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NWSB Insider and Portland Trail Blazers blogger Rick Stella weighs in with his Trailblazers weekly three all stars post. Here are the few noteworthy performers through February 19th of the Portland Trailblazers 2011-12 campaign. Nicolas Batum, LaMarcus Aldridge, and Gerald Wallace are this week's best three. With a tip of the cap for dunk of the week going to Batum as well. Watch the dunk video in HD.
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February 21, 2012 By Rick Stella
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Song of Love is the MGM-ified version of the lives and loves of 19th century musicians Clara Wieck Schumann (Katharine Hepburn), Robert Schumann (Paul Henreid) and Johannes Brahms (Robert Walker, who the previous year had played another composer, Jerome Kern, in Til the Clouds Roll By). Clara gives up her thriving career as a concert pianist to devote herself to her struggling composer husband Robert. Unable to cope with disappointment and failure, Robert dies in an asylum, leaving poor Clara to cope with seven children and mounting debts. At this point, the eminently successful Brahms, who has loved Clara all along, proposes to her, but Clara insists upon going it alone, perpetuating her husband's memory on the concert stage. Also represented in this musical "through the years" pageant is Franz Liszt, played with remarkable understatement by Henry Daniell. Clearly designed to capitalize on the popularity of Columbia's Chopin biopic A Song to Remember, Song of Love is slow and poky at times, though it's fascinating to see Katharine Hepburn at the piano (reportedly, she learned to play enough classical music to get by in the close-up scenes, though her music is dubbed in medium and long shots). ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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Grand Theft Auto IV Walkthrough
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The drive to the garage where you have to drop the truck off is not a smooth one. Even if you're being chased by the police, however, the HUD will still give you some direction as to where you have to go (which is to a garage located off of Union Drive West on the west side of Algonquin). At the very least, you're going to have the criminals you stole from on your tail, and at worst, you'll have the cops on you as well. Thankfully, if the latter is on you, the HUD will still show you where you need to go. Grenades will be found in the truck as the drive proceeds, allowing you to toss them out the window to stymie the advance of your enemies, as well. The truck can take a lot of damage, however, so there's really not much to worry about in terms of getting to the lockup in one piece.
When you arrive, park the truck in the garage. Then, Packie will congratulate Niko on a job well done. An Italian mobster will then drive up and ask Packie if all is well with the mission, and he tells him that everything is fine. He then introduces Niko to the mobster, letting him know that he was integral in successfully stealing the meds. After letting Niko know that he may be in touch with you, the mobster then invites Packie into the car, and the two take off. You're on your own, with another successful mission under your belt.
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On top of NL, Giants are back where they belong
The San Francisco Giants have the best record in the National League, and that really doesn't mean much except for a couple of things.
First, they're the Giants.View Full Game Coverage
The San Francisco Giants have the best record in the National League, and that really doesn't mean much except for a couple of things.
First, they're the Giants.View Full Game Coverage
When they're rolling, everyone pays attention. Attempting to win the World Series a third time in five seasons does that.
At the moment, the Giants are rolling entering Saturday's action. Best bullpen in the game with a minuscule 1.75 ERA. Nice offense, too, third in the NL in runs. Only the Rockies and Marlins have scored more. Only Colorado has hit more home runs.
This is a new way of doing business. When San Francisco won the World Series two years ago, the team finished dead last in the NL in home runs.
These boys have some fight in them, too. The Giants have come from behind nine times to win and have won 15 games decided by two runs or fewer, most in the Majors. They're 14-4 against teams with winning records, including 6-2 against the Dodgers.
But if you press the Giants on the thing they're really happy about, it would be the starting pitching. That's the thing they weren't sure about on Opening Day.
So far, so good. This month, the Giants' rotation has a 3.04 ERA. Only the Padres and Reds have been better.
If the Giants start rolling out quality starts the way they did in in the 2010 and '12 championship seasons, they're going to be tough to stop.
Two of San Francisco's starting pitchers, Madison Bumgarner and Tim Hudson, have been outstanding. Matt Cain has pitched well in three of his five starts. Ryan Vogelsong has allowed two earned runs in his last three starts.
Vogelsong's ability to bounce back from a bad season is critical to whatever the Giants do this season, and these last three starts are indications that general manager Brian Sabean did the right thing in trusting him to do just that.
As for Tim Lincecum, his reinvention remains a work in progress. He has had some nice moments.
For instance, Lincecum was as solid as ever in allowing the Braves one run in six innings. Two weeks before that, he'd turned in five solid innings against the Dodgers.
But there have been some tough times, too. Lincecum has two quality starts in seven turns and an ERA that hasn't been under 5.00 a single day this season.
Whether this is the new normal for Lincecum remains to be seen. Given Lincecum's history and how well San Francisco plays every other part of the game, he's likely to get every opportunity to figure things out.
That's true of third baseman Pablo Sandoval. That the Giants are third in the NL in runs with Sandoval hitting .171 is the single most surprising thing about this season.
But contributions have come from almost every corner of the clubhouse. Catcher Buster Posey has been MVP solid as usual, and left fielder Michael Morse has been a tremendous addition with eight home runs. First baseman Brandon Belt has nine home runs, and new second baseman Brandon Hicks has six.
There are tests coming. Belt will be sidelined indefinitely after sustaining a broken thumb Friday night at Dodger Stadium. Manager Bruce Bochy has some interesting options -- Joaquin Arias, Posey, Adam Duvall -- but Belt, who'd emerged as a complete player in his third full season, will be missed.
All in all, though, the Giants are in a good place, and baseball is better when they're in the middle of things.
This was a season when it was easy to doubt that they were capable of another playoff run. But baseball people never overlook them.
They've simply won too much in recent years, shown too much toughness and resilience. There's also talent -- Posey and Hunter Pence and Bumgarner and Hudson, etc.
In Bochy, they have one of the three or four best managers in the game, and in Sabean, they have one of the game's most aggressive and successful general managers.
So despite the doubts about the pitching staff, it might just turn out to be another baseball summer in San Francisco. Isn't that usually the case?
Richard Justice is a columnist for MLB.com. Read his blog, Justice4U.


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Manchester Computing (MC) and the e-Science Centre for the North West (ESNW), both at the University of Manchester, are proposing to implement and conduct a technical evaluation of the authorisation system, Akenti. (The JISC call specifically requested proposals for the evaluation of this scheme.) The authorisation evaluation will be conducted in the context of the existing MIMAS current awareness service 'zetoc'. The system will be made accessible both as a web server (through digital certificates embedded in the user's web browser along side traditional Athens authentication) and as a web service (using GSI authentication). The existing EPSRC-funded e-Science pilot project my Grid will provide the environment for evaluating the interoperability with praxis gaining currency in the UK e-Science programme. Project start date: 2002-11-14. Project end date: 2004-02-27. (Excerpt from this source)Percentage of Ariadne articles tagged with this term: [term_node_prcnt_1]%.
The project aims to explore uses of technology to: 1. develop and formalise the application of information systems in the operation of research degree programmes within the University of Bedfordshire to better support, capture and record the research process; and 2. ensure that all of the processes are compliant with the requirements of the University external partners. Project start date: 2010-04-01. Project end date: 2011-03-31. (Excerpt from <a href="http://portfolio.pebblepad.co.uk/beds/viewasset.aspx?oid=133539&type=web... source)Percentage of Ariadne articles tagged with this term: [term_node_prcnt_1]%.
accessing the virtual museum
The project takes as its starting point a broad concept of access not simply to digital surrogate resources but also to physical museum objects, and aims to investigate a range of access modes, and associated technical and cultural issues, as part of that continuum. It envisages the development of metadata, its disclosure through the use of OAI and other relevant protocols, and its harvesting by the data service. The collaboration between the two partners will create a new and enabling access to these resources for the full community of learning, teaching and research. Project start date: 2002-08-01. Project end date: 2004-07-31. (Excerpt from this source)Percentage of Ariadne articles tagged with this term: [term_node_prcnt_1]%.
Project ACORN explored the potential of IT to deliver high-demand material electronically to students, across the campus, via networked computers, and developed and implemented a model for effectively managing the whole process, from requesting reading lists from academic staff to the consultation of the text by students. Project dates: started 1997. Funding Programme: Electronic Short Loan area of the Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib) Programme. (Excerpt from this source)Percentage of Ariadne articles tagged with this term: [term_node_prcnt_1]%.
addressing history
The Addressing History project is creating an online tool which will enable users (particularly local history groups and genealogists), to combine data from digitised historical Scottish Post Office Directories with contemporaneous historical maps and allow individuals to plot the location on a map of any address, street name, advert, or listing from the directories onto an appropriate map. Project start date: 2010-04-01. Project end date: 2010-09-30. (Excerpt from this source)Percentage of Ariadne articles tagged with this term: [term_node_prcnt_1]%.
Agora Project's objective was to explore issues of distributed, mixed-media information management, based on an open standards-based platform. This objective includes developing the scalability, enabling infrastructure and change-management tools for successful widespread dissemination and implementation throughout the community. (Excerpt from this source)Percentage of Ariadne articles tagged with this term: [term_node_prcnt_1]%.
AGRIS (International System for Agricultural Science and Technology) is a global public domain Database with 2.6 millions structured bibliographical records on agricultural science and technology. The Database is maintained by FAO, and its content is provided by more than 150 participating institutions from 65 countries. The AGRIS Search system, accessible at http://agris.fao.org, allows scientists, researchers and students to perform sophisticated searches using keywords from the AGROVOC thesaurus, specific journal titles or names of countries, institutions, and authors. (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: AGRIS)Percentage of Ariadne articles tagged with this term: [term_node_prcnt_1]%.
AGROVOC was first developed in the 1980s as a multilingual structured thesaurus for all subject fields in agriculture, forestry, fisheries, food and related domains (e.g. environment). Its main purpose was to standardize the indexing process for the AGRIS database in order to make searching simpler and more efficient, and to guide the user to the most relevant resources. In the last 10 years, use of AGROVOC has considerably expanded to the point where it is now a tool for organization of explicit knowledge and development of ontologies and multilingual search functionality. AGROVOC has been transformed into a concept server as well as a term-based thesaurus. (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: AGROVOC)Percentage of Ariadne articles tagged with this term: [term_node_prcnt_1]%.
The Arts and Humanities e-Science Initiative was jointly funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC), the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and JISC. The Initiative aimed to enable research practitioners to embed the advanced use of ICT in their research and teaching practices. It will also facilitated collaboration across traditional subject and discipline boundaries. The Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre (AHeSSC) forms a critical part of the AHRC-JISC-EPSRC Arts and Humanities E-Science Initiative. The Centre is hosted by King's College London and co-located with the Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) and the AHRC ICT Methods Network. Project start date: 2006-01-01. Project end date: 2010-06-30. (Excerpt from this source)Percentage of Ariadne articles tagged with this term: [term_node_prcnt_1]%.
AHLib is a collection of (currently) 105 books in Slovene, from the period 1848û1918. The books are all translations from German and were digitised and their transcription hand-corrected with the aim of conducting translation studies over the corpus. More books from the original AHLib collection of facsimiles and automatic OCR are being corrected for the "Ground Truth Dataset" which is being produced by NUK, the National and University Library of Slovenia, in the context of the EU project IMPACT. Samples from AHLib books are also used as part of the a reference annotated corpus and a "silver standard" corpus as part of IMP language resources for historical Slovene. (Excerpt from this source)Percentage of Ariadne articles tagged with this term: [term_node_prcnt_1]%.
AIDA created a self-assessment tool for describing institutional readiness and capabilities for digital preservation. The tool took into account different states of institutional preparedness when recommending options or highlighting threats to assets. Project start date: 2007-10-01. Project end date: 2009-03-31. (Excerpt from this source)Percentage of Ariadne articles tagged with this term: [term_node_prcnt_1]%.
The AIMSS project was based on work carried out in SUNCAT Phase 1. This looked at the ONIX for Serials formats, which were under development, for the transmission of information appertaining to serials from publishers/aggregators etc to participants in the chain including libraries. It was recognised that the format could be used to provide SUNCAT with up-to-date information on holdings of participating libraries. ONIX for Serials is an internationally developed, structured and extensible format for the transmission of data about serials. The ONIX for Serials formats have been piloted as part of their development but they have not been tested by UK libraries. Serials Solutions provides accurate data for more than 100 aggregators, publishers and subscription agents and SUNCAT, maintained by EDINA, is creating a union catalogue of serials (print and electronic) held by UK research libraries. The broad aims are to transmit information about serials subscriptions and update library records held in MARC 21 format. Project start date: 2005-10-01. Project end date: 2006-05-31. (Excerpt from this source)Percentage of Ariadne articles tagged with this term: [term_node_prcnt_1]%.
In September 2000, the Projects Team at the LSE Library (the London School of Economics & Political Science), commenced work on a JISC-funded project named ANGEL (Authenticated Guided Environment for Learning). Over three years, ANGEL explored and developed concepts and technologies for the management of metadata about information resources, and the users of information resources and future library services. This work has played a significant role in founding the development of the JISC Information Environment and the creation of a devolved Access Management ("Core Middleware") infrastructure for the UK education community. (Excerpt from this source)Percentage of Ariadne articles tagged with this term: [term_node_prcnt_1]%.
The project aims to evaluate the user experience of the University of Edinburgh AquaBrowser service. This involves holistic evaluation centred on both the fundamental and practical use aspects of resource discovery. First, user research will be undertaken through user interviews and field studies to develop library personas and to examine the user perspectives and recommendations of AquaBrowser. Usability testing will subsequently be carried out to examine the efficacy of AquaBrowser user interface. Project start date: 2010-04-21. Project end date: 2010-10-31. (Excerpt from <a href="http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=5c4f2c6809c9b91018d8e74eb2dfd3... source)Percentage of Ariadne articles tagged with this term: [term_node_prcnt_1]%.
Over two years, ARCHES will imaginatively re-purpose an exciting range of materials on ancient Greece and Rome between three educational contexts (FE, HE, and an Independent Online Resource), three subject areas (Theatre Studies, Classics, VR Modelling) and seven modules. Using a variety of delivery modes in modules over a range of learning levels in FE and HE and beyond, creative use of these resources will transform aspects of traditional pedagogy and introduce innovative pedagogical practices. Project start date: 2003-01-02. Project end date: 2004-12-31. (Excerpt from this source)Percentage of Ariadne articles tagged with this term: [term_node_prcnt_1]%.
archives hub
The Archives Hub is a gateway to descriptions of archives for education and research. It represents archives held in UK universities, colleges and other institutions. It holds over 20,000 collection level descriptions of archives on all manner of subjects, and also has thousands of descriptions of series or of individual items within collections. The Hub has nearly 200 contributors across the UK. Each description on the Hub provides a link to the contact details for the repository that holds the archive. (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: Archives Hub)Percentage of Ariadne articles tagged with this term: [term_node_prcnt_1]%.
ARCOMEM is a EU-funded research project. It is about memory institutions like archives, museums, and libraries in the age of the Social Web. Memory institutions are more important now than ever: as we face greater economic and environmental challenges we need our understanding of the past to help us navigate to a sustainable future. This is a core function of democracies, but this function faces stiff new challenges in face of the Social Web, and of the radical changes in information creation, communication and citizen involvement that currently characterise our information society (e.g., there are now more social network hits than Google searches). (Excerpt from this source)Percentage of Ariadne articles tagged with this term: [term_node_prcnt_1]%.
An Alternate Reality Game (ARG) consists of three elements: a series of challenges, an underlying narrative, and a collaborative community. While all three elements will be facilitated online, many challenges take place in the real world, and may be collaborative or individual. The ongoing story provides coherence to the challenges, and the collaborative community provides a forum for students to share information, provide hints for each other and work together. In this pilot the focus will be a single area of induction: library and information skills. The ARGOSI project aims to examine the potential of ARGs as an engaging alternative method of supporting student orientation, socialisation and induction. The project will address four research objectives. These consider the issue of whether an ARG is an effective and appropriate medium for enabling students to: - Meet the intended learning outcomes of the library and information skills induction; - Create social networks during the induction period; improve their confidence in navigating the city and university campus; - Engage in, and enjoy, the induction experience. Project start date: 2008-04-01. Project end date: 2009-03-31. (Excerpt from <a href="http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/usersandinnovation/argosi.aspx... source)Percentage of Ariadne articles tagged with this term: [term_node_prcnt_1]%.
The ARIA project reviewed existing training and awareness provision and JISC funded collections, in parallel with a survey of perceived training needs, to identify potential sources of useful content, to define required new subject specific content and to exploit the cross disciplinary potential of content. The project team collaborated closely with AHDS, RDN and the AHRB ICT Methods Network to ensure that synergies are obtained wherever possible. Project start date: 2004-10-01. Project end date: 2006-09-30. (Excerpt from this source)Percentage of Ariadne articles tagged with this term: [term_node_prcnt_1]%.
Ariadne is a Web magazine for information professionals in archives, libraries and museums in all sectors. Since its inception in January 1996 it has attempted to keep the busy practitioner abreast of current digital library initiatives as well as technological developments further afield. It concentrated originally on reporting in depth to the information community at large on progress and developments within the UK Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib), covering matters such as information service developments and information networking issues worldwide. It now additionally reports on newer JISC-funded programmes and services as well as developments in the field of Museums, Libraries and Archives within the UK and abroad. It is published by UKOLN every three months across the year. (Excerpt from this source)Percentage of Ariadne articles tagged with this term: [term_node_prcnt_1]%.
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Alabama-Tennessee Natural Gas Company
Second Revised Volume No. 1
Contents / Previous / Next / Main Tariff Index
Effective Date: 09/01/1993, Docket: RS92- 27-005, Status: Effective
First Revised Sheet No. 41 First Revised Sheet No. 41 : Superseded
Superseding: ORIGINAL SHEET NO. 41
RATE SCHEDULE FT-SG (continued)
user's gas is being delivered shall be the dekatherm
equivalent of the volumes of gas measured by such meters of
the FT-SG Shipper, corrected to the basis of measurement
specified in this Tariff. The FT-SG Shipper shall deliver
to Transporter on or before the fifth day after the close
of the billing month a statement accompanied by charts and
calculations or other statements as mutually agreeable
showing the volume of interruptible gas delivered each
billing day to each such qualified end-user during the
billing month.
7.7 If on any day quantities of gas delivered by the FT-SG
Shipper to the end-user pursuant to the provisions of this
Section 7 differ from the quantities nominated under the IT
Contract pursuant to which the qualified end-user's gas was
delivered to the FT-SG Shipper, such difference will be
allocated to the Operational Balancing Agreement between
the FT-SG Shipper and Transporter. The FT-SG Shipper shall
be responsible for payment of daily scheduling penalties
and monthly Cash-outs resulting from such imbalances.
Payment of such penalties shall not be considered as a
substitute for any other remedies available to Transporter
against the FT-SG Shipper for failure to conform to the
provisions of this Section 7.
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By Headspace Running most certainly has its benefits: It's good for our hearts and our heads. Many have turned running into a daily habit. And while there's much to gain from performing the physical activity, there's a lot we're missing out on when we slip into a semi-conscious state when doing the exercise. It's pretty normal for the mind to wander when you're running, regardless of whether the thoughts are related to the running itself, or something quite separate. But the only way to ensure that you're performing to the very best of your ability, is to leave the thinking behind and allow the body and mind to work together with a combined physical and mental focus. So here is a mindfulness exercise from the meditation experts at Headspace to use next time you go for your run.
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Sandefjord [1] is in Vestfold in Norway.
An International Small Town with an Exciting Historical Past
Sandefjord is a historical town which has become a modern town of culture with a dynamic business life. The history of Sandefjord has been formed by the Viking Age, the shipping industry and whaling in Arctic and Antarctic areas. Sandefjord has a history of pioneer spirit and creativity, daring and bravery.
The Vikings had their very first settlements in Vestfold. The Gokstad Viking Ship which dates from the year 900 was discovered in Sandefjord. Today one can find a replica of this famous ship down at the harbour. Like the Vikings, the urge to go abroad and explore foreign countries lead the first whalers to the Antarctic Ocean. The history of the whalers can be explored at the Whaling Museum and at the Museum's Wharf with a visit aboard the whale-catcher "Southern Actor."
Sandefjord is also a well known and frequently visited vacation spot for Norwegians.
Get in
Sandefjord's Torp Airport has flights to some major and minor cities around Norway and Europe, including Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Frankfurt, London, Milan and Stockholm.
The Norwegian State Railway serves Sandefjord on the Oslo-Skien line.
Nor-Way Busexpress' line 182 goes through Sandefjord.
Get around
Sandefjord has a charming city centre, consisting of a mixture of old and modern buildings and a wide selection of shopping possibilities.
Sandefjord has a good selection of restaurants and cafés. What is possibly Norway's best gourmet restaurant is located here in a modern building near the harbour. Also located at the harbour is the fishmonger well known for the excellent quality of its goods and delicacies.
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Two health pioneers bring a fresh approach to addiction treatment.
Mohs Surgery is an outpatient procedure that checks the entire margin of the tumor.
Not every man with prostate cancer dies from it; some prostate cancers are very slow growing, and some are very biologically aggressive.
Put yourself in the doctor's chair with this case study of prostate cancer diagnosis and treatment.
Retirement planning can seem complex and intimidating, which explains why some people delay doing it. To simplify your planning, consider pursuing these 10 steps.
The Hilals, a Walnut Creek family, in Paris on vacation, a few days before their oldest son fell desperately ill. Here is the mother's story as adapted from blog posts on Caring Bridge.
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Graeme Daniels explains how to trust after a drug rehab program.
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Rovers claim West country spoils
Tom Eaves struck twice as Bristol Rovers continued their recent improvement with a 3-2 win over 10-man Torquay at the Memorial Stadium.
The striker capitalised on poor defending to lift the ball over advancing `keeper Michael Poke after 15 minutes, and Matt Lund's free-kick doubled the advantage just two minutes later before the visitors had full-back Joe Oastler dismissed for a second booking on the half hour.
Back roared Torquay, though, and Rene Howe pulled one back with a curling effort after the break before Aaron Downes' header levelled matters shortly after. But Eaves netted the winner from substitute Wayne Brown's 76th-minute pass.
A cracking West country derby saw Rovers dominate the first half before their opponents emerged to give a much better account of themselves after the interval.
Both sides had chances in a feast of attacking football, but the home side ran out worthy winners and have now been beaten only once in seven games after a poor start to the season.
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CHIPLEY � Washington County businesses may be eligible to file claims for losses due to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2010, even if they were initially denied by the BP claims offices, said Ron Bell, director of sales for NFW Consulting.
CHIPLEY � Washington County businesses may be eligible to file claims for losses due to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2010, even if they were initially denied by the BP claims offices, said Ron Bell, director of sales for NFW Consulting.
Bell spoke to the Washington County Chamber of Commerce on Thursday, at Northwest Florida Community Hospital, during the chamber�s monthly �Third Thursday� breakfast meeting.
Deepwater Horizon was the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history.
While drilling at the Macondo Prospect 0n April 20, 2010, an an explosion on the oil rig caused by a blowout and killed 11 crewmen. The explosion also ignited a fireball visible from 35 miles away.
The resulting fire could not be extinguished and, on April 22, Deepwater Horizon sank, leaving the well gushing at the sea bed.
�The oil spill decimated the economy in this area,� Bell said. �When it first occurred to BP that they had a bad PR problem, they hired an independent insurance adjustment firm to handle the claims.�
Bell explained that when catastrophes such as hurricanes or tornadoes occur, insurance companies often hire independent adjustment firms to help with the numerous claims filed. BP hired one of those firms to handle the initial claims from businesses seeking reparations following the oil spill.
On those initial claims, in some cases BP was paying more than 10 times what the loss was worth, Bell said. Then BP realized it was putting too much money in the wrong hands.
Then the process went to the Gulf Coast Claims Facility, under Kenneth Feinberg, and the GCCF turned down many claims and lost a lot of the paperwork that residents filed with the organization, Bell said. Soon, a federal lawsuit filed in Louisiana led to a settlement from BP in which $7 billion was made accessible to pay claims through the Deepwater Horizon Claims Center.
Likewise, the nation�s best economists were called upon to come up with a formula for calculating loss due to the oil spill and the resultant economic downturn � a formula that came out in a 1,000 page document, Bell said.
NWF Consulting came about as a company when a Santa Rosa County entrepreneur, Harrell Downey, tried to submit claims for his financial advising and real estate businesses and was denied by the GCCF.
Downey learned how to file a claim with the Deepwater Horizon Claims Center, using the complex formula, then began teaching others how to file a claim by holding seminars along the coast, Bell said. The resulting firm, NWA Consulting, became the top Deepwater claims experts in the country, he added.
�In the case of the first two programs, it was the case of the proverbial fox guarding the henhouse,� Bell said. With the settlement claims center, BP is no longer in charge of who can file.
Some businesses are, however, not allowed to file claims, including banks, financial advisors and BP gas stations. Most other businesses, however, can file a Deepwater Horizon claim if they can show that there was a downturn in profits in 2010.
�The way they determine if you have a claim is to look at your profits from 2007 to 2011,� Bell said. �If they can show that you had a downturn in profit, then they do this calculation and it tells you how much you will get paid.�
NWF Consulting will file claims for local businesses, and the consultants receive a 15 percent fee on whatever amount is collected. Bell said that on average it costs NWF Consulting $7,500 to file a claim, but that cost is covered by the consulting firm and they only get paid if they collect a claim payment.
Washington County falls into zones C and D as far as claims go, with the A zone being directly on the coast. However, in the case of Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana, the entire states are considered affected areas so towns such as McComb, Miss., which are not costal at all, have received claims.
�People are filing claims, and getting paid,� Bell said. �What we�ve seen, is if we look at four claims, one will get paid. This is pulling a lot of money back into our economy, and that is having a positive impact.�