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The Sysadmin's Daily Grind: Uptimed
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Who has the longest uptime? Linux systems used to win hands down when it comes to maximum uptime without rebooting. Today, uptime statistics help admins with monitoring tasks and discovering tricky bugs.
The times when I showed off servers with 1,000 days of uptime to make my colleagues from the Windows team jealous are long gone. If I get caught with a Methuselah like this today, I can expect to answer embarrassing questions about whether I am afraid of kernel updates. (The answer to this is: Yes! I use some fairly exotic RAID controllers now because I shot myself in the foot when I updated to 2.6.27 – ouch!)
Security freaks tell scary stories about the exploits they guess will work on systems that nobody has bothered booting for a year or so. Bragging can't be the only reason why so many admins use Uptimed [1], a daemon that logs a system's uptime over an extended period of time. It makes sense for devices that are not otherwise accessible for monitoring, for reasons of location or security – you get to know exactly when the power supply last failed, or a hardware component died on you.
You can use the /etc/uptimed.conf configuration file to control Uptimed's behavior. The entry
tells the tool to restrict the list of saved uptimes to 20 readable entries.
lets me tell the daemon not to start writing entries until the computer has achieved at least 12 hours of uptime. This makes sense to suppress the intermezzi between two successive reboots, as would be the case if you need to repair or rebuild and try out a new kernel module (you guessed it, my RAID controllers…). You can also define milestones in the configuration file, and have the software notify you by mail when the server reaches one.
The Uptimed package includes the Uprecords client, which exhibits the acquired data in a nicely formatted list on the console. To keep things readable, I restricted the uprecords -s -m3 output to the last three entries. There is a reason I choose my video disk recorder for this – it freezes from time to time, and I wanted Uptimed to help me discover some method to the madness of these crashes. Unfortunately, there wasn't one: I guess the hardware is broken, just as I suspected.
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Sales of Paralympic tickets easily "beat my expectation across a wide range of sports", London 2012 chief executive Paul Deighton said today.
Applications for the first 1.5 million tickets for the London 2012 Paralympics closed yesterday with many sold-out sessions now having to be decided by a random ballot. These include the opening and closing ceremonies plus track, cycling and swimming.
Mr Deighton said: "We are delighted with the outcome. The interest was extremely strong.
"We are still tallying things up but hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of tickets (were applied for). It beat my expectation across a wide range of sports.
"There will be quite a number of ballots for specific sessions given the oversubscriptions we have had. We are really pleased. It has been quite unprecedented in Paralympic history."
He was speaking as he helped three-time Olympic cycle champion Bradley Wiggins plus mascots Wenlock and Mandeville open a London 2012 shop in the new Westfield shopping centre that neighbours the Olympic Park in Stratford, east London.
London 2012 are aiming to raise £20-£30 million from Paralympic ticket sales.
"We will certainly be all right for that," Mr Deighton said.
Ballots will be run by the different sessions and price points for all the oversubscribed sessions.
These will include opening and closing ceremonies' tickets at the lowest price of £20.12. Sessions for the track cycling, swimming and the final rounds of wheelchair rugby and wheelchair tennis were also oversubscribed.
Payment will be taken by October 31 and applicants will find out if they have been successful by November 18.
Three-quarters of the total two million tickets available before the Games are priced at £20 or less, and half at £10 or less.
More than 4,200 Paralympic athletes, with a variety of disabilities, from 150 nations will take part in 20 sports.
Star names such as South African sprinter Oscar Pistorius plus British swimmer Ellie Simmonds and wheelchair racer David Weir are big draws.
London 2012 are keen to avoid the embarrassing scenes of half-empty venues which have plagued previous Games and are confident of sell-outs.
Sports fans and spectators will get another two more chances to buy tickets on a first-come first-served basis.
All unsold Paralympic tickets, along with what remains of the Olympic football tickets, will go online at the end of this year.
Mr Deighton said: "There were only soccer tickets that were really left over from the Olympics.
"We sold a lot of soccer tickets but there were a large number so there are still some of those."
Another online ticket release is set for April 2012. This will probably coincide with the big rush of people still trying to get a seat at the Games. Up to another 1.3 million tickets may come up for sale.
The exact number of tickets in this batch will also be influenced by the finalised seating and staging plans for the ceremonies which affect the amount of space that will be used.
Mr Deighton said: "The reason we have been waiting is to be as precise as we can with the numbers (of seats).
"It takes a while before the creatives finally settle on who is going to be sitting where and doing what. These are all things which determine how many tickets you will have to sell to the public."
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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
News Of The Day: Teeth Tussle
Denture Battle Leaves Dentist In Braces
MAY 25--A Florida dentist is facing assault and battery charges after he allegedly tussled yesterday with an 85-year-old patient over her dentures, police report.
According to cops, Michael Hammonds, 57, was attempting to adjust Virginia Graham's "lower partial dentures" when the senior citizen "began screaming" due to pain caused by the ill-fitting false teeth.
"Graham removed the partials from her mouth and threw them at Hammonds, which he caught," according to a Volusia County Sheriff's Office report.
When Hammonds refused Graham's demand for a $900 refund, she tried to snatch the dentures from the dentist's hand, prompting a "brief tug-of-war."
At that point, "Graham then bent down and bit Hammonds hand forcing him to let go of the partial."
Graham then got out of the operating chair and sought to leave Hammonds's Deltona office. But the dentist "got in her face and began screaming at her, causing her to fear that he would potentially cause her harm," investigators reported.
Graham told deputies that Hammonds physically kept her from leaving his office. She "made one final attempt to leave by trying to climb over the receptionist desk and out the receptionists window," but abandoned that bid in order to avoid injury.
Sheriff's deputies observed "multiple bruising" on Graham's upper arms and forearms, and her "left upper arm was bleeding due to her skin tearing when Hammonds grabbed her arm." Graham is pictured at left during an interview with Orlando news station WESH.
Investigators--citing the "totality of the circumstances of Graham being 85 years of age" and "Hammonds depriving her the free will" to leave the office--arrested the dentist on a variety of felony charges, including assault, battery, and false imprisonment.
Hammonds was booked yesterday afternoon into the Volusia County jail, and later released after posting $4000 bond.
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HA! Remember, McGruff the Crime Dog says, "Take a bite out of crime." :DReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 31, 2011 at 12:51 PM
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What it exactly did she bite him with if he is holding her teeth in his hands. Did she gum him into submission?
Looks like the crazy runs wide and deep on both sides of this fence....ReplyDelete
FPOTD: holy crap - that was an actual comic? Next time, try some lube, Lois!
- chrocsMay 31, 2011 at 1:02 PM
FPOTD reminds me of the song "The Girl and the Robot" by Robyn.ReplyDelete
She sounds like a mean old hag. He should of piledrived her.ReplyDelete
She's obviously an anti-dentite.ReplyDelete
LOL @ Lefty! :DReplyDelete
Seeing as how he's the one who got arrested I'm gonna have to score this one: dentist 0, crazy old broad 1.ReplyDelete
My penchant for biting dentists ended the day I found out besides lollipops they also give out goofy gas. Made going to the dentist fuuuuuuuuunnnn.
It's odd to hear assault and battery referred to as a "tussle." It makes it sound so sweet and harmless.ReplyDelete
"It was nothing really, Your Honor, just a little tussle. During our little 'tug-of-war' he accidentally ran into my knife 10 times."


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Thank you for your question do you have a volt meter or a way to verify that the fan motor is getting power from the speed control. if so you will need to check the motor to see if it is getting voltage from the controller to operate. if the motor is getting voltage to run from the speed control and is not running it may be a capacitor. Try to spin the motor by hand with power to it if the motor starts to operate most likely you have a bad capacitor if not and you are getting voltage to the motor then you have a bad motor.
You can check capacitance using the NF setting on your meter if it is capable. What is the model of your fluke so I can check if it has the capabilities of checking a capacitor? Also to check voltage on the wire you could use a razor knife and bare a small portion of wire, just make sure you use electrical tape to wrap the wire back up after testing.
Graingers will be able to match either the capacitor or the motor if you have have one were you are located. You could also send me a picture of the motor data label and i could try and locate one for you online or direct ship it to you with a premium service.
Sounds like your meter will most likely not be able to check capacitance, but you can try and spin the motor while it is trying to run, if the capacitor is the issue the motor will likely start running so watch your fingers. Check it on all 3 speeds you may have lost a speed as well as the capacitor. One last thing I am not sure how much this humidifier costs but unless you really want to fix it, it maybe an option just to replace the whole thing.
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I have been sooooo good the last couple of weeks. Definitly no fabric shopping (Oh, except for some 50 cent Christmas fabric fat quarters from Hobly Lobly) The big news is that I used over 40 yards of fabric finishing up seven lap quilts (approx 60 x 72). Then, I got started on several swaps that are due the first couple of months in 2010. I figure another 3 yards so far on that. Today, I almost put together a whole top for 1 year old grand-daughter from fabrics that I bought in 2008. I guess I can count that as stashbusting as well as working on a UFO! Hope to get it done before we see the kids for Christmas next week. Need a better way to keep track of what I've used and added.
A friend of mine in Colorado sent me a big ole box of Alpaca roving? It has been cleaned and is super soft. I think I still need to card it it make it more like the roving that I have bought for my needlefelting. I asked Santa to bring me a hand weaving Spindle for Christmas, but I don't think the hints (or the list on the refrigerator) helped at all. I might still be surprized. We'll see. It's killing me not to get started working with the wool that Jan sent. I've been doing a lot of reading on the internet. I've decided that the hand spindle is all that I have room for right now. Hubby would probably shoot me if I asked for another room to start another hobby (spinning wheel). As long as I can keep it in the existing rooms, it shouldn't be a problem. (No picture, because it just looks like a black blob. Going to have to try differnt lighting.)
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Humphry John Moule Bowen, chemist and naturalist: born Oxford 22 June 1929; Lecturer in Chemistry, Reading University 1964-74, Reader in Chemistry 1974-88, Honorary Fellow 1988-94; married 1953 Ursula Williams (three sons; marriage dissolved), 1984 Muriel Willson; died Dorchester 9 August 2001.
Humphry Bowen was an amateur naturalist with a width of expertise that has rarely been seen since the days of the great Victorians. He wrote two county floras in his lifetime and was the most prolific contributor to a third. He amassed collections of plants, molluscs and lepidoptera from around the world which have been made available to museums and national collections. He was BSBI (Botanical Society of the British Isles) recorder for Berkshire and for Dorset for 40 years, and a lifelong champion of the need for environmental conservation, working tirelessly for local naturalist trusts.
Born in Oxford in 1929, the son of the physical chemist E.J. Bowen, a senior fellow of University College, he was educated at the Dragon School in Oxford, from where he won a scholarship to Rugby and then a demyship to Magdalen College in chemistry.
As a child, he was allowed free rein to bicycle round the countryside, and the rural idyll rubbed off on him. He developed a remarkable temperament, seemingly never moody and with an innocence suffused with a wonderful, puckish sense of humour. As an accomplished actor at school, he once played Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream. At Oxford he acted Joseph in a nativity play with an 18-year-old Ronnie Barker playing "Hell". Bowen's headmaster at Rugby had described him as "that rarity, a cultured scientist".
Botany seemed to be in his genes. He was identifying plants from the age of five – he was later proud when one of his own sons, as a four-year-old, astonished his nursery teacher by telling her the Latin name of the fungus that she was showing to the class – and was certainly making records of his finds in Dorset before the Second World War. He was secretary of the Rugby Natural History Society in his teens and found ling (common heather) in the Rugby district – the first record of it there for over 60 years.
Bowen won the Gibbs Prize for chemistry at Oxford and, after graduating with a First, took a DPhil. He left Oxford, after a brief spell lecturing, to work for the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell. In 1953 he married Ursula Williams, whom he had met at university and who shared his love of natural history. They soon had three sons.
At Harwell his main areas of research centred around the use of Neutron Activation Analysis (NAA) – a highly sensitive, multi-element analysis technique for which he used the Bepo (British Experimental Pile Operation) reactor. He wrote papers on trace elements in human blood and faeces. For the former (and presumably the latter) he needed human guinea-pigs to provide samples. Unable to use hypodermics (the manganese in the needle would cause contamination), he made small incisions in the earlobe using a sharp piece of silica. Thinking that he should contribute himself, he drew blood from his own ear and promptly fainted.
In 1956 Bowen joined a team of scientists for the UK atomic bomb tests at Maralinga in Australia. His role was to analyse plant and animal material to understand the effects of fallout on living things. From his descriptions of safety procedures issued on the tests, little was known about the subject at the time. Although not impressed with the scientific results, he enjoyed the camaraderie in the outback and particularly the flora and fauna. He grew a beard and his colleagues wagered that his wife would make him shave it off. At Heathrow she failed to recognise him until he was a few inches away, calling her name. He won the bet and never shaved for the rest of his life.
During his time at Harwell he often had cause to visit the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment at Aldermaston. Here security was tight but occasionally Bowen would absent-mindedly forget his pass. He managed to gain entry by confidently holding up a shoe-repair ticket at the window of his car and being waved through by the guards.
In 1963 he moved from Harwell to live in Oxford and joined the chemistry department at Reading University as a lecturer (and from 1974 as Reader). He continued his work using NAA and is remembered for the introduction of the analytical standard known as "Bowen's Kale". This was a vat of putrefying cabbage kept in an old plastic baby bath in his lab. Samples were sent off around the world to calibrate analyses.
While at Reading, Bowen was retained by Dunlop as a consultant to look at possible uses for their Dunlopillo polyurethane foam. He published several papers on its ability to separate heavy metals (particularly gold, uranium, rhodium and iridium) from solution.
In 1967 he was horrified by the environmental devastation caused by the world's first major oil-tanker spillage – the Torrey Canyon disaster – and at the inability of the authorities to react. He developed the idea of a huge foam "boom" that could be deployed to contain the oil. This was too late for the Scilly Isles, but the idea has been developed and is still in use.
He was seconded many times by the International Atomic Energy Authority to set up research projects in developing countries – India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Bulgaria, Iran – and through this work he attracted many foreign PhD students back to Reading. He published several books on chemistry, notably Chemical Applications of Radioisotopes (1969) and Trace Elements in Biochemistry (1966). He also edited the Royal Society publication Environmental Chemistry of the Elements (1979).
Bowen had joined the BSBI in 1951 and in 1956 became a council member as Honorary General Secretary of the meetings committee. He was not always completely organised, sometimes arriving without the minutes and once neglecting to book anywhere for members to get refreshments after an AGM. This produced panic among the rest of the committee, who had to rustle up a buffet for 60 people from scratch.
In 1961 he became BSBI recorder for Dorset and four years later also for Berkshire. He was meticulous with his records, marking the society's printed cards with a stubby pencil. In 1968 he published his first county flora, for Berkshire (The Flora of Berkshire) – the first for 70 years. In the days before computers this was a monumental task, which involved collating all recent plant records for the county using vast card indexes and illustrating the occurrence of each species with a hand-stencilled map. He was unable to find a suitable publisher, so he and his wife took the role upon themselves. This involved considerable financial risk and an enormous amount of administration, but it paid off and the book was a sell-out.
All through this period Bowen was active in local naturalist trusts, including the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Naturalist Trust (BBONT, now BBOWT) and Reading Naturalists, sitting on committees, leading field trips, raising money and advising on the management of nature reserves. He also pioneered "botanical holidays", travelling as guest lecturer on tours to many foreign destinations. He made vast collections of specimens wherever he went, not only of plants, but also of molluscs and lepidoptera. These were painstakingly preserved and often donated to museums and national collections to aid with future identifications.
Bowen's breadth of knowledge of the natural world was extraordinary; you could give him any flowering plant, moss, lichen, shell, insect, bird or mammal and he could name it. This made him popular on field trips, although he used to complain that when nature really called it was impossible for him to get away from people.
His two areas of speciality were alien (i.e. non-native) plants and lichens. He was never happier than when botanising on a good rubbish dump looking for the former, or closely examining the gravestones in an old churchyard for the latter. He was convinced that lichens were one of the best indicators of environmental pollution, or the lack of it.
After his divorce from Ursula, in 1984 he married Muriel Willson. When he retired from Reading University in 1988 they moved to Winterborne Kingston in Dorset – a county with which he had a lifelong affiliation, since his mother had built a holiday home at Ringstead Bay before the war. There he sang tenor in the local church choir and created a wonderful garden full of interesting specimens grown from seeds collected on his trips around the world. He also kept a portion of land as a wild area, a small private nature reserve with its own pond. His proud boast was that the rubbish men never needed to visit; all waste was recycled as compost or ash.
He played an active part in the Dorset Wildlife Trust. When asked how he managed to record so many small mammal sightings around his house, he was forced to admit that most of them were identified from remains brought in by his many cats. He made the largest single contribution of records to the 1998 Flora of Oxfordshire by Woodell, Killick and Perry.
Humphry Bowen's final work was to produce a new Flora of Dorset, published last year. This is his magnum opus, eclipsing its 50-year-old predecessor, and is uniquely comprehensive, covering flowering plants, stoneworts, ferns, mosses, liverworts, algae, lichens and fungi. It is a fitting memorial to the breadth of his scholarship.
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Ponnequin Wind Farm TourPosted on December 2nd, 2007 9 comments
The Northern Colorado Clean Energy Network conducted a field trip on Friday, November 30th 2007 to visit the Ponnequin Wind Farm. This wind farm is located just south of the Colorado-Wyoming border and about 2 miles east of Interstate 25. We had a total of 21 attendees. We met at the Fort Collins Park-n-Ride and carpooled to the site where we met with Ken Bolin, Senior Engineer at Xcel Energy who hosted us on the tour.
The weather was chilly in Fort Collins, about 17 F with light winds, but we all knew that it would be colder and windier at the site. Sure enough, as we got closer to Wyoming the outside air temperature had dropped to 11 F with a wind blowing around 15-20 mph. As we got into Wyoming, the cloud ceilings began to descend, making me wonder if we'd even be able to see the wind turbines.
As we arrived at the entrance gate, Ken was unlocking it and some light snow was beginning to fall, sideways of course, which is the direction that snow always seems to fall in Wyoming. In the few minutes that I left my vehicle to talk to Ken the cold wind chilled me to the bone.I've been to Wyoming in the winter on quite a few occasions and yet I still cannot get used to how much colder its weather can be than Colorado's. The wind chill factor was breathtaking, to say the least.
We followed Ken as we drove for about 3 miles along dirt roads. We were only able to see the turbines when we got within a quarter mile from them and even then could only see the bottoms of the spinning blades because the clouds were so low that the tops of the towers and blades disappeared into them. We parked our vehicles and assembled in the maintenance building where Ken told about the site's history and many other interesting facts about the wind turbines.
After the ceilings lifted, we were able to see all the turbines.
The Ponnequin Wind Farm is Colorado's first wind farm and was built in several phases starting in 1998. The first phase consisted of seven 750 kW NEG-Micon turbines with a total capacity of 5 MW. A year later, 22 more 750 kW NEG-Micon turbines were installed bringing up the total generating capacity to 21 MW. In 2001, 15 more 660 kW Vestas turbines were installed which brought the capacity of the wind farm to about 31 MW with a total of 44 turbines. I should mention that wind farms are rated at their maximum generating capacity, but they don't generate at their maximum capacity all the time. A wind farm that is positioned on a good site will generate about 30-35% of its maximum capacity averaged over the course of a year. This percentage, known as the capacity factor, can go higher if the winds tend to be more consistent, such as they are for off-shore wind farms. We also found that in North America, the capacity factor varies considerably throughout the year. For example, the months of April through September may only have an average capacity factor of 10%, whereas during the months from October through March it can be as high as 70%.
People are always trying put generating capacity in perspective and so you'll often hear that a wind turbine can power a certain number of homes. A general rule of thumb is that each household consumes about 1 kW of energy on a continual basis so 1 MW of generating capacity is enough to power 1000 average homes. Electrical power is sold by the kWh and since there is an average of 730 hours per month, the above rule of thumb would imply that an average household consumes about 730 kWh per month. This average household energy consumption has been creeping up steadily so you may find that it varies depending on the date of the reference. I should also mention that the cost per kWh varies considerably over the U.S. from a low of $.051/kWh in West Virginia to a high of $.208/kWh in Hawaii with the average hovering around $.10/kWh. In Europe, the cost is closer to twice the average U.S. rate.
Estimating an annualized capacity factor of around 30%, this 31 MW facility should generate about 9.3 MW x 8760 hours/year x $.10 kWh x 1000 KW/MW = $8,150,000/year worth of electricity. This would be enough to power 9300 homes. The cost of generating the electricity at this site is $.057/kWh so it would appear to be profitable for Xcel, although there are other power distribution costs that I'm not including. But if you take into consideration that power companies are able to charge a premium for wind energy, then it should all tend to even out. In the case of Xcel Energy, they do this through their Windsource program which effectively adds about another $.01/kWh to the retail price. I participate in this program and so about one third of the electricity I use in my home effectively comes from wind power.
Ken explained that the major factors that influence the selection of wind farm's location are the speed and consistency of winds throughout the year, its ease-of-access, and its proximity to power distribution lines. High voltage power distribution lines can significantly add to the expense of the wind project if they have to be extended very far since it costs about $500,000 per mile to build them. Today wind farms cost about $1800 per kW to construct which is nearly twice what it cost 10 years ago. This is largely due to increases in the cost of raw materials such as concrete, copper, and steel in addition to the increased demand for turbines.
One of the common concerns expressed about wind farms is their effect on local wildlife, but in the case of the Ponnequin site, there doesn't seem to be much, if any, interference with the wildlife in the area. The wildlife that inhabits the site includes deer, elk, antelope, fox, coyote, ground squirrels, badgers, and, of course, birds. The antelope appreciate the shade of the towers provide in the hot sun during the summer and will line up and lay down in its shadow and then continue to move as the sun changes the position of the shade. Cattle are also allowed to graze on the property and on occasion have been known to stand in a line at the fence and stare curiously at the turbines.
Bird strikes have been very minimal with only about 20 birds killed per year at the site. Only one raptor has been killed in the 9 years the site has been operating. To put it in perspective, for every bird killed by a wind turbine, 250,000 are killed by domestic cats, cars, and controlled flight into windows.
With generating capacities of 660 to 750 kW each, the Ponnequin turbines are smaller than the ones that are being delivered today which are averaging between 1 to 2 MW each. Even so, they are still impressive in size and you can really appreciate it when you get up close to them. The blades are 70 feet in length and are mounted on a hub that is positioned 170 feet in the air. The NEG-Micon blades are fixed pitch, but have a 12 foot tip section that is hydraulically actuated when the wind speed exceeds 57 mph. When that happens, the tip sections pop out and rotate 90 degrees and this slows down the blade so that it can be stopped by a disc brake mounted inside the nacelle. This is done to protect the blades, gearbox, and generator from being destroyed in high winds. Once the wind slows down enough, the tips retract and the turbine will automatically begin spinning again. Ken told us that winds exceeding 90 mph have been recorded on the site and that during the windy season, it's not unusual to experience 3 or 4 shutdowns due to high winds each month. In the case of the Vestas turbines, the blades are variable pitch so they are able to adjust their angle to get the maximum energy out of the wind at low speeds and at high speeds, they can be rotated to slow down the rotor enough until the disc brake can stop it completely.
The blades have built-in lightning protection in the form of conductive members buried inside the fiberglass/epoxy blades to attract and conduct the energy of a lightning strike to ground which protects the blades from damage. Ken mentioned that some wind turbines were installed in Wyoming that did not have lightning protection and during a weekend of thunderstorms a number of turbines experienced catastrophic blade damage. So lightning protection in the blades is very important.End view of a blade. Note person's hand in left hand upper corner to get a sense of the size.
NEG-Micon blade 70 feet long.
Many of our group's questions were related to the costs to run the wind farm and reliability of the turbines. Ken said there are 3 full-time employees required to run site and mentioned that the annual maintenance budget varied considerably from year to year depending on what needed to be replaced. He related an incident when some improperly torqued bolts had caused a nacelle complete with gearbox, generator, and rotor to tilt over and fall 170 feet to the ground while it was spinning, completely destroying everything in the process. The resulting damage was nearly $750K. A blade sets cost around $250K and an equal amount is required for a new generator and gearbox. Then there is the cost of the crane which is $10,000 to move it in, $10,000 to move it out, and $1,000 per hour that it operates. It appears that the crane costs are a major factor in maintaining a wind farm. Some maintenance items can be handled without a crane, but when it's necessary to use the crane to bring down a gearbox or generator, the downtime can be significant, taking as long as 3 to 4 months depending on part availability. In some cases, it's been necessary to have parts custom-machined to get the gearboxes repaired due to long lead times on parts. Ken tries to keep rebuilt generators and gearboxes on hand to minimize downtime in the event that one needs to be replaced. However, there are times during the winter when it's impossible to get a crane on site and so much of the maintenance is done during the warmer months.
After our discussion in the maintenance building, we all went outside again to get a look at the turbines. I was relieved to find that the cloud ceilings had lifted and we were able to see the tops of the turbines and had more than a mile of visibility. We drove to an operating turbine and 15 people squeezed into its base to hear about how one goes about climbing up the ladder when maintenance in the nacelle is required. We also got to see the controller in the base with digital readouts of various parameters used to monitor the health of the turbine as well as its output. At the time we were there, the turbine was operating with an output of 375 kW, enough to power about 375 homes.
Then we went to look at a set of blades that were on the ground resting on some hay bales. They were awaiting some parts and a crane to reattach them to the turbine. I asked about maintenance on the blades and Ken mentioned that whenever they are taken down from the tower they are carefully inspected and any damage is repaired. They use composite repair techniques similar to the way you'd repair a composite boat or airplane. On occasion, it's possible to repair a blade from a crane while the blade is still mounted on the tower, but when it's on the ground, it's much easier to work on it. A damaged blade sometimes whistles as it spins, making it possible to know in advance if a turbine has blades that may need some repair work.
We then went back to the maintenance building to ask some final questions and to warm up a bit. We also looked over some of the turbine parts, including a generator, prop cowling, slew motors, and disk brakes. The size of these parts was very impressive.A box with two electric slew motors. Five of these are used to rotate the turbine into the wind.This is the blade cowling that covers the hub.
Ken then led us to the front gate where we departed back to warmer climate of Colorado. About 8 of us then gathered for lunch and had a good time discussing wind turbines and what we learned.
We really appreciated Ken's generosity for hosting this tour and are grateful that Xcel Energy allows groups like ours to tour their facility to learn more about wind power.
Several people took some great digital photos and put them up on web sites where you can view them from these links:
Wind Turbine EfficiencyPosted on November 15th, 2007 1 comment
At an NCRES meeting last night the question of wind turbine efficiency came up and I was about to explain it based on my understanding of the Betz limit, but realized it was a bit too complex an issue to summarize in a few sentences, so I decided to put it in a blog article. In fact, it's even a little challenging to put in the blog, because it requires a table and the blog composing interface doesn't seem to properly display tables or the characters pi or rho for some reason. So you can find a table and a few more details here, if you're curious.
I use both the units of mph and m/s for speed since the U.S. has never bothered to convert to the metric system. For U.S. readers, an easy trick to convert from m/s to mph is to double the number and add 10%. What follows is rather technical, so if you're not interested in math, physics, or wind energy, you may just wish to skip this article.
In order to understand how much power you can generate with a wind turbine, you must first know how much energy is available in the wind. This energy is primarily determined by wind speed and the size of the wind turbine's rotor. Power generated is proportional to how much kinetic energy can be extracted per unit time.
Kinetic energy of a moving mass is defined by the equation ½ mv2. We need to know the kinetic energy of the air moving across the swept area of the turbine's rotor. Multiplying energy by its rate of movement will provide its power.
The air's mass per unit time can be computed with the formula pAv where:
p = density of the air
A = swept area of turbine's rotor
v = velocity of the wind
Thus combining the equations for kinetic energy and wind speed, the power available in wind comes out to:
½ pAv3
Air density (p) is about 1.2 kg/m3 at sea level and a temperature of 20 °C. This number varies depending on temperature and altitude. For example, in Colorado air density is about 1 kg/m3 or about 20% less than at sea level.
Let's take the example of a Vestas V80 turbine with an 80 meter rotor. The amount of wind energy available in a 20 mph (9.8 m/s) wind for this turbine with 5027 m2 of swept area is:
½ × 1.2 kg/m3 × 3.14 × (40 m)2 × (8.9 m/s)3
= 2.3 × 106 kg·m2/s3 = 2.3 MW
However, this number is the theoretical power of all the wind moving across the swept area, and you cannot completely stop the wind to get 100% of its energy. In 1920, a German physicist named Albert Betz figured out that the maximum energy that can be extracted by a wind turbine is about 59.3% of the theoretical energy present in the wind. This has become known as Betz's Law. This means that you can only get about 1.35 MW from a 20 mph wind at sea level in the example mentioned above in the best case. Looking up the specifications for the Vestas V80 wind turbine in the graph below, we see that it generates about 950 kW in a 20 mph wind, which means it achieves about 70% of its Betz limit efficiency. This number is impressive considering there are losses at every stage of energy conversion, including the drag on the blades, the gearbox, the generator, and the transformer and losing only 30% through all these stages is quite good.
As the wind speed increases, the energy present in it goes up by the cube of its velocity. However, the maximum output of the V80 turbine stops at about 28 mph (12.5 m/s) when it reaches 2 MW. At this point, this turbine generates at about 54% of its Betz limit efficiency. From this point on, the wind turbine will not generate more than its 2 MW rated power despite the fact that the Betz limit power will climb to nearly 30 MW by the time the cutoff of the turbine is reached at 56 mph (25 m/s). Around the time of the cutoff, therefore, the turbine will be operating at 7% of its Betz limit. The turbine cuts off in high winds to protect itself from damage.
In the grand scheme of things, much of this 'wasted' power is mostly hypothetical since the wind speeds even at some of the best sited wind farms tend to average between 15 to 26 mph throughout the year. If the components were to be sized to handle 30 MW of power, they would be much heavier and much more expensive. So sizing the turbine for 2MW optimizes overall cost considerations over the life of the turbine.
So, how efficient is a wind turbine? The answer is that 'it depends on how you define efficiency'. In the case where you measure efficiency as the amount of energy that is theoretically available to what is actually extracted, it can look like a very small number, about 40% maximum. However, if you consider that without the wind turbine, 100% of the energy it provides would be wasted, then the answer is that it is infinitely efficient.
Colorado Wind EnergyPosted on November 12th, 2007 5 comments
I was out last week flying in the LongEZ and I decided to check the progress of the large wind farms that are under construction in Northern Colorado. One of these wind farms called Cedar Creek is right at the Wyoming-Nebraska-Colorado border and the other is farther east in Colorado, just south of Sidney, Nebraska. It is called the Peetz Table Wind farm. Between them, they have 500 wind turbines with a peak generating capacity of 700MW.
One of the things that impresses me most about wind farms is how fast they get built. These two facilities were just in the discussion stages 2 years ago. Early this spring they were just setting up the towers and now all towers are nearly complete and generating power. When I was growing up in Pennsylvania, nuclear power projects like the Susquehanna Steam Electric Station took a very long time to build, with an average build time of 12 years. By contrast these wind projects are going up in a year or less, and the amount of land available on which to build them is substantial so I would expect to see many more going up over the next few decades. Out west we also don't have nearly the number of people objecting to them with NIBMY excuses. I suppose when your closest neighbors include 220 Minuteman silos, you have a different perspective on what constitutes a "good neighbor." Some people can be very picky about what they allow in their backyards, as evidenced by Cape Wind.
My previous blog posting on Colorado wind power included an aerial shot of Colorado's Ponnequin wind farm near Cheyenne, and I now have some new photos of the new wind farms I mentioned, each which has more than 200 wind turbines.
There are also some photos of the new Vestas Blades factory which is under construction in Windsor. It will produce about 1200 40-meter wind turbine blades per year when it is completed next spring. They are even talking about expanding it to increase the rate of production by 50% within a year of commencing operation.
Cape WindPosted on October 13th, 2007 4 comments
I recently read a book entitled Cape Wind by Wendy Williams and Robert Whitcomb. It's a book about the struggle to get approval to build America's first off-shore wind farm. I have been writing about wind energy lately because I think it has reached a critical mass and it is has the potential to grow to power a large part of America's electrical grid in the next few decades. In Denmark, wind energy is already producing 20% of that country's electricity needs.
What's interesting about Cape Wind is that it's become such a controversial project. You'd think that something that provides clean and renewable energy to an area of the country that desperately needs more electrical generating capacity would be anything but controversial, yet this is not the case. The controversy stems from the location for the wind farm in Nantucket Sound, which is about 5 miles off the coast of Cape Cod. For the past 6 years, this project has been held up by people who have gone to great measures to make sure it does not get built. What makes it more interesting is the reason they don't want it to be built. Quite simply, they don't want to have to look at it. In other words, it offends their sense of aesthetics. Stating this objection publicly would not help their cause so they are using flimsy but less embarrassing excuses such as their concern for wildlife, fisherman, pilots, and a whole host of reasons that are diversions from the real reason, that is, people feel that views from their mansions are off limits for any other societal benefit besides their own viewing pleasure. Nantucket Sound is best viewed from private beaches attached to multi-million dollar estates.
The power from the wind farm could provide up to 75% of the electrical energy needs for Nantucket, Martha's Vineyard, and Cape Cod. The power for this region is currently generated by a dirty oil-fired plant that has been responsible for several oil spills further down the Cape Cod coast.
The location for the proposed wind farm is ideal because it has excellent wind conditions and it is a shoal, which means it is shallow, making construction much less expensive. It's actually too shallow to sail yachts in that location during low tide. The wind farm would only be visible from the shore for 1/2 inch above the horizon and only on clear days.
What makes the resistance to the project even more newsworthy is that it is opposed by politicians who claim to be staunch environmentalists such as Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Ted Kennedy, and Mitt Romney. The wind farm is supported by 84% of Massachusetts residents and yet a powerful and elite group is trying to subvert the democratic process by imposing their own will on that of the majority. Since the plant would be located in federal waters, each American should have an equal say in its approval, not just wealthy beach front property owners.
My main concern about the resistance to Cape Wind is that of setting a precedent that wind farms are something people should not want to have in their 'back yards'. Cape Wind could be a showcase of environmental stewardship. By resisting wind energy, these people are increasing the likelihood of someone else getting a coal-burning power plant in their back yard and that's not a behavior I want associated with fellow Americans. After all, Europeans have been building off shore wind farms for many years with great success.
People need to understand that clean and renewable energy is necessary to maintain our standard of living, protect the environment, and reduce our dependence on exhaustible fossil fuels. When you look upon a wind farm with those thoughts in mind, it connects with a much deeper sense of aesthetics than the superficiality exhibited by Cape Wind's opponents.
Perhaps this report from Comedy Central helps add a bit of levity and puts the opposition to Cape Wind in perspective:
I sincerely hope that this project gets approved and built. Not only would it help to solve the Cape's energy shortfall, it would restore my faith in democracy. It would also help send the message that making up questionable excuses to resist the construction of renewable energy projects is a fool's errand.
You can keep abreast of this critical project at Wendy Williams's blog.


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Fleet Cars
What is meant by fleet cars?
Fleet vehicles refer to vehicles which are totally owned or taken on lease by private or government agencies but not by individuals.
Fleet cars are popularly used all over the world. Fleet car companies buy a number of cars of basic model usually at reasonably low prices directly from the car manufacturer. These fleet cars are operated for a certain period for various purposes like:
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Fleet cars after being used over a period of time, they are sold to third parties as used fleet cars. As such fleet cars have the significant benefit of being maintained regularly but also suffer from a serious drawback of high mileage.
Fleet cars may be bought or leased depending on what is more advantageous to the business which is dependent on a number of factors. Any business which buys 10 or more fleet cars becomes a commercial fleet car buyer and is given a fleet registration number. A holder of fleet registration number is entitled to avail a number of incentives from the car dealers' and manufacturers'.
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Most fleet car dealers demand a high insurance coverage for the leased cars. So it's advisable that one looks around for insurance policies, make a comparative study and then take a suitable policy. These days blanket policies are becoming popular which cover the business as well as the fleet vehicles together.
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Chat with Pat Yasinskas
Welcome to SportsNation! On Friday, ESPN.com NFC South blogger Pat Yasinskas will stop by to talk about the NFL.
Yasinskas joined ESPN.com in January 2008 after covering the Carolina Panthers for The Charlotte Observer for nine seasons. He began his journalism career with The Tampa Tribune in 1990 and began covering the Buccaneers and the NFL in 1993. A winner of Florida Sports Writers Awards for Best Feature and Best News story in 1997, he is a graduate of Saint Leo University and attended law school before coming to his senses. A native of Dalton, Pa., Yasinskas lives in the Tampa area.
Send your questions now and join Yasinskas Friday at 1 p.m. ET!
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Chris Fiegler (Latham,NY)
Do you think that there will be a lockout after midnight?
Pat Yasinskas (12:55 PM)
My guess is no. I think there will be another extension. Sounds like there's growing momentum for something like a 7 to 10 day extension. All right, this chat is up and rolling.
Mitch Meadows (Winston-Salem, NC)
Have the Panthers even hinted at what they're going to do at QB?
Pat Yasinskas (12:56 PM)
Not really. I honestly think they're still in the process of sorting out what direction they will go in at QB.
Paul Brotherton (Charlotte, NC)
Can we start the chat early? Pretty please?
Pat Yasinskas (12:56 PM)
We have.
Paul (Knoxville)
What will Shaun Rogers mean to the Saints D?
Pat Yasinskas (12:58 PM)
Don't think he comes in and dominates. But I think his presence will make Sedrick Ellis a much better player. Ellis is a guy who really can be good, as long as he stays healthy and has some talent around him.
Greg (VA)
With the CBA up in the air does the NFL office still work on making the 2011 schedule?
Pat Yasinskas (12:59 PM)
That is an excellent question. Actually had a conversation with somebody about this the other day and this is a high-ranking official with one of my teams. He said, yes, the league still goes about business as usual on creating the schedule.
CJ (Miami)
Can we get started now?
Pat Yasinskas (1:00 PM)
CJ, come on, we've been at it for five or six minutes already!!!
Richard (Ann Arbor)
How's the recovery coming?
Pat Yasinskas (1:01 PM)
Very well. Thanks. Intensity of therapy was upped dramatically today and I'm gonna hurt tomorrow. I'm icing the knees as we chat. Plan is to try running (lightly) by end of next week.
CJ (Miami)
Do you think there will be free agency this year?
Pat Yasinskas (1:02 PM)
Yes, I do. I think that things will get done at some point. Obviously, things already are getting pushed back. But I think they'll get it done and have time for free agency.
adam (columbia, sc)
are gamble and marshall both going to be back in carolina? any chance the panthers look at p. peterson from lsu at number 1?
Pat Yasinskas (1:04 PM)
My guess is Marshall leaves. As far as Peterson, I like him a lot. But Hurney and Richardson are traditional guy and the rule of thumb is you don't take a CB at No. 1. But, hey, might be time to break that rule.
David Im (San Diego)
Pat, huge fan, you do a great job of covering the NFC South. Just wondering what your take is on the Garrett Hartley extension. I know he was great two years ago for the Saints, but he had a rough last season where he missed critical kicks and was benched at one point. What were the Saints thinking locking him up for 5 years!?
Pat Yasinskas (1:05 PM)
Kid has lots of talent, although he has been erratic at some points. But I think, in some ways, they're thinking a vote of confidence might settle him down and help make him more consistent.
Sebastian (New Orleans)
Does N.O. have enough young LB talent to get by another season?
Pat Yasinskas (1:06 PM)
Think they'll address that in draft and free agency. Think they have to add a guy or two.
CJ (Miami)
Will the Saints play the opening game of the year again this year vs the Packers?
Pat Yasinskas (1:07 PM)
Definitely makes sense and would seem to be a leading scenario. Only other realistic one I see is Green Bay opening with Chicago. But I'd like to be in Lambeau Field on opening night.
Popz (Richmond)
Wanted to tell you thank you for being early. Not to rag on others, but I have noticed many other chats start up about 4 after. I really love your chats and analysis. Thank you very much!
Pat Yasinskas (1:08 PM)
I don't guarantee it, but I generally try to start anywhere from five to 10 minutes early.
zach (chapel hill)
im a little taken back by the shockey signing...cant help but to think of the keyshawn johnson fiasco a few years ago
Pat Yasinskas (1:09 PM)
That's kind of my thoughts on it. Not sure he has much left and not sure he's a good fit. But, hey, Hurney and Rivera did it for a reason and we'll see what happens.
CC (Atlanta)
Mike Smith responded to a recent question in the AJC about the WR corp and mentioned Roddy, Douglas, Kerry Meier and Weems... but not Jenkins or Finneran. Finn has since been told he was gone. Can we read anything into this? MJ is a nice blocker and all but we need a playmaker opposite Roddy and Jenks makes alot of dough.
Pat Yasinskas (1:10 PM)
I wouldn't get too carried away. They really like Jenkins as a role player and he's a good locker-room guy. That said, I still think they'll try to bring in a WR who can help make them better.
Joe (Los Angeles (Panther Fan))
Hi Pat. Since the Panthers reached for a tight end, do you think we have another "out of character" signing coming at QB?
Pat Yasinskas (1:12 PM)
It's possible. The door is definitely open there. And they know they have to do something big at QB to be competitive.
CC (Atlanta)
Only one that makes sense?? How about Green Bay @ Atlanta Thurs nite week 1?
Pat Yasinskas (1:13 PM)
Think the opener's pretty much got to be in Lambeau.
Ken (Pineville, NC)
Any chance of Palmer ending up a Panther??
Pat Yasinskas (1:15 PM)
Yes, entirely possible. I don't think they've narrowed it down yet and much will depend on how guys come available -- trade, release, whatever. But I think they've got to be looking at that whole group of Palmer, McNabb and the two or three other guys that everyone suspects will be available.
Ryan (New Jersey)
Do you think that the Chargers have a chance in the playoffs this coming season?
Pat Yasinskas (1:15 PM)
I'm gonna leave the Chargers alone. I picked them to go to the Super Bowl last season. How'd that work out for me?
Rum (N'awlins)
WhoDat ! Pat, and Welcome to Mr. Sed-Rogers Neighborhood, won't you be our neighbor. ;).Rogers doesn't have to dominate, but if he can tie up the center & a guard, Mr. Sed should wreck havoc on opposing offenses..Remember, we had Casillas (listed as a starter) on IR last year, and Gallette has had a year to learn--should really open up Saints drafting
Pat Yasinskas (1:16 PM)
Yep, that's what I'm saying. I think Rogers' presence allows Ellis to take the next step.
Jeff (Huntsville)
Pat, you mentioned in one of your blogs that both Brian Finneran and Jimmy Willims will not receive contract offers to stay with the Falcons. Did you mean Brian Williams?
Pat Yasinskas (1:19 PM)
Yep, my bad. I'll go back and fix it as soon as we finish. Actually, the report was they would not see offers before the start of a lockout or the start of free agency. That doesn't rule out the possibility of them re-signing at some point later on.
Matt (Black Mtn,NC)
What Panthers coach Ron Rivera plans to do with Armanti Edwards, the panthers second round selection from this year
Pat Yasinskas (1:20 PM)
Hopefully, at least let him get on the field! Seriously, I think they're hoping he can fit into the WR mix. Maybe a little wildcat here and there, but they mainly want him to be a WR.
nick (Swannanona NC)
Pat, Who has been your favorite player (not most talented) to have covered in you career?
Pat Yasinskas (1:22 PM)
Wow, favorite player? Well, we really can't have favorite players. Guys I've admired most and we'll limit this to my newspaper days when I was with one team every day -- John Lynch, Derrick Brooks, Warrick Dunn, Trent Dilfer, Paul Gruber, Jake Delhomme, Jon Beason, Jordan Gross, DeAngelo Williams and Jason Kyle.
chris(hungry as i type) (greensboro,nc)
pat y do u think the panthers will keep marshall.....u know they tendered him right?
Pat Yasinskas (1:23 PM)
Yep and maybe they're hoping someone signs him, so they can add draft pick.
Drew (NO)
Pat, just a comment, as much as I dislike the falcons, I do have to give props to Mr. Blank. YOu have to admit he is the best dressed owner in the NFL and kind of looks like he has just stepped out of "Gone With the Wind".
Pat Yasinskas (1:24 PM)
Yep, fascinating guy in a lot of ways.
elliot hall (boone nc)
love your stuff pat,why is jason kyle one of your favorite players
Pat Yasinskas (1:26 PM)
Know he's not a big name because he's a long-snapper. But he's one of the smartest guys I've ever covered. Look at the way he's carved a 17-year career out of being able to do one thing very well. He's parlayed that into multiple businesses. He's also a very down-to-earth and "regular" guy.
Tim (Orlando)
Pat, do you know what Paul Gruber is doing these days?
Pat Yasinskas (1:27 PM)
No, but that's a good question and one I can check into. One of the things we're planning if there is a lockout is a series on "Where are they now?" I'll put Gruber on my list.
Adam (Raleigh NC)
Any reason to think Shockey isn't going to destroy any bit of confidence Clausen has left?
Pat Yasinskas (1:27 PM)
I can't think of one.
David (Orlando)
Jimmy Clausen looked good last yr with protection. Throws were kind of wobbly... but pretty good decision making considering.... what do you think? have you gone back and watched video?
Pat Yasinskas (1:30 PM)
Yes, there were a few moments. But the problem is he spent so much of last year running for his life that I don't think you can really figure out much about him from last year. That in the fact that he was in perhaps the least-imaginative offense in NFL history.
Julian (Atlanta)
Hey Pat, hope all is well! You seem to lean towards a DE as a first round selection for the Atlanta Falcons. Which one appeals to you the most? Could Robert Quinn possibly drop to our pick?
Pat Yasinskas (1:30 PM)
Saw my buddy DLed has him going to Falcons in his latest mock. Wouldn't surprise me a bit.
Tom (Charlotte)
Pat, why don't you let the Shockey move play out before criticizing it?
Pat Yasinskas (1:31 PM)
I think I just said a couple of minutes ago that I don't like the move, but Hurney and Rivera made it for a reason and we'll see how it plays out. Think I'm being pretty fair there.
Paul Brotherton (Charlotte, NC)
Jimmy Clausen can't throw over an o-line to save his life. Pat, do you know his % of passes deflected at the line?
Pat Yasinskas (1:33 PM)
Yep, but you know what, there's a QB in New Orleans that sometimes has problems with that too. He's even shorter than Clausen, but he's got a coaching staff that factors his size into that and doesn't put him in a position where he's throwing into the defensive line too often. It seems to have worked well for Mr. Brees.
greg (va)
dwill we see see a 2011 nfl schedule released then like usual?
Pat Yasinskas (1:34 PM)
That's my understanding from that conversation I mentioned earlier. If they hold to tradition, it'll come sometime in April.
Lee (Clayton, NC)
not to be mean but are you eating crow about Shockey after saying there was no way they would?
Pat Yasinskas (1:36 PM)
Look, it's not like I was on the witness stand testifying about something crucially important. I voiced my thoughts on how Panthers have dones business the last decade or so. Obviously, they've either made an exception here or are changing the way they do business.
Jared (Tampa)
Lets get away from all this Shockey talk and get to something important. Will K2 have a huge season for the Bucs? He has predicted doubling his receiving yards from last season, do you think this is realistic?
Pat Yasinskas (1:38 PM)
I saw that. Well, I think it would be mathematically impossible to double his stats from last season. But he definitely can improve on them. Freeman's only going to keep getting better and the young WRs are going to open things up for Winslow. As long as his knees hold up, he could put up some real big numbers.
Matt (Lakeland, FL)
Hey Pat, long time reader from the Tampa Tribune days. I'm more concerned over the free agency possibility for Davin Joseph than I am of Ruud. Ruud's a great guy, but I believe he's ready for that long term deal that some other team can provide. Tell me we're not losing Joseph.
Pat Yasinskas (1:39 PM)
Suspect the Bucs will make sure they don't lose Joseph. He and Penn are hugely important. They're the two guys most responsible for keeping Freeman standing and Freeman is the franchise.
Irving (Charlotte)
Will any team in the NFC South get Mark Ingram?
Pat Yasinskas (1:41 PM)
Possible. I still wouldn't totally rule out Saints even after re-signing Thomas. Can't rule out Falcons. But they both have some other needs they probably want to address first.
Robbie (Murphy, NC)
Why are people linking us to Cam Newton, when Blaine Gabbert is conisdered the best QB?
Pat Yasinskas (1:42 PM)
By who?
Joe (Tampa)
Pat, do you see the Bucs bringing in another young running back to grow alongside Blount?
Pat Yasinskas (1:43 PM)
I think that would be a wise move. Doesn't have to be a real early draft pick. You can get good guys in middle rounds. Like to see them get someone who can share a few of Blount's carries or fill in if he misses a game or two. Keep Caddy as third-down back, but don't ask him to be a 20-carry guy if Blount goes down.
Lee (Clayton, NC)
hey i was shocked as well Pat about Jeremy S. but maybe they are changing? Who knows? (like I said not trying to be mean) was just trying to see what you thought and thanks for sharing!
Pat Yasinskas (1:44 PM)
Yep, they may be changing. Or maybe this is a one-time exception. We'll see over time if they really are changing.
elliot hall (boone nc)
have you said whos your predicteded winner of the nfc south yet
Pat Yasinskas (1:45 PM)
Umm, let's wait to see if there is a season. And wait to see what teams do in the draft and perhaps free agency. We'll do the prediction thing in late August or elary September.
Randy (Tampa)
Where does Blount rank among NFC South backs?
Pat Yasinskas (1:47 PM)
Hmmm, that's a good one. Still have to go with Turner at No. 1. I also think very highly of DeAngelo and Stewart's great when healthy. I'd put Blount ahead of all the New Orleans backs. For now, he's a little behind Turner, DeAngelo and Stewart, but I think that could change in his second season.
Jeffrey T (Boone, NC)
Bobby Dylan would argue the Panthers are changin'
Pat Yasinskas (1:49 PM)
Yes, he would. Also, Dylan has what I think is one of the most underrated songs of all-time. Think it's called just "Hurricane" -- the one about Rueben Carter, the boxer. Not really a Dylan fan, but that's a great song.
John (Charlotte)
Pat why are you not giving any love to Tyrell Sutton? who last year against the Saints he played really well in that game
Pat Yasinskas (1:50 PM)
All right, let's hear it for Tyrell Sutton. Seriously, you're right, he did some good things last year, but I don't have time to list every single RB in the NFC South in a chat where I'm trying to answer questions as fast as possible.
ben (tucson)
if carolina doesnt like a certain player at #1 could they just let time expire an wait to draft a few spots lower?
Pat Yasinskas (1:52 PM)
Hypothetically, yes. But I don't see Jerry Richardson playing games. Then again, as we just said, maybe the times are changing.
Adam (Raleigh NC)
Pat, you forgot about Goodson and Cadillac as well. Come on guys this chat isn't so Pat can say really nice things about our teams.
Pat Yasinskas (1:53 PM)
Hey, let's not forget Lynell Hamilton!!!
elliot hall (boone nc)
pat what are the chances your coming to app state this year? me and jeff like to tali gate with you
Pat Yasinskas (1:55 PM)
You know, one regret about my time in Carolinas was I never got up to an App State game. Wish I had. Been close to Boone because my friend and former co-worker Stan Olson has a place up there. Gorgeous area. Other regret is I never got to a Duke basketball game at Cameron. I would have liked to seen that just once.
Calvin (Osoyoos, BC)
With the ticket sales drought and the Glazer's cashflow crunch, do you think that there is any chance of the LA Bucs?
Pat Yasinskas (1:57 PM)
No, NFL wants a franchise in Tampa. Lots of other teams are stronger candidates for LA.
Paul (Augusta)
Pat, what happened to Biermann this year?
Pat Yasinskas (1:58 PM)
Ah, man, that's a waist-high fastball, but I've got to watch it go by and stay on the high road.
John (Charlotte)
Pat this just in there is a new Extension for 7 more days
Pat Yasinskas (1:58 PM)
Believe you, but let's have a couple more of you confirm. If true, can't see it as anything but a good thing.
Lee (Clayton, NC)
Who should be the next coach for the NC STATE Wolfpack men's basketball team? LOL ... Just kidding!
Pat Yasinskas (2:00 PM)
Mike Madagan, who just stepped aside at Saint Leo, my alma mater!!! Just kidding, but Mike had a nice run, conducting himself and program with class and now is moving onto other things in his life.
J.P. (Kenner, La.)
Biermann was on a housewives show, that's what happened!
Pat Yasinskas (2:01 PM)
I didn't say it. All right, we're past 2 p.m., but I'll go ahead and take two more questions.
Lee (Clayton, NC)
what do you think of Charlie Sheen?
Pat Yasinskas (2:02 PM)
Thought he was great in Major League.
elliot hall (boone nc)
how d williams interview on espn this week, he is such a funny guy
Pat Yasinskas (2:03 PM)
DeAngelo's great. Funny guy and smart guy. Plus, he's one of those guys that can talk about anything and make it seem interesting.
Mark H (Greensboro, NC)
Who wins big game tomorrow? (dook at UNC)
Pat Yasinskas (2:05 PM)
Honestly, don't have a favorite there. But I will watch the game because it's such a great rivalry. All right, time to sign off. Thanks to all for stopping by. Have a great weekend.
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RI4A Renews Their Immigration Reform Push with Edward James Olmos
With an immigration reform bill about to be up for debate in the Senate, Reform Immigration 4 America has launched a new and concerted push for awareness with a new commercial featuring actor Edward James Olmos.
The commercial drives home one of immigration reform advocates' most salient points: that current US immigration laws tear apart parents, children, and siblings. It encourages viewers to join the fight to keep families together by connecting with the RI4A cause. Olmos is the latest in a long line of celebrities supporting this issue. In an NBC article about actors and actresses who have taken up immigration reform advocacy, Olmos talks about why he feels so passionately about it and how it relates to pride in his family:
"I'll never forget my first day of kindergarten, when my father took me to Belvedere Elementary in East Los Angeles," says Olmos. "I looked up as I entered the school courtyard and written at the very top of the archway was a sign that read 'If it isn't worth saying in English, it isn't worth saying at all.' That's what greeted me in during my first day of school in 1952."
That painful memory – and many others, says the Mexican-American actor – is why he will continue to fight for immigration reform.
RI4A has raised tremendous awareness about the crucial topic of immigration reform, driving over 60,000 calls to Congress since the beginning of the year. The bill is currently being written by the bipartisan "Gang of Eight," and will most likely arrive for vote at the Senate floor by the end of the month.
The issue of immigration reform is a critical one, and there's never been a better time to get involved. You can join RI4A's cause by texting "Justice" to 69866. You'll be asked to provide your zip code so that you can be get updated about the latest developments in the fight for immigration reform, hear about opportunities to take action in your community, and invite your friends to join the movement.
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Comments about Fossil Derrick Sliding 2-in-1 Wallet:
Well made, looks good, seems like it will last a long time. I like the passcase. It allows me keep the cards I use the most readily available. The card slots in the passcase are tight at first but, they loosen up with time providing a secure fit.
Bottom LineYes, I would recommend this to a friend
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