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Thursday, February 28, 2013
Monday, February 25, 2013
Lyoto Machida pulls out split-decision win over Dan Henderson at UFC 157
ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Lyoto Machida took a split decision over Dan Henderson in the co-main event at UFC 157 on Saturday. The judges saw it 29-28, 28-29, 29-28 for Machida.
Machida was elusive as usual in the first round, but Henderson was able to sneak in and land a few kicks and punches. At the end of the round, Machida took Henderson down with a leg trip and landed strikes.
The second round showed Machida still being elusive and keeping his distance from Henderson. Machida tried for a front kick several times, but couldn't land it. Meanwhile, Henderson couldn't land much.
[Also: Ronda Rousey survives UFC debut, wins via first-round arm bar]
Henderson is known for his big, overhand punches. Most of the time, when he throws it, it can mean the end of a fight. However, he had trouble getting close enough to Machida for the overhand to work.
In the third round, Machida moved in for a takedown but ended up with Henderson on top. Henderson used elbows from the top, but Machida was able to get out with less than two minutes left in the fight.
Before the fight, UFC president Dana White said that the winner of this bout will get the next title shot. UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones will put the title up against Chael Sonnen in April, but the next fight will likely go to Machida.
[Also: Josh Koscheck suffers upset loss]
Machida was once the UFC light heavyweight champion, but lost the title to Rua in 2010. Since then, he has wins over Randy Couture and Ryan Bader, but losses to current champion Jon Jones and Quinton Jackson. It will be his third chance at the light heavyweight title. He won it with a knockout of Rashad Evans in 2009, but lost to Jones in 2011.
Henderson had a long layoff between fights. His last bout was one of the best in MMA history. In November of 2011, Henderson defeated Mauricio Rua in a five-round decision. Since then, Henderson had a fight lined up with Jones in September, but had to pull out at the last minute because of a knee injury. His record falls to 29-9. He's 42 years old, and against Machida, looked slow and old for the first time in his career.
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Sunday, February 24, 2013
Metals - Regional - Copper closes down at US$3.549/lb on China property market, FOMC minutes
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Moms go topless to save kids' school bus
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When it comes to raising money to help overcome educational budget cuts, there are the old, reliable methods, like the silent auction or a fancy gala, and then there?s the racy route.
In Montserrat, Spain, 10 mothers are showing some serious skin in a sexy calendar being sold to raise money in the face of Spain's austerity measures. The proceeds are being used to restore a reduction in bus service for 600 elementary school students.
Some of the women are topless, some almost bottomless in the calendar that so far, has raised enough money to cover the $4,100 monthly tab for the bus, the driver and a monitor through the end of the school year in June, according to an Associated Press report.
The moms hope to sell all 3,000 of the calendars by the end of the month, and then start anew for next year.
What would you do (or take off) to raise money for your child?s school?
Source: http://www.today.com/moms/moms-go-topless-save-kids-school-bus-1C8505059
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Unemployed complain they need a job to find a job
NEW YORK (AP) -- Help wanted. Qualifications: Must already have a job.
It's a frustrating catch for those out of work in an era of high unemployment: looking for a job, only to find that some employers don't want anyone who doesn't already have one.
But after four years of above-average joblessness in the U.S., efforts to bar such practices by employers have met with mixed results.
While New Jersey, Oregon and Washington, D.C., have passed laws making it illegal to discriminate against the unemployed, New York City's billionaire-businessman mayor vetoed on Friday what would have been the most aggressive such measure in the country. Similar proposals have stalled in more than a dozen other states and Congress.
Advocates for the unemployed say such hiring practices are unfair, particularly to those who have been laid off because of the economic crunch and not through any fault of their own. Businesses, though, say that the extent of such practices is exaggerated, hiring decisions are too complicated to legislate, and employers could end up defending themselves against dubious complaints.
Nationally, more than 1 in 3 unemployed workers has been looking for at least six months, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Janet Falk said that when she applied for a public-relations job at a New York law firm two years ago, the recruiter told her she wouldn't be considered because she had been out of work for more than three months. The recruiter was being paid to find candidates who were in jobs or just out of them.
"My personal view is that hiring is like musical chairs, and if only the people who are already on the dance floor are playing, then the long-term unemployed can't get in the game," said Falk, who was laid off four years ago. She now runs her own consulting business.
An October 2011 search of New York City-based job listings found more than a dozen that explicitly required candidates to be employed, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer's office said. A broader review that year by the National Employment Law Project found 150 ads that were restricted to or aimed at people currently working.
As for why, experts say employers may think that unemployed applicants' skills have atrophied, that they lost their jobs because of their own shortcomings, or that they will jump at any job offer and then leave as soon as something better comes along.
But "'don't apply, don't even try' is the opposite of American values," New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn said when the measure passed last month. She said Friday that she expects the City Council will override Mayor Michael Bloomberg's veto within a month.
Bloomberg called the measure a well-intended but misguided effort that would create more lawsuits than jobs.
"Hiring decisions frequently involve the exercise of independent, subjective judgment about a prospective employee's likely future performance," he said in a statement.
And unlike other characteristics that employers are generally banned from considering, such as an applicant's race, religion or gender, "the circumstances surrounding a person's unemployment status may, in certain situations, be relevant to employers when selecting qualified employees," he said.
Business groups say that no-unemployed-applicants-need-apply ads represent a tiny fraction of the millions of job openings nationwide each year.
One 2011 listing that got city lawmakers' attention ? it required that applicants for an opening as a New York legal secretary "must be currently employed" ? was mistakenly written that way, said William Alcott, a lawyer for the firm that posted it, McGuireWoods LLP.
"It was not our policy then and isn't our policy now," he said this week.
Like other measures that have passed, the New York City one would ban help-wanted ads that say unemployed applicants won't qualify. It would also more generally prohibit employers from refusing to hire candidates because they are out of work.
But New York's measure would go further than the others by letting rejected applicants sue employers for damages.
Companies see it as government meddling and "creating another basis for unmerited lawsuits against employers," said Kathryn Wylde, president of the Partnership for New York City, an influential business group.
President Barack Obama proposed in 2011 to make it illegal to refuse to consider unemployed applicants.
New Jersey in 2011 became the first state to outlaw the practice. The state Labor Department has gotten one complaint so far and cited a company for an ad that excluded jobless applicants; the case is not yet resolved, the agency said this week.
Oregon and the District of Columbia followed suit last year, while 15 other states considered similar proposals, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed such a measure in California last fall, indicating he wasn't happy with changes made to it.
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Associated Press writer Rema Rahman contributed to this report from Trenton, N.J.
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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/unemployed-complain-job-job-191738634.html
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Saturday, February 16, 2013
Video: Google may go into retail
>>> an intriguing proposition tonight about what might be in store for google. the company reportedly plans to start opening retail stores in the united states by the end of the year. the stores, like those of its competitors, apple and microsoft, would let customers get a better feel for its products such as its new tablets and smart phones .
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Slithering towards extinction
Friday, February 15, 2013
Nineteen percent of the world's reptiles are estimated to be threatened with extinction, states a paper published today by the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) in conjunction with experts from the IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC).
The study, printed in the journal of Biological Conservation, is the first of its kind summarising the global conservation status of reptiles. More than 200 world renowned experts assessed the extinction risk of 1,500 randomly selected reptiles from across the globe.
Out of the estimated 19% of reptiles threatened with extinction, 12% classified as Critically Endangered, 41% Endangered and 47% Vulnerable.
Three Critically Endangered species were also highlighted as possibly extinct. One of these, a jungle runner lizard Ameiva vittata, has only ever been recorded in one part of Bolivia. Levels of threat remain particularly high in tropical regions, mainly as a result of habitat conversion for agriculture and logging. With the lizard's habitat virtually destroyed, two recent searches for the species have been unsuccessful.
Dr. Monika B?hm, lead author on the paper: "Reptiles are often associated with extreme habitats and tough environmental conditions, so it is easy to assume that they will be fine in our changing world.
"However, many species are very highly specialised in terms of habitat use and the climatic conditions they require for day to day functioning. This makes them particularly sensitive to environmental changes," Dr. B?hm added.
Extinction risk is not evenly spread throughout this highly diverse group: freshwater turtles are at particularly high risk, mirroring greater levels of threat in freshwater biodiversity around the world. Overall, this study estimated 30% of freshwater reptiles to be close to extinction, which rises to 50% when considering freshwater turtles alone, as they are also affected by national and international trade.
Although threat remains lower in terrestrial reptiles, the often restricted ranges, specific biological and environmental requirements, and low mobility make them particularly susceptible to human pressures. In Haiti, six of the nine species of Anolis lizard included in this study have an elevated risk of extinction, due to extensive deforestation affecting the country.
Collectively referred to as 'reptiles', snakes, lizards, amphisbaenians (also known as worm lizards), crocodiles, and tuataras have had a long and complex evolutionary history, having first appeared on the planet around 300 million years ago. They play a number of vital roles in the proper functioning of the world's ecosystems, as predator as well as prey.
Head of ZSL's Indicators and Assessment Unit, Dr Ben Collen says: "Gaps in knowledge and shortcomings in effective conservation actions need to be addressed to ensure that reptiles continue to thrive around the world. These findings provide a shortcut to allow important conservation decisions to be made as soon as possible and firmly place reptiles on the conservation map,"
"This is a very important step towards assessing the conservation status of reptiles globally," says Philip Bowles, Coordinator of the Snake and Lizard Red List Authority of the IUCN Species Survival Commission. "The findings sound alarm bells about the state of these species and the growing threats that they face globally. Tackling the identified threats, which include habitat loss and harvesting, are key conservation priorities in order to reverse the declines in these reptiles."
The current study provides an indicator to assess conservation success, tracking trends in extinction risk over time and humanity's performance with regard to global biodiversity targets.
ZSL and IUCN will continue to work with collaborating organisations to ensure reptiles are considered in conservation planning alongside more charismatic mammal species.
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Microsoft Surface Pro Has Problems But Also Big Promise
CIO ? I'm a big fan of the Microsoft Surface RT tablet. It's been my go-to product ever since I got one last year. So it was with great anticipation that I awaited the arrival of its big brother, Microsoft Surface Pro.
One of the annoying parts of Surface RT is that, while it has most of Microsoft Office, for some screwy reason Redmond left out the best part of that package?Outlook?instead provided a stripped-down alternative. With Surface Pro, you can install Office and get that full email experience.
Both Surface RT and Surface Pro target the iPad, but they come at it from different vectors. Surface RT is the Microsoft spin on an iPad; there are limitations on what it can run, but the Windows Environment is more business friendly than an iPad. Surface Pro, meanwhile, is an ultrabook built like a tablet.
Video: Up Close with the Microsoft Surface Pro
Of the two, the Surface Pro it is actually the more innovative problem?but ultrabook and tablet technologies don't overlap, so Surface Pro may not measure up. It isn't a design flaw; the technology to do this right doesn't exist yet.
Best of Ultrabook, Tablet Worlds Isn't There Yet
People got iPads because Steve Jobs convinced them that a product that was basically a netbook with a touchscreen and optional keyboard was a magical product. The magic?the combination of a light device for something with such a large screen, a 10-hour battery life, a rich set of apps and mostly marginal cloud services?was something that Apple could call unique. Folks could carry these all day, without getting tired or needing a charger, and actually get stuff done. Yes, users sacrificed screen size and compatibility when they stopped using their Windows laptops, but iPad sales show they were OK with this.
Commentary: Surface vs. iPad: The Weight of the World on Microsoft
Strangely enough, many people bought an iPad, tried to use it for work eventually bought a MacBook Air. Depending how you view the market, the MacBook air was either the precursor to the ultrabook or the first ultrabook. The Microsoft folks looked at this and saw value in creating a product versatile enough that users wouldn't have to carry both a tablet and an ultrabook.
Microsoft Surface Pro, then, is an ultrabook in tablet clothing. It is distinctly more convenient, and cheaper, than having to carry both devices. Unfortunately, using the two devices separately will likely provide a better experience that the two-in-one Surface Pro.
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Chicago luxury homes for sale down, sales up in the 4th quarter
The number of listed Chicago homes for sale for $1M or higher in the 4th quarter was down 18.9% from 4th quarter 2011.* There were 908 Chicago luxury homes for sale compared with 1,120 a year earlier. The percent of distressed sales (short sales and foreclosures) dropped from 3.2% of the inventory to 2.3%.
As shown below, the number of Chicago luxury homes for sale in the 4th quarter set a new a 4 year low. Back in December I wrote about how the number of Chicago luxury homes for sale in the 3rd quarter set a new a 4 year low.
Quarterly Inventory of Chicago Luxury Homes For Sale (red) & Sold (green) 4th Qtr. 2009 - 4th Qtr. 2012
The number of Chicago luxury homes sold in the 4th quarter was up a whopping 52.8% from a year earlier! There were 188 sales.
Chicago luxury home pending sales were up 46%, so sales should do well in the 1st quarter. The average days on market for pending sales was down 15%.
WHAT THIS MEANS FOR CHICAGO LUXURY HOME BUYERS
You don?t have the choices that you had a year ago. You won?t be able to negotiate as much since there aren?t as many sellers competing against each other.
WHAT THIS MEANS FOR CHICAGO LUXURY HOME SELLERS
Given that the market appears to be forming a bottom, I don?t recommend selling unless 1. you really need to or 2. you want to move up to a more expensive home. It?s probably come down more in value in the past few years than your current home. As always, if your home is priced right when it goes on market, it will sell in a reasonable amount of time. Luxury homes do take longer to sell on average than lower priced homes since there is a smaller market for them.
FOR MORE INFORMATION
Email Fran for more information on Chicago luxury homes for sale.CHICAGO LUXURY HOMES FOR SALE
Click below to see Chicago luxury homes for sale by price range. You can narrow the results by internal and external features. Pending sales are excluded.
*based on MRED (Midwest Real Estate Data)
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Pok?mon TV available now on iOS and Android: 'Meloetta's Moonlight Serenade' set for English release
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Conservatives to unveil long-delayed religious freedom office next week
OTTAWA - The Harper government is planning to announce its long-awaited Office of Religious Freedom in an event at a Toronto-area mosque next Tuesday.
The announcement ? which the government refuses to discuss ? comes 22 months after the Tories first promised to create a modest, religious freedom branch within the Foreign Affairs Department.
The pledge was unveiled in the Conservative campaign platform during the last federal election, but Foreign Affairs has been unable to find a commissioner to take job.
Human rights groups and opposition critics have said the office is a misguided attempt to inject religion into foreign policy.
They also question what exactly the new office can accomplish with a modest $5 million budget.
However, a spokesman for a major Jewish organization that has been invited to Tuesday's event says the fact that the Harper government is holding it at a mosque shows its commitment to persecuted religious minorities the world over.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/conservatives-unveil-long-delayed-religious-freedom-office-next-203118073.html
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Wednesday, February 13, 2013
[Gatestone Institute] Did Brooklyn College's Political Science Department Violate the First Amendment?
[Gatestone Institute] Did Brooklyn College's Political Science Department Violate the First Amendment?
Did Brooklyn College's Political Science Department Violate the First Amendment?... But once the political science department became involved as a co-sponsor, the students alone could not call the shots, when it comes to the First Amendment. The university assumed responsibility for assuring that the free speech of all students was equally protected. ...
Source: http://ironburka.blogspot.com/2013/02/gatestone-institute-did-brooklyn.html
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Profiles of 4 believed killed by ex-LA policeman
FILE - This photo provided Feb. 4, 2013 by Cal State Fullerton shows Cal State Fullerton assistant women's NCCA college basketball coach Monica Quan in Fullerton, Calif. Quan and her fiance Keith Lawrence were found shot to death on the top floor of a parking structure at the complex, police said. Four days before her death, Monica Quan had news for her team. Quan, an assistant coach at Cal State Fullerton, held up her hand to show off an engagement ring from Lawrence. Authorities believe Quan and Lawrence were shot to death by ex-Los Angeles policeman Christopher Dorner, who'd written a manifesto expressing anger over his firing by the LAPD. (AP Photo/Cal State Fullerton, file)
FILE - This photo provided Feb. 4, 2013 by Cal State Fullerton shows Cal State Fullerton assistant women's NCCA college basketball coach Monica Quan in Fullerton, Calif. Quan and her fiance Keith Lawrence were found shot to death on the top floor of a parking structure at the complex, police said. Four days before her death, Monica Quan had news for her team. Quan, an assistant coach at Cal State Fullerton, held up her hand to show off an engagement ring from Lawrence. Authorities believe Quan and Lawrence were shot to death by ex-Los Angeles policeman Christopher Dorner, who'd written a manifesto expressing anger over his firing by the LAPD. (AP Photo/Cal State Fullerton, file)
LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Fugitive ex-Los Angeles police officer Christopher Dorner was charged Monday with killing a Riverside police officer. He also is suspected of killing an Irvine couple after declaring a revenge war on law enforcement in an alleged online rant. Here's a look at the victims:
MONICA QUAN
Monica Quan, 28, and her fiance, Keith Lawrence, 27, were found shot in his car in the parking structure of their Irvine condominium complex on Feb. 3.
Quan was in her second year as assistant women's basketball coach at California State University, Fullerton ? the culmination of her love for the game that began when she was a child.
A standout high school basketball player, Quan once dreamed of playing professionally for the Los Angeles Sparks. She had a reputation for being fiery and intense.
Quan met Lawrence while both were playing basketball at Concordia University in Irvine.
After several coaching jobs, she joined Fullerton, where she was known as "Coach Mo."
"I loved her work ethic. I loved her passion for life," head coach Marcia Foster said.
Quan's father, Randal, was the first Chinese-American captain in the Los Angeles Police Department. Later, as an attorney, he represented Dorner in the officer's failed appeal of his dismissal to a department Board of Rights.
Dorner allegedly posted an online rant naming Quan and others that says: "I never had the opportunity to have a family of my own, I'm terminating yours."
KEITH LAWRENCE
Keith Lawrence loved basketball so much that he would drive miles for a pickup game. But his professional goal was to be a cop.
In August, he was hired as an armed public safety officer at the University of Southern California, where he was praised for his professionalism. Before taking the job, he attended the Ventura County Sheriff's Academy and trained with Oxnard police.
He grew up playing basketball. As a player in high school and at Concordia University, he was known for his calm, no-drama attitude, even after scoring a half-court basket.
Friends told the Orange County Register that Lawrence was flamboyant in other ways; he loved wearing bright colors, such as neon green and yellow, and loudly played every kind of music from hip-hop to country.
He and Quan were such basketball fans that Lawrence even wanted to propose at a Nike store. His younger brother, Chris, talked him out of it.
Days before their deaths, Lawrence instead scattered rose petals on the floor of their Irvine home, got down on a knee and asked for her hand, the Los Angeles Times reported.
MICHAEL CRAIN
Crain, a police officer with the city of Riverside, was mortally wounded on Feb. 7 in an ambush shooting as he sat in a police car at a stoplight.
Crain, 34, leaves his wife, a 4-year-old daughter and a son, 10. They remain under police protection until Dorner is caught.
According to the department, Crain loved attending dance recitals with his daughter, coaching his son's baseball team and restoring his 1970 Chevy Nova.
An acquaintance told the Riverside Press-Enterprise that Crain, a SWAT and field training officer, was always focused on officer safety when answering a call, and always had a plan if something went bad.
But officials said he had no time to react when a car pulled up and rifle fire erupted as Crain and a trainee officer sat in their patrol car during a graveyard shift. The trainee was wounded and is expected to survive.
Crain joined the Riverside police force in 2011 after leaving the Marine Corps, where he served two tours in Kuwait, was promoted to sergeant, and later taught military operations in urban terrain at Camp Pendleton in San Diego County.
Thousands gathered for his funeral Wednesday. A white-gloved honor guard carried his flag-draped coffin inside to the sound of bagpipes.
JEREMIAH MACKAY
MacKay, a San Bernardino County sheriff's deputy, was killed on Feb. 12 after a shootout with Dorner who made his last stand in a cabin in Angelus Oaks.
MacKay, a detective with the department for 15 years, leaves behind a wife, a 7-year-old daughter and a 4-month-old son.
The Associated Press spoke on Feb. 9 with MacKay, who was on his third day of patrol.
"This one, you just never know if the guy's going to pop out or where he's going to pop out," MacKay told an AP reporter. "We're hoping this comes to a close without any more casualties. The best thing would be for him to give up."
MacKay said officers were taking precautions by working in pairs or in larger groups.
"Everyone is here for the safety of everyone," MacKay said, "for the safety of each other, for the safety of you."
MacKay was hit several times during the shootout and was airlifted to the hospital where he died of his injuries.
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Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Deskarma Launches Coffee Who, A Single Use-Case App To Get Enterprise Employees Talking
Deskarma, which originally launched as a knowledge sharing app aimed at professionals but has since pivoted to focus on collaboration in the enterprise, has launched Coffee Who, a single-use web app to get employees talking via face-to-face meetings -- over coffee, of course. It taps into a wider trend, says the London and Melbourne-based company, that will increasingly see enterprises supplement their core IT systems and uber-social networking platforms with "disposable apps for specific uses", much in the same way as apps carve out their niche in the consumer space. That's the bet anyway.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/g0BdAviK4OA/
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Pilot not to blame for F-22 crash, report finds
The Pentagon's Inspector General said today that the Air Force didn't have the evidence to blame an F-22 Raptor pilot for the crash that took his life after his plane malfunctioned -- a finding that comes months after the pilot's sister said she believed that the Air Force was more interested in protecting a $79 billion program than the lives of its airmen.
The report, published today on the Inspector General's website, was the culmination of a year-long review of the Air Force's investigation into the crash that killed Capt. Jeff Haney while he was on a training mission in Alaska in 2010. The controversial crash, in which Haney's oxygen was cut off completely just prior to impact, was the subject of an ABC News' "Nightline" investigation last May.
WATCH Exclusive: Family Demands Truth in Air Force F-22 Pilot's Death
After investigating the incident for more than a year, the Air Force released its crash report in December 2011 that said that while Haney likely suffered a "sense similar to suffocation" right before he died, he was still to blame for the crash for being too distracted to fly the plane properly.
The new IG report, the result of the first major crash investigation review undertaken by the Inspector General since the mid-1990s, says that the Air Force's conclusions are at times contradictory, incomplete or "not supported by the facts." In response, the Air Force said it convened its own special task force to review its investigation, and the task force found the original conclusions were adequately supported.
The F-22 Raptor is America's single most expensive fighter jet at an estimated $420 million each -- in all a $79 billion-and-counting program that represents part of the Air Force's costly foray into fifth-generation stealth fighters. The jets, which have yet to be sent on a combat mission, for years were plagued with a mysterious oxygen-related problem in which on rare occasions its pilots would report experiencing the symptoms of oxygen deprivation in mid-flight. The Air Force believes it has solved that problem.
FULL COVERAGE: ABC News' Investigation Into the F-22's Fatal Flaws
'To Them, Jeff Was a Number... But Those Jets Are Worth a Lot of Money'
On Nov. 16, 2010 Haney had just completed a routine training exercise when a malfunction in the plane cut off his oxygen completely. Capt. Haney never made a distress call but took his plane into a dive and, a little over a minute later, crashed into the winter wilderness at faster than the speed of sound.
The Air Force never found the original cause of the malfunction, but in a Statement of Opinion concluded "by clear and convincing evidence, the cause of the mishap was the MP's [mishap pilot's] failure to recognize and initiate a timely dive recovery due to channelized attention, breakdown of visual scan, and unrecognized spatial disorientation."
In an exclusive interview with ABC News in May 2012, Haney's sister Jennifer said she immediately called the Air Force's conclusion into question and believed that, in addition to the original unknown malfunction's role, it seemed obvious her brother had blacked out while trying to save himself. Therefore, she said, he could not have been responsible for the crash.
"I don't agree with [the Air Force]. I think there was a lot more going on inside that cockpit," Jennifer said. "A cover-up? I don't know. But there's something... I'd like to think it's easier to blame Jeff. He's not here to defend himself."
"To them, Jeff was a number, it feels like sometimes. But those jets are worth a lot of money," she said.
Pierre Sprey, an early fighter jet designer and vocal critic of the F-22, said the Air Force's original report on Haney's crash was twisted to shield the aircraft from blame.
"From front to back, they're warping every fact you see in that thing, to make sure they will call it pilot error and not to blame [F-22 manufacturer] Lockheed [Martin] or not to blame the Air Force or the airplane," Sprey told ABC News in May. "Here you have a superb pilot and an airplane that wasn't designed to take care of him. And now they're blaming it on him and he shouldn't have died in the first place? The priorities are hardware first, people second."
In the course of its investigation, ABC News obtained an Air Force-made computer simulation of Haney's crash that shows that in the middle of Haney's oxygen-deprived dive, he doesn't appear to move the controls for approximately 15 seconds. Jennifer said that mysterious long pause in the middle of an emergency, along with the lack of a radio call, is evidence that her brother wasn't awake for at least part of the dive. Steve Ganyard, an ABC News consultant and former U.S. Marine Corps fighter pilot, said that after watching the computer simulation, he too believes Haney was unconscious at least part of the time.
The Pentagon Inspector General appears to agree it's a possibility.
"It is unclear how sudden incapacitation or unconsciousness was determined to be a non-contributory factor by the AIB [Air Force Accident Investigation Board], or why levels of partial incapacitation or impairment were not considered," the report says.
Haney did appear to try to pull out of his dive three seconds before impact -- one second too late to save himself. The Air Force has said that was evidence he was not incapacitated and only disoriented before his death.
The question of Haney's consciousness is listed by the IG as one of five "deficiencies" in the AIB report, others including the uncertainty over the status of Haney's oxygen mask and his possible attempt to turn on an emergency oxygen system.
"The AIB report lacked detailed analysis of several areas," the IG report said.
After the Air Force was informed of the Inspector General's conclusions, the service said it convened a separate task force to review the AIB report. The task force found that while some portions of the AIB could have been written more clearly, the service stands by its original accounting of the cause of the crash.
"That group of experts validated the AIB's conclusions," an Air Force spokesperson told ABC News.
The spokesperson said the service is currently rewriting its crash report to clarify certain points raised by the Inspector General's report.
Last August the plane's primary manufacturer, Lockheed Martin, along with other defense contractors involved in the plane's production, settled a wrongful death lawsuit with Haney's widow, Anna. The suit had contended that the companies knowingly provided the Air Force with a "defective" aircraft and that Capt. Jeff Haney was a casualty of that decision. The terms of the settlement were not disclosed.
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?Prevention: A New Model for Intervention. How the UK Responds to Extremism in North and West Africa and Beyond.?
Event
February 14, 2013
A Keynote Speech and Q&A with the Shadow Secretary of State for Defence
Rt Hon Jim Murphy MP
12:30 ? 1:30pm, Thursday 14th February 2013
Committee Room 9, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA
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The Henry Jackson Society is pleased to invite you to a major policy speech by the Rt Hon Jim Murphy MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Defence. In his formal remarks, the Shadow Defence Secretary will reflect on recent events in North and West Africa, assessing the threat to the United Kingdom and how UK defence policy should respond over the long-term. He will explore lessons that can be learnt from the last decade of defence policy to inform future strategy, arguing that in an era of instability, adaptability and proactive prevention must be central priorities which shape force structure, the equipment programme and expeditionary posture.
The formal remarks will be followed by a moderated Q&A. We hope you will be able to join us for what promises to be a major policy speech on a matter of acute and on-going consequence to the national security of the United Kingdom.
TIME: 12:30 ? 1:30pm
DATE: Thursday, 14th February 2013
VENUE: Committee Room 9, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA
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Biography
Rt Hon Jim Murphy?is Labour Member of Parliament for East Renfrewshire. He is the Shadow Secretary of State for Defence and has previously served as Secretary of State for Scotland as well as in several Ministerial positions from 2005. When he was first elected in 1997 he was the first Labour MP for his seat for almost three quarters of a century. Since then his majority has more than trebled to 10,420 with the biggest swing to Labour of any seat in Britain. At the last general election Jim?s seat recorded the highest electoral turnout of any constituency anywhere in the UK.
Jim lives in his constituency with his wife and three children. He was born in Glasgow and grew up in an Arden housing scheme in the south side of the city. His family emigrated to Cape Town when he was young where he returned from as a teenager. He has served in Parliament since 1997 and has extensive Parliamentary experience. He won and has held the constituency which was previously the safest Conservative seat in Scotland. Jim is a keen footballer and an average golfer.
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