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North American E&Ps See Lower Natural Gas Prices, 7% More Spending in 2014
Carolyn Davis
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Following two years of tepid growth, North America is poised for a "reacceleration" in exploration and production (E&P) going into 2017, with spending rising more than 7% following growth of 2% in 2013 and 4% in 2012, Barclays Capital analysts said Monday.
"Increased spending associated with the rise in service-intensive, multi-well, horizontal drilling and production growth is driving this trend and should lead to further spending increases," said analyst James West.
The current winter blast aside, North America's explorers expect 2014 average gas prices to be about the same as this year, according to the latest Global Exploration & Production Spending Outlook, which surveyed more than 300 senior managers at E&Ps worldwide from early November through last Friday (Dec. 6) about their spending intentions for 2014.
Globally, E&P capital spending is forecast to reach a new record in 2014 of $723 billion, up 6.1% from $682 billion in 2013.
"2014 should mark an acceleration of growth in North America to over 7%, led by the U.S., coupled with continued solid growth (6%-plus) in international markets, particularly in the Middle East, Latin America and Russia," said West. "We estimate capital budgets in the U.S. and Canada will rise 8.5% and 3%, respectively, up from 4% and minus 2% in 2014.
"Companies are basing 2013 spending plans on oil prices of $98 Brent and $89 West Texas Intermediate, and U.S. natural gas prices of $3.66. These projections suggest our early look at 2013 spending levels likely underestimates total spending given current commodity price levels."
The gas price assumptions for 2014 by E&Ps are below current price levels, West said.
"North American operators taking part in our survey have consistently missed the mark in forecasting natural gas prices, though we think the impact of natural gas prices on current spending estimates will likely be lower than in past years given the prolific shift towards oil activity."
Between 2009 and 2012, North America's E&Ps "significantly overestimated the price of natural gas when planning the upcoming year's budget by an average of 31%," West said. "It appears the trend of excessive optimism surrounding natural gas prices has reversed course in 2013."
Henry Hub prices have averaged $3.69/MMBtu year-to-date, which is 6% higher than the initial price assumption offered by the E&Ps a year ago and roughly 2% higher than the assumption offered during the mid-year outlook in June, the analyst said.
Barclays expects the average 2013 price to be $3.75/MMBtu and to average $3.88 in 2014.
Assuming "stable" prices through the rest of this year, "2013 will be the first year since the 2008 peak in which the E&Ps underestimated the full year average price for gas. The data collected for the 2014 outlook suggests a repeat for next year.
Current Henry Hub prices, at $4.11/MMBtu "are 13% higher than the assumption of $3.66/MMBtu currently factored into operator budgets," said West.
What would lead to more E&P spending on natural gas projects? Higher prices, said respondents.
The North American E&Ps suggested that an average price of $4.57 likely would lead to higher upstream spending in 2014, which would be 10% more than current levels and 18% higher than Barclays' estimate of $3.88.
"On the other hand, the average operator we surveyed indicated it would not cut back on its spending plans unless the price for natural gas averaged $3.16/MMBtu, a 24% discount from current levels and 18% lower than the Barclays Research estimate for next year."
More than one-third of the E&Ps surveyed (37%) said they were unlikely to boost capital spend until Henry Hub price levels reached $4.57/MMBtu. A similar number, 37%, indicated that they would increase spending if prices were $4.25-4.50, while 26% said they would need a price of $4.00.
On oil prices, E&Ps surveyed have set initial West Texas Intermediate budget assumptions for 2014 of $89.00/bbl, 10% lower than current prices.
After several years of accelerating their spending, this year proved to be a "period of digestion" for North America's upstream market, particularly U.S. land, Barclays said.
"Following this year's respite, we think North America is poised to resume a steady upward trend in activity levels beginning in 2014 with an initial forecast of 7% growth," West said. "We think the modest pause in spending growth in 2013 was the result of a combination of factors, including drilling and well service efficiencies in the land market, which enabled the E&Ps to realize lower costs, and a more general capital deployment adjustment on the part of the operators as they assessed resource acreage and began to position for the next phase of the unconventional revolution in North America."
For 2014, analysts expect U.S. spending to accelerate to about 8.5% growth, while Canada spend should return to modest growth of about 3%-plus after two years of declines.
"U.S. land spending in 2014 will be characterized by a shift toward full-scale development drilling as North American independents address the growing inventory of undrilled wells in their acreage by allocating additional capital to the U.S. land market," said West.
Another bright spot: the Gulf of Mexico, with an additional 17 floaters scheduled to mobilize to the region through the early part of 2015, "giving us visibility on 58 contracted deepwater rigs over the next year and a half."
For Canada, midstream infrastructure construction, an influx of capital from the majors and national oil companies, and a burgeoning liquefied natural gas (LNG) export market "all point to an upward trajectory of E&P spending...for the balance of the decade, in our view. While the impact to 2014 is likely to be rather modest, we see scope for upside in the latter part of the year from incremental activity tied to LNG exports."
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Q: How many balls will I have to draw?
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Pulling cards from a deck without replacement to reach a goal: average draws needed?

I mark $n$ out of $X$ balls with a small, red dot and randomly disperse the $X$ balls in a bag. $n \ge 3$ and $X \ge n$.
I then keep drawing balls out of the bag without replacement until I get 3 balls dotted with red. How many balls am I expected to draw? With replacement, this scenario would be geometrically distributed because the chance of drawing a ball with a red dot is always $\frac{n}{X}$. How do I factor in the lacking of replacement?

A: You draw three dotted balls. There are $X-n$ undotted balls, and by linearity of expectation the expected number of undotted balls you draw is $(X-n)p$, where $p$ is the probability of drawing a particular undotted ball before you draw three dotted balls. The rank of the undotted ball relative to the $n$ dotted balls is uniformly random, so the chance that it's one of the first $3$  is $3/(n+1)$. Thus the expected number of draws is
$$3+3(X-n)/(n+1)=3(1+(X-n)/(n+1))=3(X+1)/(n+1)\;.$$

A: The number of ways (order is important) to get 3 balls with a red dot in exactly $k>2$ draws is
$$\binom{X-n}{k-3}\cdot\binom{n}{3}\cdot3\cdot(k-1)!$$
The number of outcomes  (order is important) of $k$ draws is
$$\binom{X}{k}\cdot k!$$
The probability $P(k)$ to have exactly k draws is
$$P(k)=\frac{\binom{X-n}{k-3}\cdot\binom{n}{3}\cdot3\cdot(k-1)!}{\binom{X}{k}\cdot(k)!}$$
$$P(k)=\frac{\binom{X-n}{k-3}\cdot\binom{n}{3}\cdot3}{\binom{X}{k}\cdot k}$$
$$P(k)=\frac{ (X-n)! \cdot n!  \cdot k! \cdot (X-k)!}{2  \cdot(k-3)!  \cdot (X-n-k+3)! \cdot   (n-3)!  \cdot X!  \cdot k }$$
$$P(k)=\frac{ (X-n)! \cdot n \cdot(n-1) \cdot(n-2)  \cdot (k-1) \cdot (k-2) \cdot (X-k)!}{2  \cdot (X-n-k+3)!   \cdot X!   }$$
The expected number of balls $E(k)$ you have to draw is
$$E(k)=\sum_{k=3}^{X-n+3}P(k) \cdot k$$

A: Each time you draw a ball, the probability that it's red is $n/X$.  (The conditional probability that the second one is read, given that the color of the first one, depends on the color of the first one.  But the probability that the second ball is red, given the composition of the population and no information about the color of the first one, is still $n/X$.  Lack of replacement doesn't change that number, but it does alter the conditional probabilities.)
Here's a probability mass function:
\begin{align}
f(w) & = \Pr(\text{first red is on $w$th trial}) \\[10pt]
& = \Pr(\text{exactly 2 red in first $w-1$ trials})\cdot\Pr(\text{red on $w$th trial} \mid \text{exactly 2 red in first $w-1$ trials}) \\[10pt]
& = \frac{\text{number of ways to choose 2 red out of $n$ and $w-3$ others out of $X-n$}}{\text{number of ways to choose $w-1$ out of $X$}} \cdot \frac{n-2}{X-w+1} \\[10pt]
& = \frac{\dbinom{n}{2}\dbinom{X-n}{w-3}}{\dbinom{X}{w-1}} \cdot \frac{n-2}{X-w+1}.
\end{align}
Now one could say the expected number of trials is $\displaystyle\sum_{w=3}^X w f(w)$, and then seek a closed form.
I am not altogether happy with this answer for two reasons: (1) I haven't given the closed form; and (2) I think there ought to be a slick way that doesn't require finding $f(w)$.  Often it's easier to find the expected value of a random variable than the whole probability mass function.
More later, perhaps . . . . . .

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August 7/14 15:17 pm - Windham World Cup Preview
Posted by Editor on 08/7/14
After a year's absence, the world's best riders return to Windham, New York, for the penultimate round of the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup. Less than 90 minutes drive from New York City, this village of less than 2000 inhabitants in the beautiful Catskill Mountains of Rip van Winkle fame is rolling out the red carpet as it seeks to transform itself from a quaint ski town to a four-season vacation destination.
Three disciplines of racing are on the agenda. The Eliminator kicks off the weekend on Friday evening, Saturday is the Downhill, and Sunday wraps up with the Cross-country races.
The Eliminator takes place immediately in front of the main chalet for the ski hill, on an 825 metre circuit where spectators will be able to see almost the entire course from one spot. The circuit opens with an uphill sprint, followed by a descent and another climb. The riders then traverse a grassy slope before a 180-degree turn onto the finishing straight.
After her win last weekend at Mont Ste-Anne, Canada, Kathrin Stirnemann (Sabine Spitz Haibike) has taken a commanding lead in the women's standings, with 185 points. World champion Alexandra Engen (Ghost Factory), the former leader, missed last week and will miss this week, due to fatigue, so Stirnemann could wrap up the women's title with a win here. Others to watch for on the podium include Jenny Rissveds (Scott-Odlo), Kate Courtney (Specialized Racing XC) and Canadian Andreane Lanthier-Nadeau (Rocky Mountain).
The men's series saw a lead change last week, with Fabrice Mels (Salcano Alanya) overtaking world champion Paul van der Ploeg of Australia for the leader's jersey. However, this contest is still very close between Mels, van der Ploeg, defending World Cup champion Daniel Federspiel (Otztal Scott) and last week's winner Simon Gegenheimer of Germany. Canadian hopes include Samuel Tremblay (Canadian National), who made the small final in Mont Ste-Anne, and national champion Leandre Bouchard (Cyclone d'Alma/Devinci)
Jolanda Neff (Liv Pro XC) has a stranglehold on the women's overall lead, with 310 points over second place Emily Batty (Trek Factory Racing). However, the battle for second through fifth in the overall standings is extremely tight, with 10 riders within 90 points of each other.
Neff will once again be a favourite, as will Catharine Pendrel (Luna), second to Neff last weekend in Mont Ste Anne, and the defending champion at Windham. Others to watch will be Batty, Katerina Nash (Luna) and American champion Lea Davison (Specialized Racing XC).
The men's race will likely be another battle between the two riders that have been head and shoulders above the rest of the field this season: World Cup leader Julian Absalon (BMC) and world champion Nino Schurter (Scott-Odlo). Between the two, they have won all five rounds of the World Cup this season. Absalon has one more win, but Schurter won last weekend, so it could go either way. Others to watch for on the podium will be Australian Daniel McConnell (Trek Factory Racing) and the Flückiger brothers - Lukas (BMC) and Mathias (Stockli).
The cross-country course has been shortened from the 2012 version, an alteration that current national and Commonwealth Games champion Catharine Pendrel commented on: "I really like the changes that they've made from previous years. The climb doesn't go up as high but it still has all the great traversing singletrack sections. The climb is pretty technical and demanding; a nice mix between really physical and technical, and the descent is really fast and fun."
Catharine Pendrel won the last time the World Cup came to Windham
The lap opens with a lot of climbing
After all the climbing a long descent to the finish
The descent has some high speed sections
One of the main features of the descent is named after Geoff Kabush
"The course is good. I like it," said Raphaël Gagné (Rocky Mountain Factory). "It's a little shorter so maybe a bit more balanced even though it's a long-climb course. It's basically one main climb broken into two parts with a tiny bit of descent between those climbs and a last long descent."
"I wasn't around when it was old-school racing," stated U23 racer Haley Smith (Norco Factory Team), "But that's sort of what it feels like. The climbing taxes people mentally because it's unrelenting and it's long. The descent rewards guts and staying off your brakes and knowing how to take corners fast."
Team Norco out training
Part of the large Quebecois contingent
Her teammate Andrew L'Esperance compared the course to that at Mont Tremblant: "A lot of the climbing is in the beginning and the rest of it is downhill and you get good recovery. A key part of the course is going to be transitioning from open climbing to technical stuff and carrying speed through those sections."
All riders touched upon the importance of setting the correct tempo. "It will be important to pace yourself and find the right balance between going out too hard and positioning yourself well," stated Gagné. "Just pace yourself and have a good race."
In 2012 local favourite Georgia Gould (Luna Pro Team) was heading to her maiden World Cup win, but was robbed of glory by a puncture, something her teammate Pendrel hasn't forgotten: "Windham in the past has typically been a course where a lot of people get flat tires, so it's also going to be about line choices and not taking risks where tire choice is concerned."
The 1.51 kilometre downhill is slightly shorter than in previous years, and takes riders through the trees for much of its length, offering a combination of rocks and roots, and some sizable jumps.
Manon Carpenter (Madison Saracen), with her third win of the series last weekend has taken a commanding lead in the women's competition, 160 points ahead of Emmeline Ragot (Lapierre Gravity Republic), with world champion Rachel Atherton (GT Factory) - the winner at Windham in 2012 - a further 20 points back. The race for the World Cup title is down to these three riders, all of whom have a win this season. Canada's Micayla Gatto (Pivot DH) finished just off the podium last week and will be looking to move up at least a spot here.
The men's competition has tightened up, with three riders within 101 points of leader Troy Brosnan (Specialized Racing DH) of Australia. Josh Bryceland (Santa Cruz Syndicate) is on a roll, with a first and second in the past two World Cups, while US champion and defending Windham champion Aaron Gwin (Specialized Racing DH) would definitely like to win on home soil. Australia's Sam Hill (Chainreactioncycles.com/Nukeproof) could also be a strong podium contender after his win last weekend. Canada's top rider, Steve Smith (Devinci Global Racing), is out of action for an undetermined period while he recovers from an ankle injury suffered in training at Mont Ste Anne. However, Canada has a new podium hopeful in the Junior men's category with Jack Iles (Evil Vengeance Tour), who was second last week.
Micayla Gatto and Vaea Verbeeck (Intense/Go Pro) were the top Canadians in the downhill at Mont Ste-Anne, finishing sixth and seventh respectively.
"I think it's awesome. It's really fast," noted Verbeeck of the 1.5km-long course. "It's still very technical with challenging lines, but there are different lines so every rider can pick their own way."
Born in Tahiti, Verbeeck grew up in Granby, Québec, but moved to North Vancouver two years ago to train and ride full-time, a decision that paid off when she became the national champion in July.
Gatto missed the podium by less than a second at Mont Ste. Anne, something she is hoping to rectify this weekend. "This track is a little bit tricky because everyone's going the same speed through the jumps and everything, and there isn't that much technical. What it's going to take is really paying attention to those little details because the overall speed is high. It's just getting that extra speed out of those trickier corners that's going to get you further ahead than the other girls."
Mark Wallace (Devinci Global Racing) sees similarities between the Mont Ste-Anne and Windham courses. "They're both fast and pretty wide open with lots of rocks. This one's about half the length. I tend to do better on the longer courses but that's not to say it can't happen on a shorter one."
The 19-year old from Duncan BC has a simple strategy for race day: "Just go full out the whole way. Super short; can't make any mistakes. Just have a good run."
According to Gabe Fox, manager of the Devinci Global Racing team, Steve Smith's ankle injury is not as severe as was first feared, and there is reason to hope that the 2013 World Cup overall champion may race this year's World Championships in Hafjell, Norway.
Preview Notes
- Canadian Mike Drolet is the chief official here.
- This is the second from last World Cup Eliminator, since it will not return for next season.
- Despite early worries that tropical storm Bertha might bring rain to the region, the forecast is now for dry conditions, with sun and heat in the high-20s (Celcius) on Sunday.
- Windham has a 'homey' feel to it compared to many World Cups, since it is such a small community and pretty much everyone gets involved. The hill will be adding a bike park in the future, an outgrowth of the success of the World Cup in putting Windham on the map as a mountain biking centre.
Report by Emil van Dijk with Rob Jones

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First time visitors to Houston are often impressed by the city's modern skyline, the Johnson Space Center, and the Astrodome. But while visitors, and many Houstonians, are busy looking upward, one of the city's best kept secrets lies right beneath their feet.
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By the mid-'70s, two-and-a-half miles of tunnels snaked their way under Houston. Today The Connection, as the system has been dubbed, is over six miles long, and most of the tunnels have been interconnected.
The Connection is an impressive engineering achievement. Perhaps more interesting, though, it is an impressive economic achievement, defying the conventional wisdom about "public goods." For the system has been almost entirely developed and maintained by the private sector.
Houston's ordinances give building owners control of their land to the middle of the road. The city is granted easement rights along the surface for utilities and streets, but what goes on below the surface is up to the property owner, as long as he moves any below-ground utilities when constructing a tunnel. This has proven to be one of the major costs involved, as there are thousands of miles of electric power cables, street light cables, gas lines, water pipes, and storm and sewer pipes running under city streets.
At a construction cost of over $15,000 per square foot, a typical tunnel can easily reach a price tag of $1 million. So it's not surprising that from its humble beginnings as a sterile walkway between parking garages and office buildings, The Connection has evolved into a major retail area. Nestled along the corridors are over 100 shops and businesses—florists, banks, travel agents, film developers, office supply stores, cleaners, printers, jewelers, delis, even postal facilities.
Until about five years ago, the possibility of getting lost in the system was a big drawback. Responding to complaints about this, which was clearly discouraging use of the tunnels, a group of downtown merchants pooled money to develop a name and initiate the posting of signs. "The Connection" was born, and the ad hoc tunnel committee hoped peer pressure would get building owners to put up signs.
Standard notions about public goods suggest that such improvements pose a problem. Everyone benefits even if only a few people pay; the potential for such free riding means that common benefits won't be provided at all if some central authority doesn't impose a tax on everyone to pay for them.
Yet today, kiosks throughout the system, erected by individual businesses, point tunnel travelers in the right direction. And the fact is that those who are paying are also receiving most of the benefits. Nearly all of the buildings in the heart of the system—the most heavily traveled area—have invested in kiosks. Buildings in less frequently traveled areas have not, because the low traffic does not justify them. Some downtown businesses have printed maps as a service to their customers, but because these maps also provide advertising, those who are paying are again receiving the greatest benefits.
Building owners have alleviated another potential free rider problem—with air conditioning—by installing doors between sections of the tunnel. These prevent some areas from benefiting from the air conditioning in others.
As the tunnel system has expanded, building owners have found that access to it is almost imperative. Louis Sklar, an executive at Gerald D. Hines Interests, the largest tunnel developer, maintains that "any building, to be viable in downtown Houston, has to be on the tunnel system." It is an amenity that prospective tenants find appealing, for it allows employees to avoid Houston's infamous summer weather, as well as winter's brisk "blue northers," which send frigid Arctic air whistling through the city's concrete canyons. Of the downtown workforce of about 175,000 people, use the tunnel on an average weekday. On rainy days, another 4,000 scurry through the corridors.
Patrons also like the system's cleanliness. Because the tunnels are privately owned, building owners have an interest in maintaining a clean and safe environment. An abundance of ashtrays throughout the system, for example, keeps the floor clear of cigarette butts.
Building owners are responsible for security, and guards and security cameras are visible throughout the system. While crime is not unheard of in The Connection, the narrow corridors, limited access, and absence of dark alleys are obvious deterrents. And the lower crime rate has reduced insurance costs for many tunnel businesses.
Panhandlers and other street people seldom enter the tunnels. When they do, "we call the police," said one security guard. And since access at night is very limited, the homeless do not find it a convenient shelter.
Hotel managers like the tunnels' security. Their guests can attend an evening performance at one of the city's performing arts centers and return to their hotel without walking along the vacant streets late at night.
Retailers rave about The Connection's benefits, among them the built in upscale clientele. "If I had to pick any location in Houston," says camera store owner Jim Strawbridge, "I would probably pick this one." Self-proclaimed "tunnel rat" Paul Couch, an assistant manager at a flower shop, claims that he can make deliveries to 98 percent of the buildings without going outside.
Yet The Connection is not without its critics. The same retailers who laud the tunnels' benefits bemoan their inability to do any street level advertising. A surprising number of downtown workers are not even aware of the tunnels' existence.
Some tunnel business owners have gone so far as to declare the tunnel a public asset, like sidewalks, and suggest increased city control. Sklar, the executive at Gerald D. Hines, claims that "some sort of public authority" to maintain the system "would certainly not be all bad." Public ownership, he says, would ensure access to the system (the recently constructed Heritage Plaza was denied access by a competing development company) and would foster a more uniform motif throughout the system.
Others have urged construction of street level entrances—there is currently only one. Some believe that the lack of access from the street demonstrates shortsightedness that city control could remedy.
Such critics, however, should ponder the fate of a series of tunnels already operated by the city of Houston. Connecting several theaters and parking lots., it was tied into the commercial system several years ago. While most of the private tunnels have carpeted walls and mirrored ceilings, the city's tunnels are entirely tiled. They're also in need of repair and poorly lit; some people have gone so far as to call the city's tunnels "slums." Sklar admits that "if you look at the way they are built and maintained compared to the private systems, you can have some feel for why a lot of people prefer the private tunnels."
As building owners have slowly become more responsive to retailers' desire to increase traffic through the tunnels, calls for public control are decreasing. More building owners are erecting directories in their lobbies and making a greater effort to advertise the tunnel to pedestrians.
While The Connection is not without flaws, it probably would not exist if not for the private sector, where it has evolved gradually. Building the system all at once would have been an engineering and financial nightmare. "Putting in tunnels yourself could be a lot cheaper than trying to coordinate it through some government agency," observes University of Houston economist Steven Craig.
Even Sklar concedes that "the system probably never would have been started if it had not been privately owned." The problems of financing and regulating would have been difficult to overcome, and public support for such a project impossible to obtain.
Thirty years ago, observes Hines, The Connection's benefits would have seemed like a futuristic fantasy.
J. Brian Phillips is a Houston-based free-lance writer.
This article originally appeared in print under the headline "Houston: Subterranean Treasures".
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The first settlers gave the name of "Jeofferyes Creeke" to this tract of land which at that time was a part of Salem. The name Manchester appears in the Colonial Records under the date of May 14, 1645 when "It is ordered, yt Jeffeyes Creeke shalbe called Manchester." June 18, 1645, both branches of the Great and General Court concurred in the following: "att ye request of ye inhabitants of Jeofferyes Creeke, this Courte doth graunt yt ye said Jeofferyes Creeke hence forward shall be called Manchester."
1790, 965. 1820, 1,201. 1900, 2,522.
The following records of births, marriages and deaths include all entries to be found in the books of record kept by the town clerks; in the church records; in the returns made to the Salem Quarterly Court; in the cemetery inscriptions; and in several private records found in family Bibles. These records are printed in a condensed form in which every essential particular has been preserved. All duplication of the town clerk's record has been eliminated, but differences in entry and other explanatory matter appear in brackets. The copy of the original records made for the town in 1886, by William A. Stone, town clerk, has been used only when it has supplied entries now missing in the original. Parentheses are used when they occur in the original record; also to show the difference in the spelling of a name and to indicate the maiden name of a wife.


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Sybille Bammer era la detentrice del titolo, ma quest'anno non ha partecipato.

Agnieszka Radwańska ha vinto in finale 6–2, 1–6, 7–6(4), contro Jill Craybas.

Teste di serie

  Agnieszka Radwańska (campionessa)
  Casey Dellacqua (secondo turno)
  Sania Mirza (ritiro per infortunio all'adduttore sinistro)
  Yung-jan Chan (quarti)
  Angelique Kerber (secondo turno)

 Jaroslava Švedova (primo turno)
 Jill Craybas (finale)
 Anastasija Rodionova (primo turno)
 Tzipora Obziler (primo turno)

Tabellone

Finali

Parte alta

Parte bassa

Collegamenti esterni

Pattaya Women's Open 2008

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Home » Blogs » Charles Gaba's blog » IMPORTANT UPDATE: I'm guessing all that Bud Light is skunked by now, Speaker Ryan.
Gee, if only someone had suggested that you at least wait until the CBO released their score of the final version of the bill before voting on it.
...According to several aides and other procedural experts, if Republicans send the bill to the Senate now and the CBO later concludes it doesn't save at least $2 billion, it would doom the bill and Republicans would have to start their repeal effort all over with a new budget resolution.
...Republicans had a sizable deficit reduction cushion -- $150 billion -- before several amendments were added to the bill at the last minute, including changes allowing states to legalize much skimpier health insurance plans.
If the CBO assumes that none of the states decide to file an exemption waiver, then the AHCA should operate exactly as horribly as the prior version would have: 24 million people kicked off their policies, $880 billion cut from Medicaid, etc etc. However, it wouldn't be any worse either.
It's unclear what assumptions the CBO will make about what states will do with that newly created flexibility. If millions of people sign up for much cheaper, minimal insurance, that could trigger billions -- and potentially even hundreds of billions -- in costs over a decade because of the House bill's health insurance tax credits.
Remember, that theoretical $150 billion in "savings" is over a 10-year period. That's only $15 billion per year on average; the needle wouldn't have to move that much to wipe that out. Of course, it's also conceivable that the projected savings would be higher as well; the CBO has to take a lot of factors into consideration.
"We've got to wait for the CBO score," said Greg Walden of Oregon, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which authored much of the bill. "To prove that you meet the reconciliation test."
Really? Really, Congressman Walden? Gee, perhaps you should have thought of that two friggin' weeks ago before you voted on it the first time???
But other senior Republicans weren't aware that leaders had been holding onto the bill.
"I had no idea," Dennis Ross of Florida, another member of the vote-counting team, said Thursday, adding that the prospect of another vote "does concern me."
GOP leaders never said publicly they were planning to hold on to the bill for two weeks or longer.
UPDATE: It's important to note that this is not necessarily going to happen; there's a very good chance that the CBO will still project the AHCA to "save" well more than $2 billion, given that $150 billion cushion. If that happens, then I presume they can forward it to the Senate as is after all and this will be much ado about nothing. Even so, it underscores the jaw-droppingly reckless and sloppy fashion in which the GOP is attempting to cram this through.
In this era of "fake news," it's more important than ever to not let unverified rumor or libelous insinuation get in the way of the facts of the matter, which is that a bunch of soulless, greedy, waterlogged copies of Atlas Shrugged stuffed inside ugly suits stood around the White House yesterday, laughing and jacking each other off about how they'd successfully sentenced so many of their constituents to die just so they and their cronies could get a huge tax break, but while doing so, they most definitely did not drink Bud Light.


From the rough-edged courts of New York City and recruited by Coach Pat Summitt for the University of Tennessee's Lady Vols, Chamique Holdsclaw was hailed as the "female Michael Jordan," impressing crowds with her artistry, athleticism and drive. A 3-time NCAA champ and Number One draft pick in the WNBA, Holdsclaw seemed destined for a spectacular professional career—until her long-suppressed battle with mental disorders emerged to derail her career and threaten her life. Mind/Game intimately chronicles Holdsclaw's athletic accomplishments and personal setbacks, and her decision, despite public stigma, to become an outspoken mental health advocate. Still, she would face dramatic, unexpected challenges to her own recovery. The film, narrated by Glenn Close, tells a powerful story of courage, struggle, and redemption.


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Local Dance History Project + Next Up Program I
Friday, February 26, 2010 – 7:30pm Saturday, February 27, 2010 – 2:00pm Saturday, February 27, 2010 – 7:30pm
Each Local Dance History Project program is paired with a Next Up performance, providing a unique look at contemporary dance, past and future. Program I features Local Dance History Project artists Dan Martin and Michael Biello,Ishmael Houston-Jones, and Next Up artist Otto Ramstad. TheLocal Dance History Project offers an informative look at the development of contemporary dance in Philadelphia by showcasing the work of five dance and movement artists who were among the first to explore post modern, improvisation, and performance genres in the city during the late 1970s and early 80s. In 1980, dancers Dan Martin and Michael Biello, Jano Cohen, PDP's Terry Fox, and Ishmael Houston-Jones were featured in Dance & Dancers, a sold-out presentation at the Harold Prince Theater at the Annenberg Center for Performing Arts. Now, in PDP Presents 2010, these five dancers will reunite to revisit and reconstruct their work, which will be performed by young Philadelphia dance artists.
Next Up features work by some of the freshest emerging choreographers– Chris Yon and Otto Ramstad, visiting from Minneapolis.Both choreographers represent a younger generation of dance artists who are not only building on the canon of what comprises contemporary dance, but who are widening its definition by asking questions of why we dance, and what roles or purpose dance artists' work has in the lives of others.
Program I – Performance Descriptions (February 26 and February 27)
Local Dance History Project | Dan Martin and Michael Biello | Ishmael Houston-Jones
Dan Martin and Michael Biello will choreograph a duet, performed by Scott McPheeters and John Luna. Ishmael Houston-Jones offers Dead, a solo performed by William Robinson. Biello, Martin, and Houston-Jones will also present their 1980 collaborative work, What We're Made Of, a group dance originally performed by Two Men Dancing, a gay men's dance/theater/music collective. The 2010 version will be performed by Gregory Holt, John Luna, Scott McPheeters, and William Robinson.
Next Up | Otto Ramstad | Hello Nervous System
In this solo performance, Otto Ramstad choreographically researches how the nervous system spreads as a net of attention throughout the body. Playing both scientific observer and empathetic participant, Ramstad teases the distinctions between THE nervous system and HIS nervous system. More than an anatomical study, Hello Nervous System insists that the dancer you see in front of you is first and foremost a person. Ramstad will also perform with The BodyCartography Project in PDP Presents 2010's SCUBA program.
Additional Local Dance History Project Programs
The post-show discussion The Relevance of Yesterday to Today,moderated by Anna Drozdowski, Philadelphia-based dance writer and Curatorial Advisor for Next Up, will be held following the Saturday matinee programs on February 27 (Program I) and March 6 (Program II). The discussion will look at how the reconstructed works in the program relate to a younger generation of contemporary artists. The Local Dance History Project Forum will be held on February 28. The all-day event will feature a class with project artists, panel discussions and presentations.
The Local Dance History Project is made possible by a grant from the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through Dance Advance, with additional support from the PA Humanities Council's "Our Stories, Our Future" initiative and the Dolfinger McMahon Foundation.
Otto Ramstadhttp://www.bodycartography.org
Otto Ramstad(Director, Performer, Video Artist) is co-director of The BodyCartography Project, alongside Olive Bieringa. He has an insatiable interest in the process of creating kinesthetic visual images with movement.
Ramstad has been investigating improvisational movement formally since the age of six starting with master dance teacher and BMC practitioner Suzanne River and since via skateboarding and snowboarding, Capoiera Angola, Butoh, Tai Chi, contact improvisation and Tuning Scores. He is a practitioner of Body-Mind Centering (c) and holds a BA in Dance, Improvisation, and the Moving Image. He has been featured in the work of D.D. Dorvillier, Miguel Gutierrez, Morgan Thorson, Shelton Mann, Karen Nelson, Lisa Schmitt, and Kitt Johnson from Denmark. Ramstad has performed solo works in Denmark, Finland, England, New Zealand, Italy, NYC around the USA. His current solo Hello Nervous System was seen in Fresh Tracks at DTW, NYC, The Ritz Theatr, Minneapolis, and PanCreas Festival in Denmark. Ramstad received a DanceWeb scholarhip at Impulstanz in Vienna 2005 & 2008. He was an Archibald Bush Fellowship Artist 2006-2008. He was a Rolex Protegé Nominee in 2008. Ramstad will create a commissioned work for the Lyon Opera Ballet in 2010.- HideMichael Biello and Dan Martinhttp://www.biellomartin.com
Michael Biello and Dan Martin are life-partners and longtime collaborators who have created a unique body of critically acclaimed work in musical theatre, dance theatre, and performance art.
Their newest musical in development, The Cousins Grimm, was workshopped at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center in 2008; it was also presented at the New York Music Theatre Festival where it received an Anna Sosenko Trust Award in 2007. Martin and Biello's work has enjoyed success in Chicago, where Bailiwick's production of their musical Breathe won the 1999 After Dark Award for Outstanding New Work and where, in 2000, Bailiwick commissioned and premiered their revue Q – the Songs of Martin & Biello. Breathe has been subsequently presented in various US cities including Philadelphia, Omaha, Richmond, and Dallas.
Biello & Martin's theatre work has also been presented in New York at American Opera Projects, New Dramatists, Musical Theater Works, HERE, the TWEED Festival, BAX, and PS 122, among others; at Miami's City Theatre, Washington, DC's District of Columbia Arts Center, San Francisco's People's Theater Coalition, and Philadelphia's Harold Prince Theatre, the Painted Bride, the Wilma Theater and Walnut Street Theatre, among others.- HideIshmael Houston-Joneshttp://ishmaelhj.com/
Ishmael Houston-Jonesimprovised dance and text work has been performed in New York City, across the United States, in Europe, Canada, Australia and Latin America.
Recent works include Nowhere, Now Here, commissioned for Mordine and Company in Chicago in spring 2001, and Specimens commissioned for Headlong Dance Theater in Philadelphia in 1998. From 1995-2000 he toured as part of the improvised trio Unsafe / Unsuited with Patrick Scully and Keith Hennessy. In 1997 he was the choreographer for Nayland Blake's Hare Follies at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. In 1990 he and writer Dennis Cooper presented The Undead at the Los Angeles Festival of the Arts. In 1989 he collaborated with filmmaker Julie Dash on the video Relatives, which was aired nationally on the PBS series Alive From Off-Center (Alive TV). In 1984 Houston-Jones and Fred Holland shared a New York Dance and Performance Bessie Award for their Cowboys, Dreams and Ladders. From 2002-2007, Houston-Jones was the Coordinator for the Lambent Fellowship in the Arts of Tides Foundation. He also developed and implemented a program that awarded multi-year grants to individual visual and performing artists in metropolitan New York City; each year fellowships totaling $126,000 were awarded to six artists.- Hide
Local Dance History Project Forum
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Helge Skov f. Skovdal (19. december 1921 i Kongens Lyngby – 25. november 1991 i Askov) er primært kendt som forstander for Askov Højskole fra 1971 til 1980.  På sine ældre dage  afsluttede han sit arbejdsliv  som   biskop over Ribe Stift fra 1980 indtil sin død i 1991.
Han var søn af højskoleforstander Olaf Skov og hustru Margrethe (død 1948), blev student fra Odense Katedralskole 1942 og cand.theol. fra Aarhus Universitet 1948. Skov var højskolelærer ved Køng Højskole 1948-50, sognepræst i Svenstrup på Als 1950-57, valgmenighedspræst i Askov samt lærer ved Askov Højskole 1957-69, sognepræst i Skodborg fra 1969 indtil 1971, hvor han blev forstander for Askov Højskole. Dette job forlod han 1980 efter en jætte indsats for Askov Højskole i kølvandet på Askovs krise i 1968, da han blev udnævnt til biskop.

Han var desuden medredaktør af Højskolebladet 1964-71 og af Dansk Udsyn fra 1971. Bestyrelsesmedlem i Askov studenterkreds 1945-48, medlem af Strukturkommissionen 1964-67, bestyrelsesmedlem i Selskabet til støtte for Pakistans Lutherske Kirke fra 1970 og medlem af Radiorådet fra 1974.

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AP New Mexico
Published August 16, 2022 4:40 PM
2 brothers charged with conspiracy in deadly smuggling crash
By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Two brothers from Mexico are facing federal charges after fleeing from U.S. authorities in late July and crashing their vehicle, killing two and injuring 10 others just miles from the international border.
Federal prosecutors announced Tuesday that Jorge Garcia-Rascon, 21 and Julio Garcia-Rascon, 19, have been charged with conspiracy to smuggle immigrants resulting in death. They will remain in custody pending trial.
The crash happened after Border Patrol agents attempted a traffic stop. The brothers sped away despite the agents ceasing their pursuit in hopes of avoiding any kind of chase that might endanger the occupants or other vehicles.
According to a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court, the brothers had been smuggled themselves. The elder brother, speaking in Spanish, told authorities that he was transporting other migrants to pay off his debt for being brought to the United States.
Jorge Garcia-Rason stated that he and his brother were staying at a motel in El Paso, Texas, and were transporting migrants for an unnamed smuggling organization. He said he had transported six migrants to Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the week before the crash.
Julio Garcia-Rascon told authorities that he had once transported migrants to from El Paso to Albuquerque and that he was paid $500 per person. According to court documents, he stated that his employer told him not to stop if law enforcement attempted to pull him over.
A public defender appointed to represent the brothers did not immediately return a message seeking comment on the case.
The brothers' SUV caught the attention of authorities who were patrolling near Santa Teresa, New Mexico. The SUV appeared to be weighed down after it passed by. The Border Patrol agents turned off their emergency lights and sirens after their attempt to stop the vehicle failed.
The driver continued speeding away and eventually lost control, flipping and rolling the vehicle.
Authorities said the brothers tried to run from the crash but were taken into custody.
In the weeks before the crash. U.S. Customs and Border Patrol reported that authorities working in the El Paso sector, which includes New Mexico's stretch of the international border, had disrupted 20 vehicular human smuggling schemes that involved nearly 130 smuggled migrants.
The agency also reported busting three stash houses in late July and finding more than 100 migrants who were in the country illegally. Those migrants were from Guatemala, El Salvador, Ecuador, Mexico and Honduras.
The Border Patrol has reported that during the past fiscal year, agents working in New Mexico and West Texas located more than 175 stash houses at which 1,975 migrants were found.
Statistics released by the federal government Monday show migrants were stopped fewer times at the U.S. border with Mexico in July than in June but that flows were still unusually high.
Del Rio, Texas, was the busiest corridor for illegal crossings among the Border Patrol's nine sectors on the Mexico border, with agents there stopping migrants 49,563 times in July. Texas' Rio Grande Valley, which had long been the busiest, was second with 35,180 stops.
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Do you want new leads for your law firm?
Did you know that every month, more than 25,000 people search for the term "Divorce Lawyers" alone? The volume of traffic is huge & continuously growing. Top websites of attorneys get bulk of this traffic & the leads that come out of it.
The end goal of any lawyers' website is to drive new business. Your website should be able to grab each opportunity to make client move down your marketing funnel. Ideally, your entire website should carry your custom contact form on the sidebar, regardless of the visitor's stage of decision making or whatever page they are on.
This is what makes contact page really important.
You want your clients to be able to reach out to you as soon as they visit your website. They should be able to get in touch with you easily.
Prospective clients should have many options when it comes to ways to get in touch with you. Email, call, contact form, and chat boxes are all the convenient ways that you should focus on.
According to a survey done by BrightLocal, the number one reason why people choose not to use a local business after visiting its website is not having a phone number clearly listed.
An embedded Google map helps people in locating you better; it also kind of puts your business on a map!
The whole point of getting your practice and business online is to make sure you are available to clients at the click of a button and not just through direct advertising/cold calls or during office hours.
With a website, it becomes easier for prospective clients to look out for you in their free time, understand what you offer, and arrange for an appointment.
Appointment scheduler works more like your office assistant online. With a great appointment scheduler and a CRM connected to the contact form, you can automatically capture, track and revert to those incoming inquiries.
Make sure your working hours are always mentioned. Being available outside of normal business hours for consultations provides a nice touch.
Featuring client testimonials on your website is a tricky affair.
Much of it depends on the type of law you specialize in. But in more than one ways, it's worth it as it helps build trust, makes people comfortable with the fact that other people having the same legal problems like them hired your firm to resolve them successfully.
You may or may not have names or only the first names of some of the clients (for example-criminal defense clients would like their identity to be withheld) but photos and names do add to your credibility when it comes to testimonials.
My rule of thumb for you would be to take whatever good review that comes your way in whichever way possible and then select the best way to show it. Client reviews are important because third-party assessments give people a sense of reassurance.
Testimonials from "anonymous" don't carry much weight.
Pick and choose 3-5 reviews; don't put everything that you get on the website.
Include prominent links to your Yelp, Avvo profiles, and Google Plus pages so prospective clients can see even more great reviews!
Include a clear call to action on your Client Testimonials page. Ask for a call, contact form submission, or email.
Active blogging does wonders for your SEO, as search engines love websites that are updated often with fresh content.
This really isn't about a single page, but you must keep your blog up to date. If your blog looks active with fresh posts and comments, clients will assume you are running an active practice helping many clients like them regularly.
You have to keep it active, but don't overdo it. One great blog post every month is better than a hastily thrown together post every week.
Short and simple: Aim for between 500-1500 words. Use keywords, be to the point and concise. Try to explain complex topics in common language.
Your audiences should care about the topics and it should relate to your primary practice areas.
Focus on the purpose of the blog. Are you trying for an informative blog? Does it relate to audiences looking for legal advice? Is it about some new policy change that they should be aware of?
Include a clear call to action on all posts. After reading your blog post, what should someone do next? Leave a comment to ask you a question about the topic? Call you for a free consultation? Share the post with a friend?
Be clear and straightforward and ask your readers to take the next step, ¬¬ whatever that is.
This one is a double-edged sword. Too much bragging and you lose connection with your clients, too little and you risk of fading into oblivion. Maintain a balance. Prepare news based on your activities and events calendar. Make sure your industry awards and recognitions are highlighted.
To make a direct connection, highlight your social initiatives; focus on pro-bono cases supported by facts, figures, and images.
Awards, news and media exposure is a great way to establish credibility and reinforce positive perceptions.
You can display upcoming legal conferences, speaking events, and sync with your calendar so that people booking an appointment will know about your availability or possible absence.
This is also a valuable feature in case you are connecting your business with social media where you can co-promote various events, which act as a good platform for you to network and extend your reach.
Consider this, with a great CRM integrated into your website like a HubSpot, Capsule, Sugar CRM etc, you can outsource most of your client relationship work to the software.
Right from welcoming clients into your fold to responding to potential leads, answering queries, assigning the new client/prospect to a team member, your CRM is s a super intelligent and value-added tool for a fast track attorney looking to make the most out of his website.
An integrated CRM software on your website helps keep track of your clients, leads, potential leads, as well as past clients.
Invest in a great CRM and most of your follow-up gets automated and if applicable, so does your email list management, subscribers management and a lot more!
People always love to feel like they are getting a deal of some kind. Legal websites are no exception.
If you want your clients to at least drop their contact information, be it their email address, phone number or any other contact information, you can do so by putting up a special offer that can help you stand out from your competition and encourage visitors to take action and contact you.
For example, you can put a special flat rate for one of your standard types of services.
You can offer a free consultation to a select few clients or offer to answer one question or review one legal document for free in exchange for contact information or subscription to your mail list or newsletter.
If you create a dedicated page for your special offer, you can also use it as a landing page for Google AdWords, Facebook ads, and other online advertising campaigns.
Lead capture pages have captured your audience's attention and keep them hooked.
You can showcase your knowledge by publishing case studies about your previous cases.
You may argue that your site's primary job is to get more clients and not to write papers on law, but publishing case studies give you a professional edge, as well as makes your profile noticeable to others.
Pages like these are not only valuable for users who wish to learn more about what you do but as for search engine optimization as well.
An FAQ page with answers to common questions will help you and your clients get more out of their initial consultation. It also provides you with the opportunity to show your expertise and build credibility.
Anyone going through a complex legal issue will tell you that getting simple, layman-friendly answers to their legal questions is the most important aspect of their search for a good lawyer/law firm.
The goal of your FAQ page should be to encourage a website visitor to call you and ask the next question¬¬, i.e. the one that requires a more in¬-depth answer than an FAQ page can provide.
Focus on simplicity- don't dive too deeply into answers, and don't overuse legalese.
Limit yourself to questions that are specific to the law you practice and your firm's policies. Use the questions you hear over and over from clients to guide you.
Be smart; use your FAQ page to vet prospective clients. If you do not have a pricing page, for example, put in a question where you talk about payment options and answer it on FAQ page.
These are just 12 of the important pages which I think a great attorney or law firm website must have. No matter which area of the law you practice, it's imperative that you provide your clients with a sense of trust and credibility. As such, creating a website that conveys that impression should be at the top of your list.
You need to show your clients you have the expertise for the job, as well as it should be easy for them to find you. The law website you have in mind should not be too complicated and should have a structure that supports its content, visuals, and all of your details.
Your legal website is like a digital brochure for your law firm, and it helps in creating a marketing hub for your practice.
Have any questions? Just leave a comment below!


Large Update Incoming! - Addition of all Team CoFH's mods, McJty's new mod XNet and many more exciting mod updates including new features and fixes.
Full changelog (look for 1.10.2 versions only).
Now caches entity constructors for a small performance optimization.
Added a new client config option to force all chunk rendering off the main thread. This may help FPS issues, but may also result in world holes/rendering issues. Also fixed Forge configs not saving properly.
Fixed TileEntity#getRenderBoundingBox not offsetting correctly, causing more TEs to render then needed.
Added in a check to the splash screen. If the Display.update call takes too long on average (over first 200 frames), Forge'll use a sleep based timer to allow mods doing splash screen work some time on the LWJGL global lock. This should fix some slow loading issues with a few mods (notably JEI).
Added emptying recipes for fluid placer and collector.
Added a config to change the configuration items (compass and redstone torch).
Added a Redstone Mode toggle to the Ranged Collector.
Backported a bunch of quotes and booklet editions.
Stopped the storage crate from syncing its NBT.
Made the drill digging packet a config option that is off by default.
Made the coffee maker store its coffee cache when breaking it.
Made the magnet ring not use energy when not picking something up.
Mod now fires block harvesting events when automatically mining things.
Made the leaf blower drop blocks on their own.
Made the smiley clouds render special stuff.
Made horse armor yield less when crushing.
Updated the RF API (This was the actual reason this whole update was made, so blame -or thank- KingLemming. Also, I'm only putting this bit of text here because he told me to).
Fixed an exception in the booklet with broken furnace recipes.
Fixed crusher achievement descritipons being wrong.
Fixed missing textures on item laser relay manual pages.
Supposedly fixed the bag "leaking" items with certain other mods installed.
Fixed JEI compat for Alchemy Table recipes.
Fixed (yet another) crash when creating an "invalid" stack of the Blood Tank.
Fixed Demon Will Crystal and Teleposer crashy interaction.
Fixed crash when working with toggleable sigils.
Fixed JEI not displaying Armor Tomes.
Fixed Body Builder level 4 being 5x more expensive than level 5.
Fixed the Seer's Sigil not using Roman Numerals to display the altar tier.
Removed lexicon references to blocks that have been removed or moved to quark.
Fixed a crash when placing pistons with a arannuncarpus.
Fixed a crash with the orechid when an ore is registered to the ore dictionary that isn't a block.
Fixed AoE mining not firing break events and not dropping xp.
Fixed body and leg armor stats being swapped.
Fixed crashes with the drum of the gathering and the mod's shears.
Fixed the botania banner lexicon entry still requiring EtFuturum.
Fixed the crystal bow not using mana.
Fixed the gaia guardian not looking like the player in dedicated servers.
Fixed the horn of the wild, bore lens, and rod of the shifting crust manually dropping block drops and not allowing for block rollbacks.
Fixed the marimorphosis running clientside and desyncing.
Fixed the soulscribe not dealing extra damage.
Fixed the spectator not highlighting all relevant inventories.
Added nether and end variants of resonating ore. By default, they're enabled in the nether.
Crystals now also generate in the nether. They are stronger but less pure. This can all be configured.
Tanks are now also fluid handlers client-side. That's better for render issues.
Renamed the Deep Resonance machine frame so it is less confusing with RFTools.
Fixed oregen vein size. For this the config had to be regenerated. To enforce that I used different keys for the ore vein size. So if you have custom configs be sure to check that out again.
Added "Analog Crafter", a crafter with 9 input slots that doesn't need a predefined recipe.
Added support for various TE api interfaces.
(From a later update) Removed TE compatibility for now, until the API has stabilised.
Machines/generators now have a redstone modes (ignore/on/off/pulse).
Fixed a dupe with opinium.
Fixed a 1.11 NPE in Mechanical crafter.
Fixed a rendering issue with flat transfer nodes.
Fixed a server crash with great wall worlds.
Fixed a rare missing sprite crash.
Fixed a Mini chest not saving or updating comparators.
Fixed a server crash with klein/opinium blocks.
Permissions are either more broken or more fixed, who knows!
Added clickable chat links in Teams GUI.
Added Kick button for in Teams GUI.
Added WIP notification on new message in team's chat.
Improved recipe hover detection for tooltips.
Mod now logs any invalid smelting recipes that could cause a crash.
Added support for localized rftools manuals.
Implemented support for the Forge update JSON system.
The Detector no longer outputs a strong redstone signal.
Fixed a crash in storage cache.
Fixed the Constructor not working on Botania flowers.
Fixed slow oredict comparisons causing TPS lag.
The endergenic generator should now be a lot more stable and predictable. This might break your current setups but once you time them again they should stay that way.
Fixed an eternal looping bug in the latest endergenic changes if you had a loop of endergenics without an injector.
Fixed the eternal loop problem again in the endergenic. Some unfinished setups could still cause problems.
Added rabbit and sheep meat to the living matter config for the spawner (needs deleting the config).
Added real i18n support for the manual.
Fixed OC being unable to dial to any other dimension.
Added safety for biomes returning null for registry name.
Made checking if a world is loaded slightly more robust in the activity probe.
The feature absorber will now show the absorbed feature in WAILA, TOP, and JEI if it is at 100%.
Added protection against bad mods adding invalid blocks.
Restored shading to item labels.
For resource pack makers, item labels now honor the statusArea section of the dynamic folder json.
Disabled Thermal Foundationn default world generation, since other mod's own was already in use.
Disabled the generic death message for named entities.


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Beatrix Farrand designed the Beech Terrace with the Beech tree as the focus in the 1930s.
Date or photograph probably taken in spring of 1965. The Dumbarton Oaks Cultural Landscape Report, 2002 indicates that in 1944, ground cover surrounded the Beech tree, but was replaced with grass by 1967.
On verso: Typewritten label: "Beech Terrace, General view"; Handwritten: "Beech Terrace" and "D.O. gardens exhibition - 1977"; Stamped in red ink: "This is a kodacolor enlargement, made by Kodak, April 1965 R."


They have surround sound, mini stereos and headphones. It only makes sense that the next step is a bluetooth headset.
Bose, the master craftsmen of sound, have unveiled their new Bose Bluetooth Headset. Famous for their noise-cancellation technology, Bose brings this feature to the bluetooth table. One of the disadvantages of many bluetooth devices is the ability to hear each other in a crowded or slightly noisier area than others. Bose's new product tackles that issue.
According to a personal test done by this ComputerWorld writer, she uses the device in an overcrowded party room with high ceilings and still has relatively little trouble being able to maintain her phone coversation. Bose added noise-rejecting microphone filters to cancel out any unecessary background noise and focuses in on your voice alone, helping the person on the other end. Also, as the previously noted author mentioned, you can hear your calls better as the Bose technology is constantly adjusting the voice levels in your ear to rise above any background noise around you.
The device itself is sleek, attractive and more comfortable to wear than most other bluetooth devices. In addition, its rechargable battery allows for over 4.5 hours of talk time and 175 hours of standby time. Not shabby at all.
So what do you all think? Will Bose's new headset outperform the rest?


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Navy aircraft carrier will be sold after three years - and never carry jets
One of the Navy's new £3 billion aircraft carriers will never carry aircraft and will sail for only three years before being mothballed and possibly sold, ministers will announce on Tuesday.
An artist's impression of the future aircraft Carriers for the Royal Navy, HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales
By James Kirkup, Political Correspondent
The Government's Strategic Defence and Security Review will also confirm that Britain will not have an effective "carrier strike" capability – a working aircraft carrier equipped with fighter jets – until 2020.
David Cameron had wanted to scrap one of the two carriers, the largest and most expensive vessels in British naval history, but the review found that contracts signed by the previous government meant that doing so would end up costing the taxpayer more than going ahead with both. As a result, the two carriers will enter service, but one will be mothballed as soon as possible.
Presenting the review to MPs, the Prime Minister will blame many of its outcomes on Labour, accusing its ministers of leaving a £38 billion black hole in the defence budget and signing contracts for over-priced and unnecessary military equipment. He will also announce:
• The replacement for the Trident nuclear deterrent will be delayed by a year until after the general election scheduled for 2015. He will insist he remains committed to renewing Trident but will say the delay is needed to save £750 million.
• The Army will lose 7,000 soldiers, more than 100 tanks and 200 armoured vehicles. One armoured brigade will be lost and the end of Britain's 65-year presence in Germany will be signalled.
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Cameron attacked by Navy pilot
French and US jets to use British aircraft carriers
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Navy aircraft carriers not operational for 26 years
• The RAF will keep most of its Tornado fighter-bombers but lose at least 5,000 personnel. Two RAF bases will close and be occupied by soldiers returning from Germany.
• The Navy's fleet of warships will drop from 24 to 19 and it will lose 4,000 personnel. Harrier jump-jets will be scrapped next year but no F35 Joint Strike Fighters will be available to replace them until 2020.
• Special Forces will receive a significant increase in their budget, allowing them to buy sophisticated communications technology and weapons. Recruitment is also likely to rise.
The decision on the new carriers has been at the heart of tense and prolonged Whitehall negotiations over the future of the Armed Forces.
Due to cost almost £6 billion, they were demanded by the Navy but strongly opposed by the Army and by General Sir David Richards, the Chief of the Defence Staff.
The final plan for the carriers was approved by the Cabinet on Monday, at a meeting in which Mr Cameron told ministers that the decisions on the future of the Armed Forces, had been "the hardest thing I have had to deal with" since entering No 10.
On Tuesday, the Prime Minister will outline a timetable under which Britain's one fully operational aircraft carrier, HMS Ark Royal, is immediately retired. The Navy's other carrier, HMS Illustrious, will continue to function as a helicopter platform stripped of jets before retiring in 2014.
The first of the new carriers, HMS Queen Elizabeth, will enter service in 2016, configured to carry helicopters, not jets. The second new carrier, HMS Prince of Wales, will arrive in 2019. At that point, HMS Queen Elizabeth will be put into "extended readiness", effectively mothballed indefinitely.
Government sources indicated that the Queen Elizabeth was unlikely to return to service after that, and could well be sold to another country to recoup some of the cost of building it. "There are no plans for it after 2019 and it could well be sold. No one wanted the second carrier but we had no choice," said one source. "No one is pretending this is an ideal situation, but this is what we were left with."
A senior defence source added: "This is not a perfect set of circumstances. There is no political benefit for us but it is the right thing for the country. It would have been more expensive to cancel than build the aircraft carrier."
Further angering Navy chiefs, the defence review will confirm that Harrier jump-jets will be abandoned next year but the RAF's Tornado will be spared to operate in Afghanistan.
Scrapping the Harriers will create a "capability gap" of nine years, with Britain unable to fly fast jets from an aircraft carrier until 2020, when the new JSF enters service.
Government sources tried to play down the significance of the gap, insisting that Britain had agreements allowing RAF jets to fly from overseas bases in most strategically sensitive parts of the world. But insiders admitted that the situation was "far from perfect".
Until 2020, Britain is likely to rely heavily on allies with a carrier strike capability, most significantly France.
Mr Cameron will meet President Nicolas Sarkozy next month to discuss expanding Anglo-French military co-operation, with naval collaboration at the top of the agenda.
As The Daily Telegraph disclosed in August, one of the new carriers will be redesigned with a catapult to launch aircraft.
That means that Britain will have to pull out of plans to buy a specially-designed short take-off vertical landing model of the JSF.
Abandoning this model could jeopardise jobs at Rolls-Royce, which was helping build it, and antagonise the US, Britain's partner in developing the aircraft.
However, the catapult system will allow the Prince of Wales to carry French and US aircraft. It also means that the new carrier will be equipped with the conventional form of the JSF, which the Royal Navy believes is more powerful and cost-effective than the jump-jet.
Navy chiefs were said to be extremely unhappy about the decision to axe the Harrier jump-jets, claiming that ministers had "underestimated the risk" from the move.
Sources raised doubt over the lack of carrier strike capability, questioning whether the RAF would be able to secure airbases for its jets if Britain needed to fight abroad.
"I can't see Oman happy to have Tornados flying from its territory to bomb Iran," said a source.
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Home Sport Belfast Giants The Friendship Four Hockey Tournament Returns to The SSE Arena, Belfast
The Friendship Four Hockey Tournament Returns to The SSE Arena, Belfast
The Friendship Four 2019 hockey tournament is back as the thrill and excitement of American college hockey returns to The SSE Arena, Belfast on the 29th and 30th November for the fifth consecutive year.
The ice hockey tournaments present a unique opportunity for local sports fans to watch the only National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) hockey tournament that takes place outside of the United States. The 2019 tournament consists of a four-game competition which will see talented top-level student athletes from Princeton University, Colgate University, Northeastern University and The University of New Hampshire, compete for the prestigious Belpot trophy.
Over 20,000 spectators are expected to head to The SSE Arena, Belfast to watch the action unfold during America's culturally significant Thanksgiving holiday period on Friday 29th and Saturday 30th November 2019.
Today's launch event also sees the announcement of the second international NCAA Women's Friendship Series. Teams from Merrimack College and Quinnipiac University will compete on Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th January 2020 at The SSE Arena, Belfast.
Robert Fitzpatrick, CEO of the Odyssey Trust said, "The Odyssey Trust is very proud that the Friendship Four tournament is entering its fifth year of competition and it is an honour to welcome our guests from Princeton University, Colgate University, Northeastern University and The University of New Hampshire. It is a great privilege for Belfast to continue to host the only competitive NCAA games outside of America and we look forward to another fantastic tournament at The SSE Arena, Belfast."
Lord Mayor of Belfast, Councillor John Finucane commented, "Today's launch marks the start of an exciting few weeks as we get ready to host the fifth Friendship Four tournament. Belfast City Council recognises the strategic importance of this event as it deepens the connections between Sister Cities Belfast and Boston.
In addition to the competition on the ice, the tournament forges links between our city partners and our American guests to promote Belfast as a place to study, visit and invest in. No doubt the tournament will result in energetic and dramatic sporting action and I hope all those who come in November will develop a lasting bond with Belfast and find many reasons to return!
Friendship Four's success is manifested in the inclusion of a second women's competition in January 2020 and the inclusion of a third Conference bringing new contenders for the men's Belpot trophy in 2020. I am proud that Belfast is attracting such a high level of interest in and from American college sport and look forward to witnessing the high quality of play on 29th November and 30th November in The SSE Arena, Belfast."
Aine Kearney, Business Support and Events Director, Tourism NI said, "We are delighted to once again support the Friendship Four Tournament through the International Tourism Events Fund. Hosting this exciting tournament in The SSE Arena, Belfast offers a unique opportunity to watch the only NCAA college hockey tournament to be held outside of the United States. Events such as the Friendship Four NCAA Hockey Tournament are key to ensuring our continued success in growing our visitor numbers, particularly from our international markets. We wish the organisers and players the very best for what I am sure will be another successful tournament."
Steve Hagwell from the ECAC Hockey Commission added, "It truly is remarkable that we are set to conduct the fifth annual Friendship Four and second annual Friendship Series in Belfast. Each of the previous events have provided lifetime memories for coaches, student-athlete, staff and visitors."
The Friendship Four Tournament began in 2015 in support of the Boston and Belfast Sister Cities Agreement which was designed to foster stronger economic development, trade and investment, tourism, cultural exchange and educational linkages between the two cities.
For more information on the tournament and to book tickets, visit www.friendshipfour.com
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