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Greer man arrested on multiple drug charges
Published: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 at 7:52 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 at 7:52 p.m.
A Greer man was arrested on multiple drug charges after deputies arranged to buy 100 units of LSD from him.
Frederick Maurice Jarvis, 22, of 507 Timberlake Road, was charged with trafficking LSD, possession of Ecstasy, possession with intent to distribute a scheduled drug (Adderall) and possession of marijuana, according to online jail records.
An incident report states that drug investigators arranged an undercover drug buy with Jarvis, who sold an informant 100 units of LSD for $600.
Deputies pulled Jarvis over on Interstate 85 South and he told them there was nothing illegal in the vehicle. A drug K-9 indicated the presence of drugs in the car, and deputies found Adderall, a prescription drug, Ecstasy and marijuana, the report states.
Jarvis remained at the Spartanburg County Detention Facility Wednesday on a $55,620 bond.
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WebTV Usability Review
WebTV achieves a very high level of usability given its design constraints. Unfortunately, the constraints are so severe that even this great design ultimately fails to provide an optimal Web user experience.
WebTV's usability engineers have done a good job at making it very easy to install and as easy as possible to use, and WebTV's imaging engineers have done an incredible job at high-quality character rendering in an NTSC video signal. In fact, the screenshots in this column do not look as good as WebTV does when displayed on a good television set: you have to see it to believe that it's possible to achieve WebTV's level of text readability on a television screen.
Remote Control
The remote control has great industrial design: the main buttons can be used while the user keeps his or her gaze directed at the TV screen. The four cursor key buttons surround the "action" button and can easily be used to move the area cursor around the screen to follow hyperlinks. Also, the scroll up/down buttons and the "back" button are easy to find without looking at the remote control. It actually feels very natural to sit in a reclined posture and move through online content with the WebTV remote as the only input device.
Unfortunately, the need for a simple remote control ultimately dooms WebTV as a highly usable Web experience. No matter how well designed, it is simply too awkward to use cursor keys to move around the screen instead of using a mouse or other direct pointing device. My best description of the experience of browsing the Web with cursor keys is that it feels very much like using DOS or one of the old IBM 3270 terminals. Instead of saying " this is where I want to point", the user has to say "OK, to get over here, I first do UP, UP, and then LEFT, LEFT". In other words, instead of being a single action, pointing turns into a sequence of actions that have to be planned and monitored with a much larger degree of cognitive load than when using a mouse.
Normally, the cursor keys jump the area cursor to the next selectable area of the screen, but when an imagemap is selected, they double as directional continuous-movement controls for a pointer. Using imagemaps is particularly cumbersome since doing so requires the user to first move the area cursor to the graphic, then select the graphic with the action button, then manipulate the
x-y position of the pointer within the image with the cursor keys, and finally push the action key a second time. Compare this sequence of steps with simply moving a mouse to the desired spot and clicking the mouse button in essentially a single step.
When viewing three-column layouts it is often hard to position the area cursor in the middle column, because the left or right buttons jump the cursor to the selectable area closest to the current
y position. Thus, the cursor often jumps directly from column 1 to column 3 or from column 3 to column 1.
The remote control has a set of scroll-buttons in addition to the cursor-movement buttons. Since the cursor-buttons also scroll the screen when used to move below the last selectable item or above the first selectable item, and the scroll-buttons cause new items to be selected (the first item on the new screenful is automatically selected), users often confuse the two sets of buttons. Even after many hours of WebTV usage, I found myself sometimes pressing the wrong button. Since the button-design for the remote control is an obvious candidate for intensive usability testing, I am sure that WebTV considered this problem and has good reasons for having both sets of buttons on the remote, but I would certainly consider simplifying within-page navigation to a single set of buttons.
The wireless keyboard is supposedly a $60 option, but the system is almost useless without it: email obviously requires a keyboard, and mail is still the true killer app of the Internet. There is an on-screen keyboard that can be operated by the remote control, but it is extremely painful to tap out even short URLs by moving cursor keys up-right-left-down. On-screen keyboards work reasonably well on devices like the Newton that have a direct pointing device, but with cursor keys: forget it! The on-screen keyboard can be configured to display the characters alphabetically (ABCDEF etc.) or as a traditional typewriter keyboard (QWERTY etc. - presumably other configurations will be available in international versions). The default setting is alphabetical layout which only works for people who have never used a typewriter; of course, there are probably many such users in the WebTV target market.
The wireless keyboard is very well designed as a true laptop device. You can sit in your couch and type while resting the keyboard in your lap. The form factor, weight, and typability are all well done, but the key layout is very difficult to learn. There are special function keys for the most common WebTV commands: the basic keys from the remote control (up-down, back, home, etc.) are replicated and keys are added for functions that otherwise need indirect access through the Options command (for example, GoTo and Find). Unfortunately, all these function keys are really tiny and arranged in a seemingly random fashion around the periphery of the keyboard. It is impossible to learn where one finds which keys, so the user must perform a visual scan of the function keys every time they are used. This visual scan is very difficult given that the keys are small (i.e., tiny labels) and that the keyboard is typically in the user's lap (i.e., far away from the eyes) and in poor lighting. Make a more navigable keyboard for Version 2, please.
Typing is only possible when the keyboard focus has been explicitly assigned to a type-in field. Unless the field is the first element on the screen, this means that the user has to manually use the cursor keys to move the focus to the type-in field before typing. These extra actions should be eliminated, especially given the awkward nature of using cursor keys instead of a mouse to move around on the screen. Unless the user has explicitly moved the keyboard focus to a specific field, typing should be directed to the first type-in field on the screen as soon as the user sends character input from the keyboard. This lack of a default keyboard focus is one of the relatively few areas I have found where the interaction is insufficiently polished. Quite often, shortcuts and appropriate defaults are designed into the system to reduce the number of user actions needed to achieve a given result. Doing so is a good idea in most user interfaces but is critical for a system with indirect or hard-to-use interaction techniques (e.g., voice recognition systems, telephone-operated interfaces, and WebTV).
WebTV is the first major attempt at building an information appliance and it has definitely shown the promise of non-general purpose computers when it comes to ease of installation. In fact, the only difficulty in installing WebTV comes when connecting it to the TV through the VCR. Getting the cables and all the VCR and TV settings just right to pass the WebTV signal through to the screen is often fairly complicated. Pundits often say that consumer electronics companies know how to build products for naive users, but the people who built my VCR could definitely learn something from WebTV when it comes to ease of use.
Interestingly, many of the usability problems I have observed in informal studies of a few WebTV users turned out to hurt experienced users the most. WebTV is using its own vocabulary, which is probably a better match with novice users' expectations but causes problems for experienced users. For example, when defining a new user account, the user is asked to type the user's "Internet name". One user I tested thought that he was supposed to give his email address, so he entered his current address. In fact, the system wants to create a new userid for the user on WebTV's system, and this would have been clearer for an experienced user if it had said so. For novice users (who are presumably WebTV's design center), I do agree that "Internet name" is a better term than "userid". A further problem for my experienced user was that he could not enter the userid he wanted. He has a quite distinct userid on other email systems and naturally wanted the same on WebTV, but it was taken already. The same was true for the first several variations he tried of his name. As this example shows, naming is starting to be a problem on mass services (of course, on AOL most people get names like
John537 since they are even further along the curve) and we will need to invent better ways of creating acceptable names.
Other terminology differences include using publisher instead of site (e.g., a status message says "Contacting Publisher" instead of "looking for site" when connecting to a new site) and real error messages (e.g., The publisher couldn't find the requested page instead of 404). This non-standard vocabulary no doubt tests better with novice users but will make it more difficult for WebTV users to communicate with users of other devices.
While a page is being downloaded, a single progress bar is displayed (strange that I have to praise WebTV for having a useful progress bar, but most other Web browsers can't seem to get this basic UI element right). To further increase usability, the user is informed of the name of the "publisher" as soon as possible: the text Contacting Publisher is replaced with the site name as extracted from the page <TITLE>. Unfortunately, WebTV can't display very many characters in the progress dialog (since a large screen font is necessary for readability on a TV), so it is common for the publisher name to be given as "Welcome to Washi..." instead of "Washington Post". WebTV ought to make their server chop off any leading "Welcome to" prefix from page titles. Actually, as mentioned in my discussion of proper <TITLE> design, it is bad form to use Welcome to titles in the first place!
The email icon several times made me think that I had new messages waiting when in fact there were none. My problem was that the flag is up on the mailbox even when there is no mail (new mail is indicated by the appearance of some envelopes in the mailbox); a raised mailbox flag was used by some early Unix mail programs as the indicator of new mail. New users may not have this problem, but it may be worth revising the mail icon in an upcoming release. Also, this very American mailbox will definitely need to be replaced with another icon for international versions of the system.
Progressive Disclosure
WebTV correctly follows the principle of progressive disclosure to move complex and less frequently used options out of the main user interface and into secondary screens. The problem from the experienced Web user's perspective is that the definition of "complex options" includes some features that are more or less second nature to the experienced user. For example, I observed one experienced user become very frustrated when she couldn't find the URL of a page she was viewing. After many failed attempts she gave up and assumed that WebTV didn't support URLs. Only after I broke a basic rule of user testing and assured her that the feature was indeed available did she persist and eventually found the URL under the "Info" command in the Options menu.
Similarly, experienced users have also had problems finding the way to type in a URL to go to a specific page. The underlying issue is that WebTV (correctly) decided that URLs have low usability and therefore wanted to hide them from their novice users. I completely agree with the desire to simplify the user interface and hide complex features. The only problem is that the Web is currently so hard to navigate that many experienced users have learned to rely on the URLs to help them understand what is going on. In particular, the lack of URL information increases the experienced user's feeling of being lost and of viewing the Web through a very small peephole. The ideal solution would not rely on URLs but would employ other means of visualizing the structure of the information space and the user's current location. In other words, we need some combination of local and regional sitemaps with path representation and a global overview of the Web (distorted to emphasize areas of interest to the user). Unfortunately, these navigational aids (which we will hopefully see in a year or two) require a larger screen area than could reasonably be dedicated on a TV monitor. Whether it will be possible to use a combination of overlays and transparency effects with some form of rapid screen multiplexing to present some of this information to TV users remains to be seen.
With respect to feature elimination, I would have removed the user preference to sort the email list with either newest or oldest messages first. WebTV's email interface only works for people who get a very small number of messages, so they should not need to sort them. One cannot accuse WebTV of feature creep, but maybe this one feature did creep in from traditional power-user design.
Screen Size
WebTV has a small screen that shows a very limited amount of information compared with a traditional computer screen. This is particularly true given the need for WebTV to use large fonts because of the poor display quality of NTSC televisions and the typical viewing distance between the TV set and the user's couch.
A sample Web page as displayed on a workstation-class computer monitor (reduced to 35 percent of normal size) and on WebTV (reduced to 67 percent of normal size).
The red box on the computer display marks the part of the page that is visible on WebTV's screen.
Three problems stem from WebTV's small screen size:
- Excessive scrolling is needed to move about the page, meaning that the user will often not see the entire page because of the extra effort. Scrolling is known to cause problems even on normal computer screens, and it is likely that WebTV users will have even worse problems since they will need to scroll more.
- Users often get lost within a single page: there is no way of knowing how far one has scrolled down the page or what other information is on the page. In particular, it is almost impossible to get an idea of the structure of a page or to predict what else one might see further down the page. These problems also exist in large-screen browsers, but because more content can be seen at any one time and because less effort is needed to scroll about the page, the usability consequences are much less severe.
- Once the user has scrolled down a page, it is a lot of work to get back to the top of the page. Essentially the only way to do so is to hold down the "scroll up" button until the system has scrolled all the way to the top, one screen at a time. There is a "scroll to top" command, but it is hidden away under the Find command and requires 6-8 button presses (depending on the prior command) on 4-5 different buttons (too many) to activate. It would be better if the system would recognize a "long" press on the "scroll up" button as a command to go all the way to the top in a single fast leap.
WebTV is the first Web user interface for which I have discovered a serious need for navigational aids within the page. See the sidebar for some of my ideas for improved within-page navigation.
Except for within-page navigation, WebTV is not much different from other Web browsers with respect to navigation. The basic problem is lack of navigation support for an understanding of larger structures, but it would not be fair to criticize WebTV for lacking features that nobody else has at this time. WebTV actually improves on the history lists in other browsers by using a "recent" screen that shows recently seen pages in miniature. Often, it is easy to pick out the relevant page from the recent screen and backtrack many steps in a single action.
A satisfying "thud" sound is played if the user tries to scroll past the bottom of the screen. In general, WebTV has instructive and pleasing sound effects as an integrated part of the user interface in great contrast with the impoverished audio in most computer user interfaces (except games).
On the "Favorites" page, bookmarked sites are shown as labeled miniatures. This is a good way of showing a small number of bookmarks and allows the user to quickly discriminate the options. The presentation of the favorites would improve if sites starting to use WebTV's convention for specifying a logo image to replace the miniature with an appropriate logo (the LOGO attribute of the BODY tag). By the way, small logo glyphs might also improve the scannability of bookmarks and favorites menus in traditional, computer-based browsers. In principle, I would prefer to have logo-specifications be part of a site management system instead of being embedded within the BODY tags of every page: we need extensions to HTTP to allow browsers and proxies to retrieve site-level information (like logos and sitemaps).
Sometimes, bookmarking a page results in a black square instead of a miniature. This seems to happen when the server has not finished downloading all the graphics on the bookmarked page but feels like a bug to me: it would often be better to produce a miniature of the parts of the page that did get downloaded. A worse usability problem is that the labels show the full <TITLE> of the bookmarked page, even when the text is very long and takes up most of the screen in the WebTV layout. I would have preferred a solution that showed only the first two lines or so of the <TITLE> and then popped up the remaining text when the user places the area cursor over the bookmark.
Find Within a Page
WebTV provides a Find command to locate a text string within the current page. Since we know from studies of traditional browsers that users frequently confuse Search (whether site-wide or Web-wide) and Find, I am sure that Find will cause problems for WebTV users too. Even so, I agree with the decision to include this feature because of the reduced text readability and the problems with understanding the structure of any given page because of the small viewport. Since the user cannot easily go to the part of a page that covers a given topic of interest, the Find feature turns out to be a very handy within-page navigation aid.
If the user tries to Find a string that is not on the page, a reasonably good error message is displayed ("Could not find the word on this page"). When Find is subsequently activated on another page, WebTV correctly prepopulates the search field with the previous search string (good defaults always save users time but are especially critical for interaction widgets that are as cumbersome to operate as WebTV's). Interestingly, the Find area still displays the error message saying that it could not find the word. The first few times this happened, I assumed that WebTV was fast enough to have searched the new page for my Find string while it animated the appearance of the Find area (a reasonable assumption for the performance of a 112-MHz, 64-bit RISC processor searching a few kilobytes of text for an exact match). Because of this conclusion, I immediately closed the Find dialog without ever searching. As it turns out, WebTV had not searched the subsequent pages and the error message was a bug. My preference for a redesign would be for WebTV to make my erroneous assumption come true and search the page for the previous search string while the Find dialog is animated, since doing so would save users having to explicitly activating a search for a string that is not found. Again, manipulating interaction widgets with the remote control is much more awkward than using a mouse, so anything that minimizes user operations should be done.
Despite Sony's best efforts at putting their logo on the remote control, there is no doubt that the user experience has a big fat WebTV brand on it. The "home page" icon on most navigation screens says WebTV, as do many parts of the user interface. Most important, most of the top-level content accessed by the user carries a WebTV logo.
My conclusion is that WebTV is one of the first cases where the Content-is-King -principle has been used to overrule the brand of the physical device in the users' hands and turn the content into the main brand. In contrast, if you are using a Sun workstation to browse Microsoft's website, you still feel like a Sun customer, and conversely if you are using a Mac to browse Sun's website, you feel like an Apple customer.
Designing for WebTV
My main recommendation is not to design explicitly for WebTV unless you are creating a service dedicated to television users. The power of the Web is cross-platform design and the ability to have your user interface reside on a server under your control from which it can be projected to any customer in the world no matter what local equipment they have. This property is destroyed if you start to design for specific hardware. What should happen is that WebTV get with it and includes stylesheet support in Version 2: once that happens, you can link all your pages to a special stylesheet that is optimized for television in addition to stylesheets for traditional computers, PDAs, etc.
If you are designing a dedicated service or if you want to set up your server to detect the user agent and provide different pages to different browsers, then WebTV's own styleguide is certainly a start. Web Review 's feature story on designing for WebTV is another source.
If you want to design for the Web as a cross-platform information system but want to be considerate of WebTV users, then follow these guidelines:
- Do not use large images (more than 544 pixels wide or 376 pixels tall) unless they will still work after WebTV's automatic rescaling to the available viewport area
- Reserve use of imagemaps for the absolutely necessary cases (e.g., for selecting a location on a map) and make navigation bars and other sets of buttons into discrete images
- Do not include text in your images since the characters will be very difficult to read on the WebTV screen
- If you need to include text in an image, use 16 point bold Helvetica or larger (or an equally readable font) - the 16 point guideline assumes that the image is small enough that it will not be rescaled
- Do not use a multi-column layout. The figure shows how poorly the 3-column layout from news.com works on WebTV (even though it is one of my favorite designs on a regular computer screen)
- If your design requires columns anyway, use at most two columns and make sure that they will work on a 544-pixels-wide screen
- If you have a page that will scroll over more than four WebTV screenfuls, then repeat any navigation bar at the bottom of the page. I dislike this advice since extra interaction options increase the burden on the "normal" user to understand the page, but if your log files show more than, say, 5 percent WebTV users, then remember that the current WebTV design makes it hard to scroll back to the top of the page.
- Split your information into a rich hypertext space with a larger number of smaller nodes (OK, I didn't follow this advice for this column which is painful to read on WebTV)
- If possible, make each unit small enough to fit on a single WebTV screen to eliminate scrolling (interestingly, this advice is a return to the "card shark" model of hypertext as exemplified by HyperCard in 1987: ultimately we will need to evolve a new form of HTML to define pop-ups, overlays, partial fades, and the other interaction options that enhance card-based hypertext).
- Brevity: write less text
Note added mid-February 1997: At the Milia'97 conference in France, I saw a demo of the French NetBox system: very similar to WebTV but clearly less well designed. NetBox has a fairly geeky user interface that approximates the experience of using a traditional browser on a traditional desktop computer; simply not appropriate for a TV-based device and its new class of users.
In other Milia news, WebTV demoed a PAL version (European video standard) which will have slightly higher resolution than the American version. Interesting hints (but no firm announcements) were given of ways to bypass the high local access charges of European telephone companies. After the demo I got the opportunity to ask WebTV's Steve Perlman about their support of stylesheets and he assured the audience that stylesheets will be in an upcoming release.
Note added January 1999: If you don't have a WebTV, you can now download a tool for your PC to view your site the way it will look to WebTV users. The viewer even shows how the site looks in both PAL (Europe) and NTSC (U.S. and Japan).
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5 Great Movie Scenes Made Possible by Reckless Endangerment
#2. A Clockwork Orange: Broken Ribs and Tortured Eyeballs
We've covered Stanley Kubrick's torture tactics in a previous article, but the guy did so many horrible things to actors throughout his career that we have to wonder if he just decided on directing because it offered a legal loophole for abuse. While shooting A Clockwork Orange, Kubrick did all of his signature crazy shit, like shooting simple scenes 40 or 50 times, but he also practiced a more personal brand of cruelty, focusing it almost exclusively on Malcolm McDowell.
"Once I finish my coffee, I'm going to pee in this cup. And then you get to drink."
Sure, there were the usual Kubrick head games, like insisting that McDowell's character, Alex, have a pet snake despite the fact that McDowell was terrified of snakes (it wasn't in the script). But really, you haven't gotten the full Kubrick treatment until you've suffered some kind of real, medical damage.
So, for instance, during the scene in which a man forces Alex to the ground and stomps on him, the man insisted on selling the realism by actually stomping on McDowell's chest, cracking his ribs.
That's how you know you're doing it right. Acting is a lot like CPR that way.
But hands down the most torturous scene for McDowell was the most famous: the "rehabilitation" scene.
That's when Alex is forced to watch hours of rape and violence with his eyes pried open with what looks like tiny barbecue tongs attached to orthodontia headgear. During that scene, the doctor you see sitting there next to him, applying eye drops to keep Alex's eyes from drying out, was in fact an actual doctor who needed to be there applying those drops or McDowell risked becoming permanently blinded.
"Surprise! The drops are actually Tabasco sauce."
Still, even with those precautions, the apparatus scratched McDowell's cornea so severely that he wanted to stop the shoot. Instead of halting production until it healed, Kubrick told him, "Let's go on with the scene, I'll favor your other eye."
So when you see Alex sitting there in the straitjacket with his eyes pried open by the lid locks, screaming for them to stop it, we have no idea how much of that was acting. We're guessing neither did Kubrick.
"Now, Malcolm, I'm going to show you a slideshow of nude photos I took of myself. DO YOU SEE?"
#1. The Evil Dead: The Whole Movie
The reason you have heard of Bruce Campbell, and the reason director Sam Raimi (Spider-Man) has a career, is that in 1981 Raimi and producer Rob Tapert decided to make a zero-budget horror film called The Evil Dead.
They went into the project without a really solid understanding of how to make movies, and certainly didn't know how to make one full of crazy stunts and gore in a way that was safe at all. For one, all of that fancy safety shit is expensive -- it costs a lot more to create the illusion that actors are in danger than to put them in actual danger and just film that. For another, they seemed to think the danger was a necessary element. Josh Becker, who worked on the crew, explained in an interview that Sam Raimi would tell his cast, "If everyone was in extreme pain and misery, that would translate into a horror." No one bothered to correct him on this or to explain what "acting" and "fiction" are, so The Evil Dead shot for over a year in which Raimi and Tapert deliberately tortured the cast. How else would the film capture its gritty sense of slice-of-life realism?
"Would you stop screaming? I know how to carve a damn turkey!"
So, for a take that required the camera to smash through a window pane toward one of the lead actresses, they saw no other way of doing it than to just smash an actual window. When you see the actress shielding her head in that shot, it's because she doesn't want it to be sliced open by the actual shards of glass flying at her face.
Thankfully, they just sliced harmlessly into her wrists.
Keep in mind, all of this was happening in a rented a cabin out in the woods with no running water and no heat (they had to wash their hands with scalding hot water from the coffee maker) over the course of 15 months. At one point Bruce Campbell sprained his ankle, and for the next two weeks, Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert would poke at it with sticks to ensure that he kept limping in every scene.
But arguably the most dangerous moment of the entire shoot was the scene in which Bruce Campbell had to fight off a possessed woman who was trying to stab him with a dagger. The trouble was that the contact lenses they used for that iconic possessed look were completely opaque.
So the actress who was supposed to attack him was effectively blind. Oh, and the dagger? It was real. So while the actress' job was to run in Bruce Campbell's general direction, swinging the dagger out in front of her, his job was to not die. If that scene in the movie seems more real than any others, it's because he is legitimately trying to avoid being stabbed.
It's not entirely clear why they were so insistent on using a real blade, but Rob Tapert has a very telling quote on how he feels about actors. After one of the actresses cut her feet to shreds during a bare-footed running scene in the woods, he noticed the blood tracks and said, "I like it when an actor bleeds. It makes me feel like I got my money's worth."
Granted, the budget of that entire movie was less than $400,000, so the actors were probably getting paid in Sizzler coupons, but hey, that's worth bleeding for, right?
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| Abel, J., ARC Advisory Group,
[operator training]
As a leading research and consulting organization focused on
the process industries, manufacturing, infrastructure and other
industrial sectors, ARC Advisory Group has been closely
following the emerging skills crisis, its impact on industry,
and potential solutions. In todays business environment, hydrocarbon processing industry (HPI)
companies push their plants to their limits, while, at the same
time, both processes and control systems become increasingly
more complex. Staffed largely with aging workforces, with many
experienced operators getting ready to retire, companies need
to ensure that they can continue to operate their plants in a
safe, reliable and profitable manner. Operator training
simulator (OTS) systems provide an excellent way to train new
operators and refresh the skills of experienced ones.
With current business demands, the need for well-trained
operators continues to increase. Many plants now operate with
feedstocks and energy costs that
change frequently depending on the source and market
conditions. In addition, satisfying rapidly changing demand
creates constant fluctuations and potential instabilities in
unit operations that challenge even the most adroit process
The changing demographics complicate the need to improve
operations. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics indicates that
more than 25% of the working population will soon reach
retirement age. This could result in a shortage of almost 10
million workers. By 2030, more than 70 million people in the US
will retire, with only about 30 million people available to
replace them. A similar scenario is playing out in the European Union and in other
developed nations.
The loss of knowledge and the shortage of workers will
seriously jeopardize a companys ability to operate safely
and profitably. Human errors are costly, not only in terms of
off-spec product and unscheduled downtime, but also in
equipment damage, environmental harm and worker
Addressing the skills gap of younger workers requires a host
of techniques. These include classroom, on-the-job and
computer-based training; site visits to similar plants; and use
of high-fidelity training simulators. Most young operators have
never experienced a plant maintenance turnaround or a critical
situation. The only way to ensure that they will take the
proper action during a crisis is to prepare them for one. Most
good training simulators allow for hands-on, scenario-based
training to teach operators how to deal with normal and
emergency situations without compromising the actual plant,
worker safety and the environment. Few other tools offer this
type of training opportunity.
Simulators also provide a great way to keep the current
workforce performing at a high level of proficiency.
Preventable human errors cause approximately 40% of all
abnormal situations. Better-trained operators make fewer
mistakes; recognize process upsets earlier; and can initiate
the appropriate steps and actions to mitigate any potentially
harmful, wasteful or detrimental effects.
In training, realism is very important. Model fidelity must
be sufficient to replicate the response of the plant so that
the operators cannot tell the difference between the simulation
and the real thing. The more realistic the simulation, the more
the trainees will accept the method and retain what
theyve learned from their experience with the
Virtual reality (VR) adds another dimension
of realism to simulation. VR has been used with excellent
results for many years to train astronauts, pilots and military
personnel. Now, high-fidelity, 3D virtual reality simulators
are available for the process manufacturing and energy
industries. VR technologywhether 3D graphics
with avatars that interact with the plant and each other or a
host of other immersive technologies that use stereoscopic 3D
goggles and gloveshas the potential to significantly
change the way operators in the process industries train. This
is especially true for addressing the skill gap of younger
workers, who tend to embrace the latest technology.
Experienced operators and engineers should also find
immersive simulators appealing because of their high-fidelity
process and control simulation capabilities, plus their VR
capability that provides a realistic and safe training environment for improving efficiency
and skills.
In one example, Invensys developed a VR training simulator
for the US Department of Energys National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) that
extends the training scope to both control room and outside
operators, allowing them to coordinate activities and work as a
team the way they would in a real plant. The simulator also
allows them to see parts diagrams, work orders and examine the inside of
vessels during training sessions. In the virtual world,
trainees can perform routine tasks such as opening and closing
valves and turning on pumps. It is
even possible to practice extinguishing a virtual fire during a
simulated emergency; a training routine that could not be
attempted in a real plant. This type of experience reinforces
learning by bringing virtual reality closer to reality in the
process world. HP
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i Janicewhat are the conditions to attend this training, and i would like to undestand if you train the trainer for like trainers who dlivers DCS training, or you just train operator on the OTS. thanks.
Michael A. Taube
What about the Engineering, Maintenance & Management workforce? These groups are feeling the effects of the very same situation. What are operating & EPC companies doing to address the severe shortfall of qualified staff for these vital areas? The short answer is: nothing. Many continue following the same old recruiting/hiring routine either because they are blissfully ignorant or refuse to accept what is clear for all to see. All of the HPI will have to become very creative to address the shortfall. Copious use of contractors & consultants is part of the solution, but, that too, has its limitations. The next 5 years is going to be very interesting.
karim rahimi- khamnei
Training a good operation team in process units is a real challenge of HC processing industries. These programs, although diversified these days, should prompt operator's "vigillence" as well as his accountability. I would say a good training program does justify its high expenses, an investment does not drain in sink!
Manuel R. Suarez
Simulators, VR etc. are all great tools for training. However, they are just tools and should not be construed as a 'training system'. The latter is what is really needed and seldom seeing. The few times that I have seen proper 'training systems' implemented and used by an operating facility, the profits and advantages are huge and truly reflect in the company's bottom line. As an analogy, take the NMR in medicine. It surely helps in diagnosing a health problem but that's all it is, a tool. The true diagnosis is made by someone capable of using NMR information together with other tools, skills, abilities and knowledge to produce a diagnosis.
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Ronald G. Hurlbut
Long banking career, active in organizations
Ron was born Sept. 12, 1930, the son of the late Charles Wilmer and Gertrude Regina (Yoos) Hurlbut. He proudly served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War for two years and was a member of the Army Reserve for eight years.
He was a graduate of Leavenworth High School, class of 1949 in Waterbury, Conn., a graduate of the University of Bridgeport, the School of Banking at Brown University and the Senior Management School at the University of Massachusetts.
Ron started his banking career at Waterbury Savings Bank, where he worked for 20 years; then served as a vice president at City Savings Bank of Meriden; Mechanics Savings Bank of Hartford and Naugatuck Savings Bank, from where he retired.
Ron was a member and past president of the Wolcott Lions Club, and was also a member of the Meriden and Middlebury Lions clubs; a board member of the American Heart Association and a member of the H.S. Liederkrantz of Thomaston.
Ron's many hobbies include sports, photography, traveling and reading. He was an avid stamp collector and belonged to the Waterbury Stamp Club.
He was past treasurer of the Bethlehem Historical Society and chairman of the Bethlehem Historic District. He was an accomplished golfer and enjoyed playing with the Crestbrook Retirees Golf League. He was also a genealogist and had traced his family back to the 1400s.
In addition to his wife of 20 years, Mr. Hurlbut is survived by his sister, Cynthia (Hurlbut) DeLoia of Waterbury; his brother Charles Hurlbut; his sons Scott Hurlbut and his wife Jeanne, of Scottsdale, Ariz., Steven Hurlbut and his partner Karen of Boston, Mass.: his daughter Patricia Lee Hurlbut and her partner David Gracia, of Bristol; his stepsons Victor Noseworthy and his wife Linda of Watertown, Michael Noseworthy of Groton, Mass. and Thomas Noseworthy and his wife Ruth of Grove City, Pa.; his grandchildren Caroline Hurlbut, Kari Noseworthy, Lauren Noseworthy, Jillian Noseworthy, Sgt. Thomas C. "T.C." Noseworthy, Cody Noseworthy and Mason Noseworthy.
Arrangements: Funeral services will be held on Saturday, March 9, 2013 at 12 noon at the Alderson Funeral Home of Waterbury, 9 Holmes Ave. Burial will be held at the convenience of the family. Friends will be received by Mr. Hurlbut's family on Saturday from 10 a.m. until the time of the service at the funeral home.
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5 Mind-Blowing Cases of Mistaken Identity by the Police
We like to think that law enforcement weighs up a pretty high standard of evidence before they straight up throw a dude in prison. After all, we have all this fancy new technology to discern the guilty from the innocent! It's not like any of us could just wind up in jail for looking like a serial killer. But unfortunately, there have been cases of the legal system slipping up in just that way, for example ...
#5. The Man Falsely Convicted Twice for the Same Crime
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Adolph Beck was a Norwegian living in England in 1895, who had the bad luck of looking exactly like a prolific jewelry thief. He found this out one day during a chance encounter with a woman who cornered Beck and accused him of stealing her jewels. When the police came by, they arrested him apparently on the evidence that he totally looked like the dude who did it, and he would spend much of his life getting repeatedly nailed for this other guy's crimes, purely because they could (almost) be twins:
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Come on, Beck and the real criminal clearly tie their ties in completely different ways!
Once in court, Beck's luck went from bad to worse. Despite the man who swindled the woman sounding less and less like Beck, the jury decided nonetheless that he was not only guilty, but that he'd been seducing ladies and relieving them of their jewelry multiple times since 1877, under the woefully unimaginative fake name "John Smith." For that guy's crimes, Beck was thrown in the slammer for five freaking years.
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A 19th century British slammer, no less.
Beck finally caught a break when it was found that "John Smith" was circumcised, while Beck was not. While we don't want to imagine how he proved this in a court of law, he was nevertheless off the hook. At least until three years later, when another woman accused him of theft, and he was again arrested and charged with another string of jewelry robberies -- "Smith" was still out there doing crime, still looked just like Beck, and the court system hadn't learned a goddamned thing from the previous incident. Beck was found guilty again and served another five years or so in the big house.
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"Mmm-hmm. Mistaken identity. Miscarriage of justice. Right. Can we wrap this up?"
His luck only turned around when the real John Smith -- who was actually an Austrian doctor named Wilhelm Meyer -- committed another robbery while Beck was in prison. Though they probably tried their best to prove Beck did it with telekinesis, they eventually nailed Meyer for the crimes, discovering that the mistaken identity simply came about from both of them looking like the most British man in history. Beck was awarded a full pardon by the king and given a truckload of money to boot.
#4. The Man Sent to the Same Prison as His Doppelganger
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The above story may raise a question you've probably never asked yourself before: In days before photo ID and fingerprints, how did the cops ever know for sure if they were even talking to the right guy? Like if a suspect just straight up said, "Sure, Steve did it, but I'm not Steve -- I just look like him!" How did they know if he was lying?
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"Whaaat? You think I'm O.J. Simpson? Like ... the football guy?"
Well, for a while they used something called the "Bertillion method," which was basically a whole bunch of measurements they took of the size and shape of different parts of your body and face. As well as being an unflattering additional humiliation if you're a fatty, it served as a pretty reliable system -- that was until 1903, when these two guys came along:
Jeez, way to ruin the Bertillion method for the rest of us, guys.
They're not the same man -- the one in the left mugshot is who, after being arrested, was asked if he'd ever been in trouble with the law before. He answered no, but an examination of his measurements told a different story. And he wound up being charged more harshly for lying, much to his confusion. Where West caught a break that the guy in the above example didn't, was that the criminal who matched West's measurements was already incarcerated ... in the same prison. That's the guy in the second mugshot, whose name was -- get this -- also William West (though he went by "William" instead of "Will").
After a thorough examination to make sure one of them wasn't a liquid metal terminator or maybe The Thing, authorities were forced to conclude that this was just a one-in-a-billion coincidence. This caused a new problem for prison officials, who had trouble telling the two Wests apart, which could have been disastrous for one of them: William was serving a life sentence for murder, while Will was in for a much lesser charge.
"OK, one of you has to wear these. Don't worry, your fellow inmates should appreciate a little levity!"
Thankfully, the prison warden, Major Robert McClaughry, started to hear word about a newfangled method of identification that used fingerprints instead of facial measurements. After switching over to the new system, the prison was finally able to tell the difference between West and West, and the example served as proof that the fingerprinting method was far superior. Not that there isn't still confusion, since, for example ...
#3. Law Enforcement Has Trouble with Identical Twins
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So in the modern era of DNA testing and meticulous record keeping, how can prosecutors still get tripped up by similar suspects? When they're identical twins.
They certainly can be ... distracting.
For instance, in Germany, police working on a $6.5 million gold and jewelry heist found traces of DNA on a pair of discarded rubber gloves. Unfortunately for them, the DNA was a match for two identical twins named Hassan and Abbas. They both had their DNA in the database, but because their DNA is 99.99 percent the same, it was impossible to tell whose DNA was on the glove. With the twins keeping their mouths shut and quietly high-fiving each other, the cops had to let them go.
And in Arizona, either Orlando Nembhard or his twin brother Brandon killed someone outside a nightclub. Both were at the crime scene, but because they're identical twins, witnesses couldn't tell which one pulled the trigger. Cops were forced to drop the charges, at least until new evidence is found.
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But if you're an identical twin, don't start planning your crime spree just yet. It turns out there is one foolproof way to tell you guys apart, even if you were smart enough not to leave fingerprints. Experiments done by police in the Czech Republic showed dogs could differentiate the scents of identical twins 100 percent of the time. So all we need, we guess, is more dogs stationed around twin-crime hotspots. At the very least, the entire plot of The Parent Trap could have been avoided.
But then again, even if you don't have a twin, DNA can still wrongly nail you for a crime ...


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Recommended Reading:- Harold Hongju Koh & Michael J. Wishnie, The Story of Sale v. Haitian Centers Council: Guantanamo and Refoulement, Human Rights Advocacy Stories (2009) (Hurwitz, Satterthwaite & Ford, eds.) 385-406, 424-26- Sale v. Haitian Centers Council, 509 U.S. 155 (1993)
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Squash, Thyme, and Goat Cheese Tart
Categories: Big-Batch Meals, Cakes/pies, Comfort Foods, Entertaining, Party Snacks
Type: Main Dishes
Type: Main Dishes
Squash, thyme, and goat cheese blend together perfectly in this delicious tart.
Prep Time: 15M
Cooking Time: 50M
Serves: Serves 4-6
- 1 sheet prepared dough for an 8-9in (20-23cm) pie
- all-purpose flour
- 2 large eggs, very lightly beaten
- 1-2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 onion, finely chopped
- sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped
- 1 butternut squash, about 21/4lb (1kg) peeled, seeded, and chopped into small cubes
- a few sprigs of fresh thyme
- 41/2oz (125g) soft goat cheese, crumbled
- 1 cup heavy whipping cream
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- Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C). Roll out the pastry on a floured work surface, and use to line an 8in (20cm) fluted round tart pan with a removable bottom. Trim away the excess dough, line the pastry shell with parchment paper, and fill with pie weights or dry beans. Bake for 15-20 minutes until the edges of the pastry are golden. Remove the beans and paper, brush the bottom of the pastry shell with a little of the beaten egg, and return to the oven for 2-3 minutes to crisp. Remove from the oven and set aside. Reduce the oven temperature to 350°F (180°C).
- Meanwhile, heat 1 tbsp of the oil in a large frying pan over low heat. Add the onion and a pinch of salt, and cook gently for 5 minutes until soft. Add the garlic, squash, and half of the thyme leaves, and continue cooking over low heat for 10-15 minutes until the squash softens and begins to turn golden. You may have to add a little more olive oil.
- Spoon the squash and onion mixture into the pastry shell, then crumble the goat cheese over the top. Mix together the cream and remaining beaten egg, and season well with salt and pepper. Carefully pour the cream mixture over the tart filling, and sprinkle with the remaining thyme leaves. Bake for 20-25 minutes until the tart is puffed and set. Let cool for at least 10 minutes before removing the sides of the pan. Serve warm with an arugula salad.
- To make individual tarts, use six 4in (10cm) fluted round tart pans with removable bottoms. Cut out the pastry into 6 rounds, and use to line each pan.
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#6. Is That The Last Supper in Your Pocket or Are You Just Happy to See Me?
The Scene:
Stephane Breitwieser must have had a lot of empty walls. In his six years as an art thief, the sneaky bastard stole hundreds of priceless works of art--enough loot to count as a war crime--but since Europe has a soft spot for sensitive Frenchmen who love their mothers, Stephane Breitwieser is currently an international celebrity.
Stephane Breitwieser, upon realizing what he looks like in a mirror.
The Plan:
Breitwieser began his career in criminality while visiting a castle in Switzerland with one of those "he's a jerk, but I still love him" girlfriends. He put the girl's love to the test when he saw a nice painting on the wall and said, "Oh, isn't that nice... honey, keep a look out for me," as he spontaneously ripped the damned thing right off the wall. He then left the museum, presumably with a jazzy score with lots of saxophones in it playing along with him as he winked at the front security camera, put on some sunglasses and sped away, hot girlfriend in tow.
The after-heist sex was insane.
Once he realized that virtually anything became invisible when placed under his coat, Breitwieser and Co. repeated this routine for six years with a nearly 100 percent success rate. When it came to museums, the thief would sweep the scene for alarms, guards and cameras, and then have his girlfriend make a "loud" diversion as he removed the artwork. If the frame was armed with a sensor, he simply cut the picture right out of the frame with a blade. It worked like a charm at over 170 different museums thanks to Breitwieser's quick hands and his girlfriend's theatrics.
But even the best in the business get greedy at some point. For Breitwieser, stealing 238 pieces of art (plus one fake) is nothing unless you have a 400-year-old trumpet with which to toot your own horn. Yeah, about that: The man was seen stealing a quadricentarian bugle from a Swiss museum, and was arrested two days later staking out another heist at the same freaking location.
Totally worth a couple years in jail.
For his unprecedented douchebaggery, Breitwieser was sentenced to three years in jail, and his girlfriend (now "ex-girlfriend" for some reason) got 18 months. Due to the adorableness of his crimes, however, he only served 26 months, and when he was released he wrote a self-promoting book that made him quite a bit of money. The lesson, apparently, is that crime pays, and when it stops paying, it resumes in 26 months.


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To the editor:
On April 24, the Herald-Star published a letter from Barry Bardone of Bloomingdale ("A look at things that failed.") In that letter, Bardone made a number of disconnected rambling assertions about the POTUS. I confess that prior to reading his nearly incoherent babble, I hadn't heard most of his claims, but I could tell that they were probably nonsense he'd gathered from the far-right-wing of the Internet or Fox News. So I decided to fact-check just two of the assertions at random.
Assertion No. 1 in Bardone's own grammatically challenged words: "Here are some of the firsts for the president: To arbitrarily declare an existing law unconstitutional and refuse to enforce it." I had an idea what this one referenced, but I also knew the facts as he presented them to be incorrect. I suspected he was talking about Obama's order to the justice department to no longer defend the Defense of Marriage Act in court. However, that's not what Bardone said. Bardone claimed the president was refusing to enforce the law and that he was the first ever to do so. For the record, both of these claims are factually false.
As it happens several presidents have refused to defend laws they see as unconstitutional in the courts. Most recently, G.W. Bush refused to defend a law passed by both houses of Congress despite his having vetoed it. That bill involved a must carry provision in a TV cable bill.
As to the other part of the claim; that Obama was refusing to enforce DOMA, this too is false. Recently in Vermont, a state which has legalized gay marriage, Obama's administration enforced deportation laws on a lesbian from Japan who married a same-sex American citizen because under DOMA the U.S. government does not recognize the validity of their marriage. So as we can all see, Obama is enforcing the law and he is not the first to refuse to defend an unconstitutional law. Bardone gave false information twice in that one sentence.
Another falsehood from Bardone's nonsensical farce of a letter was to claim that our president is the first: "to keep a dog trainer on retainer for $102,000 a year (taxpayer funded.)" This is something I had never heard and had no idea what he was going on about, so I did a quick Google search. Turns out that, yes, Obama is paying a dog trainer a retainer, but that's as far as the truth goes in Bardone's specious claim. The dog trainer actually has several clients and earns on average $102,000 per year from all of them. The president pays nowhere near that amount. Moreover, the president pays for the trainer from his own pocket, not at taxpayer expense as Bardone lied. So unless Bardone has a problem with the president using his salary as he sees fit (an idea which reeks of classism and partisanship,) I suspect he was just distorting the facts assuming nobody would check his veracity. In fact, I now doubt the veracity of the entire letter.
Don't you?
J. David Core


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- This is a basic biochemistry course and its goal is to convey to the students a basic understanding of biochemical processes. Areas which wil be emphasized will be: 1) acid-base relationships, 2) the structure and function of amino acids and protein. 3) the metabolism of simple carbohydrates, glyogen, amino acids, fatty acids, nucleic acids and proteins 4) oxygen transport; hemoglobin and myoglobin, factors affecting oxygen transport, 5) enzymes, kinetics, activation and regulation of activity, 6)the synthesis of proteins and nucleic acids, 6) collagen synthesis and degradation, 7)regulation of gene expression and an introduction to genetic engineering, recombinant DNA.


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All parents can positively impact their children's learning and healthy development, and when families, schools and communities partner together, schools thrive and students benefit. Unfortunately, it is not always easy to navigate the educational system and know how to best work with district and school personnel. Often times, parents of students with disabilities face additional challenges. The Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) has developed some web pages and resources specifically for parents of students with disabilities.
A good starting place for parents of students with disabilities is:
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- If you are unable to resolve a conflict at the local level, you may access one of ISBE's dispute resolution options.
If you have a child with a disability, you may decide to hire a paraprofessional or a "lay advocate" to assist you in ensuring that your child's educational needs are met. These advocates, who are not attorneys, may be able to assist with consultation, letter writing, or meetings with schools.
For certain circumstances, a parent may prefer to hire an attorney for assistance.
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Can someone tell me what the NN3 Mark II settings are for a Canon EOS 500D with a Sigma 8mm F3.5 EX DG Fisheye Lens
Can someone tell me what the NN3 Mark II settings are for a Canon EOS 500D with a Sigma 8mm F3.5 EX DG Fisheye Lens
Would you prefer to be shown how to learn to find these figures for yourself so you can understand how to do it again for different lenses and cameras?
I've looked at some of the tutorials and I think I get the concept on how to figure it out. I'm rather time crunched however and so I was hoping someone already had the settings. I also figured that since I bought it as a kit from Nodal Ninja that the settings would already be listed, but I couldn't find them on the web page.
We are busy to set up a new database for the newer models. I understand your intension. But at least you should know how to check the settings with your own equipment.
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If no end user has the settings for you then you can easily get them yourself in around 10 mins max using the tutorials. It's impossible for Nodal Ninja to test and list every single camera/lens combo so they rely on end users finding the settings and offering them up for publication.
cmoran, Use the settings listed for the Canon 350D on the NN web site. They may be 1mm or so different from the 500D settings but should be quite good enough for you to start with. As Badders points out, it only takes around 10 minutes to determine the correct settings yourself and they should be as good as or better than any settings you might get from somebody else.
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The statement A = "There exists a well-ordering of the reals" is independent of ZF. My understanding is that the statement B = "There exists an explicit well-ordering of the reals" is also independent of ZF, yet this seems counterinutitive to me, because of the following line of reasoning: If B were true, then A would be provable in ZF, which is impossible since A is independent of ZF, so B must be false. This line of reasoning seems perfectly clear to me, and I see no reason why it cannot be carried out in ZF itself. But if the line of reasoning could be carried out in ZF, then that would mean that ZF implies that not B, contradicting the claim that B is independent of ZF.
So can anyone clarify how exactly ZF+B is consistent?
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I'm thinking of removing a brake(front or back) to reduce weight and simplify my bike. Which brake is most expendable? Its your average fixie road bike.
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Keep your front brake. It does the most work, it will stop you much faster than your rear brake ever could hope to. Take a look at a motorcycle, the front brakes are always much larger than the rear. Whenever you brake, on a bicycle, motorcycle, in a car, more weight is transfered to the front wheels, so the front tire has more traction to stop you with.
That said, sit down a minute and think about what you're going to do if you remove your rear brake, and one day your front brake stops working while you're going down a hill. Right about then you'll wish you had just put up with the extra 400 grams of weight.
This is an extremely bad idea, and it may or may not be illegal where you live. It's pretty common for the law to require you to be able to lock up both wheels on flat dry pavement.
Regardless, both brakes are important, and you shouldn't remove one for something a silly as weight reduction. The contact patch on your tires is small enough already without throwing away half your stopping power.
Your rear brake will slow you without impacting your steering, while your front break is responsible for ~60% of your stopping power. However, braking with your front brake while turning sharply will usually result in loss of traction of your front wheel, causing the bike to slide out from under you, so it's crucial that you keep your rear brake.
If you're still dead set on this course, remove the rear brake, it's the less effective of the two. Some day when you're cornering and a car pulls out in front of you, and your options are to brake and slide out or hit the car, you'll regret not having both brakes.


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GOP Retains House Control
Republicans retained control of the House Tuesday night, confronting President Barack Obama with a continuing partisan obstacle to his second-term agenda.
The results left the chamber's balance of power intact despite a restive electorate. The House's dwindling band of conservative Democrats stood to shrink further, as Republicans defeated two Democratic incumbents in the south and picked up several open seats held by ``Blue Dog'' Democrats who had decided to retire. By 1:45 a.m., Republicans were set to win 239 seats and Democrats 193, according to the Associated Press.
Still, Democrats offset some of their losses by defeating several GOP incumbents, including tea party-backed freshmen who had been a big part of the GOP 2010 landslide.
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Strategists in both parties expect the House's bottom line will change little, in a departure from the last three so-called wave elections that brought major swings in the party makeup of the House—toward Democrats in 2006 and 2008, and toward Republicans in 2010.
``We're humbled to have again been entrusted by the American people with the responsibility of leading the People's House,'' said House Speaker John Boehner (R., Ohio), in a statement prepared before the outcome of the presidential election was known. ``We stand ready to work with any willing partner—Republican, Democrat or otherwise—who shares a commitment to getting these things done.''
For months, Democrats said they could win the 25 seats needed to capture the majority from Republicans, who going into the night controlled the House by a 242-193 margin. In recent weeks, however, they softened their tone and said they expected only single-digit gains.
Democrats remained hopeful that they would not lose seats. "It's going to be a good night,'' House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D., Md.) said at a party rally held before polls had closed on the West Coast.
Dozens of new faces will appear on Capitol Hill thanks to a big wave of retirements, including 19 Democrats and 15 Republicans who chose not to run for re-elections. Even before Election Day, five incumbents were voted out of office in primaries.
Many incumbents who did choose to run again faced tough re-election fights in newly drawn districts—in some cases, against other incumbents—as a result of the decennial census. The new district map in Ohio pitted Reps. Betty Sutton (D., Ohio) and Rep. James Renacci (R., Ohio) against each other. In Iowa, Democratic Rep. Leonard Boswell was pitted against Republican Rep. Tom Latham. In California, veteran Democrats Brad Sherman and Howard Berman fought a bitter match.
The day of voting threatened to further erode Democrats' conservative Blue Dog coalition, which took heavy losses in 2010. Among those who managed to hang on were Rep. John Barrow (D., Ga.), the last remaining white House Democrat from the Deep South.
North Carolina was expected to produce a spate of Republican gains, which began with a GOP victory in the seat opened by the retirement of Blue Dog leader Rep. Heath Shuler. Republican Mark Meadows, a real-estate investor, handily beat Mr. Shuler's chief of staff, Hayden Rogers.
Rep. Larry Kissell (D., N.C.), one of the party's most vulnerable incumbents, was handily defeated. Rep. Mike McIntyre (D., N.C.), battling to hold on to his seat, was seen as a bellwether for the party's prospects. Republicans also picked up Democratic open seats in Indiana, North Carolina and Oklahoma.
Democrats countered their losses by defeating Republican incumbents in the Northeast and Midwest, and picked up more seats in California. In Illinois, four Republican incumbents from differing wings of the party were defeated. Two centrists--Rep. Judy Biggert (R., Ill.), in her seventh term, and Rep. Robert Dold, a freshmen—were defeated. So too were two freshman tea party allies. Rep. Joe Walsh, well-known for his willingness to buck the GOP leadership, was defeated by disabled veteran and former Senate candidate Tammy Duckworth. Rep. Bobby Shilling, a former pizza parlor owner, also lost.
Other prominent tea party allies faced stiff challenges in other states. Rep. Allen West of Florida faced a tough challenge from Democrat Patrick Murphy, in a costly and bitter campaign. Two other nationally known conservatives—Reps. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, who ran for president in 2012, and Steve King of Iowa—were also facing tough fights, but Mr. King pulled out a victory over Christie Vilsack, former first lady of Iowa.
Other Republican incumbents who were defeated in rematches with their 2010 opponents: centrist Rep. Charlie Bass (R., N.H.) who lost to Democrat Ann Kuster; and GOP Rep. Ann Marie Buerkle, who was beaten by former Rep. Dan Maffei in upstate New York.
Meanwhile, Rep. Roscoe Bartlett (R., Md,), a 10-term incumbent, lost his seat after his district was redrawn to include many more Democrats. In Florida, Democrat Joe Garcia defeated GOP Rep. David Rivera, a freshman who had been dogged by scandal. In Texas, Republican freshman Quico Canseco was defeated, and California produced a bumper crop of Democratic pickups.
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Theft: Vehicle entered over the weekend in the 500 block of North Sixth Street and change taken.
Cited: Emily R. Grimm, 23, 143 Parkview Drive, Wintersville, speeding; and Brenda L. Hanlin, 45, 3633 Sunset Blvd., expired registration and expired license.
Theft: House entered in the 200 block of South Fifth Street and TV taken, Monday.
Arrested: Donald D. Kimberland Sr., 66, 1605 Euclid St., violation of protection order, Monday.
Arrested: Joshua D. Hidalgo, 25, Carrollton, public intoxication and criminal trespass, Monday.
Arrested: Gary Redman, 37, 302 N. Third St., assault and disorderly conduct while intoxicated, Monday.
Arrested: David E. Rayburn, 43, 129 Reichart Ave., Wintersville, operating vehicle under the influence, Monday.
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Arrested: Michael R. Guerrera, 56, Bethesda, operating vehicle under the influence, driving with suspended license and parking on highway, Monday.
Cited: Grace L. Wineman, 24, Beallsville, speeding; and Daniel A. Tracy, 23, Martins Ferry, speeding.
Theft: Unlocked vehicle entered on Tomlinson Road, Adena, and purse and handgun taken, Monday.
Cited: Jay M. Dailey, 49, 5318 state Route 152, Richmond, red light; Stephen A. Bailey, 60, RD 3, Wellsburg, improper registration; Matthew J. Sanders, 39, 155 Stardust Drive, Wintersville, driving with a suspended license, no insurance and unsafe vehicle; Charles A. Spencer, 31, 1319 Euclid Ave., Steubenville, speeding; Derrick L. Kaufmann Jr., 41, 1308 Maryland Ave., Steubenville, failure to obey traffic control device; Steven J. Slaten, 38, 710 Oakmont Ave., Steubenville, expired registration; Lindsay A. Hilson, 40, 608 Carnegie St., Steubenville, driving with suspended license and no insurance; Virginia R. McKissack, 40, Dewar, Okla., speeding; Bianca R. Harper, 31, 126 Roberts St., Wintersville, driving with suspended license; Taylor C. Parissi, 20, 412 Fernwood Road, Wintersville, speeding; Tricia N. DiThomas, 33, 117 Alfred Drive, speeding; Brandon M. Yarnevic, 25, 400 Logan Ave., Mingo Junction, no operator's license; Debi M. DelGallo, 55, 826 Buena Vista Blvd., Steubenville, red light; and Brian K. Bradley, 44, 308 Cherry Ave., Richmond, expired registration.
Arrested: John Wilson Conrad, 127 S. 11th St., Weirton, Hancock County warrant for transporting stolen property, Thursday.
Arrested: Joshua Harley Zook, 51 county Road 60, Bergholz, disorderly conduct, Thursday.
Arrested: Victoria L. Bettino, 249 Miami Ave., Weirton, underage consumption, Friday.
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Arrested: Michelle L. Galiano, 36, RD 1, Colliers, driving under the influence, Friday.
Arrested: Randy K. Treherne III, 35, 455 Hill St., Beech Bottom, driving under the influence, obstructing an officer, firing a gun too close to a home and convict in possession of a firearm, Saturday.
Arrested: Charles F. Painter Jr., 36, 114 Highland Ave., Beech Bottom, violation of a protective order and driving while license revoked for driving under the influence, Saturday.