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Flashback, lançado como Flashback: The Quest for Identity nos Estados Unidos, é um jogo de plataforma cinematográfica de ficção científica de 1992 desenvolvido pela Delphine Software da França e publicado pela US Gold nos Estados Unidos e na Europa e pela Sunsoft no Japão.

O jogo foi dirigido, escrito/desenhado e parcialmente programado por Paul Cuisset, que já havia criado o jogo de aventura Future Wars. Flashback foi lançado inicialmente para o Amiga em 1992, embora originalmente criado para o Mega Drive/Genesis. A versão Mega Drive/Genesis não foi lançada até 1993. Flashback também foi portado para MS-DOS, Acorn Archimedes e Super NES em 1993. Versões em CD-ROM do Flashback para o Sega CD, 3DO, CD-i, MS-DOS, Apple Macintosh e FM Towns foram lançadas durante 1994 e 1995, juntamente com uma versão em cartucho para o Atari Jaguar em 1995. Em 2017, o jogo foi lançado mundialmente no Sega Dreamcast com recursos gráficos e cenas tiradas da versão MS-DOS e músicas da versão Amiga. Um port atualizado intitulado Flashback: Remastered Edition foi lançado para Nintendo Switch em 7 de junho de 2018, para PlayStation 4 em 20 de novembro de 2018 e para Windows em 29 de novembro de 2018.

Originalmente anunciado como um "jogo de CD-ROM em um cartucho", o jogo apresenta cenários totalmente desenhados à mão e toda a animação é rotoscopada, dando aos movimentos uma fluidez incomum, semelhante à do anterior Prince of Persia . A técnica de captura do Flashback foi inventada independentemente do Prince of Persia e usou um método mais complicado de primeiro rastrear imagens de vídeo em transparências.

O jogo foi um sucesso comercial e de crítica e foi listado no Guinness World Records como o jogo francês mais vendido de todos os tempos. Foi seguido por uma sequência intitulada Fade to Black em 1995. Em 2013, um remake de Flashback da VectorCell foi lançado para PC e consoles.

Uma sequência, Flashback 2 foi anunciada pela Microids em maio de 2021. O jogo está em desenvolvimento e programado para ser lançado em 2022 para PC e consoles.

Jogabilidade
Como um jogo de plataforma cinematográfico, o Flashback apresenta uma jogabilidade semelhante à de Prince of Persia de 1989 e ao Another World de Delphine lançado em 1991. Cada nível abrange um grande número de telas sem rolagem, quase todas com vários níveis de altitude - exigindo que o personagem do jogador Conrad pule, se agarre em bordas, suba, use elevadores e desça em níveis mais baixos. Conrad exibe velocidade de corrida humana realista e capacidade de salto, bem como fraqueza realista - ele morrerá se cair de uma altura muito grande.

Conrad também carrega uma pistola com munição ilimitada; um escudo de força, que absorve um certo número de tiros antes de precisar recarregar, agindo como a saúde de Conrad (quantos ataques ele pode sobreviver antes de morrer); e um campo de força portátil com uso ilimitado, que pode atuar como uma barreira temporária para bloquear os tiros dos inimigos.

À medida que Conrad avança pelos sete níveis do jogo, ele é cada vez mais apresentado a quebra-cabeças espaciais, exigindo que o jogador descubra como guiá-lo em direção ao seu destino. No final do jogo, Conrad recebe um dispositivo de teletransporte e é capaz de progredir jogando o dispositivo e se teletransportando para áreas inacessíveis.

Enredo
No ano de 2142, o agente de inteligência Conrad B. Hart descobre que alienígenas metamorfos conhecidos como Morphs se infiltraram na sociedade humana. Ele grava uma mensagem para si mesmo, mas antes que possa avisar alguém, ele é capturado e sua memória apagada. Mais tarde, ele escapa, mas aterrissa seu veículo em uma selva, onde a jogabilidade começa quando ele deixa cair sua mensagem gravada. Se o jogador o recuperar, ele instrui Conrad a encontrar seu amigo Ian em New Washington.

Uma vez lá, ele encontra Ian sendo atacado pela polícia. Depois que Conrad os mata, Ian usa um regenerador para restaurar suas memórias, uma cópia da qual ele enviou para Ian. Depois, Conrad está determinado a retornar à Terra. Ian diz a ele que a única maneira que ele pode pagar uma passagem para a Terra é ganhar uma na Torre da Morte, um game show em que os competidores lutam até a morte, e documentos falsos são necessários para um passe. Para pagar os papéis falsificados, Conrad aceita uma série de trabalhos perigosos na cidade. Ele se vê continuamente alvo da polícia, que presumivelmente foi enganada por infiltrados Morph.

Conrad ganha a Death Tower e viaja para a Terra. Seus papéis falsos o fazem passar pelo posto de controle, mas os Morphs logo percebem quem ele é e Conrad é perseguido por mais policiais. Ele pega um táxi para o Paradise Club, que esconde o esconderijo dos Morphs. Ele espia em três Morphs através de uma abertura no teto. Eles discutem seu plano de conquistar a Terra em poucas horas. Conrad cai pelo respiradouro e é levado para uma cela de prisão. Logo, Morphs entram em sua cela para matá-lo. Conrad passa por eles e pega uma arma alienígena descartada. Explorando a instalação, ele descobre um teletransportador e o usa para se transportar para o planeta natal dos Morphs.

Ele encontra um prisioneiro humano chamado Phillip Howard Clark. Quando ele abre sua prisão, um Morph aparece e executa Phillip. Morrendo, Phillip dá a Conrad uma carga atômica. O diário de Phillip revela que ele planejou destruir o "Master Brain" que controla os alienígenas, localizado no núcleo do planeta, mas o "Auxiliary Brain" deve ser destruído para abrir os caminhos de comunicação para o Master Brain. Conrad destrói o Cérebro Auxiliar e encontra o caminho do Cérebro Mestre. Ao chegar a um determinado local, ele ouve a voz de Phillip, dizendo-lhe que a carga atômica deveria ser colocada em uma plataforma solta. Depois que ele faz isso, ele aciona um interruptor, despertando o cérebro para causar um tremor, que derruba a carga em direção ao núcleo. Conrad escapa para o hangar e leva a espaçonave de um Morph para fora da atmosfera do planeta antes que ela detone. Como ele não pode navegar para casa devido à galáxia dos Morphs não estar em nenhum mapa estelar humano, ele se coloca em animação suspensa enquanto sua nave flutua no espaço, levando aos eventos de Fade to Black.

A versão para PC tem uma sequência introdutória estendida e mais cenas menores do que a versão Amiga, como ao pegar itens. Na versão Amiga, o usuário pode ver essas cenas habilitando-as (embora com alguns segundos de atraso cada vez que as animações são carregadas) ou jogando o jogo inteiramente a partir do disco rígido. A versão Amiga também tinha a opção de ampliar a ação sempre que Conrad abre fogo. Devido a críticas ao visual, ele foi removido de todas as outras versões, embora a opção de jogar o jogo em zoom tenha permanecido na versão para PC. A mensagem que Conrad escreve no final também foi diferente nesta versão.

O jogo foi originalmente lançado em disquete de 3,5" para MS-DOS. O relançamento em CD-ROM para o Sega CD (mais tarde adaptado para o PC CD-ROM, 3DO e CD-i) contou com FMVs cinematográficos pré-renderizados refeitos com dublagem e efeitos sonoros. A versão Sega CD também tem trabalho de voz para jogabilidade e faixas de CD para cada nível que não foram transportados para as outras conversões de CD-ROM. O port Jaguar tem a tela de título que essas versões possuem, mas a música é diferente e as cutscenes são como nos lançamentos originais.

Em 2013, Paul Cuisset disse à Retro Gamer que "A melhor versão para mim é a versão Mega Drive. O jogo foi criado para esta plataforma."

Na América do Norte, as versões Genesis, Super NES e Sega CD apresentavam uma história em quadrinhos da Marvel dentro do manual para explicar a história inicial. Os lançamentos PAL das versões Mega Drive e Super NES (não havia versão Mega CD na região PAL) omitiram o quadrinho e, em vez disso, apresentavam um prólogo textual. O port do Super NES apresentava alguma censura menor devido às diretrizes de conteúdo da Nintendo na época. As mudanças incluíram o bar de New Washington se tornando um café e a Death Tower sendo renomeada para Cyber Tower, enquanto os mutantes inimigos (que tinham cores de pele naturais em outras versões) foram recoloridos de verde.

Uma trilha sonora de CD de duas faixas foi lançada com músicas inspiradas no jogo, mas não diretamente dele.

Flashback, junto com Another World, foi enviado como um único pacote de varejo pela Microids para PlayStation 4, Switch e Xbox One na Europa em 16 de abril de 2020.

Flashback vendeu cerca de 750.000 cópias em 1995.

A Computer Gaming World aprovou os "gráficos soberbamente rotoscópios" do Flashback, o "movimento fluido" e o áudio da placa de som. Ao criticar a interface desajeitada e o uso de save points, a revista concluiu que "é um excelente jogo que realmente cria uma sensação de realidade". A Electronic Gaming Monthly elogiou a versão SNES por ter gráficos e músicas melhorados em relação à versão Genesis. Eles observaram que o Flashback às vezes é lento, mas mantém o interesse do jogador por meio de seu enredo convincente e quebra-cabeças envolventes. A revista MegaTech admitiu que, embora houvesse "cinco grandes níveis", terminar o jogo não demorou muito. A Nintendo Power elogiou os gráficos, a história e a animação, chamando-o de "quase cinematográfico", observando que o controle do jogo leva "algum tempo para se acostumar".

A Electronic Gaming Monthly comentou que a versão do Sega CD é "praticamente idêntica" à versão do Genesis, mas que o Flashback ainda é uma compra essencial para quem ainda não possui uma versão diferente. A GamePro, em contraste, argumentou que as cenas retrabalhadas "parecem tão incríveis que mesmo os jogadores que já completaram este jogo em outra plataforma vão querer jogá-lo novamente apenas para ver todas as novas imagens do CD". Eles também elogiaram a adição de uma trilha sonora e vozes com qualidade de CD. Um revisor da Next Generation reconheceu que a versão do Sega CD faz melhorias consideráveis, mas argumentou que todas são melhorias padrão do cartucho para o Sega CD que não têm impacto na jogabilidade. No entanto, ele elogiou o próprio Flashback por seus gráficos, animação e "quebra-cabeças diabolicamente inteligentes", e disse que, embora o jogo se assemelhe superficialmente a Another World e Heart of the Alien, ele está "em uma classe por si só que os supera facilmente". A Entertainment Weekly também disse que o Flashback em si ainda se manteve bem, mas que as melhorias da versão do Sega CD parecem menos significativas do que seus tempos de carregamento frequentes. Revendo a versão Jaguar, a GamePro observou que era apenas uma porta direta sem melhorias para tirar proveito do hardware, mas que "o jogo não é menos agradável" do que quando foi lançado para consoles de jogos mais de um ano antes.

Revendo a versão Macintosh em Next Generation, um crítico aplaudiu a animação do jogo, sequências de histórias, enredo, design de níveis e longevidade.

Next Generation revisou a versão 3DO do jogo e afirmou que "este título ainda é o mesmo grande jogo que estamos procurando há alguns anos. E uma última observação, o controle 3DO, pela primeira vez, não interfere (muito) no exigente esquema de controle do jogo."

Flashback foi listado no Guinness World Records como o jogo francês mais vendido de todos os tempos. A versão para Mega Drive se tornou um best-seller.

Em 1994, a Mega colocou o jogo no oitavo lugar em sua lista dos melhores jogos de Mega Drive de todos os tempos. Em 1997, a Electronic Gaming Monthly listou a versão Genesis como número 92 em seus "100 melhores jogos de todos os tempos", chamando-a de "um pacote forte que é divertido de jogar até hoje. Flashback nos faz sentir como se estivéssemos naquele mundo alienígena, e com sua animação realista e excelentes movimentos, não podemos deixar de amá-lo." Em fevereiro de 2011, Wirtualna Polska classificou-o como o 17º melhor jogo Amiga e a edição polonesa do CHIP classificou-o como o décimo melhor jogo Amiga. Em 2004, os leitores do Retro Gamer votaram em Flashback como o 65º melhor jogo retrô. Em 1994, a PC Gamer UK nomeou Flashback como o 17º melhor jogo de computador de todos os tempos. Os editores escreveram: "O Flashback prova que, quando se trata de produzir jogos originais, estilosos e desafiadores, há poucos mais adeptos do que os franceses." A IGN classificou o jogo em 79º em seu "Top 100 SNES Games of All Time". Em 2018, a Complex listou o jogo em 43º lugar em seus "Melhores jogos de Super Nintendo de todos os tempos". Em 1995, Total! colocou o jogo em 24º lugar no Top 100 SNES Games. Eles elogiaram os gráficos rotoscopados dizendo na época "a animação mais realista já vista em um jogo de plataforma". Eles também elogiaram a combinação de desafios de quebra-cabeça estilo ação e aventura resumindo: "O jogo em si é uma [..] de uma experiência e o excelente enredo também mantém a coisa toda incrivelmente atmosférica." Em 1996, a GamesMaster listou a versão 59 do Mega Drive em seu "Top 100 Games of All Time".

Uma sequência intitulada Fade to Black foi produzida pela Delphine Software International em 1995 para PC e PlayStation como um jogo 3D. Um terceiro jogo da série, Flashback Legends, estava em desenvolvimento pela Delphine Software International e Adeline Software International para um lançamento planejado em 2003, mas foi cancelado quando a empresa faliu e encerrou as operações no final de 2002.

No início de 2013, havia rumores de que um jogo intitulado Flashback Origins estava em desenvolvimento, com o site francês Gameblog afirmando que € 300.000 de financiamento do governo foram concedidos à VectorCell de Cuisset em 2011. Em 11 de abril de 2013, um remake de <i id="mwASk">Flashback</i> foi anunciado com um trailer de revelação.

A Microids, que criou a porta Switch do jogo original, anunciou a sequência Flashback 2 para computadores pessoais e vários consoles para lançamento planejado em 2022. A empresa não especificou como o jogo seria conectado, se for o caso, ao Fade to Black.

REminiscence, uma recriação do motor de jogo, foi criado por Gregory Montoir (cyx). O motor está disponível para AmigaOS 4, Dreamcast, GP2X, iPhone, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Maemo, MorphOS, Nintendo DS, Wii, Palm OS, PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, Sega Saturn e Windows CE. Há também um para o Xbox 360 por MagicSeb. Uma porta para Symbian e Maemo 5 por Ronen K está disponível.

Uma sequência, Flashback 2 foi anunciada pela Microids em maio de 2021, o jogo está em desenvolvimento e programado para ser lançado em 2022 para PC e consoles.

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Are you looking for life insurance after a stroke? What is required to underwrite a stroke life insurance policy? Can you get term life insurance for stroke victims?
In this article we will explore cerebrovascular accidents and transient ischemic attacks and how they relate to life insurance. We will prepare you for what a life insurance underwriter is likely to ask, and give you some realistic rates you can expect.
When recovering from a stroke, you will realize a few things. First is that a stroke is scary. You feel out of control and your recovery may take a long time. Another is that life and health are completely unpredictable.
You also want to protect and care for your loved ones. We get that. This where life insurance for stroke patients comes into play.
We are happy to report that yes. We can approve life insurance for stroke survivors.
Read on to find more, or just fill out a free quote to get started.
Life insurance companies divide strokes into two different categories. First, there is a full stroke. A full stroke is also known as a cerebrovascular accident, or CVA.
This occurs when a blood vessel or blood vessels are completely blocked. Many times these blood vessels rupture or hemorrhage and blood flow to the brain is cut off for a period of time.
Without the oxygen from the blood, brain cells can die in a matter of minutes. Due to this, CVAs can lead to permanent brain damage, disability or even death and life insurance companies consider CVAs a serious risk to your health.
The second type of stroke is a mini-stroke. Doctors call a mini-stroke a transient ischemic attack, or TIA.
TIAs occur when the blood flow to the brain becomes restricted or blocked for a short period of time. This blockage is usually due to a temporary blood clot, and the brain and nervous system feel the affects of this blockage.
Symptoms of a TIA include speech impairment, blurry vision, weakness and dizziness. You experience symptoms for the length of the blockage, but not after.
There is rarely any permanent damage from TIAs so your medical records contain observations noted by your doctors rather than test results.
Life insurance companies believe that someone who had TIA has a greater chance to experience a full stroke in the future. That's why this is a serious consideration for an underwriter. The good news is that the risk for a full stroke after TIA seems to be on the decline.
Doctors and life insurance companies consider TIAs less serious compared to full strokes. Therefore, your life insurance policy will be less expensive if you had a TIA rather than a CVA.
Life insurance companies will ask you a lot of questions. These questions may overwhelm you, but they are necessary as part of life insurance application process.
It is important to be familiar with the questions that life insurance companies ask. That way, you can prepare in advance. Aside from regular health questions like height and weight, underwriters will ask about the circumstances behind your stroke.
1. When did you experience the stroke?
The further in the rear view mirror, the better. For most insurance companies, anything less than six months removed from the stroke will result in a postponed policy.
Your life insurance rates are better if your stroke / TIA is more than 5 years in the past.
2. What was your age at the time of the stroke?
For life insurance in general: The older you are, the higher the rates.
In the situation of a stroke, life insurance providers look at age in a different way. If you were younger than usual when you had a stroke, that may be a precursor to more severe health problems in the future. Severe health problems usually develop later in life, so experiencing health issues at a younger age is alarming.
In many cases, a younger person can suffer a stroke while not knowing the root cause, whereas the cause is easier to detect in older patients. Life insurance underwriters do not like the unknown, and this is another reason that having a stroke at a younger age is a concern.
When you're older and you experience a stroke, you should have a better health class with your life insurance.
Age affects what you pay for life insurance overall, but having a stroke at an older age is better for your rating and health class.
3. Was this a single stroke? Or were there multiple strokes?
You would probably guess that one stroke will get better life insurance rates than two strokes. Multiple strokes or transient ischemic attacks will result in additional ratings on top of the base rating for life insurance.
4. Was the diagnoses a mini-stroke (TIA) or a full stroke (CVA)?
A single TIA is priced at "Table B" in most instances. However, a full stroke is priced at Table C or Table D, or 25% / 50% more respectively.
5. What was the underlying cause of the stroke?
Strokes by and large are caused by plaque in the arteries (atherosclerosis) that lead to the brain. This is also known as cerebrovascular disease or CVD. If a person has CVD, it's likely that they have arterial plaque elsewhere, possible coronary artery disease, and possible hyperlipidemia.
The number two cause of stroke is high blood pressure.
Though lesser in number, some strokes are caused by adverse reactions to prescription drugs, migraines, connective tissue disorders like lupus, heart valve problems, or congenital heart defects. For some strokes, especially in younger patients, the cause is unknown.
The long term prognosis will depend on the cause of the stroke, and therefore the cause directly relates to the life insurance underwriting health class.
6. How was the cause determined?
Doctors will prescribe a carotid ultrasound, a CT scan, or a MRI to determine if a patient suffered from a stroke. Since the symptoms of a TIA are often temporary, they will not show up on any of these tests. Doctors will diagnose a TIA by the symptoms themselves and underwriters will rely on the doctors' attending physician's statement (APS) to determine a health class.
7. Does your family have a medical history of cardiovascular disease?
Genetics can be a curse. Family history plays a role in your chances for stroke, though it is unclear why.
Furthermore, recent studies show a direct correlation between family history and the risk of a second stroke and the connection here seems to be stronger in younger stroke victims. Life insurance underwriters will ask if you have a direct relative with cardiovascular disease and at what age they suffered a stroke.
8. Are you taking any medications? If so, which ones?
Most anticoagulant or antiplatelet medications do not add to life insurance rates after a stroke, nor do they prohibit policy approval. What is important about your medications is that you are taking them regularly, and life insurance underwriters will verify this through your pharmacy report.
9. What other medical conditions do you have?
Since the risk factors for stroke are also the risk factors for other cardiovascular diseases, stroke patients often suffer from a number of heart problems too. Atrial fibrillation is a major factor for recurrent stroke risk, and so is uncontrolled diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol.
10. Do you use tobacco or alcohol?
Life insurance rates for smoking tobacco are often 200% – 300% higher than non smoking rates already. After a stroke, a traditional life insurance policy could be declined if you still smoke, so it is best to quit.
Drinking alcohol to excess is directly related ischemic stroke, so underwriters will note your alcohol habits and also check your doctor's statement about your alcohol intake. After a stroke, it is crucial to cut down on alcohol consumption to improve your health, lower your blood pressure, and lower your risk of stroke.
11. Are you back to your normal routine?
Obviously life is different after a stroke; there are new medications to take and a nagging fear of a future attack. If you are able to return to work and the other activities you enjoyed before your stroke, this is a great sign to underwriters.
So what type of health class can you expect after a stroke?
This health class is extremely unlikely and generally impossible for a stroke or TIA survivor.
For TIA – Age 70 and over, great health, high activity level, no other risk factors, a remote history (5+ years) of the event, and a recent carotid ultrasound.
There are no activity restrictions, continuing symptoms or other risk factors.
For an older TIA applicant with a mild transient ischemic attack more than five years in the past, it is possible to get a standard rating.
Most applicants will receive substandard rates after a stroke or TIA and this is the most likely outcome.
For TIA survivors over the age of 60 with an event less than 5 years ago, we expect mild substandard rates. We usually receive an offer of moderate substandard rates if the TIA happened before the age of 50 or less than 1 year ago.
For a full stroke, when you apply matters. More than one year but less than the 5 year window of the event receives moderate substandard rates. How moderate will depend on your current health and activity level.
You cannot run substandard rates on our online quoter, and this is on purpose. Stroke and TIA often combine with multiple impairments, so to underwrite these risks properly we have to create a custom quote.
If you would like to estimate substandard rates, input your age, pick "standard" and add about 50% more to the standard rate.
The great news is that life insurance is still affordable, even at substandard rates, and we will show you some actual rate examples below.
If the stroke was within a year, many life insurance companies will postpone the application until the condition has stabilized. Multiple strokes, multiple other impairments or a significant family history of cardiovascular disease could decline an application for traditional life insurance.
If any of these scenarios describe your situation, call us so that we can prepare a custom quote for you.
Theodore B. is 60 years old, and applied for life insurance four years after a stroke. Since his CVA, he has no complications and has returned to work, he exercises regularly, and takes Coumadin and aspirin.
Followup doctor's appointments and stress echocardiograms show mild atherosclerosis with less than 50% stenosis.
After a few years of stable health, he could lower his life insurance rates by using our Review and Reduce feature. As more and more time passes since his stroke, he is less and less likely to have another one. Underwriters know this and in the future, the case could be re-classified.
Vivian K. is 60 years old and enjoys good health. Five years ago she experienced a sudden faintness, confusion, pain on the back of her left arm and trouble speaking. Her husband rushed her to the hospital, however one hour later the symptoms were gone.
An MRI did not reveal any damage, and results from a carotid ultrasound and exercise stress test were both normal. Her doctor diagnosed a transient ischemic attack and prescribed aspirin and simvastatin to control cholesterol.
Vivian stays active playing tennis twice a week. She is still working and volunteering with her church. Based on the recommendation of her doctor, she preformed a stress echocardiogram within the last year and all results were normal.
TIA more than 5 years ago with good treatment and control would qualify Vivian for standard rates on life insurance.
When Should You Apply for Life Insurance after a Stroke?
You should apply for life insurance as soon as possible after suffering from a stroke. Statistics show that one in four people who have a stroke have another in their lifetime. This is a factor that life insurance companies take seriously, and you should too.
You never know if and when another stroke will occur.
Once that happens, it could be too late.
Can you control your past? No, of course not!
You cannot change the fact that you had a stroke, however you can do everything possible to improve your current health.
For the well being of the ones you love and your financial health, let's consider life insurance. We make the process easy, our online quotes are free, and we know more about underwriting stroke survivors than anybody else.
Reach out today, protect your family and sleep better tonight.


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33 + Years In Business
For more than 33 years, the founder Greg Boyles has been a leader in the oil exploration and production industry. Initially establishing New Horizon Exploration, Inc. (1985) as a modest, family-owned and operated regional exploration company mainly focused in the Fort Worth and Delaware Basins.
Over time, expanded its operation into the DJ, LA and Santa Maria Basins and drilled some of the first horizontal wells in each of the basins before George Mitchel taught us to frack them…
Then, transitioned into an international company, capable of drilling and operating successfully anywhere in the world with primary operations in Trinidad and Colombia.
In time, New Horizon Global, Inc. was organized (2008) as a privately held company in the United States to separate certain international assets of New Horizon Exploration, Inc. from domestic operations and to operate each independent of the other.
New Horizon's mission is to be a growth-oriented enterprise and a leader in the development of production automation that reduces HSE risk and delivers added value to mineral interest owners through production optimization and reducing LOEs. The efficiency and scope of our operations such as in the case of creating Trinidad's first digital oil field shall gain the respect and thereby trust of other NOCs and Giants in the Industry Smart Pumper
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Welcome to the New Horizon Global, Inc. website, where you will find information about our organization. We wish to inform you in general about what we do, where we operate, our mission, core values and some of the company achievements. You might also read about New Horizon's other international operations and our commitment to both the environment and the communities in which we operate through previous media reporting. New Horizon is an international exploration enterprise. Our focus over the years has evolved (like most) with technology development a primary driver to where we applied most of our time to add value to our core assets. Today, we have certain patented pump technology that now serves as our differentiator where pumping wells and managing legacy fields is concerned. We can boast, (proudly and humbly) that we can produce a pumping well better than any production engineering team in the world that doesn't use our patented Smart Pumping technology even if they use some form of automation provided by even the best in the Industry. Going forward, our growth strategy targets developing conventional plays mainly in the USA and involves the acquisition of legacy fields worldwide where opportunity exists. We have discovered, by deploying our Smart Pumper TM technology in legacy fields, we can realize production increases that range between 18-54% and at the same time, reduce LOE's by similar amounts through the patented precision pump control it provides. New Horizon Global shall also continue to serve as the USA conduit for New Exploration Trinidad and Tobago Ultd. which manages a 20 year-long Joint Venture with Trinidad's National Oil Company (Heritage) and Operates both the Parrylands and Guapo Blocks. With and through all our activities, we strive to provide a stimulating work environment which leads to team building, inventiveness, and a determination to never give up until a solution to achieve a goal is discovered. A few years ago, we stopped chasing greener pastures and committed ourselves to working it until it works. Our organizational structure is lean and efficient, empowering decision-making throughout all levels of our company. Believing in the power of our people remains a vital element to our company's continued success and longevity. I encourage you to reach out to me to learn more about the things we are doing; you may find opportunity with us.
Greg Boyles
Gregory A. Boyles, Managing Director and CEO
Gregory A Boyles is the Managing Director and CEO of New Horizon Global, Inc. Greg is a successful oil and gas exploration and production executive with a track record of being on the leading edge of new technology and plays. Greg began his career in 1980 as a drilling and completion field engineer in Central Texas. In 1985, Greg founded New Horizon Exploration, Inc. He was an early adopter of horizontal drilling practices and drilled some of the first horizontal wells in the Delaware Basin, Fort Worth Basin, Denver-Julesburg Basin Niobrara formation and Williston Basin Bakken formation. In 1999 Greg setup a Joint Venture with the National Oil Company of Trinidad and Tobago (Petrotrin) to manage and complete a shallow oil project. In this endeavor, the company drilled one hundred vertical wells and ten horizontal wells to develop a field with 80 million barrels in place. Greg has several patents to his name, primarily in the area of production optimization with AI to reduce health safety and environmental risk while optimizing production.
Chandrika Ramsubhag, Director and CFO
Chan Ramsubhag is the company's Chief Financial Officer. A graduate of UWI with an accounting degree. Chan has been with the company since 2004 and is a key officer and director of the company. Through his supervision, corporate finance as well as annual company audit(s) are completed on time. He also oversees the company's global activities and evaluates related financing and a cquisition targets. He has Joint Lease Operations for Working Interest Accounts set-up on Wolfe-Pack oil and gas software to provide detailed reporting to interest holders. Chan is highly respected by those within his community, church and within our organization.
Durjordan Ramroop, HSE Officer
Durjordan Ramroop is the VP of Health Safety and Environmental (HSE). A graduate of Cipriani College of Labor in Occupational Health and Safety. As the company's HSE officer, Durjordan overseas among other things, field site supervision, conducting HSSE audit training, toolbox talks, accident and incident investigations, equipment and power tool procedures, JSAs and development of risk assessments. Durjordan not only talks the talk but puts on a pair of gloves and works side by side with the men in the field.
Dr. Kemick, Ph.D. in Geology, Geophysics, Mathematics Senior Advisor to CEO.
A graduate of Texas A & M University in College Station, Texas in 1964. After serving as a1st Lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force as a fighter pilot, Jerome was an onshore and offshore exploration geologist for Continental during the first decade of his career discovering multiple fields. Recent studies with Greg include regional tectonics of Texas in relation to localized fracture patterns of faults associated with historically produced shallow oil accumulations. This work has led to the identification of areas where commercial shallow oil production can be developed today. Jerome is not only an originator of oil and gas prospects; he evaluates reserves for banks, provides consultation in acquisition of natural gas storage areas, invents and holds multiple patents involving medical procedures, shot-shell seismic technology, and methods applicable to the drilling industry.
Gary Weir, Lead GeoScientist for various plays
Mr. Weir has 37 years of experience as a geoscientist in the oil industry working many basins in the USA and South America. He began his career in 1977 with Exxon in South Texas working onshore Gulf Coast development and trend exploration and then moved to south American to develop prospects in Trinidad and Colombia. After retiring from BP (Amoco) in 2003, Gary worked on projects in the US Onshore, Colombia, Trinidad and other areas in Latin America. Gary uses IHS Kingdom Suite software for technical work. As a partner, Mr. Weir recently helped build a company in Colombia (Kappa Energy Holdings KEH - 2003 to 2008), where he served as a Chief Technical Officer (CTO) and helped KEH acquire 9 Blocks in 5 basins before it was sold to Pacific Rubiales in 2008 for $100+MM. Production at the point of sale was >4,000 bopd and 4.5 mmcfg/d.
Robert Snyder, Senior Smart Pumper Software Engineer
Bob has been Greg's friend since 1977. An investor with Greg in many endeavors over the years, Bob is the main brain behind the development of the Smart Pumper technology over the past ten years with Greg. A graduate of Southern Cal. and a man with many degrees including 98.6 at 80. Grounded by years of software and hardware development experience with the likes of Rockwell, Spectradyne, Inc., Xerox, Recognition Equipment, Johnson Yokogawa, our Military, and others he is a key advisor and special project partner with a runway he can leave the ground with.
James P. Oberkircher, Senior Engineering Advisor and Business Development Partner
Throughout his career, Jim has been at the forefront of innovative technical development and applications; from the early days of horizontal drilling with "Nortrak" double-tilt mud motor (mid 1980's) to the latest Rotary Steerable Systems and complex drainage architectures used to drill horizontal wells through their completions. Some key early technologies include: Nortrak DTU Steerable Motor, Early Development of MWD, Early LWD systems, Horizontal drilling in the Austin Chalk Rotary Steerable Systems – North Sea, Multilateral Systems and Complex Drainage Experience Profile: From the challenging deep-water projects such as Troll and Heidrun of the North Sea to tropical onshore locations in Trinidad and the USA, Jim has been involved in projects of quite varied scope and complexities. Size and Cap-Ex ranged from drilling and completing $350k shallow gas wells in the Rockies to $100MM projects such as the super deep-water Jack and St. Malo in the Gulf of Mexico. Key projects: Early Deepwater Development in Green Canyon with Placid, Mars and Joliet – Gulf of Mexico, Troll oil-leg development – North Sea, Hamacha Heavy Oil Development – Venezuela, Soldado Heavy Oil Multilaterals – Trinidad, Trinity-Inniss field rejuvenation – Trinidad, recent onshore development in Western Colorado and North Dakota. Jim has served as a Subject Matter Expert covering "Directional Drilling" for Chevron. Jim and Greg began working together in 2007 in Trinidad.
Special Projects Advisory Team Members
James M. Neff, Advisory Team Member
Jim holds a Bachelor Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada and has over 38 years of upstream experience from open hole and cased hole logging, to MWD, and ERD engineering and project supervision. Jim is currently highly active in the "Exploration Behind Casing" space, using new logging technology to identify bypassed pay. Jim spent most of his career with Schlumberger, from Field Engineer through to Country Manager, before becoming a consultant for new technology-based startup companies including Shell Technology Ventures, OYO Geospace and Roke Technologies. Jim has several patents awarded in the field of real time telemetry while drilling.
Chris Prusiecki, Advisory Team Member
Chris holds a BSc Degree in Physics and Geology from the University of St Andrews. He has over 35 years of industry experience, primarily in well design, risk management and upstream operations optimization. During his career, Chris has worked for Schlumberger, Shell Technology Ventures and BP. Chris is currently active in the development and use of AI based systems to extract actionable answers from complex data sets, is involved with a non-profit, www.asymmetricoperations.org and is focused on optimizing decision making in very high stress environments.
Eugene Murphy, Advisory Team Member
Eugene holds a BSc Degree in Geology and Geophysics from Durham University. He has over 35 years of industry experience, primarily in wellbore placement, field development optimization and technology sourcing. Eugene spent 15 years with Schlumberger, from Field Engineer to Regional General Manager. He then spent 20 years with Shell with 10 years as President of Shell Technology Ventures. Eugene has several patents awarded. He is currently active in the development of AI based systems to automate wellbore placement.
Doing Business With New Horizon
New Horizon's development team works together to identify acquisition, joint venture and/or partnership opportunities that can maximize the value of the company's existing core assets and identify new growth areas where its technical, financial and operational strengths can play a vital and meaningful role in new growth areas.
New Horizon is well-positioned to grow through organic exploration and development projects where it has development long term relationships.
New Horizon is interested in reviewing acquisition and partnership opportunities; to begin the discussion, please feel free to contact us.
Areas of interest include: Both Producing and Exploration Properties in North America. International opportunities where significant upside exists.
New Horizon Global, Inc.
18000 Groeschke Road A-1
Email: info@oilandgas.com
Copyright © 2019 New Horizon Global, Inc
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It's a difficult task for the Giants, exorcising the ghosts of yesteryear. But as Janoris Jenkins and Landon Collins looked back and saw their defense mostly contain the Jaguars' offense Sunday, they were resolute in the fact that this could be the first step to erasing those 16 weeks of frustration.
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Jenkins was all over the field and had an interception in the first quarter, jumping a fade route and beating Donte Moncrief near the sideline.
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Said Collins, "We thought we gave the offense a chance. We got the ball back as quickly as possible for them."
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Laura Albanese is a general assignment sports reporter; she began at Newsday in 2007 as an intern.
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He has had a tremendous couple of games for the Jets and looks like he is going to be the real deal. Like Jim McMahon and Steve Young before him, he is going from BYU to the pros and is going to tear it up as a top-five pick. While it's true that a team like Buffalo is unlikely to lose to a team like Houston, upsets happen routinely in today's NFL, and those small probabilities keep adding up game after game. So you can't discount them, especially when division titles can be decided by just one win. Over thousands of simulation runs, though, patterns in the results begin to emerge. The 2021 NFL preseason predictions presented in this post represent the averages of the thousands of season simulations we conducted.
Teams are throwing out different lineups in each contest and shuffling players in and out of games to see how they react in certain spots. Offensive teammates have a particularly tough time staying on the same page with all of the mixing and matching. The lack of continuity leads to a lot of broken plays and improvising by the offense. Mobile quarterbacks are usually more adept at creating something out of nothing with their legs. As a result, those gifted runners can lead to more point spread winners. It pays to know the strengths and weaknesses of each quarterback that takes the field during the preseason.
And don't expect much offense for Cowboys-Steelers as none of the past five Hall of Fame Games have even reached 40 combined points scored. Four of the Week 4 NFL lines in the early block of Sunday's games are set at three points or fewer. After last week's atrocious showing against Cleveland, the Bears are only favored by a field goal at home against lowly Detroit in the latest NFL odds from Caesars Sportsbook.
NFL odds will be displayed next to the team's name and will be a positive or negative number. This will show you how likely they are to win by that key identifier (+/-). Positive numbers will indicate that the team is less likely to win, and the negative number represents the favored team that is most likely to win out of the two.
After all, Denver didn't make the playoffs last season and the Broncos play in the same division as the Kansas City Chiefs. But making the playoffs doesn't mean the Chiefs are a good play at +450. Wait for KC to lose at least a game and the odds to rise before backing Mahomes and his mates. Here are recent preseason records for every coach in the NFL.
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It's hard to be humble when other kids brag about themselves, isn't it? Just stop by Whit's End and let White, Connie, and your friends from Odyssey show you how they keep their egos in check. Have fun!
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My latest story is about the mathematician June Huh, who came into the field late and by an unorthodox path. Huh's approach to mathematics has been similarly surprising: He and his two collaborators, Eric Katz and Karim Adiprasito, solved an important problem called the Rota conjecture by figuring out how to translate ideas from one area of math to a realm where those ideas wouldn't seem to belong.
Breakthroughs in mathematics often come by surprising means — problems that seemed hopeless become solvable when mathematicians find a new interpretation for established ideas. This means more than finding a new use for an old tool. It's really about extending a pattern of argument that arose in one setting into another.
A good example of how this kind of translation works involves a concept called the Laplacian. The original Laplacian was developed by the 18th-century scholar Pierre-Simon Laplace to understand planetary motion and is constructed out of the second derivatives of a function. That function, for example, might describe Jupiter's trajectory in space, in which case the Laplacian of the function would tell you something about its gravitational energy at a specific time and place.
The Laplacian arose in the world of continuous mathematics, where functions describe smooth, unbroken spaces. In discrete mathematics, by contrast, you have objects like graphs, which are collections of points (vertices) glued together by sticks (edges). Yet there is such a thing as the "graph Laplacian," which follows from certain non-obvious properties of the original Laplacian. It's not really a derivative, and it's not calculated in the same way as Laplace's Laplacian, but it retains its spirit.
To calculate the graph Laplacian, first imagine a graph and also a function on that graph that outputs a value at each point. For example, maybe the points of the graph represent discrete points in Jupiter's orbit, which can be input into a function that tells you Jupiter's velocity at those points. The Laplacian of that function is a new function, which assigns new values to each point (just like the derivative or second derivative of a function assigns new values to each input).
Here's how you calculate it. Say point A is connected to points B and C. To calculate the value of the Laplacian at A, first add the values of the function at neighboring points, then subtract the value at A times the number of ways A is connected to other points.
The correct analogue of an established mathematical idea is often not obvious, and finding it can take awhile. But once established, it becomes quite powerful. Huh, Katz and Adiprasito spent four years searching for the right way to translate certain ideas into the realm of graphs. Once they'd found it, a proof of the Rota conjecture followed in a matter of a few months.


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MADMEN & SINNERS Mastermind TIM DONAHUE Talks "Lost" Second Album, Unreleased Songs Featuring JAMES LABRIE
In 2000, Niagara native Tim Donahue made a small international splash with Into The Light, a solo record showcasing his skills as a fretless guitarist featuring current Foreigner vocalist Kelly Hansen. A year later he began working on a significantly heavier batch of songs that were unashamedly metal-influenced and came with a wish list of potential singers. During a meeting in Toronto over burgers and beer, I had the honour of hearing what would eventually become the Madmen & Sinners album. Asked who I felt would be the best voice for the material, I suggested Dream Theater vocalist James LaBrie, unaware his name was at the top of Donahue's list. Contact was made, plans were hatched, and in 2004 the duo released the Madmen & Sinners debut, an album unique to their respective careers. It was new territory for both Donahue and LaBrie, and ground they (sadly) haven't returned to since.
"I don't play the six-string fretless at all anymore unless I'm asked, like for the tracks on Nozomi Itani's album (Station To Station from 2012). That was the first time I picked up the fretless in many years. Other than that I play the fretless harp guitar. I hate to say it, but the harp guitar has so much going on that when I pick up the six-string I yawn (laughs). I don't mean that as anything against traditional guitars but the harp guitar kicks my ass and takes me to places I've never been."
Although it's been over 10 years since the release of Madmen & Sinners, the record still holds a special place in Donahue's heart.
"I love the heaviness of the tunes. There are a lot of heavy bands out there and I'm certainly not the heaviest guitarist, but the songs and the actual writing, I think that's why the music hits you in the heart even though some of the songs are really heavy."
"You should hear the stuff I wrote after that," he continues. "I could have released the second album through EMI but the harp guitar kind of called me and took me away. There is a second Madmen album written and I like it better than the first one. I love the first album; I don't like the way the recording sounds but I love the music. The second album is deeper but… maybe in another life."
LaBrie's participation on a second Madmen & Sinners album was never written in stone, but there is unreleased material with his vocals on them. Three tracks to be exact, albeit incomplete.
"I have these extra tracks with James singing on them," Donahue confirms. "He really wanted to do them and I said that if we had enough time after we finished the first album, we would. We were in the studio and he really pushed to do those other four tracks."
The songs in question – 'Falling Sky', 'History Repeats', 'All That Remains' and 'A Heartbeat Away' (sung by Donahue on the demo) – showcase a softer side of the material penned for the Madmen & Sinners debut. Ballads essentially, although 'History Repeats' is quite dark in that it was inspired by the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in September 2001.
"That music, those are just rough sketches. 'History Repeats' was James' favourite track. It's quite passionate and he insisted on recording it. I actually didn't want to record it at that time, but I'm glad we did. I think that if someone famous were to put those songs out people would go nuts for the music. I can see where they would go if I'd actually finished them."
They could be featured on the "lost" second Madmen & Sinners album, or perhaps included on a re-release of the debut….
"Maybe if the record company really knocked down my door," Donahue concedes. "I don't know how they would even know the second album exists (until now…), but if there was a producer that wanted to do it I might think about it. There's just too much other music… I've got so much other stuff going on right now (laughs). It would be like taking a step backwards. As much as I love the Madmen & Sinners music, there's other music inside me coming out so rapidly I don't know where I'd find the time to do it. It's a shame because James sang his heart out."
With his current focus on harp guitar – which includes an increased presence on YouTube demonstrating the versatility of the instrument – comes the thought that Donahue might go so far as to re-interpret some Madmen & Sinners music for the die-hard fans
"I actually did that with a tune called 'Riff Raff' from my Voices In The Wind album (from 1997 featuring Paul Rodgers). I do it on the harp guitar and it sounds incredible because it's just me playing alone. I don't really need the drums or bass because it's all there with the harp guitar. The song has an Eastern / Indian kind of inflection to it in the original version, but with the harp guitar it moves even further East (laughs)."
Donahue's career as a recording artist dates back to 1986 but he's never pursued any sort of grand international popularity. Voices In The Wind and Into The Light got the ball rolling on that score, but it's fair to say that Madmen & Sinners opened the door to a much larger and diverse audience.
"I don't know if I can say it's because of the Madmen record," Donahue counters, "but I've wondered about it because I've been putting stuff out on YouTube like everyone else. I recently got a mail comment from someone in Argentina, and he'd seen a video that I'd posted of me playing a piece. It wasn't intentional, but there's a Madmen & Sinners poster on the wall behind me in the clip. The guy saw the poster and he told me how it was one of his favourite albums, that he was waiting for the follow-up (laughs). I get comments every now and then from people who are into Madmen & Sinners. They love the harp guitar but some people are aware of the album; just not as many as you would think."
"I'm glad people like Madmen & Sinners, I'm glad they're still discovering the album. And even though I'm not doing metal now they're still open to my playing, which is great."
Check out the Madmen & Sinners tracks 'Children Of The Flame', 'The End' and 'My Heart Bleeds'.
Footage of Donahue performing on harp guitar can be viewed here.
Posted on April 14, 2015 April 14, 2015 Author carlCategories On The InsideTags Dream Theater, fretless guitar, harp guitar, James LaBrie, Madmen & Sinners, Tim Donahue
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Ph.D., German Literature, Georgetown University, Washington, DC.
M.A., German Literature, Washington University, St. Louis, MO.
Zwischenprüfung, German Literature, Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany.
Language teaching and pedagogy, course and syllabus design, and material selection.
Dr. Rinner is originally from Speyer, a small, yet historically significant town located in the south of Germany. After an apprenticeship at Brockhaus & Duden, publisher of the respected German dictionary Duden and the leading German encyclopedia, she began her studies in philosophy, literature, and law at the Freie Universität in Berlin. Experiencing feelings of Wanderlust, she continued her graduate studies in the US. After teaching at Allegheny College, Georgetown University, and George Washington University she joined the faculty at UNCG in 2007. With a focus on twentieth century and contemporary German literature, film and culture, her interdisciplinary research interests include cultural memory and social movements. Dr. Rinner is also interested in modern language pedagogy and curriculum development, and she enjoys working closely with students in and outside the classroom. With her scholarship and teaching, she contributes to the mission of the liberal arts in higher education.
Heroic Rebels: Representations of Radical Identities in Contemporary German Fiction.
The German Student Movement and the Literary Imagination: Transnational Memories of Protest and Dissent. New York: Berghahn Books, 2013.
"From Student Movement to the Generation of 1968: Generational Conflicts in German Novels from the 1970s and 1990s." In: Laurel Cohen-Pfister and Susanne Vees-Gulani, eds. Generational Shifts in Contemporary German Culture. Rochester: Camden House, 2010: 139-160.
"Transnational Memories: 1968 in Recent German Fiction." In: Ingo Cornils and Sarah Waters, eds. Memories of 1968. International Perspectives. Oxford, Bern: Peter Lang, 2010: 199-220.
Several awards and grants (from UNCG, Fulbright, DAAD, and AATG) enabled Dr. Rinner to travel to Germany, to present her scholarship on both sides of the Atlantic, and to organize German and European Studies colloquia and workshops at UNCG.


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The Human Body may refer to:

 The human body, the entire structure of a human being

Music
 The Human Body (EP), a 2005 EP by The Electric Soft Parade
 The Human Body (TV series), a 1998 BBC One television series
"The Human Body", song by Pylon from Gyrate (1980)
"The Human Body", song by Prince from Emancipation (1996)

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Chefs, scientists, writers examined MSG, flavor boosting during two-day World Umami Forum in 2018.
Since its discovery in Japan in 1908, monosodium glutamate (MSG) has become one of the most beloved and vilified ingredients in history. It is a pantry staple across the globe, yet the subject of skepticism in the US where stigmas prevail despite extensive research proving its safety.
Looking to get the topic out in the open and shed some light on it has been Ajinomoto Co., Inc., the world's first and leading MSG supplier. Last fall saw Ajinomoto host the first "World Umami Forum," a two-day consortium in New York City. Food science, research and the culinary expert speakers included Ali Bouzari, PhD, chief science officer at Pilot R&D; Gary Beauchamp, PhD, emeritus director and president, Monell Senses Center; Chef Chris Koetke, CEO of Complete Culinary LLC; and celebrity chef Andrew Zimmern.
Other participants included food science writer Harold McGee; historic gastronomist and author Sarah Lohman; food historian and writer Nadia Bernstein, PhD; Jason Riis, PhD, senior research fellow, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania; Mary Lee Chin, MS, RD, Nutrition Edge Communications; and Dan Pashman, host of The Sporkful Podcast.
Although there's not a similar event planned for 2019, the event sponsors have created two websites for use by food industry marketers, food scientists and corporate chefs. Those sites are www.worldumamiforum.com or www.whyusemsg.com.


2007-Present: Director, Center for Applied Energy Research, University of Kentucky.
2006-2007: Acting Director, Center for Applied Energy Research, University of Kentucky.
2003-2007: Assistant Adjunct Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of Kentucky.
1999-2001: Associate Engineer II- Research, Center for Applied Energy Research, University of Kentucky.
Jan. 1997 & Dec. 1995: Visiting Researcher, Institute for Advanced Materials Studies, Kyushu University, Kyushu, Japan.


For even the most casual of observers, 2017 has been a watershed year in our government declaring battle against the growing, pervasive Cybersecurity threat. The new Administration issued an Executive Order on May 11th that aims to 1) drive the government to follow its own IT security standards 2) improve the cybersecurity of critical infrastructure, and 3) increase the overall cybersecurity preparedness of the nation. On August 18, the Administration went even further, elevating Cyber Command as its own distinct military command.
The federal government is not alone in the fight – this March, the New York Department of Financial Services implemented arguably the most stringent Cybersecurity standards for financial services companies in the country. As the financial capital of the world, New York wants to ensure that financial services companies are preparing themselves appropriately to safeguard trust, protect financial assets and defend consumer's nonpublic personal information from unauthorized access, disclosure or use.
In August of 2017, the clock started ticking loudly and the bar has started to get progressively higher.
compliance is inversely low. According to a Ponemon Institute Research Report published in May 2017, 53 percent of the respondents answered the question "Will your company be in compliance with the regulations on or before February 15, 2018" negatively – either as 'No, not likely', or 'No chance' (The February 15, 2018 deadline is the second milestone of four, and one that requires a certification by the Board or a Senior Officer as to the organization's compliance with the statute). The key question is why do most companies think they will miss the deadline and what should they do about it?
500.04b), completion of a comprehensive risk assessment (section 500.09) and adoption of multi-factor authentication (section 500.12) under specific circumstances. Given that there are two more "transitional periods" identified in the forthcoming six and twelve months respectively, it is fair to say that the deadlines are rapidly approaching and the slope to compliance is steep.
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The Denver Post's confused and contradictory endorsement
The Denver Post's confused and contradictory endorsement of Cory Gardner has drawn fire nationally from the New Republic and other quarters. Here's the text
U.S. Rep. Cory Gardner speaks during the Republican state assembly in April. (Kathryn Scott Osler, Denver Post file)
Congress is hardly functioning these days. It can't pass legislation that is controversial and it often can't even pass legislation on which there is broad agreement. Its reputation is abysmal, and even its members rarely dispute the popular indictment.
It needs fresh leadership, energy and ideas, and Cory Gardner can help provide them in the U.S. Senate.
In every position the Yuma Republican has held over the years — from the state legislature to U.S. House of Representatives — he has quickly become someone to be reckoned with and whose words carry weight. ABC News, for example, singled out Gardner a year ago — before he declared for the Senate — as one of the party's "rising stars" who represented "a new generation of talent" and who had become a "go-to" member of leadership.
And this was about someone who wasn't elected to Congress until 2010. Nor is Gardner a political time-server interested only in professional security. He is giving up a safe seat in the House to challenge a one-term Senate incumbent, Democrat Mark Udall, in what is typically an uphill effort.
Fortunately for Gardner, the polls are showing the contest a tossup. Voters may be sensing the time has come for change.
Udall is a fine man with good intentions, and on some issues our views are closer to his than to Gardner's. But he is not perceived as a leader in Washington and, with rare exceptions such as wind energy and intelligence gathering, he is not at the center of the issues that count — as his Democratic colleague, Sen. Michael Bennet, always seems to be.
Rather than run on his record, Udall's campaign has devoted a shocking amount of energy and money trying to convince voters that Gardner seeks to outlaw birth control despite the congressman's call for over-the-counter sales of contraceptives. Udall is trying to frighten voters rather than inspire them with a hopeful vision. His obnoxious one-issue campaign is an insult to those he seeks to convince.
One-two punch in Senate
If Gardner's past is any guide, he would very likely match Bennet's influence in the upper chamber, providing Colorado with a powerful one-two punch and pairing two young, energetic senators with clout on both sides of the aisle.
If Gardner wins, of course, it could mean the Senate has flipped to Republicans. However, that doesn't mean it will simply butt heads with President Obama as the Republican House has done. As The Wall Street Journal's Gerald Seib recently pointed out, "A look back shows that eras of evenly divided power — Congress fully controlled by one party, the presidency by the other — have turned out to be among the most productive" because both sides temper their policies.
By contrast, we can be sure of what will happen in the next two years on issues such as immigration, tax reform, entitlement reform and military spending if the status quo persists: little to nothing. And yet these issues are critical to the nation's economic health and a long-awaited boost for middle-class incomes.
Gardner has sound ideas on tax reform that could help the economy take off and has expressed willingness to compromise on immigration despite a fairly hard line over the years. And his stance on defense spending appears closer to those of Rep. Mike Coffman, who favors restraint, than to those in the GOP who view the military as sacrosanct.
If Gardner had been a cultural warrior throughout his career, we would hesitate to support him, because we strongly disagree with him on same-sex marriage and abortion rights. But in fact he has emphasized economic and energy issues (and was, for example, an early supporter among Republicans of renewable energy).
For that matter, his past views on same-sex marriage are becoming irrelevant now that the Supreme Court has let appeals court rulings stand and marriage equality appears unstoppable. And contrary to Udall's tedious refrain, Gardner's election would pose no threat to abortion rights.
Credit to Udall on spying
We'd be remiss in not giving credit to Udall for using his position on the Senate Intelligence Committee to crusade against spying activities that encroach on individual freedom and privacy. Gardner himself has praised the senator's efforts there. But the congressman hasn't been oblivious to this issue, either. He was a co-sponsor last year of the USA Freedom Act, which the ACLU praised as "real spying reform."
Many Coloradans are no doubt sick of the overload of negative ads that have assaulted them from both sides, painting Gardner as an extremist and Udall as a mindless vote for the president's policies. Neither portrait is fair. But in their irritation with the campaigns, voters should not lose sight of the fact that a great deal is at stake. A dysfunctional Congress calls for action when voters have an attractive option to the gridlocked status quo. And in Colorado, thankfully, they do in Cory Gardner.
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This course is a graduate-level seminar that introduces students into the principles of research design in sociology. Focusing on the logic of research, this seminar deals with various epistemological and methodological issues that sociologists are confronted with in the course of their research, irrespective of the specific theoretical perspectives and the various methods of observation and analysis they are employing in different fields of sociological study. These issues are introduced with particular attention to the characteristics of sociology as a scientific activity and in view of the special connection that exists between theory and research. This course, therefore, is not a course on the techniques of sociological methods of observation and analysis, but on the logic of research.
Within the specified frame, attention goes to a selection of principles of research design (such as measurement, operationalization, sampling, and causal logic); the logic of selected methods of data collection (including survey research, ethnography, experiments, evaluation research, and comparative-historical methods); and aspects of proposing and publishing research. Based on the participants' specific interests, students are encouraged to explore relevant epistemological and methodological matters mentioned in this course in a more in-depth manner by taking other courses and/or through self-study and exploration of the literature. You can always consult the instructor for guidance.
This course is designed for all graduate students in sociology, not just for those who happen to be or want to become experts in epistemology or methodology. We will therefore address, when applicable, elements of various theoretical perspectives and substantive interests that the students are interested in. Participants in this seminar must be graduate students in the Sociology program. Students from another discipline need my explicit permission to take this course.
Upon successful completion of this seminar, students should be able to 1) critically analyze sociological research from the viewpoint of the principles of research design in sociology as a scientific and theoretically driven activity; and 2) develop a proposal for an original sociological research that abides by the standards of scientific analysis.
The syllabus will be handed out in class.
The required readings for this course involve two books and a few additional chapters. The Babbie book is our key text and provides the basic structure of the lectures. I will also place some recommended resources on the course webpage throughout the semester.
Babbie, Earl. 2009. The Practice of Social Research. 12th edition. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing. Any edition of this book published after 2001 is fine.
Woolgar, Steve. 1988. "What Is Science?" From his Science: The Very Idea. New York: Tavistock. Xerox from the instructor.
Babbie, Earl. 1986. "An Introduction Into Inquiry." From his Observing Ourselves. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing. Xerox from the instructor.
Davis, James A. 1985. "Using the Logic." From his The Logic of Causal Order. Newbury Park, CA: Sage. Xerox from the instructor.
Deflem, Mathieu. 1998. An Introduction to Sociological Research Design. Unpublished notes.