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Fasteners are your Friends
1 Hour Class
We've covered buttonholes and zippers, but let's take buttons, hooks and eyes, snaps, and velcro. Learn which fastener is right for your project, and how to properly attach it for best results!
All materials supplied for this class
Bring a pencil & paper to take notes
We're working with scissors, pins, needles, hot irons and a machine...is there a chance of injuring myself?
YES!!!! If you are not paying attention or using care, it is possible to stab, cut, poke, burn or maim yourself with some of the items we use in class. HISS STUDIO IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR INJURIES SUSTAINED DURING CLASS. Please be mindful of the tools you are using, and use at your own risk! By purchasing tickets you acknowledge HISS STUDIO, the instructors and staff are NOT RESPONSIBLE for injuries sustained during class. Thanks!
Where can I contact the organizer with any questions?
Just send an email using this form, click on contact the organizer in the upper right of this page!
Do I have to bring my printed ticket to the event?
No, you can also flash your receipt on your smart-thingy when you arrive.
What is the refund policy?
Classes are non-refundable. If you need to miss a class due to a scheduling conflict, please contact the organizer in advance to reschedule. We will do our best to accomodate last minute emergencies, but please be respectful of the instructor's and fellow students and only reschedule when absolutely necessary. No-shows WITHOUT PRIOR CONTACT BEFORE CLASS for rescheduling will NOT BE RESCHEDULED and your ticket will not be repurposed.
The name on the registration/ticket doesn't match the attendee. Is that okay?
Yes, if you can't make a class or want to buy a class for a friend, that's ok. If you can let us know in advance, that'd be great, if not, make sure you or your friend can reference who bought the ticket so we know it wasn't stolen or hacked.
When & Where
Offices at 5th & Uinta
495 Uinta way
HISS Studio
We believe that Happiness is Simple Sewing (HISS), and we think you will too once you've experienced our classes. Sewing doesn't have to be difficult, mind bending or stressful…it can be meditative, creative and stress relieving. With the skills you'll gain from HISS, your sewing can become Zen and professional!
We specialize in sewing classes for the hobbyist
Seasoned sewer or newfound newbie, HISS studio has a class offering that can help you improve your sewing skills. From basic seams to complex pattern fitting, learn to tackle all of your sewing challenges with ease and excellent professional outcomes.
Classes are limited to an hour in duration and 3 students at a time to provide maximum opportunity for you to engage, learn, and retain the skills we'll address in each class.
After teaching many students one on one and in class settings, we have found that students learn best in small, short classes that allow the student to focus on one particular topic or skill. When many topics are covered over a 2 or 3 hour course, often only 30% of the content is retained. Additionally, we've found it a lot easier for students to find an hour of time for a class than lose an afternoon or entire evening with busy schedules.
Don't have a sewing machine, or don't want to lug yours around town? No sweat, we provide each student a basic machine to work with as part of our classes. Prefer to use your own machine? That's great too...bring it with you, we welcome all makes and models! Needles, thread and fabric scraps provided for basic classes, intermediate and advanced classes or project classes will have a supply list for you to purchase.
So, what makes HISS studio different from the rest? a few things…
1. Small, focused classes
2. No pressure to buy - we're not a store, we're here to teach you skills
3. 1 hour classes to fit your busy lifestyle, and optimize your retention of the skills covered
4. YOU are in control of your materials cost. We'll let you know what materials to bring to class, and how to get the best deal from many suppliers around town
5. While we do offer a few project classes, we are focused on teaching you core skills that apply to many different varieties of sewing projects: crafter, hobbyist, thrift seeker or fashion-forward. Our project classes are to help you solidify your new skills by creating a project which incorporates your newfound tricks.


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16 dead in fighting in C. African Republic capital
BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) -- Heavy gunfire erupted in the capital of the Central African Republic on Thursday and at least 16 people were killed and dozens of civilians wounded. The United Nations planned to authorize within hours an intervention force into the near anarchic and impoverished nation.
Thursday's fighting was between the mostly Muslim fighters who control the impoverished nation and Christians who support its ousted president. French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius has warned that the country is on "the verge of genocide."
In New York, the United Nations Security Council is set to authorize on Thursday troops from African nations and former colonial power France to deploy here. An attack earlier this week, blamed on Christian fighters, killed nearly a dozen women and children in a remote community.
Fabius said Thursday that military intervention would unfold swiftly after the U.N. vote, telling BFM-TV that the French deployment would total around 1,200, with 600 troops already in place.
"We have to end this humanitarian catastrophe and restore security," Fabius said.
Thursday morning's fighting left at least 16 dead and 45 wounded, said Sylvain Groulx, head of mission for Doctors Without Borders. Groulx said the toll included only those bodies taken to two hospitals in Bangui, leaving open the possibility of further deaths.
Incoming French ambassador Charles Malinas confirmed that the homes of CAR Prime Minister Nicholas Tiangaye and President Michel Djotodia were looted during Thursday's violence.
Tiangaye confirmed his house had been looted, describing the attackers as a group of Seleka who arrived in three four-wheel-drive pickup trucks favored by the rebels.
"It's true, my house was attacked and pillaged," he said, adding that his family was evacuated from the house beforehand and were safe.
Crackles of gunfire first erupted around 6 a.m. and lasted several hours. French forces patrolled in light vehicles and armored personnel carriers.
By midday, the country's president -- installed by the rebel forces earlier this year -- said the fighting was over and called for an end to the conflict.
"Everything is calm. Everything is fine," Djotodia told BFM in a phone interview.
The former rebel coalition known as Seleka, which now claims control of the government, is an unlikely group of allies who united a year ago with the goal of forcing President Francois Bozize from the presidency after a decade in power. After thousands of rebels besieged Bangui in March, Bozize fled and the insurgents installed their leader Djotodia as president.
A pickup truck bristling with Seleka soldiers raced through the capital Thursday, while other members carried out house to house searches in opposition neighborhoods.
Djotodia has increasingly sought to distance himself from his former allies as the Seleka rebels have been blamed for scores of atrocities in Bangui, killing and raping civilians and stealing from aid groups and orphanages. He has even less control over the ex-Seleka in the distant provinces where anger over human rights abuses fueled the formation of the Christian anti-balaka movement several months ago. Balaka means "machete."
In the interview Thursday, Djotodia appealed for calm.
"We would like the French to help bring peace to our transition," he said.
While the anti-balaka fighters include villagers defending their communities against Seleka attacks with artisanal hunting rifles and machetes, the group is believed to be receiving support from those still allied to Bozize. The anti-balaka fighters also have been implicated in massacres on Muslim civilian populations, which also have suffered under the Seleka regime and say they are being unfairly blamed for Seleka's wanton destruction.
The death toll has been impossible to estimate in Central African Republic, a long lawless and desperately poor country in the heart of Africa where many roads have not been repaved since independence from France in 1960.
The U.N. Security Council resolution would authorize the deployment of an African Union-led force to Central African Republic for a year to protect civilians and restore security and public order. The AU force is replacing a regional peacekeeping mission whose presence has been mainly limited to the capital and a few northern cities.
The U.N. resolution also would authorize French forces, for a temporary period, "to take all necessary measures" to support the AU-led force known as MISCA, whose troop numbers are expected to rise from about 2,500 to 3,500.
AP reporters Lori Hinnant and Sylvie Corbet contributed reporting from Paris.

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42% of Americans believe creationist view of human origins. They believe god created humans in their present form 10,000 years ago. Such a shocking and depressing news!
The poor countries are the most religious countries. Most people living in the poor countries say, religion is an important part in their daily lives. Some of the poor countries are not religious though, because their governments restricted religious expression for decades. They grew up as non-religious.
The United States is one of the rich countries that is an exception.
About two-thirds of Americans — 65% — say religion is important in their daily lives. Among high-income countries, only Italians, Greeks, Singaporeans, and residents of the oil-rich Persian Gulf states are more likely to say religion is important.
Most high-income countries are further down the religiosity spectrum. In 10 countries, no more than 34% of residents say religion is an important part of their daily lives. Six of those are developed countries in Europe and Asia with per-capita incomes greater than $25,000.
We can see that religiosity is strongly related to poverty. Not long ago, Bangladesh was created as a secular country, now people of Bangladesh are more religious than people of Saudi Arabia.
But still it is hard for me to find correlation between poverty and religiosity. I think, religion is most able to thrive in seriously dysfunctional societies. Most poor countries are having dysfunctional societies. Religion is popular in dysfunctional societies where people are anxious about their daily lives, so they're looking for god's help to end their misery.
Highly religious countries are not highly successful socially.
A researcher said, 'it's not fear of death that drives poor people to be religious, and it's not a god gene or a god module in the brain or some sort of connection with the gods, it's basically a psychological coping mechanism.' Probably he is right.
The USA is a highly technological science-based country, but almost half of its citizens deny basic science. Unlike poor countries, it does not have dysfunctional societies, but its citizens are religious. Maybe not only societal dysfunction, but some other reasons make people believe in creationism, not in evolution. The gap between the rich and the poor in the USA is bigger than that of Europe. There is a 3rd world inside the wealthy USA. That poor 3rd world is dangerously religious. The people living in that 3rd world don't have proper education and good standard of living. Most likely that is the reason for huge number of Americans to become religious, in order to improve their condition with the help of god.


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Life Preserver Wall Hanging
Learn how to make this wall hanging using these free instructions. Handmade paper crafts are the perfect way to show you care, and with these paper-crafting steps, creating this design is easy.
SUPPLIES: Cardstock: (Wax Lips, Marshmallow, Whirlypop) Bazzill Basics Paper Patterned paper: (navy stripe from Hello. Goodbye. collection) Lifestyle Crafts Paint: (white) Delta Fibers: (rope) Canvas Corp Dies: (life preserver, anchor) Provo Craft Other: (wood plaque) Sierra Pacific Crafts Finished size: 5 1/2" square
1 Paint plaque; let dry.
2 Trim patterned paper and adhere to plaque.
3 Die-cut life preserver and anchor from cardstock; adhere together.
4 Cut rope length, knot one end, and adhere to die cut. Adhere to plaque with foam tape.
5 Adhere rope behind plaque as hanger.
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Summary Report for:
47-2073.00 - Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators
Operate one or several types of power construction equipment, such as motor graders, bulldozers, scrapers, compressors, pumps, derricks, shovels, tractors, or front-end loaders to excavate, move, and grade earth, erect structures, or pour concrete or other hard surface pavement. May repair and maintain equipment in addition to other duties.
Sample of reported job titles: Back Hoe Operator, Engineering Equipment Operator, Equipment Operator, Heavy Equipment Operator, Loader Operator, Machine Operator, Motor Grader Operator, Operating Engineer, Operator, Track Hoe Operator
Tasks | Technology Skills | Tools Used | Knowledge | Skills | Abilities | Work Activities | Detailed Work Activities | Work Context | Job Zone | Education | Credentials | Interests | Work Styles | Work Values | Related Occupations | Wages & Employment | Job Openings | Additional Information
- Learn and follow safety regulations.
- Take actions to avoid potential hazards or obstructions, such as utility lines, other equipment, other workers, or falling objects.
- Locate underground services, such as pipes or wires, prior to beginning work.
- Monitor operations to ensure that health and safety standards are met.
- Adjust handwheels and depress pedals to control attachments, such as blades, buckets, scrapers, or swing booms.
- Start engines, move throttles, switches, or levers, or depress pedals to operate machines, such as bulldozers, trench excavators, road graders, or backhoes.
- Coordinate machine actions with other activities, positioning or moving loads in response to hand or audio signals from crew members.
- Load and move dirt, rocks, equipment, or other materials, using trucks, crawler tractors, power cranes, shovels, graders, or related equipment.
- Check fuel supplies at sites to ensure adequate availability.
- Drive and maneuver equipment equipped with blades in successive passes over working areas to remove topsoil, vegetation, or rocks or to distribute and level earth or terrain.
- Signal operators to guide movement of tractor-drawn machines.
- Keep records of material or equipment usage or problems encountered.
- Align machines, cutterheads, or depth gauge makers with reference stakes and guidelines or ground or position equipment, following hand signals of other workers.
- Operate tractors or bulldozers to perform such tasks as clearing land, mixing sludge, trimming backfills, or building roadways or parking lots.
- Repair and maintain equipment, making emergency adjustments or assisting with major repairs as necessary.
- Connect hydraulic hoses, belts, mechanical linkages, or power takeoff shafts to tractors.
- Operate equipment to demolish or remove debris or to remove snow from streets, roads, or parking lots.
- Operate loaders to pull out stumps, rip asphalt or concrete, rough-grade properties, bury refuse, or perform general cleanup.
- Select and fasten bulldozer blades or other attachments to tractors, using hitches.
- Push other equipment when extra traction or assistance is required.
- Test atmosphere for adequate oxygen or explosive conditions when working in confined spaces.
- Drive tractor-trailer trucks to move equipment from site to site.
- Talk to clients and study instructions, plans, or diagrams to establish work requirements.
- Operate compactors, scrapers, or rollers to level, compact, or cover refuse at disposal grounds.
- Operate road watering, oiling, or rolling equipment, or street sealing equipment, such as chip spreaders.
- Turn valves to control air or water output of compressors or pumps.
- Compile cost estimates for jobs.
- Perform specialized work, using equipment such as pile drivers, dredging rigs, drillers, or concrete pumpers.
Technology Skills
- Electronic mail software — Microsoft Outlook
- Facilities management software — Maintenance record software
- Office suite software — Microsoft Office
- Operating system software — Microsoft Windows
- Spreadsheet software — Microsoft Excel
- Time accounting software — Work record software
Hot Technology — a technology requirement frequently included in employer job postings.
Tools Used
- Adjustable wrenches
- Agricultural rollers — Cultipackers
- Agricultural tractors — 20-ton tractors; Tractors
- Air compressors
- Articulating boom lift — Cherry pickers; Hydraulic telescoping boom utility trucks
- Asphalt finishers — Road finishing machines
- Axes
- Backhoe boom or boom sections — Backhoe attachments
- Backhoes
- Bituminous material distributors — Asphalt spreader boxes; Oiling equipment
- Blades or tooth or other cutting edges — Blade attachments; Industrial scrapers
- Blow torch — Cutting torches
- Cargo trucks — Dempster dumpers; Flatbed trucks
- Chip Spreaders
- Compactors — Asphalt compactors
- Conventional truck cranes — 15-ton truck cranes; Truck cranes
- Conveyor rails — Monorails
- Curbing machines — Curb pavers; Gutter pavers
- Demolition equipment kits — Demolition machines
- Derricks
- Desktop computers
- Ditchers
- Draglines
- Drain or pipe cleaning equipment — Basin machines; Sewer rodding machines
- Dredgers — Aquatic weed harvesters; Dredges
- Drilling machines — Drill presses
- Dump trucks — Belly dumpers; Heavy dump trucks; Single axle dump trucks; Tandem axle dump trucks
- Ear plugs
- Earthmoving buckets or its parts or accessories — Bucket attachments
- Edgers — Groovers
- Elevating scrapers — Box scrapers
- Extendable conveyors — Extender conveyors
- Flatbed trailers — Truck trailers
- Forestry saws — Treecutters
- Forklifts
- Front end loaders — End loaders; Tracked loaders
- Gas generators — Truck-mounted generators
- Gas welding or brazing or cutting apparatus — Gas welders
- Graders — Motor graders; Tilt graders
- Hammers
- Harrows
- Hazardous material protective apparel — Chemical-resistant clothing
- Hoists — Silent hoists; Tugger hoists
- Hydraulic truck cranes — 18-ton hydraulic cranes; Hydraulic boom trucks; Hydraulic cranes
- Jacks — Hydraulic jacks
- Joint cleaning or refacing machines — Shot blasters
- Kettle exchangers — Aeroil propane kettles
- Land drilling rigs — Churn drills; Vertical drills
- Levels
- Lifts — Ross carriers; Travel lifts
- Light trucks or sport utility vehicles — Pickup trucks
- Loading equipment — Barrier movers
- Manlift or personnel lift — Manlifts
- Measuring wheels for distance — Measuring wheels
- Metal detectors — Utility locators
- Milling machines
- Mobile excavators — Mini excavators
- Mobile phones — Cell phones
- Mowers — Verticutters
- Paint sprayers — Mainline paint stripers
- Paving breakers — Pavement breakers; Robotic concrete busters
- Personal computers
- Pick or place robots — Robotic machines
- Picks
- Pneumatic hammer — Jackhammers
- Post hole digger — Post hole diggers; Two-man augers
- Power drills
- Power grinders — Grinders
- Power sanders
- Power saws — Chain saws; Circular saws; Concrete saws
- Protective gloves — Safety gloves
- Pulled scrapers — Scrapers; Turn-a-pulls
- Respirators
- Road pavers — Asphalt pavers; Laydown machines
- Rollers
- Rollers for lawn or sports grounds — Turf quakers
- Rulers
- Safety boots
- Safety glasses
- Saws
- Screwdrivers
- Scrubbing machines — Mechanical sweepers; Multipurpose vacuum catch basin cleaners; Sweepers
- Seeder attachment — Seeders
- Shielded metal arc welding or stick welding machine — Shielded arc welding tools
- Shovels
- Skid steer loaders — Skid steer machines; Skip loaders
- Snow blowers
- Snowplow attachments — Snowplows
- Sprayers — Runway deicers
- Tampers
- Tape measures
- Telescoping boom lift — Telescopic forklifts
- Threading dies — Pipe threaders
- Track bulldozers — Angle dozers; Crawler dozers
- Track cranes — Roustabout cranes
- Track excavators — Heavy duty excavators; Tracked hydraulic excavators
- Track loaders — Belt loaders
- Trenching machines — Trenchers
- Two way radios
- Vacuum pumps
- Vibratory plates — Vibratory compactors
- Water pumps
- Water trucks — Road watering equipment; Tankers
- Weeders — Weedeaters
- Wheel bulldozers — Bulldozers
- Wheel excavators — Rubber-tired excavators
- Wheel loaders — Scoopmobiles
- Winches
- Operation and Control — Controlling operations of equipment or systems.
- Operation Monitoring — Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly.
- Monitoring — Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
- Coordination — Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
- Equipment Maintenance — Performing routine maintenance on equipment and determining when and what kind of maintenance is needed.
- Troubleshooting — Determining causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about it.
- Control Precision — The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions.
- Depth Perception — The ability to judge which of several objects is closer or farther away from you, or to judge the distance between you and an object.
- Multilimb Coordination — The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion.
- Near Vision — The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
- Far Vision — The ability to see details at a distance.
- Manual Dexterity — The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects.
- Problem Sensitivity — The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
- Rate Control — The ability to time your movements or the movement of a piece of equipment in anticipation of changes in the speed and/or direction of a moving object or scene.
- Arm-Hand Steadiness — The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position.
- Reaction Time — The ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears.
- Oral Comprehension — The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
- Oral Expression — The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
- Deductive Reasoning — The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
- Perceptual Speed — The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object.
- Response Orientation — The ability to choose quickly between two or more movements in response to two or more different signals (lights, sounds, pictures). It includes the speed with which the correct response is started with the hand, foot, or other body part.
- Selective Attention — The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.
- Time Sharing — The ability to shift back and forth between two or more activities or sources of information (such as speech, sounds, touch, or other sources).
Work Activities
- Operating Vehicles, Mechanized Devices, or Equipment — Running, maneuvering, navigating, or driving vehicles or mechanized equipment, such as forklifts, passenger vehicles, aircraft, or water craft.
- Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Material — Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects.
- Getting Information — Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
- Controlling Machines and Processes — Using either control mechanisms or direct physical activity to operate machines or processes (not including computers or vehicles).
- Monitor Processes, Materials, or Surroundings — Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems.
- Handling and Moving Objects — Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials, and manipulating things.
- Making Decisions and Solving Problems — Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
- Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates — Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.
- Processing Information — Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data.
- Repairing and Maintaining Mechanical Equipment — Servicing, repairing, adjusting, and testing machines, devices, moving parts, and equipment that operate primarily on the basis of mechanical (not electronic) principles.
- Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge — Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
- Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work — Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.
- Performing General Physical Activities — Performing physical activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling of materials.
- Coordinating the Work and Activities of Others — Getting members of a group to work together to accomplish tasks.
- Estimating the Quantifiable Characteristics of Products, Events, or Information — Estimating sizes, distances, and quantities; or determining time, costs, resources, or materials needed to perform a work activity.
- Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events — Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
- Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards — Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards.
- Thinking Creatively — Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions.
- Judging the Qualities of Things, Services, or People — Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people.
- Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships — Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.
- Developing Objectives and Strategies — Establishing long-range objectives and specifying the strategies and actions to achieve them.
- Scheduling Work and Activities — Scheduling events, programs, and activities, as well as the work of others.
- Documenting/Recording Information — Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form.
- Communicating with Persons Outside Organization — Communicating with people outside the organization, representing the organization to customers, the public, government, and other external sources. This information can be exchanged in person, in writing, or by telephone or e-mail.
- Drafting, Laying Out, and Specifying Technical Devices, Parts, and Equipment — Providing documentation, detailed instructions, drawings, or specifications to tell others about how devices, parts, equipment, or structures are to be fabricated, constructed, assembled, modified, maintained, or used.
Detailed Work Activities
- Update job related knowledge or skills.
- Position construction or extraction equipment.
- Locate equipment or materials in need of repair or replacement.
- Monitor construction operations.
- Operate heavy-duty construction or installation equipment.
- Operate equipment or vehicles to clear construction sites or move materials.
- Move construction or extraction materials to locations where they are needed.
- Load or unload materials used in construction or extraction.
- Test air quality at work sites.
- Signal equipment operators to indicate proper equipment positioning.
- Record operational or environmental data.
- Drive trucks or truck-mounted equipment.
- Install equipment attachments or components.
- Maintain construction tools or equipment.
- Remove debris or vegetation from work sites.
- Communicate with clients about products, procedures, and policies.
- Review blueprints or specifications to determine work requirements.
- Compact materials to create level bases.
- Operate road-surfacing equipment.
- Operate pumps or compressors.
- Assist skilled construction or extraction personnel.
- Select construction equipment.
- Estimate construction project costs.
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Work Context
- Outdoors, Exposed to Weather — 88% responded "Every day."
- Wear Common Protective or Safety Equipment such as Safety Shoes, Glasses, Gloves, Hearing Protection, Hard Hats, or Life Jackets — 73% responded "Every day."
- Face-to-Face Discussions — 76% responded "Every day."
- Spend Time Using Your Hands to Handle, Control, or Feel Objects, Tools, or Controls — 64% responded "Continually or almost continually."
- Very Hot or Cold Temperatures — 52% responded "Every day."
- Sounds, Noise Levels Are Distracting or Uncomfortable — 64% responded "Every day."
- In an Open Vehicle or Equipment — 61% responded "Every day."
- Work With Work Group or Team — 50% responded "Extremely important."
- In an Enclosed Vehicle or Equipment — 66% responded "Every day."
- Exposed to Whole Body Vibration — 60% responded "Every day."
- Responsible for Others' Health and Safety — 44% responded "High responsibility."
- Exposed to Hazardous Equipment — 54% responded "Every day."
- Telephone — 46% responded "Every day."
- Exposed to Contaminants — 56% responded "Every day."
- Contact With Others — 48% responded "Constant contact with others."
- Importance of Being Exact or Accurate — 43% responded "Very important."
- Consequence of Error — 42% responded "Extremely serious."
- Structured versus Unstructured Work — 48% responded "A lot of freedom."
- Spend Time Making Repetitive Motions — 38% responded "More than half the time."
- Duration of Typical Work Week — 48% responded "40 hours."
- Pace Determined by Speed of Equipment — 40% responded "Very important."
- Freedom to Make Decisions — 40% responded "Some freedom."
- Responsibility for Outcomes and Results — 47% responded "High responsibility."
- Coordinate or Lead Others — 48% responded "Very important."
- Frequency of Decision Making — 37% responded "Every day."
- Time Pressure — 33% responded "Once a week or more but not every day."
- Spend Time Sitting — 39% responded "About half the time."
- Impact of Decisions on Co-workers or Company Results — 30% responded "Very important results."
- Level of Competition — 29% responded "Highly competitive."
- Physical Proximity — 44% responded "Moderately close (at arm's length)."
- Extremely Bright or Inadequate Lighting — 38% responded "Once a week or more but not every day."
- Spend Time Bending or Twisting the Body — 41% responded "More than half the time."
Job Zone
|Job Zone Two: Some Preparation Needed
|These occupations usually require a high school diploma.
|Related Experience
|Some previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is usually needed. For example, a teller would benefit from experience working directly with the public.
|Job Training
|Employees in these occupations need anywhere from a few months to one year of working with experienced employees. A recognized apprenticeship program may be associated with these occupations.
|Job Zone Examples
|These occupations often involve using your knowledge and skills to help others. Examples include orderlies, counter and rental clerks, customer service representatives, security guards, upholsterers, and tellers.
|SVP Range
|(4.0 to < 6.0)
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- Realistic — Realistic occupations frequently involve work activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions. They often deal with plants, animals, and real-world materials like wood, tools, and machinery. Many of the occupations require working outside, and do not involve a lot of paperwork or working closely with others.
- Conventional — Conventional occupations frequently involve following set procedures and routines. These occupations can include working with data and details more than with ideas. Usually there is a clear line of authority to follow.
- Investigative — Investigative occupations frequently involve working with ideas, and require an extensive amount of thinking. These occupations can involve searching for facts and figuring out problems mentally.
Work Styles
- Attention to Detail — Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks.
- Dependability — Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations.
- Cooperation — Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude.
- Concern for Others — Job requires being sensitive to others' needs and feelings and being understanding and helpful on the job.
- Independence — Job requires developing one's own ways of doing things, guiding oneself with little or no supervision, and depending on oneself to get things done.
- Self Control — Job requires maintaining composure, keeping emotions in check, controlling anger, and avoiding aggressive behavior, even in very difficult situations.
- Adaptability/Flexibility — Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace.
- Initiative — Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges.
- Persistence — Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles.
- Innovation — Job requires creativity and alternative thinking to develop new ideas for and answers to work-related problems.
- Integrity — Job requires being honest and ethical.
- Achievement/Effort — Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks.
- Leadership — Job requires a willingness to lead, take charge, and offer opinions and direction.
Work Values
- Support — Occupations that satisfy this work value offer supportive management that stands behind employees. Corresponding needs are Company Policies, Supervision: Human Relations and Supervision: Technical.
- Relationships — Occupations that satisfy this work value allow employees to provide service to others and work with co-workers in a friendly non-competitive environment. Corresponding needs are Co-workers, Moral Values and Social Service.
- Working Conditions — Occupations that satisfy this work value offer job security and good working conditions. Corresponding needs are Activity, Compensation, Independence, Security, Variety and Working Conditions.
Related Occupations
Wages & Employment Trends
|Median wages (2018)
|$22.98 hourly, $47,810 annual
|State wages
|Employment (2018)
|402,000 employees
|Projected growth (2018-2028)
|Faster than average (7% to 10%)
|Projected job openings (2018-2028)
|State trends
|Top industries (2018)
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics 2018 wage data and 2018-2028 employment projections . "Projected growth" represents the estimated change in total employment over the projections period (2018-2028). "Projected job openings" represent openings due to growth and replacement.
Job Openings on the Web
Sources of Additional Information
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The state is going to scrap current regulations governing septic tanks/leach field systems and start anew, San Juan Basin Health Department board members were told Thursday.
Greg Brand, the departments newly hired director of environmental health, characterized the changes as sweeping.
They will apply to all new dwellings not covered by a municipality or independent metro district, Brand said. The health department will have a year to bring its regulations into conformity.
My reading is that the new regulations will apply more to site evaluation soil quality and size than to installation, Brand said. Installers will be following a plan.
Steve Gunderson, director of the Water Quality Control Division of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, said by telephone that the new regulations will constitute a complete overhaul, a major revision.
Weve been working on this for three years, with involvement of environmental health officials, health departments, developers and system installers, Gunderson said.
We were being hammered by local officials because current regulations are too rigid, Gunderson said. What applies in the Eastern Plains may not fit in the mountains.
Gunderson said the new regulations will be more flexible.
But they will allow counties to be more restrictive if they want, he said.
Gunderson doesnt expect much opposition at a March 12 public hearing on the new regulations scheduled by the state Water Quality Control Board.
Brand wouldnt say how extensive the septic tank/leach fields changes could be. Too much could change between initial proposals and an approved set of regulations, he said.
But the old guidelines are outdated, Brand said. A lot of new technology exists.
He estimated that San Juan Basin Health Department will have a new set of regulations in the spring of 2014.
The health department issues permits for and inspects septic systems in La Plata and Archuleta counties and does the same under agreements in San Juan and Hinsdale counties.
Current state regulations require the health department to issue a septic-system permit before the county approves a building permit and make a final inspection before the county approves occupancy, Brand said.
San Juan Basin Health Departments septic system program began in 1967, Brand said. It is one of two main environmental health focuses, the other being food safety in schools and commercial outlets.


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2009 Kelleher "Block 21" Sauvignon Blanc
We sourced this fruit from Crocker Vineyard up in St. Helena. We used just 10% french oak with the balance in stainless steel barrels. Our 2009 Kelleher Family Vineyard Sauvignon Blanc has bright aromatics of tropical notes, melon, and slight citrus. The acid is bright and balanced, with the fruit persisting from the nose to the palate. The middle palate is slightly creamy and leads into a long crisp finish.
Wine Specifications
Vintage 2009
Varietal Sauvignon Blanc
Appellation Napa Valley
Vineyard Designation Block 21
Harvest Date Sept. 9th, 2009
Fermentation Native
Bottling Date May 5th, 2010
Alcohol % 14.4
Wine Profile
Winemaker Notes Harvest date: September 9, 2009 Crocker Vineyard, block 21, Sauvignon Blanc clone 1 Whole cluster pressed, settled overnight, racked to new tank, part of the lees was added back, about 30% Native fermentation began in the tank, then the must was barreled down into SS drums and 10 % neutral French Oak barrels. Fermentation took about 30 days, the barrels were stirred once per week After fermentation was complete, the barrels were racked and sulfured intank, then returned to barrel. Stirred once a month until bottling.
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Nestled amidst acres of tropical gardens and flanked by the Andaman Sea, Dusit Thani Laguna Phuket is an idyllic retreat. The resort's neo-colonial style incorporates variations on traditional Thai motifs defined by native wood and tiles and decorated with ceramics, antique carvings and textiles. Guests at any of the hotels in the Laguna Phuket complex enjoy access to many facilities, including health and fitness centres, spas, childcare centres and the championship 18-hole Laguna Phuket golf course.
Accommodation at Dusit incorporates Deluxe Lagoon Views, Deluxe Sea Views, Deluxe Ocean Front, Dusit Club Rooms, and much more.


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As the shipwrecked Rena lies in the Bay of Plenty and its spilled oil washes ashore, Elvis Heremia Teddy is to appear in a Tauranga court today because he took a stand to protect his home coastline from oil spills.
Ironically he'll appear at the same time as the Captain of the Rena.
In April as skipper of the small vessel San Pietro, and as part of the Stop Deep Sea Oil flotilla Elvis, along with his small crew and tribal leader Rikirangi Gage sailed the te Whanau a Apanui fishing vessel in front of the Petrobras deep sea oil survey vessel in the deep waters of the Raukumara. This is an area he and his family have fished for generations and rely on for their livelihood.
The planned deep sea oil drilling, at depths of up to double that of the ill-fated Deepwater Horizon well would put these fishing grounds and the entire East Cape coast at risk. The Rena spill has shown us just how devastating even a small spill can be – a blowout from a deep water drill would make it look like a walk in the park.
The Rena oil spill has brought home to people that New Zealand's oceans and coastlines aren't worth gambling for oil. While oil is being cleaned up on the Bay of Plenty coast, US oil giant Anadarko has a deep sea exploratory vessel are off the Raglan coast threatening exactly the same sort of disaster in the future from deep sea oil drilling.
We have seen a huge jump in people signing our No Deep Sea Oil petition - now at well over 90,000.
The Greenpeace crew will take time off this morning from their oil clean-up work on Matakana Island to gather with other Elvis supporters outside the court in solidarity.
Please join us outside the courthouse at 830am corner of Cameron and Mclean in Tauranga to support Elvis and the call to protect our coastlines and halt deep sea oil drilling plans.
Nick has worked with Greenpeace for more than 10 years and is now Head of Digital at Greenpeace NZ.


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COMMERCE CITY, Colo. (Thursday, August 8, 2013) – The Colorado Rapids announced on Thursday that the club has signed 24-year-old Panamanian striker Gabriel Torres as the first Designated Player in club history. Torres, who tied for the most goals in the recent CONCACAF Gold Cup with five, will be eligible to join the Rapids pending receipt of his P-1 work visa. He has Designated Player status due to a combination of salary and acquisition costs, and he will occupy an International Spot on Colorado's roster.
"Signing Gabriel Torres as our club's first Designated Player is a historic moment, but it's most exciting because he's the right player to help this team win," said Rapids Technical Director Paul Bravo. "We want to thank the senior management at Kroenke Sports & Entertainment and Stan Kroenke for their support in bringing Torres to Colorado. We're excited for him to join the squad."
"Torres is dynamic and can score goals, and will give us a boost as we enter the final ten games of the regular season," said Rapids Head Coach Oscar Pareja. "We had been looking at him since before the Gold Cup, but that tournament showed everybody what he is capable of. It's great for the club that Torres is able to join us, and I am eager to see him on the field with the boys."
"Throughout this process, Paul Bravo worked tirelessly and he deserves a lot of credit for making this transfer a reality," said Rapids President Tim Hinchey. "Torres is an important part of our goal of bringing another MLS Cup to our fans, and he can also help us continue to grow the sport in Colorado. This is a big day for the Rapids and MLS."
"I'm happy to join the Colorado Rapids, and I will give my all to this club," Torres said. "Coach [Pareja] has had confidence in me from the beginning. He told me about the team and the project, and that got my attention. It's why I'm here, looking to do the right things. I'll give my best to this organization and look to score many goals to help us win games."
A native of Panama City, Panama, Torres scored five goals in the recent CONCACAF Gold Cup, which tied for the most goals in the tournament with Landon Donovan and Chris Wondolowski of the United States National Team. He scored both goals against Mexico in a 2-1 win in the group stage, assisted on the only goal in a 1-0 win over Mexico in the semifinal of the tournament, and also started in Panama's 1-0 loss to the U.S. in the final. He has a total of seven goals for Panama in his 40 appearances representing his country.
Torres began his professional career with Panamanian club Chepo F.C., and has played for San Francisco F.C. - also in Panama - as well as La Equidad, América de Cali, and Atlético Huila in Colombia. Most recently, he starred for Zamora FC of Venezuela's first division during the 2012-13 season, where he led the team to their first championship, with 21 goals.
The Rapids travel to Los Angeles this week to take on Chivas USA on Sunday, August 11 at 9 p.m. MT, with a live broadcast on Altitude featuring play-by-play from Richard Fleming and color commentary from Marcelo Balboa. Coverage starts with the pregame show at 8:30 p.m. The Rapids return to Dick's Sporting Goods Park on Saturday, August 17 at 7:30 p.m. MT to take on the Vancouver Whitecaps; for more information, click here or call 303-825-GOAL.
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Position: Forward
Born: October 31, 1988
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Citizenship: Panama
Height: 5'11"
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New Job Offer? Better Check It Out.
By Dennis Nishi
While working as a financial consultant in Miami, William Kaiser was offered a full-time job in the compliance department of one of his bank clients. The pay was fine but Mr. Kaiser had other potential concerns.
"As a consultant, you might not be working for a full 12 months. There's always an attraction to be in a full-time opportunity—if it's a good fit," says Mr. Kaiser, who started prodding his professional network for inside information about the workplace culture at the bank.
That's when he found out about the spate of turnovers in the department that he would be working in. The bank also had past issues with its compliance practices that might not have been fully resolved. Mr. Kaiser graciously declined the offer.
In this tough job market, not everybody has the luxury of turning down work. But settling for a job that you could end up hating poses risks that can negatively affect your career. It can, for example, visibly taint your attitude toward work and co-workers, or typecast you into a job role that can be hard to break when you're ready to move.
Don't make rash or emotional decisions, says Gustavo Pena, managing partner of Ascendo Resources, a staffing and recruiting company in Miami. "I've seen it a lot," he says. "A Fortune 100 company, growth left and right, but the manager was a tough person to deal with. A bad boss is just one of many things that can make your job difficult. That's why you have to get a look inside."
Reach out to your network and try to get an introduction to somebody who can offer some insight about what it's like to work for the company.
A former employee can be helpful, as can a vendor or even a competitor. Websites such as Glassdoor.com also offer anecdotal accounts from actual employees about a company's salary, working conditions and management.
Just don't base your decision solely on the positive or negative opinions of a few anonymous sources that you find on the Web, says Barbara Safani, owner of Career Solver, a career-management company in New York. "There's certainly a chance that some people reporting may be disenfranchised."
If you interview in the morning or after regular work hours, look to see who's at the office. Do they look frazzled, listless or happy? That can give you an idea of the expectations of the employer, says Ms. Safani. "You can match that to what they're saying is the reality of the job."
Be transparent about your own expectations and needs throughout the interview process so there are no surprises, and try to get a commitment in writing on early promises before making a decision. Be wary of hiring managers that mention schedule flexibility or relocation assistance but defer to a handshake.
Employers will respect you more for being honest about why you're turning down their offer. Inadequate compensation is a perfectly acceptable reason to mention, as is taking a job at another company. But don't single out anything specifically negative such as being put off by a smug boss. Instead, reply by saying that the company isn't a good cultural fit.
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A BASTION of openness and counterculture, Silicon Valley imagines itself as the un-Chick-fil-A. But its hyper-tolerant facade often masks deeply conservative, outdated norms that digital culture discreetly imposes on billions of technology users worldwide.
What is the vehicle for this new prudishness? Dour, one-dimensional algorithms, the mathematical constructs that automatically determine the limits of what is culturally acceptable.


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ABC on Wednesday and Thursday parroted Barack Obama's anger over the failure of his gun control bill, touting the President's rage over this "shameful day." On World News and Good Morning America, reporter Jon Karl featured no pro-Second Amendment voices. Diane Sawyer trumpeted, "Tonight, outrage from the families of the victims of gun violence."
On Thursday, Good Morning America's Amy Robach reminded, "[Obama] called it a shameful day in Washington and vowed to keep fighting." Karl even misrepresented the legislation: "It would have expand background checks to all purchases at gun shows and online. They're now only required for guns bought at gun dealers." [See video below. MP3 audio here.] But most guns bought at a gun show are from dealers– dealers who require a background check. Additionally, the notion promoted by liberals that 40 percent of gun purchases are done privately is based on a 1997 phone survey. It's a "grossly exaggerated statistic," according to the Heritage Foundation.
In the GMA and World News segments, Karl featured clips of the President railing, "...The gun lobby and its allies willfully lied about the bill. So all in all, this was a pretty shameful day for Washington."
The reporter also featured Newtown family members angry over the bill's defeat, as well as Vice President Joe Biden. Nowhere in either segment was a single clip of any anti-gun control voices.
Only once, on World News, did Karl suggest that this was a defeat for the President, acknowledging that the bill "couldn't even get passed in the Democratically controlled Senate."
This single line couldn't equal the excitement seen at ABC last week. When it seemed as though the legislation might pass, Karl praised, "And it is a big, significant breakthrough. It doesn't get you all the way there, but it gets you a long way there."
A transcript of the April 17 World News segment is below:
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DIANE SAWYER: Voted down. A huge defeat for the big gun bill. Tonight, outrage from the families of the victims of gun violence.
MARK BARDEN: Our hearts are broken. Our spirit is not.
DIANE SAWYER: And now we turn to that big vote in Washington and jolting defeat for the president on the gun bill crafted in response to the Newtown shooting. Tonight, it has failed in the Senate and the president spoke just this afternoon. ABC's chief White House correspondent Jonathan Karl is there now. Jon?
JON KARL: Diane, this was the single best chance to pass any part of the President's plan to combat gun violence and it couldn't even get passed in the Democratically controlled Senate. Surrounded by victims of gun violence, the President angrily denounced the Senate vote.
BARACK OBAMA: There are no coherent arguments not do to this. It came down to politics. So, all in all, this was a pretty shameful day for Washington.
KARL: The President was joined by Mark Barden, who lost his son Daniel in the Sandy Hook massacre.
MARK BARDEN: We'll return home now, disappointed, but not defeated. We return home with the determination that change will happen. Maybe not today, but it will happen. It will happen soon.
JOE BIDEN: The amendment is not agreed to.
KARL: With Vice President Biden presiding, the bill fell short of the 60 votes it needed to pass. Prompting somebody in the galleries to shout out.
VOICE: Shame on you!
BIDEN: There will be order in the Senate.
KARL: The vote was a crushing disappointment to the victims of gun violence who had been pleading with senators to pass the bill. Many of them were here to watch as the vote went down. 12-year-old James Barden's six-year-old brother Daniel was murdered at Sandy Hook.
JAMES BARDEN: I feel that we owe it to Daniel, 'cause his life needs to mean something. And no one else should have to do this.
KARL: This was just one part of the President's plan. It would have expand background checks to all purchases at gun shows and online. They're now only required for guns bought at gun dealers. It means the rest of the President's gun plan is effectively dead. Although Joe Biden told us the fight is not over.
BIDEN: It's time for the American people to make it clear just how displeased they are with this vote. Let their representatives know that. This is far from over.
KARL: I just finished talking to those Sandy Hook families. They are tired. They are emotionally drained, but they're absolutely determined to continue this fight. But as far as this bill, Diane, this effort to expand background checks, it is all but dead for the rest of the year. There's virtually no chance it will be revived.


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Book on Convict Lake drowning accident both heals, hurts
Twenty-two years ago this weekend, seven people fell through the ice at Convict Lake and died.
Some, three adolescent boys on a school outing, died after they walked out on the thin and melting ice and fell into the icy, deep water.
The others, two Eastern Sierra locals and two school counselors, died trying to save the children and/or each other.
Onlookers, rescuers and the media watched helplessly from the lakeshore as head after head disappeared under the water, never to resurface alive again.
By the time it was over and the last body was pulled up from the bottom of the lake nearly a week later, the accident was the subject of media attention from around the country.
By the time it was over, the Eastern Sierra had lost two of its bravest; Inyo National Forest firefighter Clay Cutter, who lived at a cabin on the lake and went out to help the people in the water, and Long Valley Volunteer Fireman Vidar Anderson.
By the time it was over, the school the boys came from, a privately owned "therapeutic school" for troubled youth called Camp O'Neal (located near where the Whitmore Pool is now) would close under a storm of controversy over allegations of neglect, abuse, and sexual impropriety.
By the time it was over, the face of water and ice rescues in Mono County would forever change. The lessons from that fatal day lasted through generations of new emergency responders and are in place today. Never again, they said, and made changes in equipment and training to make be sure.
Never again.
By the time it was over, nothing would ever be the same. Not for anyone who was at the lake that day, not for anyone who was left behind when all the cameras were gone.
Worst of all, by the time it was over, it became clear, far too clear, that quite likely the tragic, horrific event did not have to happen at all.
What were these teenage boys doing out on the thin ice in the first place? Why had these children from Camp O'Neal not been better supervised, especially after the camp had been the site of numerous visits by the Mono County Sheriff's Department for violence, abuse and neglect?
Why did David Sellers, 15, and Shaawn Diaz, 15, and Ryan McCandless, 13, and two adult counselors, Randy Porter and David Myers, die that day in 1990? Why did Clay Cutter and Vidar Anderson die trying to rescue them?
For the first time, an in-depth book about the accident, the rescue, and the boys of Camp O'Neal is out. What it reveals about how the accident occurred is a testament to both the best of human heroism, and, profound human failure.
In fact, author Richard Mallard said the same woman who ran Camp O'Neal, Bobbi Trott Christensen, moved out of California only to open a similar school in Oregon years later. Within a year, he said, she was once again mired in allegations of abuse and neglect, until that school, too, shut down.
Perhaps even more chilling? A legacy of Camp O'Neil look-alikes still spread across the country, many with similar problems of abuse, neglect and even deaths.
"Who the hell knows any of this?" asked Mono County Sheriff Investigator John Rutkowski in the second to last sentence on the very last page of the book.
"Well, now you do," said Ramsey Pierce, a fictional character created by the author to help carry the story.
Convict Lake A True Account of the Convict Lake Rescue is a gripping book, impossible to put down, impossible to forget. I moved into the Convict Lake cabin as an Inyo National Forest Service employee two years after the accident, the same cabin that Clay Cutter and his wife Terry and their three girls lived in the day of the accident. The same cabin Clay was chopping wood beside when a frantic Camp O'Neal boy came running in asking for help. The same cabin Terry watched her husband never come home to.
I opened the book and met the past and the present; Chris Baitx and Hap Hazard and John Rutkowski and Tom Gaunt and Kevin Worden and Ray and Bobbi Turner and Jon Buccowich and J.D. Daniels and Margie Palchak and Stan Eller and so many more. For this reason alone, the book is worth picking up for those of us that call ourselves Eastern Sierra locals.
But it is far more than that.
Backed by exhaustive research, with accuracy verified by some of the people closest to the accident (including Clay Cutter's wife, Terry Cutter (now Terry Langdon) and retired Mono County Sheriff's Deputy Hap Hazard), Mallard has written a masterful account of the terrible events of that day and the still-unfolding aftermath. It is a clear-headed book, a sober book, a clean book that never sensationalizes, never uses hyperbole. Nevertheless the book leaves the reader in tears, in fury, in awe, over and over again.
"I wanted to write a book and I have kept in touch with John Rutkowski, who worked with me when I lived in Mammoth in the 1970s (at Kittredge Sports) and one day he said, 'Why don't you write about Convict Lake?'" Mallard said.
"I said, 'I'm not sure it's a full book,' and he said, 'Yes, it is.' And he was right."
"I wasn't going to talk to anyone who wanted to do a fictional version of that day, or who would sensationalize it," Langdon said. "The events were dramatic enough. I had been approached six or seven times over the 22 years and people would only be able to go so far with this. There was some kind of emotional bloc with this story. But Dick's been in touch with me every step of the way. He was able to get access to sealed records I couldn't. He brought some closure. That's what Dick did for me."
But the sword of memory cuts both ways.
As Mallard dove into the research, he realized he had something far bigger than a story about a tragedy and rescue on his hands, gripping as that was. Camp O'Neal, the for-profit camp for troubled youth, was investigated by the state for serious allegations of sexual abuse, forcible drugging, and abuses from neglect to heating and clothing shortages. The camp's prescribing psychiatrist, Dr. James. H. White, was arrested (and later convicted) several months after the accident for at least one account of oral sex with a boy that he had drugged.
And the counselors, the ones sent out that day to watch the boys, two of whom died, had almost no training. One had a previous felony conviction and marijuana in his bloodstream at the time of the accident.
"There are so many people still here that the book has brought back, but there are also so many wounds that have healed during the 22-year period," said Mono County Supervisor Hap Hazard, who was one of the Sheriff's deputies called out on numerous Camp O'Neal 911 calls.
"We were getting perhaps two to three calls a week out there and some were pretty serious. When it was finally burned to the ground and the clean desert was there again, I thought maybe it was laid to rest. But this book, incredible as it is, is still hard to read."
Local retired Inyo National Forest Service employee Fred Richter was Cutter's boss that winter. In fact, he helped get the Cutters the Convict cabin, when the family's double-wide mobile home was late in being delivered to the Forest Service compound in Mammoth Lakes. He was also Cutter's friend.
"For 14 years, I never told anyone that I felt responsible for his death," Richter said this week. "If he wasn't in that cabin, he wouldn't have died. I just held it in. I knew it was irrational, but I still felt it. Then, one day, I was online and I Googled Clay's name and contacted his aunt and uncle and sent them the kind of email that makes you shudder, telling them everything. They got back to me and then Terry got back to me and she said, 'That's irrational, you helped us, it's ok,' and finally, I was able to move on. But I don't know if I will read the book. I don't know if I can."
"I'm normally a brutally honest dude," said Mono County Paramedic Chris Baitx, one of the rescuers that day, a man who spent far too much time underwater himself before he was rescued on the edge of hypothermia.
"I say what I think. But I have to admit, I don't like going there. I don't know if I'll ever read it."
But you should.
Read it.
Richard Mallard, the author or Convict Lake A True Account of the Convict Lake Rescue, will be at the Booky Joint on the twenty-second anniversary of the Convict Lake drownings that killed seven people this Sunday, Feb. 19, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. to sign his book. For more information, call (760) 934-5023 or go to www.convictlakebook.com.


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Right now, instead of reading this, you could be playing Leap Day. If you have the Unity plug-in in your browser and your teacher/professor/boss isn't looking, go do it.
Or at least load this up (and then scroll to the amazingness lurking in the upper right of your screen. What you'll see there is a saved game from one of the game's developers who has already played Leap Day. His game went into public beta yesterday.
Leap Day is a simple, browser-based co-op strategy game that has you laying down roads and houses in order to get a bunch of cute little leaping worker guys to make better and better materials. Oh, that sounds so tedious. But it's not! It's like Sim City but just with glorified conveyor belts. It's like SpaceChem but cuter!
The game comes from Sparkypants and and the Triple Town folks at Spry Fox.
Go play it. Have fun, and try not to get hypnotized.


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