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2014.04.23
Fountain Memorial Funeral Home: Obituary
"A Memorial Service will be held Sunday, April 27, 2014 at 2:00 in the small chapel of First Baptist Church of Lafayette for Dr. Walter Paul Kessinger, Jr., who passed away at the age of 83 Monday, April 14, 2014 in Lafayette." ...
"Paul was married to the former Dorothy Elizabeth Wallis from September 1, 1962 until her death on August 16, 2012. Paul was a caring and loving husband and father. He will be greatly missed."
"A Memorial Service will be held Sunday, April 27, 2014 at 2:00 in the small chapel of First Baptist Church of Lafayette for Dr. Walter Paul Kessinger, Jr., who passed away at the age of 83 Monday, April 14, 2014 in Lafayette." ...
"Paul was married to the former Dorothy Elizabeth Wallis from September 1, 1962 until her death on August 16, 2012. Paul was a caring and loving husband and father. He will be greatly missed."
2014.04.23
Fountain Memorial Funeral Home: Obituary
"A native of Lafayette, Dorothy was born June 24, 1923 to Hugh Creighton Wallis and the former Virginia “Virgie” Ewell Heard. Dorothy, affectionately known as “Dot” or “Dotsy”, graduated from Lafayette High School in 1939 and Southwestern Louisiana Institute, now UL-Lafayette, in 1943. Dot worked some years as a secretary in the oil industry and on September 1, 1962 married her husband Walter Paul Kessinger, Jr."
> Born in 1923 at her parents' home in Lafayette, during her 89 years she was by turns a no-nonsense farm girl, an orderly secretarial worker, a dedicated mother, and a supportive grandmother. Throughout her life she was dedicated to numerous community, charity and church organizations and causes, and she was a friend to dozens. She was also always an unwavering tea-totaling Baptist, with a world-view that was equal parts conservative and Christian.
"A native of Lafayette, Dorothy was born June 24, 1923 to Hugh Creighton Wallis and the former Virginia “Virgie” Ewell Heard. Dorothy, affectionately known as “Dot” or “Dotsy”, graduated from Lafayette High School in 1939 and Southwestern Louisiana Institute, now UL-Lafayette, in 1943. Dot worked some years as a secretary in the oil industry and on September 1, 1962 married her husband Walter Paul Kessinger, Jr."
> Born in 1923 at her parents' home in Lafayette, during her 89 years she was by turns a no-nonsense farm girl, an orderly secretarial worker, a dedicated mother, and a supportive grandmother. Throughout her life she was dedicated to numerous community, charity and church organizations and causes, and she was a friend to dozens. She was also always an unwavering tea-totaling Baptist, with a world-view that was equal parts conservative and Christian.
2014.03.19
It's been a while since I used this.
Oh well.
Florida
Louisville
Arizona
Michigan State
You can download my full brackets
here.
Oh well.
Florida
Louisville
Arizona
Michigan State
You can download my full brackets
here.
2013.07.26
Houston Chronicle: Oil giant, developer George Mitchell dies at 94
"The son of a poor Greek immigrant, Mitchell had an uncanny knack for finding oil.... He was a pioneer in the technology of hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling, using it to tap oil and gas in the Barnett Shale of North Texas in the 1980s and 1990s." ...
"Mitchell's career as an oil man was only a fraction of his accomplishments, which included revitalizing Galveston's historic Strand District and developing The Woodlands, which he sold in 1997."
Houston Business Journal: Father of fracking dies
"He and his wife, Cynthia, also founded the Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation to pursue sustainability research for the world’s future. He signed The Giving Pledge in 2011, committing that the majority of his wealth would be donated to charity. Mitchell and the foundation donated $20 million to Texas A&M University last fall, making him the university's all-time most generous donor."
"The son of a poor Greek immigrant, Mitchell had an uncanny knack for finding oil.... He was a pioneer in the technology of hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling, using it to tap oil and gas in the Barnett Shale of North Texas in the 1980s and 1990s." ...
"Mitchell's career as an oil man was only a fraction of his accomplishments, which included revitalizing Galveston's historic Strand District and developing The Woodlands, which he sold in 1997."
Houston Business Journal: Father of fracking dies
"He and his wife, Cynthia, also founded the Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation to pursue sustainability research for the world’s future. He signed The Giving Pledge in 2011, committing that the majority of his wealth would be donated to charity. Mitchell and the foundation donated $20 million to Texas A&M University last fall, making him the university's all-time most generous donor."
2012.07.23
The Province: If you prick physicists, do we not
bleed green?
"The main thrust of your argument, though it is
somewhat hard to find, seems to be that physicists
and their supporters don't care about people....
You'll be happy to know we've been making great
strides, as the Large Hadron Collider was
originally set to be a giant cage where physicists
would enter with the sole purpose of beating up
baby birds, for no other reason than to upset the
general public."
Science News: Higgs hysteria
"... deepening knowledge of the physical world has always in the past produced unforeseen future societal benefits. When James Clerk Maxwell predicted, and then Heinrich Hertz discovered, electromagnetic waves, nobody foresaw the economic consequences of television, microwave ovens and Wi-Fi. Particles of antimatter, discovered in cosmic rays, have found uses in medical imaging. Nobody knew at first that Einstein’s relativity theory would allow your car to tell you when to turn. Or that the mysterious math of quantum mechanics would empower lasers and computer chips, revolutionizing everything from grocery stores and music players to mass communication."
Nature: Theorists feast on Higgs data
"Many theorists regard SUSY [supersymmetry] as the most promising route to a broader theory of particles and forces, and a possible solution to puzzles such as the nature of cosmic dark matter. But the LHC has yielded few signs of SUSY. Aside from a handful of tantalizing observations, the Higgs boson seems to match the standard model’s predictions perfectly."
bleed green?
"The main thrust of your argument, though it is
somewhat hard to find, seems to be that physicists
and their supporters don't care about people....
You'll be happy to know we've been making great
strides, as the Large Hadron Collider was
originally set to be a giant cage where physicists
would enter with the sole purpose of beating up
baby birds, for no other reason than to upset the
general public."
Science News: Higgs hysteria
"... deepening knowledge of the physical world has always in the past produced unforeseen future societal benefits. When James Clerk Maxwell predicted, and then Heinrich Hertz discovered, electromagnetic waves, nobody foresaw the economic consequences of television, microwave ovens and Wi-Fi. Particles of antimatter, discovered in cosmic rays, have found uses in medical imaging. Nobody knew at first that Einstein’s relativity theory would allow your car to tell you when to turn. Or that the mysterious math of quantum mechanics would empower lasers and computer chips, revolutionizing everything from grocery stores and music players to mass communication."
Nature: Theorists feast on Higgs data
"Many theorists regard SUSY [supersymmetry] as the most promising route to a broader theory of particles and forces, and a possible solution to puzzles such as the nature of cosmic dark matter. But the LHC has yielded few signs of SUSY. Aside from a handful of tantalizing observations, the Higgs boson seems to match the standard model’s predictions perfectly."
2012.07.09
Reuters: Apax, JMI to buy software firm Paradigm for about $1 billion
"Private equity firm Apax Partners and technology investment firm JMI Equity agreed to pay about $1 billion cash for software group Paradigm, whose technology helps oil and gas companies analyze drilling prospects."
"Private equity firm Apax Partners and technology investment firm JMI Equity agreed to pay about $1 billion cash for software group Paradigm, whose technology helps oil and gas companies analyze drilling prospects."
