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London, May 05 (ANI): Ever since EL James's Fifty Shades of Grey shifted 40 million copies around the world last year, publishers have desperately required a successor, another sex-riddled bestseller to tempt us into illicit blushes.
Into this breach now steps the latest hopeful, former porn superstar Sasha Grey, whose direct-to-DVD movies include 'I Wanna Bang Your Sister' and 'Buttman's Stretch Class 2,' the Independent reported.
The 25-year-old has reinvented herself as a novelist with her first book, 'The Juliette Society', which is at least theoretically Fifty Shades' successor, as it too explores the mostly unspoken world of bondage, discipline and sado-masochism.
The book revolves around a woman's introduction to a highly secretive sex k club.
It will be published in 20 territories around the world, and Hollywood has already snapped up the film rights.
It was Grey's agent who first suggested her to write a book, back in 2008.
Many of her fans agreed, but it was only when James's erotic trilogy breathed new life into a very old art form that she decided to give it a go.
Grey told the publication that she wanted to create characters in a world that felt grounded within the fantasy world, but she didn't want a cliche woman looking for Mr Right.
She says that sex is not always fun, but she didn't want to write about this dark side from a negative point of view and instead, she wanted to explore it.
She also wanted, by her own admission, to cash in on a potential cash cow.
Grey retired from the porn industry four years ago, and has since dabbled in acting, and written a succession of screenplays that haven't been picked up.
But with the novel she has already made more money in publishing deals than she did as an actress.
Though Grey purports first and foremost to be a film fanatic, her failure in this to date has made her success at fiction all the sweeter.
"You'd think an educated woman might have more profound things to spend her time thinking about than the most satisfying way to articulate ejaculate," she writes at one point.
"I'm not so sure about that… The big bang created a universal body made up of solar systems – giant wombs, incubators for the planets, which are cosmic eggs waiting to be fertilised with the seed of life, which is: come. And that, in essence, is my sexual theory of life, the universe and everything," she writes.
Grey, who is at her rented Paris apartment, is working through last-minute edits on the book and DJing in nightclubs around the city. (ANI)


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'n Projek waar daarna gestreef word om alle Boer profiele op Geni wat aan die ABO op die vegveld deelgeneem het.
- The Second Boer War (Dutch: Tweede Boereoorlog (1899-1901)
- Afrikaans:Tweede Vryheidsoorlog or Tweede Boereoorlog, (1899-1902)
- was fought from 11 October 1899 until 31 May 1902. The Second Boer War was fought between the British Empire and the Afrikaans-speaking Boer inhabitants of the two independent Boer republics:
- the South African Republic (Transvaal Republic) and the Orange Free State. It ended with the annexation of the region under the British Empire, ultimately forming the Union of South Africa as part of the Commonwealth. The conflict is commonly referred to as The Boer War but is also known as the South African War outside South Africa, the Anglo-Boer War among most South Africans, and in Afrikaans as the Anglo-Boereoorlog or Tweede Vryheidsoorlog ("Second War of Liberation") or the Engelse oorlog (English War)
The origins of the war were complex, resulting from over a century of conflict between the Boers and the British Empire. During the Napoleonic Wars, a British expedition landed in the Cape Colony and defeated the defending Dutch forces at the Battle of Blaauwberg.After the wars, the British formally acquired the colony, and encouraged immigration by British settlers who were largely at odds with the Dutch settlers. Over subsequent decades, many Boers who were dissatisfied with aspects of the British administration elected to migrate away from British rule in what became known as the Great Trek. The migration was initially along the eastern coast towards Natal and then, after Natal was annexed in 1843, northwards towards the interior where two independent Boer republics (the Orange Free State, and the South African Republic - also called the Transvaal) were established. The British recognised the two Boer Republics in 1852 and 1854, but the annexation of the Transvaal in 1877 led to the First Boer War in 1880 and 1881. After British defeats, most heavily at the Battle of Majuba, Transvaal independence was restored subject to certain conditions, but relations were uneasy.
In 1871, diamonds had been discovered at Kimberley, prompting a diamond rush and a massive influx of foreigners to the borders of the Orange Free State. Then, gold was discovered in the South African Republic in 1886. Gold made the Transvaal the richest and potentially the most powerful nation in southern Africa, however the country had neither the manpower nor the industrial base to develop the resource on its own. As a result, the Transvaal reluctantly acquiesced to the immigration of fresh waves of uitlanders (foreigners), mainly from Britain, who came to the Boer region in search of employment and fortune. This resulted in the number of uitlanders in the Transvaal eventually exceeding the number of Boers, and precipitated confrontations between the old order and the new. British expansionist ideas (led notably by Cecil Rhodes) as well as disputes over uitlander political and economic rights resulted in the failed Jameson Raid of 1895. This raid led by (and named after) Dr Leander Starr Jameson, the Administrator in Southern Rhodesia of the Chartered Company, was intended to encourage an uprising of the uitlanders in Johannesburg. However Johannesburg failed to rise and Transvaal government forces surrounded the column and captured Jameson's men before they could reach Johannesburg.
As tensions escalated from local to national level, there were political manoeuvrings and lengthy negotiations to reach a compromise ostensibly over the issue of "uitlander rights" but ultimately over control of the gold mining industry and the British desire to incorporate the Transvaal and the Orange Free State in a federation under British control. Given the number of British uitlanders already resident in the Transvaal and the ongoing inflow, the Boers recognised that the franchise policy demanded by the British would inevitably result in the loss of independence of the South African Republic. The negotiations failed, and in September 1899 Joseph Chamberlain (the British Colonial Secretary) sent an ultimatum to the Boers, demanding full equality for those uitlanders resident in the Transvaal. President Kruger, seeing no other option than war, issued his own ultimatum, giving the British 48 hours to withdraw all their troops from the border of the Transvaal, failing which the Transvaal, allied with the Orange Free State, would declare war against the British. The rejection of the ultimatum followed and war was declared.
In all that follows, it is important to remember that there was no single Boer, Afrikaner or Black African experience. A sense of the complexity of the political situation can be gathered from the fact that more Afrikaans-speaking whites lived in the British Cape Colony than in the Transvaal and Orange Free State combined and, crucially, that the vast majority did not give active support to the Afrikaans-speaking whites fighting the British. Similarly, by the end of the war, there were some 5,000 'joiners' -- Boers who had begun fighting against the British, and ended fighting with them; this represented about 20% of all Boers under arms.
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- Senator Sarel Francois Alberts
- Came from Hartebeestfontein, Hekpoort. His wife and 2 children were held captive in the Krugersdorp Concentration Camp
- Captain Barnett Dyer Lempriere Gray Anley 22 August 1873 Commander – 3rd Mounted Infantry
- Thomas Arnoldus Died 27 August 1900 (Battle of Bergendal)
- Badenhorst Francois Philippus (44) POW
- Lieutenant Colonel George Elliot Benson 1861 - 30 October 1901 – Battle of Bakenlaagte
- Bezuidenhout Gert Adriaan (35)
- Matthys Marthinus Bezuidenhout
- Lieutenant Robert Walter Maxwell Brine 1875 - 23 November 1899 (Battle of Belmont)
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- Regiment: 1/Northumberland Fusiliers
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- Johannes Petrus Botha
- Commandant Willem Hendrik Buhrman 1868 - 1932
- Captain Charles Welman Collins 1872 - 14 November 1901 Signaling Officer – Cheshire Regiment
- Daniel Coetzee
- Combrink Pieter Christiaan
- Combrink Jan Hendrik
- Coetzer Jan Petrus
- Major George Victor Dauglish The Buffs Commander – 2nd Buffs
- du Preez Pieter Johannes and 1 son.
- Theunis Christiaan de Klerk 1786-1815 Died at the Battle of Slagtersnek on 29/11/1815
- Fritz Joubert Duquesne 1877 - 1956
- Captain Edward Boaz Eagar 1860 - 23 November 1899 (Battle of Belmont)
- Age: 39
- Regiment: 1/Northumberland Fusiliers
- Louw Erasmus 1867 - 30 October 1901 (Battle of Bakenlaagte)
- General Joachim Christoffel Fourie 1855 - 1900
- Commandant Hendrik Stephanus Grobler 1859 - 1938
- Titus Hallatt 1862 - 27 August 1900 (Battle of Bergendal)
- Willem Hendrik Hearly 1873 - 27 August 1900 (Battle of Bergendal)
- Hendrik Johannes Hefer
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- Wife and 7 children in Baberton CC. One son died.
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- Farm history: Buffelspoort Rustenburg
- Joined the Canadian Scouts on 17/4/1901
- Nicolaas Pieter Johannes Janse van Rensburg – Siener van Rensburg 1864-1926
- Gideon Jacobus Joubert 1863-1924
- Hermanus Joubert
- Family history: Wife Margaretha and son Jacobus Francois in Baberton Concentration Camp. Son died.
- Farm history:Roode/Rooiwal, Ermelo
- John Bell Kelly Lieutenant 1869 - 30 October 1901 (Battle of Bakenlaagte)
- Age: 31
- Address: Victoria, Australia
- Unit: 2nd Scottish Horse
- Killian Jan Adriaan
- Michael William Howard Lindsay Captain 1872 - 30 October 1901 (Battle of Bakenlaagte)
- Age: 29
- Unit: 2nd Scottish Horse
- Captain Arthur Athelwold Lloyd 1864 – Northamptonshire Regiment
- Captain Thomas Henry Eyre Lloyd 1871 - 30 October 1901 Assistant Staff Officer – Coldstream Guards – Battle of Bakenlaagte
- Stephanus Willem Malan 1865 - 27 August 1900 (Battle of Bergendal)
- Pieter Jacobus Marnewick (52)
- Wife and 8 children in Krugersdorp Camp
- Farm history: Brandvlei, Krugersdorp
- POW Simons Town
- Johannes Jacobus Marnewick St Helena
- Family in Krugersdorp Concentration Camp
- Farm history: oog van Wonderfontein Potchefstroom
- FJ Matthysen Died 27 August 1900 (Battle of Bergendal)
- Alexander Bonthrone Morgan Sergeant 1872 - 30 October 1901 (Battle of Bakenlaagte)
- Unit: 2nd Scottish Horse
- Christiaan J Mouton Died 27 August 1900 (Battle of Bergendal)
- Major Frederick Dymoke Murray 1872 - 30 October 1901 Commander – 2nd Scottish Horse – Battle of Bakenlaagte
- Gerhardus Jacobus Nel
- and 3 sons on commando.
- Family history: Wife Christina Catharina (41) and 4 children in Barberton camp. 3 Children died.
- Source: NASA Pretoria DBC 55 Baberton Concentration Camp death register
- Farm history: Witbank, Ermelo.
- Guardsman Robert George Perkins 1876 - 23 November 1899 (Battle of Belmont)
- Age: 23
- Regiment: 1st Scotts Guards
- Captain Alfred Durham Plomer 1868 - 29 August 1900 (Battle of Bergendal)
- Ferdinand Pohlman 1864 - 27 August 1900 (Battle of Bergendal)
- Johannes Jacobus Pretorius Died 27 August 1900 (Battle of Bergendal)
- Commandant Joachim Petrus Nicolaas Prinsloo 1864 - 1902 (Verkluimkop)
- Thomas Andries Prinsloo Died 27 August 1900 (Battle of Bergendal)
- Major Charles Legge Eustace Robertson-Eustace 1867 - 1908 Commander – 25th Mounted Infantry
- Colonel Aubrey Woolls-Sampson Intelligence – Imperial Light Horse
- Captain Albert Savory 1878 - 23 August 1900 (Battle of Bergendal)
- Fred Siemssen
- William Bradshaw Galliard Smith 1862 - 1901 (Battle of Bakenlaagte) Sergeant
- Stoop, Lucas Martinus and 2 sons.
- Family history: Wife Martha Elsie Johanna and 7 younger childrenin Barberton camp.1 Daughter died at age 1 year.
- Farm history: Red Hill, Ermelo
- Family History: Wife Jeanetta hermina Alberts(25) and 5 children in Barbarton Concentration Camp. 1 Daughter, Anna Elizabeth (1.10) died.
- Farm history: Bernardus Meer, Ermelo
- CJ van Biljon Died 27 August 1900 (Battle of Bergendal)
- Jan Christoffel van den Berg (40)
- POW St Helena
- Wife and children in Krugersdorp Concentration Camp
- Farm History: Oog van Wonderfontein, Potchefstroom
- van der Linden Barend Daniel
- Family history: Wife Helena Wilhelmina and 3 children in Baberton camp. Son died.
- Farm history: Bloukrans, Ermelo.
- Jan Willem van der Merwe 1861 - 29 August 1900 (Battle of Bergendal)
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Selecting a QB key to team harmony
Major Applewhite has been on both sides of the touchiest situation in team sports: a close quarterback competition.
He's been there as a player, when he battled Chris Simms for the starting job at Texas a decade ago. Now he's there as a coach, the co-offensive coordinator of the Longhorns who will give his input on whether Garrett Gilbert, Case McCoy or another candidate calls signals first against Rice on Sept. 3.
The viewpoints are dramatically different.
"From a player's standpoint, so much of what you want is for yourself," Applewhite said. "You're 19, 20, 21. You're selfish. You want the job whether it's right for the team or not. That's part of being young and naive -- you look at things through your own glasses.
"As a coach, you're thinking about the other 84 guys."
For the sake of team tranquility, those divergent outlooks need to find common ground. Because when a quarterback competition escalates into a quarterback controversy, it's a major stress test for all involved.
Everyone will have an opinion, and many of them will be uninformed opinions. Locker rooms and fan bases can be divided. Media members can become obsessed with the topic.
When a QB competition crops up, all parties agree there is one key ingredient to keeping it from becoming a crippling controversy: honest, even-handed communication from coaches to quarterbacks.
"If you're going to say something to one guy, say it to all of them," Applewhite said. "Put all sets of ears in the same room so they're hearing the same message. Don't let them see one guy go into the head coach's office and then wonder, 'I wonder what they're telling him.'"
Florida State head coach Jimbo Fisher has had his share of quarterback battles to referee in 19 years as a quarterbacks coach and/or offensive coordinator at five schools. He's a believer in sending a consistent message.
"Always be up front," Fisher said. "Nothing behind the scenes. We put them all in the room and tell them the same things. We tell them we're going to do what's best for your football team."
Duke head coach David Cutcliffe likewise had some memorable quarterback decisions as the offensive coordinator at Tennessee and as head coach at Mississippi. He has always strived to provide his QBs with the straight skinny.
"If you beat around the bush, if you don't communicate on the front end, it's going to create issues," he said. "Talk to all of them as a group and make sure they know where they stand. I tell them, 'We are going to make a decision that we intend to be final.'"
That intent, however, does not always mesh with reality.
Coaches said one of the hardest things to do in evaluating quarterbacks is to project practice performance to game performance. They need to know who will perform best in full-speed, full-contact situations -- but you don't want to get them hurt. There is a fine line to walk between protecting your QBs in preseason practice and learning what they're made of in real football situations.
"You hear people saying, 'He had a great summer,'" Applewhite said. "Well, how do you know for sure? He's playing 7-on-7 or throwing against air. He didn't put on a pad or get hit all day."
Even scrimmages in which quarterbacks are "live" for hits from the defense might not tell the whole story. Game day is always a little bit different from anything you can simulate in practice.
A guy who has looked great in August occasionally will have to be replaced once the season starts. That's not necessarily because the coaching staff blew the decision; it might be because the quarterback regressed when the pressure was fully on.
"Sometimes something is exposed in a game environment that has not been previously exposed," Miami head coach Al Golden said. "You try to expose them to game tempos and being hit, but it's very difficult to duplicate that in practice."
And it's not just about seeing who can handle a loud stadium and being crunched by opposing defensive linemen. Scrimmage situations in practice often are scripted and controlled to the point that quarterbacks don't have to navigate the kind of breakdowns that can occur on game day.
"You've got to find out if they can fix a problem live," Applewhite said. "You've got 12 men in the huddle, can you fix it? A wide receiver lines up wrong, can you fix it? You've got the wrong play called for the defense you're seeing, can you fix it?"
Applewhite was a fix-it kind of quarterback -- smart and poised enough to make up for his uninspiring physical tools. He was 6-foot-1 at best, with an average arm, but his mind for the game helped make him the major-college coach he is today.
Contrast that with Applewhite's competition for playing time for three years at Texas, Simms. He was 6-4 and possessed an arm that helped him spend almost a decade in the NFL. He had pedigree (dad Phil was an NFL great) and was hyped as one of the top prospects in the nation when he arrived in Austin.
Applewhite remembers the talk in his freshman year, when he started most of the season and led the Longhorns to a 9-3 record in Mack Brown's first year as coach.
"I can't wait until Simms gets here," he heard fans say. "Then we'll have a real quarterback."
But Applewhite refused to simply surrender the position. He kept Simms on the bench for most of the next two seasons, primarily by using some advice he got from Peyton Manning.
The two are both from Louisiana -- Peyton from New Orleans and Applewhite from Baton Rouge. In the summers, he'd work out with the Manning family, in the early stages of the now-famous Manning Passing Academy, and he found out that Peyton was in a surprisingly similar situation as a freshman at Tennessee.
Manning was a celebrated recruit, but no more so than fellow freshman Branndon Stewart of Texas, who actually had a stronger arm. Manning's advice to Applewhite was to worry about the big picture, not a matchup of physical prowess.
"Understand that the coaches want someone who can simply move the ball," Manning told Applewhite. "Chris will come in with his big arm and throw a long pass for a touchdown in one play, and everyone will get excited. You're going to take five plays, but you're going to move the ball and the result will be the same -- a touchdown.
"Play your game, master the course and don't ever look at the scoreboard."
Manning might have added: "Don't ever look at the newspapers or message boards." When Applewhite was a senior, he finally was supplanted as the starter by Simms. By then, he'd become a fan favorite, and a significant portion of Texas' fan base was angered that the gritty overachiever had lost his job to a guy who hadn't yet lived up to the hype.
All of Texas seemingly had an opinion on that quarterback controversy. Applewhite blocked out most of it while spending most of the year on the bench, then performed heroically in relief of Simms in a Big 12 title game loss to Colorado and as the starter in a Holiday Bowl victory over Washington.
"Some people you listened to, and some people you just kind of nodded, smiled and walked away," Applewhite said. "I listened to [offensive coordinator] Greg Davis and Mack Brown because it was their decision. Even other coaches, I didn't listen to."
Applewhite clearly did not hold the decision against Brown, given that he works for him. Now he will help Brown make another close call involving a quartet of QBs who enter fall camp in competition.
There is incumbent starter Gilbert, who struggled mightily last season (10 touchdowns, 17 interceptions) after being billed as a future star. There is McCoy, who carries a golden name as the younger brother of former Texas hero Colt McCoy. And there are redshirt freshman Connor Wood and true freshman David Ash.
It will be a public battle but a private decision on who starts.
"Coaches who say they don't read what's in the media are, No. 1, liars," Applewhite said. "And if they're not lying, they're not very smart. It's important for us to know what our fans think. But it's not important for us as coaches to let our fans make decisions for us."
However the Texas quarterback decision is resolved, the winner and the three losers can heed the feedback of Major Applewhite. He's been there before.
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Cypress Hill, Action Bronson, and ¡Mayday! Get High at Grand Central Miami, November 13
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Grand Central, Miami
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Better Than: The "giggle stick."
Grand Central's main cave was filled with a thick and sticky cloud of party smoke well before beat one was dropped at last night's Cypress Hill show.
But despite the night being hyped on weed jokes and pot worship, the group's performance was a real reminder why this OG crew of Cuban-Americans from Cali have sold 18 million albums.
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Miami's own live hip-hop collective, ¡Mayday!, kicked off the night with a blast of energized rock-rap funk. The band broke the opening act barrier with ease, thanking the crowd for "rocking out" so early by "Miami standards" and asking everyone to "make it look like London fog in this motherfucker."
Regardless of how one might feel about the ¡Mayday!'s mix of hip-hop beats, rock guitar, and funky bass, the entertainment factor was undeniably strong, setting the standard pretty high for the rest of the night's performances.
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As solid as ¡Mayday!'s set was done, Action Bronson rose to the occasion with a rowdy set that stole the show, even from the headliners. The Queens-based MC brought a fiery delivery, an unstoppable flow, high fives for everyone, and a big motherfucking bag of weed and papers to hand out to audience members.
Bronson understands the old punk-rock ethos of destroying the line between artist and audience: It simply works better when people feel a connection beyond gazing at the stage. As such, the formidable man performed a couple of songs from inside the crowd, reaching as far back as the sound booth to ask a young lady that was sitting down if she was tired. Rhyming over a screwed version of "Under the Sea" from the Little Mermaid was also an unexpected, should-have-been-super-uncomfortable highlight of Bronson's set.
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Following a break that saw Grand Central fog out even harder (to the point of management opening the back doors of the club), Cypress Hill took the stage with B-Real, Sen Dog, DJ Muggs, and "Bobo" Correa in great form, turning up the heat aboard their smoke-powered time machine to the '90s.
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Being British means I'm often on the receiving end of weather-related comments. You know the type, 'it's raining, just like London eh?' if I am unlucky enough to get caught in a shower without an umbrella, or 'you're English so you must be used to this cold' on the rare occasions when the thermometer drops below 10 degrees. And after living here for several years, I get similar comments in the opposite direction, such as 'well you were probably sunbathing which is why you didn't read my email' or, 'are you sitting with your laptop on the beach?'
The truth is I tend to disappoint, being neither particularly British, nor Spanish, with regards to the climate. When friends visit, my white skin surprises them, as does the fact that, unlike some recent guests, I have no desire to paddle at Cala Galdana in January. Similarly, when the weather turns wild here, I shock Menorcans with what they consider to be hardiness. When snow covered the island a few years ago (just a few centimetres of the stuff), schools closed, Ciudadela and Monte Toro were cut off, and the radio warned listeners to stay at home. Unfazed, the first thing I did was jump in the car to go out exploring; I'd always wanted to see the beach covered in snow.
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Treasury Wine Estates (TWE) is leasing vineyards in California's Napa Valley and Australia's Barossa valleys to retrieve grapes and produce wines to meet their growing demand in global market.
According to the October 2012 report of the International Organization of Vine and Wine, the recent bad weather had resulted in destruction of harvests in regions from France to Argentina thereby resulting in shortage of grapes.
TWE CEO David Dearie told Bloomberg.com that the company had witness increase in sales of its wines in China and was struggling to source enough grapes to produce the wines.
"The big challenge right now is we've got more demand than we have supply for luxury wines," he added.
"A lot of people who own these fantastic properties don't want to sell but they actually don't want to farm it either, so we offer to lease it."
To increase its production, the company has already purchased 630ha of vineyards in Barossa and Eden Valleys and Wrattonbully region.
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Lifting Oil Export Ban May Be Boon For Dispirited Economy, Cover For Obama
Posted: June 26, 2014 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: economy, Markets, Obama, oil and gas, shale 3 CommentsLimited modified hangout by U.S. allows opening for oil exports
Perhaps it is a grudging concession by the Obama administration to allow a limited amount of united States oil to be exported, but a concession it is. On Tuesday the U.S. Department of Commerce announced it would allow the exports as a result of a petition filed by two independent Texas oil companies, Pioneer Natural Resources, a Dallas-based oil and gas producer, and Enterprise Products Partners of Houston, one of the country's biggest pipeline operators.
The ruling would allow the companies to export condensate and not heavy oil, an important distinction in refining terms. But the ability to finally export this lighter crude product should alleviate some of the built up reserves from America's booming shale market. Condensate is the slightly refined product that has been stripped of gases to make it less volatile, a minimal level of processing known as stabilization. "Under current rules, companies can export refined fuel, such as gasoline and diesel, but not oil itself; the government's new approach reportedly redefines some ultra-light oil as fuel after it has been minimally processed, making it eligible for sale abroad," a Seeking Alpha brief on the decision said. The first shipments could be made as soon as August and could mean an outflow of as much as 3 million barrels per day.
The ruling loosens a 1975 ban — the Arab oil embargo — that came about because of the OPEC-influenced U.S. oil crisis from the early 1970s. Politically this is probably as far as Obama is willing to go for fear of angering his leftwing, the grass-root Democrats who do not like the oil and gas industry, and in turn angering big oil and its lobbying arm, which has always had a protectionist streak in it, and does not really appreciate the independent drillers. The one area the bigs have the most control is at the refineries, and that is the one place that would be hit the hardest by fully lifting the export ban.
That's not to say that the big oil companies are hard core Democrats. None of the states at the center of the oil and gas revolution voted for Obama, save Pennsylvania, according to this analysis from December 2013.
Elections have consequences, and the U.S. oil industry backed the loser in 2012. Not only that but oil and gas producers allowed themselves to be painted as an arm of the Republican Party. By contrast, environmental groups and clean-energy companies were among the president's most important supporters in terms of fundraising and mobilization on the ground. Environmental campaigners have therefore wielded immense influence over the White House throughout the president's first and second terms.
They are unlikely to be sympathetic to permitting oil exports if it means more domestic oil production and more fracking. While many environmentalists, and the White House itself, have grudgingly embraced natural gas as a cleaner-burning alternative to coal, that enthusiasm is unlikely to extend to crude oil.
Earlier this year, the International Energy Agency (IEA) argued "either U.S. crude is shipped abroad or it stays in the ground" But that is exactly what many environmental groups want.
That said, in an economy that is one quarter of bad numbers away from falling back into a recession, this stand does little to create new jobs. And the oil and gas boom has been a great provider of that. Indeed, export restrictions harm job growth in the oil industry, but they support thousands of jobs in the refining and petrochemical industries, many of which are unionized, and some of which are based in Democratic districts, the above linked article said. "So while the White House probably has the legal authority to lift the export ban, acting on its own if necessary, it is not a political priority for the president."
Economically the decision has already shown in the markets where the distance between higher priced Brent Crude, which is linked to the world price of oil and gas, and its export-locked competitor West Texas Intermediate has narrowed. Bloomberg, citing Citigroup, estimates about 300,000 barrels a day of an ultra-light oil known as condensate could be exported by the end of the year. "In total 750,000 barrels a day of condensate is pumped from U.S. shale plays, according to Wood Mackenzie Ltd. Exports would give U.S. producers access to niche markets in Asia and Latin America, while having only a small impact on the price domestic refiners pay for crude."
The U.S. pumped 8.45 million barrels of oil a day in the week to June 20, according to U.S. Energy Information Administration data. The Eagle Ford shale produced 205,000 barrels a day of condensate in the first quarter, according to data from the Railroad Commission of Texas. Pioneer Natural Resources pumped about 29,000 barrels a day of oil and natural gas liquids from the formation over the same period, according to a presentation on the company's website.
There is probably no greater student of the oil and gas industries than Daniel Yergin, the author of The Quest, and vice chairman of IHS, an analytics think tank. Coincidentally Yergin spoke on Tuesday of the economic benefits of lifting the export ban. In summary he said:
- Natural gas production increased 27 percent between 2007 and 2013. Estimates of recoverable natural gas reserves have more than doubled since 2005. U.S. oil production has increased 3.3 million barrels per day since 2008 – a 66 percent increase. This increase alone is larger than the output of 11 of 12 OPEC countries.
- By 2012, the unconventional natural gas and oil activity was already supporting more than 2.1 million jobs across a vast supply chain. About 60 percent of these jobs – 1.3 million – were from shale gas activity; the rest from tight oil.
- By 2012, the unconventional natural gas and oil activity was already supporting more than 2.1 million jobs across a vast supply chain. About 60 percent of these jobs – 1.3 million – were from shale gas activity; the rest from tight oil.
- The total number of jobs supported is expected to rise to 3.3 million by 2020 – with 1.8 of those jobs from shale gas.
- In 2012, this revolution added $74 billion to federal and state government revenues. IHS projects the number to rise to about $125 billion by 2020. Between 2012 and 2035, unconventional activity is expected to generate nearly $1.6 trillion in cumulative government revenues.
According to Yergin, the increase "has almost exactly balanced the amount of oil currently missing from the world market owing to disruptions in countries like Libya and Iraq and sanctions on Iran. In other words, the increase in U.S. oil production has compensated for loss of oil elsewhere. Without that increase, we would be looking at much higher oil prices than today."
That's via Zero Hedge where Tyler Durden notes the issue is too politcal to move any further:
"In other words, the enormous growth in U.S. oil production has helped to displace imports, but only at marginally lower prices than imported oil would have commanded. Unlike the shale-gas revolution, the growth in shale-oil extraction hasn't led to a big price drop.
"Allowing exports on a large scale under these conditions wouldn't be a good idea. Pioneer, a small producer, and pipeline operator Enterprise Product Partners, which doesn't have its own extraction operations, aren't going to make much difference to the U.S. energy balance if they are allowed to sell some lightly processed condensate abroad. What is valuable to President Barack Obama's administration is the public-relations effect of the rulings: The world will now know that the U.S. is an oil exporter for the first time since the 1970s. Europeans may take U.S. promises to help wean them off Russian hydrocarbons a bit more seriously. The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and Russia will keep in mind the threat of U.S. pressure on global oil prices."
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Unions Embrace Shale Boom Creating Local Jobs and Environmentalist Disdain
Posted: April 22, 2014 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: environmentalists, Fracking, Marcellus, Natural gas, shale, unions, Utica Leave a commentOn Earth Day 2014, it's worth noting a fault line is beginning to emerge between long time allies
Foes of the drilling practice known as fracking are frustrated at Labor Union support of drilling in the Marcellus and Utica shale basins, according to the Associated Press. More than 6,000 wells have been drilled in the region that encompasses large parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia to extract oil and natural gas, and fracking has created many jobs while turning once dirt-poor regions and its inhabitants prosperous.
Environmentalists and green groups don't like the perceived ecological damage. Penn Environment has called for much stronger regulations and a ban on drilling in some areas, such as state forests.
But blue-coillar workers particularly Laborers' International Union, or LIUNA, have shown strong support because of the large influx of local jobs created over the last five years, the AP said. LIUNA represents workers in numerous construction trades. It's mid-Atlantic regional manager Dennis Martire called the new industry a "lifesaver."
Martire said that as huge quantities of natural gas were extracted from the vast shale reserves over the last five years, union work on large pipeline jobs in Pennsylvania and West Virginia has increased significantly. In 2008, LIUNA members worked about 400,000 hours on such jobs; by 2012, that had risen to 5.7 million hours.
Nationally, the Bureau of Labor Statistics says total employment in the nation's oil and gas industry rose from about 120,000 in early 2004 to about 208,000 last month. Less than 10 percent of full-time oil and gas industry workers are represented by unions.
This has crated rift between the two reliably Democrat groups that threatens the coalition of voters the party needs to turn out the vote and win elections. But self interest is strong motivator and the prospect of long-term employment in a diverse and interesting energy sector is making converts of some workers who were once dubious.
And even now some powerful unions are withholding judgment. Anthony Montana, a spokesman for the United Steelworkers, declined to comment on how much drilling is helping that industry.
But others say the trend toward more local jobs is clear.
Mike Engbert of the Ohio Laborers District Council said that while some companies still use a lot of out-of-state labor, "Across the board, job gains have really shot up."
For some, the drilling-related work is a big improvement over low-wage service jobs.
"I've probably worked 15 jobs, and none of them nearly as stable as this one, or nearly as interesting," said Amy Dague, 38, of Wheeling, W.Va. She's worked for a pipeline construction and maintenance company for a little more than a year.
"It's definitely changed the way I see my future. I see this as long-term employment," Dague said.
It's hard to see how wind and solar can keep pace, even when heavily subsidized by the government. There's just too much volume in oil and gas exploration from upstream companies paying for the rigs to midstream haulers and pipeline builders all the way to the downstream beneficiaries in the region like hotel providers, restaurant owners, and shop keepers providing services for field workers.
As Thomas Lifson said in an American Thinker piece, "Fracking is one of the greatest boons to America in my lifetime. In addition to all the domestic benefits, it disempowers the Muslim oil powers responsible for the spread of worldwide jihad, and Russia's Putin."
Indeed, but even when you take geopolitical considerations out of the equation, the sheer economic multipliers are strong enough reasons to continue oil and gas exploration in these rust-belt states. Interestingly, the political fault lines formed here because of Labors' needs and Environmentalists' disdain may prove more toxic than fracking itself.
Eagle Ford Oil & Gas Corp. closes major acquisition
Posted: June 11, 2012 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Eagle Ford, Gas, shale, Texas 10 CommentsIn a press release, Eagle Ford Oil & Gas (ECCE) announced it has acquired an 85 percent working interest in 3,684 acres in hydrocarbon rich Frio County, Texas located south of San Antonio, Texas. The purchase price for the acreage in the heart of the Eagle Ford Shale oil and gas play was $6.26 million and is funded by project finance from a private fund, the release said.
"The acreage lies within the historic Pearsall Field where more than 200 million barrels of oil equivalent (boe) have been produced from the prolific Austin Chalk, sourced by the Eagle Ford Shale. Current success of industry activity in the immediate area demonstrates a high degree of prospectivity in the Austin Chalk, Eagle Ford Shale and Buda Lime, all of which are primarily black oil reservoirs Substantial legacy well data within and adjacent to the acreage clearly indicate the presence of effective fracture systems in all three reservoirs. The Company has rights to all formations including the deeper Pearsall Shale, a condensate-rich gas reservoir which the industry has just begun to exploit in the area."
Can shale gas meet China's energy needs?
Posted: June 7, 2012 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: China, Markets, Policy, shale 3 CommentsForeign oil companies are licking their lips at the prospect of a Chinese gas rush
Simon Montlake the Beijing Bureau Chief for Forbes says despite China's large potential to exploit proven shale gas reserves the country may have a difficult time doing so.
"The question is at what price would gas be sold, and who owns the downstream industry. The ongoing battle to control China Gas Holdings, a Hong Kong-listed gas distributor, is one clue to the high stakes. Any privately invested upstream producer of shale gas will require assurances that they can get a fair price. That isn't the case with China's natural gas imports; state-owned importers must bear the loss from subsidies. Two cities have begun experimenting with regulated gas prices pegged to global oil prices, but this would need to be adopted more widely. Investing in unconventional gas fields, with all the technology required to make it feasible, sounds like a loser's game without market-based pricing. So China's desire for cleaner energy runs up against its need to tamp down inflation and protect the turf of national oil companies. Don't expect a wildcat boom in shale gas in China's western heartland."
Halliburton warns of lower profit margins
Posted: June 7, 2012 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: guar, Halliburton, India, shale Leave a commentThe high cost of guar gum has been felt across the oilfield services sector
The Halliburton Company said Wednesday that its North American profit margins this quarter would drop by twice as much as it had been expecting, knocking its stock price down to an eight-month low, according to a Reuters article in the New York Times.
"The giant oilfields services company attributed the bigger decline in its profit margins to a shortage of guar beans in India. Guar, which is also used to make sauces and ice cream, is a key part of the hydraulic fracturing fluids that have been in high demand because of a boom in American drilling and well development. Halliburton has said the guar system can now account for as much as 30 percent of the overall fracking price."
We reported last week how the shale gas boom has resulted in a spike in the price of guar beans from India. (Link here.)
"U.S. companies drilling for oil and gas in shale formations have developed a voracious appetite for the powder-like gum made from the seeds of guar, or cluster bean, and the boom in their business has created a bonanza for thousands of small-scale farmers in India who produce 80 percent of the world's beans. […]
"It has also turned guar into a precious commodity farmers now call "black gold". In the Rajasthani city of Jodhpur, under the shadow of an ancient fort, traders buy guar seed at 305 rupees ($5.5) a kg, a 10-fold increase from a year ago."
Opinion: Fracking safety improves dramatically, says independent study
Posted: May 22, 2012 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: DEP, hydraulic fracturing, New York, Oil & Gas, Pennsylvania, Policy, shale Leave a commentOpinion: Fracking safety improves dramatically, says independent study
In a commentary at Forbes contrarian columnist Jon Entine says recent study shows vast improvement in hydraulic fracturing and oversight. (Here's a press release from the University of Buffalo touting the study.)
"The safety profile of hydraulic fracturing has improved dramatically in Pennsylvania since 2008. Environmental violations as a percentage of wells drilled dropped by more than half over the course of the years examined. The study—the first based on comprehensive data rather than on anecdotal claims or selective reports—contradicts claims by anti-fracking groups that shale gas extraction is poorly regulated in Pennsylvania and that the environmental dangers are increasing," Entine says.
Readers should note that one of the study's authors Timothy J. Considine, a University of Wyoming economics professor, has come under fire as being in the pocket of the oil industry, according to a blog at the BuffaloNews.com, edited by Business Editor Grove Potter.
Indeed, according to the Washington TImes, opposition groups contend there is a cumulative impact, saying that as more wells are drilled, the number of environmental incidents increases. The study bears this out showing the overall number of incidents tripled from 2008 to 2011, even though the number per well went down.
Still, the story says industry leaders are mounting a pushback against a one-size-fits-all standard from Washington, D.C, arguing that states such as Pennsylvania and New York are better equipped to craft guidelines specific to their geographic and environmental situations.
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has stepped up its environmental oversight since the shale boom kicked off in earnest in 2008, by revising permit applications and requirements, increasing air and water quality monitoring and heavily fining companies fouling the environment. It continues developing policy and programs for the regulation of oil and gas development and production pursuant to the Oil and Gas Act, the Coal and Gas Resource Coordination Act, and the Oil and Gas Conservation Law, among other things, according to its website.
Then-Gov. Edward G. Rendell signed Act 15 into law in 2010 to make the activities of drilling companies and their business partners more transparent. Pennsylvania's DEP has regularly fined companies for their violations, and the state adopted new regulatory guidelines last year after Republican Gov. Tom Corbett took office, according to the Washington Times.
An NPR report in August 2011 by Scott Detrow, as part of its StateImpact series, says [d]uring the early years of the country's shale drilling boom, there was next to no transparency, when it came the details of chemicals used during the hydraulic fracturing process. But over the past year, Pennsylvania and four other states have passed laws or regulations requiring much more disclosure from drilling companies."
According to the Washington Times story: "The [University of Buffalo study]comes at a time when many industry leaders are growing increasingly concerned that federal rules, such as those proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Interior Department, could hamper the development of domestic natural gas."


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David Cameron has been accused of joining the "unaccountable clique of Davos men" after he attended the secretive Bilderberg group meeting at the luxury Grove hotel in Watford, a move that raised questions about his pledge to lead Britain's most transparent government.
Douglas Carswell, the Tory MP who campaigns for transparency in government, said the prime minister was taking part in a "cliche fest" whose participants had helped crash the global financial system. Davos is the town in Switzerland that hosts an annual meeting of global political and business leaders.
Cameron came under fire after Downing Street said it was acting in an open manner by publicising his attendance at the annual Bilderberg meeting in advance. The prime minister's spokesman, who said heads of government of countries hosting the annual Bilderberg meeting were usually invited to attend, said it would be a private event and that civil servants would not accompany Cameron.
Ministers are usually expected to be accompanied by civil service note-takers when they meet business leaders. Henri de Castries, the chairman and CEO of Axa Group, is the Bilderberg chairman.
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Alright, alright, so this article is late as well. I really did pick a great time of the year to start writing. Sure, I had all the time in the world August-February, but noooo, I choose to start writing during National Last-Minute Project Month, National Term-Paper Month, and National Weekend-Trip Month. All have happened in that order and I've been a participant in each demonstration. It's so fun to have your time pulled in so many ways. Pardon me now while I attempt to lower my blood pressure.
Ever Curious How They Do That?
Here's an interesting look at what goes on inside the Oasis Editing office. Sometime this month I wrote to Jeff (the online editor) asking if he could give me a permanent net-address for my columns. As it stands right now I compete with two other Mikes (they're great guys, honest, no bone to pick with them) for who gets the mike.html, mike1.html, and mike2.html slots. Apparently when Jeff receives the articles he saves them in a folder called mike.html... if a Mike already grabbed that one he just defaults to mike1.html and so on. So, basically, if you want to scroll back through the columns you're going to have to put some effort into it. Either that or I need to add a last initial to my name. I'm thinking about doing that soon. We'll see.
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I would love to be able to tell all of you what I did last weekend. I would love to be able to share with you how much fun I had with something that lately is a new experience for me but I've been fascinated with it most of my life. I would love to describe to you the awesome new world that I've discovered. How beautiful it all is, how serene and untouched and virgin it all is. Yet, I can't, because my identity would be given away faster than a credit card application at my student center. Sometimes I wish I hadn't gone and said where I go to school. Sometimes I wish I hadn't used my first name (which is the only part of my name that will ever be gotten out of me). Sometimes I wish I had given a totally fictitious school somewhere on the Canary Islands.
Why all of this wishing and what-ifs? It's the same thing that has no-doubt been experienced by everyone reading this zine. The world that we create for ourselves, that fictitious barrier between us and the outside would come crumbling down. Sad, isn't it, that we can't truly express who we are and what we are because we must fit the mold that society has set for us. Granted, I like who I am and I like what I stand for, but man what a great feeling it would be to have everyone know that yes, I may find that girl attractive, but the guy she's walking with isn't that bad either. I suppose that's why Oasis is so good for me. It allows me (and hopefully others) to let down that barrier and be who I really am. I've always loved writing (no matter how the public education system tries to kill that love in me) and when that's combined with expression it's a win-win situation. For all of you out there wondering what it was that I was experiencing last weekend: no, it wasn't sex (I'm still a virgin) and no, they weren't drugs. I was on a natural high from doing something I love. Find something that does that for you too and do it. It's very therapeutic.
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This month's question is a little more objective than last month's. I've done this because it seems that responders need a little more guidance on how to take the question. So:
Would you give up all the creature comforts and the society that you know today to have been born naked and ignorant on a small tropical island with about 10 others?
Thanks for the overwhelming response to last month's question (NOT). I deserve that though... the question was pretty lame. I tried to put some time into this one whenever I got a free moment so hopefully this will spark some emails. As always, send it to the address at the bottom.
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