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Battlestar Galactica: The Complete Series [Blu-ray]
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698 of 704 people found the following review helpful:
Confused about What to Get? Here Are Some Answers,
August 2, 2010ByGilgamesh (New Jersey) –
This review is from: Battlestar Galactica: The Complete Series (with Collectible Cylon) (DVD)
I bought all of the seasons separately as they first came out, and I highly recommend watching the entire television series through to the end. The five stars are for the series, NOT for the atrocious marketing.
While looking for the last piece of the series (see the end of the review), I came across some great deals (in terms of price), but was dismayed to see just how confusing things have become on Amazon. This review below is meant to help you wade through the mess in the marketplace, purchase the series, and enjoy it. I originally posted it for the combined Seasons 4.0 and 4.5 set, but someone kindly suggested I post it elsewhere as well. I hope you find it helpful.
The show is incredible. However, the whole DVD thing has been a disaster. They released it in the worst way possible (see below), Amazon compounded the problem by lumping together reviews for DIFFERENT PRODUCTS, and the DVD manufacturers seem to be changing the contents of some products. I cannot imagine how someone who is not deeply familiar with it is supposed to purchase this wonderful show. Certainly, they would hesitate to give it as a gift! Let's hope this solves your problem.
In one sentence, I can say that here is what you want to get: Seasons 1, 2.0, 2.5, 3, 4.0, 4.5, and The Plan. I have links to them below. If you get these, then you will be sure to have it all.
-Season One was released as (Battlestar Galactica – Season One) altogether with the pilot in one box.
-Season Two was released as Battlestar Galactica – Season 2.0 (Episodes 1-10) and Battlestar Galactica: Season 2.5 (Episodes 11-20) in two boxes. You can now purchase them together as Battlestar Galactica (2004): Seasons 2.0 & 2.5
-Season Three was released together in one box as Battlestar Galactica – Season Three.
-Season Four was released as Battlestar Galactica – Season 4.0 and Battlestar Galactica: Season 4.5 with the Razor episode. Those are now available together as Battlestar Galactica (2004): Season 4.0 & 4.5. Occasionally I come across things like "Battlestar Galactica: Season 4.5 – Limited Edition Gift Set (2009)." It seems like a lot of money for one part of the full season, but you get some dog tags with it, so if you are into collecting memorabilia, you might want to consider it.
-The Plan was released on its own as Battlestar Galactica: The Plan
-Battlestar Galactica: The Complete Series (with COLLECTIBLE CYLON). Not recommended. I do not own this, but according to the reviews, it is packaged poorly WITHOUT AN EPISODE LIST. That seems like a horrible idea for four seasons of a tv show. Apparently, it contains the same DVDs as the ones sold separately (explained above).
-Battlestar Galactica: The Complete Series (the one in the GRAY BOX). Recommended. I do not own this. Good reviews of it so far. Packaging problems were fixed.
-Battlestar Galactica: The Complete Series (with COLLECTIBLE CYLON) [BLU-RAY] or the gray box [BLU-RAY] set. Recommended. I do not own this. Seems to include some extras, but not significant. It also has an episode list, according to the reviews. It might be worth buying if you wanted to get everything together.
140 of 156 people found the following review helpful:
Exceptional boxed set with seasons one thru four deserving between 4 to 5 stars; packaging bit more problematic for Blu-ray/DVD,
July 28, 2009ByWayne Klein "If at first the idea is not absu… (My Little Blue Window, USA) –
Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?)This review is from: Battlestar Galactica: The Complete Series (with Collectible Cylon) [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray)
Seasons 1-4 deserve anywhere from 5 to 4 stars depending on the season. The extras deserve 4 stars while the packaging deserves 2 for the bigger box 1 for the cardboard sleeves.
Edit: FYI, this includes the mini-series in addition to ALL the seasons of "BG", "Razor" is included but "Caprica" and "Face of the Enemy" webisodes are not.
During its four season run "Battlestar Galatica" produced some of the best episodes for ANY television series whether it be a mainstream drama or science fiction. While some fans of the series were disappointed with the conclusion quite a bit was hinted at in previous episodes and it doesn't detract from the quality of the previous ones. The image quality varies from exceptionally good to fair but the show retains the "look" the producers wanted; some shots are meant to be not only extremely grainy but also a bit soft so you'll forgive the studio and makers for going with their artistic vision. Either way the image looks terrific but don't expect this to look like a smooth high def show designed to look slick. Detail is sharper regardless of the "look" of the show.
Audio sounds terrific throughout with an active 5.1 lossless soundtrack that highlights the level of detail that went into preparing the show.
The extras for seasons one through three are more or less the same as on the original DVDs the only new extra (aside from the new extras for season four which I'll address in a minute)to this set is the BD-Live "Battlestar Galatica Card Game". So far there isn't anything else on BD-Live (as of the release date) available but I'd also note that the season one Blu-ray and DVD as part of this boxed set includes the deleted scenes from the first season something missing if I recall correctly from the DVD (I sold mine to upgrade to the Blu-ray so can't look at it).
It appears as if most of the extras are exactly like like the previous sets with one exception the deleted scenes for the first season. I'm going to focus on the extras for the fourth season because most of the special features are ported over from the previous DVD boxed sets. We get extended episodes for "A Disquiet Follows My Soul", "Islands in a Stream of Stars" and "Daybreak" as well as 13 commentary tracks, David Eick's Video Diaries and deleted scenes for the fourth season set.There's also pip's that allow you to watch behind-the-scenes stuff while watching the show as well as an explanation of some of the jargon used by the characters on the show.
The packaging is a bit more problematic. While the big box is sturdy enough and looks extremely nice, the smaller boxes that hold each season set holds the discs in cardboard sleeves. It will increase the chance that these could get scratched and I am disappointed that Universal didn't design this set for a more traditional DVD or Blu-ray holder. The good news is that each season comes in its own compact box and they will stand up with other Blu-ray and DVDs on the shelf. I personally think it is nicer in concept than execution and wish it was designed similar to the UK boxed set coming in September but that's me.
Let's not forget the toy Cylon that's on the top of the cardboard boxed set it looks kind of cool but I haven't opened it to examine yet.
In conclusion there's good and bad with this set with the good outweighing the bad. "BG" receives a handsome looking Blu-ray transfer with great sound and some terrific extras. A terrific series where Gaius Balter redeems himself and Cavil proves to be everything we believed him to be from the first introduction of his character.
304 of 345 people found the following review helpful:
Not quite as good as I expected…,
July 28, 2009ByK. Kanitz (Upper Midwest) –
This review is from: Battlestar Galactica: The Complete Series (with Collectible Cylon) (DVD)
The complete series box set is a *big* box, not something that will fit easily on a shelf. The box is quite sturdy, with each season's discs packaged in their own sleeve (four in all). These sleeves are cardboard with flip up covers; inside, the discs are nested in a folded cardboard separator.
Some have claimed that this set would include the movie "Caprica", but it is *not* included. The 25 DVDs in this set are the same DVDs available in the 6 season sets (1, 2.0, 2.5, 3, 4.0, 4.5).
The series was produced in HD, which means a wide-screen presentation; however, it was deliberately shot with a grainy look to give it a 'gritty' film quality.
Why get this collection instead of the six season sets? You get a neat Cylon Centurion figurine (and it's good sized!), but no booklet, a huge box, and inferior internal packaging. I bought the series this way mainly because it was (slightly) cheaper than purchasing the six season sets individually; nevertheless, I'm experiencing a bit of buyer's remorse.


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In my last article, I started discussing Compojure, a Web framework written in the Clojure language. Clojure already has generated a great deal of excitement among software developers, in that it combines the beauty and expressive elegance of Lisp with the efficiency and ubiquity of the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). Clojure has other traits as well, including its famous use of software transactional memory (STM) to avoid problems in multithreaded environments.
As a Web developer and a longtime Lisp aficionado, I've been intrigued by the possibility of writing and deploying Web applications written in Clojure. Compojure would appear to be a simple framework for creating Web applications, built on lower-level systems, such as "ring", which handles HTTP requests.
In my last article, I explained how to create a simple Web application using the "lein" system, modify the project.clj configuration file and determine the HTML returned in response to a particular URL pattern ("route"). Here, I try to advance the application somewhat, looking at the things that are typically of interest to Web developers. Even if you don't end up using Clojure or Compojure, I still think you'll learn something from understanding how these systems approach the problem.
Databases and Clojure
Because Clojure is built on the JVM, you can use the same objects in your Clojure program as you would in a Java program. In other words, if you want to connect to a PostgreSQL database, you do so with the same JDBC driver that Java applications do.
Installing the PostgreSQL JDBC driver requires two steps. First, you must download the driver, which is available at http://jdbc.postgresql.org. Second, you then must tell the JVM where it can find the classes that are defined by the driver. This is done by setting (or adding to) the CLASSPATH environment variable—that is, put the driver in:
export CLASSPATH=/home/reuven/Downloads:$CLASSPATH
Once you have done that, you can tell your Clojure project that you want
to include the PostgreSQL JDBC driver by adding two elements to the
:dependencies vector within the
defproject macro:
(defproject cjtest "0.1.0-SNAPSHOT"
:description "FIXME: write description"
:url "http://example.com/FIXME"
:dependencies [[org.clojure/clojure "1.5.1"]
[compojure "1.1.5"]
[hiccup "1.0.3"]
[org.clojure/java.jdbc "0.2.3"]
[postgresql "9.1-901.jdbc4"]]
:plugins [[lein-ring "0.8.5"]]
:ring {:handler cjtest.handler/app}
{:dev {:dependencies [[ring-mock "0.1.5"]]}})
Now you just need to connect to the database, as well as interact with
it. Assuming you have created a database named "cjtest" on
local PostgreSQL server, you can use the built-in Clojure REPL (
repl) to talk to the database. First, you need to load the database
driver and put it into an "sql" namespace that will allow you to work
with the driver:
(require '[clojure.java.jdbc :as sql])
Then, you need to tell Clojure the host, database and port to which you want to connect. You can do this most easily by creating a "db" map to build the query string that PostgreSQL needs:
(def db {:classname "org.postgresql.Driver"
:subprotocol "postgresql"
:subname (str "//" "localhost" ":" 5432 "/" "cjtest")
:user "reuven"
:password ""})
With this in place, you now can issue database commands. The easiest
way to do so is to use the
with-connection macro inside the
"sql" namespace, which connects using the driver and then lets
issue a command. For example, if you want to create a new table
containing a serial (that is, automatically updated primary key) column
and a text column, you could do the following:
(sql/with-connection db
(sql/create-table :foo [:id :serial] [:stuff :text]))
If you then check in psql, you'll see that the table has indeed been
created, using the types you specified. If you want to insert
data, you can do so with the
sql/insert-values function:
(sql/with-connection db (sql/insert-values
↪:foo [:stuff] ["first post"]))
Next, you get back the following map, indicating not only that the data was inserted, but also that it automatically was given an ID by PostgreSQL's sequence object:
{:stuff "first post", :id 1}
What if you want to retrieve all of the data you have inserted? You
can use the
sql/with-query-results function, iterating over the
results with the standard
doseq function:
(sql/with-connection db
(sql/with-query-results resultset ["select * from foo"]
(doseq [row resultset] (println row))))
Or, if you want only the contents of the "stuff" column, you can use:
(sql/with-connection db
(sql/with-query-results resultset ["select * from foo"]
(doseq [row resultset] (println (:stuff row)))))
Databases and Compojure
Now that you know how to do basic database operations from the Clojure REPL, you can put some of that code inside your Compojure application. For example, let's say you want to have an appointment calendar. For now, let's assume that there already is a PostgreSQL "appointments" databases defined:
CREATE TABLE Appointments (
id SERIAL,
meeting_at TIMESTAMP,
meeting_with TEXT,
notes TEXT
INSERT INTO Appointments (meeting_at, meeting_with, notes)
VALUES ('2013-july-1 12:00', 'Mom', 'Always good to see Mom');
You'll now want to be able to go to /appointments in your Web application and see the current list of appointments. To do this, you need to add a route to your Web application, such that it'll invoke a function that then goes to the database and retrieves all of those elements.
Before you can do so, you need to load the PostgreSQL JDBC driver into
your Clojure application. You can do this most easily in the
section of your namespace declaration in handler.clj:
(ns cjtest.handler
(:use compojure.core)
(:require [compojure.handler :as handler]
[compojure.route :as route]
[clojure.java.jdbc :as sql]))
(I did this manually in the REPL with the "require" function, with slightly different syntax.)
You then include your same definition of "db" in handler.clj, such that your database connection string still will be available.
Then, you add a new line to your
defroutes macro, adding a new
/appointments URL, which will invoke the
(defroutes app-routes
(GET "/" [] "Hello World")
(GET "/appointments" [] list-appointments)
(GET "/fancy/:name" [name] say-hello)
(route/resources "/")
(route/not-found "Not Found"))
Finally, you define
list-appointments, a function
that executes an SQL
query and then grabs the resulting records and turns them into a
bulleted list in HTML:
(defn list-appointments
[:h1 "Current appointments"]
(sql/with-connection db
(sql/with-query-results rs ["select * from appointments"]
(map format-appointment rs))))]))
Remember that in a functional language like Clojure, the idea is to get the results from the database and then process them in some way, handing them off to another function for display (or further processing). The above function produces HTML output, using the Hiccup HTML-generation system. Using Hiccup, you easily can create (as in the above function) an H1 headline, followed by a "ul" list.
The real magic happens in the call to
sql/with-query-results. That
function puts the results of your database call in the
rs variable.
You then can do a number of different things with that resultset. In
this case, let's turn each record into an "li" tag in the final
HTML. The easiest way to do that is to apply a function to each
element of the resultset. In Clojure (as in many functional
languages), you do this with the
map function, which transforms a
collection of items into a new collection of equal length.
What does the
format-appointment function do? As you can imagine, it
turns an appointment record into HTML:
(defn format-appointment [one-appointment]
(html [:li (:meeting_at one-appointment)
" : "
(:meeting_with one-appointment)
" (" (:notes one-appointment) ")" ]))
In other words, you'll treat the record as if it were a hash and then retrieve the elements (keys) from that hash using Clojure's shorthand syntax for doing so. You wrap that up into HTML, and then you can display it for the user. The advantage of decomposing your display functionality into two functions is that you now can change the way in which appointments are displayed, without modifying the main function that's called when /appointments is requested by the user.
Reuven M. Lerner, Linux Journal Senior Columnist, a longtime Web developer, consultant and trainer, is completing his PhD in learning sciences at Northwestern University.
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I'm again failing to see why ratepayers are paying so much for WE's oak creek polluter...
At home, at work or on the road, energy writer Thomas Content keeps you current as you adapt to changes in the world of energy, climate change and efforts to build a greener economy.
Wis. nuclear plant to close in Q2 after no harm found to power grid
The Kewaunee Power Station will be allowed to shut down for good in the next few months, after a review found the closing wouldn't hurt reliability of the power grid, Dominion Resources Inc. said Tuesday.
Dominion announced last fall it planned to shut Kewaunee as soon as April, after it failed to find a buyer for the plant and could not reach agreement on new power purchase agreements with Wisconsin utilities.
The low price of natural gas in the wholesale power market made the nuclear power sold by Kewaunee too expensive for state utilities to sign on for new power purchase deals, Dominion said last fall. Kewaunee's power is sold to Alliant Energy Corp. of Madison and Wisconsin Public Service Corp. of Green Bay.
Before it could be closed, Dominion needed the assent of the Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator that a shutdown would not hurt the reliability of the transmission system.
"After being reviewed for power system reliability impacts, the retirement of Kewaunee would not result in violations of applicable reliability criteria. Therefore, Kewaunee may retire immediately," Jeffrey Webb, MISO senior director of expansion planning wrote in a letter dated Friday and made public Tuesday.
Dominion is now in position to shut the plant, possibly in late April or May, said spokesman Mark Kanz.
"There are no other regulators or other entities that we need to get approval from," he said.
The shutdown comes as lawmakers have drafted a bill to help nuclear power by declaring it an "advanced energy" source that could qualify for the Wisconsin green power mandate.
The nuclear plant has been generating power since 1974. Located east of Green Bay on the shore of Lake Michigan, the power plant is 5 miles north of the Point Beach nuclear plant.
Dominion bought Kewaunee in 2005 for $191.5 million and then won approval in February 2011 from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to keep the plant operating for another 20 years, until 2033.
Two months later, Dominion put the reactor up for sale. Including impairment charges and operating costs, Dominion has racked up $362 million in losses in the last three years at Kewaunee.
Dominion will cut about half of its workforce of more than 650 employees once the plant closes. A job fair for those who may be affected by the cutbacks is taking place at the power plant this week, Kanz said.
"Our folks are being notified here as far as whether or not they are still going to be considered for the post shutdown activities," Kanz said. "Those discussions are still continuing internally."
Dominion had bought the Kewaunee plant in 2005, hoping to take advantage of economies of scale by potentially pairing that with other power plants, such as the nearby Point Beach power plant.
Point Beach is unaffected by the Kewaunee shutdown, because its power purchase agreements are in place through the end of its operating license -- in the early 2030s. Point Beach sells its electricity to the plant's former owner, Wisconsin Energy Corp. of Milwaukee, as well as WPPI Energy of Sun Prairie and Missouri River Energy of South Dakota.
In addition to the loss of local jobs for residents of Kewaunee, Manitowoc and Brown counties, the shutdown will create budgetary problems for the town of Carlton and Kewaunee County, which have received payments from the nuclear plant in accordance with state utility laws.
Plans call for those payments to be phased out over a period of about five years rather than all at once, said Rep. Garey Bies, R-Sister Bay. Bies will host a meeting in Madison Wednesday with town and county officials and state Department of Revenue officials to discuss the matter.
"It's going to be quite difficult for both the economy of that county and the city of Kewaunee," Bies said. "It's hard to see these good-paying jobs disappear."
Of Dominion, Bies said, "The owners are losing a ton of money on their investment but with the circumstance of the cheap natural gas taking over the electric production, it's one of those perfect storms that hit them and the community all at the same time."
While continuing to operate the plant, Dominion said in a statement it's committed to operating the plant safely. "The station will have the resources it needs," said Thomas Farrell, Dominion chairman and chief executive, in a statement.
The station will remain under the oversight of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission throughout the shutdown and decommissioning process. The first step after the shutdown will be to transfer nuclear fuel from the reactor to the plant's spent fuel pool, Kanz said.
After electricity generation stops, Dominion will continue to supply power to the Madison and Green Bay utilities until the power purchase agreements expire in December. Instead of using its own nuclear power, Dominion will supply those utilities with electricity bought in the wholesale power market.
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So we had a power plant that could continue providing clean energy for another 20 years but is being shut down because WE Energies no longer needs to buy power from this existing plant because WE wanted to build a giant coal powered plant so they could keep more money for themselves.
I'm again failing to see why ratepayers are paying so much for WE's oak creek polluter...Hide replies
The Oak Creek Power Plant provided good jobs for the skilled trades workers. Why are the rates going up? Factors such as the budget and costs overruns, litigation costs, final construction costs, the weather. From a JSOnline article in 2009, the contractor was experiencing "higher construction costs linked to bad weather, including heavy flooding and winters marked with heavier-than-average snowfall." We Energies granted an extension on the completion deadline due to "the winter of 2007-'08 when the Milwaukee area was hit with nearly 100 inches of snow" The settlement "means both companies won't have to spend considerable management time and attorney and consultant fees over the next year on the arbitration process". So that's where your money went to. You can blame Mother Nature, but put yourself in the worker's shoes, trust me, it's not a lot of fun for those skilled trades workers to work all day outdoors in very cold temperatures. You think today is cold? Try working all day outdoors in weather like this. If you work indoors, count your blessings and be thankful!
I'm a contractor and myself and my crew could only dream of having the cushy billing practices of working with WE Energies. Not like they care about costs. Wonder what the plant would have cost to build without all the requirements for union workers and their bloated cost structure. And people complain about public sector unions....trade unions have guys with little to no education making six figures because they pulled wire or threaded pipe for 4 years and got paid as an apprentice. There is a reason many of these big contractors can only afford to work on big public projects...
So we are spending billions on ineffective wind machines while we had a perfectly good nuclear plant to supply our clean electricity. That is the problem with government sponsored programs, you spend money on things you don't need.Hide replies
Nuclear energy doesn't count towards the renewable mandate but nice try byker. The reason this plant is being shut down is coal powered Oak Creek...
Byker is correct about wind, solar and biofuels- they will never replace conventional fossils (not enouh BTUs).Your average liberal art majors will never understand that. It sounds good but is scientifically impossible- basic Thermodynamics 101. I'll simplify it for them. It would be like trying to drive from Milwaukee to Georgia on a pickle jar full of gasoline. You could build wind, solar and biofuel generation until you are blue in the face and broke, and you will still have only a pickle jar full of what you need. Maybe we should all throw away our cars, flat screens and cell phones, lives in caves under candlelight, cooking on the campfire. That would solve it and make them happy. This is what you get when you have non-technical, low information types chiming in and pushing us into thier utopias.
DrK, omg Hilarious Dairy is violating the First Law of Thermodynamics.
" video featuring the first Dairy Farm in the US to use a Methane Digester to produce Biogas, a compressed natural gas, from cow manure. Shot on location at the Hilarides Dairy in Lindsay, California, where they use biogas to power their milk tanker delivery trucks."
Natural gas is methane. Much easier to get it from sustainable sources, above ground. Unlike fracking, it doesn't cause earthquakes or destroy aquifers.
You can also get it from electrolysis of hydrogen, but then you have to methanate it. That makes it a great battery for renewables like solar and wind. It could be a significant step towards George W. Bush's dream, a carbon negative hydrogen economy.
Coal power generation has killed more by mining accidents and air pollution than nuclear power generation by far. Meanwhile, in GA, two new nuclear power plants are in construction with billions in loan guarantees by the Federal government with dozens of coal-fired plants being shut down.
Even China is slowing down on using coal plants. Seen photos of Beijing lately?
NO it is still to hazy in Beijing from the bad air quality to see it.
Stephen, our big industrial cities looked like that in the 70's also, but we have cleaned up the burning of coal. The biggest problem with so called green energies mandates is that we keep pushing our manufacturing to china where they don't care about the environment.
Sort of like the pipeline that Obama will not approve. Whether or not we approve it will not have an effect on the environment as Canada will extract that oil no matter what we do. We can either approve the pipeline and use the oil from our ally (deminishing our dependence on middle east oil) while burning it in a clean manner or Canada will sell that oil to China who does not care about burning it clean. People do not seem to understand basic Physics. For every action there is a reaction. Same with electric cars, most of the batteries cannot be built here because it is too dirty of a process. How does having China, not caring about how dirty the process, build these, help the environment. At least if we do it we can try to do it cleaner.
byker, since you and DrK don't buy all that global warming stuff, along with Charlie Sykes, you can pay the $50 billion for the damage from Sandy. Then you can pay for the less costly Nemo.
And you owe Wisconsin's apple farmers for this.
"Wisconsin apple production lowest since 1945:
The National Agricultural Statistics Service says apple production in 2012 was down 54 percent in Wisconsin."
"...A heat wave last spring caused apple trees to bloom prematurely. And then frost in April killed many of the blossoms. A summer drought only made things worse...."
I don't know about you but I think that any nuke plant built in 1974 is way too antiquated to operate safely.
While I disagree with the reasons for shutting it down (can't compete with cheaper options) We energies just stuffs their pockets with record profits and CEO bonuses.
Didn't they just last year give a bonus of over 2 mil to the head knucklehead?Hide replies
And Obama keeps sending them money for the wind mills.
Per Forbes, Gale Klappa, We Energies' CEO has pillaged just under $50,000,000 from rate payers in the last five-years.
What happens when natural gas prises start to rise again? And they will!!!!!
Another de-regulation rig job that screw the taxpayers.Nuclear fuel rods are installed and they run on the most simple terms,clean energy with minimal downside.Coal needs to be mined transported and installed all day and everyday.How much energy and cost does it take to get a days worth of coal to an average power plant? MORE POWER,MORE POWER,we have heard since the de-regulation debacle.Now we have higher than average energy costs than the nation when before we were near the bottom year after year,WHY,DE-REGULATION.The power grid is failing,trust us.THE REDCOATS ARE COMMING!!! TRUST US,we need to raise your rates tyo help you,We need to pay our CEO many millions so we can help you,we need to pay more dividends to make our stock more popular so rate payers will have to pay for that as well.DRK20--YOU are an arrogant uninformed AM radio brainscrubbed volunteer and you information or lack of it is all I need to read.HAVE A NICE DAY EVERYBODY.Can you hear the energy companies,the redcoats are comming the redcoats are comming as they spread their panic through the airwaves,WE NEED MORE POWER AND LINES AND HIGHER RATES---TRUST US!!!Hide replies
With minimal downside? Do the reidents of Fukushima Japan agree with that? Or the residents of Chernobyl? Spoken with anyone near Three Mile Island? A complete lack of an answer to long term waste storage/disposal appeares to be a BIG downside to this observer.
It seems shortsighted to shut down a power source that emits nothing into the atmosphere except some water vapor.
Then again, it's a mystery to ratepayers that wholesale power prices can continue to decline even while retail prices continue their apparently inexorable rise.Hide replies
Great point,well stated, and thank you.Welcome to the free market and de-regulation,where companies are more concerned with maximizing profits than serving the people while still making profits.Where companies work hard at taking capacity out of the market to drive or control prices upward.We need a rate increase,yet the dividends go up,bonuses go up,stock otions go up,and upper management salaries go up.Sounds like a great deal for the residents of the state.Just ANOTHER reason why out of state companies,other than the ones we pay to come,don't want anything to do with this state.
albigensian - there are enough atmospheric radioactive emissions from nuclear plants in wisconsin that the state has a department set up to monitor and report on them. kewaunee isn't shut down yet, but if it does shut down permanently we'll - us - wisconsin will be left with its radioactive legacy. the high level radioactive waste created by kewaunee that the feds haven't removed - even though they're under contract to do so - is made up of strontium, cesium, plutonium, and a host of other elements that are violently radioactive for hundreds of centuries. and this hazard will sit on the edge of lake michigan. dominion will go back to its headquarters in virginia leaving this waste for us to deal with. so lets make a plan on how to do that.
Seems a shame to shut down something that works and has worked for many years without problems.


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Pella — Not long after Sen. Tom Harkin visited Vermeer in Pella, one of the people interested in succeeding him in office also paid a visit. Rep. Bruce Braley was at the facility on Oct. 31.
Vermeer CEO Mary Andringa opened the visit by welcoming Braley and sharing some of the company's history. She shared the importance the company places on continuous improvement and showing respect for everyone associated with the company.
One of the ways Vermeer has been working to improve its operations begins with its people. The company's wellness program includes an on-site health center and pharmacy. As a result of its proactive approach to the health of its employees, Vermeer has seen increases in premiums that are lower than the market average. Last year, the company saved $2 million in health care costs. $1 million has been saved through the company's pharmaceutical partnership with Walgreens.
Since 2009, the percentage of Vermeer employees in the low-risk insurance group has increased to 56 percent. Company President Jason Andringa said that the availability of health care, including the clinic, is second only to salaries offered, among reasons why people choose to work for Vermeer.
Locally, Vermeer employs 2,400 and overall, the company employs 3,200. Braley was impressed with the number of people working in Pella and the economic impact the company has on southern Iowa.
In response to a question from Braley, Mary Andringa said the company trucks everything. The Highway 63 bypass has been helpful, but direct access to Interstate 80 would be beneficial. In addition to shipping products out, Vermeer's employee base expands to a 70-mile radius. Good roads are needed to get workers to the plant safely.
Braley went on to tour Vermeer's health care facility and one of the plants along the mile. Following the tours, he sat down with Vermeer leaders, who shared information regarding the company's products and markets.
Today, 80 percent of Vermeer's business is 80 percent industrial and 20 percent forage. All of the work ties back to the farm.
Jason Andringa discussed how he was inspired to research ways Vermeer could contribute to the renewable fuels market after hearing President George W. Bush say, in Bush's 2006 State of the Union address, that the future of energy was in wood chips and switchgrass. These are two items with which Vermeer has long been associated. The company continues to research ways to improve the renewable fuels market.
Braley asked what job skills Vermeer was looking for when seeking employees. Mary Andringa said it has been difficult to find engineers and information technology professionals. Machinists and welders are also hard to find. Regardless of the position, there is a need for employees to understand basic math and technology. Vermeer has offered training on site, and has reached out to educational institutions to broaden science, technology, engineering and math learning opportunities.
The discussion rolled in to one regarding challenges to getting veterans back into the civilian workforce. Skills learned while in the military, including equipment maintenance, can be easily transferred to a job at Vermeer. Braley was impressed with Vermeer's willingness to recruit and hire veterans, when some of them suffer from health issues following their deployments.
"Some employers can't cope with those challenges," Braley said.
Braley's discussion concluded by asking what was needed from Washington, D.C., to help Vermeer continue to succeed and grow. The top priority for Vermeer, its dealers and customers, is stability. They would like to see the federal government get the deficit and debt under control.
In a post-discussion interview, Braley shared his thoughts on Vermeer and its health care work. (Video of the remarks accompany this article.)
"It's been a great experience to get to see all of the exciting product lines that are being built at Vermeer," Braley said. He also complimented the global reach of Vermeer and discussed the importance of manufacturing to the economies of Iowa and the nation.
Braley added that he would like to establish a national manufacturing strategy. He believes this would help America compete better with Europe, the Pacific rim and China. Improved educational opportunities would also help.
Regarding health care, Braley was impressed with what Vermeer is doing. He said many of the things being done were ideas that arose during discussions to improve America's health care system, given the costs of paying for chronic illnesses.
"Employers like Vermeer, who adopt wellness programs...you can actually track the improvements in the health care, and the health of their employees," Braley said. "All of those things will help reduce the amount we spend on health care in this country, but will also help the bottom line of companies like Vermeer."


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— Any hope for them?
The National Rifle Association represents many Americans around the country who believe in something that our country was based on, to hunt and protect yourself from your government or an invading government. Sales of assault weapons have skyrocketed for the only reason of our government; I noticed pitchfork sales are down.
Since when has outright lying been accepted, using food for fuel, causing food prices to rise, continually raising taxes and not cutting spending (good luck on that millage), and a debt to China that has no end. Biden is right; a shotgun with buckshot can do more damage. I hope mass murderers don't listen because those will go, too. I feel sorry for the kids of today. Is there any hope left for them?
Marc Purkiss
Traverse City
Not going to happen
In regards to Foster McCool and his March 6 letter to the editor, I don't think that there are many crooks who go into someone's home and then hide in the bathroom. Sounds like the guy in South Africa went looking for her.
We have a gun safe in our house, but we still have a few loaded handguns around for protection. I can't image if someone broke into our home in the middle of the night having to go to our gun safe and try and get one to protect ourselves, while that person is controlling the situation. Not going to happen.
Yes, we are members of the National Rifle Association.
Allen St. Amour
Traverse City
False choices
The Record-Eagle's Feb. 20 poll only provides false choices. You ask, "Are you OK with paying more taxes to support tax cuts for businesses?" I believe cutting taxes on business reduces costs for all. Higher business taxes not only get passed on to consumers, but the cost of the bureaucracy involved doubles the costs to the community.
Mike Mulcahy
Traverse City


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A multimillion-dollar bayfront park opens in Traverse City to much fanfare and features a splash pad for kids, but the latter immediately closes — just before the year's biggest tourist crush — because project managers and/or city officials didn't obtain necessary state permits, so a local politician wades back-door into the fray and pressures state bureaucrats to let the water flow in time to refresh Cherry Festing children, but then whoops, a city sewer pump fails, backs up and the splash pad spews raw sewage on who-knows-how-many unsuspecting kids, exposing them to who knows what, a boondoggle that unfolded before the very eyes of hundreds of thousands of tourists and locals.
It'd be tough to write a more embarrassing script. But as is often the case in the Grand Traverse region, truth can be weirder than the most well-crafted yarn.
So the community collectively shakes its head, a sort of weary, we've-been-down-this-road-before dismissal of bungling bureaucrats and politicians. The bureaucrats and politicians scramble for cover and try to ascertain who'll take the brunt of blame.
Alas, there's plenty of blame to go around, beginning with the project's design consultant, Hamilton Anderson Associates, who failed to obtain a state permit before the splash pad was built. They also came up with an "unusual" design that could allow sewage to flow unabated into the splash pad's water source. City officials apparently did next to nothing to monitor the work, unless they agreed with and signed off on the curious "sewer backup plan." City officials also contend they didn't ask anyone to grease the skids for state permitting to reopen the splash pad in time for National Cherry Festival crowds.
Perhaps. But city Planner Russ Soyring said state Rep. Wayne Schmidt, who represents Grand Traverse County, offered to make calls to the state Department of Environmental Quality to do just that. Suddenly, no pesky permits. Splash away, kids, courtesy of Rep. Schmidt!


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With the Republican Party finally diverting campaign dollars to U.S. Senate hopeful Todd Akin, R-Wildwood, GOP members appear to be standing behind him in this final weekend before Tuesday's vote.
Akin and a fairly large crowd already is gathering at Victory Fieldhouse in Valley Park for the St. Louis portion of the Missouri GOP Bus Tour Stop.
For its part, Missouri's Republican party members consistently pledged they would work to help Akin defeat Democratic incumbent Claire McCaskill. Today, as the Missouri GOP's slate of candidates kicked off a statewide bus tour, the party offered Akin full support.
The bus tour ran through Lee's Summit, Joplin, Springfield and Jefferson City on Thursday. It planned to stop at St. Joseph, Kirksville and St. Louis today.


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General Motors may soon get the long-delayed green light to sign over carmaker Opel to Canada's Magna. EU antitrust regulators have no plans to block Magna's acquisition of GM's European arm, a European Commission spokesman said in Brussels, easing fears the transaction could run out of gas in debate over German state aid to the mostly German-staffed company.
Magna hopes to conclude the deal within weeks of signing a contract. That should be that, right? Well, hardly. For one thing, Spanish workers at Opel's plant at Figueruelas have voted to strike in protest at cuts included in the Magna package. And European politicians say GM and the Opel Trust should have the option of reopening the bidding process.
But the jilted other bidder, RHJ, says it is no longer interested in doing a deal, so going back to the auction block is probably a nonstarter. And with European auto titan Volkswagen saying sales will likely stay stalled next year, the political will to get a deal done is about all Opel has going for it right now. The company is poised to run out of cash by mid-January.


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That same year, he ran 48 hours on a treadmill in the ABC-TV studio in New York, attempting the world record of 251 miles (he ran 211). The event was hell, he says, but provided an interesting moment when Senator Barack Obama, the presidential candidate, stopped by to say hello at the 42-hour mark. Moments before, says Karnazes, "I got off the treadmill because I was getting chafed, put a big goo of Vaseline in my hand, held my shorts down and did my thing." All of a sudden, Secret Service guys ushered in Obama.
"Obama said, 'I think what you're doing is incredible, and I just want to shake your hand.' I started reaching for his hand and went, 'Oh!' and gave him the presidential knuckle bump."
The ABC event actually was his third major treadmill run that generated press attention and was derided as "gimmicky" by some ultrarunners.
Karnazes' "treadathalons" began in 2004, when his friend Christopher Bergland of New York City, winner of three Triple Ironman competitions, asked if he would run at his side to help him break the 24-hour treadmill record. Bergland broke the record at 153 miles while Karnazes ran about 149. Karnazes said it was miserable and told his family, "I'm never doing anything like that again."
But in 2007, the company Accelerade approached him about doing a treadmill run in Times Square. The treadmill would be suspended on the side of a building, and the event would be broadcast live.
Karnazes accepted, he says, "Because it was my job—it was how I fed my family. Yeah, I got a lot of shit for it, but a lot of people found it hugely inspirational."
He fell short of breaking Berglund's 24-hour record, running 130 miles. "It was the most brutal thing. Every time one of those plasma screens lit up, it was like a dose of radiation," he said, laughing, "but it made me appreciate trail running a lot more."
Running Across America
Before Karnazes' Run Across America began last February, the Hawkeye team meticulously planned the route from Los Angeles to New York and coordinated with WABC-TV in New York to cover the event on morning TV for 75 days.
"At first I thought, why would I want to do this? I had never watched Live! With Regis and Kelly, and I can't imagine anyone in my peer group watching morning TV," Karnazes recalled. "Then I thought, the demographic watching this is probably the folks that need the most inspiration to get off the couch. If I'm going to do something that makes me feel best, which is helping others be the best they can be, then I have to use the media."


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CLARK, Stanley A., 75, retired bank examiner, died Sunday. Services 11 a.m. Saturday, New Hope Baptist Church, Foster-Petering Funeral Home.
CLAYTON, Louis Earl "Head," 58, disabled veteran, died Wednesday. Services pending, Cornerstone Funeral Home and Crematory.
GILFILLAN, Anna Marie, 56, certified nurses assistant, died Tuesday. Services 10 a.m. Saturday, Christian Chapel Church, Lescher-Millsap Funeral Home.
BRAGGS — CORDELL, Donald Dwayne Sr., 72, assistant fire chief, died Tuesday. Services 10 a.m. Monday, Millsap Funeral Chapel, Fort Gibson, Millsap Funeral Service, Fort Gibson.
EUFAULA — FRANKLIN, Crystal R., 28, Dollar General employee, died Tuesday. Services 10 a.m. Monday, Kelley Memorial Chapel, Eufaula, Hunn Black & Merritt Funeral Home, Eufaula.
FORT GIBSON — ROLLAND, Donald Lee "Donkey," 78, heavy equipment operator, died Monday. Services 10 a.m. today, First Baptist Church, Fort Gibson, Millsap Funeral Service, Fort Gibson.
PORUM — BAIZE, Cortney, 31, died Wednesday. Services 11 a.m. Saturday, New Hope Assembly, Millsap Funeral Service, Webbers Falls.
TAHLEQUAH — FERGUSON, James R., 60, truck driver, died July 6. Services 2 p.m. Monday, Green Country Funeral Home Chapel, Tahlequah, Green Country Funeral Home, Tahlequah.
WAGONER — HALL, Freddie "Teddy," 59, registered nurse, died July 13. Services 11 a.m. Saturday, Destiny Family Church, Wagoner, Shipman Funeral Home & Crematory, Wagoner.
WAGONER — WILSON, Richmond "Bill," 100, engineer, died Monday. Services pending, Shipman Funeral Home & Crematory, Wagoner.
OWASSO — BRISTER, Patricia L., 81, homemaker, died Sunday. Services 10:30 a.m. today, Green Country Funeral Home Chapel, Tahlequah, Green Country Funeral Home, Tahlequah.
QUINTON — JENKINS, Helen, 89, homemaker, died Tuesday. Services 2 p.m. Monday, Oak Leaf Room Quinton Chapel, Hunn & Black Funeral Home, Quinton.
ROLAND — JONES, Audrey Lucille, 88, seamstress, died Tuesday. Services 2 p.m. Saturday, Agent Mallory-Martin Chapel, Muldrow, Agent Mallory-Martin Funeral Home, Muldrow.
SALLISAW — WATKINS, Joseph Edward, 75, horse trainer, died Wednesday. Services 10 a.m. Saturday, Drakestand Cemetery, Sallisaw, Agent Mallory-Martin Funeral Home, Sallisaw.
SHORT — WATERS, Emma Bell, 94, retired Baldor assembly line, died Wednesday. Services 10 a.m. today, Lee's Creek Assembly of God, Muldrow, Agent Mallory-Martin Funeral Home, Sallisaw.
TULSA — EARL, Brendan Lynell, 18, Rainwash Car Wash manager, died July 11. Services 11 a.m. today, Amazing Grace Christian Church, Tulsa, Shipman Funeral Home & Crematory, Wagoner.
WICHITA, Kan. — MACHADO, Michael Clarence, 46, died Thursday. Services pending, Biglow-Bethea Funeral Directors, Wichita, Kan.
WICHITA, Kan. — MURDOCK-WOODS, Michelle Diane, 52, died Sunday. Memorial service 11 a.m. Saturday, Biglow-Bethea Funeral Home Chapel, Wichita, Kan, Biglow-Bethea Funeral Directors, Wichita, Kan.
BLACK, Curtis, 11 a.m., Muskogee Civic Center. (Ragsdale Funeral Center)
EARL, Brendan Lynell, 11 a.m., Amazing Grace Christian Church, Tulsa. (Shipman Funeral Home & Crematory, Wagoner)
MILLER, Michael Richard III, 10 a.m., Fort Gibson National Cemetery. (Hunn Black & Merritt Funeral Home & Crematory, Eufaula)
ROLLAND, Donald Lee, 10 a.m., First Baptist Church, Fort Gibson. (Millsap Funeral Service, Fort Gibson)
SMITH, Odis, 2 p.m., Reed-Culver Chapel, Tahlequah. (Reed-Culver Funeral Home, Tahlequah)


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Encased in the long black limousine that has transported him from Beverly Hills, Calif., to downtown Pasadena, Howard Stern is about to merge with his fans. The car inches along East Colorado Boulevard toward Vroman's, the site of his West Coast book signing in December. Cops line the streets. Wild-eyed devotees — a mob estimated at 10,000 — wave copies of his best seller, Private Parts, shouting, "I love you, man!" and "Howard is God!" Stern has seen it before but still seems a little freaked. "These windows are tinted, right?" he asks the driver. "They can't actually see us?" He reaches up and pulls the black cover over the sunroof glass. Soon the limo doors pop, and the Dark Prince of radio — black jeans, black suede fringe jacket, black shades — braves the screaming throng, stretching his 6-foot-5-inch frame to full height and raising his arms like a conquering hero. One man, overcome by the emotion of the moment, yells out, "HOWARD! Show us your PENIS!"
Howard Stern Speaks Out About Artie Lange, His New Contract and His Divorce in New Rolling Stone Cover Story
It's a telling scene: watching HOWARD STERN become Howard Stern! Are they the same guy? The standard Stern "story" goes something like this: Foul-mouthed, pervert shock jock revealed to be smart, mild-mannered family man who meditates in spare time. But it's not quite that simple. He turns down the volume in person, but it's still Howard: a strangely charismatic mixture of arrogance and self-deprecation. He's also very funny. Spend enough time with him, and the line between man and myth becomes a blur of public performance, private neuroses and jokes about his reputedly undersized weenie.
This article appeared in the February 10, 1994 issue of Rolling Stone. The issue is available in the online archive.
The facts of his life are easier to grasp. Stern was raised on Long Island, N.Y., in a town called Roosevelt, a Jewish kid in a black neighborhood. His father, Ben, a radio engineer, called him a moron. His mother, Ray, was, he claims, so over-protective that she once told him to wear a pair of her panties when he had no undies of his own. Young Howard amused himself by putting on dirty puppet shows. At Boston University, he got into college radio — around the same time he started doing transcendental meditation — and met his wife, Alison, whom he thanks warmly in the book for letting him "finger" her on their first date.
Howard Stern's Universe: Robin Quivers, Crackhead Bob and 14 More People to Know
A disc jockey who hated jockeying, he worked his way up: Hartford, Conn., Detroit, Washington and, finally, New York City, where comic transgressions like his Lesbian Dial-a-Date, combined with autobiographical rants and unfiltered riffs on the news, made him No. 1. His syndicated five-hour show grew to an audience of 3 million. Nonfans called him racist and misogynous. The FCC fined him for indecency, while even Time magazine defended Stern's right to anarchic, juvenile free speech.
Howard Stern on Sex, Therapy and Charlie Sheen
After a deal with New Line Cinema to make a movie called The Adventures of Fartman died last year, the self-proclaimed King of All Media's crown looked dented. Then came Private Parts, his bull's-eye men's-room manifesto that became the fastest-selling book in Simon and Schuster's 72-year history. Suddenly movie studios were calling again. Rupert Murdoch was talking to him about filling Chevy Chase's vacant late-night chair on Fox. What would Howard do next?
Peter Travers' 1997 Private Parts Review
In Pasadena, he signs books and breasts and pregnant bellies for seven hours, pausing only for bathroom breaks. Jessica Hahn, part of Stern's posse of misfitfringe celebrities, shows up and tells me about Howard's "heart of gold," how much he does for charity, "quietly, behind the scenes." I notice that, per Howard's standing request, she is wearing no underwear.
Over two brutal days in Los Angeles, Stern rises at 4 a.m. to phone in to his radio show. He meets with Hollywood people about TV and movie offers. He does The Tonight Show With Jay Leno, taped early so Stern can catch the 4 o'clock back to New York, where there's more work to be done on his pay-per-view special, the Miss Howard Stern New Year's Eve Pageant. At dinner after the book signing, he's fried, barely able to converse. By the next day in his dressing room at The Tonight Show, he's fully stoked again, rehearsing new ways to humiliate Leno.
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Pulmonary rehabilitation is a doctor-supervised program for people who have chronic lung diseases, such as emphysema and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, chronic bronchitis, asthma, bronchiectasis, interstitial lung disease, (such as cystic fibrosis or sarcoidosis), thoracic cage abnormalities, neuromuscular diseases, or lung tumors. The program is also often used before and after lung surgery. Pulmonary rehabilitation programs can often improve function, reduce symptoms, and improve the well-being of patients.
Pulmonary rehabilitation programs can be conducted on an inpatient or outpatient basis. Many skilled professionals are part of the pulmonary rehabilitation team, including any or all of the following:
Thoracic surgeon
Other specialty doctors
Rehabilitation specialists
Respiratory therapist
Registered dietitian
Physical therapist
Occupational therapist
Social worker
Recreational therapist
Case manager
Vocational counselor
A pulmonary rehabilitation program is designed to meet the needs of the individual patient, depending on the specific lung problem or disease. Active involvement of the patient and family is vital to the success of the program.
The goal of pulmonary rehabilitation is to help patients return to the highest level of function and independence possible, while improving the overall quality of life--physically, emotionally, and socially. These goals are often met by:
Decreasing respiratory symptoms and complications
Encouraging independence through self-management
Improving physical conditioning and exercise performance
Improving social, emotional, and vocational status
Reducing hospitalizations
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Medication management to help reduce respiratory symptoms, complications, and hospitalizations
Breathing exercises to improve lung capacity and fitness
Calisthenics or stretching exercises to improve flexibility
Weight training to increase exercise endurance and conditioning
Exercise machines, such as stationary bicycles and treadmills
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It's Deja Vu as IT Centralizes
Changing business priorities, a need for new skill sets and a desire to more tightly integrate IT and the business are key factors driving a significant number of IT leaders to shake up their IT departments.
Complete organizational overhauls are not uncommon.
"We did a complete redesign," notes Todd Coombes, CIO at CNO Financial Group. "Once we had our strategy figured out and it was aligned and integrated with the business, it became clear that our IT organization needed to change to fit the new strategies. More than half of the entire IT staff ended up having a different VP to report to, and more than one-third of the staff have a different direct manager."
Centralization and standardization are the major themes behind the moves, Coombes says. Before, for example, testing teams were affiliated with the applications they supported. Under the new design, all testing teams have gathered into a single group.
"We wanted to enhance our ability to do testing one way instead of having a lot of different approaches to the same thing," Coombes explains.
At Target, CIO Beth Jacob reorganized IT so that staffers are now centralized into functional groups rather than scattered among different teams supporting various parts of the business, such as merchandising and marketing.
"Instead of having what were many organizations, we pulled people together," Jacob says. "Now, all of our architects work together, which allows us to take current plans and knit them together into multiyear road maps. This way, we can identify the best places to leverage technologies and take out redundancies," she says.
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A Connecticut community is reeling from tragedy and communities across the nation are reacting with thoughts of fear, sadness and anger after a 20-year-old man went on a shooting rampage, ending , according to early reports.
"I'm upset when my daughter goes to kindergarten I'm going to have to ask for detailed reports of their plans against a mass shooting," Aimee King wrote on Facebook. "It's scary. Even to take her in public for fear of a mass shooting."
Port Washington-Saukville School District Superintendent Michael Weber said school officials had not broke the news of the tragedy to its students as of late afternoon, thinking it would be best to keep them calm and in their normal routine.
"This is just a horrible tragedy — there just isn't words to describe it … it's just unbelievable," Weber said. "It's really a tragic thing that this happened — and we had been all the way along making certain that we kept our students as safe as we could ... and now something like just reinforces what we've been doing."
Weber said all of the teachers and staff at the building have both electronic and printed copy of the emergency policies in the district; Director of Business Services Jim Froemming and Director of Special Services Duane Woelfel are in charge of the emergency policies, he said.
The 55-page manual discusses procedures for emergencies such as bomb threats, missing student, weapons on premise, lockdown procedures, suspicious packages, riots and more.
"In our updates we run the manual by Port and Saukville (police departments) the Ozaukee County Sheriffs' Dept., Ozaukee County Emergency Management, and Ozaukee County Health to make revisions and confirm contact numbers in the process," Froemming said.
The students at the schools regularly participate in not only fire drills following these procedures, but also "lockdown" drills, Weber said. Two schools are scheduled to have a lockdown drill in January.
"And the students know ahead of time that it's coming so they're not scared," he said.
A few years ago, Weber added, staff met with several Ozaukee County law enforcement agencies at Dunwiddie Elementary School for a "mock exercise" of emergency situations, and the district's procedures were then reviewed by national experts.
And the district isn't going to let these policies become outdated: at the last administrative meeting in November, Weber said they discussed doing some "table top exercises" to refine the district's policies.
"A simple tabletop exercise is a facilitated analysis of an emergency situation in an informal, stress-free environment," according to the United States Environmental Protection Agency. "It is designed to elicit constructive discussion as participants examine and resolve problems based on existing operational plans and identify where those plans need to be refined."
Beyond the policies, Weber said the district practices safety every day to be sure the children are in a secure environment.
"This afternoon after this happened, the principals and custodians made sure that all of the doors are locked that are supposed to be locked," he said, adding that one door nearest the office is the only one left unlocked. "In fact, there's a daily check throughout the day to make sure the doors are all locked."
And while taking precautions is important, one local resident said we can't let these incidents make us afraid.
"To live in fear, would be to not live at all," Jacqueline Killey wrote on Facebook. "Precautions need to made for public places, but criminals always find a way. You do what you can to stay safe, and hope for the best, really. I cannot think of any other way to ensure safety. But we cannot live in terror because of shootings. I cannot live with myself if I let the senseless monsters out there win. Teach your kids kindness and compassion. They are the only things that overpower fear and hate. My heart goes out to all involved. I can hardly breathe. Just, wow."


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HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- Staying warm -- for millions of Americans, that includes using extra space heaters in the dead of winter.
The CPSC estimates more than 25,000 residential fires every year are associated with the use of space heaters, resulting in 300 deaths and roughly 6,000 injuries.
Laura Jones lives in Huntington's Guyandotte community. When it's this cold outside, her family pulls out all the stops to stay warm. She has blankets hanging over doorways to isolate rooms in the house. She also has plastic on the windows and space heaters in several rooms.
"I'm scared to death of fire," Jones said. "I know how important it is to keep everything 3 feet away from the heater, and if it actually falls over. I have the kind that automatically kick off."
When buying and installing a small space heater, the CPSC recommends following these guidelines:
"It is what is it," Jones said. "We all have to try to save a little money in this economy, but we also have to try and stay warm."


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This book is the only one of its kind that covers the federal statutes and the laws of the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
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Portable All-in-One MIG Welder Helps Maintenance and Repair Contractor Simplify Welding Aluminum and Stainless Steel
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David Tally has spent 12 years building a diverse mobile welding fleet capable of handling anything thrown at him, including aluminum and stainless steel. When he added a Millermatic® Passport® Plus all-in-one MIG welder to his fleet, he discovered a new tool that simplified welding multiple alloys, increased productivity and made life easier on his employees.
- The Passport Plus welds aluminum and stainless faster and easier than TIG welding.
- MIG welding offers benefits over the Stick process on steel: less cleanup, less heat and distortion, and easier to fill gaps.
- At 45 lbs., The Passport Plus is extremely portable and allows Cactus Welding to easily weld on scaffolding and catwalks 30 ft. above the plant floor.
- Welders no longer need to roll out long, heavy leads and hoses to reach a weld.
- Multi-voltage plug allows welders to connect to common 115 or 230 volt power without the use of tools.
|Welder Greg Agan of Cactus Welding welds on a piece of equipment at a major resort and banquet center in Phoenix, Arizona.
David Tally, owner, Cactus Welding, has spent 12 years perfecting the mobile welding rig. In 1997, while managing a larger welding facility, he started a side-business focusing on mobile welding repair. He outfitted a trailer with MIG and TIG/Stick welders and took on any work that came his way. He quickly quit his job and focused entirely on the business he started with his own two hands: Cactus Welding of Gilbert, Arizona.
One way that Tally has remained at the cutting edge of the mobile welding and fabrication industry is by finding new and efficient ways to weld a variety of metals. When Tally needed a newer, faster, more portable way to weld aluminum and stainless steel, and to simplify welding deep within buildings and plants, he turned to a surprisingly small solution: The Millermatic® Passport® Plus all-in-one MIG welder from Miller Electric Mfg. Co.
"We had actually stopped MIG welding as much as we used to," claims Tally, "and that was all based on how much time you had to do a job. Many times it was quicker and easier to string out two leads and do a job than drag out a MIG unit with the cords, hoses and extra material. But now, with this little machine, all we have to do is pull up one cord, plug it in, do the job and you're done."
|David Tally, owner, Cactus Welding
Portable Machine Adds to Cactus Welding's Diversified Capabilities
Cactus Welding does everything from stainless steel and aluminum repair to mild steel handrail work in large package processing plants. The company's work varies from maintenance/repair to fabrication and construction. When a customer recently needed a custom-fabricated, coiled heating tube for keeping wax liquefied in a candle making plant, he invented a system for fabricating it that no other tubing supplier could match.
"We're millwrights, in a way," says Tally. "We take care of any kind of fabrication and repair work that needs to be done. We even track belts. If something is broken, we replace it. We even do a little bit of electrical—in a pinch we'll have to change a motor, and if an electrician is not available, we'll do that as well."
Sixty to 70 percent of the company's work is mobile/on-site. Adding a fully portable, all-in-one MIG welder has substantially reduced operator hassle associated with stringing out dozens (occasionally hundreds) of feet of hose and welding lead. It has also helped reduce clutter and improve safety on such jobs where lead and hoses were strung out over the shop floor.
The Passport Plus' self-contained, 12 oz. CO2 gas cylinder eliminates the need to string out hoses for shielding gases, although it also runs off of a bulk gas supply in the shop through its dual gas supply switch. This allows the operator to switch quickly to argon (for aluminum) or tri-mix (for stainless). Its multi-voltage plug allows you to plug into any 115 or 230 volt power without having to run a heavy power cord all the way back to a generator on your truck. And its compatibility with new spool guns means it simplifies MIG welding on more difficult alloys such as aluminum and stainless steel.
|Welder Greg Agan performs a repair on an aluminum lift gate using the Spoolmate 100 spool gun attached to the Passport Plus. Feeding aluminum through a spool gun ensures positive feeding and reduces chances of birdnesting the wire.
Faster, Reliable Aluminum
Cactus Welding performs aluminum repair work with either 4043 or 5056 filler metals in diameters of .030 or .035 in. Matching the Passport Plus with Miller's Spoolmate™ 100 Series spool gun gives Cactus Welding the power to MIG weld up to 1/8-in. aluminum on 115 V power and ¼-in. aluminum on 230 V. Performing these repairs with MIG versus TIG substantially increases welding speeds, provides an easier process, and still provides a strong, good looking weld.
"TIG takes longer and costs considerably more than MIG," says Greg Agan, welder/fabricator, Cactus Welding. "In many of these applications, where the repair is of a structural nature and you don't need the look of a TIG weld, MIG works perfectly well. I've used this on really clean aluminum and made beautiful welds."
Using a spool gun for welding aluminum is ideal, as the filler metal only has five inches to travel compared to 12 ft. (or more) through a gun liner. Tally reports that this replaces the necessity of an expensive push-pull system while MIG welding aluminum. Agan also reports that the Spoolmate 100's small profile (8 in. from tip to the back of the spool, 11.5 in. from top to bottom) helps him get into tighter areas that would be more difficult with a larger spool gun.
"I haven't had it birds nest on me once," says Agan. "There's no room for error with this spool gun. And it's so short. My older spool gun was tough to get into corners, and I'd have to fight it to get the right angle. The size of this works great. "
Tally also sees an important aspect to the spool gun's ease-of-use: an easier way to train welders on Aluminum.
"If you had to hire someone to do the work," says Tally, "there are a lot of people that could do a very nice job on aluminum with the Passport Plus and a spool gun over TIG. There are very few people you can just hire off the street that could do a good job on aluminum with TIG."
Stainless Savings and Improved Productivity
Cactus Welding first used the Passport Plus to modify 14- and 16-ga. 304 stainless steel hinges and brackets on top of six separate candle-making vats. Tally initially bid the job as a TIG job and planned on spending two days at the facility. While Tally has a portable TIG welder, he saw an opportunity to test the Passport Plus' stainless capabilities on this job. The result: they finished the job in less than a day. Tally attributed the increased productivity to the speed and ease-of-use of the MIG process combined with the portability of the welder.
"If we had done TIG on the entire project it would have taken much longer," says Tally. "And in this situation, where we had to hold the hinges in place, you're kind of missing a hand when you're doing fit-up with TIG (whether you're using foot or hand controls). Having a portable MIG machine here made a big difference in simplifying that project."
On another recent job Tally was called in to a restaurant to repair various stainless steel pieces of equipment, the Passport Plus trimmed what would have been a four-hour job into two hours.
|The 45 lb. Millermatic Passport Plus contains a 25 oz. gas cylinder and changes between different wires quickly.
"We had never done stainless steel MIG for this customer before," says Tally, "but everything he brought me I was able to do with the Passport Plus. There were drain pans he wanted to add steel to. They hacked a big hole out of it that was a half-inch bigger than the fittings, so we filled that in."
Another repair involved re-attaching a handle to a large freezer unit. Not only did the portability of the Passport Plus make it easy for Tally to get to the freezer and position himself for the weld, but the ability to weld it faster than TIG, with less heat, also provided a key process benefit.
"There is insulation on the other side," says Tally, "and when you weld something like that with TIG, by the time you get your puddle hot enough, it blows out because the insulation inside is outgassing and it makes a mess. With MIG you can just zap it in there."
Another benefit the Passport Plus provides, especially on stainless steel, is inductance control. The Passport Plus allows the operator to increase inductance for a softer arc or reduce inductance for a stiffer arc. Stainless steel is notoriously difficult to "wet-out" and, without increased inductance, is prone to lay a "ropey" weld. Increased inductance improves puddle fluidity on stainless steel and ensures proper penetration and aesthetics.
Passport Plus Proves Portable for Plant Work
One of the greatest examples of the Passport Plus' portability is the work Cactus Welding does for UPS. In addition to standard repair and mechanical work, the company also installs 1-1/2-in. square tube handrails high above the belts and workings of the plant floor at UPS' package handling facility in Phoenix. This often involves climbing up 18-in. wide stairwells 30 ft. above the ground and finding access to power in inconvenient locations.
"I do handrail work where, if I had to string my Stick welder all the way down the aisle and through the legs and bars of the plant, I'd have to move my truck several times throughout the day to get better access," says Agan. "With this, I just plug into each little area and find power in the building and I don't have to move the truck each time. It has saved a lot of time in a lot of ways that I don't think any of us were really expecting."
|The Spoolmate 100 Spool Gun allows Agan to weld up to ¼ in aluminum off of 230 V power.
"We always tried to use 1/8-in. wall tubing because it was easier for us to weld with Stick. With Flux Cored, we can go to a lighter material – either 16 ga. or 14 ga. That brings the materials costs down, and it's a lot easier to get into some of those places and be able to hold it while you're welding. And a lot of times I'm welding to sheet metal or a side pan that's not very thick, and it helps balance out when I can weld equal materials and not have to worry about burning through or distorting things, because it doesn't put as much heat into things (as Stick) either."
Agan mentions that, when joining handrail to thin sheet metal with Stick, he has to make fast, short welds along the entire length of the joint in order to not put too much heat into the workpiece. With the MIG process he can weld continuously without blowing through or causing the material to warp. This creates a stronger weld and gets the job done faster.
"I can quickly run a nice bead down it and move to the next one," he says. "It saves a lot of time."
|Disconnecting the spool gun and switching it over to flux cored takes only a few minutes. Here, Agan welds a steel door on a utility cart.
Savings and Customer Retention Through Improved Technology
Tally and his colleagues at Cactus welding can now perform a wide variety of repairs on different materials with a single machine: the Millermatic Passport Plus. Its lightweight versatility has allowed the company to weld faster (without sacrificing quality) and has made life easier on the company's workforce. Some of the Cactus Welding staff is even considering adding it to their personal welding arsenal.
"It's a great machine," says Agan. "I would consider this for my own personal welder because of the versatility. There are so many different things you can do with it. I can weld on my Jeep as well as gates out in the field or out in the yard and not have to have a whole lot of power and a very expensive extension cord. It's one of the first things I consider when I get something off the truck now: can I do it with this or do I need to get everything else out? And it just saves a huge amount of time, which saves the customer money, which makes everybody happy."
Tally hesitates to say just how quickly the machine paid for itself because most of his customers are ch arged hourly rates and he has passed those savings on to his customers. But with the increased productivity that allows them to move on to the next job faster while still providing superior quality, Tally is confident that the machine paid for itself quickly and continues to provide a great return on investment.
"This machine saves my customers a lot of money," claims Tally, "and they see that. They realize it saves them money by allowing me to work faster without sacrificing quality. That ensures that we get called back for the next job."
|The compact, all-in-one design of the Passport Plus allows welders to bring the machine closer to the work.


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UAH is governed by The University of Alabama Board of Trustees that vests authority in the campus president to lead the university. The president is assisted by the provost and executive vice president for academic affairs; the vice president for research; the vice president for finance and administration; the vice president for university advancement and the vice president for diversity. The president, together with the vice presidents and the executive assistant to the president/director of government relations, function as the university's executive committee.
UAH is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC) to award bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees. Many UAH programs are also accredited by their respective accrediting agencies, including ABET Inc., the American Chemical Society (ACS), the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE), the Computer Sciences Accrediting Board (CSAB), the Accreditation Council for Cooperative Education (ACCE), the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE), the National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD), and the National Association of Schools of Music (NASM).
UAH has more than 330 full-time faculty members; 87 percent have terminal degrees in their fields. The FTE student/faculty ratio is 16:1.
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Thief River Falls- Daniel Ray Johnson, 72, died on Monday, May 30, 2005 at his home in rural Thief River Falls.
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HOUSTON—The 27th Annual Uptown Houston Holiday Lighting celebration is this Thursday night!
Festivities begin at 4 p.m., but street closures go into effect earlier.
From 3 p.m. to 10 p.m., Post Oak Boulevard will be closed in both directions between Westheimer and San Felipe. You can detour to Sage or the West Loop as an alternate.
Free public parking is available at Centre@Post Oak, Dillard's Garage, Four Oaks Place, The Galleria, Post Oak Central, Post Oak Plaza, and Williams Tower.
Come out with the family—Santa will light up a half-million lights on 80 trees!


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From OpenwaterpediaGlen S. Hummer Award, an award given to the individual who makes the greatest contribution to the open water swimming in the United States. He is also the Co-Chairman of the 2012 International Aquatic History Symposium & Film Festival, a member of the board of directors of both the International Swimming Hall of Fame and the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame.
As the Executive Director & Curator for the International Swimming Hall of Fame Museum in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, U.S.A., Duenkel has extensive knowledge of aquatics and personal networks throughout the swimming world. He has worked hand-in-hand with Buck Dawson, Sam Freas and Bruce Wigo for decades, helping build the reputation, archives and artifacts of the International Swimming Hall of Fame and the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame.
With his non-assuming personality and low-key approach, he is a driving force behind the growth of Open Water Swimming throughout the world. He is the key element in the conduct of many Hall of Fame Activities and is the de facto meet manager for most events hosted by the International Swimming Hall of Fame. He is the administrative liaison with the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame and has recently established a process of recording the marathon swims not under the jurisdictional authority of another body. His Swimming Camp Chickopee teams have participated and won A.A.U. and U.S. Swimming National Championships. He was also the Head Coach for the III FINA Open Water World Cup team in Evian, France where the American team won the Team Championship.


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Tuesday, June 25, 2013 — Bobby James "Bob" Tucker, 70, of Oakboro, died June 25, 2013. Celebration of Life: 2 p.m. June 29, 2013, Providence Church of God, Locust. The family received friends one hour prior to the service at the church.
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Having written books on Pakistan and Haiti, Ethan Casey now turns his attention to another society struggling through a time of confusion, economic and political distress and uncertainty, and transition: America.
He is driving clockwise around the US in Autumn 2012, visiting small towns and big cities in every region, meeting with Americans and documenting their worries, hopes and stories.
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Mono 2.0 is Ready: Compilers for C# 3.0 and Visual Basic 8
The developers of Mono, the free implementation of the .NET framework, have achieved a major milestone with version 2.0.
A complete compiler for C# 3.0 and a compiler for Visual Basic 8 are among the highlights of the new Mono release. Among the APIs are Gtk# 2.12, a binding to the Gtk+ 2.1.2 and GNOME libraries, and Mono.Cairo, a binding to the Cairo Graphics library. Mono also includes Microsoft-compatible APIs such as ADO.NET 2.0 for database programs, ASP.NET 2.0 for web development and Windows.Forms 2.0 for desktop applications. The Mono 2.0 release notes go into further details.
Mono project leader Miguel de Icaza had offered full details on the C# 3.0 compiler in his blog.
The Mono open source project uses various licenses. The class libraries and the C# compiler are under the MIT X.11 license, while the runtime is under GNU LGPL and the SDK tools are under either the GNU GPL or MIT X.11 license.
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Password Management Services Vulnerable to Attack
Should you trust an online service to store your online passwords?
New Raspberry Pi Adds Two USB Ports
New B+ board lets you build cool things without the complication of a powered USB hub.
Microsoft Grabs No-IP.com Domains
Redmond rushes in to root out alleged malware haven.
Firefox Steps into 3D
New initiative will bring futuristic virtual reality effects to the web surfing experience.
New Trojan Targets Online Banking
Dyreza malware launches a man-in-the-middle attack that compromises SSL.
HP Rolls Out Massive Cloud Network
New cloud combines worldwide access with local attention to data security.
New Attack Targets Wireless Logins
A first cousin of the recent Heartbleed attack affects EAP-based wireless and peer-to-peer authentication.
Geeks Petition for Free Lenovo BIOS
FOSS community acts to protect freedom of choice for laptop devices.
Firefox Says Yes to DRM
Quintessential open source browser shores up its market share with a step toward the proprietary dark side.
Webcam Hijackers Busted
Authorities in 16 countries take action against users of the imfamous BlackShades malware tool.


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PITTSFORD -- The Buffalo Bills' search for safety depth will not end with Jim Leonhard.
The former undrafted free agent who started his career with Buffalo in 2005 spent two days this week visiting with the team at training camp and took a physical. He did not meet with coach Chan Gailey, however, and left Friday afternoon.
It's being reported today that Leonhard has signed a one-year deal with the Denver Broncos. Leonhard had surgery in December to repair a torn patellar tendon in his knee, the same injury Bills cornerback Terrence McGee is recovering from.
Seeing how McGee's recovery has been slow during camp, it wouldn't be a surprise if the Bills felt like Leonhard wasn't physically ready to play.


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For the first time in history, the United States of America elected an African-American to the highest office in the land. Fisk University Professor Reavis Mitchell and talks about what this historic election means for our nation and for the African-American community. He also talks about the unique heritage of Barack Obama and what he brings to the table.
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High on the list of phrases sure to grab attention this season at Maryland is "left with holes in the program."
This got addressed enough earlier this month with this offensive line story, and there's really no reason to revisit that particular issue. But it did touch on the 2006 recruiting class, which had some useful pieces but also quite a few duds.
There's also semi-consistent references to how much coach Ralph Friedgen likes his 2008 recruiting haul – a 16-man haul making significant contributions.
Part of the reason (but not nearly all) that the '08 guys are contributing so much is because of how relatively barren that '06 group was. In fact, nine of the 16 true freshmen in 2008 have started at least one game. Only seven of the 17 who made it to College Park in 2006 have done the same.
This is what former Maryland special teams coordinator Ray Rychleski would have called taking the bitter with the sweet.
Don't believe it? How about this rundown, starting with the 2008 class:
7: A.J. Francis
6: Demetrius Hartsfield
5: Cameron Chism, Davin Meggett
3: R.J. Dill, Kenny Tate
2: Kerry Boykins
1: Matt Furstenburg, Justin Lewis
0: Devonte Campbell, Kevin Dorsey, Gary Douglas, Justin Gilbert, Masengo Kabongo, Carl Russell, Joe Vellano
33 total starts
And now, for 2006:
21: Cory Jackson
20: Alex Wujciak
12: Da'Rel Scott
8: Adrian Moten, LaQuan Williams
7: Adrian Cannon
1: Emani Lee-Odai
0: Chris Clinton, Evan Eastburn, Drew Gloster, Morgan Green, Brandon Jackson-Mills, Jeremy Ricker, Stephen Smalls, Taji Thornton, Pha'Terrell Washington, Brian Whitmore
77 total starts
Already, even the guys who haven't started from the 2008 class have found ways to contribute (Gilbert on the field goal unit, Russell and Vellano as reserves, Dorsey as a special teams ace). Seven players from the 2006 group were out of the program within two years of arriving.
It should be noted that total starts isn't an entirely fair metric – a guy like Moten has meant much more than the numbers imply.
But it doesn't look like the Terps whiffed on much (if anything) in their 2008 class. They just happen to be finding out for sure in part because of mistakes a couple years earlier.


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