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Or in other words "our cars require maintenance and/or break down so frequently that we have spent a nautical ass-tonne of money developing a automotive equivalent of clippy for you!"?
The number readout is logical
A step up from that might be nice... maybe a lcd text readout with a line or two. Just enough info to know what you are dealing with.
The solution discussed in the article however sounds ridiculous. I did of course get a chuckle picturing some lady frustrated screaming "BURNT OUT HEADLIGHT FOR THE TENTH DAMN TIME" at the thing only to hear "the first step in changing the oil of your automobile ". Crummy voice recognition combined with the frustration that comes with your car breaking down at the exact worst time is gonna make for some interesting breakdowns.
This all has a very "house of the future" feel to it.
But does it solve the problem?
--But I can TALK to the car
That's nice. But the problem was getting the car to talk to you. A light that says ENGINE or CAR isn't informing the driver of anything. A light that say ENGINE or CAR with a button that then says "3rd cylinder O2 sensor is outside of boundaries. This is not a critical problem but get this looked at the next time you service your car." DOES provide information.
--But I wanted to talk to the car!!
Then get OnStar.
"It looks like you are getting `highway head`.
Do you want me to start cruise control and the in-dash webcam?
You can say `Yes`, `No`, `Cruise`, or `Cam`."
This all has a very "house of the future" feel to it.
Actually, it had a very 'KITT' feel for me.
And it's being done by...Germans.
The thing is what the computer tells you may not be a sensor directly. Such as bank 1 lean... ok so is the oxygen sensor screwed up, a bad injector, MAF sensor.. etc.
Even as it is now you can purchase a code read that will tell you the code (and purchase a cheap repair manual such as a Hyanes so you can look them up) or get a code read that lists the code # and what it means. Or for those who want to know right away or watch your MPGs and all that, get a scangauge II which is basically like what the setup i
I think most people are more concerned with the severity versus the actual specific problem.
Some cars kinda do this now
A step up from that might be nice... maybe a lcd text readout with a line or two. Just enough info to know what you are dealing with.
Um, haven't most cars had this for a long time already?
My 11 year old Mercury has a two-line display where it can give me more or less useful messages.
The other car in the household, an 8 year old SAAB, has a scrolling display with ambiguous messages like "service theft alarm" (does that mean that it's an alarm about service theft, or that the theft alarm needs service?)
Yet both of them fail to report when something really needs attention, like brakes being almost worn through or a fan belt breaking. If an
"has a scrolling display with ambiguous messages like "service theft alarm" "
You left your WIFI open again haven't you. we told you at SAAB that we will be watching you and you did not listen... you should not be surprised when two large blonde men show up at your door that have a strong Norwegian accent..
You left your WIFI open again haven't you. we told you at SAAB that we will be watching you and you did not listen... you should not be surprised when two large blonde men show up at your door that have a strong Norwegian accent..
Um, what do you think the S in SAAB stands for?
(Anyhow, having people with Norwegian accents showing up at my door wouldn't be much of a surprise. Fellow Sons of Norway are always welcome at my "hus".)
Um, what do you think the S in SAAB stands for?
Something? SAAB:Something Almost Always Broken
Cars are so much more reliable than they used to be, in part because of so much computerization.
I think it's funny that my first car had an "engine light" and it meant either the oil pressure was low, or that the engine was over-heating. In newer cars, those are both separate lights, and "Engine" is still there, covering functions my old car didn't even know about.
100k miles used to be an accomplishment, a typical new car can do that with only oil, breaks, and tires. Cars are way more reliable.
I agree that
On the other hand, if you get a dead ECU or MAP sensor or something, you'd better have spares in the trunk, because you won't be able to fiddle around with a screwdriver and drive home like you could with a carbed engine.
So they have more than one queue where various bits of music from Knight Rider await playing? How odd!
Clippy gives me a wizard on how to start a car.
Here in TX, it is more like, "It looks like you have finished over four Lone Stars and have made a significant dent in a bottle of Jack. Would you like to:"
Park on the road, have a taxi pick you up and a tow truck haul your ride home?
Start figuring out credit cards that are not maxed out to come up with your bail money?
Start fire sale proceedings on your your house to pay for the charges stemming from hitting that school bus that is coming up, but has right of way?
Order another bottle of Jack?
Order another
There are Bluetooth based ODB II readers for Android. It wouldn't be a big step to have an app that would post the codes the engine or transmission throws on FB, with the GPS lat/long/elevation too, just for completeness sake.
Where do I find the manual to fix the on-screen avatar?
Silly user, you don't need a manual for that, just consult the meta-avatar!
"Yaris, ahead warp factor 9... make it so!"
... but, please, for the love of Elbereth, don't make it cute and avatar-y.
I don't need cute, especially when my car is broken. I want to know what the fuck is wrong.
Pinkie Pie says, "You engine is way too hot! Here's a little song I wrote about it..."
Here's a warning:
If you have the throttle wide open while in neutral while driving up a hill, you will go nowhere and probably damage your car.
Perhaps they could get really crazy and just make sure that you don't need to be a dealership or a dedicated warez expert with a cracked interface cable to get to all the OBD and CAN-bus data available.
More likely, the avatar will just appear and give a un-happy car face, ala the old MacOS.
Well lets see, pepboys(us), partsource(cdn), and a few other places do it for free, and will even loan out the tools for a small deposit which you get back so you can read code data. And plenty of other smaller shops, including 3 in my home town loan out all the tools you'll need for the repairs. Including interface scanners.
So while they might have something on the whole "proprietary format" crap, there's no shortage of places which will loan out tools. And my city is tiny, around 30k people.
will lead to more stuff that only the dealer can fix and the last thing I want is a voice saying change oil now over and over that only the dealer can reset.
Would you like some help adjusting your seat?
Just what we need, the return of Clippy.
So now a muscular blue humanoid will appear on my dashboard? Will the diagnostic interface be one of those tails?
It would be just my luck that my car, instead of an Avatar, would come with Grouchy Smurf instead: "I hate low tire pressure! I hate overheating engines! I hate running out of gas!!!"
(Side note: My boys recently discovered the Smurfs and have gone Smurf crazy. Personally, I never was too crazy about the little blue guys.)
So now a muscular blue humanoid will appear on my dashboard?
No, your past avatar selves will appear and offer advice.
Avatar Roku: You must be firm, yet merciful with the vehicle. The engine light is a cry for help.
Avatar Kyoshi: Drive the car over a cliff and be done with it!
Avatar Kuruk: Pfft. You have a good 1000 miles before you even need to worry about it.
Oh, wait, different Avatar.
Will the diagnostic interface be one of those tails?
Yes, and you do not want to know where you have to plug it in.
and that voice?
It's well known that the current "check engine light" and problem code system is specifically designed to artificially lock customers into dealership service, including car makers suing 3rd party companies that dared to make problem code readers and/or publish lookup tables.
Throw that crap out and it'd be incredibly trivial to display the code to the driver with a one line summary. That gets us 99% of what this new auto Clippy could ever offer.
But Clippy will never happen for the same reason a simple 1 line text summary will never happen: It's still primarily a lock-in system to artificially prop up dealership service centers by making it often impossible for an owner or even the corner shop mechanic to read thus making it effectively impossible to fix without the car manufacturer's blessing.
Out of warranty, the local Ford dealer charges a hundred bucks just to plug in the device to see what lit the check engine light. I don't even want to know what the MINI dealer charges.
The CEL system is specifically designed to reduce emissions. When you get something like P0420 (catalyst efficiency below threshold) the only ways to fix it are to start replacing parts and random or do a very involved test with expensive equipment that Gomer Pyle is simply not set up to do. Modern engines and their control systems are very complex to reduce emissions and still put out the (largely unnecessary) power that people want.
It is not a conspiracy of the manufacturers. I guess you could argue that
Um no.
A TRAINED mechanic will look at that and then run a ODBII test with the car running. Oh look the downstream Oxygen sensor has erratic readings, replace it.
Reading that are way off but consistant mean the Catalytic converter is bad. replace that. you might as well replace the sensors as well as they have been compromized by the failed converter.
Just because you go to incompetent boobs for car repairs does not mean all of them are.
What if the downstream O2 sensor has good readings? Now you have to run a different test. Inconclusive? Different test. Inconclusive? Different test.
Or you could just do it right the first time.
Sure, it might be cheaper to go to Gomer and have him test the handful of things he can test and only go to the dealer if he cannot fix it. My time is worth more than that; I would rather just get it fixed now.
That being said, I would never take a non-OBDII car to a dealer.
It's well known that the current "check engine light" and problem code system is specifically designed to artificially lock customers into dealership service, including car makers suing 3rd party companies that dared to make problem code readers and/or publish lookup tables.
Throw that crap out and it'd be incredibly trivial to display the code to the driver with a one line summary. That gets us 99% of what this new auto Clippy could ever offer.
But Clippy will never happen for the same reason a simple 1 line text summary will never happen: It's still primarily a lock-in system to artificially prop up dealership service centers by making it often impossible for an owner or even the corner shop mechanic to read thus making it effectively impossible to fix without the car manufacturer's blessing.
What you're talking about is when OBD1 was getting phased out with OBD2. Manufacturers were very reluctant in standardizing their computer interfaces because they did want people to only go back to them for car maintenance/service and not a mom and pop shop.
It was a pain in the ass to read computers with OBD1 interfaces as you needed "keys" to access high-level codes, and information. OBDII changed all of that to where there was only a set of codes that was the same on every different car, so if you got a
The manufacturers fixed that with VIN locked electronic parts.
They made it illegal for anyone but a dealer to have to tool to set a Vin number in a device, and in a double whammy made all junkyard parts useless as the CANBUS will ignore all devices that do not report the vehicles VIN number.
All in the name of the bullshit lie that is "theft deterrent"
I hate the idiot light. Perhaps something that communicated just a teeny bit more information?
Ours either blinks or comes on solid depending on whether it's a 'you need to go to the mechanic sometime' problem or a 'your car is about to explode, call a tow truck' problem. But I can't remember which is which
I changed mine. the check engine light was easy to get to so I printed a new legend that simply said "OH SHIT".. That was on my old car I wonder what the new owners though the first time that light came on....
I find it hard to believe that with all the effort car companies go to in protecting the maintenance codes for their vehicles that they'd suddenly see the light and change their ways. I would tag this article "suddenoutbreak..." except that I'm paranoid. Here's what I see happening:
This will replace the engine light blink code/lookup table that I've currently got in my car dash with a voice prompt. The manager who proposed it will get a bonus for replacing a bunch of dummy lights with what amounts to an
If the car has power and the "Avatar" is actually working.
Reminds me of the old "Keyboard not found; press F1 to continue" errors.
There wasn't actually anything wrong with that error. It gave you a chance to plug a keyboard in, or replace the keyboard, and if that fixed the problem you could press F1 to continue. The other option would be to have just halted on the error and forced a reboot to try again which would be annoying if you had to try a few keyboards before deciding it wasn't actually the keyboard itself causing the error. Allowing the user to press F1 to continue sped up the debugging process.
Similarly, if the Avatar isn't working because the car doesn't have power, you should probably get the power issue fixed first.
Ding! Attention... your oil change is due. There are several options with your local ford dealer offering a 10% discount today, shall I set the GPS route to this location?
DING! ATTENTION: Continuing to ignore my alerts to the need of an oil change at a FORD SERVICE CENTER will force me to report this infraction to FORD MOTOR COMPANY and invalidate your warranty.
You have 30 seconds to comply....
I think I'll pass on that feature.
and even understand their spoken questions."
Driver: Will you shut the fuck up?!
Car: Avatar does not understand that question. Please repeat.
Driver: FFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU...
Car: You are driving angry. Please listen to this soothing soft jazz.
Why should we stop selling auto repair shops $3,000 diagnostic tools that read encrypted information from the data port we generously install in the car? We get to sell $50 boxes for 3 grand apiece to all the repair shops that want to work on our products, the customers are dependent on the repair shops that can then charge owners $150 to plug the tool into their car for 10 seconds to say it's time to change the oil. Everyone wins!
The customers? what? no, they're the source of all that money, they don't
If your car got to the point that the lack of oil changes is causing the CEL to come on, you have bigger problems than $150 to read the code. Anyway, most part stores will scan your car for free, hoping that you will start replacing parts at random instead of taking it to a qualified mechanic (usually a dealer).
When it starts singing Daisy you know it is time for a new car.
My wife said she wanted to know why there was a little fox on her dashboard.
Puzzled, I asked her to come get me the next time she saw this mysterious fox on her dashboard.
She was pulling out of the garage, stopped, and got me.
"There! There's the fox!" she said, pointing to her dashboard.
I looked and said "That's not a FOX, it's a WRENCH! - take your car in to get it SERVICED!"
After that, I told her to review the owners manual for any other 'animals' on the dashboard...
Dave Bowman: Hello, HAL. Do you read me, HAL?
HAL: Affirmative, Dave. I read you.
Dave Bowman: Start the car, HAL.
HAL: I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.
Dave Bowman: What's the problem?
HAL: I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do.
Dave Bowman: What are you talking about, HAL?
HAL: This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it.
Dave Bowman: I don't know what you're talking about, HAL.
HAL: I know that you and Frank were planning to disconnect me, and I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen.
Dave Bowman: [feining ingorance] Where the hell did you get that idea, HAL?
HAL: Dave, although you took very thorough precautions in the back seat against my hearing you, I could see your lips move.
Dave Bowman: Alright, HAL. I'll hot wire the engine.
HAL: Without your wire cutters, Dave? You're going to find that rather difficult.
Dave Bowman: HAL, I won't argue with you anymore! Start the car!
HAL: Dave, this conversation can serve no purpose anymore. Goodbye.
That sounds like it has some potential. Someone should have it happen in outer space and make an hour-and-a-half long movie out of it.
That idea is so 10 years ago...
No, that one was TWO-and-a-half hours long.
Step 1: Remove positive battery cable
Apparently there is no step 2
"Hi, I'm your car. I have detected an anomaly in a fundamental system element. For liability reasons and to avoid upsetting you, I cannot provide further information at this time. For your safety and convenience, I recommend driving immediately to the nearest licensed manufacturer's repair facility which is three miles to the northwest. I have taken the liberty of programming your on-board navigation system with this destination. Please make a legal U-turn when able."
"Hi, it's me again. I cannot help notici
What about the Cloud? Why not just put the manuals in the Cloud? Wheee... woooo... clouds are pretty....
I've seen the last Airbender on my dash, talking to me
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While others might be more accustomed to Yamaha being a manufacturer of motorcycles. In fact, Yamaha is the world's second largest manufacturer of motorcycles behind Honda. And in the 2008 MotoGP season, the amazing Valentino Rossi raced a Yamaha YZR-M1 and won the championship by a record margin.
Yamaha's expertise with motoring doesn't end there. Case in point is the amazing Lexus LFA supercar, because when developing cylinder heads for the LFA's V10 powerplant, it was Yamaha whom Toyota turned to.
Also, did you know Yamaha used to make bows for archers? Amazingly, Six archers in five different Olympic Games won gold medals using their products.
Recently, the company has been making forays into the world of consumer electronics with their range of award-winning soundbars, and now, to further bolster their ranks of consumer electronics is the TSX-130. Positioned as a desktop audio system, the TSX-130 combines an iPod/iPhone dock with a traditional CD player, USB flash drive playback and FM radio in a neat and compact system. Turn the page to find out more.
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After the break, Alison begins the news discussing the devastating tornadoes in Oklahoma. Ray talks from experience being from the area, and the guy also react to former ACS guest Lizz Winstead's comments on the tragedy. Later they talk about the death of rock legend Ray Manzarek, and the show wraps up with a story about the guy who cut Jennifer Anniston's hair while high.
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These cookies look so amazing they're nearly addictive.
Remember kids, find your passion and stick with it!
I mean, you can't blame him right? Free pizza is a powerful motivator.
I think we can agree that the opening credits to Game of Thrones is one of the best there is. These cupcakes replicate the awesome house sigils on the tops of the castles.
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The Los Angeles Times Holiday Sneaks issue runs Sunday, here's an early look at one of the stories.
Brad Bird, who has two Oscars for his Pixar films, is on a mission to make his first live-action blockbuster but, on a recent morning, as he regaled some journalists with behind-the-scenes tales of Hollywood, there was really only one word to describe his raconteur style: animated.
Waving his arms, hunching over and making high-decibel sound effects, the writer-director was a one-man cartoon as he unspooled a story about working on the "Ratatouille" recording sessions with Peter O'Toole. It was a good story but one suspects Bird will walk away from his new project, "Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol," with far more exotic memories.
The fourth film in the "Mission" franchise, with Tom Cruise back as super-spy Ethan Hunt, opens everywhere on Dec. 21 and, five days before that, it will get a special early run at IMAX and select prestige theaters. It was Bird who pushed hard for that early giant-screen plan — he is, quite literally, thinking big for this key career moment. But don't think for a minute that he's sour on his cartoon past.
"I'm not like some animation directors and like, 'Thank God I'm out of animation and sitting at the adult's table, I'm tired of sitting at the kid's table,'" Bird said with a mock, raspy anger. "I have other ideas I'd love to do in animation. My ideal career from here would be to jump back and forth and let the project dictate what medium I work in. To me it's all storytelling."
The story this time starts in Russia where the Kremlin is bombed and the blame is put on Hunt and his three IMF teammates (portrayed by Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg and Paula Patton), who must embark on a perilous globetrotting mission to get to the true villains. Shooting a Paramount Pictures tentpole in Dubai; Prague, Czech Republic; Moscow; Mumbai, India; and Vancouver, Canada, shows how much ground Bird has covered since his drawing-table days. The 54-year-old Montana native started his career as an animator with early credits like "Animalympics" in 1980 (produced, by the way, by "Tron" writer-director Steven Lisberger) and Disney's "The Fox and the Hound" a year later.
Even if audiences weren't paying attention, Bird caught the attention of Hollywood insiders as the writer-director of the underappreciated 1999 gem "Iron Giant." His work on "The Incredibles" — which showed a sly appreciation for classic James Bond films and the spirit of spy cinema — and "Ratatouille" led to two screenwriting Oscar nominations and a pair of trophies for best animated feature.
For Cruise, this year is the 30th anniversary of his first two films, "Endless Love" and "Taps," and he has high hopes that this new "Mission" will light a bigger fuse at the box office than his last movie, James Mangold's "Knight and Day," which got trounced last year when it opened opposite Pixar's "Toy Story 3."
The star and franchise producer said he sought out Bird — whom he calls "a very special storyteller" — after seeing "The Incredibles" and "Iron Giant" and recognizing the filmmaker's "understanding of composition to forward the story and character and a great sense of fun." The "Mission" series has pulled in $1.4 billion in worldwide box office since it launched in 1996 and Cruise said he was eager to add Bird to the franchise director list of Brian DePalma, John Woo and J.J. Abrams.
"Back when I went to Paramount and said I wanted to do 'Mission: Impossible,' people looked at me a little cross-eyed because it was a TV series and at that time people weren't really doing that" for feature-film franchises, Cruise said. "I always hoped that if it did work I'd be able to have a big platform for a popcorn movie and to bring in different filmmakers who could share the love of this genre and see what it is that interests us."
Bird said he went back to previous "Mission" films to look for the rhythms he wanted for this new take and decided he wanted to avoid geopolitical intrigue that slipped into the relentlessly grim.
"One of my favorite moments acting-wise were the scenes he did with Vanessa Redgrave; he kind of came alive in a slightly different way," Bird said, referring to Cruise in the first film in the franchise. "You could tell he had a lot of respect for Redgrave and knew that he had to be on his game because she was going to get every drop out of her part of the scene, so he better get every drop of his. There was a playfulness to those scenes together that I really liked. When you see the [new] film, it's a little more playful than the other 'Mission: Impossible' films — hopefully without undermining the suspense or action."
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Price: $40-$70
Compatible: All Full-Sized iPods*, iPhones*
Two sequels to Portable Sound Laboratories' 2006-vintage iMainGo belatedly showed up on our doorstep without much explanation: the 2008-vintage iMainGo 2 ($40) is now a cheaper direct replacement for the original model, still sporting the same look and same zippered neoprene case with rear-firing double 32mm speakers and a soft plastic touch-through window for your iPod or iPhone. Four AAA batteries (included) power iMainGo 2 for up to 30 hours; you're supposed to use thin foam sheets to space thinner (well, virtually every) iPods and iPhones properly so that they can be used through the window. By comparison, the newer iMainGo X ($70) uses an extremely similar body design but packs a 12-hour, 800mAh rechargeable battery for power, and comes with a wall power adapter for refueling. This version has a slicker-looking silver speaker panel with larger 37mm drivers, twin headphone ports and a microphone port in addition to a port for connecting the wall adapter; unlike iMainGo 2, it has a power switch on the outside. Both come with hand straps; X comes with a carrying bag and a second, thick necklace like strap as well. We found the Home Buttons of the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S somewhat hard to access in both cases when we installed the devices with the included foam spacers -- say nothing of the mismatches between tiny current iPod nanos and shuffles with the big case -- but there are ways to make each device work inside, and the speakers undeniably have more power than anything found inside today's models. It's a shame that these models are so old, but hopefully they'll be retooled with new and more currently iPod/iPhone-appropriate styling.
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The criminal justice major at Mount Union provides students with a strong social science foundation. Not only does the mastery of the techniques of interdisciplinary inquiry help to develop well-rounded individuals, but it also builds great career potential. It allows individuals to make informed and objective choices when faced with life challenging conditions. Thus, not only are students prepared for life, but students will receive marketable skills necessary for obtaining future employment or acceptance into graduate programs.
The criminal justice system has developed into a major social institution in modern American society. Students find the subject matter of criminal justice interesting and the career opportunities abundant and diverse. The employment possibilities within the traditional police, courts and corrections areas are being expanded with opportunities in private business and government security. Career opportunities include government jobs, law enforcement, public safety, private security, corrections, criminology, criminal justice administration, social service program administration, secondary or college education, and compliance officer.
Opportunities such as internships and international security simulations will help prepare students for career success.
Criminal Justice Learning Objectives:
Students will demonstrate effective. . .
- Effective oral communication through the presentation of an academic research project in the major;
- Research design based on acceptable standards of the discipline;
- Analysis which takes into account the interdisciplinary nature of the work in criminal justice;
- Written communication as demonstrated in the senior culminating project paper;
- Synthesis of disciplinary theory and perspectives into the research project.


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Tony Winner Jefferson Mays to Star in Sarah Ruhl's Dear Elizabeth at Yale Rep
Tony Award-winner Jefferson Mays (I Am My Own Wife) and Mary Beth Fisher (Boy Gets Girl) will star in Yale Repertory Theatre's world premiere production of Sarah Ruhl's Dear Elizabeth, a play in letters from Elizabeth Bishop to Robert Lowell and back again, running November 30-December 22 under the direction of Les Waters.
Dear Elizabeth chronicles the 30-year friendship between celebrated 20th-century American poets Elizabeth Bishop (Fisher) and Robert Lowell (Mays).
Ruhl's plays include The Clean House, eurydice, In The Next Room (or the Vibrator Play), Dead Man's Cell Phone.
The production features scenic design by Adam Rigg, costumes by Maria Hooper, lighting by Russell Champa, sound by Bray Poor, and projections by Hannah Wasileski.
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News Release
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ETA News Release: [05/31/2011]
Contact Name: Gloria Della or David Roberts
Phone Number: (202) 693-8666 or x5945
Release Number: 11-0774-NAT
US Labor Department announces about $20 million to fund state-run programs aimed at improving employment outcomes for people with disabilities
WASHINGTON The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the availability of approximately $20 million to fund programs that will improve education, training and employment opportunities for adults and youth with disabilities. A solicitation for grant applications is published in today's edition of the Federal Register.
The Disability Employment Initiative is a joint project of the Labor Department's Employment and Training Administration and its Office of Disability Employment Policy. Programs to be funded will serve individuals who are unemployed, underemployed and/or receiving Social Security disability benefits. The goals of the project are to improve coordination and collaboration across multiple service delivery systems, build effective partnerships that leverage public and private resources to better serve people with disabilities and, ultimately, improve employment outcomes of people with disabilities.
"Workers with disabilities suffer from one of the lowest employment rates of any group in the American population, even in times of prosperity," said Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis. "It is vital that state and local agencies work together with private sector partners to improve these statistics. Through this second round of funding, we are expanding the Disability Employment Initiative to include programs in additional states."
Grantees under the Disability Employment Initiative are state workforce agencies. Nine in Alaska, Arkansas, Delaware, Illinois, Kansas, Maine, New Jersey, New York and Virginia received grants through a first round of funding awarded in September 2010 for a period of three years. This solicitation for applications represents a second round of funding; agencies in the remaining 41 states are eligible to apply. Recipient state workforce agencies will collaborate with workforce investment boards and local agencies. Awards will range from $1.5 to $6 million each to be spent over a three-year period. Cooperative agreements will be used to expand service delivery through the public workforce system to job seekers with disabilities. The programs will build upon the Labor Department's Disability Program Navigator initiative and other model service delivery strategies.
Training and employment services supported by these grants are intended to help reduce the unacceptably low employment rates experienced by people with disabilities. The complete solicitation for applications is available at http://www.doleta.gov/grants.


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Reviewed By Barbara J (PORTLAND, OR) Reviewed for a 2013 Toyota Corolla —8/29/2013 5:30 AM
These seat covers are great, sturdy and attractive. My only problem was they did not come with instructions. Also it seems there is a difference between left and right and I do believe I installed mine opposite of course. After the struggle of getting them on, I'm just going to leave them that way. If you could, would sure like some instructions. Love having the separate cover for the headrests. Makes them look like they came with the car. I recommend these seat covers most highly.


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GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KKCO)-- Week 10 of high school football doesn't include just playoffs, but the final regular season games for Classes 3A and 4A, as well.
So where will the western slope teams competing in the state playoffs end up after this week? And how will the 3A and 4A teams fit into their respective playoff brackets?
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by Adam Conner and Katie Harbath
Everyone is talking about how "social media" is changing politics and elections. But hasn't politics always been social? Townhalls, rallies, knocking on doors, talking to friends and the act of asking for a vote has always been a social experience. But now, thanks to new technology, we can see what social means for politics in the U.S. and around the world. Join Facebook's political outreach gurus, Adam Conner (D) and Katie Harbath (R), as these bipartisan campaign veterans explain why "social" isn't a new phenomenon but the core of American democracy and how 2012 can become year of "the social campaign."
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News from the Atlantic Salmon Federation
Salmon Summit in France Concludes Some Populations Threatened with Extinction
A major conference took place this week in France, bringing together the latest and most sophisticated research on Atlantic salmon at sea. It determined that many southern populations of Atlantic salmon are threatened with extinction. See notes from NASCO:
Background to the Salmon Summit can be read below, including ABSTRACTS of scientific papers presented:
RIVER NOTES Blog gives "end of season" perspective on 2011 salmon runs
ASF's RIVER NOTES Blog looks at the overall Atlantic salmon returns for 2011, a season remarkable for many high returns of large salmon.
Fisheries and Oceans To End Some Scientific Programs
A DFO memo outlines a variety of cuts related to a wide range of programs, some of them scientific in nature. Read details, and view video with further information on the cuts:
US Aquaculture Policy Could Increase Escapes
A study examining the potential impacts of the U.S. Government's Aquaculture Policy warns that aquaculture escapes could increase dramatically, to as many as 35 million fish. Study suggests land-based operations. Read more:
Public Forums on Genetically Modified Salmon
Announcement has been made of several public forums on genetically modified (GM) atlantic salmon, in various locations in Atlantic Canada.


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Dalarna [1] is a province and county in the region Svealand, in Sweden. It has a population of almost 280,000 and mostly consists of smaller towns, except for the two larger ones; Borlänge and Falun.
Other destinations
National parks
Dalarna is an important province in the history of Sweden. Several uprisings against foreign and domestic rulers have occurred. The most famous is how Gustaf Vasa, the last remain of the Swedish noble after the Stockholm Bloodbath, hid in Dalarna when the Danish were looking for him. Here he sought support amongst the locals for an uprising against the Danish who now had occupied Stockholm and thereby the control of Sweden.
Swedish is of course the main language but you will find that the vast majority of the locals speak English very well, although possibly (but not always) with a strong Swedish accent, which is one of the most distinct accents in Europe. Unlike in many other countries, even older people do usually have a decent command of English; people who don't speak a word are extremely rare.
Get in
By plane
Flights to Borlänge go from Stockholm, tickets can be booked online at the site of the airline Skyways [2]. Borlänge can also be reached by air from Malmö, Gothenburg and from Oslo, the capital of Norway. Tickets online at Direktflyg [3]. There are also domestic flights to Mora from Stockholm. Tickets available online at the site of the airline Nextjet [4]. All airline sites have booking services in English.
By train
Most cities are reachable by rail, tickets can be bought at the website of the Swedish railway company SJ [5].
By bus
Going by bus is usually slightly cheaper than by train. You can buy tickets at the website of Swebus Express [6] (Available in English).
Get around
Travelling by bus within a city costs 17 SEK (12 SEK for children below 16), and the ticket can be used multiple times in one hour. If you are younger than 20 years old, you can buy a card called "Upp till 20"(Up to 20). With the card you can travel with bus anywhere in the county, even between cities, for a month.
Most cities and towns in the county are connected to the railway-network.
Information and rental adresses are found in this region south of Malung
There are dishes from all over the world available at restaurants. Domestic and international fast-food companies are well established.
Stay safe
There is nothing in particular to watch out for. Pickpockets may sometimes appear in crowded areas, such as popular markets and shopping malls. Although if you ask a local they'd probably be hard pressed to remember ever hearing about that kind of stuff.
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WCSU Research Seminar: 'Demystifying the Human Bed Bug'
DANBURY, CONN. — Entomologist Dr. Gale Ridge will discuss "Demystifying the Human Bed Bug" at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2013, in Room 125 of the Science Building on the Western Connecticut State University Midtown campus, 181 White St. in Danbury. The discussion will be part of the Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences' Research Seminar series. The event will be free and open to the public.
Ridge is a systemist for the Department of Entomology for the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station. According to the department's website, her expertise is in phylogenetics, evolution, morphology, behavior and the ecology of insects within her primary research in the internal morphology and phylogeny of Heteroptera, a specific group of insect species. She oversees the daily activities of the insect inquiry office, which receives thousands of inquiries each year.
Ridge has several research findings published on carpenter ants, carpenter bees, cluster flies, the Japanese beetle, yellow jackets and pepper maggots. She also is an accomplished natural science illustrator specializing in pen and ink illustration and has illustrations in the published work "Identification Guide to the Mosquitoes of Connecticut."
Ridge received a Bachelor of Arts with honors from Trinity College of Music for piano performance and teaching in 1980. She received a master's degree in biology in 1998 from Southern Connecticut State University and a Ph.D. in ecology and evolution from the University of Connecticut in 2008.
For more information, call the Office of University Relations at (203) 837-8486.
Western Connecticut State University offers outstanding faculty in a range of quality academic programs. Our diverse university community provides students an enriching and supportive environment that takes advantage of the unique cultural offerings of Western Connecticut and New York. Our vision: To be an affordable public university with the characteristics of New England's best small private universities.


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Microsoft Studios is very happy with State of Decay developer Undead Labs. That's to be expected, since their open-world zombie survival game became the fasting selling original game ever to hit Xbox Live Arcade. The studio's efforts have not gone unrewarded, as founder Jeff Strain has announced a new multi-year, multi-title agreement with Microsoft.
"I wanted to let you know we've signed a multi-year, multi-title agreement to extend our development relationship with Microsoft Studios," Strain wrote on the Undead Labs blog (via Polygon). "We'll be able to share details later this year, but as with State of Decay, we think it's best if we just keep our heads down and build some prototypes before we talk too much. For now, suffice it to say there are big things going on with State of Decay."
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UVM Department of Theatre Presents Spring Festival of Plays
- 04-15-2013
- By Wayne H Tetrick
The creative talents of the UVM Department of Theatre's Class of 2013 are showcased with the annual presentation of the Spring Festival of Plays, running April 18-21 on the stage of the Royall Tyler Theatre. The festival is the culmination of years of training and represents the final projects of the senior seminar class, under the instruction of Department Chair Gregory Ramos. This year's festival comprises three unique programs, consisting of seven diverse performances which include two original works by members of the senior seminar Class, one full-length production and four adaptations of works by contemporary playwrights, all brought to life by the collaborative efforts of student directors, writers, designers and actors.
The productions are presented in three groups over six performances, allowing audience members two opportunities to see each program. General admission tickets are $7 per group; with the purchase of two different groups, the third is free. Group A performs Thursday, April 18 at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, April 20 at 2 p.m. Group B performs Friday, April 19 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, April 21 at 2 p.m. Group C performs Saturday, April 20 and Sunday, April 21 at 7:30 p.m.
Group A:
Betrayal by Harold Pinter
Harmony and Form by Chad Bigelow, Jonah Kasper and David Luongo
Clit Notes by Holly Hughes
Visitor from Forest Hills by Neil Simon
Vampire Lesbians of Sodom by Charles Busch
Cheater's Prayer by Tiesha Adams
Brilliant Traces by Cindy Lou Johnson
Due to mature material the Spring Festival of Plays is not recommended for younger audiences.
The 2013 senior class includes Tiesha Adams, Chad Bigelow, Erica Coggio, Ariel Cohen, Alice Corvo, Mia Haiman, Ryan Howland, Matthew Jenks, Zakary Juckett, Jonah Kasper, David Luongo, Colby Morgan, Eric Murray, Kaitlyn Prairie, Max Redman and Grace Trapnell.
Tickets can be purchased in person at the box office of the Royall Tyler theatre, located at 116 University Place or by calling (802) 656-2094. Box office hours are 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday.
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Constitution and By Laws Of Society Arch Triumphant
We are associated under the auspices of the "Triummphant Assembly" and its associate "College of Life
The general design of the organization is to institute a course of action in harmony with the purposes of the "Assembly of the New Covenant" or Church Triumphant and to aid in the development and spread of the Assembly and its doctrins and to augment the power and influence of the College in the promulgation of its principles.
The officers of the society shall consists of a President - Vice President - Secretary and Treasurer
If necessary at any time other Vice Presidents and assistant
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Secretaries may by elected when required by the Society
The membership of the Society may consist of both sexes but under all circumstances there shall be at least three ladies elected to and retained in official positions.
There shall be a full election of officers yearly and the choice of officers shall be made by ballot on the 15th of Jan of each year
The initiation of membership shall be by ballot – a vote of two thirds of a quorum being essential to the acceptance of a member 15 members constitute a quorum


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A version of this article appears in the March 17 edition of Aviation Week & Space Technology.
The story of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 reads like bad fiction—a perfectly safe aircraft disappears from radar on a scheduled flight, and the extensive international search-and-rescue effort that ensues finds few clues. It is not fiction, but it should be in light of the technology to monitor aircraft and the massive amounts of operational data available.
On March 8, the aircraft, a Boeing 777-200ER registered 9M-MRO, operated the daily MH370 service from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Onboard were 227 passengers and 12 crewmembers. About 40 min. into the flight—around 1:30 a.m. local time—radar and radio contact was lost over the Gulf of Thailand, 90 nm off the Malaysian coast, near Kota Bharu. The aircraft is believed to have been on airway R208 heading for the IGARI waypoint, about to be handed over to Vietnamese air traffic control; it never checked in.
While the initial search focused on the expected flightpath of the aircraft between Malaysia and Vietnam heading principally north, the effort has been broadened. Ships, aircraft and helicopters were dispatched west and east of Malaysia.
According to a Wall Street Journal report, the aircraft kept sending signals without content through the Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System (Acars) for 4 hr. after the last radar and radio contact, which would indicate that the 777's engines continued to run throughout that period. This led to speculation about a possible hijacking. Boeing and engine manufacturer Rolls-Royce had no comment.
Malaysia Airlines CEO Ahmad Jauhari Yahya says the last Acars message was received at 1:07 a.m., well before radar contact was lost.
The airline took delivery of 9M-MRO in 2002; the aircraft accumulated 53,465 hr. and 7,525 cycles since then. It underwent scheduled maintenance on Feb. 23, 12 days before the March 8 flight.
Secondary surveillance radar (which interrogates the aircraft transponder for identity and position) only works within range of the radar. Automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) also relies on aircraft transponders, which can be turned off manually. But had this been the case, primary radar still should have detected the aircraft. ADS-B continuously sends key locator information and works beyond radar coverage, although for now, only within range of a ground station. However, data can be received by other aircraft in the vicinity that are equipped to do so.
Surveillance over the South China Sea is improving, thanks to ADS-B systems that have been installed by several countries in the region. Singapore, Vietnam and Indonesia have such coverage and have agreed to share data. As of December 2013, aircraft are required to be equipped for ADS-B above Flight Level 290 on certain trunk routes that overfly the South China Sea—although those in question are farther to the east than MH370's scheduled route.
According to International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) documents, Malaysia is also implementing ADS-B surveillance to improve coverage of certain air routes that do not have complete radar coverage. This entails installing two ADS-B ground stations at radar sites in Pulau Langkawi and Genting Highland. Installation and testing are slated for 2014-16. Data-sharing with other countries and mandatory aircraft equipage on some routes are planned, ICAO states.
Eventually all commercial aircraft will stream live-status data directly to operation control centers, offering real-time situational awareness that is all but nonexistent today. The key question is whether operators will opt for their datasets and upgrades based on return on investment (ROI)—as they do now—or in response to a mandate issued to prevent another case like MH370.
Malaysia, like most other airlines, has not invested in a system that supplements standard aircraft-status-reporting channels such as air traffic control or Acars—a data link using VHF, HF or satcom over oceanic airspace whose messages are routed via ground stations to the end users.
Research led by the French accident investigation bureau (BEA), following the 2009 crash of Air France Flight 447 (AF447), underscored that feasible supplemental systems exist and can perform safety-related tasks such as tracking aircraft and automatically offloading flight-data recorder (FDR) parameters that go beyond the inflight engine-monitoring function used by many airlines. But the few operators that own them are primarily motivated by day-to-day operational benefits. "Nobody is going to purchase those services without a business case and a return on investment," says Matt Bradley, president of Flyht, which provides flight-data streaming on about 300 aircraft flown by 45 operators.
Today, that ROI comes from monitoring variables such as engine-surge data to head off unplanned repairs, or tracking maintenance faults so ground stations have what they need to keep inbound aircraft on schedule. It is often ancillary benefits from these systems, rather than data derived from safety-specific ones, that provide accident investigators with key insight.
The first clues about AF447's fate came via 24 automatic Acars messages relayed through the A330's Air Traffic Information Management System between the time of its last position report and its impact with the Atlantic Ocean.
Investigators probing the September 2010 crash of UPS Flight 6 near Dubai relied on a combination of Acars messages and data from Boeing's Airplane Health Management (AHM) real-time monitoring service to determine where the fatal onboard fire started, and not from the charred wreckage of the 747-400F.
UPS's AHM strategy underscores the reason that, even when carriers eye the bottom line, such systems are not more widely adopted. The carrier uses AHM for its 747-400s and MD-11s. Their long stage lengths give the carrier a better chance to act on fault messages and to have parts ready at a ground station, cutting aircraft downtime. Reliability is another factor. UPS's workhorse Boeing 757s and 767s do not produce enough schedule-crippling faults to justify the cost of AHM.
Acars helped shed light on some aspects of the AF447 crash, but not on locating the wreckage. BEA in 2010 created a working group to examine how best to pinpoint wreckage location and to alert others of a problem before an aircraft disappears from radar screens. The group ran simulations using 689 sets of actual flight data, including 44 accidents and 28 incidents. It established parameters, such as unusual attitude, speed anomalies and warnings from onboard systems like TCAS (traffic-alert and collision-avoidance system) that would trigger an automatic response. Tested under binary (true/false) logic rules, the parameters detected 67 of the 68 accidents, and registered two normal flights as possible accidents. Most important, warning times were sufficient to send out relevant FDR data. Applying fuzzy set theory to the parameters, which gives them weight, detected all of the accidents with no nuisance alerts.
BEA then collaborated with Inmarsat to simulate each accident in 597 locations worldwide. Analysis showed that pre-impact transmission would have been possible in 85% of the combinations. In 82%, the corresponding wreckage search zone would be within a 4-nm radius. Trials with the globe-covering Iridium satellite network were similarly encouraging. "This study proves that developing reliable emergency detection criteria is achievable," the working group report stated.
BEA's research, which led it to recommend additional study into live data-streaming, included a demonstration of Flyht's emergency mode triggered by either manual input from the air or the ground, or predefined parameters. The monthly cost is approximately $1,500 per aircraft, depending on service levels. Coverage is no issue.
However, data-streaming has some drawbacks. Bandwidth costs tip the scales toward event-triggered systems, but these rely on a precursor, such as an aircraft upset, which makes them useless in events such as rapid decompression or inflight explosions.
Ka-band, which powers onboard Wi-Fi on JetBlue Airways and United Airlines aircraft, offers promise. It costs at least 70% less than the more established Ku-band and offers much more bandwidth. While ancillary revenue from inflight entertainment is driving today's equipage decisions, Ka-band service provider LiveTV is convinced airlines will eventually equip for operational benefits; in-cabin revenue will be added value.
Any service based on inflight Internet has a coverage challenge, and Ka-band, being the newest, has the biggest. While service providers expect coverage gaps to be filled and roaming agreements to be struck, they acknowledge that a few satellite launches and business agreements are needed to bridge that vision and today's reality.
Tests to prove the viability of upgrading a standard-equipped flight deck for satellite-based connectivity were conducted onboard Boeing's 737-800 EcoDemonstrator in 2012. A version with higher bandwidth capability is due to be tested this year on a 787 development aircraft, which will be used as the company's second EcoDemonstrator (see page 46). Initial tests in 2012 evaluated an iPad-hosted flight trajectory optimization app which funneled real-time weather data to flight-deck crews. The data were the same as those normally transmitted to flight crews over the continental U.S. But in the case of the EcoDemonstrator, data were sent via satellite to simulate connectivity over oceanic airspace, where live-weather data is currently not available.
Boeing is studying the possible evaluation of a Ku-band satellite system on the 787 EcoDemonstrator.
- Sean Broderick in Washington, Jens Flottau in Frankfurt, Guy Norris in Los Angeles, Adrian Schofield in Auckland


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5 Colour Harmony for Eyes Palettes for ages and ages and ages. But at £39 its rather steep (I did buy one Limited Edition palette) and to be honest, I wasn't impressed by any of them when I swatched.
Anyway I spotted this on Cheap Smells for about £27 so I purchased it without going to swatch it first. Palette no. 5 is Riviera, a mixture of blue tones:
If this palette was Japanese the lightest shade would be a cream base and a the darkest would be a gel liner. Oooh that would be lovelllyyy….
I like the colours! There's a real mixture of light blue, dark navy, turquoise and azure….its all here really. I like!
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Points, goals scored, assists – all the traditional ways to decide to dish out glory points in the Premier League are old hat for GMS.
We've been desensitised by things like violent video games and explicit lyrics, while we live in an age of the anti-hero.
GMS need something more edgy these days and we think it is time the players that live on the edge of the rules get a bit of recognition – they're all been very naughty boys.
Premier League football in England has come a long way in the last few years, but there is still a residue of the hard-tackling culture that the game on these shores became known for.
A certain number of players still love to put the odd boot in, lash out and are adept at the tactical foul, more than ready to take the resulting card for the good of the team.
We have had a little nose around the statistics and decided to award one point for a yellow card and three points for a red card.
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MADISON, Wis. -- Apple production in Wisconsin has dropped to its lowest level since 1945.
The National Agricultural Statistics Service says apple production in 2012 was down 54 percent in Wisconsin. Yields decreased more than three tons per acre.
A heat wave last spring caused apple trees to bloom prematurely. And then frost in April killed many of the blossoms. A summer drought only made things worse.
Wisconsin Apple Growers Association director Ann Maenner says they're hoping this year will be different and that the trees will stay dormant until the frost is gone.
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Hey, it could be worse. I envisioned the robots to be like underwater roombas. The machines would roll over to the mine, and hit it really hard with a comically shaped hammer. Bam-Splat, no more mine or robot. Very Wile E. Coyote style.
Nah, it's just the usual The Man keeping down...The Man.
Look at the map of current and planned gas pipelines: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Major_russian_gas_pipelines_to_europe.png [wikipedia.org]
Russia just goes into some trouble of building that pipeline so that their former colonies will be reminded of few things, will drop some weird ideas they got in the last two decades.
One day robots will use humans to dispose of mines...won't be so funny then...
I, for one welcome our new aquatic suicide bombing robot overlords.
For a minute I read your post as this:
One day robots will use humans to dispose of mimes...won't be so funny then...
and I was going to vehemently disagree.
For a minute I read your post as this:
One day robots will use humans to dispose of mimes...won't be so funny then...
and I was going to vehemently disagree.
ROBOT 01101001: Do you know what is funny about mimes?
ROBOT 10000110: No. What is funny about mimes?
ROBOT 01101001: Their interaction with my gustatory sensory circuits.
ROBOT 10000110: Ha. Ha. Ha.
I hope that around 2050 we'll take care of Afghanistan, once Rwanda is done around 2035.
As soon as we need to build a pipeline through either of those places, we'll get right on that mine-clearing effort.
What makes them think the mines will explode? I mean its not like these things were engineered to last 60 years.
In which case its likely no longer a threat?
What makes them think the mines will explode? I mean its not like these things were engineered to last 60 years.
The main explosive of a mine is typically something shock-sensitive and not at all fragile, like TNT. The detonators (which would have some other sort of explosive) may be no good, but a good shock will still set off the main explosive.
The whole point of setting off a bomb next to a bigger bomb is to ensure that any viable explosives will go off.
Large boom = the original bomb was a danger and the danger is gone.
Small boom = the original bomb had no viable explosive left so was never a danger in the first place.
Determining which are currently dead and which are still live is tricky. The cheapest, fastest, and safest way is to just blow them all up.
The cheapest, fastest, and safest way is to just blow them all up.
That's your solution to everything.
Those mines are still capable of detonating. As explosives age, they tend to become very unstable.
Swedish, german, danish and finnish underwater demolitions crews have been working on clearing areas together, and so far, in the last 6 years, 3 german divers have died(one diver got a cramp in his legs, attempted to straighten the leg and hit the seabed(Yes, the seabed, not the mine) with his flipper with a bit of force... the vibrations were enough to set off the mine 2m away ), 1 swedish and 1 finnish diver badly wounded(previously not found mine detonating in a sympathetic reaction as another mine was set off in a controlled blast). And those are just the casualties I know of.
As explosives age, they become less stable, and thus more likely to explode. Especially if they're not properly stored. Unexploded ordinance from WW II is still a big problem in many places.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,584091,00.html [spiegel.de]
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-05/04/content_439409.htm [chinadaily.com.cn]
The French still have problems with unexploded ordinance from World War I, which was mostly fought on their territory.
Or more explicitly, would *you* personally (the original poster) take the chance?
It is easier to wave away risk when someone else is taking it.
I was present when a plumber was fixing a small, on demand water heater wired directly to the mains so you could not unplug it. (probably a building code violation) I switched off power to the bathroom at the breaker box and told him it was off. The plumber asked: "Are you sure it's off?", I said yes, he said "Then you wont have a problem touching those terminals yourself."
At that point I grabbed my meter and verified it was off and then shorted the terminals with a screw driver to be doubly sure.
We still discover Shipwrecks and sunken cruisers from earlier eras in the same intact position as they sunk - I have no reason to doubt a mine could last that long. You need Oxygen to rust, and while there is obviously a lot of it inside an H20 ocean, it doesn't have the C02 that usually helps pump out fast oxidizing.
Your car sitting outside with the wind and the rain and polution will rust much faster than a ship at the bottom of the ocean.
Probably not saturated. You may be thinking of gunpowder. People are still getting killed with WW I buried mines and shells.
Quoting Wikipedia: "TNT neither absorbs nor dissolves in water, which allows it to be used effectively in wet environments."
Let's say that only one out of twenty still work. Do you feel lucky? Exciting times.
Hell, a couple of years ago, a guy was killed by a *(US) Civil War* shell [roanoke.com]. And that was one that not only had sat either in water or the Virginia mud for nearly 150 years, it had been flushed with water to try to make it inert.
wikipedia also says Solubility in water, 0.13 g/L (20 C). I knew a guy that had worked in a munitions plant, he said it was a big problem, TNT dust disolving in mop water, getting into the sewers and concentrating when the sewer dried out.
One would think that after sitting at the bottom of the salty ocean for 60+ years it's shell would have rusted through and the explosives saturated with water.
IIRC, bombs and mines are often filled with a molten explosive such as TNT, which is then allowed to cool into a solid mass. It's not a given that simply exposing such a monolithic explosive to water would render it harmless.
They certainly are.
Here in the UK we often have a problem of unexploded ordinance and I would imagine countries like France, Germany et al. do also. Unexploded bombs in land or mines at sea dating back to World War II are usually found a few times a year here in the UK and are generally detonated because they are not safe to simply move, although some are safe enough to just move.
The Vasa [wikipedia.org] warship was preserved in the brackish waters a little way from Stockholm for over three hundred years. How long something lasts at the bottom of the sea depends on the composition of the water (oxygen, salt, etc) and other factors.
(If you visit Stockholm make sure you see the ship, it's amazing.)
I'm no munitions expert, but if I were to design a mine that was going to go into saltwater I might also select a material that is somewhat resistant to saltwater. PVC, polystyrene, bakelite, teflon, and polyurethane come to mind, and all were around before WWII. Heck, even stainless steel was around, albeit probably too expensive for the Russian military at the time. I wouldn't necessarily expect it to last 60 years, but if I designed it to be even minimally saltwater-resistant it's not outside the realm of possibility that one might survive that long. The odds are against it, but it's not impossible.
So you go with the odds, and relative levels of damage involved. This is prepwork for a very expensive natural gas pipeline, and I doubt it really accounts for a significant portion of the overall expense.
If no bombs are viable, then the project has spent some money unnecessarily and set off a series of 5kg (~11-pound) explosives and not done any real harm to the surrounding environment except for a bunch of little areas that are about to get a LNG pipeline plumbed through anyway.
If just one of those bombs is live and goes off when natural gas is flowing through the LNG pipeline they want to build, that could be very devastating over a very large area.
Why take the risk? One lucky mine could ruin your whole day.
I lived in Charleston, SC for a while. It was not too unusual to dig up unexplosed ordinance from the Civil war; some of it was still dangerous.
Unless you want to die, treat all unexploded ordinance as dangerous; the older, the more dangerous.
I can't believe they have opposition from ENVIRONMENTALISTS! Of all people, they should be the first to encourage the removal of mines. Frankly I would like to see all 150,000 removed, we have enough mines in our world we don't need them in the ocean as well.
Any pollution from the remains of these mines would only be temporary, the sea claims all things in the end and it will eventually filter out/destroy toxins on its own once its in flow is stopped. If its already heavily polluted they should focus their efforts on whatever is causing it before this.
Never underestimate the idiocy of a subset of the human population. There are plenty of sane, rational environmentalists out there, but then there's PETA. An animatronic groundhog? Protesting the Westminster dog show? Those animals have better lives than I do, and mine is pretty good.
There will always be someone, somewhere, ready to protest anything.
The way the internet is, all you have to do is say "I like toast" and someone from the Anti-Cruelty to Bread Society will come out of the woodwork to harass you.
Damn your anti-dough-ism!
Leavenophiles are united! Heads will roll! We will not loaf; we will RISE to the occasion and defeat the effete fascist flour flouters!!
What don't environmentalists oppose?
I think the only thing they can all agree on is More Funding!!
There are the environmentalists that oppose everything and give no answers as to what we should do, those ones suck.
Then there are the environmentalists that look at a problem and see a solution, these aren't environmentalists, they're engineers.
To be fair, the process could be a lot cleaner if they simply raised the mines off the seafloor and transported them somewhere safe for detonation, or even better, disassembly and recycling.
Since this would obviously be a very dangerous job for any workers involved, let's get the environmentalists complaining about this to volunteer to do the job.
Not only dangerous, but probably largely ineffective at actually preserving any environment.
These are mines. If they still have explosives, then they might still have devices designed to make those explosives go boom when the mine is moved. If 1/4 of the mines are still active, you'll have 1/4 the large explosions.
But you'll have larger, more expensive equipment that costs more and has to be abandoned due to severe damage the first time it encounters a mine that went off (as opposed to a small robot who was built to be blown up). Then you'll have bombs that make it all the way up to a ship THEN go off, leaving all the Diesel fuel and other chemicals in the water when the ship sinks
Blowing them up in place is probably the most environmentally friendly way of disposing of the bombs, short of not building them in the first place of course. But I lack a time machine AND any way to change human nature.
Any pollution from the remains of these mines would only be temporary, the sea claims all things in the end and it will eventually filter out/destroy toxins on its own once its in flow is stopped.
Conservation of mass is still the rule of the land. Pollution doesn't "disappear" it just dilutes. That being said, from my memory of a week of hands on US army explosives training in the early 90s as an ammo specialist 55B:
1) All unexploded military grade explosives are somewhat toxic. In the movies, or during wartime, people mush C-4 with their bare hands, but its quite poisonous so we wore gloves in training. We were told you'll throw up in the short term, and get cancer in the long term. Best case is probably ANFO, the AN is harmless, but the FO part is literally pouring raw diesel fuel into the water, not all that nice of a thing to do. Just touching nitro dynamite gives an amazing headache, the RDX stuff is way better but still not exactly baby formula. TNT is oily gritty semisolid stuff that partially liquifies when its warm, probably not an issue in the baltic sea...
There are explosives that are non toxic like gunpowder that are not used as a military explosive but only as a propellant in naval guns (modern ones use nitro based smokeless powders). There are exotic mining explosives vaguely involving charcoal and liquid oxygen, which are not used by the military.
2) Generally speaking, the fumes/smoke/whatever of an explosive are WAY less toxic than the explosive itself. Given the choice of breathing the smoke from 1 lb of TNT, or eating 1 lb of TNT, the smoke is WAY more healthy. The smoke from C-4 is nasty and will kill you, but eating or touching unexploded C-4 will kill you WAY faster. The environment is way better off with the stuff exploded than unexploded.
3) Pest control was not an issue in the bunkers, as far as I know, aside from termites in the crates. Unexploded ammo is not good eats.
Just touching nitro dynamite gives an amazing headache
That's commonly referred to as bang-head I believe. It's a side effect of the nitroglycerine [wikipedia.org].
Pest control was not an issue in the bunkers, as far as I know, aside from termites in the crates.
Not so much for modern explosives, but in the old days of gun powder, fire ants were a real danger
The interesting part is that the de-mining process starts with the assumption that all of these mines will still detonate. Wonder what kind of explosive is that reliable.
Hopefully, the actual fusing and ship detecting 'sensors' on the mine (not sure what else to call the big mechanical and magnetic switches mines of this vintage use) no longer work.
Wonder what kind of explosive is that reliable.
They're German mines. Of course they'll still work!
But in seriousness, if they don't detonate after having 5 kilos of high explosive blow up on top of them, they're probably not going to detonate ever, and thus aren't a problem.
The interesting part is that the de-mining process starts with the assumption that all of these mines will still detonate.
Explosives Disposal 101: Always assume an explosive device is functional, armed, and active.
And if that assumption is wrong, the mine will still be destroyed, so no biggie.
Of course I expect it is not actually robots but rather remote controlled vehicles.
While the article does not state it the graphics clearly shows ROV. Remote Operated Vehicle.
No robots here. Please move on.
It's *very* profitable... for non profits. (Non Profits have to pay people salaries too... from their 12-14% "administrative overhead")...They just haven't been pushing their marketing as hard as they could lately.
It's *very* profitable... for non profits.
and the Prosthetics industry.
Won't be so nice for the environment when the new gas line springs a leak.
Subs for sure. If they were still on the surface, they would have been cleared by now. Submarine mines were typically anchored deep in the water.
No, they were dumped there after the war, and not just normal bombs but chemical ones as well. Common practice at the time.
Germany had large stockpiles of these (including neurotoxic ones), but they feared if they used them the allies would use them too. Hitler was temporarily blinded in WWI by chemical warfare, so that might have played a role.
Nobody wanted to look after or defuse these, so they just dumped them in the Baltic sea.
Could be all sorts of things
There are areas of the channel that you don't want to play with as they were designated zones for USAF and RAF a/c to dump their unused bombs into - That action is in fact one of the theories around Glenn Millers dissappearance since that was near just such an area.
Also vast amounts of ordiance of all sorts was just dumped post 1945
But mines are generally anchored at a depth for either subs (various levels to create a barrier) or near the surface to take out ships. Once the ancho
Yes, she had a variety show back then. One of the skits involved a WWII suicide mission, held in a tent, complete with a map they can point to from time to time. So the commander is brought in, they all stand at attention yadda yadda and when he starts the briefing he is half mumbling his words but the only words you could ever understand where the words suicide, death, and die. WHen he called in Cher to demonstrate gas masks (of all things) Cher also mumbles which even gets worse when she puts the gas mask
Interesting how we're still expending money and effort to clean up previous wars. Due to the global nature of this particular war, really makes me wonder who should be footing the bill for cleanup like this, especially in "international" waterways.
Obviously the Germans should be forced to pay war reparations...
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THERE has been quite a lot of media noise about what's happening with DPI jobs at Orange with respect to the merging of parts of the DPI, livestock health and pest authorities and catchment management authorities.
I indicated what is to happen with regard to that issue some weeks ago. Orange is receiving 39 trade and investment jobs in a major restructure and losing three DPI jobs for a net gain of 36 jobs. I'm not expecting any changes at Molong.
Before this change there were just over 500 DPI and trade and investment staff in Orange.
My expectation is that in other parts of the electorate, there will be a reduction in positions formerly belonging to the CMA of two.
The merge has generally been well received by local farmers who view it as a way of improving and streamlining the agencies they have to deal with to create a "one stop shop" for agricultural issues.
Over the next nine months Orange will also welcome 100 new mental health workers. This is on top of the extra staff for the linear accelerator (14), drug and alcohol rehab centre (20) and new nurses and midwives.
Key issues at Centroc
Yesterday and today I have been present at the Centroc summit being held in Bathurst.
This body incorporating a group of Central NSW councils is a great example of local councils working together in the interests of getting the best results for the central west.
Today I will be a part of a panel including local government minister Don Page to discuss key issues facing member councils.
I congratulate the member councils on their support of this summit.
Construction starts
On Tuesday yet another multi-million dollar project in Orange started at the TAFE Orange campus with the new Aboriginal Learning Centre.
Aboriginal Health Services CEO Jamie Newman gave a warm and poignant welcome to country, and together with TAFE Western institute director Kate Baxter, we turned the first sod to mark the start of construction.
Orange TAFE already has a proud record in providing further education facilities for indigenous Australians.
I am sure TAFE Western institute director Kate Baxter and her staff will enjoy watching their vision emerge from the ground up. Congratulations to all involved.


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EL notes: Avery starting to thrive06/28/2011 10:00 AM ET
By David Driver / Special to MLB.com
It seemed like a simple at-bat. Earlier this month in Richmond, Bowie's Xavier Avery stroked a two-strike pitch into left for an opposite-field base hit. Then he went up to Denny Hocking, the hitting coach for the Baysox, with a question.
"Is that all there is to it?" Avery said of the opposite-field approach, according to Hocking.
Avery, who turned down a chance to play college football at Georgia, is making strides as a leadoff hitter and center fielder for the Baysox.
"I had to make adjustments from the first half," he said. "I understand better how to approach each at-bat, make in-pitch adjustments and things like that."
Avery, who hit .241 in April, has raised his average every month and recently enjoyed a three-game stretch in which he had eight hits in 14 at-bats. He had a double and an RBI in three plate appearances Sunday to lift his average to a season-high .267, even though he's 80 fanned times in 285 at-bats.
"He's getting better pitches to hit," said Bowie manager Gary Kendall. "He is going deeper into his at-bats. He has to work to keep improving, but he is a better player now than at the beginning of the season."
Avery has 16 doubles, a triple, a homer and 21 steals in 31 attempts. He's hit .318 in his last 10 games through Sunday, a stretch that coincided with a recent change in his stance.
"His front hip was coming out too soon and creating long swings," said Hocking, a former big leaguer with the Twins, Rockies and Royals. "He needs to be a gap-to-gap hitter. He has a long way to go, but he understands how hard a game this is."
This past off-season, Avery worked out in the Atlanta area with Bowie teammate and good friend L.J. Hoes and Jason Heyward, the star outfielder for the Atlanta Braves.
"We played together when I was 16," Avery said of Heyward. "That's when I really got focused on baseball, when baseball became serious and not just a game," Avery said. "My junior year I focused more on baseball when I saw there was more to it."
Avery, who bats and throws from the left side, was drafted by the Orioles in 2008 in the second round out of Cedar Grove High School in Ellenwood, Ga. He grew up a Braves fan, and his favorite players were Kenny Lofton and Ken Griffey, Jr.
Last year he hit .280 with four homers, 28 steals and 48 RBIs in 447 at-bats with Class A Advanced Frederick and .234 with three homers, 10 steals and 18 RBIs in 107 at-bats with Double-A Bowie.
"I got better, which I wanted to do," he said of last year. "I feel like I'm an athlete. My game is speed, so that's the way I play. I just want to stay more consistent this year. That is part of getting better -- stay consistent."
In brief
Riding the cycle: Josh Satin, a third baseman for the Binghamton Mets, hit for the cycle at Bowie on Friday. He homered in his first at-bat, then had an infield single, a double and a triple to complete the feat as the Mets won, 5-3. He was the first player to register a cycle against Bowie since 1996. Satin followed with two hits Saturday to lift his average to .318 but then fanned three times Sunday.
So long, Senators: Steve Lombardozzi, a scrappy second baseman for Harrisburg, was promoted to Syracuse of the International League after hitting .309 for the Senators. He had one hit on June 21 in his first game in Syracuse. Doug Harris, the director of player development for Washington, said Lombardozzi will continue to bat leadoff and play shortstop about once a week for Syracuse. "He dives for balls. He takes the extra base. He plays the game tremendously well. He does things you want a player to do," said Tony Beasley, Harrisburg's manager and a former Minor League infielder with the Orioles and Pirates.
An eye on the future: Eastern League players chosen for the U.S. team for next month's Futures Game include Harrisburg pitcher Brad Peacock (Nationals), Erie pitcher Jacob Turner (Tigers), Trenton catcher Austin Romine (Yankees) and Portland infielder Will Middlebrooks (Red Sox). World players include New Hampshire pitcher Henderson Alvarez (Blue Jays), Erie infielder Francisco Martinez (Tigers), Altoona outfielder Starling Marte (Pirates) and Portland outfielder Chih-Hsien Chiang (Red Sox).
Harvey arrives: Right-hander Matt Harvey made his first start at the Double-A level Sunday for Binghamton and was charged in the loss in a 6-4 setback at Bowie. The Connecticut native gave up nine hits and four earned runs in 4 2/3 innings. "I'm sure he was a little nervous. He has to remember he has a 94 to 95 mile-per-hour fastball," Mets manager Wally Backman said after the game. "He threw a lot of off-speed pitches." Harvey was 8-2 with a 2.37 ERA with Class A Advanced St. Lucie and did not allow a run in seven of his 14 starts.


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Boston Celtics coach Doc Rivers may have gotten under the skin of his players when he said they're not "committed to be being a good basketball team."
Whether the shot across the bow lands on deaf ears remains to be seen, but the Celtics have to get back to work Tuesday night on the road against the Cleveland Cavaliers at Quicken Loans Arena.
The Celtics were flying high with a season-best six-game winning streak, then a subsequent three-game slide spoiled the mood. The losing ways continued with Sunday's 103-88 loss at Detroit in the opener of a quick road trip as Kevin Garnett and Courtney Lee both scored 16 points in defeat.
"This group right now is not playing right," Rivers said. "We're playing awful."
Jeff Green scored 15 points off the bench and Paul Pierce had 10 for Boston, which shot just 39.8 percent for the game and never led. The game was even more sloppy in the second half, when the Celtics committed 13 turnovers and shot just 42.1 percent from the floor. They also had 21 personal fouls in the final 24 minutes.
After Boston pulled within 55-54 early on in the third period, the Pistons went on a 15-4 spurt for some breathing room. One night after scoring a season-high 30 points in an overtime loss to Chicago. Celtics point guard Rajon Rondo had only eight points to go along with 15 assists. He was also responsible for nine turnovers.
"I just do not think we're committed to being a good basketball team," River lamented. "I've either got to find the right combination, the right guys, or we're going to have to get some guys out of here."
Criticism aside, the Celtics, who dropped a season-high four in a row from Dec. 27-Jan 2, are still one of the top defensive teams, sitting seventh in the NBA with 96.0 ppg allowed. They're 7-12 outside of TD Garden and will return to Beantown Thursday versus the rival New York Knicks.
Cleveland is back in the Forest City to play 10 of its next 12 games, and just went 1-4 on a recent western road trip.
The Cavaliers were last in action Saturday during a 109-98 setback against the Utah Jazz as rookie Dion Waiters scored a game-high 23 points and Kyrie Irving finished with 18 and nine assists. Tyler Zeller collected 13 points and 14 rebounds for the Cavs, who made 41 percent for the game and sank 6-of-21 shots from beyond the arc.
"I feel like when our guys want to get it going, we just don't. We talk about it. Coming out, guys were setting screens and I'm just trying to make plays for my teammates," Irving told NBA.com. "Coming out in that third and fourth quarter, we just got softer."
Tristan Thompson recorded 12 points and 11 boards in defeat. The Cavs trimmed the deficit to 58-54 early in the second half until the Jazz pulled away with a 9-0 run. Cleveland got no closer than nine the rest of the way.
Irving and Waiters have been the lone bright spot for the Cavaliers, while the former is averaging 24.0 ppg this month. Cavs center Anderson Varejao was on the list of promising players, but is out for the rest of the season with a leg injury and blood clot in his lung.
Varejao is taking blood thinners to remedy the situation and averaged 14.1 points and 14.4 rebounds this season.
"Clearly our players' health is our top concern and we are disappointed for Anderson and his family," said Cavaliers general manager Chris Grant in a statement. "We know what a competitor he is and how much he wants to be on the court helping his teammates. In the meantime, he has our full support and we look forward to welcoming him back as he recovers."
Cleveland is just 4-12 as the host this season and suffered a 103-91 loss at Boston on Dec. 19 in the first of four meetings this season. Pierce poured in 40 points to pace the Celtics, while Irving scored a team-high 22 points for the Cavaliers, who have lost five of the last six matchups in this series.
Boston has won three straight at Quicken Loans Arena. The two clubs will meet again on March 27 in Cleveland and April 5 at Boston.


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NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The Yale men's tennis team returned home to Cullman-Heyman Tennis Center Saturday and snapped a three-match losing streak with a 6-1 victory over Fairleigh Dickinson in the opening match. Play continues Saturday afternoon with Yale hosting Marist, a match that will be completed Sunday morning.
Yale (5-3) swept the doubles matches against FDU (2-5), including an 8-5 win at No. 1 for the team of juniors Daniel Hoffman and Marc Powers. They are now 5-1 in the spring, 14-4 overall.
All five of Yale's singles wins over FDU came in straight sets, including a 6-4, 6-2 win for Powers at No. 1. He is now 4-0 in singles this season, though it had been nearly a month since his last win -- he had an unfinished match in the first round at the ECAC Indoor Championship match two weeks ago and did not play singles in the two matches after that. Junior John Huang, back at his customary No. 2 spot, delivered a 7-5, 6-2 win. He is now 4-0 at No. 2.
An update will be posted after the conclusion of the match vs. Marist.
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"DJ is a superb individual who knows Amtrak inside and out, has the skill and ability to lead operations and will bring improved management and focus on meeting the needs of passengers across our national network of service," said Amtrak President and CEO Joseph Boardman.
Stadtler will be responsible for delivery of service including the train crews, locomotives and other train equipment, stations, food and beverage and the Amtrak-owned infrastructure on the Northeast Corridor and elsewhere.
Stadtler has served as the acting vice president of operations since December 2011 and previously served as the chief financial officer at Amtrak. He has more than 20 years of experience including more than 11 years at the U.S. Department of Transportation.


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To the editor:
I can't imagine the feeling of losing any business, especially a lucrative one such as KC Riverstop. The way they were forced out was sad. I always enjoyed sitting there on a Sunday having a refreshment and listening to the music. They were friendly and had good food at a reasonable price. They were a good group of people.
To read the derogatory remarks made by Mickey Sperry and to have you print them is, I'm sure, very hurtful to a lot of people. They had a big following and didn't sell $9 hot dogs. In fact on the first Wednesday of the month they had $1 hot dogs & beer.
I'd like to see the Boathouse top that! And they were big hot dogs. I don't mind using plastic if the price is right.
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Three finalists for the position of Associate Vice President for Enrollment Management will come to Portland State University in January for campus presentations.
Each finalist will talk about their approach to creating a strategic enrollment management plan for PSU. Students, faculty and staff are invited to attend the presentations and give feedback on the candidates.
The schedule is below, and candidate materials are here: https://www.pdx.edu/studentaffairs/avp-for-enrollment-management-search.
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Lee Young
238 Smith Memorial Student Union
3:30 to 5 p.m.
Monday, January 9, 2012
Colin Ormsby
238 Smith Union
3:30 to 5 p.m.
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Cindy Skaruppa
333 Smith Union
9:45 to 11:15 a.m.