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Connie Schuerman (Von Dielingen)

For me, it was coaches Bill French and Van Witt. Connie reminded me of Mr. Gillis. Of course, I can’t remember the names of others---- like the gentleman who taught economics and the lady who taught biology. Geezzzz. It is not the legs that go first.

08/14/23 02:15 PM

#7267

Bill Williams

Dick, I had a unique relationship with coach Waldrip, especially after I missed a practice because Tommy Steele and I skipped school and went up in the mou, we were not suppose to have practice, (I thought) but we did. He suspended me for one game and went it was over he got me aside and shook hands, by handshake was a little weak and he said it was like a wet fish, that got my attention and from that day on I have tried to shake hands like a man. He and I discussed it a few days later and he explained a few things that are still with me about growing up and accepting responsibility for things that come along

Sorry for the Novel, just brought back memories

08/14/23 04:19 PM

#7268

Terrific memory Bill of respect for a coach who had a big influence on you ! Thanks for sharing !

08/14/23 04:30 PM

#7269

Cheryl Corazzi (Essex)

It is amazing how many of us remember Mr. Gillis. He made a lot us feel very comfortable while in school. I will never forget at one of our pep rallies, he was asked to be in a race, and his running form was unbelievable. Later found out he was a track star in college. A lot of you guys seem to remember your coaches as having an impact on your future. That's very endearing to me, because my late husband was a football coach, and I would like to think he had that same impact on his players.

08/14/23 05:10 PM

#7270

Teachers that helped me become a better person.

Van Whitt – He showed me how important it is to be honest.

Ms. Elliott – She was always nice to me and took an interest in making me a better student.

Ms. Albert - She was a hard teacher but made me realize how important history is. She peaked my interest and because of her I still love to read history books. She was my teacher at North Junior High School, I believe I may have been in her first teaching class right out of college.

Stanley Kubiak – He was a good guy, but I remember giving him a hard time and I wish I treated him better.

A math teacher in Junior High School that went above and beyond to help me understand math. She sayed after school to help me. Math went from one of my worse subjects to one of my favorites.

I also want to mention a special education speech teacher I had at Walker Elementary School. I don’t remember her name but remember the hours I spent with her. I think it was in the 3rd and 4th grade. She was the most patient person I have ever known. Because of her, people were able to understand me better and which helped me for the rest of my life. I can say she changed my life.

I also must mention Ms. Woods from Walker Elementary School. I had the biggest crush on her. Our class had snowball fights with her at recess a few times, which she won. She could whistle louder than any person I have ever known.

08/14/23 05:56 PM

#7271

Donald Ervin

Coach French was my favorite. While the team would be shooting free throws. We would be on the back steps

smoking cigarettes.

08/14/23 06:01 PM

#7272

Wind turbines, also known as windmills, are designed to last 20 to 25 years, but some may break or be taken down sooner. Their lifespan depends on environmental factors, maintenance procedures, and the loads and stress they face from the wind. The gearbox and blades may need to be replaced within 10 years. Wind turbines can also catch fire or explode

Dick

I believe that Global Warming is a fact, and the world needs to address it.

One Country can’t do it. I read that the US is still producing as much greenhouse gas emissions as it did before all the changes and money spent.

China it the worst offender and creates more than twice the greenhouse gases as any other country. We are second. Countries with the most industries create the most greenhouse gases.

Is Nuclear Energy the answer? It creates waste that will last thousands of years. All the waste is being stored in temporary facilities because there isn’t a safe place to dispose of it. I am sure, one day we will find an energy source that will work. Why spend billions and trillions of dollars on a fix that is probably worse than the problem. Each Nuclear Site is a potential terrorist target. Spend more money on research that will save us, not on answers that will still kill us. Before we make any change, check to see what the downsides are.

Electric cars are a fun option, but we need to work out the problems with them. Distance and how to dispose of the batteries are a big problem. They are working on faster charging, which will help but need to work on better batteries. It seems Musk is the only person that understands how to make them better and safer. I thought electric cars would be great for cities but where do you put enough charging stations to charge all the cars. Of course, the cars are using electricity which produces greenhouse gas emissions. Our energy grid is pretty much maxed out right now so are electric cars the answer? Would you take an electric car on a cross country trip?

Natural gas used to be the answer, but it creates a greenhouse gas. Methene leaking out of the old oil wells need to be addressed also. I bet methene leaks far exceeds all the methene created by livestock.

Oil is bad but you don’t save anything if you produce less oil but buy it from other nations instead.

Wind energy is a expensive option, but you would have to replace the energy grid every 20 years. A windmill’s life span is about 20 years, and they are hard to maintain.

I am not sure what the answer is, but you would think someone will come up with a real solution. I do know that the people making decisions need to think of solutions with less downsides.

But I am just an old concrete guy so what do I know?

08/14/23 08:40 PM

#7273

I HAVE BEEN TOLD THIS A LOT AT MY AGE, I JUST LAUGH

08/14/23 08:49 PM

#7274

08/14/23 11:25 PM

#7275

Bob,

You made a number of rock-solid points and ask probing questions. Thank you. For a self-described “an old concrete guy”—which has its own interesting chemistry and physics as you know—I’d say you know a lot.

EV vehicles. The batteries are far from refined and lithium and other limited elements are needed for mfg. South American mines now supply much of the rare materials to China but the environmental impact in S.A, is hefty. I agree, where do we get the electricity to charge the EVs? And extreme environmentalists want to remove dams along many great rivers in the West. That is from a self-claimed tree hugger. What good are a thousand new charging stations with inadequate electricity?

Air pollution.Yes, China is the worst offender and they remain entirely unconcerned. India may catch us, if they have not already. Biden tries but few actually listen. Just shake their heads yes for effect.

Energy source. There is some recent, promising research, that has been going on for decades, on splitting H₂O and generating hydrogen as fuel. Plants and photosynthetic bacteria (cyanobacteria, wrongly called blue-green algae) seem to conduct this split straightforwardly but how long for that trait to evolve? A couple of billion years? Of course, photosynthesis is the source of all our molecular oxygen today. Models based on plant biochemistry have not worked out. A promising catalyst is under study. Wind and solar help but have downsides to each, as you point out. I like geothermal energy but it seems to have lost a fan base lately. Nuclear, with its chilling shortfalls, may be the best answer we have, for now. Gulp.

Bill- of course climates change. In fact, evolution is a function of changing environments. But the rate is an open and debatable question.

I beleive we worry about these things for our kids and grandkids.And just a "few" other problems. What have we left them?

08/15/23 10:09 AM

#7276

The good news is that there is already a clear strategy for managing and disposing of this highly radioactive material. The bad news is that the U.S. government has yet to seriously follow that plan.

The National Academies report tells us that new or advanced reactor designs—the hoped-for saviors of the nuclear industry—will not save us from the need to build geologic repositories, deep-mined facilities for permanent nuclear waste disposal. In some cases, these new reactors may make it worse by creating more waste that’s more costly to manage, new kinds of complex waste, or just more waste, period. Before we face that onrush, we first need to deal with the large volume of waste we’ve already produced.

The U.S., which led the way on managing nuclear waste in the 1980s and 1990s, has now fallen to the back of the pack. About 88,000 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel from commercial reactors remain stranded at reactor sites, and this number is increasing by some 2,000 metric tons each year. These 77 sites are in 35 states and threaten to become de facto permanent disposal facilities. Without a geologic repository, there is no way forward for the final disposal of this highly radioactive material. Storing it in pools and dry casks at reactor sites is a temporary solution; it is safe for decades, but not the millennia needed to isolate this radioactive material from the environment. The present U.S. policy of indefinite storage at a centralized site is not a viable solution, as it shifts the cost and risk to future generations.

Even if the U.S. starts today, it will take decades to site, design and build a facility for disposal of its nuclear waste stockpile. That process must accelerate now, before the reactors we need for their electricity run out of room for their growing inventories of highly radioactive waste.

08/15/23 10:12 AM

#7277

I think I will go back to posting jokes and pictures.

Real life problems are to depressing.

08/15/23 10:38 AM

#7278

Clark Walter

if we are commenting about teachers that influenced our life, I could not resist mentioning Joe Carrol, our choir director. He encouraged my desire to perform. I also want to mention Mr Luginbill who told me to not worry about my grades in Anatomy and Physiology. He said I had other talents.

08/16/23 01:03 AM

#7279

Nelson Evans

I am not as smart as you guys on climate change, but here is what some experts say.
I think this shows that you can get an "expert" for any point of view.

Earlier this month, the 2022 Nobel Physics Laureate Dr. John Clauser slammed the ‘climate emergency’ narrative as a “dangerous corruption of science that threatens the world’s economy and the well-being of billions of people”. Inevitably, the punishments have begun. A talk that Dr. Clauser was due to give to the International Monetary Fund on climate models has been abruptly cancelled, and the page announcing the event removed from the IMF site.

Dr. Clauser was due to speak to the IMF’s Independent Evaluation Office this Thursday under the title: “Let’s talk – How much can we trust IPCC climate predictions?” It would appear that “not a lot” isn’t the politically correct answer. Clauser is a longstanding critic of climate models and criticised the award of the Physics Nobel in 2021 for work on them. He is not alone, since many feel that climate models are primarily based on mathematics, and a history of failed opinionated climate predictions leave them undeserving of recognition at the highest level of pure science. Not that this opinion is shared by the green activist National Geographic magazine, which ran an article: “How climate models got so accurate they won a Nobel.”

Last week, Clauser observed that misguided climate science has “metastasised into massive shock-journalistic pseudoscience”. This pseudoscience, he continued, has become a scapegoat for a wide variety of other related ills. It has been promoted and extended by similarly misguided business marketing agents, politicians, journalists, government agencies and environmentalists. “In my opinion, there is no real climate crisis,” he added.

Clauser is the latest Nobel physics laureate to dismiss the notion of a climate crisis. Professor Ivar Giaever, a fellow laureate, is the lead signatory of the World Climate Declaration that states there is no climate emergency. It further argues that climate models are “not remotely plausible as global policy tools”. The 1998 winner Professor Robert Laughlin has expressed the view that the climate is “beyond our power to control” and humanity cannot and should not do anything to respond to climate change

08/16/23 01:06 AM

#7280

Joe Carrol, I REMEMBER WHEN WE WERE PUTTING ON A PLAY. ONE DAY HE ASKED ME IF I HAD FORGOTTEN TO SHAVE, AS I WAS GROWING A BEARD. I, STATED NO, I WAS GROWING IT FOR THE PLAY. I TOLD HIM THE SAILOR WORE BEARDS BACK THEN. HE LOOKED AT ALL THE GUYS, OK THE REST OF YOU BOYS GROW A BEARD IF YOU CAN. HAD FUN DOING IT.

ALL THE GIRLS WOULD COME UP TO ME AN RUB THEIR HANDS ON IT.

NOW FOR THE BEST PART, OUR ONE AN ONLY MR SLICK AS WE CALLED HIM. STOPED ME IN THE HALL AN TOLD ME TO CUT IT OFF. I JUST GAVE A BIG SMILE. STATED NO. IT WAS FOR THE SCHOOL PLAY. THE LOOK ON HIS FACE. I FORGOT WHAT ELSE HE SAID. SOMETHING ABOUT HAVING A TALK WITH MR CARROL.

08/16/23 12:54 PM

#7281

Cheryl Corazzi (Essex)

Bill, you were kinda sassy back then!,,

08/16/23 04:49 PM

#7282

Interesting post Nelson. Thank you.

I clicked slammed. Up came The Daily Sceptic. Can’t say I’ve heard of that one. Or him: 2022 Nobel Physics Laureate Dr. John Clauser. So, I was curious.

Clauser is an experimental and theoretical physicist. He is best known for his contributions to the foundations of quantum mechanics—hence his Nobel Prize. Clauser was awarded the Wolf Prize in Physics in 2010 together with Alain Aspect and Anton Zeilinger. The three were also jointly awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics. In May 2023, Clauser joined the board of the CO2 Coalition, a climate change denial organization.

From the D.S. article: Nobel Laureate (Physics 2022) Dr. John Clauser was to present a seminar on climate models to the IMF on Thursday and now his talk has been summarily cancelled. According to an email he received last evening, the Director of the Independent Evaluation Office of the International Monetary Fund, Pablo Moreno, had read the flyer for John’s July 25 zoom talk and summarily and immediately canceled the talk. Technically, it was “postponed.”

Dr. Clauser had previously criticized the awarding of the 2021 Nobel Prize for work in the development of computer models predicting global warming and told President Biden that he disagreed with his climate policies............................

Fair enough. Science does not advance without skepticism and critics. I just wish Clauser was right.

08/16/23 10:35 PM

#7283

Cheryl Corazzi Essex, MY HOMEROOM WAS THE VICE PRINCIPAL OFFICE.

08/17/23 10:24 AM

#7284

Nelson – I am not sure if climate change is caused by greenhouse gas emissions or climate changes we have no control over. My point is that what we are doing to fight climate change isn’t productive. We are spending billions and trillions of dollars on solutions that create as many problems as they are trying to fix. If we could put a bubble over the United States, we may have a chance to clean our air. We can’t put a bubble over it, so we are affected by what other people in the world do.

I have often wondered if airplanes are a bigger problem because they fly so high in the upper atmosphere. "Airplanes emit their fumes directly into the upper atmosphere, where they may linger longer and cause more damage than the same gases at lower altitudes." Worldwide there are 100,000 flights per day.

08/17/23 02:24 PM

#7285

Nelson Evans

Some food for thought:

Sensible Gun Logic


1 - Eleven teens die each day because of texting while driving. Maybe it's time to raise the age of Smart Phone ownership to 21. (FACT)

2 - If gun control laws actually worked, Chicago would be Mayberry, USA

3 - The Second Amendment makes more women equal than the entire feminist movement.

4 - Legal gun owners have 300 million guns and probably a trillion rounds of ammo. Seriously, folks, if we were the problem, you'd know it.

5 - When JFK was killed, nobody blamed the rifle.

6 - The NRA (National Rifle Association) murders 0 people and receives ($$$$ 0) nothing in government funds. Planned Parenthood kills 350,000 babies every year and receives $500,000,000 in tax dollars annually.

7 - I have no problem with vigorous background checks when it comes to firearms. But don’t be a hypocrite, let's do the same when it comes to immigration, Voter I.D., and candidates running for office.

8 - Folks keep talking about another Civil War. One side knows how to shoot and probably has a trillion rounds. The other side has crying closets and is confused about which bathroom to use. How do you think that would work out?

9   A man who left 300,000 guns and $78B of military equipment for the Taliban is lecturing folks on gun control.   NO JOKE!

08/17/23 07:54 PM

#7286