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Event Engagement: How to Get Attendees Excited About Complex Concepts
Maria Keenan
"Event engagement" is the holy grail two word sentiment for most organisers. However, it comes with a few complications. For one, it's a bit ambiguous.
Event engagement could range from something as simple as someone raising their hand in a Q&A session to a business partnership getting started off the back of an idea two people picked up during a presentation.
Additionally, getting people to truly engage with your event is, put simply, very hard. Plus, if your conference or event focuses on complex topics and themes, your attendees might end up overwhelmed if you don't put in extra work to make your sessions and events interactive and tangible.
With all that in mind, today we're sharing a conversation I recently had with Paul Rayner, founder of Explore DDD Conference, a domain-driven design-focused event that takes place annually in Denver, Colorado.
A brief Google search will tell you everything and nothing you need to know about DDD if you're new to the acronym. Even calls for it to be explained as simply as possible seem daunting. Even, in fact, if you ask for it to be explained like you're five years old, but somehow Paul manages it (which we'll see a little further down in this post) alongside his team.
So, how does he keep his community coming back? How does he share what makes him so passionate about DDD in a way that people can appreciate and reciprocate? Let's have a look:
Paul Rayner's headshot
How did Explore DDD get started?
"The idea of the conference was to put all of the beautiful minds in one place and provide a space where people can interact in deeper ways and experience something together.
"I've been in software development as long as I can remember. Part of the reason why I wanted to do the conference was because I wanted to grow a community and grow a movement around this in the United States.
"I had been talking to a few people about starting a conference in the US many times, but always chickened out. I'm not trained in conference organisation or conference design. The impetus was seeing what was happening with DDD in Europe and how a conference is a really special place to create an arena for people to connect, and build relationships. I went to conferences to connect with my peers and to learn.
"I read a lot and I watch a lot of talk videos, but there's just something about being in the same space and all being excited about the same thing that being at a conference seems to provide. That was a driver among others for doing this.
"When I considered starting the conference, I thought: 'I'm probably not the best person to run this conference, as there are way more people that have more experience with running conferences, but I believe we could create a high quality event.' That was the 'let's do it' moment. I'm still learning."
What is Domain-Driven Design?
"Domain Driven Design is a software design discipline. Eric Evans, who originally wrote the book on DDD, he boiled it down to three guiding principles back in 2004 . They've shifted and matured and changed and people are still experimenting, but the guiding principals are still the same."
Focus on the core domain.
Do model exploration in a creative, collaborative way.
Pay attention to language and context and ensure that concepts are expressed clearly in the code.
If we look at those concepts in a little more depth:
1. Focus on the Core Domain
"Focus your design efforts in the software where it's going to provide the most value to your business and your customers. That seems pretty straightforward, but that's actually a pretty tough thing to pull off. Because that means knowing what's most valuable about the software."
2. Do Model Exploration in a Creative, Collaborative Way
"Software design and software modelling is going to provide the most pay off when you're running a complex domain and the business problems you're trying to solve are really tricky.
"With Tito for example, you've got this nice thing where you've got a lot of flexibility in the way the tickets work because you can group them as Activities.
"Whoever came up with that idea, it's something I really like about the software, because you've got this concept of an Activity that crosses over multiple tickets that allows you to group tickets together in ways that the designers of Tito didn't have to come up with, right? The introduction of that concept of an Activity is a way of developing that model of how a conference registration system should work."
"DDD is very much about getting the business people and the developers in the same room collaborating together to explore those concepts."
"That also means finding out where concepts are lacking or missing and making them explicit and expressing them in the code and making them part of the system. It's very much geared towards having that creative collaboration and bridging that gap so it's not throwing that idea over the wall and saying 'Do this!'
"In the case of Tito, that conversation could look like 'Do we call it an Activity or is there another way that we could handle this?'"
3. Pay Attention to Language and Context
"The third one that's quite distinctive to DDD is the idea of a very rigorous focus on language and expressing language clearly and growing a language for a particular area. And doing that collaboratively as well.
"For a team that's doing Scrum or XP, that language is being used in the user stories, in the code, in the documentation. So, if we go back to the concept of an Activity, for example, everyone knows what that means. When you look at the code, it talks about Activities. It doesn't talk about some other thing.
"I've worked with some teams where you look at the code and you say, 'Oh right, well that's what this thing is called.' And then you talk to the team and they say, 'Well actually it's not called that. We have to call it something else.' You're always constantly translating in that type of situation.
"Whereas, this third guiding principle is to be very rigorous with that language and evolve that language over time as you come up with new concepts in the model exploration step. So it becomes this cycle of looking for missing concepts and adding those to the model and expressing them in language and having that expressed in the code."
Making the Conceptual Practical
Since it seemed that DDD was a highly conceptual discipline, I asked Paul how he manages to make the conference content usable for people who attend, upon returning to their day jobs:
"A lot of it comes down to talks, hands-on sessions and workshops that are very pragmatic and that take those principles and apply them in very practical ways."
Explore DDD conference promo video for 2019
"I would much rather somebody come to the conference and say 'I'm not sure I completely understand these principles, but I've got a new set of tools for my tool belt that I can take back to my team and start applying right away.'"
"There's a mixture of intro-level talks for people that want to have practices that they can take away, and some more advanced ones for people that are maybe more on the software architecture side and working with large, distributed systems, legacy systems, etc."
Curating Event Engagement
"I like a good war story. I think other people do too. I think those make it more approachable."
"We build our hands-on sessions and open space and, as much as we can, try to give people an opportunity to apply what they're learning at the conference.
"Talks tend to be more of a passive experience where people are sitting there and they're getting great information and perhaps asking questions at the end, but people need time to process that. Having good breaks and being able to make connections with each other are so important to turning that information into something they can act upon.
"The things that I love about unconferences are the ability for anyone to show up and be engaged. An unconference provides that spontaneity. Maybe somebody goes to a workshop and says, 'I've just learned this new technique. I'd love to practice it and pitch it as a session.' Or somebody says 'I'd love to start a meetup in my area. I'd be interested in some people helping me figure out some good practices for that.'
"That high-fidelity engagement and collaboration and making that part of the DNA of the conference is really important to me. Then, combining that with awesome content and world-class speakers and really challenging material for people to engage with is a given. Every year, we try to raise the bar. It's a smaller event. When you have a conference that's around 200+ people, there's a level of involvement you can have that you can't have at a larger conference.
"Kicking off the conference on Wednesday evening after people are done for the day or have just arrived or maybe have just finished the workshop and being able to come up for a few hours to just have drinks and relax is so valuable.
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"We also have pre-conference workshops where people can level up on their skills by taking a class with an expert instructor and then bring that knowledge into the conference and be able to unpack some of that and practice it with people at the conference as well. I think that's valuable."
Measuring Event Engagement
"Every year I make it a priority to have a number of experience reports because I think that's tremendously valuable, to hear people say, 'We tried this. These things worked for us. These things didn't. Here's why. Here are our takeaways.'
"I'm most proud of the event having a community feel. Many people have commented that it's the kind of event where you can come along and dig in and get involved with what other people are doing. My goal has always been to grow a community."
"What I mean by community is a group of people where they have mutual concern for each other."
"They want each other to grow. They're assuming good intent. They're invested in each other. A conference provides an arena for that kind of interaction to happen which means you need things like healthy discourse and respectful disagreement and face-to-face is the best way to do that. Not on Twitter."
"So much of social media interaction is people talking past each other."
"With many of the conferences I go to, I go to see what I can get out of it which involves going to as many talks as I can and trying to absorb that. I really wanted to create something that felt more like everyone coming along and contributing to this event.
Explore DDD's banner image: A shot of the Denver skyline with decorative circles.
"One specific example of that is, the conference closes on the Friday afternoon with us clearing out an entire area of the conference of all the chairs and everyone stands around in a circle."
"I run around like a mad man with a microphone and just ask people, 'What's your takeaway from this conference?'"
"That was something that I took from Open Spaces as a closing ceremony. Just to hear those vignettes at the end of the conference, that's what makes me excited about doing it for the next year."
Creating an Engaging Conference Environment
"We're lucky to have an incredible venue. This'll be the third year we have it on the 38th floor of a skyscraper in Denver. You have full 360 degree views of the city. You get to see the sun go down over the Rockies in the background. I wanted to have a space that was special. The Grand Hyatt has this really unique space. I think we're going to out-grow the venue. It's good for 200-300 people, but next year we're moving."
A YouTube video about the Grand Hyatt Denver
"I wanted to find a venue that would create even more of that sort of feeling of being in a special space with a group of people and making people want to interact with each other and do things. Next year we're moving the entire conference up into the mountains into Keystone Resort. People will be able to walk out of the conference space and go for a hike or walk around the lake."
"It's all about how do we enable those conversations? How do we provide space for people to get to know each other and get passionate about what they're learning."
"It's very much about getting people involved and providing opportunities for everyone who's at the event. We have a lightning talks session. We had some people last year who had never given a talk and who gave a five minute lightning talk about something that they'd learned about the conference and that was awesome.
"It's super encouraging to have participants be able to engage in that way and encourage that level of event engagement."
If you're interested in more information about Explore DDD or Paul's work, you can follow the conference on Twitter, as well as Paul.
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Below is the detailed description of the Royal Albert Hall which is a concert hall in the northern area of South Kensington in London. The hall has a capacity of more than 5000 seats. It was opened by Queen Victoria in 1871 and has been the stage of performance for the most brilliant artists ever since.
History of the Royal Albert Hall
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The Royal Albert Hall in London during the Victorian Era
After the Great Exhibition of the Crystal Palace in the year 1851 which was led by Prince Albert Consort, he had the vision of building the Royal Music Hall, as the project was known then. The progress on this project was very slow and even almost turned down after the death of Prince Albert in 1861.
However, Queen Victoria laid its foundation in May 1867 and signed a Royal Charter with Corporation of the Hall of the Arts and Sciences. The engineers for the hall were Captain Francis Fowke and Major General H D Scott who was two of the Royal Engineers present in the court and the construction contract was taken by the Lucas Brothers.
The ceremonial opening of the hall was done officially on the 29th of March, 1871. The first performance in the hall was given on the ceremony itself.
The system of lighting the hall happened through gaslit, thousands of gas jets were lit on the first day of the hall. This is how the lighting system functioned until 1888. After that year the electric lighting system was installed.
Royal Albert Hall of London – the famous dome
The hall is built in a dome pattern where the dome is made of glass and wrought iron. The dome is 135 feet high. The hall was designed with the aim to accommodate 8000 people but due to safety restrictions, the maximum capacity is listed to be approximately 5000.
The interior of the Royal Albert Hall
Corridors of the Royal Albert Hall
There is an amphi corridor situated on the ground floor of which there are fluted aluminum roof and diffuser disks. The flooring is wooden and the type of wood is hard and strong.
The first concert ever performed was by Arthur Sullivan on 1st of May 1871. The first Miss World Contest was staged on the Royal Albert Hall in 1969. In the same year in the month of June, a Pink Floyd Concert was held in the hall.
Christmas Carol Concert at the Royal Albert Hall
The British Gothic Rock Band called the 'Sisters of Mercy' also performed in the hall in June 1985.
Many National Television Awards have been hosted in the hall by Sir Trevor McDonald, a British journalist. There have been innumerable such events taken place at the hall since 1871.
Regular events like the Royal Choral Society's musical delivery on the day of Good Friday every year have been taking place to date since the year 1872. The most popular event of the BBC Prom takes place every year during summer for 8 weeks in the hall. The 8 weeks are filled with classical music nights, concerts, dances, performances, etc.
An event with more than 5000 people accommodated at the Royal Albert Hall
The ATP Champions Tour Masters play tennis every year in December since the year 1997. It was first played in March 1970. The Classic Brit Awards, the Classical Spectacular, the Royal British Legion Festival and many other such events are celebrated at the Royal Albert Hall.
The English National Ballet has been taking place in the hall since the year 2000. Many charity events like the Teenage Cancer Trust holds a concert annually to raise funds for curing teenage cancer among youngsters.
Movie premieres, live orchestra, and other screening events take place in the hall.
There are five senior authorities that govern the hall activities – the Chief Operating and Financial Officer, Director of Operations, Director of Business Development, Director of Events and the Director of External Affairs.
The CEO of the hall is Mr. Craig Hasall. The Council of the Corporation is the main trustee body of a charity. The council consists of a President and 18 elected members.
The Hall has been a winner of the 'International Venue Of The Year' by the Pollstar Awards for six years. The hall also won the award for International Theatre Of The Year by Pollstar Awards from the years 2006 to 2010

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A surge protector is a piece of hardware that your computer is plugged into. The protector then plugs into the wall. Thus, it is an intermediary between your computer and the power outlet. The surge protector prevents dangerous levels of power from reaching your computer and causing overload problems.
You're using your computer during an electrical storm. Lightning strikes and sends a high amount of power to your computer.
With a surge protector, the surge protector notices the power is too high and prevents the high power from reaching your computer.
Without a surge protector, the high voltage travels right to your machine, and you're left to pray that it doesn't overload your computer and cost you to have repairs performed.
A surge protector can also prevent spikes that occur should the power go out and then come back on at a higher level.
Thus, surge protectors are relatively cheap and are the standard in computer protection. A wise investment to be sure.
Data backup planning is not only important to large corporations, but to the personal computer owner as well. We'll be focusing on the personal computer owner here.
One way is to buy some writable CDs or DVDs and burn data to them – of course you'll need hardware that can write to CDs and/or DVDs. These would probably be a good option for people with not too much data they want backed up. These are also nice because you can store them in a different location from the original data and thus should the computer be destroyed in some cataclysmic event, you still have a good copy.
Another option is to purchase an external hard drive. These usually require a USB hookup. They are a nice option and are generally much larger in size than a CD/DVD. They are also easily transportable and lightweight. Furthermore, you can read, write, and rewrite (write over) data – something most CDs/DVDs don't do. So, they can be a money saver and space saver when compared to CDs/DVDs.
Another option still is to purchase an internal hard drive. This will reside within your computer. It provides read/write/rewrite and generally large (and inexpensive) storage capacity. These tend to be less expensive than a similar external and faster. However, they are less mobile than the two previous options. Still, you'd need to know a bit more about hardware in order to find out which drive to purchase and install, making the other two options more user friendly.
I think all options have their strong points, it boils down to what you require or desire. Bottom line, it's a good idea to have some backup strategy, because you never know how valuable your data is until it's gone.


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Millom, Cumberland
Description from Mannix & Whellan's History, Gazetteer and Directory of Cumberland, 1847
Transcription by Carol Bennett © 1999
MILLOM.
This parish is the extreme southern part of the county, and stretches northward from the sea along the west bank of the river Duddon, to the source of the Esk, and containing the four townships of Birker and Austhwaite, Chapel Sucken, Millom Below and Millom Above; also the two chapelries of Thwaites and Ulpha. It is bounded on the north by the Esk, which divides it from Muncaster and Eskdale, on the west by Waberthwaite, Corney, Bootle, Whitbeck and Whicham, and on the south by the mouth of the Duddon which here expands into an open sandy bay, well known for its mussels and cockles. Iron Ore has been got at Hodbarrow and Millom Park, and smelted near the brook, which still retains the name of Furnace-beck. Copper ore has been obtained at different times, though seldom in sufficient quantities to repay the working; but a rich vein was discovered a few years ago in the manor of Ulpha and is now worked by George Harrison, Esq. There are beds of slate in Millom park, and in Thwaites, but they do not break sufficiently large for use. MILLOM BELOW is a large township containing the village of Holborn Hill, and several detached houses, south south east of Bootle and west by north of Ulverstone, near the estuary of the Duddon. The earl of Lonsdale, Mr Anthony Cragg and Mr Joshua S Myers are the largest land owners. Dalzell, Dickinson & Co have a brick and tile manufactory near Holborn Hill. In 1250, Millom had a charter for holding a market here on Wednesday, and a fair for 3 days at the festival of the Holy Trinity. The school at Millom Below was endowed with £100 by Joesph Huddleston Esq who died in 1700. But that endowment was lost many years ago. It now enjoys in common with the two schools at Millom Above and Thwaites, a share of a bequest of £800 bequeathed in 1811 by Mr Wm Atkinson of Bog-house. He ordered it to be invested in Government Stock and the interest to be applied half-yearly for the education of poor boys and girls in these three townships. History, Gazetteer and Directory of Cumberland , Mannix & Whellan, 1847.
[Transcribed by Carol Bennett in 1999]
More extracts from Mannix & Whelan's Directory can be found on Steve Bulman's excellent Images of Cumbria website.
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Building on the outcomes and next steps of the 2013 conference and integrating with the work of our colleagues at the Severn Estuary Partnership, the forum meeting in December debated and developed the draft strategy and draft guiding principles to support a more strategic approach to the development of the unique Bristol Channel and Severn Estuary energy resources.
Following his opening talk at the Sustainable Severn Forum 2015, Johnny Gowdy of Regen SW summarises the energy issues and the challenges ahead.
Following his presentation at the Forum event, Adam Guy shares examples and issues relating to the Thames.
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Adam Guy Ex-Programme Manager, Thames Estuary Partnership and Office for the Vice-Provost (Research) at University College London, opened his talk at the event and asked the audience "Is governance 'ownership'?". He shared the history of the Thames and explored historical and current governance problems and proceeded to look at the opportunities of models and approaches.


The Women's Ministry at Emmanuel is guided by a team of women who represent every walk of life. Whether young or old, single or married, raising children or not, we have a ministry designed to meet your needs. In every activity and outreach effort we seek to bring unity and direction to the women at Emmanuel. Reaching inward, we encourage Christian growth and maturity in every stage of life. Reaching outward, we strive to bring the knowledge of Christ to women in our community. Reaching into the younger generation, we are mentoring and encouraging the young women who follow in our footsteps. Reaching into the older generation, we are taking advantage of Godly wisdom and experience as we care for the needs of our elder women.
We believe that God's desire for each woman is for her to grow into a mature Christian with a stature measured by Christ's fullness (Ephesians 4:13). Because of this we encourage our women to get involved in Bible Study, and to pursue their own personal relationship with the Lord. Our desire for each woman is for her to love the Lord with all her heart, with all her mind, with all her soul, and with all her strength" (Mark 12:30).
We believe that each of us has been specifically placed in the Church to fulfill a role and a purpose (1 Corinthians 12:14-18). Because of this we encourage women to find their place in Worship, in Bible Study, and in Community. By getting involved, the many needs of our women may be fully met within the fellowship of the Church.
We believe that each one of us, as a child of God, has been individually gifted to serve and minister within the Church (Ephesians 4:15-16). We encourage women to discover their individual giftedness and to pursue their calling. It is through ministry that we find our greatest satisfaction and fulfillment in our walk with Christ.


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Dr Richard Moore, BG Group chief technology officer, discusses BG's challenging role as the leading private oil and gas producer offshore Brazil
Paddy Harris speaks to Dr Richard Moore, Chief Technology Officer, BG Group, about the deepwater and technological success of its Brazilian arm
Based in Rio de Janeiro, Richard leads a team of 40 professionals across four countries, pursuing R&D and innovation for the benefit of BG Group's worldwide assets.
How important to BG Group is its Brazilian arm?
Brazil is a strategically important operation in BG Group's portfolio, providing significant reserves of oil and gas. Present in Brazil since 1994, we are committed as a long-term partner and investor in the country, its people, its resources and its future. To date, we have invested over UD 8bn in Brazil's oil and gas sector and we are currently investing around USD 3bn a year.
What assets does BG Brasil currently hold and what are its operations?
BG Brasil has interests in three blocks in the pre-salt Santos Basin, including the major discoveries in BM-S-9 and BM-S-11, including Lula-Iracema, Iara, Sapinhoá and Lapa, where together with the operator - Petrobras - and our joint ventures partners we are drilling best in class wells, with production rate above 30 000 barrels of oil equivalent per day.
In the Barreirinhas Basin, in the Brazilian Equatorial Margin, BG Brasil is the operator in ten blocks, acquired in the 11th Licensing Round of ANP. We are the 100 per cent equity holder in two blocks, 75 per cent in four blocks and 50 per cent in other four blocks.
What have been BG Brasil's most recent achievements?
In 2014 BG Brasil celebrated its 20th anniversary and our growth is to become the leading private oil and gas producer in Brazil, achieving record production in excess of 125,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day (BG net) in January 2015.
In 2014 Cidade de Ilhabela and Cidade de Mangaratiba, the fourth and fifth FPSOs respectively came on-stream with another one expected this year.
What new technologies have enabled these developments to happen?
The discovery of the pre-salt play and the technical challenges imposed by the exploration and production projects in such frontier areas create the need to develop new technologies that benefit the entire oil and gas sector in Brazil.
From BG Brasil's perspective, our approach to technology development has been to support the operator, Petrobras, by providing our experts to conduct studies and to engage in university-led research, complementing the operator's own R&D activities.
For example, last December Petrobras installed a Wet Xmas Tree (WCT) on wire from a vessel, in the Sapinhoá field, at a depth of 2,130 metres. A WCT is a device installed at the oil wellhead on the seabed, comprising a series of remotely operated valves to control the flow of fluids (oil, water and gas) from the reservoirs to the surface.
The technology which enables deployment from a ship adds value through cost savings arising from the lower charter rates compared to drillships previously used, and the redeployment of drillships for acceleration of well delivery.
A proprietary project BG commissioned to help pre-salt development was conducted in partnership with Schlumberger to develop workflows for evaluation of pre-salt carbonate reservoirs using data from wells. These optimised workflows help constrain estimates of the volume of oil that can be extracted from the reservoir and inform critical decisions such as the number and location of production wells. In this particular work, BG's proprietary technology development complimented the operator's studies.
Another example of successful joint technology development with Petrobras is an academic study of Lula field data to better understand the reservoir characteristics to optimise oil recovery, engaging researchers from Edinburgh, Heriot Watt and Oxford Universities in the UK in the International Centre for Carbonates Research (ICCR).
Petrobras has successfully developed and deployed award winning deepwater technology in the exploitation of the pre-salt geology, such as the new buoyancy-supported risers (BSR) technology – the prototype of which won the Technology Innovation Award from Brazilian National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels (ANP) in 2013. The BSR allows the production risers to be separated from the platform movements, for a safer the oil lifting system.
What is BG doing in Brazil now that it couldn't do five years ago?
BG Brasil is now the largest privately owned oil and gas producing company in Brazil. Together with the operator Petrobras and our partners in pre-salt, we currently have five FPSOs producing, with three at capacity (Cidade de São Paulo, Cidade de Angra dos Reis, Cidade de Paraty) and two ramping-up production (Cidade de Ilhabela and Cidade de Mangaratiba). Also, of the 10 most productive wells in the country, nine are located in Lula and Sapinhoá fields, where we have equity in participation and operating at 2 000 metres deep and 200 kilometres offshore.
To contribute technology to that production effort, BG Brasil is investing in a state-of-the-art laboratory for investigation of Enhanced Oil Recovery techniques at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). The laboratory is called L-Rap. The laboratory partners and utilises the technology research from Heriot Watt University, which will be used to study the pre-salt reservoirs.
Additionally, we are currently studying carbonate rocks exposed in Sergipe and Alagoas states that are analogous to the pre-salt, in a research project in partnership with UFRJ, which involves drilling shallow wells to continuously core rock formations to provide samples for study in the laboratory.
These technologies aim to improve understanding of the behaviour of fluids in the reservoir under production conditions, reduce uncertainties on the volume of oil to be recovered and to inform decisions on the best placement of production wells.
Implementation of technologies has already led to considerable improvement of our pre-salt field development plans. Improvements have been made in terms of reducing well count and costs, increasing the recovery of oil and gas and improving operating efficiency.
How will Brazil's exploration and production sector develop in the future?
The pre-salt oil and gas discoveries play a key role in Brazil's plans for economic growth. It is unique play. Its development began just a few years ago, although production has already surpassed 669,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day and is increasing for the entire pre-salt area operated by Petrobras. There is room for further improvement in drilling and subsea technology. There are many aspects of the pre-salt exploitation that will be impacted by new technology, so Brazil is a natural laboratory.
How will this affect BG's operations in the country?
As one of the main partners of Petrobras, BG Brasil is focused on ensuring that we develop and pursue solutions that can be tried and tested in the field operations. We participate in the decisions of the consortium, contributing technical expertise and innovative solutions, prioritising the establishment of strong partnerships.
Moving forward to the pre-salt operations, we are also operator in 10 blocks in the Barreirinhas Basin, a new frontier to be explored.
What role will technology play in unlocking more of Brazil's offshore oil and gas potential?
New technologies will be essential to unlock Brazil's potential. BG is developing technology to improve acquisition, processing and interpretation of seismic data in Brazil, which will advance the exploration efforts.
To acquire better seismic data, we are developing the Surdo project in partnership with PGS and the Brazilian universities Senai Cimatec and USP, which seeks to build a prototype seismic source to generate sound waves with optimal characteristics for improved seismic imaging;
To better process seismic data, the International Imaging Initiative is a partnership with UFRN, Senai Cimatec, the University of British Columbia and Imperial College London. It will develop and test code for processing seismic data using high performance computing and a new supercomputer - one of the fastest in South America - located in Salvador, Bahia; and,
To better interpret seismic data, BG experts have developed a workflow in Brazil called DIGI, which is being used to undertake automated evaluation of seismic data to rapidly identify features indicative of hydrocarbon accumulations. A paper on the subject was published at EAGE 2014, and DIGI has also won The Edge Award.
Also we have created a research group at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) to address interpretation of seismic stratigraphy to better understand the Santos and Campos basins, and we are commissioning a laboratory for petroleum geochemistry research at UFBA with students studying the oil and gas potential of source rocks in several Brazilian basins.
How does BG Group invest in technological development in Brazil?
In BG, we have an open innovation, collaborative model, based on partnerships with academia, research centres, industry, start-ups, and where appropriate in partnership with operators, e.g. Petrobras and IOCs.
By 2025, BG Brasil plans to invest around USD 1.5bn in RD&I in the country.
BG Brasil complies with Brazil's concession terms which require 1 per cent of gross revenue from large fields to be spent on RD&I for the oil and gas industry. Today we have the largest investment in RD&I amongst oil and gas companies in Brazil (apart from Petrobras).
Our RD&I programme is focused on five key challenges of Enhanced Oil Recovery from Carbonate Reservoirs, Sustainable Gas and climate change, geoscience, subsea processing and asset integrity. Prioritising technological solutions in those areas allows us to make better investment decisions and that is what drives the performance of the company.
What challenges are involved in doing business in Brazil's oil and gas sector?
The ongoing challenge in Research, Development and Innovation, is to find the right experience among suppliers and universities in order to develop technologies. We encourage partnerships of companies with universities, and encourage international contributors to transfer state-of-the-art technologies for continued development in Brazil.
How could these challenges be overcome in the future? Are there any other examples (Mexico)?
Stimulating innovation and the supply chain is key, so changes in the regulatory environment to further support RD&I would be very beneficial.
Dr. Richard Moore – Chief Technology Officer, BG Group
Based in Rio de Janeiro, Richard leads a team of 40 professionals across four countries, pursuing R&D and innovation for the benefit of BG Group's worldwide assets. His team is responsible for the company's R&D investments in Brazil.
Rick has 22 years of experience with BG Group, in diverse managerial and technical roles including Chief Geologist, Subsurface Team Leader Brazil, and as an exploration geologist in Italy and the UK. He gained a PhD in Sedimentology from Leeds University in 1992, and holds a bachelors honours degree in Geology from University of Oxford.
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Isn't being accused of poor taste a rite of passage compliment?
I've been devouring bios of composers.
Some were savaged by critics for "poor taste" while the audiences embraced the music.
Both Salome and Electra are not so lengthy, so it is easy to listen without too much effort. Bartok's Bluebeard Castle is even shorter.
If you will like Strauss, you may try to listen a short selection of instrumental pieces from Wagner's Der Ring recorded by Solti. Or, I would suggest to check a particular selection with Maria Callas below.
I am trying to recall what brought me to opera many years ago. I think I was very much impressed with opera fragments in some films as well.
These are two very (!) different performances. I may be accused of lack of taste but I like both, in a different way though. My question is - can someone recommend a well recorded Albinoni album similar in style to I Solisti Veneti 'serene' (chill out.? ) recording?
The Claudio Scimone/I Solisti Veneti performances you have are 'slow' movements (adagio, andante, largo, etc.) compiled from full recordings of the complete works, mostly Albinoni's Opus 10 (a set of 12 concerti). So, I'd suggest that perhaps you locate the two-CD set of the full recordings, so you can decide if it's more that you prefer Scimone's approach, or if it's the slow movements themselves that most appeal to you. Then you could go from there for further recommendations or investigations of your own, perhaps?
There is also a recording of Opus 9 concerti with Scimone/I Solisti Veneti if you wanted to compare those directly to Hogwood's interpretations. Not everyone enjoys the "Historically-Informed" or so-called "authentic" instruments/style, so Scimone's recordings are a happy medium for many listeners between "authentic" period music practice and the large-scale modern orchestra versions prevalent throughout most of the 20th Century. I personally prefer the "authentic" camp, but I get more enjoyment from the beauty of music than I do from my snobbery, so anything that serves beauty is worthy of pleasure haha! Don't worry about naysayers, especially in the discovery phase of your music enjoyment.
You may want to look out for something that is actually by Albinoni himself. The Adagio is from the 20th century.
Don't get me wrong, it's nice music, just not baroque.
I guess it was exactly a requirement. Lounge music resembling something from the past. Listened one of the recent Françoise Hardy albums yesterday, some hints to baroque stylization there, as per my ears.
I liked both Hogwood and I Solisti Veneti interpretations but for different reasons. Yes, maybe a good idea is to simply check out some more ISV recordings. Thank you very much for your reply!
When I saw your post my thought was it was quite telepathic I actually listened to Maazel's 'The Ring without Words' CD quite often recently and I liked the music a lot but I didn't have much time to explore the subject (but I have it now!). I liked Solti's 'Excerpts' even more! Thank you very much for this recommendation! Seems that Wagner may become a huge name for me! I don't think I'm ready for his full operas though. I googled the subject for a moment last night and it there is of course a wide choice of Wagner's orchestral interpretations by Solti, Maazel, Karajan, Szell, Jarvi, Klemperer, Runnicles, I.Fischer, Furtwangler and others so I count on you, guys and your suggestions again. I believe I'm ready to add a substantial number of his recordings to my music library. As usual - performance comes first but SQ matters too.
Thanks in advance - every post is appreciated!
I think you are pretty much covered with Ring's orchestral excerpts with Solti album... If you want dig deeper into Wagner one important thing should be considered. Great performers (and conductors) of his music belong almost exclusively to the past, or distant pass. If you want great sound quality you will miss real Wagner. Or, if you want really enthralling Wagner you should be ready for not so perfect sound quality. Anyway, here more suggestions, with excerpts and some vocal too.
Last night, I started the book, "My lie with WAGNER" by Christian Thielemann.
I am reading about him as a boy, who could not be further from the norm or expected in life. It is interesting to read one, looking back through the years of maturity, upon himself as a prodigy. He has acute self awareness and in spite of his gifts, humility. I want to understand what Wagner did to him. I want to, even just a bit, experience it for myself.
It seems to take a bit more effort than a 3 minute, 3 chord pop song. Just a bit.
Last night, I started the book, "My lie with WAGNER" by Christian Thielemann.
There is also very interesting documentary film about recording of Solti's Ring - "The Golden Ring". Quite a glimpse into this extraordinary effort. You may probably know this was the very first studio recording of Wagner's cycle in history, and, many believe, still the best.
I understand that asking an opera lover about orchestral Wagner is a little bit like asking a Beatles fan about the best album with instrumental versions of their songs Unfortunately my margin of tolerance for opera singing is still in general quite low. I have no problem with choral recordings though. @AnotherSpin Thanks for your recommendations! I will get all 3 albums (and check out some more purely orchestral Wagner by myself). As for Maria Callas - just between us - I have a small selection of her recent hi res remasters, will check out the album you recommended too. She was definitely someone very special!
I understand you perfectly well. Wagner is far out of conventional listening idiom even between opera lovers. I know people who love dearly Verdi or Puccini but can not tolerate Wagner. Anyway, do not try Der Ring separately by each opera or as a whole for beginning. Tristan und Isolde would fit better to begin with. Also because here we have some not too-traditional versions, such as very famous and very good from Carlos Kleiber.
This particular album of Callas is something very special even among her vast output.
I have actually come to a different conclusion and I ordered almost a dozen of Wagner instrumental albums (I agree - Solti is very good with Wagner!). Has he composed any interesting instrumental pieces (I was disappointed with his C major symphony).?
Would anyone have some other suggestions as for The Rosary Sonatas recordings.?
Bad pun aside, this one is quite good, but I also like Podger for the SQ.
Seems that I am Thanks, haven't checked this one.
Biber – Podger is great, imho. Manze too. You would try Daniel Sepec as well.
You may check Siegfied Idyll.
You would try Daniel Sepec as well.
One of my favorites, although becoming hard to find.
One of my favorites, although becoming hard to find.
I will check out this one, thanks!
As for Holloway - I've checked it out and I agree - it's good although I liked the above mentioned three recordings more, this one for me would take the fourth place if I may be so mathematically precise. BTW I liked your Notre Dame gargoyle..
I was thinking about Holloway, whom I was listening quite a long time ago. Something was not quite right to me with his version or Rosenkranz, maybe it was not performance, but something else, sound maybe.
I have two recordings of Biber's Mystery Sonatas for Violin by Andrew Manze (2 CDs, Harmonia Mundi 907321/22), and by John Holloway (2 CDs, Virgin Veritas 7 59551 2, footnote 1). The small, accompanying basso-continuo ensembles on these recordings are similar, but their sounds are entirely different. I always hear Manze's violin right between the speakers; Holloway is farther back and less distinct, tempting me to turn up the volume. Through the Revels, it was clear that Manze was, in fact, much closer to the recording microphones than was Holloway, thus making it possible for me to easily distinguish between ensemble and ambience. Because Holloway and his ensemble were farther from the mikes, it was impossible for me dissociate their sounds from the ambiance, regardless of how loudly I played this recording.
What other Biber compositions and recordings would you guys suggest to check out?
My interest didn't go much beyond Rosary.
If we speak about not so well known Czech composers, I would suggest to check even lesser known Ladislav Dussek. His piano concertos or sonatas are true gems.


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Since the election, Illinois, Michigan, and Ohio have been keeping their clean power progress strong.
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Utilities aren't waiting for the Supreme Court's Clean Power Plan verdict to green up their act.
Ohio Legislators Are Trying to Undo Their State's Clean Energy Plan
Ohio citizens shouldn't let them get away with it.
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Some Iowa Legislators Say the State Has Already Achieved Sustainable Farming (It Hasn't) and Doesn't Need More Research (It Does
The state's lawmakers have cut funding for the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, leaving rural farmers in the lurch.
Why the West Is Best (for Clean Energy)
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Americans Red and Blue Unite Against Trump's Plan to Drill the Atlantic
Not even the Republican governors who supported him are willing to get behind it.
Zinke's Western "Listening Tour" Light on the Listening, Heavy on the Fossil Fuels
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