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| Bloch, H. P., Hydrocarbon Processing Staff,
[asset management]
[predictive maintenance]
[preventive maintenance]
[equipment monitoring]
In 2009, an automation journal commissioned an online survey
asking industry observers and practitioners to rank technology
trends in 2009 and beyond.1 Table 1
summarizes the respondents preferences on technologies
that would be adopted or installed in operating facilities over
the next five years.
While this particular survey was restricted to the
automation and instrumentation segments of modern industry, the
results are probably applicable to the mechanical and maintenance segments. All industrial
segments anticipate, and will apply, some or possibly all or
similar versions of the automation/monitoring/communication
equipment and systems listed in Table 1.
Seasoned reliability professionals should
welcome these trends. However, successful implementation of
automation/monitoring/alarm equipment requires tremendous
planning and action. Specific training is needed early in the
process to translate any of the existing or future trends
(Table 1) into safe and profitable uptime for
the industrial/manufacturing facilities.
Engineering teams involved in automation/monitoring programs
should be fully aware of consultant-conceived
generalities. Such generalities add no value unless there
is action on relevant specifics. Technology implementation requires
knowledge-based action even on minor items. Getting the
big picture and embracing the concept of asset
management (AM) is commendable, but more is needed for
sustainable success.
AM is a systematic and highly detailed process of operating,
maintaining, upgrading and disposing of assets
cost-effectively. The AM process is aimed at achieving the
greatest return on plant assets and equipment. It includes
predictive maintenance (PdM) and preventive maintenance (PM) in facilities to provide the best
possible service to all users. This is a very general
guideline; however, the importance and urgency of pursuing and
implementing specifics is best illustrated by an example.
An equipment alignment problem indicates needed upgrades.
Earlier this year, a machinery engineer on temporary assignment
overseas struggled with equipment alignment issues. While shaft
alignment may seem to be a very low technology issue, the engineer
realized that alignment problems could have a demonstrable
impact on the availability and reliability of equipment and
possibly processing units. The engineer summarized the
situation and wrote:2
Suppose you have very precisely aligned the shafts of
pump and driver; nevertheless, the shims placed under the
equipment feet to achieve this precise alignment caused the
shaft system to slant 0.005 in. or 0.01 in. per foot of shaft
length. As a consequence, the brass or bronze oil ring (slinger
ring) will now exhibit a strong tendency to run
downhill. While bumping into other pump components
thousands of times per day, the oil ring gradually degrades and
sheds numerous tiny specks of the alloy material. These metal
specks cause progressive oil deterioration and, ultimately,
bearing distress.
The engineer relayed more information and asked several
We are currently installing a couple of hundred
motor-driven pumps on steel modules. The modules are being
built in a Pacific Rim country and will be shipped to another
continent when completed. I have a concern now, after reading
your book. The pumps are all installed on skids from different
manufacturers. After setting the flatness of the skids
machined surfaces to the requirements spelled out in an
applicable standard (API-686, 0.25 mm/m), we came back the next
day or week and found the surfaces out-of-tolerance due to the
suns orientation and changes in ambient temperature. The
equipment stayed in a common plane, but not within the
guidelines of API-686.
Do you have any recommendations? Can you shed more light on
the expected equipment or component life reduction if the pump
orientation is out-of-flatness? Are pumps used on ships
different from API-compliant pumps?
In short, this author may not have all of the answers, but
shaft misalignment reduces the expected trouble-free operating
time, as shown in Fig. 1. Pumps on shipboard
are often grease-lubricated, and the re-greasing frequencies on
well-managed ships are better than those practiced on land.
Regardless of where equipment is installed, bearing
lifein oil-lubricated pumps equipped with loose oil rings
dipping in the oil sumpwill be influenced by oil
replacement (per PM) frequency. Factors influencing the bearing
service life include oil cleanliness, degree of immersion in
the oil, variation of oil viscosity from an as-designed value,
bore roughness of the oil rings, and the degree of
horizontality of the shaft system.
The out-of-roundness of loose oil rings is very important,
and some researchers have asked for concentricity within 0.002
in./0.05 mm.5 In 2009, at a facility in South Texas,
we measured malfunctioning oil rings that were over 0.06
in./1.5 mm out-of-round. For loose oil rings, remaining within
the asked-for concentricity is difficult. Therefore, flinger
discs clamped to the shaft are preferred over loose oil rings.
However, if the loose oil rings are required, then these rings
should be manufactured with stress relieving as a required
fabrication step.
Reliability professionals must fully advise their owners,
employers, project managers and superintendents
on what may appear to be a small matter. Cheap equipment will
require more maintenance, and reliability
professionals must bring these facts to the attention of
decision-makers and purchasing teams. If it is too late for the
overseas reader to insist on flinger discs, they could now lay
much groundwork for upgrading via suitable retrofits.
Upgrading is part of the definition for AM. So, whenever the
first one of the readers many skid-mounted pumps fails
and is taken to the shop, the needed flinger disc adaptations
would be retrofitted.2 A designated responsible
implementer would be involved in this follow-up. Carrying out
such upgrades is rarely optional at reliability-focused
facilities. For them, upgrading is mandatory because only the
reliability-focused plants will operate safely and profitably.
Using oil rings and expecting the highest possible equipment
reliability are contradictions. Attempts to live with
contradictions will ultimately cost more than implementing
best-available technology during the inception
stage of the project.
Effective AM deals with specifics. Not understanding,
acknowledging these specifics and implementing suitable
upgrades will be an expensive process. Experience shows that
average facilities will run, but they will get
locked in a never-ending cycle of repeat failures or random
repairs. From the start, these facilities will be repair-focused
and notably less profitable than their reliability-focused competition.
Ideally, an owner-operator should work with design contractors
who know, specify and insist on obtaining the lowest failure
risk componentsdown to parts such as flinger discs in
locations where average users will accept loose oil
rings. If the design contractor does not have these insights,
the timely and consistent application of machinery quality
assessment is even more important. HP
1 Journal of the International Society of
Automation, January 2009.
2 Bloch, H. P. and A. R. Budris, Pump
Users HandbookLife Extension, 4th Ed.,
Fairmont Publishing, Lilburn, Georgia, 2013.
3 Bloch, H. P., Pump Wisdom: Problem Solving for
Operators and Specialists, John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken,
New Jersey, 2011.
4 Piotrowski, J., Shaft Alignment Handbook,
3rd Ed., Marcel Dekker, New York, New York, 2006.
5 Wilcock, D. F. and E. R. Booser, Bearing
Design and Application, McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., New
York, New York, 1957.
All comments are subject to editorial review.
All fields are compulsory.
Barry Snider
Once again, Heinz Bloch has demonstrated the need for precision and due diligence when applying the concepts of Asset Management. the timing could not be better as the new standards ISO 55000, 55001, 55002, and 55003 are about to be published. these standards do not emphasize detail and precision but only the attributes for a management system. The lesson is to learn how to manage your assets before setting up a management system and placing a certificate on the wall that announces compliance to a standard established by some far away committee.
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Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania
Last Modified: November 1, 2001
Reviewers: Kenneth Blank, MD
Source: New England Journal of Medicine Vol. 340 No. 16 p. 1239
Some investigators believe that Hodgkin's disease and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma arise when B-cells becomecancerous. However, other investigators argue that Hodgkin's Disease develop when other cells becomecancerous, namely, monocytes or dendritic cells. Given the uniqueness of B-cells' immunoglobulin,investigators from Germany examined the immunoglobulin genes in the tumor cells of two patients, each withHodgkin's disease and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, to determine the role of B-cells in the etiology of Hodgkin'sdisease and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

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Let $\lambda_1 (\cdot)$ be the larger absolute value eigenvalue of a $2\times2$ matrix and $\lambda_2 (\cdot)$ the smaller absolute value eigenvalue of a $2\times2$ matrix, i.e. $|\lambda_1 (\cdot)| \ge |\lambda_2 (\cdot)|$. Is it true that $$ \left|\left|\lambda_{1}\left(A+B\right)\right|^{1/3}-\left|\lambda_{1}\left(A\right)\right|^{1/3}\right|+\left|\left|\lambda_{2}\left(A+B\right)\right|^{1/3}-\left|\lambda_{2}\left(A\right)\right|^{1/3}\right|\leq\left|\lambda_{1}\left(B\right)\right|^{1/3}+\left|\lambda_{2}\left(B\right)\right|^{1/3} $$ for any $2\times2$ symmetric real matrix $A$ (would suffice to prove or disprove for not positive-definite matrices $A$) and $2\times2$ diagonal real matrix $B$? Thanks a lot for any helpful answers! By the way, a relevant question was answered by Suvrit here.
Below I highlight that a much more general claim holds for $n\times n$ positive definite matrices, and that a slightly weaker version of your inequality holds for general symmetric matrices.
Recall a classic theorem of Ando, (T.Ando, "Comparison of norms $\|f(A)-f(B)\|$ and $\|f(|A-B|)\|$, Math. Z., 197, (1988)):
Now, in your case we can use $f(t) = t^r$ for $r \in [0,1]$, to obtain $$\|A^r-B^r\| \le \|\ |A-B|^r\ \|,$$ which when specialized to the trace-norm (sum of singular values) yields the inequality that you desire (but for positive matrices).
This inequality immediately implies the following weaker one for general symmetric matrices $$\| f(|A|) - f(|B|) \| \le \left\|f\bigl(\bigl|\ |A|-|B|\ \bigr|\bigr)\right\|,$$ which is somewhat weaker than what you desire (but may suffice for your needs---which can be elaborated upon only if you follow Igor's suggestion and tell us where you are getting these questions from, and in what context!)


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Nowadays I study Logic and Philosophy. I think a lot in order to generate new ideas and try not to just know what other's ideas are.
This is hard, and I know that Mastery/Autonomy/Purpose help in motivation, but that doesn't seem to work in my situation (maybe because I still don't have mastery, but that's partly the point of what I'm doing now - thinking).
So, what can I do? What are good articles/books/ideas about this? What I think of is really cumbersome, and doesn't give immediate results; it needs a long breath.
Please note that I used the 'concentration' tag, but I don't mean "narrow" concentration (i.e. being able to think clearly), I'm talking about "general" concentration (i.e. being able to think for long time, without lots of long breaks.)


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Breast Cancer Health Center
Breast Cancer and Ductal Lavage
In this article
Who Is a Candidate for Ductal Lavage?
Ductal lavage is recommended only for women who are at high risk for breast cancer. There are several factors that put a woman at high risk for developing breast cancer, including:
- A personal history of breast cancer
- A family history of breast cancer, particularly in a mother, daughter, or sister
- Evidence of a specific gene (BRCA1/BRCA2) mutation
- A Gail Index score of at least 1.67%. The Gail Index uses risk factors such as age, family history of breast cancer, age of first menstrual period and first pregnancy, and number of breast biopsies to calculate a woman's risk of developing breast cancer within the following five years, from the analysis.
Talk to your doctor about whether you could benefit from this screening procedure.
What Happens if Atypical Cells Are Found?
Not all abnormal cells are destined to become breast cancer. In fact, less than 1% of women have cancerous cells identified by a ductal lavage. Knowing that you have atypical cells can help you and your doctor plan a strategy to reduce your risk of developing breast cancer. A strategy may include:
- A repeat ductal lavage or other tests to confirm previous results
- Increased breast health monitoring, such as more frequent clinical breast exams
- Taking certain medication that may reduce your risk of breast cancer such as tamoxifen, Evista or Aromasin
- Surgery such as prophylactic mastectomy (surgery to remove a breast before cancer develops)
What Will I Feel During a Ductal Lavage?
Most women don't find ductal lavage to be painful, saying it is no more uncomfortable than a mammogram. You may feel temporary sensations such as fullness, pinching, and tingling in the breast. However, numbing medications (anesthetics) are used to help reduce discomfort during the procedure.
Is Ductal Lavage Used Instead of a Mammogram to Screen for Breast Cancer?
No. Ductal lavage is used along with other regular breast health practices such as regular breast self-exams, annual clinical exams, and mammography. It is not a replacement for these screening tools. In addition, ductal lavage is not recommended for women with a low risk for breast cancer.


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WASHINGTON (December 4, 2012)—Kensen Shi, 17, a senior at A&M Consolidated High School in College Station, won top individual honors Tuesday in Washington in the Siemens Foundation's annual science competition for high school students for combining two previous algorithms into a new and more efficient algorithm for navigation.
His project, titled "Lazy Toggle PRM: A Single-Query Approach to Motion Planning," could help driverless cars and robots navigate around obstacles in their paths.
Shi, who hopes to become a computer science professor and researcher, has also placed 21st nationally in the US National Chemistry Olympiad and as captain led the Texas American Regional Mathematics League Gold Team to 13th place nationally.
He's also an accomplished pianist.
Six individuals and six teams were competing for the awards.
Top team honors went to a trio of students from Hewlett, N.Y., for their research on a protein involved in tumor formation.
Seniors Jeremy Appelbaum, William Gil and Allen Shin will share a $100,000 scholarship.


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Brooke County sheriff
Arrested: Jeffrey T. Rine, 22, 78 Grandview Drive, Wellsburg, driving under the influence, Wednesday.
Arrested: Joseph Benton Satathite Jr., 25, 403 Heathermoor Drive, Weirton, two counts of daytime burglary, Wednesday.
Arrested: Joseph Brandon Satathite, 28, Lot 11, 150 Woodcrest Road, Follansbee, conspiring to commit daytime burglary and transferring stolen property, Wednesday.
Theft: Several tools were taken from a garage at a home on Browning Alley in Follansbee on March 13.
Arrested: Kiaira Prentice, 20, 730 N. Seventh St., bench warrant out of municipal court, Wednesday.
Charged: Andrew L. Smith, 43, 329 S. Fourth St., public intoxication, Wednesday.
Theft: Apartment in the 700 block of North Seventh Street entered Wednesday and ransacked. The resident reported personal items were taken.
Arrested: Anna Clark, 26, Steubenville, bench warrant out of municipal court, today.


text: My little sister has been taking a real strong liking to the new Avatar series Legend of Korra. She asked me if I could make her a lesson the same time it was requested by someone else. So, here is "how to draw chibi Korra", step by step. This is going to be a really fun lesson to follow because Korra makes a really adorable figure when she is in chibi form. I love how she came out, and if you look closely you can see some sort of resemblance between her and Katara. I also wanted to make sure that this lesson on drawing chibi Korra came out as simple as possible. There is little difficulty with this tut so you should be able to complete it without popping any serious main cables. Well, that's it for now, I shall return momentarily. Peace folks and enjoy!


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I installed ubuntu 10.10 on my laptop and configured a lot, installed and setup lot of things on it to suit my needs. Now I want to move this setup to anothe machine and want to avoid all the setup again. Is there a way I can create an installer out of my existing ubuntu installation/partition which I can reuse for other machines?
I had this problem too (asked about it here before I found this thread)
Is it possible to create an installation disk of Ubuntu, from an already existing installation?
I tried looking into Remastersys, but after I read this line:
I didn't bother to look if it's true or not, and tried using relinux.
Suffice to say it worked like a charm.
(There is no GUI, it's all commands)
How to use it (All following info are taken and available inside the application):
P.S. The last two commands can combined into one with
P.S.S If anything messes up, and/or you decided to start from scratch run one of these commands first (depending on what you want).
The first cleans the temp files created in your working directory (
The second ones cleans all the files created, even the ISO file.
Remastersys is the application you need.
For a step-by-step description with screenshots, visit: http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/remastersys
If the machine has the same hardware, you could image the orignal and restore it to the new machine using something like clonezilla. Storing the image on the network and restoring it using a clonezilla live cd works very well.
Copying the whole hard drive contents over from your current one to your new one should work fine as long as both machines have the same hardware architecture, e.g. 32bit to 32bit.
If the drivers are non-standard and differs (e.g. current is ati graphics card, new is nvidia) you'll have to install the correct drivers.
If you've created an xorg.conf file then that may not be suitable for the new graphics/monitor.
You can make an exact copy using the dd command.


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- Learn important developmental information and enjoy the hundreds of fun, easy activities and ideas that help your baby build key brain pathways for later learning.
- Come and join other local parents and children and experience the wonderful socialisation, learning and movement opportunities, involved in our internationally acclaimed BabyROO classes.
- BabyROO offers both non-crawling and crawling classes run by professionally trained and qualified instructors. These are 45 minutes, once a week and include information handouts & home activities to help you understand the importance of these activities to your baby's later learning.
Non-crawler classes. (Babies from 6 weeks old): ..BabyROO aims to help you feel confident in your knowledge about your baby's brain and body development and provides them with developmentally appropriate and loving activities that can be easily accomplished at home.
Classes include information, activities and ideas on: tummy time, baby massage, baby exercises, finger & foot plays, dancing with your baby, speech & hearing tips, rhythm & music, your baby's developing vision, specialised equipment for babies and so much more.
Crawler classes: ..and they are off and racing. Crawler classes at GymbaROO are such great fun!! We provide you with information and many ideas and activities including: music, rhythm and movement; successful massage techniques for wrigglers; movement ideas and games that have your baby in fits of laughter and of course our wonderful equipment specially designed for these earliest years. All of this fun at the same time as helping your baby to lay down those crucial foundations for learning!! Crawling and creeping are such important developmental stages for your baby's brain and body. We explain why this is and show you how to get the most benefit for your baby out of this developmental stage!
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I am a mathematician and so I am interested in every way possible to increase all my mental powers and abilities (memory, creativity, concentration, etc). I have tried several different diets and life styles in the past, but I am not sure if these different methods do really affect my work positively.
I was wondering does anyone know anything scientific about the correlation between simple diets and higher thinking abilities? Is there any diet which increases our mental powers?


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30 Nov 2011 6:24 PM #1
Huge memory leakDesigner version tested:
- Designer 1.2.2.r48
- WinXP Pro
- Ext JS 4.x
- Ext JS 3.x
- Designer does not release memory used by components when loading a new project. Designer continues to consume memory until it crashes. On WinXP, it will typically crash once memory usage exceeds 1GB RAM. Simply opening new projects without makes changes and without closing the XDS window will cause the application to become slow, unstable, and vulnerable to crashes.
Steps to reproduce the problem:
- At the moment of initializing XDS, memory usage is about 60MB
- Open a large(-ish) project - my 4.x project is over 640KB.
- After opening my 640KB file, XDS memory usage is about 275MB.
- Click preview (on any viewable class). XDS memory increases to 300MB.
- Close preview and memory returns to about 275MB.
- After previewing the same class a few times and closing the preview window each time, the memory usage increases about 10MB.
- Open a new project (from File menu). This time I choose a small 65KB 4.x project.
- Memory usage increases to 300MB. There is no apparent release of memory consumed by the previous project.
- From File menu, Select open and reopen the same project (discard changes if needed). XDS memory usage increases again to 330MB.
- From File menu, Select open recent and I selected the first opened large 4.x project (filesize= 640KB ). XDS memory usage balloons to 470MB!
- When opening a new project without closing Designer (aka XDS), all objects should be properly destroyed/deleted from memory.
- Memory isn't properly managed. XDS continues to consume memory until it finally crashes without saves and recourse.
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Perfection as a goal is a nice idea that can point one in a specific direction. However, since "perfection" is an ever changing (evolving?) and moving target, one must admit that perfection can never be obtained...
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When in doubt, check the d4mn source code!
And here are my terms...
- I don't care if you use my source code. (Known as "Code.")
- I don't care if I get any monetary compensation.
- I do care to receive credit for Code provided. So, please keep my name in the comments for Code provided.
- Code is provided without warranty "AS-IS" and I claim absolutely no warranty nor liability to the quality, security, and run-ability on any platform.
- By using Code, you accept all risk inherit with Code regardless if Code has known and yet to be discovered bugs.
- You are welcome to change and improve the Code to best meet your needs.
- I don't care if you use the Code in a commercial or open-source project.
- You are not required to contact me prior to using the Code.
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1 Dec 2011 4:08 PM #2
Thanks for the report, we will look into this.Aaron Conran
2 Dec 2011 8:28 AM #3
Wow nice report lorezyra
awesome find!Phil Strong


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2009 - Federal Focus on Charter Schools
President Obama's Endorsement
"We will expand our commitment to charter schools." President Barack Obama in a speech to Congress
"One of the places where much of that innovation occurs is in our most effective charter schools,"
The Presidents Inaugural Address.....
"That leads me to the fourth part of America's education strategy – promoting innovation and excellence in America's schools. One of the places where much of that innovation occurs is in our most effective charter schools. These are public schools founded by parents, teachers, and civic or community organizations with broad leeway to innovate – schools I supported as a state legislator and United States Senator. Right now, there are caps on how many charter schools are allowed in some states, no matter how well they are preparing our students. That isn't good for our children, our economy, or our country. Of course, any expansion of charter schools must not result in the spread of mediocrity, but in the advancement of excellence. That will require states adopting both a rigorous selection and review process to ensure that a charter school's autonomy is coupled with greater accountability – as well as a strategy, like the one in Chicago, to close charter schools that are not working. Provided this greater accountability, I call on states to reform their charter rules, and lift caps on the number of allowable charter schools, wherever such caps are in place."


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Currently I build my websites on my machine, deploy them to a test machine to see if they still work there and then have to request the sysadmin to deploy them to the qa/production servers.
Time after time that what should be my moment of pride is killed by some deployment procedure that was misunderstood, forgotten or not documented.
Currently the sysadmin copies the files from the dev server to whatever server he sees fit and tries to follow my deploymentProcedures.txt.
Is there no mechanism I can use that makes this transition as frictionless as possible? Things I can think of now are
- Set the connectionstring to production DB
- Set CustomErrors to On
- Check if the correct I/O rights are given to the running account
- Make sure the needed COM objects are available
Something that can make the deployment fase easier for people who are not the programmers.


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There's a problem that always seems to be at the root of the debate over education policy: When do we standardize and when do we personalize? If we don't standardize enough, there's no guarantee that everyone will receive the same opportunities and the same basic education. If we don't personalize enough, we can ignore some really basic common sense in the interest of keeping everything "equal." This post is about the second problem.
The institution of the Common Core Standards in most states tries to find measurable ways to ensure schools are meeting their state standards. For math, that's not too hard. You just set the grade you should know your multiplication tables and the grade you should tackle geometry. For reading, things get trickier. That's where the Lexile system comes into place. Continue reading "Trying to Turn English, Reading, & Literature Into a Numbers Game"


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Professor Howard Latin Urges Adoption of "Clean" Technologies Over Emissions-Reduction Plans in New Book on Climate Change Policy
Climate change has been the subject of much discussion, writing and negotiation over the past two decades, yet progress in overcoming climate change dangers has been negligible and the most severe climate problems continue to grow worse.
In his new book Climate Change Policy Failures: Why Conventional Mitigation Procedures Cannot Succeed (World Scientific Publishing, May 2012), Howard A. Latin, Professor of Law and Justice John J. Francis Scholar at Rutgers School of Law–Newark, attributes the failure to reduce climate-related risks in any significant way to the misguided support of most climate policymakers, expert advisers, and large environmental groups for ineffectual greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions-reductions programs. Latin urges instead that "clean" replacement technologies should be adopted as the primary strategy for meeting GHG mitigation goals.
Virtually all conventional mitigation programs share the same fundamental policy mistakes, Latin writes, and have "no chance of achieving genuine climate change progress." Climate Change Policy Failures describes more than a dozen emissions-reduction programs or proposals included in recent U.S. legal initiatives and international law agreements. Their common faults include a graduated multi-decade emissions-reduction strategy that postpones major cuts until it is too late to prevent steadily worsening climate conditions, unrealistic expectations for using economic incentive mechanisms to restrain the degradation of climate conditions, and reinforcement of the international negotiations stalemate between developed and developing nations.
Professor Latin recommends a transformative shift in climate-policy efforts and investments to a "decarbonization" strategy based on adopting greenhouse gas-free technologies as quickly as possible to the greatest extent feasible in as many sectors as feasible. "A 'clean' replacement technology approach," he argues, "is the only realistic way to eliminate the large quantities of persistent residual GHG discharges that are the fatal flaw of the consensus emissions-reduction programs, and it is also the only viable way that affluent nations can meet the economic needs and prosperity goals of developing countries without continuing to degrade global climate conditions."
In the book's final chapter, Latin recommends combining four overlapping regulatory regimes and economic incentive programs to implement an effective decarbonization-based climate change program.
Climate Change Policy Failures "will definitely make you think about alternative mitigation approaches," says former U.S. Environmental Protection Agency general counsel and Yale Law School adjunct professor E. Donald Elliott, who describes Howard Latin as "one of the world's most provocative and creative environmental experts."
Professor Latin was a Fulbright Scholar in Australia during 1992 and South Africa during 1997, and he has traveled to more than 40 countries in the past three decades while conducting research on biodiversity conservation and climate-change problems. He has published numerous articles in the fields of environmental law, torts, and products liability. For the past few years, he has focused on climate-policy mitigation alternatives from a multi-disciplinary perspective: using law, economics, diverse social sciences, and international relations.
In addition to his Fulbright visits, Latin has been a visiting professor at the Georgetown University Law Center and UCLA School of Law; a visiting scholar at the University of California at Berkeley and the Richardson School of Law of the University of Hawaii; and the 2006 Distinguished Environmental Law Scholar at Lewis & Clark Law School. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute, and has served as a consultant on environmental and torts issues to several government agencies and advocacy groups.
Professor Latin received a B.A. from Brandeis University and a J.D. from the University of California at Berkeley.


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Dean David M. Schizer unveils an innovative tax proposal that would help curb America's destructive dependence on gasoline
National security, climate change, urban sprawl: Each is a serious issue by itself, but Law School Dean David M. Schizer and his colleague Thomas W. Merrill of Yale Law School see a common thread uniting them, and it is Americans' addiction to gasoline. "Our dependence on gasoline is casting a shadow on our national future," warns Dean Schizer.
At the Law School's most recent Charles E. Gerber Transactional Studies Program tax conference, Merrill and Schizer proposed a gasoline tax taking aim at all three issues. In a novel approach, their levy would take effect only when gas prices are low and would refund all revenues collected directly to U.S. taxpayers in a way that rewards individual conservation. The proposal is designed to be politically feasible and to change a maximum of undesirable behavior with a minimum of government interference. "I've never seen a gas tax I didn't like," notes Louis Kaplow of Harvard Law School. "And the benefits from this one would be huge."
Few would disagree that something needs to be done, especially to address climate change and national security. American motorists account for 6 percent of the world's carbon dioxide emissions, an amount exceeded only by the entire national output of CO2 emissions from China and the European Union. Carbon dioxide is a major contributor to global warming, and there is no known way to reduce its effects except by using less gasoline or switching to a less-polluting energy source. Cars and trucks also emit carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, and particulates that endanger health and the environment in other ways.
The relation of gasoline to U.S. national security is just as worrying. Much has changed since the end of World War II, when America was largely self-sufficient in energy. Today, more than two-thirds of U.S. petroleum products are imported, often from nations that are unstable, unsavory, or potentially hostile—including Venezuela, Nigeria, Iraq, Angola, Algeria, and Saudi Arabia. A single year's oil imports from Venezuela and Nigeria (more than 780 million barrels combined), in fact, is greater than the total in the U.S. strategic petroleum reserve (689 million barrels).
Merrill and Schizer's proposal goes after these ills, plus what they term the "vicious cycle" of urban sprawl, in which decreasing density has led to ever farther-flung suburbs with larger, energy-gobbling houses requiring yet more driving. Although the professors hope their measure will promote several types of conservation, Merrill cautions that it should not be viewed as a total solution to U.S. energy problems. "But we think it is a good one," he says, "and we don't want the ideal to be the enemy of the possible."
Here is how their plan would work: At the time the law is enacted, tax writers would set a threshold about 10 percent below the then-price of gasoline. So if gas costs $2.25 per gallon when the law is passed, lawmakers could make a set point of perhaps $2.00. Going forward, taxpayers would know that gasoline might cost more than $2.00 per gallon but would never again cost less.
If gas prices rise to more than $2.00 a gallon, the tax would not be imposed at all—so as not to burden U.S. consumers further. Instead, it would kick in only when the price falls below the designated threshold. The actual rate of the tax imposed would vary in order to maintain the price at the set point. So if the price fell to $1.75 per gallon, then the tax would be 25 cents, bringing it up to $2.00. All revenue would go into a special fund.
At the end of each year, the total amount of money in the fund would be divided by the number of adults over 18 in the U.S. Each adult would then receive a check for the quotient—in this scenario, perhaps $1,000.
The result: Taxpayers who drive an average amount would realize no net benefit or loss from the Merrill-Schizer tax. For them, the $1,000 check would be about equal to the amount they paid in gasoline tax for the year. But those who conserve gasoline in whatever way—driving less or not at all, using a fuel-efficient car, or finding an alternate fuel—would wind up with extra dollars in their pockets because their consumption would be less than the average. And those who consume more gasoline would feel a pinch, because their refund would not fully offset the cost of the tax they paid. Over time, then, the tax would reward frugal gas-users and put pressure on those who are profligate. The latter might then change their behavior; at the very least, they would be more aware of their outsized use of a scarce and nonrenewable resource.
It is easy to see why conferees praised Merrill and Schizer's proposal as "elegant." Because of the profound opposition energy tax proposals have traditionally aroused, the professors have taken great care to make this one politically palatable. The levy would be invisible when enacted—because the threshold is below the price of gas—and disappear when prices are high, greatly reducing the temptation to repeal it. By refunding all revenue, their plan is not open to the charge that it is just another revenue-grab by tax-hungry politicians. They also ensured that administration would be relatively simple, piggy-backing on the existing system.
The tax's design also promotes conservation in a way that allows market forces to determine the response to it. Should communities be denser, or cars altered, or fuels different? Under this proposal, the market decides, not policymakers who might be shortsighted or subject to political influence. (Merrill points out that the steep gasoline taxes long in effect in Europe and Japan actually encouraged carmakers to be innovative, which in turn gave them an advantage over their American competitors.) At the same time, the measure would send an unmistakable message to oil-producing nations that the U.S. is serious about not being beholden to them in the future.
The proposal's chief drawback, as always, is a historic American resistance to any oil conservation measures. Conferee and Columbia Law School professor-to-be Michael J. Graetz remembers well the demise of Bill Clinton's BTU tax proposal in 1993, shortly after Graetz was a senior Treasury official. "The American public views the automobile as its freedom machine and will resist any large tax on gas," he says. Residents of areas who travel long distances by car often assert that gas taxes are grossly unfair, especially if they live in oil-producing areas like Texas or Wyoming. Other opposition might come from those worried about the tax's effect on the poor, who often cannot afford newer cars or well-located housing.
Merrill and Schizer counter that slight variations of their idea could cope with such issues—varying the tax according to region, for instance, or weighting the refund according to income level. The proposal's flexibility is yet another of its virtues. Given the new administration and the urgent need for change, perhaps this plan will fare better than its forebears. "It is due," says Dean Schizer, "and overdue."


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Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz chaired the Cabinet session at Al-Salam Palace in Jeddah today. At the outset, the Cabinet listened to a number of reports on developments in the Arab, Islamic and international arenas. The ministers praised the talks that took place last week between the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz and U.S. President Barack Obama at the White House, during the Saudi monarch's visit to the United States. During the meeting, the two leaders stressed the depth of bilateral relations and discussed issues of concern to the Arab world. The Cabinet thanked President Obama for his appreciation of the role played by the Kingdom on the world stage, as well as his continuous efforts regarding the Mideast peace process. The Cabinet also commended King Abdullah's establishment of an academic chair for studies and research in the field of dialogue among civilizations at the University of Toronto.
Addressing its weekly agenda, the Cabinet authorized the Interior Minister to sign a draft memorandum of understanding in the field of security with Austria; authorized the Foreign Minister to sign a protocol to open diplomatic missions between Saudi Arabia and Peru at the level of Non-Resident Ambassador; authorized the Minister of Finance to sign a draft protocol attached to an agreement concluded with France on the avoidance of double taxation on income, inheritance and capital; authorized the President of King Abdullah City for Atomic and Renewable Energy to sign a draft cooperation agreement with France on the development of peaceful uses of nuclear energy; and authorized the Director General of the Institute of Public Administration to sign a draft memorandum of cooperation between the Saudi Institute of Public Administration and the French National School of Administration.


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U.S. Rethinks How to Release Sensitive Economic Data
Potential Changes Driven From Unease Over High-Speed Trading Firms
Federal officials are discussing changes to how the government releases sensitive economic data, seeking to bring the system in line with fast-moving financial markets.
While the talks are preliminary, officials are driven by their growing concern about leaks and their unease that high-speed trading firms can trade on market-moving numbers before other investors, say people familiar with the discussions.
The talks have covered a number of options, including eliminating the current system, which releases data via embargoed news releases to the media; building a single, technologically secure facility for all government agencies to use to distribute data; and publishing economic data directly on the Internet.
The discussions are among the first steps toward what could be the most comprehensive change in a generation to how the federal government sends data, such as the unemployment rate, productivity numbers and other indicators of the economy's performance to the public and Wall Street. The Wall Street Journal, in a series of Page One articles, has examined leaks of sensitive government data.
The deliberations have included senior White House economic advisers and officials from several government departments.
Questions about how to release economic data will continue to receive attention in the administration, said Jason Furman, chairman of the White House's Council of Economic Advisers. "It's an important issue to think about," he said. "But we're always thinking about how to improve it."
Nixing the entire system is a controversial idea. An administration official said the White House, for one, isn't discussing such a step. Other officials said departments should have the flexibility to set up the best procedures for each different piece of information.
Ahead of any comprehensive plan, individual departments are moving ahead.
The Commerce Department is upgrading its media room, adding new security mechanisms to make sure its economic reports aren't leaked. Officials at the Federal Reserve plan to change how it releases market-moving data, statements and speeches. The Labor Department made changes to its security systems last year and is considering making more.
At issue is the traditional way that the government releases economic data. Under a system known as a lockup, many government departments give economic data to reporters on an embargoed basis. The reporters have a defined period to write their reports. When the embargo is lifted, reporters are allowed to publish. The idea is to give reporters time to digest complex economic reports and produce accurate accounts.
The system of lockups has come under fire in recent years after several media firms, including Dow Jones & Co., publisher of The Wall Street Journal, started using the lockup to sell raw data from the government reports to high-frequency trading firms. That data, sent along high-speed transmission lines, allows firms to make computerized trades before individual traders can react.
Dow Jones has said it "always endeavors to follow all lockup procedures and rules, and would never sanction—and is not aware of—any intentional violations."
In one snafu that highlighted the loose security surrounding the data, an official at the Federal Reserve mistakenly sent details of a regular Fed meeting to a group of people, including investors, a full day before the minutes were scheduled to be released to the public.
The Fed has said the release was a mistake and internal investigators later said the incident highlights the need for the Fed to strengthen controls over the minutes of its board meetings.
The Securities and Exchange Commission and other law-enforcement agencies have opened several investigations into whether media firms or traders have broken insider-trading rules by getting access to the data before it is formally released, according to people familiar with the investigations.
Last year, the Labor Department refurbished its lockup room and installed new electronic equipment in an attempt to make it more difficult for computer-based trading firms to jump ahead of other investors and profit from the data. It also took the unusual step of banning several media firms it didn't consider to be primarily journalistic operations.
An official at the Labor Department said that the agency is "always trying to make the release of information to the public more transparent and timelier."
The Commerce Department is in the process of building a new lockup room it hopes will be more secure than the Labor Department. Commerce officials have acquired new space within the agency that will, for instance, make it more difficult for wireless signals to penetrate the walls.
The department earlier this year hoped to have its lockup room ready by January, but the target has slipped because of construction delays, according to people involved.
While the Commerce Department's media room has been closed, the department has borrowed the lockup room at the Labor Department to release its economic data, such as the quarterly economic growth.
"Our goal is to have the [Commerce Department's] lockup facility reflect the best industry standards for a modern press lockup facility," said Jane Callen, a press official who manages the lockups at the department.
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Im just wild about Saffron.
Saffron fun fact: The spice is made from the stigma portion of the saffron flower. The stigma is essentially the female reproductive organ of the plant. Kinda. Close enough.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. – The Charlotte softball team was swept by Dayton in an Atlantic 10 doubleheader, Saturday afternoon at the University of Dayton Softball Field.
The Niners (14-18 overall, 2-6 A-10) fell to the Flyers (14-15, 7-2) 3-0 in game one and 11-6 in game two.
Chelsea Ingersoll finished with three hits and two RBIs in the series. Natalie Capone and Briana Gwaltney each recorded two hits in game two. Ingersoll and Capone recorded their 12th multiple hit game of the season while Gwaltney turned in her 11th. Ingersoll's two RBIs in game two also notched her eighth multiple hit game of the year, which leads the team.
The opening game went scoreless for three innings until Dayton scored a run off one hits and a Charlotte error in the fourth inning. The Flyers drove in two more runs in the sixth inning where they hit three doubles to extend their lead to 3-0.
Kalie Lang and Ingersoll tallied Charlotte's only hits of the game. Katie Watkins (8-11) allowed only six hits and recorded nine strikeouts.
Charlotte got off to a quick start in game two, courtesy of Gwaltney's fifth homer of the season. With a 2-2 count and two outs, Gwaltney belted a solo shot over centerfield to put the 49ers up 1-0 in the first inning.
However, the Niners' lead was short-lived when Dayton put up four runs off three hits to take the 4-1 advantage in the second inning.
Capone and Alex Rogers led off the third with consecutive singles to set Ingersoll up for a RBI single to right center to cut the Flyers' lead to 4-2. But Dayton continued to surge on the offensive side of the ball and duplicated another big inning in the third, pushing the score to 8-2.
Charlotte's last run came in the fifth inning when Gwaltney reached on a double to right field with two outs. Ingersoll drove Gwaltney in with another hit to right center and cut Dayton's lead to 8-3.
But Dayton used a pair of hits and a Charlotte error to score a run in the fifth and two hits to drive in two runs in the sixth to extend their lead to 11-3, ending the game.
Chelsea Lisikatos recorded the loss and fell to 5-6.
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The 6 Most Needlessly Overcomplicated Crimes Ever Planned
#3. MIT Professor Blames Russian Hit Men for His Own Shooting
The Crime:
Former MIT professor John J. Donovan Sr. was involved in a nasty legal battle with his adult children, with accusations of extortion and child molestation flying back and forth. One day Donovan got fed up and decided to end the dispute by implicating his son James of financial crimes ...
The Needlessly Elaborate Plan:
... so he shot himself. He didn't just fake a shooting; he really grabbed a rifle and shot himself twice in the stomach, then called the police and told them that his son had sent Russian hit men to kill him and his wife. Oh, and while he was at it, he also accused James of laundering $180 million.
"And don't even get me started on the Lindbergh baby!"
So, uh, why not go straight to the money-laundering accusations and skip the "shooting yourself in the stomach" part? How was the fake hit supposed to make the other part less disprovable? The police did search James' home that night, but when they didn't find any piles of cash lying around or any receipts written in Russian, he was cleared of any suspicion. And why did the hit men have to be Russian, anyway? We would have gone with Brazilian parkour killers, just to make the story a little less cliche.
Keep in mind, this wasn't something done in the middle of a drunken rage. The guy is an MIT-level genius who has written several books and given highly acclaimed lectures all over the world. He was cautious enough to rearrange security cameras so they didn't record him staging the break-in at his home, stepping into his minivan, and shooting his rifle four times. Granted, Donovan forgot another vital part of every criminal plan, which is "Don't have a to-do list with your plan in your pocket when the police come over," because that's exactly what he did.
Donovan was found guilty of filing a false police report, fined a few hundred dollars, and sentenced to some community service. On the other hand, his children filed a restraining order against him and won't be coming to any Christmas dinners anytime soon, so maybe that was his plan all along.
#2. Car Salesman Rips Off People by Claiming That He's a Secret Agent
The Crime:
We've all had the misfortune of meeting a guy like Robert Hendy-Freegard, a used car salesman from the U.K. who lived off the money he leeched from the several women he'd somehow convinced to date him. But this particular douchebag wasn't content with merely mooching cash off of his girlfriends ...
The Needlessly Elaborate Plan:
... so he also pretended that he was a secret agent, convincing everyone he knew that they were part of an elaborate government plot.
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When your alter ego is ripped off of a Bill Paxton character, it's time to rethink your life.
So who cares, right? Right now there are thousands of dudes in bars bragging about equally ridiculous things. Well, the difference is that this guy had his friends carry out complex missions for him, just because.
Hendy-Freegard's modus operandi consisted of approaching women through his job and charming them into bed. Once he'd gained their trust, he would drop the bomb on them -- he was a secret agent working for MI5, a British intelligence service. But here's the catch: Just for hanging out with him these past few weeks, they were now in mortal danger of being assassinated by IRA terrorists. One of the victims (the only male) was at one point blindfolded and beaten, thinking that it was all part of the espionage adventure he'd been roped into.
"I just wanted to be seduced by a swarthy British spy!"
Hendy-Freegard would then tell his victims that, fortunately, he could make the danger go away if they just gave him a few thousand dollars to pay off the terrorists. These weren't just average ditzy people he was messing with, either: His victims included company executives, child psychologists and lawyers. The aforementioned male victim was sent on a bizarre quest that involved buying a copy of The Gay Times, reading it openly in the subway and then handing a can opener to a specific (nonexistent) person in a bar. The friend started suspecting that something might be wrong when he reported back to Hendy-Freegard and he just laughed his ass off.
Hendy-Freegard was caught when he told his American fiancee to ask her parents for $50,000 to pay for "spy school" -- they thought that was slightly weird and got him arrested. The thing is, a con man of his level could have made a nice enough living just squeezing women out of their money without the ridiculous secret agent story. Or, you know, sticking to selling used cars.
"No, no, the engine isn't leaking. It's deterring pursuit."
#1. Man Tries to Blackmail Nestle Using Carrier Pigeons
The Crime:
Alexandru Nemeth from Germany wanted a lot of money, and he decided that the corporate giant Nestle should be the one to give it to him. Nemeth successfully poisoned several Nestle products in over 20 cities across the country over a period of two years, but that was only phase one of his master plan ...
The Needlessly Elaborate Plan:
... with phase two being "pigeons." As in, sending carrier pigeons to deliver messages to Nestle demanding millions of dollars in diamonds, then using the same birds to bring the diamonds back to him. Because somehow, this was safer than just sending them an email.
Or just a good old-fashioned brick through the window.
First, Nemeth got hold of a bunch of pigeons, which his neighbors probably assumed he was just using for target practice. He then taught them to drop things off and come back to where he was staying -- training pigeons, in case you've never tried it yourself, isn't the easiest thing in world, and he had to do it all in secret while simultaneously traveling from city to city, leaving cyanide-laced drinks in playgrounds and things like that.
Nemeth then had his pigeon army deliver messages to Nestle leaving specific instructions for how he was to receive his reward for stopping the poisonous chaos -- in the form of small pouches full of diamonds, which would be attached to his birds. The pigeons would then take off and deliver the diamonds back to him. Knowing that, it wasn't hard for the authorities to figure out how to catch Nemeth using those same pigeons: They placed a homing beacon on the birds and just followed them in a helicopter about 200 miles to where the guy was hiding.
And yet not a single person in the entire Harry Potter series ever thought to do the same thing.
As far as criminal plots go, Nemeth was actually doing pretty well until he got to the "blackmail through pigeons" part. There was really no logical reason for him to communicate with Nestle through birds that are trained to lead back to him, other than a Batman-villain-level obsession with using feathered rats in all his crimes. We wouldn't be surprised if he was wearing a pigeon costume himself when they caught him.
Gabriel would appreciate it if you'd send him an email, follow him on Twitter, or check out the radio station he DJs for.
For fictional villains who are guilty of this, check out The 6 Most Pointless Supervillain Schemes Ever Hatched and The 6 Most Pointlessly Elaborate Movie Murder Plots.


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The 5 Most Stupidly Disastrous Military Computer Glitches
Highly trained military personnel, despite the whole "highly trained" part, are oftentimes just as bad with computers as we are. Of course, when we screw up, it's usually a minor inconvenience. When they do it, entire countries are put at risk, if not the whole damn planet. Like the time ...
#5. The Army Forgot to Password-Protect Their Top-Secret Spy Drones
In order to protect your data from being stolen by hackers or your Wi-Fi from being mooched upon by freeloading neighbors, you need to encrypt it. That's Computer Security 101. Unless you make your password something asinine, like "password," "computer," or your own name like a total dumbass, you'll be the only one who can see the shameful, shameful things you've dragged down your wireless signal.
So if you go to all that trouble to secure your archive of Instagrammed lunches, you would think the military would have the wherewithal to lock down, say, their deadly flying robot army.
Because everyone knows that bad security means a Facebook full of bare dicks.
The Screw-Up:
A few years ago, military officials received word that enemies were tapping into their live drone video feeds, which they absolutely should not be able to do. And when we say "enemies," we're not talking about high-tech cyber espionage from China. No, the master hackers who jacked into the very brains of our flying murderbots were Iraqi insurgents using a $26 piece of software called SkyGrabber, which is marketed as a great way to "get new movie, best music, and funny pictures for free."
That's because somebody (everybody) forgot to encrypt the goddamn things. No passwords, no protection, no nothing. An insurgent with a laptop could grab the signal and see what our flying scouts could see. As one Air Force official put it: "We noticed a trend when going after these guys; that sometimes they seemed to have better early warning." You know, because they were able to read the minds of our flying remote control spies.
"I see ... wait, let me get my phone. Oh, yes, I see explosions happening at the following coordinates."
It's not like nobody knew it was a risk -- there were reports after the operation in Bosnia years earlier that some people with satellite dish receivers were suddenly getting drone feeds on their TV screens, because the dish they were trying to use to watch Cinemax was catching the unencrypted drone feeds instead.
Four years after being made to look stupid by $26 worth of amateur piracy, the Army had still not encrypted over half of their drones. Meanwhile, if it becomes common for police to use drones on American soil, you have to wonder how long it'll be until YouTube fills up with clips from hijacked feeds. "THIS IS ME RUNNING FROM THE COPS LOL."
#4. A Self-Destruct Sequence Was Activated ... By Accidentally Hitting the Space Bar
The silliest trope we see in sci-fi and action movies has to be the "self-destruct button." The supervillain always has one on his doomsday device, the starship Enterprise had to use theirs like once every other movie, James Bond and Ethan Hunt are always punching one just seconds before the missile destroys the city. It makes no sense -- why would they even build in a self-destruct button at all? Wouldn't people be accidentally hitting it all the time?
Yes. Especially if you can initiate the sequence by hitting the space bar on your keyboard.
"Goddammit, not again."
The Screw-Up:
The MQ-8B Fire Scout, an unmanned helicopter, was an amazingly sophisticated piece of technology, at least until its cancellation in 2008, a mere two years after its grand debut. How could something seemingly so incredible fail so fast? Perhaps because pressing a single button, one found on every keyboard ever made, can start the self-destruct sequence.
"Honey, is Chad in there with y- oh dear God, no."
They found this out when the Scout was on a mission and the operator's headset wire pressed down on his computer's space bar. Sure enough, the drone announced that it had initiated its self-destruct sequence. To be fair, in real life, you want this feature on an unmanned vehicle in case the drone is lost or falls into enemy hands. But making it go boom in the middle of preserving freedom tends to defeat its purpose.
Thankfully, the Office of Naval Drone-Building People Guys (their official name) wasn't made up of total boneheads, and the errant keystroke was only the first of several steps needed to actually destroy the Scout (it's unknown if the other keys needed to blow it up were near where the wire was draped across the keyboard). So crisis was averted, although the drone was ultimately deemed too faulty to continue operation. Perhaps the Navy could take the money saved on not building another Scout and buy their sailors some goddamn wireless headsets.
#3. A Faulty GPS Update Shut Down an Entire Defense System
Back in early 2010, the Air Force needed to upgrade their GPS system. And, as we all know, any time spent upgrading software is time spent doing nothing else on the planet. All that clicking of "Next," and accepting of terms and conditions you didn't read, and rebooting can mean upwards of minutes without whatever computer-related activity you happen to be addicted to.
It has to be an even bigger pain in the ass when you're the Air Force and trying to upgrade your own GPS systems. But it's surely a pain in the ass worth doing correctly, since this is how troops know the difference between meeting up with a friendly convoy and stumbling into a hostile stretch of land containing more landmines than dirt.
"Wait, this isn't the desert at all."
The Screw-Up:
The Air Force never checked their current GPS system to make sure it was compatible with the new upgrade they so eagerly downloaded. So of course, it wasn't. And wouldn't you know, the download caused a wacky disruption of their entire defensive system. It's always that one thing you don't do that ends up biting you in your lazy ass.
The faulty update screwed up roughly 10,000 receivers, turning them into utterly useless bricks. Except a brick would have been more useful, since you can chuck one at an enemy's head and then use it to bash their brains in. Despite the Air Force's insistence that it was no big deal, everyone can go home, nothing to see here, a huge chunk of your navigation system suddenly melting into nothingness is quite the big deal. This is especially true in today's military, where virtually everything gets coordinated via GPS.
"I've located the giant field of grass. Request mower backup."
So for the several weeks (at least) that the systems were kaput, an entire generation of soldiers were lost, like a toddler without its parents, or a politician without a teleprompter. If that's not enough, government reports from the year before had accused the Air Force of being way behind with building new satellites, an oversight that could have potentially triggered a massive GPS blackout on its own. As it turns out, satellites weren't the most pressing issue -- the bigger threat was not checking the fine print before hitting "Download Now."


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- BSO Case Number: DR01-09-3828
- PIO Number: 01-9-20
- Date: September 19, 2001
- Time: 0837
- Place of Occurrence: 874 Crystal Lake Drive, Deerfield Beach (Crystal View Townhomes)
- Hesham Moustafa, 45, 12/3/55, male, 874 Crystal Lake Dr., Deerfield Beach
- unknown
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Media Note: this news release is being issued
in response to numerous media inquiries regarding this incident.
Broward Sheriff's Office deputies were called to a Deerfield Beach townhouse community this morning after a resident found a Ku Klux Klan business card on his car windshield.
Hesham Moustafa, 45, called BSO to report that he found two KKK business cards on the windshield of his 1992 Honda. The standard size business card reads as follows: "A Nationwide American Organization / You have been patronized by a member of the United Klans of America Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Inc. / Unit 900 – P.O. Box 785 – Theodore, Ala. 36582"
Nothing was written on the cards and no direct threats were made. Moustafa told deputies his car was parked, unattended, outside his home between 4:30 p.m. Tuesday and 7:30 a.m. today. Moustafa said he is of Egyptian descent and knows of no one would want to do him harm.
Deputies checked other vehicles in the area and found no other cards. Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to call the Broward Sheriff's Office or CrimeStoppers at (954) 493-TIPS.
- THIS REPORT BY: Dep. W. O'Hara, Sgt. L. Williams, Dist. 10 Jim Leljedal / PIO 9/19/01 1130
Posted At: 09/19/2001 11:36 AM
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Breaking Bad #513: "To'hajiilee"
Here is how the TV listings in my local newspaper summarized this week's episode of Breaking Bad:
An unexpected turn of events leaves the normally tranquil Walter White struggling to maintain control of the already-chaotic world around him.
I think you'll agree that they really captured the spirit of the episode. But there are a few things they left out, which we'll discuss after the jump...
So HOLY COW that shootout. It's difficult to even think about what came before it, let alone start to discuss it, because all my brain really wants to do is say "WHAT HAPPENS TO HANK AND WALT AND JESSE?! (oh and also Gomez I guess)" over and over for a week. Now THAT is a cliffhanger.
But lots of other things before the final scene this week deserve a mention. First, there was the answer to last week's puzzle -- what did Jesse's threat mean? Where does Walt "live"? Turns out Jesse was talking about the money after all. Hank's deception of Huell was another glimpse of his less-than-ethical (but very effective) side, and while messing with criminals' minds is all part of a day's work for Hank, it's worth remembering that he's still pursuing Walt without the official backing of the DEA. What he and Gomez did to Huell is risky. (not that anyone should feel too sorry for Huell, who knows what he's a part of, but it was still uncomfortable for me to watch Hank deceive and frighten him in a way that watching Hank trick Walt was not.)
As for Jesse, well, the battle of the unfit-father-figures continued. In the "previously on Breaking Bad" montage, they showed us a clip of Gomez saying "What about the kid?" and Hank reframing the question in less affectionate terms -- to him, Jesse's a lowlife junkie criminal, not a "kid." Because of that I took note when Saul and Walt met up at the car wash to discuss Jesse's fate. Both called him "the kid" too.
Of course, that didn't stop Walt from pursuing his plan to have Todd's Uncle Jack (or, as my husband calls him, "White Power Bill") and associates take Jesse out. But Walt still thinks he can do right by Jesse -- the hit should be as painless as possible, he insists. And he doesn't WANT to do it, it's just that Jesse "won't listen to reason." (Poor Jesse has been listening to Walt's "reason" for far too long already.) And Walt's fussiness about Jesse exposes him to new compromise and new risk, agreeing to cook for Todd et al. once they've carried out their job for him. Looks like being in their debt could be a problem for him going forward. (Assuming he gets out of that shootout alive.) And Walt is also still unwilling to hurt Hank, so that's a second shred of humanity he has left. On the other hand, he is willing to use the unwitting Andrea and the possibly traumatized Brock to get to Jesse, again. (So coy, with the Walt and Brock meaningful-or-is-it? mutual gazes. I am annoyed by the coyness.)
And despite Walt's attempts to call off his thugs to protect Hank, things are...not looking good for Hank now. I could hardly look at the screen as I felt the dread mounting during his phone call to Marie -- their conversation felt like too much of an "ending." I must admit I was still crossing my fingers that Gomez (who was even worse than usual in this episode if you ask me) would turn out to be the dirty cop I always hoped he'd be -- maybe he'd turn on Hank once Hank hung up the phone? But then the real danger showed itself, and since it looks like WYSIWYG with Steve Gomez, now I'm just hoping we've seen the last of him. I don't see how anyone could have survived that barrage of gunfire, but I won't mind if other people do. Him, I can spare.
I admired the elegance of setting that scene in the same location as the ending of the very first episode. (Jesse helpfully pointed that out; it was also the source of the episode's title.) Here we are again, with post-Heisenberg Walt waiting for the cops, and suffering a coughing fit, in the very place he first stood in his underwear expecting to be caught red-handed.
So, what now? Do you think Hank was smart enough to record Jesse's phone conversation with Walt as they were tracking him to the spot where he buried his money? If so he has a lot of incriminating evidence on tape; Walt made explicit reference to a whole string of murders and crimes, from Crazy-8 to Gus to Brock. Meanwhile, Walt was weaving in and out of Albuquerque traffic at top speed without hitting anyone or getting pulled over by the police, which was maybe the most implausible part of this whole episode. He has managed to avoid the consequences of reckless driving many times now -- if I'm not mistaken, the only time we've seen him get pulled over was when he was driving with the cracked windshield, and the only accident he's been in was the time he intentionally wrecked his car to keep Hank away from the site of Gus's meth lab. This time, as we were treated to shot after shot of Walt zooming through the desert, I thought to myself, "What is this, a car commercial?" And then I remembered that, sometimes, Breaking Bad IS a car commercial. And I felt gross. (For what it's worth, I don't question the Chrysler product placement because Walt-the-druglord makes a bad spokesmodel, although that's certainly true. I object to how the show's pace and content are disrupted to make time for us to admire the sexy cars and hear about their awesome features.)
Speaking of gross: What do y'all make of the, er, tension between Todd and Lydia? And his caressing the lipstick on her "These Colors Don't Run" coffee mug: another trophy? (Or another product placement? Maybe next episode she'll be touting her new long-lasting brand of lipstick.) I don't know what to expect there, but I'm shuddering just the same.
How about you? Have you gotten past the What happened what happened what happened stage yet? If so, what are you thinking about now?
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I feel a bit inadequate, not being a devotee of Breaking Bad, but I have some familiarity with Navajo language and culture, and I wonder if those who are can use the following information about the place from which the episode takes its name. (I yield, however, to any real experts out there and take full responsibilty for any potential errors in fact or interpretation.) To'hajiilee (pronounced something like Toh-HAH-jee-lay) is the name the Navajo have long called the discontinguous portion of the reservation officially designated as Canoncito under the Truman adminstration. It is now officially the To'hajiilee chapter of the Navajo Nation. 'To'," or "water" in Dine bizaad, the Navajo language, is part of many place names in Navajo, as one would expect from a desert people. To'hajiilee is often translated as "place where water is drawn up." I leave it to the Breaking Bad fans to make something of all that.
Thank you so much for the Arrested Development reference. This week is going to be very long indeed!
And sordid product placement usually leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth. That's how I've always felt about Walt's stupid Pontiac.
Interesting translation of the name and I wonder if there is not some metaphorical importance associated with it.
Was a great episode on bluffing and gamesmanship all the way around including Todd's uncle requesting that in place of money, he wants Walt to cook.
In one episode Jesse said that Walt was smarter AND luckier than them and this shows that indeed he is lucky. But now there are so many loose ends. Walt does not know that the DEA does is not aware what the two of them were really doing as this operation was off the books. If Hank is killed, how to explain to Marie as she can tell the DEA what he was doing so now she is a target.
We know for certain that Walt lives as we saw him in the diner but what of the rest?
Ack....another week.
Which side brought more ammo? Frankly, my money's on Todd's paleo-posse.
Hank and Steve are dead. Uncle Frank is transitioning the Swasticrew from hired guns to luxury exporters and he needs Walt OR Jessie to get his own man in the game. Both Walt and Jessie live through the skirmish. Hank and Steve die. Even if they don't drop in the firefight, neither of them goes home again.
Frank wants both cooks under his thumb if he can get them there. That's his goal. Really, this is a return to the beginning of every season since the second: Walt and Jesse are these amazing meth cooks who lack all means of criminal support...the have no muscle of their own. They are, again in fact, complete pushovers.
I think we'll see Walt and Jesse cook as captives again. Possibly different shifts, maybe even different cooks, but cooking in captivity in any case.
So obviously, Walt breaks away or gives up his treasure for freedom and then buys the BFG in the trunk gliimpsed in 501 and that's why he's pulling the ricin from behind the wall. Heisenberg is going New Jack City on the rednecks. He's going back for Jesse.
As for Todd? Todd is not in a good mental space or environment, but that's ok, because he's with family. Todd's a monster in training. And Lydia? You can't really argue that Lydia is a good person, but I don't think even Lydia deserves what Todd has in mind for her.
In the iTunes bounus features the actress who plays Lydia says that it's a sign of just how warped Todd is that he would be interested in Lydia.
At the end of the episode I was sure that Hank was a gonner, but since then I've been wondering if Walt might not call off uncle Frank and his guys and say he'll cook for them if they let Hank (and Jesse?) live.
I've been struck by how they've been pulling Walt back just a bit from the edge of the moral abyss. I think they need to get us back rooting for him in order for the finale (when he uses the very very big gun he bought at the diner) to have any punch.
I love those podcasts. But I haven't managed to listen to any of them yet this season. Maybe I'll work them in when I'm commuting to work again (I'm coming to the end of maternity leave). They can help me withdraw after the finale airs!


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