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Exxon Aims For $15-a-Barrel Costs In Giant Permian Operation
Started by 50 shades of black , March 14 2019
50 shades of black + 221
Exxon Mobil Corp. plans to reduce the cost of pumping oil in the Permian to about $15 a barrel, a level only seen in the giant oil fields of the Middle East. The scale of Exxon's drilling means that it can spread its costs over such a big operation that the basin will become competitive with almost anywhere in the world, Staale Gjervik, president of XTO Energy, the supermajor's shale division, said in an interview. Development, operating and land acquisition costs will be "in and around $15 a barrel," he said on the sidelines of the CERAWeek Conference by IHS Markit in Houston. "The way we are approaching it is very unique compared to most, if not really everybody out there, as far as the scale." The shale revolution has made the Permian into the world's largest shale field, with production topping 4 million barrels a day, almost as much as Iraq, OPEC's second-biggest member. But the rapid growth has often meant that producers burn cash flow to reinvest in the expansion, prompting investors to call on them to focus more on returns in 2019. Exxon plans to deploy 55 rigs in the Permian this year, by far the most of any driller, as it aims to increase output in the region fivefold to about 1 million barrels a day by 2024. Its strategy also includes building its own takeaway infrastructure from separation tanks to pipelines, and it's even joining a giant conduit project to make sure its oil doesn't get stuck in bottlenecks that have depressed prices in West Texas.
pinto + 258
Why create efficient renewable energy when you can release crude oil into the environment...
ThunderBlade + 214
Exxon plans to ramp capital spending in the next two years. The company forecasts substantial earnings and cash flow increases with a major catch of needing $60/bbl oil.
ExxonMobil expects earnings to jump 140% by 2025
"Exxon plans to produce 1 million barrels of oil equivalent a day in the Permian as soon as 2024 - way up from a 2025 projection of 600,000 barrels just a year ago."
Tom Kirkman + 3,983
Oil Major
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I will be enormously impressed if Exxon can actually pull this off. Not joking here.
If Exxon can really and truly get *actual costs* down to $15 break even in the Permian, it truly would be a game changer, and I could finally stop bitching and moaning about the U.S. Shale Oil hamster wheel of debt.
But we will have to wait and see what actually happens. I remain sceptical, but I would be very happy to be proved wrong. If Exxon can get $15 break evens in Shale Oil, then OPEC will likely have a meltdown.
6 minutes ago, 50 shades of black said:
Exxon plans to produce 1 million barrels of oil equivalent a day in the Permian as soon as 2024 - way up from a 2025 projection of 600,000 barrels just a year ago."
First red flag ! !
Accounting deceptions ahoy ! !
BOE (Barrels of Oil Equivalent) are NOT Barrels of Oil.
Beware...
Old-Ruffneck + 404
43 minutes ago, Tom Kirkman said:
When I was down there in West Texas last 2 months, parts were BE @15.00 to 20.00. But unless they get only and all the sweet spots and cube drill them, I am still skeptical of maintaining a BE that low. I seriously don't think there is a lot left of the ez pickins' ya know. Exxon and Chevron are the ones to watch down there in the next 180 days. I wouldn't bet further out than that. A flick of a switch and all goes to hell in the oil patch. @Mike Shellmanprobably be the best to give accurate updates. I am sure there is 40bb but how easy drilling and extracting I am leery of. So my guess is still 25+ BE and likely slightly higher as time goes on. 2025? LMAO on that far out prediction. Nothing in certain in oil field terms that far out. Look at what last 2 months have wrought. Hmmmmmm. A head scratcher? Not really, just a breather and the bux are slowing down.
1 hour ago, pinto said:
The real question is, why not? Money talks, B.S. walks. Efficient and Renewable Energy don't belong in the same sentence as of yet. Maybe 10 years or so but do a cost break down of all the renewables from inception to end product and you'll see that if not government subsidized, still a terrible investment unless you want to have capital loss on the sheets.
Happy Go Lucky + 21
" Exxon Mobil Corp. plans to reduce the cost of pumping oil in the Permian to about $15 a barrel, "
Plans to - - so does that mean the technology is available NOW -- if it is, what's taking so long to implement, -- "plans to" In how many years and would oil even be relevant at that time
I use a Very very ROUGH calculation to determine the price of future automotive gas, and using my calc's at $15 barrel, and using existing spread to Brent my calc for the cost of automotive gas would be $1.07 per gal (not adjusted for inflation ) - who needs renewables
John Foote + 584
4 hours ago, Tom Kirkman said:
Actually grateful. That means they plan on not flaring the gas, and condensate capture. I want my night sky back when I go camping in West Texas. I miss the Milky Way.
Otis11 + 46
1 minute ago, John Foote said:
Actually grateful. That means they plan on not flaring the gas, and condensate capture. I want my night sky back when I go camping in West Texas. I miss the Milky Way.
You mean you don't like flares so big and frequent that the clouds glow red after a storm?
Seriously - the flaring is out of control. Capture it and sell (though we need more pipelines to avoid the negative spot market we saw a while ago...).
1 hour ago, JJCar said:
Operators that employ the latest technology (and can afford the latest technology) can hit this number. Over 1100 shale drilling/fracing patents filed in last 2 years. Some (Chevron) are producing oil low $20s today. Closed mined people are in denial still thinking like its 2012.
Chevron CEO said they are only recovering 9% to 10% of shale oil and gas (up fro 3% to 5%in 2013) . I saw report that will increase to over 30% in three to four years.
$15 bbls cost. No problem.
Though I disagree on the 30% EOR in 3-4 years - I think 15% would be great! And get you all the way to your pricing goals... If someone can produce for $30/bbl now, and goes from 9% to 15%, that drops cost/bbl to $15. This isnt quite true because you still have royalties that are a per-barrel cost, but facilities (even as expensive as they are) an negligible in total cost if done correctly. So unless drilling and completions costs jump significantly to achieve this, $20 is perfectly reasonable right there. Take all the other steps they mention to avoid bottlenecks and such, $15 seems ambitious, but reasonable.
Oil_Engineer + 85
it sounds to me like a move away from shale and back to conventional.
3 hours ago, John Foote said:
South of Ft. Stockton no flares!! at present.
Mike Shellman + 447
@Old-Ruffneck your a hand, I know you won't mind much if I disagree with you. That's the oilfield, right? Break even price is a worthless metric that has so many different meanings its ridiculous. Some BE numbers include annual rates of return on CAPEX, others don't and all BE calculations leave out tons of costs and/or can be diluted by the BOE, gas at 6:1 dribble Tom mentions. BE just sounds good and that is why the shale oil industry loves it. It implies that everything over the BE number is profit. We all know by now, I hope, unless your living on the moon, that the shale oil industry is not profitable and choking on debt. That too is the oilfield; some things work, others things don't. The shale oil thing keeps on going like the little Energy rabbit because it is borrowing more money to drill those wells and/or deferring old debt from wells that were drilled 5,6,8 years ago.
The XOM claim is dumb. Its wells, the ones I've seen, or NO better than other wells drilled by independents. Its costs would have to come down 40% to ALL other costs in both basins for the same sort of wells. It can't be done. If all of its acreage averaged 3/16th royalty burdens those deductions, plus severance taxes, alone, is $11.50 per BO. It produces 327K BWPD from HZ wells in the Permian Basin and produces 123K BOPD (shaleprofile.com). If it can handle all that water for $2/bbl. (which it can't), water costs alone are pushing $5 per incremental BO. Then there are enormous lift costs associated with ESP lift, interest expense on its $36B of debt, and G&A costs.
Exxon's $15 BE claim is ridiculous. Statements like that will serve to create mistrust among shareholders, however many it has left, will help keep oil prices low and volatile and otherwise create the illusion that America is covered up with cheap shale oil, as long as Exxon is charge. If one believes that crap then it needs to run out and buy XOM stock, now.
Keep a bind on it.
ronwagn + 1,306
10 hours ago, pinto said:
Renewables have to be price competitive like any other product. ICE cars will be around a long time and they are just one factor. Natural gas is the best choice for trucking, ships, railroads, etc but first, the price of oil must go up or governments must demand tighter controls on pollution. Los Angeles is doing that right now and I expect a disaster unless they back off. Watch them. They just canceled plans to build new natural gas plants. I predict a reversal of Mayor Garcetti's order.
10 hours ago, Tom Kirkman said:
Well, they will be providing a much needed way to stop wasting our natural gas and related liquids. That is my biggest gripe.
9 hours ago, Old-Ruffneck said:
They do have to keep luring investors.
The governments will not care if they can keep raising energy prices without opposition. Californians just voted to not cancel a 25 cent gasoline tax!
3 minutes ago, ronwagn said:
Buyer beware at this point. I am thinking soon another 2014. The dominoes will fall
Not a deception, just showing best practices.
6 minutes ago, Old-Ruffneck said:
We have to reelect Trump and it will be OK but we have to cut Defense and other spending while getting more bang for our buck.
I had to go a couple of miles out of Tucumcari to show my wife what a dark night sky looks like. She never believed me about what she was missing. She was a small town girl but lived close to two small cities, Springfield and Decatur IL.
Biggest issue is loans on loans, triplicated. If you or I were to do this, we would be locked up. Seems the oilpatch has a get outta jail card for free. "But we must increase production" and the poor investors are the ones left hanging. That's why I say buyer beware. This game is about played out. When I came back home to Illinois last week, the rigs were already diminishing. I have a feeling it's going to increase soon, no matter what Exxon or Chevron say. The mood down there is changing and you can tell by amount of RV's leaving. I could be wrong, my timetable guesstimate is less than 6 months. There is plenty of completion work yet and pipelines and infrastructure. But drilling will halt rapidly. Or maybe they will find more suckers to loan em money??
just north of Peoria here.


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As Feds Arrest 40 Immigrants, Protesters Demand De Blasio Take Action to Protect New Yorkers
by Max Rivlin-Nadler
Max Rivlin-Nadler
Immigrations and Customs Enforcement has confirmed that it arrested nearly forty immigrants in the greater New York area over the past week. While ICE claims that the arrests were part of "routine, daily targeted operations," the number represents an uptick in the number of arrests compared to periods of routine enforcement during the Obama administration.
While he has promised to protect New York City's status as a sanctuary city, Mayor Bill de Blasio has maintained his support for cracking down on low-level offenses as part of a Broken Windows policing strategy. Earlier this month, the mayor told state lawmakers that he'd look into expanding the list of 170 offenses in which the NYPD would cooperate with ICE to deport New Yorkers.
Hundreds of protesters rallied in Washington Square Park on Saturday afternoon against the NYPD's use of Broken Windows policing, which puts New York City's immigrants directly at risk under President Trump's executive order seeking to eliminate sanctuary cities.
"We need to draw a line between what is real resistance, and what is a fake resistance," said Karina Garcia, an organizer with the ANSWER coalition. "We want to hold the mayor accountable for not just his nice words, but for his actions. We've seen the gap between his nice words and his actions. We need a fundamental shift in policing. We cannot claim to be a sanctuary city when police flood immigrant communities with cops who are racking up summonses and arrests in huge numbers."
The ICE arrests came against the backdrop of increased enforcement nationwide and amid inaccurate rumors of ICE checkpoints throughout the city. President Trump's Public Safety Executive Order, signed on January 25, emphasizes that ICE should now arrest every undocumented individual who is even charged with a crime or who has engaged in conduct that could be construed as a crime, regardless of whether they have criminal convictions against them. Trump's order also prioritizes for removal green card holders who have prior criminal convictions, no matter how long ago in the past, who come into contact with the criminal justice system.
"We have to be out in the streets every goddamn day until Broken Windows is a thing of a past," said Imani Henry, an organizer at Equality for Flatbush. "They have to know we're woke and we're ready."
Saturday's rally, which organizers dubbed, "Here to Stay, No Nos Vamos," featured speakers who repeatedly chastised the mayor for consistently failing to understand that people being arrested are eventually being deported because of policies he himself has put in place.
"If you want to call this city a 'sanctuary city,' it starts with taking power away from the police and bringing it back to the communities," said Milton Trujillo, an organizer with ICE-FREE QUEENS.
After the rally, protesters marched out of Washington Square Park and into Greenwich Village, where they circled the NYPD's 6th Precinct. As the march attempted to cross the street at Hudson and Grove, the NYPD identified five leaders of the march who were not, to this reporter, breaking any laws. One officer tackled a man into a snowbank in the gutter, then held his face in the snow as his hands were zip-tied.
NYPD just attacked & started randomly arresting people at #NoNosVamos march! #ACAB #NoBanNoWallNoRaids pic.twitter.com/kAQji17myB
— Ash J (@AshAgony) February 11, 2017
The NYPD tells the Voice that four of those arrested were charged with "crossing against a steady red light" and given summonses, while a fifth person, Walter "Hawk" Newsome, a leader of Black Lives Matter — Greater New York, was charged with "obstructing governmental administration" and "resisting arrest."
As speakers at the rally pointed out, "obstructing government administration" is one of the 170 offenses that the NYPD will cooperate with ICE about under the city's detainer law.
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Participants: Mary (Michael), Vicki (Lawrence), and Jim (Yarr).
JIM: Good afternoon. Thank you. I have a few questions; mainly, I guess, points of clarification. For quite some time, almost after the inception of our physical meeting here, I've had discussions with myself, and then I hear your dialect coming into my mind. That is you? (Elias nods) Okay, thank you.
ELIAS: I have expressed to you Yarr, that I am in continuous communication with you, as with many other individuals also.
JIM: Yes. We've had some great conversations! I guess I just had to hear that objectively. Thank you. You gave an explanation to a person recently who was noticing her sight, being unable to focus. The explanation you gave, is that what I'm experiencing, along those same lines? Or is this the DNA belief system of my family heritage?
ELIAS: This is an alignment with your choice of your heritage. You may alter this if you are so choosing, as I have expressed in previous sessions that your DNA is not absolute and unchangeable. It is your choice as to what you wish to be altering, but within the probabilities that you have already chosen, you have accepted certain heritages and align with the creation of certain physical aspects in relation to what you have chosen within your family history. Therefore, you align your DNA structure to be complying with your lineage.
JIM: And in correcting ... it wouldn't be correcting but choosing another alignment of clear sight, that would be accepting of that alignment and then neutralizing that action subjectively?
ELIAS: It would be recognizing that you have chosen this probability and you have chosen this physical structure within your encoding, and then altering of probabilities and choosing to be not aligning with family lineage.
JIM: So it's not necessarily a healing action within myself?
ELIAS: No. It would be an alteration in choice of probabilities having to do with alignments of family history.
JIM: All I'm needing to do then is express my choice in altering probabilities and accept it, and that will occur.
JIM: You had mentioned at one time that the essence of Jesus shall remanifest within our shift. Do any of the other leaders – Siddhartha, Lao Tse, or any of the other leaders of religions as we see them – have plans to remanifest within our shift as well?
ELIAS: No; this being a specialized action within this one essence; and only one aspect of that essence, one focus which is one facet of that essence, is choosing to be merging and has already merged with the essence manifesting within nine physical focuses presently. As I have expressed to you, the one aspect of that essence – that which manifests physically as Paul, Saul of Tarsus – that is the aspect or the focus of the essence which has now merged with Rose and is remanifest within these nine physical focuses of Rose presently; the reason for this being a continuation of the manifestation which was agreed upon initially, in knowing within essence that THAT essence would be instrumental in altering the reality of your religious element upon your planet and initiating a stronger alignment with religious belief systems throughout the next centuries, and also holding a knowing within essence that this aspect would be instrumental in closing out your religious era and being helpful in ushering in your shift in consciousness.
ELIAS: This being the onset of the action which you engage presently; this being a response within the consciousness of this creature to be gaining your attention, and an exchange in energy initially within physical contact more so than average, so to speak; in an extreme. This would be to be gaining your attention of your initial connection to creatures, in their helpfulness in practicing within the area that you engage presently.
You focus in the direction of healing within your attention. You have offered yourself much time framework of practicing with creatures; and they, in compliance in consciousness, offer situations to you within helpfulness, that you may practice and learn to be accepting and trusting of self and gaining a greater understanding of the workings of consciousness and how you may not be pushing elements in consciousness. This creature did what? Pushed you!
JIM: Yes, it knocked me down!
ELIAS: This being its communication to you at the onset of your choice within probabilities, which has led you to this point in this time framework within this present now. Therefore, the reason this comes to mind, so to speak, is a recognition of what you view to be a past communication, in offering you instruction that you must hold an allowance of energy and an acceptance and not be pushing or forcing energy to be moving in the direction that you wish it to be moving into, for it shall not. It shall merely intrude and be hurtful. Therefore, within the expression offered, the action was taken to be pushing at you and initially to be hurtful, but then to also be expressing to you of the subsequent acceptance and calmness that is required. This was symbolic and offered to you much time ago, as this would be the initiating action which you offered to yourself of probabilities that have followed subsequently and have moved you into the area that you are presently engaging, and will be engaging futurely.
These are also symbolic examples to you presented within a familiar area of creatures initially, but I have expressed to you for some time period now that you shall be moving into areas within your own species, not concentrating upon creatures. You have not chosen an intent to be a veterinarian! You have chosen within your intent to be focusing upon other individuals, but initially you have offered yourself the opportunity to be practicing within safe areas. Therefore, if you are engaging your healing abilities and you view that you have created a failure for the energy has not been accepted in the manner that you expect, you may feel temporarily a loss or upset, but you shall not hold tremendous guilt as you would within individuals of your same kind. This offers you the opportunity to build your trust in self and your acceptance of self, without discounting of self to the point of giving up.
JIM: So in this instance, when this creature a few months later became very ill and offered helpfulness and then he came around and became healthy, then that was part of the exchange?
ELIAS: A response; this being your initiation into the area that you presently focus upon with your attention.
ELIAS: You are quite welcome; this being also, I shall suggest to you, the reason that you – and also in lending energy, Borloh – continue similar imagery in symbolism with these large cats in viewing projections.
JIM: She saw that again recently, the large cat.
ELIAS: This is a connection to the initial action, to be reminding you of this instruction and connection which initiated this action that you engage yourself with presently.
JIM: So it's not over yet!
JIM: And is that in alignment with the five points of the pyramid, with that action?
JIM: The age-old issue – shoulder -- seems more times than not to feel comfortable, but there still seems to be part of it there. Last night in the energy session I participated in, I felt relief. Am I still dealing with that self-worth issue with my father? How can one disengage truly from a counterpart or from that agreement?
ELIAS: You shall, as you allow yourself to be moving more into the direction that you have chosen within probabilities presently. As you move into the area of your true intent of engaging your abilities and your creativity with other individuals and you move away from your practice with your creatures, you are offering yourself more acceptance; and as this continues, you also let go of more and more of this shrine that you have created and hold energy within your physical form. Eventually, if so continuing in your direction with your intent, you shall eliminate this physical manifestation and the counterpart action as you choose to be trusting and accepting you and your abilities. You may look to yourself and view quite honestly that you have not yet "all the way" moved into the area of trusting self and accepting self enough to be practicing with humans within a continual basis. Therefore, you magnate to the familiar with your creatures, in recognition of less responsibility personally. As you learn to be accepting of self, you shall also offer yourself information that you need not fear responsibility of self; for if you are trusting yourself, you shall not betray yourself.
JIM: ... trusting of self, no matter what.
ELIAS: This be your basis. This be the basis of the action of this shift; to be accepting and trusting of self and therefore widening your awareness as a natural byproduct, and offering yourself tremendous new avenues in creativity that you may now explore, and increasing your ability; for you engage your periphery and no longer hold to your blinders. In this, you may not engage your periphery and you may not move in the action of this shift without accepting and trusting self.
You are moving into a new area of consciousness. Other individuals, other essences, shall not be expressing your direction for you any longer. You shall be directing of yourselves, individually and collectively, and this is unfamiliar to you. You are quite familiar with your officially accepted reality of being instructed by a select few in how to create your reality in the direction that they wish you to create your reality. Now you may create your reality in the direction that you choose independently, within your own creativity and for yourself.
You have always created your realities for yourselves. You have NOT always understood HOW you create your reality. You have also aligned within mass belief systems, within your societies throughout your entire globe, in agreement to be following instruction of select few individuals that you designate to be "the leaders." Now you may each be your own leaders.
JIM: So those being physical leaders that we look to for guidance, whether they be doctors or religious or political or whoever.
JIM: One question for another individual – Jill, Borloh's sister. Her alignment – is she Sumafi aligned with Milumet, as Borloh?
ELIAS: Sumafi, aligned with Sumari; this being also the reason this individual holds difficulty in completing projects!
JIM: Okay, I'll pass that on. I thank you, and I'm sure she will too. From our discussion the other night on the transmission of Searcheron ... search-is-on?
ELIAS: Is on, which suggests to you what message?
JIM: Is on the trail, or on the search for this focus?
ELIAS: No. Is on – has connected.
JIM: Is turned on! This being a future focus?
ELIAS: Therefore, you may more easily access this individual and your connection to this individual, for from the future focus, the connection has been made. The light is on.
JIM: All of the above. The dream that I was expressing before our session here with Mary last night, the woman that I felt that I knew in that dream was very familiar. Was that this connection, or who was that? Was that another facet of me?
ELIAS: This being a visitation. I have expressed to you previously, to you all previously, to be noticing of strangers within your dream state, that you may be encountering Seer; this being why you hold recognition, but not quite within identification. You shall recognize as you intersect with another Seer, but you may not hold a recognition of identity. This shall also increase with you all that hold the aspect of Seer, as this shift increases in motion.
JIM: So this was another Seer? Not a facet or an aspect, but another essence?
JIM: That's connected as well. And the appearance of Mary being different-looking .. another focus?
ELIAS: This being merely imagery, in symbolism of a noticing and a recognition of movement presently being engaged within changes.
JIM: Okay. In terminology – I know we've talked about this a lot in the last three or four weeks – of acceptance and accepting and accept, is it all the same? Accept, accepting, acceptance is all the same?
JIM: Accepting neutralizing the action? Am I understanding this correctly?
ELIAS: This is a byproduct of the action of accepting.
ELIAS: Within your acceptance of belief systems, you neutralize their power. This is a byproduct of your action. It is automatic.
JIM: So in the term "accepting of self," in doing that, you're not giving power to the belief system of duplicity?
JIM: One last question, and I think maybe you've just answered it. When an individual has thoughts of worrying that something could have happened to somebody, and you begin to think of these scenarios or even say something to someone in anger ... being that thought is reality and then perhaps having this thought and then thinking, "Gee, that's a terrible thought," or "I know that's a belief," but is there a way of negating that thought? Sometimes I'll take those thoughts and put them into a black hole and maybe they'll reorganize or something, but is that even necessary?
JIM: Because you're looking at the good and bad thing, and their own creation of their own probabilities?
ELIAS: Quite. I shall express to you Yarr, that many individuals hold belief systems of good and bad and positive and negative energies and expressing within certain directions, for they wish not to be expelling negative energy and they wish not to be presenting negativity with the cosmos and within consciousness and ... ludicrous! Energy is energy. It is not positive; it is not negative. You may hold belief systems of negative thought processes, but within blocking of these or not accepting of these, you also block impulses and create geysers. Therefore, I suggest to you that you may be expressing of thought processes that you may view to be negative. Example: "I dislike you very much!" You may not be expressing this outwardly, but you may be thinking within your brain these thoughts. And then you are expressing within your brain, "I am a very bad person! I have expelled this energy, and thought is reality, and I have been expressing negatively. This is very bad!" Incorrect!
Thought is reality, and it shall be expressed within energy; but in your directing of your energy within acceptance of self, you shall place this energy into probable ghost areas which shall allow this to re-form within its own expression, and it shall move into any manifestation that these links of consciousness choose to be placing themselves within. The energy shall automatically rearrange itself and be expressed, and it shall not necessarily be expressed in creating your great monsters within consciousness!
JIM: Okay. So what we view as a violent or negative thought could remanifest as a flower within energy.
ELIAS: Quite. This is another element of acceptance of self, and that the energy that you project and that you hold is not negative. This is a belief system, and as you begin to be accepting of belief systems and of self, you shall also offer yourself the opportunity to discontinue all of this self-chastisement that you are continuously offering to yourselves as a natural occurrence!
VICKI: Can I ask a question? (Elias, as usual, agrees. This is the dumbest question – "Can I ask a question!") Are you saying that rather than express that verbalization, you can project the thought within energy and allow it to be re-formed?
ELIAS: Yes. This being, in your widening of awareness and your acceptance, a recognition of your ability to manipulate energy and also express within the direction of essence. It is unnecessary for you to be creating physical chemical reactions in expressing verbally all of your thought processes, and as you are recognizing that it is acceptable for you to be discontented within certain elements -- it is acceptable for you to be agitated within certain expressions – you may redirect this energy in accepting your own expression and not necessarily directing this outwardly, in acceptance also of another individual's expression; but you may also respond, and you may, in thought, project this energy into ghost aspects in probabilities, and it shall re-form.
JIM: Within that terminology, that would be the ghost aspects?
ELIAS: Quite. Example: Yarr is approaching of Lawrence. Yarr is expressing of an action that he is engaging. Lawrence is thinking, "You, Yarr, are an idiot!" (To Jim) Lawrence may be accepting of Yarr's expression in recognition that this is your reality and this be your perception and your expression, (to Vic) and may also be accepting of your own perception and your own thought process and not express verbally, which knowingly this shall be hurtful. Therefore, within acceptance of the other individual's perception and creation of reality, and acceptance of self and your own creation in reality, you may redirect the thought process, recognizing that this also is reality and energy and is not wrong, and you may project this energy into ghost aspects of probabilities where it shall then reform within energy. This needs no thought process. You need not be expressing within your thinking, "You are an idiot! Now I must think, and send this energy away into a ghost aspect of probabilities, for this is bad!" Incorrect. You need merely be accepting that your perception is reality and that the other individual's perception is also reality, and in this acceptance you automatically project the energy of the thought process into these ghost aspects of probabilities.
ELIAS: You may also be inserting this expression into the same area of consciousness, although it is dependent upon your intent within your expression. If your intent is to be hurtful intentionally, you shall be affecting within consciousness, and you shall within some aspect be hurtful to Yarr. If you are not expressing within this intent, if your intent is playful, this automatically moves also into the area of ghost aspects of probabilities in energy, and re-forms.
JIM: But if a person is intending to be hurtful, then it's up to the other person if they are choosing to incorporate that within their reality and believe it in some way or see it in some way?
ELIAS: Within direct contact, yes; but as I have expressed, Lawrence may express this within the intent of being hurtful not within physical contact to Yarr, and the energy shall move in this direction of intent. You hold the option to block this energy, but you do not always block this energy for you are not always objectively aware that it is approaching you; just as your asteroid approaching your planet, and as you are not aware for you are not paying attention, it may hit you. It may be quite small within action or affectingness, but within your lack of attention you may allow yourself to be accepting of this projection in energy, and then you within physical focus may stub your foot and it may be hurtful and you may become angry, this being the connections within consciousness; but you have accepted the action and the energy which has been projected, for you were not paying attention.
JIM: So the energy at that point has played its role, so to speak.
JIM: That's about it. That's great! I'll end on that note.
ELIAS: If you are wishing of more interaction and information futurely, you may call upon me. I shall be accessible.
JIM: You always are, more so than I think sometimes! Thank you.
ELIAS: You are very welcome. I express great love and affection for these essences present within this day, and to you both quite affectionately, au revoir!
Elias departs at 5:29 PM.


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LINEY, JOHN
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Murial Liney, daughter.
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LINEY, JOHN J. JR. [1912-82] (writer; artist)
Philadelpjia School of Industrial Arts
pantomine comedy
Chart talk: What's Funny about the Funnies over a Quarter of a Century
Additional biography
Jenkintown Times-Chronicle, June 23, 1962; Cartoonist PROfiles #31, 1976; A Gallery of Rogues: Cartoonists' Self-Caricatures, 1998
Jester Award
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Innovative vortex-induced vibration test rig launched
SINTEF has designed and manufactured the test rig that mainly will be used for full scale vortex-induced vibrations (VIV) testing of risers and other type of cylindrical structures.
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In recent years, the exploration of oil and gas moves to deep water (> 300 m) and ultra-deep water (> 1500 m). There is big challenges and uncertainties for deep water risers and pipelines due to harsh environmental conditions, especially vortex-induced vibrations (VIV). - Full scale VIV model testing is required to understand the VIV under such conditions and it is an effective way to design and validate VIV mitigation devices. It can also give improved hydrodynamic coefficients which will be used as input to VIV prediction tools, says senior advisor Halvor Lie.
The new VIV test rig is to be used in the towing tank laboratory at Tyholt, Trondheim. It can accommodate a horizontal riser model with the length of 8 m. The diameter of the riser model can be varied from 0.5 m to 1.2 m, which is the diameter of a typical riser in full scale. The rig will be towed by the overhead towing carriage, to simulate uniform current. The test rig could be restricted to move to perform stationary towing tests. It can also be set up with springs, to perform free oscillation tests. Hydraulic system will be used to carry out forced motion VIV tests.
The design of the new VIV test rig involves two departments of SINTEF Ocean. The design and manufacture of the rig is led by the sub-project manager Thomas Bremset from Dept. of Ship and Marine structures. At the same time, the rig is modelled numerically by the senior research scientist Guomin Ji from Dept. of Maritime and Offshore.
-With the new VIV test rig, we can test riser models with much larger length-to-diameter ratio. Meanwhile, we aim to test in full scale Reynolds number - between 1 million and 3 million. Such tests will give us better understanding of the VIV in high Reynolds numbers, and provide design basis for our clients, says research scientist Decao Yin.
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The design and manufacture of the new VIV test rig is a part of 'Stor skala - Phase 2' project supported by NFR. This project involves Decao Yin, Jie Wu, Halvor Lie, Guomin Ji, Thomas Bremset and Henning Braaten from SINTEF Ocean.
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I think about food a lot: I'm amazed at how much I think about food. During the first 20-25 days of this challenge, it became clear that food was on my mind a lot. I'd leave work at 11 and be thinking about where to stop for a quick bite. I realized that I set up a lot of appointments for lunch time so that I could grab the food I was thinking about. I also realized how often I used a small hunger pain as an excuse to grab some grub-to-go on my way home, taking the kids across town or just because.
I love conveniences: One of the reasons I like fast-food so much is that it's highly nutritious (just seeing if you're reading). No, it's actually because of how convenient it is. I like the fact that I can order a meal and have it entering my mouth within 60 seconds. Seriously…60 seconds from when I say, "A number one with Coke" to when the first few fries are finding their way into my stomach. Sometimes I know I'll feel like garbage an hour after I eat the meal, but the convenience of getting the food surpasses the possible side effects.
I have a lot of influence on what my kids like: My kids love fast-food, too -- especially the youngest two. There is a direct correlation between their love of all things McDonalds and the number of times it was convenient for me to take them there. That "Number one with Coke" has been a staple in my diet since the first time I bought one with my own hard-earned money at the age of 16. I've influenced my kids' love and appreciation for fast-food by facilitating their access to it. I'm not inherently opposed to fast-food, just recognizing how easily I was able to influence my own children in this area.
So now that my 100 Day Challenge is over, what's next?
I was hoping today's blog post was going to be some sort of super-clever, mega-inspirational post about dramatic life-change and massive over-use of hyphens. Well, at least my hyphen over-use goal has been achieved.
I can set a good example. If I want my kids to make healthier food choices, I need to set a better example in the foods I eat. Thankfully, my wife does a great job of providing healthy food choices and meals for our families. In fact, her influence in changing our family's diet is proof that setting a good example is at least half the battle.
And Jesus summarized all of the Bible's commands in two categories: Love God and love others. The greatest influence I can offer my kids is that of teaching them to love God with everything, and to show that love by loving others.
I can create opportunity for them to experience success. Just like I want to give my kids a love for healthy food by providing good choices (allowing them to experience success in their health), I can create experiences for them to have success in loving God and loving others. Over the years, Traci and I have intentionally provided experiences for them that allow them to exercise a love for God by loving others. We've given them chances to serve the homeless, travel on mission trips together, bless the elderly, serve tables and clean up litter.
In each opportunity we've tried hard to give our kids ownership, let them express their service through their own gifts and talents and, at times, let them experience some amount of frustration and failure in their service. By walking with them and creating opportunities to experience success in their walks with God, I'm doing what I can to influence them for a life of loving God and loving others.
I can navigate the tough times with an enduring grace and faith. God has never made promises that living Overboard would be easy. Instead, He's pretty well implied that a life of faith is full of challenges, obstacles and a fair share of suffering. In fact, it's the reason a lot of people quit following Jesus -- He wasn't promising them roses and popularity, He was promising them thorns and abandonment.
When those tough times come, I can influence my children's faith by resolving to stay close God even as I wonder what His plan entails. Faith is messy. Faith can really complicate life at times. Faith demands that we trust God in all of life's circumstances, and as I walk through the potential messes, complications and circumstances in trust -- I show my kids that the best life they could have is in God's care.
I'm still trying to sort out how this past 100 days will influence my eating. Stay tuned for that update. In the mean time, I've seen how much my food choices have impacted my kids, and now I want to make sure I'm influencing them in eternal matters, too.


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Annihilation Songs – Jason DeBoer
by John Trefry
[Stalking Horse Press; 2016]
It appears crucial to Jason DeBoer's diminutive book of short fictions Annihilation Songs that its lexicon is derived from the words utilized by Shakespeare in three of his plays — Hamlet, The Tempest, and The Two Gentlemen of Verona. In acknowledgments nearest to the text itself, both the introduction by writer and publisher Tosh Berman and the author's preface (and an additional author's note) present the tactic. The fact is also the lede on the jacket copy. The query email I received about the book mentioned its Oulipian conceit. My writing this review right now is adding further shading to the gaseous orbitals of Annihilation Songs' paratext. So it goes outward in paratextual shells from the seed text. Yet, the texts themselves, these three tight pieces, do not tip their hand to the conceit, do not nudge the reader. They are rather comfortable and tidy. They do not strain — an etymological predisposition of works defined by constraint. The entire tactical prehistory of the reading performance is contained in the book's paratext. This is not strange for most books, whose compositional practice is irrelevant, is an exultation of raw imagination. But for a book with such a calculated and idiosyncratic disposition, it begs the question of how apparent such a tactic should be in the experience of the book.
At some point, nearly every creative practitioner seeks techniques for getting out of their own way. Some begin to find the allure inescapable. In architecture for example, designers have concocted entirely parametric situations, frequently themselves willful constructs, that play out form-making processes to unexpected and inarguable endgames. The architect Greg Lynn developed time-based animation procedures that sculpted form and space from a genetic seed, playing out temporally a result that would be cemented in static built compositions. Underlying many of these endeavors is the air that the concoctor has "solved" the problem of creativity for the rest of the beleaguered makers out there. This rings especially true in the more transparent exemplars of this type of creative work. These are primarily what I will discuss here. But even in my anointing of these tactics it should be clear that I still regard them as fragile, as people searching for a way to make passing time into something that is theirs.
I begin with consideration of a likely progenitor to DeBoer's project, William S. Burroughs, and a conversation he had with Fred Jordan, an editor for Grove Press, in 1980, recounted by writer Victor Bockris:
Burroughs: I met Beckett once in (Maurice) Girodias's restaurant in Paris.
Jordan: Was that the time when, apparently, you explained to Beckett the cut-up method and he responded by saying, "But . . . but that's plumbing, that's not writing!"
Burroughs: Oh, yes, he was quite upset by the whole thing. "You're using other people's words!" he said at one point. I said, "Well, the formula of one physicist is after all available to anybody in the profession."
Beckett's puzzlement is especially interesting to me in that he too used other peoples' words. Words are inherently not the property of the author. For them to be communicative in any shared way they must belong to others as well. Although I understand Beckett's perspective; his disagreement with Burroughs reflects a value judgment imposed on different scalar units of source material, the word being more fair-use than the phrase. A sequence of words is seen as having a lesser probability of occurring together and has more likelihood of belonging specifically to another individual. It contains more information. The longer the sequence unfolds, the more likely it is appropriated. Such is the mechanism of automated searching for plagiarism in academic papers. As far as the cut-up goes, in that accumulation of information, in the gathering together of more momentum toward normalcy, it embodies more disruption when, through juxtaposition, the discontinuity belies that normalcy.
Burroughs said, "All writing is in fact cut-ups." And although this is conceptually true, the performative value of an actual cut-up is far different from that of conventional writing. For example, read this excerpt from his book, The Soft Machine:
He went to Madrid . . . Alarm clock ran for yesterday . . . "No me hágas casa." Dead on arrival . . . you might say at the Jew Hospital . . . blood spilled over the American . . . trailing lights and water . . . The Sailor went so wrong somewhere in that grey flesh . . . He just sit down on zero . . . I nodded on Niño Perdido his coffee over three hours late . . . They all went away and sent papers . . . The Dead Man write for you like a major . . . Enter vecinos . . . Freight boat smell of rectal mucus went down off England with all dawn smell of distant fingers . . . About this time I went to your Consul. He gave me a Mexican after his death . . . Five times of dust we made it . . . with soap bubbles of withdrawal crossed by a thousand junky nights . . .
The prose traffics in parataxis and discomfort, yet, because of the unit size — sentence fragments rather than words — it still has meaning. Cut-up at the level of the word, if intention is relinquished to the process, would result in nonsense. Here is a Bashō haiku run through the random.org list randomizer: "foretell must can cry How No die. In cicada's the soon sign it." The overall length of the original piece and the inherent parataxis of haiku allows the word-level cut-up to maintain a semblance of meaning. It continues to evoke the original. Here is Prince Hamlet's Act 3 Scene 1 soliloquy run through the same process:
To oppressor's bare we the orisons the The rub, hue more–a quietus we question: be, not of thus conscience does returns, so of Who o'er under of you To scorns That cast And awry insolence sea pause. Whether calamity know we bear makes to But in he action. And weary the currents The of? consummation office, patient To end of the And thousand to of of to and may to. With troubles us those sleep thought, is Must die, a is sleep bodkin? takes, There's have all unworthy to fair his a bear mortal against arms and Is enterprise dream: For Thus not sicklied . . .
You get the idea. It borders on — a rather lovely — nonsense. The preponderance of articles and their agrammatical clustering is, beyond the shuffled meaning, a transparent signpost of a process at work. The catalog is deeper — the wordcount close to 300 — and the dislocation of components becomes more pronounced, thus the apparent relationship to the source begins to fall apart (except for idiosyncratic giveaways like "bodkin"). Finally, here is an excerpt from DeBoer's Hamlet "reintegration":
The private swore under his breath, but Laertes would not unhand his shoulder. Cornelius Struck wildly and his pick-axe hit the sergeant in the skull. The two other privates, speechless, jaws open, scanned the scene. The hush was murderous. The company tyrant was now just a barefaced object bleeding in the dust.
As with the randomized soliloquy, there are giveaways in DeBoer's text, specifically the name "Laertes." Neither my text nor DeBoer's has a significantly distinct relationship to the plot of Hamlet. But in DeBoer the texture is different, or, it is a conventional texture. The project is opaque. The effect of articles and pronouns for instance, doing their proper work on the smoothness of language, the opacity of the reading experience. The work ultimately still relies on DeBoer's compositional will. And because of the length of the book's pieces, and because of the unburdening of not using every word from the original works, the syntax of struggle does not prevail. The text falls in a readerly place far more similar to Beckett's abiogenesis. Yet, the paratextual insistence cloaks every word. Annihilation Songs is a book from books. Here is another conversation about Beckett recounted by Victor Bockris, this time between Susan Sontag and Burroughs:
Sontag: Do you think he reads much?
Burroughs: I would doubt it. Beckett is someone who needs no input as such…
Sontag: It's interesting that you say he doesn't need any input. That's true. There are no references in his work, nothing that appears from the outside.
Burroughs: Because most writers do. For example, I get a lot from reading, I get a lot from newspapers, but with Beckett it's all inside, I don't think he needs that sort of thing at all.
Sontag: I wonder if he has many books. I would think not.
Burroughs: I didn't see any while we were there, but those of course were temporary quarters.
Sontag: People who are involved in books always manage, even on a trip, to accumulate some.
Burroughs: That's true. I saw no books.
It would be one thing to write such a text and not leak its conceit. In a way though, to foist the labor of unveiling the compositional history, the situation of the literature, outside the text, is to have one's cake and eat it too. Joyce famously provided schemata decoding Ulysses to his friends Stuart Gilbert — who published his — and Carlo Linati — who gave his to the book's publisher, Sylvia Beach. The episode titles from the schemata — Telemachus, Nestor, Proteus, etc.—appear nowhere in the actual text, where they are 1, 2, 3, etc. Yet our contemporary understanding of the text is so shaded by the schemata that when we look at the number 18 on the last section, we actually see the word "Penelope." A similar effect is taking place in Annihilation Songs.
Further consideration of the question of tactical transparency can be explored vis-à-vis the body of work in literature that has most embraced such the strategy of constrained writing, the Oulipo. Within the group there are a variety of manifestations. On one hand I would place the lipogramatic constraint, most famously exemplified by Georges Perec's A Void, which eschews the letter "e". Perec adopts the conventions of a detective story to dance around the absence of the letter. Solve the detective story and you solve the tactical impetus for the book. There are, of course, other clues. For instance, my copy has the letter "e" inside an interdictory circle. But it is the content of the book itself, in addition to often strange word choices and a vague visual nagging feeling, that declare self-reflexively its compositional history. On the other end I might describe Oulipo works that are more procedurally constrained, like Jacques Roubaud's The Great Fire of London and subsequent volumes of his "project". Apart from the mathematical constructs involved in its composition, the constraint here is to write straight through with no editing, making physical the imprint of passing time being left inaccessible in the past. This in and of itself does not lead to a work with tactical legibility — although Roubaud does write about the approach within the actual text. What does provide the project with its legibility is Roubaud's adoption of "bifurcations and interpolations," a series of texts out of sequence that belong to, or expand a thought not directly addressed at the time. This product of the compositional tactic produces an effect of discontinuity, of artificiality and artifice, like the endnotes of Infinite Jest, that says to the reader, "Hark! This is not normal."
The Oulipo writers would declare that the practice is one of liberation, by providing a given framework one is able to be inventive and clever as an operator within it. And although the argument that it is easier to write exceptional work within such constraints rather than being ignorant of constraints that are actually hampering composition is possibly apt, there is a mystique of bravura surrounding the works that belies this. So, what is the relevance or importance of a compositional tactic, or a constraint, being legible in the product? Is it bravura or self-importance to call attention to the feat, or is it best externalized? Does that legibility make the work more satisfying to the reader? How important is it to call attention to itself? In his Second Manifesto for the Oulipo, François Le Lionnias said:
People are a little too quick to sneer at acrobatics. Breaking a record in one of these extremely constraining structures can in itself serve to justify the work; the emotion that derives from its semantic aspect constitutes a value which should certainly not be overlooked, but which remains nonetheless secondary.
And is there any assurance that such tactics native to the experience of the text, not expatriated to paratext, are in the truest seat of their nuance, ever truly, exceedingly apparent? Anecdotally, as an architectural educator I once assigned a group of first-year students a collage project based on excerpts of Christian Bök's constrained writing project Eunoia. This book, as you may know, is a lipogramatic text that allows itself — in each of its sections — the use of words with identical vowels. Thus, in the first section only words containing the vowel "a" may be utilized. There are further controls over content beyond that, but the phonetic constraint is primary. My first experience of the book was with forewarning of its conceit. Like Annihilation Songs, Eunoia has a fairly thick paratext. The knowledge led me into the book looking for the visual significance of its composition and I easily found it. Different than A Void, this is not the absence of one element from a family of twenty-six, it is the superabundance of one element over the others in a family of six (no Y either). The "i" section is jittery, speckled, and partitioned in its kerning. The "o" section is lippy, swollen, and protracted. The gestalt impression of each page is inescapable. My young students were given photocopies of individual pages without any critical preparation, and, focused on their assignment, took the pieces at face value. Quite a while into the exercise I asked if any of them had noticed anything odd about the text, surprised that no one had mentioned it yet. What followed was the most circuitous, off-track goose-chase for the answer one could imagine. In the end only a very transparent hint ended the conversation. What I saw as being patently obvious, even an effect sometimes difficult to avoid in order to approach the book with a straightforward reading, was potentially only thus because of my foreknowledge of it. I do harbor the belief that Eunoia is a book whose constraint is very apparent, but understand that it might never be universally so. Yet, pride in one's accomplishments asserts the hope that this is not the case. Bök says in his afterward, "The text makes a Sisyphean spectacle of its labour . . . "
Perhaps it is in my own desire, which I know to be misguided and egotistical, for some legibility of my efforts to be telegraphed out of personal work, that I crave it in the works of others. The architect Peter Eisenman, known for his intensely syntactical and philosophical indulgences, late in his career, said in an interview:
The whole idea of my architecture is about stopping any communication and placing within architecture itself a device that causes you to react emotionally, physically, and intellectually. Without representation. My architecture means nothing. But the experience is something else. You walk through the Berlin memorial and it has nothing to do with what happened in the camps. It is about walking in that space and you get strange physical sensations such as undulation, tilting, leaning, and you feel perplexity, isolation, disorientation; you never know where you are. It is not about " . . . oh, I got the meaning, I understand."
This is such a mature understanding of architecture, and I believe, in a rather direct extension, literature. It is not a position that unburdens Eisenman of his intellectual pursuits as a designer. Nor does it render his body of work a failure because its underpinnings are never going to be apparent. Its underpinnings are what makes it affect people in the ways that it does. And because all creative works have underpinnings of some sort, it also is an acknowledgment that these other ways of working can produce as significant results, that it is the actualization of the work and its bringing to life by those who engage it, the way it individually affects them, that is of enduring value.
Annihilation Songs, although it does not affect the reader through a syntax of struggle, embodies its project through warmth and ebullience. Rather than the procedural complexity of Burroughs, DeBoer's prose is kin to the human complexity of Shakespeare, an homage just as tonal as it is lexical. Here is an excerpt from the final piece in the book, "The Execution of the Sun," reintegrated from The Two Gentlemen of Verona:
Time was eating his youth, so with little more than a nod, Speed parted from his wife. Slender, forlorn, fingering her gold ring. The train moved forward impatiently, ignorant of loss. Travel vanquished their marriage like so many before. There was engine noise. A whirlwind. The departure of faces. The wife suffered away, a jewel worth nothing. Sullen and undone at the window, Speed tried to weep, but his eyes were dully dry. Heavy with shame. Sleep, a remorseful drift inward, delivered him from the day, and the night descended as a slow, twinkling death.
And still, beneath this cleanliness, we have the paratext doing its job. One cannot simply reject its contribution. Annihilation Songs is inextricable from our knowledge of its composition. Even in its smoothing out — which, with the paratextual Shakespearean timestamping, can often enflame surprising anachronisms like the above passenger train with a dining car — DeBoer's short pieces are savage, evocative, simple, archetypal, funny, well-crafted, clever, and human.
John Trefry is an architect and the author of the novel PLATS, the caprice THY DECAY THOU SEEST BY THY DESIRE, and the forthcoming APPARITIONS OF THE LIVING, his work has appeared on The Fanzine and forthcoming on Black Sun Lit. He contributes to Entropy Magazine and Minor Literatures. He lives in Lawrence, Kansas.
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Ramallah raves about Raunchy Rosie
A lot of people in Israel were not pleased with Madonna's visit here for Rosh Hashanna. But if they knew more about one of her fellow travelers, they would have been even less pleased. One of those accompanying Madonna on her trip was former talk-show hostess Rosie O'Donnell. According to a new book out by Aaron Klein of WorldNetDaily, O'Donnell is a darling of the terrorists.
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Muslim jihadist leaders interviewed for a new book were ecstatic about statements from television talk host Rosie O'Donnell about the war in Iraq and the global war on terror, agreeing with her outspoken views.
Some even invited her on a "fact finding mission" to the Middle East.
"I agree with what this O'Donnell says. ...We welcome Rosie O'Donnell to stay among us and to get to know the truth from being here, like many American peace activists are doing," said Ala Senakreh, West Bank chief of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terrorist organization.
Senakreh and other terror leaders were quoted sounding off about O'Donnell in the new book "Schmoozing with Terrorists: From Hollywood to the Holy Land Jihadists Reveal their Global Plans – to a Jew!," by author and WND Jerusalem bureau chief Aaron Klein.
For one of the chapters of the book, Klein assembles a panoply of senior terrorist leaders and asks them to sound off about the views of high-profile liberals and conservatives.
The terrorists interviewed stated they had never heard of O'Donnell, a former host of ABC's "The View," who made regular headlines with her heated political battles against conservative-leaning co-host Elizabeth Hasselbeck. Klein told the terrorists O'Donnell was a high profile television personality and read to them a series of her political statements, with which they mostly agreed.
One O'Donnell gem Klein writes the assembled terrorists liked the most was when they were informed O'Donnell raised questions on her online blog about the 9/11 attacks, implying the buildings were brought down in part to destroy documents incriminating oil giant Enron and other major corporations.
After pointing out conspiracy "factoids" regarding the World Trade Center's Building No. 7, which collapsed after the two larger "twin towers" fell, O'Donnell writes Building 7 "contained offices of the FBI, Department of Defense, IRS (which contained prodigious amounts of corporate tax fraud, including Enron's), U.S. Secret Service, Securities & Exchange Commission (with more stock fraud records), and Citibank's Salomon Smith Barney, the Mayor's Office of Emergency Management and many other financial institutions consists of a listing of various records supposedly destroyed in the collapse of WTC7."
"I agree with everything O'Donnell said," boasted Ramadan Adassi, chief of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades in the West Bank's Anskar refugee camp. "Regarding September 11, there is no way the American intelligence and administration was not aware of what was going to happen that day. How come the Jews and Israelis disappeared from the buildings? Was it by miracle? They knew that an attack would take place. This meant that Zionist elements and the leading elements of the administration who are aligned with economic companies and interests, like Bush and Cheney's companies of oil, were very interested that the attack would succeed in order to start their campaign for the oil of Iran and Afghanistan," stated Adassi.
West Bank Brigades chieftain Senakreh commented, "Many people have been saying this since the first moment it happened. Of course when it comes from persons like O'Donnell, who you say is respected, it takes a more serious significance. I guess she knows what she is saying."
Senakreh, who was not aware when he made the statements O'Donnell was an open lesbian, went on to invite O'Donnell to visit the Palestinian territories.
"[She can report to Americans that] we are not in love with killing, we like peace, we are human beings, it is the occupation that obliges us to do what we do," Senakreh said.
Maybe O'Donnell should move to Gaza. They have a way with lesbians there :-)
At 4:56 PM, nachtwache said...
She sure needs to find God, if anyone ever did. God works in mysterious ways, you never know.
I think many of the people involved in film and arts have a touch of mental problems, some more than a touch.
At 7:06 PM, Dave in Pa. said...
Never fails to amaze me-Western Leftist women supporting Islamists. And lesbian Feminists!
Somebody ought to explain to those geniuses how women are forced to live in Muslim societies, especially the "traditional" ones. And that lesbians and male homosexuals are routinely stoned to death.
BTW, I forgot to compliment you, Carl, on finding that so-appropriate graphic of Rosie for the top of the article.
As my college photography instructor said, a good photograph always tells a story. This one really shows the inner woman. :-)
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Jeanne-Claude (właśc. Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon, ur. 13 czerwca 1935 w Casablance, zm. 18 listopada 2009 w Nowym Jorku) – francusko-amerykańska artystka, rzeźbiarka i fotografka.

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Jeanne-Claude urodziła się tego samego dnia co jej mąż Christo, którego poznała w październiku 1958 roku, kiedy został zaangażowany do malowania portretu jej matki, Précildy de Guillebon.

Potem wraz z mężem tworzyli projekty takie jak: Running Fence, zapakowanie w 1995 berlińskiego Reichstagu, czy Surrounded Islands, gdy 11 wysp w Zatoce Biscayne niedaleko Miami zostało otoczonych różowym materiałem.

Zmarła 18 listopada 2009 roku w Nowym Jorku.

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Linki zewnętrzne
 Strona oficjalna Christo i Jeanne-Claude
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Artyści współcześni
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Ludzie urodzeni w Casablance
Urodzeni w 1935
Zmarli w 2009


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Q: How to get action_propability() in stable baselines 3 I am just getting started self-studying reinforcement-learning with stable-baselines 3. My long-term goal is to train an agent to play a specific turn-based boardgame. Currently I am quite overwhelmed with new stuff, though.
I have implemented a gym-environment that I can use to play my game manually or by having it pick random actions.
Currently I am stuck with trying to get a model to hand me actions in response to an observation. The action-space of my environment is a DiscreteSpace(256). I create the model with the environment as model = PPO('MlpPolicy', env, verbose=1). When I later call model.predict(observation) I do get back a number that looks like an action. When run repeatedly I get different numbers, which I assume is to be expected on an untrained model.
Unfortunately in my game most of the actions are illegal in most states and I would like to filter them and pick the best legal one. Or simply dump the output result for all the actions out to get an insight on what's happening.
In browsing other peoples code I have seen references to model.action_probability(observation). Unfortunately method is not part of stable baselines 3 as far as I can tell. The guide for migration from stable baselines 2 to v3 only mentions it not being implemented [1].
Can you give me a hint on how to go on?

A: In case anyone comes across this post in the future, this is how you do it for PPO.
import numpy as np
from stable_baselines3.common.policies import obs_as_tensor

def predict_proba(model, state):
    obs = obs_as_tensor(state, model.policy.device)
    dis = model.policy.get_distribution(obs)
    probs = dis.distribution.probs
    probs_np = probs.detach().numpy()
    return probs_np

A: About this point.
when I later call model.predict(observation) I do get back a number that looks like an action.
You can prevent that behavior with the following line
model.predict(observation, deterministic=True)

when you add deterministic=True, all the predicted actions will be always determined by the maximum probability, instead of the probability by itself.
Just to give you an example, let's suppose you have the following probabilities:

*

*25% of action A

*75% of action B

If you don't use the deterministic=True, the model will use those probabilities to return a prediction.
If you use deterministic=True, the model is going to return always action B.

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Anti-nuclearists typically promote intermittent (weather dependent, non-dispatchable) wind and solar, rarely defending the dispatchable energy sources normally considered to be renewable (hydro, geothermal, biomass, biogas). Even Jacobson's flawed study relied heavily on hydro. Without adequate hydro, his energy strategy became a two-legged stool.
"Always wondered how we are going to cope with the existing nuclear plants on the coast as Sea levels rise and storms become more intense. How do you see that playing out?"
Don't see it as a problem. Dikes can be very effective. Ask the Dutch. As for storms, see Figure 1.
"The dutch recognize that dykes will not protect them from the rising Sea levels. It says so in the article. They are to the expects. You should not ignore there conclusion. There is going to be a huge problem with existing nuclear stations on the coasts n in land as they are on the Banks of rivers. Miami is a good eg. You can't dykes Florida."
Big difference between building a dike around a portion of a power station and an entire country (or state). There are tens of thousands of miles of dikes in the U.S. that constrain river systems.
"Sea levels are becoming too high. It take money n time n resources. It's going to be a huge problem ...flooded nuclear plants on our coasts are a huge problem that's going to be difficult n expensive to manage ...a huge expensive problem. And is not safe. The risk of failure goes up massively due to catastrophic breach. Accessing the plant is also big problem."
First, none of that is true. Secondly, it will be many decades before sea levels are problematic for most nuclear power stations located adjacent to coastal water sources. Wind farms will go idle because of changing wind patterns, and the degradation in solar efficiency from higher temperatures are also problems. Why focus solely on the challenges for nuclear?
"The latest Sea level rise for ~2100 5-7ft."
Note 2100- 2018 = 82 years. Seven feet is a modestly sized dike, but more importantly, any existing nuclear power stations located in flood zones today will, by 2100, have reached the end of their operational lives a half-century or so earlier, making all of his arguments about rising water, moot.
Anti-nuclear indoctrination victims rarely formulate their own arguments. They read them somewhere in the internet echo chamber or in the lay press, where another indoctrination victim had repeated it and on and on. When they find one that strikes a chord, they repeat it. And there's no end of arguments to pick from. They make no attempt to critically assess the argument before repeating it.
The above argument is a close cousin to others claiming that low water levels or warmer inlet or outlet water temperatures will make nuclear unsafe and uneconomical. Below I discuss a recent incarnation encountered in a Disqus comment, which interestingly enough was based on a 2007 article in the New York Times written by one of their own journalists--a perfect example of how the lay press does so much damage regarding scientific and engineering topics and also an example of how old arguments (over a decade old in this case) moulder on the internet waiting to be resurrected again and again.
"In 2012 a nuclear plant in MA using ocean water had to curtail operations due to warm water temperatures. The inlet pipe wasn't deep enough. Plants are designed to operate under conditions. Those conditions will be more uncertain in the future."
No power source is impacted by weather-related water concerns more than hydro. Hydro power can be curtailed for years on end due to long-lived droughts. On the rare occasion when a thermal power station like nuclear has to reduce power because of low intake cooling water levels, it's for very short periods relative to hydro.
Figure 2 shows that 3.5 times more hydropower stations were affected by low water over the study period than nuclear. Climate change is going to have a much worse impact on hydro (Jacobson's inadequate third leg) than it will on nuclear.
A power plant can be designed or modified to handle higher water temperatures if so desired. The largest nuclear power station in the U.S. is located in the Arizona desert and uses municipal wastewater for cooling.
Singling nuclear out from all of the other thermal power station types is dishonest as well as disingenuous.
And keep in mind that wind and solar are very dependent on natural gas to integrate them into the grid.
"Solar efficiency decreases in hot weather. So you put up more."
Which, of course, increases cost, just as the need for more cooling capacity in nuclear, solar thermal, geothermal, biomass and landfill gas thermal power stations will increase cost.
"Wind is also going to be affected by climate change. Might be on the wrong side of a front for a long time."
Wind patterns are going to shift in a manner that will permanently impact the productivity of some existing wind farms. Also, transmission lines are less efficient at higher temperatures, and because wind farms typically require lots of extra transmission lines, you can expect higher system costs as a result of higher average temperatures.
"But during an extreme event renewables may be the only generation left working."
See Figures 1, 4, and 5.
Not mentioned by either of the above commenters was the old water availability argument. Again, nuclear is no worse in that regard than ostensibly renewable thermal power stations (and much, much less of a concern than with hydro, the third leg of Jacobson's energy stool) and that concern can be mitigated by design if necessary as the largest nuclear power station in the U.S. demonstrates by using municipal wastewater for cooling even though it is located in the Arizona desert.
Wind and solar can't do it all. This article will be added to the list found at Breaking the Anti-nuclear Indoctrination Cycle.


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Q: Set a loop through button I want to set a loop when I push the button and quit from it when I release the button...
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    try {
        mBTSocket.getOutputStream().write(mEditSend.getText().toString().getBytes());
    } catch (IOException e) {
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A: Perhaps create a private class that implements Runnable containing your loop, launch it when the button is clicked and stop it when the button is released.


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Opioid deaths hit an all-time high in Massachusetts in 2016, likely reaching close to 2,000, state health officials said.
The estimate of 1,979 for 2016 would represent a 216 percent increase since 2013, when 918 confirmed deaths were reported.
While many people when they hear "opioid" think "heroin," deaths from the painkiller fentanyl are skyrocketing. In 1,374 cases in 2016 where toxicology screens were performed, 1,031 of them — or 75 percent — showed fentanyl in the system of the deceased.
Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid, can be obtained as a patch or a lozenge through prescriptions. But the biggest source of abuse is from illegally made fentanyl, not from fentanyl that comes from pharmaceutical companies, state health officials said.
Deaths from heroin are decreasing, but the number of deaths from fentanyl makes up the difference.
State officials note that while the number of deaths continues to rise, the rate of increase seems to be slowing.
State officials implemented a seven-day limit for opioid prescriptions in March 2016. They are also trying to publicize the warning signs of addiction and are increasing the number of beds at addiction treatment centers.
Emergency medical technicians can in some cases save the life of an overdose victim by administering a drug called naloxone. In 2015, naloxone was administered more than 12,000 times to treat overdoses, state health officials said.
Even that number appears to be skyrocketing. During the first nine months of 2016, the number of uses of naloxone to treat an overdose increased 47 percent over the same period in 2015.