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About Spinning15's Garage
About me and my passion for cars
Since I can remember I have always loved cars.
All types. I have owned more cars than I can recall. I have owned cars since I was 12 years old. Fords, Chevys, Plymouth, Austin Healy, MGB, Peugeot, Toyota, Super Coupes, Collector cars Ford LS Bill Elliot Edition, and more to many to mention.
My first car
Ford 1949 6 cylinder Flathead! Great car!!!
It was my first car I rebuilt the engine on. I drove it 1 or 2 miles and it blew up! I re-built it because it cost me $15 dollars for the car and 50 to rebuild the engine. I drove it at night only with the light off I was to young to drive. IT was taken away once I got caught driving it without lights and got a couple of tickets. My parents took it away from me, so I would swipe my fathers keys to his 1956 buick and completed my own driving school. I used to have to push this huge car a half a block so my father could not hear me start the car and go to my girl friends and go parking. We got caught. We elopped after AIT while in the service. Since then I owned a few diffrent cars Thunderbird Super Coupes, Jeep Grand Cherokee, Building a Super Coupe to run at the Boneville Salt Flats going to attempt to brake land speed record for the Thunderbird Super Coupe Land speed record! 214 Miles per hour in 5 milemile distance this will not be easy but it will be possibly my last hurrah!
More to come later on. Stay tuned....
Car I wish I still had
1967 Corvette 427 Tri-Power 435 HP Marina Blue 4 speed Munsie 4 speed transmission convetible 8 track tape player AM and FM radio great stero system even in 1967
no A/C scary fast. Paid $2700.00 in 1968 Parents traded in while in the military. They bought me a Peugeot 404 I went into a deep depression ever since. Corvette now owned by a guy in New york and is selling it for
$115,000.00 ( Thousand Dollars! )The
last time I checked. Car has it's own trophy room. I still can't beleive they tradedthat car in for a Peugeot. I thought it was a prank they had pulled on me!!! I woke up and still had the Peugeot. I was not having a nightmareIt was real! This had actually happened I just could not believe it.Someday I will get that car back. I spend a buck a week to see if I can win the Florida Lotto! Someday I will get that car back or a clone of it! Maybe It will have litter of new Corvettes and I can get one like it again. I am getting pretty old I better hurry !!! I love my Thunderbird Super Coupe...It worth one of the tires of that 1967 Corvette but I loveit just as much!!! Maybe It will become a classic before I croak!
My dream car
1967 Corvette Marina Blue 427/435 horse power
Convertible or Sting ray 4 speed Muncie same as the one my parents traded in while in the service. Maybe a Z06 2007 Corvette might help 6 speed 505 Hp Black
If I win the Lotto! Or a Lamborghini Murcielago!!! Or the Austin Martin. I will take the Z06 over all of them!
Car clubs I'm in
SCCoA, SVToA, Corvette National Museum,Plus I am a Legionare for life and I am a Red Cross Expert in Disasters Services. I am a High performace Ford Super Coupe and Corvette Vendor for other cars and trucks as well.
- Type of racing: !/4 Mile and Now going to try speed trials
- Driver: Me and my Maker
- Driving song: Spinningwheels by Blood Sweat and tears!
- Car movie: Bullet With Steve MC Qween ( Died to Young)
- Car book: The Betsy
- Car magazine: Muscle cars Ford enthusiast and Corvette Muscle Cars, Fast Ford Enthusiast, All Corvette Magazines books eveything about Corvettes and Camaros or Monte Carlos
- Car game: Take a test drive at a dealership and go like Hell!
— Profile last updated: Jul 15, 2010
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We are forming this club for the Corvette Enthusiast. We currently have our online store www.corvettecountryclub.com, a local Speed Shop and now we are adding this special club hosted by Motortopia. We feel that there is no better place than Motortopia to start our membership club. We have...
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Club for all car enthusiasts but with emphasis on new and old domestic muscle cars in the Gainesville and North Central Florida area.
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Feb 2, 2009 | Monthly Cruise In |
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- Jul 8, 2010 at 1:25 pm
- Holy Shizzles...what a garage!!!
WOW, I have to go back and scope some pics but had to post this just after seeing your album pic!!
- Sep 6, 2008 at 5:58 pm
- OMG! I read about your parents trading in your 67 vette and I could have cried! That goes right along with bad parenting in my opinion! HOW could they DO that? At least it got traded to someone who loved it! If that were me I would have run away. Honestly.
- Sep 6, 2008 at 2:20 pm
- No it's not ford. Everything we own is Chevy (or at least GM).
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I Thought after the 1967 Corvette Tri power they would never build another like it...Looks like they have!!!
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I have owned a couple of Vettes But after the 1967 I onwned then my parents traded it in without me knowing I though I was going to be depressed for life. I bought a 1981 I did...
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David Hess examines the recent Ecofys draft report
Energy reports come and go but every now and then one grabs your attention –for all the wrong reasons. The recent interim report "Subsidies and costs of EU Energy" is one such report. Prepared by energy consultancy Ecofysi for the European Commission, it is intended to inform future European energy policy. It is fair to say that this prospect has raised eyebrows of quite a few members of the nuclear community.
Let's be clear that the intentions of the work are unquestionably good. A detailed assessment of the cost, subsidies and a financial value for the environmental impacts and externalities of different energy sources is just the ticket for helping Europe to make the right energy choices going forward, especially as it faces the formidable challenges of decarbonising and enhancing energy security. However, when the methodology of such a study appears to be crafted with the intention of reinforcing popular energy beliefs instead of challenging them something has clearly gone awry.
Without question the interim report is afflicted by a case of 'nuclear exceptionalism'. What this translates to is an excessive focus on 'nuclear issues' while those of other energy sources are downplayedii. In other cases of nuclear exceptionalism the technology simply gets ignored from energy discussions – despite currently accounting for 11% of the world's electricity (a rather significant chunk of its low-carbon supply at that) and offering clear potential for future growth. The common error of the nuclear exceptionalist is that they mistake efforts by the nuclear industry to account for possible impacts of the technology – such as special waste, safety and liability arrangements – as points against it. In fact the extraordinary amount of resource that the industry dedicates to these matters should count as one of nuclear energy's greatest selling points! Arguably no other industry tries as hard as nuclear to internalise its potential externalities and system costs.
Returning to the Ecofys report, you can read what WNA has to say about it here as well as European trade body Foratom here and an excellent in depth account by physicist and energy/environment commentator Jani Martikainen here. I'm not going to try and repeat these critiques, but I will highlight just one part of our response which serves as an acute example of nuclear exceptionalism and a rather interesting addition to the popular discourse on nuclear economics in general.
A rather surprising finding of the Ecofys report is that nuclear energy received a subsidy of €7 billion in 2012iii. It is surprising because the owners of currently operating nuclear reactors in Europe received no such thing. We are never told precisely what this subsidy is supposed to consist of, but a clue is provided in a remote corner of an annex. The overwhelming components of the supposed subsidy are apparently being handed out by the UK and the EU itself. If you know anything about energy policy in Europe then this should set alarm bells ringing.
Source: Ecofys report
There is no feed-in-tariff, or special tax-credit, or nuclear obligation, or guaranteed offtake (or anything even remotely similar that is normally what we think of as an energy subsidy) received by EDF Energy for operating the UK's current reactor fleetiv. And the idea of the EU offering anything like that to operating reactors is a far cry from the present political reality. So what could this subsidy be, and why is Italy on the list given that the country closed all its nuclear power plants in the 1980s?! The only answer that makes sense is that the majority of this supposed subsidy relates primarily to payments made by these governments to cover the costs of decommissioning legacy nuclear sites.
Take a second to think about this. You may find yourself asking questions like "hey don't some of these sites hark back to the early days of nuclear technology and isn't technology much better now", or maybe "weren't some early facilities used for purposes other than just producing energy?" or possibly "aren't these sites owned by government and not industry?" Perhaps also you recall some kind of condition imposed by the EU that resulted in the forced shut-down of eight reactors in aspiring EU member states in exchange for ongoing financial aid, some of which was nominally to help with the imposed decommissioning.
Whether or not you share these thoughts and wonder whether such 'subsidies' should be included at all, you may be surprised that they are categorised as a 'cost to production' because you know perfectly well that currently operating nuclear facilities as well as all future ones are required to put aside funds to pay for their eventual dismantlement in a way that quite simply no other energy technology is expected to.
The sting in the tail of the alleged €7 billion subsidy is that it omits entirely an absolutely vital consideration. This is surprising, since it is not some esoteric classification of government support, but rather an everyday sort of thing that you are no doubt familiar with yourself. When you calculate how much money is in your account at the end of the month, you look at outgoings but also incoming right? Well Ecofys decided not to do exactly that.
The reason given is that all power plants pay the same tax and this is reflected in the price of electricity paid by customers. In fact there are many countries in the EU in which nuclear power is selectively taxed. These are not environmental charges and nor are they equally applied to other electricity forms.
I took it upon myself to try and come up with a reasonably robust figure for the amount of these nuclear-specific taxes in Europe for the year 2012. The exact nature of how the taxes work tends to be complex and only in one or two instances are amounts stated plainly on balance sheets. Added to this is that some of the taxes are being disputed and I have only picked out the largest while ignoring the nuclear-specific tax arrangements of some countries which fell outside the period in question. Despite all this, the message is clear: current nuclear facilities provide a great big subsidy to certain European countries.
*known exactly. Source: https://www.electrabel.com/assets/be/corporate/documents/activity-report-2012_EN.pdf **Estimates based on NEA report https://www.oecd-nea.org/law/legislation/france.pdf which cites 2006 values. It may be slightly over as not all such facilities relate to power production*** estimated by multiplying tax rate by 2012 generation levels†0.51 p/kWh used. http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/rates/ccl.htm conversion rate of 1.2 euro per pound used. The UK climate change levy affects nuclear plants despite the fact that these emit zero greenhouse-gas emissions during operation
Note that this does not even include the other general taxes that all energy facilities are reasonably expected to pay. When these are included and when the decommissioning subsidy is (rightly) subtracted then it is almost certain that on balance currently operating nuclear power plants pay more to communities and government then they receive in the form of subsidy.
This is something that I think European policy-makers certainly deserve to be aware of.
Hopefully this post adds a little more depth to the questions of energy subsidies and costs which is, when all is said and done, a complicated affair. I'm certainly not saying that government intervention in energy markets is bad or should be stopped. A significant degree of such intervention is essential if we hope to fundamentally transform our energy systems into one fit for the future. In this regard new nuclear power plants are definitely no exception – and should not be treated as one! However it should be clear that operating nuclear plants are immensely valuable strategic assets. It does not make sense shut them down in the absence of sound economic or technical reasons.
i) Ecofys specialises in energy efficiency and renewable energy systems. They were supported in preparing the report by KPMG, the Centre for Social and Economic Research (CASE) and CE Delft.ii) An example of nuclear exceptionalism might be for instance to include decommissioning in levelised cost calculations for nuclear, but not doing so for other electricity sources. A further example would be calculating a cost for a theoretical major nuclear accident in Europe as an externality, while ignoring the cost of potential accidents of other energy source of the unfortunate number of real accidents that occur all too frequently for other energy forms.iii) It has to be noted that this was quite a low figure in comparison to the other electricity technologies.iv) Some are on offer for the proposed new reactors the company intends to build at Somerset and Suffolk.
Reading the coverage of the International Energy Agency's World Energy Outlook 2014 you might come to the conclusion that renewables will flourish, nuclear's future is uncertain, oil supplies are a matter of concern and surprisingly little has been said about coal and gas.
The projections used in the report tell a different story, particularly in the electricity generation sector. This story becomes clearer if we consider each generation source individually when looking at the three scenarios discussed in the report.
Current Policies: taking account only of current policies, not anticipating any future national or international action to address issues of climate change, energy security and affordability New Policies: the central scenario of WEO-2014, taking into account all current policies as well as relevant policy proposals to address climate change, energy security and affordability, but still using up the Earth's carbon budget, as defined by the IPCC. 450 Scenario: assumes set of policies introduced to allow CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere to peak at 450 ppm, putting us on course to limit climate change warming to 2 degrees C.
The chart below shows the electricity generation from all sources in 2040 under the three scenarios. The first thing to note is that electricity demand rises in all three scenario. Various levels of energy efficiency are applied in each scenario, but global electricity demand will continue to rise to meet the needs of a global population, when billions today still do not receive adequate electricity supplies.
Looking to nuclear energy, in all three scenarios the amount of nuclear generation increases from 2012 levels. As might be expected, the more effort put in to policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions the greater the amount of nuclear generation forecast.
Separating renewables into individual generation sources shows the different prospects for the different technologies. Hydro remains the main source of generation classed as renewable. Wind shows the greatest growth, with wind, nuclear and hydro becoming the three main players in near-zero carbon emission generation. While other forms of renewables are numerous, their overall contribution to electricity generation remains limited in all scenarios.
The amount of change in the contribution to the generation mix is best illustrated in this second chart. This chart shows the change in the amount of electricity generated, in terawatthours (TWh) for each generation form in all three scenarios. The greatest additional generation from near-zero carbon generators comes from nuclear, wind and hydro. Nuclear and wind both show the greatest growth between the three scenarios, hydro less so, perhaps reflecting that the potential for large hydro to grow will be limited by the availability of suitable sites for dams.
The contributions of the other renewables show more clearly, as they add capacity to a very low current baseline.
What this graph makes clear is that the greatest uncertainty is over the future of fossil fuels. Unconstrained in the current policies scenario, coal and gas-fired electricity generation will grow far more than either nuclear or any renewable. The introduction of new policies currently on the table has a markedly different effect on coal and gas. Coal sees a significant fall in generation, as carbon policies begin to bite, but gas sees a growth in additional generation, replacing one fossil fuel with another.
The coal to gas switch of the New Policies would leave us in an impossible situation where the world's carbon emission budget would be used up by 2040. To have a chance of limiting global warming to an average of 2C, according to the IPCC, no further greenhouse gas emissions would be possible. All fossil fuel generation would have to be switched off on 1 January 2041.
It is only the 450 Scenario that sets us on a more practical path of emissions reduction, greater at first, but allow a more manageable retirement of the remaining fossil fuel generation over the second half of the century.
With these scenarios a clearer picture emerges. Nuclear, wind and hydro will lead the growth in near-zero carbon generation. The amount of growth will depend on the international commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This commitment will also encourage the growth of other renewables. The uncertainty in electricity generation to 2040 lies in the futures of coal and gas.
The Financial Times today has focussed on the IEA World Energy Outlook comment on nuclear decommissioning costs, with a headline reading "Bill for shutting nuclear plants will reach $100bn".
To be clear the $100bn figure is for the decommissioning of almost 200 reactors, nearly half of the reactors currently operating, between now and 2040.
This might seem to be a significant sum, but it needs to be put context. The table below lists other costs listed in the IEA World Energy Outlook.
Nuclear decommissioning costs are a tiny fraction of the investment needed in upstream oil and gas development or fossil fuel or renewables subsidies. They are also a small fraction of overall generation costs, only a few tenths of a cent per kWh.
The IEA World Energy Outlook states: "Decommissioning costs account for less than 1.5% of generation costs in all regions, on the assumption that they are accrued over the entire economic lifetime of plant operation." (IEA WEO p396).
The IEA figures are consistent with other estimates of decommissioning costs, including a much longer report produced by the OECD in 2003 (The IEA was established in the OECD framework). These costs are recognised by industry and nuclear regulators and funds are already being set aside to carry out decommissioning in the future. The commitment of the nuclear industry to properly funding decommissioning costs compares well to preparations made elsewhere in the energy sector. For more information please see our information paper on nuclear decommissioning.
The Financial Times focus on nuclear decommissioning costs is disappointing, given the much greater challenges for the world's energy system the IEA's report sets out; that urgent action is needed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to address climate change.
WNA Director General Agneta Rising said:
"The IEA's central scenario would set us on a path of a dangerous increase in global temperatures. We must act to switch to cleaner and more affordable energy sources. Nuclear is a cost-effective way of producing reliable low-carbon electricity on a large scale. Nuclear must form an increasing part of the world's energy supply if we are to get serious about addressing climate change."
WNA welcomes the report's recognition of the many benefits of nuclear energy, such as enhanced energy security, system reliability and low emissions. The report states:
"Nuclear plants can contribute to the reliability of the power system where they increase the diversity of power generation technologies in the system. For countries that import energy, it can reduce their dependence on foreign supplies and limit their exposure to fuel price movements in international markets."
"Nuclear power is one of the few options available at scale to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions while providing or displacing other forms of baseload generation.It has avoided the release of an estimated 56 gigatonnes of CO2 since 1971, or almost two years of total global emissions at current rates."
In the latest editorial on the World Nuclear News website WNA's Jonathan Cobb looks forward to the climate change negotiations that will take place in Paris next year. In the article Cobb looks back at the early days of the UN COP negotiations, events he describes as 'exciting', but sees the recent meetings as having ossified. This may not bode well for the Paris meeting.
Many of the world leaders who met in New York last September pressed the case for more action. The path of global greenhouse gas emissions is well illustrated by the series of graphs an article on Energy Collective. If action is to be taken it needs to be meaningful, and that would mean deploying the full range of mitigation options available to us, as there is not sign of overachievement so far.
The nuclear industry needs to satisfy the multi-criteria approach to risk that banks take when they decide whether to invest in a large infrastructure project. Only then, can it expect to attract this form of financing to nuclear new build projects, writes Ron Cameron on the latest WNN Editorial article.
Specifically,says Cameron, banks look for long-term certainty on price, stable government policy, industry reputation, regulatory certainty, the process for addressing planning and environmental issues and public acceptance, in addition to the economics of the project.
Cameron argues that European wholesale electricity markets are currently not favourable to nuclear power, however. That, he says, is because the role of nuclear in offsetting the negative effect on price of feed-in tariffs and grid priorities for renewable forms of energy is not adequately recognised. The cost to the system of having intermittency of supply is often borne by the nuclear plants through their role in providing back-up generating capacity or otherwise by the consumer through higher electricity prices, subsidies or taxes. With no level playing field for nuclear in liberalised electricity markets, there is a real difficulty in seeing where nuclear new build is going to come from in Europe, without government action. Cameron thinks that there is a need to explicitly recognise the advantages that nuclear power provides to stabilise these markets long term, to support the move to a low carbon economy and to help with security of supply.
Read more on WNN: http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/E-Banking-on-nuclear-1808201401.html
With the average age of European Union (EU) nuclear plants now at around 30 years, bringing enough new capacity online to match that lost through the closure of old nuclear plants will present a major challenge, writes Stephen Tarlton.
Currently, 131 nuclear power reactors with a combined capacity of around 122 GWe operate in 14 EU member states. This accounts for over one-quarter of the electricity generated across all of the EU's 28 member states. Half of the EU's nuclear electricity is produced in only one country, namely France.
But with the French government planning to cap nuclear capacity at its current level of around 63 GWe, along with the politically-motivated decisions by two member states (Germany and Belgium) to exit nuclear power over the next decade, a decline in EU capacity up to around 2030 is all but inevitable.
In order to reverse this expected short-term decline, the new generation of nuclear reactor designs needs to be firmly established in the EU. Today, nuclear plant construction is underway in only three EU member states - Finland, France and Slovakia (although the reactors under construction in Slovakia are Russian VVER-440 units, a design that is unlikely to be built again). Beyond these units, the countries that are most likely to have additional new nuclear units in operation by 2030 are Finland, Hungary, Lithuania and the United Kingdom. Though less likely, further new units by 2030 might also be seen in Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Sweden.
According to a new report titled New Nuclear in Europe - 2030 Outlook by the World Nuclear Association (WNA), the outcome of the nuclear projects in these 13 countries - but especially the two EPRs currently under construction in Finland and France, along with the planned new reactors in Finland, Hungary, Lithuania and the United Kingdom - will determine whether the expected short-term decline in the EU's nuclear industry will be reversed.
Read more on WNN Analysis
In a new feature article on World Nuclear News scientist Tim Tinsley, from the UK's National Nuclear Laboratory describes the work being carried out to develop a new nuclear power source that will help explore the outer reaches of the solar system. Most space probes are powered either by solar panels or by radioisotope power sources. Solar panels work well in the inner solar system, although the solar-powered Mars rovers have to curtail activities over-night and during Mars winters due to a lack of power. Radioisotope power sources, that use radioactive decay heat to generate electricity provide a more reliable source of power, allowing the Mars Curiosity rover to travel further and work longer, and probes like Voyager, Cassini and the New Horizons probe currently speeding to Pluto to explore the outer reaches of our solar system and interstellar space.
However, supplies of the main isotope used - Pu-238 - are running short. The work being done at NNL would extract americium-241 from plutonium separated from used nuclear fuel. Although the Am-241 produces less power per unit weight than Pu-238, the separation process would be far less expensive.
It also strikes that Am-241 also has a longer half-life than Pu-238, meaning Am-241 power sources should last longer. Voyager 2 launched in 1977. Although its power source has lasted an impressive 37 years already, the gradual decay of its Pu-238 power source, with a half-life of 87.7 years means that the probe will no longer be able to operate beyond 2020. An Am-241 source would have a half life of 432 years, meaning the fall in output from a Am-241 RPS would be much slower, potentially allowing probes to operate for much longer.
A fascinating brochure has been published outlining the story of the Onagawa nuclear power plant and how it withstood the earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011. It is available here.
The report reviews the differences between what happened at Fukushima Daiichi, Fukushima Daini and Onagawa.
Onagawa faced a stronger earthquake and tsunami of similar height to Fukushima Daiichi, at around 13m. The earthquake disrupted external power supplies, but with a combination of one remaining external power line and six of the eight diesel generators the plants shut down and cooling systems started as planned - in fact Unit 2 was in the process of starting up as the earthquake struck and reached cold shutdown a few minutes later.
When the tsunami struck the damage caused to Onagawa was much less severe than at Fukushima Daiichi and Daini, because the Onagawa plant had been built at a height of 14.8m, higher than the tsunami waves. There was some disruption to unit 2 cooling, but all reactors achieved cold shutdown as planned.
The preparedness and efforts of staff at Onagawa were recognised when they were presented with a WANO (World Association of Nuclear Excellence) Award for Nuclear Excellence.
Onagawa staff whose combined efforts earned them a WANO Nuclear Excellence Award
Perhaps even more remarkable is how the Onagawa nuclear plant became a place of refuge for people from the area surrounding the plant, where many had died, and even more had been made homeless.
On March 11, 1,500 people working at the site were stranded, without any reports how their friends and family outside the plant had fared. From the devastated surrounding area 50 people sought shelter at the plant. Eventually the site would become a refuge for 364 people from the local community.
Local refugees offered shelter in Onagawa gymnasium
The article shows how robust nuclear power plants are when back up power supplies and flood defences are properly in place. Since the accident at Fukushima 'stress tests' have been carried out at reactors around the world to ensure that plants are sufficiently prepared. Even at Onagawa defences have been strengthened even more.
When the third report from the IPCC, on mitigation of climate change, was published on Sunday the world's media focussed on its key messages - greenhouse emissions are rising, the threat of climate change is getting stronger, serious and radical international action is required, but we can still avoid the worse effects of climate change if we take action now and for the long term.
But what was released on Sunday was just the "Summary for Policymakers", a 30-odd page negotiated skim of the actual report, which contains more a thousand pages of carefully referenced scientific assessment.
The conclusions of the full IPCC report are clear, the energy supply system is the largest contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions and more action in this sector is required now. The IPCC report says around 80% of our electricity must be supplied by low carbon sources such as nuclear, renewables and CCS by 2050 and to eliminate polluting coal, oil and gas generation by the end of the century.
The IPCC concludes that no single mitigation option in the energy supply sector will be sufficient to hold the increase in global average temperature change below 2°C above pre‐industrial levels. Embracing all options will give us the greatest chance of avoiding the harmful effects of climate change in the most cost-effective way.
Nuclear energy is recognised as having some of the lowest greenhouse gas emissions for each unit of electricity generated, even when the full lifecycle emissions are included. Average emissions from nuclear are 12 grams of CO2 per kWh, compared to 11 gCO2/kWh for onshore wind, 12gCO2/kWh for offshore wind, 24 gCO2/kWh for hydro and 28-47 gCO2/kWh for solar. Biomass has no direct emissions, but infrastructure and supply chain emissions averaged a significant 230gCO2/kWh. Emissions for gas and coal averaged 490 and 920 gCO2/kWh respectively. Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) helped reduce fossil fuel emissions, but even with CCS fossil fuel emissions were between 160-220 gCO2/kWh.
For uranium resources, the IPCC report notes that if all conventional uranium occurrences are considered there would be enough uranium to meet current levels of demand for 250 years. Closing the nuclear fuel cycle with reprocessing and recycling of fuel through fast reactors could extend that by more than 50 times (to more than 12,500 years) and reduce the amount of waste generated and disposal required. Thorium too could extend the nuclear resource further.
Tackling climate change and weaning ourselves off our addiction to fossil fuels for electricity generation can seem daunting. But as has been demonstrated by France, a commitment to nuclear energy, in partnership with renewables, can virtually eliminate fossil fuels from electricity generation in little more than two decades - and supply some of the lowest cost electricity in Europe.
Nuclear energy supplies low carbon electricity reliably and affordably. The world needs nuclear energy to tackle climate change.
Isis Leslie
The second WNU Summer Institute (WNU SI) Alumni Assembly, held from 31 March – 4 April 2014, was a great success. It was hosted by Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the USA and brought together Alumni from across the nine Summer Institute classes, with almost 70 representatives from 15 countries as diverse as China, India, Sweden, France, Brazil, Nigeria, Germany and Canada. We are really pleased that so many nuclear companies are continuing to invest in the young leaders in their companies.
The main aim of the Alumni Assembly is to continue the SI's legacy of engaging the next generation of nuclear leaders from across the globe, providing a valuable opportunity to further solidify the global Alumni network of peers, and to build upon the foundations laid down at the SI. The programme addressed three main aims: professional development, leadership and peer-to-peer engagement. We heard from a number of great invited leaders, including US Assistant Secretaries Pete Lyons and Tom Countryman, Cameco Vice President Ken Seitz, US NRC Commissioner and appointed OECD/NEA DG William Magwood, Exelon CEO Amir Shakarami and Agneta Rising, WNA DG and WNU President. Presentations from Alumni were also excellent, and we were given some great information, including updates on the nuclear programmes in China, Finland and the UK, and new developments on waste management, safety, security and safeguards, training, research and public involvement in decision making process.
Participating Alumni had the opportunity to choose a topic of interest for in-depth professional development training over two full days. These were taken in small Groups and we were able to learn from experts from Oak Ridge and across the world. These focussed on research reactors and isotope production, safeguards and inspector training, safety culture and training on security for the technical community.
The programme was complimented by a range of technical visits including tours of High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR), the ORNL supercomputer, the X-10 Graphite Reactor, Safeguards Laboratory and the Canberra Crystal Growing Facility. The Alumni also participated in a range of social activities, both informal and formal, and we were very pleased to be able to attend a reception hosted by the University of Tennessee at the UT Football Stadium, the 3rd largest college sports stadium in the USA. All these different elements allowed the participants to not only re-establish their relationships with those from their own SI year but also network with people from different years, consolidating and extending the network and creating a solid foundation for the future of the global nuclear industry. It was a motivating and inspiring event:
- "The WNU SI was a transformative experience, and the Alumni Assembly allows one to sustain that tranformation over the years" ( Shehab (Sunny) G. Mustafa, Ontario Power Generation)
We are looking at the possibilities to host the WNU Summer Institute Alumni Assembly 2016, with hopes to organize it in the Asia to encourage the participation of more Alumni from that region.The WNU and the participating Summer Institute Alumni would like to thank Oak Ridge National Laboratory for all their support and for allowing us access to their impressive facilities. Thank to those who supported the event through sending participants, speakers or sponsorship.


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Side view of rustic log cabin with picnic table.
Ranger Station surrounded by trees, green lawn and blue sky in the background.
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Paralyzing punch case now in judge's hands
By Janet Lundquist firstname.lastname@example.com December 10, 2012 4:48PM
Joseph P. Messina
Updated: January 12, 2013 6:13AM
Did he do it, or didn't he?
Over the next few weeks, a Will County judge will decide whether she believes a New Lenox man accused of throwing a near-fatal punch in summer 2009 actually did the deed, or whether she believes witnesses who claim a different guy did it.
Joseph P. Messina, 24, of New Lenox, faces three counts of aggravated battery for punching Eric Bartels so hard he fell and fractured his skull on the pavement outside a Mokena bar, authorities said.
Messina's bench trial wrapped up Monday, and Judge Sarah Jones said she will issue her verdict on Jan. 3.
During their closing arguments Monday afternoon, prosecutors showed a photo of a streak of blood on the asphalt of the parking lot just outside the front doors to 191 South.
They left the photo up as they recounted the testimony of independent, sober witnesses to the fight who said they saw Messina punch Bartels.
But several witnesses last week contradicted that testimony, saying another member of Messina's group of friends actually punched Bartels.
Stephen Raymond of Manhattan said he was the designated driver that night and saw the fight as he was driving a van to pick up the group.
Messina was shoved to the side, and another one of their friends, Michael Glielmi, punched Bartels, Raymond said.
Raymond said he kept his mouth shut until now because he thought Glielmi would confess.
Two other men who were there that night also blamed Glielmi on the witness stand. All three acknowledged they never told police or prosecutors previously about Glielmi being the assailant.
Glielmi invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination and was not forced to testify.
Prosecutors said Monday the testimony from Messina's friends was not believable, especially compared to the testimony of the independent witnesses who watched from a parked vehicle as the fight unfolded.
Prosecutors also pointed out that witnesses who were in the thick of the confrontation said they did not remember seeing Glielmi that night.
Defense attorney Dave Carlson argued that conflicting testimony and a lack of evidence is enough to make someone doubt the prosecutors' version of events.
There was also no evidence of injury to Messina's hand, and nothing documenting what others in his crew of friends were wearing that night, Carlson said.
Police at the scene didn't consider anyone else in the group, but handcuffed Messina in front of the crowd of witnesses, Carlson said.
"What we have ... is 15 to 20 people out in essentially a melee," Carlson said. "All the testimony is that the guy who hit Mr. Bartels ran into the van. They pulled someone out, and that was Joey."


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Being a novice to all this, I have to ask what are the benefits to ME by swapping out a 5 LNB SL5 setup to a 3 LNB SL3 setup? Just curious... does the SL5 _not_ get the same satellites as the SL3? Does the SL3 get satellites that the SL5 doesn't? Or are you suggesting that only if the LNB is shot? If I'm getting non-HD signals perfectly 24/7 (I am) but I want HD wherever its available (like ESPN, YES, MSNBC, CNN, HBO, SHO, etc.) do I need to receive 119 or not? One posts suggests I need it for the guide and thats why it reverts to a screen saver every once in a while... so if I don't have 119 as a selection, it will get guide information elsewhere? Sorry I'm just trying to figure this out.
I'm guessing that my mix of HD DVR tuners (HR20, HR23, & HR24) precludes me from using a single cable setup, but I can probably figure out some way to get six (6) active lines out of the basic four that leave the roof... right?
If you do not need the Slimline 5 there is no reason to have to get signals from them and possibly cause a problem.
Copied and pasted from an earlier post.
Incidentally... as noted earlier, I have four (4) wires running from the current setup and because of that I can't have all the DVRs working. I guess I could run a 2nd line to the 2nd floor bedroom DVR, and could I run a single line down to some kind of splitter/multiswitch so the two "ground level" dvrs could get two (2) feeds each? Is that possible?
If you change to SL3 and also get the SWM version it will control 8 tuners ( dvrs have 2 each ) with only one wire to each of them. If you change to this it will also require a 21 volt Power Inserter.
Your mix of receiver model numbers is not a problem.


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Oral History Program Glorya Stokes Telleson Interviewed by Marci Farr 19 August 2008 Oral History Program Weber State University Stewart Library Ogden, Utah Glorya Stokes Telleson Interviewed by Marci Farr 19 August 2008 Copyright © 2009 by Weber State University, Stewart Library Mission Statement The Oral History Program of the Stewart Library was created to preserve the institutional history of Weber State University and the Davis, Ogden and Weber County communities. By conducting carefully researched, recorded, and transcribed interviews, the Oral History Program creates archival oral histories intended for the widest possible use. Interviews are conducted with the goal of eliciting from each participant a full and accurate account of events. The interviews are transcribed, edited for accuracy and clarity, and reviewed by the interviewees (as available), who are encouraged to augment or correct their spoken words. The reviewed and corrected transcripts are indexed, printed, and bound with photographs and illustrative materials as available. Archival copies are placed in Special Collections. The Stewart Library also houses the original recording so researchers can gain a sense of the interviewee's voice and intonations. Project Description The Dee School of Nursing was founded in 1910 to provide training for nurses who would staff the new Dee Memorial Hospital. The first class of eight nurses graduated from the school in 1913 and the school continued to operate until 1955, with a total of more than 700 graduates. A new nursing school and home located just east of the hospital was completed in 1917 and all nursing students were required to live in the home during their training. This oral history project was created to capture the memories of the school's alumni before their stories disappear in the same way the Dee Hospital has disappeared. The oral interviews focus on how the women became involved with the school, their experiences going through training, and how they used the training. ____________________________________ Oral history is a method of collecting historical information through recorded interviews between a narrator with firsthand knowledge of historically significant events and a well-informed interviewer, with the goal of preserving substantive additions to the historical record. Because it is primary material, oral history is not intended to present the final, verified, or complete narrative of events. It is a spoken account. It reflects personal opinion offered by the interviewee in response to questioning, and as such it is partisan, deeply involved, and irreplaceable. ____________________________________ Rights Management Special Collections All literary rights in the manuscript, including the right to publish, are reserved to the Stewart Library of Weber State University. No part of the manuscript may be published without the written permission of the University Librarian. Requests for permission to publish should be addressed to the Administration Office, Stewart Library, Weber State University, Ogden, Utah, 84408. The request should include identification of the specific item and identification of the user. It is recommended that this oral history be cited as follows: Glorya Stokes Telleson an oral history by Marci Farr, 19 August 2008, WSU Stewart Library Oral History Program, Special Collections, Stewart Library, Weber State University, Ogden, UT. iii Glorya Stokes Telleson Application Photo 1950 Graduation Photo Class of 1954 Glorya Stokes Telleson August 19, 2008 1 Abstract: This is an oral history interview with Glorya Stokes Telleson. It was conducted August 19, 2008 and concerns her recollections and experiences with the Dee School of Nursing. The interviewer is Marci Farr. MF: This is Marci Farr. We are interviewing Glorya Stokes Telleson. She graduated with the class of 1954 from the Dee School of Nursing. It is August 19, 2008. We are interviewing her at her home in Roy, Utah. Tell us about your early life, where you grew up, how many were in your family, where you went to school. GT: I was born at the old Dee hospital. I always said I fell asleep as a baby and woke up in uniform. I always wanted to be a nurse. As a child, I would take care of the little animals (pets in the neighborhood); if they weren't hurt, we would bandage them up anyway. So I had a little experience before I began nurses' training. I graduated from Ogden High School. I was offered two scholarships for training. One was a full scholarship to the Dee and the other was a scholarship fund for any school of nursing. MF: Why did you decide the Dee Hospital? GT: I chose the Dee because I liked the program they had. I had received a scholarship there. I chose the Dee over St. Benedicts (school of nursing) because St. Ben's was a new School of Nursing and I felt like I would get a broader experience at the Dee. I had heard from a lot of nurses who felt that the Dee had the best program in the area. We also received college credits for the classes at Weber College (now WSU). At that time the college was located on 25th and Jefferson. As students it was not uncommon to walk from 24th and Harrison Blvd. to the college. 2 MF: What were your first impressions when you walked in? Were you surprised about the strictness or was it you just knew that was part of how it was going to be? GT: I worked the summer after high school graduation and before entering nursing training in the operating room at the Dee Hospital. My duties were to clean the used instruments and rinse out the bloody linen before sending it to the laundry. I watched the nurses working there and knew what nursing would entail. It was a good experience. MF: It wasn't too much shock. GT: It wasn't a big shock to me. I was impressed with the surgeries. I was very interested in the Operating Room; and when I graduated, I requested that for my first area of employment. MF: You said you had some of the classes that were taught at Weber College and you had some at the nurses home? GT: Yes. During our first year we had class both at Weber College and the Nurses' Home. Many times the physicians would come to the Nurses Home and lecture about their discipline. The classes (like Chemistry and those required) were taught at the college. MF: So you could get credit with Weber? GT: Yes. MF: So do you remember who some of your instructors were? GT: Three stand out in my mind; Marie Donaldson, LaPriel Neville, and Ruth Brown. Marie Donaldson was so capable; I wanted to be like her. LaPriel Neville taught 3 Nursing Arts with great compassion. She really taught me what it was to be a nurse. The irony was that when she was old, she was a patient of mine and received from me the nursing care she had taught me long ago. Ruth Brown taught me accountability and accuracy. She was the Supervisor of the Student Nurses on the Medical Floor. If our assignment was to pass medications, we could count on a period of question and answer regarding the drugs in use sometime during the day. Using the drugs we were administering that shift, she would question us regarding their usage—classification of drug, its general use, its usual dosage, and expected outcome, possible reaction. As a student, we darn well better know it because she did not believe we should be administering medicines we were not familiar with. She was a super teacher. MF: Yes, we interviewed her. GT: Ruth Brown was a stickler. Sometimes when we would be on medicine and that would be our responsibility on the floor she would come in and she would say, "Are you all through?" And I would say, "Yes." And she would say, "Oh good, now we are going to look through the medicine and I want you to tell me what its name is, what it is used for, how the body responds to it, what are the expected outcomes, what are the adverse reactions?" And you would go through that medicine chest and all those medicines and she would ask you point blank and you darn well better know it because she did not feel that we should be giving medicines that we did not understand. She was a super teacher. MF: A lot of people have said that she was great and they learned so much. GT: I learned a lot from her. 4 MF: You learned a lot because you couldn't second guess. You have to know. GT: Yes. She also taught us to clean up after ourselves. The hospital did not hire people to do that. When we were first year students, we were expected to do a lot of the cleaning. We literally scrubbed bedpans clean and sterilized bedpans. I left the duty station, went to the nurses' home, showered and put up my hair in rollers for the next day, and got into bed. A knock came at the door. It was the night supervisor who informed me that I was to return to the floor and take care of the things I had not put away. I had to take the curlers out of my hair, get completely dressed in my uniform, and return to the floor to put away the things I had not put away. I then returned to the nurses' home. That only happened once! MF: And you couldn't go in your pajamas? GT: No. You went in full uniform. MF: You had a roommate while you were in the nurses home, correct? GT: Do you know Sue Naisbitt? MF: We have not met her yet. GT: Sue is special. She is so fun to be around. I was married in my senior year and lived off campus. Sue and Bonnie Judkins roomed together then. I was an occasional roommate with them. We were really like sisters. I still feel very close to them. MF: That is good. GT: We didn't have any "little groups here" and "little groups there." We would all join together. 5 MF: You had to rely on each other though. GT: Oh yes. And you studied together. Sometimes just before a big test we would get together (after bed check) in one room and cram late into the night. We helped each other through. Sometimes when one of us had an interesting patient we would share our experience with each other. We learned from each other that way. We were close and have stayed close all these years. MF: I think that is the reason your association is still what it is. GT: I think so. MF: Because of what you all went through. GT: Living three years with a group of girls, you become sisters. We ate together, slept together, studied together, and sometimes dated together. I am closer to them than I am to, say, the girls that I went to high school with. MF: That is good. GT: I think so. MF: Did you have a curfew at the nursing home? GT: I have to tell you that curfew was a hard one to deal with. At 10 o'clock the doors to the Nurses' Home were locked. If you weren't on duty you had to be in bed by 10 o'clock. MF: That is what everybody has said. Everybody told us their escape routes, how to get in, how to get out. GT: We all learned how to get around it. We covered for each other. We made bed check for someone who hadn't returned from a date and then hurried to our own beds in time for bed check there. In my junior year, Sue and I lived on the 6 bottom floor near the back door. More than once someone would knock on our window and we would sneak down the hall and let them in. Mrs. Peterson and Mrs. McGraw were our house mothers. They really had a thankless job. MF: And make sure you get your right room when you snuck in. GT: We covered for each other. The nursing home was locked. There was not way to get in. MF: There was no way to because if not you had to go to the hospital, right? GT: After hours, the only way to get into the Nurses' Home was to have the Hospital Supervisor escort you to the home and let you in with her key. This way did not go unpunished. We could request time to go home. I lived in Ogden and could go home for an overnight stay with approval. MF: And have them walk you over. Unless you were supposed to be out. GT: The only ones that were supposed to be out were those that were on duty. MF: Yes. What did you do if you got a night off? GT: I did not date very much. I spent most of my time studying. My future husband was in the Navy. When he came home on leave, I spent as much time as possible with him (that was when the overnight really came in handy). When he went back we wrote each other long letters. MF: Was this during the Korean War? GT: Yes. He was stationed at San Diego, Miramar Naval Air Station. He was in the Fire Department. He did not go to Korea, but he was extended like they did the rest. 7 MF: So tell us a little bit about a typical day when you started your shift work, what did your day start out like? GT: Typical day as a probee—school and study!!! Our classes prepared us so we could give beginning nursing care. Treatments and medicine administration was handled by the older students. Once we received our caps, we began working on the floor. We gave patient care. There were very few private rooms, mostly wards and there was one big ward of 10 beds. MF: Yes if you want to start when you were a probee and then go from there. GT: Probees, we didn't go on the floor until, I think it was six months. MF: Is that when you started your class work? GT: We did a lot of class work then and got prepared so we could be of service when we went on the floor. We didn't have much in the way of responsibility right at first. As we became junior students and got our second stripe, then we did have much more responsibility. In many instances at night we would be the charge nurse. And we would take care of them. I remember that the old Dee had some very large patient rooms that were wards, ten patients to a ward. MF: That is a lot. GT: A lot of people were given bed baths. You didn't get them up early like we do now. Tub baths were rare as were showers. We used screens to screen the patients receiving care. MF: You learned every floor plus work there too, correct? You had to work on every single floor. 8 GT: There were a specific number of days required (as I remember 180 days) working in each discipline: Medical, Surgical, OB/GYN/Nursery, Pediatrics and Operating Room and Emergency Room. Psychiatry and Communicable Disease were away from the hospital setting. We went to Provo Utah for Psychiatry and to the TB Hospital in Ogden for communicable disease. These were very interesting experiences. We could not graduate until we had completed the set hours in each discipline. MF: And where was the TB Hospital? GT: That was in Ogden. I think they have used it for the death and blind school. MF: Is it on 20th street? GT: No it is out farther than that. It was a long white building about 7th or somewhere along there and that is where the tuberculosis sanitarium was. At that time if you had tuberculosis you went there. You did not stay out in the communities. We went to Provo for our psychiatric training. We spent three months down there at the State hospital. That was a very interesting experience. MF: I am sure. GT: I had an interesting experience while on my psychiatric rotation. We did not always wear our uniforms. When we took the patients on walks we wore street clothes. One day when we returned the patients to the ward, there was a lot of excitement around a large aquarium. It seems a guppy fish was giving birth to babies. I had never seen this before and was fascinated by it. When the other classmates left, I stayed to watch. When it was time for dinner, I went to the nurses' station and asked the attendant there to let me out. She was a new 9 attendant and did not know me. She patronizingly said "Yes dear, this is where we want you to stay." When my classmates finally realized that I wasn't at dinner, they returned to the ward and got me. Otherwise I might have had to spend the night. MF: You actually were a student. GT: And so she said, "You must stay, this is where they want you to stay." It was about two and a half hours before the kids down in the nursing home discovered that I wasn't there and then they came back up and got me. I thought I was going to spend the night there. Some things are really funny and they stay with you forever. MF: During your training, those two times were the only time you left the hospital? GT: Yes. We only had two rotations away from the hospital. MF: Do you remember, were there any traditions at the Dee Hospital during holidays? GT: Yes we observed all the holidays—did a lot of decorations. MF: Yes. Some remember things like they had a choir, in the earlier years they would have a choir and they would sing carols. GT: We sang a lot together, sang in harmony, but not a specific choir. Usually different groups came to the hospital and sang in the halls. MF: Were you required to attend church at that time or was it just a choice? GT: Choice. MF: Tell us a little bit about your capping and your pinning ceremony. GT: Capping ceremony was a big event. We sent out invitations to our families and friends. We wore our new capes (Navy blue with red lining) and marched from 10 the hospital to the nearby church. It was a candlelight ceremony. We each held a Florence Nightingale Lamp with a lit candle. As it came our turn to receive our cap, we knelt on the stool before our Director of Nurses (Edna Seidner), and she placed the cap on our heads. It was a special moment. MF: Who is it that did it? GT: Edna Siedner. She was our Director of Nursing. We walked from the nursing home in our full uniforms with our cape, of course with it draped over because it had red underneath and we marched from the nurses home to the church that was just around the corner. And that is where they held the capping ceremony. MF: While you were in training did you get paid? GT: We worked long hours and no, we weren't paid. Senior students were occasionally asked to work an extra shift for which they were paid a small amount. I do not know how many in my class did that. I was married and had responsibilities at home. MF: So graduation was in 1954, right? GT: Yes. MF: Where did they have graduation at? Was that at the same place? GT: Yes. MF: It was in September. Did you know any members of the Dee family? GT: During my training years I did not know them. I saw them from time to time when they were in the hospital attending to business. After graduation, I was the Alumnae Roster chairman. I knew Elisabeth Dee Shaw because she generously sponsored the printing of the roster. I prepared the roster for 20 years. She 11 loved the nurses and couldn't do enough for them. She was a very delightful person. MF: She was very, very sweet. GT: I have a huge picture but it isn't in color. MF: That is a great picture. How many were in your class? Do you remember how many graduated? That is okay. GT: I don't remember how many actually began our class, but 23 graduated. We had a boy in our class but he did not complete training. MF: In '53 there was Ray Vandersteen who graduated. What was his name? GT: Craig Peterson. It was really hard for the boys. Because they lived in the Interns' Quarters, they missed out on the closeness the girls had. They were pretty much alone and missed out on the fun. I suppose you have been told about the initiations. We did some rather awful things to the new kids coming in. MF: You were giving them their initiations. GT: We were initiated and so were they—what goes around comes around. Those who initiated us taught us well. I guess I cleaned and polished more shoes in that two week period than I will ever clean in my entire life! The upper classmates left their shoes outside their door and they had to be cleaned and polished shiny during the late evening before bedtime. In the morning, they put on their beautiful shoes and went to work. I know how to shine shoes! MF: And they would inspect them? GT: They would inspect them. MF: Yes and make sure that they were all done. 12 GT: The class ahead of us (Junior) would see that we learned to shine shoes. MF: So some people have said that when you got to your nursing program that somebody would be assigned to be your big sister. GT: Yes. MF: Who did you have? GT: Geniel Jensen was my big sister. MF: I am trying to think what that lady's name is and I can't think what her name is. Grace Locke…Grace Willard. I think she was with her. She went to school with her. GT: The big sisters were really very helpful. Geniel was wonderful. If we had trouble with something, our big sister would sit down with us and explain things, sometimes actually teach us how to do a particular thing which we needed help with (one on one). MF: When you graduated did you stay at the Dee Hospital? GT: Yes. MF: What did you do after you graduated? GT: After graduation, I worked in the Operating Room as a scrub nurse. I worked with some of the finest surgeons in the area. I loved my work. I worked for a period of time exclusively with Dr. Dean Tanner. He sometimes used my ears, or chin, or nose as a model for the plastic reconstruction he was doing. I had the privilege of going with him, on occasion to the hospital at Kemmerer, Wyoming to be his scrub nurse. I don't think many people know how great this man truly was. He had so much love for others. He treated patients regardless of their ability to 13 pay. His concern reached far beyond doctor-patient relationship. He just cared about them. One little boy who had been badly burned on his head and chest required extensive reconstruction surgery over a long period of time. Dr. Tanner bought him a wig so that he could look better. At the time it was Halloween and the little boy told him about looking forward to being in the spook alley at school so he could jump out and scare people. Dr. Tanner did not like that. He did many things to help that little boy have as normal a life as possible. MF: To have a bit of confidence. GT: I respect and admire him so much. MF: That is great. That is what our society needs. GT: He was not one to brag about himself. MF: After you were at the Dee for five years what did you? GT: We moved to California while my husband went to college. The Jr. Colleges in California were tuition free. His mother lived in Sacramento, so that is where we went. I worked at Mercy Hospital. I applied for a position in the Operating Room, but there wasn't any so I accepted a position in the OB department. I worked in OB until we returned to Ogden. I loved working in OB so I applied for a position at St. Benedict's Hospital in the OB department. MF: So did you like that? GT: Oh I loved it. It is a place of miracles—a wonderful place. MF: When did you retire from nursing? GT: After I had worked fifty years total—fifty years of being a nurse, and that means actively being a nurse—I retired. When I was 65 I stopped working full time and 14 went to part time. The nurses began working 12 hour shifts (36 hours) per week and I went back to full time. My children all wanted me to stay home. I loved the association with co-workers and the patients so I continued to work until I was 70, at which time I permanently retired. My children wanted to make sure I did not go back to work so they gave me a retirement party. MF: "Let's make this final." GT: Yes this is final now. MF: That is great. GT: I keep my "little Nurse" figurine where I can see her. I regret that I did not pass on my love of nursing to any of my grandchildren. I had two granddaughters who were quite interested. They completed a CAN program and then went to work in long-term care. They did not like it. Neither one pursued a nursing career after that. MF: I think it is a chosen profession. If you get in it and you love it you can do great things. GT: I think the girls should have started out in a nursing program and become a Registered Nurse. MF: And not do the specialties? GT: Having experienced all aspects of nursing, they could choose a specialty. MF: Because you learned everything. You had to do every single floor. Where now it is more specialized, don't you think? 15 GT: When I was Coordinator of Nursing Education at the Chronic Disease Hospital in Roy, Utah, the nursing students at Weber came out for their long-term care experience. Do you remember the hospital? MF: I don't. GT: It is now known as Heritage Park. It was the first and only Chronic Disease Hospital west of the Mississippi. It was built by Hill Burton funds (Federal). The funds were only for hospital construction and this new building was to replace the "Old Folks Home." Because of its status as a hospital, it was required to have a pharmacy, x-ray, lab, and even a single surgical suite for minor surgeries (which we never used) just as any hospital would. MF: Oh good. GT: We received a lot of quad patients. They occupied one division. Another was for critically ill and comatose patients. Two divisions were for rehabilitation and two divisions were for geriatric care. We had an excellent physical therapy department. When the Hill Burton funds were retired, the County could no longer afford to run the hospital so they sold it to Beverly Enterprises. A lot of us had our positions abolished at that time. MF: Now Dora Peterson worked down there too. GT: Yes she did. MF: Do you know Dora? GT: I know Dora. MF: Yes we interviewed her too. 16 GT: She followed Grace Matsumura as the Director of Nursing. That was where I became immersed in long-term care. I completed my Administrator's license while I was still working there. For about 3 years I was the Administrator of Aspen Care Center in Ogden. I had the opportunity to plan and develop the Alzheimer unit. That was an exciting time. I visited two institutions, one in Denver and one in Arizona, to see their pilot programs. It was a new concept that was just taking hold in other nursing homes. MF: You pretty much learned everything there was to know. GT: Ha! No not everything. MF: As far as everything you learned served you well throughout your life, don't you think? GT: It really did. I was able to be a contributor in my neighborhood as well as at work and there are many things that you could do for people. I have always loved nursing. Nursing has been good to me. MF: That is good. GT: Nursing has always been good for me. I was always able to be employed in nursing. MF: That is what everybody said. You wouldn't have a problem at all. GT: Not at all. When I went to California, I needed a California license to practice nursing. I sent my credentials to the State Board of California for reciprocity. I received my California License because the School of Nursing I had attended was well known for it's excellence throughout the country. I was not required to 17 take any classes to qualify. I retained my California license for nearly 20 years, thinking we might someday go back and live there. MF: That is great. The Dee family has influenced Ogden. Their influence that they have, the hospital and Weber State, everything and their generous funds, they have been very generous. That is a good thing for people that have been beneficiaries of their generosity. We appreciate you letting us come visit with you. GT: I am glad you came. MF: We appreciate you sharing your memories with us.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — "Linda," the embodiment of the U.S. Potato Board's target audience, was front and center at its annual meeting, especially at a domestic marketing session.
The Denver-based board's yearlong integrated domestic campaign, launched in September, aims to combat negative public perception of potatoes and declining consumption by appealing to the group that's most likely to buy potatoes: "Lindas," or middle-aged women with children and who value cooking.
"Linda provides the largest immediate opportunity to drive demand for potatoes," president and chief executive officer Tim O'Connor said. "For other women, a frozen pizza is good enough. We target 'Linda' because she enjoys cooking for her family."
This was O'Connor's last potato board meeting leading the organization. He has announced plans to step down March 31 to become the CEO of the Denver-based Avocados From Mexico marketing group.
Tackling problem head on
The potato board is tackling public perception linking potatoes and obesity head on with a focus on research about the affordability and nutrient density of potatoes, and benefits for weight management, diabetes, and other health conditions, public relations manager Meredith Myers said.
"Anytime bad news emerges, the board has an action plan to tackle it," Myers said.
That includes using "key influencers," such as the Leawood, Kan.-based American Academy of Family Physicians, to disseminate nutrition information.
The public relations staff also uses digital programs to engage "Lindas," including the revamped website potatogoodness.com that went live in December. The site's weekly recipe e-mail has surpassed 13,000 subscribers, and the board recently completed its first Pinterest contest for healthy potato recipes.
Market research consultant Kate Thompson also zeroed in on Linda, whose use of potatoes has remained stable or grown over the past few years even as the public increasingly views potatoes as fattening.
This contradiction means the board "has opportunities to be more overt with health messaging, especially among Lindas," so they can make more informed decisions about potatoes, and consequently buy more, she said.
With consumer and retail efforts, the board is translating research into practice, with its Many Sides of Potatoes print and online advertising campaign that seeks to inspire Lindas in the kitchen with an emphasis on side dishes.


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The Trojans, at 12-0, won last week's first round game with Kossuth 44-22, while Water Valley, at 10-2, won last week's first round game with North Panola 44-22.
This game is also a rematch of last year's third round game when East Side defeated Water Valley 32-27.
Water Valley is in the state playoffs for the 20th time in its history, while East Side is in its 15th postseason appearance.
Both teams do a great job running the football. The Trojans have averaged 302.1 rushing yards per game with an average of eight yards a carry, while the Blue Devils, heading into last week's first round game, were averaging 257 rushing yards per game with a 7-yard a carry average.
"We're mirror images of each other," East Side head football coach Roger Burton said. "Their best play is our best play. It's going to come down to heart, and who wants it the most and who doesn't take a play off. It's like a North State game in the second round."
East Side's offense has been led by junior running back Quadre Butler as he has rushed for 1,638 yards with 14 touchdowns on 213 carries. Senior wide receiver Brandt Williams has been a solid wideout for the Trojans by catching 21 passes for 331 yards with seven touchdowns.
On defense for East Side, senior linebacker Michael Hurns (140 tackles, 3 sacks), sophomore Paddarius Bronner (7 interceptions) and junior defensive lineman Edgar Eatmon (87 tackles, 4 sacks) have led the team. East Side's defense has surrendered an average of 17.9 points a game.
The Blue Devils offense is led by quarterback E J Bounds, who has completed 35-of-75 passes for 631 yards with seven touchdown passes and an interception and rushed for 565 yards with 11 touchdowns on 91 carries. Sophomore running back Brandon Bounds (88 carries, 668 yards, 8 TDs) and senior running back Jeoffrey Gordon (98 carries, 616 yards, 4 TDs) have also anchored the ground game.
On defense for Water Valley, junior linebacker Cortaveus Hawkins (85 tackles, 10 sacks) and senior linebacker Quinterrio Bailey (159 tackles, 7 sacks) have spearheaded the team. Water Valley's defense has surrendered an average of 14.1 points per contest.
The winner of the East Side-Water Valley game will take on the winner of the Booneville-Byhalia game next week in the third round.
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(11-30-2012 11:35 AM)kevinr Wrote: Congrats on the grades, sweet Jordan auto and a 9.5 grade was awesome.
(11-30-2012 03:55 PM)arabiansnowgriz Wrote: Not bad at all. It's always nice to get cards back that did better than you thought. I just got an E-mail from Beckett with my grades...Not a happy guy. Only 1 card out of 13 came back better than I thought. Oh well, Most are in the ball park...Just hate when they come back .5 away (Like your Crash the Game). Sick MJ auto!
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Christopher Kendall is founder of Folger Consort. He was recently renewed for a second term as Dean of the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance, where he is the Paul Boylan Collegiate Professor of Music. At Michigan, he is responsible for launching the interdisciplinary enterprise ArtsEngine, www.artsonearth.org, which stimulates collaborations among the arts disciplines, engineering, and other university programs. In Washington, in addition to his work with the Consort, he is also Artistic Director and conductor of the 21st Century Consort, new music ensemble-inresidence at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Mr. Kendall served as Director of the University of Maryland School of Music from 1996 to 2005 during a period of rapid development at the School and its move to the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. Associate Conductor of the Seattle Symphony from 1987 to 1992 and Director of the Music Division and Tanglewood Institute of the Boston University School for the Arts from 1993 to 1996, Mr. Kendall has guest conducted many orchestras and ensembles in repertoire from the 18th to the 21st centuries. His recordings can be heard on the Bard, Delos, Nonesuch, Centaur, ASV, Arabesque, Innova, and Smithsonian Collection labels. |


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For the first time, the number of active daily visitors checking Facebook on mobile devices is higher than the number of people checking the social network on the Web. Overall, the company says there are 1.06 billion active Facebook users in the world. Of those, 618 million of them are visiting daily and 157 million are doing it from mobile devices.
The company's focus on putting mobile first, with new apps and features, is paying off. Facebook is the largest social network in the world, and it was the most used mobile app across iOS and Android devices in the United States in 2012, according to recent comScore numbers.
"In 2012, we connected over a billion people and became a mobile company," said Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in a statement announcing the fourth-quarter results.
This is great news for the company, which is figuring out the best way to make money off all those smartphone and tablet users. Its biggest earner is advertising, which makes up 84% of the company's revenue. The big story this quarter is mobile ads, which the company said accounted for 23% of its ad revenue, a huge leap from the third quarter of last year when it was just 14%. Big companies like Wal-Mart are tapping into Facebook's audience. The retailer served up 50 million mobile ads in the fourth quarter.
Facebook also makes some money off Facebook games like Farmville, which share revenue with the social network, but is hoping to move beyond just Zynga to become the "default" platform for mobile games from all developers.
The company is constantly testing new ways to eek cash out of users and partners, with a steady stream of features and ads. Recent smaller projects that are still finding their legs include Facebook Gifts, which lets you buy real and virtual goods for friends, and charging to send strangers messages.
While ads and visits are taking off on mobile devices, the company's latest big feature is still Web-only. Graph Search, a new advanced search feature that lets you scour your extended network for people based on their likes or profiles, is still in its beta stages and cannot be accessed through mobile apps. Currently the search doesn't make money, but Zuckerberg said it could become a meaningful business "down the line."


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From the surface of Mars to your living room floor, mobile robots can be found in some surprising places. Together we'll explore how and why.
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Scientist Mari Velonaki uses her background in art to make "sociable" robots, for everyday use. Saffron Howden reports.
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WHEN Sabine Hauert told a recent RE.WORK technology summit in London about injecting trillions of man-made smart devices, some as small as 10 nanometres (billionths...
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Google plans to use the sprawling facility for research and develop space and robot technology.
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Andy Rubin, who co-founded the Android project, is leaving Google. According to The Wall Street Journal, Rubin's departing to create an incubator for hardware startups. His role heading up the...
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Entrepreneurs and investors are focusing on practical applications of robots and borrowing software technologies from other fields.
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The company said that it is looking for 10 companies to participate in a robotics accelerator. The win for Qualcomm: Open up a new market for its Snapdragon chip.
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Robot domination may have just taken another step forward. Just as venture capital investments in robotics are beginning to take off, the granddaddy of..
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"Blurred lines. One of the most transformative periods in the robotics industry is upon us. It will be a period of collaboration, connectivity and convergence that will catapult us into a world teeming with automation in every aspect of our lives. It's already here in many forms. Our smartphones, our smart appliances, all the sensors in our cars. We just take them for granted."
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How robots like OshBot, Budgee, Pepper, Jibo will reshape retail, with insights from Rob Nail at Singularity U. (and some from me too)
We live in an era of unprecedented change. Technological advancement is a key driver of this change, and robotics and autonomous systems (RAS) are set to make a huge impact on cross-sector innovation and growth.
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The NTSB issued a much-awaited decision today that will surely be a disappointment to many drone enthusiasts, ruling that Federal Aviation Administration rules that apply to manned aircraft apply to unmanned aircraft or drones. The NTSB reversed a law judge's ruling in favor of Raphael Pirker and remanded the case [...]
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From the workplace to the home, it won't be long before there's a robot beside you
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An indepth look at robotics changing the workplace both in Australia and globally. Hat tips to Aussies, Rodney Brooks and Peter Corke, plus info about port and mining robotics.
Even roboticists still debate exactly what a robot is. Is it a computer that moves, or a machine that can operate autonomously in reaction to its environme
The Qualcomm Robotics Accelerator, powered by Techstars, is helping robotics startups take their ideas to the next level and transform the world.
At the RoboBusiness conference in Boston next week, dozens of robots will descend upon the Back Bay. A few of them may even try to follow you home.
A cheap adapter neatly solves problems that robots have with using human tools
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Danny Rickey Milen, 63, affectionately known as "Dano" and a lifelong resident of Ocoee, moved to his Heavenly home on Saturday night, Sept. 28, 2013, surrounded by his loving family.
He was born in Cleveland on Feb. 18, 1950, a son of the late Oscar and Ada Milen.
He was of the Baptist faith and a member of the Clingan Ridge Baptist Church. He worked for 36 plus years until his recent retirement from the Eaton Corporation.
He loved hunting and riding four wheelers in his free time. He loved his church and church family and worked in the Awana program for several years. He will always be remembered for being a friend to everyone he met but was most importantly a loving and caring husband, father and grandfather.
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by one sister, Lillian Noel, and one brother, Dal Milen.
He leaves behind to cherish his memory his loving and devoted wife of 35 years, Hattie Thomason Milen; one daughter, Diana Milen Lewis; one son, James Milen; one granddaughter, Landri Lewis; three brothers: Ralph Milen (Faye) and David Milen (Daphne), both of Benton, and Bobby Milen of Ocoee; one sister-in-law, Peggy Milen of Charlotte, N.C.; one brother-in-law, Charles Noel of Porter, Texas; several other extended family members and a host of special friends, coworkers and church family.
A celebration of his life is planned for Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013, at 7 p.m. at the Clingan Ridge Baptist Church, 2412 Georgetown Road NW, with the Rev. Homer Roberts officiating.
The family will receive friends at the church on Tuesday from 3 p.m. until the 7 p.m. service time.
The interment will will be held Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013, at 11 a.m. in the Cumberland Shed Cemetery in Ocoee with Buddy "Raymond" Thomason, Roy Thomason, Johnny Thomason, Lige Thomason, Neil Thomason and Steve Thomason serving as pallbearers. The funeral procession will leave Clingan Ridge Baptist Church at 10:30 a.m.
You are encouraged to share a memory of Dano and/or your personal condolences with his family by visiting his memorial web page and guest book at www.companionfunerals.com.
Companion Funeral Home and the Cody family are honored to assist the Milen family with these arrangements.


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