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Type: Bug
Status: Resolved
Priority: Minor
Resolution: Fixed
Affects Version/s: 6.2.0
Fix Version/s: 6.3.0
Component/s: wicket-datetime
There are two DateConverter implementations in wicket:
[1] wicket.util.convert.DateConverter
[2] wicket.datetime.DateConverter
When an error occures while converting the input, both throw a ConversionException. This ConversionException has a property called 'format' which is later used to get a localized pattern for error messages. But since they base on different formatter classes (jdk/joda-time), the formatter of [2] is incompatible to the format property.
So I can see 2 ways of solving this issue:
1. put an already localized pattern as a variable (also named 'format') in ConversionException (using ConversionException .setVariable() - those variables are later also applied to the error message)
2. Alter the class ConversionException so its property 'format' holds the localized pattern as a string, instead of an instance of SimpleDateFormat
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- Comments
- Work Log
- History
- Activity
- Transitions
Solution #2 wont work. DateFormat has no localized pattern, only SimpleDateFormat has it.
Can you attach a patch for solution #1 ?
Here you go, patch for solution #1
Yet I don't understand why #2 should not work. Obviously it's possible to get a localized pattern of that ConversionException thrown by o.a.w.util.DateConverter, see FormComponent.reportValidationError():
Format format = e.getFormat();
if (format instanceof SimpleDateFormat)
So it should also be possible to extract a pattern before creating the exception instance. Also, this is the only usage of ConversionException.getFormat(), so I think it would be just fine to change the type of the field 'format' and it's getter/setter.

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Report: Man injured in shooting at Statesville elementary school
Posted September 22, 2015
Statesville, N.C. — Media in Statesville, N.C., reported that an apparent domestic incident Tuesday afternoon resulted in gunfire on the campus of an elementary school there.
The Iredell County Sheriff's Office told WBTV that a married couple and two children were outside the school in a vehicle when the woman shot the man.
Deputies had the woman in custody. Neither the children who were in the car, nor any students at the school were injured, according to WBTV.


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Lino joined the Irvine office of Kieckhafer, Schiffer & Company LLP (KS&Co) in January 2006 as a Staff Tax Accountant and was promoted to Tax Manager in July 2010. His experience includes a strong background in tax planning, consulting, research and compliance projects for privately and publicly held corporations. His focus includes ASC 740 Accounting for Income Taxes, review and preparation including adoption and maintenance of Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Taxes.
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Lino was born and raised in Southern California. He attended Chapman University and obtained a Bachelors of Science in Accounting. While out of the office, Lino enjoys spending time with his family, traveling, sports and outdoor activities.
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Chelsea may be out of the English Premier League title race, but they took a step closer to some silverware on Monday after halting Manchester United's quest for a double.
January signing Demba Ba scored Chelsea's only goal in a 1-0 victory over the Red Devils in FA Cup quarterfinal action in Stamford Bridge on Monday.
Ba broke through in the 49th minute, putting the ball into the far side netting from a Juan Mata chip over Ba's shoulder. Manchester United brought on Robin Van Persie in the 61st minute to find a goal, and seconds later, Chelsea's Petr Cech made a stunning save on a header from Javier Hernandez, to preserve the clean sheet.
The loss means that Sir Alex Ferguson will be denied a chance to win the most famous trophy in England for the sixth year in a row. The victory moves Chelsea into an FA Cup semifinal meeting with Manchester City at Wembley Stadium on April 14th.
Here are some more stories to get your Monday going:
Former Lazio, Celtic, and West Ham forward Paolo Di Canio has been appointed as the new head coach of Sunderland, taking over from the sacked Martin O'Neill on Sunday.
The 44-year-old Italian manager does not have English Premier League managerial experience, but Sunderland will be hoping he can help the Black Cats stay out of the relegation zone. Sunderland is currently just one point out of relegation danger.
DiCanio most recently managed Swindon, which he helped gain promotion from League Two to League One, and now the club has a chance for a second consecutive promotion this season.
Lionel Messi completed yet another accomplishment on Saturday, scoring in his 19th consecutive La Liga match, setting a new record in production. The 25-year-old scored the second of the match for Barcelona, who could only settle for a 2-2 draw.
"What Leo is doing is an unheard of feat in the league's history and it shows the importance he has and his greatness as a player," Barcelona assistant Jordi Roura said to The Guardian.
Messi has now scored against every team in La Liga this season, another new record, with nine more matches to go. The Argentine has scored 29 goals in those 19 matches, and overall this season he has put up video game numbers; 43 goals and 11 assists in 29 league matches.
Though his side were 4-0 winners on Saturday, Roberto Mancini was focused after the match on the fact that his Manchester City side were unable to replicate the form on display at the Etihad Stadium throughout the season.
Mancini singled out Samir Nasri, saying that he'd "like to give him a punch" due to his inconsistent form. The Sky Blues boss also called out Nasri for under-performing all season, saying that a player of his quality should be able to play well throughout the season, and not just on certain match days.
Nasri, who picked up an assist in 70 minutes of action before being substituted in Saturday's match, has played 21 Premier League games this season, scoring just one goal. Last season, the Frenchman had five goals and nine assists in 30 Premier League matches.
Marseille winger Andre Ayew was racially abused during the club's match on Sunday against nearby rivals Nice. (REPORT)
Hamburger SV chief Carl Jarchow said there will be consequences, after his side tied the record for heaviest loss in the Bundesliga on Saturday, losing 9-2 to Bayern Munich. (REPORT)
Six people were injured during clashes between rival supporters, who were arriving at the Arena Fonte Nova in Bahia to queue for World Cup tickets. (REPORT)
Rangers have won the Scotland Third Division, or the fourth tier of soccer in Scotland, earning promotion. (REPORT)
What do you think of these reports? Do you believe Chelsea can win the FA Cup? Do you see Messi continuing the goal-scoring streak? Do you agree with Mancini's comments on Nasri?
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February 21, 2014
At 10:41 p.m. Feb. 5, police were called to a car vs. train non-injury crash at Eastman Park Drive and Weld County Road 23. A switchman for Great Western Railroad said he was in the process of coupling segments of train cars when the crash occurred. He said the train was completely stopped across the roadway with numerous black tank railcars, and turned around when he heard the boom of the collision. A 25-year-old man from Fort Collins crashed into the train. The driver told police he just got off work at Vestas and was driving westbound on Eastman Park Drive to go home. He told police that he didn't see the train until it was too late to stop his 1997 Saturn, and then as he hit his brakes he slid on the slick roadway. The man estimated his speed at 40 mph in the posted 45 mph zone. The man was issued a county summons for careless driving and for failure to provide proof of insurance upon request. The man said he wasn't injured. The Saturn sustained extreme damage to the front, and the railcar sustained visible damage to a platform.
MAN FOUND SLEEPING IN CHURCH A NO-NO: At 6:59 a.m. Feb. 6, police were called to 561 E. Garden Drive regarding a man sleeping in a church building. The reporting party told police he had observed for a week a man looking like he just woke up, walk out of the building and go to his pickup. As police walked through the main entrance of the church, they observed a man sleeping on a row of chairs. Police told the man, 54, that it was a crime to sleep in the building due to building codes. The man told police he had permission to sleep in the church from the pastor. Police advised the man not to sleep in the building any longer and he said he wouldn't.


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The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions. – Claude Lévi-Strauss, 'The Raw and the Cooked'
Easter is my favorite holiday. It's pretty much the only holiday I care about, really. A big part of that comes from my discovery during my late 20s that the oldest of the Easter accounts, that found in Mark, ends not with the post-resurrection appearance of Jesus but rather at his empty tomb.
Mark originally ended not at chapter 16, verse 20, but rather at verse 8:
But when they looked up, [the two women] saw that the stone, which was very large, had been rolled away. As they entered the tomb, they saw a young man dressed in a white robe sitting on the right side, and they were alarmed. "Don't be alarmed," he said. "You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified. He has risen! He is not here. See the place where they laid him. But go, tell his disciples and Peter, 'He is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see him, just as he told you.' Trembling and bewildered, the women went out and fled from the tomb. They said nothing to anyone, because they were afraid.
I know that millions and millions of people understand the story of the first Easter as one of bodily resurrection and as the answer. This was more or less what I understood it to be about for most of my life, and as I never found the resurrection to be a particularly compelling part of Christianity, I also failed to find Easter particularly meaningful. But since learning that at least some of the (proto-)Christians understood the story of the first Easter as the source of a bewildering question rather than of a reassuring answer I have been very much taken with the day.


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US Special Presidential Envoy James Baker will travel to Japan, South Korea and China on December 27-30 to discuss reduction of Iraq's official debt. Baker will meet with the leaders of Japan and then South Korea on December 29 and China on December 30, reported Washington File.
Baker met with European leaders last week to discuss Iraq's $120 billion foreign debt burden. After his visit the White House announced that "the US, France and Germany "agree that there should be substantial debt reduction for Iraq in the Paris Club in 2004, and will work closely with each other and with other countries to achieve this objective." — (menareport.com)
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New "Big Brain Computer" starts at only $30K, but can pack up to 4,096 cores, 64 TB of memory
Renowned physics supergenius and
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said something about unlocking the
secrets of the Universe
as he received the first unit of a computer befitting his smarts -- SGI's "Big Brain Computer".
I. Meet the "Big Brain Computer"
In an era where
are slowly gravitating towards brute-force machines pillared by specialized hardware,
such as graphics processing unit
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is receiving the first unit of the new supercomputer. An ecstatic Professor Hawking stated, "I am very pleased to be receiving the first SGI UV 2 supercomputer in the world.
Prof. Hawking will use the UV2 to unlock science mysteries. [Image Source: Martin Pope]
New observations of our Universe, like the Planck satellite, are offering us exquisite new insights. In order to test our mathematical theories, we need to match this detail in our computer simulations. The flexible new UV 2 COSMOS system, soon to be supercharged with Intel's MIC technology, will ensure that UK researchers remain at the forefront of fundamental and observational cosmology."
II. Entry Cost of UV2 is "Only" $30K
SGI claims the UV2 has the world's biggest shared memory system of any supercomputer. It's scalable up to 4,096 cores and 64 terabytes of memory. The system has a ludicrous peak data rate of 4 terabytes per second. To put that in context, the entire contents of the
U.S. Library of Congress
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But the UV2 isn't design for simple human literary ponderings. As Professor Hawking suggests, it's the ideal tool to chew through terabytes of chemical or astrophysical data looking for key correlations, trends, and observed events.
The rack (left) based UV2 rack unit (right) system starts at only $30K. [Image Source: SGI]
While its specs are intimidating, the system starts at only $30,000 USD for a bare-bones configuration and can run standard desktop apps, in addition to its specialty -- scalable multi-core/multi-GPU apps.
Writes SGI, "Users can focus on outcomes, not algorithms with the ability to rapidly innovate; taking analysis from a laptop, scaling up on SGI UV with no re-writing of code or additional data management required."
Dr. Eng Lim Goh, chief technology officer of SGI, brags that the new system is not only a world-class design -- it's also far cheaper than its predecessor, the UV1. He remarks, "The technological advancement demonstrated in this next-generation SGI UV platform is not simply focused on increasing our lead in coherent memory size and corresponding core count.
We have been able to deliver all of this additional capability while driving down the cost of the system. In fact, the entry-level configuration of SGI UV 2 is 40 percent less expensive than SGI UV 1. This creates a new level of accessibility for large shared memory systems for researchers and the 'missing middle', providing an effective lower overall TCO alternative to clusters."
Paired with genius
algorithm and data-mining with scientific expertise
like Professor Hawking, designs like the "Big Brain Computer" and "Watson" may indeed change our reality and prospective on the universe as we know it. And that's good news for all of mankind.
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A haunting in Genoa
October 30, 2012
There's something about standing on a deserted Genoa street in the warm fall air that plays tricks on the mind.
Adding to the paranoia are the stories of Genoa's history and hauntings as told by Genoa Historic Ghost Tours guide Kim Copel during an Oct. 5 tour.
"I've learned things from her. She's fascinating. I have ghosts at my house," Genoa resident Deby O'Gorman said. "I didn't realize the reason my closet has always been colder is because there's some sort of presence there. Every once in a while we'll hear a door close. There's definitely something going on in my house,"
The gripping anecdotes Copel relates on the 2-hour tour leave guests questioning what they believe to be fact or fiction.
"I know ghosts have a connection with history," Copel said. "If we can communicate with them, we can find out some of the answers to questions we have about this town or wherever we are at. They're just people living in a different realm."
Having heard ghosts before via Electronic Voice Phenomenon, Copel witnessed one with her own eyes four months ago at the Genoa Country Inn.
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"It was a shadow ghost," she said. "I actually saw something with my own eyes that I've believed in, but never seen."
Others have also encountered strange occurrences at the hotel, coming from room 205 specifically.
Copel said tenants have heard someone banging on their door and running up and down the stairs when there were no other guests staying there. A housekeeper also confirmed strange happenings.
"A building doesn't have to be old to be haunted," Copel said. "There's a little boy and his mother, and they like to stay in that room. We think these ghosts moved in because it's a nice hotel."
In the J.S. Childs building, a man in a dark suit has been reported standing in the window when furniture inside that room would prevent anyone from doing so.
"He's just simply looking out the window," Copel said. "This is something local citizens have reported seeing on an irregular basis."
Copel also relates the story of "Bad Man" Sam Brown who was so bad that, "by 1860 he had 26 notches in his pistol belt for every man he had killed."
The story goes that Genoa resident Henry Van Sickle shot him dead during an altercation.
His body was buried in an unmarked grave in the old cemetery on Nixon Street across from Van Sickle's town house.
"Through recent investigation we realized Sam Brown was coming over to Henry Van Sickle's house looking for him," Copel said.
Livermore, Calif., resident Jeanne Kelly enjoyed hearing the history of Nevada's oldest settlement during the tour.
"She's got great facts. She brings it alive," Kelly said. "The ghosts are cute, but I like the history. The ghosts add the spice."
Another stop on the tour is the Genoa Courthouse Museum built in 1865.
After serving as a courthouse, the building was used as a school for decades until it was restored to a museum.
"It's haunted. It's very haunted," Copel said. "We had some criminals on death row downstairs. There's a lot of emotions in the courthouse."
Copel added that when pictures are taken outside the building, orbs, or spirit manifestations, can be seen in the photographs.
There have also been reports of a little boy and girl lingering inside.
"We have found some interesting things in there from when it was a school," Copel said, "but nothing bad."
Toni Rodriguez from Modesto, Calif., was entranced by the spooky tales.
"I love it," she said. "I like the ghost stories and the histories."
Her favorite haunt was behind the Genoa Antiques store where a man was allegedly hung.
"We've gone back there and we've felt a sense of just to get out of there," she said. "But we stick around because we like the ghosts."
Genoa Historic Ghost Tours are 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Friday through Monday. Other tours can be made by appointment.
Copel also offers historic-only tours on request.
For information, call 220-0605 or visit http://www.genoahistoricghosttours.com.


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There are all sorts of exaggerated body actions in golf. I believe students of the game often forget that individual physical differences account for these actions. There have never been two champions whose swings looked alike. All that happens is the player maneuvers his body so (a) it doesn't interfere with his swing; (b) the clubhead stays on the chosen path and (c) the clubhead is square at impact.
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I'm putting the finishing touches on the joint kids room now and am excited to show it to you soon! It's been a real challenge to bring together elements for both a 6 yr old boy and 9 month old girl. A fun one though. I'm sharing one project for the room today: a DIY pom pom rug. I wanted to make something soft to stand on and soothe Edie in her crib when she got up in the middle of the night and thought a DIY pom pom rug would be the perfect addition. Also, it adds a touch of feminine when the room is feeling much more masculine right now.
For the color combination, I really wanted something pretty neutral with a few pops of pink and yellow. I love how it turned out.
Amazing what you can do with yarn and scissors and a little time. Keep reading to see the step by step instructions on how we made it…
Photography by Liz Stanley. Crafting and assisted by Maddie Bachelder
Wool yarn of various sizes, textures, colors of your choosing
Two toilet paper rolls
Non stick rug mat in the size you want your rug to be (we bought ours larger and then cut it down). You should be able to find one at your local hardware store
Step 1: Stick your fingers into the rolls and start wrapping the yarn around both.
Step 2: Keep going until it looks about this size or even larger. Our rolls were so squished because they had been used a lot but yours might not get as squished at first. The sizes will differ but that's okay! We liked the look of the rug to have different size pom poms. This one above was for a smaller pom pom, the rolls below are for a larger one.
Step 3: Cut another piece of string and weave it through both of the rolls so it wraps around the whole thing.
Step 4: Tie once, then pull the rolls out
Step 5: Now tie even tighter with the rolls out. Make a knot. But leave the long strings, don't snip them. You'll need them to tie the pom pom to the rug mat.
Step 6: Now with your scissors snip through the loops around the whole pom pom. You'll also need to trim to they're about the same length. But don't get too ocd about it. You could sit there snipping forever if you wanted.
Step 7: Now keep going! Each pom pom took us about 5 minutes so put on a movie or two and relax!
Step 8: Now you'll start to place them on the non stop mat to decide on what design you want. You need them to be really squished together so after placing them you might find out you need to make more. We needed about 50 for our rug, which was pretty small.
Step 9: Tie them on using the long string you've left hanging (you did leave those strings, didn't you??? Oh good). We used slip knots so that we could move them around if we decided we needed to. Or if we got sick of the rug and wanted to use the pom poms for another project. That's it!
So super cute! Can you give us an idea of how many skeins of yarn this adorable rug used???
Love, love, love this rug … the colors you chose are awesome! What a great tutorial ~ now could you give us some idea of how many skeins of yarn you used, please?!?
p.s. Those cute little feet & legs remind me of my girls at that age!!!
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Muito lindo este trabalho.
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What cute floor rug! It is perfect for the baby room. So soft and so pretty. The details of the project suggest it is easy to make, too. Thank you for sharing!!!
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It looks amazing and seems so easy to make. It is already on my list of future projects. Can't wait to make my own <3 <3 <3
Thank you for the idea and the beautiful pictures :*
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Looks awesome!!! How do you clean/wash it? Love to hear back. Thanks for sharing your beautiful craft 🙂
This is brilliant! I know exactly who I can make one for!
This is quite possibly the cutest DIY rug I've ever seen! I love your use of color, and the varying texture in the size and type of yarn is perfect. Adding this to my must try project list stat.
ps Can you share the dimensions of your rug?
I love this: (1) can do this with my preschooler who will share a room with his baby sister (2) have so much yarn leftover from my crocheting days (3) the rug is pretty.
I love this! Not sure I am so ambitious as to make the rug, but I'll make a few pom poms for my girls to squish… and for myself (it looks so soft!).
Does Eddie love this? I would think babies would be all over this texture!
What an adorable project! What is that pink color called and what brand is it?
What a great idea! I have huge amounts of stash yarn, so this would be a great little project. I wonder how they would hold up after a few months of walking on them though?
this is adorable.
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I am a Type 2 that recently joined the world of pumping. I've had my Ping for about 2 weeks, and I've been having an ongoing leakage issue. I currently use Inset (straight, teflon, 9mm) infusion sets.
My TDD is 160 units so there are times when I have to bolus up to 30 units although I try to avoid this by watching carbs carefully. I have found that if I try to bolus more than 10 units at once that I get some "tunneling" or leakage back to the surface. I have tried 4 different sites with 4 different infusion sets and always have the same issue. I have also tried giving this as a combo/dual wave and stretching 20 units out over an hour, but I end up with the same problem eventually during the bolus cycle.
I love the control that the pump gives me, but I must admit that this problem is really frustrating. I left MDI because I was very tired of 8 injections or so per day. I haven't been using the sites in particularly skinny areas as I have plenty of spots with some "extra padding" to choose from. I haven't experienced any bent cannulas or other issues that suggest a set or site problem.
Animas is sending me a few different sets to try, but I was hoping some of you might have some advice.
Do you have the pump set to the slow speed for bolus? Set your pump to deliver a extended bolus.
If you have only had the Ping for two weeks send it back and get a MM723 it will deliver a large bolus at a slower rate than a Ping plus it holds 290u....JMHO
Yes I do have it set to slow delivery. Even when I square wave it out I still get the tunneling leak.
I don't know where I read it (maybe this site? it was awhile ago), but someone said that the MM was better for people who require really large boluses. I second johnG's recommendation to get the MM. It will hold 30 units. Are you refilling your Ping every day? Those things only hold 200 units, right?
Although the issue of how much insulin you use daily and how much insulin the pump holds would favor Medtronic I do not think the suggestion that a MM pump would help with your absorption problems is correct.
I have also tried giving this as a combo/dual wave and stretching 20 units out over an hour, but I end up with the same problem eventually during the bolus cycle.
No MM bolus will take longer than I believe it is 15 minutes unless you program in an extended bolus. It may even be faster than that. So if an extended bolus for 1 hour when wearing the Ping caused absorption issues I would guess you would see the same problem using a MM.I think the only thing to try in this instance is exactly what you are trying: Switch infusion sets and areas you are putting them in. If you have an endo's office who will let you borrow a MM pump you might try and see?
Where are you placing the sets? In an area of high use/ scar tissue from shots? Might try a different site. I also would try inset 30 altering angles.
Thanks to all for your answers. I put in an angled Comfort set today, and no leakage so far. I'm hopeful that my luck will hold.


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Three people were arrested Saturday after police found 12.8 grams of methamphetamine, several firearms and various items of apparently stolen property at a residence in Temecula.
Officers served a search warrant at 3 p.m. Saturday at the residence on Atmore Court, police said. They found three handguns, two of which were reported stolen, and a high-powered rifle, along with laptop computers and other electronic equipment that appeared to be stolen.
Police said the officers were looking for owners of the property, which appeared to have been burglarized from homes and vehicles in and around Temecula. Residents who believe the property could be theirs should contact the Temecula Police Department at 951-696-3000.
Daisy Lusung, 30, and Rolan Lusung, 26, were arrested on suspicion of drug- and weapons-related crimes, police said. Melanie Scoggins, 25, also of Temecula, was arrested on suspicion of drug possession and being under the influence of drugs, police said.
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Nurse Bullying Complaints Surface at Bozeman Deaconess Hospital, Contract Negotiations Underway Today
Nurses at Bozeman Deaconess hospital have been picketing this week over what they see as unfairness in the workplace.
According to the Executive Director of the Montana Nurses Association, Lori Chovanak, The complaints center around a reduction in wages for certain nurses, new employees being offered a higher pay scale for the same work and skill level as current employees, and a culture of bullying that has created a hostile work environment.
"One particular nurse was basically brought to tears in front of patients and other nurses at a nurses station," says Montana Nurses Association Labor Representative Robin Haux. According to Haux, the nurse was not being disciplined, but was "addressed inappropriately" while on the floor.
Lori Chovanak and Robin Haux:
"The bullying issue isn't just at Deaconess either," says Haux. "It's a national issue, it's a Montana issue. What I've seen and what has been brought to my attention is nurses being disciplined, not in private but out in front of other nurses and patients." Haux says other nurses report feeling "beat down" by bullying in the workplace.
The Montana Nurses Association and Bozeman Deaconess hospital administration are in contract negotiations today (Feb. 20) and tomorrow over these issues. According to Haux, who recently spoke with an associate at the bargaining table, the hospital is "being responsive" to the complaints.
Representatives from MEA-MFT, other local unions, as well as nurses from Washington and Ohio came to Bozeman to join the picket line on Tuesday
Chovanak says around 250 people showed up to picket. She also said that new training regarding workplace bullying is one of the items on the negotiation agenda.


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Friday, Jan. 28, 2005 | 8:51 a.m.
By his own admission, Jordan Cohen didn't get much accomplished Monday.
"I took it easy all day and slept," the 34-year-old Las Vegan said. "I was pretty tired."
Little wonder. Cohen began playing his drums at 7 p.m. Sunday and didn't stop until around 3 a.m.
His marathon session began at Luxor, where Cohen a member of the Blue Man Group production company performed from a loft high above the stage.
After stripping off his glow-in-the-dark costume, Cohen drove to the MGM Grand's Studio 54, where he kicked off a midnight show with local improvisational band Uberschall.
A strenuous schedule, to be sure, but hardly unusual for the men of Uberschall.
All seven of the group's core members are, or have been, in the Blue Man Group's Las Vegas cast, meaning all have served double, or even triple, duty in a single night.
Founded in 2000, the same year the Blue Man show opened at Luxor, Uberschall began as a creative outlet for several of the company's musicians.
"I knew I had to do something outside (Blue Man) to create a balance artistically," Elvis Lederer, one of Uberschall's founders, said.
"And Blue Man lets us do it because if you do other stuff outside, it brings a fresh perspective back to the show, and it keeps the show fresh for us."
Over the years, Uberschall's stature has grown markedly. Although the band's free-form music remains largely an underground phenomenon, Southern Nevadans in the know recognize it as one of the most original concepts in town.
Last year Uberschall raised its profile considerably with the advent of "Open Forum" nights, monthly events at Studio 54 in MGM Grand that bring together the band, DJs and dancers and acrobats from a variety of Strip productions in a live setting. Admission is free for locals.
Uberschall also continues its long-standing tradition at Double Down Saloon (4640 Paradise Road), performing free midnight shows at the club on the last Sunday of each month.
Supersonic start
Lederer worked in the Blue Man Group band in Boston, Chicago and New York before relocating to Las Vegas five years ago.
Not long after arriving in town, the German-born guitarist booked a gig for his side project at now-defunct Cafe Espresso Roma. Lederer had one small problem, however.
"I had the gig before I had the band," he recalled.
So Lederer recruited fellow Blue Man band members, and named the resulting group after the German word for "supersonic."
Uberschall bassist Aki Ishihara, another founding member, says he was immediately drawn to Lederer's concept.
"I have so much energy. I have to channel it in different directions," said Ishihara, who, like Lederer, plays guitar, zither and Chapman stick (another string instrument) for Blue Man Group.
"Blue Man is my primary gig, and I like being in the company. But with Uberschall, everything is improvised, so it's a totally different outlet for me to have fun."
Along with Lederer, Ishihara and Cohen, Uberschall's core members are drummers/percussionists Jeff Tortora, Jeffrey Brown and Tim Alexander and guitarist Mike Burns.
Tortora and Burns are both in the Blue Man band.
Brown, who once played the Blue Man role at the Luxor show, lives in Los Angeles, where he is pursuing a career in acting. He drives in as often as possible for Uberschall's performances.
And Alexander? Well, when he's not driving into town with Brown from his Los Angeles home, the former Blue Man band member plays with his "other band," the recently reunited Primus.
So what keeps the California duo coming back for free-to-the-public Uberschall performances?
In a word, freedom.
"I've played with Les Claypool and his Frog Brigade and with Primus and there was a lot of improv with those bands, but with Uberschall there's no structure," Alexander said. "I've never seen it totally wide open like this."
When Alexander or Brown are unavailable, Uberschall either strips down from four to three drummers, or brings in one of its satellite members.
Those frequent contributors include Matthew Kriemelman, another Blue Man musician, and Todd Waetzig, a drum trainer for the Blue Man company.
One song
Perhaps the most striking aspect of Uberschall's approach is that the group begins each show with no idea what it might play. Not just without a set list. Without songs.
Or maybe it's one giant song.
"The joke is that we have one song, and in a sense, yeah, we do," Cohen said with a chuckle.
Uberschall's sets don't even generally start with all seven musicians perched at their instruments. When the mood strikes, one begins playing, signaling to the others that the time has come for Uberschall to begin.
"Sometimes a drummer will start. Sometimes I'll start. Sometimes (Lederer) will start," Ishihara said. "You figure out what the tempo is, what key it's in, and you go from there."
Although the term "group improvisation" might conjure images of jam bands such as Phish or the Grateful Dead, Uberschall takes a much different tack.
"We're not a jam band in the sense that somebody solos forever," Lederer said. "It's more like the idea of African drumming, that through repetition you create an intensity. And like a DJ, you move from one idea to another."
Tortora explained that depending on the night, the venue, or the crowd, the direction Uberschall might head can vary greatly.
"We could do a very heavy, aggressive set, or we could do a very surreal, Pink Floyd-type set or we could do a tribal, techno-type set," Tortora said. "We just try to listen to each other and start a vibe, create a mood."
The word "listen" comes up often in conversations with Uberschall members, who are unified in their belief that the band sounds best when the musicians pay close attention to one another onstage.
"On a good night, everyone is pretty responsive to each other and it's seamless," Cohen said. "We have a musical conversation."
Alexander agreed. "It's about listening, listening to everyone. Sometimes a guitar player might start changing something, and if you don't listen, you can get left behind."
Added Brown: "With four drummers, if I'm not feeling it, I just stop and listen."
Ishihara described the concept as "challenging."
"It constantly challenges my brain," he said. "At every moment, I'm thinking, 'What can I do? What can I play?' Most of the time I really try to lock in with the drummers and make it groovy, something you can dance to. That's when I'm most happy, when people are bobbing their heads."
Uber future
Though Uberschall sells live CDs from past performances at its shows, the band has no plans to record in the studio.
And although the group has traveled for occasional out-of-state gigs -- such as a Sundance Film Festival rave party in 2003 -- the members' Blue Man Group responsibilities prevent full-scale touring.
So where does Uberschall go from here?
Several members mentioned an interest in film soundtracks, for which the band's percussive "wall of sound" approach would seem ideally suited.
Mostly, however, Uberschall's musicians sounded content with the group's current role, that of local late-night sensation.
After all, word of mouth has gotten Uberschall this far. Why mess with success?
"I've never seen a band go so far by doing so little," Brown said. "All we do is show up for the gigs, and that's one of the reasons it's so fun. There's no pressure. It's just a nice release for us."


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The Travis Ranch Elementary School Student Council is collecting Pennies for Patients for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. A school assembly was held by the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society to teach students in kindergarten through fifth grade about blood cancers and the need to find a cure. The school set a goal to raise $1,600 by collecting spare change and donations.
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Valadez students tour medical center
Students at Valadez Middle School Academy recently visited UCI Medical Center for a tour hosted by Dr. Marco Angulo. During their visit, students participated in simulated surgical procedures and suture training. Doctors and medical professionals also spoke about career paths in the health industry. The UCI Latino Medical Association hosted lunch for the 45 Advancement Via Individualized Determination (AVID) students who attended.
This was the second time the students visited UCI Medical Center. Last summer, while students were preparing to return to school, a group of Valadez students was selected by UCI Medical Center to get a behind-the-scenes tour and learn about the medical profession. The day was so successful, Principal Minerva Gandara noted later, that when students were asked what they wanted to be when they grew up, they replied in unison, "Doctors."
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Golden's students engage in word play
Golden Elementary School's fourth- and fifth-grade students will perform a fun musical about idioms, similes, metaphors, prepositions and figurative language on Feb.26. The show, titled "Alice's Adventures With Idioms," will be performed during the school day at 8:30 and 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. There will also be a night performance for parents at 7 p.m.
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Brookhaven's Science Night fun for families
Brookhaven families recently enjoy a fun-filled Science Night. The evening started with yummy food from B&C Burgers and time for families and staff to socialize. After dinner, families enjoyed exploring magnetic forces and looking at electrical circuits to determine what objects are good conductors and insulators. There was also an exhibit about the science behind flight, parachutes and objects that float or sink. Those who checked out the exhibit had the opportunity to build paper airplanes, make aluminum-foil boats and design napkin parachutes.
In addition, students also had fun exploring fingerprints, water cohesion and surface tension.
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El Dorado students win video contest
Two El Dorado High video production students and the school's advanced class won the online music video contest on thepremise.com. Each week, the website announces a general theme, or a premise, for an online contest. The premise could be an action, event or scene description. The public then votes on the videos submitted that week.
The winning video by Golden Hawks Avery Lord and Ian Kolaja parodied Katy Perry's "Dark Horse." The winners will split $1,000 and the school's video program will receive $1,000.
You can watch the winners at thepremise.com/high-school-video-challenge-winners/
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DURING THE 1980s biologists considered the gray whale a rare visitor to the Beaufort Sea, along Alaska and northwestern Canada's Arctic Coast. The entrapment of three gray whales in sea ice near Barrow, Alaska, in October 1988 made international news and was the focus of a spectacular rescue involving a Russian icebreaker brought in to create an escape route for the whales. This event made the discovery of gray whale calls on a recorder deployed in the western Beaufort throughout the winter of 2003 to 2004 all the more extraordinary. The calls provided clear evidence that at least a few of these usually migratory mammals had remained in the Arctic rather than swim south during the cold months. Scientists say that such altered behavior may be a sign of changing ecological conditions in the Far North.
Global warming probably ranks high among the agents of change, transforming all of the world's oceans but showing its most extreme effects at the Earth's poles. The surface area of summer Arctic sea ice has declined by more than 30 percent during the past 30 years. Some scientists predict that by 2040 the Arctic will be entirely ice-free in summer. Last March, researchers from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography reported that, because of summer sea-ice declines, the masses of phytoplankton that form the base of the Arctic marine food web are, in places, blooming nearly two months earlier than usual.
Such disruptions could ripple throughout the Arctic's biological community, affecting everything from the plankton to whales. As a result, the study of whales is becoming increasingly important to understanding ecological change in the Arctic. Because they are among the most closely studied whales on the planet, grays are "ideal ecosystem sentinels," says Sue Moore, a federal biologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in Seattle who has studied the species for the past three decades. By watching how the animals shift their distribution and behavior, including migration time and food choices, scientists can use them to track changes in whale habitat, she says.
Two gray whale populations live in the Pacific—one off the coast of Asia and another off the North American coast. (A North Atlantic population was likely hunted to extinction by the 1700s.) Only about 130 individuals remain in the Asian population, but the North American population, which biologists estimate at roughly 20,000, is a U.S. endangered-species success story. After nineteenth century commercial whalers found their breeding lagoons in Baja California, Mexico, gray whales were reduced to such a degree that the League of Nations banned large-scale hunting in 1934 and the International Whaling Commission followed suit in 1949. Still the species' plight continued, and in 1973 the United States listed the gray whale as an endangered species. Finally, the population began to recover, and in 1994 the species became the first marine mammal ever delisted. Today, gray whale counts are going up by about 3 percent yearly.
Until recently, scientists thought that the general cycle of the gray whale's year was fairly well defined. Males would begin migrating north from Mexico in February; females, after giving birth to a single calf, would leave as late as May. Migrating whales would spend two to three months swimming to the Arctic, a one-way trip that might extend for almost 7,000 miles, perhaps the longest migration of any mammal. In the Arctic, they would gorge on crustaceans, among other things, bulking up for the start of the southward migration in October. They would spend autumn returning to Mexico, where the cycle would begin anew. But now, Moore says, in the face of climate variability gray whales are altering their habits.
Researchers noticed a departure from convention in 2001, when they reconstructed census data from three decades of whale counts along the California coast. After 1980, they found, gray whales started to delay their southward migration by nearly a week. During the past 10 years, the whales started to turn up in unusual places at unexpected times, feeding, for example, year-round off Alaska's Kodiak Island. Whether these changes are due to expanding populations, warming climate or both remains uncertain, though biologists recognize that the whale's range expansion is coinciding with the ice decline. "Gray whales don't like sea ice," says Dave Rugh, who studied the species for NOAA for 34 years before retiring last fall. "So now that there's less of it in the summers when they're in the Arctic, they have more options, more territory to use."
If gray whales become permanent Arctic residents, they could have significant effects on the rare bowhead whale, which lives in the Arctic year round. The only baleen whale found exclusively in the Arctic, the bowhead is well adapted to waters regularly covered by sea ice. Rugh recalls flying over miles of Arctic ice that had no visible cracks. On the ground, however, he found where bowheads had used their marvelously thick skulls to raise up ice 2 or 3 feet thick, creating air pockets where they could breathe. The bowhead is another endangered-species success story—the population has increased from fewer than 8,000 animals in the 1970s to perhaps 12,000 today.
In the Arctic, Moore says, the gray whale often feeds on the ocean bottom by suctioning up crustaceans that live in seafloor sediments, while the bowhead strains the water column for copepods and other types of zooplankton. However, the gray is behaviorally flexible and sometimes feeds in the water column, too. With seasonal declines in sea ice, bowheads may find themselves sharing more and more habitat and food with gray whales. Because gray whales can feed anywhere from the seafloor to the water's surface, they may be better able to adapt to shifts in the marine ecosystem associated with climate change. "They can adjust their habits for where they're living or to changing conditions," Rugh says. "With a warming climate, they might actually have more options." Less resilient species may have a harder time adapting. "In the Arctic," he says, "the conditions are changing too fast for evolution to keep up."
Seattle journalist Eric Wagner's also wrote about his adventure with gyrfalcons researcher Travis Booms to Alaska's Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge.
In Alaska's Arctic, The Heat Is On
Halting global warming is a high priority among NWF's attempts to protect wildlife across the planet, particularly in the polar regions, where the impact of climate change hits hardest. NWF is seeking federal legislation that will create green jobs and clean energy and reduce the pollutants that fuel global warming. NWF's Alaska field office offers advice on making homes and offices more energy efficient and is spearheading efforts to keep oil development out of habitat critical to bowheads and other whales. For more on NWF and global warming, visit www.nwf.org/globalwarming. For specific Alaska activities, go to www.nwf.org/Alaska.


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Suspended in the air, the rat rages. It's time for some torture. This was the introduction to Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor's new trailer, Meet Rattbag. Rattbag is a member of Sauron's orc army and, as the trailer reveals, its chief backstabber.
Based on the trailer, it appears that Rattbag was saved from execution by the game's hero, Talion, and is now bound to assist him in his quest to destroy Sauron. With Talion's help he goes from "an orc that snivels and whines to a mighty war chief."
The trailer details Rattbag's ascent through the orc ranks and that he is Talion's liaison in the front lines of Sauron's army. Rattbag will help conspire with Talion to bring his enemies down, aside from providing some well-timed comic relief. Rattbag has been featured in the game's previous trailers, but now the developers reveal that Ratbag will play an integral part in the story. He is also the game's only pre-written enemy, with all of Talion's other foes to be randomly generated in each game.
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Aren't hybrids all the rage?
One of my favorite fantasy offseason pastimes is to think about various potential league structures. An economist will argue that people's behaviors are largely determined by incentives. So it stands to reason that the way you build incentives into a system will influence both a party's willingness to enter such a system and the behavior he/she will display once engaged. I like to tinker with these systems and think about ways to promote healthy, competitive fantasy behavior. This week, I present for your consideration a high stakes H2H-roto hybrid with both weekly and end-of-season payouts. I'll explain how I conceive it working shortly, but first let me briefly mention what the design is meant to achieve.
This design intends to accomplish two things. First, the weekly payout system is an attempt to proactively discourage deadbeating. A team that is statistically "out of it" can still recoup "units" on a weekly basis. Deadbeating is a problem in every league. Some might think that simply making a league high stakes takes care of deadbeating, either because of the size of the prize or the selection bias of entry, but such is not the case. Some may think that high-caliber owners never deadbeat, but my take is that deadbeating is not just an issue of absolutes, but one of degree. I've never deadbeated in my life, but I've occasionally been non-competitive in leagues, and quite frankly when in this situation, I'm just not as aggressive and attentive as I normally am. Maybe an owner will rotate players regularly, but not really monitor the wire with usual vigilance, for example. Weekly payouts are an attempt to incentivize being as engaged as possible at all times.
The second thing this design attempts to accomplish is to up the willingness of participants to play for higher stakes. In my oldest league, the league is about two-thirds deep with really high-quality owners. The remaining guys are certainly not pushovers, but they rarely win. By most standards, our entry fee (which is tuned in four-year cycles, escalating each year and resetting in the fifth, in correlation with the end-of-keeper cycles and a full redraft) is pretty high. Some of us want to bump it up even further, but we are often unable to push those increases through at draft time given that we need near unanimous agreement on entry fee set-up or amendments. The potential of having additional ways to win money often appeals to those who don't want to put a big enchilada on the line on a 25-week tournament of merit. Consolation prizes make for good carrots.
So, here's how I would see this league working. The league is scored in a H2H format with weekly scoring periods. Owners compete against each other directly in the standings, but compete against the whole field for the weekly scoring prizes. The best individual team total in each category each week earns a small payout. In other words, the weekly categorical prizes are awarded on a roto model, but the season standings are calculated on a H2H model. There are no ties; the would-be prize for all pushes gets rolled into the regular-season champion payout. There are no weekly payouts in the playoffs.
Of course, to fund weekly payouts you'd need considerable entry fees from each participant. Here's how the league might work at a 250 signaro entry fee:
Teams: 12
Entry: 250
Total Pot: 3,000
Categories: 12
Per category weekly payout: 5
Total weeks (non-playoff): 22
Total category payouts: 1320 (minus roll-overs for ties)
Regular season champ and runner up payouts: 450, 230 (plus roll-over ties, split evenly)
Postseason champ and runner up payouts: 650, 350
Basically, I just chose to pay each category out at 5 units per week, and then divided the remaining pot into five shares, dumping two or them into the regular-season payout (since they'll also get the roll-overs) and the other three into the playoff pool. I then simply split those shares two to one.
Obviously, there are myriad ways to amend this. You could raise the weekly payout to 6 per category. You can play with few categories for higher value or more categories for lesser value. You can award the regular- and post-season finishers with different weights. You can pay out third place in either or both the regular and postseason.
I will issue a word of caution about tweaking though. I did not pull the numbers I used above out of thin air. When you create a new model, you have to think through how people might try to beat that model, where that model is susceptible to exploitation. For example, it is fairly easy to build a team that will win certain categories outright almost, if not every, week. The easiest way to do this would be to build a team that dominates saves and steals. Note that in the above model, even an owner who succeeds absolutely at such an attempt will not even recoup his/her entry fee.
Remember, setting up systems is all about incentives. You want to create a system that incentivizes the league to generally play the same way, for the same thing. Sure, in a given week a team may choose to just chase a weekly payout or two, but that is rational and isn't corrosive to the system as a whole. Under the proposed system and payout structure, each owner is encouraged to compete the same way they would without the weekly payouts because the real profitability is in winning long term.
One minor problem with this design is that it requires some manual bookkeeping. Really, we're talking about 5 minutes a week here. Set up a spreadsheet with each of the teams, look through the match-ups at week's end and record the best overall totals in each category. If you like this idea but don't want to be the bookkeeper, you could either offer a small credit to the bookkeeper by taking, say, 50 units out of the pot to compensate him/her or you could stipulate that whoever volunteers to do the bookkeeping gets to choose his draft slot (if you are doing a draft league). Another interesting idea would be to declare that the payouts from the in-season ties go to the bookkeeper. I'm not sure how many ties you'd get, so I don't know what this ties future would actually be worth.
I'm interested in your takes on this model (it should work as an auction or a draft). I'm considering trying turn one of my leagues into this type of design (I doubt I'll get up to 250 entry fee in its first year, but I am looking for a way to raise the stakes in that league). Also, since I get ideas for unconventional league designs fairly frequently, let me know if you find it worthwhile for me to write them up for discussion.
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Sounds eerily familiar to something I have been designing and writing about at FBJ this past year. Check out my model at my own site here:
I went into a similar discussion at Fantasy Ball Junkie.
We're thinking about putting the league in action, and I'd like to have some solid competition. Shoot me an email if you're interested. I have revamped the rules somewhat, added some fun strategical portions, and I can email you the rules if you really are interested.
PS-The roto AND H2H model sounds like an interesting strategical point…might make for some interesting decision making for winning this week or taking the Roto scoring at the end…
Best league I've ever played in is Rotisserie.
Points are as follows:
TB: 1 pt per base
R: 1 pt
RBI: 1 pt
SB: 1 pt
W: 18 pt
SA: 8 pt
K: 1 pt
CG: 5 pt
SHO: 5 pt
NOHIT: 10 pt
Bi-Weekly payouts.
All points are reset at the All-Star break, making for 2 separate seasons: 1st half and 2nd half.


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One man is under arrest and another is being sought in a home invasion robbery at a Bronson home on May 10, according to a Levy County Sheriff's Office press release.
Patrick Shawn McLaughlin, 45, is being sought by deputies, while a man described as his partner Aaron Michael Miller, 31, was arrested shortly after the incident and jailed on charges of home invasion robbery and depriving a victim of 911. Miller's bond is $500,000.
The incident started before 11:30 p.m.when two men entered a home occupied by a husband and wife, saying they were there to collect a debt owed by the wife. When the husband attempted to get out of bed to retrieve his wallet he was puched back onto the bed by McLaughlin and they fought. The wife broke up the fight and demanded the two intruders leave or she would call police. McLaughlin grabbed the woman and took two cell phones away from her while Miller located and took the husband's wallet, according to the release.
The two left the home and fled, but Miller was later located and arrested in Bronson.
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"We're going to have earthquake maps so the public can look at the map and see where their home is in proximity to fault lines. Also where they are in proximity to flood zones," said Emergency Planning Coordinator Susan Roseberry.
"We're in the process of updating our current mitigation plan so we're looking at strategies for strengthening the infrastructure."
Roseberry said the countywide effort is designed to provide residents with an awareness of the potential hazards in the area and also to garner input on how the county can best be prepared.
"We want to get the public aware of the hazards that surround them here in the county and provide them with methods of strengthening their homes and mitigating some of these hazards," she stated.
The county, 13 cities and 27 special purpose districts are working with a consultant to either create a new mitigation plan or update their current one.
Four public meetings have been set up around the county. Danville residents are encouraged to attend the Aug. 11 meeting in the San Ramon Community Center from 6-9 p.m.
Funding for the plan comes from a grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The grant is designed to help the county develop a multi-hazard mitigation plan. The plan will enable the county and the cities to take steps to help reduce or eliminate long-term risks to life, property and the environment.
Contra Costa County currently has a plan, but in order to get money from FEMA, the plan must be updated and the cities and the state must have their own mitigation plans as well.
Roseberry said the most recent iteration of the mitigation plan for the county was written in 2007. She added that some aspects of the plan, such as potential flood zones, have changed and that needs to be accounted for in the new plan.
According to the Office of Emergency Services, an earthquake on the Hayward-Rodgers fault measuring 7.1 could cause $3.5 billion in damages to structures and their contents and displace almost 1,300 households in Contra Costa County.
Roseberry said that making people aware of the dangers is one step toward getting residents to take the necessary steps to make their houses safer and more resistant to natural disaster.
"We're trying to make our county more resilient in the case of a natural hazard," she explained. "It's better to mitigate before an event than after."
Once the meetings are completed, the county will continue to work on its plan. Roseberry said the plan must be approved by the Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors, California Emergency Management Agency and FEMA. Once approved, the county, cities and specials districts will have access to FEMA funds in the case of a disaster.


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Airlines That Go From Phoenix to Hawaii
When you're ready to trade in the dusty, arid climate of Phoenix for the tropical beaches, volcanoes and rain forests of Hawaii, catch a six-hour flight across the Pacific to the islands. Non-stop flights travel directly from Phoenix Sky Harbor International to several islands, while additional airlines fly from Phoenix with a stopover in cities such as Los Angeles, San Francisco or Seattle.
US Airways
In 2005, US Airways began scheduling daily flights from Phoenix to more Hawaiian airports than any other mainland airline, including Honolulu, Maui, the Big Island, Kauai and Hilo. Flights depart mornings and afternoons, with some red-eye return flights. The airline flies to the islands in 190-passenger Boeing 757s and uses Phoenix as a hub for connecting flights from the eastern U.S. The majority of United Airlines and Continental Airlines flights to Hawaii operate as US Airways flights. Choose from two categories of tickets: Coach (non-refundable and refundable) and First Class (non-refundable and refundable).
Hawaiian Airlines
Hawaiian Airlines schedules one non-stop flight from Phoenix to Honolulu daily. The six-and-a-half-hour flight departs in the morning, with return flights scheduled in the early afternoons. The airline, which ranked No. 1 for overall quality in the Annual Airline Quality Rating study in 2008 and 2009, offers three categories of seats: Hawaiian Coach, with complimentary meals, snack and soft drinks; Hawaiian Coach Plus, which adds two free checked bags, waived change fee and a 25 percent inter-island travel discount; and Hawaiian First Class, with personal media players, award-winning meal service and complimentary cocktails.
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Delta, in conjuction with Sky West, offers more than two dozen flights to Hawaii each day. Choose to fly to Honolulu, Hilo, the Big Island, Kauai and Maui. However, no direct flights are offered; the flights stop in Salt Lake City, Los Angeles, Seattle or San Francisco, with some flights having one layover and others two, before reaching the island chain. Most stops require a plane change. Flights vary in length from eight to 13 hours.
Alaska Airlines
Alaska Airlines' mainland hub is in Seattle, so all flights from Phoenix route through The Emerald City on their way to Hawaii. Schedules from Seattle to Hawaii include trips to Kauai, Maui, Kona and Honolulu. Inter-city flights include routing to Molokai and Hilo. More than a dozen flights leave each day for Hawaiian airports, making the trip on Boeing 737s. Total trip times, including layovers, range from 11 to 17 hours.
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Contributors James P. Blair and Pritt Vesilind are longtime National Geographic photographers.
Gardens are ready-made objects of beauty, but photographing gardens takes some careful crafting. Find something significant to catch the eye—a figure, a prominent physical feature, a pond, or a splash of color (as in the photos opposite and above). Remember the rule of thirds as you frame your composition and make your choices. Draw the eye to your chosen point of interest by using leading lines.
Choose lenses carefully for garden photography. It's tempting to use a wide-angle lens to take in a wide swath of the scene, but the disadvantage of that choice is that everything within a wide shot is usually in focus, so the images can be flat unless composed dynamically.
—Telephoto lenses isolate the details of nature. Often something small says as much or more about a place than a wide view.
—Find an element that interrupts a pattern. It might be one tree trunk of a different color or a protruding rock that breaks the symmetry of concentric circles in the water.
—Patterns can be less obvious, too. Blocks of color, either the same hue or different ones of about equal tonal value, can lend depth.
When shooting food, what matters most is that it should look fresh. The easiest photos are often the ones you get at outdoor markets, where street vendors may be cooking up sizzling local delicacies with ample sunshine to light your composition. To photograph food indoors, you'll need to plan ahead and be ready to shoot quickly once the food is ready.
—Plan the entire composition. A simple background and just a few props, if any, make the food stand out the best.
—Photograph food near a window, if possible, where the soft, indirect light makes it look the most natural.
—Try brushing a little vegetable oil on any dull-looking food surface to add shine—a trick of the trade from professional food photographers.
—Select colorful food items, and avoid whites and browns if you can.
Life at Home
Being in the right place at the right time and having close-up, intimate access to your family is what home photography is all about. To get started, think carefully about what each member of your family likes to do. Does your daughter obsess over puzzles? Does your son do his homework at the kitchen table? Those moments don't last forever. Seize the opportunities.
Look for the places in your house with the best light. Keep your camera set on auto-exposure and autofocus. Then when someone does something interesting, you'll be ready.
—Avoid flash indoors. Nothing wrecks a subtly lit scene like the harsh, direct light of a flash. To compensate, set a high ISO and keep a steady hand for the lower shutter speed.
—When you can, shoot outdoors when the sun is close to the horizon or the sky is hazy or cloudy. Harsh midday sun makes people squint.
—Find the best background. When you see a good subject, turn in a complete circle and look for the best direction from which to shoot.
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Since 1992, and under the overall direction of the Fritz Bauer Institute, film archivists and historians and Holocaust researchers have been collaborating with CineGraph e.V., Hamburgisches Centrum für Filmforschung, the Deutsches Filminstitut ? DIF in Frankfurt am Main and the Deutsches Filmmuseum in Frankfurt am Main on the task of indexing and documenting films dealing with the history and impact of the Holocaust. A database of information on the respective film documents is being compiled within the framework of the Cinematography of the Holocaust project. [German and English]
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Castleton, NY, United States, 2007/05/04 - Folsom Technologies has developed a line of hydromechanical continuously variable transmissions (CVT) that are configurable either as a standalone CVT or as the CVT component of a hydraulic hybrid system.
Folsom Technologies hydromechanical CVTs offer infinite ratio coverage from full reverse through neutral to full forward and, because they incorporate a high efficiency hydraulic pump and motor, they can form the core element of a hydraulic hybrid drivetrain.
At the 2007 New York International Auto Show, the company displayed its 50/100hp CityCar CVT. This unit is designed to go into passenger vehicles of up to 100hp but, because of its compact size and weight, it is also suitable for application in small city cars of 50 hp.
The company is also developing the second-generation of a 350hp full-size rear wheel drive (RWD) passenger vehicle unit that has been specifically designed to be integrated into a hydraulic hybrid system. Both this and the CityCar transmissions are currently undergoing in-vehicle development and are being used for technology demonstration.
Instead of using commercial hydraulic units, Folsom designed its own hydrostatic pump/motor, focusing not just on efficiency but also on sizethe transmissions are designed to be a drop-in alternatives for existing transmissionsas well as cost.
For a hydraulic hybrid application, the CVT needs to be paired with a set of accumulators and flow valves. For passenger car applications, Folsom sees its transmissions enabling mild, parallel hybrid functions: regenerative braking, launch assists, acceleration assist and engine starting (for a start-stop function), in addition to normal CVT operation.
Increasing vehicle fuel efficiency and emissions reduction is a high priority and many technologies are becoming available to facilitate these goals, said Lawrence Folsom, president of Folsom Technologies. Hybrid vehicles have proven success in increasing vehicle efficiency and hydraulic hybrids offer significant benefits over electric hybrids as they can recuperate a greater percentage of the energy normally lost during braking. Hydraulic braking energy recovery, which is an available feature of our CVT, offers significant gains in fuel economy and reductions in emissions, as well as greatly reduced brake wear. For operating duty cycles that have frequent start/stops (such as taxis, school buses, garbage haulers, etc.) the fuel savings can be greater than 50%. Combining the known benefits of a continuously variable transmission with hydraulic energy recovery has the potential to maximize vehicle efficiency gains. Our hydromechanical CVT combines two major vehicle improvement technologies into one compact package.
The control logic for the different applications is currently being developed by a Tier 1 supplier, according to the company. A number of different CVT applications are currently being developed by Folsom Technologies, including one for a Class III truck, and they expect the first transmission will reach production status in about 3 years. All CVTs are custom designed and are configured to be drop-in replacements for the vehicle's original transmission.
In addition to highway and off-highway vehicle applications, Folsom Technologies has configured their hydromechanical CVTs for the lawn and garden equipment and other industries. The ability to change ratio seamlessly from full reverse through neutral to full forward without the need for a clutch results in a compact and cost efficient system, said Lawrence Folsom. It offers the excellent creep characteristics of hydrostatics yet has very high efficiency throughout its ratio range.
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– Embedded below is footage from the WrestleMania XXX announced held earlier today featuring Vince McMahon & Mayor Mitch Landrieu.
– The Rock commented on his match against CM Punk at the Elimination Chamber pay-per-view on Sunday, writing on Twitter, "@CMPunk Laughing. Your misery loves company. Enjoyed beating your ass. Twice."
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We drove to Iowa City yesterday, to have Rosh Hashanah with my family. I took the kids out of school and told their teachers it's the Jewish New Year so the kids will miss school. I said it in front of the kids so I can teach them that we take off a day for the Jewish high holidays.
The truth is, though, is that today is the day. Last night was the first night and today is the first day. But I can't take them out of school today because, well, first of all, what would we do? There are no other Jews where we live and we can last only so long on apples and honey before we get sick.
So I sent the kids to school. And, anyway, I have a meeting. I told Ed, the CEO, that I can't go to the meeting because it's on Rosh Hashanah. He said fine, because this is why he's a great CEO. He knows when to push and when not to.
But then, it turns out, that the company is opening an office in Washington, DC. This is not a huge surprise to me. Ed is in Washington, DC in some sort of huge estate which I haven't seen, but I have heard talk of an uppercase and lowercase balcony, which makes me think he's not moving to Madison in this lifetime.
So we're in the next phase of the company and it's scary and exciting and I'm already doing so many new things that the idea of opening a new office in DC, and having a meeting about it, and me not showing up because of Rosh Hashanah is all too much for me to think about. Also, I have to always make sure that Ed likes me because I think I am hard to like. Maybe not in little blog post snippets, but in long meetings I am hard to like, and Ed still likes me, I think. Because every time I write a desperate paragraph like this about my need to be liked Ed sends me an email saying he likes me. Which normal people would not need to receive, but I need to receive and Ed knows that which is why, as I said, he's a great CEO.
So it's Rosh Hashanah and I am driving to a meeting in Milwaukee with Ryan Paugh for the meeting. And I'm over the bad-Jew part of things because I figure that now that I live on a farm I have to feed the animals, so I fed the chicks, too.
Here's a cool thing about the chicks: we got them via US Mail. The hatchery we bought from, Murray McMurry, hatches them on Monday. And in a normal hatching situation, chicks don't hatch at once, and the mom doesn't get up until they all hatch. So chicks can sit under their mom for up to two days while their siblings hatch. Which means the hatchery can put new chicks in a box they arrive two days later in good health.
Taking care of our chicks doesn't count as work, right? I don't know. Some good Jew will comment about this nuance in Jewish law. But I think feeding the chicks is like feeding my kids. Rosh Hashanah is not a time to starve. (That's Yom Kippur.)
Speaking of Jewish, the plumber who installed my trying-to-be-steampunk kitchen sink had a last name of Goebbels. And I said, "What?!!? What???" And guess what? He had never even heard of Joseph Goebbels. I didn't realize that anyone had not heard of him, and at first I thought, "Darlington people are so sheltered." And then I thought, Wait. No. I am so sheltered because I didn't know people like this exist.
So of course, I think no one will think sinister thoughts about me hiring a babysitter so I could go to Milwaukee to work on Rosh Hashanah.
I am nervous that everything is out of kilter today. It's scary that I'm actually living on a farm. And it's scary that my company is moving away from me. Yes, it's good that my company is opening an office in DC because the company is getting bigger and more ambitious, which is what I want for the company. But I know that I am not good at leading a company doing such things.
And come to think of it, I know myself pretty well. I know that I don't like working on Rosh Hashanah, but I do my part for the meeting and I take care of the chicks and today is an exception I feel okay about. I am starting to think that I am not as lost as I thought.


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Metal News for June 2, 2007
Last updated on September 21, 2017 at 3:22 PM ET
We post metal news every day, throughout the day, covering thousands of metal bands including underground and unsigned bands. You are currently browsing the news archive, but you can also find news by band.
6 news articles posted on this day.
Gorgoroth Plan More South American Tour Dates
In addition to the already announced shows in Brazil in September, Gorgoroth has now confirmed some shows in Equador, Peru, Chile, Colombia and Argentina. Exact tour dates will be forthcoming.
Here are the band's latest confirmed shows:
Jul 20 2007 11:45P Støperiet i Tønsberg Tønsberg
Aug 10 2007 12:45P brutal assault open air Jaromer
Aug 11 2007 12:00P party san
Sep 7 2007 7:30P metropolis munich
Sep 8 2007 12:00P Hellflame Festival, Osnabrück Osnabrück
Sep 13 2007 11:00P Campinas SP Hammer Rock Bar Campinas
Sep 14 2007 11:00P SP Hangar 110 São Paulo
Sep 15 2007 11:00P MG Lapa Multishow Belo Horizonte
Sep 16 2007 11:00P RJ t.b.a. Rio de Janeiro
Sep 17 2007 11:00P RS Bar Opinião Porto Alegre
Did Nightwish Steal Their New Single, "Eva"
According to Finland's MTV3, the new NIGHTWISH single "Eva" is currently under investigation by Teosto, the Finnish RIAA equivalent whose task it is to promote the rights of composers, lyricists, arrangers and music publishers, and to strengthen the diversity of Finnish composition. The chorus of the song is allegedly very similar to a track called "Whirlpool" by Jukka Reinivuo, a relatively unknown Finnish artist. In fact, the similarities are so great that allegations of plagiarism have already been thrown around.
NIGHTWISH keyboardist and composer Tuomas Holopainen has denied the accusation, saying that he just heard about this today (May 30) and that he has never heard the song or the artist in question. Holopainen went on to add that he was interested in hearing the track first before commenting further.
Listen to both songs on YouTube:
Damage Control Confirm Bloodstock Appearance
Metal rock 'n' roll outlaws Damage Control, featuring Chris Slade (drums AC/DC), Pete Way (bass UFO), Spike (vocals Quireboys), and Robin George (guitar Robert Plant, Thin Lizzy, Magnum), has been confirmed as "very special guests" to perform at Bloodstock 2007 on Thursday 16 August. Bloodstock will be the band's only UK show this year. Damage Control just released their self-titled debut album on Cargo Records.
Bloodstock Festival
The UK's PREMIER Metal Festival
Thu 16, Fri 17 & Sat 18 August 2007
Static-X Cannibalizes Starland Ballroom
Saturday, May 5, 2007, I saw Static-X for my third time at the Starland Ballroom of Sayreville, NJ. This time was different from all the others because this time, I got to meet Static-X. Well, ok, I'm exaggerating a bit; I got to interview Tony Campos from Static-X, the bass player for those who don't know. The interview was an amazing opportunity for me and was a great way to start off an awesome show. After the interview, which took place at about 7:00pm, I headed into the venue just as the second opener was finishing. The band's name was Divinity Destroyed. More...
Gavin Harrison Wins Best Prog Drummer Award
Gavin Harrison, drummer for English alt-prog band Porcupine Tree has won Modern Drummer Magazine's readers' poll for "Best Progressive Drummer" ahead of Mike Portnoy of Dream Theatre. Portnoy has dominated the award from 1995 through 2006, and the results for 2007 will be printed in the July issue of the magazine, which comes out next week.
In other news, as recently reported, a 20-minute interview with Porcupine Tree's Steven Wilson, in which he explains the concepts behind the disturbing video clip for the bands' title track from their new album Fear of a Blank Planet, and discusses his views on modern life, can be viewed at this location.
Alchemist Complete New Album, Announce Tours
Alchemist have recently completed work on their upcoming album, Tripsis. Guitarist Adam Agius described the album as "The most consistently heavy album since Spiritech with all the Alchemist trade marks - psychedelic, atmospheric, packed with crushing riffs intertwined guitar melodies and groove. Tripsis is also the fastest album delivered by Alchemist with a few songs taking the Surfthrash sound to new heights." The album will be released in Australia in mid-July via Chatterbox Records, and will see an international release through Relapse in mid-September. Some track titles from Tripsis include "Wrapped in Guilt", "Degenerative Breeding", "Grasp The Air", "Substance for Shadow", and "Tongues and Knifes".
On July 21st, Alchemist will set off on a tour of Australia and New Zealand supporting the release of Tripsis, which will continue through to late August . The tour will start with an appearance at the first ever Abducted Metal fest (more info here) with a bunch of other big-name Australian metal and rock acts. Following this tour, the band will head through Europe in October, and that tour will begin with a headlining gig at the Prog Power fest in the Netherlands. The complete tour dates listing is to be made available shortly.
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Wanted: dairy farmer daughters
The Wadena County Dairy Association is seeking girls to represent the hard working farmers as the Wadena County Dairy Princesses. These girls will serve as goodwill ambassadors for the dairy industry by appearing at various promotional events and speaking with consumers and the media. Eligible candidates will also receive a reimbursement for their time and appearances at most events.
To be eligible, a candidate must be a high school graduate by July 1 but not yet 24 years old with a strong knowledge of the dairy industry and show leadership qualities. She or her parents must be actively engaged in the production of milk to a licensed plant during the current year. A candidate also qualifies if she or her parents are employed on a dairy farm or in a dairy related capacity.
Junior ambassador candidates must be between ages 14-16 with dairy knowledge, leadership potential, and a willingness to learn.
Both divisions will be judged on communication skills, personality, enthusiasm for dairy promotion, and general knowledge of the dairy industry. Both will represent the industry at the county level with an opportunity for the senior dairy princesses to advance to a training seminar in May. In addition to learning new skills that can be used the rest of their lives, the young ladies also will be competing for one of the 12 spots for the Princess Kay of the Milky Way competition.
An informational meeting will be held Jan. 22 at 8 p.m. in the basement of the Pizza Ranch in Wadena. Organizers will further discuss the competition and expectations at that time. For any additional information feel free to contact Becky Iken at (218) 371-6990.


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