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Fifteen Bad Things with Windpower–and Three Reasons Why
[Note: This article has been updated to Twenty Bad Things about Windpower — go here.]
Trying to pin down the arguments of wind promoters is a bit like trying to grab a greased balloon. Just when you think you've got a handle on it, it squirts away. Let's take a quick highlight review of how things have evolved.
1 – Wind energy was abandoned well over a hundred years ago, as it was totally inconsistent with our burgeoning more modern needs of power, even in the late 1800s. When we throw the switch, we expect that the lights will go on — 100% of the time. It's not possible for wind energy, by itself, to ever do this, which is one of the main reasons it was relegated to the dust bin of antiquated technologies (along with such other inadequate sources like horse power).
2 – Fast forward to several years ago. With politicians being convinced by lobbyists that Anthropological Global Warming (AGW) was an imminent threat, a campaign was begun to favor all things that would purportedly reduce CO2. Wind energy was thus resurrected, as its marketers pushed the fact that wind turbines did not produce CO2 in their generation of electricity.
3 – Of course, just that by itself is not significant, so the original wind development lobbyists then made the case for a quantum leap: that by adding wind turbines to the grid we could significantly reduce CO2 from fossil fuel electrical sources (especially coal). This argument became the basis for many states' implementing a Renewable Energy Standard (RES) — which mandated that their utilities use an increased amount of wind energy.
4 – Why was a mandate necessary? Simply because the real world reality of integrating wind energy made it a very expensive option. As such, no utility company would likely do this on their own. They had to be forced to.
5 – Interestingly, though the stated main goal of these RES's was to reduce CO2, not a single state's RES required verification of CO2 reduction either beforehand or after the fact from any wind project. The politicians simply took the lobbyists' word that consequential CO2 savings would be realized.
6 – It wasn't too long before utility companies and independent energy experts calculated that the actual CO2 savings were miniscule. This was due to the inherent nature of wind energy, and the realities of balancing the grid (with fossil fuel sources) on a second-by-second basis. The recently released Bentek study (How Less Became More) is a sample independent assessment of this aspect.
7 – The wind lobbyists soon added another rationale to prop up their case: energy diversity. Since we already had considerable diversity, and many asked "more diversity at what cost?" this hype never gained much traction.
8 – The next justification put forward by the wind marketers was energy independence. This cleverly played on the concern most people have about oil and mid-eastern instability. Many ads were run promoting wind energy as a good way of getting away from our "dependence on mid-eastern oil."
None of these ads mentioned that only about 1% of our electricity is generated from oil. Or that the US exports more oil than we use for electricity. Or that our main import source for oil is Canada (not the mideast). Despite the significant misrepresentations, this claim still resonates with many people, so it continues to be pushed. Whatever works.
9 – Presumably, knowing full well that the assertions to date were specious, wind proponents manufactured still another claim: green jobs. This was carefully selected to coincide with widespread employment concerns. Unfortunately, when independent qualified parties looked closer at the situation, they concluded that the claims were wildly exaggerated. Big surprise!
10 – Relentlessly moving forward, the wind marketers then tried to change the focus from jobs to "economic development." Developers utilized a computer program called JEDI to make bold economic projections. Unfortunately JEDI is a totally inadequate model for accurately arriving at such numbers, for a variety of good reasons. These contentions have also been shown to be inaccurate.
11 – Along the way, yet another claim has been made: that wind energy is low cost. This is surprisingly bold considering that if that was really true, then why would any RES be necessary? For some reason all "calculations" showing wind to be low cost conveniently ignore exorbitant subsidies, extra backup and balancing costs, additional transmission costs, etc. Independent analyses of levelized costs (e.g. from the EIA) have concluded that wind energy is much more expensive than any conventional source we have.
12 – Modern civilization is based on our ability to produce electrical POWER. Our modern sense of power is inextricably related to controlled performance expectations: when we throw the switch we expect the stove to go on 100% of the time — not just when the wind is blowing within a certain speed range. A fundamental assertion of wind promoters is that there is an equivalence between wind and conventional power sources. (That is the basis for such claims that XYX wind project will power 1000 homes.) This is false from several perspectives. The obvious error is that XYX wind project will NOT provide power to any 1000 homes: 24/7. It might not provide power for even 1 home 24/7.
13 – A more subtle (but significant) difference is in power quality. This term refers to such technical performance factors as voltage transients, voltage variations, waveform distortion (e.g. harmonics), frequency variations, etc. The reality is that wind energy introduces many more of these issues than does a conventional power facility. Additional costs are needed to deal with these wind caused problems. These are rarely identified in economic analyses.
14 – A key grid ingredient is Capacity Value (for layman: this is an indication of dependability). Conventional sources (e.g. nuclear) have a Capacity Value of about 99%. Wind has a Capacity Value of about 0%. Big difference! Wind apologists first stab at solving this major problem was to assert that if many wind projects over a wide geographic area were joined together, that the composite would look like a real (conventional) power source.
Like most of their claims this came from the imaginations of promoters, rather than empirical evidence. When real world data was looked at (e.g. a 1000± mile spread of wind projects in SE Australia on a single grid) no such result appeared. Back to the drawing board.
15 – Here is the latest spiel. Since this enormous Capacity Value discrepancy is indisputable, wind energy marketeers decided to adopt the strategy that wind energy isn't a "capacity resource" after all, but rather an "energy resource." Surprisingly, this is actually the first contention that is actually true! But what does this mean?
The reality is that saying "wind is an energy source" is a trivial statement, on a par with saying "wind turbines are white." The fact is that your cat is an energy source too. So what? Lightning is an energy source. So what? Should we also connect them to the grid (after subsidies, of course)?
Again, our modern society is based on reliable and economic electric power. Making claims that wind provides us energy is simply another in a long line of misleading assertions that are intended to fool the public, to enable politicians to justify favoring special interests, and to enrich various rent seekers.
All this comes about for three basic reasons:
1. Wind proponents are not asked to independently PROVE the merits of their claims before (or after) their product is forced on the public,
2. There is no penalty for making specious assertions about their product's "benefits," so each contention is more grandiose than the last, and
3. Promoting wind is a political agenda that is divorced from true science. True science is based on real world data — not carefully massaged computer models, which are the mainstay of anti-science agenda evangelists.
So, in effect, we have come around full circle. A hundred plus years ago wind energy was recognized as an antiquated, unreliable and expensive source of energy, and now (after hundreds of billions of wasted dollars) we find that (surprise!) it still is an unreliable and expensive source of energy. This is what happens when science is relegated to a back-of-the-bus status.
Paraphrasing Dr. Jon Boone:
Let's see the evidence, in the real world, for the lobbyists' case. I'm weary of these relentless projections, uncontaminated as they are by reality. In a nutshell, what these profiteers are seeking to do, through methodological legerdemain, is to make wind appear to be what it is not. This is a plot lifted out of Cinderella and her step sisters, or the Emperor's New Clothes. It's really a story of class aspirations, but one that is bizarrely twisted: giving wind a makeover to make her seem fetching and comely when in fact she's really a frog.
See my online presentation at EnergyPresentation.Info for more details, which includes numerous references.
40 comments
- 1 Tom Stacy { 09.20.10 at 8:26 am }
Good post, John. I'll have to question your dismissal of "BAD THING NUMBER SEVEN" as never gaining much traction, though.
US Senator Sam Brownback, a few other US Congresspersons I am in touch with, and dozens of leading Ohio General Assembly persons all use ENERGY DIVERSITY as a blanket statement justifying their support of wind energy. It appears to be an issue where for the most part both parties can claim "bipartisan support" despite the platform's unabashed departure from market efficiency. I am hopeful Americans for Prosperity and FreedomWorks will soon recognize and publicize the irreconcilable differences between their fundamental principles and government inducements for wind energy.
I contest that this justification is the equivalent of "energy source Marxism" since it seems to support making all energy generation technologies equally profitable regardless of their contribution or cost.
- 2 Jon Boone { 09.20.10 at 8:57 am }
Of course, frogs have their own special charm, and are likely quite fetching to their own kind. They have little need for an American Frog Association to turn them into flying pigs. Like many "celebrities," the frogs of wind are famous for being famous, not for their actual performance.
The "every little bit helps" ploy is used both as a public relations template for editorial writers and media flaks around the world, and as a means of conning ratepayers by the likes of wind-invested companies such as Florida Power & Light and Constellation Energy. "Diversifying the energy portfolio" supplies the ignorant with a "justifying" wind bite to help bankroll the craven, for wind, as Ken Lay knew, is not a provider of power: it is in reality a tax shelter generator for large corporations with a lot of discretionary revenue.
In reality energy companies don't require energy, for that is all around and can neither be created nor destroyed. What they require is the conversion of energy into modern power quality, something that wind cannot provide. It is this idea that should be the antidote for the poisonous bromide now used by AWEA and GE/BP/AES/FP&L/Siemens/Vestas/Dong to subvert reason, common sense, and sound policy.
- 3 John Droz's 15 Bad Things - Wind Farm Realities { 09.20.10 at 10:09 am }
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- 4 Breaking Wind – Quick hits from the industry for September 21, 2010 « Allegheny Treasures { 09.21.10 at 9:00 am }
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- 5 Fran Kunz { 09.21.10 at 9:37 am }
I like it.
Short, to the point, right on the money, and salty-sweet!
I'll be sharing this with everyone. Thank you for your never ending dedication to bringing clarity to this murky subject.
- 6 Fran Kunz { 09.21.10 at 9:55 am }
I have one little question, wouldn't the term "marketeering" be more appropiate?
- 7 Links « Ontario's Wind Performance { 09.21.10 at 1:45 pm }
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- 9 Rmoen { 09.21.10 at 6:59 pm }
Smart and accurate writing. Your point that RES standards, whose stated purpose is to decrease GHG, don't measure the impact of wind on CO2 is subtle but hugely important. My understanding is that Denmark with all its windmills hasn't lowered its CO2 output one iota and their windmills generate at night when electricity is not needed.
– Robert Moen, http://www.energyplanUSA.com
- 10 Fifteen bad things with wind power — and three reasons why { 09.21.10 at 8:46 pm }
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- 11 Recent Energy News as of 9-21-10 « PA Pundits – International { 09.22.10 at 5:14 am }
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- 12 Anne Johnston { 09.22.10 at 11:55 am }
The summary is very helpful , especially to people like me who have a limited understanding of energy. But the rise in energy costs force us into understanding, and we know that the Wind Energy proponents are fooling our politicians – but not us. We are fighting furiously, and John Droz's information is invaluable.
- 13 The Political Steamroller Behind Wind Power | Energy and Metals { 09.22.10 at 12:24 pm }
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- 14 Jay B. { 09.22.10 at 3:29 pm }
Every decision about energy sources is depended on political decision. It has nothing to do with scientific reasons claimed by well known experts. This doesn´t concern just the wind energy it is also about the nuke energy… We still cannot persuade politicians to work on human´s behalf; they work just for themselves… They let us to rely on fossil fuels for the next 30 years. The reason why is simple: the profit of it for them is very high and sure… But what will happen next?
- 15 Jeffrey Eric Grant { 09.23.10 at 9:21 am }
Thanks for the article! Very informative. I still have this vision that IF wind energy can be stored (at least temporarily) it can be buffered in such a way as to become suitable power for our modern society. Maybe it's a long shot, but its still in the back of my mind that one day….
In the meantime, I have changed my allegience from being a proponent to being a cautious investigator. I want to see proof of the proposal before agreeing to help pay for it (probably through taxes or increased utility rates), if I have such a vote.
- 17 Jon Boone { 09.23.10 at 1:34 pm }
And let's consider, perhaps, maybe, unloosing massive windscrapers over land and water in some yet to be understood environmentally and civilly responsible way–WHEN BATTERY STORAGE FOR VARIABLE POWER SOURCES HAS WELL PROVEN ITSELF.
But not before.
- 18 johana { 09.23.10 at 8:54 pm }
For the technically challenged, your works continue to create an invaluable resource as we try to spread the message to our neighbours, friends, colleagues and even our detractors that IWT's are unreliable, wasteful and life destroying drains on our environment and economy.
We are eternally grateful.
- 19 oamoe { 09.25.10 at 5:29 pm }
Well, you should tell this all to the Danes who generate ca. 20% of their power by wind. They are also developing fuel cell capability to use in conjunction with the wind power – unused wind electricity is used to produce hydrogen and oxygen which are then used later (low wind) to create electricity. Tell the Danes all the reasons their wind power is not working.
- 20 Jon Boone { 09.27.10 at 9:20 pm }
I have told the Danes just that, as have a number of others. You might read Robert Bryce's book, Power Hungry, to get some idea of wind "performance" in that tiny country.
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- 24 Confucius { 10.14.10 at 12:14 am }
Wind energy may be unreliable, but solar energy is infinite and quite reliable. Many people have solar panels on various things- from houses, cars and even to laptops! Solar energy is clean, doesn't rely on dangerous coal or filthy oil (which are over 50 bad things!), doesn't harm our environment and the sun's rays are not as "iffy" as wind power. I know much thinking needs to be done so that our dependence on oil and coal will come to an end. We need to better manage the way we use energy.
- 25 Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, Sep. 23rd 2010 « The Daily Bayonet { 11.02.10 at 11:38 am }
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- 26 Scott Brooks { 12.26.10 at 3:23 pm }
If we could just harness all that wind in Washington DC, the energy would be limitless, but cheaper then fusion?
- 27 Rob Ryan { 02.12.11 at 11:09 pm }
Your capacity value point is quite misleading, I wonder if it's purposely so. Capacity value is basically defined as the percentage of "conventional generation" (mostly coal, natural gas) that can be replaced by a resource. Your "nuclear is 99%" claim means that, for a given nameplate capacity a nuclear plant can supply 99% of the energy, in a given period on average, as "conventional power." But conventional power is has a capacity factor of about 80%, that is, it can typically deliver about 80% of its nameplate capacity over an average period of time (due to scheduled and unscheduled maintenance and other interruptions).
Your 99% attempts to imply that conventional power is 99% reliable. It is not.
Wind is 0% when the wind doesn't blow. Most studies give a capacity value of anywhere from 6% to 30% (the latter for offshore wind). It's pathetic that you feel compelled to "MSU" ( make s _ _ t up).
- 28 Burnaby { 03.03.11 at 1:27 am }
We all see things from our own frames, and sometimes even when the evidence is right there in front of you, it will not be seen, since it does not conform to your preconcieved notions.
I think it makes total sense to include energy sources that do not cause an alteration of our climate for obvious reasons, although technologically we do not appear to be ready to stop wasteful burn of things for energy. Where I live, we get all of our power from hydro dams, but we run low on water in the summer. If we were to include wind power and perhaps wave power, then we would not need to release as much water to generate the power.
I am aware that the wind is not always blowing, but having a variety of sources cover this…The sun comes up every dayand when it doesn't the wind is probably blowing… when there is no wind… use water… no wind or water or sun, then burn gas or coal… but burning things for heat and energy goes back to the caveman and should be a last resort, and I think we should use our brains…
New technology is a source of future wealth… What are we really accomplishing by just burning things?
- 29 Racahel Markowitz { 02.15.12 at 3:54 pm }
Dear Mr. Droz Jr.,
I have 8 concerns to raise with you regarding the above article:
1. Where are your sources? Who are your "independent qualified parties"?
2. Putting words in "bold" or "italics" does not define the words.
3. A Straw Man Argument- taking the opposite argument, transforming it into something it is not, and then proceeding to argue against the transformed argument.
No one is arguing that the world should be completely powered by wind.
4. (In response to your first point) Technology has improved since the 1800s. So why should we rule out an idea that did not work in the 19th century and say that it will not work in the 21st century?
5. Airplanes didn't work in the 1800s either.
6. (In response to number five) Oil is not principally used for electricity. Your argument that windpower will not reduce our dependency on middle eastern oil is completely correct.
7. They are used to power two completely different things.
8. You did not include fifteen reasons. Putting numbers by your fifteen paragraphs explaining your six reasons does not give you fifteen reasons.
- 30 Pete Password { 02.22.12 at 8:23 am }
Fascist scum the lot of you. Theplanet will take care of you, your denial won't have any effect against floods, droughts, sea level rise and extreme rainfall. You have no sources listed because you have no sources you would care anyone to examine. It's all lies funded by big business, especially oil, which funds disinformation to the tune of millions annually. You lost the argument years ago, but you just won't accept it and go away and find another hobby. You're pathetic wankers, conned by capitalism to do its dirty work. Yet you live on this planet and it IS happening whether you want to believe it or not. Grow up and stop behaving like spoiled teenagers who can't have everything.
- 31 rbradley { 02.22.12 at 10:31 am }
A lot of places would not let a comment like this go through, but we did because it shows a mad-at-the-world, childish mentality in a deep intellectual debate.
We are the peace-loving freedom proponents and you espouse the police-at-the-door to 'save the planet.' The burden of proof is on you the coercionist for your utopia. Capitalism is freedom, and political capitalism and socialism are not. So are wind turbines your idea of nirvana?
Consider immersing yourself in the science of liberty and maybe come out of your rethink with a more tolerant, optimistic outlook on life.
- 32 Fifteen bad things with Windpower | Toronto Wind Action { 02.23.12 at 6:34 pm }
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- 33 Barrie K. Gilbert PhD { 03.06.12 at 9:10 am }
Another Option
Over the last 50 years the St. Lawrence Seaway brought us 200 invasive species that changed the Great Lakes forever. Now we watch another "engineering miracle", industrial offshore wind turbines, rammed ahead without adequate awareness of potential destruction to fish, bats and birds and their habitat, and yes, to us, the human animals that depend on this landscape. Some of Ontario's richest fishing grounds and migratory bird flyways face a Maginot Line of giant structures virtually circling the eastern Lake from Prince Edward County to the USA border off Wolfe Island. Even If we had no options for electricity other then mega-projects like Windstream's $1.2 billion Wolfe Island Shoals Project humans, and more specifically, corporations and compliant governments, cannot morally, environmentally, socially or economically justify gutting our last wild places or desecration remnant human viewscapes of Main Duck Island and its surroundings. Too long have corporations and governments ignored the ecological and emotional well being of citizens and societies.
All of the media hype and propaganda promoted by companies seeking to cash in on taxpayer subsidies and an incompetent regulatory system cannot disguise the ineffectiveness of wind energy production. International interest is dropping like a hawk obliterated by a turbine blade, yet amazingly Ontario pursues these empty promises.
A reliable alternative for Ontario's energy needs does, however, sit beside us in Quebec. Their surplus electricity could be brought here using underwater cable up the St. Lawrence River, similar to the proposal under consideration for New York City.
We, you and I, need to think about this. Should Lake Ontario to be a sacrifice zone? Hasn't it been abused enough? Before offshore oil wells and gas fracking come charging over the horizon like a frothing monster, the Lake should be put off limit for industrial development, protected forever by potent legislation.
The Thousand Islands Region is the backyard and summer escape for millions of people in Toronto, Ottawa and beyond. Instead of destroying fisheries, re-suspending toxic sediment, destroying the remnants of biodiversity, and obliterating views night and day we need to convince our politicians that another, cheaper solution to our power needs is at hand.
Wind energy has been proven to be neither free nor green. Quebec power has no taxpayer subsidies nor does it threaten to escalate our electric bills by 40% or more. Let's not trade our known remaining, and already threatened, natural resources and social values for some dubious, disproven pseudo substitute, offshore wind.
- 34 Wiatraki zak?ócaj? sygna? telewizji i komórki | Nowa Stepnica { 03.23.12 at 12:27 pm }
- 35 Steve Boughton { 05.02.12 at 8:07 pm }
WIND TURBINES. The 21st Century dinosaur.
One weld around a wind turbine tower 3 metre diameter is 9.429 metres of welding, 10mm steel, a three phase welder wound up to 200Amps, each phase that's 200 X 415 = 83 kW each hour. 8 hours to weld that one seam is 747 kW plus they probably X-ray each seam.
That's an incredible amount of electricity made from burning coal, and there are hundreds of metres of seam on each tower. These wind towers burn tonnes of coal in manufacture, how, each one needs many many megawatts to manufacture. How much coal is burnt to smelter the steel for these things, find out their weight and multiply by 0.8 will tell you.
The carbon tax is to support this industry. I'd rather burn coal personally it's better for the environment.
Can anyone tell me why Queensland's Tarong Power Station appears to be spending their green energy investment on wind turbines on the Fleurie Peninsular, Cape Jervis Sth Aus'. It all just gets more sordid as you research.
When these things are a few years old, next to the salt water invariably, the bearings rust out, overheat and poof, all that energy is wasted, but they don't need to replace it when it happens, they're still getting the carbon credits for years.
- 36 brandon { 11.28.12 at 9:21 pm }
I'm writing an essay on this subject and your text helped me a lot…..
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Thanks for this wonderful content. I really enjoyed it lots. What you have done is actually pretty inspirational.
- 39 Evan's Blog - Wind Power { 01.23.14 at 7:11 pm }
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- 40 John Edwards { 03.11.14 at 1:08 pm }
One of the worst things about anti-green energy proponents is.. there is no reason for a pro-green energy person to lie or make stuff up. Unless it's for status, or if they are secret Muslims trying to ruin America from the inside. It seems when conservatives and liberals face off about an issue, it's always conservatives attacking something that liberals would have no need to break their back for unless they were sure it was the right thing to do. On the other hand, there is typically a clear and rather self-centered benefit for the Republicans if they were to have their way. It just seems like an easy way to spot the bad guy when one side is fighting for something they believe is better for earth as a whole, while another is fighting just to not have to pay as much, or live near fer'ners.
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I'm interested in cross-pollination of issues and groups as I believe many people here are. Software applications can be relatively simple to design, especially if done in an Open Source environment.
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This program could be downloaded for free and would include instant free registration on a support forum. The support forum would be added to MyDD, KOS or any other top blog site, bringing in politically-minded people that might not be partisan or even people from the other side that would like to debate.
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Freezer Jam
You make this recipe according to the MCP pectin box. Using your favorite fresh and organic fruit. It is the freezer jam receipe, you will never go back to any other again! I love you guys and want...
Cake Batter Cookies
One of the easiest and most delicious cookie recipes you will EVER try!
Resurrection Cookies
This is more than a recipe, but through the process of making these cookies we can be reminded of the true meaning of Easter.
Braces-Friendly Twisty Soft Pretzels
So you're excited that you're kids are on their way to a happy, healthy smile with braces. But those smiles can quickly turn to frowns when kids get the list of foods they can't eat.
Multigrain Pancake Recipe
We enjoy these pancakes - they have a slightly thicker consistency than regular pancakes.
Makes 8 servings, 2 waffles each


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WOOSTER, Ohio — Scott Prajzner leaned over the bumblebee and quickly installed a tiny radio tag by using a pair of tweezers and a spot of glue.
"You have to be careful that you don't glue their wings, so they can still fly," the Ohio State University entomologist said softly as his tweezers descended to the thorax.
The insect had been knocked unconscious with a puff of carbon dioxide, so Prajzner was confident it wouldn't wake up angry.
"Every once in a while, you get a flier," he said. "But no one has been stung with our tagging research."
Prajzner estimates that he has performed the procedure 700 times. The radio tags are integral to his research to learn more about the perils bumblebees face from agricultural pesticides.
Researchers can produce reams of data on honeybees. But entomologists such as Prajzner handled bumblebees like most people who see the flying, stinging insects.
They left them alone.
Growing interest
"There are 250 species of bumblebees throughout the world, and we just don't know much about most of them," said Robbin Thorp, a University of California, Davis, professor emeritus of entomology who studies honeybees and other bee species.
Honeybees are among the most-studied insects because they're domesticated and very valuable. They annually pollinate billions of dollars' worth of fruits and vegetables in the United States.
With staggering losses of honeybees, blamed largely on a malady called colony collapse, researchers have turned their attention to other pollinating insects, including bumblebees. Their findings are both encouraging and troubling.
In California's Capay Valley near U.C. Davis, scientists found that bumblebees and other feral bee species could pollinate 100 percent of a farmer's crop. But that's if the farm was near forests where wild bees dwell.
Plus, the bumblebee's future might be just as uncertain as the honeybee's. Thorp said his concern grew the more he looked at Franklin's bumblebee, a species he started studying 15 years ago.
"The first couple of years I looked, they were everywhere they were supposed to be," he said. "Very shortly after that, they started to disappear, virtually under my view."
Similar declines were found in three other bumblebee species, including two eastern bumblebee species found in Ohio.
"Here are these four species, all closely related, and they are all declining," Thorp said.
OSU study
Prajzner's use of radio-frequency identification tags is a high-tech way to learn more about how bumblebees live in the wild.
OSU mechanical-engineering graduate student Mike Gallagher helped Prajzner design a case that contains four bee hives. Four long plastic tubes are the bees' only entry and exit points.
The tagged bumblebees trigger antennae above the tunnels that automatically update a database when the bees leave their hive on a foraging mission and again when they return.
"Some of our statistics average the amount of time bees spent out in the field and the average number of trips per hour at the hive level," Gallagher said. "And we tracked statistics for individual bees."
To study the effects of farm chemicals, Prajzner said he gave one hive a sub-lethal dose of a popular crop herbicide called 2,4 D. A second hive got a dose of a chemical that helps 2,4 D cling to plants. The third hive was treated with both compounds, while the fourth was left untouched.
Data gathered from tagged bees split among the four hives paint a stark picture of the pesticide's effects. Bumblebees from the untreated hive logged 677 trips in three weeks and spent an average of two hours away from the hive. In the herbicide-dosed hive, bumblebees took only 61 trips during the same time period and averaged five hours outside the hive.
Prajzner said the results are preliminary and must be combined with more experiments. A test set to start next summer will include a scale to record the weight of pollen each bumblebee brings to its hive to help make honey, which the bees eat. The scale is so sensitive that it can record changes in the moon's gravitational pull, Gallagher said.
The pollen data are needed to determine if the herbicide reduces bumblebees' ability to gather and build food stores for winter months, Prajzner said.
That means setting up a new hive and that Prajzner will again sedate and tag hundreds of bumblebees. That's something Gallagher said he's glad to miss.
"That sounds like my worst nightmare," he said. "I'm terrified of bees."


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MMA Mania is reporting that Jon Fitch will be fighting on the UFC 82 pay per view card in Columbus, Ohio on March 1st, 2008:
MMAmania.com (www.mmamania.com) learned earlier this morning that welterweight contender Jon Fitch (15-2) has been approached about fighting Akihiro Gono (27-12-7) at UFC 82 at the Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio, on March 1.
Fitch will fight on the card; however, Gono is not a lock to be his opponent at this time. Our sources indicate that the Fitch camp is working hard to line up a showdown with Karo Parisyan instead.
A fight with Akihiro Gono makes no sense for Fitch right now while a fight with Karo Parisyan makes all the sense in the world. While I think a matchup against Gono could be interesting, the welterweight division is best served by having Fitch and Parisyan battle it out to see who gets to face the winner of GSP vs. Hughes/Serra.
The presence of Fitch is a solid addition to the card either way, but I'd rather have him fight someone meaningful. While Gono is a solid fighter, he is nowhere near the top of the ladder at the welterweight division, so the fight is a lose-lose situation for Fitch.
I agree %100…I'd pay to see Fitch vs either GSP, Hughes or Serra.
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Couldn't agree with you more Adam. The Gono fight is a waste of time for Fitch. The Parisyan fight makes all the sense in the world. I would think a Diego Sanchez or Josh Koscheck fight against Gono might make more sesne right now. Gono is a good solid opponent for two of the UFC's top welterweights to hopefully rebound against.
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Someone is going to get screwed, it's either Karo or Fitch…..I think Karo after his lackluster showing against Chonan, maybe the one who gets the short end of the stick on this one……I'm surprise to see Gono jumping up so fast to fight a Top Contender like Fitch, it's risky on the standpoint in this sport a upset can happen at anytime….Maybe Dana is trying to grow his Japanese Fan base??? I know Gono with his Flamboyant style in Pride was a Huge fan favorite???? Something to think about…….
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That's a terrible fight. If Gono wins somehow, Gono/GSP is not a match anyone wants to see, and if Fitch wins he just beat some Japanese guy nobody knows. I think UFC doesnt want to see either Fitch or Parisyan lose, but this mentality of protecting has got to stop. If they are insisting on it, how about Parisyan v. Koscheck and Fitch v. loser of Serra/Hughes.
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this fight for fitch would be 100 % lose lose situation he is in line to fight the winner of gsp vs hughs or serra and having karo and ficth fights screws one of them out of a line for a title shot but honestly there is no other match that makes sense put this fight on at 82 and the winner gets hughs serra or gsp in augest or september i mean it sucks to say it but for fitch to take on anyone but a top guy right now is just retarded
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Gono srsly needs to move down to 155. Guys like Fitch will beat him easily… and I do not want to see that. I love Gono.
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Dates Announced for 56th Annual and 57th Annual Grammy Awards
By Andrew Gans
The Recording Academy has announced that the 56th Annual Grammy Awards will be presented Jan. 26, 2014, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
CBS will broadcast the event live 8-11:30 PM ET. Eligibility for the Grammys is Oct. 1, 2012-Sept. 30, 2013.
It was also announced that the 57th Annual Grammy Awards will be held Feb. 8, 2015.
Established in 1957, The Recording Academy is an organization of musicians, songwriters, producers, engineers and recording professionals that is dedicated to improving the cultural condition and quality of life for music and its makers.
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Item 5215
Title: Rebecca N. Usher, Hollis, ca. 1885
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: circa 1885
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Item 22553
Title: Interior of St. Brendan's Church, Biddeford, 1916
Contributed by: McArthur Public Library
Date: 1916
Location: Biddeford
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Item 29040
Title: "Statue of Faith" for Plymouth, Hallowell Granite Company, 1877
Contributed by: Hubbard Free Library
Date: circa 1877
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Address: 141-145 Commercial Street, Portland, 1924
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Rebecca Usher: 'To Succor the Suffering Soldiers'
Rebecca Usher of Hollis was 41 and single when she joined the Union nursing service at the U.S. General Hospital at Chester, Pennsylvania. Her time there and later at City Point, Virginia, were defining experiences of her life.
The Schooner Bowdoin: Ninety Years of Seagoing History
After traveling to the Arctic with Robert E. Peary, Donald B. MacMillan (1874-1970), an explorer, researcher, and lecturer, helped design his own vessel for Arctic exploration, the schooner Bowdoin, which he named after his alma mater. The schooner remains on the seas.


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I have 4 bleacher seats for Game 2 and can't make it. Anyone willing to trade Game 1 tickets with me? I'll sit anywhere. E-mail me directly at email@example.com.
Now, getting to 75 characters. So happy now. I'll also add that it was unbelievably annoying not only watching Zito yesterday, but having to listen to the national Fox broadcasting team. I long for the days when you could turn down the sound on the television and listen to the radio. But the radio is too far ahead with the Dish.


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Selected Community Events
Santa's New Helper: puppet show
Dec 11, 2012 10:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
Central Library at 1st St. and Gunnison Ave.
Rudolph is sick and Santa needs to find a helper to pull his sleigh. Find out who will help Santa deliver toys.
Caroling at Grace Point
Dec 9, 2012 - Dec 30, 2012 10:45 a.m.
Grace Point Church located at 606 28 3/4 Road in Grand Junction.
Join them each Sunday for Christmas caroling at Grace Point Church and they will show how each song relates to the original Christmas story.
Railroad Christmas Train Show
Dec 8, 2012 - Dec 30, 2012 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Cross Orchard Historic Farm at 3073 F Road
The Cross Orchard Historic Farm is holding a Grand Valley Model Railroad Club Christmas Train Show. The admission fees are $1 for children under 12, $4 for an adult, and $7 for a family.


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Want to send aid to Oklahoma in the wake of the EF-5 tornado that tore through on Monday (May 20)?
Here's a quick look at 12 faith-related organizations you can give through. Organizations are listed alphabetically:
Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma
Episcopal Relief and Development
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America tornado fund
The Jewish Federations of North America
Lutheran Church Missouri Synod Disaster Relief Fund
Presbyterian Mission Agency: Presbyterian Disaster Assistance
Southern Baptist Disaster Relief


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By admin on 30-07-2011
Jessica Claire Biel is known for her television role as Mary Camden in the long-running family-drama series 7th Heaven. She has also appeared in several Hollywood films, including Summer Catch, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Illusionist, Next, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, and The A-Team. Biel initially trained to be a vocalist, and from age nine appeared in several musical productions in her hometown, playing lead roles in productions such as Annie, The Sound of Music, and Beauty and the Beast. Now she is a famous wealthy woman that knows how to show herself.
On this Jessica Biel upskirt photos she walks through the street in cute wool socks with a pack of papers to give. She is the bra girl for sure. In 2010, Biel climbed to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro with members of the United Nation Foundation to raise awareness of the global water crisis. Yeah, these pretty legs you can see on those Jessica Biel upskirt pictures were at Kilimanjaro. What a unique way to express herself and help the world. That makes her even better to watch.


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6 posts tagged "Dorchester Collection Fashion Prize"
Augustin Teboul Takes Dorchester 2012-------
Following the likes of recent Dorchester Collection Fashion Prize winners like Thomas Tait and Anndra Neen's Phoebe and Annette Stephens, designers Annelie Augustin (pictured, left) and Odély Teboul (pictured, right) of Paris-based label Augustin Teboul have been announced as the prestigious award's 2012 winners. The duo's all-black collection won over the judging panel, made up of designers like Kenzo Takada, Bruno Frisoni (pictured, center), and Nathalie Rykiel, last night at Hôtel Plaza Athénée in Paris. The two beat out rising labels such as Calla, IRM Design, Les Garçons Paris, and Quentin Veron for the $39,000 prize. "We are very moved," Teboul told WWD. "At the moment, Annelie and I do everything ourselves." If Tait and the Anndra Neen girls are any example, then that won't be the case for Augustin Teboul much longer thanks to their new funds to amp up their studio staff. Watch this space.
Thomas Tait, Vika Gazinskaya, And Calla Haynes Make The ANDAM Finalist List-------
ANDAM's 24-judge panel announced the six finalists for this year's Fashion Award. On the list: Thomas Tait (who also took home the prestigious Dorchester Collection Fashion Prize in 2010 ); up-and-comer Julien David; Calla Haynes (who has been nominated for the ANDAM before); designer-slash-street-style-star Vika Gazinskaya; Cedric Charlier; and Nicolas Andreas Taralis. The judges, a group that includes Style.com's executive editor Nicole Phelps, Humberto Leon, Emmanuelle Alt, The Daily Telegraph fashion editor Lisa Armstrong, and Virginie Mouzat, will meet in July with the finalists to select the winner. The prize, which has previously gone to the likes of Hakaan Yildirim, Giles Deacon, and last year, Anthony Vaccarello, is a total of €600,000, €10,000 worth of Swarovski crystals to use for their Spring 2013 collection, mentorship from LVMH CEO Pierre-Yves Roussel, and support from the Hudson's Bay Company to buy the Spring 2013 collection. Stay tuned for the winner, to be announced this summer. All six of them, however, will have a space on www.thecorner.com in September to showcase and sell their collections. Pictured, a look from Tait's Fall 2012 collection.
Brit Designers Take New York-------
Twenty-four designers, including Thomas Tait (pictured), J. JS Lee, and Palmer//Harding's Levi Palmer and Matthew Harding, are in New York today as part of London Show Rooms' 48-hour showcase to attract more interest in U.K. labels and bring attention to the debut of London Collections: Men (June 15 to 17). The inaugural men's program will officially launch with a reception at St. James's Palace hosted by the Prince of Wales.
Tait, the young designer who took home the Dorchester Collection Fashion Prize award in 2010, has been steadily increasing his U.S. presence ever since. Most recently, the Canadian-born designer reports, he collaborated with pro skateboarder Keith Hufnagel, creating a collection of limited-edition baseball hats for his Huf line, in addition to teaming up with Cutler & Gross on a capsule collection and consulting for a major U.S. brand (a name he can't yet reveal).
Dorchester Collection Fashion Prize Finalists On America's Next Top Model, Giorgio Armani Plays Costume Designer, David Lynch's "Carte Blanche," And More…-------
The clothes by this year's Dorchester Collection Fashion Prize finalists will be modeled on America's Next Top Model. The winner, announced on the show in Spring 2012, will be awarded $40,000 and the opportunity to show their collection during Paris Fashion Week. [Vogue U.K.]
Chanel and Assouline have teamed up to make a tweed slipcase ($2,500) for a three-book set on Chanel perfume, jewelry, and fashion. The limited-edition books, (only 30 total are available), are on sale at Assouline and Neiman Marcus. [WWD]
Ariel Dorfman's Death and the Maiden, a play costumed by Giorgio Armani, opens tonight in London. Thandie Newton will grace the stage in a "black shift dress with shoelace neck detail" by the Italian designer. [Telegraph]
David Lynch, who designed the Paris nightspot Club Silencio, is in charge of the club's "Carte Blanche" program this month. Four times a year, a designer programs the event, and for his turn (October 21- 27), he has lined up musical acts The Kills and Lykke Li, and he's debuting his own album. [WWD]


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On the Treadmill and Off the Grid
This is such a great idea I wonder when they'll adapt it for home use…
The Green Microgym in Portland, Ore., has all the usual stuff you'd expect – sweaty people, thump-thumping music, sleek exercise equipment – but it has some extras as well. Everywhere you look, there are power cords. And these aren't the typical kind that let you surf the Web while you slog away on a spin cycle or elliptical machine – although you can do that too. The gym uses specially configured exercise equipment that captures the energy you create while pedaling, converts it into electricity and channels it into the power outlets.
I was riding my bike to the gym where I have a membership. It's not a bad ride or I wouldn't do it. Now that it's cold I'm keeping a gym bag in my car, since I'm often driving by there.
Exercise used to be integrated into daily life– walking to the bus stop, walking up stairs. If you think about the carbon impact of your daily life you are likely to find ways to save energy and burn calories. If, like me, you struggle to find motivation, this might just be enough to get you off the computer. Bye now, got to go to work.
Talking About Korea
Thanks to Fiore on Buzzflash who posted this essay by Mitchell Bard on Huffington Post on why Sarah Palin's Korea flub matters.
That's the real story about the Palin flub about North Korea that the media isn't covering. It's not that she misspoke, but that anyone cared what she had to say on the issue in the first place.
Sarah Palin, with her reliance on spouting talking points, simplistic approach to issues and complete lack of experience beyond a half term as governor of a state the size of Columbus, Ohio, is not competent to be discussing North Korea. And shame on any media outlet that treats her opinions as if they're worth anything.
The real damning Palin quote in the Beck interview is the one in which she worries if "the White House is gonna come out with a strong enough policy to sanction what it is that North Korea's gonna do." Putting aside her usual butchering of the English language, she takes a complicated problem facing the United States (and the world) and reduces it to a talking-point political attack on the president.
Her comment reveals that she has no understanding that we are dealing with a North Korean leadership that may not be rational and may even be self-destructive. And one with the firepower to kill legions of South Korean civilians.
Korea's dangerous dictatorship is a problem the Bush administration left unsolved for the next president. No one is proposing that we invade Korea, so how we 'get tough' will have to be worked out through alliances and diplomacy. Our allies in South Korea and Japan depend on wise policy from the US.
Obedient Firefighters
Our political discourse has become so predictably crazy that I expect to hear cries of 'socialism' following the President's Thanksgiving address…
"This is not the hardest Thanksgiving America has ever faced. But as long as many members of our American family are hurting, we've got to look out for one another," Obama said in his weekly radio and Internet address, released for Thanksgiving.
"we've got to look out for one another"—is this the American way? What is the spirit of our country? Is it grounded in the prestige and might of our corporations? Is it expressed in a concept of fairness that says you get what you pay for and you don't argue with the boss? Two recent news stories show the difference…
PROVIDENCE — It was mid-May 1981, and for Lien Huong Nguyen and the 51 other Vietnamese "boat people" escaping communist Vietnam in a rickety fishing boat, the situation was looking hopeless.
They had been four days at sea attempting to reach freedom, but found themselves adrift in the South Pacific after their engine failed. They were without food and water, and the boat was leaking.
Their SOS signs and pleas for help failed to draw the attention of at least five passing ships.
It was then that Lien, who had carved out a life in Vietnam as dentist, began to wonder if she had made a terrible mistake trying to bring two of her three children, ages 5 and 6, on such a risky voyage.
"I looked at my children and saw they were so innocent. They didn't know what freedom is, or what dictatorship is. And, I took them away from the house and put them into danger. I didn't protect them. I felt so badly that night."
Then she saw a light from a ship providing supplies for an Exxon oil rig. The ship, the 300-foot salvage vessel Rainbow, was skippered by Charles Romano Jr., of East Providence, an ex-Navy seal who had done three tours of duty in Vietnam.
Romano had received a memo from Exxon warning employees not to pick up any refugees. But deciding that those in the boat would perish if he failed to help them in the face of an impending storm, he ignored the memo.
The refugees were then transported from his vessel to a German drill ship that took them to a refugee camp in Indonesia.
Romano, who received five Purple Hearts during his three tours of duty in Vietnam as a Riverine squadron member and Navy seal, remarked Sunday: "It's always nice to find something in your life that you did right for a change."
But he added: "I'm sure what I did was normal … Everyone here would have done the same thing I did. There's nothing special about it. I just happened to be there at the right time."
Charles Romano recently met with the family he saved, who are now American citizens. His disobedience to the Exxon Corporation, I think, is the kind of America we want to be.
The following story of privatization and obedience was so disenheartening to me that I could not find words to comment on it. At the three health care Town Halls I attended, arguing with opponents of reform, I had more than one person tell me that the historical example of the private firefighters who would stand around laughing while your house burned was the individualistic America we want to return to. I'm appalled that a small town in Tennessee actually carried this out…
The mayor of South Fulton, Tenn., stands by his town's policy that led firefighters to watch from the sidelines while a man's county home burned to the ground because he hadn't paid the $75 fire protection fee, WPSD reports. Gene Cranick, owner of the now-gutted house in Obion County, says he called 911 and offered to pay whatever it would take to get the firefighters to act, but they said they wouldn't do anything, WPSD reports.They only responded when it looked as if the fire might spread to the house of a neighbor who had paid the fee.
There are many influential voices in American politics disparaging the government they are part of, glorifying the free market and the advancement of individualism. A belief in social responsibility and a basic human response of helping people in trouble is condemned as 'socialism'. What are we becoming?
Was Charles Romano wrong for disobeying Exxon Corporation and saving a family from certain death? Five ships had passed the Nguyens without stopping. Were the firefighters right for standing idle while a neighbor's house burned? Was their obedience something we admire? What is the spirit of our country?
" But as long as many members of our American family are hurting, we've got to look out for one another," Good words for Thanksgiving, a day of sharing and gratitude.
A Breach in the Wall
American Catholics are an unruly bunch. They do things like occupy churches that were supposed to be closed and sold, they pursue and investigate abusive priests, and generally act like the democratic process can be taken into church.
Early on, American Catholics in large numbers decided to make their own decisions about birth control. To become a parent is such a life-changing event that few couples are willing to 'have as many children as God sends' with no consideration for their capacity or desire to care for a large family. The Church's permission to use periodic abstinence inspired research in the fine science of making it work, and theologians constructed beautiful explanations of why that form of contraception is moral but condoms are a sin. Catholics in the developed world had to make their peace with the contradictions between the Church's teaching and the reality of their lives.
For the most part, they did. The crisis happens at the margins.
It happens when a rape victim seeks treatment at a Catholic hospital and is not offered emergency contraception. It happens when a nun is excommunicated for allowing an abortion to save a woman's life. It happens in countries where the Church uses its political influence to limit women's access to reproductive care, and where the status of women is low. It happens where a wife has no power to protect her own health when her husband is infected with HIV. It happens when the parish priest tells her that she must submit and trust God.
As of now, the Pope is not saying that a woman may require her husband to use a condom– that doing so is an act of responsibility and respect for her as a human being.
As of now, the Pope is exploring the ethics of harm reduction and human regard for oneself and one's sexual partners using the example of a male prostitute who wants to protect himself and others. From the New York Times …
In the new book, "Light of the World," to be published Tuesday, Benedict said condoms were not "a real or moral solution" to the AIDS epidemic, adding that that "can really lie only in a humanization of sexuality."
But he added that "there may be a basis in the case of some individuals, as perhaps when a male prostitute uses a condom, where this can be a first step in the direction of a moralization, a first assumption of responsibility."
AIDS activists were thrilled. "This is a significant and positive step forward taken by the Vatican," the executive director of the Joint United Nations Program on H.I.V./AIDS, Michel Sidibé, said in a statement. "This move recognizes that responsible sexual behavior and the use of condoms have important roles in H.I.V. prevention."
This is a breach in a wall of dogma, behind which is the suffering of the world's poor– who bear the burden of HIV, maternal and child mortality, and disempowerment. If a teenage boy forced to sell his body has a right to use a condom, how can you say a married woman does not? How can you say she has no right to protect herself from a pregnancy that threatens her life, her health, her ability to support her children? This wall is going to crumble like the Berlin Wall, despite efforts to patch it up…
Richard Dujardin in the Providence Journal reports that the advocates and providers who work in HIV prevention are taking the Pope's statements as supporting condom use for protection from a deadly disease. Local theologians are rushing to block the obvious conclusion– that couples may have a vital need to protect themselves from unwanted pregnancy. They are also reminding us in the strongest terms that the Church considers birth control to be a sin and the Church uses its power to limit access to birth control and discourage people from using it.
Paul Gondreau, who teaches the theology of the body at Providence College, said that he sees it as ironic that Benedict's comments were part of an attempt to defend remarks he made on a plane trip to Africa last year, in which he said use of condoms would not help the AIDS crisis there but make it worse.
Gondreau said that he saw nothing in the pope's new remarks that would suggest that he or the Church would be ready to approve the use of condoms by a married couple if one of the partners has AIDS.
David O'Connell, president of Catholics for Life, said, as he sees Benedict's remarks, his focus is not so much on not spreading AIDS, but on the prostitutes' recognizing that the "person with whom he or she will be engaging in this intimate act is someone more than one who will give me money."
"It speaks nothing about marriage or contraception but the beginning of caring for another human being."
As for a married couple, one of whom has AIDS, O'Connell said he does not believe that the only choice facing such a couple is condoms or abstinence.
"As I understand it, God may still have a desire to create a new human being in a relationship blessed by God even if one may have a disease. I'm sure the church teaching will not change."
Early in the AIDS epidemic, health care providers were debating the options for people infected with HIV who wanted to have children. These people were going to have children despite the risk, but were open to measures to decrease the chance of passing HIV to the baby. The prospects of a healthy birth are very good now, but only because of effective drugs and the strong advocacy of patients and providers, who gave urgent attention to this question. It doesn't hurt to say a prayer, but lives are saved by the work of doctors, nurses and others in the material world who dedicate themselves to protect mothers and babies.
Katha Politt, at The Nation reminds us that conception and birth are never risk-free and can be catastrophic for some women– especially the poor women of the world…
It hasn't mattered that a woman who got pregnant could be beaten or thrown out of her home, that she could lose her job, or that the sex might be rape by a partner or a stranger. Well, actually, in the 1960s, nuns in Congo were permitted to use birth control pills to protect themselves from impregnation by rapist soldiers. Ordinary women, even in wartime, are out of luck.
Nor has it mattered that a woman might be injured or die if she conceives. After all, like AIDS, pregnancy and childbirth can be dangerous. In the developing world maternal mortality rates are themselves an epidemic: according to the World Health Organization, about 350,000 girls and women die in pregnancy or childbirth annually, and this does not take into account birth injuries like fistula or the long-term toll on the body of having many babies too close together. The church has been adamant that women have no right to protect themselves from conception except by periodic abstinence, which requires a cooperative partner and has a real-life failure rate of 25 percent.
At the margins, where the Church has more power and women have much less, the impact of the Pope's words are strongest. And that is where the injustice of denying women the right to protect themselves from disease and unwanted pregnancy is most deeply felt. I don't think the Church will be able to close this breach– too much pent-up force is behind it.
Theologians are constructing lovely circular arguments to explain why it's in God's will that children lose their mothers to AIDS and women and infants die for lack of the power to control conception– but the Pope said that people have a right to protect themselves and that doing so can be an act of respect for themselves and others. You can't take that back.
MORE: The Pope, in his example of a male prostitute using condoms for disease prevention– to protect his own life and others until he is able to find a better life– is using a classic example of the harm reduction philosophy. More on that here…
Confusion or Camouflage?
I'm fascinated by politician-at-large Sarah Palin's use of language. She is a brilliant communicator of indefensible ideas via wink and nod. She cultivates a vagueness that
passes as casual sincerity, but serves her with deniability.
Anyone can make a verbal slip, especially under pressure. But there's more than that happening with her 'North Korea' gaffe.
"We're not having a lot of faith that the White House is going to come out with a strong enough policy to sanction what it is that North Korea is going to do," she said on the Fox News presenter's nationally syndicated radio show.
"So this speaks to a bigger picture here that certainly scares me in terms of our national security policies.
"But obviously we gotta stand with our North Korean allies."
Screen out for a moment her error in which Korea she was referring to. Consider that this is the former governor of Alaska and that she could have been our president– making foreign policy and defense decisions. Note that she doesn't even say 'I'. It's some nebulous 'We'. You and who else, Sarah?
She's being interviewed on the radio by Glenn Beck, who's doing everything short of giving her a foot massage. Does she dare to say what she would actually do, or what the president should do, in this crisis? No, she just says that the situation scares her.
Well yeah, it scares everyone. But if you aspire to lead and want to criticize the president you need to put out something specific. What comes next tells a lot about how she uses language to cover her lack of knowledge.
I mean, a reasonable response would have been for her to slap her forehead and say 'Golly– of course, I meant to say 'South Korea', but she doesn't. Because at that moment she can't get her Koreas straight even with prompting, so she runs for cover…
When the host immediately corrected her Mrs Palin repeated: "Er yeah. And we're also bound by prudence to stand with our South Korean allies, yes."
'We're also'? This doesn't make sense. We're not supporting both Koreas now. We are facing a belligerent North Korea that has been trouble for more than two generations. There was this Korean War she might want to read up on.
She's good with the dig and the implication, but when it comes to risking a real opinion and saying what she would do about this crisis, she runs for cover.
Again, anyone can make a verbal slip, but how she handled it speaks volumes.
Happy Thanksgiving
Mahaghosananda always said to practice Truthfulness, Forbearance and Gratitude. I have enough to be grateful for that it takes more than a day to contemplate my blessings.
Thanks to all who are working today, keeping it all going while the rest of us get a day off.
The Pro.Jo reports that the airport screening slowdown action is a bust.
At Green, where travelers were moving quickly through security at midmorning Wednesday, it was clear that almost everyone was opting instead to concentrate on getting home for the holiday weekend.
"I would say that 'Opt-Out Day' was a total bust here," said Joseph Salter, federal security director for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) in Rhode Island. "Our longest wait time today was about 5 minutes, and that was at 5:30 a.m."
That was totally predictable. As an old lefty from way back, I could have told them that you can't recruit people into a mass action if you ask them to stand out as individuals, face anger from everyone around them, and disrupt their own plans. Ill considered and way too costly. For most people the cost of a plane ticket and time out of work are a major sacrifice– they are very invested in getting through that line in time to catch their flight.
The scanner issue will have to be worked out elsewhere.
Safe travel everyone, or be happy at home. And thanks again to all you who are working today.
Security Level Plaid
I hardly ever fly, so I'm no expert, but the color code did nothing for me but make me paranoid. That is not the optimal state of mind for someone who needs to be vigilant for real threats. Will we be less safe without it?
WASHINGTON — The Homeland Security Department is proposing to discontinue the color-coded terror alert system that became a symbol of the country's post-9/11 jitters and the butt of late-night talk show jokes.
The 8-year-old system, with its rainbow of five colors – from green, signifying a low threat, to red, meaning severe – became a fixture in airports, in government buildings and on newscasts. Over the past four years, millions of travelers have begun and ended their trips to the sound of airport recordings warning that the threat level is orange.
Have any of you frequent fliers seen it not orange?
I saw on the net that John Boehner, who is orange, walked through security with no search at all.
I don't think that the House Majority Leader is going to get physical when he has so many more subtle powers, but why not let the politicians see how the rest of us live? I'd make them take the bus. If they don't have to follow the rules they set for everyone else, who knows where it will end? Security level plaid– who won the World Series in 2004? Is Boehner a German name?
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My friend Phil sent this. He buys stuff, and I do too. In fact, the mob at the Mall is kind of reassuring after the desperation of the last few years. But I'm a procrastinator, so maybe I'll celebrate the Three Kings and pick up some deals at the post-season sales.
They're already playing Christmas music, it just makes me melancholy. I might observe the holiday with some of Fischel Brezler's music, and see if Joyce wants to go carolling at the ACI. Whatever you do this season, be jolly. Don't do any stuff you don't want to do and don't let your cat eat tinsel– it doesn't digest.
Feeling Safe
They came first for the Muslim's junk,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Muslim.
You can see where this is going, but it's still funny. Read the rest here.
I seldom fly, and I've never had any problems walking through the perfectly safe radiation of the body scanners, so I can't get too terribly excited about this. Soon after 9/11, when the images of falling planes and burning towers were still fresh in our minds, the Bush adminstration passed over all kinds of proposed security measures at airports because it would cut into airline profits. I trust the market to thwart any practice that aggravates travelers enough to make them take the train instead.
But I'm wondering about another intrusion– a hand in my wallet.
Last year I went to cash a paycheck, drawn from Bank of America, at a branch of Bank of America. They wanted to charge me $7. They called it a 'convenience fee'. No 'my word is my bond' here. No gratitude for the bailout. They didn't want to be inconvenienced to honor their own check.
So I mentioned this to a co-worker last week and she said, 'Did they want to fingerprint you?' She said that they had required this of her husband. I said I'd show them a finger, but not for a print.
Is this really happening? Did any of you readers get hassled this way at the bank?
Some commenters here felt that it is lax to let citizens vote without ID. But I'm feeling like we are being led by convenience and nagging to 'show our papers' when dealing with corporations. I'm sick of being asked for my CVS card. Or my phone number or email. It's none of Bob's Store's business where I live.
On the other hand I've started Facebooking, giving away all the details of my banal life. But there's some things I'll share with the world wide web that I should not have to discuss with my bank.
Live From the Liberty
So I'm waiting for the next visit and enjoying a sixty degree day and a cup of New Harvest at the Liberty Elm Diner. I love my job– the flexibility, the mobility. I could have sat at a bench putting earrings on cards for thirty years– this is much better.
Speaking of jobs, airport security seems like a stressy, entry level type occupation. I seldom fly, when I do I fly the red-eye, so I go through the lines half-asleep. The security people have always been pleasant and efficient. There are some horror stories in the press, and clearly some workers who need to be fired if not prosecuted. But it's so unfair to the majority who are only doing their job.
Security agents, meanwhile, told an airline blogger how the pat-downs are destroying their morale.
"I want to tell these people that I feel disgusted feeling other peoples' private parts," one told Steven Frischling.
"I go home and cry," said another. "I have been hardened by war, and in the past week I am slowly being broken down by the hateful comments."
The press has been revved with this sexy new issue. Meanwhile, a majority polled wants to keep the scans and searchers. A majority of Americans never fly. It's expensive. And expanding on the value of intrusive searches on someone else– NPR was debating whether searches should only be applied to funny-looking people. A commenter who said that profiling is un-American pointed out that clever terrorists could just send people who look regular.
Someone is calling for protests in the lines over the Thanksgiving holiday. I think that anyone who tries to protest now will be tackled by the anxious, tired people in line behind them.
Added to that, there are questions about the profits and cozy relationships between scanner manufacturers and Washington. Is any of this really making us safe?
Best wishes to all you travelers. Keep your eyes open and don't take it out on the airport workers. They are scared too.


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Ok thanks everyone and lurker carl your site was great!
Ok this is what I did and what I broke fixing things!
ok I had to go to tractor supply to get some seed and well I walked out with the TSC carb kit and as lurker carl said it has the wrong instructions but using his website I fixed up my carb.
What I found when I tore mine done.
1)gasket for bowls halves was closed shut for the idle circut (the part with the half moon shapped cut out of it) it was tight together there.
2)the float was well out of adjustment letting gas come up to the top half of the carb
3) warped carb top half which I have fixed as Lurker carls web site showed. it is not as good as carls but 100% better then when I started. It was warped up to almost 1/8" in a few spots.
4) I broke the idle tube off after pulling the two halfes apart not straight up and down man I was pissed.
I got the old idle tube out but only after breaking a easy out tip off in it.
I had to drumel around the hole to work at the easy out tip. fianly got it out and I used a #4-40 tap and found the old threads of the tube. I hope it was a #4-40. Then I took the old idle tube which broke off right at the base of the tube and re-thread it and screwed it in. It is now 3/16" short than it was. ( I have ordered a new one)
I got home and hooked it all up and it runs and the idle cicut adjustment screw now works!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the carb ran better than it ever has I could even start iff in third gear with out it dying or barley going.
One thing I need to figure out is now it is acting like the govenor is surging and it never did that before. sometimes it runs good and the next time you idle down it will surge you can kind of feel it very little at half throtal. Questio
is the govenor or carb not set right? Maybe a week spring on the gov?
or do you think it could be the idle tube being to short now that I borke it and fixed it till my new one comes?
any help?
oh yeah the good news is the TSC carb kit has the rubber tipped needle and seat and my carb no leaky any more!


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New On KingsCast: Episode 88 – Who Is This Team?
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Keith Korneluk and Chris Kaliszewski wonder aloud about who are the real Los Angeles Kings, who lost ten out of twelve games before winning two straight at the time they recorded Episode 88 – Who Is This Team?
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10:30am Monday 20th August 2012 in News
ADVENTUROUS young sailors endured hours on the high seas to raise funds for a Weymouth charity.
The group of 12 youngsters from Weymouth Sailing Club's YOBs (Youth On Boats) raised around £800 for the Will Mackaness Trust through an all-day sponsored sail around Weymouth Bay.
Despite some very high winds in the morning and no wind by the evening, the youngsters sailed in shifts and were able to keep sailing until 9pm.
Pam Govier, who helped set up the Trust in memory of her late son Will Mackaness, visited the young sailors to wish them luck.
She said: "I'm delighted that the Trust is having its profile raised in this way and that the young people who were taking part were having fun and enjoying taking part."
The Trust gives youngsters from all backgrounds a chance to try watersports and nurtures talent by offering financial support.
Cadet captain Emma Stevenson said: "I'm very pleased with how the day went. We hope to have raised more than £800 so that other young people can benefit from the work of the Trust. We'd like to thank everyone who sponsored us, those at Weymouth Sailing Club who supported us, the safety boat crews, and all the cadets who took part who were absolutely fantastic."
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Something We've Waited Months for Just Happened
Friday, January 18th, 2013
By Michael Lombardi, MBA for Profit Confidential
Yesterday, something very, very important happened in the stock market.
The world's most widely followed stock market index, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, closed yesterday at 13,596.02. This is the index's highest level since early October of 2012 when the Dow Jones Industrial Average hit a post-Great Recession high of 13,661.87.
At this point in the stock market, we have more bullishness than I've seen in years. I'm reading about many stock advisors saying the Dow Jones Industrial Average will move higher because the economy is doing "a lot" better.
Optimism reigns everywhere! We hear the real estate market is improving, we hear the unemployment rate is below eight percent for the first time since Obama took office. The "everything is okay now" comfort level has snuck right back in and the stock market is moving close to where it was in October of 2007. (It only took five years and trillions of dollars of newly created money to achieve it!)
I'm in that small—okay, let's call it very small—camp that thinks otherwise. While the stock market could edge just a little higher here as the optimists pour more money into the market, my opinion is that the Dow Jones Industrial Average and, for that matter, most stock market indices are making one great big top.
Here are my five reasons why I believe the Dow Jones Industrial Average is making a top:
The number of stock advisors who have turned bullish is near a multi-month high, while the number of advisors turning bearish is at a multi-month low. This has proven to be a good contrarian indicator over the years, as it has been proven that when the great majority of stock advisors expect the stock market to go in one direction, the Dow Jones Industrial Average usually goes in the other direction.
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Insider selling compared to insider buying is also near a multi-month low. This is negative for the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
Earnings growth for 2013 will be very limited compared to the past four years. Companies have cut their interest rate expense and have been able to borrow money at very cheap rates. This has helped corporate earnings immensely over the past four years. But where will earnings come from in 2013? Don't look at consumers; they're still not spending (mostly because they don't have money to spend). The strong earnings coming out right now for the Dow Jones Industrial Average companies, when you look at them, are from the big banks—sure, they've been helped the most by the Fed.
World economies are slowing at their fastest pace since the Great Recession. American companies (40% of the S&P 500 companies derive sales from Europe) cannot help but see their earnings negatively affected as world economies slow.
Finally—and I know I have written about this many times in Profit Confidential—all we have experienced since the Great Recession is artificially low interest rates, trillions of dollars printed out of thin air, and trillions of dollars borrowed by the government. It's all artificial! There has been no structural improvement to the economy. How do the Fed and government deleverage themselves now?
So there you have it. Yesterday was a very important day for the Dow Jones Industrial Average, as it has moved very close to what I believe will be a stock market top. Short sellers take note: a huge opportunity to make money as the market comes down is just upon us.
The year 2012 wasn't a bad year for the stock market, thanks to the Federal Reserve keeping interest rates near zero and the Fed increasing the money supply to a record level. But for bonds, it was a breakeven year, as U.S. bonds closed out 2012 at about the same level they started the year.
The Federal Reserve has been keeping interest rates artificially low since the financial crisis struck the U.S. economy and investors in U.S. bonds faced falling yields and the price of bonds rose. (Bond prices go up when interest rates go down and vice-versa). Real returns on bonds are actually negative when one considers inflation.
Here's a chart of the 30-year U.S. Treasury:
Chart courtesy of www.StockCharts.com
At the beginning of 2011, the yield on 30-year U.S. bonds went as high as 4.8 %. Now the same bonds yield is just a little above 3.0%. The 30-year U.S. bonds fell to as low as 2.4% in April of 2012.
Here's the 10-year U.S. Treasury chart:
Chart courtesy of www.StockCharts.com
Same story; since the beginning of 2011, the yield on 10-year bonds has fallen more than 50%, to as low as 1.4% in April of 2012.
The big concern is that the longer the Federal Reserve keeps interest rates low, the more the chances of inflationary pressures. As inflation rises, investors in U.S. bonds get a lower real rate of return. In fact, investors in U.S. bonds might even be faced with negative returns after adjusting for inflation. Add to this the fact that the never-ending spending of our government could be destroying the credibility of U.S. bonds, and you have trouble.
Currently, the U.S. government has debt of more than $16.4 trillion (see the debt clock at www.investmentcontrarians.com) and, by no surprise, it continues to rise. Unfortunately, it doesn't stop here; the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that, in the next 10 years, the national debt will increase to $20.0 trillion. (Source: Wall Street Journal, January 2, 2013.)
Credit rating agencies are already being cautious. Both Moody's Investor Services and Standards & Poor's (S&P) advised that the U.S. government has to take more measures to reduce its annual budget deficit (increase revenue or cut spending). The efforts to ward off the effects of the infamous "fiscal cliff" were not enough. Yesterday, Fitch Ratings said that if the U.S. doesn't raise its debt ceiling by the end of February, its credit rating could be cut again. (Source: Toronto Star, January 15, 2013.)
If you own U.S. bonds, this seems to be a perfect time to pause and reflect.
The Federal Reserve has been keeping the interest rates low and inflationary pressures are building up fairly quickly—look at the food prices, oil, and other commodities. I believe the U.S. economy will weaken in 2013 and the Fed will have no choice but to keep the money taps open. This will push down the yield on U.S. bonds further, which is good for bonds.
But once interest rates start to move higher in the wake of rising inflation and too many dollars in circulation, interest rates could move up very quickly, causing a sudden fall in bond prices. As they say, "Investor Beware!"
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5th Annual Boldt Castle Wine Festival and Farmers Market on Heart Island. There will be 10 wineries from both the 1000 Islands and Finger Lakes regions represented. Also eight NYS Ag producer will be in attendance and live entertainment.


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Idea Factory.
Jesse Hicks wrote a review on this book and after stumbling into it at the bookstore, I figured I'd pick it up.
The story of AT&Ts rise and fall has been a big part of my study in politics and economics, it is really refreshing to see the technical innovations of an industrial powerhouse. It makes a case for a research enabled and focussed innovations largely free from short-term thinking. The book takes a sympathetic look towards the monopoly and people behind the story of AT&T's Bell Labs.
What did you guys think of the book? If you're interested in technology and stories of innovators (Claude Shannon was a delight to read about.) then this book is for you.


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4th great-granddaughter of James Jones.
3rd cousin 2 times removed of Faye Louise Doyle.
Edna Aileen Coleman was born on 11 October 1908 at Westhope, Saskatchewan.1 She was the daughter of Harry Leroy Coleman and Jane Catherine Snyder.1 She married Charles Arnold Benedict on 6 April 1928 at Galt, Waterloo County, Ontario.1
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Children of Edna Aileen Coleman and Charles Arnold Benedict
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- John Emerson Benedict1 (1931-1931)
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- Helen Mary Benedict1
- Beverly Jean Benedict1 (1937-1938)
- Charles Fredrick Benedict1
- Janet Diane Benedict1
- [S860] Robert Coleman, gedcom file, 09 Jun 2009, Scarborough, Ontario. Gedcom file "Descendants of Catherine Jones."


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Rail union to study peace offer
2:26pm Tuesday 18th December 2012 in National News © Press Association 2014
Union leaders are to consider an offer aimed at averting pre-Christmas strikes on ScotRail.
Members of the Rail Maritime and Transport union are due to walk out on Saturday and again on Christmas Eve in a row over the dismissal of a colleague, threatening travel chaos for passengers over the busy festive period.
RMT members on the firm's sleeper services are also set to strike for 24 hours from the evening of December 21 and again from the evening of December 23.
The planned action is in support of Scott Lewis who was dismissed after an incident over the type of ticket issued to a member of the public.
A union spokesman said: "Following further dialogue between RMT and ScotRail the union is in receipt of a formal offer from the company aimed at resolving the current dispute. That offer will now be considered by RMT's executive first thing on Wednesday morning."
A spokesman for the train operator said: "ScotRail today confirmed that constructive dialogue has taken place with the RMT to avert strike action next weekend and to end the dispute."
The spokesman said it was hoped there will be a successful outcome and that a formal response from the union will be received on Wednesday.
"Given the circumstances, ScotRail will not be publishing its contingency plans today. To do so would only cause confusion while a formal offer to end the dispute has been made."
Scotland's transport minister Keith Brown said: "I have been in discussions with both parties and am pleased to report that each side is keen to resolve this dispute and end the uncertainty for passengers at this crucial time of year for the travelling public.
"I now urge both ScotRail and the RMT to continue the talks in this positive vein and I am hopeful that an agreement can be reached soon which will be to the satisfaction of both sides and which, more importantly, will ensure the continuation of the rail timetable throughout the festive period and beyond for train passengers throughout Scotland."


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