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Saturday, December 4, 2010

Israel Need our Help with Fires

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JDC Aids Israel Fire Evacuees

In response to the devastating Carmel fires, JDC immediately activated its Emergency Response Team in the North and continues to coordinate relief and recovery efforts with local authorities and the Israeli government to ensure the safety and well-being of the most vulnerable in the area, especially evacuated elderly, disabled, and youth at risk.

Also, JDC's network of Israeli volunteer initiatives is working closely with local municipalities to provide additional assistance. In communities where these volunteer programs exist, the ability to quickly address the needs of evacuees was marked in comparison to other locations. JDC's Emergency Response System—developed during the second intifada and the Second Lebanon War—is ensuring the swift delivery of all needed support.

We are working closely with the Israel's Ministries of Social Affairs and Health, Home Front Command and the National Emergency Network to monitor the situation and make a clear assessment of current needs and those that will arise once the fire has been extinguished.

Read a first-hand account from the coordinator of JDC's AMEN youth volunteer program in Haifa.
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Friday, December 3, 2010

השריפה בעוספיה 02/12/2010

Enough crude to fully fuel the American economy for 2041 years straight.

3 to 4.3 Billion Barrels of Technically Recoverable Oil Assessed in North Dakota and Montana's Bakken Formation—25 Times More Than 1995 Estimate—

Released: 4/10/2008 2:25:36 PM

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U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey

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119 National Center

Reston, VA 20192 Main Contact

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•Read FAQs about the Bakken Formation.

•Listen to a podcast with the lead scientist on this topic.

Reston, VA - North Dakota and Montana have an estimated 3.0 to 4.3 billion barrels of undiscovered, technically recoverable oil in an area known as the Bakken Formation.

A U.S. Geological Survey assessment, released April 10, shows a 25-fold increase in the amount of oil that can be recovered compared to the agency's 1995 estimate of 151 million barrels of oil.

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Technically recoverable oil resources are those producible using currently available technology and industry practices. USGS is the only provider of publicly available estimates of undiscovered technically recoverable oil and gas resources.

New geologic models applied to the Bakken Formation, advances in drilling and production technologies, and recent oil discoveries have resulted in these substantially larger technically recoverable oil volumes. About 105 million barrels of oil were produced from the Bakken Formation by the end of 2007.

The USGS Bakken study was undertaken as part of a nationwide project assessing domestic petroleum basins using standardized methodology and protocol as required by the Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 2000.

The Bakken Formation estimate is larger than all other current USGS oil assessments of the lower 48 states and is the largest "continuous" oil accumulation ever assessed by the USGS. A "continuous" oil accumulation means that the oil resource is dispersed throughout a geologic formation rather than existing as discrete, localized occurrences. The next largest "continuous" oil accumulation in the U.S. is in the Austin Chalk of Texas and Louisiana, with an undiscovered estimate of 1.0 billions of barrels of technically recoverable oil.

"It is clear that the Bakken formation contains a significant amount of oil - the question is how much of that oil is recoverable using today's technology?" said Senator Byron Dorgan, of North Dakota. "To get an answer to this important question, I requested that the U.S. Geological Survey complete this study, which will provide an up-to-date estimate on the amount of technically recoverable oil resources in the Bakken Shale formation."

The USGS estimate of 3.0 to 4.3 billion barrels of technically recoverable oil has a mean value of 3.65 billion barrels. Scientists conducted detailed studies in stratigraphy and structural geology and the modeling of petroleum geochemistry. They also combined their findings with historical exploration and production analyses to determine the undiscovered, technically recoverable oil estimates.

USGS worked with the North Dakota Geological Survey, a number of petroleum industry companies and independents, universities and other experts to develop a geological understanding of the Bakken Formation. These groups provided critical information and feedback on geological and engineering concepts important to building the geologic and production models used in the assessment.

Five continuous assessment units (AU) were identified and assessed in the Bakken Formation of North Dakota and Montana - the Elm Coulee-Billings Nose AU, the Central Basin-Poplar Dome AU, the Nesson-Little Knife Structural AU, the Eastern Expulsion Threshold AU, and the Northwest Expulsion Threshold AU.

At the time of the assessment, a limited number of wells have produced oil from three of the assessments units in Central Basin-Poplar Dome, Eastern Expulsion Threshold, and Northwest Expulsion Threshold.

The Elm Coulee oil field in Montana, discovered in 2000, has produced about 65 million barrels of the 105 million barrels of oil recovered from the Bakken Formation.

Results of the assessment can be found at http://energy.usgs.gov.

For a podcast interview with scientists about the Bakken Formation, listen to episode 38 of CoreCast at http://www.usgs.gov/corecast/.

USGS Release: 3 to 4.3 Billion Barrels of Technically Recoverable Oil Assessed in North Dakota and Montana’s Bakken Formation—25 Times More Than 1995 Estimate— (4/10/2008 2:25:36 PM)

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Psalm 22

Psalm 22 (New King James Version)

Psalm 22

To the Chief Musician. Set to “The Deer of the Dawn.”^[a] A Psalm of David.

¹ My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?
         Why are You so far from helping Me,
         And from the words of My groaning?
² O My God, I cry in the daytime, but You do not hear;
         And in the night season, and am not silent.

³ But You are holy,
         Enthroned in the praises of Israel.
⁴ Our fathers trusted in You;
         They trusted, and You delivered them.
⁵ They cried to You, and were delivered;
         They trusted in You, and were not ashamed.

⁶ But I am a worm, and no man;
         A reproach of men, and despised by the people.
⁷ All those who see Me ridicule Me;
         They shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
⁸ “He trusted^[b] in the LORD, let Him rescue Him;
         Let Him deliver Him, since He delights in Him!”

⁹ But You are He who took Me out of the womb;
         You made Me trust while on My mother’s breasts.
¹⁰ I was cast upon You from birth.
         From My mother’s womb
         You have been My God.
¹¹ Be not far from Me,
         For trouble is near;
         For there is none to help.

¹² Many bulls have surrounded Me;
         Strong bulls of Bashan have encircled Me.
¹³ They gape at Me with their mouths,
         Like a raging and roaring lion.

¹⁴ I am poured out like water,
         And all My bones are out of joint;
         My heart is like wax;
         It has melted within Me.
¹⁵ My strength is dried up like a potsherd,
         And My tongue clings to My jaws;
         You have brought Me to the dust of death.

¹⁶ For dogs have surrounded Me;
         The congregation of the wicked has enclosed Me.
         They pierced^[c] My hands and My feet;
¹⁷ I can count all My bones.
         They look and stare at Me.
¹⁸ They divide My garments among them,
         And for My clothing they cast lots.

¹⁹ But You, O LORD, do not be far from Me;
         O My Strength, hasten to help Me!
²⁰ Deliver Me from the sword,
         My precious life from the power of the dog.
²¹ Save Me from the lion’s mouth
         And from the horns of the wild oxen!

         You have answered Me.

²² I will declare Your name to My brethren;
         In the midst of the assembly I will praise You.
²³ You who fear the LORD, praise Him!
         All you descendants of Jacob, glorify Him,
         And fear Him, all you offspring of Israel!
²⁴ For He has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted;
         Nor has He hidden His face from Him;
         But when He cried to Him, He heard.

²⁵ My praise shall be of You in the great assembly;
         I will pay My vows before those who fear Him.
²⁶ The poor shall eat and be satisfied;
         Those who seek Him will praise the LORD.
         Let your heart live forever!

²⁷ All the ends of the world
         Shall remember and turn to the LORD,
         And all the families of the nations
         Shall worship before You.^[d]
²⁸ For the kingdom is the LORD’s,
         And He rules over the nations.

²⁹ All the prosperous of the earth
         Shall eat and worship;
         All those who go down to the dust
         Shall bow before Him,
         Even he who cannot keep himself alive.

³⁰ A posterity shall serve Him.
         It will be recounted of the Lord to the next generation,
³¹ They will come and declare His righteousness to a people who will be born,
         That He has done this.

Footnotes:

Psalm 22:1 Hebrew Aijeleth Hashahar
Psalm 22:8 Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate read hoped; Targum reads praised.
Psalm 22:16 Following some Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate; Masoretic Text reads Like a lion.
Psalm 22:27 Following Masoretic Text, Septuagint, and Targum; Arabic, Syriac, and Vulgate read Him.