80, 000 fellow workers
Minding their beeswax
Ladders and honey mind
Friday, August 31, 2018
Wednesday, August 29, 2018
Monday, August 27, 2018
Blotsven sic swain OK
In Oklahoma the golf ball ice
The lightning palaces of thunderstorms colliding
The tornado dances
The feet of snow and ice
The brutal heat of July the twenty below later
And highways strewn in roadkill
Deer coyote tortoises hawks armadillos
Our fridge with still life woodpeckers
Life study death model
Art is art, being removed and being reborn
Weather happens
Anyway now fracked earthquakes boom cabinets
Methane cow pie ponds choke
That's some shitty city self sacrifice
Heare in ye middilages
corn dolly esprit
Slouching brazen swashbuckler
Deliver moist leader
Relish some service
Igneous-igloo hardy bellwether
Brachiopod coccon seat
Stuff lowborn concomitant
Geology establish bar
Scope snap granulometric
Parenthesis plant corn-dolly
Esprit longshore cornerstone
Annuity brahmin head
Takehomepay
* automatic surrealistdada poem,
Words from random dictionary
Finger points, exquisite corpse
Sunday, August 26, 2018
medium sic rare
Eye sea heir don't ewe
Seize mare o'er there medium
Rare sees trees past
Knees knew vous view true
Wood words knocked nacht
Yard yawned awl hauled
Peg plugged cyclops sigh
Rutty rots rut lots spot
Feather weathered wind sword
Rant wants soiled soul
Graven goal bloom buttoned
Wind kin wand want water
Sea's sun hot home staid maid
Blind kind ray reason hindsight
Straw strewn bed bled birth
Forth first floor fir door
Valor veil whale walled wail
Aye ale thy ails pale
Glory got near hero hearth
Beside bard tongue slide
Trolling toil's terrible toos
Saturday, August 25, 2018
bug out
Buzz off spy
Eat shit fly my O yer eye
Dropping pie don't cry
Shoo flea
Don't plead
Poo cake no treat
Sidewalk dust
Pizza crust
Snail's wanderlust
Deadwood Timbre, Hog of the Forsaken, Eat a Peach
n music, timbre (/ˈtæmbər/ TAM-bər, also known as tone color or tone quality from psychoacoustics) is the perceived sound quality of a musical note, sound or tone. Timbre distinguishes different types of sound production, such as choir voices and musical instruments, such as string instruments, wind instruments, and percussion instruments. It also enables listeners to distinguish different instruments in the same category (e.g. an oboe and a clarinet).
The physical characteristics of sound that determine the perception of timbre include spectrum and envelope.
Singers and instrumental musicians can change the timbre of the music they are singing/playing by using different singing or playing techniques.
For example, a violinist can use different bowing styles or play on different parts of the string to obtain different timbres (e.g., playing sul tasto produces a light, airy timbre, whereas playing sul ponticello produces a harsh, even and aggressive tone)
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"And the Hog of the Forsaken got no reason to cry,
He got to chew the angels fallin' from on hiiigh,
He ain't waitin' for no answers, bakin' woeful pie,
Pie of eyesight, pie boot-black, oh that pie,
The pie of by-and-by.
And the Hog of the Forsaken he ain't like you and I,
With bones always breakin' and no place to go an' lie,
He's in the box so dark and wet, he got so much time,
He ain't even worried yet, the Hog of the Forsaken,
He is the Pork of Crime
And the Hog of the Forsaken, he'll leave you one more chance,
Which, if you won't be takin' he'll leave it for the ants,
He sings out in the wilderness, he sings of friend and foe,
He sings of these and those times as well as the times to go
Read more: Deadwood - Hog Of The Forsaken Lyrics
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http://www.metrolyrics.com/hog-of-the-forsaken-lyrics-deadwood.html
Light
"Ahimsa also known as Ahinsa (IAST: ahiṃsā, Pāli:[1] avihiṃsā) means 'not to injure' and 'compassion' and refers to a key virtue in Indian religions.
The word is derived from the Sanskrit root hiṃs – to strike; hiṃsā is injury or harm, a-hiṃsā is the opposite of this, i.e. cause no injury, do no harm.
Ahimsa is also referred to as nonviolence, and it applies to all living beings—including all animals—in ancient Indian religions."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahimsa
Ahimsa is the highest virtue, Ahimsa is the highest self-control,
Ahimsa is the greatest gift, Ahimsa is the best suffering,
Ahimsa is the highest sacrifice, Ahimsa is the finest strength,
Ahimsa is the greatest friend, Ahimsa is the greatest happiness,
Ahimsa is the highest truth, and Ahimsa is the greatest teaching
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_______________________
" king of Lothian appears in both early Latin and Welsh sources. An early fragmentary Life of St Kentigern contains a Leudonus of Leudonia as the maternal grandfather of Saint Kentigern, also known as Mungo.
In this text, Leudonus becomes enraged when he discovers that his daughter, Kentigern's mother Teneu, had been raped and become pregnant by Owain mab Urien, and has her thrown from a cliff.
However, she survives the ordeal with divine protection and goes to Saint Serf's community, where she gives birth to Kentigern.
Welsh sources call this same character Lewdwn or Llewdwn Lluydauc (Llewdwn of the Hosts) and make him king of Gododdin.
In the Middle Ages, no principle of historiography was more solidly established than the idea that places took their names from persons.
The name Lot may be connected to the Norse name Hlot or Ljot, which appears in the Norse sagas and was known in Orkney. It may also be connected to the standing stone called the Stone Lud.
*
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Lud (Welsh: Lludd map Beli Mawr), according to Geoffrey of Monmouth's legendary History of the Kings of Britain and related medieval texts, was a king of Britain in pre-Roman times who founded London and was buried at Ludgate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Lud
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Lud
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Bezos on Food Stamps worth $157,000,000,000 (sic
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) will soon introduce legislation that would require large employers such as Amazon, Walmart and McDonald’s to fully cover the cost of food stamps, public housing, Medicaid and other federal assistance received by their employees.
The goal, he says, is to force corporations to pay a living wage and curb about $150 billion in taxpayer dollars that go to funding federal assistance programs for low-wage workers each year.
The bill, which Sanders plans to introduce in the Senate on Sept. 5, would impose a 100 percent tax on government benefits received by workers at companies with 500 or more employees. For example, if an Amazon employee receives $300 in food stamps, Amazon would be taxed $300.
“At a time of massive wealth and income inequality, the gap between the very rich and everyone else continues to grow wider," Sanders said.
As many as 1 in 3 Amazon employees in Arizona — and about 1 in 10 in Pennsylvania and Ohio — receive food stamps, according to an April report by the New Food Economy, based in New York.
Bezos, who founded Amazon in 1994, has seen his net worth steadily climb in recent months as the stock market hits record highs.
He is currently worth $157 billion, up from $99 billion a year ago, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
The median Amazon worker, meanwhile, was paid $28,446 last year, according to company filings. (The federal poverty level for a family of four is $24,600.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/08/24/thousands-amazon-workers-receive-food-stamps-now-bernie-sanders-wants-amazon-pay-up/?utm_term=.dc1b723aa0d6
Friday, August 24, 2018
bummer boomerang
Judged by the company I keep
I'm an idiot human,
Lonely and under-loved
Misused overwrought maligned
Dismissed turbulent full of fight,
Fighting for peace
Building match bridges
Over quagmires for a hobby
Got no sleep
Got no kind morning
Got cobwebs and a fleeting boner
Half a century of company
I'm a willing idiot less and less
Good riddance I elegantly move the spider
From the porch corner
She tiny slides down her thread of escape
And is airlifted to some crushed yard flowers
That's the best I can do
Helping 6 leggy friends stay agile
I mean fragile
I'm an idiot.
Tuesday, August 21, 2018
Monday, August 20, 2018
mark felt
Mark Felt was a sorry SOB
Black bag jobs
Assassinations
Wasting paper etc etc
Also better known
As deep throat
(Google Watergate
Died in Napa,
Good. Pardoned?
By what?
*my kids distant cousin&$@$&%$$
stretchmark smiles
Washed up strippers with stretchmark smiles
Broken sidewalks run fer miles
Play the don't look game
Play the no cover game
Play dead possum it ain't hard
Cashed out workers lets grind their eye
Token patrons make a savory pie
Play the don't eat game
Play the short sheet game
Play human you're just lard
Trashed trousers no kneepads
Mashed muscles no gonads
Game the same gain
Game the blame fame
Game animal taxidermy card
8-20-18
portland or
Sunday, August 19, 2018
how sic
How it was novichok for oldtimer
How it circled a a volcanic drain
How he trees passed
How newcomer wiped his con
-sense clean, door handle swindler
How said the bigot sitcom
How she paid rent in slap
-schticht how ruling crass thrives
How now brown sow
How sanctions beg suction
How time pusses out in dog years
How spare ribs are extra
-ditioned how gotmo and gitmo
How jesus wept interned
How predictable oil clogs square
-dunces on how slick floors
How unknown region grew& GRU
How bloody good how for rest
-lessly questions hovered
Howdy snoody howl howl how
Compute intrigue on a shoestring
Abacus without how knots
Keeping how score a sym
-phony?
Kaveladze, Money Laundering, Mukassey and Mueller, Pennsylvania
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/18/trump-in-moscow-what-happened-at-miss-universe-in-2013
Trump Tower Treason
__________
Kaveladze
Agalarov
Veselnitskaya
Samochornov
Kushner
Don Jr
Don Sr
Manafort
Stone
Mukassey
Ivanka Sr
June 9 2016
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Moscow Miss Universe 2013, FIFA
_____________
Agalarov
Ruffin
Don Sr
________
Money Laundering for Oligarchs/Putin 1990s
Kaveladze
Mueller (who declined to prosecute)
The Usual Suspects NY City to LA
Panama Papers
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
" Kaveladze, a publicity-shy Crocus vice president, was the so-called “eighth man” at the 2016 Trump Tower meeting where Donald Jr hoped to receive dirt on Clinton.
While relatively unknown to the public before news of the meeting emerged in July, Kaveladze has in fact been an associate of some of Russia’s richest and most powerful people for the past three decades.
The Guardian has established that Kaveladze was involved in the $341m takeover of a US company by a Russian mining firm belonging to an associate of Putin, and was a business partner to two former senior officials at Russia’s central bank.
In 2003, the Colorado-based firm Stillwater Mining was bought by Norilsk Nickel, a metals corporation in Moscow led by Vladimir Potanin, one of Russia’s wealthiest oligarchs....
As part of its $341m purchase of the American firm, Norilsk nominated Kaveladze to be one of its five handpicked directors on Stillwater’s new board, according to a filing by the company to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Kaveladze was billed as the president of “an international consulting boutique” serving a “US and Eastern European clientele”.
The deal was the first time a Russian company had ever taken a majority stake in a publicly traded US company.
It was viewed as critical by the Kremlin. Putin was reported at the time to have personally advocated for the deal’s approval by US regulators during a meeting with then president George W Bush earlier in 2003.
Norilsk was then co-owned by Potanin and Mikhail Prokhorov, another major Russian oligarch, who later sold his stake. Prokhorov, who has had mixed relations with the Kremlin, now owns the Brooklyn Nets basketball team in New York. Kaveladze and Prokhorov had been classmates at the Moscow Finance Institute in the late 1980s and formed a partnership selling customised jeans between their studies.
Kaveladze’s ascent to the Stillwater board was eventually derailed, according to a source, after the discovery of his earlier involvement in a $1.4bn California-based scheme involving shell companies and transfers from Russia, which US authorities said may have been used for money laundering. Norilsk said he withdrew from the process for personal reasons.
The Guardian previously revealed that Kaveladze’s partner in that operation was Boris Goldstein, a Soviet-born banker whose ties to former KGB officers attracted interest from US investigators after he moved to California in the early 1990s.
In a remarkable coincidence, the US attorney in San Francisco whose office eventually declined to bring criminal charges over their alleged money-laundering scheme was Robert Mueller, the special counsel now looking into Kaveladze’s reappearance.
__________
Kaveladze soon moved to the US, landing first in Pennsylvania.....
Trump Tower Treason
__________
Kaveladze
Agalarov
Veselnitskaya
Samochornov
Kushner
Don Jr
Don Sr
Manafort
Stone
Mukassey
Ivanka Sr
June 9 2016
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Moscow Miss Universe 2013, FIFA
_____________
Agalarov
Ruffin
Don Sr
________
Money Laundering for Oligarchs/Putin 1990s
Kaveladze
Mueller (who declined to prosecute)
The Usual Suspects NY City to LA
Panama Papers
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
" Kaveladze, a publicity-shy Crocus vice president, was the so-called “eighth man” at the 2016 Trump Tower meeting where Donald Jr hoped to receive dirt on Clinton.
While relatively unknown to the public before news of the meeting emerged in July, Kaveladze has in fact been an associate of some of Russia’s richest and most powerful people for the past three decades.
The Guardian has established that Kaveladze was involved in the $341m takeover of a US company by a Russian mining firm belonging to an associate of Putin, and was a business partner to two former senior officials at Russia’s central bank.
In 2003, the Colorado-based firm Stillwater Mining was bought by Norilsk Nickel, a metals corporation in Moscow led by Vladimir Potanin, one of Russia’s wealthiest oligarchs....
As part of its $341m purchase of the American firm, Norilsk nominated Kaveladze to be one of its five handpicked directors on Stillwater’s new board, according to a filing by the company to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Kaveladze was billed as the president of “an international consulting boutique” serving a “US and Eastern European clientele”.
The deal was the first time a Russian company had ever taken a majority stake in a publicly traded US company.
It was viewed as critical by the Kremlin. Putin was reported at the time to have personally advocated for the deal’s approval by US regulators during a meeting with then president George W Bush earlier in 2003.
Norilsk was then co-owned by Potanin and Mikhail Prokhorov, another major Russian oligarch, who later sold his stake. Prokhorov, who has had mixed relations with the Kremlin, now owns the Brooklyn Nets basketball team in New York. Kaveladze and Prokhorov had been classmates at the Moscow Finance Institute in the late 1980s and formed a partnership selling customised jeans between their studies.
Kaveladze’s ascent to the Stillwater board was eventually derailed, according to a source, after the discovery of his earlier involvement in a $1.4bn California-based scheme involving shell companies and transfers from Russia, which US authorities said may have been used for money laundering. Norilsk said he withdrew from the process for personal reasons.
The Guardian previously revealed that Kaveladze’s partner in that operation was Boris Goldstein, a Soviet-born banker whose ties to former KGB officers attracted interest from US investigators after he moved to California in the early 1990s.
In a remarkable coincidence, the US attorney in San Francisco whose office eventually declined to bring criminal charges over their alleged money-laundering scheme was Robert Mueller, the special counsel now looking into Kaveladze’s reappearance.
__________
Kaveladze soon moved to the US, landing first in Pennsylvania.....
isn't isn't
unknown region isn't eluded google's net
unknown region isn't the seychelles
unknown region isn't a sub in the columbia
unknown region isn't a dacha in maryland
unknown region isn't a hub or fusion center
unknown region isn't a drone and all the other above things
unknown region isn't a pubic inplant
unknown region isn't a fiber optic nest of lies
unknown religion isn't a region nor is it vatican
unknown region isn't negative space hiding plain sight
unknown region isn't getting away with everything
unknown region isn't a studio ghibli anime
unknown region isn't in a race to anonymity
unknown region isn't gerrymandered or german intel
unknown region isn't full of refugees and slaves
unknown region isn't lacking red ink or radar
unknown region isn't for the have nots
unknown region isn't warm in the antarctic vodka stew
unknown region isn't masked like a gru batman
unknown region isn't a caterpillar pushing down settlements
unknown region isn't capable of lone ranger jokes
unknown region isn't a fourth dimensional intrusion
unknown region isn't harboring decent water
unknown region isn't yet, nyet
unknown region isn't a trillionaire's hobby horse
unknown region isn't hopping with mirrored fleas
unknown region isn't a tool of confidence men
unknown region isn't false/true or between/addresses
unknown region isn't the map to our inner circle
unknown region isn't fog draped liberty holding a torch
unknown region isn't worth the cramp or crap
unknown region isn't born to crawl honestly
unknown region isn't a pandora can of giggles
unknown region isn't particular about hosting
unknown region isn't manned by cyborg serfs
unknown region isn't chuck barris in a paper sack
unknown region isn't doomed to the funny pages
unknown region isn't a dart board made of air
unknown region isn't a stable genius or noble twit
unknown region isn't O
unknown -regional, a truman show on steroids
unknown rejion ain't above the flaw
unknown region cain't tie its own flip flops
unawaeegion won't sequester the molester
unknown region dupes the media scoops
unknown region isn't a pea under the prince's futon
unknown region isn't likely
unknown region isn't a stopover for gulliver or odysseus
unknown region isn't a grey zone of wolves
unknown region isn't GPS on LSD or the CIA's LCD
unknown region isn't in the right lane
unknown region isn't space saying YO whassup
unknown region isn't a flat balloon or a halo
unknown region isn't atlas holding gaia on his shoulders
unknown region isn't much help nor hinderance
unknown region isn't a smoke free zone for harmony
unknown region isn't aware of poetry
unknown region isn't on the tourist slate for yaks
unknown region isn't semi autonomous or partially woke
unknown region isn't a constellation to implore
unknown reach'n isn't carte blanche or a pussygrabbed siren
is it?
sometimes shanty has too leanings
flung about on seemingly ordained orbital whims
wrung about that (like most else
sung ode to odd intimations, not intimacy
dung clung to the ladder up the siding on success
among heathen my brethren
brung my own owner and her downer loaner
mung beans all that inhabits my pantry
slung the shanty in fact fiction brick and diction
Saturday, August 18, 2018
eggshell (win.d shanty
Fiona cooks eggs on a rock,
Donkey gets one so does shrek,
They roe roe row their boat
To boneville,
They kept awake
Cuz captain clatter lost motor skills
After the third.tankard of deadguy
At crassy jacks grog shack,
His silver fish stoolpan
Sloshing over the deck
As indentured old salts plugged their ears
Swinging in hemp hammocks
Ready to croak.
Listless the white brick boat
Wished wind his friend,
Blowing feathers in the midnight sea air
Over atlantis or mu or celilo,
The cracked eggs
Clinging to their yoke like anchors
Or agreements on napkins
Only the minerals understand as worthless,
Scuba straws of reeds
On lake Titicacas sic sic abyss
Roe roe row that goat sic bloet,
So goed the shanty.
Sung to Yo Hoho, Blow the Man Down
Backstreet Boys
Winstar Casino, Oklahoma
Yawn.0
(Storm hit the "shanty" around 5:OO PM OK time
My poem, 6 pm , Oregon time
"Wished win(d) his friend
Blowing feathers in the midnight sea air
Over..... Celilo"
as Melville said, "surely this is significant."
(or at least, good diversion and exercise
for the imagination
$@%$#%&$$@ yank the traitor Trump
Oilygarch Monopoly Games, OK to Iraq to Venezuela to South Pars
"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-11/threat-of-venezuelan-oil-ban-pits-oil-boss-hamm-against-refiners"
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-11/threat-of-venezuelan-oil-ban-pits-oil-boss-hamm-against-refiners
"Threat of Venezuelan Oil Ban Pits Oil Boss Hamm Against Refiners"
By Jennifer A Dlouhy , Bill Allison , and Meenal Vamburkar
_____________
"Lewandowski leaves firm that lobbies for Venezuela-owned oil company with ties to Russia"
"Corey Lewandowski, President Donald Trump's former campaign manager, said Thursday he is leaving his newly-formed lobbying firm amid revelations it agreed to lobby for Citgo, the Venezuelan-owned oil company, CBS News has confirmed.
A large chunk of Citgo could soon be owned by Russia's state-owned oil giant Rosneft, under the terms of a controversial deal that has led to calls for the White House to intervene.
Barry Bennett, Lewandowski's partner at Avenue Strategies, told CBS News that the lobbying firm was contracted to begin work for Citgo on April 1.
News site Politico recently reported that Avenue Strategies, which was launched in December, has advertised its ability to arrange meetings with "key members" at the White House, including President Trump himself and Vice President Mike Pence.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lewandowskis-
firm-lobbies-for-venezuela-owned-company-that-has-deal-with-russia/
Citgo, which operates three pipelines and three refineries in the U.S., is owned by the Venezuela's state-run energy company PDVSA.
The country and its company are subject to a variety of sanctions, and a bipartisan Senate bill introduced Wednesday calls for the U.S. to take a tougher stance against the Venezuelan government amid widespread protests in the country.
The Venezuelan company received a $1.5 billion loan on Nov. 30 from Rosneft, the Russian state-owned company run by Igor Sechin, long considered to be Vladimir Putin's right-hand man. Under the terms of the loan, if PDVSA defaults on its debts, Rosneft will claim 49.9 percent of Citgo.
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"DALLAS — Champlin Refining & Chemicals Inc. will merge with Tulsa-based Citgo Petroleum Corp. under a restructuring plan designed to cut costs, a report said today.
The Irving, Tex.-based firms' parent, Petroleos de Venezuela SA, said the refining operations of Venezuela's national oil company will continue under the Citgo name.
The combined companies have annual revenue of more than $7 million and refining capacity of 480,000 barrels of oil per day, the Dallas Morning News reported."
http://articles.latimes.com/1990-09-10/business/fi-383_1_citgo-s-headquarters
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"CITGO Becomes Wholly Owned by PDVSA
1990 Fox Television’s animated program “The Simpsons” made its television debut; “America’s Funniest Home Videos” was the most popular television show.
1990 CITGO became wholly owned by PDVSA.
1990 The former Champlin Refinery in Corpus Christi, Texas, which was purchased by PDVSA from Union Pacific was integrated into the CITGO refining network.
1990 CITGO acquires the Seaview Asphalt Company, headquartered in Blue Bell, PA with a refinery in Paulsboro, NJ.
1990 CITGO honored with the prestigious Petroleum Marketers Association of America Supplier Cup.
1991 Soviet Union collapses.
1991 CITGO reports increase in income from operations while its competition reports losses.
1991 CITGO spends $283 million for construction of new refinery units and upgrades.
1991 CITGO invests more than $40 million in environmental protection projects.
1991 Six persons are killed in explosion and fire at CITGO’s Lake Charles Refinery “A” Catalytic Cracking Unit.
1991 Persian Gulf War.
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"Dramatic new details of France's secret dealings with Saddam Hussein's regime have emerged as part of a fresh corruption investigation into alleged illicit oil deals.
Three executives of France's largest oil corporation have been charged in Paris over claims that they funnelled millions of dollars through a Swiss company in order to bribe officials to gain oil deals in Iraq and Russia.
In the Nineties, French oil companies Total and Elf-Aquitaine won the rights to develop the $3.4 billion Bin Umar project and the vast Majnoon field in southern Iraq.
Total, which acquired Elf, had been unable to exploit these fields while the UN trade embargo against Iraq was still in place.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/oct/10/france.iraq
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"Petrofina was a Belgian oil company. It merged with Total in 1999 to form TotalFina, which after subsequent mergers has changed its name back to Total. In the United States, Fina's former refining and marketing operations are now owned by Texas-based Alon USA.[citation needed]
Petrofina was founded on the 25th of February 1920 by Hector Carlier his brother Fernand and Aloys Van de Vyvere as an Antwerp-based group called Compagnie Financière Belge des Pétroles, but changed to PetroFina to reflect their telegraphic address name.[citation needed]
Petrofina's Canadian retail operations in eastern Canada were sold to the Canadian government and became part of Petro-Canada.[1]
Petrofina merged with Total S.A. of France to form TotalFina and with Elf in 2000 to form TotalFinaElf. The company's current name is Total S.A. (since 2003)."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrofina
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Closing the sale of about 170 gasoline stations owned and operated by Champlin Petroleum Co. in Oklahoma and several other states is expected to take place Thursday, says a spokesman for the buyer, American Petrofina Corp.
Then comes the job of taking down all the Champlin signs and removing any other references to Champlin at those stations for conversion to Fina-brand stations by April 1, said Bill Cahill, spokesman for Dallas-based American Petrofina.
By the end of this month, Champlin signs also will have come down at about 600 other gas stations throughout the central United States owned and operated by independent gasoline retailers, said Champlin spokesman Ray Dryden.
These will mark the final steps in Champlin's plan, announced last October, to
withdraw completely
from retail marketing of gasoline and oil products.
Champlin stations, many associated with convenience stores, currently operate in an area extending from Texas to North Dakota and Minnesota.
But the greatest concentration of Champlin stations can probably be found right here in Oklahoma where the company has its roots, Dryden said.
All the Champlin-owned-and-operated stations involved in the sale to American Petrofina, including about 10 in the Oklahoma City metro area, are self-service units, he said.
Any full-service units are run by independent operators. Those units are not included in the sale to American Petrofina, the value of which was not disclosed.
About 119,000 Champlin credit card holders, of which about 81,000 are considered active, should have received notices in the mail by now informing them that Champlin credit cards will not be honored after March 31.
https://newsok.com/article/2060789/sale-of-champlins-170-stations-looms
https://newsok.com/article/2060789/sale-of-champlins-170-stations-looms
_____________
"Another expansion of FINA's marketing operations came in 1984, when American Petrofina purchased
Champlin stations, many associated with convenience stores, currently operate in an area extending from Texas to North Dakota and Minnesota.
But the greatest concentration of Champlin stations can probably be found right here in Oklahoma where the company has its roots, Dryden said.
All the Champlin-owned-and-operated stations involved in the sale to American Petrofina, including about 10 in the Oklahoma City metro area, are self-service units, he said.
Any full-service units are run by independent operators. Those units are not included in the sale to American Petrofina, the value of which was not disclosed.
About 119,000 Champlin credit card holders, of which about 81,000 are considered active, should have received notices in the mail by now informing them that Champlin credit cards will not be honored after March 31.
https://newsok.com/article/2060789/sale-of-champlins-170-stations-looms
https://newsok.com/article/2060789/sale-of-champlins-170-stations-looms
_____________
"Another expansion of FINA's marketing operations came in 1984, when American Petrofina purchased
several thousand service stations
from Oklahoma-based Champlin Refining Company
following that firm's closing of its Enid, Oklahoma refinery.
The Champlin assets were rebranded as FINA stations in several Mid-Continent states including Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa among others."
_________
"
A lobbying firm founded by former Trump aides has roped in some huge clients like Citgo and Altria, but it has some limits, too
Michael Cohen wasn't the only one with ties to President Donald Trump trying to rope in billion-dollar companies.
Former campaign advisors at Avenue Strategies were doing the same — with broader reach and apparently much more success.
Tobacco giant Altria hired the firm to help with a strategy to figure out how to craft compelling messages to fight back against regulators, sources told CNBC."
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/14/firm-founded-by-trump-aides-scored-deals-with-altria-citgo.html
The Champlin assets were rebranded as FINA stations in several Mid-Continent states including Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa among others."
_________
"
A lobbying firm founded by former Trump aides has roped in some huge clients like Citgo and Altria, but it has some limits, too
Michael Cohen wasn't the only one with ties to President Donald Trump trying to rope in billion-dollar companies.
Former campaign advisors at Avenue Strategies were doing the same — with broader reach and apparently much more success.
Tobacco giant Altria hired the firm to help with a strategy to figure out how to craft compelling messages to fight back against regulators, sources told CNBC."
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/14/firm-founded-by-trump-aides-scored-deals-with-altria-citgo.html
"Paramount also operated a refinery near Portland, Oregon, as well as several marketing terminals in the Western United States. "
"Paramount had been a subsidiary of Alon USA, a publicly traded refining and marketing company (NYSE:ALJ), since 2006.
The president of the company was Alan P Moret.
The company was largely financed by two prominent multi billionaires of the United States.
Delek US acquired Alon USA in 2017."
"Paramount Petroleum Corporation was headquartered in Paramount, Los Angeles County, California. It operated a refinery at that location, and was
the largest seller of asphalt in California."
"The convenience-store retail business Delek U.S. has acquired with Alon USA is the largest 7-Eleven licensee in the United States and operates approximately 300 c-stores that market motor fuels in Central and West Texas and New Mexico."
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The West Edmond Field was Oklahoma's most important oil discovery of the 1940s. It developed through the persistence of Ace Gutowsky, who claimed to know the location of potential oil fields by using so-called "doodlebug" techniques, a modification of the divining rod.
By the end of 1943 the field was crowded with drilling rigs, and eleven large wells were producing. Almost immediately pipeline service was established, with the bulk of the production going to the Champlin Oil Refinery at Enid.
The West Edmond Field produced 7,752,000 barrels of oil in 1944 to temporarily bring the state's sagging oil production to 1.5 million barrels more than the previous year. The field contributed to yet another statewide increase of 15 million barrels in 1945.
http://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=WE013
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Champlin_(DD-601)
"USS Champlin (DD-104) was a Wickes-class destroyer built for the United States Navy during World War I.
The ships displaced 1,202–1,208 long tons (1,221–1,227 t) at standard load and 1,295–1,322 long tons (1,316–1,343 t) at deep load.
They had an overall length of 314 feet 4 inches (95.8 m), a beam of 30 feet 11 inches (9.4 m) and a draught of 9 feet 10 inches (3.0 m).
They had a crew of 6 officers and 108 enlisted men.
Arriving 24 December 1919, she went into reserve with the Pacific Fleet the same day, and cruised on training assignments with a reduced complement until decommissioned 7 June 1922."
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"USS Champlin (DD-601) was a Benson-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War II.
She was the second ship named for Stephen Champlin.
After escorting a convoy to NS Argentia, Newfoundland, and another to the Panama Canal Zone, Champlin sailed from New York 11 December 1942 on her first convoy crossing to Casablanca, returning to New York 7 February 1943.
She sailed again on 4 March guarding a convoy which was constantly shadowed by German submarines for 6 days after it passed the Azores on 12 March.
On that day, a radar contact was made ahead of the convoy, and Champlin charged ahead to investigate, finding a submarine on the surface. She opened fire, and attempted to ram the enemy, which made a crash dive. Champlin hurled a pattern of depth charges into the swirl, and sank U-130 at position 37°10′N 20°21′W.
As the convoy plodded east, Champlin and the other escorts fought a constant battle to protect it, but the convoy lost three merchantmen before reaching Casablanca.
Champlin rescued every member of Wyoming's 127-man crew, as well as taking aboard two survivors from Molly Pitcher. The return convoy which arrived at Boston, Massachusetts 15 April was without incident.
Champlin sailed from New York 1 May 1943 with a slow convoy of small craft and support ships which called at Bermuda before arriving at Oran 26 May. She put to sea again to bring a convoy in from Gibraltar, then took part in training as well as conducting patrols in the western Mediterranean Sea. On 5 July, she cleared Oran for the invasion of Sicily, escorting a convoy to the transport area south of Scoglitti arriving 9 July. Leaving her charges, she sped ahead to join in the pre-assault bombardment the next day, during which she aided in driving off an air attack.
While covering the landing and initial advances the same day, she answered the request from shore for a bombardment of the village of Camerina, so successfully that the enemy there surrendered.
Champlin left Sicily guarding a convoy for Oran and New York, arriving 4 August 1943. She made four more Atlantic crossings on convoy escort duty from New York to North Africa and the British Isles between 21 August 1943 and 11 March 1944.
While undergoing refresher training in Casco Bay, Maine in March 1944, Champlin was ordered out on a submarine hunt, joining an all-day operation 7 April. At 1632, she made contact and dropped deep-set depth charges, driving the submarine to the surface. Immediately, her guns opened fire and started a fire. Champlin rammed the stern of the submarine, and U-856 sank at position 40°18′N 62°18′W. Champlin's commanding officer, Commander John J. Shaffer III, was wounded by shrapnel during the attack and died the next morning despite emergency surgery.
After repairs to her bow, damaged in the ramming, Champlin left New York 21 April 1944 with a convoy for Oran. On 15 May, she reported at Naples for duty supporting the operations striving to break loose from the Anzio beachhead. She conducted patrols, escorted convoys, and provided fire support for minesweepers, and the Army ashore. Returning to Palermo, she sailed from that port 13 August for the invasion of southern France, in which she was assigned to patrol southwest of the transport area as a reserve fire support unit. On 18 August, she rescued a downed Army pilot from his raft, and on 19 August, she was fired upon by shore batteries as she steamed off Cannes. Next day she returned to the area to locate those batteries and destroy them, and the 21st, blocked the Gulf of Napoule while German E-boats thus trapped were destroyed. Continuing her fire support, she knocked out a bridge across the Var River near Nice upon Army request on 24 August, and a week later left the area to guard merchantmen bound for Oran. She continued to New York, escorting a division of battleships, and began a program of training and plane guard operations which lasted through the remainder of 1944.
Atlantic convoy escort
On 6 January 1945, Champlin returned to Atlantic convoy escort, sailing for Oran. On 30 January, she cleared Oran to rendezvous with the group bringing President Franklin D. Roosevelt to Malta, where he was to enplane for the Yalta Conference.
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"Stephen Champlin (17 November 1789 – 20 February 1870) was an officer in the United States Navy during the War of 1812.
Born in Kingston, Rhode Island, Champlin entered the Navy as a sailing master 22 May 1812. He commanded the schooner Scorpion in her capture of the British Little Belt during the Battle of Lake Erie, and later in the War of 1812 was wounded when his ship was taken on Lake Huron.
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"The refinery was purchased in 1917 by H.H. Champlin, an banker-turned-oilman who got his start drilling wells in northwestern Oklahoma. His business blossomed with the purchase of smaller oil companies and service stations, until eventually he was marketing petroleum products across six states.
Champlin didn’t stay with the Champlin family, though. It changed hands several times until Union Pacific bought the refinery in 1970. Company officials said at the time that without a costly renovation, the refinery could not remain profitable.
As the plant was shut down, the many retail outlets were sold off. The former refinery, now just a patch of land with oil tanks and some industrial structures, now is owned by Anadarko Petroleum Corp."
https://www.enidnews.com/news/local_news/complete-total-surprise-champlin-closed-enid-refinery-years-ago/article_150daef2-e23d-5f0b-9e1e-0bc25f44692e.html
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"The Champlin Refining Company, which for many years held the distinction of being the nation's largest fully integrated oil company under private ownership, was based at Enid, Oklahoma.
http://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=CH001
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Champlin participated in the land run of 1893, investing in the Enid State Guaranty Bank. Champlin became ill and returned to Kansas. Upon recovery returned to operate a lumber yard with operations in Enid, Hobart, Kingfisher and Lawton. Charley and Sherman Goltry had taken control of the Bank during Champlin’s absence, and Champlin repurchased the bank from them.
During the wave of bank closings in March 1933, Governor William H. Murray ordered all banks in the State of Oklahoma to close. Champlin refused and continued to operate the bank which was financially sound. In response, the governor called out the National Guard.
Captain Stephen J. England led eighteen militia men into town to close the bank, earning the First National Bank of Enid the distinction of the only bank ever to be closed by the military in American history.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._H._Champlin_House
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Eyes on Director, Enid Ok
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https://newsok.com/article/2413401/downtown-landmark-sold-in-enid
ENID - A businessman's successful bid to buy a tall downtown office building and city landmark could mark the crumbling of holdings owned by a financially troubled Enid insurance company.
David J. Nicholas, whose insolvent American Standard Life and Accident Insurance Co. was placed in state receivership last year, failed to convince an Oklahoma County judge that a California firm's bid of $1 million was serious.
Instead, District Judge Thomas Smith Jr. approved an offer of $585,000 from Enid businessman Harold Hamm to buy the 14-story American Standard Life North building.
The building, one of three downtown buildings with more than a dozen stories, was built in the 1930s, and for years was known as the Youngblood Hotel.
By the end of 1943 the field was crowded with drilling rigs, and eleven large wells were producing. Almost immediately pipeline service was established, with the bulk of the production going to the Champlin Oil Refinery at Enid.
The West Edmond Field produced 7,752,000 barrels of oil in 1944 to temporarily bring the state's sagging oil production to 1.5 million barrels more than the previous year. The field contributed to yet another statewide increase of 15 million barrels in 1945.
http://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=WE013
__________________
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Champlin_(DD-601)
"USS Champlin (DD-104) was a Wickes-class destroyer built for the United States Navy during World War I.
The ships displaced 1,202–1,208 long tons (1,221–1,227 t) at standard load and 1,295–1,322 long tons (1,316–1,343 t) at deep load.
They had an overall length of 314 feet 4 inches (95.8 m), a beam of 30 feet 11 inches (9.4 m) and a draught of 9 feet 10 inches (3.0 m).
They had a crew of 6 officers and 108 enlisted men.
Arriving 24 December 1919, she went into reserve with the Pacific Fleet the same day, and cruised on training assignments with a reduced complement until decommissioned 7 June 1922."
_____________
"USS Champlin (DD-601) was a Benson-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War II.
She was the second ship named for Stephen Champlin.
After escorting a convoy to NS Argentia, Newfoundland, and another to the Panama Canal Zone, Champlin sailed from New York 11 December 1942 on her first convoy crossing to Casablanca, returning to New York 7 February 1943.
She sailed again on 4 March guarding a convoy which was constantly shadowed by German submarines for 6 days after it passed the Azores on 12 March.
On that day, a radar contact was made ahead of the convoy, and Champlin charged ahead to investigate, finding a submarine on the surface. She opened fire, and attempted to ram the enemy, which made a crash dive. Champlin hurled a pattern of depth charges into the swirl, and sank U-130 at position 37°10′N 20°21′W.
As the convoy plodded east, Champlin and the other escorts fought a constant battle to protect it, but the convoy lost three merchantmen before reaching Casablanca.
Champlin rescued every member of Wyoming's 127-man crew, as well as taking aboard two survivors from Molly Pitcher. The return convoy which arrived at Boston, Massachusetts 15 April was without incident.
Champlin sailed from New York 1 May 1943 with a slow convoy of small craft and support ships which called at Bermuda before arriving at Oran 26 May. She put to sea again to bring a convoy in from Gibraltar, then took part in training as well as conducting patrols in the western Mediterranean Sea. On 5 July, she cleared Oran for the invasion of Sicily, escorting a convoy to the transport area south of Scoglitti arriving 9 July. Leaving her charges, she sped ahead to join in the pre-assault bombardment the next day, during which she aided in driving off an air attack.
While covering the landing and initial advances the same day, she answered the request from shore for a bombardment of the village of Camerina, so successfully that the enemy there surrendered.
Champlin left Sicily guarding a convoy for Oran and New York, arriving 4 August 1943. She made four more Atlantic crossings on convoy escort duty from New York to North Africa and the British Isles between 21 August 1943 and 11 March 1944.
While undergoing refresher training in Casco Bay, Maine in March 1944, Champlin was ordered out on a submarine hunt, joining an all-day operation 7 April. At 1632, she made contact and dropped deep-set depth charges, driving the submarine to the surface. Immediately, her guns opened fire and started a fire. Champlin rammed the stern of the submarine, and U-856 sank at position 40°18′N 62°18′W. Champlin's commanding officer, Commander John J. Shaffer III, was wounded by shrapnel during the attack and died the next morning despite emergency surgery.
After repairs to her bow, damaged in the ramming, Champlin left New York 21 April 1944 with a convoy for Oran. On 15 May, she reported at Naples for duty supporting the operations striving to break loose from the Anzio beachhead. She conducted patrols, escorted convoys, and provided fire support for minesweepers, and the Army ashore. Returning to Palermo, she sailed from that port 13 August for the invasion of southern France, in which she was assigned to patrol southwest of the transport area as a reserve fire support unit. On 18 August, she rescued a downed Army pilot from his raft, and on 19 August, she was fired upon by shore batteries as she steamed off Cannes. Next day she returned to the area to locate those batteries and destroy them, and the 21st, blocked the Gulf of Napoule while German E-boats thus trapped were destroyed. Continuing her fire support, she knocked out a bridge across the Var River near Nice upon Army request on 24 August, and a week later left the area to guard merchantmen bound for Oran. She continued to New York, escorting a division of battleships, and began a program of training and plane guard operations which lasted through the remainder of 1944.
Atlantic convoy escort
On 6 January 1945, Champlin returned to Atlantic convoy escort, sailing for Oran. On 30 January, she cleared Oran to rendezvous with the group bringing President Franklin D. Roosevelt to Malta, where he was to enplane for the Yalta Conference.
___________
"Stephen Champlin (17 November 1789 – 20 February 1870) was an officer in the United States Navy during the War of 1812.
Born in Kingston, Rhode Island, Champlin entered the Navy as a sailing master 22 May 1812. He commanded the schooner Scorpion in her capture of the British Little Belt during the Battle of Lake Erie, and later in the War of 1812 was wounded when his ship was taken on Lake Huron.
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"The refinery was purchased in 1917 by H.H. Champlin, an banker-turned-oilman who got his start drilling wells in northwestern Oklahoma. His business blossomed with the purchase of smaller oil companies and service stations, until eventually he was marketing petroleum products across six states.
Champlin didn’t stay with the Champlin family, though. It changed hands several times until Union Pacific bought the refinery in 1970. Company officials said at the time that without a costly renovation, the refinery could not remain profitable.
As the plant was shut down, the many retail outlets were sold off. The former refinery, now just a patch of land with oil tanks and some industrial structures, now is owned by Anadarko Petroleum Corp."
https://www.enidnews.com/news/local_news/complete-total-surprise-champlin-closed-enid-refinery-years-ago/article_150daef2-e23d-5f0b-9e1e-0bc25f44692e.html
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"The Champlin Refining Company, which for many years held the distinction of being the nation's largest fully integrated oil company under private ownership, was based at Enid, Oklahoma.
http://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=CH001
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"
Champlin participated in the land run of 1893, investing in the Enid State Guaranty Bank. Champlin became ill and returned to Kansas. Upon recovery returned to operate a lumber yard with operations in Enid, Hobart, Kingfisher and Lawton. Charley and Sherman Goltry had taken control of the Bank during Champlin’s absence, and Champlin repurchased the bank from them.
During the wave of bank closings in March 1933, Governor William H. Murray ordered all banks in the State of Oklahoma to close. Champlin refused and continued to operate the bank which was financially sound. In response, the governor called out the National Guard.
Captain Stephen J. England led eighteen militia men into town to close the bank, earning the First National Bank of Enid the distinction of the only bank ever to be closed by the military in American history.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._H._Champlin_House
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Eyes on Director, Enid Ok
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https://newsok.com/article/2413401/downtown-landmark-sold-in-enid
ENID - A businessman's successful bid to buy a tall downtown office building and city landmark could mark the crumbling of holdings owned by a financially troubled Enid insurance company.
David J. Nicholas, whose insolvent American Standard Life and Accident Insurance Co. was placed in state receivership last year, failed to convince an Oklahoma County judge that a California firm's bid of $1 million was serious.
Instead, District Judge Thomas Smith Jr. approved an offer of $585,000 from Enid businessman Harold Hamm to buy the 14-story American Standard Life North building.
The building, one of three downtown buildings with more than a dozen stories, was built in the 1930s, and for years was known as the Youngblood Hotel.