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  • DOI: 10.1002/chemv.201600092
  • Author: Klaus Roth and Erich Lück
  • Published Date: 01 November 2016
  • Source / Publisher: Chemie in unserer Zeit/Wiley-VCH
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In this part, we have a look at the optimal mixture of sweeteners to replicate the taste of real sugar, after covering saccharin, the poisonous lead(II) acetate, cyclamate, aspartame, acesulfame-K, thaumatin, sucralose, dihydrochalcones, neotame, and stevia.

22. The Wonderworld of Sweeteners

All ten of the sweeteners presented in this article were tested for their effects on the heart and kidneys, with the conclusion that when consumed in sensible amounts they are completely harmless. It, therefore, appears not to matter at all which sweetener one utilizes. The main thing is that it be sweet!

But in truth, it really isn’t all that simple, since one sweetener is not exactly like the next one. Characteristics apart from plain sweetness that contribute to the quality of a sweetener have been brilliantly laid out by Grant E. DuBois of the Coca-Cola Company [100]:

  1. Flavor quality
  2. Flavor quality
  3. Flavor quality
  4. Flavor quality
  5. Lack of toxicity
  6. Stability
  7. Solubility
  8. Economy
  9. Patentability

22.1. Flavor

Can replace sugar?Above all, a sweetener must taste good; in fact, it should as nearly as possible taste like pure sugar!

Can a sweetener replace sugar? In an experiment it is shown that using the example of 8 % sugar water, that from a taste standpoint no sweetener can completely replace sugar. Only sugar can evolve a sweetness sensation that is free of every overtone or aftertaste, providing a full and lasting sweetness. Equally sweet solutions of every substitute sweetener will deviate to some extent from this ideal. The taste of pure sugar water is best approximated with aspartame or a 1:10 saccharin/cyclamate mixture. (For details of the experiment click on the picture on the right.)

In cola drinks, with their own strong, unique taste, the situation is different, because here sucrose itself fails to develop the full sweetness. In this case, cyclamate comes closest to matching cola sweetened with sugar, although aspartame produces cola that tastes almost like sugar water. In vanilla pudding, a saccharin/cyclamate mixture is the sugar substitute that performs best from a taste standpoint. These examples illustrate that the taste quality of a sweetener also tends to be a function of the food matrix.

Moreover, sweetening-agent mixtures display qualitative and quantitative synergies. Figure 33 shows the quantitative synergistic effect in the case of an aspartame/acesulfame-K mixture, where, at the optimal 1:1 ratio, one observes a remarkable increase in sweetening power of ca. 50 % over the individual components. This, in turn, allows a reduction in the total amount of sweetener.

Synergistic effects of aspartame/acesulfame-K in aqueous solutions

Figure 33. Synergistic effects of aspartame/acesulfame-K in aqueous solutions.

Even more important for a mixture than a quantitative synergistic effect is a qualitative effect. The overall taste impression afforded by a sweetener can simultaneously mean that, at higher concentrations, any accompanying off-taste overtones will often be "masked". For example, after extensive sensory testing it was determined that, in aqueous solutions, the acesulfame-K/aspartame mixture, and even better, the acesulfame/aspartame/saccharin/cyclamate mixture (2:2:1:10) constitutes a nearly perfect substitute for sucrose [101].

Industrial food producers devote enormous effort to seeking an optimal mixture of sweeteners for each of their products, with minimal off- or after-taste. This is especially true for low-calorie beverages, as illustrated in Table 3 for the example of the Coca-Cola Company. Added sweeteners and their amounts for each nation correspond to the relevant legal situations and applicable taste preferences [102]. Because of the prohibition of cyclamate in the United States, this sweetener is absent from the American version of Diet Coke, which is sweetened exclusively with aspartame, whereas the equivalent product in Germany contains the three-fold combination aspartame, acesulfame-K, and cyclamate.

Table 3. Added sweeteners in low-calorie Coca-Cola soft drinks. All data in mg/L.

Added sweeteners in low-calorie Coca-Cola soft drinks

22.2. Some Sweeteners Can Do More than Simply Taste Sweet

With respect to the taste aspect of sweeteners, it is customary to regard mainly negative characteristics, such as a bitter aftertaste. In the case of thaumatin, a licorice-like aftertaste is often brought up, but its positive properties with respect to taste are seldom mentioned. Experienced testers reported around 1975 that, when they were "rewarded" with a peppermint candy at the end of a tasting session involving thaumatin, the latter tasted especially "minty" and much more aromatic [103].

This phenomenon led to the discovery that thaumatin dramatically reduces the taste-threshold values for certain ethereal oils (see Tab. 4). After addition of 0.5 mg/kg of thaumatin to many aromatic oils or extracts, the detection levels for these additives were reduced by the factors reported in the table [103]. Especially high sensitivity increases were registered with typical chewing gum additives. In this application, the minor licorice aftertaste of thaumatin itself seems to bring no negative consequences.

Table 4. Decrease in perception thresholds with thaumatin.

Decrease in perception thresholds with thaumatin

In view of this taste-intensifying effect, thaumatin is today used above all in chewing gums to ensure that the effect of aromatic additives will be retained for as long as possible during the chewing stage.

22.3. The Quest for a Better Sweetener

Even a fleeting glance at the currently allowed sweeteners (see Fig. 34) reveals that there is no obvious relationship between chemical structure and sweetness. From lead acetate to chlorinated diterpenes, from chlorinated disaccharides to amidosulfonic acids, from dihydrochalcones to oxathiazinones, from dipeptides to proteins – one seems to find scattered representatives of sweet species everywhere.

Sweeteners permitted in the EU

Figure 34. Sweeteners permitted in the EU (JECFA = Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives, EFSA = European Food Safety Authority).

Because of this unpredictability, literally all the known artificial sweeteners were discovered by accident, in that traces of a substance from a chemical laboratory somehow found their way into the mouth of some alert chemist. Should we, therefore, follow the (we hope facetiously offered) advice of Robert H. Mazur of the American NutraSweet Company [104]: "Taste every substance that you synthesize!"? Hardly, since all eating, drinking, or smoking in a chemical lab has long been strictly forbidden, and for good reason. It may be that a few potential sweeteners will, therefore, go undiscovered, but at the same time, many bright chemists will retain their good health.

Whether new sweeteners will be discovered in the future is uncertain, and whether one or more of them might someday be brought to the point of market-readiness is even more uncertain. Even now, a good dozen compounds show significant potential. Among these are a few plant components, but also some very promising synthetic materials, like sucrononic acid (see Fig. 35). Sucrononic acid (35) was discovered in 1990 by the French Jean-Marie Tinti and Claude Nofre [105], and has a sweetening power of 200,000; today it still holds the world record for sweetness. But whether this compound will ever be market-ready remains questionable.

Sucronic acid

Figure 35. Sucronic acid; the sweetest sweetener so far.

23 Conclusion

Every official approval of a sweetener, whether synthetic or natural, demands massive, dedicated funding, since the studies required for food-additive approval are today much more extensive and stricter even than those for medically active ingredients. One can thus proceed from the assumption that new sweeteners will never simply fall into a researcher's lap, and then suddenly appear in large quantity in the marketplace.

We must simply wait patiently for the next successful sweetener: i.e., sit tight and meanwhile enjoy a cup of tea. And if you want to sweeten that tea, then enjoy one or more of the wide variety of sweeteners already available. There's already something suitable for everyone. One must simply turn the packages over, and perhaps employ a magnifying glass in the course of detecting the desired ingredients and then making a purchase.

Classic examples include cyclamate/saccharin (e.g., Assugrin Classic® or Zückli®), perhaps refined with a bit of thaumatin (e.g., Feine Süße, Natreen®), or, if it needs to be a bit "retro", then pure aspartame from the 80s (e.g., Assugrin Gold®), or perhaps a "hip", freshly authorized, steviol/sucralose mixture (e.g., Natreen Stevia®). For uncompromising "bio-freaks", maybe pure steviol glycosides prepared with aromatic substances (Assugrin SteviaSweet®). Of course, one can also enjoy tea the old-fashioned way: with sugar, or even unsweetened. Long live the freedom of choice: Each to his own taste!

The authors are grateful for the help of the following colleagues in research, manuscript preparation, and also assembly of the photographic materials: Dr. M. Euskirchen, Roman-Germanic Museum of Cologne; A. Krumbe, German Sweetener Association, Cologne; Dr. R. Langlais, Düsseldorf; Professor Dr. H.-U. Reißig, Free University of Berlin; Professor Dr. G.-W. von Rymon Lipinski, Schwalbach; Professor Dr. S. Streller, RWTH Aachen; Dr. B Sumfleth, Coca-Cola GmbH, Berlin; Professor Dr. E. Vaupel, Deutsches Museum Munich; and Dr. P. Winchester, Free University of Berlin.

[100] G. E. DuBois in Sweetness and Sweeteners (Eds.: D. K. Weeransighe und G. E.  DuBois), American Chemical Society (ACS), Washington DC, USA, 2008. DOI: 10.1021/bk-2008-0979

[101] L. Y. Hanger et al., J. Food Sci. 1996, 61, 456–459. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2621.1996.tb14216.x

[102] Diabetes Self-Management, Amounts of Sweeteners in Popular Diet Sodas and Coca-Cola-GmbH, Berlin, Germany.

[103] J. H. Higginbotham in Alternative Sweeteners (Eds.: L. O’Brien Nabors, R. C. Gelardi), Marcel Dekker, New York, USA, 1986. ISBN: 978-0-8247-7491-2

[104] R. H. Mazur in Sweeteners (Eds.: D. E. Walters, F. T. Orthoefer, G. E. DuBois), ACS Symposium Series, American Chemical Society (ACS), Washington, D.C., USA, 1991. ISBN: 978-0-8412-1903-8

[105] J.-M. Tinti, C. Nofre in Sweeteners (Eds: D. E. Walters, F. T. Orthoefer, G. E. DuBois), ACS Symposium Series, American Chemical Society (ACS), Washington, D.C., USA, 1991. ISBN: 978-0-8412-1903-8

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Erich LückErich Lück

After studying pharmacy in Mainz, Germany, Erich Lück (born in 1929) obtained his doctorate in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, in food chemistry. In 1957, he founded there, at the Farbwerke Hoechst, the research and development division Food Science Technology. His areas of specialization were the food preservative sorbic acid and the sweetener acesulfame-K. In addition, he was Director of numerous relevant national and international expert committees for many years. His literary work comprises, in addition to monographs related to conservation materials, some of them translated into foreign languages, a Handbook of Food Additives, and the world’s most comprehensive English/German technical food science dictionary, which has passed through four editions.

Klaus RothKlaus Roth

Professor Klaus Roth of the Free University of Berlin, Germany, is the permanent author of the Focus Section of the ChemViews Magazine.

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The Saccharin Saga – Part 1

The invention of the first artificial sweetener and a lifetime battle for credit

The Saccharin Saga – Part 2

The early industrial production and organized smuggling of saccharin

The Saccharin Saga – Part 3

The health concerns associated with artificial sweeteners

The Saccharin Saga – Part 4

A glance back to ancient Rome, and the most hair-raising of all sweeteners

The Saccharin Saga – Part 5

What’s in your softdrink? – Introducing cyclamate

The Saccharin Saga – Part 6

Aspartame – a sweet dipeptide ester

The Saccharin Saga – Part 7

Acesulfame-K – another successful sweetening agent

The Saccharin Saga – Part 8

Thaumatin – a sweet protein with a licorice aftertaste

The Saccharin Saga – Part 9

Sucrose or Splenda turned into a low-calorie alternative to sucralose or saccharose

The Saccharin Saga – Part 10

Combining sweet cations and anions, and turning bitter compounds into sweeteners

The Saccharin Saga – Part 11

Intelligent synthetic strategies for low-calorie sweeteners

The Saccharin Saga – Part 12

Stevia plant extracts as low-calorie sweeteners

The Saccharin Saga – Part 13

Finding the best mixture of sweeteners to replicate the taste of real sugar

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Almost a year after the student advisory mandate went out from central office, counselors in Chicago’s public high schools are still in love with the idea, but they and teachers are frustrated with the reality.

“I want this to work,” declares Deborah Dunleavy, a teacher/advisor at Von Steuben High. “I feel that it is not—not because it is a bad idea, but because the necessary conditions aren’t there for the outcome.”

Pioneered by New Trier Township High School, advisory brings a small group of students together with a teacher/advisor—ideally for four years—to give students a home base and help them with study habits, course and career planning and typical teenage challenges.

In response to a November survey, all 89 of Chicago’s public high schools and transition centers said they were conducting advisories. However, conversations with teachers at a number of schools suggest the term is being used to cover a wide range of programs—from a typical “division,” which deals with announcements and housekeeping, to attempts, like those at Von Steuben, to carry out and even go beyond the board’s advisory curriculum.

“Some places are doing a lot with it, some are not doing very much at all,” says Chuck Pistorio, an advisory consultant from Northeastern Illinois University.

In the survey, 34 schools reported “insufficient materials/resources,” while most said advisory activities were being done in standard, 30-student division classes.

Central office is writing and producing booklets of materials as the school year progresses. However, it is not paying teachers for the extra work or providing additional preparation time or staff development. Nine schools reported using their own discretionary funds to pay teachers for taking on advisory.

“Compensation is the major issue” affecting success, says Girod Walker, the administration’s advisory project manager. “If we can get that, I think things will settle down.”

Jackie Gallagher, spokesperson for the Chicago Teachers Union, says the union will continue to raise the pay issue in “strategic negotiations,” but that no formal agreement is in sight.

Since the survey, at least one school, Schurz, has dropped advisory completely. Last June, Schurz teachers rejected a contract waiver that would have created a daily advisory. (See Chronicles, June 1997.) In September, they filed a grievance after being told to use the board’s advisory materials weekly, during a built-in long division period. In late January, the grievance was resolved in the teachers’ favor, and the materials were recalled.

“[The grievance] had nothing to do with the question of whether advisory is a good idea,” says union delegate Debby Pope. “We were being asked to teach something we’re not familiar with, without an increase in either preparation time or pay.”

Walker agrees with teachers’ call for preparation time. “I don’t want anyone just going into a classroom and opening up the book,” he says. “There needs to be some kind of preparation time for teachers to read the material, make copies and so forth.”

Dunleavy would like more flexibility, too. She thinks the pressure to complete prescribed activities makes it harder to connect with students. “I regret that I’m creating a barrier between me and my division kids,” she says. “I’m spending more time making them do things they don’t want to do than dealing with something real. It’s real tempting to just say, ‘bring your homework and talk to me if you have a problem.'”

Dunleavy is the kind of teacher who naturally gravitates toward mentoring. “Some of us are by nature touchy-feely. Come, tell us your problems. Weep on me,” she says, her voice a mixture of irony and real enthusiasm. During one two-minute trip through the hall, she stopped or was stopped by four students.

Opinion divided

But in early February, Dunleavy must beg her students to give advisory a chance. “Guys, sit in a group with people you are willing to talk with, so we can do this assignment—please?”

During the 20-minute period, they discuss how and where to make new friends in school. The bell rings in the middle of the discussion, but not before Dunleavy points out, “As much as you guys make fun of division, 18 of you said you made a friend in division.”

Asked how they like advisory, two Von Steuben freshmen offer striking contrasts.

“It’s boring,” declares Alla Trakhtengarts. “We sit and do nothing.” Alla says she did not make friends faster in division than in her academic classes. She says she has not participated in any advisory-type activities in division.

But Joanna Wegrzynowicz says she had. “I like it,” she says. “We get into groups and discuss whatever topic they give us, once, twice a week.” She says she did make friends faster in division than in other classes.

Morgan Park scheduled advisories for freshmen and sophomores outside of division; it also asked teachers to volunteer for the duty; and it decided to tap state Chapter 1 funds and a junior academy grant from the board to pay teachers at their regular hourly rate.

Delores Walker, for example, conducts advisory with one of her sophomore English classes. One day in February, 24 students break into small groups to discuss the hypothetical case of a teen who stole an art book. To save time, Walker assigns a different possible response to each group and asks it to find supporting evidence in the case study.

The groups focus intently—there’s little clowning around. Two groups reject the solutions they were assigned and create persuasive arguments against them.

After class, Tenille Medley raves about advisory. “I really enjoy it,” she says. “I don’t know where my life would be if we didn’t have it.” She credits the lessons on study techniques with raising her history grade and praises the career exploration component.

Despite their successes, Morgan Park teachers and counselors have gripes, too. According to an in-house survey of 18 advisors, top concerns are motivating students to participate in activities when advisory does not carry credit, and building connections between advisor and students when the advisor is not one of their classroom teachers.

Gale Williams, the school’s advisory coordinator, wants the board to put its money where its mouth is. “People at the board say advisory is very important, but they don’t give [students] credit for it,” she observes. “They don’t pay teachers for it. They’re contradicting themselves.”

New Trier: heaven on earth

At New Trier High School in Winnetka, home of the nation’s first advisory program, a deep and longstanding investment in teachers as advisors appears to be paying off.

Although only two out of five faculty members serve as advisors at any given time, New Trier evaluates all prospective teachers on their potential to be good advisors. Teachers volunteer for the job, and advisory counts as one of the five classes in a normal workload.

“It takes easily as much time, more time, than a class,” says Jeff Markham, an English teacher and advisor, who adds that he spends “an immense amount of time” on the phone with parents. He also meets informally with students throughout the day—he briefly interrupted his conversation with a reporter to check in with an advisee who was passing by in the hallway.

Advisors perform many functions done by guidance counselors at other schools, such as registering students for classes and acting as their advocates with classroom teachers. “It’s hard for advisors to stay boxed up within their own discipline,” says Jon White, assistant principal for student services. “They’re constantly going to advisees’ other teachers. They have to learn the curriculum for the whole school, not just their department.”

They also see sides of their advisees that might never appear if they merely taught them an academic subject. Every advisor Catalyst spoke with volunteered stories about their advisees.

“I had a kid who came in cowboy boots and put his feet on the desk every day for four years,” recalls Chip Carpenter, who shepherded six consecutive groups of advisees through four years of high school. The boy’s grades “were on a roller coaster” and Carpenter felt he had failed to make a connection.

“The summer before [his] senior year,” he continues, “I got a call around 1:30 a.m. The kid was hysterical—his father had just died. Here’s a kid I thought just hated my guts. … I jumped in the car and went over. We walked around the block until 3 or 4 in the morning. He never really sought me out again.”

Carpenter now is the supervisor of sophomore boys’ advisors.

The most obvious duty an advisor takes on is the advisor room—a single-sex group of 24 students who meet for 25 minutes every morning. Although there are activities and field trips for advisor rooms, there are also days when little seems to be happening, at least on the surface.

But unlike most schools, New Trier takes special care in assigning students to their rooms, grouping students across academic levels and interests to make each room a microcosm of the school. “We’re trying to get them out beyond their cliques,” says White.

In Janet Springer’s sophomore advisory, some girls aren’t sure the program helps them break out of cliques, but they enjoy its more obvious benefits. Today they breakfast on bagels and orange juice while Springer takes attendance and makes announcements.

Sophomore Victoria Carlson likes advisory and thinks it’s especially valuable for freshmen. She got to know people in advisory better than fellow students in her academic courses last year. “I think [cutting advisory] is more upperclass. I don’t know why you would want to not come. I think it’s fun.” She adds that she would talk with Springer about a “school-oriented” problem, but would talk with friends about interpersonal problems.

Springer attributes the success of New Trier’s advisory to “backup.” Each grade level has two “advisor chairs,” veteran advisors who act as dean of girls and dean of boys. They assist with discipline and mentor the advisors for their grade level. Advisors attend weekly meetings with the chairs, a school social worker, the “post high school” counselor and a special education teacher.

“You shouldn’t make decisions without backup,” says Springer. “That’s the key to making this system work.”

Evanston in transition

Meanwhile, Evanston Township High School’s advisory program is about to undergo radical changes, changing from a freshmen-only course to a New Trier-like system. A preliminary proposal called for teachers to take on their new roles without pay, but at press time, the school board was reconsidering in the face of stiff faculty opposition.

The school’s current advisory is a one-semester course required for freshmen. Teachers volunteer, and are paid an overtime stipend of $3,000 for teaching a sixth class—during second semester they supervise study hall or take on a similar duty.

English and humanities teacher Gay Berardi doubles as advisory coordinator. She prepares weekly plans for teachers, who receive an extensive curriculum combining videos on teenage problems with an introduction to the school, plus the academic work to fulfill the state’s required course in consumer education.

“I do the preparation for everybody,” she says, including scheduling the VCRs on video days so teachers won’t be caught short. “It takes some preparation [for the individual teacher], but not as much as a class.”

Counselors drop by three times a week to meet with students individually.

In the cafeteria, freshmen from different advisory classes debate the program’s merits. “I love it, actually,” raves Katie Birks, “because I get to watch ‘Degrassi High.'” The video series, created for public television in the 1980s, presents teen dilemmas.

“The discussions we have explain stuff you need to know,” adds Dan Whiteley.

Matt Lewis disagrees. “It’s pointless,” he argues. “We really don’t do very much. All we do is watch videos. I don’t think anybody really takes it seriously. I don’t take it seriously.”

Katie and Dan don’t see what’s so terrible about watching videos. “I mean, you get a grade for it, so why not?” asks Dan. He also claims there’s more to advisory than TV time. His class has discussions “almost every day,” and he likes his advisory teacher.

Whatever the merits of the current system, it is about to be scrapped in favor of a “home base” program somewhat like New Trier’s advisory. Berardi, who will coordinate the new program, says teachers will spend 18 minutes daily with a group of no more than 16 students. Teacher and students will interact without a specific curriculum and stay together until the students graduate.

A proposal allowing advisory teachers to choose between extra pay or release from a supervisory duty has been submitted for action at the March 9 meeting of the School Board.

“To ask [teachers] to do 18 minutes extra with 15 more students, no, it’s not fair,” says Berardi. “The faculty just said no. They [the board] listened, as far as we can tell.”


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Nicodemus has often had what may be called a bad press among preachers and Bible commentators. He has been accused of timidity, even cowardice, on two chief grounds: first, that he came to Jesus by night instead of in broad daylight, and second, that he was a disciple in secret, failing to identify himself publicly with Jesus Christ until His crucifixion and death. For instance, Clovis G. Chappell says that “his timidity was at least part of the reason for his coming by night” (Questions Jesus Asked). A. Leonard Griffith says, “We cannot escape the conclusion that for obvious reasons Nicodemus did not want to be seen either by the common people or by his colleagues of the Sanhedrin” (Encounters With Christ). J. D. Grey speaks of Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea as “two outstanding men [who] having failed to stand up for Christ during his life, came to shed their tears too late after his death” (Epitaphs For Eager Preachers).

But this idea that Nicodemus was timid and even cowardly is certainly open to question. Take first the matter of his coming to Jesus by night. It may not have been due to fear at all; there are several other possible explanations. For example, Raymond Calkins says that Nicodemus came by night “simply because he could not wait for day.… Some wonderful word of Jesus had entered into this man’s heart” (Religion and Life).

Another possible explanation is that only at night would he have the opportunity for the calm and unhurried conversation he wanted. Or it may have been caution rather than cowardice that compelled Nicodemus to come by night. After all, he occupied a highly important and influential position among his fellow Jews: Clovis Chappell quotes a description of him as “at once the equivalent of ...

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December 2014
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Pop Francis: Why Everyone Loves the Pope
From secular journalists to charismatic Christians, millions are taken with the Jesuit from Argentina.

Michael Lindsay on Covenant and Conflict at Gordon College
The college's president says the issues on campus go deeper than 'homosexual practice.'
God’s Defense Attorney
Millionaire lawyer Mark Lanier moonlights as a Sunday school teacher.
Have Yourself a Merry Kitschy Christmas
What weird Nativity sets get right about the story of Jesus.
Relief in Wartime Chaos
Fleeing violence, nearly 1.3 million Syrians and Iraqis are now living in Jordan. How local and global leaders are meeting their needs.
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The Weight of Ferguson, ISIS, and Boko Haram
How we bear, sometimes joyfully, the burdens of 2014.
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What Forgotten Christmas Tradition Should Churches Revive?
Rooting our celebration of Christ’s birth more deeply in our lives.
Why Personal Devotions Aren’t Enough
The Bible was made to be read in church first.
The Man Who Humanized War
He still shapes our wartime ideals 150 years later.
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The Unremarkable Call to Love Our Gay Neighbors
Glenn Stanton shows how friendship and biblical fidelity belong together.
Using (and Abusing) Hell as a Political Motivation
How the threat of eternal punishment stirred moral and spiritual urgency in early America.
Jesus and 'Jingle Bell Rock'
For my family, there's no dividing line between "American Christmas" and "Christian Christmas."
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The Most Important Thing About the Holy Spirit
J. D. Greear remembers what gets missed in secondary debates.
The Alternative Music Label That Shaped Evangelical Culture
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Important developments in the church and the world (as they appeared in our December issue).
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O Subtle Star of Bethlehem
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Kingsway Music Worship Evening

As part of their UK Tour, Kingsway worship artists Ben Cantelon, Cathy Burton and Nick Herbert are due to visit Inverness as the only Scottish date in the current tour programme.

BandInverness-based Alive Ministry is hosting a worship evening in the Highlands in what will be the only Scottish date in a UK Tour.

As part of the 'In the Round' UK Tour and in conjunction with Kingway Music, three very well know worship leaders –  Ben Cantelon, Cathy Burton and Nick Herbert – will be performing together live with a full worship band in what is sure to be a very special evening of worship.

David Maclean , of Alive Ministry  is delighted to secure this event and comments :

"Our continued vision for Alive Ministry is to have events where all ages and all congregations can come together in a celebration of our faith and to enjoy a time of worship and fellowship together. This is a fabulous opportunity for us to partner with Kingsway in this way and to have worship events like this happening right here in Inverness."

Speaking of the possibility of future events on this nature David continued:

"It is hoped that if this type of event is well supported then we could host more of these in the future with the other Kingsway artists, which is really exciting. This is the only Scottish date in this tour, so its a real privilege for them to come to Inverness. I would really encourage people to come along to support this event, and enjoy a time of fellowship together."

 The Inverness concert is scheduled as follows:

Friday 14th October 2011

Smithton Culloden Free Church

Tickets for the event are available directly from the Alive website
Ticket prices:
£12.00 for Adults
£8 for under-16s and
Family ticket is £34
(Discounts available on all tickets until 16th September and at all times for church and youth groups).

Alternatively tickets can be obtained by telehone or e-mail -
Tel. 01463 248280 or
email Alive Ministry, or directly from CLC Bookshop in Inverness.

Ben Cantelon burst onto the Christian music scene 4 years ago, and has since travelled across the world appearing at conferences and festivals. As well as having success with his own albums, he co-wrote one of the loudest anthems of the last couple of years; 'Happy Day' with Tim Hughes. Ben is now Worship Director at Soul Survivor, a role he fills with trademark creativity and humility.

Cathy Burton has a voice of emotional resonance and tender fragility; a songwriter, performer, music scholar and teacher. She's played all over Europe in venues such as Brixton Academy, Shepherds Bush Empire, Manchester Apollo and Hilton Church Inverness during this years Alive Festival!

Nick Herbert, who is worship leader at St Marys, Bryanston Square in London, has led worship at Spring Harvest and New Wine conferences in the UK. His songs, which are full of biblical theology, have encouraged a generation of worshippers.

David Maclean, 27/08/2011

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A blogging exercise – creating a writing habit

So much I’m excited about, that I want to write about, and yet I rarely post. I’m changing that now.

Last year I set up a separate blog for my new life-coaching business, to describe my relatively analytical approach, and to blog on specific topics. I then set up  yet another blog (Procrastination Ambulance) focused on procrastination – which is my main focus in life coaching.

But having multiple blogs to manage became a distraction and a mental barrier, with maintenance on each, and decisions to make (which blog should I post to on topic X?) So I’ve used my own coaching processes on myself and come to four main decisions:

  • I’m running with Chris Waterguy as my business name, for now. People who know me in person remember my name, and know what I do.
  • One blog. I don’t love web admin work, and I don’t need to do it. It may not be perfect to mix posts on environmental and social issues with coaching and self-improvement topics, but I’m aiming for done and fun.
  • I give myself permission to share less-than-perfect blog posts, here on this site. My seminars are also imperfect, but people get value from them. And it’s my way of walking the talk that I talk with my clients. I’m not just telling you to embrace imperfection, I’m doing it.

And now, pardon any typos or other imperfections while I press “publish” – and what a great feeling this is!

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  1. Marisa

    Ha! So glad I came in and read this post. I love your style. Imperfect but adding value is what I’m aiming for these days too, but I hadn’t come up with such a great way of describing it.

  2. Hunter

    Good luck, Chris.

    I think your chosen path is a good one.

    I’ve often been too caught up in high expectations to do anything at all, and could benefit from letting myself do imperfect work

    Fail your way to success, as the saying goes.

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Pastor’s Update 5/20/2020

Pastor’s Update 5/20/2020

        This past Sunday, Grace Fellowship conducted a glorious outdoor service of worship.  It was my hope that we had a Psalm 34 praise service.  The Psalmist expressed his thankfulness in worship.  It was not because his circumstances were good.  It was not because of his strength or accomplishments.  His thankfulness was born from his experience in seeking and turning his attention to God.  And what came of it: “He heard me and delivered me from my fears.”  He realized that he was not alone, but that his God was at his side, whose presence brought a sense of peace and security.

        In the Psalm 34 service of worship, the people came together to share what God had done in each other’s lives.  This is a major element of our gathering to worship: “let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together.”  (Heb. 10:24-25) Our faith needs to be strengthened by the praise and testimonies of others.  It gives us hopefulness and expectancy.

        The participants in the Psalm 34 worship learned that God is good, near, and is always adequate.  The assembly reached this common conclusion: “My God shall supply every need of yours according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.”

        There is only one way to know these truths, and that is by personal experience.  So I end this devotional message with this appeal from Ps 34:8: “Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is that man, who trusts in Him!”

        The Grace Fellowship will again gather for a May 24 Service of Worship outdoors on the front lawn (weather permitting and sanctuary will be available) and metal folding chairs will be available.  Please attend, if you can, and bring your lawn chair.  All are invited to bring a picnic lunch in order to eat and fellowship after the service.  Pastor Mark Tanner will be giving our Sunday Service Message this Sunday.

        The office will be closed on Monday, May 25 for the Memorial Weekend.

        I praise the Lord for the faith and boldness of some of our North Carolina brethren who took the state government to court for violating the First Amendment of the Constitution in their restrictions on church gatherings.  A federal judge has ruled in our favor and those restrictions are removed for the present.  The democratic governor says he will not appeal Judge James C. Dever’s decision.  Thus, we will conduct our first gathering since the middle of March in our Worship Center on May 31st.

        We will begin back by only having our Praise and Worship hour.  There will be no Life Groups or Sunday School classes at the present.  And until we can study the matter of whether we need to change how we do nursery, there will be no nursery or Grace Kids during the worship hour for now.  Also, let us practice good health practices while we are together (social distancing, etc.).  Only attend if you feel comfortable being out and if your personal health condition allows.

        Speaking of having picnics, July 3 will be our church wide patriotic picnic on the church grounds.  The picnic will begin at 7 p.m. and conclude with fireworks at our neighborhood JC Park.  Further details will be forthcoming.

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This morning, Warner Bros. Interactive and TT Games (the developers behind all things LEGO), announced the release of LEGO Star Wars: Microfighters; a brand new top down shooter available for the iOS systems.  Come inside to learn more about the new game, and see some screens from it.

LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga now Available on iOS

The games that kicked off the very successful LEGO franchise of video games, spawning all sorts of new adaptations and hours of addictive fun, is now coming to the iOS platform.  Prepare to waste a whole bunch of time today as LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga is now available on your mobile devices!

Rated: Deus Ex: The Fall – iOS Gaming at its Best

Remarkably, developer N-Fusion has managed to translate the gameplay and feel of Deus Ex: Human Revolution to iOS in a way that is both natural and engaging.  Read on to get the full breakdown and final score of this excellent iOS game!

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HR Summit on transforming leadership : HRM in turbulent times

The HR Sumit with the theme : Transforming Leadership : Human Resource Management in Turbulent Times opened a window of opportunity for many of the attending corporate dignitaries to understand the importance of employee retention through appreciation of their contribution towards maintaining and nurturing the invaluable human resources.

The Session began with Forbes Marshall CEO Mr.Ramani Iyer airing his views on the Performance V/s.Potential aspect of the Human Resources. He emphasized that HR’s job is to discover the potential in the employee and motivate him to perform well. He touched on the HR Hygiene & HR Development aspect in Corporates from where lot of inspirations come forth. Mr.Ramani Iyer has 45 years of rich Corporate experience of which 29 years have been in Forbes Marshall alone.

Dr.Asit Mohapatra – Director HR of Raymonds expounded that Diversification is the need of the hour to maintain Leadership. He quoted the example of how HMT Watches which once was the pure indian breed and market leader, lost out to Titan Watches…which diversified to launch many models targeting Ladies, Gents & Teens. He touched on HR Challenges, HR Strategies viz. Survival v/s Win. He went on to state that Transformational Change & Transactional change could best be summed up as Control, Alter & Delete. The Changes have to be innovative.

Suresh Dutt Tripathi : President & Group HR of SRF Ltd made the point of Turbulence in the world around us quoting how Greece is going bankrupt and a tsunami in Japan has effect on Indian markets.The recent floods in thailand sent automobile companies into tizzy as their spares supply were hit. He emphasized the need for a paradigm Change – a transformation. In another decade or so additional young population would take over the reigns of management – demographical change.Instead of vertical integration it is now virtual integration to work with equals by outsourcing and co-existence with equals. He quoted how IT/ITES has grown by this outsourcing. In his views growth should also contain the characteristics of retaining the characteristics of small companies.He went on to say that Sun Rise as we were taught in schools used to be in West – but after coming and working in Indian corporates, he is convinced that India has changed the trend. Now Sun rises from East ( India ).

Janmejoy Patnaik – AGM – HRD of Central Bank spoke on Economic slowdown. He emphasized how American always love to use superlatives like fastest…greatest etc. When they talk of power they talk of global power, when they talk of market they talk of global market.Entire American civilization is characterized by their Lingo (what they speak), their Dream (Subconscious mind) and their Electorate. They dream big….and their elected representatives are relected atleast 4 – 5 times giving them time to shape their dreams.Mr.Patnaik’s speech also threw light on how the Lehman Brothers crissis of Housing backfired to hit the American Banking Industry and sent the whole world into a recession spin.

Vikas Rai Bhatnagar – Group Chief HR Officer of Minda Management Services Ltd. spoke on Employee Engagement and Retention.

Vasudhara Srivastava – AVP – HR of Quatrro Global Services Pvt.Ltd touched on Who to Reward. She made a point that hardly 5% from the Corporate employees are awarded for their contribution leaving 95% who also have a need to be appreciated. The need of the hour is to identify and appreciate all who have given their best and this would result in a satisfied population of work force.

Post Lunch : Mr.Rajeev Ranjan -Dy.National Director – HR, SOS Children Villages & Avadhesh Dixit, Global Head – HR TATA -TMC also took the stage presenting their views on Gen – Y : What are their needs. & Geny – Y – Development Drivers respectively.
Thereafter Sanjeev Tripathi – Sr.Manager HR – Spencers made a comparative analysis of Gen – X and Gen – Y.
The concluding session saw Mr.N.K. Goyal – President – CMAI, Mr.Rakesh Arora – VP – HR of Brick Red ( TPG Software Pvt.Ltd ) & Prateek Dubey – Zonal Head PAC of Coca Cola discussing on how Gen – X with their experiences and expertise have successfully led youngsters to groom them for responsibilities in leading/heading corporates and preparing them to scale greater heights.

Finally to summarize, the Summit was actually food for hungry minds and I am sure it has achieved its purpose in giving the new breed of HR’s ( and quite a lot of them who were participants ) food for thought and a direction and focus in taking their work to a new level.

About the Author : This article was contributed by Asst. Prof. R.Nayak, on behalf of G.L.Bajaj Institute of Management & Research as shared in here Invitation HR Summit transforming leadership

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Wind Power Restrictions

Citizens Count Editor

Four electricity-producing wind power plants operate in the state of New Hampshire:

The wind power plants in Lempster and Groton are each managed by Spanish wind energy company Iberdrola Renewables, while Canada's Brookfield Renwable Power operates the Coos County site. The Berlin project is managed by Massachusetts-based firm Solaya.

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Controversy in Groton

In late 2013, the state fire marshal and others filed complaints with the state Site Evaluation Committee, charging that Iberdrola failed to get proper approval for changes to the Groton Wind Farm construction plan.  Iberdrola argued they followed state law by filing the changes with the Department of Environmental Services.  In April, the fire marshal and Groton Wind Farm reached a compromise; Iberdrola agreed to upgrade fire safety equipment.  The Site Evaluation Committee closed its investigation into the Groton facility in June 2015.

Canceled Projects

In December 2013, Iberdrola Renewables also filed an application to build a 23-turbine wind power plant in Alexandria and Danbury.  The project faced opposition from local residents and the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests.  In May 2014, Iberdrola announced they were abandoning that application due to a hostile regulatory and political climate in New Hampshire.

Current Proposals

A 30-megawatt, 10-turbine wind project spanning the ridge line of Tuttle Hill and Willard Mountain in Antrim was originally rejected by the New Hampshire Site Evaluation Committee in 2013. The committee was concerned about the "unreasonable adverse (visual) effect" the project would have on the area. In 2016, the SEC approved a revised plan for a nine-turbine windfarm in Antrim. The New Hampshire Supreme Court upheld this decision in May 2018 and construction on the project commenced that summer.

Legislative developments

In 2013, Gov. Maggie Hassan signed SB 99, requiring the Site Evaluation Committee to direct a study of site evaluation criteria and establishing a committee to study the criteria for siting of wind turbines and other electricity-generating facilities. That process was completed in 2015 and the updated rules can be seen here. In 2017, Gov. Sununu signed HB 337, which gives the Site Evaluation Committee the power to regulate the noise level of small wind turbines.

"For" Position

By Citizens Count Editor

"NH should encourage further wind power development."

  • Wind power supporters argue that wind farms are a clean, sustainable alternative to burning fossil fuels.
  • Wind farms can also boost the local economy by creating jobs and providing tax revenue.
  • Supporters challenge reports that the noise from wind turbines is harmful to human health.  In December 2009, the American Wind Energy Association released a report claiming the sounds generated by wind turbines are not harmful to human health.

"Against" Position

By Citizens Count Editor

"NH should restrict further wind power development."

  • Critics argue that wind power plants are ugly, cause destruction of many acres of mountain top forestation, and disturb the natural habitat in those locales.
  • There are also concerns wind turbines cause physiological harm to residents living nearby. Some people have reported sleep deprivation, headaches and vertigo.

In Committee

Establishes an independent Offshore Wind Commission and an Office of Offshore Wind Industry Development within the Department of Business and Economic Affairs.

Signed by Governor

Updates the definitions of solar energy systems and wind-powered energy systems for the purpose of assessing property value. The definitions would specifically include systems both connected to the grid and off-grid. The bill includes a local property tax exemption for electric energy storage systems.

Tabled in the House

Urges the governor to request that the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management form a task force to plan for offshore wind development in the Gulf of Maine.

Killed in the House

Modifies the criteria the Site Evaluation Committee must consider when approving a project, to include the effect on property values.

Interim Study

Makes changes to the Site Evaluation Committee (SEC). In particular, this bill replaces all state officials on the committee with members of the public. This bill also requires the SEC to consider more factors when evaluating applications for wind turbines, such as shadow flicker.

Killed in the House

Establishes a committee to study off-shore wind energy development.

Tabled in the House

Requires the Site Evaluation Committee to issue a certificate for an energy facility if the committee fails to act within 365 days of acceptance of an application.

Killed in the House

Requires a certificate issued by the Site Evaluation Committee to include a provision that the applicant guarantees funding for restoration efforts in the event of environmental damage caused by the facility.

Signed by Governor

Allows the Site Evaluation Committee to set rules for municipal regulation of the noise level of small wind turbines. At the time of this bill's submission, state law does not allow municipalities to set a noise limit below 55 decibels.

Tabled in the House

Requires the Site Evaluation Committee to amend rules, specifically some rules requiring visual impact assessments, fire protection plans, and emergency response plans.

Signed by Governor

Requires an energy facility applying to build in New Hampshire to give notice to any affected municipality, including cities or towns that would be able to see or hear the energy facility in a neighboring municipality.

Killed in the House

Permits a representative of a municipality affected by a proposed energy facility to be a member of the Site Evaluation Committee for the sole purpose of voting on an application affecting his or her community.

Killed in the House

Requires a certificate for an energy facitility to contain monitoring procedures and "reasonable terms and conditions" that the Site Evaluation Committee deems necessary.

Killed in the House

Establishes a committee to study offshore wind energy production.

Killed in the House

Places a moratorium on all wind turbine and transmission line projects until the state develops a "comprehensive energy plan."

Killed in the House

Requires the Site Evaluation Committee to deny any proposed energy facility with "unreasonable adverse effect on aesthetics, historic sites, air and water quality, the natural environment, and public health and safety," and to consider the views of town governments in any decisions.

Signed by Governor

Givies the Public Utilities Commission the power to force PSNH to sell its power plants. This bill also requires the state Site Evaluation Committee to address scenic impacts, sound impacts, fire protection plans, and more when evaluating wind farm proposals.

Signed by Governor

Establishes a committee to study offshore wind energy production and other ocean power technology.

Tabled in the House

Sets limits on large wind farms, for example limiting the height of turbines to 250 feet.

Killed in the House

Requires an economic impact analysis for future energy projects to determine what they will mean for jobs and incomes in local communities.

Killed in the House

Requires an energy project to receive public approval anywhere the project's structures are visible.

Signed by Governor

Establishes a state energy council to develop an energy strategy.

Signed by Governor

Requires an evaluation of the Site Evaluation Committee, which is responsible for approving new energy projects like the wind farm in Antrim.

Should NH restrict further wind power development?

Joseph Settipane
- Wolfeboro

Sun, 07/22/2012 - 12:37am

I am amazed at how many intelligent people have been conned by windpower. Here is an energy source that makes no economic sense without huge government (taxpayer) subsidies, produces tiny amounts of unreliable energy, and destroys our environment.

We willingly sacrifice the beauty of our mountains, the pride of NH, as we skin our mountain tops to replace trees with 400 foot high industrial propellers (do people realize how tall that is?). Suddenly, we don't seem to mind killing birds, and making such a noisy racket that people can't live near these power plants, and certainly hiking in their area will end. Moreover, since they are mechanical monsters, they will require lots of maintenance, i.e., truck traffic running around our mountain tops, adding to their lack of long term competitiveness. Since they consist of a large number of small power plants, they require tons of wires to connect them all together and into the grid, the production and installation of which are all negative to the environment. And most importantly, they do not replace power plants using other fuels. Since the wind is so unreliable other power plants have to be built anyway, and turning them on and off to jibe with the fickle wind has a more negative impact on the environment than running them continuously.

Everyone in the state seemed to rise up against Northern Pass, which was all about towers ruining our natural land, but the poor people of Groton who object to this fiasco have been thrown overboard.

Finally, in an economic era when we endlessly complain about taxes, deficits, and family incomes, we support an energy source that eats away at our income, causes higher taxes, and adds to our fiscal deficits, at home, here in NH and in our national governement.

If it is the 150 jobs that caught your interest, there are plenty of way to create uneconmic taxpayer funded jobs, let's just start hiring people to sweep the streets. They would be better jobs that burdening our citizens with the long term economic and environmental devastation of wind power.

Where are our economists, where are our environmentalists, where are our home rule advocates? What am I missing Granite Staters?

John Sullivan
- Methuen

Mon, 04/02/2012 - 11:06pm

It doesn't take an eye-popping trip to the filling station or an onerous home heating bill to get even the most retro, fossil-fuel-loving American to begin contemplating energy alternatives. Nukes? Wind?

Anyone relying on New Hampshire's own Seabrook Station nuclear power plant as the hope of green energy's future has to have been chastened by last week's chastisement of the plant by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The plant, never a favorite among environmentalists, was chided over failing concrete and its dim prospects for long-term operability.

According to the Hampton Union, the nuke plant is safe for now, but inspectors reiterated concerns -- first raised in a 2011 inspection -- over "potentially problematic conditions, including a large amount of groundwater infiltration and calcium carbonate deposits, corroded steel supports, base plates and piping, corroded anchor bolts, pooling of water, and cracking and spalling of concrete."

Not exactly Three Mile Island-level stuff, sure, but the potential for radioactive havoc makes wind farms look more and more sensible, right?

Well, it depends who you ask. Live Free or Die Alliance member Claude Roessiger recently fired off a cri de coeur in which he bemoaned the "landscape desecrated by windmills."

And opponents of a possible wind farm in Antrim launched a Facebook page last June in an effort to "stop indiscriminate wind farm development in one quite well-populated area!"

But the antipathy toward wind turbines isn't restricted to aesthetics. In an article for The Spectator, essayist Matt Ridley decries what he sees as wind power's legacy of "killing jobs, despoiling views, erecting pylons, felling forests, killing bats and eagles, causing industrial accidents, clogging motorways, polluting lakes in Inner Mongolia with the toxic and radioactive tailings from refining neodymium, a ton of which is in the average turbine."

And the payoff? "To the nearest whole number, the percentage of the world’s energy that comes from wind turbines today is: zero," he writes.

Granted, others are far more optimistic about wind turbines' role regarding the Granite State's economy and energy needs. However, it's clear that a fossil-fuel-free future for New Hampshire and the rest of America is a long way off.

Paul Roden
- Morrisville

Thu, 03/07/2013 - 10:07pm

Wind energy is not the only source of renewable energy.  Wind is the fastest source of renewable energy.  Everybody must get a hold of the Nov. 2009 issue of Scientific American, where two scientists, Dr. Mark Jacobson at Stanford University and Dr. Mark Delucchi lay out a plan to power the Earth with existing technology without fossil or nuclear fuel.  Nuclear power and natural gas or oil extracted with fracking will produce more wastes than any wind turbine, photovoltaic array will ever produce.  In the Marcellus Shale, the drinking water of 15 million people for generations to come will be effected by the chemicals from fracking that are toxic, carcinogenic, endocrine disruptor, and can't be separated from the water once used.  Tailings from both nuclear power and fracking drilling have to be kept out of the biosphere for ever.  I sincerely doubt the rare earth elements needed for wind turbines and solar photovoltaic will produce any where near the volume of wastes produced world wide by nuclear and fossil fuel extraction.  The burning of the fracked gas produces carbon dioxide, a green house gas which we don't need.

The solution is a mixture of solar, wind, tidal, hydroelectric, hydrogen fuel cell vehicles and electricity sources, geothermal, biomass alcohol and methane, smart grids, more mass transit, upgrading appliances and machines at our factories.  Restructuring towns and cities with less traffic and more mass transit.

I have a petition on the Website to request that the US Department of Energy, investigate and publish a comprehensive plan to convert the country to 100% renewable energy by 2030 with existing technology and report their plans to the American People.  The url is

We have until March 22, 2013 to gather 100,000 signatures for Obama to respond.

Claude Roessiger
- Wolfeboro

Thu, 04/10/2014 - 10:44pm

I am just returned from New Mexico, where a discussion with persons involved in some development projects led me to understand that New Mexico has some very wise legislation regarding mountain summits and ridge lines: nothing may be erected upon them. When we consider what we are doing to our once lovely state with wind power’s monster towers, and to our once dark country nights with lines of red blinking lights, and that we are doing this for a power source that is uneconomical and inefficient—save for the money it earns some well-to-do landowners, through subsidies paid by us—we must ask what legacy we intend in our names?

The corruption that is the inevitable metastasis of subsidy now extends beyond the pockets of wealthy landowners to the towns they have bought off in pursuit of their object: the lower taxes offered by the payments from the wind power installations all but assure the perpetuation of the racket, until the people themselves are suborned. But let us make no mistake, for the source of the ill is the subsidy, and that is firmly on the heads of our legislators: knaves if they know what they do, and fools if they do not. For our once lovely countryside and mountains, a tear.

Claude Roessiger

Wolfeboro, NH

#scenicNH  #windpower  #preserveNH  #nhenergy

Brian Dunn
- Henniker

Tue, 04/15/2014 - 10:32pm

I work for a man who owns 109 acres high up on a mountain side in New Hampshire. I can assure you it is constantly windy at this location. It got us to debating what we could do with that land. I had the idea to lease a portion of the land for a wind farm. I have heard from local firefighters that the town and towns people would not support it, that the neighbors do not want to hear the whooshing of turbines and it infringes on their peace. In my life experience almost every person I talk seems not to be in favor of wind farms.

I am a Libertarian. I believe property rights are one of the most sacred and important rights we have in this country. The American dream is owning your own land, building your own home and raising your family there. We all pay property taxes and this is where it ends. Your privately owned land is just that, your land. The man I am speaking about bought the land within the last few years. I advised him that if his neighbors wanted any say about what goes on, within his 109 acres that they should have bought the property. They did not, he did. It is his right to develop his land and not be bothered by the back seat drivers who were not ambitious enough to buy the land for themselves. I am currently waiting to hear back from potential companies to gauge is there is an interest in building turbines at this location.

Oil is a fossil fuel. Oil is finite and will run out. At some point we are going to have to begin invest in alternative energies for the future of this country. I am of the mind we need to begin actively doing this sooner than later. In 2014, Germany has successfully adapted 40% of its power supply to renewable weather powered energy. If bureaucrats refuse to let us frack and drill our own reserves than we can not be dependent on international resources. If fracking, drilling and offshore drilling are removed from the table, investment in domestic alternative energies is our only solution.

Bettina DeCosta
- Campton

Sun, 11/30/2014 - 9:18pm

As a resident near Plymouth, I continued to feel sad and frustrated by the present of the Wind Turbines that scar our beautiful landscape. I know this is old news to most and do not want to repeat what others have already commented on. I do feel it is important to express my thoughts as we as taxpayers and residents have the right and duty to others in our community to live in the best environment possible. I have so often walked the back roads, hiked through the woods, floated down the river or on one of the pristine lakes while gazing out at the beautiful mountains. I have climbed to the top of rattlesnake mountain and looked out over what used to be a spectacular view.

Now I am saddened and depressed to see the scarred mountainside that the Wind Turbines dominate. What used to help me relax, feel calm and at peace now have the effect of a sick feeling inside. Two of my children have majored and minored in environmental studies, and both have stated the negatives of the wind turbines far outweigh the positives. The emotional effect of looking at the extensive damage to our beautiful mountains is bad enough, but that fact that they destroy our wildlife, have minimal impact on our carbon footprint, and potentially can cause extensive fires, to name a few of the negatives, brings me to the conclusion the only path is to remove the turbines before more damage is done.

Ananta Gopalan
- Hampton

Sun, 05/05/2013 - 9:56pm

The recently posted article about licensing issues with the wind farms in New Hampshire bemoans how siting delays are affecting the deployment of wind power.

It highlights aesthetics as the central issue in licensing. That may be at the level of bureaucracy deciding on approval.  However, the article failed to mention all the birds the wind farms are killing. It mentions about the California wind farm set up by those pioneers from UMass operating in New Hampshire. It fails to mention the hundreds of eagles being destroyed by wind farms there. All of a sudden, we don't hear a peep out of the environmental organizations who don't seem to be reluctant to be unruly at every other energy source! Imagine that in a state that reduced irrigation water in the most productive San Joaquin valley because of small fish called Delta smelt being threatened.

In addition to killing birds by the hundreds, being unsightly and producing unacceptable sound and vibrations, wind power produces when it can (and not 24/7) measly amounts of usable power. All that for so little power produced!!!.

Wind power can never be viable because it is not in concentrated form and available whenever needed. Think about it.  We used to use sailing ships (wind power) to get to England and it used to take anywhere from four to six weeks or longer. Steam power replaced sailing ships and cut the time to one week.

Ability to control the energy and to have power any time at any level is the advancement that cannot be duplicated with the wind power. Electrical energy produced by wind turbines is no different.

Wind operates a generator instead of providing motive power through sails.  There is no way to store electrical energy in massive quantities. When the wind dies (and it is often) that energy delivery to the grid goes down with it requiring another form of generator to pick up the slack.

You need an equivalent generating source that is reliable, available and on line, waiting.  In fact, Scottish Wind farms have reported about only about 15% of nameplate rating delivery sustainable in the years they have been in operation.  So, you need to install turbines over-sized by about seven times making it capital inefficient. Those fundamental facts of physics can not be overcome no matter which politician and environmental group favors wind power.

The government steps in and subsidizes (through tax payers or rate payers) not only the construction but also the cost of the electricity to make wind power a political choice.  People have to pay for it one way or another. Without government subsidy throughout its life at every stage of its installation and operation wind power can never make it.

The state of New Hampshire must get out of the power generation business.

Ananta Gopalan
- Hampton

Tue, 12/17/2013 - 8:45pm

In the early 1960s, Rachael Carson wrote a book entitled "Silent Spring" which chronicled how the use of DDT in particular was endangering the population of raptors, such as eagles, hawks and others because of potential genetic mutation of their eggs and campaigned for the ban of DDT.  DDT up until that point had been (and still is) the most efficient, effective and safe means of destroying mosquitoes that are responsible for a host of diseases for many hundreds of years.  The US and the Western Europe had wiped out malaria and yellow fever in the 1940s and 1950s.  In 1973, DDT was banned.  The UN banned its use in Africa.  Many of the populous countries in Asia did not go along with the ban and eliminated malaria using DDT.  The result of that ban in the last 40 years had been the untimely deaths of 50 million African babies due to malaria.  DDT substitutes had not been effective at all.  Years of research have proven that DDT is quite harmless to humans and its connection to mutation of eggs of the raptors could not be proved scientifically.

In 2013, the Obama administration has provided a 30-year approval to operate the giant windmills even though there is incontrovertible evidence that those windmills kill eagles, hawks, falcons, bats by the hundreds.  The windmills represent the most backward thinking technology that can never be viable because they require gathering energy from a diffused source which is unpredictable.  Windmills produce less than 1% of US energy while depleting the populations of some of the protected species of the birds.  So, where are the Audubon Society, World Wild Life Foundation people and the Sierra Club?  Where are their lawyers filing law suits in courts to save the eagles, our national symbol?  Their disgusting silence reveals their true colors.

How about criminalizing the coal power plants by those same groups because they emit immeasurably small quantities of mercury?  While they are busy shutting down the coal fired plants because of immeasurable mercury, they are applauding the use of the same mercury at 100 times the level of coal emissions in each of the CFL bulbs which contain 0.3 grams of the toxic substance. They are all in favor of the stupid law enacted to ban the safe incandescent bulbs.  Imagine that.  In America, in the land of the free, we can not even choose our own light bulbs.  FDA even warned us a few years ago not to eat tuna fish because of comparatively very low dosage of mercury.  Where are the self proclaimed guardians of environments protesting the introduction of millions of mercury laden bulbs in our homes?

By the way, the Sierra Club tried to shut down the huge coal-fired power plants operating on the tribal lands of the Hopi people in Arizona by sending demonstrators and agitators there.  The Native people threw them all out.  They can not stand to see poor Native American people wanting to prosper using their lands and resources.

The so called environmental activists such as Sierra Club, WWF and Audubon Society are all hypocrites.  They all serve to promote the anti-capitalistic agenda.  They don't really care about environment and elevation of people all over the world from famine and disease.  Their goal, it appears judging from their actions, is to advance collectivism and invalidate individual property rights.

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