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News and sports for the last day of the year

by Tryan Hartill

End of the year Web Roundup

I have 2 stat counters now and there is a fairly large difference between the numbers. My old one is at 23,000 hits for the month (30 days total) and my new one is nearing 10,000 since Dec 11th (20 days total)...it’s at the bottom of the front page.

The reason they are so different is because my old one counts RSS/Subscribe reads as hits (i.e. someone reads an article from Google Reader/Bloglines and doesn’t visit the site) and counts hits from other countries. My new one seems to filter those 2 out.

I’m planning on setting up some ads in the near future in order to cover local news a little better, so these numbers will be important when I talk to potential advertisers. (if you or someone you know want to do ads, I will have the contact info up shortly) In terms of viewers, the one at the bottom is probably a better indication of how many times the ads will be seen per day. Just a W.A.G….but I would say 60% of my hits are from locals, 25% are from people around Oregon (Mostly Portland and Eugene) and the remaining coming from the rest of the country.

Incidentally my old counter will reach 300,000 total hits around midnight tonight…

Sports

  • The Seattle Seahawks lose at Atlanta in a fairly meaningless game. They will play Washington at home on Sat. in the first round of the playoffs.
  • Astoria wins the Vince Dulcich tourney by barely slipping by the Naselle Comets 37-35 in the first round and beating up on Knappa in the finals…50-29.
  • The Beavers Defense steps up in the second half as they win the Emerald Bowl 21-14. This is 4 bowl game wins in a row for the Beaves.
  • The Ducks will play in the Sun Bowl today at 11am today on CBS. They will meet South Florida who also made it to #2 in the polls, but faded down the stretch much like the Oregon Ducks.

Local News

  • Starting January 15th, all gas sold in Clatsop County will be 10% Ethanol.

“The consumer should see minimal difference in mileage or the performance of their vehicle with the new fuel standard,” said Russ Wyckoff, administrator of the Oregon Department of Agriculture’s Measurement Standards Division.
Older vehicles that already may have some water contamination in their tanks may be affected by the change, he said. And motorists may need to change a fuel filter soon after the ethanol-blended product is put into the tank for the first time. As of Sept. 16, the only gasoline to be sold in Oregon without the ethanol requirement is fuel used exclusively for aircraft, Wyckoff said.

  • 5 people were injured in a crash on 26 near Elsie. It happened about 4:45 yesterday, here are some photos and story.
  • Watch out on your way to work this morning…it’s a sheet of ice out there…
Dec 31, 03:01 am | Tryan Hartill
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10 comments on this article (post your own)

1 On Dec 31, 10:01 am, I need some KY Im tired of being dry humped wrote:

I predict, Ethanol production will raise fuel and food prices, cause more pollution and more studies will find, that using this mixture will also result in lower gas mileage, and will result in more highly explosive car crashes . But that is just an uneducated guess from a person that does not have Dr. in front of his name.

2 On Dec 31, 10:22 am, walter richards wrote:

What happens to ethanol when the fields used for corn/grain have to lie fallow, or produce some other crop?

3 On Dec 31, 03:17 pm, Californication wrote:

Cellulosic Ethanol

Biodiesel

4 On Dec 31, 03:51 pm, Trillium wrote:

What happens to ethanol when the fields used for corn/grain have to lie fallow—————————————————————————
Nothing happens to ethanol. Why would it? Does something happen to bread when wheat fields lie fallow on alternating years? Uh, no.

5 On Dec 31, 05:39 pm, I need some KY Im tired of being dry humped wrote:

I predict a severe food shortage coming along with higher cost of food, mainly impacting the third world countries that depend on our low cost of corn and wheat. Wheat is also another source of ethanol production, the fields that lie fallow can lie fallow up to two years. There will have to be more land confiscated, logged, cleared and cultivated, just to keep up with the demand, thus resulting in more pollution and destruction of our forests and private property taken from people. This is just a theory of mine. I have no facts to support anything I just wrote, except wheat being used for ethanol and the fields can lie fallow up to, two years. I just googled it, the rest are just predictions.

6 On Dec 31, 06:16 pm, Trillium wrote:

There will have to be more land confiscated, logged, cleared and cultivated, just to keep up with the demand,———————————————————————————
Baloney. There’s probably just as much good US dryland crop ground being held being held out of production as there is in production. And the government pays the farmers to keep it out of production because they can produce so much it is disrputive to the market. Never underestimate how much grain this country can produce and never underestimate the ability of American farmers to deliver the goods. This country is breadbasket to the world and has been so for a long time. Only severe climate change is going to put American farmers down.

7 On Dec 31, 06:30 pm, Californication wrote:

KY, see my link above on cellulosic ethanol. In a few years our need for corn-based ethanol will go down.

8 On Dec 31, 06:50 pm, I need some KY Im tired of being dry humped wrote:

One opinion to another but with all the extra farming no matter where the land comes from, more pollution will result either way. I cannot seem to find anything about the US dry land crop ground (as of yet) But I guess we will see in the coming months and or years to see what really happens, but I have my predictions and nothing has changed my mind (as of yet) You are right, America is the bread-basket to the world that is exactly why I came up with the predictions that I have. Higher food prices and more starving children will result:)

9 On Dec 31, 07:09 pm, Jon Dana wrote:

The price of corn is directly related to the increased prices of eggs, milk, cheese. Next year farmers will be planting less soybeans, less wheat, and less oats and planting more corn. This will raise the price of all flour based and meat products. It’s a no win situation, unless the price of oil goes down.

10 On Dec 31, 07:33 pm, I need some KY Im tired of being dry humped wrote:

Cali, I did read it, but what bothers me is there is no mention of anything about the production of such ethanol being any less polluting to our enviroment. The way I see it,, The more demand for more specialized heavy equipment will result in more demand for oil thus resulting in even more pollution not to mention more heavy trucks, trains, and ships, that also need oil to haul the stuff, creating more pollution yet.

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