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NEW YORK (AP) — A few years into Roger Goodell's tenure as NFL commissioner, a grad school professor polled students on who was the most effective leader in the major sports. Goodell romped.
That was before the league locked out the players in 2011. Before the Saints' bounties scandal. Before the behavior of Ray Rice and Adrian Peterson — and so many others — led to a stricter player conduct policy.
Before game officials were locked out. Before Tom Brady's suspension in "Deflategate." And before issues over head trauma and concussions brought player safety questions to the forefront.
A more recent informal survey by that professor saw Goodell finish a weak third behind the NBA's Adam Silver and PGA's Tim Finchem.
Yet, for all of the public (and players' association) angst regarding Goodell, who enters his second decade in charge on Thursday, he couldn't be held in higher esteem by most of the 32 team owners — his bosses.
"I know how passionate he is about the game, how committed he is," Cowboys owner Jerry Jones says. "He's spent his professional life on behalf of the National Football League. I've seen him under fire. He has made good decisions. We know what a tough job it is. That's been borne out and accentuated by the very criticism that he receives. He's in a job that has a lot of thankless aspects to it. ... I think he's exceeded any expectations that I might have had for him."
Here's where the NFL has gone in Goodell's decade.
The league to which Goodell, 57, has dedicated his entire adult life has never been more profitable. According to Forbes, the average worth of an NFL franchise is just under $2 billion. Jones' Cowboys are the world's most valuable sports franchise at $4 billion. The league's lowest-valued team at $1.4 billion, the Buffalo Bills, just signed a huge naming rights deal for its stadium.
Overall league revenues are approaching $13 billion; when Goodell replaced Paul Tagliabue in 2006, they were half that. Goodell wants to reach $25 billion in the next decade or so.
Perhaps helping reach that goal, the NFL's presence internationally has grown. It returns to Mexico City in November for Texans-Raiders in a sold-out Estadio Azteca. Three games are played annually in London, with the NFL branching out from Wembley to other stadia, and selling out.
The NFL's availability has expanded significantly on TV and digitally under Goodell. Flexible scheduling on Sunday nights led to better matchups later in the schedule. A night game was added on Thanksgiving. CBS (now joined by NBC) jumped into the Thursday night package of games already on NFL Network.
Network TV deals are bringing in about $28 billion overall, and DirecTV's Sunday Ticket contract is worth another $1.5 billion a year to the NFL.
Last season, 46 of the top 50 TV shows were NFL games, with "Sunday Night Football" the most-watched prime-time program for the sixth consecutive fall season. So who is holding the upper hand when renewal talks begin?
Goodell also oversaw the expansion of the draft to three days, with the first three rounds in prime time, and has made it a traveling show. Two channels, ESPN and NFL Network, broadcast every selection.
"Roger's tenure has been one of tremendous growth for the NFL, and he has increased the impact the league has on American culture," says ESPN President John Skipper. "He has faced intense scrutiny in how he responds to every situation, including from ESPN, and to his credit, he has remained true to his principles and the results of that vision are, by any objective measure, decidedly positive."
The NFL also has found ways to monetize fantasy football, even as critics insist it's a form of gambling. And everyone knows how aggressively the NFL opposes gambling.
Goodell's popularity among the owners is unquestioned. Even the Patriots' Robert Kraft, a long-time confidant of Goodell's but a vocal opponent of the commissioner in the deflated footballs case that cost New England a first-round draft pick and $1 million, generally has been one of Goodell's biggest boosters on other matters.
Outside the NFL, his image has taken some heavy hits. While Goodell cites protecting the integrity of the game, the players' union, fans, and advocacy groups protest his decisions. Loudly.
Despite labor peace since 2011 (and through 2020), it has been an uneasy truce. The union challenges matters large and small — it's obligation, of course, in representing its players — and often makes noise about reopening the collective bargaining agreement.
Goodell insisted on keeping final authority over player discipline matters during the 2011 labor talks. As Goodell has erred, most notably in the Rice case with an initial two-game suspension so inappropriate it led to a new player conduct policy, the union has pounced. Several times, the NFL won in court. Several times, so did the union.
Every time, the public's opinion of the commissioner diminished.
The 2012 lockout of game officials was such a fiasco that following the "Fail Mary" call in Packers-Seahawks, a new contract quickly was worked out.
Goodell also has been betrayed by his investigative force, which performed well in Michael Vick's dog-fighting case, but struggled with the Saints' bounties. That saga ended with Tagliabue, of all people, serving as arbiter at Goodell's behest, voiding suspensions for four players.
Such incidents have damaged Goodell's standing with many fan bases, most notably in New England and New Orleans.
"They have proved to have a terrible track record when it comes to investigations," NFLPA spokesman George Atallah says.
Probably the biggest challenge now for the NFL under Goodell — until another oddball scandal hits — is identifying and treating head trauma. Not just for current players, but for retirees; the league reached a settlement with former players that is now worth about $1 billion.
Rules changes; the institution of comprehensive return-to-play protocols for all players evaluated for concussions; the hiring of independent medical professionals; advocacy for youth concussion laws in all 50 states; and financial investments in research all are positives of Goodell's administration.
But concerns about just how dangerous and health-affecting the sport is will continue to plague the NFL, which must find answers to any and all safety matters. Unquestionably, the end game always will lead to Goodell.
Sports Writer Schuyler Dixon contributed.
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Sign-up deadline is Saturday for ACA health law coverage
WASHINGTON (AP) — Saturday is the last day to sign up for health insurance next year under the Affordable Care Act in most of the country.
For 2019, premiums are stable, more plans are available, and millions of uninsured people can still get financial help. But so far sign-ups have been lagging when compared to last year.
Consumers can enroll online at HealthCare.gov or by reaching the federal call center at 1-800-318-2596.
People can also sign up through approved community organizations, online insurance sellers, and insurance companies.
The deadline is 12 a.m. Pacific time in states served by the HealthCare.gov website. A few states that run their own enrollment campaigns may have later deadlines. Consumer advocates say interested customers should check carefully and avoid procrastination.
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Serial iOS bug finder videosdebarraquito has struck again.
He found a bug in the iOS 6.1.3 lockscreen, almost as soon as that update was published (an irony, given that the main purpose of 6.1.3 was to fix various lockscreen flaws).
Now he's made a video of himself bypassing the lock on just-released iOS 7.
(I've given you more than enough to find the video if you want. But I haven't provided a direct link here. Call me an old-school wowser. I can take it.)
Lock screens have a chequered security history, with Android having its recent share of problems, too.
The main reason is complexity, one of security's mortal enemies.
You can understand why some exceptions to a phone lock might be desirable, or even required by the regulators: the ability to call the emergency number, no matter what, for example.
Similarly, a clock is handy when the phone is locked, as well as an indication of whether there's network service available should you want to make a call.
So some "special case" programming is needed in phone lock software, which inevitably means more to go wrong with the part that implements the actual lock.
But functionality to check whether you've just dialled the three digits 112, 999, 000, 911, or some other well-known emergency number, and to update a digital clock once a minute, is a far cry from the feature set implemented by the average lockscreen app on a modern smartphone.
We're no longer content to have our phones locked: we want them locked, except for a huge raft of features.
In truth, the phone isn't locked at all – the lockscreen app typically requires and makes extensive use of access to the network and the filing system, plus the ability to interact fully with the user.
Worse, we're not content with just seeing general information on our lockscreens, like the latest weather and news headlines, but are happy for our "locked" phones to continue disgorge information of a more personal nature, such as posts to your Facebook wall, Tweets we're mentioned in, and more.
And heaven forfend that we ever have to fumble with the phone lock before we are able to snap a photo!
Apple addressed these issues in iOS 7 with what it describes as a feature, but that I consider a bad idea from the start. (Call me an old-school wowser. I can take it.)
It's called Control Center, and it flies under the banner that "some things should only be a swipe away. And now they are."
Control Center gives you quick access to the controls and apps you always seem to need right this second. Just swipe up from any screen — including the Lock screen — to do things like switch to Airplane mode, turn Wi-Fi on or off, or adjust the brightness of your display. You can even shine a light on things with a new flashlight. Never has one swipe given you so much control.
Sadly, that one swipe, combined with some dextrous fingerwork, gives videosdebarraquito so much control that he can access your photos via a backdoor entrance.
It seems he gets from the lock screen to the control center, from there to the alarm clock, and from there, by means of some deft fingerwork – described in his video as "double click on the home button, but the second click is slightly stretched" – into your photo gallery.
Now he can do whatever you could do with your photos if the phone were unlocked: look at them, delete them, upload them and post them on social networking sites.
Let's hope that Apple fixes this bug quickly.
In the meantime:
- Reduce the functionality available from the iOS 7 lockscreen, notably turning off access to the control center.
- Don't take photos of a genuinely personal or private nature on your phone. (Call me an old-school wowser. I can take it.)


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The discovery of the earliest known cases of human tuberculosis (TB) in bones found submerged off the coast of Israel shows that the disease is 3000 years older than previously thought. Direct examination of this ancient DNA confirms the latest theory that bovine TB evolved later than human TB.
The new research sheds light on how the TB bacterium has evolved over the millennia and increases our understanding of how it may change in the future.
The bones, thought to be of a mother and baby, were excavated from Alit-Yam, a 9000 year-old Pre-Pottery Neolithic village, which has been submerged off the coast of Haifa, Israel for thousands of years. Professor Israel Hershkovitz, from Tel-Aviv University's Department of Anatomy, noticed the characteristic bone lesions that are signs of TB in skeletons from the settlement, one of the earliest with evidence of domesticated cattle.
An international collaborative team, led by Dr Helen Donoghue and Dr Mark Spigelman of the University College London Centre for Infectious Diseases & International Health, conducted detailed analyses of the bones using scientific techniques that revealed DNA and cell wall lipids from Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the principal agent of human TB. The DNA was sufficiently well-preserved for molecular typing to be carried out and the analysis of the bacterial cell wall lipids by high performance liquid chromatography provided direct, confirmatory evidence of tuberculosis.
Dr Donoghue said: "What is fascinating is that the infecting organism is definitely the human strain of tuberculosis, in contrast to the original theory that human TB evolved from bovine TB after animal domestication. This gives us the best evidence yet that in a community with domesticated animals but before dairying, the infecting strain was actually the human pathogen. The presence of large numbers of animal bones shows that animals were an important food source, and this probably led to an increase in the human population that helped the TB to be maintained and spread.
"We were also able to show that the DNA of the strain of TB in these skeletons had lost a particular piece of DNA which is characteristic of a common family of strains present in the world today. The fact that this deletion had occurred 9000 years ago gives us a much better idea of the rate of change of the bacterium over time, and indicates an extremely long association with humans."
Dr Spigelman added: "Examining ancient human remains for the markers of TB is very important because it helps to aid our understanding of prehistoric tuberculosis and how it evolved. This then helps us improve our understanding of modern TB and how we might develop more effective treatments."
Citation: Hershkovitz I, Donoghue HD, Minnikin DE, Besra GS, Lee OY-C, et al. (2008) Detection and Molecular Characterization of 9000-Year-Old Mycobacterium tuberculosis from a Neolithic Settlement in the Eastern Mediterranean. PLoS ONE 3(10): e3426. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0003426


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A few years ago I as looking for absinthe and came across a UK company that sells it online. I didn't order any at that time but did agree to accept a free absinthe spoon if I put their banner on here and other social media sites. They would then check to see if I had done so and then send me the spoon. Well, I displayd their banner, and they thanked me and said the spoon was on its way, but it never arrived. I didn't worry about it and soon forgot it until I got messages such as 20% off for your birthday etc.
On 34rd June 2013 I decided to finally place an order for 2 bottles of absinthe to be sent to my son. The company estimated delivery would be around 28th June. As the order hadn't arrived by 3rd July I sent an e-mail telling the company that it had failed to arrive but go no response from them. Two days later I sent a message via their "contact us" page on their web site; stil no response. I then tried phoning but without even giving one ring all I got was a recorded message saying "please press 1 if you want to send a text saying to tried to call otherwise just hang up". After trying several times I eventually sent quite a rude, all upper case message via their web site telling them of my dissatisfaction and that if I stil got no response from them I would contact the relevant authorities. Guess what? STILL no response. I now believe this company to be fraudulent and will be contacting my bank telling them of the situation and asking them to see if they are able to get my money back, and I am now going on all my social media sites telling everyone I can to beware. DO NOT, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, BUY ANYTHING FROM "THE ORIGINAL ABSINTHE" COMPANY; url http://www.originalabsinthe.com/


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Hall of Fame coach Pat Riley, the current president of the Miami Heat, was named winner of the Chuck Daly Lifetime Achievement Award on Tuesday by the National Basketball Coaches Association.
Riley, 67, won five NBA titles as head coach, four with the Los Angeles Lakers featuring Magic Johnson and Kareem Abdul Jabbar, and one with the Heat, and was named NBA Coach of the Year with three different teams (Lakers, New York Knicks and Heat).
His 21 total postseason appearances, including a string of 19 in a row from 1982-2001 as a head coach, are two ahead of Boston Celtics' Hall of Famer Red Auerbach.
"I was the most blessed coach of all of them. I was," Riley said in receiving the award before the Heat played the Oklahoma City Thunder in Game Four of the NBA Finals.
"I had the greatest players with the Lakers, in New York great players in Patrick Ewing and John Starks and Charles Oakley. Came down here with Alonzo Mourning, Tim Hardaway, Caron Butler, Dwyane Wade, Shaquille O'Neal. I've been truly blessed."
Riley focused on building the Heat after leaving the coaching bench and assembled the current Miami powerhouse featuring a Big Three of LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh, who decided to team up in their free agent year.
"That's a terrific honor," said Heat coach Erik Spoelstra, who was hired by Riley. "His impact on coaching, the winning and the championships that speaks for itself.
"But what he's done here with this franchise and this community, to build us into a year-in, year-out team that matters and a contending team, and he's done it in a different role. I think that's pretty amazing."
Miami players also praised the impact Riley has had on the team.
"He's like Big Brother that's always watching," Bosh told reporters. "We know that he has that championship pedigree. He has a lot of knowledge in this game, his experience is vital to what we do."
James said just being around Riley was inspirational.
"He put together this team, and we just look at his r��sum��. We look at his experience either as a player, as a coach or as an executive. He's done some great things.
"He's been around Hall of Fame players and guys who have won championships, so any insight that he gives you, he's giving it because of experience. He knows all about it.
"It's great to have him around and just hear those stories about some of the greatest players to ever play this game. Amazing."
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Download and print these Grown Up Coloring Pages for free. Grown Up Coloring Pages are a fun way for kids of all ages to develop creativity, focus, motor skills and color recognition.
Get hold of these colouring sheets that are full of Grown Up images and offer them to your kid. The drawings are simply done so that children can do them without the assistance of adults. However, make sure that the work is done neatly. You may insist your child to use crayons as water color might not be easy to handle. Have fun!
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The Goodguys 22nd East Coast Nationals
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Having attended countless Goodguys events over the course of the last 20 years or so I still find myself enjoying them more and more each time. In fact, just a few weeks ago I had the pleasure of attending this year's annual Goodguys East Coast Nationals back in my old haunts in Southern Massachusetts, and as usual, it was a blast. Perhaps the biggest reason I enjoy Goodguys gatherings is because of the huge variety of cool trucks and cars represented at their shows. At any given event you'll find everything from street rods and restored classics to early muscle cars and classic hot rod trucks.
Adding to these virtual smorgasbords of pre-early '70s vehicles, the Goodguys have added to selected shows what they refer to as All American Sundays, allowing specialty American-made vehicles of any year to attend for that day only. I think it's a great addition too, as I personally enjoyed checking out the many customized late-model Mustangs, Chargers, and American pickups that added to the already pleasing collection of vehicles on hand. Another feature that I love has been the inclusion of the autocross competition that Goodguys and RideTech have been hosting over the last several years as well. There's nothing like watching a good-size bunch of cars and trucks battling the clock on a closed road course to add a dose of excitement to an already enjoyable event.
Now I realize that I'm for the most part preaching to the choir as the vast majority of CLASSIC TRUCKS readers are veteran Goodguys attendees, but as hard as it is to believe, there are still newcomers to the hobby that have yet to experience what we've accepted as an integral part of our summer rodding seasons. It is for these welcome newcomers that I'd like to give an idea of what's in store for them at any of these awesome events.
For example, the Goodguys 22nd East Coast Nationals (sponsored by Grundy Worldwide Insurance) is a gearhead gathering featuring over 1,500 hot rods, customs, classics, street rods, muscle cars, and hot rod trucks through 1972 sprawled throughout the show grounds of the Eastern States Exposition Center in West Springfield, Massachusetts. In addition to the car show (both indoor and outdoor), the event includes vendor exhibits, a swap meet, and cars-for-sale area, special "themed" parking areas for different types/styles/categories of vehicles, the aforementioned Goodguys Autocross (electronically timed road course to test vehicle and driver prowess and performance), a model car show, and more (like our very own CLASSIC TRUCKS Finest Five competitions held at five assorted Goodguys shows each season).
www.good-guys.com). This past June's show marked the second consecutive year Goodguys held the event at the Eastern States Expo Center after a 20-year run upstate in Rhinebeck, New York. Since 1987, Goodguys has produced some of the country's most enjoyable classic car and hot rod gatherings ranging from two-day shows attended by 30,000 to 40,000 people to three-day extravaganzas attracting over 100,000 enthusiasts. That said, I'll quit my yapping and let ya eyeball some images from the show!
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I'm writing this to provide an update about Native American paternal research, and to ask for your help and support, but first, let me tell you why. It's a very exciting time.
If you don't want the details, but you know you want to help now….and we have to pay for these tests by the end of the day December 1 to take advantage of the sale price…you can click below to help fund the Big Y testing for Native American haplogroups Q and C. Both projects need approximately $990. Everything contributed goes directly to testing.
To donate to the American Indian project, in memory of someone, a family member perhaps, or maybe in honor of an ancestor, or anonymously, click this link:
In order to donate to haplogroup C-P39 project, please click this link:
Now for the story…
As many of you know, haplogroup Q and C are the two Native American male haplogroups. To date, every individual with direct paternal Native American ancestors descends from a subgroup of either haplogroup Q or C, Q being by far the most prevalent. Both of these haplogroups are also found to some extent in Asia and Europe, but there are distinct and specific lineages found in the Americas that represent only Native Americans. These subgroups are not found in either Europe or Asia.
In December, 2010, we found the first SNP (single nucleotide polymorphism) marker that separated the European and the Native American subclades of haplogroup Q. Since that time, additional markers have been found through the Walk the Y program and other research.
How did this happen? A collaborative research approach between individual testers and project administrators. In this case, Lenny Trujillo was a member of the haplogroup Q project and he agreed to take the WTY (Walk the Y) test, which indeed, discovered a very unique SNP marker that defines Native American haplogroup Q, as opposed to European haplogroup Q.
Much has changed in three years. The WTY test which was focused solely on research is entirely obsolete, being replaced by a new much more powerful test called the Big Y, and at a reduced cost. The Big Y sequences a much larger portion of the Y chromosome, which will allow us to discover even more markers.
Why is this important? Because today, in haplogroups Q and C, we are learning through standard STR (short tandem repeat) surname marker tests who is related to whom, and how distantly, but it's not enough. For example, we have a group of haplogroup Q men in Canada who match each other, but then another group with a different SNP marker that is located in the Southwest, Mexico, and then in the North Carolina/Virginia border area. Oh yes, and one more from Charleston, SC. Most Native American men who carry haplogroup C are found in Northeastern Canada….but then there is one in the Southwest. What do these people have in common? Is their relationship "old" or relative new? Do they perhaps share a common historical language group? We don't know, and we'd like to. In order to do that, we need to further refine their genetic relationship. Hence, the new tool, the Big Y.
The Big Y sequences almost all of the Y chromosome – over 10 million base pairs and nearly 25,000 known SNPs. But the good news is that the Big Y, like its predecessor, the WTY, has the ability to find new SNPs. And they are being found by the buckets – so fast that the haplogroup trees can't even keep up. For example, the haplogroup project page still lists most Native people as Q1a3a, but in reality many new SNPs have been discovered.
That's the good news – that the Big Y represents a huge research opportunity for us to make major discoveries that may well divide the Native groups in the Haplogroup C and Q projects into either language groups, or maybe, if we are lucky, into tribal "confederacies," for lack of a better word. I hate to use the word tribes, because the definition of a tribe has changed so much. What we would like to be able to do it to tell someone from their test results that they are Iroquoian, for example, or Athabascan, or Siouian. This has been our overarching goal for years, and now we're actually getting close. That potential rests with the Big Y.
The bad news is that the test costs $495, and that's the sale price good only through Dec. 1., and we need funding. In the haplogroup Q project, we do have a few people who are testing. Everyone who did the WTY has been sent a $50 coupon to apply towards the Big Y test. I hope everyone who did do the WTY will indeed order the Big Y as well. If not, then the coupon can be donated to us, as project administrators, to apply towards the Big Y test of someone else in the group who is testing. If you're not going to test, please donate your coupon.
In haplogroup Q, we have two additional men who we desperately want to take the Big Y test, and 2 in haplogroup C as well. We're asking for two things. First, for unused $50 coupons and second, for contributions against the $495 price. We'd certainly welcome large contributions, or a sponsor for an entire test, but we'd also welcome $5, $10, $25 or whatever you'd like to contribute. Every little bit helps.
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As human population in coastal areas increases each year, the need to improve hurricane forecasting mounts. From Texas to Maine, more than 44 million people currently reside in coastal counties and barrier islands, and weekend and holiday tourists often increase that number significantly, according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
"The hurricane community has made great strides in accurate forecasting and tracking, but knowing how intense a storm is going to be when it hits the shoreline is a key factor," said Robbie Hood, of the Marshall Space Flight Center's Global Hydrology and Climate Center (GHCC) and principal investigator for the Convection and Moisture Experiment (CAMEX).
The first two CAMEX missions, conducted at Wallops Island, Virginia in 1993 and 1995, were designed to study atmospheric and precipitation processes using aircraft, balloon, and land-based remote sensing instruments. CAMEX-3 turned its focus to hurricane tracking and intensification.
With a greater understanding of the intensification process, scientists can improve predictive computer models that might someday help forecasters decrease the radius of coastal evacuation areas and increase warning time for evacuation of those areas.
The U.S. Air Force Hurricane Hunters and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) routinely fly into tropical storms to gather data that indicate potential storm strength and size and help pinpoint landfall locations. However, storm hunters typically only get to see a storm's lower altitudes.
"We only know what goes on in the bottom half of a hurricane, from sea level to about 27,000 feet," said Hood. "CAMEX-3 enabled us to learn about these storms from top to bottom."
With three NOAA aircraft and a NASA ER-2 and DC-8, the CAMEX-3 team embarked on a comprehensive study of Hurricane Bonnie on August 23, 1998. The DC-8, a jetliner designed to carry scientific instruments rather than passengers, was equipped with instruments that measure temperature, pressure, and humidity. The ER-2, a modified U-2, is a high-altitude research plane. Capable of flying almost twice as high as the DC-8, ER-2 carries a variety of remote sensing instruments that take measurements from the top of the storm.
"The measurements we obtained from Hurricane Bonnie are the first taken within the upper region of a hurricane," said Gerald Heymsfield, Research Meteorologist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and CAMEX-3 mission scientist.
CAMEX-3's sophisticated instrumentation suite, sponsored by NASA Headquarters' Atmospheric Dynamics and Thermodynamics Program, included radar, visible and infrared sensors, laser-based instruments, and dropsondes miniature transmitters that broadcast meteorological measurements via radio signals.
"We brought NASA satellite and remote sensing technology into the picture to give hurricane researchers data from high altitudes where their aircraft don't fly," said Hood. In particular, the ER-2 Doppler Radar (EDOP) aboard the ER-2 provided vastly improved resolution measurements of Bonnie's eyewall, Heymsfield said.
The aircraft also carried instruments designed to measure moisture and wind fields around the hurricane. Representing cutting edge technology, the Multicenter Airborne Coherent Atmospheric Wind Sensor (MACAWS) measures both horizontal and vertical winds, critical to understanding a hurricane's potential path.
The annual period of peak hurricane occurrence in the Atlantic is approximately mid-August to late September. Once a hurricane develops, the CAMEX team formulates a mission plan, based on how fast and in which direction the storm is moving. "Basically, we block out a six-week window of time, travel to Florida and wait," said Heymsfield. "We knew Bonnie was going to be a good one, and we wanted to be at ground zero when it made landfall."
When tropical cyclones low pressure storm systems that develop over warm tropical or subtropical waters reach sustained winds of at least 39 miles per hour, they are designated "tropical storms" and assigned a name. A tropical storm that reaches sustained winds of at least 74 miles per hour is referred to as a "hurricane" or a "typhoon," depending on its geographical location.
The center of a tropical cyclone, known as the eye, is a roughly circular area marked by relatively calm conditions, including light winds, little or no precipitation, and, often, clear skies. Hurricane eyes range from 8 kilometers (5 miles) to over 200 kilometers (120 miles) in diameter, but most measure approximately 30-60 kilometers (20-40 miles) across.
The eye is surrounded by the eyewall, the zone where surface winds reach their highest speed and where the strongest thunderstorm activity occurs. During the development stage of a cyclone, clusters of intense thunderstorms, called convective bursts, occur. A single thunderstorm within a convective burst is known as a hot tower. "One of our mission goals was to get detailed observations of the three-dimensional structure of a convective burst within Bonnie's eyewall," said Heymsfield.
According to Heymsfield, the relationship between the occurrence of convective bursts and sudden intensification of the hurricane can be significant. Through a process known as latent heating, clouds develop and the resulting convection heats the atmosphere, carrying the warm air to higher levels. "It's kind of like a feedback system that intensifies the hurricane," he said.
Hurricane Bonnie's initial intensification from tropical depression to hurricane occurred late in the day on August 20. "During the intensification period, convective bursts were noted in both the satellite observations and by the NASA aircraft pilots," the research team reported in a paper to be published in the Journal of Applied Meteorology.
"Our most significant finding is that hot towers result in strong subsidence in the eye of the hurricane," Heymsfield said. Scientists hypothesize that hot towers help create a region of warmer temperatures at the core, called a warm core, which results in lower surface pressure and a consequent intensification of winds. "If forecasters can identify a warm core in satellite imagery, they'll have a good indication that the storm is going to intensify," he said.
The idea of subsiding warm air in the hurricane's eye is not new, according to Heymsfield. "Scientists have been speculating for years about the existence of a weak sinking motion, but this is the first time it has been observed, and we actually witnessed a stronger sinking motion than we expected," he said.
Understanding hurricane dynamics at high altitudes is crucial to improved forecasting. "Until we understand some of the structural processes, it's going to be very difficult to get accurate forecasts," said Heymsfield. "The more precise data we have, the more accurate the forecasting models are going to be."
Another mission, CAMEX-4, is planned for summer 2001. "We have some new instruments that will help us understand the warm core and the convective bursts better," Heymsfield said. "We want to find out whether other hurricanes have the same type of structure that we saw in Bonnie."
CAMEX-4 will also feature a new radar on the DC-8, and a new instrument on the ER-2 that will release dropsondes from higher altitudes than in the past. "We still have a lot to learn, and we need better measurements, but as a result of CAMEX-3, we now have data-backed evidence to support our hypotheses," said Heymsfield. "Bonnie is probably one of the best-sampled hurricanes we have so far. In terms of reaching mission objectives, 1998 was a very good year for us."


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Walter R. Averill, formerly of Edgartown, died at his home in Dowling Park, Fla., a few weeks shy of his 95th birthday.
He was born August 3, 1918 in Edgartown, the sixth of seven children to Alfred and Ada Willoughy Averill. As a young man he worked at the family bakery until 1940 when he joined the Army and served in the Quartermaster Corps until 1945.
At the end of the war, he returned home and was usually found in his garden or out scalloping.
In 1949 he returned to the Army, this time with the Signal Corps until the Korean War ended in 1952.
When he came home, he began his work at the Edgartown Post Office, where he stayed until he retired in 1975. He moved to Florida in 1977 to be near two of his sisters, and lived at Advent Christian Village, happily growing flowers until his death.
He is survived by his sister Carol of North Carolina, and many nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by his brothers Alfred and Preston and his sisters Dorotha, Alita and Marion.
Services at the Old Westside Cemetery in Edgartown were private.


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The infographic was created as one of the appendices for a recent assignment on my MA in Educational Technology & TESOL and shows a general overview of Android Apps for English language learning. The second post in this series will feature the top 7 and also explain why they're definitely worth recommending to students and the third will highlight some of the design and pedagogical problems in other apps.
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Despite all the hype surrounding the use of mobile language learning apps (dominating the discussions at many global ELT conferences these days) in a recent study by Busuu and the I.E. Business School, they disclose that only 2% of the global language learners they polled currently consider mlearning as an efficient way to study. In part it may only be because we're simply at the start of a trend, but it is also possible that this is due to the fact that a great deal of the apps produced today for "anytime, anywhere" learning (Geddes, 2004 cited in Kukulska-Hulme & Shield, 2008) aren't actually pedagogically sound, aren't convenient to use and aren't well designed.
What do you think?
Is the problem the cost?
Is the problem size?
Is the problem usability?
Is it something else?
Let me/us know your thoughts!


text: Soldiers the Royal Artillery regiment in the British army stand guarding the entrance to the volleyball venue in central London next to the IOC rings logo on day 4 of the London 2012 Olympic Games. A total of 18,000 defence personel were called upon to make the Games secure following the failure by security contractor G4S to provide enough private guards. The extra personnel have been drafted in amid continuing fears that the private security contractor's handling of the £284m contract remains a risk to the Games.Add to Cart Add to Lightbox Download


text: Sponsor a child in Serbia Our children's charity in Serbia since the 1970s SOS Children's Villages has been working in Serbia since the 1970s (when the country was still part of the former Yugoslavia). Its work began near the northern town of Novi Sad, and in 2003 the organisation began working in central Serbia, near Kraljevo. At present, an estimated 3,000 refugees arrive in Serbia every day, most are on their way to Hungary. The SOS Emergency Programme provides urgent help to those fleeing their home countries in search of safety. Disparities between urban and rural areas Brothers - photo: K. Ilievska In the summer of 2006, Serbia became the independent Republic of Serbia after Montenegro voted to become independent from the Union of Serbia and Montenegro, which had been created in 2003. Serbia has a population of around 7.3 million (July 2012 est.) but faces some demographic challenges. It has experienced a negative population growth since the 1990s. Between 2002 and 2011, the population fell by about two million. Furthermore, the population is getting older, and the number of children born is low. About half of the population lives in urban areas, with the capital city of Belgrade being home to 1.5 million people. Due to the economic situation, many people move to urban areas in search of work. Rural areas have fewer employment opportunities and the infrastructure is not fully developed - for example 12 per cent of the rural population do not have access to clean water. An economy in need of stabilisation A period of political turmoil and conflict during the 1990s left the country's infrastructure and economy destroyed; the situation was worsened by economic sanctions and international isolation. After the war, the economy had to be rebuilt. The established trade partners and routes were lost and the country had to find new trading arrangements. In 2008-2009, the economy suffered from the global economic crisis. The gross domestic product (GDP) fell by 3.1 per cent in 2009, but in 2010, the GDP grew by 1.8 per cent. The service sector now employs over half of the population, with the other half being distributed equally between agriculture and industry. However, high unemployment is a persistent problem - the figure was as high as 22.4 per cent for 2012. The country faces other challenges: just under nine per cent of the population lives below the nationally-established poverty line, though a much higher number are believed to be at risk of falling into poverty. The Roma, most of whom arrived in Serbia from Kosovo in 1999, face particular disadvantage - they suffer from inequality. For example, 60 per cent of the Roma live in crowded slum housing - there is no clean water source or sanitation facilities. Children in need of protection About a fifth of the population is under the age of 18. The wider social, economic and political changes have affected the lives of children. The percentage of child poverty is higher than the average for adults - nearly 10 per cent of children live in poverty. Due to limited funds, the government can only afford to provide a minimal level of services in areas such as maternity care and childcare for working parents. A girl cuddling with her mother - photo: K. Ilievska There are various reasons why children might be at risk of losing parental care: unemployment, poverty, health problems and the low level of education of the parents. Children with disabilities or those with HIV are also at risk. An estimated five thousand children are without parental care in Serbia. Most of them have at least one parent alive. Although many are still placed in institutional care, this figure is decreasing. Children in rural areas are particularly at risk because families there have less support than those in urban areas. In addition, according to one study, children between the ages of 12 and 14 perform at least 14 hours of work on farms or 28 hours of house chores. Roma children face disadvantages in both health and education. According to the World Health Organisation, Serbia has improved the overall health care of children by reducing the infant and under-five mortality rate. In spite of this, children of Roma origin are three times more likely to die before the age of five than non-Roma children. Children have to go to school at the age of six or seven. However, it is estimated that a quarter of poor children do not attend primary education. Among the Roma, only 66 per cent enter school at the required age and only ten per cent enrol in secondary school. SOS Children's Villages in Serbia Currently, SOS Children's Villages is present in two locations in Serbia. Children whose parents cannot take care of them will find a loving home in one of the SOS families. Youth adults can live in special houses and flats where they are guided on their path to an independent life with the help of professionals. In 2010, an earthquake, the strongest one in 30 years in Serbia, affected the families and communities who are supported by SOS Children's Villages near Kraljevo. The earthquake injured hundreds and left thousands homeless. SOS Children's Villages responded by providing help to the local community so that normality could be restored to the children's lives. In response to the Refugee Crisis of 2015, the SOS Emergency Programme in Serbia is focusing on supporting children (especially unaccompanied children), young people, and mothers with children and pregnant women. SOS Children's Villages is working with other organisations and is responding to the evolving situation. We provide shelter and food, as well as health care (including much needed psycho-social support) to those arriving. Website of SOS Children's Villages Serbia (available in Serbian and English)


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Beijing, Saudi Arabia agree to more oil cooperation, exports to China
EghtesadOnline: China and Saudi Arabia will increase their cooperation in the oil sector, including in Saudi oil exports to China, the two countries said in a joint communique issued on Saturday at the end of Saudi Arabian King Salman's visit to Beijing.
The world's largest oil exporter has been looking to cement ties with the world's second-largest economy, Reuters reported.
After losing market share to Russia last year, Saudi Arabia has sought to boost oil sales to China, the world's second-largest oil market, by working mostly with China's top three state oil firms.
"Both countries are willing to raise their level of cooperation in the oil sector, including supplying Saudi oil to the continuously growing Chinese market," the two said in a statement issued by China's official Xinhua news agency.
"Both sides stress the importance of stability in world oil markets to the global economy ... China appreciates Saudi Arabia being a safe and dependable oil supplier to the world market, and the role it plays in ensuring the stability of the global oil market," it said.
Salman oversaw the signing of deals worth as much as $65 billion on the first full day of his visit to Beijing on Thursday.
China has traditionally played little role in Middle East conflicts or diplomacy, despite its reliance on the region for oil. However, it has been trying to get more involved in efforts to end Syria's six-year-old civil war, where Riyadh supports rebels battling President Bashar al-Assad.
Last year, China also offered support for Yemen's government, which is backed by a Saudi-led Gulf Arab coalition in a war against the Iranian-aligned Houthi movement that controls much of the country.
China has had to tread a careful line, though, as it also has close relations with Iran. Xi visited both Saudi Arabia and Iran in January last year.
The joint statement said both China and Saudi Arabia stressed their support for Yemen's legal government.
China's renewed diplomatic push with the Middle East continues next week when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits China.
Diplomatic sources say China is trying to play the role of "honest broker" in the Middle East, as it lacks the historical baggage of the Americans or the Europeans.


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This page has information about developing Embedded Linux, including links to toolchains, debuggers and other development tools. Also, it has links to pages with debugging tips.
- 1 Development Tools
- 2 Developer Resources
- 3 Embedded Linux Distributions
Development Tools
- see Toolchains
- Open On-Chip Debugger
- GDB - The GNU debugger
- DDD - Data Display Debugger
- kgdb - kernel source level debugger
- valgrind - memory, cache and other debuggers and profilers
Integrated Development Environments
- Eclipse - Powerfull IDE written in JAVA.
- jEdit - Editor written in JAVA which can be expanded to a full IDE with plug-ins.
- KDevelop - Standard IDE for KDE.
- Emacs - Powerful IDE, extensible in LISP, ships with modes to integrates with SCM (GIT, SVN, CVS...), build systems, debugger and even fancy multi-window with ECB.
- VIm - Powerful IDE, extensible with scripting, can use various modules for completion and more.
- KScope - Cscope based source editing environment with KDE.
- FIXTHIS - need more links for IDEs
Tracers and Profilers
- see Kernel Trace Systems
- see Profilers
Source Management Tools
There are a number of tools for managing patches, which are useful for different tasks. There's now a whole page devoted to this. See Source Management Tools
For some simple tools for managing patches, see Diff And Patch Tricks
Test Systems
- See Test Systems
Developer Resources
Kernel mailing lists, web sites, etc.
- Linux Device Drivers, 3rd edition - http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/
- Papers from the Ottawa Linux Symposium - broken out - see http://kernel.org/doc/ols/
- Embedded Linux kernel and driver development - http://free-electrons.com/training/drivers
- Free Software tools for embedded systems - http://free-electrons.com/training/devtools
- Real time in embedded Linux systems - http://free-electrons.com/articles/realtime/
- Embedded Linux optimizations - http://free-electrons.com/articles/optimizations
- Audio in embedded Linux systems - http://free-electrons.com/training/audio
- Multimedia in embedded Linux systems - http://free-electrons.com/training/multimedia
- Embedded Linux From Scratch... in 40 minutes! - http://free-electrons.com/articles/elfs/
- Embedded Linux System Design and Development - by P. Raghavan, Amol Lad, and Sriram Neelakandan (Hardcover - Dec 21, 2005)
- This one looks quite good.
- Embedded Linux Primer: A Practical Real-World Approach - by Christopher Hallinan
- So does this one.
- Building Embedded Linux Systems - by Karim Yaghmour
- Be sure to get the second edition (from 2008). The first edition (from 2003) is outdated.
- Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment by the late W. Richard Stevens and Stephen A. Rago
- Not embedded specific, but THE reference for Linux/Unix programming
- Linux System Programming - by Robert Love
- Good introduction to Linux system programming
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- http://www.timesys.com/resources/podcast - a series of podcasts from timesys (on linux of course)
Code Style Tips
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- Extern_Vs_Static_Inline is a short explanation on the proper use of "inline" in kernel code.
Debugging Tips
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- Printk
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Friday, January 27, 2012
"Capitalism is Making Humanity Obsolete"
The BBC has aired an interview with Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm, who in the tradition of the other discussants, fails to make a clear distinction between capitalism and government intervention on behalf of insider operators. Adbusters features the interview with the subtitle, "Capitalism is making humanity obsolete". And indeed, in this interview, Hobsbawm comes pretty close to declaring that, since he states that "capitalism" is creating a situation where there will be no jobs.
If there are no jobs, its because minimum wage laws are extremely high, or otherwise we are all in some never, never land with all our wants fulfilled. But Hobsbawm's world seems to somehow be one where machines somehow takeover all tasks and so the "capitalist" have no use for most of humanity. Allowing just for a moment Hobsbawm's absurdity, he does not address the question that perhaps maybe, if the fat capitalists are completely satisfied, that there would be plenty of opportunity for up and coming entrepreneurs to feed, clothe and house the starving masses, and thus also employ them.
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- AnonymousJanuary 27, 2012 at 5:45 PM
This is the kind of feeble thinking I would expect from a dock worker or some body that hasn't really thought about what it would mean to live in a society where humans don't have to do mundane tasks to justify their existence. To hear a Marxist cry about this is even more laughable given their view that everything is worth the labor put into it. Wouldn't that be nirvana for the Marxist, where everything would cost nothing since the labor value will be zero? And following Marxist logic wouldn't that spell the end for the capitalist looking to accumulate vast sums of wealth since there would be nothing to sell (since if man is replaced then there would be no value for inventors or inventions since the machines would fill that role) and no one to buy what ever he would be offering?ReplyDelete
Of course we all know that the roles that humans will fill in society will simply shift to other things that most of us can't even imagine. I would also imagine that the amount of work necessary for one to do to survive would fall dramatically with the cost of living. This is the same idiotic argument that has been made since the industrial revolution and yet all of us, including even the poorest among us live better then the average wealthy person of those times.
What a shame that a man can reach 94 and not come to understand economics.ReplyDelete
All the while, in our digital age, it's available for even the common man to understand.
To reach such an age and hold on to such nonsense, can only be attributed to stubbornness.
I'd like to be naive and think that these people are too stupid to know the difference between capitalism and corporatism but I know they actually know better, which makes what they are doing and saying even worse.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 27, 2012 at 6:32 PM
Fuck off Eric Hobsbawm.ReplyDelete
This "capitalism making human beings obsolete" meme must have been rolling around the left wing drain for a while. I remember hearing the same back in college in the late seventies. At the time the big threat was the coming microprocessor revolution. Tiny silicon wafers could perform functions so much faster than mere mortals that it was 'game over' for the human race. Computers would take all the jobs and society was woefully unprepared for a life of leisure (not me, by the way, I have always been fully prepared for a life of leisure.)ReplyDelete
My industrial relations prof lectured the class once on this and asked all the students to raise their hands if they thought technology would take their future jobs away. Being an unreconstructed Friedmanite at the time I was the only one with my hand unraised. For this breach of class conformity, the dweeb of a prof made one of those 'all knowing' smirks that left wingers get taught, which he shared with a few class favorites.
Back then I had read Yale Brozen's excellent essay on Automation (see here (PDF)) and had been thus innoculated against the automation-phobia. In revisiting this incident I am surprised just how robust and incisive Brozen's take was and how well it has stacked up with subsequent decades.
The prof went on to say that once the era of mass technology unemployment came to pass, it wouldn't be a blissful era of mass leisure he pontificated. (And lets face it, if anyone knows what a life of mass leisure is like it is surely an academic.) The capitalists no longer needing a mass would want get rid of them. He warned us to be on the look out for the Catholic church changing it's line on 'the pill' as this would be the red flag that elite managed depopulation was on the agenda.
Ah, youthful memories!
- Capn MikeJanuary 27, 2012 at 7:21 PM
Pol Pot couldn't have said it better!ReplyDelete
Ludwig von Mises so brilliantly said that, government intervention will lead ultimately to a full-fledged socialism. I think we are going to get it all over the world pretty soon. Another grinding century for humanity, and may be after that people will realize that the only alternative is Freedom. I truly agree with Prof. Hoppe when he said, in his recent seminar in Australia, I am not very hopeful for the mankind!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 27, 2012 at 9:45 PM
Capitalism is making workers obsolete? What a fool. Capitalism is the only reason anyone has a job, be it directly in the market, or indirectly through non-profits or government employment.ReplyDelete
In 1994, he was asked, if Marx's golden age of communist had come to pass, if the deaths of 20-30 million people was worth it. (son of a bitch didn't even hesitate to answer)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 27, 2012 at 10:13 PM
They sucked all the wealth out of the baby boomer Gen with their Ponzi money system. The new feudal lords now don't want any competition so for everyone else the Marxist paradise will be OK.Charlatans!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 27, 2012 at 10:39 PM
They are talking code... Every time they use the word "capitalism," just put the word "State" in front of it, and it makes perfect sense.ReplyDelete
Despite his faith in his political view which clearly fell apart only 23 years ago I still have to admire his clarity and conviction at the age of 94. If I have to live that long I hope I can retain that sort of clarity. I hope libertarians will prevail so strongly in the next 100 years.....ReplyDelete
- averrosJanuary 29, 2012 at 5:01 AM
"Pathological degeneration"... this describes that particular Marxist pretty well.ReplyDelete


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How do we select a different keyboard in xfce? I've installed xfce-xkb-plugin but it only displays one choice in the pop-up: US.
I like to use dvorak. How do we get the plugin to offer more than one choice?
Add more keyboard layouts in the xorg.conf file.
example from my xorg.conf
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "de,no,se"
Option "XkbOptions" "grp:alt_shift_toggle"
OK. I have two xorg.conf files. I'm not sure which is being used so I'll change both.
Making changes in both doesn't affect the plugin at all, even though the system behaviour has changed. It now uses dvorak as default. That is what I want, but I would like a switcher so that others can use the QWERTY keymapping.
thanks for your help.
I don't now is this will help you but it's a fun knowledge:
Look for your keyboards in /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/xorg.lst (this is a Debian path) and see that they are called.
Then remove that unsofisticated "pc105" from you XkbModel line and insert the correct call instead.
In my case I got a Logitech Cordless Desktop Pro called logicdp and my line looks like this:
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Taking cues from the Lotto-Belisol Team, who's been racing the Noah FAST and Helium development bikes on the pro scene, the Belgian brand has heeded their advice in the creation of the new pro-level Noah SL.
Ridley unveiled the new Noah on their website this week, but perhaps more importantly, it made it's debut during this week's EuroBike Show.
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At Eurobike, we presented our new aero frame: the Noah SL.
The Noah frames have been with Ridley for quite some time, and were developed to be the most aerodynamic frames in the Ridley range, and even the world! With the Noah FAST we redefined bicycle aerodynamics with 3 patented innovations: integrated brakes, F-Splitfork and F-Surface. Now we are ready to launch the next version of the Noah family: the Noah SL!
The Noah SL is all about speed and performance. It's racing heritage, combined with superior aerodynamic technology and beautiful design sets a new benchmark in the aero category. It stays true to our form-follows-function design principle where every detail has been studied and tested to reach ultimate performance. The Lotto-Belisol riders wanted an all-round aerodynamic frame that is also light, we provided the Noah SL.
André Greipel: "There is a very good communication with Ridley Bikes. I have a close contact with them, so we can exchange ideas. They want to supply us with the best material and we can make suggestions. I suggested an adjustable seat post, to easily change the height, that's also positive for the buyers. It's important that Ridley Bikes supports us. There's a constant evolution in the bike world, so you need the best engineers. At Ridley Bikes they are always looking for innovations to make the bikes even better."
"As a rider I appreciate that Ridley Bikes takes our advice to heart. The good relationship between the riders and Ridley Bikes is necessary for the future. The Noah SL is the next step in the development. I already did a training with the Noah SL and a first impression never deceives. The frame looks good and is lighter. It's also stiff, I find that important. This is a fast bike. I'm looking forward to race with it."
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I know most of you reading these digital pages on a regular basis imagine that I always write angry. To be sure, I do often write angry. Often but not always.
Today, indeed, I am angry, really angry, like white fucking hot angry. Pissed was a spot way back there on the angry spectrum, just passed annoyed and miffed. I am 11 on the angry dial.
I live just a block or so from the intersection of Bathurst and College which is currently undergoing streetcar track and stop reconstruction. Since being closed to vehicular traffic a couple weeks ago, our side street has seen a stream of detoured car traffic making its way around the road work. When they're not speeding crazily through the residential neighbourhood, they're backed up at times for almost the entire block, annoyed, honking at garbage trucks that are in their way and whatever else they perceive to be blocking their forward motion. Walking down the line of cars, it's always interesting to note just how many of them are on their hand-held devices. Hey. We're stopped, aren't we? Where's the harm?
The alleys running between streets and behind the houses in the neighbourhood have also seen an uptick in traffic trying to find alternative ways around the slow down. This has led to standoffs were cars meet, heading in opposite directions on what is decidedly a one lane right of way. You back up. No, you back up. No, you. Cue blaring of horns.
Traffic further south along Dundas Street, a big block south of the construction, heavy under normal driving conditions, is pretty much snarled now especially during what constitutes rush hours. On my regular runs… OK, not so much runs as grinds, like a first time marathoner slogging out those last couple miles… traversing Dundas at a couple points, I regularly encounter bad, egregiously bad, driving behaviour. Rolling stops, throwing out the anchors up on sidewalks and in bike lanes, reckless speeding past parks and schoolyards, the requisite reading phone while driving.
You know, your everyday, run of the mill driver entitlement. As a matter of fact, I do own the road, and the alley, and the sidewalks. Inconvenienced in any way whatsoever, and this sense of sole proprietorship grows even stronger.
Why wouldn't it, though?
Private vehicle use enjoys the favourite child status in our transportation family. We build our networks around it. We subsidize it to a degree only dreamed of if you take a bus, ride a bike or even walk to get to where you're going. We tremble in fear of getting car drivers mad at us.
The results of such coddling are predictable.
That's about 5 weeks. 58 cyclists and 67 pedestrians struck by car drivers. Nearly 12 cyclists a week. More than 13 pedestrians a week. 1 dead pedestrian a week.
And the fallout from that?
What's even less than sweet fuck all?
Unless you're driving drunk and wipe out an entire family or, maybe, behind the wheel going race course speed or take off from the scene after mowing somebody down, chances are there will be no consequences to bad driving causing death or injury. A few demerit points, perhaps. Insurance rate hike. Occasionally, jail time spent over the course of a few months' weekends because nobody wants to disrupt your life too, too much. Certainly, sometimes, a ban on driving, for sure. A year or two. Lifetime? Are you kidding me?
All extreme examples. Rarely do we see such penalties imposed even if the driver is at fault, and the driver is usually at fault, 67% of the time in collisions between pedestrians and drivers, according to a Toronto Public Health report, pedestrians have the right of way when they're struck by a driver in a car. Yeah but… were they wearing bright enough clothes? Were the walking distractedly, looking at their phone? Did they signal their intentions to cross the street?
In an overwhelming majority of these situations, where car meets pedestrian, car meets cyclist, car hits pedestrian, car hits cyclist, the presumed assumption is what did the pedestrian do wrong, what law did the cyclist break? In yesterday's cyclist death (not registered in the above list), it was initially reported that the cyclist had been cut off and slammed into a parked car and the driver left the scene. Then came news that maybe a 2nd car hadn't been involved. Then stated outright that the cyclist was at fault, and shouldn't have been riding in between moving and parked cars. Oops. Correction. Cyclist had right of way after all. Investigation still ongoing.
Many jurisdictions have looked at what's going on in their streets, examining the data and evidence, and come to the only conclusion they possibly could. The private automobile is anathema to 21st-century cities. It is the most expensive, least efficient way to move people around a region. Cars contribute mightily to greenhouse gas emissions and thus climate change, not to mention a sedentary lifestyle. The faster drivers are allowed to go, the more dangerous their cars become.
The spoiled child has grown out of control and has become a certifiable threat to everybody's well-being. It's time to roll back its privileges. Teach it some lessons in sharing and responsibility.
Here in Toronto, though, we're only grudgingly facing that cold hard truth. Official protestations to the contrary, the last six years we've done our upmost to improve the flow of cars not people. Spending on non-driving infrastructure remains infinitesimally low compared to what we shell out for those in cars. In doing so, we've only encouraged drivers' disregard for other road users, inflated their self-importance.
As I write this, 2 more cyclists and a pedestrian have been hit since about 8:30 this morning by somebody driving a vehicle. Just the cost of doing business in a city that places such an emphasis on private automobiles. You want to stay safe on our streets? Get behind the wheel of a car, the bigger the better. Sure, you still might get hurt or killed but at least you've giving yourself a fighting chance to emerge from the wreckage alive.
We know the toll this is taking. We know the costs we are incurring. Worse still, we know how to solve this problem. It's as simple as summoning the political will, screwing on a little courage and showing some leadership.
But I don't see any of that anywhere in the places it should be. It's all just steady as she goes, no need to change course now. Sometimes we have to suck it up and live with acceptable losses. Vision Zero? Absolutely. All in good time.
— grrrrringly submitted by Cityslikr