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Apartheid Oil
Crude trapped in shale could transform Israel into energy powerhouse
by Macdonald Stainsby
JERUSALEM-- Major offshore gas strikes in 2009 and 2010 may soon convert converted Israel into a gas exporting country with self-sufficient energy. But perhaps more important than the gas under the sea is the mock crude trapped in husk dry sands and rock hard shale, reserves which could push Israel into the upper echelons of recoverable oil on the planet. Israel has long had a weakness economically and militarily because of their reliance on others for energy supplies.
What promises to be the most energy intensive form of oil recovery on the planet could reinforce Israel's military might, while presenting a new threat to scarce water resources and the climate.
New estimates show that there's 250 billion barrels (bbl) of recoverable mock (or synthetic) crude oil, possibly even more, in locations throughout Israel. By way of comparison, Canada has just under 200 bbl of oil, including recoverable tar sands while Saudi Arabia is said to have 260 bbl.
The announcement of these major oil finds comes on the heels of the discovery of the contested Leviathan offshore gas field in the Mediterranean Sea, estimated to hold between 16 and 30 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.
The Leviathan field was discovered by Noble Energy of Texas in June 2010. The discovery is disputed by Lebanon, which has already brought a complaint to the United Nations alleging Israeli slant drilling off the Lebanese coast following the 2006 aerial war. Further complicating matters is the other major natural gas play in the region lies beneath the recognized maritime territory of the Gaza Strip.
"Israel [will] never buy gas from Palestine" declared Ariel Sharon in 2001, after the Palestinian Authority signed 25 year development leases with European energy companies. In 2003 Palestinian control over their own gas was challenged in Israeli supreme court in a case that has yet to be resolved.
British Gas Group (BG Group) struck a development deal on the Gaza deposit, and was planning to pipe gas through Egypt when, in 2006, UK PM Tony Blair is said to have intervened to prevent sending the gas south. In May of 2007, Israeli PM Ehud Olmert issued a proposal approved by cabinet to buy the $4 billion worth of gas, with $1 billion in profits going to the Palestinian Authority (PA), undermining then newly-elected Hamas.
With various military and security advisers calling a gas deal with the PA a security risk, it fell through. British Gas Group closed their office in Israel and announced on their website that they were "...evaluating options for commercialising the gas." Perhaps on the advice of retired high ranking Israeli Defence Forces officials, British Gas Group ceded their field license, so as to no longer involve the Palestinian Authority.
"In November 2008, the Israeli Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of National Infrastructures instructed Israel Electric Corporation (IEC) to enter into negotiations with British Gas on the purchase of natural gas from the BG's offshore concession in Gaza," read a release by Boycott Israel UK right before the launch of Cast Lead. [1]
"It is possible that the prospect of a major natural gas transaction with the Palestinians has been a factor in the Israeli cabinet's refusal to launch a Defensive Shield II operation in Gaza," wrote retired Israeli Lieutenant General Moshe Yaalon, only months before the Operation Cast Lead bombing of the Gaza Strip.
Together with the Levitathan deposits, the natural gas fields off of Gaza's shores represent reserves that could easily meet Israel's internal electrical energy needs and turn the Zionist state from net importer to an exporter of energy. But the importance of the gas deposits may pale in comparison to the more recent development of technology for recovering tar sands and shale oil. In fact, given the massive energy inputs required to extract oil from shale, the Leviathan and Gazan gas fields may become an integral part of supplying the energy for this massive heavy oil project.
Israel's massive oil shale deposits vary in form from petrified kerogen rock to bituminous formations that have the texture and appearance of the tar sands common to places like Alberta, Canada.
Using a combination of technologies already in use in Canada's tar sands and newer conceptual technology developed in Colorado's vast oil shale deposits, in March of 2011 Israel Energy Initiatives (IEI) announced a project to transform shale into oil. It it proceeds, shale oil extraction in Israel project could permanently alter the political and atmospheric climate of the Middle East.
IEI is a subsidiary of the much larger Israeli Data Technologies (IDT), a corporation that already dominates Israel's economic landscape and is led by IDT Chairman Howard Jonas. Along for the ride on this venture are media mogul Rupert Murdoch and former US vice-president Dick Cheney, along with many other notables.
Approximately 15 per cent of the land mass of UN-defined Israel overlays oil shale deposits. In fact, Israel has already exported their know-how to the Alberta tar sands: Ormat, an Israeli firm, has set up shop with patented energy technology in Alberta under the name Opti. Opti teamed up with Nexen in Canada to launch an in house technique of burning the waste gunk produced through extraction in order to provide energy for the extraction operation itself. At the end of July 2011, Opti (and their interests in Alberta's tar sands) was sold to China National Offshore Oil Corp.
Not unlike the seismic shift that kicked the long dormant Alberta tar sands into high gear following the war on Iraq and cumulative rise in oil prices that coincided with the Katrina disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, the latest announcements out of Israel are staggering.
The oil shale proposal that is closest to approval is a short drive southwest of Jerusalem, a pastoral area of Kibbutzes and small villages that historians believe was the backdrop for the biblical battle between David and Goliath. The area doesn't feel anything like the oil boomtown of Fort McMurray, Alberta, or even anything close to much of the Middle East, but more like parts of western Canada's Okanagan Valley.
In the sunny backyard of a house in a gated community, Lia Tarachansky of the Real News Network interviewed Chagit Tishler about the proposed oil shale project while myself and a Palestinian man from a Jerusalem neighbourhood listened and drank tea.
"It's the biggest license even given to a private company in Israel," said Tishler, who works with the organization Save Adullam, which is made up of local residents who oppose the IEI pilot project. The license was granted under the Oil Law, said Tishler, which is essentially a free entry law dating from 1952, which prioritzes oil and gas exploration over farms, parks or historical sites.
"The area could be ruined completely. This area is the last area in the centre of Israel that remains an open area and a green area and has a lot of archaeological sites that are important not only to Israelis but to the rest of the world," she said, before listing historical sites in the vicinity. Known as the Elah Valley, the area was re-settled only a couple of years after the Nakba in 1948 by primarily North African Mizrahi Jews. To this day they and others use the valley for food crops and Israeli wine.
IEI's planned operations in the Elah Valley include digging five kilometres of trenches through farms and vineyards to expose the shale rock, which would then be heated until the Kerogen and other organic materials held inside it are bled out of the rock, producing a basic crude substance. Much like tar sands bitumen, this substance will still need to go through an upgrading process before refining.
If carried out as planned, IEI's project would constitute one of the least energy efficient forms of oil production ever devised. Three to five Gigawatts of electricity would be used to produce a single barrel of shale-based oil, according to Save Adullam. Heating the shale, which takes place for months at a time, could release at least 15 million tons of CO2 into the atmosphere. No other extraction process in conventional oil or even tar sands involves a heating process this extensive, nor is any as carbon intensive. This carbon release takes place even before refining, let alone consumption.
Regardless, for Israel, these reserves represent a local supply that cannot be blockaded. IEI states that the petroleum from this shale produces a light synthetic crude nearly perfect for converting to jet fuel.
Thus far, groups like Save Adullam who wish to stop this project have failed to make alliances with other communities living with the threat of oil shale extraction. The focus of Save Adullam is to demand a repeal the 1952 oil law. Their allies are inside the Knesset and others within the Israeli state, including the Jewish National Fund (JNF).
Though the first lands slated for large scale development projects have religious and biblical resonance, there are also mining projects that will spread across the traditional territory of Bedouin Palestinians in various parts of the Negev Desert. The majority of the surface oil shale, which is similar in composition to the Albertan tar sands, sits in the northern part of the desert. In addition, mining for oil shale, which is burned for electricity, has already taken place in the deep south of the desert, close to Eliat.
The Mishor Rotem Basin is on the west bank of the Dead Sea, and an oil shale deposit straddles both sides of the border between the state of Israel and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. In 2006 the JNF concluded that Israel was using 25 per cent more water than was sustainable (this includes the almost 90 per cent of the water diverted from Palestinians in the West Bank).
In Zionist settlements and recognized Bedouin villages in the Negev, cancer rates are already considerably higher than in the rest of the Jewish state. Pollution from oil shale developments in any form would doubtless contribute to increase overall contamination. In addition, the bulk of the Negev desert is also a training ground and "free fire zone" for the air force and military -- already a massive environmentally destructive force at play.
Israel's laws make it nearly impossible for non-Jewish citizens of Israel to exact equal rights in almost any field, even within Israel. Bedouins are seeing these problems deepen-- primarily upon the orders of the JNF, and carried out by riot squads and the IDF-- with JNF-led "making the desert bloom" projects, attacking and bulldozing entire villages (some over 25 times in the last year) to facilitate "forest planting" and forced re-settlement into government planned townships.
Bedouin communities traditionally linked with the land who wish to stop the intrusion of oil shale and its toxic consequences will likely need to think beyond strategies that simply try to undo laws written by the Zionist state, and they aren't likely to find allies in the JNF.
And in yet another parallel to Canada, the vast offshore gas deposits claimed by Israel-- mainly but not exclusively the Leviathan field-- could serve the same vital role for energy input of oil shale developments that natural gas plays in the Athabasca tar sands. Israel already has a water crisis, but it looks like it might see fit to exacerbate that problem in the push for energy independence.
[1] (as defined by the 1948-1967 green line borders)
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Zionists are struggling against the foreign oil companies
Submitted by An Adullam resident (not verified) on Thu, 11/10/2011 - 05:03.
Thank you for writing up the struggle of the local Israeli residents against the foreign-owned oil company. (See saveadullam.org/english)
Motivated by a Zionist love for the Jewish homeland -- indeed, the very heartland of the ancient kingdoms of Israel and Judah -- Israelis are working hard to keep Dick Cheney's oil company from destroying the beloved land.
This is not the only such project in the Land of Israel. Similar oil-shale extraction projects are planned for Palestinian-Authority controlled parts of Samaria.
That project is just as much a threat to the Land of Israel as the Adullam project. Unfortunately, there is probably nothing that can be done to stop the Palestinians from destroying that part of the land, but there is a good chance for citizen activism along with the Israeli legal system to save the Adullam region.
Well, thank you as well...
Submitted by Macdonald on Thu, 11/10/2011 - 13:55.
for reading through the piece.
However, your response is highly inaccurate in a few places and outright offensive in others.
First off, knock off this nonsense about how it is Dick Cheney attacking little you and the Elah Valley. Cheney, it is true, is one of the investors and is on Genie's advisory board. He is far from the biggest proponent, however (as an upcoming piece will illustrate in some detail). The various leads of the project come from the most ardent Zionists out there, from Howard Jonas to Michael Steinhardt and Lord Jacob Rothschild, to name but only three. You are NOT protecting Zionism.
Secondly, your organization is asking for support and solidarity from people around the world yet openly collaborate with the JNF, the same JNF attacking and cleansing Bedouins-- Israeli citizens-- inside the territory of the Green Line and in the same areas that have already seen large open pit mining of oil shale to which at the time you apparently had no complaint. Your organization seems to believe that human rights are less important than biblical sites, and the hubris to which you must undertake to ask for help while condemning others for standing up for the rights of every human being, Jew and non-Jew alike-- is astounding.
Tischler, whom I quoted, would not talk with me based on my previous writings opposing Israeli oil shale and Canadian tar sands involvement-- because I also stood, in the same article, opposed to the attacks on Gaza and for the rights of Palestinians to repatriate all their refugees. She let me sit on the grass in her backyard patting her cat. She avoided even uttering a real word to the Palestinian who was with us. Based on your post, this is clearly typical of your organization.
Don't worry, even though such a narrow approach to the question of the IEI development will inevtiably fail-- the rest of the world who are working on the Boyccot, Divestment and Sanctions movement will soon understand that the defeat of Zionism and the protection of the climate itself means the need to stop Israeli attempts to become a regional power in terms of oil as well as militarily. And it will be done so that all peoples who have some sort of claim to the land-- you included, but not exclusively anymore-- can share in it in a healthy way.
No group that claims environmental justice can ally with the JNF anymore than Texans who want to stop fracking can work with racist anti-immigrant militias. The difference being that militias cannot order the US military to simply crush entire villages with tanks in the name of planting trees.
Finally, your use of terms "land of Israel" for what you also call "Samaria" betrays people in your organization openly support the racist settlers inside the West Bank. Wow, and you want solidarity to protect "your" orchards?
The PA will never be allowed by any of the parties currently in the Knesset to build the infrastructure needed for pipelines, refineries or the operations of oil shale themselves. It is clear you are one of those people who lives near Palestinians but never sees how they live. Cognitive dissonance will not save you, and it will not protect the land.
As it stands today, the PA is forced to buy all of the gasoline and petroleum off the backs of other fuel trucks at various border crossings and checkpoints. There is no trade for oil and gas outside of Israel allowed, and it is sold to the Palestinians by Israelis exclusively. And you can guess what happens with fuel for Gaza. The fact you deliberately denigrate them as irresponsible when they do not even currently possess the power to make the grand mistake you are proposing shows how narrow your vision is and why your group will fail.
But BDS will not, and this will be a part of that movement soon. Why? Because a free land shared by all who live in it is needed, and stopping the Israeli state from becoming an oil superpower is about as important as it could possibly get.
Good day to you.
Facts aren't your strong side, eh?
Submitted by TheBestCoffee (not verified) on Thu, 11/10/2011 - 12:40.
"IEI is a subsidiary of the much larger Israeli Data Technologies (IDT), a corporation that already dominates Israel's economic landscape"
Really? Did you guys run even basic fact checking on this?
IEI is s subsidiary of Genie. A spin off of New Jersey based IDT (for International Discount Telecom.)
IDT does't "dominate Israel's economic landscape" it's a US based company with a very small office in Jerusalem. The company is based in NY and traded on the NYSE.
You would have known this - if you bothered to read any of the company's financials. You obviously didn't.
Big FAIL. Next time bring some facts.
Genie became a spin off of IDT in the time between my submitting this article to the Media Co-op and the time it has now come to publishing. I.e. in the last two months. If you really want, we can dig up the date but I am certain you will see that and not respond.
so, rather than deal with the multi faceted complaints about the project, from using this oil to continue to squash Palestinian rights through to utterly destroying the climate that exists from Antarctica to the Arctic North, you choose to play mini fact checker and do so playing fast with the facts themselves.
So, before you bother with another response-- let me ask this simple yes or no question: Do Palestinians have equal rights to Israelis and does that include the impacts on the environment?
I do not eagerly await your response, because I predict it already: you will either ignore the direct question altogether, or you will attempt to change the subject while pretending to answer it.
This project will be death to any attempt to stop climate change while simultaneously facilitating ever more Israeli intransigence in the face of global demands that Palestinians be treated as equal human beings.
That's all I have to say to you.
IDT -> Genie -> IEI
Submitted by Lia (not verified) on Sun, 11/20/2011 - 18:29.
"Jacob Rothschild and Mr. Murdoch separately purchased equity positions equivalent to a cumulative 5.5% stake in Genie Oil and Gas Inc., which consists of IDT's interests in American Shale Oil, LLC (AMSO), and Israel Energy Initiatives, Ltd., (IEI), for a total of $11.0 million dollars."
"Genie Energy Corporation is a division of IDT Corporation (www.idt.net), a consumer services company with operations primarily in the telecommunications and energy industries.IDT Corporation's Class B Common Stock and Common Stock trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbols IDT and IDT.C, respectively."
Source: IDT Corporation (http://www.idt.net/about/press/story.aspx?id=41777)
Oil shale development
Submitted by Jeremy Boak (not verified) on Thu, 11/10/2011 - 14:14.
This article shows a remarkable lack of knowledge of the processes involved in IEI's plan to produce oil from oil shale in situ. The product is substantially better oil than the immediate extract of oil sand, and requires substantially less upgrading. It is, as the author points out in his response to the commenter, absurdly inflammatory to label IEI as Dick' Cheney's oil company when the technical team leading the effort consists of residents of Israel, including several native Israelis.
Unless it can be demonstrated that all environmental laws in Israel will be utterly ineffective and that the IEI team has no interest in environmental protection, it is arrogant to imply inherent destruction of the area underlain by the oil shale. I know Yuval Bartov and Harold Vinegar, and I believe that they are dedicated to environmentally sound development. Assuming further contamination constitutes an article of faith, not a statement of observable fact. The process does not use water to produce the oil, and will probably actually produce some of the water locked in the minerals of the oil shale.
There are not any plan that I am aware of that will resume mining of oil shale for power production in Israel.
The political issues I will leave aside. The technical effort to extract oil from oil shale is complex, but careful, and has reasonable likelihood to add to Israel's resource base without destroying its environment.
Jeremy Boak
Center for Oil Shale Technology and Research
Colorado School of Mines
Golden CO
Viewpoints expressed are mine, and do not reflect positions of the Colorado School of Mines.
Thank you Jeremy...
The most important thing to establish off the bat is that this is led by Zionists of the highest sort, whether they are Israeli or not, so I thank you for that clarification.
However, it is absolutely absurd to point out that the technology is "better than tar sands in Canada" as you dryly put it with my approximation. Canadian tar sands-- even the worst of the in-situ developments-- do not take several months of being heated by coils in the ground.
The only point upon which I can possibly concede to you is that when the oil ("oil") is produced out of the ground it is easier from that point to convert it to a petroleum product-- such as jet fuel. Like Canadian bitumen, it makes a lousy car gasoline but makes a very good fuel for airplanes. However, at the point that the fuel actually emerges from the ground (and the multi kilometer trenches have done their work in this "in the ground technology") you have already expended ridiculous amounts of energy.
So, for you-- a challenge:
100 years ago, the amount of expended energy for oil recovery was approximately 100 barrels of equivalent to one for recovery. Now, with conventional oil, it averages about 30-40 barrels for one put it. Tar sands (including refining) are 5 for mining, and less for in-situ. What, if anything, have IEI and Genie calculated for the recovery rate of actual energy from this proposal?
Again, not anxiously awaiting a reply. But very anxious about climate change.
toda,
water from shale ? regulatory frameworks?
Submitted by Makere (not verified) on Fri, 11/11/2011 - 08:32.
the reference to unlocking water contained in the shale interests me.
In the case of Shell International's Grosmont project extracting oil from shale by the same process, one-tenth of each barrel of extracted oil is water. The problem is that this water is highly toxic.
If this is seen as an advantage, what is the process by which the toxicity will be removed in order for the water to be useable? Shell have no process for that.
A comment re environmental laws, it is well recognised that companies meet environmental regulations only to the extent of their enforcement. Where there is a weak regulatory environment, profit is the bottom line.
I have no idea at this point myself how strong Israel's environmental laws are, but I will be certainly watching with interest.
The contradictions between the the headlong rush into irrevocable climate change within five years and the mad race to extract every last drop of oil from the anywhere in the planet are so glaring as to be hardly worth commenting on. Yet comment I must, if for no other reason than that I am the grandmother of soon-to-be-seven grandchildren.
On that note, carbon sequestering - a problematic process itself - cannot possibly ameliorate the enormous increase in carbon emissions that this and similar projects - the Grosmont project and its neighboring carbonate formation being one - will create.
The potential consequences are so appalling as to be unthinkable. The question that inevitably results from such discussions, in my experience, comes back to the enormous amounts of energy required to maintain 7 b illion plus people.
If only we put equal resources into addressing the question of viable alternatives.
on Israel's enviro laws.
Submitted by Macdonald on Fri, 11/11/2011 - 10:57.
Not surprisingly, they get enforced in extremely spotty manners, such as not at all or in the service of destroying entire Bedouin villages in order to plant trees on the orders of the JNF. However, I'm no expert on Israeli environmental law other than as it pertains to fossil fuel extraction. In that case, the law is not lacking in existence, but in fact the opposite-- since only 4 years after the Nakba, one of the basic laws of Israel is that absolutely nothing (park, religious historical site, etc) can overrule extraction. The government is legally bound to not use such an argument. It's about as regressive a law as one could find.
More on oil shale
Submitted by Jeremy Boak (not verified) on Fri, 11/11/2011 - 11:01.
I pointed out that the product of in situ production of oil shale was not as complex and difficult to process as the heavy oil in tar sands. The oil sand is biodegraded oil with a lot of asphaltenes (hence "Tar"), whereas the kerogen in oil shale is material that has never been matured underground to generate oil. The product of in situ oil shale production consists of about 30% naphtha (gasoline), 30% kerosene (jet fuel), and 30% diesel, with only 10% heavy residual products - very different from the heavy oil that must be blended with lighter crude to make syncrude. It has some issues that depend upon the particular formation produced. Colorado oil shale product tends to be waxy and high in nitrogen, but not at all beyond existing technology. So to say it makes lousy car gasoline, but good fuel for airplanes mistakes the fundamentals of processing crude oil these days. All gasoline and jet fuel meet certain standards, and some crudes may be easier to make more of one type than another.
Adding the heat required to something nature has done elsewhere is not inherently bad. In situ production of tar sand oil also requires extensive heating of the formation to ensure that the oil will stay fluid enough to flow. It just happens at lower temperatures. So I have no problem with long term heating at pyrolysis temperatures. The rocks can take it.
I have seen nothing in any plan by any company that involves multi-kilometer trenches. The IEI technology, which is similar in some respects to Shell's technology (not surprising given that that is where Harold Vinegar used to work), will require a great deal of drilling, but not trenching. There will be surface impacts where the oil is being produced, but the high areal density of the oil shale resource means that the footprint will be smaller than that for similar levels of traditional or even unconventional oil production.
In general, energy return on investment for oil shale production is 3-10 barrels per barrel. I am not certain of the source for your numbers, although the 100:1 is commonly mentioned without any technical reference. I have heard much lower values for current conventional oil, and much oil today is produced from fields that were placed on waterflood from inception (with a concomitant reduction in energy return), as well as many others on tertiary flood, not to mention the energy return of massive deepwater offshore operations. There is no doubt that the return on investment of energy is declining. I would expect that Genie/IEI would estimate returns of 4-8. But methodology for estimating this is not yet especially rigorous.
I consider it essential that the world begin to address its carbon burden, but it is as important to develop capture and sequestration technology as to replace fossil fuels. I believe this simply because I think it will take a long time to supplant the traditional energy sources. It will happen, but not as fast as some people envision. Nuclear power can provide one significant alternative, but I see it as challenged by its large upfront capital cost and continuing public anxiety.
Water and carbon production from extraction of oil
To my knowledge, Grosmont is a tar sand area, with heavy oil in both sand and underlying carbonate bedrock. There is no shale.
Kerogen breakdown reactions in oil shale begin to occur at temperatures well above those at which water will be released from pore space and minerals in the rock. This water will be released largely as water vapor which, when condensed, will be relatively pure, unlike pore water that has been in contact with heavy oil for millions of years. Even when Shell circulated water through the depleted block of oil shale, they were able to remove the various organic contaminants using existing technology.
All water can be cleaned, but not all water can be cleaned cheaply. Environmental compliance will affect economics, but it is achievable, and should not be used to argue experiments should never be conducted.
I recognize that we live in an imperfect world, where compliance enforcement is underfunded. It is a great deal easier for politicians to preach about the need for regulation and the failure of government than to ensure that enforcement is adequately funded. But the decades long cost of environmental failure is understood by companies, and there is, in fact, a lot more conversation inside about the difficult balance of profit and compliance. ExxonMobil was not always the most careful company in this regard, but they went through a major and lasting cultural change after the Exxon Valdez oil spill, and I believe the record shows it.
We use oil, gas, and coal because they are very rich sources of energy, and alternatives are not yet cheap enough to replace them. The hydrocarbon extraction industry has grown to its current size at a remarkably constant rate. Alternative energy sources are just further down the same type of growth curve. They will only be nurtured and grow in a society that has the means to put energy into their development. So we need to develop a carbon capture and sequestration industry that puts one atom of carbon in the ground for each ancient atom we put in the atmosphere. We do not know how much we can sequester very well. It is a big job, but the history of the energy industries indicates that the reverse job can probably be done.
Submitted by kent hytken (not verified) on Mon, 11/14/2011 - 00:25.
I agree with Dr. Boak's assessment in the production of oil shale that it is the product of in situ production of oil shale and is not complex and difficult to process as the heavy oil in tar sands. The oil sand is biodegraded oil with a lot of asphaltenes whereas the kerogen in oil shale is material that has never been matured underground to generate oil. The product of in situ oil shale production consists of about 30% naphtha (gasoline), 30% kerosene (jet fuel), and 30% diesel, with only 10% heavy residual products - very different from the heavy oil that must be blended with lighter crude to make syncrude.
Adding the heat required is not inherently bad. In situ production of tar sand oil also requires extensive heating of the formation to ensure that the oil will stay fluid enough to flow.
I believe the IEI technology to be employed in Israel will be effective and have minimal impact on the environment. I have personally met both Yuval Bartov and Harold Vinegar, and I believe that they are dedicated to environmentally sound development. Also, these two men are brilliant in their knowledge and research of oil shale and will successfully succeed in oil shale development in an environmentally positive way.
I agree with Dr. Boak and believe that IEI will have much success producing oil shale in Israel in an environmentally safe way. I have personally met both Dr. Yuval Bartov and Harold Vinegar who are brilliant in oil shale research and will succeed in oil shale development with limited environmental consequences.
IEI has not given guarantees that it is safe
Submitted by An Adullam Resident (not verified) on Mon, 11/14/2011 - 14:42.
Kent, it is easy for you say "I .. believe that IEI will have much producing oil shale in Israel in an environmentally safe way." What does it matter to you if you happen to be wrong?
You have no skin in the game -- similarly, IEI, Boak, Bartov, Vinegar and IEI have not put their money where their mouth is. They have not given a bank guarantee which can pay for clean up if and when the company declares bankruptcy and runs for it.
Israelis who love the Jewish homeland have a duty to their people to fend off the foreign experimentation in the heart of this beautiful and historic country,
Submitted by Macdonald on Mon, 11/14/2011 - 16:53.
I suppose being Zionists it is easier for you to see no problem with simply making up reality and then asking others to deal with the same said reality.
But guess what? This is NOT A FOREIGN OPERATION. This proposed, disastrous, horrible, climate changing and water destroying plan IS TOTALLY ZIONIST.
You have a decision to make in Save Adullam: Are you more Zionist than your concerns about the environment? If your first emotional concern is a defense of the ethically cleansed and illegally created "Jewish State" you have NO QUARREL with this development.
Get that straight, once you recognize the rights of all human beings and then-- in tandem with Bedouins who you have BY THEN reached out to who have already been victimized by this kind of development, then you can ask the rest of the world to stop this incredibly destructive, insane and immoral project. A project as immoral as stealing an entire country from people based on their religion.
Foreign Experimentation
Submitted by Jeremy Boak (not verified) on Mon, 11/14/2011 - 16:53.
Yuval Bartov is a native Israeli, and Harold Vinegar has chosen to retire there. They have skin in the game, and are not foreign experimenters.
The commenter An Adullam Resident does not offer any scientific evidence that suggests that failure of the first, small scale experiment will cause such devastation, or that, given a failed test, there will be any support for continuing. A very similar approach has been used in Colorado without failure, so the evidence suggests rather that a test can be run without massive environmental destruction. There will be surface impacts, but the land can be reclaimed, as has been demonstrated, again in Colorado.
If I were an investor in IEI, it is likely that the respondant would be accusing me of dissembling because I was one of their investors. So I would be damned if I did, and damned if I didn't have skin in the game.
I offer a technical assessment, putting my scientific reputation on the line to say I believe that this business is unlikely to proceed if it results in unmitigatable environmental damage. I do not get paid enough to sacrifice that lightly for any group of investors. A significant part of my career has been spent attempting to clean up environmental and nuclear materials problems in my country, which has been one of a very few friends that Israel has in the world. So I think my opinion in the matter is a good deal less doctrinaire than the commenter's. But I am certainly willing to change my opinion in the face of actual evidence that this process is likely to fail in any significant way except possibly politically.
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In her cinematic trailer, we see her entering a massive arena resembling a Thunderdome, and getting ready to face off against three tough-looking opponents. One of them is known as Junker King, meaning this can be an origin story of how she got her name. The trailer ended with a "To Be Continued," meaning we will see the full story being played out before the game is out. Junker Queen is the second new character to show up in Overwatch 2, after Sojourn, who was announced earlier.
In the Overwatch 2 Twitter page, we got to see that there will be even more information announced during the Overwatch 2 Reveal Event Livestream, which will happen on June 16 between 10 am PT and 1 pm ET. Mike Ybarra, President of Blizzard Entertainment announced that all iconic heroes will be reimagined, with new gameplay and maps.
And here's the information for players: Early access for the game begin on October 4, so look forward to it!
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Previously I've had no problem installing and using miniDLNA on my local network, when I was using an old 32 bit notebook machine, several LL versions ago.
However, I've now tried to make miniDLNA a server on my main 64bit LL 4.2 machine, and I'm having problems.
I installed it from Synaptics, and it appears to be running as a server.
sudo service minidlna force-reloadWhich has created the database, where I told it to, although the log does list some warning. Which I might need to get back to.
However, my client/controller machine (notepad) cannot see the server, and only sees the renderers.
Finally I realised that this is probably due to the server firewall, which is now by default set to ON.
In order to allow miniDLNA to work, I believe I have to open the TCP port 8200, and the UDP port 1900.
So, can anyone help on exactly how to open those port up, and ideally only to the local network.
I know you believe you understand what you think I said. But I'm not sure you realise that what you heard is not what I meant.
It seems I tend to end up answering my own questions on this forum.
Anyway, it turns out that configuring the firewall is really easy, as its name implies UFW (Uncomplicated Firewall), with G being the graphical interface version.
This is because it has many many preconfigured settings., including one for miniDLNA. The firewall now being available in the LL control panel.
After selecting the +, to add a rule, one simply has to select the application from a very long list.
Initially, I thought that was still not enough, but after restarting the server machine, and the Android based tablet controller, the DLNA server was discovered.
I can now render to the tablet, the TV or one of 4 digital radios, or multi-render to all of them, as I had been able to do previously.
I guess I'm gradually getting more confidence of using the Linux machine.
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Ва̀ле Сан Никола̀о (; , Вал Сан Никола) е село и община в Северна Италия, провинция Биела, регион Пиемонт. Разположено е на 464 m надморска височина. Населението на общината е 1126 души (към 2010 г.).

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Външни препратки
 Уебсайт на общината

Биела (провинция)

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Porlock Bay is on the Bristol Channel, between Hurlstone Point and Porlock Weir in Somerset, England.

The coastline includes shingle ridges, salt marshes and a submerged forest. In 1052 the Saxon king, Harold, landed at Porlock Bay from Ireland, and burnt the town before marching on London.

Much of the coastline is under the care of the National Trust, and the coastline forms part of the South West Coast Path.

Porlock Ridge and Saltmarsh

Porlock Ridge and Saltmarsh () is a 186.3 hectare (460.4 acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest on Porlock Bay, notified in 1990.

This site is notified for its nationally important active coastal geomorphological features. It is also nationally important for the salt marsh and coastal vegetated shingle habitats which occur here.

At Bossington a shingle beach, through which flows the River Horner, rising sea levels in the 1990s caused the creation of salt marshes and lagoons developed in the area behind the boulder bank.

Geomorphological

This site comprises a shingle ridge and associated saltmarsh hinterland extending for a distance of approximately 4 kilometres along the west Somerset coast, immediately north of Porlock village. The type of geomorphological development seen at Porlock has been noted for coastal shingle systems elsewhere (e.g. west coast of Newfoundland, Canada). Although other UK systems probably developed and are developing in a similar manner, Porlock provides the only fully documented example of a nationally important coastal geomorphological system which has undergone catastrophic failure and subsequent evolution following sediment inhibition and a great storm in October 1996 which caused the single ridge to be breached allowing the marsh to be inundated with salt water at New Works (the drainage facilities for the previous managed fresh water marsh). This storm created a brand new tidal lagoon, which since that storm is rapidly developing with creeks forming and land that was recently farmed pasture now tidal salt marsh.

Biological

A large part of this site is lower saltmarsh dominated by common glasswort (Salicornia europaea andannual) and sea-blite (Suaeda maritima). Also found here is the nationally scarce Babington's leek (Allium ampeloprasum ssp. babingtonii). The site is visited regularly by grey heron (Ardea cinerea), little egret (Egretta garzetta) and shelduck (Tadorna tadorna). Small winter flocks of lapwing (Vanellus vanellus), curlew (Numenius arquata), and teal (Anas crecca) occur on the site as a whole. The site is also visited by a very wide range of migratory species.

In 2013 an oyster farm was created with the first harvest being taken in 2016.

Submerged forest

At low tide the remains of a submerged forest can be seen on Porlock Beach. The area was several miles inland until the sea level in the Bristol Channel rose about 7,000 to 8,000 years ago.

References

External links
 English Nature Guidance for the Management of Coastal Vegetated Shingle Annex 01: Porlock

Bays of Somerset
Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Somerset
Sites of Special Scientific Interest notified in 1990
Wetland Sites of Special Scientific Interest


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Anna Terrazas: 5 Films That Inspire My Costume Design
Anna Terrazas
Costume designer Anna Terrazas began her career working with Gael García Bernal on his directorial debut, 2007's Déficit, and soon after with Diego Luna on his feature, Abel (2010). She worked with Carlos Cuarón on 2008's Rudo y Cursi and then with his father, Alfonso Cuarón, on 2018's Oscar-winning Roma. Which is to say, Terrazas has collaborated with some of the most renowned Mexican artists on movies about their home country.
Her latest film is Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths, five-time Oscar-winning filmmaker Alejandro G. Iñárritu's first film to be shot in Mexico since his debut, 2000's Amores perros.
"I was highly inspired the moment I finished reading the script," Terrazas says. "It seemed like a dream to be able to design such a complex film which is also related to my own background. And it really excited me to be invited to work with a director I have always admired."
Bardo is a tribute to Mexico itself, following an internationally-renowned filmmaker, Silverio (Daniel Giménez Cacho), as he travels home and finds himself on an existential odyssey. "The challenge that Bardo faced me with was its huge variety of atmospheres, atmospheres that take the audience to different periods of Silverio's past and present life, of his most remarkable and painful experiences as a journalist and as a human being, periods of Mexican History, of the country he left and the one he adopted," explains Terrazas. "The true challenge and opportunity was to immerse myself in all those worlds and to create a specific design and color palette for each of them."
"I learned that to be able to excel, one of the most important things is to nourish one's ideas with the rest of the team's input. My deep thanks to [production designer] Eugenio Caballero and [DP] Darius Khondji," she adds. "We couldn't have achieved this epic oneiric world if we didn't evolve together in a very tight net, knowing exactly what the other departments were doing, and in an environment of trust which we all cherished."
Below, the costume designer shares with A.frame the five films that have most inspired her, and how she approaches her craft.
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You, the Living
Directed by: Roy Andersson | Costume design by: Sophia Frykstam
Taking into account that Anderson works with very small teams, this tragicomedy, a masterpiece, strikes me for the craft detail each character entails, for its use of color desaturation, for the breathtaking and exquisitely composed vignettes. A film where everything is designed to perfection, and which I consider one of cinema's greatest mood pieces.
Cléo from 5 to 7
Where to Watch: The Criterion Channel
Directed by: Agnès Varda | Costumes by: Alyette Samazeuilh
This film is one of my favorite works from the French New Wave. As part of a movement towards female empowerment, Varda's magnificent debut work not only shows where disdain and repression come from, but presents a defense, fighting female objectification and loss of self. Cleo's journey, a deeply personal and reflexive portrait, is a shattered mirror as relevant today as it was in the 1960s.
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Written and Directed by: Jim Jarmusch
A quiet movie about exile that without questioning slowly absorbs the audience with its very real characters and its perfectly calibrated minimalism. The beautiful photography subjugates me with its black-and-white images harmonizing the feelings of emptiness of the characters in their desperate search for affection and a meaning in life.
Directed by: Ridley Scott | Costumes by: Michael Kaplan and Charles Knode
I love the way this science fiction film's futuristic world was created. Its use of certain cinematic techniques in the deconstruction of key thematic scenes, such as color, shot composition and sound effects are resources that superbly communicate mood, tone and symbolism, and serve to highlight the film's subversive ideas concerning the fluctuating perceptions of human kind.
Directed by: Luis Buñuel | Written by: Luis Buñuel and Luis Alcoriza
This film, which I treasure dearly, is a superb and extraordinary grim portrayal of the lost children of Mexico, deprived of the most basic benefits of modern societies. Stunningly filmed with non-professional actors and natural locations, Buñuel's unique style, embroidered with poetry and cynicism, makes this piece of filmmaking art absolutely fascinating in spite of its horrific content.
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Purpose. The federal sugar program is designed to enrich sugar producers, such as the wealthy Fanjuls, and rip off sugar consumers by keeping domestic prices artificially high. In recent decades, U.S. sugar prices have often been two or more times world prices. The federal government achieves that result by price guarantees, trade restrictions, production quotas, and ethanol giveaways.
Guaranteed Prices. The Department of Agriculture runs a complex loan program to support sugar prices. Essentially, the government promises to buy sugar from processors at a set price per pound. Processors can sell to the government, or they can sell in the marketplace if the (manipulated) market price is higher.
Trade Restrictions. Complex import barriers called "tariff rate quotas" help to maintain high domestic sugar prices. Imports are restricted to about one quarter of the U.S. market, and each foreign country (except Mexico) is allocated a particular share of imports.
Production Quotas. The government imposes quotas, or "marketing allotments," on U.S. producers. The United States Department of Agriculture decides what total U.S. sugar production ought to be and then allots quotas to beet and cane sugar producers. Most sugar beet production is in Minnesota, Idaho, North Dakota, Michigan, and California. Most sugar cane production is in Florida and Louisiana.
Ethanol Giveaway. If prices fall below certain levels, the USDA is required to fire up a sugar-for-ethanol program to channel sugar away from the food industry.
The USDA is supposed to run the sugar program at no taxpayer cost, which makes the central planning even trickier. The agency must fiddle to adjust imports, quotas, and the ethanol giveaway to optimally fatten the wallets of sugar producers, while not allowing the domestic (manipulated) market price to fall so low as to impose taxpayer costs.
A possible wrench in the works of the current farm bill is that the sugar program is on track to cost taxpayers perhaps hundreds of millions of dollars this year (see here and here). So if conservatives in Congress vote for an unreformed sugar program this year, they would be not only voting for central planning, corporate welfare, higher consumer prices, harm to U.S. food manufacturers, and environmental damage, they would be voting for higher taxes as well.
The Congressional Research Service gives a brief overview of the central planning here. You can see that sugar beets are allotted exactly 54.35 percent of production (definitely not 54.34 or 54.36), and that federal planners have decreed that the just price ("loan rate") for sugar cane is 18.75 cents per pound (not 18.74 or 18.76).
The USDA has more on the program here. This table shows that the Fanjuls' Florida Crystals company received a quota in 2013 of exactly 910,521 tons. So 910,521 is certainly too little and 910,522 is absolutely too much. Now if only the planners at HHS had used such precision in designing the Obamacare website!
For more on the sugar racket, see here and here.


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Another Poshrule circuit today; 40 caches plus a few extras. I went round on the bike, and there were no stiles!
After a few miles, the freewheel latch started slipping. That's the thing that conveys the push on the pedals, to the rear gears. And at about 2/3 of the way round, it stopped working altogether.
That meant that I had a working bicycle, except that I couldn't pedal it. The electric motor still worked, so I was OK on the flat, but going up any kind of incline, needed me to "hobby-horse" the bike, or else get off and push.
So I got back to the car, had lunch, and decided to cancel the rest of the day. I made a dash for home, and a beeline to the bike shop.
The first bike shop was closed (closed Wednesdays", but Dees in Amersham was open.
The fitted a new gear cluster, but while doing it, they pointed out that the chain had stretched (new chain needed), the chain gear feeder mechanism was very loose (new mechanism) and the gear cables were rusty (new cables). It wound up costing £102, which is actually pretty cheap for such an extensive repair, and they did it while I waited.
So, only 40-odd caches today.
So here I sit at 6:30, watching a torrential downpour that I was lucky enough not to be caught out in!


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- Christine McVie did NOT perform with Fleetwood Mac tonight in Dublin - But there's always tomorrow.
- No change to the setlist vs the North American setlist.
- Tour Books are now available at the Merchandise stands - filled with lots of live shots taken during the North American leg of the tour.
- The Irish had a good time!
…screams Mick Fleetwood in his very fine and grand British accent which after so many years on the other side of the Atlantic shows no signs of softening.
With that he turns and walks off stage wearing a red top hat… And that was that.
Fleetwood Mac had indeed been back! For just under 3 hours!
Dublin is the first stop of their European tour and the O2 was jumping from start top finish.
I won't go into setlists, but you will not be disappointed.
There are some really nice acoustic moments in the middle with Lindsey alone on stage giving his all.. including some great "blue steel" looks straight into the spotlight!
Expect one or two new tunes, some solo Stevie, some solo Mick and not one word from John McVie! Oh, Saturday goers could have that 'surprise' appearance from Christine Mc to look forward to.
The band seemed genuinely thrilled to play our capital city again, very appreciative of us coming out and spending our hard earned on tickets for their show and they put one on!
Clocking about 2 hours 55 mins, it does end on a quiet note with Stevie and Lindsey playing 'Say Goodbye', acoustically, which Lindsey wrote for Stevie, after everything they had been through as a couple and as bandmates.
Here's an example of one of the covers of the tour book.. Note that they flipped Mick and John around.
The encores are listed wrong on the setlist. There is already a clip on YouTube showing that they went offstage after "Don't Stop" and came back for "Silver Springs", the same way they did the US tour after the first night. They did 2 and then 2, not 3 and 1.
Where can we buy them online?
Are they out there yet?
How much for the tour books?
How and why did they not perform 'Everywhere'?
Because it is a Christine song likely. They only did one of her songs...Dont Stop...which is also party Lindsey's.
What is the support band please?


To help the people those are affected by natural or man-made disaster with the help of technology thus providing a helping hand.
SuperBlue is an Android app which collects the data from disaster victims immediately after a disaster and does a sentimental analysis on the collected data and provide a needy interpretations to first responders or rescuers on another app named Rescue.
Thus automating the few of the initial steps in rescue process and helping first responders or rescuers to plan their moves for faster and easier rescue.
Not just that, SuperBlue would send the data collected from the victims to their family, thus keeping them connected and fear-free.
Used Bluemix's Dialog services to build Q&A feature which ask user specific questions and collects the data from the user about the disaster and send it to the cloud.
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I will try to make this app more matured and release to the general public.


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 Antonio Maria Bononcini (1677–1726), Komponist
 Giovanni Bononcini (1670–1747), Cellist und Komponist
 Giovanni Maria Bononcini (1642–1678), italienischer Violinist und Komponist
 Giovanni Maria Angelo Bononcini (1678–1753), Komponist


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Anlagemarke oder auch Anlegemarke ist ein Begriff aus der Druckindustrie und wird im Sinne von Markierung und von Anlage oder Anschlag verwendet.

Markierung
Anlagemarken dienen dem Drucker im Bogenoffsetdruck in Form mitgedruckter Markierungen, die ihm optisch eine Kontrolle der gleichmäßigen Anlage des Bedruckstoffs in der Druckmaschine ermöglichen. Die Seitenmarke kann durch nähere Positionierung an die vordere Anlage auch diese zumindest logisch markieren. Zusätzlich kann durch manuelle Markierung der Auslage  mit einem Filzschreiber die vordere Anlage gekennzeichnet werden. Die Kenntnis der Anlage ist deshalb wichtig, da die Bogen in der Regel nicht exakt gleich groß sind. Bei Ausrichtung und Aufstoßen der Druckbogen an der gegenüberliegenden Seite würde das Druckmotiv bei der Weiterverarbeitung tanzen, das heißt nicht exakt an der gleichen Stelle jedes Bogens stehen. Sind mehrere Bogen bedruckt und wird bei visueller Kontrolle des Auslagestapels ein Tanzen der Markierungen festgestellt, muss sofort die Anlage überprüft und justiert werden, da die Bogen nicht richtig anschlagen und somit kein standrichtiges Drucken erfolgt ist. Der Buchbinder erhält durch die Anlagemarken ebenfalls eine visuelle Angabe, an welchem Winkel des gedruckten Bogens beim Schneiden oder Falzen anzulegen ist, um ein standrichtiges Endprodukt herzustellen.

Anschlag
Als Anlagemarken werden auch die im Anlagewerk, dem ersten Druckwerk bei Mehrfarben-Druckmaschinen, vorhandenen Anschläge einer Bogendruckmaschine bezeichnet. Dabei wird zwischen Vorder- und Seitenmarke unterschieden. Die Vordermarke bewirkt, dass der einlaufende Druckbogen exakt in Druckrichtung  ausgerichtet wird. Die Seitenmarke hat die seitliche Ausrichtung des einzelnen Bogens zum Ziel.

Literatur
 Helmut Kipphan (Hrsg.): Handbuch der Printmedien. Technologien und Produktionsverfahren. Verlag Springer, Berlin u. a. 2000, ISBN 3-540-66941-8.

Druckmarke
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How do you solve a problem? More corny terms!
So how do you approach a problem? Problem approach is a unique phenomenon, we face it everyday, we will face problems in our lifetime, and if I might guess, you have a problem right now. But how do we approach that particular problem…? Well, none of my business really, but let me share a basic approach to solve a problem.
Another corny term with similar corny definition. A sniper is the most patient people on earth, as when they want to kill a target, they have to wait for the right time and calculates everything from distance, angle of attack, range, wind speed, even he have to calculate the rhythm of his breath. More often than not, 90% of a sniper hit will be a bull's-eye, straight to the intended target. So what does it have in common with the sniping approach? D'oh! The sniping approach is altogether different with the shotgun approach whereas using the latter you try to approach and solve a problem with a barrage of ideas, but using the former you take only one or two ideas and solve it with a timely manner.
These approaches differ on a very basic level but are trying to achieve the same goal. When you use a shotgun approach, most of the time you don't think carefully of what specific problem you are dealing with. But with a barrage of ideas you will eventually solve a problem, and hey, if you are lucky you will solve it as soon as the problem arises. But there it is… There is luck involve on using shotgun approach, so if you are unlucky you will even get nowhere with the problem.
The sniping approach generally takes longer to execute and deals with a problem. Using this approach people will think carefully about which way they are going to take to solve the problem. People don't just blurbs out ideas, but they take calculated risk, figuring out the pros and cons of each idea carefully. So this is why that "silent" type of people generally talks very little but always comes up with the best of ideas.
But let's get into the real world shall we? What do you think people will appreciate more, those who solve problem using the shotgun approach or using the sniping approach? Well, off course people will always ask for the swiftest of response, and this is the part where the world is a crazy place to live in. Taken straight from my experience, people appreciates if you answer a problem fast and wrong rather than answering it later but right. It's not about the result nowadays, but your effort that counts… Is that even right at all? Well, according to me, NO, but it's how the world turns nowadays.
I may be a bitter man, but how in hell can somebody that answers a wrong answer be appreciated more? Well, it's a result oriented world, therefore people will always have to answer fast to be taken seriously. So don't wonder at all if your colleague got promoted because he's a loud mouth with stupid ideas whereas you think you can do better. The best course of action is to practice expressing your thought using small exercises… Just like what I'm doing now. This blog is a place to train my brain by exploiting small ideas and making it bigger. The goal is to answer a problem fast, but not actually solving it… Confused? It's a preemptive claim actually, here's a fine example: When you are in a team and the team is given a question, you blurbs first using a partial idea you have and finish it later. The goal here is to get you recognized first, and by mentioning an unfinished idea, you can polish it to a complete and final one.
A quick unfinished idea will always be better than a finished stupid idea. Just train your brain so you can achieve that state where you can respond fast with a directed problem approach. Don't let that loud mouth pass over you to that General Manager's chair.


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"Hearts a Mess" is a song by the Flemish-born Australian musician Gotye from his second studio album Like Drawing Blood, released as a single in 2007. A music video to accompany the release "Hearts a Mess" was first released onto YouTube on 5 December 2007 at a total length of four minutes and forty seconds. Show Hearts a Mess piano sheet
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Wouter "Wally" De Backer, also known professionally by his stage name Gotye (pronounced /ˈɡɔːti.eɪ/), is a Belgian-Australian multi-instrumental musician and singer-songwriter. The name "Gotye" is derived from "Gauthier", the French equivalent of "Walter" or "Wouter". His voice has been compared to those of Peter Gabriel and Sting.
Gotye has released three studio albums independently and one album featuring remixes of tracks from his first two albums. He is a member of the Melbourne indie-pop trio The Basics, who have independently released three studio albums and numerous other titles since 2002. Gotye's 2011 single "Somebody That I Used to Know" reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100, making him the fifth Australian-based artist to do so and the second Belgian (after The Singing Nun in 1963). He has won five ARIA Awards... More piano sheets by Gotye
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Introduction The global dental cam milling machine market was valued at $ 857.7 million in 2016 and expected to reach at $ 1,415.6 million by 2022 at a CAGR of 7.2 % during the forecast period. The major factors responsible for the growth of global dental cam milling machine market are high adoption of CAD/CAM systems in the dentistry resulting in the increased usage of CAM milling machines, growing ability to process different dental materials such as zirconia, acrylic, wax, metal and others with high accuracy and precision, growth of dental service organizations, development of new dental restorative materials, patient customized treatment approach, and increasing cosmetic dentistry treatments. The growth barriers are lack of awareness about the advantages of dental cam milling machine and high maintenance cost regarding the health among others.
The market is majorly categorized on the basis of types which is further segmented into into Lab Scale milling machines and office scale milling machines. On the basis of application the market is segmented into crowns, denture, bridges, veneers, and inlays/onlays and geographic regions. Globally, Europe holds the largest market share of global dental cam milling machine market, registering 42.4 % in 2016.
The scope of global dental cam milling machine market study includes the market value, market size and a detailed analysis of vendor products and strategies.
The leading players of the global dental cam milling machine market are Axsys Incorporated, B&D Dental Technologies, DATRON AG, Dentsply Sirona, KaVo Dental GmbH, Planmeca OY, Straumann, Yenadent Ltd. and others.
• On the basis of types, lab scale milling machine accounted for the largest market share of 65.15 % in 2016.
• US accounted for the largest market share of 77.55 % in 2016, with a market value of USD 251.6 million and is projected to grow at a CAGR of 7.3 % during the forecast period.


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The Las Vegas Review-Journal has published my op-ed on AB 240, Nevada's renewed attempt to get rid of its Competitor's Veto law.
Nevada also passed a repeal bill last term, but Gov. Sandoval vetoed it on the basis of purported safety concerns.
Of course, competitor's veto laws have nothing to do with safety. Even the safest, most hard-working and honest entrepreneurs must be denied a license under competitor's veto laws — simply because they will compete. If anything, getting rid of the competitor's veto frees resources for government authorities to enforce laws that actually protect public safety.
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Q: Why can't I view the stored played list from my app? I am trying to pick up the songs within a custom playlist in the music app, but when I return the results I don't get the title of the songs.
    let mediaItems = MPMediaQuery.playlistsQuery()
    var query = MPMediaQuery.playlistsQuery()
    let predicateByGenre = MPMediaPropertyPredicate(value: "myPlaylist", forProperty: MPMediaPlaylistPropertyName)
    print(mediaItems)
    let mediaCollection = MPMediaItemCollection(items: mediaItems.items!)
    print(mediaCollection) //prints <MPMediaItemCollection: 0x15da4ad0>

A: You'll need to enumerate the items using -[MPMediaItemCollection items] of the collection and query their title using -[MPMediaItem title].

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Paul Scholes names the best XI he played with at Manchester United
Author: Barnaby Lane
Manchester United legend Paul Scholes has named the best XI he played alongside during his time at Old Trafford.
Scholes made 718 appearances in 20 seasons with United, winning an astonishing 11 Premier League titles, two FA Cups and two Champions Leagues during his time at the Theatre of Dreams.
The Englishman played alongside some of the greatest players ever to wear the iconic red shirt, and was forced to make some difficult decisions when picking the best XI of his former team-mates.
Scholes picked Dane Peter Schmeichel ahead of Edwin Van de San in goal, while Jaap Stam got the nod to partner Rio Ferdinand in central defence ahead of Nemanja Vidic. Denis Irwin was selected over Patric Evra at left-back.
The United legend opted for a three man midfield, from which he excluded himself in favour of triumvirate David Beckham, Ryan Giggs and Roy Keane – the latter of whom he named the captain of his all-star XI.
"It can only be Roy, the leader of the team," Scholes declared on MUTV, as he picked the Irishman as his captain.
"He was the manager on the football pitch. You just knew you had to perform when he was playing. He would get everything out of you, every last ounce. He was a great tackler, great player, great passer and he probably doesn't get enough credit for that."
Scholes completed his line-up with a mouth-watering front three of Cristiano Ronaldo, Wayne Rooney and Ruud Van Nistelrooy.


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A former Australian prime minister has added his voice to an escalating row over Singapore's planned execution of a convicted drug-trafficker, branding the city-state a "rogue Chinese port city".
Gough Whitlam, Australian Labor Party prime minister in the early 1970s, made his comment after Singapore turned down repeated pleas for clemency for 25-year-old Nguyen Tuong Van.
Van Nguyen is scheduled to go to the gallows on 2 December after being convicted of trafficking 400g of heroin in 2002.
Whitlam urged Prime Minister John Howard to use the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Malta to plead again for Van Nguyen's life.
"If CHOGM is of any use then it should be raised there, because it concerns many other countries - some larger, some smaller than the rogue Chinese port city," he told Melbourne broadsheet The Age on Friday.
Howard has said he will not attempt to marshal international support in Malta for his clemency pleas, saying the move would likely harden Singapore's resolve to execute Van Nguyen.
Another former prime minister, Bob Hawke, who strengthened Australia's ties with Asia during his time in office, also said he sent a letter to Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong appealing for clemency. Hawke declined to detail the letter's contents.
Lex Lasry, a lawyer for Van Nguyen, thanked the former leaders for their support, but said Whitlam should have reined in his anger.
"I am pleased that my client has their support and I am pleased they have taken an interest," Lasry said. "But pejorative language probably will not help. No doubt Mr Whitlam feels frustrated by the case, as we all do."
Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said on Friday an international law expert had told Canberra that it would be futile to take Van Nguyen's case to the UN's International Court of Justice.
"We just have to keep pleading to Singapore to reconsider and understand the strength of feeling here in Australia and hope that by some miracle they would decide to change their minds," he said.
"There's always a miracle," Downer added, "but I can't imagine what it is."
"There's always a miracle, but I can't imagine what it is"
A senior lawmaker from Van Nguyen's home state, Victoria, visited Singapore's senior minister of state for law and home affairs on Thursday in a last-ditch appeal for mercy, but came away empty handed and critical of the city-state's punishment regime.
"This is a modern country, there's no doubt about that. But it seems to me that the punishments that it's meting out, whether the death penalty or caning people, don't belong to a 21st century justice system," Victoria state Attorney-General Rob Hulls said after the meeting.
A statement issued by Singapore's Law Ministry appeared to slam the door on any hope it will allow Van Nguyen to live.
"Nguyen had committed a very serious offence under our laws," the statement said.
"Singapore had a multi-pronged approach to combating the scourge of drug addiction and one component of our approach was the mandatory death penalty for drug traffickers, who were in fact the source of the drugs that ruined the lives of addicts."
"The law must now take its course," the statement said.


A Jmol macro is a small script that provides some reusable functionality for the Jmol Application. It is saved as a simple text file, like any other script, in the $HOME/.jmol/macros subdirectory. It will show up in the Macro menu of the Jmol application.
The macro file must be a text file with the extension macro, and its contents must be two lines, starting respectively with "Title=" and "Script=" (only one macro per file).
Note that macros will be listed in the Jmol application Macros menu alphabetically by file name, not by title.
Then to use it, open Jmol application, open menu "Macros", and there you will have a "Ball & Stick" entry.
This would be useful to copy and paste the current orientation of the model into your script.
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We begin 2011 with interesting new challenges in the climate debate pertaining to the willingness to address mitigation and adaptation at a policy level. In the US a larger proportion of Republicans in the legislature along with key Republican members having indicated their intentions to pull back progress in climate change regulation by repealing EPA regulation of carbon dioxide and continued attacks on science and scientists.
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Report: A 'Witch Hunt'? In Virginia? –– One of the goals of this site is to educate about science and what it means to our collective future. When science, or the scientific method comes under attack, or is undermined by those wishing to distort its meaning, it must be defended. Not because the science needs our help; because we need the science to help us. Report: Royal Society presents summary of climate change science. Report: Mike Mann Washington Post letter. Report: Huge parts of the world are drying up. Report: Pentagon pushes for green energy.
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In an August report about that meeting, NBC News said that Trump saw similarities between making decisions about the war and the reopening of the 21 Club in the '80s.
Trump told his advisers that the restaurant, Manhattan's elite '21' Club, had shut its doors for a year and hired an expensive consultant to craft a plan for a renovation. After a year, Trump said, the consultant's only suggestion was that the restaurant needed a bigger kitchen.
Officials said Trump kept stressing the idea that lousy advice cost the owner a year of lost business and that talking to the restaurant's waiters instead might have yielded a better result. He also said the tendency is to assume if someone isn't a three-star general he doesn't know what he's talking about, and that in his own experience in business talking to low-ranking workers has gotten him better outcomes.


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On Jan. 27, the Taliban and the U.S. government each publicly stated acceptance, in principle, of a draft framework for ongoing negotiations that could culminate in a peace deal to end a two-decade war in Afghanistan.
"The war was started by men, the war will be ended by men," an aide to Rula Ghani, the wife of President Ashraf Ghani, recently told a Reuters reporter. "But it's the women and children who suffer the most and they have a right to define peace." In 2018, the United Nations expressed alarm at the increased use of airstrikes by U.S. and Afghan forces which caused a rising death toll among women and children. In the run-up to the past week of negotiations and even during the negotiations, attacks and counter attacks between the warring parties killed dozens of civilians, including women and children. Both the Taliban and the U.S. seemed intent on showing strength and leverage by demonstrating their willingness to slaughter the innocent.
Since 2001, and at a cost of $800 billion, the U.S. military has caused irreparable and horrific losses in Afghanistan. Afghan civilians have endured invasion, occupation, aerial bombings, ground attacks, drone warfare, extensive surveillance, internal displacement, soaring refugee populations, environmental degradation and the practice of indefinite detention and torture. How would U.S. citizens bear up under even a fraction of this misery?
By late 2018, even a top military commander, Army General Scott Miller, told CNN the United States had no chance of a military victory in Afghanistan. He stated the fight will continue until there is a political settlement.
Some might counter the United States has already provided over $132 billion dollars for reconstruction in Afghanistan. But, did that sum make a significant difference in the lives of Afghan people impoverished by displacement and war? I think not.
Since 2008, John Sopko, the Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction, or SIGAR, has submitted quadrennial reports to the U.S. Congress detailing ways waste, embezzlement, fraud and abuse have consistently resulted in failed reconstruction efforts. Sopko and his teams of researchers and analysts offered a chance for people in the United States to see ourselves as we're often seen by an increasingly cynical Afghan public. But we seldom even hear of the SIGAR reports. In fact, when President Trump heard of these watchdog reports during his first cabinet meeting of 2019, he was infuriated and said they should be locked up!
It's telling that SIGAR was preceded by the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, or SIGIR, which filed similarly critical yet largely unnoticed reports.
U.S. citizens often regard their country as a civilized nation that goes to war against demonic tyrants. Martin Luther King Jr. held forth a different vision. He urged us to see the humanity of other so-called enemies, to ask how we're seen by other people, and to thereby gain a needed understanding of our own weaknesses. If we could hear from other people menaced by militarism, including ours, if we could see how our wars have contributed to terrorism, corruption and authoritarianism that has turned the United States into a permanent warfare state, we might find the same courage that inspires brave people in Afghanistan to speak up and resist the all-encompassing tyranny of war.