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Colorado was the first established state to permit women to vote on the identical foundation as men. Some other states additionally extended the franchise to women before the Constitution was amended to this purpose. As late as 1962, applications similar to Operation Eagle Eye in Arizona attempted to stymie minority voting via literacy tests.
White Panamanians are 10% of the population, with those of Spanish ancestry being within the majority. Other ancestries contains Dutch, English, French, German, Swiss, Danish, Irish, Greek, Italian, Lebanese, Portuguese, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian. From the late nineteenth century to when the Panama Canal opened, European migrants used Costa Rica to get across the isthmus of Central America to reach the west coast of the United States (California). From the start of the twentieth century, American observers remarked on the “surprising preponderance of the white race” on the island.
According to genetic analysis by the University of Brasilia, Chilean genetic admixture consists of fifty one.6% European, 42.1% Amerindian, and 6.three% African ancestry. According to an autosomal genetic research of 2014 carried out amongst troopers in the metropolis of Arica, Northern Chile, the European admixture goes from fifty six.8% in soldiers born in Magallanes to forty one.2% for those who had been born in Tarapacá.
In 1863, taxpaying women have been granted municipal suffrage within the country facet, and in 1872, the same reform was given to the cities. In 1906, it became the primary nation on the earth to implement full common suffrage, as women could additionally stand as candidates.
The small Asian Argentine population has typically kept a low profile, and is accepted by larger Argentine society. During the 1930s, Fanny Edelman, a Communist leader who was part of the International Brigades in protection of the Second Spanish Republic, turned a global determine representing Communism and Feminism. She participated to the creation of the Women’s Union of Argentina in 1937, and in 1972 she grew to become head of the Women’s International Democratic Federation. She was honorary president of the Communist get together of Argentina till her demise in 2011.
Many western states, nonetheless, continued to restrict Native American capability to vote through property requirements, economic pressures, hiding the polls, and condoning of physical violence in opposition to those that voted. Since the late twentieth century, they’ve been protected under provisions of the Voting Rights Act as a racial minority, and in some areas, language minority, gaining election supplies of their native languages. In Turkey, Atatürk, the founding president of the republic, led a secularist cultural and authorized transformation supporting women’s rights including voting and being elected.
Equality of girls with men is enshrined in the Guru Granth Sahib, the sacred scripture of the Sikh faith. In 1994 the bantustans and the Tricameral Parliament had been abolished and the best to vote for the National Assembly was granted to all grownup residents. The proper to vote for the Transkei Legislative Assembly, established in 1963 for the Transkei bantustan, was granted to all grownup citizens of the Transkei, together with women. Similar provision was made for the Legislative Assemblies created for different bantustans.
The civil society organization La Casa del Encuentro reported that between January and September 2013, 209 women died because of domestic or gender-based violence. With regard to the group of household life, Argentina has a history of social conservatism, and the influence of Catholicism in Argentina has been very sturdy throughout the 20th century. In Argentina, divorce was legalized solely in 1987, and the legalization was the result of a battle between completely different governments and conservative groups, mostly related to the Catholic Church, that lasted a complete century.
Women were guaranteed equal voting rights by the structure of the Czechoslovak Republic in February 1920 and had been able to vote for the parliament for the primary time in April 1920. In Europe, the last nations to enact women’s suffrage have been Switzerland and Liechtenstein. In Switzerland, women gained the proper to vote in federal elections in 1971; however in the canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden women obtained the best to vote on native issues only in 1991, when the canton was pressured to do so by the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland. In Liechtenstein, women were given the right to vote by the ladies’s suffrage referendum of 1984.
The 2011 autosomal research samples came from blood donors (the bottom classes constituting the great majority of blood donors in Brazil), in addition to public well being personnel and students. White Argentines are dispersed throughout the nation, however their best focus is within the east-central region of Pampas, the southern region of Patagonia, and in the west-central area of Cuyo. During the last few decades, as a result of internal migration from the northern provinces—in addition https://yourmailorderbride.com/argentina-women/ to to immigration from Bolivia, Peru, and Paraguay—the percentage of white Argentines in sure areas of Greater Buenos Aires and the provinces of Salta and Jujuy has decreased considerably. The ancestry of Argentines is generally European, with both Native American and African contributions. A nationwide study estimated that white Guatemalans are 18.5% of the inhabitants (2.7 million), with the majority descendants of Germans, followed those of Spaniards, French, Italians, English, Swedish, Belgian, Swiss, Danish, Norwegian, Dutch, Russian, Scottish, Irish, Welsh, and other components of Europe.
According to a examine from 2013, conducted by the Candela Project in Northern Chile as well, the genetic admixture of Chile is fifty two% European, forty four% Native American, and 4% African. According to this research, European ancestry accounts for 70% of the inhabitants. This research verified that Brazilians from completely different areas are genetically extra homogenous than some anticipated.
In 1987, President Raúl Alfonsín was successful in passing the divorce law, following a ruling of the Supreme Court. The new regulation additionally provided for gender equality between the wife and husband. By 1987, when divorce was legalized, only three different Latin American nations prohibited divorce (Paraguay and Colombia, which legalized it 1991, and Chile which legalized it in 2004). Also, a brand new Civil and Commercial Code, modernizing family law, got here into pressure in August 2015. In the early nineteenth century, the Spanish crown dominated the region now encompassed by the fashionable international locations of Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay, through the viceroyalty of Río de la Plata, with the capital in Buenos Aires.
There are additionally descendants of Americans, Canadians, and whites from Latin American nations similar to Argentina and Costa Rica. European / white population per censusYearPopulationPercentRef(s)YearPopulationPercentRef(s) a, 426b8-10.0ab ,93359. ,71256.3White Puerto Ricans of European, largely Spanish, descent are said to comprise the bulk, with 75.8% of the population figuring out as white. In 1899, one year after the U.S invaded and took control of the island, 61.8% identified as white. An early census on the island was performed by Governor Francisco Manuel de Lando in 1530.
All grownup colored citizens were eligible to vote for the Coloured Persons Representative Council, which was established in 1968 with limited legislative powers; the council was however abolished in 1980. Similarly, all adult Indian residents had been eligible to vote for the South African Indian Council in 1981.

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Discovering the difference between open adoption vs. closed adoption changed my life. I remember being newly pregnant, still stumbling in a shock-like state when someone first mentioned the adoption option. Slam. That door shut quickly in my mind.
Why? Because I was operating out of assumptions.
I assumed I already knew about adoption based on what I had seen around me in family relationships: closed adoption. I have adoptees in my family who had closed adoptions growing up, and I witnessed their questions and struggles.
Personally, there was no way that I could ever “give away” my baby (note: I much prefer saying “placed in an adoption plan” now that I know better). I worried that I would never see her again. I feared she wouldn’t know how much I loved her. So, automatically adoption did not feel like an option for me even to consider… until I learned about open adoption.
When I learned about open adoption, that door creeeaaaked back open. It turns out; I didn’t know everything after all.
Maybe you are a prospective adoptive parent, or you are an expectant mom and don’t feel like you can parent right now. Perhaps you work in a pregnancy center and need to know more to help counsel women on their options, or you are an adoption professional trying to improve your practices.
My advice as a birth mother on open adoption vs. closed adoption is this:
Have An Open Mind and Heart
As a pregnant teen, I had to let down my guarded walls, explore other options when I couldn’t find peace in parenting. I had to look past my biases. I had to open my mind to other possibilities and what was best for my daughter and myself, trusting a Heavenly Father who knew us both.
It was listening to stories of birth mothers and adoptive mothers who walked through life together as friends in an open adoption that helped me see a different view of adoption.
Working with prospective adoptive parents over the years, I have seen many guarded hearts about open adoption there as well, and I love to help bust those misconceptions.
Open adoption isn’t scary. Instead, it adds extra love to your family. Adoptive families have an essential role in parenting a child and encouraging information and love from all sides of their family tree. That starts with heart posture towards birth families and being willing to forge that relationship whenever possible for a child’s benefit.
I love these words from my friend and adoptive mother, Heidi: “There will always be brokenness surrounding adoption, but we have the choice to take the brokenness and make it beautiful or leave it to pierce the souls of birth moms and adoptees left to heal alone.”
Understand the Effects of Closed Adoption
“In only offering closed adoption, [the agency] robbed me. We robbed him. I have observed that many adoptees, in the absence of access to the love of their first mother, adopt the narrative that they were unwanted, unloved or thrown away upon arrival. This is obviously devastating to one’s relationship with themselves and others.” – Tamara, birth mom in reunion
It’s essential to know the past so that we can do better today. There were only closed adoptions in generations past, it was advised not to talk about it, and birth mothers were told to “forget this happened.” Birth mothers were encouraged to push grief aside. Adoptees were left with a lot of questions and sorrow, too. These actions lead to low self-esteem, depression, and a higher rate of suicide.
Is there still more to improve? Absolutely. But we are making small steps to have a change of heart, better policies and practices.
Listen to Adoptee and Birth Mother Voices
I know this can be difficult to hear these heartbreaking stories. It can be uncomfortable. However, we need these voices to understand what went wrong and how we can make changes for adoption today. Take note of what helped them and what hurt them. Consider the good parts and the hard parts. Listen to a variety of voices and experiences so that you can learn from them.
The Benefits of Open Adoption
About 95% of adoptions are open to some degree today in America. This shift over the last decades has allowed us to learn more about how this relationship benefits the adopted child, the birth family and even the adoptive parents.
A Few Benefits Include:
- Birth parents can become a resource to adoptive family and adoptee to know health and family history and adoption questions
- Greater peace of mind for birth parents to know who their child is, what they look like and how they are doing
- Adoptees having higher self-esteem, less abandonment feelings, higher trust in adoptive parents
- Reduced fears of the adoptive family, increased empathy by knowing the birth family personally
- An encouraged open dialogue about adoption with adoptive parents and birth parents to progress grief and emotions together
- Overall a higher sense of satisfaction in the adoption plan for all parts of the adoption triad
As a birth mom, one with 17 years of experience in open adoption, I have seen all of these benefits in our adoption story. It certainly isn’t always easy, just like any other relationship worth maintaining, but the benefits help us all to navigate this story together in a healthy way. While open adoption still has grief involved, the relationships of an open adoption dramatically reduce the emotional impact of closed adoption.
Adoption Is Not One Size Fits All
There isn’t a perfect adoption mold. Every case is unique and vital to consider when deciding between open adoption vs. closed adoption. The very open adoption relationship I have may not be what another birth mother desires or what is physically attainable due to the location of each family. But, I agree with Wendy, a fellow birth mother, who told me, “I think that an open adoption is great as long as the birth mother and adoptive parents are healthy and that the benefits to the child are what they put first.”
What it boils down to when deciding on open vs. closed adoption: “What benefits my child, what can I live with, and how can I be healthy emotionally to live that out?”
And most importantly, “What is God calling me to do?”


China’s Science and Technology Daily and ifeng.com both carry true story of China’s top laser scientist Cheng Yong’s marvelous achievements.
What Cheng Yong and his team do is unique in entire PLA. They have been making breakthroughs in strategic technology vital to the development of photoelectric equipment such as adjust-free laser, DLC film prepared by laser deposition, coherent combination of mutual injection, etc.
Cheng is brave in tackling the problems that even US experts find difficult. He made world first adjust-free solid laser.
That achievement has made Cheng even braver. When he learnt in 2000 that China’s infrared window, the eye of China’s large weapon, was not hard enough to resist injury or chemically stable enough to resist erosion, especially became blind under hypersonic speed, he spent 4 years in developing DLC film prepared by laser deposition.
At first, the film fails hypersonic test. He made unremitting efforts to improve the technology and finally mastered the key technology for such film in 6 years.
Ifeng.com says that the film was used in China’s new ICBM defense missile to increase its speed by 30%. In 2011, the missile successful passed a test to intercept an ICBM in mid course. Foreign media call the new missile Hongqi-19.
Source: Science and Technology Daily “Brave people fear nothing pioneering in photoelectric technology: True story of Chengyong, director of Photoelectric Research Institute of Armament Cadet School, and his team’s creation in scientific research” and news.ifeng.com “China’s special infrared window able to raise the speed of Hongqi-19 missile defense missile by 30%” (summary by Chan Kai Yee based on the reports in Chinese)


Sony has officially announced its event for the highly awaited Next-Gen PS5 on September 12th 2020. The announcement was made from the PlayStation’s official twitter handle. PlayStation 5 will be showcased live on a digital broadcast this Wednesday 1pm P.T. on YouTube or Twitch. There are speculations that there will be a teardown of the hardware and software details of the console and Controller from PS5. There are chances that it might not happen as the 40 minutes broadcast is not enough for teardown of the devices to give an inside information as to what processors, GPU, and storage options have been given.
Most likely the event will announce its affiliation with upcoming latest games and titles. Dead by Daylight will finally come to PlayStation. The exclusive games that will be released by PS5 will be Astro’s Playroom, Demon’s Souls, Destruction All Stars, Returnal, Spider-man: Miles Morales and many more will come with PS5. It is rumored that Sony announced its release date for PS5, after Microsoft announced Xbox Series X and Series S. The PS5 was supposed to be released around Holiday Season as it was confirmed by Sony before, but would have been announced late if its biggest rival Microsoft didn’t announce Xbox Series X and Series S. PS5 will have tough competition with Xbox this year. This is going to bring a lot of heat in the gaming world. PS5 has had so much done on the consoles this year. There’s a new design. Exquisite and different color schemes. Just like Xbox PS5 is also releasing two different devices in this generation of PS5. The consoles were however revealed in June 11th , 2020.
There was an immense speculations about PS5 prices after its reveal in June. The leaks suggested that the price tags were close to $750 for Disc Version and $650 for Non-Disc Version. However When Microsoft announced that Xbox is releasing this winter in November 2020. Sony might have jumped in, and side-track Xbox. As there was no sign of PS5 to release anytime soon, moreover PS5 is releasing 11 million console, cutting it down from 15 million consoles, which gives away the idea of Sony jumping in. The competition is pretty fierce between Xbox and PS5. That is because now the rumor has it that PS5 consoles are price tagged around $499 but certain analyst predict that the console will be priced around $599 for Disc version. The Digital Version will be $100 to $50 cheaper than the Disc Version.
There is a lot to un-pack on what might be the possible announcements that Sony makes. Sony has pushed its limits, and has left no stone un-turned in making PS5 one of the best consoles in the world that is because the hardware and software features of PS5 that we are about to tell you are Mind Blowing and exciting which might make PS5 fanatics crazy. This is because not only the console is one of the best hardware but controller is smart too. The games that are releasing with PS5 are also exceptional. One of the accessories that might be announced in the event are Pulse 3D Wireless Headset with 3D audio for immersive gameplay.
PS5 standard version comes in an asymmetric space-alien tower shaped console with white outer finish that covers the black portion of the console which essentially contains the hardware. The standard version comes with a 4k Ultra HD Blu-Ray disc drive. There’s a blue light which illuminates between the black hardware portion and the white covering which gives it a futuristic look. Whereas the digital-only version has a same shape except it has no optical drive slot, which makes it slimmer than the standard version.
PS5 has a new dual sense controller. It has greater adaptability to the gameplay like haptic feedback for sensory feeling as per the gaming situation making the gaming experience far more exciting and help immerse in realistic gaming experience. The controller might come with the built-in microphone. This will help users to engage with their friends or other players without the headset. The controller buttons order is pretty much the same. The shape however has been refined from the other generations of PlayStation.
Now, the console’s CPU is run by a custom processing chip by AMD. The processing Unit is 7nm 8x Zen 2 cores at 3.5 GHz (processing speed which is variable) with SMT. The GPU is Custom RDNA 2 by AMD it has 36 Compute units at 2.23 GHz (The frequency is variable here too) and capable of 10.28 Teraflops per second. The working of processors is monitored by AMD’s SmartShift technology, a boosting system that adjusts the processors working and graphics etc. based on the gameplay and the game specifications. The console will come with Bluetooth 5.1 and Wi-Fi 6. The memory featured on the console is 16 GB GDDR6/256-bit RAM, and memory bandwidth of 448 GB/s. The console will support 4K gaming at 120 Hz refresh rate for smooth gaming experience at 120 frames per second. The PS5 console will support 8K output also at 120 Hz at 120 frames per second. The hardware also supports ray tracing for realistic gameplay for user. It supports HDR Display for vivid and vibrant colors giving lifelike colors for gaming better gaming experience. For storage options Sony moved from HDD to SSD for far better and smooth gaming. It features a Custom 825 GB Solid State Drive. The I/O throughput is 5.5 GB/s Raw and 8-9 GB/s compressed. There is an expandable NVMe SSD Slot. External Storage is supported through USB but it only supports HDD. It has a 4K Ultra HD Blu-Ray Drive. It might be priced in between $499 and $599
The only thing that is different on both the device are its hardware components. Digital only version lacks 4K Ultra HD Blu-Ray Drive. Other than that it is just as same as the standard version. If you want to keep your PS4 than you should buy PS5 Digital only version, or else your CD Games will be useless on Digital version. The Digital version will priced at $399 or a $100 less than the standard version of PlayStation 5.
The PS5 gaming experience will be futuristic as the specs are beyond the boundaries of gaming as of now. The event might feature pre-order dates, release date, and price tags for the consoles. The price of the console will be worth the gaming experience that PS5 is offering. 8K gaming is going to be just amazing. Tune in to YouTube or Twitch to catch the livestream for PS5 here.


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November 18, 2019 — Memphis, Tennessee — Barrow-Agee Laboratories, a Memphis, Tennessee-based laboratory testing services provider, is pleased to announce the hiring of Lisa Leier as its new Lab Director.
Leier began working with Barrow-Agee Laboratories in a consulting role before becoming the lab’s full-time director. She brings with her a wealth of knowledge and experience in new technologies and the ability to innovate in the Biotechnology and Laboratory arena.
Prior to joining the lab, Leier worked at Lonza for nearly four years, where she was a part of a team that developed novel Ribosomal ribonucleic acid (rRNA) methods for total aerobic plate counts and yeast and mold. This breakthrough, as well as others, has been accredited to changing food safety sciences.
Leier also worked on some novel applications with a client in which changed the way salmonella was tested in meat. These projects have given Leier the experience and knowledge required in order to assist with the growth of the Barrow lab by bringing on more rapid testing methods, which will shorten the turnaround time for samples by more than one day.
Her innovative mindset and her strength in training teams made Leier the right person for the job. As Barrow-Agee continues to invest in growth, her background will help assist the lab in ensuring customers get better, more accurate data at a quicker turnaround rate. The changes and trainings Leier has already initiated in the lab have helped reduce the need for rework, which tightened up the process to help execute delivering timely results and high-quality customer service.
“Adding Lisa to the team as our Lab Director to run the operations aligns with our ongoing goal of delivering test results on-time, every time. Her work experience is a testament to her knowledge, and as a consultant, she has proven she would be the perfect asset to our laboratory. We are happy to have her join our team,” said Roger Beers, Barrow-Agee Laboratories CEO.
“I am thrilled to become the new Lab Director at Barrow-Agee during such an exciting time,” said Leier. She continued, “With the focus at Barrow on increased investment in technologies, talent, and training, I feel like I can add significant value to help meet customer expectations of high-quality results on-time, every time.”
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Rutgers football loses 31-14 to Nebraska, booed at home
PISCATAWAY – Rutgers bowl hopes virtually are gone, but a mountain of problems remains.
Masked by a 10-minute stretch in which the opposing quarterback self-destructed, Rutgers started slowly, made familiar mistakes on both sides of the ball and heard boos from fans no longer satisfied with venting on message boards Saturday afternoon during a 31-14 loss to Nebraska.
Barring a system failure, it basically was a bowl eligibility elimination game between two six-loss teams.
"They want us to win and we want to win," halfback Robert Martin said of the fans. "We know how they feel."
Rutgers (3-7, 1-6) has been outscored 177-47 during its four-game losing streak and now is assured of a losing record.
It is just the second time in program history that Rutgers has allowed 30 points or more in six straight games, five of which are losses. The other was in 1997, when the team finished 0-11.
"I felt they battled, at times opportunistic," coach Kyle Flood said of the defense. "We're still having some of those growing pains back there, for sure."
Ten of the 12 sections across the south end zone of High Point Solutions Stadium – reserved primarily for students – were almost completely empty throughout the game.
It was 49 degrees and sunny with northwest winds of 20 miles per hour at kickoff, when the rest of the two decks mostly were full.
Flood’s seat likely felt much warmer than most, however.
The announced crowd of 45,606 let its anger be heard, booing early and often but never as meaningfully as in response to the words “Hi, I’m Kyle Flood,” when the embattled coach appeared on the scoreboard in the second quarter to deliver a pre-taped read for save driving.
The deficit had just grown to 21-0 on a defensive breakdown in the oft-victimized secondary.
"I don't have any reaction to it at all," Flood said. "My job is to coach the football team. I get great support from so many people and in so many places. The reality of major college football is if you're not playing well and not performing well, those things are going to happen."
The boos may have been louder – same goes for the "Go Big Red" chants from fans fans of Nebraska (5-6, 3-4) – at halftime if not for a three-minute turnaround in which Rutgers generated two takeaways and the starting offense scored its first touchdown in nearly 31/2 games.
Free safety Anthony Cioffi put the offense on the doorstep with a 51-yard interception return down to the 6-yard line, and Martin punched it from the 1 to make it 21-7.
Nebraska quarterback Tommy Armstrong, who was playing at an All-Big Ten level prior to the game, continued to struggle in the second half. He threw his third interception in as many possessions when defensive tackle Kevin Wilkins stepped in front of a screen pass to set up another touchdown.
Martin took a direct snap and tossed the ball to Janarion Grant as the wide receiver came in motion behind the play. The left-handed Grant threw a touchdown pass to quarterback Chris Laviano, who lined up as an H-back on the play and ran an out-route.
"That was a nice touchdown and we had all momentum going our way," star receiver Leonte Carroo said. "We tried to build off that but it didn't quite go our way."
Laviano wasn’t as productive as a passer.
The redshirt sophomore finished 13-of-27 for 165 yards with two interceptions. He led touchdown drives of 35 and 6 yards, his first two such drives in four games.
"I didn't play as well as I should've," Laviano said. "We tried to make corrections on the sideline."
Of course, Laviano wasn’t the only one to blame, however. The offensive line, which appears to be regressing as the season progresses, allowed six sacks and 11 tackles for loss.
"A weaker pass defense gets better in a hurry when the pass rush is effective," Flood said. "We didn't do a very good job of protecting the quarterback at all. And it just gets really hard."
Center Derrick Nelson left the field on a stretcher and was taken to Robert Wood Johnson hospital after taking an accidental helmet-to-helmet hit from a teammate with 58 seconds remaining. He raised his arm as he was carted off the field and he has movement in his extremities, Flood said.
Nebraska scored touchdowns on two of its first three possessions as blown coverages again popped up all over the field.
Jordan Westerkamp caught one in the middle of four defenders and Alonzo Moore caught one after getting behind the entire defense and waiting for a floating pass like he was fielding a punt.
"We'll continue to go game-by-game," safety Anthony Cioffi said. "We'll continue to work at it. Get the film studied, all the communication down and then we're going to move on."
With 40 bowls, it is possible that some 5-7 teams will be needed to fill the 80 available slots and those at-larges are handed out based on APR rankings – a strength for Rutgers.
Except that Rutgers needs to sweep Army and Maryland to finish the regular season – far from a given at this point – to reach five wins.
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We’ve learned a lot about how the brain works, functions, and illnesses since being able to detect electrical activity in the brain. However, being able to acquire signals directly from inside the brain (through neural interfacing devices) during daily life activities could take neuroscience and neuromedicine to completely new levels. So far, most of this activity has been measured using electrodes placed on the scalp (through EEG). Although this concept had high hopes, the implementation of brain interfaces has proved to be very difficult. In order to survive an environment as severe as the human body, the materials utilized in the tiny electrodes that make contact with the neurons must be flexible while still being robust. In the past, efforts to create long-lasting brain interfaces have met with failure because the electrodes’ electrical effectiveness degrades over time due to the body’s normal biological reactions, such as inflammation. However, what if there was a feasible method to deliver anti-inflammatory medications close to the brain’s electrodes?
Scientists from Korea have created and published a new multifunctional brain interface that can simultaneously record neural activity and administer liquid medicines to the implant site in Microsystems & Nanotechnology. They utilize a flexible 3D structure instead of rigid devices to collect numerous neural impulses from a large region using an array of microneedles, and then transmit those signals to an external circuit using thin metallic conductive lines. One of the most impressive features of this research is that the scientists were able to integrate microfluidic channels on a plane parallel to the conductive lines by carefully stacking and micromachining several polymer layers. When the tiny reservoir (which holds the medicines) is filled, a constant stream of liquid is sent to the microneedles through these channels.
Brain interface studies on live rats were used to verify the technique, which was then followed by a drug concentration measurement in the tissue around the needles. DGIST professor Sohee Kim, who led the study, says, “The flexibility and functionalities of our device will help make it more compatible with biological tissues and decrease adverse effects, all of which contribute to increasing the lifespan of the neural interface.” Prof. Kim’s findings are very encouraging in this regard. The creation of long-lasting multifunctional brain interfaces will have ramifications for a wide range of fields. KIMM’s Dr. Yoo Na Kang, the study’s lead author, says, “Our technology may be ideal for brain-machine interfaces, which allow paralyzed individuals to operate robotic limbs or legs with their thoughts, and for curing neurological disorders over years by utilizing electrical and/or chemical stimulation. Hopefully, a direct and long-lasting link to the brain will be beneficial to a large number of individuals!
Journal Reference: Yoo Na Kang, Namsun Chou, Jae-Won Jang, Han Kyoung Choe, Sohee Kim. A 3D flexible neural interface based on a microfluidic interconnection cable capable of chemical delivery. Microsystems & Nanoengineering, 2021; 7 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41378-021-00295-6

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May 4th, 2022
By Aaron Cerbone
SARANAC LAKE — U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik was at the Saranac Lake Volunteer Fire Department firehouse Monday to tour the facility and talk about getting federal money for a new emergency services building the village is planning.
Assemblyman Billy Jones’ office also sent a representative to tour the building.
Mayor Jimmy Williams said it was exciting to have attention from high levels of state and federal government on the building and village’s planned rebuild.
“I did hear both of them say it’s obvious that the need is real,”Williams said.
The village is seeking state and federal money and grants for the project, and he hopes having lawmakers see that the floor is falling apart, see the tight space firetrucks are crammed into and the outdated infrastructure they’re working with will solidify the need in their minds.
Trustee Matt Scollin used to work for Stefanik’s office, Williams pointed out, so he has close contact with her staff.
Stefanik said she promised SLVFD Chief Brendan Keough that she would visit the station and talk about federal funding when she saw him at the Winter Carnival parade in February.
“Our North Country firefighters selflessly answer the call to serve day or night,”Stefanik wrote in a statement.“As the department grows to meet the needs of the Saranac Lake community, I am proud to advocate for these frontline workers to have the funding they need to effectively protect our communities and the equipment to keep themselves safe.”
“It was a privilege to host Congresswoman Stefanik,”Keough said in a statement.“We appreciate her advocacy, so we can continue the work of the fire department to provide for the safety and welfare of our community.”
Williams said they didn’t have time to tour the Saranac Lake police and rescue stations, but he said Stefanik plans to return at some point to see those buildings. Jones has previously toured the police station on other trips to town.
“I’ve seen firsthand the deteriorating conditions of the police station and the need for improved facilities,”Jones said in a statement.“My office also recently toured the fire station which only further supported the need for a new facility. I will do whatever I can to help with improving the public safety facilities to help make sure that the police department and fire department have the resources they need to protect the Saranac Lake community.”
The heads of the village’s three emergency service departments — SLVFD, Saranac Lake Police and the Saranac Lake Volunteer Rescue Squad — have met three times now, Williams said. He said they are all positive about sharing a building, consolidating their departments into one central location.
In March, the village approved the $165,000 purchase of a 0.40 acre parcel of land behind the fire station as a location for the planned emergency services building and put $2.5 million into a reserve fund to be used on the possible building.
Williams said the village needs to interview engineers and consulting firms, put together engineering plans and use those plans to ask the state and federal government for money. He said it will take a couple months to get all that done.
Williams said he plans to send some village staff to an emergency services building conference in the near future.
The Enterprise was not notified about Stefanik’s plans for a tour at the SLVFD station, 600 feet away from the Enterprise office. Stefanik’s office declined to answer a question about why media were not told of her visit beforehand.
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It may come as a surprise to learn that in all the 92 clubs there are only five, and only one of these - Cambridge's French boss Herve Renard - is outside the Premiership.
On the basis of those statistics alone, the 'problem' of foreign coaches in English football does not appear to be a big one.
Yet all is not rosy in the garden of soccer, because when one of the big or ambitious clubs wants a new manager often the first place they look is on the foreign football fields.
Chelsea, Liverpool and Tottenham have been the leading forces in the chase for continental talent, all seeking to discover the same elusive success Arsenal have enjoyed since Arsene Wenger arrived at Highbury more than eight years ago.
The appointment of Sven-Goran Eriksson as England's head coach has also added weight to the concept that top class managers only exist overseas.
The League Managers' Association keeps a keen watch over such appointments, and they have also been at the forefront of the drive to raise managerial standards in England by insisting on formal qualifications.
John Barnwell, the organisation's chief executive, is content that managers from the home nations are holding their own in English football but concerned that clubs no longer view the lower divisions as a breeding ground for Premiership managerial talent.
Barnwell said: "Clubs in the Premiership are tempted to go for personality appointments - they bring someone who was a big name as a player or in some cases a foreign coach and it often ends up in failure.
"Remember Egil Olsen at Wimbledon or Christian Gross at Spurs, and of course more recently Jacques Santini. Hiring a foreign coach is no recipe for success.
"The fact is that Arsene Wenger has done so well that other clubs try to copy what Arsenal have done."
Barnwell believes British managers only make it in the Premiership if the job lands in their laps - such as Chris Coleman at Fulham - or they took over the club in the lower divisions and guided them into the top flight, as Alan Curbishley did with Charlton.
He added: "Unfortunately the days of a big club picking a manager out of the lower leagues are diminishing.
"We had Paul Sturrock going from Plymouth to Southampton which we thought was a breakthrough but that ended in tears.
"Very rarely do we look into the lower leagues and pick out the ones who are successful like they used to before, like Brian Clough at Hartlepool or Ron Atkinson who came from Kettering and then Cambridge."
Barnwell accepts those days may be gone for good, and instead the LMA is concentrating on ensuring British managers are as highly qualified as their European counterparts.
That is why strict rules on Premiership managers having their UEFA Pro Licence have come into force while at the same time promising young coaches can learn other skills they will need to run a club.
Mark Hughes, now at Blackburn, and Manchester City's assistant manager Stuart Pearce have both studied for the LMA's certificate in applied football management at Warwick University, learning not coaching skills but how to handle finances, man management and the media.
Barnwell added: "It is more or less the same as what they do in Germany and Holland. There are enough gifted young managers in this country who have applied themselves and who should be getting opportunities in the Premiership. Someone like Curbishley should have been given a good job long ago.
"All we can do is make sure that British coaches are at least as qualified, and in many cases more so, than their counterparts abroad."
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A new year, a new decade, but the sector faces lingering issues. The oil and gas business continues to confront low prices, abundant supplies/flat demand and ESG (environmental, social and governance) concerns.
But some industry observers turned optimistic as 2020 got underway.
“Pending further hostilities between the U.S. and Iran, or other geopolitical events around the world, it is not outside the realm of possibility that WTI [West Texas Intermediate] crude prices could hit $70 per barrel (bbl) based on three factors, Ryan Dusek, director in the commodity risk advisory group at Opportune LLP, said in a recent research report.
The factors he named were:
• Political risk—“The ever increasing U.S. sanctions may continue to escalate tensions and draw a more severe Iranian retaliation, forcing prices up to this expected level;”
• Hedge prices—“The futures market is quietly indicating this risk is only temporary. While WTI prices have increased nearly 30% since August, expected hedge prices have barely increased by 5% ... My analysis indicates that we need a minimum WTI price of $70/bbl to qualify as this extreme condition;” and
• Technicals—“With minimal changes to my long-term fundamental outlook, slowing demand and strong growth in U.S. supply will continue to dominate for the foreseeable future.
“We’re feeling much better going into 2020 than we have the past five years—and they have been along five years,” Becca Followill, senior managing director and head of equity research at U.S. Capital Advisors LLC, told clients as the year began.
“Beyond the obvious themes of slowing production and the follow-on impact to midstream, our key themes for 2020 are:
• A forced look at corporate governance;
• The need to check additional boxes;
• Eliminating traditional ‘MLP math’; and
• The resulting bifurcated multiples from those who don t adapt to a new reality.
“So what do we think works in 2020? 2019 was an easier call, as it was a bluechip rally kind of year. But those stocks have had a tremendous run, and we think investors are willing to move a little further up the risk spectrum in 2020,” she said.
A Wall Street willing to take a second look at the midstream—and oil and gas overall—would be great news as the buildout continues. Oil and gas production continues to climb, but growth has slowed. That might help the midstream catch up.
Followill isn’t alone in assessing promise in this year.
“2019 was another volatile year—though many parts of the value chain are moving in the right direction as we move further into 2020,” Raymond James said in the introduction to its annual midstream outlook. “After appreciating moderately through the first ~8 months of 2019, the benchmark Alerian MLP Index struggled from August to early December—and finished the year just slightly in the red (although the index generated a high single-digit total return).
“Despite a lukewarm market reaction, 2019 largely featured solid earnings and operating results; however, capital allocation, governance/alignment concerns, and upstream sensitivity (e.g., contract/counter-party risk and expected production/takeaway mismatches) dominated the narrative,” the outlook said.
The export game
It added a succinct forecast for midstream later in the report: “The game is all about exports.”
In recent years, it’s a game the U.S. has played well. DNV GL published an oil and gas industry research report early this year that refers to a “meteoric rise up the oil and gas exporter charts” by the U.S.
“A decade ago, the country had an oil-trade deficit of 12 million barrels a day (MMbbl/d) but, in September 2019, for the first time in over 70 years, the U.S. recorded a full month of oil exports exceeding imports. In 2020, U.S. oil exports are expected to grow once again, from 2.8 MMbbl/d currently, to 3.3 MMbbl/d, as new pipelines in Texas increase capacity.”
The midstream sector must deal with that challenge in this decade—something absolutely unthinkable as 2010 began. The whole wellhead-to customer flow has changed as who the “customer” is has changed.
The U.S. has emerged as a major exporter of crude oil and natural gas. Meanwhile, its role as a significant petroleum product supplier has grown.
Exports? It’s a nice problem to have, but how to handle the business?
A recent Stifel report referred to a worldwide “tectonic shift toward lighter hydrocarbons”—toward exactly what the U.S. has to offer to foreign customers, thanks to the light sweet crudes typical of the shale plays. Many industry observers believe the Jan. 1 mandate by the International Maritime Organization sharply restricting high-sulfur bunkers will further speed the trend.
Multiple NASA photos taken from the International Space Station feature strange bright spots popping out of the inky black nights in the otherwise empty Sahara, Arabian Peninsula and remote corners of North America.
They are flares, the energy industry's painful, no-other-choice answer to the lingering question: "What to do with the natural gas?"
The industry and royalty owners want the problem solved because flared gas equals lost revenue. Regulatory agencies don't like it. Now, financial markets' increasing emphasis on ESG—environmental, social and governance—issues has given an additional push to end flaring.
It's hardly a new problem. Participants in Oklahoma's early 20th century oil boom told how a pedestrian could easily walk the 10 miles of rough dirt road between Drumright and Cushing at night without a lantern. The constant string of flares, adjoining nearby wells or power houses, lit the countryside nicely. Think Times Square, the area had no as-gathering network at the time. Tellingly, Cushing already had emerged as a crude oil storage and pipeline hub.
Crude oil and the heavier gas liquids are preferred products, and without gathering systems, processing plants and pipelines needed to move the gas to market, there’s nothing to do but burn it. Even if there were sufficient midstream infrastructure, who wants the gas? In vacant parts of the planet, the answer is no one.
Advancing LNG technology and growing midstream infrastructure may be slowly solving the problem.
A recent Raymond James research report estimated the 4% of the world’s annual gas production burns away on flare stacks—wasted.
“At 14 Bcf/d [billion cubic feet per day], the amount of gas flared globally is almost on par with the gas production of China, and more than Saudi Arabia’s,” the report said. Or, roughly the entire daily gas production of the Permian Basin as 2019 ended, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
“There is no overarching global regulation of flaring, but the World Bank is leading an initiative called Zero Routine Flaring (ZRF) by 2030,” the Raymond James study said. “This is in the broader context of United Nations climate talks … As of year-end 2019, 32 national and subnational governments have signed up, including 10 of the top 15 flaring countries …
“In aggregate, these 32 jurisdictions account for approximately 60% of global flaring. Each participating country has committed to eliminate flaring, with the exception of what may be required for safety reasons or under special circumstances, over the next decade. Participation in ZRF does not necessarily imply national legislation to ban flaring—for example, the U.S. has no such law at the federal level—but at least there is a publicly declared commitment.”
The trend could boost share prices for producers, midstream operators and the burgeoning LNG export business.
“However, investing on this specific premise would be rather tenuous; both the timetable and the magnitude of ESG score improvement are very difficult to quantify. In thinking about how to play this theme, therefore, we would steer investors towards the relevant technology providers,” Raymond James said.
But there’s a long ways to go to put all the pieces together, the report noted. “If it were automatically a ‘slam dunk,’ there would be no need for flaring” now.
The world’s political hotspots seem to oddly correspond with major oil fields with one significant exception—the U.S. Repeal of the crude export ban five years ago opened a new market to domestic producers, and that created the present challenge from midstream operators: How to get the oil to docks? New infrastructure had to go in harborside to move the product.
And so investment in new, outward-facing assets continues.
EPIC Midstream Holdings LP loaded its first cargo of crude as 2019 ended from a repurposed wharf on the Corpus Christi Ship Channel, refitted to handle oil rather than grain. It can handle Aframax tankers (750,000 bbl) at 20,000 bbl/hour.
The dock complements the company’s new 600,000 bbl/d crude pipeline that links the Permian and Eagle Ford plays to Corpus Christi.
The San Antonio-based operator plans to open a second, larger dock on the Corpus channel in the third quarter. It will be able to handle Suezmax tankers (1 million bbl) and load at 40,000 bbl/hour.
“A low-sulfur barrel is going to be a very attractive barrel, so demand is strong right now” for crude produced in the Permian Basin of West Texas and New Mexico, EPIC President Brian Freed told Reuters as 2019 ended. “There’s room for a lot of projects to get done.”
And EPIC plans to go lighter, further proof of that “tectonic shift.”
The firm plans to open a 900,000 bbl/d crude line in the first quarter and will begin offering a second, ultralight crude grade—West Texas Light—as it batches Permian Basin shipments. It rates above 44 API gravity, still lighter than the light 39.6 API gravity for WTI.
EPIC will complement its existing crude system during the first quarter with a 400,000 bbl/d pipeline dedicated to Y-grade (mixed NGL) service. The firm’s building a related separator at Robstown, Texas, outside Corpus Christi.
The largest gas liquids shipping points have been at Houston, Targa Resources Corp.’s Galena Park operation and Enterprise Products Partners LP’s operation—the largest of them all. It handled an average of 509,000 bbl/d in second-half 2019 following a major expansion.
Abundant gas liquids supplies create opportunities for NGL-based petrochemicals produced in the U.S. to move abroad. Enterprise, ranked No. 4 on this publication’s Midstream 50 list of the largest publicly held midstream players, started up a new isobutane dehydrogenation unit earlier this year at the big Mont Belvieu, Texas, NGL hub, east of Houston. Enterprise said the unit eventually will have a 25,000 bbl/d capacity, producing nearly 1 billion pounds per year of both high- and low-purity isobutylene—a feedstock for lubricants, rubber goods, alkylate for high-octane gasoline and methyl tertiary butyl ether.
Worth watching in the decade ahead: The push by some environmental groups to move U.S. regular-grade gasoline to a higher octane rating—in keeping with the standard in Europe—would require a substantial increase in alkylate production.
Cheaper, U.S.-produced ethane and other gas liquids have found growing markets overseas as feedstocks for polyethylene and polyproplyene, backing out naphtha.
In January, Enterprise and Navigator Holdings Ltd. announced the first cargo of ethylene had been shipped from their 50:50 joint venture (JV) marine terminal located at Morgan’s Point, along the Houston Ship Channel. The Liberian-flagged Navigator Europa carried 25 million pounds of ethylene for Japan’s Marubeni Corp.
The new terminal features two docks and the capacity to load 2.2 billion pounds per year of ethylene. A refrigerated storage tank for 66 million pounds of ethylene is being built onsite and will increase the capability to load ethylene up to a rate of 2.2 million pounds per hour. Tank construction is expected to be completed in the fourth quarter.
The unconventional plays produce natural gas in abundance, leading to woeful domestic prices. The Permian Basin’s Waha Hub spent much of 2019 in negative price territory: Producers had to pay somebody to take methane off their hands. New gas pipeline capacity out of the Permian will be a priority for the next few years. Kevin Sakofs, senior analyst for North American natural gas for S&P Global Platts, told HartEnergy that activity levels across key dry gas plays have dropped precipitously since June 2019, and “this is largely due to a softening dry gas commodity backdrop.” Appalachia and the Permian have been particularly hard hit.
Adding to worries is a challenged global gas market and its potential impact on LNG exports, which Sakofs said is a critical component of the demand forecast. About 2.7 Bcf/d of additional liquefaction capacity is expected this year, pushing feed gas flow to terminals to new highs, the analysts said. However, market conditions could impact the growth.
“A lot is riding on Asia having a cold winter,” but it doesn’t have much storage. That means LNG molecules must flow elsewhere, Sakofs said, questioning whether Europe—which has high storage— could be the balancing mechanism again next year.
But how much worse would the situation be without exports? See adjoining stories in this issue for additional information on LNG exports.
Mexico’s midstream muddle
But not all gas exports must be liquefied. “The Mexican market is critically important to Permian producers,” RBN Energy said in a report published last year. “Rising gas demand south of the border …” is key to producers’ “plans to significantly increase production of crude oil, which brings with it large volumes of associated gas. All that gas needs a market, and nearby Mexico is a natural.” Mexico’s electricty provider, Comisión Federal de Electricidad, has worked to add multiple gas-fired power plants and the gas pipelines needed to support them.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration estimated gas exports to Mexico at 5.1 Bcf/d in late 2019—up 10% from year-earlier figures.
However, the Mexican gas market has not grown as quickly as Permian producers have hoped due to construction and regulatory slowdowns south of the border. “But what pipeline capacity has been added across the border from West Texas is already changing Mexico’s gas market,” RBN noted. “The El Encino Hub in Northwest Mexico is one such area where there are signs of a shifting supply-demand balance.”
But wait, there’s more: The U.S. has a great story to tell about refined products. Some of the largest and most efficient refineries in the world can produce gasoline, diesel, etc., cheaper than smaller, dated plants overseas.
“U.S. net imports of crude oil and petroleum product fell from an average of 2.3 MMbbl/d in 2018 to an average of 0.5 MMbbl/d in 2019,” the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) said in its January Short-Term Energy Outlook. “EIA estimates the United States has exported more total crude oil and petroleum products than it has imported since September .
“EIA forecasts that the United States will be a net exporter of total crude oil and petroleum products by 0.8 MMbbl/d in 2020 and by 1.4 MMbbl/d in 2021.”
Entering the export business can be daunting. It’s, pardon the expression, a different world. One mistake newcomers make is to view the foreign market as a monolith, Kenneth Haynes, senior international trade specialist with the U.S. Department of Commerce, told Midstream Business. Nations’ policies and politics vary widely.
“Certain regions of the world are a little bit more problematic … the Middle East, certain countries in Africa, and some Central and South American countries, all pose unique and complex business and political climates. The U.S. Department of Commerce [and] U.S. Commercial Service is in place to assist U.S. companies with navigating some of those complexities,” he said.
Haynes cited one Latin American example.
“The new president of Brazil has moved the needle in regards to ease of access to the Brazilian market. Past complications have come in varied ways, from project approvals to the issuance of visas. As of September 2019, Brazil does not request a visa for entry and Brazil has adopted Global Entry. If you, as a U.S. company, have a Brazilian partner, Global Entry allows greater ease for your partner to visit your U.S. operations.
“Small- and medium-sized companies are who we primarily work with,” Haynes said of the U.S. Commerce Department and Commercial Service. “Unfortunately, not all companies have the expertise to go abroad on their own. U.S. Commercial Service has foreign contacts that can be of great assistance,” he added.
“If you’re a small- to medium-sized company, I would say one of the best things you can do is to do a joint venture, either with a large U.S. company that’s going into that particular market or with an international company. We can assist you with that.”
Operator Looks To Lift Helium Sales
Perhaps the most valuable export produced by the U.S. oil and gas business isn’t oil or gas. Rather, it’s helium, that ultralight, inert gas vital to products ranging from party balloons to MRI scanners to nuclear bombs.
Helium prices routinely float well above $100 per thousand cubic feet. Yes, you read that number right.
There’s just not much of it on earth, but the largest commercial source lies in natural gas fields below the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles, extending to western Kansas and eastern Colorado. The region’s Hugoton Field has been the largest helium souce for decades but is in steady decline.
Tumbleweed Midstream LLC recently acquired the Ladder Creek helium plant in eastern Colorado from DCP Midstream LP in hopes of cashing in on strong helium demand here and abroad.
“The U.S. is the world’s largest helium producer,” Durell Johnson, Tumbleweed CEO, told Midstream Business. “At the same time, the world supply of helium is suffering from a multiyear shortfall. This has boosted prices for natural gas with a high helium content and has begun to raise red flags in industries that depend on helium.
“The helium is there; it’s highly valuable, and by extracting it Tumbleweed can return premium netbacks to the producers in the region,” Johnson added. Some fields feeding the plant have 3% helium concentrations—among the highest anywhere.
Ladder Creek has a capacity to process 40 million cubic feet of natural gas per day (MMcf/d), expandable to 50 MMcf/d. From that stream, it can extract as much as 1.5 MMcf/d of helium.
Some 730 miles of gathering lines either side of the Colorado/Kansas border support Ladder Creek. The plant’s NGL production flows to the Conway, Kan., fractionator via a DCP pipeline.
But JVs have their own complications, thanks to recent changes in federal law. A number of new federal regulations on exporting took effect in February, Robert Soza Jr., partner with Jackson Walker LLP and an oil and gas export law specialist, told Midstream Business. The Treasury Department issued regulations implementing the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act of 2018 (FIRRMA). The greater impact will be in such areas as restrictions on upstream technology, Soza said.
“There are a number of oil and gas installations that are covered there,” he said. Specifically, “individual refiners with the capacity to produce 300,000 or more barrels per day of refined product, or the capacity to produce in aggregate 500,000 or more barrels per day of refined oil and gas products.
“Also, storage facilities that have the capacity to hold 30 MMbbl or more, and it covers all the LNG export areas.” The regulations “also cover interstate rural pipelines that have the capacity to transport 500,000 bbl/d or more of crude, or 90 million gallons per day or more refined product. Also, current pipelines with an outside diameter of 20 or more inches.
“So, if you’re one of these facilities as listed here, and you have someone who’s going to become a foreign investor, you have to really be careful about how you’re going to structure that foreign investment,” Soza added.
“Because that foreign investment allows the investor—the foreign investor—to have access to nonpublic technical information, either because they get a seat on the board, or because they have a right to it pursuant to due diligence, or they have a right to involve themselves in substantial decision making with the company.
“You’re going to have to file one of these Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) disclosures. You’re going to have to go through the CFIUS process, which could take somewhere in the neighborhood of anywhere from three to six months. So this could cause some delays in some of your deals that you do in this area.”
He added the procedure has created “a Hart-Scott-Rodino-type of approval process for foreign investment that was going to be more focused on national security.”
There’s room for growth in the new decade, and early-2020 political trends make export opportunities even more important. As noted earlier, the Mideast’s lingering political instability makes the U.S. an attractive supplier to wary energy customers. Also, a prospective settlement to the U.S.-China trade dispute looks promising, even as the coronavirus scare upsets world trade. The first phase of a deal calls for China to increase U.S. energy imports above 2017 levels.
“Larger purchases of U.S. crude oil exports will be the primary method for China to comply with this agreement,” Ann-Louise Hittle, vice president-macro oils at Wood Mackenzie, said in statement after the two nations announced the deal. But meeting that multibillion-dollar target is going to be challenging. Hittle noted China imported about 300,000 bbl/d of U.S. crude oil in 2017, valued at $5.8 billion, she said.
Velda Addison contributed to this report.
TotalEnergies Gives Lapa South-West the Green Light
2023-01-17 - The subsea tieback offshore Brazil is expected to go onstream in 2025, producing to the Lapa FPSO, which has produced the field since 2016.
ExxonMobil Secures Exploration Rights in Egypt's Outer Nile Delta
2023-01-10 - The two offshore blocks cover 11,000 sq km.
Namibia Makes Third Oil Discovery in the Orange Basin
2023-03-06 - Namibia's third oil discovery could make the country another oil producer along the African Atlantic coast.
BP Doubles Crude Output from GoM Thunder Horse Platform
2023-01-13 - The Thunder Horse platform, about 150 miles southeast of New Orleans, can produce up to 250,000 bbl/d of oil and up to 200 MMcf/d.
Indonesia Picks Consortia to Explore Three Oil and Gas Blocks
2023-02-22 - Indonesia plans to offer 10 oil and gas working areas to contractors in 2023.


For no particular reason, I think I’m going to publish both the Iowa and Minnesota editions of the Off Talkle Empire podcast here on Monday morning!
Move along now!
We have much to discuss!
- Iowa’s path to 9 wins and four losses with a +/-1 win tolerance
- Minnesota’s path to defending their national championship
- Why Andrew thinks Iowa is the favorite to win the Big Ten in men’s hoops
- Why no amount of Marcus Carr will deliver Minnesota
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Investing in crytocurrencies
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Just about every member in the group, which experienced its community debut in Tokyo on Friday, signifies a special cryptocurrency or blockchain, as well as team's 1st track has "virtual currencies" in its title. ...
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Seems like Drake is the man of the millennium when it comes to dating the hottest chicks in the entertainment industry. Is he the new age Hugh Hefner? The Canadian native has been known to spread his love around to a slew of beauties. We rated (in our own order) who we believe to be the hottest 17 chicks ya boy Drizzy Drake is rumored to have been creeping around with. How do you rate them?

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Save for the GT3 models.
The Porsche 911 R, GT3 and GT3 RS are all that'll soon be left of the naturally aspirated ass-engined German sports car. The 911 Carrera and Carrera S are now turbocharged and, very shortly, that same setup will strike the GTS. Thanks to our spy photographers, we now have our first images of the newly turbocharged 911 GTS Targa, caught testing at the Nurburgring. Look closely and you'll notice the blacked-out targa roll over bar that could become an option along with center-locking wheels.
That GT3-like front bumper is more than likely a part of the aero sport package. More importantly, however, the previous GTS's naturally aspirated 3.8-liter flat-six is being swapped out in favor of the twin-turbo 3.0-liter flat-six. So it goes. The 991.2 GTS, like its predecessor, will once again be offered in two- and all-wheel drive versions. The Targa, coupe and convertible will all return as well. Our sources are also telling us the updated GTS will probably receive a slight power increase and will once again come with the Carrera 4 wide body and the Sport Chrono package and PASM active suspension. No official reveal date has been announced, but a very good guess is the Paris Motor Show this September.


Alhambra’s varsity football team left the field at Bishop O’Dowd exactly 364 days after their playoff loss last year with the same result, a second-round loss.
That game however could not have been more different than the gritty 17-14 loss the Bulldogs suffered at the hands of the Dragons on blustery Saturday afternoon in Oakland.
And moreover, this second straight appearance in the North Coast Section playoffs marks the first time Alhambra has made consecutive cameos in the playoffs since Coach Alan Hern took over the program in 2010.
“The program is on the rise, and they (the seniors) were a part of that,” Hern said after the game, highlighting the time and work the players put in.
For their part, Bishop O’Dowd made the adjustments they needed to make to come out on top. Their first three drives on offense were unimpressive, and they could only muster three yards. But thanks to a 32-yard punt return by sophomore Jevon Holland, they had the ball inside the Bulldog 5-yard line, and were able to come away with an all too crucial field goal from put through by Sean Senn.
On the previous drive Hern elected to try a fake punt, and while he was bailed out on an interception by senior safety Damon Blalock, the Bulldogs were pinned deep.
Every time Nicki Rucki came onto the field to punt, she was doing so in the shadow of her own end zone.
Alhambra answered back on a drive that took nearly six minutes off the clock and spanned 65 yards. The drive was capped off by Jonathan McCart’s 1-yard touchdown. Matt Beck had scored from 39 yards out earlier in the drive, but his touchdown run was brought back due to a personal foul penalty that happened behind the play.
In a game that featured very little firepower in the passing game, it was the running backs and the offensive lineman that shone on Saturday. And none shone brighter than the freshman sensation Austin Jones. The first-year back piled up the yards and added to his already stellar season in which he has run for more than 1,000 yards.
Alhambra got a heavy dose of Jones early on when O’Dowd Head Coach Napoleon Kauffman elected to start pocket-passer Joe Deluca under center over running threat Nick Allen.
Allen entered the game late on, however it was unclear as to whether Deluca was withdrawn due to performance or the slight limp he was wearing.
At the half, Alhambra had only complied 58 yards on offense, and were clearly determined to take it up a notch.
They got a big take away on defense when senior Josh Ramirez picked off Allen’s pass in the end zone to set Alhambra up with a shot at the lead.
“Our defense played great,” said Hern. “They gave us a chance to get the win.”
Neither team could convert on third quarter takeaways, so that the quarter ended the same way the half did, at 10-7 in favor of O’Dowd.
Quarterback Zach Elliott scored after Alhambra took advantage of a mental mistake by the Dragons’ special teams unit that was flagged for fair catch interference. It took only four plays to go 32 yards, and Alhambra was ahead.
On the ensuing defensive series, Jeremy Abraham made a big sack and the momentum started to shift, but the Alhambra offense continued to sputter and fade.
“Their corners were physical and we had trouble getting off our coverage, and that limited our outside receivers,” Hern said. The Bulldogs missed senior captain Josh Abraham, which affected the match ups the Bulldogs liked going into the game.
Allen scored from nine yards out, so that, with 3:25 left, Alhambra had one last shot.
That shot went so poorly there was no way for Alhambra to recover. Elliott was nearly picked off on his first pass attempt, and the Bulldogs were flagged for unsportsmanlike conduct on the play after that. Another incomplete pass set up fourth down, where Elliott was sacked, and Alhambra’s season was put to rest.
The Bulldogs finished the season at 7-5 overall.


We recently received an email from someone who asked, "What is the difference between a 'product placement' and a 'video news release' (VNR)? Is a VNR a type of product placement?" Since other people might have the same question, I thought I'd post my answer here. On SourceWatch, we have articles about both topics. As our article about video news releases explains, a VNR is a piece of video that is created (typically by a public relations firm on behalf of a paying client) and designed to look like a news segment for broadcast by TV news programs. It deceives audiences by creating the impression that the "news" they see on TV was produced by independent reporters, when in fact VNRs are promotional pieces designed to sell something for a client whose identity is not always disclosed. TV news shows often deny that they use VNRs, but Diane Farsetta, our senior researcher, has done extensive research in which she found numerous examples of the practice. "Product placement" is a separate but similarly sneaky practice of getting television programs and movies to display a company's product within their program.
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Charter Communications, one of the largest Internet Service Providers (ISP) in the U.S., recently sent letters to some of its 2.7 million customers with details of a new initiative. "Charter is billing its new web tracking program as an 'enhancement' for customers' web surfing experience. ... The pilot program is set to begin next month.
On June 6, limos will be lined up, the red carpet will be rolled out, and decked out attendees will have their photos snapped by swarming paparazzi. But this isn't your usual Hollywood awards ceremony.
When some people in the audience at the premiere of the new Dr. Suess movie "Horton Hears a Who" started yelling "A person's a person no matter how small," others thought they were just over-enthusiastic Dr. Suess fans. Instead, it turned out that a pack of anti-abortion activists had hijacked the elephant star's famous line to promote their view that abortion should be banned.
Want to earn up to $2.4 million to produce and distribute across Iraq 12 issues of a comic book designed to "highlight the professionalism of the Iraqi Special Operations Forces (ISOF) and to enhance the public perception of the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) as a capable, well-trained, and professional fighting force"? Well, you'll have to compete with the Lincoln Group, the PR firm that previously placed U.S.
The Center for Media and Democracy has never been shy about criticizing the public relations industry. That's what we do, and we're proud of it. You'd think that this would give PR people second thoughts before sending us their drivel. Unfortunately, they can't seem to help themselves -- even when that means that they end up tipping us off to their own efforts at sneaking product placements into TV shows such as American Idol.
Actress Suzanne Pleshette's recent death from "respiratory distress" was sad. Most of the articles about it briefly mention that she had been fighting lung cancer, but fail to mention that she had been a cigarette smoker in the past. Cigarette smoking is the single biggest cause of lung cancer.
It is rarely discussed, but tobacco has taken an extraordinarily heavy toll on Hollywood. The list of beloved celebrities killed by smokers' diseases is huge, and growing: George Harrison, Johnny Carson, Dana Reeve, Yul Brynner, Lucille Ball, Walt Disney, Nat King Cole, Joe DiMaggio, Michael Landon, Sammy Davis, Jr., Dean Martin, Betty Grable, and Babe Ruth to name just a few. Despite this, the failure to mention a person's smoking history in obituary columns is the norm in celebrity deaths. In just one glaring example, a four page obituary about the 2005 death of prominent news anchor Peter Jennings published by his own network, ABC, fails to mention the contribution that smoking made to Jennings' tragic and untimely death. A CNN's column about Jennings' death didn't mention it either. Something is up when major news organizations omit any mention the single most prominent cause of the death of a renowned news anchor.
The General Chairman of Indonesia's National Commission for Child Protection, Seto Mulyadi, called tobacco companies' corporate social responsibility programs "hidden cigarette campaigns." Mulyadi said that cigarette companies "do free advertising through their CSR programs." Mulyadi is proposing a complete ban on cigarette advertising in Indonesia, after a study by the country's Pub
'Tis the season of gift giving, and of retailers trying to grab as much of their market share as they can. While encouraging consumerism and excessive consumption, sellers also seek to tap into nobler urges toward benevolence and charity at this time of year.


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Toshiba announces 60GB, 1.8-inch hard-disk drive Toshiba Corp. will begin mass-producing a 60GB, 1.8-inch hard-disk drive before the end of the year, it said Wednesday. Such drives are commonly used in digital music players and sub-notebook computers.


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Hypothesized on the basis of expectancy/valence theory that the negative affect that follows failure to obtain employment will be stronger among those individuals who are more strongly motivated to seek employment than among those who are less motivated. This hypothesis was tested by administering a questionnaire to 212 unemployed youth (mean age 19.76 yrs). Consistent with the hypothesis, results show that Ss who indicated in their ratings that they were highly motivated to get a job also provided higher ratings of depressive affect. Those Ss with higher levels of depressive affect were less likely to blame themselves for their unemployment and more likely to blame external difficulties, such as the current economic situation. They also provided higher ratings of the valence or perceived attractiveness of work itself. Their retrospective ratings concerning how confident they were of getting a job on leaving school and how much they needed and tried for a job also tended to be higher than those of the less depressed Ss. Results are discussed in relation to the expectancy/valence approach, A. T. Beck's (1967, 1976, 1979) theory of depression, helplessness theory of depression, and recent discussions of cognitive-affect linkages that employ attribution concepts. (47 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved).
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