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Mario11779 had een nieuw icon design ontwerp nodig en lanceerde daarom een wedstrijd op 99designs.
Een winnaar werd gekozen uit25 ontwerpen ingezonden door10 freelance designers.
We are posting a 100 x 150 animated gif advertisment during 3 months of the upcoming tax season. Your job, should you accept and win the challenge is to create a well designed button that flows and stands out.
SmartServ Solutions
See Description
Desired Color Scheme:
SmartServ Blue, SmartServ Light Blue
Desired Style:
My sketches are a general idea of what I want and should be no means interpreted as how I want the "art". Use your creativity and feel free to rearrange if necessary. I like alot of color accents (not necessarily alot of different colors). I like a little
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optimized for the web animated gif
The ad will be placed on nyccashflow.com. I think my sketch it is too small compared to the actual size of 100 x 150. Please use the maximum size allowable of 100 x 150 pixels.
I will be attaching files of a general sketch of what I want. It will be a 4 frame animated gif with an infinite loop. I am also attaching our logo and a picture of me "The Problem Solver"
Here is the actual text of the ad in case you can't ready my chicken scratch:
Frame #1
Looking for a tax specialist who is also an active real estate investor?
Frame #2
Mario Costanz
"The Problem Solver"
Frame #3
Your First Year
*Includes 1040 +
1 W-2 per person
Additional Forms
Make Appointment
(718) 931-7236
Frame #4
Also make the gif loop go indefinitely.
Also attached is an ai file of the logo. This version also has other stuff in it, but you can crop and re size to make it nice.
The 4th frame is not represented in the drawing. Please keep everything uniform and it should fit in with the layout of the 1st 3 frames.
Color Scheme: SmartServ Blue (the darker one) and white with SmartServ Light Blue accents - feel free to change as necessary. I am thinking about using a small blue border around the button. It might look good if we used the same blue as the navigation on the left side of nyccashflow.com. It would help it flow into the site nicely. Very nice. Our ad is going where it currently says "Your ad here". I think a white background would probably work best, but then again, I am in financial services, not graphic design, so feel free to trust your instincts.
Thanks and I look forward to working with you.
I need this by Saturday morning. I will be going to sleep shortly as it is after midnight here so I won't be able to give feedback until in the morning. I will be available all day on Friday to give feedback and help you refine your concept.


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Hi all,
I have a really annoying problem...my x220 tablet disconnects from the internet whenever I enter tablet mode. The internet can be working perfectly fine while in non tablet mode but as soon as I switch to tablet mode, my internet disconnects. And if I switch back to non tablet mode from tablet mode, my internet returns almost instantaneously. I can load a page in non tablet mode with no problems, switch to tablet mode and the page stops loading. If I return back to non tablet mode the page resumes loading without so much as a pause or a hiccup. Also, when I switch the computer to tablet mode, wifi networks disappear off of the "available networks" list that were there before the switch.
I've tried everything, from updating network device drivers, reinstalling network device drivers, running diagnostics, reformatting my computer, uninstalling Norton Antivirus, system restoring to days before the last known working date in normal mode and safe mode, and contacting customer support (chat and call, managed to get a hold of a rep) but none of them have worked.
I also used to have a networking log before I reformatted/system reset to factory settings and there were a ton of errors with words like avsc manager failed to "something" ... I'll reinstall the thinkpad network managing program to create another log. Can someone please help me? My last resort is calling lenovo support again to have tech support come to help.
Thanks in advance!
Hi, I'm having exactly the same issues. My BIOS is up to date and so are all drivers and software. It seems like the moment the display touches the keyboard in tablet mode wireless connection suffers drastically.
Strangely enough the wireless status indicator in the taskbar doesn't show any change in reception quality/signal strength.
It would really be appreciated if anyone has an idea, this way the tablet is just useless.
Actually, after posting I double checked and one does see a fluctuation in signal strength. Whereas in non-tablet mode my router is constantly placed in the 100-80% ring of the Access Connections tool as soon as I switch to tablet mode every couple of seconds it jumps to the 60% bracket before jumping back.
Pinging a server constantly at the same time reveals that these are the moments where package losses/lag spikes occur.
Try to uninstall the Acces Connections utility.
Why do you think it's the Access Connections?
No idea! Try just to see if that solve your problem!
No, it didn't, any other ideas anyone?
Why not give a try to my clean install method? That could solve any software issue.
Little update, I got the chance to try out a new replacement X220 tablet and it has exactly the same problem. So I assume this is a design flaw of the series, closing of the lid (as in tablet mode) seems to significantly reduce reception of the antennae. This seems to be worse with certain routers and better with others. Worst results I found with a Netgear DGN1000 (standard router for Virgin in the UK which stubbornly refuse to exchange it). I did have the same problems with other routers and in different locations as well.
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Hey guys, I'm not sure if this is specifically a [testing] problem or not, but:
Whenever I close openbox or run openbox restart, it drops me to a simple x session with no window management and doesn't close X. As a result of this, I've had no way to restart openbox without rebooting my computer completely.
CTRL+ALT+F1 and CTRL+C doesn't work, as it did in the past, since it seems X now starts on VT1, which I think is a side-effect of systemd but I'm not sure.
If anyone has experienced this, or has advice on how to restore this behavior to normal, I would appreciate it.
Last edited by ndt (2012-11-02 18:29:33)
How do you start openbox?
Last edited by karol (2012-10-23 22:11:11)
Ah, so it's not just me. I'm not sure, but I think it started with the upgrade of xorg-server to 1.13. I use a zenity dialog for shutdown/reboot/suspend/logout and simply changed it from doing "openbox --exit" to "pkill -KILL openbox". Yeah, totally not elegant . But hey, it works
I use openbox on two up-to-date systemd machines with no problems at all. Shutting down/rebooting is done via dbus-send, and exiting is done using the built in exit menu "action", which I suspect is the same as "openbox --exit" which doesn't seem to work for Gusar.
I think the answer to Karol's question will be the most useful information you can both provide right now.
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Making lemonade from lemons since 2015.
How do you start openbox?
startx with
exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch openbox-session
in ~/.xinitrc
Running "openbox --exit" or using the built-in openbox menu produces the same issue.
Can you switch to tty2? If so, does your journalctl list anything relevant immediately after the erroneous behaviour?
If you can't switch to tty2, check your persistent journals for relevant entries.
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Making lemonade from lemons since 2015.
Same here. I use systemd with gdm as my login manager.
I can switch to TTY2, and journalctl doesn't show anything of importance.
What's interesting is I can still fully use the programs that are open when I shutdown openbox. It's like openbox closes, but the X session doesn't shut down and none of the programs that are running react to the shutdown, so they just run like if X didn't have a window manager ...
doesn't need ck-launch-session
my xinitrc start
exec dbus-launch openbox-session
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Since today's update I'm experiencing the same issue. 'openbox --exit' stops openbox itself but Xserver, tint2, other open apps stay running.
my .xinitrc just has the
exec dbus-launch openbox-session
Another thread is also discussing this problem:
Beemer, are you sure openbox exits? What I'm seeing here is that openbox's functionality disappears i.e. I can no longer manage windows, but the openbox executable is still running. Killing that returns me to a console prompt.
I see exactly the same problem. It appears that 'openbox --exit' kills the WM, but does not fully exit openbox, hence the session remains. In my logout script, I now need an extra line after the exit, eg. 'openbox --exit; pkill -9 openbox'.
The issue also affects oblogout.
[EDIT}: I didn't notice that this is on [testing]. I do not use testing. This affects me on non-testing repos. I noticed it today (Oct 30).
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somehow this happen, after recent update the problem exactly the same,,, reported as bug maybe?


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text: Snowboard designs are only getting more specialized. There will always be plenty of all-mountain boards to choose from, since that's what most people are most comfortable riding. But the whackier edges of the spectrum — banana boards, park boards, camber hybrids, split boards, powder-specific boards — are thick with innovation. We got the opportunity to test a crop of new boards for three days last week, just after the first snow fell in California's Lake Tahoe region. We carried several quivers of hardware up the Funitel at Squaw Valley and rode each of the boards for at least a full day, trying them both on their intended terrains and across the rest of the mountain. The only thing we couldn't properly test (due to snow conditions in the backcountry) was K2's new split board, so look for a full review of that later, as well as video reviews of a couple of the more interesting rides in this list. Also, you can read the rest of our reviews from our trip to the misty mountains in our previous round-up. Burton Root Snowboard length has traditionally been one of those things you determine once, and that's it — that's the size board you ride. Burton's new line of boards with what it calls "Nug Raduction" lets riders reduce the size of their boards by 8 to 10 centimeters without losing any of the characteristics they've grown used to. The result is a lighter, smaller board with big board stability. The Burton Root I rode ($450) is actually 12 centimeters smaller than my usual board, and after a few minutes of adjusting to the smaller size, it was a joy to ride. The board eschews the traditional camber and rocker with a "Flat Top" shape that extends to the rise of the tip and the tail. Add the slightly wider base and something called Squeeze Box (Burton loves the puns) that enhances flexibility under the bindings while adding stiffer sections outside the foot area, and the board ends up with the feel and stability of a larger board. Because of the smaller size, it's a fun board to toss around the groomers, park and trees. But, it loses all its fun when it encounters ice. The perfect second board. — Roberto Baldwin Ride Machete GT This year, Ride released a stiffer, faster version of the Machete, one of its flagship boards. The Machete GT ($550) sports a few upgrades -- most notably, the addition of a micro-cambered shape between the feet, and carbon and urethane inserts located at the board's contact points at either end. The micro-camber complements the rockered tips with some edge control, while the inserts (aka the "Popwalls") on the edges of the board give you a more stable responsive platform. I also dug the "Membrain" top sheet, a urethane/fabric sheet that not only weighs less than half of a traditional topsheet, but also serves to dampen vibration when hitting rough terrain at high speeds. — Billy Brown Yes The Greats An asymmetrical board with a deeper side cut on the heel edge, Yes' The Greats snowboard ($480) seems like a gimmick. But as I rode down the icy face of Squaw's Siberia bowl, suddenly the gimmick turned into a really cool addition that kept me from sliding straight down the face of the mountain. It made the icy sheet much more rideable, proving its worth as a stable all-mountain board ready for the harshest conditions. It's a Twin CamRock (that's a fancy way of saying it's a camber hybrid) so it has stability in the center of the board while adding a bit of float to the tip and tail. That and the asymmetrical side cut help the board grab onto groomers and ice. It's also stable at high speeds without feeling too stiff. But, it does take a few runs to get used to carving. The center stance makes riding switch easier, but that same stance could make powder runs a bit of a drag. A wonderful all-mountain board. — Roberto Baldwin <p:></p:>Ride Farah Considering how many boards are touted as having "all-mountain" capabilities, very few manage to live up to the name. Ride's Farah ($500) is one of those rare all-mountain boards that actually, truly rocks on every part of the resort. The Farah is a fast board, and not for the faint of heart. It flies down just about anything. I easily bombed across traverses that other boards got stuck on. Ride's hybrid all-mountain rocker puts a camber zone underfoot and a little rocker at the nose. This keeps it super responsive with some of the best edge control I've encountered — even through the chop or on the ice. The early-season conditions we were riding in were far from ideal — ice in the morning and slush in the afternoon — but carving was a blast on everything. Don't forget, all-mountain includes the park too. Even though it's a stiff board overall, Ride's LSD (ladies-specific design) ensures that the board has just enough pop when you need it, so even park noobs will feel rad. — Karissa Bell Burton Whammy Bar Yes, it's a Pink Floyd-themed board. And yes, that alone is awesome. Now that we've got that out of the way, let's get to the specs: In addition to its bitchin' graphics, Burton's v-rockered Whammy Bar ($420) sports a convex base to keep you from catching an edge while jibbing rails or boxes, while the twin flex provides the same springiness whether you're hitting a jump regular or switch stance. This board is clearly meant for the terrain park. The rocker and spoon were also handy for rotations off the kickers — thanks to the board's rocker and convex base, I was able to land switch and slide back to my regular stance without any fear of catching an edge. It's a double-edged sword on the rest of the mountain though: I never caught an edge, but the floaty carving made it more difficult to dig in on steep slopes and sketchy terrain. — Billy Brown Jones Hovercraft Designed by snowboarding legend Jeremy Jones, the Hovercraft ($400) is made with steep slopes and powder in mind. The wide nose is blunted and rockered to keep it from sinking in deep powder, and the shortened tail makes it easier to lean back and keep that nose up while you get your first tracks. With its specific design, there's no surprise it's a pow performer. But the true astonishment came when I took it across icy, cruddy snow after an overnight freeze. The underfoot camber and multiple contact points along the edge of the board (like a serrated blade) carved solid lines through everything from slushy groomers to rock-solid ice sheets with ease. Also, the nose-to-tip wood core gave the board plenty of pop, letting me ollie over the occasional protruding rock in Squaw Valley's sparse sidecountry. — Billy BrownBurton Restricted Custom More of an all-mountain board than the terrain park-centric Whammy Bar, Burton's Restricted Custom ($530) holds edges better than its rockstar sibling, thanks to its blend of rocker (for float) and camber (for sharp edging). A rockered shape on the tips of the board and between the rider's feet gives a nice floaty ride, while cambered edges underfoot help to dig in when precision carving is necessary. The board has the ability to really grab the hill when conditions get icy — the slightly extended edges under the feet provided me with a bit more bite when edging at high speeds on steep terrain. Bonus: For the graphics, you can choose from six classic Muppets characters. — Billy Brown Ramp Tumbleweed Designed for those who prefer a one-board quiver, the handmade Tumbleweed ($620) from Utah-based Ramp Sports is a pretty good all-arounder. It combines rockered tips with a flat middle section to give the board a nice, floaty ride. The Tumbleweed's wood core gave it a nice, sprightly feel on the kickers at the terrain park, and the rockered edges kept catching to a minimum. It's one failing was on the steeper slopes, where the lack of camber made it a bit too surfy. The Tumbleweed's also one of the "greenest" boards I've seen. All the wood for the boards is sourced from renewable forests, and Ramp uses soy- and citrus-based emulsions in the board finishing process. Finally, the company makes a donation worth 300 pounds of carbon offsets for each ski or board sold. — Billy Brown Photos by Ariel Zambelich/Wired


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Barista In The Wild, Part 3: Working Toward Coffee Sustainability
Note: Serious Eats contributor Allison Hemler is a NYC-based barista who recently traveled to Seattle to check out the internal coffee college at Starbucks HQ. This week, she'll be educating us on tidbits she picked up in class, today's focus being on the improving relationships between coffee bean farmers and roasters.
As the second most traded commodity in the world after oil, coffee has acquired more frequent flier miles than any of your produce could hope for. In fact, more coffee enters the United States than any other food product. There's a clear reason why we don't have coffee trees in our backyards and why we rely on shipments from Mexico, Brazil, or Vietnam--our climate can't sustain the quirks of the coffee tree. We can't claim our coffee as part of the "local" movement, but we can learn where it comes from and how it gets here.
As much as you or I might want to despise Starbucks for being an evil corporation, they are making huge progress in sustainability awareness. A trip to any local store will introduce you to the concept of Shared Planet, a set of principles in global responsibility that Starbucks plans to adhere to now and in the future--with many goals hoping to be reached by 2015. I'm most concerned with how they're approaching the trip the coffee bean takes to the cup: support for the small farms, concern for pesticides and amounts of water used in coffee berry washing methods, transparency in coffee pricing, and building direct relationships with farmers.
So many of us look for certification labels to ensure we're buying a quality product, but just because something is labeled Fair Trade or Certified Organic doesn't mean it's a high quality product. Some of the best coffee beans come from small farmers who are unable to afford the certification processes. What I want to see more of is direct trade, where coffee roasters build long-lasting partnerships with farmers and work with them to help improve conditions and bring more money directly to the farmer, instead of a third party.
Starbucks has developed a program called C.A.F.E. (Coffee and Farmer Equity) Practices, a set of standards which will not only lead to better quality coffee, but higher payouts to farmers, better working and living conditions, greater development in social projects like schools, and greater concern for the natural environment where the coffee beans grow by taking proper care of the soil and conserving water in the washing process (a table of all the standards can be found in a PDF at starbucks.com). Scientific Certification Systems conducts exams of the farms, but Starbucks provides assistance in getting the farm in shape for evaluation. A passing grade in the system ensures Starbucks will continue to buy coffee from the farm in the future.
Critics will be skeptical since it sounds just like another certification process. However, since most small farms provide coffee to a local supplier, Starbucks encourages the formation of farmer networks so the supplier can assist in simplifying paperwork, creating a more efficient verification, and in turn decreasing cost to the individual farms. The system is clearly working--in 2008, 77 percent of all the coffee Starbucks purchased--295 million pounds--was from C.A.F.E. verified suppliers. The goal is to have 100 percent of coffee ethically sourced by 2015. At this rate, and with the development of more Farmer Support Centers (two already exist in Costa Rica and Rwanda, with a plan for one in Ethiopia), even more suppliers can get involved and ensure a massive roaster like Starbucks will consistently buy from them, guaranteeing living wages for the next year.
I'm not drinking the Kool-Aid here—I think Starbucks is paving a pretty fascinating path. Peter Torrebiarte, who works in ethical sourcing and buying for Starbucks and previously a coffee farmer, discussed coffee pricing in the industry during one session at coffee college. He informed us that last year Starbucks paid $1.49/pound on average for coffee, substantially more than the New York C (commercial) market price. Depending on the location, production can eat up a huge amount of that price, leaving not very much for the farmer to live on. For example, African coffees are extremely expensive to purchase, but that's because they endure much more work to prepare the green coffee (since most African coffee is sun-dried, this requires more time-consuming labor). In the end, farmers are getting paid nearly the same in Africa as they are in Guatemala. In Costa Rica, about $1.10 per pound is going toward production and real estate costs due to an increasing tourism boom, leaving a very small amount for the farmer. Realize these are actually supposed to be living wages. Starbucks getting involved in best practices for the farmers can only help increase profit in the future, and ensure living wages.
Many other roasters are talking about sustainability these days. Intelligentsia has created their own Direct Trade (note the capital letters) label, which indicates personal relationships with coffee farmers. Gimme! Coffee is involved in "relationship coffee" where growers and roasters connect directly, allowing the farmers to know the worth of their product. Starbucks just happens to be bringing the roaster-farmer relationship to mainstream awareness.
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An Empirical Investigation on The Effect of Business Environment Factors on The FDI Inflows in Pakistan: The Moderating Role of Political Stability
This study has examined the moderating role of Political Stability (PS) on the relationships between microeconomic variables, business environment variables and the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows in Pakistan.This study confined to the annual data for the period from 1991 to 2011 obtained from the authentic sources.The empirical analysis involved using the ADF test to check the stationary of the data, the EViewssoftware and hierarchal regression using the SPSS statistical software package. The statistical results of the study confirmed that that degree of openness, the Labor minimum wage and Infrastructure were significant predictors of FDI inflows. On the other hand, other variables such as GDP growth rate and the rule of law were not significant in determining the FDI inflows in Pakistan.However, the GDP growth rate tends to be a significant determinant of FDI inflows when the moderating effect of the Political stability is accounted for. These findings, thus, strongly suggested that political stability is crucial for the country's domestic and foreign investment in the future course of direction.
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Here is an interview with Allison Grodner - it runs about 15 minutes and these are some highlights:
- The theme this season may be a "summer camp" kind of thing.
- Allison doesn't have any plans for this or next season (if CBS wants it) to be the last.
- No definitive number of HGs for this season, she said anywhere from 12-14.
- Will the fans have a vote this year? Maybe - it seemed to hinge on the number in the jury.
- Allison admits that at times the producers have checked out the various live feeds on the internet when they think they missed something.
- An all star season might be possible next year.


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Happy Happy Friday! Whether your week was excellent or awful, it's time bid it farewell and say hello to the weekend, which includes another edition of the PurseForum Roundup! Sorry we missed you last week, but we are happy to be back on track with plenty of beautiful bags and more.
We made a couple of quick stops in the Playground and found some absolutely magnificent bouquets in Home and Garden's new Flower Arrangements thread, where our members show off their blossoming new floral skills. We could not believe how talented they all are, even though some are just beginning to stretch their wings at this hobby. Luv Birkin is among the newbies, and she put together the brilliant arrangement above. We also dropped into Up to the Minute, where discussions of all the major headlines (and some minor ones) are the order of the day.
Speaking of flowers, how about this Céline Bicolor Luggage featuring luscious orchid?! PoisonIvy looks forward to using this bag in the fall, and we hope we will see some modeling shots when temperatures cool off a bit. Lyonexpat also selected from the purple range for her new Trapeze.
Tanya1729 also got her her first Céline this week, and fans of the brand will enjoy this reveal for its clear pictures of the bag's scrumptious leather. Capucine picked up a pretty new Luggage as well; it's a classic combination with style for days, and Capucine is pleased as can be!
The PurseForum's Christian Dior fans seem to have a real knack for photographing their bags and accessories. This week we caught a look at the pretty and photogenic Promenade Pouch on a chain Roku picked up (at a steal of a deal). Roku's reveal comes with a spectacular family photo that will have you pondering your next small bag purchase!
Also, what a fabulous Lady Dior! NancyFancy picked up this beauty and a Promenade Pouch right along with it. We can see why it was love at first sight, and you will definitely want to take a look at these two together.
Is it as wonderful as it looks? Does it match? What do our members think of the new Christian Louboutin polish? This line has inarguably made quite an entrance, and of course our Christian Louboutin members wasted no time in taking the plunge. In her "Unboxing" thread, ichelle reviews this polish and shows us if it is indeed a perfect match to the famous red soles. I bet you can guess the results.
If you love reveals, you will love the Show Off your New Shoes thread, where Christian Louboutin fans pop in to unwrap their latest purchases. August has been busy, and when we dropped in, we found ChristChrist's new shoes and they are fabulous! Carya also picked up two pair of Loubies, this time in pink tones. Fans of fun mustn't miss these Geo multi pumps—saartje102 also includes some fun family photos, too!
Mulberry fans and Roundup readers know we love to spend some time with the lovely ladies of Mulberry and their gorgeous bags. Snailpolish revealed her first Mulberry, and we love this classic, elegant, neutral color. Changingwoman also revealed first Mulberry – a chocolate ivy Bayswater – and took us on a delightful walk through the woods at the same time.
We always know that when indiaink reveals a bag in Bottega Veneta, it is going to be elegant and amazing. This Sunrise Veneta is very special indeed, and it's in incredible vintage condition. Khanji showed off her new bag, a must-see Veneta in rosa shock, and it's a bag that we very much hope to see in an action thread soon!
Normally we turn to the Jewelry Box for bracelet layering and stacking, but this week we found a great little stack in BV, courtesy of the lovely Mousse.
That does it for this week, Roundup readers! Thank you so much for spending a bit of your time with us each week. We hope you have a terrific weekend and week a head, and we look forward to seeing you right back here soon!


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Oil engineering consultant Steve earns 550,000 Australian dollars (US$560,000) a year and is seeing new graduates signed up for six-figure salaries.
These pay rates, along with other rising costs the oil industry cannot control, are sharpening its focus on mass production methods, clever supply deals and investment in innovation.
"For oil and gas executives, the need for operational excellence has never been greater," says industry consultants Bain & Co in a March 1 study on costs.
"Exploration, development and production costs are rising … Activity levels are also increasing, causing sector inflation. A shortage of technical talent and capability has bid up the cost of employees and services even further."
Australia, where 39-year old New Zealander Steve works as a drilling specialist for an international oil company, is one of the industry's inflation hotspots.
Although less rampant than a few years ago, costs are rising at over 10% a year there, and at similar rates in Canada's oil sands regions, according to a report by analysts Wood Mackenzie. Annual cost increases of 5 to 10% are also the norm onshore and offshore in Latin America, in sub-Saharan deepwater, the North Sea and Russia.
Even onshore in the United States, a boom in development of so-called tight oil is outweighing the impact of a glut of gas capacity. Only in the Middle East and North Africa are costs flat, and nowhere are costs falling.
Royal Dutch/Shell and its Chinese partners China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) are addressing costs head on in one of the hottest areas of the oil and gas industry – land-based shale gas and coal bed methane (CBM).
In this type of extraction, thousands of wells get drilled over a period of years. Traditionally, a costly, complex, multifunctional rig sits over each drill site along with a crew that will include specialists in the various skills required for different stages.
Shell and CNPC's Sirius project, aimed initially at Shell's Arrow CBM acreage in Australia but also at tight gas formations in China, tries a different approach, one that Shell's Projects & Technology Director, Matthias Bichsel, describes as "more akin to a factory production line".
After the appraisal stage, relatively simple, specialised, truck-mounted rigs drill a top hole – the first stage of development drilling. A fleet carrying the next-stage rigs arrives behind them to drill into the reservoir. The well completion rigs arrive after that, and automation and computer-driven directional drilling and hydraulic fracturing techniques are applied, too. Shell has plans for a fleet of 50 rigs.
Arrow is still waiting, largely for cost reasons, for a final investment decision, but it is particularly well suited to the production line approach, because it is likely to drill some 10,000 wells, all of similar type and depth.
"It's a combination not just of creating a manufacturing mindset but of adding technology to it to make that process even slicker and leaner," Bichsel told Reuters in an interview. "It's creating a conveyer belt that allows you to do the whole thing."
Shell is not alone finding ways to squeeze out costs through innovation and efficiency improvement.
In the United States, where the gas price has collapsed below cost for some producers, innovation is becoming a simple matter of survival, and there is no sign it is slowing down.
French drill-pipe provider Vallourec's fourth quarter 2012 pipe sales remained strong in the United States despite a 5 percent decline in the rig count there. This, it said, was because the wells-drilled-per-rig ratio rose, and the length of lateral pipes used in horizontal wells increased.
U.S. oil services group Baker Hughes told analysts last month that U.S. drilling efficiency increased by 15 percent in 2012, and that the largest players would squeeze out a further 10 percent improvement this year.
Although the scale of equipment required for oil and gas projects can be huge, and is getting bigger, prefabrication is increasingly widely used, in part to avoid concentrating demand for welders and pushing up their pay rates.
Faced with the fierce cost of doing business in Australia, UK-based BG is having 80 LNG modules – pieces of steelwork as much as 10 storeys high, 75 metres long and weighing 2,500 tonnes – built in Thailand by Bechtel Oil, Gas & Chemicals Inc for its QCLNG project on Curtis Island in Queensland.
The first of these arrived in August last year. In total, Bechtel has secured orders for some 260 modules from QCLNG and two other LNG projects in the region.
Back in Shell's camp, the company has used its financial firepower to develop a new class of offshore drillships with rig specialist Noble Corp. A handful of these "Bully" and "Globetrotter" rigs are already in operation.
In an unusual departure for an international oil company, Shell has helped finance their development and part-owns some of them. Bichsel believes this approach has forced a step-change in rig design that might not otherwise have happened.
"They're smaller, they're cheaper to run, and they're demonstrating that you can do things faster," said Bichsel. "If you pay a million dollars per day for a (contracted) rig, then if you can shave 10 or 20 percent off your time to drill a well, that's a heck of a lot of money that you can actually save."
Steve, who did not want to give his full name, is based in Perth in Western Australia, at the leading edge of industry cost inflation, where a strong currency combines with high standards of living and a tight resource industry labour market.
The trend that has multiplied his salary 16-fold in U.S. dollar terms since he started as an employee engineer in 1999 shows little sign of abating.
"The operators themselves are creating the cost pressures by offering higher and higher wages to get the best people," he said. "There's a lot of movement around Perth – people going from Woodside to Chevron and to the other operators because they just get offered more money wherever they go."
For Shell's Bichsel, who spends $60 billion every year of his owns company's money and that of its project partners on contracting and procurement, there is one more tool in the cost-saving toolbox.
"One of the best mitigants is not to follow the herd and don't go where there is a big boom starting," he said. "It helps to know where the shortages of labour or materials could occur."
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Robert Courtney Smith Award Statement
Mexican New York: Transnational Lives of New Immigrants by Robert Courtney Smith is an ambitious, methodologically meticulous analysis of the lives of Mexican immigrants both in New York City and in their regular visits back to their communities of origin in Mexico.Based on fifteen years of ethnographic research in New York City and Puebla, Mexico, Mexican New York is ethnographic research at its best.It is a timely and important book that offers significant contributions to a dizzying number of areas within sociology.The book shows how migration decisions, assimilation patterns, gender relations among both first and second generation immigrants, the development of adolescent identities, religious experiences, political participation in American and Mexican communities, the process of racialization, social mobility patterns through the life course, and the participation in gangs are all influenced by transnational life and how transnational lives are influenced by the above social processes.
Smith convincingly argues that it is a mistake to treat transnationalism as a separate phenomenon from assimilation.Rather, he shows through various examples that to understand the assimilation experiences of immigrants in the United States it is necessary to study their ongoing transnational experiences.Similarly, the transnational lives of these migrants cannot be fully understood without analyzing their complex experiences of assimilation in the United States.By looking at the daily lives of Mexican migrants both in the United States and in Mexico, Smith is able to illustrate globalization in intimately human terms and to show how globalization affects both individuals and communities across national borders.
Robert Courtney Smith demonstrates that we cannot understand the experiences of migrants without understanding their daily lives in both their countries of origin and their countries of destination.Furthermore, we must understand the reasons for and the consequences of their ongoing relationships within and between these countries.Smith's nuanced and complex book argues that the experience of migration and transnationalism has lasting consequences not only for the individual identities of migrants, but for the multiple communities in which they live.For instance, in both Puebla and New York City the migrants' transnantional experiences have an influence upon electoral politics, youth culture, gang participation, and the meanings of gender and sexuality.
Smith offers us an academically rigorous yet emotionally moving account of migration and transnational life.Passionate about the issues he analyzes and sympathetic to those he studies, Smith is also strikingly honest.He explains the ways in which both positive as well as negative assimilation occurs and he vividly illustrates the many tensions that exist in the lives of transnational migrants; tensions between those who migrate and those who don't, between those who return to Mexico and those who don't, between men and women, between first and second generation immigrants, between parents and children, between political interests, and between gang members and the college-bound.
In spite of his Ph.D. from Columbia University in political science (for which we will forgive him), Robert C. Smith is an exemplary practitioner of public sociology.In addition to his advocacy for Mexican American immigrants in New York City, he is the co-founder of the Mexican Educational Foundation of New York.This nonprofit organization has as its goals to "foster Mexican and Mexican American leadership and progress in New York by promoting educational achievement, mentorship, and positive definitions of Mexicanness. (Smith, 2006:293)."Robert Smith is currently an Associate Professor of Public Affairs at Baruch College.


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Organizers are hoping to break the $200,000 barrier at this year's Arthritis Foundation Classic Auto Show and Cruise-in.
Organizers are hoping to break the $200,000 barrier at this year's Arthritis Foundation Classic Auto Show and Cruise-in.
The annual fundraiser for the Arthritis Foundation slated for July 12-13 at Dublin Metro Center raised $182,000 last year with proceeds benefiting various foundation programs.
"(Proceeds) go into our general fund, which funds all of our programs, research, education and advocacy," said Stephanie Perry, auto show director.
"All money from the car show is used for various programs, pain management programs like Tai Chi and water aerobics," Perry said, adding programs for children with arthritis are also funded.
In its 31st year, the classic auto show and cruise-in is expected to draw people and cars from throughout Ohio and the country.
"Some of the cars are pretty rare," Perry said.
"We're honoring Buick this year and there are tons of different Buicks," Perry said.
"Enthusiasts will come from all over," she said.
"Last year we had people from 14 states and Canada. I'm sure we'll see similar stats this year. It is a regional show and we do draw people from a number of places."
The event will kick off Thursday, July 11, with the return of the Rolling Legends Tour.
Participants will depart from Metro Center at 10 a.m. and head to the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in Lexington.
The Rolling Legends Tour was started last year and Perry said it will have twice as many participants this year.
"Last year was pretty successful for a first-year event," she said., with 28 participants.
"Last year we didn't do a lot of advertising, but this year we pushed it a lot and the numbers are doubled already."
At the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, visitors will get to check out the facility and be part of a parade around the course.
"We've been working with them for a few years and thought that would be a natural attraction for people who want to go on the tour," Perry said.
Friday, July 12, 1,500 cars and motorcycles will compete for 100 trophies starting at 10 a.m. at Dublin's Metro Center.
The Van-Dells will perform at 7:30 p.m. and awards will be handed out at 8:30 p.m.
The Classic Auto Show from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. July 13 is expected to bring in more than 1,200 classic and collector cars as the event celebrates the 60th anniversary of the Chevrolet Corvette and the 50th anniversaries of the Buick Riviera and Lamborghini.
Performances from Johnny and the Revelators, and Phil Dirt and the Dozers are slated for 1-3 p.m. and 6:30-9:30 p.m. respectively July 13. Awards will be presented at 5:30 p.m.
A few new attractions also are planned.
"This year we're having two Corvette C7s on display and the Corvette Plant manager ... will be there," Perry said. "We'll have an original hotrod Lincoln, the Presidents Cup trophy and also the Ohio Wheelmen, an historic bicycle troop. It's the precursor to the automobile."
The Rolling Legends Tour is $25 and admission into the car show and cruise-in is $10.
For more information, look online at arthritisautoshow.com.


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Hitting bookshelves this month is the remarkable, deeply moving story of chef Marcus Samuelsson's journey from Ethiopia to Europe to New York, which readers quickly learn is not just a geographical one, but a true journey of the human spirit.
Chef Samuelsson, a James Beard Award-winning restaurateur and "Top Chef Master," brings such candor and poignancy to his telling of growing up in Sweden, discovering his passion for cooking in his beloved grandmother Helga's kitchen, to his hardcore turns at restaurant jobs in Switzerland and France. And finally, to his New York City life chapter, full of the highest highs and the lowest lows. Samuelsson writes openly about not just being asked to cook for the Obamas in the White House, but of his personal crises, pain, and public failures, making for a compelling read, impossible to put down.
Writing about the loss of his birth mother in Ethiopia, to his dreams of playing professional soccer getting crushed, to the racism he faced in various kitchens throughout his career, one can't help but contemplate Samuelsson's strength of character and the dues he has paid to achieve his success. That he would now be the proud owner and chef of Harlem's lively and successful Red Rooster restaurant is so well-deserved and hard-won. He has achieved his dream of a restaurant brimming with true richness from its diversity of customers, flavors, and ideas. "Yes, Chef" is the perfect book for everyone.
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According to the latest report by IMARC Group titled, "Milk Powder Market: Global Industry Trends, Share, Size, Growth, Opportunity and Forecast 2017-2022", the global milk powder market has grown at a CAGR of 3% during 2009-2016, reaching a volume of more than 700 Million Tons in 2016. Milk Powder is obtained by evaporating fluid milk which is further condensed and processed. During the evaporation process, milk is also pasteurised under controlled temperatures to eliminate the bacterial growth. Milk powder carries necessary nutrients and is an excellent source of essential minerals and vitamins such as magnesium, calcium, zinc, potassium as well as vitamins A, D, E and K. Furthermore, it provides the daily dose of some other important nutritional elements such as amino acids and antioxidants which are responsible for cellular growth, stimulating the body's immune system, aiding in blood clotting and calcium absorption.
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- Applications of methanol in the energy sector and its use in the production of chemicals are driving its demand.
- Formaldehyde represents the largest end-use industry globally.
- China is the largest global producer of methanol and accounts for about half of the total production.
In the energy sector, methanol is used to manufacture Dimethyl ether (DME), a clean fuel that can be used as a substitute to propane. It is also used to manufacture Methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE), an anti-knock agent and oxygenate in gasoline engines. Moreover, it is an important component of biodiesel and is used as an alternative fuel for internal combustion. In the chemical sector, it is used to produce formaldehyde and acetic acid, which are further used in the production of adhesives, paints, plywood, solvents, foams, plastics, explosives, antifreeze, etc. Other applications of methanol are in fuel cells, gasoline blending, alcohol denaturation, wastewater treatment, methanol-to-olefins and methanol-to-gasoline conversions. Owing to the extensive applications of methanol in energy and chemical sectors, the global methanol market is further expected to reach a value of US$ 68 Billion by 2022, growing at a CAGR of around 8% for 2017-2022.
On the basis of end-use, formaldehyde represents the largest industry, followed by gasoline, acetic acid, chloromethane, Dimethyl Ether and TAME/MTBE. On the basis of region, China is the largest and fastest growing market in terms of global production. Other important regions include Asia-Pacific (excluding China), North America, Latin America, Europe and Middle East & Africa. Some of the key players operating in global methanol market are Methanex Corporation, Southern Chemical Corporation(SCC), Saudi Arabian Basic Industries Corp (SABIC), Mitsubishi Gas Chemicals (MGC), Zagros Petrochemical Company, Mitsubishi Gas Chemical, Petronas and Mitsui.
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Suicide, interrupted: Train grinds to halt at Beta Bridge
UVA student Jeremy Tatge was leaving the central Grounds and heading home around 4pm on October 14 when he heard a train blow its whistle three times, followed by the "huge noise" of train cars coming together.
Approaching Beta Bridge, he saw about 50 people looking over both sides of the bridge.
The object of the crowd's curiosity? A 20-year-old female UVA student dressed in dark clothing was crouching near Beta Bridge with her head on the railing of the train tracks, according to a Charlottesville police report.
The CSX train was traveling at about 8 mph when its conductor spotted "a trespasser on our tracks and put the train in emergency–" the quickest way to stop a train, says CSX spokesperson Misty Skipper. The train's crew contacted a dispatcher who called the police. The young woman was not injured.
When Tatge got to the bridge, the woman, whom he describes as "Asian, with long black hair," wearing a black jacket and pants, was close to the bridge, holding onto weeds and bushes. A man was talking to her. "She seemed very scared," says Tatge.
A second man came down the bank through the bushes, and as he got close, "The young lady took off running down the track bed," recounts Tatge. "These two guys ran after her maybe 100 yards down the track until they got her and held her down."
He adds, "She was putting up a huge fight."
City spokesman Maurice Jones says the two men were CSX employees.
CSX declined to release the men's names to protect their privacy. "They were thrust into this situation," says Skipper. "Unfortunately it was out of their control."
When a police officer approached, the female being held "got all fidgety and tried to escape, almost throwing punches," says Tatge.
The young woman was taken to Region Ten and a temporary detention order was obtained from the magistrate, says Jones. Then she was taken to the UVA Medical Center for evaluation.
Witness Tatge was amazed the train did not hit the troubled coed, and attributes her escape to the train's low speed.
Results were more tragic September 7 when a Norfolk Southern freight train struck and killed Michael George Wallace as he stood on a portion of track in Albemarle County where the speed limit is 50 mph.
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For no money down, the Alabama Medicaid Agency will work with Ingenix, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group, to review claims and identify funds owed to the state.
With the hurting economy and a flood of new Medicaid recipients on the horizon, state governments can't afford to squander public dollars. But across the country, budget constraints have hampered aggressive efforts to improve payment accuracy, leaving more room for costly mistakes and abuse in Medicaid programs.
On the front lines of efforts to fight fraud and abuse stands the Alabama Medicaid Agency, which just awarded a two-year contract to Ingenix, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group, to review claims and identify funds owed to the state.
But here's the twist: Alabama had no up-front costs. As part of the contract, Eden Prairie, Minn.-based Ingenix will conduct post-payment reviews of Medicaid claims filed for the past two years by all Alabama providers: hospitals, physicians, dentists, pharmacies, durable medical equipment companies and home health-care providers. Instead of the state shelling out a standard flat fee, Ingenix will receive a percentage of any incorrect payments identified and recovered.
"Alabama is a poor state, and this contract was designed to go beyond our current efforts to achieve any possible savings," said Robin Rawls, director of communications for the Alabama Medicaid Agency. "The contingency nature of the contract is designed to ensure that monies are only paid for legitimate, verified savings. Providers also have the opportunity to appeal any findings."
The efforts in Alabama represent part of a broader push to crack down on Medicaid abuse. Established by the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, the Medicaid Integrity Program (MIP) is the first national strategy in the program's 40-year history that promotes fiscal integrity, detects and prevents provider fraud, waste and abuse. (The Alabama contract is separate from MIP.)
Through innovative tactics to track taxpayer dollars, officials said, the Alabama Medicaid Agency has made payment accuracy a priority. As a player in health IT development and quality improvement initiatives, the agency assists nearly 1 million eligible recipients annually and seeks to improve patient health outcomes, manage costs and streamline the Medicaid program.
In fiscal year 2009, Alabama Medicaid recovered about $1.3 million and nearly $4 million in cost avoidance after reviewing 77 medical providers and 413 pharmacies. More than 100 beneficiaries were suspended from Medicaid for program abuse or misuse, and nearly 700 were restricted to one doctor and one pharmacy to prevent potential abuse. The state's quality-control rate, which measures the accuracy of the agency's eligibility determination process, consistently outperforms the national average of 3 percent for error rates, the state claims. The agency's most recent error rate was only one-half of 1 percent for the year, Alabama officials said.
The new contract bolsters the Alabama program that has been "nationally recognized for very low rates of fraud and abuse," Rawls said. Under terms of the agreement, Ingenix will provide a full range of tools and services, including data mining, analytics and detection algorithms. The company will also provide the agency with experts in Medicaid policies and procedures, claims processing, reimbursement policy analysis and provider relations.
"States are really under the gun financially," said Steve Puleo, director of communications for Ingenix payer and government solutions. "Medicaid programs are going to expand, so it's important that every public dollar is spent to go to beneficiaries on the plans."
The deal, Puleo said, marks the company's first contingent contract with a state. Currently Ingenix has six contracts with state Medicaid programs for fraud, waste and abuse identification services or related support, and subcontracts, through partners, with 13 states. In addition, Ingenix has a Medicaid/Health and Human Services data warehouse and analytics contracts with several large states, including Michigan, Illinois, New Jersey and California.
Alabama's contingency approach, Puleo said, may appeal to states looking to strengthen program integrity and prevent fraud and abuse without forking over big dollars.
"The goal of this agency is to make sure every public dollar is properly spent to improve the health of the people of Alabama and to achieve that, we need to continuously seek ways to strengthen our program integrity and fraud-and-abuse prevention efforts," said Alabama Medicaid Commissioner Carol Steckel, who also serves as chairperson of the National Association of State Medicaid Directors, in a release. "A contingency-based contract ensures that Alabama taxpayers are only paying for results."


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Max Verstappen - the son of ex-F1 driver Jos - has joined the Red Bull Junior Team.
Sixteen-year-old Verstappen is highly rated and is currently second in his first season in the Formula 3 European Championship. In recent weeks he was also linked to the Mercedes F1 team driver programme, but on Tuesday it was announced he had signed for Red Bull.
"We are very pleased to announce that Max Verstappen has accepted our invitation to join the Red Bull Junior Team," a statement read. "This is effective immediately and the 16-year-old Dutchman will continue his FIA Formula 3 European Championship campaign at the Nürburgring this weekend as a Red Bull Junior in the Van Amersfoort Racing team and additionally will compete at the Macau Grand Prix in November."
Verstappen won six rounds of the Formula 3 European Championship in a row earlier this year when he took victory at all three races at both Spa-Francorchamps and Norisring. It has been rumoured that Verstappen could make the jump to F1 as soon as next season, but progression through Formula Renault 3.5 is more likely.
He joins the Red Bull Junior Team alongside Formula Renault 3.5 championship leader Carlos Sainz Jr, GP3 Series leader Alex Lynn and Pierre Gasly, who is currently third in the Formula 3.5 championship.


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Early Derby photographers, 1854-1864
The development of commercial photography was in the doldrums throughout England in the early 1850s, largely due to Henry Fox Talbot's fierce protection of his calotype patents and his contention that Frederick Scott Archer's collodion process was merely an extension of his own discoveries. When his court case against Laroche was thrown out in December 1854, the way was clear for portrait studios to produce collodion positives on glass, and there was indeed a very rapid uptake of the by then four year-old technology. In the United States it was patented in that same year by Boston photographer Ambrose Cutting as the ambrotype.
Although Marcus Guttenberg had visited Derby briefly in 1852 (Adamson, 1997), the town's first permanent photographer of the 1850s appears to have been James Brennen who is reported to have "[taken] up Daguerreotype and turned out portraits as good as could be found at the time" in 1854 (Keene, 1886, in Birks, 1934), or perhaps even slightly earlier in 1853 (Craven, 1993). It seems likely, however, that he would have adopted the collodion positive process by early 1855, when both he and Edmund Stowe were listed in a trade directory as "photographic artists" (Kelly, 1955).
William Seville's advert in The Derby Mercury, 15 August 1855
Image © British Library Newspapers and courtesy of Gale
Later that year four more photographers - James Wilson, William Seville, Richard Smith and E.N. Charles - had opened their doors. Seville appears to have been the first to have advertised the new "collodion portraits" in the local newspaper in August 1855. Although some practitioners did not stay the course, either moving elsewhere (Seville and B.W. Botham) or into other fields (George B. Coggan and Frederick Parkes), by the end of the decade, even before the advent of the hugely popular carte de visite, the town could boast of having nine active photographic portrait studios. Thomas Roberts, Derby's first resident daguerreotypist, had returned to the fold in 1856 (White, 1857), and newcomers included John Westmoreland, James Mills and his son, also named James, Arthur Neville, William Pearson, John Thornhill and George S. Bristow (Anon, 1860).
Either Christina or Elizabeth Slater of Derby, c.1854-1858
Collodion positive portrait on glass by unidentified photographer
Image © and courtesy of Nigel Aspdin
This delicately coloured portrait of a young girl on glass belongs to Nigel Aspdin, and he believes it to be one of two sisters Christina or Elizabeth Slater of Derby. Christina and Elizabeth, then aged five and three, are shown living with their parents John and Ann Slater and two younger brothers in Fowler Street, Derby in the 1851 Census. I'd say this young girl is about seven or eight years old, which fits fairly well with my estimated date for the portrait of between 1854 and 1858, based on the clothing, hair and sitting styles. Unfortunately the sisters are too close in age for me to be able to deduce which is shown in the portrait without further information.
Deconstructed cased collodion positive portrait
Image © and courtesy of Nigel Aspdin
Nigel also sent me this photograph of the collodion positive which he had taken apart. Although I thought it would be instructive to include this image so that readers could get an idea of how such portraits were usually mounted in a case, I'm definitely not recommending that others try this with their own. Without professional knowledge and extreme care, it may result in significant, irreparable damage, particularly to the delicate photographic emulsion.
Digitally reconstructed underexposed collodion negative
Trade magazines of the time, such as The Photographic News, were full of practical advice to both professionals and amateurs, including the correct amount of exposure to give a plate which was intended for a collodion positive image. This resulted in something along the lines of what I have reconstructed digitially (above), which could then be hand coloured. After colouring, the glass plate was backed with either black varnish or felt, protected behind another layer of thin glass, and then mounted behind a brass matt or finisher with a pinchbeck surround (also known as a preserver), inside a wooden, papier mache or thermoplastic case.
B.W. Botham's advert in The Derby Mercury, 15 August 1855
Image © British Library Newspapers and courtesy of Gale
In 1858 and 1859, the The Photographic News published a series of articles containing detailed instructions on colouring collodion positives, extracts from which will serve to illustrate the process:
Photographic powder colours ... furnish the only suitable and simple means of colouring collodion positives on glass. They are applied in the form of impalpable powder, with a dry pencil, to the collodion film. They should, if properly prepared, be brilliant in colour, transparent, and, as far as possible, permanent; they should, at the same time, "bite" well, or adhere readily to the surface of the plain or varnished wet collodion film. Brushes ... For general use camel's hair is more suitable than sable ... for fine lines a few small sables will be desirable ... they should be agitated in a glass of clean water, and brought to a point by drawing them through the lips ... An India-rubber bottle, with tube attached, to blow away superlfuous colour, will be required ... Some colour on the collodion film, and leave it so; others colour thus, and then finish with varnishing; whilst others varnish first, and colour on the varnished film ... A coating of some black varnish is usually applied to the reverse side of the plate to produce the shadows. This is rarely the best method for coloured pictures ... We prefer, for this purpose, a backing of deep maroon velvet, which warms the shadows, and harmonises with the ... tints used in portraiture.From what I can tell, this portrait only has a single colour added, decorating the girls dress a pale blue. It is a little blotchy, but does not give an unpleasing effect. The portrait itself, even though the photographer has not succeeeded in putting his subject completely at ease, is well composed and in focus, and I think demonstrates at least a moderate degree of skill. Sadly, it's not yet possible to determine who this photographer was. As further examples of portraits from the 1850s are unearthed, however, a more detailed understanding of the photographic community active at that time may bring new clues.
Adamson, Keith A. (1997) Professional Photographers in Derbyshire 1843-1914, Supplement to The PhotoHistorian, No. 118, September 1997, Royal Photographic Society, ISSN 0957-0209.
Anon (1858-1859) Lessons on Colouring Photographs, The Photographic News, Google Books.
Vol. 1, No. 12, 26 November, 1858, p. 138.
Vol. 1, No. 14, 10 December, 1858, p. 162.
Vol. 1, No. 15, 17 December, 1858, pp. 174-175.
Vol. 1, No. 16, 24 December, 1858, p. 186.
Vol. 1, No. 17, 31 December, 1858, pp. 199-200.
Vol. 1, No. 18, 7 January, 1859, pp. 208-209.
Vol. 1, No. 19, 14 January, 1859, p. 222.
Vol. 1, No. 20, 21 January, 1859, p. 234.
Vol. 1, No. 21, 28 January, 1859, pp. 245-246.
Vol. 1, No. 22, 4 February, 1859, pp. 258.
Vol. 1, No. 23, 11 February, 1859, p. 269.
Vol. 1, No. 24, 18 February, 1859, p. 281.
Vol. 1, No. 25, 25 February, 1859, pp. 292-293.
Vol. 1, No. 26, 4 March, 1859, pp. 302-303.
Anon (1860) Directory & Gazetteer of Derbyshire, London, England: Harrison, Harrod & Co.
Anon (1861) Census of Derby, Derbyshire, England, RG9-2505, London, England: National Archives.
Birks, Frank Elliott (1934) History of the Derby Photographic Society 1884-1934.
Craven, Maxwell (ed.) (1993) Keene's Derby, Breedon Books, Derby, pp. 200-202.
Kelly (1855) The Post Office Directory of Derbyshire & Nottinghamshire, Digital Library of Historical Directories, University of Leicester.
Rosenblum, Naomi (1984) A World History of Photography, New York: Abbeville Press, pp. 194-196.
White, Francis & Co. (1857), History, Gazetteer and Directory of the County of Derby, with the town of Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, Sheffield, England: Francis White & Co.


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Royal Commission senior investigator, Richard Suggett, advising on old family photographs
Last weekend Royal Commission staff visited the Who Do You Think You Are? Live 2012 show in Olympia, London. Over the three-day show, nearly 12,000 people visited the huge array of exhibition stands and talks, forming the world's largest family history show, as they sought to uncover more about their ancestors. Many people visited the Royal Commission stand with a variety of enquiries -some bought old family photographs and one enquirer even brought an early-nineteenth-century (1815) ship's log-book of a packet-boat, the Packet Wherry, captained by his ancestor Owen Hughes. The Anglesey Packet boat conveyed Post Office mail to and from Ireland and elsewhere. It frequently passed the famous Skerries Lighthouse (NPRN 41287) which is described in the Royal Commission's book on lighthouses. Many visitors to the stall took the opportunity to join the Friends of the Royal Commission and purchase books with their 10% discount.
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The man behind beloved games Ico and Shadow of the Colossus, and one of the lead developers of upcoming spiritual sequel The Last Guardian no longer works at Sony, according to a rumour reported by Eurogamer today.
Fumito Ueda is completing work on the game as a freelancer, according to Eurogamer's Japanese video game development sources. Once complete he will embark on "personal projects," the site reports.
News on The Last Guardian has been oddly slow in coming since its E3 reveal in 2009. The game didn't make any appearances at trade shows this year. In a September update, Sony said that Team Ico was still "hard at work," on the game.
Sony declined to comment on the rumour to Eurogamer. We've also reached out to the company for comment.
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Steve Mason is an all-purpose broadcaster. A classic "generalist" who is well-versed in just about everything. He has been the co-host of the long-running "Mason & Ireland," the top-rated sports talk radio show in Los Angeles, for nearly a decade. He is also a regular contributor for KTTV Fox 11/Los Angeles where he regularly contributes on "Good Day LA" and has also guest hosted for Steve Edwards on the successful long-running Los Angeles television morning show. He is working on a new talk show project for public television, and, in his spare time, he is President of Flagship Theatres, where he has helped to create Cinémas Palme d'Or, the cutting edge arthouse in the Coachella Valley.
Mason was born in Altoona, PA and raised in Toledo, OH. By the time he was 15, he was already hosting a daily radio show, and by 20, while attending Bowling Green State University, he was the host of the #1-rated morning radio show in Toledo.He has enjoyed a varied broadcast career, including as morning show host of the first all-sports radio station in America, The Mighty 690 in San Diego in 1992. In 1994, he teamed with John Ireland for "The Mason & Ireland Show," which aired simultaneously on XTRA Sports 690/San Diego, XTRA Sports 1150/Los Angeles and on LA's Fox Sports West (TV).
He became well known nationally for his work with broadcast legend Tom Snyder on "The Late, Late Radio Show with Tom Snyder & Steve Mason" for CBS Radio Network, interviewing hundreds of celebrities from all walks of life including Joseph Gordon Levitt, Ben Kingsley, Dolly Parton, Billy Bob Thornton, Gena Rowlands, Mike Leigh, Steve Allen, President Jimmy Carter, Brandon Tartikoff, Brenda Blethyn, Anthony Minghella, Les Moonvies, Catherine Zeta-Jones, James Cromwell, Owen Wilson, then-Texas Rangers owner George W. Bush and many more.
After a 2-year stint on heritage New York City FM station WNEW, he returned to Southern California, re-teaming with John Ireland on a revamped "Mason & Ireland Show" for ESPN Radio beginning in 1992, where the show has become a highly-rated fixture in the LA market. He has made regular television appearances on shows like "Rome Is Burning" on ESPN, "On the Record with Greta Van Susteran" on Fox News Channel, "Reelz Daily" on the Reelz Channel, "Varney & Company" on Fox Business Channel and SportsCenter on ESPN. He has also contributed regularly on outlets like CNN, E! Entertainment Television and TV Guide Channel. Steve is currently a contributor and co-host for Fox 11 KTTV/Los Angeles on "Good Day LA", "Fox 11 Overtime" and "Cage Talk".
Equally adept talking sports and entertainment, he has worked as a broadcaster for 7 Olympic Games for Westwood One and NBC Sports and has hosted ABC Radio Network's Red Carpet Coverage from the Academy Awards.
Recently, he wrote, directed, produced and starred in his own Live Action Short Film about the life of Republican political operative Lee Atwater. The film, called "Little Devil," was a success on the festival circuit, and it both rekindled his love for acting and gave him a hands-on understanding and perspective of the filmmaking process.
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