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Graham Readfearn | December 21, 2012
By Graham Readfearn • Friday, December 21, 2012 - 21:27
IT'S the new must-have accessory for any self-respecting climate science denialist commentator in Australian newspapers - their very own "Australian Press Council" adjudication showing exactly how they stuffed up the facts and misled their readers on their stories.
Whether they like it or not, serial climate science misinformers James Delingpole and Andrew Bolt are the latest News Ltd contributors to have their online articles furnished with freshly-added hyperlinks to APC judgements finding against them.
Earlier this week, the APC found that Mr Delingpole's article "Wind Farm Scam A Huge Cover-Up", published in the Rupert Murdoch-owned The Australian back in May, had misled readers on several points.
Presumably to the shock of the UK-based columnist on The Daily Telegraph, it turns out that it's not OK to write that the wind farm business is "bloody well near a pedophile ring. They're f . . king our families and knowingly doing so," as Delingpole did when quoting an anonymous sheep farmer. As the press council said in its judgement:
… the report of the anonymous remarks concerning paedophilia, a very serious and odious crime, were highly offensive. The Council's principles relate, of course, to whether something is acceptable journalistic practice, not whether it is unlawful. They are breached where, as in this case, the level of offensiveness is so high that it outweighs the very strong public interest in freedom of speech. It was fully justifiable in the public interest to convey the intensity of feeling by some opponents of wind farms but that goal did not require quoting the reference to paedophilia.
Neither was it OK for Delingpole to write that law firm Slater & Gordon had sought to place "rigorous gagging orders" on landholders without offering any actual evidence and when the firm in question denied it.
Second, [the council] has concluded that the claim that a law firm sought gagging orders has been publicly denied by the firm and, in the absence of any supporting evidence, constitutes a breach of the Council's principles concerning misrepresentation. The newspaper's prompt publication of the law firm's denials prevented aggravation of the breach but did not absolve it.
How about the bit where Delingpole wrote how a Government program to support the growth of renewable energy was a "kind of Government-sponsored Ponzi scheme"? Wrong again.
The REC scheme does not have an essential characteristic of a Ponzi scheme, namely criminal fraudulence, and is not reasonably analogous to such a scheme.
Besides professional embarrassment and the requirement to publish the press council's adjudication, The Australian is free to carry on regardless, as it has been doing for several years in misrepresenting climate science.
Perhaps predictably then, rather than politely decline any further contributions from a writer adjudged to have been too offensive (a bar which you have to jump very highly to get over) and to have misled readers, The Australian has instead published another offensive rant from the same writer.
Writing again in The Australian, Delingpole says of the press council's judgement: "I stand by every word of the piece - especially the bit about pedophiles. I would concede that the analogy may be somewhat offensive to the pedophile community."
And what of News Ltd blogger and columnist Andrew Bolt? Back in February (yes, the wheels of the APC turn slowly) Bolt wrote in a story headlined "Time That Climate Alarmists Fessed Up" that the UK's Met Office had issued data showing there had been no global warming for 15 years.
Bolt had failed to check back with the Met Office, which had two days earlier issued a statement saying such a conclusion was "entirely misleading". The APC adjudication, delivered earlier this month, said
The Met Office description should have been mentioned in Mr Bolt's print article and blog of 1 February, even if he then rebutted it as unconvincing. It was not sufficient in these circumstances to assert ignorance of the response or to rely on the reader's previous posting to inform other readers about it.
The press council also concluded that statements made by Bolt about sea and ice conditions "were likely to be interpreted by many readers as indicating that the longer-term trends had ceased or were reversing" and that he "should have acknowledged explicitly that all of the three changes in question were comparatively short-term and were statistically compatible with continuance of the long-term trends in the opposite direction".
While judgements such as these are welcome, the APC did stop short of finding against the writers with regard to other elements of the complaints.
For example, the APC decided it was acceptable for Delingpole to claim categorically that wind farms were causing people to fall ill, despite several scientific reviews finding no evidence for such links.
In a curious conclusion to the complaint against Andrew Bolt, the press council said ambiguously that its "adjudication neither endorses nor rejects any particular theories or predictions about global warming".
"[The council] observes that on issues of such major importance the community is best served by frank disclosure and discussion," it said.
One has to ask then, how the council aims to judge the merits of "frank disclosure" if it isn't able to accept that decades of peer-reviewed research on climate change has found the community isn't "best served" by ignoring the causes of climate change?
Walrus Jr. replied on Permalink
The press want "controversy"
Deligpole and Bolt are tired hacks saddled with contractual obligations to lie, in the absense of any evidential support for their contrarian positions.
Mr. Delingpole personifies the definition and delivery of 'weasel words' with most of his nasty submissions to the Telegraph/Australian, although with his "paedophile" rant he should not even be accorded the dignity of being judged by his literary style. I believe it was three or four years ago, and George Monbiot chose to retract his comment, but in a Guardian blog (iirc) he accurately described JD as a "delusional fuckwit."
Sarcasm is underappreciated
Wind farms are losing their appeal in the USA. Support is dying and it is only rich NIMBY folks like John Kerry and the Kennedys who promote these ugly inefficient monstrosities with a short lifetime of 10 to 15 years. The wind industry corporations and lobbyists have misrepresented the value of wind turbines and they need to be held accountable. There will be a growing number of law suits to stop wind farms in the USA.
Let's focus on real solutions like solar pv and let's focus on an energy storage solution. People want to be free of the grid and wind is not available to most people especially in poor countries where there is no transmission infrastructure and where they will never be able to afford wind. In India they are already able to install solar pv at a cost of $0.50 US dollars per watt.
Certainly the fossil fuel industry wants to kill the wind industry:
But it's not dead yet:
Renewable Energy Foundation indicates problems
My review of engineering reports from EON netz are now being echoed by a report from the Renewable Energy Foundation. They find that wind is not living up to initial promise and that there a serious degradation issues emerging with the technology. Key excerpt from the report:
"As a consequence, any economic assessment of wind generation should not be based on an expected life which is longer than 15 years. In recent work reported in evidence to the House of Commons Select Committee on Energy and Climate Change I assumed that wind plants would have a residual value equal to 20% of their initial cost in real terms at the end of 15 years. The analysis in this paper suggests that this is too favourable an assumption. Given the costs of decommissioning old turbines the residual value is likely to be well below 10% of their initial cost and the decision point may be at 10 rather than 15 years."
41. Wind power is a highly capital-intensive technology for generating electricity. Its merits rely entirely upon a substitution of capital for fuel inputs. The same is true for hydro or tidal or wave power. In comparison with hydro power, wind is a low quality resource because of its variability and because it cannot be stored. So, the economic case for wind power must rest on obtaining the most out of the wind that is available.
42. While the decline in the achieved performance of onshore wind turbines in Denmark is much less than that for the UK or offshore, nonetheless the decline in expected output under standardised wind conditions over 10 years is 10% unweighted and 13% capacity weighted. These declines accelerate after age 10 so that the reductions in performance are 17% and 20% respectively after 15 years. For UK onshore wind farms the reduction in performance due to age is much worse at 27% unweighted and 69% capacity weighted by age 10.
43. Evidence on the performance of Danish offshore installations is both restricted and so poor that there may be concern that the results are affected by a small number of outliers. Still, the sample contains a reasonable number of sites with at least 5 years of operating experience and the decline in performance by age 5 is 38% unweighted and 26% capacity weighted.
44. In addition to these results there is strong evidence that the average normalised load factor for new onshore wind installations in the UK has fallen significantly over the period from 2000 to 2011. This is consistent with a pattern in which the most favourable sites are developed first. Equally, it could mean that wind developers have been unable to keep up with the rate of new investment while maintaining the quality of development and operations. For example, the site design or selection of turbine characteristics may make less effective use of the available wind resources for the sites available than was the case in the past.
45. Whatever the reasons, the deterioration in initial performance means that the expected returns from the expansion in wind capacity, both for investors and in terms of the reduction in CO2 emissions, have been falling without a concomitant decrease in the private and social costs that are borne by customers and the general public. Clearly this is unsatisfactory at best and it suggests that the benefits claimed for current policies cannot be taken at face value.
Ian Forrester replied on Permalink
Windy is taken in by deceitful REF
The Renewable Energy Foundation is a deceitful organization which actually is set up to undermine wind energy.
"There have been critics of REF's agenda, in particular Juliet Davenport, chief executive of green energy provider Good Energy, and Dale Vince, founder of Ecotricity, who both accuse the organisation of using a deliberately "misleading" name. Vince says "They are not a Foundation for Renewable Energy, as their name says and as any reasonable person would conclude from their name – they actually exist to undermine Renewable Energy – in that respect their name is a deceit."
Other critics such as Maria McCaffery, chief executive of RenewableUK, a trade body that represents more than 600 wind and marine energy firms, says the Renewable Energy Foundation's true purpose is diametrically opposed to the interests of the wind energy industry. "It is an anti-wind lobbying organisation," she told BusinessGreen. "I'd like to know where the renewable energy part of their remit is. They don't foster or promote or develop, they just try to undermine the case for wind energy all the time."
"The Renewable Energy Foundation provides "strong support" for local objectors to planning applications for windfarms. Dr Constable is reported to tour the country to give speeches at local planning meetings opposing wind farms on behalf of the REF. One environmental activist described the organization thus "The Renewable Energy Foundation is a sham organisation; it has nothing to do with renewable energy. It is a front for industrial lobby groups which have interests in fossil fuels and nuclear power."
Solar is superior to wind in every respect
I look at this from an engineering perspective. I've read the engineering reports on wind turbines and as they age they degrade significantly. Solar far superior.
Ian Forrester replied on Permalink
No cites as usual
Windy is afraid to post where he finds his dishonest assessments. He's afraid we will tear them to shreds again. Wind turbines have been going on their merry efficient ways for approximately 18 years in my part of the world.
Funny how people like windy can only find negative things about non fossil fuel energy projects. Mmm could it be that he only reads sources which he knows will reinforce his anti AGW psyche?
No one has ever claimed that in certain locations solar will be a better route than other forms of renewable energy. He is just setting up a strawman argument.
Ian I have a question
When I am soon able to install solar on my property at $1.00/watt installed and can generate my own energy for 2.5 cents/kWh, why would I want to pay a utility company for energy from a wind farm? When you consider all the limitations of wind with respect to location, cost, noise, bird deaths, ugliness, land use change, etc. compared to solar which can be blended architectualy into my house, doesn't kill birds doesn't make noise, etc. why would I or anyone else want wind power? If I go to a poor country with no infrastructure and no grid which will be the less expensive source of energy, solar or wind? Do you understand why I see wind as a dead end now?
Ian Forrester replied on Permalink
Windy can't stop with negative comments about wind energy
No one has ever claimed that solar will not play a major part in supplying energy. In places where it is suitable it will be developed and supported. windy would get a lot more support if he stopped his ridiculous attacks on wind farms. None of what he claims is true and is the product of dishonest fossil fuel propaganda.
As far as his comments about "ugliness" I guess he has never seen an open cast coal mine, a dirty coal fired electricity generating power station or even a nuclear powered one. These monstrosities are a complete eyesore and are far uglier than any wind farm I have seen.
Ian how do you feel about the mines needed for REEs used
for wind? You would have to be against them in order not to be a hypocrite for suggesting I want mining when I have said no such thing. I am not for coal power and you're desperately spinning tales to suggest that I am. What about all the people exposed to all the pollution from mined REEs and dying in mines extracting REEs used for wind?
You keep digging deeper and deeper.
Solar costs $0.30 cents an hour.
Installed… with all the sun you can get in Southern Ontario, Canada. (Hint.. they have less sun than most of the US.)
For that reason solar is rolling out in the US unsubsidized. (Now… as we speak…)
Here's the ad about that; Folks who are switching are doing so to save money, and no other reason.
Now… as for intermittency.. and lets face it you're not home when the sun is out if you work for a living. Most electric grids are required by law to buy back any excess energy you may be producing.
So it comes out in the wash. You sell power by day, and buy back by night. Your grid provider shuts off power plants because as you know… supply is infinitely more predictable than demand.
Ian Forrester replied on Permalink
windy is the only person digging a hole for himself
Too bad he only reads junk which always tells lies about wind energy. If he actually did a bit of digging and finding honest and balanced information he would find that the mining of rare earth elements (I wonder why he just called them REE, I bet he doesn't know what they are but just cut and pasted his usual junk) is not the reason that the area around Baotou is polluted. The area is full of mines and other industries with a history of pollution: iron and steel, coal, aluminium.
The production of the rare earth elements is as a by-product of the iron and steel industry. Only anti-wind energy zealots such as windy and the Daily Fail would attribute the pollution to wind farms. There are many uses for the rare earths besides the magnets in wind turbines. One of their most common uses is as phosphors in the making of the new TV and computer colour monitors, I wonder if windy, who is so upset by the pollution attributed to them, only watches a black and white TV.
Keep on digging windy but don't pollute us with your garbage and spoils from your pit of ignorance and arrogance.
Rare Earths Leave Toxic Trail to Toyota Prius, Vestas Turbines
Rare earth metals are key to global efforts to switch to cleaner energy – from batteries in hybrid cars to magnets in wind turbines. Mining and processing the metals causes environmental damage that China, the biggest producer, is no longer willing to bear.
China's rare earth industry each year produces more than five times the amount of waste gas, including deadly fluorine and sulfur dioxide, than the total flared annually by all miners and oil refiners in the U.S. Alongside that 13 billion cubic meters of gas is 25 million tons of wastewater laced with cancer-causing heavy metals such as cadmium, Xu Xu, chairman of the China Chamber of Commerce of Metals, Minerals & Chemicals Importers & Exporters, said at a Beijing conference on Dec. 28.
"China supplied the world with very cheap and good-quality rare earths for more than a decade at the cost of depleting its resources and damaging its environment," Wang Caifeng, who heads the government-affiliated China Association for Rare Earths, said at the conference. "The world should thank China."
With China now shutting down unregulated rare earth mines and slashing exports, users from Toyota Motor Corp. to Vestas Wind Systems A/S, the world's biggest maker of wind turbines, are concerned that supplies may be constrained. China provides more than 95 percent of global shipments of the 17 rare earth metals, also used in mobile phones, catalysts to reduce automobile exhaust emissions and energy-saving electronics.
The government cut export quotas for the first half of 2011 by 35 percent last month. That follows a 72 percent reduction in the second half of 2010, causing the price of some of the metals to more than double.
Lynas, Molycorp Leap
Mining companies including Lynas Corp. from Australia and Molycorp Inc. in the U.S. plan to make up the supply shortfall. Molycorp said Nov. 1 it restarted processing at a mine in Mountain Pass, California, that closed in 2002. The company's shares have more than doubled since the end of November.
That mine had its own environmental problems, resulting in Molycorp, then a unit of Unocal Corp., paying $1.6 million to settle with state agencies after toxic wastewater leaks in the 1990s.
With rare earths in short supply, Molycorp shares more than tripled last year on the New York Stock Exchange. Lynas also more than tripled on the Australia Securities Exchange in 2010.
Vestas uses the rare earth neodymium in magnets for itsV112 wind turbine, which enters production next year, Michael Holm, a spokesman, said in a telephone interview.
Toxic Leakage
Rare earth metals aren't rare. Cerium used in batteries and to cut auto emissions, is more common than copper in the earth's crust, according to the U.S. Geological Survey Minerals Yearbook. The metals got the name because they are difficult to extract, unlike concentrated deposits of copper or gold ore.
The Baotou region in Inner Mongolia produces about half of China's annual output of 120,000 tons of rare earths, with Inner Mongolia Baotou Steel Rare-Earth Hi-Tech Co. being the country's biggest producer.
A four-story tailing dam containing radioactive waste 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Baotou has been "a serious problem"and polluted rivers, Chen Zhanheng, director of the academic department of the Chinese Society of Rare Earths, said in an interview.
Baotou Steel Group, which operates the Baiyun Ebo mine, has spent 500 million yuan ($75 million) with the local government to relocate five villages after seepage from the dam polluted agricultural land and drinking water, China's official Xinhua News Agency reported on Nov. 7.
Uranium Disposal
"All rare earth ores contain uranium and thorium, which could pose a danger if not disposed of responsibly," said Dudley J Kingsnorth, who managed Australia's Mount Weld rare earths project for Ashton Mining of Canada Inc. for 10 years. He's now an independent consultant on the metals.
Rare earths require more chemicals to separate than base metals such as copper, zinc and lead, said Bernd Lottermoser, a professor of environmental earth sciences at James Cook University in Queensland, Australia.
China toughened regulations in 2009 and set production quotas to bolster prices. Subsequent export restrictions combined with rising demand have caused the price of neodymium, used in Toyota's Prius hybrid car, to surge four-fold to $80 a kilogram from $19.12 in 2009, according to Lynas.
The world excluding China will require 55,000 to 60,000 tons of rare-earth metals this year, of which as much as 24,000 tons will come from China, Molycorp's Chief Executive Officer Mark Smith said in a Jan. 3 interview on Bloomberg Radio. The company may double its planned production to 40,000 tons in 2012 to help meet global demand, he said.
Sydney-based Lynas is building a A$550 million ($550 million) rare earths project at Mount Weld, Western Australia.
Devil You Know
Molycorp's mine won a San Bernardino County permit in 2004 to operate for 30 years and passed another inspection in 2007.
Processing improvements at that California mine will almost cut in half the amount of raw ore needed to produce the same amount of rare earth oxides, Molycorp's Smith said during testimony to the U.S. House Science and Technology Committee in March. Water recycling and treatment processes will reduce the mine's fresh water usage by 96 percent, he said.
"This is one that could be reopened with strong regulatory and environmental oversight," Glenn Miller, professor of natural resources and environmental science at the University of Nevada-Reno, said in a phone interview.
"A lot of these metals are used for environmental purposes that are really important," Miller said. "It's far better to reopen this mine, where you have a known geological deposit, than go into a new country."
Ian Forrester replied on Permalink
More strawmen and red herrings from windy
windy seems to be really lacking in logical ability. He seems to think that because some industries and countries turn a blind eye to pollution and that one of the products produced by these polluting companies is used in the manufacture of wind turbines then that means that wind farms are bad. What a load of BS.
As I said previously, there are many uses for the rare earth elements, not just in wind turbines. It just goes to show that AGW deniers will go to any extreme to promote the fuels produced by their sugar daddies.
windy seems to be upset that REE's are used in wind turbines, I wonder if he realizes they are also used in photo voltaics. Oooh the hypocrisy!
"Rare earth metals are critical for clean energy technologies, such as PVs, as well as hybrid and electric vehicles, high-efficiency wind turbines, smart grid technologies, and even compact fluorescent lights that are targeted to replace energy-wasting incandescent bulbs in the United States.Other high-tech uses include: fiber optics, lasers and hard disk drives; defense guidance and control systems; global positioning systems; and advanced industrial, military and outdoor recreation water treatment technology."
I can go One Better...
Its just Windy between the ears…
I happen to know that many of those toxic issues are slated to be dealt with in China. Western Environmental technology is being sold in China by the bucket load, right now, as we speak.
Reading that article about seepage Baotou Steel Group mine made me laugh. Maybe the communists just need to learn how to hire PR agents, Windy! Its cheaper! A few fake idiots to dot the information sphere, and some obvious balony and you've got it made! (Perhaps the commies fear an asian version of Erin Brockovich?)
By the way Windy, we had an idiot around here earlier this year (Rosa?) saying that wind turbines emitted CO2. I think you need to do some more studying on that… . I'm sure Rosa's findings would be very convincing… to you.
Well hopefully Rosa wasn't stupid enough to invest
in the wind scam and see her stock value drop by 90%. I bet Ian lost his hiney on the wind scam and is desperate in hoping it will rebound. Did you? LOL
BTW Germany was dealt a major blow on wind and will no longer be able to dump excess wind energy on its neighbors. Watch the fallout. :-) Oh and when the Dutch are disappointed by wind turbines it's an omen that the writing is on the wall.
'Dutch fall out of love with windmills'
(Reuters) - When the Netherlands built its first sea-based wind turbines in 2006, they were seen as symbols of a greener future.
Towering over the waves of the North Sea like an army of giants, blades whipping through the wind, the turbines were the country's best hope to curb carbon emissions and meet growing demand for electricity.
The 36 turbines – each one the height of a 30-storey building – produce enough electricity to meet the needs of more than 100,000 households each year.
But five years later the green future looks a long way off. Faced with the need to cut its budget deficit, the Dutch government says offshore wind power is too expensive and that it cannot afford to subsidize the entire cost of 18 cents per kilowatt hour – some 4.5 billion euros last year.
The government now plans to transfer the financial burden to households and industrial consumers in order to secure the funds for wind power and try to attract private sector investment.
Notice how the burden will be shifted to the public?
I look forward...
I look forward… to your review of the steady degradation of coal and natural gas power plants. As you have not done a comparison, you have not demonstrating anything, or even provided a useful perspective. (If you worked at an engineering firm, you'd be fired for providing useless work.)
As you know coal and natural gas plants degrade significantly over time.
Did you know that the first thing that coal power plants do with a coal shipment, is to analyze the coal to determine how efficient its burn will be? It seems that they need to analyze their losses in order to determine how much power they can put out.
I note that so far, your industry funded reports on wind state very clearly that wind is better than our existing coal\natgas solutions. Care to comment on that fact?
I never mentioned coal and I do not support coal
so have fun debating yourself about coal. NG is a backup energy source in my view as I prefer solar as my primary energy source (see my reasons in commennt to Ian). There is enough energy provided by the Sun in one hour to meet the global energy needs for a year.
Ian when you get Kennedy to build wind in Nantucket
Let me know. TIA :-)
By ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. WSJ.com 7/18/11
Someone needs to tell the politicians in Boston and Washington that Cape Wind, the long-stalled plan to cover 25 square miles of pristine Nantucket Sound with 130 massive steel windmill-turbine towers, is a rip-off. That someone is most likely to be the newly enlightened electricity ratepayers—and voters—of Massachusetts.
In the past few months it has become clearer than ever how much this giveaway of public property is going to cost them if Cape Wind is ever built. The numbers are staggering.
Vermont wants to take its nuclear plant off line and replace it with clean, green power from HydroQuebec—power available to Massachusetts utilities—at a cost of six cents per kilowatt hour (kwh). Cape Wind electricity, by a conservative estimate and based on figures they filed with the state, comes in at 25 cents per kwh.
In Massachusetts, the utility company NSTAR has fought off intense political pressure to commit to buying Cape Wind's power when and if it becomes available. CEO Tom May has repeatedly said such a contract would impose far too large a burden on his ratepayers.
Instead, and to meet the state's requirements that utilities purchase 3.5% of their power from "green" sources, NSTAR has contracted with several far less expensive land-based wind-power providers.
According to NSTAR's own filings to certify compliance with the green-power requirement, these contracts come in at $111 million below market averages over the standard contract period of 15 years. The price of Cape Wind power comes in at well over $1 billion above market averages, according to Cape Wind's own regulatory filings about its contract with National Grid, the utility company that has agreed to buy half its power.
If the sea-based wind farm off Nantucket did begin operating, it is safe to deduce that National Grid customers would be getting fleeced compared to their NSTAR neighbors. The land-based wind alternatives that have sprouted up over the last decade have given utilities far cheaper alternatives to the unbuilt Cape Wind.
Bluntly put: Whether you agree or disagree with the fishermen, homeowners and environmentalists who have fought Cape Wind for a decade, the fact is this project makes no sense for ratepayers and taxpayers. Vastly cheaper forms of energy, and not just wind, are now available.
Despite this, there are ominous signs that NSTAR, after years of fighting off pressure by the state of Massachusetts to jam its customers with higher costs, is being told to accept the higher costs after all. The state's leverage? A proposed merger of NSTAR with Northeast Utilities.
In only the latest example of how heavy-handed Cape Wind's backers are, Massachusetts has suddenly agreed to change the rules for utilities as they apply to mergers and the reduction of greenhouse-gas emissions. In effect, the state administration is trying to hold hostage the proposed NSTAR-Northeast Utilities merger unless the two electric companies agree to buy Cape Wind's power.
Stopping Cape Wind is no longer merely about preventing the desecration of sacred Native American land, including land now under shallow waters in the Sound, where the turbines would also obstruct religiously significant views of the sunrise and sunset. It is no longer simply about protecting fish and fishing—which Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick has moved to do for other areas of the state. Those reasons, along with protecting the safety of boats and planes while saving Cape Cod and the Islands from a devastating blow to tourism and property values, are still valid.
Stopping Cape Wind is now about preventing us from buying into a boondoggle: from investing desperately needed federal, state and ratepayer dollars in a single project, on public land, for the benefit of a private developer when better and cheaper renewable energy—from wind and water power—is abundantly available.
Mr. Kennedy is an environmental lawyer and president of the environmental group Waterkeeper Alliance.
Ian Forrester replied on Permalink
Typical NIMBYism
The real reason that Kennedy doesn't want this project to go ahead is more to do with his NIMBYism. I can't vouch for his figures but AGW deniers are not the only ones to fudge figures for their own advantage.
I put Kennedy in the same camp as Trump who had no qualms about digging up a site of special scientific interest for his golf course but didn't want an off shore windfarm to "spoil his view". Such hypocrites.
Ian Forrester replied on Permalink
The report was written by Gordon Hughes
The report Windy cites was written by professor Gordon Hughes a so called environmental economist. He is the most anti wind farm commentator in the UK. Don't believe a word he says, he has fossil fuel and nuclear industry money written all over his fishwrap.
Unlike fossil fuels, wind power doesn't kill humans.
Wind power doesn't significantly contribute to global warming.
Wind power does not need to be decommissioned by the disingenuous method you suggest. (Try keeping the tower, and putting a new generator on top. Much cheaper and dramatically reduces carbon footprint.)
Poor performance… maybe… Why don't you compare that against the fact that 100% oil and gas wells eventually leak. This issue is permanent. And there is no plan in place anywhere in the world to stop leaky wells. (And all the oil companies in charge of them having no money to fix it. We'll need a lot more public subsidy for the constant clean up required. This is what we do in Alberta.)
Intermittence is a concern however its significantly more predictable than loading. Furthermore.. the proper cure is to increase your gird size in order to take advantage of wind, where ever it may occur. That levels your supply, and frankly is currently how the European grid functions.
As you know, we build power systems (including fossil fuels) for peak demand. Which may be for say, 1 hour a year. The cure is energy storage. Look up Liquid Metal Batteries. That solves intermittence, and allows us to remove fossil fuel energy plants at the same time.
In any case, I recommend you give this a good read. It discusses all the same issues you're talking about… for COAL. Did you know that a coal plant that is not operating at capacity is much less efficient? But its cleaner? Heck, we keep Coal plants on line just in case in Alberta. Too bad we don't have Liquid Metal Batteries.
Wow… Coal gets 10% variation in efficiency just on fuels source alone. Hmmm… UK is a bad choice Windy… their Coal efficiency goes down over time.
Lastly… According to the DOE… Efficiency is worse for coal have a read.
David B. Benson replied on Permalink
Unimpressed with wind turbines.
I have no idea of the quality of the work cited (or copied) in eaarleir comments on this thread. My independent judgement is that wind turbines are not all that desirable for several reasons. The primary one is intermittency.
That does not mean I am totally opposed to wind farms.
David B. Benson replied on Permalink
Typo, need to proof more carefully.
When rather than if
you can purchase solar at 50 cents a watt installed and pay less than 3 cents/kwh for power and maybe $0 if you are allowed to sell excess electricity that you produce from your solar installation, would you prefer paying a utility 11 cents/kWh for wind? Would your home be more valuable with solar panels providing free energy to prospective buyers vs being next to gigantic noisy wind turbines or having a view of gigantic wind turbines? Look at the link that Ian Forrester provided showing pictures of how ugly wind turbines are and how they ruin the beauty of the landscape. Who wants that? Certainly not any of the rich people like John Kerry of R. Kennedy Jr. who kill any such wind project that infringes on their properties with their NIMBY attitude (and who can blame them?). Like Kerry and Kennedy, I would fight against wind in my community too.
Ian Forrester replied on Permalink
Some people actually like wind farms and make money from them
A small town in Scotland surprised windfarm developers. Large numbers of the residents turned up at a meeting put on by the developers informing them about a proposed windfarm in their area. The developers were expecting that they would bring a long list of negative comments. Instead the developers were surprised when the residents were in favour of the windfarm and asked that an extra turbine be installed at their cost so they could share the positive benefits.
The town is making substantial profits from their turbine and the money is paying for green energy projects for the town so that residents can save even more money.
That project in Scotland has problems Ian.
The wind company is hurting and killing people. Read below.
Firm admits Earlsburn wind farm death safety failings
A wind turbine manufacturer has admitted a series of health and safety failings at a wind farm where a teenage worker fell 100ft to his death.
Basilio Brazao, 19, from Brazil, died instantly when he fell down the shaft of a wind turbine at the Earlsburn wind farm near Fintry, Stirlingshire.
Mr Brazao had been working inside the turbine at the time of the incident.
At Stirling Sheriff Court, manufacturer Nordex UK admitted a number of health and safety breaches on the site.
The Manchester-based firm admitted that between 1 November 2006 and 22 May 2007 it failed to ensure the health and safety of employees at the wind farm.
It further pled guilty to failing to provide a safe way of getting up and down from the 15 wind turbines on the site, all of which had been supplied and constructed by the company.
It also admitted that as a consequence of failing to provide safe access, Mr Brazao was required to ascend a ladder to access the main generator of the turbine on the day he died, 22 May 2007.
Ray Gribben, defending, said Nordex UK had been "practically insolvent" in the last two financial years, and posted a loss of more than £1.3m for the year ending 2011.
Sheriff Fiona Tait deferred sentence until 15 June as she said she needed to hear about the financial situation of the firm's German parent company, Nordex SE.
She said: "I see a difficulty in determining a significant financial penalty without the fullest knowledge of their finances."
The Earlsburn wind farm in the Touch Hills was under construction when Mr Brazao died.
The wind company is pleading that it has been insolvent
for two years. Here is the link I forgot from above. Wind? Thanks but no thanks. NIMBY either. I'll stick wih solar.
You are in the weeds again.
As usual stupidity either by the site owner or the worker was the cause;
"At Stirling Sheriff Court, manufacturer Nordex UK admitted a number of health and safety breaches on the site."
At GE our health and safety officers loved to show us videos of fatal accidents for failing to perform proper safety procedures.
The biggest source of death in solar is falling, and for all of the same reasons. Did you put your harness on? Hint… shorter fall, but there are way more workers.
If you want to conclude something about the relative safety rates of an energy source you need to look at these things called STATISTICS. Here's all I can find on the internet, but there are books on the subject. (Rooftop Solar has 3X the death rate of Wind.)
In any case you now seem to be in the weeds arguing from a non technical point of view. You need to compare all technologies. Solar cells degrade over time as well. Oh… you didn't evaluate that from an engineering perspective before jumping on your bandwagon. Hmmm… Sounds like a denier to me… bait and switch this time?
In My Opinion… no particular technology is superior. It just makes sense to harvest energy in a means which is efficient for a location. The only caveat I'd add to that is that pollution must be taken into consideration.
In Alberta, most wind farms are built near a place called Windermere, so named because of the wind. In Canada, we haven't got anywhere near the sun you have in the states. Currently, building solar plants up here makes no sense.
In Hawaii, land is at a premium, so they are rolling out rooftop solar, since they appear to have plenty of sun. They used to use coal, but operating a private railway on the islands and storing coal was too expensive, so they switched to pipes and petroleum.
Natural gas is reasonably efficient if its used to directly drive power plants. (However, natural gas is not used that way. And lets not get into the risks of fracking.)
Hydro makes sense if you have rain, and valleys. If we dammed Alberta, we'd flood the entire prairies…
Ian Forrester replied on Permalink
windy lies again
The wind farm at Fintry is not having problems. I don't understand why anyone can confuse a mistake by the manufacturer who did not follow proper health and safety rules while assembling the turbines with problems in the running and the economics of the wind farm.
As for the comments about financial failure, again this is about the manufacturer and not the economics of the wind farm.
Using windy's failure in logic we should ban all cars since two manufactures in the states were essentially bankrupt and had to be bailed out by governments. Or banks should be shut down because of a bank failure in the UK. Well known AGW denier and strong libertarian Matt Ridley, had to get his bank bailed out by the UK government to the tune of 27 billion BPS. Just because people take chances and cut corners or in the case of Ridley's bank, bet on high risk investments, does not mean that the whole industry is in trouble.
"The wind company is hurting
"The wind company is hurting and killing people. Read below. Mr Brazao died after falling 100ft while working inside a turbine at the Earlsburn wind farm"
I'm not sure what the purpose of this post is Windy. Do you believe that no deaths have occured in the collective fossil fuel industry over the past 100 years? Has some story about wind turbines, led you to believe that occupational health and safety issues or deaths are impossible in the renewables sector?
More bad news for wind
The Dutch have already bailed on government support of wind and now the love affair with wind seems to be fading with the German government too. Die Welt a German paper is indicating that the German government has decided to shift all costs for wind directly onto the German energy using public.
Here is the RT version:
Now comes the time to pay for Germany's green vision.
Despite technological advances, wind, solar, hydro and other green energy sources still remain an unprofitable investment in a fair market. The way to encourage their exploitation is through a set of feed-in tariffs, a policy where energy companies are forced to buy electricity from green generators at a price set by the government (which is usually legislated to remain the same for two decades).
The German government has passed the cost of the payment from the energy companies to the consumer. Every German on the grid pays something called Umlage, a special surcharge for supporting green fuels that covers all the green energy subsidies, however much energy is produced.
This week, energy companies announced that the charge would go up by 47 percent for next year. The average Germany household will now pay €250 a year to sponsor green energy producers, four times more than in 2009.
The overall value of the subsidy on green energy is likely to exceed €20 billion next year, about one percent of GDP.
At the same time, the government has relieved large exporting companies (who consume a fifth of Germany's electricity) from paying Umlage, for fear of crippling them, thus leaving ordinary Germans to bear the burden.
That is on top of what are some of the highest electricity prices in Europe, which have already risen 44 percent since Merkel came to power seven years ago.
This is hardly the ceiling.
Faced with a scheme in which it seems almost impossible to lose money, German states, industrial giants and even enterprising individuals have all rushed to build wind turbines and solar panel farms.
Never mind 35 or 40 percent, at the current rate by 2020 more than half of Germany's energy will be obtained from renewables – and all subsidized by the taxpayer.
"It's out of control," summed up Kurt J. Lauk, Economic Council president from Angela Merkel's own Christian Democrats party.
The averge cost for electricity in Germany is 31.41 cents/kWh in US currency according to Wiki. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_pricing
German electricity will surpass 40 cents/kWh soon. I wonder how long the German public will be raped and made to pay corporate welfare before they wise up? I sure feel good about the 4.54 cents/kWh that I pay for electricity. I would be paying $2,400.00/year in Germany in 2013 for the same electricity I now get for $274.00/year where I live in the USA. If I invest the $2,160.00 savings into a gas/oil stock paying a 9% dividend, I will have 32,300.00 in 10 years.
In Los Angeles it costs $0.211/kWh, which is 465% more than than I will pay in 2013 after locking in a $.0454/kWh rate in the Midwest. With Californians choosing to pay more for energy in the future the differencial will continue into the future and in 10 years I will be holding $19,234.25 and a Californian using the same amount of electricity as me will be holding his pecker. With 50 cent/watt solar (already available outside the USA) I will make even more money. So why would I want to be financially raped by paying the kind of energy rates that wind fanatics in California and Germany are paying for? Only ignorant people and fanatics fall for the financial rape offered by wind.
Ian Forrester replied on Permalink
Windy wants his grand children to pay for his cheap energy today
Typical AGW denier tactics, waste cheap and polluting energy today and to hell with the costs for future generations.
David B. Benson replied on Permalink
How so?
I am under the impression he is promoting solar PV.
Ian Forrester replied on Permalink
I'm never sure what he is saying
If he is switching to solar good for him. However, with windy's previous, I never know when he is being honest. There are places which are suited to wind energy and there are places suited to solar. Each area should use what is best for them.
Ian if you want to see change, you can't ignore economics
A savvy Professor at University of Chicago taught me a great deal about personal economics and why you can't ignore it when dealing with people. You don't seem to want to accept the writing on the wall about the growing negatives of wind power. You can't possibly believe that if wind is being rejected in wealthy countries that it will be embraced in developing countries, where CO2 is growing most rapidly, but where there is no money to build expensive grids and infrastructure. Solar pv enhances property value because it lowers the cost of energy to consumers at a personal level which creates great motivation. No such personal motivation exists for wind power and in fact there is negative motivation with wind. Wind hurts property values and if you were an honest person you would realize that is why the Kennedy', Kerry's and all rich people with beautiful views don't want to see wind turbines as part of THEIR landscape.
So that you have no doubt, I am pro solar pv as this is the only viable solution I see to bring cheap clean energy to 2 billion people that have no electricity and still be acceptable to wealthier countries and that would motivate people from a personal economic level to convert to clean cheaper energy than they now have. I see very few negatives with solar and the quicker we get to solar pv under $1.00/watt installed the faster we can lower CO2e . My household per capita CO2 emissions are 5t/year and when I convert to solar it will drop to 3.5t/year which puts me very close to the 3.3t/capita needed in the USA to reduce US CO2 by 80% of 1990 emissions. I have 2,000sq.ft. near the Southern border of Wisconsin and use 6,000kWh/yr of electricity. When we eventually drop to $0.50/watt for solar it becomes costlier for home owners to use coal and oil based electricity and you bypass politics and government and motivate individuals to switch to clean energy rather than force them to switch.


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Longtime Lindenhurst resident Gertrude Caputo, who had worked in Massapequa, died Sept. 13, 2008 at Good Samaritan Hospital in West Islip. She was 83. She was born to Harry and Mary (Liskin) Fogel on Jan. 30, 1925 in Brooklyn and later dedicated herself to caring for her four children, husband and home.
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The Haunted America division of The History Press has recently released "Haunted Little Rock", a book by Little Rock's own Linda L. Howell. The book provides pictures, stories and eyewitness accounts of reported "hauntings" in Little Rock. Included in the book are tales of such landmarks as Mount Holly Cemetery, Robinson Center Music Hall, Reed's Bridge and of course, The Empress of Little Rock.
Both history and eyewitness "sightings" are detailed in the book to give readers a fun and educational read. Did you know that Curran Hall once had a "guardian" cat named Scout whose supposed job it was to protect the premises? Have you heard the ghost exercising in the employee workout room in Little Rock City Hall? Several employees say that they have. Have you seen the grave of the Indian Woman "Elizabeth" in Mount Holly Cemetery? If so, did you know that her body isn't really there? The marker was moved there by request of Albert Pike, but her body is still buried somewhere on the North Little Rock side of the river.
These stories and more will entertain and enlighten you as your read more about The Empress of Little Rock and other purportedly haunted spots in Little Rock in Linda's book, available for purchase in The Empress gift shop. We love the beautiful picture of The Empress on the cover! You can also join Linda for Haunted Tours of Little Rock, every Friday night in October!!! During the tour, Linda takes you to several of the Haunted spots in her book, starting at MacArthur Museum and entering The Empress for a view of our tower card room. It is a frighteningly fun night for all!


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You get the feeling that the 2012 Gilmer Buckeyes are tapping into the spirit of that motto voiced so often by the recently-departed Davis.
The voice seems to grow especially strong in the second half. Witness the Buckeyes' third straight dominating performance in the final two quarters of the game, this time earning them a 21-13 victory over Gladewater last Friday night in the District 16-3A opener.
There might be another explanation for why the spirit of professional football came over the Buckeyes after halftime in Gladewater, though.
Here's how Gilmer head coach Jeff Traylor recounts what happened:
"In the third quarter right when we had just messed up another offensive series, I was about to lose my wit. And I got a big bear hug from some kid behind me.
"I turned around and it was Curtis Brown (former Gilmer Buckeye and Texas Longhorn now in his second season with the Pittsburgh Steelers) and he said, 'Coach, it's gonna be fine. I'm gonna take care of this for you.'
"And I mean he was fantastic on the sideline, encouraging our young kids. I mean, he was getting after their tails now. I mean, he coached his tail off on that sideline."
So now you know Curtis Brown has another profession to fall back on once he concludes what we all hope will be a long career in the National Football League.
"I'd hire him right now," said Coach Traylor. "He's got a lifetime job with me."
Probably Curtis would want everyone to know he was giving his former coach a "Buckeye hug," though.
It was Gilmer quarterback Tanner Barr who was receiving "bear hugs" every now and then out on the field, and they weren't meant to be encouraging.
With apologies to Coca-Cola, you could say they were "the paws that don't refresh."
But when he knelt in "victory formation" on the final play of the game, Barr and the Buckeyes could look up at the scoreboard and, in memory of Al Davis, say "we just won, baby!"
Next up for the Buckeyes is another formidable district opponent, the Chapel Hill Bulldogs. Don't let this team's 1-4 start in 2012 fool you. Their losses were to two Class 4A schools, plus two stellar 3A programs. They will come to Buckeye Stadium Friday night 0-1 in district after a 24-6 loss to Henderson. Their backs are more or less against the wall in a district this competitive, with only three playoff berths to award among seven teams.
Chapel Hill has gone 28-2 over the past two seasons, making it to the Class 3A Division I state championship game at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington in both.
After having been edged out by Henderson, 28-21, in 2010, the Bulldogs won their rings last year with a 20-19 victory over Alvarado.
"We know right now none of that really matters. We've got a completely different team than we had last year," Chapel Hill head coach Thomas Sitton told Bryan Houston, host of Bryan Houston's Sports Radio Live on 99.3 FM.
"We've got a lot of young kids that played on Thursday night last year."
While they did well on Thursday nights, he said they are having to "grow up quick" because "it's a different level on Friday night."
Asked about the team's new membership in District 16-3A (aka the District of Doom), he said:
"It's gonna be tough. It's gonna be a war every week. There's so many good football teams in the district. You're going to have to be ready to play every Friday night and you're going to have to play your best football."
On a positive note, he said, "The great thing about it is if you can somehow make it out of the district, you'll be ready for playoffs, for sure."
Coach Sitton said every District 16-3A game would have a "playoff-type atmosphere."
He characterized playing in the new district as both "fun" and "hard work."
"But our kids are excited about it. Our coaches are excited about it. And hopefully we can win a game or two," he said.
"Our expectations are real high around here. The kids had an extremely tough off-season and did well with it. Our 'boot camp' was great. People are excited about football in Chapel Hill. The younger kids saw what we were able to do the last couple of years, and there's nothing better than getting to play in November and December. We don't know where we are going to end up, but I know our kids are going to play hard."
Speaking of playing hard, the Buckeyes' Black Flag Defense kept Gilmer in the Gladewater game until the offense finally began to click midway through the third quarter.
Some of the defensive standouts included John McPherson (six tackles, four assists) Josh Walker (three tackles, seven assists, two pressures, one sack), Harrison Foster (three tackles, four assists, one pressure, one sack) and Brandon Barnes (six tackles, two assists and a fumble recovery).
"Our defense obviously was the difference in the ball game," said Traylor. "Their play in the second half was just phenomenal."
He added, "Our kicking game was big again. We had 199 yards in 'hidden yardage.' So that was really big. Catching punts, returning kicks, extra points, recovery of kicks. A lot of that stuff adds up."
He didn't find a lot of satisfaction with the offense, but pointed out, "You have to give Gladewater credit. They've got a really good defense."
Coach Traylor totally discounts the slow start that Chapel Hill is off to in 2012, citing the strength of the Bulldogs' schedule. And the victory they do have was by 20 points over Palestine, which in turn beat Jacksonville by 17 points. Gilmer beat Jacksonville by one point.
"Chapel Hill is one of the best teams we've played this year," he said. "Loaded with team speed."
Quarterback Andrew Black is familiar to the Buckeyes, having played for Jacksonville his freshman and sophomore years before moving to Chapel Hill earlier this year.
"Andrew Black's a very good football player.
"Tailback's a great player, Joseph Clark."
Brandon Upshaw is also "great" at center.
"Their offensive line is good and well-coached."
On defense, Wesley Thompson was "newcomer of the year" at middle linebacker. Clark is a good safety. Kevone Kennedy is good in the line. Gabriel Robinson is very good at cornerback as is JaMarcus McCowin. Londreyus Johnson is good at linebacker.
"They're well-coached. They run to the ball. They're just very inexperienced.
"And they've just been making a lot of mistakes on offense. That's the only thing that's been messing them up.
"If they don't turn the ball over, they'd probably be 3-2 or 4-1."
Coach Traylor concluded with great praise for his Chapel Hill counterpart:
"Coach Sitton, there's just not a better person in the world than that guy. He's just a fantastic human being; coaches his kids very well. Just a great person. His team will be very well-prepared. They'll behave and they'll play hard."
District 16-3A Game 2
Chapel Hill Bulldogs vs. Gilmer Buckeyes
Buckeye Stadium, Gilmer
Friday, Oct. 5, 7:30 p.m.
Gilmer Buckeyes Season to Date:
Atlanta, won 31-17
Plano Prestonwood, lost 42-12
Jacksonville, won 34-33
Daingerfield, won 43-14
Gladewater, won 21-13
Chapel Hill Bulldogs Season to Date:
Lindale, lost 31-14
Whitehouse, lost 38-14
Carthage, lost 30-6
Palestine, won 34-14
Henderson, lost 24-6
903-841-7777 — Advance tickets are on sale through Thursday at the Gilmer ISD Administration Building. Sale hours are 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. each day.
Noon Wednesdays, Buckeyes Booster Club meets at Gilmer Country Club.
Lamar Harris is a senior at Oklahoma where he plays left cornerback.
Dakota Hagler is a senior at Emporia State in Kansas. He is a defensive lineman.
Traylon Webb is a freshman at Tyler Junior College. He is a defensive back.
Etex, Channel 2, will replay Gilmer games at 10 a.m. Saturdays and 6 p.m. Wednesdays.
(This channel also carries the audio of the games live.)
New Diana games will be replayed 2 p.m. Saturdays and 6 p.m. Thursdays
Harmony games will be replayed 6 p.m. Saturdays and 6 p.m. Tuesdays.
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Scout Team
Players of the Week:
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Contrel Morgan, Defense
Shawn Ray, Special Teams
The Old Coach State Rankings: Week Five
October 5- Chapel Hill
Mascot: Bulldogs
Colors: Blue/Gold
District: 16-3A
Enrollment: 961
2011 Record: 15-0, Class 3A Division I State Champion
Last meeting: 2009, Gilmer won 45-7
Head Coach: Thomas Sitton (4th season)
Returning Starters: 1 Offense/2 Defense
Did you know? Chapel Hill and Alvarado ISDs each received about $50,000 for appearing in the Class 3A Division I title game at Cowboys Stadium on Dec. 9, 2011. By law, revenue received by the participating schools from the football championships must go into each school's general fund. Some of that revenue eventually goes to athletics. "We were able to get some things we had wanted for a long time, but couldn't afford. We got some blocking sleds and chutes for our linemen," Chapel Hill coach Thomas Sitton said.
Gilmer v. Chapel Hill Game Info & Notes
By JOE DODD
October 5- Chapel Hill
Mascot: Bulldogs
Colors: Blue & Gold
District: 16-3A
Enrollment: 961
2011 Record: 15-0, 4-0 in District; Class 3A DI State Champions
2012 Record: 1-4, 0-1 in District
Week 0: lost @ Lindale 14-31
Week 1: lost to Whitehouse 14-38
Week 2: lost to Carthage 6-30
Week 3: won @ Palestine 34-14
Week 4: lost to Henderson 6-24
Total Points For: 74
Average Points For Per Game: 14.8
Total Points Against: 137
Average Points Against Per Game: 27.4
Head Coach: Thomas Sitton (4th season, 34-11, 34-11 overall)
Returning Starters: 1 Offense/2 Defense
OFFENSIVE FORMATION: Spread
Players to watch:
QB Andrew Black, 6' 0", 180 lbs. JR. (223 yards rushing)
RB/LB Joseph Clark, 5' 9", 175 lbs. JR. (52 carries for 374 yards, 2 TD's)
OL Brandon Upshaw, 5' 11", 265 lbs. SR.
LB Wesley Thompson, 6' 0", 175 JR.
2000 4-6-0 Darold Turner
2001 5-5-0 Darold Turner
2002 2-8-0 David Norris
2003 5-5-0 David Norris
2004 6-5-0 David Norris
2005 3-7-0 Phil Castles
2006 6-6-0 Phil Castles
2007 6-5-0 Phil Castles
2008 9-2-0 Phil Castles
2009 5-5-0 Thomas Sitton 2010 13-2-0 Thomas Sitton (Class 3A DI Finalist) 2011 15-0-0 Thomas Sitton (Class 3A DI Champions) 2012 1-4-0 Thomas Sitton
1950-59 30-65-3
1960-69 48-52-2
1970-79 42-57-1
1980-89 42-60-2
1990-99 43-60-4
2000-09 51-44-0 2010-12 29-6-0
Undefeated Seasons: 1
Winless Seasons: 5 (1960, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1998)
Last District Championship: 2011
Last Playoff Appearance: 2011
Playoff Record: 22-10-0
GILMER v. Chapel Hill: 6-0-0
19 - 1951 - 0
16 - 1962 - 0
33 - 1963 - 0
33 - 1970 – 15 35 – 2008 – 6 45 – 2009 - 7
Gilmer has a 6 game winning streak over Chapel Hill
Gilmer has a 10 game district winning streak (last loss: 38-21 @ Carthage, 2010)
Gilmer has a 140 consecutive games scoring streak (last shutout: 10-0 @ Longview to Pleasant Grove, 2001)
Jeff Traylor teams are 2-0 against Chapel Hill
Jeff Traylor is 138-23 at Gilmer (86%)
Gilmer is 55-4 under Jeff Traylor in district games (93%)
Gilmer's Jeff Traylor's 86% winning percentage is the 2nd best among all active coaches in Texas
Gilmer has won more games (138) than any other 3A team in the state since 2000
Gilmer has either won the state championship or lost in the playoffs to the eventual state champion in 6 of the past 9 years
Gilmer is 111-14 under Jeff Traylor in regular season games (89%)
Gilmer is 89-6 (94%) in regular season games since 2003
Gilmer is averaging 425.8 total yards per game
Gilmer's 317 offensive plays consist of 163 passing attempts (51%) and 154 rushing attempts (49%)
Gilmer averages 224 yards per game passing (53%) and 201.8 yards per game rushing (47%)
Gilmer is ranked 14th in this week's Associated Press Class 3A poll
Gilmer is ranked 15th in this week's Class 3A Pigskinprep.com power rankings
Gilmer's schedule is the 3rd toughest in Class 3A according to PigskinPrep.com
Chapel Hill's schedule is the 2nd toughest in Class 3A according to PigskinPrep.com
Gilmer is a 13 point favorite over Chapel Hill according to PigskinPrep.com
Did you know?
Chapel Hill will be the 11th defending state champion that Gilmer has faced under Jeff Traylor
Gilmer is 8-2 under Jeff Traylor against defending state champions
Gilmer is 9-6 all time against defending state champions


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AT&T Admits That The Whole 'Spectrum Crunch' Argument It Made For Why It Needed T-Mobile Wasn't True
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So, it probably shouldn't have been seen as much of a surprise that just 11 months after the T-Mobile deal fell through, AT&T has announced plans to expand its LTE footprint to cover 97% of the population of the US. In other words, the internal document was exactly correct, and AT&T's public claims? Hogwash.
Even the mainstream news media is now mocking AT&T's obviously bogus claims during the merger fight. AT&T's response to this is to claim that it "chartered a new direction," doing something like 40 new deals for spectrum. However, as Broadband Reports notes, all of this seems to make clear that there is no spectrum crunch -- that's just a bogeyman story that the telcos tell the government when they want a handout. In fact, AT&T is now saying publicly that there is no spectrum crunch. It has more than enough.
Speaking to analysts, AT&T's chief strategy officer John Stankey yesterday acknowledged the company is now well-positioned on the spectrum front -- even before the company starts moving on their new plan to use WCS spectrum for LTE deployment.Of course, I'm sure the next time AT&T needs something from the government, or wants to wipe a competitor off the map, we'll be right back to that story about how they're in desperate need of spectrum.
"Even under ideal circumstances, getting new spectrum on the market in the next five to seven years is aggressive," Stankey said. "But what we do know is that AT&T is well-positioned now...These deals give us confidence that we can meet our LTE objectives for next two years and they will allow us to deliver competitive performance."


text: On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Dan Kidger wrote: > On Thursday 03 June 2004 8:03 pm, Brian D. Ropers-Huilman wrote: > > On 2004-06-03 17:15 (+0100), Guy Coates <gmpc at sanger.ac.uk> wrote: > > ] That holy grail does just about exist. I was plesantly surprised with > > the ] latest intel server offering from HP. As well as a serial port it > > comes ] with an integrated management processor (ILO), basically just > > another rj45 ] port which you plug into your LAN. You can talk to the ILO > > via telnet or a ] web interface, and do remote power, hard reset etc by > > firing carefully ] crafted bits of XML at it. > > > > Obviously this would be on a private LAN. The security implications of this > > are staggering! > > Not really. Why not? With XML the password will indeed be sent in plaintext almost certainly, unless the port is SSL encrypted. If it were, you'd almost certainly know it because there would be a certificate authority and so forth to manage. As Brian said, on a private switched LAN it isn't a huge problem -- you can use the sucker rod approach to security. Reading or controlling over any WAN segment outside of your control would be asking for trouble. So would the all-too-common "leave the default password unchanged" style of management. Remember, people crack routers, printers, phone relays, and more just to show that they can (or for more nefarious and profit oriented purposes). I wouldn't trust my home ISP (the one I'm typing this bidirectionally SSH encrypted message through) to be secure -- I don't even know if I can trust their employees, let alone somebody that might have cracked their gateway or router hosts. Although I'm trying to figure out if WOL in general is any better. If a WOL host reboots any time it receives a simply crafted packet, well, that could be a fairly bit problem. Five minutes of work with one of the WOL script or binaries to encapsulate it in an nmap-like loop (or just embed it in nmap as another security test that is somehow also an attack) and one can scan whole networks and reboot or randomly power on downed hosts. All this stuff is a great idea, but it really needs to either live inside a LAN firewall with sucker rod handy to school interior offenders or have a serious (as in public/private key, bidirectionally encrypted, password secured) interior layer on at least the control as opposed to information functions. There is no hole too small or unworthy to be left open that the crackers will not find and exploit -- just because they can. > We have had these HP nodes with a Baseboard Management Controller ('ILO' in > HP/Compaq speak) for a long time. I can happily read temperatures, power them > on/off and even upgrade the firmware of all nodes in the cluster using an XML > script that I can fire to each node in parallel > > The XML includes a username and password for the BMC. (I haven't checked if > this is sent in plain text or not). > viz: > <RIBCL VERSION="2.0"> > <LOGIN USER_LOGIN="root" PASSWORD="secret"> > <SERVER_INFO MODE="write"> > <SET_HOST_POWER HOST_POWER="No"/> > </SERVER_INFO> > </LOGIN> > </RIBCL> > > I use this to power off nodes if the aircon fails. > If it is set up correctly - this will attempt to shut the O/S down cleanly > (ACPI?) before pulling the virtual power cord. > > The downer on all of this is that the host tool that sends the XML: > 'CPQLOCFG.EXE' only exists as an MSDOS binary! > Last time asked HP 6 months ago they said that they were going to do a Linux > version - but since then I have heard and seen nothing. :-( If this is as simple as I think it is, you can probably query the nodes by hand with telnet if you can figure out the IP number and port (assuming that they are using TCP/IP as the transport layer -- nodes monitor interfaces identified by IP number granted by dhcp rather than MAC address). Just use tcpdump to snoop the transaction (send it to a linux box's regular interface instead of the monitor interface). Observe the packet header to see where it is going. Then it is trivial to concoct a linux monitor interface. In fact, you could almost certainly hack either wulfstat or wulflogger to do this for you. They already have nice code for specifying whole networks of IP numbers with simple (XML) range commands, you can specify the port, it has a TCP connection engine to manage the connections with the ports (retrying as required). xmlsysd already speaks xml incoming, so if the device returns xml as well as sends it (it really should) you can parse it. The only thing remaining is to create the outgoing xml messages for the query. Those can be generated by either writing the raw ascii into the send buffer and sending it or by using libxml2 to "do it properly" -- end result is the same, but the former is probably easier if there is a library of only 5 or so distinct command patterns. If it DOESN'T use TCP/IP, then you're not out of luck but you'll likely have to work harder. (The wulfstat or wulflogger code is on my personal website under beowulf stuff, or on brahma.) If this interface ever became standard and common, I'd write an interface myself for the wulfstat common library so these tools could read the temperature data at least. As HP-only one-offs (and lacking any of the systems) it isn't worth it to me to do so - given that I don't get paid for it - but it really would be pretty easy for a decent C coder to accomplish. rgb > > > Yours, > Daniel. > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > Dr. Dan Kidger, Quadrics Ltd. daniel.kidger at quadrics.com > One Bridewell St., Bristol, BS1 2AA, UK 0117 915 5505 > ----------------------- www.quadrics.com -------------------- > > > -- Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb at phy.duke.edu


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In this column we will discuss how those vendors are creating a SAN-less environment that still can provide capabilities like virtual machine migration while at the same time benefiting from the simplicity and performance of local storage. There are two common approaches to accomplish this feat: mirroring/replication and something we call the SAN-less SAN. In this column we will cover the mirroring/replication technique; we will discuss the SAN-less SAN in our next.
The simplest approach is a technique that leverages a mirroring or replication model. Basically an alternative host is designated and data from the first host is replicated to that host. A mirroring approach means that the data on the target host is 100% in sync with the data on the source host. A replication model means that the target host may be slightly out of sync with the source.
If the source host or a VM on the source fails or needs maintenance, the target host or VM can be moved into production. With the replication technique, the VM on the source has to be gracefully shut down for a clean startup on the target. The mirroring technique should be able to be started up instantly and should not need a graceful shutdown.
Initially, the mirroring or replication technique was popular in smaller data centers that simply needed availability more than they needed all the benefits of virtual machine migration. In fact, as we discuss in our article "For the Small to Medium-sized Company Backup is All About Recovery TIME" some backup applications now provide this functionality. They backup physical and virtual servers to a backup appliance and then in the case of failure or maintenance can host the virtual machine directly on the backup appliance. Essentially this solves two problems at the same time; providing virtual machine flexibility and data protection.
The mirroring concept, as we describe in our article "The Benefits of a Flash Only, SAN-less Virtual Architecture" is becoming more appealing to enterprises because it leverages PCIe SSDs installed inside of hosts and integrates with the fault tolerance software that comes with the hypervisors. This is a particularly interesting approach. It takes full advantage of the performance capabilities of PCIe SSD while at the same time provides automated, 30 second failover of failed VMs or hosts.
The downside of the mirroring/replication techniques is you need another copy of the virtual machine image for each physical server that you want to have the potential to host a particular virtual machine. In the smaller enterprise this may not be problem since capacity is inexpensive and they often get more than they need. Also remember that, as we discussed in our last column, local storage should be less expensive than shared storage.
Another downside is that the target VMs are consuming some level of CPU and memory resource on the target hosts on which they reside. Again, especially in the small enterprise and even in the large enterprise, there is often plenty of excess CPU.
Finally, there is the downside of loss of flexibility. With shared storage any server connected to it can typically host any VM. With the mirroring/replication technique you are limited to just the designated target. This shortcoming is overcome by the second technique, The SAN-less SAN which we will cover in an upcoming column.


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Jon Dawson reviews 'Lonerism' by Tame Impala and 'Best Of' by The Ronettes
New album: Lonerism
Artist: Tame Impala
Label: Modular
Rating: 4 stars out of 5
Australia has produced its share of influential rock bands over the years, with AC/DC, INXS and The Church being the first that usually come to mind. Perth�s Tame Impala is the latest band to make the bid for the next big Aussie rock export.
Don�t let the �Lonerism� album title mislead you, as this is not a collection of po-faced whine-a-thons. The title probably has more to do with the fact that most of this and all Tame Impala products are recorded by group leader Kevin Parker at his home.
Without the restraints of studio time hanging overhead, Parker is able to pull his songs into different sonic territories, while producer David Fridmann molds the sprawling goodness into something even music journalists can comprehend.
A thick, compression-heavy drum sound is featured throughout �Lonerism,� causing even the more aggressive tunes (such as the Gary Glitter-ish �Elephant�) to give off a whiff of the ol� �Pictures of Matchstick Men� trippyness. The guitar power of previous albums has been dialed down a bit to make room for thick, creamy sheets keyboards that make Rod Argent�s work with The Zombies sound almost refined.
To the lazy ear, �Lonerism� seems stuck in 1967, but if you dig a little deeper, the influence of modern day masters Beck and Dungen is apparent. Even the sweet-as-sugar melody of �She Just Won�t Believe Me� is accompanied by a spooky sci-fi movie keyboard straight out of the Flaming Lips playbook.
With �Lonerism,� Parker has managed to avoid the sophomore album jinx by refusing to simply churn out a photocopy of the group�s well received debut. The taste of success seems to have loosened up Parker as a writer and as a sonic experimenter, and it�ll be interesting to see how the touring version of Tame Impala pulls off the multiple sonic textures achieved here.
No matter how or what they try to accomplish live, fans of the dying art of rock music should catch these guys while they�re still around.
Classic album: Best Of
Artist: The Ronettes
Label: Abkco
Rating: 5 stars out of 5
The Ronettes� existence on the national stage was brief but formidable.
Lead vocalist Ronnie Bennett (later Ronnie Spector) along with her sister Estelle and cousin, Nedra Talley, were scooped up by genius producer/eventual lunatic Phil Spector.
Spector�s much heralded �Wall of Sound� productions were mono recordings crafted to sound like pop symphonies that could make even the cheapest AM radio sound as if it had otherworldly powers.
When The Ronettes� �Be My Baby� blasted through a few million radios in 1963, it became an instant classic. Ronnie Bennett�s distinctive vocals aside, The Ronettes� image wasn�t as gentle and pure as most other girl groups.
A hint of the ladies� New York roots (i.e., toughness) and mildly provocative wardrobe choices made it cool for guys to sing along with them.
Topping �Be My Baby� would prove to be an impossible task, but many timeless pop songs followed in its wake. �The Best Part of Breaking Up,� �Walking in the Rain� and �Why Don�t They Let Us Fall in Love� followed in quick succession.
All of these songs furthered the original concept of a tough group of pretty girls who could sing like angels or punch you out if you got fresh with them. Between Spector�s masterful arrangement/studio prowess and The Ronettes� soulful voices, it would have been tough to get anything less than stellar from this union.
A few nearly-syrupy ballads � �So Young� and �When I Saw You� � don�t really fit in with the tougher, anthemic material. That being said, Ronnie Bennett�s soaring lead vocal on �So Young� may be the strongest of her recorded career. At least these songs are placed directly in the middle of the album, and it never hurts to show a little diversity.
Ronnie Bennett went on to marry Phil Spector, and years of lunacy ensued. Thankfully, Ronnie eventually got out of the marriage and was pulled back into the public eye in 1986 when she reprised her �Be My Baby� vocal for Eddie Money�s �Take Me Home Tonight.�
Creating such beautiful music against a backdrop of weirdness gives some of these performances the feel of a David Lynch movie, but like Lynch�s best work, these songs are timeless.
No empty nostalgia here; just some tough, good lookin� broads who sang like no one else.
Jon Dawson�s album reviews appear every Thursday in The Free Press. Contact Jon at 252-559-1092 or email@example.com. Purchase Jon�s book, �Making Gravy in Public,� at The Free Press office or jondawson.com.


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The Lady Bisons spotted Iowa from the Big 10 four runs in the first inning, but fought back for a 5-4 win. The Lady Bisons started on a less than successful note, falling 1-0 to East Carolina in the first game of the tournament. Both games were played at Jack Turner Stadium.
Coach Kristin Ryman was happy with a number of things about the first two games of the season.
Courtney Billington, Mollie Mitchell and Vanessa Medina all three had some solid performances at the plate. They are filling the spots in the middle of the batting order with Billington batting third, Mitchell in the fourth spot and Medina hitting fifth. Billington was the only Lady Bisons player to not strike out in either game.
"Courtney had pretty good at bats all day," Ryman said. "Mollie's at bats got a lot better in the second game. I'm really excited about the quality of Vanessa's at bats.
"That's what we need in the middle part of the order is to have our veterans step up. They set the tone and give the young ones more of a chance to work the kinks out and get more comfortable in the lineup."
The Lady Bisons had as many as three freshmen on the field in each game, but did not commit an error in 14 innings.
Mitchell played third against Iowa allowing Haley Elliott to get her first start as a catcher. Freshman Shelby Cunningham made an outstanding catch in left field against Iowa. Freshman Bridgette Begle was impressive at second base in both games.
"Defensively, we were really solid," Ryman said. "Mollie threw a runner out stealing. We did a really nice job just making the routine plays.
"We had not been able to get outside as much as we wanted to the past few days. We knew we were talented on defense, but it was a matter of getting some reps out on the dirt."
In the Iowa game freshman Lipscomb pitcher J.J. Nelson had a rough first inning in her collegiate debut. She walked two batters and hit another and then allowed a run to score on an illegal pitch. She also gave up a three-run home run to left field by Jenny Schuelke.
"There were a lot of nerves for J.J.," Ryman said. "She was working through some of that.
"She settled down. She was throwing pretty well after the first inning. She is not going to be a strikeout pitcher. Overall J.J. realized how important it is to work ahead of batters and be smart on different counts. For the first time she experienced that in a game setting."
The Lady Bisons wasted little time chipping away at the Iowa lead. In the bottom of the first Mitchell doubled to right field to score Billington who had reached base on a single.
In the third Mackenzie Tucker led off with a walk. She advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt by Billington and went to third on a wild pitch. She scored when Medina hit a fly ball that was dropped by the center fielder.
Elliott hit her first collegiate double to center field to bring Medina home with the third run of the game.
Breanna Thurman singled to center field to drive in Elliott with the tying run.
The Lady Bisons scored what proved to be the go-ahead run in the fourth. Billington hit a two-out single to center to score Cunningham who had led off the inning with a single.
The Lady Bisons had seven hits. Billington led the way with two.
Nelson pitched 3.1 innings and gave up two hits. She walked six and allowed four runs, all earned. Whitney Kiihnl came on in relief and threw 3.2 scoreless innings, striking out five and allowing two hits.
East Carolina 1, Lady Bisons 0 Kiihnl threw a complete game for the Lady Bisons against East Carolina. She scattered four hits, struck out seven and walked eight, a personal career high. Toni Paisley pitched a complete game for East Carolina. She gave up two hits, struck out 12 and walked two.
Ryman had expected a pitching duel.
East Carolina scored the lone run of the game in the second inning when Kiihnl walked a batter with bases loaded. Jordan Lewis had opened the inning with a single through the left side. Kiihnl then walked three batters, two with two outs, including Kristi Oshiro who brought in Lewis.
"Early on we could tell Whitney was not quite where she needed to be," Ryman said. "She got better and more comfortable as the game went on.
"I was really proud of the way she came back in the second game. But the walks were a big killer in the first game. Most of their runners were from walks."
The Lady Bisons threatened in the seventh inning with bases loaded with two outs. With one out Medina singled through the left side. She was replaced by pinch-runner Lacy Walker.
Elliott reached base on an error by East Carolina's second baseman. Rena' Cothron, who had the Lady Bisons only other hit, struck out. Thurman ran the count to 3-2 and walked to load the bases with two outs.
Begle was set to bat, but was replaced by fellow freshman Kristen Sturdivant who struck out swinging to end the game.
Saturday's schedule The Lady Bisons are back in action in the tournament Saturday facing Illinois State at 2 and Maryland at 6.
"No one in this tournament is a cupcake," Ryman said. "We have to go into every game at the top of our game.
"Illinois State is an extremely good offensive team. They are going to force us to make plays. They make things happen with their speed. They have a lot of power. Maryland is typically a speed team. I expect them to give us a really good game."
Written by Mark McGee, Senior Publisher/Director of Media Relations.


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Father's Day Gift Alert: Cigar Box Speaker
Owen & Fred are offering cigar and audio aficionados a way to combine their two interests in one form factor: Sweet Cigar Box Speakers. Made from genuine salvaged wood cigar boxes, the handmade cedar cigar box house a 2.5" aluminum cone speaker with a self-powered with an internal 10 watt per channel amplifier inside...
The cigar boxes themselves have been treated with a satin lacquer finish and retain their original brass hardware, labels and markings. Also, the boxes have been reinforced and braced internally to improve their performance as a speaker enclosure. One of the two boxes has a volume control / power switch, and a blue 'power on' indicator light.
Considering the considerable $350 price for a pair of Sweet Cigar Box Speakers, you might be up for a DIY option referencing the same idea. Empty wood cigar boxes can be had for as low as $20 for a set of 10 (not all these would be ideal for use as speakers, but you get the idea they're an affordable resource). And building your own speakers isn't as hard as you might worry for a first time DIY audio/electronics project; check out Popular Mechanics' How to Build Your Own Speakers: Step-by-Step DIY Tech as a reference, knowing you won't have to do most of the speaker cabinet grunt work which takes up the majority of the instructions.


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The spectacle-like computing device Google Glass can serve as an automated tour guide with the help of a new application from a little-known startup hatched within the Internet's most powerful company.
The app, called "Field Trip," is being released Wednesday by Google-owned Niantic Labs for the 10,000 people currently testing an early model of Glass known as the Explorer edition. It becomes just the ninth app to be approved by Google Inc. for use on Glass before the device's anticipated mass market release early next year.
Once given permission, Field Trip tracks users' whereabouts so it can automatically deliver alerts and informational snapshots about the world around them.
Field Trip creator Niantic Labs is a Google division set up to operate as an independent startup.