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Interview with Dr Ajay Mathur: "Fossil fuels will possibly disappear over time"
"Fossil fuels will possibly disappear over time"
In 25 years, renewables plus storage will be the dominant generation source, believes Dr Ajay Mathur, director general, International Solar Alliance (ISA). While fossil fuel capacity will continue to serve as baseload, by 2030, the growth in renewables plus storage will lead to a plateauing in the fossil fuel capacity. Excerpts from a recent interview with Power Line…
What has been the biggest change in the power sector during the past 25 years?
There have been three key changes in India's power sector in the past 25 years. First, there is no longer a scarcity of power generation. Second, the transmission systems have become extremely good and we have attained "One Nation, One Grid, One Frequency". Both these developments have, in turn, helped in addressing the issue of power outages. Third, energy efficiency has become a mainstream activity.
What has been achieved in the area of energy efficiency? What more can be done?
As far as electricity appliances are concerned, the star rating programme has been very effective in influencing consumer behaviour. The Perform, Achieve, Trade (PAT) programme has been quite effective in bringing down energy consumption, particularly for large industries. There are, however, two areas where a lot of work needs to be done. One is the building sector, where we need strong political will and leadership to improve energy efficiency. The second is micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs), which have been relatively energy inefficient. It would be helpful if there is a structured programme for introducing energy efficiency initiatives in MSMEs.
What are the biggest challenges facing the power sector?
The major challenge lies in providing adequate and affordable electricity to all, at all times. While neither generation nor transmission is a problem, the distribution segment needs attention. Therefore, an overarching challenge is: how do we get the distribution companies to focus on service-level issues so that electricity becomes affordable even in rural areas, and inverters and diesel generators become a thing of the past? We need solutions that are in the interests of the state governments and consumers, as well as the electricity distribution companies. However, different state-wise strategies are required and we cannot have a one-size-fits-all approach.
What are the biggest changes that will take place over the next 25 years?
One of the trends that has started happening, and will unfold to a larger extent over the next 25 years, is the move towards renewables, particularly renewables plus storage. Over the next five years, a range of solutions will emerge, including battery storage solutions and connectivity between countries, so that when it is night (dark) here, we can import green electricity from the Gulf countries where there is daylight. Fossil fuels will possibly disappear over time, and we will see a ramping up of solar plus battery capacity over the next 30 years. Overall, 25 years from now, we will be seeing a power sector in which renewables plus storage will be the dominant generation capacity.
"Solar electricity and green hydrogen will be the two pillars of the energy economy of tomorrow."
What will be the biggest challenges for the power sector in the next 25 years?
First, if distribution reforms do not occur, we will see the emergence of a lot of fragmented electricity distribution systems. In the industrialised states, say, Tamil Nadu or Maharashtra, private sector manufacturers will start to secure a lot of renewable energy that is available in the other states in order to comply with the "embodied CO2" requirement of countries to which the industries export their product. Another thing that will occur, particularly in the rural areas where there is a lot of electricity demand for agricultural irrigation, is that solar power stations will be built within the compound of rural substations. This is already happening in Maharashtra. Evidently, bringing grid electricity to rural substations in Maharashtra costs Rs 7.48 per unit, while electricity can be generated on-site at a rural substation at Rs 3 per unit.
Second, as a lot of renewable energy is coming in, issues related to its management will emerge. An important concern is that the electrical engineering curricula in all engineering colleges focus on machines, but there are no machines in solar energy.
Third is the very immediate problem of scheduling and managing the grid with intermittent renewable energy. We require changes in the regulatory structure to manage intermittent renewable energy through the introduction of provisions for time-of-day pricing. Further, we need to set up battery storage solutions that can absorb solar energy during the daytime.
What will be the role of other renewable energy sources apart from solar power?
We are already seeing in many parts of the country, Karnataka being a prime example, that solar and wind together are able to provide a fairly flat electricity profile. So, we will see wind complementing solar in a lot of areas; and solar-wind hybrids will provide more reliable electricity supply.
The other focus area in the renewable energy segment will be biomass. However, the highly fluctuating price of biomass makes electricity generation non-competitive. As more and more cities run out of landfill areas, we will see incentives being offered for setting up biomass-based power generation plants.
What will be the role of conventional sources of power going forward?
At least till 2030 we will continue to see a large amount of electricity load being met by fossil fuels, no matter how quickly renewables grow. Between 2027 and 2030, the growth of renewables plus storage will lead to a plateauing of fossil fuel capacity – although the large fossil fuel capacity that has been put up in the last 10-15 years can be expected to continue till about 2040 or 2050. This fossil fuel capacity will continue to provide the baseload.
What is your perspective on green hydrogen?
Green hydrogen, and especially solar hydrogen, has huge potential; however, its cost currently exceeds $5 per kg. Meanwhile, the hydrogen that is used in fertiliser plants and refineries, made by the re-formation of natural gas, costs less than $2 per kg. The challenge is, how quickly can we move from $5 to $2 per kg? Today, there are very few electrolysers in the world, and their performance is poor. As volumes increase, their performance will increase and green hydrogen prices are expected to decrease. I expect that solar electricity and green hydrogen will be the two pillars of the energy economy of tomorrow.
What is your perspective on electric vehicles (EVs)?
EVs, even today, are more cost effective than fossil fuel-based vehicles. People who do not buy electric two-wheelers attribute their reluctance to the lack of adequate charging stations. Establishing and showing that charging infrastructure exists is very important. As per our estimates, we can have a very dense network in cities at less than Re 0.02 per unit. That said, other behavioural challenges still remain. As far as cars are concerned, there is still a race going on between electric cars and hydrogen-based fuel cell cars.
What are your views on climate change? What should be our goals and strategies?
With climate change, we are seeing spikes in temperature, rainfall, cyclones, etc. Although the total number of such events has not increased, their intensity certainly has. The world needs to manage these risks, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The power sector needs to move away from fossil fuels. India has done extremely well in building up solar energy in a very short time. Between 2012 and now, we have picked up over 50 GW of solar capacity. However, the lack of international cooperation is a bottleneck in augmenting renewable energy capacity in the country. Last year, around $150 billion was invested in renewables, of which only $6 billion came to India, and less than $1 billion went to Africa. This is largely because investors see risks in these countries.
What have been the key achievements of the ISA so far? What are you hoping to achieve in the next few years?
In the four years of its existence, the ISA has already gained international credibility and has 98 member countries. We have been able to influence solar development in a lot of countries through our capacity building programmes. One of the key issues faced by ISA member countries is developing solar projects. We have requests for developing 4.5 GW of solar projects from across our member countries, and we already have third parties to do independent validation of these projects and undertake prefeasibility studies. The next step is to find funding for these projects.
The ISA is putting in resources as viability gap funding to help these projects take off. As these projects take off, the leaders of the countries will see the benefits and serve as agents for change in policies and processes. Another major goal is to connect regions of the world so that green electricity can flow across countries from where sun is still shining strong to areas where the sun has set – say from India to East Asia, or between Africa and Europe, or between Australia and Singapore – under our "One Sun, One World, One Grid" initiative.
Dr Ajay Mathur
International Solar Alliance (ISA)
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I love, LOVE this recipe! It was quick, easy and a great way to use some of the 23 pounds of strawberries I picked. The buttermilk gives it just the right tang and if you are worried about the Kiddies then leave out the Chambord. I have made it both ways ????
Combine berries and nectar in a blender and pulse to puree. Add buttermilk and process until well blended. Add the optional liqueur, pulse.
Add lemon juice and pulse a few times more. Add to the freezer can of an ice cream maker and follow directions given by manufacturer. When mine was finished I put in a dedicated ice cream container for my freezer and froze until more firm. Scoop and enjoy!
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Pangea Pròxima, també anomenada Pangea Ultima, Neopangaea i Pangea II, és una possible configuració futura del supercontinent suggerida per Christopher Scotese, que podria formar-se d'aquí uns 200 milions d'anys, d'acord amb la teoria de la deriva continental.

Aquesta configuració potencial, plantejada per Christopher Scotese el novembre de 1982, es va guanyar el seu nom per la seva similitud amb l'anterior supercontinent Pangea. Scotese més tard va canviar 'Pangea Ultima' per 'Pangea Proxima', per alleujar la confusió sobre el nom Pangea Ultima que podria implicar que seria l'últim supercontinent. El concepte es basava en l'examen dels cicles passats de formació i ruptura de supercontinents, no en la comprensió actual dels mecanismes del canvi tectònic, que són massa imprecís per projectar-se tan lluny en el futur.

Els supercontinents descriuen la fusió de tota, o gairebé tota, la massa terrestre de la Terra en un sol continent contigu. En l'escenari de 'Pangea Pròxima', la subducció a l'Atlàntic occidental, a l'est d'Amèrica, condueix a la subducció de la dorsal oceànica atlàntica seguida de la subducció que destrueix la conca Atlàntica i Índica, provocant el tancament de l'Oceà Atlàntic i Índic, i acostant novament les Amèriques a Àfrica i Europa. Com amb la majoria dels supercontinents, l'interior de Pangea Proxima probablement es convertiria en un desert semiàrid propens a temperatures extremes.

Formació
Segons la hipòtesi de 'Pangea Proxima', els oceans Atlàntic i Índic continuaran ampliant-se fins que noves zones de subducció tornin a reunir els continents, formant una futura Pangea. Es preveu que la majoria dels continents i microcontinents xocaran amb Euràsia, tal com ho van fer quan la majoria dels continents van xocar amb Laurèntia.

D'aquí a uns 50 milions d'anys, es preveu que Amèrica del Nord es desplaçarà cap a l'oest i Euràsia es desplaçaria cap a l'est, i possiblement fins i tot cap al sud, apropant Gran Bretanya al Pol Nord i Sibèria cap al sud cap a latituds càlides i subtropicals. Es preveu que Àfrica xocarà amb Europa i Aràbia, tancant el Mar Mediterrània, tancant així completament l'Oceà de Tetis, o Neotetis, i el mar Roig. Una llarga serralada (la serralada mediterrània) s'estendria llavors des d'Ibèria, pel sud d'Europa i cap a Àsia. Fins i tot es preveu que alguns tinguin cims més alts que l'Everest. De la mateixa manera, es preveu que Austràlia s'enredirà més enllà de la porta del sud-est asiàtica, provocant que les illes es comprimeixin terra endins, formant una altra cadena muntanyosa potencial. Mentrestant, es preveu que el sud i la Baixa Califòrnia ja hagin xocat amb Alaska amb noves cadenes muntanyoses formades entre elles.

D'aquí a uns 125 milions d'anys, es preveu que l'oceà Atlàntic deixi d'eixamplar-se i comenci a reduir-se perquè la dorsal atlàntica mitjana s'haurà subduït. En aquest escenari, una dorsal oceànica entre Amèrica del Sud i Àfrica probablement serà subduïda primer. Es preveu que l'oceà Atlàntic s'hagi reduït com a resultat de la subducció sota les Amèriques. També es preveu que l'oceà Índic sigui més petit a causa de la subducció cap al nord de l'escorça oceànica a la fosa de l'Índia central. S'espera que l'Antàrtida es divideixi en dos i es desplaci cap al nord, xocant amb Madagascar i Austràlia, tancant una resta de l'oceà Índic, que Scotese anomena "Mar Medi-Pangeu".

Quan l'última dorsal de l'Atlàntic mitjà és subduïda sota les Amèriques, es preveu que l'oceà Atlàntic es tanqui ràpidament.

D'aquí a un futur de 250 milions d'anys, es preveu que l'Atlàntic s'hagi tancat, i només queden petits vestigis de l'antic oceà. Es preveu que Amèrica del Nord hagi xocat amb Àfrica, però estigui en una posició més al sud que on es va separar durant el Mesozoic. Es preveu que Amèrica del Sud s'embolicarà al voltant de l'extrem sud d'Àfrica i l'Antàrtida, tancant completament el mar Medi-Pangeu, que es converteix en un mar interior supertòxic que comença a enverinar els oceans, les terres i l'atmosfera circumdants, donant lloc al següent gran esdeveniment d'extinció. El supercontinent està envoltat per un oceà global, l'oceà propantalàssic, que significa "futur" oceà pantalàssic, i que envolta la meitat de la Terra. S'espera que la Terra tingui un clima d'hivernacle amb una temperatura global mitjana de 28 °C (82 °F).

Models
Hi ha dos models per a la formació de 'Pangea Proxima': un model primerenc i el model actual. Els dos models es diferencien per on es situen Austràlia, l'Antàrtida i Chukotka:

El primer model, creat el 1982 i mostrat al lloc web del 'Projecte Paleomap', situa Austràlia i l'Antàrtida connectades entre si com una massa terrestre separada a 'Pangea Pròxima', a prop del pol sud, i Chukotka romanent amb Euràsia.

El model actual, creat l'any 2001 i mostrat al canal de YouTube de Christopher Scotese, manté Austràlia unida a la Xina, l'Antàrtida Oriental unida a Amèrica del Sud i l'Antàrtida Occidental unida a Austràlia, amb Chukotka unida a Amèrica del Nord. Aquesta seria la placa nord-americana.

Altres supercontinents suggerits
El paleogeòleg Ronald Blakey ha descrit els propers 15 a 85 milions d'anys de desenvolupament tectònic com a bastant establerts i previsibles, sense formació de supercontinents. Més enllà d'això, adverteix que el registre geològic està ple de canvis inesperats en l'activitat tectònica que fan que les projeccions posteriors siguin "molt, molt especulatives". A més de 'Pangea Pròxima', altres dos hipotètics supercontinents, "Amàsia" i "Novopangea", es van presentar en un article de New Scientist d'octubre de 2007. En temps més recents s'ha suggerit un altre supercontinent, Aurica.

En les darreres investigacions, els científics van descobrir que la Terra està experimentant certs canvis inimaginables. El món podria desenvolupar un nou "supercontinent" en un termini de 200 a 300 milions d'anys, ja que es veu que l'oceà Pacífic s'està reduint i tancant. Segons un informe Complex, investigadors de la Universitat de Curtin a Austràlia i de la Universitat de Pequín a la Xina van predir que l'eventual desaparició de l'oceà Pacífic donaria lloc a una reconfiguració geològica del planeta.

L'estudi, que s'ha publicat a la National Science Review, posa l'accent en com l'oceà més antic i més gran del món va començar a reduir-se en l'època dels dinosaures i encara perd uns quants mil·límetres cada any. Aquest procés, juntament amb el desplaçament de les plaques tectòniques, donarà lloc a la construcció del supercontinent "Amàsia".

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I recently returned from a month in Shanghai, and 8 days in Bulgaria, where I consumed unbelievable amounts of watermelon. Now at home in London, they are still everywhere! And since they are only £2.50 at Booker, my mum is hoarding them like a squirrel!
Pinterest (my go-to website for food inspiration) gave me a wealth of ideas, but the balsamic, feta watermelon salad seemed popular. Although I've tried fruit with cheese, I had never even heard of this combination. The slight saltiness of the feta pairs well with the juicy, sweet watermelon, and the sweet and sour flavour from the balsamic vinegar ties the two together and gives the salad a unique twist. With all the liquid from the watermelons, this salad is surprisingly filling! The list of ingredients are below, but adjust quantities to taste. I would advise including enough cheese for each bite of watermelon.


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I had the pleasure to attend this year's Salone del Mobile, the design industry's most significant international show, and related design week events in Milan. The crowds were large: Salone del Mobile reports that this year's event drew 372,151 total attendees, with approximately 67 percent of those visiting from outside of Italy.
This year, the number of brand new product introductions was noticeably lower, making it more challenging for journalists and designers to find the gem of a new launch. Many companies offered reintroductions of classic furnishings or showed off modest tweaks to recent products: Think new color or new component or new variation on a product that was initially launched a year or two ago. All interesting to see, of course, but the level of "newness" or innovation in offerings was noticeably tamped down a bit.
I did find some interesting new pieces, though. Here are a few pictures that I took of a few visual highlights of Salone del Mobile. Look for full coverage in our May issue of Contract magazine, reaching readers in late May. Also, if you have not already done so, please follow contractmag on instagram, where you will see these and other images from Milan as well as other design-related photos from Contract editors posted on a regular basis.
What was prevalent in furnishings at Salone in 2016? Colors were often rich hues such as forest green, deep blue, wine, and mustard. In furniture, natural materials such as marble, terrazzo, and stone composites were often combined with metal, wood, and fabric. Bold prints and strong geometrics were seen, and oversized, organic silhouettes continue to be popular, with soft, rounded forms.
Crowd entering an entrance to Salone del Mobile.
The Knoll stand was designed by Rem Koolhaas's firm OMA, with real marble flooring and inspiration based on Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Pavilion.
Pendants lights by Tom Dixon.
Pendant lights by Tom Dixon.
Pendant lights called Curve by Tom Dixon.
The Italian furniture company De Padova is now producing the LL04 lounge chair that was designed by Maarten Van Severen in 2004. It's a simple layer of leather over a metal frame.
For Cassina, Dutch artist Bertjan Pot has designed a textile in a jacquard pattern for the Utrecht armchair, originally designed by Gerrit Reitveld. Cassina will manufacture a limited edition of only 90 chairs.
For American company Emeco, Sam Hecht and Kim Colin of Industrial Facility collaborated to design a set of multi-use furniture pieces named Run. The collection includes a shelving unit, a bench and a table with plank-like surfaces available in aluminium or three types of wood.
This chair is part of the Sushi Collection by Edward Van Vliet for Moroso.
The crowd at an evening reception for Herman Miller in Milan.
The Helix chair designed by Favaretto & Partners for B-LINE.
Kartell celebrated its design stars with large-scale images of them. Here is Patricia Urquiola looming over the entrance to a portion of the Kartell stand.
The Bouroullec brothers designed this rug (seen hanging on a wood wall) called Lattice for Nanimarquina.
Swedish company Swedese presented the Konnekt Island by Roger Persson. Konnekt Island consists of 9 Konnekt liked together to make a meeting island.


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MEET 2019 WCN SCHOLAR Shashank Poudel
By Kristen Garabedian
A frantic call has just come in through the Human-Wildlife Conflict (HWC) communication tree: a woman living in Kathmandu, Nepal, reached up to fill the birdfeeder in her garden and found herself staring into the yellow-green eyes of an Indian leopard sprawling on a tree limb overhead. Instantly, the HWC relays this message to local rescue teams and conservation biologists, who spring into action. Within the hour, wildlife rescuers are in the garden, working to humanely trap and transport this great spotted cat back to a protected area of Chitwan National Park, Nepal. Thanks to WCN 2019 scholarship recipient and wildlife conservationist Shashank Poudel, who led the formation of HWC – a community-based network that receives alerts about incidents of human-wildlife conflict in Nepal – rescues like these are possible. By setting up this information network and recruiting key informants in strategic locations, Shashank has helped to humanely resolve many such encounters between city dwellers and wildlife that might otherwise end in tragedy.
Shashank is currently earning his PhD in wildlife sciences at Cornell University, New York, focusing on human-leopard conflict across the habitat gradient in Nepal. He finds the elusive Indian leopard particularly compelling. Also known as the common leopard (panthera pardus fusca), this sleek, nocturnal cat leads a mostly solitary life and is known for its golden fur patterned with black spots and rosettes (although some are melanistic, or all-black, like Bagheera in The Jungle Book). Indian leopards can be up to 6 feet long and weigh on average about 80 pounds (female) to 140 pounds (male). Along with Bengal tigers, snow leopards, clouded leopards, and Asiatic lions, the Indian leopard is one of the five big cats on the Indian subcontinent. Its powerful build, keen vision and hearing, agility, adaptability, and extraordinary stealth make it a superior hunter, stalking and pouncing on its prey rather than chasing it for long distances. These strong climbers typically live in forested areas, including tropical rainforests, alpine coniferous forests, and temperate deciduous forests, as well as grasslands and dry scrubs, and are known to drag their kills up trees in areas where they coexist with other large carnivores. Indian leopards are widely distributed on the Indian subcontinent, occupying an area of about 1,74,066 km2 that ranges from the Himalayas in the north to the Indus River in the west, and the Ganges Delta and lower course of the Brahmaputra in the east. An accurate count is challenging due to the leopard's highly elusive nature, but in the last five years, scientists have estimated that 12,000-14,000 leopards live in India. They are classified as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.
"Human-leopard conflict has led to extensive persecution of leopards in Nepal," Shashank said. "In addition, stringent efforts to curtail tiger poaching have made leopards more vulnerable from the perspective of illegal wildlife trade. Steadily rising tiger populations have also impacted leopard distribution by pushing them to the periphery of parks, where they predate on livestock and run into conflict with villagers."
Born and raised in Kathmandu, Nepal, Shashank earned his BA in development studies from Kathmandu University, Nepal, and his master's (MSc) in environmental science from Tongii University in Shanghai, China. Wildlife – big cats in particular – fascinated him during his first undergraduate field visit to Chitwan National Park. Learning about the plight of big cats and the people living with them led to his wildlife conservation career path. He has worked as a conservation officer for the National Trust for Nature Conservation, Parsa Conservation Program; a conservation officer and research associate specializing in human-wildlife conflict for the National Trust for Nature Conservation, Biodiversity Conservation Center; and a networking officer and research assistant for the BBC. He conducted two seasons of tiger and prey monitoring in Barandabhar Corridor Forest and Parsa National Park, Nepal, and says that working to mitigate human-tiger conflict particularly broadened his perspective on large carnivore conservation.
Shashank also created a "Green Radio" network by linking 20 community radio stations in buffer areas of Chitwan and Parsa National Park, co-producing and broadcasting a wildlife education program called "Bankariya," and supervised tiger, rhino, and elephant monitoring in Chitwan and Parsa National Parks. In Parsa National Park's southern settlements bordering India, he worked extensively to establish two rapid response teams, which engaged young people in wildlife protection and monitoring any potential illegal activities in their villages.
Shashank sees community-based conservation as a democratic practice where local communities manage natural resources with the twin purpose of protecting biodiversity and improving quality of life. He wants to help create sustainable landscapes where people and wildlife can coexist with minimum conflict.
"We face a stark question," Shashank said. "Poisoned, snared, and poached, can leopards coexist harmoniously with people or is it simply not possible, and we should rather be looking at ways to keep people and leopards apart? I want to explore what determines conflict across the habitat gradient and will use my findings to recommend sustainable solutions that would make our landscapes safe for both people and leopards."
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Charles R. Lipcon graduated with his J.D. from the University of Miami in 1971. Since then, he has built a reputation representing victims of cruise line sexual assaults, wrongful death claims, and personal injury matters. Mr. Lipcon has written multiple books, including his latest, "Unsafe on the High Seas," and has earned a Martindale-Hubbell rating of AV due to his extensive experience and professional standards. Charles Lipcon is also involved in numerous associations outside of the Florida Bar including American Association of Justice and the Florida Admiralty Trial Lawyers Association, to name a few. His experience and authority in the industry has led many injured cruise victims to seek his counsel and is frequently quoted in various newspapers and publications.


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It was in 2011 that Range Resources entered into the oil market of Trinidad. A listed oil and gas exploration, development and production company already boasting interests in Puntland, Somalia, Texas, USA and the Republic of Georgia, Range's arrival on the Caribbean's southernmost island nation was instigated through the acquisition of 100 percent interest in three production licences, Morne Diablo, South Quarry and Beach Marcelle.
Each located within producing onshore oilfields, Range's newly acquired assets were complemented by the acquisition of a local, fully operational drilling company possessing six drilling rigs and further completion and workover rigs, and operational personnel.
The Morne Diablo onshore licence comprises 9,300 acres along the south coast of the island and is subject to a farm-in agreement with Trinidad's national oil company, Petrotrin. Range has extended its existing FOA until 31 December 2021. The licence has 2D and 3D seismic coverage and features multi-productive horizons, all of which are currently being targeted. Of its 300 plus wells, 165 are currently producing with 33 new development wells having been added since its acquisition in 2011 and potential for a further 100 wells to be drilled over the coming years.
Comprising of 3,700 acres of land, the South Quarry onshore licence is another of Range Resources' three original acquisitions. Subject to the same type of farm-in agreement with Petrotrin as Morne Diablo, the licence also shares characteristics such as the fact that it been subject to 2D and 3D seismic and is home to multiple horizons that are being actively explored. The field was discovered in 1938 and resulted in over 90 wells drilled to date, 14 of which are currently producing. What makes South Quarry stand out however is the fact that there are numerous oil seeps present in areas yet to experience any significant appraisal work. This has led Range to mobilise one of it shallower rigs from Morne Diablo programme across to South Quarry to undertake appraisal of some of the oil seeps along with the development of an inventory of up to 20 wells.
Beach Marcelle on the other hand is a 3,900 acre licence subject to an Incremental Production Sharing Contract with Petrotrin, which extends in ten year periods. The licence contains four individual fault blocks that will be targeted using a waterflood EOR programme, while a technical study carried out in 2012 also identified more than 50 infill well locations. In total, there are currently 230 wells found on the Beach Marcelle licence.
"It was the availability of these licences and the drilling company that really presented us with the opportunity to come in and establish ourselves as a significant player in Trinidad," explains Trinidad Chief Operations Officer, Walter Cukavac. "In the time since we have made considerable strides, doubling our employee count to 240 people, adding a new technical administrative office which allows us to do more in house engineering and evaluation of projects, and increasing the operational capability of our drilling company."
This latter development has seen the company bring a further two drilling rigs online and complete the drilling of more than 30 wells. "There are very few independent operators in this market that possess the infrastructure that Range has to offer," Cukavac continues. "Trinidad is a small market in relative terms and this naturally presents some limitations for companies when it comes to things like gaining access to rigs and equipment at short notice. Our capabilities allow us to execute our projects with our own equipment and better control the timing of our activities."
Boasting a stable economic and political climate, a judicial system based on English common law and solid infrastructure in the form of roads and transportation networks, Trinidad is clearly a great place to be for a business like Range Resources.
"What we have established in the country is an experienced management team dedicated to the longer term outlook in Trinidad," Cukavac says. "I think historically the smaller operators in Trinidad have shared certain characteristics that have seen them collectively play a low risk game based on short term goals. What makes Range different is the fact that we are undertaking field development plans that are setting us up for years to come. We know it will take more than drilling one or two new wells to make a telling difference and we have a huge inventory of close to 200 wells to drill. This is what will make a real difference over time."
The difference Cukavac speaks of doesn't just come in the form of benefits for Range Resources. It also means positive developments for the areas around which the company operates and the communities who live there. Aware of the sensitive nature of Trinidad's ecology, it has always been the aim of the company to optimise its operations in order to minimise the footprint it leaves behind. Part of its efforts have seen Range focus on the drilling of slimmer, six inch holes which utilise less drilling fluids, while the reusing of water as often as possible has also had a positive impact on Trinidad's environment.
When it comes to supporting local Trinidadians, it is important to first consider the fact that some 98 percent of Range's workforce are nationals of the island. "Almost all of our technical staff call Trinidad home, while we have also made great strides to bring in young engineering talent from local schools that we train, mentor and help to absorb the right culture that we line our business with from top to bottom," Cukavac enthuses. "In addition to the work we do onsite we also continue to support local businesses, endeavouring to maximise our local content of supporting items, and also provide capital and sponsorship of several local schools and charities."
As we speak, Range is in the process of ramping up its drilling activity in Trinidad, with the next ten wells scheduled to be accessed by its production and work over rigs in the coming weeks. This is all part of its plans to lift and maintain the oil production to 4,000 barrels of oil per day by the end of 2014, before increasing this again to 9,000 by the end of 2015 through conventional and unconventional work programmes.
Equally if not more significant is the fact that Range now finds itself close to finalising a partnership with Niko Resources, a deal that will give it access to 280,000 acres of onshore and offshore acreage. "Access to this acreage, which itself has a huge upside in terms of reserve potential, will allow us to consolidate an even larger presence in Trinidad," Cukavac says. "It also follows on from our participation in the recent onshore bidding round for the St. Mary's Block. This is a 35,000 acre block, again with massive reserve potential, that really typifies the kind of long term projects that we want to target in Trinidad."
Consolidating acreage that will bring the long term opportunities it desires is clearly high on the list of the company's priorities moving forward. Nevertheless, as Cukavac concludes, Range remains conscious of its own need to press forward with the progress it has made across the business. "To date we have ramped up our personnel levels and our internal infrastructure, now it is time to put that to use in order to increase our oil production levels and revenues. As our work force matures technically and gains greater capabilities we will be able to take on increasingly complex types of drilling and production work that will ultimately allow us to further reduce costs and increase profitability."
www.rangeresources.com.au
Written by Will Daynes, research by Robert Hodgson
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Withers launches fully integrated Singapore practice
After three successful years of collaboration as Withers KhattarWong, a Formal Law Alliance (FLA) in Singapore, the partners in Withers Worldwide and KhattarWong LLP voted unanimously to combine its practices into a fully integrated law firm in Singapore (Withers KhattarWong LLP).
Withers KhattarWong LLP is the largest international law firm focused on private capital in Singapore, with over 90 lawyers, qualified in various jurisdictions including Singapore, U.S., U.K., Australia, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Indonesia, Malaysia and Ukraine.
Withers KhattarWong was formed at the start of 2015 through the alliance of international law firm Withers with well-respected Singapore firm KhattarWong, with all of the latter's partners joining the Withers' partnership with full economic integration.
"We are delighted to announce the formation of Withers KhattarWong LLP. This underscores our commitment to Singapore and the region and our strong belief in the immense opportunities arising from the growing wealth and business environment in Asia Pacific. The fully integrated firm will continue to provide unmatched multijurisdictional legal advice from our office in Singapore, across private client, tax, dispute resolution and commercial matters," comments Margaret Robertson, CEO of Withers.
Deborah Barker SC, Managing Partner of Withers KhattarWong LLP, adds: "In the coming years, we look to expand upon our leading position in the market. During our FLA, we have worked on Southeast Asia's largest debt restructuring deal in recent years, numerous high profile litigation matters, as well as assisting numerous successful clients on their estate planning and family office activities."
Since launching the FLA, the combined practice has grown significantly via strategic hires and strengthening key practices such as restructuring and insolvency, commercial litigation and arbitration, international tax, funds, real estate, banking and finance, technology, hotels and hospitality as well as private client.
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Sincere condolences on the death of your beloved brave son, and echoes of the sincere gratitude that the USA offered before, during, and after his military burial.
In projecting on to myself the question-accusation you directed at Mr. Trump, I have spent the last days introspecting about whether or not I ever have sacrificed–not for "this" country or for "my" country– but for "our" country.
Since my answer is lengthy and I don't have a national televised platform from which to share my heartfelt response, I will share it as multiple Tweet attachments, starting with this introductory one.
Thank you for arousing in me an introspection concerning whether I have made any sacrifices for our country. Thank you, too, for arousing in me a need to recognize and to appreciate the sacrifices made by my fellow Americans.
God bless you. May your son rest in peace.
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Our restaurant, Cocina Mitho Chha means delicious kitchen!
We aim to serve dishes that represent Modern Nepali food – a mixture of traditional flavors with western dishes, especially from Catalonia, for a cosmopolitan menu.
We use local ingredients from the fresh food market at Ason, and organic where possible and we brings some organic vegetables like pumpkin, ginger , garlic and honey from mountain village called Takumajh Lakuribot , Gorkha where we are supporting to the villagers by buying their farming product.
To wet your appetite, here is a selection of dishes prepared in our kitchen. The daily menu will vary depending on seasonal availability in the market.
We prefer to restrict the number of dishes we offer for each course to ensure that our boys in the kitchen can prepare food especially for you to ensure that it is as fresh as possible. Your food will be prepared if not by our students then by our resident head chef and his two assistant cooks. You can sit in the verandah or roof terrace while you wait.


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import lombok.extern.slf4j.Slf4j;
import org.awardis.pride.dto.User;
import org.awardis.pride.service.UserService;
import org.awardis.pride.util.Response;
import org.awardis.pride.vo.UserRegistrationVO;
import org.modelmapper.ModelMapper;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.http.HttpHeaders;
import org.springframework.http.HttpStatus;
import org.springframework.http.ResponseEntity;
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        return new ResponseEntity<>(new Response(null), headers, HttpStatus.CREATED);
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Andrew and I had a great flight last night and we were SO happy to see Daddy when we got off the plane. It is good to be home! Look, Andrew is even happy! We had fun with all our family in Florida but we are glad to be hanging out at our house today.
For my St. Louis friends, look how big Andrew is getting.
Oh My Gosh.... he's a monster. And He's starting to look like you in the face....he is the cutest. I need to come over and hang out .. or maybe babysit.....?
WOW, Emily! I cannot believe how much he has changed in just 2 1/2 weeks! Good grief! I miss you and can't wait to see you. Let's get together soon! Love ya!
I think he is starting to look more like Matt? He is adorable and getting so big!
I think he looks like Matt too! I can't wait to see him and play with him again. He is so big. Missed you!
Wow...Andrew is looking so grown up! I see both of you when I look at him. Glad you guys are home safe!
Yay! You're home. I MISSED you!
He looks so old in these pics! I can't wait to hear how FL was and introduce you to Drew. You are more than welcome to come over whenever. Give me a call and maybe we can set up a time.


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Walter Pringle (ur. 17 lipca 1869 w Hutt, zm. 24 lutego 1945 w Palmerston North) – nowozelandzki rugbysta, reprezentant kraju.

Na poziomie klubowym związany był z Petone Rugby Club, z którym zwyciężał w rozgrywkach w Wellington. W latach 1891–1899 grał w regionalnym zespole Wellington, w roku 1894 został natomiast wybrany do reprezentacji Wyspy Północnej.

Jako pierwszy przedstawiciel Petone Rugby Club został powołany do nowozelandzkiej reprezentacji w 1893 roku na serię jedenastu spotkań w Australii i zagrał w pięciu z nich.

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Carbon black particles are the most widely used nanoparticles in rubber to reinforce tires. Their production contributes much to air pollution and to the greenhouse effect. The introduction of silica particles in tires, to replace partially carbon black particles, is therefore a major ecological advance. While significantly reducing the environmental footprint of tires, these particles have reduced the tires rolling resistance, leading to a reduction in fuel consumption and CO2 emissions of up to 5%. Production of precipitated silica for "green tires", however, remains a major source of water and energy wastage. Indeed, to date, the process requires to handle moderately concentrated suspensions of silica particles, with a viscous fluid behavior that is quite simple, the water of which must ultimately be dried. A substantial ecological progress would therefore result from the possibility of handling more concentrated but still fluid suspensions.
The objective of the FLUIDIDENSE project is to make major advances in the description and the understanding of the behavior of concentrated suspensions, the flows of which tends to jam and to be inhomogeneous, and to provide new paths for the formulation of concentrated suspensions that can be handled. In this wide field of research, it is crucial to focus on a material whose surface physicochemistry is controlled, and to study in depth all the aspects of its behavior, in relation to the interparticle interactions that has to be characterized explicitly. In view of the application, we will focus the study on suspensions of amorphous silica particles, which will be synthesized by varying their shape, their degree of aggregation, and their surface properties. The originality and the strength of the proposed approach are that it relies on a study of the same systems using a set of advanced techniques to locally characterize the flows of silica suspensions (velocity profiles by ultrasonic velocimetry, structure/properties relationship by rheo-SAXS, development of concentration inhomogeneities by X-ray radiography) and their morphological properties (SAXS, MEB), as well as their microscopic properties (original measurements of normal and tangential interparticle forces in the suspending fluid). For all the studied particles, a multi-scale characterization of the behavior will be available, the synthetic vision of which will provide a clarification of the conditions under which dense, fluid and homogeneous suspensions can be formulated.
The in-depth characterization of the behavior of silica suspensions will make it possible to propose ways of modifying the process to the industrial partner. Understanding the link between their behavior and the physicochemical properties of the particles will provide realistic levers for formulating suspensions that are denser though still fluid. This project will contribute to the transition towards a "green plant" through energy and water savings and through the reduction of air pollution that will result from process improvements and from anticipated reductions in the use of carbon black particles.
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Q: Flex wordwrap issue with multiple text instances I have a scenario where I want to dynamically add words of text to a container so that it forms a paragraph of text which is wrapped neatly according to the size of the parent container.  Each text element will have differing formatting, and will have differing user interaction options.  For example, imagine the text " has just spoken out about ".  Each word will be added to the container one at a time, at run time. The username in this case would be bold, and if clicked on will trigger an event.  Same with the news article.  The rest of the text is just plain text which, when clicked on, would do nothing.
Now, I'm using Flex 3 so I don't have access to the fancy new text formatting tools.  I've implemented a solution where the words are plotted onto a canvas, but this means that the words are wrapped at a particular y position (an arbitrary value I've chosen).  When the container is resized, the words still wrap at that position which leaves lots of space.
I thought about adding each text element to an Array Collection and using this as a datasource for a Tile List, but Tile Lists don't support variable column widths (in my limited knowledge) so each word would use the same amount of space which isn't ideal.
Does anyone know how I can plot words onto a container so that I can retain formatting, events and word wrapping at paragraph level, even if the container is resized?

A: Why aren't you just using a mx:Text component and html text (you can call functions from htmlText), and apply different formatting using html tags.
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My featured picture for this post shows "Nature´s Spirit". It contains it all; carborundum, drypoint and chine collé. The print was done without any sketch, just starting out painting carborundum, following up with drypoint/engraving. It was a journey of the unexpected. And still, looking at it afterwards I recognize it all. I feel I have carried this image inside, and now I had helped it out by not limiting it´s existence by forcing my plans upon it. It is raining today. Soon fall will be here, and I will close down my outdoor paper studio and join my friend Ferdinand Mypress again. Cannot wait to return to this landscape.
Right now a black/blue version of "Nature´s Spirit" is hanging in New York at IPCNY (International Print Center New York) where I am participating in the exhibition MULTILAYERED (June 26 – September 22). The exhibition was selected by Juan Sánchez. The 43 prints and print-based works on view in Multilayered reflect Sánchez's interest in new narratives for an increasingly hybridized cultural world. Still time to visit if you happen to be in New York.
Back to the topic! With focus on the combination of carborundum and chine collé I will take you through my approach to the process. There certainly are many doors to this fabulous universe. Join me on my journey.
One way of making collagraphs is by use of carborundum glued to a plastic plate.
First step; degrease the plate to prevent the carborundum from peeling off.
The glue/acrylic medium can be painted on, and carborundum sprinkled on top, or you can mix glue and carborundum in beforehand. Different mixes to achieve the strength you want. While still wet the mix of carborundum and glue can be drawn into with different tools. It can be scraped away, or wiped off with a Q-tip or a rag, or just use the back of your brush. Very detailed reduction drawings to achieve white lines will not work, as the ink will fill in the lines when printing.
Above: Testing tonality of the mix of carborundum and glues, and different methods and applications (and chine collé).
I enjoy painting the carborundum mix on freely with a wide brush, letting the action be part of the finished work. Sometimes I draw with glue directly from the bottle, sprinkling the carborundum on afterwards. Do not wait long, as the surface of the glue must be open to let the carborundum powder sink in. You can also leave the glue as it is, without any carborundum. The ink will then stick along the edges. I like the freedom and the unpredictable things happening on the surface, making signs and textures I could not achieve with other means.
Below: To contrast the carborundum I will normally add drawings with drypoint or electrical engraving tools. The drypoint is giving the soft, feathery line mixing in with the carborundum. The engraving tool adds more clear lines.
Plastic plates are ideal for both carborundum, drypoint and chine collé. The material is lightweight, it is cheap, and the transparency makes it easy to plan your collage. If you work on fairly thin plates they can even be cut to shape by use of scissors. For large size plates either choose a thicker plastic, or you will have to handle it carefully so they don´t bend, and the carborundum cracks off.
The finished print can be based on one single plate containing the image, or it is built up by use of several cut outs, assembled and printed together.
Above: To the left I have placed 5 different plates on top of chine collé papers for planning. When working in series with separate plates it is practical to make marks on the printing board, to make sure you get the plates and the papers right.
On the right the finished print.
One great advantage with working on plastic is that you can actually see what you get when collaging your chine collé. It makes it easy to try out different colours and shapes, moving them around.
When working in several layers it is easy to lose track. Keep your mobile phone close to help remembering. I mostly use Japanese washi. Some of the papers looks very delicate and fragile, but they are stronger than you might think. I spray the cut outs with water and leave them between newsprint. When I am ready, I just dust on dry glue powder. Very easy to handle, and layered towards the damp base paper they will stick perfectly.
Another version of the print "Playground" on Arches velin noir.
Below: Same process – new image "Dreamcatcher". Some of the black areas are not carborundum, but sandpaper glued to the plastic. It works like a smooth aquatint.
Inking up the carborundum plate is different from inking and wiping an etching. Sometimes the surface is course, and you need a softer ink to make sure you do not leave out uninked areas. I normally add the ink with a thick, round and pretty stiff brush. Those made for stenciling are good, but you can also cut back an ordinary painting brush.
Wiping: For the wiping I go over the plate with tarlatan, and then finish with newsprint and silk tissue. Some areas will need to be cleaned by a Q-tip, depending on the roughness of the surface. Do not overdo the wiping. Especially if you have marks of glue without carborundum, they will be very delicate. If you experience that the glue sticks to the paper when printed, you probably have wiped it too much. A thin, oily film of the ink left on the surface will prevent sticking and tearing.
PAPER: For carborundum I will normally use a sturdy western paper. Especially when adding large areas with chine colé I need a strong backing paper. For chine collé washi is definitely the best. It is strong and thin, and melts into the base paper.
Below: Carborundum can be printed either black (or any colour you like) on white or pale paper, or as below with white inks on a dark paper. Picture showing the print being lifted off the plate.
Below: The strength of Carborundum really stands out in black and white. Adding colors by use of chine collé will change the mood of your image. You start a journey exploring the possibilities.
Artwork (70 x 100) cm.
I hope this introduction inspired you. And as I said initially, fall is here, and hopefully some unpredictable prints are waiting for me in my studio. This print "seeding" is directly inspired by my garden. I love the process from blooming to withering. Living in a country with very different seasons I will let my garden rest, and then when spring comes new life is awakening, influencing me as well.


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Filmmaker Interview: JEFF CHAN and ANDREW RHYMER of PLUS ONE
by Colin McCormack | Jun 10, 2019 | Filmmaker Resources, indieBlog, Interviews
Like a great rom-com pairing, a creative professional partnership is about two people finding their match and saying, "You complete me… in a creative and professional sense." Lucky for JEFF CHAN and ANDREW RHYMER, they found their collaborative match early on, back during their freshman year of film school. Since graduating from NYU, the pair has written and directed short films (two of which, the single-take Pregame and Post-Party, achieved viral success) and written for the Hulu series Pen15. Separately, Rhymer produced the web series Next Time on Lonny and Chan directed episodes of Adam Ruins Everything. But their most recent collaboration has taken their partnership to a new level: the release of their feature film debut as writer/directors, the award-winning romantic comedy PLUS ONE.
Taking place over the course of ten weddings, Plus One finds Maya Erskine and Jack Quaid as two best friends who agree to tackle the endless rounds of nuptials together as dates/wingmen. Joining the pair is a vast ensemble cast including Beck Bennett, Rosalind Chao, Finn Wittrock, Anna Konkle, Perrey Reeves, and Ed Begley, Jr. Executive produced by Ben Stiller, the film premiered at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival, where it took home the Audience Award for Best Narrative Film. RLJE Films will release Plus One in theaters, VOD, and Digital HD on June 14. [UPDATE: The film is now available to stream on Hulu and Hoopla.]
Jeff Chan and Andrew Rhymer were kind enough to talk with us recently about their collaborative approach to screenwriting, casting, and more about the making of Plus One.
COLIN McCORMACK: You guys started collaborating back in college, correct?
ANDREW RHYMER: Yeah, Jeff and I actually met in college. We went to NYU together and started making short films very early on freshman year. Then we've mostly worked in each others' orbits ever since.
CM: How has that on-set dynamic evolved as your projects have grown? Is it pretty much the same as when you started out or have you realized strengths and weaknesses and let it ebb and flow?
JEFF CHAN: It's definitely evolved over time. I think in film school, you don't really know what your strengths and weaknesses are yet. You don't really know how you collaborate. Your friends are also your crewmembers and there's a lot of trial by fire in film school, which is great if you keep working together after you graduate. You sort of hone that dynamic and figure out how you work best together. I like to say that Andrew looks at the world through a telescope and I look at the world through a microscope. I can be very microscopic in trying to figure things out. Like, "How do we synthesize water?" And Rhymer will be standing next to me and he'll just go, "There's a planet over there with water on it." Like, Oh yeah, that makes sense. He takes a nice zoomed-out perspective, where I can be very granular sometimes. It's taken us a little while to figure that out, but once we did it created a really comfortable environment. I don't think there was a single blowup on set, which is the best you can ask for when you're co-directing something.
CM: Had you experienced a co-directing team working on other sets before to see how other teams might work when cameras are rolling?
AR: I don't think we've worked with a lot of specific co-directing teams but I do think the way we approached every conversation, and continue to, is a way that grows out of the collaboration from film school. Just really working together to figure out the project and playing to various peoples' strengths. We haven't necessarily worked with a lot of co-directors, but we've worked with a lot of people who are co-creators of TV shows or co-writers. Really, we came up working and doing this swap onto each other's sets, I'll AD for you and you direct for me, all that kind of stuff. I think when we first started out, our first attempt at making something together, we totally thought, We'll be like one of those brother duos! And the first thing to figure out was we're really not the same brain with the same feeling about everything. So figuring out that flow and where the strengths are has been a constantly evolving process. Every day is a new problem, from writing a script through post-production and trying to market a movie. Constantly figuring out how to attack that together is pretty much every day.
CM: In the writing process, are you guys a both-in-the-same-room writing team or does one takes a crack, sends it to the other one, then they take a crack?
JC: We wrote pretty much this entire movie via DropBox account across the country from each other. I was in New York at the time and Rhymer was in L.A. We were relying on Final Draft "Revisions Mode" to keep track of who was writing what. We like to do this sort of leapfrog approach where someone will write three new pages, and then the next person will revise those three pages and then add three new ones, then the last guy will revise those three pages and add three new ones. It's sort of a leapfrog approach that I think really works for us, where you're kind of exercising both sides of your brain- the one that's generating new scenes and the one that's editing and figuring out what they like and what they might want to change. We did that for I'd say 90% of the writing process. Then, when we'd come to a point that felt like a draft was in really good shape, the two of us would get into the same room, put it up on a TV via Apple TV, then just go through it line by line and make sure we were both really happy with what was written.
CM: You had a short called Pregame that sort of went viral. What were the results of that attention on your careers? Is there a direct line of success you trace back to that short?
AR: It absolutely had a big effect. It's sort of funny, we made that movie in a somewhat depressed period. We'd been trying to make Plus One for a few years and we had what we thought was our shot and – as it often happens in lots of indie filmmaking and filmmaking in general – the financing blew up. We lost everything. Jeff had moved to L.A. from New York to make our first movie together and we thought we had this big opportunity, then we had this bad luck and things blew up. So we were back making some commercials and we had some gear and one of our producers we work with a ton just put it together to make this short over a weekend when we had an allotment of gear. We got a bunch of our friends together; it was kind of made in that spirit, so the fact that it took off was great. Then yes, that was directly how the company Studio71 ended up coming to essentially rescue Plus One from development purgatory. One of their development people saw the short and called us in for a general about a different project. We wound up also talking about Plus One as this movie that had kind of gotten away, then two weeks later they called and said, "We want to make this movie with you." And four months after that, we were shooting. So that was a pretty wild and unexpected experience for us, for sure.
CM: In terms of the Plus One cast, there's a lot of overlap of actors who have worked on your shorts, so I was curious since you cast a lot of friends and frequent collaborators, did you also go through a traditional casting process?
JC: For the shorts, it was entirely just casting our friends. A lot of those people are people we went to NYU with or friends of friends that we've grown close to over time. When it came time to doing Plus One, there were just so many speaking roles that we did go through a casting director.
AR: Shoutout to Lindsey Weissmueller and Neely Eisenstein.
JC: What we did was we created this huge Google Drive document that we shared between Andrew and I and the two casting directors. We had every single speaking role on it, and then next to it, if there was a friend we knew we wanted to cast we put their name in, then we would color-code everything. So green was someone we knew we were going to be making a simple friendship offer to; then I think yellow was people we wanted to make offers to who we weren't friends with, so maybe a name actor or someone we'd seen on a different show or a movie that we wanted for the role; then in red were the people we had no clue who could play it that we would need to read for. So that helped us wrap our brains around casting all of these roles because there's so many that at first, it was really scary. But once we narrowed it down like, Okay, we know Jon Bass is going to play Cartelli, we know Patrick Woodall is going to play this character, these are all friends of ours who had been in Pregame and Post-Party. We were able to narrow things down to only really reading for 15 roles. Then we're making offers to another 20 actors, and then we're going from there. It helped us simplify the whole process.
CM: Were the lead roles written for Maya and Jack?
AR: They weren't, but only because Jeff and I started writing this movie in 2014, I believe, so this has been a long road. Starting when we were writing these roles, they were imagined versions of people we might know or people who shared common traits with various friends. We just wanted to make it feel real and make them feel like people we know and could relate to and it started to evolve from there. We spent a long time finding actors. The movie went through several phases of coming together and falling apart and when we found Studio71 and were barreling downhill toward production we really accelerated the search for people. Maya we obviously had known from school and we'd worked with her on our short films. Jack we had quite a few people we knew in common and he also went to school a few years after us. Once we met with them and saw them, we knew they were fantastic and great. But it was certainly a very extensive process, both with our producers making sure we had the right people because everything about this movie does hang on those two roles, creative, the marketing, all that kind of stuff. So there were a bajillion conversations thinking about it every which way. But they were absolutely the best people for it and we were so lucky and glad and grateful that we got to work with them on it.
CM: What was your shoot schedule like?
AR: We had a 25-day shoot, so it was five weeks, which I feel like is in some ways an incredibly short amount of time and in some ways – considering we were a small indie film – an incredibly long amount of time. But it was great, we had one of the best producers in the world helping us plan everything. Well, we had a lot of the best producers in the world, but one of them that really masterminded the production schedule is our producer Jeremy Reitz, who with the whole team made it so this very small movie with not a ton of resources was able to feel as much like a big fun wedding world as we could put on screen.
CM: In terms of the producing and that organization – and I see how organized you guys were in your casting process – what was it like filming and differentiating those weddings? When you have to film ten plus unique weddings with their own location and look and vibe, what was that process like?
JC: The process was being as clever as possible in the location scout phase. So any time we were location scouting we really wanted to make sure that a place could work for specific scenes but also double or even triple as other wedding spaces. So the country club where we filmed the scene where they jump in the pool together was also the lodge lobby where they meet Finn Wittrock as the strange concierge, and also it tripled as the final wedding, Ben's dad's wedding. Any time we went on a scout we were really scouring the entire space to see, How many different locations could we use this for? So when we were shooting, instead of just coming in to do one or two scenes, we were spending a couple of days here and shooting a bunch of different sequences or pieces of different sequences. It really helped us maximize efficiency so the crew doesn't have to break down all their gear and get it back to a truck and go to the next location. If you can spend at least two days somewhere, you're already helping yourself out in a huge way.
CM: To wrap up, what's next for you guys?
AR: We are developing several things right now. We don't have our next "announceable" thing yet, but we're working on a few new feature scripts and we're developing a TV show. We're also doing some projects separately that are things that have been keeping us up at night for years. So yeah, we're figuring out what's next but very excited to get this movie out into the world and keep going.
Thanks to Andrew and Jeff for taking the time to talk with us about PLUS ONE! Get more info about the film at the RLJE Films website or follow the film on Facebook.


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EYEST vzw now a partner in UNESCO supported International Year of Light in 2015!
October 25, 2012 at 14:17 Tweet
The UNESCO Executive Board has enthusiastically supported the proposal to declare an International Year of Light in 2015 . With the initiative and support of Prof. John Dudley, European Physical Society President-Elect, EYESTvzw is part of the International Steering Committee for this global initiative.
The International Year of Light is an Initiative developed from 2009 by the European and African Physical Societies, on behalf of a global partnership of over 40 scientific societies, academies and other institutions, in collaboration with the UNESCO International Basic Sciences Programme (IBSP). A resolution in favour of the proclamation of 2015 as the International Year of Light was unanimously approved by the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) Executive Council at its 27th General Assembly in London in November 2011. A decision also unanimously in favour of this was approved by the Council of SESAME (Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East) at its 19th session in December 2011. The activities of the International Year of Light will be coordinated by an International Steering Committee which will ensure effective action at both national and international levels between a wide range of international partners including learned societies, science and technology platforms, educational institutions, non-governmental and inter-governmental organizations etc. Read more about it in the press release from the European Physical Society: http://www.eps.org/news/106324/
EYESTvzw is one among several international organisations coming together in this global partnership. The mission of EYESTvzw is to raise the interest of young people in Science, Engineering and Technology by creating and disseminating educational programs. Currently, EYESTvzw is responsible for the mass distribution of the Photonics Explorer educational kit. With over 300 kits currently distributed and reaching over 15000 students per year, the Photonics Explorer is distributed free of charge to teachers to help them engage, excite and educate students about the fascination of working with light hands-on! By the year 2015, EYESTvzw aims to distribute 10,000 kits and also reach developing nations with global partnerships. Thus EYESTvzw aims to make this educational resource available free of charge to all ages, cultures and socio economic levels and bring the excitement of light and optics to classrooms worldwide!
EYESTvzw is a non-profit organisation which is a spin-off of B-PHOT, VUB.
To find out more about how you can sponsor a kit please visit http://www.eyest.eu/Get-involved