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Discovering Leadership: Authenticity, Action and Responsibility – a group relations conference
Conference Director: Ben Neal
A four-day non-residential conference for the development and understanding of the dynamics of leadership.
How can we move into and between our organizational roles, in good faith, and from a position of authenticity?
How do we take appropriate action (or not) both individually and as part of a group, with a sense of agency, authority, and clear intention?
To what and to who are we responsible, and how is this dimension of leadership articulated when taking up multiple complex roles? In what way do the actions we take effect and change the systems we inhabit and people that populate them?
How do we live with both what we do, and don’t do in our group and organizational lives?
This group relations conference provides an opportunity for deep learning about the complex dynamics of leadership, from the individual, to the group, to the organization.
Independent Applicants - £650
Tavistock Students and Trainees - £580, unless the fee is included in your course fee. Please consult your course director.
A group discount is available to groups of 3 or more from the same organisation. Please contact the Conference Administrator for details.
Less than 2 weeks in advance of first day: 100%
Between 2-8 weeks in advance of first day: 50%
Between 8-12 weeks in advance of first day: 25%
A proportion of the conference places are reserved for members of the Postgraduate Diploma/MA in Consulting and leading in organisations: psychodynamic and systemic approaches (D10).
The programme consists of a series of events that build on each other to allow members the space for exploration and cumulative learning. For example:
The Intergroup Event starts with an opportunity to explore personal effectiveness in an interpersonal face-to-face group and goes on to explore dynamics arising between groups and also within groups when linked to a wider system. The event allows exploration of the experience of crossing group boundaries and the issues for an individual in representing one group to another group.
Whole System Meetings explore the organisational dynamics of the conference itself as an organisation and the problems of individual effectiveness in a large group.
The Staff Management Event explores the boundary and dynamics between members and conference staff in a management role. This facilitates learning about issues that arise between those in authority and those who may perceive themselves as less powerful. The exercise of authority, leadership and creativity by both staff and members may also be studied.
The Resource Management Event explores the dynamics of delegated authority, leadership and followership, and the management of resources.
Personal Development Groups are provided to review the progress of members’ learning towards the end of the conference, with a focus on making links with members' own work environment in order that the learning may be applied after the conference.
The programme is designed as a whole. Applicants who cannot attend the whole programme should contact the Conference Administrator at the time of application.
This is a rewarding, but demanding programme and so applicants currently experiencing stressful circumstances such as divorce, bereavement or serious illness, are advised to attend at another time.
Please note the conference is non-residential.
Leadership? Energy? Empowerment? Creativity? Co-operative endeavour? Infighting? Destructive competition? Lethargy? Cynicism?
How many of these describe your organisation, or the organisations you work with?
How does leadership emerge in an organisation?
Do you understand how organisations work below the surface and what you might do to make them work more effectively?
Whether your pre-occupation is culture change at a macro level in the private sector, working more effectively with your team in the NHS, or a wish to help promote creativity, this Group Relations Conference could help you take up your role differently, be a better leader, and develop an unfolding sense of organisations, and the part you, and we all, play.
A group relations conference is a personal development programme, which aims to increase personal effectiveness in any organisational role. Development happens through experiential learning - that is, learning from the immediate experience of participation in, and reflection on, the conference events.
This particular conference will offer participants an opportunity to discover what may underpin leadership effectiveness at personal, group and organisational levels. The method is not one of conventional conferences. The conference is designed to be a miniature organisation in which a range of events take place that mirror typical organisational situations and in which you will experience leadership and followership in unrehearsed ways, in different group configurations.
The primary task of these activities is to study organisational behaviour as it happens. This creates a continuous process of feedback about organisational behaviour from staff and other participants. Issues are explored in relation to awareness of the impact of self on others and the impact of others on self, leadership, followership, group membership, lateral and vertical collaboration, delegation and representative roles.
"I felt surprised, distressed, humbled and finally, deeply emotionally impressed that I had so much to learn, and that the event evoked layers of personal experience of which I was hardly aware, and which can be traced back many years, if not further."
September 2014 participant
"I experienced the conference as rich and intense learning which I anticipate I will be learning from for a long time. It was particularly useful not be given ‘answers’ and sometimes to be offered possibilities. This enabled me to find my own answers. Early learning is that I have a much clearer understanding of my own leadership and what can get in way. I feel tangible change on a personal level which I have taken into my professional life."
September 2014 participant
Course tutor, Ben Neal.
Ben is a management and leadership coach, and organisational consultant, with over fifteen years of experience. A specialist clinical practitioner, with experience in a number of clinical roles in the NHS, he has worked with leaders and managers who work with and deliver services to some of the most demanding and vulnerable demographics in society.
Ben moved into the field of consulting and coaching in 2010. Since then he has worked extensively across voluntary, public, and private sectors, with clients ranging from celebrity chefs and authors to executives running gold mining operations in South Africa.
He is a visiting lecturer on the MA in Consulting and Leading in Organizations and the Educational Psychology Doctorate Programme at the Tavistock.
Conference Director: Lydia Hartland-RoweFind out more
This is an applied four-day group relations conference exploring complexities in caring for the emotional and psychological well-being of adults,...Find out more

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We are a few days into April, and if you are an Xbox LIVE Gold subscriber you can get two new games this month for free! The first title up for grabs is Hitman: Absolution from Io Interactive. You can download this game from the Xbox LIVE Marketplace here now until April 15th. If you’d like to, you may read our review of Absolution located here.
On April 16th through the 30th you can then get Deadlight by Tequila Works for free. Once the 16th approaches you may download it off the Xbox LIVE Marketplace here.
After six years of waiting, wondering if the most famous assassin has us in his sights, released in the 47th week of 2012 IO Interactive’s fifth addition to the Hitman franchise by Square Enix, Hitman: Absolution has finally released.
Now as a gamer i have never played a Hitman game, the most i have played was a demo back on the PS2 so my own knowledge of the previous games is very limited apart from knowing the basics, although after getting my hands on a few moments of play when we went to the Eurogamer Expo this year really got me interested in the game, Continue Reading
IO Interactive presents the latest video from the ICA files series that sheds some light on the little known facts about the Original Assassin and his craftsmanship.
IO Interactive A/S, a Square Enix studio, presents “INTRODUCING: THE ULTIMATE ASSASSIN”, the stunning conclusion to the seven part INTRODUCING series. Do you have what it takes to walk in the shoes of Agent 47? Fearless, deadly and unstoppable – the Original Assassin is back!
Created entirely from original gameplay moments, INTRODUCING is dedicated to show the richness, depth and possibilities surrounding the living and breathing world of HITMAN: ABSOLUTION™ – powered by IO INTERACTIVE’S new proprietary GLACIER 2™ technology. Continue Reading
Square Enix, presents “INTRODUCING: LIVING BREATHING WORLD,” the sixth gameplay trailer in the original INTRODUCING series. Regardless of what play style you adopt, you will enjoy a unique playthrough experience as you enjoy the rich variation in a living breathing world. A world filled with incredibly intelligent characters all displaying richly detailed synthetic life, where everyone you meet may well have a bigger part to play in Hitman: Absolution. Continue Reading
Square Enix today reveals the next Hollywood talent in Hitman: Absolutions stellar cast. Keith Carradine will take on the role of the villainous Blake Dexter, a twisted character and maybe the most vicious adversary Agent 47 has faced yet. Dexter comes to life through Carradine’s outstanding performance capture and voice acting skills. Keith Carradine’s latest work includes the role of Sheriff John Taggart in the blockbuster movie “Cowboys & Aliens”.
Learn more about Blake Dexter in the latest release of the ICA files video series. The ICA (International Contract Agency) files are a series of videos that provide in-depth background information on the main cast in HITMAN: ABSOLUTION and features exclusive art from comic artist Ben Oliver. Continue Reading
Players Can Finally Prove Who is the Ultimate Assassin Really Is.
Square Enix is pleased to reveal CONTRACTS, an innovative new online game mode included in the HITMAN: ABSOLUTION™ experience.
CONTRACTS is a new online mode which allows gamers to create and share their own custom hit challenges within the HITMAN: ABSOLUTION game. Choose a level, targets, weapons and then set your rules for completing your contract based on time, style and witnesses. There are no clumsy editors or complicated mechanics to learn; in CONTRACTS you simply play to create and as CONTRACTS is an asynchronous mode, you can compete against friends at any time, regardless of whether they are online. HITMAN: ABSOLUTION will also ship with many pre-set CONTRACTS, each designed by the very best assassins at IO Interactive. Continue Reading

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(Please check out our latest savings rates report.)
Since mid-March, it has been a quiet month for savings rates, resulting in no significant change in the national savings rate average, which remained flat at 0.30% APY.
As the Federal Reserve pointed out after its March board meeting, the U.S. economy continues to strengthen, albeit at a very slow pace. Most banks did not react to the central bank’s meeting with any rate cuts.
The potential for interest rates to rise is inching closer as the jobs market continues to improve ever so slightly. From February to March, the unemployment rate dropped from 7.7% to 7.6%. Savers should know by now that the Federal Reserve projects interest rates to rise when the unemployment rate falls to 6.5 percent.
TIAA Direct did slash the rate on its online savings account from 1.00% APY to 0.92% APY. The online bank, which is still currently not accepting new customers, had dropped the rate from 1.25% APY to 1.00% APY in January. TIAA Direct held the top savings rate for most of last year.
On the bright side, a new online bank has entered the arena to vie for consumer deposits. Bank X, another online banking subsidiary of BofI Federal Bank (parent of Bank of Internet USA and UFB Direct), offers a competitive online savings rate of 0.95% APY, the same rate that is offered by Sallie Mae Bank.
But, the top nationwide savings rate continues to belong to Barclays Bank, which is offering 1.00% APY.
There was no movement in savings rates regarding the nation’s biggest banks and online banks.
The table below shows the changes in savings rates at benchmark financial institutions from March 15, 2013 to April 15, 2013. By monitoring the savings rates at some of the largest banks, we get an idea of where rates at other banks and financial institutions are headed.
|Bank||Savings account||APY (as of 3/15/13)||APY (as of 4/15/13)||APY Change|
|Bank of America||Regular Savings||0.01||0.01%||0%|
|Ally Bank||High Yield Savings||0.84%||0.84%||0%|
|Capital One 360||360 Savings||0.75%||0.75%||0%|
|American Express||Personal Savings||0.85%||0.85%||0%|
Take a look at the top rates currently available:

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There is a tendency when we feel more than a little ill done by for some of the poor choices that we make, to tag a man as an assclown…even when he’s not, and that’s simply because there is a general assumption by women who have a habit of pursuing poor men and relationships that each guy has the potential to be the one, or that they have to continue expending energy on a relationship when it’s flat out dead, and a general issue with letting go of things.
However, this isn’t just about understanding when a man isn’t an assclown, it’s also about recognising that you can’t cling onto every man and relationship because breaking up, whilst horrible, is a part of life and we can’t just decide that we’d rather stick with poor relationships because we’re afraid to let go and are resistant to change.
Whilst change can be uncomfortable, it doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t do it.
In the book I explain that “You’ll be outraged and indignant that he’s not still there with you wanting what you want. You’ll think about how you feel, and wonder how he can’t feel the same way. You may wonder if there is someone else or whether he’s confused/scared/having a moment and be plotting how to get him to come around to your way of thinking. You’ve already decided that you’re more than happy to try, to keep working at the relationship and you can’t understand why he doesn’t want to try. Or you may be using every expletive under the sun as you rage at yourself and anyone else who will listen about the fact that the relationship has ended.
Whatever it is that you do, you may have got it into your head that he’s an assclown because he had the cheek to end the relationship, and I’m here to tell you that, yes whilst some men are complete and utter assclowns when they break up with you, in general, a man breaking up with you does not an assclown make.
Hard as this may be for you to digest, not every relationship has potential or is built to last. Relationships do end and annoying as it may be, men are allowed to end relationships and break up with us.
YOU may be OK with middle of the road, mediocrity, or constantly trying to ‘make things work’ but the fact that he doesn’t share that same desire is not a crime and it certainly doesn’t make him an assclown.
You have to ask yourself why you want a relationship with someone that doesn’t?
If he wants out of the relationship, why don’t you want out of the relationship?
What are you seeing about the relationship that he doesn’t?
What is he seeing about the relationship that you don’t?
Ultimately, the biggest thing that you have to accept about breaking up is that it’s not just about what you want.
You cannot project what you think, feel, want, and need onto someone, and assume that ipso facto, they think, feel, want, and need exactly the same things as you. You may have been in a relationship but it doesn’t mean that we have to lose our sense of self and merge each others personalities, characters, and desires.”
The difference between a man that breaks up with you and an assclown that breaks up with you is how the latter man treats you in the run up to the breakup or afterwards. To be honest, if a relationship is ending, it’s difficult to make it a ‘pleasant’ experience, but that doesn’t mean that a guy should treat you like crap till you get sick of him and dump him, cheat on you, or dump you and then keep trying to keep a foothold in your life so he can get you to break him off a piece when it suits.
We, that’s men and women, are allowed to change our mind though, and at the end of the day, it doesn’t matter what things were like six months ago, two years ago, or that he said he was crazy about you six months ago, because something has changed, and he’s not crazy about you now and that’s what matters. We have to be careful of becoming fixated on trying to re-ignite a flame or feeling that has been extinguished or possibly didn’t exist…
You know I’ll call a spade a spade, but the fact that you don’t want it to end and he does, may be more of an indicator that one of you has a firmer foot in reality than they do in the relationship that only you want.

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China Daily (China)
BEIJING (China Daily/ANN) - Hong Kong Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po unveiled the much-awaited 2020-21 Budget, pledging economic relief measures worth HK$120 billion.
BEIJING (China Daily/ANN) - China to increase its tolerance for loans to small businesses to help them traverse hard times due to the novel coronavirus outbreak.
BEIJING (China Daily/ANN) – AI, 5G, robotics, blockchain, drones, cloud, big data ... all battle virus in novel ways, giving digital economy a new glow.
BEIJING (China Daily/ANN) - As the number of reported coronavirus cases outside China grew and sparked fears of a worldwide economic slowdown, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed down 1,031.61 points, the biggest drop since February 2018.
BEIJING (China Daily/ANN) - Gilead Sciences, the United States biotech company behind the experimental drug remdesivir, has applied for eight patents surrounding the drug in China, three of which have been approved and the other five are still pending.


US 20050149265 A1
A wireline well-logging data acquisition system and method for establishing corrected depth based on pressure readings from two pressure sensors separated by a known distance.
1. A well-logging data acquisition system comprising:
at least one well-logging instrument having at least a first and a second pressure sensor;
a central processing unit (CPU) connected to
the well-logging instrument via a telemetry system cable and a storage system connected to the central processing unit and having:
a depth correction logic means operable to instruct the CPU to compute a corrected depth from pressure readings of the first and second pressure sensors.
2. The well-logging data acquisition system of
3. The well-logging data acquisition system of
a logic to compare a second pressure observed by the second pressure sensor to pressures previously recorded by the first pressure sensor and setting a corrected depth index based on a location of the well-logging instrument when the first pressure sensor recorded a pressure substantially equal to the second pressure.
4. The well-logging data acquisition system of
a logic to calculate and record corrected depth values having
instructions to make an entry for each measurement taken including a first pressure recorded by the first pressure sensor and a second pressure recorded by the second pressure sensor, and a corrected depth value determined by
if moving in the direction of the first pressure sensor, setting the corrected depth of a current entry by subtracting the distance between the two pressure sensors from the corrected depth when the first pressure sensor had recorded a pressure value substantially equal to the pressure observed by the second pressure sensor, or
if moving in the direction of the second pressure sensor, setting the corrected depth of the current entry by adding the distance between the two pressure sensors to the corrected depth when the second pressure sensor had recorded a pressure value substantially equal to the pressure observed by the first pressure sensor for the current entry.
5. The well-logging data acquisition system of
set the corrected depth of a current entry to the corrected depth of the preceding entry if at least one of the pressure sensors indicates no change in pressure from the preceding entry to the current entry.
6. The well-logging data acquisition system of
set the corrected depth of a current entry to the corrected depth of the preceding entry if both of the pressure sensors indicate no change in pressure from the preceding entry to the current entry.
7. The well-logging data acquisition system of
8. The well-logging data acquisition system of
9. The well-logging data acquisition system of
10. A method for determining a corrected depth value in a well-logging operation comprising:
for each measurement taken collecting a first pressure using a first pressure sensor and a second pressure using a second pressure sensor wherein the first pressure and the second pressure are collected at a known distance from one another;
comparing the first pressure to previously recorded values for the second pressure; and
setting a corrected depth value to be a previously recorded depth value corresponding to an entry in which a previously recorded value for the second pressure is substantially equal to the first pressure adjusted for the distance between the first pressure sensor and the second pressure sensor.
11. A method for determining a depth value in a well-logging operation comprising:
a. determining the pressure of a second pressure sensor at a known depth in a borehole, setting a second pressure variable equal to that pressure, and setting a current depth variable equal to the known depth;
b. moving a well-logging instrument to a location wherein a first pressure sensor observes a pressure substantially equal to the second pressure variable;
c. adding the distance between the first and second pressure sensor to the current depth variable, and setting the second pressure variable equal to the pressure observed by the second pressure sensor after step b; and
d. repeating steps b and c until a desired depth has been reached or a desired condition has been met.
12. A well-logging data acquisition system comprising:
at least one well-logging instrument having at least a first and a second sensor for measuring a physical quantity wherein each such sensor measures the same physical quantity;
a central processing unit (CPU) connected to the well-logging instrument via a telemetry system cable and a storage system connected to the central processing unit and having:
a depth correction logic means operable to instruct the CPU to compute a corrected depth from sensor readings of the first and second sensors measuring the same physical quantity.
13. The well-logging data acquisition system of
14. The well-logging data acquisition system of
15. The well-logging data acquisition system of
This invention relates in general to the field of acquiring data from a well-logging tool in a data acquisition system connected to a well-logging tool by an electrical cable, and in particular, to a method and apparatus for correcting the depth index of such data.
Accurate collection of geophysical property data is a key to successful exploration and production of petroleum resources. Based on data such as electrical and nuclear properties collected in a well-bore, as well as the propagation of sound through a formation, geophysicists make an analysis useful in making many important operational decisions. The analysis includes determination of whether a well is likely to produce hydrocarbons, whether to drill additional wells in the vicinity of an existing well, and whether to abandon a well as being unproductive. Geophysicists may also use well-bore data to select where to set casing in a well and to decide on how to perforate a well to stimulate hydrocarbon flow. One method of collecting well-bore geophysical properties is by way of wireline well-logging. In wireline well-logging, a well-logging tool (also often referred to as a sonde) is lowered into a well-bore on an electrical cable, the wireline. The well-logging tool is an electrically powered measurement device that may, for example, collect electrical data, sonic waveforms that are propagated through the surrounding formation, or radioactivity counts. These measurements are usually converted to a digital form and transmitted on the wireline.
Other methods of collecting well-logging data are known as logging while drilling (LWD) and measuring while drilling (MWD). In these types of well-logging data is collected during the drilling operation.
Well-logging data is normally indexed by the depth at which the measurement was taken. However, with modern equipment the logging measurements may be taken on a time interval rather than on a depth interval and indexed against a time stamp. Such time domain logs are ultimately translated to depth index.
The accuracy of the data is a crucial element in the value of the analysis the well-log data and the correctness of decisions made based on that data. Data accuracy depends both on the accuracy of the measurements made and on the accuracy of the depth index.
In wireline logging the depth index is usually determined by measuring how much cable has been lowered into the borehole and measuring how much cable has been reeled back in. These measurements are done at the surface as the cable passes through the Integrated Depth Wheel (IDW).
IDW measurements are prone to inaccuracies with respect to the actual depth of the measurement tools. For example, the tools may become stuck in the borehole due to various borehole conditions. If the well is being logged in an uphole direction, which is most common, if the tool becomes stuck the cable may stretch as the winch continues to reel in the cable. While a wireline cable may seem very solid, if it is reeled out to several thousand feet, it becomes relatively elastic. Thus, the IDW may measure several turns while the measurement tool is in fact stuck. Conversely, when the tool works itself loose, perhaps from the tension applied through the cable, from its stuck position, the tool may overshoot its natural resting position. If the tool does overshoot the recorded IDW position, the IDW is again inaccurate.
Similar problems also occur in LWD and MWD logging, for example, coil tubing and drill pipe may become bent.
Several different approaches have been suggested for adjusting the recorded depth index. One approach described in Howard, Jr. et al. (U.S. Pat. No. 5,019,978) uses accelerometers to determine the location of the measurement tools. The accelerometer data is applied in an algorithm to correct the depth index. In another approach described in Method and Apparatus for Correcting the Depth Index for Well-Log Data, U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/975,234, filed Oct. 11, 2001, to Ronald C. Kelly and co-assigned hereto, uses tension meter data in combination with the accelerometer data in a proportional-integral-derivative control loop algorithm to correct the depth index. While both the Howard, Jr. et al. and Kelly approaches may be useful in many circumstances there are drawbacks to each. For example, the Howard, Jr. et al. method requires accelerometer data. Not all tools have accelerometers. Also, in certain operations the tool motion may be so small that accelerometer data is not applicable. Kelly's approach requires tension measurements which also may not always be available.
Therefore, there is still a need for improved and alternative approaches to correcting the depth index during well-logging operations.
Other aspects and advantages of the present invention will become apparent from the following detailed description, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, illustrating by way of example the principles of the invention.
In the following detailed description and in the several figures of the drawings, like elements are identified with like reference numerals.
Overview of Wireline Data Acquisition System According to the Invention
As shown in the drawings for purposes of illustration, the invention is embodied in a novel well-logging data acquisition system for correcting the depth index of data collected during a wireline well-logging operation.
In the drawings, a preferred embodiment wireline logging application is illustrated. As shown in
The well-logging tool 16 may also contain one or more pressure sensors 8. The pressure sensor operates to measure borehole pressure (Pressure). The well-logging tools 16 are connected to a wireline cable 14. The tools 16, including the electronic instruments 10, are lowered into a well-bore on the wireline cable 14. In LWD applications the collected data is transmitted to the surface using mud pulses.
The wireline cable 14 is connected at the surface to a winch at a logging unit 18. The logging unit may be a well-logging truck or an offshore-logging unit. The wireline cable 14 passes through sheave wheels 22 and 24. The wireline cable 14 further passes through a depth-measuring device 26. The depth-measuring device 26 may be, for example, a pair of rollers that measure how much cable has been let out by measuring the rotation of the rollers (this device is known as Integrated Depth Wheels (IDW) taking a measurement known as IDW depth).
The wireline cable 14 is further connected to a data acquisition computer 12. The data acquisition computer 12 may be a digital computer having components such as a memory, a central processing unit, one or more secondary storage devices, e.g., a disk drive and a monitor. The data acquisition computer 12 typically contains a modern for receiving and transmitting data from and onto the wireline cable 14.
Additional tools 16′ and 16″ may be connected to the wireline tool 16 to form a tool string. If one of those tools also has a pressure sensor 8″ (in addition to the pressure sensor 8 in wireline tool 16) it is possible to take two pressure readings, P1 Pressure at pressure sensor 8 and P2 Pressure at pressure sensor 8″, that are separated from one another by a known distance (Pressure Sensor Distance). Of course, it does not matter which two tools the two pressure sensors 8 and 8″ are located in. In fact, the two sensors may be located in the same tool.
We describe herein several methods for determining a corrected depth index based on taking pressure readings at two pressure sensors that are separated from one another by a known distance. For exemplary purposes we refer to the uphole pressure sensor measurement as P1 and the downhole pressure sensor measurement as P2.
The CPU 202 may also be connected to input/output devices such as a printer 210, a monitor 212, a keyboard 214, or a mouse 216. The various devices 204 through 216 may be connected to the CPU over a bus (not shown).
The secondary storage devices store various computer programs for controlling the acquisition of data via the wireline 14. These computer programs may include an operating system (OS) 250, telemetry software 252, communications software 254, data rendering and visualization software 256, and data acquisition software 258. An acquisition software system may also include depth index correction software 260 (discussed in greater detail below).
Overview of Wireline Logging operation
Wireline logging refers to the process of lowering one or more logging tools 16 into a wellbore on a wireline cable 14. Measurements of geophysical properties are made by the logging tools 16 and transmitted over the wireline cable 14 to a computer system 12 at the surface.
The measurements include properties such as electrical properties, e.g., resistivity and spontaneous potential, and radioactivity. Typically, the measurements are made at fixed depth intervals as the logging tool is being pulled up through the well-bore. Each data item measured by one of the tools is mapped to a depth index collected by the depth-measuring device 26.
In the highly idealized illustration of
Because the wireline cable has some elasticity, when extended considerable distances into the earth's crust, the cable stretches. The stretch due to the weight of the tool string and the weight of the cable is predictable. However, when a logging tool (or tool string) sticks in the well, the continued pull on the wireline 14 from the winch 20 may cause the cable to stretch allowing the winch 16 to continue to rotate and reel in the wireline 14 at the surface. Because the tool 16 is not moving in the borehole when stuck or moving at a rate different from the rate the wireline 14 is being reeled in at the winch 20, the depth index measured at the winch 20 does not accurately reflect the actual depth of the measurements by the tool 16. As the winch 20 continues to reel in the wireline cable 14, the tension in the wireline 14 builds up until it is greater than the force needed to release the tool from being stuck.
At the point when the tool 16 has released from being stuck, the tension in the wireline 14 causes the tool 16 to rapidly accelerate and “yo-yo” in the borehole. The depth correction software 260 aims to produce a corrected depth index that represents a correction for the erratic tool motion due to borehole rugosity, tool sticking and any other condition that may cause IDW or any other index measurement to be an inaccurate measure of actual distance along the borehole.
Depth Index Correction
Pressure in a borehole, due to formation pressure, tends to increase with depth according to the hydrostatic pressure gradient of freshwater, 0.433 psi/ft. This relationship is illustrated in
Thus, for each timestamp, there is a recorded depth, IDW, a P1 and a P2 value and some tool measurements. A corrected depth index, CD, is computed by the depth correction logic 260.
Consider a tool 300 moving up-hole. Because pressure sensor 301 (P1) is a given distance, DPIP2, above pressure sensor 303 (P2) the pressure registered by pressure sensor 301 (P1) at any given depth, e.g., a depth 505, will be lower than the corresponding pressure registered by pressure sensor 303 (P2). Conversely, the tool 300 will be a certain distance, DPIP2, higher up in the borehole when pressure sensor 303 (P2) registers the same pressure (e.g., pressure 509) as pressure sensor 301 (P1) registered at a particular depth (in this case, depth 505).
Corrected Depth Index Algorithm
Three different basic algorithms are described below. In the first algorithm a database is filled with corrected depth index values for each sample taken. “Database” is used herein as a broad concept encompassing all storage mechanisms in which there is an association between an index and particular values for one or more quantities, e.g., tables stored in disk files or in memory. In the second algorithm, while moving through a borehole, the database of values is used to obtain a corrected depth corresponding to a particular pressure. In the third algorithm, pressure values are used to determine when and how to correct the IDW values. There are many possible alternatives to these algorithms all of which must be considered equivalents thereto.
Algorithm I: Fill database:
Table I, above, illustrates a table used by CD algorithm. The table is indexed by whatever measurement the various measurements are indexed against. It is possible to index against ID W, however, in a preferred embodiment measurements are taken as a function of time. These time-indexed measurements may be taken as frequently as several per second. At the onset of the algorithm, because P1 and P2 values that are taken at a distance apart, namely DPIP2, pressure versus depth measurements corresponding to this distance must first be obtained. In Step 1, the tool 300 is moved through a known section. For example, the first several hundred feet the IDW can be trusted to be an accurate depth measurement.
For each time stamp, i.e., in Step 2, for each time a measurement is taken, the table is filled in with the quadruplet (current timestamp, IDW, P1, P2). In the sequence where the table is being initialized the IDW is used as a stand-in for the corrected depth index.
When there is sufficient amount of data in the buffer (Step 3), the algorithm begins correcting the depth index, i.e., determining a Corrected_depth, CD, value, Steps 4 et seq.
For each time increment (note: the algorithm will work with any index. Thus, this could be “for each recorded IDWvalue”), if the tool is moving down-hole then the pressure observed by pressure sensor 301, P1, is compared to previously recorded P2 values in the buffer to find a P2 value that corresponds to the observed P1 value, Step 6. The Corrected_depth of the current index, e.g., timestamp, is set to the Corrected_depth+DPIP2 of the entry with that P2 value, Step 7.
If the tool is moving up-hole then the pressure observed at P2 is compared against previously recorded P1 values, Step 9, and the Corrected_depth, CD, value of the current index is set to the Corrected_depth−DPIP2 of the entry with that P1 value, Step 10.
If, however, the pressure is not changing as determined by the current P1 and P2 values being the same as the most recent P1 and P2 values, Step 11. That condition is indicative of the tool not moving. Therefore, the Corrected_depth of the current time stamp is set to the Corrected_depth of the previous time stamp.
The Algorithm I could, for example, be run on the down-hole portion of a logging job thereby producing a database to look up pressure versus depth values for subsequent passes.
In a logging job, the logging tools are often run repeatedly up and down through the borehole. Therefore, it is likely that a complete job has multiple entries in the buffer of Table 1 with the same P1 and P2 values. There are many ways to deal with that. For example, an operator may select the CD values from a particular pass as being the “correct” CD values, the CD values of a particular pressure may be averaged to produce a correlation between pressure and depth, or CD values for a particular pass can be used as a depth index for measured data of that particular pass.
Algorithm I may alternatively be expressed as, wherein the tool is moving in the direction of the second pressure sensor 303.
If the pressure sensors are a fixed distance apart, DPIP2 and the depth of the first pressure sensor, dP1, at a given time, tj, is a known depth, x,
Then the depth of the second pressure sensor, dP2, at that time is
Algorithm II, Database Lookup, uses the database produced by Algorithm I to a corrected depth, CD, against observed measurements.
Algorithm II: Database Lookup Of Corrected Depth
For each measurement during a logging job, Step 1, the pressure is observed as as whatever physical quantities that are being logged, Step 2. Next the pressure is looked up in the buffer, Step 3, and the Corrected_depth, CD, is set to the depth at pressure in the table.
The third algorithm, Correct IDW, operates to correct an observed IDW when pressure-based depth indicates that the observed ID W is incorrect.
Algorithm III: Correct IDW
In Algorithm III a depth index, e.g., IDW, is obtained for each time interval. A Corrected_depth is determined as above from the pressure readings, i.e., if moving up-hole, Step 3, If P2 is equal to a previously recorded P1 value then Corrected_depth at that P1 value is not equal to the current IDW value, the IDW value is corrected. The IDW value may be corrected by simply replacing it with the Corrected_depth corresponding to the pressure measurements. The previously recorded P1 values can either be those recorded on a previous pass or, preferably, those that were recorded when the P1 values were measured on the current pass.
Similarly, if moving down-hole, Step 7, if the P1 value is equal to a previously recorded P2 value, Step 8, the Corrected_depth at that P2 value is compared to the current IDW, Step 9. If these values are not equal, the IDW is corrected as discussed above.
A fourth algorithm, known as the Inch Worm, can be used to determine a particular location of a logging job, e.g., the bottom of the measured section or the bottom of the borehole.
Algorithm IV: the Inch Worm
Frequently, the first section of a borehole can be relatively well known. For example, a certain amount of casing may have been set. If it is known that x feet of casing has been set, it would be possible from measurements to determine when x feet have been logged. In Algorithm IV the tool is moved to the bottom of this known section (Algorithm IV is described herein with the tool moving down-hole. However, the algorithm can easily be reversed.), Step 1. At that location P2 is observed, Step 2, the observed P2 is recorded in a variable known as last_observed_P2, Step 3, and a variable called current_depth is set to the depth of the bottom of the known section, Step 4.
Next a number of Steps (6, 7, 8, and 9) are repeated until the tool has been lowered to a point for which the depth wants to be known. This location could merely be the bottom of the desired logging run or the bottom of the borehole as observed from some other measurements. In Step 6 measurements are made. These measurements include both a P1 and a P2 measurement. If the P1 measurement is equal to the Last_observed_P2 it can be surmised that the tool has been moved down the hole by DpIP2 and that quantity is added to the Current_depth, Step 8, and the Last_observed_P2 variable is reset to the current P2.
When the desired depth has been reached, Step 10, the depth of the desired condition, e.g., bottom hole or bottom of logged section, may be set from the Current_depth variable.
Calibration of Pressure Sensors
It is possible that the pressure sensors 301 and 303 do not have the same response to conditions in the borehole. In such an event, the P1 and P2 curves would not have the same slope. For the algorithms above, it is not necessary that P1 and P2 measurements are accurate so long as they can be correlated to one another. To do that, the tools are moved through a known section of the borehole. That is usually the few hundred feet nearest to the surface. The P1 and P2 values may be observed during that section. If their slopes are not parallel, the gain of one or both pressure sensors is adjusted until the slopes match.
The invention has been described with a particular data flow for illustrative purposes. Modifications to that dataflow are also possible and are to be considered within the scope of the invention. The foregoing describes a comparison of pressures and indices in precise terms, such as “equal”. Such exact comparisons shall be considered to be satisfied if within ranges set by an operator. It may, for example, be convenient to consider two pressures to be equal if they are within the expected pressure variation of 0.05 psi. The actual value depends on the physical accuracy and resolution of the pressure sensors.
Furthermore, the systems and methods described above are described in terms of taking pressure measurements because pressure tends to be monotonically increasing with depth and is therefore a useful quantity for making comparisons between measurements taken from sensors that are separated by a known distance. However, other physical quantities and sensors for measuring such physical quantities could be substituted for pressure and pressure sensors, for example, using dual SP (spontaneous potential) sensors and making comparison of the SP curves associated therewith. The algorithms described above would have to be modified since SP is not a monotonically increasing curve. Known depth-matching algorithms as those employed during repeat sections can be applied to determine how much to adjust the corrected depth when the sensor responses indicate that the tool was stuck for a certain number of consecutive measurements.
The invention is not limited to any of the specific features described herein, but includes all variations thereof within the scope of the appended claims.


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When our pets get bored, they start to get into behaviors such as making more noise, chewing and clawing items they shouldn’t, and start to get into trouble! Many of the behaviors that we might consider problem behaviors- such as hunting, chewing, digging and barking- are very natural outlets for pets to channel their energy. By tapping into those instincts and channeling them in a constructive way, we can have calm and happy pets. Check out these ideas below and also these other Explorer posts for more on this subject: Boredom Busters for Pets – Keep Pups Occupied with Kong Recipes – DIY Enrichment Ideas
If your dog likes to chew, make sure you have a wide variety of chew toys available! Dogs are usually particular on what textures they like to chew, so be sure to try a wide variety of types to find what your dog likes. Some examples are marrow bones, treat stuffing toys, buffalo horns and antlers. Dogs also enjoy different toys and there are many different kinds out there to choose from. There are crinkle, squeaking, rope, and shaking toys to name a few. Try to get a variety of types and textures to keep them interested. Also put away toys that they aren’t interested in for a month or so, then rotate it back in- it will seem like a brand new toy!
Dogs naturally forage for food- and we can put their brains to use with puzzle toys and treat toys to make them work for their food. This will turn meal time into brain time as they work through how to get their toy out of the puzzles, such as a wobbler toy. A slow feeder bowl will also help to make meal time last longer and make them work to get their food out.
Dogs love to bond with people so we can also use toys that we both play with to be more interactive, such as a flirt pole or tug, teach a new trick or two, or even go for a walk together! Building that bond with the drain of learning a new trick will make you both feel good.
Another way to increase the bond while enriching dogs is to learn tricks. Any new skill your dog learns is a great way to get them thinking and working. We can have them sit pretty, learn to go to place, or even get in laundry baskets! It may seem silly, but your dog will enjoy learning for their food and getting to work with you.
Sniffing is a natural calming activity for dogs, and they take in the world through their nose! Snuffle mats are an excellent way to get dogs using their nose to search for their food and treats. You can make one yourself, or buy one online. You can also play ‘hide and treat!’ with your dog by hiding treats in a room for them to sniff out. Put it on a cue so they know when they are playing the game and done expect to find treats all the time.
Cats also need enrichment to meet their instincts! Cats have a natural drive to hunt and by tapping into those we can help them live fuller lives and head off problem behaviors.
Toys are a great enrichment for our feline friends- there are so many different types to try and keep them entertained. From kicker toys, pompoms, balls with bells in them, to interactive toys like feather pop out toys. Try a wide variety for them as each cat has different preferences.
Cats can use treat toys to use their brain to solve problems to get their treats or food. Hide their treats in a rolling toy that they have to push around to get their treats, a snuffle mat, or hide it in cardboard tubes in a tub that they can reach in and grab them out! Cats are natural problem solvers, and they will love being able to work for their food.
Cats enjoy sensory enrichments that engage their senses! Make a kitty sensory area, with many different textures for them to explore – crinkled paper in a box, fluffy blankets, you can even bring in items from the outdoors like pinecones and leaves, to give them new smells to take in. You can also grow a cat garden- with things like wheatgrass, catnip and catmint are plants that cats enjoy by rubbing, smelling, and some tasting!
If you have a window in your house that your cat enjoys laying in, consider adding a birdfeeder that your cat can watch to engage their brain without much effort on your part. They will enjoy tapping into their natural hunt drive by watching birds- like TV for kitties!
You can also train cats tricks to give them a good brain drain while building your relationship. Cats can learn many behaviors such as ‘come’, ‘sit’, ‘nose touch’ and many others!
Explorers: Explore many different varieties of these enrichments and toys, keep a journal of what your pet does or doesn’t like. When using treat toys, start with easy wins to show them that they can have success – use smaller treats that fall out easily, if you have a toy with sliders, begin with them part open until your pet learns how to work them. Try toys of different textures and shapes, as well as play styles.
Growers: Begin to make the challenges harder. Give them treats that will take longer to get out of the treat toys- or begin to use
their toys in new ways to make them problem solve new ways to use it. Freeze kongs to make them last longer. Work on building the duration of tricks, add distractions to ensure your dog has a clear understanding of the trick.
Challengers: Look at your puzzles and reinvent them. Hide treat toys so they have to find them first before they work on them. Increase the difficulty level of their enrichment if they are comfortable with it. For tricks, try to pair tricks into new combinations to create a new trick- like covering their eyes to then waving for a ‘shy hello’.

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Psychedelic Research Finds Ego Exists in The Default Mode Network
Researchers studying psychedelics have found themselves in the midst of a scientific renaissance as taboos fade and their work yields profound results. One possibly groundbreaking discovery could be a brain mechanism that seems to be responsible for our ego; the Default Mode Network (DMN).
One of the leading names in the world of psychedelic science is Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris, a young, urbane doctor spearheading psychedelic research at London’s Imperial College. Carhart-Harris is the protégé of renowned neuropsychopharmacologist David Nutt, who made waves recently for his work with government-sanctioned psilocybin, the psychoactive ingredient in magic mushrooms.
Along with Amanda Fielding, the famous psychedelic advocate and founder of the Beckley Foundation, the group hypothesized that the psychedelic experience was the result of increased cerebral blood flow, which they believed would stimulate excitation and activity in latent parts of the brain. Instead, they found a significant decrease in activity and blood flow.
Confounded by the results, the group looked at oxygen consumption, noticing there was some validity to their theory, as they saw that parts of the brain were utilizing more oxygen. But there was still a discernible drop in one region that played a role in nearly all brain function – the DMN.
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The DMN is a network of regions in the brain at the top of our cognitive hierarchy, influencing (and often inhibiting) other parts of the brain, especially those involving emotion and memory. Centrally located in the brain, the DMN is a hub of regulatory function, consisting primarily of the prefrontal cortex, posterior cingulate cortex, and inferior parietal lobe.
The DMN is believed to be the home of what Freud called the “ego,” or the part of our brain responsible for judgment, tolerance, reality testing, and a sense of self.
In his book “How to Change Your Mind,” Michael Pollan said it is sometimes referred to as the “me” network and has been shown to light up when a subject is given a list of adjectives to consider, relative to their self-identity. It also lights up during daydreams, magical thinking, self-reflection, and when we receive Facebook likes. It activates “by default” when there is no task at hand.
According to Carhart-Harris, this network is the “orchestra conductor” or “corporate executive” of the brain, preventing signals from being interrupted or interfering with each other.
Freud said the ego keeps anarchic forces on the id in check, and Pollan compares this to the DMN maintaining strict connections on brain function developed over the course of our adult lives.
Carhart-Harris says he believes the DMN may have been an evolutionary mechanism, as it doesn’t become active until later in a child’s development, typically around the age of five. As we mature, we tend to use life’s learnings to create “algorithms” in order to respond to various situations throughout the day. Our perception of reality is filtered through these habitual connections that become increasingly ingrained as we grow older.
Aldous Huxley called this the reducing valve of ordinary perception, in which a trickle of information is filtered from all incoming stimuli. This filter, valve, or whatever you want to call it, likely evolved to conserve energy so that we could use it sparingly and save energy for other tasks. In order to efficiently process all of the information received on a daily basis, our brains have to rely on judgments and face-value observations, distinguishing between potential threats and benign situations.
“Each one of us is potentially Mind at Large. But in so far as we are animals, our business is at all costs to survive. To make biological survival possible, Mind at Large has to be funneled through the reducing valve of the brain and nervous system. What comes out at the other end is a measly trickle of the kind of consciousness which will help us to stay alive on the surface of this particular planet.” – Aldous Huxley
But in our modern society, that continuous filtration can develop to a fault, closing off our minds from potential outcomes and possibilities, in turn limiting creativity and developing a narrow-minded worldview. In fact, a NASA study found that 98 percent of us are born creative geniuses, but as we reach adulthood only two percent of society falls into that category. Could the DMN account for this?
Ego Dissolution When the DMN Shuts Off
Accidentally discovered in 2001, the DMN made its debut when Marcus Raichle, using cutting-edge Functional MRI (fMRI) equipment, imaged the cerebral cortex. That same technology, paired with magnetoencephalography, or MEG imaging, was used by the team at Imperial College on subjects under the influence of psychedelics. It was also used by Judson Brewer at the UMass Medical School to image the brain activity of deep meditation states.
Both teams found that when these states were induced and ego dissolution was experienced, the DMN shut down. The dissolution of the ego is an event reported by psychedelic drug users and experienced meditators, so it wasn’t necessarily a surprise when MEG and fMRI scans showed that egoic brain activity correlates directly with DMN activity.
“It appears that when activity in the DMN falls off precipitously, the ego temporarily vanishes, and the usual boundaries we experience between self and world, subject and object, all melt away,” Pollan said.
Buddhists often refer to it as the monkey mind – the internal chatter that leads us astray when we try to silence the interminable flow of opinions and thoughts in our heads. And the monkey mind… you guessed it, that’s probably the DMN flaring when the brain has nothing better to do, defaulting to thoughts about a petty argument you had with your significant other a year ago.
For many, it takes years, or even decades to silence the inner dialogue, but for those who succeed, the fruits of labor are profound. But if one doesn’t have the patience, willpower, or time to devote to a life of meditation, recent research has found that the psychedelic experience, under clinical supervision and the right circumstances, can create the same effect, allowing for new connections to be made within the brain.
Another facet of Carhart-Harris’ theory is that our individual mental states fall somewhere along a scale of entropy. Entropy, in this case, is a measure toward a state of randomness or disorganization. On Carhart-Harris’ scale, high-entropy mental states include those experienced on psychedelics; infant consciousness; early psychosis; and creative or divergent thinking. The low-entropy end includes such states as narrow or rigid thinking; addiction; OCD; depression; and coma.
As we age, the brain forms ‘tenser’ connections based on a slower drip from the reduction valve of perception. Carhart-Harris believes this can lead to states of depression, as the valve shuts out various possibilities, closing us off and increasing introspection. The ego eventually turns on itself and “gradually shades out reality.”
A psychedelic experience increases entropy in the brain, loosening those bonds and opening the mind to a deluge of possibilities, many of which can be confusing or bizarre, hence the hallucinations and strange thoughts. But this could explain why recent studies have found that psilocybin from magic mushrooms can cure depression and act as a reset mechanism in the brain, or that potent doses of Ayahuasca or Ibogaine can cure heroin and cocaine addicts of a lifetime of addiction.
An inundation of new mental states and potential realities can not only free subjects from depression but can also spark creative thought and innovation. One of the biggest hindrances to creativity is a close-minded perspective and the immediate rejection of seemingly fantastical ideas. But it’s not your fault, you can blame it on the DMN.
That’s why Silicon Valley CEOs have touted the creative genius found in the psychedelic experience, ever since Steve Jobs credited LSD for his success in founding Apple.
It should be noted, however, that psychedelics are nothing to take lightly. It’s no coincidence that Carhart-Harris’ entropic brain scale includes early-stage psychosis on the same end as psychedelics. Used improperly and carelessly, psychedelics can devastate the mind, leading to long-term psychological damage in rare instances. Albert Hoffman, who discovered LSD, even expressed occasional regret in his life for the damage caused by its unfettered use.
But if we view these substances as tools or medicine, rather than recreational drugs, we can use them to our advantage. And as science continues to dissect and understand the ways they affect our cognitive function, discoveries of networks such as the DMN will undoubtedly lead to a better understanding of our minds and the ability to lead enlightened lives.
Ketamine Therapy Proves Powerful For Treatment-Resistant Depression
A powerful FDA-approved anesthetic drug once used mainly in operating rooms and on the battlefield is quickly gaining ground as one of the most promising therapies for treatment-resistant mental health conditions.
First discovered as an anesthetic in the 1950s, ketamine has been used in the treatment of a wide range of physical conditions, especially pain management. Starting in the early 1970s, doctors began to find that it can also be very effective in alleviating mental health issues such as depression, anxiety, PTSD, and addiction. Today it is ever more frequently being studied and legally used as an off-label medication to manage conditions that are particularly resistant to treatment with conventional pharmaceuticals.
The latest in a series of recent studies has found that ketamine can quickly and dramatically decrease chronic and suicidal thoughts. Dr. Naveen Thomas is a psychiatrist who has been using ketamine in his practice for years.
“I and many of my colleagues have of course had tremendous success in using ketamine in people who are really suffering from depression. I’ve had a lot of success in treating people with Post-traumatic Stress Disorder,” Dr. Naveen said.
“And some of these folks have spent years and years doing absolutely the best they could using such a wide variety of the conventional treatments, be they various medication treatments, be they various forms of psychotherapy. We’ve seen really wonderful effects.”


Sam Chelanga celebrates as he nears the finish line as the NCAA's back-to-back national men's cross country champion. (Photo courtesy Jim Galen)
Watch a postrace interview with Sam Chelanga (Courtesy of Flotrack.org) Watch NCAA race highlights (Courtesy of Flotrack.org) Sam Chelanga named Florunner of the Year (Courtesy of Flotrack.org) Liberty redshirt senior Sam Chelanga battled Arizona's Stephen Sambu throughout Monday afternoon's NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships at the LaVern Gibson Championship Cross Country Course. In the end, Chelanga outkicked Sambu down the final straightaway, into a stiff breeze, claiming his second consecutive NCAA national title in his final collegiate cross country race. Chelanga's winning 10K time was 29:22.2, putting him just ahead of Sambu, who crossed the line in 29:26.5. Chelanga becomes the 10th men's runner in meet history to win back-to-back national championships, and the first since Wisconsin's Simon Bairu in 2004 and 2005. His title also makes Liberty only the ninth school ever to capture at least three NCAA men's cross country individual titles, including Josh McDougal's championship in 2007. Chelanga is now a three-time NCAA Division I national champion, also including his 10K crown at the 2010 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track & Field Championships. However, this title came in a much different fashion than the previous two, which he won by a combined 43 seconds. Sambu, a 12-time NJCAA national champion at Rend Lake Community College, made a strong bid for his first NCAA national title with the Wildcats. Chelanga dictated the pace during most of the race, culling the lead pack to just six runners after a 4:37 opening mile. The native of Nairobi, Kenya surged about a half mile later, bringing only Sambu and Oregon's Luke Puskedra along with him. The trio went through 5K in 14:36.4, 10 seconds ahead of fourth place. Shortly thereafter, Chelanga picked up the tempo once again, leaving Puskedra in his wake and making it a spirited two-man race for the last three miles. In a scene reminiscent of his 2008 battle with Oregon's Galen Rupp on the same course, Chelanga entered the 500-meter closing straightaway shoulder-to-shoulder with Sambu. This time around, Chelanga had the superior finishing kick into the teeth of a wind that gusted over 20 mph at times, pulling away from Sambu before raising his right arm in triumph as he crossed the line. The hard-fought victory wrapped up an unbeaten season for Chelanga and makes him a 10-time All-American, spanning cross country, indoor track and outdoor track. He is also just the seventh men's runner in meet history to record three top-two individual finishes, and the first since Washington State's Henry Rono (1976-77 & 1979). Also earning All-America honors for the Flames on Monday was redshirt senior Evans Kigen. He clocked a 30:21.4 to finish 31st place overall out of 246 finishers. It is the second straight All-America performance at this meet for Kigen, who came in 20th a year ago.


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I am realizing now that the only traumatic thing in my life wasn’t just my first major episode where I experienced hallucinated sexual abuse. It was my entire childhood. I had psychosis since i was a young child and I had to grow up with it and survive it all by myself. I had no one helping or supporting me, no one telling me what was going on. And then came depression and ptsd, narcolepsy…again all dealt with alone…those who were supposed to protect me did not, those who were meant to listen laughed and ignored, those meant to comfort me refused.
That is all very hurtful. But the past is the past and I have worked HARD to give myself a better life than the one I had growing up. I have made SO MANY positive changes and the only thing holding me back now is my obsession with the past. It is ok to grieve over the loss of my childhood to mental illness but it is not ok to let that grief control my life and keep me from enjoying the present and feeling happiness with all that is going for me now. From now on I want to focus on making life better and better for me. I want to focus on the present and the future and how much better it will be. I am not alone anymore and I do not have to suffer anymore.


Dr. Joseph Savoie serves as Commissioner of Higher Education for the State of Louisiana, a position he has held since 1996. He has served higher education in Louisiana for over two decades. Prior to becoming Commissioner, he held various positions as a campus administrator and faculty member.
Dr. Savoie has played a significant role in the major postsecondary education reform initiatives now taking place in Louisiana, including the restructuring of higher education governance, the creation of the Louisiana Community and Technical College System, teacher education reform initiatives, a new state Master Plan for Public Postsecondary Education, and the promotion of collaboration and cooperation within the entire education community. Under his leadership, financial support for public postsecondary education has increased significantly.
Dr. Savoie holds a Doctor of Education (Educational Leadership/Administration) from Columbia University’s Teachers College. He received both his Master’s of Education (Educational Administration) and a Bachelor of Arts/Education from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
He is active in several church, community and professional organizations. As Commissioner of Higher Education, he serves on a variety of educational commissions and committees.
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The Department of State Services (DSS) says it has uncovered plans by some persons and groups to impersonate its personnel during the general elections.
This was disclosed in a statement Friday by the DSS spokesman, Peter Afunanya, saying the plans include the use of Peace Corps members and other quasi-security outfits as personnel of the DSS during the Presidential and National Assembly elections.
The Service dissociated itself from the alleged plans, and informed the public that the DSS cannot be involved in unscrupulous activities inimical to the elections.
“The Service is at the forefront of ensuring election security and wishes to reiterate its commitment, professionalism, peaceful disposition and support for the electoral process.
“For the umpteenth time, it warns that it will not tolerate any form of unlawful acts from any quarters and will stop at nothing to deal decisively with unscrupulous elements engaged in violent activities during and after the exercise.
“Members of the public should disregard any insinuations, fake news and outright misinformation on impersonation and illegal use of DSS’ Personnel.”
Afunanya said the DSS will continue to work with sister security agencies and critical stakeholders to implement all countermeasures that have been put in place to ensure the success of the polls.
The Service reassures residents and voters of their safety before, during and after the elections, which have now been postponed to February 23, 2019.


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In this scary story for fans of Neil Gaiman, The Last Kids on Earth, and Goosebumps, the only way out is krazier than you could ever imagine…
by Mar Romasco-Moore
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Nathan used to be terrified of Krazyland when he was a young kid. Now that he’s 12, the spooky-themed arcade games aren’t that bad. He even enjoys stomping on plastic spiders and battling a creepy doll with big plastic eyes. But things become scarier again when kids start to go missing from the entertainment park…
There’s another world exists beneath Kraztown’s ball pit. A world where the entertainment park’s games come to life. And if he isn’t careful, Nathan is going to be the next one sucked under!
Mar Romasco Moore is the author of the novels I Am the Ghost in Your House and Some Kind of Animal, as well as Ghostographs, an interconnected collection of flash fiction inspired by vintage photographs. Her stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Lightspeed, Fireside, DIAGRAM, Hobart, Interfictions, Kaleidotrope, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, and the anthology Women Destroy Science Fiction. She is a graduate of the Clarion West Writer’s Workshop and has an MFA from Southern Illinois University. She teaches writing at Columbus College of Art and Design.

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Surprise bills, which can run into tens of thousands of pounds, to repair broken, blocked or damaged sewers will no longer catch out water customers after changes being introduced today by Environment Minister Richard Benyon.
The changes will see the ownership of private sewers, that run under peoples’ property, gardens or in the road, and connect to the public sewer system, move from the homeowner to the water companies. This will remove a burden from householders that has long been viewed as unfair and unreasonable and will mean that water companies will take over the responsibility of repairing collapsed and blocked sewers from 1 October 2011.
The costs to private sewer owners of these repairs are estimated at £221 million each year and the transfer will give customers peace of mind from the nasty surprise of being charged for repairs to pipes which they did not know they were responsible for.
Environment Minister Richard Benyon said:
“The transfer will stop the financial threat of customers being hit with huge repair bills for sewers that sometimes aren’t even on their property. It’s a much fairer and simpler approach which will also improve the overall quality of the network to reduce the chance of problems in the first place.”
It is estimated that the cost to sewerage bill payers would be between six to 27 pence a week. The final costs will reflect the situation on the ground and will vary between water companies. The timing of any increases in bills will be driven by when water companies incur any costs and apply to Ofwat to increase prices.
Water companies will be contacting all bill payers in their areas over the coming weeks to explain the proposals. Customers should check their company’s website for more information.
Pamela Taylor, Water UK’s Chief Executive, said:
“The transfer promises to bring peace of mind to customers across England and Wales. For the water companies, the transfer is a major change as they will be taking on responsibility for many thousands of miles of pipes, some of which may be in poor condition. There could well be a backlog of maintenance, repair and renewal for companies to tackle.”
Tony Smith, Chief Executive of the Consumer Council for Water, said:
“Once the exact cost of the transfer is known, we will work closely with the water regulator, Ofwat, and the water and sewerage companies to ensure costs are spread over an appropriate period of time and challenge costs to minimise the impact on water bills.”
The transfer of private sewers will complete a process started in 1936 but never finished and puts everyone on an even footing and spreads the costs across all sewerage bill payers. It will also ensure a better maintained, less polluting, and more efficient sewerage system well into the future.
For more information on the transfer, please see the sewers section of the Defra website:


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WEST ALEXANDRIA – Union City’s Paul Armstrong is hanging up his whistle after 38 years of officiating OHSAA varsity high school basketball.
“My body doesn’t say that it is young anymore,” said Armstrong. “I just feel it’s time. Officiating takes a lot of time to do it right and I come to that decision this is what I want to do.”
Paul’s son Zach Armstrong, a Mississinawa Valley and Wittenberg University alum followed his father’s footsteps and also is a varsity basketball official.
“I’ve enjoyed working with my son but there are also downfalls to that,” Armstrong noted. “Coaches don’t always appreciate that fact either but basketball has been good to me.”
“Officiating teaches you about life. It builds character, teaches you how to deal with people. I think my son is a lot better dealing with people than I was at his age but that come from having a college education. He deals with people a lot better than I did at 23 years old.”
“I think we get too many officials that start too late,”added Armstrong. “We have a lot of people starting in their 40’s, even 50 and up. If you can get started at a young age, it’s the time to do it.”
“As an assignor, Paul make my game easy,” said OHSAA assigner and basketball official Kevin Forrer. “I tell people all the time I can only be in one gym. The integrity Paul brings and I know on each given night that he takes care of business properly and I’m not going to get many phone calls on him out on the floor.”
Armstrong has seen the good and the bad that comes with officiating with the good far outweighing the negative.
“I have met a lot of great coaches,” noted Armstrong. “Just in Darke County I can think of Richard Cline, Neil Hans, Lee Faulkner, Roger Collins and Fred Matix. They all were great people and probably had a lot to do with me staying in the game. Fred Matix was very instrumental in getting me started.”
Armstong shared a trying moment from more than 10 years ago officiating a high school girls basektball game.
“I was physically beat-up leaving the court 13-years ago by a Celina fan who didn’t even have a daughter that played in the game,” Armstrong said, “but had no idea why he did what he did – but he lost his head.”
Armstrong shared his thoughts on the game today including parents and fans.
“They forget that it is just a game,” Armstrong stated. “If you listen to the commercial the OHSAA runs, the chances of any athlete being a D-I athlete or even becoming a professional is very slim. Parents have to understand that it’s just a game”
“I’ve officiated and I’ve been a parent,” added Armstrong. “Being a parent with your kid playing is probably the hardest thing there is but you still have to remember at the end of the day it’s just a game and we all go home.”
Armstrong believes the OHSAA is taking the right steps in curbing fan abuse not only to officials but coaches as well.
“Today you never know what is going to come at you,” Armstrong said. “It’s concerning whether high school athletics will continue if people continue to act the way they are. They are starting to crack down. Some leagues are starting – a fan gets ejected they have to serve a suspension or go through the class. I think that is a good thing. I think it will wake the people up if they have to go through that class.”
Contact Darke County Media Sports Editor Gaylen Blosser at firstname.lastname@example.org or 937-548-3330


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At Sheridan Movement Studios, we offer top-notch Yoga Teacher Training programs that are designed to equip aspiring yoga instructors with the knowledge, skills, and confidence necessary to lead impactful and successful yoga classes. As an Arts & Entertainment - Performing Arts studio, we understand the importance of honing your craft and providing a comprehensive learning experience to set you apart in this competitive industry.
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NARP Portfolio Director Rick Van Schoik gave the opening keynote address at Stanford University’s Uncommon Dialogue: U.S.-Mexico Transboundary Water Issues conference June 1-June 3. Rick’s address, “Transborder Water Issues Governance (TWIG),” covered the basis of transborder water governance, including equitable utilization and shared benefits. He pointed out that society is only beginning to understand water’s true value and will continue to increase its appreciation for it under various global climate change (GCC) scenarios. He called out decision makers for ignoring water issues related to climate change, but affirmed that if sustainable, science-derived principles and insights are applied to the overall process, a water ethos that truly appreciates the resource at its essence may be adopted. To learn more, click here for Rick’s full presentation.
The conference was organized by the Bill Lane Center and the Water in the West Program at Stanford Law School and featured panels such as “Groundwater in the Frontier,” “Binational Water/Energy Nexus Issues: the California-Baja California region,” and “The Colorado River.” The overall takeaway was that food, water and energy are intricately connected and move beyond borders. To see a full list of panelists, please see the agenda. To view pictures, click here.


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