Grand Gulf Energy targeting higher Louisiana oil production

Pdf Thursday, January 17, 2013 by Bevis Yeo

(ASX: GGE) is participating in the drilling of a well targeting up to 500,000 barrels of oil in the East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana.

The Port Hudson-1 well is designed to encounter several U Wilcox sands and is expected to produce at initial rates of about 250 barrels of oil per day.

Dry hole costs are estimated to be about $1.2 million with Grand Gulf?s 15% share fixed at $232,000. Completion and facilities costs are expected to add another $70,000 to this figure.

The Port Hudson project was generated from re-processed, proprietary seismic. The sand deposition is uniform in the area targeting multiple individual sands ranging in thickness from 10 to 25 feet.

Pipeline facilities are present in the area and the well is likely to be put on production within two months of completion.

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Today I am Reading... The Culling (The Torch Keeper #1) (ARC) by Steven dos Santos

Lucian "Lucky" Spark has been recruited for training by the totalitarian government known as the Establishment. According to Establishment rules, if a recruit fails any level of the violent training competitions, a family member is brutally killed . . . and the recruit has to choose which one.

As the five recruits form uneasy alliances in the hellish wasteland that is the training ground, an undeniable attraction develops between Lucky and the rebellious Digory Tycho. But the rules of the training ensure that only one will survive--the strongest recruits receive accolades, wealth, and power while the weakest receive death. With Cole--Lucky's four-year-old brother--being held as "incentive," Lucky must marshal all his skills and use his wits to keep himself alive, no matter what the cost.

Source: http://sarahelizabethsbookshelf.blogspot.com/2013/01/today-i-am-reading-culling-torch-keeper.html

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New Dan Brown novel coming in May

(AP) ? A new Dan Brown novel is coming in May. The title remains a puzzle.

Doubleday announced Tuesday that the author will again feature Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon, the protagonist for his blockbuster "The Da Vinci Code" and for the million-selling followup "The Lost Symbol." The story will be set in Europe as Langdon probes the "harrowing" world of a "mysterious" literary masterpiece. "The Da Vinci Code" was centered on a masterpiece of painting, the Mona Lisa.

The title was to be revealed later Tuesday, piece by piece, through a mosaic on Brown's website, www.danbrown.com .

Associated Press

Source: http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/4e67281c3f754d0696fbfdee0f3f1469/Article_2013-01-15-Books-Dan%20Brown/id-a8ee3203a8214c1b8b8360fc5369895e

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Masconomet Babe Ruth Baseball registration is open

Masconomet Babe Ruth Baseball is offering sign-ups for players ages 13-15 in Boxford, Topsfield and Middleton.

There are two age levels. There are combined teams for 13-year-olds (Prep) and 14-and 15-year-olds (Majors). Go to the website http://masconomet.baberuthonline.com/? to sign up or download the sign-up form.

Spring games are played from mid-April through mid-June. Your son will be playing against teams from Peabody and Danvers on some of the best fields on the North Shore. A 15-game regular season is followed by a short playoff series. Everyone who signs up plays.

Teams are divided up evenly and there are no tryouts. The emphasis is on playing competitive baseball, having fun and improving skills. Parent coaches are also welcome. Last season, two Masco Babe Ruth teams won their league titles.

Masconomet Babe Ruth is a non-profit entity that is dedicated to providing affordable baseball to the kids of the Tri-Town. Each town provides fields, field support, players, and coaches to make it work. The organization is run by a board which has two members from each of the Tri-Towns and an independent member.?

Source: http://www.wickedlocal.com/boxford/sports/x1233667755/Masconomet-Babe-Ruth-Baseball-registration-is-open

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Nine Rules for Stifling Innovation - Harvard Business Review

Innovation has become the holy grail. Finding innovation is almost a sacred quest for the solution that will create growth, and open new eras of prosperity and well-being.
Unfortunately, like many things called holy, the concept of innovation is invoked ritually and ceremonially more than it is embraced in practice.

For all the talk about innovation, I see many leaders in numerous organizations in every sector who actively stifle it. They say they want more innovation. But at the same time, they seem to operate by a set of hidden principles designed to prevent innovations from surfacing or succeeding. I've compiled them into a set of anti-rules. Acting in these nine ways guarantees that there will be little or no innovation of any significance, because no one had the time, money, or motivation to innovate:

  1. Be suspicious of any new idea from below ? because it's new, and because it's from below. After all, if the idea were any good, we at the top would have thought of it already.
  2. Invoke history. If a new idea comes up for discussion, find a precedent in a an earlier idea that didn't work, remind everyone of that bad past experience. Those who have been around a long time know that we tried it before, so it won't work this time either.
  3. Keep people really busy. If people seem to have free time, load them with more work.
  4. In the name of excellence, encourage cut-throat competition. Get groups to critique and challenge each other's proposals, preferably in public forums, and then declare winters and losers.
  5. Stress predictability above all. Count everything that can be counted, and do it as often as possible. Sweep any surplus into master accounts, and eliminate any slack. Favor exact plans and guarantees of success. Don't credit people with exceeding their targets because that would just undermine planning. Insist that all procedures be followed.
  6. Confine discussion of strategies and plans to a small circle of trusted advisors. Then announce big decisions in full-blown form. This ensures that no one will start anything new because they never know what new orders will be coming down from the top.
  7. Act as though punishing failure motivates success. Practice public humiliation, making object lessons out of those who fail to meet expectations. Everyone will know that risk-taking is bad.
  8. Blame problems on the incompetent people below ? their weak skills and poor work ethic. Complain frequently about the low quality of the talent pool today. If that doesn't undermine self-confidence, it will undermine faith in anyone else's ideas.
  9. Above all, never forget that we got to the top because we already know everything there is to know about this business.

Following these rules ensures that innovation will wither on the vine, if it even surfaces in the first place. That is often just fine with established interests, who would rather be protected against the nuisance of change. It's not so fine for success in a highly dynamic environment that demands new solutions.

Leaders who want to nurture innovation can reverse the anti-innovation rules and eliminate the practices that stifle innovation, in order to create a pro-innovation culture. For each of these innovation-stiflers, innovation-promoters can move to the opposite behaviors. In a culture of innovation, these actions allow innovation to flourish:

  • Encourage new ideas, especially from below and from unexpected sources.
  • Look ahead, not behind. The past is prologue but not necessarily precedent.
  • Leave some slack for experimentation, whether spare time or seed money.
  • Look for improvements, not critiques. Encourage collaboration toward common goals.
  • Be flexible. Stress substance over form, action over calendar. Allow for unplanned opportunities.
  • Open strategic discussions to new voices.
  • Accept that stretch goals mean some things won't work. Avoid public humiliation; promote public recognition for innovative accomplishments.
  • Foster respect for people and their talents.
  • And know learning is an imperative. Everyone, even the most experienced, must be open to learning.

Leaders seeking innovation should adhere to these pro-innovation principles. But it might also be a good idea to keep the innovation-stiflers posted as a reminder of what not to do.

Source: http://blogs.hbr.org/kanter/2013/01/nine-rules-for-stifling-innova.html

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Ben Boulware, Clemson recruit and Twitter all-star

One of the last great frontiers in rivalry trolling will be the rise of an underground blood sport between, say, USC and UCLA boosters, or warring factions of the Iron Bowl, to get as many opposing players into NCAA trouble via social media violations as humanly possible. This is a frontier that right now only exists in our imaginations, complete with a scoring system jotted down on assorted cocktail napkins, but until it coalesces into reality, a Frequently Asked Question:

Q. Should I be spending a lot of time tweeting at high school athletes in an attempt to sway their college choices?
A. No. This is invariably some combination of gross, dumb, unnecessary and a secondary violation.

Q. What if I, myself, am an elite high school athlete?
A. Then it is funny.

Ben Boulware is a Rivals three-star linebacker out of Anderson, South Carolina, and the first addition from the class of 2013 to our social media all-stars roster. Good topical awareness; great reach; diabolical hitting power. Tremendous upside.

Source: http://college-football.si.com/2013/01/14/2013-social-media-all-star-prospect-ben-boulware/

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City agress not to sell golf course

The City Council on Monday night agreed not to sell Bradford Creek Public Golf Course, but had some difficulty approving a five-year plan for the course that included more than $1 million in city-sanctioned subsidies.

Council debate on whether to accept a strategic vision for the course that spans 90 pages stretched 90 minutes and ended with the board ? in a motion packed with failed amendments ? referring the suggestions to staff to determine if the plan was practical and affordable.

?Let?s go ahead and start the process,? said District 5 Councilman Max Joyner, who initiated the motion to review the proposal for Bradford Creek. ?We have been kicking the can down the road on this issue for years. Eventually, we need to take a stand.?

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Source: http://www.reflector.com/news/city-agress-not-sell-golf-course-1750467

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The final Strikeforce?s Three Stars

It's now all over for Strikeforce, the regional promotion that grew in size and strength to be a player for a few years in MMA. In their final show, the fighters rose to the occasion to give a memorable final impression. Which ones really stood out?

No. 1 star -- Tarec Saffiedine: Heading into the Strikeforce welterweight championship bout with Nate Marquardt, most of the discussion was about Marquardt's return to the UFC. It was just assumed he would keep the belt, but Saffiedine had other plans. Using a smart game plan filled with punishing leg kicks, Saffiedine picked apart Marquardt on the way to a five-round decision. It will be fun to see what he can do against UFC welterweights.

No. 2 star -- Ronaldo "Jacare" Souza: Ed Herman threw an illegal upkick at Jacare. The referee inexplicably stood them up to restart after the kick. Even with all that, Jacare still managed the smoothest submission of the new year of MMA. With such a great grappling game, Souza should have plenty of interesting match-ups in the UFC.

No. 3 star (tie) -- K.J Noons and Ryan Couture: During the preliminary card, Noons and Couture fought out a bloody battle that was the best of the night. Though it appeared Noons had the upper hand, the judges called the fight in Couture's favor. But the good news for both fighters is that they won their bout in a way to all but ensure their spots in the UFC.

Who were your stars? Speak up in the comments, on Facebook or on Twitter.

Source: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mma-cagewriter/final-strikeforce-three-stars-154124581--mma.html

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Cooper closing in on choosing new head football coach

Cooper expects to have a new head football coach identified within the next 10 days, athletic director John Windham said Monday.

Windham, who stepped down as the Pirates? head coach in December to become the school?s first full-time athletic director, said the school?s search committee has conducted six interviews with potential candidates and expects to do four-to-six more before a finalist is chosen at the Lubbock Cooper Independent School District board meeting on Jan. 24.

?We?re in the middle of interviews, going through and pulling names,? Windham said. ?It?s gone great. The process has been smooth, and the interview committee we?ve put together has called in some great candidates, both internally and externally. So it?s gone well.?

According to a statement on the Cooper ISD web site written by superintendent Pat Henderson, the search committee is composed of Windham, deputy superintendent Thom Vines, assistant superintendent Macy Satterwhite, human resources director Will Truby and Cooper High School principal Angie Inklebarger.

In the statement, Henderson said the committee will ?narrow the field of applicants to three or four finalists,? and will discuss those choices with the school board at its Jan. 24 meeting. From there, the committee will rank the finalists and send its recommendation for a new head football coach to Henderson, who will take that recommendation to a special board meeting to be held either in late January or early February.

Applications will be accepted through Friday. Windham, who stepped down as head coach on Dec. 13, did not list any candidates or interview subjects by name.

?I think we?re moving fairly quickly,? Windham said. ?We want to make sure we get the right candidate and everybody understands the process. We?ve been thorough and doing our due diligence so we can get the right man for the job.?

Windham spent 17 years at the school and his entire 14-year head-coaching stint with the Pirates, compiling an 80-70 career record with five district championships, seven playoff appearances and three bi-district titles. His 2001 team that made the playoffs ended a 29-year postseason drought for the school.

The Pirates have captured two district championships in the past five years, and made their deepest run in the postseason in 2010, reaching the regional semifinals. A big part of the reason for splitting the jobs of head football coach and athletic director, Windham said, was the anticipated move to Class 4A in the very near future.

That can be seen in the growth Cooper has experienced in all sports over the past decade. The school?s volleyball, girls basketball, softball and baseball programs routinely make deep runs in the playoffs, and in 2011 every sport at the school reached the postseason.

In terms of facilities, a new football stadium, new fieldhouse and indoor practice facility, plus new softball and baseball fields were constructed all within the last five years.

With the move to 4A, Windham anticipates the athletic department will continue to grow in size and in number of sports offered, feeling that golf, tennis and soccer are right around the corner to being added. That, he said, helped facilitate the need to make the move now so as to be prepared when the move to 4A actually happens.

?(We?re looking) just for the bet fit for Lubbock Cooper and what we have going out here,? Windham said. ?The best person will fit into our family we have here at Lubbock Cooper and continue the success we?ve had.?

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Source: http://lubbockonline.com/filed-online/2013-01-14/cooper-closing-choosing-new-head-football-coach

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