business objectives and targets. While striving to achieve these goals, we always put the interests of our stakeholders first.
The Executive Committee has day-to-day management responsibility for AkzoNobel. The Executive Committee (ExCo) comprises of members of the Board of Management and leaders with business area or functional responsibility, allowing both the functions and the business areas to be represented at the highest levels in our company.
Under the chairmanship of our CEO, Thierry Vanlancker, the members of the Executive Committee share powers and responsibility for managing the company efficiently and effectively. The CFO, Maarten De Vries alone is specifically responsible for overseeing AkzoNobel's finances.
The company's management and supervision structure is organized in a two-tier system. This means the Board of Management is accountable for its performance to a separate and independent Supervisory Board.
The two Boards are accountable to the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders (AGM) for the performance of their functions.
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by George Zamora
SOCORRO, N.M., December 22, 2003 – Alexander Rand, a graduate of Los Alamos High School who is now a senior majoring in mathematics and computer science at New Mexico Tech, recently was named a 2003 Macey Scholar at the state-supported research university. The honor includes a $5,000 scholarship award.
Rand is the son of Greg and Christine Rand of Los Alamos.
Earlier this year, Rand also was named a New Mexico Tech Scholar for his demonstrated academic excellence.
Rand's research experience includes an internship this past summer with the National Science Foundation's prestigious Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program, during which he developed mathematical models for population dynamics at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.
In addition, Rand has spent the previous three summers working at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Rand is an active member of the New Mexico Tech student chapter of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), and was a member of a Tech ACM team which tallied the highest score at this year's ACM Rocky Mountain Regional Computer Programming Contest, which was held recently in Colorado Springs.
During the annual nationwide Putnam Mathematics Competitions, which are held locally each year on the New Mexico Tech campus, Rand also posted the highest scores among the university's undergraduate math competitors in 2001 and 2002.
In addition to his research and studies, Rand is a trumpet player in several New Mexico Tech musical ensembles, including the Tech Big Band and the Oktoberfest Band.
New Mexico Tech students named Macey Scholars are selected on the basis of their demonstrated academic accomplishments, both in the classroom and research laboratory, as well as their active participation in institutional service and co-curricular activities.
The Macey Scholars Program is funded by an endowment established by William B. Macey and Jean M. Macey of Albuquerque and Tucson. William Macey graduated from the New Mexico School of Mines (as New Mexico Tech was known in its early years) in 1942, and also was awarded an honorary doctorate by Tech in 1984.


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Atmospheric Sciences & Global Change
Research Highlights
September 2009
Rain, Rain Gone Away
Pollution in eastern China "reins in" light rain
Air pollution in eastern China has suppressed light rainfall by 23 percent over the past five decades, contributing to drought and decreased crop production. Enlarge Image
Results: Over the past 50 years, air pollution in eastern China has reduced the amount of light rainfall by 23 percent, a team led by a Pacific Northwest National Laboratory scientist has found. The results, published in the Journal of Geophysical Research, suggest that bad air quality may be contributing to severe droughts in parts of China, as well as causing health and environmental problems.
Why it matters: In the last half of the 20th century, sulfur emissions from fossil fuel burning in China increased by a factor of nine, dramatically reducing visibility. At the same time, the light rainfall that sustains crops decreased in eastern China, where most of the country's population lives. These changes made China a unique region to investigate the impact of aerosols on regional climate and the hydrological cycle. The study has increased the understanding of the role of pollution on light rainfall.
This research galvanized attention in the science community and news media worldwide. The journal article was ranked in the top five weekly downloaded papers in the Journal of Geophysical Research for weeks. News reporters covered it in the New York Times, LA Times, New Tang Dynasty TV, China Daily and Peoples' Daily Online, and many other outlets.
Methods: For the first time, using long-term data, researchers from the United States, China, and Sweden observed the connection of high levels of pollutants in the air with conditions that prevent the type of rainfall critical for agriculture. The team charted trends in rainfall from 1956 to 2005 in eastern China, which has 162 weather stations that provided complete data collected over the entire 50 years. Using this China Meteorological Administration data, the research team determined that both the north and south regions of eastern China had fewer days of light rain at the end of the 50-year time span. Light rain was defined as 10 millimeters per day or less.
The scientists found higher concentrations of cloud droplets when more aerosols (the tiny, unseen particles of gas, water, and bits of matter that makes up air pollution) were present. Aerosols create smaller water droplets, leading to less and smaller raindrops. The team verified this with computer models of pristine, moderately polluted or heavily polluted skies, by employing a cloud-resolving model known as the System for Atmospheric Modeling coupled with an explicit bin microphysics model to simulate aerosol effects on precipitation. Rain fell at significantly lower frequencies in the most heavily polluted simulation than in the pristine conditions.
The cloud droplet and raindrop sizes in polluted environments were up to 50 percent smaller than in the pristine environment. The smaller size impedes the formation of rain clouds and of light rain.
What's next: The team will examine new data, collected April to December 2008, from DOE's Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Mobile Facility in the central eastern cities of Shouxian and Taihu in China. Past modeling studies of individual cases of pollution's effect on convective clouds have shown varying results, depending on the environmental conditions. The ARM data will provide more detailed measurements of both aerosols and clouds to assist the research team in quantifying the impacts of aerosols on precipitation under a variety of atmospheric and pollution conditions.
Acknowledgments: PNNL is transforming the nation's ability to transform climate change and its impacts. This research was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science, Biological and Environmental Research under a bilateral agreement with the China Ministry of Science and Technology on regional climate research.
Research Team: The research team included Drs. Yun Qian, Jiwen Fan, L. Ruby Leung, and Weiguo Wang from PNNL; Daoyi Gong, Beijing Normal University; Ralf Bennartz, University of Wisconsin; and Deliang Chen, University of Gothenburg.
Reference: Qian, Y., D. Gong, J. Fan, L. R. Leung, R. Bennartz, D. Chen, and W. Wang. August 2009. "Heavy pollution suppresses light rain in China: Observations and modeling." J. Geophys. Res., 114, D00K02, doi:10.1029/2008JD011575.
See PNNL's Press release.


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One thing for sure about American politics: We are quick to condemn. Just ask Bill Clinton, David Vitter, Mark Sanford and Anthony Weiner. But we are also quick to forgive. Just ask Bill Clinton, David Vitter, Mark Sanford and Anthony Weiner.
Politically speaking, we are, indeed, the "Land of Second Chances." Americans love a Comeback Kid. We've already proven that many times and we're about to prove it yet again, with news that former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer is attempting his return to public life as New York City comptroller.
Not so long ago, chances for Spitzer's political resurrection didn't look so hot. On April 28, 2012, four years after his resignation in disgrace, when both of us were newly minted hosts on Current TV, I accompanied Spitzer to the White House Correspondents' Dinner. Because traffic was so snarled on Connecticut Avenue, we hopped out of our car to walk the last block to the Washington Hilton. What a scene! As soon as they spotted him, the crowd on the street started chanting: "Client Number Nine! Client Number Nine!" That was the code name given Spitzer by his escort service.
And, no doubt, questions about his involvement with prostitutes will continue to haunt him during this new campaign. Indeed, they already are. Monday's New York Post put his photo on the cover with the headline: "Here We Ho Again." The Daily Caller wondered if, perhaps, Spitzer had a bad case of "Weiner envy." But Spitzer believes voters will look beyond his personal transgressions to what he accomplished while in public office. As he told me on Current TV: "Politics is a contact sport. I made significant errors. I stood up, accepted responsibility, resigned. It's now been five years. I hope the public will extend its forgiveness to me. I will ask for it. I will say to the public, 'Look at what my record was as attorney general and governor.'"
On that score, New Yorkers should not only vote for Spitzer to return to public office, they should beg him to. Nobody has a better record of fighting white-collar crime. As Manhattan assistant district attorney, he's credited with launching the investigation that ended the Gambino family's control over Manhattan's garment and trucking industries. As New York attorney general, he was the scourge of Wall Street, waging relentless war on securities fraud, computer chip price fixing, investment bank stock price inflation, predatory lending practices and fraud at AIG, among other targets. There's no doubt that, had Spitzer been Obama's attorney general, several former Wall Street CEOs would be following his latest campaign from their prison cells. Instead, they're quaking in their Guccis that he'll soon be back on their trail.
Even in New York City, most people never heard of the obscure position of city comptroller. But Spitzer told me he has big plans for the job, targeting three areas over which the city comptroller has specific responsibilities: helping shape the city budget; using the shareholder power of city pensions to fight for better corporate governance and exercising tough oversight over city departments.
Spitzer must first collect 3,750 valid signatures to qualify for the ballot, and then convince voters he's a better choice for comptroller than Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer. But my guess is that voters will make that decision based on which one can do the better job as comptroller, and not on which has the more checkered past. American voters are, indeed, willing to forgive and forget, as long as it's a question of sex and not of money — a lesson never learned by Virginia Gov. Robert McDonnell.
As reported in the Washington Post, McDonnell and his wife accepted $145,000 in cash, including $15,000 to pay the catering costs for his daughter's wedding, from wealthy Virginia businessman Jonnie R. Williams Sr., without disclosing it as a gift or loan, as required by law. On top of that, Williams gave McDonnell a $6,500 Rolex watch and bought $15,000 worth of clothes for his wife. If McDonnell survives, he can forget about running for any other office. Instead of stuffing his pockets, he'd have been better off having an affair.
Meanwhile, ain't politics fun? By the end of the year, New Yorkers might boast Mayor Anthony Weiner and Comptroller Eliot Spitzer. Both are great politicians and both remind us that we're all human and we all make mistakes.


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Basically they purchase his expertise to do the code migration -- which is again fine if the source is mature and unlikely to need a lot of real-time tweaking and if they mostly want an appliance with which to process a very large data space or parametric space a little at a time (so "jobs" are parametric descriptions used to start up a task). There are various other details associated with gridware and cluster usage of this sort that make the idea "good" or "bad" per application. If the application is bottlenecked by data access -- it processes huge files, basically -- one can spend a lot of time loading data onto the cluster via e.g. the web interface compared to a little time running the application on the data, something that can perhaps be done more smoothly and faster with a native shared disk implementation instead of double hits on native disk on both ends plus a (probably slow) network transfer. 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Oil giant Saudi Aramco is interested in a stake in India's proposed 1.8 trillion rupee (US$27.87 billion) refinery in Maharashtra State, Indian Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas Dharmendra Pradhan has said.
The official said both Aramco and Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. (ADNOC) were in talks with New Delhi over investments in India's energy sector.
Aramco is interested in the West coast refinery, while ADNOC is interested in petrochemical projects, Pradhan said, without divulging the size of the stake the Saudi NOC might pick up.
The mega complex, which will produce gasoline, diesel, LPG, jet fuel and petrochemical feedstock, will require 12,000-15,000 acres (48.6-60.7 square km) of land on the Maharashtra coast, which has already been selected, the minister added. It will be the South Asia country's largest refinery when completed.
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At first, it seemed like a done deal. Chevron made a US$33 billion offer to take over US-based upstream independent Anadarko Petroleum. It was a 39% premium to Anadarko's last traded price at the time and would have been the largest industry deal since Shell's US$61 billion takeover of the BG Group in 2015. The deal would have given Chevron significant and synergistic acreage in the Permian Basin along with new potential in US midstream, as well as Anadarko's high potential projects in Africa. Then Occidental Petroleum swooped in at the eleventh hour, making the delicious new bid and pulling the carpet out from under Chevron.
We can thank Warren Buffet for this. Occidental Petroleum, or Oxy, had previously made several quiet approaches to purchase Anadarko. These were rebuffed in favour of Chevron's. Then Oxy's CEO Vicki Hollub took the company jet to meet with Buffet. Playing to his reported desire to buy into shale, Hollub returned with a US$10 billion cash infusion from Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway – which was contingent on Oxy's successful purchase of Anadarko. Hollub also secured a US$8.8 billion commitment from France's Total to sell off Anadarko's African assets. With these aces, she then re-approached Anadarko with a new deal – for US$38 billion.
This could have sparked off a price war. After all, the Chevron-Anadarko deal made a lot of sense – securing premium spots in the prolific Permian, creating a 120 sq.km corridor in the sweet spot of the shale basin, the Delaware. But the risk-adverse appetite of Chevron's CEO Michael Wirth returned, and Chevron declined to increase its offer. By bowing out of the bid, Wirth said 'Cost and capital discipline always matters…. winning in any environment doesn't mean winning at any cost… for the sake for doing a deal." Chevron walks away with a termination fee of US$1 billion and the scuppered dreams of matching ExxonMobil in size.
And so Oxy was victorious, capping off a two-year pursuit by Hollub for Anadarko – which only went public after the Chevron bid. This new 'global energy leader' has a combined 1.3 mmb/d boe production, but instead of leveraging Anadarko's more international spread of operations, Oxy is looking for a future that is significantly more domestic.
The Oxy-Anadarko marriage will make Occidental the undisputed top producer in the Permian Basin, the hottest of all current oil and gas hotspots. Oxy was once a more international player, under former CEO Armand Hammer, who took Occidental to Libya, Peru, Venezuela, Bolivia, the Congo and other developing markets. A downturn in the 1990s led to a refocusing of operations on the US, with Oxy being one of the first companies to research extracting shale oil. And so, as the deal was done, Anadarko's promising projects in Africa – Area 1 and the Mozambique LNG project, as well as interest in Ghana, Algeria and South Africa – go to Total, which has plenty of synergies to exploit. The retreat back to the US makes sense; Anadarko's 600,000 acres in the Permian are reportedly the most 'potentially profitable' and it also has a major presence in Gulf of Mexico deepwater. Occidental has already identified 10,000 drilling locations in Anadarko areas that are near existing Oxy operations.
While Chevron licks its wounds, it can comfort itself with the fact that it is still the largest current supermajor presence in the Permian, with output there surging 70% in 2018 y-o-y. There could be other targets for acquisitions – Pioneer Natural Resources, Concho Resources or Diamondback Energy – but Chevron's hunger for takeover seems to have diminished. And with it, the promises of an M&A bonanza in the Permian over 2019.
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In April 2019, Venezuela's crude oil production averaged 830,000 barrels per day (b/d), down from 1.2 million b/d at the beginning of the year, according to EIA's May 2019 Short-Term Energy Outlook. This average is the lowest level since January 2003, when a nationwide strike and civil unrest largely brought the operations of Venezuela's state oil company, Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PdVSA), to a halt. Widespread power outages, mismanagement of the country's oil industry, and U.S. sanctions directed at Venezuela's energy sector and PdVSA have all contributed to the recent declines.
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, based on Baker Hughes
Venezuela's oil production has decreased significantly over the last three years. Production declines accelerated in 2018, decreasing by an average of 33,000 b/d each month in 2018, and the rate of decline increased to an average of over 135,000 b/d per month in the first quarter of 2019. The number of active oil rigs—an indicator of future oil production—also fell from nearly 70 rigs in the first quarter of 2016 to 24 rigs in the first quarter of 2019. The declines in Venezuelan crude oil production will have limited effects on the United States, as U.S. imports of Venezuelan crude oil have decreased over the last several years. EIA estimates that U.S. crude oil imports from Venezuela in 2018 averaged 505,000 b/d and were the lowest since 1989.
EIA expects Venezuela's crude oil production to continue decreasing in 2019, and declines may accelerate as sanctions-related deadlines pass. These deadlines include provisions that third-party entities using the U.S. financial system stop transactions with PdVSA by April 28 and that U.S. companies, including oil service companies, involved in the oil sector must cease operations in Venezuela by July 27. Venezuela's chronic shortage of workers across the industry and the departure of U.S. oilfield service companies, among other factors, will contribute to a further decrease in production.
Additionally, U.S. sanctions, as outlined in the January 25, 2019 Executive Order 13857, immediately banned U.S. exports of petroleum products—including unfinished oils that are blended with Venezuela's heavy crude oil for processing—to Venezuela. The Executive Order also required payments for PdVSA-owned petroleum and petroleum products to be placed into an escrow account inaccessible by the company. Preliminary weekly estimates indicate a significant decline in U.S. crude oil imports from Venezuela in February and March, as without direct access to cash payments, PdVSA had little reason to export crude oil to the United States.
India, China, and some European countries continued to receive Venezuela's crude oil, according to data published by ClipperData Inc. Venezuela is likely keeping some crude oil cargoes intended for exports in floating storageuntil it finds buyers for the cargoes.
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Short-Term Energy Outlook, and Clipper Data Inc.
A series of ongoing nationwide power outages in Venezuela that began on March 7 cut electricity to the country's oil-producing areas, likely damaging the reservoirs and associated infrastructure. In the Orinoco Oil Belt area, Venezuela produces extra-heavy crude oil that requires dilution with condensate or other light oils before the oil is sent by pipeline to domestic refineries or export terminals. Venezuela's upgraders, complex processing units that upgrade the extra-heavy crude oil to help facilitate transport, were shut down in March during the power outages.
If Venezuelan crude or upgraded oil cannot flow as a result of a lack of power to the pumping infrastructure, heavier molecules sink and form a tar-like layer in the pipelines that can hinder the flow from resuming even after the power outages are resolved. However, according to tanker tracking data, Venezuela's main export terminal at Puerto José was apparently able to load crude oil onto vessels between power outages, possibly indicating that the loaded crude oil was taken from onshore storage. For this reason, EIA estimates that Venezuela's production fell at a faster rate than its exports.
EIA forecasts that Venezuela's crude oil production will continue to fall through at least the end of 2020, reflecting further declines in crude oil production capacity. Although EIA does not publish forecasts for individual OPEC countries, it does publish total OPEC crude oil and other liquids production. Further disruptions to Venezuela's production beyond what EIA currently assumes would change this forecast.


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The article is all about Amazon Shorts, and whether they are a viable market for writers. But that's not the topic of today's blog.
Today we're going to talk about the immortality, in the virtual sense.
Every blog post lasts forever, or at least until there's a server crash or you manually remove it.
I've used the analogy before that a blog post is like a lobster trap. An unmoored lobster pot will kill for decades, because lobsters keep crawling in, getting trapped, dying, and becoming bait to lure more lobsters to their doom. Google and the other search engines, other blogs, websites, message boards, and newsgroups, all link to your blog, treating each entry as a seperate page. A post can keep killing for years after it was written.
Unless, of course, there's no reason for anyone to visit it.
Last week, I mentioned that information and entertainment are what people are looking for. When there are billions of things to see and do on the World Wide Web, having a specific focus can help surfers find you.
Now I want you to think about the last blog entry you either read or wrote. Go on. Think about it. And try to think of the search terms that surfers would need to enter into Google in order to find that post. Then try to think of a one sentence summary that another blogger would use when linking to that post.
If you're writing blog entries that can't be summerized, or can't be Googled using obvious terms, then maybe your blogging time isn't as effective as it could be.
How are people finding your blog? Are they people who are looking for you, or looking for something else and finding you instead?
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2. Stay focused. Think essay. The Amazon Shorts article above was basically an entry from this blog. I try to make each of my blogs a self-contained article.
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5. Be consistent. Post regularly, and stick to the point.
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