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Announcing a delay of up to one month in a five-year development programme would be meaningless and usually forgotten unless a company – or, indeed, an entire industry – suffers from an acute credibility problem.
So when Bombardier postpones the maiden flight by the first CSeries aircraft by anywhere between one and 31 days, the public and investment community reaction to yet another delay – however trivial it may actually be – by another aerospace manufacturer has become somewhat predictable.
The company's stock sank as much as 4.5% on the Toronto stock exchange in the first few hours after the announcement, as shareholders worried about what other surprises Bombardier may be preparing to unleash about the CSeries.
A loss of credibility is one problem an OEM cannot pin on its suppliers. Bombardier executives were never forced to say repeatedly and consistently since last November that the CSeries would fly by late June. Nor was there any requirement to repeat the prediction ad nauseam in public appearances and interviews at the Paris air show, an event that ended three days before Bombardier announced the latest delay.
Bombardier's show of confidence during the show also seems almost gratuitously unnecessary. Signs of a gathering delay had been building for weeks. It takes months to prepare for a maiden flight by a commercial aircraft, including a series of highly visible tests on open runways. But there had been no sightings of the CSeries performing the required battery of low-speed and high-speed tests in Mirabel, Canada.
A similar pattern was revealed during 2012 as Bombardier closed within 10 weeks of the originally scheduled first flight by 31 December. The giveaway that a major delay was looming was the status of engine certification. By late October, Pratt & Whitney still had not completed development testing of the PW1500G engine for the CSeries, which typically finishes at least six months before a first flight event.
It wasn't until 7 November that Bombardier announced that the CSeries first flight was delayed by six months. P&W finally certificated the PW1500G with Transport Canada in February, which happens to be six months ahead of the new schedule for first flight in July.
These are self-inflicted wounds – and it is time that the industry begins to understand that it is only fooling itself.


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Fortunately, these data also reveal high schools throughout California that are making progress in closing these opportunity gaps. To read more, click here. Publication date: June 19 2012 College and Career , Report Read more 1 attachment The Education Trust—West Statement on Governor Brown's May Budget Revision Posted May 14, 2012 - 3:52pm by vcuevas OAKLAND, CA (May 14, 2012) The Education Trust—West issued the following statement regarding Governor Brown's May budget revision: "After five straight years of budget deficits, Governor Brown is rightly acknowledging the severity of our current crisis. In this difficult context, we applaud the Governor for continuing to press for a weighted student formula proposal that would fund school districts based on the needs of their students. We also commend him for requiring districts to spend the additional dollars generated by low-income students and English Learners on these students. Ed Trust West Read more The Education Trust—West Statement as State Board Considers California's Application for a Waiver of No Child Left Behind Posted May 9, 2012 - 3:10pm by vcuevas OAKLAND, CA (May 9, 2012) The Education Trust—West issued the following statement as the California State Board of Education considers an application for a waiver of No Child Left Behind: "On Thursday, the California Department of Education and State Board President Mike Kirst will present a proposal to the State Board of Education to apply for a waiver of No Child Left Behind. Unlike the 37 states and the District of Columbia who have already submitted waiver applications, this request will not meet the requirements of the Obama administration's waiver application process. 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12 There are certain Jews whom you appointed to govern the province of Babylon: Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. These men didn't obey your order, Your Majesty. They don't honor your gods or worship the statue that you set up." | 12 But there are some Jews whom you have set over the affairs of the province of Babylon--Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego--who pay no attention to you, O king. They neither serve your gods nor worship the image of gold you have set up." |
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Changing the Headlines: Riffing on RevkinI want to revisit the strategies of communication that we use when writing and talking about climate change. Back in 2011, Christine Shearer and I wrote, "Changing the Media Discussion on Climate and Extreme Weather." A point that we made was that scientists needed to view their interactions with the press and public as more than an expert voice answering questions. We are also active participants in a conversation, listening and speaking. As part of our participation, we have the opportunity to advance the larger societal discussions in positive and progressive directions.A headline that caught my attention was "How 'Warmest Ever' Headlines and Debates Can Obscure What Matters About Climate Change." This is a Dot Earth Opinion Piece by Andrew Revkin. The piece focuses on the how the message that is delivered by focusing on records is not only simplistic, but fuels the most public part of the political and denialist arguments. The fuel comes in the form of the fundamentally meaningless arguments over the measurements and methodology of determining whether or not a particular month or year is hottest. It is reminiscent of arguments of rankings from football and basketball polls. I want to take Revkin's headline and explore it from a different point of view. Since May of 2014, I have been writing that 2014 would likely be a record hot year, and that should be more expected than extraordinary. We are living in a time of unabated warming. We have knowledge to substantiate that this warming will continue for decades. We have no knowledge to suggest that the warming will cease. Therefore, we should be expecting record warm years. More reliably, we expect record-warm decades and, even more reliably, record-warm thirty-year intervals. What would be extraordinary, remarkable, would be a month or year that was colder than the twentieth century average. If we count record warmth, then we will soon have record fatigue.There is another thread in Revkin's piece about the backlash from reporting records and his back and forth with Gavin Schmidt. In 2010, I wrote a piece called Politics and Knowledge, What to Do. (Here is the whole What To Do Collection) In that piece I discuss Brendan Nyhan's and Jason Reifler's study The Persistence of Political Misconceptions. They find through case studies that the correction of incorrect information in polarized political issues did not lead to a rationalization of factual knowledge. In fact, they found that the correction of factually incorrect information could backfire, leading to more polarization. In more recent work, Nyhan et al. have confirmed this phenomenon with respect to vaccination, which is having influence in the vaccination field. The point, we have these social science findings, which we seem to dismiss and prove we are what we repeatedly do.We can, in fact, conclude that our quest for simple messages and smothering evidence of global change hands control of the headline conversation to the denial interested. Here is a concrete example.Much of the public discussion forms around figures such as this one from the 2001 IPCC Third Assessment Report. This is a figure of variations of global averaged surface temperature – air temperature. Figure 1: From 2001 IPCC Third Assessment Report Variations of the Earth's surface temperature: year 1000 to year 2100. (More description of figure and my markups)This figure (along with its older and newer versions) was designed to communicate, especially to policy makers, the scale and uncertainty of average planetary warming to be expected. The figure is one of many figures that, as a whole, tell a convincing story of the Earth warming due to increased greenhouse gases and changes to the Earth's surface. This is warming that is overwhelming natural variability. From a scientist's perspective, it is poor scientific methodology to pose this figure as an up or down vote on the veracity of our body of knowledge about climate change.The figure was never meant to stand alone as the descriptor and the convincer of global warming. It was part of a whole. The surface air temperature is a measure of climate and weather that is intuitive. It is important to humans. It follows naturally from our attention to the weather, and from our history that quantitative climate science followed from the study of weather – of the atmosphere. Not only is the surface air temperature an incomplete measure of the Earth's climate, it is not a very good summary measure of the Earth's climate.The Earth is warming – the Earth, not just the air. The Earth is accumulating a larger portion of the energy that the Sun provides. The oceans play the dominant role in the Earth's climate with regard to heat storage and transport. As 2014 shows explicitly, the oceans have a central role in the air temperature. That the heat goes first to the ocean, then to the air, does not excuse us of the fact that the increasing amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is the root cause of a warming Earth.Heat also goes into melting the ice sheets and the glaciers. If the heat is doing that work, then it is not going into warming the air. Air temperature is, therefore, neither a complete nor an especially good measure of climate. Yet, we continue to let it drive headlines. Return to the figure. The whole silly warming pause, warming hiatus thing follows from this type of figure. If you extract a segment from say 1990-2020, then the model projections and observations align with discrepancies that are large enough to allow the proposal of doubt and to fuel its growth. That is, if you take this figure in isolation and make it the core of arguments and headlines.This figure, however, was designed to communicate an intuitive and important aspect of climate change, not to represent all of climate change. The models used for the figure were designed to frame the range of possible future warming, and place that warming in context of the past century. They were not designed to predict the bumps and wiggles associated with a particular year or decade. In fact, the figure uses a large collection of models, averaged together to remove those bumps and wiggles. In early versions of the figure, the models did not have the ability to represent the melting of ice. Nor did they have the oceans represented with sufficient robustness to represent the air-temperature variability associated with the ocean.Hence, we have a figure that was designed to communicate one aspect of the changing climate. This figure is of a climate measure that does not singularly represent climate. The models used to construct the figure were designed to frame the future, not to predict the months and years of 2010s. Yet, the figure has been used to frame and dominate the headlines, by focusing on the failures of observations to match the figure and the arcane science-based corrections to rationalize the discrepancies. This keeps the most present of public discussion nonproductive. A few years ago I was talking with an executive from a power company. He was not ignorant or dismissive of climate change. He assured me, however, that it was his job to challenge in court any regulation of emissions that would be proposed. This buys time to develop strategies, to amortize current capacity and to influence policy. It buys time for competitive advantage. The Earth's climate is not simple, and neither are the reasons to sustain doubt and tumultuous headlines. There is reason, even, for the knowing to maintain an inconclusive conversation. No doubt, "warmest ever" headlines obscure what is important about climate change. It takes what is expected and makes it into inconsequential headlines. It is simplistic in many ways to make this persistently premiere news. It plays into maintaining a conversation that is isolating of the subject of climate change. It consumes the energy and resources of scientists in fundamentally nonproductive ways. It helps the denialists frame the conversation. We need to learn to embrace the complexity, simply, rather that trying to communicate the complexity simplistically. r
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1846 $1 PR62 NGC. Prior to 1858, proofs were not coined with any regularity or with any real plan for distribution, and th...
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The mirrored fields on this piece are quite muted due to the depth of the gunmetal-blue and gray toning. Lightly hairlined, several small marks and abrasions from rough handling are noted in the fields on each side. However, these small impairments should not deter a strong bid for this exceedingly rare piece. Population: 1 in 62, 11 finer (6/05).
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Google Mulling Wi-Fi For Cities With Google Fiber
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Not so fast my friend. Corporate interests will squash anything including the government that tries to provide anything different.
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Re:Why not a government service? (39 comments)
Not so fast my friend. Corporate interests will squash anything including the government that tries to provide anything different.
Re:The power of EULAs only goes so far (216 comments)
You get a bonus mod point for that one. Bravo
Long live the dot matrix (650 comments)
I want some more ribbon for my dot matrix printer
You're still on Earth (150 comments)
Wouldn't the most critical component for the psyche be that you are on Mars? No calling off the experiment, no where to run. In the experiment, the participants will know in the back of their minds that if something goes terribly wrong, they will get pulled out or rescued.
Re:Don't bother. (509 comments)
Unfortunately, politicians don't run for office based on their scientific or educational merit/knowledge.
Re:Flight recorder (491 comments)
P3 tacco again. P3s carry sonobuoys, which can listen underwater. You can drop enough to cover the "listening" area.
Re:Flight recorder (491 comments)
As for former P3 tacco, I give the following input: Only better and slower airborne asset is a helicopter. Given the remote location, the only way to get them to the search area would be by ship (destroyer (only a few helos, or aircraft carrier (many helos, but might not be available) So, what other choices do you have? Multi engine fixed wing search aircraft are the only way you could get coverage in this area. So the balance becomes how much area you can cover with radar and visual search patterns. You could search closer with surface ships, but you are talking alot of craft to cover a similar area, plus the lag time to gather them and get them to the location.
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No mod points, but would bump it up for the astute observation of if evasive manuevers were an AC or not and the point on regulatory creep.
Anyone remember Palm? (267 comments)
Remember Palm? How they watched as the tech passed them by and never quite caught up. In their heyday, they had the market cornered for PIMs and saw the smartphone just kill them off. Their attempts to become relevant again were feeble at best.
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Turn on the backlight to the GPS or hopefully you picked up the lantern in the previous room.
Re:Darwin would be proud. (599 comments)
Agreed. Stupid people are more likely to die. Enuf said.
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Yes, you had to be there to appreciate it for what it was at the time.
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Fallout Series (1,2,3, New Vegas, Oblivion, Morrowind) all good. Yes, can get dull at times traveling in their worlds, but interactive SP play is worth it. Not to mention the Mod community for Fallout and Oblivion that provide addons, upgrades and creativity. Also worth noting the mod community for the Half Life/Half Life 2 (origin of Counterstrike), plus all the addons (e.g. Gary's mod) and various scenarios based on the HL engine . If you have a good thing, gamers and independent developers will keep supporting the game and keep you coming back.
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Got no mod points to give... posting to agree with your point of adding or trying to add MP onto SP games.
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Mod +1, funny. Sry, got no real points to give.
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I assume Facebook started out with good intentions to be solely a social network with no designs on commercializing the concept. However, the dollar has skewed that. In this case, money talks.
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Hmm. Whenever I have received mod points, I made sure to use them and not blow it off. And have been pretty consistent in how I used them. Not sure who the mod point gods are but hopefully you didn't do anything in the past to piss them off.
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Maginot was built to fight WWI technology and tactics. In the interim, mechanized infantry and tanks had advanced so that the blitzkrieg could actually be accomplished. In the history of warfare, haven't alot of changes in tactics been decided on the advances in technology that the loser did not forecast or plan for?
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Your answer makes me think a good analogy is junk mail. I don't request any junk mail, but it shows up in my snail mail box regularly. Junk mailers have the same modus operandi... send it out in volumes and bank that a tiny percentage will respond. I don't think that junk mail or unsolicited ad mailers will ever go away.. its part of the "system".
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Will Chris Brown Ever Be Ready To 'Think Like A Man'?
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Ladies, I think we need to have a real talk with Tim Story, the director of "Think Like a Man," the upcoming film (April 2012) based on Steve Harvey's bestselling relationship advice guide, "Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man." IMDB describes the movie as, "A self-professed relationship expert [Kevin Hart] who is quick to give advice to his crew of friends, even as his own marriage heads toward divorce." So far, the studio has been stacking the odds of success in their favor with a roster of actors that includes heartthrob Michael Ealy, Black romantic comedy staple Gabrielle Union, and Oscar nominee Taraji P. Henson. On Sunday, the studio announced that it had completed casting, adding two final names to the line up: It Girl LaLa Vazquez…and Chris Brown?
I hate to bring up old ish, but I must. Chris Brown beat Rihanna until she was bruised and bloody. He's apologized profusely, done his community service, completed his anger management classes and diligently worked his butt off for a second chance. I respect the way he's working hard to rebuild his image, but when it comes to relationships, he's still very much under construction. Unfortunately, Breezy remains the reigning poster boy for anger mis-management (throwing the chair at a "Good Morning America" window in March didn't help), and he's equally known for his talents on the stage as he is for busting up his girlfriend in a car two years ago. It will be near impossible for women to take Brown seriously in whatever role he plays in this film and to disassociate him from his complicated previous relationship.
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