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Steamboat Energy Consultants’ John C. Lamb, who spoke at the Northwest Colorado Oil & Gas Symposium in March, said Thursday that depending upon the individual well and the lease, the subsurface rights holders could realize “many tens of thousands of dollars per month” during early phases of production.
Citizens Supporting Property Rights hosted a private forum in Hayden on Monday involving candidates for two Routt County commissioner seats that are up for election Nov. 6. And on Tuesday, the group delivered a letter to the Routt County Board of Commissioners expressing its concerns, saying it does not view the oil an...
David Ludlam, executive director of the Western Slope Colorado Oil and Gas Association said that statement is an ideal characterization of what a relationship with the energy industry should be.
Ludlam said the potential economic benefits from oil and gas wells to private property owners are real and measurable across Northwest Colorado.
Spokeswoman Amy Williams reminded those at the Monday gathering about the impact that development of mineral rights (including oil and natural gas) can have on local economies.
Williams told the Steamboat Today that the forum was not publicized and the intent was to conduct it for the benefit of members of Citizens Supporting Property Rights. In attendance was Democratic incumbent Commissioner Doug Monger, of District Two, and his Republican challenger Tina Kyprios. The two challengers for th...
Also helping to organize the forum was lifelong rancher Harry Thompson, a Citizens Supporting Property Rights member, who said that through the leases, energy exploration would be placed in the hands of the region’s best land stewards: farmers and ranchers.
“This is important because preserving large-acre ranches can be achieved through the new mineral revenues that our families will receive from responsible oil and gas production on our lands,” Thompson said.
Subsurface mineral rights owners who enter into agreements with energy exploration companies potentially stand to benefit financially in two ways: first with a rental or bonus payment when they sign a lease, Lamb said, and later from royalties that could reach many tens of thousands of dollars per month or more dependi...
The amount of royalties mineral rights holders receive can vary significantly and depend primarily on whether a well is drilled to access their holdings and whether it produces, but lease values also vary with the well field and its history as well as the leases already executed in a field.
Documents on file at Routt County show that the mineral rights lease for an approved well here would pay the lessor 15 percent of oil produced. Lamb cautioned against assuming that 15 percent is typical because the terms of leases vary widely.
Award-winning author Pam Durban will present her new short story collection, Soon at Malaprop’s on Monday, Aug. 24, at 7 p.m. The title story was selected by John Updike for Best American Short Stories of the Century.
How did this terrific collection of short stories come to be published by Story River Books?
Pam Durban: USC Press was interested in re-issuing two of my books in their Southern Revivals series, and sometime during that discussion, I mentioned that I had about a dozen short stories that I thought would read well as a collection. Jonathan Haupt, the editor of USC Press, was interested and so was Pat Conroy, the...
What was it like to have your story “Soon” published in the Best American Short Stories of the Century?
It was a big surprise and a huge honor, of course, and also a little overwhelming, to have my story included with stories by Katherine Anne Porter, Hemingway, Willa Cather, Alice Munro, Eudora Welty and Raymond Carver.
When the book came out, the publisher flew us to New York for a party. There was a gigantic pyramid of books in the middle of the floor of the restaurant where the party was being held, and John Updike, who’d chosen the stories for the anthology, made it a point to talk to every writer there in a very generous and spec...
What if your yardstick for measuring a great short story—for yourself and other writers and your students at UNC?
A great short story, like all art, gives me a new way to see the world. Another way of saying this is that a great story discovers something, and when I read a great story I feel a mind and heart at work on some important human question. In Arthur Miller’s words, it brings “news,” and that news is always about who peop...
Which magazines do you most respect for their publishing of short stories?
Literary quarterlies are the magazines I know best. My favorites are the magazines with the longest histories of publishing lively, high quality work, so my short list would be The Southern Review, Tin House, The Kenyon Review, The Georgia Review, Shenandoah, The Paris Review. And I’d include the Atlanta-based Five Poi...
What is your writing process? How has it changed over time?
I envy my writer friends who can compose on the computer, but I have to write by hand. For me, it’s always been the eye, hand, pen, paper connection that starts words flowing. Writing by hand also creates big, messy, manuscripts because as I move forward through a piece of writing, I also go back and layer in more page...
I believe in taking time and taking care, and I can’t let a story go until I’ve discovered something that I didn’t know when I started writing it, so I revise a lot. It might take me 300 pages of drafts to chase down a 20-page story. Very often, if I’m stuck, I cut a story into pieces and lay those pieces out on my din...
How much of a role does an editor play in your revision process?
It varies, but I’ve had a couple of crucial editing experiences. One was with the late Stan Lindberg, the long-time editor of The Georgia Review, who first published one of my stories. He was an insightful editor and a very kind man, and he edited with a light but decisive touch that really helped me fix what needed to...
The other was working with Michael Griffith, twice. He was the fiction editor at The Southern Review who accepted “Soon” for publication, and he took every word seriously and wanted to make it exactly the right word. He was also the editor for LSU Press’s “Yellow Shoe Fiction” series, which published my novel The Tree ...
As a South Carolinian living now in North Carolina, what are your impressions of events following the murders at Emmanuel AME, and the removal of the confederate flag?
I was sickened and appalled by the murders, but I also think this tragedy has raised issues about the past that we white South Carolinians need to look at it without retreating into sentimentality or defiance, and I hope and believe we can honor the dead by doing that. As the historian John Hope Franklin said, “We have...
My own moments of reckoning have come from writing my last two novels, So Far Back, which is about slavery in Charleston, and The Tree of Forgetfulness, about a 1926 triple murder of three members of the Lowman family in Aiken, S.C., my hometown. In researching and writing those books, I felt the weight of history desc...
I was proud of my home state for taking down the Confederate flag, and I hope we can continue to work on the healing project that lowering the flag might have started: Truth first, then reconciliation.
What was the pivotal event and then the path that led you to become a writer?
I think I came to writing through a process of elimination. In my 20s, I had a series of writing jobs. I worked on a small newspaper in upstate South Carolina, and on a couple of alternative newspapers in Atlanta. But in every case, there came a time when I wasn’t satisfied with the writing I was doing because it wasn’...
If there was a defining time, it was the year or so that I worked at a community service organization in an old textile mill village in Atlanta called Cabbagetown, where I compiled and published a series of interviews with some of the oldest women in the community.
That project was so important to me because that’s where I first began to see what a story was and what it could do. The stories in that book weren’t fiction, but I learned some good lessons from them about fiction writing. I learned that in an immediate, almost tactile way, a story is an experience, that it has the po...
After that project, I went to the Iowa Writer’s Workshop and then on to a series of teaching jobs that kept me living outside the South for the next 10 years. Those 10 years were crucial to my writing because they gave me a different perspective on the South and when I came back, I could see it as an outsider and an in...
A memoir about how my father’s military service shaped our family life. A long piece of fiction, maybe a novella, about an obese woman’s bid for love and happiness. And a short story about a young woman who works in a massage parlor near the Gettysburg battlefield.
Who's in China's Prisons? Let's ask Hu.
ON APRIL 18, Chinese president Hu Jintao will begin his first official visit to the United States as head of state of the world's most populous nation.
ON APRIL 18, Chinese president Hu Jintao will begin his first official visit to the United States as head of state of the world's most populous nation. In the weeks preceding his visit, much media attention has focused on trade, including a six-month delay in voting on the Schumer-Graham bill, which proposes to slap a ...
But a visit to the United States by a Chinese leader is also an opportunity to consider the state of human rights in China. China's denial of the right to communicate with one's fellow citizens warrants as much attention as its refusal to make toys and textiles more expensive for U.S. consumers. High-level visits are u...
On March 28, Beijing-based activist Hu Jia was freed after 41 days of detention and questioning. Hu Jia, who suffers from hepatitis B, said in an interview with Radio Free Asia that during his ordeal he was denied medication, despite his pleading. Hu Jia, an outspoken democracy advocate, had taken part in a hunger stri...
On March 15, Phuntsog Nyidron, a Tibetan nun who had spent 15 years in jail for opposing China's rule of Tibet, was allowed to leave Lhasa, capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region, for the United States. She had been released from the notorious Drapchi Prison in 2004 but not permitted to leave China. Before her departur...
On March 9, Beijing released 72-year-old democracy activist Tong Shidong, reducing his ten-year sentence by three years. The retired physics professor had been charged with subversion for trying in 1999 to establish a branch of the banned Chinese Democracy party.
On February 22, former newspaper editor Yu Dongyue was released after serving 17 years of a 20-year prison sentence. At the height of the Tiananmen protests in 1989, Yu Dongyue and two friends threw paint at a portrait of Mao Zedong. The three were found guilty of "counter-revolutionary destruction and counter-revoluti...
Zhao Yan, a 42-year-old New York Times researcher, was arrested by Chinese authorities on October 20, 2004, and charged with "divulging state secrets," then with "fraud." At this writing, Zhao remains behind bars, though the authorities formally withdrew the charges against him on March 17.
Ching Cheong, a 56-year-old Hong Kong citizen working for Singapore's Straits Times as its chief China correspondent, was detained in April 2005 in the southern city of Guangzhou. Four months later, Beijing charged Ching Cheong with buying classified information and selling it to Taiwanese intelligence over a period of...
Shi Tao, a 37-year-old reporter for Dangdai Shangbao (Contemporary Business News), was sentenced in April 2005 to 10 years in prison for "divulging state secrets abroad." Shi had posted on overseas websites an internal government directive in advance of the 15th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen incident on the possibl...
But for every Zhao Yan and Shi Tao mentioned in media reports or at congressional hearings, scores more languish forgotten. Their names are likely to remain unfamiliar to us, absent greater media coverage of their plight. According to Reporters Without Borders, 31 journalists and 64 Internet dissidents are currently im...
Beijing's actions to restrict the free flow of information are not limited to jailing. Those who refuse to toe the party line often experience intimidation or risk being fired from their jobs, as demonstrated by the January 24 suspension of Bing Dian (Freezing Point), a popular weekly supplement to the China Youth Dail...
While Freezing Point was reinstated on March 1, Li Datong and Lu Yuegang--the driving force behind its gutsy coverage of sensitive topics--were transferred to the news research department of the China Youth Daily, organ paper of the Communist Youth League, the institutional power base of president Hu Jintao. Upon heari...
The suspension of Freezing Point was not an isolated episode. Beijing's clampdown represents a continuing pattern. For example, on February 8, Chen Jieren, the 34-year-old editor of Gongyi Shibao (Public Interest Times), was sacked. Chen, who once vowed to make Gongyi Shibao a newspaper that "reports the truth with a c...
While Chinese journalists have always worked under the watchful eye of the censor, restrictions on the media, including the Internet, have tightened during Hu Jintao's reign. In its 2005 World Press Freedom Review released on March 30, the Vienna-based International Press Institute accused Beijing of intensifying its c...
Within days of the enactment of the new laws, the Yannan Forum, a popular chat room, was shut down for "rectification." The Yannan Forum had recently been inundated with postings debating a campaign by residents of Taishi, in the southern province of Guangdong, to recall their elected village chief on grounds of corrup...
Unsurprisingly, the suspension of Freezing Point, the closure of the Yannan Forum, and Beijing's other efforts to prevent the free flow of information were not reported by China's official media. Foreign broadcasters such as Radio Free Asia helped fill the gap, providing regular coverage of these events to listeners in...
In China, there is no right to know. What citizens may learn is determined by the censors. President Hu Jintao's upcoming visit provides a welcome opportunity for a free media--that of the United States--to make more of an issue of the Chinese leaders' remarkable efforts to control the thinking of their population.
© Copyright 2006, News Corporation, Weekly Standard, All Rights Reserved.
Jennifer Chou is the director of Radio Free Asia's Mandarin Service. This article first appeared in The Weekly Standard dated April 24, 2006.
The Bingo Card (Static Grid Card) is a 2 (Separate) Factor Authentication solution and is definitely a step up the security ladder. Look at the following and then I'll explain.
Now we have a number of individual factors that determine a successful outcome. This fact renders it very resistant to phishing. The only snag here is administration - each time a set of co-ordinates is used, they cannot be used again or security degrades. This is further restricted by the size of the card, and the amo...
TAN Lists Transactional Access Numbers (TANs) are considered to be a weaker form of grid card than the bingo cousin above. They are in the 2 (Separate) Factor Authentication solution category. A TAN list is a series of numbers of varying length (chosen by the creators) entered on a card.
Having entered a username (or number in this case) and password, the user is prompted to select a number from the TAN list and enter it. This is a popular solution in EU countries.
Mobile Phone SMS Passwords are another form of a 2 (Separate) Factor Authentication, in which one-off numbers are sent via SMS to your mobile phone when logging in. The user registers their mobile phone with the site, and at login time, the SMS message is sent containing a password or PIN. The user enters that unique d...
Is Lenovo's Widescreen Z60m the First Thinkpad Multimedia Powerhouse?
Sixty-one point five degrees does not show well in the chart and appears to be something we would not be happy about. While we did want better performance from the GKC3, we are still nineteen degrees cooler than an Intel stock cooling solution.
Roughly ten degrees from the lead, and slightly less to the worst performing cooler on the chart, keep in mind that the Intel stock solution failed to run this test. The seventy-six point two five degrees is right in the middle of the pack.
We also test to make sure that the PWM control of the fan is up to par, and we do this by pushing 12V to the fan to gather the best result possible. In the Grand Kama Cross 3, Scythe left only two point five degrees on the table, but much noise accompanies this small gain.
In the stock thermal test, the PWM circuit only called for a maximum of 550 RPM, which is only 150 RPM beyond the idle speed. The 25 dB result at this time is impressive, as many do favor silence in their cooling options.
Still, under the control of PWM for the first overclocked thermal test, we recorded the fan speed to top out at 1086 RPM. The noise level does move into the audible range at 34 dB, but if more than a foot from the PC or inside of a noise absorbing chassis, the noise will not bother you much at all.
Allowing the fan to run at full speed, 1340RMM in this instance, we can see why Scythe opts for the lower speeds of the fan. The noise level jumps to 52 dB at this time, and is a droning noise that even the best chassis cannot silence.
Patrick Steffes started to feel a little bit of pressure after his 3-putt on No. 14 trimmed his lead to just one shot with four holes remaining.
EAU CLAIRE – Patrick Steffes started to feel a little bit of pressure after his 3-putt on No. 14 trimmed his lead to just one shot with four holes remaining.
But the St. Mary’s Springs graduate went on to par his last four holes — three that included up and downs to save par — en route to winning the Wisconsin PGA Professional Championship, which was held at Eau Claire Golf and Country Club.
Steffes finished Tuesday’s round with a 72, finishing with a three day total of 212 to capture the three-day tournament.
Not only did the win give Steffes some nice pocket change ($4,250), but it qualified him for the PGA Professional National Championship, which will be held in June next summer.
It will be Steffe’s second time playing in the national championship after qualifying for it in 2012 after he finished third in the WPGA Professional Championship.
Steffes got out to a fast start in the tournament Sunday after firing a 4-under 67.
Steffes ended Monday’s round with a 73 but did just enough Tuesday to earn the crown. Steffes said he was ‘steady’ and did just enough to hold on to the win.
After firing an even par 35 on the front nine, he started the back with a bogey, but responded with a birdie on No. 11. A bogey on No. 14 led him to the 1-over 37 on the back.
Steffes said the course was in great shape all three days, except for a little wind on the first day.
Steffes edged out Ryan Helminen (213) and David Roesch (216) who both fired 72s on the day.
Volunteers were busy restocking Abby’s Closets last week in preparation for the return of students to Coweta County classrooms. From left are Hannah Haskins, 10; Bella Parker, 15; and Carina Parker, 13.
Local students in need of school supplies don’t need to look far.
In many cases, they can “shop” for the things they need at their own schools, where supplies are available year-round.
The Abby’s Angels Foundation has established Abby’s Closets in most Coweta County schools, along with some in Heard, Carroll and Fayette counties. Unlike school supply giveaways and drives that cover basics at the beginning of school, Abby’s Closets are replenished monthly to provide access to school necessities throug...
And it’s not just pencils and paper. Organizational supplies, sticky tabs, flash drives and earbuds line the shelves of most Abby’s Closets.
“It’s a good mix of basics and fun stuff,” said Monique Haskins, an Abby’s Angels Foundation board member.
Haskins also is a personal friend of the Bacho family, which established the foundation in memory of their daughter Abby after the 8-year-old’s death in 2012. While Abby’s Angels counts teen driver safety and scholarships among its broader focus, Abby’s Closets provide a more personal connection to individual schools a...
Abby often played school, pretending to be the teacher. Family members say she enjoyed learning and might have followed her dream of becoming a teacher. And there definitely was one activity she looked forward to at the end of each summer.
“Abby loved shopping for school supplies,” Haskins said.
A space is designated at schools for Abby’s Closets with room for required supplies for each grade as well as fun extras. In three Coweta schools – Ruth Hill Elementary School and Newnan and East Coweta high schools – the space is shared with a Communities in Schools site coordinator.
Abby’s Closet may be a space just big enough for a supply closet in some schools, In others, there’s room for a chair or two and maybe and table and a lamp. In all of them, a poster decorated in her favorite colors features a photograph of a smiling Abby and a message reminding others to do the same.
It’s a no-questions-asked operation, Haskins said.
“For some people, it’s just a fun and safe place,” she said. “Most of the closets have a little journal where they can keep track of people who come in to get supplies, but they don’t need names.
And sometimes it comes back around, like when recipients of items in Abby’s Closets decide to write thank you notes in those journals.
It creates a sense of belonging for students to not be at a disadvantage in school, family members say, and the purpose of Abby’s Closets is to encourage a love of learning by providing school supplies and a safe space without ever making those students feel outcast or needy.
Families who don’t have the resources to provide necessary school supplies at the start of a school year aren’t likely to be able to provide them on an ongoing basis, which is why Abby’s Closets are replenished monthly and their contents are available year-round. But school supplies are not all the program provides.
And it doesn’t just help the students. At one school, Bacho popped in to replenish Abby’s Closet and found a teacher sitting alone, eating her lunch.
Bacho said she wants to make students and parents aware of the resources available through Abby’s Closets, even if the program hasn’t yet been established in their schools.
“If there isn’t a closet at their school, they can contact us and we’ll get them the supplies they need,” Bacho said.

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