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I'm writing this on a nice, sunny Monday afternoon in the middle of summer, at a time when I should likely be doing something else - either more productive or less productive (depending on whether you think I should be working or playing). It's the perfect time to think about the science behind boredom and procrastination.
Luckily, there's some science-based YouTubers out there tackling these subjects.
First up, our pal Vsauce (Michael) has published his latest video, tackling a bunch of the science behind the concept of boredom. Not only does he discuss these issues, but he also brings up discussions of solitary confinement and sensory deprivation and its effects on our brains:
As I get older, I tend not to get bored as much as I did when I was younger, and the only time boredom comes up in my life is usually when my kids come up to me with their whiny voices saying, "I'm bored!". For me, boredom isn't as much as an option as procrastination - I usually have a ton of stuff to do, either at work or at home. If feelings of boredom ever entered my head, they'd have to take a number and get in line with all of the other tasks that I need to do. If you're like me, you'll want to learn more about procrastination, so watch this video, courtesy of the guys over at AsapSCIENCE:
If these videos have helped to either curb your boredom or cure your procrastination (or extend it), feel free to watch this extra video, about how science is working on generating electrical charges out of human urine (You had me at pee-powered cell phone):
Yep, I'd say that's a pretty productive use of your time on this 19th of August, 2013.
Keith Shaw rounds up the best in geek video in his ITworld.tv blog. Follow Keith on Twitter at @shawkeith. For the latest IT news, analysis and how-tos, follow ITworld on Twitter, Facebook, and Google+.


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If the negotiations work out, she'll play a college student. "Pitch Perfect" is described as a 'Glee'-esque project set in the world of college a cappella singing competitions. Kendrick would give it a lift.
When she was only 12, the Portland, Maine-native was nominated for a Tony Award for her performance as Dinah in "High Society." We'll be seeing plenty of Kendrick in the next few years. Summit is releasing her comedy "50/50" Sept. 30, and she stars as Jessica Stanley in Summit's "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1," which comes out Nov. 18.
After that, she's got Lionsgate's "Rapturepalooza," which doesn't have a release date, Crave Film's drama "End of Watch," opposite Jake Gyllenhaal, Lionsgate's ensemble romantic comedy "What to Expect When You're Expecting" and, finally, "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2," set for a Nov. 16, 2012 release.
Jason Moore is directing "Pitch Perfect." Kay Cannon, co-producer, story editor and writer of NBC's "30 Rock," wrote the screenplay adaptation based on Mickey Rapkin's book. Actress Elizabeth Banks, Gold Circle Films president and CEO Paul Brooks and Brownstone Productions' Max Handelman are producing.
More projects for Anna and I think I'll like to see her in another singing project.


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Creative of the Week: Felix Wolodymyr Chabluk Smith
PSFK have worked with ARTS THREAD to feature the brightest young creatives in the world of fashion, textiles and accessories.
In the first of our series of 'Creatives of the Week' chosen from ARTS THREAD's graduate portfolios, we look at the specialisms of fashion/textiles/accessories and pick out the work of Felix Wolodymyr Chabluk Smith.
Felix studied Fashion BA(Hons) at Edinburgh College of Art and designs Menswear. Winner of the Menswear Award at Graduate Fashion Week and one of only three winners of the British Fashion Council & Burberry Competition 2010, Felix is sure to succeed. Starting an MA in Fashion Menswear at the Royal College of Art, London, we take a look at Felix's BA (Hons) graduate collection Kin.
Kin is described by the designer as 'an exploration of family, lineage and genetics' and every garment was built up from fragments of late-Victorian tailoring patterns, drafted from a book on tailoring from 1893 entitled Thornton's Sectional System.
Felix explains further:
The fabrics were a real mix – I never wanted the collection to veer into costume, and so traditional tweeds or rougher suiting fabrics wouldn't work. I used a great wool and nylon mix in an 85/15 split for a lot of the tailoring. From a distance it looks like a Donegal tweed, but up close it is far more precise, almost pixelated.
'As far as the colours went, every single thing I was looking at for inspiration – my manual from 1893 and my old family photographs – were in a mixture of sepias, browns, tans and greys, so that is what I went for.'


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Today we take a look at the Samsung HL-S5687W 56″ Widescreen 1080p DLP. The TV has the newer color wheel that is supposed to be faster, bigger, and quieter. According to Samsung this will provide a smoother picture, even with fast motion, with more accurate color. The TV's main features are:
- 1080p (via Wobulation)
- 10,000:1 Contrast Ratio
- Faster, Bigger, Quieter color wheel
- Dual HDMI inputs
- Only 16.3 inches deep and 64 lbs
- [see full specifications]
One of the big knocks we have had against DLP technology is how it handles dark scenes. With a 10,000:1 contrast ratio we were hoping that we would see a major improvement in this area. We saw an improvement but we wouldn't call it major. There is still material that is not visible with this TV. Just so we are all on the same page we used chapter 22 of Blackhawk Down as out standard. We are both very familiar with this material and use it for our tests. We thought the colors weren't as vivid as the SONY SXRD but it was hard to say as we did not have the SXRD next to the Samsung during the test. We remember how the colors just popped off the screen with the SXRD and we did not get that from this DLP. Skin tones looked a bit washed out. This TV needs to be calibrated to get the best color out of it. Do not just buy it and leave it with the default settings. You will be very disappointed. After calibration the color was improved.
The TV does a good job with 480i/p, 720p, and 1080i. We thought this TV had one of the best SD pictures we have seen. ESPN sports looked great but overly compressed sports looked worse on this TV. Los Angeles ABC is 720p and it did not look good on this TV. HDNET Hockey looked great! That proves what we have been saying all along. Sports at 1080i can be done but you need a high data rate. Movies on 1080i channels looked better than we have seen. Detail on the actor's faces was highly visible and was a good as the SXRD. Detail in general was good on this TV.
As mentioned above Standard Definition looked great. This TV has a good scaler. Your standard DVDs will see an improvement just by connecting it to the TV.
Is the better color wheel all that it is cracked up to be? Well from the point of view of rainbows the answer is yes. Ara can see them all the time on his second generation DLP. He knows exactly what to do to make them happen. On this set there was nary a one. No matter how hard we tried we could not see a rainbow. Now we hate making statements like that because someone out there will say that they see them all the time. But it does not change the fact that we did not see them. Take that for what its worth. Samsung claims that the color wheel is quieter. Maybe it is but you can't hear it over the fan anyway. Also, this is a bulb based light system so plan on spending $250 a couple to three years on replacements.
The TV has a very nice looking cabinet with hidden speakers. The speakers do not add or detract from the TV both visually or sonically. The remote is basic but provides easy access to key features of your TV. The menus are easy to navigate. One issue we have with the TV is that you can not get to an input directly. The source button toggles through the inputs that have something connected to them. You can label each input with DVD, DVR, etc so its easy to find the input you are looking for.
What we liked:
- Great HD picture (for sports and movies)
- One of the best SD pictures we've seen on a TV this size
- No Rainbows
- 1080p
- dual HDMI
What we disliked:
- Color was not as vivid as SXRD but still pretty good
- Some detail lost in dark scenes
Purchase the Samsung HL-S5687W
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The current state of the Israel-Palestinian conflict is linked to decisions made by the Israel government over the past forty years to allow Jewish settlers on the West Bank. These individuals have become a thorn in the quest for peace in the Middle East. Over the past few weeks, fanatic West Bank settlers violently assaulted Palestinians during the olive harvest and created turmoil within the area. The European Union reacted sharply to these actions. "The European Union once again condemns in the strongest possible terms the acts of violence and brutality committed against Palestinian civilians by Israeli settlers in the West Bank." The EU emphasized it was the responsibility of the Israel government to halt this behavior and protect the rights of Palestinians.
Israel security forces tried tearing down illegal structures built by West Bank settlers only to have them rebuilt in defiance of law and order. Settlers even hurled rocks at Palestinian reporters and hurt several members of the IDF. There are reports these Israeli hooligans desecrated headstones at a Muslim cemetery and damaged more than 80 vehicles owned by Palestinians.
There will be no peace between Israel and Palestinians until radical groups on both sides are finally crushed.


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Swansea City created history by winning the Capital One Cup for the first time in the club's history with a resounding 5-0 win over Bradford City at Wembley.
Goals from Nathan Dyer and Michu earned the Swans a deserved 2-0 lead at the break before Dyer struck again.
Then a Jonathan de Guzman penalty, awarded after he was taken down by keeper Matt Duke – who was dismissed – ended the contest just before the hour mark.
And there was time for de Guzman to tap home another in added-on time to make it a record-breaking winning score in the competition - passing Manchester United's 4-0 win over Wigan in 2006.
It ends the club's run without a major piece of silverware, with this trophy coming in the Swans' 100th-year, and almost ten years on from the day they beat Hull City to ensure their Football League status.
And it victory also means the Swans will compete in the Europa League next season.
It proved another day to remember at Wembley – two years on from that unforgettable Championship Play-Off win over Reading - with the League Cup trophy heading across the Severn Bridge to Wales for the first time.


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I hope you are having success making new friends on Twibes. Another fun byproduct of participating in twibes conversations is the exposure it gives you to new followers. Here are some tips for promoting yourself and your twibe.
1. Get listed.
Being on twitter lists increases your credibility. You can get listed on Twibes by tagging yourself with up to 10 keywords that describe you. For example, if you tag yourself with "photography" you will be added to the Twibes photography twitter list. You or other people can then build a Twitter list from the tag which contains all of the people who tagged themselves photography. For more info on Twibes lists, see: http://blog.twibes.com/twitter-groups/introducing-twibes-twitter-lists
2. Get more followers by getting ranked.
Each Twibe has a two mini scoreboards. There is one for the most mentioned people in the twibe, and for the most followed. The followers score actually indicates the number of followers that have been received from the twibe page. By participating in conversations (replying to people) your rank on the most mentioned scoreboard will increase. This will lead to more people following you from the twibe page!
With regard to followers, the key is to "cash in on your passion." If you are genuine in your interest in your twibe's topic, and always there to discus it with others, you will get more followers naturally.


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CASTLE Labs presentations
From time to time, I have the opportunity to give presentations that may be of general interest. Here are the Powerpoint presentations from these talks. Please note that the talks were designed assuming that I am giving the presentation. For this reason, these presentations may be little more than teasers. If a talk looks interesting, email me at firstname.lastname@example.com to see if it would be appropriate for me to give the presentation in person.
Unified Framework for Optimization under Uncertainty - Tutorial given at Informs annual meeting, Nov 13, 2016. (Click here for PowerPoint version) (Click here for pdf - animations are missing). Some highlights:
Bridges stochastic search, dynamic programming, stochastic programming, stochastic control, optimal stopping, as well as ranking and selection and the expanding multiarmed bandit community.
Describes how online (cumulative reward) and offline (terminal reward) problems can be modeled in the same way.
Establishes links between classical problems in statistics and stochastic optimization, helping to bridge these fields.
Describes two fundamental strategies for designing good (possibly optimal) policies, each of which further divides into two substrategies, producing the four classes of policies that covers all the different approaches we have seen for solving sequential decision problems.
The Renewables Challenge: Keeping the lights on while managing variability and uncertainty - Talk given to the Princeton Academic Mini Reunion, October 2, 2015. Click here for the presentation.
This talk highlights the cost of uncertainty in renewables that arise due to uncertainty. This is not a simple calculation, because the cost of uncertainty depends on process of how decisions are being made. For example, the cost of day-ahead forecasting errors for wind or solar energy are not as large as hour-ahead forecasting errors, because errors in day-ahead forecasts can be hedged with hour-ahead decisions about gas turbines, while an error in an hour-ahead forecast is harder to handle.
Tutorial: Clearning the Jungle of Stochastic optimization - Part of the TutORials series given at Informs, November, 2014. Click here for the presentation. Click here for the tutorial article. For more on this topic, go to the Jungle of Stochastic Optimization.
Tutorial: Stochastic Optimization in Energy - Tutorial first given to FERC; this is the updated one I presented to ISO New England on August 18, 2014 (powerpoint format - 20meg, pdf format - 8meg). This builds on the tutorial immediately above this link.
This is a lengthy (200 slide) tutorial that is designed to be read (different than my usual style). It uses the contextual domain of energy systems (especially stochastic unit commitment) to provide a broad introduction to stochastic optimization. Topics include:
Bridging the Fields of Stochastic Optimization, MOPTA, Lehigh University, August 15, 2014, (powerpoint format)
The fields of stochastic optimization are characterized by different notational systems, different (but often overlapping) algorithmic strategies, and competing modeling styles. This state of affairs has risen largely because of the diversity of these problems, arising in the context of different communities.
Click here for a tutorial article and related papers on this topic.
Approximate Dynamic Programming: Does Anything Work?, Applied Probability Workshop, Rutgers University, June 6 14, 2014, (powerpoint format)
This talk summarizes a series of efforts at solving a relatively simple energy storage problem. In a nutshell, none of the algorithms were what you could call an unqualified success. Approximate value iteration and approximate policy iteration were disappointments when using any sort of machine learning technique to approximate the value function. Policy search (using a simple error correction) worked surprisingly well, but is limited to very low dimensional parameters (which means we cannot consider time-dependent policies). Lookup table works terribly. Lookup table with structure (convexity or monotonicity) works extremely well! But this is basically fancy lookup table, which means it will not scale.
The (Rocky) Path to 80 Percent Renewables - STEP seminar series, Princeton University, April 14, 2014, (powerpoint format)
This is an evolving talk on the challenge of reaching the Obama administration's goal of 80 percent renewables. The talk highlights some recent studies that argue that we can provide as much as 99 percent of our electricity from wind and solar, and provides a tour of different types of variability and uncertainty. We illustrate two styles of modeling. The first uses a simple spreadsheet to demonstrate the challenge of serving electricity demands with wind and solar. The second a large and very detailed model, SMART-ISO, which models the flow of information and decisions, along with detailed models of generator dynamics, which we are using to do a study of off-shore wind. Preliminary results from this study are presented.
Clearing the Jungle of Stochastic Optimization - APMOD 2014, University of Warwick, April 10, 2014 (powerpoint format)
This is my latest version of my talk on computational stochastic optimization, focusing on modeling, defining state variables, and describing the four classes of policies. This was given at the APMOD conference at the University of Warwick in England, April 10, 2014. Two recent tutorial articles for this work are:
Clearing the Jungle of Stochastic Optimization Informs TutORials - Please come see my tutorial at the Informs Annual Meeting November 9-12 (2014).
Energy and Uncertainty: Models and Algorithms for Complex Energy Systems - to appear in AI Magazine - This is a light version of the TutORials article above.
Energy and Uncertainty: Clearing the Jungle of Stochastic Optimization - CIRRELT, November 25, 2013 (powerpoint format)
This presentation was to have been given at the 3rd Colloquium of the NSERC/Hydro-Quebec Industrial Reearch Chair on Stochastic Optimization of Electricity Generation (but my flight was cancelled!). It contains a brief summary of different types of uncertainty that arise in energy applications, and then describes a modeling and algorithmic framework that encompasses different communities within stochastic optimization. The last half of the talk provides the most recent update of SMART-ISO.
On Languages for Stochastic Optimzation - University of Quebec at Montreal, November 18, 2013 (powerpoint format)
This presentation was given at the University of Quebec at Montreal as part of their commencement exercises, where I was awarded the Docteur honoris causa. Montreal, with its bilingual tradition, has been the place where I seem to keep coming back to the theme of modeling and languages (this is highlighted at the beginning of the talk). The rest of the talk brings out concepts, terminology and notation from the different communities that work in some form of stochastic optimization.
SMART-ISO- A Stochastic, Multiscale Model of the PJM Energy Markts - Fields Institute Workshop on Electricity Markets, August, 2013 (powerpoint format - 20 megs!)
This is the most recent of a series of talks on SMART-ISO, a large-scale and highly detailed simulator of the PJM energy system, includuing generation, distribution and consumption. SMART-ISO carefully models the flow of information and decisions, capturing day-ahead planning, day-of unit commitment and economic dispatch, and real-time economic dispatch. This talk also discusses some general modeling issues for sequential decision problems arising in energy (click here for more information on modeling).
Tutorial: Clearing the Jungle of Stochastic Optimization for Transportation and Logistics - Tristan VIII - June, 2013 (powerpoint format)
This was a tutorial given at Tristan VIII in June 2013. Using the context of transportation and logistics, it describes how to model sequential stochastic optimization problems ("dynamic programs") and then illustrates the four classes of policies. As with other presentations, it was designed to accompany my oral presentation. A version of the talk, designed to be read, is available here; click on lectures, and download at least the first two PowerPoint presentations.
Bridging stochastic programming and dynamic programming - March, 2013 (powerpoint format).
This talk was given at Georgia Tech, with the goal of introducing students to a particular style of modeling stochastic, dynamic optimization problems. It addresses topics such as defining state variables and the five components of a stochastic dynamic problem. We make the transition from finding the best decision in deterministic optimization problems, to finding the best policy for stochastic optimization problems. We identify four fundamental classes of policies, and then describe two of these in more detail: lookahead policies, and policies based on value function approximations. The presentation closes with a step by step translation of "dynamic programming" as it is done by leaders in stochastic programming (in the form of Alex Shapiro) to the classical notation of Markov decision processes.
Approximate dynamic programming for locomotive planning - April 17, 2012 (powerpoint format)
PLASMA uses the modeling and algorithmic framework of approximate dynamic programming to perform strategic, tactical and real-time optimization of locomotives. The system has been developed jointly with Norfolk Southern Railroad (BNSF also made major contributions to the system for several years). PLASMA breaks down the planning problem into a sequence of short-horizon problems that involve the assignment of locomotives to individual trains. Value function approximations capture the value of assignments now on the future, producing solutions that perform well over longer horizons. The system can perform strategic planning over horizons of a month or more, and tactical planning (which uses a live locomotive snapshot) over horizons of a week or more. The architecture is also well-suited to be run as a real-time, interactive assignment system. PLASMA models each locomotive and train at a high level of detail, including operational issues such as consist-breakup, shop routing and the management of foreign power. Arrival and departure times are captured down to the minute. PLASMA can also model randomness in transit times, yard delays, train schedules and equipment failures.
Click here for a non-technical summary of the system.
This was a keynote presentation at the IIE Meeting in June, 2010 in Cancun. It provides an introduction to the challenge of how to collect information efficiently. The tutorial provides an overview of the different types of learning problems, along with a brief (and necessarily incomplete) description of the different types of policies that have been used for collecting information. The remainder of the tutorial focuses on the concept of the "knowledge gradient" which is a policy that collects information that provides the greatest value if you are going to do a single measurement.
I have given variations of this talk a number of times, often emphasizing different classes of applications.
Click here for a version of the talk emphasizing energy applications
Click here for a version of the talk emphasizing transportation and logistics
SMART: A Stochastic, Multiscale model for the Analysis of energy Resources, Technology and policy (powerpoint format)
SMART uses approximate dynamic programming to model energy flows on an hourly basis over a multidecade horizon (almost 200,000 time periods), under different forms of uncertainty. The model currently captures about 15 types of energy supply (from nuclear, coal to wind, biomass and hydrogen) to satisfy about 10 types of energy demand (from residential and industrial electrical demand to home heating oil and natural gas). Hourly dispatch decisions are linked through the need to decide how much energy to store (right now we only capture a single water reservoir), which means we have to step forward in time to properly manage storage. The model can also handle different types of coarse-grained uncertainty (e.g. will there be a new carbon tax).
So you want to get funding from industry? (powerpoint format, pdf format)
Presented (twice) to the future academicians workshop at Informs, this provides a perspective on how to handle work with industry through a university. There are unique opportunities taking on industrial problems, but also unique challenges.
Information, Noise and Lies: The evolving discovery of misinformation in rail transportation (powerpoint format, pdf format)
We have worked for several years on a model for managing freight cars for a major railroad. The project started off looking like a textbook stochastic programming problem. By the end, the cars had evolved from a simple car-type attribute to a vector of attributes; the information process had morphed into a series of parallel information processes on customer orders, order attributes, car characteristics and transit times; we had learned about biases in customer orders, and we learned that there are some things that we will simply never learn.
Real Time Optimization for Real-World Problems (powerpoint presentation with sound!)
I have given this talk several times. This is a slightly shorter version that I gave to the Princeton Operations Research Society, where I experimented with recording the presentation. It worked better than expected, but please note that it is a 40 meg file.


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SurfaceOutOfOrder.XML File
There are certain conditions that cause the Surface software to display an error screen or an out-of-order screen:
The device made for Microsoft Surface encounters an unrecoverable failure (both the error and out-of-order screens appear).
Someone remotely logs on to the device made for Surface (the out-of-order screen appears).
For more information about error and out-of-order screens, see Configuring Surface Shell Time-Out Durations. If you plan to install localized applications on a device, you should also provide localized error and out-of-order screens. For more information about how to provide these localized screens, see Deploying Localized Surface Applications.
Changing the Wording and Images in the Out-of-Order and Error Screens
You can change the wording and the background images for the error and out-of-order screens. One of the methods you can use to customize error and out-of-order screens is to specify alternate error and out-of-order words and images in an XML file. This XML file is not included with devices, so you must create a file named SurfaceOutOfOrder.xml and put it in the %ProgramData%\Microsoft\Surface\v2.0\ folder.
|If you prefer, you can use Surface Configuration Editor to configure customized error and out-of-order screens. This tool automatically creates and edits a SurfaceOutOfOrder.xml file using well-formed XML, and automatically places it in the correct location. For more information about using Surface Configuration Editor to customize error and out-of-order screens, see Configuring Error and Out-of-Order Screens.
If your XML file contains any schema problems or if there are any problems with the images, the device displays the default wording or images instead.
The following code example shows a template for the SurfaceOutOfOrder.xml file. You can copy and paste this example as a starting point for your own SurfaceOutOfOrder.xml file. The following sections explain the important lines in detail.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <OutOfOrder xmlns="http://www.microsoft.com/Surface/1.0/Shell/OutOfOrderSchema"> <ErrorScreen> <PrimaryText>First error line</PrimaryText> <SecondaryText>Second error line</SecondaryText> <ImageFile>%SystemDrive%\path\filename</ImageFile> </ErrorScreen> <OutOfOrderScreen> <PrimaryText>First out of order line</PrimaryText> <SecondaryText>Second out of order line</SecondaryText> <Images> <ImageFile>%SystemDrive%\path\filename1</ImageFile> <ImageFile>%SystemDrive%\path\filename2</ImageFile> <ImageFile>%SystemDrive%\path\filename3</ImageFile> <ImageFile>%SystemDrive%\path\filename4</ImageFile> <ImageFile>%SystemDrive%\path\filename5</ImageFile> <ImageFile>%SystemDrive%\path\filename6</ImageFile> <ImageFile>%SystemDrive%\path\filename7</ImageFile> <ImageFile>%SystemDrive%\path\filename8</ImageFile> <ImageFile>%SystemDrive%\path\filename9</ImageFile> <ImageFile>%SystemDrive%\path\filename10</ImageFile> <ImageFile>%SystemDrive%\path\filename11</ImageFile> <ImageFile>%SystemDrive%\path\filename12</ImageFile> <ImageFile>%SystemDrive%\path\filename13</ImageFile> <ImageFile>%SystemDrive%\path\filename14</ImageFile> <ImageFile>%SystemDrive%\path\filename15</ImageFile> <ImageFile>%SystemDrive%\path\filename16</ImageFile> <ImageFile>%SystemDrive%\path\filename17</ImageFile> <ImageFile>%SystemDrive%\path\filename18</ImageFile> <ImageFile>%SystemDrive%\path\filename19</ImageFile> <ImageFile>%SystemDrive%\path\filename20</ImageFile> </Images> </OutOfOrderScreen> </OutOfOrder>
|Remember that XML is case-sensitive.
The ErrorScreen element and its sub-elements (PrimaryText, SecondaryText, and ImageFile) determine what is displayed when an error condition occurs.
The error screen appears if one of the following situations occurs:
Surface Shell fails several times.
Surface Shell could not be loaded.
The Windows 7 user interface has been suppressed several times.
User interface elements from a non-Microsoft Surface application could not be suppressed.
The Attract application could not be started.
PrimaryText and SecondaryText
The PrimaryText and SecondaryText elements specify the first and second line of error text, respectively. The space for this text is limited so you should test the text before you deploy the customized XML file. If the text is too long, your text is truncated. For information about how to test the text and images, see the "Testing Your Custom Error and Out of Order Screens" section.
You cannot change the font, font size, font color, position, or orientation of the text.
If you do not want to include one or both lines of the error text, leave the associated XML element empty. Do not omit the element. If you do not include the element, the default Surface error text is used.
The ImageFile element specifies the background image to use for the error screen. Make sure that the image file is in PNG (Portable Network Graphics) format and that the size is at least 1920 x 1080 pixels and no larger than 4096 x 4096 pixels.
The OutOfOrderScreen element and its subelements (PrimaryText, SecondaryText, Images, and ImageFile) determine what is displayed when an out-of-order condition occurs.
The out-of-order screen appears if one of the following situations occurs:
An administrator has remotely logged on to the device.
Windows 7 does not finish an auto logon operation. (For example, this condition can occur when updates are installed silently and the device made for Surface is restarted, but no one puts the device made for Surface into Surface mode.)
A malicious user connects a keyboard and mouse to the device made for Surface and logs off Surface mode or switches to a different user.
By default, the out-of-order executable file (SurfaceOutOfOrder.exe) is registered as the screen saver.
PrimaryText and SecondaryText
The PrimaryText and SecondaryText elements specify the first and second line of the out-of-order text, respectively. The space for this text is limited so you should test the text before you deploy the customized XML file. If the text is too long, your text is truncated. For information about how to test the text and images, see the following "Testing Your Custom Error and Out of Order Screens" section.
You cannot change the font, font size, font color, position, or orientation of the text.
You can specify from 1 through 20 background images for the out-of-order screen. These images are shown in the order in which they are listed in your SurfaceOutOfOrder.xml file, slowly fading from one image to the next and then repeating. For horizontally positioned devices made for Surface, choose images that have no obvious orientation to avoid your out-of-order text from appearing upside down. If you do not specify an image file, the default background image is used.
Each ImageFile element specifies one background image to use for the out-of-order screen. Make sure that the image file is in PNG (Portable Network Graphics) format and that the size is at least 1920 x 1080 pixels and no larger than 4096 x 4096 pixels.
Testing Your Custom Error and Out of Order Screens
You should always test your new SurfaceOutOfOrder.xml file or any changes that you make to an existing SurfaceOutOfOrder.xml file before you deploy the XML file.
To test the error and out-of-order screens
Log on to the device, or use Remote Desktop Connection to remotely connect to the device.
To display the error screen, in a Command Prompt window, run "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Surface\v2.0\SurfaceOutofOrder", including the quotation marks. The error screen displays.
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Mine was the biggest POS ever. Never attempted to return it because I knew I would never trust the piece of junk.
This is a discussion on KEL TEC PF-9 question within the General Firearm Discussion forums, part of the Related Topics category; Has anyone had to return a firearm to kelt-tec? Do they do refunds or am I basically screwed? I bought a PF-9 had ejection issues ...
Has anyone had to return a firearm to kelt-tec? Do they do refunds or am I basically screwed? I bought a PF-9 had ejection issues sent it back. Replaced the slide and barrel and for some reason polished the feed ramp. Got the pistol back and fired it today to find out its still having the same problem. I know theres been a ton of people that have had great luck with kel-tec and even more specifically PF-9, I envy you people. Please let me know if anyone has had to return a firearm and let me know what happened.
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Mine was the biggest POS ever. Never attempted to return it because I knew I would never trust the piece of junk.
They normally do very good work with repairs and warranty work, on the few occasions I've needed to send guns there for customers. They can also make you a new receiver, with your original serial # as a replacement. If you bug CS, you might get them to give you an all new gun.
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limp wristing will cause a problem...try a stronger grip
Ask for a new one just might get it I had very good experience with them.
I have one that had ejection issues up the you know what. Sent back just the barrel and slide, they sent me a new barrel and slide and haven't had 1 issue with it after about 200+ rounds.
Mine went back due to the mag release, (which they had a recall) , and they never said what they found or why they did what they did..... but they stuck the same barrel in a new gun, and put the old serial number on it.... and it's been fine since then.
I'ld give them another shot at it. My only complaint would be how long they had it.
Don't limp wrist it, get ahold of it like you mean it.
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Go the KTOG.Org - Kel-Tec Owners Group and to the PF9 forum. Do a search for the double extractor mod that many people have said resolves their FTE problems. Call Keltec CS and tell them you are having problems, they send you a new extractor and screw. Double up on the extractor and you may or may not be able to use the same screw. If not you can go to a hardware store and buy a slightly longer one and trim it down to fit and work. Again like I said many people that have had extraction or ejection issues have performed this simple and inexpensive mod and it has resolved their problem. I hope this helps. God Bless
Here is the link to save you some time:
False hope or a real fix? - KTOG - Kel Tec Owners Group Forum
I had to return my PF9 to Kel-Tec once for failure to eject issues. When I got it back it worked better but still not good enough for me to trust it for EDC. To my knowledge, Kel-Tec does not do refunds but they will keep trying to make you happy up to replacing your firearm from what I hear. Truth is I got tired of buying ammo to test the thing. And I didn't like shooting it anyway. It now has a semi-permanent place in a gun lock box in my car as a bug-out gun. Life is too short to waste it trying to make something work that just doesn't want to.
Apparently once its returned 3 times for the same issue they will refund the value or the firearm so they have 2 more chances to get it right.
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I sold mine on with a disclaimer to the buyer and took a $100 loss. Range time, ammo time and down time shipping to/from meant something to me. I'm forever done with the brand. Truth be told, I bought it used from a seller who never disclaimed it was a jam o matic. So another negative, I no longer trust people. Seller even claimed he never had an issue with it (lie). Good luck to you sir.
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sold my PF9 2 weeks ago,never looking back...its quality is sub par and my life is worth more
go over to ktog to read the problems and how to fix this problem. last summer i picked up a two owner problem child pf9 from mousegunner. the gun had many problem and i need something (summer gun project) to play around with. this week i have just gotten the gun running 100%. i have replaced every part on the gun with parts from kel tec. send the slide and barrel in for replacement. new grip, new springs, the list goes on. the only part that was not replaced was the frame. i did the f&b on the gun twice. i dropped in the new "pops" trigger, one of the best thing i have seen for a pf9. but, this week i took the gun out and 200 rounds later,,, no problems (over 1,800 rounds in the gun). that was with four different brands and types of ammo. first i would try some of the fixs that the ktog shows, if that does not work send her back. kel tec will make it right, free as long as you have your receipt for the gun. at one time they did not care if you got the gun used,, but now they do. but they will still mail out free part to any body. but i can not see them doing this much longer. it seem that they are ahving a run of problems with their pistols. sometimes low price guns have low price parts,, and low price parts will break. all in all the price of a pf9 makes it one of the best deal going in a small 9mm.
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I bought a new one last week and took it to the range, The trigger pull on it was pretty odd, I didnt even want to give it a chance. Didnt like it and sold it last earlier this week.


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Fulfilling her pet owner responsibilities, Olivia Wilde treated her pooch pal to a jaunt around her New York City neighborhood this morning (February 18).
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I'm impressed with the past few episodes I have listened to from the 80s. They are solid. As for this episode--it was fun listening to the actors attempt Spanish accents. I forgot that truck hijacking was an issue of that time. 4 stars. One of the best lines to end a Mystery Theater episode, "Code name Caprice fell on her ugly face."
This was good and brought back memories, some rather grusome concerning the final disposition of the truckers back then. The truckers in this episode ended up safe, unhurt and alive. It was interesting for a little while, deducing who the mole was but I guessed accurately. To me the accent sounded as though it was eastern European. Good episode. I will listen to it repeatedly.
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"The thing I like about beekeeping," says Jerry McGahan, "Is that if you hurry, everything goes to hell. If you hurry when you're working bees, they get upset and stop you. You have to work slowly and deliberately, and that's a good thing for me in my life. Otherwise, I'd just sort of burn out." As it happens, McGahan is wishing he'd brought his smoker along with us today. There wasn't as much honey at this yard as he'd been hoping for, and the bees are somewhat uncooperatively trying to rob it back from the combs he's been removing from their colonies and stacking in spare wooden hive bodies on the back of his truck.
After an hour or so in the yard, you barely notice the hum of tens of thousands of bees flying in and out. But when something happens to upset a hive, like someone making off with more honey than the bees are prepared to part with, the volume and pitch of the ambient buzz cranks up a notch. And then you notice the hell out of it.
We're both wearing bee suits: white denim coveralls, elbow-length denim and leather gloves, and mesh veils draped over broad plastic helmets. Whenever the buzz turns louder and chromatically sharper, I nervously double-check the Velcro straps around my ankles and the drawstring seal of the veil around my neck and shoulders.
"Smoke calms them and makes them workable," explains McGahan. "If you don't use smoke, they start stinging your gloves, stinging your body all over the place, they just go crazy. And the more they sting the crazier they get, because each time they sting they leave a pheromone that excites the other bees."
He shows me a hole in one of his gloves. The nickel-sized patch of finger showing through is prickled with little red dots.
"When one bee stings there, that tells the other bees where the hole in your armor is. And then they'll pick on you. What I have to do is just get tired of it and then I'll get another pair of gloves."
McGahan and his wife Janet run Old World Honey and its sister business, Bee Balm Lotions, from their home near Arlee. McGahan has been keeping bees for 29 years, starting from scratch as a hobbyist with just one hive and growing his business into a modest spread that at one point included 500 hives in 17 different yards spread from Thompson Falls to Seeley Lake.
And that's a pretty small professional operation, he says, considering that most family outfits need 1,000 or even 2,000 hives to stay in business. The closest they came to not making it, McGahan admits, was during three lean honey years from 1982 to 1984. That's when he and Janet moved into selling beeswax hand lotion to supplement their income. The honey eventually returned, but the lotion remains an important part of the McGahans' proudly low-impact business. A mail-order catalogue offers tubes and bottles of lotion and jars of clear and "creamed" honey in a variety of sizes, plus a number of limited-production items like beeswax candles and card-sized prints of Janet's wildlife watercolors. You can even get a copy of Jerry's novel, Condor Brings the Sun.
After selling off their "outyards" six years ago, the McGahans were left with 277 colonies in seven yards running from Ravalli to Evaro. The yard Jerry is working today has 32 colonies laid out in a long, skinny U-shape, and it will take him several hours to get through them all. The home yard in Arlee is the biggest with 60 hives; the smallest yard has 20. "I either had to upsize or downsize," McGahan says, "And I decided to downsize. We always stayed small because we couldn't get larger, and then when another business came up for sale, I really wasn't interested because I had all I wanted to deal with already."
The McGahans' 277 colonies are among an estimated 2.51 million hives nationwide and 136,000 in Montana. Last year, Montana bee colonies produced an average of 102 pounds of honey apiece and beekeepers sold it for an average of 65 cents per pound, placing Montana in the top six nationwide for estimated number of colonies, pounds of honey produced, and total value of production.
Estimated, that is. According to Julia Pirnack of the Longmont, Colo.-based National Honey Board, which compiles such statistics, the total number of beekeepers in the United States can only be guessed at.
"Estimates range from 130,000 to over 200,000," Pirnack says. "Of those, about 95 percent are what we call hobbyists. They have a few hives in their yards or orchards, and at that level it's kind of like someone having a vegetable garden in their backyard. Our exemption level is 6,000 pounds a year, so typically people who make less—which is all the hobbyists—aren't part of the assessment profile.
"The National Agricultural Statistics Service leaves out anything less than five colonies," Pirnack adds. "So even on their survey of colony numbers you're getting most of the smallest producers excluded. But [hobbyist apiculture] is very interesting and a very valuable thing, because a lot of the local honey is produced by people who don't do it on any kind of professional level."
Honey's sweet origins
Beekeeping goes back a long way, at least to the time of the ancient Egyptians, who didn't just like to eat honey; they also noted its healing effect when used in topical treatments for wounds. A sweet tooth for wild honey almost certainly goes back even further, perhaps with painful lessons for the first hunter-gatherer groups in how to filch the goopy delicacy from wild combs in tree trunks and hollow logs. Early foragers might have learned by happy accident that smoke can be used to calm bees down, perhaps even long enough for a hive to be scooped up and moved to a more conveniently located tree trunk or hollow log.
Bees themselves, of course, have been around a lot longer. Fossil evidence is scarce, but bees probably appeared around the same time as flowering plants in the Cretaceous period, 74 to 146 million years ago. The ancestors of today's honeybees first evolved in tropical climates and colonized or re-colonized Europe as ice sheets retreated and temperatures warmed after the Ice Age, some 14,000 years ago.
There are now about 25,000 different kinds of bees worldwide, their numbers divided taxonomically into 11 families, myriad subfamilies and genera, and still more species and subspecies. The bees in Jerry McGahan's apiaries are subspecies of one of the only two species of bee suitable for apiculture in moveable hive combs: Apis mellifera ligustica, better known as the Italian honeybee, and its closest relative, Apis mellifera carnica, the Carniolan bee.
Although their behavioral habits differ somewhat, both subspecies possess traits that make them well-adapted to Montana's capricious climate. Cold, hard winters, McGahan says, are great for the hardier, gray-bodied Carniolans, which don't require as much honey to overwinter and breed less explosively during slow, smooth, gradual transitions from winter to spring. Springs that seem to arrive overnight, on the other hand, are great for the yellow-ringed Italians, who venture out of the hive earlier and build up honey stocks several times faster. Unfortunately, says McGahan, they also run out of honey 10 times faster, and when cold snaps drive them back into the hive, he often has to feed them with honey borrowed from the Carniolans. Both subspecies have a reputation for being quiet and "gentle on the comb." On days like today, McGahan putters in his apiaries with only a radio for company. Extracting the honey back at the honey house is more of a family activity, but when McGahan is out pulling frames, he prefers to work alone. Working his way from hive to hive, he knocks a big rock off the lid of each one, drives the bees into the lower hive bodies with a sheet of felt doused in a noxious-smelling volatile chemical, and has a look inside the top two hive bodies, or "supers."
Each super contains eight wooden frames; each frame can hold eight pounds of honey in the hundreds of hexagonal cells of the honeycomb. Construction of the cells is undertaken by the female worker bees, who build them out of a sheet of thick plastic using wax secreted in little flakes from a gland on their abdomens. The workers also tend the bee larvae, or brood, in each frame, clean the cells, gather the honey, and cap each cell when it's full. In fact, about the only thing in the hive the workers don't do is mate with the queen. This work is done by drones, stingless male bees hatched from unfertilized eggs, whose only job is to deposit enough sperm into the queen for her to lay anywhere from 80,000 to 200,000 eggs in the course of her five-year lifetime.
Drones have it pretty good—for awhile. They're also the only members of the colony that don't spend the winter circulating in a dense, oblong mass of bodies to keep the queen warm. As the rest of the hive settles down for winter, the drones get the bum's rush.
"They just mate with the queen," McGahan says. "That's all they do. And in the fall they just kick them out of the hive. Just stumbling around out there, it's pretty sad. They've had it."
If the frames are heavy with honey and most of the worker brood in them has hatched, McGahan loads the whole super onto the back of his truck to bring to the honey house. He also marks strong hives to make his next generation of queens from, as well as weaker hives, hives that haven't wintered well, or hives that are just plain mean.
"Whatever ends up making a colony that produces more honey than another one, that's what I want," he says. "Instead of looking for certain characteristics and focusing on them, I just look for what I want, which is honey. That and gentleness. So if I get a mean hive—off with their heads, and a new queen goes in.
"That one right over there," he says, pointing to one super, "I'd smoke the bejeezus out of them and they'd still nail me. They were just terrible. But I put a new queen in the middle of the summer, and after the last of that queen's brood hatched and eventually died, there was all new behavior."
Collective wisdom
Like most people who spend a lot of time working by themselves, McGahan has developed some peculiar habits. He talks to himself—or maybe the bees—a lot. "Other beekeepers around here tease me that I know all my queens by name," he chuckles. "I'm also a little bit different from other beekeepers in that I manage the hell out of my hives and keep excellent records about everything. I guess that's just my science upbringing."
McGahan, who holds a Masters degree in zoology from the University of Montana and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, developed an interest in bees while working as a teacher's aide on the Madison campus. Part of his research included setting up von Frisch experiments, copies of the famous experiment which demonstrated how bees use body language to communicate the direction and distance of food sources.
"That was during all the Kent State stuff," McGahan recalls. "I had cops buzzing all over me because I had these bottles of sugar water set up on campus. They thought it was nitroglycerin or something."
"But I fell head over heels in love with those bees," he adds, recalling the time when the waggles of a worker bee returning to the hive in October, its legs inexplicably covered with pollen, gave his research team precise directions to a single potted geranium on the other side of campus. McGahan is clearly taken with his bees. He knows their moods.
"Overcast weather makes them grumpy," he says. "They don't like wind, especially if it's cold out. The other thing you notice is called hive morale. When you've got a weak hive, the bees aren't very aggressive. When a hive gets up to full strength, they're more aggressive. They get demoralized as hell when they're weak, and you can provoke the heck out of them and not get near the response that you'd get from a strong hive."
McGahan, who built most of his equipment himself and once held down three jobs to get his business started, clearly admires the bees' capacity for hard work, their efficient specialization and, in contrast to his solitary habits, their instinctual collectivism.
"With honeybees, the whole hive is sort of like one individual," he says. "They're very complicated, but they're not flexible. There's no figuring anything out for them. It's all hard-wired. But what's hard-wired it's absolutely amazing."
Just consider, he says, the arrangement of slightly upturned cells in the honeycomb.
"Look at one of those boxes," he says "And think about the system you'd devise for keeping 60 pounds of honey in there and having it stay while it's getting bounced around on the back of a truck. It's pretty remarkable." The average worker bee makes about a twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in its six-week lifetime. A honeybee visits between 50 and 100 flowers on each nectar-gathering trip, and it takes the nectar of about 2 million flowers to make just one pound of honey.
Most Montana honeys, Old World Honey included, are mixed-flower honeys. Jerry McGahan's bees sip a little nectar from a wide assortment of seasonal flowers—dandelions, chokecherry, raspberry, linden, asters and goldenrod—but most of it comes from just two species: sweetclover, also known as melilot, and good old spotted knapweed. In fact, many believe it was actually beekeepers who introduced spotted knapweed to the United States, where it runs riot without the biological controls it evolved with, from its native Eurasia. Despised by practically everybody, the plug-ugly invader is still a big part of what gives Montana honey its sought-after lightness and mild flavor.
Even McGahan can't tell clover honey from knap honey—not by tasting it, anyway. He can tell by their different tendencies to sugar, or form into the granules associated with old honey, after extraction.
"The only way I can tell is by looking," he admits. "Knap can go for a year without sugaring, but clover honey starts to granulate if you look at it cross-eyed."
Predators large and small
Earlier in the day at the McGahans' home yard, Jerry and I hear his two dogs barking furiously off in the distance.
"That's probably a bear," he says. "In fact, I'm sure it's a bear. He's been here for the last couple of weeks, and every three or four days the dogs go after him."
Bears love honey. Everybody knows that. McGahan has bear problems in all seven of his yards, where a failing battery for the electrified fence protecting the hives can make the difference between pulling several hundred pounds and getting completely wiped out by a resourceful ursid.
But the bigger problems for bees and beekeepers these days are smaller than the bees themselves. McGahan has to regularly treat his hives for afflictions like tracheal mites, foulbrood and chalkbrood, any of which can devastate a bee colony. Food shortening gets rid of the tracheal mites; McGahan applies it twice a year in the form of a patty that also includes the antibiotic Terramycin to control the larvae-killing foulbrood.
Less tractable is the Varroa mite, a Southeast Asian invader that leapfrogged its way to Europe on wandering honeybees before arriving in the United States in the late '80s. Like spotted knapweed, Varroa infestations have exploded across the United States in the absence of the biological checks and balances the mite evolved with in Indonesia.
"The mite doesn't have the same kind of relationship with European honeybees that it did with bees in Indonesia," McGahan says. "It kills them, completely wipes them out. That's why there aren't any wild hives around anymore. They've all been destroyed by the Varroa."
McGahan is strongly opposed to chemical insecticides, but feels that the mite's propensity for developing resistances to organic pesticides has left him with little choice in the matter. Some of his hobbyist friends, he says, have had modest success treating the Varroa with essential oils, but McGahan is understandably reluctant to stake his livelihood on experimentation. In any event, he only adds the CheckMite-impregnated strips to the hives when the last of the year's honey has been pulled off, and removes them religiously on the recommended fall date.
"You don't want to kill all the mites that are not resistant," he explains, noting that many beekeepers are actually making the problem worse by leaving the strips in too long. "If you leave the stuff in all winter, all you've got left are two or three mites that can deal with it, and overnight they evolve. You've got a mutation that works, it's been strongly selected for, and it's immediately in the population and it's immediately in the largest population in the gene pool."
Bert Wustner, a Missoula beekeeper who supplies a number of local bakeries with honey from 1,025 colonies in 41 locations around western Montana, agrees. He does everything he can to keep his apiaries as chemical-free as possible, but at the end of the day he's also got a business to run.
"We've used essential oils," says Wustner, adding that he also tries to keep up with organic developments in his bee journals. "But every other year or so you have to bite the bullet and use a commercial mitacide to kill them off, otherwise you're out of business. It's great to know they're trying to work on more organic products, but for the time being we can't just get rid of all our bees."
Into the honey house
The McGahans' honey house is a plank-sided longhouse with hops growing up the side and a chimney knotted with animal skulls and antlers poking out of a multicolored aluminum roof. In the upstairs loft, where the honey gets extracted from the comb, it's hot and humid and redolent with sweet-smelling fumes.
Jerry feeds the frames into a machine with two square-toothed, water-irrigated blades that slice away the honeycomb on either side of the frame and drop it into a 10-foot steel trough, slightly elevated at one end. Hot water pipes keep the honey fluid as it moves by gravity under a series of heating elements that melt the waxy comb and float it to the surface. There are two runoff pipes at the other end of the trough. One pours the honey into a tank in the floor equipped with a series of baffles to trap anything that might be floating in it—errant wax, pollen, bees or propolis, the sticky linden sap that honeybees gather to fix cracks and holes in the comb. The other draws the melted wax into a tray where it cools to the color of wet buckskin, ready to be melted down again for candles and lotion.
Two large centrifuges extract more honey from the comb, spinning the frames for 15 or 20 minutes and feeding the runoff into the floor tank. The extracted frames will now rotate back into the hives, where worker bees will build them out again.
The still-warm honey gets pumped through one last series of baffles and finally comes to rest in a huge steel tank with a spigot at the bottom. Janet McGahan and two of the couple's grandchildren are filling one-pound jars and pressing Old World Honey labels on them.
There wasn't much to extract today, so Jerry is decanting a few massive barrels of granulated honey earmarked for a Bitterroot meadery that should have picked them up weeks ago. Covered to the elbows in honey, he's scooping it back into the melting trough with an army-surplus entrenching tool and talking about his plans for retirement.
"It's been a good life," he muses. "Our six kids worked for us in the honey house. We paid them a wage, but we'd only give them 10 percent of it and put the other 90 percent in the bank, so even though we don't have too much money around here they still had a fund for college. Two of them used it to go traveling. The only stipulation we put on it is was that they couldn't use it to buy a car. Go to college. Go see the world. Just don't buy a stupid car."
"I love it," he sighs. "I love being with the bees and being physically active and being outside, but I'm just going to keep a few hives when I retire. It's a lot of hard work, a lot of lifting. A lot of just moving something from here to there, lifting stuff and trudging around with it. I'm ready for a change."
Bert Wustner plans to continue, although he expresses concerns that the farmland he keeps his bees on is getting harder and harder for the farmers themselves to hang on to. Wustner got into beekeeping as a summer job and, like Jerry McGahan, ended up falling in love.
"It's a kind of living where you're producing something good for people and not damaging the environment," Wustner says. "If anything, you're helping it. It's a clean type of life and you feel good about what you're doing.
"Even if," he chuckles, "it is kind of a sticky business."


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GOLETA, Calif. - Since the 1980s, dogs have played a vital role at the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Department. The deputy and dog develop a special bond, and the canines truly show why they're man's best friend.
NewsChannel 3 was given an exclusive look at the specialized training the SWAT team and the K-9 unit have together.
Deputy Ken Rushing learned firsthand the importance of a four-legged partner when he pulled over a car with his first K-9, Zeus.
"When I brought him out as I was approaching the driver's side door, he sat. His sit indicates that there's an odor that he's been trained to smell. He wouldn't let me go any further. And as I checked the driver's side of the car, right between the seat and the center console was a loaded handgun. I feel he saved my life that night," said Rushing.
Zeus is retired, and Rushing now has Aco, a nearly all-black German Shepard he's been training with for a year.
The pair is part of the K-9 unit along with Deputy Michael McNeil and Betti and Deputy Pat Hayes and his dog, Gango. The team partners spend nearly every waking moment together.
"It's not a Monday through Friday, 9 to 5 job. It's an every day job that I really take pride in to the point where even when I go on vacation, it doesn't end there. She goes with me on my vacations," said McNeil.
"You know, we work day-in and day-out together. I feed him, I take care of him. So the bond between us is so tight," explained Hayes.
The K-9s are taught to sniff out drugs and bombs, and they also train with the SWAT team.
"It lets both sides, both the SWAT aspect and the K-9 handlers, learn the tools that are available to each of them. So it makes each unit that much better, that much more versatile, and it's a win-win situation for both of our specialty units," said Lt. Butch Arnoldi, Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Department.
The dogs are known for their bite, but it's their noses that are the greatest tool for the department, whether it's sniffing out suspects or even checking on school campuses at night.
Rushing and Aco are often called to the county jail to search for drugs in the cells. During the NewsChannel 3 ride-along, no drugs were found, but that doesn't mean they weren't there.
"A couple of the areas that I walked with Aco and his barking, we could hear toilets flushing and sinks are running, which for us is a strong indication that people are trying to get rid of whatever illegal substance they shouldn't have in the jail," said Rushing.
The dogs still like to have a little fun, whether it be a game of catch or just a nice scratch, but they also know when it's time to get back to work.
"He's got a badge, just like me. So he knows, 'Hey, if I'm wearing this badge, I'm on duty and I'm working,'" explained Hayes.
All three dogs were hand-picked in Germany and cost just under $20,000 apiece with training costs. Most of the money comes from donations.


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Re: 99 STS Running Hot
Get the purge line flowing before you abandon the car, even if the HG are blown and the fluid only turned slightly green and there is no obvious white smoke coming out the exhaust then the HGs aren't blown that bad yet, if at all. You maiy get another year out of the car if you can get the water flowing in the cooling system.
- 12-20-11 10:31 AM #62Originally Posted by Mark C
Pouring rain today and have no shelter. Gotta punt today. This is SO bad.
Re: 99 STS Running Hot
There is no temporary fix. The best you can do is get that purge line open (if you can). Either it is clogged or the HG is putting so much exhaust gases into the cooling system that there is nothing but air to come out of it, in which case you are in the severe stages of the failure and will not get more than a mile or two at a time out of it. Hard to say which position you are in. As Mark said, if it is the purge line and you can clear it, you may be able to nurse it for a while.
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Gentleman by the name of Anthony near Ohare quoted me $2200 turnkey if the car's never been coiled before. I don't even know what that means. But that's better than the 5K by the dealer here. And it cost me $73 just for that 10 minute answer. I can do this...
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Re: 99 STS Running Hot
I have reread the whole post.
From what I understand is that it passed the HG test twice and the pressure test once .Also the pump has been replaced.
If the surge line is OPEN and you do not get coolant flow I would suspect a bad pump.
First have a helper start and run engine at 1800 rpm look down surge tank if coolant level drops add a coolant mix while engine is running at 1800 rpm. fill and install cap. Next remove purge line at tank if no flow or coolant in tank does not drop..
Disconnect the upper radiator hose at the radiator and have helper run the engine if coolant does not come out under pressure the water pump is bad or the pump pulley is not turning the pump. Mike
Re: 99 STS Running Hot
Anthony Addari. He is a Caddy tech that does side jobs at home. He did Rodney Pierce's car (in one day). He is in Franklin Park Ill. email@example.com 847-452-9312. He means $2200 if the engine has not been inserted before meaning this is the first HG repair.
Joe Blau, Midwest Cadillac Repair in Palatine Ill. 847-776-1234. Joe has done well over 100 cars to date. His price is similar.
See post #54.
Re: 99 STS Running Hot
When it overheats do you loose coolant oout the overflow on the surge tank, in otherwords does it blow coolant out the surge tank cap, or does it just indicate that its hot? If its not actually pushing coolant out of the tank then it is probably just overheating from insufficient coolant flow in the system, and the purge line is the main reason for this, if it blows coolant out before the temp actually gets into the red, then its pumping exhaust gas into the system and overpressurizing the system and lifting the relief in the cap. When my 97 overheated (bought it with bad HGs) I could drive it probably 5 or 6 miles from dead cold before it would indicate it was hot and I should idle the engine. Funny thing was the engine and all the hoses were fairly cool to the touch. It was because the bad HG was in the rear and the temperature sender was actually exposed to the exhaust gas bubble in the rear head, which was way hotter than the actual coolant in the rest of the cooling system.
I have heard (2nd hand from a friend in a local auto store thats into Cadillacs) that someone he knew had a similar problem, and he installed a vent valve from a home hot water heat radiator into the purge line of an overheating car, and then he never had a significant overheat after that. This is one of those cylindrical vent valves with a float inside it, and a shrader like valve on the top. It has a 1/8" pipe thread on the bottom of it, to fit into a T fitting. You would have to pull the hollow bolt, find a "T" fitting that you could screw into the crossover manifold and the hollow bolt (maybe 3/8" thread?) with a 1/8" fitting for the vent valve, you screw the hollow bolt back into one leg of the "T" and the vent valve into the other vertically so the float will work correctly. The valves have floats in them and remain shut as long as there is water below them, but as they collect air the valve opens and bleeds the air out, then shuts. At least its a way to purge the exhaust gases out (if there are any), which will hopefully keep the pump clear of air, as well as keeping your coolant inside the cooling system instead of being pushed out when the system gets over pressurized. Might be worth a try, probably wouldn't cost much more than 20 bucks in parts.
The real key is getting that line cleared to see just how much of a problem you really have.
- 12-20-11 12:14 PM #68Originally Posted by Mark C
Re: 99 STS Running Hot
The real question is which happens first? Does it blow the water out and then overheat, or overheat and then push the coolant out. First one indicates a rather significant head gasket issue (or a faulty surge tank cap), the second one will happen after the car is really hot and the engine is shutdown due to heat soak once the coolant stops circulating.
What your telling us doesn't sound good, but there is still a possibility that its not fatal yet. Just need to exhaust all the possibilities before dumping another 2K+ into the car, or sending it to the cadillac graveyard.
- 12-20-11 05:38 PM #70Originally Posted by Mark C
Did STS have a 2004 model?
Re: 99 STS Running Hot
Synthetic oil has absolutely no bearing on your oil consumption - did you DIY or have it done at an Oil Doodle, and do/did they properly fill the engine ? I assume you checked it yourself before you drove away............
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Re: 99 STS Running Hot
I didnt read entire thread, but my 99 started running hot and spewing from surge cap...thought it was hg's but replaced the cap with the correct 18lb and it has not happened since. Runs perfect again.
Great. Someone is trying to sell me a 2004 with 60k on it.
Re: 99 STS Running Hot
You can remove the T stat and unplug the level sensor from the surge tank, it will run with the fans on all the time.
Re: 99 STS Running Hot
Level sensor has nothing to do with the operation of the fans, its the temperature sensor. Doing that is like driving with the low oil pressure light in a car removed because its on all the time. Running a NStar without a T-stat is a sure way to overheat the engine, the cooling system in these cars are not like small block chevy cooling systems.
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The man was punched in the face several times before falling over and knocking his head on the footpath.
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