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Shazam Update Adds Apple Music Support
I'm excited to start using Apple Music next week, but I was concerned that one of my favorite ways to discover songs I hear around me – Shazam – wouldn't be ready to support Apple Music at launch. Thankfully, an update released today adds an Apple Music button that, like other streaming integrations before, will let you listen to tagged songs on the new service.
I've been preparing for the launch of Apple Music – I deleted Spotify from my iPhone and re-subscribed to Beats Music last night so I can report on the transition – because I've been waiting for an Apple music streaming service for a long time, and I want to understand what they've built as quickly as possible. The fact that third-party utilities like Shazam and Musixmatch should already work with the updated Music app makes the transition even better.

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EASEC-16 will provide an excellent forum for participants from around the world to review, discuss and present the latest developments in the broad discipline of structural engineering and construction. It will also be an ideal platform for participants to renew friendship and establish new collaborations.
Abstracts and full papers are now invited for EASEC-16, with a focus on the conference topics listed below. Deadline for submission of full paper further extended to 31st July 2019. Even though the deadline for abstract submission has passed, authors who still wish to submit abstracts are encouraged to do so at the earliest convenience or contact [email protected] for more information. Further details on abstract template and submission are available on www.easec16.com.au.
Proposals for Special Sessions are also invited: If you are interested in organising a special session as part of EASEC-16, please email [email protected] the title of your proposed session together with at least 6 intended papers. Upon acceptance, the Committee will invite the proposer to present in the special session as an Invited Speaker with a waived registration fee.
Conference Themes
Proposals are invited for Special Sessions covering areas of specialist interest from within the conference topics listed above.
Special Sessions should comprise at least 6 papers. Organisers of Special Sessions will be expected to identify, collate and arrange for peer review of papers. They will receive one waived registration fee per Special Session.
EASEC16 Best Young Reseacher's Paper Award
To recognise the best EASEC16 paper of young researchers with age 35 or below. To be considered for this award, applicants must be the first author and presenter, and submit their full paper and the below form by the deadline.
EASEC Young Reseacher/Engineer Award
To recognize outstanding works of young researchers/engineers with age 35 or below.
To be awarded to a distinguished senior engineer who has been judged to have made internationally recognized contributions in the area of structural engineering and construction through research, development and/or professional practice in the Asia-Pacific region.
Closing date for entries is September 6, 2019.
To be awarded to a young engineer (age below 45 years) from the Asia-Pacific region who has made significant contributions and shown potential for great future achievements in the area of structural engineering and construction through research, development and/or practice (2 prizes per EASEC).
Closing date for entries is September 6, 2019.
Title: Floating Offshore Wind – A technology to become the energy source of the future
Venue: Room 49-313A, The University of Queensland
Date: Tuesday 3 December 2019
Time: 9:00am to 5:00pm
Registration Fees: Standard – $200 + 10%GST
Full-time students – $100 + 10% GST
The fee covers lunch, 2 coffee breaks and workshop notes.
Lecturer: Dr.-Ing. Frank Adam, Universität Rostock, Germany
Brief CV of Lecturer: Frank Adam's research focuses on offshore wind and floating substructures; in particular on logistical concepts, coupled simulations, the use of novel materials for maritime constructions, and intelligent decommissioning concepts for offshore wind turbines. He leads the GICON-TLP (tension leg platform), [email protected], DT-NeO-WEA and CART (compact and robust medium wind turbine) development projects at the LWET. Future projects are a EU graduate school in floating wind (FLOAWER) as well as a German R&D cluster on floating wind (OWSplus). He also serves as the ERASMUS+ representative at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Marine Technology and lectures the Practical Wind Turbine Construction Initiative at the LWET.
Course Description: One of the most urgent tasks of mankind at our times is to limit global warming to a maximum of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. Reaching this goal would reduce risks and effects of climate change to a level which enables a much better chance of survival of diverse ecosystems, great biodiversity and mankind. To achieve this aim, offshore wind power will play a vital role supplying people with low-carbon energy. Floating offshore wind turbines are an economic technology for power production at water depths from 40 m to 200 m and more. This means a great potential, as it is estimated that 70% of the suitable areas for offshore wind are located at water depths of 60 m and more. The workshop will focus on several topics out of this new industry sector. The topics cover structural mechanics, steel structures, wind & wave loading, design codes, structural dynamics and others.
Workshop Programme:
8:30am to 9:00am – Registration
9:00am to 10:30am – Lecture #1: Introduction to floating offshore wind
10:30am to 11:00am – Coffee Break
11:00am to 12:30pm – Lecture #2: Fully coupled load analysis
12:30pm to 1:30pm – Lunch break (60min)
1:30pm to 3:00pm – Lecture #3: Lab-scale and full-scale testing of floating wind systems
3:00pm to 3:30pm – Coffee Break
3:30pm to 5:00pm – Lecture #4: Four selected examples – comparison & ongoing R&D work
Organiser: Prof. C.M. Wang, TMR Chair Professor in Structural Engineering, School of Civil Engineering, The University of Queensland. E-mail: [email protected] Tel: +61 434 364 775
Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions for possible publication in the International Journal of Structural Stability and Dynamics.


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Welcome to Pixie Dust Club's Page!
A lady called Gaia. decided to make a club.
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Former Boro boss Anderson retires from football after lifting FA Vase at Wembley
PUBLISHED: 10:00 20 May 2019
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Anderson previously in charge of Boro from 2011 to 2015
Former Harrow Borough boss Dave Anderson retired from football management in style on Sunday after guiding Chertsey Town to success in the FA Vase final.
The 57-year-old took charge of Boro in the summer of 2011 and remained in the dugout until departing in January 2015.
Anderson remained out of work until joining Chertsey of the Combined Counties Premier Division in March 2018.
The former goalkeeper's final game in football management saw him take charge of the Curfews in the Vase final against Cray Valley Paper Mills.
Chertsey fell behind in the 36th minute when Gavin Tomlin netted for the Millers, but Anderson's side drew level three minutes later thanks to a goal from Sam Flegg.
With no further goals, the match went to extra time and Town took the lead in the 105th minute when Jake Baxter calmly converted from the penalty spot.
The Curfews then rounded out their success in style when former Harrow defender Quincy Rowe curled home from 25 yards in the 117th minute.
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After lifting the Vase, Anderson used his post-match press conference to announce his retirement from football manager and the ex-Boro boss certainly went out on a high.
"I'm very emotional and to win a final at Wembley is an unbelievable thing," said the 57-year-old.
"I've just told my players that I've retired, that's me done, so it was a big moment for me and I'm happy about that.
"To win at Wembley is every schoolboy's dream and I'm kicking towards 60, so to do it is unbelievable.
"The way it's finished, you couldn't write the script. I worked at AFC Wimbledon in the past where it's a Hollywood movie and you wouldn't believe it, but you wouldn't believe this either.
"I knew it was the right time for me to retire again. I'd enjoyed retirement before and enjoyed playing golf, but how lucky am I that I said yes to coming back and this happened.
"It has to rank as the best achievement in my career. As a manager, this was the pinnacle."
Anderson certainly bowed out of football management in the perfect way by winning a final at Wembley Stadium.
And it may be hard to tempt the ex-Harrow boss back out of it for a second time!
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|Jaya's Bar - EW
|Jaya meets Maura, one of the renegade blueriders from Igen and the two seem to have some things in common. A taste for danger seems to be one of them.
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The bar was its usual busyness. The card tables were full capacity this night, its players a mixture of dragonriders and weyrfolks and travelers alike. The tall, imposing figure of Shijan was present at the entrance as always, watching those that come and go with his usual stony silence. One could see the blonde, petite form of Hayli running from table to table with an easy smile in place, while Suli made a stark contrast with her towering presence and her cool demeanor. As for Jaya, she's behind the counter at the bar, making the drinks and passing neutral comments back and forth with those patrons seated there before her. All in all, the bar gives off the atmosphere of a place to unwind after a grueling day.
The day itself may not have been so grueling for Maura, but it doesn't seem to stop the perpetually polite bluerider from appearing about as exhausted as if it had been anyway. She gives a nod to Shijan when walking in, not bothering to wait for an acknowledgement she's sure isn't coming. And the tables, both card and otherwise, are eschewed for the time being as she takes a seat up at the bar. There doesn't seem to be any hurry, as she's content to inspect the counter and glance at what everyone's drinking. And, otherwise just watch the bustle of activity with a curious eye. This is actually *early* for her to be walking in. Normally, she's not seen for a few hours yet and she would also normally wall herself in at a corner table with a glass of wine and something to keep herself busy like a book or cards.
Shijan watches Maura with the same amount of time that he does most others - only long enough to make sure that she wasn't coming in with a look of causing trouble. The bar area is crowded with a few empty stools dotted here and there, so it's the new occupation of one that seems to catch the eyes of more than one patron. Jaya's robust laughter could be heard down the counter as she makes her way towards Maura, one hand occupied with an empty glass and the other occupied with a dark red bottle. Once Jaya reaches her, "Hey there, shuga," she greets, setting the bottle down under the counter as she sets the glass behind her. The towering presence of Suli is now behind the counter as well, taking up orders down the counter as Jaya asks, "What can I get for you tonite?" The long, jagged scar could be seen running down the left side of her face, marring youthful features with her dark hair running free about her shoulders.
Maura, as usual, doesn't notice at all if she's caught the attention of one or many with her arrival. But she does smile upon hearing the sound of laughter, and waits for Jaya to be standing across from her before she offers a polite but sincere smile. "Evening'," she returns, her expression changing from welcome to uncertain. "Hmm. How about… a shot of something strong that won't make me want to die when I drink it. And a glass of that tropical fruit juice with rum in it." she decides, her eyes flicking briefly towards the scar that is hard to miss, and then back to the woman's eyes. "Double the rum in that drink too, would you? It's been one of those days." There's no change at all in her expression there, as if she's probably seen similar or worse and knows better then to say anything or make a big deal of such things.
"What about the Istan Wave?" Jaya offers the dragonrider when she voices her preferences, her lips twisting slightly in amusement. "It's sweet, heady and won't give you too much of a hangover if you make sure not to drink up the bottle." 'Strong' was an understatement for her. She even bends down to lift up a brown bottle when Maura speaks about the rum, the corner of her mouth lifting more before adding, "Though, if it's the Istan you're wanting, I wouldn't mix it too much with the rum. You may end up on the laps of half the men in here." Beat. "And the women, too, if you're wild enough." She sets down an empty glass before her regardless of what drink Maura chooses, sending some randy comment to one of the bronzeriders already into his cups, clearly. With laughter in her voice as she turns back towards Maura, "One of those days, eh?" she echoes, head tilting slightly. "Well, the good things with us barkeeps is that we can get you drunk and give some insight. Or a fight. We can get you into a fight, but you don't look the sort."
"Alright, let's try the Istan Wave." Maura drawls, responding instinctively to Jaya's amusement with a return smile. "I was just kinda hoping to take the edge off, not get crazy drunk. Doing sweeps in the morning with a hangover is *really* not my favorite." the girl admits, thereby also admitting she's experienced a hangover and prefers to avoid it. "Ah, yeah. Why don't we skip the rum too. I'd prefer to save the lap-dances for someone special" Her gaze lands on the drunk bronzerider who was the target of that randy comment, causing her lips to twist up into an amused smirk. "Good thing he's too drunk already to act on that." she muses, bursting into outright laughter at the idea of getting into a fight. "No, I would lose. And lose badly. It's nothing that bad. Just dealing with my sister." She handwaves past it, rolling her eyes.
Before Maura finishes speaking her choice, Jaya was already manhandling the Istan Wave into her glass. "Good choice," she's quick to say, tossing up a saucy wink her way before passing the drink over and stating its price. Her response on hangovers get a wry "There was a time when all I knew was hangovers. Morning, noon and night." There's laughter on the comment on there being someone special, setting the bottle down and leaning casually against the counter as Suli passes her by. "Someone I know?" she asks, being very much nosy and not bothering to hide the fact. "I've seen you in here before, but think we've never met." The drunk bronzerider beside Maura leers at both ladies, stating to such comment on lap dances, "I've got an empty seat, right'ere! Got two, even!" - "Gimme that seat and I'll show ya a good lap dance!" Jaya tosses back, unleashing her concealed knife and slamming it, hilt-down, to hit the table between them. The dragonrider roars his laughter and the barkeep returns to Maura stating, "Cut a few men's laps in my day to know they hardly ever feel it when they're liquored up." Beat. Speaking of fights, the Bitran woman looks the woman up and down before answering, "Hmm, I think I would agree, but there's nothing wrong with that. Sometimes, it's fun to lose." Yes, she said 'fun'. "But tell me about this sister. That's something I know about. Have one of those myself that could probably use a good thrashing that doesn't involve bedsheets."
The marks in her pocket are pulled out and slid across the counter as soon as the price has been named - accompanied by a bit of a pained expression with the continued discussion of hangovers. "I had no idea what one was until I came to Eastern." she reveals, in a rather dry tone. "I'm Maura, rider to Rikath." she introduces, lifting her drink up in a toasting manner before letting some of it slide back down her throat. "You've probably seen him. Most of the people I hang out with spend time here." She's not given out names just yet, but give her a few more sips of that drink and surely her tongue will loosen. She just seems naturally reticent on being specific. The concealed knife… that one earns a bit of a choked cough as she's mid-sip. "You ever show anyone how to use that thing?" she wonders, being perhaps a bit bold based on what most people know of the girl. But the question has purpose, it seems, based on the keenness of her interest. And in the spirit of that, she deliberately ignores the comment about how fun it can be to lose a fight. Lalalalalalala. "She's just… she… she's acting like an ungrateful bitch. I brought her here to keep her safe, and all I hear are complaints. I haven't given her enough money. She has no nice clothes anymore. She doesn't -like- working in the kitchen. And the assumptions she makes about /me/. Been tempted to drop her off in the middle of nowhere lately." The combination of the words thrashing and bedsheets, of course, brings a bit of color to her face. Not that she comments on it. She's so easy to fluster.
Jaya is quick to collect up the marks, nodding her thanks before they are dropped into one of her skirt pockets. Maura's first statement gets a raised brow of interest. "You mean…..never? Until you came here?" which for her, might be hard for her to believe, but then, her whole life has been surrounded with drunks and criminals. In the light of introductions, a crooked smile appears for the name given and she returns with a nod, "Jaya, rider to none that's winged, at least." A wink is sent for crass words before the drunk bronzerider gets her brief attention as he laughs out and stares at the knife. "I like a woman that can throw," is his smarmy response, to which she reaches for and plucks free her knife and says, "Then you must like being a target then." To Maura, "I'm sure I have," she answers on seeing him around with a lift of her chin. The knife gets sheathed then before Suli arrives with dirty mugs to clean, and she pulls a rag from under the counter before answering Maura's question on the knife. Putting rag to the first mug she grabs, "Show anyone? Yeah, once or twice," she states with some non-chalance, busy at wiping the mug clean. "Have trained some back in Bitra. Do you?" At hearing about her sister, "She's here? To stay? Where was she living before? A Hold?"
"That's right. Never till I came here." Maura confirms, and not without a bit of embarrassment in her tone, as she never considered how unusual it might be. Jaya's introduction does earn a laugh, and a good one. "I'll drink to that." she decides, winking back at the bartender before she takes more of her drink.She ignores the bronzrider's comment, though her smirk suggests that she did indeed hear it. "My specialty is more along the lines of distraction, not fighting." Something the bluerider's always been fine with, until recently anyway. Which is what prompts her to give the blade another look. "You willing to show anyone here? I'd like to learn." Maura doesn't just have that look of innocence and naivety about her, in most cases she pretty much *is*, so it's good that none of her friends are there to do a double-take at her request and try to talk her out of it - see her glance around a moment to make sure none of them are in hearing distance? "Oh yeah, she's here all right. Hauled her back here, and Rii brought his sister. I thought maybe it'd help if she had a familiar face from the infirmary but… color me wrong. Oh no. My sister was not living at a Hold. SHe was living where she worked. Dancing girl." is explained.
Laughing, "I can't even remember the days before my first," Jaya relates, shaking her head in amusement. "I do forget this is a Weyr, though. Plenty of folks coming from different walks of life from mine." Beat. "Now, I can always use someone that's good at distracting," she notes when it comes to fighting, nodding firmly to that. "Ever been to Bitra before? That's where I hail from. The bars there are nothing to play with!" and she slaps her own belly with robust laughter. When Maura asks after knife-wielding and learning, the barkeep regards her for a moment with her head slightly tilting to the side before she decides with a wry, "Sure. It would be fun. Truth be told, I'm getting pretty bored around here," and she flips a look about her bar. "Folks behave more properly in this here bar than what I'm used to. Taverns I frequent, there's at least one chance to throw your knife at someone before the night's out, but here?" and she shakes her head with some regret at the injustice of it all. "Girl needs to let off some steam every now and then, you know? So I can teach you. I know just the place, too. You own any good knives?" On the subject of sisters, a brow arches at something said as she echoes, "'Rii'?" Beat. "Ahhh, she's a dancer! Is she any good? My own did some here and there before our da put a stop to it. Says no 'respectable' trader would have his daughter swaying around with barely any clothing. Of course, the trader name itself has to be 'respectable' before he go around making such claims, but, who is he going to listen to?" Clearly, she has much to say about family, and particularly her own. "But you know….we get pretty busy around here," she notes, looking around. "If she's any good, she might do better working here than in the kitchens, your sister. It's work, but I can at least guarantee her that she won't be bored."
"Bitra? No, Igen's my former home. Never left it much." A shrug accompanies the explanation. "I was the sacrificial ovine of the family - you know, the one they hoped to marry off to the highest bidder. They didn't want me corrupted." Oh how far /those/ plans have fallen though; a disturbingly mischievous sort of glee entering Maura's gaze when she considers that former fate. "I would be happy to liven things up then. I have no knives of any kind. But you tell me what to look for, or go with me to get some, and I've got enough to pay for it." Savoring more of this Istan Wave of hers, it seems even half a glass has her tongue loosening enough to provide more by way of names and explanations. "Ch'rii. Zekoith's rider. He's from Igen too. M'sure he might be able to find some good knives if I ask. And at a steep discount, I'll wager." For some reason (ie - alcohol) she finds that amusing enough to giggle at. Faranth help them all. "Oh she's good. Even taught me how to do it before my parents caught wind of it. Oh you should have *seen* their faces!" Momentarily gleeful, she clears her throat. "She's the oldest - ran off, and stuck me with being the good daughter. But she ain't doing it anymore. Least not the place she was at before. Had to haul her out of there. That's why I want to learn…" the bottom of her glass is tipped towards where the knife had been resting, "Nobody, and I mean /nobody/ is going to grab *me* like that again unless I /ask/ for it." Riiiiight. "Oh, oh no. You don't want my sister in here. She's spreading rumors and being -horrible- to everyone. Maybe once I talk some sense into 'er, I'll send her your way. I would never want to stick you with 'er when she's like this."
"Igen, huh?" Interest piques for the Bitran barkeep as she sets one cleaned mug aside for another. "Last time I stepped foot into sand territory, I was a little trader girl. We have a route up that way." There's laughter on being the sacrificial ovine of the family, her smirk crooked as she remarks, "Every family has at least the one. Luckily, in mine, it was more my sister with those hopes than me." Beat. "So I imagine they weren't too happy to find a dragon on you, eh?" Talk of knives get even more interest from her, especially the part on going out and finding some good ones. "You know, I just might be able to help you there," she notes, slapping the towel over one shoulder. "I know a knife maker that might be getting back into the business. Know some places, too. Might be I could get you a deal, for a favor." Beat. "And this Ch'rii," Jaya adds with a slight cock of her head, "if he can get you cheaper, then stick with him. I get get you good quality, but they usually don't believe in discounts - even to friends." There's a knowing smirk when Maura speaks on her sister and her parents, the barkeep shaking her head before saying, "She sounds a bit like mine. Beddie's not that graceful, but she has a quality to her that keep men staring. I'll grant her that much. So you were the 'good' daughter, huh? That name hasn't been tarnished yet?" she teases. Maura's response on her sister working at the bar gets a raised hand and a "Just sayin', the offer's there. I'm interested in hearing about these horrible rumors, though," and she arches her brow to that. Trust barkeeps to always be nosy or in the 'know'!
"Oh really? You may have been by our Hold then. We were one of the smaller minor holds." Though Maura doesn't name which, neither does she seem embarrassed about 'home' per se. "They were very displeased. And Rikath is… he can be difficult when he feels I've been slighted. And even on a good day, he tends to be acerbic, and sly." the bluerider relates, allowing amusement for the vagaries of her lifemate to show in the tilt of her lips. "I'll check with him, see what he thinks." she decides, referring to the purchase of knives. "A deal for a favor. I'll keep that in mind as well." she promises, sounding understandably skeptical or wary. "Oh, Miene is graceful too. She's… you'd just have to meet her. She -certainly- overshadows me when we're in the same room. At least it seems that way." As for being tarnished? Oh, she /does/ chuckle at that. "It hasn't been tarnished only because I tell them absolutely nothing about my life." she admits, finishing off what's in her glass then. "What they don't know, won't hurt them. Miene's mistake was in telling them too much. They know she's a dancer, and what kind of dancing she does, so they don't speak to her. They know I'm a rider, but that's it. And the rest I consider none of their business." Her face does, however, turn several different shades of pink and red when Jaya slips in a word there about wanting to know those rumors. "I.. . well, the most amusing one is Rii's fault, so I'll leave that out," she decides, her tone dry. "But so far, I've trapped her here against her will, won't give her any money, make sure she only has the ugliest clothing, I'm terribly jealous of her, and I'm keeping her from her family." That faint noise? That's the bluerider grinding her teeth. "The truth is, I /am/ keeping her here against her will, but only because she's not safe back at Igen. Not until we figure out what's going on there. We had to leave her clothing and money behind, because to go back to that place to get it could have gotten me killed. And my parents disowned her turns ago. And I am not going to give her any more money until she starts at least trying to work at *some* job here. I've been giving her money for turns now anyway. But I also won't give her the satisfaction of denying any of her accusations no matter who she says it to."
"I'm sure we did," Jaya answers on her trader clan having come by her small hold. "If you remember us Dicoris." Talk on the dragon gets a wry "It's always interesting to me. Dragons having personalities." Beat. "And it's nothing major," the barkeep adds, shifting to wipe the towel over the counter surface. "The favor, I mean. Just some courier work. You riders have the means, the dragons to get whatever I need to go where it needs to go." Simple as that, her tone seems to say with that cunning gleam in her dark eyes. She smirks at hearing about her sister, and the tarnished life the bluerider hides before drawling, "I think I do want to meet this sister of yours! She sounds like a mess worth meeting, shuga. As to that rumor….another round?" A brow lifts in a mischievious light and she looks down at the empty glass before Maura pointedly. To those rumors that the sister in question spreads, Jaya spreads her hands wide at that one as she states, "Aren't siblings meant to be pains in the ass? Of course she would be just as so here as opposed to there. You say she's not safe back at home, though. What kind of trouble we're talkin' here for a dancer?" Some of her amusement ebbs though upon hearing that the sister had been disowned, her hand stopping the towel and she adds soberly, "Yeah. Know how that feels. Girl seem misguided, and lost, is all. Been there, shuga. All she needs is to be pointed down a different direction." Beat. "Like I was."
"Dicoris. It's familiar." Maura's tone is thoughtful, pensive even, as she tries to think back on all those lessons she was drilled in endlessly while living at home. "Oh yes, yes dragons have some very, very interesting personalities. And they're always in your head. I mean, sometimes you can tune them out, but…" Courier work sounds simple enough that the bluerider smiles and nods, accepting Jaya's word at face value. Or at least so it seems. "If you really want to meet her, I'd be happy to steer her in your direction." More marks are pulled out from her pocket and slid across the counter, along with he empty glass so that she can get a refill. "Like I said, I blame that one all on him. I said it was none of her business, but he just had to go and be literal." Not that she seems displeased. No, if anything it just brings another mischievous grin to her face. "I'm trying. Maybe if it were someone else trying to steer her on the right path she'd listen." is questio mused, while she considers her answer to the question of trouble. There's that brief moment of indecision where she seems to suck the air in between her teeth, but then she speaks again. "Some new asshole took over the place, and wanted the dancers to do more then just dance. And she got beat pretty bad for refusing to do perform those extra services. I went in and got her out. WIsh she'd have given me a heads up though, since it got me bruised and bloody too."
"Can you really?" Jaya counters in amusement in regards to blocking out dragons from one's head, her head tilting slightly. "I remember when S'las would tell me he used to try, but ended up giving up when his bronze made his love life his own personal commentary playground." As to meeting Maura's sister, she straightens up and says, "She's welcome to come by the bar, anytime. Be good to get in more chats with ladies. I seem to surround myself with men in this business most of the time." She collects the marks being slid over first before moving to refill Maura's glass, her smile one of easy pleasure at profits before the seriousness of her sister's plight back in Igen gets some of the soberness to return. Grunting, "Sometimes it takes someone that's really been there to make the wayward listen, shuga," she states on new paths knowingly, clearly having been through that herself from her tone of voice. "Da kicked me out of the family, too. Got involved in some stuff not too far off from what your sister does, maybe. Such paths are hard to turn away from - even all the way here in a Weyr." Beat. "She finds anymore trouble from up that way, though," she adds, leaning back as she slids her refilled drink back over, "you should look in on talking to the beast manager, Max. Might be there could be something he could do. Men like that one usually needs a good, firm talkin' to, hm?" Somehow, 'good, firm talkin'' just does not seem to sound like what it is, either.
"It takes practice. See, Rikath has a habit of sending me this image, where he shoves someone specific off of my ledge… and makes me watch it all the way down till there's a wet crunchy splat. I've had to learn how to tune that one out." Maura leans over to whisper that one. And no, she doesn't look like shes' joking. "He doesn't like it when I cry." she explains, blithely. "His reaction to what went down in Igen…" A low whistle escapes the young woman's throat, and she has to take a sip of that refilled drink. "I'll suggest she stop by then, Jaya. Anything you can do to help her, or talk some sense in to her. I'd be in your debt." the bluerider adds, sincerely. "She's being a pain in the ass, but she's still my sister and I haven't given up on her." It really just isn't in Maura to brush someone off. "Mmm. Yeah, I know Max. Well, a bit anyway. I already gave him the names that I wrung out of my sister. He's a good guy. That Waine fellow though. I think there's a screw loose up there someone if you know what I mean." More alcohol down the gullet please! "Know what you mean about hangin' out with guys a lot. Seems pretty much all of my friends are men. Be nice to have a girls night now and then wouldn't it?"
The mental image Maura creates with her blue shoving someone off of a ledge is enough to send Jaya into fits of raucous laughter. Slapping the counter, "Rikath does that? And here I thought all dragons had inherently 'good' thoughts! And who has he mentally thrown off a ledge?" Inquiring minds want to know, apparently! She does sober up though to nod on her sister coming by, adding there, "Dunno about talkin' sense. Folks say I'm a bit unhinged, shuga, but it might help give her someone to vent to, or give her a place to throw off some steam, you know? Sometimes, that's all it takes. She'll be alright here." A brow of interest lifts at Maura having met Max already, but the comment on Waine gets a wry, "No wonder I get along with him. He's the good sort to have around Max, though. A little off, for sure, but then, I shouldn't be the one to judge." She tosses a wink towards her at that one. The last gets some laughter as she returns to cleaning dirty mugs, clearly in agreement as she responds. "Must be something common in a Weyr, although I'm coming from the lands, shuga. Women out there, if you're not laying on your back, then all you see around is men." Beat. "A girl's night though. That's something I can do with," she considers that for a moment, pausing. "Be nice to play some serious cards and drink good with other girls that I'm not looking smack down. Likely why I have few friends, so I agree. Something simple and fun?"
Maura nods once. Firmly. "Oh yes, Rikath -certainly- does that. For awhile there, every time I'd even talk to the guy, I would get that same image." Cue pained expression. "Oh, just D'lan so far. I mean, he only made me cry that one time. And he did apologize. And it was a good explanation, really. I guess. And he's been so nice. But Rikath isn't very forgiving." Thus, people tend to try to stay on her good side. And with Maura being so sweet, usually, the dichotomy between rider and dragon couldn't be more clear. "He stopped with the ledge-shoving images soon as I hooked up with Ch'rii though, so it's not so bad really." Hey wait, she frowns now. She didn't mean to say all that. Which obviously means she should drink /more/? Hmm. "Maybe we should introduce Miene to Waine then." she makes this leap with all the sense that someone half in her cups would, of course. She's such a cheap drunk. "Yes, yes exactly! Cards, drinking… and we can talk about the girls we want to smack down." she suggests, merrily. She hasn't even registered the raised brow at all.
"D'lan?" Jaya didn't recognize that name, but then, she wasn't too familiar with most of the dragonriders at the Weyr. "Huh, a dragon that isn't very forgiving. That's something interesting." When Maura speaks on her blue stopping with the visions when she hooked up with Ch'rii, there's a lopsided grin given for that slip along with a wry "So you got approval, it seems. Better than the alternative. I have a friend in love with a dragonrider himself, and her own is scary enough without the added idea of her not liking him." There's laughter on the notion of Maura's sister meeting Waine, remarking wryly, "And she'll be naked in seconds flat, booze or no." Beat. "Sounds like a done deal," she adds on the idea of a girls' night, reaching forward with a hand to shake on it. "Too bad my sister isn't in town and all, though I wouldn't want to just…stopping by. She's as much a handfull as that Miene of yours! But I can do with letting my hair down for a bit. Another drink?" Yeah, this is one incorrigible barkeep!
"You know Max, seems like. He calls him the 'walking ego'." Maura prompts, having no idea just how well Jaya DOES know Max, but just assuming that she knows the guy, because she did mention him afterall. "Tall. Brown hair and eyes. Knows he's good looking. Hnh. Guess that's not too much help is it. Plenty of good looking tall guys with brown hair and eyes here isn't there'" Yep, this little bluerider starts babbling up a storm when she starts imbibing. Jaya may just be creating a monster. "If I can call anything Rikath does approval. He's a crafty little dragon, that one." she agrees, seeming amused at the idea. And she is also eager to shake on a girl's night, flashing a charming smile at the barkeep. "No worries. We can make it a sister free night too. Faranth knows I could use one! Ooooh, sure. Yes please. Another Istan Wave." More money over the counter. She's going to be weaving her way out to Rikath after this.
"I know Max, yeah," Jaya drawls in a slight Bitran accent, the regard a little cunning and enticing of there perhaps being something more to that answer than she's letting on. "But I haven't learned of this D'lan fellow. If he's a walking ego, then he's someone of should've met a long time ago." Beat. "You know a lot of good-looking, tall guys with brown hair and eyes, eh?" she seems to tease. She turns a bit thoughtful on the matter of Maura's dragon though, and puts in, "I'd like to meet this judgemental dragon though. See what he thinks of me. I've already heard all kinds from men." Once they shake on the girls' night to come, the smile is flashed back in return before the barkeep straightens up and resumes her mug-cleaning. "A sister-free night sounds about right. I think Hayli and Suli might want to join, too," and she gestures with her chin towards the petite blonde wading through the sea of tables behind them, along with the towering older woman behind the counter with her. She refills Maura's mug then, the mark getting pocketed so fast that one would have blinked and found it missing in less than a second.
Maura may be drunk, but she isn't wasted yet! "Are you the special girl he mentions having a date with a lot?" Max is probably going to want to throttle Maura at this rate. As will D'lan. And Ch'rii. Is there anything else she could possibly spill or talk about that she's usually quiet about? Anything at all? Maybe that birthmark on… oh wait, what were they talking about again? "You can meet Rikath any ol' time you want." she slurs, lifting her glass up to toast Jaya. "In fact, I may just need help walkin out to the bowl at this rate!" Normally that wouldn't cause a giggle. But today? Yep, hilarious! "Sure. The more the merrier! If they're anything like you I'm sure I'll get along just fine with em. Sure I won't be the odd one out here?" Her brow furrows. She's always the odd one out. "Ah well, who gives a shit." If only the boys were here now. She glances around to spot the women that have been named, before finally addressing another point., "I just know a lot of good looking tall men. Period." For realz. All those renegade men at Eastern so far? -Hot-.
Ahhhh, now that question gets the wily barkeep to stop her activity and turn a blank look towards the bluerider for just a moment. Finally there's a light snort and she resumes her cleaning, both brows lifting at Maura. "He mentions he's having a lot of dates with a special girl?" Jaya tosses the question right back with a sardonic and amused tilt to tone, shaking her head. "Well, if there's some other girl he's chasin' around on these dates, best I go find out, eh?" In that pause, one would think the woman's serious until she drops a beat later, "What does he say about me?" Yeah, Jaya's nosy like that. When Maura raises her glass to toast on her meeting Rikath, there's laughter and an equal raise of her own cleaning mug before stating, "You're not bad, 'rider. A bit on the straight, but, not bad at all. Don't think you can hold your liquor all that well, either," she adds, dropping her chin to pin a look on the other woman that was clearly inebriated. "Sure looks like you'll be needin' help out to the bowl though. I don't trust these boys in here enough to escort you without a hassle, except Shijan," and she nods toward the entrance where the silent shadow watches those in the bar. "Keep on drinkin' though, and I will keep taking every mark you cough up," she notes without open shame, "and you'll have a hangover that may turn you as onery as your dragon!" She laughs at her own jest, and then waves a hand back and forth on the matter of being the odd one out in the card game. "Naw, Hayli and Suli's good people!" she's quick to say, flashing a set of teeth. "Suli might cut ya' if she thinks you're cheatin', though, but if ya did, it's not like anyone's died or anything from it. Doing another girls' night would be tough otherwise!" There's raucous laughter when Maura curses, and talk of the guys at Eastern gets a brief gesture of her chin and a, "I hear you, shuga. Likely why my ass stuck around. Couldn't get a certain beast manager I clocked out in his stables out of my mind ever since. Girl like me don't even belong in a Weyr, shuga!"
"He's usually too busy trying to pry information out of me then return the favor by answering even the most subtle of questions." Maura replies, after a moment's thought of replaying conversations in her mind. "But don't you worry. I'll see what I can get out of him next time we talk." she promises, a knowing smile appearing on her lips. And since she flushes at any praise at all, the bluerider near beaming… at least part of which is the fault of being on her third drink. "Oh don't I know it. I can't hold my liquor worth shit. But if I keep drinking, eventually… eventually…" she'll still never be able to outdrink any of the other renegades, and thus she drunkenly loses her train of thought. "Think this is my last one." she admits, leaning over to whisper that as if it's some kind of big ol secret. "Gotta be able to at least pretend I'm on point at drills tomorrow." And what, did Jaya just say she punched Max? A slightly glassy eyed look is given the bartender before she starts laughing /hysterically/. "That. Is. Awesome." she decides. "Oh man, alright. I gotta go before I say something really dumb or fall off my chair. We'll get together for a girls night, yah? And uhm… knives, right. I'll let you know when I've got a couple good ones."
"That sounds like the beast manager, alright," Jaya remarks after a fashion when Maura speaks on how Max operates, one corner of her mouth lifting. Then again, the barkeep herself couldn't really lay judgement there, either. "Stick around here, around me long enough, you'll hold your liquor like a sea captain," the barkeep goes on to say, her laughter infectious. The smirk that comes in answer to the bluerider stating that this current round of Istan Wave was her last is quick and cunning, the Bitran woman saying back, "Ahhh, perhaps it's a good thing I'm no 'rider then. I don't do well with appointments in the morning. Better you than me, shuga." Maura's laughter must be infectious too, for Jaya's own is a brassy one to hers when she bursts into fits of laughter on her punching the beast manager. "Yeah, it was. Used to give good licks all the time in other bars. I think men respond well to it. Some, anyway," clearly, since that scar of hers show plainly in the bar lighting. But then Maura's getting off the stool and the barkeep straightening up and putting down the current cleaned mug with a wry "Need help to your dragon, or can you make it? And of course, girl's night. Let me know when you're free and I'll get the girls together. Same on the knives, shuga." Studying her for a moment, she adds then, "Golden meeting ya, Maura. Reckon you're alright, for a 'rider," she adds in a slight tease and a wink.
"That sounds like a dangerous proposition." Hanging around Jaya long enough to hold her liquor like a sea captain of course. But if anything, that just makes Maura grin all the more. "And I /like/ dangerous these days." Evident, perhaps, but it had to be said. In one fell swoop she proves she knows *how* to drink by downing the rest of that last 'wave in one shot and then sliding the glass back to Jaya. "They do, do they? Hmm." Shoot, as if she needs to be getting ideas right? "Mmmm, I… think I can make it! If not, someone'll scrape me up off the bowl and help me up." she decides, giggling again because obviously that's just a hilarious way to get back home. "Same t'you, Jaya! Yer alright for someone who ain't a rider!" Ahahahahaha. Yeah. She better leave now before she really devolves into bad jokes and nonsense. So off she wanders, in a mostly straight line towards the door. With a wave!
Laughing with that cunning twinkle in her eye at the first, "All I deal in is danger," is all Jaya says to that. She takes up the now-empty glass and gives into an amused snort to the rest. "Go on with you then, Danger girl," the barkeep gives as Maura totters off, hands making a shooing motion before she shakes her head with laughter and returns to work. "And send that critical dragon of yours a greeting from me!" With that, she moves on to the next customer to grab her attention, working the counter with a flow of one who has spent way too long behind one in her lifetime.


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Cash from divestment forms a major part of oil majors' projected revenue streams , as well as more focused Opex spending, going into the 2020s. Yet despite an uptick in activity—and, arguably, bargain-basement prices—firms appear to be struggling to offload certain "non-core" assets
In its annual report for 2018, BP noted that total divestment proceeds reached $2.9bn, against a target of $3bn for the year; but going forward it expects this to ramp up to more than $10bn over the next two years.
The phrase "supported by divestment proceeds" is repeated several times in the report as a basis for meeting objectives such as reduced debt, echoing the sentiment in other majors' annual reports.
BP notes that the higher target reflects its plans to shift the company's core focus towards US shale assets it acquired from UK-Australian producer BHP in July 2018. Shell and the other majors' targets are equally ambitious.
A report last year from Shell noted the completion of a $30bn divestment programme for 2016-18-on which it embarked after its deal for UK gas producer BG in 2015-including deals such as a $2.4bn sale of upstream assets in Norway in two separate transactions, and the exit from its New Zealand gas assets for $578mn. But Shell also expects to continue divestments at an average rate of more than $5bn a year until at least 2020.
And ExxonMobil, Chevron and other North American firms, which had not been big sellers of assets, are now starting to see it as a key part of reshaping their portfolios, says Luke Parker, VP corporate analysis at Wood Mackenzie, a consultancy. This is unlike European majors that have used divestment to reduce debt and improve gearing for years.
Chevron, for example, recently announced an increased $20bn divestment target over the next two years to help fund its ultimately failed effort to acquire US independent Anadarko. Chevron's asset sales reached $2bn last year, and it will likely revert to its previous goal of $5-10bn, after US independent Occidental succeeded in its competing offer to acquire Anadarko.
Eni saw gains from divestments fall to just €454mn ($507mn) in 2018 from €3.2bn a year earlier. The sales of 10pc and 30pc interests in the Zohr asset in Egypt made in 2017 to BP and Russia's Rosneft for a total of €433mn boosted the previous year's figure.
As a centre of major deal activity in Europe, the UK's North Sea provides a useful snapshot of the divestment landscape.
Notable transactions last year included Norway's Equinor buying Chevron's interest in Rosebank, west of Shetland-financial details were not disclosed. And Shell, previously a seller of ageing assets such as its January 2017 sale of UK continental shelf (UKCS) assets to independent Chrysaor-which is backed by private equity (PE) cash-illustrated an ongoing appetite for new assets when it acquired a stake in another PE-backed producer Siccar Point Energy's Cambo project.
However, a firm buyer has yet to emerge for Chevron's planned sale of all its UK central North Sea assets, including the Alba, Alder, Captain and Erskine fields, as well as the Britannia, Elgin/Franklin and Jade non-operated projects. The proposed sale was announced under Chevron's pre-Anadarko divestment targets.
Despite the sizeable targets ahead, analysts expect divestment sales to remain healthy, even for the mature assets on the UKCS. "There is no shortage of buyers in the UK, companies have not had many problems unloading their non-core assets," Ross Dornan, market intelligence manager at industry lobby group Oil and Gas UK, tells Petroleum Economist.
"UK upstream had been quite sheltered from PE investment, but they have become much more prominent in the supply chain. We have seen this new wave arrive-a new type of company with different priorities and strategies."
The North Sea divestment plans of majors and other exiting players have thus far benefited from a new range of buyers, for example, Chrysaor's April announcement of its acquisition of US independent ConocoPhillips' UK oil and gas business for $2.675bn. But the deal also reflected the major geographic shift that currently dominates the M&A landscape and which ultimately may prove a challenge if too many firms end up on one side of it-namely, the move by majors other than Total and by US independents towards a main focus on US shale.
"All of the larger divestment sales and strategies in the UK-Marathon, ConocoPhillips and Chevron-relate to retreating to North American shale. It is a highly capital-intensive area that is drawing these companies in," says Dornan.
"Supplementing core assets with acquisitions and divesting non-core assets will continue. Recent prominent deals reflect producers' desire to buy as well as build, while US shale growth will attract interest as major producers seek to consolidate exposure in the Permian," says Andy Brogan, global oil & gas transactions advisory services leader at financial services firm EY. "We will see more in the way of deal value over volume, as producers look to build further optionality into portfolios to stimulate long-term growth and potential business transformation."
The capacity, infrastructure and strategic location of the US shale industry mean majors are likely to seek to continue to use asset disposal programmes to narrow their geographic focus and portfolio plans towards the US. This also gives firms a chance to offload assets seen as less desirable due to environmental and political complications, as long as buyers can be found.
"The majors have low-margin assets that are nonetheless resilient, and this means they can sell off the assets that do not suit their aims; for example, Shell selling its entire stake in Canadian Natural Resources for $3.3bn," says.
Several majors have put up for sale their Canadian oil sands assets over the past few years as pipeline bottlenecks, high costs and low local prices discourage investment. But finding buyers has not been easy.
Oil and gas producers have attempted to offload producing assets pumping more than 180,000bl/d oe in Western Canada, as well as undeveloped land, according to data from M&A analysis firm Evaluate Energy. However, the past year has seen no buyers emerge, and only one small deal has been agreed between two relative minnows: Shawcor's $308mn acquisition of ZCL Composites.
The heavy discount on Western Canadian Select and regional natural gas prices in the latter half of last year may have also depressed the sales activity in the region.
In terms of deal activity in the US, Drillinginfo, an energy analytics company, reported in April that US oil and gas M&A deal values had plunged to a record 10-year low in the first quarter of 2019.
The firm says a primary contributing factor is likely Wall Street's pressure to deliver on free cash flow, as well as the "weak equity and debt markets available to fund deals". Unlike in the UK, private equity, which has in recent cycles stepped in as an opportunistic buyer to take advantage of pullbacks in the US, last year largely sat on the sidelines.
The impact of the 2014 oil price crash, when initially companies struggled to sell assets after Brent's price fell from $115/b to $51, was a major factor in discouraging would-be sellers. "Volatility and moments of weakness can see sales grind to a halt," says Wood Mackenzie's Parker.
But market downturns can also eventually spur more M&A activity as acquiring companies look to take advantage of lower prices. In the oil and gas sector during 2015, financial buyers spent more than $25bn investing in acquisitions, joint ventures, and funding private E&P companies, according to figures from bank HSBC.
Parker says it is significant that the level of global activity and spend was relatively resilient over the course of the 2014-16 downturn. "Majors have reached even some of the much more onerous disposal targets over recent years-people doubted that Shell could meet its $30bn target, but it did. There is plenty of liquidity out there."
Although the cyclical nature of the oil and gas industry will likely leave the asset disposal landscape vulnerable to oil price fluctuations, advances in technology and the willingness to explore niche upstream methods are also keeping divestment fluid.
"As assets and fields start to move towards the end of their productive lives, firms can create better value from them," says OGUK's Dornan. "Certain assets are just more valuable in the hands of another buyer," adds Parker. "Assets that would have struggled to compete in the hands of a major can do well with another firm."
He says this is why "huge swathes" of LNG, deepwater and other non-core tail-end portfolio are being handed over to smaller, often PE-backed, firms that have built a management strategy revolving around certain kinds of exploration. And, typically, when an asset changes operatorship, an average field life extension of nearly five years can be achieved.
Outside the UK, in South America the Brazilian oil and gas giant Petrobras has successfully executed three sale and purchase agreements worth $10.3bn in the past two years alone. The transactions include the sale of Petrobras' 90pc stake in gas transmission firm Transportadora Associada de Gás (TAG) to France's Engie and the Canadian pension fund Caisse de Dépôt et Placement du Québec.
Petrobras has also sold a 50pc working interest in Tartaruga Verde field (BM-C-36 Concession) and Module III of the Espadarte field, both located in the deep waters of Campos Basin, offshore Brazil, to Malaysia's Petronas. And it has offloaded all of its stakes in 34 ageing onshore production fields in Rio Grande do Norte to Potiguar E&P, a subsidiary of Brazilian operator PetroReconcavo.
On a post-results conference call with analysts in February, CEO Roberto Castello Branco said the firm sees a "bold" plan for sales of non-core assets as being the key to reducing debt. The firm will pursue "a more aggressive divestment programme and getting out of assets where we are not a natural owner", Castello Branco said.
Petrobras plans to reduce its ratio of net debt to Ebitda to 1.5 or even to 1, with the help of divestments, he added. The ratio at the close of the fourth quarter was 2.34.
Following an oil price rally that saw Brent flirt with $75/bl in May, Equinor agreed last month to spend $965mn in cash to buy Shell's 22.45pc stake in the deepwater Caesar Tonga oilfield in the US Gulf of Mexico, using its pre-emption rights to block would-be buyer Delek of Israel. Delek has also been linked with North Sea asset acquisitions, including the Chevron portfolio, making it one of the few international independent E&P firms that appears to have a global expansion of its footprint within its strategy. More of these types of buyer might give greater confidence that majors can hit their divestment targets.
Elsewhere, there has been less activity, and, as oil prices retreated into late 2018, there were no major acquisitions by Chinese NOCs. Beijing is likely attempting to prioritise domestic expansion of oil and gas exploration to supplement its hefty imports, estimated by S&P at 70pc for oil and 40pc for gas last year.
S&P Global Ratings said in April that deal levels in Africa and western Asia had also proved disappointing in some cases-"most national and private Asian oil producers are increasing focus on their home markets in their search of production scale and reserves".
In terms of majors' regional sales, Shell is continuing its divestment plan in Asia and is looking to offload its 35pc stake in Abadi, an Indonesian LNG project at a pic tag of up to $1bn, says Parul Chopra of Rystad Energy, a Norway-based energy research firm.
Total annual energy deal values in Asia have ranged between $5.4bn and $8.7bn in the past four years, according to Wood Mackenzie data.
Earlier this year, OGUK noted that continued volatility in oil prices, along with increased optimisation and cash flow within exploration and production firms, could also "dampen" overall deal activity in the North Sea.
"There will be continued consolidation within the market this year with companies right-sizing their portfolios…We think this is positive for the basin because having the right investment opportunities in the right ownership will be critical to delivering production from these assets," says Dornan. A 40pc drop in oil price at the end of last year also served to "shake" investors, he adds.
That price plunge, for instance, was given by many analysts for the collapse of an attempt by US petrochemicals firm Ineos to buy North Sea oil fields from US independent ConocoPhillips earlier this year-the same assets that Chrysaor agreed to buy in May as the price rallied.
But, while prices stay buoyant in early summer 2019, major new entrants are also looking at the assets on offer through divestment programmes.
Saudi Aramco has turned acquisitive, exploring natural gas partnerships and assets in North America, the Russian Arctic and Africa as it aims to nearly double its total gas production to 23bn ft³/d over the next 10 years.
Earlier this year, Aramco said it would move beyond its traditional business developing Saudi Arabia's vast oil reserves and expand into international exploration, which could see it compete with the majors but also as a potential asset buyer. In May, Aramco signed a heads of agreement with US firm Sempra to take a 25pc stake in, and 5mn t/yr of offtake from, its planned Port Arthur LNG export terminal in Texas.
Despite a potential widening of the buyer field, ultimately, activity could remain constrained due to continued caution over the timing of the energy transition and ongoing international trade tensions. Hopes for a return of confidence last year were rapidly quashed with the plunge in Brent at year-end, and price uncertainty will only continue to hurt divestment.
However, the valuation gap between buyers and sellers may also shrink as advances in technology create potential for well-capitalised companies and private equity-backed firms to take advantage of majors continuing to upgrade and prune their portfolios. It looks like being a bumpy ride, rather than the smoother progress the analyst community might prefer, but it is too early yet to write off the majors' vast combined divestment target is unachievable within existing timeframes.


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Creating new Groovy library Follow
How can I create a new Groovy library?
In Project Structure > Global Libraries, the + button only allows creating a Java library or one From Maven...
Shouldn't I be able to create any type of library from there?
Also, why a Global Libraries in Project Structure instead of Preferences? The current setup make no sense to me.
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I think I can create a new Groovy library in the New Module dialog, but what if I want to add the library to an existing module.
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You can right-click existing module and select "Add Framework Support" and choose Groovy.
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Supplememt €50,000,000,000 Euro Medium Term Note Programme datum 18 mei 2016
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- Date of receipt notification 18 may 2016
- Date received document 18 may 2016
- Issuing institution Toyota Motor Finance (Netherlands)B.V.,Toyota Credit Canada Inc.,Toyota Finance Australia Ltd.,Toyota Motor Credit Corporation
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Smile So Bright You May Glow In The Dark
Many individuals focus on their hair, clothes and skin when they try and improve their looks. The only problem is that your teeth are not quite white enough, so you may feel a scarcity of confidence. The guidance in this post is intended to help you get your whitest grin.
Be careful using hydrogen peroxide that breaks down tonsil stones to whiten your teeth. Common homemade treatments like lemons, ash, or cooking soda can essentially do much more damage than good. You need to ask your dentist for "home remedy" proposals if you cannot afford a pro process.
Many of us say that using orange and lemon peels on your teeth can help bring them back to their original pearly white state. Take the orange or lemon peel and rub the back part of it on your teeth. Adding a little salt also helps when you're using this system.
Using bread soda is one of the oldest and best ways to lighten your teeth. Take your sodium bicarbonate in a tiny container and mix it with water to make a paste type solution. Use it to clean your pearly whites and then chase up and rinse with peroxide and brush with toothpaste!
To have a white grin, make sure you avoid drinking water or using toothpastes that contain fluoride. It's been reported that fluoride may help in discoloring and permanently marking your teeth. Many states have actually banned fluoride from their drinking water due to this very reason. To remain on the safe side, avoid fluoride at all costs for a good and white smile.
Ask your dentist about the various teeth whitening options available to you. Some dentists may advocate a procedure that they supply in their office. Some may refer you to a certain product that you can find at your local pharmacy. Some may simply suggest that you clean your pearly whites more often.
Avoid drinking coffee, tea, cola, and wine unless you are drinking water with them or immediately afterward. These dark liquids have been proven to permanently stain and stain teeth. Rinsing your mouth with water after can reduce these effects, as can cleaning your teeth after your morning coffee, as it removes the marking chemicals from your mouth.
Use mouthwash sparingly as it can add to discoloration of the teeth. Many mouthwashes contain alcohol or other stain causing chemicals. These may also be absorbed into the delicate tissues in the mouth under the tongue and into your system. If you can avoid them altogether, this is the best option.
Do not use mouthwashes you can purchase at corner store stores. Particularly avoid the ones that use coloured dyes. The coloring in these mouth washes may contribute to staining and blackening. The majority of these contain alcohol also , which can hurt your tongue and gums; you may soak up the alcohol into your bloodstream through the skin beneath your tongue.
Keep your tongue clean daily to keep your teeth whiter. Using a tongue scarper each morning not only gets rid of plenty of bacteria, but it could also seriously fresh up your breath. The scrapers are far more effective at disposing of bacteria than cleaning your tongue, so invest in one to get a whiter smile.
Don't use mouthwash. Mouthwash has chemicals in it that will discolor your teeth. These chemicals enter your body through tissue that is found under your tongue, and they affect the color of your smile. Simply staying away from mouthwash is one of the easiest methods to lighten your teeth and enhance your smile.
As you have now learned, there isn't any need to destroy your appearance with less-than-white teeth. A bright white grin will make you more confident and is realizable by following the guidance found in the tips above.
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Nov. 9, 2016
By Robby Hamman
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The Irish (19-8, 10-5 ACC) got a monster performance from sophomore Rebecca Nunge but were unable to leave Louisville (9-16, 4-11 ACC) with a win, as Notre Dame fell by a final match score of 3-1. Nunge finished with a triple-double, becoming the first Irish player to accomplish the feat since Maggie Brindock did so at Rutgers in 2012.
The Irish have made a habit of getting out to an early lead in ACC play and the team continued the trend on Wednesday evening. Notre Dame built an early four-point advantage at 10-6. The Cardinals managed to fight back to within one at 18-17 but that was as close as the Irish would allow them to get, as the Irish won the set 25-22.
Louisville bounced back in the second set to level the match at 1-1. After being tied at 6-6 the Cardinals won 10 of the next 12 points to take control of the stanza at 16-8 and then went on to win by a final 25-21. The Cardinals continued their momentum into the third set, jumping out to an early 8-2 lead. The Irish rallied to tie the set at 16-16 but were unable to win the third, as Louisville took the frame 25-20.
For the third straight set the Cardinals held a sizeable lead, as the hosts led 17-10 midway through the fourth. The Irish tried to mount a comeback and force a fifth set, cutting the deficit to two points at 24-22. However, Louisville managed to win the next point to take the set 25-22 and match 3-1.
Nunge was involved in everything on Wednesday on her way to the first triple-double of her career. The Newburgh, Indiana native finished with 10 kills, 15 assists and 11 digs over the four sets. Nunge tied her career-high in digs with 11 and her 10 kills marked the seventh time she has finished in double figures this season. The sophomore also added two blocks to complete her impressive evening.
The Irish recorded 82 digs in the match, the second-highest mark of the season in a four-set match. Ryann DeJarld led the team with 24, while Sydney Kuhn (18), Natalie Johnson (15) and Nunge (11) each finished in double digits.
- The Irish are now 21-12 against Louisville in the all-time series.
- Notre Dame is 11-3 when playing away from Purcell Pavilion this season.
- The Irish won the first set for the 13th time in 15 ACC matches.
- Jemma Yeadon recorded a team-high 12 kills, marking the 14th time this season she has finished with 10+ kills.
- Taylor Zwickl matched her season high in assists with 21.
Notre Dame returns home from its three-match road swing at 1 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 13 to host Virginia. To purchase tickets visit UND.com/BuyTickets.
Robby Hamman joined Fighting Irish Media as athletics communications assistant director in September 2016, coordinating efforts for the volleyball and men's lacrosse program. Hamman is a 2010 graduate of Bethel College, where he earned bachelor's degrees in sport management and business administration, and earned his master's degree in business administration from Defiance College in 2013.


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text: [image title="" size="full" id="6631" align="center" linkto="viewer" ] Addressing a large gathering, including the Mayor of Washington DC Muriel Bowser, who had all come together to celebrate Sri Lanka's 67thAnniversary of Independence at the Reception organized by the Sri Lanka Embassy in Washington DC, Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinkenstated that "this year the whole world is celebrating with Sri Lanka."He went on to say that "After the most successful election in [Sri Lanka's] history, Sri Lankans can stand proud alongside Americans as keepers of the democratic dream" and that it is time for Sri Lanka "to return to its rightful place as a respected member of the international community." To the applause of Sri Lankan Americans, the Washington diplomatic community and senior US government officials present on the occasion, he concluded his remarks by saying that "We are proud to celebrate your anniversary, we are proud to stand with you in the promise of a new day." Deputy Secretary Blinken was the chief guest at the Embassy celebrations, representing the Government of the United States of America. US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Nisha D. Biswal, Ambassador Mr. Stephen Rapp of the Office of Global Criminal Justice, Assistant US Trade Representative for South and Central Asia Mr. Michael Delaney, USAID Assistant Administrator for Asia Mr. Jonathan Stivers and World Bank Regional Vice President for South Asia Ms. Annette Dixon were among the high level dignitaries present. Welcoming the gathering at the start of the evening's proceedings, Ambassador Prasad Kariyawasam said Sri Lanka is celebrating 67 years of independence at a momentous time in her history, just less than a month after a presidential election where the people of Sri Lanka reaffirmed their faith in democratic principles and governance. The presence of Deputy Secretary Blinken and Mayor Bowser on this important day for Sri Lanka, especially at a unique and decisive time for the country, is a manifestation of the goodwill and friendship of the United States towards Sri Lanka and a singular honour to its people and leaders as well as Sri Lankan-Americans living in the United States, the Ambassador said. Ambassador Kariyawasam recalled the long years of friendship that Sri Lanka shared with the United States.Headded that Sri Lanka looks forward to strengthen bonds of friendship and cooperation with the United States on the basis of our shared values, our commitment to democracy, good governance and to international peace and security. The Ambassador read out the Government's collective pledge to peace, which was applauded by the audience and Deputy Secretary Blinken remarkedit "was an important step towards healing [the] country's wounds." In the morning of 4 February, the Ambassador and the Embassy staff hosted the traditional Independence Day ceremony at the Embassy premises with multi-faith religious observances conducted by religious dignitaries representing the Buddhist, Hindu, Christian and Islam faiths and in the presence of representatives of the Sri Lankan community in Washington DC. Remarks by Ambassador Prasad Kariyawasam Remarks by Deputy Secretary Antony Blinken Embassy of Sri Lanka Washington DC February 6, 2015 [image title="Photo 1" size="thumbnail" id="6547" align="center" linkto="viewer" ] [image title="Photo 2" size="thumbnail" id="6548" align="center" linkto="viewer" ] [image title="Photo 3" size="thumbnail" id="6549" align="center" linkto="viewer" ]


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|A Novel electrical variable stiffness device for vehicle seat suspension control with mismatched disturbance compensation
|Ning, D; Du, H; Sun, S; Li, W; Zhang, N; Dong, M
|A rotary variable admittance device and its application in vehicle seat suspension vibration control
|Ning, D; Sun, S; Yu, J; Zheng, M; Du, H; Zhang, N; Li, W
|Optimal preview position control for shifting actuators of automated manual transmission
|Chen, Z; Zhang, B; Zhang, N; Du, H; Kong, G
|Vibration control of an energy regenerative seat suspension with variable external resistance
|Ning, D; Sun, S; Du, H; Li, W; Zhang, N
|The Home-Heart-Walk study, a self-administered walk test on perceived physical functioning, and self-care behaviour in people with stable chronic heart failure: A randomized controlled trial
|Du, H; Newton, PJ; Budhathoki, C; Everett, B; Salamonson, Y; Macdonald, PS; Davidson, PM
|Cardiac rehabilitation: Unraveling the complexity of referral and current models of delivery
|Astley, CM; Neubeck, L; Gallagher, R; Berry, N; Du, H; Hill, MN; Clark, RA
|A Novel Observer Design for Simultaneous Estimation of Vehicle Steering Angle and Sideslip Angle
|Zhang, B; Du, H; Lam, J; Zhang, N; Li, W
|Facilitating or getting in the way? the effect of clinicians' knowledge, values and beliefs on referral and participation
|Gallagher, R; Neubeck, L; Du, H; Astley, C; Berry, NM; Hill, MN; Clark, R
|A state-of-the-art review on magnetorheological elastomer devices
|Li, Y; Li, J; Li, W; Du, H
|CHOKeR: A novel AQM algorithm with proportional bandwidth allocation and TCP protection
|Lu, L; Du, H; Liu, RP
|Development of A New Model for Roll-Plane Active Hydraulically Interconnected Suspension
|Zhu, S; Du, H; Zhang, N; Wang, L
|Robust tracking control of vehicle lateral dynamics
|Du, H; Zhang, N; Li, W
|Development and implementation of fuzzy, fuzzy PID and LQR controllers for an roll-plane active Hydraulically Interconnected Suspension
|Zhu, S; Du, H; Zhang, N
|PT453 Disease Management Interventions For Improving Self-Management In Lower-Limb Peripheral Arterial Disease: A Cochrane Review.
|Inglis, S; Du, H; Newton, PJ; DiGiacomo, M; Omari, A; Davidson, PM; Narula, J
|Experimental study and modeling of a novel magnetorheological elastomer isolator
|Yang, J; Du, H; Li, W; Li, Y; Li, J; Sun, S; Deng, HX
|Development of a torsional dynamic absorber using a magnetorheological elastomer for vibration reduction of a powertrain test rig
|Hoang, N; Zhang, N; Li, WH; Du, H
|Direct voltage control of magnetorheological damper for vehicle suspensions
|Du, H; Lam, J; Cheung, KC; Li, W; Zhang, N
|Semi-active control of an integrated full-car suspension with seat suspension and driver body model using ER dampers
|Du, H; Li, W; Zhang, N
|H∞ control of a novel low-cost roll-plane active hydraulically interconnected suspension: An experimental investigation of roll control under ground excitation
|Zhu, S; Wang, L; Zhang, N; Du, H
|Robust active control of an integrated suspension system
|Du, H; Lam, J; Li, W; Zhang, N


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Jennifer is an experienced school counselor and a Licensed Professional Counselor Intern under the supervision of Sarah Balint-Bravo M.Ed, LPC-S, RPT-S, NCC. Her counseling approach is based on openness and acceptance. She is skilled in quickly developing trusting relationships based on unconditional positive regard which creates a safe, non-judgmental environment where children can explore their thoughts and feelings in the security of the therapeutic relationship.
With twenty years of school counseling experience, Jennifer has helped children overcome challenges involving anxiety, depression, divorce, family illness, grief, friendship, and learning differences. She also enjoys working with parents in the therapeutic setting to help them develop positive and healthy familial relationships.
Jennifer earned her master's degree in counseling from Texas A&M University-Commerce and her bachelor's degree in elementary education from Texas Tech University. Jennifer is trained in play therapy, including Filial therapy, activity therapy and group counseling.
Jennifer lives is Dallas with her husband and teenage son and daughter.
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Like a shell, penetrated by a grain of sand, can only re-act by producing layer over layer, by that creating a pearl;
the market, penetrated by a piece of art, can only re-seel by producing market-compliant prices, by that creating a money-art-work.
On one side it is a limited attack, just one a day,
on the other side it is an un-limited attack, every day one
– always with a slightly growing price.
Kmentemt, Money Art, 1993
Money Art = The appropriation of Money by Art
How Money Art started
Each visual artist dealing with art prints, must - apart from any limitations of the printing process - also deal with two fundamental questions:
When an artist decides on the size and the numbering of his edition, this basically determines the prints´ price.
This is because regarding the price it makes a huge difference whether there are going to be 50 or 100 or 10,000 copies, and whether an individual print has a low number such as 6/100 or a high one such as 87/100 or 9,354/10,000.
The marketing approach
Often artists do not answer these questions from an artistical but from a business perspective., Finally its about image and marketing: How do I position this print in my previous work, my œuvre? Am I working for an exclusive group or do I want to position my prints oin the mass market? What price per square centimeter have I reached so far, and shall I stick to it in terms of my prints too?
Furthermore, the gallery plays a major role in determining the number and thus the expected price. Ultimately, however, the market price is set by supply (= size of the edition) and demand.
For us, this market-based approach became unsatisfactory, especially since the edition and its number are part of the artwork, often individually signed and guaranteed by the artist. We - perhaps traditionally - believe that every element of the art work shall be argued artistically and not within conventional market terms.
We therefore quite intensively engaged with the process of determining both the number of the respective issue and the price, and wondered whether it would be possible to not only define a price (-range) by the edition, but to set a very specific price. To what extent can an artist affect the price - especially in the field of art prints? How to bring about a paradigm shift from the price as an element outside, the external act of creating the art, to something inherent, part of the process of the work of art itself?
The bottom line
Can the price be justified solely artistically, regardless of the market?
Our artistic solution
We, as money artists, reached a conclusion by including a third element, next to number and price: the date. In dependence on the quantum entanglement we created a kind of money art share that is powerful enough to avoid being co-opted by the market, something that can sustainably hold its own in the market through its "artistic" pricing. Each art share - like todays - is a print on robust hemp paper, numbered 93.10263, priced 934,10 Euro and signed.
Instead of the price being the result of the market`s demand and supply, we entangled date, number and value - as in physics, creating a quantum entanglement, a grain of sand. When one of these elements is measured, the state of the other two changes - instantaneously.
For example, if we want to create the next art print, which is the next number, we have to do this on the following day, because that's the artistic rule: If you change one element, like by adding 1 to the number, one day is added to the date and one to the value; in currency ten cents - without delay.
The economic consequence
The paradigm shift: The art work itself determines the financial value daily, instead of the artist, the gallery, the experts or the ups and downs of the art market..
Date Number Price (€)
Cheapest 03.03.1995 93.891 64,80
Today 29.10.2020 93.10263. 934,10
Tomorrow [DATE+1] 93.10264. 934,20
... and so on and on
For the owner the interesting point is, although the price is "created" in quite an unusual way, the outcome is marketable and saleable like any other artwork or commodity.
The price for a piece of money art on the primary market is daily fixed by the art work itself, by the artistic rule. But when the HoC-owners start to sell their pieces of money art on the secondary market, the realized price then will be the result of bargaining - on this market supply and demand regain their power.
The artistic consequence


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BoDeans: Stripped Down Versions of BoDeans Classics
BoDeans: Stripped Down Versions of BoDeans Classics
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BoDeans: Stripped Down Versions of BoDeans Classics - December 30 - Barrymore Theatre
Those who have followed BoDeans' remarkable 30-year musical career know that their blend of compelling songs and high energy performances have retained an unpretentious rock & roll loyal following like no other.
BoDeans now reside in a small group of bands that have managed to survive the ups and downs of the industry, remaining true to their sound and their style, for 30 years, and show no signs of slowing down.
While famous for their big hard rocking shows... the band has decided to play a handful of select markets in listening rooms featuring a performance with much quieter, more intimate, stripped-down versions of classic BoDeans songs.


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Need Labels and Tags? Try Hi-Tech Printing & Labeling, Inc.
Need Labels and Tags? Try Hi-Tech Printing & Labeling, Inc.
At Hi-Tech Printing & Labeling, Inc., we've been in the stickers, labels and tags business for over two decades. In that time, we've garnered a reputation for providing truly impeccable customer service. In fact, while many of our competitors have grown significantly over the years, they've begun overcharging customers, and letting go of their ability to provide the personal attention their customers need. We've avoided this trap by keeping our growth sustainable and focusing first and foremost on providing excellent service, as well as the stickers, labels and hang tags Los Angeles companies can trust.
It's worth noting that sustainable growth doesn't mean staying small. Actually, though we're based in the heart of the downtown L.A. garment district, we serve clients by shipping in every state of the U.S., as well as internationally. Many small shops are notorious for lacking the skill or equipment to provide quality merchandise on a timely basis. At Hi-Tech Printing & Labeling, Inc., though, this is never the case.
Our 8 color press can print almost anything on printed clothing labels, fabric labels, elastic and trimming. Further still, our 6 color + UV + lamination and die cutting machines can manufacture various hang tag needs. Not only do we have the best equipment, but our professional and well trained team members also have years of experience in design and manufacturing, so you can be assured that they're fully capable of using this technology effectively. Simply put, if you're seeking the best in quality label and hang tag printing, we're here to assist you.


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If you are involved in a not-for-profit organisation, you know that raising money is the key to funding your dreams. But the competition for funds can be fierce and the obstacles many. This course provides you with the techniques that you need for a successful submission.
Using grant applications specific to your organisation, you will learn how to develop, direct and edit creative ideas, in addition to giving invaluable guidance on how to present work for submission.
This course is aimed at first-time writers and those looking for guidance of the grant writing process, and acts as an important introduction to the world of philanthropy, grant-making and grant-seeking.
About the presenter- Rhiannon Cox.
Rhiannon has over 10 year's experience writing grant submissions for both the business and not-for-profit entities. She now works in the public sector and has delivered many community initiatives both locally in Apollo Bay and throughout the Colac-Otway area. She has specialised knowledge of grants that apply to this region and how to present the needs of the local community for the best chance of funding success.
Dates: Mondays 15th October – 19th November (6 weeks)
Times: 6.30-8.30pm
Extras: 1-2 hours work at home encouraged
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