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Irving Oil's New England Fundraiser Supports Over 28,000 Special Olympics Athletes
PORTSMOUTH, NH — Irving Oil has announced the arrival of its biggest fundraiser in New England. Irving's partnership with Special Olympics began 13 years ago in New Hampshire and has benefited the Law Enforcement Torch Run, the largest fundraiser worldwide for the Special Olympics. Since then, the event has expanded across all six New England states and has risen over $2 million.
"Working alongside so many passionate and talented athletes is very rewarding," said Harry Hadiaris, General Manager of Irving Oil. "We love the opportunity to support Special Olympics and law enforcement officers across all of New England."
On July 28th, various Irving and Circle K locations will host the "To Serve and Protect Day," where Special Olympics athletes, coaches and law enforcement officers work alongside Irving and Circle K employees to pump gas, wash windshields, and greet customers at local Irving Service Stations, Travel Plazas, and Circle K locations throughout New England.
"Our continued partnership with Irving and Circle K, in addition to providing great awareness of our Movement, allows Special Olympics across New England to continue to live out our mission through the dollars raised from their support," said Mary Conroy, President of Special Olympics New Hampshire. "The funds raised through our partnership have allowed us to sustain current programs, launch new initiatives and increase awareness of Special Olympics. Irving is a great corporate friend that makes a significant impact in what we are able to accomplish."
Everybody can support their Special Olympics state organization by purchasing special car window clings for $1 at Irving Service Stations, Travel Plazas, and Circle K locations in New Hampshire, Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island. Clings can be purchased until August 5th. In addition, Irving Oil will make a direct donation of $100,000.
Irving Oil was founded in 1924 and is a privately owned regional refining and marketing company. Irving Oil operates Canada's largest refinery, just over the border in Saint John, N.B., and has over 900 service stations and travel plazas in New England and Eastern Canada. In 2003, Irving Oil became the first oil company to receive a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Clean Air Excellence Award, for its clean gasoline. For more information about Irving Oil, visit https://www.irvingoil.com/
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Porsche presents comprehensively revamped Panamera
The new Porsche Panamera now covers an even wider spectrum. It combines the performance of a sports car with the comfort of an exclusive saloon.
With the 463 kW (630 PS; Panamera Turbo S models: Fuel consumption combined 11.1 – 10.7 l/100 km; CO2 emissions combined 253– 245 g/km (as of 08/2020)) Panamera Turbo S, the sports car manufacturer successfully supports its claim to best-in-class performance. The new top-of-the-range model betters the performance figures of the previous Panamera Turbo by a wide margin. Porsche also continues to pursue its E-Performance strategy. The Panamera 4S E-Hybrid is a new addition to the range of plug-in hybrids, offering a completely new drive system with 412 kW (560 PS; Panamera 4S E-Hybrid models: Fuel consumption combined 2.3 – 2.0 l/100 km, Electricity consumption combined 19.5 – 17.4 kWh/100 km; CO2 emissions combined 53 – 47 g/km (as of 08/2020)) system output. Compared with the previous hybrid models, the all-electric range has been boosted by up to 30 per cent. Comfort and sportiness both benefit from enhanced chassis components and control systems in combination with the new-generation steering control and tyres.
Turbo S: from zero to 100 km/h in 3.1 seconds
With a power output of 463 kW (630 PS; Panamera Turbo S models: Fuel consumption combined 11.1 – 10.7 l/100 km; CO2 emissions combined 253– 245 g/km (as of 08/2020)) and a torque of 820 newton metres, the new Panamera Turbo S offers 59 kW (80 PS) more power and 50 Nm more torque than the previous flagship Turbo with combustion engine. This has a very positive effect on driving performance: in Sport Plus mode, the Turbo S model accelerates from 0 – 100 km/h in just 3.1 seconds. Developed in Weissach and built in Zuffenhausen, the familiar four-litre V8 biturbo engine has been comprehensively overhauled to enable the car to achieve a top speed of 315 km/h (Panamera Turbo S models: Fuel consumption combined 11.1 – 10.7 l/100 km; CO2 emissions combined 253– 245 g/km (as of 08/2020)).
The new Panamera Turbo S
In order to transfer the enormous power to the road in a controlled manner and maximise cornering performance, the three-chamber air suspension, the Porsche Active Suspension Management (PASM) and the roll stabilisation system Porsche Dynamic Chassis Control Sport (PDCC Sport) including Porsche Torque Vectoring Plus (PTV Plus) have been customised to each specific model and optimised accordingly.
The new Panamera Turbo S has already proven its uncompromising performance capability on the legendary Nürburgring Nordschleife: test driver Lars Kern completed the 20.832 kilometre-long lap on the most demanding race track in the world in exactly 7:29.81 minutes – the new official record in the "executive cars" class.
New Panamera achieves lap record on the Nürburgring
In the official ranking of Nürburgring GmbH, this time certified by a notary public now stands as a new record in the "executive cars" category.
Increased sportiness and comfort thanks to optimised chassis systems
The V8 biturbo engine in the Panamera GTS was optimised with a specific focus on its power delivery. With 353 kW (480 PS; Panamera GTS models: Fuel consumption combined 11.1 – 10.7 l/100 km; CO2 emissions combined 253 – 244 g/km (as of 08/2020)) and 620 Nm, the new Panamera GTS delivers 15 kW (20 PS) more power than its predecessor. The power output continuously increases up to close to the engine speed limit. The power delivery is therefore like that of a classic sports car with naturally aspirated engine. The traditional V8 sound characteristics are even more prominent than before thanks to the new standard sports exhaust system featuring asymmetrically positioned rear silencers.
The new Panamera and Panamera 4 are now equipped with the familiar 2.9-litre V6 biturbo engine (Panamera: Fuel consumption combined 8.8 – 8.6 l/100 km; CO₂ emissions combined 201 – 197 g/km (as of 11/2020); Panamera 4: Fuel consumption combined 8.8 – 8.7 l/100 km; CO₂ emissions combined 202 – 199 g/km (as of 11/2020)) in all markets worldwide. Delivering 243 kW (330 PS; Panamera models: Fuel consumption combined 8.8 – 8.6 l/100 km; CO2 emissions combined 201– 197 g/km; Panamera 4 models: Fuel consumption combined 9.0 – 8.7 l/100 km; CO2 emissions combined 205 – 199 g/km (all as of 08/2020)) and 450 Nm, the performance remains unchanged.
The chassis and control systems have been geared towards a sporty and also comfortable character for all new Panamera models. Some systems have even been applied completely from scratch. For example, the revamped Porsche Active Suspension Management (PASM) system results in a noticeable improvement in damping comfort, while the control of the electric roll stabilisation system Porsche Dynamic Chassis Control Sport (PDCC Sport) ensures improved body stability. There is also a new equipment generation for the steering control and tyres.
4S E-Hybrid with 17.9 kWh battery and an electric range of up to 54 km
Porsche is presenting a further performance-oriented plug-in hybrid model with the new Panamera 4S E-Hybrid. The intelligent combination of the 100 kW (136 PS; Panamera 4S E-Hybrid models: Fuel consumption combined 2.3 – 2.0 l/100 km, Electricity consumption combined 19.5 – 17.4 kWh/100 km; CO2 emissions combined 53 – 47 g/km (as of 08/2020)) electric motor integrated into the eight-speed dual-clutch PDK transmission and the 2.9-litre V6 biturbo engine with 324 kW (440 PS) generates a system output of 412 kW (560 PS) and a maximum system torque of 750 Nm.
The new Panamera 4S E-Hybrid Sport Turismo
The performance figures are therefore very impressive: combined with the standard Sport Chrono Package, the sprint from 0 – 100 km/h is covered in 3.7 seconds. The top speed is 298 km/h (Panamera 4S E-Hybrid models: Fuel consumption combined 2.3 – 2.0 l/100 km, Electricity consumption combined 19.5 – 17.4 kWh/100 km; CO2 emissions combined 53 – 47 g/km (as of 08/2020)). The gross battery capacity has been increased from 14.1 to 17.9 kWh compared with the previous hybrid models using optimised cells and the driving modes have been optimised for even more efficient energy utilisation. The 4S E-Hybrid has an all-electric range of up to 54 km in accordance with WLTP EAER City (NEDC: up to 64 km).
Sharper visual appearance for greater presence
The new Panamera models – in addition to the sports saloon, they can also be ordered as Sport Turismo or Executive with lengthened wheelbase, depending on the drive system – are now equipped from the factory with the previously optional Sport Design front end with striking air intake grilles, large side cooling openings and a single-bar front light module. The completely new front end of the Panamera Turbo S is differentiated by the larger side air intakes and newly designed elements in the exterior colour, which are connected horizontally and thus emphasise the width of the vehicle. The light modules of the dual Turbo front lights are now set much further apart.
The front end of the new Panamera Turbo S
The revamped light strip at the rear now runs seamlessly over the luggage compartment lid with an adapted contour. It thus provides a continuous and flowing connection between the two newly designed LED tail light clusters. GTS models sport the new darkened Exclusive Design tail light clusters as standard with dynamic coming/leaving home function. Three new 20- and 21-inch wheels have been added to the wheel range, so that a total of 10 different designs are now available.
Digital connectivity and assistance systems for safety and comfort
The Porsche Communication Management (PCM) includes additional digital functions and services such as the improved Voice Pilot online voice control, Risk Radar for up-to-date road sign and hazard information, wireless Apple® CarPlay and many other Connect services.
The interior of the new Panamera
The Panamera also offers an extensive range of innovative light and assistance systems, such as the now standard Lane Keeping Assist with road sign recognition, as well as Porsche InnoDrive including adaptive cruise control, Night Vision Assist, Lane Change Assist, LED matrix headlights including PDLS Plus, Park Assist including Surround View and head-up display.
The new Porsche Panamera is available to order now and will be in dealerships in the middle of October.
The new Panamera
Lap record with the new Panamera on the Nürburgring Nordschleife
Testing of the new Panamera
The new Panamera – Connect
The new Panamera – Chassis
The new Panamera – Design
Media Kit of the new Panamera models
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New Panamera achieves lap record on the Nürburgring Nordschleife
Porsche has proven the performance potential of the new Panamera even before the car's world premiere.
Testing times for the new Porsche Panamera
How to safely conduct test drives during Covid-19 has been something of a challenge for the development teams at Porsche.
Generations in comparison - the Porsche Panamera 4S
Guest author Fabian Mechtel sent two blue Porsche Panamera 4S on a journey.
10 years of the Panamera: sports car, luxury saloon, hybrid pioneer
With the Panamera, the sports car manufacturer presented its first Gran Turismo in April 2009.
Panamera 4S E-Hybrid Sport Turismo
Panamera Turbo S Sport Turismo
Panamera 4 Sport Turismo
Panamera 4S E-Hybrid Executive
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Deep Maps
Author: Brett Bloom Website: breakdownbreakdown.net
CategorySelf-Reflection TopicPolitical Ecology RegionEnglandEuropeScotland
Making a Deep Map is a way to be conscious of a place in such a manner as to hold multiple layers of understanding of the present moment in a non-reductive and robust manner. This is in contradistinction to the ways we normally speed through and consume the landscapes and places of our petroleum-driven, industrialized lives, and the related sense of self this produces. A Deep Map of a place includes many things: direct perceptions of that place; its inhabitants' memories; embodied understandings as the place enters you in numerous ways that are emotional, psychological, physical, spiritual and transcendental; geological formations; morethan-human actors like animals, plants, microbes and landscapes; historical developments from different eras; weather patterns; agricultural uses; modern infrastructure; bioregional processes; contradictory ideological ratiocinations and more. A Deep Mapping of a place potentially has no limits to complexity as long as it is meaningful and you have – or a group has – the ability to hold an awareness of the varying ways of understanding. The layers can be added as long as this helps elucidate and makes present a complex way of relating. This short text describes where the idea of a Deep Map comes from and how it can be developed further and applied as a methodology in direct social and spatial encounters.
The idea of a Deep Map, as an emergent method – and cultural formation – for thinking the world in terms and ways that work to eliminate petro-subjective positions,1 was directly inspired by William Least Heat-Moon's book PrairyErth: A Deep Map (1999). In the book, he describes borrowing the ethnographers' process of "thick description." This concept was introduced by anthropologist Clifford Gertz in his book The Interpretation of Cultures (1973). A thick description enumerates a culture and its behaviors while it simultaneously gives a dense context so that the behavior becomes understandable to those not a part of the culture being described. Least Heat Moon's use of Deep Mapping takes on a powerful literary approach to understanding a place. PrairyErth tells the story of several counties in Kansas that once thrived but are now in severe decline with few denizens. Least Heat Moon creates incredibly dense contexts for telling the stories of the current inhabitants and what might motivate them to stay as things continue to decline and the world changes around them. Least Heat Moon starts each exploration of the various Kansas counties he covers in PrairyErth with a bevy of quotes. He takes them from historical records, daily newspapers, poems, philosophy books and many other sources from the local culture as readily as elsewhere. These quotations begin to sensitize you to the many things he will be talking about on the pages that follow immediately after. In presenting you with a particular place, he might describe important geological formations, then move on to how the indigenous people used the land, their displacement by settlers, the fast industrialization of the place, and then the decline of the modern economy, which sets the stage to meet people who have stayed in towns that are mostly vacant and falling apart. The book is a dazzling achievement that makes the stories of these places thrive and become tangible, almost a shared reality with the people he talks to.
How to Inhabit a Deep Map
I am an artist and activist and am interested in how I can make cultural tools that help shift us out of one way of being in the world into another that is less violent and destructive, which can help us survive climate breakdown and chaos. Instead of making art that you look at, I make work that you experience directly in a cultural way, very much like you would if you went to a concert where you were asked to sing and clap along the entire time. Your presence and your expression of yourself are critical to the success of the gathering. I have 20 years of experience working as an artist in groups and making art collaboratively. This has given me a lot of experience in facilitating all kinds of group processes to amplify the subjects explored.
I use Deep Mapping as a cultural tool that can help shift our behavior and allow us to experience what it might be like to have petroleum out of our sense of self and the kinds of social formation we nurture. Least Heat Moon makes Deep Maps with writing; I have borrowed this notion to carefully craft immersive experiences to be shared and gone through with others. They have been organized and realized with the explicit purpose of practicing the de-industrialization of our individual and collective sense of self, to begin to understand what post-oil subjectivity might be. I have organized long camps and workshops where a Deep Map is created for people to enter.
Inhabiting a Deep Map is a social process, a pedagogical tool, and a way of tuning yourself to the complexities of being in any place. I work to convey a strong sense to the people who join the camps and workshops that they will be experiencing the given place we are in in a way that differs dramatically from petroleum-based space and time, which flattens places and our experiences of them.
In the summer of 2015, I co-organized a camp in rural Scotland that focused on the dramatic landscape that surrounded the Scottish Sculpture Workshop (SSW), the venue that hosted the gathering. This landscape is heavily industrialized yet maintains a beauty and mystery that gives one a sense that it could be restored and understood in radically other ways. The camp lasted 11 days. Around 30 people attended. We engaged where we were with directly embodied learning processes. We used exercises that come from a variety of sources. One source that is used frequently is Deep Listening. It is a practice developed by the American composer and electronic music pioneer, Pauline Oliveros, to train ourselves to use our vast perceptual capacities to sense sounds, energy flows, and ancient rhythms in ourselves and the world. A simple beginner's exercise – that has many similarities to meditation, but is directed towards the outside world and not one's inner peace – is to sit and listen for 30 minutes to all the sounds one hears moving from the global (hearing everything at once) to the focal (listening to a specific sound until it stops). The results are always quite surprising. Thirty people listening all to the same sonic environment in this way will each come up with very different understandings of what it is they heard. It becomes immediately clear that the wildness of existence is just on the other side of a very permeable threshold!
We combined these exercises with discussions about climate breakdown and our fears about the future. We read and discussed texts that sensitized us to various issues like animistic knowledge and how to regain the powerful tools of sensing the world that we have evolved with but suppress with regular calls to being rational about everything. We had guests come and talk about a variety of subjects that included land reform, soil and spirituality, re-inhabiting rural Scotland via the tradition of hutting, and more. We had workshops where we walked, with ecologist Nance Klehm, around the small town where SSW is located and learned empathic tools for understanding plants and their characters in addition to the medicinal properties of these plants that were growing in the cracks of sidewalks and in alley ways. Another workshop, led by soil scientist Bruce Ball, had us looking at soil samples everyone was asked to bring from their homes so we could understand how the soil worked and how to gauge its relative health. We made excursions to a nearby permacultural farm. We took a longer trip to an enormous rewilding initiative on 10,000 hectares by an organization rewilding the Scottish landscape – Trees For Life is restoring the Caledonian forest on a former estate where overgrazing and hunting for many generations had destroyed much of what had been there.
We had a sauna made so people could relax after the long 12hour days of activities (see image on opposite page). The interior was made from locally harvested larch, and the rocks that sat on the wood-burning stove came from streams, fields and the hills surrounding SSW. The exterior was made from old whiskey barrels and had an amazing smell every time it rained. The sauna was used by artist Mari Keski-Korsu to do whisking and heat balancing for those who wanted it. This is an ancient Baltic healing tradition that she is trained in. Keski-Korsu made whisks from various trees that were in the hills surrounding SSW. A typical session went like this: You would sit in the sauna with Mari for 30 minutes, exit and cool down a bit, then reenter after she rinsed you with birch water. You would lie naked and face down on a pillow of aromatic leaves. Mari would then whisk your body, swirl heat from the top of the sauna down over your body and then massage parts of your body with the tree branches. Next you would turn over. A hot bunch of leaves put on your genitals. More clumps of hot aromatic leaves put over your face. And even more put under your arm pits as Mari continued to move the hot air over your body, beat the soles of your feet, and literally melt your consciousness into a completely other place. Keski-Korsu also introduced the group to animal communication via a workshop with Clydesdale horses, which were used for centuries to work the landscape.
After many days of being constantly immersed in these kinds of experiences, a relatively strong group cohesion emerged for most people as did an alternate sense of place and time. This was not just my own perception but something that was communicated to me directly or in passing when I overhead others making statements that revealed this, particularly about their shifted sense of time. This has been an organic part of all the Deep Map situations I have organized. Each group arrives at this state at a different moment, but they do get there and the Deep Map is an important part of this.
Extending Deep Mapping
Permacultural resource mapping, developed by the late Bill Mollison and others, can be used to help visualize aspects of a Deep Map. These processes are highly compatible and are very powerful when combined. I am constantly inspired by illustrations from the Permaculture: A Designers' Manual, by Bill Mollison (1988), in particular two maps that show the production of a single chicken egg. One shows an industrial egg and all the resources that go into making it, complete with all the energy-intensive and wasteful processes like the burning of fossil fuels to make many of the materials needed to house, feed and transport eggs laid by the chickens. This map is contrasted with another that shows a permacultural egg and how its making dramatically reduces the wasteful and polluting energy inputs needed by creating things like self-generating food sources that feed the chicken as the chicken's waste feeds it, and so on.
The image above demonstrates how I have used permacultural resource mapping. Material like this map is used in the gatherings I organize. This particular map is of an individual's Petro-Subjectivity; it presents many potential intersections in one's life with oil and its presence in every imaginable process and action. Making maps like these are useful to help think about how you would go about organizing your own Deep Map experience.
Instructions for Making a Deep Map
Making a Deep Map takes a significant amount of time to organize and construct. It requires a commitment of resources, finding collaborators and creating a situation where one is a facilitator among other facilitators. Everyone involved in some way becomes a co-creator of meaning and experience. The Deep Map enables an experience where no one person, discourse, or narrative holds power over an understanding of the things you are investigating. They are combined, piled up and co-exist even when they seem to be contradictory. The Deep Map gives participants immediate, directly embodied participation in the subjects and leaves them with an understanding that is not possible otherwise.
1. Start by organizing an extended, immersive gathering – like a camp2 – where there is a lot of time to explore a specific set of concerns from multiple perspectives. The gathering can be for a 3-day weekend or much longer. This can happen in a city and is an option which deserves experimenting with. However, a rural location makes for greater group cohesion and concentration as people will be taken away from the stresses and demands of their urban lives.3
2. Explore topics in several different, overlapping, layered ways. Make space for people who use multiple, and contradictory, kinds of "languages" for understanding the world, for example: academic, activist, spiritual, myth-telling, empathic, visionary, scientific or any combination of these.
3. Explore topics through multiple kinds of activities: lectures, directly embodied learning, walks, discussions, readings, hands-on workshops, team-building exercises, interspecies communication and more to address your set of concerns.
4. Have your activities unfold in a variety of settings. You can have multiple discussions, for example, but try different social formations to do this: formal presentations in a circle, a loose gathering around a bonfire at night with food and drinks, on top of a high-rise building, a moderated discussion on spectrum,4 plus many more ways.
5. Take care to provide a thoughtful blend of variation and repetition. It is good to have too much happening, so there is this feeling of being overwhelmed, but make sure it is in a positive way. Give people the freedom and feeling that they can opt out of things if they become overwhelmed. Reassure them that there is no judgement if they need to take a break and take care of themselves.
6. Take excursions to visit people, initiatives, landscapes or anything else that offers yet another perspective or way of considering what it is you are exploring. This puts people into an additional dynamic situation that you have not organized but that will only amplify your other activities.
7. Figure out the economics of the Deep Map gathering. This is relative to the ambition and scale of what you want to organize. Deep Maps can work with grants where people have only to pay for a little bit of the gathering, or maybe you have to ask people to cover all the costs of transportation, food, speaker fees, workshops, etc. Keep it affordable for participants if you can.
8. Decide who you want to invite to your Deep Map. This
will effect what you organize and the kind of experience
you have. You can have an open call and accept anyone who answers the fastest. You can have folks answer questions that show their level of engagement with the subjects you are exploring and then make a curated selection. Perhaps you develop a different strategy to bring people in, but it is good to give this aspect of organizing a Deep Map enough consideration.
9. Make Deep Map guidelines.5 They can be as minimal or as detailed as your gathering requires, but should be used to help strengthen and support the success of the Deep Map.
Bloom, B.A. 2015. Petro-Subjectivity: De-Industrializing Our Sense of Self. academia.edu/18494906/Petro-Subjectivity_De-Industrializing_Our_ Sense_of_Self, 14 January 2018.
Hailey, C. 2009. Camps:A Guide to 21st-Century Space. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.
Petro-subjectivity is something that each of us experiences constantly.
It is a sense of self and the world that shapes who we are and how
we think. It stems in part from the fact that the use of oil is present in everything we do. It has shaped the concepts that govern our thinking. Our use of language and the basic concepts that structure our existence are breathed through the logic of oil relationships and form the metaphoric universe we bathe ourselves in when we speak to one another about who we are, what we do and what the world around us consists of. From Petro-Subjectivity: De-Industrializing Our Sense of Self, by Brett Bloom, Breakdown Break Down Press, 2015.
A great resource for understanding the history and forms of camps and their potentials for being used in a variety of capacities, for making Deep Maps and other things, is Charlie Hailey's Camps:A Guide to 21st-Century Space, MIT Press, 2009.
Commuting restraints were so severe in London that it cut a lot of
time off of when we could start and end our days together. In Helsinki, people were distracted by the proximity to their "urban busyness" – the fear that they might be missing out on something else – and it effected the cohesion of the group.
This is a specific kind of discussion used by activists to visualize the various positions people represent in a debate. In the space where
you are holding your discussion, you designate two extreme positions in a debate and give them a physical location, perhaps by marking the spaces with chairs.You ask people participating to locate themselves at or between these two points.The discussion is facilitated and draws out the differences as a way to discuss the issues.
An example of Deep Map (Camp) Guidelines:
• This is a place of respect for differences in race, ethnicity, gender,
sexuality, religion, ideology, temperament, pace, ability, introversion
and extroversion.
• We practice discourse diversity, in the sense of biodiversity, and
the necessarily complex set of experiences, cultures, education, and
so on that shape each of us.
• We have respect and awareness for the non-human participants in
the camp at the site and anywhere we may go.
• We work together to make this a safe space for you and for any-
one at the camp. It is important to take care of yourself, to make sure you are healthy, and that you are not stressed out by anything at the camp.Take time away if you need to from group situations and processes. Ask for help should you need it.
• This is a place for constructive, generous criticism, reflection, and pushing each other to learn and understand in an intense yet nurturing manner.
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Damian Wayne's adventures continue in new Robin ongoing series
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Now that Damian Wayne has severed his ties to both Batman and the Teen Titans, he'll be emerging from under their shadows to forge his own path, courtesy of writer Joshua Williamson (The Flash, Future State: Justice League, Infinite Frontier) and artist Gleb Melnikov (Wonder Woman, Batman/Superman Annual) in an all-new ongoing series! Debuting on Tuesday, April 27, Robin will feature new mysteries for Damian to explore, a new supporting cast, brand new characters, and fights, lots of fights!
"Being a big fan of Damian Wayne, I'm really excited about getting him back on a hero's journey." said Williamson. "Gleb is the perfect artist to tell this story as we show readers Damian's growth, in a new adventure that navigates his legacy, his connections to Batman, Talia Al Ghul and kicks off an important story in the DC Universe."
After learning of the deadly League of Lazarus tournament, Damian Wayne has a new mission: to win the tournament and prove he is the greatest fighter in the DC Universe! But first he must find the secret island where the tournament is being held!
For fans that want a taste of the action to come from Williamson and Melnikov, the March issues of Batman (#106, on sale March 2) and Detective Comics (issue #1034, on sale March 23) will feature a two-part "prequel" backup story, "Demon or Detective." After leaving Batman behind in Detective Comics #1033, Damian comes face to face with his mother, Talia al Ghul.
Featuring a main and wraparound variant covers by Melnikov, a team-themed card stock variant cover by Andy Kubert and a 1 in 25 variant cover by Riccardo Federici, Robin is a can't-miss look at the next phase of Damian Wayne's hero's journey.
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It is foggy tonight and I am loving the sounds of the ship foghorns on Chesapeake Bay. My latest CD, Flute by Keyboard has recently been released, and I have just sent my completed memoirs, Erich Graf/Musician/Flutist/Advocate to my publisher. This completes my three-year exit project from Utah. I am feeling fulfilled and liberated as the sound of the waves on Chesapeake Bay soothe me.


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Microwave Frequencies Used by Researchers to see Through Walls
After researchers used smaller microwave frequencies to see accurately through walls, Edgy Labs considers the state of commercially available TTW devices.
Rechelle Ann Fuertes Dec 20, 2017 at 5:15 am GMT
Researchers have found a way to use microwave frequencies to see through walls.
A recent study published in the journal Optica explains how researchers from the Duke University devised a way to see through walls by using a narrow band of microwave frequencies. What makes this new approach significant is that it enables seeing through walls even if their material composition is unknown.
Just imagine how this new technology could revolutionize our current state of security. While such tech is nothing new, especially in the fields of intelligence surveillance and military, using smaller frequencies can lower the cost of developing devices beneficial in other industries like construction.
"Most technologies that can see through walls use a broad range of frequencies, which makes them expensive. They also don't have very good resolution. So while they might be fine for seeing a person moving on the other side of a wall, they're terrible for finding thin conduits or wires," says Daniel Marks, an associate research professor of electrical and computer engineering at Duke University.
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Existing methods that enable experts to see through walls typically require knowing the kind of components used to build the walls. This helps in determining the frequency range suitable to penetrate the walls and to separate the echoes and distortions from the solid objects being sought.
Take for example the RANGE-R device used by FBI in hostage-rescue missions and by firefighters in locating people beneath collapsed buildings during calamities. RANGE-R is equipped with what its manufacturer calls Through-the-Wall Sensors (TTWS). These sensors let anyone to see targets behind walls with the help of radio waves.
TTWS radar operates in between 1 to 10 GHz frequencies. In essence, the higher the frequency, the more accurate RANGE-R can measure the size and distance of objects behind any wall. However, the frequencies have to be adjusted depending on the wall materials because there are materials that can absorb radio waves.
Radar used by FBI and US Marshalls to see through walls | Engadget | www.engadget.com
While RANGE-R is no longer exclusive to the police, FBI, and military, you can only have one for a staggering $6,000 USD. The issue with wall materials and the cost of developing the device are apparently what Marks and his colleagues David Smith and Okan Yurduseven wanted to address.
Since walls are generally constructed flat in all direction, they tend to distort waves symmetrically. In their paper, Marks and his team took advantage of this symmetry.
"We wrote an algorithm that separates the data into parts—one that shows circular symmetry and another that doesn't," Yurduseven, a postdoctoral researcher in electrical and computer engineering at Duke, explained. "The data that doesn't have any symmetry is what we're trying to see."
The researchers only utilized a narrow band of microwave frequencies to scan walls because it cuts down on the number of interference patterns created by the wall. Aside from that, single-frequency emitters are said to be less expensive than broadband emitters.
Furthermore, narrow range frequencies will enable future devices to be quickly cleared by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) because they won't spark conflicts with other technologies using microwave frequencies such as WiFi, mobile phones, and Bluetooth.
In their laboratory, the researchers built a prototype device to test their new method. They used it to scan different kinds of walls they constructed themselves. Objects that workers might want to find like studs, electrical conduits, wires, and junction boxes were placed behind the walls.
Raw data taken after scanning a wall using a narrow band of microwave frequencies | Daniel Marks | Duke University
The data gathered from the scanning procedure yielded some satisfying results, especially after removing the symmetrical patterns. The researchers were able to recognize the individual objects because they appear considerably clear.
"We envision combining this technique with a machine vision system that someone could move over a wall to see what's inside," Marks went on to say. "We think the technology has the price point and sensitivity to make an impact on the market."
Do you agree with having devices that can see through walls commercially available in the market at an affordable price?
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Lasseindra Ninja (* 1986) ist der Künstlername einer französischen, queeren Voguetänzerin. Sie gilt in Frankreich als eine Vorreiterin des Voguing, eines Tanzstils, der in den achtziger Jahren in New York im Rahmen der Ballroom-Kultur entstanden ist.

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Mit 20 Jahren fing Ninja an Vouge zu tanzen, nachdem sie von einem der bekanntesten Kollektive in New York entdeckt wurde Nach ihrer Rückkehr fing sie an Bälle (oder auch Ballrooms) zu veranstalten, bei denen Drag Queens und transgeschlechtliche Menschen ihre Identität  im Tanz und machte so das Voguing in Frankreich beziehungsweise überwiegend in Paris bekannter.

In Frankreich gründete Ninja das "House of Ninja", ein internationales Vougekollektive in Paris. Sie steht in der Tradition von Stéphane Mizrahi und GIo Brooks, die diesen Tanz in Frankreich praktizierten.

In einem Radiointerview mit RTS sprach sie darüber, Voguing ins Pariser Hip-Hop-Milieu gebracht zu haben: "Sie dachten, es sei ein Tanz, bei dem das weibliche Geschlecht zu finden sei, dabei ist es kein Tanz, der ursprünglich von biologischen Frauen geschaffen wurde."  Wegen dieser Notwendigkeit des Austausches und ermutigt durch die zweite Pionierin des Voguing in Frankreich, Mother Steffi, initiierte sie eine Ballroom-Szene, um diese amerikanische Kultur bekannt zu machen. Bei diesem Prozess wurden dem Voguing auch französische Einflüsse hinzugefügt. Voguing ist für sie eine wichtige Form der Freiheit des persönlichen Ausdrucks. Dennoch möchte sie das Erbe der Ballroomkultur bewahren, wenn diese Szene mit den eigenen sozialen und politischen Wurzeln verbunden wird.

Ninja war in der Dokumentation Paris is voguing (2016) von Gabrielle Culand zu sehen, die auf France 4 ausgestrahlt wurde. Der Film zeigt überwiegend die Wettbewerbe aus eine Mischung aus Modenschau und Tanz gegeneinander.

Nach Ninja werde die amerikanische Ballroom-Szene noch nicht richtig verstanden: "Es ist schwierig für weiße Menschen, die Ballroom-Szene zu verstehen, weil sie eine durch Schwarze geprägte Szene ist."

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The Peace River Botanical and Sculpture Gardens opened October 20th in Punta Gorda and offers a mix of several different types of gardens and contemporary art.
These waterfront gardens feature more than 3, 500 planted botanicals along with interpretive art with a total of 11 sculptures.
Beginning plans for the property back in 2006, Roger and Linda Tetrault and the Roger and Linda Tetrault Family Foundation continue to fund the gardens to expand to 27 acres total.
11 acres are developed now, including the Garden Community Center, with food and a visiting exhibit.
They're location at 5800 Riverside Drive in Punta Gorda and are open Tuesday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Admission is $12 for adults, $10 for seniors, $8 for students in high school and children under the age of 5 are free. Annual membership discounts are also available.


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PCP v Barclays: waiving goodbye to your privilege
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Last month the High Court handed down its decision in the specific disclosure application in PCP Capital Partners LLP and another -v- Barclays Bank plc [2020] EWHC 1393 (Comm).
The Court has held that when determining whether an allusion to privileged material (here in witness statements and opening submissions) amounts to a waiver of privilege, one must assess (i) whether the allusion is sufficient and, (ii) whether the party waiving is relying on it in some way to support or advance its case on an issue that the court must decide.
PCP has underscored just how easily waiver can happen. For example:
No waiver of privilege: "My solicitor gave me detailed advice. The following day I entered into the contract".
Waiver of privilege: "I entered into the contract as a result of the legal advice".
So the notion that a reference to the effect of privileged advice will not amount to a waiver, whereas a reference to its content will, has been debunked. As Mr Justice Waksman warns, "The fact that only the conclusion of the legal advice referred to is stated as opposed to the detail of the contents may not prevent there being a waiver."
To this extent, PCP is consistent with TMO Renewables -v- (1) Desmond George Reeves (2) Maxwell Charles Audley [2020] EWHC 789 (Ch), in which a similar issue was decided by reference to the deployment of documents (waiver) versus their being merely referenced (no waiver). In TMO Renewables, the Court held that this distinction turns on the purpose and context of the allusion to the privileged material. Our article on TMO Renewables from May 2020 is here.
However, are the two decisions entirely compatible? Despite references in witness evidence to the effect of a privileged EY report, it was held in TMO Renewables that there had been no waiver of privilege. Based on the examples above, PCP could appear to pose a contradiction. In fact the decisions really offer counterexamples of the same principle at work. The key point of distinction is the context in which the allusion to the privileged material was made in each case, because waiver requires the deployment of privileged material to be in support of an issue before the court. That threshold was not met in TMO Renewables because the allusion in question arose in the context of a security for costs application, which does not examine the fundamental merits of a dispute. In contrast, the effect of the statements in PCP was that the lawyers approved the legality of a transaction under question, and the only reason for making such assertions was to assist the waiving party with the merits of its case regarding the legitimacy of the associated agreement.
PCP serves as another example of how subtle and context-specific (and possibly unpredictable) the question of waiver of privilege is, and the importance of keeping that in mind.
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Eight months after fire destroyed the historic Bank Buildings in Belfast city centre, property owners Primark say the cause of the blaze is still being investigated.
The retail chain, which opened its new store at Donegall Place yesterday, said it is continuing to work with the authorities to establish how the fire, which gutted the five-storey listed building last August, broke out.
While the upper levels of the building's shell having been taken down and the safety cordon around the site reduced, the company said it is still unable to provide a timeframe for the redevelopment project.
"This is a complex process and the safety of the construction team and general public is paramount," the spokesperson said.
Ulster Architectural Heritage – one of the groups that campaigned for the building to be saved in the wake of the devastating fire – has praised Primark and Belfast City Council for their efforts so far.
He also credited the council's Historic Environment Division for its role in trying to save the listed structure.


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Band Aid (band)
Band Aid was a British and Irish charity music supergroup. It was started in 1984 by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure. The purpose was to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia by making the record "Do They Know It's Christmas?" The single was very successful. It was Number One on the music charts during Christmas. Two re-recordings of the song were done. They raised more money and also finished Number One on the charts.
Band Aid II re-recorded the song in 1989, and Band Aid 20 did the same in 2004.
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A History of the English-Speaking Peoples is a four-volume history of Britain and its former colonies and possessions throughout the world, written by Winston Churchill, covering the period from Caesar's invasions of Britain to the beginning of the First World War (1914). It was started in 1937 and finally published 1956–58, delayed several times by war and his work on other texts. The volumes have been abridged into a single-volume, concise edition.
Randolph Frederick Edward Spencer-Churchill was a British journalist, writer and a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Preston from 1940 to 1945.
Clementine Ogilvy Spencer-Churchill, Baroness Spencer-Churchill, was the wife of Winston Churchill and a life peer in her own right.
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, received numerous honours and awards throughout his career as a British Army officer, statesman and author.
Winston Churchill, in addition to his careers of soldier and politician, was a prolific writer under the pen name "Winston S. Churchill". After being commissioned into the 4th Queen's Own Hussars in 1895, Churchill gained permission to observe the Cuban War of Independence, and sent war reports to The Daily Graphic. He continued his war journalism in British India, at the Siege of Malakand, then in the Sudan during the Mahdist War and in southern Africa during the Second Boer War.
The International Churchill Society (ICS), formerly known as the Churchill Centre, was founded in 1968 to educate new generations on the leadership, statesmanship, vision, courage and boldness of Sir Winston Churchill. Thousands of members around the world work together to impress the record of Churchill's life and deeds on the 21st century. The Society's exhibits are located at the Churchill War Rooms and the National Churchill Library and Center at the George Washington University.
Mary Soames, Baroness Soames, was the youngest of the five children of Winston Churchill and his wife, Clementine. She was the wife of Christopher Soames.
The bronze bust of former British prime minister Sir Winston Churchill at Mishkenot Sha'ananim, Jerusalem was created by portrait sculptor Oscar Nemon. Anthony Rosenfelder, together with MK Isaac Herzog, initiated the process of erecting the bust of Churchill in Jerusalem.


Today, Subaru of America, Inc. debuted its all-new, three-row, 2019 Ascent SUV in a way that only Subaru could. At a press event prior to the Los Angeles Auto Show, Subaru surprised attendees with the new vehicle in a special way – with The Barkleys – a family of eight Labrador and Golden Retrievers featured in Subaru advertising campaigns, seemingly driving the all-new Ascent and ending, safe and sound, on-stage. The dogs exited the vehicle to greet Tom Doll, president and COO of Subaru of America and pose for photos with the surprised crowd.
Dogs are a major pillar for the automaker as more than half of Subaru drivers are pet owners, with over 48% of them owning at least one dog. For years, Subaru has supported various pet-focused organizations that help to improve the lives of our four-legged friends and features dogs throughout their advertising. The all-new U.S. built Subaru Ascent is the automaker's largest vehicle ever built boasting three full rows, fitting up to eight passengers, second row captain's chairs as an option on some trim levels, its legendary Subaru Symmetrical all-wheel drive and an impressive all-new 2.4-liter turbo engine.
Subaru has seen 71 consecutive months of record sales fueled by high conquest rates supplementing its loyal owner base. Subaru looks to continue the trend with the all-new Ascent, which marks the automaker's entry into the mid-sized SUV segment. The Ascent expands on the brand's pedigree of safety and reliability with Subaru EyeSight® Driver Assist Technology standard on every trim level. Space and safety aren't the only features that come standard on the Ascent, the new vehicle is also designed with style and function in mind, featuring Android™ Auto and Apple CarPlay™ compatibility, stylish interior and exterior that follows the Subaru "Dynamic x Solid" theme with powerful fender flares and a large, bluff grille. The all-new Ascent uses the company's new Subaru Global Platform which has earned high praise in the recent Crosstrek SUV. It will be built at the Subaru of Indiana, Inc. assembly plant in Lafayette, Indiana and will be sold exclusively in the North American market starting in summer 2018.
For additional information and details on the all-new Subaru Ascent, visit: http://media.subaru.com/pressrelease/1229/1/subaru-america-inc-presents-all-new-2019-ascent.


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and were to "Make a wish" in this week leading up to Mothers Day it would be wishing my Mom could be here. She would love my "new" heritage home, seeing her chairs in the parlor and her artwork in the library, her cane resting in the umbrella stand by the front door. She would meet my darling man and get to dress up like she loved too for our upcoming wedding.
The last picture I have of my Mom is with her grand daughters three weeks before she passed away. She would love to see these young accomplished women, happy and productive in their lives, Amanda now a nurse and engaged to a wonderful young man, Kate happy on the Island doing what she loves. I know she watches over us but to have her here once more is still a wish for Mothers Day.
My design for the blog hop is one of whimsical house, a cottage, a design just featured Saturday for the release of designer friend Ann Butler's new stamp line with Unity. It is an ideal gift for Mothers Day, create a cottage or house for your Mom, personalize it with a house number, other details that recreate her home. I celebrate my new home and the memory of my Mom. To make this cute cottage, instructions are here!
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Deathcrush este primul EP al formației Mayhem. De asemenea este considerat de mulți a fi primul album "cu adevărat" black metal. În timp a atins statutul de cult și a devenit sursă de inspirație pentru multe formații black metal.

Versiunea originală a acestui EP s-a produs în doar 1000 de copii, fiecare dintre ele fiind numerotată manual. Din cauza unei greșeli de tipărire coperta versiunii originale a ieșit roz, nu roșie așa cum ar fi trebuit. Ulterior a fost relansat de trei ori:
1993 - Deathlike Silence (limitat la 1000 de copii)
2003 - Vinyl Maniac Records (limitat la 1000 de copii)
2006 - Back On Black (limitat la 1000 de copii)

Versurile melodiei "Chainsaw Gutsfuck" au fost votate drept "Cele mai macabre versuri ale tuturor timpurilor" de către revista Blender. Într-un interviu Dead a afirmat faptul că versurile acestui EP au fost scrise de Necrobutcher.

Lista pieselor
"Silvester Anfang" (instrumental) - 01:56
"Deathcrush" - 03:33
"Chainsaw Gutsfuck" - 03:32
"Witching Hour" - 01:49
"Necrolust" - 03:37
"(Weird) Manheim" (instrumental) - 00:48
"Pure Fucking Armageddon" - 02:09
"Outro" - 01:09

Personal
Maniac - vocal pe piesele 2, 3, 4 și 5
Euronymous - chitară
Necrobutcher - chitară bas
Manheim - baterie
Messiah - vocal pe piesele 4 și 7

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Legături externe
Deathcrush - Encyclopaedia Metallum

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DUI checkpoint planned Friday in Chino Hills
By dailybreeze | dailybreeze@dfmdev.com |
PUBLISHED: August 18, 2010 at 12:00 am | UPDATED: September 6, 2017 at 8:59 am
The San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department, Chino Hills Station, will conduct a DUI /driver's license checkpoint from 6 p.m Friday to 2 a.m. Saturday.
The checkpoint will be at an undisclosed location in the city, according to a sheriff's news release.
Sheriff's deputies will check drivers licenses and look for signs of intoxication.
The checkpoint is funded by a grant from the state Office of Traffic Safety through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
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Liatris is an exceptional garden plant with unusual blooms.
Phlox, the beautiful perennial rhizome.
A cottage-like plant that will enhance your tropical garden with spectacular color.
This site has information the care, planting, uses and types of summer flowering bulbs.
An interesting article on the bulbs that bloom in summer, from HGTV.
Yet another interesting name for such a delightful group of plants, the toad lilies are hardy, rhizomatous perennials that will make a dramatic statement in the garden.


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How close are we to being like God?
How does God put up with sinners?
What does God think of sin?
Does God help only those who help themselves?
Does God help those who are in need?
Does God give us what we deserve?
Does God give till it hurts?
The answers to these and other questions about God can be found in this study of the attributes of God. Some of God's attributes belong to Him alone (such as eternal, infinite, and all-powerful). Others of God's attributes--His moral attributes (such as longsuffering, goodness, and love)--are to be expressed by His children as well. For each of these moral attributes of God the reader of this book is challenged by the Scriptures to be "followers [or imitators] of God, as dear children" (Ephesians 5:1).


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Carmiña (Su historia de amor) es una película de Argentina filmada en Eastmancolor dirigida por Julio Saraceni según el guion de Abel Santa Cruz que se estrenó el 27 de marzo de 1975 y que tuvo como actores principales a María de los Ángeles Medrano y Arturo Puig.

En 1959 un radioteatro que se emitía por Radio El Mundo protagonizado por Elcira Olivera Garcés y Jorge Salcedo, titulado María Sombra inspiró la telenovela Nuestra Galleguita que interpretó Laura Bove. Después siguieron, siempre en televisión, Adiós Galleguita, Los parientes de la Galleguita y Carmiña. En 1971 se filmó una primera versión cinematográfica, dirigida en Perú por Tito Davison y titulada Natacha.

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Ambientada en la década de 1930, el hijo mayor de una familia adinerada se enamora de una joven que emigró de España y trabaja en la casa como mucama.

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 Información sobre Carmiña (Su historia de amor) en el sitio del cine nacional
 Información sobre Carmiña (Su historia de amor) en Internet Movie Data Base

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The Sesvennahütte belongs to the Alpine Club South Tyrol (section Mals). In addition to the two Swiss stone pine paneled dining rooms, the cottage has 4 and 6 bed rooms with WC and shower, as well as several mattresses. In total we have 80 accommodation places: 30 beds and 50 in the dormitory.
The reason for our increase in prices is the use of 70% of regional or organic products. Several salads, vegetables, spices and herbs are grown in our own garden and cultivated by our mother Tina and our father Luis.
Onkl Friedl Pobitzer from Mals delivers organic potatoes; Günther Wallnöfer from Laatsch supplies us with organic vegetables and all the home-made juices such as elderflower, strawberry, apricot, raspberry etc. are made by my parents and my mother in law Sabine. Meat such as beef and pork comes from the butchery Gruber in Prad and the game is hunted by my father, who is a hunter, or it comes from the hunting ground Mals. Our bread is baked in Laatsch by the Bakery Schuster, the Vinschger home-made apple juice comes from the family Anstein in Schluderns, the organic herb tea is grown in Stilfs by Platzer Sigi and the eggs are all free-range.
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Gran Tierra Reduces 2015 Colombia Capital Budget To $66 Million USD, Slashes Entire Budget By Over Half To Ride Out Low Oil Prices
by Loren Moss
Gran Tierra announced that it has reduced its capital budget for 2015 to $140 million. This is a reduction of $170 million from the previously announced budget of $310 million. The revised budget for operations in Colombia, Peru and Brazil allocates $50 million to drilling, $40 million to facilities, equipment and pipelines,$49 million for geological and geophysical activities and $1 million associated with corporate activities. Of the $140 million approximately $43 million had already been spent or committed. Roughly $37 million of the capital program is dedicated to the maintenance of existing production while approximately $18 million is dedicated to drilling in Colombia.
Gran Tierra Energy Inc. an international oil and gas exploration and production company, headquartered in Calgary, Canada, incorporated in the United States and operating in South America, with its stock trading on the NYSE MKT Exchange (GTE) and the Toronto Stock Exchange (GTE) focused on oil exploration and production in South America, today announced a revised preliminary 2015 capital program. This revised program is designed to retain balance sheet strength by minimizing or eliminating expenditures that have no immediate value at current oil prices. In addition to the capital spending reductions, Gran Tierra announced it is seeking operating and general and administrative cost reductions by working with contractors and suppliers. Management said, in a written statement provided to Finance Colombia, that the company's capital program will be reviewed continually for additional future reductions, and that Gran Tierra's exploration portfolio is will be reviewed and re-evaluated with an emphasis on reducing both its risk profile and capital exposure.
Country Drilling Facilities & Pipelines Geological & Geophysical Total
Colombia $24 $22 $20 $66
Peru $19 $10 $16 $45
Brazil $7 $8 $13 $28
Total $50 $40
*$140
*Total includes $1million associated with corporate expenses
(US$ Millions)
Above: Gran Tierra is utilizing an average Brent oil price of $50 per barrel for budgeting purposes.
"The capital spending deferrals we are announcing form part of the refocusing effort by the Company to enhance delivery of value to shareholders. Gran Tierra will target increased capital spending efficiency to extract maximum value from the Company's portfolio. A key driver of the reduced capital spend is to preserve a strong balance sheet and maximize the Company's potential for growth from both our existing portfolio as well as through the opportunistic capture of external value enhancing opportunities," said Duncan Nightingale, Interim President and Chief Executive Officer. "Additionally, Gran Tierra will continue to work diligently to mature leads and prospects to a drill ready status in preparation for an improved commodity price environment" concluded Nightingale.
The revised 2015 capital program focuses on projects with immediate value adds. In Colombia such projects include using natural gas produced from the Moqueta field to fuel electricity generation and thereby provide cost savings over the life of the field. A development well will be drilled in the Moqueta field which is required for pressure support. At Costayaco, work continues to increase water injection capacity to actively manage the production profile. In addition to facilities work at Costayaco and Moqueta, the Company plans to perform several work-overs and well services. Also, a commitment exploration well may be drilled for which Gran Tierra is being carried for net US$5.5 million.
Production Projections
With the revised capital spending program, production from Colombia is expected to be approximately 17,750 BOEPD (Barrels of Oil Equivalent, Per Day) NAR, with Costayaco contributing approximately 10,140 BOEPD NAR and Moqueta contributing approximately 5,540 BOEPD NAR assuming a 2% contingency for potential delivery disruptions. Approximately 99% of expected production is oil, with the balance natural gas.
Gran Tierra had approximately $332 million in cash and cash equivalents and no debt at the end of 2014. In addition, the Company has an undrawn credit facility with a current borrowing base of $150 million. Based on current oil prices, Gran Tierra expects the revised 2015 program to be funded from funds flow from operations and cash on hand.
Loren Moss is the founder and publisher of Finance Colombia. He has over 20 years of international business experience, including over a decade of experience in securities, insurance, and commercial real estate, at the institutional and international level.
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CONTEXT: Comparison of Judah and Jerusalem to Babylon.
The descriptions used to prophecy the fall of Babylon are the very same emblems used to speak of the last days and the fall of Jerusalem.
A massive army, a multitude, made up of many nations would come against Babylon from the end of heaven, the Medo-Persians. The Roman army against Jerusalem was of the same type, massive and multicultural.
This destruction of Babylon is compared to a woman in travail in its suddenness (see Daniel 5). This comparison is used a number of times by Isaiah, Jeremiah, and the New Testament writers to speak of the suddenness of the destruction of nations, particularly the Jews.
This judgment against Babylon is called "the day of the Lord" and it was said to come. It was the sinners that were destroyed (or taken from the earth). We see the same language used in Matt. 24:30, 36-41 and Luke 17:24-30 in reference to the destruction of Jerusalem.
As I have discussed in other articles, this is a reference to the fall of the rulers, the fall of the king (the sun) and other government officials (moon and stars) from authority. These same terms are used to speak of the last days of the Jewish age and the fall of Jerusalem in Joel 2 and Acts 2 and Matthew 24:3-35 (and a number of other NT passages).
Again, as in other articles, it is important to understand that these symbols, heavens (plural) and earth are a reference to the rulers or sphere of government (heavens) and the people ruled. Isaiah is declaring that during this time period there would be great upheaval in Babylonian society.
One point to I would like to make is that vs. 13 cannot be a literal destruction (removal) of the planet earth because there are events that happen afterwards as recorded in vs. 14. How can everyone flee to their own land if there is no more land to flee to?
13:19 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
Babylon, Sodom and Gomorroah, Judah…they are all being compared to one another spiritually here, the former as types pointing to the antitype of the destruction of Judah. Judah is being called Sodom and Babylon. (we'll get to Egypt later).
Another point supporting the beginning premise. In the midst of pronouncing judgment against Babylon at the hands of the Medes, Isaiah speaks of mercy against the children of Israel. This cannot be the nation of Israel, the 10 northern tribes, because by the time Babylon falls, Israel is gone. Nowhere in scripture does God relate the captivity of Babylonians under the Jewish nation nor that the Jews ever ruled over the Babylonians in any way. History, as far as I am aware, does not record this event either. So what does it mean that the Jews would take captive those whose captives they were or that they would rule over their oppressors?
This mercy, the leading captivity captive (Eph. 4:8), "the joining of strangers to them" is a reference to the establishment of the church when Gentiles would be numbered among God's people. In Isaiah 14:1-3 Isaiah prophesies the coming of the church. The language that he uses is that of incorporating the gentiles into "Israel" (the church -- Luke 1:33) and then the church ruling over the nations (1 Cor. 4:8). Those who had been the captors (Gentile nations over Jews) would now be the captives (under the church which means that in spiritual war time, the church brings the Gentiles under the rule of the church, i.e. converts them to Christianity). In this time, God's people would no longer be at the mercy of human nations. Those nations would be conquered by the church (all nations flow into it). In Eph. 4:8, Christ our king leads the charge against the nations and "leads captivity captive" ending all threat from human nations by becoming the perfect king. Under his kingship, the human nations now flow into the church (Gentiles are converted) and no longer have the capacity to punish or harm as Babylon did against Jerusalem/Judah. Jerusalem/Judah was the last "earth" kingdom to be able to win against the church once Judah became a tool for Satan (killed Christ). When Christ ascended, he fought against that last deadly earth kingdom and wiped it out. No other nation in existence could or can stand against the spiritual might of the church after the physical nation of Judah fell.
Going to put this in here because so many get it wrong. Lucifer is NOT Satan.
Who is Isaiah referring to in this context? Initially I will say that it is the "king of Babylon", though who the king is specifically is will come later. Then, down in verse 12 he refers to the king of Babylon as Lucifer. Lucifer is the LATIN translation of the GREEK word phosphorus, which in turn comes from the HEBREW word heylel. The meaning of these words is "daystar", "morning star", or "light bearer". In every case this is a reference to the planet Venus. It is a term used only one other time in scripture (2 Pet. 1:19) in terminology familiar to that of Isa. 9:2 as discussed earlier.
To associate the word Lucifer directly and personally to Satan is not in any capacity scriptural and requires a great amount of reading meaning into the scriptures from traditions, and most of that has its beginning in Catholic teachings.
This sure sounds like Nebuchadnezzar. He was a powerful, conquering king. However, Nebuchadnezzar, towards the end of his life acknowledged Jehovah God (Daniel 4:37) and made a decree concerning God throughout all the lands of Babylon (Daniel 4:1). Nebuchadnezzar was brought low, but it cannot be said of him that he was destroyed by God and brought into a metaphorical death because of his arrogance as the context says of the king of Babylon. Nebuchadnezzar was restored to his power and reigned again as king of Babylon after his 7 years of insanity. And, Babylon did not fall to the Medes under his rule.
So if this is not any specific king of Babylon, might it be the kingship of Babylon altogether? That is to say is Isaiah referring not to a single king of Babylon, but to the nation as a whole, just as the head of gold in Daniel 2 represented all of Babylon but was said of Daniel to Nebuchadnezzar "thou art the head of gold"?
I have a perspective of this chapter that I know for certain few will even entertain. I am presenting it here because I am not sure of it myself and desire any and all who can, to assail this interpretation of Isaiah 14 to expose the weaknesses of the hypothesis of the interpretation.
As I read Isaiah 14:1-3 and saw the chapter ended with the contents of vs. 29-32 I recognized that the rest of the chapter is sandwiched in between a prophecy of the coming of the church (as I wrote of above) and the simultaneous end of the kingdom of all Palestine with the founding of Zion. Then I considered, what would literal Babylon matter in the midst of that context except as a lesson to Judah who, at the time of the founding of the church, was about to be destroyed? Keeping in mind that chapter 13 already prophesied the destruction of Babylon and set up the example.
The Jews were the persecutors of the church. If this is a symbolic reference to Jerusalem as Babylon, then these terms would fit when Jerusalem was destroyed and the Christians were given rest from Jewish persecution.
This verse certainly could be applied to any wicked ruler. Given that Christ himself prophesied the end of the wicked Jewish rulers of "the heavens" (Matt. 24:29), this verse certainly could apply to them.
He, being Jerusalem, smote Christians with continual persecution all through the book of Acts. As the church became largely Gentile towards the end of Judah, this "ruling the nations in anger" is the same thing as Eph. 6:12 against which the church fought. "The rulers of the darkness of this world", the Jews, are what Christians were to put on the whole armor of God to fight, but "this world" was about to pass away (2 Pet. 3) and the new heavens and new earth would come. The Jews, persecutors of the newly formed church of Christ, are now the persecuted (by the Romans) and soon to be destroyed.
14:7 The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing. 8 Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against us.
This is the new heavens and new earth. The cedars of Lebanon literally were what were used to build the house of God in the OT. In the New Testament antitype of the temple fir trees (Gentiles who converted) and the cedars of Lebanon (Jews who converted) build the new house of God, the church. They rejoice because there is no more persecution from the Jews (who did not convert).
"Hell" should actually be "Sheol", the grave or death. Death comes for Judah, an end to that nation and all the dead nations of the planet in history through which the OT people of God outlived, are now symbolically awakened to see the end of them.
14:10 All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us? 11Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.
Israel, the descendants of Jacob, the descendants of Abraham who numbered as the stars, that nation protected by God whom the nations of the planet could not ever completely conquer…this nation is finally brought low like all the other nations whom God destroyed before.
Again, the stars falling from heaven, the sun ceasing to give its light, this is the same thing spoken of in Joel 2, Acts 2, Matt. 24 all in reference to the destruction of Jerusalem. Judah was the nation that brought the light of God's word to the world during the Mosaical period, and through that light "ruled" the nations. That light bringer, authority falls to give rise to the antitypical Lucifer/Phosphoros/daystar, who is Christ, the eternal king, eternal bringer of light, and eternal Sun (2 Pet. 1:19; Mal. 4:2).
So how did Judah "weaken the nations"? It could be that this is a reference to the time when Israel marched through the wilderness and eventually came to Canaan and conquered so many nations under God's command. However, I believe this phrase actually represents the Gentiles who became Christians who were persecuted by the Jews. A good example of this is 1 Cor. 7 where Paul gives advice to the mostly Gentile congregation at Corinth about separating or remaining unmarried during "this present distress". A Christian might be strong enough to withstand torture against their person, but it is much more difficult to watch a loved one be tortured in front of you.
14:13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: 14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
Did the rulers of the Jews ever claim to be like God? (Acts 12:21-23) Read this account then look back up at Isaiah 14:11.
If the stars of God represents the people of God and this is in the time after the cross when the church is being established then this is the Jews trying to rule the Christians through main power of persecution. The mountain of the congregation (or church) is what this metaphorical king of Babylon attempts to do, but is struck down for.
The real Babylon succeeded in subduing God's people of the OT. Nebuchadnezzar conquered Judah and ruled over it all the remaining days of his long life. He even acknowledge the power of God and proclaimed God's majesty throughout his kingdom.
With the final fall of the rulers of Judah , the kings of the world would be astonished, just as prophesied by God in Lev. 26:32; Deut. 28:37; 1 Kings 9:8; 2 Chron. 7:21; etc.
When the kingdom of Israel was first established, they, by God's power, conquered all manner of earthly kingdoms.
14:17 That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?
This is just a repeat of the things spoken of in the last part of verse 12.
14:18 All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house. 19 But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet. 20 Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned. 21 Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities. 22 For I will rise up against them, saith the LORD of hosts, and cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, saith the LORD. 23 I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the LORD of hosts.
The Gentile nations such as Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, and even Rome have lasting legacies which all the world to this day even admire. Their power and accomplishments which we feel the effects of thousands of years later are a monument to these kingdoms.
But what of Judah? The Jews were utterly destroyed with no monument of achievement left to them. Their greatest, the Temple, was cast down by Titus' army. A mosque sits on the mountain where their Temple once stood and no new one has been built. Moreover, their priesthood is gone. Judaism is ended and the shadow that exists now is a hated nation the world over except for a few premillenialists who think to ride the coattails of the shadow into a 1000 year kingdom that will never exist. That the Judaism of the OT was a shadow of the NT church (Heb. 8) means that today's Jews are a reflection of a shadow.
This is what the nation that was once called God's people has come to. That's what they get for killing God's Son, for persecuting God's people of the NT who they should have tried to become instead. Their end is complete and their legacy is murder and disgrace.
What God has purposed for nations no man can avert…except through repentance, obedience, and prayer if one has the right to it (Numbers 14; and pretty much that's the theme of the whole Bible).
14:25 That I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders. 26 This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations. 27 For the LORD of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?
By the time this context has taken place, Assyria has already fallen. Only by again comparing Judah to this fallen nation in conjunction with comparing it to fallen Babylon does this passage make any sense. Otherwise, Isaiah is just a bunch of random thoughts about the fall of various worldly nations with no rhyme, reason, or connection for their placement in his book.
So who is Lucifer? In this context I am starting to believe that it is the highest rulers of the Jews during the first century. In the New Testament, it is the name given to Christ as the new and eternal king of the New Jerusalem (and one might even say the "New" Babylon).
Isa. 14:1-3 – alluded to by Paul in Eph. 2:12-13.
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