Biographies “Atlantic Petroleum Appoints Chief Financial Officer - Oilvoice.com” plus 3 more

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• Atlantic Petroleum Appoints Chief Financial Officer - Oilvoice.com
• State News - Charleston Daily Mail
• The Range: The Tucson Weekly's Old Pueblog - Tucson Weekly
• Elvis pal George Klein takes readers inside King's court - NWI.com

Atlantic Petroleum Appoints Chief Financial Officer - Oilvoice.com Posted: 08 Jan 2010 04:06 AM PST Atlantic Petroleum announces the appointment of Mourits Joensen as Chief Financial Officer. Mourits Joensen is 35 years of age and has an MSc in Economics from Copenhagen University. Since 2007, Mr. Joensen has held the position as Finance and Administration Manager of the Faroese Unemployment Service, and prior to that he worked with Eik Bank and Hagstova Føroya (Statistics Faroe Islands). Mr. Joensen will take up his new position with Atlantic Petroleum from 1st March 2010. OilVoice Upstream 'Who's Who' Directory Access over 5,000 senior oil and gas contacts in the OilVoice Upstream Who's Who directory. In addition to biographies of directors, non-executives and senior management, 'Who's Who' also includes company contact details - including subsidiary offices. This continually updated directory is available to OilVoice subscribers or can be purchased separately as an Excel or pdf version. Exploration, Technology and Business Conference, London 20-21 January The are only 11 days left to register for the ETB Conference. 120 delegates are already registered for what promises to be an event of highly accurate and useful business information - exciting exploration hot spots, new technologies and financial techniques. Enter the code OILVOICE when you register to receive a 10% discount on the ticket price! Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

State News - Charleston Daily Mail Posted: 08 Jan 2010 05:10 AM PST The West Virginia Board of Education's Innovation Zone Selection Committee began its work Thursday by sorting through 45 applications from schools around the state. The committee, made up of state board members, Department of Education officials, higher education representatives, union representatives and educators, has $500,000 to divide between the schools, which each can ask for $5,000 to $50,000. The schools all are applying for coverage under the new West Virginia Schools Innovation Zones Act, which now allows schools or groups of schools to apply for waivers of state policy to give teachers and administrators more freedom in schools. They could try out new teaching methods, change the school calendar or test new extracurricular programs.  Committee members began narrowing down the field of candidates by sorting the applications, stacked as high as several phonebooks, into three piles: "yes," "no" and "maybe." The committee will reconvene today to reconsider their "yes" and "maybe" piles and compile a final list of Innovation Zones. "If it's not innovative, it's not innovative," selection committee and state board member Lowell Johnson said. Department of Education staff and committee members didn't refer to schools by name during discussions, but instead assigned each application a different number. Liza Corderio, executive director of communications for the department, said those numbers ensured each school an "open playing field." "We wanted to be sure first our selection committee felt comfortable in discussing their thoughts openly," she said. The names of selected schools will be released at next week's state school board meeting, when Kanawha superintendent Ron Duerring, chairman of the selection committee, will present the selections for approval. The board originally planned to meet near the end of this month to grant schools Innovation Zone status but Donna Peduto, coordinator of the Department of Education's office of organizational effectiveness and leadership, said officials decided to move that vote to next week's regular board meeting when more members would be present. Chandler and Glenwood Elementary schools, which will be consolidated into the new West Side Elementary School in January 2011, requested about $49,000 in Innovation Zone money. Committee members didn't mention the schools' names but their identities became apparent when Peduto showed an online slideshow they submitted as part of their application. The presentation included pictures of the schools, a floor plan of the new West Side School, information about the schools' Innovation Zone plan as well as videos of students, school administrators and community members asking that the schools be picked. The schools want to incorporate Stephen R. Covey's "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" into their curriculum to prepare students for the switch to the new West Side Elementary, which will consolidate their student bodies when it opens. Part of its requested $49,000 will go toward a library of famous leaders' biographies to help inspire students. Duerring noticed the schools and didn't participate in discussion about their application. He encouraged other committee members to opt out of discussions involving schools they recognize from their counties. Committee members were supportive of the schools' plan. "Teaching children leadership - I think we have to do more and more of that," said Cathy Marino, associate director of West Virginia Professional Educators.  "It's not just about reading writing and arithmetic, it's more than that," Jack McClanahan said. Many members, however, said the West Side application was on the bottom of their "yes" list. Dale Lee, president of the West Virginia Educator's Association, said the schools could, with Duerring's leadership, make most of the changes listed in the application even if they weren't granted Innovation Zone status. The West Virginia Schools Innovation Zone Act, passed in a special legislative session in summer 2009, allows schools or groups of schools to ask for exemptions to state and county codes and policies with certain restrictions.  Teacher hiring laws, for example, can't be amended. Peduto, the Innovation Zone coordinator, said 90 percent of the applications submitted requested code or policy exemptions. Most of those, she said, dealt with modified scheduling, modified school calendars and adjusting class size and graduation requirements. Members axed other applications they said were "non-innovative," didn't follow Innovation Zone application guidelines and that included incomplete proposals. They also voted down schools that requested money for changes administrators can make without waivers or for unauthorized uses. Innovation Zone grants are for planning only, not to implement the plans. One school wanted to buy novels and iPods with its money, and another wanted to set up a $30,000 robotics lab. Both applications were turned down. Committee members removed one school's application from consideration because it sought to move special education students out of mainstream classrooms and into a "self-contained" environment. "They feel that students cannot make gains in a general education environment," Diane Burnside, principal at East Dale Elementary in Fairmont, said. "I do not agree with that." Members also took issue with planning trips the school requested, including a 20-person trip to a school in Nevada. That and other proposed trips took up most of the $31,640 the school asked for. "I think the money is just basically a field trip," Johnson said. The plan also included efforts to fight student obesity and build a greenhouse at the school. Johnson and other members expressed enthusiasm about that portion of the application. They said the school should resubmit in the next round of Innovation Zone designations with a greater focus on its healthy eating ideas. Contact writer Zack Harold at 304-348-7939 or zack.har...@dailymail.com. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

The Range: The Tucson Weekly's Old Pueblog - Tucson Weekly Posted: 07 Jan 2010 08:28 PM PST This week comes a blog entry from Amanda Portillo. Portillo is a former intern for the Tucson Weekly. She has spent the majority of her days since Jan. 2 at the UA School of Journalism's modified Pulliam reporting lab as a Web producer for The New York Times Student Journalism Institute. Along with Jeannine Relly, an associate professor at the School of Journalism, I am also on the faculty of The New York Times Institute. The following is a short blog from Amanda. Check out the Web site—The New York Times—Student Journalism Institute —————————————— The week I finished my internship at the Tucson Weekly, I started a new program with The New York Times Student Journalism Institute. The institute is a 10-day program, led by staff from The New York Times Company newspapers, including The New York Times, The Boston Globe and The Lakeland Ledger. In total, 23 journalism students—undergraduate and graduate—from across the country were selected to participate. Since Monday, we have been working on various print and multimedia stories to post on our Web site, www.nytimes-institute.com, and by early next week, we'll have a "dead-tree" version to show off. Some stories include the smuggling of Chinese across the U.S.-Mexico border, updates on the City Council, and the death of a midtown boy, as well as photo slideshows and video biographies of the students. The site is updated numerous times throughout the day. Right now, there are more great stories in the works. Check out the blog on the site, First Draft, it provides a behind the scenes on some of the stories and offers previews for stories to come! So far, I've kind of steered away from my City Week days. I've been working on daily news and Web producing. I even got some help from my friends at the Weekly a couple of times; thanks, Mari and Jim! Check us out! Amanda Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

Elvis pal George Klein takes readers inside King's court - NWI.com Posted: 07 Jan 2010 09:54 PM PST Elvis Presley is one of the most enduring figures in American pop culture history. Hundreds of thousands of people still pay each year to see Graceland mansion in Memphis, Tenn., and fork over cash for his music and memorabilia. And he consistently places at or near the top of the annual list of highest-earning dead celebrities. Not bad for a guy who died in 1977. He's known around the world simply as Elvis, and his life story has been told and retold in every imaginable medium, from documentaries and movies to biographies and memoirs. And they keep rolling in. The latest comes from George Klein, who befriended Presley when they were high school classmates. Klein went on to earn a place in the King's inner circle of friends and employees known as the Memphis Mafia. "Elvis: My Best Man" isn't a tell-all. Klein makes it clear in the author's note that he "was offered a fair amount" to write such a book after Presley's death. Instead, what he offers is an insider's view of Presley the man as opposed to Presley the singer, actor and icon. "So much has been written and said about Elvis Presley that for a long time I didn't feel the need to add my own book to the clamor," Klein writes. "Now, though, I'm old enough to know that I won't always be around to speak of the Elvis I knew." His Elvis is funny, kind, whip-smart and generous. Presley bought Klein gifts, including a new car, and paid for his wedding -- he was Klein's best man at the nuptials, hence the book's title. Many who write or reminisce about their time with Presley focus on subjects that titillate, but Klein holds off on all of that, preferring to paint a picture of Presley the human being. The book comes across as an affectionate recounting of the times Klein spent with a man he considered his best friend. Klein -- called "GK" by Presley -- offers a stirring account of how Presley coped with the untimely passing of his beloved mother, Gladys, whom Klein calls "the anchor in his crazy life." "I've come to believe that if Mrs. Presley had lived a full life, Elvis would be with us today," Klein writes. The book features retellings of Presley's interactions with other famous figures of the era -- from Ann-Margret and Steve McQueen to Nat King Cole and James Brown. "Elvis: My Best Man" also hits on the major points in Presley's life, including his marriage to -- and divorce from -- Priscilla Beaulieu; his time in the Army; his movie and music careers; and so on. Klein unlocks the door to the King's court, but what he shows us isn't a tale of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll favored by other Presley biographers. His is a tribute and a welcome addition to the mountain of Presley books already on the market. FYI: "Elvis: My Best Man" (Crown, 320 pages, $25), by George Klein Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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