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MONTVALE, N.J. A&P has announced the appointment of Frederic Brace to the new position of chief administrative officer, effective immediately. In this role, Brace will oversee A&P's finance and accounting, real estate and information systems departments, reporting to president and CEO Sam Martin.
Martin said, "Over the last year, Brace has provided critical insight to the company on a range of important issues as a member of our board of directors. I am pleased that he has agreed to join A&P's executive management team and am confident that his strategic and financial expertise and successful turnaround experience will be extremely valuable as we take the steps necessary to position the company for a strong future."
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OAKLAND -- David Mills became the 43rd and possibly last person from Alameda County sentenced to death Friday as a judge agreed with a jury's decision to give the 38-year-old, triple murderer the ultimate punishment.
Saying evidence presented during both the guilt phase and penalty phase of Mills' trial proved he killed three people in a calculated fashion, Alameda County Superior Court Judge Joseph Hurley ruled that Mills deserves death.
"He did not just kill three people, he wanted to kill four," Hurley said. "It is the judgment and order of this court that you should suffer the death penalty."
Mills was found guilty of killing James Martin, 28, Dale Griffin, 36, and Rebecca Martinez, 22, in 2005 during what was supposed to be a meeting in which he returned a gun belonging to Martinez's ex-boyfriend. Mills also attempted to kill Elizabeth Martinez, 34, but she survived her wounds and later identified Mills as the shooter.
Mills killed the three victims without warning as he approached a car they were sitting in and systematically began shooting the victims in the head. The shots intended for Elizabeth Martinez instead hit a pit bull that was sitting on her lap.
Mills did not testify during his trial but said in a statement read by his attorney, William DuBois, that he was innocent.
"I wish I could give you the answers us all deserve. You all need more clarity then what this trial has given you," Mills wrote. "I don't mean to sound cold hearted but I cannot ask for forgiveness or show remorse because I am not guilty."
Mills said he did not wish to tell the truth because he did not want to be a snitch.
"I am not a coldblooded killer, what I am is a solid dude who didn't become a rat, a snitch or a turncoat," Mills said in his statement.
That brought a swift and strong rebuke from Hurley, who called Mills "ludicrous."
"His attempt to equate being a snitch with coming forward with the truth is ludicrous," Hurley said.
Senior deputy district attorney Jim Meehan proved Mills' guilt with evidence that linked the Oakland native to the crime in numerous ways.
Elizabeth Martinez identified Mills as the shooter just minutes after the shootings, and Mills was arrested a day later with the murder weapon in his possession.
Mills' defense attorneys, William DuBois and William Linehan, attempted to convince the jury that someone else carried out the shootings as they presented evidence showing that the victims had either drug abuse problems or were members of a gang.
And the defense attorneys hoped to spare their client's life by introducing evidence showing Mills has had a positive influence on the lives of his children and suffered a horrific childhood that included being forced by his mother to sell drugs when he was 7 years old.
But jurors said after their verdict that Mills was old enough at the time of the killings to know what he was doing was wrong. The manner in which Mills killed his victims and the number of people he murdered far outweighed any consideration they gave to the troubles Mills had growing up, the jurors said.
Linehan said Friday that his client's life is now in the hands of state voters who will decide Tuesday if the death penalty should be abolished and all those sentenced to death be given penalties of life without the possibility of parole.
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YUCAIPA — With half of votes counted, fewer than 200 votes could spell the difference between Yucaipa-Calimesa Joint Unified's proposed $98 million bond success and failure.
A general obligation bond, Measure O, was intended to repair and upgrade its schools.
As of midnight, 50 percent of the votes had been counted by the San Bernardino County Registrar of Voters. At that time, 50.41 percent of voters gave the bond a thumbs-up, a percentage that had grown over the course of the evening. Yes votes outnumbered the no votes by only 110 votes.
California (the biggest source of revenue for public school districts) has cut the amount of money paid to districts per student even as the district has seen enrollment decline, meaning fewer students to be paid for. In Dec. 2010, Yucaipa-Calimesa made the decision to close the 100-year-old Yucaipa Elementary School, citing, among other factors, a 27.24 percent decline in enrollment since the 2005-2006 school year.
The district would use the money to repair existing infrastructure, including portable classrooms older than the 20 years of use they were designed for, non-functional drinking fountains, damaged bathrooms and leaky roofs. The funds would also go to improving the high-tech infrastructure at schools, adding wifi Internet access to classrooms.
If approved by voters, Measure O would required mean an additional $44.25 in annual property taxes for every $100,000 of assessed value for approximately 20 years.
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What are some good free UML programs out there? Looking for something dead simple for just class diagrams and generating C++ code after the diagram is done.
I've been trying to put together a game engine (or dev system, whatever you wanna call it) based on this article: http://www.devmaster.net/articles/oo-game-design/ C++ is my language of choice - using DarkGDK for 3D and Fulcrum Physics (PhysX wrapper).
Since the engine system described in the article is very deep and complex, I've decided to use a UML class diagram to help. So far I've been using astah* community. My problem is that unless I upgrade to astah UML, I can't get it to generate C++ code stubs later. Tried StarUML, which does generate C++ code for free. It's still not bad, but not quite as simple as astah.
So, any suggestions?
I never tried free or open source solutions, so I can't strongly recommend anything. StarUML looks to be a dead project, so it's not something I would personally get attached to. If it does the job, I suppose you can stick with it. A list of UML software is presented on Wikipedia, but none of the free stuff looks promising.
Rational and (currently) Visual Paradigm are the top two tools I use. Both require a license, but VP has a free community edition which is limited to one diagram and no source export.
I use Visual Paradigm at work and like it very much. It has a free license as well. You can also check out the book ["UML@Work"](mailto:"UML@Work").


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CLEVELAND — Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert has already had one superstar leave under his watch. He doesn't want it to happen again.
Gilbert said Wednesday night that he hopes to keep All-Star point guard Kyrie Irving around for his entire NBA career.
Unable to re-sign LeBron James to another contract in 2010, Gilbert said before Cleveland's home opener against the Brooklyn Nets that the Cavs hope Irving will stay long enough to lead them to an NBA championship.
The team recently picked up the 21-year-old's contract option for next season. He can agree to a maximum deal beginning in the summer, but Gilbert said the team has not talked about anything beyond this season.
"We don't even frankly discuss that yet, it's still a little bit early," Gilbert said. "We feel good about Kyrie being here for his entire career. We think we set up an environment and a culture that's conducive to him being not only an All-Star, but the leader of a championship-contending team. We'll keep going until we get to that point, whether it's this year or next year or whenever that may be."
Gilbert pointed to Irving's strong relationship with coach Mike Brown, who is back for his second stint with Cleveland, as one of the many reasons the Cavs are optimistic they can end a playoff drought this season.
"We have a good relationship with him," Gilbert said about Irving. "He and Mike Brown really kicked it off this summer. They really jelled."
Irving's development on and off the floor has impressed Gilbert.
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Where is there a listing of FA's that will be available this summer?
I was reading the story about Cleveland getting to $20 mil or more under the cap and wondered just WTH they would be targeting. IE...if they do release Big Z...who is out there that they feel is better?
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Q. I see that some teams are already playing in the summer league, but I havent seen anything about the Pacers yet. I think I did see that they are going to be in Minnesota for that league but can you verify this for me? Also I have heard some names like (Danny) Granger, Ron Artest, David Harrison and possibly Jon Bender but do they have their roster set for the summer league yet? (From Patrick in Indianapolis)
A. Apologies for the lack of summer league information, but I'm back from my annual Brunner Across America Family Tour and am refreshed, recharged and ready to get back into the business of providing as much information as I can get my hands on to Pacers fans.
The Pacers began their annual rookie and free agent camp Sunday in Conseco Fieldhouse with a 19-man roster that included Artest, Granger, Harrison and John Edwards. They'll practice through Thursday, then Bender will join the team for summer league play, which runs July 15-19 in Minneapolis. The Pacers will play five games, one each against Houston, Toronto, New York, Milwaukee and Minnesota.
The presence of Artest and Bender will make this one of the most interesting summer leagues in recent history for the Pacers, and there will be quite a bit of interest paid to Harrison's recovery from minor knee surgery and its effect on his overall conditioning. Artest, of course, hasn't played since Nov. 19, 2004. Bender appeared in just seven games last season. Harrison missed the final month.
So, in addition to getting long-awaited looks at Artest and Bender, the Pacers will get a first glance at Granger, the highly-touted first-round pick from New Mexico. Second-round pick Erazem Lorbek will remain in Italy for at least one more season.
Other interesting names on the roster include Chris Thomas, a guard from Notre Dame who played locally at Pike High School; Shane Power, a former Indiana High School All-Star from Gary who played with Jamaal Tinsley as a freshman at Iowa State before transferring to Mississippi State; and Aleksander Radojevic, a 7-3 center who was a lottery pick of Toronto in 1999.
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Christ Episcopal Church hosts Valentine's benefit
Christ Episcopal Church has scheduled its third annual Valentine's Dinner Dance 6:15 p.m. Feb. 7 at the church, 1040 Border Road, Los Altos.
The event will feature dinner and dancing to live swing music by the Top Shelf Big Band.
Proceeds benefit the Palo Alto Veterans Administration Hospital's Polytrauma Rehabilitation Unit and the Fisher House – where church members provide monthly family-style meals – and the Community Services Agency.
"The public is invited to bring their Valentine and their friends," said the Rev. Lauren P. McCombs, "for fun that also connects us to a larger purpose."
Tickets are $45.
LAUMC 'Sale-Abration' supports African women
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"Sale-Abration" will feature gift items, floral arrangements and baked goods as well as snacks and other edibles for Super Bowl Sunday and Valentine's Day.
The annual fundraiser supports the African Student Education Fund, which provides scholarships to African women pursuing higher education, primarily at Africa University in Zimbabwe. The fund, established in 2005 by the Los Altos United Methodist Women, has supported 38 women to date who intend to use their education to improve life for all in Africa. The group hopes to support 10 students in the coming academic year.


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What is it called, when you have a pocket, or pouch, of fluid on your spinal cord? I was only told that one showed up, on a cervical spine MRI that I had done a while ago. The doctor that I had at the time said that it was likely caused by some type of impact. Are these dangerous at all?
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Shane Kersey, 35, was booked with two counts of terrorizing after police tracked him down by calling him back on the number that showed up after he left numerous ominous phone messages at Fisher Middle-High School in Lafitte and Marrero Academy for Advanced studies early Wednesday.
Kersey admitted to the calls but claims he made them to prevent someone else from transporting a combustible object to the campuses, said Col. John Fortunato, a spokesman for the Sheriff's Office.
Kersey admitted making calls to a total of four schools, two in Jefferson Parish and two in Plaquemines Parish, Fortunato said.
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Fortunato said the parish's 911 Centers received the threatening phone calls around 6:36 a.m. and 7:20 a.m.
No suspicious items were found during the searches, he said, and the schools were cleared for re-entry. However, some parents decided to remove their children for the day, he said.
Monica Pierre, a school system spokeswoman, said that students were diverted to Kerner Elementary School in Jean Lafitte and to Estelle Elementary School in Marrero. Marrero Academy was given the all-clear sign first, and Fischer came later because it is a larger campus and required more time to search, Fortunato said.


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Santana day to day with bone bruise after MRI
ANAHEIM -- Shortstop Danny Santana had an MRI exam on his left knee before Thursday's game that revealed a bone bruise, and he is listed as day to day.
Santana originally injured his knee while running between first and second base in the third inning of Wednesday's game against the Angels. He left the game because of the injury and tried testing it out before Thursday's game, but he still felt discomfort and was held out of the starting lineup.
It was encouraging news for the Twins, as Santana has been one of the club's most productive players offensively this season. But Twins manager Ron Gardenhire said there's still a chance Santana could be placed on the 15-day disabled list if it doesn't heal soon.
"We're still not sure which way we're going to go," Gardenhire said. "He's still not moving very well, so we have to see how long it'll take for him to get well. The decision now is to see where we go from here, whether it's DL time or we let him play through it."
The rookie is hitting .328/.366/.448 with two homers, 10 doubles, 16 RBIs and six stolen bases in 37 games this year. He said he's optimistic he won't need a DL stint, but he said he tried jogging before the game and still felt soreness in his knee.
"It's a little better," Santana said. "It's a little sore, but it's better."
Rhett Bollinger is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Bollinger Beat, and follow him on Twitter @RhettBollinger. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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ALBANY, Texas — Landowners and other women interested in learning about land management, hunting basics and outdoor skills are invited to this year's "Women of the Land," workshop held at Stasney's Cook Ranch in Albany, Texas, March 24-25.
The weekend seminar will offer a variety of classes to its participants, including: wildlife identification and management, deer and quail ecology, outdoor cooking, rifle and shotgun basics, ranch and wildlife management planning, and healthy streams and clean water management.
Saturday evening will feature an informal landowner panel called "Dessert, Coffee and Conservation," focusing on stewardship and land management, with plenty of time allotted for questions.
"Talking with the actual landowners who are doing this work is always a highlight," said Linda Campbell, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department private lands program director.
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NEW YORK — Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Chad Billingsley will have Tommy John surgery this week and miss the rest of the season.
The Dodgers made the announcement Tuesday, a day before the right-hander was set for the elbow operation in Los Angeles. The team said it typically takes about 12 months to return to competition.
Billingsley was 1-0 with a 3.00 ERA in two starts this season. He was scheduled to start last Sunday in Baltimore, but instead was put on the 15-day disabled list because of pain in his elbow.
The 28-year-old injured his elbow last August and decided to try rehabilitation instead of major surgery. He had been pain-free until feeling pain last Friday in a bullpen session. An MRI showed the injury.
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MondayWhen George Santayana observed that those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it, he was talking about big things and large arcs of time.
If we don't study the conditions that led to, say, the downfall of the Roman Empire, then we risk losing our own nation.
But lessons can also be learned from less momentous things and smaller arcs of time. As we say goodbye to 2012, for example, we might call it the Year of the Status Quo.
The lesson learned might be that recognizing a wrong path is only the first part of the job – we must then take active steps to change paths. But American voters last year, after complaining loudly about the lousy state of affairs, then cast their ballots in precisely the way guaranteed to keep the state of affairs exactly as is.
TuesdayForget "fiscal cliffs" – this one and the other ones sure to come. Yes, the arbitrary tax increases and spending cuts created by Congress as a self-imposed deadline will cause hardships, even a likely return to recession. But that pain is relatively minor compared with the avalanche of "trillions of dollars of debt that's headed our way, gathering speed and mass." From the end of World War II to now, we went from being the world's largest creditor nation to being the largest debtor, "with roughly half our public debt held by foreign leaders."
That warning is from Mort Zuckerman in U.S. News & World Report, who says our day of reckoning cannot be avoided. "The liabilities are so huge, and multiplying so fast, that there will be one unavoidable demand as the various bills come to their due date. Show us the money!"
WednesdaySomething some people do endangers their co-workers and even members of the public. There's a big fight about where the line between individual freedom and responsibility to the group should be and what government should do to define and enforce it.
No, not people who puff on cigarettes, pipes and cigars, treating those around them to potentially deadly secondhand smoke. We're talking about people who refuse to get their flu shots, risking contracting the potentially deadly virus and spreading it to those they come in contact with. IU Health Goshen Hospital told its staff in September that flu shots would no longer be optional for staff, affiliated physicians, volunteers and vendors. Eight employees refused to get their shots, and the hospital fired them.
The flu and smoking issues raise exactly the same kind of arguments.
ThursdayThere is still a long way to go, but Fort Wayne and Allen County have made great strides in dealing with the problems that arise when mental health issues and the criminal justice system intersect.
It is still probably true, as someone once remarked, that the Allen County Jail is the largest mental institution we have, but at least there is an attempt to understand that criminals with mental illness often behave badly because of faulty brain chemistry, not evil intent.
Not so the state, which pays lip service to giving mentally ill inmates treatment but too often just locks them up and forgets about them. Now things may start to change with a ruling against the state by Judge Tanya Walton Pratt in the U.S. Court for the Southern District of Indiana. She accused the state of "deliberate indifference."


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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Another universe of sci-fi fans has been put in the hands of J.J. Abrams.
According to multiple trade reports, Abrams is set to direct the next installment of "Star Wars," which Disney has said will be "Episode 7" and due out in 2015. Disney bought "Star Wars" maker Lucasfilm last month for $4.06 billion.
The Emmy-award-winning director has also captained the reboot of "Star Trek" for rival studio Paramount Pictures, with the next installment in that series, "Star Trek: Into Darkness," set to hit theaters May 17.
Citing unnamed sources, the news was reported earlier by Hollywood trade outlets The Wrap, The Hollywood Reporter and Daily Variety.
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There likely won't be full payment for dozens of produce suppliers that are allegedly collectively owed almost $1 million by Cal-O Vegetable Exchange Inc., which closed its doors earlier this year after 46 years in business.
The Los Angeles produce company is liquidating assets through a federal court action known as an assignment for the benefit of creditors, but attorney John Lapinski, of Clark & Trevithick in Los Angeles, said he doubts there will be enough to pay everyone all they may be owed.
"There was a critical shortage of cash and creditors at the door when they closed up," said Lapinski, who is representing Cal-O's president and vice president, Thomas Kunisaki and his son Scott Kunisaki, respectively.
Lapinski said the Kunisakis realized they needed to take action and voluntarily closed to begin the liquidation process. They have been working with lawyers for the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act creditors and other industry players through the process.
One step, Lapinski said, by Cal-O was to quickly vacate the bays it had been renting at a produce terminal so the landlord could re-rent them. Lapinski said a variety of factors contributed to the problems at Cal-O, including the economic downturn in 2008-09, which the company did not overcome.
According to a schedule set by U.S. District Court Judge Dale Fischer, the anticipated date of an interim distribution to creditors with valid claims under PACA is Aug. 6.
A group of seven suppliers initially filed in federal court on May 14 seeking payment of a total of $318,245 through a PACA proceeding. Another 22 companies joined in an amended complaint on June 8, increasing the total to $851,837.
Seven more produce companies filed as interveners to the original case, seeking another $112,497 between them and bringing the total of PACA claims to $964,333. Court records show the suppliers delivered the produce from June 2011 through April this year.
The individual PACA debts listed in the court records range from a low of $2,700 to a high of $86,503. The five largest listed were:
- Keber Distributing Inc, Thermal, Calif., $85,503;
- Boskovich Farms Inc., Oxnard, Calif., $75,114;
- Pacific Pride Marketing LLC, Oxnard, Calif., $74,774;
- Baloian Packing Co. Inc., Fresno, $65,653; and
- A.V. Thomas Produce Inc., Livingston, Calif., $62,106.


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The new Tandem external gauge control (TEGC) system from Addex, Stoughton, Mass., combines gauge control by the company's EGC air ring with a bubble-stabilizing lower air ring. The configuration is said to boost output by 15% to 30% compared with Addex's standard EGC system. The standard automatic system is said to reduce film thickness variations by up to 70%, typically resulting in a 5% to 6% raw material savings.
The lower single-lip air ring matches the die diameter. It is fed by a blower about half the size needed for a typical air ring. Air gently cools the bubble and stabilizes it. Air then is fed to the dual-lip automatic gauge-control air ring above the single-lip unit. The more stable bubble allows for higher output without jeopardizing gauge control.
The upper EGC air ring is 2 in. (50 mm) bigger than the die size. Therefore, a 16-in. (400-mm) die employs a 16-in. single-lip air ring and an 18-in. (450-mm) EGC air ring situated on top (photo).
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Network scan and print data are overlooked areas when it comes to network security. Documents routinely contain sensitive information, like financial data, information that personally identifies customers or employees, and account information. Printing and imaging devices are commonly located in high-traffic areas with only basic physical security. In this environment, it's very easy for confidential information to end up in the wrong hands, either accidentally or intentionally.
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Print jobs are held in RAM or on the hard disk until the intended recipient enters the appropriate PIN, allowing the job to print. Held jobs can be set to expire after an elapsed time (configurable from one hour to one week). In addition, a limit can be set on the number of times a PIN can be entered incorrectly before the corresponding jobs are purged.
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A year after Southern California's worst blackout, regulators still haven't signed off on a plan to fix the region's power grid.
Correcting flaws in the system will take until 2015 under current proposals and could require a major shake up in the industry collective that oversees our power delivery.
On Sept. 8, 2011, an arcing transmission line in the Arizona desert brought down San Diego's power supply.
The outage ran its flickering course in 11 minutes that afternoon. It tripped off transmission lines and power plants, severing electricity to more than 7 million people in Arizona, Southern California and northwestern Mexico.
Already under way are crucial transmission hardware upgrades, a new online clearinghouse for information on plant and power line closures, and a hiring spree for reliability staff.
But exhaustively identifying and closing gaps in grid oversight across the West will take up to three more years, under a proposal submitted in late August to federal authorities by the Salt Lake City-based Western Electricity Coordinating Council. And the industry collective that oversees the western power grid, from Colorado to the Cascades and Alberta to Baja California, is itself the focus of concerns about governance and inherent conflicts of interest.
"The issue that's being raised is whether their role is strong enough in the region to make some of these changes happen," said Clark Gellings, a Palo Alto-based fellow at the independent nonprofit Electric Power Research Institute.
In May, an inquiry by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and its sister reliability agency described the outage as essentially a human failure, citing a lack of effective contingency planning and coordination. Impediments to "situational awareness" left individual grid operators unaware of rapid fire events outside their territories.
California's main grid operator has begun analyzing grid conditions outside its territory — in the adjacent Imperial Valley, where smaller transmission lines were overwhelmed on the day of the blackout.
"The critical thing is what else might lurk out there," said Stephen Berberich, CEO of the California Independent System Operator, which manages transmission lines that make up 80 percent of the state's power grid. "But I feel pretty confident the major issues around Sept. 8 have been addressed."
A fateful mistake
It started with a misplaced pen mark on a checklist.
A utility worker at a switchyard outside Yuma, momentarily distracted, skipped a crucial step in a routine switching order, triggering a sparking, high-voltage arc and the failure of a crucial section of a transmission line that helps import power to California.
The nation's bulk power grid is designed and monitored night and day to stand up to any single critical failure like the initial outage on Sept. 8. Computers and engineers prepare for that test over and over again — each year, each day, every 8 minutes — but failed to react effectively on Sept. 8.
Grid operators needed to plan more accurately for contingencies, investigators later found, if they were to take effective action.
In response, the Western Electric Coordinating Council already has opened an online clearinghouse for information about anticipated power plant and transmission outages, sharing market- and security-sensitive data under an intricate nondisclosure agreement.
Tight constraints on next-day grid information are a legacy of Enron-era market manipulation that provoked California's rolling blackouts in 2000 and 2001.
"If we want a wholesale market for electricity ... then we're going to have to deal with these issues of what data gets shared by whom and how far ahead," said Gellings.
Other recent changes by grid operators are designed to buy more time to maneuver.
Utility operators have deactivated a controversial automated scheme that severed transmission to and from the Los Angeles area on Sept. 8, cutting off imports and sealing San Diego's fate. New transformers in the Coachella Valley address a weakness discovered on Sept. 8.
Among other changes under way: 20 new positions are being added to a round-the-clock reliability centers in Loveland, Colo., and Vancouver, Wash., that keep watch over the Western Interconnection, a coordinated electricity grid spanning 1.5 million square miles — an area nearly three times the size of Alaska.
Operators at those offices were overwhelmed by alarms and urgent phone calls as the Southwest blackout unfolded.
The Western Electric Coordinating Council expects to finalize a 75-page report on comprehensive responses to the blackout by the end of September. The North American Electric Reliability Corporation currently is reviewing the document.
Warning signs
In retrospect, there were warning signs.
Forty-four minutes before the first transmission failure, a running computer analysis showed ominously that the loss of a transformer in the Coachella Valley would result in an overload of the next transformer in line.
But a utility operator at the Imperial Irrigation District was not actively monitoring the results. And there was no audible alarm.
Over the past year, the Imperial Valley's rural, customer-owned utility has undergone a sweeping overhaul of its contingency planning, data collection and post-mortem analysis of its reliability performance. It has added and recalibrated transformers to boost transmission capacity.
Carl Stills, deputy energy manager for the utility, said the district has adopted a more activist philosophy, bracing to become a thoroughfare for renewable energy bound for the West Coast.
"Our system has to be more robust to handle the flows," he said.
Federal authorities have suggested that transmission and balancing authorities that don't adopt better reliability practices may be forced to turn over those responsibilities.
Across the West, gaps in contingency planning and situational awareness persist.
A survey in June and July found a significant portion of the West's 54 transmission operators do not currently perform next-day studies. Many don't take into consideration planned outages by their neighbors — a coordination issue that contributed to the Sept. 8 outage.
"One thing that the blackout showed us is that reliability is much more than following the standards" set by law, said William Chamberlain, a director at the western reliability council and former chief counsel of the California Energy Commission.
Under pressure from federal authorities, the western council — founded a decade ago as a trade association — is considering changes to its own governance. Federal authorities at the North American Electric Reliability Corporation see an inherent conflict of interest in the council's role as both a participant and arbiter for grid reliability functions.
Gerry Cauley, CEO of reliability corporation, reiterated the conflict concerns last week in a speech to the 34-member board of the Western Electric Coordinating Council.
"Structural and government issues are key to ensuring the reliability of the West," said a written reprisal of Cauley's comments.
Chamberlain, one of 34 directors at the western council, said the organization was excluded from participating in the blackout inquiry because of the appearance that it "might have been there to excuse its own conduct."
Directors are wrestling with whether "it's more important to resolve concerns about the appearance of a conflict of interest or remain one organization that has greater knowledge" of the day-to-day operation of the grid.Copyright © 2017, The San Diego Union-Tribune


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Topic: Thinking about dad
It is coming up on three years this April since I lost my dad to cc. He would have turned 60 in January and I still can't believe he isn't here. In these few years without him I have gotten married and had a daughter. It was so hard not having him there. I feel as though I was robbed of something and so was he. I know he is "always with me" but I long to see his face and to have a conversation and a huge bear hug. I guess I go through hard times this time of year because it reminds me of the few months we had left with him after his diagnosis. I still get so depressed thinking about all of the things he's missed. And mostly about all of the things I know I've missed without him. I try to be thankful for the times we did have but it gets the best of me sometimes.
I have not been on this site in awhile and I must say that it is comforting to know that I'm not alone. It also makes me feel good to see all of the resources and info available to everyone affected by this disease. I am so glad to know these resources are here for other families that receive the horrific news of this diagnosis. At the time we got the news about my dad we felt so alone. The one glimmer of hope was this site at the time although most of it was under construction. It is wonderful to see so many people reaching out to each other and helping one another. Good luck to you all with whatever mountain you are climbing.


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"Location, location, location" is a well-known mantra in the real estate industry. The same can be said about gasoline prices as well. As the nation's drivers approach the Independence Day holiday – a key milestone of the summer driving season – this article takes the opportunity to review developments in U.S. regional gasoline developments during the first half of 2013.
According to EIA's latest weekly survey, U.S. retail gasoline prices averaged $3.50 per gallon on Monday, July 1, up 14 cents from a year ago. However, average gasoline prices for the first half of this year are 8 cents below average prices in first-half 2012.
Wholesale conventional gasoline spot prices are down modestly across the country over the past week (Figure 1). In addition to lower crude oil prices, a major factor putting downward pressure on prices is the continued decline in gasoline consumption, which was almost 1 percent lower in January-April this year than in the comparable 2012 period (Figure 2). Despite lower demand, refinery runs remain strong as refiners seek to meet strong demand for distillate fuels in export markets. While strong runs may be driven by distillate markets, they also add to gasoline production, which given weak demand is causing a build in gasoline stocks. Gasoline inventories are well above the five-year range – both in absolute levels and on a days-of-supply basis (Figure 3) – putting additional downward price pressure on gasoline, especially along the East Coast (PADD 1), the largest demand region.
Although demand recently experienced a seasonal uptick at the start of the summer driving season, it remains low compared to recent years in absolute terms given its low starting point (below the bottom of the 2008-12 five-year range). As predicted in EIA's April Short-Term Energy Outlook Summer Fuels Outlook, the slow-growing economy, better fuel efficiency in the vehicle fleet, and potential changes in consumer behavior due to relatively high prices are curbing demand.
Gasoline demand has fallen more on the East Coast than in any other region, with product supplied through April (latest data available) down 237,000 barrels per day (bbl/d) – 8 percent – compared to the same period last year (Figure 4). While PADD 1 is the largest consuming region in the United States, accounting for 35 percent of U.S. demand, it accounted for almost the entire decline in demand this year. Excluding PADD 1, U.S. 2013 gasoline demand increased 175,000 bbl/d through April compared to the same period in 2012. However, PADD 1 declined 238,000 bbl/d, more than offsetting increases elsewhere. Although January-April demand in PADD 1 has fallen or held steady every year since the recession, declines since 2008 averaged 1 percent annually, rather than the larger drop-off seen so far in 2013.
Despite lower demand, high refinery utilization rates on the East Coast and strong imports from the Gulf Coast and Europe have helped raise inventories. Trade press reports indicate that Gulf Coast deliveries to PADD 1 are at maximum levels. Additionally, increasing refiner crack spreads for distillate in Europe have helped drive up utilization rates both there and in PADD 1 for exports to Europe. This has led to corresponding strong levels of gasoline production in the region and gasoline imports into PADD 1 despite the closure of the trans-Atlantic arbitrage window. The need for European refiners to continue to produce distillates – and as a result, surplus gasoline – to meet European domestic demand, combined with limited markets for their surplus gasoline, has helped keep gasoline imports from Europe flowing into PADD 1.
The combination of relatively high supply and low demand has pushed PADD 1 inventory levels up 10 million barrels (18 percent) compared to June 2012 – well above the top of the five-year range – putting downward pressure on prices. New York Harbor conventional gasoline spot prices in the first half of 2013 averaged 13 cents (4 percent) lower than the same period in 2012.
MIDWEST AND ROCKIES (PADDs 2 and 4)
Planned and unplanned refinery maintenance as well as longer-term refinery upgrading projects over the past few months reduced gasoline production in the Midwest, pushing gasoline inventories lower and gasoline prices higher.
Chicago conventional spot prices increased $0.36 over four days in mid-April and continued upward before spiking another $0.57 between May 29 and June 3, sending regional retail prices to recent or all-time highs. Conventional gasoline spot price differentials between Chicago and New York Harbor approached $1 per gallon at their peak on June 3. The Chicago spot price has since come down, falling $1.10 during the rest of June as refineries returned to full production, with declines in retail prices following.
Beginning in mid-April, refinery maintenance caused gasoline inventories in PADD 2 to fall sharply – by more than 6 million barrels, moving stocks from the top to the bottom of the five-year range – before recovering in May and June as major refineries restarted from maintenance, long-term upgrades were completed, and product from PADD 3 entered the market. With production returning to normal levels, prices in the Midwest have come down significantly, with PADD 2 retail prices dipping below the national average on June 24 for the first time in more than two months.
PADD 4 experienced lagged spillover price effects from PADD 2. Maintenance at both of Minnesota's two refineries, in addition to other, larger refineries in PADD 2, pushed prices higher in PADD 4. The average Rocky Mountain retail regular gasoline price rose 24 cents from the end of April through the week of May 27, before turning lower as market tightness abated.
Average U.S. Gulf Coast gasoline spot prices were lower during the first half of 2013 than the same period a year ago, reflecting a similar reduction in Light Louisiana Sweet (LLS) prices over the same period. Without the disruptions affecting other regions, PADD 3 prices remained relatively stable – despite significant growth in regional gasoline demand.
Unlike the United States as a whole, gasoline demand in the Gulf Coast has experienced robust growth, rising 7 percent in 2012 over 2011. Available data (through April) shows a continuation of the trend, with 2013 consumption up almost 9 percent (118,000 bbl/d) over the same period a year ago. This is substantially above the 2-percent growth in PADDs 2 and 5, the other regions with demand growth, and the shrinking demand in the United States as a whole, which has declined every year since 2009.
Wholesale gasoline prices on the West Coast, represented by the Los Angeles (LA) conventional spot price, averaged $3.01 per gallon through June 26, down $0.12 (4 percent) from the same period in 2012.
Refinery maintenance caused several sharp wholesale gasoline price changes in PADD 5 in the first half of 2013. However, there were significant differences in the pass-through to retail prices during this period. Refinery maintenance in January was particularly heavy, with almost 300,000 bbl/d of fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) capacity offline. FCC units are particularly important for gasoline production, and FCC maintenance can significantly affect gasoline prices. Wholesale spot prices for LA conventional rose 70 cents per gallon from mid-January to mid-February and remained elevated until March. The size and length of the wholesale change caused a corresponding increase in prices at the pump.
Supply concerns surrounding mid-June refinery maintenance caused LA conventional gasoline prices to spike 40 cents in two days. However, initial market concerns were overblown, with adequate supplies in place to meet West Coast demand, and LA conventional spot prices quickly retreated. Despite the significant jump in wholesale prices, retail markets were relatively unaffected.
While the story of U.S. gasoline markets during the second half of 2013 cannot yet be written, experience allows us to be certain about two things – first, that there are inevitably surprises ahead of us; and second, that "location, location, location" will continue to drive important differences across regional markets.
Gasoline prices decrease for a 3rd consecutive week; diesel fuel for a 6th
The U.S. average retail price of regular gasoline decreased eight cents to $3.50 per gallon as of July 1, 2013, 14 cents higher than last year at this time. The U.S. average price has decreased 16 cents over the last three weeks, to the lowest level since January 28. Prices fell in all regions, led by a 15-cent decrease in the Midwest to $3.39 per gallon, down 47 cents over the last three weeks. The Gulf Coast price is now $3.31 per gallon, down seven cents from last week. The West Coast price is lower by six cents at $3.89 per gallon, and the East Coast price decreased four cents to $3.46 per gallon. Rounding out the regions, the Rocky Mountain price dropped three cents to $3.64 per gallon.
The national average diesel fuel price decreased two cents to $3.82 per gallon, 17 cents higher than last year at this time. Prices fell in all regions, led by a Midwest price decrease of three cents to $3.82 per gallon. The East Coast, Rocky Mountain, and West Coast prices are all lower by two cents, to $3.82, $3.82, and $3.94 per gallon, respectively. Rounding out the regions, the Gulf Coast price is $3.73 per gallon, a penny lower than last week.


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Now that it can formally be reported WalMart is building another store in Woodland at the old Mervyn's site, there are (of course) more than few people with concerns.
It's not merely that WalMart already has a store in town, or that the new WalMart food store is going into the County Fair Mall -- which has been looking very weak retailwise for years. No, the problem (according to Channel 13) is that potential customers won't be able to access the store from inside the mall itself, but will have to walk outside the mall and enter from the parking lot.
We'll also have another low-price grocery store in Woodland, which already seems to have a surplus of low-priced grocery stores. Well, we need something to fill the former Mervyn's spot. Mervyn's has been gone since 2009 and it's left a big void.
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The top local story in recent days was the scheduled Tuesday sentencing of Frederick Scott Salyer, 57, who once headed up SKFoods and has been dubbed the "Tomato King."
On Tuesday, Salyer, left his home in Pebble Beach to be sentenced in U.S. District Court in Sacramento after pleading guilty last year to charges he bribed purchasing managers at food giants including Kraft Foods Inc. and Frito-Lay. Salyer pleaded guilty in March to two charges: racketeering and price fixing. The charges carry 20- and 10-year sentences respectively, but under a plea agreement he's expected to be sentenced to four to seven years behind bars.
That's about how long it took the government to unravel the case and find that Salyer and 10 co-conspirators manipulated the price and quality of millions of pounds of processed tomatoes by dispersing about $100,000 in bribes. By then SK Foods had become the second-largest tomato processor in the state. Buyers from Kraft, PepsiCo Inc.'s Frito-Lay unit, Safeway Inc. and B&G Foods Inc. already have pleaded guilty to accepting bribes in the case. In all, 10 former employees or customers of SK Foods have pleaded guilty. California produces 90 percent of the U.S.' canning tomatoes, and Salyer operated processing plants in Lemoore and Williams in California's Central Valley. By the time federal agents raided the business in 2008, SK Foods had captured 14 percent of the processed tomato market. That earned Salyer the title of "Tomato King."
However, old-timers will remember that Andres Bermudez, who made millions after migrating to Winters, was also given the title of "Tomato King." He also got in trouble with the law, owing some $800,000 in taxes. He dided in February 2008 at age 58 of cancer.
Bermudez invented a tomato planting machine after coming to this country hiding in a car trunk in 1973. Well, with Bermudez gone, I guess the title of "Tomato King" was up for grabs.
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I was very concerned about where the proposed Velocity Island Park (a wakeboard cable park proposed for the former Dubach Park) was going to get its water after hearing about this innovative progject. Then I remembered that Woodland has been dumping millions of gallons of water from a well near Whitehead Elementary School. All we have to do is run a pipeline across town and we can recycle all that unused water.
Better yet, maybe we can send it to Davis and then that community would have a good supply of water. Of course, they couldn't drink it but so what?
The water park is proposed by Scott Hartmann and I really wish him the best, as long as I know the water to fill Velocity Island isn't field water runoff. Yuck!
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Congressman John Garamendi held a couple of town hall meetings in the region last Saturday. He had one from 2 to 4 p.m., at the Lee Burrow Center in Marysville. There was another town hall meeting held in Woodland which I was planning to attend but couldn't find. That meeting was at Woodland Community College, from 10 a.m. to noon. I figured I knew where the college was located but got confused because the mailer I got on Saturday said Woodland College was at 2300 East Bigson Road. And all these years I thought the college was on Gibson Road. Well, typos can occur anywhere it seems.


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BENECIA -- Northern California's "ghost fleet" is disappearing faster than anticipated.
U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood visited the armada of decaying warships in Suisun Bay on Friday to announce the U.S. Marine Administration has already removed and recycled 36 of the fleet's original 57 vessels.
LaHood says three more will be taken away by year's end, and the entire fleet will be gone by 2017.
The administration had previously committed to removing 28 ships by Sept. 30.
The Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet is made up of obsolete military vessels, including some that chased submarines and transported troops during World War II.
Facing a lawsuit, the government agreed to remove the warships, which have been polluting the waters of Suisun Bay, a shallow estuary between San Francisco Bay and the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.


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