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Search called off for 3 missing in Colo. mudslide
The sheriff said the slide remains to unstable for searchers to continue
The Associated Press
DENVER — Authorities braced for the possibility of another landslide in a remote part of westernColorado as they surveyed a massive debris field Tuesday amid dangerously unstable conditions that led them to call off the search for three ranchers missing there.
Mesa County Sheriff Stan Hilkey said the search eventually could resume for Clancy Nichols, 51, who also worked as a county road and bridge employee; his son Danny Nichols, 24; and Wes Hawkins, 46.
But it might not be safe enough to do so until summer.
"We don't want to create any more tragedy than we already have," Hilkey said.
The three men were checking on irrigation problems caused by an initial slide Sunday when a large chunk of a ridge broke off, sending soggy earth spilling like wet cement.
The slide happened in a sparsely populated area. It is 3 miles long, about three-quarters of a mile across at its widest and several hundred feet deep at the center. Even at its edges, the pile is 30 feet deep, Hilkey said.
The slide most likely was triggered by runoff from Grand Mesa — one of the world's largest flat-topped mountains — following two days of strong rain, Hilkey has said.
Jonathan White, a Colorado Geological Survey geologist at the site, told reporters Tuesday another slide seemed inevitable because of a buildup of water in a depression created by the first big slide.
"We're having a significant amount of runoff that's flowing into that depression right now," White said. "That's a big concern."
White said it was impossible to predict when the next slide would occur. It could be years from now, when people have forgotten the danger and no longer are taking precautions, he said.
Mudslides are common in the region, which sits on soft sandstone and layers of weak rock, said state geologist Karen Berry. The area saw a spate of them in the 1980s.
It was the size of Sunday's event that made it unusual.
The sheriff said the slide at one point roared up a hill and then down again.
"The power of the slide itself is enormous," Hilkey said.
For now, little can be done to minimize the risk of another slide. The terrain is too unstable for the work necessary to try to drain the water, geologists said.
Jonathan Godt, a Colorado-based landslide group leader for the U.S. Geological Survey, said the "practical engineering measures for things of this size are pretty limited."
The area about 40 miles east of Grand Junction has a few residents, but energy workers are active in the area, part of Colorado's productive Piceance Basin.
The sheriff's department was contacting people to urge them to be ready for a quick evacuation and to sign up for a cellphone alert system. An automatic landline emergency alert system also is in place. Hilkey said his priorities include ensuring the slide is regularly monitored from the air.
Energy companies have suspended operations in the area, and wells likely will be offline for an extended period, perhaps months, said David Ludlam, executive director of the West Slope Colorado Oil & Gas Association.
White, the geologist, said he did not think drilling played a part in the slide.
Hilkey said he was contacted with offers of help and advice by officials in Washington state, where a March 22 landslide swept a square mile of dirt, sand and silt through a neighborhood in Oso, about an hour northeast of Seattle. That slide leveled homes and killed at least 43 people.
A slow but dramatic landslide occurred in April in the Wyoming resort town of Jackson, damaging a home and forcing evacuations. A massive effort to slow further movement there by dumping over 1 million tons of earth at the foot of the slide appears to have paid off, and nearly all homeowners have returned to the area.
Still, town officials remain worried enough to contemplate long-term solutions that include pinning the ground in place with a system of cables anchored to firmer ground deep within the hillside.
Fires and flooding last year in eastern Colorado have raised concerns about slides there.
Geologist Berry said a different topography in the east made large slides less likely, but noted the region was more populated. She said people in areas where mudslides are possible should watch hillsides for warning signs such as cracks and running, muddy water during and after rains.


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The United States is getting ready to hit Iran with new, tougher sanctions, with one top official saying Tehran now faces an "unprecedented" degree of isolation.
U.S. officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity late Friday, said the sanctions could be unveiled as early as Monday and would target Iran's petrochemical industry. They said the new sanctions would seek to stop foreign companies from investing in ventures like oil refineries.
The officials said foreign companies that violate the ban would be cut off from access to the U.S. market, and that European countries could introduce similar sanctions later next week.
Separately, U.S. national security adviser Tom Donilon said Saturday that Iran is finding itself more isolated than ever before.
Donilon spoke to reporters while traveling with U.S. President Barack Obama in Indonesia. The national security adviser also said that like the U.S., China and Russia want to make sure Iran does not develop nuclear weapons.
On Friday, both China and Russia sought to ease the tone of a resolution by the United Nations' nuclear watchdog that was critical of Tehran. The final wording cited "deep and increasing concern" over Iran's nuclear activities but stopped short of referring Iran to the U.N. Security Council or setting a deadline for the country to comply with the International Atomic Energy Agency's requests for additional information.
The 35-member IAEA board adopted the measure about a week after announcing in a report that there is "credible" evidence Iran is trying to build nuclear weapons.
Iran has dismissed the IAEA report. The country's IAEA envoy, Ali Ashgar Soltanieh, said the measure will only strengthen Iran's determination to continue its uranium enrichment activities.
He also said Iran would not attend a U.N. atomic forum next week focusing on efforts to create a Middle East region free of nuclear weapons.
The U.S. praised the IAEA for passing the resolution. A White House statement says the agency "spoke with a unified voice" in holding Tehran accountable for its "continued failure to live up to international obligations."
The U.N. Security Council has passed four sets of sanctions on Iran for refusing to stop nuclear activities that have both civilian and military uses.
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Then Europe joined the movement, Spaniards, Britons, Greeks, and Italians fighting austerity cuts demanded by the very financial elites who had demolished their economies. The unrest spread to the streets of Santiago and San Juan and Tel Aviv and Delhi and Sanaa and, eventually, to Wall Street, the very intestine of the global corporate class that was revealed everywhere to be an enemy of democracy. 2011 was a year of global democratic revolution against global plutocratic corruption.
At the tail end of the year, we have begun to see rumblings in Asia, and no one should be surprised if that is the next region to rise up, or, as the international plutocracy sees it, fall. The death of Kim Jong-il in North Korea has eyes trained to the East, expecting the instability hinted at by the state's proclamation that "We must hold high the flag of songun (military-first) policy, strengthen military power a hundred times and firmly defend our socialist system and achievement of revolution."
In an age when tyrants are right to feel nervous about the solidity of their regimes, many in the West are skeptical of Kim Jong-un's ability to consolidate power. North Korea is, after all, a state whose decades of increasingly totalitarian cultural policing suggest an awareness of the tenuousness of the ownership class's control over the functions of the state.
The North Korean situation must be particularly troubling to the powers that be because China, the nation's gigantic authoritarian neighbor, has also recently been confronted by a series of protests in the streets by civilians who are fighting as though they really mean it. The village of Wukan was thrust into turmoil when Xue Jinbo, a human rights campaigner there, died in police custody. A sense that police misdeeds undermine human dignity have sparked rebellion the world over, from the cruel seizure of Muhammed Bouazizi's vegetable cart in Tunisia to London's Metropolitan Police's murder of Mark Duggan to the unjust Georgia execution of Troy Davis.
In Wukan, as in Tahrir Square and Zuccotti Park, the people have responded to a perfidious and callous government by creating one of their own, The Telegraph reporting that "A commune has effectively taken root with everyone mucking in to man barricades and fetch supplies down the maze of dirt tracks because police are blockading the main routes." And, as around the world, authoritarian violence seems in the cards for the protesters, according to the same report – "Despite the unity and defiance, rumours that armed security forces are mustering outside of the town and are poised to launch a crackdown, has nerves on edge."
Elsewhere in China, tens of thousands of dissidents flooded the streets of Haimen in order to oppose a planned coal-fired power plant and were met by Chinese riot police wielding tear gas, the scenes reminiscent of events from Oakland to Cairo. The protesters there are standing up to the degrading effect profit-seekers have on the quality of life for working people, according to The Huffington Post:
The protesters think that an existing coal-fired power plant has contributed to what they say is a spike in cancer cases and heavy pollution in the seas, a serious problem for a town where fishing is a source of livelihood.
In September, similarly motivated protests had broken out near Shanghai.
Resistance to Chinese uber-industrialization is noteworthy in part for the connection it bears to resistance to American uber-financialization. The American consumer economy is, after all, the tail-side of the coin whose head is Chinese mass production. The two factors depend on one another for their upkeep, and when large-scale efforts are waged to wrest control from the corporate elites and transfer power to average citizens, neither is threatened unless both are. Now, both are.
Less geopolitically significant, but still insinuative of an Asian Winter, so to speak, Kazakhstan finds itself amid days of intense labor struggles, oil workers sustaining police fire that has killed at least 15 people. According to Reuters, "Violence have not spread beyond the region but political analysts say the protests suggest that broader public pressure is mounting for President Nursultan Nazarbayev to relax the authoritarian system he has built up since Soviet times."
The report necessarily evokes Russia's recent turbulence, tens of thousands of protesters taking to the streets of major Russian cities in the dead of winter to defy a self-evidently gamed political system, designed to increase the command of the already empowered Vladimir Putin. The demonstrations there are having an effect on Russia's oil economy, as Bloomberg Business Week's reporting indicates:
Almost 40,000 people have signed-up to protest on Dec. 24 in Central Moscow against alleged ballot-box stuffing in Dec. 4 elections. Urals crude, Russia's chief export blend, dropped 0.1 percent yesterday to $104.73. Crude for January delivery climbed 30 cents to 94.58 a barrel in New York, paring this month's decline to 5.5 percent. Stocks have plunged 8.2 percent this month following the nationwide protests.
Japan too has been in a state of unrest following, among other things, the still-unfolding Fukushima disaster. Massive rallies, a mainstream media blackout and even a prominent Occupy Tokyo movement have thrown that ostensibly democratic capitalist country into a battle for the national soul, the factions mirroring those elsewhere: on one side a powerful politico-corporate class and on the other side a population subjected to undignified treatment and hungry for true democracy.
Globalization has connected the world's powerful as never before, markets everywhere affecting markets everywhere else, international banks and corporations holding ever-more power over the sovereign economies and polities of countries all over. But the working class too are now more connected than in the past by the internet which enables people everywhere to see their situations as similar to their international brothers' and sisters'. With Asia looking as though it is ready to jump into the fray, we might be facing a very haunting specter indeed: working people of all countries uniting.
J.A. Myerson is an independent journalist whose work has appeared at the Nation, AlterNet, Truthout and elsewhere, including his blog, jamyerson.com. Follow him on Twitter.


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KiokuDB::Set - Set::Object wrapper for KiokuDB with lazy loading.
version 0.57
use KiokuDB::Util qw(set);
my $set = set(); # KiokuDB::Set::Transient
warn $set->size;
my $id = $dir->store( $set );
This role defines the API implemented by KiokuDB::Set::Transient, KiokuDB::Set::Deferred, and KiokuDB::Set::Loaded.
These three classes are modeled after Set::Object, but have implementation details specific to KiokuDB.
Transient sets are in memory, they are sets that have been constructed by the user for subsequent insertion into storage.
When you create a new set, this is what you should use.
KiokuDB::Util provides convenience functions ("set" in KiokuDB::Util and "weak_set" in KiokuDB::Util) to construct transient sets concisely.
When a set is loaded from the backend, it is deferred by default. This means that the objects inside the set are not yet loaded, and will be fetched only as needed.
When set members are needed, the set is upgraded in place into a KiokuDB::Set::Loaded object.
This is the result of vivifying the members of a deferred set, and is similar to transient sets in implementation.
Yuval Kogman <email@example.com>
This software is copyright (c) 2014 by Yuval Kogman, Infinity Interactive.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
To install KiokuDB, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm KiokuDB
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell
install KiokuDB
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French Royal Cake or Le Trianon
I make several different versions of this very famous cake as it is probably my very favorite of all chocolate desserts and perfect for a fancy presentation. The only thing that may cause problems is finding the ingredients in the States. I don't know what's available over there, so I'll do my best to describe how it's done here.
For Sean's birthday we had a very nice dinner of marinated, then BBQ's duck breasts, a zucchini – chèvre tian and sautéed potatoes. I decorated his cake with maltezer's and white and dark chocolate Mikado's and 4 sparklers.
Gâteau Royal or Le Trianon
Marcaron base :
60 g finely ground almond
130 g sugar
15 g flour
2 egg whites
1 tsp cocoa
Preheat the oven to 220°C
In a bowl, mix 60g of the sugar, the almond, the flou rand the cocoa.
In a mixer, beat the egg whites and when they start to foam, add the rest of the sugar and let stiffen. Fold in the dry ingredients.
Prepare à springform pan (around 22 cm), line it with parchment paper and fill with the batter.
Bake ten minutes. Let cool and then remove from the pan.
Prepare a cake ring, or the spring form pan that has been cooled and washed. I use a ring that is placed directly on to the serving platter. I lined the outer edges of mine with a plastic ring so that when it came time to take the cake out, the plastic stops the cake from sicking on the side of the pan and then can be simply peeled off.
Place the baked base in the ring by cutting it to size.
Praline layer :
In France we have a brand of chocolate called Poulain 1848. They make a praline bar that is used for this cake. I don't know if anything like that exists. You can also use milk chocolate blended with Nutella. Less « chic » but it works. Soft, pralne chocolate of any kind should do the trick. The gavottes may pose another problem. Here they are:
200 g pralinoise (Poulain 1848)
90 g crêpes dentelles « gavottes »
40 g ground praline
Melt the chocolate. Crush the gavottes. Mix the praline and the gavottes in to the chocolate.. Spread this mixture on to the macaron base, making sure the corners are filled and it is level.
Mousse au chocolat :
75 g sugar
1 egg + 3 yolks
200 g baker's chocolate (good quality !)
300 ml whipping cream
Beat the egss and the sugar with 2 tbsp of hot water. This should triple in volume and become very light in color.
Melt the chocolate and then blend it in to the egg mixture.
Whip the cream until it form a « whipped cream » and fold this gently in to the chocolate mixture, making sure it is fully incorporated.
Spread this on top of the praline layer and even the top as much as possible.
Place the cake for 8-10 hours in the fridge. I placed the fridge at 1°C for the setting period.
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This recipe can be found on a great number of French cooking sites and blogs. The recipes vary somewhat. This one comes from a very nice blog called Amuses bouches
I wanted to try the macaron base because I usually do a génoise-type base and often soaked in kirsch. I have to say, I prefer the génoise base. You can also skip the praline layer and make a chocolate brownie base. I do that sometimes and make a thicker mouse layer using only whipped cream and melted chocolate.
I also made this cute Batman cake for his friends at school. He was quite delighted with it. It was one of those things... 9pm, wanting desperately to go to bed, but I had to figure out how to do a Batman theme because it was Sean's special day. It worked out just fine. I was rather proud of myself!
Batman cake


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Thoroughly warm up the perimeter of the digitizer, the surface should be hot to the touch but not burning. Do not apply heat for longer than 3 minutes.
Place a suction cup at the top left corner of the device and using a plastic pick begin separating the glass digitizer from the main body.
Continue on to the top left corner - separating the top edge with a plastic pick; insert a piece of plastic under the corner once it is separated.
Proceed in the same manner onto the two other corners, making sure that the plastic pick is not inserted more than a quarter inch deep into the device.
Once all the corners have been separated proceed on opening the digitizer, use a scalpel to cut any strands of glue that are still connecting the digitizer to the main body.
Open the digitizer from the top edge, making sure that its cable on the bottom is not over stretched.
Remove three phillips screws from the metal shield securing the digitizer connectors to the logic board.
Remove the metal shield. Using a flat screw driver pick open three connectors from the logic board. Set the glass digitizer and LCD assembly aside.
This generation of iPad uses optical glue between the glass digitizer and the LCD, just like in the more recent generations of the iPhone - it cannot be separated with-out specialized tools - so the entire display assembly has to be replaced when either the LCD or the glass touchscreen is damaged.
Reconnect the three snap-in connectors back to the logic board, each connector makes a distinct click when plugged in properly.
Please do not apply too much force to the connectors - all connectors are extremely fragile.
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Written by: Nancy Bordeaux – Chef
As you already know if you've read our other easy backpacking recipes, it is very important to eat nutritiously and drink plenty of water while backpacking. We've already mentioned a few meal ideas for breakfast and lunch, as well as a few energizing backpacking snack suggestions.
Dinner is the backpacking meal that most backpackers settle down and truly enjoy. Once you have set camp for the evening and settled in, a hot and hearty meal will revitalize your body and get you prepared for another day of active hiking.
Backpacker's Sushi
Cook 1 cup instant rice with boiling water.
Cut nori (seaweed rollers for sushi found at international grocers or sections) into quarters
Place a spoonful of rice on the nori and add a spoonful of tuna from foil packet
Roll the sushi and dip in wasabi, horseradish, or soy sauce (take-out packets)
Seafood Pasta
Cook 1/2 package pasta (fettuccini, tortellini, etc)
Heat a little bit of olive oil, salt, and garlic with salmon or tuna (foil package)
Toss with parmesan cheese and enjoy!
Variation: chicken (canned) and sundried tomatoes
Just Add Water Backpacking Feast
In a small sandwich bag combine:
3/4 cup instant potatoes
3/4 cup dry stuffing
Dried cranberries
Beef or turkey jerky pieces
Powdered gravy mix
At camp, stir in boiling water and let stand before eating.
Country Chicken and Rice
Combine 1 cup instant rice with 1 1/2 cups boiling water
Stir in one packet onion soup mix
Add 1 small can of chicken
Stir until warm
Fiesta Trail Chicken
In a small sandwich bag combine:
1 cup instant rice
1 packet tomato soup mix
Spices (chili powder, cumin, garlic powder, etc.)
At camp, add 1 1/2 cups boiling water to dry ingredients and stir in a small can of chicken.
Other dinner ideas include:
Small canned hams that require no refrigeration
Fresh vegetables for first night dinners (broccoli, corn on the cob, green beans, etc.)
Soup cups
Canned foods (ravioli, Spam, beanie weenies, beef stew, etc.)
Salty foods are good for replenishing your body to avoid dehydration. Eat foods that are high in calories and protein. If you packed canned foods, look for products with easy open lids. Otherwise, remember to pack a can opener, like the versatile Leatherman Juice S2 Multi-tool.
The most energizing and replenishing snacks for the trail is gorp, or modern versions of trail mix. Try these gorp recipes for variety.
Chocolate Lover's Gorp
2/3 cup dried apricots
2/3 cup dried cherries
2/3 cup dried blueberries
2/3 cup almonds
2/3 cup peanuts
1 cup white chocolate chips
1 cup dark chocolate chips
The Trail is on Fire Gorp
Heat 2 tbsp oil in a skillet
Brown 2 cups puffed rice cereal and 2 cups raisin bran, stirring constantly
Spread the cereal on a baking sheet and cook at 250 for 30 minutes.
Toss cooled cereal with:
1/2 cup Spanish peanuts
1/2 cup cashews
1/4 cup raisins
1/4 cup dried dates
1/4 cup dried jalapeo slices
1/2 tsp salt
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UFR 3-35 Best Practice Advice
Cylinder-wall junction flow
Underlying Flow Regime 3-35
Best Practice Advice
Key Physics
The inflow condition is of major relevance for the vortex system. The horseshoe vortex dynamics are driven by the downflow in front of the cylinder. This downward directed flow is caused by a vertical pressure gradient, which in turn depends on the shape of the approaching inflow profile. Therefore, one has to know the flow profile approaching the cylinder in order to be able to interpret the results and compare it to other studies. In the presented study, we took special care to have a fully developed turbulent open-channel flow approaching the cylinder in both experiment and simulation.
The wall distance of the horseshoe vortex is about , the thickness of the wall jet between the cylinder and the horseshoe vortex center is smaller than . This means that the key physics take place in a very thin layer in front of the cylinder. A simulation or a measurement not resolving this layer might strongly miss some key features such as the levels of the wall shear stress and the large levels of the streamwise velocity fluctuations and their bimodal character under the horseshoe vortex.
It has been demonstrated that the Reynolds shear stresses is small below the velocity maximum of the wall jet between the cylinder and the horseshoe vortex. This indicates a laminar-like behavior of the velocity profile below the jet's velocity maximum. As a consequence, conventional wall models relying on the logarithmic law of the wall will have difficulties to model the wall shear stress in this region.
Numerical Modelling Issues
Conditions corresponding to fully turbulent open channel flow have been applied at the inflow plane which should be placed at least 10 diameters upstream of the cylinder. It is essential to have a realistic turbulence structure and secondary flow at the inflow plane. For eddy resolving simulation strategies (DNS, LES and DES) this implies modeling or generating a fully developed open channel flow which is best achieved by a precursor simulation.
The downstream extent of the computation domain depends largely on the region of interest and should be placed far enough from the recirculation zone downstream of the cylinder to avoid instabilities and upstream-propagated waves. According to the authors' estimation this might vary depending on the specific type of the numerical scheme and outflow boundary condition.
A high spatial resolution is required to capture the horseshoe vortex dynamics and the wall shear stress. For the Reynolds number considered, a wall-normal resolution of was necessary to obtain converged wall shear stresses. This high resolution was necessary because the wall jet does not follow the law of the wall for turbulent boundary layers and therefore needs to be fully resolved for calculating the wall shear stress. A realistic representation of the junction vortex also requires a fine resolution in the horizontal directions.
Physical Modelling
This flow case represents a highly complex three-dimensional turbulent flow which shows several characteristics making it difficult to be represented by numerical methods based on the Reynolds Averaged Navier Stokes (RANS) equations. There is the dynamics of the horseshoe vortex which oscillates in horizontal direction and produces bimodal velocity distributions near the wall (as shown by many authors). The production of turbulent kinetic energy (TKE) is far from a standard shear stress production observed in canonical boundary layers. In some important parts of the flow (in the wall jet where the largest wall shear stress values can be found) there is even a negative TKE production due to the strong flow acceleration. The levels of streamwise fluctuations under the horseshoe vortex seem to depend on the level of TKE in the wall jet in which a balance between the pressure transport and the negative normal stress production term is observed. In other regions (around the horseshoe vortex) it seems that the pressure and turbulent diffusive transport terms cancel each other and should be modeled as a whole. This all indicates that RANS modeling of this flow is a non-trivial task. The turbulent viscosity might be strongly overestimated by standard two equation models, especially in the wall jet.
For eddy-resolving turbulence calcuation strategies, several observations might be of importance. The turbulence is far from an isotropic state or from equilibrium. However, around the horseshoe vortex, the gradients of fluctuations in the main flow direction contribute to the dissipation in the same way as gradients in the vertical direction (Schanderl & Manhart 2018). This implies that strongly anisotropic grids are probably not suited to capture the physics around the horseshoe vortex in a sufficiently accurate way. We observed a relatively strong grid dependence of the results, although the SGS contribution was relatively small.
According to our observation, a subgrid-scale model needs to be able to adapt itself to the laminar-like behaviour of the wall layer under the wall jet. Further, we have no hope that explicit wall models relying on the logarithmic law of the wall can give an accurate correlation of the wall shear stress with a velocity value at a wall distance in inner coordinate corresponding to the logarithmic layer (Schanderl et al. 2017a).
For designing a grid for a DNS, it is important to note that estimating the Kolmogorov scale by gives a conservative value and yields the correct order of magnitude (Schanderl & Manhart 2018).
Measurement issues
The horseshoe vortex system is a complex three-dimensional flow configuration. Therefore, the two-dimensional data acquisition method represents a limitation as the out-of-plane velocity component leads to a considerable loss of particles. The number of valid samples suffered from this issue in combination with the low seeding density resulting from the large size of the flume. To overcome this issue, we additionally evaluated the PIV images with a grid. Whenever the instantaneous velocity fields based on a grid revealed a missing vector, the corresponding vector of the coarser evaluation was taken as a substitute, if possible. In this way, we could improve the number of valid samples and still keep the spatial resolution high. However, the spatial resolution of the PIV data was too coarse to resolve the velocity gradient correctly. Therefore, a single pixel evaluation is recommended, for capturing the wall shear stress correctly.
Application Uncertainties
When simulating this flow configuration, we experience the largest uncertainties with regard to the inflow conditions of the approach flow and the representation of the water surface. Both numerical and experimental approaches face the challenge of generating a fully developed turbulent open-channel flow. Even though we intended to reproduce identical flow conditions and validated both of our methods (PIV and LES) by comparison with results in the literature, we observed differences in our results, e.g. concerning the size and location of the horseshoe vortex (see Fig. 6), which we attribute to the uncertainties in the structure of prevailing secondary flows or in modelling the water surface.
Another uncertainty is the roughness of the wall and its effect on the flow. It is our understanding that at the moment little is known on this issue.
Recommendations for Future Work
Performing a converged Direct Numerical Simulation would end all discussions about models and is - in our opinion - not far out of reach to date (2020). Further, considering surface roughness might give additional insight into the interaction of the wall jet with the wall.
The experiments could be improved by stereoscopic or tomographic PIV to acquire three-dimensional data sets. Furthermore, the temporal resolution could be increased in order to analyse the time scales of the horseshoe vortex system. The experimental setup can be improved by providing the light sheet from below passing through the transparent bottom plate, while the PIV camera(s) are mounted at the side outside of the flume.
Contributed by: Ulrich Jenssen, Wolfgang Schanderl, Michael Manhart — Technical University Munich
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Even with automatic spending cuts looming, the outlook for the U.S. economy brightened a bit Tuesday after reports showed that Americans are more confident and are buying more new homes.
Home prices are also rising steadily, and banks are lending more. Such improvements suggest that the economy is resilient enough to withstand the deep government cuts that will kick in Friday.
That's especially encouraging because uncertainty over the federal budget could persist for months.
"The stars are lining up for stronger private sector growth this year," said Craig Alexander, chief economist at TD Bank.
Sales of new homes jumped nearly 16 percent in January to their highest level in 4½ years, adding momentum to the housing recovery. Consumer confidence rose in February after three months of declines. And home prices increased in December from the same month in 2011 by the largest amount in more than six years.
The upbeat economic news contributed to a rally on Wall Street. The Dow Jones industrial average jumped more than 100 points.
Consumers still face numerous burdens. Among them is a sharp increase in gas prices. The national average for a gallon, $3.78, has surged 44 cents in a month.
And Social Security taxes rose 2 percentage points beginning Jan. 1. This year, the increase will cost a typical household that earns $50,000 about $1,000. Income taxes for the highest-earning Americans also rose.
Both factors could reduce overall spending.
On Friday, about $85 billion in automatic spending cuts are to kick in, and there's little sign that the White House and Congress will reach a budget deal to avoid them. The cuts will cause furloughs and temporary layoffs of government workers and contractors and sharply reduce spending on defense and domestic programs.
For about 2 million long-term unemployed, benefits now averaging $300 a week could shrink by about $30. Payments that subsidize clean energy, school construction and state and local public works projects could be cut. Low-income Americans seeking heating or housing aid might face longer waits.
Overall, the tax increases and spending cuts could shave up to 1.2 percentage points from growth this year, economists estimate. Alexander estimates that without the spending cuts or tax increases, the economy would expand more than 3 percent this year. Instead, he predicts growth of only 2 percent.
But growth should accelerate later this year as the effects of the government cutbacks ease, he and other economists say. And several reports Tuesday suggest that the economy's underlying health is improving despite the prospect of lower government spending and further budget stalemates:
— The Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller 20-city home price index rose 6.8 percent in December from a year earlier. That was the biggest year-over-year increase since July 2006. Rising home prices tend to make homeowners feel wealthier and encourage more spending. They also cause more people to buy before prices rise further. And banks are more likely to provide mortgages if they foresee higher home prices.
— Consumer confidence rose after three months of declines, according to the Conference Board, a business research group. Confidence had plunged in January after higher taxes cut most Americans' take-home pay. The rebound, though, suggests that some consumers have begun to adjust to smaller paychecks. The consumer confidence index rose to 69.6 in February from 58.4 in January. That's higher than last year's average of 67.1.
— Bank lending rose 1.7 percent in the October-December quarter, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said. It was the sixth rise in seven quarters. Banks made more commercial and industrial loans to businesses and auto loans to consumers. More lending means the Federal Reserve's policy of keeping interest rates at record lows will benefit more people. Chairman Ben Bernanke reiterated to Congress on Tuesday that the Fed's efforts are helping the economy and signaled that they will continue.
— Sales of new homes rose to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 437,000, the Commerce Department said. That's the highest level since July 2008. The gain will likely encourage more construction. Higher sales are keeping the supply of new homes low, even as builders have tried to keep up. At the current sales pace, it would take only 4.1 months to exhaust the supply of new homes for sale. That's the lowest such figure in nearly eight years.
"Builders are not putting up homes fast enough to meet underlying demand," said Patrick Newport, an economist at IHS Global Insight.
New homes have an outsize impact on the economy. Each home built creates an average of three jobs for a year and generates about $90,000 in tax revenue, according to data from the National Association of Homebuilders.
Construction hiring has picked up in recent months. The industry has gained 98,000 jobs since September, its best stretch since the spring of 2006 — before the housing bubble burst.


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Going through the past year in posts, I realized a few things. First, as with 2008, I wrote quite a lot off site. Second, I need way better navigation for this site, as it's got six years of posts in it now, and even I can't remember what the hell I said half the time. And third, I want to write more. A lot more. I'm expecting that will happen in 2010.
But I did get to write quite a bit in '09. Here are some of the posts I'm most proud of.
January, 09
Predictions 2009 (drew the biggest single day crowd ever for Searchblog)
On Alice, Tik Tok, Marketing, CES, and Finding The Ground (in which I propose a our industry had found the bottom)
More on The Future of Print and Journalism
Why No Twitter Search from the Big Guys? (it came, ten months later…)
(Credit, Oil, IT, and) Paper Ain't Free, So Don't Waste It.
February, 09
Twitter = YouTube. (in which I submit that Google must buy Twitter. It did try…)
Wondering Out Loud: The AT&T Network (in which I wonder if AT&T is favoring the iPhone over other devices on its network)
Google Latitude (how *is* that going?!)
March, 09
An "Undifferentiated slush of results" (foreshadowing of things to come)
ExecTweets (the first brand marketing execution done with Twitter)
It's Very Sorta Twitter (Facebook, That Is)
Tim Armstrong To Lead AOL – Further Thoughts
"Search Is A Pencil" (Twitter is a pencil, Facebook, Photoshop)
The Conversation Is Shifting (in which I note how social is driving traffic around the web)
What's In A Name? Thoughts on what a brand means – as a story.
April, 09
The Twitter Inflection
Will Yahoo And Microsoft Just Do It? If So, How? (well, it didn't quite work out as expected, but it did work out!)
News: Google Lets You Put Yourself Into Results For..Yourself
Breaking: Newscorp to Buy Twitter for $750mm in Cash (April Fools)
May, 09
Liveblogging the Microsoft Search News (Bing)
Twitter's Continued Inflection: Time For Facebook Connect (in which I urge Twitter to implement FB so as to fix its value prop to new users)
As It Inflects, Twitter Must Add Value to New Users, Faster
As We Head Toward A More Conversational Interface, Can AdWords Keep Up?
Earned Followers Are Better Than Junk Circulation
June, 09
Google v. Facebook? What We Learn from Twitter. (in which I urge Facebook to make all data open. It did…)
English's Millionth Word: Web 2.0
July, 09
Questions On the Yahoo Bing Deal
The Year's Half Over. So How Are My Predictions Tracking?
August, 09
I Blew It On Facebook
A Preview: This Year's Web 2 Program (Newly Added Speakers!)
Tell Me This Ain't Facebook, Er, Twitter, Er, Both.
Don't Be A Player Platform Hater
Bartz: Yahoo Was "Never a Search Company". Me: Bullsh*t.
September, 09
On Facebook, Comments, and Implications
Why Are Conversations (With the Right Person) So Much Better Than Search?
Watch Out Google, Facebook Is Gaining in PPC
On Complements and Showdowns and TweetSense
The IPO Markets and the Internet: A Thaw's A Comin
Web 2 Preview: DigitalGlobe: The World Is The Index
Search Frustration: It's Still Hit Or Miss On Complex Decisions
October, 09
What "Tweet" Needs to Become: To Share a Moment
Search Does That. Social Does This. Give Me A Reese's Cup Please
November, 09
I Have A Kindle Now. But I Won't Read A Book On It. Discuss. (the second most active post this past year)
Just Give Me One Modal Dialog ….
Thanks For Flying With Us. Please Give Us All Your Money. (the third most active…)
OK, What the Real Phone Map Should Be
December, 09
Predictions 2009: How Did I Do?
What's Up? (more thoughts on real time search)
This is the Facebook Step We Expected: Default Public
What Are The Conversion Rates for Google's "First Click Free"?


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1 Tim. iv. 10. The living God, is the saviour of all men, especially of those that believe.
Jude ver. 25. To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.
God saveth his people. Deut. xxxiii. 29. Who is like thee, a people saved by the Lord? compare Exod. xiv. 13, 14, 30.—xv. 2. Numb. x. 9. Deut. xx. 4. I Sam. xi. 13.-xix. 5.
1 Sam. xiv. 6. There is no restraint to the Lord, to save by many or by few. Ver. 39. 2 Chron. xiv. 11.-xx. 17.
xvii. 14. The Lord saveth not with sword and spear. Ps. xx. 6. The Lord saveth with the saving strength of his right hand. Ps. cxxxviii. 7.
2 Sam. xxii. 2. David said, the Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer.
Ver. 3. The God of my rock, in him will I trust; he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, and my Saviour; thou savest me from violence.
Ver. 36. Thou hast given me the shield of thy salvation.
Ver. 47. The Lord liveth, blessed be my rock, exalted be the God of my salvation. Ps, xviii. 2.-xxxv. 46.
Ps. iii. 8. Salvation belongeth unto the Lord. Isa. xliii. 11. Hos. xiii. 4. Jonah ii. 9.
xxvii. 1. The Lord is my light, and my salvation. Ps. Ixii. 6. Isa. xii. 2.
lxii. 7. God is my salvation and my glory, the rock of my strength. Ps. xxv. 5.-xl. 2. And my refuge is in God. Ps. Ixviii. 19, 20.
Ixix. 35. God will save Zion, he will build Jerusalem. lxxi. 34. Thou hast given commandment to save me.
lxxiv. 12. God is my king of old, working salvation in the earth. xcviii. 2. The Lord hath made known his salvation.
Ver. 3. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
cxl. 7. O God the Lord, the strength of my salvation, thou hast covered my head in the day of battle.
cxliv. 10. He giveth salvation unto kings. Ch. xci. 16.
Isa. xii. 2. Behold God is my salvation, I will trust and not be afraid, for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song.
xxv. 9. Lo, this is our God, we have waited for him, and he will save us, this is the Lord we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.
xxvi. 1. Salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks. Ch. xxxiii. 6, 22.
xxxv. 4. Say to them that are of a fearful heart, be strong, fear not, behold your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompence; he will come and save you.
xliii. . Thus saith the Lord that created thee, O Jacob, and that formed thee, O Israel, fear not, I have redeemed thee.
Ver. 2. When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee, and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee, when thou walkest through the fire thou shalt not be burnt, neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.
Isa. xliii. 3. For I am the Lord thy God, the holy one of Israel, thy Saviour.
Ver. 11. I, even I, am the Lord, and beside me there is no Saviour. Ch. xlv. 21. Hos. xiii. 4.
xlv. 8. Drop down, ye heavens from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness, and let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and iet righteousness spring up together. I the Lord have created it. Ver. 14, 15.
xlix. 25. Thus saith the Lord, I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, I will save thy children.
Ver. 26. I will feed them that oppress thee, with their own fiesh, and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine.
All flesh shall know, that I the Lord, am thy Saviour, and thy Redeemer, the mighty one of Jacob. Zech. xiv. 12.
Isa. lix. 1. The Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot
Jer. iii. 23. Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude of mountains, truly in the Lord our God is the Salvation of Israel. Ps. cxxi. 1.
xv. 20. I am with thee, to save thee, and to deliver thee, saith the Lord. Ch. xxx. 11, 15.—xlii. 11.
xxiii. 6. In those days Judah shali be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely.
xxx. 7. It is the time of Jacob's trouble, but he shall be saved out of it. Ver. 10. Ch. xiv. 8, 9.
xlvi. 27. Fear not thou, O my servant Jacob, and be not dismayed, O Israel, for behold I will save thee from afar-off, and thy seed from the land of their captivity, and Jacob shall return and be in rest, and at ease, and none shall make him afraid. Zech. viii. 9.-x. 6. -xii. 7.
Ezek. xxxiv. 22. I will save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey by the carelessness of their shepherds.
xxxvi. 29. I will save them from all their uncleanness.
xxxvii. 23. I will save them and I will cleanse them, so they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
Hos. i. 7. I will have mercy or the house of Jacob, and I will save them by the Lord. Ch. xiii. 10. Zech. iii. 17, 19.
XLIV. Persons to whom salvation is promised. Job xxii. 29. God shall save the humble person. See Promises to the Humble.
Ps. vii. 10. God saveth the upright in heart. Prov. xxviii. 18. Sce Upright.
xvii. 7. Thou savest them which put their trust in thee. See Trust in God.
xxxiv. 18. The Lord saveth such as be of a contrite spirit. See Contrite.
xxxvii. 40. He shall save the righteous, because they trust in him. 1. 23. To him that ordereth aright his conversation, I will shew the salvation of God.
Ixxii. 13. He shall save the souls of the needy. Ver. 4. Job v. 15. Ps. xxxiv. 6.-cix. 31.
Ps. lxxxv. 9. His salvation is nigh them that fear him. Ps. cxlv, 19. cxix. 94. I am thine, save me, for I have sought thy precepts. Ver, 146. Save me, and I shall keep thy testimonies.
Ver. 166. I have hoped for thy salvation, and done thy command
cxlix. 4. He will beautify the meek with salvation.
Prov. xx. 22. Wait on the Lord, and he shall save thee. Isa. XXV. 9.
Jer. iv. 14. O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved.
Mark xvi. 16. He that believeth, and is baptized shall be saved. Luke vii. 50. Acts xvi. 31. Rom. x. 9. Heb. x. 39. See salvation by Christ.
Salvation prayed for. 1 Sam. vii. 8. The people said to Samuel, cease not to cry unto the Lord our God, that he will save us out of the hands of the Philistines.
Ver. 10. The Lord discomfited the Philistines.
2 Kings xix. 19. Hezekiah prayed, and said, O Lord, save us out of the hands of the king of Assyria, that all kingdoms of the earth may know, that thou art the Lord God, even thou only.
Ver. 34. And the Lord said, I will defend this city, to save it. Isa. xxxvii. 20, 35.
Ver. 35. And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the Lord went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians, an hundred and fourscore, and five thousand. 2 Chron. xxxii. 22.
2 Chron. vi. 41. Let thy priests, O Lord, be cloathed with salvation.
Ps. iii. 7. Save me, O my God.
vi. 4. Deliver my soul, O save me for thy mercies sake. Ps. xxxi. 16.-cix. 26.
vii. 8. Save me from all them that persecute me.
xiv. 7. O that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion.
xxvii. 9. Leave me not, neither forsake me, O God, of my salvation. Ps. li. 14.-lxxxviii. 1.
xxviii. 9. Save thy people, bless thine inheritance. Jer. xxxi. 7. xxxi. 2. Be thou for an house of defence to save me.
XXXV. 5. Say unto my soul, I am thy salvation.
xxxviii. 22. Make haste to help me, O Lord, my salvation.
li. 12. Restore to me the joy of thy salvation.
liv. 1. Save me, O God, by thy name, and judge me by thy strength.
lv. 16. I will call upon God, and the Lord will save me.
lix. 2. Save me from bloody men.
Ixix. 1. Save me, O God, for the waters are come into my soul.
Ver. 13. Hear me, in the truth of thy salvation.
Ver. 29. Let thy salvation, O God, set me on high.
lxxi. 2. Incline thine car unto me, and save me.
lxxix. 9. Help us, O God, of our salvation, for the glory of thy
lxxx. 2. Stir up thy strength, and come and save us. Ver. 3. Cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.
Ps. lxxxv. 4. Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thine anger toward us to cease.
Ver. 7. Shew us thy mercy, O Lord, and grant us thy salvation. cvi. 4. O visit me with thy salvation.
xlvii. Save us, O Lord our God, and gather us from among the heathen.
cvii. 13. They cried unto the Lord in their trouble, and he saved them out of all their distresses. Ver. 19.
cxviii. 21. Save me, I beseech thee, O Lord.
cxix. 41. Let thy mercies come also unto me, O Lord, even thy salvation, according to thy word.
Ver. 123. Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, and for the word of thy righteousness. Ver. 81, 174.
Ver. 146. Save me, and I shall keep thy testimonies.
Ver. 155. Save us from the wicked, for they keep not thy statutes. Isa. xxxiii. 2. O Lord, be gracious to us, be thou their arm, every morning, our salvation also, in time of trouble.
Jer. ii. 27. In the time of their trouble, they will say, arise and
save us.
XLV. Salvation is of grace. Ps. vi. 4. O save me for thy mercies sake. lxxx. 3. Cause thy face to shine upon us, and we shall be saved. cvi. 4. He saved them for his name's sake.
Acts ii. 47. The Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.
Eph. ii. 5. By grace ye are saved. Ver. 8. By grace ye are saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God.
2 Tim. i. 9. God hath saved us and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began.
Tit. iii. 5. Not according to works of righteousness which we had done, but according to his mercy he saved us.
XLVI. The word of God, a mean of salvation. Rom. i. 16. The gospel is the power of God to salvation.
1 Cor. i. 18. Unto us who are saved, the preaching of the cross of Christ is the power of God.
Ver. 21. It pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
xv. 2. Ye are saved by the gospel, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you.
Jam. i. 21. The ingrafted word is able to save your souls, 1 Pet. iii. 21. Baptism doth now save us.
XLVII. The ministry a mean of salvation. 1 Cor. ix. 22. I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.
1 Tim. iv. 16. Take heed unto thyself, and unto thy doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself and them that hear thee.
Jam. v. 20. He which converteth the sinner from the error of his way, shail save a soul from death.
Jude ver. 23. Others save with fear, &c.
XLVIII. God is the defence of his people. defence is departed from them, and the Lord is
Num. xiv. 9. Their with us, fear them not.
2 Kings xix. 34. The Lord said, I will defend this city to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.
Job xxii. 23. If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up. Ver. 25. Yea the Almighty shall be thy defence.
Ps. v. li. Let those that put their trust in thee rejoice, because thou defendest them.
vii. 10. Our defence is of God, who saveth the upright in heart. xx. 1. The Lord hear thee in the day of trouble, the name of the God of Jacob defend thee.
xxxi. 2. Be thou my strong rock, for an house of defence to save
Ver. 3. For thou art my rock and my fortress.
lix. 1. O my God defend me from them that rise up against me. Ver. 9. I will wait upon thee, for God is my defence. Ver. 17. Ps. Ixii. 2, 6.
Ver. 16. Thou hast been my defence and my refuge in the day of trouble.
lxxxix. 18. The Lord is our defence, the holy one of Israel is our King.
Isa. iv. 5. Upon all the glory shall be a defence, upon mount Zion. xxxi. 5. The Lord of hosts will defend Jerusalem, also he will de liver it, and will preserve it.
Isa. xxxiii. 15. He that worketh righteousness, &c.
Ver. 16. He shall dwell on high, his place of defence shall be the munition of rocks, bread shall be given him, his water shall be sure.
Zech. ix. 15. The Lord of hosts shall defend his people, and they shall devour and subdue their enemies.
xviii. 8. The Lord shall defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and he that is feeble among them shall be as David, and the house of David shall be as God, as the angel of the Lord before them
XLIX. God a redeemer. Is. xli. 14. Fear not, I will help thee, saith the Lord thy redeemer.
xlvii. 4. As for our redeemer, the Lord of hosts is his name. liv. 8. With everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the Lord thy redeemer.
Ix. 16. Thou shalt know that I the Lord am thy saviour, and thy redeemer, the mighty one of Jacob. Ch. xliv. 6.—xlviii. 17.—xlix. 7, 26. lxiii. 16. Jer. I. 34. Ps. xix. 14.-lxxviii. 35.
L. God redeemeth his people from enemies and other evils. Exod. vi. 6. The Lord said I will redeem you with a stretched-out arm, and with great judgments.
Ver. 7. And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God. 2 Sam. vii. 23. Isa. xliii. 1.
xv. 13. Thou in thy mercy hast led forth thy people, which thou hast redeemed. Ps. lxxvii. 15.
Deut. vii. 8. The Lord redeemed you out of the house of bondage. Ch. xiii. 5.-xv. 15.-xxiv. 18. Mic. vi. 4.
xxi. 8. Be merciful unto thy people, O Lord, whom thou hast redeemed. Neh. i. 10. Ps. lxxiv. 2.


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WASHINGTON — The Navy said Tuesday it is investigating about 30 senior sailors linked to alleged cheating on tests meant to qualify them to train others to operate naval nuclear power reactors. Representing roughly one-fifth of the reactor training contingent, sidelining 30 may put a pinch on the Navy's training program, senior officials said.
It is the second exam-cheating scandal to hit the military this year, on top of a series of disclosures in recent months of ethical lapses at all ranks in the military.
Unlike an Air Force cheating probe that has implicated nearly 100 officers responsible for land-based nuclear missiles that stand ready for short-notice launch, those implicated in the Navy investigation have no responsibility for nuclear weapons. The Air Force probe is centered on Malmstrom Air Force Base, Mont., but could spread to its two other nuclear missile bases in North Dakota and Wyoming.
The Navy said the implicated sailors are accused of having cheated on written tests they must pass to be certified as instructors at a nuclear propulsion school at Charleston, S.C. The Navy uses two nuclear reactors there to train sailors for duty aboard any of dozens of submarines and aircraft carriers around the world whose on-board reactors provide propulsion. They are not part of any weapons systems.
The accused sailors previously had undergone reactor operations training at Charleston before deploying aboard a nuclear-power vessel. In the normal course of career moves, they returned to Charleston to serve as instructors, for which they must pass requalification exams.
Adm. John Richardson, director of the Navy's nuclear propulsion program, said an undisclosed number of senior sailors are alleged to have provided test information to their peers. He was not more specific, but one official said the information was shared from the sailors' home computers, which could be a violation of security rules because information about nuclear reactors operations is classified.
"That'll be an active part of the investigation to fully understand" the extent of any security rule violations, Richardson said.
Richardson said the alleged cheating came to light Monday when a senior enlisted sailor at the Charleston training site reported the cheating to higher authorities. Richardson said the unidentified sailor "recognized that this was wrong" and chose to report it.
The matter was still under investigation by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service.
Adm. Jonathan Greenert, the chief of naval operations, told reporters at a Pentagon news briefing, where he was accompanied by Richardson, that he was upset to learn of the breakdown in discipline.
"To say I am disappointed would be an understatement," Greenert said. "We expect more from our sailors — especially our senior sailors."
Neither Greenert nor Richardson identified the rank of the alleged cheaters but described them as senior enlisted members. There are about 150 nuclear power reactor instructors at the Charleston site. With about 30 of them banned, at least temporarily, from performing their duties, the training program might suffer.
"I could possibly foresee an impact in Charleston," Richardson said. "We'll see if that is broader."
Pressed to say how many sailors were implicated in the investigation, Richardson said a "ballpark figure" was something like 12 to 20. But a short time later another Navy official said the number was approximately 30 but could change as the investigation unfolds. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the official was not authorized to discuss publicly any details beyond what Richardson and Greenert disclosed at their news conference.
Richardson said he could not discuss possible disciplinary action against those involved because the probe was ongoing. However, he said that anyone in the naval nuclear power program — either in a training setting or aboard a ship at sea — who is caught cheating would usually be removed from the program and "generally" would be kicked out of the Navy.
The decision to have Greenert and Richardson announce the cheating investigation publicly was a sign of how seriously the Navy takes the matter.
Associated Press writer Lolita C. Baldor contributed to this report.
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As U.S.-Iran tension simmers, rocket fired near Iraq's U.S. Embassy
By Ahmed Rasheed and Ahmed Aboulenein BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A rocket was fired into the Iraqi capital Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, which houses government buildings and diplomatic missions, on Sunday night, falling near the U.S. Embassy but causing no casualties, the Iraqi military said. The attack came two weeks after U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned Iraqi leaders during a surprise visit to Baghdad that if they failed to keep in check Iran-backed militias, which are expanding their power in Iraq and now form part of its security apparatus, the United States would respond with force. His visit came after U.S. intelligence showed Iran-backed Shi'ite militias positioning rockets near bases housing U.S. forces, according to two Iraqi security sources. A U.S. State Department official noted that there had so far been no claim of responsibility, and that no U.S.-inhabited facility was impacted. "But, we take this incident very seriously," the official said. "We will hold Iran responsible if any such attacks are conducted by its proxy militia forces or elements of such forces, and will respond to Iran accordingly." The Iraq military said the Katyusha rocket fell in the middle of the Green Zone, near the Monument of the Unknown Soldier. The monument lies in open ground about half a kilometer (a third of a mile) north of the sprawling, riverside U.S. Embassy compound. The blast was heard across central Baghdad, according to Reuters witnesses and residents. The embassy in Baghdad and U.S. consulate in the Iraqi Kurdish regional capital Erbil has already evacuated non-emergency staff, out of apparent concern about perceived threats from Iran. Iran's Iraqi allies rushed to condemn the attack and stressed that a war between Tehran and Washington would be bad for Baghdad and the whole region. Militia leader and politician Hadi al-Ameri, whose electoral block holds the second largest number of seats in Iraqi's parliament, urged Iraqis in a statement overnight "not to be the fire that fuels this war" that would "burn everyone". His sentiment was echoed by Qais al-Khazali, another prominent Iran-backed militia leader, who tweeted that a war would be neither in Washington's nor in Tehran's interests. IRAN-U.S. TENSION Tensions between Washington and its Gulf Arab allies on one side and Tehran and its proxies in the region on the other, have been flaring for weeks. On Sunday, U.S. President Donald Trump threatened Iran in a tweet, raising concerns about a potential U.S.-Iran conflict. "If Iran wants to fight, that will be the official end of Iran. Never threaten the United States again!" he tweeted. Trump has tightened economic sanctions against Iran, and his administration says it has built up the U.S. military presence in the region. It accuses Iran of threats to U.S. troops and interests. Tehran has described U.S. moves as "psychological warfare" and a "political game". Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi group claimed responsibility for a drone strike on two oil pumping stations in Saudi Arabia last week. The kingdom accused Tehran of ordering the attack. Two days earlier, four vessels, including two Saudi oil tankers, were sabotaged off the coast of the United Arab Emirates. Both Iran and the United States have said they do not want war. After the blast, Iraqi police special forces found a rocket launcher in eastern Baghdad's al-Sina district, about 7 km (4 miles) away across the Tigris River from the Green Zone, and sealed off the area, a police source told Reuters. Officers were searching for suspects and an ordnance disposal team from the Baghdad Operations Command was inspecting the launcher, the source said. The Green Zone was regularly targeted by mortars during the U.S. occupation of Iraq that ended in 2011. Rockets have occasionally been fired into the Green Zone since then. The latest such incident was in September, when three mortar shells landed inside the Green Zone, causing no casualties. The Katyusha multiple rocket launcher is an inexpensive type of rocket artillery that can deliver explosives to a target quicker than conventional artillery, but is less accurate. (Reporting by John Davison, Ahmed Rasheed, and Ahmed Aboulenein in Baghdad, and Raya Jalabi in Erbil; Additional reporting by David Lawder, Phil Stewart, and Idrees Ali in Washington; Writing by Ahmed Aboulenein and Raya Jalabi; Editing by Alison Williams)