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Restaurant review: Bite into a burger and sip a brew at Brewgrrs
Cuisine: Burgers
Hours: 11:30 a.m.-closing daily
Address: 390 21st St., Vero Beach
Phone: 772-226-5700
Alcohol: beer and wine
Handicapped access: yes
Reservations: No
When chefs take a rare day off from their own restaurants, what makes them salivate?
According to a survey by Cooks' Illustrated, chefs crave simple foods when they are not braising a rabbit or swirling a sauce.
Brewgrrs beckons. Just off Miracle Mile in Vero Beach, this lively American-style sports pub is ultracasual, filled with big-screen TVs and wooden picnic tables that encourage communal eating.
The festive mood is enhanced by a wide variety of craft beers on tap. One guest found the Belgian Chocolate Stout ($6.50) "like drinking Hershey's with a kick." That's high praise. There are more than 50 other brews to choose from, among lagers and stouts, porters and pilsners as well as a variety of seasonal treats like the creamy Shock Top Pumpkin ($6.50).
Nonalcoholic beverages include shakes ($4.50), including banana ripple and cheesecake. The flavors were great, but the consistency of the drink betrayed too little milk and too much crushed ice.
Six of us arrived the other night ready to bid goodbye to a holiday season filled with Christmas goose and too many sugarplums. We wanted burgers and hot dogs, another iconic American food. While the restaurant offers a naked hot dog ($4.50) and a plain burger ($8.50), most of the meats are gussied up with a variety of unusual toppings. Chili-infused mayonnaise and Dijon mustard, along with sharp cheddar and avocado slices dress the tasty East Meets West burger ($9.75), diminished a little by a cold roll.
A meaty Coney Island hot dog ($6) — all-beef in a casing that popped to the bite — tasted as good as the burger.
But there was a slight problem with the chicken avocado sandwich ($8.75) — no avocado!
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Where would our gardens be without the bushy foliage and tightly swirled blossoms of May-blooming peonies? Peonies lend a color-riot of intense pinks and reds that can't be found in other flowers during the spring. Peony bushes are found in old-fashioned cottage gardens, alongside houses, and in a country-row along the edge of lawns. Gardeners have enjoyed growing peonies for more than a century. With little effort, gardeners are rewarded each spring with the resurgence of foliage and blossoms to renew their love affair with the large, swirling sweetly-scented blossoms of the peonies.
My grandparents grew peonies. Their peonies grew in their backyard, near the garage. The peonies at the Woodard home were of an old, abundant variety and my grandparents had whites, pinks, and reds. Each year, my grandfather would cut some of the peony blossoms and carefully wrap the cut-stemmed flowers to save them for the Memorial Day weekend. On Memorial Day, my grandparents would honor tradition and they would visit the gravesides of their loved ones. During Memorial Day weekend, they would pay respect to their departed family members with gifts of remembrance from their home-grown peonies.
The peonies bloomed very early in May 1981. My grandfather, being honor-bound and dutiful, cut the early-blooming peonies and wrapped the flowers and stems in dampened newsprint. Memorial Day was weeks away, and so my grandfather stored the cut peony blossoms in the cool, dark cellar, where they would keep well for the annual cemetery trip later that month.
The spring of 1981 had been early and glorious. But not to be tempted too hastily, my grandfather waited until all signs of frost were gone before he began his large, summertime vegetable garden. My grandfather was an avid gardener and he loved springtime. This time of year, he turned much of his attention to his vegetable garden.
After tilling his soil one day in May, my grandfather decided it was time to began his late-spring planting. He worked hard that day, tilling, hoeing, and planting several different vegetables. It was on this day in early May that he planted several rows of his favorite green bean, the Half Runner. Each year, as he planted his seeds, he would recall how delicious those Half Runners were when cooked with bacon or ham for flavoring. A mess-of-beans was a nourishing country meal, and my grandfather surely appreciated the extra helpings of those home-grown beans offered at meal-time.
My grandfather always loved being outdoors, and he loved his garden. He was in his own world during the growing season. It was during his times out-of-doors that he and the earth were one.
That full day of gardening in early May had been a good day. The spring soil had been tilled one last time, the rows were marked with stretched strings, and many seeds had been planted. To a gardener, planting time was a special time: planting time offered hope and renewal, and a bounty of food harvested from small labors.
And so, being content with his labors of springtime planting, my grandfather put the tiller away, and returned to his garden to retrieve his hoe and other tools.
And in his garden, his heart stopped.
My grandfather collapsed and died in his garden that early evening. With his last Earthly garden planted, and the peonies picked and stored for the graveside visits later that month, his work ended.
It was a few days later in early May when my grandfather's grave was adorned with his own home-grown, hand-picked peonies. His last bouquet of special peonies were laid to rest alongside him as he passed from our earth into his beyond.
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The 1.09 update for God of War: Ascension is now available, and it'll bring new multiplayer mode Bout of Honor, allowing players to go head to head in a 1 vs 1 battle.
Posted by: Kevin Chieng | July 11, 2013 at 4:56PM
The 1.09 update for God of War: Ascension is now available, and it'll bring new multiplayer mode Bout of Honor, allowing players to go head to head in a 1 vs 1 battle.
Continue Reading: God of War Ascension Patch Adds New 1v1 Multiplayer Mode, New Maps
Posted by: Daniel Kayser | March 14, 2013 at 12:19PM
In the wake of SimCity's troubled launch, we're building an argument against constantly connected games. Plus, the last of Star Wars: First Assault, Lord British launches a Kickstarter, God of War goes co-op, and Ron Gilbert departs Double Fine. All of that and more is constructed on this towering episode of gaming's most brutal video podcast!
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Posted by: slusserrob | March 11, 2013 at 5:18PM
Fans of the the popular God of War series likely know by now that the original God of War had a phone number hidden inside it that, when accessed by the player, actually resulted in a recorded message from none other than Kratos himself. They also discovered that both God of War II and God of War III included secret website urls hidden within the torturous tales of Olympus. Well, with a series of secret messages resulting in real-world interactions, it appears that the newest game in the series, God of War: Ascension, continues the tradition with a cryptic message players can find deep inside the game.
Continue Reading: God of War: Ascension Has A Secret Code, But What Does It Mean?
Posted by: Daniel Kayser | March 08, 2013 at 9:01AM
A post over on the Official PlayStation Blog has brought word of the latest God allegiance -the Lord of the Sea, Poseidona – along with a newly-revealed multiplayer mode in the upcoming God of War: Ascension. The new MP mode is entitled 'Trial of the Gods' and is a two-player co-op time trial mode that will let you and a heroic friend tag-team your way through increasingly difficult waves of mythological beasts while up against the hourglass of Olympus.
Continue Reading: God of War: Ascension Adds Poseidon, Gets 'Trials of the Gods' Co-Op Mode
Posted by: Daniel Kayser | February 27, 2013 at 3:11PM
Now in our third month of the year, 2013 is already shaping up to deliver some amazing gaming experiences. But while both January and February delivered some great titles, the month of March is loaded with big names and highly-anticipated games. So, which ones are the GT Community looking forward to the most? I hit up our followers on Facebook to find out as that's the subject of this edition of POLL POSITION.
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Posted by: Daniel Kayser | February 06, 2013 at 2:54PM
While the fancy-pants God of War: Ascension PlayStation 3 Legacy bundle was confirmed for a US release just a few days ago, SCE UK has today announced a brand new Classic White version of the new model PS3 to be bundled with the special edition of the game.
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Posted by: Daniel Kayser | February 01, 2013 at 7:19AM
While not recognized by the government as an official holiday, February 1, 2013 is starting to feel like "God of War: Ascension" day on the internet as an Olympus-sized offering of game media and confirmation of the PlayStation 3 GOW: Ascension Legacy bundle for the US are topping this morning's headlines.
Continue Reading: New God of War: Ascension Media Released, Legacy Bundle Confirmed for US
Posted by: Dan Seitz | January 24, 2013 at 9:30AM
The gritty stealth and hard-edged action of The Last of Us seems a world away from the over-the-top flaming-dagger antics of Kratos. But, if you'd like to try The Last Of Us, buying God of War: Ascension will be your golden ticket to the demo… when it comes out.
Continue Reading: Want To Play The Demo Of The Last Of Us? Better Get God Of War: Ascension
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It's a pairing that seems, on the face of it, as obvious as chocolate and peanut butter: King Leonidas of the Spartans from 300, and Kratos the Spartan from God Of War. And now, they're finally coming together as a preorder exclusive in God Of War: Ascension.
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Posted by: Dan Seitz | October 23, 2012 at 6:59AM
If you're a PlayStation Plus subscriber, then you've probably already heard that you'll be able to get access to the multiplayer beta for God of War: Ascension.
But what about non-subscribers? Are they just going to have to wait? Not if they play a new social game, they won't.
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PEORIA, Ill. – At this point, the Cedar Rapids Kernels need to save some of this winning for the Midwest League playoffs.
The Kernels got strong starting pitching from Tim Shibuya for a 2-1 win over the Peoria Chiefs on Monday night. It's the sixth consecutive win for Cedar Rapids, which has won 12 of 13.
The teams play again Tuesday night at 6:30.
Shibuya threw eight innings of five-hit ball to improve his record to 2-0. Madison Boer pitched the ninth for the save.
The Kernels got a run in the first inning on a Mike Gonzales RBI single and another in the second on an RBI hit from Jeremias Pineda. Joel Licon went 0-for-3 and had his hitting streak snapped at 16.
Cedar Rapids is a season-high 32 games over .500 at 78-46.
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Snedeker wins a shocker at Torrey Pines
"And I hope he does not beat himself up too much over this."
Snedeker is making a habit of these comebacks. In all three of his PGA Tour wins, he trailed by at least five shots going into the last round. At Hilton Head last year, he came from six shots back and wound up beating Luke Donald in a playoff.
This one was handed to him.
"This one I kind of backed into," Snedeker said. "You never like winning a tournament that way. But you do like winning."
Stanley birdied his first two holes - Snedeker was nine behind at that point - and led by six shots at the turn until he started dropping shots from the sand. Even so, he made three straight par putts, starting with a 12-footer on the 14th, to seemingly regain control.
The kid knows heartache. Last summer, he was two shots ahead at the John Deere Classic until he bogeyed the final hole from a bunker, and Steve Stricker closed with two straight birdies to win.
This loss, however, put him in the wrong kind of company.
It was reminiscent of Van de Velde at Carnoustie, who made triple bogey on the last hole of the 1999 British Open and lost in a playoff; of Garrigus, who made triple bogey on the last hole of the St. Jude Classic in 2010 and lost in a playoff; and even of Frank Lickliter at Torrey Pines, who three-putted from 12 feet on the 17th hole in 2001 to make triple bogey in the third playoff hole in losing to Phil Mickelson.
"I know I'll be back," Stanley said, pausing to allow the words to come out of his mouth. "It's tough to swallow right now."
Stanley stood over a 25-foot birdie putt on the 17th hole with a four-shot lead, and it was matter of staying upright for the next 20 minutes to collect his first PGA Tour win.
If only it were that simple.
Snedeker made his tap-in birdie to finish. Stanley hit a 300-yard drive and kept it simple by laying up.
Then, he fell apart.
His sand wedge had too much spin and did not get high enough on the green, spinning quickly down the slope.
"We tried to lay it up close enough so that we wouldn't put that much spin on it," Stanley said. "Thought I had a pretty good shot, but just had too much spin."
Stanley showed little emotion, as he had done all week, and took his drop in the first cut to eliminate some of the spin. His fifth shot was safely on the back of the green, some 45 feet away.
With a putt down into the bowl of the green, he came up about 3 1/2 feet short, then missed it well to the left for a triple-bogey 8. He had to sign for a 74, without breaking the pencil, then head back to the 18th for a playoff.
Snedeker caught a minor break on the first extra hole when his second shot stopped directly in front of a loose divot. He managed to remove it without moving the ball, then hit sand wedge to 3 feet for birdie. Stanley went for the green in two this time, just over the green, and chipped down to the same spot as Snedeker and matched his birdie.


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Common questions asked to your web host before signing up
One needs to be very careful while choosing a new web host. If web owners sign up a bad web hosting company, they might have to regret about it in the later stage. Poor service, lost files and poor downtime will have a negative impact on the web owners' business. This relation between a web host and web owner is suppose to be a long term relationship. Thus, you should ask certain questions to know whether the web hosting company can provide you the services which you are looking for.
- Can they provide you hardware and software facility as per your requirement?
Ask them whether they can provide you what you need for your kind of website. Know whether you need windows applications, any special version of the software or PHP, any special software, etc. and ask your web host if they can provide all those facilities.
For the starters, it is suggested to opt for shared hosting as it is cheap and easy to maintain. Once your site starts growing bigger you can easily switch to dedicated hosting or VPS.
- What is their server uptime score?
Make sure your web host provides an around the clock service. Your web host should be operating on a powerful server and stable network connection. Ideally the server uptime score should be 99.5% or above. However, if the uptime score goes below 99%, do not opt that web host. You can track on your web host by using server monitor tools. You can easily find a number of server monitor tools which are free on trial.
- How much bandwidth you can use and its charges?
Many web hosts offer unlimited bandwidth. But, in reality unlimited bandwidth is limited. Often this unlimited offers are limited by several limitations and house rules. For example, BlueHost, Hostmonster will start to throttle your account CPU usage after you reach the house's limit and once you exceed a certain number of inodes, Hostgator will shut you down.
If, however, your host specifies your limit of bandwidth, you will need to understand what will be the extra charge for exceeding that limit. Ask if the server will let you know once you are getting closer to the bandwidth limit or if you can keep a track by yourself.
- Does it provide e-commerce and shopping cart features?
Ask the web host whether they can provide you e-commerce feature which will help you to do business transactions on your website. They should be able to help you to configure an existing domain name or if required, whether you can buy a new domain. Backups should also be provided to make sure the e-commerce website and its data are always safe. Ask if your host is using any specific shopping cart software. Choose a web host which has sufficient e-commerce features support. It should be able to provide SSL certification, dedicated IP, one click shopping cart installation and other essential features that you will require.
- Will they provide firewalls to protect your site from being hacked?
In order to avoid the unnecessary visitors in the back-end network of your website, your web host should provide security options. Firewalls are the number one method for keeping your website safe from hackers, disgruntled developers and unwanted visitors. They should be able to make sure that your website is as safe as possible.
- What are the costs for it?
Discuss the charges for account set up, website migration, account cancellation before the specified time, etc. Make sure there are no hidden fees before signing up the web host. Signing up charges are usually quite cheap, but, the renewal prices are much higher. So, check the TOS and see if you are okay with the renewal prices before signing up. You can check this easily by checking the hosting companies TOS by yourself. You are most likely to find their TOS link at the bottom of the home page or the keyboard shortcut is Ctrl+F. There you can search for the keywords "renewal" or "renew".
Know if they have a money back guarantee. In case you are unhappy with your experience with the host, they should offer you to refund the hosting fees, so that, you can move somewhere else.
If your company is unable to answer all the above questions, you might have to do a little bit of research by yourself. Try to reach out to their sales and customer service departments. If they are not willing to answer your queries, then it is advisable to opt for some other web host.
Valuable tips to help you manage your online marketing budget
A marketing plan entails a detailed roadmap that assists you outline all your marketing strategies, budget, tactics and the expected results in a specified period. The plan is particularly important in helping your business focus on specific goals, and this should be accomplished within a certain budgetary range. This post will help you understand how to manage your online marketing campaign budget by outlining three key tips towards the same. However, we start by looking at some of the most effective tactics that will help propel your marketing pursuits.
Proven ways of running a successful low-cost online marketing campaign.
Let's admit it, the finest marketing is highly unlikely to be free, but again this does not mean that it should break your bank. Here are some of the best ways to market your business freely or at a nominal cost.
- Making use of freely available or low-cost marketing tools.
Today, a wide array of effective marketing services and tools such as Facebook's business pages, Yelp, and even Google's MyBusiness section will hardly cost your business anything. All you need is to have your contact information in place, several high-quality pictures and any other vital information that your potential customers might be looking for. You will, however, need to come up with a creative strategy that ensures that you pull out of the stiff competition this avenue poses.
- Give away freebies.
This tactic is especially important when you're seeking to increase your social media presence. Giveaways or discounts have been found to help multiply the number of Facebook pages' likes and other forms of followings in other related social platforms. Your focus will be to reward customers for their engagement and as a result helping your statuses or posts trend naturally. This will be significant in increasing your visibility across the respective platforms.
- Guest blogging.
This has been proved as one of the best online marketing techniques. You will be required to find other related albeit more authoritative blogs in your niche and pitch guest blogs to them. If your proposal is accepted, this is a chance to get your name further out by attempting to catch the attention of the readers of the respective blog. This will certainly not destroy your business's budget.
Tips for managing your online marketing budget:
- Ensure to strike a balance.
Budget planning calls for making a few tradeoffs and balances in order to meet the objectives and goals of any marketing campaign. For example, your business may be eyeing to pursue some exciting new opportunities, but again, remember this might mean taking away from some of the proven and real channels. Again, if your budget focusses too much on the awareness campaign, you may end up having a shortage in your funnel. The inverse is true as well- spending too much time and money on production while neglecting the awareness campaign. Strikinga a balance will help you understand how to best make your budget allocations. This may entail making the necessary distributions to various channels such as paid advertising, external factors and research (consumer trends, interests) and assets among others.
- Ensure that your content is appealing.
We've all heard it, content is king, and now the queen and castle as well. This is a fundamental part of any online marketing campaign and thus worth considered while formulating your business's budget. You will need to ask yourself a few questions regarding the kind of content you plan to provide to your customers;
- Is the content relevant to them?
- Does it solve their problems?
- Is it readily available in the business?
By seeking answers to these questions, you will understand whether you can craft that on your own or seek services of professionals who can help come up with more persuasive and coherent content that attracts customers. This takes us to the next point.
- Is it time to outsource?
If you are a beginner, doing most of the online marketing yourself will make more economic sense. However, as the business expands, outsourcing some of these responsibilities will mean more opportunities for growth since you will have time to focus on other important areas of your business. However, remember that proper planning and budgeting for this jump will come in very handy if the business is to achieve any success out of it.
Budgeting is one of the crucial components of a marketing plan for any business. By weighing your business's existing marketing budget against the results it has produced, it is easy to tell whether you will need to increase or decrease the allocation in your subsequent campaigns. Following the tips while also going for the low-cost marketing tactics as outlined above will definitely help save on your business running costs.


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"If you've got a part in a picture, I'm available!"
That's the message that Hollywood legend Tony Curtis has for movie producers - on the eve of his 85th birthday!
"I'm looking for some kind of acting job I can do," Curtis told The ENQUIRER in an exclusive interview.
"I'm in excellent shape, and my spirits are high. They'd be getting a miracle!"
Tony isn't exaggerating -- just three years ago his sixth wife Jill kept vigil at his bedside as he clung to life on a ventilator.
A bout of pneumonia had left him in a coma - and Curtis says he was brought back from the dead only by 40-year-old Jill's refusal to let him die.
"I have a dear wife, and I'm the luckiest of men," Curtis told The ENQUIRER.
The couple married in 1998, and live on a ranch in Henderson, Nev. But even if Hollywood doesn't call, Curtis - who will blow out 85 candles on June 3 - will keep plenty busy.
His paintings sell for more than $25,000 a canvas, and he boasts that he's an "excellent carpenter," even though he doesn't get around quite as nimbly as he did in his younger days.
The always-active star of The Defiant Ones says he's getting ready to start writing his fourth book.
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Westpac has established a single, internal service desk for its retail, institutional, BT and St.George businesses, ending yet another part of its long-running outsourcing relationship with IBM.
The banking group has been wresting control of its IT capability from IBM since 2009, under a $2 billion body of work called the Strategic Initiatives Programs (SIPs).
In 2010, Westpac replaced a massive, expiring ten-year, $US2.3 billion IBM contract with a new five-year contract for key infrastructure services.
At the time, Westpac said it would take "greater accountability in the design and management of IT services", using other suppliers or solutions where appropriate.
Westpac has spent the three-and-a-half years building out a single platform to replace some 13 software tools for managing service requests, incidents, service levels, change and configurations.
The platform integrates BMC's Remedy IT service management (ITSM) suite with a configuration management database and a range of data centre, end-user and customer-facing systems.
It is accessed by 5700 users – including Westpac technology staff and contractors from IBM, Telstra, Optus, HP, Infosys, Wipro and TCS – through dashboards that display information about system health, any issues, and service level agreements.
The consolidated platform also allowed Westpac to replace four service desks – provided by IBM in Ballarat and China, Telstra, and HP EDS in India – with its St.George service desk in Adelaide, in a bid for a more simple, holistic approach to IT.
A Westpac spokeswoman said the new arrangement, established last July, was "an integral part" of the group's service management strategy.
"The transition was very successful and led to the creation of new jobs in Adelaide," she said.
Westpac staff said the new approach had reduced the time required to address priority one outages from almost 35 hours in January 2011 to less than five hours this April.
Configuration changes were also causing fewer errors, from about 16 incidents caused by system changes last September to two incidents in April.
Last May, ABC reported that IBM could make 80 Ballarat workers redundant under plans to shift its Westpac service desk from the Victorian city to Adelaide.
The Australian reported last week that some 200 IBM workers could be made redundant on August 31, under a "redeployment" program, codenamed "Project Phoenix".
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Ohio, North Carolina Remain Too Close to Call
Polls just closed in the swing state of Ohio, and the race remains too close to call.
In the last century, only twice has anyone won the presidency without winning this heartland state.
It is also too soon to say who will win another important state where polls just closed -- North Carolina. Remember that Obama carried the Tar Heel state in 2008 and Democrats held their convention there in September. We will have to wait for more votes to be counted before we can project a winner in North Carolina.


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JAKARTA, Indonesia — Islamic extremist Salman Hafidz has been executed before a 12-man firing squad in the West Java capital of Bandung, justice ministry officials said here Friday.
The officials said the execution was conducted in a secluded place around midnight Feb. 8. Hafidz, 29, was the No. 2 man in the Islamic movement headed by Imron Mohammad, who was executed in April 1983.
Hafidz was sentence to death by the Bandung district court in 1982, after he was found guilty of subversion and murder. His appeal for clemency was turned down by President Suharto on Nov. 30.
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- Boris faces a new inquiry over banning the "Ex Gay" bus advert.
- Battersea ivory trader fined just £1,375.
- The Gentle Author visits a Clapton tramshed and an artist being forced out by gentrification.
- Investors using London property as a "safe haven", turning some of the posh bits into "ghost towns".
- Parking wardens' 'dirty tactics'.
- London skull research reveals evidence of Roman head hunters.
- Do you know the man who punched this cyclist?
- Unsurprisingly, the TSSA has voted to join the RMT in the 48 hour tube strikes.
- 20mph speed limit to be trialled on Blackfriars and London bridges.
- London Underground promises safety improvements after a man was killed at Finsbury Park.
- Boris (and squatting protesters) launch the Year of the Bus. How about joining us on our walk?
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Here's a nice long post with some more details about the air traffic issue
last week (and his thoughts on the Windows conversions) from Rick Kwan over
at SVLUG. Just thought it was interesting reading...
----- Forwarded message from Rick Kwan -----
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 08:43:02 -0700
From: Rick Kwan
Subject: [svlug] mission critical computing and air safety
To: SVLUG <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Synopsis: the SoCal ATC radio outage was presumably due to technician
error, a year after upgrade from UNIX to Windows 2000. Slashdot has an
intense discussion of dissection and speculation. While it is
correctly pointed out that this was a failure of the application,
not the OS, some question how the FAA could allow Windows in a
safety critical application. My personal sense is that we will
see more, not less of this sort of thing.
A three-hour outage of the air traffic control radio system in the
SoCal (Southern California) airspace on September 14, 2004, left
800 airplanes in the air without radio communication. The FAA says
communication was re-routed to other centers, and the problem did
not present a danger to planes or passengers. However, other
reports mention that controllers were clearly shaken as they
witnessed near-tragedies.
Initial reports cite human error. A technician forgot to reboot
Windows 2000 before 49.7 days elapsed. It was installed last year
as part of an upgrade of the FAA's Voice Switching and Control
System from UNIX to Windows 2000 Advanced Server. This system is
being (or has been) rolled out to all 21 Air Route Traffic Controller
Centers (ARTCCs) of the U.S. National Airspace System (NAS).
Yesterday, a heavy Slashdot discussion ensued. Many expressed
shock that Windows 2000 was used in a safety critical system.
Rather than blame the technician, some say the FAA shouldn't have
let Windows 2000 be used in the first place. Others say the FAA
is depending on the judgement of system contractors, in this case,
Harris Corporation. Others correctly note that this was a problem
of the application, not the OS. Yet others note that an application
problem should not require a server reboot. (Now in fairness to
the FAA and other parties, perhaps radio communication is mission
critical, but not safety critical. Where does one draw the line?)
Like many other areas of society, the NAS is becoming increasingly
dependent on commodity computing power. This case "merely" involved
voice communication. Imagine if it involved trajectories and
Frankly, not being inside Harris or the FAA, details still seem a
little murky to me. But given Microsoft's recent Trustworthy
Computing Initiative, claims of five 9s, et cetera, I can imagine
how a Windows 2000 system crept in. Someone must have done a
wonderful cost/benefit study to justify this and presented it to
FAA managers, who are aviation specialists, not computing folks.
Certainly, the FAA will do an in-depth investigation (although not
to the depth of Columbia). But after identifying the causes, and
recommending and implementing revised maintenance procedures, I
expect more procurement of Windows-based servers. This is not
because I don't trust the FAA; it's because that's what I see in
other industries.
For folks like SVLUG members, I expect that fundamental architecture
is a big issue. In some measure, we operate on soundness of design
by white box inspection. But government and other procurements
are usually a matter of requirements and getting a black box to
satisfy them. Which is frequently as it should be; therefore, I
don't see this changing anytime soon.
Which leads me to the conclusion... we're in for more of the same.
We were simply lucky this time that no one died.
--Rick Kwan
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