Seven Golden Stars with Coat of Arms
This Seven Golden Stars flag includes the Southern Cross and Federation Star from the Australian national flag. (The Federation Star is also known as the Commonwealth Star as it symbolises our federal system of government with the States, territories and the Commonwealth). The supporters for the Coat of Arms are a kangaroo and an emu. This flag design with the Coat of Arms would be suitable as a state flag and there is another civil version of the flag design. In the top corner of the flag is a disc to represent the sun. The flag colours are green and gold. These are all Aussie symbols. The sun is an appropriate symbol for such a dry continent as Australia.
The flag was designed by Robert Vose and it is registered with IP Australia. Robert is a proud Australian who supports our liberal democratic traditions and who respects our history. All the elements of the flag are well known Australian symbols.
Posted in Australian Flags.
Tagged with Arms, Aussie, Australia, Australian, Coat, Commonwealth, Commonwealth Star, design, Federation Star, flag, IP Australia, robert, Robert Vose, Southern Cross, Stars, Symbols, The Federation Star, This Seven Golden Stars.
By Robert Vose
– 11 February, 2010
You couldn’t think of a more stark comparison between the old twentieth century energy systems – dominated as they were by coal, gas, petroleum and uranium – and the emerging solar-sourced smart grid energy systems. Energy storage will become an integrated aspect of the smart grid, so we don’t have to mention that renewable energy will eventually be stored for when it will be needed.
Coal, petroleum, uranium – all dug from pits in the ground or from underground caverns and dragged up to the surface light. The dark fuels being sulfurous and bubbling carbon dioxide into the atmosphere upon combustion. Global warming and the greenhouse gas emissions from these fuels are threatening over the next few centuries to revert our planet’s atmosphere to one that was once more suitable for dinosaurs – those giant cold-blooded reptiles with monster teeth. Parts of our oceans and seas are becoming dead zones. The political regimes that prosper from oil are not generally renown for their liberal attitudes nor for respecting human rights.To use biblical language, the fossil fuels are turning our earth into a hell and turning our cultures into a devil’s playground.
By contrast, we could aim to start to build a renewable energy infrastructure that will eventually source most of its energy directly from the sun. In time, most of the energy that we need could be channeled from space-based solar power stations. A base, or underground city, on the moon would be part of this. It is for our generation to set the foundation stones for heaven, if we want to and if we have the will…
Posted in Space.
Tagged with Coal, Energy, fuels, Global, parts, turning.
By Robert Vose
– 6 March, 2010
India Announces Coal Tax To Fund Renewable Energy Projects: Scientific American
By: Mridul Chadha
In a landmark announcement the Indian Finance Minister, in his annual Budget speech, put forward the proposal of setting of National Clean Energy Fund which would be constituted through tax levied on coal usage in the country. The quantum of tax would be INR 50 per ton of coal used, which would generate an annual revenue of around $600 million.
The announcement is extremely important and a major step in India’s endeavor to promote renewable energy infrastructure. India is heavily dependent on coal for power generation with 75% of the power generated coming from coal-fired power plants…
via India Announces Coal Tax To Fund Renewable Energy Projects: Scientific American.
Posted in Climate Change, Renewable energy.
Tagged with announces, Budget, Coal, Energy, India, India Announces Coal Tax To Fund Renewable Energy Projects, Indian Finance Minister, INR, Mridul Chadha, National Clean Energy Fund, Scientific American, Tax.
By Robert Vose
– 5 March, 2010
One thing that might make a cluster of robotic satellites an essential component of an inhabited space vehicle system would be an ability for a series of satellites to create magnetic fields that could deflect cosmic radiation so that the combined cluster of satellites creates safe zones where relatively few cosmic rays pass through. An inhabited space vehicle could reside in one of these safe shielded zones and the cluster of satellites could move with the spacecraft to keep the people inside shielded as it goes on its journey. Such a cluster of satellites that would create strong magnetic fields in space would need to be managed in real time and the systems would have to be completely automated and computerised. The resultant sizes, shapes and strengths of the magnetic fields around an inhabited spacecraft would vary depending on the number of robotic satellites that were available to it. At the moment I would think that many ideas about shielding spacecraft from cosmic rays might focus on what could could done from the surface of and carried in the spacecraft itself. You could envision a system of robotic satellites that could build safe spaces through creating coordinated magnetic fields. If energy were plentiful from solar collector satellites and satellites could be moved around through remotely applied energy, then you could have hundreds of shielding satellites around any spacecraft and possibly even hundreds of kilometers from the vehicle itself. Initially these systems might have shielding satellite clusters that are pretty close to the spacecraft itself. The idea is to mimic in some small scale way the magnetic field that protects life on earth.
A large number of magnetic fields placed in space around a spacecraft would have those satellite created magnetic fields placed such that charged particles moving through space – cosmic radiation – that would have impacted that spacecraft are deflected to just miss the spacecraft. It would be a very complex problem because the modeling software would have to predict the varieties of cosmic rays that would normally hit the spacecraft and then plan to have magnetic fields set up to deflect radiation coming from every direction, and with varying energies. The magnetic shield built with the shielding satellites would not need to be continuous, but every direction in the sphere around a spacecraft would need to be covered. With fewer satellites, the satellites would need to be closer to the spacecraft and the magnetic fields would need to be stronger. With a large number of satellites the magnetic fields could be weaker and they could be placed further from the spacecraft.
Posted in Space.
Tagged with fields, Initially, magnetic, satellites, shielded, spacecraft.
By Robert Vose
– 5 March, 2010
ELEANOR HALL: Two of Victoria’s biggest energy users have signed a deal that will guarantee the state’s reliance on brown coal fired electricity for decades.
The state’s largest exporter, Alcoa, has signed a deal with the Loy Yang Power Station, to supply electricity for its aluminium smelters until 2036.
The Victorian Government says it had nothing to do with the deal, but Green groups say they are not convinced and that it's insane to lock in such a polluting power supply now.
Kellie Lazzaro reports…
MARK WAKEHAM: I fear that this is a signal that they want to continue operating for another 25 years but it’s actually a bargaining chip in the broader play about compensation under an emissions trading scheme.
If they can present this contract as something that’s set in stone then Loy Yang’s future operations are affected when we do get serious about climate change. I wonder whether there’s going to be a very big ask on the taxpayer’s dollar in the form of compensation…
via The World Today – Victorian power deal locks in decades of brown coal use 02/03/2010.
Posted in Climate Change, Politics.
Tagged with Alcoa, compensation, deal, ELEANOR HALL Two, Green, Kellie Lazzaro, lock, Loy Yang, Loy Yang Power Station, MARK WAKEHAM I, operating, power, The Victorian Government, The World Today, Victoria, Victorian.
By Robert Vose
– 3 March, 2010
If a group of people in leadership positions claim to have received advice that only suggested a narrow range of policy options, how would the public judge whether an exhaustive and honest examination of options had been made? For many current politicians their main political skill is to stack branches and boards to their favour.They wouldn’t think twice about even bullying scientists in organisations such as the CSIRO.
An interesting point made by K-Rudd on Insiders today would have most likely have been missed by most people and seen to be just the way things are. He mentioned that people are free to pursue their career objectives and he supports that. In a political environment dominated by branch stackers everyone would KNOW that any questioning of authority is a career destroying move. It doesn’t matter what principle you stand by or whether a criticism has truth to it or whether the outcome of raising some concern is to the benefit of the whole community. It doesn’t matter in the least. If a person wants to have a continuing career they have to go along with what ever bulldust that is trickling down from those on high. Anyone who doesn’t go along with such a regime is removed from it quickly. Such a political culture is decidedly authoritarian.
Australians used to be proud of an egalitarian ethos. No longer it seems …
Posted in Politics.
Tagged with Australians, Career, CSIRO, doesn, Insiders, K-Rudd, People, policy, whether.
By Robert Vose
– 28 February, 2010
How embattled PM played ‘jihad’ card
JONATHAN PEARLMAN – The Age
February 24, 2010
KEVIN Rudd toughened his terrorism blueprint to highlight the threat from jihadist and home-grown terror despite resistance from officials within his department and the Attorney-General’s Department who were concerned the language was inflammatory and counter-productive…
Continuing the government’s national security theme yesterday, Mr McClelland, Immigration Minister Chris Evans and Home Affairs Minister Brendan O’Connor announced plans to extend ASIO’s mandate beyond the prevention of espionage and terrorism. The changes will allow ASIO to investigate foreign intelligence it was previously stopped from pursuing to help crack people-smuggling syndicates…
”This is quite a significant change,” said David McKnight, who has written extensively about ASIO. ”It highlights a trend that’s pushing ASIO into the investigation of crimes rather than national security. The tendency is for ASIO to operate more like a police force.”
The government will also expand ASIO’s ability to tap phones and intercept communications…
via How embattled PM played ‘jihad’ card. – theage.com.au
A police force acts very differently to an intelligence agency, and they view and judge information differently. A police force expects its evidence to be tested in public and in the courts. Not so for an intelligence agency where much of the evidence in a case could be hearsay, malicious rumour or just plain delusion (remember Curveball and the intelligence that was quoted for starting off George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq).
I expect that we may hear a platitude from the PM along the lines of: “Now don’t you worry about that”. And we would have heard something like that coming from Queensland before…
Posted in Politics.
Tagged with ''It, 'This, ASIO, Attorney-General, Continuing, Curveball, David McKnight, Department, Evidence, February, George W Bush, Home Affairs Minister Brendan O 'Connor, intelligence, Iraq, JONATHAN PEARLMAN, Kevin Rudd, Mr McClelland Immigration Minister Chris Evans, PM, Police, Queensland, The Age.
By Robert Vose
– 24 February, 2010
Law to take on internet racism
JOSH GORDON
The Sunday Age – February 21, 2010
LAWS to tackle racism on the internet are set to be beefed up.
Authorities warn they are often powerless to act against online content, which is responsible for almost one in five racial vilification complaints.
Attorney-General Robert McClelland has ordered the Australian Human Rights Commission to conduct a sweeping review of “arrangements for dealing with racist material on the internet”.
“While freedom of expression is one of the most fundamental rights, this is not at the expense of the rights of people, while using the internet, to be treated with equality, dignity and respect,” Mr McClelland told The Sunday Age…
But civil libertarians are concerned the changes could have unintended consequences, creating a divide and hardening racist attitudes in the community.
Liberty Victoria president Michael Pearce said legislating to police racism on the internet was difficult and the government would be better off putting resources into community education and improving social cohesion.
via Law to take on internet racism -theage.com.au
It looks like the internet filtering proposal of Senator Conway is just a beginning for a sweeping censorship regime for Australia. How long would it be before the politicians argue that national internet filtering would have to be used to filter sites on the basis of national security or anything else that bothers politicians who can set the rules? Could we possibly see the blocking of internet sites that provide women with information about contraception if at some time in the future a politician with a peculiar religious bent becomes Prime Minister and inherits this internet filtering scheme? Only a few days ago the Dalai Lama made a public comment that state blocking of internet content in China was immoral.
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By Robert Vose
– 21 February, 2010
It was a week ago now, but the Australian Financial Review from Wednesday last week (20th of January 2010) had on the front page the headline: ‘Labor eyes referendum on republic’.
The article was about the possibility of constitutional change under a second term Rudd government. A quote from the article: “The four potential referendum questions are obviously the republic, the recognition of indigenous Australians, the third is local government and the fourth is the issue of cooperative federalism.”
This isn’t a complete analysis of the topic, just a brief note, but you could sum up the potential constitutional changes as an attempt to disempower the states to the advantage of the Commonwealth. I presume that the federal government would like the power to override any laws passed by a state government, just as they can override any law passed by the parliament of a territory, and they would also like to take away the power of state governments to set up the framework for local government in their state. The bits about adding a preamble that mentions indigenous Australians and even the republic are secondary issues to the main attempt to consolidate nation-wide power in the executive of the federal government. The republic issue would be for the advertising programs and more of a Trojan horse that would introduce a wide ranging alteration of our system of government. Just as with weasel words, the powers of state governments would be taken away by the federal government and the state parliaments would be left as thin shells of their former glory and sovereignty. I think the second attempt at a republic will be a cynical grab for power and will attempt to destroy our political system. We can make a change to have an Australian as our head of state without radically changing our political systems. This second go at a republic seems to be a covert attempt to do away with the states. The states after such a major change will be left with all the powers of a territory, and perhaps even less. These are just some initial thoughts about what has been made public about this latest attempt.
Posted in Australian Republic.
Tagged with attempt, Australian, Australian Financial Review, Australian Republic, Australians, change, Commonwealth, government, January, Labor, rudd, states, Trojan, Wednesday.
By Robert Vose
– 26 January, 2010
Jendela Masa – means window of time in the Malay language…
New Jendela Masa Blog
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Tagged with Jendela Masa, Language, Malay, means, time, window.
By Robert Vose
– 31 December, 2009
Ah, the noughties, the decade when we cast off reality
BRIGID DELANEY
December 31, 2009
THE past 10 years were the ''decade from hell'', according to Time magazine; Martin Amis dubbed it the age of horrorism, and The New York Times said Tiger Woods personified the spin cycle of the noughties.
But for me the plastic, malleable Barbie doll is the symbol of our age. She doesn't look or act real, yet we can project any number of desires and scenarios on to her. In the noughties we wanted to be her.
The narrative of this decade has lacked authenticity…
via Ah, the noughties, the decade when we cast off reality. – theage.com.au
The author forgot to mention that this was the decade that saw George W. Bush as the US President and Howard as Australia’s PM for most of that time. And it was the time for the so-called culture wars. The decade that went missing down an imaginary rabbit hole…
Posted in Uncategorized.
Tagged with age, Ah, Australia's PM, Barbie, BRIGID DELANEY, decade, December, George W Bush, Howard, Martin Amis, noughties, Reality, The New York Times, Tiger Woods, time, US President.
By Robert Vose
– 31 December, 2009
THERE will be a blue moon on Thursday as New Year’s Eve revellers welcome in 2010 – the first time since 1990 that a blue moon has coincided with the end of the year.
A blue moon – the second full moon in a calendar month – happens only every 2½ years on average. This month, full moons occur on December 2 and December 31…
via Once in a blue moon …. theage.com.au
There will also be a partial lunar eclipse during this blue moon…
And apparently the above information is incorrect for the Australian time zones. The full moon will be in the morning of the 1st of January, so it won’t be a blue moon here after all. For places in other times zones it could still be a blue moon New Years Eve though.
Posted in Space.
Tagged with Australian, Blue, December, full, January, moon, New Years Eve, Thursday, time, year.
By Robert Vose
– 28 December, 2009
Happy Xmas (War Is Over) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Happy Xmas… If you want it
Wishing everyone a safe Christmas
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Tagged with Christmas, everyone, happy, Happy Xmas, Happy Xmas War Is Over, safe, Wikipedia, Wishing, xmas.
By Robert Vose
– 24 December, 2009
It can be difficult pinpointing some of the basic maxims or attitudes of cultures. These are the things that are taken for granted in a culture and that are just assumed to be how reality is. One of the defining characteristics of the Judeo-christian worldview is the emphasis on promises. Perhaps the covenants between God and his followers in the Bible define that emphasis on the power of words for this culture. Perhaps this has something to do with the belief in an afterlife in these religions: that words and promises are kept eternal and that the words have power to shape the world long after they were first uttered or written down. It is the culture that remembers the words and promises and the words and promises shape the culture.
The promised land – what does that mean? A land where words have perfect fidelity? A world where words merge with the reality of things – where there is no gap between a symbol and what that symbol is pointing to? Is that where the idea of heaven comes from? A belief that a word can be a complete substitute for reality? How many shades of green can there be in all the varieties of light and shade and do all those colours each have a unique name? [Would the nature of God be different under varying philosophies of language and meaning? The same words and names can mean any number of things to different people over time - the link between words and what those words represent is the interesting thing. The problem is an assumption that the link between words and the way they are understood is unitary and one-to-one instead of being one-to-many. ]
Modern financial systems, money and capitalism are based around promises. Financial value is a promise. Most of our culture manipulates an negotiates promises of some kind to move things around and keep things going. Much of the environmental thinking is about finding words and promises that are supposed to keep us safe. At least with science the words have some true connection with reality – even if the systems of measurement are cultural.
The problem is with the boundary conditions. Green house gas concentrations in the atmosphere is a boundary condition. You have to deal with boundary conditions differently. They are a special case where a number of influences intersect – not just cultural or political influences.
[Post number 500 for Becrux - Yay!]
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By Robert Vose
– 21 December, 2009
Inquiry into the machinery of referendums
Inquiry home | Terms of reference | Submissions | Public hearings | Media releases
Report
The Committee’s report for the inquiry into the machinery of referendums, A Time for Change: Yes/No? was presented out of session on 10 December 2009.
Report accessibility:
via Report: Inquiry into the machinery of referendums – aph.gov.au
Here is a link to the Dissenting Report.
Somehow I think this report and proposed changes to the way that referendums are conducted (and that are yet to be made public) are linked to the proposed internet filtering scheme of Senator Conroy. Perhaps websites that are critical of proposed changes and the government might find that they have been earmarked for classification and – surprise surprise – there might be a small number of overworked bureaucrats who won’t be able to get through the backlog in a timely manner. Political pages on websites might just disappear off the net until the media cycle has found another diversion and the internet hivemind has buzzed off to somewhere else, and the government would claim that it isn’t a form of censorship. I presume that the filter is for sites that would be deemed inappropriate AND that have been flagged to be classified but that would not yet have been classified.It is very convenient for a control freak PM to make his rhetorical points on the topic of the day and find no genuine critical voices in the media and internet AT THAT TIME to question his rhetoric. Two weeks later there are different stories in the media cycle and the criticism once it emerges on the internet would be fobbed off as being about ancient history. It’ll create a pop media cult of personality for a faux-nerd who’s ideas won’t stand up to scrutiny.
To deal with refugees in a backhanded way, the Howard government deliberately retarded the processing of refugees and kept the people in an indefinite administrative detention. The internet censorship regime may be set up in a similar way once it is established. They might hide behind a deliberately dysfunctional process.
Having glossy advertising and television ads for referendum changes is the good cop (good big brother with a friendly smile) side of the equation and the nationwide internet filtering is for the bad cop routine. They would work together and no doubt the internet filtering public servants would keep a dossier of some of the most disgusting sites on the web to gleefully display to the public mass media whenever the internet filtering scheme and the way it operates is brought into question. They have standards.
Posted in Politics.
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By Robert Vose
– 18 December, 2009
Star Of Bethlehem: Behind The Myth
8:35pm Thursday, 17 Dec 2009 Documentary CC G
The Star of Bethlehem was the brightest star anyone has ever seen. It led the Magi on a search for a new Messiah, yet no one else saw it.
Was it a spectacular comet, a blazing supernova, or an astrologically significant alignment of planets?
This film brings together Biblical scholars, renowned astronomers, and world famous scientists to explain the origins of the Christmas Star. Combining astronomy and astrology with religion and philosophy, this scientific investigation is rooted in the Ancient Near East.
Gathering evidence from Bethlehem to Babylon, the catacombs of Rome to the vaults of the British Museum, this is a quest to uncover the celestial truth behind this most famous of stars.
What did the Magi really see 2000 years ago?
via - ABC1 Television Guide – Star Of Bethlehem: Behind The Myth
This should list most of the conventional explanations for the Star of Bethlehem. It’s on the Australian ABC Channel 1 at 8.35 pm tonight – starting in about 10 minutes.
Compare these interpretations with the the new one that posits Alpha Crucis as the Star of Bethlehem.
[Too much astrology in the program... and pure fantasy... The idea that the Star of Bethlehem had to be one of the brightest supernova, even when no one apart from the Magi seemed to have noticed it, reminds me of those muscular Jesus He-man action dolls that are modelled off superheroes and that have such a wide spinning-top shaped chest that they would be prone to keeling over with little more than the puff of a breeze.
Anything on the ecliptic - any of the planetary conjunctions - could be seen anywhere around the same latitude in the same region on earth as long as the planets were not also conjunct the sun. A planetary conjunction provides no rationale for the Magi to travel into the vicinity of Bethlehem.]
Posted in Christianity, Space.
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By Robert Vose
– 17 December, 2009
…Some have suggested that at the time in Jerusalem there was a rare sighting of the brightest star in the Southern Cross (Alpha Crucis). Bethlehem is higher than Jerusalem, so it’s possible the wise ones were in Bethlehem just to get the best possible view of the star. According to this theory, the star wasn’t leading them anywhere. They were chasing the star and stumbled on the birth of Jesus…
via Ian Lawton: Shining New Light on the Christmas Star.
An excellent post about the meaning of the Bethlehem Star and what creative meaning we can place in the Star and the story. It is worth reading the whole article.
I have recently started a google Adwords campaign to advertise these new ideas on the Bethlehem Star possibly being Alpha Crucis. I was hoping to generate some discussion about this new perspective.
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By Robert Vose
– 14 December, 2009
This is a post about the state of Australian politics at the moment and an attempt to identify a reason for the cultural ennui and public irrationality. It does not reflect my approach to life.
Cultural cringe – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cultural cringe, in cultural studies and social anthropology, is an internalized inferiority complex which causes people in a country to dismiss their own culture as inferior to the cultures of other countries. It is closely related, although not identical, to the concept of colonial mentality, and is often linked with the display of anti-intellectual attitudes towards thinkers, scientists and artists who originate from a colonial or post-colonial nation. It can also be manifested in individuals in the form of “Cultural alienation”…
The cultural cringe is tightly connected with “cultural alienation”, that is, the process of devaluing or abandoning one’s own culture or cultural background. A person who is culturally alienated places little value on their own or host culture, and instead hungers for that of a – sometimes imposed – colonising nation…
The issue of cultural alienation has led the Australian sociologists Brian Head and James Walter to interpret the cultural cringe as the belief that one’s own country occupies a “subordinate cultural place on the periphery”, and that “intellectual standards are set and innovations occur elsewhere”. As a consequence, a person who holds this belief is inclined to devalue their own country’s cultural, academic and artistic life, and to venerate the “superior” culture of another (colonising) country…
via Cultural cringe – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
The cartoonist from The Sydney Morning Herald Alan Moir has the style of a Cultural Cringer down pat. The flip side of the cultural cringe is a belief that we can do anything and that we always strive for ‘worlds best practice’ on just about everything, covered with an image of an anti-Cultural Cringer. He can save the world with little more than a slogan or two. Then there are the related attitudes of antipathy and cynicism. And if that is all pointless and self-defeating, why not just follow the footy or cricket and go out for a drink with the mates. We love comedy in Australia. We know what’s going on.
The cultural cringe is probably one of the main obstacles to a republic in Australia. One of the main effects of the cultural cringe is to discount truly Australian models for a republic. We base most of our arguments for models on what has happened overseas while ignoring our unique political system. A common response by republicans is to flip over into an anti-cultural cringe stance where everyone is cool and everything will work out right regardless of the quality of the model for a republic. That won’t work either.
Lessening the impact of the cultural cringe and reactions against it – and the inherent anti-intellectualism of both these cringalicious stances – will in time be one of the things that the change to a republic will improve for Australian culture. When we are willing to look as issues honestly and realistically then we would be better placed to deal with difficult issues constructively. That is something that would only be apparent in hindsight. Both of the cringalicious stances think they are promoting the best for Australia but both use an external reference point.
Posted in Australian Republic.
Tagged with anti-Cultural Cringer, Australia, Australian, Brian Head, country, cringe, Cultural, Cultural Cringer, Culture, James Walter, Lessening, The Sydney Morning Herald Alan Moir, Wikipedia.
By Robert Vose
– 12 December, 2009
Webinar 15:00 UTC: Architecting Resilient Systems
December 16, 2009
Presenter: Scott Jackson
The concept of resilience has reached maturity over the past decade. There is general agreement on the definition of resilience and its attributes. The Resilience Engineering Network (www.resilience-engineering.org) has pioneered this work. Authors, such as Erik Hollnagel and David Woods have written extensively on the subject. The book Resilience Engineering: Concepts and Precepts, Ashgate Publishing Company, UK, 2006 is one of the first major publications. The IEEE Systems Journal has devoted a whole issue to the subject. The University of Southern California (USC) teaches a graduate course called Architecting Resilient Systems in which the book of the same name by the presenter is used.
The resilience community agrees that resilience architecting (also called resilience engineering) occurs over the three phases of a disruption. In the pre-disruption phase the system should take steps to anticipate the disruption and avoid the disruption, if possible. In the survival phase the system should absorb the disruption so that it can recover in the recovery phase. In the recovery phase the system resumes some degree of its original goals, including the survival of the humans in it…
One of the most important resilience attributes is inter-element collaboration. This attribute allows all elements of the system to interact and cooperate with each other. The New York Fire Department had excellent collaboration with the police, the military and the power company after the twin tower attacks. On the other hand, the City of New Orleans lacked this attribute after Katrina. This lack of resilience is called brittleness…
via INCOSE – Event Calendar Details – Webinar: Architecting Resilient Systems
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By Robert Vose
– 7 December, 2009
What was the Star of Bethlehem? – Astronomy.com Forums
There is an article in the January 2010 (!) issue of the Astronomy magazine written by Michael E. Bakich called What was the Star of Bethlehem? (pp 34-39)
I have added a brief description of this new interpretation in the forum pages of the website. Please feel free to comment…
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By Robert Vose – 20 December, 2009