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John Kilroy
Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer
John Kilroy was elected to serve as our Chairman of the Board in February 2013 and has been our President, CEO and a director since our incorporation in September 1996. Having led its private predecessor, Kilroy Industries, in a similar capacity, he became its President in 1981 and was elected CEO in 1991. Mr. Kilroy has been involved in all aspects of commercial real estate acquisition, entitlement, development, construction, leasing, financing and dispositions for the Company and its predecessor since 1967. With Mr. Kilroy's expertise and guidance, the Company entered the San Francisco and Seattle markets in 2009 and 2010, respectively, very early in the cycle. Mr. Kilroy has actively led the Company to become one of the premier landlords on the West Coast with one of the largest LEED-certified portfolios, spanning some of the strongest markets in the county, from Seattle to San Diego.
Mr. Kilroy currently serves on the board of directors of MGM Resorts International (NYSE: MGM). He also serves on the Policy Advisory Board for the Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics at the University of California, Berkeley and the Advisory Board of Governors of the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts, and is a member of The Real Estate Roundtable. Mr. Kilroy previously served on the board of New Majority California and as Chairman of New Majority Los Angeles. He is a past trustee of the El Segundo Employers Association, Viewpoint School, Jefferson Center for Character Education and the National Fitness Foundation. He was also a member of the San Francisco America's Cup Organizing Committee. Mr. Kilroy attended the University of Southern California.
Jeffrey C. Hawken
Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer
Jeffrey C. Hawken has served as our Chief Operating Officer since our inception as a public company in January 1997.
Mr. Hawken is responsible for overseeing the Company's overall operations, including asset and property management functions and legal affairs.
Prior to our initial public offering, Mr. Hawken served in the same capacity for Kilroy Industries and was responsible for the management and operations of Kilroy Industries' real estate portfolio and served on its acquisitions and executive committees.
In 1980, after graduating from college, Mr. Hawken joined Kilroy Industries as a Senior Financial Analyst and has been involved in property and asset management with the Company since May 1983.
Mr. Hawken is a member of the Young Presidents' Organization, Angeleno Gold Chapter and has held leadership roles in Young Presidents' Organization, Gold Santa Monica Bay Chapter. Mr. Hawken was a past Chairman of BOMA Greater Los Angeles and currently serves on the National Advisory Committee.
Mr. Hawken serves on the Executive Committee at the University of Southern California Lusk Center for Real Estate.
He is an active member of the City of Hope Los Angeles Real Estate and Construction Industries Council.
Mr. Hawken holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the University of Southern California and he is a licensed Real Estate Broker in the state of California.
Tracy A. Murphy
Executive Vice President, Life Science
Tracy A. Murphy was appointed Executive Vice President, Life Science in March 2016 and is responsible for the company's life science activities along the West Coast, an area that includes three of the top four U.S. life science markets. The company currently has approximately three million square feet of life science properties either stabilized or in development and Ms. Murphy will lead the leasing, development and positioning for these assets as well as identify and pursue new development and acquisition opportunities in the San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco Bay Area and greater Seattle markets. Across a 15 year career dedicated life science real estate, Tracy has held leadership roles in a variety of disciplines, including leasing, acquisitions and development. Tracy joined Kilroy Realty after eight years at BioMed Realty, where she participated on the Executive Committee and was Senior Vice President, Western U.S. and responsible for the strategic objectives for a 10 million square foot portfolio. Prior to BioMed Realty, Tracy was a life science specialized broker at BRE Commercial (now Cushman & Wakefield) for seven years. She holds a Bachelor degree from the University Wisconsin, Whitewater. Tracy also participates on the Executive Board of Directors for BIOCOM.
A. Robert Paratte
Executive Vice President, Leasing and Business Development
A. Robert Paratte was appointed Executive Vice President, Leasing and Business Development in January 2014 and is responsible for the company's leasing and business development activities from Seattle to San Diego. Mr. Paratte will also pursue new build-to-suit opportunities, cultivate and expand the company's roster of key tenant relationships, focus on corporate marketing and branding, and assist in the professional development of all leasing personnel. Across a two-decade plus career in commercial real estate, Mr. Paratte has held leadership roles in a variety of disciplines, including leasing, property acquisitions, development and property management. He joins Kilroy Realty Corporation after seven years at Tishman Speyer where he was managing director for global leasing and business development. He was responsible for maintaining and building relationships with corporate real estate executives across the country and around the world. In addition, Mr. Paratte was instrumental in securing some of the largest lease transactions in the firm's development projects. Prior to Tishman Speyer, Mr. Paratte was a partner at San Francisco-based William Wilson and Associates. Mr. Paratte was named the San Francisco Business Times Deal Maker of the Year in 2002. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Planning from the University of California, Davis and an MBA from the University of San Francisco. He is a licensed California Real Estate Broker and a member of the Urban Land Institute.
Tyler H. Rose
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Tyler H. Rose was appointed Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer in December 2009 after serving as Senior Vice President and Treasurer since 1997. Prior to his tenure at the Company, Mr. Rose was Senior Vice President, Corporate Finance of Irvine Apartment Communities, Inc. from 1995 to 1997, and was appointed Treasurer in 1996. Prior to that, Mr. Rose was Vice President, Corporate Finance of The Irvine Company from 1994 to 1995. From 1986 to 1994, Mr. Rose was employed at J.P. Morgan & Co., serving in its Real Estate Corporate Finance Group until 1992 and as Vice President of its Australia Mergers and Acquisitions Group from 1992 to 1994. Mr. Rose also served for two years as a financial analyst for General Electric Company. He currently serves as a director of Rexford Industrial Realty, Inc. and on the Policy Advisory Board for the Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. Mr. Rose received a Master of Business Administration degree from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley.
Steve A. Rosetta
Executive Vice President, Chief Investment Officer
Stephen A. Rosetta was appointed Executive Vice President and Chief Investment Officer in June 2017. Mr. Rosetta came to the Company after over 20 years with Cushman & Wakefield ("C&W"), most recently as the Vice Chairman of Brokerage Services. He opened C&W's office in San Diego County and grew it into an enterprise with over $2 billion in annual transaction volume. Mr. Rosetta also previously served as a principal in an opportunistic real estate company where he partnered with institutional and private equity companies to develop and reposition office projects across the United States. Mr. Rosetta received a Master's in Real Estate Development from the University of Southern California, and a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration from California State University, San Marcos.
Heidi R. Roth
Executive Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer
Heidi R. Roth currently serves as Executive Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer.
Ms. Roth has been with the Company since 1997 and most recently held the role of Executive Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer following her appointment as Senior Vice President and Controller in July 2005. Prior to such time, Ms. Roth held various other positions with the Company, including serving as the Company's Vice President, Internal Reporting and Strategic Planning. Prior to joining the Company, Ms. Roth was a CPA for Ernst & Young in Los Angeles.
Ms. Roth is a Certified Public Accountant and a member of the AICPA.
Ms. Roth currently serves on the Board of Directors of Crystal Stairs, Inc., a nonprofit child development organization, and is an emeritus member of the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trust's Best Financial Practices Council.
Ms. Roth received her Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from the University of Southern California.
Justin William Smart
Executive Vice President, Development and Construction Services
Justin W. Smart was appointed to Executive Vice President, Development and Construction Services in January 2013. He served as Senior Vice President of Development and Construction Services from August 2000 through December 2012. Mr. Smart has in excess of 25 years of real estate development experience covering a wide range of product types, including office, industrial, residential and resort properties throughout the United States. From June 1996 to August 2000, Mr. Smart was Vice President of Development with Intrawest Corporation, a leading developer of resorts and resort real estate. Prior to 1996, Mr. Smart served as Vice President of Construction with Kilroy Industries.
Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer, Kilroy Realty
Edward F. Brennan, PhD
Acting CEO and Director, Abram Scientific
Edward F. Brennan, PhD has been a member of our Board since July 2003 and our Lead Independent Director since March 2014. He is currently the acting CEO and a director of Abram Scientific, a privately held medical diagnostics company, and a Venture Partner with Strategic Healthcare Investment Partners, a venture capital partnership focused on medical devices and imbedded IT technologies. Until March 2014, Dr. Brennan was CEO of Nexus Dx, Inc. ("Nexus"), a medical diagnostics company located in San Diego, California. In November 2011, Nexus was acquired by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. from ITC Nexus Holding Company, where Dr. Brennan had been Chief Integration Officer following the merger of Nexus and International Technidyne Corporation. Previously, he was President and Chief Operating Officer of CryoCor, Inc. until June 2008, when the company was sold to Boston Scientific Corporation. From January 2004, he served as chairman of HemoSense Inc. until its sale to Inverness Medical Innovations in November 2007. While a director of HemoSense since 2000, he was also a Managing Partner of Perennial Ventures, a Seattle-based venture capital firm beginning in 2001. Prior to that time, he served as Vice President at Tredegar Investments. Dr. Brennan has participated in the development, management and financing of new medical technology ventures for over 30 years, including scientific and executive positions with Syntex, Inc., UroSystems, Inc., Medtronic Inc., DepoMed Systems, Inc. and CardioGenesis Corp. Dr. Brennan also works as a House Manager for the Center for the Performing Arts in the City of Mountain View, serves on the board of directors of several private companies and previously served on the Board of Trustees of Goucher College, Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Brennan holds Bachelor's Degrees in Chemistry and Biology and a PhD in Biology from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Jolie A. Hunt
CEO, Hunt & Gather
Jolie A. Hunt has been a member of our Board since May 2015. She is the CEO of Hunt & Gather, a marketing and communications agency that helps launch startup ventures, revive the strategic marketing and communications efforts of established brands and utilizes discreet influencer relations to pair like-minded people and places together where there is mutual benefit. Before founding Hunt & Gather in 2013, Ms. Hunt served as Chief Marketing & Communications Officer for AOL, Inc. from 2012 to 2013, and held the role of Senior Vice President, Global Head of Brand & Public Relations at Thomson Reuters from 2008 to 2012. Prior to that time, Ms. Hunt was the Global Director of Corporate & Business Affairs at IBM Corporation from 2006 to 2008 and served as Director of Public Relations for the Financial Times from 2002 to 2006. Ms. Hunt currently serves on the boards of The Lowline and the Civilian Public Affairs Council for West Point Military Academy. Ms. Hunt earned a Bachelor's Degree in Mass Communication from Boston University and completed the Global Executive Program at Dartmouth University Tuck School of Business and Spain's IE Business School in 2010.
Scott S. Ingraham
Private Investor and Real Estate Consultant
Scott S. Ingraham has been a member of our Board since June 2007. He is the co-owner of Zuma Capital, a firm engaged in private equity and angel investing. He was the co-founder (1999), Chairman and CEO of Rent.com, an Internet-based multi-family real estate site, before it was sold to eBay in 2005. Mr. Ingraham was also a co-founder and previously served as the President and CEO of Oasis Residential ("Oasis"), a public apartment REIT founded in 1992 that merged with Camden Property Trust ("Camden") in 1998. In addition to serving on the Company's Board, Mr. Ingraham serves on the board of trust managers of Camden, NYSE: CPT (since 1998), the audit committee of Camden (for six years previously and beginning again in 2016) and the board of directors of RealPage, Inc., RP: NASDAQ (since 2012). He also served on the board of directors of LoopNet, LOOP: NASDAQ, for six years before it was acquired by Co-Star in 2012. Prior to co-founding Oasis, Mr. Ingraham's career was devoted to real estate finance, mortgage and investment banking. He earned a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration from the University of Texas at Austin in 1976.
Gary R. Stevenson
President and Managing Director, MLS Business Ventures of Major League Soccer
Gary R. Stevenson has been a member of our Board since May 2014. Mr. Stevenson has been President and Managing Director of MLS Business Ventures of Major League Soccer since July 2013. Prior to such time, Mr. Stevenson served as President of PAC-12 Enterprises ("Pac-12") from 2011 to 2013, where he managed a diversified and integrated company, including the Pac-12 Networks and Pac-12 Properties. Before joining Pac-12, Mr. Stevenson was Chairman and CEO of OnSport Strategies, a sports and entertainment consulting company that he founded in 1997 and later sold to Wasserman Media Group in 2007. From 2007 to 2010, Mr. Stevenson served as Principal for Wasserman Media Group to help handle the integration of OnSport Strategies. Mr. Stevenson previously also served as President of NBA Properties, Marketing and Media for the National Basketball Association from 1995 to 1997, as Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President of the Golf Channel from 1994 to 1995 and as Executive Vice President, Business Affairs for PGA Tour from 1987 to 1994. Mr. Stevenson received his Bachelor's Degree from Duke University and his Master's Degree in Business Administration from George Washington University.
Peter B. Stoneberg
Managing Partner, Velocity Ventures LLC
Peter Stoneberg has been a member of our Board since May 2014. Mr. Stoneberg is currently Managing Partner of Velocity Ventures, LLC ("Velocity Ventures"), a merchant banking and M&A advisory firm that he founded in 2000. From 2000 to 2006, Mr. Stoneberg was with Bank of America Capital Investors ("BACI"), a private equity firm where he was an investment partner specializing in growth and buyout capital for public and private technology companies. Mr. Stoneberg also served as Senior Managing Director of Montgomery Securities, where he founded and led the Technology M&A group, beginning in 1994 until its acquisition by Bank of America in 1999. Previously, Mr. Stoneberg served in various other investment banking and management roles, including as Managing Director of Broadview Associates, Co-Founder and President of Data/Voice Solutions Corp and Product Marketing Manager for IBM and ROLM Corp. He was also an investor and on the board of directors of Cupertino Electric, Osprey Ventures, Historic Motorsports Productions, Saleslogix Corp. and Netcom Systems. Additionally, Mr. Stoneberg has served as a founder of the San Francisco America's Cup Organizing Committee and Chair of the Investment Committee of the St. Francis Sailing Foundation. Mr. Stoneberg received his Bachelor's Degree in Business from the University of Colorado and has completed the Stanford Law School Directors' College.


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Beth didn't like scary movies. Not at all. Any time her brother put one on, she'd get up and walk promptly out of the room and she wouldn't return until she was positive the movie was over.
Sometimes her brother liked to mess with her, and he'd act like the movie was done, putting it on pause. Then just as Beth walked into the room, Dylan would unpause the movie at the absolute scariest and goriest part. Beth would go shrieking into the next room and Dylan would roll around laughing.
But after the car accident, Dylan couldn't bring himself to watch those scary movies anymore. Any time he'd try to turn one on, he'd think of Beth running terrified from the room after he'd unpaused the movies at the most horrifying scenes. An overwhelming sense of guilt would enwrap him and he'd turn the scary movies off. He didn't like to think of her scared anymore. She must have been so scared there in the end.
Her ashes stayed in the urn for several months before Dylan and his parents finally decided it was time and scattered them in a field of wildflowers. Beth would have liked it, they said. She loved flowers and sunshine and nice things like that.
Dylan didn't notice the noise for several months.
At first, his dad had complained loudly about their AC filters. Finally, he got new ones, threw away the old ones. But there was still that weird noise.
Then, they replaced the fading outdoor light and the vent that rattled.
At last Dylan realized it was humming.
He was lying on the couch, flipping through channels. Nothing was good. Nothing was interesting. He thought it was the TV, but the humming stayed with each flip. Then he turned the TV off entirely.
Dyylaaan. Dyyyyylaaaan.
The hair on the back of his neck stood up. No, it was just the wind.
Dyyyyyyylaaaaaaan.
It was not just the wind. Dylan leapt up and spun around. The re was nothing there but the floor lamp and some family pictures.
He shivered and ran out of the room.
But in the next room, the voice was still there.
Dyyyyyyyyylaaaaaaaan.
"Stop it!" He put his hands on his ears and ran into the kitchen.
There, he put his hands on the counter and leaned over, breathing hard.
Hahaha. Look who's running from the room now.
Dylan nearly stopped breathing. "Beth?"
The voice of his sister, which he hadn't recognized until now, snickered. The air around him chilled.
I think we're going to have some fun, Dylan. I've got lots of inspiration.

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Some startups do not use a strict command and control hierarchical structure, with executives, managers, supervisors and employees. He is someone who can discover and articulate value, but also seeing it through to product market fit and tangible things enjoyed by customers. Anyone can take part in training a neural network, thereby making money for himself and benefit society. City of San Diego Urban Runoff Mana. C/o AIMS NEI, KG 590 St,. To work on a film adaptation of Wartime Lies, feeling computer animation was not advanced enough to create the David character. Five years ago, the processors were too slow, but the introduction of GPUs made it all possible. On June 13, World Community Grid link resides outside of ibm. As companies grow and have more complicated procedures, they might need to hire a COO to advise the CEO and manage all internal operations. Osman was named one of the most influential LGBTI people in Britain by The Independent on Sunday. The first one hosts a huge amount of data, the second one develops a neural network. IBM received two 2010 Most Valuable Pollution Prevention MVP2 Awards from the National Pollution Prevention Roundtable: one for the elimination of perfluorooctane sulfonate PFOS and perfluorooctanoic acid PFOA compounds from the company's chip manufacturing processes in Burlington, VT and East Fishkill, NY, and one for chemical usage reductions at IBM's 300mm manufacturing facility in East Fishkill.
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Asian tiger mosquito again identified in Wayne County
The Asian tiger mosquito has once again been identified in Wayne County, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services announced Wednesday. Aedes albopictus, otherwise known as the Asian tiger mosquito, along with Aedes aegypti (the yellow fever mosquito) can transmit viruses such as dengue, chikungunya and Zika to people. These mosquitoes are widespread from tropical to temperate regions of the globe, including many parts of the U.S.
WAYNE COUNTY, Mich. (WXYZ) — The Asian tiger mosquito has once again been identified in Wayne County, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services announced Wednesday.
Aedes albopictus, otherwise known as the Asian tiger mosquito, along with Aedes aegypti (the yellow fever mosquito) can transmit viruses such as dengue, chikungunya and Zika to people. These mosquitoes are widespread from tropical to temperate regions of the globe, including many parts of the U.S.
"Although we have not had any illnesses associated with these species of mosquitoes in Michigan, it is important to take precautions since other mosquitoes can spread viruses such as West Nile virus and Eastern Equine Encephalitis to people," said Dr. Mary Grace Stobierski, MDHHS Emerging & Zoonotic Infectious Diseases manager, in a press release. "Recent heavy rainfall and flooding has led to a general increase in mosquito activity throughout the state, so we urge Michiganders to take precautions such as using an EPA-registered insect repellent when outdoors."
The Asian tiger mosquito can live in areas with climates ranging from tropical to temperate, and it has been extending its known range in the U.S. They are considered established in many mid-western states including Ohio, Illinois and Indiana.
Occasionally, the mosquitoes will travel in commercial products shipped from states where they are currently established. This is likely how the mosquitoes have shown up in Wayne County in recent years, MDHHS said.
MDHHS partnered with local health departments in Wayne and 23 other counties in Michigan to conduct surveillance for the two mosquito species that can carry Zika and other tropical viruses.
These invasive day-biting mosquitoes breed in containers where water collects, such as old tires, gutters and flowerpots. Continued surveillance suggests breeding populations have not survived the winter in our state.
Michigan residents can protect themselves from mosquito bites by:
Eliminating sources of standing water such as wading pools, old tires, buckets and containers by dumping water to prevent mosquito eggs from hatching or larvae from developing into biting adults.
Wearing long-sleeved shirts, long pants and socks when outdoors.
Applying an EPA-registered insect repellent according to label instructions.
Making sure doors and windows have tight-fitting screens.
Here is a list of repellents approved by the EPA.


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Undiagnosed diabetes cases rising on Isles
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Staggering figures released by the Scottish Government reveal the extent of undiagnosed diabetes cases in the Western Isles.
The figures obtained from the Scottish Government through a series of Parliamentary Questions revealed that there are 1,259 people in the Western Isles diagnosed with Diabetes, whilst it is estimated that a further 698 people remain undiagnosed and at significant risk of developing health issues and complications from the condition.
Commenting on the figures, MSP David Stewart, Scottish Parliamentary Champion for Diabetes, said: "The numbers of people living with undiagnosed diabetes in the Western Isles is simply staggering, and could easily be rectified.
"I hope these revealing figures will spur on the Scottish Government to act and tackle this increasingly alarming trend in undiagnosed diabetes cases."
Jane MacAulay is part of NHS Western Isles' diabetes nurse specialist team. There are four nurses and a consultant physician as well as Diabetologist clinics in Benbecula and Stornoway.
She said: "NHS Western Isles is well aware of the increasing prevalence of diabetes in the community and has invested heavily in specialist services as well as training for clinical staff in primary, community and secondary care to ensure that the increased demand can be managed in an effective and evidence based manner.
"We are confident that the measures put in place are sufficient to manage the increasing number of patients.
"The earlier the diagnosis, the better. This benefits the patients, in terms of leading a healthier life and avoiding the complications of diabetes. Our aim is to continuously raise awareness of the signs, symptoms and risks, so that people can be diagnosed as early as possible.
"I would ask anyone who feels that they have any of the symptoms of diabetes, no matter how mild, to see their GP for a check up. Also anyone aged 40-65, please do attend the Well North Programme when they are called.
"It is obviously important to remember that in many cases the development of Type 2 diabetes is largely affected by lifestyle.
"Increased calorie intake and decreased mobility with associated weight gain are key factors."
Well North Outer Hebrides is the screening programme that has been in place in NHS Western Isles for over five years. It provides a comprehensive risk assessment, rather than just a diabetes test, for Cardiovascular Disease and uses a reliable screening test (HbA1C) which has uncovered many cases of 'silent' diabetes.
Abdul Rias was admitted to hospital for suspected appendicitis and during routine blood-test it was discovered that he was diabetic.
He said: "I had all the symptoms under the sun but due to lack of awareness I was unable to suspect diabetes. I had a different excuse for each symptom – tiredness due to driving 200 miles per day; thirst and passing water very frequently due to age.
"I have had to adjust my diet – I was a proper chocoholic. I could eat boxes of chocolates in one go! I was very lazy but now make it a point to walk for at least half an hour after each meal."


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COVID-19 surge spurs readiness efforts at Brooke Army Medical Center
Air Force Maj. Lori Flori and 1st Lt. David Hicks, both registered nurses, discuss patient charts at the Hospitals of Providence Transmountain in El Paso, Texas while supporting COVID-19 response efforts in November 2020. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Samantha Hall)
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With COVID-19 cases on the rise across the nation, Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas is bracing for the impact of the coming winter months as colder weather drives people indoors where the virus is more likely to spread.
Equipped with lessons learned, BAMC is preparing to shift resources and personnel to ensure hospital readiness in the event of a patient increase. On the preventive front, leaders continue to underscore the importance of safety measures such as hand washing, face coverings, personal protective equipment and physical distancing.
"The ability to remain flexible and agile, while ensuring the delivery of safe, high quality care, has been vital since the start of the pandemic," Army Brig. Gen. Shan Bagby, BAMC commanding general, noted. "Nearly a year ago, the San Antonio Military Health System moved out quickly to ensure the safety of our patients and staff, and we continue, as a system, to do everything possible to preserve their health and wellbeing."
Key leaders at BAMC continually assess current conditions, both within the San Antonio Military Health System, Joint Base San Antonio and across the community to ensure "we are all in step with each other and working effectively as a team," Air Force Col. Heather Yun, deputy commander for medical services, explained. Leaders across the organization also evaluate personnel and resources, to include personal protective equipment, on a daily, sometimes hourly, basis to ensure they are tracking trigger points for every contingency.
"These assessments help shape our posture and ensure we are ready to respond quickly and appropriately, whether it's scaling back elective surgeries to increase bed capacity or leaning more heavily on virtual care to protect patients and preserve PPE," Bagby said.
Health care personnel are a trickier resource to manage for a military hospital. Unlike their civilian counterparts, military personnel are called on to deploy in support of overseas operations, as well as humanitarian missions and stateside efforts. In recent days, numerous BAMC health care professionals have been assisting in the hard-hit areas of North Dakota as well as in El Paso, Texas, about eight hours west of San Antonio.
BAMC has also offered to accept non-COVID-19 beneficiaries from William Beaumont Army Medical Center in El Paso, freeing up their capacity to admit additional COVID-19 patients as needed.
"BAMC is proud to support our El Paso neighbors and colleagues," Bagby said. "We will continue to work alongside our Military Health System partner to help relieve the stress on their local health care system as needed."
In the event of a patient increase and to avoid shortages to critical care areas, BAMC is prepared to draw nurses and technicians from outpatient clinics as well as lean on its partner, the Institute of Surgical Research Burn Center, which is housed in the hospital.
These combined efforts have helped to ensure BAMC stands ready to support both military and community-based missions.
"The keys to our success so far have been in communication, deference to expertise, and collaboration, and we are relying on those in our current response as well to keep us agile and on the right track," Yun said. "We are in constant communication with our staff from all across the organization to ensure that concerns are addressed as early and effectively as possible, before they become safety issues. And we are relying on our subject matter experts who are keeping up with the science and advances in their field to provide counsel and refine our responses."
As with all military hospitals, BAMC primarily provides care to active duty, military retirees and family members. However, as the only Level I trauma center in the Defense Department, BAMC has a unique community role within the local trauma network. Alongside its Level I partner, University Health System, BAMC administers lifesaving care to more than 4,500 trauma patients each year, including 750 burn patients, from an area that stretches across 22 counties in Southwest Texas and encompasses 2.2 million people.
Of the over 4,500 trauma patients admitted each year, about 85% are community members without military affiliation. The Secretary of the Army Designee, or SECDES, program enables BAMC to receive civilian trauma patients in a military treatment facility. Traumas range from gunshot wounds and stabbings to vehicle accidents and severe burns, many of which bear striking similarities to combat wounds. As a trauma center, service members from a vast array of specialties are able to hone valuable medical skills while aiding the community they call home.
"Our close partnership with Southwest Texas Regional Advisory Council, University Health System and the other local health care systems allows BAMC to seamlessly integrate into community crisis responses, Air Force Col. Patrick Osborn, deputy commander for surgical services, said.
Working alongside STRAC, which coordinates the region's trauma and disaster relief response, and UHS, BAMC is fully integrated within the local trauma network, Osborn said.
This has been evident in recent months. This past summer, BAMC took on additional trauma patients to ease capacity at local hospitals. Additionally, BAMC continues to care for the area's most critically ill COVID-19 patients, to include beneficiaries, veterans and civilian patients, through the use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, or ECMO, treatment, Osborn noted.
ECMO is a heart-lung bypass system that circulates blood through an external artificial lung, oxygenates it, and delivers it back into the bloodstream. Rather than treat the condition, ECMO performs the job of the patient's heart and lungs, buying the patient precious time to respond to treatments and heal. Requiring a highly specialized team and equipment, BAMC is one of a few hospitals within the city with this capability, and as with trauma, accepts civilian patients through the SECDES program.
"As much as able, BAMC is easing the burden on local health care resources by admitting civilian ECMO patients and seeking out military beneficiaries that can be transferred from community hospitals," Osborn said.
The mutual support of BAMC's military and community partners is key to mission success, the commander noted.
"Due to their support and the expertise of this team, the San Antonio Military Health is able to continue to ensure safe, quality care for our 250,000 active duty and military beneficiaries while preserving its readiness role as a worldwide response platform and sustaining the Level I trauma support of our region," Bagby said.
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Our Education Programmes focus on increased access to strengthened formal and informal educational opportunities for communities.
Education matters – and Kenya's education system offers more opportunities than many countries. Literacy is estimated at around 90 per cent and primary education is free. However, poorly equipped and maintained schools, lack of materials and skilled teachers – especially in rural areas – are continuing problems. In addition, secondary school education is too expensive for many Kenyans.
Education is at the heart of what we at Brighter Communities Worldwide do – from advice on healthcare and safe water provision to more formal education and help with the world of work.
Our education programme is wide-ranging, and not just about schools and training. It includes:
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We provide an education bursary fund for people in the communities where it works. This has helped students in areas as varied as nursing, pharmacy, carpentry and skills-based training, as well, of course, as traditional secondary and primary schooling.
To date, hundreds of children who would otherwise have had no funding for their education have benefited from education bursaries.
Many of those who have been assisted with bursaries, are also assisted with interview preparation skills to help prepare them for job seeking.
We have run peer education courses since 2002 in Kenya – these courses include the Lifeskills Programme, Alternative Rites of Passage and Healthy Schools Programme. Thousands of people have attended Lifeskills Courses and benefited from information on sexual health, HIV/AIDS and female circumcision. The course has 10 modules to it with the most recent additions on nutrition, mental health and drugs & addiction.
We have also worked with government, communities, school staff and pupils on the Healthy Schools Programme, a programme that attempts to make the educational environment as safe and clean as possible. See our health projects section for more information.
Alternative Rites of Passage is a programme to educate the community about the issue of female circumcision and run a five-day lifeskills and cultural training for girls who are at risk. The aim is to provide an option – called an Alternative Rite of Passage – for families to choose instead of female genital cutting. And the programme is led by the communities to which those families belong: local women and men prepare the course, the materials and give the trainings.
We work with local community members to deliver courses in Maternal Health and Wilderness First Aid to community health workers and other members of the community. We have established a link between Londiani District Hospital (LDH) and Mayo General Hospital. Staff from Mayo General visit the LDH on a regular basis to run training courses for the staff including Essential Obstretric and Neo-natal Care courses.
Teachers can learn too – which is why local government and Brighter Communities Worldwide work together on teacher seminars. While these seminars can certainly be useful in helping educational staff hone their skills, abilities and insights in key areas of the curriculum such as drama, art and physical education, teacher education isn't just about core subjects. Making schools and communities better places to learn is also important. That's why the Healthy Schools and Lifeskills programmes are an important part of teacher education.
Volunteers from Brighter Communities Worldwide Ireland, some of them teachers, support these efforts, of course, but they listen and learn too. Building relationships with schools and getting to know Kenya and its culture is very important to us.
Young people are a key part of Kenya's future – and education is a key part of their future. We have organised many events and activities for the young people in Londiani and the surrounding areas. They include fun events like sports tournaments, creative events like drama workshops, and practical initiatives such as proposal writing workshops. Not only are these events useful in themselves, but they have allowed young people from different backgrounds and areas to mix and share their experiences.
Our Schools Network Programme began in 2009 after volunteers with Brighter Communities Worldwide developed a link between Killinarden Community School in Ireland and Kapcheplanga Secondary School in Londiani. Other schools followed suit and currently there are 6 schools in the network:
Mountrath Community School – Siret Secondary School
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Each school develops a partnership agreement with their link school and plan activities throughout the school year – the link is based on mutual learning, understanding and partnership between the Irish and Kenyan schools and is focused on educational outcomes. Brighter Communities Worldwide believes in development education as a means of learning about global issues and through a shared sense of these issues, global justice and equality can be achieved. This programme is part funded by WorldWise Global Schools, which is an Irish Aid initiative.
The Girls for Girls Programme is run in partnership with Girl Guide and Girl Scout Leaders. from around the world. The programme supports the local community by providing basic sanitary products and proper facilities so that girls can pursue education after puberty. It is a three part programme which includes hygiene/ health education, infrastructure development and economic empowerment. Find out more.
The Education Programme, we believe, can benefit everyone. But education opportunities are affected by other factors too – and that's where our non-educational development work plays such a strong role.
If there are girls and boys in a family and limited funds are available, the education of the boys takes priority. This is not just based on simple bias.
Women are often tasked with fetching water for their family. With limited infrastructure and transport facilities available, this can mean long walks that take up considerable time that could be spent in education. Another problem for young rural women is the lack of sanitary products. A week a month is often lost because girls do not have access to sanitary products. Our water projects aim to help communities to bring cleaner, safer water closer to home. And a simple but very successful health initiative called Girls for Girls can make a week of missed schooling every month a thing of the past.
Bringing more girls into the education system is important, both for girls themselves and for Kenya. We are learning from the communities of Londiani and surrounding areas that there are many non-educational needs that can help to make that happen – and we are working with those communities to meet those needs.
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Our Education Programme, supported by our other development projects, has a very simple objective: to make sure everyone has the chance to receive some form of education. That's because we work with many communities and in every case we have seen that education – even the most basic – can benefit not just individuals but the communities they come from. But by gaining a better understanding of the cultures, abilities and needs of Londiani and its surrounding areas, overseas volunteers, teachers, and Brighter Communities Worldwide itself can learn too. Everyone can benefit.
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The tyranny of Tabasco
It's time to have a grownup talk about hot sauce. If you go to a generic American restaurant and ask for hot sauce, you will be brought Tabasco. And it's a terrible choice, the worst kind of hot sauce.
Tabasco is a Louisiana hot sauce. Like its cajun brothers the primary flavour in Tabasco is vinegar. There's chile, too, but it's secondary. Vinegar sauces have their place, particularly in barbeque and cajun cooking. But Tabasco is the worst of the Louisana options: the vinegar is some industrial product with a one dimensional acid taste and the chile barely adds any flavour. If you want a Louisana style hot sauce try Crystal, Lousiana brand Hot Sauce, or Wintzell's sauce (made by Panola). They all have much better flavour: interesting vinegar and decent chile.
Vinegar is a poor seasoning for most American food, particularly anything with eggs and any of the Mexican-derived food we get in California. American restaurants should generally offer Mexican hot sauce. Mexican sauces are made primarily with chiles and water. There may be a little vinegar and spice for flavour but the acidity doesn't dominate. There's a zillion options for Mexican hot sauce but a few good common options are Tapatío, Melinda's, and Cholula.
I also want to give a shout out to Sriracha, the modern, Vietnamese-American hot sauce whose thickness, sweetness, and intense garlic flavour give an interesting third option. I find its seasoning too strong to use as a general condiment but it's a delicious alternative to ketchup or mustard for flavouring sandwiches.
Summary: you probably want Mexican hot sauce, not a vinegar sauce. If you want Louisana hot sauce, avoid Tabasco.
Cyberwarfare division
The US military is on the Internet march. Obama said of two new military appointments "Between them they bring deep experience in virtually every domain ... Land, air, space, sea and cyber." Also today the WSJ reports "The Pentagon has concluded that computer sabotage coming from another country can constitute an act of war, a finding that for the first time opens the door for the U.S. to respond using traditional military force."
I used to think "cyberwarfare" was an inflated threat. But in the past couple of years my thinking has reversed. Stuxnet was a big deal, presumably a deliberate act of cyberwarfare by the US and Israel against Iran. China's hacking of Google was also a big deal; aimed at individual activists, not nations, but still important. The recent attacks against RSA SecurID and now Lockheed Martin are troubling. We're beyond script kiddies stealing some Warcraft accounts, this is focussed espionage against the US military.
One of the problems with cyberwarfare is it's not clear how to apply international law. What is "proportionate response" to a network break-in that disables a radar installation? How do you even identify an attacker when the attack was a virus that was planted six months ago on USB sticks? These statements says the Pentagon is moving to take these questions seriously. It's about time.
This blog post was inspired by this Metafilter discussion
Escalation of security attacks
There's a scary trend happening in computer hacking; it looks like the bad guys are escalating from attacking random weak sites to targeted attacks against companies that provide security infrastructure.
Back in March RSA disclosed that they had been compromised and their SecurID system had been targeted. SecurID is a product that's widely used by companies for login security. RSA never came clean on exactly what happened, but they did admit that the incident could "reduce the effectiveness" of SecurID. Now the other shoe has dropped with the NYT reporting that the recent Lockheed Martin compromise appears to be related to the RSA breach.
In May LastPass warned users they had a "network traffic anomaly" that they could not explain. LastPass is a password management tool that stores their customers' passwords. The company's disclosure was quite comprehensive but vague because they don't really know what was taken. I still trust them, but it makes me nervous.
There's been a lot of other recent high profile security incidents: the Gawker fiasco, the Google incident with China, the Sony outage. But the attacks on RSA and LastPass feel different. Those companies are not easy targets, they are sophisticated security companies. And they make security systems, a very valuable asset if you're in the business of attacking protected targets.
The buzzword for this kind of attack is Advanced Persistent Threat. The reassuring thing is these attacks are focussed and purposeful, not random vandalism. Personally I fear random Eastern European password hackers much more than I fear the Chinese government or a US / Israel cooperative. But it's a bad thing if our industry's most sophisticated security companies are no more effective at protecting their customers than a crappy PHP site.
The press is reporting "the attackers created duplicate SecureID devices".
Bitcoin in practice
After reading up on Bitcoin I ran the software for a day and mined some coins. It's a fascinating decentralized system but has some significant practical flaws.
Cash flow isn't private. The protocol requires all transactions are public: you can see them all on Block Explorer. Here's the transfer of 0.02 from the Bitcoin faucet to my account. Here's 50 bitcoins I helped mine along with some other random transactions in that block. Here's my miner's wages from slush's pool. You could do some fascinating visualizations of the flow of money. It's hard to remain anonymous: you can have multiple identities, but because every single coin is traceable if even one identity is known the rest can be discovered via traffic analysis. The Bitcoin wiki recommends laundering your money through a third party.
Latency is a problem. I received 4 payments last night; each took about 5 minutes to show up in my wallet. I made a payment of 0.02 today that showed up in about a minute, but I was required to pay an extra 0.01 transaction fee. Communication latency seems to be a result of the peer to peer network and presumably could be improved. But there's design latency, too. You can't really trust a payment is valid until it's been confirmed, which boils down to waiting for about an hour's worth of other transactions to be done after yours.
Scalability looks like a serious problem. The core innovation of Bitcoin is the block chain, a signed history of all transactions. Bitcoins are validated by tracing the history of a bitcoin all the way back to block 0, the Genesis Block from January 2009. I don't see any process for short-circuiting this validation. It's like every time you got a dollar bill, you had to talk to everyone whose hands that dollar ever passed through to work its path back to the bank that printed it. Also the current client needs a copy of every transaction ever. That takes a couple of hours to download but presumably could be optimized so you only keep the blocks you personally care about.
Coins are brittle. My money entirely exists in a file named wallet.dat on my hard drive. If I lose that file or it gets corrupted or it gets stolen, I lose all my money. That's no worse than real cash under your mattress but it's significantly worse than other online payment mechanisms like credit cards.
I don't mean to hate on Bitcoin, it's an impressive cryptocash system. And it actually functions: at market rates there's some $35 million in Bitcoins in circulation. That valuation may not last for economics reasons, but the crypto and decentralized system design is pretty sound. Still it's got some rough edges, interesting to see where they are.
Digital currency Bitcoin is the subject of this week's hype. And while I agree with Adam Cohen's analysis that it's likely a scam, I don't think it's inherently a scam and it's an interesting implementation of cryptoanarchy.
The basic idea of Bitcoin is you have a file on your hardrive that, through the magic of cryptography, is unique and unforgeable and says essentially "Nelson owns 5 bitcoins". Bitcoins can be created by users out of thin air but via more math magic there will only be 21 million bitcoins ever. Bitcoins can be traded and verified and double spending is preventable (math, is there nothing it can't do?). As long as people agree that Bitcoins can be exchanged for dollars then we have a new currency. (At current rates, a Bitcoin is worth about 7 USD).
The economics and politics of the Bitcoin idea are anarchic. The primary advantage of cryptocash is it exists outside the control of any government. Untraceable, unregulated currency, I wonder who benefits most from that? The history of previous electronic currencies like e-gold suggests the main use of a cryptocurrency will be fraud. It didn't have to be that way. Back in the mid 90s when Internet commerce was just taking off, e-cash had a real chance to be an alternative to credit card payments. If things had gone differently, maybe we'd be buying our socks on Amazon with DigiCash instead of Visa.
But the credit card networks are expensive, scalping roughly 2% of every transaction. There's legitimate value in having a cash-like system for the Internet. And the Bitcoin technology seems to be an honest implementation. I didn't spend the time to understand the protocols, but at its core it's a fully decentralized system with peers exchanging signed messages about the flow of money. I fully believe the math can be made to work (although Bitcoin's protocols no doubt have problems).
The implementation has some drawbacks. The default Bitcoin client is not suitable for casual users. And there's a lot of latency. Two hours later I'm still waiting for the data to synchronize. I claimed my free 0.02 bitcoins from the Bitcoin Faucet but it took over 10 minutes for the transaction to show up on BlockExplorer. And the money still haven't arrived.
One fascinating bit of the tech is Bitcoin mining. It takes weeks or months for a single system to generate Bitcoins, so long the mining option is being hidden. Instead people pool their efforts and use GPUs to do the math. A GPU is some 200 times faster at the crypto than a CPU, using OpenCL code like poclbm.
I expect Bitcoin itself will be forgotten in five years or else consigned to being a currency largely used for fraudulent transactions. (Here's an interesting bet: $1000 in Bitcoins against $1000 in gold, to be paid in 5 years.) But I hope the idea of cryptocash continues to be developed and improved; it'd be nice to have a cash equivalent for the Internet that wasn't PayPal.
Rift considered
It's finally happened: someone's made a World of Warcraft clone that's a credible competitor to Blizzard's megabusiness. A lot of companies have tried the MMO market and failed, most notably Warhammer Online, but Rift is a success. It's as good as WoW. And that's a disappointment.
Rift is a fantasy MMO game by Trion Worlds, a serious new company that's raised $100M in venture capital. It's been pretty successful since their launch two months ago. The buzz is good, a lot of people are enjoying it, and while it's a bit early to tell how big the game will be I think they've got enough momentum to recoup their investment.
I just finished a week free trial, levelling up a Cleric and a Rogue to level 13. It's fun. The graphics, networking, and user interface are all good. Not quite as solid as WoW but close enough. The game offers two big innovations. Rift Events are big impromptu battles against bad guys that pop up, basically Warhammer's public quests but with a dynamic element that means there's more likely to be people nearby to play with. And the flexible class system (souls) allows more choice in play style, although there's already a forming consensus of useful builds.
If I were picking a new MMO solely on the basis of gameplay I'd probably choose Rift over WoW. Unfortunately, Rift is so like WoW that there's nothing to distinguish it. Gameplay still boils down to pressing a button once a second to activate one of your forty abilities in the right order. Group play still is the basic tank/healer/DPS trinity. It's yet another bucket of gaming from the DikuMUD well and it's getting stale. I question whether the world really needs a WoW clone when WoW is still good enough.
$100M is a lot of investment and congratulations to Trion for producing an excellent product. But it's so expensive to make an MMO now, it's hard to see how a trully innovative and risky game can get funded. We need more odd innovative designs like Eve Online. I'll be curious to see how Glitch evolves.
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Fisk's 1944 maps of the Mississippi River
With the 2011 floods of the Mississippi river there's real concern that the Mississippi might jump its channel at the Old River Control Structure and take a shorter path through the Atchafalaya basin, changing the structure and economy of half of Louisiana. In the Internet discussion an astonishingly beautiful set of maps from 1944 keeps turning up.
The maps are from the "Geological Investigation of the Alluvial Valley of the Lower Mississippi River", a report by Harold Fisk (Geology Professor at LSU) for the Army Corps of Engineers. They did a huge amount of research on the history of the river course, tracing 20 "stages" of the river course going back some 2000 years. Accompanying 170 pages of sometimes dry text and tables are these fifteen beautiful maps, a tangle of ropes showing the historical Mississippi. Each colour (or stipple) is a former river path and with some squinting you can work out the specific flow of the river in, say, 1765. The real message is the aggregate of all those historical courses, the unmanageable chaos of river meanders.
The report and maps are available for download from the Army but the files are big and pretty unwieldy. I've resized the rectified TIFFs to 25% and uploaded them to Flickr: you can browse them in this Flickr set. The one single image I recommend is Plate 22 Sheet 13: it shows the adjacency of the Mississippi and the Atchafalaya, connected by the Old River where the current water control system is threatened. For a different perspective, check out all the maps assembled into one long picture. It'd be neat to see a zoomable version of this to full resolution.
Update: why yes, it would be neat to have a zoomable version. Try it!
Slippy map of Fisk's Mississippi River history
Please try my historical map of the Mississippi River courses!
I was so taken by the 1944 Army Corps of Engineers maps of the Mississippi River that I made my own zoomable map. It works well in Google Chrome, reasonably well in most browsers, and not at all in older versions of MSIE. (The tiles aren't perfect; I did this in about three hours' work.)
The map is truly a beautiful bit of geologic history. For more info on it, see my previous blog post. So many amazing swirls and details in the river's course. Rendering it as a slippy map makes it easy to see the map in great detail, for instance the Old River Control Structure, a site threatened by the floodwaters of 2011. (Interestingly, the modern channel was built on relatively dry land.) The opacity slider (or text box) in the upper right lets you look through the Fisk map to a contemporary Google map. Check out this flood plain, for example. The satellite view contains echoes of the various old meanders, too, like these curved fields.
Army Corps of Engineers for the source map
Google for the base maps
GDAL for the geographic software to make the tiles (See also my secret work blog notes)
Polymaps for the Javascript library
iPad cached map comparison
I like maps. On my recent Texas trip I had my iPad with a good GPS and four different map applications. You can see two sets of screenshots from the various maps. Long story short, I'm impressed with You Need A Map (and it's free!).
The four apps I tried were MotionX, a GPS tracker with terrain maps from OpenCycleMap; OffMaps with their CloudMade/OpenStreetMap maps; You Need A Map with a variety of raster and vector sources; and ForeFlight, an aviation specific map with VFR sectional charts. All of these apps support cached offline map access, I store some 10 gigs of map data on the iPad. The two locations I compared are near the Guadalupe Pass in Texas and near the Cajon Pass in LA, California.
The main thing I learned is how different maps can be. MotionX's terrain layer is designed for hiking with very detailed countours. But the shading isn't very good and it's easy to lose the big picture zoomed out as much as I do in a plane. OffMaps spare road maps have served me well driving around Europe but don't convey much terrain. Oddly they do indicate airport positions very well. ForeFlight is showing AeroNav's excellent VFR charts; great for pilots, not so much for anyone else. The real generalist is You Need A Map, whose combination of a terrain raster map with vector layers gives some really impressive maps. I'm particularly impressed with their dynamic terrain shading.
Configurability is another interesting difference. You Need A Map is amazing: you have a choice of some 20 map layers to composite with different presets for emphasizing roads, natural features, points of interest, etc. It's the only iPad app I've seen to extensively use vector map data rendered in real time. MotionX, OffMaps, and ForeFlight all offer your choice of a handful of different raster layers but basically you take what they offer. Which can be perfect if, say, you're flying an airplane and using ForeFlight.
One final difference is extra features. OffMaps and You Need A Map basically display maps and nothing else. MotionX is really a very fine GPS track recorder; the maps are just gravy. And ForeFlight is a full flight planning system.
My conclusion from this experiment is that for flying trips, in addition to ForeFlight I'll be using You Need A Map. OffMaps will stay with me on my iPhone, its maps are really good for road navigation. I don't have much use for the MotionX maps but that'd change entirely if I were a hiker.
Inside Chrome Angry Birds
One of Google's big announcements this week was the launch of Chrome Angry Birds, a port of the hugely popular mobile game to Google's browser. But calling it "Chrome Angry Birds" is missing the point because what's really interesting is that it's a real-time multimedia cross-platform HTML 5 app. It runs fine in MSIE 9 and Firefox on Windows (sound and save games included) and I've heard reports it works in Safari on Macs, too. And because the game is based on open browser technologies, we can easily pull it apart and see how it's built just like we've been pulling apart web pages since 1993 via the magic of "view source".
The key file is appcache.nocache.manifest: it contains a list of all the other stuff in the app. There's a whole lot of files: sound, art, levels. Here's the image sprite sheet for birds and pigs, here's the slingshot sound, here's the data file for level 1. The only thing that's opaque is the code itself, 390k of GWT compiled Javascript. People often call this style of code "obfuscated" but the compilation is as much about making it run faster as it is hiding the details.
The part that impresses me the most is the sound: that's been a weak point in browsers. Over on Metafilter someone pointed out that it was loading a small Flash shim, what appears to be gwt-voices. So still not a 100% Flash-free app, but very very close. The caching is quite sophisticated too.
See also my explanation of what a Chrome App is
Texas trip
Last week I finished a 10 day flying trip to Houston and back. I grew up in Houston but hadn't been there in years. Part of my purpose was reconnecting with old friends and part was having a flying adventure on my own. 25 hours and 3000nm over some six days, worked out great. Here's some photos from the trip.
I followed a southern route. Overnights were in Palm Springs CA, El Paso TX, Houston TX, San Angelo TX, and Palm Springs CA again. Good weather most of the way, necessary since I'm not instrument rated yet. Lots of light chop which gets tiresome. Also some alarming mountain wave over Palmdale the first day: 40kt tailwind turned into dramatic up and downs, at one point I was at my best climb speed and still losing 500 feet per minute. Altitude is your friend! I also discovered after six hours of flying I'm pretty tired and not as sharp on the landing as I should be. Nothing unsafe, but I have a better of idea of my limits.
I had some good food. Bad weather made me drive to Austin but on the way I enjoyed Black's Barbecue in Lockhart with excellent brisket and some of the best smoked sausage I've ever had. Then that night I had phenomenal nouveau sushi at Uchi in Austin. Houston Tex-Mex wasn't as good as I remembered, but El Real Tex-Mex was quite good. Danton's in Houston was good for fancy-pants Creole and Ragin Cajun was good down home bayou cooking, including a bucket of crawdads.
The best thing of the trip was reconnecting with old friends, particularly high school buddies. Amazing to reconnect with people for the first time in twenty years and feel perfectly comfortable. They all turned out to be interesting and nice people, too! I also had a good time meeting some new people, including a hilarious gay night out in San Angelo, TX with some friends-of-friends that turned a dreaded West Texas overnight into a real hoot.
Linkblog moved to Pinboard
I've moved my linkblog to Pinboard. If you follow it already you'll want to update your RSS subscription. If you don't follow it, you should! My linkblog has better content than this text blog. Links are on the sidebar at left but best enjoyed via your RSS reader of choice.
Many thanks to the Delicious and Yahoo crew; they served me well for hosting for four years. I decided not to follow along with the AVOS purchase, not for any particular reason but because it seemed uncertain. A big thank you to Joshua and Delicious for having a fantastic, easy export of all my data. That's an important user right more sites should support and more users should demand.
Pinboard works great and is simple. I like that I'm a (modestly) paying customer. I particularly appreciate that the search function works so well: Yahoo never got that right. I was also impressed by Maciej's postmortem when the site got crushed after the Delicious shutdown rumour. He's a smart engineer. All the cool kids seem to be on Pinboard now, I'm in good company.
Lean of Peak data
Awhile back I wrote about the religious debate about operating airplane engines. I finally got a chance to run lean of peak on my recent Texas trip. Compared to rich of peak, LOP was 20% more fuel efficient, 5% slower, and about 20° cooler. But I'm still running ROP.
The plane is only now capable of running lean of peak thanks to our engine monitor, fuel totalizer, and GAMIjectors. The stock injectors had one cylinder peaking 1.0 to 1.5gph sooner than others; now our "GAMI spread" is 0.4gph, a win whether we ever run lean of peak or not.
On my recent flight I was at 9500', 20.5" manifold pressure, 2400 RPM. Flying at my typical 50 ROP I was getting 140kts TAS, burning 10.3gph, with EGTs at 1357/1378/1352/1324 and CHTs at 303/332/337/290. Leaning out to 40 LOP I was getting 132kts TAS, burning 8.3GPH, with EGTs at 1401/1441/1416/1352 and CHTs at 281/316/311/271. So the difference there is running lean of peak I saved 2gph, ran my engine 20°C cooler, and gave up about 8kts to do it.
Saving gas but going slower: is LOP really a win? Cessna didn't publish performance tables for lean of peak, but they did publish tables for saving gas at the recommended 0.5gph ROP. At 10,000' Cessna says full power gives 145kts TAS at 9.2gph. If you want to save 2 gph they have you dial way back on power to get 126kts TAS at 7.1gph, for a 19kt slowdown. So roughly speaking, LOP saves me just as much gas as going slow ROP, but makes me 11kts faster.
Despite the good results I still flew over the hard, unforgiving mountains of the Southwest running ROP. The engine feels wrong in the transition to LOP, you can feel the sluggishness. I've also had various salt-of-the-earth mechanics all warn me against running LOP, and while their reasoning doesn't make sense it still makes me nervous. And of course LOP really does make you slower and with four hours of West Texas ahead of you, you want every knot. The cooler operation seems like a real benefit though.
(A caveat: those EGT numbers are a bit wonky. The actual measured peaks with some experimenting were 1462/1494/1466/1410 at 8.8/9.1/8.9/9.2 gph, so it's possible I was running more like 90 ROP than 50 ROP and could have saved a bit of gas while ROP. There's some lag in the EGT response time, I was doing stuff too quickly.)
One of the amazing things about visiting Texas is how every single person I've seen has offered me a place to stay. Whether an old friend I hadn't seen in 20 years or someone I barely knew, pretty much everyone offered me a guest room in their house. Such lovely hospitality! I think that offer is much less common in San Francisco; homes are too small to have a guest room and people generally seem too busy to casually offer that kind of sharing. That's too bad.


During the week of October 9, 2007, through October 15, 2007, Big Island police arrested 16 motorists for drunk driving. Six of the drivers were involved in a traffic crash. One was under the age of 21.
There have been 1,651 major accidents so far this year compared with 1,962 during the same period last year, a decrease of 16 percent.