With An IP Of "5" This Well Turned Out To Be Pretty Good -- August 28, 2015

This is a South Red River B well in the southwest corner of North Dakota. It turned out to be a pretty good well, despite the IP and the fact the well was not stimulated:

• 28264, 5, Denbury Onshore, CHSU 24-23NH 15, Cedar Hills, unitized, a South Red River B well, not fracked/not stimulated (form: "No stim treatments were performed."), drilling unit, 54,799 acres, KOP 8,790 feet; TD, 9,352 feet (lateral about one mile long), t8/14; cum 17K 6/15;

Previously NC/SI, Abraxas reported a nice well a while back:
28323, 917, Abraxas, Stenehjem 27-34-4H, North Fork, t12/14; cum 105K 11/14;

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21st Century Crime

Earlier this morning I happened to read an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times about the 20% increase in crime in the Los Angeles area over the past year or so. I forget the particulars. The usual list of reasons was provided.

I was reminded of that op-ed while reading a very, very long article in The New Yorker, "Class Notes," discussing "what really happens" when a school closes. It has to do with Jamaica High School in Queens, NYC, which closed in 2014. At one time, Jamaica High School was the largest high school in the United States. The article doesn't say (at least as far as I've read) when the school opened  but it says the school, as it exists "now," was designed in the 1920's so I assume it opened early in the 20th century.

In 2011, the NYC Department of Education announced that the school would be closed, citing persistent violence and a graduation rate of around fifty percent.

Early in the article, the writer, a graduate of Jamaica High School, writes:

[F]or much of its time, Jamaica was a gemstone of the city's public-education system.

In 1981, the schools chancellor, Frank Macchiarola, decided to take on the additional role of an interim high-school principal, in order to better appreciate the daily demands of school administration.

He chose Jamaica, and was roundly criticized for picking such an easy school to lead.

Four years later, the US Department of Education named it one of the  most outstanding public secondary schools in the nation. Alumni include Stephen Jay Gould (one of my "heroes"), Attorney General John Mitchell (one of RMN's "heroes" until things went badly), Representative Sheila Jackson Lee, Walter O'Malley, Paul Bowles and three winners of the Pulitzer Prize: Gunther Schuller, Art Buchwald, and Alan Dugan. Bob Beamon, who set a world record for the long jump in the 1968 Olympics, graduated with the class of 1965.

Sheila Jackson Lee, an alumnus,  is the U.S. Representative for Texas's 18th congressional district, serving since 1995.

Walter O'Malley, another alumnus, went to Jamaica High School from 1918 to 1920 before completing high school and graduating from Culver Academy. O'Malley brought professional baseball to the West Coast, owning the Brooklyn / Los Angeles Dodgers from 1950 to 1979.

It will be interesting to see if The New Yorker writer ruminates on how Jamaica High School went from one of the most outstanding public secondary schools in the nation to a school that needed to be closed due to persistent violence and a graduation rate of around fifty percent. If he does, it will be interesting under what mayor this occurred and maybe a bit of background of the chancellor and the leadership of the city's department of education.