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B. Don Russell wasn’t thinking about preventing a wildfire when he developed a tool to detect power line problems before blackouts and bigger disasters.The electrical engineering professor at Texas A&M University figured he might save a life if his creation could prevent someone from being electrocuted by a downed live wire.But fire prevention may be his product’s biggest selling point in California and other places that have experienced devastating wildland blazes blamed on electrical equipment.“If we can find things when they start to fail, if we can find things that are in the process of degrading before a catastrophic event occurs, such as a downed line that might electrocute someone or a fire starting or even an outage for their customers, that’s kind of the Holy Grail,” Russell said.The technology he bills as a one-of-a kind diagnostic tool called Distribution Fault Anticipation is now in use in Texas and being tested in California by Pacific Gas & Electric Co. and Southern California Edison. The utilities have been blamed for some of the most destructive and deadliest fires in California.Texas A&M said the technology will also be tested in New Zealand and Australia, which is currently reeling from destructive wildfires.The tool detects variations in electrical currents caused by deteriorating conditions or equipment and notifies utility operators so they can send a crew to fix the problems, Russell said.It can anticipate many problems in their early stages — sometimes years before they cause an outage or present a greater hazard during high winds when utilities are now pre-emptively shutting off power to prevent sparking wildfires.Before the technology was developed, electric companies often didn’t know they had a problem until there was a failure or a customer called to report sparks on power lines or a loss of electricity.“The assumption the utility has to make today is it’s healthy until we get a call that says somebody’s lights (are) out,” Russell said. “By then the fire’s started or the outage has happened or the person’s electrocuted.”Pedernales Electric Cooperative Inc. that serves about 330,000 customers outside San Antonio and Austin, Texas, began implementing the system after successful tests that began in 2015. The utility serves areas so rural that before the technology was installed, electricity powering a pump on a well could have been off for days before being detected by a farmer.The devices installed at substations are now trouble-shooting all kinds of problems, said Robert Peterson, principal engineer for the utility.“We’ve found tree branches on the line. Failing arrestors. Failing capacitors. Failing connections,” Peterson said. “It’s pretty amazing.”In California, the testing process has just begun and there are no results yet, according to PG&E and SoCal Edison.In Southern California, the software is running on just 60 of Edison’s 1,100 circuits in the utility’s high-risk fire zone, which accounts for about a quarter of its total circuits.It’s just one of several tools the utility is testing to continue to modernize its system.“There is no silver bullet,” said Bill Chiu, managing director of grid modernization and resiliency at SoCal Edison. “This is really more of a preventive measure. ... The important point is this will be one of the suite of technology that will help us better assess the condition of the grid.”Chiu said the technology was not at the point where it could be used to determine where to shut off power when dangerous winds are forecast during dry conditions. He also said it won’t pinpoint problems but can help dispatch crews closer to the source of equipment that needs to be fixed, saving time that would be wasted patrolling miles of power lines.One question is whether the technology is economically feasible to deploy across tens of thousands of miles of power lines, Chiu said.At an expense estimated between ,000 to ,000 per circuit, it could cost the utility million in its high-risk fire area and that doesn’t include installation, operation and maintenance costs.That’s a fraction of what a moderate wildfire sparked by a utility could cost, Russell said.PG&E, which is testing the technology on nine circuits, was driven into bankruptcy protection this year while facing at least billion in losses from a series of deadly and destructive wildfires in 2017 and 2018.SoCal Edison recently agreed to pay 0 million to local governments to settle lawsuits over deadly wildfires sparked by its equipment during the last two years. That figure doesn’t include lawsuits by thousands who lost their homes in those fires or family members of 21 people killed when a mudslide tore down a fire-scarred mountain. Two other people were never found.Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative found the cost was feasible and has installed it on about a sixth of its circuits for the utility that has about 100,000 customers in Central Texas, said Eric Kocian, chief engineer and system operations officer.While the system has helped proactively diagnose problems and detect the cause of outages, the university team that developed it can often find problems the utility’s control room operators don’t detect.Pedernales Coop is working with an analytics company to streamline the analysis of the myriad information the software evaluates to find and fix problems in a day, Peterson said.Russell said he never had a hint the device his research team created 15 years ago would have fire prevention applications until a series of bad wildfires in Texas in 2011. They were focused on keeping power systems safe and the lights on.“It’s obvious now in today’s context of the drought that we’ve had in California and other places,” Russell said. “Serendipitously, that’s where we find ourselves today.” 5838

BOSTON, Mass. – The girlfriend of a Boston College student who died by suicide in May repeatedly texted him to do so during their relationship, Massachusetts prosecutors said in announcing involuntary manslaughter charges against her.Inyoung You, 21, tracked Alexander Urtula's location on May 20 and was present when he jumped from a parking garage only hours before graduation, Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins told reporters.Authorities said You, also a student at Boston College, was "physically, verbally and psychologically abusive" toward her boyfriend during their 18-month-long relationship.Investigators looked through a trove of text messages the two exchanged in which You allegedly tells Urtula, 22, to "go kill himself" or to "go die" and that she, his family and the world would be better off without him, prosecutors said. 866

As guacamole-loving Americans expressed concern on Monday over a possible closure of the US/Mexico border, those who enjoy a less healthy treat or an adult beverage might also need to be concerned. According to the Office of the US Trade Representative, the US imports nearly billion a year in agricultural products. While fresh fruit totaled billion, and fresh vegetables totaled .5 billion annually, the US also imports hefty amounts of snack food, beer and wine from Mexico. According to federal figures, the US imports nearly .1 billion a year in snack food from Mexico. The US also imports nearly .3 billion in alcohol from our southern neighbors. A Bloomberg 690

BALTIMORE — Dottie Morales was sick of living in an apartment, so when her Facebook friend told her about a new way to get thousands of dollars, she was intrigued."She said, 'Hi, how are you doing?' I said, 'I'm not doing too well, got the flu, how are you?' And she says, 'Great! I just got a ,000 grant and I'm able to pay off all my medical bills,' " Morales said. The acquaintance then put her in touch with Timothy Doyle, a government grant claim agent with Swift Global Grant. He said he would be able to help Morales afford a new home."I really wanted to get a nice double wide trailer that I would call my own and live there, and you know, be happy for the rest of my years on earth," Morales said. The promise of a better life was enough to cloud Morales' judgment when Doyle asked for a ,500 advanced processing fee. He said after that she would receive her grant, but it wasn't that simple."Customs stopped the money, so you must pay an additional amount of money," Doyle told Morales.Another time she was told the driver of the Fed-Ex truck was in an accident and she needed to pay more money to have the grant transferred to a new truck. Then she received a text message from someone claiming to be an FBI agent and demanding a fee or the grant would be held up at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C.Morales said she kept sending the man money "because he kept asking me to trust him, trust him, this wasn't scam, he's a man of God, he wouldn't lie to me."Morales was so deep into the scheme, and wanted so desperately to believe the money was on its way, she even cooked dinner for Doyle and waited for his arrival."That was when he did not show up again, and I was heartbroken," she said.Not surprisingly, the photo used by the man claiming to be Timothy Doyle was not Doyle. A quick reverse Google image search revealed the photo was actually of Bill Grant, a former Minnesota Department of Commerce official. And the photos of grant recipients posted on Swift Global Grant's website had also been modified."Copy a picture, do a little Photoshop, change the name, create a new identity, I mean they can create new financial footprints for false businesses in a matter of 15 minutes," said Jody Thomas, vice president of communications and marketing for the Better Business Bureau of Greater Maryland.Morales contacted Thomas asking for help. Thomas advised her to stop responding to Doyle's calls, emails and texts, and any unknown numbers. But instead, Morales listened when someone contacted her about getting her money back."And she bought into it," Thomas said.Morales lost thousands more. "You know that somebody's getting taken advantage of, and we're talking over the phone and all we want is to get in our car and ride down and tell her, 'Dottie, please stop communicating,' " said Thomas, who became emotionally involved in the case.Morales lost her retirement savings, maxed out two credit cards, and the financial devastation and deceit affected her confidence."Definitely, I'm very leery and cautious now every time I deal with people because I don't believe anything they say anymore," Morales said. Morales believes her Facebook friend's account was cloned. She also filed claims with Western Union, Moneygram and her credit card companies but hasn't received a dollar back from the more than ,000 she lost.WMAR tried contacting the scammer. The phone number was for a text mail subscriber. When we texted the number, someone immediately responded, but once we identified ourselves, the person did not answer.If you've been contacted about a government grant, that's the first red flag. Grant seekers pursue funds, not the other way around. Also, government grants are not meant for individuals. They're for the greater good, like nonprofits, community leaders and researchers. Grant scams continue to be a common fraud complaint.According to the Federal Trade Commission, more than 6,300 people lost .5 million to grant scams in 2018.For more information on government grant scams, 4036

An explosion has caused a fire at a Russian biological research facility that's one of only two centers in the world known for housing samples of the smallpox virus.The blast occurred Monday during repair work of a sanitary inspection room at the Russian State Centre for Research on Virology and Biotechnology, known as Vector, near the Russian city of Novosibirsk in Siberia, the center 401