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Precisely! That's why I asked if your're sure it's the correct one for that particular router. The ZyXel site appears to show the latest release was August '09?
Yeah Im having MAJOR MAJOR probems with this zyxel router too, went to update the firmware today to find that the firmware on the router is newer than whats on the zyxel website.
Constant connection drops, disconnections, having to physiclly reset the router 3,4,5 times a day, ports blocked all over the place, horrendous zyxel GUI that makes port forwarding look like rocket science.
Im gonna cancel my Eircom contract over it its that bad.
Model Number: P-660HW-T1 v3
Had an engineer out to the house today in relation to this thread. Still getting disconnects when the phone is used but I got the support team to lower the speed while he was here, he's calling back to check on it later.
When I was on the phone to support, the second they lowered the speed from "20mb" to "17" I noticed the difference even in call quality, and when the router was restarted the SNR doubled!
I noticed while he was using the old router, that the SNR goes up higher while using the netopia compared to the zyxel. I know particular modems handle it better from my research yesterday. The Netopia can handle the "17meg" also.
But I had no issues port forwarding on the Zyxel, and with the playstation network it defaults to NAT2 - unlike the Netopia. Catch-22.
I recently joined eircom again, got this zyxel router and i just cant communicate with the router. Wireless is impossible and also with ethernet there is no comunication. It looks like my router froze. I rang them up, they sent out the replacement router, Zyxel again, and the very same thing. It connects to the internet for a few min and then it disconnects and its impossible to connect again. Im going mad here
Today i got my mates old netopia for a couple of days and internet seems to work ok now.
Gona ring them on tuesday and tell them to stick it
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I had the line dropping issue, at regular intervals. After loads of searching in google on that ZyXel modem, someone said it can happen if you have WPA configured. When it attempts to reauthorise (at regular defined intervals) it was dropping connection to my laptop.
I would suggest changing to static WEP just to test and see if this resolves the dropping issue - it did for me.
All I have now is an 'alleged' 24 mb, where actually my line is only capable of 9mb, and I never get anywhere near that using the Wireless. the router is ****E, need to try a linksys with it. Plus my internet's been down 2 days now at home i HATE eircom!!! (but no alternatives where I live)
Here's a link that might make the netopia work with the playstation, it involves giving the playstation an internal static ip and then opening some ports, don't have a playstation myself so can't say if it works.
The netopia itself is a much better modem/router than the eircom supplied zyxel, on tests I did, the zyxel couldn't sync anywhere near the netopia speed, the zyxel was also really unstable. The netopia 2247 can handle full 24Mb broadband with no problems as long as your line can do that speed. Eircom got those Zyxel's really cheap, but they are an absolute disaster.
well i have Zyxel P-660HW-T1 v2 from digiweb, im currently with smart telecom. I have the same problem with mine. disconnects every 50 mins or so, doesnt matter if i use internet, playstation, xbox, or downloading it will always disconnect every 50 min or so. also cant upgrade f/w cause blocked from doing so. only reason y i keep it is because the modem gives me 3.6mbs and all the rest give me 2.6mbs, 2.7mbs. im 3.6km away from exchange and snr is only 6db down and 6.5 up, also Line Attenuation is 63 down and 37 up. i no terrible. but hope someone figures out how to stop disconnects cause u would b helpin out alot.
how in gods name did you get xbox live to work with this router???????
P-660HW-T1 v3
can anyone help me im trying to set up ports for an xbox
i can set up
Start Port: 88
Finish Port: 88
but when i go to do
Start Port: 3074
Finish Port: 3074
I get this >> ERROR: INTERNAL ERROR
Thats as far as i got gurrr
do i just throw the router out the window and be done with it never had problems before setting up routers ontill they brought out this piece of crap out...
Thanx in advance if you can..
I have all of the same connection dropping issues.
Eircom gave me a new firmware update
Still very uneven performance, with many drops
yeah zyxel are horrible routers the interface for changing settings is bare and can only change a few settings on the router is anything would you not ask eircom for a netopia modem they are better than zyxel muck
Hey, can you send that to me or post it somewhere?
Zyxel router is giving me brain damage in relation to port forwarding / upnp. XBox 260 consistently cannot see served content on my mac. sometimes works, sometimes doesn't. It always worked fine with the netopia router. Mind you, I don;t get connection drops at least.
I've just swapped out a BT Voyager for a new Eircom Zyxel.
My downstream attenuation appeared to have increased,
Still the Zyxel is working well so far, so no complaints.
edit: Spoke too soon, started getting disconnects on the Zyxel so have gone back to the Voyager. Reported attenuation has dropped back to what it was and the connection seems more stable than with the Zyx.
Just saw this thread - it would probably explain my problems also : linky
One other thing that I think is causing my issues is that my ZyXEL is connected in to a Cisco Catalyst 3500 Switch which then distributes the connection round the house.
I don't seem to get as many problems when the Cisco is disconnected, so I think the ZyXEL is not able to handle the extra connections / IP Address requests that are coming through the Cisco.
I didn't have any problems with a Davado UMR Router and 3G dongle I used before this on the same setup with the Cisco switch. I only switched to Eircom a few months ago as our exchange was upgraded then.
Reading through this thread, nobody seems to have come up with a solution on how to upgrade (or downgrade) the crappy Eircom firmware - was a solution ever got ? And did it make any difference ?


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Household Spending Sensitive to Real Interest Rates
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A new study published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York finds that households spend and invest in response to future expectations about real interest rates. They could have a higher rate of growth in future consumption due to higher returns to savings, or they could choose to consume more at the present and thus decrease the future growth rate in consumption. The elasticity of intertemporal substitution (EIS) is the net effect of these choices on future consumption.
The study finds a robust, significant relationship between expected consumption growth and expected inflation that implies an estimated subjective EIS of 0.8 in the general population. The research also revealed that the EIS is slightly higher for those households reporting higher income. Simply put; most households are sensitive to changes in real interest rates. Higher income households are even more sensitive.
Aside from identifying the importance of this key parameter, the findings have important implications for monetary policy. For instance, previous papers have found a very weak relationship between expected inflation and readiness to spend. This suggests that the Fed's "forward guidance," through which its monetary policy affects spending at the lower bound on nominal interest rates, might be less powerful than indicated by many macroeconomic studies. However, the robust, positive relationship between expected consumption growth and inflation documented in this study supports evidence for the "forward guidance" channel's effectiveness.
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Bicycle maker Accel says the economic crisis is pushing up sales.THE NETHERLANDS - The company, which makes brands such as Batavus and Sparta, reports a 17 percent increase in profits in 2008.
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Shine's Bar in Long Beach celebrates 101 years
Plans for a centennial bash were washed out by superstorm Sandy, so the owners of a popular Long Beach tavern marked their 101st year in business instead.
Now they can proudly add Sandy to the list of hardships Shine's has overcome since the doors opened in 1912 -- including two world wars, Prohibition and the Great Depression.
The milestone was marked Saturday, with regulars stopping by the unassuming California Street landmark to trade stories about favorite memories.
For 35 years, Michael Diamond of Long Beach has sat at the bar, never knowing who he'd meet, but always having a good time.
"When you come in, you just never know," said Diamond, 55. "There may be a millionaire, or people with no money whatsoever. But everyone is the same."
One night in 2007, a man from Ireland hosted a 70th birthday party that packed the pub with people from around the world, Diamond recalled.
The nearly 2,000-square-foot building was built as a home in the late 1800s before being transformed into a bar.
Eugene Shine, the original owner, sold the place to Michael Delury in 1946, who passed the business to Brent Wilson eight years ago.
"It's one of the last places you'll find like this," said Wilson, 33, who owns the bar with his father.
Inside, walls are filled with pictures of loyal customers and artifacts of old sins. There's a black-and-white photo of officers pouring out illegal booze during Prohibition. An empty pack of Old Gold cigarettes is preserved in a frame.
A few weeks before the planned centennial last fall, Sandy struck, filling the building with 3 feet of floodwater. The damage totaled about $250,000, Wilson said.
Today, Shine's is bustling and boisterous, like always.
"It's a community bar with handsome bartenders," quipped Nicole Hutchinson, 28, who became a regular after moving to Long Beach in 2007.
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Artist: Olivia Newton-John
Album: Warm and Tender
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Someday when I'm awf'ly low
When the world is cold
I will feel a glow just thinking of you
And the way you look tonight
Oh but you're lovely
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Touches my foolish heart
Lovely, never, never change
Keep that breathless charm
Won't you please arrange it cause I love you
Just the way you look tonight
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Happy Throwback Thursday!
This morning, Gary Bryan and Lisa Stanley are saluting the year 1986. This was the year we had a new heavy weight champ by the name of Mike Tyson! Plus, thousands of Americans held hands from coast to coast in the Hands Across America fundraiser to help the nation's hungry and homeless.
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Robert Alvarado wrote:
Sounds like a As Seen On Tv slogan. Photographers, if you register now, you'll not only get to shoot gorgeous models in a tub, but you'll get to join them.
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Drew and Karl's events are so much fun, but the dinner is always the best part! lol, miss you guys!
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Lake Forest, California, US
Bummed I'm going to miss out on this one.
Jan 10 10 04:15 am Link
Lazy Sunday Bump!!
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No PayPal Bump
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And btw, if you haven't been out in the afternoons, the sunsets have been pretty awesome this week!
So whats up!? What's on the lunch menu for the shoot? Is Matus BBQ'n again?
Jan 10 10 10:23 pm Link
DanTheManPhotography wrote:
I was thinking of hotdogs and hamburgers which is probably good enough for a typical group shoot. Unfortunately, this is not your typical group shoot. No other group shoot can provide this hot model line up so I would feed the attendies some good stuff. I'm more than just chips and salsa guy. I'm already aging some tri tip to be roasted for the event. I will also have some barbeque beef and teriyaki chicken. Rice and macaroni will also be available. Someone will also bring some elk/goose/duck/aligator/possum sausage. There will also be some wahoo cheviche.
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Drew Santos wrote:
drew, you turned me on with that food line-up.
Jan 10 10 11:02 pm Link
Drew Santos wrote:
Are we shooting or are we feasting?
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Karl Yamashita wrote:
Drew says he doesnt shoot at the events...hes gotta do something to keep him busy
Karl Yamashita wrote:
I thought we were going to be Racing!! 0 to 180 mph
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Rich Masuda wrote:
after dinner, i'll race you to the bathroom!
Jan 10 10 11:19 pm Link
Karl Yamashita wrote:
You shouldn't be shooting. You have an event to run. If you shoot, I'm deducting $80 from your earnings.
Jan 10 10 11:21 pm Link
Bright Candle Photo wrote:
you haven't sent your deposit. you might be cooking instead of shooting.
Jan 10 10 11:22 pm Link
Rich Masuda wrote:
Verone is willing to race your ZR1's but with a big stake. He has access to a 1100 HP Lambo. maybe you and Stan can ship in.
Jan 10 10 11:23 pm Link
Drew Santos wrote:
If you all want undercooked or overcooked food...ill man the grill
Jan 10 10 11:27 pm Link
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I have one session left people:)!
Ps, Drew why don't we make a yummy pasta garlic bread and salad for our food considering it is an in door group shoot we should change it up:))! Or even pot luck!
Jan 10 10 11:29 pm Link
Kaya Danielle wrote:
I'll just buy you that after the shoot babe. You know as well as others who have attended the after shoot dinner, that it is the best part of the day.
Jan 10 10 11:31 pm Link
Drew Santos wrote:
Where are we eating and laughing our ass off afterwards?
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Karl Yamashita wrote:
I'm sure there's a lot of places to eat nearby. As always, the models always eat for free but since they make so much money at these events, maybe they could buy dinner for the photographers. I wonder what they would say about that?
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Drew Santos wrote:
If that was the case I guess it would be just me, you, and Karl @ applebees
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Bright Candle Photo wrote:
I guess it'll just be me and Karl as I have not received your deposit.
Jan 11 10 11:55 am Link
Drew Santos wrote:
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Drew Santos wrote:
you tell me to send it. then not to. now you want me to. Your killing me!!!
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Kaya Danielle wrote:
PM sent!
Jan 11 10 06:21 pm Link
The first photog to message me gets to shoot with me at the beach tomorrow.
Catch: you have to pick up the model from LA and take her to Laguna Beach to shoot. Oh, you need to take her back home.
Jan 11 10 09:12 pm Link
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Drew Santos wrote:
Damn, I have work tomorrow.
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Andrew P Photo wrote:
I got to work tomorrow too and go to the dentist.
Jan 11 10 09:47 pm Link
Ok vultures. No more messages. Someone already got the job. You didn't think this will last, did you?
Jan 11 10 09:49 pm Link
My new avi shows Heather and she will be at the event. People, this model is gorgeous! Book her for private shoots before she sells out.
Jan 12 10 08:19 am Link
Drew Santos wrote:
Depending what time it is, like in RUSH hour, it took 3hrs from Laguna to drop the model off in LA for a shoot I did, I hate LA traffic, but knowing Drew's models it should be worth it for whoever is giving the ride
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Kaya Danielle wrote:
Garlic ?
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Rich Masuda wrote:
Oh really? Remember, I was there when you brought Drew's eleph...err...model to the beach
Jan 12 10 11:46 am Link
Karl Yamashita wrote:
Hey, I think it was "U" who told Drew I was heading to the beach to shoot, so he calls me to pickup a model, me being the nice guy I am, made the detour for him. I had my own model to shoot anyway and U guys had like 4 models there already shooting
Jan 12 10 12:00 pm Link
I've picked up a couple models from Hollywood for drew a few times and Rich is correct. Atleast 3hrs in traffic is not fun. It just depends if you know where all of the bottlenecks are and how to get around them.
But XM radio usually helps me avoid road rage. The good thing is after I drop them off I live 20min away from Hollywood.
Jan 12 10 04:16 pm Link
Bright Candle Photo wrote:
Were the models you picked up worth the traffic?
Jan 12 10 05:37 pm Link
Drew Santos wrote:
never said they were not
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NSW Parliament recalled early to consider alcohol-related violence crackdown
NSW MPs have returned from the summer recess earlier than planned, to consider tougher laws on alcohol-related violence. The proposed changes would limit the supply of alcohol which policy experts say is a critical factor in assault rates.
ELEANOR HALL: The New South Wales Government has recalled Parliament early so that MPs can vote on laws aimed at curtailing drunken violence.
The proposals include earlier closing times for city pubs and mandatory sentences for violent assaults.
It's the Government's response to the community outrage about a series of vicious and in some cases deadly assaults in Sydney, as Tom Nightingale reports.
DANNY GREEN (extract from a television advertisement): Without warning, without any gloves, it can be deadly. One punch can end his life and ruin yours.
TOM NIGHTINGALE: The former world champion boxer, Danny Green, is joining the campaign against late-night violence.
This TV ad shows him stopping a punch in a pub.
DANNY GREEN (extract from a television advertisement): It takes grunt to throw it, it takes guts to walk away.
TOM NIGHTINGALE: Danny Green paid for the ad to be made after a death in his home city of Perth.
From today, Sydney's commercial TV networks are running the ads as a community service
The issue has gained a new foothold with the recent deaths of two young men from Sydney and one from Brazil who were all assaulted in late night entertainment areas.
Now the Government is introducing a raft of tough new laws to Parliament to tackle the incidence of drunken violence.
Other state and territory governments are watching with interest, and Deakin University's Professor Peter Miller has told the ABC's RN Breakfast the Government's proposals are on the right track.
PETER MILLER: Well, the evidence says they will achieve that aim certainly within the area that they're being applied, and particularly shutting pubs earlier.
TOM NIGHTINGALE: The Government is proposing a lockout stopping people from going into pubs and nightclubs in central Sydney after 1.30 in the morning and alcohol would stop being served at 3am.
PETER MILLER: People aren't out for as long so they don't get as tired and that's actually a big factor in all of this and also when you're out, or when you're having a longer night, you pre-drink more, which is the greatest predictor of assaults and you consume more alcohol over the whole night.
So they are major mechanisms through which shutting pubs earlier works.
TOM NIGHTINGALE: Dealing with violence is complex - after all, not everyone who's drunk is violent, and not everyone who's violent is drunk.
The New South Wales changes are modelled on those adopted in Newcastle a few years ago.
Professor John Wiggers works with the University of Newcastle and the local health service. He says there was a definitive drop in violence.
JOHN WIGGERS: That was in the order of 33 per cent reduction for police attended night-time assault, and for an emergency department point of view, a roughly 26 per cent reduction in people presenting with assault related injuries.
TOM NIGHTINGALE: The proposals are likely to pass Parliament with Labor Opposition support.
They include higher on-the-spot fines of $1,100 for drunken behaviour, and a minimum eight year sentence for any fatal one-punch attack if drugs or alcohol are involved.
Professor Wiggers says restricting alcohol sales is key.
JOHN WIGGERS: It's a very simple explanation - the more you drink and the more opportunity you have to drink, in a sense the more intoxicated you'll become, and hence the more likely you'll be involved in violence.
So two hours of less drinking makes people a degree less intoxicated or consuming less.
There's a lot of evidence of theory behind this and it's about alcohol availability. The more you can access it, people will access it. The more intoxicated they become and hence the more violence.
TOM NIGHTINGALE: A few years ago an equivalent lockout in Melbourne failed to reduce assaults. Professor Wiggers says that was because too many pubs and nightclubs were exempted.
In Sydney's case, the current and the coming casinos will both be exempt, and so will restaurants and small bars.
Deakin University's Professor Peter Miller supports the changes but he's also warning the problem is far deeper.
JOHN WIGGERS: If young men were abused by their fathers, they're twice as likely to be the perpetrators of these tragic assaults in pubs and the most likely predictor of that is them being, their fathers being alcoholics.
We have all of these drivers throughout our developmental life that are pushing us towards alcohol-related violence and until we start to think of this much, much more broadly, we're really not going to be getting at the drivers.
We can certainly reduce it and, you know, you've heard the numbers - 30 to 40 per cent - but there's still going to be a lot left over.
ELEANOR HALL: That's Deakin University's Professor Peter Miller ending Tom Nightingale's report.
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President Barack Obama said that some of the tactics described in a Senate report on harsh CIA interrogations were "brutal," "wrong" and "counterproductive," but that releasing the information was an important step in the process of making sure that such a scenario is never repeated.
"One of the things that sets us apart from other countries is that when we make mistakes, we admit them," Mr Obama told the Spanish-language television network Telemundo.
His comments followed by hours the Democratic-controlled Senate Intelligence Committee's release of a declassified version of its long-anticipated report on CIA interrogations during the administration of his predecessor, Republican George W Bush. Mr Obama banned use of the tactics shortly after taking office nearly six years ago.
The report concludes that the CIA deceived government officials and the public with its steadfast insistence that the tactics, employed during the period that followed the deadly September 11 2001 terrorist attack on the US, had saved lives. The report says the CIA's own records fail to back up the agency's claims.
Mr Obama said the report makes clear that the interrogation programme was created too hastily and without enough thought about potential consequences.
"The CIA set up something very fast without a lot of forethought to what the ramifications might be," he said.
"That the lines of accountability that needed to be set up were not always in place, and that some of these techniques that were described were not only wrong, but also counterproductive because we know that often times when somebody is being subjected to these kinds of techniques, that they're willing to say anything in order to alleviate the pain and the stress that they're feeling. And we've got better ways of doing things."
He said some of the tactics written about in the report were "brutal, and as I've said before, constituted torture, in my mind. And that's not who we are."
Mr Obama said releasing the report was important "so that we can account for it, so that people understand precisely why I banned these practices as one of the first acts I took when I came into office, and hopefully make sure that we don't make those mistakes again."
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In a tunnel below the Potomac River four years ago, Larry Mitchell was at the controls of a crowded rush-hour Metro train headed to Rosslyn when he saw a glimmer of red reflecting off the walls. The train's crash avoidance system indicated that the track ahead was clear, but Mitchell sensed danger in the distance. He decided to override the system and brake manually -- then watched helplessly as his train rolled to a stop just 35 feet short of a train ahead.
As a shaken Mitchell radioed Metro supervisors, he was interrupted by the operator of the train behind him, who announced that he had just caught sight of Mitchell's train and hit his emergency brake. "You could hear the panic in his voice," Mitchell said. That train ground to a halt 20 feet short of Mitchell's.
The outlines of the 2005 near-miss -- the first of three known breakdowns of a crash avoidance system designed to be fail-safe -- were made public shortly after it occurred. But newly obtained records and interviews detail just how close the trains came to what documents said would have been "disastrous collisions."
They also illuminate similarities to the June 22 Red Line crash that killed nine people near Fort Totten as well as to a March 2 incident in which two trains came "dangerously close" on Capitol Hill. The Washington Post first reported the March incident last month.
The National Transportation Safety Board, which is investigating this summer's deadly crash, confirmed that the 2005 incident has become a focus of its probe and that its investigators recently examined records from both near-collisions. They also tested hardware taken from the 2005 incident site to compare with similar equipment recovered from the crash.
Records and interviews indicate that Metro engineers did not perform exhaustive on-site tests of all components related to the incident in 2005 because they thought they had found the problem and did not want to further inconvenience passengers. Records also show regional safety officials were not formally notified that Metro had put into effect its own recommendations on how to make the subway safer.
Metro officials said they responded appropriately to the 2005 incident, identified the problem with the crash avoidance system and fixed it. A Metro spokeswoman said the cause was an electrical short circuit in cables under the tracks. She described it as "very different" from the fluctuating track circuit suspected of causing the recent accident. Cables are one component of a track circuit, which is a key part of the safety system.
Metro officials say the system is safe. Until June, no passengers had died in a crash since 1982.
After the 2005 incident, Metro's safety office made six recommendations aimed at avoiding a recurrence. By the time of this summer's crash, records show, none had been formally implemented and approved by the Tri-State Oversight Committee, which monitors Metro safety.
"We asked Metro for information on how those six recommendations would be implemented," the committee said in a statement to The Post. "We have not received any evidence that Metro has yet put them into practice."
Metro officials initially told The Post that they had put the recommendations into effect and notified the committee of the corrections years ago. In response to additional questions, a spokeswoman issued a second statement saying "we were mistaken" in asserting that the committee had closed out the issue. Nonetheless, she stressed, the corrections had been made.
The Post obtained documents related to the incidents through open-records requests to the Tri-State Oversight Committee. Metro officials did not respond to similar requests.
"I was assured that it would be looked into and taken care of," said Mitchell, who can recall coming so close to the train's red taillights that he could see the expressions of a man and a young girl in the last car.
"Four years later, I've never received any information. I have no idea to this very day what happened."'They Didn't Do It Thoroughly'
Rail safety specialists who reviewed documents obtained by The Post said there are striking similarities between the 2005 incident and this summer's crash, and they questioned whether Metro had done enough to determine all possible causes of the earlier near-collision.
After the 2005 incident, documents show, engineers concluded that a cable in a track circuit at the site failed, causing a train to "disappear when it occupied a certain position within the track." A malfunctioning track circuit is also suspected of being at the heart of this summer's crash, in which federal investigators say Metro's automated system failed to detect a stopped train and did not send a stop command to an approaching one.
Investigators have not pinpointed the cause of the circuit failure at Fort Totten but are testing a type of equipment known as a module. For comparison, they also have decided to test the same type of equipment removed from the site of the 2005 incident, said Bob Chipkevich, head of the NTSB rail investigation office.
After the 2005 incident, Metro engineers spent days looking for a cause before concluding that the problem was a short in a cable. To eliminate train delays during the investigation, they replaced the cables and other components that make up the track circuit. A Metro engineer noted in a report at the time that the investigation had been "inconveniencing patrons for a week already." He added: "The commitment to return the track circuit to normal as soon as possible precluded additional testing."
Engineers from the company that made the equipment agreed with Metro in a letter that the failure probably resulted from a short circuit in the cables. But they wrote that they "could not confirm that this was the actual root cause" because Metro separated the cables "before testing could take place."
Metro engineers did not examine the modules more extensively at the time because they were determined not to be the cause, said Metro spokeswoman Lisa Farbstein. They planned to inspect them later in a laboratory, the report said.
A couple of months later, engineers examined the modules for anything that could cause an electrical short and found no problems, Farbstein said. She said Metro has no record of that inspection, but an engineer told her that he did it.
Russell Quimby, who retired in 2007 after 22 years at the NTSB as a rail safety engineer, criticized Metro for not conducting more testing.
"They didn't do it thoroughly," Quimby said. "Anything that could have caused that system to fail, they should have tested at the time. They said, 'This is it, shut your lunchboxes, let's go home.' "
Metro's safety office developed six recommendations for changes after the incident.
One was that engineers should improve track circuit design, records show. Other recommendations said engineers should upgrade software used to monitor the circuits and formalize the monitoring process.
On the day of this summer's crash, documents show that the Tri-State Oversight Committee's database continued to list all six of the recommendations as "open." For each recommendation, the database shows that a corrective action plan was listed as still "to be developed."
Metro said that although it never told the oversight group about its actions, it had made the needed fixes and developed a software program to check for problems with the system. Officials said they used the software to look for circuit malfunctions once a week in the days after the 2005 incident. A year later, they dropped the frequency to once a month because they said they found no problems. Since the crash this summer, they have increased software checks to twice a day.
The NTSB concluded that Metro's crash avoidance system is inadequate and urged the addition of a real-time backup technology.
It is impossible to determine whether a more aggressive response to the 2005 incident could have averted this summer's crash. But federal officials have long considered Metro's slowness in closing out safety investigations to be a critical concern.
Records show the Tri-State Oversight Committee was concerned by Metro's lack of response to the 2005 incident even before the Fort Totten crash. In April of this year, after the near-collision on Capitol Hill, the committee drafted a letter to Metro's chief safety officer, asking her for the status of the six recommendations and noting that the committee had been "unable to verify the progress and implementation."
But the committee, which has no direct authority over the subway system and relies on Metro's willingness to share information, deleted any mention of the 2005 event from the final version of the letter. The change was made in the hope of expediting Metro's release of details about the March 2 incident, internal e-mail shows.'The Adrenaline Was Pumping'
Mitchell, 58, remembers the June 7, 2005, near-collision in granular detail.
During the evening rush, he said, he was pulling away from Foggy Bottom at up to 59 mph, carrying about 800 passengers in what operators call a "crush load." Unknown to Mitchell, just ahead in the tunnel below the Potomac, a train had stopped mid-river, waiting for the Rosslyn platform to clear.
Mitchell saw the train ahead and hit his brake at 5:55 p.m., records show. He could do little more than come to his feet, brace himself against the control panel and watch as his train stopped less than half a car length from the train ahead.
"The adrenaline was pumping, I'll tell you that," Mitchell said. "That is too damn close."
Moments later, he said, he heard the train operator behind him warn of an impending collision.
"That's when I became afraid," Mitchell said. "That's when I knew something was very wrong."
The entire incident lasted seven minutes, records show, and played out far from any exit or access point for rescue teams. No one was injured, and Metro gave Mitchell an award and a $1,000 bonus for his quick reaction.
When news broke about the crash this summer, he said, "It put me right back in that same place."
Mitchell attended the funeral of Jeanice McMillan, the train operator killed in this summer's crash. There, for the first time since his retirement this year, he saw the operator of the train that had come to a halt 20 feet behind him. They made small talk, Mitchell said, but made no mention of the four-year-old event that brought them both to pay their respects.
Staff writer James Hohmann contributed to this report.
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URBANA — Cunningham Township has filed a complaint in Champaign County Circuit Court, saying the Urbana school district "willfully withheld" records the township requested using the Freedom of Information Act.
The township has asked for records of the school district's legal bills related to a lawsuit both public bodies are involved in. The suit is dealing with whether several Carle Foundation properties should be exempt from paying property taxes.
The township is asking the court to rule that the school district needs to provide unredacted copies of the records it's asked for, which include all of its legal bills related to the Carle case.
The township board approved filing the complaint in open session Sept. 24. The township is seeking a $5,000 penalty from the school district, as well as its legal feels relating to the FOIA complaint.
School district attorney Eugene Hanses did not return a message from The News-Gazette seeking comment.
The township filed two FOIA requests with the school district, one in July and one in September, both asking for bills related to legal services for the Carle case and meeting agendas and minutes in which the school board discussed and authorized what's called a counterclaim against the township as a part of the larger Carle case.
That case, which is also in Champaign County Circuit Court, concerns whether Carle is exempt from property taxes on several of its parcels in Urbana.
It lost its property tax exemption and started paying property taxes in 2004.
While it's paying property taxes now, the taxing bodies in Urbana are setting aside the money in case the court rules they have to pay it back.
Township Attorney Fred Grosser said Carle filed a complaint in the case saying the school district, the Urbana Park District, the city of Urbana and Cunningham Township "participated in causing Carle to lose its exemption." That violated a 2002 agreement that said Carle would pay money to local taxing bodies in exchange for their promising not to challenge its tax exemption status, Carle said when it filed the motion in 2010.
Grosser said the township wasn't involved in that 2002 agreement, though.
"The township knew nothing about it" until after Carle, the city, the school district and the park district had made the agreement.
The Cunningham Township and the city of Urbana have the same boundaries, and the city council members serve as the township's board of trustees.
In terms of the township and township assessor's involvement, " the only thing the assessor did and can do is assess property," Grosser said.
Carle had partial property tax exemptions on its properties, so they had to be assessed in order to figure out how much to charge Carle for portions of its properties that were not exempt, Grosser said.
The school district filed a counterclaim against the township in March, saying that if it was found liable for breach of contract and required to reimburse Carle for property taxes it's received, the township should have to contribute and pay damages. That's because the school district didn't authorize or direct the township assessor or township to put Carle back on the county's tax rolls, the counterclaim said.
The township responded to that counterclaim in court in May, denying that the township should have to pay a contribution to the school district.
Carle spokeswoman Jennifer Hendricks-Kaufmann said she has no comment on the township's FOIA complaint against the school district.
By filing a FOIA request itself, The News-Gazette obtained copies of both the township's requests and the school district's response letters. The News-Gazette also viewed copies of the materials the school district provided to the township.
Cunningham Township initially sent the school district a FOIA request July 25, asking for copies of legal bills and records of payment for legal services related to the Carle property tax exemption case.
After notifying the township that it needed more time to fulfill the request, the school district responded Aug. 8, saying it was providing "remittance copies" and "payment documents" to the township.
"Please note that the Remittance Copies have been redacted to omit titles for matters not requested in your request and/or because those redacted titles may contain or constitute confidential materials," its response letter from FOIA Officer Lori Johnson stated.
These documents included a list of what legal services were provided and their costs, for a given month. All other descriptions not related to the Carle case were blacked out.
The response also requested that the township let the school district know if the latter had misunderstood the request. However, additional requests could be "classified as an unduly burdensome categorical request" under the Freedom of Information Act, the letter continued.
"Additionally, please recognize that materials ... relating to the billing for this litigation are subject to redaction" because they relate to confidential attorney-client communication, and because the court case is still open.
"(The Freedom of Information Act) does not require the disclosure of privileged information," the letter stated.
The township followed that response with a letter Aug. 14, protesting the redacted documents the school district provided, saying the school district did not cite the law in its reasons for doing so.
"You acknowledge that you have itemized bills in the business office but refused to furnish those bills, after extending the time, claiming apparently that you do not understand our request for all the bills as asking for all the bills," said township Supervisor Carol Elliott in that letter.
She went on to ask for all itemized bills "by delivery today," and told the school district in the letter she thought it "strange" if the school district's attorney included legal advice in a bill.
"While it would not be my preference to litigate this, I am prepared to do so," Elliott wrote, adding that if the township filed a complaint in court and won, the Freedom of Information Act would require the school district to pay the township's legal fees, plus a fine between $2,500 and $5,000.
The school district responded the next day, with a letter that's marked in the school district's files, "hand delivered by (Superintendent) Preston (Williams)," which thanked the township for clarifying its request. The letter reiterated that the school district wanted the township to "advise us in the event you are seeking materials beyond those provided to you with our August 8, 2012, letter," stated the letter, which was signed by Williams.
"Additionally we asked for an opportunity to participate with you in a ... 'conference' to address the scope of any such request," the letter said. "In light of your August 14, 2012, reply, however, it appears that you are unwilling to participate with us in any such conference."
The school district told the township it would send the "details" pages for the Carle case later that week, "but please note they will require examination and evaluation to determine if they are exempt from disclosure" or needed to be checked for possible redactions. The school district again said it expected the bills would be subject to redaction.
"Your (Aug. 14) letter questions as 'strange' the possibility that bills include legal advice, but this comment seems to reflect an over-simplification and misunderstanding of the attorney-client communications privilege in this context," the letter said, referring to a specific binding opinion from the attorney general's public access counselor, and the fact that the request centers around a court case that's still open, and in which the township is also involved.
That opinion stated that while legal bills are not confidential, some may reveal privileged information by describing work attorneys are doing for a public body.
"Even in those work descriptions which could arguably reveal privileged information, however, other parts of the descriptions could be released without revealing the content of any substantive communication between (body) and its attorneys," the opinion stated.
The school district sent the township another letter Aug. 17, and indicated it was attaching billing records related to the Carle case.
It also noted that it was redacting information that contained explanations for legal fees that indicated matters discussed between the school district and its attorneys, and exempted by the Freedom of Information Act because of pending legal action.
Those documents redacted much information, except for generic descriptions, such as making phone calls, reviewing emails and other similar activities. For the most part, information about whom the school district's attorneys were calling or what topics they were working on were redacted.
The documents showed that school district attorney Hanses charges $225 per hour.
Elliott filed another FOIA request Sept. 25 for copies of "official agendas and minutes for any and all meetings" of the Urbana school board "where there was any discussion and authorization of the filling of the counterclaim against Cunningham Township" in the Carle court case.
The school district's Oct. 2 response noted again that both public bodies are involved in the Carle case, and to answer the request, "Urbana School District would be required to tell you if, when, and how it handled the subject of your FOIA Request. Urbana School district is not required to answer such questions or to advise you of the manner in which it is handling pending litigation," the response said.
The school board is allowed to go into closed session to discuss pending legal action, and the school district letter notes that it's not required to be any more specific about the reason for the closed session.
The school district provided meeting agendas and approved minutes for open sessions to the township.


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Think about that. Now, marinate on it. Do you know what others are saying about you, your products, your services when you're not around? Are they saying anything? (That can be just as problematic as a negative comment) The comments above came from big fans of Oprah and Apple, two mega-brands to be sure. Still, there are lessons that small business owners, can take from these brands to make their own brands are pretty phenomenal. Let's examine a few of them:
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- Don't settle for average. Few people, even those who are not totally obsessed with Apple products, associate Apple with anything average. Apple makes extraordinary products that do extraordinary things, and makes their customers feel extraordinary while using them, and they have extraordinary advertising campaigns. Yep, I think that about sums it up. Average is certainly easier than extraordinary. So many entrepreneurs say they want an extraordinary brand, but then don't come close to taking extraordinary action. Saying sorry doesn't work well in business.
- Keep the main thing the main thing. This is not rocket science. Focus does matter. Some business owners are multi-faceted, multi-passionate, or multi-skilled. Maybe you are just too brilliant and cannot be put into a small box. Find an outlet for your other interests. Keep your brand and business clear and focused. Determine what you most want to be known for and don't lose track of that. Oprah's media empire, i.e. television, magazine, book club, movies, internet, satellite radio supports and reflects her brand. There is no confusion. Oprah's brand permeates all her content. It's hard not to talk about that whether she's in the room or not.
- Never stop innovating. Underestimating innovation is kind of like underestimating marketing. Whether quickly or over time, both can sink a business and brand like the Titanic (and we know that wasn't just any sinking). Apple was ranked the world's most innovative company in late 2015 by the Boston Consulting Group. The company Steve Jobs co-founded has ranked high on other noteworthy lists. Some of that has been based on a great deal of research, surveying hundreds of senior executives, complex methodology, etc. Ultimately the opinions that matter the most: Apple customers. I don't know any Apple fans (along with some Apple haters) who don't believe it's one of, if not the most innovative company out there. Like it's ideal customers, Apple is a risk taker and is all about the "think different" culture.
Making it your mission to be different, in a really cool and effective way is an excellent strategy to build a legacy brand. This will also enable you to become the center of conversation, and that good will can spread like wildfire. Of course you can always settle for people having absolutely nothing to say about your brand. That's safe right? But not remarkable. Be unforgettable. Be spectacular. Stay innovative. If you want to not just run a business, but leave your mark on the world, think differently about how doing business with your company makes people feel. They you'll have customers for life.
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