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PHILADELPHIA - Facing a Big 5 and Big East opponent ranked just outside the Top 25 and off to one of the best starts in program history, the University of Pennsylvania women's basketball team came up just short. With the Big 5 title at stake, Villanova outlasted the Quakers, 48-44, Wednesday night at The Palestra.
Penn has made a habit of playing their Big East foe down to the wire at The Palestra. The last four matchups at the Cathedral of College Basketball have been decided by a total of 18 points - an average margin of 4.5 points per game. Villanova improved to 14-2 and went unbeaten in Big 5 play (4-0) for the second straight year. Penn is now 7-7 overall and 1-2 against the Big 5.
When freshman Keiera Ray sliced her way to the basket and converted a tough layup, the Quakers were down just two, 46-44, with 27.1 seconds to play. A full court press then nearly resulted in a steal, but Villanova corralled the tipped ball and was fouled with 7.3 seconds left. Both free throws went through and the Wildcats escaped with the four-point victory and the Big 5 title.
The Red and Blue nearly clinched their second Big 5 win - a feat only achieved once before in school history - and almost positioned themselves for the program's first-ever Big 5 title. But it did not look as promising in the opening 10 minutes.
After an even start over the first six minutes - Villanova held a slim 8-6 lead - the Wildcats looked set to asert themselves and runaway with the game early on. The visitors scored eight of the next 10 and led 16-8 at the 9:52 mark.
But that's when the Quakers took over. Penn went on an extended 21-5 run that spanned the two halves. It began with three straight layups from junior Alyssa Baron, who finished with a team-high 18 points. Then junior Courtney Wilson hit a game-tying jumper to cap an 8-0 run at the 5:27 mark of the opening half.
After the Wildcats broke a five-minute scoreless streak, the Red and Blue scored five straight and led 23-18 behind a three from sophomore Kathleen Roche.
Villanova had the final bucket of the half, but Penn led 23-21 at the break.
The Quakers kept the pressure on in the second half. Penn scored the first six points - a layup from sophomore Katy Allen and buckets from Ray and Baron - to take its largest lead, 29-21, with 18:10 to play.
Villanova then began to look like a team soon to be ranked in the Top 25. The Wildcats went on a 20-5 run over the next 10 minutes. That gave the visitors a 41-34 edge, and once again it seemed they would runaway with it.
But again the Quakers fought back. Baron sunk a step-back jumper along the baseline and then went coast-to-coast off a steal to get Penn within 41-38 at the 6:44 mark.
Two minutes later, Bonenberger hit a jumper and with under five minutes to play, the Red and Blue were down just 43-40.
Villanova sunk a three, but a pair of free throws made it 46-42 with 2:57 left. Penn then played defense for the next two minutes. Villanova got four straight offensive rebounds, but Penn continued to keep the Wildcats off the scoreboard. Eventually, an offensive foul gave the Quakers the ball back and Ray made it a two-point game before the free throws put it out of reach.
Baron and Wilson led Penn with five rebounds apiece. Ray added eight points and matched a career best with a game-high four assists. Allen had five points and two assists, while Roche finished with six points and two rebounds.
Penn was 19-of-50 (38.0%) from the field, while Villanova was 18-of-46 (39.1%). Both teams made 25 percent of of their threes. Penn had just eight turnovers and 10 assists, and forced 10 Villanova turnovers. The Wildcats won the rebounding battle, 34-26.
One more non-conference matchup remains for the Quakers. Temple visits the Cathedral of College Basketball on Jan. 23. The last Big 5 game of the 2012-13 season tips at 7 p.m.
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And now for the onslaught of some briss steez, and Sofles, cause he is up there with the best writers in the world today,on par with msk. soo many styles, all dope, definately paid his dues.accomplished alot in only 7 years.
this is the sydney thread
God bless ironlak.
destroy Dubai
Sofles has so much skill. I'll get some better flicks of some of the ones you posted.
So dope that man.
Fuck man. Sydney has it goin on
is this going to be Australia thread or just Sydney, because a mod needs to either delete photos from other citys or change name to Australia.
What does it matter what the name is, australias being represented. . .
At least everyone can know how theyre burning shit.
fuck man, what ever happened to sofles!??! I remember when that dude was posting his shit on here on a regular basis, that shits outta this world!
I don't think the actual Sofles would post his shit on an internet forum.
He's still burning though.
word..it may not have been him, but who ever it was said it was him and would post only his shit
Yeah, I'm pretty sure someone with a profile as big as his wouldn't do that though.
Some people make COPE2 accounts..
He is a fucking burner though. I'll get some Sydney bombing flicks soon, I needa sleep :|


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The godly remnant on the earth
In Psalm 1, however, we have simply the godly remnant on the earth. I say remnant, for the subject of the psalm is spoken of as characterised by individual faithfulness. The ungodly, sinners, and scornful, are around him. The law is his delight. He is a godly Jew, keeping apart from the ungodly, and is blessed, and prospers. Such is the principle of the psalm. But to make it good the earthly judgment must come in. There the ungodly shall not stand,nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous then left free from the pressure of those who cared not for god. the psalm gives us the general character of the godly man, and the result under the judicial government of God.
The righteous and the wicked; the judgment of God
Another element is then brought in. Jehovah knows the way of the righteous the way of the ungodly shall perish. It is a judgment on one side, and a moral approbation before that judgment come on the other, which is connected with the covenant-relationship of Jehovah with Israel. We have seen that Christ was on earth this godly man, and took His place among the faithful remnant, these excellent of the earth was perfect in that place. So far this psalm takes Him in; but that is not yet directly spoken of. Its subject is the character of the godly, and the result under the government of God, Jehovah, in the midst of His people. It is not yet suffering because of this. That is a circumstance which will come out in its time. It is the character of the godly man in presence of the wicked, and the result measured by the abiding principles of God's government. Jehovah knows the righteous others shall positively perish. Psalm 1 is the moral character of the remnant, their position in the midst of the ungodly, and the general government of God, and the connection of Jehovah and the righteous.
Besides this, remark that the psalm places both in presence of a proximate judgment, by which the wicked are driven away like chaff, and the righteous form the congregation; that is, it refers definitely to the remnant in the last days. The principles of this psalm, the character of the persons spoken of in it, and their position, are clear enough, and important as laying one great part of the basis of the whole superstructure of the Psalms God's government, and the trials of the remnant which seemed to deny the government here spoken of, which is only to be made good in judgment when the mystery of God shall be finished. We are on the ground of Israel's place and of God's government according to the law, but the righteous distinguished from the wicked, and blessing, not the portion of all Israel as a whole, but of the righteous who will form the congregation when judgment is executed. Blessing is on the righteous, but these shall be the people when the ungodly shall be driven away as chaff. It is just the doctrine of the end of Isaiah (see Isa. 48: 22; Isa. 57: 20; Isa. 65; Isa. 66). Only in the last passage the judgment reaches the nations also.
A godly remnant of the people, delighting in the law, and the judgment of God, resulting in the congregation of the righteous, according to the true character of Jehovah, the wicked being driven away such are the first truths presented to us, the moral government of God on the earth made good by judgment in Israel.* Hence the last days are clearly in view.
{*More specifically in the Jews. The remnant of the Jews are spared and pass through the tribulation when two-thirds are cut off in the land (Zech. 13). The judgment of the ten tribes is outside the land, and the rebels do not enter into it (Ezek. 20). Israel is the general term of promise as applied to the nation.}Synopsis by John Darby


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One of the biggest up and comers in Hollywood, Brie Larson is poised to potentially win her first Oscar this Sunday for her role in Room, let's take a look back at some of the roles that have led her to this point.
If you've been wondering what it takes to take on numerous roles within the making of a movie, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment has put together an exclusive behind-the-scenes clip giving us a glimpse at how Gordon-Levitt was able to balance his roles as an actor, director and writer on the Don Jon set.
Don Jon is mostly a fun and entertaining film about a guy who loses himself during sex, but is trying to lose himself in a relationship. Written, directed by, and starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, the film takes a look at the life of a young man named Don Jon, who tells audiences at the very beginning of the film that only a few things are important to him.
This weekend saw a strong finish to September as Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs 2 snagged a strong first place, banking $35 million. That's a step up from the first mutated food adventure which had an opening weekend of $30 million in 2009.
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 may not match the jangly comic insanity of the original film released in 2009, but it had an ace in the hole no matter what: families with nothing else to see at the movies. According to the early numbers at The Hollywood Reporter Cloudy 2 was an easy leader at the box office on Friday, making $9.3 million and setting a course for a $35 million opening.
Don Jon is really only about a few things. His body. His pad. His ride. His family. His church. Hi boys. His girls. And, of course, his porn. It's that last part that really starts causing him trouble in Don Jon, the directorial debut of Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who also transforms himself as the titular charter, a classic Jersey bro who has to learn the hard way that immersing yourself in porn is no actual way to live your life
This week we're trying to figure out if Rush is a film by Ron Howard or maybe by Anthony Dod Mantle, talking about auteurs who might not be the directors of their given films. We also dig into the new documentary After Tiller and Joseph Gordon-Levitt's directorial debut Don Jon, figure out how to cure the constant awards season ill of In Memoriam segments, and pick our favorite scenes of food porn in the movies
With this beautiful fall weather descending upon us I want nothing more than to sit in my darkened man cave and consider the movie world for an afternoon. Who needs the crisp fall air when you've got guido libidos, rom-coms and meatballs in the sky?
Who needs to get into the story when you got ScarJo and JG-L making out? Top it off with some brief sound bites of critical praise, and you've delivered the message of "must see" to an audience groomed for instant gratification.
We're co-hosting a special advance screening of Don Jon in New York City next Monday, August 26th at 7:30 p.m., and we want YOU to attend. To enter, just send an e-mail to [email protected] with your full name in the subject line; we'll respond with the information about the time and location of the screening, and we'll have your name on the list at the door, along with a plus-one. If you RSVP, please make sure you can actually show up!
In the movie Gordon-Levitt stars as Jon "Don Jon" Martello, Jr., an ordinary guy in his mid-30s living in New Jersey who cares about nothing in the world other than his family, his friends, his car, his apartment, getting laid, and watching porn. He lives a happy if unsatisfying life, but everything starts to change when he meets Barbara Sugarman (Scarlett Johansson), the most beautiful woman he has ever seen.
In Don Jon, JGL plays a club rat who trolls Jersey's hottest bars in search of an ideal mate. He finally finds one in ScarJo, but is unwilling to ease up on his online compulsions just because he eventually ends up in a semi-serious relationship.
Perhaps within the plot of the film, Don Jon (Gordon-Levitt) introducing Barbara (Scarlett Johansson) to his parents Jon Sr. (Danza) and Angela (Glenne Headly) is a really big deal and plays out in an interesting way. But here in clip form, it's almost sitcomish,
In his writing/directorial debut, Gordon-Levitt stars as a young Italian, church-going man living in New Jersey who has no problem picking up any woman he likes, but finds more satisfaction from online pornography.
The October release date leads me to believe Relativity might be prepping for an awards run, if not on the Oscar circuit (where the porn angle could make for a difficult sell) then at least on the film-fest track and, possibly, the Independent Spirit Awards campaign. Johansson, Danza, Moore and Gordon-Levitt all deliver awards-worthy performance, and the director easily could attract heat if the movie catches on.
The story of Don Jon will be its use of pornography to tell of Jon's predicament, and there are multiple discussions we can have regarding imagery in the media perverting the communal mind when it comes to sex, or Jon's mistaken belief that simply attending weekly confession will return him to the straight-and-narrow path toward righteousness and healing.
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Porsche manages to instill the spirit of a racing car into its 911 models. Get behind the wheel, and suddenly you feel like Richard Attwood heading toward the finish of the 1970 Le Mans 24-hour race. And the 2011 Porsche 911 Carrera GTS embodies that racing car element very well, its rigid suspension making the lightweight car corner like a dancer.
A car for purists, the new 911 GTS model lacks a turbocharger, but still makes 408 horsepower from its 3.8-liter flat six-cylinder engine. Less of an amateur racer than the GT3 RS, the 911 GTS includes some civilized elements, such as luxury interior appointments and cabin electronics. At the same time, the 911 GTS boasts 23 more horsepower than the Carrera S. Along its 911 range, Porsche fills every niche.
The cabin of the 911 GTS shows the same luxury elements the company builds into its current cars, with soft plastics lining the dashboard and liberal use of Alcantara and metal components. If you want the cabin covered in cow, a leather option is available.
But body-colored metal over the transmission tunnel, combined with seats that require manual operation to move them up and down, fore and aft, give the initial impression that the 911 GTS is stripped down, a bare-knuckle lightweight racer. That impression lasts until you notice the buttons for adjusting the suspension, putting the car in Sport mode, raising the rear spoiler, and making the exhaust roar a little louder.
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Although the 911 GTS exhibits excellent native handling, Porsche does not shy away from technology to make it even better. Its short wheelbase, light body, and rigid suspension reveal easy turn-in capability from the moment you start driving the car. Over a mountain road with many tight corners, the 911 GTS was absolutely in its element, delivering an exhilarating experience as it gripped the road at impressive speed.
As typical with the Porsche 911, the weight is biased toward the rear because of the engine placement. That means you can and should trail brake the 911 GTS into the corners, throwing load toward the front of the car, keeping the tires down and gripping the pavement. The brakes on this car modulate easily, providing plenty of stopping power but able to be applied gently to shave off speed.
CNET's car came equipped with the optional Porsche Active Suspension Management, a system that constantly adjusts the damping to accommodate the road and driving conditions. In normal mode, the ride is fairly rigid, and leans far more toward sport than luxury. There is absolutely nothing soft in the ride quality. Put the suspension in Sport mode, and the car lowers by 10 millimeters, with the ride getting even harder. Porsche didn't program in a Comfort mode. But this hard suspension means the car stays nicely grounded, keeping its tires in contact with pavement even over small rises.
A nice aspect of the 911 GTS is that, when you push the engine's Sport mode button, it automatically turns on the suspension's Sport mode. Sport for the engine means a more aggressively tuned throttle response.
One apparent miracle of Porsche engineering with the 911 GTS is that, with just 3.8 liters, the engine produces 408 horsepower. Technologies such as direct injection and variable valve timing help Porsche achieve this number. Torque, however, is down at 310 pound-feet. Under hard acceleration, the 911 GTS doesn't deliver the kind of mule kick felt in cars such as the Nissan GT-R. Rather, it piles on the power more gently, as if an expert valet were laying on each successive mile per hour in sure and steady fashion.
With the six-speed manual, as CNET's car came equipped, the 911 GTS proved very drivable in a variety of conditions, from the exciting mountains roads to stop-and-go traffic. This transmission shifts with easy precision, a European style that never feels too mechanical. The 911 GTS can optionally be had with Porsche's seven-speed Doppelkupplungsgetriebe, its version of a double-clutch gearbox.
Despite its high horsepower, the efficient engine gets EPA fuel economy of 18 mpg city and 25 mpg highway. CNET's average came in under that range, at 17.5 mpg, but a significant amount of drive time was spent in Sport mode.


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Why wind? As a giant wind-farm opens in Scotland, it should be obvious that wind power is not the future of energy supply in Britain or anywhere else. Wind-turbines are expensive and inefficient, they ruin the landscape, they are noisy when they work (which isn't very often) and they kill birds. In Taiwan, noise pollution from a wind farm has been held responsible for the death of four hundred goats. The amount of electricity they generate, even now, is negligible. It is said that the vast new Eaglesham Moor plant could potentially power the whole of Glasgow - but that is only when it is operating at full capacity, which even in a country as windy as Scotland is not even half the time.
Even as the new plant opens, plans are announced to expand it still further (although it already covers 55 sq. km), while over in Shetland an even more elaborate wind-power scheme is attracting increasing opposition. A BBC report quotes Professor David MacKay of Cambridge, who said that a "100-fold increase" in wind farms in Britain would be necessary to achieve the government target of a complete decarbonisation of our electricity supply system by 2030. The only other alternative to carbon generation he mentioned was nuclear power - itself an outdated and non-renewable technology that brings with it its own problems.
The wind turbine has become a synedoche for environmentally sustainable power generation. Ed Miliband, the absurdly-titled secretary of state "for climate change" (shouldn't that be the secretary of state against climate change?) said recently that opposing the damn things should be "socially unacceptable... like driving through a zebra crossing". Why? Because opposing wind-farms, in his mind, isn't simply opposition to one particular form of energy production, but opposition to the principle of renewable energy in general. This is nonsense. It is opposition to the most obtrusive, least efficient and most expensive type of renewable energy. James Lovelock, responding to Miliband's chilling statement of eco-authoritarianism, put it rather well:
If wind energy were the one practical and affordable answer to global warming then I would grit my teeth at the loss of the countryside and accept it. But I know that windfarms are no answer to global warming in northern Europe....
Global warming is real and deadly and we have to do our best to counter it but we must not be led astray by the special pleading of an industry made rich by over-generous subsidies paid for by your taxes and one that is bound to fail to deliver.
In Germany, Lovelock reminds us, "despite more than 17,000 wind turbines across Germany the nation is emitting more CO2 than before it built them". With only 17% efficiency, the wind farms have to be supplemented by more conventional (carbon-emitting) sources of energy generation which themselves are prevented from operating at their maximum efficiency because they are working in tandem with the turbines.
Germany is becoming dangerously over-reliant on wind power, a path Britain and even the US look set to follow. Indeed, the National Audit Office calculated in 2005 that wind was the most expensive way to fund carbon emission reductions in Britain. It gave a figure of £70-£140 a tonne of carbon saved - even more than the figure for Germany. Needless to say, such findings have failed to make much impact on the drive for wind-power in either country.
It's not as though there aren't alternatives. There are far more efficient and less environmentally damaging technologies available and soon-to-be available. Tidal and wave generation offers far more power without the inherent unreliability of the wind. Best of all, they are hidden. The plants may cost more to build than wind-farms but, being more efficient, will save money over the long term. Geothermal energy may be even better. This taps directly into the inexhaustible energy of the earth itself, and (technicalities aside) consists of little more than a hole in the ground. It has almost no environmental costs. Looking further ahead, but not too much further, a more reliable source of wind-power - and one far less destructive of the environment - may be had by tapping into the jet stream of the upper atmosphere. Then there is carbon capture, which would enable the substantial surviving reserves of coal to be exploited at little or no environmental cost.
Some of these options are being explored, but the need to do something right now - to demonstrate steady progress towards ambitious targets - means that resources are concentrated disproportionately towards the dead-end of wind power. Long-term, this will mean that the targets are less likely to be met. Certainly, they will be difficult to meet without massive expense, waste and disruption. An alternative strategy of investing in the truly sustainable technologies of the future, would produce less immediate progress but, once in place, the gains would be real and lasting. Today's wind power is a stop-gap, but the damage it does to the environment will be irreversible.
So why is the government, the environmental movement and so much of the public discourse wedded to this wholly irrational strategy? Clearly, money has a great deal to do with it. On the time-honoured principle of throwing good money after bad the huge resources, both private and public, already "invested" in wind power must be justified by being increased. Figures released to Parliament in 2007 show subsidies rising to over £1 bn by 2012. Diverting resources into other types of renewable energy would mean writing off substantial sums, which would be embarrassing all round. Better to keep on wasting the money. Wind power was first on the scene, which means that it now supports an entire industry of designers, propagandists and assorted experts. With lavish subsidies on offer, it is in the interest of power companies to exaggerate wind power's potential. Wind farms - even if built in the wrong place - represent jobs and money today, while other potential energy sources represent jobs and money tomorrow.
The late Stephen Jay Gould, in an essay about the "evolution" of the QWERTY keyboard, pointed out that the conventional layout has survived, despite its relative inefficiency, because a series of historical accidents led to its becoming the first widely adopted design. It wasn't better than rival designs - in fact it was a whole lot worse. But once it was established, it proved impossible to dislodge, and we are still stuck with a layout invented in the days when typewriters more closely resembled the Gutenburg printing press than today's laptops. Incumbancy is a powerful advantage. As Gould wrote, using another example,
Suboptimal politicians often prevail nearly forever once they gain office and grab the reins of privilege, patronage and visibility. Mammals waited 100 million years to become the dominant animals on land and only got a chance because dinosaurs succumbed during a mass extinction.
The turbines now have the wind in their sails. Wind power occupies a niche that could be filled by a more efficient and less environmentally deleterious technology. There it has become largely self-sustaining. There's something else, too. Wind turbines are highly visible. Building wind-farms is a statement about the commitment of society to an environmentally sound future. They make their supporters feel morally superior to their opponents, who can be dismissed as selfish Nimbys. The uglier the wind farms are, the more they ruin the environment, the better: for their very unattractiveness draws attention to the sacrifice that they represent. They are Gaia's temples. The clacking of their sails is like a prayer offered up to Nature to forgive our environmental sins. It's mad.
Thursday, 21 May 2009
Blowing in the wind
Posted by Heresiarch at 6:19 pm
33 comments:
I think you're right, but even the "Tidal and wave generation [that] offers far more power without the inherent unreliability of the wind." have their opponents, for example:
And the archaeologists don't like it either:
Interest groups will always oppose and no-one likes things on their own doorstep, but if things go the way they are predicted to, it may come down to a matter of priorities. Probably best to sample all possibilities at the moment.
- 21 May 2009 at 19:51
Half-agree about wind farms, but not with your general discussion of the alternatives, considering in previous posts you have doubted that manmade climate change exists. For one, nuclear far from being "outdated" is probably our best hope at reducing CO2 in the medium term. The current generation of nuclear power stations are much safer than those that gave nuclear a bad name, but this technology is now smeared and supressed by green activists and fear-mongering journalism. We need a broad range of power generation methods so we are not reliant on a single point of failure. I like the idea of burning rubbish for energy, rather than driving it around country to be "recycled" when markets don't even exist the recycled material.
- 21 May 2009 at 19:55
- WeepingCross said...
I rather like wind turbines. I think they have a strange beauty. There's a heresy for you.
I may not carry on thinking that if there are hordes of them, however.
- 21 May 2009 at 22:01
- asquith said...
I am, & have long been into protecting the environment (not sure if this makes me "green" though), & examples like yours indicate why I am not a statist.
Many, especially New Labour types (who are far more into statism & managerialism than protecting the environment), have the thought process "X is green, therefore the government needs to impose X now".
The problems with this are threefold.
1. The government doesn't rightly know what is good for the environment half the time.
2. Nor does it care- meeting targets & having something to boast about, however meaningless in reality, come first.
3. The litany of government inefficiency, especially in this area, where they so often back the wrong horse, as also evinced by support for the Severn Barrage (to which I am certainly no friend), government subsidies for "biofuels" which are often worse than nothing, & the third runway shite which doesn't even pretend to be green.
This puts people off conservation altogether, which is unfair as New Labour hypocrisy hardly discredits the original aims, but is understandable.
Now, the main threats I can identify are runaway population growth, overdevelopment, emissions/pollution & waste. These can quite easily be solved without resort to authoritarianism by restricting immigration, sensibly applied external regulations on building in sensitive areas, & restrictions on emission & pollution.
You can disentangle sensitive action, which doesn't require cumbersome state action, from whatever authoritarianism this government dreams up & you'll actually find the former more effective.
The best weapon is always the willing support of local people who want to live in clean areas & have good open spaces for their children to play in. (Of course, energy efficiency in the home & the workplace is already being taken up by individuals & companies who can see the financial gains to be had).
On a philosophical level, my interest in the natural world started early. I grew up in a very grotty area of Stoke. A lot of the people I knew didn't have cars, & I am the only person I know who was regularly taken to the countryside as a child.
So I delighted in the views, the tranquility & that sort of shite in a way that far too many don't, & I am an advocate of opening up the country to them through schools & by organisations such as Kids Comapny & so on which organise expeditions to those who may otherwise remain ignorant of what nature has to offer.
The difference between me & some types was really laid bare when a friend asked me "when I became interested in the environment" as if it were some hobby I'd taken up. In fact it was bred into me: I am not like the Islington luvvies who boast about how "green" they are, or the apparatchiks who can reel off how many targets they've imposed, but someone who has it in his bones.
I actually think Cameron & a lot of his team are the same. In practical terms, I hope you see what I'm getting at, that a lighter touch & a working with people will work better than the Miliband way.
I just hope he doesn't put too many people off the whole thing & lead them to scorn anything conservationist. In reality we should have options like nuclear on the table & shouldn't be wedded to wind farms or anything else. It is my humble opinion that we can make more than a few efficiency savings, as households are starting to do, & reduce our need for more, more, more of the same.
A stable or slightly falling population also, to be achieved by "natural" means of letting our current fairly low fertility rates produce their effect.
Probably not made any friends with the above.
- 21 May 2009 at 22:27
- McDuff said...
Well-sited wind isn't any more problematic than solar. As with many kinds of climate-dependent generation it can't be used to provide baseline power but that's no reason to suggest it can't be useful. Just because the grid at present is set up for supply to follow demand doesn't mean that this is the way things have to be, nor the way they should be. As more wind power comes on-line we're increasingly likely to see non-time-critical applications (of which there are an increasing number) take power when it's available, increasing the efficiency of turbines.
Meanwhile, no serious proponent of alternative energy sources believes we can get by without a distributed mix of small-to-microgeneration and nobody would say that we should rely solely on wind. But at the same time, wind is a much more mature technology than the others you've mentioned and can be rolled out now. They might be "ugly" by some standards (I, personally, don't find them to be so) but they're a damn sight prettier than a fossil fuel power station, and it should be remembered that they're what would be built instead, not hypothetical wave or geothermal plants.
I'm all in favour of pouring money into HDR and tidal generation, and think we should defund all the nuclear nonsense we're building in favour of such technologies, but that still doesn't change the fact that those technologies are, at present, not viable, wheras to a large extent wind *is*.
- 22 May 2009 at 01:24
- The Heresiarch said...
McDuff: "wind is a much more mature technology than the others you've mentioned and can be rolled out now."
That's partly my point. The fact that today it's more highly developed than other alternative technologies makes it a dangerously "easy" option for politicians to demonstrate their green credentials. But long term, it's by far the least efficient and least developable technology. Pouring resources into this dead-end takes them away from better technologies. The notion that steady incremental progress is being made towards cleaner generation is deceptive because the alternative on offer is a few more years of "dirty" generation followed by a "big bang" when advanced carbon-neutral generation comes on stream. That would produce much larger gains, long-term.
lost causes: agree about the maligning of nuclear technology. It's certainly a better option than all those wind-farms.
Asquith: splendid post.
I saw an advert for M&S last night. Twiggy was standing in front of a wind-machine with some turbines in the background delivering a trite message about how M&S was good for the environment. If Roland Barthes were still around it would make a good subject for one of his essays.
- 22 May 2009 at 09:06
- McDuff said...
I think relying on a "big bang" is a dangerously technocratic option, and in any event even the most enlightened, calm and reasonable political party would have trouble planning an energy policy with that level of inbuilt downstream risk. "A few years" can mean five years or it can mean fifteen years.
On the other hand, I simply don't get why on earth sane people think nuclear power plants are better than wind farms. They're no prettier, they're horrendously expensive, they're only profitable if governments subsidise the dirtiest and most dangerous parts of the process, and they take ten to fifteen years and a billion pounds per plant - far more than wind farms. If you decide you don't like a wind farm you can just take it down and you've lost a couple of hundred grand - decide to shut down a nuke plant before its time and you wipe out another billion from the public purse. Nuclear represents technological lock-in to dirty and increasingly obsolete technology that relies on government subsidies for far, far longer than wind would.
Wind, for all its faults, generates power here and now. New nuclear plants we start to build today won't come onstream for at least a decade. A *sensible* energy policy would be to realise that wind power isn't a silver bullet, but that it can be utilised in the short-to-medium term while the money that we would have spent building nuke plants was put into HDR research in the North-East and Devon. I guarantee you'll get more return from investment that way than if you build six or ten new nuclear plants based on other people's designs to sit there and chug away for the next half-century.
- 22 May 2009 at 10:18
- The Heresiarch said...
@ McDuff: a couple of hundred grand? You must be joking. Billions are being spent on this erratic, overpriced and essentially otiose technology, for no discernible reason except that it has become an icon of green. Billions that can never be got back.
The basic problem with wind farms, apart from the aesthetic dimension, is that it isn't windy all the time. So how do you generate the electricity when it's not windy, which is most of the time? You need conventional power stations. So the actual carbon savings, if any, are very small. Why not use geothermal, which involves little more than drilling a hole in the ground? It's cheaper, it's more environmentally friendly, it's available today, and it's far, far more reliable. The only thing wind power has going for it is that there's now a large industry devoted to promoting it. If that sounds like a conspiracy theory, call me Icke.
- 22 May 2009 at 10:35
- McDuff said...
Billions in total, per plant cost is three to twenty grand-ish a pop (depending on the size of the turbine). A wind farm itself is a fraction of the cost of a nuclear plant and can be taken down for the cost of taking it down. This is not to mention that domestic or commercial microgeneration can't use nuclear power but it can use wind turbines based on the same technology as the bigger ones.
As I said, I'm well aware of the limitations of wind farms, but I also mentioned specifically that as we get more power available for non-time-critical resources we'll start to see more supply-led rather than demand-led functionality in the grid.
As for geothermal, I think you're just demonstrating that you don't understand the technology. Standard geothermal, of the kind we can do already, requires there to be an existing supply of hot water at an accessible depth. This is why Iceland can supply almost all its energy needs from geothermal energy. Areas without existing hot groundwater, on the other hand, can't do it nearly as easily. I mentioned the technology in the last comment - "Hot Dry Rock" or HDR geothermal, which involves creating artificial fissures. It's not nearly as simple as "just drilling a hole in the ground".
Which is not to say it's unviable, of course, by any means. At this stage the impediments to HDR rollout on a larger scale are engineering rather than scientific ones - the principles are mostly sound, it's just the implementation that needs to be tested and refined to make sure that it's safe, stable and economical. I absolutely support pouring money into this avenue of research so we can get HDR plants in this country faster than we otherwise would. But it's an absolute nonsense to suggest we can just drill some holes in the ground and mine energy like oil.
As for your "conspiracy theory," perhaps the reason better renewable sources don't get the funding they need is nothing to do with the multi-billion pound wind industry and rather more to do with the multi-trillion pound fossil fuel and nuclear industries, all of which have considerably more toes under government dinner tables. Witness the boondoggle of "clean coal" which is currently being touted by the various Millibands of the government - technology which is troublesome, untested and newer than HDR, with similar "we'll fix it as we go along" style engineering issues, but which has the advantage of massive support from the government and its various wealthy backers. You don't need a "conspiracy theory" to follow the money. Wind power follows subsidies, that much is true, but so does nuclear and coal. Take the nuclear and coal subsidies out of the mix and put the money into renewable research and I bet you'd be amazed how these new technologies come on in leaps and bounds.
- 22 May 2009 at 11:51
- John B said...
Right-leaning, non-hippie, actual physicist Political Scientist has posted a good response to this piece.
Also note that the carbon savings from an irregular energy source are still significant: the whole point about gas generation is that it's only deployed when required (whereas hydro generation, nuclear and coal run all the time as baseload). If it stops being windy, you can crank up the gas plants from 25% to max in a few seconds.
- 22 May 2009 at 14:17
- The Heresiarch said...
Yes, that is quite an effective demolition job. Though I'm sure if I took the trouble to make myself conversant with all the facts I would be able to answer most of PS's points.
I plead guilty to over-egging the rhetoric. But I really do think that the reasons for the concentration on wind power are partly psychological. It is because the wind-farms are so visible, and so invite loud opposition, that they seem virtuous to political leaders. There's a parallel with brutalist concrete architecture, which also seemed progressive and "modern" partly because it was so ugly.
On the practical points, I think it's unarguable that wind-turbines are inefficient. Lovelock's figure, as I understand it, comes from a 2005 German report which concluded that the savings from wind-farms were more than offset by the increased inefficiency of conventional power-stations which they supplement.
The central point of my argument was actually the quote from Gould. My suggestion is that wind power is diverting resources from potentially more efficient forms of carbon-neutral energy because it got there first, has high visibility and so much investment has already gone into it. Obviously, it offers more generating capacity today than the alternatives. The question is, though, whether if resources were switched from wind-power to the alternatives, would there be more or less capacity twenty or thirty years down the line than there would be if we continued privileging wind-power over other renewables. My guess - and I'm afraid it is only a guess - is that the answer is that there would be more.
- 22 May 2009 at 16:37
- McDuff said...
But that's a false dichotomy. Even in a theoretically perfect apolitical state where efficiency is prioritised over political expediency the choice wouldn't be between wind turbines now or tidal power in 30 years. Picking on wind as opposed to nuclear or "clean coal", both of which are far more costly and dirty, smacks of a particular ideological blindness - the very thing you've imputed to people who build wind turbines, in fact.
It's "unarguable", by your reasoning, that coal is inefficient, and that making it more inefficient by cleaning it up is probably a bad idea. It strikes me that of all the silver bullets the government is wasting the green pound on when they're not funding HDR, tidal power, and a big fat HVDC transeuropean power grid to pipe solar energy from the Sahara, wind power is one of the least offensive, which does invite queries about why you're picking on wind *specifically* rather than quasi-environmental boondoggles in general, I think.
- 22 May 2009 at 17:25
- McDuff said...
Also, for the record, "I'm sure if I could be bothered to take the time to research the subject I'd be able to
justify why I have chosen not to believe your refutation of my argument" is a spectacularly audacious tack to take here, and I commend you for it. Not many people would have the stones to throw that in there with a straight face - well done!
- 22 May 2009 at 17:29
- valdemar squelch said...
Is nuclear power really the busted flush some make out? A lot of research has been done - notably in India - into the use of thorium in reactors. Thorium is much more abundant than uranium, and - you guessed it - India has rather a lot. Then there are breeder reactors, and the possible use of Carlo Rubbia's energy amplifier system to destroy high-level waste while producing energy. All of this is in the realm of 'theoretically possible', especially Rubbia's concept, but shouldn't be dismissed out of hand.
Having said that, I thought Bob Peck was brilliant in Edge of Darkness and that does tend to colour my view of things a bit.
- 23 May 2009 at 17:23
- McDuff said...
The trouble with nuclear isn't that there aren't many "theoretically possible" ways of making it work. It's that the economics of the situation simply don't work unless you're committed to the idea of nuclear in the first place.
If you're into "theoretically possible future energy sources", the maths on geothermal and solar look a lot better than nuclear. Morover, nuclear tends towards huge chunks of commitment to infrastructure investment and limits national/international energy strategies to vast long-term commitments to a particular technology. Renewables - even large-scale ones, tend to be much more easily included as part of a mixed strategy. It's a good idea for governments as well as private investors to not put all their eggs in one basket.
- 23 May 2009 at 17:59
The whole argument about methods of generation is itself a red herring as it is based on the concept of "predict and provide". This is a concept that has already allowed the "autogeddon" of our traffic-clogged island, and the disaster that is the over-blown aviation industry.
What is needed before we discuss methods of generation is demand management, reducing and setting limits on consumption. But of course that would require a government that was willing to govern!
- 26 May 2009 at 23:57
- McDuff said...
It's not an either/or proposition. Good energy policy will reduce demand and change the mix of sources that energy comes from. Microgeneration and efficiency is an absolutely vital part of every sensible energy consultant's plans I've read. But with the best will in the world there are limits to what government can do with a swelling population and a growth-based economy.
Now, if you were suggesting that Labour should have challenged the growth-centricity of the capitalist market-based economic doctrine, I'd think you were onto something. But without such a radical step I don;t know how you think they could stop the swell of demand much more than they already have.
Also, I don't know how you think they'd have got elected if they had done that, so it's probably still the fault of us damned voters.
- 27 May 2009 at 00:56
Everybody engaged in this debate should read David MacKay's book "Sustainable Energy - without the hot air". He clearly shows that none of these proposals - wind, wave, solar, nuclear, clean coal, etc - provides a solution on their own. What we need is an overall policy for low-carbon energy that adds up, i.e. where supply meets demand.
- 27 May 2009 at 10:18
- WoollyMindedLiberal said...
Nuclear is a good short term engineering solution. We can do it now and it doesn't require any advances in science or engineering to make it viable. Its clearly not cost-efficient once you take into account the waste storage but dangerous climate change would be even worse as would the collapse of the modern world which relies upon electricity.
Maybe 20 years ago we as a world could have prevented climate change without building nuclear power stations but as of today its simply not a viable option.
The missing piece of the puzzle is an international power grid so that for example when the wind is blowing on the UK wind farms we can sell power abroad then when its not enough we can buy in solar power (or whatever) from the Sahara or something.
The hardest part for me will be that we the British will just have to grit our teeth and vandalise the Seven Estuary even though it is undoubtedly a priceless natural resource and vital biodiversity preserver. Its a terrible thing to do but I can't see how it can be avoided without paying a much higher price.
- 27 May 2009 at 14:35
- WoollyMindedLiberal said...
The Heresiarch said... My suggestion is that wind power is diverting resources from potentially more efficient forms of carbon-neutral energy because it got there first, has high visibility and so much investment has already gone into it..
The important word there is 'potentially'. Fusion is 'potentially' more efficient and carbon-neutral but its not one today. And we have to do something today, not tomorrow, not next year, not in a decade, not in a generation but today. Now.
We can do the wind power now. If solar or hydrogen or biomass ever makes a breakthough and becomes a better solution then we can switch over to that.
The time of listening to scientists and researchers has passed. It is time for the engineers to build us the best fix that can be made with the technology that is working and reliable today.
- 27 May 2009 at 14:39
- McDuff said...
WML - solar is near as dammit now. It's certainly a lot more technically viable to set up a thermal solar powerplant than it is to try and build a "clean coal" plant.
And as far as nuclear goes, I think it's pushing the idea of "now" a touch. The current crop of nuke plants we're intending to build, with taxpayers subsidising the dirtiest, longest term bits of the process in order to make the process at all economically viable for private investors (where have we heard that before?) won't be coming onstream for a decade, with some being switched on as late as 2028. Once there, we have a commitment to run them for half a century. A nuke-based strategy locks us in to that particular energy mix until this century, which has just begun, will be nearly over. I can't see how that is a good thing.
- 27 May 2009 at 16:36
Precisely McDuff
I am suggesting that Labour (or anyone else for that matter) should have challenged the growth-centricity of the capitalist market-based economic doctrine, and also the swelling population that you mention.
The problem with "predict and provide" (apart from the fact that it is an abdication of the duty of government to govern) is that the "prediction" is based on the assumption that our wasteful destructive "consumer capitalist" lifestyle, and untrammelled population growtn can continue unabated. This assumption is clearly untenable.
The world's resources of raw materials are rapidly running out, as are the most basic resources of land and water. All over the world the eco-systems that support life are suffering damage and collapse.
Apart from a few lonely voices crying in the wilderness no-one is monitoring the cumulative aggregate effects of this, (probably because most scientists are specialists - people who learn more and more about less and less), but it is only a matter of time before the damage reaches a critical mass where large scale extinction become inevitable.
There are no technical fixes. Technology, man's meddling and tinkering with natural processes, is what has caused the problems, it cannot solve them. Only a major and drastic change in our lifestyles can give any hope to us, the planet, and most of life on it. If we don't do it for ourselves nature will do it for us - but we won't like the way she does it!
A government with vision would have used the recession and the collapse of a part of the capitalist system to start gently bringing about these changes, but what did "New Labour" do? - as the good Archbishop said "like an addict returning to the drug...."
- 27 May 2009 at 23:12
- WoollyMindedLiberal said...
Well Keith, if you don't like meddling with natural processes then why not try living without electricity? And don't have anything to do with medicine, vaccine, preservatives, disinfectants or the rest but positively welcome good hearty natural things like tapeworms, diptheria, smallpox, tuberculosis and all the other horrors that 'meddling' has rid us of.
You'll excuse us I am sure while we do not join you. And don't go helping yourself to any of the nutritious but highly meddled food crops or farmed animal products of course as they are very unnatural but instead live out a stone age hunter-gatherer lifestyle (nasty, brutish and short) and make the most of your life expectancy of around 35. Enjoy the starvation - its very natural.
Please don't concern yourself with the billions of people lifted out of poverty by the very self same capitalism you affect to despise. Not should you feel any empathy to the billions of your fellow humans saved from starvation by evil meddling scientists.
There is a blog called commentisfree on the guardian.co.uk website that positively welcomes contributions such as yours. Doubtless you will go down very well over there and get lots of recommendations and find fellow spirits galore.
- 27 May 2009 at 23:32
- WoollyMindedLiberal said...
McDuff said... WML - solar is near as dammit nowIt may well be only a few years before the great breakthrough so long predicted arrives. Let us hope so. But you are supporting my point that solar is not ready today.
We don't have the luxury of fiddling while Rome burns and must use the technologies to hand. You and Heresiarch are like those people who never buy a new phone or laptop because you always have your eyes set of the vapour-ware being dangled in front of you and promised for "soon".
Far better to have the current technology and upgrade down the line when something worthwhile appears and works. Otherwise you just drift on for years with an old inadequate technology chasing mirages.
- 27 May 2009 at 23:39
- McDuff said...
Well Keith, if you don't like meddling with natural processes then why not try living without electricity?.
Yeah Keith, if you don't like pointless strawman arguments, don't come into threads like this!
Seriously, what?
Growth-centric economics is unsustainable in the long term. This is because the planet is finite. It's not even difficult maths. Jumping on people who say that there is a difference between "finite" and "infinite" as if they are suggesting that we all go and live in caves is just puerile schoolyard nonsense.
t may well be only a few years before the great breakthrough so long predicted arrives. Let us hope so. But you are supporting my point that solar is not ready today..
What big breakthrough? I'm talking about solar stirling engines which are in production right now! It's not even as far away as HDR, which is sound science with some engineering kinks to work out. Solar thermal is sound science, pretty robust engineering, it's just an economic issue to get production capacity ramped up. That's far better shape than Clean Coal, but one's getting billions of pounds of subsidies and the other one is getting lots of phnarr phnarring about how it's Not Quite Ready yet.
- 28 May 2009 at 00:42
Thank you, McDuff, for supporting my point that the resources of the planet are finite.
As to "pointless strawman arguments" and abuse I am unphased by stuff like that, I have heard all the ill-thought-through cant before, and doubtless will again.
For the record I have at times in my life lived for periods of several years without electricity, and would be perfectly happy to do so again. That does not mean that I am asking everybody else to do so, but as with all resources, there is a difference between sensible use and extravagant waste.
- 28 May 2009 at 23:16
- WoollyMindedLiberal said...
Keith said... Thank you, McDuff, for supporting my point that the resources of the planet are finite.
Finite they may be, but still incredibly large and not likely to be a limiting factor before Homo Sapiens has evolved into something else in a few million years time.
Other glib truisms include the observation that water is wet, sky is blue and that space is deep (one for the Hawkwind fans there).
Keith said... For the record I have at times in my life lived for periods of several years without electricity, and would be perfectly happy to do so again.
Did you really live without any of the indirect benefits of electricity? No fuel oil, no hospitals, no medicines, no food other than what you have actually grown or raised yourself? That is quite an achievement in this day and age in any part of the world let alone in the UK.
Without electricity nothing in the modern world works. If there was a big solar storm it could wipe out the electrical grid and people in the USA & Europe would die by the tens of millions. Its quite possible that the USA in particular would never recover again.
- 29 May 2009 at 10:45
- WoollyMindedLiberal said...
McDuff said...What big breakthrough? I'm talking about solar stirling engines which are in production right now!.
And they probably work just fine in sunny California but they're not ready for the UK. Wind turbines are. We have lots of wind here, especially offshore. Wind is the technology we have today that works here in the UK today.
McDuff said...That's far better shape than Clean Coal, but one's getting billions of pounds of subsidies and the other one is getting lots of phnarr phnarring about how it's Not Quite Ready yet..
I'm not wild about China building new coal-fired power plants either but they are at least shutting down old ones that were even more polluting.
All those who want to wait a few years for solar power generation to be feasible in the UK are presumably quite content for some shiny new coal-fired power stations to be built to tide us over? Presumably you regard that as a price worth paying to stop the wind farms lest they actually deliver some clean(ish) energy.
- 29 May 2009 at 11:39
- McDuff said...
Finite they may be, but still incredibly large and not likely to be a limiting factor before Homo Sapiens has evolved into something else in a few million years time..
You sweet, naive child you.
Under normal circumstances we've already hit significant limits with current arable land. The intensively monocultured agriculture we're trending towards to meet the growing population is increasing basic caloric yield, but at the cost of susceptibility to disease and massive environmental impact, particularly with meat production. Balancing how to feed people, particularly meat-loving westerners who don't wish to pay what food costs, with how to preserve land for the future is already a pressing concern.
Potable water, too, is an issue, particuarly the problem of getting it from where it is to where people are. The more people and production there is in a given place, the less water there is and the less potable it is. Israel's landgrabbing is just as much about fresh water rights as it is about any religious or political extremism. The reason India and Pakistan fight is political, but the reason they chose to fight over Kashmir is water. Water is likely to cause more wars in the 21st century than oil...
...which, of course, is increasingly difficult to find, which is problematic because the world's transportation infrastructure relies very heavily on it. US domestic peak oil has come and gone. Resources like oil shale and tar sands are there, but they are only economically extractable when oil prices creep higher than the world is comfortable with, which of course will stifle demand. The reason we fight to many wars in oil-rich nations now is because "energy security" relies heavily on a resource which, optimistically, we have 200 years left before we run out, which of course means increasing scarcity long before that point. Realistically, of course, people accurately point out that we are already seeing the shocks caused by the upcoming scarcity.
In other words, I don't know what bizarro universe you live in where the natural resources available on this planet are so abundant that we can safely evolve past them without worrying. We are currently experiencing scarcity. How fast do you think we're likely to evolve?
Also, go read the first post I made in this comment thread, and then tell me how wonderfully silly you feel lecturing me about how I want to ban wind power, eh? ;)
- 29 May 2009 at 14:47
- WoollyMindedLiberal said...
There has been no shortage of food since the Green Revolution or drinking water. When people go without it is due to povety not a supply side limitation.
It is only relatively recently that most Homo Sapiens stopped experiencing scarcity. Starvation was a regular, natural and normal experience until the evil scientists started 'meddling with nature' much to some people's annoyance. I often think a sustained period of starvation would be highly educative for these fellow-travellers who have infiltrated the 'Green' movement.
Water is likely to cause more wars in the 21st century than oil...
Since we've not yet had any wars in the C21st over oil this prediction is probably safe. Religion will most likely continue to be the main 'Causus Belli' I'm afraid.
- 29 May 2009 at 16:10
- WoollyMindedLiberal said...
Platinum on the other hand is something that there is not nearly enough of in the world. Its a real shame because it makes a Hydrogen Economy unworkable with current technology since there isn't anything like enough Platinum to make enough fuel cells to replace petroleum.
Happily there is a large fusion reactor about 8 light-minutes away that supplies 3,850,000 exajoules a year at 174 PetaWatts (source wikipedia) which should be enough to meet humanity's needs for the foreseeable future. Not all of that is available and 'only' 87 PetaWatts actually reaches the surface.
- 29 May 2009 at 16:19
"Since we've not yet had any wars in the C21st over oil this prediction is probably safe."
Its nice to know that there is still ONE person in the world who believes the Iraq war was about toppling a nasty dictator and freeing those poor Iraqi people!
- 29 May 2009 at 23:19
- McDuff said...
Oh Keith, you don't understand. Bad things that happen are because of religion. That's how it works. All wars are religiously motivated, even the ones that happen conveniently in the same place as scarce resources. People never actually fight over stuff, after all, only over beliefs. But then since resources aren't scarce I suppose that's a contradiction. There's more than enough water to go around but it's just too expensive for everyone. Which is a weird kind of Marxism, I suppose, I dunno where that comes from. Half-reading Amyarta Sen, I guess.
Also, the magical thing about science is that it can always get more output from the same inputs with no downside. Except not magic, because belief in magic is irrational. Totally logical, that's what I meant. Efficiency can always Distribution doesn't matter. There's no such thing as a bottleneck. Nothing is complex. That's absolutely scientamifical that is.
- 30 May 2009 at 01:28


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Uncle Sucker: Taxpayers Paid $5 Million for Hasan Trial!
The taxpayer money spigot was on 'high' for the trial of admitted Ft. Hood gunman Nidal Hasan, 1200 WOAI news reports.
An analysis by a north Texas television station shows Joe and Jane Taxpayer paid about $5 million to win a guilty verdict and death sentence against the self-described Jihadi who killed 13 people when he opened fire in a billeting room at Ft. Hood in November of 2009.
This despite the fact that Hasan attempted to plead guilty and almost demanded a death sentence.
The Uniform Code of Military Justice does not allow guilty pleas in capital cases.
The biggest expense was the cost of transporting witnesses, jurors, and attorneys to Ft. Hood.
The costs of ferrying Hasan from his taxpayer-funded hospital jail cell in Belton to Ft. Hood for all of the pre trial motions and the trial came to $194,000. The military said helicoptering Hasan was preferable to the far less expensive method of sending him by car due to security concerns.
Hasan did not contest that he was the gunman, and he urged jurors during jury selection to sentence him to death.
The bill does not include the cost of the hospital cell where Hasan spent the four years awaiting trial, nor does it include the nearly $300,000 in Major's pay that taxpayers continued to pay Hasan while he was awaiting trial.
Hasan is now in a special disciplinary barracks at Ft. Leavenworth Kansas awaiting the outcome of his automatic appeals, which are certain to cost the taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars more.


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Steven Rosenberg can easily describe the cold pasteurization process that makes the Rosehill Dairy milk sold at Liberty Heights Fresh so sweet. And the store's self-titled Chief Eating Officer has seen the red angus cattle herd in Altamont, the sole fresh beef he sells, and knows the only grain they eat would be the seeds off a wild grass head.
But it is before the wall of extra virgin olive oil where the 53-year-old distills his food philosophy.
The best olive oil is pressed as the fruit starts to turn from green to purple, he says. That's also the time olives have the least oil to give.
This emphasis on quality over quantity and charging top dollar for it is the hallmark of the Salt Lake City specialty market that is celebrating its 20th anniversary this month.
Amid Utah's bulk-buying culture, Rosenberg was a pioneer, seeking out not the least expensive goods but what he considers the best authentic, hand-crafted cuisine. All the while, he pressed Utahns to "Hey, eat" and eat well.
The impact of the store is felt beyond its 2,100 square feet. When publications like Zagat label Salt Lake City an "up-and-coming food city," the roots were planted at this former gas station.
Beginnings • Liberty Heights opened before food journalist and author Michael Pollan whom Rosenberg has shared a meal with and admires was writing books that questioned America's industrial food production and popularized eating traditional foods with real ingredients.
Back in 1993, few Utah shoppers cared about local ingredients; bigger was better.
"It was, how heaping could my plate be for $3, instead of [considering] the integrity and quality of the food," Rosenberg recalls.
When Rosenberg opened, selling fresh fruits and vegetables and cut flowers, food distributors told him he would close if he didn't sell candy and cigarettes.
But he knew there was a better way to eat, and the Jewish transplant made it his mission to show Utahns the way.
He had grown up on a 425-acre fruit and vegetable farm in southwest Michigan, where he picked fruit, harvested vegetables, pruned trees, hoed fields.
Orchards still have a magical hold over him. "If there were chores to do, I could climb a tree and nobody could find me. I could fill my belly with good fruit, sitting on a limb out in nature, hearing birds sing and seeing the clouds and blue sky," he says.
Family meals were made of food from their farm, along with eggs from neighbors and milk in glass bottles delivered by the local dairy, he says.
Rosenberg carries the 50-year-old scar where his left thumb was reattached after an accident in the apple packaging shed, as well as a deep love and respect for people who work the land.
But economic uncertainties led him to leave the farm and seek a job with a food wholesale company, after earning a degree in agricultural economics from Michigan State University. His employer relocated him to Utah. He moved to Miami for a time to work in the cut-flower industry and then returned to Salt Lake to work on films in production management.
But instead of pursuing a career in Hollywood, Rosenberg returned to his roots. He found the empty gas station for rent at 1290 S. 1100 East, which is not so strange, since one of his first jobs outside his family farm was selling produce at an open-air market in a former gas station.
Best of the best • To work at Liberty Heights Fresh, applicants are required to write a one-page essay about their feelings for food. If Rosenberg had to apply, he'd share his revelation that came from eating sausage.
He was 8 or 9 and family friends from Chicago had come to the farm bearing homemade calabrese sausage, packed with fennel seed. As Jews, the family didn't eat pork, but they made an exception.
"I could burst. I would just stuff myself with it because it was so delicious," he says. "That was really where the seed was planted … in me to realize as great as the food is here on the farm, there's more great food out in the world."
That's how Rosenberg ended up traveling to Spain, Italy, France, Ireland, Chile and beyond to find what he considers the best in specific food categories including cheeses, cured and fresh meats, olives, olive oils, vinegars, produce, pasta, grains and baked goods.
Liberty Heights is a foodie playland. Customers can buy sunflower butter, Ethiopian Berberé spice mixture, scarlet runner heirloom beans, Italian truffle honey, fregola sarda pasta, watermelon puree, rendered duck fat, a tin of octopus packed in olive oil, quince paste, chocolate-infused chevre truffles and nonalcoholic chardonnay soda.
As he's stocked his shelves, Rosenberg has helped make the cheese, learned to identify defects in olive oil through smell and verified on ranch visits that the animals for the all-local beef, pork and lamb he sells had space to roam and eat a natural diet.
Pete Schropp and Jennifer Hines, owners of Rockhill Creamery in Richmond, consider Rosenberg a mentor. They sought his advice on what types of cheeses to make, forgoing feta for a gruyere, gouda and edam, which are sold at Liberty Heights among other places.
"He's been up here a couple times a year," says Schropp. "He's just a very dedicated food lover."
Devoted customers • On a recent day, Gerry Rothstein stopped by for fresh figs. He has been a customer from the start and shops for house-made sandwiches, Logan-based Crumb Brothers bread, Provo's Clifford Family Farm eggs and seafood.
"I buy my tuna here because I don't like cat food and I feel like that's what I'm going to get if I go to the grocery store," he said. "If I'm told it's going to be good, it'll be good."
Carola Mone said it was a visit to Liberty Heights that persuaded her to move to Utah from California 16 years ago. She now stops by regularly for Rustic Bakery cookies made in California and organic and local produce. On a recent day there were five varieties of organic beets, organic apples with pink flesh, local currants, tomatoes and plums.
"He has the closest thing to a farmers market in Southern California that you can get," she said. "I wouldn't survive if it weren't for here … but I'm financially able to handle it."
The cost of items $13.99 for a pint of ice cream or $37.99 for an olive oil from fruit picked the first day of harvest has earned the shop the nickname "Liberty Heist."
Rosenberg shrugs it off with an analogy.
"You wouldn't go to the BMW dealership with a quote from the Hyundai dealer and say match the price," he says. "We're not selling ordinary food and we're not selling the second or third or fourth best in a category. We're selling the best we can find."
It may be high end, but Liberty Heights also accepts food stamps, notes Gina Cornia, executive director of Utahns Against Hunger, where Rosenberg was a board member. Both have also worked together on Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker's Food Policy Task Force, which is working on improving availability of fresh and nutritious food.
Cornia said Rosenberg pushed her to think about giving the poor access to not just food, but healthy food. The organization now funds farmers markets to accept food stamps and created a farmer to grow organic vegetables to give to the food pantry.
Even if you don't shop at Liberty Heights, you've felt Rosenberg's influence, say admirers, including competitors whose ranks have grown in the past two decades. Whole Foods, Sprouts Farmers Market, Trader Joe's and Real Foods Market opened after Liberty Heights did. And Harmons only recently began offering an improved selection of local and hand-crafted goods.
"His store has set the level of excellence that has definitely propelled me forward to bigger and better things, more so than any other store in Utah," says Matt Caputo, marketing director for Caputo's Market & Deli, which opened four years after Liberty Heights.
Ali Sabbah, owner of Mazza Middle Eastern Cuisine, says his close friend has been on a successful mission to help Utahns discover great food. "Everything you see right now about farm-to-table, and caring about local and organic food and producing food as a craft his place is the catalyst for all of that," says Sabbah. "He laments the fact that a lot of people eat junk and crap and don't worry about what they're stuffing in their mouths."
Rosenberg wants people to smile when they eat food from his store. His family tells him that when he was a child and it was dinner time, he would come running with his arms back and his mouth wide open.
Liberty Heights Celebrates
To celebrate its 20th anniversary, Liberty Heights Fresh is offering daily deals throughout the month of September. The store also will host an open house and festival with free tastings from local artisan food producers.
When • Friday, Sept. 6, 4-8 p.m., and Saturday, Sept. 7, 3-8 p.m.
Where • Liberty Heights Fresh, 1290 S. 1100 East, Salt Lake City; 801-467-2434.


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Hungary Governing Party Appointees Gain Majority in Monetary Policy Council
The Hungarian parliament's Economic Committee Monday nominated two new members, Janos Cinkotai and Gyorgy Kocziszky, to the central bank's rate-setting Monetary Policy Council. Monday's parliamentary appointment of the new rate setters may make it possible for the governing Fidesz party to take control of monetary policy to loosen it.
The government and the central bank have been at loggerheads about economic policy ever since the Fidesz party's landslide election victory last year. The government wants to boost growth while the central bank wants to lower inflation. Those two goals are set to put the central bank and Fidesz on a collision course as they, most of the time, are not compatible.
"We think markets will give them the benefit of doubt and wait to see actions and minutes of rate meetings before making judgment so the [market] reaction should be benign," said Nomura economist Peter Attard Montalto.
"That said it would be somewhat of an exaggeration to say these appointments ease investor fears as some others have done. We retain our view that these members have been put in place to engineer a rate cut later in year—even if individual members are independent of the government," Mr. Montalto added.


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Below is a list of inexpensive at-home businesses that can be started up with minimal cost. Whether you will depend on this income or just want a part-time job, these are the best opportunities to explore.
Personal Trainer/Nutritionist
As people become more health conscious and chose to loose weight they turn to a professional to help them make eating and health decisions. A two-month course can be completed to receive a fitness and nutrition degree from Penn Foster College. Creating a Facebook page to advertise can bring in clientele for no price at all.
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Learning how to prepare and file taxes can seem like a semi-annual job. In actuality, tax professionals are needed all year long, especially for small businesses and professionals with a lot of assets. Creating a free website, with companies like WordPress, can help advertise your skills and save you money.
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Online Retail
If you have good organization, can afford to buy or make things in bulk and have a computer at home, you can create your own online store. Purchase things that people can't get at their local store but would like to have or need and create a website with a paypal so the items can be purch
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If you have a house, no felonies and love children, you can have an in-home childcare. Minimal money is required to start this career path. All you have to do is purchase toys for children in the age range you choose to watch. Sign up with your local childcare office to get licensed and start accepting children. You will be surprised how many parents would rather have their children in an in-home childcare than a center. Be sure to check with your local childcare or DES agencies; each state has its own requirements.
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Did you see the preview for the upcoming episode of House tonight? I dug it up for you — just to make sure you are as excited about tonight's episode as I am. Though the content is WAY over my nine year old's head and I have to DVR it because I don't want him seeing most of what House does. It's good junk food for the brain after another typical Monday. Enjoy the clip after the jump.


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In an effort to jolt the state's economy back to life, Local First Arizona is encouraging Arizonans to shift 10 percent of their purchases to local businesses.
Ten percent might not seem like a lot, but when even a small amount is fed into a local economy, it can grow exponentially. The shift can be made anywhere from banking, food, products or services.
This year-long campaign, called Shift Arizona, is modeled after an economic impact study performed in Grand Rapids, Mich. The study showed that a 10 percent shift by all residents would create 1,600 new jobs, local wages would increase by $50 million and $130 million would be fed into the local economy.
This study is driving Shift Arizona to strengthen Arizona's economy and foster civic pride along the way.
"A vibrant, robust local business community is what I look forward to," as a result of Shift Arizona, says Adam Goodman, president of Goodman's Interior Structures and a Local First Arizona member.
Taking part in Shift Arizona isn't only about shopping at local boutiques, it's about buying locally made products and purchasing services provided by locally owned companies, says Kimber Lanning, founder and director of Local First Arizona.
Lanning suggests making a few simple shifts, such as dining at local restaurants, frequenting local theaters, or stopping at a local coffee shop every fifth time you grab a cup of joe — she understands that Starbucks habit is tough to break.
Local First Arizona's website provides a list of locally owned businesses to help make your transition easier.
However, buying local doesn't mean completely changing your routine, Lanning says. Many chain stores, such as Target and Walmart, stock Arizona-made products like Shamrock Farms, China Mist teas and Hickman's eggs, Lanning says.
Local companies care about and support other local organizations, charities and businesses, while a national company will support the local businesses near its headquarters, Goodman says.
Buying local will affect much more than just that one business; it will create spending throughout the community, Goodman says. He adds that his own business is looking at what it can do to spend more money locally.
Shift Arizona also is dispelling the myth that local stores are more expensive than national chains, Lanning says. Oil changes and pet food are often cheaper at local stores, she says.
In a continuingly tough economic climate, Shift Arizona is championing using your wallet as you would use your vote.
"We're at a point in time where the discussion amongst our elected officials revolves around whether we want our taxes raised or our services cut, but in reality, through our purchasing power, citizens can grow the economy without spending any more money," Lanning says. "We just need to make our money shift to a more locally based economy."
Lanning says Arizonans can boost the economy not by spending more money, but by spending their money a little more thoughtfully.


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You always thought that he could be a guy that could average a point a game, Ruff said. He plays in every situation for us he has had some big games. The numbers are adding up for him, and I think if he can keep that going he can easily set a record for himself.
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ONTARIO -- The first baby born in San Bernardino County this year is a healthy 7-pounds-6-ounces, but until a few months ago his parents weren't sure he'd be born at all.
"We didn't tell anyone until she was 5 months pregnant, because we were so worried," said Perry Hampton, 31, father of Phoenix Jaxsonn Hampton, who was born at 12:23 a.m. at the Kaiser Ontario Medical Center.
Phoenix's mother, Jayanne, had an 11-centimeter uterine fibroid, or a non-cancerous tumor that can interfere with pregnancy.
In her case, it didn't, and 12 hours after giving birth she smiled as she held him.
"I'm excited to see him grow up to be a happy, healthy baby," the 32-year-old Fontana resident said, looking well-rested and with carefully applied makeup.
The baby was due Jan. 3, but was born naturally after Jayanne's water broke Monday night. They didn't think about him possibly being the first baby of the year until later, Perry said.
"We actually were hoping he'd be the last baby of 2012, so we could get the tax write-off," Perry said with a laugh.
The Hamptons were remarried in 2009 on KTLA Channel 5, after what they laughingly call a disaster of a wedding before that: both were sick, firefighters knocked down the doors because of burning eggs, honeymoon money was stolen, they had to substitute their priest at the last minute and found someone who forgot the order of the ceremony.
But they say they're glad they got a second chance and are excited for their first child.
Both parents had one of their parents with them, celebrating the first grandson of the family. There are granddaughters on both sides.
Phoenix got his name to symbolize rebirth and because the parents noticed it popping up many other places, from the TV show The Office to friends mentioning Phoenix, Ariz.
"I thought, that has to be a sign," Jayanne said.
The middle name's unusual spelling was chosen to have an x like the first name, and so that each of the three names would have seven letters for luck.
It's a lucky situation all around, the Hamptons say.
"Can't ask for a better New Year's," Perry said. "Every year we'll welcome in the New Year with his birthday."
Reach Ryan via email, find him on Twitter @SBcityNow, or call him at 909-386-3916.


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I'm new to blogging (few months) and keep finding new tasks that I need to complete. Here's what I've done so far
Also, participate in social media and forums.
I'm open to any suggestions to improving exposure. Also, I'm interested to hear what's better regarding Wordpress or continue with Blogger.
Not sure if you are trying to point out the blogging details here, right from obtaining a domain till the promotion that you're carrying over. Most of the bloggers does the same as what you have mentioned. But then I think you have missed some points:
If you are after a free product (without opting for any of the plugins), Blogger will be the best option than Wordpress. But then, even for certain plugins, you'll have to pay a few to use some extras.
Hope you can try influencing the blogger by contributing a little more.
Good luck
Check out Attracta for your free site map submission to the search engines. If you are hosting your blog on a true cPanel hosting provider than it should be in your tools area. Good luck with your blogging and just keep creating good high quality custom content for your niche and you will do well.
sarahjohs,Thank you for your input, it is very helpful. I have my Google+ account mapped to my blogger blog. Is there anything else you would recommend? How about a facebook fan page?
Appreciate the input. I'm trying Attracta for the first time.
Thanks for the feedback. I found it daunting to get started and making sure that I'm doing the correct tasks in order for SEO. I helps when I get this working to put it into a actionable task list.
Next stop is what social media buttons to make available.
Hope you'd probably be well-versed in Twitter (Tweet chat). Likewise, if you could spend some time for Google plus huddle you'd be supposed to get a few more energizing traffic to your blog. Say you can try promoting your Google+ huddle on your blog posts to engage the interaction between a group of users. This would rather draw some attention to your blog
Try if you've not done this yet.
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That is good idea. In other word, if you think about make money after you have blog/web, don't think it while writting because it can make you annoy. Happy blogging.