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Storms take a bite out of GMP's budgetBy Bruce Edwards
STAFF WRITER | July 15,2013The summer is far from over, but recent storms coupled with Hurricane Sandy last year have already put a hole in Green Mountain Powers storm recovery budget.
GMP budgeted $7.2 million (based on a five-year average) for storm restoration work, but has already spent $11 million.
GMP spokeswoman Dorothy Schnure said the company anticipates more storms and more outages before the year is out.
Schnure said the last two years in particular have seen more than the usual number of storms and outages.
Over the 30 some years Ive been here theres all sorts of weather variations but were all remarking that this feels fairly unusual, she said.
There have been three major storms dating to October 2012, the start of GMPs fiscal year.
First there was Hurricane Sandy, followed by a severe windstorm in December 2012.
Then June came along with a major storm causing outages in the St. Johnsbury and Danville areas.
But the month of June and early July had more in store for the company and its customers.
According to Schnure, for the two-week period June 23 through July 6, there were 90,000 outages triple the average number of outages during a typical two-week period in June or July.
The storms were statewide but the company said the most severe problems were concentrated in Chittenden County and the Rutland, Montpelier and Royalton areas.
For the week ending June 29, GMP had 48,181 outages, with the average outage lasting 2.05 hours.
One of things we found interesting too is ... in one weeks time we had as many outages as we had in Sandy, Schnure said. Its just spread over the week so its constant, which is tough for the customers as well as for us.
For the week ending July 6, there were 42,479 outages, which was more than the Dec. 21, 2012, windstorm, when 31,700 customers lost power. The average outage lasted 1.73 hours.
Schnure said the installation of smart grid technology has allowed the company to pinpoint outages more precisely and restore power more quickly.
GMPs 140 line workers have been augmented by some contract electric crews. On any given day, the company also employed approximately 70, two-person tree trimming crews, from six different companies.
If storm recovery expenses during the fiscal year go over budget, Schnure said for outages caused by major storms, the company absorbs the first $1.2 million of the excess cost with the balance collectible in rates. If, however, the company spends over budget and the outages are caused by what are considered normal weather events, she said the company absorbs the excess costs.
She said a major storm is defined as 10 percent of customers affected at some point during the event and at least 1 percent are out of power for a 24-hour period.
As far as the major culprit, lightning was the primary cause of recent outages followed by trees and branches falling from outside GMPs rights-of-way.
The company noted that ground saturation is causing trees to tip over at a much higher frequency.
In terms of prevention, Schnure said the company will install more lightning protection equipment and will continue to look at the location of power lines, including off-road line locations, the types of wire used, and tree trimming practices.
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Man faces felony assault chargeAugust 14,2014Man faces felony assault charge
A Brandon man on Wednesday denied striking a woman repeatedly at his Carver Street home.
John D. Desabrais, 43, pleaded innocent in Rutland criminal court to a felony charge of aggravated domestic assault in the second degree. The aggravated charge was based on a violation of an abuse prevention order placed on Desabrais in March 2010.
Judge Theresa DiMauro set bail at $5,000 for Desabrais who posted that amount and was released. The judge also imposed a condition that prohibits Desabrais from possessing or consuming alcohol.
Brandon Police say they were called to Desabrais home at 20 Carver Street at about 11:10 p.m. Tuesday where a woman told police that he had struck her repeatedly and torn her clothes, according to court records.
Asked about the injuries to the woman, Desabrais said he and the woman struck each other during a mutual affray but declined to elaborate on the fight, and police said they found no injuries on Desabrais. The Brandon man also told police he had been drinking throughout the evening and had a blood-alcohol level of 0.161 percent when tested at his home. That level is twice the 0.08 percent legal limit to operate a motor vehicle in Vermont.MORE IN This Just InThe family of a Connecticut man who was killed in a car accident on Route 4 last Friday night is... Full StoryAssociated Press Full StoryIt seems like I just started to warm up from last winter and I see back-to-school displays. Full Story
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Officers were called to a home on a report of a domestic disturbance around 11:15 p.m. Sunday. Police say the man in the house refused to cooperate and was armed with several swords and knives. They say he also threatened to commit "suicide by cop" if officers tried to arrest him.
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The 21-year-old, who joined Charlton in 2011, is out of contract at the Valley at the end of the season and the news has alerted several of his suitors.
A host of Championship clubs, including Birmingham, are thought to be keeping tabs on Evina's situation at Charlton as they weigh up a move for the Cameroon-born ace.
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Holmes, No. 10 WVU Top Texas Tech
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – Sophomore guard Bria Holmes paved the way to a 69-37 West Virginia women's basketball victory over Texas Tech, Wednesday, at the WVU Coliseum.
"Bria Holmes came out early, very aggressive, and looking to score," coach Mike Carey said. "She got us going. We played probably the best defense we have in the first half in probably a long time, and I thought Asya Bussie was the key. They kept setting screens, and Asya kept sagging off and helping our guards."
The win extended WVU's win streak to eight games. WVU has won eight consecutive games twice this season, marking the first time in women's basketball program history a team has done so. Texas Tech's 37 points was the fewest points the Mountaineers have allowed in a Big 12 contest.
The Mountaineers (25-3, 14-2) limited the Lady Raiders (6-21, 0-16) to only 14 first-half points, which matched the WVU Coliseum record for fewest points in a half by an opponent. WVU held Texas Tech scoreless for 8:14 of the first half, going on a 13-0 run during that time. A late 12-0 run in the second half extended the Mountaineers' lead to 30-9, before entering halftime with a 33-14 lead.
Holmes had a game-leading 28 point, including a pair of threes, and nine field goals. She single-handedly matched Texas Tech's first-half point total with 14 points in the opening half. Holmes went 9-for-17 from the field, and 8-for-9 from the free throw line. Senior center Asya Bussie added nine points and four blocks, while junior forward Averee Fields chipped in eight points and led all players with 10 rebounds.
The Mountaineers outrebounded TTU, 52-32, which matches a season-high in conference play for WVU. Behind Fields' 10 boards, sophomore guard Darius Faulk pulled down a career-best seven rebounds, and three others had six rebounds.
WVU recorded 22 fast break points, which matches a season-high and is a season-best number for Big 12 play. The Mountaineers also recorded a season-best in league play with 36 points in the paint.
WVU shot 42.9 percent (24-56) from the field, 18.8 percent (3-16) from 3-point range and 72 percent (18-25) from the free throw line, while Texas Tech made 26.2 percent (16-61) of its shots, 33.3 percent (3-9) from 3-point range and 33.3 percent (2-6) from the charity stripe.
Ivonne CookTaylor's 12 points led the Lady Raiders, while Shauntal Nobles and Jasmine Caston had eight and six points, respectively. Nobles also led Texas Tech on the boards with nine rebounds.
The Mountaineers will face No. 6/5 Baylor at 2:30 p.m., Sunday at the Ferrell Center in Waco, Texas. WVU controls its fate, as a win in its final two games would secure a tie with Baylor for the regular-season Big 12 Conference title. Sunday's game will air live, nationally, on Fox Sports 1.
"It's down to a two-game season now. Needless to say, we'd like to have that Baylor game at home. Well, we had them at home and Baylor beat us. Now we have to beat them on their court," Carey said. "We're going to go down there – we have nothing to lose – we're going to go down there, and be aggressive."
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Letter: There's no need for new grocery store
After reading in several issues of The Mountain Press about the yet unidentified supermarket chain planning on building in Pigeon Forge in the Wears Valley area, with a must-include millions of dollars in incentives, I disapprove!
What will happen to Kroger, already in the area?
I think it should be up to the citizens to decide.
Just think of all the jobs and taxes lost with layoffs and store closings.
I retired from advertising and marketing and know a 10-inch pie is only 10 inches. No bigger! However, to add another grocery chain store would only cut the pie into smaller pieces (taxes) not bigger!
This county already has enough supermarkets in Gatlinburg, Pigeon Forge, Sevierville and Seymour.
The scale doesn't balance.
If anything, what Sevier County needs is a good department store, i.e. Sears, J.C. Penney's, Macy's, Dillards, etc. Our taxpayers should not have to drive 50 or 60 miles to Knoxville to shop these stores.
Sure we have tourist outlets and malls, but you have to drive and walk needlessly to shop just a few.
I don't care if it's Publix, Schnucks, Piggly Wiggly, Safeway, A&P, IGA or any other chain store. Food Lion closed because they could not compete. Who else will close?
Look at all the restaurants that have closed. Lost jobs, lost taxes. Now there are more fast food and restaurants opening soon.
I think the Pigeon Forge Commissioners should not be the sole decision makers on an issue this big.
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This is obviously an old rant. Java 6 is out and Java 7 is near. But Java 5 is where I feel the ball was dropped and the language took a tumble downhill. It's a bit of history and just my opinion. Don't take it too seriously.
DRAFT: There's a lot to this topic. I need to do a lot of clean-up and add some code examples to finish it off. I'll likely remove some of the exaggerated frustrations, but as I was typing it the first time, it's hard not to get excited. :-)
The Rant
There isn't much to say about Generics, as their failure is well documented. So, I'll simply say: they don't work. They don't offer any type safety whatsoever. At most, they offer useful information to frameworks about collection types via reflection. Otherwise, they're a more verbose, less helpful form of casting.
They really are verbose, especially when dealing with nested collections. The worst part is that it all has to be typed two or more times: once for the declaration, once for the instantiation and once for every method parameter you pass it into. If I'm going to do all of this extra typing, should it not at least be better than simple type casting?
The brilliant [sarcasm] part about it is that if you simply leave off the generic parameters at any point in your code, the code will compile anyway -- but suddenly without type checking. I fully understand this was done for backward compatibility, but this implementation is half-baked. I personally would not have bothered. I'd rather just live with untyped collections and casting. In the good old days, if I made an error by casting the return value of list.get(1) to something inappropriate, I would get an error right there, where I made the mistake. With generics, it's fully possible to type a list of Dates as a list of Strings in an attempt to use it in a for(:) loop, where the error will be reported. But the mistake I made could be far, far away from where the runtime reports it. Horrible, more verbose and less helpful.
But that's just the beginning. Google "Java Generics type erasure" and/or "Java Generics wildcards" for more fun times. It should not be easier to learn an entirely new language than it is to understand Java Generics in their messed up entirety.
You would only know how bad they are if you've ever used anything else (e.g. C#). But they really are horrible.
- No extension of annotations. What? This is an object oriented language! Or at least it was. Now we have annotations based on what is essentially as limited as a C struct. I can't even begin to describe how horrible and limiting this is. There's no excuse. They simply ran out of time and decided to hammer it in however they could. See C# for a better implementation.
- No multiple annotations of the same type on a single target. Instead, we have to use collection annotations to group our annotations using a completely insane syntax. And yet this is one of the only places in the language you can use array shorthand! WTF. Seriously... again, see C# to understand what you're missing.
- No ordinal parameters (and only one messed up default "value"). Basically you should just never use the "value" default, as if you do, you've basically screwed yourself for all eternity. Since there's no way to depend on ordinal parameters to an annotation in the long term, you should just start using named params from the start. But that said, named parameters are horribly verbose. It would have been nice to have the option, but the definition syntax for annotations simply does not allow something like, oh I don't know, A CONSTRUCTOR!!! Why? Because they chose to use a bastardized interface as the definition for an annotation. And interfaces can't have constructors. I know why they used interfaces, I get it. But it's still stupid and they could have done far better. Again, they just ran out of time and decided to go with "finished" rather than "good". Which brings us to...
- The definition syntax. Look at the definition for an annotation. It doesn't even look like Java code. It looks like some other language created by Mork from Ork. Like what's with "default" suddenly being used to set the default value of a ... method? WTF! It's a bastardized interface. But remember, an interface is supposed to describe BEHAVIOR. But remember what I said earlier, annotations basically result in a C struct like thing attached to our class -- metadata (DATA!!!! not behavior). So why use an interface? Or @interface whatever the hell that is supposed to imply. This brings me to...
- Keywords. How the hell did enum get a keyword and not annotation? Let me tell you, I did have applications that had used the word "enum" as a variable name -- pretty much anywhere I ever used the Enumeration class! But I honestly had none that used "annotation". So why was there no keyword for annotation? But worse yet, why @interface? Why not @annotation if you needed to mangle it so that it didn't conflict with variable names? Or why not copy C#... hell, they copied Java enough -- AND DID A BLOODY FANTASTIC JOB OF IT. Just follow their lead and introduce a class, called Annotation that another class could extend... you know? It's really damn simple. I don't want to hear excuses. Watching the hoops that other teams have made Java jump through with Groovy and JRuby, and what Microsoft has done with C#, there are no excuses. Sun and the JCP ran out of time, money and the will to compete or something. This implementation is atrocious. I could literally go on, but that's enough about annotations.
Integer a = 2;
Integer b = 2;
Integer c = 2000;
Integer d = 2000;
(a == b) but (c != d).... nuff said. I'm not advocating using == on objects, but it's inconsistent. Autoboxing is simply incomplete and can never be fully or properly implemented without operator overloading.
Again with the keywords... how do I even pronounce for(:)? Or type it in that sentence? Mostly the for(:) implementation is broken because generics are broken. But worse... why can't I iterate over an Enumeration or a damn Iterator?! If you want a perfectly good real life example, try using for(:) with anything that is returned from the Servlet API, like getParameterNames(). And contrary to popular belief (Ted Neward), there are APIs that return Iterators, that I would LOVE to use for(:) with, but I can't... because you have to give for(:) something (Iterable) that returns and Iterator, not an iterator directly. Why?! There's no good reason. Only academic ones.
A Note on Keywords and Compilers
There is really no excuse for not having keywords for annotations or foreach/in, as it's a simple compiler feature. A compiler can (nay, must) distinguish between different types of tokens in the code. C# 3.0 was able to make this work through simple pattern matching. Let's take the "annotation" keyword for example. Say you have code that uses variables called "annotation". What does that code look like?
public int annotation = 5;
annotation = annotation + 1;
Could you ever have a variable called "annotation" in the following position?
public annotation MyAnnotation {
Umm...no. The compiler can easily distinguish between that usage of "annotation" and member fields and local variables....easily. In fact, if you've ever had to name a variable "clazz", there's really no good reason other than that the compiler is lazy. C# managed to add LINQ and a number of keywords to the language without impacting other code, simply because it was easy to analyze the pattern that the code was used in, to distinguish between variables and keywords. I'm not suggesting that every keyword should be a valid variable name -- I agree, that could look a bit crazy after a while. But I think in the case of annotations and foreach/in we would have survived.
Enums are actually pretty good. They're well implemented, they have a keyword, and they are less verbose. Unfortunately they are also the least necessary and something I never really felt I needed. I've been using a type-safe enumeration pattern for a long time that basically does the same thing. But kudos, for making it less verbose. And the to/from string translations are nice too.
What's missing
Java 5 was missing some pretty simple, yet seriously nice things. A few that come to mind are:
- Multi-line strings. Come on guys! That's just a simple compiler change.
- Map and List literals... again, this is simply a compiler tweak. 99% of the time I use HashMaps and ArrayLists -- so just give me literal {} and [] blocks respectively.
- Type inference witha "var"-like keyword. Again, this would change nothing in the JVM, but would make generics far easier to deal with.
- The ability to reflect on parameter names. No it wouldn't require a change to the JVM. They could actually just automatically add annotations to the parameters at compile time, that carry the name forward in a runtime annotation. At least they'd get some use out of those bloody annotations.
And that's my rant. I could keep going, and offer real world code examples of why this sucks super hard. But Java 5 is old news.
I'm looking to Ruby, Groovy and C# 3.0 before I look to Java. Not so much because those languages are better than Java 5, but more because Java 1.4 was better than Java 5. Java is going downhill at the hands of Sun and the JCP. Sad, sad, sad...
To end on a happy note, I'll still often choose Java where it makes sense. It still can't be beat for application integration, high performance web services or anywhere server-side performance matters over all else (compared to Ruby, Groovy and Mono at least). But my choice is largely based on the JVM and the libraries available, and has nothing to do with the language.


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I gave birth to my first daughter this April and she was diagnosed with Bilateral Hip Dysplasia. This is now the 3rd generation of my family to be born with this condition.
Being very familiar with this condition I have to say that the technology has improved amazingly. My mother was diagnosed at the age of 3 years, about 60 years ago, and has had two hip replacements. I was diagnosed at birth and required surgery at six months of age. Almost 30 years later I have not had any problems. When I found out my daughter was born with the same condition we knew we had to see a specialist.
How we came to find Dr. Skaggs
Knowing our family history with this condition, we have always kept our eyes and ears open to any information that would come our way. My mother had been watching television years ago and came across a segment on Brook Shields' first daughter that was diagnosed with Hip Dysplacia.
She had taken her to Children's Hospital Los Angeles and was treated by Dr. Skaggs. My mother quickly wrote his name down and filed it away. After the birth of my daughter, I had a friend do some research at Children's Hospital for a doctor that specialized in Hip Dysplasia. At this same time my mom was digging through files trying to find where she had written down the doctors name. They both came back with Dr. Skaggs.
I called on a Monday morning and Dr. Skaggs was able to see my daughter that Thursday (she was one week old). Dr. Skaggs diagnosed her quickly on having Bilateral Hip Dysplacia. He educated me on all the possibilities and the severity of her case. My daughter had a severe case of it.
He explained in detail how he was going to try to manipulate her hips with the Pavlic brace first to see if there was any improvement. He had also told my husband and I that he didn't think it was going to do anything but wanted to try every possibility before recommending surgery. Her hips were so tight that trying to manipulate them into place was impossible. That caused the Pavlic brace to be unsuccessful. Surgery was the only alternative.
In June my daughter went into surgery (she was 9 weeks old). This was the hardest thing as parents that we have ever had to do. Knowing your child is going into surgery is hard for any parent. You want to make sure that your child is in the best care possible before making a decision like this.
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The morning of surgery was like clockwork. The hospital is very organized and Dr. Skaggs came to see us before surgery. He talked to us and answered all our questions. It was the longest day of our lives. Her surgery lasted 3 ½ to 4 hours. During surgery she was placed in the Spica cast for positioning of the hips. Dr. Skaggs came down to tell us himself how her surgery went. It went perfectly. As parents you felt like you could breathe again.
We saw Dr, Skaggs regularly for check ups, x-rays and to make sure that she wasn't outgrowing her cast. On her sixth week after surgery, the cast was removed. This was a day full of anxiety and excitement. Her scars are small and you can barely see them. They are located in the bikini line of her hips. This again is amazing on the technology. (My mother's scars are huge and go down the outside of her legs. Mine go down the inside of my legs). Nobody will ever be able to see her scars.
My daughter is now 6 months old and right on schedule with her development. Her flexibility is almost 100%.
Knowing this is a family history, and any future children I have could have this condition, I'm comforted in knowing Dr. Skaggs is there. He was professional with us as parents as well as with my child.
My experience with Children's Hospital, Dr. Skaggs, as well as with his complete staff, was one that was nothing but positive.
I would recommend Dr. Skaggs to anyone that needs to see an orthopedic doctor.
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The chair of the municipality's transit commission has called a meeting with local women's groups to discuss safety on OC Transpo.
Four organizations — Women's Initiatives for Safer Environment, the Ottawa Coalition to End Violence Against Women, City of All Women Initiative, and Hollaback! Ottawa — have been invited to the June 20 meeting, according to Coun Diane Deans' office.
"The commitment is to an ongoing dialogue with these organizations," said Deans Monday. "To not only ensure the safety of our system, but to ensure that users of the system perceive that they're safe on our system."
Several media outlets have drawn attention to the issue of sexual assault on OC Transpo. Deans said that factored in the decision to call the meeting, but that she intends to discuss safety more generally.
"There are a number of groups in our community that perceive their safety differently," said Deans. "And people who may face additional barriers, whether its women, disabled people, seniors, young people, we recognize the importance of having an ongoing dialogue with everybody concerned about safety in our community."
Julie Lalonde of Hollaback! said chalking concerns up to perception is "a dismissive way of addressing concerns."
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Hollywood Park Suspends, Reduces Some Stakes
Hollywood Park has released a dramatically altered stakes schedule for the 2009 Autumn meet, which will be 27 days long — 13 days shorter than the 40-day stand in 2008.
Among the most significant changes is the suspension of five stakes — Hollywood Turf Cup (gr. IT), Dahlia Handicap (gr. IIT), Hollywood Turf Express (gr. IIIT), Real Quiet Stakes, and Sharp Cat Stakes — and reductions in purses for other stakes, including three grade I races that are part of the track's Turf Festival.
Those three grade I races are the Hollywood Derby and the Matriarch, each of which have been reduced by $200,000 and will carry purses of $300,000, and the Citation Handicap, which has been lowered by $100,000 also to $300,000.
The meet begins Nov. 13 and concludes Dec. 20. With 14 stakes races with purses of $2.85 million, the meet will highlighted by the $750,000 CashCall Futurity (gr. I) on Dec. 19.
Martin Panza, vice president of racing, said stakes were suspended for this year in an effort to sustain overnight purses.
"We will have the same overnight purse structure as Oak Tree (at Santa Annita)," said Panza. "This is a one-year suspension. Hopefully, with more days at future meets, we will bring some of these races back. Our goal was to protect the overnight schedule as everyone is feeling the pressure in the difficult times the country is experiencing."
A change in the Turf Festival format has the Matriarch scheduled along with the $100,000 Generous Stakes (gr. IIIT) on Saturday, Nov. 28, while the Hollywood Derby and $100,000 Miesque Stakes (gr. IIIT) will be run on Sunday, Nov. 29. Previously the Derby and Matriarch were run on closing day of the Turf Festival.
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