ckrotzer@theolympian.com ? Published May 25, 2013 Modified May 25, 2013
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Sheriff?s deputies will patrol Thurston County?s waterways starting Memorial Day weekend and through the summer with the goal of ensuring boater safety and cutting down on boating under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
There were no reported fatalities or major collisions on any of the county?s 15 bodies of water or 300 miles of Puget Sound shoreline last season, according to sheriff?s deputy Jeff Norton.
?We had a good year last year and we are hoping for the same this year, but people should expect to be contacted,? Norton said. ?If they don?t have what they need, aren?t driving how they need to be or are drunk, they are going to get nailed.?
Deputies will patrol the county?s waters in pairs, with an emphasis on the seven or eight busiest areas, including Black Lake, Long Lake and Summit Lake.
?We go where the traffic is and where the complaints are,? Norton said. ?We don?t spend a huge amount of time on our 5-mph lakes.?
Deputies will check to ensure that boat operators have boater education cards required for anyone between the ages of 12 and 50 operating a boat with 15-horsepower or stronger engines or a personal watercraft. In Thurston County, people must be at least 16 to operate a boat alone.
By 2014, everyone 59 and younger will be required to carry a card.
The push is also to ensure there are enough flotation devices for everyone onboard and that boats are registered.
?We have a no-tolerance policy for (not having) personal flotation devices and (for) no boater education cards,? Norton said.
The life jackets not only need to fit, they also have to be accessible and Coast Guard-approved. Norton said he has run into too many situations in which life jackets are stowed away, still in the packaging they were sold in.
?You have to have those readily accessible,? Norton said. ?If the boat flips over, would you be able to fish the jacket out of that container??
Deputies will also crack down on boating under the influence. Gov. Jay Inslee recently toughened up the law, making BUI a gross misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in jail and a $5,000 fine.
The change is effective July 28.
The new law doesn?t change the way Norton and his fellow deputies approach BUIs.
?We will still enforce them like we always did,? Norton said. ?We are always out looking for intoxicated boaters.
?Unfortunately in this day and age, they think boating is just a cool place to drink and drive; they don?t realize it could be more dangerous than being in a car.?
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HONOLULU (Reuters) - The city of Detroit may be facing a deepening financial crisis but that hasn't stopped four trustees of its public pension funds from spending $22,000 of retirement system funds to attend a conference in Hawaii this week.
The trip 4,500 miles west to a four-star resort on the world-famous Waikiki Beach in Honolulu doesn't sit well with the top officials now running Detroit's finances under an emergency order from the state of Michigan. Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr has not ruled out a bankruptcy as the city struggles under a $15 billion debt burden, which is being strained further by its hefty pension obligations.
"It especially doesn't look good when you have city employees, police, firefighters having taken pay cuts," said Bill Nowling, spokesman for Orr. "Middle-class, blue-collar workers, their dream vacation when they retire may be a two-week trip to Hawaii - they don't associate Hawaii with a place you go to work."
The four trustees from Detroit were among hundreds of pension officials from around the country who traveled in the past week to Honolulu for the annual convention of the National Conference on Public Employee Retirement Systems. Nowling said that Orr's team did not think they had the power to prevent the trip.
John Riehl, a senior sewage plant operator and 34-year Detroit employee, is one of the four. The cost fell within continuing education guidelines set by the legislature, he said.
"It's one of these things we trustees must do to stay on top of the field," Riehl said. "It's important that we participate in these conferences. The stakes are too high."
Of the three other trustees from Detroit, one declined to comment and two others could not be reached for comment.
NOT A VACATION
The two delegates from the Detroit Police and Fire Retirement System attended for business, not pleasure, the fund's spokesman Bruce Babiarz told Reuters. "These are intelligent folks there to do a job, not there to vacation."
The two trustees from Detroit's General Retirement System, including Riehl, attended because the knowledge gained "will assist them in prudently executing their fiduciary responsibilities/obligations," spokeswoman Andrea Kenski said in a statement.
Usually the conference captures little outside attention. This year, though, it has faced criticism for its choice of venue, the Hilton Hawaiian Village Waikiki Beach Resort with its five-acre salt-water lagoon, five swimming pools, and flamingos, penguins and turtles.
Some funds boycotted the event, saying it sent the wrong message, particularly at a time when many pension systems face funding shortfalls and the finances of the cities and states that sponsor them remain on shaky ground.
BOOKED BEFORE THE CRISIS
The criticism irks Hank Kim, the conference organizer's executive director.
"It was completely unfair," Kim said. "The coverage was, 'It's Hawaii.' It's blatantly inappropriate."
The decision to hold it in Hawaii was made before the financial crisis thrashed the portfolios of the nation's public pensions and raised continuing concerns about their long-term obligations, how to meet them and who should pay.
Last year, the group held the conference in New York, where room costs were nearly twice the Honolulu rate, Kim said.
Among those attending is Shawn Curry, a homicide detective and trustee for the $144 million Peoria Police Pension Fund in Illinois, who said it was cheaper than New York. "Our fund decided last year not to send anyone because the costs in New York were so high. When we looked at this year, there was so much of a cost savings we decided to come."
"The only negative is the airfare," said George Mitchell, chairman of Florida's Pompano Beach General Employees' Retirement System, with $139 million in assets. "The hotel is very reasonable and has everything you need, so you don't have rent a car and get everywhere in taxis."
MINDING APPEARANCES
Not everyone came on their fund's dime.
Michael Grodi, chairman of Michigan's $183 million Monroe County Employees Retirement System, attended thanks to a grant from the organizers because the fund would not cover the cost.
"The appearance was just not good," Monroe County Administrator Michael Bosanac said of the decision not to send Grodi at the fund's expense. "It doesn't conjure up the image of a hard-working conference."
"These are not junkets," Grodi countered. "We are getting educated to make decisions and have huge responsibilities."
Among the conference's sessions were panels to help reframe the pension funding debate and justify the assumptions that dictate funding levels, which have come under increasing scrutiny in recent years.
One well-attended session covered how to avoid front-page scandals. According to presenter Lydia Lee, a pension attorney from Oklahoma, the session touched on a topic familiar back in Detroit: The indictment this spring of two former city pension officials for an alleged $200 million bribery and kickback scheme, in a case that will come to trial next March.
(Writing additional reporting by Jim Christie in San Francisco; Editing by Dan Burns, Martin Howell and Claudia Parsons)
NEW YORK (AP) ? Major stock indexes closed out their first weekly loss in a month in quiet trading Friday.
The Standard & Poor's 500 index dropped 0.91 of a point to close at 1,649.60. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 8.60 points to 15,303, a gain of 0.1 percent. Procter & Gamble supported the Dow with an increase of 4 percent.
Both indexes had their first weekly losses since the week ending April 19. A disappointing manufacturing report out of China and a sharp fall in Japan's stock market rattled investors' nerves this week. But anxiety over the Federal Reserve's bond-buying program was the main culprit. Some investors interpreted comments from Fed officials to mean that the bank may start pulling its support for the economy sooner than they expected.
The S&P 500, widely used by mutual funds as a proxy for the stock market, lost 1.1 percent for the week. It's still up 15.7 percent for the year.
Marty Leclerc, the managing partner of Barrack Yard Advisors, an investment firm in Bryn Mawr, Pa., said the weekly drop wasn't cause for concern. Even market rallies have to take the occasional break, he said.
"It's up like a rocket blast this year," Leclerc said of the stock market. "For there to be a little bit of a pullback is perfectly understandable."
The market headed lower at the start of trading on Friday, then spent the rest of the day slowly recovering ground. By the closing bell, market indexes were roughly back to where they started.
Procter & Gamble announced late Thursday that it's bringing back its former CEO, A.G. Lafley, to run the company. The world's largest consumer-products maker, whose brands include Tide and Crest, is trying to increase sales in the face of tough competition. P&G rose $3.18 to $81.88.
Sears plunged 14 percent after the department-store chain reported a steep quarterly loss and slumping sales after the market closed Thursday. Sears lost $7.92 to $50.25.
The Nasdaq composite slipped 0.27 of a point to 3,459.14.
Eight of the 10 industry groups in the S&P 500 fell. Only financial stocks and consumer staples makers rose.
The stock market slipped Friday despite an encouraging report on U.S. manufacturing. The government said orders for long-lasting goods rebounded in April, helped by demand for aircraft and stronger business spending. The report suggests economic growth may hold steady this spring.
Until this week, signs of slow but steady economic growth and record profits for big companies had propelled stock-market indexes to all-time highs.
All but 11 companies in the S&P 500 have posted their first-quarter earnings, and the results have turned out much better than expected. Nearly seven of 10 have reported higher earnings than analysts had estimated. Overall profits in the first quarter are on track to climb 5 percent over the year before.
In the market for U.S. government bonds, the yield on the 10-year Treasury note dipped to 2.01 percent from 2.02 percent late Thursday.
The price of crude oil slipped 10 cents to settle at $94.15 a barrel, ending with a drop of $1.87 for the week. Gold lost $5.20 to $1,386.60 an ounce.
Trading was light ahead of the long weekend. U.S. financial markets will be closed Monday for Memorial Day.
Among other stocks in the news Friday:
? Intuitive Surgical gained 5 percent after a jury decided in favor of the maker of robotic medical equipment in the first of many lawsuits filed against the company. The plaintiffs argued that Intuitive was negligent in training doctors to use its equipment. Intuitive's stock rose $23.07 to $501.53.
? Titan Machinery plunged 9 percent. The company, which deals in agricultural and construction equipment, said late Thursday that weaker revenue will lead it to a wider quarterly loss than it had expected. Titan's stock lost $2.10 to $20.40.
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Police in Stockholm called in reinforcements on Friday after youths set cars and a school ablaze in a fifth night of rioting, the worst to hit Sweden for years.
Pupils at a primary school in Kista - an IT hub that is home to the likes of telecoms equipment maker Ericsson and the Swedish office of Microsoft - arrived to find the inside of the small red wooden building had been completely burnt out.
While Thursday was slightly calmer than the four nights before, about 30 cars were torched and eight people, mostly in their early 20s, were detained, police said.
In a country with a reputation for openness, tolerance and a model welfare state, the rioting has exposed a fault-line between a well-off majority and a minority - often young people with immigrant backgrounds - who are poorly educated, cannot find work and feel pushed to the edge of society.
"In the short run, the acute thing is to ensure that these neighborhoods get back to normal everyday life. In the long run we need to create positive spirals in these neighborhoods," Erik Ullenhag, Sweden's integration minister, told Reuters.
The police said they were calling in extra backup from the cities of Malmo and Gothenburg.
"Now it's Friday, the weekend, and we usually have more to do. We think there's going to be a lot of work and many have worked hard these last few days, so we are calling in extra police," spokesman Anders Jonsson said, without giving numbers.
MASKED YOUTHS
The spree of destruction has seen masked youths vandalize schools, libraries and police stations, setting cars alight and hurling stones at police and firefighters.
It was sparked by the fatal police shooting earlier this month of a 69-year man, reported by local media to be a Portuguese immigrant and suspected of wielding a large knife, in a Stockholm suburb called Husby.
Though far from the scale of riots in London or Paris in recent years, the violence has shocked a nation which has long taken pride in its generous social safety net.
Some seven years of center-right rule, however, have chipped away at benefits, while some communities have struggled to cope with the heavy wave of immigration they are seeing from war-torn countries like Syria.
Youth unemployment is especially high in immigrant neighborhoods like the ones where the riots have taken place.
Kicki Haak, head of the small Montessori school that was set alight in Kista, said she did not know if it would be able to reopen. The 94 students will move into improvised classrooms in nearby office buildings from Monday.
"Five nights in a row - it's incomprehensible," said Faisal Lugh, whose two children are pupils at the school.
"My children asked about the things they had there: 'How about my books? My rain jacket? My pictures? Are they all gone?'" said Lugh, who works for an unemployment office and often helps new immigrants find jobs.
FRUSTRATED RESIDENTS
There are signs that residents in the affected areas are getting fed up with the violence. Many community leaders, dressed in fluorescent jackets, have taken to the streets to try to calm things down.
"When will it stop?" said Maryam Rahimi, who works at a school in Husby that was vandalized earlier this week.
Risto Kajanto, brother-in-law of the man who was shot dead, told Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet he condemned the violence.
"I want to say to all those who are burning cars that it is totally wrong to react that way," he said.
The incident prompted accusations of police brutality, and violence spread from Husby to other poor neighborhoods.
One recent government study showed up to a third of young people aged 16 to 29 in some of the most deprived areas of Sweden's big cities neither study nor have a job.
The gap between rich and poor in Sweden is growing faster than in any other major nation, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, though absolute poverty remains uncommon.
(Additional reporting by Simon Johnson and Patrick Lannin, Writing by Mia Shanley, Editing by Alistair Scrutton and Mark Trevelyan)
May 23, 2013 ? The Ring Nebula's distinctive shape makes it a popular illustration for astronomy books. But new observations by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope of the glowing gas shroud around an old, dying, sun-like star reveal a new twist.
"The nebula is not like a bagel, but rather, it's like a jelly doughnut, because it's filled with material in the middle," said C. Robert O'Dell of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. He leads a research team that used Hubble and several ground-based telescopes to obtain the best view yet of the iconic nebula. The images show a more complex structure than astronomers once thought and have allowed them to construct the most precise 3-D model of the nebula.
"With Hubble's detail, we see a completely different shape than what's been thought about historically for this classic nebula," O'Dell said. "The new Hubble observations show the nebula in much clearer detail, and we see things are not as simple as we previously thought."
The Ring Nebula is about 2,000 light-years from Earth and measures roughly 1 light-year across. Located in the constellation Lyra, the nebula is a popular target for amateur astronomers.
Previous observations by several telescopes had detected the gaseous material in the ring's central region. But the new view by Hubble's sharp-eyed Wide Field Camera 3 shows the nebula's structure in more detail. O'Dell's team suggests the ring wraps around a blue, football-shaped structure. Each end of the structure protrudes out of opposite sides of the ring.
The nebula is tilted toward Earth so that astronomers see the ring face-on. In the Hubble image, the blue structure is the glow of helium. Radiation from the white dwarf star, the white dot in the center of the ring, is exciting the helium to glow. The white dwarf is the stellar remnant of a sun-like star that has exhausted its hydrogen fuel and has shed its outer layers of gas to gravitationally collapse to a compact object.
O'Dell's team was surprised at the detailed Hubble views of the dark, irregular knots of dense gas embedded along the inner rim of the ring, which look like spokes in a bicycle wheel. These gaseous tentacles formed when expanding hot gas pushed into cool gas ejected previously by the doomed star. The knots are more resistant to erosion by the wave of ultraviolet light unleashed by the star. The Hubble images have allowed the team to match up the knots with the spikes of light around the bright, main ring, which are a shadow effect. Astronomers have found similar knots in other planetary nebulae.
All of this gas was expelled by the central star about 4,000 years ago. The original star was several times more massive than our sun. After billions of years converting hydrogen to helium in its core, the star began to run out of fuel. It then ballooned in size, becoming a red giant. During this phase, the star shed its outer gaseous layers into space and began to collapse as fusion reactions began to die out. A gusher of ultraviolet light from the dying star energized the gas, making it glow.
The outer rings were formed when faster-moving gas slammed into slower-moving material. The nebula is expanding at more than 43,000 miles an hour, but the center is moving faster than the expansion of the main ring. O'Dell's team measured the nebula's expansion by comparing the new Hubble observations with Hubble studies made in 1998.
The Ring Nebula will continue to expand for another 10,000 years, a short phase in the lifetime of the star. The nebula will become fainter and fainter until it merges with the interstellar medium.
Studying the Ring Nebula's fate will provide insight into the sun's demise in another 6 billion years. The sun is less massive than the Ring Nebula's progenitor star, so it will not have an opulent ending.
"When the sun becomes a white dwarf, it will heat more slowly after it ejects its outer gaseous layers," O'Dell said. "The material will be farther away once it becomes hot enough to illuminate the gas. This larger distance means the sun's nebula will be fainter because it is more extended."
In the analysis, the research team also obtained images from the Large Binocular Telescope at the Mount Graham International Observatory in Arizona and spectroscopic data from the San Pedro Martir Observatory in Baja California, Mexico.
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Hello there everyone, I have this piece of code here, and whenever I try to compile it, I get the error "cannot find symbol - method replaceAll(java.lang.String,java.lang.String). I am not very good at Java and I can't seem to figure out why it won't work,
public static ArrayList<String> convertFileLinesToSentences(ArrayList<String> filelines) { ArrayList<String> sentenceWithoutWhitespace = new ArrayList<String>(); sentenceWithoutWhitespace = filelines.replaceAll("\\s",""); return sentenceWithoutWhitespace; }
In my previous method just before this one, I also use the .replaceAll method and there are no troubles with it, any and all help is appreciated, thank you.
filelines has the type ArrayList which doesn't have a replaceAll method Maybe you wanted to enumerate the ArrayList and call replaceAll on each individual String?
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So the replaceAll method can only be used on strings? In that case, I guess I better go read up on enumerating =) Thanks, I couldn't continue because it wouldn't work.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Former News Corp president Peter Chernin and private equity fundGuggenheim Digital Media have placed bids for Hulu, two people with knowledge of the matter told Reuters, triggering a tug-of-war for the online video service.
Satellite operator DirecTV and cable operator Time Warner Cable Inc also put in bids, one of the people told Reuters.
Hulu was put on the auction block this year for the second time after disagreement between owners News Corp and Walt Disney Co on how best to operate a Web service that streams TV programs and other videos, Reuters previously reported.
In April, Chernin placed a bid for $500 million, plus an unspecified additional sum to cover Hulu's debt and programming commitments.
Representatives of Guggenheim, Time Warner Cable and DirecTV had no comment. A spokesman for Chernin could not be reached.
Hulu says on its website that it has more than 3 million subscribers paying $7.99 a month for its premium service and that it generated revenues of around $700 million last year. It sells advertising for its free service.
It is being advised in the sale by Guggenheim Partners, a separately funded group from the digital media unit that placed the bid.
The Los Angeles Times initially reported the bids On Thursday.
(Reporting By Ronald Grover. Editing by Andre Grenon and David Gregorio)
