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Peak Oil: "Show-Stoppers" – Peak Oil Matters
Peak Oil: "Show-Stoppers" – Peak Oil Matters.
Freshly fracked wells sent U.S. oil production soaring 39 percent since 2011. That's the steepest climb in history, and if production continues apace, the U.S. would become the world's biggest source of oil by 2015, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
Rapid well declines threaten to spoil that promise. The average flow from a shale gas well drops by about 50 percent to 75 percent in the first year, and up to 78 percent for oil, said Pete Stark, senior research director at IHS Inc.
'The decline rate is a potential show stopper after a while,' said Stark, a geologist with almost six decades in the oil patch. 'You just can't keep up with it.' [1]
That's an interesting comment, given that the company Mr. Stark works for is more commonly known for its sunny optimism about our future fossil fuel supply.
FRACKING ISN'T FREE OR EASY
The reality is that rapid decline rates are a common feature of fracked wells. Drilling faster, more, and at higher costs just to keep pace with current production is not exactly a winning strategy. Higher costs for them are supported by the higher costs we pay. At some point, consumers balk, and when they do, there goes a lot of investable funds for more production. Then what?
The article from which that quote was sourced describes some of the admittedly-fascinating overview of the artificial intelligence systems now being considered—and it some cases already deployed—to improve the drill results from fracking (the hydraulic fracturing of shale in order to facilitate the flow of "tight" oil trapped in those rocks.) The article notes that "four out of every 10 clusters of fractures in an average horizontal well are duds." Given that each well can cost millions of dollars, much more than wells drilled in conventional crude oil fields, that can be a problem.
AN UNSPOKEN CHALLENGE OR TWO
The use of fiber-optics and 3D seismic imaging are among the technological advances now being used to aid scientists "scientists see and hear what's going on two miles underground."
An executive of Schlumberger Ltd is quoted in this same article announcing that the combination of their own scientists' expertise with the "U-ROC" software program "has led to an almost 30 percent increase in production in some wells in the Eagle Ford [TX]."
An official from another petroleum company that after collaborating with Halliburton and using a "science-based approach," his company's "shares doubled in the five months after" a conference call with investors.
If that's not enough good news, by last summer the company enjoyed its "best-ever results" in the shale formations of western Texas' Permian Basis, "and that it was'among the best' among its competitors at that location. The improvements were attributed in part, as a spokesman noted, to the company's "own internal efforts to pump more time and money into the science of drilling and production."
A LOOK AT THE UNSPOKEN
Improved performance is improved performance. But for those of us interested in how depleting and finite fossil fuel resources—with a healthy concern that technology and economics will continue to make extraction and production feasible to begin with—will keep up with demand in the years ahead, the doubling of a company's shares, "an almost 30 percent increase in production in some wells," being "among the best," and pumping "more time and money into the science of drilling and production" suggests that all is not well in Oil Production Land.
That's precisely what those of us concerned about peak oil continue to stress to listeners and readers.
It's probably safe to assume that none of those efforts or the technologies employed are inexpensive. It's also a certainty that whatever costs are associated with developing, testing, supplying, and using those impressive advances get passed on to consumers.
The impressive technologies now in play, with their higher costs, to locate and produce a product harder-to-come-by and not of the same quality as the conventional crude oil we've used to power our civilization for more than a century all point to the fact that we clearly can no longer rely on Business As Usual in oil production itself and fossil fuel usage by all of us.
Taking a bit of a detour in the headlong pursuit of ever more expensive technologies in order to plan for what happens in years to come when that resource just doesn't do what we all need it to do; or devote more resources to the alternatives which will be needed when it makes little sense to continue the fossil fuel chase; or even provide more information to the public now so that they can get into the game doesn't seem all that unreasonable, does it?
~ My Photo: Corona del Mar, CA – 02.16.18
Fracking Waste Injection Wells Put Millions of Californians at Risk of Increased Earthquakes | EcoWatch
Fracking Waste Injection Wells Put Millions of Californians at Risk of Increased Earthquakes | EcoWatch.
Earthworks | March 13, 2014 10:37 am
Oil companies are increasing California's earthquake risk by injecting billions of gallons of oil and gas wastewater a year into hundreds of disposal wells near active faults around Los Angeles, Bakersfield and other major cities, according to a new report from Earthworks, the Center for Biological Diversity and Clean Water Action.
A boom in hydraulic fracturing—fracking—in California would worsen the danger of earthquakes, the report finds, by greatly increasing oil wastewater production and underground injection. Extracting the Monterey Shale's oil could produce almost 9 trillion gallons of contaminated wastewater, the report estimates. That could expose California to a surge in damaging earthquakes like those seen in Oklahoma, Texas and other states experiencing rapidly increased fracking and wastewater production.
The report, On Shaky Ground: Fracking, Acidizing and Increased Earthquake Risk in California finds that millions of Californians live in areas threatened by oil industry-induced earthquakes. Academic research and government experts conclude that wastewater injection can reduce faults' natural friction and trigger earthquakes.
"This isn't rocket science. We've known for decades that wastewater injection increases earthquake risk," said report co-author Jhon Arbelaez of Earthworks' Oil and Gas Accountability Project. "Since Gov. Brown resolutely refuses to learn from other communities' experience with fracking across the country, our only option to protect California families is to prevent fracking altogether."
State officials have not examined whether past earthquakes were triggered by fracking or disposal wells, and existing and proposed regulations do not adequately address the risk. Because of research and knowledge gaps and inadequate monitoring, state officials cannot protect Californians from induced quakes.
"An oil fracking boom in California could raise the risk of devastating earthquakes in some of our biggest cities," said report coauthor Shaye Wolf, Ph.D., of the Center for Biological Diversity. "State officials are ignoring the problem, but as risky new oil production techniques spread, we could see trillions of gallons of wastewater shot into the ground near active faults. We need to nip this danger in the bud by halting fracking and acidizing."
"The risk of seismic impacts is yet another illustration that the massive wastestream resulting from oil production threatens California's drinking water and public safety," said report coauthor Andrew Grinberg of Clean Water Action. "While threats to water, air and health have been well-documented, our emerging understanding of the risk of induced seismicity is yet another reason for a time-out on fracking. The findings in this report continue this troubling trend: the more we learn about California's oil industry, the more cause we find for alarm."
The On Shaky Ground report's key findings:
A majority of California's active oil industry wastewater injection wells are near recently active faults.
Millions of Californians are at risk for induced earthquakes: the oil industry operates hundreds of wastewater injection wells very close to active faults and near major California population centers, such as Los Angeles and Bakersfield.
Research and monitoring are dangerously inadequate: the increased earthquake risk from California's existing wastewater injection wells or fracked wells is unstudied. And state oil regulators require no seismic monitoring near wastewater injection wells.
Regulations don't protect Californians: due to significant knowledge gaps, California's Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources cannot safely regulate the earthquake risk from oil and gas production and wastewater disposal.
Other states have seen surges in wastewater-induced earthquakes: areas outside California where fracking and underground wastewater disposal have proliferated have suffered as much as a 10-fold increase in quake activity.
Halting fracking is the best solution: given the earthquake risk linked to wastewater disposal, as well as unconventional oil production's other environmental risks, the best way to protect Californians is to halt fracking, acidizing and other dangerous oil and gas recovery techniques.
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Richard Heinberg: Why The Oil 'Revolution' Story Is Dead Wrong | Peak Prosperity
March 11, 2014 7:10 pm / Leave a comment
Richard Heinberg: Why The Oil 'Revolution' Story Is Dead Wrong | Peak Prosperity.
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Richard Heinberg: The Oil 'Revolution' Story Is Dead Wrong
The data tell a vastly different tale than the media
by Adam Taggart
Sunday, March 9, 2014, 1:45 PM
With all the grandiosity of the media headlines touting our destiny as the new "Saudi America", many pundits have been quick to pronounce Peak Oil dead.
Here at PeakProsperity.com, one of the most frequent questions we've received over the past two years is: will the increased production from new "tight" oil sources indeed solve our liquid fuels emergency?
Not at all, say Chris and this week's podcast guest, Richard Heinberg. Both are fellows at the Post Carbon Institute, and you are about to hear one of the most important and most lucid deconstructions of the false promise of American energy independence:
I recently went back and reread the first edition of The Party's Over because it was the tenth year anniversary. And I was actually a little surprised to see what it really says. My forecasts in The Party's Over were really based on the work of two veteran petroleum geologists—Colin Campbell and Jean Laherrère. So they were saying back before 2003, because it published in 2003, so it was actually written in 2001 and 2002. So they were saying back in 2000 and 2001 that we would see a peak in conventional oil around 2005—check—that that would cause oil prices to bump higher—check—which would cause a slowdown in economic growth—check. But it would also incentivize production of unconventional oil in various forms—check—which would then peak around 2015, which is basically almost where we are right now and all the signs are suggesting that that is going to be a check-off, too. So amazing enough, these two guys got it perfectly correct fifteen years ago.
The big news right now is that the industry needs prices higher than the economy will allow, as you just outlined. So we are seeing the major oil companies cutting back on capital expenditure in upstream projects, which will undoubtedly have an impact a year or two down the line in terms of lower oil production. That is why I think that Campbell and Laherrère were right on in saying 2015, 2016 maybe, we will also start to see the rapid increase of production from the Bakken and the Eagle Ford here in the US start to flatten out. And probably within a year or two after that, we will see a commencement of a rapid decline.
So you know, on a net basis, taking all those things into account, I think we are probably pretty likely to see global oil production start to head south in the next year or two.
But this change in capital expenditure by the majors, that is a new story. You know, just a couple of years ago, they needed oil prices around $100 a barrel in order to justify upstream investments. That is no longer true. Now they need something like $120 a barrel but the economy cannot stand prices that high. So you know, if the price starts to go up a little bit, then demand just falls back. People start driving less. And so the economy is unable to deliver oil prices to the industry that the industry needs. I think Gail Tverberg is saying this is the beginning of the end. I think she's right.
If we [continue along with our current policies and dependence on petroleum] then everything will eventually change — as a result of the economy coming apart, the debt bubble bursts, you know, agriculture declines because of the expense of oil and because of depletion of topsoil and because you cannot trust the weather anymore. And we have a very dystopian future if we do not do anything.
So it has never been more important for the average person to understand energy issues than it is right now. But I doubt if there has ever been a time when energy issues have been so deliberately confused by the people who should be explaining it to us.
Click the play button below to listen to Chris' interview with Richard Heinberg (49m:43s):
Chris Martenson: Welcome to this Peak Prosperity podcast. I am your host, Chris Martenson, and today, I am really excited to introduce a man who needs no introduction, Richard Heinberg, author, educator, speaker, writer now of eleven books including Party's Over, the one that got me started on the peak oil story, The End of Growth, and Snake Oil: How Fracking's False Promise of Plenty Imperils Our Future.
Richard Heinberg: Try say that fast five times.
Chris Martenson: [Laugh] I did, and that is the best I could do [laughter]. Welcome, Richard.
Richard Heinberg: Good to be with you, … read more
Richard is a Senior Fellow of thePost Carbon Institute and is widely regarded as one of the world's foremost Peak Oil educators. He has authored scores of essays and articles that have appeared in such journals as Nature, The American Prospect, Public Policy Research, Quarterly Review, The Ecologist, Resurgence, The Futurist, European Business Review, Earth Island Journal, Yes!, and The Sun; and on web sites such as Resilience.org, TheOilDrum.com, Alternet.org, ProjectCensored.com, and Counterpunch.com.
He has been quoted in Time Magazine and has spoken to hundreds of audiences in 14 countries, including members of the European Parliament. He has appeared in many film and television documentaries, including Leonardo DiCaprio's 11th Hour, is a recipient of the M. King Hubbert Award for Excellence in Energy Education, and in 2012 was appointed to His Majesty the King of Bhutan's International Expert Working Group for the New Development Paradigm initiative.
Richard's animations Don't Worry, Drive On, Who Killed Economic Growth? and 300 Years of Fossil Fuels in 300 Minutes (winner of a YouTubes's/DoGooder Video of the Year Award) have been viewed by 1.5 million people .
Since 2002, he has delivered more than five hundred lectures to a wide variety of audiences—from insurance executives to peace activists, from local and national elected officials to Jesuit volunteers.
He lives in northern California with his wife and is an avid violin player.
Richard Heinberg: Why The Oil 'Revolution' Story Is Dead Wrong | Peak Prosperity
New Study Shows Total North American Methane Leaks Far Worse than EPA Estimates | DeSmogBlog
March 3, 2014 10:26 am / Leave a comment
New Study Shows Total North American Methane Leaks Far Worse than EPA Estimates | DeSmogBlog.
Fri, 2014-02-14 12:40SHARON KELLY
Just how bad is natural gas for the climate?
A lot worse than previously thought, new research on methane leaks concludes.
Far more natural gas is leaking into the atmosphere nationwide than the Environmental Protection Agency currently estimates, researchers concluded after reviewing more than 200 different studies of natural gas leaks across North America.
The ground-breaking study, published today in the prestigious journal Science, reports that the Environmental Protection Agency has understated how much methane leaks into the atmosphere nationwide by between 25 and 75 percent — meaning that the fuel is far more dangerous for the climate than the Obama administration asserts.
The study, titled "Methane Leakage from North American Natural Gas Systems," was conducted by a team of 16 researchers from institutions including Stanford University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and is making headlines because it finally and definitively shows that natural gas production and development can make natural gas worse than other fossil fuels for the climate.
The research, which was reported in The Washington Post, Bloomberg and The New York Times, was funded by a foundation created by the late George P. Mitchell, the wildcatter who first successfully drilled shale gas, so it would be hard to dismiss it as the work of environmentalists hell-bent on discrediting the oil and gas industry.
The debate over the natural gas industry's climate change effects has raged for several years, ever since researchers from Cornell University stunned policy-makers and environmentalists by warning that if enough methane seeps out between the gas well and the burner, relying on natural gas could be even more dangerous for the climate than burning coal.
Natural gas is mostly comprised of methane, an extraordinarily powerful greenhouse gas, which traps heat 86 times more effectively than carbon dioxide during the two decades after it enters the atmosphere, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, so even small leaks can have major climate impacts.
The team of researchers echoed many of the findings of the Cornell researchers and described how the federal government's official estimate proved far too low.
"Atmospheric tests covering the entire country indicate emissions around 50 percent more than EPA estimates," said Adam Brandt, the lead author of the new report and an assistant professor of energy resources engineering at Stanford University. "And that's a moderate estimate."
The new paper drew some praise from Dr. Robert Howarth, one of the Cornell scientists.
"This study is one of many that confirms that EPA has been underestimating the extent of methane leakage from the natural gas industry, and substantially so," Dr. Howarth wrote, adding that the estimates for methane leaks in his 2011 paper and the new report are "in excellent agreement."
In November, research led by Harvard University found that the leaks from the natural gas industry have been especially under-estimated. That study, published inthe Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, reported that methane emissions from fossil fuel extraction and oil refineries in some regions are nearly five times higher than previous estimates, and was one of the 200 included in Thursday's Science study.
EPA Estimes Far Off-Target
So how did the EPA miss the mark by such a high margin?
The EPA's estimate depends in large part on calculations — take the amount of methane released by an average cow, and multiply it by the number of cattle nationwide. Make a similar guess for how much methane leaks from an average gas well. But this leaves out a broad variety of sources — leaking abandoned natural gas wells, broken valves and the like.
Their numbers never jibed with findings from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the U.S. Department of Energy, which approached the problem by taking measurements of methane and other gas levels from research flights and the tops of telecommunications towers.
But while these types of measurements show how much methane is in the atmosphere, they don't explain where that methane came from. So it was still difficult to figure out how much of that methane originated from the oil and gas industry.
At times, EPA researchers went to oil and gas drilling sites to take measurements. But they relied on driller's voluntary participation. For instance, one EPA study requested cooperation from 30 gas companies so they could measure emissions, but only six companies allowed the EPA on site.
"It's impossible to take direct measurements of emissions from sources without site access," said Garvin Heath, a senior scientist with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and a co-author of the new analysis in a press release. "Self-selection bias may be contributing to why inventories suggest emission levels that are systematically lower than what we sense in the atmosphere." (DeSmog haspreviously reported on the problem of industry-selected well sites in similar research funded by the Environmental Defense Fund.)
Worse than Coal?
There was, however, one important point that the news coverage so far missed and that deserves attention — a crucial point that could undermine entirely the notion that natural gas can serve as a "bridge fuel" to help the nation transition away from other, dirtier fossil fuels.
In their press release, the team of researchers compared the climate effects of different fuels, like diesel and coal, against those of natural gas.
They found that powering trucks or busses with natural gas made things worse.
"Switching from diesel to natural gas, that's not a good policy from a climate perspective" explained the study's lead author, Adam R. Brandt, an assistant professor in the Department of Energy Resources at Stanford, calling into question a policy backed by President Obama in his recent State of the Union address.
The researchers also described the effects of switching from coal to natural gas for electricity — concluding that coal is worse for the climate in some cases. "Even though the gas system is almost certainly leakier than previously thought, generating electricity by burning gas rather than coal still reduces the total greenhouse effect over 100 years, the new analysis shows," the team wrote in a press release.
But they failed to address the climate impacts of natural gas over a shorter period — the decades when the effects of methane are at their most potent.
"What is strange about this paper is how they interpret methane emissions: they only look at electricity, and they only consider the global warming potential of methane at the 100-year time frame," said Dr. Howarth. Howarth's 2011 Cornell study reviewed all uses of gas, noting that electricity is only roughly 30% of use in the US, and describing both a 20- and a 100-year time frame.
The choice of time-frame is vital because methane does not last as long in the atmosphere as carbon dioxide, so impact shifts over time. "The new Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report from last fall — their first update on the global situation since 2007 — clearly states that looking only at the 100 year time frame is arbitrary, and one should also consider shorter time frames, including a 10-year time frame," Dr. Howarth pointed out.
Another paper, published in Science in 2012, explains why it's so important to look at the shorter time frames.
Unless methane is controlled, the planet will warm by 1.5 to 2 degrees Celsius over the next 17 to 35 years, and that's even if carbon dioxide emissions are controlled. That kind of a temperature rise could potentially shift the climate of our planet into runaway feedback of further global warming.
"[B]y only looking at the 100 year time frame and only looking at electricity production, this new paper is biasing the analysis of greenhouse gas emissions between natural gas and coal in favor of natural gas being low," said Dr. Howarth, "and by a huge amount, three to four to perhaps five fold."
Dr. Howarth's colleague, Prof. Anthony Ingraffea, raised a similar complaint.
"Once again, there is a stubborn use of the 100-year impact of methane on global warming, a factor about 30 times that of CO2," Dr. Ingraffea told Climate Central, adding that there is no scientific justification to use the 100-year time window.
"That is a policy decision, perhaps based on faulty understanding of the climate change situation in which we find ourselves, perhaps based on wishful thinking," he said.
For its part, the oil and gas industry seems very aware of the policy implications of this major new research and is already pushing back against any increased oversight of its operations.
"Given that producers are voluntarily reducing methane emissions," Carlton Carroll, a spokesman for the American Petroleum Institute, told The New York Times in an interview about the new study, "additional regulations are not necessary."
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How Much Energy are We Flushing Down the Drain? | Energy Economics Exchange
February 27, 2014 7:12 am / Leave a comment
How Much Energy are We Flushing Down the Drain? | Energy Economics Exchange.
Posted on February 24, 2014 by Catherine Wolfram
California is in the middle of a drought. In the Bay Area, that has meant day after day of glorious, uncharacteristically sunny winter weather. But, I am haunted by media images of dry creek beds and by my own mental images of driving by the Rim Fire near Yosemite last summer. Who knows what this summer will bring.
The drumbeat of media coverage on the drought had led me to think harder about the water-energy nexus. At a high level, that phrase encapsulates two profound facts: energy production is extremely water intensive and water provision is extremely energy intensive. (At this point, we can't really say "water production," but as we add more desalination capacity, production becomes more apt.)
I'll focus on the second of those two facts, but this article on the water used for fracking relates to the first.
Providing Water to Homes, Businesses and Farms Requires A LOT of Energy
The energy intensity of water delivery hit home to me several years ago when my husband, who works for an electricity generator, spent the day at a California Public Utilities Commission workshop on low-flow toilets. Why would an electric generator care about toilets?! It turns out that pumping, conveying, heating, and treating water are all highly energy intensive.
An Energy Efficient Toilet?
In fact, several years ago, the California Energy Commission calculated that 19 percent of the state's electricity and nearly 30 percent of its natural gas consumption went to moving, heating and treating water.
I've delved into these calculations, and not all of the energy attributed to water is in my view actually driven by decisions that we would normally think of as water-usage choices. For instance, the calculations include things like heating water for sterilization in food processing. I can imagine a sterilization technique that didn't use water but still used energy, and sterilization is ultimately driven by decisions about processed food consumption.
A recent paper from the University of Texas similarly calculates the share of U.S. energy related to water. The authors distinguish between "Direct Steam Uses," which includes things like sterilization and "Direct Water Services," which are driven by what I think of as water-based decisions. The authors estimates that the two categories together account for 13 percent of the nation's energy and Direct Water Services account for 8.5 percent of the nation's energy.
The energy cost of H2O also depends on where you live. Californians use more energy-intensive water because we use more groundwater and less surface water, and we move it over longer distances. My water provider, East Bay Municipal Utilities District, charges an, "Elevation Surcharge," which they describe as, "based on the energy costs of pumping water to higher elevations." For households in the hills above 600 feet, the surcharge adds more than $1 per hundred cubic feet to a base price of roughly $2.50 per hundred cubic feet. Not all utilities have this adder.
Solutions?
As an energy economist, I hear a lot about positive – in the sense of reinforcing – feedback loops that could result from climate change. Rising temperatures, for example, will require more electricity to power air conditioners, and, right now, electricity production is the country's main source of greenhouse gas emissions. A drier California climate might be an example of a negative feedback: more droughts will force us to rationalize the ways we use water—and save energy, in the process.
But, how do we rationalize our water use? We should start by rationalizing water pricing. I know this might sound like the knee-jerk economist answer, but the water world has many examples that violate simple Econ-101 principles. In a nutshell, water is a scarce resource, and we treat it as though the basic input were free. In Los Angeles, for instance, the Department of Water and Power subsidizes houses on bigger lots by giving them more cheap water. Water usage in the agriculture sector, which accounts for 80% of California's total water consumption, is a whole mess in and of itself, symbolized in my mind by the rice paddies in the Central Valley.
Rice Paddies in the Central Valley
The water economist, David Zetland, has made scarcity pricing for water his battle cry and has written a book on Living with Water Scarcity. As Timothy Egan in the New York Timeshas said, we cannot "out-engineer a fevered planet." But, we can move towards rational pricing policies that help us make better decisions about our planet's scarce resources.
About Catherine Wolfram
Catherine Wolfram is the Cora Jane Flood Professor of Business Administration at the Haas School of Business, Co-Director of the Energy Institute at Haas, and a Faculty Director of The E2e Project. Her research analyzes the impact of environmental regulation on energy markets and the effects of electricity industry privatization and restructuring around the world. She is currently implementing several randomized control trials to evaluate energy efficiency programs.
Ukraine overthrows Yanukovych amid US/Russia power struggle over natural gas – National Environment | Examiner.com
February 23, 2014 12:30 pm / Leave a comment
Ukraine overthrows Yanukovych amid US/Russia power struggle over natural gas – National Environment | Examiner.com.
David HerronEnvironment Examiner
The popular uprising in Ukraine has resulted in ex-President Yanukovych fleeing the capitol on Saturday, apparently retreating to the safety of Kharkiv, a city in Russia-friendly Eastern Ukraine. While it's extremely historically significant that a popular uprising has overthrown a Russia-backed government, the events also illustrate a global power struggle centering on natural gas supplies, hydraulic fracturing, and Europe's reliance on Russia for natural gas.
Ukraine is not only a key linkage point between Europe and Russia, the country also has significant shale deposits from which shale gas can be extracted through fracking (a.k.a. hydraulic fracturing). Coincidentally, the two regions of shale deposits, centered around Lviv in western Ukraine and Kharkiv in the east, happen to be key cities in Yanukovych's overthrow. Lviv freed itself from rule by the central government months ago. Further, the platoon of police officers who "defected" on Friday, joining the protesters, were from Lviv. Kharkiv is the city to which Yanukovych has fled, and which was the scene of an assembly of regional political bosses who have voted to reject actions by the Parliament.
The crisis in Ukraine began a few years ago when Russia cut off gas supplies to Europe because Ukraine had raised trans-shipment fees. Ukraine houses several natural gas pipelines that have historically linked Russia and Europe, and through which Russia supplies Europe with most of its natural gas. Since then, Russia has begun work on two pipelines, Nordstream and South Stream, which are meant to bypass the pipelines going through Ukraine, letting Russia directly sell natural gas to Europe.
At the same time the US State Department set up a program, the Unconventional Gas Technical Engagement Program, whose purpose is to export hydraulic fracturing technology to countries all around the world. One focus of the program is also to help Europe free itself from dependency on Russian natural gas. The pattern followed by the UGTEP is to start by educating governments about the benefits, downplaying hazards, while assessing regulatory requirements in each country. An example is a USAID document, UKRAINE SHALE GAS: ENVIRONMENTAL AND REGULATORY ASSESSMENT, assessing the possibility of exploiting shale gas deposits in Ukraine. The document was meant to prepare the Ukranian government to exploit their shale gas deposits, or specifically:
Help the government of Ukraine to develop an environmentally sound framework for pursuing shale gas development
Develop more refined environmental reviews for shale gas development
Develop improved regulatory approaches
Assist in the development of more transparent and efficient contract tendering
Therefore, the US Government's goal is to develop shale gas in Ukraine using Hydraulic Fracturing. The task is very expensive, well beyond Ukraine's financial capabilities, leading the country to seek financial aid from either the European Union or Russia. In January 2013, Ukraine signed a deal with Royal Dutch Shell allowing that company to begin exploratory work ahead of fracking operations, and in November 2013 Ukraine signed a similar deal with Chevron. Meaning that Western powers were making progress in Ukraine, until the country performed an about-face and embraced Russia.
The crisis began when Ukraine chose to partner with Russia rather than the EU. That pitted the West (US and EU) against Russia in a battle for dominance over Ukraine.
The protesters in the street were angered by that turn of events, preferring to partner with the EU rather than Russia. Now that the protesters have succeeded in removing Yanukovych from power, the door is open to Western powers reasserting the control necessary for Western oil companies to go about the job of Fracking Ukraine. Unless the country dissolves into a civil war.
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Peak oil is not a myth | Chemistry World
February 21, 2014 6:35 am / 1 Comment on Peak oil is not a myth | Chemistry World
Peak oil is not a myth | Chemistry World.
One might have the impression that hydraulic fracturing (fracking) of shale deposits is the answer to world energy security. Certainly fracking has received much attention and investment, but its prospects must be considered in a broader context.
In the US, where practically all such operations have been conducted to date, fracking now accounts for 40% of domestic gas production and 30% of oil production. The price of natural gas has plummeted, and overall US oil production has increased for the first time since 1970, which had otherwise been falling in accordance with the predictions M King Hubbert made in 1956.
However, this last point is the salient one. Sources of unconventional oil (listed below) such as tight oil (or 'shale oil' in popular discourse) are only commercially viable because the need to match the declining rate of conventional oil production has raised oil prices. It is the rate of production of oil that determines its supply, rather than the size of the reserves: 'The size of the tap, not the tank.'
Oil check
Current data for the decline in oil fields' production indicates that around 3 million barrels per day of new production must be achieved year on year, simply to sustain supply levels. This is equivalent to finding another Saudi Arabia every 3–4 years. In this context, fracking is at best a stop-gap measure. Conventional oil production is predicted to drop by over 50% in the next two decades and tight oil is unlikely to replace more than 6%.
Once conventional oil's rate of loss exceeds unconventional oil's rate of production, world production must peak. Production of sweet, light crude actually peaked in 2005 but this has been masked by the increase in unconventional oil production, and also by lumping together different kinds of material with oil and referring to the collective as 'liquids'. (More recently, the term 'liquids' is often upgraded to 'oil', which is highly disinformative since the properties of the other liquids are quite different from crude oil.)
Fracking produces mostly shale gas (rather than oil), and the major growth in global 'oil' production has been from natural gas liquids (NGL; in part from shale gas). But the principal components of NGL are ethane and propane, so it is not a simple substitute for petroleum.
Energy in, energy out
The energy return on energy invested (EROEI) is worse for all unconventional oil production methods than for conventional oil.
'Oil production is predicted to drop by over 50% in two decades'
This means that more energy must be invested to maintain output. As a rough comparison, conventional crude oil production has an EROEI in the range 10–20:1, while tight oil comes in at 4–5:1. Oil recovered from (ultra)deepwater drilling gives 4–7:1, heavy oil 3–5:1, and oil shale (kerogen) somewhere around 1.5–4:1. Tar sands is around 6:1, if it is recovered by surface mining, but this falls to around 3:1 when the bitumen is 'upgraded' by conversion to a liquid 'oil' substitute.
As conventional oil production has fallen, so has oil's EROEI as we recover it from increasingly inhospitable locations, and with new technologies. The price of a barrel of oil has trebled over the past decade, but output has effectively flatlined. We may be close to the ceiling of global oil production, and the prospect of filling the gap with oil from alternative sources is daunting.
Different rocks
Although fracking has produced sizeable volumes of oil and gas in the US, there is no guarantee that a similar success will be met elsewhere, including the UK, in part because the geology is different. Even in the US, it is the sweet spots that have been drilled, and the shale plays elsewhere across the continent are likely to prove less productive.
The shale gas reserves in Poland have been revised down from 187 trillion cubic feet (tcf) to 12–27 tcf: at best, a mere 14% of the original estimate. And most of the production is likely to be gas. Even if we can exhume large volumes of gas at a generous production rate, converting our transport system to run on it would be a considerable undertaking, particularly given the timescale imposed by conventional oil production's rate of decline. And there are many uses for oil other than to provide liquid fuels, for which substitutes must also be found.
Renewables do not provide a comparable substitute for crude oil and the liquid fuels that are refined from it, since the potential contribution from biofuels is relatively minor. Replacing the UK's 34 million oil-powered vehicles with electric versions is an unlikely proposition, given the limitations of time and resources such as rare earth metals. Mass transit is the more likely future for electric transport than personal cars. The end of cheap, personal transport is a real possibility and may seed changes in our behaviour, such as building resilient communities that produce more of their essentials, such as food and materials, at the local level.
There are many uncertainties, but it seems clear that the age of cheap oil is over. We are entering a very new and different phase of human experience.
Chris Rhodes is an independent consultant based in Reading, UK, and author of University shambles

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Rose also inspired by Seve
Ahead of Sunday's final round at the Masters, a lot has been made about how much a victory would mean to Sergio Garcia to break his majors duck on what would have been the 60th birthday of his late Spanish compatriot and golfing legend Seve Ballesteros.
But Englishman Justin Rose says that winning the famed green jacket on Seve's birthday would also mean a heck of a lot to him.
Rose, who is neck and neck with Garcia at the top of the leaderboard at six under after a stunning round of 67, said that he would also be inspired by Seve.
"Seve was one of my idols – one of my top two or three players that I watched growing up," said Rose.
"He was always incredibly encouraging to me even in my early days when I was struggling as a young pro. He was one of the few guys to put his arm around me and give me some encouraging words of advice and wisdom. He could be a good inspiration this weekend.
"My short game is still the area I am not 100 percent happy with. I'm not quite converting enough of those so if I can harness a bit of Seve that would be good.
"I'm in a great position going into tomorrow. It's very easy to think about 'what ifs' and it's nice to imagine but I need to get back in the zone. I have to stay positive and play good, aggressive golf like I did today."
Rose, a runner-up in 2015, will be hoping for a repeat round on Sunday and a date with fellow Englishman Danny Willett in Butler Cabin later that day.
"Having a Major and [an Olympic] gold medal in my back pocket are all important experiences. They are evidence that when I set my mind to something or there is something important, I can bring my best golf and step up and get over the line," he said.
"When you get down to those last few holes that is when you remind yourself of those positive experiences for sure."
Rose birdied five of the last seven holes on Saturday and will play in the final group alongside Ryder Cup teammate Garcia.
Rickie Fowler is one shot further back at five under, while 2015 champion Jordan Spieth lies tied for fourth position with Charley Hoffman and Ryan Moore another shot back.
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This is a lovely pattern from the mid-194o's, the double tie in front for the halter top is a nice, distinctive touch.
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November 5th, 2020 04:48 PM #4921
The D.
Re: American Politics: We're in for it now
Originally Posted by MetaMario
The fact that it's THIS close means America has a very dark road ahead of us....maybe in what? 60, 70 years people can collectively look back and all agree "yeah, this was fucked"
Bold of you to assume America will exist in 60 or 70 years. Let's just shove all the trumpists to the south and call it a day.
Gonna give ya the D.!
Crazy Woodwind Lady
Originally Posted by The D.
Hey... I live in the South! T.T
I'm desperately looking for a path out, but it's tough.
MetaMario
#1 Merchant
"the republican party is the party of inclusion"
ahahahahahahhahaa
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaand here comes the "fake polls"
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pariston_hill
Nictheroy, Brazil
"if you count the LEGAL votes i win, illegal/late votes, pollsters got it wrong, i majorly won the key states"
Is this 2016 again, because he already claimed that.
Just badass
Keokuk, Iowa
I'm not surprised, he's going this route.
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh
the edge is narrowing because of vote-in ballots you orange clown
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also, way to be consistent. you get pissy over georgia/pa getting narrow but you're so SURE about arizona despite the same thing happening
Oh boy. Here comes the conspiracy stuff.
DoctorPhil
Georgia down to 0.1%! 3635 vote difference
Pennsylvania 1.0%
Arizona 2.2%
Last edited by DoctorPhil; November 5th, 2020 at 05:20 PM.
4k votes he's gonna lose Georgia.
Also "They cheated because I didn't want" is such a childish tantrum.
The English Avenger
Well hidden
I am hanging on to hope by my fingernails right now.
Well you were one of the people who pushed hard for me to do it, so you deserve some of the credit lol. It's riding on Arizona, Pennsylvania, and Nevada now. I did my part. Whatever happens, happens.
We're really proud of you, because in the end all you can do is your part. You voted, you performed your responsibility as a citizen, you have the right to voice your opinions on whatever the outcome is. Unlike those who don't vote then whine about the outcomes.
Green_vs_Red
Originally Posted by pariston_hill
Hey at the least once he loses the popular vote (again) we won't have to worry about him creating a sham committee to figure out why he lost it.
Originally Posted by Ubiq
I've often wondered about that myself; seems like being supported by people who only want you there so the world can end in fire (with you going to Hell in the process) would be somewhat off-putting
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Originally Posted by Green_vs_Red
losing both will wound trump's ego so bad he'll NEVER let it go.
i'm talking from jan 21 to the day he literally dies to his ghost making his two (adult) sons parrot his rhetoric.
The chef's kiss is the fact that if he loses he'll have lost to Obama's former 2nd in command.
All that shit talking about to come due.
Like I'm saying Trump will either bitch about this election this till his deathbed or his offing himself before the passes the mantle.
That's the level o pettiness he is. That and the probable 500M loan from probably-not-Putin-or-any-russian-mafia-related-oligarch coming due soon.
And if the Arizona holds for Biden, a red state for all elections post-Bill Clinton will have turned blue. Arizona, as we all know, is where McCain was the senator. Trump s*** talking potentially coming back to haunt him there, as well.
Chrior
King of Little Sisters ~
NOT with ugly big brother Katakuri
Omg, the race in Georgia is not fit for people with heart problems. Just... damn. Less than 3500 votes giving Trump the lead, Biden coming back to flip Georgia AND taking the 2 senators to a runoff in January would be just epic. It would make this election seem a bit more of a success for Joe.
Lord Gaimon
why are people calling this close looks like a blowout to me
Originally Posted by Lord Gaimon
Is not close by delegate count is close by the voting of some states. Donnie still won 69M votes.
sgamer82
Someone call for Zeidoktor
Middleton, ID
Some of this may be out of date by now, but for the sake of having a chunk of recent news in one place:
https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday...1/05/day-1386/
Day 1386: "Democracy is sometimes messy."
Today in one sentence: There was no conclusion to the U.S. presidential election (so far); Biden currently leads in several undecided states but votes continue to be counted in Nevada, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Arizona; Biden remains six electoral votes away from 270; Trump's campaign pushed officials in Arizona to ensure all ballots were counted but sued in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Georgia to stop the counts; Biden urged Americans "to stay calm" and reiterated that "every vote must be counted," while Trump, after a 14-hour Twitter silence, tweeted that states must "STOP THE COUNT!" and at a press conference later in the day repeated his false declaration that he won the election and falsely claimed that "they" are trying "to steal the election"; and, oh by the way, the U.S. reported more than 100,000 new coronavirus cases in a single day for the first time.
1/ Trump demanded that vote counting be stopped in states where he's leading and demanded that the tallies continue where he's losing. In a pair of all-caps tweets, Trump made multiple false claims about the remaining ballots left to be counted and contradicted his campaign's own strategy. "STOP THE COUNT!" Trump tweeted, followed by "ANY VOTE THAT CAME IN AFTER ELECTION DAY WILL NOT BE COUNTED!" A number of states, including Pennsylvania, allow ballots to arrive for days after the election as long as they are postmarked by Election Day. Ballots often take longer to arrive from service members deployed overseas and election officials have pledged to count every valid vote.
2/ In Arizona, the Trump campaign sent a team to ensure that the remaining mail-in ballots are counted. Campaign manager Bill Stepien said the team believes the ballots will favor Trump and flip the state back to his column. The Associated Press and Fox News both called Arizona for Biden, who currently leads by about 60,000 votes. The state will release another round of counts around 9 p.m. Eastern.
3/ Trump's campaign filed lawsuits in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Georgia to stop counting or disqualify ballots, and said it would demand a "recount" in Wisconsin. A judge in Georgia, however, denied Trump's effort to disqualify ballots that a Republican poll watcher claimed had arrived after the deadline on Election Day. In court, the poll watcher offered no evidence that the ballots had arrived late, and county election officials testified that they had arrived on time. In Michigan, a judge denied the Trump campaign's request to stop the counting of votes, saying the request made little sense since counting had essentially finished and Biden was ahead by about 150,000 votes. Trump's lead in Georgia, meanwhile, has slipped to about 3,600 votes with roughly 42,000 ballots left to be counted. In Pennsylvania, Trump's lead dropped to under 65,000 and is expected to shrink as more ballots are counted. Pennsylvania Secretary of State said it was possible they'd know the state's presidential winner tonight.
4/ In Nevada, the Trump campaign said it was filing a federal lawsuit seeking to block alleged "illegal votes" from thousands of people, including those who became non-residents during the coronavirus pandemic and "dead voters." At a news conference at the Clark County elections department headquarters, former Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt and other Trump campaign surrogates, including former administration official Richard Grenell, claimed without evidence that ballots belonging to deceased people had been counted, and that "thousands" of people had voted despite moving out of the county. When pressed for evidence of those alleged illegal ballots, Grenell refused to answer questions and chided reporters for asking questions, saying, "Listen you're getting information […] do your job, it's pretty easy." Biden is currently leading Trump by about 11,438 votes with 190,000 ballots to be counted. About 90% are from Clark County.
5/ Trump – again – falsely declared victory and repeated his baseless claim that "if you count the legal votes, I easily win." There is no evidence support the claims and Trump did not provide evidence. Nevertheless, Trump added: "If you count the illegal votes, they can try to steal the election from us." Trump spoke for 17 minutes and did not take any questions. ABC, CBS, and MSNBC all stopped broadcasting Trump's remarks.
6/ Biden, meanwhile, said he had "no doubt" his campaign had won the election, but urged Americans to "stay calm" while the remaining votes are counted. "Each ballot must be counted, and that's what we're going through now," Biden said. "Democracy is sometimes messy. It sometimes requires a little patience as well." He added: "Stay calm. The process is working. The count is being completed. And we'll know very soon."
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7/ More than 150,000 ballots were not processed and delivered on Election Day by the U.S. Postal Service. The number of mailed ballots not delivered by Election Day is expected to grow as more data is released in the coming days. (Washington Post)
8/ An international delegation monitoring the U.S. election said there is no evidence to support Trump's allegations of mail-in voter fraud. Michael Georg Link, a German lawmaker who heads an observer mission of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, said "we couldn't see any violations" and that he was "very surprised" by Trump's claims about fraud. Wisconsin election officials, meanwhile, rejected the Trump campaign's unsubstantiated claims that there were irregularities in the voting process, reassuring voters that there are "no dark corners or locked doors in elections" and the state's voting process was transparent. The Biden campaign characterized the Trump campaign's call for a recount in Wisconsin as "pathetic" and "fruitless attempts," pointing out that when Trump won Wisconsin by fewer than 23,000 votes in 2016, he called the victory a "landslide." (Associated Press /ABC News / NPR)
The Office of Special Counsel opened an investigation into allegations that the Trump campaign's use of the White House as an Election Day command center violated the Hatch Act. Rep. Bill Pascrell, who filed the complaint, said the Special Counsel's office said that it "was not consulted [by the Trump campaign or White House] on the decision to use space inside the Eisenhower Executive Office Building as a campaign 'war room,'" and that "[o]ur Hatch Act Unit has opened an investigation into these allegations to determine if the Hatch Act was violated." (Reuters / InsiderNJ)
9/ The Justice Department told federal prosecutors that the law allowed them to send armed federal officers to polling locations to investigate potential voter fraud. While a law prohibits stationing armed federal officers at polls on Election Day, the department interpreted the statute to mean that they could send armed federal officers to locations where ballots were being counted anytime after that. The memo sent early Wednesday as the polls closed. (New York Times / USA Today)
10/ The control of the Senate hinges on Georgia, where at least one – and possibly both – of the state's Senate races will go to a January runoff. Under Georgia law, if no candidate gets more than 50%, the two top vote-getters compete in a runoff to be held on Jan. 5, 2021. Incumbent Republican Senator David Perdue was at 49.98% with about 47,000 ballots still to be count. If that holds, he would face off against Democrat Jon Ossoff. Meanwhile, Republican Senator Kelly Loeffler is already headed to a runoff against Democrat Raphael Warnock. (Bloomberg / Wall Street Journal)
11/ The United States reported 102,831 new coronavirus cases in a single day for the first time, breaking the previous record set last week. Over the past seven days, the U.S. averaged about 85,000 new cases per day – a 20% increase from the week before – and 23 states have recorded more cases in the past week than in any other seven-day stretch. COVID-19 hospitalizations, meanwhile, reached all-time highs in 16 states and at least 1,097 deaths were reported Wednesday. (New York Times / NBC News / Axios / The Atlantic / CNN / NPR / Washington Post / Wall Street Journal / Associated Press /
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Global: Total confirmed cases: ~48,581,000; deaths: ~1,232,000
U.S.: Total confirmed cases: ~9,601,000; deaths: ~235,000
Source: Johns Hopkins University
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Defense Secretary Mark Esper has prepared a letter of resignation. (NBC News)
An apartment management company owned in part by Jared Kushner submitted hundreds of eviction filings in court against tenants with past due rent during the pandemic. Westminster Management has been sending letters to tenants threatening legal fees and then filing eviction notices in court despite both a state and federal moratorium on evictions. (Washington Post)
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EXPRESS INFORMER > News & Politics > Why the final presidential debate (still) might not happen
Why the final presidential debate (still) might not happen
October 20, 2020 Express Informer
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Why only "maybe?" Well, several reasons actually.
1) Biden said last week Trump needed to test negative for Covid-19 on the day of the debate or he wouldn't show up.
Here's the exchange with ABC's George Stephanopoulos at a town hall on Thursday:
Stephanopoulos: "Will you demand that President Trump take a test that day and that it be negative before you debate?"
Biden: "Yeah. By the way, before I came up here, I took another test, I've been taking it every day, the deep test, you know, the one, they go in both. Because I wanted to be able to — if I had not passed that test, I didn't want to come here and not expose anybody."
Trump, since contracting and then seemingly recovering from the coronavirus, has been very, very cagey about how often he is tested, how he is tested and when he tested negative after his initial diagnosis. As have the people closest to him.
Check out this back-and-forth on Sunday between CNN's Jake Tapper and Lara Lea Trump, the President' daughter-in-law and a member of his campaign:
Tapper: Does the President promise to release a negative test before he goes on stage with Joe Biden on Thursday, so that we can all see it?
L. Trump: Again, I — I don't work in the White House.
Tapper: No, you work for the campaign.
L. Trump: You will have to ask the President that directly. He just had Covid. He has now been cleared of Covid, so that means he's had a negative test. I'm sure he will have another one before he goes to this debate.
2) The Commission on Presidential Debates is set to meet Monday afternoon to discuss potential rule changes in advance of Thursday's debate.
Here's the thing: We just learned about this meeting on Monday morning! Less than three full days before the debate! Which is, well, kind of last-minute!
Remember that the day after the debacle of the first debate between Trump and Biden in late September, the Commission released a statement that said this: "Last night's debate made clear that additional structure should be added to the format of the remaining debates to ensure a more orderly discussion of the issues."
Which, yes, makes sense. After all, Trump's incessant interrupting — of both Biden and debate moderator Chris Wallace — made the entire thing utterly unwatchable. (Worth noting: Trump's debate performance also badly damaged the incumbent, as his poll numbers dropped even lower in its aftermath.)
Now, it's possible, as one commission source told CNN's Dan Merica on Monday, that no changes are made to the rules of the debate. But if the commission does make changes, it's uniquely possible that either one side or the other — most likely the Trump side, if I am being honest — rejects those rules. (We didn't have a second debate last week because Trump refused the Commission's demand that it be held virtually out of concern that he was still infectious with Covid-19.)
Let's say, for example, that the Commission comes out of this meeting and says that any candidate who interrupts their opponents more than five times will have their mic cut off when the other person is answering for the remainder of the debate. That might make for a more edifying debate, but there is a zero percent chance Trump and his team would go forward with a debate under those rules.
3) Trump is Trump
In the words of Kevin Garnett: "Anything is possible!!!"
In Trump we have the least predictable president ever. He is a showman and a provocateur first and foremost. He does things to elicit a reaction. And that's especially true right now as Trump faces the likelihood that he is going to lose in 15 days.
There is literally nothing that I can't fathom Trump trying between now and November 3 in order to win — or to make people believe that everything was rigged against him. And Trump's campaign has already attacked the Commission, which is chaired by former Republican National Committee Chairman Frank Fahrenkopf, as "swamp monsters" and partisan, anti-Trump[ers]."
Do you really think, given all we know about Trump and all he and his campaign have said about the debates and the organization that runs them, that him walking away from the debate at the last minute is an impossibility?
Running counter to all of this is the fact that Trump is in no position to turn away an audience in the tens of millions given his current place in the race. There simply will be no better or other chance for the incumbent to change the arc of the race tan Thursday's debate.
Of course, that assumes Trump is more focused on doing what it would take to win this race and less on scoring political points to make the case to his aggrieved base that he (and they) were cheated out of a win.
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So you're having a baby. What should you pack in that bag you are taking with you to the hospital? I've had a lot of time to think about what to pack in my hospital bag for labor and delivery. All three of my children have been overdue. My first two babies came two weeks over due and were induced, so those deliveries were basically scheduled and I had much more time than I ever wanted to think about what to put in the bag. Here are some things to consider taking if you will soon be finding yourself in a labor and delivery room.
Towel. Put this on the very top of your bag and sit on it on the way to the hospital. Just in case.
Birth Plan. This was not super critical for me as I used midwives (and a doula) in a very mother-friendly hospital, and their usual M.O. was what I wanted for my birth. Bring enough copies of your birth plan for all your labor-delivery nurses as well as maternity nurses.
Labor aids. My labor aid is my doula, so I don't bring anything to help me get through labor. Other folks might want music CDs/ iPod, mints, snacks (if hospital allows), lotion for massage, exercise ball (check if the hospital has their own), etc. If you are being induced and will be there a while, consider bringing card games, DVDs and a portable DVD player. Maybe your laptop.
Clothes for labor. I'm good with the hospital gown, but you could bring a loose skirt and shirt to wear during labor instead, maybe a sports bra if you are planning on getting in the water. Also consider bringing flip-flops and socks to wear during and after labor.
Baby soap. I don't know if hospitals let you do this, but you could bring your own baby soap to the hospital for the after-birth bath. Or you could call your hospital in advance and ask what soap they use for newborn babies and the soap's list of ingredients. If you aren't comfortable with the hospital's soap and they won't use your soap, other options are to ask that your baby only be washed with water or to ask that your baby not be bathed at all. Either of these last two options will get your baby labeled a "Bio-hazard" and all nurses who handle the baby will have to put on gloves first.
Baby clothes. You need at least one outfit to take the baby home in. If price is no issue, you can always buy something in the hospital store, but if you want only organic fibers on your baby's skin, be sure to bring two or three outfits from home with you.
Receiving blankets. The hospital will give you one of these to use while in the hospital, but if you are picky about what touches your baby's skin, you'll want to have something ready to use as soon as the baby is born. It's also nice to have one to use for the trip home.
Newborn diapers. Even though I cloth diaper, I use disposables diapers and wipes in the hospital and until the merconium stage is over. I didn't take any diapers with me this last time, and was disappointed in the "fresh baby" smell (hello, phthalates) of the disposable diapers the hospital provided me with. I wish I'd taken some Seventh Generation diapers and wipes (or other brand that discloses all ingredients) with me to use instead.
Feminine pads. If you want to use chemical-free "greener" feminine pads after birth, you could bring your own feminine pads. Again, I like Seventh Generation, although personally I'd stick with whatever the hospital offers. If you wanted to be super green, you could bring your own reusable absorbent material. That would be too much for me to handle.
Nursing bra. Shop in a store that has expertise in fitting a pregnant mama. Ask your health provider for advice. Most mama-friendly hospitals will have a store with nursing gear. I'd only buy one or two before having the baby, since it's hard to know exactly what your size will be after you milk comes in. Bring some nursing pads too.
Change of clothes for mama. I would bring some of your smaller maternity clothes to wear home from the hospital.
Change of clothes for papa. If someone will be staying overnight with you, make sure to bring clothes for him or her too!
Overnight toiletries. Whatever you would pack for an overnight trip: toothbrush, toothpaste, contact solution, contact case, glasses, deodorant, soap, shampoo, conditioner. Your after-birth shower will be one of the most important showers of your life. Make sure you have everything you would want for that.
Camera/ Video camera. Bring an extra battery if you've got one. Make sure you know your hospital's and care provider's rules for taking photos or videos during the delivery.
Phone and charger. You will probably want to call or text a few folks from your hospital room after delivery. Or you could just post to Facebook with your smartphone. If you are old school like me, don't forget your list of phone numbers.
Baby name list. Unless you are absolutely sure what name you are going to use, bring your list of names and maybe even a baby name book. Decide on spellings as well. It's very tough to change the spelling or name after handing over that information for the birth certificate -- so be very sure before you do.
Car seat. Research this purchase ahead of time and try to buy a car seat at least a month in advance so you can let it off-gas a bit outside or in your garage before putting your baby in it. Consult safety ratings as well as sources like HealthyStuff.org that look at the materials and chemicals used in products. Many folks choose to buy an infant car seat. For my second and third babies I've chosen to use a convertible car seat that can be used through the preschool years.
I recommend packing your bag in advance with everything you can pack in advance, with a list on top of things to pack at the last minute (toiletries, etc.).
Perfect timing - I just hit the third trimester and am starting to remember that, ah yes, I'm going to actually have to do this labor thing my midwives keep talking about.
Thank you for the kind words, Jessica. Best of luck with your dragon baby.


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Q: How to invoke anonymous functions which don't have a var? I'm trying to invoke the below anonymous function somebody else came up with, but there doesn't appear to be any way to do it as I can't find a variable name for it.
The callstack in the chrome debugger has SomeFunction, followed by (anonymous function), followed by (anonymous function), followed by dispatch, followed by r.handle
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How do I invoke SomeFunction from outside of that (function(){})? What about from inside it?
I tried using SomeFunction() to invoke it, but it came back undefined.
Would I invoke this by doing
function.ss.initClass(eb, h, SomeFunction(), m)

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or am I on the wrong track?

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USA Today sums up the anti-gun lunacy of the Left: It's "terrifying" that Americans can protect themselves with concealed carry firearms
If the Democrat Left ever gets their way, Americans by the millions will become slaves to an authoritarian state.
But before that happens, we'll all become victims of the most sinister and barbaric among us because we will have been disarmed, completely, by the Donkey Party (which, of course, will be well-defended and protected by men and women with guns).
The latest church shooting occurred once again in Texas, but this one did not turn out like the one in Sutherland Springs in November 2017, where 26 people were killed and another 20 injured by a former U.S. Air Force airman who should not have been legally able to buy guns because of a criminal record while serving.
Rather than double down on victimhood, majority Republicans in the Texas legislature got together and sent Gov. Greg Abbott legislation that extended the right of armed self-defense to churchgoers. The result: The shooting at the West Freeway Church of Christ Dec. 30 was far less deadly.
As The Washington Times reported:
During Sunday's attack, parishioners Richard White and Jack Wilson sprang into action after a gunman opened fire at the church in White Settlement. The attack lasted only six seconds before Mr. Wilson, a former reserve sheriff's deputy and Army veteran, fatally shot the gunman. White, an armed member of the church's volunteer security team, drew his weapon and fired a shot into the wall before he was fatally shot by the gunman, Mr. Wilson said Monday. One other church member was also killed in the attack.
So yes, there were deaths of innocent people. But there were far fewer deaths than there would have been if no one had been armed and ready to respond.
Nevertheless, in a column by Elvia Díaz originally for the Arizona Republic but republished by USA Today, while crediting the parishioners for their quick actions nevertheless lamented that the incident would be championed by "gun advocates" as the right policy to adopt everywhere. (Related: Are Republicans preparing to sell out constituents over gun control following Texas church shooting?)
'Shall not be infringed' means what it says
Wilson, she said, was trained in the use of a weapon so he's "exactly the kind of man you want around with a firearm." But she complained that not as much was known about six other churchgoers who drew their weapons, "and that's terrifying."
"[H]ave we really reached a point when each of us need to carry a firearm anywhere we go?" she asked.
In a word, yes, but that's not even the right question because life in America is inherently safer today than it was 100 years ago or even 230 years ago when the Constitution was being debated and ratified.
What's more, let's just say that the law in Texas still forbade anyone from carrying a gun inside a church; that didn't matter in Sutherland Springs and it wouldn't have mattered at White Settlement.
Also, Diaz writes, "The Second Amendment gives Americans the right to bear arms. And that isn't going anywhere. But that constitutional amendment doesn't spell out the types of firearms Americans should bear, nor does it give Americans the right to sell them to anyone to carry anywhere."
Again, that's not even the right point to make. The Second Amendment pertains to firearms, period — so yeah, specific firearms are not mentioned (does she really believe the founders never thought someone would invent a better gun than those they had in 1787?). The amendment also makes this important distinction: That the right "shall not be infringed." Any law that restricts firearms, firearms ownership, or where someone can take that firearm is an "infringement."
It's like saying Americans can have free speech on the street corner but not in a library; we can freely worship any god (or no god) we want, but we can't wear a religious symbol in a Walmart store, etc.
Fact is, there is nothing more 'terrifying' that being victimized without having any means of self-defense. Anyone who's ever been in that position knows that for a fact.
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Shirley Owens (* 10. Juni 1941 in Henderson, North Carolina) ist eine US-amerikanische Sängerin, die als Frontsängerin der Girlgroup The Shirelles bekannt wurde.

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Shirley Owens wurde 1941 in Henderson, North Carolina geboren. Sie besuchte die High School von Passaic, wo sie 1957 zusammen mit drei ihrer Klassenkameradinnen die Shirelles gründete. In den 1960er-Jahren hatte die Gruppe mit Owens als Frontsängerin einige Erfolge, ehe sie 1975 eine Solokarriere unter dem Künstlernamen Lady Rose begann. Bereits 1969 veröffentlichte die Sängerin nur unter Nennung ihres Vornamens zwei Soloalben sowie drei Singles, bei denen die Shirelles lediglich als Backgroundsänger tätig waren. Die Shirelles bestanden noch bis 1982 und lösten sich anschließend auf.

Ebenfalls 1975 veröffentlichte Owens unter ihrem Ehenamen Shirley Alston ein Soloalbum mit dem Titel With A Little Help From My Friends, das nach dem gleichnamigen Lied der Band The Beatles benannt wurde. An dem Album wirkten mehrere Mitglieder anderer Bands mit, darunter von The Flamingos, The Drifters, The Five Satins, Danny & The Juniors sowie Herman's Hermits.

Gemeinsam mit den anderen ehemaligen Mitgliedern der Shirelles wurde Owens 1996 in die Rock and Roll Hall of Fame aufgenommen. Sie war zweimal verheiratet und trägt heute den Namen Shirley Alston Reeves.

Diskografie

Alben
 1969: Juguetes (als Shirley)
 1969: Look What You've Done To My Heart (als Shirley)
 1975: With A Little Help From My Friends (als Shirley Alston)
 1977: Lady Rose (als Shirley Alston)

Extended Plays
 1969: Look What You've Done To My Heart / A Most Unusual Boy (als Shirley & The Shirelles)
 1969: Never Give You Up (Never Gonna Give You Up) / Go Away And Find Yourself (als Shirley & The Shirelles)
 1969: Playthings / Looking Glass (als Shirley & The Shirelles)
 1975: I'd Rather Not Be Loving You / Can't Stop Singin' ('bout The Boy I Love) (als Shirley Alston)
 1975: I Hear Those Church Bells Ringing / Chapel Of Love (als Shirley Alston)
 1976: Dream Express / If You Want Me (als Lady Rose)

Weblinks

 Biografie der The Shirelles auf billboard.com (englisch)

Einzelnachweise

Sänger
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