What Was New on this Website (Jan-Jun 2012)
© 2012 Peter Free
29 June 2012
An Apparently Fair-Minded Chief Justice — an Exercise of Jurisprudential Integrity against Run-Amok Partisanship — Perhaps only a Thoughtful Attorney Can Fully Appreciate the Interpretive Grace Contained in Justice Roberts’ Majority Opinion (29 June 2012)
28 June 2012
Waldo Canyon Fire Sky — Sunset, 27 June 2012 (28 June 2012)
27 June 2012
Waldo Canyon Fire, Colorado Springs — Evening, 26 June 2012 — a Wind-Aided Inferno Sprinted into the City — and the Simultaneous Demonstration of the Value of Competent Government (27 June 2012)
26 June 2012
Waldo Canyon Fire, as Seen from Peterson Air Force Base — Sunset, 25 June 2012 — Given the Cyclical Long-Term Return of Southwestern U.S. Drought, Will this Burned Forest Ecology Regenerate? (26 June 2012)
25 June 2012
The Affirmative Action Nobel Prize Winner versus the Actually Worthy One — the Latter’s Principled Warning about Doing Evil in America’s Name (25 June 2012)
23 June 2012
Governor Mitt Romney’s Uninterrupted Lying Brings an Even More Toxic Lowness to American Political Culture (22 June 2012)
22 June 2012
Walter Hickey’s Comparison of Russia’s Interests in Syria — with the United States’ in Israel — Is the Kind of Educational Geopolitical Analysis that almost Never Happens in the Ignorant American Media (22 June 2012)
20 June 2012
Pikes Peak from the Crags Hike — a Review for the No Longer Young (20 June 2012)
18 June 2012
Robert Kuttner’s Common Sense in regard to the Financial Sector Mirrors My Own View — Why Let Hysterical, Profit-Seeking Crazies Run the World? (18 June 2012)
16 June 2012
Regarding Revived Doping Allegations against Lance Armstrong — Given the Administrative Format, There May Be More Damaging Substance Here than One Might Suspect — which Takes this Go-Round Out of the Context of Poorly Founded Malicious Gossip (16 June 2012)
14 June 2012
The Perversity of American Political Thinking — a Relevant Paragraph from Andrew Leonard (Writing in Salon) (14 June 2012)
13 June 2012
Regarding Mark Stein’s Psychoanalytic Analysis of the Underlying Reasons for the 2008 Recession — Even if His Psychology Is Mistaken, His Factual Overview of the Context and Timing of the Economic Downturn Is the Best that I Have Seen (13 June 2012)
12 June 2012
High Human Population Numbers Guarantee Problems with the Biosphere — Obvious Concept, yet the Overwhelming Majority of People and Policy-Makers Ignore It — an Illustrative Example Provided by Dying Cape Cod Salt Marshes (12 June 2012)
11 June 2012
Chris Hedges’ Essay about Radical Jesuit Priest, Daniel Berrigan — Encourages Us to Take to the Streets in Accord with Spiritual Teachings — even before We Attain the Personal Equanimity that Some Think Should Be a Higher Priority (11 June 2012)
09 June 2012
Baby Lock BL9 — You Can Do Upholstery with an Ordinary Home Sewing Machine — Review (09 June 2012)
08 June 2012
Hail Storms as Meditative Practice — Time’s Inevitable Blast of Change(08 June 2012)
06 June 2012
Creative Thinking from Toyota — Temporarily Powering Your Home’s Electrical Needs from Your Electric or Hybrid Car (06 June 2012)
05 June 2012
Professor-Colonel Andrew Bacevich Warns Us about Perpetual War under its Newly Evolved Special Operations Guise — and My Comment about the Commander in Chief’s Perhaps Self-Unquestioned Arrogance (05 June 2012)
04 June 2012
American Politics, where Sound Thinking Kills itself Out of Frustration with Constantly Gab-Babbling Fools — We Are Not Just Riding a Sinking Ship, We’re Actively Putting Holes in Its Hull (04 June 2012)
01 June 2012
Our Butt-Sitting Couch Rot Is Reflected in Our Choice of Heroes — Lauded Consumerist Steve Jobs versus the Mostly Ignored Frontier-Advancer, Elon Musk (01 June 2012)
30 May 2012
Look at the Administration’s Poorly Thought Out Drone Policy from an Adversary’s Perspective — then Consider What an Unbiased International Court Might Legitimately Say about Us Years Down the Road (30 May 2012)
29 May 2012
Carmax, Colorado Springs — Preliminary Review (29 May 2012)
28 May 2012
Memorial Day — Peterson Air Force Base — 2012 (28 May 2012)
26 May 2012
Life’s Small Perversities Remind Us that We Are Not in Charge — Mariachis, Acoustic Guitar, and Sticky Fingers (26 May 2012)
24 May 2012
Doctors Carrying Grief — Interviews with 20 Oncologists — Dealing with a Continual Stream of Death Is Tough (24 May 2012)
23 May 2012
Absolutely First Class Photo Journalism from Robert Johnson — regarding Alberta’s Tar Sands Oil Extraction — this Business Insider Article Should Be an Award Winner (23 May 2012)
22 May 2012
Freedom versus Public Health — an Easily Avoidable Measles Epidemic in Europe Has Weakened the World Effort to Rid the Planet of this too Often (Third World) Fatal Disease — Should There Be Limits on Ignorant People’s Perceived Right to Threaten Other People’s Health? (22 May 2012)
21 May 2012
How to Make a “Good Enough” Digital Photo Panoramic — Colorado Sky Sox Game at Security Service Field, Colorado Springs (21 May 2012)
17 May 2012
Rolair JC10 Air Compressor — Made in USA — Review (17 May 2012)
16 May 2012
An Outrageous Idea, or Not? — Stephan Richter’s Thought that Europe’s Monetary Union Should Have Been Restricted to Cultures that Split from Catholicism during the 16th Century’s Protestant Reformation (16 May 2012)
15 May 2012
Air Pro Air Hose — Made in the USA by Factory Direct Hose — Review (15 May 2012)
14 May 2012
Ambassador Henry Crumpton Contrasted CIA and FBI Mentalities in a Useful Way — His Analysis Indirectly Explains How Agency Rivalries are Aggravated by Differing Mission Perspectives — with the Nation’s Counter-Terrorism Effort Probably the Loser (14 May 2012)
11 May 2012
Cynicism Succinctly Captures Aspects of the Human Condition — James Carville’s Comment on the Continuing Freshness of Some Ancient Roman Political Advice (11 May 2012)
10 May 2012
Fasco Model F1B 7C-16 Pneumatic Stapler — Review (10 May 2012)
09 May 2012
A Little Common Sense Is Not Out of Place, Even in Climatology — Why MIT’s Global Warming Contrarian, Dr. Richard S. Lindzen, Is Probably Wrong (09 May 2012)
07 May 2012
The Inevitability of Moral Error, Aging’s Subsequent Chance at Redemption, and Established Religion’s Complacence in Drawing on the Power of the Latter — Chris Hedge’s Account of Bishop George Packard’s Second Civil Disobedience Arrest (07 May 2012)
05 May 2012
Did President Obama Really Set Politics Aside in Making the Decision to Go after Osama bin Laden in Abbotabad? — Not Exactly, if I Have His Mind Figured Correctly (05 May 2012)
04 May 2012
Rex W. Huppke’s Creatively Clever Chicago Tribune Obituary for “Facts” — His Essay Encapsulates American Culture’s Descent into Reality-Irrelevant Vacuity (04 May 2012)
03 May 2012
“Americans Elect” 2012 — Did these Guys Think at All before They Floated their Deflated Balloon? — Or Were their Motives Less Pure than Portrayed? (03 May 2012)
02 May 2012
In Afghanistan through 2024? — The United States Seems to Revel in Persistently Self-Destructive Imbecility (02 May 2012)
01 May 2012
Global Warming Made Visible — Some Broods of Mountain Pine Beetles Are Now Breeding Twice a Year, with a Presumably Much Worsened Effect on Western U.S. Forests (01 May 2012)
30 April 2012
Colorado Mountain Club, The Best Front Range Hikes (2010) — Book Review (30 April 2012)
27 April 2012
Another Bit of Stupidity from Congress Surfacing Now — Moving Student Loan Servicing from the Competent Department of Education to Incompetent and Greedy “Not for Profits” (27 April 2012)
26 April 2012
A Sign of Our Greedy and Plutocratic Times, Obliterating the American Commons — Congress’ Attack on the U.S. Post Office (26 April 2012)
25 April 2012
Frontline’s 4-Part Money, Power, and Wall Street — So Far, the Best Documentary on the 2008 Financial Crisis (25 April 2012)
24 April 2012
Israel, Like the United States, Can’t Seem to Let Well Enough Alone — Provocatively Thumbing Its Nose at Palestinians and Presumably Iran (24 April 2012)
23 April 2012
Australian Journalist, Mungo Maccallum, Sums the American Experience in Afghanistan Rather Well (23 April 2012)
20 April 2012
For Older Folk — on the Mental Health Wisdom of Avoiding or Suppressing Regret — a Small Study Published in Science (20 April 2012)
18 April 2012
Short and to the Point — Forbes Essay by Two Former Marine Corps Commandants, Bob Lutz (GM), and Frederick Smith (FedEx) on the Need for a National Energy Plan (18 April 2012)
16 April 2012
Stirrings of Alarm at Greed’s Rising Distortion of the Scientific Process — (a) The Institute of Medicine’s Warning about Unsubstantiated Medical “Omics” Tests and (b) Academic Psychology’s Courageous Recognition that Some of Its Studies Require Reproducibility Confirmation (16 April 2012)
15 April 2012
Clever Anti-Science Yahoos in Tennessee — Making Monkeys Out of the Smarter Portion of the State’s Citizenry (15 April 2012)
12 April 2012
Remember the Pepper Spraying of Peaceful Students at California-Davis in November 2011? — The Investigative Task Force’s Report Has Been Released and it Lambasts University Authorities (12 April 2012)
10 April 2012
A New Way to Think about Teaching 1st through 12th Grade Science — 8+1 Fundamental Science Concepts from the PROM/SE Project (10 April 2012)
09 April 2012
Three Tips on Hiking with Severe Osteoarthritis (09 April 2012)
06 April 2012
When Political Liberals Are Correct — Two Well-Communicated Essays Worthy of Becoming a Fiery Lawyer’s Closing Arguments — Comments on the Communicative Value of Reason-Able, but “Conclusory” Arguments(06 April 2012)
05 April 2012
Could this Possibly Get any More Boring? — On the Meaningless Coming Presidential Election and the Go-Nowhere Blather that Surrounds It (05 April 2012)
03 April 2012
The Lamestream Media Knowingly Misrepresented the President’s Comments regarding the Supreme Court’s Review of ObamaCare (03 April 2012)
02 April 2012
Royal Gorge Route Railroad (Colorado) Train Ride — Review (02 April 2012)
30 March 2012
Another Congressional Failure Buried by the Typically Sleeping Media — a Budget Proposal Based on the Simpson-Bowles Deficit Reduction Plan Failed Passage in the House of Representatives 38 to 382 (30 March 2012)
29 March 2012
Law Professor Geoffrey R. Stone Cuts through the Supreme Court’s Nonsensically Motivated Hypotheticals during ObamaCare Oral Arguments (29 March 2012)
28 March 2012
Epson Artisan 835 Wireless All-in-One Inkjet Printer — Review (28 March 2012)
27 March 2012
The Life-Enhancing Grace of a Few Imagination-Provoking Words — in a Culture Filled Mostly with Amplified Superficiality and Deadening Dross(27 March 2012)
26 March 2012
Media-Generated Lies that Are Intended to Create Controversies — New York Times Reporter Jeff Zeleny Irritated Candidate Santorum with a Deliberate Untruth — then Other News Outlets Pounced on Santorum’s Perfectly Reasonable Response (26 March 2012)
25 March 2012
What Should Be Common Sense regarding the Evil of War Seems Not to Be Accepted by Many Americans — on a Comment from Professor/Colonel Andrew Bacevich (25 March 2012)
23 March 2012
Owen Flanagan, The Bodhisattva’s Brain: Buddhism Naturalized (2011) — Book Review (23 March 2012)
22 March 2012
Chuck Sambuchino, 2012 Guide to Literary Agents (Writers Digest Books, 2011) — Book Review (22 March 2012)
21 March 2012
Two Quotable Sentences from Paul Rosenberg — and an Insight from Qais Azimy — about Misbegotten Wars and Denial’s Devilish Trumpet (21 March 2012)
20 March 2012
Waking Ourselves Up with Stephan Richter’s Timely Essay, Just Who Fears Democracy? On the Need to Update the American Republic (20 March 2012)
19 March 2012
Elon Musk and SpaceX — 60 Minutes’ Interview with an Inspiring Man — and the Contrast Musk’s Example Presents in regard to the Rest of America’s Pipsqueak Political and Economic Leadership (19 March 2012)
18 March 2012
Outstanding Science Writing about Gravity and Climate from Germany — This Is the Way Science Communications Ought to Be Done in the United States (17 March 2012)
16 March 2012
Courageous Sacrifice in Afghanistan — Two Simple Stories that Highlight the Cynically Calculated Cowardice Displayed by America’s Political Leadership (16 March 2012)
15 March 2012
Regarding Afghanistan, American Leadership Combines Denial with Stupidity and a Callous Disregard for Blood and Truth (15 March 2012)
14 March 2012
Gordon Livingston, How to Love (2009) — Book Review (14 March 2012)
13 March 2012
Columnist Roger Simon Noticed the Stark Contrast between the Emotional Disengagement of the American Imperium and Ordinary People’s Living and Dying — President Obama’s Unwitting Support for Islamic Insurgents’ Most Persuasive Argument against Western Domination (13 March 2012)
12 March 2012
J. Krishnamurti, Krishnamurti to Himself: His Last Journal — Book Review (12 March 2012)
10 March 2012
If We Fixed this One Thing about Our Blinkered View of the World, Happy Things Would Follow — a Comment about an Insightful Essay by Richard Falk (10 March 2012)
09 March 2012
Amazon Kindle Keyboard E-Reader— Things to Check Out if You Often Highlight, Note-make, and Book-mark — A Review (09 March 2012)
08 March 2012
Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011) — Abbreviated Book Review (08 March 2012)
07 March 2012
Bush Piloting 70-Year-Old DC-3s in and out of the Amazon Jungle — Al Jazeera’s Video Shows the Risks that Poverty and Primitive Conditions Bring with Them (07 March 2012)
06 March 2012
President Obama Is Now Leading the Charge for War with Iran — Have Our Geopolitically Foolish and Amoral Leaders Learned Nothing from American Strategic Failures in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan? (06 March 2012)
05 March 2012
Sofa Mart, Colorado Springs, Colorado — Atrocious and Dishonest Customer Service — Review (05 March 2012)
03 March 2012
Former Representative Joe Scarborough (of Morning Joe) Summed America’s Political Situation Well — “A Political Race to the Bottom” (02 March 2012)
02 March 2012
A First Amendment, Religion versus Health Care Battle under Circumstances Where More Sensible Institutions Would Have Created No Conflict at All — Our Baboon-Like Inability to See Things as They Actually Are and Fix Them (02 March 2012)
29 February 2012
Rampaging Afghanis as an Example of the Folly of Trying to Nation-Build in a Region that History’s Social Evolution Left Behind — the Strategic Argument for Avoiding Wars that Cannot Be Won — and a Defense of Our Troops’ Occasional “Diplomatic” Mistakes in Waging Them (29 February 2012)
27 February 2012
New Evidence for Antibiotic-Treated Livestock as a Breeding Ground for Drug-Resistant Bacteria that Spread to Humans (27 February 2012)
24 February 2012
Mistakenly Burned Korans? — Two U.S. Soldiers Are Dead, Probably because of this Stupidity — the Heretofore Concealed Dangers Posed by an Actively Proselytizing Christian U.S. Military (24 February 2012)
22 February 2012
Faster than Light Neutrinos? — Probably Not — Faulty Wiring Connection Appears to Explain the Discrepancy between Accepted Theory and OPERA’s Calculations Late Last Year (22 February 2012)
20 February 2012
Political Sarcasm Well Done — Public Relations Strategist Cliff Schecter on the Republican Party’s Death Wish with Women Voters (20 February 2012)
Two Dissimilar Washington Post Articles Show Us the Fantasy World that We Are Living in — Columnist E. J. Dionne Jr. on Unrealistic Politics and Dr. Craig Bowron on Delusional Expectations about Dying — Where Has the Strength of American Realism Gone? (20 February 2012)
18 February 2012
One Obvious Indicator of Why the United States Trails other Developed Nations in Science Education — the American Mentality that Opposes Adoption of the International System of Units — and Our Continuing National Stupidity in Not Fixing this Mistake (18 February 2012)
17 February 2012
Columnist Leonard Pitts’ Wise Perspective on a Marine Corps Scout Sniper Team’s Display of the Nazi “SS” Symbol — and My Own Comment regarding Warrior Symbols and Unfair Criticism of Expressions of the Warrior Mentality (17 February 2012)
16 February 2012
Zen Points to the Reality-Defying Prison that Conceptual Thinking often Traps Us in — an Illustration of this Spiritual Perspective via Debra Ollivier’s Outstanding Essay, “The French Philosophy On Love And Sex”(15 February 2012)
15 February 2012
The Devolution of the Republican Party into Being Butt-Heads — Just to Be Butt-Heads — Symbolizes Most of What’s Wrong with the American Political Process — the Absurd Hold Up of Uncontroversial Judge Adalberto Jose Jordan’s Appointment to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals(15 February 2012)
14 February 2012
An Underappreciated Aspect of Joint Surgery Is the Likelihood that Post-Surgery Performance Will Be Permanently Decreased (Compared to Pre-Injury Levels) in a Significant Proportion of Athletes — an Essay on the Utility of Avoiding Injury and the Psychological Helpfulness of Gratitude in Coping with Reduced Function Afterwards (14 February 2012)
13 February 2012
Do Significant Numbers of Physicians Lie or Conceal Information from Patients? — Apparently Yes, Says a Survey from Health Affairs — and an Outrageous Example of Data Manipulation from a Science-Fraud-Committing Cancer Researcher (Anil Potti) (13 February 2012)
10 February 2012
A Canada-Related Headline Illustrates the Difficulty of Focusing Attention where Alertness Is Most Required — Would Most People Pay Attention to a News Piece Entitled, “Tories Put Pipeline Ahead of Phytoplankton”? — Probably Not, and that’s the Point (10 February 2012)
09 February 2012
Good Science Writing Compared to Bad — an Excellent National Science Foundation Press Release Compared to the Opaque Abstract that it Is Based on — regarding an Ellesmere Island Study of the Permian-Triassic Boundary Extinction (09 February 2012)
08 February 2012
Criticism of the Chrysler-Eastwood 2012 Super Bowl Commercial Illustrates How Rabid Partisanship Spits on America’s Future — Can We Possibly become any More Self-Destructively Blind than This? — On the Value of “Made-in-USA” (08 February 2012)
07 February 2012
Professor Diane Ravitch’s Smart Questions about American Education — a “Must Read” for People Who Care (07 February 2012)
06 February 2012
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer’s Pointing Finger — on the Difficulty of Sorting Prejudice from Legitimate Criticism in Regard to President Obama — and How Bigotry Creates Talented Social Survivors but Simultaneously Forces their Boat-Rocking Strength into Hiding (16 February 2012)
03 February 2012
Newscasters Frequently Twist Truth in a Democracy-Damaging Way — an Example regarding Governor Mitt Romney’s Alleged “Gaffe” about Poor People (03 February 2012)
01 February 2012
Increasingly Hard-Line, Anti-Iran, Lunacy from U.S. Secretary of Defense, Leon Panetta — Experience Appears Not to Affect American Policy (01 February 2012)
31 January 2012
2010 Subaru Outback Limited — Review (31 January 2012)
28 January 2012
An Effective Animation of Global Temperature Change over the Last Century from the Goddard Institute of Space Studies — and Comments on the Art of Graphic and Animated Science Data Presentation in an Anti-Scientific Culture (28 January 2012)
27 January 2012
Pie in the Sky Thinking Diverts Us from Confronting the Nation’s Economic Problems Effectively — Influential New York Times Columnist Thomas Friedman’s Idea that “Average Is Over” Is Wrong in Principle and Implied Plan (27 January 2012)
26 January 2012
Even as Fervent a Military Supporter as I Am Should Be Concerned about the Unquestioning Militarism that the United States Engages In — Penetrating Thoughts from History Professor Mark LeVine on President Obama’s Mistakenly Framed State of the Union Speech (26 January 2012)
25 January 2012
The Constitutional Problem with Putting Theocrats like Rick Santorum into the Presidency? — Their Moral Certitudes Refuse to Admit the Ethical Ambiguities that More Thoughtful People See at First Glance — Example: His Political Position that a Rapist’s Child Is God’s “Gift” to the Rapee (25 January 2012)
24 January 2012
The Supreme Court’s Reasoning in Yesterday’s United States v. JonesDecision (about the Fourth Amendment) Illustrates the Kind of “Devil in the Details” Analysis that Is a Necessary Requirement for Meaningful Politics (24 January 2012)
23 January 2012
Are You Patient Enough to Actually Think? — Law Professor Jedediah Purdy’s Fine Essay about Capitalism, Freedom, and Ignored Questions(23 January 2012)
22 January 2012
Statins Use in Post-Menopausal Women Increases the Risk for Diabetes by as Much as 71 Percent (Compared to Women Who Did Not Take Statins) and 48 Percent (when Data Are Adjusted for Multiple Confounding Variables) — Findings from the Women’s Health Initiative and a Lay Overview by Dr. Mark Hyman (22 January 2012)
20 January 2012
Do You Wonder Why Perennially Successful Kodak Eventually Swirled Itself into Bankruptcy’s Toilet? — Ineradicably Entrenched Bureaucratic Stupidity — These Two Brilliantly Insightful Anecdotes from Mike Johnston and Hugh Crawford Imply a Larger Parable about the United States (20 January 2012)
Keystone XL Oil Sands Pipeline — Al Jazeera’s Impartial Interview of Three Experts with Different Perspectives — and President Obama’s Game-Playing Hypocrisy (20 January 2012)
18 January 2012
One-Percenter Mitt Romney’s Obvious Lack of Empathetic Insight — His “Not Very Much” Is Your Idea of a Rigged System’s Unachievable Wealth — the Coming “So Sad” Choice in November 2012 (18 January 2012)
16 January 2012
Is a Moderate and Civil Temperament the Kiss of Death in American Politics? — Conservative Jon Huntsman withdraws from the Republican Party’s 2012 Presidential Nominating Process — a Spiritual Twist that Will Go Unnoticed, even on Martin Luther King Jr. Day (16 January 2012)
13 January 2012
Outsourcing American Manufacturing Hurts Our Innovative Capacity, as Well as Our National Security — but Our Leaders Ignore both Issues, apparently Profiting from Off-Shoring in the Short Term (13 January 2012)
11 January 2012
How to Recreate Dreamweaver CS4 Files on a New Computer after Your Old Computer Dies — by Downloading Your Website Files from the Host Server (11 January 2012)
10 January 2012
Does Genuine Spirituality Require Private Intimacy? — Pastor Skye Jethani Thinks So and Makes a Strong Argument against Too-Public Displays of Religiosity as Being Hypocritical almost by Definition — His Subtle Argument Merits Consideration because Authentic Soulfulness Is a Nuanced Condition (10 January 2012)
09 January 2012
With Age, We Have to Say Goodbye to Friends We Never Met — Reflection on the Roots of Wide-Ranging Embrace (09 January 2012)
07 January 2012
Benefit of Annual Prostate Cancer Screening in Low and Average Risk Men Is Still Uncertain — Due to Flaws, the Latest American Study Adds Nothing Especially Helpful to Our Thinking — Regarding the 13-Year Follow-Up to the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal, and Ovarian Cancer Screening Trial (07 January 2012)
06 January 2012
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Reporter, John Fauber, Uncovered the Appearance of Blatant Corruption at the University of Wisconsin’s School of Medicine and Public Health — another Instance of the Medical-Industrial Complex’s Distortion of Objectively Delivered Medicine (06 January 2012)
05 January 2012
An Example of Poorly Phrased Communication in Atmospheric Science and Oceanography — Empathy for Those Who Distrust “Experts” (05 January 2012)
03 January 2012
CBS News’ Lesley Stahl’s Questions Probed Majority Leader Eric Cantor Skillfully Enough to Expose Him for the Self-Seeking Political Con Man that He Apparently Is (03 January 2012)
01 January 2012
An Inspiring Way to Begin 2012 — Levi Lavalle and Robbie Maddison Set Motorized Jump Records in Red Bull’s No Limits Event during 2011’s Last Hours (01 January 2012)