Proposed Wind Farm For Tioga, North Dakota -- Necessary For Pumps, Some Say -- October 9, 2015

The Dickinson Press reports.

• $250 million
• 150 MW
• $1.7 million / MW

It could be worse: they could be considering a solar farm.

If approved, this will help bring ND into compliance with President Obama's Clean Power Act. This would also have huge advantages for the ND oil and gas industry.

If approved, I suppose this is the final nail in the "buffalo commons" coffin. 

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Two Items From Our Granddaughters' School District Monthly Newsletter

First, the note about the elementary school field trip to local college:

In celebration of College Week at Heritage Elementary School, third, fourth and fifth graders took the opportunity to visit GCISD's Collegiate Academy at Tarrant County College Northeast.

The elementary students were excited to walk around the campus and see areas, such as the library, science lab, and study center. A few comments from students included:

"Look! It's a giant building full of books."
"It's a vending machine where you can buy school supplies. I want one of those!"
 "I'm so going to school here one day!" (Heritage ES Principal Stacey Voigt's favorite comment of the day.)

The second note regarding academic achievement at the district's two high schools:

In a side-by-side comparison of scores on college entrance scores, AP exam results, graduation rates and other data, GCISD's two traditional high schools easily outpace average scores from around the state, while posting nearly identical numbers to one another.

Each school currently has 10 National Merit Semifinalists. Grapevine High has 28 National Merit commended students and Colleyville Heritage High has 27. Both schools average in the 1,600's for combined SAT scores.

The schools posted comparable ACT composite scores, with GHS averaging 25.1 and CHHS at 24.6, both well above the 20.9 statewide average. Across the board, CHHS and GHS easily outpace the average statewide end of course scores with very comparable numbers from each campus.

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Target Practice

Based on reports coming out of the Mideast yesterday that Russian submarine-launched cruise missiles hit Iran rather than Syria, I had to look at the map again:

I guess that's why folks want nuclear weapons -- accuracy not quite as important.

Note: the submarine is not drawn to scale, nor is the actual location known for sure. For illustrative purposes only. Do not make any invasion or defensive plans based on this graphic. If this is important to you, go to the source: wikileaks or Hillary's back-up server(s). SecState Kerry might also have a copy, but his would have a picture of a yacht instead of a submarine.