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CONNECTION POINTE GLOBAL BLOG Thu, 17 Nov 2016 14:42:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Global Notes… Wed, 16 Nov 2016 11:45:58 +0000 Nov 16, 2016

Our India team returns today. This has been one of the more challenging trips this year for a Connection Pointe team because of the demonetization of 85% of India’s cash by its government. Buddy Faulkner texted me from India on Saturday and said, “This will not deter us.” While the team’s ability to travel was affected, the ministry continued. Their last two days were spent serving and encouraging in the slums of Delhi alongside ASSI. Your prayers have been heard and much appreciated.

This past Sunday I heard Dr Michael Oh speak in Philadelphia. He is the Global Executive Director of the Lausanne Movement . Birthed through the vision of Billy Graham in the 1970’s, and co-founded with John Stott, the Lausanne Movement is arguably the leading mover today for global missions. During his message, Dr Oh shared information that confirmed to me our church is involved in countries that are at the center of need for presentation of the gospel:

Turkey has one of the fewest number of Christians anywhere in the world. Remember to pray for Paul and Stacey serving in that country.

India has the most people groups of any country without the scriptures in their own language. ASSI was able to translate and publish the Magahi New Testament in 2014.

Besides these two mentioned by Dr Oh, our partners in the Balkans (John and Ruth, Zach and Haley, and Jeremiah), and Indochina (Van and Jane) are working in regions of the world that have a very small percentage of Christians.

We are part of God’s global work!

We are strategically and relationally invested in places and people who are boldly living out and speaking out the hope and freedom found in Christ. I am grateful to be part of a church that is so active in the world.

Lastly, remember to pray for Giles and Alison Emery our partners in Kenya. They have arrived in the USA for some much needed time of reconnecting with family and friends, and to rest. I can assure you they have done well in their first two years and we are honored to be their home church.

Giles and Alison

Giles and Alison

Til next week,

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Global Notes… Wed, 09 Nov 2016 11:30:58 +0000 Nov 9, 2016

This Sunday I encourage you to join others around the world who are praying for the persecuted church. (More at  The Apostle Paul talks of “participating in the sufferings of Christ that continue for his body, the church.” (Col 1:24) We are also commanded to remember “those being mistreated, as if you felt their pain in your own bodies.” (Hebrews 13:3) Our church supports several ministries in countries where the church is persecuted and believers feel the physical pain in their own bodies; Turkey, Indochina, the Balkans, and India.

Today, I encourage you to pray for our partners in India and the Connection Pointe team that is there right now, giving pastoral care to the Christian leaders. We have already received texts from Buddy and Drew, and heard Miss Pearl on video speaking to the Indian church.

To help you pray in a fresh way, I want you to see Col 1:1-2. I have only changed the names to help you understand how scripture can be used to pray:

This letter is from Victor, chosen by the will of God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus, and from our brother Prakash. We are writing to God’s holy people in the city of Varnasi, who are faithful brothers and sisters in Christ.  May God our Father give you grace and peace.

Our Indian partners Victor and Prakash are modern-day pioneers in bringing the hope of Christ to Varnasi, Delhi, Kolkotta and other cities of their land. Many of the words in Colossians could have been written by them to the Indian house churches:

So we have not stopped praying for you since we first heard about you. We ask God to give you complete knowledge of his will and to give you spiritual wisdom and understanding.

From this verse a prayer for India can be formed:

“Dear God, we ask you to give the Indian Christians complete knowledge of your will.  We ask you to do this by giving them spiritual wisdom and understanding, through your Word where it is available, and through your Holy Spirit.”

As you pray for the persecuted church, let Colossians 1:1-14  be your guide. Be creative and courageous in using those scriptures to give you words to pray for our persecuted friends around the world, and to pray for our team in India.

Til next week,

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Global Notes Wed, 02 Nov 2016 15:30:47 +0000 imgresThe International Conference on Missions (ICOM) is Nov 17-20, this year in Lexington, KY. This is one of the best mission conferences because of its broad appeal to the national church and international missions. Several Connection Pointe members have plans to attend; for those coming, please let Teresa or I know so we can arrange to all meet over coffee or a meal. Our church is registered, so there is no cost to you, but you do need to register individually. Follow the link to church registrations here, then click on code and insert 2016ICOM to fill in your information.The speakers and schedules are found here.

The theme this year is Disciples Making Disciples, with a supporting theme of the use of technology in this process.

The exhibit hall will be full of mission organizations and resources, with many opportunities to explore for furthering your missions service and education. If you are there and want to talk to me about what God is laying on your heart, let me know. I would love to have that conversation with you!

The mission trips for 2017 were rolled out this past week. (View the list.) We have new trips to support our partners with Lifeline Christian MissionJose Rodriguez in Panama and Dawn Springer/Brad and Bonnie Jones in Arizona. We also will be returning to the places we went in 2016 to support our partners there. In addition, there are three other trips not listed. These trips will be invitation only for specific skill sets to limited access countries. The first team is already formed to travel to Indochina in January. Be in prayer for this team of 7 people as they spend time in building relationships and prayer walks with our partners there.

Lastly, remember to pray for our Panama vision trip team and India pastoral care team as mentioned in last week’s Global Notes.

GI_5417-2Til next week,

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Global Notes… Wed, 26 Oct 2016 15:45:06 +0000 Last month I passed the two-year mark of serving on Connection Pointe staff. I am now at a place of understanding our church and its global work that I can write a weekly post to challenge and inform. Encourage your friends and family to subscribe to this page to keep updated.

I returned from Kenya last week as part of a team led by Kelsey Stuckwisch. Teacher training and presentation of the Path of a Peacemaker were our achieved purposes. We also spent a lot of time with our partners Giles and Allison Emery, who are doing very well in their ministry with Missions of Hope International (MOHI) in Nairobi. Giles oversees IT for all the schools, Allison oversees a team for communicating the work to donors. Having served nearly two years now, they will return to the USA in Nov/Dec for a break. We will host them for an evening here at church, and you are welcome to come. Details coming soon.

The third Guatemala team of 2016 returned from an impactful week with the children and staff at Los Verdes. Jay and Cassie Perez led this team. You can read their recent blog posts here.

Next week our last two teams of the year will travel internationally. A vision trip will be led by Mark Kleis to Panama Nov 1-5, meeting up with our ministry partner Jose Rodriguez. This team of 5 people goes to learn more of the urban and rural work overseen by Jose and Lifeline Christian Mission. Our ongoing engagement there as a church will be developed from this trip, so please be in prayer for this vision team of Mark, Tony, Tony, Jesse and Christian.

Nov 5 Buddy and Bessie Faulkner will lead a pastoral care team to India to bring spiritual nourishment and encouragement to Victor John and the leadership staff of ASSI. Pray for their stamina and health after a very long journey there. Pray for ASSI hearts to be strengthened and relationships with our team to be formed. Building relationships is one of the strongest forms of pastoral care in this culture, so pray for friendships to form and deepen.

Though our trips are nearly over for 2016, our ministry partners continue in daily ministry. Remember to pray for them, listed here.

Til next week,

Don Dyck leading the Path of the Peacemaker…

Celebrating teacher training completion…

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Surprise! Tue, 18 Oct 2016 14:18:16 +0000
-Jeff Lovell, Global Impact Team

Every CPCC travel team prepares and plans for their short-term mission trips.  However, the only sure thing about any trip agenda is that there will be surprises!  One 24-hour period in Guatemala was full of them.

Birthday surprise

Our partners generously hosted us at Rut’s home for dinner mid-week.  As our partnership has matured into its fifth year, our teams have developed strong relationships with our partners.  After our meal, Josue sneaked in a birthday cake to celebrate Jay, who is leading our travel team with his wife, Cassie.  As we finished dessert, Rut teased attention-averse Jay, with “One more thing…!”  Josue retrieved a birthday piñata, and the party continued.

Ministry surprise

Later in the evening, Rut reviewed the year and how an expanding number of children are being impacted at the Learning Center.  In another conversation, Rut’s father had reflected on God’s hand on the partnership: “This is exactly what we were dreaming of for the land [that their family donated for the Learning Center]!  If we could bless just one family, that would have been enough.”  Rut continued, sharing with us her inspired, grander, bolder vision: that to transform the community, her team’s ministry should continue its focus on serving children, but additionally seek to directly address adults, families, and the public school system.  Please join us in praying for God to continue to prosper the ministry of Rut and her team.

Gift surprise

The next evening, as we shared dinner at the Learning Center with the full staff, Cassie and travel team member Rachael beautifully expressed our gratitude for our partners’ hospitality, their excellence in teaching, and their deep love for the children and for each other.  Rut responded by cueing staff member Edwin, and he delivered the next surprise:  an oil painting of the Learning Center, presented to our church.  Soon, the painting will be hanging in CPCC!

Baptism surprise

As our time together was ending, Cassie asked for the group’s attention.  “There’s no better way to finish tonight than with a baptism!”  The team and partners scanned the room, before Cassie revealed: “Izzy!”  Izzy Cotteleer and her family have traveled to Guatemala four times, starting in 2013, and wanted to publicly declare her acceptance of Christ in her favorite place. Teachers sang as arrangements were prepared, and Izzy was baptized at the Learning Center! (The Cotteleers will be leading a trip to Guatemala October 14 – 21, 2017–come join them! Sign up details coming in November to this blog and the Connection Pointe website.)

We have been privileged to have a front-row seat in witnessing life-change occurring in Guatemala.  We see sickness, grief, and despair; but we also see healing, restoration, and hope.

We should never be surprised by God’s power and love.

Most of the members of this team sponsor children in Guatemala and are there to give them an extra love touch. If you are interested in Child Sponsorship, please contact our Global Impact Team here. There are so many children in need of sponsorship and Dan or Teresa would be happy to walk you through the process and answer any questions you have. The Cotteleers will be leading a trip to Guatemala in October 2017! Sign up details coming in November to this blog and the Connection Pointe website.

2017  TRIPS:

Our 2017 trip schedule will be released soon and will be posted on the CP website as well as this blog. Maybe 2017 is your year to travel and give an extra love touch to our global partners!

Happy reunion! Rachael Cotteleer has been bringing smiles to the children at the learning center for 4 years!

Someone is happy with her new necklace from her sponsor family!

Three pretty and happy girls!

Izzy and friends.

This big smile says “thank you sponsor family!”

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Two Principles of God’s Kingdom Mon, 17 Oct 2016 13:03:24 +0000 -Dan Crum, Global Impact Director

My teammates on this trip have been demonstrating two principles of God’s Kingdom this past week, perhaps without realizing it.

First, God meets us on our level.

Do you see the African talking stick that Don is holding? He brought it on our trip, a gift from a previous African trip, as a symbol for those who hold it to speak truth. The lead teachers and lead social workers at our workshop on peacemaking were speaking truth at our closing session on the ways they have grown in handling conflict Biblically. Don met them on their level by bringing a familiar African item to contextualize the spiritual truths they were learning.

Do you see Jenn and Jessica down on the level of children to show them their picture? This symbolizes Christ came down to our level to show us His love for us. That’s one message these children are receiving – someone cares for them and loves them.

The second principle being demonstrated is perception of ourselves as Christ sees us.

The children see themselves in the picture, valuable enough to be remembered by Jenn and Jessica. They see their actual faces, as God made them. “There I am!”, and they know they will not go unnoticed. Someone saw them, and the teachers at Madoya reinforce that God sees them too.

Don and I taught two days on the Peacemaker, helping our Kenyan friends understand that making peace is what God asks us to do. He perceives us as people capable of working through conflict, and it is not something to avoid. They now perceive themselves as peacemakers, bringing glory to God and bringing restoration between people.

Today is Sunday and we go to church to worship with our Kenyan brothers and sisters in Christ.

Most of the members of this team sponsor children in Kenya and are there to give them an extra love touch. If you are interested in Child Sponsorship, please contact our Global Impact Team here. There are so many children in need of sponsorship and Dan or Teresa would be happy to walk you through the process and answer any questions you have.

2017 TRIPS:

Our 2017 trip schedule will be released soon and will be posted on the CP website as well as this blog. Maybe 2017 is your year to travel and give an extra love touch to our global partners!

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And then today happened … Thu, 13 Oct 2016 20:50:23 +0000 -Cassie Perez, Team Leader

This is my third trip to Guatemala. The poverty, the plights of the families, it no longer shocks me like it did on previous trips. During our evening devotional yesterday, I shared that I had been feeling less affected this trip, that perhaps I was becoming too comfortable on these trips, becoming numb. And then today happened.

Today, our team was to work on installing stoves in family homes and assist with the kindergarten graduation festivities. Our team installed a total of eight stoves while here.

In most of the homes in the Los Verdes community, the women cook in an open fire barrel indoors. There is no ventilation and the smoke fills the very small homes creating respiratory distress for the families. Tar and soot also accumulate on the tin ceiling.  The stoves we install are not only vented through to the outside to resolve the smoke issue, but they also require very little amounts of wood to heat the stove, which in turn – saves the family money.

Our last stove installation today was an hour of my life that I will never forget.

Our group broke into two teams and set off to install the last of the stoves.  My team was made up of six women, plus my husband Jay.  Once we received direction from Sandra, the homeowner, on where she wanted her stove, our team quickly got to work.  As others were working to arrange the cinder-block stove base, I began my usual conversation starters, “how many children do you have?”  Every woman loves to talk about their children! I could talk for hours about my own 6 year old son.  My “go-to” icebreaker question was met with what started as a typical answer.

Sandra explained that she had two daughters but then began to sob as she explained that three weeks ago, her baby, a baby girl, had died. My heart broke. I had met this tiny Guatemalan woman just minutes prior but fellow mom and team member Portia and myself felt compelled to embrace Sandra as she sobbed and told the story of her tragic loss. Construction work ground to a halt. Not only was Sandra coping with the loss of her child, she explained that her husband left to go work in the US but she doesn’t know if he will be coming back. She just moved into her home and has no friends or other women to talk to. She has two young daughters whom she cannot burden with her grief and now must support on her own. Meanwhile, she is still recovering from the C-Section that is an extraordinarily difficult recovery with limited access to medical care.

As I held this grieving woman, my heart broke for her as a mother, a wife and a woman. By this point, everyone present had tears in our eyes as we grieved with Sandra. Jay offered our team’s sympathy as he gently encouraged her with words of God’s love for her and God’s big plan for her life, even in times of great loss. We prayed with her and her children. We prayed that she would find comfort in God. We prayed that God’s purpose for her and her loss would soon be revealed. We prayed that her trust in God would not waiver during this difficult time.

After praying with Sandra, we completed the stove and explained how to use and maintain it. We had fun conversations about what meal she would make first on her new stove (spaghetti) and discussed her physical recovery from her surgery. We took a few pictures and then we hugged (and cried) some more.   Sandra confided that she feels the weight of grief lift a little more every time that she opens up about it.

There truly are no words that could possibly comfort a mother who has experienced a loss such as Sandra’s.  In moments of such despair and grief, we are left only with our faith. God has a way of putting us right where he wants us. Today, he put our small stove team, that included two moms, in the exact spot where Sandra needed it most.

We serve an all-knowing God. I’ve never felt so blessed to play a part in God’s plan.

Most of the members of this team sponsor children in Guatemala and are there to give them an extra love touch. If you are interested in Child Sponsorship, please contact our Global Impact Team here. There are so many children in need of sponsorship and Dan or Teresa would be happy to walk you through the process and answer any questions you have.

2017  TRIPS:

Our 2017 trip schedule will be released soon and will be posted on the CP website as well as this blog. Maybe 2017 is your year to travel and give an extra love touch to our global partners!

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Guatemala Team Off to a Good Start Tue, 11 Oct 2016 15:36:26 +0000 Day 1 of VBS and Sports Camp in Los Verdes, Guatemala

Today was our first day to really interact with the children at the learning center in Los Verdes.  In the morning, the younger children (pre-school age) piled out of the school bus or walked along the road up a steep hill to the learning center. As they came past the gate, they flooded towards us for big hugs. They know their friends from Indiana bring fun and excitement and they usually can’t wait to see us.

Today’s morning VBS was a hit. We told the story of Zacchaeus, who climbed up the tree to see Jesus. Local staff member Josh climbed up in a large tree as the children gathered below to hear the story. Josh has a flair for storytelling, and he was willing to climb the tree, so he made an excellent Zacchaeus.

Afterwords we broke into stations and the children made a craft, did an activity, and had a snack. At each station, they got some further discussion about the timeless truths to be learned from the story. With Zacchaeus, the themes of repentance and forgiveness were key, but…

our main point for the pre-school audience was that Jesus knew the name of the stranger watching him from the tree. Jesus knows the name of each child here, and loves them no matter their circumstances and the difficulties they may have to overcome.

In the afternoon, the school age children come to the learning center after classes let out at the public school. We must admit, this is the part that our team was worried about. There are over 170 total children (from Kindergarten to 6th grade) in the afternoon session, and it can be more challenging to keep them engaged than the younger kids. So rather than a VBS, we decided to do a sports camp. We incorporated a number of activities, including jump rope, relay races, obstacle courses, and exercises like jumping jacks, burpees, lunges, etc.  The kids had a blast doing the physical activities.

When it came time to do a devotional, we gave a talk about sportsmanship based on Colossians 3. We discussed the importance of respecting others, both our teammates and our opponents. We discussed what drives us in athletic events …whether the praise of others or the desire to win a prize … or whether it is the knowledge that God’s blessings are our true recompense for everything we do. We talked about how everything we do should be done to glorify God, and how our actions can reflect God’s love to others around us. (John 13:35)

We ended our day with some time in the community, playing sports (Basketball and Soccer), and getting to spend some quality time with children from the learning center and other members of the community.

God is doing amazing things in this place! We’ve only gotten to see a tiny amount of what our local partners live every day, but we are having a blast. When you are here, you really get to experience the presence of God in a whole new way, seeing the lives of children and entire families changed for the better because of their connection to this project and the relationship it has with the Connection Pointe family.

Stay tuned, more to come from Guatemala…

Most of the members of this team sponsor children in Guatemala and are there to give them an extra love touch. If you are interested in Child Sponsorship, please contact our Global Impact Team here. There are so many children in need of sponsorship and Dan or Teresa would be happy to walk you through the process and answer any questions you have.

2017  TRIPS:

Our 2017 trip schedule will be released soon and will be posted on the CP website as well as this blog. Maybe 2017 is your year to travel and give an extra love touch to our global partners!

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Our Glory and Joy Mon, 11 Jul 2016 20:41:06 +0000 -Ashley Mennel

For what is our hope or joy or crown of boasting before our Lord Jesus at His coming? Is it not you? For you are our glory and joy. 1 Thess 2:19-20

There I was standing in an incredibly remote Maasai village in Kenya. The only person in the village who spoke English was the young girl we were there to visit. She had attended a local primary school a mile or so down the road. As in all Kenyan schools she was taught Swahili and English as part of her primary education. But within a few sentences it was clear that she had not received the same opportunity to learn and practice her English as some of the children we met in other schools.  It was there, in this village, where words meant nothing, but smiles, handshakes, and blessings over the children’s heads were like gold, that I felt the Joy of the Lord wash over me.

We brought gifts for the village, gifts most people in western society would consider necessities like bar soap, kitchen knives, and flashlights for the adults. We also brought a few toys along for the children; soccer balls, jump ropes, and hula hoops, staples in every American home and classroom. But here, here in the village, these were foreign objects. Without words in a unified language to explain them, we were left to demonstrate how to use the items we had brought along.

So there I stood on a hilltop near a cow pasture, which contained no cattle due to last year’s devastating drought, with a hula hoop slipped over my waist as I motioned to the children to look at my foot position and then slowly rocked from side to side to spin the hula hoop around my waist. My skills were rusty and the hoop hit the ground as many times as it successfully orbited my waist but with every fall the hesitant onlookers began to erupt with laughter– a language we share with all of our brothers and sisters.

Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food,though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will be joyful in God my Savior. Habakkuk 3:17-18

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How Our Partnership Makes a Difference Wed, 06 Jul 2016 17:07:57 +0000

-Mackenzie Vondersaar

I have studied Spanish for six years, for this I was asked to lead Bible lessons during VBS in Guatemala. However, when I realized the topic was the creation of The Church in Antioch (Acts 11: 19-30), I was a little disappointed. No Daniel or Jonah stories? I quickly found I had an amazing example of partnership to share. I was able to share that the leaders at The Learning Center and at Connection Pointe demonstrate a united front for Christ with physical separations.

I explained,  “Through the power of the Holy Spirit the Lord’s followers become Christos Pequeños (Little Christ’s). We are called to work together for the kingdom of the Lord. The partnership between Connection Pointe and The Learning Center demonstrates what Barnabas and Saul were working toward. I compared this idea with the relationship between Jew and Gentile believers. They looked different, spoke different languages, originated from different countries, yet came together under Christ’s name. Likewise, Christians in Antioch sent money to Jerusalem to support the civilians during a famine. Our partnership shares the same cultural differences, yet unites because God does not like His people to be separated.

While I was in Guatemala, I felt God was constantly reminding me of the impact our partnership has. We are a relational mission. Five years ago, families would hide within their homes when Connection Pointe would come to visit the communities, or parents would not send their children to the school while a team was serving. Today it is quite the opposite. Students and families openly invite mission teams and teachers into their homes. Equally, the older students who have school every other day come each day to spend more time with the team. They feel loved and they thirst to build relationships with Connection Pointe. We fill the community up with love then support their physical needs. The Learning Center is striving to sell families a stove with a chimney and water filters. Headaches and severe lung problems caused by smoke inhalation have improved and constant diarrhea has ended thanks to clean drinking water. The community appreciates the physical needs we are meeting, but the relational aspect means much more.

For example, my precious sponsor child Daniel was excited to see I had a present for him. I gave the backpack to him and pointed at the toys inside, but his face filled with joy and amazement when he saw a letter from me sitting in the bottom of the bag. Relationships and love can be the strongest of remedies.

It is easy to serve one way in poverty and another within our own community, but the Spirit of the Lord should be just as bright no matter where we are.
Rut is leading this mission within her own community around people she has known for years. Read more about Rut hereI am inspired to serve within my own community maintaining the same passionate spirit Rut carries instead of focusing on “bigger” missions in the future. Why would my spirit need to change? Sometimes the environment can have this effect. God challenged me with this idea while in Guatemala: It can be easy to serve passionately when there is physical poverty, but are we serving just as intentionally to those with spiritual poverty?
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Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Current Activity

This latest "completion lull" should soon be coming to an end.  Results for the wells below should be announced in the weeks ahead.

Thursday, January 16, 2014

BMO Capital Conference - Goodrich Interview

TMS Summary from Rob Turnham's interview:
-spreading wells out to delineate to determine variability in results; consistent frac designs have produced consistent results
-two rigs now, scaling to five rigs by the 3rd quarter
-we know the oil is in place
-now have wells producing for up to two years, attractive decline curves; hyperbolic curve
-not seeing the sloughing issues during drilling as seen in the original wells; drilling high pressure and naturally fractured rock
-completions: wells frac easily; struggling with drilling out plugs due to high pressure and that the reservoir wants to flow on you due to natural fractures; have made changes that will have a material difference on the completion side
-rates of return are compelling at current costs; close to the Eagle Ford and opportunity to improve rates of return; still very early in this play; making great progress
-2014 drilling: budget for 20+ wells; drilling to date has been in northern portion; have completion recipe nailed down;subtle differences in the rock; gradually will work east and west with locations; gradually work south; 60% on former Devon acreage, 40% in Mississippi
-Acreage: will hold 20,000 net acres by end of year; 241,000 net acres have continuous drilling and extension options; $34M of capital over 3.5-4 years; great lease terms; concentrate in core and work way out;
-Weyerhaeuser 51H-1: frac this week; landed lateral below the rubble zone; all of the conventional core indicate subtle geological differences across the play; the Crosby had the highest clay percentage; has produced 155,000 BOE in 10.5 months; the resource is clearly there; low expandable clay percentage; nothing concerning about the clay; Weyerhaeuser area has the highest quartz, lowest clay, and highest TOC compared to other conventional cores; ranks at top of the list; Frac: 23 stages over 6250'; can stimulate the zone landing above or below the rubble zone; wells that landed below have been the better wells; more quartz; 51H-1 landed in similar zone as Crosby 12H-1; slickwater creates fracture complexity; narrow frac intervals for better stimulation;
-Huff: 17 stages; flowing the well back, similar pressures and fluid rates; event occurred indicative of a frac plug plugging off; tracing each frac stage at the surface; each stage has it's own signature; after the event only a couple of stages were producing; we knew right where the plug-off occurred; used dissolvable balls to go with the plugs; may have started flow back too early; need to let it sit and make sure the balls are fully liquified; likely created a sand plug behind it; rig on location cleaning the well out; expect to be completed soon and will start flowback; timing will align with the Weyerhaeuser 51H-1; results will be forthcoming in early February press release;
-Costs/Economics: current $13M; getting LLS minus $2 at the well; lower royalty burdens 18.5%; no severance tax until payout; frac costs $20k/stage cheaper in 2014; equates to $1M savings; service costs declining with increased activity; 40-60 wells potentially drilled in 2014 by all operators; hitting most wells between mid to high EUR curve; returns double when dropping from $13M to $10M. Each day saved of drilling is $100,000. Pad drilling will be beneficial. Have seen these expense decreases in the Eagle Ford.
-JV with Sinopec; they have expressed an interest in the original Goodrich acreage; will have further discussions; need to get more wells completed before discussions continue; at $5000/acre that's $200M net to our interest; not interested in anything less than $5000/acre; to hold 300,000 net acres, at 1000 acres per well, that's 3 billion in capital to hold the acreage; will bring in additional capital or a partner; not urgent in 2014; we'll never be able to drill out 300,000 acres, that's probably in the hands of somebody much better capitalized sometime in the future

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Sanchez Provides Update

Sanchez Energy released this update today:

We are not forecasting any material production from our step-out activities in Tuscaloosa Marine Shale ("TMS") this year, however, we remain excited about the potential that could start to be developed in the TMS. "We plan to initiate our drilling activities in the TMS in 2014 and have allocated approximately 10% of our operating capital to this rapidly emerging play. Our drilling will be a combination of operated and non-operated wells, with our first operated well expected to spud in the first half of 2014. We expect the substantial increase in TMS industry activity during 2014 to positively influence the well cost structure and overall knowledge of the play."


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When I click rocket over any passage it moves rocket to that new passage but after running game it still starts on the previous starting point. Why am I not able to change my starting point? How should I develop without that thing...

It worked before but now it doesn't. Can't find any info on the internet. Maybe anyone had this problem before?

Edit: I tried to load the previous version of the game and it became even worse, now rocket doesn't move to other passage until I go to the home page and back to the game. Please tell me there is a way to fix this. This is disgustingly annoying right now.

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Are you using Twine 2.2.1?  I've noticed that too.
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No, I am on 2.1.3
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Mines come right again, I just changed the format to sugarcube and back to harlowe.
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I don't think changing story type actually helped you, I think there are some weird triggers that make this break. Because I already tried that before (and just tried again to make sure) and that didn't work for me... And because it did break before but I haven't paid attention and then it worked and now it is broken again. We need some explanation to this and proved fix or at least some temporal fix...

I will update to latest version and will check if that helps later...
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A couple of questions to gain more information about the Twine 2.1.3 application you're using:

1. Are you using the install-able application release or one of the web-browser based releases (hosted or local)?

2. What is the name and full version number of the Operating System you are using?

3. If you are using one of the web-browser based releases then:

3a. What is the name and full version number of the web-browser you are using?

3b. Have you tried importing your story project into another brand of web-browser and seeing if changing the starting point works in that one instead?
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1) Before, from the very beginning and in present I was using web version hosted on virtual hosting. So, similarly to official Twine online editor.

2) Windows 10 x64, last update(I am not sure which one is last but I don't have any new updates yet).

3a) Google Chrome, last version: 63.0.3239.84

3b) No I haven't. I don't know why, but I thought this won't help anything yesterday. Maybe, because I was very angry... Just tried Firefox and it works there perfectly.

I was getting a lot of weird problems with Chrome lately, I am thinking it isn't worth any more to stick with it... But... It is not that easy...

Ok, next I tried incognito mode in Chrome and it also fixed this problem. I backed up my stories and went to the Chrome settings and removed all the cookies for the website and Twine. I disabled every extension aaaaand... Guess what? WRONG. It hasn't fixed anything! Omg.
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Ahah. I went all out and tried to work in Firefox. Nope. Now it doesn't work there either. What is happening? This thing simply keeps breaking everywhere! Now I have no choice completely...


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You'll see a top list 10 keywords that your competitor ranks for, So if you go to SEMRush and type in your competitor's name.

When you create higher quality articles it's much easier to get attention to this content.

Whenever getting highquality links from other websites is still extremely important for search engine rankings, In a report by Brian Deane from Backlinko on how Google ranks content. So in case you have higher relevant articles, use a SEO tool such as ahrefs to find companies that are linking to content on your competitor's site and, then reach out to these sites and request that they link to you instead. Create it, Therefore if you don't currently have higher quality articles. Now let me ask you something. How would you like to steal some of your competitor's traffic, is that the case?

Pick out the most relevant keywords and create content that targets the keywords that have a reasonable amount of traffic.

While focusing on high quality and providing great value to your readers, Make sure you create better content than your competitor. Always promote that content aggressively. There's some more info about it on this site. There's no point writing amazing blog posts if nobody knows they've been published. SEMRush will show you the keywords, searches estimated number for these keywords and the page that gets the traffic. Eventually, this is really valuable information when you want to take some of that traffic for yourself.

If you are influential within your industry you are more likely to get your content noticed even without promotion. One key becoming way influencer is producing content that demonstrates you as a thought leader. You also need to build relationships with key influencers within your industry. Influence leads to traffic diverting from your competitor to you. Moz crawls the Web to collect information related to websites to work out their Domain Authority. Then, this is based on a variety of factors that are important to Google for ranking content. The Domain Authority score ranges from zero to 100 and the higher the authority, the easier it is to get targeted traffic.

Using paid ads is becoming more important to reach your existing fans and potential new fans, as organic reach drops on social media sites like Facebook.

You ever wonder why your competitor attracts a bunch of traffic and you don't get as much, right?

very good ways of increasing authority is to get 'high quality' links, which leads nicely onto the next point. Start to take action to increase it, you should aim for as high a Domain Authority score as possible. Increasing first part your Domain Authority is to know what your score is, and what your competitor's is. You can find this out by downloading the free Moz Toolbar.


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February 29, 2016

Banyan Tales: Mobile App Series

2A! joins some cartoon friends under the Banyan Tree!

Banyan Tales is an “in-app” series for children which you can download and watch on your iPad or other mobile device.

In episode one, Mooshi the Mouse must keep his promise and risk his life to free Singa the Lion from the hunter’s trap. In episode two, Poppat the Parrot must learn how to be a true leader by saving her friends from the jaws of Dubuk the Hyena.

2A! designed this IP and all the front-end visuals for the app! The app includes 2 animated episodes, as well as character introductions, question and answer segments, puzzles, matching games and more.

Download the Banyan Tales app here!

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February 17, 2016

My Celebrity: Trump Doll Rants! (Extended Scenes)

Uh-oh! Looks like someone forgot to turn off Trump Doll's microphone. ;)

We had way too much fun pretending to rant like Donald Trump, so here are some of the rants we came up with while recording the audio. In the end, we decided to cut them out because they slowed the pacing of the short down too much, but thought they were funny enough to share as an extra. Hope you like them!

Watch the original Trump Doll episode here: My Celebrity: Donald Trump Doll

Watch our first OJ Simpson episode here: My Celebrity: OJ Simpson Doll

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February 08, 2016

My Celebrity: Donald Trump Doll

2A! helps "make your child great again" the Donald Trump way!

In the second episode of our creator-owned series, My Celebrity, little Neil gets his very own Donald Trump doll and learns how to "win again" at life.

The series spoofs the classic My Buddy line of toys while poking fun at those celebrities that we all love to hate.
When normally well-behaved children are given their very own My Celebrity dolls -- toys that look and act like today’s “worst” celebrity role models -- they start acting out in the same bad ways!

If you like this episode, be sure to check out the first episode as well, My Celebrity: OJ Simpson Doll.

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Have you ever wondered how dangerous mercury dental amalgams really are? (Yes those silver/black fillings over 75% of American still have this neurotoxin in their mouths while they wonder why they are sick).

"Mercury, A Slow Death"will give answers to these questions in a very compelling way.

The original film has been updated and by streaming here, it can continually be updated as new information comes up.

This story has the whole enchilada. So why would "they" allow humanity to be poisoned in this way?

The question will come down to who is responsible and how to fix it. You decide.

This is what happened then and continues to happen now. It is inexcusable and incestuous corruption. Why hasn't something been done?

We can slow this one down by refusing to purchase them.

Help us continue our quest by watching. We have a lot more coming. Formally only available on DVD, it is now launched online for PPV streaming.
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UNINFORMED CONSENT, SEATTLE, WA - UnInformed Consent produced this documentary in 2002. It has enjoyed the attention of 450 US Congressmen which included the current Governor of Washington State,

The film was employed in US Congress as a companion to a bill to ban the use of mercury amalgam ("silver fillings") in dentistry.

It has run on public TV for many months at a time and has enjoyed ongoing sales in DVD format.

Now it is time for on-demand delivery. Your Pay-Per-Views will help us support continuing work in bringing the truth to our grass roots communities and more footage of what has really been going on concealed from the public.

This film was not without direct attacks.

The famous "smoking trooth" teaser showing the vaporization of mercury vapor from a 50-year old amalgam filling is continually being sabotaged online even now. (See the clip upper right corner).

The original "Smoking Trooth" had over 100,000 views by 2006. When Google's purchase of YouTube occurred suddenly those view mysteriously disappeared.

Google was not responsive to inquiries. Only recently, with the implosion and exposure of those trying to control the narrative in the press, do we really understand.

This is really a no brainer. Mercury is a powerful neurotoxin. In dentistry it is implanted right next to the brain while from the mouth it has access to virtually every other area of the body.

After three years of regularly lobbying then US Washington State Congressman, Jay Inslee to sign the bill, he failed to do so. Jay Inslee is now the governor of Washington State. He continues to make questionable decisions under the guise constituents that is in reality for corpulent consumption "friends.".

At the time, 2002, most of us attempted to be polite and took the position that it was a mistake and once exposed, we all could work together to correct it.

But that did not happen. It is clear now; it was part of the overall plan. It's intentional. The same delivery system occurs in vaccines while the CDC and FDA deny the truth.

More and more marketing money was spent on mis-information confirming its safety - bald-faced lie. Make no mistake; It is not "safe."

Those individuals with credible presentations were sabotaged. It was so consistent that it was almost mechanical like one would assume artificial intelligence might be.

During the time of the 5-year investigation into mercury amalgam and vaccines by the Committee for Government Reform, an unusual amount of credible people met untimely deaths. .

Since, many others advocating the discontinuation of these unsafe practices also met untimely deaths.

It has been 15 years. Very little has changed. The use of mercury amalgams continues. There has been a drop in placement, but only because some of the more educated consumer market have refused to go to dentists who still practice with mercury amalgam.

Washington State implemented a mercury clean-up ban to keep dental office sourced mercury particulates from going into municipality bio-solids systems. It happened because of this film. Yet it is still legal to place in the human mouth.

No one has banned the use of mercury amalgam in dental offices. There is still a tsunami of dentists and dental hygienists suffering horrendous health issues because of their direct exposures.

At this point, there can be no other answer.

Inaction equals intentional.

Why? You decide. This film will help you become informed.

They came for us too.

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3 Questions with Julie Ault

Artist, curator, writer, and editor Julie Ault on investigating form, transformative dialogues, and working with enthusiasm.

3 QUESTIONS is series of brief, three-question interviews with PNCA’s visiting artists and lecturers. Each year, PNCA attracts innovative, thoughtful, and creative makers and thinkers who share our belief in the transformative power of creativity. In three short answers to three short questions, these artists offer perspectives on career, motivation, and transformation. When available, we include links to audio recordings, transcripts, slideshows, or video.

The MFA in Visual Studies welcomes Julie Ault as part of the 2012-2013 Graduate Visiting Artist Lecture Series. Ault, along with Gregg Bordowitz and Tracey Cockrell, founding chair of the Low Residency MFA in Visual Studies, traveled with Visual Studies students to Caldera for a two-week residency. You can also listen to a podcast of Julie Ault’s lecture.

“Be open and flexible
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and new ways of working.”

Photo by Tim Hailand, via PortlandArt.net.

What advice would you offer current students about to embark on a career in the arts?

I’ve always kept making money somewhat separate from working as an artist. I want to work from a place of enthusiasm and desire to learn and to share what I learn through my work, without the opportunity to pay my bills tempting me if and when the impulse wanes. My interests and projects are not congruent with making much money anyway, so this is a good match.

How do you maintain your creative practice? What keeps you motivated and engaged?

Recurrent refreshing is built into my practice as I have a somewhat investigational relationship to form. In addition to adopting curatorial activities, I’ve turned to editorial pursuit as artistic practice, using publication as a medium. I sometimes employ text as medium, and sometimes take on an apparently design role. It’s important for me to be open and flexible and present to possibility and new ways of working.

Could you describe a moment or experience that profoundly changed the nature of your work?

I’ve had many moments of revelation including the shift of working exclusively in collaboration with others (Group Material) to developing an independent voice and practice; encountering certain artists’ work that changed the course of my thinking; and meeting particular people and having transformative dialogues with them.

Julie Ault is an artist, curator, writer, editor, who works both independently and collaboratively. She often assumes curatorial and editorial roles as forms of artistic practice. Her work emphasizes interrelationships between cultural production and politics and frequently engages historical inquiry. In 1979 Ault cofounded Group Material, whose practice explored the relationship between art, activism, and politics until disbanding in 1996. Ault’s recent exhibitions include: “Ever Ephermal, Remembering and Forgetting in the Archive,” Signal and Inter Arts Center, Malmö, 2011, and “No-Stop City High-Rise: a conceptual equation,” with Martin Beck, for the São Paulo Bienal, 2010. Her edited and authored publications include: (FC) Two Cabins by James Benning (2011); Show and Tell: A Chronicle of Group Material (2010); Felix Gonzalez-Torres, (2006); Come Alive! The Spirited Art of Sister Corita (2006); and Alternative Art New York 1965–1985 (2002). Ault teaches on a visiting basis.

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  1. Anonymous says:

    Occasionally people posting in the comments here criticize UO Matters for wasting time his time on this blog. In reality he is a superhero — doing serious and interesting research, founding and running the SAIL program, and uncovering the misdeeds of the UO administration. And he’s pretty nice guy with a terrific sense of humor.

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      Those who the unmasked UOM agree.

      I won’t mention how much I love it when blog readers criticize blog writers for wasting time. If anything, aren’t the readers contributing less utility. (Exceptions, of course, are Jim Bean and Randy Geller, who both seem quite able to destroy utility when they write. Oh, and Gottfredson doesn’t write… he just speaks.)

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      Those who know the…

    • UO Matters says:

      I deleted a bunch of comments from the usual Bean/Frohnmayer defender. Repost them with your name, some actual information, or at least try to make them rhyme.

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      In ‘The Dark Knight’ many people thought Batman had gone bad. But by the end of ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ it was clear to everyone that Batman was a true superhero. Just like Batman, UO Matters is going to step on some toes occasionally — ask the Joker (or Jim Bean). Turning over rocks around UO and exposing what’s underneath — evil or pure — is a thankless job. Gotham sleeps better tonight with UO Matters on the job.

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      There once was a sick Prof named Bill,
      To smear any name was his thrill,
      Muckraker he’s not
      Though he sure costs a lot,
      Soon enough he’ll be in for a spill!

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      Much better, thanks.

    • Anonymous says:

      It’s the Riddler! Turn on the Bat Signal!

    • Anonymous says:

      One correction: Gottfredson doesn’t speak – he just moves his mouth.

  2. "Texas Guy says:

    Saw a bunch of SAIL students in bright t-shirts on campus the other day, they looked happy and excited. Glad to hear the program is going so well, it’s a wonderful contribution on the part of UOM and others.

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To supplement existing wild populations in the upper Columbia River, juvenile hatchery reared White Sturgeon have been released annually since 2002. These fish are the progeny of wild broodstock (a group of mature fish collected for breeding) collected in the Columbia that are spawned, their eggs fertilized and hatched, and the larvae/juveniles are reared at hatchery facilities in British Columbia and Washington. Most have been released as 5 to10 month old juveniles, although there have been some experimental releases of fed (35 days old) and unfed (2 days old) larval sturgeon downstream of Revelstoke Dam. Since 2010, supplementation in the US portion of the Upper Columbia River has relied solely on the capture of wild larvae, rearing these individuals in the hatchery, and releasing them as juveniles.

As of 1 January 2012, approximately 164,585 hatchery juveniles have been released into the upper Columbia recovery area  In addition, 1,454,010 larvae have been released downstream of Revelstoke Dam. All juveniles have been marked using a Passive Integrated Transponder (PIT) tag as the primary mark and scute removal as a secondary mark.


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NSA: No better way to protect US than surveillance

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US National Security Agency (NSA) Director General Keith Alexander uses a library card as an example while testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington December 11, 2013.[Photo/Agencies]

WASHINGTON — The NSA chief says he knows of no better way his agency can help protect the US from foreign threats than with spy programs that collect billions of phone and Internet records from around the world.

Pleading with the Senate Judiciary Committee to not abolish the NSA bulk-collection programs, Gen. Keith Alexander said Wednesday that global threats are growing — specifically in Iraq and Syria — that pose what he called "an unacceptable risk" to America.

He said the NSA knows of no other way to connect the dots between a foreign terror threat and a potential attack on the U.S.

Alexander said the NSA is open to talking to technology companies for a better solution without compromising security.

The programs were revealed last summer by leaker Edward Snowden.

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Date: Sunday - January 12,2020 11:55

In Response To: Unless you have a STEM related job ... algebra and geometry are ... *PIC* (Stimer)

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The Orthodox Church and Rabbinic Judaism are thought to have had better relations historically than Judaism and either Roman Catholic or Protestant.
Did you know Muslims recognize Jesus and his mother Mary is the only woman mentioned by name in the Koran.
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In Islam, Jesus was a prophet and the Messiah sent to the Israelites, and he will return to Earth at the end of times, along with the Mahdi, and defeat al-Masih ad-Dajjal, the false Messiah.
They do not see him as the son of God only a messenger.
Now to 'Faith' it started with 'imminent danger' next it was one embassy.
Now it is four embassies and they ask we take their word in good faith.

After 911 and that we would be going into Afghanistan, I went looking for a few maps.
I saw Afghanistan was a land-locked nation and no where near any ocean.
I thought we might have to fight our way in and our supply lines would have a way to go.
If the leader of Pakistan had not given us a way clear because they too were fighting the Taliban.
Next when George W. Bush wanted to invade Iraq, my first thought was would we have enough logistics for two wars.
As I said before, as our military was fighting it way in, I had a vision of what an ARVN officer tried to tell us about being lured into the killing zone.
The Iraqis had learned a bitter lesson or two in 'Desert Storm' by trying to fight from fix positions.

Why have any presidential elections, when the 'Electoral College' will over rule the popular vote?

From my dear friend 'Yoli/Yolanda'.

Raisin Bread

A bakery owner hires a young female shop assistant who liked to wear very short skirts and thong panties.
One day a young man enters the store, glances at the shop assistant and at the loaves of bread behind the counter.

Noticing her short skirt and the location of the raisin bread, he has a brilliant idea.
"I'd like some raisin bread please," the man says.

The shop assistant nods and climbs up a ladder to reach the raisin bread located on the very top shelf.
The man standing almost directly beneath her is provided with an excellent view, just as he thought.
When she descends the ladder, he decides that he had better get two loaves.

As the shop assistant retrieves the second loaf of bread, one of the other male customers notices what's going on and requests his own loaf of raisin bread.

After many trips she is tired and irritated and begins to wonder, "why the unusual interest in the raisin bread?"
Atop the ladder one more time, she looks down and glares at the men standing below.

Then, she notices an elderly man standing amongst the crowd.
Thinking that she can save herself another trip, she yells at the elderly man, "Is it raisin for you too?"

"No," stammers the old man, "but it's quivering a little."

You can see 'Yoli' was once a wife of a Marine, my hometown buddy 'Pete Herrera'.
Who home was just about 5 houses away.

Looks like a 4 year old toddler.

'Little Donnie': He's a man who has never really known a love that he hasn't had to pay for.
- Edward Snowden

They're coming to take me away ha-haaa
They're coming to take me away ho-ho hee-hee ha-haaa
To the funny farm
Where life is beautiful all the time
And I'll be happy to see those nice young men
In their clean white coats
And they're coming to take me away ha-haaa
- 'Little Donnie'

In the 'Little Donnie' brain.
There is a 'left' and 'right'.
In the left side, there-s nothing right.
In the right side, there-s nothing left.

'Little Donnie' asked the adoring crowd.
Who's going to pay for it?
And the crowd responded in unison.
And then the crowd shouted, at the tops of their lungs.
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2 Column CSS Layout: Fixed Width And Centered

One of the more common css layout patterns you’ll come across is the fixed width 2 column layout. It’s relatively easy to code and understand, though it sometimes trips up developers new to css layouts.

A few weeks ago I promised to offer boilerplate code for some common css layout patterns. This is the first of that boilerplate code and I’ll continue to offer more in the coming weeks.

If you prefer to skip the explanation and get right to the code you can view the source of the demo. Note that I’ve added some extra css just to make the demo more presentable.

2 column css layout with sidebar on right

The html for this layout is rather simple as you can see below.

        header content here

        main content here

        sidebar content here

        footer content here

We have a single div for each of the 4 main areas of the layout — header, content, sidebar, and footer. All four divs are wrapped inside a container div, which we’ll use to center and set the width of the page.

One thing to note is the structure of the html above follows the structure of the page itself. The header comes first in both and the footer comes last. The content area div is before the sidebar.

Later in this post I’ll offer two ways to change the layout above so the sidebar is to the left of the content. One of those ways is as simple as changing a single word in the css.

If you’ve already viewed the source code of the demo you’ll note the css like the html is rather simple. In fact most of that css has been added solely to make the demo a little more presentable.

Here’s all the css you need for this layout minus the stuff to make the demo more presentable.

#container {
    margin:20px auto;

#content {

#sidebar {

#footer {

If you combine this css with the html above you’ll have a 2 column layout that’s 960px wide. Let’s walk through the css one div at a time.

#container — We’re using the container div so we can set the overall width of the layout (960px) and then center the layout on the page.

The 20px top and bottom margin is arbitrary. I added it to give the demo a little room to breathe. The magic is done by setting auto on the left and right margins, which when combined with an explicit width, centers the layout on the page

Some people prefer not to use a container div and instead use the body tag as the container. I like using a separate container div, but either will work. If you’d rather not include the container div just remove it from the html above and move the css I show here from #container to body.

#header — No css is needed for the header div. By default its width will be 100% of it’s container and by default it will position itself as far to the top and left as it can.

These defaults are exactly what we want so there’s no need to add more. A big part of understanding css layouts is realizing you often don’t need to do anything.

#content — The important css is the float: left. It isn’t needed to have the browser render the div where we want, however floating the content is necessary to have the sidebar div sit next to it.

The width is arbitrary. You can set it to be anything you want as long as the sum of the content and sidebar widths is less than or equal to the width of the container div.

#sidebar — Like the container, the sidebar is floated left, which is typically how I code this layout in practice. You could also float the sidebar to the right. Which you use is personal preference.

I’m unaware of any advantage or disadvantage to either approach. I usually float both to the left, though it’s simply because that’s how I first did it and now it’s become habit.

As with the content div the width here is arbitrary, except as noted above.

#footer — All we need to do with the footer is clear the two floated divs to ensure it sits below them. Since both content and sidebar were floated to the left we could have used clear: left instead of clear: both, but using clear: both is more flexible as we’ll see below.

Like the header the width of the footer will be 100% of the container which is what we want.

The rest of the css I’ve used in the demo is simply to make it more presentable.

css box model

Floated Elements

If you don’t have experience using floats you may be wondering why the above works. It’s a little much to explain in a few short sentences so I’ll direct you to a couple of others posts I’ve written in a moment.

The gist is that every element in an html document is defined by a rectangular box. There are two types of boxes, block and inline.

Divs are block level boxes, which are laid out vertically in the normal document flow. The box carves out a space forcing the next box to sit below it.

Floated elements are removed from the normal document flow and shifted as far left or right as possible. Other elements are allowed to flow around or next to them.

By floating both our content and sidebar divs above we break them out of the normal document flow and allow them to sit next to each other.

By clearing the footer div we get it to behave as though the the two floated divs are in the normal document flow and so the footer drops below them.

I realize that’s not much of an explanation. For a more in depth explanation of the css box model and floated elements you can read the 2 posts below.

2 column css layout with sidebar on left

Changing the Position of the Content and Sidebar

I mentioned above there were 2 ways to change this layout so the sidebar is on the left of the content instead of the right. Both are very simple to implement

The first is to change the order of the divs in the html. The sidebar being first will float to the left edge of the browser and the content will float as far to the left as it can go, which is against the right edge of the sidebar.

When I know in advance I want the sidebar to be on the left I generally place it first in the html.

The second way is even easier. Just float the content div to the right instead of to the left.

#content {float: right}

This is why we cleared our footer on both sides instead of just the left.

The above css shows off the power and flexibility of css layouts. By changing a single word in a single css file we can move columns from one side of our layout to the other. We’ll see the full power of this with the code for a 3 column layout I’ll share next week.

It’s not something you’ll do often, but think about how much time and effort it would take to move columns around with a table-based layout.

Equal Height Columns

I should point out that this layout doesn’t automatically create columns of equal height. The demo makes it appear like it does, but that’s only because I set the height of the content and sidebar to be the same to make the presentation nicer visually.

The height of each of the 4 main divs will will expand and contract based on what’s inside and most of the time that means they won’t have the same height.

Creating equal height columns is a bit trickier, though possible, and there are several methods for making it happen. I’ll save those for another post.

I hope you can see how easy it is to set up a 2 column fixed width layout. There’s really very little html and css needed. An important part of css layouts is understanding you need less css than you think.

The key to this layout is floating the 2 divs we want to sit next to each other and then clearing the first div that comes after them, which in our case is the footer.

From here it’s all about filling up each of the 4 main divs with content, though that will be specific to your project.

One thing I would suggest is taking this code and play around with it. Reorder the divs, remove a float, change a float from left to right, and try clearing the footer to the left or right only and see what happens.

You have 4 blocks to play with and a few simple lines of html and css to move them around. The more you play, the better you’ll understand how and why this all works and the easier it will be for you to create more complex layouts like the 3 column layout I’ll offer next week.

Have fun.

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    • Thanks Vivek. I’m not familiar with his layouts. Taking a quick look they don’t appear to offer equal column heights either. I promise to add a post about how to set those up here at some point.

  1. This is good common tutorial. But I shall request you to write some good tutorial on “How to Center Verically an image inside header”. I am telling you dynamic vertical placement inside any DIV, I have mentioned header, but can place it in footer too.

  2. Thank you for the concise tutorial. You write very clearly. I’m looking forward to reading your other articles.

  3. Steven, I like your style and could not have found your tutorial at a better time. I have been having difficulty transforming a table-based, 2-column centered template in to a CSS only site. Your solution worked perfectly. Thank you for taking the time to share with us all.

    – Sean

  4. Thanks for the great tutorial, well written and easy to understand. Which means you really understand it!
    Simplicity is the way to go! Thanks also for the code samples.

  5. When i did what you said up there, nothing happened. No header, footer, content, sidebar at the right place. they are just like no css.
    I dont think it will work with few basic lines.

    • I’d have to see your code to know why it didn’t work. Could you place what you have online somewhere or email it to me?

      Or you can click on the first image at the top of the post. It’ll take you to a working example where you can view the source code and copy it.

      What I show in this post does work, though it doesn’t show things like the basic html and body tag or where and how to add the css.

  6. Steven
    Your tutorial is one of the best I have read to date. Your logic and explanations are clear and precise. Plese publish more material.
    This site is a “must read” for any potential web developer.

    • Thanks Robert. That’s nice of you to say. I try to be clear and precise, but I’m sure I can be confusing at times and I know get things wrong here and there too.

      I haven’t stopped publishing. Every Monday and Thursday there’s something new.

  7. My Name is Dave, I am looking for a layout that as two columns in the header and nav at the top and a sidebar column, haven’t seen anything like it on the internet, any help would be appreciated
    Thanks and have a great day

  8. Hello, Steven —
    Please avoid the obvious reply like the one I received in another forum: “I don’t understand why you’re responding to an six-year-old post,” which is like saying “I don’t understand why you’re reading a tutorial about CSS written six years ago.” LOL

    Ok, nuf. Just wondered if you’re still writing these marvelously concise and clear instructions on posts I’ve yet to see. I have a couple questions but would like a “nod” first indicating you’re still active on line.

    • Hey Mike. I don’t understand why you’re responding to an six-year-old post 🙂 Sorry. I couldn’t resist.

      Thanks for the compliment. I’d like to think I’m still writing concise and clear instructions. I am still active, even if I don’t always reply to comments right away. If you want more similar to this post, check the link in the footer for CSS Layouts.

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Wednesday, 1 August 2012

10 interesting facts about the Great Pyramid of Giza

Still lots of mysteries are surrounding the Great Pyramid of Giza which probably are never going to be revealed, but I think that it’s the shade of a mystery which makes the wonder even more magneting and admiring. Going through the notes and research works about the Pyramid I found some particularly interesting and catchy facts which are highlighted below:

Kheops Pyramid Gyza 10 interesting facts about the Great Pyramid of Giza
1. Let’s start with a little funny paradox, did you know that the owner of the largest pyramid of Giza is also known for having the smallest Egyptian royal sculpture ever discovered? The ivory statue of paraoh Khufu (AKA Cheops) found at Abydos is 7.5 cm (3 inch) high.

khufu 10 interesting facts about the Great Pyramid of Giza
2. But you wouldn’t call Khufu a small guy in real life, in fact he is known as a big and cruel leader. As described by Herodotus: “Cheops moreover came, they said, to such a pitch of wickedness, that being in want of money he caused his own daughter to sit in the stews, and ordered her to obtain from those who came a certain amount of money (how much it was they did not tell me): and she not only obtained the sum appointed by her father, but also she formed a design for herself privately to leave behind her a memorial, and she requested each man who came in to give her one stone upon her building: and of these stones, they told me, the pyramid was built which stands in front of the great pyramid in the middle of the three, each side being one hundred and fifty feet in length.”
Pyramids of Giza 10 interesting facts about the Great Pyramid of Giza
3. Here are some significant figures: Khufu was 20 when he came to the throne and at once began building his “Stairway to Heaven”. Khufu was the first pharaoh who build a pyramid at Giza. The entire project took about 23 years to complete, 2,300,000 building blocks, weighing an average of 2.5 tons each (Although some weigh as much as 16 tons) were used to build the great pyramid. The length of each side of the pyramid at the base is 755 feet (230.4 m). They rise at an angle of 51 52′ to a height, originally, of 481 feet (147 m) but nowadays 451 feet (138 m).
giza pyramid blocks 10 interesting facts about the Great Pyramid of Giza
4. Some believe that Khufu’s pyramid at Giza was built by slaves, but modern Egyptologists accept that it was built by many tens of thousands of skilled workers rather than slaves. It is known that Khufu’s nephew Hemiunu was appointed head of construction for the Great Pyramid and that Khufu provided good food and clothing for his workers. According to Herodotus: “On the pyramid it is declared in Egyptian writing how much was spent on radishes and onions and leeks for the workmen, and if I rightly remember that which the interpreter said in reading to me this inscription, a sum of one thousand six hundred talents of silver was spent…” In the video below, you’ll find interesting information about the pyramid builders.

5. Experts have talked a lot about the methods by which stone blocks were raised into position, it is usually assumed that wooden and bronze levers were used to put the blocks into position. “This pyramid was made after the manner of steps which some called “rows” and others “bases”: and when they had first made it thus, they raised the remaining stones with machines made of short pieces of timber, raising them first from the ground to the first stage of the steps, and when the stone got up to this it was placed upon another machine standing on the first stage, and so from this it was drawn to the second upon another machine…” – describes Herodotus.

6. About 600 years ago, beautiful smooth blocks known as Casing Stones covered the entire exterior of the pyramid, encasing the whole structure, before the Arabs began to tear the stones off. The ancient writer, Strabo, said: “It seemed like a building let down from heaven, untouched by human hands.”  It has been calculated that the original pyramid with its casing stones would act like gigantic mirrors and reflect light so powerful that it would be visible from the moon as a shining star on earth. At the present, only a few of these are left in position on each side at the base.  One of the largest remaining Casing stones is nearly 5 feet high by 8 feet at the bottom, and weighs about 14 tons.
casing stones 10 interesting facts about the Great Pyramid of Giza
7. There are three known chambers inside the Great Pyramid – King’s chamber, Queen’s chamber and unfinished chamber. A team of French Egyptologists (Gilles Dormion and Jean-Yves Verd’hurt) claims that an undiscovered room lies underneath the pyramid’s Queen’s Chamber and insists that it is the actual burial chamber for Khufu and not the one known as the King’s chamber. However, even those who believe that the King’s chamber was never put to use believe that Khufu may have been buried elsewhere rather than in another, hidden chamber. Well, there are still lots of mysteries concerning Khufu’s burial to be.. or never to be revealed.
pyramid chambers 10 interesting facts about the Great Pyramid of Giza
8. One of the most mysterious parts of the Great Pyramid is the empty coffer in the King’s Chamber, it is made from a solid block of chocolate-colored granite and is even harder than the granite walls of the King’s Chamber. For thousands of years, researchers have wondered about its purpose. Ancient legend says that it came from Atlantis or even from America.  It was never inscribed or decorated. Also, since it is too large to pass through the low passages leading into the King’s Chamber, it is considered to be placed in the chamber before the chamber was closed and passages were sealed.
coffer 10 interesting facts about the Great Pyramid of Giza
9. The interior temperature of the Pyramid is constant and equals the average temperature of the earth, 20 Degrees Celsius (68 Degrees Fahrenheit).
10. Another pleasant discovery in the Great Pyramid is a spectacular ancient cedar-wood boat, which was found sealed in a pit at the base of the Great pyramid. This boat was interred in pieces and has since been reassembled, restored and preserved in a climate controlled museum over the site of the original pit. The name “Djedefre”,  who was Khufu’s son and successor, is found on some of the slabs of stone that sealed the pit, indicating that probably the boat was put there by Khufu’s son.
giza boat 10 interesting facts about the Great Pyramid of Giza

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