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20 years ago, a boy named Harry Potter brought the magic of reading to millions of children and adults, and in turn did wondrous things for the worlds of books and movies. This February, The Great Read is celebrating the phenomenal impact of the Harry Potter books on literature and culture worldwide with a variety of programs and events for wizards and muggles of all ages. For more information, visit greatread.org.
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National Youth Organiser of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Sammy Awuku, is of the firm belief that the ever escalating tension in the party is temporary and that there is light at the end of the tunnel.
He asserts the NPP will "emerge stronger afterwards".
"What the NPP is going through is temporary; it will not last. I am sure the NPP will come out stronger. The NPP will come out stronger to win 2016," he remarked.
The internal wrangling in the NPP took a different turn when two set of security guards clashed over who controls the party office. The scuffle, which broke out between security guards appointed by the old executives and those appointed by the new executives, nearly turned bloody, but for the timely intervention of the police.
Speaking to the issue during a panel discussion on Peace FM's 'Kokrokoo', Sammy Awuku assured that whoever was behind the 'confusion' would be fished out.
"It is strange a group of people will just assume a role at the head office without anybody's authorisation," he said.
Sammy Awuku was confident that 'the order' for new security guards did not come from any of the new executives and "so who authorised them to take over and that calls for an investigation and so we are going to get to the bottom of it."
"We will get to the bottom of it. Whoever authorised for the group to take over should be held responsible for the melee that occurred on Monday. Whoever called them (new security guards) did a great disservice to our party and its structures. For some time now we have been in the media for the wrong reasons and so what occurred was unnecessary," Sammy Awuku asserted.

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"A Civil Action" to be Retried at Smith College
On Tuesday, April 20, all the events, facts and testimony documented in Northampton author Jonathan Harr's best-selling "A Civil Action" will be reexamined in a staged trial at Smith College. Students in Geology 109, "The Environment," a course taught by Amy Rhodes, a lecturer in environmental sciences,will enact the trial from 7 to 10 p.m. in McConnell auditorium. The event is free, open to the public, and wheelchair accessible.
"A Civil Action," released as a John Travolta movie last year, tells the true story of a Woburn, Massachusetts, court case in which several families collectively brought charges against two local companies, W.R. Grace and Beatrice Foods, accused of contaminating the local groundwater supply and causing high occurrences of leukemia among the families' children.
Harr visited Rhodes' class in March and spoke about his writing process and what his life was like during the arduous course of following the Woburn case.
Rhodes' class members, many of whom are nonscience majors, will take on the roles of the nonfiction novel's characters, some developing arguments supporting the Woburn families as lawyers for the prosecution, some as attorneys for the defense, others playing the roles of geology, medical, statistical and contaminant experts who have compiled information or will testify before the mock court.
Rhodes, who has focused on global warming, energy and other environmental issues in the past in her class, this year decided to study water-quality issues and groundwater contamination in conjunction with her personal research of water-quality and land-use issues related to the local Mill River watershed.
"While we discussed these issues in class the students were reading of a parallel situation in 'A Civil Action,'" says Rhodes. "By focusing on the book I aimed to tie a popular, nonfiction story with some basic geologic principles that relate to groundwater movement, human water supplies and, in this case, an apparent environmental health problem."
Rhodes emphasizes that by reviewing the facts in the case documented by Harr, her class may not necessarily arrive at the same conclusion as that of the real-life case. "The book provides the framework for the students to do their research. It sets up the problem that students need to solve. How they solve it depends on their own initiative. The verdict need not be the same as what occurred in the actual story. The students will have access to more recent data and a different judge presides."
The judge for Rhodes' class trial will be Tom Schwab, a retired corporate lawyer from Holyoke. A jury will be made up of students in Environmental Science 300, a senior seminar taught by lecturer Elizabeth Farnsworth.
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In the 1920s in California,
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Hubble figured out that the Milky Way isnt the only galaxy.
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In the summer in florida
Is there anyone form Florida on here and have there ccw and they carry in the heat of summer what gun do you carry and where
I was born down there and lived for 40 years there around collier county. Worked in custom homes. I had a taurus model 85 that was in my pocket between me and my tool pouch for many years till I started running work. Carried it down there for right at 10 years. 10 more up here. No problems at all. I IWB when away from work But just over my front pocket so things did not move or change much. I know some say even SS rust on them. I used break free clp from in the mid 70's and hunted with ole cheap blued steel fireams and just never had rust issues. I now carry Kahrs CM9 or CW9 still pocket or straight up IWB. Even a KT pf-9 for a couple years with good results. Allways worked hard lots of climbing and just long sweaty days down there and could never find a way to carry a larger and heavier handgun so practice more with what I did CC with.
That's why the Ruger LCP is so popular down here. It fits easily into the cargo pocket of your shorts and you can almost forget it's even there. I also have a inside the waistband holster for my Beretta 84 that I wear under my un-tucked shirt at about the 5 o'clock position sometimes, but the hot sweaty nature of the weather here in Florida doesn't make it fun to carry.
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I carry an LC9 in a desantis nemesis. A little big for jeans --- but let's be honest u aren't going to wear those in the summer anyway. It fits great in cargo shorts - which is what I wear 3 out of 4 seasons in FL
Depending on what I have planned. I have shoulder, IWB, SOB, boot, and cross draw. My carry firearms vary also from full sized 1911's to LCP.
When I figured that a full sized 1911 would not work with the Speedo's (not enuff room), I got smart and started to use variations.
Don't live in Florida, but it gets pretty hot & humid here in east Texas also. I carry OWB with a T-Shirt between me & the pistol/holster & a blousey untucked shirt as a cover. Oddly enough, the T-shirt does not add to the discomfort from heat.
Pistol, holster gets soaked with sweat, but when I get inside out of the heat, I wipe it down with a silicon cloth. Also when I clean & lube, I use Finish Line Dry Lube inside & out. When reassembled, I wipe the excess off the outside, but it leaves a little bit of a protective film. It's designed to protect bicycle chains from grime, water & rust & it works real well for pistols too.
I'm carrying even when doing yard work & no rust so far.
I live in Florida and I carry a full size 1911,IWB, year round. All it requires is good leather and a good belt. I cover with a print or solid color tee shirt or a square cut button-up shirt.
Lcp all day, she's my buddy you know "where ever I go she goes" fits anywhere. My lcp has the lil belt clip so it on any clothing. It's a great gun for those beach or pool days
Or just running out the house for a minute. The bg380 and p238 are also good carry guns for fl people. Wife carries p238 with out a problem but it's still heavyer then lcp. Any will do
I'm not in Florida, but I do spend a great deal of time in shorts and a t-shirt...and am often carrying in that attire. I carry a Kel-Tec PF9 in the summer. It's an ugly, cheap feeling micro 9mm that just plain works. No frills. I can carry in under the wasteline in a belly band or in a Desantis pocket holster if I'm wearing pretty baggy shorts.
There are plenty of other good 380 and 9mm micros. I decided 9mm was the smallest I wanted to go, and the 'cheap SOB' in me likes that it's considerably more powerful and affordable than 380acp. But a lot of experienced shooters have gone with the 380 and I might too if I were subjected to Florida's humidity. Look into single-stacked micro 380/9mm from Kel-Tec, Ruger, Kahr, and Walther...and S&W and Sig each make nice little 380s as well. And if you want greater capacity (doublestack), the size of the Ruger SR9c is tough to beat.
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Our guest blogger today is Modupe Labode, Assistant Professor of History and Museum Studies and a Public Scholar of African American History and Museums at IUPUI. She writes about the current exhibition, "Hard Truths: The Art of Thornton Dial."
When I first saw this piece, it stood out because it was so different from the dense thickness of Thornton Dial's other works. The series of doors are almost playful and are painted in green, blue, and white. There is even a welcome mat before one of the doors. The work brings to mind the fabled tradition of Southern hospitality, in which no one is made to feel a stranger. Going to the other side of the work I was faced with a tangle of raw wood, wires, nails, boards, and rags. Two strange red and white figures creep amidst the disorder. It is only when I returned to the other side of the work that I saw an ominous pool of red, seemingly oozing from behind the doors.
Thornton Dial named this work Everybody's Welcome in Peckerwood City. The doors evoke a famous scene in civil rights history. On June 11, 1963, Governor George Wallace addressed journalists gathered at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. Wallace was a skilled political showman who championed white supremacy and denounced federal interference in state affairs, including enforcement of civil rights laws. In his inaugural address a few months earlier, the governor called Alabama the "Heart of the Great Anglo-Saxon Southland" and promised "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever." On the June day when two African American students were to register for classes, George Wallace showily denounced the federal court order desegregating the university, delivered a speech denouncing the federal actions, and then stood solemnly in front of the doors to an auditorium. Wallace's actions immediately became known as the stand at the schoolhouse door. The students ultimately registered for classes and one of them, Vivian Malone, became the first African American graduate of the University of Alabama.
In her essay in the Hard Truths exhibition catalogue, curator Joanne Cubbs describes the tangled back view of Everyone's Welcome in Peckerwood City as evoking a horror show. Cubbs words resonated with me because when I read about life in Jim Crow America, "horror show" often seems to be the term which best captures the trials that everyday black people endured. What other term explains a society in which ordinary activities—taking the bus, walking home, or going to Sunday school—could suddenly end in humiliation, torture, rape, or disappearance? In the face of such horror, many whites were complacent or confused, while others endorsed the violent, racist social order. When African Americans organized and protested against injustice, some whites counseled patience, advice which led Martin Luther King, Jr. to write Letter from Birmingham Jail.
Thornton Dial had his own encounters with horror. He told Joanne Cubbs about an incident which informed his work Joe Louis (1998). When he was a young man living and working in Bessemer, Alabama, his car stalled on a rainy evening. Two policemen, instead of offering assistance, attacked him. Thornton Dial recalled, "I thought that I had help until they said, 'You're under arrest,' and started to beat me up. The police are supposed to help you, but they beat me bad. . . I thought they were going to kill me."
The title, Everybody's Welcome in Peckerwood City, strikes me as especially acidic. I've heard the term "peckerwood" used without irony only a few times in my life and it was usually said by African Americans who were old enough to have been adults in the 1940s or 1950s. They employed the label contemptuously to describe a white person who despised black people. They had lived through a time when using that word to a white person's face would have meant risking one's health or life. Thornton Dial surely knew the weight of that word when he named his work.
Thornton Dial's work is too rich to reduce to historical illustrations or examples of how the past influences the present. But it is evident that Thornton Dial deploys history with the same vision and the same sure and delicate hand that he uses when transforming found objects into art.
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Sarah Green Says:
March 31st, 2011 at 9:57 am
Excellent post, Modupe.
Jenny Mikulay Says:
April 8th, 2011 at 10:45 am
Thanks for sharing this interpretation–learning more of the historical background to Dial's work is very helpful!


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WAYNESBORO, Ga. - Mr. Roy Keith Hood Jr., 82, of Fourth Street, died Saturday, Dec. 16, 2000, at St. Joseph Hospital, Augusta.
Graveside services, with full military honors, will be at 11 a.m. Monday at Burke Memorial Gardens with Dr. Al Wright and the Rev. Harold Rowland officiating.
Mr. Hood, a native of Alabama, had retired from the Navy and was a veteran of World War II. He also had retired from Perfection Industries. He was a member of First Baptist Church.
Survivors include two sons, Roy K. Hood III and Mike Hood, both of Waynesboro; a daughter, Barbara Long, Martinez; three sisters, Louise Bagwell, Pontotoc, Miss., Martha Cordova, Hespria, Calif., and Mary Gadsden, Lavonia; and six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
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Some factors contributing to the increased rate of having multiples is becoming pregnant in the 30s or 40s and/or assisted pregnancy. Particularly the drug Clomid has been linked to an increase in the number of twins and triplets.
In order to be able to conceive non-identical twins naturally, there must be the gene in a woman's body from her father or mother. The ability to conceive dizygotic twins is a female related issue. On the other hand, having identical twins has nothing to do with the genes!
Internationally, identical twins occur four per 1000. However, the statistics of having fraternal twins varies with race. Africans have the highest rate of dizygotic twins, with Europeans in the middle and the lowest rate of fraternal twins happening in Asia.
There are basically two types of conception that can happen with twins. (some believe there is a third type of twins, read more ..)
1) A single egg is fertilized by a single sperm and between 3 to 15 days after conception it splits and the result is identical or monozygotic twins. If the split happens by day 5, the twins will have two amniotic sacs, two chorions, even two placentas. If the split happens between day 5 and 9, then the twins will have one chorion, one placenta and two amniotic sacs. If the split happens 9 days after conception, then the twins will share one chorion, one placenta and amniotic sac. If division happens later on, then conjoined twins are formed.
Identical twins normally share one placenta, but each can have their own amniotic sac. However, a small percentage of identical twins have two placentas. In that case you may be under the impression that you will have dizygotic twins and get a surprise after birth.
The Placenta's function is to deliver nutrients to the babies. There can be complications for babies who share a placenta. Of course identical twins are the same gender and share the same DNA. However they will have their own unique fingerprints!
2) Two eggs are fertilized by two sperms and the result is fraternal, non-identical or dizygotic twins. Fraternal twins usually do not share placentas. Each have their own placenta and amniotic sac. They are basically womb neighbours. Having said that, in some cases, the two placentas can fuse together and give the impression of being one placenta. In all reality, you can only be sure what type of twins you are having after you give birth.
Just for you to know Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen are actually fraternal twins?!!
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Yesterday I bumped the same elbow on the outside twice. Today I have a constant pain on the inside of my elbow. Where you would get blood draw for blood test. What could be some causes of pain in the crease of the elbow?
There are many reasons why your elbow could hurt following trauma. Most typically, trauma from "bumps" is more soft tissue in nature such as bruises, strains, or sprains.
It is hard to assess what structures could be damaged without knowing more about the bumps that occurred or if you have had any other injuries to the elbow, which may have affected your response. I would recommend seeing a physician if you are having continued pain in your elbow to determine the source of your pain.
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Dave Bird, RIP
David Gerard has posted a nice couple of obituaries and some photos at his blog.
Dave Bird had a crazy mountain man look, and I thought his postings and tactics were sometimes over the top, but he also had a gift for showmanship and entertainment, as you can see from the photos of his props that he brought to protests. He was one of the protesters that Scientology took seriously enough to attack on their "Religious Freedom Watch" website (which seems to still be offline since being attacked by "Anonymous").


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text: The Simon And Garfunkel Songbook Performed by Aztec Two-Step at William Paterson University November 16 The Simon and Garfunkel Songbook, performed by Aztec Two-Step, will take the stage on Friday, November 16, 2012 at William Paterson University in Wayne. The show will be held at 8 p.m. in the University's Shea Center for Performing Arts as part of its "WP Presents!" series. Tickets are available in advance or on the day of the performance at $30 gold circle, $25 rear orchestra, $22 loge and $20 rear loge. Discounts are available for students, senior citizens and William Paterson alumni, faculty and staff. Group rates are also available. Aztec-Two Step, comprised of performers Rex Fowler and Neal Shulman, will present the timeless songs and harmonies or Simon and Garfunkel. Fowler and Shulman have been writing and performing original music for more than four decades together. The duo released the album "Time it Was – The Simon & Garfunkel Songbook" in 2008. The tribute album features narration by music historian, the late Pete Fornatale, and live recordings of Fowler and Shulman performing Simon and Garfunkel's legendary acoustic hits. This performance is co-sponsored by WFUV radio and WFUV's Don McGee will host the performance. For addition information, please contact William Paterson University's Shea Center Box Office at email@example.com, call 973.720.2371 or visit www.wp-presents.org. # # # 10/26/12


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Historic, romantic and absolutely authentic, this fairy-tale château dates back to the Middle Ages, an entrancing spot for would-be knights, kings and queens, in the heart of the little-known Aveyron region.
The castle was built in the 13th century and while it has been lovingly restored over the years to meet the needs of modern-day visitors, many original elements are still intact, including a stone spiral staircase and massive fireplaces in the main reception rooms. The decor is in keeping with the style of the building: oak panelling, tapestries, ancestral portraits, antique furniture and canopied beds. With two of the five bedrooms located in the castle towers, this is a delightfully unique place where children can let their imagination run wild and adults can indulge in a spot of true escapism for a week or two. The welcoming owners live in a separate house next to the château, and are very happy to share their extensive local knowledge with guests.
Château de la Garinie sits in seven acres of grounds, with the closest neighbour 500m away. The 16m private swimming pool is set in its own garden, surrounded by a mature hedge for privacy. Montbazens, the nearest village, is only 1.5km away, and here you'll find a good selection of shops, cafés and a restaurant in addition to the Wednesday market. The local area is packed with pretty villages and historic towns to visit, with Villefranche-de-Rouergue, Figeac, Conques and the regional capital Rodez particularly recommended. For a change from the pool, you can try swimming, fishing or kayaking on the Lot and Aveyron rivers or a range of water sports on the lake at Privezac. And with three national parks within a 60-90 minute drive, you'd be hard pushed to exhaust this region's possibilities even if you stayed the entire summer.


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NBLookup is a command line diagnostic tool that uses the User Datagram Protocol (UDP) to send NetBIOS name queries to Microsoft Windows Internet Naming Service (WINS) servers. NBLookup requires TCP/IP version 4 to run. WINS servers accept name resolution requests on UDP port 137.
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continued Freitas went on to cite state and federal environmental and noise statutes he believed applied to the case and to suggest arbitration if no agreement could be reached. After receiving no answer to the letter, Freitas sent it again, on April 15, 2000. Almost a month later, he received a letter dated May 11, 2000, not from LaChappa but from the tribe's Escondido lawyer, Art Bunce, which stated, "The Tribal Council's initial response is to reject any suggestion that any outside party should dictate to the Barona Band how it will use the lands of its federal Indian reservation."
Bunce went on to say that Freitas's letter "seeks to give non-Indians an effective veto over the decisions which the Tribe makes as to how it wishes to make use of its Reservation land. While the tribe wishes to be a good neighbor, the approach of your organization assumes the result of any dialog, and treats the Barona Band and its federal Indian reservation as just another ordinary neighbor, rather than a sovereign government. For this reason, the Barona Tribal Council is not interested in any discussion where the result is already dictated before the discussion even begins."
Communication between the tribe and the Barona Mesa Environmental Association grew a little more cordial over the next few years. Freitas and others from his association met with LaChappa once -- "Though nothing came of it," Freitas says -- and the tribe even agreed to have a noise study done. The test was performed on July 10 and 11, 2004, by Investigative Science and Engineering, which concluded, "Based upon the measurement, hourly noise levels were found to be at or below 60 [decibels]. This commonly would not be deemed as excessive noise."
Freitas says the test did not reflect normal conditions at the track. "The tribe insisted on knowing the date of the test, and fewer bikes came that day," he contends. Since then, there have been "more races, bigger bikes, more dust, and more noise. And they've started coming on some weekdays now."
Freitas and the members of the Barona Environmental Association who haven't moved out of the neighborhood in frustration have contacted County Supervisor Dianne Jacob's office as well as state and federal government entities. The message they've gotten from all of them has been a version of what one official from Dianne Jacob's office said recently: "We're well aware of the problem with the track, but we can't operate on tribal land."
The county supervisor's staff is planning an August meeting to bring together the tribe and its neighbors.
Neither the Barona tribe nor the California Mini Motorcycle Club responded to phone calls seeking comment.


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In my last blog, I laid out a vision of how a project lead and her stakeholders might use the predictive analytics to drive to better project outcomes. As I mentioned in the entry, IBM Rational is work on such a tool. A demonstration of this tool is found here: Agile Development Analytics Demo. The video was created by Peri Tarr, the lead architect on the project.

Some of you might notice that the terminology and development process described in the demo is at odds with your understanding of Agile. We do understand that and currently we are working on making a robust tool that accommodates a wide range of processes for what might some might call 'pure Agile' to various hybrids we are discovering in the market place.

In the next blog, I will explain more on how the tool works.

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It should not be a surprise that I have been following the BP oil spill with much interest. In fact, as I starting typing this entry, I was watching the grilling of the BP CEO, Tony Heyward, by Congress. Rep. Stupak is focusing on the BP's risk management.

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Some of you have read my earlier posting on my thoughts of the BP decision process that led to the Deepwater Horizon blowout. So far, information uncovered since that posting is remarkably consistent with my earlier suppositions. In this entry I would like to step back a bit and discuss what broader lessons might be learned from the incident. While it is all too easy to fall into BP bashing, I would rather use this moment to reflect more deeply on risk taking and creating value. (BTW, some of you might now that my signature slogan is 'Take risks, add value'.)

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In our industry we create value primarily through the efficient delivery of innovation. Delivering innovation, by definition, requires investing in efforts without initial full knowledge of the effort required and the value of the delivery. This incomplete information results in uncertainties in the cost, effort, schedule of the projects and the value of the delivered software and system, i.e. cost, schedule and value risk.

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Deciding to drill an oil well also entails investing in an effort with uncertain costs and value. In this case, the structure of the subsystem and productivity of the well cannot be know with certainty before drilling. As I pointed out in an earlier blog, a good definition of risk is uncertainty in some quantifiable measure that matters to the business. So in both our industry and oil drilling we deliberately assume risk to deliver value.

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So, what can we learn from the BP incident? Briefly, one creates value by genuinely managing risk. One creates the semblance of value for a while by ignoring risk.

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Assuming risk, investing in uncertain projects, provides the opportunity for creating value. That value is actually realized by investing in activities that reduce the risk. The model that shows the relationship is described in this entry. So, reducing risk has economic value, but reducing risk takes investment. In the end, the quality risk management is measured with a return on investment calculation. This in turn requires a means to quantify and in fact monetize risk.

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I wonder what was there risk management approach was followed by BP. A recent Wall Street Journal article suggested they used a risk map approach – building a diagram with one axis a score of the 'likelihood of the risk' and the other a score of the 'severity of a failure'. So with this method, they would score the risk of a blowout as very low (based on past history) with a very high consequence. So, such a risk needs to be 'mitigated'. (Some actually multiply the scores to get to some absolute risk measure.) Their mitigation was the installation of a blow-out preventer. They could then confidently report they have executed their risk management plan. Note these scores are at best notionally quantified and not monetized.

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Paraphrasing my good colleague, Grady Booch (speaking of certain architecture frameworks), risk maps is the semblance of risk management. As pointed out by Douglis Hubbard in The Failure of Risk Management (and in an earlier rant in this blog), this sort of risk management is not only common, but dangerous: It is a sort of business common failure mode that leads to bad outcomes. Also, Hubbard points out, useful risk management entails quantification and calculation using probability distributions and Monte Carlo analysis. I would add that since risk management in the end is about business outcomes, risks need to be monetized as well as quantified. I am willing to bet a good bottle of wine that BP did no such thing. Any takers? The business common failure mode was over-reliance on the preventers, even though there are several studies showing they are far from 'failsafe'.

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Further, it appears BP assumed risk by consistently taking the cheaper, if riskier. design and procedure alternative, the one with greater uncertainty in the outcome, even when the cost of an undesired, if unlikely, outcome was possibly catastrophic. The laundry list of such decisions is long; some outlined in Congressman Waxman's letter to Tony Hayward. CEO's of Shell and Exxon testified before congress that their companies would have used a different, more costly designs and followed more rigorous procedures. According the congressional and journalistic reports, this behavior is BP standard operating procedure. So BP  assumed risk by drilling wells but did not invest in reducing the risk.

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For quite a while they got away with the approach of assuming but really reducing risk, and appeared to be creating value as reflected in stock and value and dividends to the investors. The BP management raised the stock price from around $40/share in 2003 to a peak of around of $74/share prior to the Deepwater Horizon incident. At this writing the stock is trading at $32/share and the current dividend has been cancelled. Investors might rightly wonder if there is another latent disaster and so discount the apparent future profitability with the likelihood of unknown liabilities. The total loss of stockholder value is over $100B, which is in the ballpark of the eventual liability of BP. So, whatever approach BP used to manage risk failed.

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BTW, some may recognize this same pattern in the management of financial firms that participated in the subprime mortgage market. In that case, they 'mitigated risk' by relying on the ratings agencies. Those who actually built monetized models of the risk realized there was a great opportunity to bet against the subprime mortgage lenders and made huge fortunes (See, e.g. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis .).

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Readers of the blog will notice a recurrent theme is some of the postings. It is essential that we assume and manage risk. To repeat a favorite quote, "One cannot manage what one does not measure." The risk map, score methods, while common are insufficient to the needs of our industry; they do not measure, nor really manage risk. We as a discipline need to step up to quantifying, monetizing, and working off risk in order to be succeed as drivers of innovation. We need to step up to the mathematical approach found in the Douglas and Dan Savage's (see this posting) texts.

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I came to this same realization probably a decade ago. I held off at first because I had not deep enough understanding of how to proceed, and I knew I would encounter great skepticism. I tested the waters in 2005 and posted my first paper on the subject in 2006. I indeed received a great deal of skepticism and resistance, but enough acceptance to go forward. I have learned some important lessons from all that. In my next blog, I will share my experiences of bringing more mathematical thinking to risk management for SSD.
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The talk was about an expert-system based engineering risk management system. Essentially, the authors got a set of experts together to identify catagories of risks (people, delivery, product ...), risks in the categories, and a method for identifying level of risk and their consequence and then summing the products of the levels and the consequences. The end is the total amount of category risk. Looking at the output is supposed to give you insight of the overall program risk and the contributing risks.

My problem is that I cannot parse the last sentence. In fact I do not understand terms like "program risk" and say "people risk". There may be a clash of cultures here; to many those terms seem reasonable.

My argument starts here: One can ask 'What is my risk of going over budget?' or 'what is my risk of missing the delivery date?' The answers to these sort of questions are answered using stardard business analytics. See, for example, Mun's text on risk analytsis that defines risk as statistical uncertainty of a quantity that matters. For example, 'time to complete' is a quantity that does matter to a project. The uncertainty in making the date can be measuresd as the variance (or standard deviation) of the estimate of the time-to-complete. (Note, for the math aware, time-to-complete is what the statisticians call a continuous random variable.) So the answer to the question, 'what is my schedule risk?' has an unambiguous, quantified answer. What is 'my people risk' has no such answer. In fact, 'people risk' is not a concept defined in business analytics.

Of course, it does make sense to ask what contributes to the schedule risk. One might fear that the inability to staff the project contributes to the schedule risk. Fair enough. In my mind, that does not make staffing a 'risk', but say a schedule risk factor.

I am not sure why I am so adamant about this, but I am. It could be that I believe that the less precise use and measurement of risk is holding our industry back.

Anyone want to comment or defend the so-called risk management practice underlying the talk I found so annoying  ?
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I have a T61 that has not been logging past the "sign-in" screen, so it's not exactly BSOD...
I ran the PC Doctor diagnostic and my laptop "failed" 3 tests...
Hard Drive: SMART extended self-test FAILED
Hard Drive: Surface scan test FAILED
also SMBIOS: SMBIOS: standards test FAILED
I went thru the whole "start BIOS setup utility" and
etc., etc, selected "hard drive" and pressed the F6 key to move to the first boot position.
etc. I even went through the ThinkVantage process to go back to "original factory settings"
but I still FAIL the 3 tests above, when I redo the testing in PC Doctor.
Is my internal hard drive "fried" ??
thanks for anyones help on this. I purchased this machine model 7658-CTO back in November 2007
and the warranty is no longer in place.
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your hdd is on the verge of dying, so before it does, this is what you should do.
Burn yourself a set of recovery media, by going to start, program, thinkvantage, create recovery media. It should burn you 3 DVDs.
Also you may need to backup any files that may need, by using the rescue and recovery feature under thinkvantage program list. Make sure you backup the hdd content to an external source, like an large usb drive, usb dvd burner or burnable dvd discs.
Now you would need to get a new hdd from somewhere (you don't need to buy it from Lenovo if you don't want), the hdd must be 2.5 inch form factor, 9.5 mm thick and have SATA connection. WD, Seagate, Hitachi, Samsung, Fujitsu all produce these drives up to 500 gig in size.
After you bought the hdd, you would need to remove the hdd, there is a screw that you need to unscrew. Now take off the cover for the internal hdd bay. Pull on that black mylar pull tab on the hdd, to remove it from the drive bay.
Remove the two rubber railings on both side of the hdd drive (anti shock). There four screw that holds the old hdd in the makeshift anti-static caddy, you would need a phillip screwdriver, after the screw is removed, replace the old hdd with the new one you bought.
After you have reinstalled the new hdd in the laptop, run the Recovery media discs (3 DVD) from startup discs and follow the on screen prompts. This should restore the recovery partition, and reinstall all your OS and drivers like when you first got the laptop. If you have also created a rescue and recovery backup, you can restore the laptop to the original condition, by choosing restore.
if you have problem following the worded instruction on removing the hdd that i provided, you can look at the illustrated hardware manual provided in the link.
Good luck
so, my fears of it dying are confirmed... I've not even had it 2 years...
This is my first laptop... I wonder if this is a typical lifespan of a hdd (?)
I still have the original 6 Product Recovery CD's that Lenovo shipped
along with the Thinkpad T61 when I bought it. Also have the orginal
(single) Rescue and Recovery CD. and orginal (single) Supplemental Product Recovery CD.
I'm guessing the above should be sufficient to "restore the
recovery partition" and reinstall all the OS and drivers.
Then I can reinstall MS Office '07, Kaspersky, etc. .... I also have a
CD that is my backup of files (only) and preferences.
Thanks for your guidance on how to remove the old hdd.
Shouldn't be too difficult... just takes up waaaaaayyyyy tooooooo muuuucccchhhh tiiiiimmmmme
to get this all done : (
Susan J.
Those 6 product recovery cd are probably for XP, so if you are using Vista, then you would need burn another set. Other than that, i don't know what else you would need. you are pretty much good to go.
Regarding hdd quality, it just depends some fail within a couple of months, some can last 5 to 7 years. Premature hdd failure are rare. But anycase if you do get an aftermarket hdd, then you are at least protected 2 to 3 years of standard warranty.
I searched a few hard drive supply websites and read a lot of reviews...
Ordered new WD hard drive with the same speed 7200 rpm as old drive, but instead of 160 Gb
went with 250 Gb.
So easy to install but could not have done it without your instructions regarding the anti-static caddy, and the diagram manual you referenced. I really needed visual "cues" to confirm the step-by-step.
You were correct about the Recovery CD's that originally came with my T61 Vista pre-installed... the OS is Windows XP Professional. Only took 3 hours to run, followed by re-install of Office 07, Kaspersky, etc.
But, I think I can live with that.... except that I cannot load my CD backup of saved files that I created when
I had Vista... oh well.
Now my laptop seems to be responding faster... I guess what they say about Vista is true,
or maybe it was just my dying hard drive that made it run less productively....
-Susan J.
I have a Windows XP T61 that froze in the night and now cannot boot to the Desktop.
I am able to use the ThinkVantage button to access "Rescue and Recovery 4" but I don't know from where within that I can create a set of recovery DVDs.
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Michelle Eyre De Sam hit by car in hit-and-run crash
A Bethesda woman remains hospitalized after being the victim of a hit-and-run crash last Friday night.
Montgomery County Police say that Michelle Eyre De Sam, 35, was hit by a vehicle on Rockville Pike near Cedar Lane, less than a quarter mile from her home, just after 9:30 p.m. She was found unconscious in the roadway and the car that hit her was nowhere to be found.
Authorities say that De Sam was trying to cross Rockville Pike from east to west inside a crosswalk when she was hit. Her injuries are considered non-life threatening.
Police have no lookout for the striking vehicle, but ask anyone who may have seen the crash to contact them at (301) 279-8000.


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NPR's Grand Trunk Road Series Digs Into Pakistan's Multi-Layered Society
NPR's Steve Inskeep traveled with other correspondents to Pakistan and India to file a series of reports for Morning Edition, called "Along the Grand Trunk Road". He spoke with Kwame Holman from Islamabad about the young people he met, their challenges and perseverance.
"It's astonishing to me, it's inspiring to me to meet people who survive on so little and keep their sense of self with so little to hope for," he said.
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NEWARK — A reputed high-ranking New Jersey member of the Bloods street gang is facing sentencing in federal court.
Vincent Young pleaded guilty last year to racketeering conspiracy. He faces a maximum sentence of 20 years but under his plea agreement is expected to be sentenced to between 12 and 15 years in U.S. District Court in Newark today.
Federal authorities say Young moved from Los Angeles to northern New Jersey in the 1990s and formed the Fruit Town Brims set of the Bloods gang.
He was arrested last year in a takedown of 15 reputed Bloods members who were charged with crimes including murder, kidnapping, carjacking and drug offenses.
Young has previous convictions for drug distribution and aggravated manslaughter, according to court filings.
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Bridgetown (Barbados), March 12 (IANS) West Indies head coach Otis Gibson says fast bowling is experiencing a rebirth in the Caribbean and he has expressed confidence that the trend could improve the regional side's rankings in world cricket.
Gibson's comments come as a number of leading fast bowlers have been included as well as excluded in the West Indies squad to play Zimbabwe from Tuesday in the first of two Test matches at Kensington Oval.
Rising star Shannon Gabriel, Kemar Roach and Tino Best are the pacers in the 13-man squad to play Zimbabwe while Ravi Rampaul, Fidel Edwards, and the promising Jason Holder are the quickies not included.
"From my point of view as a coach or as a previous bowling coach, if you look at the fast bowling stocks at the moment. Fidel Edwards is missing, Ravi Rampaul is missing," said Gibson.
"But to have Kemar Roach, Tino Best, Shannon Gabriel, to have Sheldon Cotterrell waiting in the wings as well, to have Jason Holder, to have Delorn Johnson, young (Ronsford) Beaton, (is a positive).
The West Indies have produced an astounding array of pace bowlers over the years who have terrorised opponents mainly in the 1970s and 1980s.
They include the likes of Andy Roberts, Malcolm Marshall, Michael Holding, Joel Garner, Colin Croft, Curtly Ambrose and Courtney Walsh.
"The West Indies cricket over the years, the success of the team has always been built on a four-prong pace attack but you have to have young bowlers first and foremost," said Gibson.
"All these names seem to suggest that we are going somewhere towards developing a crop of leaders that can lead us forward."
Roberts, Holding, Garner and Marshall formed a dangerous quartet of the West Indian fast bowlers that devastated opposition batsmen at both Test and One Day International level.
While Roberts' trade mark was the use of two different bouncers Holding was known for maiming batsmen and delivered what is widely regarded as the most menacing over in history when he pummelled Geoff Boycott in 1981.
Gibson says the plethora of young fast bowlers surfacing in the West Indies offer hope for the future of the Caribbean side.
"There are a lot of names that are popping up now that gives you the feeling that things are starting to turn around with regards to fast bowling, if not necessarily the overall cricket," he said.


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The home-buying process sometimes resembles a card game as buyers and sellers keep a poker face and hold their cards tight while exchanging offers and counteroffers. Neither side wants to fold until absolutely necessary, and both sides want the most for their money.
Even before the negotiation starts, real estate agents say, the buyer should have spent hours doing homework after picking a house. Establishing how long the home has been for sale and the selling prices of similar homes in the area could help determine the motivation of the seller.
Buyers should be able to support their offer with facts.
"It's not just about price anymore," said Mary Hickok of Coldwell Banker in Belleair Bluffs. "It's about laying out the facts to make a decision."
Should buyers offer the asking price or submit a lowball offer? That depends.
Real estate agents offer these tips when negotiating a deal:
• A seller could be turned off by a ridiculously low offer and then accept another offer. That might exclude you from being able to make a counteroffer. On the flip side, some sellers price their homes higher to leave room for downward negotiating.
• Know a property's history by examining county tax rolls and appraiser records for older sale prices, current market values and value increases or declines. Realtor.com, Zillow.com or Trulia.com also provide information on homes listed for sale.
• The fact-checking also starts with real estate agents providing a comparative market analysis of other sales in the area. The analysis details the sizes, qualities and conditions of similar houses that already have sold and current prices of similar homes for sale.
• Each offer or counteroffer isn't always about money. Buyers can ask sellers to make repairs, leave appliances or pay part or all of the closing costs. The time factor also is crucial to the deal. Haggling over a price for a week or more likely will kill the deal and allow other buyers to make offers.
"People start to get disenchanted after several days and walk away," said Andrew Duncan of Keller Williams Realty in Tampa. "Both parties risk not having a meeting of the minds."
Finding the right price is tricky in a market where short sales or foreclosure sales figure in to most comparable sales. Although it likely will take several rounds of negotiations, buyers and sellers should offer input every step of the way. And they should keep their emotions out of the process.
Duncan added: "There is an art to it."
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Land-conservation strategies: the dynamic relationship between acquisition and land-use planning
Nonprofit organizations often pursue land acquisition as a nonpolitical, private property rights approach to conservation of ecological and cultural resources. Yet acquisition and regulatory land-use planning are intertwined, both in terms of political strategies and conservation outcomes. Our objectives are (1) to understand the relationship between the acquisition strategies of land trusts and their involvement in land-use planning and zoning, and (2) to examine how the interactions between acquisition and land-use planning may shape conservation outcomes. We focus on the strategies of The Nature Conservancy, one of the largest conservation NGOs in the United States. Drawing from an institutional analysis framework, we compare case studies from Tehama and Monterey Counties, California. Through semistructured interviews, analysis of land-use plans and conservation-easement agreements, and GIS mapping we examine political strategies and conservation outcomes. Our analysis reveals that acquisition strategies and the regulatory context influence each other strongly, but that tensions between the politics of these strategies challenge conservation actors to deploy both effectively. Finally, we develop themes for future research, suggesting that the implementation and assessment of regional conservation efforts would benefit from an integrated strategy that recognizes the synergistic linkages between acquisition and regulatory land-use planning. Keywords: land-use planning, zoning, land trusts, land acquisition, conservation easement, conservation strategy
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Russian Hacker Installs Windows Phone 8 and Windows RT on HTC HD2
A developer called Cotulla says he successively managed to install working versions of Windows Phone 8 and Windows RT, the ARM version of Windows 8 recently on a HTC HD2 smartphone, released in early 2010 and originally shipped with Windows Mobile 6.5.
The HTC HD2 is one of the last "big" smartphones have emerged in the Windows Mobile 6.5. Since it is largely gone out of fashion, the HTC HD2 is the toy of choice for some developers who have successively managed to make it work with Windows Phone 7 or Android. The hacker Cotulla, well known on XDA forums, went a step further, managing to launch first Windows Phone 8 on the HTC HD2 device. Not satisfied with this success, he then set out to run Windows RT version dedicated to the environments ARM of new Windows 8, still on the HTC HD2.
HTC HD2 have Qualcomm MSM 8250 processor clocked at 1GHz, with 448 MB of RAM and a 4.3 inch screen WVGA (800 x 480 pixels). In both cases, Cotulla claims to be able to get a functional system, which we can confirm trough provided screenshots and photos on his twitter account (look at below tweets). By his own admission, however, it is not a complete port: the process was essentially value demonstration (proof of concept), and both environments are still far from being able to meet the needs of daily use. Windows RT for example works here in a basic display mode, limited to 720 x 480 pixels and therefore be far from comfortable, but the specific environment such as Windows 8 in traditional desktop seem accessible.
— Ctll (@CotullaCode) December 1, 2012
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Cotulla, which provides the results of its work through his Twitter account, gives little explanation, but seems to have succeeded in launching Windows RT (not just emulate) by creating a layer dedicated to UEFI HD2, mainly based on the work done within the DFT team of hackers.
The news did not go without causing some disbelief, so far Microsoft said it was not possible for technical reasons to migrate a Windows Phone 7 smartphone to the latest Windows Phone 8. The work of this young Russian hacker – who had already participated in porting Windows Phone 7 on HD2 – however, tend to show that if you want to do it, you can.


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I had the privilege to, for likely the only time in my life, communicate with triple world champion Sir Jackie Stewart. Few men, if any, have been greater or more effective advocates for safety in Formula 1. Being a transportation safety professional, I was eager to ask him about F1's current safety programs. I have quoted his response below:
What we have is built in to our cars and also regulates safety. Our fuel systems, for example, in my day there were consistent terrible fires in F1. Now there are no fires. The drive in my day was sitting on the fuel tank, that doesn't exist today. They're created in such a way that they won't explode in a heavy impact. That's preventive medicine. We're conscious that if you have a multiple accident at speed, we have tethers on the wheels. We don't lose wheels like we used to. We still have wheels that get lost from time to time. A wheel came off a Williams and it cost them thousands and thousands of dollars, a fine by the FIA. A lot of drivers have been killed by wheels flying back like that, Senna, Mike Spence, etc. We've governed against those things happening. We have impact testing like the car industry.
Mr. Stewart gives a impressive list of hardware improvements on the car. Elsewhere in the Q&A he mentions the addition of track improvements and properly qualified medical personnel. Yet these changes came in reaction to serious safety failures, and often only address the most visible failure. A wheel falls off? Tie the wheel on. A physician not qualified to treat heavy trauma? Get a new physician. A driver dies after crashing into a tree? Put up a wall. If this seems simplistic, that's because it is. The risk is mitigated, but only passively, and only after the hazard causing the risk becomes the cause of a crash. The systems and culture that created the risk is only changed indirectly, if at all. To ensure the safe continuation of motorsports, risks must be actively managed, and hazards must be realized before they become the causes of tragedies.
Before I continue, understand that while hazards are a constant in motorsports, risks are not. Hazards are conditions and objects with the potential to cause damage and injury under certain circumstances. In motorsports, tires are hazards for their the potential to fly into objects and people. Fuel is a hazard for its potential to burn. Drivers are hazards for their potential to shunt. These hazards cannot be removed and become causes when a safety incident occurs. As for risks, they are the composite of hazards, the probably of the hazard to cause damage, and the severity of the damage caused. Risks are mitigated down to acceptable levels with measures such as tire cables, fireproofing, and driver training, but they never go away completely. Furthermore, only the probability of the hazard causing damage and the severity of that damage, not the hazard itself, may be mitigated at all.
The ability to mitigate risks but not hazards means that focusing on the simple, passive causes, such as the ability for tires to hit things, is never enough. Consider this Australian comedy sketch concerning a maritime accident:
Why did the accident happen? The front fell off. It doesn't usually happen, but it happened this time. The video is comedy, but none of that is incorrect. Race cars, like ships, are built not to crash, and usually don't crash. Yet all of the safety measures listed by Mr. Stewart came in response to crashes; crashes caused by hazards as well known to motorsports as waves are to ship designers. And if they weren't that well known, they should have been. Yet nothing was done until after the fact, a trend that continues to this day.
Consider four of the most recent high-profile motorsports deaths; Ayrton Senna at Imola in 1994, Dale Earnhardt at Daytona in 2001, Dan Weldon at Las Vegas in 2011, and Allan Simonsen at Le Mans in 2013. Senna's crash resulted in the reformation of the Grand Prix Driver's Association and a few regulatory changes, but two unmitigated risks particularity stand out. First, the runoff area at Imola was woefully insufficient. Sure, an F1 car should be able to navigate Tamburello without crashing, but things that can go wrong usually don't. Officials confused usually don't with never will, and didn't change the design until the hazard became an accident cause. Secondly, the Williams mechanics used an untested fabrication to adjust Senna's steering column, a fabrication that ultimately broke. F1 mechanics are some of the best in the world, and their fabrications almost never fail. They confused this with will never fail and sent Senna out, thinking their experience was sufficient testing.
In the case of Dale Earnhardt, his crash resulted in the greatly-improved Car of Tomorrow, the SAFER barrier, and improved seat belt and helmet regulations. But NASCAR knew that crashing head-first into a concrete wall was dangerous, especially with an unrestrained head and improperly-installed seat belt. But it never happened before, so no one did anything to reduce the risks; at least until after the fact. Even today, NASCAR has not adequately mitigated the risk of crashing perpendicularly into a concrete wall at high speed, as evidenced by Mark Martin's nearly-fatal crash in the first Michigan race of 2013. That crash rarely happens, but it does happen. Similarly, NASCAR didn't think its jet dryer drivers, operating a vehicle full of the hazard of jet fuel, needed to wear safety equipment because they probably wouldn't get into an accident. Whoops.
In the case of Dan Weldon, officials, teams, and drivers knew for years that running open-wheeled cars on intermediate ovals at full throttle with maximum down force was dangerous, but no one died, so nothing was done. Since then, the cars run reduced down force on intermediate ovals, have bodywork around the rear wheels, and posts have been moved outside of the catch fence. Indycar didn't need to wait for someone to die before doing this; everyone knew it would make the racing safer. Especially Dan, a test driver for the new car. But such crashes rarely happen, so change came too late, In the case of Dario Franchitti at Houstion in 2013, we're still waiting for a safe-enough fence.
Similarly with Allan Simonsen, the ACO knew, or should have known, that a high-speed collision into the hard Armco at Tertre Rouge would be extremely dangerous. But a car should be able to navigate the corner, and the Armco remained. Time will tell if June's reminder that a car can go off there will lead to any changes.
There's no reason why these safety improvements can't happen before an accident instead of after one. There's no reason why motorsports has to learn things the hard way. Part of the reason we learn things the hard way is cultural. Everyone knows crashes happen, and happen often. I would be greatly surprised if a professional racing driver could remember even half of the crashes they've had. Everyone knows the mechanisms by which drivers die, even if some drivers don't seem to care. That doesn't mean motorsports should resign itself to this inevitability. Sure people usually don't die in crashes, but that doesn't mean they never will. Yet signs of this resignation are found at the highest level of motorsports. After the death of Allan Simonsen, the barrier was returned to pre-race condition, even though that condition contributed to his death. Also, in 2011, Adrian Newey said that the no one would ever know why Senna's car, a car Newey designed, crashed. "We'll never know" is not a good attitude for someone involved in an accident investigation, but for larger cultural reasons an understandable one.
After the crash, both Newey and Williams technical director Patrick Head were charged in Italian courts for manslaughter. The Italians focused on the simple solution of criminal negligence with the intent to make an example, not to directly make F1 safer. Contrary to the beliefs of many prosecutors, litigation, or any type of punishment, actually has a negative effect on safety. Rather than scaring mechanics into being especially careful, the threat of litigation would keep teams from reporting safety incidents and previously unknown risks. Furthermore, no mechanic wants to raise a safety concern with the technical director if it will only result in claims of insubordination.
So what risks can motorsports proactively mitigate now? Off the top of my head, I can think of energy-absorbing barriers along the complete inside and outside of walls, replacing walls with runoff areas or gravel traps wherever possible, FIA or series certification of all major components, stricter pre-race and post-race safety inspections, and a non-punitive FIA or series-sanctioned crash-investigation panel with full access to any wreckage. I'm sure you, especially those heavily involved in motorsports, can think of more without waiting for another crash or death.
But what of acceptable risk? The constant nature of hazards means that risks are never completely eliminated, short of not racing at all. But the acceptable risks must be defined and agreed upon by all parties, and tests conducted to ensure risks stays below those levels. Some measures, such as crash testing and driver testing, accomplish this. But considering Senna's steering wheel again, that was a part tested by no one. Even today we cannot calculate its likelihood for failure. Almost twenty years later, the risk of failing parts has not been properly mitigated.
Jackie Stewart is likely the greatest safety advocate in the history of F1, but even he equates rarely occurring with never occurring. He says fires don't happen when petrol is still flammable; just ask Williams. He also speaks highly of fines to ensure safety, but after paying the fine, Williams assured the FIA they solved the problem. Did they? Who knows, but with the threat of fine, you can bet Williams won't be eager to tell the FIA if they find another problem or let the FIA test their fix. Going forward, we're counting that the things that rarely happen never will. Until we implement a proactive safety culture, for everyone involved in motorsports, let's hope those rare failures stay at bay.
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Rosemary H. RomerSep 6, 2013 Staff
Rosemary H. Romer died Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2013, surrounded by family at Wyoming Medical Center in Casper. She was 82 years old.
Memorial services will be at 11 a.m. Monday, Sept. 9, at Trinity Lutheran Church in Casper with Pastor Dan Holthus officiating. Inurnment will be at 2 p.m. at Natrona Memorial Gardens.
Rosemary Romer was born May 7, 1931, in Casper, the daughter of Frieda (Kosanke) and N.C. Clark.
She graduated from Natrona County High School in 1949.
She married William S. Romer on July 24, 1949. They were married for 42 years before he died Sept. 7, 1991.
Her family said enjoyed her volunteer work at Wyoming Medical Center, quilting at church, her sewing club and word puzzles. She was a lifelong member of Trinity Lutheran Church, a member of LWML and a big fan of the Denver Broncos and Colorado Rockies. She also was very proud of her grandchildren.
She is survived by her sons, Mark and his wife Lynn of Riverton and Gary and his wife Susan of Casper; brother Roy and his wife Caroline of Casper; grandsons Brandon Romer and his wife Katie and Matt Romer and his wife Destiny; granddaughters Nikki Stricker and her husband Mark and Noelle Stengel and her husband Anthony; and great-grandchildren Rylee, Mason, Gavin, Garett, Dexter, Kennedy and Liam.
She was preceded in death by her husband, her mother, Frieda, and her sister, Darlene Owens.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the American Heart Association or the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.
Online condolences may be left at www.bustardsfuneralhome.com.


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Looking up patients, caregivers
|By Andy Balaskovitz
Proposed legislation would allow law enforcement to search medical marijuana patients and caregivers by name and address
A necessary improvement to the state's Medical Marihuana Act or an infringement upon civil liberties?
That question has surfaced over proposed legislation in
The measure, a substitute for Senate Bill 377, was
The original version of the bill required the licensing
One Republican sponsor of Senate Bill 377 said the bill
"It ensures that the police know who is a legitimate
The bill's primary sponsor, Sen. Darwin Booher, R-Evart, did not return multiple calls for comment.
Sergeant Chris Hawkins, legislative liaison with the State
Hawkins said "occasionally" someone is in
"Do you take the person's word? Do you seize the marijuana
Ingham County Undersheriff Allan Spyke said the
Spyke confirmed anecdotal cases in which someone was
"I could see how (the bill) would clarify who is
Lansing Police Lt. Noel Garcia said city
Samantha Harkins, a legislative associate at the Michigan Municipal League, said the league supports the substitute bill.
"I think the intent of the legislation is
Harkins said the original version of the
Harkins said "there have been complaints"
But some medical marijuana advocates wonder if police accessing this information poses serious privacy questions.
Shekina Peña, owner of Your Healthy Choice Clinic, 628 E.
"It should be someone's option (to give that information)," she said. "It definitely brings up patient privacy."
Peña said information about what medicine people take is "very private information."
The proposed bill is now on the floor of
Rich Carl, owner of Green Cross
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Corporate governance e società della conoscenza. Tra teoria e prassi
In this work we redefine governance in a way that goes beyond the traditional separation between power and control in a multi-stakeholders model setting. Governance is defined as a sustainable/ecological process of power sharing and legitimacy acquisition both within and outside the company. Our major focus in this paper is on the sustainability of such a process. We argue that there are two major neg-entropic and self-organizing forces, which have found only little room in the current debate, and that, according to our perspective, change profoundly the way the problem of governance has been traditionally faced: knowledge and ethics. Considering these two main forces leads us to two major conclusions about reflexive firms as process-engine to consolidate cooperation and altruism between agents not always self-interested also if often interested to make huge quantity of money and high profits. A new meta-Corporation where management can't be a simple neutral technical function but an emotional intelligence, a motivational resource of organization to rebuilding an evolutionary sharing identity. The first is that the sustainability of this ecological process of governance requires stakeholder sharing a common set of goals and values ex-ante rather than ex-post, when this value has been already defined. The second is to draft the elements of meta-corporation that is capable to do both as sense making like sharing interests of stakeholders and management, or facing and manage multidimensional complexity of "personal capitalism", peer production, emergent systems, extreme events, hyper extended networks. In a simple word a great or small network company able to building sustainable ecologies of value.
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