BP: The inside story. The FT’s Ed Crooks won the UK Foreign Press Association’s print and web news story of the year for this inside story of BP’s response to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The judges cited the story, which appeared in the FT’s Weekend Magazine, as an example of “rigorous and balanced” journalism on “one of the biggest stories of the year”. For three days at the end of May, the fates of Britain’s biggest oil company and America’s president could be followed minute by minute on a computer display, sketched out by a dark line snaking across a white screen. BP chief executive Tony Hayward, US energy secretary Steven Chu and about 5. Could BP survive in the US, its most important territory? Would Barack Obama be more than a one- term president? The screen could hold the answers. In a makeshift control centre on the third floor of BP’s Houston offices, they were tracking in real time the company’s best hope of plugging the leaking Macondo well, 4. Gulf of Mexico, and a further mile below sea level. This was the “top kill”, the latest entry in BP’s baroque lexicon for its ever more desperate attempts to staunch the flow of oil – this time by pumping heavy drilling fluid, known as “mud”, down the hole. One oil engineer described the exercise as akin to trying to stop a leaking tap by jamming a spouting hose up against it; but it had worked with leaking wells in Kuwait and Iraq, although not at such extreme depths. In Houston, alongside the main display, showing pressure levels in the well, other screens played video feeds from remote- controlled submarines recording the oil spewing from the broken pipes on the sea bed. The same footage was going out live on the widescreen TV in the building’s lobby, and on televisions and computer screens around the world. The American public had been gripped by the battle to seal the well, which had been leaking oil since the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig on April 2. The spill was dominating the news, and Obama was coming under fire for his failure to, as he put it, “just plug the damn hole”. By the time the top- kill attempt kicked off, more than three weeks had passed since Ken Salazar, the cowboy- booted Coloradan interior secretary, promised that the administration would keep one of those boots “on BP’s throat”. Since then, a succession of attempts to staunch the spill had failed, and oil had started washing up in the vulnerable wetlands of Louisiana. The stakes had been raised further on May 2. US government more than doubled their estimate of the rate at which oil was escaping from the well. Hayward and Chu both knew that their futures could depend on making the top kill work. If it failed, oil would vent into the Gulf for another two months at least. The engineers from BP, dozens of other companies and the US government, say people who were there, were crammed into a room about 3. Wednesday, May 2. As the days passed, spirits rose and fell and rose again. The Inside Story, Madison, MS. Gifts~Home Accents~Apparel.To succeed, BP had to be able to pump the mud right down to the bottom of the well, 1. The pressure readings would tell whether that attempt was making progress. Documentary about the record company that brought the Beatles to the world and has been instrumental in producing some of Britain's most celebrated and enduring music. Documental sobre la compa Brain: The Inside Story was organized by the American Museum of Natural History, New York, in collaboration with Codice.Idee per la cultura, Torino, Italy in association with Comune di Milano - Assessorato Cultura. On Thursday morning, Admiral Thad Allen of the US Coast Guard, the public face of the incident response team, reported that “the top kill procedure is . However hard BP pumped the mud it just would not go far enough down the well. By Friday, the team had decided on another step: they would pump a “junk shot”, fragments of material such as rope fibres and rubber balls, into the broken valves on the sea bed, in the hope of clogging them and stopping the mud escaping, taking the same route as the oil. The Inside Story is a 1948 American comedy film directed by Allan Dwan and written by Mary Loos and Richard Sale. The film stars Marsha Hunt, William Lundigan, Charles Winninger, Gail Patrick, Gene Lockhart and Florence Bates. It sounded like a desperate measure, and that is exactly what it was. The top kill was failing. Official ministry website of Christianity Today: Christian magazines, church leadership and preaching tools, Christian world news, music, Bible study, marriage and faith encouragement for women, men, teens, families. The Inside Story, Greenwood, NS. Episode 40 – Daniel Amstutz And Marcia Alverson On this Inside Story Andrew interviews Daniel Amstutz and Marcia Alverson of the Charis Bible College Worship.Read More. International An electrifying story of low-tech power Christine Horn & Raine Melissa Riman 19 October 2016 Affordable electronics are beginning to provide solar power to rural Malaysia where large-scale projects have failed. Meet this year's inspiring leaders. Industry leaders offer a glimpse of their lives outside of the office--and how these experiences have helped to get them where they are today. Creative dialogue can reinvent your. Welcome to The Inside Story. This class is like coming into my home and spending the day learning about how I run — and survive — my business. I’m going to be COMPLETELY candid with you and because the majority of the. Emotionally, BP’s staff and management had invested heavily in the operation’s success. Before top kill started, the company’s executives were genuinely optimistic that it might work, and several times Hayward suggested it had a 6. For a time, Chu pushed the BP team to keep going, to make sure they had exhausted every possible approach, but by Saturday afternoon they were losing heart. As fast as the mud was pumped down, it was escaping though holes in the casing and disappearing into the surrounding rock.) At last, as evening came, Chu told Hayward that they should give up, and at 5. Doug Suttles, BP’s chief operating officer for exploration and production, announced it: top kill had failed. BP’s future was now hanging by a thread. Not because of the 1. Not because of the environmental impact, or even the economic damage to the fishing and tourist industries of the Gulf. The devastating blow to BP comes because of the way the disaster has pitted the company against the US government and the American people. The story of the spill is how the fury of a nation was turned on a single company. Less than a year ago, Deepwater Horizon seemed to have set BP on a very different course. Last summer, the group drilled the deepest well ever developed for a commercial operation and struck oil. On September 2, it announced it had discovered a “giant” field, christened Tiber, which was likely to hold more than 5. BP’s shares rose by 4 per cent in a single day, a rare event for a company of BP’s size. Moreover, it seemed that the initial reaction was, if anything, understated. Tiber was a harbinger of a new dawn for the company, in which production from the deep water of the Gulf would drive global growth. The Deepwater Horizon rig was at the forefront of that campaign. One of the flagships of its owner, Transocean, the world’s largest offshore drilling contractor, it had repeatedly proved its worth to BP, helping it discover another large field, Kaskida, in 2. The Tiber and Kaskida fields lie in older and deeper rocks than the strata tapped for most oil and gas production in the Gulf – the Paleogene layer, from the era following the extinction of the dinosaurs. Together, they suggest there could be huge undiscovered resources in the US continental shelf. The challenges of pressures and temperatures so far beneath the surface were daunting, but BP was confident that they could be managed. In a world where western oil companies either face great difficulties or are shut out altogether from the most geologically accessible fields, from Venezuela to Saudi Arabia, they need to be able to exploit the more technically difficult reserves if they are to grow. BP prided itself on its expertise in producing oil and gas from deep water, and the Gulf of Mexico was its most promising prospect for extending that lead. After the Tiber discovery, Andy Inglis, BP’s head of exploration and production (E& P), talked about the company’s expertise in working in the most challenging of deep water fields. It also had greater oil and gas reserves, and more development leases, than any other company. Inside BP, the Gulf E& P staff were seen as the paladins: the champions who could perform impossible feats, and were rewarded accordingly. In a sign of BP’s commitment, Inglis moved the headquarters of his global E& P division to Houston. For the White House, too, there was an opportunity. Since Richard Nixon, US presidents have been talking about curbing the country’s dependence on foreign oil; now there appeared to be a chance of making progress. Obama had always been a critic of the oil industry and a supporter of renewables, but on March 3. It went against all his instincts, but the president hoped to win the support of some Republicans for a watered- down climate change and energy bill. He needed their support for a package including curbs on CO2 emissions and support for renewable energy. The excitement about the revival of American oil production helped seal the deal. For many Britons, the company is seen as steady, reliable, a little dull. The truth is very different. Of the world’s biggest oil companies, BP has long been the most swashbuckling, the most entrepreneurial, the most creative. In large part, this is the BP that was made by Lord Browne, the chief executive from 1. He built the group through a series of ambitious deals and led pioneering ventures into Russia and – less successfully – China. Under Browne, heads of business units were allowed considerable operational autonomy and encouraged to use their initiative. It was a culture where imagination was rewarded. Then came a string of problems in the US, including a 2. Texas City refinery, which killed 1. Alaska caused by leakage from corroded pipes; and an attempt by a BP trader to corner the propane gas market, which drew the largest- ever fine for market manipulation from the US commodities regulator. That string of problems convinced many people, inside and outside the company, that BP was not merely suffering a run of bad luck. It seemed something was fundamentally wrong with its corporate culture in America. In the words of the report on the Texas City disaster, led by former US secretary of state James Baker: “BP has not provided effective process safety leadership and has not adequately established process safety as a core value” in its US refineries. When BP’s board was seeking a replacement for Browne in 2. In Hayward, a grammar- school educated 5. Slough, they found him. Browne was diffident, an opera fan, interested in climate change and renewable energy. Hayward was approachable, a sailor, triathlete and West Ham fan who said that the company, when he took over, had “too many people working to save the world”. Hayward immediately set out implementing his mandate to be “not Lord Browne”. The complexity of the organisation was reduced, divisions were restructured, and administration and support functions were cut. Investment in renewable energy was scaled back. A geologist by training, with a scientist’s focused mind, Hayward said that, above all, his purpose was to focus “like a laser” on safe and reliable operations. The culture of BP began to change. Commercial flair, creativity and unorthodox thinking were no longer the supreme values; “professional excellence” was what counted.
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Ozzy Osbourne - Diary of a Madman - Reviews. Coming off of the effusively praised debut record, Ozzy's solo band had a tough task ahead of them. Archive While living in Belgium, in 1982, Fr. Ron was invited by the Canadian newspaper “Western Catholic Reporter”, to write a feature column. Calling the column, “In Exile”, Fr. Ron is often asked the meaning behind the title. While I thoroughly enjoy sewing, my sewing machine experience has been really limited. In fact, I have been blissfully sewing away on my Bernina Sport 801 for most of my sewing life. It’s probably about as old as I am. This machine is fantastic – I love it. How could Daisley top the unforgettable pop hooks of ? The band raced back into the studio after touring to strike again while the iron was hot, the Oz racking his depleted brain cells to find new ways to bring moat metal to the masses. Would the magic ever be recaptured? Of course not. The band crashed and burned. Diary of a Madman will always be remembered as the record that destroyed Ozzy's career and shunted Randy Rhoads off of the path to legendary status, relegating the man to a mere footnote in the annals of metal while Piledriver and Nutz took hold of the failing flame and conquered.. That isn't what happened at all. I just got hit so hard in the head by another patch of obliterato shred par excellence that I temporarily forgot who I was, how much this album rules, and how many angels can dance on the head of a pin (actually, I still have no idea what that means). Diary of a Madman is like the juiced up older brother to Blizzard, always conscientiously holding open the door for its drooling happy semi- special needs sibling while simultaneously bludgeoning the ravages of time with an enormous cricket bat (you know, 'cos Ozzy's English). Everything that was good on the previous LP is back but bigger, more mature, heavier, catchier, faster, and Randy- er. There's genuine aggression and a bit of danger in the mix, that slack smile taking on a bit of an edge when looked upon from certain angles, a cunning light behind previously empty eyes. Crack open the door to the madman's room will ya, survey the whirlwind of torn up papers and the flickering light of near- melted candles. Canada, Canadian World War 1 Soldier War Letters from the Front and letters from the Home Front and a diary. France, Germany, Belgium, England and Europe. COX LETTERS The following 38 letters were written to his family during.You're looking for something very specific here. You're looking for something, anything really, that is bad about this album. Happiest is he who expects no happiness from others. Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving. So learn to love and give, and not to expect anything from others. Meher Baba, Meher Prabhu: Lord Meher, The Biography of the Avatar of the Age, Meher Baba (1986) by Bhau Kalchuri, 7:2457. Big Cat Diary – the next series? April 6th, 2010 I know a lot of you are anxious for news of when or if Big Cat Diary will be re-commisioned. Here is what I know at present. While there is still some talk of BCD being re-commissioned at some stage there is. New York Times Best Seller Number Ones Listing Fiction By Date This page is a listing of adult fiction books which have made number one on the New York Times Best Seller List along with the date that they first reached number one, in date order. Yeah, rifle through the drawers, look under the desk, overturn the bookshelf, hell, check to see if there's anything nasty in the conspicuously modern mini- fridge. I have looked and looked and time and time again all that I find is good. Pretty much the only reason that this album isn't scored even higher is that it doesn't quite have the same sense of discovery or quite as much historical significance as Blizzard (the only logical one, it also doesn't score higher because there are a fair number of albums I simply genuinely like better). So, Mr. Vague, why are you tossing this thing into the Valhalla of Hard n' Heavy? Well, as I mentioned earlier this is not too terribly dissimilar to the preceding LP, meaning that the songs are accessible melodic metal with anthemic pre- hair tinges, with elements of 7. The online edition of Artforum International Magazine. The following morning, we were all back to the (still) unfinished Pecci for the press conference, under an unexpected sun. Dario Franceschini, the Minister of Culture, did not show up—no one complained, and. Is anything too hard for the Lord? At the appointed time I will return to you, in the spring, and Sarah shall have a son. The reason our missions week comes to a climax today under the theme, “Is anything too hard for God?” is that Urban Ministries and Muslim. A few notes on my criteria (all of them politically incorrect): Not represented here (because they lived before the age of 'albums'): Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, Stan Getz, Fats Waller, Scott Joplin, Louis Armostrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Charlie Parker, Stephane. Within this framework the band manage to craft an album that is quite cohesive and yet not afraid to stab out in a number of directions, a hallmark of Oz's career from the Sabbath years through to the much maligned Down to Earth. However, its the word cohesive that reveals another reason this album is such a step over Blizzard: the experimentation doesn't feel out of place or unnatural, and the ballads feel less like goofy one- offs tossed out to appease foolish phantom record execs who think that the Oz might somehow someday appeal to an audience outside of adolescent boys and friendless sociopaths (the fact that they somehow ended up being correct in the matter doesn't make it any less silly). The soft- rock kiss of death horns and tinkling piano just add to the Beatlesesque perfection of the melodies, Randy somehow finding a way to make guitar squawks into a thing of astonishing prettiness. The unfortunate side effect of this, of course, is the number of hair band hacks who thought that stealing Randy’s licks but playing them in some sort of ugly Page- mutated blues box would not be totally out of place in a song about how much you adore some chick. Compare also the somewhat stodgy, stilted . Again though, and I hate to start sounding like a broken record, but the experience of touring together has really tightened up the loose bolts of the rather rock- scrabble bunch of bemulleted mutts they were previously and the album tracks are just much better. Hell, even the arena rock anthem “You Can’t Kill Rock and Roll” makes a little room between Ozzy’s grandfatherly pronouncements to open up a skin- flaying riff/solo combination that is capable of crumbling bricks.. Oz the adventurer, Oz the rescuer, Oz the captain of his own destiny, the day he’d surrender the wheel to the she- wolf far away, the only portent being the title of “S. A. T. O.” which stands for Sharon Adrian Thelma Osbourne. So, I figure I’ve run this review pretty much into the ground by now so I’ll use the mention of that scum- sucking mantis to address the remaster issue. The bass and drum tracks were completely re- recorded as with the previous LP due to a royalties dispute with bassist Bob Daisley, who co- wrote every song, and drummer Lee Kerslake, who was in Uriah Heep and therefore deserves lots of money. The production on this record is nearly identical to that of Blizzard, but here the wall of guitars sounds a bit thicker and therefore the new rhythm tracks don’t sound as off. The throbbing bass at the beginning of “Believer” at least sounds good. I do want to listen to the original rendition of the title track however, as the version on my copy seems a little too sparse during the intro sections and may be the victim of the butchering of Rhoads’ guitar mixes that marred Blizzard (basically some of the guitar tracks were apparently fiddled with in order to accommodate the new bass tracks). From a moral perspective, this is one of the most reprehensible acts I’ve come across in metal, basically as low as you can go without actually committing a crime (Mayhem, Emperor, Faster Pussycat..*giggle*). This has the fingerprints of Sharon and her ruthless business practices all over it. The fact that she would conscience maiming the albums her husband is most loved for to avoid paying two musicians who were partially responsible for giving Ozzy a career says more about her character than she probably thinks, but its just another brick in the wall she’s built between the metal faithful and our patron saint. When one listens to the title track to this album, one grasps fully what the metal community lost when Randy’s plane went down. From the “Supertzar”- style chants to the tubular bells to the lonely violin that flits in with schizoid grace for a few brief moments, “Diary of a Madman” represents an ornately cinematic quality that had been unseen in metal since Sabbath’s progressive years. The song is all about storytelling, and I feel that it is one of the templates for the metal operas of Savatage, and its influence is also reflected in the chanting choirs and gothic despair of Queensryche’s “Suite Sister Mary”. But when you’re listening, this doesn’t register because you’re so immersed in Randy’s blinding light, encapsulated in the stabbing violin- like jerking riff, the most significant marriage of classical composition and metal since Lord and Blackmore began to duel. The metal world misses Randy, and if you don’t yet you will. Get this album. Stand- Outs: “Over the Mountain”, “S. A. T. O.”, “Believer”. Milyen szempontokat vizsg? A rovarcsapda rovarbevonz. Fix helyen, esetleg hordozni szeretn? 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