Mad Dog Research Articles

Improving Government and Community Synergy in Rabies Control and Overcoming in Tomohon City: Study at the Health and Agriculture Department

Rabies, known as mad dog disease, is an acute infectious disease that can attack humans. To date, many people have been affected by rabies, including those in Tomohon City. This research was conducted to analyze the synergy between the government and the community in controlling rabies in Tomohon City. The research design used is qualitative. Research findings show that Tomohon City is one of the cities in Indonesia that is not yet free from rabies. The policies set by the Tomohon City Government have not been able to suppress rabies cases. Weak communication and coordination from related agencies and lack of community support are the main causes. The strategy that needs to be implemented is related to problem solving, the role of government and communication networks. Therefore, it is necessary to strengthen border area control over the traffic of animals that transmit rabies, carry out direct outreach and education to the public about the prevention, control and management of rabies, impose sanctions on market traders who still sell meat from animals that transmit rabies without health documents and increase cooperation and coordination between the Subdistrict Government, Subdistrict Government, and related Government Agencies as well as with the Community.

FAILURE OF FAMILY REINTEGRATION INTO HOME FROM EARLY PLAYS OF SAM SHEPARD

Sam Shepard is not just a “western essayist”, but one who has the capacity to assess contemporary American culture through the symbols and topics of conventional Western American writing. His plays follow the liquidation of American society, in which characters are no more coordinated into their reality by adherence to habitual qualities and standards. Shepard raises the icons of this convention to send them slamming from a more prominent stature, delineates the whole-world destroying end of customary American society in which long-held qualities, especially those celebrated in Western American writing, are ceremonially exorcized to make space for some new, up till now unheard of America. Shepard’s plays don’t advance sequentially to these ends. Shepard, depicts the search for home within contemporary American culture. In this paper, we are focusing on Shepard’s selected plays to depict the failure of family reintegration into Home or Family. Shepard’s Fourteen Hundred Thousand (1967), The Unseen Hand (1972) and Mad Dog Blues (1972). Fourteen Hundred Thousand - is a play about Husband and Wife who tries to build a bookshelf. The Unseen Hand - is a play about Morphan brothers who lives far away from their home. Mad Dog Blues - this play is all about a couple of best friends who were unhappy with their misguided lives set off to discover a treasure.

Penyuluhan dan Pengenalan Penyakit Rabies di Kelurahan Bugis Kec. Sumbawa Kab. Sumbawa

. Rabies, also called mad dog disease, is an acute infectious disease of the central nervous system caused by the rabies virus. Every year more than 55,000 people die from rabies and more than 15 million people throughout the world receive prophylactic anti-rabies vaccine treatment. How rabies is transmitted through bites and non-bites (scratches or licks on open skin/mucosa) by animals infected with the rabies virus. This activity aims to increase public knowledge regarding the spread of rabies. This community service activity method consists of several stages, including dialogue and coordination with partners, preparation facilities and infrastructure, implementation of activities and evaluation. The activity was carried out in the form of education regarding rabies and its spread. This activity was attended by 32 participants in the Bugis sub-district RT 03/ RW 04. The participation and activeness of the residents in taking part in this activity was very good, as evidenced by the participants being able to answer almost all the questions in the posttest. Re-exposure was given to participants who were unable to answer or answered incorrectly on the posttest. It is hoped that this activity can become a routine and sustainable rabies prevention effort to eradicate rabies in the district. Sumbawa.

Biting, Rubbing, Running, Burning: Recipe(s) for the "Mad Dog" Illness in Talmudic Texts

Abstract: Contribution to the essay forum "The Jewish Recipe."

Shifting Identities and Fragmented Subjectivities in Majok Tulba’s Beneath the Darkening Sky and Emmanuel Dongala’s Johnny Mad Dog

This paper examines the shifting identities of child characters and their fragmented subjectivities as represented in Majok Tulba’s Beneath the Darkening Sky and Emmanuel Dongala’s Johnny Mad Dog. The paper’s central premise is to examine how the two authors employ character mutation to construct shifting identities in the two texts. The paper employs the tenets of Carl Jung, which include the archetypes (shadow, animus, and persona) and forms of rebirth. Particularly subjective transformation (diminution of personality, identification with a group, and natural transformation). Sigmund Freud’s tripartite psyche (id, ego, and superego) is used to shed light on character mutation and the fragmented subjectivities of the child characters. This paper argues that civil war compels the child characters to behave barbarically, adapt to their new environment and automatically understand their roles while coping with war

BP’s Argos FPU Offers Fresh Lessons for the Future of Deepwater GOM Projects

Tipping the scales at well over 60,000 tons, BP’s Argos platform is a giant among giants in the deepwater US Gulf of Mexico (GOM). Standing 27 stories tall, the platform has a deck the length and width of an American football field and is one of BP’s largest in the region. One-time KBR subsidiary GVA designed the semisubmersible, the centerpiece of the supermajor’s $9 billion Mad Dog II project built to unlock additional production potential of the Miocene-aged reservoirs estimated to hold more than 5 billion bbl of oil in place. But that wasn’t always the plan. Over a decade ago, BP’s Mad Dog II looked quite different. On paper, the producer was looking at an all-subsea development tied back to another large spar platform—dubbed Big Dog—to host the additional reserves. The development plan envisioned a massive truss spar. Its topsides would need to be installed via three separate offshore lifts then fully integrated at the field site. Any offshore heavy lift is an execution risk. In 1998, an accident while lifting the south module onto Texaco’s Petronius compliant tower in the GOM resulted in the loss of that section of the topsides and delayed the project for a year and a half. That module weighed 3,600 tons. Another hesitation for BP? The price tag. All-in, the spar-based Mad Dog II solution was estimated to cost around $19 billion. That included 30-plus wells. Ultimately, the spar concept was scrapped, and BP moved back to square one and a blank sheet of paper. “The reserves were there,” said Chris Ruthven, project general manager, Mad Dog II. “We knew the reserves were there. In fact, ironically, the team developed the field with the smallest of the four big platforms that BP did back at that point in time: Thunder Horse, Holstein, Atlantis, and Mad Dog. It was the smallest, but ultimately, it was the second-biggest field. It turned out to be huge. All that appraisal showed we’ve got a lot of reserves. So, we went back and went with an analog to Atlantis. Atlantis was seen as a good fit requiring much less offshore integration work. Operations loved the asset, and it was a very safe design. We landed on that concept, and we tried to keep it almost pretty much the same in terms of the overall layout of the facility, but it’s a little bit bigger footprint.” Mad Dog proper was discovered in 1998 via an exploration well in over 6,100 ft of water located in Green Canyon Block 826. The well was drilled to a measured depth of 22,410 ft and encountered around 215 ft of hydrocarbon-bearing Miocene reservoirs. The discovery was followed by a 1999 well drilled to a total depth of 22,410 ft and a further successful appraisal well in February 2000. Mad Dog, covering Green Canyon blocks 825, 826, and 782, was sanctioned as a spar-based development in 2002. The project came online in early 2005.

Solving Mad Dog subsalt imaging in two decades: From WATS to OBN to elastic FWI

The Gulf of Mexico (GoM) is one of the most prolific oil and gas producing provinces in the world. The Mad Dog Field, like many large deepwater fields in the GoM, is subsalt. The geometric complexity of the overlying salt causes extremely variable image quality of the strata beneath the salt. Improving the seismic image has been critical for field development, and a tremendous amount of effort has been expended over the years to solve this problem. Over the past two decades, data acquisition has evolved from narrow-azimuth towed streamer to wide-azimuth streamer, and finally to ocean-bottom nodes. Processing methods such as using different anisotropic velocity models of increasing complexity, exhaustive iterations of salt modeling, acoustic full-waveform inversion, and most recently elastic full-waveform inversion have been applied. Dozens of wells have been drilled at Mad Dog guided by the resulting seismic images, and many acquisition and processing learnings have been acquired and implemented over this period to optimize the imaging. This paper explores the techniques that have caused major uplift to subsalt imaging and some techniques that were of only minor impact, while giving a glimpse into the imaging history of one of the GoM's giant fields.

Ethnobotanical uses and phytochemical, biological, and toxicological profiles of Datura metel L.: A review

Datura metel L., a recognized poisonous plant in the Solanaceae family, is widely distributed in the world. Traditionally, D. metel is used in many diseases, including neurological and heart diseases; fever; catarrh; pain; diarrhea; skin diseases; chronic bronchitis; asthma; digestive disorders; and so on. It possesses many important phytochemicals that can be used to treat various types of diseases. This review aims at summarizing the traditional uses, phytochemical, biological, and toxicological profiles of D. metel based on the database reports. For this, an up-to-date (till March 20, 2023) search was made in the databases: PubMed, Google Scholar, Science Direct, Scopus, and MedLine, with relevant keywords for the published evidence. Findings suggest that the plant has many traditional uses, such as a cure for madness, epilepsy, psoriasis, heart diseases, diarrhea, mad dog bites, indigestion, etc. It possesses various important phytochemicals, including withanolides, daturaolone, datumetine, daturglycosides, ophiobolin A, baimantuoluoline A, and many others. D. metel has many important biological activities, including antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, anti-microbial, insecticidal, anti-cancer, anti-diabetic, analgesic, anti-pyretic, neurological, contraceptive, and wound healing capacity. In conclusion, the toxic plant, D. metel, can be considered a potential source of phyto-therapeutic lead compounds.

Managing safety critical equipment and design performance standards in major capital projects ‐ BP mad dog 2 project

AbstractFor an offshore facility, identifying safety critical equipment (SCE) and ensuring that they are designed, built, installed, and commissioned based on certain design performance criteria is key to ensuring a safe design. In some parts of the world, such as in the North Sea, regulatory requirements dictate a mandatory third‐party verification of the SCE and their corresponding design performance criteria. In other parts of the world, such as in the Gulf of Mexico, however, there is no such regulatory requirement; it is, therefore, up to the operator to provide assurance that the SCE is designed, built and installed per the design criteria. This paper describes a methodology for ensuring the integrity of SCE implementation and applies the learnings from the BP Mad Dog 2 Project (Argos platform). This methodology provides assurance of the integrity of the SCE during the engineering and construction phases of a project, along with some valuable lessons learned from managing the assurance of the SCE on the project via multiple contractors. This paper discusses the identification of the SCE and provides a brief summary of the development of the relevant design performance criteria for each category of SCE. The paper focuses on a two‐step process to track each design criterion via conducting engineering assurance and then providing field verification, where the design criteria are tested either at the manufacturing site, construction site or through commissioning activities. Some valuable lessons learned from the Mad Dog 2 Project are shared, along with some of the potential pitfalls in managing the assurance process of the SCE design criteria, especially in a complex project organization where multiple contractors are involved.

Bringing Animal Ethics Into Many Disciplines

We are often asked by students how to make the greatest impact for animals with their careers. They are frequently considering paths such as becoming animal lawyers or activists. This is in part due to the recent large growth in animal law as an academic discipline (Townsend, 2013) and the gaining popularity of activism, such as Extinction Rebellion.While peaceful activism may have its place, and animal law is the right path for those who love the study and practice of law, academically there are a myriad of options for those wishing to incorporate animal ethics into their discipline. Our work begins from the premise that to change the world for animals, you need to change people's ideas about animals. To that end, we suggest that students continue in the academic field they are passionate about but also bring animal ethics into their research.Admittedly, this can be easier said than done, as in order to do so, students often need to find an accommodating university and an academic supervisor. But the number of academics willing to supervise animal-related projects is on the rise, opening up a great deal of possibilities. Take for example, some of the excellent presentations we see at our Oxford University Animal Ethics Society meetings. They are varied and engaging. They range from topics such as “Nonhumans and Meat-Eating in Horror Films”; “Cripple Crow, Mad Dog: Animal Ethics in Conversation with Disability Studies”; “Shakespeare and Animal Ethics”; “Animal Ethics in J. M. Coetzee's Work”; “Killing Animals in a Man's World: Is There a Link Between Hunting and Toxic Masculinity?”; “Free School Milk: Natural, Normal, and Necessary?”; and “John Cowper Powys and Vivisection” as well as more traditional explorations of the philosophy of eating animals and animals and climate change.It is in the areas where animals are not normally considered that sometimes there is the greatest scope for intellectual exploration. For example, in anthropology, a discipline explicitly focused on human beings, historical human-animal relationships can be explored. One such recent anthropological study argued that it is women, rather than men, who were responsible for domesticating dogs and bringing them into the home (Chambers et al., 2020).As one of us has written elsewhere, there are often fundamental assumptions inside traditional disciplines, such as theology, that normally privilege human perspectives (Linzey, 2009). It is for a new generation of scholars to unpick the anthropocentric tendencies within their disciplines and liberate us from old ways of thinking. This work has already begun with pioneering volumes’ such as Animals and Sociology (Peggs, 2012), Animals and Public Health (Akhtar, 2012), Animals and the Economy (McMullen, 2016), Animals and Social Work (Ryan, 2011), An Introduction to Animals and the Law (Schaffner, 2011), Animals in the Classical World (Harden, 2013), An Introduction to Animals and Visual Culture (Malamud, 2012), and Animal Rights Education (Horsthemke, 2018) to name a few. But there is still a long way to go.So here is the challenge and invitation to the rising scholars in universities and colleges: Pioneer new ways of including animal-related material into your theses and dissertations, query the all-too-common anthropocentrism of many of your teachers, be bold in arguing the case for animal-inclusive disciplines, and show how it can be done in your own area of study.

Smiling Days

Smiling Days Arinze Ifeakandu (bio) I forget, for a moment, that I am not home. The dormitory is still dark, very dark, but I can see small particles of light stealing into the window gauze. It deceives me for a brief moment because that is exactly how Mma’s house is: the windows have tiny-tiny squares, and sometimes in the morning, you can see the moon peeping in, and, in the teensy moon light, you can see all these tiny particles of dust. The tiny light is shaped like a cone; it is conical. I like fancy words like that, I am thinking. I am also thinking this is not Mma’s house; this does not smell like Mma’s house. There is no Nonso snoring like an old man beside me, no caw-caw sound coming from the chicken cage outside the window. This room is big, very big, and the windows are far-far away, and now that my eyes are beginning to open small-small, I see all these iron beds—they call them bunks—and I can see buckets under the beds, and jerricans, and chains tying the buckets and jerricans to the bunks. This place smells strange, like too many people I do not know. Something is rising inside my chest—it is heavy and swollen. I don’t know when I start to cry. When the morning bell rings, it is loud: grome-grome-grome. The room is suddenly bright and loud with shuffling, the iron legs of the bunks scraping the floor, everybody rushing, talking. I sit on my bed, confusion dancing inside my head with its many-many feet; I am trying to remember what we are supposed to be doing now. Someone is shouting, “You have five seconds! One, two, three …” Five seconds for what? I stand up, and my head hits the edge of the top bunk. The pain is sharp, as if someone took a knife and punched it into my skull, but it is not only that pain that I feel. I feel another pain in my heart, inside my chest: I cannot believe why all this is happening to me this morning. I think of Mummy—she will be awake now, making the fire for bathwater, thinking her son is okay, thinking her son is happy at his new school. “Hey, what are you doing standing there? You want me to slap you?” I look up and this tall boy is standing by the door, frowning at me. He is wearing blue trousers instead of shorts, which shows that he is a [End Page 73] senior. The dorm is almost empty—only a few boys remain—and they are all sliding past him, squatting down as they get to the door and ducking their heads, the way a dog does when it is afraid you will beat it. I begin to walk to the door. He looks at me real mean. “Where are you going in your pajamas?” he says, and his voice is harsh, like he hates me, but he doesn’t even know me, so how can he hate me? Fear has paralyzed my legs, has washed down from my head and is grabbing my two-two legs and sewing them to the floor. “Fresher,” he says and does his nose like he can smell something stinky in the air. “Go and put on your blue day wear, mister-man!” He turns his head sideways, and I notice a boy kneeling by his side, the frown on the boy’s face making me think of a curtain, a dark-dark curtain. “Stand up!” the senior says, barking like a mad dog; I don’t like this senior. “Your punishment for the rest of the morning is to serve this fresher. Follow him everywhere, show him what he is supposed to do. After morning assembly, you come and report to me.” I am back to my corner, opening my iron box—that is the only kind of box they say we can bring if we don’t want the other boys to use a razor and slash my bag and steal all my things—but...

The Wolfspar experience with low-frequency seismic source field data: Motivation, processing, and implications

The promise of fully automatic full-waveform inversion (FWI) — a (seismic) data-driven velocity model building process — has proven elusive in complex geologic settings, with impactful examples using field data unavailable until recently. In 2015, success with FWI at the Atlantis Field in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico demonstrated that semiautomatic velocity model building is possible, but it also raised the question of what more might be possible if seismic data tailor-made for FWI were available (e.g., with increased source-receiver offsets and bespoke low-frequency seismic sources). Motivated by the initial value case for FWI in settings such as the Gulf of Mexico, beginning in 2007 and continuing into 2021 BP designed, built, and field tested Wolfspar, an ultralow-frequency seismic source designed to produce seismic data tailor-made for FWI. A 3D field trial of Wolfspar was conducted over the Mad Dog Field in the Gulf of Mexico in 2017–2018. Low-frequency source (LFS) data were shot on a sparse grid (280 m inline, 2 to 4 km crossline) and recorded into ocean-bottom nodes simultaneously with air gun sources shooting on a conventional dense grid (50 m inline, 50 m crossline). Using the LFS data with FWI to improve the velocity model for imaging produced only incremental uplift in the subsalt image of the reservoir, albeit with image improvements at depths greater than 25,000 ft (approximately 7620 m). To better understand this, reprocessing and further analyses were conducted. We found that (1) the LFS achieved its design signal-to-noise ratio (S/N) goals over its frequency range; (2) the wave-extrapolation and imaging operators built into FWI and migration are very effective at suppressing low-frequency noise, so that densely sampled air gun data with a low S/N can still produce useable model updates with low frequencies; and (3) data density becomes less important at wider offsets. These results may have significant implications for future acquisition designs with low-frequency seismic sources going forward.

A tale of two fighters: images of child soldiers in Jewish and African child soldier narratives

In this essay I examine the representations of child soldiers in Yuri Suhl’s Uncle Misha’s Partisans and Emmanuel Dongala’s Johnny Mad Dog. While Suhl’s novel recreates the historical fact of Jewish ­children’s involvement in the organized group of resistance fighters – called the Jewish Partisans – during the Second World War and in that sense serves to recreate the history of Jewish child soldiering, Dongala’s narrative portrays a conflict in which children are instrumentalized as soldiers in a war propelled by mere avarice, the fighters as ideologically barren, and the children involved as mainly innocent victims of adults’ myopia. In comparatively examining these two narratives, I argue that, whereas Suhl offers a positive portraiture of Jewish child soldiers as patriotic beings with agency and voice and constructs a far more nuanced perspective of childhood innocence, Dongala in his own work represents African child soldiers in familiarly negative light.

Science denial, post‐truth and our new dark age: Lee McIntyre interviewed by Richard Marshall

In this edited version of an interview run at 3:16 am earlier this year to mark the publication of his new book How To Talk To A Science Denier, Lee McIntyre discusses: science denial, its dangers, what to do about it, why it should not be tolerated; the demarcation question; whether social sciences are really sciences; why we should focus on the failures of science; post-truth; why philosophy of science is useful; whether scientific laws exist; falling short of certainty; anti-realism; induction and Bayes; whether he's a mad dog naturalist; and finally why we're in the dark ages of human behaviour.

Knowledge of Rabies Vis-A-Vis Dog Bite Exposure among Non-Victimized People within Srinagar District of Kashmir Valley, India

Objective: People have low information regarding rabies and its prevention. Understanding community information on rabies is vitally attributable to their influence on post-exposure treatment-seeking behavior as community support is important for rabies bar and management program. Methods: The present study was carried in Srinagar district. Regarding perception of people interview schedule was formulated. As per Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC), the city is divided into two divisions; four zones and 34 wards. To exploit the diversity of population response, all the four zones were considered for the present investigation. Results: Regarding knowledge of non-victimized people it was seen they were aware, but they lacked a complete perception of rabies. The greater parts of respondents had heard of rabies (81.25%) and were awake of its spread through dog bites; however they lacked the information about the other animals transmitting rabies. This faction has enhanced communication and information regarding what is happening in their dwelling, counting dog bites as well. Bite was being mentioned (70.93%) by most of the respondents as a means of transmission but only some of the respondents mentioned scratches and licking as the method of transmission. This could due to lack of complete acuity of the disease rabies. In our community rabies is well-known as mad dog (halkaer houn) which is allied through aggression. Aggression was thus known by most of the respondents (35.20%) which is in stroke amid the verity that furious form of rabies is widespread in animals. Regarding about the treatment, the majority were aware that the SMHS (95.31%) hospital provides vaccines and the respondents didn’t choose any traditional methods. Some respondents knew about the need of prompt washing of the wound by water and soap (25%). Victims would seek medical attention, potentially due to fear of rabies. Conclusion: The good level of knowledge amongst the non-victims may be due to numerous reports of dog’s bites in Srinagar plus they were more educated. Factors influencing enhanced awareness and practices incorporated elevated socioeconomic rank and education signifying that the maximum menace of rabies is probable to fall on the mainly susceptible sectors of society, particularly poor members with slight or no proper education.

E&P Notes (June 2021)

E&P Notes (June 2021)

Deepwater sedimentary bedforms in a mobile substrate terrain: Examples from the central Gulf of Mexico Basin

We have used high-resolution geophysical data to investigate depositional and erosional bedforms in two geomorphologic provinces of the deepwater central Gulf of Mexico Basin: (1) the Mad Dog and Atlantis areas in the Sigsbee Escarpment region and (2) the Holstein minibasin within the salt canopy in the slope. Multibeam bathymetry indicates that the seafloor relief in the study areas is highly irregular because it is influenced by the dynamic behavior of underlying salt bodies resulting in the development of diverse bathymetric features. Side-scan images reveal erosional furrows of different morphologies at the base of the Sigsbee Escarpment that are oriented subparallel to the escarpment. Wide and sinuous furrows overlie mass transport deposits (MTDs), whereas, in other areas along strike, narrow rectilinear furrows are found beneath MTDs. The furrow fields in the Sigsbee Escarpment are located within a large series of erosional features that are linked to the action of westward flowing bottom currents associated with topographic Rossby waves that manage to rework sediments at water depths up to 2000 m. The interaction between the bottom current flow and the seafloor is likely influenced by the MTD’s irregular top surface relief and lateral changes in the escarpment’s morphology resulting in the development of complex sinuous furrow morphologies. North of the escarpment, subbottom profiles indicate a series of buried sediment waves found in the southern rim of the Holstein minibasin. Sediment wave morphometry indicates wavelengths ranging from 116 to 339 m and wave heights between approximately 0.8 and 2.4 m. Sediment waves were likely formed by turbidity currents as they exited the minibasin. The vertical change in topographic relief from the minibasin to the salt high led to variations in flow thickness and flow velocity of turbidity currents passing over the minibasin’s open rim. Consequently, these changes in flow regime led to the formation of sediment waves.

In Memorium: Minoo B. Madon 1939-2020.

Sadly, on August 13, 2020, our friend and colleague Minoo B. Madon died at age 81. Minoo was hospitalized with Covid-19 pneumonia on July 8th where he remained on a ventilator and sedated until his passing. Minoo was born March 6, 1939 in Secundrabad India, a Parsi (Persian Zoroastrian). As a young man he emigrated to the United States, attended and completed college at the University of Arizona, and eventually was naturalized as a U. S. citizen. With several coworkers, Minoo was one of the founders and earliest members of SOVE. His efforts in helping to establish SOVE, his tireless work assisted by Jack Shanafelt in editing and printing the Society's incipient years of scientific publications and newsletters, and his continuous work in helping to grow the domestic and international SOVE organization, has led to its immeasurable success today. The history of SOVE is well documented and authored by Minoo and Dr. Cluff Hopla in the June 2005, Volume 30, No. 1 of the journal. In that publication, one can see the extensive involvement Minoo had in the formative and later years of the Society. Minoo was an outstanding field biologist and vector ecologist. His many years spanned various careers in biology. He was initially an entomologist for a pest control company but soon left that career to become a biologist for the California Department of Public Health, Vector-borne Disease Section (VBDS), where he stayed with the official title of Senior Public Health Biologist until his retirement in 1998. In the many years he worked at the VBDS, Minoo was regarded with high praise and well respected for his knowledge and experience in the field surveillance of vector-borne diseases and control and abatement of spiders, rodents, mosquitoes, and pests in general. Not one to rest on his professional laurels, shortly after his retirement from VBDS, Minoo accepted the position of Director of Scientific Technical Services for the Greater Los Angeles County Vector Control District (GLACVCD), his final professional career. As General Manager of the District and knowing the many years Minoo had previously worked for VBDS, I was was fortunate to benefit from his years of experience, work ethic, and accomplishments during his ten years with GLACVCD. After GLACVCD, Minoo joined Avatar Meher Baba Center, a cultural Indian organization, becoming one of its Board of Directors and hands-on volunteer. In addition to being an intelligent, fiercely dedicated, and talented professional, Minoo was a man of genuine humility and humor. Among his friends and closest colleagues he was known affectionately as “Mad Dog.” The moniker presumably stemmed from his last name, but Minoo was the antithesis of that characterization. His surviving two daughters and four adult grandchildren knew him as kind and warm-hearted, and generous to the point of sacrificing his time and material things for them. Likeable, self-effacing, and instantly recognizable, with flowing silver-grey hair and matching beard, his presence was unmistakable in a roomful of peers. Many may particularly remember him as the always jovial consummate hospitality bartender at SOVE conferences and events. I remember him respectfully and affectionately as a dear friend who unfortunately passed too soon and will be terribly missed.

Imaging improvements from subsalt 3D VSP acquisitions in the Gulf of Mexico

From 2015 through 2018, BP acquired six large-scale 3D vertical seismic profile (VSP) data sets at their Gulf of Mexico assets, two at each of the Thunder Horse, Mad Dog, and Atlantis fields. The acquisition of these large-scale data sets was enabled by the development of a 100-level wireline tool and the adoption of simultaneous shooting. With those two developments, it became feasible to acquire data sets with the coverage and data density needed to build high-quality images of the subsurface using 3D VSP acquisitions. There have been recent advances in finite difference modeling to guide the survey design and the high-quality processing that is required to create the 3D VSP image volumes. These volumes have two main advantages over conventional surface seismic data. First, in 3D VSP acquisition, the receiver can be located below the overlying salt bodies, which allows for illumination of the reservoirs that cannot be achieved using surface seismic data. Second, the location of the receivers closer to the imaging targets enables higher frequency content of the resulting VSP data compared to conventional surface seismic images. Both imaging enhancements can have a significant business value, and the resulting VSP data sets have demonstrated a clear impact on business decisions. In the three case studies, we demonstrate the business impact of the 3D VSP data acquired through improvement of imaging of stratigraphic edges, improved interpretation of fault geometry and orientation, and related improvement of the quality of well planning and targeting. We conclude with discussion on cost, global impact, and present recommendations and lessons learned for future surveys.

Public awareness of zoonotic diseases and public health implications in Makurdi Metropolis, Benue State, Nigeria.

This study was conducted with the objectives of assessing the level of awareness on zoonotic diseases among residents of Makurdi Metropolis. Questionnaire was structured into 3 sections namely, socio- demographic characteristics of residents, Awareness on domestic animals, and wild animals transmission of zoonotic diseases. Simple and systematic random sampling was used to select sample locations in which a total of 250 questionnaires were administered; Descriptive statistics, Students t-test and chi-square analysis were used to analyzed data. Field result showed that 144 respondents male were interviewed while 106 respondents were female. Residents of Makurdi Metropolis were quite aware of zoonotic diseases in both domestic and wild animals. The commonest domestic animal zoonotic diseases known to residents were: the Mad Dog disease, Bird Flu and Swain Flu. While the commonest wild animal zoonotic diseases known to residents were: Monkey Pox disease, Ebola disease, and Lassa fever, the awareness of residents on these zoonotic diseases could be associated with the recent outbreak of these diseases and in the area . It was therefore recommended that more awareness campaigns on other types of zoonotic diseases and they preventive measures should be given to residents of Makurdi metropolis to forestall future public health hazards.Keywords: Makurdi metropolis, zoonotic diseases transmission, Awareness, domestic and wild animals.