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BrandingWire has been quiescent for a while. For those of you not familiar with BrandingWire, it's a joint venture of a number of bloggers, commenting on various branding challenges presented to us by our "studio audience."
Originally, the BrandingWire posse took on one branding challenge per month, but we found that our readership was not expanding into the realms we hoped for, and that a clear business purpose wasn't being fulfilled. Nonetheless, the BW concept is a valuable one, and we've remained open to taking on the occasional challenge.
And so, now we have one, via a contact of Martin Jelsema (one of the original BrandingWire posse members). Here is the business need; all original BW members are welcome to post their responses and advice, AND any other branding bloggers who wish to post some input on their blogs can also participate (see below for details).
The challenge (and this, btw, is an excellent overview/brief format):
I'm looking for a business name, tagline, and logo.
I will offer bookkeeping services to online retailers.
My niche is online retailers.
I offer relief for the e-tailer by removing the burden of financial anxiety.
I can increase cash flow to the e-tailer by managing their money.
Online retailers/ e-tailers/ ecommerce store owners
Sole proprieters
Running their own independent sites – not on eBay, Amazon, or Squidoo for example
Both startups and established businesses
Startup e-tailers
Established e-tailers
Sole proprietors
"S" Corporations
Fifteen clients at $30 per hour averaging 8 hours per month per client, equals $3,600 gross earnings. First, this will allow me to work from home. Second, this will allow for a 30 hour work week, which will leave me the time I need to get my own online retail store up and running.
I am married for 8 years, no children, and ambitiously desire to leave my current job as a computer drafter at an engineering firm to run my own online retail store. In order to start my store off on the right foot and guarantee (as best one can) success, I am detouring into bookkeeping for other online retailers. My plan is to learn the business from them, inside and out, by managing their finances. Over the next two weeks (June 28-July 9, 2008) I will be taking a crash course in bookkeeping for small businesses. By August 1st I plan to have three clients, and add one new client per week until I have 15 total clients. So, by Thanksgiving week I will have 15 clients and will be able to leave my job in time for Christmas.
Abundance Bookkeeping
Accounts Doable
Special Ledger
Accounting Assets
*(note: online retailer, e-tailer, and ecommerce store owner may be interchanged)
Accounting for the online retailer
Carrying the online retailer's accounting burden
Relief from accounting
Relief for the online retailer
Relax, I'm your CFO.
Relax, I'm your bookkeeper
Profit and growth specialist for online retailers
I wear the accounting hat.
Relax. I know what to do.
You make the money. I'll track it.
I'll do the "gross" work. (Accounts Doable)
Doing the "gross" work for the online retailer (Accounts Doable)
Making a statement for online retailers
Knowing what to do for the online retailer (Accounts Doable)
Ecommerce profit through bookkeeping
Profit through bookkeeping for online retailers
Anxiety management for online retailers
Helping online retailers plan and manage cash flow (Martin's idea)
Helping online retailers manage their cash flow so they can survive the first five years (Martin's idea)
You have more than you know
Pinecone (you have more than you know)
Iceberg, showing above and below waterline (you have more than you know)
Bean or Jelly Bean (I'm a "bean counter"
Hat (as in, I wear the accounting hat)
Coin (not really a coin, but a reference to a coin shape)
Pill (like a two color capsule, for getting rid of anxiety)
Deloitte blue
Green to match that blue
OK, pondering this outline – what are your questions related to this potential brand? Your suggestions and advice? Your creative ideas?
Write up a post on your blog, and leave a comment on this post with the URL (you may want to use tinyurl.com and is.gd or similar in order to shrink the URL before posting). If you are a member of the BrandingWire posse, your post will be pre-approved. If your are a branding/marketing blogger and you'd like to join in the fun (and show your creativity), we'll give your post a look first to make sure we're providing value before approving the comment. Self-promotional SPAM will be filtered out, of course, but thoughtful and helpful posts will be featured. See prior BrandingWire challenges on this site to get an idea of how we comment on these challenges.
It's summer – let's fire up the Wire again and see what we come up with!


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Franklin County residents soon will be paying more for cars, computers, TVs and other durable goods.
Franklin County residents soon will be paying more for cars, computers, TVs and other durable goods.
The Franklin County Board of Commissioners on Sept. 24 unanimously approved a 0.5-cent increase in the county sales tax, which goes into effect Jan. 1.
The rate reflects a permanent quarter-cent hike and a temporary quarter-cent increase, which will expire in five years.
It moves the entire sales tax rate to 7.5 percent, the second-highest in Ohio.
Cuyahoga County's sales tax remains the highest at 8 percent.
A family of four with a household income of $50,000 can expect to pay an extra $57.50 a year. The tax would result in an extra $4 on an $800 TV, $6.50 on a $1,300 refrigerator and $100 on a $20,000 car.
Commissioners defended their position as fiscally responsible and responsive to a growing number of disadvantaged central Ohioans.
The commissioners said the higher tax will raise an estimated $96 million a year and will help adequately fund government operations and allow long-term financing for a new morgue and jail at a combined cost of $200 million.
"Franklin County has worked hard to maintain a high quality of life for our residents, despite receiving millions of dollars in state funding cuts and shrinking revenues," commission President John O'Grady said in a prepared statement. "I appreciate the cooperation of our fellow Franklin County office-holders who have helped to keep the belt tight.
"We must now position Franklin County to be able to serve our growing population by fostering job creation and delivering safety-net services to families, children, seniors, residents and businesses."
Not everyone agreed with the decision to increase the sales tax.
Greg Lawson, a Republican candidate for Columbus City Council, said he worries about the long-term economic health of the region and the messages higher taxes send to potential employers looking to move to central Ohio.
He said the increase, coupled with other state and local taxes -- otherwise known as "pancaking" -- could have a deleterious effect on business down the road.
For example, he said, Columbus raised its income tax from 2 to 2.5 percent in 2009. Also, a statewide 0.25-cent sales tax increase went into effect Sept. 1.
Meanwhile, Columbus City Schools is seeking a 9.01-mill levy this fall that would, if passed, represent a 24-percent increase in property taxes.
"Over time, you're going to have to bribe people to come here," Lawson said.


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HOUSTON — Evidently, it is also safe now to spit into the wind and pull the mask off the old Lone Ranger. Because everybody, it seems, is tugging on Superman's cape these days.
Dwight Howard couldn't be more exposed if he were a magazine centerfold wearing nothing but a staple. At least in Playboy, they usually let you lay down on a soft bearskin rug.
Howard shot just 8-for-16 on free throws and it was actually his best night from the foul line in a week and a half.
Every time the Lakers center stands unguarded 15 feet from the basket, it is becoming less a surprising adventure than a sitcom rerun: The Big Clang Theory.
The Rockets were only the latest to intentionally foul Howard and send him to the line. The strategy — Bite-a-Dwight, if you will — continues to take a shark-sized chunk from the aura of the big man that the Lakers are falling all over themselves for the chance to pay $100 million to and give away the keys to the franchise.
The fact that the strategy worked — and gave the crowd at the Toyota Center great amusement — covered up a bigger batch of sins. The Lakers can't take care of the ball, committing 19 turnovers, can't keep opponents off the offensive glass and can't defend consistently when the game is on the line.
Yes, the Rockets sent Howard to the line five different times in a 69-second span of the fourth quarter. Yes, he connected only five times on his 10 throws. But during that stretch Houston outscored the Lakers by just 7-5.
It was everything else the Rockets did in the fourth quarter — getting James Harden into the paint to draw fouls, getting easy dump-off passes to Greg Smith, getting open shots on the wing for Toney Douglas –– that made the difference.
Just as occurred on at home on Sunday night against Orlando, Howard's ineptitude from the foul line was the lightning rod while everyone else in the lineup let the house burn down.
Now the talk shows and the Twitterverse will be teeming with the suggestions for coach Mike D'Antoni to chain Howard to the bench in the fourth quarter of close games.
"People have no clue what they're talking about if they think I'll take Dwight out in the fourth quarter," D'Antoni said. "It's pretty simple: You don't do that to a guy. He made his foul shots and that's not the reason that we lost that game. He has to work through this. You just don't take out a franchise player and do something like that to him."
Certainly not if you don't want to risk turning a mental block into a full blown psychosis. If Howard is going to be the anchor to the Lakers in the post-Kobe Bryant future, then he can hardly be hidden away at crunch time like Grandma's porcelain figurines every time the kiddies come to visit.
"That's just a strategy that teams are employing and we have to figure out the best strategy to defend it," Bryant said. "We've talked about it a little bit. He just has to keep working at it all the time and keep practicing and doing it over and over until he turns it into a strength."
The more critical problem is the Lakers' lack of discipline and defense when games get late. This was a game in which the Lakers once led by 17 and were still up by 13 early in the fourth quarter.
On a night when Harden was a myopic 3-for-19, Chandler Parsons 5-for-16 and Jeremy Lin 2-for-8, the Rockets kept working and grinding and did all of the little things to inch their way back and give themselves a chance. It was the kind of play that the Lakers seem to think is beneath them.
With Steve Nash still out with a fractured leg and Pau Gasol now going to the sidelines to rest his ailing knees, excuses are all around for the Lakers, if they want to use them.
So, too, is the easy scapegoat, Howard, hammering more metal than a blacksmith, at the line. But it is not Howard committing the defensive breakdowns. He's stepping up to cut off a penetrator and nobody is rotating behind him. Howard is not the one leaving the likes of Douglas and Carlos Delfino wide open on the outside because the proper switches weren't made.
"He's not the reason that our defense breaks down," D'Antoni said. "He's not the reason that stuff happens."
But as long as Superman keeps standing exposed at the foul line, the real problems stay hidden.


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Saturday, January 05, 2013
Drinking for the State
During the same period that the government was being unrecognizably reshaped, the major cities were being transformed by a tremendous immigration boom. Immigration had made it possible for the Union to win the war by providing an endless supply of fresh bodies to throw into the fight. German, Irish and Jewish immigrants came by the hundreds of thousands and made the Union victory possible.
Republican Progressives had looked forward to freeing the slaves, but were far less enthusiastic about filling the country with Catholics and Jews, who were not only bound for Democratic precincts, but did not share their faith. Germany had produced a liberal variant of Judaism that was rather close to Unitarianism and had prospered nicely among upper class Jews in the United States, but the Jewish immigrants who were arriving were members of a more traditional faith in Russia and Eastern Europe. But it was the Catholics who truly worried them.
The Draft Riots during the Civil War had to be put down with the military and the armories were a hulking reminder that the cities could go up in flame at any moment if the Democratic Party's radicals chose to light a match. Those same Catholic immigrants had been invaluable to building the Union, but with the South defeated, and the expansion of the Union underway, they had become a problem.
Progressive reformers cast an uneasy eye on the slums and the Democratic political machines that ran them and pursued a grab bag of strategies for curing their ills, from birth control to temperance to socialism.
The progressive vision of a New America was being funded by liquor taxes, but a combination of bigotry and health-nuttery, which was another of the elements of the modern country taking off, brought quite a few reformers around to temperance. Associating Catholics with liquor, they went after liquor itself. But liquor could not be outlawed, without also outlawing big government.
For the practical politician the link between liquor and big government was a web that should not be touched. The drinking American was making big government possible and should be left to drink in peace. But progressive reformers are ever deaf to such logic and quick to cut Gordian knots. Faced with a liquor revenue problem, they contrived a solution in the form of the personal income tax.
The personal income tax was unconstitutional, but with the end of the post-Civil War era and the revival of the Democratic Party as a progressive political movement, the country had entered a period where the Constitution meant very little. During the Wilson and Roosevelt administrations, that document, then not very much more than a century old, had come to be regarded as an outmoded work with very little relevance to modern times.
The Anti-Saloon League, rising out of the mists of an uncertain time, had assembled a coalition encompassing Klansmen, Suffragists, Socialists and Preachers focused on a single-minded agenda, but pushing whatever laws it had to along the way to reach its goal. And the road to Prohibition lay through such policy territories as the personal income tax.
Before the income tax, the progressive expansion of government had been built on a hypocrisy that reformers had denounced. A better world was being built with whiskey money, some of it, though far from all of it, coming out of the slums where the new immigrants worked and died. Afterward all that whiskey money went to a mob built out of the worst elements of the slums while the government fattened itself on a new source of tax revenue.
But the income tax was not nearly enough. The Federal government had been running shocking deficits in the 1930s. The budget deficit hit $903,000,000 in 1931, and then more than doubled in 1932 to $2,472,000,000. A 2.4 billion dollar budget deficit might not attract much attention today, but that same year revenues stood at only 1.9 billion dollars making the deficit larger than the revenues. A comparable budget deficit today would not be our usual trillion dollar booms, but something in the range of three trillion dollars.
With the Great Depression underway and the ultimate progressive Democrat with a big government agenda in the White House, the liquor taxes were sorely missed. Republicans lost 100 seats in the 1932 congressional election and with FDR in the White House, it was time to put an end to Prohibition and put all the lost revenue from liquor sales to work funding the New Deal.
By 1935, revenues had jumped to 3.6 billion dollars, nearly double what they had been only a few years earlier, but the budget deficit had gone up to 2.8 billion dollars because spending had surpassed 6 billion dollars reaching nearly 10 percent of the country's Gross Domestic Product. It would eventually reach 24 percent of GDP, a figure only matched by another Democrat. Obama.
Roosevelt's New Deal had drunk deeply of liquor taxes, but kept spending money like a drunken sailor, and even with the income tax and legal liquor sales, and a variety of other revenue raising gimmicks, the government had dug itself into a deeper fiscal hole than ever.
Social Security was born two years after the end of Prohibition. One of the creators of Social Security was Senator Pat Harrison of the Cullen-Harrison Act which legalized the sale of low alcoholic beer as a trial balloon for ending Prohibition. What had been thought a sin by progressive Unionists had become the salvation of progressive New Dealers who were less interested in moral reform and more interested in building the institutions that would give them permanent political power. And if those institutions had to run through the saloon, so be it.
The expanding government had gotten a heady taste of how good steady revenues from sin taxes could taste, and from that day on it was hardly ever sober again, imbibing greater and greater quantities of the stuff. One tax led to another and then another. The more the tax revenues rolled in, the faster they were spent on creating and funding the bigger and bigger institutions of the perpetually expanding system of infinite progressive government.
Prohibition proved to be less about morals than about economics and the ways that governments try to make the unworkable policy keep on going just a little longer. That could be taken as a reference to the prohibition of liquor, but it applies equally well to the economic infrastructure of tax and spend policies. Prohibition had less to do with morals than it did with political power, immigration and taxation.
Prohibition is long gone but the consequences of it, including the cat and mouse game between organized crime and national law enforcement, the personal income tax and the budget deficit, the pressure group that forces the will of the minority on the majority and the promise that the government can perfect the men it rules over and the national orgy of hypocrisy that follows are still with us today.
With the end of Prohibition, the State accepted the idea that it had to corrupt in order to uplift, damn in order to save and do evil in order to do good. It had to become truly corrupt to be truly moral in the service of the greater good.
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- Edward Cline said...
This column describes so well what I have always dubbed "political schizophrenia." The reformers and progressives and other Big Brotherish movements target a "social ill" – smoking, drinking, "illegal" drugs, gambling, leaded gas, you name it – and campaign to have it regulated with punitive taxes in hopes of eliminating it. But then government becomes addicted to that tax revenue, because the "social ill" hasn't been quashed. It's been driven underground, or to the fringes. Government creates its budgets based largely on that revenue. The politicians who imposed the taxes did so without any intention of eliminating the "social ill." They'll increase the taxes and also create loopholes and also pontificate about the evils of the targeted "social ill." In the meantime, the reformers and progressives and Big Brotherish types also continue to harangue the public with propaganda about the evils of the "ill." But the only beneficiary of the crusade has been government and its swelling ranks of employees. This is one method that enables statism and authoritarianism to advance.
- 6/1/13
- Anonymous said...
Gun controll? Drug legalization? Think of the economic benefits that have happened every time the progressives call for gun control. They know Chicago is worse than ten Newtowns.
- 6/1/13
- Anonymous said...
Daniel, the last paragraph describes the mind of a Progressive to a tee. Evil is good. Wrong is right. Immorality is morality. Vice is virtue. They have learned that in order to stay in power they must emphasize the animalistic side of human nature; encourage vice while at the same time, pretend to want to eradicate it. They are masters of hypocrisy.
- 6/1/13
- Anonymous said...
" far less enthusiastic about filling the country with Catholics and Jews, who were not only bound for Democratic precincts, but did not share their faith"
multiculturalism in America
- 6/1/13
- Anonymous said...
The Department of Education was created in 1979 under Jimmy Carter.
- 6/1/13
- Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog said...
The Department of Education was created in 1867 and then recreated as a Cabinet level office by Carter.
- 6/1/13
- Empress Trudy said...
This is the nature of all sin taxes. In every state now they want to jack tobacco taxes to the sky to pay for god knows what because as we all know almost none of it goes where it's supposed to - to health care and of course schools. But it's double edged sword because on the one hand they really want the cash and on the other they're proud of how their absurd taxes are 'making people smoke less' which is likely true. But eventually when they've made it too expensive for people to smoke both the tax dollars will evaporate AND they'll have created a black market in illegally cigarette smuggling which is precisely what happened in Canada a generation ago. In any case I do hope the stoners get their way and we legalized weed with enormous taxes piled on top of that. Taxes that maintain price parity with the illegal drugs now.
- 6/1/13
- Anonymous said...
Thanks for the history lesson. The more I learn about history, the more I realize that Regressivism (blanket term for everything against American Judeo-Christian Conservatism) had its long arm involved in everything you can think of.
Slavery? Check.
Jim Crow? Check.
Prohibition? Check.
The idea of racial superiority? Check.
Nazism? Check.
Eugenics? Check.
More and more besides. I've been astounded to learn that the colonization of America was largely driven by the Protestant Reformation, as persecuted Christians fled Europe. And that the Barbary War was merely the latest in a 1000-year history of Islamic conquest, as muslim pirates tried to pillage US merchants, and the first action the US Marine Corps ever saw was in Libya fighting "religion of peace" followers.
Daniel, your efforts in pushing back against the Revisionist Histories of the Left will be remembered long into the future. Thanks for putting in the time, and I hope you don't get stressed out or burnt out because of it.
- 6/1/13
- Lily said...
The Civil war draft was brutal.Immigrants right off the boats were forced to sign up. Knowing English wasn't a requirement and ,depending on the state, males from 14-50 years old were drafted.Some of the original draft books are on ancestry.com
Prohibition was a dangerous experiment led by groups of minorities and religious factions.The government traded the country's moral standard to expand it's control and financial gains. And it has never fully regained or deserved the public's trust since.
"Frustrated that people continued to consume so much alcohol even after it was banned, federal officials ordered the poisoning of industrial alcohols manufactured in the United States, products regularly stolen by bootleggers and resold as drinkable spirits. The idea was to scare people into giving up illicit drinking. Instead, by the time Prohibition ended in 1933, the federal poisoning program had killed at least 10,000 people."
PBS Documentary on Prohibition
- 6/1/13
- Anonymous said...
A previous Department of Education was created in 1867 but was never more than an Office in 1868.[3][4] As an agency not represented in the president's cabinet, it quickly became a very minor bureau in the Department of the Interior. In 1939, the bureau was transferred to the Federal Security Agency, where it was renamed the Office of Education. In 1953, the Federal Security Agency was upgraded to cabinet-level status as the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.
- 6/1/13
- Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog said...
If you're going to get your information from Wikipedia, you should probably post the unedited version, rather than altering it
Here's the actual Wikipedia text
"A previous Department of Education was created in 1867 but was soon demoted to an Office in 1868.[3][4] As an agency not represented in the president's cabinet, it quickly became a relatively minor bureau in the Department of the Interior. In 1939, the bureau was transferred to the Federal Security Agency, where it was renamed the Office of Education. In 1953, the Federal Security Agency was upgraded to cabinet-level status as the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare."
I think we can agree that there is a significant difference between
"but was never more than an Office in 1868"
and "but was soon demoted to an Office in 1868."
- 6/1/13
- Anonymous said...
Daniel: You wrote: "I think we can agree that there is a significant difference between
"but was never more than an Office in 1868"
and "but was soon demoted to an Office in 1868."
Words matter.
- 7/1/13
- David said...
I read the blog post and it's all over the map, more a free association than any sort of coherent history lesson. There are inaccuracies and semi-facts connected like some marquee luring tourists in Roswell, New Mexico. Alas, some will drink this Kool-Aid. If there is a rational argument against Progressivism (I think that's what he is saying) it is not to be found here. Maybe the poster is a secret Progressive seeking to discredit the other view.
- 9/1/13
- Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog said...
"Maybe the poster is a secret Progressive seeking to discredit the other view."
Finally you uncovered my evil plot.
- 9/1/13


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The analysis of McMahon and Dell is based on computer interpretation of "before and after" satellite images and on well drilling statistics from Saudi Aramco. The computer interpretation apparently identified areas of increased well "density" over time as well as areas where the well "density" decreased. This interpretation was performed by digitizing the images and using a computer algorithm to identify features (e.g. mud pit) corresponding to wells. Following this, a density map was generated by determining the number of such features near each point on the map. Shown at right are data from the report showing increases (redder colors) and decreases (bluer colors) in drilling activity in Ghawar in 2007 vs. 2004 (the two years from which "proprietary" satellite imagery was available). The data has been superimposed on the outline of the Ghawar complex with the sub-areas delineated. The red outline indicates the physical area covered in both 2004 and 2007 ASTER satellite image sets.
McMahon and Dell conclude that the increased activity toward the southern end of Ghawar is due to two megaprojects: 1) Haradh III and 2) Hawiyah NGL. There are a few problems with this conclusion, however.
Bad Geography
One big problem is that the red area of higher activity does not encompass any of Haradh. Indeed, the wells of Haradh III are located in the "toe" and are not even covered in the dataset used (red outline). It is unlikely that wells were drilled in Hawiyah and Uthmaniyah to reach oil 50 miles to the south in Haradh.
Bad Eyesight
What about the Hawiyah NGL project? I assume they mean new gas wells which will feed into the NGL plant located east of the existing Hawiyah Gas Plant (which is east of the Hawiyah oil field). These are not technically part of the Hawiyah NGL megaproject, but the Saudi Aramco 2006 Annual Review does state the following:
The Hawiyah gas increment drilling program was initiated, with 32 wells planned.
Unfortunately, it is not possible to distinguish oil wells from gas wells using ASTER imagery (15 meter resolution), although this is possible using higher resolution imagery from the Quickbird satellite (Digital Globe) as I have shown here. Without this differentiation, any conclusions about the type of activity observed (oil vs. gas) are baseless.
Bad Computer Skills
Oil and gas wells are discreet entities. Manually counting wells in the desert is tedious work but provides much more reliable data upon which to form conclusions. Indications that the computer interpretation presented by McMahon and Dell is flawed are found in their identification of broad areas of Ghawar where well density decreased from 2004 to 2007. The authors ascribe this to "dismantling and bulldozing of sites" by Saudi Aramco. However, based on comparisons of high-resolution images with historical Ghawar oil well locations (as shown here), there has been virtually no dismantling of old wells.
Bad NumbersMcMahon and Dell use well drilling statistics from Saudi Aramco to bolster their conclusions. Shown below are the number of wells drilled over the past few years.
From their data, approximately 159 wells of the 329 total for 2006 are assumed to be from Haradh III oil wells and Hawiyah gas wells, along with wells from the AFK megaproject, as shown below:
To obtain this breakdown, McMahon and Dell apparently perused the Saudi Aramco 2006 Annual Review and read the following:
Crude oil increment drilling continued throughout the year, including the completion of 73 wells for the Haradh-III increment, 28 of which were MRCs. Drilling for the AFK increment continued with 54 wells. We began drilling for three other crude oil increments in 2006: Khurais, Shaybah and Nuayyim.
From this, it seems reasonable to conclude that 73 wells of the 2006 total were due to Haradh III. However, the subsequent paragraph adds:
The Haradh-III Increment came on-stream in January 2006, five months ahead of schedule, adding 300,000 bpd of Arabian Light crude oil production capacity to Ghawar, the world's largest oil field, and 140 million scfd of associated gas.
It is unlikely that all 73 wells were drilled and completed within the first month of 2006. Indeed, the following is reported in SPE #105715-MS:
The development was started in February 2005 with the 28 water injection wells at the periphery of the field. Also, 13 dedicated observation wells were drilled and completed with permanent downhole gauges to monitor the fluid front movement in the reservoir. The first producer well was drilled in October 2005.
Also, at a meeting in Bharain in 2004, Saudi Aramco detailed their plans for Haradh III in 2005 as follows:
The year 2005 heralds a critical MRC/smart-well step for Exploration and Production (E&P), with plans moving forward for 14 MRC producers with 14 smart completions, 26 horizontal injectors, and one vertical evaluation well for Haradh Increment-III during 2005. Many MRC/smart-well applications in other Saudi Aramco fields are also on the way.
The onset of water injection occured in November of 2005 according to this report. The field was fully pressurized and tested, indicating that the most of the 28 water injectors and 13 monitoring wells (more than half of the total wells) were in place at that time. Furthermore, early production from Haradh III has been published, and as suggested by the rampup data shown below, it is likely that many (if not most) of the oil producing wells were spudded in 2005 as well.
In Memoriam
To summarize, the Berstein report suffers from a poor choice of data and data analysis method as well as inadequate background investigation into the well counts provided by Saudi Aramco. The questions which remain unanswered are these: what is the extent of oil well drilling in Ghawar and other mature fields for the purpose of mitigating the effects of reservoir depletion (relative to drilling for megaprojects)? Is the amount of drilling activity consistent with mitigating modest depletion rates? The use of high-resolution satellite image analysis with visual identification of wells, as presented here, is a better approach for answering these questions.


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NEW YORK — Suicide is more common among older Americans than any other age group. The statistics are daunting. While people 65 and older account for 12 percent of the population, they represent 16 percent to 25 percent of the suicides. Four out of five suicides in older adults are men. And among white men over 85, the suicide rate - 50 per 100,000 men - is six times that of the general population.
Yet, says Dr. Gary Kennedy, director of geriatric psychiatry at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, "If you consider only major depression as the antecedent of elder suicide, you'll miss 20 to 40 percent of cases in which there is no sign of mental illness."
Kennedy, who is also affiliated with Albert Einstein College of Medicine, recently directed a symposium here on preventing suicide in older adults, designed to alert both mental health and primary care practitioners to the often subtle signs that an older person may try to end it all.
THE WARNING SIGNS In interviews, he and other symposium presenters noted that detecting suicidal impulses in older people often depended on the ability of family members and friends to recognize warning signs and act on them. According to Gregory Brown, a suicide specialist at the University of Pennsylvania, in studies of what preceded elder suicides, "suicide ideation" - the wish to die or thoughts of killing themselves - appears not to have been taken seriously. In 75 percent of cases, the suicide victims "had told family members or acquaintances of their intention to kill themselves," Brown said.
Kennedy put it this way: "This is not simply a doctor's problem. We need to think of elder suicide more as a social problem and look out for individuals at risk."Continue reading the main story
Primary care practitioners are also crucial to suicide prevention among the elderly because older people, and especially older men, are unlikely to seek out and accept mental health services but are often seen by family doctors and nurses within days or weeks of a suicide.
Among suicide victims 55 and older, 58 percent visited a general physician in the month before the suicide. In fact, 20 percent see a general physician on the same day and 40 percent within one week of the suicide.
While major depression is the main precipitant of suicide at all ages, social isolation is an important risk factor for suicide among the elderly. And older men, more so than older women, often become socially isolated.
Widowers are especially at risk because older men in the current generation tend to depend on their wives to maintain social contacts.
When wives die, their husbands' social interactions often cease.
"Older males who live alone are an endangered species," Kennedy said - particularly "in states like Wyoming, Montana and Nevada, where the social distance is great and firearms are a part of the culture."
Many men are poorly prepared for retirement, and don't know how to fill in the hours and maintain a sense of usefulness when they stop working. "They often sit around watching TV," said Martha Bruce, a professor of sociology and psychiatry at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University in White Plains, New York.
And Kennedy said, "After retirement a lot of older men start drinking heavily, a sign of increased aggression turned inward." He called heavy drinking or binge drinking a risk factor for suicide among the elderly.
A particularly vulnerable time may be after the diagnosis of a life-threatening disease like cancer. Older men who were recently discharged from the hospital are also at high risk, Kennedy said. They need to be periodically screened for depressed mood, loss of interest in life and thoughts of killing themselves.
Serious personal neglect is another warning sign; people can commit a kind of passive suicide by failing to eat, letting themselves become dangerously sedentary or not taking needed medication.
DEALING WITH DEPRESSION Contrary to what many people think, depression is not a normal part of growing older. Nor is it harder to treat in older people. But it is often harder to recognize and harder to get patients to accept and continue with treatment.
"Most people think sadness is a hallmark of depression," Bruce said. "But more often in older people it's anhedonia - they're not enjoying life. They're irritable and cranky."
She added: "Many older people despair over the quality of their lives at the end of life. If they have a functional disability or serious medical illness, it may make it harder to notice depression in older people."
Family members, friends and medical personnel must take it seriously when an older person says "life is not worth living," "I don't see any point in living," "I'd be better off dead" or "My family would be better off if I died," the experts emphasized.
"Listen carefully, empathize and help the person get evaluated for treatment or into treatment," Brown urged. He warned that "depressed older adults tend to have fewer symptoms" than younger adults who are depressed.
The ideal approach, of course, is to prevent depression in the first place. Brown recommended that older adults structure their days by maintaining a regular cycle and planning activities that "give them pleasure, purpose and a reason for living."
He suggested "social activities of any type - joining a book club or bowling league, going to a senior center or gym, taking courses at a local college, hanging out at the coffee shop."
Bruce suggests taking up a new interest like painting or needlework or volunteering at a place of worship, school or museum.
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Area Wabash men spent Sunday afternoon at the Habitat for Humanity homesite in nearby Loudon, Tennessee. They built and installed interior walls on a beautiful day to be outside. The hammering, sawing and getting to build something were enjoyable. They also enjoyed the presence of a Wabash student who is studying this semester at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
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I'm going to be presenting the code in this article in an object-oriented fashion using PHP 5. If you're not already using object-oriented programming techniques it's important that you begin doing that. You will be able to take advantage of more advanced features in PHP while building more robust applications. In my opinion, it's one of the subtle differences between a true programmer and a simple scripter.
The first step in creating this project was determining what size to make the final image. I considered the standard IAB ad unit sizes for banners, but they were either too big or too small for our purposes. The 60 pixel height on a full banner (also called impact banner) was perfect, but a width of 480 pixels takes up a bit more real estate than I would like for a low profile signature image. The half banner cuts that width in half, but then doesn't allow much room for both a user's avatar and text.
So I decided to shy away from a standard ad unit and compromise between the two, settling on a width of 380 pixels and a height of 60 pixels. With this size a user's avatar fits nicely inside the height and still allows about 300 pixels in width for the addition of text. With the capacity to house four lines, this fits the Twitter status' character length specification pretty nicely, as you can see in the live example below.
Once I decided on a unit size for the image, I needed to build a background image that was the proper size. This is a simple background that will provide a nice- looking backdrop for the image as opposed to having it over a single background color. You can use Gimp or any other image creation software to create your own, or download the one I created in Photoshop here.{mospagebreak title=Building the class}
With all of the basics out of the way, it's time to dive into some PHP and begin building a class. We're going to create a class called TwitterSignature. This class will load the background and user feed, create the signature image, and then output it to the browser as an image. This will allow us to simply point the HTML source of an image to this PHP file and have it render in any page, as you'll see later.
class SignatureImage
private $screen_name;
private $profile_image;
private $status_text;
private $local_avatar;
public function __construct($name, $bg_image, $adir)
Here's the basic structure of the entire class. We first create a few class-level variables that we will use as we start adding functions. $screen_name, $profile_image, $status_text, and $local_avatar are all strings that will contain the Twitter screen name, URL to the Twitter avatar, the XML status feed, and local avatar directory path, respectively. I'll explain each of these in more detail as we go along.
Notice also that I'm using a constructor for this class. All of the class's functions will be called internally through this constructor. There won't be any need to call functions when the class is actually implemented.
The constructor accepts three required parameters: the Twitter screen name to process, the location of the background image, and the local directory where avatars are/will be stored. The Twitter screen name is the most important, as we'll need that to access the Twitter feed.
Twitter provides an API with which you can access a user's status feed in XML format. This is available from a public access URL in the form of:
Replace screenname with the user's Twitter screen name. Adding the query string "count=1" forces the API to return only the latest status message, slimming down the request a bit. Since we're only interested in the latest status, it shortens both the response time and the request length, which increases the performance of our script. A user feed looks something like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<statuses type="array">
<created_at>Thu Apr 16 04:48:43 +0000 2009</created_at>
<text>Just added myself to the http://wefollow.com twitter directory under: #technology #windows #guru</text>
<source>WeFollow</source>
<location>Salem, Ohio</location>
<description>Ask the Windows Guru!</description>
<created_at>Mon Mar 23 02:56:34 +0000 2009</created_at>
<time_zone>Eastern Time (US & Canada)</time_zone>
</statuses>{mospagebreak title=Parsing the XML feed}
The first programming step to creating our image is pretty obvious. We need to retrieve the Twitter feed and parse the information that we need. To do that, we'll create a function called fetchUserInfo. We'll also create a function called curlRequest that will act as a wrapper function for the CURL process that will retrieve the external site content.
private function fetchUserInfo($name)
$url = "http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/{$name}.xml?count=1";
$xml = $this->curlRequest($url);
if ($xml === false) {
// User feed unavailable.
$statuses = new SimpleXMLElement($xml);
if (!$statuses || !$statuses->status) {
// Invalid user channel.
foreach ($statuses->status as $status) {
$this->status_text = (string) $status->text;
$this->profile_image = (string) $status->user->profile_image_url;
$this->screen_name = (string) $status->user->screen_name;
This function is much simpler than it looks initially. It accepts a string containing the Twitter screen name. That name is used to create a feed URL as described earlier, and then a request is made using $this->curlRequest (to be created) that returns the XML contents of the Twitter feed. Next, we use the SimpleXMLElement class to parse the XML content and assign the information we need to class-level variables. Of course, this is all of little worth if we don't add the curlRequest function that performs the request for the feed.
private function curlRequest($url)
if (!extension_loaded('curl')) {
// PHP extension CURL is not loaded.
$curl = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$result = curl_exec($curl);
if (curl_errno($curl) !== 0 || curl_getinfo($curl, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE) !== 200) {
$result === false;
return $result;
If you've used CURL in the past, this function will look pretty basic. First it checks that CURL is actually available, and then makes a request to the URL provided. It returns the response from that request or a Boolean false if there's an error.
Throughout these code samples, I've added error checking but left only comments as to the error. We'll be going back later to add proper error handling.
Now we can take advantage of our function by adding a call to $this->fetchUserInfo to the class's constructor. While we're at it, we'll add a call to $this->fetchAvatar, which is the function we'll be creating next to load the user's avatar image. The constructor now looks like this.
public function __construct($name, $bg_image, $adir)
$this->fetchAvatar($this->profile_image, $adir);
You may have also noticed that I'm using the strtolower function to force the user name to be lower-case. This aids in feed caching, which is a feature we will be adding later. For now, it just adds uniformity when creating the feed URLs.{mospagebreak title=Grabbing the avatar image}
One of the details we were able to parse from the XML feed was the location of the user's Twitter avatar. We're going to display this on our signature image, so we'll need to make another CURL request to grab the image and store a copy of it locally.
private function fetchAvatar($url, $adir)
$fname = end(explode('/', $url));
$adir = preg_match('#^(.*?)/$#i', $url) ? $adir : "{$adir}/";
$fname = $adir . $fname;
if ( !file_exists($fname) ) {
$img = $this->curlRequest($url);
$fp = fopen($fname, 'w');
fwrite($fp, $img);
$this->local_avatar = $fname;
This function is pretty basic. It uses the curlRequest function to retrieve the avatar image and write it to a local file. You'll see a couple of really nifty PHP techniques employed in the first two lines.
The first technique is a quick method of parsing the image file name from a URL. You'll recall that URLs have several parts, all delimited by a forward slash. PHP's explode function can create an array from a string based on a string delimiter. This very quickly creates an array of each of the URL parts. The end function then returns the last element in the array (being the file name portion of the URL). This is a quick and dirty technique for returning the end portion of a delimited string.
The second technique combines a regular expression match with the ternary operator. It checks the avatar directory string for a trailing slash and returns either the path if it includes one or the path with a slash appended to it. This nice one-liner ensures that our path always contains a trailing slash.Recapping
Our Twitter SignatureImage class is nearing completion. We've added all of the functions to retrieve a user's Twitter feed information and copy the user's avatar image. In the second part of this article series we'll take a look at building and rendering the actual signature image.
We're also going to look at adding appropriate error handling and a file caching feature. The latter is important since Twitter limits the number of API requests a single IP may request in a specific amount of time. Caching will store a copy of the XML feed locally to prevent making too many requests to the API service.
I'll also be demonstrating a quick method of tracking how many impressions your image gets which is useful if you're using your image in forum signature. And of course, I'll show you how to actually implement the SignatureImage class. Until next time, keep coding!


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To fry or not to fry the Thanksgiving turkey? Whether �tis nobler to roast your bird or suffer the risk of setting the house afire?
To fry or not to fry the Thanksgiving turkey? Whether �tis nobler to roast your bird or suffer the risk of setting the house afire?
As the weather turns cool and the holidays are on the horizon, the celebrated turkey fryer has come under the gun from state and national fire authorities. Monday, the N.C. Office of State Fire Marshal sent out a list of Thanksgiving cooking tips, along with one major discouragement.
�These turkey fryers use a substantial quantity of cooking oil at high temperatures, and units currently available for home use pose a significant danger that hot oil will be released at some point during the cooking process,� the release said. �The use of turkey fryers by consumers can lead to devastating burns, other injuries and the destruction of property.�
But since people will get their turkey fryers going, regardless of warning from public officials, Kinston Department of Public Safety Capt. B.O. Hobbs gave some tips as to avoid letting things get out of hand.
�When you�ve got these turkey fryers, cook outdoors,� Hobbs said, encouraging people to avoid cooking on wooden decks or in attached garages. �Make sure you have the proper amount of oil in the turkey fryer, so that when you put the turkey in, it�s not going to boil over.�
With so much cooking going on at one time, the National Fire Protection Association considers Thanksgiving the worst day of the year when it comes to cooking equipment. According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, kitchen fires accounted for 40 percent of all home fires between 2008 and 2010.
Once the dinner�s cooked and the night chill settles in, many people will turn to space heaters to warm their homes. From 2008 to 2010, portable heaters resulted in only 2 percent of all home fires, but 45 percent of all deaths attributed to residential fires. Statistics suggest victims tended to place their heaters too close to combustible materials like bedding.
�The main thing is keeping the heater at least 3 feet away from any combustibles. Maintaining an adequate space around 3 feet is the minimum recommended distance around any kind of portable heating device,� Hobbs said. �That, and refueling kerosene heaters outdoors. Refuel the tank outdoors, make sure the heater�s off and cool before it�s moved.
�That�s pretty cut-and-dry on the heaters, if you really think about it.�
N.C. Insurance Commissioner and State Fire Marshal Wayne Goodwin suggests looking out for carbon monoxide poisoning as well. He advises turning off heaters when you leave a room, installing and maintaining proper fire and carbon monoxide alarms and never letting a car run in an attached garage.
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RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- Amanda Moreno led the Gauchos to a top-five showing at the UC Riverside Cross Country Invitational. UCSB's 116 points placed them fourth out of the 27 teams in the women's race.
Moreno's time of 17:29.9 over five kilometers was good for 12th place individually. She was closely followed by teammate Katie Voigtlander, who took 13th at 17:29.0.
"Solid team performance with even-paced racing," was the assessment of Gaucho assistant coach Avery Blackwell.
"They moved up during the race, which we're really proud of. We had good grouping and I'm excited to see what we can do at Conference in a few weeks."
The Gaucho men's team sent out a B-squad, electing to rest the starters in preparation for next week's Stanford Invitational. They still managed to place 12th out of 30 teams, with Doug Whichard as the top individual at 42nd place. He completed the eight kilometers in 25:20.9.
UC Riverside took the victory in the women's team scoring with 89 points. No. 25 BYU was second with 98 points, followed by Azusa Pacific (106), UCSB (116) and Loyola Marymount (122) to round out the top-five. Azusa Pacific's Jacky Kipwambok was the winner of the race with a time of 16:29.4, which is a new course record.
No. 12 BYU won the men's race with 23 points, placing five runners in the top seven. UC Riverside was second with 73 points, followed by Southern Utah (131), Loyola Marymount (156) and Cal Poly Pomona (177) to round out the top-five. BYU's Miles Batty was the winner of the men's race with a time of 24:17.1.
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text: Loyola welcomes Class of 2017 August 30, 2013 | By Nick Alexopulos Loyola University Maryland welcomed its largest class in history on Aug. 30, 2013, when 1,104 first-year students arrived at the Evergreen campus. The Class of 2017 was also drawn from the University's largest ever applicant pool, and this is the fifth straight year Loyola has received a record number of applications. The Increase of more than 7 percent over 2012 continues to illustrate a six-year trend of nearly 78 percent growth in the applicant pool while the entering class size has consistently remained around 1,000 students. "Loyola is consistently a school of choice for outstanding young men and women who value a challenging, inspirational living-learning college experience steeped in Jesuit traditions," said Elena D. Hicks, Loyola's dean of undergraduate admission. "The Class of 2017 is no exception, and as they develop their commitment to excellence and leadership I'm confident their many diverse backgrounds and interests will prove invaluable to the Loyola community." In an effort to keep its entering class size around 1,000, Loyola was significantly more selective this year, lowering its acceptance rate almost 9 percent compared to 2012. Members of the Class of 2017 were selected through an admission process with a heavy emphasis on the level of rigor in their high school curricula and the grades earned in those classes. The orientation weekend following move-in for the Class of 2017 features an eclectic mix of social and academic immersion programming. After meetings and the New Student Convocation on Friday, first-year students can engage in friendly competition in various sports at the annual "FAC Attack" event. On Saturday morning, students are invited to attend a discussion of the common text The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, which first-year students read over the summer. An introduction to Loyola's numerous services for students and other social events cap off the weekend on Sunday and Monday. Returning students will arrive on Sunday, Sept. 1. View a photo gallery of images from move-in day here.


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And this is where the dilemma began. I just wasn't really feeling the dark border anymore. I made the binding anyways and let it sit overnight before I began to sew. By morning I had decided that I really needed to try out the lighter Chicopee Voltage Dot in lime (which happens to be my all time favourite fabric, even mentioning it makes me want to head on over to Etsy and buy more...). So I made that one too. I held each up to the fabric and was all hmmmm, with no idea which one was the winner at all??!! This had never happened to me before. Usually I just hold up a few pieces of fabric and know which one I want. Now I had two fully made bindings and still no AHA!
So I took pictures, thinking I would post my dilemma here.
And you know what...the strangest thing happened. As soon as I was looking through the lens of my camera, I knew which one it had to be.
And I haven't looked back. This binding is perfect for this quirky, totally me - now my all-time-favourite quilt.
I began making this star quilt because I so enjoyed making this star quilt and felt like I just wanted more...I had no plan for gifting it or any idea what I might do with it when it was complete.
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We have been so lucky to have some beautiful sunny days this week and as you may know, I have a beautiful big old tree in my backyard, so with inspiration from this post of Martha's at Weekend Doings (isn't her photography just gorgeous! Not to mention that awesome quilt...) I had some fun photographing my quilt in the tree.
And I will leave you with this. The view from the top of the hill we live on. These mountains are called the 'Golden Ears' - very aptly named I think.
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Posted: Sun May 27, 2012 5:29 pm
Post subject: Busch Pressman 6 x 9 view camera Model 4C
Is a Busch Pressman 6 x 9 view camera Model 4C the same as a Model C?
I'd want to use parts from the former on my Model C, or maybe vice-versa. In particular, could I use the back, including viewer, of the former, on the latter. Alternatively, could I use the lensboard from a Model C on the Model 4C?
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Posted: Sun May 27, 2012 6:17 pm
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OK to start with the 4c is the model of the Hugo Meyer ranger finder
not the camera!!
now most parts of the Busch Pressman C will work on any Busch pressman C!!
BUT the Busch Press-Man has a different lens board & standard
the Busch Press-Man has a board & standard much like a miny speed
& the door/bed is also covered with leather TOO!!
it look likein about 1943 they change the name to Busch Pressman C
this may have been do to a pantent thing SO then
the Busch Pressman C came with two different lens boards #1 a 4 screw
{1943 to 1946} #2 a 1 screw from the top making it quacker to change
But all the other parts a much the same
then the Vue-Focus {1948 & 49}only differense from the 1 screw is the
Vue-Focus top range finder!
buy maybe 1950 it was Sears Tower as thay went Broke & Sears sold them
some as Busch Pressman C & as Tower press there were in the Sears Photographic Catalog untill 1959 when the invtory ran out!!
BUT I have never seen a Sears Tower press with the Vue-Focus
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(The eB auction has gotten away.)
The more I learn about Busch Pressman C s, the more it appears the one I have is unusual.
The lensboard is held on with two screws. Not one, not four but TWO! It is chrome. It measures 6cm x 6cm and the front standard, which holds it, must be different in order to accomodate it. Otherwise, the front standard looks the same as the one in the auction.
The back of my camera is unusual. It comes down to a Graflex "23" Graphic film holder but looks like any other Graflex 2x3 film holder could be substituted. As in the auction item, the back is held on with 4 screws, one at each corner, and the film holder or groundglass screen, is held on with two screws. The pieces so held seem to be the same in my camera and the auction camera, but the picture isn't clear enough to tell. I was hoping to use the auction item's back on my camera for groundglass focusing.
So, my camera is unusual in the lens board and the back. Otherwise it appears typical: bellows, front standard, Kalart rangefinder (which the seller says is accurate but which I haven't had a chance to verify), parallax-adjusting viewfinder and Wollensak - Rapax f/4.5 lens/shutter, body, etc.
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Boy I thank it when to high at $76.00
but if you need to change out the back look for a graflok 23
they can work!!
you can also use a Mamiya Revolving Adapter for RB 67 Camera
Item: 360460746127
I have done this to 2 of mine they use graflex holders!!
AND its a Revolving back!!
I use a pack film holder with a ground glass in it to focus
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[quote="1banjo"]Boy I thank it when to high at $76.00[/quote]
I know how to win an auction, if money is no object. On this one, I wanted to nail it, first at $20, then $50, and finally $75. You'll note that I put in a maximum bid of $75 with about 30 minutes to go. That pushed the final price to $76. I didn't go in for the kill after that because it's not worth $76 or more to me.
I intend to pay more attention to getting a Busch Pressman C working to my taste after I get the processed negatives back and after I get the Century Graphic working. Right now, I'm reattaching the back to the bellows.
[quote="1banjo"]but if you need to change out the back look for a graflok 23 they can work!!
you can also use a Mamiya Revolving Adapter for RB 67 Camera
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I have done this to 2 of mine they use graflex holders!!
AND its a Revolving back!!
I use a pack film holder with a ground glass in it to focus[/quote]
I don't understand how to use a Graflok 23 back (which I have on the Century Graphic) or a Mamiya Revolving Adapter for RB 67 Camera on this atypical Busch Pressman C. I want to use groundglass for focusing and roll film for exposure. This might make more sense after I post some pictures.
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And, from the looks of it, the plot is more or less going to follow that of 1990′s 'Total Recall,' which starred Arnold Schwarzenegger. That film featured some pretty ground-breaking special effects. However, this time around, the effects look to be even better. Check them out in the trailer.
While Colin Farrell lacks Schwarzenegger's muscles, that certainly doesn't prevent him from making short work of a bunch of soldiers who look like Imperial Scout Troopers from 'Return of the Jedi.'
Speaking of fighting, Kate Beckinsale plays Farrell's wife-turned-enemy with all of her 'Underworld' tough-girl attitude. "You haven't even begun to see me try to kill you," she tells Farrell, as he tries to figure out what is real and what is "Recall."
Beckinsale also engages in some pretty intense fisticuffs with co-star Jessica Biel, in what many of the two actresses' male fans will probably label "the best cat fight ever."
All-in-all, it's a lot of sleek-looking violence perpetuated by a bunch of very good-looking people. Is that enough to make you want to watch 'Total Recall, which is set for an August 3rd release? Or will you stick with the "Ah-nuld" original?


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The reality is that each team passes and rushes the ball - no matter what team you are talking about. There is a commonality among all teams in those two metrics. So I have returned the Ease of Schedule back to being only for rushing numbers (rushing yards and touchdowns scored by running backs) and passing numbers (all passing yardage and scores thrown by a quarterback).
Every team runs with their running backs so that is a direct correlation. Each team passes but you need to use some wisdom there because Philly throws to running backs, the Chargers throw to their tight end and the Bengals only throw to their wide receivers. So passing "ease" has to be applied to each team as they would use their players.
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This is the most accurate picture of defenses from last year - hands down. While regular season EOS will not split them out because of a lack of adequate sample size, the preseason EOS considered venue in addition to the defense - it makes a difference. For passing, this still led to a nice split of eight each of home and road games for both the good and bad matchups. But this is much more accurate than we have been in the past. And more accurate than any other you will find.
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Will and Paul both started playing guitar as soon as their hands were big enough and their ears discerning. Their paths first crossed when mutual friends were at college together. At a filthy party in North London the two of them chatted that obsessive chitchat that only musicians can talk, and proceeded to do what they all do best. Throw up and pass out.
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Dizzee Rascal has already had four number one singles in the United Kingdom. His motives, therefore, for getting involved with the atrocious Simon Cowell vehicle World Cup song "Shout" (a cover of the 1984 Tears For Fears protest song), remain unclear. Perhaps he genuinely feels that hollering at the top of his voice about "Bobby Moore an' that" will really help the team while they struggle against odds that seem to be getting longer with each passing day, five and a half thousand miles away in South Africa. Perhaps he is really desperate for that fifth number one single. Perhaps he merely has a particularly persuasive agent.
That Dizzee's involvement is possibly the least worst thing involved with this musical venture says more about the quality of the venture than it does about the quality of said involvement. In just over three minutes of constant appallingness, the absolute, bottom-of-the-barrel nadir comes with the apparent comic actor James Corden bellowing, "Come and have a go if you think you're hard enough" at the top of his voice at the end of the chorus, a phrase which, in itself, is worthy of our closer inspection.
Was there really nobody at all involved with this project with so little a cursory knowledge of football as to be able to put forward the idea that, you know, considering the global reputation of England football supporters (whether accurate or inaccurate, for the record), it might not necessarily be a good idea to make such a chant one of the key hooks of the song? After all, the FA are still (after a fashion) trying to win a bid to host the World Cup in 2018. Perhaps they should use ""Come and have a go if you think you're hard enough" as the motto for their bid.
Criticising Rascal and Corden is one thing (and it may or may not be worthwhile pointing out that James Corden is thirty-two years old in a week and a half or so), and it would probably be more relevant to point the finger of blame for this dreadful puddle of musical sludge in the direction of Simon Cowell, but they have between them at least probably tapped into a significant demographic in England ahead of this summer's World Cup finals. Expectations of how the national team will perform in South Africa have slowly dipped since qualification was assured against Croatia last September, but this seems unlikely to stop the spirit of "coming and having a go if one thinks that one is hard enough" rearing its head somewhere over the next few weeks or so.
Ironically, the likelihood of any disorder involving England supporters taking place in South Africa itself seems reasonably slim, but it seems inconceivable that watching the tournament in public in England won't be accompanied with the sound of broken glass and drunken men getting angry with each other for no particularly good reason at some point or other. To this extent, perhaps "Shout" is an entirely apposite song for England, filled as it is – the chorus at least – with ill-focussed rage at something, for some reason. Perceived slight has, after all, become something of a national pastime in this country over the last couple of years or so, whether it's over immigrants coming over here and taking our jobs (which they aren't) or whether wearing England shirts in the pub has been banned by those bastions of political correctness gone mad, the Metropolitan Police (which they haven't been).
It is worth pointing out that "Shout For England", to call it by its full name, isn't an official World Cup song. The FA confirmed as long ago as January that there would be no official England World Cup song, but this has led to slew of aural sewage pouring forth into the public realm over the last few weeks or so. Amongst those that would, in a just world, find themselves hauled before some sort of tribunal and being subsequently banned from ever going within five hundred yards of a recording studio again, are the following miscreants:
- Rik Mayall, whose "Noble England" seems to be trying to invoke the spirit of Henry V but ends up sounding more like a man shouting at his imaginary foes in a shopping precinct.
- This "thing", which throws every single "Ingerlund" cliché into a virtual food blender, with the result being a soup that tastes of raw dragon, the queen's hair and cold roast beef.
- "When England Rule The World", which may or may not be the theme music to "To The Manor Born" with vocals.
- Oh, and this, whatever the hell it's supposed to be.
And, of course, there are many, many more, but it would be unfair to bracket all of the enthusiastic amateurs that have just had a go at writing a song for the World Cup in the same circle of hell as Simon Cowell and his cohorts. After all, Cowell became a multi-millionaire from the music industry, and Dizzee Rascal and James Corden are (no matter what we may think of their respective talents from a personal viewpoints) also professional entertainers, albeit from very different arms of a sprawling industry. We can't even shout "don't give up your day job" at them, because this is their day job. Worse still, it seems likely that "Shout For England" will be successful, which will only further encourage them (and those like them) in the future.
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I'm not allowed to drive anywhere without my mother accompanying me. If I want to go on a date with my boyfriend, my parents must be present. I have lost friends who are tired of having to hang with my parents and me. I have tried telling my dad this, but he claims I'm being ridiculous and then picks a fight with me. I suggested family counseling, but Dad refused. He says we don't have the money.
What do I do? I just want to be a normal teenager who can hang out without my parents following me everywhere. -- TIRED TEEN IN WYOMING
DEAR TIRED TEEN: You have my sympathy. You have caring and conscientious parents, who appear to have gone overboard in trying to shelter you. By age 17 -- and with a 4.0 GPA -- you should have been allowed to socialize without a constant chaperone. That's how teens learn to develop relationships and make mature decisions.
In another year you will be 18 and an adult. If there is an adult relative in whom you can confide, ask that person to please speak to your parents on your behalf. You should be experiencing more freedom than you have been allowed.
DEAR ABBY: I have known my boyfriend, "Kyle," for eight years. We have been dating more than two years and living together for seven months. We have an amazing relationship. We love to laugh and make each other laugh. That's a "quirk" we share.
This morning, Kyle woke up, went straight to his dad's house without saying why and returned with his hair cut, beard trimmed and looking well-groomed. He seemed kind of "off," though -- almost nervous. He then went to his mom's to help with some yard work and when he came home, he snuck up behind me and slipped a ring on my finger. I got a little teary-eyed and asked where it came from. He said from his mom. He acted shy, wouldn't say much or look right at me. Then, after a moment, he shouted, "Just kidding! I wanted to make you laugh and freak you out a little."
I don't think there was malicious intent on his part. He's a sweetheart, but I don't know how to tell him how badly he hurt me emotionally. I thought he was proposing. What should I do? -- UNENGAGED IN NEW HAMPSHIRE
DEAR UNENGAGED: Sit Kyle down and tell him the effect his "joke" had on you. After a couple has started living together, a proposal of marriage is no laughing matter unless both partners are in on the joke.
P.S. If you talk to him in all seriousness, you may find that he did propose, but then got cold feet.
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