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Kitase-san would like to remake Final Fantasy V next
The Japanese producer explains the reasoning behind the choice only after warning it's his "purely personal opinion".
With expectation building up to incredible heights after the release of the Final Fantasy VII: Remake demo and a barrage of Final Fantasy VII: Remake previews, keeping in mind the title coming to PS4 on April 10 is just one of the whole several-part FF7R project, fans may wonder whether other Final Fantasy classics might get the same modernization treatment in the foreseeable future.
That's exactly how we closed our recent interview with veteran producer Yoshinori Kitase the other day in Madrid, during Final Fantasy VII: Remake presentation, by asking the following: "Let's say you have the money, the team, and even the resources you had with FF7R, and you have the chance to remake any other game. Which one would it be?"
"(Laughs) Ok, so first of all, you have to promise you're not going to write an article saying Square Enix is remaking Final Fantasy something, something... It's just a purely personal opinion, just so you understand that", Kitase-san made very clear to Gamereactor first of all. "With that caveat in place, the first Final Fantasy that I worked on myself was Final Fantasy V, that hasn't been remade with the more realistic kind of approach yet, so I think it might be quite interesting to do a FF5 remake someday".
Kitase-san was indeed credited as field plan writer in the 1992 SNES classic, and from there on he would move to direct FFVI and then the legendary FFVII, so it's only natural it holds a special place in his heart. Fans will remember it as the last purely medieval Final Fantasy, boasting excellent gameplay and a revamped job system. At least all of that was way more memorable than the story of Lenna and Bratz.
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Through Sickness to Strategic Health
Saying India and the United States are strategically made for each other isn’t in favour in New Delhi or Washington these days. So it’s refreshing to have someone just say right out: “It’s a match made in heaven. Just do it.”
William Avery was a State Department official when the Indo-US nuclear deal was being put together. Dishing out visas in Chennai, he didn’t have much to do with the deal. However, he was infected by the same geopolitical bug that bit George W. Bush, and it’s stayed with him, though now he’s a corporate merger and acquisitions advisor.
India’s rise is, he argues, “China’s nightmare, America’s dream” in his book of the same name. These different national responses pretty much tell you why a US-India partnership makes so much sense. Avery sees the US as the obvious partner to address the missing pieces in India’s power puzzle. “Building stronger defence ties with the United States, and its allies, is the only way for India to create the weapons industry it needs.” And the economic sinews of a superpower, for him, lie in the creation of multinationals. India is producing them, but it needs to do more, quicker. Again, the US is the model.
This is not a patronising work: Avery’s enthusiasm for India would make the Bajrang Dal blush. “I believe India is capable of being a true world power. The world needs India to become a true global power.” He frets at India’s passivity about taking over its own ocean, the weakness of its indigenous defence industry and its general caution about everything.
Avery wants the rupee to be a global reserve currency by 2025. He even believes India should get off its call centring obsession — “outsourcing can only survive so long as India is poor.”
Understandably, he’s disappointed with the Obama administration and Manmohan Singh 2.0 and the way both have frittered away the Bush momentum. “It turns out the Indo-American relationship could have used a little less professor and a little more cowboy.” India has other good global friends but they don’t have what it takes given the horizons India should be aiming for. France and Russia are nice, but they are too small or declining too rapidly. As for the US, its main international relationship is with China — and it’s “mutually dysfunctional; they sell us junk we don’t need and we fall in love with consuming it.” Pakistan? Easy. There should be a complete Indo-US mind-meld over handling that failing State.
What’s nice about Avery’s book is that he pushes out a big idea that the Indian strategic establishment is still wary to talk about and US strategists still can’t take seriously. He is realistic enough to know that no matter how close they get, India and the US will never have a full-blown alliance.
What’s missing is that Avery doesn’t do a detailed geopolitical and economic nuts and bolts study that would make a classic case for an IndoAmerican alliance. Maybe its because neither country hasn’t worked out how their interests converge. India’s national security thinking is still a work in progress. Avery’s answer: “Don’t overthink Indo-US relations. You have to step back. Once you do, it becomes pretty obvious.”
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At a revival-style rally Saturday in Kansas City, Akin told about 150 supporters that he's sensing a lot of energy for his campaign. Participants were encouraged to grab a stack voting guides and distribute them at Sunday church services. Akin also was holding rallies Saturday in Jefferson City and St. Louis County.
McCaskill traveled to Columbia to encourage volunteers who were setting out to knock on more than 3,500 doors. The canvassers were targeting Democrats who voted sporadically in the past to make sure they would get to the polls Tuesday and - if necessary - to persuade them to vote for McCaskill.

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In order to maintain communication with stakeholders during its long-term goals to sync up Auke Bay development projects, the city named 16 people to a steering committee that will help advise the efforts.
City senior planner Ben Lyman presented the list of approved applicants to the Planning Commission at its Tuesday night meeting. Phillip Rolfe, Doug Scudder, Mitch Falk, Ric Iannolino, Nathan Leigh, Gerald Gotschall, Eric Lindegaard, Travis Eckhoff, Mike Noel, Dana Hanselman, David Haas, Dave Klein, Sharyn Augustine, Lawrence Lee Oldaker, H. Caroline Hassler and Michele Grant were chosen to help planners make decisions on the future of Auke Bay.
Lyman acknowledged at the meeting that nobody representing the Auk Tribe had applied to be on the committee. The commission insisted the group include a tribal representative. They also suggested including a youth or UAS student.
“I’ll be soliciting representatives for these seats in the coming week,” Lyman said in a later email.
Planning commissioner Nathan Bishop was named liaison to the steering committee. The Alaska Department of Transportation is sending Pat Carroll as its liaison, Lyman said.
Lyman also presented findings from a survey of 223 City and Borough of Juneau residents that covered everything from bikes to noise to job opportunities. Last month, the city gave a series of public meetings that presented the problem and asked for help finding a solution. Too many different construction projects, operating independently, are happening or will be happening in Auke Bay — at the university, on Glacier Highway, in residential areas and at the harbor, to name a few, Lyman said at the commission meeting. The survey results helped narrow plans to make everything cohesive.
Of the respondents, about 50 percent identified themselves as Auke Bay residents. Seventy-one percent said they see Auke Bay in 20 years as being “a mixed residential and commercial village with a full range of services, including marine support.” Pedestrian safety has proven to be a big talking point throughout the planning process so far. Thirty-one percent of respondents said they feel “unsafe” biking through Auke Bay. Twenty-six percent said the same of walking. Full results of the 10-question survey can be found online at www.juneau.org/aukebayplan/documents/STF_AME13-12.pdf.
Karla Hart, organizer of Friends of Auke Bay, a group that advocates for the neighborhood, said stakeholders want “a plan that (makes) the community a walkable, livable place to live, work, recreate.” She said she had noticed a lot of government entities changing parts of Auke Bay, and decided to help “shape it for us, instead of having organizations do things to us.”
“We want to make it so the community is more than a sum of the parts,” she said.
Although she’s been involved in the efforts to create a cohesive Auke Bay since it was first on the table in 2008, she did not apply to be on the steering committee. However, she’s staying in regular contact with the planners, she said.
“I’m more interested that it’s a good process that involves the community,” Hart said. “I’ll still be involved on my own.”
Hart envisions Auke Bay as a self-contained unit, where everything anyone needs is well within reach.
“I would like Auke Bay to become a place where people from the community want to go spend an afternoon and an evening and take a walk and enjoy,” she said. “I have this vision that it can be this really cool little university neighborhood community town that people like to go to.”
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Forbes magazine said on Monday that it planned to lay off several staff members from the editorial and business sides, a cost-cutting move in response to decreasing advertising revenue.
The announcement was made in an internal memorandum sent Monday afternoon by Steve Forbes, the company’s chief executive and editor in chief of the magazine. “We — and the entire media world — have been hit hard by both the severe recession and the seismic shifts wrought by the Web,” Mr. Forbes wrote. “Given these dramatic events, further layoffs, unfortunately, are necessary across the entire organization.”
Monie Begley, a Forbes spokeswoman, declined to specify the number of layoffs. She said that some people had been dismissed Monday, and she expected layoffs to continue throughout the week.
The layoffs came after other cuts at Forbes over the last year, including dismissing about 100 employees, having employees take five days of unpaid leave, and ceasing matching contributions to its 401(k) program.
Although circulation has been holding relatively steady at Forbes, with reported circulation at 914,000 for the first six months of this year, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, ad pages have not. Ad pages dropped 32.5 percent in the third quarter, according to the Publishers Information Bureau, to just above 300 pages.
With the changes at Forbes and its competitors, the business magazine category could look significantly different after this recession.Continue reading the main story
BusinessWeek, which had spent 80 years under McGraw-Hill, was purchased this month by Bloomberg L.P. The financial information company is drawing up plans for the magazine, and its editor, Stephen J. Adler, has announced that he will leave after the acquisition is complete.
Fortune, a biweekly magazine, announced last week that it would reduce its frequency to 18 times a year, or approximately once every three weeks.
And Condé Nast’s Portfolio, which the company introduced in 2007 to try to add a viable competitor to the big three business magazines, was closed down in April.
An article on Tuesday about impending layoffs at Forbes magazine misstated the period during which ad pages at the magazine dropped 32.5 percent. It was in the third quarter, not “this year through the September issues.”


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A coronavirus relief deal is in sight, but not without drama on Capitol Hill. The $1 trillion measure will provide aid for millions of Americans amid the pandemic. But with time running out, a final deal has yet to be reached.
Months after the House passed a Democrat-led bill, the White House is set to make a major concession when Senate Republicans unveil their plan.
Inching closer to a deal with Republicans on the next phase of a congressional rescue package, President Trump is prepared to give in on a payroll tax cut.
After calling it "very important" Monday the President declared in a tweet Thursday that "The Democrats have stated strongly that they won't approve a Payroll Tax Cut (too bad!)" and signaled his readiness to move on without it in a Republican relief package estimated to hit $1 trillion.
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"This is about kids and jobs," said Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin outside the White House. The bill is set to provide up to $25 billion for COVID-19 testing and up to $105 billion to schools.
Mnuchin said the Republican plan would decrease the level of unemployment insurance set to run out this month.
"This is intended to be wage replacement, so we're focused on the percentage which is about 70%, so nobody's going to get more than $600 but again if you were making $300, you're not going to get $600 this time," he said.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) countered that the GOP plan is too little too late.
With those extra unemployment benefits set to run out next week, the clock is ticking. But whether leaving out the President's payroll tax cut will be enough to bring Democrats to the table remains to be seen.
"What we have seen so far falls very short of the challenge that we face in order to defeat the virus in order to open our schools and to open our economy," Pelosi said.
Democrats are insisting that any relief bill include hazard pay as well as food and rental assistance.
Speaking on the Senate Floor Thursday, Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said, "How about instead of shielding corporations from immunity, we shield renters from eviction?"
As to those grappling with adding to the deficit, the top House Republican signaled that a GOP bill is the lesser of two evils.
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How many points can be scored by making a basket?
When a team makes a basket, they score two points and the ball goes to the other team. If a basket, or field goal, is made outside of the three-point arc, then that basket is worth three points. A free throw is worth one point.
Can you score 5 points Basketball?
If a guy makes a 3 pointer, gets fouled, then the team that fouled gets called for a technical, technically it’s a 5 point play, because they’d get the 3, the foul shot, and the technical shot.
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Is there a 6 pointer in basketball?
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Fracking in the US: The story of one man's oil well
A writer from liberal Massachusetts goes to Texas to deal with a family oil well. What he learned about fracking, salt domes, and America's energy future.
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East Texas between Houston and Galveston is a low flat land of cayenne-pepper heat coming off the tepid waters of Galveston Bay. The cries of laughing gulls and great-tailed grackles fill the salty air, and the silhouettes of vultures circle overhead. Donkey-head oil wells and offshore rigs moored opposite shrimp boats in the bay remind me that, despite a scattering of wind turbines and solar panels, the United States still remains firmly anchored in the Petroleum Age.
That may be fortuitous for me, since I’m here to check out an oil well I’ve owned since I was in college. The site lies in a landscape of former horse farms and pear orchards on the Gulf Freeway, which runs between the two cities.
I’ve come to Texas to answer a simple question: What should I do with the mineral rights beneath the well – hang onto them and keep getting my small royalty check each month? Or sell them to one of many wildcat suitors I’ve had in recent months, most of whom want to “frack” the well?
This could be my J.R. Ewing moment.
Like many Americans, I’ve followed the debate over fracking from a distance and am fairly familiar with the arguments on both sides. The technology, which uses prodigious amounts of pressurized water laced with chemicals to break shale rock and liberate entombed oil and gas, is either going to help the US achieve one of the most elusive goals in modern history – to become energy independent – or unleash a host of new environmental problems. Or it may turn out to be something in between.
That’s what I’m here in east Texas to decide – what my tiny role should be in the nation’s grand debate over its energy future.
My decision is complicated by one other factor. I’m a science writer from a famously liberal state, Massachusetts, trying to figure out what to do with my well in a famously conservative state, Texas. In Massachusetts, we post “frog crossing” signs at every vernal pool. In Texas, they post “pipeline crossing” signs at almost every intersection. How will this clash of values play out in my decisionmaking?
As often happens when things are examined up close, my journey through the Texas lowlands and the nation’s divisive energy debate brought some surprising twists – and, for me, an unexpected conclusion.
CHAPTER 1: From earth shoes to ‘T. Boone’ Sargent
I became an oil well owner in 1968, at the age of 22.
It was just before Neil Armstrong put his boot print on the moon and college campuses erupted in protest over the Vietnam War.
My father happened to be running for governor as a Republican and a liberal environmentalist, perhaps something you could do only in Massachusetts. He would end up turning the state away from building highways toward building more public transportation. He would give the country’s first Earth Day speech at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1970.
But in 1968, when he was seeking office, he had to divest himself of many holdings, including an oil well, to avoid conflicts of interest. So he gave my sisters and me part ownership of the well that he had bought from an old Army buddy in Houston.
Now that might sound pretty grand, to say you owned an oil well in Texas. But it was a modest distinction: The well had been in operation for years and was now only producing a trickle. It was only pumping enough oil to pay each of us $28 a month.
It also wasn’t that unusual at the time to own an oil well. Many Americans did. In fact, one factor driving energy development in the US over the decades has been the practice of private ownership of mineral rights. In many other parts of the world – Europe, for instance – the government owns the rights to oil, gas, and other resources under the ground and controls development through licensing agreements. Here, oil companies – big and small – can deal directly with people who own the booty, which tends to encourage entrepreneurialism and development, for better and worse.
I also just found my well a wonderfully tangible investment. I liked thinking of it faithfully bobbing up and down in East Texas as I went about writing environmental books, some of which even bashed big oil.
Then, in 1973, I started receiving letters from Exxon explaining that the company planned to “unitize” our oil field. This meant that we would be paid a percentage of what the entire oil field produced rather than what was being pumped out of our individual well.
But it was a tricky proposition. They would have to inject pressurized fluids into the ground to draw out the residual oil. It could result in us earning even less than we had been making before. Given the risks, the company offered to buy me and my siblings out for $5,000 each.
My sisters were elated. One bought a horse with the money; the other put an addition on her house. I figured that if Exxon wanted our well so badly they had to know something I didn’t, so I hung on to my share. The royalties plunged to about $10 a month.
I was beginning to feel less like J.R. Ewing and more like Cliff Barnes, the dupe who was always getting outfoxed by the Ewings. But time passed and oil technology progressed until, a few months ago, I started receiving letters and phone calls again. This time they were from small wildcatters who wanted to use newer techniques to siphon the remaining oil out of the field, which they were now calling the Webster tract. In some cases they were sending checks offering to buy out my share of the royalties.
Was fracking knocking on my wellhead?
CHAPTER 2: What was this money in my mailbox?
As the oilmen explained it, primary production had drawn 30 to 40 percent of the oil out of the Webster field.
Secondary production had brought up another 20 percent. But at least 20 percent more was still lying below the Texas sod, which they believed they could now recover.
It would have been easy for me to simply cash one of the $6,000 checks that were showing up in my mailbox. Yet once again I was curious what the wily Texans knew that this callow Easterner didn’t.
I had read most of the environmental literature about the effects of fracking, which included some scary stuff: how it could contaminate ground water, contribute to air pollution, create waste-water issues, and, in theory, even cause some people’s tap water to become flammable.
But I had also noticed what fracking had done for energy prices: how natural gas prices had remained low for several years, saving consumers huge amounts on their heating and electric bills.
I had watched as a city near us, Salem, Mass., decided to replace its old coal-fired power plant with a new gas-fired one, thanks to the abundant supplies from fracking. More broadly, I understood that many people believe natural gas can be a bridge to get us from an economy based on our dwindling supplies of oil to one based on wind, solar, and hydrogen energy.
But did I really think my well was going to help usher in energy independence by 2016, or just more of the same old environmental problems?
I needed to do some more sleuthing. First I clicked on Google Earth to locate the Webster tract. It consisted of about a dozen wells just north of the town of Webster, an aerospace hub of 10,500 people 20 miles southeast of Houston.
I wondered what all those people thought about having oil wells near their homes – wells that might sully their drinking water but might also be worth millions of dollars. So I checked online.
I discovered that Texas has a 100-year history of derricks and drill rigs coexisting beside homes and farms. Cities like Fort Worth, Dallas, and Houston boomed because of the black gold often sitting in subterranean vaults directly below their streets.
As a result, I expected to find unconditional support for oil and gas extraction, and people eager to buy into the latest energy boom. Instead I found that Texas is having many of the same debates as the rest of the country.
A North Texas family was awarded $3 million in April in a landmark lawsuit against a natural-gas company whose fracking operations, they argued, had made them sick and killed some of their ranch animals. In Denton, just north of Dallas, the city was putting a referendum on its November ballot that would ban fracking altogether. But most of the articles were more nuanced, reflecting the state’s long history of energy exploration and innovation and, yes, its growing use of renewables (Texas has more wind turbines than any state except California).
In 1981, Mitchell Energy, a Texas company, was the first to drill horizontally to reach the Barnett shale formation beneath Fort Worth. It also used a “slick-water frack” – adding friction-reducing chemicals to the well water to allow it to flow at a higher rate. By combining the two technologies, they could dramatically increase the amount of gas that could be retrieved from shale rock.
When the price of natural gas rose above the equivalent of $90 a barrel for oil in the late 1990s, these two technologies, coupled with other innovations, helped trigger a nationwide fracking boom – one that extends from the Bakken formation in North Dakota to the Marcellus formation in Pennsylvania to many other parts of the country.
Today, the Newark East Field underlying the Barnett formation continues to be the largest producer in Texas, accounting for 30 percent of all the natural gas produced in the state. Because it is so big and was the first field to be exploited, the early frackers made mistakes and garnered their share of environmental critics.
But I also found an online forum for land and royalty owners above the Haynesville shale formation, which covers 9,000 square miles in East Texas, northwestern Louisiana, and southwestern Arkansas. It is conservatively estimated to hold 29 trillion cubic feet of natural gas and to be worth several billion dollars.
The website demonstrates a new determination to get things right. Its introduction reads, “What makes this site so great? Well I think it’s the fact that, quite frankly, we all have a lot at stake in this thing they call shale.... Our farm has been in our family for over 80 years. As exciting as this shale is, we know that we have a responsibility to do this thing correctly.”
But when I started calling around I found that things were even more interesting. Exxon Mobil had sold the Webster tract to Denbury Resources in Plano, Texas. I called the head of owner relations, Jack Collins. I asked him when the company planned to start fracking my well. He replied, by e-mail, “We have no plans to frack Webster field, but we do plan to commence a CO2 flood of the field next year.”
He explained that Denbury owned a source of natural carbon dioxide underneath a salt dome in Mississippi. The company was extending a pipeline from Mississippi to Texas, and, when it arrived, it would start pumping natural carbon dioxide into the oil field.
With fracking, fluids are forced into the wellhead to break up the shale rock and free the trapped gas. With CO2 flooding, carbon dioxide is pumped into the well and adheres to the droplets of oil in the shale. It’s a little like mixing turpentine with paint: The oil droplets swell and become thinner so they can be pumped out.
In 2015, Denbury planned to substitute this natural carbon dioxide with “man-made” CO2 emissions from a new power plant being built in Mississippi. After the oil is extracted, the company intends to leave the remaining carbon dioxide underground where it cannot contribute to global warming. The federal government will provide the power plant with a grant to participate in the project.
Mr. Collins sent me some literature that pointed out that the amount of US carbon emissions had dropped in four out of the past seven years because of power plants switching from coal to natural gas. It noted that a plant in Saskatchewan planned to sequester the same amount of carbon dioxide as would be produced by 500,000 automobiles.
I began to wonder: Had I serendipitously become an investor in an energy company that is doing carbon sequestration and oil extraction right?
There had to be a catch. I decided to fly down to Texas, to snoop around a bit more.
CHAPTER 3: A shaker of salt and co2
I found the Webster tract sitting on both sides of the Gulf Freeway, not far from the Johnson Space Center.
It lies in an area of upscale malls and less august malls with pawnshops, gas stations, and bail bondsmen.
The land Denbury owns is some of the least developed on the highway. There are large tracts of hardwood forests and the remains of old fruit orchards. Horses and dairy cows graze beside the capped wells of the oil field. Across the highway, towering rigs are starting to drill toward a great dome of salt thousands of feet below, where the CO2 would eventually be pumped in under pressure.
I decided to ask several neighbors what they thought of the project. On a rainy morning, as I was having breakfast at a Waffle House, I talked to a carpenter who said he was concerned about reports of earthquakes in West Texas, where there is a lot of fracking going on. He was echoing a common concern about both fracking and CO2 flooding.
“Of course there is no way in heaven you can say they were caused by fracking, and they really didn’t do much damage,” said the man, who didn’t want his name used. “But there have never been any earthquakes there before.”
I asked another person, Weezie McKay, what she would do if a company wanted to recover gas under her house. “I would start to look for a new home,” she said without hesitating.
Eric Miller, a chemical engineer in the orchard lands of nearby Orange, had a different perspective. He said he would be thrilled if someone wanted to use carbon dioxide to get more oil out of his well.
“This kind of thing has been done safely for years. Natural gas is a seasonal fuel used primarily to heat homes in the winter. So when they produce it in the summer they pump it back down into salt domes and store it until the prices rise in the autumn,” he explained. “The chemical industry also gets credits for pumping ethylene into salt domes, and, of course, the government stores strategic supplies of oil in some of the 500 salt domes in this part of Texas and Louisiana.”
I was discovering that there are many ways of looking at oil. Easterners tend to look at it as a messy business of booming gushers that make Texans instantly rich. But the average well isn’t a gusher but one more like mine that can produce a moderate amount of oil for several generations if the correct technology is used.
Scientists see oil as a mineral that built up when our planet was much warmer and plankton was removing heat-trapping carbon dioxide from the ocean, then sequestering it under tons of sediments where it gradually cooked into gas and petroleum. In essence they see oil as our planet’s way of cooling itself down. The problem is that now we are putting that heat-trapping gas back into the atmosphere so fast that the natural system can’t absorb it without contributing to global warming.
Many thoughtful environmentalists look at oil and gas differently. They see running out of oil as one of our biggest environmental problems. Despite its dirty reputation, oil is one of the cleanest fuels we have – far cleaner than coal or tar sands. In their view, we should be converting to wind and solar energy while conserving what oil is left for essential things like transportation.
Finally, most Texans still see oil as a pretty good investment that can earn a family a good income for several generations while helping build our nation’s economy.
I like to think that using carbon dioxide to extract oil from my well will take all of these considerations into account. So now I have to decide: What should I do with the mineral rights?
CHAPTER 4: My smaller carbon footprint
My well is already owned by a company that is considered a leader in the field of carbon dioxide sequestration and oil extraction.
Do I think this technology is the silver bullet that will solve all our global warming problems? No.
Do I think there are no problems associated with carbon injection? No.
In 2011, Denbury paid a $662,500 fine when its injection system blew the cement casing out of a well in Mississippi, and carbon dioxide escaped and settled in the surrounding hollows, asphyxiating several deer and other smaller animals. Critics remain concerned about whether companies do enough to safely cap the wells so they can withstand the pressure that forces the oil out of dormant fields.
But even wind turbines have been blamed for killing wildlife such as bald eagles. Like wind and solar, such carbon sequestering is not the complete answer, but it does seem to me to be a step in the right direction.
In theory, my field will continue to make a modest amount of money extracting oil out of the ground without most of the problems associated with fracking for natural gas. It will sequester 4 percent more heat-trapping carbon underground than will be emitted by the pumped-out oil. This 4 percent represents the equivalent of being able to take several hundred thousand cars off the road.
So I am curious to see how all this will play out and have decided to hang onto my well to see what happens as we pump it full of heat-trapping carbon dioxide.
I’m hopeful it will help create a world in which CO2 emissions are declining. If so, I may pass on the well to my grandchildren, as my father did to me, as a petroglyph of sorts to the Petroleum Age.
William Sargent is a consultant for the “NOVA” science series on PBS and is the author of 20 books about science and the environment. His latest book, “Islands in the Storm,” is about how barrier beach communities fared during superstorm Sandy.


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I am a big fan of introducing new concepts with books. Characters in books, those the age of the children, are much better models for behavioral and social emotional modifications. I would get into a big long discussion on one of my favorite topics, bibliotherapy, but I think I will avoid that for now.
Arnie and His School Tools: Simple Sensory Solutions That Build Success by Jennifer Veenendall introduces the readers to a little boy named Arnie who tells his story. It seems that he used to have trouble doing his work, he was bouncing all over the place, and not following the rules or learning. He gets school tools, which are explained very well with comparing them to a builder's tools, and things start to change. His tools are ones an occupational therapist might give, a stretchy band or something to hold along with other OT ideas. The best part about the book is that it conveys sensory solutions to the child with out using overly complicated therapeutic language. Arnie seems to be a success, with lots of new school tools he can learn. He hopes some day to have an exciting job, because he recognizes that he can't have a desk job, like an archaeologist.
The book is quite new, published in January of 2008, and I look forward to more books of this tenure.

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Just when you thought you’d memorized ‘Closer’ like the back of your hand, Wiz Khalifa comes out of the woodwork with a surprising rendition of the electronic-pop hit. Although you may be exhausted on The Chainsmoker’s classic rendition, this track offers a different take on romance and love in true Wiz fashion.
Over the weekend Wiz released the official ‘Closer’ remix on his SoundCloud page as a supplement to his recent drop of the track at the 2017 Okeechobee Music Fest. The song features his signature auto-tuned vocals and the original chorus, but with a mellow cannabis-infused hook. The storyline is a light contrast to the original theme of scandalous and regretful hookups with exes. In the Wiz Khalifa version, he’s seeking for a ride-or-die type of love that “accepts his language.” That love language of course consisting of smoking joints and carefree vibes. Spoken like a true stoner.
If you’re looking for a hit (no pun intended) with a fresh take on modern romance, you can check it out below.
The Chainsmokers – Closer (Wiz Khalifa Remix)


Don’t worry, no planets were harmed in the making of this Picture of the Week! The powerful laser beams seen here are installed in one of the four 8.2-m telescopes of ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile. They allow astronomers to obtain very sharp images of the cosmos by correcting the blur caused by turbulence in the atmosphere, but how?
The lasers are tuned to a very specific colour that excites sodium atoms floating 90 km above the ground, making them glow. This creates artificial “stars” high up in the sky, whose rapid twinkling is monitored in real time by special sensors. Then, instructions are sent to the telescope’s deformable secondary mirror, which quickly reshapes itself to counteract the atmospheric distortion. And all of this happens at millisecond speeds!
This technique, known as adaptive optics, can also use real stars as a reference to measure the turbulence. But there isn’t always a bright enough star right next to the object one wants to observe, and this is when artificial laser stars come in handy.
How do the lasers themselves work, and what other astronomical applications do they have? Find out in this ESO blog post.Crédit:
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Fig, Prosciutto and Pear Salad - yep, I will be eating this come summer time
Fig, Prosciutto Pear Salad
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Sweet Fig Salty Ham Creamy Mozzarella Salad, brings us back to a warm, lazy afternoon on the Mediterranean
fig, mascarpone & pistachio tart
Pear, Walnut and Feta Salad with Balsamic and Olive Oil Dressing!
Italian Food ~ #food #Italian #italianfood ~ Figs, Blue Cheese & Prosciutto.
Figs and Cheese~Mmm, this would be even better with goat cheese, toasted pecans & a balsamic & honey drizzle
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Prosciutto with Figs and Mascarpone
I'd just about give my right arm if someone would send me some figs!!! Ripe, right off the tree, please
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Now before we start on the home, the SHED, absolutely WOW approx. 6m x 3m plus a 6m x 6m rumpus/man cave or games room with evaporative air cooling in the shed, plus another 6m x 4m shed plus a 6m x 6m carport yes you heard right, now this is the ULTIMATE MAN CAVE, so bring the caravan or boat there is room for all the toys.
OK now here's what you have been waiting for! The home with a generous open plan living area which takes full advantage of the panorama that opens before your eyes and encompasses indoor/outdoor living at its best. With stunning views of the backyard, plus a huge covered entertainment area, creating a wonderful family living experience.
The stunning kitchen illuminates with natural light and is main hub of the home. From the stone benchtops, huge full length breakfast bar, stunning splash back, abundant draws and cupboards, electric cooking, quality appliances this is straight out of a magazine and every chef's dream.
The Master bedroom with an impressive large walk in robe and ensuite, provides a luxurious retreat for the mums and dads. There are three further well sized and appointed bedrooms with built in wardrobes plus a separate purpose built-in office. The main bathroom also features separate shower and bath. Now the 2nd lounge/living room also offers the perfect set up for friends or relatives to enjoy a luxurious stay, creating all year round entertainment.
Outside is perfect which gives you plenty of room for the kids and pets to safely play. Situated in a quiet location, this stunning home offers everything you have been looking for. The owners have meticulously renovated this home with family focused living as this key ingredient, allowing for an abundance of wonderful memories to be created. All this plus the added bonus of only a short drive to brilliant schools, shops, and parks.
Well here you have it all with this stunning and exceptionally presented 4 bedroom plus office, 2 bathroom, 5 car accommodation, plus the Ultimate Man Shed home. What are you waiting for!
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Tommy Mottola and Thalia Expecting Second Child
Music mogul Tommy Mottola is set to become a dad again - his Mexican superstar wife Thalia is expecting the couple's second child. The famed music executive, who divorced Mariah Carey in 1998, married the Latina singer/actress in 2000 and they welcomed their first child together, daughter Sabrina, in 2007.
Thalia is now pregnant again, according to the New York Post's gossip column Page Six. Mottola has two other children, Michael and Sarah, from a previous relationship.
On another news, Mottola is also reported to take a role on "The X Factor (US)" after he was spotted going out on a dinner with Simon Cowell. "Simon and Tommy have known each other for years since their days at Sony and Simon has wanted to get Tommy on board one of his shows for a long time," a FOX source said.
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Perth and Dunkeld Railway
This is open. Passenger services are
provided by ScotRail
from Dunkeld to Inverness, Perth, Glasgow and Edinburgh.
||10 July 1854
||7 April 1856
This line was formerly a branch off the Perth
to Aberdeen main line to a small town. The area is not heavily populated and
is farmed and given over to forestry.
Description of route
From Stanley Junction to Dunkeld.
This was a station
on the Scottish Midland Junction Railway.
Since the closure of the line to Forfar
this location has become the point where the Perth to Inverness line becomes
single track, going north. A modern signal box still stands.
This station had two platforms and a passing
loop. The station is closed and the passing loop lifted. The signalbox lasted
a little longer as a 'gate box' and still stands, although disused. There was
a goods yard to the north end, but this has also been lifted.
This is no longer a passing loop and the signalbox
This photograph looks north. The railway is
beyond the trees, running parallel to the road. The station of Rohallion was
probably located just up in the trees at this point. The station closed at an
Dunkeld & Birnam
This is a two platform station with a passing
loop. This was a terminus until the Inverness
and Perth Junction Railway made an end-on junction here and continued the
line to Forres on the Inverness
and Aberdeen Junction Railway. The station building still stands, but the
timber all-over roof was removed many years ago. There is an old lamp standard
here by the footbridge with the original company name on it. The sourh signal
box remains (close by it was a locomotive shed of which a single stone wall
remains). There is a large goods yard with a number of sidings which are used
to store track maintenance machines (these were formerly stored in Perth New
Yard, but due to vandalism were re-located to Dunkeld). An original Highland
Railway signal with a finial stands at the south end.
The station's name has changed a number of
times, the busy A9 has been built (partly over the extensive goods yard) between
it and the towns of Dunkeld and Birnam, but the station is still open.
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Carlo de Benedetti insisted today that he did not make any money from the collapse of Italy's largest private bank and said he would appeal his conviction as an accessory to fraudulent bankruptcy.
The chairman of Ing. C. Olivetti & C. S.p.A. was convicted Thursday and sentenced to six years and four months in prison on charges that stemmed from his 65-day term as deputy chairman of Banco Ambrosiano.
The 1982 collapse of the bank provoked Italy's biggest postwar banking scandal. Mr. de Benedetti was one of 33 people convicted in the case.
Mr. de Benedetti had invested about $42 million for a 2 percent stake in the bank before he was appointed deputy chairman.
Judges ruled that he had made an illicit profit of $22.4 million when he sold his stake in the bank in January 1982.
"My companies didn't earn one lira, and the bank didn't lose one lira thanks to me," Mr. de Benedetti said today.
The financier said he would appeal the court decision if necessary. Under Italian law the sentence is suspended until the full appeal process, which could take years, is completed.Continue reading the main story
"I haven't lost my serenity because of my absolute conviction that I always acted with correctness, transparency and determination," Mr. de Benedetti said at a news conference. "I'm certain that the facts will prevail and that justice will be done."Continue reading the main story


On January 8, 2018, the ceremony of kicking off GAC Motor Yichang Project & 2018 “Major Projects Launch Month” was hosted in the Auto Industry Park, Xiaoting District, Yichang, Hubei.
Covering an area of ~93.3 hectares and with the planned aggregate investment of over 3.53 billion RMB and the yearly output of 200,000 units, the project will mainly be used for the production of GAC Trumpchi Class A and B products, and introduce such models as sedans and SUVs.
About 300 persons attended the event, including Zhou Ji, Member of the Standing Committee of the Hubei Provincial Party Committee, Secretary of the Yichang Municipal Party Committee and Director of the Standing Committee of the People’s Congress of Yichang City, Zhang Jiasheng, Deputy Secretary of the Yichang Municipal Committee and Mayor of Yichang, Hu Zhili, Secretary of the Xiaoting District Party Committee, Feng Xingya, President of GAC Group and Chairman of the Board of GAC Motor, Wu Song, Executive Vice President of GAC Group, Yu Jun, Deputy Director of the Executive Committee of GAC Group and President of GAC Motor and other representatives of dealers, suppliers, media and relevant organizations.
Group Photo of Ceremony of Kicking off GAC Motor Yichang Project & 2018 “Major Projects Launch Month”
Yichang Project is another GAC Group’s “smart manufacturing” benchmark factory characterized by high efficiency, good quality, energy conservation and environmental protection. GAC Group has grasped the development opportunity of the national government’s encouragement of merger & reorganization and deeply implemented such ideas as “Industry 4.0”, “Made in China 2025” and smart manufacturing.
Continuous upgraded capacity lays a solid foundation for the pattern of production and sales of one million
Zhang Jiasheng, Deputy Secretary of the Yichang Municipal Committee and Mayor of Yichang points out: “GAC Motor Yichang project formally starts construction with joint efforts of both Parties, which is of symbolic and decisive significance to push forward the development of auto and auto parts& component industry in Yichang. The project is built by following Industry 4.0 and smart manufacturing standard, which will definitely lead to manufacturing upgrade and promote more enterprises to embrace ‘smart manufacturing’ in Yichang.”
Feng Xingya, President of GAC Group and Chairman of the Board of GAC Motor is Delivering a Speech
Feng Xingya, President of GAC Group and Chairman of the Board of GAC Motor said: “since 2016, with the forceful support by Yichang Municipal Committee and Government, GAC Group has restructured GAC Zhongxing and pushed forward GAC Motor project in Yichang. The project kick-off today symbolizes that the production base of GAC Motor in Yichang has proceeded to the substantive construction phase and the cooperation between GAC Group and Yichang entered a new historical phase and initiated a new chapter. GAC Group will facilitate the project construction in high quality and following high standard and unswervingly work hard to boost the local economic and social development and the growth of Chinese auto industry.”
Yu Jun, Deputy Director of the Executive Committee of GAC Group and President of GAC Motor is Introducing Yichang Project
Yu Jun, Deputy Director of the Executive Committee of GAC Group and President of GAC Motor gave introduction to Yichang Project. He said: “Yichang Factory is a vehicle production base of GAC Trumpchi in central China, representing an important practice of GAC Trumpchi to deepen capacity layout and enhance the core competitiveness in all all-round manner. GAC Trumpchi will fully implement the new development philosophy, comprehensive advance the construction of Yichange Factory and strive to commence production as of June, 2019, making it another world-class smart manufacturing benchmark factory of GAC Trumpchi.”
Hu Zhili, Secretary of the Xiaoting District Party Committee expressed: “The kick-off of GAC Motor Yichang project is the result of mutual respect and sincere cooperation between Yichang City and GAC Group. It is of great significance to promote the development of Yichang Automobile Industry and accelerate the industrial transformation and upgrading of Xiaoting District. As the location of the project, Xiaoting will cherish the hard-won cooperation results, and take the project as the No.1 priority. We will spare no efforts to provide the best service, good policy, sound legal environment, honest human and stable social environment for the project construction so that the project can be completed, ramp up to full production and make profit as early as possible. ”
We rely on the superior industrial foundation and best development opportunity and build the production base of GAC Motor in Yichang. It will be helpful for the formation of GAC Group’s overall development pattern of resource sharing and multiple-point collaboration, refueling the high-speed development.
Adhere to Innovation-driven and Build Another All-new Smart Manufacturing Benchmark Factory
The project of GAC Motor in Yichang is a vehicle production base of GAC Trumpchi in central China, boasting the production and design capability of traditional vehicle and new energy vehicle. It’s planned as the “smart manufacturing” benchmark factory characterized by high efficiency, good quality, energy conservation and environmental protection.
GAC Motor Yichang Project is planned to be the “smart manufacturing” benchmark factory characterized by good quality, high efficiency, energy conservation and environmental protection
It is known that Yichang Factory will seek breakthrough innovation by using the existing resources of GAC Group and GAC Motor and based on the construction experience of Guangzhou Factory and Hangzhou Factory: expand the workshop of stamping, welding, coating and general assembly and build the synthetic resin workshop and the corresponding support facilities; introduce the world’s leading process and equipment, fully automatic welding production line, high-speed pressing line and deepen processing; in the meantime, we will consider the production and design capability of new energy vehicle. Focusing on quality and returns, we will enhance the efficiency of production factors, further reduce production cost, present Yichang factory as the smart manufacturing benchmark factory featuring automatic production line, intelligent equipment, logistics information technology, visual information and ecological manufacture. Besides, we will introduce a number of star models of sedans and SUVs.
Presence of Trumpchi Star Model Lineups at the Ceremony
On October 31, 2017, Yichang People’s Government and GAC Trumpchi co-sponsored the roadshow for Yichang’s Industry Park of Automobile Parts and Components. The premium roadshow will help attract investment for the industry park, help build the industry cluster and substantively push forward the construction of GAC Trumpchi factory in Yichang. So far, about 20 suppliers have confirmed investment intention. Besides, some suppliers have conducted in-depth negotiations with the local government and decided to but land to construct factory. The industry cluster is taken shape.
Relying on lean production and standard operation, GAC Trumpchi constantly provides quality product. In 2017, the aggregate yearly sales exceeded 508,600 units, a significant growth of 37% year on year, far higher than the average industry growth. GAC Trumpchi is well recognized for its world-class quality and premium smart manufacturing strength.
In 2017 Guangzhou Fortune Global Forum, GAC Trumpchi GS8, GA8 and GM8 served as the specified official cars, providing reception services for government heads and CEOs of Fortune Global 500
Following the completion of GAC Motor (Hangzhou) Factory and commencement of GAC Motor project in Yichang, Xinjiang factory also commenced production in the 1st quarter of 2018. The construction of “smart manufacturing” benchmark factory will forcefully promote GAC Trumpchi’s capacity optimization and expansion, laying a foundation of GAC’s self-owned business development and further enhancement of production and sales.


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Operawire review of “Secret Gardener”
On Site Opera assembled a terrific cast for the proceedings…People from all walks around the city joining in a communal experience like none other. As the singing-actors moved about the garden, nothing separated us from them. No tiered seating. No proscenium. No fourth wall. We were all part of the storytelling ritual, literally.


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Hi everyone welcome to our Playing with Paper team blog hop. We like to feature some of our favorite things each and every month. This month we are showcasing holiday projects. Hopefully you have come here from Jennifer Payami's Blog you are on the right path. This is a circular blog and so if you are just starting here you can follow along and enjoy everyone's projects.
I decided to feature products from the Pear and Partridge line. I just adore this paper! I decided to grab the Level 2 paper pack a couple of stamps the Workshop on the Go and added a bit of a twist.
Aren't those little red gems just so cute? They are so pretty.
My last card is also based on a card from Make it from the Heart and I just added a little of this and that. I used the stamp set from the WOTG this set is so cute and versatile with ornaments and birds It also has some great Christmas sentiments.
blog Jayma Malme.
Saturday, October 27, 2012
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
so many things. Over at Practical Scrappers today you will find 10 great ideas for foam adhesive. I decided to use it to pop up stamped images. First I pulled out another one of these swing cards from the Cricuit Artiste Cartridge (I cannot get enough of that thing) and then I did some random stamping. The random stamping might look familiar because I was so inspired by Vicki Wizniuk's post on random stamping last year that I pinned it and remembered that I needed to use that color scheme and try to make something as beautiful....I hope I succeeded,
I also used the Art Philosophy to cut the parts of the cards...the acorns and the label shape. I don't know about you but the one cartridge has made me use the other so much more than i ever did before. They work together like two peas in a pod.
Monday, October 15, 2012
Greetings. I have a few shares for you today. A new sketch over at Sketch-n-Scrap and a bunch of banner fun over at Practical Scrappers. I hope you take time to visit both blogs for tons more inspiration today!
Banners at Practical Scrappers
Have a great week and do something scrapper!
Monday, October 8, 2012
I don't know why but I really love to make Halloween cards. I think it brings out the kid in me. Today over at Practical Scrappers they are scaring up some cards and layouts. Here is mine - yes another swing card. I just love those too. LOL I am becoming a little predictable. I will have to try something new in the near future.
Here is the inside of the card.
and then the little side view. Isn't that tulle ribbon so cute? I have never ever worked with it before. It was pretty fun.
Monday, October 1, 2012
I have a small child. She thinks the rules the roost...in reality she sort of does however she is not allowed in my scrapbook area without supervision and now you can see why.
When I saw this all I wanted to do was cry and stomp my feet but then I realized all you can do sometimes is just laugh. She thought her ehem "art work" was so beautiful. I was not so impressed. I was however impressed that the Copics came off of my table top.
She used 5 ruined 1 and I now keep them hidden away out of sight. I am pretty sure she knows where I keep them but out of sight out of mind I guess. Haha!!
This wonderful memory was brought you you by our newest Sketch over at Sketch-n-Scrap. I hope you can join us!
Here is a quick tip! My large title "Laugh" is actually the base of some stickers that I used here I loved the font so much so I cut around the word and got a whole new title out of it. See sometimes it pays to keep all the bits and peices...


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We will research the leaves, trunk, berries/nuts as well as the animals and insects that inhabit the type of tree your choose.
This workshop is presented as a creative design class, allowing each participant’s piece to be unique. Instruction begins with layering techniques, using simple stitches and fabrics for creating a textured background. Next, create your own unique tree, as I guide you through the design process, drawing inspiration from our research and creative inspiration.
Last, but not least... Embellish your piece layering with hand dyed wool, silk velvet, silk, linen and cotton fabrics. Challenge yourself by experimenting with a variety of speciality threads, exploring stitches and stitch combinations that add incredible depth and texture to your work.


Superyacht communication 101
How does 20 years of at-sea experience improve a manager's communication with the captains in their fleet?
It’s not rare that we hear captains’ murmurings of ‘I don’t want a yacht manager who hasn’t worked on board a yacht before’. So it’s interesting to hear from existing superyacht managers who were superyacht captains in a previous life.
“I joked that I had sold my soul” are the exact words of Tom Leyland (pictured), operations manager at West Nautical, when he talks about his move to management from working on and captaining superyachts up to 73m for 20 years.
Two years down the line and has Leyland learned anything as to why the captain-manager relationship can be so problematic? “It is clear that there is no simple answer as to why captains and management have their differences,” he says. But, perhaps his extensive past at sea gives him a little bit of an advantage.
“Being quite an analytical person, I wanted to find out if there was an ideal [captain-manager] scenario, as well as understanding where these relationships worked and where they really failed. I was keen to discover why, in the hope that this could be applied to my new – and perhaps questionable from a captain’s point of view – career direction.”
The cracks lie where there is a breakdown in trust and understanding of each party’s roles – the latter of which becomes ever more problematic where there are problems accepting one’s place in the owner’s hierarchy.
What did he find? The cracks lie where there is a breakdown in trust and understanding of each party’s roles – the latter of which becomes ever more problematic where there are problems accepting one’s place in the owner’s hierarchy.
Keep in mind this is a conservative statement within the context of just three parties: captain, manager and owner. What happens when that same owner also has an owner’s representative and a family office?
Now let’s say we’re spoiled. Let’s say we have an owner, captain and manager, all who understand each other’s roles and work together in perfect unison. One thing these three people do have in common, however, is that they all understand the superyacht industry, whether that be from a land-based or sea-based perspective, or both.
“Problems can arise when there is a lack of awareness and comprehension of the actual needs of a professionally run superyacht,” explains an anonymous captain. “To someone outside of the industry, yachts can seem like an extortionate waste of time and money, and when an individual who thinks this way is involved in the decision-making, only the yacht, and by default the owner’s enjoyment, will suffer as a result.”
So, in actuality, the flow of communication takes on a whole other level when we involve those land-based parties unfamiliar with the intricacies of yachting. As such, what role do owners’ representative and family offices place in the ideal flow of communication?
It’s a loaded question, and one that we strive to answer in our Captains’ Debate in Issue 181 of The Superyacht Report – in the same issue you can also find Tom Leyland’s guest column on how his 20 years of yachting experience has influenced his role as a superyacht manager.
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Sometimes I can really have a craving for Asian food. I’m not so familiar with this cuisine when it comes to home cooking so that’s why I like to choose a new restaurant where I can enjoy it. And this time that was Yum Saap at the Twijnstraat. A real asian street food bar, a deep, narrow space with one wall a whole bunch tables and on the other wall some tables, the bar and the kitchen.
For drinks do order the homemade thai iced tea or spritzer, delicious and refreshing! Or of course a Singha or Tiger beer. The food order works like this: You get the menu and a list where you can fill in which dishes you want to order. The most fun (and tastiest) is to share dishes with your dinner party. You should count on about three dishes per person, if you take a curry, two dishes. We ordered: spring roll with crunchy vegetables, fried spring rolls, shrimp dumplings, tom kah kai soup (my favorite), salad with cabbage, coconut, chicken and a tasty dressing and fish cookies. Fingerlicking good! Do not expect to sit down dining here all night, but for a nice and quick bite it’s perfect. Besides, you can also pick up food!
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Dental implants are a permanent and appealing solution to replace missing or extracted teeth. They are better than other alternatives like bridges because no additional teeth need to be altered to place the new tooth. Dental implants are lasting dental restorations that replace missing teeth at the root and secure tooth crowns, bridges, and dentures.
Dental Implants in Galveston, TX
The entire implant process is performed over the course of a few months. The first part of the process is installing the implant, where a screw is placed into the jaw bone. An incision is made in the gum so the implant can be inserted. Multiple implants can be placed at once if necessary. After the implants are placed, the gums are sutured.
The implant must be allowed for about 3-6 months to heal, and during this time, the jaw bone will form around the implant in a process called osseointegration. During this healing time, you can install temporary crowns so that you can eat and speak normally and maintain a proper aesthetic appearance for your smile.
After the implant has healed, it is time to place an abutment on the implant. The abutment serves as the base for your new tooth. Once this is placed, an impression of the abutment is taken and used to create your permanent restoration. Some offices have an onsite lab to create the crown, but others must send it to an outside lab.
Once the restoration is completed, you can return to the office to attach the restoration permanently. Your smile will look just like it used to, and after a short period of getting used to the implant, it will feel like one of your own teeth.
Mini dental implants are about half the diameter of a regular dental implant. This offers many benefits and can also be used when regular implants cannot. Mini-implants are preferred if an implant needs to be placed in a narrow space because they are smaller.
A main use for mini implants is to install a full upper or lower denture. A series of mini implants (4-6) are placed along the gum line and serve as the denture’s base. Rather than placing a single implant for a single tooth, an entire lower or upper set of teeth are directly attached to the gum line.
The small size of mini implants often means that no incision needs to be made to place the implant. They can usually be inserted right through the gum into the bone. This eliminates the need for a recovery period, and the restoration can usually be placed immediately or only a short time after.
Mini implants are also less expensive than regular implants. Only your dentist knows if mini implants are right for you, so call for your consultation today.
Dental Implant FAQs
Below, we answer commonly asked questions about dental implant treatment in our office:
What is a dental implant?
A dental implant is a permanent new root for a missing tooth. It is a titanium screw that is placed into the jaw bone. An abutment and crown is then placed on the implant to provide a permanent tooth that looks just like a natural tooth.
How are dental implants different than dentures?
Dentures are a removable set of teeth or partial set of teeth that need to be removed and cared for in a special manner. They can often feel bulky and are difficult to get used to. Dental implants are a permanent replacement for missing teeth that can be cared for just like natural teeth.
What are the benefits of dental implants?
Dental implants look and feel just like real teeth, they are permanent, you can eat the foods you want without any fear of embarrassment, and they procedure is very successful and fairly inexpensive.
Who can place a dental implant?
Your dentist may be able to perform implants in their own office based on their training. If not, they will recommend you to an implantologist, cosmetic dentist, or another specialist that will perform the procedure.
How much do implants cost?
The price of your dental implants will vary based on the level of experience of your doctor, how many implants you have placed, the amount of insurance coverage, and more. Schedule a consultation with us to determine a price for your implants and a financing plan if necessary.
Do dental implants hurt?
No. A local anesthetic will be given before the procedure so that you do not feel any pain. If you have anxiety or fear you should discuss sedation options with your dentist.
How long do implants last?
When cared for properly, implants should last a lifetime. Proper oral hygiene and regular dental visits are essential to the success of your implant.
Replace Your Missing Teeth With Implants
Are you missing one or more permanent teeth? Call Broadway Dental for implant treatment at 409-235-0789 or request a dental appointment with us online.


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I’ve always had trouble expressing myself. I don’t really know why, I just do. I tend to keep my thoughts to myself and not act upon anything.
Don’t get me wrong, I would sometimes share my opinions or do something about a situation but only when I am sure that I will get a positive reaction out of someone. If not, I would just stay silent instead of contributing to the conversation.
The weird thing is that even if I do have good intentions like carrying a heavy bag for an old lady or letting other people sit in public transportation for some reason I would get… embarrassed or shy? I don’t really know why. Because of this, I would avoid helping altogether.
Of course I know that they would most likely appreciate the kind gesture but somehow I would imagine them shunning me away since I am a stranger after all. I want to help, I really do but I don’t want to involve myself in other people’s business if they don’t want me to.
I have helped other people before but only those times when I acted without thinking much about it and I would feel pretty good about it afterward. Even then, I would still think too much into such things as soon as a similar situation arises.
There were also times when I can sense that my friends or family members are going through something. I knew that they wanted to talk about such things or that they needed comfort, and I did want to show them that I cared. But for some reason, I just couldn’t show express my concern. I would just pretend that I didn’t notice it instead.
There are even times when my friends or family ask me if I want something or if I wanted to do something. Even if I do, I would say that I didn’t know and let them decide. Then, I’d just learn to accept what they have decided for me.
I honestly don’t know why I do this. Maybe it’s because I have gotten used to letting people decide for me and keeping to myself. But now that I am in my first few phases of adulthood, I still couldn’t quite comprehend the idea that it is completely up to me to decide for myself and be my own person.
Don’t worry, I am actively trying to work on this. It really isn’t as bad as I probably made it seem. I have expressed myself lots of times. I guess I’m just not as consistent as I should be.. yet.
I’m trying to work on my decision-making skills in the small-scale first, like immediately choosing where and what to eat. I sometimes volunteer to drive too because I’ve been wanting to learn and to not be as afraid as the last time. When my family are talking about politics, I would express my opinion on the latest news too, and sometimes admit that I don’t have enough knowledge on some topics and ask about it.
I know this all may seem typical but it’s actually helping me a lot. Though I’ll have to admit, I still need a lot of work.
Anyway, thanks for reading! Have you had any similar experiences like this? Do you have any advice for me? It would be nice to know.

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I love the versatility of muffins and the fact that they're so easy and quick to make. I always, but always, have my little sous chef with me in the kitchen: a 3 years old (yes, already a 3 years old) Baby Girl J. She loves helping me and everyday, every morning (without an exception) first thing she'll ask me, would be "Mummy are we baking a cake today?". When I'm at home that day and I'm not working, the answer is usually "YES!" :) She loves counting and adding ingredients, mixing them, saying "That's enough mummy!" and then of course, there's that time of anticipation when we wait for the cake/muffins/cupcakes to rise in the oven and bake. Mind you - she might not always eat the end result (she didn't inherit a "sweet tooth" after me, which Baby Girl E certainly did!). Those muffins were easy and quick to make, and I already made a second batch, without the fruit this time, but with the chocolate buttons instead.
How to make it...
- 6 tablespoons sunflower oil
- 150 g cranberries or frozen mixed berries (blueberries, raspberries, strawberries etc.)
- 280 g plain flour
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- pinch of salt
- 115 g caster sugar
- 250 ml buttermilk
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- icing sugar for dusting
- butter for greasing baking tray
Preheat the oven 200 C. Grease a 12 hole muffin tin. Cut any large cranberries (or the berries you're using). into small pieces. Sift together the flour, baking powder and salt into a large bowl. Stir in the sugar.
Place eggs in a large jug or bowl and beat lightly, then beat in the buttermilk, oil and vanilla extract. Make a well in the centre of the dry ingredients, pour in the beaten liquid ingredients and add cranberries (berries). Stir until combined, DO NOT over mix. Spoon the mixture into the muffin tin.
Bake in the preheated oven for 25 minutes, or until well risen and golden brown and firm to the touch. Leave to cool in the tin for 5 minutes, then serve warm or transfer to a wire rack to cool completely. Dust with sifted icing sugar before serving.
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In a communiqué published by the Basque language paper Berria, ETA took responsibility for the five blasts, including ones that ripped two hotels in the popular tourist resorts of Alicante and Benidorm on 22 July.
ETA accused the organisers of the just concluded Tour de France championship of “humiliating” the people of the Basque region by reneging on an agreement struck with ETA’s political wing Batasuna, now banned in Spain.
The agreement, which was cancelled, involved a series of measures to promote the Basque language during the Tour de France event.
ETA has particularly been upset by the failure of Tour de France organisers to distribute a communiqué detailing Batasuna’s political demands.
The other sites of the bomb attacks included a hotel in the northern town of Getxo.
|‘ETA accused the organisers of the just concluded Tour de France championship of “humiliating” the people of the Basque region ‘|
ETA said the hotel was bombed since it was a “meeting place for politicians, police and oligarchs who oppress the Basque country.”
Two businesses were also bombed for their refusal to fund ETA.
ETA said the authorities did not pay enough attention to their warning prior to the attack in Alicante, and as a result civilians were injured.
ETA has been engaged in an armed struggle since 1968, seeking an independent Basque state spread over northern Spain and southwest France.

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Dangerous Chemotherapy Treatments Now Being Pushed for Some of the Fastest-Growing Diseases in America
Autoimmune diseases are reaching levels of epidemic proportions, and one of the least understood is lupus, of which cases have nearly tripled in the past four decades. We still have a lot to learn about lupus treatment options, which is what makes pop star Selena Gomez’s recent announcement so important (she has the undivided attention of millions of young fans).
Gomez revealed that she underwent chemotherapy treatment not for cancer but for lupus – most people don’t realize it, but chemotherapy is not only used for cancer. Expensive chemo drugs are also being prescribed for a row of illnesses, especially autoimmune diseases.
“That’s what my break was really about,” she told Billboard Magazine. “I could’ve had a stroke.” Gomez said she underwent the treatment but did not specify whether she took oral chemo drugs or IV chemotherapy.
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“Chemo kills cells that are rapidly dividing. What you are hoping is you hit the right dose of chemo to kill the problem and spare the cells you need to live,” told Dr. Joan T. Merrill, medical director of the Lupus Foundation of America, to the Daily News.
Dr. Merill said the list of illnesses that chemo can be used for are: lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, polymyositis, vasculitis, Crohn’s disease, psoriatic arthritis, and sceleroderma.
One of the first known instances of chemotherapy being used for lupus is a 1971 controlled trial that used oral cyclophosphamide (chemo drug) to treat the disease. It appears that the chemo treatment is gaining more popularity now beside other mainstream treatment options such as corticosteroids, antimalarials and more.
While some see this as hope for treating “uncurable” diseases, is this really just an excuse to stop looking for safer treatments while simultaneously finding a new market for these expensive drugs?
And are they ignoring the true history (and shocking ineffectiveness) of chemotherapy related treatments, putting their patients at risk?
Besides cancer, these are the diseases chemo is used for:
Cyclophosphamide (Cytoxan®) and mycophenolate mofetil (CellCept®) chemotherapy drugs work by reducing the activity of the immune system, and are used to treat cancer or a very severe case of lupus. Chemo and other treatment options for lupus are aimed at reducing inflammation, suppressing the immune system, and lessening symptoms such as joint pain.
But cyclophosphamide’s side effects include cancer and heart damage (fewer than 1 in 100 people, exact number unknown). People with lupus more often die from heart disease. In total more than 10 in every 100 people will experience side effects ranging from fatigue and nausea to infections, breathlessness, and even hair loss as well as a possible loss of fertility. It can also cause birth defects in the next generation.
The American College of Rheumatology explained that cyclophosphamide is also used for severe cases of refractory rheumatoid arthritis, as well as myositis, scleroderma, or vasculitis. But the side effects remain troublesome (which is why many people are using natural protocols including special turmeric preparations instead).
Drugs’ “off-label use” is legal!
“If a drug has been approved for one use, physicians may elect to use this same drug for other problems if they believe it may be helpful,” according to ChemoCare, a chemotherapy informational site funded by The Scott Hamilton Cares Initiative.
According to the Mayo Clinic Proceedings, “The FDA does not limit or control how the medications are prescribed by physicians once the medications are available on the market,” therefore any commercially approved drug can be used to treat anything as long as the doctor decided to do so. Believe it or not this is a fairly common practice as about21% of prescription were an off-label use in 2006; in an intensive care unit the number was over 36%.
Chemotherapy Drugs Rake in the Big Bucks
Is there a reason for doctors to prescribe chemotherapy over other treatment options? As you may have guessed, money could be playing a major role.
Chemotherapy can be administered in IV form or through oral drugs. Dr. Peter Ubel wrote that oncologists do “buy and bill” expensive treatments and purchase intravenous chemotherapy from pharmacies as outpatient chemotherapy treatment is becoming more popular. Another oncologist wrote that cyclophosphamide can and is being bought by doctors wholesale.
We have also seen oncologists greatly misuse their ability to get and administer chemotherapy drugs. Are other doctors any different?
In the past, doctors such as Dr. Farid Fata were found guilty of prescribing chemotherapy drugs to patients who did not need them. Why would doctors do that? – Kickbacks. Chemotherapy drugs are the most profitable type of drug on the market, because doctors who prescribe them, receive a direct monetary cut.
NBC News reported back in 2006 that doctors buy chemotherapy drugs wholesale and make profit from selling the drugs. The potential for conflict of interest is evident. The New York Times reported that oncologists are tempted to keep prescribing chemotherapy drugs to patients even when the drugs have little to no chance of working. But as everyone knows, the side effects can be far worse than the disease itself.
Are other types of doctors any different? Could this be the incentive behind prescribing chemotherapy drugs for other diseases?
“[Doctors] might have a preference to give you the [drug] that they’re going to make the most money from,” said Arthur Caplan with the University of Pennsylvania Center of Bioethics to NBC News, and it’s just one more reason why educating ourselves and taking control of our own personal health is more important now than ever before.
As is the case with cancer, chemotherapy is not considered to be a cure; mainstream medicine generally considers lupus to be “uncurable.” Also like cancer, it is quite common among younger people, with women age 15-40 among those with the highest risks for the disease.
Natural Treatments for Lupus
As for natural treatment alternatives, Dr. Andrew Weil recommends working with professionals specializing in Ayurvedic and traditional Chinese medicine as both systems are adept at helping autoimmune disease sufferers, he says. Dr. Josh Axe recommends cutting out gluten, trans fats, processed sugars and other key trigger foods that can cause flare-ups, along with a holistic approach that includes supplements like Vitamin D, MSM, and essential oils such as frankincense and helichrysum.
At any rate, it’s always important to know the risks and benefits of the therapies you choose, especially when it comes to chemotherapy. Regardless of what disease it is used for, the side effects are the same – and they’re not getting any less dangerous, that’s for sure.
This article is for informational purposes only. Consult a licensed, preferably holistic doctor for more information and before making any major lifestyle or health-related changes.
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