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Sprinters roar back - Ja dominate sprint relays on Carifta's day two
Sprinters roar back
AFTER winning just one of four 100m gold medals on Saturday, Jamaica's sprinters roared back decisively last night winning three of four 4x100m relays on the second day of the 42nd CARIFTA Games Track and Field Championships at the brand new 15,000-seater Thomas A Robinson Stadium in Nassau, Bahamas.
With the Under-20 girls' team dropping the baton at the second exchange, while leading by a long way, the other three teams won in style with anchor runner Odail Todd running past the Trinidad and Tobago athlete to lead the Under-20 boys home to victory in 39.92 seconds after the Bahamas, the defending champions, dropped the baton.
Jevaughn Minzie led off the team to 100m silver medallist Jazeel Murphy, with hurdler Tyler Mason running the third leg.
Both Under-17 teams finished ahead of Barbados and Bahamas; the boys winning in 41.38 seconds and the girls in 45.62 seconds.
Jamaica, meanwhile, are well ahead in the medal tables, and with a number of field events still to be completed at press time last night, had won another 20 medals on yesterday's second day for a total of 45 inclusive of 18 gold, 16 silver and 11 bronze. This is, however, behind last year's two day total of 51 medals; 25 gold, 14 silver and 12 bronze.
Yesterday national junior record holder Omar McLeod made it three wins in a row in the Under-20 boys' 400m hurdles, winning in 51.46 seconds, adding to victories in Bermuda last year and Montego Bay in 2011.
Kimone Green, a former Under-17 champion, won the girls' Under-20 gold medal in 59.31 seconds, ahead of teammate Tatiana Wolfe who took the silver in 1:00.65, and Tia-Adanna Belle of Barbados took the bronze.
Patrice Moody was second in the Under-17 300m hurdles in 43.73 seconds, behind Trinidad's Jemeise Parris who won in 43.24 seconds, while Orlando Smith was also second in the Under-17 boys' 400m hurdles in 56.89 seconds beaten by Barbados's Rivaldo Leacock in 53.11.
Shanieke Watson won the girls' 3,000m Open in 10 minutes 56.07 seconds ahead of teammate Derricka Pitters (11.05.00 seconds) with Bermuda's Zakiyya Showers taking the bronze.
A day after winning the 1,500m, Jauavney James returned to win a second gold medal, winning the 3,000m in 9:22.52, beating Guadeloupe's Nardin Alvin and Trinidad's Alexander Haleem.
All but one of the Jamaican 200m runners advanced to this evening's finals after Shelleice Clarke, who won a bronze medal in the Under-17 girls' 100m on Saturday, was disqualified after she picked the start in the first round.
Nataliah Whyte, the Under-17 girls 100m champion, looked on course to take the double after winning her semi-finals heat in the 200m easily, running 25.13 seconds.
IAAF World Youth silver medallist Odail Todd (21.36 seconds) and Jevaughn Minzie, competing without any controversies for the first time in three years, running a fast 21.18 seconds, both won their heats in the Under-20 boys' section.
Shericka Jackson, who won bronze last year, won her girls' Under-20 semi-final heat in 23.68 seconds, while Kedisha Dallas was second in her heat in 24.51 seconds, behind pre-race favourite and 400m winner Shaunae Miller of the Bahamas (23.67 seconds).
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Power crews are still out restoring power after nearly 11,000 people were without power earlier today. The heavy, wet snow caused many downed power lines. Pacific Power representatives say about 7300 customers are still without power, but crews will be working overnight to bring it back on. Jan Mitchell is with Pacific Power: "We're still assessing all the damage. And our crews are hard at work to get everyone restored as quickly and safely as possible. But it could be an extended outage, it could even go into several days for some customers. We are bringing in crews from other areas to assist. Crews from Albany, Walla, Walla, Grants Pass, Pendleton, all coming in to assist the crews that are already there." Again 7300 people remain without power at this hour. To check when the power is expected to be back on, you can call 1-877-508-5088. You can also check www.pacificpower.net.
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Wilburn L. Snyder was a Baptist pastor in Houston, Texas, and a survivor of the Bataan Death March and internment in the Philippine Islands during World War II.
Snyder was born in Plain Dealing in Bossier Parish in northwestern Louisiana to Mary and G.A. Hammer. He graduated in 1940 from Lee High School in Baytown, and attended Lee College, a community college in Baytown, and then the University of Houston.
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The conference season is a long, expensive interlude in politics which stretched this year from 9 September, when the TUC assembly began in Bournemouth, until 2 October, when the Conservatives dispersed from Manchester. Did any of it have any lasting effect? The answer, according to a YouGov poll, is almost none. But the one party whose conference was an admitted failure was Ukip.
After all good publicity was sucked out of the event by the antics of Godfrey Bloom, Nigel Farage disconsolately told delegates that the conference had been "destroyed". Yet its destruction has had no measurable impact on Ukip's support in the country, which remains where it was a month ago, at around 11 per cent, a little ahead of the Lib Dems. It is arguable, of course, that a rip-roaringly successful, Bloom-free conference would have pushed Ukip's support higher, but that is merely speculation.
The other parties are also pretty much where they were before the conference circus began. There is just one significant difference between then and now: Ed Miliband's personal rating has shot up. How much of that is due to his policies, how much to his conference speech, and how much to a reaction to the Daily Mail's misdirected attack on his late father Ralph, the figures do not tell.
But before Labour supporters rejoice in their leader's new-found success, they should realise that his standing could hardly have got any worse than it was a month ago. On the latest figures, 29 per cent think he is doing well, 59 per cent that he is doing badly, a net rating of minus 30. Previously, he was at minus 46. As YouGov's president, Peter Kellner, put it, he has "lifted his position from catastrophic to lousy."
Let's talk about Blair, baby
Martin Sheen, currently starring as the eponymous Dr William Masters in the Channel 4 drama Masters of Sex, has been reflecting in the Radio Times on the role that first made him famous, 10 years ago, when he played Tony Blair.
"I only met him once at a dinner party after I had done The Queen," he said. "His official line is that he has never seen any of the things I've done about him, but he seemed to have a fairly good working knowledge."
Boris suffers from Potter mouth
Boris Johnson, on a trade visit to China, has tried to kid the Chinese that Harry Potter's girlfriend Cho Chang was a "Chinese overseas student" at Hogwarts. Here in the UK, there are a vast number of under-25 Potterologists who could have told him that Cho Chang (played by Katie Leung) is actually British. In the film, she is a Scot.
Tax avoidance: bad when it's not you
Two charities, War on Want and the USA's Change to Win Federation, are launching an important report today accusing the pharmaceutical firm Alliance Boots of avoiding at least £1.1bn in tax. Also involved in producing the report is the union Unite which, by an unfortunate coincidence of timing, has been presented by the tax authorities with a bill for £2.3m in unpaid VAT. Unite denies that it has been avoiding tax, and says that discussions are ongoing.
Expensive work, living like a lord
Last week, I mentioned Lord Hanningfield's practice of claiming £300 a day in attendance allowances at almost every opportunity since serving a jail sentence for fiddling his expenses, though there was no sign he had contributed anything to the House of Lords since his arrest. I learn from the East Anglian Daily Times that he has broken his silence.
He had not yet said anything in the main Lords debating chamber, but did speak during a committee session on Thursday on East Anglia's rail network. He told the newspaper: "I intend to speak quite regularly now. I used to speak every single day."
Of the £40,800 in attendance allowances that he claimed in the first 14 months since his return, he added: "It is not a great amount of money. I have to live."


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GOALS Essendon: Winderlich 3, Davey 2, Carlisle 2, Watson 2, Goddard, Dempsey, Heppell, Merrett, Ryder, Crameri. West Coast: Darling 3, LeCras 3, Dalziell 2, Kennedy 2, Cox, Kerr, Priddis.
BEST Essendon: Watson, Stanton, Carlisle, Zaharakis, Winderlich, Dempsey. West Coast: Priddis, Dalziell, Cox, Kennedy, Masten, LeCras.
UMPIRES Kamolins, Chamberlain, Margetts.
CROWD 36,451, at Patersons Stadium.
James Hird and Jobe Watson - take a bow.
The Essendon coach was at his best at Patersons Stadium on Thursday night in leading the Bombers to a thrilling seven-point win over West Coast.
And the reigning Brownlow medallist copped abuse from the Eagles crowd all night to produce a match-winning performance.
The victory has also finally ended the premiership chances of West Coast.
Firstly, footy and Hird.
The move in the second half of defender Jake Carlisle into attack paid dividends and gave the Bombers a target, with Michael Hurley struggling to get near the ball when up forward.
His second goal with less than two minutes to go drew the Bombers back level and gave them a chance for an unlikely win.
The Bombers had not beaten the Eagles in Perth since 2001, but a fighting win back in round three at the same venue gave them hope.
That day Fremantle had led by 37 points in the first half.
The similarities to this week can't be ignored. On Thursday night they trailed by 23 points late in the third term and the club was again under intense scrutiny as the drugs scandal continues to take centre stage.
Football commentators around Australia were calling for James Hird, at least, to step down before the round-three clash. But Essendon rose and won by four points.
On Thursday night, it was the Eagles fans who were letting their feelings about the situation be known. There was little support for Essendon captain Watson around Patersons Stadium after he admitted in a television interview earlier in the week to taking a banned substance during 2012.
The fact that Watson is the reigning Brownlow medallist meant nothing to the loyal West Coast crowd every time the Essendon champion went near the football.
They didn't remember that Watson's famous dad was on the Eagles list at one stage?
Jobe Watson was booed in a way that has not been heard at Patersons Stadium since their premiership captain and another Brownlow medallist Chris Judd returned in a navy blue jumper for the first time.
Were these the same people who cheered yet another Brownlow medallist Ben Cousins when he returned to Subiaco for the first time in a Richmond jumper after serving time on the sidelines for illicit drug abuse?
Watson gave the 36,451-strong crowd plenty to jeer him for too, especially early in the opening term. After Dyson Heppell kicked the final goal and handed the Bombers an emotional victory, there was a sea of black and red surrounding Watson.
It was a cracking introduction to Thursday night football.
After Josh Kennedy kicked the game's first goal, the Bombers settled and piled on four consecutive majors in seven minutes and opened up an 18-point lead.
Paddy Ryder was matching Nic Naitanui in athleticism and run and Jason Winderlich and David Zaharakis were running amok.
But the game changed quickly. Almost as quickly as Daniel Kerr got foot to ball in a stoppage to goal from 35 metres and the margin was back to 12 points.
The Eagles had managed to set-up players behind the ball, which resulted in nine of the last 10 inside 50s of the term, plus a goal to Jack Darling and a quarter-time margin to the Dons of just three points.
Zaharakis was closed down and finished with eight touches for the term, the same number he had amassed just 14 minutes after the opening bounce.
If Chris Masten had kicked straight from the boundary line just before the quarter-time siren, the Eagles would have been in front.
Although the Eagles had the better of the play in the second term, they couldn't get their noses in front until the 25th minute of the quarter.
It was a sign that the Eagles had the run of play and were getting reward for some strong running.
It wasn't expected.
Cale Hooker had beaten Darling in a one on one contest, only to turn the ball over the Mark LeCras who ran in to an open goal.
It gave the Eagles a four-point lead at the main break.
It was a gusty performance by an undermanned Eagles outfit - a continuation of the effort they had put in against Hawthorn the week before.
Key playmakers Scott Selwood and Shannon Hurn were missing, ruled out during the week with injuries that are likely to keep them out for the next 4-8 weeks.
Then rising star Luke Shuey was a late withdrawal with a hamstring injury and that was supposed to make the job tough for West Coast's running brigade.
But the Eagles showed that they have some depth.
Former Brisbane Lions midfielder Bradd Dalziell and newcomer Mark Hutchings lifted their rating to show they are capable in the tightest of games.
Perhaps the effort of West Coast over the past two weeks has come too late for the Eagles in the run to the finals.
Dean Cox played his 264th game on Thursday night, which is the second most by any player who has started their career as a rookie-listed player. The sixtime All-Australian ruckman levelled Melbourne's James McDonald and is closing in on the No.1 spot. Will he get there though? The man that he is chasing is St Kilda's Stephen Milne, who has played 268 games. But he is currently being held out of play by the Saints, with his immediate future unclear.
Thursday night football was well supported by the West Australian football public. Even though the game started at 6.10pm (local time), there were 29,331 people in Patersons Stadium when the siren went to start the game. The final crowd figure was 36,451. West Coast fans appear happy to watch footy on any day though, with 37,781 showing up on Monday night, June 3 when Richmond beat the Eagles by 61 points – but that was a public holiday.
Essendon continue to impress on the road. The Bombers win over West Coast was their second victory at Patersons Stadium this season, having beaten Fremantle by four points in the West in round four. Thursday night's win over the Eagles though was Essendon's first win over West Coast in WA since 2001, breaking an eight-game losing streak.


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BANGKOK- It is a ranking that is unlikely to please neither Thailand nor the Philippines. The first published Index Global Terrorism Index from the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) ranks 158 countries based on the number of terrorist attacks, the number of fatalities and injuries from terrorism, as well as the estimated property damage. The GTI analyses many other factors and has found intergroup cohesion, human rights, group grievances, corruption and governance to be associated with terrorism.
Most terrorist attacks occur in a wider conflict situation. The index shows that global terrorism only started to increase after the escalation of the Iraq war. This was subsequently followed by further increasing waves of terrorism in Afghanistan and then in Pakistan eighteen months later.
Two lessons are to be learned from the survey: first, in contrary to the public believe, low-income countries are less affected by terrorism than lower middle-income countries, indicating that poverty is not necessarily a main cause of terrorism. Private citizens and property are the most common targets of terrorism while the military is targeted in only 4% of attacks.
The most targeted areas by terrorism were in 2011 the Middle-East, India, Pakistan and Russia. There were 7473 fatalities in 2011, which is 25% less than in 2007. Afghanistan and India are recognized as the the most exposed countries in Asia to extremism.
However, a big surprise is the presence of two countries within Southeast Asia – Thailand and the Philippines –in the top ten, indicating a high risk of terrorist activity.
Thailand, struggling to contain a shadowy insurgency in its southern border provinces, ranked 8th. Among Southeast Asian nations, it was first on the list.
"Out of the terrorist attacks which were claimed or attributed to a group, almost all entirely are related to the insurgency in the south of the country between Muslim separatists and the Thai government," the report said, while noting that the perpetrators remain unidentified in 85% of attacks.
Main targets according to the report were businesses, police and increasingly educational institutions. Schools are effectively perceived as the instrument of the "Thailandisation" of a deeply Malay-Muslim area.
In the Philippines, militant groups representing a spectrum of ideologies – from Islamist extremism to Marxism-Leninism - continue regularly to hit the country. Terrorism activities might however diminish in the near future as a peace agreement has been signed between the Government and one of the most active militant group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front."Terrorism in the Philippines is intrinsically tied with nationalist separatist claims by people living in provinces in the Southern Philippines," the report said.
Indonesia ranked in the report 29th compared to ranking 8th for Thailand and 10th for the Philippines. But a recent wave of attempts to hit the country through terrorism acts was recently unveiled. Police and Indonesian military acted swiftly arresting many leaders of terrorist groups. However many cells continue to be active in the archipelago. They are based in some areas of Central and East Java as well as in Ambon (Moluccas) and Poso in Sulawesi.
"In 2012, Indonesia has found many new faces of terrorism," Al Chaidar, a terrorism expert who focuses on Indonesia, told the news website Khabar Southeast Asia via telephone. "There are many factions among the networks; they are growing and establishing other smaller groups", he added.
The ranking does not reflect however the real danger of the country: best example is Papua New Guinea which ranks 115 in the index… despite the fact that Port Moresby is acknowledged as one of the most dangerous cities to stay in Asia-Pacific!
(Sources: Vision of Humanity- Khabar Southeast Asia)
GTI Ranking 2011 in Asia
Countries such as Laos, Singapore, South Korea or Vietnam are not classified as they did not suffer any terrorism act in year 2011. No data for Timor Leste and Brunei.
Country |
GTI ranking worldwide |
GTI ranking in Asia |
Pakistan |
2 |
1 |
Afghanistan |
3 |
2 |
India |
4 |
3 |
Thailand |
8 |
4 |
Philippines |
10 |
5 |
Sri Lanka |
16 |
6 |
Nepal |
22 |
7 |
China PRC |
23 |
8 |
Indonesia |
29 |
9 |
Myanmar |
33 |
10 |
Bangladesh |
39 |
11 |
Australia |
64 |
12 |
Bhutan |
72 |
13 |
Malaysia |
90 |
14 |
Cambodia |
101 |
15 |
New Zealand |
104 |
16 |
Japan |
109 |
17 |
Papua New Guinea |
115 |
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"Time heals all wounds." – Olie Kolzig (Photo credit: Joe Lavelle)
Olie Kolzig is back! Three years after the fan favorite goalie lost his starting role to Cristobal Huet and left on bad terms the club with which he had spent his entire NHL career, Kolzig has rejoined the Capitals as associate goaltender coach. In his new role, Kolzig will assist Dave Prior, who regains the title of goaltender coach he gave up in 2009 to spend more time with his family. Arturs Irbe took over for Prior but decided not to return for the 2011-12 season, citing reasons similar to Prior's when he left his coaching job.
"I'm ecstatic to finally come back basically to the place I call home — playing there for so long," Kolzig told reporters on a conference call. "Being away for two years, I started to get the itch again to get involved again with hockey. … When Dave Prior called me a few weeks back and pitched the idea of coming back and being an associate goaltending coach and working with him, I thought there's probably not a better person that I want to work with and an organization that I want to be back together with."
And Kolzig wasn't the only one who found it a perfect match.
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On Monday, the AHL formally inducted four new members into its American Hockey League Hall of Fame: Maurice Podoloff, Larry Wilson, Harry Pidhirny, and Mitch Lamourex. Foster Hewitt Award-winning broadcaster Mike Emrick was the master of ceremonies, while Caps' head coach Bruce Boudreau served as the keynote speaker.
Among the honorees at the event was former Capitals great Olaf Kolzig. Kolzig, in Hershey to serve as the Eastern Conference's Honorary Captain at the All-Star Game, was recognized for his six stellar seasons in the AHL. Olie backstopped the Rochester Americans to the Calder Cup Finals in 1993 and won the championship with the Portland Pirates in 1994, where he was also named playoffs MVP.
After the induction ceremony concluded, I caught up with Kolzig downstairs at the media luncheon in the Hershey Theatre. With the rare opportunity to speak to a childhood hero, I asked Kolzig about the Capitals' run to the Stanley Cup Finals in 1998, the playoffs meltdown last year, and why he reunited with the team after their messy divorce three seasons ago.
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These flowers really are remarkable in how they replicate the orchid flower structure in such a small package of just a few thousand cells (you can see the individual plant cells in the upper of the two images above), as opposed to the millions of cells that comprise larger orchid flowers. Amazingly enough, these miniscule marvels produce a potent night fragrance, not unlike baby powder mixed with a bit of a grassy undernote.
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Apprehension and Arrest of the Accused
There are three basic routes a case can take in order to be brought to court:
1. Arrest of the accused at the scene of the crime;
2. Arrest based on a warrant issued by the court in response to a sworn complaint;
3. Arrest based on indictment by a Grand Jury as the result of its investigation.
In all three instances, the evidence available must show that there is "probable cause" to believe that a crime was committed and that the person to be charged took part in committing the crime.
What is a complaint?
A complaint is a statement of facts about an alleged crime which, when filed in court formally charges a person. Facts about a crime are submitted to the County Prosecutor's Office by a local law enforcement agency. Upon review, if the evidence is deemed sufficient for prosecution, a complaint is filed in the court.
This is the initial stage in the prosecution of a criminal matter. If there is not enough information at this time, no complaint is filed.
What is a Warrant of Arrest?
A warrant of arrest is an order signed by a judge, authorizing the police to arrest a person believed to have committed a serious crime.
Case Review and Filing of Charges by the Prosecutor
Following the arrest of the accused by the Police, the case is presented to the prosecutor. The prosecutor, as the people's representative in our system of criminal justice, has the sole responsibility for determining whether or not charges will be presented to the Grand Jury. The initial processing of the case by the prosecutor is often referred to as "screening". At this stage the case is discussed with police, evidence is reviewed and witnesses are interviewed.
The prosecutor then decides whether to do one or more of the following:
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2. Increase a given charge to a more serious charge, reduce the charge, or add new charges.
The accused is often charged with more than one criminal offense so the filing of charges with the court can be complex legal procedure. The prosecutor must consider all applicable laws, as well as the decisions of the State and Federal Courts.
If the prosecutor determines there is not sufficient evidence or there is no legal basis for charging the accused with a crime, the case is closed and the accused released.
What Happens to the Accused?
The person accused of the crime is now called the defendant. The defendant will make his/her first appearance before a judge soon after the arrest. The appearance is for the purpose of reviewing the amount set for bail, furnishing the defendant with a copy of the complaint, confirming legal counsel, and setting a date for hearing.
What is the Purpose of Bail?
Bail is set by the court, not by the prosecutor. It is used to assure a defendant's appearance in court. The primary factor considered by the court is whether the defendant is likely to appear for trial. Within that context the court will also take into consideration the defendant's background and the seriousness of the offense charged.
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There are a number of reasons why a criminal case may be dismissed or dropped by the prosecutor or the court before trial. For example, the prosecution may decide probable cause has not been established or the defendant may make full restitution or compensation for property loss. The case may also have to be dismissed because of some technical failure of the evidence, or because the defendant cannot be found or is considered incompetent to stand trial. None of the reasons means that the witness are unimportant or unnecessary, or that their willingness to testify is not appreciated. The presence and willingness of witnesses to testify may be the deciding factor in determining what will be done in the case, particularly in getting the accused to plead guilty.
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Inevitability and Oil, Pt. 1: the inherent risk for accidents in complex technology
When I read updates on blogs or the news about the BP oil spill, my expression is generally very serious: furrowed brow, pursed lips which I'm probably chewing in alternation with gnawing a nail. But last week I laughed out loud, a true LOL, a brash guffaw. ("What?!" my labmates inquired.)
I had read this New York Times article recounting the reactions of the executives of other oil companies during the Congressional hearing as they attempted to assert that this sort of accident would never occur at their own companies' wells.
"We would not have drilled the well the way they did," said Rex W. Tillerson, chief executive of Exxon Mobil.
"It certainly appears that not all the standards that we would recommend or that we would employ were in place," said John S. Watson, chairman of Chevron.
"It's not a well that we would have drilled in that mechanical setup," said Marvin E. Odum, president of Shell.
The idea that this would never happen at another deep-sea well is preposterous to me. That the risks of drilling a mile into the ocean – to depths that require robots (yet another form of technology) for access, in order to draw back up pressurized matter from mostly unexplored pockets – can be calculated and prepared for seems absolutely ridiculous. And although the execs are using exact and technical language to ensure that they will never be made hypocrites, the message they are trying to send is: BP messed up. We act more responsibly and would never have made such mistakes. We should be allowed to continue drilling in the deep.
Many people seem ready to play the blame game, plug the whole thing on BP and call it a day. I, however, think that this accident presents an opportunity for us to reflect upon what it means to be a society reliant on complex technologies whose failures can cause disaster.
I. A little bit of theory…
When talking about risk theory and safety, two main ideas come up in the scholarship: Normal Accidents Theory (NAT) and High Reliability Organization Framework (HROF), which can you read about in quite thorough detail in this article from Organizational Studies.
The term "normal accidents" was coined by Charles Perrow in his 1984 book Normal Accidents: Living with High Risk Technologies (available on Google Books) to describe accidents that are not caused by a single, definite error – but are rather due to inherent problems in complex systems. The two qualities that lead towards "normal accidents" or "system accidents" are:
- A system complex enough that not all outcomes can be predicted, leading to a potential situation where 2 failures could interact in an unexpected way, hiding the true cause of the problem; and
- The system is "tightly coupled" – meaning that processes happen very quickly, and the parts are entwined so closely that individual parts cannot be separated from one another.
These two qualities combined create a system for which there is "insufficient time and understanding to control incidents and avoid accidents," as the Organizational Studies article states.
Perrow himself compiled this theory after the incident at Three Mile Island. Three Mile Island was a nuclear reactor outside of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania which underwent a partial core meltdown in 1979. In this near-disaster, two seemingly contradictory "safety devices," meant to alert the crew of problems in the reactor, went off simultaneously, distracting the staff from the real problem: a stuck steam valve. Luckily, an engineer put the pieces together with less than an hour to spare. This is an example of a "normal accident" – where the complexity of the reactor, that is, the system's "normal" existence, nearly caused disaster itself.
In reaction to Normal Accident Theory, the more optimistic High Reliability Optimization Framework was born. It's originators, Todd La Porte and Karlene Roberts, describe an alternate scenario, in which complex systems are able to run incredibly smoothly and without fail for long periods of time. Citing aircraft control operations as an example, they explain that the technology is not the issue, but rather the complexity of the organization. As long as all the people working on the ground are highly trained in both technical function of the system and safety, complex systems are not doomed to fail.
While both theories are flawed (as the article mentioned above outlines), I find the Normal Accidents Theory to be more useful. It seems obvious that if all employees are highly trained in all areas, things would flow smoothly. But, I'm sorry to report, that doesn't seem to be the case for most systems and industries. Normal Accident Theory informs a different way of looking at technology and thinking about accidents – a view revealing that there is an inherent danger, and to be slightly wary. A useful view in terms of planning, training, and honesty.
II. Is the BP Oil Spill a "normal accident?"
The BP oil spill does not fit perfectly into the Normal Accident framework. There were a number of specific mistakes that were made that led to the spill – at least that's what the reports are saying for now. (That is, it's not "normal" unless cost-cutting and neglecting safety are considered "normal." It does feel that way sometimes…) Upon hearing my initial lamenting at the onset of the spill, my father sent me this New Yorker article by Malcolm Gladwell in order to provide some "useful perspective." (Thanks, Dad.) It was published in 1996 and is a reflection on a fatal (and comparable) accident that occurred 10 years prior: the Challenger explosion.
The Challenger was NASA's second space shuttle, which underwent liftoff successfully 9 times. However, on its 10th liftoff in 1986, it exploded just 73 seconds off the ground, killing all seven crew members. The first 9 times, the rubber O-rings contained hot gas and kept it from ignition by rocket fire. But the 10th time they failed. Engineers had warned NASA that it was too cold for take-off, but the top men insisted that they stay on schedule. Thus it was a combination of mechanical failure and human hubris that caused the Challenger exposion.
The BP oil spill is a similar case. The hubris of man, the need to drill quickly and cheaply, led to cost-cutting and mechanical failure (as the media currently reports), resulting in a massive oil slick that will continue to grow in the months, if not the years, to come.
As I mentioned previously, I am not confident in deep-sea drilling technology. Granted, I don't know much about it, and the current inundation of the interwebs in oil spill opinions makes finding reliable information nearly impossible. Maybe I'm the one being irrational here, but I just cannot see how this technology is not risky in and of itself. I am not confident in the other oil company executives, claiming that their systems are not flawed. While BP's spill was not a "normal accident," it does not preclude other rigs from having them.
This is why all the finger-pointing at BP irks me. They made some serious mistakes and will pay the consequences – I'm not letting them off the hook. But by having an easy scapegoat, we, the public, can easily ignore the greater issues at hand such as the inherent risk for disaster in these complex systems, or the fact that we're drilling a mile deep into the ocean floor for fuel in the first place. It's too easy to make this accident out to be a huge mistake made by greedy corporate white men instead of contemplating that fact that this could have happened just through the nature of the system.
In his book Inviting Disaster: Lessons from the Edge of Technology, James Chiles writes:
A lot of us are offering our lives these days to machines and their operators, about which we know very little except that occasionally things go shockingly wrong… Later study shows that machine disasters nearly always require multiple failures and mistakes to reach fruition. One mishap, a single cause, is hardly ever enough to constitute a disaster. A disaster occurs through a combination of poor maintenance, bad communication, and shortcuts. Slowly the strain builds.
We are all human. We all know what it's like to procrastinate, to forget to leave a message, to have our minds wander. In his book, Chiles argues, citing over 50 examples in immense detail, that most disasters are caused by "ordinary mistakes" – and that to live in this modern world, we have to "acknowledge the extraordinary damage that ordinary mistakes can now cause." Most of the time, things run smoothly. But when they don't, our culture requires us to find someone to blame instead of recognizing that our own lifestyles cause these disasters. Instead of reconsidering the way we live our lives, we simply dump our frustration off so that we can continue living our lives in comfort.
It is too easy to ignore the fact that the risk of disaster comes with technology, especially ones that incorporate a form of energy such as nuclear power, rocket fuel, or, here, the potential energy of pressurized crude oil.
III. Prospective: incorporating Normal Accident Theory into our culture
At the beginning of his New Yorker article, Gladwell outlines the "ritual to disaster:" the careful exposition of the problems that went wrong, the governmental panel, the pointed fingers. Rereading it a month after I first received it, I can see this ritual unfolding before me. It occurs on the premise that we can learn from our mistakes – that the pinpointing of the precise events that led to disaster can help us avoid repeating ourselves. But Gladwell asks: "What if these public post mortems don't help us avoid future accidents? … [Perhaps they] are as much exercises in self-deception as they are genuine opportunities for reassurance."
If Chiles and Perrow are right – if risk and thus potential accident are built into the nature of complex machinery run by humans – we should not be reassured. We can certainly learn from our mistakes and try to keep replicate disasters from occurring. But, as Chiles points out, if all concern is thrown into the one part of the system that has been harmed before, it will only leave other parts to corrode and rust without our notice.
What would it mean for us to "accept" that our technology is flawed, that "normal accidents" will occur? It would not lessen the impact of disasters. But if an acceptable discourse could be developed to address inherent risk in machines without striking fear into the masses, if the topic were no longer untouchable or taboo, we could better prepare for "normal accidents." For while industries mostly employ specialists these days, in these accidents (or near-accidents), the answer comes instead from large-scale thinking. Chiles describes it as a game of chess in which "a chess master spends more time thinking about the board from his opponent's perspective than from his own."
We have to combine our risk assessment theories – we have to aim for the optimistic High Reliability Optimization Framework, trying to turn as many people on the team into "chess masters" as possible, without getting overconfident. Although "normal accidents" cannot be predicted, the HROF should include training in what a "normal accident" is. Even the mere knowledge that the machinery may not always act the way its supposed to is better than nothing.
But for now, the disaster ritual will continue, just as it did with the Challenger and other disasters. BP will take the blame and foot the bill. In several months or years, there will be a public apology and ceremony to remember the 11 rig workers who died. And the President will announce: We have learned our lesson from the BP spill. We will not make this mistake again. Deep-sea drilling is reopened, we are reborn. "Your loss has meant that we could confidently begin anew," as Captain Frederick Hauck said of the Challenger in 1988.
There are other fundamental differences between the BP oil spill and the other man-made disasters: its expanse in both space and time. The Challenger explosion, while a great tragedy, was swift. There were no long-term effects felt by the general public (excepting the families of the astronauts). But this spill is far from over. By ignoring the inherent risks in deep-sea drilling, we are potentially setting ourselves up for another long-term disaster, affecting millions of people, wildlife, ecosystems. I don't think we can afford a repeat.
Chiles, James R. Inviting Disaster: Lessons from the Edge of Technology. New York: Harper Collins, 2002.
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What an awesome and insightful post. One of the best that I've read on the oil spill so far.
I completely agree with you that pointing out a scapegoat is not helping the underlying problems at all. In my ideal world, after the BP oil spill the Western World would have paused to overthink its current reliance on oil and the entire logistical operation that has become necessary to fuel this reliance. Only then will I say, if that is the choice we want to make and if these are the risks we want to take, so be it.Also interesting in this regard is a recent Nature paper: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v464/n7291/full/nature08932.html
It describes how networks themselves can be robust (the electrical grid, the interent), but that increasing connectiveness between these networks can lead to hidden fragilities of the system, which could lead to catastrophical collapse of both networks.
Oh, thank goodness someone else is thinking about this along these terms. A lot of folks are talking about this in terms of wholesale prevention (and rightly so), but as someone who went through the levee failures in New Orleans back in 2005 and is now watching this unfold, we hardly think of disaster containment in terms of planning for quick and directed response and recovery. Poor disaster response only compounds and becomes part of the greater disaster itself.
As I said on my blog today:
"The way to prevent this from happening again is known. There are folks opposed to and for offshore drilling who say that we can never prevent a recurrence and therefore we should stop drilling or continue to drill, respectively. But, this was no mere accident. An accident happens when you follow all the rules of the road and external, heretofore-unknown circumstances conspire against you. In this case, the driver didn't have the seatbelt on, the tires were under-inflated, the brakes were non-operational but no one had bothered to check them and the car was driven anyway even after passengers expressed concern and asked for the handover of keys. (Hey, if folks in the industry are going to liken this ongoing disaster to a car accident or plane crash, you can bet I will run miles with the metaphor.) So, this much is absolutely preventable.
"What about the rest? As commenter Blair, who incidentally is a [former NASA] rocket scientist, said in a comment to a previous post, 'It costs to do fault tree analysis and establish contingency plans, but the cost of NOT planning is getting too high. I worry that governments are reactive in nature and will never get ahead of the situation. Government CAN require industry to have plans in place before they proceed with potentially risky activity.' You cannot prevent lightning from striking the collection ship thus halting oil recovery for a while. That is a legitimate accident. But to not anticipate and plan for any critical component of the operation failing due to human oversight or acts of god, even and especially in the recovery phase, shows that neither BP nor the government has learned philosophically much from the initial disaster and it's going to take a lot more than six months and a drilling moratorium to fix systemic breakdown."
Having worked for major oil companies in the past (and not at all inclined to do so ever again), there is some truth to Exxon, Chevron and Shell's statements that they wouldn't have drilled that well. BP engineering isn't ridiculed within the industry for nothing. But, those always make for famous last words.
Great post, and thanks for including these references.
The thing that bothers me about this whole event is how the industry and gov't are both saying things like "We'll investigate what went wrong and make sure it doesn't happen again." — that's all fine and good, we should certainly investigate what went wrong. But, it would be refreshing if someone had the guts to say: "No matter how much technology and R&D we throw at this we can NEVER guarantee it won't happen again. The chance for catastrophic failure will always be >0%."
The big disconnect that many people have pointed out is that the technology for deep-water drilling is cutting edge but the technology for responding to a deep-water blowout is ineffective to put it nicely. In addition to doing our best to prevent a future blowout we should acknowledge that failure is a possibility and invest $$ and effort into response technology. -
>Engineers had warned NASA that it was too cold for take-off, but the top men insisted that they stay on schedule. Thus it was a combination of mechanical failure and human hubris that caused the Challenger explosion.
First off I need to say that I am guessing about what I have to say. I am more than willing to listen to facts if any are available.
My guess is that on every launch at least a few engineers warned that their subsystems were not at acceptable levels of adequacy. Thus engineers' concerns were ignored as if they were part of a huge game of calling wolf.
This would take some of the blame for complex system misbehavior away from managers' hubris. Does this put back blame for their inability to manage an impossibly complex system?
For all the sound bytes I conclude that risk management has to also include the risk of being timid to the point of paralysis. Sometimes one simply must guess. Sometimes guesses go horribly wrong.
Complex systems WILL fail. Ability to recover is right up there with doing ones best not to fail.
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As long as there is money to be made deep drilling will continue. What we don't know and actually can't know is what costs such an accident really have on the marine ecology and life. All those 'estimates' done aside, we've never stopped any damaging act for our environment just due to the damage made.
As long as profit and shareholders steer we will continue exploit a shrinking world. and only when disaster stare us in the face do we stop to discuss it. I'm not impressed by PB, neither am i impressed of any other profit making organization, all oil companies included.
We spew out around thirty percent of all natural gas f.ex before we even start to get some use from it, just in 'natural' leaks. And that's methane folks, a really heat binding gas.
Outside Australia And outside Russia (EastEurope) we go down to try to exploit the frozen methane deposits, ignoring the very real fact of underwater landslides that will free those deposits as 'harmless bubbles' for those few observing them.
We don't need a new 'risk analysis', we need a inventory of what we still have left in form of natural assets, and then we need to make some real educated guesses as to what we can allow our selves in form of exploatation. This whole sh* reminds me all too much of the 'Emperors new clothes' where no one would admit to him being naked, if you now know that reference.
There are no really acceptable risks any more. This world is becoming all to small, and our resources all to dwindling.
So do I expect anything like this to happen?
Nope, just more BS coming in form of Copenhagen deals etc. Ad we're all in on it, all refusing to see, no one excluded. We're leaving a depleted planet to our off springs and we will say "we didn't see." and we didn't. We kept our eyes real closed the whole time. -
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interesting write up, fair and even handed in a time when people aren't feeling particularly fair and even handed toward BP.
sometimes i wonder how much better/more responsible, companies would be if they weren't publicly traded.
would BP have cut those corners if they didn't have so many anonymous shareholders receiving e-mails of their monthly dividends?
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Great post Hannah. Most scary to me after any disaster or even minor accident is when I hear people say "it wouldn't happen here" or "I would never do that". The identification of a villain pretty much stops people's interest in looking for future failures. Another good reference for this topic is David Marx's Whack-a-Mole: The Price We Pay For Expecting Perfection.
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His last name is Perrow. Charles Perrow. Not Farrow. Just an edit.
Thanks! Somehow I managed to cite him correctly, but spell his name wrong the ENTIRE post. Appreciate the tip!
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