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The Paradoxical Commandments of Leadership and Healthcare
While Kent Keith has not said such to me, it seems obvious that at the root of The Paradoxical Commandments are the virtues of personal passion, trust and hope. It seems that the leadership required for the transformation of healthcare will embrace those commandments and will exhibit the Personal Mastery describe by Peter Senge.
On Aug. 27, 1998, I wrote SETMA's leadership a note in which I quoted Sir Winston Churchill who, speaking to his private secretary, John Colville, on Aug. 27, 1940, said, "Each night, I try myself by court martial to see if I have done anything effective during the day. I don't mean just pawing the ground – anyone can go through the motions – but something really effective." Successful leadership over a lifetime is made up of successful leadership for one day.
I added to this note the challenge, "Try each day to accomplish something significant, and in the end you will succeed in your job. As a leader, you must be true to yourself and not be disappointed with others. You must assist them in becoming all they can be." I quoted an editorial titled, "Leadership Paradoxes," in which William McCumber listed 10 conclusions about people in general. He found these ideas in a newspaper article about Howard Ferguson, a wrestling coach, who purportedly initially formulated the list. (Read on to find the 10 principles and the true source of these remarkable ideas.)
Origin of The Paradoxical Commandments
Recently, I wanted to use these ideas but was unable to find them. I searched the Web and that is when I discovered that the attribution of this work to Ferguson was not correct. This material comes from www.paradoxicalcommandments.com/origin.html.
"The Paradoxical Commandments were written by Kent Keith in 1968 when he was 19 and a sophomore at Harvard College. The commandments were part of "The Silent Revolution: Dynamic Leadership in the Student Council," his first booklet for high school student leaders. Kent encouraged students to care about others, and to work through the system to achieve change. One thing he learned was students didn't know how to work through the system to bring about change. Some of them also tended to give up quickly when they faced difficulties or failures. They needed deeper, longer-lasting reasons to keep trying.
"Kent said, 'I saw a lot of idealistic young people go out into the world to do what they thought was right and good and true, only to come back a short time later discouraged or embittered because they got negative feedback, or nobody appreciated them, or they failed to get the results they had hoped for. … I told them that if they were going to change the world, they had to really love people, and if they did, that love would sustain them. I also told them that they couldn't be in it for fame or glory. I said that if they did what was right and good and true, they would find meaning and satisfaction, and that meaning and satisfaction would be enough. If they had the meaning, they didn't need the glory.'
"In his sophomore year at Harvard, Kent began writing a booklet for high school student leaders that addressed both the how and the why of leading change. … It was published by Harvard Student Agencies in 1968. The Paradoxical Commandments were part of Chapter Two, titled 'Brotherly What?'
"'I laid down the Paradoxical Commandments as a challenge,' Keith said. 'The challenge is to always do what is right and good and true, even if others don't appreciate it. You have to keep striving, no matter what, because if you don't, many of the things that need to be done in our world will never get done.'"
When I discovered this information, I wrote Kent and he has given me permission to quote his work. The following is the copy of "The Paradoxical Commandments" he sent to me:
By Kent M. Keith
1. People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. Love them anyway.
2. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway.
3. If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway.
4. The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.
5. Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway.
6. The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds. Think big anyway.
7. People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs. Fight for a few underdogs anyway.
8. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway.
9. People really need help but may attack you if you do help them. Help people anyway.
10. Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you have anyway.
Why paradoxical commandments and healthcare?
While he has not said such to me, it seems obvious that at the root of The Paradoxical Commandments are the virtues of personal passion, trust and hope. Coincidently, I leave on Saturday to attend the Harvard Kennedy School's Executive Education program titled "Shaping Healthcare Delivery Policy" (Jan 27 – Feb. 1, 2013). Kent started his University education near where this event will be held. And it might turn out that one of the keys to the success of healthcare policy decisions will depend upon the development of leaders who can embrace and endure the Paradoxical Commandments.
The leaders of this Kennedy School's program are original thinkers who have been nationally recognized leaders in healthcare for decades. They have led government agencies and have developed national strategies for transforming healthcare such as the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's Triple Aim, the Office of National Coordinator of Health Information Technologies' Meaningful Use and other seminal contributions.
The kind of leaders who are needed to support and successfully deploy these policies and goals are those who have what Peter Senge ("The Fifth Discipline") identifies as "personal mastery." They are:
• They have a special sense of purpose that lies behind their vision and goals. For such a person, a vision is a calling rather than simply a good idea.
• They see current reality as an ally, not an enemy. They have learned how to perceive and work with forces of change rather than resist those forces.
• They are deeply inquisitive, committed to continually seeing reality more and more accurately.
• They feel connected to others and to life itself.
• Yet, they sacrifice none of their uniqueness.
• They feel as if they are part of a larger creative process, which they can influence but cannot unilaterally control.
• They live in a continual learning mode.
• They never ARRIVE!
• They are acutely aware of their ignorance, their incompetence, and their growth areas.
• And they are deeply self-confident!
Personal mastery is what leaders require if they are going to persevere through the Paradoxical Commandments. That perseverance is what is required to translate the ideals, principles and policies of national leaders into practical experience in healthcare. These leaders will possess personal passion, trust and hope.
Commitment to excellence is an individual passion but it becomes a collective, organizational passion as two, then three, then ALL embrace from their heart and soul the same standard. Sustaining excellence is much easier when it is the product of a group's effort. Like the three-fold cord that is not soon broken, the group sustains the one's commitment to excellence at times of fatigue and discouragement. The physics of the three-fold cord is that at the point of one cord's weakness another is strong, and the reciprocal is also true. A cord that can only support 200 pounds, when intertwined with two equally strong cords, the three can sustain 2,000 pounds. So it is with our effort and commitment of excellence. What we cannot do alone, we can do together.
Future of healthcare is transformation
To be successful, the implantation of new polices and initiatives must be transformative because being from within, transformation results in change that is not simply reflected in shape, structure, dimension or appearance, but transformation results in a change that is part of the nature of the organization being transformed. The process itself creates a dynamic that is generative, i.e., it not only changes that which is being transformed but it creates within the object of transformation the energy, the will and the necessity of continued and constant change and improvement. Transformation is not dependent upon external pressure but is sustained by an internal drive that is energized by the evolving nature of the organization.
While this might initially appear to be excessively abstract, it really begins to address the methods or tools needed for reformation, or for transformation. They are significantly different. The tools of reformation, particularly in healthcare administration, are rules, regulations and restrictions. Reformation is focused upon establishing limits and boundaries rather than realizing possibilities. There is nothing generative – creative – about reformation. In fact, reformation has a "lethal gene" within its structure. That gene is the natural order of an organization, industry or system's ability and will to resist, circumvent and overcome the tools of reformation, requiring new tools, new rules, new regulations and new restrictions. This becomes a vicious cycle. While the nature of the system actually does change, where the goal was reformation, it is most often a dysfunctional change that does not produce the desired results and often makes things worse.
The tools of transformation might actually begin with the same ideals and goals as reformation, but now rather than attempting to impose the changes necessary to achieve those ideals and goals, a transformative process initiates behavioral changes that become self-sustaining not because of rules, regulations and restrictions but because the images of the desired changes are internalized by the organization, which then finds creative and novel ways of achieving those changes.
It is possible for an organization to meet rules, regulations and restrictions perfunctorily without ever experiencing the transformative power that was hoped for by those who fashioned the external pressure for change. In terms of healthcare administration, policy makers can begin reforms by restricting reimbursement for units of work, i.e., they can pay less for office visits or for procedures. While this would hopefully decrease the total cost of care, it would only do so per unit. As more people are added to the public guaranteed healthcare system, the increase in units of care will quickly outstrip any savings from the reduction of the cost of each unit.
Transformation of healthcare would result in a radical change in relationship between patient and provider. The patient would no longer be a passive recipient of care that's given by the healthcare system. The patient and provider would become an active team where the provider would cease to be a constable attempting to impose health upon an unwilling or unwitting patient. The collaboration between the patient and the provider would be based on the rational accessing of care. There would no longer be a CAT scan done every time the patient has a headache. There would be a history and physical examination and an appropriate accessing of imaging studies based on need and not desire.
This transformation will require a great deal more communication between patient and provider which would not only take place face-to-face, but by electronic or written means. There was a time when healthcare providers looked askance at patients who wrote down their symptoms. The medical literature called this la maladie du petit papier or "the malady of the small piece of paper." Patients who came to the office with their symptoms written on a small piece of paper where thought to be neurotic.
No longer is that the case. Providers can read faster than a patient can talk, and a well thought out description of symptoms and history is an extremely valuable starting point for accurately recording a patient's history. Many practices with electronic patient records are making it possible for a patient to record their chief complaint, history of present illness and review of systems before they arrive for an office visit. This increases both the efficiency and the excellence of the medical record and it part of a transformation process in healthcare delivery.
This transformation will require patients becoming much more knowledgeable about their condition than ever before. It will be the fulfillment of Dr. Joslin's dictum, "The person with diabetes who knows the most will live the longest." It will require educational tools being made available to the patient in order for patients to do self-study. Patients are already undertaking this responsibility as the most common use of the Internet is the looking up of health information. It will require a transformative change by providers who will welcome input by the patient to their care rather seeing such input as obstructive.
This transformation will require the patient and the provider to rethink their common prejudice that technology – tests, procedures, and studies - are superior methods of maintaining health and avoiding illness than communication, vigilance and "watchful waiting." Both provider and patient must be committed to evidence-based medicine, which has a proven scientific basis for medical-decision making. This transformation will require a community of patients and providers who are committed to science. This will eliminate "provider shopping" by patients who did not get what they want from one provider so they go to another.
This transformation will require the reestablishment of the trust that once existed between provider and patient to be regained. That cannot be done by fiat. It can only be done by the transformation of healthcare in to system that we had 50 to 75 years ago. The patient must be absolutely confident that they are the center of care but also they must know that they are principally responsible for their own health. The provider must be an extension of the family. This is the ultimate genius behind the concept of Medical Home and it cannot be achieved by regulations, restrictions and rules.
The transformation will require patient and provider to lose their fear of death and surrender their unspoken idea that death is the ultimate failure of healthcare. Death is a part of life and, in that it cannot forever be postponed, it must not be seen as the ultimate negative outcome of healthcare delivery. While the foundation of healthcare is that we will do no harm, recognizing the limitations of our abilities and the inevitability of death can lead us to more rational end-of-life healthcare choices.
There is hope for the future of medicine. I anticipate the program next week. It is my hope that leaders will arise, at the local level, in the private practice of medicine, who will embrace the Paradoxical Commandments and Personal Master. And that those leaders will internalize the hopes and expectations of the transformative ideals of healthcare policy.


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The City of Willits appears to have cleared the last remaining major hurdle in the dissolution of the Willits Redevelopment Agency. The Department of Finance approved the final payment to the Willits general fund of $874,080 for repayment of a 1983 loan to the agency on December 18.
When the California Legislature shut down redevelopment agencies throughout the state in 2011, the Willits Redevelopment Agency was in a reasonable position to weather the fallout. The city had been winding down its redevelopment activities in anticipation of its RDA"s natural expiration in November 2014.
Since the California Supreme Court ruled in January the Legislature had the right to dissolve the agencies, throughout the state RDAs have been scrambling to follow an ever changing array of rules and procedures aimed at closing them.
The scope of the problem is significant, involving more than $2 billion annually. One of the main areas of contention continues to be which debts incurred by the RDAs will be allowed to be repaid with state controlled funds. This has been a particular problem for those RDAs which incurred new debt or purchased property in the two years leading up to the sunset order. The state has dismissed many of these new obligations from repayment, leaving a number of cities holding the debt. The city of Ukiah is considering suing the state to gain access to some of its bond funds for the Costco project, according to media sources.
Willits heeded the warnings coming out of Sacramento and minimized its exposure in anticipation the governor and Legislature might prevail and avoided any substantive entanglements with its RDA.
Nonetheless, Willits did have one potentially significant dispute with the Department of Finance, the repayment of its seed loan from 1983.
To create the Willits RDA in 1984, the city provided a seed loan of $37,500 from its general fund. This was considered a loan by the city with the expectation it would be repaid at the going rate at that time of 12 percent interest compounded annually. Since neither principal nor interest had been repaid when the state shut down the agency, the debt grew to $874,080.
As the city followed state directives in shutting down its redevelopment agency, the city listed this unpaid debt owed by the RDA to the city, along with the repayment of the $4.2 million in bonds the RDA took out in 2002.
Different groups within the California Department of Finance have alternated between allowing and disallowing the debt repayment. Representatives from the city met in Sacramento earlier this month in a last-minute meeting to resolve the issue. Steve Szalay of the Department of Finance issued a letter of "final determination" allowing the repayment.
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(Reuters) - Fifteen men of Palestinian origin have been arrested on charges of running a multi-million-dollar cigarette smuggling ring in New York, and New York authorities who announced the arrests on Thursday said several of the suspects have ties to Hamas and other Islamist militant groups.
The men are accused of smuggling more than a million cartons of untaxed cigarettes from Virginia to be sold in grocery stores across New York, with $55 million in sales uncovered so far, Eric Schneiderman, the New York attorney general, and Ray Kelly, the New York City police commissioner, said at a press conference.
"We don't know where all of that money went, but what we do know is deeply troubling," Schneiderman said. "We know that some members of this group have ties to very dangerous people, we know they were arrested with weapons, we know that they made tens of millions of dollars but so far we have found only a fraction of that."
Investigators are still tracking where much of the money ended up, but they noted similar rings in the past have funneled money to Hamas, the Islamist government in Gaza, and Hezbollah, the militant Shi'ite group based in Lebanon, both of which are considered to be terrorist organizations by the United States.
All 15 men remained in custody on Thursday and could not be reached for comment. It was not immediately clear if they had retained lawyers.
A 16th man accused of taking part in the ring, Ribhi Awadeh, 39, from Guttenberg, New Jersey, remained at large after flying to Jordan several weeks ago, Schneiderman said.
In a 224-count indictment, the men are charged with enterprise corruption, money laundering and other tax crimes, for which each defendant faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted. In addition to costing New York State and New York City an estimated $80 million in lost sales tax revenue, the ring generated at least $10 million in profit, Schneiderman and Kelly said.
None of the men lived extravagantly, Schneiderman said, adding that this supported the idea the money was being funneled elsewhere.
"This is not the lifestyles of the rich and famous," Schneiderman said. "We are very concerned about where the money went."
Kelly said that Youssef Odeh, 52, of Staten Island, who is accused of being a distributor for the ring, received an investment for an illegal baby formula distribution business in the 1990s from Omar Abdel Rahman, often dubbed the "blind sheik," who is imprisoned for helping plot the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
Muaffaq Askar, 46, of Brooklyn, who is accused of being one of the ring's resellers, was a confidant of Rashid Baz, Kelly said. Baz, a Lebanese immigrant, is serving a 141-year prison sentence after being convicted in the 1994 shooting of Ari Halberstam, a 16-year-old yeshiva student in Brooklyn, which Baz said was in retaliation for the killing of Muslim worshippers in the West Bank by a Jewish settler from Brooklyn.
Mohannad Seif, 39, of Brooklyn, another accused reseller, had been under police surveillance in part because he had lived in the same three-story Brooklyn building as a former secretary to Moussa Abu Marzouk, a deputy leader of Hamas.
Authorities said the ring was headed by two brothers, Basel Ramadan, 42, and Samir Ramadan, 40, both of Ocean City, Maryland, who ran a couple of local Subway restaurant franchises. Investigators said they found $1.4 million stashed in Basel Ramadan's home, some of it stuffed in black plastic trash bags, and three handguns following his arrest on Thursday.
The ring bought cigarettes from a wholesaler in Virginia and kept them in a storage facility in Delaware, Schneiderman said.
A co-conspirator, Adel Abuzahrieh, 42, of Brooklyn, was accused of driving from New York to Delaware several times a week to exchange cash for cigarettes, and then return with the illicit goods for resale.
Two of the accused men are in the United States illegally, according to Immigrations and Customs Enforcement. Others, including the Ramadan brothers, are naturalized citizens, while the rest are legal permanent residents.
(Reporting by Mark Hosenball; Additional reporting by Jonathan Allen; Editing by Eddie Evans, Barbara Goldberg, David Storey and Leslie Adler)


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The Burnaby Six Day - Top US Riders Converge on Burnaby to Topple Canadian Champions
Courtesy Glenn Barr
The Americans are Bringing in the Big Guns!!!
Top US Riders Converge on Burnaby to Topple Canadian Champions
Extreme US cycling firepower is being brought to bear at the Burnaby Six Day professional track race, taking place December 31st through January 5th at the Burnaby Velodrome. In the cross-hairs: the Canadian duo of Svein Tuft and Zach Bell of Symmetrics Cycling and the 2008 Burnaby Six Day Champion Title.
The 3rd edition of the Burnaby Six Day will see the powerful team of Tuft and Zach return to defend their title. Tuft is hot off a banner year in which he earned the UCI Americas Tour Champion title and won the US Open Championship, while Bell has been 'tuning' up his legs down under, placing 2nd in the Scratch race at the Sydney Track World Cup #1 earlier this month.
Attempting to unseat the Canadian pair is a list of 10 teams that read like the 'who's who' of North American professional track racing. At the top of that list is undoubtedly the American team of Colby Pearce and Mike Friedman (Slipstream-Chipotle), fresh off their 6th place Madison finish and Friedman's Gold medal Scratch race victory at the Beijing Track World Cup #2. But every team on that list is made up of riders that have the ability and desire to defeat Tuft and Bell and be declared the 2008 Burnaby Six Day champions.
Will Tuft and Bell defend their title against this onslaught of world class riders? Only six nights of furious racing will tell! Stay tuned for more information and for results.
Start List
1. Svein Tuft (Symmetrics) / Zach Bell (Symmetrics)
2. Colby Pearce (Slipstream Sports) / Mike Friedman (Slipstream Sports)
3. Kirk O'Bee (Healthnet) / Kenny Williams (Cody Racing)
4. Christian Meier (Symmetrics) / Cody O'Reilly (Successful Living)
5. Brad Huff (Slipstream Sports) / Brian Crosby (Major League Cycling)
6. Dave McCook (ProMan Cycling) / Roman Kilun (ProMan Cycling)
7. Kevin Suhr (Cody Racing) / Ryan Luttrell (Cody Racing)
8. Cody Campbell (Symmetrics) / Mark MacDonald (BiciSport)
9. Daniel Holloway (US National) / Iggy Silva (US National)
10. Max Vives (Calyon Litespeed) / Charlie Vives (Calyon Litespeed)
11. Will Goodfellow (Calyon Litespeed/Martin Swiss) / Mike Norton (Calyon Litespeed/Martin Swiss)
Past Winners
2007 - Svein Tuft / Zach Bell (Symmetrics)
For more information on the Burnaby Six Day track race, contact Glenn Barr or visit www.burnabysixday.com.
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A Discussion: Our Robert Pattinson Experts Join Us In Comments to Decode His First Post-Kristen Interview Behavior
Tonight Robert Pattinson re-enters the world via The Daily Show via John Stewart, he who hath the same last name as that backstabbing adulteress, Kristen.
It's a big night for Rob and a big night for all of us at home. How about all those trailers for his new movie Cosmopoilis they showed before The Daily Show? He looked pretty okay in those. But how will Robert Pattinson fair in the interview, where it counts? What if he cries? Or worse, what if the rumors are true and he doesn't say a word about the Kstew?
Gawker's body language analysts (they're not body language analysts) are here to offer their commentary on the interview. Every move, posture adjustment, slight shift in his chair and awkward laugh will be scrutinized for your enjoyment. Tonight's experts include:
Katie Notopoulos: She's an editor at Buzzfeed and is the Internet's favorite Online Curiosity Collector. An expert in "found schadenfreude," she is also a self-proclaimed Kristen Stewart fan.
Jack Dickey: Sometimes Deadspin "editorial fellow", sometimes "sports editor." He has a lot to say about Robert Pattinson.
Leila Brillson: She is the global news editor at Refinery29.com, where she lives, breathes, and sometimes cries out for the internet in the dead of night. Her name is also pronounced "Lee-lah", because, for some reason, her parents thought "e" and "i" together like that made a hard "e" sound. In American English, it very often does not.
Dodai Stewart: She's the Deputy Editor at Jezebel. She loathes vampires that sparkle.
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Delmar Larsen teaches chemistry at UC Davis. A few years ago he created ChemWiki, an online, open e-textbook network.
"It was born out of me teaching a class with a textbook that was ill-prepared for addressing the class and it's costs were a little more excessive than I wanted."]
The cost of a new general chemistry textbook is about $200. But Larsen points out the content is well-established and scattered across the internet.
Right now, students are using ChemWiki in addition to their textbooks and Larsen says so far, textbook publishers have not put up any resistance.
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Director-General to Showcase the Vital Role of Education and Culture for Sustainable Development in New York
Less than two years before the Millennium Development Goals deadline, Irina Bokova, UNESCO Director-General, will highlight the importance of putting education and culture at the top of the Post-2015 agenda, during her visit to New York from 11 to 13 June 2013.
The Director-General will take part in an education high-level event hosted with the Danish Permanent Mission to the United Nations under the theme "Moving from access to learning in the Post-2015 dialogue: why indicators matter and how we can use them well". She will participate in the opening session entitled "the global learning crisis and what it means for development", alongside Jan Eliasson, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, Alassane Djimba Soumanou, Minister of Secondary Education, Technical and Professional Training and Youth Integration of Benin, Martha Kanter, Under Secretary of Education of the United States of America and Amina Mohammed, Special Advisor to the UN Secretary-General on Post-2015 Development Planning.
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This article first appeared in Aviation Week & Space Technology.
The U.S. Air Force is finding that even seemingly small decisions are garnering heightened scrutiny -- and resistance -- from Congress.
And, this could limit its ability to efficiently rescope and resize its intelligence collection aircraft fleet after the Afghanistan war winds down.
This conundrum is evident in the debate over the fate of the Air Force's ongoing lease with Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC), which owns and has been operating four so-called Blue Devil 1 intelligence collection aircraft previously in Iraq and now in Afghanistan.
The lease for these aircraft, which are highly praised by soldiers in the war, runs out in September. The question is whether the service will continue to provide the Blue Devil 1 capability and if so, how. Operations in Afghanistan are expected to continue only through 2014. So, at issue is about 18 months of potential service. The Blue Devil 1 lease costs about $800,000 annually, with the pilots, intelligence analysts and maintenance experts costing approximately $80 million annually, according to an Air Force official.
Some senior Air Force officials are eager to shed their commitment to the program in favor of higher priorities as they plan for a reduced force structure in the future and to meet near-term fiscal constraints. But, Blue Devil has become popular with commanders abroad and Congress is unwilling to pull something out of the war if soldiers say they like it.
Three options are on the table: terminating the program altogether after the lease runs out by not renewing it; leasing additional service (an option Congress finds unpalatable) or buying the small fleet outright, which would cost about $12 million, according to a defense official. Some in the Air Force are also suggesting that the Reaper -- equipped with the new Gorgon Stare wide area surveillance system that will be deployed this spring -- is an alternative to continuing with Blue Devil 1.
"Is the capability of Blue Devil so critical and [is there] no other way to do it [such] that I have to keep Blue Devil? I believe [the answer] is no," says Gen. Michael Hostage, Air Combat Command chief. "I will keep that capability until the warfighter is done in 2014. I wanted to just rent them, but I got beaten up because Congress doesn't like us leasing things." Hostage says that the fate of Blue Devil 1 is one of the many issues being explored as the Air Force studies what should be the future intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) force structure.
Congress allowed for the original lease because Blue Devil 1 was considered critical for an urgent operational need; it was called for at the height of the Iraq war as soldiers in the field were struggling to find and disarm improvised explosive devices (IEDs).
However, Congress generally frowns on leases because they can cost more than buying a fleet outright and organically operating it.
Through the arrangement, SAIC owns and operates the fleet of four modified Beechcraft King Air 90s and delivers the intelligence to users in Iraq. At the time the lease was crafted, commanders were demanding far more intelligence collection than the Pentagon could organically provide. Specifically, Blue Devil 1 brought a much-needed wide-area-motion imagery (WAMI) capability to commanders in the region.
Blue Devil 1 was built on work spearheaded by the U.S. Marine Corps' Angel Fire and the Army's Constant Hawk systems. All of these were designed to provide "forensic intelligence," allowing operators to see an event -- such as an IED exploding -- and track it back through time using stored data to find its origin. According to military officials, these systems helped find terrorists planting IEDs and their assembly sites.
Blue Devil 1 improved the capability with the addition of a day/night camera that could operate using infrared optics.
In the case of Blue Devil, however, Air Force officials never intended to keep the system in the fleet beyond the war in Afghanistan. This is unlike the debate a decade ago over whether to lease aerial refuelers, which were projected to remain in service for decades. By contrast, the service considers this a short-term need for which it is willing to pay SAIC a modest $6 million to remove the specialized intelligence equipment after the mission ends; leases typically call for the customer to "demod" special mission equipment after the service term expires.
SAIC officials declined an interview request on the subject. They released a statement saying that "SAIC and its teammates have worked with the USAF since 2012 to develop, deploy and demonstrate advanced ISR concepts as part of the Blue Devil program. We are working with the USAF to define plans for Blue Devil's continued support of operations in theater through the end of the mission." SAIC CEO Air Force Gen. (ret.) John Jumper says the system is "one that is in great demand over there [and] is very unique."
The catch for the Air Force is less about what to do right now and more about what long-term cost there may be as a result of the decision. Because Blue Devil 1 is contractor-owned and operated, the service has no logistics support for the system, no parts supply chain and no trained support staff. All of these require money to stand up and sustain at a time when the service is being told to trim its costs.
"Buying it versus leasing it? It is close to a wash," Hostage told Aviation Week during the annual Air Force Association symposium last month. "My view was, if I lease it, it is clean when I'm done." By that, Hostage means that the service can pay to remove the intelligence equipment and end its relationship with SAIC on the deal, removing the financial obligation from his books.
"If I buy it . . . I'd like to put them in the boneyard [after Afghanistan operations end], but I guarantee you somebody will come after me and say, 'Wait a minute, we already bought those systems, let's keep them going.' Then I'm struggling to operate a . . . niche capability that doesn't have a program to it," Hostage says.
Though a short, continued lease makes sense to the service brass, they may not propose it in the upcoming fiscal 2014 budget because of appearances. They don't want to be seen as abandoning support for forward-deployed soldiers, even as the war winds down. It was only a few short years ago that former Defense Secretary Robert Gates publicly upbraided the service for being too slow in getting Predator unmanned aircraft to the fight in relevant numbers.
And, service officials are afraid to anger Congress by proposing a short-term lease to get them through upcoming operations.
Though the math to lease or buy is indeed a financial wash, as Hostage said, the issue is what comes after. If the service is forced to properly support a tiny fleet of four aircraft, it will have to fund specialized parts, training and support that Hostage suggests will not be germane to the kind of fight most likely to take place in the future involving sophisticated air defenses.
"For a decade now we have built the most incredible permissive [ISR] capacity and capability anybody has ever seen," Hostage said. "I'm being forced to build a capacity I know I can't sustain [and] I know I don't need."
The Air Force is now trying to refocus its efforts on operating in contested or even more dicey denied airspace. This requires the use of significant standoff capabilities or penetrating intelligence collection, as is being done with the recently declassified RQ-170 UAS.
Blue Devil 1 can collect using the day/night WAMI capability, a communications intelligence sensor, a signals intelligence sensor and full-motion video. These capabilities are singly or in combination offered by other Air Force systems, such as the Predator and Reaper unmanned air systems or MC-12W Project Liberty aircraft.
The magic of the Blue Devil 1 is in the processing, exploitation and dissemination of the intelligence collected by the aircraft, the defense official says. Blue Devil is the first system that truly allows an operator to use one sensor in real time to tip off another for target validation, he says. Though some Air Force systems offer a similar capability today, they require more human intervention in the target validation process. With Blue Devil 1, it is more seamless, he says.
Steven Walker, deputy assistant secretary of science, technology and engineering for the Air Force, credited Blue Devil 1 as "instrumental in identifying a number of high-value individuals and improvised explosive device emplacements" since December 2012.
One defense official offers another option on the Blue Devil 1 issue, however. Perhaps the functionality of Blue Devil 1 can be provided by another platform, he says. He declined to be identified owing to the sensitivity of the subject and secrecy of budget discussions.
This official notes that many of the capabilities are now employed on the Predator/Reaper fleet. And, with some processing and exploitation tools and training, the growing fleet of these UAS might be able to address the need. And, he notes, these fleets have on-station durations of a day or more, whereas the manned King Air 90s are limited to 4-5 hr. on station with down time for refueling and crew changes.
The Air Force is already struggling with the idea of what to do with its fleet of these UAS after the war. Gates publicly chided the Air Force for not reaching his desired 50 combat air patrols (CAP) of Predator/Reapers and then upped the requirement to 65 on his way out of office in July 2011.
"No offense to Dr. Gates. There was no intellectual rigor to the number 65. It was a challenge goal: You got 50? Good for you. Now get me 65," Hostage said, adding the Air Force has now fielded 60 CAPs. "In terms of a sustainable force structure and a force structure relevant to the world I have to face, it [65 CAPs] is the wrong answer. So, there is a very deep intellectual debate ongoing right now on what is the right mix of capability . . . that I need for the future. I can tell you without a shred of doubt that my current number -- I'm at 60 CAPS now -- is too many."
Hostage acknowledges that the Predators and Reapers are and continue to be valuable in the hunt for terrorists and in supporting soldiers in Afghanistan and other hot spots. But, his concern is how suitable this fleet will be for a future in which permissive airspace is not the norm. "I have more capability in the permissive environment than I know I can keep," he says. Sixty-five CAPs "was a requirement we met, but it is not in the grand scheme of things an enduring capability."
"It is not in the panoply of things that we want to keep."


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- Combine turkey, lemon juice, salt, and pepper in a large zippered bag. Shake to coat turkey and let marinate 15 minutes.
- Prepare the outdoor grill or grill pan, if cooking indoors. Remove turkey from marinade and grill over medium-high heat about 3-4 minutes on each side, until golden brown and cooked through. Remove from heat.
- Meanwhile, bring wine and broth to boil in a small saucepan over medium-high heat. Add lemon peel and sage, reduce heat, and simmer about 10 minutes to reduce. Remove from heat and add butter, whisking until melted.
- Spoon sauce over turkey and serve immediately.


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The Great Gatsby is forsaking his palatial estate, donning rags, and moving permanently into a run-down neighborhood. Huh? Well, something like that is happening in the City of San Diego. The city is entrusting Civic San Diego, essentially the successor to Centre City Development Corporation, with great responsibility over homelessness and affordable housing. Critics point out that Centre City, which in its heyday concentrated on gleaming high-end projects, was actually responsible for creating homelessness and was often contemptuous of affordable housing.
Civic San Diego is a combination of two scandal-plagued operations, the former Centre City and former Southeastern Economic Development Corporation. Centre City's onetime head was fined by the Ethics Commission for failing to disclose her snug relationship with a developer — a cozy association that had been widely reported in Florida media before she was ever hired. Two Southeastern officials pleaded guilty to embezzlement but avoided the slammer.
It's not a marriage of equals. Former players at Centre City dominate Civic San Diego. Four of its top five officials came over from Centre City, and the chairwoman has been involved in downtown intrigue for two decades. Civic San Diego's 32 employees rake in an average $124,375 a year in salary and benefits.
On May 13, the city council approved the Affordable Housing Master Plan that would award Civic San Diego — author of the plan — $33 million to tackle affordable housing. Civic San Diego will also have some authority over the homeless problem, now the responsibility of the San Diego Housing Commission.
Centre City Development Corporation long had a reputation for hogging money for downtown projects that lined the pockets of developers.
Originally, California redevelopment was meant to rehabilitate blighted areas. But the concept was kidnapped and was used to subsidize projects that should have been financed with private capital — professional sports facilities, retail buildings, auto dealerships, movie theaters, and the like, in decidedly nonblighted areas. In San Diego, the money was concentrated downtown while neighborhoods and infrastructure crumbled. Critics put the blame where it belonged: on Centre City.
California has wisely killed redevelopment, along with its funding mechanism, tax-increment financing, by which tax revenues from additional surrounding growth is expected to pay costs of building a project. The Affordable Housing Master Plan is intended to keep redevelopment going under a different name, although new tax-increment financing and the city's Redevelopment Agency are out of the picture.
Civil engineer Katheryn Rhodes likes the master plan but says Centre City "showed callousness toward the homeless" and contempt toward affordable housing. For example, in 2006, when downtown's Hotel San Diego was torn down to make way for a federal courthouse, Centre City wouldn't pick up the tab to relocate residents, thus sending some poor people into the streets. Consistently, "Centre City maintained that 'homeless people are not a form of blight, so we can't spend money on them.' Instead, it would only spend money on brick-and-mortar projects," mainly benefiting for-profit interests.
While claiming it helped low- and moderate-income citizens, Centre City "did a lousy job, choosing to deal with big money development downtown," says Norma Damashek, former president of the League of Women Voters. But even that strategy didn't work. Centre City "was supposed to kick-start private development" and then drop the handouts "while the private sector stepped in. But we are still relying on subsidies."
She points out that when redevelopment turns a fleabag hotel into a boutique one, or knocks it down, homelessness is created. "Redevelopment displaces poor people," she says, and Centre City exacerbated rather than alleviated that problem.
Robert Scott Dreher, an attorney in a lawsuit filed by Affordable Housing Advocates, points out that Centre City did not create new, commensurate housing for the dispossessed after bulldozing homes or hotels to subsidize a project assisting businesses.
Both Rhodes and anti-redevelopment activist Brian Peterson state that Centre City never spent 20 percent of tax-increment receipts on affordable housing, as required by law. Jeff Graham, president of Civic San Diego, disputes that, claiming Centre City reached its quota, and "those who continue to accuse [Centre City] of spending less than 20 percent of tax increment on affordable housing always neglected to count the debt service on the housing bonds." The critics such as Rhodes and Damashek riposte that Centre City used accounting prestidigitation to claim it hit that 20 percent bogey.
A serious issue is possible duplicative bureaucracies. "It's hard to kill an agency. You have to put a wooden stake through its heart," says Steve Erie, political science professor at the University of California San Diego. Both Civic San Diego and the Housing Commission insist they can work happily together. But are they covering the same ground?
"Who is responsible for what?" asks Damashek. "Surely we shouldn't be setting up another housing agency." She says City of San Diego government is now dysfunctional as a result of bumbling by the prior administration, and she hopes mayor Bob Filner "will pull all these loose pieces together."
Centre City "was often criticized for keeping all of the downtown tax-increment money downtown, yet the critics choose to ignore that it was illegal to do otherwise," bristles Graham. Not so, says Rhodes. Monies from tax-increment financing downtown could have been used for the homeless or affordable housing outside of the downtown project area — "San Ysidro, for example," she says.
Both Rhodes and Damashek point out that council president Todd Gloria pushed the council to approve Civic San Diego's housing plan. Downtown is now in Gloria's district. He "is courting the old-time powerhouses downtown by preserving what was Centre City," says Damashek. "He has to court them for campaign money."
Erie is concerned that Civic San Diego "will do a couple of showcase projects" in downtrodden areas "to demonstrate they are interested in more than downtown. But this may be a wolf in sheep's clothing."
More from SDReader
- More stories by Don Bauder
- Trust fund gravy for Civic San Diego — June 11, 2015
- Downtown windfall on the down low — June 9, 2014
- New Agency Head Touts Centre City Development Corp. — Oct. 23, 2012
- San Diego Redevelopment: They Prey, We Pray — April 13, 2011
- Downtown Garages Might Have to Wait, Says San Diego Unified — Feb. 25, 2011
"Centre City 'was often criticized for keeping all of the downtown tax-increment money downtown, yet the critics choose to ignore that it was illegal to do otherwise,' bristles Graham.'' But wait. The Fourth District Court of Appeals just ruled that it is legal to take money out of Grantville redevelopment and send that to downtown. Over $31 million! This suggests if CCDC or The Downtown Cheerleaders had the will, they could have transferred downtown tax increment to other communities. They wanted to keep all the Centre City money downtown, plus suck it in from other communities. Besides, Katheryn Rhodes is correct. California redevelopment law allows TI for affordable housing to be spent anywhere in the region, not just within the project area.
Brian: You are so right. That latest decision by the Fourth District Court of Appeals basically reaffirms what Katheryn Rhodes says: all along, Centre City could have spent that money outside the project area. But it wanted to hog it for downtown, claiming, disingenuously, that downtown was blighted. (I am not happy about the Fourth District decision because Grantville got screwed, but at least it solidifies what Rhodes has said.) Civic San Diego will have to make an abrupt about-face or people will realize it is just the same old Centre City. Best, Don Bauder
Civic San Diego is busy redeveloping itself. They have to justify those salaries. They are involved in redeveloping the Horton Plaza park that they redeveloped in March of 1985. In 1985 they spent $775,000 to rehabilitate the Plaza. By 1987 street people had retaken the Plaza. In July of 1990 City Council voted to remove the grass and benches. Now there are plans to create a new park with lots of grass. The homeless population has increased since 1985. Why does Civic San Diego think it will work this time. Lots more about what has happened at Horton Plaza can be found at www.balboaparkhistory.net/glimpses/horton-plaza-park.htm.
kcasey: The City has agreed to tear down a large section of Horton Plaza, whose owner says it will then create and maintain a park. Watch whether that happens. And ask yourself two questions: 1. Why should the City tear down at the City's expense part of a shopping center? The tear-down should be the responsibility of the center's owner; 2. Why do all the downtown corporate welfare boosters refer to Horton Plaza as a great success story? It has been a marginal center for decades. Best, Don Bauder
Thank you Don for the wonderful story. Now I will have to reread the Great Gatsby.
Linked above is our solution to the problem which requires our Strong Mayor Filner to bypass the City Attorney and City Council through a Mayoral Executive Order to move all $292.9 million is Successor Housing Entity assets into our San Diego Affordable Housing Fund and/or the Housing Trust Fund (HTF). This will move operational control of our housing assets to the San Diego Housing Commission (SDHC) from Civic San Diego's self-serving administration. Then Mayor Filner will need State approval from Sacramento, instead of hoping Goldsmith's several legally flawed RDA lawsuits filed in our capitol will prevail.
Potential good news is that Mayor Filner was in Sacramento yesterday and according to Toni Atkins' Twitter feed had a meeting with Governor Brown.
City Attorney Goldsmith's flawed and purposeful misinterpretation Redevelopment Agency (RDA) of Legal Memorandum MS-59 entitled "Use of Redevelopment Agency Funds for Social Service Programs or Operation of Homeless Shelters" dated May 21, 2010, outlawed the use of Redevelopment Agency (RDA) Tax Increment (TI) for homeless services.
Goldsmith's is also giving Civic San Diego legal backup to say nothing can be added to ROPS spreadsheets? The ROPS spreadsheets have already been modified to include new allocations for Hotel Metro and Atmosphere? Plus $20 to $30 million.
Forbidding over $1 Billion in RDA Tax Increment (TI) to end Homelessness in San Diego has caused hardships and harm. This year an infant died due to lack of funding.
laplayaheritage: Moving authority from Goldsmith is a good move. And moving homeless and affordable housing authority from Civic San Diego is an essential move. Best, Don Bauder
The twin star and partner of CSD, the Downtown San Diego Partnership, was recently reported by Reader's Dorian Hargrove to be hiring a "homeless outreach" director, who will be paid using the assessments imposed on downtown property owners.
I'm not sure if Filner can succeed in controlling the CSD/DSDP powerhouse with Todd Gloria enabling their joint improper and continually selective misuse of public monies, but I'm confident he'll try. I would be even more confident if Filner had Peterson, Rhodes, Damashek, and Erie advising him.
HonestGovernment: You will be happy to know that some of those esteemed people you mention indeed have given advice to Mayor Filner, who was reportedly willing to listen. Best, Don Bauder
That is good. It's evidently bad link day in Readerville: try this for Hargrove's article on the PBID monies being used to hire a "homeless outreach" staffer: http://tinyurl.com/mcrgz7q
HonestGovernment: Dorian Hargrove does a lot of good stories for the Reader. Best, Don Bauder
All you previous commenters are obviously much better informed than I am. San Diego city spreads all over the county in patches. Take a look at zoning maps. You might be surprised. All downtown pet projects are being nurtured and we get the full court media press to fool the normal person who really doesn't pay attention or care. Let me tell you something, here in Otay Mesa where I live, I received a letter from Ben Hueso about lights that were installed at Lucky Waller-Silver Wing park. Meanwhile our sidewalks are cracked, streets are in sorry shape etc. Thats not why I'm writing 'though. Mayor Filner's fiancee is the person on point for the homeless. Center City simply changed their name and business as usual. A real plan for the homeless is needed. Why can't we approve the art proposal for those blocks north of Broadway, thus creating more revenue for funding these projects. We are a big city who's city administrators insist on keeping a small town mentality. Lets stimulate more interest in this town besides the obvious money making machines that are our amusemant parks and such. And whats wrong with a Times Square West? Here's a word you'll understand, revenue! Here's one you might not, sanity?
FatCatSegat: I believe Bob Filner got elected mayor because of many things you mentioned, in particular the rundown infrastructure in neighborhoods while the money is hogged downtown. Best, Don Bauder
When is someone at the Reader going to write an article asking what the County of San Diego is or IS NOT doing for homeless services? Civic San Diego, used to be CCDC, subsidized Potiker Senior Center early 2000 and they agreed to provide services and housing for over 100 homeless mentally ill seniors. CCDC subsidized Rescue Mission (used to be Harborview Hospital) and they agreed to provide services and beds for more than 100 mentally ill homeless. CCDC along with Housing Commission and many other pockets including the state of California subsidized VVSD now called Veterans Village which went from 60 beds in 2000 to now providing services and housing to over 300 homeless vets today. Currently there is a group which meets very often, United Way, City of San Diego, Downtown San Diego Partnership, and numerous other providers to continue to implement effective solutions to the homeless situation. As for Horton Plaza, ever hear of the word "catalyst" Don?????? Horton Plaza was originally developed with large surrounding walls for an inside/outside mall to keep "riff raff" away from shoppers. Today it is being opened up with an enlarged park and open space at the corner of 4th and Broadway for the rest of downtown. Why? Luckily, in 2013 there is actually a real walkable downtown, with real downtown residents and new businesses, restaurants, and a ballpark, compared to 1980 when Ernie Hahn and Pete Wilson decided to develop Horton Plaza. Not bad for 33 years Don. You might not like it, and that is surely your opinion. And you are right, how this city has mitigated or not the homeless situation has been very difficult and ugly. But I have hope that finally with so many municipalities, non-profits and private interests caring and actually engaged and involved there is hope. Civic San Diego is only one part to our homeless problem in downtown San Diego.
ICare: You make some good points, but I look at Horton Plaza from an economic standpoint. It has not been successful. Period. Yet the mainstream media keep saying it has been. Best, Don Bauder
viewer: I can even remember when Carlsbad was a small town. Temecula was smaller. Best, Don Bauder


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The TCB is manufactured from the highest quality steel materials, offering a lightweight, compact and rugged construction, producing an exceptionally strong product resistant to impact damage. The exceptional short head room allows for easy installation where every centimetre must be achieved.
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The TCB is manufactured from the highest quality steel materials, offering a lightweight, compact and rugged construction, producing an exceptionally strong product resistant to impact damage. The exceptional short head room allows for easy installation where every centimetre must be achieved.
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Each unit comes fully certified with a test certificate or an EC Declaration of Conformity stating compliance with the essential health and safety requirements of the Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC. This document clearly states the proof test at 1.5 times the rated capacity and the light load test of 2% of the rated capacity, which exceeds the requirements of the current applicable standard.
Adaptor Components:
Drop forged adaptor maintaining maximum strength. 360° Rotation and 180° Pivot for Maximum Flexibility. Tested and certified to 4:1 factor of safety.
Self-locking (safety) hook, clevis shackle, reevable egg (master) link or sling hook fittings available.
Safety Brake:
The highly efficient twin pawl brake works instantly when the operation is stopped and securely holds the load. Loads are lowered under perfect control, allowing for precise operations. The TCB passes easily the "brake lock out test" as per BS 3243 with a 5% load of the rated capacity.
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Both the hand chain wheel cover and the ratchet brake cover are designed to offer protection to the brake chamber in the harshest environments from foreign objects.
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The TCB range of chain blocks has undergone a full and comprehensive testing regime that was drawn up by industry specialists and Tiger's mechanical engineers to provide evidence that these units can be safely used for "fleeting" and "cross-hauling" applications up to 45°. Note: All such operations should be carried out in accordance with manufacturer's instructions and fully risk assessed by a competent person.
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Our hooks incorporate our latest Patent Pending (GB1420387.1) "EZ Check" feature which allows operators and inspection engineers to easily check to see if the hoist has been previously overloaded or shock loaded by simply measuring between the triangle of pop marks (see page 10).
Our drop forged and heat treated alloy hooks are furnished with heavy duty spring latch kits that fully engage into the recessed nose of the hook safeguarding the load when side loading of the latch occurs and offering maximum load security. The swivel hooks are attached to the yoke using high grade nuts & bolts allowing for complete inspection during any statutory inspection or written scheme maintenance. The entire hook fitting has been protected using OCP or stainless steel fixtures and fittings.
Recessed forgings offer full protection to the load chain anchor bolts on all our bottom hooks.
High performance premium quality grease allows the TCB Blocks to be certified for use within a temperature range of -40°C to +50°C, far exceeding the requirements of current standards.
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Will hold a load of at least 2.5 times the rated capacity when supporting the full load without restraint from other components e.g. brake or gearing. This prevents accidents, by acting as a stop when the lift length of the load chain is exceeded when lowered.
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I get a lot of requests to review and recommend books to the readers of this blog.
Normally, I pass.
Mainly, because I would hate to endorse something I haven't read or don't believe in.
This is not the case with "The Kid in Purple Pants".
I've read it.
I laughed. I cried.
I didn't really cry because I'm a soulless school administrator, but it was quite good.
Good enough I purchased two copies with my own hard earned money.
As an added bonus, I used to teach with the author, Mr. Pat J. Anderson (soon to be Dr. Anderson… which is HILARIOUS to me), about a million years ago in a life far far away.
We've gone on to bigger and better things, but like many educators we both remember our first jobs in education quite fondly.
Oakland, Illinois in the mid 90′s. It was a crazy time.
For the record, he didn't ask me to write a blog about the book.
Which is why I did.
Check him and his book out on Facebook.


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Scientists seek ways to ward off killer asteroids
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Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:46 UTC
''We're looking for the killer asteroid,'' James Heasley , of the University of Hawaii's Institute for Astronomy , last week told the committee that the National Academy of Sciences created at Congress' request.
Congress asked the academy to conduct the study after astronomers were unable to eliminate an extremely slight chance that an asteroid called Apophis will slam into Earth with devastating effect in 2036.
Apophis was discovered in 2004 about 17 million miles from Earth on a course that would overlap our planet's orbit in 2029 and return seven years later. Observers said that the asteroid - a massive boulder left over from the birth of the solar system - is about 1,000 feet wide and weighs at least 50 million tons.
After further observations, astronomers reported that the asteroid would skim by Earth harmlessly in 2029, but it has a one in 44,000 probability of slamming into our planet on Easter Sunday , April 13, 2036 .
Small changes in Apophis' path that could make the difference between a hit or a miss are possible, according to Jon Giorgini , a planetary analyst in NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
''We have not eliminated the threat in 2036,'' Lindley Johnson , the manager of NASA's asteroid detection program, told the committee.
The academy panel is headed by Irwin Shapiro , a former director of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass. It has a two-part assignment from Congress : Detect and deflect asteroids that might hit earth.
First, the Shapiro committee is supposed to propose the best way to detect and analyze 90 percent of the so-called ''near Earth objects'' orbiting between Mars and Venus that are wider than 460 feet by 2020.
About 20 percent of these are identified as potentially hazardous objects because they might pass within 5 million miles of Earth (20 times the distance to the Moon).
More than 5,000 near Earth objects, including 789 potentially hazardous objects, have been identified so far. Johnson predicted that future surveys will find at least 66,000 near Earth objects and 18,000 potentially hazardous objects.
A collision with one or more of these many objects littering the solar system is inevitable, Johnson said. ''Once every hundred years there might be something to worry about, but it could happen tomorrow.''
For example, astronomers had only 24 hours' notice of a small asteroid that blew up over northern Africa on Oct. 7 . A larger, more dangerous object presumably would be spotted years or decades ahead, giving humans time to change its course before it hit.
The Shapiro panel's second task is to review various methods that have been proposed to deflect or destroy an incoming asteroid and recommend the best options. They include a nuclear bomb, conventional explosives or a spacecraft that would push or pull the asteroid off its course.
Offbeat ideas are painting the surface of the asteroid so that the sun's rays would heat it differently and alter its direction, and a ''gravity tractor, ''a satellite that would fly close to the asteroid, gently nudging it aside.
The earlier that a dangerous asteroid is found, and the farther it is from Earth, the easier it will be to change its trajectory, panel members were told. A relatively small force would be enough while the object is millions of miles away.
The year 2029 could be crucial. When Apophis makes its first pass by Earth, its track can be more precisely determined. That will enable astronomers to judge whether Earth will escape with a near miss or will have to take swift action to avoid a blow that could devastate a region as large as Europe or the Eastern United States .
To deflect an asteroid, scientists need to know its shape, weight and composition. A ball of loose rubble would be handled differently from a solid metallic rock.
''Finding them is one thing, but you have to know your enemy,'' said James Green , the director of NASA's Planetary Science Division.
So far, NASA has spent $41 million on asteroid detection and deflection, but the Near Earth Object Program is running out of money.
''It's just barely hanging on,'' Shapiro said.
Two expensive telescopes to focus on dangerous asteroids have been proposed, but Congress and the incoming Obama administration must be persuaded to approve the money.
''Without new telescopes, we'd never get to 90 percent (detection),'' Johnson said.
After a lot of original skepticism, Congress now looks favorably on the asteroid project, according to Richard Obermann , the staff director of the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics.
''There used to be a high giggle factor among members,'' Obermann said. ''But it's now a very respectable area of investigation.''
Johnson told the Shapiro committee that the search for killer asteroids must have a high priority.
''The space program could provide humanity few greater legacies than to know the time and place of any cosmic destruction to allow ample time to prepare our response to that inevitable event,'' he said.


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