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UPDATE 8/2/2019 – Hey everyone! It's time again to start thinking again about new calendars for the new year! This post is nearly a year old, but rather than posting another guide to using our Studio Wizard, we've just made a couple small updates to this one! Enjoy and happy calendar creating!
The holidays are approaching! I know, it's August. Way too soon to start thinking about the holidays. But if you like to make, sell, or gift calendars now is the time to start planning for 2020. To help you out, we've got a quick guide to making a calendar on Lulu, using our tried and true Studio Wizard.
No, not that kind of wizard.
Our Studio Wizard is a plug-and-play tool that lets you upload your images and add them to calendar pages easily. Plus you get to customize the individual days and work with a variety of templates.
This guide is going to give a real quick look at the Studio Wizard and some advice to help make your calendar experience easier. We also have a downloadable PDF Guide that really goes into detail about creating your calendar:
Before you dive into making your awesome calendar, you should prepare all your images.
This is easy enough to do, as the only requirement for an image on our site is that it has the proper resolution for printing. We request 300 dots per inch (DPI, also referred to as pixels per inch or PPI) for all images. Any photo editing software (such as Photoshop) will allow you to inspect the resolution, and if the image was created with enough pixels, you can adjust the resolution to ensure it prints well. If an image was created with fewer than 300 pixels per inch, you might not be able to adjust the resolution enough to prevent the warning message.
One other factor can impact resolution – image size. For calendars and photo books, the size of the image will be based on the image frame, which can be changed with the layout options. You'll want to attempt to size your image files close to the size of the image frame, but you do not need to edit each image to match perfectly. Lulu will resize the image to fit the frame, and give you some controls to adjust the size and position within the frame.
BUT, if your image is much bigger or smaller, or is set up in landscape while the frame is portrait, you will see the low-resolution warning. This can be frustrating, but remember that we do have to resize the image to fit the frame, and an image with a different aspect ratio or size will impact the resolution.
After you've got your images approximately sized correctly and all the images set to 300 DPI or higher resolution, you're ready to start your project!
The last thing I recommend is to organize all your images into a file folder. I like to save each image I intend to use for a project like this (or any project really) in a unique folder. This creates a second copy of the image file, allowing for any edits or changes that may be required while holding on to the original. This kind of file organization is entirely up to you, but I find it helpful just in case you need to roll back to earlier versions or if the edited files were to be damaged for any reason.
With your images reviewed and prepared, we're ready to start making a calendar!
Creating Calendars
The Wizard displays with all your primary controls at the top of the screen, with the layout for the selected page on the left, images to add on the right, and a page by page view along the bottom.
When you begin a calendar project, you'll be prompted to select a theme, pick your date range, and add images. All of these can be adjusted using the controls and menus at the top of the window. One thing to be careful about is the date range. Lulu rolls over calendars to default to the following year, but this rollover is automated and occurs on September 1st each year. If you're ahead of the game and you're working on next year's calendar before September, be certain you manually set the range.
With the images uploaded, you'll see page layout on the left and available images on the right. Set the layout, then drag and drop images. Don't like an image in that frame? Drag and drop it off the frame to remove the image. Or just change the layout and start placing your images again.
The layout options have some designs that include text boxes as well, so you can add captions as needed for your images.
The monthly grid allows you to edit daily events with the "Events" button. You'll be able to create your own custom events, as well as grabbing holidays from national lists. One really cool element that many don't notice while making their calendar is the option to add a photo to the grid! The image will replace a single day entirely, including any text and the date.
Because the calendar is built on a template, there are limits to the control you'll have available. The grid itself cannot be edited, nor can the layouts we offer. While this will be a challenge for some of our most intrepid creators, most will find everything they need to make an awesome calendar in our Studio Wizard.
Lulu Studio Tips
Okay, you're well on your way to having a calendar ready to order! But before you finish up and review those print-ready files, here are a few tips to cover those little hang-ups that might slow you down.
Progressive JPG Files
Progressive JPGs are image files specifically formatted to load on a screen. Remember years ago when the Internet was new and images would load in a "top-down" fashion? You'd see the top of the image, with a little bit loading below until the entire image appeared. Now you are more likely to see a lower resolution image that will clear as the page finishes loading.
These images are Progressive JPGs and they are designed to load quickly for Internet viewing. Progressive JPGs are a huge step up in online image sharing, but sadly our Studio Wizard doesn't really like them.
If you see the icon pictured above after uploading your image, you'll know that the file is a Progressive JPG. Re-saving the image as a JPG or PNG file will correct the issue and allow you to upload your image successfully.
On-Screen Markers
There are two markers you might see in the Project Images panel on the right. The Blue & White Check Mark indicates that the image is already in use in this project and the Green "$" Mark indicates the image is licensed and likely has a fee associated with using the image. Be very cautious if you see the Green "$" mark, as using a licensed image without permission infringes on the image owner's copyright.
File Size
Lulu can only accept image files of 10MB or less when uploading. This might prevent ultra-high resolution images from uploading, but that shouldn't be a concern. If you upload your image and the file is rejected for being too large, you should be able to compress the image down to 300dpi resolution, reducing the file size in the process and allowing you to upload! You'll need to open the image file in your preferred image editing software and reduce the image resolution (or other settings) to bring down the file size
Print Ready Files
If you've used Lulu before to create and publish a regular book, you're familiar with how our system works. What we do is take your contents (the calendar you created using the Studio Wizard) and make a PDF file our printers are ready to use.
Assuming you've done a January – December calendar, the print-ready PDF will include 22 "pages" for the interior PDF and will start with the January month grid and end on the image for December. Where is the January image and December grid? They're in the cover file, which will include 4 "pages" in the print-ready PDF (front cover, January's image, December's grid, back cover). This can be very confusing when viewing the files, but this file organization is necessary to ensure our printers can produce the calendar correctly.
Make it Personal
Just like Lulu's mission to help the world share their stories, a calendar is more than just a collection of images and dates. Custom calendars let you create something unique that others will love to see all year long, that can remind you of your adventures or your family, or whatever you want!
Paul is the Senior Copywriter at Lulu, responsible for all the words you see on our site (misspellings included). In his free time, he's an avid reader and short story writer.


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Note: Oh my stars and garters, P:R Faithful… the talent has come out in force for Fan-Art Friday: Beast. From first-time submitters to former P:R contest winners and P:R regulars, we have over 60 different artists' submissions for long-time X-man Hank McCoy. Whether you like your Beast blue and furry or in his classic look, this post is a smorgasbord of fun. Feast on this Beast art! – Chris Arrant
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Recording engineers discover quickly in their studio work that what a microphone 'hears' is quite different from what is captured by our own hearing system. As a result we often must use more than two microphones to realize a classical performance in an audio recording -- even when our goal is to recreate a realistic soundscape of the original performance. This quickly bring us into a subjective territory which, of course, is where the artistic aspects of recording engineering reside.
Orchestral recordings can use 10-20+ microphones to capture all the necessary elements of the ensemble and blend them into a cohesive, musical image through level balancing, time delay and frequency manipulation (EQ and filtering). Chamber music might require 4-6+. Even solo piano recordings I have done required four microphones. Still, despite all those microphones, in most cases my goal is to recreate the experience of an audience member seated in the hall's optimal location. Our sophisticated hearing mechanism that only *begins* at the ears does so much to refine and interpret the sound being heard. Microphones can capture sound and convert it to electrical signals (not entirely unlike our ears do) but the refinement is left to the recording engineer. We can 'mix' a live performance with our ears, balancing to favor certain instruments when their role is more important. Doing so through a pair of loudspeakers, however, is much more difficult, and thus requires the careful skill of the recording engineer to manage microphones placed in front of, within, and often in the hall during a performance to replicate at least what *their* brain interprets as the correct balance.
Although not a 'classical' composition, orchestral recordings I like to use as examples with my students to illustrate this point are two very different versions of John Williams' title track to the Star Wars films. In the original soundtrack the production has a much more in-your-face pop-style production. A later recording appears on an album called The Hollywood Sound where the approach is to give soundtrack recordings a more 'classical' treatment in the recording technique.
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack - Star Wars, Episode IV: A New Hope
https://itun.es/us/A7kGx?i=394309346 (Apple Music)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JG5OsfOuEy0 (YouTube)
The Hollywood Sound - London Symphony Orchestra & John Williams (1997)
https://itun.es/us/V4kTu?i=347385544 (Apple Music)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSthLmvh6Fk (YouTube)
Is there a right or wrong here? How should the producer decide on the correct approach?
-SM (Peabody Institute, Johns Hopkins University)


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Congratulations with National Freedom Day!
Dear friends and citizens! One of the most important days for our country is coming! It's the National Freedom day! EasyBusy moving company is glad to congratulate you and your families with this remarkable holiday! Let's promote harmony, happiness and equal opportunity and always remember how important freedom is to all of us.
And now we want to share some historical facts about this important holiday that joined us and showed how strong and fear we could be.
National Freedom Day honors the important day of adopting a resolution on February 1, 1865 and suggested the 13th amendment of the constitution by Abraham Lincoln and outlawing the slavery. This glorious and anniversary day is annually honored on February 1.
A former slave, Major Richard Robert Wright Senior, the founder of the National Freedom Day Association, made a great role in observing this day. Major Wright was proclaimed as a community leader in Philadelphia. He took part in improving of education, business, the media and politics. He hoped that one day he would see a celebration of freedom for all Americans.
At the time the amendment was signed, he was a nine-year-old slave from Georgia. After the Civil War, Wright attended a freedmen's school. He became a veteran of the Spanish-American War, a prominent teacher and a banker.
People observe Freedom Day, but it is not a public holiday.
The main idea of this holiday is to promote harmony, good feelings, equal opportunities, freedom.
On February 1, 1942 the event took place, nevertheless it was not into law yet, but a tradition of wreath-laying at Liberty Bell was set up. On June 30, 1948, Harry Truman proclaimed this day as the first official National Freedom Day.
At EasyBusy moving company in LA we are going to have luncheon and film screening to learn the important things of this day and its history. We honor and remember all participants of this event. We should now our history and follow the traditions. Join us! We will be glad to see you!


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My artistic practice is focused on the research of elsewhere worlds, in which the archaic lays, in search of a primordial return, for a deeper understanding of contemporary times.
Photography is my privileged mean: it is the language of distance, because it puts the spectator far from the time and space of the image, that is necessarily else from who experiences it. Also, photography is that portal that unifies the interiority of the artist with the universal narratives of human experience. So my elsewhere worlds result to be at the same time truths and myths.
My aim is to give birth to images that works like aesthetic intuitions and metaphoric distillations of both natural and anthropological worlds, standing up against our understanding and interpretation of the phenomenic reality and trying to go beyond it. This vertigo generates archetypal reminiscences in eyes and mind and leads us to spiritually rejoin Nature and our ancestral perception of it.
All I want to do with my research is trying to take distance from today's images invasion that causes mind's oblivion, and recover somewhere only our ancient inner nature knows.
Lidia Bianchi
born in San Felice Circeo (IT) in 1992, currently based in Milan (IT).
MA Photography, Academy of Fine Arts of Brera, Milan, IT.
BA Graphic Arts, Academy of Fine Arts of Rome, Rome, IT.
Period of study within Erasmus + Programme at Escola d'Art y Superior de Disseny de Valencia, Valencia, ES.
Group exhibitions
Combat Prize. Finalists exhibition, Museo G. Fattori, Livorno, IT.
Braeraklasse#4, Casa Gianoli, Milan, IT.
Northen Light: Proximity and Distance. An exhibition of contemporary landscape photography, Yorkshire Artspace, Sheffield, UK.
Project 45, Academy of Fine Arts of Brera, Milan, IT.
Stellar, Vivid Projects, Birmingham, UK.
Fabbri Prize. Finalists exhibition, Fondazione Francesco Fabbri-Villa Brandolini, Pieve di Soligo, IT.
Beneath the salt, Stormen Bibliotek, Bodø, NO.
Ape(x) mentis, Bottega Immagine, Milan, IT.
Beneath the salt, Kulturbadet Galleri, Lørdag, NO.
Dispar, Octubre Centro de Cultura Contemporánia, Valencia, ES.
Haluros de plata, Casa de Cultura de Burjassot, Valencia, ES.
Grants & Awards
Combat Prize - Photography section, Livorno, IT // Shortlisted.
Signature Art Prize, London, UK. // Shortlisted.
In-Ruins Residency, Parco Scolacium, Artist in Residence, IT // Selected artist.
Research grant for young students and researchers in artistic and creative fields, Fondazione Adolfo Pini, Milan, IT / Winner.
Francesco Fabbri Prize for Contemporary Arts - Contemporary Photography section, Pieve di Soligo, IT /Shortlisted.
Combat Prize, Catalogue, Livorno, IT.
Project 45, online publication.
Francesco Fabbri Prize for Contemporary Arts, Catalogue, Pieve di Soligo, IT.
Beneath the salt, Photobook, YONA Editions, NO.
Beneath the salt-Salt, fotografi og abstraksjon, Catalogue, NO.
Four-Elements exhibition, Float Photo Magazine, online publication.


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The ocean surrounding the Phi Phi archipelago is astounding. The tall, green cliffs jutting out of turquoise sea are even more impressive in person. Shallow, clear waters and magnificent coral reefs make this area perfect for anyone wishing to explore the underwater world. One of the most popular activities is Snorkeling Koh Phi Phi. Many resorts offer snorkel gear for nearby exploration. Although the best way to take a look is with a tour.
With many different agencies across the island, you won't have to go far to find the tour that's right for you. Additionally, most hotels offer a tour booking service. Several different tours are available. The most popular are the half day and full day trips. You can choose either a longtail boat or a speedboat. Tours will visit destinations around Phi Phi's six islands. Discover spots famous for black-tipped reef sharks, octopus and many different kinds of fish. Depending on the tour you choose, you could experience up to eight different snorkeling havens. Most companies also include water, lunch and a snack.
Book a sunset tour, and see the colors of the sky change from the water. Then, don your mask and get ready to snorkel Koh Phi Phi in one of the most unbelievable spectacles in the sea! Bioluminescent plankton lights up the water at night, and reacts to the movement as you swim. If this is a must-see for you, make sure you ask for a plankton tour.
Whatever style you choose, snorkeling at Phi Phi is extraordinary. Even seasoned snorkelers agree – it's some of the best on Earth. Don't miss out on your chance to explore the underwater world in this spectacular location.
For more information on snorkeling Koh Phi Phi or to book a tour visit: Mr Chet Longtail boat trips


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Ghana film industry does not need money, it needs structure & distribution – Leila Djansi writes
"Slayers will always slay! Yvonne Nelson is totally wrong and she misunderstood the Era we are now! The Era of showbiz glamour sparkling across the Oscar's, Grammy, Golden Globes, BAFTA, Cannes Film Festival, Venice Film festival, Berlin Film festival, AMVCA, etc.
The sum total of everything that's wrong with the Ghana film industry presently can be found in this quote above.
I'd like to start by asking, which Ghanaian films, or films by Ghanaians have made it to Globes, Oscars, Cannes and the Venice film festivals? Unfortunately, the answer is none. Sinking Sands played at Marche Du Film at Cannes, but Marche due Film is a market where you screen for potential buyers. It's not official. We wore jeans and T-shirts.
The Oscars and Cannes have earned the right to honor glamour. Ghana film industry has not. Cannes and Venice film festivals have become avenues for companies; automobile companies, event companies, fashion houses and brands to advertise their products. That is why Gucci will dress an actor on the red carpet. That is why Audi will chauffeur Sophia Coppla at Cannes. The glamour and fashion at these high profile events are all enshrined in advertising, product placement.
If my memory serves me right, the Ghanaian filmmakers and filmmakers of Ghanaian descent, who have been blessed to officially walk red carpets at industry recognized film festivals did so in clothes sewn by their seamstresses in Ghana. It did not diminish them in anyway.
This is how I presented Like Cotton Twines at the Bentonville film Festival.
The Ghana film industry does not need financial injection; neither does it need slayers, neither is it dead.
Ghana filmmakers have money. I say that because I see their lifestyles. Affluent lifestyles. If you are able to purchase and drive a range rover, you should also be able to finance a film because Ghana is cash and carry and that's a 70,000 dollar car. I think.
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The problem is not money, the problem is distribution.
Ghana has a mere 6 -10 screens at the cinema level. You are competing with foreign films for those few screens. You are also dealing with biased cinema bookers. Producers are negotiating the screens themselves, not through a distributor. The share is 70/30 in favor of the cinema after 2 weeks.
Nigeria currently has 60 plus screens if I am not wrong, and they use distributors to aggregate their films to the cinemas. It's not a walk in the park. It has its pros and cons. The dividends are shared from the top and the producer is at the bottom. But, it saves the filmmaker some hustle.
Nigeria has the population to back it up. You'll fit Ghana into Nigeria 6 times and there'll be overflow. But filmmakers from both countries make films on comparable budgets and Ghana has less distribution. It's not easy when they take their films to Nigeria either because publicity becomes another cost they have to incur.
Nigerians are very good at investing and supporting each other. Ghana is not the same. If Bank A sponsors a Nigerian filmmaker, he tells his friends and they all go to bank A for sponsorship. If Bank A sponsors a Ghanaian filmmaker, he hides that information from all his colleagues. He doesn't want anyone to know bank A sponsored otherwise bank A will sponsor others and maybe leave him out. Trust and insecurity. That's the crabs in a bucket mentality. The mentality you have when you have very little and you're afraid to share.
Ghana needs distribution structures. Opera square works for opera square. Opera Square cannot accommodate or does not want to accommodate evolving markets and forms. They are used to a certain way that guarantees them profit and some under the table gains from government, levies and bully taxes. They are not going to change. Opera Square is bread. Asking them to conform is taking away that bread.
Distributors do not pay well. Ghana and Nigerian filmmakers will have an advantage if they start looking into sales agencies. It doesn't matter what part of the world they're in. Do not worry about sharing your sale. It's the nature of the business. Film festivals are not for recognition. Sales agents are there. Seek them out. Whether your film is selected or not, you should go and look for buyers and reps.
Yvonne Nelson has a point.
An actor is called to play someone who grew up in small town Volta Region. The actor wants to wear designer shoes, change them often, speak with an American accent, and behave as someone exposed to the elite of the world. The character calls for the exact opposite of what this person wants to do. What then happens to the film? It fails to have soul.
It's all about the red carpet. It's all about the delusions of grandeur. The fear of playing something that is not grand. The fear of connecting to ones core because that is not the 'slayer" image. The fear of connecting to a real human being because that is not the instagram persona created.
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I once had an actress tell me the make-up used on her was too dark, that people knew her to be light skinned. I said, "You're not playing yourself though". She was not happy!
Another time I had another actress give me a hard time with her performance. I got tired and decided to move on. With the close ups, she did great! When I asked her why, she said "I saved my best performance for my close up". I stammered, "What about continuity in the edit? Did you consider that? On big screen, everything is close".
Then you have the actor whose rendition of a Ghanaian accent was to speak like a toddler. But yet she was born, raised and lives in Ghana.
I use these examples to say these actors were all thinking about one thing: Others. The fans. The slayer worshipers. The Instagram followers. The social media persona they needed to abide by.
The focus on slaying takes away from delving deep and becoming someone else. Unless of course that someone embodies Olivia Pope. Those are the roles slayers like. Range rover driving, high heels wearing, Gucci purse carrying. Rich girl. Those are the roles slayers like to play. When you ask them to do what Ama K Abebrese did with Pabi, or Adepero Oduye in Pariah, you've asked them to find someone too close to who they really are. It's too much work, too much sacrifice.
There is nothing wrong with slaying. But earn it. Earn it by doing amazing work so Cannes will INVITE you. VENICE will INVITE you. Oscars will INVITE you. Buying your own ticket and renting cars and clothes to go slay, there's no reason in that.
What are you seeking the attention for? Is it because you have no love? Trust me, someone loves you. That's why you are here.
The last thing you want to become is a narcissist and this industry easily turns us into that. "Narcissists are consumed with maintaining a shallow false self to others. They're emotionally crippled souls that are addicted to attention. Because of this they use a multitude of games, in order to receive adoration". Sharon Alder
Remember, there is danger in overexposure. You lose interest.
Not exactly. The Ghana film industry is going through a phase. It's looking for itself. People are looking for the best way to survive. There's hate, there rancor, there's jealousy, there's lies, there is sabotage, there's fabricating stories to ruin anyone doing well, there's greed. Till date it baffles me that someone spent time, called studios to ask whether Ties That Bind was a Hollywood film. The sabotage. But, in all of these, there is hope.
Yvonne Nelson vs Lydia Forson…who nailed the seductive look better?
Ghanaians abroad are coming home to work from outside in. Ghanaians within are looking for lucrative forms.
I believe if the distribution issue can be solved, things will get much better. Netflix opening up in Africa offered hope, but there seems to a buying bias and some deception. Which is why sales agents will be a way out. Keep your budgets low enough to recoup, remember, the distributors need your content. Don't settle for 5000 dollars for your brand new film from any of them. Push them. They have more. If filmmakers have to unite and come up with a rate card, so should it be. I know, some will go behind the united front and take the 5000. You always have those.
Here is a link to some film sales agents: http://www.ifta-online.org/member-directory. Reach out to them.
You can't close this out without talking about piracy. The youth own computers not for their assignments, but for pirating films. They own hard drives for storing pirated films. The internet is for torrent, facebook, etc. TV stations show pirated films with impunity. No one holds anyone accountable. You can't ask filmmakers to make better films when in the end you will not buy but pirate the film.
You can't ask for films about Kwame Nkrumah and Yaa Asantwaa when you will not buy but rather pirate.
Then you have the "Ghana films lack creativity" people. What does that phrase even mean? If I paint rainbow colors on my nails, that's being creative. You can never, ever accuse Ghanaian filmmakers of that. Ghana has been making films since 1967. Ghanaian filmmakers have been creating since that time.
If you mean the films are not 'good". That's a better word, and your opinion. Good is relative. If we continue to lump all films as one and brand them as not good, we'll have the lemon problem.
So much goes into making good films. It's teamwork. You need financial resources, human resources, and emotional resources. What the industry needs for making good films is training and watching good films. Our francophone neighbors make the best films out of Africa. Those are the type of films we need to consume.
Above all, art is life, if your motives are not right, it will not breathe for you. Your motives behind the story you're telling need to be pure. It should not be abut the money and the praise you stand to gain. Tell an honest story. The crew needs to be committed to the project, not jump on because it's a red camera. Respect the project and it will reciprocate.
The industry is not dead. It needs reform. It needs people like Yvonne Nelson and Juliet Ibrahim talking and engaging folks on twitter. It needs a lot more people talking, because I kid you not, we are all listening!


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There many expensive metal found in the earth, and Platinum is one of them. I am not sure of its true value, but I know that is is very valuable.
Tumling down the opening to the mine Cedric landed on his stomach. He lep to his feet and scrambled further inside. The dogs were getting closer. He could see lamps in the forest.
The walls are polished, glistening. The ceiling opens to the skies, bursting with starlight. There are bars scattered across the floor — gold, silver, perhaps even platinum. The treasure palace of my mind is littered with forgotten wealth.
He slipped the platinum diamond ring onto my finger as tears started rolling down my cheeks. In that one moment the whole world seemed to disappear and the only thing that mattered was the two of us promising to share our lives together and the bond that the ring symbolised.
Sometimes when I think about platinum I think about the most expensive and precious metal. I think it works as a metaphor for the most expensive thing and idea, but at the same time, it's so easy to associate with ye olde platinum blonde. It's funny that something so precious and exemplary of richdom can also be one of the cheapest 'looks' that exist.
The platinum CD shined on my face. Wow, I thought, Could this really be happening. Early today I got Selena Gomez to sign her newest platinum CD. She was having a private concert in my home town and i got a VIP pass to go and meet her. While she signed my CD we had a normal converstion you could have with anyone. I realized then she was like everyone else in the world. A human being trying to reach her dreams.
My wedding band is platinum which is more durable than gold. I think it is beautiful.
i think of a credit card and those rich ass people who jsut spen any amount of money they want while i am here trying to srcunt for money everyday. and then like why is it even a word do u know it belongs to the perodic table yea chemsitry i cant wait to drop this subject this is sooooo fun lol and i am here just to
Platinum … such a high standard. Yet … is it? Do we tend to put names to things, then call them good? How is platinum different from gold, or even silver? Does the availability of something push its value up or down? Does the lack do the same?
A precious silvery-white metal , the chemical element of atomic number 78. It is used in jewellery , electrical contacts , laboratory…
platinum. well the first thing i thought of was a wedding ring. they are the most expensive, i think, platinum wedding rings. it shocked me actually. i was frozen for a second, though i did think of platinum wedding rings immediately.
platimun. This word is a name of an element. This elemant is a metalic solid that used to be the most expensive metal in the world.
platinum is a well known killer..she speaks like a real lady..she makes you feel like you are walking on clouds and then when the moment is right, she pulls out her tongue and shoves it down your throat and you suffocate..she's a genius.
Timmy opened the jar and gasped. The jar was filled with platinum encrusted jewelry. He had hit the jackpot. Timmy realized he could sell these on the black market for hundreds of thousands of dollars and smiled an evil smile.


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After a gracious random commenter left a note on CP regarding the life of Mr. Taylor after his expulsion from law school, I decided to do some follow up detective work. I want to note (for the sake of my own safety and sanctity of this blog), that any information I pass along is what I found in a simple google search. I'm not out to get anybody, I'm just interested in the various colorful characters that walk this earth beside me. Or in this case, not so much.
Mr. Taylor was convicted of malice murder and aggravated battery for the death of one Lamar Railey in 2005, only five years after being expelled from law school.
Railey was the owner of a wrecker service. On Feb. 13, 2004, Railey drove a wrecker to a gas station where he intended on purchasing diesel fuel. After fueling, Railey left for the business office of the station to complete the purchase. On the way, he was struck by a motor vehicle driven by Mr. Taylor. Taylor fled the scene in a green sedan, but a passerby witnessed the whole incident and followed him, calling the police and reporting the occurrence.
After the police caught up with Mr. Taylor, they found a manilla envelope in his car. Within this manilla envelope were various legal documents that related to a year-long legal dispute Mr. Taylor had with Mr. Railey. The court ruled that Mr. Taylor maliciously murdered Mr. Railey as a result of his unsuccessful attempts to compel Mr. Railey's arrest.
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With initial speculation being fuelled by an unanticipated listing for a release from the Sheffield band, this revelation was soon expanded on by Itunes Japan which has unveiled its full tracklisting and release date.
Comprised of 11 tracks that come complete with some of their most abstract titles yet such as 'The World's First Ever Monster Truck Flip' and 'The Ultracheese', the emergence of this information has been followed by a new official trailer for the album that's surfaced on the band's official YouTube channel.
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Watch the album trailer and check out the track list below:
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|NYSE: HAL S&P 500 Component
|Oilfield services & equipment
|1919, Duncan, Oklahoma, USA
|Erle P. Halliburton
|Houston, Texas, USA, (Main Headquarters) Dubai, UAE
|David Lesar (Chairman and CEO) and Jeff Miller (President)
|Products and services to the energy industry
|US$24.8 billion (2011)
|$4.7 billion (2011)
|$3.0 billion (2011)
|$7.725 billion (2008)
|68,000 (January 2012)
Halliburton Company /ˈhælɨbɜrtən/ is an American multinational corporation, and one of the world''s largest oil field services companies with operations in more than 80 countries. It owns hundreds of subsidiaries, affiliates, branches, brands, and divisions worldwide and employs approximately 100,000 people.
The company has dual headquarters located in Houston and in Dubai, where Chairman and CEO David Lesar works and resides, "to focus company's Eastern Hemisphere Growth." The company remains incorporated in the United States.
Halliburton''s major business segment is the Energy Services Group (ESG). ESG provides technical products and services for petroleum and natural gas exploration and production. Halliburton''s former subsidiary, KBR, is a major construction company of refineries, oil fields, pipelines, and chemical plants. Halliburton announced on April 5, 2007 that it had sold the division and severed its corporate relationship with KBR, which had been its contracting, engineering and construction unit as a part of the company
The company has been involved in numerous controversies, including the Deepwater Horizon explosion, for which it agreed to settle outstanding legal claims against it by paying litigants $1.1 billion.
As of August 1, 2014 Jeff Miller was promoted to President of Halliburton reporting directly to Dave Lesar.Contents
U.S. regional office locations are Anchorage, Alaska; Bakersfield, California; Denver, Colorado;New Iberia, Louisiana; Houma, Louisiana;New Orleans, Louisiana;Shreveport, Louisiana;Lafayette, Louisiana; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Canonsburg, Pennsylvania; Farmington, New Mexico; Hobbs, New Mexico; Naples, Utah;Carrollton, Texas;Alvarado, Texas;Fort Worth, Texas;Odessa, Texas.
Major international offices are in Canada, Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia, Argentina, Panama, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Algeria, Angola, Egypt, Gabon, Nigeria, Cameroon, Republic of Congo, Libya, Austria, New Zealand, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, United Kingdom, France, Spain, Australia, Russia, China, India, Iran, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Japan, Singapore, Pakistan, U.A.E., Oman, Yemen, Saudi Arabia and Iraq.
Worldwide technology centers are in Duncan, Oklahoma; Carrollton, Texas; Houston, Texas; Stavanger, Norway; Pune, India; and Singapore.Divisions
Energy services (the company''s historical cornerstone), formation evaluation, digital and consulting solutions, production volume optimization, and fluid systems are the major business segments. These businesses continue to be profitable, and the company is one of the world''s largest players in these service industries; it is second after Schlumberger, and is followed by Weatherford International, and Baker Hughes.
With the acquisition of Dresser Industries in 1998, the Kellogg-Brown & Root division (in 2002 renamed to KBR) was formed by merging Halliburton''s Brown & Root (acquired 1962) subsidiary and the M.W. Kellogg division of Dresser (which Dresser had merged with in 1988). KBR is a major international construction company that works in an industry that tends to have an element of volatility and is subject to significant fluctuations in revenue and profit. Asbestos-related litigation from Kellogg acquisition caused the company to book more than US$4.0 billion in losses from 2002 through 2004.
As a result of the asbestos-related costs and staggering losses on the Barracuda Caratinga FPSO construction project based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Halliburton lost approximately $900 million U.S. a year from 2002 through 2004. A final non-appealable settlement in the asbestos case was reached in January 2005 which allowed Halliburton subsidiary KBR to exit Chapter 11 bankruptcy and returned the company to quarterly profitability. While Halliburton''s revenues have increased because of its contracts in the Middle East, the overall impact on its bottom line has been mixed.
At a meeting for investors and analysts in August 2004, a plan was outlined to divest the KBR division through a possible sale, spin-off or initial public offering. Analysts at Deutsche Bank valued KBR at up to $2.15 billion, while others believed it could be worth closer to $3 billion by 2005. KBR became a separately listed company on April 5, 2007.History Early history (as HOWCO)
In 1919, Erle Halliburton started the New Method Oil Well Cementing Company.Halliburton Research Center in Duncan, Oklahoma, the city which was the original headquarters of Halliburton Company.Halliburton (Oak Park) offices in Westchase and in Chinatown in Houston
In 1920, he brought a wild gas well under control, using cement, for W.G. Skelly, near Wilson, Oklahoma. On March 1, 1921, the Halliburton "method and means of excluding water from oil wells" was assigned a patent from the U.S. Patent Office. Halliburton invented the revolutionary cement jet mixer, to eliminate hand-mixing of cement, and the measuring line, a tool used to guarantee cementing accuracy. By 1922, the Halliburton Oil Well Cementing Company (HOWCO) was prospering from the Mexia, Texas oil boom, having cemented its 500th well in late summer.
In 1924, the company was incorporated in Delaware, with 56 people on its payroll. The stock of the corporation was owned by Erle and Vida Halliburton and by seven major oil companies: Magnolia, Texas, Gulf, Humble, Sun, Pure and Atlantic.
In 1926, its first foreign venture began with sale of equipment to Burma and India.
Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, Halliburton continued cementing across America. In 1938, Halliburton cemented its first offshore well using a truck on a barge off the Louisiana coast. In 1940, Halliburton opened offices in Venezuela and introduced bulk handling of cementing to the industry. In 1947, the Halliburton first marine cementing vessel went into service.
In 1951, Halliburton first appeared in Europe as Halliburton Italiana SpA, a wholly owned subsidiary in Italy. Over the next seven years, Halliburton launched Halliburton Company Germany GmbH, set up operations in Argentina and established a subsidiary in England. By 1951, HOWCO had service centers operating in Canada, Venezuela, Peru, Colombia, Saudi Arabia and Indonesia. Halliburton revenues topped $100 million for the first time in 1952.
Erle P. Halliburton died in Los Angeles in 1957. HOWCO is at this time worth $190 million with camps all over the world. The same year, HOWCO purchased Welex, which pioneered jet perforation. Otis Engineering, an oil field service and equipment company specializing in manufacturing pressure control equipment for oil and gas producing wells, was acquired in 1959.As Halliburton
On July 5, 1961, the company changed its name to the Halliburton Company. In 1963, Halliburton was the first company in Oklahoma to receive the Presidential "E" for Export flag in recognition of notable contributions to foreign trade.
Halliburton opened a 500,000 sq ft (46,000 m2) manufacturing center in Duncan, Oklahoma, in 1964. The company began to experiment with new technologies to help their services – for example, beginning in 1965 a pilot operation of a computer network system – the first such installation in the oilfield services industry. In 1966, workers broke ground for a new wing at the Research Center in Duncan that tripled the available space for the Chemical Research and Design Department.
In 1968, an automated mixing system for drilling mud was developed by Halliburton, primarily for use offshore. Gearhart Industries (acquired by Halliburton Energy Services in 1989) introduced the first digital computer logging system in 1974.
In 1969, Halliburton began construction of a base camp at Prudhoe Bay on Alaska''s North Slope.
In 1975, it responded to environmental concerns by working with the nonprofit Clean Gulf Associates to contain and clean up oil spills. In 1976, Halliburton established the Halliburton Energy Institute in Duncan, Oklahoma, to provide an industry forum for disseminating technical information.Lincoln Plaza in Downtown Dallas, which at one time housed the Halliburton headquarters
In 1980, Halliburton Research Center opened in Duncan, Oklahoma. The company''s billionth sack of cement for customers was pumped in 1983. In 1989, Halliburton acquired logging and perforating specialist company Gearhart Industries and combined it with its subsidiary Welex to form Halliburton Logging Services.
Throughout the 1980s, Halliburton''s subsidiaries continued their projects around the world (under management of former CEO Brian Darcy) even in countries once considered enemies. Equipment was provided for the first multiwell platform offshore China, and an Otis Engineering team controlled a gigantic Tengiz field blowout in the Soviet Union.1990s
Following the end of Operation Desert Storm in February 1991, the Pentagon, led by then defense secretary Dick Cheney, paid Halliburton subsidiary Brown & Root Services over $8.5 million to study the use of private military forces with American soldiers in combat zones. Halliburton crews also helped bring 725 burning oil wells under control in Kuwait.
In 1995, Cheney replaced Thomas H. Cruikshank, as chairman and CEO. Cruikshank had served since 1989.
In the early 1990s, Halliburton was found to be in violation of federal trade barriers in Iraq and Libya, having sold these countries dual-use oil drilling equipment and, through its former subsidiary, Halliburton Logging Services, sending six pulse neutron generators to Libya. After having pleaded guilty, the company was fined $1.2 million, with another $2.61 million in penalties.
During the Balkans conflict in the 1990s, Kellogg Brown-Root (KBR) supported U.S. peacekeeping forces in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Hungary with food, laundry, transportation, and other life-cycle management services.
In 1998, Halliburton merged with Dresser Industries, which included Kellogg. Prescott Bush was a director of Dresser Industries, which is now part of Halliburton; his son, former president George H. W. Bush, worked for Dresser Industries in several positions from 1948 to 1951, before he founded Zapata Corporation.2000s5 Houston Center in Downtown Houston, which at one time housed the headquarters of Halliburton
The Wall Street Journal reported in 2001 that a subsidiary of Halliburton Energy Services called Halliburton Products and Services Ltd. (HPS) opened an office in Tehran. The company, HPS, operated on the ninth floor of a new north Tehran tower block. Although HPS was incorporated in the Cayman Islands in 1975 and is "non-American", it shares both the logo and name of Halliburton Energy Services and, according to Dow Jones Newswires, offers services from Halliburton units worldwide through its Tehran office. Such behavior, undertaken while Cheney was CEO of Halliburton, may have violated the Trading with the Enemy Act. A Halliburton spokesman, responding to inquiries from Dow Jones, said "This is not breaking any laws. This is a foreign subsidiary and no U.S. person is involved in this. No U.S. person is facilitating any transaction. We are not performing directly in that country." Later David Lesar would book his own flights to the Tehran office through the UK arm of KBR. No legal action has been taken against the company or its officials.
In April 2002, KBR was awarded a $7 million contract to construct steel holding cells at Camp X-Ray.
From 1995 to 2002, Halliburton Brown & Root Services Corp was awarded at least $2.5 billion but is believed to have spent considerably less to construct and run military bases, some in secret locations, as part of the Army''s Logistics Civil Augmentation Program. This contract was a cost plus 13% contract and BRS employees were trained on how to pass GAO audits to ensure maximum profits were attained. It was also grounds for termination in the Balkans if any BRS employee spoke of Dick Cheney''s being CEO. BRS was awarded and re-awarded contracts termed "noncompetitive" because BRS was the only company capable of pulling off the missions. DynCorp actually won the competitively let second contract, but never received any work orders in the Balkans.
In November 2002, KBR was tasked to plan oil well firefighting in Iraq, and in February 2003 was issued a contract to conduct the work. Critics contend that it was a no-bid contract, awarded due to Dick Cheney''s position as vice president. Concern was also expressed that the contract could allow KBR to pump and distribute Iraqi oil. Others contend, however, that this was not strictly a no-bid contract, and was invoked under a contract that KBR won "in a competitive bid process." The contract, referred to as LOGCAP, is a contingency-based contract that is invoked at the convenience of the Army. Because the contract is essentially a retainer, specific orders are not competitively bid (as the overall contract was).
In May 2003, Halliburton revealed in SEC filings that its KBR subsidiary had paid a Nigerian official $2.4 million in bribes in order to receive favorable tax treatment., United Arab Emirates In October 2004, after emerging from the bankruptcy protection, Halliburton opened a new 250,000-square-foot (23,000 m2) facility on 35 acres (140,000 m2), replacing an older facility that opened in 1948, in Rock Springs, Wyoming. With over approximately 500 employees, Halliburton is one of the largest private employers in Sweetwater County.
On January 24, 2006, Halliburton''s subsidiary KBR (formerly Kellogg, Brown and Root) announced that it had been awarded a $385 million contingency contract by the Department of Homeland Security to build "temporary detention and processing facilities" or internment camps. According to Business Wire, this contract will be executed in cooperation with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Fort Worth District. Critics point to the Guantanamo Bay detention camp as a possible model. According to a press release posted on the Halliburton website, "The contract, which is effective immediately, provides for establishing temporary detention and processing capabilities to augment existing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Detention and Removal Operations (DRO) Program facilities in the event of an emergency influx of immigrants into the U.S., or to support the rapid development of new programs. The contingency support contract provides for planning and, if required, initiation of specific engineering, construction and logistics support tasks to establish, operate and maintain one or more expansion facilities."
In February 2008, a hard disk and two computers containing classified information were stolen from Petrobras while in Halliburton''s custody. Allegedly, the content inside the stolen material was data on the recently discovered Tupi oil field. Initial police inquiries suggest that it could be a common container theft operation. The container was a ramshackle in complete disorder indicating that thieves were after "valuables and not only laptops," said an expert consulted by the daily newspaper Folha de S. Paulo.
In 2008, Halliburton agreed to outsource its mission-critical information technology infrastructure to a Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex data center operated by CyrusOne Networks LLC.
On May 14, 2010, President Barack Obama said in an interview with CNN that "you had executives of BP and Transocean and Halliburton falling over each other to point the finger of blame at somebody else" when referring to the congressional hearings held during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. "The American people could not have been impressed with that display, and I certainly wasn''t." According to Tim Probert, executive vice president of Halliburton, "Halliburton, as a service provider to the well owner, is contractually bound to comply with the well owner''s instructions".
It was anticipated that Halliburton''s $2.5 billion "Restore Iraqi Oil" (RIO) contract would pay for itself as well as for reconstruction of the entire country. Plans called for more oil to be exported from Iraq''s northern oil fields than actually occurred. Halliburton's work on the pipeline crossing the Tigris river at Al Fatah has been called a failure. Critics claim that the oil fields are barely usable and access to international markets is severely limited. As an example, against the advice of its own experts, Halliburton attempted to dig a tunnel through a geological fault zone. The underground terrain was a jumble of boulders, voids, cobblestones, and gravel and not appropriate for the kind of drilling Halliburton planned. "No driller in his right mind would have gone ahead," said Army geologist Robert Sanders when the military finally sent people to inspect the work.PetroSkills Alliance
In 2001 Halliburton joined the PetroSkills Alliance. Member companies came together to create detailed skill and Competency Maps, which act as a guide for the 200+ short courses, taught to industry professionals in over 40 locations worldwide. Competency Maps are an analysis tool and software application that allows users to assess their skills base to identify gaps in their training, areas needing improvement or mastered skill areas within upstream, downstream, and HSE petroleum subject disciplines.Controversies
Halliburton has become the object of several controversies involving the 2003 Iraq War and the company''s ties to former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney. Cheney retired from the company during the 2000 U.S. presidential election campaign with a severance package worth $36 million. As of 2004, he had received $398,548 in deferred compensation from Halliburton while Vice President. Cheney was chairman and CEO of Halliburton Company from 1995 to 2000 and has received stock options from Halliburton.
In the run-up to the Iraq war, Halliburton was awarded a $7 billion contract for which ''unusually'' only Halliburton was allowed to bid. Under U.S. law, the government uses single-bid contracts for a number of reasons, to include when only one organization is capable of fulfilling the requirement. Halliburton was the only U.S. based organization reasonably assumed to be capable of completing a contract of that scale.
Bunnatine Greenhouse, a civil servant with 20 years of contracting experience, had complained to Army officials on numerous occasions that Halliburton had been unlawfully receiving special treatment for work in Iraq, Kuwait and the Balkans. Criminal investigations were opened by the U.S. Justice Department, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Pentagon''s inspector general. These investigations found no wrongdoing within the contract award and execution process.
In one of Greenhouse''s claims, she said that military auditors caught Halliburton overcharging the Pentagon for fuel deliveries into Iraq. She also complained that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld''s office took control of every aspect of Halliburton''s $7 billion Iraqi oil/infrastructure contract. Greenhouse was later demoted for poor performance in her position. Greenhouse''s attorney, Michael Kohn portrayed her performance reviews as punishment for criticizing the administrations, he stated in The New York Times that "she is being demoted because of her strict adherence to procurement requirements and the Army''s preference to sidestep them when it suits their needs."
On September 8, 2010, an internal report released by BP into the Deepwater Horizon explosion claimed that poor practices of Halliburton staff had contributed to the disaster. Investigations carried out by the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling found that Halliburton was jointly at fault along with BP and Transocean for the spill. The concrete that Halliburton used was an unstable mixture, and eventually caused hydrocarbons to leak into the well, eventually causing the explosion that started the crisis.
Halliburton pleaded guilty to destroying evidence after the April 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster; the company destroyed computer simulations it performed in the months after the accident, simulations that contradicted Halliburton''s claim that it was BP who had not followed Halliburton''s advice. BP had employed Halliburton to oversee the process by which cement is used to seal pipes in oil and gas wells, thereby preventing leaks. Government investigators had ordered companies involved in drilling the well to preserve all relevant evidence. Halliburton director Anthony Badalamenti in Texas has been charged for deleting data related to the deadly BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in September 2013.
In early December 2010, the Nigerian government filed corruption charges against Cheney in connection with his role as the chief executive of Halliburton. The case relates to an alleged $182 million contract involving a four-company joint venture to build a liquefied natural gas plant on Bonny Island in southern Nigeria. Earlier in 2009, KBR, a former subsidiary of Halliburton, agreed to pay $402 million after admitting that it bribed Nigerian officials, and Halliburton paid $177 million to settle allegations by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission without admitting any wrongdoing. In mid-December 2010, the case was settled when Nigeria agreed to drop the corruption charges against Cheney and Halliburton in exchange for a $250 million settlement. According to Femi Babafemi, the spokesperson for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, the $250 million would include approximately $130 million frozen in a Swiss bank, and the rest would be paid as fines.
The Federal Contractor Misconduct Database details 10 instances of misconduct since 1995 under which Halliburton has agreed to pay settlements of $791 million. A further 22 instances of misconduct relate to the company''s former subsidiary KBR.Environmental issues
In 2002, Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) reports were completed to measure the amount of chemicals emitted from Halliburton''s Harris County, Texas facility. The TRI is a publicly available EPA database that contains information on toxic chemical releases and waste management activities reported annually by certain industries as well as federal facilities. The facility had 230 TRI air releases in 2001 and 245 in 2002.
On June 7, 2006, Halliburton''s Farmington, New Mexico facility created a toxic cloud that forced people to evacuate their homes.
Halliburton may also be implicated in the oil spills in the Timor Sea off Australia in August 2009 and in the Gulf of Mexico in April 2010 for improper cementing. Halliburton staff were employed on the Transocean operated Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Mexican Gulf. Halliburton staff completed cementation of the final production well 20 hours prior to the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion, but had not yet set the final cement plug.
In July 2013, Halliburton Co agreed to plead guilty to charges that it destroyed evidence relating to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. This incurred a $200,000 fine; the firm also agreed to three years of probation and to continue cooperating with the criminal probe into the spill. In September 2014, the company agreed to pay $1.1 billion in damages to settle the majority of claims against it relating to the explosion, removing the uncertainty which had hung over the company for the previous four yearsJamie Leigh Jones incident
Jamie Leigh Jones testified at a Congressional hearing that she had been gang-raped by as many as seven co-workers in Iraq in 2005 when she was an employee of KBR, and then falsely imprisoned in a shipping container for 24 hours without food or drink. KBR was a subsidiary of Halliburton at the time. Jones and her lawyers said that 38 women have contacted her reporting similar experiences while working as contractors in Iraq, Kuwait, and other countries. On September 15, 2009, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of Halliburton, in a 2 to 1 ruling, and found that her alleged injuries were not, in fact, in any way related to her employment and thus, not covered by the contract. This decision effectively meant that the mandatory arbitration clause in her contract did not apply.
These incidents have tainted the public perception of Halliburton, with a consumer study rating it as the 5th least reputable company in America.Sale of KBR
On April 15, 2006, Halliburton filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission to sell up to 20 percent of its KBR stock on the NYSE under the ticker symbol "KBR", as part of an eventual plan for KBR to be a separate company from Halliburton.
In November 2006, Halliburton began selling its stake in KBR, its major subsidiary, and by February 2007 had completely sold off the subsidiary. In June 2007, several days after Stewart Bowen, the Special Inspector General, released a new report, the Army announced that KBR would share another $150 billion contract with two other contractors, Fluor and Dyncorp, over the next 10 years.Baghdad incident
In accordance with the law of armed conflict and to maintain non-combatant status, Halliburton does not arm its truck drivers. Trucks are often the target of insurgent attacks. On September 20, 2005, a convoy of four Halliburton trucks was ambushed north of Baghdad. All four trucks were struck by improvised explosive devices and were disabled. Their US National Guard escort was thought to have abandoned the disabled vehicles, leaving the drivers defenseless. Three of the four truck drivers were killed by the insurgents while the surviving driver caught the event on video. Although the trucks had military camouflage paint, the drivers were civilian. The US military returned to the scene 45 minutes later. However, in a statement by senior military officials in Iraq, an investigation revealed that troops did not abandon the civilians and they were all exiting the "kill zone" during the ambush. The fact caught on the video, the #1 and #2 gun truck abandoned the rest of the convoy. Gun 3, 4 and 5 were pinned down and were not able to run.Deepwater Horizon Explosion
On 26 July 2013, Halliburton pleaded guilty to intentionally destroying evidence wanted by BP in the company''s legal battles related to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010. Halliburton, the world''s second-largest oilfield services company, had to pay a US$200,000 statutory fine. In September 2014, Halliburton agreed to settle a large percentage of legal claims against it over the Deepwater spill by paying $1.1 billion into a trust by way of three installments over two years.Restatements
On March 31, 2003, Management at Halliburton restated earnings downward by $14 million for the fourth quarter of 2002.In the restatement, an additional $3 million expense (net of tax) to continuing operations and an $11 million expense, net of tax, to discontinued operations were recorded. In March 2, 2005, Halliburton restated its 2004 fourth-quarter earnings to add $2 million US in after-tax losses to reflect the collection of a $10 million receivable that had been reserved and a correction in lease accounting.Subsidiaries
As of Halliburton''s latest form 10-K filings with the SEC, Exhibit 21.1 lists the following as subsidiaries of Halliburton Co.:
Halliburton''s headquarters (North Belt Campus) are located in Harris County, in northern Houston, Texas, near George H.W. Bush Intercontinental Airport.
Halliburton was headquartered in Dallas, Texas from 1961 to 2003. The company moved its headquarters from the Southland Life Building in Dallas to 50,648 square feet (4,705.4 m2) of space in Lincoln Plaza in Downtown Dallas in 1985. 20 employees worked in Halliburton''s headquarters in Dallas.
Halliburton planned to move its headquarters to Houston in 2002. Halliburton, which signed its lease to occupy a portion of 5 Houston Center in Downtown Houston in 2002, moved its headquarters there by July 2003. Halliburton occupied 26,000 square feet (2,400 m2) of space on the 24th floor in 5 Houston Center.Aerial view of the current Halliburton headquarters (2002)
In 2009 Halliburton announced that it planned to move its headquarters to the North Belt Campus in Houston. In addition it planned to consolidate operations at its Westchase and North Belt Campus. The move occurred in 2009. The 90 acres (36 ha) North Belt complex will house 2,500 employees. Halliburton planned to add a research and development facility with laboratories, a new cafeteria, a childcare center, two additional parking garages, and fitness and wellness centers for employees. The plans for the North Belt Campus had been delayed by one year, and Halliburton expects completion in 2013. The construction of the North Belt administration building is scheduled to begin in late 2010.
According to Marilyn Bayless, the president of the North Houston Greenspoint Chamber of Commerce, in 2003 Halliburton had planned to move operations out of the North Belt office because other area school districts offered the freeport tax exemptions while the Aldine Independent School District (AISD), where the North Belt office is located, did not. In order to attract businesses, in May 2003, AISD began offering the same tax exemption as other jurisdictions. Subsequently, Halliburton retained the North Belt office.
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Senate Candidate & 9/11 Truth Activist Sander Hicks _ on The Kevin Barrett Show
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5/2/10 — 9/11 Truth Activist Sander Hicks Announces Run for US Senate (Green Party, NY). New York City's leading 9/11 truth author, Sander Hicks, once again is determined to do the impossible.
On Friday, May 1, Hicks filed his papers with the Green Party secretary. He pledged to campaign hard on a platform of "Truth, Transparency, Peace and Real Economics" in his bid to win the Green Party nomination for US Senate.
Last month, Hicks was interviewed on ABC's Nightline, making the case regarding "Treason in America" at a conference. With this campaign, the truth about 9/11 will hit the mainstream, once again. For 9/11 Truth activists, this good news comes at a time it is most needed.
Despite the Movement's recent setbacks in the courts, for nine years, Hicks has never accepted "no" for an answer. Hicks has physically confronted Rudy Giuliani, Eliot Spitzer, Dick Cheney, Richard Ben Veniste, and the Shreveport FBI, in an attempt to penetrate the cover-up around the biggest crime of our time.
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Friday, February 10, 2006
Defending Evil
UK Indymedia is reporting another sad case from Iran:
I have said before that too many on Indymedia take their freedom for granted.
An Iranian court has sentenced a teenage rape victim to death by hanging after she weepingly confessed that she had unintentionally killed a man who had tried to rape both her and her niece.The first comment in response:
I wonder why our neo-con warmongers never post about capital punishment in the United States, or anywhere else that still uses this barbaric practice.Irrespective of your position on capital punishment, there is a difference between execution of a murderer who has been subject to a trial in a country that respects the rule of law, and this. The girl in question would likely not have even been convicted in America, yet she is to be hanged in a country that stones gays to death, and yet the commenter on UK Indymedia can't see any difference.
Surely nothing to do with whipping up propaganda for a war on Iran .... ?
I have said before that too many on Indymedia take their freedom for granted.
We now know why an Iranian Indymedia isn't going to happen soon thanks to local bloggers being tortured.Nothing has changed, and now a little girl is going to die. Well done "activists"!
But you won't hear about any of this on the Indymedia sites whose contributors take their freedom completely for granted. They aren't concerned with real oppression, real censorship, real fascism or real anything. While people are thrown in jail for speaking their mind and fatwas issued for dissent, those with both the right and privilege to do so seem more concerned with breaking stuff and bitching about America. What hypocrisy! What happened?
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Candy Crash is a die rolling, card playing game for 2-4 players, aged 8+ which plays in 15-20 minutes. In Candy Crash, each player takes on the roll of a teen, working a job such as lawn mowing or a paper route. They're all saving up to buy the best candy on the street at... Continue Reading →
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Happy Thanksgiving folks!
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